The evening world. Newspaper, November 29, 1916, Page 10

MpNy orld. RSTABLIGHED BY JOSEPA PULITZER. Published Daily Excep Guster oy FY Prese Publishing Company, Now 68 to Gi , New York. PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. 3. ANGUS SHAW, Treasur: Park Row. 7 JOSEPH PULITZHR, Jr. Bec Y, 63 Park low. Fntered at the Post-Office at New York an Second-Class Matter. Subscription Rates to The Evening|For England and the Continent 4 ‘World for the United All Countries In the International 4 4 and Cenada, Pootal Union One Yoaranssssecssrrees 0 One Year. assssnesees One Month ass cerncrsraee +30| One Mont VOLUME 7. ..ccccssesssscccecseeseeesscesses eNO, 20,189 ED AS THE FIGURES COME IN. | T° much-discussed valuation of the country’s railroads begins See ee to turn in figures. As to their meaning ao far there can be no mistake. (This week the Interstate Commerce Commission reported on the Kansas City Southern Railway, Capitalized at $99,052,000, including $51,000,000 of stock and $45,052,000 of unmatured bonded debt, this railroad, the Commission finds, could be reproduced new for $46,274,868, Allowing for depreciation of equipment, the cost of reproduction need be only $88,258,909, i Fxaminstion of the Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Gulf Railroad, a { subsidiary of the Kansas City Bouthern, showed that “apparently $46,279,000 in securities were issued against an actual money outlay of $15,288,751.” Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission valuers en-| nounced that the cost of reproducing the New Orleans, Texas and| Mexico Railway would be 68,865,636. This road is capitalized at $40,938,031. Only two relatively unimportant railroads thus far valued and already the methods that have been the evil genii of American railroad finance are found at work! The reckless policy of capitalizing future earnings, possibilities, promises, of pyramiding unlimited issues of stocks upon a slender col- umn of tangible values, of trying to squeeze out of @ $10,000,000 property enough profit to pay dividends on a $50,000,000 capital— this is the sort of thing that has finally driven so many American rail- roads to seek aid wherever they could find it, delivered them into the} clutches of financiers who have wrung them dry, ruined their credit, depreciated their once gilt-edged securities, demoralized their common stock and brought disaster upon hundreds of thousands of emall share- holders who trusted their boards of directors. No country could escape being swamped if its farmers and wage- earners had to go on indefinitely bearing the burdens piled upon them by gigantic corporations who must find money for dividends on a capital from three to five times as large as the value of their, actual assets. | What would be the reduction in fares and freight rates in the| United States if every railroad were to figure profits not on its capitalization but on what it is really worth? —— ‘The British Foreign Office has refused safe conduct throug British waters to Count Adam Tarnowski von Tarnow, the newly appointed Austrian Ambassador to the United States, ae | who is now in Holland waiting to sail for New York Cable despatch. ‘Why not eend the gentleman in a submarine? —————-4 FOLLOW IT UP. T° District Attorney's investigation of the coal situation, fol- lowing The Evening World’s disclosures of price boosting! schemes behind the coal market, seems to have hit a warm trail. | If it proves that Burns Brothers, “the biggest coal retailers any- | where,” got a rebate of fifteen cents per ton on coal which the Central Ttailroad of New Jersey transported for them to New York, the coal firm enjoying a special rake-off from coal trestle privileges in Jersey | ~2.Lity, it will be easy to understand how Burns Brothers have come to be | anthracite dictators of New York. | The report of a commission appointed by the General Assembly of Jersey in 1914 to look into the methods of the coal combination ns evidence of a rebate agreement between the Burns com- ‘and the Central of New Jersey. The Interstate Commerce /fommission last year discovered the profitable arrangement made by | coal company with the railroad at Pier 8, Jersey City. All this calls for prompt and thorough overhauling in the light | tthe law. Combination in restraint of trade is a crime. Persons guilty of it can be punished. Never was speedy and exemplary punishment needed more than| at this moment for those who take advantage of monopoly, combina- tion or influence deliberately and needlessly to raise the price of | , Cassel | Wednesday, November 29, 1916 | | wr ° Fifty B d Girl lity oys an rls F in Hist By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1016, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World), . 