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be gatorto ‘| Not to” Seam seNED PT POHKrT PoUITERR Beatty Becers Suptey vy she hyves Puviiehing Compass, Nes 60 to cent ant 26 One Month UNTIL WE STOP THE GAME. TRMANY wust dissvow the attack on the Arabic, Until she dors 60 there w pothing to arbitrate The Gerinsy Ambecador ae communicated the decision | ef the American Government to the German Foreign Office in Beriia The German Awbascador hopes to have o reply in « week or ten days. | Whee the “view” of the Imperial German Government arrives—and Gapericnce has taught us whet to look forthe German Ambassador Wil) communicate it to the Ame Then it will be, @ the French say, to recommene. | "+ (When ts the insult of this one-step-forward-one-step-back diplo- macy toend? How much longer is this country to be put off, tricked, | Aaped with empty phrases and faire starts! | The answer is cary: Germany will play her gan s long a0 We meekly sit at table. We etil! do her the honor to treat with her! ‘ _ fiwough her Ambassador ‘and ours. Why should the Linperial Gov-| f ermment cease fooling us while we consent to call it diplomacy? | : 7 — 7 AN ORGY OF TAXATION? ¥ A CARNIVAL of taxation under the auspices of Mayor Mitchel and the Tax Department to be celebrated in this city ¢ | 4 Close upon the news that municipal salaries must be docked 4 @omes the proposal that personal tax valuations for next year be in- greased twelvefold—from $340,000,000 to more than $4,000,000,000. Bingle men owning $1,000 worth of property or more would be taxed. Married men would have to pay on property above $1,250, g That which The Evening World predicted early in the year is ‘ooming to pass. To meet the consequences of waste and extrava- panes, to make up huge deficits due to uncollected taxes and easy-go- ing treatment of delinquent corporation debtors, city financiers jump at the easiest, readiest expedient—fresh taxes upon the average citizen. Last February, it was shown by The Evening World, $93,000,000 gf ancollected taxes were recorded in the Comptroller’s books. Un- ' ¢ollected franchise taxes amounted to $11,000,000, Unpaid taxes ‘upon personal property totalled $48,000,000, How much of this debt has the city since collected? : Every year the growth of New York adds fresh value to the _ teanchises of public service corporations that use its streets and take toll from ite millions. Does the tax revenue which the city should _ receive from these franchises increase accordingly? On the contrary. Two years ago the B. R. T. paid a franchise 4az-on a valuation of €46,000,000. A year ago the same company was assessed on $33,000,000. And this year the valuation was cut to $30,000,000. Humilisting compromises with corporations cost the city yearly from 40 to 50 per cent. of the franchise taxes which are its due. __ It has long been a principle with our municipal financiers that ‘while it is troublesome to collect taxes it is easy to levy new ones. If | millionaires swear off their personal taxes the honesty of men with | | Modest incomes can be relied on. )_. Does the present administration admit that, being too weak to eallect full taxes from powerful incorporated interests and elusive mallMonaires, it must call on humbler citizens to make good? {The city is being defrauded of millions in unpaid taxes. Ts there me-one with courage to go after them? > aS Cn POLITICS SERVED BY CRIME. WIDENCE of organized murder-for-hire in the Second Assem- bly District gathers thick around the assassination of Mike au Government e with us iad A) Jarr. money you give me. from Mrs, Jarr. is i A took the quarter that was begrudgy a Geimari, Tammany lieutenant, who was shot and killed} ingiy nanded to him. It was just Nest March. what he wanted, that's why he (While the District Attorney has not revealed the full strength of |#*e for @ dollar. The Evening World D The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1916, by the Prem Publisilug Uo, (The Now York Wrening World), ELL, it everybody 1s) making* money in Wall/ not @ real shoestring,” Mr. Jarr ex- Street these days, why don’t you?” asked Mrs. | “And then you won't have to borrow back all the | ‘These remarks were induced by the fact that Mr, Jarr was endeavor- ing to negotiate a loan of a dollar “Everybody isn't making money in Wall Street,” replied Mr. Jarr, as he “I say everybody is making money aily Magazine, A Sb. EIGN i, af “He meant on very small capital, plained. “And if I did go speculating I would have to have some money— say a couple of hundred dolkars—even jto start on a shoestring. Will you lend it to me?” Mrs. Jarr thought of the hard saved {little nest egg in the savings bank and grew ‘med, | “Suppose you lost it?” she asked, “That's always the risk,” replied Mr, Jarr. “If you buy stocks on mar- gin and your margin is wiped out, ou lose your money. It's just like uying things on instalments, except that when you buy household goods THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO U.S. -_— Ww... YOU DO DECLARE ON OATH THAT YOU ABSOLUTELY AND ENTIRELY WR RENOUNCE AND ABJURE ALL LLEGIANCE AND FID TATE,STATE OR S$ » PARTICULARLY TO dys, |... -. OF WHOM YOU HAVE BEEN A y py SUBJECT AND THAT You With UPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE U.S. AGAINST fy |ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND May DOMESTIC, AND WILL BEAR TRUE My FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE Mr. Jarr Must Shun With His foollsh as that in speculating in stocks?” asked Mrs, Jarr. “Suppose I bought a new bedroom set of furnl- ture on margin, as you call it. And I was paying tn instalments” “Well, if the price of bedroom sets went down the dealer would call on you to pay another instalment, and if you hadn't he would sell the set of furniture at the low price and keep the money you had already paid,” explained Mr. Jarr. “At least, that is about as near as one can com- pare buying stocks on margins and buying furniture on the instalment plan.” Mrs. Jarr sneered. “You men are a lot of softies,” she remarked. “I'd like to see any merchant try to sell goods on the instalment plan that ‘way. Why, it's bad enough when ANY FOREIGN PRINCE, POTEN— this case, enough is known to indicate that Gaimari’s slayers were paid : of a murderer higher up, who, like Becker, had power and By cadh to procure the killing of his personal or polétical enemies, An- ~~ other Tammany agent, Joseph Minott, was done to death in similar : » And three years ago there were murderous plots against Be hemmeny leaders Tom Foley and Congressman Daniel J. Riordan. It is expected that all these plots, with other murders, assaults ‘and neighborhood fights besides, can be traced to a former ‘Tammany | henchman who turned on the organization and has since fought it with * a fury that knew no scruple. ; ~~ One thing seems plain, © Politics and contract crime have been in shamefel alliance. While the courts punish the guilty the District needs a scouring vigorous enough to stand as an example to other Hits From Sharp Wits. in Wall Street,” repeated Mrs, Jarr. “Everybody “Is Bepler, the butcher, and Mul- ler, the grocer, and Toni, the iceman, and Slavinsky, the glazier, and Fred, the barber, making money out of Wall Street?” Mr. Jarr inquired. ““Phose are nobodies!” said Mrs. Jarr, “When I speak of everybody 1 mean somebody—you can't say that Mr, Stryver, and your employer, old Mr, Smith, are not making money out of Wall Street, You told me they were yourself—out of Battle Chil- dren stocks.” “War babies, I said,” replied Mr. Jarr, “Those are stocks of compgn- fes that sell or manufacture war supplies, as I told you before.” “Well, I don't see why you don't make money out of them, too, if everybody else does,” ventured Mrs. ‘Those men who adopted wrist Th why tt 1s perfectly logteal|$ver with a wigh, “Ot course, I watches are now puzzled over the new, me should do the dishes,—Pitts- - a aring knee watches, 'S no| burgh Press, don't want you to sell stocks for 7m of use fe] to keep up with the women! bullets and bayonets, although If it —Omaba World-Herald, If the school children had their way, > | cleaned up @ fortune, 4 To-Day. rooms an® then is crowded yhen 1 enter a man's osiablishment| what in the ght of @ travelling man- Piteea in The Dresing \ # in & crowded tenementHOuse | too proud to start selling shoestrings | NAb "ThinKing go much of sedling| ager, Ifa scheme works well in Day- oe grt Evening World your| and becomes ill herself, | a. Gurb, like those peddlers with | advertising as 1am of how to mer-| ton, I investigate it and it's promptly Peeeraay and tho woman weinan oF A READER, [rong whiskers do, Anyway, 1 don't| chandixe his goods, “And my chief aa- | put Into execution through my entire reason oo “ety ¢| | - set is a very wide experience in solv- | territory. am, of course, care! 0 Le . why. tae woman of . aig want you todo that, for many reasons, | fh ‘Sales problems, 1 keep my eyes| to suggest the same plan to competing [ry ay ad ° tbe gl Ha | So the Bilaor of Tee Boonies Wort and one reason is that while I havé|ana ears open and am ready with| merchants, Now I am one of the ee se! fifteen children she could have your evening paper in “Letters from | Christmas and the People” column the present salar of the Frosideps of tye alle Statery standing by the Curb, |in the country, but 1 do know that he You bave| (hat gift, as 1 am notoriously abrupt She | shoestrings, but 1 presume you'd be | of speech Will you kindly advise me through geen jots of those shoestring peddlers | suxgestions. 