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You Should Remember By Albert Payson Terhune Ooprright, 1918, ug The tye Publinhing Le. (Ihe New York Eveuing 'NO.33.—Nov. 14, 1864; Sherman’s “March to the Sea” LEAN, grissie-bearded Union general announced that wer is bell, and, on Nov. 14, 1864, he set out to prove the full trath of his words by carrying fire and sword through the richest section @f Soughland. a He was Gen. W. T. Sherman. He had long and earnestly pledded with = | President Lincom and with Grant and the Secretary of War to let. Drove that the Confederacy was like an empty egg—tts outer surface parently firm and strong; out ite interior hollow. He said the proof co be made by marching-an army through the heart of Georgia. The Tederate forces, he believed, had beoome 00 weakened by three years warfare that they were barely able to defend their outposts in Virginia and, elsewhere and could not spare enough men to oppote such « march. .* Ever since April, 1861, the Civil War had continued, with varying tunes, The South still kept a brave front; but Sherman was certain could expose the utter wakes that lay behind this front. After iffioulty he managed to gain official consent to try his plan of marehii from Atlanta to Bavannah—e $90-mile Journey, He had with him less than 70,000 men. They wére completely isolated = cut off from all hope of support their own Government. Shoul@ turn out that Sherman had underestimated. the! Orr, A Nisumrer , jazard. { > DAYoF RE; UI Waits HAY, ce BSERVE good faith and justice toward all nations, LD cultivate peace and harmony withall.” @ © © af “In the execution of such a plan nothing is More essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies Batione, and passionate attachments for be excluded; and that, in place of them, just “ye feelings toward all should be cultivated.” * © © _ © “The great rule of conduct for wa, in regard to foreign fe in extending our commeroial relations, to have oF . Mth them ts little political connexion ee possible. Bo far N oor H ' ‘we have formed engagements let them be fulfilled with ; geod faith, Here let us stop.” ““Burope has a set of primary interoste which to us have & Or very remote relation. Hence sho must be engaged controversies, the causes of which are essentially to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be un- fa tis to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ry Viclesitudes of her politicks, or the ordinaty com- and collisions of her friendships, or enmities.” + “Our detached and distant situation invites and enables Hh to pasene 0 different course, If we remain one people Met an efficient government, the period is not far off when We may defy material injury from external annoyance; when re We thay take such an attitude as will canse the neutrality we ma ‘at any time resdive upon, to be scrupaiously respected ; rcotghec nations, under the impossibility of making spol us, will not Nghtly hasard the giving us September, 1796, —_—_- > STICK TO THE TERMS. , ‘A fivo-cout phone rate throughout Greater New York. ‘We mere toll barriers between boronghs. [NW The Evening World cet out to win long overdue | sd ae helen alladh agua strength left in the Confederacy he stood aa em cellent chance of losing his army by a very huntiliating surrender. But Sherman had e way of Knowing when he was in the right. He had captured Atlanta after a fierce bort- bardment. On Nov. 14 he started for Savannah. But first he set fire to: Atlanta and reduced most of the city to ashes: Then (to make sure the United States Government should have no opportunity to call him back or. to interfere in any way with his plans), he cut all the telegraph lines con- necting Atlanta with Washington and destroyed the local railway lines, N In two columns his army moved forward, Gen. Slocum commanding". one detachment and Gen. Howard the other. While the city surned behind | |. them with the roar of'a huge furnase, the column fell into step, the bands | Lege the men singing “John Brown's Body.” The line of march followed § | the Georgia brought | | Central Railroad. There were not enough provisions along to feed the troops, for Sherman declared they could “live on the conntry.” And so they did. They lived royally on the vegetables and livé- *y etock they captured along the route. Ard they grew fat on the bountéses fare. (This in epite of the Southerners’ claim that the Union soldiers tm- > t Andersonville, Ga., were starved because their captors could” ff to give them.) @ great two-headed monster of annihilation, moved Sher- wastating the whole region; setting the torch to farme,, i. fearful destruction through the fair land, leat+s.