The evening world. Newspaper, August 9, 1915, Page 10

She mn . ESTABIISHED RY JOSEPH PULITZER. ead Hi Pebtisned by the Press Publisning Company, Nos, 68 to Daily Pxcept UNI How. New York. T &) JOSEPH PULIT? RALPH P) . 63 Parte Row, tint En at tho Port. ¢ in Martor. | Maven tes to The fvening For England and the Continent ané | ‘World for the United States All Countries in the International | and Canad Postal Unton. | ss $2.80] One Tear. wey + 49. | 801 One Month. ‘ NO. 19,711 ee NO FAVORS FOR CARRANZA. HE activities of the Carranza agents at Washington and in this} city remind one of well-paid, confident henchmen lobbying for a “Bose.” It is not likely, however, that the President} begin the good offices of this nation toward Mexico by backing} ¢laima of Carranza. ‘ + At the present moment the President and his advisers are dis eussitig the Mexican situation behind closed doors. Their plans are 80 doubt only half formulated. The departure of Gen, Scott for! the édge of the storm area promises shrewd reconnoitring and—if ah there is @ chance for it—common-sense mediation, The nation is) it to wait. . | The public, however, is naturally interested in the Mexican problem. Where the friendliest efforts of this country in behalf of ifs neighbor may lead, no one can tell. Responsibility will be heavy id considerable money will almost certainly have to be furnished Meanwhile, having been assured that the handling of Mexi ly: factions will be effective and impartial, this country would | to see every sign of arrogant assumption on the part of Carranza} meet with prompt discouragement. If prieonére: and. politicians can't agree how’ Sing Sing | ehould be run, what can be expected of a mere honest man? oe MAKING A HOLIDAY OF A HANGING. ARKSVILLFE, Miss., one day last week mixed trade, politics and a double hanging, according to reports, in‘one grand, wide- 1 ly-advertised picnic. While the Sheriff despatched two ne- grees, five thousand persons sat in an amphitheatre around the scaf- fold and ate their lunches. Lemonade and soft drinks circulated freely. If half the reports about this holiday are true it was as disgrace- fal “an exhibition as has ever been attributed to an American com- manity. Lynchings are at least-the result of excited passion and ven- geance. But to advertise a legal public hanging as an attraction in )¢0ld-blooded scheme to boom local business is revolting. « Barksville ought to be favored with the unexpurgated opinion of every decent, self-respecting town\and city in the nation. f —_—_——— idp Harvard freshman has been sentenced to twenty-two tm fall for operating an automobile while under the in- ienen ot liquor. .A most necessary and essential:part of his edutation : ifs ba ——+-—____—_ ’ AN ATTEMPT THAT FAILED. VETOING the sight-seeing car ordinance, which The Evening World vigorously opposed, Mayor Mitchel reviews for the benefit Of the Aldermen the long fight which wrested special street! from grafting taxicab monopolies and finally established present public hack ordinance. | The law. now in force, thanks to the persistent efforts of this méwepaper, secures the use of the public streets to all licensed cab Operators on equal terms. m | The sight-seeing car measure, slyly railroaded through the Board | of Aldermen, was an attempt on the part of private interests to get against the State law which provides that no owner, pant of rea) property shall make any arrangement whereby somebody fe permitted to use @ portion of any public highway, Deulevard or park owned by the State of New York, or any munici-| therein, “for the purpose of permitting any vehicle to stand awaiting passengers for hire.” Obviously a measure which permits the operator of sight-seeing | ears to establish a stand for those cars in front of any building where | ee succeeds in leasing a ground floor or basement office should never Rave been passed. In recording his veto the Mayor does well to make it plain that! any legislative attempt to restrict the free use of the public strects as) now granted to all properly licensed vehicles is out of date and will be promptly quashed. —$—$_$______. Portugal has elected a President—thereby supplying one Peaceful paragraph from Europe, Hits From Sharp Wits. Tt ts the determined woman who believe she doesn’t want to be kissed me » 1915, by married a apendthrift to reform] when she worries for fear he won't| last night and I was greatly baphinsgaciegsatstbd im who is Bret to take note of Mis| get busy. alarmed.” | hla Inquirer eee m change.