The evening world. Newspaper, October 22, 1914, Page 16

yg me JOSEPH PULITZER Published Daily Except “atta | 2, Freee Futiiening Company, Nos. 63 to | be ba Preaident, sf ba 48 teow. ANG Pauaw Treapurer. OF Tark M JOSEPH PULITZER, Ir Becretary bark itow. an Wntere Post. fecond-Class Matter. fiaten te The’ Keening| For Pnaian’ and the Continent and BF in e International Tinton, Unites Btates ee eo « PASSING THE BLAME. 0 18 responsible for dawdling and delay over the improvement) oe WY ero cnt Who 18 te answer fer the scandal that « Job which has already taken ton years, cost $100,000,000, and io “a wet yet half completed, hac meanwhile well-nigh wrecked the ialand water y evatmerce of the State! Mite In reply to The Evening World’s publication of the facts, | State sq. . Engineer Bensel blamed the Federal Government, which, he said, do-| layed its work on the Troy dam. The files of the War Department tell a different story. They) Song ehow that in June, 1910, Congress appropriated 4J,350,000 for a dam and improvements in the Hudeon River at Troy, that the State Cana! Board edopted resolutions abandoning the old dam and lock, cancelling | i water power leases, and that in December of the same year the “het fiet contrecte were let. s The came files show that in 1911 the new Governor, Diz, the| ie = aaw Btate Engineer, Bense!, and the new Canal Board started a de- termined campaign to hold up the Federal Government in its efforta te get to work on the dam. The Canal Board reacinded the resolu-| of ite predecessor; Dix did his hest to bluff off the War Dopart- it, and Rensel, accompanied by Attorney-General Carmody, even to Washington in a desperate attempt to halt ell action on tho of the Federal Government. A whole year was thus lost. Former Secretary of War Stim- declares: Tt was only when 1 resolved to disregard the action of Beneel’s Cana) Board and pay no further attention to hin pro- tests and attempted holdup that the Government work was able to proceed under arbitrary orders. eee if ii -aprtge: pt eat? =. How does Mr. Benee! reconcile the facts on record with his claim | gh that the Federal Government and not he and his Canal Board esso- | > dates have dragged out the work? oo. Boft exhibitions of passing the blame are not enough. Taxpayers are ea a eaiiiied to ack why, for ton years and 6100,000,000 spent to deopen and _o- ‘widen the Prie Casal, they have a net even half-completed job and a cert. as » Cady dwindling canal traffic. Sooner or later they will make somebody ~~ * qaswer, on ‘ ee pe i * | L- The Mayor of Berlin begs the Mayor of New York to neo H i thet thie city gets the official German reports of the war mu Are we mistaken, thes, in the belief that we have been getting EXPOSE THE EGG PLOT. 8 THERE an “Egg Trust”? The State begine proceedings this 2 morning to find out. fe: Do butter and egg dealere who compose the eo-called Mei- centile Exchange conspire with the cold storage interests to keep back eggs and fix the price at whatever the public will bear? ‘Two years ago District-Attorney Whitman probed the mysteries © gb. of Coe ogg trade and exacted » promise from the Mercantile Exchange Te »thet it would stop quoting eggs ae if they were apeculative atock. : Atterney-General Parsons does not believe, however, that the dealers $ hove reelly changed their ways: a “More than 50 per cent. of the ayerage number of eggs avafiable and recetved in the New York market are owned and ehtpped to New York by the big packing hounes and stock yarés t= Citlcage.” “Tt te my belief from investigations made by me and from i the status of reports of the market and the demand and aupply y of eggs, as well as the price of eggs for several years back, that the aforesajd Mercantile Exchange and the aforesaid egg dcalere have been influencing and controlling the price above the norma! price that would be fixed by the economic law of oupply and demand.” Go ahead and settle the question once and for all. Eggs are an ily controls their price cost of living wp or down. Artificial tampering with the attempts to “valorize” egye like diamonds by letting out tities at a time to keep the price up, should Ne promptly punished. ———<+=-—____. Who would begrudge the venerable Evening Post the con solation of reminding iteclf that it onve had a “beat"—on the Battle of Waterloo! « + @ae Webety fay “Proemyelt” on the bark, pulling out the eb fhe