The evening world. Newspaper, July 10, 1914, Page 12

Sve Esa siorld. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Dally Except Sun by the Presa Publishing Company, Noa. 58 te tN Row. New Yorke ART UN ATA rrenrieen tes Park Row, JOSEP! ey yo Sooret y. 8 Bark Row. H PULITZER, Jr. Entered at the Post-Offi New York as Second-Class Matter. | @ubecrip t ne Hvening| For England and the tinged, and T All Countries in the International THE FREE PASS EVIL. F THE 34,000 free passes issued by two railroade—the Louis- ville and Nashville and the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. < Louis—note that more than 20,000 went to State Senators, " Btate Representatives and other State officials. % The Interstate Commerce Commission, reporting to the Senate the resulte of its investigation of these two corporations, declares of ‘Sthe manner in which these carriers have dipped into practically every 7 @emain of public and private life through the instrumentality of the ‘fave pan” ! ‘There is scarcely a wafk of life which is not represented fe this procession of recipients of passes, from the Federal bench to the local politician and the sheriff who summons the jury. Just the same, men whose walks led them into chambers where @tate laws are made got « big majority of the favors. The public P bearas nothing new in hearing how a powerful railroad goes to work bo annex a Legislature and run a State. ‘The process is better un- } Gerstood and more widely discredited to-day than ever before in the history of the country. ‘The threads represented by these passes tie thousands of @itisens to the carrier through improper relations. The luck of morality reflected by the facts @ compiled is a menace to 5 the institutions of a free people. 3 If the Interstate Commerce Commission will feel its way to a | gemerel order dealing with this practice it can rid the nation of an old | end insidious growth. = —_— 4 -—__<__ Gould railroad stocks slumped to the lowest point in their | higtory—which contains.some precarious chapters. The wages of one kind of sin is debt. ——— 4 RIOTS ON THE ISLAND. % T': serious outbreaks in Blackwell’s Island Penitentiary this week, in the course of which unruly prisoners assaulted their keepers and set fire to the shops, are thought to have been 2 ‘ane to recept activity on the part of the authorities in investigating the traffic in drugs. The uprising had a leader and this was not the first time the ) ame leader has led the prisoners in disorderly demonstrations. = Depaty Commissioner Lewis is said to believe the mutiny proves that > @ome strong influence outside the prison is trying to spread revolt The Evening World Daily Magazine, Such Is Life! ¥% ‘gmong the prisoners. We insist more and more that men behind bars muat be treated ‘Bike human beings. We recognize our duty toward them to the extent ef protecting them from overcrowding and filth and from unprin- = gipled traffickers who seek to exploit their vices. But what about protecting them against evil councils and com- ty @esications from outside? Aren’t there too many speak-holes in ) Rho wall? 2 g Bitter-experience-mazim No. 1318: A record wheat crop “J outs no prices. en a THE SAME LAW FOR ALL. : D* his protest that as a public official he had a right to break the law, the chief of the Secretary of State’s bureau for the regulation of automobiles was fined $25 in the West © Farms Court yesterday for speeding. ¢ 5 Which reminds us that a chauffeur who drives for Collector of | the Port Malone tried to convince a policeman the other evening that i ‘Bs employer's high office conferred the privilege of ignoring traffic ' vales. The chauffeur landed in the Night Court. But a whisper | from Mr. Malone in the Magistrate's ear secured the prisoner's dis- | eharge. Why it should have done so, we do not know. >, eMagistrate House was right when, in imposing a fine upon the Y Btate auto official, he declared: “Too many officials of the State and eity think that holding office makes it all right for them to break / the law. Such an offense by an official is more grave than by the - ordinary citizen.” aa The public is abundantly favored with precept. To whom shall it look for example? Evening World Travelogues— Yellowstone National Park Copyright, 1914, by The Prem Publish ing Co, (The New York Evening World), m. mulphur fumes; . ¥T ts forty-three miles from Swan ee ien Lake to the Upper Geyser Basiu, the next stopping place. ‘There are three rivers for company on this drive. The first is Obsidian Creek, which gets its name from the mountain of volcanic glass which is ‘one of the curiosities of the trip. Both Gibbon and Firehole Rive: Ihave beautiful rapids and falls, and show the chief characteristic of all Yellowstone rivere—the tendency to rush headlong down stream, while at the game time rebellious little waves des) tely to clamber back. re ole is @o named because of the innumerable hot springs in its bed; in spite of the cold Seis acre keep the stones’ below