The evening world. Newspaper, August 8, 1912, Page 14

i ‘ | Cue SAe> world. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Petts by the Preas Publishing Company, Nos, 63 to Dally Except Bunter sk How, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Preaident, 6% Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSH/M PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, ¢? Park Row. -OMice at New @econd-Clann Matter, puon Rater to fhe fivening] For Pnaland and. the Continent and World for the United States All Countries In the International bf Canada. One Year. Portal Union. $3.50] One Yoar....+ One Month. -. 40] One Month VOLUME 5 ’ «NO, 18,614 A PARADOX—A PARADOX! Gis AND DEMAND” has been so long the final knock- down argument for the man who puts up prices to use on the man who has to pay them that it has got right into the lass with the Ten Commandments and the Multiplication Table. Does the price of beef soar? “Supply and Demand” are in-| \voked to explain the fact. The corner grocer must go. Why? Be- cause “Supply and Demand” have done with him for evermore. Whenever anybody has to explain something about his prices or) his way of doing business “Supply and Demand” help him to get away with it. Modern experience pokes queer holes in the “Supply and De- mand” idol. Take horses and automobiles. The demand for auto- mobiles has enormously reduced the demand for horses. But what has happened? The price of horses is going up and the price of automobiles is every year lower. If fewer poople want horses, why don’t horses cost less? Also meat. The Inst year has seen a big movement, hygienic and economic, against eating meat. Probably there never was so wide a boycott of beef. Yet prices mount astoundingly higher and | higher. Decrease in supply cannot account for it. Things used least seem often to cost most. / Why do the hardest worked men do the best work? Why dovs @ factory in full blast, working overtime, turn out a high grade of buttons, while the same factory, running slow, with plenty of time to think about improving itself, goes slack and lets its etandard fall? A while ago the town of Greenwich, Conn., thought it would improve its Aldermen by giving them less work and moro time for reflection. So a Board of, Estimate and Apportionment was started to relieve the Aldermen of part of their duties. Result: The Al- Germen are now about one-eighth as efficient as before, when they had all the work to do. Increasing responsibility usually increasea a man’s capacity for bearing it. Big stones don’t build the highest towers., The two largost Dafidings in New York stand upon ten-cent insurance policies and five-and-ten-cent stores. There’s a queer “oppositencss of things” that géte into even staid old sciences like Economics. —_—_+-___——. ~ WHEN THE PRESS WAS YOUNG. “nN? NEWSPAPER oan long survive unless it tells tho truth and prints the news without fear or favor.” True. Yet how ead that the newspaper can’t please everybody by telling news, good or bad, with a word of regret for those who won't like it, and a whoop for those who will! They managed these things better in the seventeenth century. Make the following from a London newspaper of 1622. The quoted paregraph closes the report of a battle in which a popular British commander met defeat: Now, courteous Reader, having heard the truth of the matter, moderate your oricfe, and doe not discourage a young brave warrior, by lamenting for some small loseo by him eus- tained, seeing also that commonly the tseucs of battailes and warlike actions are variable and inoonstant, and that many times 4¢ happencth, that those that the one day have the worst, the nest day have the better hand, . The same kindly sheet prints at the foot of its column Notice to Correspondents: 4-1 persons who are pleased to favour uswith any comical or sollid stories, may repair to the “Three Kings,” Ludgate, and they shall have them very carefully put in. Alas, that the modern newspaper must strangle these generous Smpulees! ' a ny “ OW LONG will it take people to learn that the inside of a golf ball is better left where it is? Another man screwed one of the little spheres in a vise and hit it with a hammer—with tho usual result, The liquid core spurted into his eyes and may cost him his sight. Golf balls are the most harmless and jolly of com- panions so long as you keep on the right side of them. But that side is the outside. ——__ ++. FIRE