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LET THE CITY TAKE THE LEAD. DENOUNCING the proposed direct tax of $16,000,000 as “an F)-@ outrageous imposition upon the taxpayers of this State,” former Y I predict that the powers that de in Albany will not dare to levy & direct tax of $18,000,000, nearly $13,000,000 of which ‘must be borne by the City of New York. "The former Governor forgets that the taxpayers of this city are) | tied to shouldering State burdens, sccustomed to being confronted pW budgets, municipal and State, which they cannot understand. finance jugglers bewilder them into accepting almost any echeme of ‘ If taxpayers jever to escape the sppalling muddle of figures upon them the guise of budgets the revolt can best ba here in Greater New York. A private corporation has books so that shareholders of average intelligence can sec balance. Why shouldn’t the city do the same? Why, for ex- should $98,000,00u of uncollected city taxes be carried as an - efnat- apent or borrowed against—but never realized? Set Straighten out the city’s finances. Collect from the city’s oredit- Prepare budgets to make clear the facts, not to obscure them. ; ere can understand that sort of budget, whether it comes from he Oity Hell or from Albany. all has been eai4 about the for we profess to Baye for work, Don't OY IT THE. DENT oF THE HE WANTS Mr. Jarr Averts Warfare at Home The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell wa, Bet your life, son!” said Mr. Jerr. | Jarr told her all she smiled and sald: "You put it all over him, didn’t you?| Just like his father!” Did he hit back?” . “He tried to, Pop,” said Willie proud- By Mobilizing on the Frontier|« Copyright, 1915, by The Prous Publidhing Oo, (The New York, renting World), No. 42.—SEPT. 20, 632; The HIS ts the date from which nearly 230,0 people compute | RR te the most important day in the whole Mobemmedas the day of the Hegira. Moslems regard the Hegira year ian One of their calendar. (Hegira” or “Hijra” is A ; An’ orphaned Arab boy, early in the eleventh century, wes a sh pe among the hills negr Mecca. He was a queer, unhealthy “youth, Pri babyhood he had been the victim of epileptic fits, One of his eyes and the other was blue. This oddity of the eyes, as well as hie fits, made people look on him as sacred. But the Hast was fairey oremmee with so-called “holy men.” And there was no prospect that this holy man would rise to fame. His name was Mohammed. ¢ Presently, losing his job as shepherd, he became the servant of a Fick ; Mecca widow, Khadijah by name, much older than himeelf. She fell ia. with him and married him. ie gettled thi er ee Hh Darga | re roe gs Cro it gave him afl leteure he fect hi in the olinesa. $20 pooceske: He apent much of his time in « cave, in meghatiels interspersed by fits. And presently he declared that dure ing these meditative fits the Angel Gabriel often ap- peared to him with the news that Allah had appointed Mohammed the Prophet and Redeemer of his The angel also dictated to him a new religion, Mohammed in turn dictated to secretaries, and which was later compileé into a book known as the Koran. “i Mohammed's wife was hie first convert. Then a few of his relatives and clone friends joined the new religion (which he called “Istam"); but for sev- eral years the movement went no further. Then the people of Mecca de< clared Mohammed a dangerous character and they drove him from their city. Mohammed fied from Mecca in fear for his life, and after a few pauses to convert desert tribes he took up his abode in Medina. This H or flight—on Sept. 20, 622—marked the actual birth of Mohammedaniam, that moment the new creed began to flourish. The Prophet's Flight. In a few years Mohammed was strong enough to return in triumpli to Mecca, punish his enemies there and set himself up as a sovereign. Bat he was not content. He wished to spread his teachings through the whole Orient. So he prociaimed a series of “Jehads,” or “holy ware,” giving the conquered people their choice between death and conversion to Moham- medanism. They usually chose conversion. 5 Arabia and the countries around it were made ig, Bon small independent states and of provinces ruled by Greece and Persia. y worshipped, oe heartedly, a whole legion of gods. Mohammed persuaded them that = Ry demons. Also that “there is but one God and Mohammed to His 'rophet.” r Whether he was a faker or a fanatic or a prophet, there can Be’ ne doubt of Mohammed's genius. He welded many separate nations Into one’ jand in his own lifetime launched a religion that has endured in thd test ever since—a religion that has roused men to frensies of warlike end | has run through the Orient like wildfire. He made his people believe, among | other things, that if they should die for their faith or while slaying “infidels” e in a Jehad, they would soon enter into a very gorgeous ware §=Paradise that combined a million seaside am A Series of park attractions. The very mildest of these att: “Hoty Ware.” he promised was the ability to keep on eat enw definitely without reaching one’s capacity er appetite. wr Mohammed died in 632. But the force he had set in motion to roll on. Had he been content merely to “convert” his neighbors no; harm would have been done. But his Jehads scourged the earth for cone turtes. From the days when the Crusaders were hurled back, broken,.fsom the rock of Islam's power, to 1890, when Lord Kitchener forever emashed Mahdism, the holy wars terrorised the East. Their horrors were dreaded by all the world until this present ‘war, when experience proved that the Jehad is now a mere flash in the pan and not the maddened uprising of 220,000,000 fanatics. Science Says You Were Once a Fish.” 