The evening world. Newspaper, December 12, 1911, Page 22

PRT eR ce ee Oe Che Bee aatorios. FSTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PUL! 3 Pudlishod Daily Except Sunday by the Preas Pubtishing Company, Nos, 68 to ot Dally Except Sepaee W glow. Now fore " RALPH PULITZHR, President, 68 Park Row, J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JORHPH PULITABR, Jr, Becretary, 63 Park Row. Entered at the Poxt-Office at New York as @econd-Class Matter. @ebscription Rates to The Kveningp ror England and the Continent \ ‘World for the United States and Can and ‘All Countries In the International Postal Union. VOLUME 62...... «NO, 18,375 INDIA’S HISTORICAL MOMENT. Ts East is most impressed by what it sees, by the visible evi- dences of pride and dominion, From the standpoint of the Indian masses, then, the sway of the British Kings, the “inpire of England in the East, does not date from 1876, when Dis- Taeli made Victoria Empress. It begins to-day when George is erowned at the Delhi Durbar. For the first time those dark races ee the throne of a British sovereign set up in their own land. Thus the West makes its return call on the East, requiting the spectacle of Hun and Tartar and Turkish Empire in Europe, re- placing the fierce visage of Attila with the mild countenance of the fifth George. It is inevitably a historical moment of the first mag- nitude, The scene at the Punjab capitel has been likencd to the Arabian Nights. Yet the true comparison, carries the mind further back—beyond the Christian era to the time when another European tuler held court at Babylon, Susa, Ecbatana and Persepolis, and in 327 B. C. entered India. Since that time until to-day the “gor- geous East” has known Western armies, but never Western sove- reign. George of England takes up the tale where Alexander of Macedon @ropped it. He finds the “pax Britannica” established in a city which has known other sways less pacific—which was a seat of native power 3,300 years ago, and has held in turn the thrones of Moslem and Mogul and Mahratta. Against its background of antiquity to- a pageant, for all its magnificence, may well seem but a passing show, as the sway of England, when the whole account is made up, is likely to be in the immense tract of Indian history. ———++ HOW TO PUNISH THE HOODLUM. “Hl: A HALL” is a shout the suffragettes have heard at every one of their tumultuous street meetings in this town. If they ponder it they will get the true inward- ness of that “Rowdyism in American Cities” which they have been digcusging. Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch to the contrary notwith- tanding, they will conclude that the cause lies deeper than the Mayor's tolerant attitude toward boys who play ball in the street. It is deplorable that young men should be rude to the woman who secks to address them from cart-tail or soapbox. Yet the ane Bvening worid watiy wwhagazine, tuesasy. Can You Beat It? Re By Maurice Ketten. LETME rare Pend Some WHITE SATIN MESSALING How Di POOR OEAR | OuTAT bry othe IMADE eusuGH OTHER NIGHT 2 | LOST 2S Hone oe \ SLORY) Oe ome SHOPPING RXMAS/ (COOK SENT You You MusT REMEMBER COME AND Ny, You owe ABEEHE Soon EAST WON'T You rT FORGET 58) ters on which they will listen are set forth in that shout. Get them in a hall, and they will behave. When they shove and cat- call in the street they declare a conviction that tis is their domain, not woman's. It ip their rude way of saying that “woman's place is the home.” From the same instinct which prompts them to gibe &t women masquerading in men’s clothes, they make themselves offen- sive when women talk politica—the same youths, by the way, that behave pretty well when Salvation Army girls sing and pray at the street, corner. * It is all a question of atmosphere. The atmosphere of the street is that of give and take. Make it your forum and you must ‘accept its traditions, Heed the counsel of that sagacious English- man and “impede traffic” and you are in for a quarter of an hour that may not be a good quarter of an hour. The remedy? That, too, is a matter of atmosphere, Any sulfragette may take an exqui- site revenge on a crowd of néar+hoodlums, not by. hiring a hall, but by inviting them into her home. Get them seated, give them tea and sandwiches, and they will be altogether. respectful and quite es unhappy as they had made her in the street. + WHERE CIVILIZATION FAILS. DERN civilization offers a target as broad as a barndoor M and Indians are good shots. ‘I'wo of them plant their ar- tows in the bull’s-eye. Chief Thunder Water, pagan, stand- ing on the Table Rock on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, pro- tests