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fecond-Class Matter, Tor ‘ngiand and the Continent all ae Cy Sy Wrerlé for the United States end Canada by “repressive legislation” like the Sherman law. labor-eaving machinery. aad one commolities that the public requires. with legislative and executive activity? Did labor-saving machinery ever try to be itself and Govern- , Mant all at the same time? tien that worries Justice Ford. — Events are proving the soundness of the President's con- a 3 tention tat calm, steady pressure is a match for the tantrums % and “tensions” of a Villa. “ + “CHIEF SAM.” the Government of Great Britain batters at our faith. hall fool that the world is indeed flat and prosaic. ind these flashes? fee twinkle left in it. ———_-4 The Mayor asks New Yorkers to pray for “rain and sun- shine.” Why not concentrate on warm showers to save time and poasible misunderstanding? nd an Ete the perfect name: Leon Leoni, His career for the last ten years, § @aring which he hes run down celebrated criminals, recovered neck- "ae if: France. ep Three weeks from to-day—Spring! Phere to Ne DeGnite Line, hat Ces- A Provi To the Faltor of The Krening well bet: that the well in 5 the ladder ia 7% solution is as follows: the dopth of the weil consider it as one of t right triangle forme: bet 5 feet. equal resulting equation ts X* + we get -- 4X = — w. CHARITY WORK, “I wish you would join our band of tm | rusted. WORN eat | Tats SPRING Countries in the International » . 19,184 CAN ?.0GIC MAKE THEM LEGISLATORS? UPREME COURT JUSTICE FORD is solicitoue for the trusts and opines they should not be obstructed in their development He compares opposition to the trust to the opposition once manifested toward | Nobody wants to represa these “logical outcomes of modern ||. needs,” as the Justice calls them, so long as they keep to their logical and legitimate functions of securing greater economy, efficiency and excelience in performing the services and producing the thousand But is it “a logical outcome of modern needs” that great indus- t j trial combinations should take it upon themselves to become part of f * the Government by pocketing State Legislatures, dictating laws, and maintaining special agents to keep them in close, compelling touch If the trusts had been content to atick to business and keep their, hums off the lawmakers they could have avoided a lot of the opposi- | W FIND IT HARD to go back on “Chief Sam”—even though | If Sam is not really the supreme lord of sixty-four | equare miles of African territory, and if the “Curityba” does not | fail proudly forth from the Erie Basin to collect some hundreds of megroes in the South and take them overseas to the promised land where the “butter bush” blooms and the “flour vine” flourishes, we Here is a eon of Aki with enough imagination and get-up-and- get to buy a real ship and paint the glories of old Africa in colors s that eet a thousand dark-skinned Americans harkering to get back ‘to the home of their ancestors. The Gold Coast—magic destination, efmirably chosen! And that touch about nobody being expected to work Saturdays or'Sundays on the voyage! Have many land piratos Tf Sem is not all that he says he is, all we can say is that he deserves to have been. Lawyers may quit him and great governmenta weowl at him, but we chall keep our eye on Sam’s atar as long as there “THE NATURAL BORN DETECTIVE.” 18 HARD to eay why a French detective should be more interest- [= than any other. Maybe fiction has been overkind to him. a Maybe, on the other hand, his natural adroitness, combined with . the and manners of his race, makes him in reality the ideal . i: TIN | Ot Mae a A young Frenchman who has just been appointed Chief Inspector Ne we 5) ef one of the principal Paris detective bureaus seems to supply in the ey flesh exactly the kind of detective the story-writers dream of—even aces, caused important arrests and exposed fakes, including the fu- mous case of Madame Humbert and her empty safe, as described in ‘The Sunday World Magazine to-morrow, is « mine of “detective ma- terial.” The man’s gift of disguise, a knack at languages—including the 9 oo « various profeasions—which make him equally at home as a banker, a Parisian “apache” or a British racetrack tout, and ‘@ natural ecse of manner that serves him'in drawing-room or thieves’ ‘en with equal success—all combine to strengthen the old belicf that when