1 never saw |them sell any shoestrings, ao Mr. | how nis stock is moving, &e. on the instalment plan you get pos- | they send collectors and threaten to session of them, but when you buy, take away the things if you don’t pay stocks on margin the broker holds the! your instalments regularly, but to stocks, and when he calls for more! hold the goods until they were paid money and you don't give it to him} for and to sell them out if the price he keeps the stocks—or sells them—| went down if you didn’t pay the bal- and you've lost the money you'd} ance, well, all I have got to say is paid in.” that it's no wonder women do not “You mean to tell me mon are as! buy stocks in Wall Street on the in- Dollars and Sense By H. J. Barrett. Copyright, 1915, by the Prom Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), The Secret of This Salesman’s Suc- cess. scheme which I or some other mer- chant, has worked successfully else- where, And of course It involves ad- “ce NE of the best ideas I ever) vertising. But by this time the mer- got in my business came] chant views me in the light of a busi- from the advertising man- r of a daily paper,” said a crack sales “I don't know whether or not he was the best man in his line lior rather than an ad’ ; hence his readiness to adopt my suggestions,’ “I promptly began to apply man’s formula to my own problems. Whenever I delivered my sales talk, I injected a lot of infor- is considered the best man in his or- gathering information, To-day I am Hut L'll tell you the secret.| considered by my customers som After a call or two 1 have a pretty fair grasp of whas ® And, frankly, man is carrying on his shely best paid salesmen in my line in the I attribute Wednesday: September 15: 1915 —— ELITY TO OVER — THE «oe Wall Street “Borrowed” Quarter. stalment plan, as you call it.” “But they do! A lot of women dabble in stocks,” remarked Mr. Jarr. “It's a gamble, but if you want to take the risk Ill speculate; give me the money. “I will no! said Mrs, Jarr firmly. lar, is {t? Well, don't you ask for a dollar again, and you keep out of Wall Street!” “Mollie of the Movies By Alma Woodward Co; nt, 1915, by The Press Publishing Co, PMThbe New York Evening World) F any one ever tries to put over I on you that a moving picture di- the high sign and observe tratfe regulations to the right! to find one of the species who isn’t shy at least three wheels and a half a dozen buttons in the observatory, Great gu It isn't a thing you can blame ‘em for. Who wouldn't go frothy in the frieze, having to read all those scenarios and then try to make @ bunch of people who were born in ivory cupolas act them? But I'd always given this special director credit for being a little dif- ferent—until last Satyrday. been watching all the 8 who cotton to me; and about a month ago a new John joins the fold. He was engaged to play “honest” parts—the guy who never opens his pay en- velope himself and brings up the coal at night. He looked the part all right. [ guess he must have washed his face with laundry soap. And his ears looked positively brittle, they shone 80. Well, the director drifts up to me Saturday and says: “See here, Mollie, here's a lad who's crazy about you, Don't waste your F : bs Who'll never were for war supplies that might| ganization, and as his organization| mation as to how to sell my line after| time with these du ere would be little overc o beans, Get seri- Ra there would be little overcrowding 18 yelp and not mrt, Uke bread and| owns and operates nearly thirty] purchasing it, I kept on. the watch | moun. fp aE ied Men laugh at women for gossining, | t)\"* ial ealtic bandages, 1 won't mind.” |dailies, that's good enough, 1 met] ET io te ee on eatty’sldsela | So when the kid asked me to go to sont Nag oe Ry ned homey yong oe 2. @ “1 don't believe there are any| him at a business men’s weekly lunch| ang pefore long was able to dissem-|the Island with him Sunday I said ee oeenve tage some to beat the| Make a noise that rings like wealth | stocks of the bread and bandage | und decided to sound him for Ups | inate a good many practical ideas| *Yos." 1 thought we'd use a maching fame 01d he-sex-—Columbia Star, p28 any numba visiting cense will kind,” said Mr, Jarr, “But if you) Why is Mt that you 980, sell more OGRE Tay SAS. fr aeienclanitne pring down, Bere beens T ware be pus es Ge yor —_ a arg! » than any ian on your en 8 a , ty ng _| Philadelphia Telegraph, wish me to speculate on margins 1 Spee tt dailies?’ 1 inquired, “is it] merchants in af extremely different| he must have had ‘some kind of M Many a fellow thinks he's clever © will if you will give me the money, our canvass, your ity, your| aspect. Instead of viewing me with| wad, because I never saw him ea: when he’s only fresh. nero is one who can look | have just given you a quarter,’ que or wh factor that|the suspicion attached to a man| much except @ tripe mousse once in eo. ; after he has been caught] ,.iq srs, Jarr, quickly “Its very S you where whose living is gained from persuad-|a while. , ‘a The girl of to-day can’t be expected|in the rain wearing his palm beach S40 Mrs : “Ho smiled, ssuredly is} ing them to affix their signatures to| Sufficient to say we went down to tango all night and work all day. | suit.