The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1914, Page 14

Claes Matter. ‘and the Continent and, International =| 9.76 | a New York ae ing|For Eng All Countries Postal 5 ne vent seoeeesNO, 10,158 WHERE CAUTION IS COWARDICE. AYOR MITCHEL io making « big effort to put authority into M the hands of New York’s Police Comanissioner. 4 Also he is trying to show that the city’s real duty te to ‘make high municipal office a eupreme power for good and then worry fenlibe otrong men are at work therein. To eroakere who harp on the danger of getting « bed Police MDemmissioner the Mayor replies: 5 “The character of the Polies Department should reflect the the Police Commissioner, and that « Surely Now York hes not reached the point where would rather PeRgeed work go undone than face the responsibility of finding the 4 basen to'do it, Not if tt vests with the people. 1", feat carries o “roll.” Money may talk, but nebody'll ewear | oftemrendte-exacity what it eaid. ee ARE THE VICTIMS ALONE TO.BE PUNISHED? ETH what fectings must thousands of New Haven stock- tholdere—whose former pride in their railroad ead experi- ence has turned to distrust and bitterness—have read The how $12,000,000 ‘of their money “vanished” 3 hae oy lor is any new lew necessary-to summon the living to answer wrong they heve dene, ' ee Attorney-General bas decided that boys under sixteen age cannot deliver newapapers before 8 A. M. without dew. What to there left for the small do in the way ef helping himeelf on in life? Remedies deing often mheré harmful than the disease, ep UNCLE SAM’S HINT. ‘ate gled to note that the Government of the United States de not eo high and mighty that it can’t go e little out of its “4 way to help the farmer’s wife with the chores. "in its Weekly News Letter to Crop Correspondents the Depart- ef Agriculture printe'the following: One of the epecialists of the Oflce of Farm Management a legmed from # women in Pennsylvania who had broken down from overwork that she bad been carrying coal from the barn fer yeare, When the husband was asked if there was any Feseon why « coal bunker could not have been provided near the cook stove and Giled directly from the wagon, he answered that there was none, but that eo one had ever thought of it. “Wheat with new machinery, gesoling engines and automobiles, the has had to give his whole mind to lightening his own drudgery. p he'll have time after'a while to wonder why hie wife is “all out.” : shea. a 3 A Clark University physician says the way to reduce the * &-eost of living is to eat sea mussels, which grow 8,000 bushels to “the ecre and are #0 cheap that 25 cents’ worth will feed ten # ; ‘- But we don’t want to live cheaper. We only want extrava- Ey Bane to cost less. & ——_<-4s- ___. “Why aré oer Albany Jegislators so loath to go graft: _ hunting} Afraid of their ofa guns! Put it RIGHT TSS GET Fi IN THiS ROOM mS WALL "AR ROM HIS | | WE CAN Tell Us, Groundhog! ELL us, groundbog, tell us true, Beer of February 3, What's the weather going to do With ts here? Must we stand the rising cost Of a long and tardy frost, Or ts winter double-crosspa For this year? Give us just a hunch on spring, When the robin firat may sin, ‘When the willow trees may fi Forth fresh buds; ‘When a-down the eager green Dandelions may be seen— ‘When the house begin to clean, Full of sud ‘Tell us by your other name-+ ‘Woodchuck—of the prophet's fame, All you know about the game, Here and now! Have you quit your winter sleepe Are you out again for keeps? Spelia the season wiles or weeps, Anyhow? zE.wW.O. Sexedectiniaiennt, The Oldest Republic. N the little European republic of Ban Marino this month is the | festival of independence, marking the solemn restoration of the republic in 1740, Gan Marino, perched on lofty mountains overlooking the Adriatic, ia only thirty-two square miles in ex- tent, but it is the oldest of the world's | existing republics, Its career as an | inde, it country began in the |ninth century, but in the sixteenth | century the republic was overthrown | oy Cesare Borgia. It was re-estab- | liwhed after the death of Borgia, but it was not until 1740 that its freedom. was finally secured, Ever since that time San Marino has turbed, and while all Europe was | war the little mountain country w loft to peace and quiet, “Hits From Sharp Wits. Dr, Cyrus Townsend Brady says that “women need husbands more Letters From the People Tolegraphy's Pay Small. Balter of The Krening World: To the Editor of The Evening World: to the letter from aman’ 1 would like to submit the follow- that he is a telegraph oper- ing answer to the problem offered by |. H." regarding the triangular field: 1 The Triangular Fi the following (w--108) 2175: 2008, # x ‘Bed | 108| Heading the list of unappreciated proportion & : 18 or, 2808, x = than they do votes.” In he talking about ried or single ladies?