against the Christian baptism of his granddaughter in the Cave of the Winds. . “I have seon,” he said, “the Catholics warring against the Protestants, the Protestants warring among themselves, and both warring against the Jew. The Indians never warred among them- selves about religion.” Dr. Charles Eastman, Wapiton Sioux, says emong other things: “You call us heathen Indians, but we got more Philosophy then yoo. “The origina) Indian was a respecter of rights, and you never convicted an Indian of blowing up a bridge. “You come just to the bank account every time, but the Sioux go beyond that to patriotism. . “Even enemy come to Indian's camp he give him best and usher him out to his line. = Oe ail folded arraratement of steel rofs great- ly resembling: a music rack. “Why if it ain't Dr. Greese :ind Prot. Siurk,” cried Mrs. Jarr’s mother, “the eminent temorance lecturer.j| What are you doing in Harlem?’ “Have we-whem—the pleseure of speaking to a gontributor to the great cause—ahem?’ asked Prof. Slurk, smacking bis lige as though bt relished hie words. Dr. Greese reached down apa picked up his confrere's silk hat anf brushed the nap with the siveve of his right oN RS. JARR'S .mother, burryias M home with the children trom the moving picture show is time for dinner, ran almost into the arms of two certlemen walking at 4 Great rate down the street One was @ thin and sallow man with flowing red side whiskers and the 7 a ponderously fat man with a 'y mass of dark hair, upon the top of which perched a silk hat of that uncertain age and shape that one un- consciously associates with the fast disappearing profession of cab driving. ‘The hat 1s mentioned because, as Mrs. Jarr’s mother was not looking where she was going, her eyes being upon the children she was hurrying along, she | Dumped plump into the two men. And the hat of the dark, large man rojled of bis head and into the gutter. | The two men had not seen the + CAUSE you're Tempor arily Side- tracked doesn't mean that you've Permanently Lost the Right of Way! advancing group because they had ‘The Flag of been gazing apprehensively over their Failure Furls it- shoulders. One of them carried a very self when the flat black box with @ handle, some- @onfalom of Self- “The Indian stands on his treaty and try hold you up to / moral contract. ‘ “You blow up a whole city in an tron fort on the sea and call that civilization; Indian take one scalp, and you say ‘savage.’” ‘These criticisms, apparently uttered at random, really make up the historical case against civilization, They charge against it reli- gious persecution, and the historian, Buckle, ranks this first among human curses, and notes that in religion’s behalf the best men have been most cruel. ‘They charge wholesale destruction in war, and this is the second of Buckle’s indictments. These Indians fur- ther charge against civilized races commercialism, the decay of hospitality, failure to respect oath-bound treaties with savage races, the existence of clage wars and a deficient “philosophy,” evidently the philosophy that gives the unspoiled Indian dignity, poise, manner, To all these charges civilization must plead guilty. Men have gained many things in their march upward from sav- agery, but some of the things they have discarded +6 excess baggage were worth taking along. Te ———+¢--—- -—— OROUGH PRESIDENT CONNOLLY of Queens says it will take a year for Commissioner of Accounts Fosdick to find out what is wrong in Queens and prepare a working plan of government, Meanwhile Mr. Connolly had better get busy on his own account, He cannot trustee his responsibilities. “it t ¥ etl x F ® ” what in the shape of @ very narrow Belief shows! Gress suit case, The other bore a We ' an't Grad At the: Chance swhen wp Live in a ‘Trance. Adversit:y is the Bifter thut Rep arates the: Ashes and Clinkere from Character! “No Such Luck for Him! What's Done is Done—the :Real Do- ings are Yet to Do! Many a Ship has been Pull\td Off ot the Rocks with Never a Plat» of Her Dented! ‘The Horse that Puts Doven each Quarter at a Uniform Pace hart a Shade on the One thet Beats the Ba rrier! Too Prony to Lay Swing ts A Lot of us Down # Bunt when a Healthy what the Doctor Ordered! There te no Laggard Uke cb Watched Clock, unless i$ be the Jian who Papa—When sallore stop work It! watches It! Hl 'e called a mutiny. When laborers . stop work It Is called a etrike,and——~| ne Cosey Corner Brand <tf Courage Bobble—And if school teachers |is in Rags before Camp is Rirached! would stop work It would be called @ jublieet wii «We Passing Quew bow theyMan who 1OON'T WANT To Gossip bur bose’ HEAR ABouT BLANK AND HIS WRITER? } BLAME SCANDALOUS ~ TREC SORRY FOR HER. | / ONE ISS ue TOWAIT oN Onrccccccocoocore concccococosocesecoeocoooccooseeet The Jarr Children -And Unbeloved Acquaintances SSSSSSPSTIFIS IIS SIFTIOISSIIIIIS TS VIS VHTITITTSIFGOD arm as he held the ancient tile tn his left hand. ; “[ heard you lecture in Brooktyn," said Mrs, Jarr’s mother. “And so did these lambs.” As she spoke she dragged forward Master Wii!'