The evening world. Newspaper, September 7, 1914, Page 8

The Evening World' Daily Magazine, Monday. September 7.%1914 Coprnatt, 1916, by The Prom P (The New York Breuing Ey, cori. Gbe ABLISHED ob ERIE Fiat Ta hoe. ‘“HHoly War.” 3 at® By SecondClass Matter. ting! or ingtand ‘and the Continent and All Countries in the International } Postal Union i seveeeeeseeeeees NO, 19,376 - THE LAST PASSENGER PIGEON. A escsses et that the last wild American pigeon known to ecience died in captivity at the Zoological.Garden of Cin- g@anati on Sept. 1 should not pass unnoticed even in these Gaga when the lest European soldier known to war lords is in danger ‘Of dying in his turn, The beautiful bird called by the vulgar a wild pigeon, but spoken | * ef respectfully by men of science as Ectopistes Migrarius, was one of _ the wonders of carly America, and down to a time within the memory ef mon now living was & fruitful source of stories as lovely as his Plamage and of guesses wilder than his flight. | Mayne Reid wrote a story about a number of men passing the | | @atumn in « country house up the Hudson who divided one day into z parties and laid a wager as to which would kill the largest number Sef wild pigeons before sundown. The victors won the contest accord- to Mr. Reid by going over to West Point and borrowing a how- per, which they loaded with birdshot, and were’ thus enabled to kill Several thousand at a lick. ~The story will raise a smile, but the fact that Alexander Wilson, the ornithologist, estimated a single flock of wild pigeons which he p Gace saw at 2,230 millions will change the smile to a gusp of amaze- ment. This feoling in turn must give way to one of faith when it is ‘ led that a French traveller, Baron de la Hontan, reports that | of wild pigeons devastating the crops around Montreal were at “@ne time so immense and innumerable and indestructible by ordinary /@aeans that the Bishop was constrained to exorcise them with holy "Water as if they had been demons. : Therefore, while we may lament in sentiment the passing of the | ‘Neat passenger pigeon, we have good cause to rejoice that nature did | Rot fit him to adapt himsel? to «‘vilization and stay with us like the _ grasshopper. ma 2: A TAX OF MUCH POTENCY. ORRIED into wisdom and into action by the fact that his townemen talked so much about war and hard times as to prevent the raising of a desired fund for a local business the Mayor of Barwick, Ga., has procured the enactment of Ordinance that any one convicted of talking of hard times or dis- ing the war in public shall be fined $25; the fines to be used to form a fund for advertising the town. + A tex of this kind in a small town is of little moment. The | ¥ery announcement of it will probably give the town more free adver- WY tising than the fines could ever pay for. But enforced throughout Ration it would have wonderful possibilitics. In making up the mew echedules for the war tay Congress might well take it into con- sideration. ‘ogy FAAAAAABAAABBADBS: WORDS BETWEEN FRIENDS. ECRETARY DANIELS hos conferred a favor upon the public} Sp and benefited history by telling the story how Sccretary Bryan, ye in discussing with the Japanese Ambassador one of the diplo- , issues between Japan and the United States, met the Ambas- "@ question, “1s this the last word?” with the prompt reply: » there can never be a last word between friends.” _|. The whole history of diplomacy will pave to be searched long | well to find a finer or happier phrase than that. Mogkers at ; juice diplomacy and Chantauqua statesmanship may say what | Mey will, but this phrase will live as an expression of Americanism in tional relations eo long as diplomacy exists at all. a \_ Well would it have been for Europe a few week ago if in Austria of Germany there had heen & Secretary of State who, instead of an wae could have assured Sezvia or Russia or Belgium or Great | ¢ ain ihat there could be no last word. Long talk is tiresome, but it dora not fatigne like war ‘IMPROVING BLACKWELL'S ISLAND. t + : : . a, a FTEB inspection of the penal institutions of New Y City Scrhe very time you need the ad- the State Prison Commission recommends among’ other ¥! > and counsel of some disinterested * changes that the penitentiary and the workhouse be removed biel ¥ ora tes pact cal uplsgey Blackwell's Island. ‘lic reasons given are that so long as the | at the dinner table," replied Mr. A Tm so it’ dy! lighted up and she cried joyous) “Ob, Mr. Dinkston, I'm so You! I wanted to see you so, Mr. Jarr's jaw dropped. ‘onders never cease, of course; but have pe rs burst right in your face, #0 glad to see you. not that one—tt’s all come Nor the other, for the gold off since it got such Yos, now that you