* ing the once rich district @ smoking and barren wilderness. The Confederacy mustered such force could to stem the tide of invasion. But the Union arms brushed je those opposing forces with # no difficulty and with little loss. The Governor of Georgia called on the © whole Btate to rise in arms, and offered pardon to all convicts who would,. fight. But the summons had no real effect. Sherman was making good his prophecy that the Confederacy’s interior was helpless. Also, to the stricken > a ted he was proving right hideously the truth of his epigram that war Greenerre ! ICAN'T WORK WITH AMAN AROUND. W'S MAKES ME NERVOUS | Th thirty-six days—twenty-three days of actual marchii erman's © army reached Savannah; the journey lighted at night by the flames from > scores of burning homes, The trip was one long, jolly, lazy, marauding pi¢-," nic for the Union veterans, who had expected hard fare and harder knocks, _ tingle handed. IS todins'oe taentone comteny torpor tenn ‘ of telephone company lawyers, despite Eats Geosh etttiots of the up-State Peutie bervic Cow. newapyper kept up the fire and supplied unfailing amma that telephone rates here were 25 per cont. higher than go and other cities, It showed that presont levies upon New eae property. Tt chowed Ut padded valuation ye property. It showed thht millions of dollars in excessivo phex: by the New York Telephone Company from ite metro- G0 to finance ite ventures up-State. have verified every one of theve conten- a] feport that, in addition to the 61,029,159 which The ics efforts saved telephone subscribers in this city, an- 10,000 can be taken off their bills and atill leave the tele- p oe ‘an 8 per cent. return on its actual investment. Riatat blic Service Commission and Legislature ere eee which can be first to enforce The Evening World’s ls. The New Led samme Company, awake at last to its New imager oh “meane to be fale and square.” ‘fa going to win this fight, It omly remains to make |@ te and lasting. The allies fighting for feir telephone ttiek to their terms: A five-cont rate and ne toll gates.‘ ee TIMES ARE BETTER. [8 show which way the wind blows. Minor side and inetru- : {ouniness sometimes tell us as much about prosperity “(ge announcements of big orders and contracts. ee inalance: Business has heard no better news of late than the the clearing houses of the country that for the first time Jarred the confidence of the commercial world the benk- = dhow an increase inetdad of a decrease compared with @ year ago. For the first week of February the falling off 9 from the figures for the corresponding week in before lest the decrease was $894,000,000, week saw an actual gain of $20,000,000, one-half of one i, but significant and cheering. If more bank checks more buying, selling and job giving are going on. And prosperity? . From Sharp Wits. that what he yeu must at ter goede * Mander e wae | one restraint tne calles s than to tna aan tat Rrra SederermAlbs tat he has “titan esd ¥ «Aeee) x Wi r ere sepene Pare 2%, The Jarr Family By Roy L. ‘Gapuright, 4018, by The i'ven Mubushing Co, (The Now York Mveniag World), ATTALION CHIEF GRO- GAN, with frowning face, was conducting what the Rewapaper headlines call “a probe.” Claude, the heroic fireman, beloved by Gertrude, the Jarrs’ light punning domestic, was “dancing on ” under the curt Inquiring Of the ohief at the fire house, brought a rubber fire house ly as- @ended to the dormitory, and his Quest was not booties, The boot, till moist with beer, was beneath the ot of Claude, Hence the inquiry, be- fore charges should be preferred at headquarters. But Claude was innocent, Claude @eclared he knew nothing of beer or Boot. The fact that it wae his boot roused him to infer that he was the victim of a base conspiracy, Claude @toutly maintained. But just at this point @ continuous alarm clanged through the place. One glance at the annunolator and the whole gathered fire company blanched. “It's Lanigan's tumber yard down by the tracks!” shouted the foreman of the company, “Turn in a three- alarm, Chief!" The inquiry was at an end, the chains at the great doors dropped with a jangling crash. “Pet” and te “Bum,” the great grays, romped for ward under the harness of the hose wagon, In the police station of the district Capt. Monahan was giving the re- serve plat solemn instruction to be fea in suppreasing local dis- order, Complaints had reached him 19] trom reform societies, the Captain wood bet was saying, showing that a band of desperate flat house thieves had been biackjacking lone women and carry- ing off household goods in vans, ‘Whereupon the Police Captain b rigs | sternly declared every malefactor who shook a rug out of a window, or every culprit householder who failed to separate kitchen garbage from ashes, should be instantly apprehend- 4, “Also,” added the Captain im- pressively, “I want yes to be abso- ly _tee and arrest every kid FAAAALAAAAABABAAAAAARDAABBLABARAAA Harlem’s Police and Harlem’s Firemen Dash Out in Reply to a Strange Alarm ereerererere rere re rere rrr ere rrr rr ES McCardell tracks and Lanigan’s lumber yard. Beising their trusty nightsticks, the reserves, led by the vigilant and effi- olent Captain in person, clambered aboard the motor patrol wagon and tions and instructions with firm reso- lution to do their duty, ae they aaw |i, and were ready to break ranks when suddenly the gong clanged and @ riot call wae registered from the patrol boxes on the circult near the railroad the scene of the riot call. And never for a second the alarm in | Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland (ram Pasting Us. (The Now Yoru Kreamng ¥ erie) BACH. Wh fancies the that it is bis wonderful sizty-horse will-power that keepe Bim from marrying, whereas it's nothing but hie little one-horée wea't power. You can't make the man with a lot of sisters believe thet you were ‘dora with a marcel wave, an aroma of violets and a continuous emile; dut that very fact ts the shock-abeorber which saves him from an awful