in 4 restaurant ate up the contents of two fie extinguish- | ers and only went out when the cook poured a bottle of milk on it, What’s the opposite of fire Anyway? The cook knew. SS een 66 NABLE to Rely Upon the Police to Disentangle the Rosen- thal Murder the Mayor of New York Has Recourse to a Private Detective Agency!” ~-Headline in the Parts “Matin.” “But Not So You'd Notice It.” distance which approaches 1111-9 as a| Mit, but never reaches !t, Naturally, then, at any point within this dimit | Achilles is etil pursuing. PW fo the Bittor of Tue Evening World: Under the heading “Zeno's Paradox,” Raymond T. presen @ problem con- cerning Achilles and the turtle, and chadienges other readers to point out the fallacy of h's argument. Bolution:| In answ Lat 10x— number yards travelled by | locomotives ever turtle up to the Instant it {s passed by that the first question whether had names, I can say omotive ever run over Achilies. Then 10x number yards the Simithtown and Port Jefferson R.R, travelied by Achilles, and x + 1000-| Was named “Thurlow Weed.” ‘This w mumber yards travelled by Achilles|!n_ the sevent: Then there was the ‘Therefore, 10x = x + 1000, and x = 1111-9 MAM. Raymond's reasoning is correct unt he adds “and forever.” There Mes the fallacy. For as he takes up the problem, he considers only a part of the turtic's tra that is, a series of as. tances, each of which is 1-10 that of the 10 yards, 1 yard, he never gets “Corone,” the old Fire Setter. Then there came the pride of the L. 1, R. R, built espectally for the fast express, | “Peter Cooper," This took the eye of every boy, for tt was highly finished tn & metal looking Ike gold, The ide” Wh. To the Editor of The Eveaing World Tf an automobile is going at a high speed around a curve will the Ku | she was looking up from, brought home three. he had plenty of time to i them coming from his office, and she| So she had selzed all threo! Hence, at the mo- said, right after supper. ment, she was reading one, other under her arm and was sitting on the third. (at me see one of the papers,” wug- gested Mr. Jarr. Just wait a moment!” Mra. Jarr somewhat test!! all day to read the pape old oMce, for you can't tell me you men do any work. I was down there one) day and all I saw you doing was acrib- | => Tae The Evening World Daily Maga Too Heavy. ‘ | ~ aan | zine, Thursday Augu By Robert Minor Copyright, 19: ‘The Prees Put tebe New York World Go, BRE'S an account in this) Paper of a young man who thought up an eleotrical de- vice in the middle of the night and sold ft the next day for $0,000," said Mra, Jarr, looking up from Mr. Jarr's even- ing paper. It was only one of the evening papers hadn't. “Now, bling over a lot of papers.” “What el Mr, Jarr had But, as Mrs. Jorr had an- would I be doing? Put+ “What's the sense Ratification meeting?” wheels or the outside whee! track? hee layed two pair etralght flu One Definition. % oe Yh of having a “It serves about the same purpose o | #8 the ‘That's Good’ of the man who against a cried” “You have down at that | ting up shelves?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Well, the place was most untidy, I don't think it would have done you any harm to have gotten a broom and a brush and dustpan and cleaned up the place a little, f should think you woult be ashamed of the place being so dirty. Suppose company had dropped in?’ “Now, pl don't be eo selfish! was the reply. I want to seo which one of the papers has a sale of oxford tes. I need a new pair the worst way. Some of the papers have totally different ad- vertisements. Mr, Jarr stood around awaiting his 004 lady's pleasure and looking fool- ish, and as, still holding on to the others, she skimmed through one after the other, she remarked: “1 don't see why you don't think up somethin that young man 414, You pride yourself on \saying such emart things, (although, goodness knows, I can't see where thelr smartness comes In), But what good does thinking up smart things dosyou? Why can't you) think up something worth fifty thou- nd dollars, if you are ao bright?’ Mr. Jarr was about to say that he would be eatisfied if he could get happy idea that would make Mrs. Ja leave go of even one of the evening papers, But what he DID eay wae that he often had bright ideas at night. “Wii don't you Jot them down then?” asked Mra. Jar, “I haven't any jotting material with }me when I think of them,” aald Mr. Jarr, ‘When I go to ded I go to| sleep. I don't take an office equipment | Copyright, 1012, by ‘The Pree Publishing Oo, (The New York World), DP ese comen @ seasoned “man-abouttown" to @ sentimental, ideal istic woman, is merely casting swine before pearls, After a trife has spent a few years worshipping at the shrine of a “self-| made” man, she sometimes feels that she would be quite willing to ex jehange him for one that God made, | one i i \ A wise man sips the wine of Love slowly, drinks deep but once, and leaves the dregs for the fools and the Philistines, A man's idea of cconomizing is to turn down one gas jet, ruin a fifteen dollar panama trying to save fifteen cents at the cleaner’s, and then go out and take a drink on his resolve. When a man says that “accident” prevented him from keeping an en- gagement with you, don't jump to the conclusion that “Accident” was a blonde, It 4s just as likely to have Deen a brunette, a poker game, or a! lapse of memory, Alas, a girt can always console herself with the thought that it is “Fate” or “Chan which keeps a man away from her, But nothing on carth will kecp a man from @ woman's side, Dearie, if he wanta to be there, a Fifty Thousand Dollar Idea ARUN NANA ANE MRE PP RIPE PE RRR ONAN CE with me of a typewriting machine, @ copying press, a day book and a ledger. “You do not need all those things,” advised Mrs. Jarr. “The paper die Unctly says that this young man who got the fifty thousand dollars for the electrical device just jotted it down in the middle of the night.” 11,” said Mr, Jarr, “while throw- ing no bouquets at myself for being one of our best little nocturnal fotters, I will aay that sometimes I have great {deas in the silent watches of the night, But when I wake up in the morning I forget just what they are.” “You could have @ note book by the bed ahd @ fountain pen,” said Mrs. Jarr. “Nix on the fountain pen!” cried Mr, Jarr. ‘They aro hard enough to operate in the daylight, But IT could have a pencil and a notebook, and then, if @ fitty tholsand dollar idea came to me— I wouldn't get up in the middle of the night for any paltry five or ten thou- sand dollar ‘dea, you know—I oould arise and turn on the light and jot It down, As a jottist I guess I'm some Ittle jotter!” “And wake me up by lighting the gas? And then T wouldn’ te get to sleep again? I gue Mrs, Jarr. ‘No, I'll tell you what you can do,” she added. ‘You can get one of these hand electric lights and put it by your notedook and pencil on a chair by the bed head.” “11 go right now and get one,” said and out he started. sald Mrs, Jarr, “Wille will go out with you. For all I know you may be only rushing out this way as an excuse, Take Willle with you, and remember Gus at the corner doesn't deal in lights.” “You can get It up there, though,” susgested Mr. Jarr, But Mrs, Jarr plied in her opinion saloons were cen- tres of moral darkness and he'd better keep away from them, in due time Mr. Jarr returned with a portable electric flashiight of the shape and size of @ foot length of broom- stick, Master Willle Jarr was 80 Im- Pressed by it that !t had to be taken from him by force. Then he declared he wanted’ one to study his lessons by tn the middle of the night At bedtime for several nights Mr, Jarr laid out the $0,000 paraphernalia by his bed, but was awakened by no inspiring !deas. On the fourth night! he reached out for the flashiight, but ft was gone. He awakened Mrs, Jarr to” ask for It. "T let Willie have It to play burslars and police,” yawned Mrs. Jarr. “Good!” sald Mr, Jarr, “That's the $60,000 tdeat" an THEY KNOW NOT. Many are strony and ich, and would Sometimes, when a stout woman becomes suddenly slender, 4¢ ten't because she has disposed of @ Wot of flesh, but because she has disposed of a lot of money—to the right modiste, A bachelor, marited against his w will live the life of a bachelor still? de suat, But lve among their suffering fellow- men st 8, | (nm the United Stat (“Camera-Eye" ways as Detective Sheridan. In this | Mable pointers calculated to save them (Copyriaht, 1912. by Ww. W. ‘ NO. 2.