—Philade ipa Ina! Piers teens Cet gveea thai “Why didn't you send for me?) A woman's idea of rigid economy I | on the car, “reach their yearn of dis: | Seked Mra. Kittiagly, “You must| to cut out meat during the’ hot weather in order to save enough to — ® bargain nale.—Wasbington - eee * A lot of men get the iden that they are breesy when they are merely wiady--Columbia Stary. cretion early in life, and othera wear wrist watches at forty."--Toledo Blade. . If thanks and good advice—more or lees good—were ass we should all be millionair Ibany Journal. . . grass widow who selzed upon her, Back under new form the old profitable privileges. It was plainly; “How nice to meet you!” cried Mra lessee or ocen-| Kittingly gayly. sat The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell ‘The Evening World Daily Magazine, Where Next? 2 | x0 a} nan sttih eva aie eet) Copyright, 1916, by the Prese Publishing Go, (The New York @vewing World.) RS, JARR was waiting in main aisle of the great de- partment store for Mra, Ran- Kittingly, the little lived upstairs, le when Mrs, said Mrs. Jarr. faithfully walt for her near the leather goods.” “I'm all through with | my shopping and I've a taxicab out- side. I want you to come with me street, avenue, | and take luncheon!” And she mentioned a very expensive | restaurant indeed. “Oh, I couldn't go, though T thank you very much,” Promised Mrs, Rangk the| but, really THAT woman!” and she was gone, “I'm surprised to see you talking to that person!” said Mrs. Rangle, com- ing up. “But she is lovely to the children! And, to tell the truth, she is always well behaved,” replied Mrs. Jarr. “What's this world coming to when Dersons of that sort have it so nice?” jasked Mrs, Rangléy~ “Did her hus- id get the divoree or did she?” “L think SHB did,” said Mrs, Jarr. Rangle signifi- cantly, “It's easy enough for that kind, who have plenty of money and nothing to bother them, to pretend “r ra “Never mind her,” said Mrs. Kit- tingly. “She'll be probably lugging around a shopping net. That sort of women always do. And I do so want they are so fond of children, How jmuch alimony does she get “I really don’t know,” said Mra, Jarr, “but it's a whole lot. Her last mo By J. H. Cassel | von « Mrs. Jarr Very Carefully Compares the Joys of Mat told me that the courts could have awarded her ten times as much and he wouldn't have felt it. “Well, Mr. Rangle has his faults,” said Mrs, Rangle, sentimentalty, “but Ud rather have him than alimony” when we're poor wo feel that eplied Mrs, Jarr. Vhy, look!" said Mra. Rangle, “the jJanitress of our flat waa married to a cab driver, and he was a terrible man, and she got @ divorce, and the court awarded her $2 a week, but he never paid it.” “Well, there, you see!” cried Mra. Jarr. “A poor woman doesn’t get it, just as T said.” “I suppose you're right,” Mrs. Rangle answered. “It's only divorce from a rich man with prop- erty. He HAS to pay. “Yes, I suppose so,” said Mra. Jarr. “But I can appréciate how Mra. Kit- tingly feels to know her husband is to talk to you about the children, Dear | little kidd Ah, what wouldn't 1| sive to have them?" i Little Mrs. Kittingly, being adept! at emotional effort, brought a yearn- Ing look into her eyes, as if to indi-| cate that no happiness would have! ; been as great to her as the joys of | motherhood, | “How are the darlings?" she added, most brokenly. “Emma is wall to-day,” said Mrs. |Jarr, “but she had a slight fever! Reflections By Helen never fail to call ngon me if either of! Upon the night the little dears are ill, On, Mre. You should be a happy woman!” | _ “I'm glad you think so, | Jarr, “But children are “But to have them to love as your very own! To have a husband who . always jogs your elbow? Polygamy may have its drawback: | Many a man will eat things away| All men are born equal, bat Gyen adores you and devotes himeeit to | has to stop and count up in order to discover whether she te “Number One” ho |few of them can prove it.—Philadet- t yl ections, - a uy ale ae ieee ana avowsa phia Inquirer. you and not to have had your life|9F only number thirty-two in his affect when his wife ser’ them to him at Ld ° blighted by wretches, as mine bh fhome.—Macon Ne’ Pea Rog tice gid ae at hiding | bee Money? What is that It is never foolish to be wise; but any married woman will tell you that fl she! | had a light--Omaha World-Herald. | Seked Mra, Kittingly in her most lit is sometimes wise to be @ little foolish, vas ies | dramatic manner, “Can it bring - jbappiness?