The evening world. Newspaper, April 29, 1914, Page 18

NO. 19,244 A LAMENT OF LITTLE MINDS. ILL the dismal gentlemen who are beating their copper ‘he guffaws of the rest of the world, be good enough to explain? qui ebundantly able to exact respect and anything else we choose to demand. ‘a We stepped up to the deor with « promptness and precision which | el Goreigners present enthusiastically pronounced “unparalleled in » sasdezn sevords.” : We new pause tn order thet mediation proffered by other Ameri- | @mm republics may have « chanse to show Mexino « pathway to the s (Penee end boner which is all we have ever wished her. For « nation ' @oetpeng os cuss forbearance need never be shameful. _. {We-have caved the ves of brandreds of Amerteans in Mexico, » * (Tee Latin-Amesican nations, supposed to be bitterly hostile to ey Aave changed their attitude to one of friendliness end regard. The ABlsectes <f the Pan-American Union said yesterday: Cathe messages indicate almost unanimous appreval of (@e-Letin~American press of the A B. C. plan of mediation. ‘Tee consensus of their opinion seems to be that this action fe 2 many respects the most significant and far reaching event (im ho bistosy of the Amertean republics since the declaration @f the Monroe Doctrine ‘The Government of Great Britain is daily offering us the strong- (| “@ibqwests af respect and esteem, sending repeated messages of friend- yj Mimams, pootecting American refugees in Mexico, urging Huerta to ao- | @agtanediation. In these efforts Germany has also joined. x ‘The United States is now in the position of « great power staying |) Seband that © weabtr neighbor may have every chance to recover its ) @tpend make chastisement af its pretended fender unnecessary. We ‘My. Hearst t sow “hanging bis heed in shame” Some Deogress! What? ‘ 4 HE Presitient tes cent Fedesal troops te Ovloreily. They bear with them fervent hope fyom eli sections that their first and only purpose may be to enforce order and end bloodshed. The wines’ rights. It cannot wait eny longer while civil war goes on Principles eftesward. ri li i | i d if i | ge gf — i eli 4 gee g | | i , tt H it Hi el TF j CAN'T SAY TOO MUCH FOR IT. minute and e half was enough to get 8,000 children ext of s ! : | i b : é f "te the ground, 8,000 children were eafe and sound ninety seconds after the blaze was discovered. Fire prevention epecialiste tell ue the schools are fire-traps. The Board of Education retorts that it is spending money as fest as ft can get i to minimise fire hasards. Meanwhile let us miss no chance to Against the fire peril—a safeguard that costs nothing and is worth everything—the discipline of fire drill. they in turn will have respect for you. LL. een For Another Crosstewn to voloe my prot adhd barbarous, savage methods! Why doesn’t the tr child obedience and re-| New York City de id @ crosstown using | service on the west side between Fit- ty-ninth and One Hundred and BSix- teenth streets? Thousands of people for | are inconvenienced daily by its lack. This situation ought to be remedied at once, I think. LAR More Men Than We Such Is Life! #% ‘COTT had seized the “Key to Mexico” by capttelgg Vers Oras. | 5 At now remained for him to uee the key to open whe dror—ad) . Mined brows and assuring us thet the United States has eounded the depths of humiliation and become a batt for We have taken « firm stand on the threshold ef Mexico, ready | | Crus, It wes tm @ wild stretch of Mill country and seemed an ideal spot for \ Rever one shred of honor. Ha tried to deceive Taylor by sending forward @ | flag of truce at Buena Vista at the moment he was massing his troops for |@ new charge. Later he was to try a similar dirty trick on Scott. Sante ( | very muszies of Mexican battery Gordo Castle was seized—Gen. Velasq its commander, being kiNeé-—and | ita defenders rushed pell-mell down the far aide of the hi'l | ‘cowmtey can «wait to make up ite mind beat Rookefeller principles and | i | ., trem bad to-worse in o Western Steta. The daily roll of dead and! BACHELO iG 0 R i bd A man who will acknowledge that his business is a failure, his marriage MELEN ROWLAND» |. tatture and his t1te « fetture will shame the truth he will admit that his spring garden is not a brilliant eek the devil before Caggvight, 1014, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (Tho New York Evening World), EVORE