The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1913, Page 22

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. RALPH by, igh edo 3 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, rer, Q JOSHPH PULITZER, Jr., Beore' ee ‘Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Clasa Matter. @ubseription Rates te The Evening ‘One Year. -80/One Month. office is to hand out passkeys to the State ‘Treasury. The testimony of the Bronx contractor, John M. Mur- phy, at the John Doe hearing, shows up James B. Gaffney, chum and familiar of Boss Murphy. Graft-wise contractors who understood “partner.” For his third of commissions running to $11,000 on paving products Gaffney was supposed to “swing” Murphy's State Highways Superintendent. Contracts had to be steered to the right berths. ‘A raft of minor Tammany politicians and their contracting friends awaited like watchful thieves the $50,000,000 State bond issue 4m the interest of good roads. Whether it was a grant of $150,000,000 for aqueduct extension or $100,000,000 for hifhways, this ready band ef robbers stood by to grab all they could get. Each relied first and last upon his mystic association with Mur- phy, the man who with a band of the faithful had the State Treasury @urrounded. Wherein do this gang and their leader differ from common high- waymen save that the latter extract the swag openly and directly frem the pockets of the public? What sort of contractors are these who fawn npon Murphy while they pretend to work for the State? What kind of roads, what kind of anything can be secured for @ Btate whose money, before it leaves the taxpayer's pocket, is marked for theft, whose contractors are hand in glove with plotting politi- ciaus, whose stewards and paymasters are the tools and hirelings of @ plunder chief? ny on As patriotic and law-abiding citizens must we stick around and applaud the Government while It is collecting $70 customs duties on @ lock of Charles Dickens's hair? paces NO WONDER! T HE job-hunters are getting some jolts from Mayor-elect Mitchei aidan that will keep them thinking till New Year's, It has long been recognized that being a friend of a die- trict leader fits a man to help keep the city’s books or handle the city’s accounts. Funny, Mr. Mitchel can’t see it. This application-blank business required of candidates—this talk of arithmetic, bookkeeping and knowledge of cash registers and com- puting machines—what does it all mean? Does it mean that the city will have to have its work done by a lot of mere competent experts, some of whom don’t know the first thing as to how politics are played in their own ward and who can’t even say “Hello, Jim,” Fi the main guy that runs it? Efficiency, experience, merit, worked out by card catalogue, just to give a man a city job! What’s N’York coming to? Ss a ee President Arthur Williams of the Safety Convention in progress at the Chemists’ Club has devised a block-signal sys- tem for after-dinner speakers. Two minutes before the talker's time is up an electric lamp flashes a blue light. Two minutes ‘ later a red light finishes the victim. ‘We have yearned for this thing. Adopt it and let a law of the land enforce its use, ————++-- DON’T LEAVE OFF THE BRAKE.‘ 'F WAGON BUILDERS no longer invariably provide brakes on heavy trucks that are to be drawn by horses, it would seem that the why and wherefore needed somebody's attention. The occurrence described by an Evening World reader in a letter printed elsewhere, when a brakeless truck on a steep hill ran aw: with two ‘:-rses, injuring one of the animals so badly that it had to be killed, suggeste a state of things that the S. P. C. A. would do well to investigate. A dozen years ago, even in the city, no heavy wagon was without ite brake. Manhattan is not without sharp grades and in Brooklyn and Staten Island there are plenty of them. That a ponderous truck without a brake means needless cruelty to the horse or horses needs no demonstrating. Wo drivers or truck owners remove the brakes or has the demand for the auto truck made manufacturers neglectful of the horse-drawn article? e Letters From the People those aimirable col-| able to ane, umas on city administration, ete, next to Maurice Ketten's cartoons I wish t0| cheap and means #0 much to the hora ie Se thlowing: W. E, GUESSPRELD, Last Saturday about 3 P. M. a heavy What's the Anawer? foaded truck came lows a hill oppowite | To the wat Borough Hall, St. George, Staten] Ietand, at ever incre: speed—not Decauae the driver had lort control of the 5 aysumed tn such the truck had no} Bven though they do not result in kill-| ing @ horse they are lamentable becuune | 14, without 4 brake any carriage coming! ground; 197 fect + % fect — ua down a grade has to be held In check and multiplying by 2 gly entirely by the poor animal, This the length of th have had occasion to observe often in| ing tho area, ‘Wall street, There is