Bitter of The Brening Wert bs. Gn ont barney tween ee ond measure to| yeare ago a former park comm! these Americans| er planted about 100 young “Preamyel” | trees (which all took root), and ve it simply can’t] fower eed and ehrute. Gone, J think even the Austrian | pects very Ambassador (I forget which) varkway becoming eee The simple reason 1a| editorial advocates, Hut alas, | look a Bot profounced like our|!t now! It looks as though some in- @ sound of its a. vading army had rone Whrowss, it. Ad ing World methat there are several bold tren P.G., New Ha Bice Levers, Abe: ‘To Ge PAitor of The Brening World What bird lover can advise met Since molting, my canary has not sung, although a great singer before. Who can tell me what to do for him? 1 would be thankful for any general information regarding what green foods to give him, noe often to give Feapectively, sepegoing advice. I aim sure that any American who bas tudieg wi ‘os,’ 2% took him about jo years te pronounce correctly. Bo much for 3 WHY Nourse hanya T rE You CHANGE Such Is Life! ¥4 Toul At 214 Daily Maga AN Twe0'T FURT WITH ME NTH | STREET Mead uGeE THE (024! By Roy L. The Jarr Family McCardell Ceprright, 1914, by The Prue Mublisting Os, (The New York Kresing World), | the telephone to Mr. Jarr. D, I dou't know where Mra. Jerr te, and 1 don't care to know where she is!” cried Mra. Clara Mud- ridge-Bmith back over “and I'd ‘ tnank you very much just the same ‘ you badn't got {thie hour of ti dia the morning! Well, I don’t care! out of bed at night--eight o'clock “Can't 1 give you any Information? @ummone for apeeding | No, Lcan't! All I know te that they after, you left us to court to anewer the 4 when I atopped out of the car a police whistle blew and Mr. Dedringham started off the automobile so quick 1 wee almost throwa on my face on the pavement! Mra. Jarr te with those awful crea- tures, the Cackleberry girte, Dedringham im Mr. Dedringbam’s car “and I think they have treated me shamefully, and I'm never going to epesk to Mre. Jarr again 60 1 live. 3 don’t know whet the ples ere after the (ack! tvut whatever it te evidently receiver on the boo! But at 9 e’clock @ telegram came from Mra. delphia, Gertrude. Old Mra. to dodge headlong wheels in peer “Preemysl.” POLASH GIRL. | bathe and the perature of room ' @hould Dest suited for a bird. be darkened We--Albany Journal. ° that inh There te tie to good intentions tho: carried out, they make one feel good. “Deseret News. 7 girls for, Geserve iti” med back the Jarr saying ebe was cafe at the Cackleberry bome in Phila- and for home from the office, day, and look after Mr. Jerr te atay it wee wash je children for Dusenberry, the kindly old + | neighbor, offered to atay till Mre. Jarr got back from Pofadeipbia, but a Hits From Sharp Wits. Some men will ove their ore into other kinds Study him closely and you will ting “high roller” the * bie aac’ Beme people suffer in allence be- cause they can't find anybody with 1 to pour their troubles bas looked worn from her vigil waiting up, while Gertrude, having to prepare for the strenuous duties of wash day, had slept, ao Mr. Jarr sent the old lady home and telephoned the office he was {11 and would not be down. H ad been too worrte) and ner- vous to go to bed after getting home from the detention pen in the night court, and having no information from hie missing bride. Hence it was that cing up down the flat wait- Gems of . ON FRIENDSHIP. By Francis Bacon. PRINCIPAL part of frieniship in the care and discharge of the ful- ness and swelling of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cauge and Induce. A true frieng; t counsels and whatsoever t or confeasion. Tt iso strange thing to o archa do set upon th who have oft tn the sane manner. in th fe this to b from hia friend, but, before hath his mind fraught with clarify and break up in the cor he tosseth his thoughts more ¢ are best), suffer his thoughts to pass in smoke, The | cast and sce how many things ther i by Great Authors you come to that, h ere New Tart Brafna Was) we an Thursday, October 22: By Maurice Ketten (WISH 1COULD LAY BY HAND: HIM. \Would His N ON REA ECK A Cheerless, Wifeless Morning Harlem. to w doors on the various floors. “Who was at my milk again?” mhrieked a thin, high voice. Thought how high a rate in proof of friendship whereof we they purchase ft many timos at the hazard of thelr own safety and great ness, And we nee plainiy that this hath been done not by weak and pas-| sionate princes only, but by the wisest and most politic that ever retaned; | times joined to themselves some of their servants whom both thamacives have called friends and allowed others likewise to call them his. wit re are which a Men have their time and die in desire of things wnte to heart; the finishing of a work, or the like. the may rest almost secure that the care of these things will continue after Ends a Sleepless-Vigil Night TPP P PPR RPP RPP Per ree | ing till he could rouse a telephone | WAS at my milk again? Janitor! operator at the Highcosta Arms, Mr.