The evening world. Newspaper, January 14, 1914, Page 18

Second-Class Matter. jena and the Continent and untries in the International Postal Union. Yoar..... Month... + 98.80 | On 80/One VOLUME 54.. | A BARGAIN THAT IMPOSES A DUTY. HE confession of Murphy's bagman, McLean, Secretary of the Democratic State Committee, that he accepted a $400 cam- paign fund contribution from an engineering corporation is Feported to involve an agreement to put into the hands of thé State | farther evidence of corrupt deals between politicians and contractors, Ba return the State grants the self-confessed grafter suspension of | @entence and the dismissal of another outstanding indictment against Bargains of this sort between jnstive and crookedness are inevit- PS ble. Unseemly as they are bound to appear, they are justified only | | when they lay upon the State imperative obligation promptly and Giligently to use the information obtained in the eervice of the public. The conviction of a dozen\guilty men may well be more valuable than the full punishment of one, But those who determine the wis- dom of this sort of deal should be held strictly accountable for its results. The people of the State are in a mood to resent the smallest felaxation of the efforts to run down o rascally band who have dragged | New York politics into an infamous partnership with corruption and ‘Wackmail. 4 Fire losses in this country last yea: compiled by the Insurance Press, w: over $4,000,000 less than in 1912 and in fact show a decline for the past four years. Nevertheless, the total for 1918 ($203,408,250) did not drop té that of 1909, when the aggregate fire loss was $188,705,150, Decline or no decline, since 1910 fire losses in the United States have amounted each year to between $2 and $2.60 per P capita, In Europe the estimated loss per capita is 40 cents, Neither in improved construction nor in increased caution Rave we much to brag about. In the matter of wise provision against fire this country has still to overcome a deal of igno- rance and still more recklessness. — STEALING PRIVILEGE—ITS OLD TRICK. HE Yellow Taxicab Company, which refused to eerve New T Yorkers at the cheaper legal rates and sulkily withdrew from the public taxicab Zield, is now brought into court for trying fp steal the advantages ot the ordinance it storned. Yellow Taxicab starters hustle restaurant patrons into yellow ihe that loiter about public etands on the pretense that somebody thas ordered them. Magistrate House, sitting in the Chief Magis- sete’s Court, characterized this kind of plea as “subterfuge” and expressed his regret that the evidence did not permit him to © find guilty a Yellow Taxicab chauffeur charged with soliciting fares. The Yellow Taxicab Company had its chance to conform to the Yew and serve the public. It chose rather to ecout the law and go @n- seeking to gouge the public. It has no rights whatever at any . pitlic etand. New Yorkers will applaud the Magistrates for showing this eneaking corporation its place. \ It will take George F. Baker some time to retire from all bis interlocking directorsh!| Mr. Baker is the champion interlockutor. HOW SHALL WE GET ACQUAINTED? PEPOHE race betterers out at Battle Creck aré doing their best to give the world the shivers. * Here’s another who predicts that in a hundred years or ) @0 there will be no more children born in England or Germany, and that if college graduates in this country don’t mend their ways they feed expect noposterity after 1925. BG Nor is it only the Battle Creekers who are worried because the ) @ight people don’t get a chance to marry each other, Right here | fim New York within the last week two ministers, one of them the : w. Cyrus Townsend Brady, have warned us that 750,000 young in the city are in danger of staying sipgle or making unhappy because they are deprived of the happy chances of pro- Churches and social centres are not enough. Batile Creek ad- “Pies municipal dance halls to extend the range of acquaintance, ) If the good old boarding-house sofa has lost its virtue, why * ‘partnership. —_—_—_—_—~¢e—____-_—_—_ Take Winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him, and tolerating none in you, which is a great com- fort in the long run.—James Russell Lowell, “Why Ie an Aldermant” | then x+2<price of one pound in centa WP the Rditor of The Brening World for small turkey. X+2enumber of y, “Why ts an| pounds In small turkey 2%6-x©number .Jof pounds in large turkey, ‘Then Bs aaa HK 424 296-x—20; molving: 82x + 290K + OPM sons: “No, 1—Foolish Fatwoaye “3 No, Wad+40x, or %n2—S38x--02-0, Nolving Se—Kasy, unearned ealary, with Fourth | out xii cents we get: ‘The large tur- of July fireworks, news stands aud pos | Key weighed W6+18%—16 pounds, atble graft trimmin; No SA " fag” chance to hecome Mayor. 