20.—MARIE STUART; The Girl-Queen of Two Lands. HE was @ queen defore she was a week old, At the same time she suddenly became the greatest heiress and most desirable future bride in all the world. Sho was Mario Stuart. History knows her as Mary Queen of Scots. Her father, King James V. of Scotland, died in December, 1642, when Mary, hia only child, was but a few days old. From that moment, every sovereign in Burope fixed covetous eyes on the fatherless baby's fortune and title When she was only six, there were three formidable suitors for her hand. King Henry VIII. of England—a dlackguard of the first magnitude— wanted her to marry his feeble son, who was also a mere child King | Henry Il. of France begged her hand for his eldest son, Francis, the | French Dauphin (Crown Prince), The Earl of Arran—most powerful noble |4n Scotland—wished her to wed his own son. (This aon of Arran’s, by the | way, in later years, went insano through hopeless love for her.) | France and England and Scotland were wrangling hotly over the ‘The woman was Mary's widowed mother, the Dowager Quecn of Scotland. ‘The mother was of French birth, And she loved France, So all her influence wont toward the granting of the French King’s sult. Dumbarton Castle and over to Franc ‘Thus, at the age of six, the helpless little girl became @ pawn in the fron game of international politica, No one cared AP t i ne Pawn In |. | happy, or whether the prince chosen as her husband the Iron Game. 3 was worthy or dotestable, It was her title and —n"? estates that were involved. She herself was not al- Mary was solemnly betrothed to Httle Francis, the French Dauphin, who was @ year younger than herself. The two children grew up as playmates tn the French court until it should be decided that they were old enough ‘The French court of that day was about as good @ place to bring up @ piri child as would be a pest-house or the kennel of a mad dog. The court's morals were indesertbably rotten. The King was vile, the Queen was viler, ‘Virtue and decency were openly sneered at. Every one of the Ten Commandments was shamelessly broken, Goodness was looked on as a weakness. Wit, splendor, oppression, courage, falsehood and crimes of ' ‘To Mary, fresh from the gray respectability of her Scotch home, tt was all very wonderful and delightful. It was a pleasant change from her rigorously guarded babyhood at Dumbarton Castle, child was exposed to influences that might well have wrecked the noblest character. Before blaming Mary Queen of Scots for some of the dreds done by rible upbringing and to deal mercifully with the faults or weaknesses fos- tered by the life of those early days. Nvhen #he was fifteen and Francis was fourteen, Mary and the Dauphin Joved him. Ho wasa spindly, diseased, peevish princeling, born to die young and to de unmourned. He was dissolute and altogether worthless, this fusband to whom statecraft had chained the glorious young Queen of Seote, | matter when @ woman stepped tn and decided It for them. While the three nations equabbled ehe quietly smuggled Mary out of especially whether the baby Queen was happy or un- lowed to count for anything. to marry. thair court circle was vilest. | violence were the chief traits of the nobles. In short, at the most fmpressionable age, this beautiful and susceptible her—or attributed to her—-in after years, It is well to remember her hor- were married. He did not love She did not love him. In fact no one She was very lovely. Brantome, who saw her at fifteen, writes gushingly: | wondrous fascination Bannerer A Girl's INl-Fortune. ——————r her teens King Henry jand King of France. was at once Queen of | Very soon Francis died. | Sootiand—a herculean laone all in thetr power gracefulness.” “piitous, two countries, to unfit her, i} “Her great beauty and loveliness shame the sun itself, of epeech. She sings ‘An Italian historian describes her bridegroom a fragile, his complexion {ll to eee.’ It was a horrible unton, TT, was Killed. And she and Francis became Queen ‘Thus she was one of the few women tn history who She hes a sweetly and she is full of gentle stunted; @ degenerate weakling While Mary was etill in And his gitl-widow was sent back to rule tank for which her training and her surroundings had By Roy im McCardell | i beauty of her that sought subjects so sordid, in the hope of helping humanity. 