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ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ten, 60 to Pre 1 Company, Nos, Rxcent BONA Row, New one ’ PeManet Patty haNatn Bue treater ts Ver Fee JOSHPH PULITZER, Jr. Secretary, 63 Row. tsOM Fal Matter. Oueacriptlon “Rates "to The vening | Fans and the Continent and ‘World for the United States All Countries 4.4 One Tear One Yea i Rf the International Union. One Month, VOLUME 32 A peaceful victory for the strikers! Such is the news from) camp in the United States division of the great conl | miners’ campaign. | All is peace. Four indred thousand miners are out of work with no immediate or sure prospect of returning. All is peace. The country loses more than a million tons of coal. All is peace. The Erie Railroad, in consequence of the strike, “Was closed its shops in three places and thrown more than a thousand | men out of work. All is peace. The Philndéiphia and Reading Railroed Company fae isi off three thousand of its ooel trade en, All is peace. The striking miners are out $1,000,000 in wages. All is peace. Tho. strike ie causing consternation in Fastern Gemeda, where there is no coal in the rural districts; Montreal, To- | mento, Hamilton amd Ottawa have only a few weeks’ supply, the poor < . 400 suffering severely and the price has jumped to $15 a ton. All te peace. President Baer of the Philedelphin and Reading Coal and Iron Company says: “The public mast pay for s settlement.” All is peace. In England, where pence ims had « longer start, fly ememployod now number considerably more than two millions mel perts of the country. More men are out of work to-dey than rweek ago. Up to date the losses in wages slone are estimated at . All the fighting force in Hoagland, Scotinnd and Wales iageady te move to the coal districta. All-t» peace. SS A MISTAKE SOMEWHERE. Fether Bernatd Vaughan wee-easuring hie hearers the other night that Joan of Arc, if she were with us to-day, would break nore heerts than windows, Miss Syivin Pank- haret the werfike was telling snother audience that ft might be neves- tary to barn down a fow castles in order to remind the hard-hearted men that yomen are going to have thet vote, She edmitted thet the two watchwords of the cuffragivis to-day are “Kick Up.e Row” end “Make Ourselves a Nuisance.” May we respectfully submit for the consMeratfon of both Snf- fragists and Antis the words of one of our earliest and most famous American writers? It happens that to-day is the ennivervary of his hirth, April 3, 1783. In the course of seventy-six yeare of erperi- ence, culture, travel and observation he reached the following con- clusions: “A womawe whele Ufe te @ history of the affections. The heart te her world; it te there her ambition atrives for empire; it ie there her avarloe secke for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole sow im the traffic of affection; ond if shipwrecked her case ia hopelese—or it ie a bankruptoy of the heart.” Thus Washington Irving. Whese error? a TO THE SHIP OF STATE. SHIP OF THE STATE, BEWARE! HOLD PAST THR PORT. OLING'TO THE FRIENDLY SHORE, LEST SUDDEN STORMS AND. WHIRLING BDDINS BEAR THY SHATTERED HULL TO.FAITHLERS suas ONOH MORE. | PERFECT PEACE. PRACKEFUL coal strike, with every hope of a speedy and ues s Horace. Sef JHE WORLD'S CUCKOOS—that famous brood of advertisers who enesked their own sheets into the reguier ames of ‘The World—heve faded ewsy from very shame, The finger w-qvorn hes put them to flight. Last Sunday found only one left fm the nest—a gloomy bird with a croak: “Hive you a family plot? IZ act, edive a rebus and gets plot in Ferncliff Cemetery.” Aveunt, ead fowl! Letters from the People path, and thence 2,200 feet, at the slower rage, to the comer in question, making the total length of the course 3,080 fect, A ciroular pasture contains exactly one acre, A horse 4s grazing therein and ts tled to the fence by @ rope, How long must the rope be to allow the horse to Graze over exactly one-half of the AW. ML Cold Weather and Low 5! ‘To the Kaltor af The Krening World: Why 4a it, readera, on a cold, clear winter day we unfortunately observe ladies Who are becomingly, neatty and Most comfortably attired in heavy coat, fura and low out shoes? Is dt possible Wond: letter on the “Car Nuisance” je he point, and let us hope re the desired result, I have seen one of the “gentlemen” re- ferred to, with his lege gracefully cronsed and extended, and another of the _ ‘same type, sitting Immediately opposite, with his legs crossed in the same man- in 2 t i li they lose eight of the fact of the prob- able susceptibility of sheumatiemn of the “lower extremities"? Furs and low shoes are incongruous and unhealthful. fa sort of “handsacrors-the-sea es PN cal aid 4 young ladies, ‘n passing ' Taga mien aidp wad humbly | ‘To the Jaton of The Eventag World : ‘The modern