—Pittsburgh Sun, | strange you spend so much Money. te ee ee replied, “for 1|an order they began to consider me|rapid transit! All the way down he eee eee [don't see what you want money for! have no prepared speech. And'neither| in, the light of @ friendly adviser. | | kept telling me whet & awoll time we | rd Mr. Stryver tell bis! is it a case of personality, because, to! “After some of my plans had| were 5 : Oy ea a ne eee ie eon a| be frank, I'm not a particularly genial | worked successfully, of course T wax| do you think that spud led me? To wife that @ man had started on a) De Tims | Micularly during business | solid, And as I was constantly on|the Municipal Baths! And me with shoestring on the Curb and bad | }OUYs" Ay for eloquence, 1 can't claim| the road, I had splendid facilities for | a corsage of rubber orchids to wear in the waves and everything! It being the tall end of the season and every one wantin to say that they'd bathed in the ofean this sum- mer, there was a line a mile long waiting. So I told him that all those ple would surely use up the water efore we got a show to get in—and I walked away, cold In a minute he came a-running; and just when T was hoping that no- body would get wise that he was y a Aaland I brought in, we meet an “So that's why you asked for a dol- | rector is all there, just give them | I have yet} He's A WOMAN AND HER WORK. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. 11, women premdent of (he Municipal Oivil Berviee Commission T of Low Augelos deciares that women have made good as palit cal offiooholders. The report of her fiat your'e work just pubs veved by Dr Katherine Bement Dervis, Commissioner of Oorrestion, proves that New York need not go to Californie te find out theta omen mney bee competent member of the city government. ‘Texpayers must be interested in Mise Devie'e second of caring tow (he greatest number of prisonere ever intrusted to her department of the lowest annual per capite cost, in the elaborate new eystem of eo counting by which the department keeps treck of every detail of em penee, and in the utihestion of inmate labor for farm, repair and come struction work along self-eustaining lines. Humanitarians will note thet prisonere are receiving better food better medical servioe; that the unnecessarily degrading prison stripes have been abolished; taat there has been « determined effort to end the drug traffic, and that, eo far as ancient, over-crowded, im sanitary buildings allow, the general living conditions of the prisoners have been improved Miss Davis undoubtedly has made mistakes, as nobody denies she | is human, But it is a list of solid, worth-while achievements that must be credited to Wew York's first and only woman Commissioner. Finally those conservatives who have feared that woman in public of- fice would be swayed by # rash and untempered idealism may derive comfort from Miss Davis's summary of her general policy: “We be lieve in progress toward the highest ideals attainable, but we believe im | making it in a sane and fashion, which is the surest road to per+ manent success St ories. Of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces Ibert Payson Terhune Or Copyright, 1916, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) No. 52—-THE GOLDEN INGOT. By Fitzjames O’Brien. R, LUXOR, a New York physician, was roused from eleep one snowy | midnight in 1856 by a girl who entreated him to come at once to an attic room on Seventh Avenue, r Twenty-third Street, to attend her injured father, William Blakelook, who, she said, had | been hurt by an explosion of chemicals, Luxor, guided by the girl, went to | the attic, which he found fitted up as a laboratory. In a cot in one corner Jay an old man, writhing with pain. As Luxor addressed him the victim cried out in terror. ‘Then, learning that his visitor was a physician, he bound the doctor by a solemn oath to reveal nothing he might see or hear. While Luxor was working over him (the hurts were not serious) Blakelock caught sight of his daughter sobbing | in the shadows at the far end of the room, and he burst into raging male dictions, cursing and reviling her so grossly that Luxor was forced to inter fere, Blakelock angrily explained why he so hated the girl—his own daughter, He said he had been a student of alchemy since early boyhood and he Ores, had devoted his whole life to finding how to make gold | The Maker out of baser metals, At last, two years earlier, he had } of Gold, succeeded in turning a bar of lead into an ingot of pure gold, worth from $30 to $45, 250 of these ingots a year, His daughter Marion had entreated him to let her take charge of the in- gots as fast as they were made, promising him that she would keep them aafe for him, He had agreed. Yet to-day, when he had asked her to produce the 500 ingota he had given her to hoard, she had burst into tears and had confessed that they were all