have thin, you have found rhapsodized Mr. Dinkston. “You are beginning to realise that haviag verything to live for is only having: verything to work for; that it ts 4 possession, that gives pleasure, ~~ “4 ik, 1s too much! right down!” Mrs. Jarr went on. know you won't mind the ter- rible condition of everythi x are fond of sypaving, and, to Clata Mudridge-Smith, lke gypsying to be living in a h with the ceiling falling in and with the paper soaked off the walls and everything in a ruin. Of course, we are really not living here, you know; ‘we are stopping around with friends, “Mr. Jarr and I have just been in looking ever the da . The chil- dren are ato; old Mrs. Dusen- berry’s—suc! hearted old soul, even if not of V os ° norris No York bvetlna Welds TELL you, olf man, we're not prepared for company to dinner,” Mr. r\ Jarr protested to the af- fable Dinketon. ‘“Be- sides,” he added gruffiy, “there's the dollar I just lent you. Go get dinner with that.” | “Why thls acerbity asked Mr. Miebael An; in surprise. “Well, I told you we had a false ‘alarm of fire and the water dam- a bea ry that we destroyed, ne everythi: manner?” » Dinkston BACHELOR CG0RL. Copyright, 1016, by the Pree Publishing Oo, (The New York Eveuing- World.) ITY may be “akin” to love,” but none of us is wildly anxious to wel- come such a “poor relation.” e lentiary is so near (iw city it will be impossible to prevent the! “Dimkstom,. for your own good, I i j P advise you to keep away from our tgling of drugs to t ninates, and that the workhouse in its | Gamages home. You are i.v1 nt condition is “a kind of bucket into which the smaller offender | bogulae with. my. veil lessly dumped and ieft to fester and stew for periods of from | marked that any days to six months.” if bh acharming | eo eae ga 7 exe’.t some- It's a man’s business to marry the woman he loves, and a woman's | business to love the man she happens to marry; but this habit of putting |" siness before pleasure is getting to be awfully tiresome. it of their own ‘ rs | ythen. A a os og H It isn’t the initial cost of the marriage license that botgers a bachelor, print be head of the lett per | but the vision of the weekly installments on it for the rest of his life, and ern with which he ts ase | he thought of the alimony at the end. mself Heensed tot { ure illegibly.Albany! ¢ miles in two hours (1% miles in one : eee | | our) which iW 906-11 miles from Al-| rhe ian who, has confidence in 4 uy Wav inmenta Before marriage, when a man glances at your new chignon, he ex- Mit hed pie claims; “What lovely curly locks you have!” After marriage: “Where publicity. — Knoxville Journal and|d’you get that bunch of hair in the back?” Une. When a vexed wife asks her husband “why he ever married her,” it is almost pathetic to see the look of puzzled bewilderment that comes into his eyes. mes after marry) er. { ' ‘The recommendations are good, but full and final improvement Wace ber bay oe been my ba “@@i the island will never be attalned until all forms of penal institu. | wives and}. always got, alons Lec A woman's “bump of intuition” becomes a regular swelling when the Bins are swept from it and the whole aren converted into a park for| fut what man kaows the mind oft man/she loves stays away for two whole, beautiful, moonlight evenings. popular pleasure ground. The island affords not a single advantage Pega di ae ur, Binkston fot penitentiarics, workhouses or hospitals, but it affotds a hundred | fo, he, Bsr ae A og Lf een The oxtent of it, the nearness to crowded populations, | wit iy sire, Jarpy face water surrounded shores, all make it an ideal site for just such | “p, = whe vit und as New York needs. Since, then, it is recommended | Hits From Sharp Wa : $@ remove some of the penal institutions, why not remove them all! ne sw 4 s f be done with it? know Is Jest sound that » ple To a man of (twenty, woman is a mystery, at thirty a pastime, at forty ‘Daher of The Breving t @ problem, at fifty a comfort, and at sixty a godsend, ; te B. L's canal problem, nced readers kindly ia-! Whether telegraphy profession for wrist & good 2 should interest mat . There te somethin, with ‘tty ‘peal crea’ . ver 5 wroni yhen a man falls over his own shoes in the middle of the night id by ‘oo ptr f nothi~g on earth can convince him that the wife of his bosom didn’t put them there with a sinister design. f Yes. rhic! ‘Te the Rditor of The Krening World; ' a on of the United|: Bb Robert Minor PBABAAAPBABLOBBSE Mrs. Jarr Welcomes a Human Wreck To Her Own Happily Wrecked Home “But then @ ecalemity tthe @ t: 8 s 3 i i fs i Beit i ; ; nel i g I i | i i i ‘ auf i] A] i Al i | i ie ge i 253 gle ili i | i i ij fF t i a5 "1 aiail be charmed to jtne affable Dinkston. Mutual Motor By Alma Woodward, ‘Copyright, 1914, ty The Frese Pubtishing Oo, (The New York Drening Wortd). Pop Makes « Hit, HAVE a treat in store for you, Milton,” waid Ma, “I invited Miss Stewart out for a little drive this to let her sit \n front with you.” Pop unconsciously perked. “It's so hard on her since her father lost all his ‘Tmoney,” Ma went on. “She used to run her own car, you know, But, of course, that went with all the other things. Poor girl, I | guess it makes her feel kind of heart- sick to go out motoring now. So be amusing, Milton, and keep talking on bright subjedts to take her mind off her troubles, poor girl! . . 