|Say, janitor! Jarr had become co,nisfht of what|live in this house? Some thief bas every woman knows who lives in| taken the cream off my certified milk and filled the bottle up with water! First came the cracking of the) t¢ that Burns, the detective, would dumbwaiter and the clinking of MK! stop writing stori bottles aa the miulkmen made thelr] Ladies’ Magazine and shooting people deliveries. Then the households began | in the moving pictures and go back to detecting crime, we might find out tatione developed at the dumbwaiter| what fiends {n human form ateal the cream off the milk bottles In these up and their first mantfes- Wit, Wisdom «4 Philosophy We know diseases of stoppings and of suf- focation ere the most dangerous in the body, and tt is not much otherwise in the mind. You may take steel to open the spleen, and flower of gylphur for the lungs; but no recipe operates the heart but a on ‘hom you may {mpart eriefe, Joye, fears, hopes, suspicions, upon the heart to oppress ft, in a kind of shrift reat kings and mon- peak: ao great that ‘The accond frult of friendship ts healthful and sovereiam for the under- | standing as the frat ts for the affections, fair day in the affections from storm and tempeat, but tt maketh daylight | understanding out of darkness and confusion of thoughts. Neither | lerstood of faithful counsel which a man recetveth only certain ft is that whosoever and understanding do For friendship maketh indeed a he marshalleth them more orderly; he aeeth how they look when they are turned outwards, Neither is the second fruit of friendship in opening the ynderatanding re- strained only to such friends as are able to give a man counsel (they in- But even without that a man learneth of himself and ingeth his own thoughts to light and whetteth his wits an against a stone, Ia ae merd. a man were better relate bimeelf to a statue or picture than to fruit of friendship f# ald and bearing @ part in all actions. | Here the heat way to represent to life the manifold use of friendship te to nan cannot do himeelf. h they principally take If a man have a true friend re fellows, The worst place to land flats!” ‘Janitor! “Who Janitor! Who' them.” your sweet rolle. atand, gineer. your trunks down Who's impident? T'll treat youse like a lady. “soitingly floor to the police. eral as she was-—— in a boiglar alarm bottle, ' Garbage! Ice!" the way the day began ever; Harlem, ess another; | By Hazen Conklin HE chap who puts the “application” only ma fellow who can fi * out of “industry.” quickly, but muscles neod the exercise longer way rouad. ance fs at the bank. ie in debt, @ man bax them ‘ ot ‘What sort of people for the Perfect shaking rugs down on my rubber plants? I put them on the fire escape to get a I bit of rain and somebody upstairs | shook their cheap jute rugs all over “Naw, lady, T don't know who stole T ain't no Swede Janitor, etther, I'll have va to under- I'm SUPERINTENDENT of these buildings and a licensed en- And if anybody broke into in the basement store rooma they only got in debt. T'm as @60d as youse, and if you treat me like a gent the dumbwatter scrubbed every day. If ft’s doity it's the fault of some of them sloppy kitchen mechantca. All right, com- plain of the blonde lady on the top I only know tf aome folks around here was as lib- I can’t help if your cream was copped. Put jalap jin your milk, or met ft solved to you, Ashes! And Mr. Jarr wondered !f thin wan| of papers he day Slogans of Success | SHORT cut gets you there moro falling to the fluor. sometimen of THE worst place to lose your bal- ‘The worst place to fall is in the eatimation of) * HE word “brains” is plural when | ere's name ‘for $10,000 and uses them.| Will know it in s,2.. 