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meee < ye “ ope «Che SAorid: * ‘ FSTABLISHHD BY eas 2 PULITZER. ma RO Except bt , Noa. vm NAN New. Rew Yoru, Compeny *; ¥ LaITZ President, 63 Rew. seat A es TTR how. hi a New York as Becondd?ass Matter. pertption Rates to ‘The ‘vening] Yor Pnelana amd the Continent and ae, for the United @tmtes ‘All Countries tm the International ASG and Canada. Postal Union. + $3.50] One Year. + B01One Month oR. eee eee eee sbeceeeeeee NO. 19,279 OUR FUTILE CORONERS. ORE ructions in the Board of Coroners call public attention anew to the murty state of this dark and dreary corner of the county service. je over questions of who is subordinate to whom, who to be called “Mister” or who controis the postage siamps Gf interest only as they show the absurd depthe of futility to which t e department hus sunk. p, An this big city Coroners are a kind of pitiful eurvival—powerless! the anybody to do anything, doing nothing themeelves that Sf better equipped departments could not accomplish more eco- lly, confusing and complicating elections, resolving their office back-oddy of patronage and petty graft. SeBleven Coroners with their separate establishments end clerks Me Verions boroughs cost New York about $170,000 a year. The ‘Ballot Organisation has for some time proposed to cut out the @ by abolishing the Ucroners and eubstituting « Chief Medical 8 + who would be responsible to the Mayor, and who, with a of expert assistants, could perform for the entire city all the tions of Coroner eave those of s judicial nature, which latter Ad devolve upon the regular City Magistrates. es im a epecialised, up-to-date municipality are as anti- : oh ee wige—and ecarcely more efficient. Why n One of Huerta’s public prints pats the Niagara Conference yee the back and declares that “honor and dignity will be orp? yp PHREE-CENT FERRY FARE NEARER. HE edmpaign to reduce ferry fates from five to three cents om the Fort Lee Ferry, which links northern Manhattan with ™ Now Jersey, ts pushing on to victory. | The Bergen County Board of Freeholders, which eome weeks jpat aside a proposal to lower rates, now yields to public demand, pene the question end appeints « public hearing for June 15 next. j Not in vain have The Evening World and the “fighting Mayors” Best Bergen County Improvement Association steadily ham- red at all resistance to the plan. The Board of Freeholders is Fanzious to have it understood thet it has never gone on record “@pposed to reduction. | People who live in upper Manhattan and in the epick and epan i. to have cheaper ferriage. To business on this side of the and to the development of the attractive country on the other, rated mean much. = It is estimated that the proposed three-cent rate would secure a of $10,000 a month to people who travel by the ferry between Bergen Board of Freeholders do ite part by promptly using its ® to order lower farcs and thereby shorten the time that must before the public can begin to benefit. oe eee tee . The voung woman who only more or less sertously injured four persons in the course of her trial trip at the steering | wheel of her new motor ear should mot be judged too hastily ge, With 0 little more practice maybe she'll achieve a few real Domicides, 4 ——————+4-o—————— “SAFE AND SANE” FOR KEEPS. O MUCH 0 matter of course has a “safe and sane Fourth” be- come for New York that the Committee of Two Hundred and * Witty which the Mayor appointed this week to arrange for month’s celebration will find it easy to go ahead with their » Five years ago it would have been necessary to labor with the blic to persuade it that cannon crackers and pistola were not an tial part of the Fourth’s festivities, A few yoate’ experience Mas made all the difference. New Yorkers already regard the old iyle pandemonium as a lurid memory of the past and look forward nts, folk-dances, sports, {lluminations and music as the most ga in the world to make the Fourth inspiring and en- long lists of fires, explosions, deaths, burns and mutilations 3 to fill the newspapers of July 5 have disappeared forever. eir place we have stories of the millions to whom the holiday - fe sa plenty of harmless excitement. ‘ew York already leads the country in the i Fourth of July por Sl 4 £4 Sg eee da also in the quality of the parades, out-of-door games, electric 5 ys and good music—particularly the latter—in which New [Yorkers have learned to delight. a ot Vanitie Beats Resolute.