hardly one de-| #iven B.0u716 lin out of ten which |s| mately ts the width of the walk, ‘our square ~\ getmmed: “Never had, don't need to.” word ee : @ertainiy do need to, even in arene Maen oe Uuabaue, LEI IM Pt. SO TT PLT The’ Evening World Daily Magazine, Thursday, ore MF won. 9 | [Such Is December 11, Putte - Except Sunda; the Preas Publishing Company, Nom 53 to = 4 63 Park tow, ‘York. Too BEAUTIFUL GeAsTIFUL Pon WORDS) t Englend and the Continent an@! ‘States All Countries in the International ,| ‘World for the United res tn the nt { WHAT CHANCE HAD THE TAXPAYER? M ORE LIGHT on the Tammany plunder combine, whose chief the meed of « representative in the inner circle picked Gaffney for a| SeeceesesooocesescoesesoooenseonoRcoooooen+l££++e;sS Mr. Jarr Renews His Old License as Professional Trouble Catcher the @ateman he had shown his ticket to every working day for all that time testified that the man from Pompton, J.9@ face looked familiar, Then there was the man from Pompten, N. J.9 commutation ticket. “But them fienas in human form will even buy commutation tickets!" said a lady with a heavy set face who had doth hands In pockets that were on lther aide of her skirt, and had the air inveterate pipe Pet In. 49 @ anake I am throwing in your face— It te deadly poison!” ‘Then Mr. Jarr amiled the beat “apirit- of-the-holday-season" smile ho had stook.. Whereupon the old lady gave him another glance ef horrer and “What's all this silly row about?” snarled Mr. Jarr, who was getting an- gry. “Of course nobody knows me here, I'm @ Poor man of many miseries, but I'm not @ commuter. I am here ing to meet two young women from Philadelphia. The old lady’— “Didn't I say he was an agent of the underworld?” ered the “And how dare he call me o! the handkerchief dropper. “Search him for @ browless youth. “An example ought to be made of these fellers. Down South we'd tar and feather ‘em and run ‘em out of town!” & professional from South Orange, A dozq hands held Mr. Jarre while he was searched for the most dreadful weapon modern sensationalism has ever ted: Poison pit ‘a the row here? What's the row?" amked a cheery voice, the trouble, Jarr, olé man?" And Mr. Jarr, trembling and looking as white as half a dozen of the whitest t the Idea of arrest and notoriety, gave a gulp of gladness, For there atood by his aide thegwo moat resourceful young men in al! hia Angelo Dinkston iibert Gumm, Harlem's lead- Ing painless dentist! Two real policemen had arrived by| I heard one little Jon detective and uid have clubbed “What's he done, ma'am? eaid the station detective, shoving hie way in between Mr. Jarr and (es the two- niokef novels would say) “hs intended Ooms ew York forcing Wert -® R. JARR, atill looking around the | Victim.” @epot for the Miss Cackleberrys from Phitadelphia, saw an oki | the old lady tn happy alarm. “No, ma'am, I don't think the gentle- the gallantry that springs from a long|™an meant to do anything but restore our hero} your handkerchief,” sprang forward and picked up the|oommuter from Pompton, N. J., who had Then stepping haatily | een Mr, Jarr pick up the mouchoir, “You're his confederate!" shrieked the poison pin!” cried “He's tried *o kidnap mi said the man from Pompton, N. J. “it ain't none of my business, but I ¢ell you this man never sald a word to thia lady except to hand her the handkerchief she had dropped." “Meybe you think I'm too old to be med the old Indy. know this guy?” asked policeman, laying a heavy upon Mr, Jarr. ‘The information bureau man came over ¢o say Mr. Jarr had been hanging afternoon asking queer queations about trains, lady drop her handkerchief. line of chivalrous Jarre, sald @ hurrying to the old lady's side he remarked; haven't you | ll lady. dropped your handkercht! Whereupon the old lady shrank back | both whit as though Mr. Jerr nad sald: Hits From Sharp Wi New York seema to have discov that it ts wrong to kill people even when you use an automobile as the weapon.—Charleston News Courier. eee the cry. “They're “Here| But the man trom Pompton, 5 ___| was able to prove a near-alib!. He had | been commuting for fourteen years, and of white slave “Perpetual Sunlight” and Its Substitutes By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1913, by The Prem Pubshing Go, (The New York Drenteg World), In & progressive age when aviator for @ week. We were practical: Indoors all that time. gray clouds would never disappea itrled all sorte of work and to dispel the gloom, but it was with |y, aiMculty that the thne was passed, Suddenly on the eighth day the sun-! present. Nght appeared, are superfluous, a few until afier Christmas. —Memphis Commercial Appeal. Ne} But Dr, Gamm and Mr, Michael An: Weigelo Dinkston both had thelr profes Dr. Gumm's falr young ‘an Dyke beard uso created sentimen lin his favor among the militant Indies ¢ But \t wan Mr, Everybody went out| card, “Exponent and Instructor of ‘Mim- {nto it, regardieas