1. K, Kew Verk’s Judgme Fe the kaitor of The Krening Works Te it possible, readers, i 4 big vity like New York that once a young man has done a wrong deed he can never have @ chance to reforin or start | To the Editor of The anew? I am such a young man and it] Here geome very hard for 5 Me al 3 eB Kaitor of The Which is correct white are colors white are not colors, The “Himp ening World is my solution to a’ + guns Bat mday. Bethe Rditor of The Evening World. * On wha day did Feb. 2, 18%, fall? , FRANK MARTIN, continue $4) Is A's total amount, Then B should have $20) to have ty as much 2 mg A mays black and B says black and “A Bimple are=3 tines as much Continuing in trade, A gaine Bam A. A doesn't gain $00; when the arrangement has to eA, A Kaine On $150) 82006800, B nine on HO+81% $0. A had $100 at the uu 1 Love (S THe BEST OF IT iam that should 1 tc ot Combuatidles, Stopping some t over, jlying from A Aifty-two-story against the Way doesn't Jailencer tor ° Soi e persons they during the friendly Toledo Blade, . n h Appeal. . ‘reference ‘turkey problem 1 | atart, to offer my. solution: let x—price ‘has 6200. iF darge jurkeyi Naty Lede 4... B had &0+$100, A hax $00, B Go ON, THE END PART READ Gg, ‘ LouD, fo MEAR IT 8 J) & ‘ Cet In The Fat Woman’s Revenge % Hey | ANIMATED, BIFURCATED LEAD PENCIL COME HERE “a Publishing Co, ning Work). = T wan Gertrude answering the phono. ‘Like many others of recent foreign ancestry, Gertrude always approached a telephone as though it w mechan- her be opened with two angling, inelstent, clamoring apparatue, Jertrude would rise on her tues, nerved 0 run the dreadful risk—then, reaching she would pluck the earple: from the prongs and hold it tightly againat her ear, worew her ey shut and bark buck ut the (natrument in a atrained high falactto, She was thus operating thie mechan- jism (Which has done #0 much to raise Ovcanional neceaaity to intensely followed fine art) becaune Mrs Jarre was out ahoppin Moesn’t Fugenics tie up to the Tango? Tt ought to make u powerful |Mr. Jarr wae home, the so-called head of the house never went near the phone untews compelled to. vullding constructed in New York, Won't that be cause for an action by aviators y for obstruction of an aerial highway?—Alvany Journal. Mr. attachment to diutors?—Albany Journal, could thelr capacity for doing equalled their capacity for worrying. ee One of the best thi year 1914 reladons with bls stomach,— feet Gossip and falsehood usually tw’ company.—Albany Journal, . Ma de rr) ‘aution by an expert from the Bureau from the ind, although Hits From Sharp Wits. is tightly to be In Six Acts {WANT You To READ AN ARTICLE | CUT FROM THE NEWSPAPER \ GET Lets oF COnCORT OuT Ol T ARTICLE ! ene « THe WOMAN SLENDER ano THIN So FAVORED BY Bur A PE DEFECTIVE VARIETY” Qfr, Jarr sald that he had long ag» learned that no one ever called him on ed Phone for any purpose to benefit “A phone,” Gir, Jarr’ was often heard to remark, & deadly contrivance that encourages people to annoy you by insults or pester you With requests for favors; all of which they wouldn't have the nerve to recite to-seu, face to face.” So Gertrude answered the telephone. “What is it? Yes—hello! Who ia it? Wat? Hello! Who do you want? I'm the maid and 1 don’t understand you. Yes—hello!—Mra, Jarr is out. Who {a it? What do you want? Hello! Hello! No, thia ts tne mald, and 1 don't understand you, Ilello! Good- by! Hell “What fe it, Gertrude?” asked Mra. Jarr, coming in with several portabi And Mra. Jarr approached the appar- atus with a smile (for, as she always never tell who Jarr, being a woman, Was very super- Gtitioug and optimistic. She always approached the jinglt telephone in expectation of receiving information Sreatly to her advantage. “This is Mrs. Jarr! Never mind who is calling? Well, 1 do mind who is calling, What do you want to apeak to him for?” Evidently the voice at the other end ‘waa & man's voice and apologetic. For Mrs. Jarr softened somewhat and, turning from the telephone, remarked to Mr, Jarr, who was passing: “Why don't you answer the phone when your friends call you up?" Mr. Jarr Receives Very Sad News; At Least He’s Led to Think It’s Sad NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RACE BETTERMENT_| THE BEST PHYSICA ORBING TO Dax ie 'S THE COMPACTLY QUILT WOMAN WHO NASA DEEP CHEST, AND ENO FLESH To RouND ouT THE ANATOMICAL ANGUS know you recognize the