The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1913, Page 20

Dak a a alae ‘The E ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Puriished Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, New 66 te 3 Row, New York, RALPT PULITZER, President, 63 Park Rew, J, ANGUS SHAW, Moeoren Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZHR, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. Entered at the Post-Office at New York es Second-Class M Gubseription Hates to The Wventng |For England and the Conti ‘World fot the United States All Countries in the International and Canada, ‘atom seeavenvesess $3.60/One Year... XK 30/One MONtR...eeecrenerenrersoee WHO STANDS BEHIND? EN a public service corporation that profits to the extent W': $16,000,000 in a single year froin the gencrous patronage of New Yorkers refuses to discuss with them the question of fair and equitable rates, what does it expect to gain? When this corporation, which imposes upon the public in this city © tariff twenty-five per cent. higher than that paid by people of emaller cities for similar services, assumes an attitude of domineering | obstinacy, what does it t to gain? When this cuzpuntion vetvans to produce tts books, pretends that | ft doesn’t know the data of {ts own business and anaps its fingers at | the authority of the Public Service Commission, what does ft expect | to gain? | hen the President of the same corporation, in the face of de-| termined and widespread demand for a readjustment of rates, shrugs hin shoulders and waves away public protest as “a mere bagatelle,” | what does he expect to gain? What the New York Telephone Company hee actually gained from its tactics so far in the increasing mistrust of the public it pretends to serve. What it wil gain in the future will be peremptory orders from Public Service Commission, Legislature and Courts to take its hands | ont of the pockets of the people af Greater New York. | The New York Telephone Oompany is owned by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The President and dominant force in the parent company is Theodore N. Vail. Does President Vail of the American Telephone Company ap- prove the high-handed way in which the officers of the New York corporation are defying its patrons? | Is he going to back his New York managers in’ preparing the | way for a costly and losing fight that can win for this so-called public service company only public resentment and reprisal? | a ‘ Here's hoping some of ‘em were “just what you wanted.” capaecaeiiemnaii aeieaeneresisind | NEVER NEGLECT THE FIRE DRILL. | HE fool with his ery of “Fire!” turned Christmas Eve for a} T Michigan mining town into horrible disaster in which ecores of | children and half as many grown people stampeded to | their death. | Such a thing could hardly happen in New York. Fire drills and | healthy discipline have taught our school children to control and hantlle themselves in the face of panic. The same children of foreign | born parents who dashed wildly about the Calumet hall, adding to JOHN, WHY DON'T ‘YOu Buy A NEW UMBRELLA 9 vening World Daily Magazine, Frida y. | CAN'T AgeSab It MONEY I$ Too TIGHT December — ” 26, 1915 DODOHBODOOOODOOOHOS Little Cause Of Big Wars § By Albert Payson Terhune FF QPEDHOOSGDHHOHOHOODGHHHGHHGHHHHOHOHODHODHOHOOO Copyriet, 1919, by The Pree Publishing ©, ‘| No. 30--A Trip to Europe That Led to an Empire’s Fall to Civil War. IN elderly, white bearded man—Dom Pedro, Emperor of Braai— decided to take a pleasure tour through Europe and the United States. It was a harmless plan, Yet it led to the Joss of bis crown, to the changing of Brazil from an empire to a republig and to a flerce civil war. | Dom Pedro had done wonders for Brazil. He had built tt op along every line of progress and had devoted his life to its welfare. The people loved him, Even the few malcontents who thought Brasil should te @ Tepublic were well content to walt for the gentle old Emperor to die be fore starting any such movement. But when he went to Europe he left as regent his only surviving the Princess Isabel. And Isabel proceeded to wreck her father's And the empire as well. Firet, she allied hereetf with a faction