—Headline, What's in a name? etters From the People jashed Mrie Train Win@ews. jor lack of water in m care’ so Kattor of The Evening World: ice water tanks or the simset total te clow4y Weather on the Erle phesnee of drinking cups or the fact ya, 1 peter e@pecially to itn ti ee + afd Ite Greenwood | about a dosen sea' card branche, thor I_ have (before the card players arriy, same conditions on other | forcing other Daeeengers to double Tho car Windows have| up or seek other cars), or that trains for the most part,|not only are apt to leave the way and | stations and that the; tas Sw Jétety towne ecrovs the Hudeon stand together in their determi-| —. }Hundred and Twenty-ninth street and Edgewater. Wiy doesn’t ” attacks the one who happens to get over it first, The Logarithm Man. Bcotch mathematician, who died fa years ago, This year marks the fer- No. 17—ON THE UNITY OF centenary of logarithms, as it wae tn 1614 that Napier announced his inven- tion. “Legarithm” ts a mathematical term, the logarithm of a number be- ing the exponent of the power to which it is necessary to raise a fixed number, called the base, to p : ber. Napier’s system the aot immense vanes ‘ anno. 1 problems, since = Feet ent} had previously been the labor of months to a few days. The ublication of Napier's work In 1614 created a sensation in the aclentific The Committee has only to see that | %°"™ men who quickly weary in wail doing never seem to tire in the pureuit of Inquirer, 1 says with some people Ly i, aaah their own minds Is not @ lib- eral education. Commercial Appeal, ee ccess breeds suspicion in small mints ‘of unsuccessful persons. en on some of seine get graft by “doubling lovee’ The loafer ts for Players| pusy man's thus | pis boredom. No friends ie nor a@ good as y have ne ni left one way | Toauirer. Such Is Life! BACHELOR C0 Rho bes Caperight, 1014, by The Peus Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). raises his eyebrows. Love may have its imitations, but there is no limit to the ennu! that ‘The fool who rocks the cance is an angel of wisdom and mercy beside No, Algernon, it is not a sign that a girl ie awfully noble and generous! suprises. HE first to make use of loga- rithms in solving mathematical problems was John Napier, & juce valuable can be lost by taking time. esses good reason for precipitate action, pleasure.—Philedelphia e ° ° will be by the better angels of our nation, your neighbor who find out whether who encroaches on a ime charges usury for war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills t! the weoun pee by the bondman’s two hundred and think imeelf thinks be is—Philadelphia eee respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband end wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the dif- ferent parts of our country cannot do this, Buppore you go to war; you cannot fight always, and when, after much loas on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. My country- men, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that) object will be frustrated by taking time. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right aide in the dispute, there still is no aingle Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and @ firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land ure etill competent to adjust in the beat way all our present difficulty. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefeld and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthatone all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they But in a larger sense we cannet dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we ry cannot hallow this ground, The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It ts for the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause is for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth. Fondly 4o we hope, fervently do we pray that this mighty scourge of hat it continue until all a Lottery, With One ‘ The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday. Tune MR PESSIMIST. OFFICE NSorA Marriage Is Prize’ To Just About a Million Surprises. Wit, Wisdom and Philosophy {| | Betty Vincent's By Famous Authors A PEOPLE, by Abraham Lincoln| The Vacation Girl. [P Fee speaking, we cannot separate, we cannot remove our Advice Delled to forego havior. priety. with them?" LECT RH HR IAMPEIEA TRIE OX IRIR MORTRT BIIE RMIT RTI R IE EATEN when she tells you how fascinating another girl is; it is merely a eign that she is awfully indifferent. If o man would etick to hia wife as he does to his favorite brand of HELEN ROWLAND tobaceo, there would be no need for an alimony bureau. The pain a man endures when he listens to his wife trying to repeat ho| ® good joke is as nothing to the agony a woman endures when she listens BEWARE of the woman who lowers her eyes, and of the man who te ue baa teying to a he the clothes cps fsvgiing ‘When a man has drained the dregs of the wine of life, he refuses to| continental line until 1883, when three think of marrying a woman who has even looked at the bagbles. It {8 a woman's privilege to change her mind; but man fs perfectly the fool who rocks the boat of matrimony, by starting the first quarrel, | satisfied if he can reserve the right to change his heart occasionally. f ret fiirtatior the firet deception,’ or the ai tal Marriage fs a lottery, in which there is about one prise to a million to Lovers moved from home influences for periods of @ week or more. Just as I ain- cerely hope that Ro one of my readers will be com- a holiday, ao I trust that no one will lower his or her standard of conduct during the yearly sojourn among strangers. One can have a good time without debasing one’s ideals, without doing and saying things one Is bound to think of regretfully later on. Being out of sight of CG tives is no excuse for license of be- bors and rela- A_ vacation fro: shouldn't mean a vacation fom ore woman, and we little 4 of her, but I love her dear! : jer not to with me, for fear f it not teat ine ler peo will not treat her Shall I let her do this, caus! a ie ° ing her to ‘peoplé, or leave her eooner the two o¢ = away from fam! ° 5 Pe a Ae 3... 