— | Macon Ne | eee | ‘The greatest discomfort of any home Is @ grouch,— Deseret News. eee Even @ good talker finds it dificult to hold the attention of a person who is about to sneeze.—Toledo Blade. oe Now and then one fashioned girl who it of femininity till seen an old- ms to possess who invented the Ibany Journal. When @ man can't break into print accommodate thi Ten Dramatic Chapters In the Story of New York Copyright, 1914, ty The Pres Hublishing Co, (The New York Evening World), NO. 3.—TRAGEDY OF THE PRISON SHIPS. FTER the battle of Long Island in 1776 and the subsequent cap- \ ture of Fort Washington on the upper west side of Manhattan Island in the ensuing November, the British accumulated between 4,000 and 6,000 prisoners. “These hostages of war were constantly added to by wholesale arrests of private persons suspected of sympathy with tive aid to the cause of the revolted colonies, To it number there were then only two regular prisons— v the eo-called New Jail, afterward the Hall of Records (torn down in recent years), and the common Bridewell, near what is now the corner of Broad- way and Chambers atrect. ‘These places were soon filled to suffocation and became veritable “b! holes” and pest houses. Consequently the overflow of prisoners was inga: cerated in temporary buildings, such as empty warehouses, sugar hou and even churches. Some of these latter were later converted into hospita! Among the places thus used were the Van Cortlandt Sugar House, cor- ner Thames and Lumber streets; the Rhinelander place, corner of William and Duane, and a third on Liberty street; the churches which were turned into jatia were the Middle Dutch, the North Dutch and the Brick Church, But the sufferings and privations in these land dungeons were exceeded, it that were possible, by those of the men confined on board the prison ships in Wallabout Bay across the East River, about where the Navy Yard now stands, These vessels were former men-of-wag or transports named the Jersey (‘The Hell,” as she was called), the Whitby, almouth, Chatham, Kitty, Frederick, Glasgow, Scheldt, Woodlands, Clyde, Trans- port, Scorpion, Hunter, Strombola, Prince of Wales and Good Hope. Sorac of them had carried cattle and other supplies for Howe's army in 17%, and all were lonthesomely filthy and unsanitary. Of them all the Jersey was the worst, yet her conditions were typical of all the rest. There was no medical attendance; the pravisions and the water were damaged or) putrid; pestilence and famine killed the prisoners by dozens daily. Says Dring, one of the unfortunates: “Dysentery, smallpox, yellow fever and the recklessness of despair soon filled the hulk with filth of the most dfggusting character, Humanity would have dictated a mare merciful treatment to a band of pirates who had been conde | and Were only awaiting the gibbet than to have sent them here, Utter derangement was a common symptom of yellow fever, and to increase the horror of the darkness (for we were allowed no lig! bewixt decks), the voice of warning would be heard: “Take heed to your- selven; there {s a madman stalking around the ship with a knife in his hang.’ 1 sometimes found man a corpse in the morning by whose ide I laid myself down at night. While so many were sick with raging fever there was « loud cry for water, but none could be had except on the upper deck, and but one allowed to ascend at a time. The suffering from the rage of thirst during the night was very great.” No wonder that the memory of the prison ships has gone down into history as one of: the greatest atrocities of modern times, New York did not forget for many decades, In 1908 there was erected in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, overlooking the old moorings of these floating hi @ tall shaft to the memory of the prison ship mar ‘This was do! hrough the efforts of the Society of Old Brooklynit ind other allied patriotic and benevolent bodies of loyal mon and women. Favorite Recipes of Famous Women The favorite recipes of famous|cones; tet stand in cool place until women of the United States Dip in beaten egg and then in printed in The Evening World fine bread crumbs and fry in deep hot Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. | fat until a delicate brown. Many of ine dtghes described have, Myre, Edward S. Fawcett. jonal reno wen he ~ Fish Croquettes. Miss Rose Fairfax. LL, fish croquettes are better in A taste and form when one- third creamed potato is made up with the fish. The potato should be fixed just as it is for an ordinary serving of cream potatoes—pepper, salt, milk and e tiny bit of butter, begt- Chestnut Croquettes. | HELL fifty French chestnuts, cover with water and boll half an hour; pound very fine; two tablespoons of butter, a little nait any other way he sends a huge radish Columbia State. and mix to a paste, Add a cup of en very light. If this method ts cream, @ little at a time; wh taj no other potatoes will be needed at Five-Minute Fights With Fate By Alma Woodward Gopsrigit, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Exening World.) On “Making Allowances.” 