that was |Tather unpopular. Then she ueed her influence toward abolishing slavery, | without giving any compensation to the slavenolders, This engered oe i Dlantere. And the planters formed Brasil'e most powerful element, | Altogether, in her father’s absence, Isabel managed to make herself so ap Doptlar that the Brasilians grew to hate the Mea of having her for Empress case her father should die, The Emperor came heme @gain. But by that time the mischief was done, ‘The people received Dom Pedro with delight. But eed of revolt had been sown, and even ihe Emperee lawn Personal popularity was not strong enough to check | On the night of Nov. 14, 1889, \% The Bantehing of an Emperor. the conspiratore—chiefly officers in the and the navy—sur-ounded the palace. Bo quietly did they carry out their pis that not a Blow wae struck. Dom Pedro and tis family were sent aboard « ship baie a Portugal. And a fepubiic along the same general hines as our own wae jeclared. Dom Pedro was heartbroken. He had spent his life in toiling for Brazil, Tip had been loved by his people and he had loved them. Yet in his olf age Rie country kicked him out. And none of those whom he had called his friends he@ raised a hand in his behalf. Indeed, most of the conspirators were men waa’ had recelved rich benefits from the Emperor they deponed, But If the revolution was bloodless the period following it was not. ‘The ter class of Brazilians withdrew at once from politica and the governmem into the hands of military adventurers, There was a sort of political chaos, Im@ short time civil war followed. It bean with a naval demonstration. Admire | Mello setzed conirol of the feet in Rio de Janeiro Ray and ordered Preaidemt Polxoto to resign. Petxoto refused and Mello began to bombard Rio de Janeiee Foreign ministers intervened to save the city from destruction. ‘The insurgents next seized the province of Santa Catarina and war began és dragged on for nearly two years before the rebellion was a | The rebel ranks were largely; made up of men who had been adherents to old Empire or admirera of Dom Pedro, Thus ft was with a double motive Peixoto wreaked vengeance on the conquered, For example, Marsha) Pua, an elghty-yearold soldier, who had been one of Dom Pedro's generals, was murdered. Another high officer, Baron Azul, was shot without even the mockery of # trial. And the wholesale punishment meted out (not only to rebels but to non-combatants as well) included the xecution of two French oftizens. France demanded heavy compensatien fer these two men's death—a compensation that Brasil meekly paid, |. The strain of the war wrecked Pelxoto's health, He died almost at once after its conclusion. Littie by iittle order grew out of chaos, and the new Brasiliag Government waxed strong and firm. But yeara passed before the Price of Dem Pedro's unlucky; trip to Europe was wholly patd. Mother Monologues By Alma Woodward Copyright, 1018, by The Prem Publisiing Oo. (The New York Srastng World), i | | | | “(Just Before the Battle.” | ™sy ve sitting at thd isn. OW, Rei iow, at the tal lovey, remember, ome tie 28% | don't reach for anything and done ak Because you wouldn't want Aunt Josie to aay that you hi "t as good table manners = Aunt Bila‘a children. Mother will watom your plate and you'll get a whole Ie of everything, even the turkey stuffing the confusion by their cries and terror, would, in New York, have set the older people an example of steadiness and self-control. | ] j (Ae our ‘ The Calumet tragedy bears sad testimony to the fact that dis- | cipline, a trained instinet for acting methodically, is the only thing ‘ al ew Ye/s e PRR R PPP rr rr rk Tl Mrs. Jarr Learns All About Life | From Two Dear Young Girl Guests, NHK CCC KK KCK KE KCK KK CC KK LEEK ee oa mother's lap.) anything, dear, Mother wants to tell you a story. Not a regular) book story, dear, but a story about that will save a confined crowd of young or old from doing one another | terrible hurt in the frenzy aroused by danger, real or imagined. | ¥ > eay that I think a motor truck would Evening World sive party tm for George Perking te fol- | New Ss aws for Old Sp semen sore) eiges with sevens. a be in most cases n nomical than] T have read several times about men, 0W !n the footateps of Prendergast.