hot. Near by the roadway are the Twin BS. Small ponds separated |largest In the park, but now extinet Takes. Sgt Ae aera; |The crater is twenty feot Geen and yet one oy @ narrow strip of ground; t gets its color from the n area of 330 by 200 feet, In its fing sky while the other threw a col- ; blue, in in diaineter ly the legend of the Fire God from some such phenomona as Mountain, that great gray and the ghost); - {te gray skeleto; F va ifting of the winds re- ‘ater, a brilliant blue. r all im the roar of a gey: rd Daa which senda forth a jag column of steam an threaten to blow the whole mous’ be aide into eternity, @ road winds in and out be: pine covered mountains. ek en among the trees the steam from hid. Tises like the smoke of camp fires, strangest sights is the Pi ote There 18 one large cir- cular pool filled with wha ewes Hoot Alled hat resembles: Around It are sm. ‘ser in blind- umn of water fift to the height of 250 feet, A short distance to the west is Prismatic Lake, but the crust around it sounds hollow and looks treacher- . So the cautious will be satisfied Straight From The Shoulder Yockfereaing Wore). = Your Word. ORTUNATE is the young man of whom his acquaintances can “His word is as good -" For it means two thin First, on the surface, that his friends know that he will keep a promise. | Second, and of deeper significance, | that he is destined to be looked upon) in the business world as a man to be safely entrusted with affairs of moment which can be given over only to the trustworthy. it is a mighty goud idea for a young man to deliberately set about building up such a reputation, He must employ a dual method. First, he must be careful never to promise lightly that of which fulfil- ment seoms unlikely or even shrouded in doubt. Botter, in such @ case, to quality rather than give an absolute promise, Better by far to say “I will try” than “T will.” But, when fulfillment seems highly probab's—seems within the weight uf reason—seems within actual reach, then, with promise given, no stone should be left unturned until your word is kept, Mal» it u habit, even though your promises concern things apparently of little moment. For |: ta by the rep- uta‘ion vo gain in the little th'ol4 that we are lifted into the opportuni- tie. to perform greater things. In short, be “a man of your word.” It pays. Hits From Sharp Win. ‘The best argument against interfor- ence is that it doesn’t pay. ee Some men do a lot of talking about | the lot of talking that they say wom- en do.—Albeny Journal. oe. Never put off until to-morrow what you can get somebody else to do for you to-day,—Hoston ‘Transcript. ee When a man seos a fellow starting down hill it isn't necessary for every one to Kive him a kick.—Knoxville| Journal and Tribune. | oe “1m in favor of an eight-hour da: remarked €he man on the car, “for everybody minding his own business.” —Toledo Blade, ‘ ‘The devil fooled Eve with an apple, | but it takes a “peach” to floor a man. —Commercial Appeal, ee Fellow that has nothing to learn misges Bo many interesting things as they happen.-Pittsburgh Sun, oe 8 There ts no good defense against iW oF Yoursect ! O, GO ON, PUTON ‘Your, BATHING SuIT AND STOP BEING SHockeD Wit, Wisdom and Philosophy —(By Famous Authors)—— 28.—THOUGHTS. By Blaise Pascal. © think we are playing upon ordinary organs when we play upon men, Men are organs, indeed, but fantastic, changeable and vari- ous, with pipes not arranged in due succession. Those who understand only how to play upon ordinary organs make no harmonies on these. When we are too young 2ur judgment ts at fault; #0, also, when we are | too old. If we take not thought enough or too much on any matter we are obstinate and infatuated. It is not well to be too much at liberty. It is not well to have all we want. ‘The strength of a man's virtue must not. be measured by his occasional | efforts, but by his ordinary life. ‘The counsel given to Pyrrhus to take the rest, of which he was going in search through eo many labors, was full of difficulties, Caesar, ap it seems to me, waa too old to set about amusing himself with the conquest of the world. Such a pastime was good for Augustus or Alexander, who were still young men—and these are difficult to restrain— but Caesar should have been more mature. Btrife alone pleases us and not the victory. We like to see beasts fight. ing, not the victor furious with the vanquished; we wish only to see the victorious end, and as soon as it comes we are surfeited. It is the aame in play and in the search for truth. In all disputes we like to see the clash of opinions, but care not at all to contemplate truth when found. If we are to see truth with pleasure we must see it arise out of conflict, Do we follow the majority because they have reason? No; hut because they have more power, The average man is prone to shout with the larger crowd, The way of the majority ls the best way, because it 1s plain and has power to make itself obeyed; yet it is the opinion of the