4 and I told my me minded that I must ances” for him because, If a boy of eight me—when I was ni he mig! I was, him because he wi If the cook chased me out of the} kitchen, when I''was hungry “make allowance! so much work to at me. Now I've pan out; and “allowance” habit and slink about employees call m see us—I wonder in that? I hi what I'm doing abused, by m: Maybe it I little of the refi ndeavor iy (to Mr, Bryan tumb worked together press throug ¢ luncheon, oes Fie beat three eggs un i :18| Goethals evidently would rather sur inte this mixture. Cook in 9 doy- gout ytd erie oa ‘The be the King of spades than tbe king ble boiler ten minutes, atirring con. WM, (2.0% gM" : L, LEVETT. of clubs. . . Mantly. Let cool, form into balla or ‘pia’ Raphian e “to car it . tt er ioe beeen ‘on | Samy, for instance), may not be &/iaw, for example, ¥ yg | allowances—for my future | crime in another. Yet a ws | toe er on prisoner, ‘but to sey, that the | peace of mind. And a ilt- | profess the religion that » $00, Ge tay present heppin aorta ia as inexcusable as it is ‘The It's @ good fault tm “ave—this “mak- we te gentence is executed, the man fag allowances” habit, co y DEFALCATION—We have come to himself is killed, sot “executed,” grown up Ing business at the old allowances in my home when the hourekeeping slips a com. lowances for my children when they can't or won't understand, allowances for my employees when they don't make them on, although they're deadw: because they have families to port; because maybe some time the: because I've got guess. ‘And where do I get off? If business them any of their want ‘This power to see ourselves REMEMBER the one thing that used to make me more boilingmad than any other, when I was a small boy. It was when some one hag done me a met’ "inake allow: &e. threw @ brick at a” becaune do, that da For years I flew straight to my mother with my troubles, All boys do, if they're the right sort of boys and have the right sort of mother. But, aftera Ie my soul rebelled at that wall of “allowance my woes were deflected, to strike back from which al! 1 make al carr: good—and it, worries drive me to distraction and I speak about them, I'm asked to leave ‘shop" downtown, My children sulk leny the house if I d A just how mu I wonder whether thovw people for whom I make allowances really think they’re doing their share ’ Can it be that I'm so blind that I can't wee effort, other than my own? T naturall always rather scorntully person who went around misunderstood. , or wilfully, blind ‘There's some: wrong with him,” and yet, that's what iaunde: eens Hl lea of being misunderat an a act k a little deeper into the mir TN be able to see just a lection that lurks in their eyes, when they look at me. May- | be if I try to understand a little more | with my heart than with my head, when I'm grouchiest, I'll see that so1 now, I'm tes, to make allowa: wtievous wrong only to be re- ine—even though ht have been a head taller than T must “make allowances” for year younger. | 1 must id | band for a living—and it’s a toss-up which has the harder job. I'ry still do- id. I make IT mane Ny the ittle Causes Of Big Wars By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1914 by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Drening World). No. 46—A Misquoted Conversation That Led to the Franco- Prussian War. pmems WO men stood in earnest talk on the Promenade at Ems one July day in 1870, There were hundreds of other persons on the Prome- nade that day. And every pair of eyes was fixed, openly or covertly, on those two speakers. The taller of the two was in dress uniform and was of regal bearing. The shorter was a black-eyed, sharp-featured man in civilian garb. For several minutes they talked. Then the tall man abruptly turned his back upon the other and strode away. Something very like & gasp burst from countless lips. Then a myriad of tongues started wagging. , Every on ‘a version as to what the nature of the talk had been., And according to a historian of the time: “Misleading reports of this conversation were the immediate cause of the Franco-Prussian war.” ‘i France and Prussia were old-time foes. They had clashed when Fred- erick the Great wag Prussia’s king, and again when Napoleon Bonaparte humbled Prussia to the dust. And now, for years, each of the two nations had secretly been making ready for a war that both felt must surely come. Frenchmen hated Prussians and Prussians hated the French. An excuse ‘was all that was lacking to send the two enemies at each others’ ¢ te, ‘Then Spain's throne fell vacant. It was offered to Leopold, a Hohen- follern prince, kinsman to King William of Prussia, Napoleon IIL, Emperor of France, loudly protested that the seating of a Prussian prince on the Spanish throne would threaten the precious “balance of power” which had ~ for a century