marriage flattering s maa ts a mateer of art; after marriage !t ‘When a woman winds a towel around her head and calls for a pall of io @ matter of business. water it means the beginning of a “big day.” around his head and calls for water it means the end of a “big night.” When a man winds a towel ‘Theve are just three paths to a man’s heart—one through his vanity, one a through hts imagination and one straight over his obstinacy. In these days when a man explains that clroumstances have kept him away from you for the last few weeks you may safely conclude that “clr-| The first child makes a man proud, the second makes him happy, the| cumstances” can dance the new dances better than you do. | third makes him wonder and the fourth makes him hustle a Every woman marries the “Pight man.” The trouble {s that he always War ts, indeed, at! that Gen. Sherman said it was—and then some. It| turns into something entirely different afterward. A Peerage Mixup. F a now peer of Great Britain de- Fables of Everyday Folk. By Sovhie irene Loeb. core ie Yaa Gee LD AESOP tells the following The Tele-Phonograph An Instrument for Recording Every Sound on a Steel Wire ITH the perfection of the tete-phonograph, invented by Waldemar Poulson, the at Fe Danish electrical engineer, | ords have "been been used m Degine what te declared a|thousand times without exhibiting operation of the tele-phono- ie simple. One speaks into ap telephone transmitter, which is connected with id Let the reader t: two-hour wax record Moreover, the wire record is pre- 1d to picture a Rew era tn the history of eound-re- partioular fire was eon put out fs beside the point.|in fhe thing to remember is thet, though the echoothouse hed burned | Lords Grey, and five Lords Howard “In the days when animals an suse the quailty of th epoken wee y of the a clear ness that is un- ome sheep said |- to thelr master, “We do not un- derstand how it io that you give us ently gress which we can find easily for ourselves, when Hits From Sharp W: rare ere ts ipes Dts te Cee eheek wies point to the most effective eafoguard we can furnish school cbfidren |{f,' Fooord cof the sound red the transmitter. easily seperdieey | by e now connected to a telephone receiver or_an electric horn. easy oasibilities of this Courtesy should not require a man to listen toe knocker. FA ra are responsible e loafing done in the far, have failed of realisation, ‘When the original phonograph was dog upon all the good things that come from your own table. It te not fair, for we make you rich with our lambs and our wool, whilst the dog gives you nothing in return for all your argr. “hen tl log, who had been listen- ber that it is T With the tele-phonograph in- this can be eas- ily carried into effect, because a steel wire is employed inat: cylinder or disc, As mirera claim—mal TALKING NEWS! children. Respect children’s rights and | ipractice in Europe. man atops and re- under the sub- flects when he is ready to go to bed will be reminded that he the day.—Toledo nm scribers’ reproducin, eired length, it continuously spoken lal hour or longer. T! by the Poulson rec: but you must remem! event you from being jeves or devoured by wolves. I: I were not there to guard rou. you age for an|ebled to listen to ce taken up; he desires jo 80. onograph ia also de- automatically a tele- ords' phone measage when no one is at hand to receive it. There is really no hoping against hope. against fear that is meant A man who does things neith boasts of what he, “‘Legiess’” Queens. E firat woman of whom ft was) found: said that “The Queen of Spain es returned to . upon sieap share wae’ 6 Sactery. The tac-|¢or it. We ghould be singe the| worked at machines, others pasked, wi for now investe in all the Inteer Chae tn ail The Story of Our First War With Mexico By Albert Payson Terhune Copgright, 114, by Tho Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), : No. 5.