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say Se ee Pane ao Ma President Re Foes Ottice o) rey Tet stand om tates All Countries in Postal jass Matter. the Continent and the International Union. OLDING the second conviction of Becker, the Court of ls implicitly reaffirms the sentence of death. E nan was Wig, opinion justifies the severity of that sentence. This : ‘comm = tof Police. He was under oath to protect the dia won Scat apgomspired. He instigated murder. He A ae jegled authority upon the integrity) ‘of which citizens depend for the sa of Whaianetves" ead: thet » Like every accused man, he was entitled tu. ' “Yaw allows to prove his innocence. Twice convicted’ Ws bse = Rg ' of the gambler and side-partner whose tongue he feared, rt appeal to the courts has failed. He has no further claim to meroy. R Becker stands for the rottenness that once threatened to ruin! ta efficiency in this city. He stands for the brutal manners, the cunning, the connivance, the back-door graft, the fake raids, the shameful travesty of protection that made police methods stink in the nostrils of New Yorkers. | . “Rascality is sometimes mitigated. But not when a public servant! @waggers by daylight in the uniform of a policeman, and in the dark hands and divvies spoils with thugs and dive-keepers. | To the public mind Becker personifies police corruption at its Worst. The community is thankful that it has been purged of him and the System of which he was a part. —— THE WHITE WAY. GIRL of eighteen to whom revellers and riff-raff of the restau- rants mean more than her own mother is a disagreeable spectacle. We are glad to see her brought to her senses. ] But the tawdry circle to which she clung does not signify as fuch in the general life of the city as we are sometimes asked to Believe. The much-talked-of night-life section happens to be better | Muminated and more conspicuously located than surrounding portions ‘of the city. But among 5,000,000 for the most part hard-working, poberly-living people, for how much does it really count? Visitors from out of town contribute heavily to its support. | Many of those who fill its cafes at any given moment are there for! the first time—and maybe the last. For every New Yorker who fre-| ts its favorite haunte ten thousand others never see it at all.) one suceumbs to its cheap allurements a hundred see its 2 <@mptiness and pass on to things worth while. Why overrate it? * —_—-- eo * DEFECTIVE AUTOS TO BE SEIZED. WNERS and drivers of automobiles in this city should note O a new police order issued by Commissioner Woods: Hereafter, in case of accidents caused by motor vehicles, : If it is apparent that the accident was caused by some defect in the mechanism of the vehicle, the officer who makes the arrest may detain such vehicle and cause an examination to be made by « competent member of the force designated for that purpose. © Only thorough investigation forced by public opinion finally Ieought ovt the fact that the machine which killed Sculptor Karl) in front of the Metropolitan Opera House was equipped with | Beficient brake. The new order looks like a result of that discovery _ Strict observance of traffic rules is not the only safeguard ‘against automobile accidents. Every motor vehicle in the ety should keep its steering gear and brakes as dependable as care and precau- | & To send into the streets of New York a motor car the brake of is known to be faulty is criminally to endanger life. Those for euch neglect should be called to account. ——————E motorman who held up the Roosevelt- Barnes forty-two hours trying to split the costs Ofty-ffty should have been upheld. Me, ot least, was striving to mete ‘ . . its From Sharp Wits q things to be nid and the dusting brush right erownt | Peiease wntll| the place that he eooupies on | ° woe i ie ope the povtry| Hew many metehee do you use wy eh mew tow one igere\e - “”“ 7 . de there any fer be ene knowe| Won't burt op bad! Macow Telegraye eb penene and: Mie ee puree testes Jour * Germer Bore smrrivee Pe ee Ble of The Berens wre 1 wee bore te Germany eitinay of tke, wus the Veet Mate | 1 om etlention to (oe fart - of Vhucstion bas we. Ey ie he rey . wing hee my orm gh! hate hws & Word of Congretetation her Wietewt bor i tte ot The Crees Dont eabity would! 