+ Jarr and little Miss Emma Jart. A frosen and nervous emile came to the faces of the two men. A policeman passed who gave them a searching glance as he paused a moment near them as though undecided what to do. But secirg the twain in converse ne “Cheer Ulp, Cuthbert!” Whaiit’s the Use of Being Blue? Theire Is a Lot of Luck Lett. . By Clarence L. Cullen. Copyright, 1011, by ‘fhe Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), Naturally Dislikes the Rum Thing Nevertheless Demands the Regular Quota of Credit for Not Falling for It! ‘The Man who Says he has “Got Your Number” often Proves that Figures Liet Blasting the Luck is @ Mighty In- effectual Kind of Quarrying! ‘The Ostrich is Not the Only Bird that Plays thet Hiding-the-Head-in-the- Sand Syetem! ‘Thete's no Use Dwelling on your Past Derformances—but Hang On to the Dope Book in Case of Need! Procrastination is Mental Malinger- ing! There's 4 Certain Medicinal Value in Making a Fool of Yourself, unless you Permit that Dope t» Give you the Hapit! to It caused us to Lose @ Lot of Good- tes! We've seen Many @ Treed Coon reso- lutely Refuse to Come Down! When you DO Pay the Fiddler, Fire Him! Work Hard, Play Hard, Love Hara— and Laugh. Bad as the Game Must often Have Looked to George Washington, he never Picked Up his Doll Rags and Went Home: THiS 15 PERFECTLY OUTRAGEOUS! THAT CLERK DELIBERATELY LEFT ME OTHER CUSTOMER. ILL REPORT ou ‘We used to Give Ear to that Sage|_ “Bleep Over It” Advice until Listening | ; { Vecempber 12, Medal for Bravery. cicse of the civil war many great ehgineerog through the Shenandoah Valiey. Veron KY campaign woich ended ai Appomatiox bis own inovementsa wen. crea out vigorously: | You haven't mein to Aight! | famous ride trom Winchester. “Insianuy ue soldi but not cowards “bey ANS a dacge. Cusiers commana Bag i] | aide we saw the fag. instructions.” tions, ‘Show me, be said, and we, Meet Two Old to the bullets aimed at us. a with @ very respectable matron, and further fortified with that Lulwark of middie class respectability—children— the policeman sauntered on. It was a cold day, but Dr. Greese mopped his brow and Prof. Slurk emitted @ great sigh of relict. “Ab, in Brooklyn!” eaid Dr. Greese. | °F as Prof. Slurk ran his fingers through his glossy locks and settled the visitor to Greenwood on his head. “Dee-light- ful, ever dee-lghtful City of Homes!" Now, Mrs. Jarr's mother had evinced no great personal interest in the twain when she met them at an expense of twenty-five cents for herself and tes cents apleqe for the children. But so- cially and without price, ag now, was another ziatter. She beamed upon them in her most amiable manner, “I trust the Good Causes ts being car- ried on with enthusiasm,” she said. “The Good Cause languisheth not,” gaia Dr. Greese in his olliest manner. “But temporarily, at the holiday season, there is surcease.” Prof. Slurk nodded his head at this. “We are not idle in the Good Causs— ah—he said. “But at present we have turned to commercia! pursuits.” “We are introducing @ meritorious article, seeking in the highways and byways to relieve suffering humanity,” waic Dr. Gre patting the .ict black box. “It 1s safe, it is sanitary, it does NOT contain alcohol in any form. Ave you returning to Brooklyn, or have you changed your residence to the great metropolis—ah ?” “These are my grandchildren,” said the old lady. “I'm just over in New York visiting my married daughter. And I have taken the lambs to see the moving: pictures.” “Beware!” said Profi Slurk solemnly. “The rapids are below you! The worldly enticements of the pernicious moving pictures have had a most deleterious effect on Chautauqua work and ten- perance lecturing.” They have put tt on the-ahem— they have done no good to the Great Cause,” said Dr. Greese. ‘Let me invite you to dinner. I never degrudge a friend @ dinner," said Mra. Jarr’s mother, ’ she didn’t, either—at her son-in- By David Good people on the oe of the Connecticut he vicinity of Norwich were grievously troubled by a ser- fea of evente which seemed to them inexplicable, excepting om the theory that witches were auil abroad im the jand, ‘That such was indeed the case was the firm belief of many of the most godly among the stern Puritans who firmly controlled publie