The evening world. Newspaper, June 30, 1916, Page 16

—— — SPT ABLIONED BY FnaneN ere Serene Ouggeg o7 me Prose Ginyierine Commons, wae Ow Ot Saw Yoru na te Beane Far Foret ant cm ‘Tinted Mate All Conmtelen (9 fue (ecernetional | Pontal (nine me O88 One Tour . a OF 39 One Month... warme © a NO A NINE-DAY TOWN. Genre GEONGE F. THOMPRON aod hie pune earrion sont fmvestigntion pam out of Now York lite today by time linnite then, leaving behind some things completed, some sentences Bewied, come wrongs corrected, bul the principal egaey bentomed @ the Matropolis ie» heal of Keotoh verdicta that sooner oF Inter sauet be proved or diaproved The men who rejoice mort at the aommittade praing oan lanat afford to let the record of their acta atand in ita present incomplete form. Ia the public willing to h the senndalma dual aubway contract Gontinus with al) the operating profite for years to come going to tha Is Mayor Mitchel, ae Chief Executive of the City Government, eontert to remain silent and do nothing? fe Comptrolinr Prendergaat complacent enough to let #tand the record of his “flops” from heroic ante-election promison? Ie the new Public Service Commission afraid to continue Invert gation of prior determinations, honuses and fat feos to lawyers? j Is the Interborough Company gind to pigeonhole, as not) Provan, the disclosures of “commitments and obligations” which the| average citizen considers as covering a yellow dog fund? | is the Bar Association willing to ahut ite nyos to the Admiral Realty ouit wherein the eame interest paid certain of counsel on each side? | ‘The answer to all these questions probably will be “Yes,” just: a6 the eminent gentlemen most concerned with them desire, 4 When a blaze of excitement and aroused public indignation used | to eweep tle city, Big Tim Sullivan, who knew his New York and New Yorkers in living reality and not in theoretical abstract, was ‘wont to console himeelf with the saying: “This ia a nine-day town. It will all be forgotten econ.” So, Senator George F, Thompson, go back to Middleport, Niagara County; look at your long-neglected desk calendar and put a crose on| Tuly 9. If Tim Sullivan wae right, that date marks your oblivion eo far as this big town cares for what you have done. After that the record of your investigation will be found only on library shelves, first edition, uncut and in original wrappers. But not all the committee's findings were Scotch verdicts; not all the investigation without definite result. ‘The Evening World had | # band in helping to some net accomplishments. For example, there| wes Edward FE. McCall, Chairman of the Public Service Commission, whose secret holding of etock in an electric company under his juria- diction was disclosed in these columns, Likewise there was Commis- sioner Williams and his attempts to maintain high gas rates in Brook | lyn. All the old commission had to go, one after another. Well, goodby, George Thompson. On the whole we have enjoyed your etay with us. You have contributed in varying degree to our| betterment, to our annoyance, to our excitement and to our vocab-| aulery, Without you, we would not have known how to pro-rate hotel bills, nor the meaning of those sinister phrases of high finance, “prior determination” and “commitments and obligations.” We would never have known how fat are the fees of corporation lawyers, nor the generosity of bonuses to corporation officials at city expense, nor how much it costs to consult Mr. Morgan on finencial subjects. Best, or worst, of all, whichever way it say be regarded, we might never have discovered how Now York has been “stung” in its dual subway contract. We had supposed it to be the perfection of mutual profit sharing, but, thanks to you, we find it will be many a long year before any of the profits come back to the city treasury. And it took a country lawyer to show us what we are up against. Whether all this investigation, this prodding, this raking over of scandals. this ripping of records and reputations, this excitement, this expense is to prove of any lasting benefit rests with the public's answer to one question: “Ie New York a nine-day town?” WE NEED IT. ET’S be careful of ourselves this summer. For nearly wo years L now our minds and nerves have been subjected to more than . usual etress, (ood times have been exhilarating and we have tried to make the most of them. But even so, we have not escaped the troubles of the world. Apart from our own diplomatic anxieties, Europe's woes have been constantly with us to excite our compassion or stir our sympathy. We have gone about our affairs from day to day apparently euffering only the usual fatigue and taking the usual rest, But all the time subconsciously the disrupted state of the world has been exerting a subtle wear and tear upon our ¢piritual Srgunization, Old confidences have been shaken, We still hold to our ideals