romance has pictured all a detective should be, if we + wish to find the nearest approach in real life we must seck it in Letters From the People How deep is a well in which @ lad- der when stood upright in the centre protrude 2 feet ant when leaned sidewise to the wall will just to the top, the width of the Ing 10 foot? My molution Ja feet deep and that feet in length, Th let X Farm Then X* + 25 = the of the hypothenuse, The hy- pothenuse ts equal to X + 3. The 6 = (X% + 2)* or X*° + Bm X98 + aX + 4, The two X's cancel, and transposing Then X = 6X. PETERSON, tramp around We 8 most of the women shoppers in A’e big store, who saw Mrs. Jarr’s distress at missing ber Uttle boy, straightened up from the ribbon and white goods counters to maternal lament. Bhe noted they took a keen, though academical, interest, and Mrs. Jarr Was subconsciously aware that most of them were married women of the upper middie classes—New Yorkers of means that enabled them to live in the high-rent, onyx-halled and eleva- tored eos where every luxury but children obt-.ns, Ine, in the costly no-family family apartment houses of the metro) there is a clause in the lease fo! children to be born or harbored prem- (nes; and hence, amor dwellers in those opulent and ornate edifices, parenthood hag become a lost art, “Has she lost bee Pee or her jew. elry?” asked one of these women of another, “No, tht valuable—only her Aittle boy,” replied the other. ‘Whereat all scrutinised Mre. Jarr Hits From Sharp Wits. A loose tonguo makes e dangerous vehicle for careless thought to ride upon.—Philadelphia Inquirer. ‘Was the man who.wrote “The Lost Art of Conversation” advertising for hin absent wife?—Memphis Commer- clal Appeal. There ts Wood's Hi ee codfish hatchery at d the eu! reports that 286 perintendant pro} ed there thie Neuen may looked upon as the monu- mental piece of work of decade,—Cle veland Pisin Dealer. He Some people are so busy keeping up Appearances that they do not accom- plish anything more. —Albany Journal, Where a man is his own janitor he always blames the heating plant.— Chicago News. ri ‘woman that had children! How odd! One of the ladies was almost em- boldened to break in uj distress and ask her tend an Eugenic Thuraday ut the Hy: bersensitive members o} Early Eight! has been Jarr, will wash? Oh, where can he be?” the other aisle, where they are dem- onstrating synthetical marmalade,” Soming up e¢ thie tnayiry. Bball f coming up ai inayiry. have jae! of cople look for en, Mra. Jarr raised her voice in| alarm: i a TS OV WGLEN Coppright, 1014, by The Pree Pubtidiing Oo, (The Now York Brenig Wort), Concerning Married-Bachelors and the Love-Code. | H, dear!” sighed the Widow, putting down her embroidery and | rising to greet the Bachelor. “Men ARE such babies! How in the | world can we uver make them grow up and understand things as— ;ae WE do!” | “What have I been doing now?” demanded the Bachelor, anxiousty, } “Nothing in the world, Mr, Weatherby,” laughed the Widow. “YOU been properly trained. But there ARE other men in the world, you knew, who have not had the advantage of’—— | “Yes, I know!” hastily interrupted the Bachelor, “But I had hoped | you had forgotten it.” G | “And one of them,” continued the Widow, shaking ticr head over Ber embroidery, “is making a terrible fiasco of his life—all on my account.” } “On YOUR account? Where is he! Show him to me!” exclaimed ti Bachelor, bellicerently. “Oh, Mr. Weatherby, you are so silly!" the Widow laughed her rip. pling laugh @gain. “Not on account of ME,” she explained, carefully, “Dut ;M account of a chance remark of mine which he took seriously. Yee acknowledged, humbly. idly, “in an otherwise combination of virtues, loveliness and”——. | “And the other day,” calmly interrupted the Widow, ignoring the ; polation, “I just happened to remark that—well, that ‘flirtation ie the’ j shine of youth, which keeps the heart tender and ths emotions from be- | coming withered.’ ” J reas ata anne ae ne acne anna i Concerning Flirtations. BuUSTLES ALL AROUND ce ELL, isn’t it?” demanded the Bachelor. W “Of course it is!" agreed the Widow, “but the man fs MARRIED, | Mr. Weatherby; yet he quotes me as an authority, and declares | that henceforth he shall flirt as much as he pleases and whenever he pleases |—and his charming, delightful little wife blames ME!” i h, well,” remarked the Bachelor, soothingly, “she'd have to blame SOMEBODY. A woman neve: thinks of blaming a man for his own etme. Beat " he added, “no doubt he will allow HER the same privilege.” fo doubt he will NOT allow her the same privilege!" retorted | Widow, “and even if he did she wouldn't tal | devil can quote Scripture to suit his own purpo: | certainly twist an epigram to sult | 19 @ delightful and excellent thing. So ing a flirtation. A man in the love game, and ‘honor among flirts.’ A married man or an engaged man has no more right to flirtations than I have to Mrs. Vanderbilt's dla- monds—and he should have no more desire for them. You wouldn't play; AGAINST your partner at bridge, would you? Then why should you against your partner in marriage? No honorable man would deceive business partner. Then why does he consider it honorable to deceive his partner? Why it is that a man considers himself “honorable” if he never oheats at anything except the love game, never lies to anybody excegt @ ‘woman, and never deceives anybody except his own wife? It's a funny king of ‘honor,’ isn’t it?” “4 “But,” protested the Bachelor, groping blindly for a rejoinder, “ware uch @ gamble, you know.’ agreed the Widow waving her embroidery frame triumphaitty. “And the keeping of his wedding vows is a DEBT OF HONOR—whteh every gentleman will pay!” “THE New STYLE HAIR DRESSING } Conservation of Love. 66 © you mean to aay,” demanded the Bachelor desperately, “that D. the day @ man and woman marry, they should take the never cast a sentimental look at anybody again?” “Never—at anybody but each other,” declared the Widow firmly. “They will be kept busy enough, if they keep up the life-long flirtation one another. I once knew « man who accidentally got into a flirtation Ms own wife, after they had been married for ten years, and whe declased that all those years he had been ‘wasting his time’ on other people, ‘That is the trouble with most married people. They don’t flirt enough with ene another. To be a real success, marriage should be a continuous fiirtatien!® “Instead,” suggested the Bachelor, chuckling softly, “of a continuegs— Gissertation.” | “But that ts not the|question,” said the Widow. “The question r can I make this foolish married man who wants all the comterta ppd mony and all the privileges of bachelordom see the error of his ways? Hew can I make him realize that, in risking the love of the one woman on earth he really loves for a lot of cheap fiirtations, he is exchanging the Hope Dis- mond for a handful of cheap rhinestones? How can I make him eee that bag sesh ices ike Sooriy, Neaine at home?” . rou accepting the challenge,” suggested the Bachelor, = beg your pardon?” = ‘ou might try flirting with him, o bit,” explained the Bachelor, “aad Sian Butsne Cee: SANRRS toumer’ on Rim. T can think of no bitesrer @be, Habe meantime” unk on the wachoue CUEUN ote eanee tntreuse ME “On the whole" interrupted the Widow, puckering her brows, “t Goat Se are erat nF TRnren Gone © Daman OOnthtD on he, sal SST onan te oe ane PSE =The Week's Wash= By Martin Green * FAAAAAADAAASAAAAAAAAAAAAABAABABBASA Willie Jarr Is Still Lost In the Department Store. CHK KLE KKK KKK KE KE KEK eK EK Te ee lost and found tant suffragette. “Think of a woman giving up her lifework, her moments to cultivate herself for the cares of excessive progeny! Two. chil actually two children!” And they all Mrs. Jarr with greater won- der, and, in truth, some alarm, as though the addiction might be catch- intently. Here wan an old fashioned Mrs. Jarr. iow me another pinkier this hair ribbon for little girls?” thought it was @ little boy that strayed off,” said a sympathetic salesiady. little fel- uble in Mrs. Jarr’s if she would at- Club and talk to the “Folk Customs of the ‘Oh, tle bor? “ be he 2 m™ ld le yi Kidnapped! murmured Mrs. you sure thése print goods It was, and a, darli ever gave fhe a bit of in his life, not even when si: swered Mrs. Jarr. “For even when he had tonsilitis he was 8O brave and used to say, ‘Don't cry, mamma. If I die I will go to heaven and never see papa 1* Ob, where can he have he have gone? rem-remnant?” ‘Won't it be sold for sixty cents a yard because it IS a remnant?” “Why, she must have two children —two children!” muttered Lo} Sate. ished hearers. “The cares of such a Seeterday ten” chat Were advertised /rerribiy large family must be dread- “Fourth aisle, north,” replied the | ful!” floor ir. “ Steanvenile, if we find ‘But the hour of emancipation has the