opinion in that portion of the world, though there were others, even of the etristeat believers, who bad cume to dount the existence of witenes. Among these latter was the Reverend Adoniram Baxter, whom gentle soul nad been gore vexed by the awiul puB- seuménte/that bad dewn inilicted upon so-called witches on testimony ‘Which seemed fimsy indeed to him, Bui even he Was pussied by the stories bis parigh- loners told of appariuons and sirange nowes which haa vrought terror to more than one housenold, always, so far as could be determined, at the exact bour of midaight. ‘Then, when he sat late one night pon- ing for enlightenment, there came outside das OWb Guur, UNIY & Lew iminUtes aller twelve by bis study clock, a voice as of one in great affliction, calling on him for help. And when he bad unbarred (he dour and looked out, not without some tremors of fear, he found » huge she wolf standing in the snow, dieeding overmuch from # slight wound ip her and the vor ssid is not set down fully in his own written chronicle, discovered long after the death by his grandson, and shown even then to only he wrote down 2no! mystery at least. ‘The wolf, sald, wan in reality neighbor of the good dominie, a woman named Elspeth Thurber, who under the stress of poverty in her old age had made @ compact with the Evil One, and had at his bidding assumed this dread- {ul form, to the torment of many of the people around, whom he hated especially for that they sturdily rejected hiv tempt. ations, Qne of these was Elnathan Eawards, a “The engagoment with Dr. Gates— John D. Rockefeiler's almor,r—how about that?” asked Dr, Gretse, turning to his ai Prof, Slurk dr & tolled memoran- dum book from his breast pocket and consulted it canefully. “That, ls to-morrow evening, hii evening we were to meet Andrew Car negie. However, that was purely in. formal and at our convenience,” replied Prof, Slurk, putting back the memo- randum book, Bo, putting aside thetr multitudinous affairs, Dr. Greese and Prof, Slurk de- eided to honor the Jarr housenold by aining with it jh tO eXpcain the igil Great Moments RIN WAR B Told by Living Generals By Phitip R. Dilion. | Couieht, 1014, by The Prem Eyblidhine Co, (The New York World) | Gen. George L. Gillespie and Sheridan’s Flag. i AJOR-GEN, GEORGE LEWIS GILLESPIE, now living in Washin: § | t ing Winchester, and without waiting @ day Sheridan started on that ten day “Tne enemy was strongly intrenched at Five Forks with 8,00 men, their line forming two sides of triangle—all of which 1 bad ascertained by close inspec on and & reconnaissance in my capacity of chief of engineers. I also found 4 provected spot in the woods in whioh Gen, Warren's Fifth Corps was to form. ‘Sheridan had two divisions of cavalry, avout 12,000 men, and about infantry under Gen, Warren; also he bad Gen. Mackenzie's command of L3* We iurmed aoout 4,0w yards from the Jortlicauous, in toe wover Wl tue woods, ‘he cavalry was to atiack the front while the infaatry would " Ground and strike the left Hank of the Confederates, { abuut 4 o'clock im the afternoon | oven space, Boing straight at the enemy's front. The Confederates dell’ their fre, well asmed from musketry and two pieces of ariliery, at & et Atty yards, Gen. Winthrop's origade ef Ames's division was withered up and sank away; Winthrop fell wounded. For a few moments (aw Was ,Wild panic, Then Sheridan, reaching backward, snatched the litle awalléay, tauled red and white pennant from the sergeant in his rear, Waved if bigh ead “It was the same cheracter of language He used at Codec farmed around him like bees, utterly disorganized, © know what to do, but Just seemed to cling to,him luke children, walle we Confederate fre was pouring ito us across the shors | clear space. He cried out again to the officers: “‘Wipperae there and Keepy we men to the front!’ “And they reformea at oace, under tlerce fire, and went on, Conteaerate forufcations. in en minutes we bad won the battle “Phat was @ great moment when he waved cnat little flag over us, It was F] | me own personal tag, @ bursee pennant, white and red, with one red star oa the white and one wolte star on the red. We adopted it as the insignia of + poeridan's stall, and you can see it in Sucridan's purtraiw, pinned on bim ee " “Bight days later, on April 9, 185, at 6 o'clock in the morning, Sheridan's cavairy moved out ana the cattle of Appomatios was om 1 was with Gea. “At W A. AL we, the stall, were at « farmhouse in an open space Tom! Custer, orother of Gen. Custer, suddenly exclaimed: ‘Look! We lookea over scrvss ravine and at the crest of the bill on the beet | “Gea. Custer cried out: ‘I'm going for it! - ” “| aaid to bim: ‘General, you have no right to go for it, Gem. Sheridan is commauding olticer, ane ooly be Bas -ne right to acknowledge it and to gi’ “He said; ‘I'm going for it, anyway!’ across the ravine. Hut 1 would not go with him. J turned and rode back through the woods 1o Gen. Sheridan and repuried. He was astonished. He) would not believe ne that Custer would go for that white fag without instruc- of his stat, dasned to the tarmbouse and there saw Gon Cusier going up the opposite aide of toe wd and there wee “Just then there rushed out of the farmhouse three Coi {0 seize Sheridan's pennant, and also just then there camp® volley of musketry frém right and rear, where @ part of Fits Hugh Lee's Confederate command taken positions. One of our horses wag soot And all this time Sheridan H stock still on bis horse, staring at Custer Like @ man entranced, paying a> Some Spook Stories D. C., was tora in Kingston, Tenn, in 1i He graduated at ‘ Point in 183 and immediately was assigned as engineer on the = @f the Army of the Potomac, He served through the great Virs | campaigns of '@, '@ and ‘M4, and was then appointed chief enginee: \ue Army of the Shenandoah and continued as Sheridan's chief engineer, \ | the rank ef Colonel, until the end of the war, ide received the Congres. dn bie forty yeare of active service in the United States army since i. has held many important commands and has direcie ‘he. in 104 he was promoted to Major-General any ‘406 eppvinied assistant chief of staf of the United States army. Ww. AL the age of seventy he se unmistakably the finished soldier, siriking!: erect and active, of big, powerful frame and quick heme iast week he spoke vividiy of twe c! “1 go back to that last campaign in Was chief engineer on the sta of Gen. Quietly left Winchester with his Army of the Shenandoah and inoved sout His orders were the railroad connections souta of Hichmond and then jola Gram, and if that Wes impossible to push on south and join Sherman, who Was coming norte (arougn te Carolinas, Well, we turned up at Petersburg a month after ot le retired | » In his Wesbingtob idan. On Feb. 2, 1965, Sherid. eWeep around and destroy dient géve aim full authority 40 con! Moved out of the cover into f . -A etraight over de® 7 ‘There is a white! And away be dished with all his staf jorates, who tried “Gen. Forsyth said to him: ‘General, you ought not to stand here to be ape ! ‘That seemed to arouse him and he spurred his horse forward and we after aim, over the ravine and up the ill to the Confederate lines, where he shet Gea. Gordon, the Confederate olficer, whose sergeant held the white tag. / “Yet firing copunued, dying away litle by little, for two hours, Whea i/ stopped enurely that Was the end of the war for Sheridan's command.” A. Curtis Copyright, 1911, by The ites Publishing Co, (The New York World), The Witch's Ghost. URING the winter of 1796 the worthy farmer who had that night fre@ ‘his old blunderbuas at the wolf as snp’ © ecared him and his family her wwe earthly and territying howls under ms window, Guided by the wolf, which said Utele more, and which, growing fainter from Weakness, and more indistinct to’ bie eyes in the black darkness, the minister went straightway to old Elspeth'’s ests tage, and as the wolf vanished at the threshold he entered the half open door. Praying as he went, but strong in. his Tesolve to know the truth, On « pile of rags in the corner. the old woman lay dying, but with strength enough left to put forth her foot om. which he saw an almost imperceptibie,, wound, and to mutter feebly, “Pray £98, the soul I have lost.” acta wrote Mr. Baxter, ‘'fon scant time for aught alse. . she died with ehriekings, and 4, rd unearthly laughter in the room. , her soul quitted its body. And taking counsel with Good Man Edwards after, we plighted word to say nothing touch: ing bis shooting at the witch, lest a mischievous doctrine should be strensta- ened by the recit: —_—_>___ Wayside Wisdom. HE first mortgage is always the. a ap dest. ‘ Time 1s money, but it takes eternity to 1 When o. should not Many & man who means to live weil lives beyond bis means, ua Men who have but little honor arg right to defend it from assaiiante, wi Whether or not @ man has too many, trons in the fre depends on the side of the dre, r A man's hopes are @ see-naw, one end of which 1s covetousnos and the uther end fear. - Halt the time polleemen are nos.” arouad when wanted. The other eae . m6 the time they are around when wanted, It you take away from the intelligent man the right to kick when things wrong, you make him lower than &.. mule.—New Orleans Ploayune ot meas cae a {rT § $0048 yA { ] : as