—SANTA ANA AND THE BATTLE OF CERRO GORDO. ee other words, to atrike westward through to the heart ef Mexiao| and attack the capital—260 miles away. BRS. Ae eee The Mexican leader chose as bis first stand the mountain pase of Cerro Gordo, on the National road, about forty miles northwest of Vera Gefense. (As later events showed, it was not.) In @ canyon on ome, pase ran a deep river. On the other cide rose a olifflike, 3 1,000 feet high, honeycombed with fortifications and topped by the Cerro Gordo fortress. Here with his 13,000 men Santa Ana lay for Soott. The latter was marching toward the pass with an army of 0,600. ‘The American advance guard, under Gen. Twigg, reached Cerro Goris om April 18, 1847. The main army came up on the 14th. Soott spent the 0 next four days in arranging his plan for attacking ” thie seemingly impregnable position. It was ® [Re ceeerete @plendid plan and one that worked out to perfeos “Patrlot-Tralter.” } tion in every detail. ; | | Cer | Santa Ane was equally busy during these four Gaye in atrengthening his defenses. This wily titue ; Mexican leader was one of the strangest and most interesting characters in, Ristory. He was @ genius and a dunce, a patriot and a traitor, a hero and & coward. Not @ man of bad morals. Simply a man of no morals at all, All the conflicting qualities he displayed again and again in his long, stormy bh career. ‘ Four times was Santa Ana elected President—really dictator—of Mexioe, and twice re-elected. Several times he was branded as a traitor and fores@ into banishment. More than once he saved Mexico. More than oncehe« plotted to destroy it. Old Staten Islanders may remember him (for during | one of his banishments he lived for a time on Staten Isinnd), a swarthy , | Mittbe, wixened, one-legged man who was daft about cock-firhting. military honers, In warfare he sometimes showed great brilliancy, sometimes crass stupidity, Ana announced to the Mexican people, by the way, that his army had wi @ grand victory at Buena Vista. And to celebrate it he caused Te Deu: to be sung at all the cathedrals. e Scott ordered a general assault upon Cerro Gordo on April 18. And a& / once it was aeen how foolish Santa Ana had been in choosing auch a spot, | for defense. For the ground was too steep for the Mexican cavalry—by far? | / the best branch of Santa army—to manoeuvre, And the broken end wooded nature of the hills afforded fine cover for the Americans. Protected * by rocks and trees, they were often able to advance, uninjured up to the Scott stormed Santa Ana's defenses one after another, in a few hours \ iving the enemy in panic from the last of their forts, The cavalry, which . Mexican retreat, were the first to run y. Corre } { In a crazy stampede that choked the roads the Mexican army fled. 1 i—= | Santa Ana entered a travelling carriage and started away at a dead ron. Smashing the one of the mules that drew the vehicle, cut the First Obstacle. traces and galloped off toward Jalapa, on the road “ to Mexico City. ‘The pursuing Americans found hin deserted i he wan spilled out, He scrambled to the back of u | carriage, In it they discovered Santa Ana’s dress uniform. all his official AAPAAAABARABBIABAIAAAAAAAAABAAADAS eore money-cheat containing $16,000, hia wooden Ieg (that he hed nae Every Woman Marries the Right Man; Then He Turns Into Somethin cere rerer rer rr rere rere ree ee oF oF we 96 oF oF oF | takes up most of the fashion sheet in the newspapers, increases the husband | famine and starts a lot of new “military” sartorial fads that women would | otherwise never have thought of. . | ‘The carriage upsct on the rocky hillside road aad i to strap on) and—a pair Of the army of 12,000 Mexicans 8, tiny white entin slippers! j 000 eseaned with Santa Ana: 1,000 were | killed or wounded and 3,000 were captured and released on parole. The Different | American loss in killed and wounded was 431. Scott captured, moreover, forty-three big bronze cannon that had been imported from Spain, 6,000 etands of arms and several wagon traina laden with munitions of war, The first obatacle on the road to the capita! had been broken dorm and Americans haste! on eagerly toward tho n The May Manton Fashions HE blouse with & yoke Is to ber § much wore thir spring and this one also includes the new rolling collar ana/ vestee that makes ayy” Important feature, It is very attractive and very charming ond can be made from a great many different materials, yet, at the same for one man. He/t! little more smatter- ‘So you think the tn ing” than the oth: easy and is im they looked up to him spokesman. In reality he was oi the s.. man often looked to Th if eeer’s doo and tonsa what ® 1o '@ orders an Ret dl out. Thi boss also thin him, and good time and spoke to them something lke this: “Brothers, we ought not for this show fant ait rere tan