laundry is comparatively a ‘bes their pardon or go on and soi! thelr ee an aamee anes ctirsgllype ed misunderstood by the public at large ing through the cas where he en- They Apt to think that al! laundries |» counters thene pents, innocently kick the; #"* alike and that most of the money cheel of the crossed jeg. And ne will be | Paid to them is profit, 1 ‘mugprized, and afforded some humor, to} ttracted many ing | Ine tent men to the business who os, | th ® large volume of custom Is all (that's required to make money, regard ons Jews of the prices charged or cost of do- ‘A rectangular elgaty= Ine the work, The result is dissatinfied « lone’ as thle wide, mers The jaundry business, te If a) suce requires ability and experience y a footpath, 1 ot. faster in the © pate than across tic teld, what oe wil! he travel In walking from one cor- ‘of the field to the corner diagonally Providing he follows the course will enable him to make the trip feast possinie time?” My answer We Gnd chat the field must | feet wide, The the] ing to poy tor tatle in the work, or for a number of years, at } o charged 2% cents for collars and cuff: - PLAY, i that out of their “looking glass vanity” | new institution, and naturally greatly | cieluston | also @ palastaking following out of de- ‘There are quite a} er Of good laundries that have aly | st, The fact that some of them have out- grown their !ower-priced competitors shows that many people recognize qual- ity even fm thelr laundry 9nd gro wills | & World Daily Why Not? cx Tas WAY For EXPRESS TRAINS Peer Jax A MNIG Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Coppright, 1012, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), can be paid to a woman—but that is no reason why he should never pay her HILB we are investigating monopolies, why not | another, f strike a dlow at the Love Trust, “Cupid, Satan & Co.,” the only combination on earth that has contrived to fool alt the people all the time! This is the dangerous time of the year when young people mistake the moonlight in one another's eyes for the love-light, and proceed to build bungalows in Spain, on a ninetcen-ninety-cight-a-week salary. Women will get square with men only when they can be as square Every man must have been born with the soul of a juggler; witness, with one another as men are, his burning passion for balancing a cut-glass object on the edge of the table, so that it will hang by its teeth—until the net person cones along. Aside from burning Me tongue, acenting his clothes, filling him with modtine, giving him dyepepela, adsorbing his money, and occasionally set- ting the house on fire, emoking must be the greatest comfort on earth toa man, If a man wants woman to stop crying for the ballot, why doesn't he re- member the method by which he managed to make her stop crying for an Easter hat—ond give it to her? _ ‘When a man marries a girl, he pays her the highcat compliment that It's a poor reason that won't work both ways, for a woman, Schooldays w fii, <Picar end NESS OF DISPATCH AND oes wea A WORTHY AmBiTON ‘Mwars To NT The GuLLd EYE OF SUCCESS =m | | —_—_—_—_" Historic Heartbreakers. By Albert Payson Terhune. % Copyright, 1912, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York World). NO. 31—SHELLEY—True Genius, Falee Lover. BOY of nineteen and a girl of sixteen eloped in 1811, dodge tl i} pursuit of their angry relatives, fled to Scotland and were ted. The youthful bridegroom was Percy Bysshe Shelley. still more youthful bride was little Harriet Westbrook. The git had run away from home and had cast herself upon Shelley's mercy, ploring him to save her from a horrible fate. He saved her from it im th only way he could think of—by making her his wife. (The “horrible fate” from which Shelley thus herotcally saved her | her father’s determination to send her back to school!) | Shelley spent most of his strange, brief lite getting into trouble {in letting his friends get him out of it. This did no very great harm | any one but himself—except where some girl was concerned. Then | consequences were more tragic. No less than two women are sald ¢e | Kctlled themselves for love of him. | His father wae a wealthy baronet. The way wae smooth, tn e@vedea,. young Sheiley. Money, eocial position and a professionel career were tm grasp, but he industriously eet to work as a mere boy wrecking aN tie At Eton echool he cedelied eo fiercely against the tyrannous “fag” eyetem | vogue there and in.other ways showed euch insubordination that he was P named ‘Mad Shelley.” At Oxford University he openly declared timed? en atheist, issued an ethetstic pamphlet, and as @ rerult was promptly His father in a rage at this disgrace forbade him to come home ané cut off allowance. The girl to whom he was engaged jilted him, His more respectatto friends shunned him. ‘At eighteen he found himself more or