jer of disillusionment after marriage, Just at first, ao man ie half afraid to ask a girl to marry him; later be is more than half afraid not to. ‘ Why is “Faith” slways pictured as a slender young girl clinging to a rock, When an old girl clinging to » massage cream, or @ fat girl clinging to @ flesh-reducer would be so much more convincing? Don't forget that the man who begs for a Biss to-night may beg the “other woman” to forgive him for it tomorrew, No, Dearie, the tender nothings with which a man stoops to fasten your shoestrings before marriage are no sample of the spicy little running conversation with which he will fasten your frosie after marriage. A man may sometimes acknowledge that ine has idle curiosity, but you can't persuade him (ans @ woman's curiosity even takes an occasional after- noon off. ancl Bachelor: A man who lives in the eterna! fear that every woman who glances at him wants to marry him, and the eternal torment of knowing that sooner or later one of them will. ih A woman's attraction for the opposite sex is not half so, much affected | by what her “past” has been as by how much there is of it. ——— Jungle Tales for Children. —By'Farmer Smith. NE when Mister Elephant| “Some one tied a note to m; 1" O was ating 0 on the river bai . “Oh!” laughed the Little Fish. “le came up the Little Fi looking ath him eaid: nough, isn't it?" ‘are you #0 sad, Mister Eie- ater Elephant, you are #0 bats 7 ed @ joke on mo,” bie ne, one oun mae fu laugh you ae whined Mist ter phant. tt be all right. ‘¢ uate eis that hurt you?” asked the | agai: “Well, iy t my pride,” answered with clanging gong Were speeding to| * ¢| terrible the On Dec. 18 Fort McAllister fell. A week later the Southern garrigon~ of Savannah fled under cover of night, and Sher-» > Vietery tured city. and a Message. Garr 9 ing eee man made his triumphant entry into the capes: There he sent President Lincoln the follows” message: beg to present you, as a Christmas itt. the city of Savannah, with 160 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and’ about 25,000 bales of cotton.” Little Talks 111. —Observance of Fasting. Lent are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday; but there are other days in the Church of England and Protestant ‘Episcopal communion which designate as Ember Days in Lent (the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent). These other days are those “on which the church requires such @ meagure of abstinence as is more especially sulted to extraordinary acts and exercises of devotion.” In the Catholic and Greek Churches ‘on the general fast-days one full meal fe permitted within the twenty-four hours, and Catholics are allowed a very light collation morning and eve- ning. leah meat ie strictly forbid- den. The distinction between days of fd house-or police station ceased to ring. War ologues By Alma Woodward Corrie Sine York bvecloe Werth Scene: The dining room of the Browse’ apert- gi jee Teed, ees SPE ena R. C. (eagerly)—And where is ‘my young friend, Cyril? Mrs, B, (explaining)—We think him still too young to be at dinner, doctor. But because we know that you are eo fond of him we have allowed him to remain up and he is to come in for dessert. tes Ukely just now he is poring ov. war news. wey re pertenty wii ‘tbout the war, you ki Dr. C. (raising. * ale browa)—You amaze me! In one 80 young it is un- Sprite extraordinary mental powers, ‘yril'’@ extraordinary mental powers, Mrs. Brown. . (solicitously)—My dear, what io it? Are you tll? C. (confused)—Oh, no, noth- ren fre & eudden fancy. ea a as “un A. (alarmed)—Why, Gertrude! You are not given to nerves. What fe it, dear? wih halts amr mee wy (aughing guess Mra. C. got m« must be “seeing thin, AL ral Hane to fost ee te et i Aa Mr, B, (becoming really distressed) —It seems that we are hoodooed, or something, What—— Dr. C. (interrupting, peti —It is cingeles, ..} it wrephle Sw bie lips, pa Mr, Brown? \ Mr. t, of course, you! can't keep them in an apartment. ite cruel to the animal, ry “Cyril Gumping out)—d told you a submarine c’n pick out the feller wants to soak without making a m take, every time, Pop! It was black as gee whillikens under there, but [ gucased right, I pinched every one but you and Ma, ‘thout seeing, even, I win the dime, Pop! Mrs. B. SASCHAR) Pattern bahay rr Wemen, 160 and 18 Y. For the 16 year size will be requ as illustrated, 5 fealty, : Patte HE only absolute faet-days in| (, About Lent. abstinence (such as Friday throw, out the vear) and fast-days is tt nr the former the abstinence from flesh meat is the only requirement. Fish, as an article of diet, In ins ” separably connected with io Since very cariy days it has been ghief Lenten food. Into the time of?” William III. the use of flesh meat, ™ ogee and milk duting Lent was for- \* bidden in Engiand, not only by eeclé- * giastical but also statute law, During the Lent of 1888 a landlady of the Rose Tavern, London, was, with,” four other women, put into the atoc! all night because a quantity of ra and cooked meat was found in , house. Herring ples were cons! @ great delicacy. Among the queer” fooda eaten In olden days Re od in England tps Binley! is, sen wolf and whale, i were!” be 5 ae to bd fish, wen in the early church the -m spared in fasting was given in alma?) 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