—'‘THE DEAD MAN GAME.” ~ LAYING ‘The Dead Man Game" is a gruesome sport, but it has made profitable by a number of crooks wlio keep close watch om newspapers and make up a card index from the da P columns. The number of men av ‘ ECTIVE WRC27E"*)SHERIDAN A Series of Articles Exposing the Every-Day Deceptions of the Powers That Prey. | Bheridan te regarded as one of the dest detectives that ever existed outside ‘of fiction, The feate of memory which gave him his nickname, when he was head of the Bureau of Identification of the New | York Police Department, are proverbial, It has been said there ta no man with 80 thorough a knowledge of criminals and thetr series he gived the public many vab loss by swindling.) *: Auten.) ‘ in the “Died js not as large who work this swind! as the number of beats in any other game because there is a pretty widespread superstition that it 1s unlucky to go after coin of this kind. Stil crook will turn for any kind of thievery, provided he le needy enough and tegy enough. mate many a prepas Otherwise he might have to go to work. And this alternative @ae grafter embrace the obituary department. The oKest form of the game has to do with Bible selling. @ list of recent deaths in localities removed from The operater is own headquarters, ‘The distance consideration # an important factor, for in case of what the thleves call @ “rumble” the victim, being a long way off from the inception! of the swindle, will, in all probability, hesitate to come on personally and presee cute, And in most cases the matter ts allowed to drop. The crook, by eu scribing to a cltpping bureau, provides himself with a list of deaths and them sends out @ letter addressed to the dead person, saying there remains only @ small sum—say # or s0—to pay on the magnificent Bible on which he or ehe ha@ paid the main part. If the balance is forwarded at once the Bible will be sents The letter, opened by @ survivor, will, in the majority of cases prove @ “puller.” The suggested 64 will be five cont Bible, or no Bible at all, it and the schemer may send on @ twentye, cording to how he feels about it. Recently the fake mining stock has played @ prominent part in the Dea@ Man Game. Bibles were all very well for a tt purely eentimental and up-to-date thiev: but the consideration was ‘ying the old process by of stock in the Books? ‘The beauty about the Dead Man's Game, hocording to the point of view of the ortminals who work ft, ts that it requires little capital an@the returne are as certain as anything tn thie line can well be. The operator can work single on this lay and this is always an advantage where there is money to cut up or to retain in tts entirety. In the frst pisces, @ room may be rented temporarily fn able to put up $20 or $% for a month’ issuing gorgeous, glittering certificates | UP with @ few thousand of these certificates, and a itke number of addresses the recently deceased, a typewriter or two at a few dollars a week, swindler ts ready to operate. A personal typewritten letter ts sent walk the earth notifying them that their 6! forward by express, by express. The amount asked for vai If he thinks the deceased notice he can few of them do escape this, however, for those who break the law in this m: returns the grafters temporarily enjoy. NEXT “THE MONBY-MAKING THE POLICE RS. 8.—Now that you're dressed, Milton, you may go down ta front of the door and wait for Papa, He always likes to see his little boy when he comes out of the subway. @fllton exits. Mrs, 8. rushes after him into the hall.) Mrs. 8, (shouting)—And keep yourself clean, Milton, and don't go into tho’ middie of the street, and don't speak to any strange children! Milton (eubmissively)—Yes'm. Mrs. 8, (with the last atom of lung Power)—And, Milton, don't touch any dogs! You know mamma told you you must never touch doge in hot weather. Milton (faintly from the lower re- gions)—Yes'm. (Ten minutes later Milton and Mr. 8. enter.) Mra. S. (warmly)—Hello, papa! What kind of a day did you have? Mr. 8. (graphically)—Rotten! Milton (smugly)--You mustn't say “rotten,” papa. Mrs. 8. (beaming)—That's right, mam- ma’s precious. Papa's getting just a Uttle careless, h to scold him, won't we? Mr, 8. (rebelliously)—“Rotte! Perfectly good word. it means—— Mrs. 8. (quietly)—-2 know, dear, but! {t's slang. | Mr, 8. (indignantly)—It's NOT stang— ft means treacherous, putrified, cor- rupt— Milton (suddenly becoming human)— Why don't you say punk, pop? That's & good wort! Mr. 8, (changing the theme)—Wel!, there's every likelihood of my being called for the Becker jury. Mrs, 8. (agttated)—Wha-nt! ‘Mr. 8, (pompously)—You see, I’m on the spectal jury list, and this is going to be an Important case. Mrs. $.