of peace and security, but it requires more optimistic effort to steady our convictions, War has become a familiar fact and insensibly we have been borne away from some of our old moral moorings, 3 We are cheerful, our hopes are as strong ag ever, but it takes a little more dynamic energy of soul to keep them so. The last few weeks have brought a very present trouble of our own to make us more tense and thought! Hot weather is due, We owe it to ourselves this summer to get from day to day a little more fresh air, a little more rest, a little more play,a little more tonic eontact with nature than usual, year we are more than work-tire¢ extra strain, As vacation time comes round this ; spiritually we have been under an Hits From A machine for splitting kindling Sharp Wits ents, however, get into that attitude ‘Wood has been invented. Formal logic | long before graduation day.—Milwau- was long since invented for splitting} kee News. baire.: ret New: ee e 8 8 A woman fashion writer suys that the time is no ‘Wonder if a man ever gets too rich far off When the short | Operating companies in the guise of preferential paymenta? | | The Evening World Dai aoe nee. | Unfinished ORLA RR ORO AOR CRRR LOA REOB RE mes 8 RAE | He RIGHTY To PURSUF BANDITS, ly Mag 3usiness we ot Re cet, oS. PRISONERS RELEASED ' Juta wie i (Her Diary.) nnn. Edited by Janet Trevor. Copyright, 1916, by ‘The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), CHAPTER XXXII, PTEMBER 6.1 thought 1 was worried and unhappy yesterday; worried about the dinner Ned insists that we give to some femalo snobs; unhappy because he caratess- ly or deliberately ignored the attitude of these women toward me, But to- day I knew what ft ts to be really miserable. It was so hot yesterday, ungseasonable heat particularly dim- cult to r, that 1 took great pains with Ned's dinner, Bertha cooked it, of course; but I made the desert, a peaches-gelatin-whipped cream com- bination which is a favorite with my husband, I attended to ihe icing of the clams myself, and in the morning I went out and brought big white lilies which I floated with their broad leaves in a shallow dish, I put on my coolest, freshest gown, and had clean white things all ready for Ned. We dine at 7, but he ts often a bit late if he is detained on any of his afternoon calls, So I wasn't surprised when the quarter, the half and even the three-quarters struck without his putting in an appearance, Once or twice he had not returned till very late in the evening, but on such occasions he had always tele- phoned to me in time for me to dine At mother’s, I dislike even to lunch alone, and would rather go without my dinner than eat it uncompanioned, my husband or heard from him, I began to be a bit alarmed, At 9 L nothing. Then my vigil really be- gan, Isat in the window-seat in our living room which overhangs the Street and watched. I kept the room dark, in order that 1 might sce out- side more clearly. 1 knew that Ned's office had been close hours ago. I might have called up his club, or even telephoned to one or two of his friends. But if there is anything I loathe it is the woman who “tags husband by te phone or otherwise. {f he knows that | she is wating for bim he should, as a matter of courtesy, notify her of any change in bis plans, But if be tails |to do this, it should be a matier of Hing off his shoes and| Skirt may be worn without attracting $e SOF, POlinw of ia, shoes and) Attention, When thut Lime eoines the while smoking his after dinner pipe, | Sort skirt is doomed, Philadelphia aoa, Inquirer, ae . . : § It's funny that the knocker who Tt te remarkable how passive a vast] goes around telling what a © easemblage will sit and listen to the place bis home town 1s uever think AAvicg Of the graduate, . Most par- | pride with her not to run after bin. j Ten and eleven struck, | would not leave my watchtower even to put on a comfortable negli By this time 1 felt certain that Ned had met with} ome J saw bin fallen on | the fd subowy, Ising under of moving out of it--Coluwbla State, the wheels of # uvlor, os perhaps of the elevator, headed and placid young farmer named Albert. match, love with Albert—why Werther shou nnn, A Orns away, more, comed him heartily, but insisted on Werther’s becoming his guest, he was curious to see Lotte in her new role of wife, eager Invitation, love for her rushed back into Werther’s somewhat spongy Werther and not Albert, | when an earlier sweetheart hag entered a married couple's home, fairly dangerous combination, At 8 o'clock, when I had not seen | A A Lover's { tol! Bertha to clear the table, for 1 felt sure that Ned, wherever he was, | must have dined, and I could eat | itv aeateeaaaaaaaaany J quote Thackeray's famous comment— By J. H. Cassel fen empwanene ne Stories of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1018, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Erening