— | and the theatres neo teas % &@ toam of horses, Horses use up food! who nald they could not find a New, “con Telegraph, a? 18 better to have loved and lost”— everything to make life worth living, * when they are inactive, while motor-| York girl who multed them, although ys So sang the gentle poet— Dod Oh De Hero Nan & Ble shack alee ge BEA ebay thee Works | Reet ANAy Fe for Fearn to meat the ring Wel Meet May set Mla Ya My | “Than never to have loved at all!” Bite Me sient OF ay Rael Es oA Copwright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (Bho New York Evening World), sides, motor-trucks are much qitcker, one, Men speak of them as being ex- 8nd H. as @ laughing-stock.—Columbia | Ales, 40 we uct knew fh? dollar and 0 halt a day an trackwalker RS. TURTLE DOVE was flying)eald Mre, Turtle Dove, ‘per! and they carry as much as the horse. travagant, &0, [ wish to differ from State. whaits golue to Cd sravy bread, dear, {f you're good. : . ' ‘ ‘4 ut each time you do something Let us see to it that onr schools continue, by means of practice! : ev and desperate character. suppose; you know how Mr. Jarr grew interested ) big boobs, < happen — to-mor- H A i ene > 2s that! “ Mr. Jarr is 80 very fond of] at once, and even when I insiated that! "Oh, don't use slang! Don't use |TOW. No, not Santa Claus, That was Bias tnotnee has told you not to 4e drills and emergency tests, to do their utmost toward making New, P lo | nim: | Dr. Gilbert Gumm was a young man tt/ slang!” cried Mrs. Jar. mesieuey: Hp won't be here agin, for (7 co cearied of ane: (iHias, aol York youngsters of all classes and nationalities leaders and examples | $ (} “But 18 Mr, Jarr fond of him?" asked | were beat you girls did not know Mr. | ‘Well, heroes ARE aillly,” continued | # year. Dee eee Cahs ere to their elder ; ‘i _ t : anic and peril li ) iaie saaet Sine Gacnioecr?. “why, as ald ‘Invite him!* "* Mins Irene Cackleberry, We're going to have a family reunion, |®"Y Srenberry sauce. If you interrups 1 ders in time of py ec anc Me ' ——_o4e—_____. ft And now for good resolutions oe : GO AHEAD AND CONVINCE US. operig! 9 Os, Correa New Sirk icone Worlds) So we will have a lot of people here|% listen, darling, if any of the aunties 66 ¥ course must be nice to fever #0 as to be nursed back to health | to dinner and we will have a very good|orfect their children at the table for TIS interesting to hear the President of the American Game} him bece by the heroine in @ red cross nurse|dinner and Reggie will get some of betta) you may have seen papa do, ig . at ‘ . | said Mrs. Jarr. “But remem- costume; because brain fever ie a neat | everything if he does exactly as mother | “0n't tell them that; because, you know, Protective and Propagation Association telling Gov. Glynn how | ver, girla, don't be too cordial to him, T beg. When you ried and your band brings his friends home" Huh! I won't let my husband bring any of him friends home! cried Mise Irene Cackleverry, “T should aay not,” added Mins Gladys Oackleberry:, “But later on,” sald Mrs, Jarr, “he may occasionally bring home somebody that Is, | mean after you've been mar- |Tled some years, And that's the case jwith this Dr. Gitbert Gumm. Even though he ts @ dentist and te refined in his appearance, he rolle his own cigar- ettes, So at heart he must be @ rough ———— ——————S————=== == Hits From Sharp Wits, to make New York State a “sportsman’s paradise.” ‘ Nut far more alluring are the confident plans of the Conserva- | tionists (o utilize the waste-water powers of the State to the end that “elovtric current may be delivered to New York City at rates that would cut every householder’s electric light bill in two.” Evperts claim that the science of transmission has progressed far enough to make thia no longer a rosy dream but a distinct possibility. American travellors in Norway and Switrerland who find tiny mlets where the peasants light their cowatalls with incandescent lamps and work their churns with electric juice furnished from the ‘mountain streams, used to come back deeply impressed with the wealth of energy that can be cheaply converted