| No, it only brings future in rose color and ‘egs her to Things like this ave going on every day, and that which [ think many eriminal gin. How is it that the York can permit any Why don’t the av Yeuthtel Gamble: {90 tho Bititor of The Evening World: he other day, passing in front of } saloon on lower east side, | saw boys ( youngest not more about nine yeare of age und the thing to save these lads, jest sbout fourceen) smoking a8) joy part of the gambled for nickels and dimes, lp Ec @ pack of dirty cards. Around) rent road’ wat a dozen men or #o,| of whom bad just emerged from » They seemed tickled at uch young boys ih- like thi and encourage the derly men who are fit and willin, Positively disgusting. | good character and babits, B. To the FAitor of The Evening World: R, mee ie Just the way in| aie before I would let him know | There should be a bureau where! To| situations could be procured for #;| \y 10 paints his | worry! And that reminds me that Te an's the man whe pe the check didn’t come to-day from my second husband's lawyer, Noth- ing would suit that man better than | to know I was starving. But I would} cause she can’t happen to think what about all the excltisively personal th: life, Mrs, Kittingly. “I would if 1 could,” said Mra, Jarr, “but really I can't. And here comes Mra. ingle now, “Well, | must be off then,” eaid Mra, ms Kittingly, “You won't mind it dear, “lifeline, A Bachelor Girl Prose Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wort.) HERE would we find our love and laughter? Oh, wouldn't life be a bore, If we always thought of the “morning after” Alas! why is it that when your cup of happiness is full somebody jmarry him who usually wins the girl, but the one who paints hie “past” in jvermilion and begs her to “save” him, It doesn't make @ woman any less determined to have her way just be- ‘The last word, her toothbrush and the right to change Optimism is the happy faculty of tinting your gray todays by looking t your tomorrows through rose-colored glasses. Love is the “‘heart-line"; marriage is the “clothes-line’ of Rowland before! but at least the Turk’s wife never it is. her mind are ings a married woman claims in this rimony,and Al..1uony husband was a very rich man. She) well able to afford to give her ten times as much as he does, and doesn’ “Yes,” replied Mra Rangle. “Tha one good thing’ about marrying a poor man. At least, bis wife gets ALL he has.” And, comforted by this, the ladier shopped in a happy frame ot mind. How to Make a Hit. By Alma Woodward. On New Yorg rtcng Wetnet On an Open Street Car. Monday, August 9, 1918° ‘The Of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces By Albert Payson Terhune ty the Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World.) No. 36.—MR. HIGGINBOTHAM’S CATASTROPHE, By Nathaniel Hawthorne. OMINICUS PIKE, tobacco salesman, jogged out of Mornistown early one summer morning seventy years ago, bound on @ @wo day trip to Kimballton, sixty miles distant As Pike drove along he met a villainous-looking fellow who was hurrying from the other direction, Pike hailed the stranger and auked for the latest news. The man replied in a scared whisper that Mr. Higginbotham of Kimballton had been murdered at 8 the previous evening by two men. He added: “They strung him up to the branch of a St. Michael's pear tree, where nobody would find him t{ll the morning.” | Dominicus jogged on, wondering how his informer happened to know so much about a murder committed sixty miles away and less than twelve | hours earlier. For there were no railroads and no telegraph lines in that backwoods region. However, news is news. And the first teller of it is always certain of a hearing. So as Dominicus Pike drove from village to | Villawe that day he told everywhere the tidings of Mr, Higginbotham’e murder. That night he stopped at an inn half way between Morristown and | Kimballton. ‘There, in the barroom he toid again his tale of the murder. One farmer in the crowd interrupted the thrilling nar- rative by declaring: “If Squire Higginbotham was murdered last night T drank a glass of Ditters with his ghost this morning. He called me ‘nto his store as I was riding by and treated me.” This setback shook Pike's faith in his own powers He began to fear the story he had been telling all day | | Tragedy i} or Comedy? as a nows-vender. | was a lie, i} Next morning, as he was on his way toward Kimbaliton, he met @ | ewarthy man coming from that direction, Pike stopped the man and asked | him if ft were true that Squire Higginbotham had been killed by two men |on the night before last. The question seemed to arouse panic fear in the man, who stammered that Higginbotham had indeed been killed—hanged in his own orchard—but by only one man, not by two. Also that it had hap- pened last night; not the night before. In other words, that Higginbotham had been murdered thirteen hours after Pike had first heard of the