less an outeast, The girl who threw him over because of his atheism was Harriet Grove, ae) | cousin, They had been engaged for months, and to her his first Mterary Zastronsi,” was written, Shelley was temporarily heartbroken by hie cefeotion.! Then he prepared to start life in London, penniless amd! | ulone. But his four sisters scraped together enough | money out bf their own allowances to keep htm alive. | They used to send this money to him by their peetty| schoolmate, ‘Harriet Westbrook, the daughter of @ wall | to-do hotel keeper. Harrtet's elder aister, Eliza, seems to have fallen in Jove with Shetley et | | about thie thne, and she encouraged his vistts to the Westbrook home. @he | later did her best to make his life a burden—and succeeded.) Harviet alge Goll | in love with him, and though it ts not clearly shown thet he ever returned ber | love, yet when she came to him for refuge against being returned to echosl te | chivalrously, !f foolishly, married her, | “Her father,” Shelley indignantly wrote t a friend, ‘has persecuted her tm | most horrible way by endeavoring to compel her to go to achool. | Both families were furious at this silly boy-and-gitl marriage. But | Joined in supporting the helpless young ouple and giving them $2,000 @ year, | Shelley, having plenty of time on his hands and no need to work for @ ing, proceeded to get into mischief. He wrote seditious pamphlets that got | in trouble with the Government—athelstic works that called down censure érem right-minded people, and poems that dazzied the world by their exquisite bewuty. | Also he fell in love with Mary Wollstonecroft Godwin, a clever, unconventional | woman (author of “Frankenstein"), wh more than rec!procated his love. “Her dark eyes soothe my dream of pain,” wrote Bhelley. His neglected wife in Ge pair drowned herself. | Shelley then married Mary Godwin. Her half sister, Fanny Wollstonecrett, | became one of his worshippers, and through unrequited affection for him fs eald: to have committed suicide. Then followed an affair described ae “platonte” with the young Contessina Emilia Viviant, whom Shelley met at Pisa, ana ef ‘whom he very soon ‘tired, | \ Shelley and his new wife idted away months of @hetr time in Switzerland and Italy with Byron and several lesser gentuses. It was an odd ittle community, and: much of tts history is more diseusting than ea.fying, By this pertoa 8 had won deathless fame and people took his pitiable weakness the eccentricities of gent addicted to opium, and ured to brandish a laudanum bottle, exclaimt part with thi He often had wild delusions which, rightly or not, gained im @ reputation asa fluent Har, In person he was rather tall (about 5 feet 11 inches), slender, wiry, gracefui, His voice was shrill and harsh. His face was of the “angel” type; pale, Hehted by enormous dark blue eyes, and crowned by @ mass‘ ot wavy brown ha!r. He was in appearance and dress, as well as in behavior, the typical poet. During a galling trip on the Mediterranean in 182%, when he was but twenty- nine, Shelley-was drowned. Some say his boat was capsized in a store; others that pirates robbed the craft and then threw him wverboard, His bhdy was washed ashore on the Itallan coast. There Byron and others of the queer coterie had it burned on a great funeral pyre, after the manner of the heroes of old. Byron later claimed to have reached into the cooling embers end to have drawn forth the dead poet's heart, which was merely hardened by the flames, The ‘ioart and ashes were interred in the English cemetery at Rome, After the cremation Byron turned to one of his adm and vad: “When I die, don’t grill me as you did poor Shell \ \ \ i i A Pocket Encyclopedia | HIS Is a Pocket Encyclopedia, explaining in a few words #01 imple facts I that everybody ought to know all about and that very few people actually know. j ‘The replies and a new set of questions will be printed in Friday's Fyemini World, . Why do you cough? . Why is your hair red or black; straight or curly? . What ts a hiccough, and what causes it? . What makes you wink, and what good does it do? . What is dew? UCH a semi- prin gown . The May Manton Fashions S be made’ from linen, taffeta, messa- line, foulard, piaue, Scotch gingham and the like with equal success, ‘The lines are essentially smart and the gown te, in very. way a : Whether it ts adapted to morning or after- hoon wear depends entirely upon the ma- ferial chosen, In the ffustration. linen is Combined with heavy face. ine bi is je with one-piece sleeves that ato alitenes se SFancles. front and back tom por- 4 and of the gown at the left of ‘the front. If liked, the yoke and under sleeves can be | omitted, or the under | sleeves can be made shorter and the yoke tan be finished with- out @ collar, For the medium size will be required a aterial | yard 18 for the yotee sleeves, TY Jof the ski