voice, but as & hostile {s listening you must be dis- creet names. ‘The precaution was lost upon Mrs, Jarr, however. For she sniffed dis- dainfully and remarked in a deep whisper, ‘Things have come to a pretty pass when saloon-keepers call up men at their home: But Mr, Jurr was evidently aldrmed at the news he was receiving. “What can we do for him?" he was askm; “Who ts it? quired ‘Mra, Jarr, who, now th evidently bad news, was interrented, “Michuel Angelo Dinkston? Does it seem serious?” Mr. Jarr continued. “Why do they call you up?" asked Mra. Jarr. What's the matter?" in- it was “Who axed Mr. Jarr. “Oh, Ie it you?’ he added in that tone one uses over the wire that the Lstener may objecta im parcels clutched to her breast. ‘Here, let me talk to them!” Copyright, 1014, by The Free Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), Freese how fussy a purely platonic affection for a girl will make a man about the shaving of his chin and the color of his cravat! It's almost time now for all those thrifty young Lotharios who drifted out of a girl's vision “'jes ‘fore Christmas” to come around again and travel] “make it up” in time for the winter festivities, invent! <a Life {s becoming such a rush that most men propose between courses steam ra-|@t dinner, marry between luncheon and a stockholders’ meeting, and expect to be “saved” between the last dose of medicine and the last breath, wonders it Albany Journal, Women could get the vote easily would walk up to the polis eix abreast, the way they take possession of sidewatks,—Toledo Blade. 4 man can do maintain to A man may die from overwork, but ft ls & whole lot better to die from wear than it i# from rust.—Memphis Ferdinand Pinney Earle got into the Papers agely yesterday, Watson, the formaldehyée:—Topeks Capital How can you tell a woman's age? Well, if she apeaks of a philanderer “ladies' man” you can place her at seventy-five; if she calls him a * you can place her at forty; if she dubs him a “womap-killer” you can write her down as thirty, and if she calls him a “girl-chaser” you may know that she ie just a sweet, young, modern debutante. it “The refinement of cruelty": A man's nerve-racking habit of begin- ning to tell a woman something—agd then stopping to finish his coffee and light a cigarette right in the middle of it. One comfort in being a woman is that when you feel like crying you can put your head on a man’s shoulder and cry, instead of gulping down modest exposure of the soul,” as a man does, into a enemy : the tears, batting your eyes and acting as though you were guilty of “im- Many 8 man fancies he bas fallen in love when he has marely fallen Phone and turned to his wife reproach- fully and remarked: “Now, see what you've done! Michael Angélo Dinkston, who never drank any- thing stronger than wood alcohol or cyanide of potassiuny in his life, comes to your party the other in& and he le encouraged to drink a glass of your claret punch and now he is acting strangely in Gui “He always acted strangely.” said Mrs, Jarr coldly, “And I wish you would stop speaking about my claret s you do, Everybody likes It And everybody @rank !t the evening—so there “Well, I'm going out to see poor Dink- ston, He hasn't a friend in the world, you know,’ "said Mri m't a friend in repeated Mr, Jarr, Jarr. e world, I } fighting or tn nav: nd, above all, not mention any} But Mr. Jarr only put up the tele-| Litt An Odd System of Blackmall. ADDON NOAA Of Big Wars i Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York brening Word), i No. 88—A Raiee of Price That Led to Our-War With the Barbary States. 3 the sum our country had meekly paid him, the United States } embarked on a war that smashed Barbary piracy. 4 The Barbary States—Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli— and blackmail as their chief sources of revenue. For centuries they had waxed fat on the looting of other nations’ merchant ships, and far fatter on the huge suins they had forced such nations to pay as immunity from It 1s hard to understand to-day why such mighty realms as Englénd and France—and later the United States—vonsented to pay millions of dollars to a gang of African pirates for the privilege of sailing the high The great Eyrropean Powers could readily have combined at any time to wipe the Barbary States off the map. But they did not, chiefly because there was money: for them in the piracy system. For instance, thin tribute gave trade, because it forced from the sea the merchant vessels of such lesser countries whicl were too poor to bay tribute to the pirates. except for those who couldn't