8 ‘Wow many things are there which a man cannet with any face or will have ne whe taneiee che ts | comelinens cay or do aimecif? A man can scarce ally his ewn mertts with Tpbee be pee thorn Ass fan's whe tem . lo merety the Glave! modesty, « man cannot sometimes brook to suppiicate or beg ond a number| ey acrry of to the kere! to 0 tyrant of the Ike; but af these things are graceful in « friend's mouth whieb are ere in tee Gen a musta 1 - Vel es | Diuthiag tn o man ows. the thing that ‘olds {t once “you, « Ye heads ewell,”: pat. A man cannot speak te hie eon but as @ father; to his wife but as 8! pulld it. eer tusls trains oi + ‘But | Resbend, to bis enemy but upon terme. ‘Whereas o person may epeak te &| C TARTING at she top leaves you no SO AST, eH | Piven ibe relecco here's an sanast Ay bier hie wa pare if we Rave Set! Bp RMADAW Br nace Lary e rule—wi win iv owa RI ING ts not a fer: Ea © Greed he may quit the stage B 2 one” A room | me to it! your - - 1914 Reflections By Helen Copyright, 1014, ty The Prem Publishing UTRUIOM" fs what a man cal to. kiss a girl for no reason looks as though #1 \66 earth except beings BLONDE! Love {@ a sort of combination sal: imagination. butterflies never turn back into grubs. car. Clarice, men say they despise nothing but disgust that makes them @ slashed evening gown. Never tell a man more than once that he’s really doubtful about. It {8 all right, of course, to heap ents, but why does nobody ever think in life with a few “divorce presents?” at other people's, Diet or Copyright, WELL-KNOWN New Yorker said the other day as he was seated at the table in a Broad- way restaurant: “I veed to eat stylishly, but now I eat situply. There was a time when I used to think that a dinner meant everything from soup to nuts, and ordered accordingly. And when I in- vited a lady to dine that was the usual programme. But now the lady can go right down the list if she likes, and I eat just the things I need or want. In other words, I diet when I dine. “I believe diners eventually com to realize that a a long way. To t matter of courses, reaches the age of forty he fidget; “Now, the man, some evening: “when I have not ——--———e—eme | working hard I eat @ dinner without At other times I have a little te PHAAAAABASAASBAAGIBAAIASBABA BABB AA | MOY AY ible and a salad, 1f you will just look around this restaurant you will see people eatitig all sorts of fancy dishes, under gluss, in chafing dishes, highlv seasoned and with many sauce: ardiess of | their richness or their suitability for | the syatem, and when that overfed, flabby feeling comes they wonder CHAPTER XCVII. RADUALLY, very gradualiy a sense of impending evil } came over me, due in part perhaps to @ warning Harry Wberhardt had given me and which I at the time resented, “You must take Jack in hand, Bue," fe had sald, “or he will cer- tainly go to pieces. No one can keep up the pace he is Koing. Why, 1 don't believe the man gets four hours’ sleep a night! dancing for a while if I were you and get him to bed occasionally at a decent hour, And, Sue, please don't get angry, but can't you stop Jack's gambling? It is getting an awful hold on him, too much of a one alto- gether. There,” as I flushed angrily, “[ was afraid you wouldn't like it if 1 said anything, but 1 felt that I must, We are so fond of Jack that I can't bear to see him & to the devil and make no protes Then 1 hurried home to get ready for the opera Jack was slow dressing, and after ad finished, | went downstairs to vait for him. Some time elapsod, and fearing he would be late, 1 went up to see what could be detaining him 1 went ‘up quieti hear me. He sa in dd Jack did not the table, a pile idently been ex- in! amining in front of him, Just as 1 | was about to speak, to chide him te lrot being reauy, he opened the table drawer and thok out a revolver ‘Jack my voice came, fand, rushing to him, f grabbed bi | arm just as his unsteady hand raised | Y 1) I nev | bled but for you! ly, tremblingly, the th 1 waited a mom clutching at m) 'feit dry and parched, “What is it, Jac! done?” hat have I done?” he with a laugh that made me \ frighte have forged if He M the mornin) rm the throat repoated rol 1 almiy as I t's Sowa getting my in hand “I gambled and lost it, mechan! . “All of it! "All of it.” | tock meee at J——e, But "eit chat Aifference a Bachelor Girl A really broad-minded woman cag forgive her rival for anything om soupcon