least able. It is necessary that men should be unequal. Truc; but, that being! granted, the door is open not only to the greatest domination but to the| greatest tyranny. Good birth is a great advantage, that it gives a man a chance at the| age of eighteen; making him known and respected as an ordinary man is, on his merits, at fifty. Here are thirty years gained at a stroke, Men of unruly lives assert that they who are orderly stray away from her paths; as passengers in @ ship think that those move who stand upon a shore. Both sides say the same thing, There must be a fixed point to enable us to judge. The harbor decides the question for those Who are in the vessel, but where can we find the harbor on morals? follow Nature, while those Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers | D™” make| S12 make any sacrifice to keep tt g004, a promise A P it you tee:| Parental Objections. doubtful of your) aq pw : . writ I am eightee ability to keep It. 'in love with a man two venta vies Nothing so|than myself, but we have to keep it Nunta; Anal’ ear secret on account ot his parents’ ob- jections, He says he cannot gain t! noys @ person of! consent to our marriage, and oer fine sensibilities! he {s in their company and meets me as to have al|he barely notices me. Is it wise to friend promise Continue this secret affair?” something and then “fall down.” And if the un- ‘Then he will be of age, and If you na both of the same mind his people can- not Interfere with his attentions to ridicule, o with gazing at the stream which rises from this, the lar, abso- | water ii west body of hot the park, < ears CS Baye y 7, oni cae pnmreysee mip Sinn anim should al ectizel of Feacar—ditany Jounal, Fault-finding should begin with] unconditional vow, the situation would Why don't you and the young man faithful one had only said “I will do stop seeing cach other fur a year you. this if T can,” inatead of making an “W. R." writes: ‘Is it proper for ® young lady to go on @ vacation Friday, Ba By Maurice Ketten July 10,.1914. \. The Love Stories Of Great Americans By Albert Payson Terhune Coprright, 1914, by The Press Publish ing Oo, (The New York Evening World), NO. 18.—WASHINGTON IRVING’S LOST LOVE. NE day in 1784, as George Washington was crossing Bowling Green —tavorite pleasure ground of old New York's 23,000 inhabitants— &@ nureemaid halted in front of him, Flushing at her own audacity in @aring to address so great a man, she held up for ‘his notice @ year-old child, and stammered: “Your Excellency, here is a baby that | was named for you. I thought maybe you'd be pleased to know you have | euch a pretty namesake. He's Mr. Irving's little boy.” | Overcome by embarrassment, she was backing away, when Washington stepped forward and gently took the baby from her arms. Smiling down at the youngster, the Father of His Country kissed him lightly on the fore | head; and then solemnly biessed him and handed him back to the delighted | nurse. Some years afterward, Washington Irving was to write the best of the many biographies of George Washington. And all his life he loved to | tell the story of his first meeting with America’s supreme hero. | Irving was the first literary man to make America famous in Burope; ABSOLUTELY INDECENT } my delight.” }to make England understand that her former colonists could write as well as fight and that we were not @ nation of illiterate boors. usually sneered at all things American, said of him: Byron, who ‘Irving's writings are And Thackeray wrote, in graceful tribute: “Irving was the first ambassador sent by the new world to the old.” Yet the man who was to lay the foundation stone of our literary ‘fame never went to school after he was sixteen. as did both his brothers, he decided to study law. to his first and only love affair. Instead of going to college, And that decision led Irving entered the office of a celebrated lawyer named Hoffman, (it was before the days of law schools and budding lawyers were forced to learn their profession from older men in whose offices they worked.) Soon afterward Irving was invited to dine at Mr. Hoffman's house. There he met his host's daughter, Matilda, a girl of about That first visit was followed by many other: age. And within a few weeks the two young people were deeply in love with each other. ards. They were very young—mere children, according to our modern stand- But a century ago children grew early into maturity. married at fifteen with her parents’ full consent. eighteen or less took on himself the burden of marital life. Many a girl And many a boy of Living was cheap. People worked hard. And youth's period of playtime and develop- ment was cut cruelly short. So it was not considered unusual that Irving and Matilda Hoffman should become engaged at seventeen, But it promised to be a drearily long engagement. studying law. Though he had already begun to write, The boy was still it his iiterary work had not yet begun to pay. He was meeting, in boyhood, a problem that is