tragedy. Dominicus wondered mightily at all this; but he was once more con- | firmed in his belief that his news was true. So at Parker's Falls, where he stopped that noon and where Higginbotham waa well known, he told it all | over again. No one there had heard it. | In the midst of the excitement followed by his story the stage from | Kimballton rolled into town, A curious crowd gathered around {t demanding particulars of the crime. Just then a decidedly pretty girl stepped out of the | stage and, addressing the throng, told them she was Mr. Higginbotham's niece and that her uncle had been alive and in excellent health when she had left home that morning. | Pike slunk out of town in a hurry, his thoughts divided between dismay at the mystery and adoration for the girl with whom he had fallen in love j at sight. At 8 o'clock that evening he drove into Kimballton. As he passed ey Higginbotham orchard he resolved to see for himself whether or not Higginbotham's body was hanging from the St. Michael's pear tree. Whip | in hand, he left his cart and entered the twilit orchard. Presently he saw the | pear tree. And under the tree, a rope about his neck, cowered Higginbotham, | A huge ruffian was about to string the luckless Squire up to the nearest | branch, With a blow of his whip butt Dominicug Pike knocked the fellow sense« “Mr. Higginbotham,” then babbled Pike, “you're an honest man, and I'll take your word for it. Have you been hanged or not?” “No, there was no mystery about any of it. Three men had plotted the robbery and murder of Mr. Hig- ginbotham, knowing he passed homewaré through his orchard every evening at 8. Two of them, successively, lost courage and fled, each delaying the crime one night by their disappearance, and each trying to dodge eun- | picton by telling of it as though committed by some one else, The third was | in the act of carrying out the plan when a champion, blindly obeying the call of fate, like the heroes of old romance, appeared in the person of Dominicus Pike.” | ‘That's all, except that Dominicus married Higginbotham’e pretty niece | and the grateful |——————— Solved. | | | | The Problem | | old gentleman left them his fortune. ‘45th Year of Belgian “Neutrality” O-DAY (Aug, 9) is the forty-ftth | [anniversary of the estgning of when the Emperor Napoleon and thy. soon-to-be-empire of Bismarck’s cre- ation engaged in confiic Whea a treaty between Great Britain /France and Germany clashed, Belgium and Prossia by which the neutrality |feared a repetition of history, in which she had always played the rolu of a prize hung up for greedy and powerful nations to squabble over. Again her geographical position mada her a buffer state between h Powers, Hoping for tho be: fully expected promptly put her little army on a war footing and prepared to sell her independence dearly, Both her Fre and German borders were lined with troops and hastily. improvised do- of Belgium, which had been guaran- teed by an éarlier convention of all thé great European powers, was con- firmed and reasserted. Two days later Great Britain and France entered into a @imilar treaty, and the fear, then | widespread in Belgium, that the little [country might he n into the | Franco-Prussian war, was definitely and finally allayed. take the safe to get a ta) your acute knees. seated look at fhem and smile bp- nignly. Most likely they are hot and out of gear from the exertion; and your close scrutiny and grin will go a long way toward making them happy. Becond—Always offer to pass the nickel of those out of reach to the conductor, You can heighten the ef- fect of this tactful act by dropping the coin—preferably out of the car. This accomplishes the double pur- pose of pleasing the passenger and the conductor with one shot. Third—Although the seats are do- signed to hold five: passengers each, the company doesn't figure on em- bonpoint. Therefore when a candi- date for “Green's oatmeal did it!” gets in as the fifth passenger. gaze at him with the same horrified disgust that you would Sestow upon a sea- gone camel, and look significantly ret at the space, then at him and back again, untii he wouldn't have the nerve to try it, even though he thought he could get away with It. Fourth—Always syinpathize with the conductor in his trials and tribu- lations, When a passenger insists that he has paid his fare at the same time that the conductor ts insisting that he hasn't, if the pas- senger js in the same seat with you, wag your head ne so that either may take you far removed, have to say when the conductor on the running board. For instance: “Ain't he tho Mmit? Why don't you throw him off? Didn't I see him duck? He didn't cough up at all. I'll bet he never paw a nickel, in the first place,” 4c. If there's real scrap, be Johnny-gn- the-spot with your name and ada a as witness. When they are divorce is the There was wild | fenses. (It may not be many years bel the old 7 o le open, car wil ey he ast 3 cute s| rejoicing among the Belgians, and| England's position made it neces ie et he “ttre ape | Warm gratitude to Great Britain waa #4?