of wind and damp-|eography," that carried the day. ness, The grownups acted like little children, they were #0 giad, aa if a burden had been lifted from the |trouble. Manhattan, A vehicle without a brake, especially If it ina truck, iy unthink- I wish you would give this tnutter a atrong articic. A brake is ao |t? find sarcasm | not understan diversion | wional carda, Nothing can be more exasperating than | distribution of sun-| Dinkaton's Nght it would raise An effort is being made to cut out the moral standard from the newer But without it how is a | chauffeur to Wako Up ® peaceful neigh-! e nervous people leap | nd Plain Dealer. . laybe a mistake haa been made,” uffler cut-out” Tt seemed |aaid the old lady who had made all plained, “Dull daye breed unhappiness; plenty of sunshin, aid in, making tented commun- 1 all go to court. Tell the reporters I have my photographs, three-quarters or profile!” Odd Facts. Wood of Johns Hopkins 8 the craters of the moon are full of sulphur, Sunlight Is the panace: it In the cure of a Therefore, when th to be hovering about Now that tt {s announced that Japan will not proceed with an enlarged anny programme until 1915, ¢ immediate invasion, Jingoista will take notice.—Pittaburgh Therein lies the rerywhere, just secret of many a sorrowing soul—lack And, strange te say, no jone, not even the richest man tm the world, can corner the market on It, Tt comes to him the SAMB as to the poorest man in the world, There are try to get some sunshine, TAttie women. better leave some of the housework go and take the wee tots out under O14 Sol's smile as of possible, Though he may not warmly In these winter days, yet he apply. 1a conse. The “Wi crashed int er, 1 the Raliror of The Ky undead and had to de} In reply to R's problem as re- jKardd the width of walk around plot Cages iike that happen very often. , $3 and to contain an area equal to @, solution follows, 07 xe - Sb suuare feet, area of Js of ‘Children in the public schools of Stav- angar, Norway, are treated with the ald of American dental apparatus. ‘The time to do Chriatms ts before safety requires pads on the shoulders and knees, guards over the ears and epikes in the shoes. -Toleio Blade, this be- Divid- by | feet, This approxi+ Quartz lamps are experimentally in use on the streets of Chicago and are sald to put the other electric lamps in the seem all awry. Kaiser Bil comes out firmly againat|{e the ABSENCE of sunshine, the clean shave, but no elective poten: tate could thus afford to allenate the} haps you are closeted barber vote,—Boston Transcript, eee that you may pass it along. words of old Capt. Jack Crawford: ‘When a bit of su of a cloud: if Deg ied sits yo An’ 1, spine is feet Don't to up an’ fil At @ soul that’s feattn’ The day may be a gray one or per- na Mttle dim fe the sun does let a Dit of sunshine It must be conceded that Prof. Taft|come in unexpectedly and everything looks better et the head of the dinner|changes. An@ you don't know what jtable than does thin President Wileen./has wrought the change 3 was once in a farmhouse with come office or somewhere whi Following the example of the French, the British Government has decided to| York, sare the Warhington Star, He continued: | “The ove vith aii the ‘osthere peoked el ie use only biplanes for military purposes, , mothing. The y deaths thet have ocourred in pute ite patrons’ interest abead of ite own in- "Te, mg 200," They have to JK. we, and that te hard | The Vormer Ie Cor fo tive Kalitor of The Krenn World. I have described rea Does the word "Mizpah" “The ity trucks have nd le Watch betWeen me and thee while @ are absent one from " When 1 asked why not, he! wo, ‘0 that effect), or is it an arene Seete ct sae eN —B at eeaee mens ee a jE Chicago Newa Copprignt, 1913, by The Crem Poblithing Co, (The New York Evecing Wort) { ERILY, my Daughter, there be three things which 1 cannot ‘V yea, four, which are an affilction unto me | A man that kisseth a damsel with his hat on. A man that kisseth o woman at the first opportunity; And a man that will kiss—and TELL! Behold, the Land of America {s filled with flirts in genticmen'y ¢loth- {ng; yet ye shall not find among them a single one who boasteth of ale klesings But out of PARIS hath come a traitor and a babbler, who cryeth! | “A bas the American Girls! For they are all accomplished ‘kissers,’ who spend their days in the gentle art of osculation. i “Behold, I have kissed them ALL! “And the kisses of a Bryn Mawr damsel are not as the kisses of @ | Vassar Girl; nor the kisses of a Mount Holyoke maiden as the kisses ¢f a Harvard co-ed. “But the KISS of kisses is that of a Smith College Graduate! How modest {s he, oh my Daughter. How exceeding MODEST! Yet, verily, verily, 1 too havo walked in the paths of Flirtation, asd Metenad to the Sentimental Experimenters. And I eay unto thee, there be fifty-seven varietics of MASCULINE KIGSBHS; and by a