World), THE SORROWS OF WERTHER; by Goethe. This tale, from a present-day standpoint, ia mandlin and ailly and not over interest written in 1TTde=tt became at once the most popular story of ite time, ¢ or less direct cause for many clahteenth century lovers* Nore suicides, ‘The story ts based on eothe's® own flirtation with Charlotte Buff, who, by the way, was enraged at the absurd notoriety thruat n lar by "The Sorrows of Werther, ARTHER was a German student with more sentiment than brains. He was a poet and a wondrous future was prophesied for him. One day he chanced to visit at the house of a village magnate who had a swarm of children, As Werther entered the house with the| he saw Lotte, the eldest daughter, busily cutting bread and butter for her little sisters and brothers, And he fell in love with her at sight. Lotie was a placid and thick-headed girl. She was engaged to a thick- Her father had made the There seems to have been no special reason—since Lotte was not in 1 not have tried to win her, But instead, he proceeded to become a blighted and sighing martyr, Albert added to the complications by forming a strong friendship for Werther, The poet, too high-souled to bring himself to the point of cutting out his new friend, decided to go Nobody seems to have objected to this move—except Albert. Werther went back to his poetry and his chosen career, Lotte and 4 “Temporary” Triangle. Albert were married, and settled down to a comfortably humdrum existence In their own backwoods village, Everybody was content, Then some time later Werther had occasion to visit the village once Albert was overjoyed to see his mournful friend, and not only wel- Werther thought himself proof against temptation by that time, Besides, Bo he accepted the And trouble began, Tho moment he set eyes upon his former inamorata all the old-time heart, found she loved more th: Lotte, too, contrasting him with her boorish husband, The same thing has happened Lotte was true to her husband, Werther was loyal to his friend. They were both terribly unhappy. At lenst Werther was terribly unhappy, And Lottie was as unhappy as her calmly stolid nature would permit, It did not occur to Werther to go away and thus to relieve the stiuation for both Lotte and himself, Idiocy. Instead, he hung around, sighing and uttering mournful platitudes, making himself and eve: ¥ one else miserable, At list he solve Albert was the problem by committing suicide, neerely sorry for his silly friend's death And Lotte—to vent on cutting bread and butter.” — To tell our own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt: and locked | communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part gombine ! with folly.—JOH. aN, tossing pw, of course, that he carried | hold. professional cards, but | was not sure| “Sorry you worried,’ he said that he had about him hiy home ad- | Then, bis voleo thickening, © 'sh uw! Since we live inan apartment |P&ht. Bad case, Till’ stimulant we are not in the telephone » now, Shouldn't worry,” book under our own nae had taken a few steps and en- All through the longest night of my | tered the living He fall heav Terouched at that window, Ang} }¥ on the couch, ing his eyes. in the dawn ow rattling taxi stopped As 1 bent down, anxiously, 1 Out of it stepped my hus- {breathed a sweet, sickish odor ndcwhole and sound, T didn't} And then the whole situation t for a@ second look, but flew tojda%ned on me Kor the first time vortider door, It seem in my Mfe 1 was lean over 4 hours; then I he drunken man--and Uhat man was my helow deliriously on some hospital where Dusband appeared, “Oh, what has happened?" T eried Ie was close to the door now, and he stumbled as he crossed the thres- heat prostration had sent busband) "] A moment Jates my It was even | Dollars and Sense. By H. J. Barrett. Why Some Salesmen Can Sell Only Certain Lines. 6“ EAKING generally," said & ales manager, “my eapert- ence has forced me to the conclusion that some men can sell while others can’t, In, other words, the ability is to a great degree native. But despite this, it is also true that some men can sell only certain commodities to only certain types, whilo others can sell any- thing—anywhere—to almost anybody. “The distinction between these two sorts of salesmen, however, I believe is almost purely a matter of mental attitude, I believe that the former examples are potentially just as good salesmen as the latter, But they limit themselves in thetr own minds, and the results are merely @ reflec- tion of this attitude, “I know one man, for example, who sells magazine subscriptions and also sets of books He earna about $125 per week, Now nothing can persuade this man to cover an office building. He will work only in the wholesale and industrial sections of a city. Saye that he's afraid of frosted glass. This is a typical example of self-limita- tion, If thie