afford to hand over a big sum of blackmatl money to the Barvary Sti The Vessels of these non-paying little nations were captured by the pirates and their 200 Christian priso One of Peed foremost objects of church charities in urope and America was buying back the freedom of such unfortunates. England patd $260,000 a year in tribute to the pirates, and purposely ran up tried to compete with England's rate, but could not. Congress, in 178, appropri- ated $90,000 to buy immunity, but the pace svt by England 8 too rapid for us to meet, And as Spears says in his “History of Our Navy By Albert Payson Terhune CAUSE a Barbary potentate decided he wanted more tribute clinging along the African shore of the Mediterranean Sea, counted piracy being robbed. ecas unmolested. Yet {t ts true. (to the nations that could afford to pay it) a monopoly of the Mediterranean Tt was @ good business arrangement all around— crews and passengers sold into slavery. In 1783 there were, at Algiers alone, the price to freeze out her poorer merchant rivals, The new-born United States ‘A civilized nation sicked the Barbary: whelps to tear the peaceful passerby. ;* ° © The British agent negotiated a treaty by which the pirates would be turned loose into the Atlantic, especially to prey on American commerce.” American ships and American crews were seized. Congress, in 17%, pald Alg'! 463 for protection and as ransom for our prisoners held there. By the early part of the nineteenth century we had pald out more than $2,000,000 in tribute, Tripoli, regarding our Government as pitifully “easy,” raised the rates then and demanded $22,000 more and an annual tribute of 925,00. We could not= or would not—pay It, And Tripoll declared war on the United States, Our navy In those days was a Joke, It consisted of a mere handful of Ittle wooden ships, Our sailors and their officers had had scant experience in sea- iscipline, Sheffleld said of the Americans: ‘They; cannot pretend to a na But a tiny squadron under Commodore Dale sailed to the Mediterranean and blockaded Tripoli. Algiers and Tunis also had thoughts of raising the rates on Uncle Sam, but were forced by Dale to stick to thelr former terms. Morris jucceeded Dale, but soon was in turn succeeded byi Capt. Preble. Under Preble’s |leadership the war began in earnest. Moroceo was scared into breaking the alliance with Tripo!l and Tripoll itself was bombarded five times. Preble's force was about one thousand men; there were %,000 Tripolian warriors. The frigate Philadelphia, chasing a hostile ship into Tripoll Harbor, ran aground and was captured by the pirates. Preble sent an expedition under young Lieut. Decatur to destroy the grounded frigate, under the very guns of the enemy, that slie might be of no use to her captors, Lord ison declared that this destroying of the Philadelphia was “the most daring act of the age,” Against many times its own numbers, the plucky little Yankee fleet raged tf here bullying one local power into submission, there flying into battle against seemingly unconqueradle odds. And by 1806 the pirate states were whipped into partial subjection. Although “Most Daring Act of the Age.” we atill paid a certain amount of yearly tribute, the chain that had for een- turies bound the strongest countries of the world had been loosed by the handful of men and the few vessels of the baby nation which could not “pretend to @ navy." And a very few years later the same young nation was to strike the final blew which should forever end piracy in the Mediterranean. Domestic Dialogues By Alma Woodward. Copyright, 1914, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), Mrs, A (rushing out with the slippers, le: J—Here, put these on, right this mine ute! The idea! Huehen feo Mr, A Jumping up and down)—Where'l I put it? Where'll T put it? Mrs. A (logically)—Put it | —that's where it belongs, Mr. A (painfullyy—1 can't there. There’ there already. Mra. A (reprovingly)—You should h: taken them out before you took the Ice off. Willie, hold the door of the icebox open, dear, I'll take the bottles out. Just a moment, Frederick, You'll have: to hold jt only @ few minutes more, dear, ‘ Mr. A gd a his nears farnad Crest tor his" caljatieg haart, & Mrs. "A’ (gleefully) There! ‘Threw it right int There! (Released, Mr, A. stay tende apart, the ‘ave Brome eee aalete waiter shaft blows on lle damp and icy garments.) Iceman (raucously)—@ay, mies, why fre yuh after takif’ Smith's Ice from waiter? Wednesday, yuh don't! Mrs. A (dreamily) At her sister's for the night and I for- got whether we DID get it Wednesday or not. Mr. A (with