~But you'll get out of tt, won't you? Mr. S. (slowly) don't know whether T will or not. | ‘Mrs, S. (plaintively)—But they may lock the jury up—and {t's sure to drag for weeks and weeks. And think of all the dinners I'll have to eat alone! And! is a apologizing for the delay in sending them, with @ prediction that the stock will quadruple {i value in th next few weeks. Then the certificates are done up ina Da id left @ considerable estate, looking to this condition, Swindle net @ good sum. safety shot and claims sometimes ae low as %. of returns on the $5 basis, he is very well paid Of courso, sooner or later the swindle is grafter will have to move his base of operat! Wilgiororntensetevennpiapacserscmrioyaconed Domestic Dialogues. By Alma Woodward Competaht, 1912, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York World), | ful office building, the grafter usually beng rent in advance, Then an arrangement {s made with a printer who makes @ specialty @f on mines that never existed. Stocked, and the each of the persons who no I hares in the Boobs’ Own dave ks and winding up @ course of the and sent ©. 0. D, ‘ecording to the ideas of the swindler, or if from the obituary he puts in shares suf- Mbt in doubt he plays the je can get a fair porc for his schemin; ipecs ir Going to be discovered and the fons to avoid being caught. Very to and the penalty Uncle Sam prescribes janner fe away out of proportion to the MAOHINE. SITUATION. I'm afraid to be in the flat alone at night, Mr. 6.—Haven't you got Delia an@ Milton here with you? Mrs. 8. (ecornfully)—A lot of seed. Delia would do! She rolls her bureau over against her bedroom door night and then sleeps under the mat- tress! Mr. 8. (soothingty)—Well, no one's going to hurt you. Mrs, 8. (nervously)—I don't keow sbout that. My goodness, what with all the stuff you read in the pegew nowadays I wouldn't put it past the police to pick out the homes of the men who are serving on the jury and rob them while they're locked up! Mr. S.—Nonsense! They're not leek Ing for table silver and cut glass! They are after life annutties and chateaus fa France! Mra, 8. (solemnly)—Tan't {t awfwl ‘Why, you know, whenever I'd come to & crowded crossing I'd never think of Boing over until the policeman took my arm, But from now on I'll always etoae alone because I wouldn't put tt past them to have me run over on purpove 80's they could tear my diamonds off me before the ambulance came! Mr. 8. (serlously)—It's too bad .the® thousands of square, white policemes should have to suffer for the sins ef @ few. Mrs, 8. (pessimistically)—I'm sume oe one thing: I, for one, will never g@ og another police parade. I've made. @p my mind to that! And I used to 10¥% those parades so’ Mr. S. (laughing)—Oh, forget it, Jen nie! Milton, run around the corner ang get papa a couple of two-for-a-quarter clmars, (Milton rises with alacrity.) ‘Mrs. 8. (firmly)—Now, don’t run, Mills ton, You might fall Mr. $8. (quickly)—Yes, you might fall on father's smokes, Milton, so be cate- Qlilton fares forth tn search of the two-for-a-quarters, Mrs, 8. leans ‘way out the window in her effort to see him.) ‘Mrs, §. (shrilly)—Milton! Milton! Don't uu go near that policeman at the cor- nér! Do you hear mamma, Milton? Walk on the other sidet Where 28,000 Men Found Work. ORK for 28,00 men and 12,000 W teams has been provided this year in constructing the exten- stons that are being bullt by the Cana- ian Northern transcontinental system. | Sir William MacKenzie, president of the, Canadian Northern, Is authority for the! Statement that $25,000,000 will be epent this year tn construction work west of the great lakes, and in the western, provinces alone 20,000 men will be em-| ployed. Gir Donald Mann, the vice-president and genius of construction, ae Gir Will- tam MacKenale ts the gentus of finazice, Aw if none felt; they know not what they do, Shell has announced that 1,063 miles of track will be added to the system Sefere the end of this year, cays the Chicago Tre bune, When the system i# Analy completed it Is estimated that the cost of construe tion will be approxi:nately $10,000,000, The greatest record for construction work will be made in the province of Alberta, whore 7,000 men and hundrefe of teams are @lready at work on the branches, One of these lines will be the most northerly railroad on the ent nent, with the exception of the Aleskan rail and will reach Peace River Landing as an objective point, braneh to the Brazeay oval fields ts ing rushed to completion by #600 men and 0 teams Le