8 “How quisite is the marked Pop, mindful of M be merry and bright. “The eeem to be smiling om us, for- afternoon, and I'm going om OOOO Greatest Batties | yA In War-Hitstory # By Albert Payson Teriiune. . OOOO Ot) ¥ York Bvening World.) Made Rome Ruler of & Copyright, 19 nme Pubtishing Co, (Ke No. 4.—BATTLE OF METAURUS, That | the Earth. n SSB ARTHAGE and Rome were at death grips for the mastery OF Cie world, For cleven years the Carthaginian general, Hannibal, ba@e ravaged Southern Italy, seeking ever to reach Rome, and ever p though with Increasing difficulty—beaten back. At last in 207 B. C. the Carthaginians hit on a master stroke, Hanstbel . was to advance on Rome from the south, and his brother, Hasdrubal, wae 0@) > cross the Alps and march another army down upon Rome from the nerd | The city would thus le like cloth between shears. <a The two Roman generals, Marcus Livius and Caius Nero (Nero was 80 relative of the late Emperor of the same name), were sent against the foo with every available man that could be recruited. Nero marched soutt against Hannibal and Livius north against Hasdrubal. | Presengly Nero was facing Hannibal's ariny at Apulia, while Liviws | awaited Hasdrubal near the Metaurus River (which runs into the Adriatts, | between Ancona and Rimini). Then it was that Nero intercepted a letter | from Hasdrubal to Hannibal giving word for the two Carthaginian armies te ! close in on Rome, And he acted with « promptness A Clever that saved his country. * Flank Attack. } Leaving a handful of men in camp at Apulia deceive Hannibal an to the withdrawal of the rest, | Nero rushed the hulk of his army northward, and under cover of t | Joined them to the army of Livius soon after Hasdrubal had passed over Metaurus. vw Hasdrubal next morning saw the Romans drawn up in battle From the travel-worn condition of some of their troops he guessed the that had been played. Wishing to avoid battle against such increased num bers, he fell back again toward the Mctaurus, hoping to put the river bee tween his army and his reinforced foes, But bis troops (owing to the treachery of a guide) lost the way. They wandered aimlessly for a tima, confused and half starved, and before they could cross the river the Romaas were yn them. lands ect his army in line of battle and took command of fte ts l gaps ie | rit E | h tas { g 8 i ey Pattern No. 8396—Polonalse With or Without 94 to 44 Bust. eek yds, of ribbon for sash with bow. Ne, 6896 ts cut in sizes from 84 to 44 inches bust measure, Call at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON . BURMAU, Donald Bullding, 100 West Thirty-second strest fegpe>| site Gtmbel Bros), corner Sixth avenue and Thirty-sccend New York, or sent by mail on receipt of ten cents tm este stamps for each pattern ordered. IMPORTANT—Write your address platnty size wanted. Add two cents tor letter postage if ta e hany rounds?" queried Pop, nervousl? and| swallowed bie lacerated pride irrelevantly. He was tried again. -_: jusements now “It you're very re thing to take the poor girl's to take you to a where the fortune her father had skinned | serve the finest abore dinner ber out of. coast!" he volunt “Sound your horn! Sound your m HORN! Why on earth don't you declared, ‘we your horn when you're going 6 around a blind ourve like that, my dear man? Do you know you're risk- ing the will eure injoy erief-stricken Miss Stewart, you think I could taste a Vor after this awful ly dear man, my nerves Bo to bed for a week! mind driving me right home, A “My dear Mra. Mitt,” she s solicitoualy as she i ‘nee have a terrible You take your Ife in every tim Indeed you do!" of every passenger in your car?" she intoned, with some kind of catch in her voice. that girl needed was palaver; not eer cheerful subjects. "The breeze deu- cious blush tint to your cheeks!" he murmured, your Le fa on the road,” she com- my ly. “How you've citizens mincemest, not to speak a rear tng bodily integrity, I can't ‘ and Pop decided, on the spot, that what « hes whipped a “Never mind my cheeks and keep by. without reducing a few of