usually reserved for older me: | to ajsum on which he could marry. ‘how to increase an income of nothing a year le was too proud to let a rich father-in-law support him. So he sought to solve the problem by working day and night. for him in @ shorter, grimmer way. But Providence solved it Matilda fell ill and died. It was a boyish grief, and one from which Irving might naturally have been expected to rally within a few sixty years lator, he never got over that one crushing sorrow. married. He never loved another woman. one memory. He never spoke his dead sweetheart’s name. his only mementoes months. But until his death, nearly He never He remained all his life true ‘ot! ows But he carried everywhere of the girl he loved—her Bible and her prayer book. And they were under his pillow every night of his life, Fame and wealth came to him, but never love, a: half century after Matilda's death Irving was one of @ jolly party at the Hoffman home. By chance some- one opened the drawer of a eabinet, revealing a bit of faded embroidery. work.” “Look, Washington,” said old Mr. Hoffman; “that is a piece of Matilda's Irving turned deathly pale, rose to his feet without a word and left the house. The only reference ‘ivate notebook after his death, wer made to his lost love wr.: found in On its first page he had written: ‘She died in the beauty of her youth. And in my memory she will ever be young and beautiful.” { When Jcalousy Is Your Master By Sophie Irene Loeb, ttahiag Oo, Comorais, 1814, Vier evenine Wor World), EVERAL mysterious crimes hsve been reported within the last few weeks and attributed to “the greenieyed mon- ster—jealousy” — ‘he one buman element that has caused more dis- tress and disas- ter than any other. An’ some say ‘tis mighty crool, Saya the Shan Van Vocht. There's a din around our ears An’ it gives us an’ fears— ‘Tis the rival volunteers, Says the Shan Van Vocht. Long ago in ‘82, Says the Shan Van Vocht, ‘There were men to dare an’ do, Says the Shan Van Vocht. Men who heeded Grattan's call, When Dungannon’s echoing hall Home Rule in Sight ...... 2 Copyright, 1916, by The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), CH! they're goin’ to have Home| Saw a bleeding counthry's thrall, Says the Shan Van Vocht. Says the Shan Van Vockt.|Och, these politicians thrade, Says the Shan They don't call a Says the Shan We've had pathriots fore an’ aft, Workin’ chiefly for the graft, While the dacent people laughed— Says the Shan Van Vocht. i An’ what color will they wear? Says the Shan Van Vocht. An’ what will they grin an’ bear? Says the Shan Van Vocht. Tf old Ireland must be free From the centre of the sea— ‘Tis the politicians’ spree, Says the Shan Van Vecht. w It is the one seed that, if al- lowed to take root, everlasting- ly grows the Dead Sea frult of re- venge, and with it the despair that always comes. Jealousy never brought any one any- thing but heartbreak and misery, Of all tho crusades against the drink habit, the “dope” habit and various forms of excess, there is none fo necessary as that against Jealousy. ‘There was a woman whose hus- band’s profession made it necessary for him constantly to meet women patients, Just think of this woman, through something she has acciden- tally discovered, allowing Jealousy to enter into her makeup and constantly canker until she Is driven to misery, ‘Think of the anxiety and the worm- ing process that finally brought her to become a apy, She went so far as to install a dictograph that she might be able to discover the truth or folly of her fears. She must listen, she must KNOW, she must SATISFY her wildest im- aginations. And to what end? Where the good? How many such cases might be etraightened out and end- less hours of torture averted by « plain, honest, heart-to-heart talk? They speak of @ woman as being “proud” and “suffering in silence,” They say that “All's fair in love and war"—even to the point of a refined, sensitive woman assuming the role of py: ‘Whether this 1s right or wrong is not the important question, Whether it was justified, the everyday human judges decide in various ways, But the one fact remains: that a tforward accounting between Clete and wifo is the only thing Pattern No. 8335—Chemisette, 34 or 36, Medium 38 or 42 or 44 inches bust measure. } The May Manton Fas Guimpe and Collar, Smal ) Large 42 or 44 B wide. Pattern No. 8236 {8 cut in three sizes, small 34 or 36, medium 38 or 40, large Call at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION BUREAU, Donald Building, 100 West Thirty-second street (oppo- site Gimbel Bros), corner Sixth avenue and Thirty-second street, New York, or sent by mall on receipt of ten cents in colm or stampe for each pattern ordered. 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Read, be- ome interested in other people, There is always SOME way to for- it, or at least to let the wound only you will put fora the aoet Crush jealousy, Shut it out, Wary Rest thing vou gen Go, sisaze ee had to ts something i i ?