a premonttion)—What've I got to do?) What— Mrs. A (soothingly)—Oh, nothing, dear, Don't get so excited. Al you've get to M. on Wednealay, im the sound of the he north wind nd strikes Mi nda in the contre of the hos fifty poun-la of ise, ston of injured pride on his Wilile (on the job and from the ad- joining rqgom) — Mam-ma! Ma-a-ma! ‘There's somethin’ ringin’, mamma Mrs. A Goudly, with a purpose)—Whi Is it that’s ringing, dear? Willle-It's the dumbwaiter ringin’, mamma. Mra. A (nweetly, to the recumbent Mr. A)—The dumbwaiter del! {s ringing, | Frederick. Mr, A (half-consclous and wholly tr- | ritabley—Let it ring! It docan't annoy, me. Mra, A (softly)—Yes, but there's some- thing on the dumbwaiter for us, Daddy, and it's got to be taken off, yreatening sounds is wafted mare nn Willie (keen: Pashunt, ma. ‘That's the way the ice- man sounds when he gets impashunt, the Icevox ederick, jet it im lots of bottles and ke what's ir of a martyr)—Oh, will got up in the ¢ from the ma. Mra. A (with the very well, Frederick; cold and lift fitty pounds of dumbwaiter and— Mr. A (apringing up, as might an elderly Roman gladiator)—Oh, I'll go. you stay here, Ungodly hour to get ice, too! (Opena dumbwaiter please! All righ: —F reder- ick! Put on your slippers and yourldo iy to take the Ice out of the tesbox bathrobe, You'll catoh your death Of/again and put it on the waiter. The cold, iceman’! pull it down, Mr, A (curtly)—Haven't got time | iu sty 2 realizing tat he'll play ott ie a And he rushed out to Gus's. found Mr. Rafferty and the reat stood off and re- garded him in amazement, "Listen! sald Gus ‘Mr, Jarr en- tered “To think he should die! the flower of his youth! Ah, I lose my best friend. Helo, Edward Jarre! you heard the sad news? denly at 3 o'clock this morning.” poset tela aa S show that the United States led in the matter of total amount of rall- road construction during the year 1911, when the total amount of new railroads U. S, Leads Again. TATISTICS issued by the bureau Here he Dinkston sitting at the Pinochle table in the back room weeping ‘itterly, while Gus and 6lavinsky and Cut off in Have t died sud- of railway news and statistics) C24 uushaken customer Anyway, it doesn't matter if I catch MY death of cold! utters got the The Day’s Good Stories. d Sight. Vightnings of hie intellect play around: thee, and thy smile brightens the dark places of hie. soul! BARTENDER bad reached that slate We shail be cxtinguisted lke candies im the where ho was maggering visibly uinder| "ind, but thou shalt beam into efernity, sf the blows and jary of too much rum to the everlasting stars: “I don't know,” qnsed the maiden,“ the brain, He was seeing double, ¢ maiden, “But be Jeman who entered the bar! sure has got dandy eyes, and be spends by ‘The dignified gent money free, hed cerain hour with his hat ov Do you think be drinks Pan Pia nen ‘and with hie hesle etriking | much?" a = the Seat WT eomnry sm of bar, for ry a an ee ‘with elaborate care prepared two Right, Oh! glasses and sot them down im front of the sober 6 lia Vatzon—How old are sou, barber? ‘The Ba: who is used to dar “| ordered one of beer," sald the patron Thirty-nine, sir, jm o amooth manner, “Why, in the mame cf] The And how long have yo been bald? euffering heaven, give me two! “Well,” sald the bartender, lun haaize his curisity, “ain't your friend ‘The Barber—Lemme see, sir, Ab, yea. ° 1 was quite bald thirty-uine seers ago, aiz,—Clevela Plain Dealer, * Jurchitg forward constructed In the world was 17,151] to emp +, miles, of which 6,84 miles were built | eis’ to bare onel”—Hopular Magazine, x Would faves in the United States, Europe bullt {i} |- Have-Been. 3,100 miles, British East India 2,390 Man ero to His Wife. hit p wiles, Africa 232 miles, Argentina cep] NO a Hi Oram cmb ce th soaring 84 miles and mallee, Australi; 0s againns 44000 miles in Europe ada €%) miles, At the close of 1911 the tota! ratiroad mileage of the world was @6,- 2 miles, and at that time the United| compenicas. @tates contained 24,000 miles of track canst float tm the fragmoce of his spirit! ‘Thou | astonished clerk, GREAT poet met o simple maiden, and they loved, relates the Cleveland Pisin Desier, “Happy, happy maid!” cried all the girl's “A post lores thee and thou one of the forms to se that it hed Been properly filled up noticed the figured and 112 under the heeding, “Age of father lving’’ end ‘Age of mother if IWyiug."*. “Rus gour paremte were wever so old, were they?” guested Ghe No," was the reply, "tub Gmterest inte hie comet, beautiful thougbie! The hey would he’ bin Using.” —Pittsion Gasstta,