The evening world. Newspaper, June 13, 1913, Page 22

Sener "s At ih Post-ice af New Fors Rates te ie venta For slang and ormtnoet and fer the United States All Countries in bgt] JANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETO., THE STAMFORD CRIME. é OTHER grim disaster, the fourteenth in the space of two years, blackens the record of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad with ite toll of dead and maimed. Whero- effdal inquiry ultimately fixes responsibility for the Stamford » the facts already stand out with damning plainness. In (e amhae tached pga agehe the year, despite signals, the second section of a heavy train crashed into the first en een ee ae eyetem. v. There can be but one verdict wpon such railroading. It is hor. ‘ile, criminel. And this is the road that conceives the first duty of | Wrailroad to be the acquiring of steamehip lines and electric plants. ‘Phe ia the roed that has distinguished iteclf os an “absorber.” This the red that is even now dickering with o State Legislature te get 7 of more electric trolley lines. This is the roed thet has to learn from repeated disasters the lesson that a great rail- feed owre its best energies to eafeguarding the people who trust lives to it. To-day the judgment of all thinking men rests upon the New York, New Haven and Hertford Railroad. ee LUCKY WALL STREET. EERING is the news that the National Olty Bank hes cnger- phams for Wall street in the shape of leans at twe and one-half per cent. and perhaps later at ene and one-half per cent. The National City Bank hee pied up « surplus of $88,000,000 and fe barsting with benevolence, Piain folks who are not fortunate enough do business in the sacred groves with pockets full of glittering Wall gtrett securities will have to go on borrowing money in the ewest of their brows at five and six per cent., and put up solid real estate to secure the same. But it is a comfort to know that whatever happens the Stock Exchange can still have plenty of. grease for its ——+4->—__— Woman suffrage wins tn Iffmots, The women can now fave. @ try at getting Crlcago tato the pale ef respectability, eee or eee .OUR BARBAROUS OPEN SURFACE CARS i HE MAYOR reminds us that the end-seat hog is not the worst . nuisance of open street care, The car companies allow people i ee eae ee ae a filled. Bivner is not g F i 5% seize 8 Fy Ss of the water in. Culebra is the one remaining hummock. Seven million five hundred thousand cubic yards are left to be excavated ‘there. Steam shovels can’t get it all out by Oct. 1 in any case, but 4 powerful suction dredges could get to work at once on the material Mader water, progress would be immensely accelerated. Moreover, ' toexcavate with suction dredges costs only three cents and a fraction pat cubic yard, whereas the shovel process costs about two and one-half ‘times as much. If the water is turned in July 1, as Col. Goethals udvises, there mot only « fair chance that the sliding Culebra banks may gain support, but it will alxo give a longer time to observe and Worrect any unforeseen difficulties that develop when the big ditch beeemes really wet. The Colonel is confident that his plan will ine eending yessels through this year. Apparently the only reason holding longer to dry excavation is that it will lengthen the jobs everybody concerne’. Surely the best way to finish the canal is mit, —-————— ++ —__ FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1913, Much Uke other days, N Domestic Dialogues i } gils fills if iit i i | if ua tT li i i 8 : ue ' H : : i i gE snk F &Fa i UE E a= Ff HOG othing Doing * senha) * Friday Is NOT Unlucky For Americans; Nor Is ‘13° REDAY ja, vindicated. Go te “13. Bo ‘e Friday, the 18th, Amd, for Americans at least, those supposed "hoodocs” ave really luck-bringers, A good many people—tt ta probably say @ majority—ehiver at the of Friday and shudder at the An@ at Friday, the ith, they have hysterics, 4 ni @uperstition that Friday and 13 ominous is net borne out by events the contrary, bistory gives Friday 9 remarkably good records. through American history, accord- etatiatics compiled by the Chicago ‘ribune, thirteen and Friday bristle tuck, Washington gave himself a latter signature by diue-pencilling hie Gret name to “Geo.” ‘Here are some ether Presidents with ‘W-letter nam ndrew Jackson, Zaoh- ary Taylor, Ja Buchanan, Andrew Johneon, Ulysses 8. Grant ané Woodrow ‘Wien. ‘In fact, Wilson fe sald to regard 13 as his lucky mumber. He had been @ pro- fessor at Princeton ¢or 13 years when he was chosen Princeton's 1th presi- dent. He was declared President of the United States on Jan. 13, 1918, Fay, 1? ‘Th ‘were 13 American colonies, there are 13 stripes on the flag, on the Great seal of the United States (and on some of our arms) are 13 stars, 13 stripes, 13 arrows and 18 