child we will check him at the!struck!” remarked a prosperous mill- “Are gt ut suppose I never she tottered off. From the stocking counter to the counter, only “poy yk or- few articles home C. O. D., went Jarr, still looking for missing Master Willie. ‘And to think I scolded him so! To k I was cross to the dear little just this morning! And now I never see him again! What would I not give to recall the harsh “Perhaps he just went around in eal my whip) close to me after this!" Jarr went searching and shopping, and candy ht anythii 4 oe, aide, find hie wagon home and tatty ite such The Paris Saleswomen By Sophie Irene Loeb. by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), “Woman's rights” and “unions” ybe,” suggested Mr, Floss, and “si are practically un-|whom she again éncountered on his ‘The everyday saleswoman rhe he is waiting for you understands meaning of | in bo: clothing department, suffrage and seemingly cares little or| where he knew you were going?” nothing about it. Her aim seems to be the sol be to get to work on time and get a goodly number of sales on her book | Ji so that she may be advanced (and the process ts slow). She must stantly practise economy, for she usually makes her own clothes and o help bear family burdens un- these conditions, Many of these large stores have daily sales conducted on the pave- ments outside, and the youn, are here found braving the as a matter of course. It was only a few weeks ago when Paris had the coldest weather in many years that & prominent individual raised a hu- man cry to compel proprietors to ep the young women indoors dur- ing the cold apoll, Therefore, comparieon, the lot of the girl behind the counter in New York is indeed much more desirabl Her chances for nt are MANY There are more opportunities, In truth, conditions for the young woman who works are infinitely bet- iy io ee Gone ot Uncle Sam than nearly large European cities, since #0 called reforms for women in the fieMi of industry are much slower in Europe. r him, but ordered Copyright, 1 ARI8—My dear girl of the shop in New York, you who are tired and wan and weary of your work— you who are unsatisfied with your wages —you who have trying customers to deal with—you who find it dim- cult to make both | ends meet - you who think the hours are so long tf you were but in Paris and could see your alster saleawoman there, then, in- deed, would you say “Things might be a great deal worse, ‘When do you think the crowds are largest in the department stores in Paris? At 6,80 o'clock, when you are robably home or well on your way. r the Parisian shops do not until 7. Patrons are served after that until they are ready to leave, Hefore the saleswoman has her accounts nettied and out of the store it is con- bly after 7, And the average siderably a! fe exernge known, portance of that Gecided by popular vote? “and it lodks as though the Beck- er case is going |- to furnish = topic for argument for many long weeks to come. Apparent- ly the second trial is already under way, since there was @ publication yesterday morning of the District-At- torney’s discovery of evidence to show that Becker used to meet two of the condemned gunmen at the Lin- coln Hotel and split up with them on the proceeds of holdups of gam- bling houses and disorderly resorts. “IE Becker 1p guilty he is a lower criminel than the men who actualy | ¥! killed Herman Rosenthal, If the against him are true he is ——— First Encyclopedia. HE first European encyclopedia ‘was probably the work of the Abulpharagius, the first volume of which was published 672 years ago, To the Chinese, however, be- long the credit for having originated the encyclopedia idea, and China boasts of having the largest of all encyclo- ‘The Great Encyclopedia of China is by far the most stupendous Mterary accomplishment in the history of the world. The work of compilation | ¢, has been carried on for centuries and "| has engaged the labors of over 2,000 echolara, The “Yung-Lo-Ta-Tien,” as the work is called, comprises over 3: 000 sections and is bound in 11,100 vol umes, each half an inch in thickness. The work contains a total of 917,480 | agall The vol when laid flat ore upon another form a stack of books 450 feet in pelen ing) are | w! young woman is not at her A Remarkable Case, ’ wine ine, : “Don't give ay all your ade vice, Bave's ie toe Zoured™ says an exchange. Why dn't it? The: 66] SEE by the papers,” maid |