man would take himself in hand and rid himself of his idea that there's a jinx connected with office buildings he would find the latter field Just as productive as the in which he prefers to te, Another man of my acquaintances was for years star salesman for a oper wholesale grocery house, He «ce tackled automobiles and acered a failure, This was perhaps because of two reasons: first, lack of thorough knowledge of the’ product he was handling, and, second, inability to make a good impression upon women, After a couple of months, without making a sale, he quit and returned to his former line, I maintain, how~ ever, that had this man p he would have finally “He would have eventually mas- tered the mechanical knowledge which he utterly lacked, and prob- ably he would also have learned to modify his too boisterous and famil- jar manner, which jarred upon his fominine prospe “) have had men on my own staff who were not adaptable merely be- r they thought they weren't, Ong man, a successful paper and twine salesman, accustomed to soliciting the business of small tradesmen, was ilotted @ territory in which be met bankers, executives of large ¢ ¥ professional men, &e. He faite make good Apparently when con- fronted with men of this calibre he lacked confidence. [ switched him to a field similar to that he had for- covered, and he promptly cored a hit But here again ths man's own mental attitude explained his failure in an unaccustomed en- vironment. Had | given him time bo might bave found bimselt” | male accomplice of a shoplifter,” said | The Story of Our Last War With Mexico’ By Bancroft Taylor (emer aa 08 ot Tin Pm Punting Oa | CHAPTER IL Preparations Delayed. Y | NTE aticr the Amerioan © io Alle and ne were made fore ‘ Piane to we sila of Cen, Winheld Meatt, & clean Army Hoth the requiag and for hin eominand But a rips minh Wanhington moon ocowrred and Gen Maatt, one | Gomatdared arrngunt, found minself pallaved of the proponed enevte, Teaver Antnaeited ta Arent the mavemente af the main army, Wwe Ow | Aafindte Bian had heen formulated at Waahinaton deluve were That tor, it waa necemmury fo echarme voluntoore who had entieted he tee tee Rema Waal } frrepe ween (egal tarm and, if powsthia, muster them In menin : | Mawaver, arranacments sora completed on Aum 1 for aAvanamng | Mata army and thro days later Gen, Taylor moved hin headquarters | Matamoran ta Camaro On Aue 19 two @ | mms sider Cien, Trimes and Cen, Worth beaun a mm on Monterey and on 4th Mutier's brigade from Camaraa to Vuntinguda, A tack of teat ton faotiitien and food muyplicn caused delay, yet Mem, 16 the head of che color, Twimuns a ‘aamped on the Rio un funn, twenty-four miles northe Hera the army concentrated and an the t y In 1t4 preparations Me of made slow progress, partly he foal Inteiques, Arriving at Vera Crh from Havana on Aum fasued @ manifesto denouncing the monare of Premden redem and the course of the United Mtaten, att Lime presenting item cif in @ moet favoratia Hent ste after Mtate declared for him, bat te jchone to leave the nominal authority of the new Government in the hande jof Gen. Maing, who had prociaimed himecif the chicf of the Itberating army, } Meanwehiia Mexico wae atraining every Merve to caine monev and | Stpone, it wae Proposed, among other schemes, that bribes showsmm Offered Americin poldiers to desert the “e | _On Sept. 28 @ force of 4,000 Mexican noldie [to fan Lute and were foliowed shortly by 4 one to organize his army The American army marching to Monterey marched from the eopitad a Anna, who proceeded Gt numbered 425 oMcere amg 6.220 men, In the cavalry were two roghnoute of volunteers and a battal j of regulara, ‘The divisions of Twins, Worth and Butler constitut 4 tinfantry, Of artillery there were four light batteries Gen, TH with the advance guard, arrived on the 19th within 1,60 yarda of the citadel of Monterey, to be met by the waving of the Mexigag fing and a few shots that caused the guard to withdraw out of rang. Te following morning a plan of attack was determined upo: At 2 In the afternoon Worth marchod his division and Col, May | regiment of Texas Rangers through a cornfield to the north of the t ) Mexican akinmishers opened fire, but tl no casualties, Barty sem morning Fort Tenria and the citadel structive enfilading fire, @@ Ald the masked breasiworks on the southern bank ef a stream. For a thme the Americans advanced steadily, bAt later they were | tanmnnnnnnnnnnn se thrown into confusion. Muarviand and Distetet of \ A Gallant Columbia volunteers took to the rear. leaving Liewh } Assault. Col. Watson, with three officers and seventy men, @» | onnnnnnnnnnns face the fire, Watson was among those killed, Bi battery came up, but its guns were inofteative, Firally the command was ordered to fall back, Three companies of & Kentucky regiment continued the assault upon the fort battalion fell before the heavy fire | But there was a change in the for of the day when Backus held hie. | position and from the roof of a shed pr a deadly fire inte the gorge of the lunette with telling effect upon the Mexicans in the crowded garrison. Then Quitman's brigade advanced, and a few moments later shouting volunteers rushed forward and flung themselves over the parapet inte | the lunette. : id the remainder staggered back, (To Be Continued Monday.) | ! Real friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives untess engrafted l upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.