from water power, We have long since done these things on a far greater scale at home. |,,4 CBcaso physician comes out with Tet the, transmission experta and the hydroelectric sh kee lwonten iaos pera ely I P a lectric sharps keep off rheumatism. Some other he- on explaining and figuring. We are rendy to be convinced. | fetlo te due now to say that carrying a | buckeye won't do ‘t either. But, then, ia pel t, then, some doctors will do anything to get a But no sleighbells. ‘ttle notoriety id Plain Dealer. . ° | Deep furrowed the tears on the lender's | | taoe; | No boon he drew—of Hope no trace; At Mitchel looked, and alghed and eried, | "You made me what I am to-day, [| hope you're satisfied.” | hiladelphia Inquirer. ery . The best way to break the Progres- query, T would drawn trucks do. If the work to be! this, ‘There are lots of girls here in s 2% 3 on - for her husband when she hep- | ground." Gone ts of the he “house Kind, it|New York who would make splendid While the price of nearly everything Tie better to have loved and lost, Amasement, for she had sat open-| is to spy Mister Lion tm a shady| “7 couldn't think of it," ea!d the Heme fe, perhaps, more advinable to use horse | Wives, Iam twenty-six years old, mar | @lse has gone up, it ie still However brief love's thrall, | Mouthed ttstening te Re gevenotonion spot fast asleep. “please go away and let me sleep.” and truck, vecause if a motors fied nine monthe ago, and have a wife #@t a fve-cent cigar for Av | And likewise kissed—and paid the cost i nsat ei Nied at yout | "T wish I had some of hie beautiful! “There Jeo great big fen crawling m® ag ie used quivers: stten 1 : whe would rather Walk, (weaty ache Toledo Blade. aula ce Than ne'er have kissed at all! how I feel about it"|mane oo my nest" she puis to Mecaate TUTE pe ald dre, Turks Dove, ‘and mre n , thereby nan ne spend ’ nute,” fuel bill, In the hands econo: fa happy disposition and) In France there is one saloon to! “Tis better to have loved and lo maerte. She he Rea ase wien mare hopped up on a/ “I thought I felt peasinitg el ; Ariver, who w tm Jn tact, w wife that any man would e#hty-LWo Inhabitanie, And It Ie not | (‘The sweet outweighs the gall!) limb near hine in my ear," sald Mister Lioi mweh ti be proud to have. Surely I am not the) Uncommon there to hty-twe in- “Oh, Mister Lion,” @xolatmed Mea, eee fi | only individual of millions in New York | habitants in one saloon.—Topeka state And better to be wed and bossed q should not prove th who is bDiewsed with the right woman for| Journal. R. a Wife, of e Of Irteh Descent. aking of change. did you ‘To the Maitor of The Kvening World: Like touch of f Wes the President of France, Mac-| An undecided brunette t Feathers . ‘Te the Béitor of The Evening Wi Dees @ pound of feather® weigh more than a pound of gold in their proper ? Fr. ont better to be 4 LOST we. my. for Tih te nore. tw seen” ae have loved an " the Miwe Cackte-| giving away any of my fur.” wi @ hairs from jeter Li messures: J. L4 | Mahon, of Seotch or Irish descent? To a most decided blond wavances?” astro’ » © & Pound of feathers is sixteen ounces, aR —Qdomphis Appeab ‘Than te have FAILED to lose!” . cove ) ‘If omy you would shake yourself,” | mane in her beak. you know, sometimes I think Mr. Jarr 't really very fond of US." talked of thi: je really wo dr my dear child, you mustn't say Jarr “As soon a8) mov party In your honor | ter. "T think ful as every one ed Miss Gladys Cackleberry, ys love the villaing in the pictures," said the youn! ir ais- uch After-Christmas Rubaiyat of a Husband. Copyright, 1018, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Rvening World), O Man decks Rimeelf to-day his curses take! , thou, who first the apple tree didst shake, And e’en in Eden flirted with the Snake, For all the strange monstrosities wherewith The weird and prickly muffler ‘neath his chin, The misfit hose his feet must suffer in, The lurid smoking jacket, argain size,” Which for a week he'll try to wear—and grin. The near-brass ash tray that ‘The pale cigars he vainly tries to smoke, all soon be broke, ‘The “pretty-pretty” handkerchiefs—to think A wife should make her spouse a human joke! But when the