been the fetish of all Europe. King William courteousty ~- yielded to the protest andwithdrew Leopold from the candidacy. Napoleon TIl, was not content with scoring this point over his rival, He resolved to humiliate Prussia still further. An imperial So he sent France's Prussian Ambassador, Count Ben- Bully. edetti, to demand from King William a solemn pledge wanrncncccorcon that no Hohenzollern prince should ever in future be @ candidate for the Spanish throne. King William was at Ems. Thither went Benedetti with his Emperor's ridiculous demand. He met the King on the Promenade there and delivered the Imperial message to him. King William heard him to an end, then turned without further parley and walked away. ‘Within an hour the thousand versions of the conversation had sifted down to two: The Prussians declared that Benédetti, in France's nante, had grossly, insulted King William and all Prussia. Tho French as vehement. ly proclaimed that the Prussian King had offered a vile affront to France and to France's Emperor. The smouldering fury of both nations—especially of France—flamed into war-fire. Napoleon IIl., forced on by popular clamor, declared war at once on Prussia, and French armies were rushed to the Prussian fronicr. Pfactica’ of the German States forgot their petty differences and ral- led to Prussi: id. In three huge armies, perfect as a machine, the Germans crossed the Rhine, smashing the French in battle after battle, driving them steadily back and marching straight on Paris—the capital and heart of France, The French soldiers fought like heroes. But they were outnumbered, missary and other departments were riddled by graft and incompetency. The padded army lists showed (on *paper) a vast French host. As a matter of fact, France started the war with only 310,000 men, against ~ brought the number of France's foes up to at least a million. Paris was besieged and fell. Through the arch built to celebrate France's triumphs marched the Prussian victors into the French capital. French armies everywhere were routed. King William (meantime crowned his country by the firat Napoleon. France, beaten to earth, was forced to pay a billion dollars in war indemnity and to sacrifice some of her richest territory. Truly a goodly price to pay for one misquoted conversation! their superiors were outgeneralled, and their com- A Billion Dollar Fine. Prussia’s 477,000, In addition, Germany's reserves Emperor of United Germany), amply avenged the treatment meted out fi CHELOR. Gl@be ELEN ROWLAND. Copyright, 1914, by Tuc Urew Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World). MAN'S first love affair is a mere incident; his second, an accident and all the rest, a habit. | A Solomon had seven hundred changes of heart—and still he sighed for @ “perfect wife,” \ . In a love affair, a prude always says “No!", a fool “Yes!", a wise woman ‘Perhaps——.” A woman always !ooks on the love, which she can't return, as @ com- pliment; but, somehow, a man takes it as @ personal offense for any woman to love htm, when he hasn't asked her to. Nowadays, women are divided into two classes; those who go down | town and work for a living, and those who stay uptown and work a hus When a man marries a widow, he has the comfort of knowing that she will never trifle with bis safety razor, hang his trousers upside down over a chalr, clean hts pipe with soap, or take prussic acid, simply because he 1 | happens to forget the anniversary of their wedding day. It takes three generations to make a gentleman—and one chorus girl to unmake him. “The Stronger Sex,” Dearte, is the sex which is too weak to resist a temptation, a cocktail, or a woman, and too infirm to fix its own bath and put the studs in its shirts, Marriage: a forctaste of Paradise, tinctured with Purgatory, u Use Incorrectly [Words Yo No. 4. ’ DECIMATED—We speak of a city or an army being “decimated” when we mean to imply that it has suffered] Means to lop off or to detract from. from many fatalities, The term is) DIRT—This word cannot be cortect- taken—and taken wrongly—from anj'¥ Used to express anything but filth. old and barbarous custom of punish-|A Clever writer bas defined dirt as ing mutinous regiments, town defend- | “Matter out of place.” arth is not ers, &c., by killing one man out of| Matter out of place when it fs uscd every ten (‘decimus” being the Latin | to mend a road. Get that same earth word for “tenth”), Thus, unless we boll ote Rande and it at once becomes mean that precisely one person in ten out of was killed, our use of “decimate” ts incorrect. CRIME—Here ts a word that is mis- | used as a synonym for “sin.” A ein |% is the violation of a religious law. A crime is merely a violation of the law ot one particular country or otate. What is a crime in one gountry (poly- use this word as a synonym for “de-* fault," to express theft. It means nothing of the kind. ‘To defalcate ao oa! me blunder jean” to “lower? mee