man’s first kiss shall ye know him. | La, the saccharine kiss of the Frenchman is not as the ardent kise of the Briton; nor the violent kiss of Germany as the casual kiss of America. Neither is the mint-scented kiss of the Southerner as the clovescented , Klas of the New Yorker; nor the ice-bound kiss of Boston as cated kiss of Philadelphia. But the KISS of kisses is a Westerner's! | _ Bor in it are commingled tenderness and chivalry and ardor and the charm of INEXPERIENOD. My Daughtor, there is the kiss that sootheth and the kiss that thrillets, the kiss that flattereth, and the kiss that ie a pastime. And in all the days of thy life no TWO men chal) kiss thee alike. For one iaan shall regard thy kisses as a boon aad another shall re gard them as an amusement. . One maa chal! consider the.. a privilege, and anitaer shall consider them a duty. One man shall Kies thee with rapture and reverence; another shal! keies thee for “politeness,” and another for curiosity. One man shall kiss thee, firet, upon the hand; for thie is the method of flirts and philanderers. Another eball kies thee, first, upon the lips; for this is the methed of bunglers. But another shall kiss thee, first, upon the forehead, and them ugea the eyelids, and THEN upon the lips; and this is the method of the ‘True Artist. And he that kisseth a woman as though he had never kissed before and never should kiss again shall be exalted in her eyes. For in the fine art of kissing he is an Old Master. NONE can resist him. 1 Verily, verily, NO man shail ever understand why éamecls wax wreth at his tenderness, nor why they seem pleased when he Bisseth them. © Yet, # is all in the WAY of his wooing. Selah. | | Twenty Gems Of American I Humor 14.—JOHN HAY—“‘Little Breeches.” DON'T «07)But we rousted up some torches, much on re-| Ard arched for ‘em far and nest, @7) gion, At last we struck horses and wagot I never ain't had) Snowed under a soft white mou Bo show; Upaot, dead beat—but of little But Ive got a] Nor hide nor heir was found. / in’ tight ae es. ie And@ here all hope soured on me,’ al] Of my fellow-critter’s ald— o Pie : I jest flopped down on my marrow: know. bones, I don't pan out on| Crotchaieep in the snow, and prayed, the prophets On ee ee oe And free-win| By this, the torches was payed ont, ‘and that. eort| And me and Isrui Pore of thine Went off for some wood to a sheepfold But { bilieve inGoa| That he said was somewhar thar. and the angels, Ever sence one night last spring, We found it at last, and a little shed Where they shut up the lamee at I come into town with some turnips, ,. leht. And my little Gabe come along— We looked in and seen them @udéled Ne four-year-old in the county thar, Could beat him for pretty and strong,| S80 Warm and sleeps and white; Peart and chipper and sassy, And THAR sot Little Breeches. em@ m ready to mwear and fight— chirped, jarnt him to chaw terbacker Ae peart as ever vou sce: ‘Jest to keep his milk-teeth white "I want a chaw of terbacter, And that's what's the matter of me.” The snow come down Iikd a blanket I passed by Taggart’s store; How did he git thar? Angels, I went in for a Jug of molasses Ho could never have walked in @hat And left the team at the door. storm; They scared at something and started—| They jeas scooped down and toted am wall, To whar it was sate and warm, the prairie | And I think that saving a little chia, eeches and all. |_ And bringing him to his own, | Is @ derned sight better business Hell-to-eplit over the prairie! ‘Than loafing around The ‘Throne, I was almost froze with skeer; ~"Pike County Balleds® \The Day’s Good Stories | Paper and String Profits. |, (,¢¥";." | COTHIER—I etl you thet cont at @ great) + To ene the ocai? eaid the man, Be om ‘maorifion, the sa on @ hot, biasing afternoon Mim titei Customer—But you say that of all your that's very focliah, You'd get al bummed goods, How de you make « living? Clothiee—1 make a emall profit en the paper 1d string,——St, Peal Dispatch. \ a ae | Bad News. | [DU XCITRMENT {9 oftentimes the came of | queer remarks af well eo the cause of sivange telegrams, had been one of the pamengen And hellyto-split ov Went team, Little place All Easily Identified, ONGRPES8&MAN BEABORN RI C of Georgia gently smiled when i tople dwelt on the lord and mote of domestic ranch, Ho mid he was rendmdeg Ue Johnny's visit to the noo, While ramb'ing sround amon, the ni father oe afternoon, #0 pn the stamp — Congressman, little Johony came to @ afudiuten Jake an which ¢1 wane Were awit “Papa,” ead Johnny, jointing « Cinger out over the lal wite, A Department Store Cabby. ‘T HR department stove i@ as disinterested you mean, ncing in the direction or almost aa disinterested as the Mar. stiles cabby,"” ‘The speaker was an advertising expert of New “Yee, even to ile own loss the department store | hed ard Yo't alioned to have the blswae of terest, And thus 1 resembles the Mameilles catty, by Mca &