olives. Also, our motte, “WD Plurituse Unum,” has 13 letters. ‘The “ ‘Banner’ was writ- ten Gept. 12, 1814 Columbus first saw America on Friday and set foot on land Oct, 1%, 18, On Friday, June 18 144, he discovered Cuba. On Friday Capt. John Smith landed als Jamestown colony on Virginia soll. On Friday the battle of Bunker Hill was fought, On Friday the Pilgrims landed on Piymobth Rock. And Dec. 18 was the fret Thankegiving Day. Benediot Arnold's treason (which if @uccesstul would have wrecked the Rev- olution) was discovered on Friday, Sept. 0%. The battle of Saratoga was fought and won Friday, Oct. 7. The surrender of the British at Yorktown cocurred on Friday, Oct. 19, England, looking back over the Revo- lution, may well have declared Friday and 13 were hoodoos. But why should Americans} ‘The American Indians worshipped the 18% To possess 13 arrows meant ‘The Astecs called 13 the figure of mystics, and innumerable are the in- stances in their Hterature where this conception of 13 Je entertained. The Hedgeville Editor. By Alma Woodward ‘Tommy Prentice off his bicycle and HI a 4 if ; : : eibestebi i: eit if é i : Mrs, G, (crowding pa out)—Yes, and mamma MIGHT buy you @ croquet set) If you promise to be’ very careful and not hit yourself with the mallet! Georgie (glowering)—!!—!!—?? Mra, G, (aémiringly)}—Mamma's big mant —_——_——. Just for Fun - “Why don't you make Johnny wash his hands once in a while?” “They are taking finger prints at his school,” answered the wife, “and you know how the child loves to excel”— Kaneas City Journal. “People are funny.” “How now?” “In the Van Million divorce sult they Givided $26,000,000 amicably and then pped about the custody of @ pus '—Kansas City Journal, “You told me he was one of the best- known men in town.” “Bo he is,” “Why, he can't get credit anywhere.” “Doesn't that prove he Is well known?''—Houston Post, “Can I sell you a set of Dickens?” you get started, but I'm not going to let you try, Good day."—Detroit Free Press, . Under the heading “Animal Tales” the Detroit Free Press informs ue shat "Ugly dogs vit fourteen Clevelanders last week.” Animal tales are almost invariably fables.—Cleveland Plain Dealer, Tt used to make a man enthuse ‘2f he could keep the babe in shoem Mi ett Selovtis Cwanerioarash By Maurice Ketten The Stories ot Famous Novels By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by The Prew Publishing Oe, (The New York Evening World), No. 3¢—FRANKENSTEIN; By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. RANKENSTEIN was a German student whose studies in am and other brands of science had given him one great cra’ He longed to create artificially a living creature. By the rare skill that was his he built a gigantic and erful body, gathering his material in dissecting rooms and chur At last the creature was complete and Frankenstein breathed into dreath of Hfe. ~ vd To the student’s mingled triumph and horror the artificial; came a living, sentient Moneter. A Monster with no soul and instead of intellect, but with @ simplicity and affection that were ‘The Monster's first emotion was one of boundless gratitude to enstein for bringing ft into existence. It worshipped the student ‘ god, and for his eake was prepared to love all mankind. sae But Frankenstein, gasing on the hideous face and giant forth éf Monster, was sick with lowthing for it. He repulsed its friendly advances Grove it from him. The Monster looked elsewhere for at eight of ite unearthly ugliness The “Man-Made” er found itself shunned and hated. to Frankenstein and tearfully tmplored him ‘The Monster promised te go with this mate to some remote part of fhe carts an@ never to molest mankind. Frankenstein reluctantly consented. He e work building another creature which shoul] be a counterpart of the Of But, even while he worked, he suddenly realized what a curse must Bp his for turning ioose upon earth @ race of such beings. And he destroyed the half-made effigy. As id 0, he was startled by a scream of mad rage. echoed through hie jaboratory. The Monster, watching from outside the inkenstein could be punished far more terribly them he loved were doomed, ‘Thee (while Frankenetein was in paroxyem cf sorrow for his dear ones’ deaths” cenecience-throbe for having created the demon that tal muréered hie brother and his friend) the Monster vanished. After a time, ap of ft, the student ventured to believe it was dead, at had so long gripped him, Frankenstein returne® Ané after a time he ventured to marry a girl Wiead - bride was found murdered. The Monster, after Frankenstein into a false security, had once mad at his bare heart. . Frankenstein had but one atm tn vengeance on the fiend that had slain his the Monst.. ffom one end of the world to amid the ice fields of the far north. 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