—CHESTERFIELD. 4 The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell om Copyright, 1910, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Frening World), four o'clock sharp, and sharp, ming you, for I don’t want to stand there aiting! A woman can't etand @ minute looking {nm a store window or waiting for some one without @ lot of mashers thinking she |» fair game for them, Brutes!” “T never noticed tt,” said Mr, Jar touches to her totlet and said: M RS. JARR was putting the final don't you keep me “Now, waiting!” “I'm not the one that docs the standing up,” replied Mr. Jazr, some- what peeved, “or rather I got stood up. If you kept your appointments as promptly as I did there would be| carelessly. no fault to find.” “Of course you didn't,” replied Mrs “I never was behind time in my|Jarr, “When a lady is escorted life!” said Mrs, Jarr, indignantly. "Maybe once of twice I've been a {ttle late, but that wasn’t my fault— there was a street car Jam or some- thing.” “But I don't like to be kept walt- ing for you in the department stores like @ lost soul,” Mr. Jarr explained. “The shop girls are giggling at one behind one's buck"— “You must do something to attract their attention, then!” interrupted Mrs. Jarr, sharply. “Well, if I don't act as if I was a tuman being, and go snooping | around with my eyes on the floor, |they’re Hable to point me out as a are too smart to ogle or annoy her, But let her be alone and loiter jugt one minute and then you'll see the mashers grinning and tipping thetr hats. Men that call thems gentlemen, too, IT have no doubt!’ “What gets me,” remarked My, Jarr as if to himself, “is that you women trick yourselves out as though to attract attention, And then”—— “1 do not!" said Mrs, Jarr indig- nantly. “I never put on anything but a little powder!” “I'm speaking in general,” replied Mr, Jarr, “and what I was going to remark was that women will paint and powder and darken their eye. brows and rouge their lips and put on their rings and chains and eee that their skirts are high and their shoes and stockings are neat and natty—in fact, fix themselves up to attract the attention of men, and yet if any man does give them a look after all the snares they spread for him—my, how indignant and insulted they are!" ~ “I like that!" exclaimed Mrs, Jagr, “If men knew how little women care what men think of how they look Men wouldn't have such good opime tons of themselves!” “Whom do you dress up for then? asked Mr, Jarr, ‘Why, for the other ,women of cours: replied Mrs, Jarr, “You just watch when @ well dressed woman or a good looking woman or a woman with a fine Agure passes, and you'll notice it's the other women that turn around and look after her aud very m the men,” nen if T look after a char.ner I) stand excused?” asked Mr, Jarr, “You just try it!" warned Mrs, Jarz, ——————s Facts Not Worth Knowin By Arthur Baer Y 1916, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Kvening World, O BE of the most dificult things in the world to do is make @ corle Rubber hecls can be prevented from weariny out by sealing up im jane and placing them away in a dark, dry spot. Mr, Jarr. “You needn't go into the store at all,” replied Mrs. Jarr, “if you have 60 many objections to meeting your wife there. You can walt for me outside.” “And be told to move on by the policeman and be stared at by all sorts of people as if I were a sus- Picious character!” protested Mr, Jarr. Seeing Mrs. Jarr was growing res- tive under his objections he added, hurriedly, “Oh, 1 don’t mind meet- ing you at all, my dear, only, for goodness suke, be there on time. I don't mind waiting, so far as the waiting goes, but a man looks fool- ish standing for an hour or more in a@ public place waiting for his wife.” “A man’ right. No one will bother him," declared Mrs, Jarr, “And I'll be there on the exact moment, What time did we say? Oh, yes, 4 o'clock, Half past four? Well, what's the difference? Say four or half pust Copyright screw throw a straight shadow, Out of 100,000,000 passengers carricd in 191) not one was injured by falling out of the subway, Tf hung on the line Uke ordinary wash, a plate of nooties would re quire almost 845,292 clothespine A very fair tmitatton of the cry of a clam oan be given by hammers dg on @ woollen del} with o apongs, ¢— One-third of the @