'N the famous Empress of Ireland poe om teete fish-ltke isaster a little girl who had been lo instruction taught to swim was able to sup- them can be taught to ewim port herself on the water until help arrived, while scores of strong men, who had neglected to master the art of swimming, went down to tellect, but usually his much in evidence w! jeath. * Evolutionists hold that our a: tors were once fish. Many Scie endorse that odd theory. or not t! js true, there of people who take to the naturally and are as much at home | spen in it os if it were their natural el ment, Among the Hawaiians and the sth dt ke Se t HL 3 ” gee why I should whip him that big booby,” said e is getting eo strong he eaid Mrs, Jarr. “And to do It. And he won't why he brutally beat Aubrey. “Well, if you want to make a moliy- coddie of him,” snorted Mr, Jarr, af- ing to be enraged, “xive me the No: get me my leather belt, give him a‘ leathering be won't forget! Where ie he?” “He's in hie room, and he's very and says wi do it again,” “Mary.” ly, “but I blooded bis nose and he run home cryin’.” “Bully for you! Here's 10 cents. Don't tell mamma,” sald the proud father. “Did you give him a good talking to?” asked Mrs. Jarr, looking in. “Well, I guess! said Mr. Jarr. “I threatened to make him paint wild Gowers and take piano lessons too!” “I know where he gets all his rough ways,” said Mrs. Jarr. But when Mr. Reflections of | ; a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1018, by ain't going to let anybody hurt ‘Tho Prens Publiciing Oo, (The Now York Brening World), RUBAIYAT OF 4 FLIRT. HE men I've loved and flirted with anon Have lingered but a little while—and gone; And yet within my heart an altar fames— 4 cosy-corner waits for every one! ° Alike for those who went with tears or sighs, And those who said “Goodby” with smiling eyes, T hold no vain regrets, but fervent thanks For all they taught me—bdiessings in disguise! In the School of Experience men never “crib” from each other; each Seems to have a fatal passion for finding out all the answers to Fate's problems himeelf. Lally parae Sonarte that she has at last met an honest man she means e met one who has kept right on | to her con- aistently, insistently and persistently. ii Nothing shocks and hurts a man like a girl's apparently cheerful Willingness to break off a firtation when he was trying to say gooddy i ‘without burting her feelings. - Somehow a girl can never glance at an attractive man without won- dering how he would look in a frock: coat with a gardenia in bis button- hole—stending under a marguerite wedding-bell. Taming a man is like taming a wild animal; first you have to feed him into amiable docility, then dope him with Sattery and cajolery into a-etate of coma, and then hold the whip behind your back while you put bim through his paces. RRA AAR ARAARAARDARRAAR DARL fy is te Mutual Motor Pro oa ge ome VP Wee 66] TELL you there's a new law,” reiterated Ma. “They don't even allow you the ten min- utes they used to. If your car's not stolen they fine you; If it is, they fine you anyway.” $ “Don't tell me,” blustered Pop, hat there's a law in this town that can't be anaesthetised with masuma! I'll bet you I can leave my car any- where without anything happening iv it for ten—yes, Swenty_-mlnutes—es hour if necessary. hy, over in my car out this afternoon and go shopping ts it all alone. 1’ stop at haberdashers, shoo stores, barbers<I'll_ even and buy you @ box of marrons to clinch it. And what's more, I'll phone you from each place, just to show you that it’s all . straight.” hone ri i. ming out of Tony's, cor had a shave, « haircut, » Manicure and shine. le. “I have purchased a pair of patent leathers with brown suede uppers,” waa the evidence offered. “The clerk “p. I fave an aristperatio foot,” e piano now ing open, Ma strummed, “I Didn't Raise My Car. To Be Aseot” 880 | Delia announced: “Some- @ phone for you, ma'am.” “I have bought @ dosen sport col- lara, six pairsof Tipperary socks and four crepe de chine ties of ardent shades. can hear the syncopated breathing of my chariot from where rm ning. I am now going over ifth Avenue to buy your mar- rons. 1 will be home in @ half hour, or less.’ At 5.45 the phone rang again. “Bay, Laura, what's the name of that chap? or Larned”. “What man? You mean the one with whom we tovk out our automo- bile insurance?” “It was your biamed old marrons that did it!” came back over the wire in an angry, hysterical iD “I've that car out since 2.30 and no one swiped it till I stopped for those Is it Lawrence ‘or Lerner When the Turk wearies of » woman he puts her into bag and drops her into the Bosporus; when the civilized man weartes of a woman he puts her in the wrong and just drops her off his calling list. ‘The iatest girl is always a sort of dummy on which « man drapes his Mustons, pins kis faith and fastens a halo in the vain hope that he will! Soraves for what che iene -— “Milton!” reproved Ma. “Have you complained to a sop | ad “Of course not! you think I soaked a bundred dollars fine besides?” stairs Be orn Bay ee you'll Toad ase the oe South Sea Islanders the children learn to swim almost as soon as they are able to walk. They need no in- uction, but go into the water, pad- die around a few minutes, and then they are off. In these countries, where so many le spend a large peopl proportion of their time in water, death by drowning te un- known. American and European youngst ently somewhat further re: The May Manton Fa Pattern Ne. 8006—E Coat b * Women, 16 and yeai wa tieatae oh, at Misses and ‘@meil re. to master swimmt and dispatch. Considered as a ewimming is excellent, and: as a, healthful form of exercise it has-few superiors. It comes about ae ‘ as any form of physical ac bringing all the muscles of the’ into play. How near are you to your’ fish ors’ shions.’ &@ little Jacket ‘that le simple as can be anid which rolled over’ HEH: Ful asf efi ay “f rs > ee fe i if