1 914 Copsright, 1014, by The [rem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Workd), No. 3.—SAM HOUSTON’S STRANGE LOVE AFFAIR, ‘HIS {9 the story of oné of the strangest, most dramatic love af- fairs in history. its hero was Sam Houston, the Virginians who emigrated in childhood to the Tennessee wilderness, At eighteen Houston, who was even then a giant In else itrength, quarrelled with his family and went to live among the In- jdians. He came back to civilization in time to win fame as a soldier in ; the war of 1812. Then he studied law, and in the next few years held one high office after another. In 1827, when he was only thirty-Gve, he was elected Governor of Tennessee, A wonderful political future atretehed out before him. Then it was that he fell in love. Up to thirty-five Houston had never looked a second time a¢ any woman. He had led pn adventurous outdoor life and had had scant op- I portunity to cultivate the art of love-making. But when he became Gov- eraor of Tennessee this rough man of forests and prairies was forced to come into contact for the first time with anything like social life. He bore himeelf well in his new surroundings, and many a girl is sald to have lost her heart to the handsome giant. But he remained blind to their adoration end was wholly indifferent to feminine charms until, in 1838, he chanced to meet Bisa Allen, daughter of a Sumner County politician, Eliza was graceful, slender and very pretty. Shé ‘was well educated, came of good family and was a local belle. Houston fell madly in love with her, and after @ whirlwind courtship he won her. They were married in January, 1829. Eliza queened it at the Executive Mansion asd was the central figure of all the Tennessee capital's gayeties. Houston was absurdly happy and took no patina to hide his bliss. It was freely prophesied that he would soon be went te the United States Senate. Indeed, through his friend Andrew Jackson's aid, the path to the White House itself seemed to stretch fairly before him, Elisa had made a splendid match, from a worldly point of view. Then, barely three months after the marriage, came Itke a thunderbolt the news that Houston and his bride were about to separate. Neither would deny the report. And neither, to the day of death, would speak one word to explain the mystery. The chivalrous Southwesternere were furious at Houston for the {m- plied stur his action cast on Eliza’s good name. There were countless threats to lynch him. His boundless popularity collapsed. Friends came to him and begged him, for his own sake, to explain the situation. Houston | made the following brief statement: “My wife will return to her father; while I must make my way alone. She will not complain of me, nor shal! I complain of her. It is no one's business but our own. {neult which I shall punish with my own hands.” Houston resigned his Governorship and, that same night, vanished. For a long time no ene knew what had become of him. Then it was learned that he had gone back to the wilderness and was again living among the Indians, Also that he was degenerating into a common drunkard. throws away one of the brightest careers in American history for a But he Was too great to remain in drunken seclusion. At last, news came to him of the Texans’ seemingly hopeless struggie Mexico. Houston threw in his lot with the Texans. Under his leaderehip they thraghed the Mexicans, freed Texas and made it a republic with Sam Houston as ite first President. But Houston had no personal ambitions; and he was not content unti! he had caused Texas to be annexed to our eountry. Perhaps, thus, we owe Texas (and the Mexican war) indirectly to Allen. eager maiflowellyeatol ow pmazatfperpeoabioe peek goby corerigg, Mad I ing and had left bie home and his high taking himeectf wholly out of Elisa‘s life and bearing without contradictien the vile rumors that were circulated concerning him. See a ease, MEnOEnA Whiche groninées Ge cove not appeectatwtse ‘wrecked @areer for her sake) secured a divorce on the groun@ of abandonment and married Dougiass. The First “Through” Railroad. @ first through transcontinental , New Orleans to California, the Morth- railroad, the Union Pacific, was’ ce eeene was soos from completed forty-five years ago, sere Washington Puss affording rail connection between the drag gel aptegencmran ha ag ee East and the rapidly growing com |a fo! road of steel across the con- munities of the Pacific slope. The|tinent. In the mean time, the first Union Pactfic was the only trans- rival lines entered into competition for the trate and opened up much new country. In that year the South- ern Pacific linked up its line from ‘service from