¥ that Belgian neutrality, should teeta to Too on ths “quiet lexpressed by the King and officials] intervention, Belgium was soared ait “4 G : ‘ Firet—Be an cnd seat hos, but |e, Belgian Government, out | {Pe Rorrors of that war, and for once temper the situation by assisting all | Belgium was protected against aggres-|ders while the ation sarorinen i it ed, infirm, stout or Inggage-laden |sion not only by the guarantee of late, In September, 1870, a numher of person& across your feet and past perpetual neutrality made by the! French troops passed into Belgiun European powers in i831, following the of but their mood was far from belligs ent, as they were fleeing from the disaster at Sedan, and entered Bel. lum only to escape capture by the Germans, They immediately taid down their arms and were interned by tha the independence of the treaties of 1870 hi t Britain forced upon Prus sia and France, It was these treat which became but “scraps of pape when / "military sent the| Belgians. The ex fi y experience « 1870 way. armigs of the Kaiser swarming over|the Belgians condence in the pewer Belgium | of the treaties by which they wera Great Bri f protector of protected—a confidence which it seems was sadly misplaced. is A Wit, Wisdom and Philoso —== By Famous Authors ophy GREATNESS. By Abraham Cowley. INCE we cannot attain great-| most fortunate of mankind, ness,” saya the Sieur de Mon-| €ndowed, too, with inany’ taigne, “let us have our re-| Pats of ature, was often fo venge by eneering at it." This he little Moorish wnd Sng * spoke but in jest, I believe he desired] One of the inconveniences ot thie ft no more than T do and had less| Status is that no greatness can ve reason, satisfied or contented with itselt I know many men will despixe and Still, if it could inount uy; 1 higher it would be h fe it cout some pity me as a poor spirited fool, iP Pwould ‘obisia but I confess I love littleness in al- but gain that point it would obtain most all things. A little convenient all its desires. But yet at last when eatate, a little cheerful house, a little it is up to the very top of th e it is in very great danger of breaks company and a very little feast, and if I were to fall in love again (and I ing its neck. fy hope I have done with it) it would Belgium was more ») ensful in 1870, 66 A person excellent und play. ones with rian boys, 1D you have pared aw. ° ity, what solid and natural content, ment does there remain which may not be had with five hundred poundy be, I think, with prettiness rather|a year? Not ao many serv than with majestic beauty. houses, but a good ‘ones whick Yot there are very few people who} Will do the business as weil; not so . many choice dishes at every meal are not in something and to some|but ut several meals all er (Reale degree grandiose. Is anything more|which makes them both the . mo) common than to seo our ladies of ny healthful and yet the more ple: quality wear such high shoes as they not so rich garmel pe hor so fre. quent changes, but as'warm and Fifth—If a lovely dame wishes to|cannot walk in without one to lead | Uomely: not such « state aa allght and can't get the conduoctor's|them, and a gown as long fuels 88 ms or the coatlisat ecete KS eye to stop the car, pull the bell for her | their body so that ey cahnot stir|tapeatry, but .a convenient brick yourself. The motorman will get wise |to the next room without a page or) po with decent wainscot ‘ona to a new technique on the bell and|two to hold It up? | turn around to glare, and the con-| I may safely say that all the osten- | ‘oods, cut 1 uctor will holler from the rear, “Hey, |tation of our grandees is just like a ) nor toustanh keep your paws off'n that bell—see?" |train—of no use in the world, but or cascade gardens, ‘but herb H Sixth—When you're -xetting off {horribly cumbersome and incom: | flower and fruit gardens, which © urself, step in front of an automo. |modious. What is all this but 4 spice| more useful, and th or every Bile--one that's atne It's always Gf Srancens} te ceaione, wins this | whit as clear and whi me as vei seem nang. Eee Js" bimseil the hightat ane dpeat a we ag geodon estoy s aed coms a $e the are ° clver . . . Fi r » sak wi é P ot we as Nis ae AOR. Tem} a msay Ts