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THE HOUSE 1S GOING QUARANTINED THE CHILDREN THE NEASLES AND MOTHER'S ee HY DIDN'T 1 AN GoING To WU COME BE AARRIED D HOME TO-MORROW é o LAST NIGHT > iat AND LIVE IW (ae —— HAISSED >) THE COUNTRY, V THE LAST TRAN JOHN DEARIE , | HAD —— ae @ Ri) Work HERE iLL AFTER MIDNIGHT Ba - THE COOK HAS LEFTUS A NEW ONE Frit (nes Cac RAGS 1S COMING HERE BRING NER HOME y \eael Ed Al OF SHOPPING TS SHAPPING Do {4 COMMG To Stay ALL in: ; ——, SUNNE 4 FID) HAS KILLED FOUR CHICKENS | THE NEIGHBORS ARE Going To RUNG BONE SUE US - BRING & NEW LAWN MOWER - pe JOHN S\ | OON'T SHORE So MucH Sone Horte las RU DY | EARLY i You WANT ANY DINNER Sees ue A Shut YOU MIGHT BRING ONE DOZEN Ue CaN > FRESH EGGS THEY ARE CHEAPER WES Net 46 BAD Po. { HERE AS IT SOUNDS oo sI i 2 G a G 6% . x ~ . é ya -— 4 t armas rocer's, buy some and send it in.” “Oh, all right,” said Mr, Jarr. “And I have @ woman in by the day helping with the washing and ironing, becau®e the children aoil their clothes # it Is too much to expect one girl to launder,” added Mrs. Jarr. “So, while you are getting change, let Willie have a dollar and « half #0 I'll have the money to pay the woman Copyright, 1815 by The Prem Publiehing Oo, (The New Tort Bveing Word) 66 HAT are you keeping] “I want some paper dolls! there?’ asked = Mra. | a se Mr. Jarr, like @ good and = true, oman! 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Vl hold i tight and run right back end thea IT can go out again and buy my bali.” “Rueh en uoseit ue 1 get, don't! your’ asked Mr “Well, | gave Hi but 66, oir ‘Maybe you've made some extra) money or bad your ealary relsed.” suggested Mra Jerr, “you are acting very queeriy about it “huppore | aid. tre money A Bachelor Girl tm rae it tr The Prem Patong (hy he Bee Tat Reming Wont * Firtetion, 66 te gembling, copsiots im geting oul of the Game before pour luck begine to ture. whe never hae the ‘There are just three varieties of men whom every woman detente or te per the wot © man wou thee Ww bine ber eith hie ; af the Ore opportunity ond the man the i on, (he man who tries W kine ber be deren try of ali Satrodur “ or pet man” to @ preity girl le like banding the baby fur thet me * eleours Wo play eit om” here 1 euch © th hover emong Girte one dumen | y omen bi te @ eummer feeerl, bul we wugh! ot leeet te i Game ve e117 @0f Code ond our printipios slows “ eotety Mw fee bg Mage oat ae Te blame o fon te chee le bleme tim poi or waving fed belt We tor pretending Ww love you afier be bes comeed oom a ‘ oo there 10 hal be should be brid guilty o mont vee ,t - wney bee boom ond tee be At the young @ream the eumene Bret (hougbt ceed bee bie eel Hiew cn | brenk bie beast?’ The mane, “lew cout break ony” ao Wwe bf the ove eet thet tow A Somen * Oreument eferts & man OF Baler tore @ be morely os 4 ‘i " for We O97 Oy ond Chem gore cheerfully ou lu bie overt wor ove yo Whee «© eomes vente & #04 6 ee brane end pete (wien the wfloot tenew ber youth he lee o bee helt (owls ie ber bewe ite er Jerr a Us ou 7 ‘The Aiflerence weiworn © eweetheart's bint end & burheud’s bine le & oh wen end tne one me be difference Veto eor 06 inelinetive eed on Wiigelos |chenen, 20d yeu con re bam toe ermte to wey ee | onions em © tal fh he wae grea” A man may be Bobie enough te lots bie eoemy ito be masties to bet, , face powder, © man simply gure im lore mew Birtation Yes, Mr. Jarr Had Five Whole Dollars; But He Saved It Till It Was All Gone of bimself firat!” So, followed by the youthful ward- Mr. Jarr went forth and changed bill, paying 60 cents tér ‘iving the children 10 cents apiece and sending back a dollar end a half to their mother for the woman in by the day. The o all the na way you waste your mone, w T A Kaiser be, of bigh ew | Mie father was a I Why wiare are were # And we | ut ermue My view Morked ‘The inspector bimaelf opened the bag, enatehed HY German Kmperor ana | Baiea. out the decoy package and counted the money, It wae thin the seif-mame year oil there, Meley bed (he best seusune for knowing were here, | ‘hat, and whe watehed bim unconcermedly, At iaet eed up at her and weld grimly Moneath ihe self-same oy, Did he get quite away, Mire. Make: Upon the eelfesame morn 1 dow! know what you're (aking wb phe iehed up the decoy packiew snowe Aud | the uausl chance of fale | COINK WOKE MAMKED Hur Mra 6; 40d mine |asourinnly, “YOUU ol) right, whatever bevpene just « form thet be ell oy you eh some wb “ — roll hd to aad W \ ae arologues By Alma Woodward teaera! WAR We Tee Ponee Wubnabing Oy ow tm The Ge 4 of it! word, t day a dollar forty-cent O. D. came while Mr. J. was present, and he had to produce, Friday he asked for a quarter to get downtown. “You bad $10 ¢ Jarr severely to me about what you You didn't give m oll, 1 don't remember ik you for anything you should Please don’ Vive got @ bi ents; ~ five? % is @ lot of money with nothing to come out of it! don't talk = Me and Bill, . » Vuperor wn t eoy nthe we week!" Any mortise, obey ie econ em hiner thee e over bad odven ‘WAR AND WOMEN. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. : we WAS a great success,” say the returning delegates from +e Women’s Peace Congress. “It proves that if women shared in the government of nations there would be.no more war.” j That womer will clasp hands around the world and end war is @ | pretty theory, but the facts of the last ten months do not bear it outs ‘There is obviously no sharp sex division on the question of the appeal to arms. The acts of thousands of women in England, France and Gere | many speak louder than the words of the few hundred delegates who | met in Holland. Wives, sweethearts and mothers have not attempted |to hold back {rom the trenches their men, but have bidden them god- speed. As usual, women have tried to mitigate the suffering caused ‘by war, but they have not organized even a passive pacifist movee ment of any size or importance in any one of the countries at strife. Many women—and men—are convinced that war is illogical, | barbaric, horrible, Some few women—and men—believe life is so |dear, peace so sweet, that these good things must never be put in |jeopardy. But most intelligent women—and men—still accept the counsel of old Polonius: “Beware Of entrance to ® quarrel, but, being In, Bear ‘t that the opposed may beware of thee.” Human beings may end war some day; women are not yet ready, to do it. | Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces ne ; —s ~ s Of Stories | c c Coperight, 1915, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Erening World). NO. 5.—THE POSTMISTRESS OF LAUREL RUN; by Bret Harte. |OHN BAKER was foreman of the Last Chance Mine, near the boom camp of Laurel Run, in California. This was a half century or more ago. Betsy, his wife, was pretty, flighty and given to flirting. One day there was a cave-tn at the mine. Baker rushed to the rescue of his men. At the pit's edge he hesitated. But Betsy at bis elbow, white faced and calm, said: “Go, John. I will wait for you here.” He went. The men were saved. But John Baker was killed—buried under @ half mile of dirt and rubble. After that the Laurel Camp miners adopted Betsy as a sacred trust. The men who had flirted with her treated her now as reverently as though she were a saint. The camp combined to obtain a post office for Laurel Run and had Betsy appointed postmistress. To increase her salary the inhabitants used to buy ludicrous numbers of stamps Botsy went calmly about her new duties, When there were fury mental orders she could not understand ehe used to send them over, 5 » Stanton Green, postmaster at Hickory Ridge, an old and dear friend of John’s, Green would translate the complicated orders for her and tell her how to answer them, One day she received an official query about sume of meney that had miscarried through the mails. She did not know how to reply, So she sent it across to Green. He did not send tt back or tell her what to do about it. A few days later, Harry Home, a post office inspector, dropped off the stage at Laurel Run and called on Betsy. He wanted to know why she had not answered the query about the missing money. She told him she had not known the correct form of reply and that she had accordingly sent it to Green at Hickory Ridge. Home was furious: “You have given information to a man whom the Government suspects of peculation!” he exclaimed. He went on to tell her that a “decoy package” of money had just been sent through the mails from the office the other @ide of Hickory Iidge and was due to reagh Laurel Run that night. If the moncy or any part of it should be missing when it arrived at Laurel Run, the authorities would know Green had stolen it. Home was going to be on hand to open the mail bag. . As soon an the inapector’s back was turned Betsy stuffed a bag of gold pieces into her pocket, mounted ber horse, Blue Lightning, and galloped through the forests at top speed to Hickory Ridge. She drew rein at Green's post office juat after the mail coach had halted there, She ran into the office and confronted Green, who Was etil! fumbling with the mail bag before sending it on to Laurel Kun, In the man's weak face as he told the story of the decoy package she read his guilt, She demanded to see the package of money. Green had already taken $100 from it and had turned it over to a preaming creditor, Vrom the money im her pocket, Melsy replaced the missing $100, Green thanked ber teurfully, and then in bia confusion and gratitude he blurted out an avowal of love, Hho rejected him in disgust. Stung by her refueat he asked why she had bothered to eave him if abe did not love him. ; “Loame here for John Haker's sake,” abe flashed, “aa John Maker's living wife to carry on dead John Baker's work!” ‘Then whe aprang to the saddle und at (he same breukneck pace rode back to Laurel Kun, Hiding her horse #he etrolied uneoncernediy into her OWN post office just as the stage stopped at (he door with the mailbag trom aemmorenreccccen, Wickory Midie. on tt ae aid A “Decoy Package.” * waid M Well, ive On, ut wand A emoting bs wit wome | Wiiktoe 9 bal oboe - ° * waver Oy ie ' ou ae | ed 4 me ide ood (her ordered « ote | fot the Wwe of them. 4 He 7 they @uuidnt a4 child end moet 4. lod wa Ses ond barat