gone. Wherefore he denounced her as a thief, Luxor, listening to this wild story, was certain his patient was a lunatic. Blakelock, reading disbelief in the doctor’s face, shouted to Marion to bring Luxor an ingot, The girl obeyed. She handed the visitor a little bar of |wolid gold. Blakelock bade the physician keep the ingot as his fee, and presently the dumfounded Luxor started homeward, On the stairway, outside the attic door, Marion overtook him, Tearfully, she besought him to give back | the ingot to her. Disgusted at her greed, he obeyed. ext morning Marion called at Luxor's office, With simple direetne: | that left no room for doubt as to her truthfulness she told her story. She |@upported her father and herself, she told Luxor, by sewing. This she had |done for years. When she had seen that his failure to make gold was driving him insane she had hit on a harmless device for saving his reason. She had raised all the money she could, by months of overwork, and had had it changed into gold and melted into one ingot. This she had put secretly into the crucible with which Blakelock was making one of hie eternal tdiotic experiments. The old man’s crazy delight at finding the bar of gold had repatd her for all her sacrifice. Yet this was but the beginning, He had insisted on making more and more gold, and Marion had no money to buy néw ingots, So she persuaded Blakelock to let her take charge of the supposed hoard, and always she slipped the same ingot back into the crucible, That also was why she had begged Luxor to return the ingot to her, so that she might help Blakelock continue his pitiful experiments. “But I can live this, life of hypocrisy no longer," he finished. “I cannot hear my father, whom I love wither me with hia curses.” Back to the attic laboratory she went, Luxor with | her, Falteringly, she confessed her secret to the old man.. He laughed scornfully at the confession, branding it as a le, and h proceeded to prove its falsity by making a new ingot of gold in the presence of the girl and Luxor, He went through the experiment, and triumphantly | bexan to pour out the chemicals and to search for the usual ingot at the bottom of the crucible. Uncredulously, he gazed for a moment, as no ingot appearéd, Then, with fa scream of horror, he fell headlong to the floor, | “It 1s porhaps better it 1s," Luxor consoled the heartbroken girl, is dead.” He could make about eee Bre The Empty Cru eee “He ang not se, for constancy ts one of er watchwords, and her “ honor” 1s another, Or a This woman loves good taste, and will prefer that what you have to say be said in a manner that shows your respect for her and for her mentality, She cares only for the highest correct social rules of hfe, and is at all times thoroughly conventional. Talk tO her in a etraightforward way, telling her at the same time all about the practical side of your life, your business, your prospects, and |don't forget the future. ‘To ali this ;She will listen, and then should you ask her to accept you she is more than likely to do 80. Your love alone would count for nothing with this woman were you not worthy of her entire respect as to your life and also your capabilities to succeed in that which you have undertaken. Vo not, unless you wish to ruin all your chances, confuse this woman with the one who is taken by storm, the one who gees only feel your arms about her and your kiases to to fly with you. te randy Leave out all demonstaation until What Your Fingers | S a gulde to bashful lovers we will say that should you von- template “making love" to some | wonderful creature who has made {her home within your heart and seems \intent on staying there it migut be | as well to take a glance at her fin- gers before the declaration is ut- tered. If this ts done, you may.pe able to find the exact words to suit this |“only girl,” and your words will be | uttered in accordance with the char- acter of the listener, | Should she be possessed of square | tipped fingers, talk to her only in a common sense way—no flighty or imaginary tales——nor should you de- | seribe your love for her in visionary terms, it will only hurt your chances dnd she will not understand | you, anyway. ‘This woman has more brains than imagination, So tell her your feel- ings and let it go at that, Should you ask her to wait for years or am indefinite time for you, she will be there waiting when thi time \comes, Should there be a separation| sho herself wishes it. ‘you \ it will be you who have strayed away! will win, a tweeds, He steps up with an Invite) vantshing along the horizon and to moter over to the Pink Lion Inn| gink, who lost his eee oven for a shore dinner and a bottle. thing over @ dime, passe-part ‘Of course when he catches my aur my aids to beauty soineg Zeke trom. Zanesville he apologizes | hands and gave me the ned ha! ‘Which explains my opening verdiot y fades into the landscape. ne nS ee — nl emanate mete eg