of mind and a flavoring of the senses, completely covered wif A man who has just eseaped from a desperate sentimental situation, | without engaging himself, has that same feeling of'breathless gratitude as | One who has just leaped to the pavement after being By Gophie Irene Loeb. 1914, by Tho Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Workd), "sume five ounces to a meal, Chapters from a Woman's Life By Daie Drummond Copyright, 1014, by fhe Prem Publishing On, (The New York Evening World), ‘mt'e gone, . I'd cut out the! Whot have you nd | Ning. What made! He he replied | ers, -* of Rowland 0, (The New York rening World), Is that impulse which prompts him on earth except—well, because he ought to be kissed. jad composed of a slice of heart, ‘azed by a.trolley, the present diaphandus styles; ft te stare so after a chemical blonde i * that you love him. After that keep on telling him how much he loves YOU—bdecause that's fhe only thisg a happy bride with wedding pres of starting a poor lone grass widow ae One way to appreciate your husband, dearie, is to take a look aroun@ Dine? Edison, the wizard of electri deplores the fact that eat much, He sajd last week: “A great economic gain would be accomplishéd if the world would stop its overeating. “If we had been more temperate in food’ consumption we would have gained efficiency thereby. I eon- three times a day, including the water in the food. I drink lots of water. “On the average, men would get on better if they reduced their food con- sumption by two-thirds, They do Ren work of three horse-pow and consuine the fuel which anould operate fifty horse-power engines. “Taking into their bodies too much: nutritious substance, they find themselves unable to assimilate fficiently any nutritious substance. “People have no idea how much energy there is; for instance, in @ loat of bread,” he. “Actually, a leaf of bread contains stored energy equal to one horse power operating through three hours, if it could all be utilised, “All our mechanical engines are {m- perfect, but the human body ts @ 'E! machine. , “RIGHTLY HANDLED, this most wonderful of engines will utilise 75 or 80 per cent. of the power repre- sented by the fuel it consumes.” If you would eat wisely You wit harken to the wizard of electricity— that is, to eat simply and not to please joes that make?” wearily. 1 that's all there is to it. ‘Can't you borrow {t from some one?—Mr. Amesbury? He's your ais- ter's husband and ought to help you. “He wouldn't lift a finger to say me from going to prison for tad knowing I had gambled, lay his head on his arms lo! ry tobe shook his body. Of a sudden I was frightened longer. I almost forgot what Tack had dene. He was my husband, m: lover, ‘The only man 1 had ever lo He was weak, sick. I must hel) ‘Couldn't .you ask Mr. knowing he would refuse. ever! I'd rather die than ask him, No, Sue, there are only two things to do. Hither that,” bis trem- bling hand pointed to the revolver on t r “Very well, 1 will help you," sud- jdenly knowing that | must be strong. “Wait until tT change my dress," a | y evening affair that would be in m ing up the ‘revolver--Jack did not notice -T locked it in my bureau, drawer, After changing, T took his bag and suit case from the closet. UC knew without asking that he would not ke a trunk chiffoni things T knew he } packed th and taking ¢ wonld most need. nas full hd ping in a pi and « th the children, Then kia raincoat, ths heavy ulster and a soft cap and laid them o: y a soft cap aw hem on a chair ure of myself ry moved nor spoken, osed and locked the hags, I could searvely restrain a ery, so old, au nagma had he become, Not only did his but his whole Yody shook ax though: with a chil ha rush of glad- orny “was with the children, n, 1 made a strong free and taking itt Jack, ver him while he drank it. Ae no protest. It seemed te m a little strength, and hs tow will you and the children aloug? You t go to your ‘Sue, You, will be welcome, jshe will help you bear this that ead- have brought upon you." y: “I shall net dare to communicate with you--not Ese a long time.” ree Wi It fs easy to Turn an old friend into a sweetheart, but the woman Who attempts to tusn’ an ex-sweetheart into a friend should remember that (] . | opened the draweraf ‘ to close the bags, | Jack, desperately to keep my voice steady. “I'm not? strong enough.” He rove and without ing at me*