merry Yuletide, like a rose, Has faded, and with January snows ‘Phe bille come sifting tn, who'll PAY for the Ah well, your Vietim knowe—he knowe—HB KNOWS! Than not to wed at all. Yet bachelors (OB, flint and froat!) Mey e% end gayly muse— heroines—well, heroines a1 geese! Every time they heads out of doors they get abducte: Tescue them. A arms broken or Glecage'’— “I Gon't believe heroes have brains enough to get a fever in them!" snapped the elder sister. “And if he does get shot tn the head, where !t will not hurt him, or hag to carry his arm Jn a sling and look pale and wan and d@ tied and Bagged to a post with a dynamite bomd Mt under him or @ rifle atmed his heart, eo when his rescuers open the door a string will pull the trigger”— “But what gets me about moving ple- tures and novels and plays,” interrupted the other, “le that the hero ome vig saphead without a has of clothes. He's always shown & flannel shirt open at the neck, and he's alwaya poor and starving in the anow or working in the mines or the factory or the furnace at laboring work and he never looks as though he got good union wages"— “That's just whet I always thought | @bout heroes, too!" Interrupted Mies Trene Cackleberry. “If you'll notice, | the young golden-haired bride who is |iured away by the bdiaok-hearted schemer ia always lured from a shabby furnished room or from a tumbiedown sort, while the ever wants i# to marry the @enerally handsome, Greases wel, offers her @ good home and heroine, on the Wabash.” “Gris! Girle!” orled Mrs. Jarr in dear, Of course you don’t know what a | family reunion ts, dear. No little boys Jo, But it has to happen in every one’ life, some time. aunts and uncles and cousins are com- ing to dinner, telle him to and doesn't do anything that mother telis him not to do, And mother {s going to tell htm what not to do, right away. Mother will put on Re; sailor guit and his white and his black nt leat! about ten minutes before the company comes. And then he must ait very quietly on @ chair until the dell rings. He mustn't get off it once, Reggie, met even nearly once, because he'd be eure to get & spot on his eult and hie Aunt Mary has got SUCH an eye! Then when they come in, dear, you mustn't say ‘Hello! as you usually 4o to other people, You do you do, grandma? do Aunt Grace?” @c. And Reggie, you must let them all kiss you, sweetheart; and don’t wriggle, whatever you do, or they'll say you're not an affectionate child, And after that they'll grab you, tn plant you on their laps. And, dear, if you dont kick or pundh ANY of them mother’! give you three whole chocolate marshmallows after they've gone home! Oh, and Reggie, if they aek you whom uu love dest in the whole workl don’t y “mamma,” dear; say ‘mother and father,” Deca: you can't tell on the lap of which branch of the family you around Jungle Town hunting Turtle Dove, ‘1 hi Rest at home and & very Deautitul ef your anid cannot be bothered when some one ia talking you can't f have the drumstick to pick, only som sitces of wh! f An& darling, good oM Daddy does lots of. queer things at table that children are forbidden to do. And don’t ask father If you may epem Rie q@eer, dear, because there isn't go img to be any brer, dear. Not that it's wrong to drink beer, Reggie, for of Course father wouldn't do it if it were wrong! Only some people like cider better than beer. That's all. You eee, you may think it's strange, dear, to have to act go differently when we're alone from whe! have come Dany. But Reggie lenows we don't act differently when we have other eom- pany here, dosm't het Only when rel- etive company ie here, Everybody te very Gifferest for relative company, Gear, even our minister. See, darling? Oh, and if you happen to remember any little thing that you have heard pape say about mamma's relatives, orthe other way round, you can tink of ft, but don't let anybody else know. It's @ secret, dear! What do you think of that? Yeu, str! A RBAQ eeeret bee tween papa and mamma and Reggie! Ien't that eplendia? hee told you, them afl very al Give you FOUR chegol: maerehmaliows dear, AND a AND ® harmonica! Now! pe 8 could find some of your hale on the fot up and shook himaeif, tt he he oo”