1 am telling you this of my ead] By Sophie Irene Loeb Coprrigt, 1016, by The Prem Pubiiding Ov, (The New Yor's Evening World.) O-MORROW ail that remains of| dear friend, that ehe may prove & Inez Milholland Boissevain will| preceptor, an exampler, for other arrive in this city, and they will take her Ju- noesque body to the majestic Adi- rondack Moun- tains she loved so well—for she loved everything that was big and natural, There she will remain | ut only her body. For the rest of her will so marching on! She will not stop there. She couldn't, You will find her everywhere, She will be down on the east side that she loved 80 well. The seed she has gown among working girls there will grow ~—grow until they come to a realiza- women who are taking part in the world’s work; that you may recog-| nize her when you eee her again, and | remember that only her material self, | the thing that she credited least unto| herself, Hes asleep under the big mountain. When I look about me at the #elf- ish sirens who prate about their “souls,” and who can only feel the| pin pricks of their own follies, I wish | that I could impress them with the| fortitude and fearlessness and fine- | ness of purpose of this woman of| women. How easy it might have been for so lovely a creature as sho to ait idly by | and take the endless homage that | passed her way; to live @ life of ease and luxury, It would have been simple matter, indeed, But no; not} common necessities. With the threat of $15 a ton coal still lingering the public mind, “Coal King” is no enviable title. | —+ “And though I ebb in worth, 1'A flow in thanks.” Hits from Sharp Wits. The newort dance is said to be; You may write it on “the simplest of all.” And judging) For, honey, it ts from the bunch who have mastered| Before you move on Easy Btreet the others, that's golng some.—-Cleve-| You live on Hard Work Row. land Plain Deale: 1 --Memphis Commercial-Appeal, 8S i ce 8 ‘The higher the cool the lower the| fire! Even soft coal prices are going) up. This ts hard.—Baltimore Amer!-/ ca n your tablets, The chap who has invented a pho- 15 cents ought to be placed under eae Luquirer. He who longs for better things but ae ee does not work for them is apt to get| All work is easy for onlookers. bitter things.--Deseret New. Albany Journal, Flies agit! . . Benefit of doubt is the poorest], When a man has turned forty he kind of benefit.—Albany Journal, knows that the greatest temptation . 8 8 Jof youth is to fool yourself into thinking that it will last forever. In spite of general high prices, the Huston Transcript oe hole in the doughnut continues to hold its own. Toledo Blade. Women don't take baskets to mar- If we had an income we'd he glad ket any more. to pay the tax—Columbla (6, C.)| purchases, into, thelr pureeaPitts State. ee Pee \aa Our observation is that the shoe- Sy +4 pela & en gary 05 & yom makers will have to put a little more Jeather in the circumference of some eeee S00, Sere $7—~-Columbus lot these high-top shoes—Columbus Wnquirer-Bun =|, (Ga,) Enquirer-Sun. rn There te one thing that practice m makes perfect, and that's the Toothache. Memphis Commercia!- When all 1s sald and done the real reason it costs Bo much to live these days ts because prices are 60 bigh. Philadelphia Inquirer. | : . oe persons are willing these days ‘most girls at their face value. ipbia Inquirer. A Uo Ryd the union termina! is the eourt—Deseret Newa What's the use in giving a bride to, eee oupe—Pittaburgh Gazette. a ° ‘We see that wheat has gone up an- other mourine per acre.--Boston ré nograph that he says can be sold for | "Ass of bond to keep the peace.—-Philadelphia They can get all their) she. She could not enjoy material things of life and be satisfied, when | all about her spelled sorrow and suf- fering and sadness. She went forth to! fight and used every asset to gain something for others, even unto the| very end, Tho last night before she went! West wa were in a lawyer's office discussing the case of Stielow, the) man who 49 condemned to dio in tho} week of Dec. 11, unlesa the hearing before the Governor to-day should | |result in a commutation of sentence. tion of their just rights and summon | the strength to fight for them. You will find her tn Sing Sing Pris- on, whore many @ day I epent with her in the interest of some unfortun- ate who hadn't bad the chance to save himself. 1 You will find her tn the asylums Jot the poor where all summer long she worked on statistics and facts |and figures to get at the underlying | causes of the derelict, the defective and the decrepit | Many a time I glanced over that|{,00 (ureters material and wondered at oner in whose innocence she believed. the energy, tho strength of her, the And on that last night, -before she | The Origin of Postage Ss RANCE, the mother of eo many) seal. Ten yeare passed before Charies | things which contribute to mod-| Whiting, a London publisher, began ; i | to experiment with stamped wrappers orn progress, fairly may be ered-| foy newspapers. And from this sug: | ited with the first suggestion of the! gestion Sir Rowland Hill, creator of | postage stamp in use to-day. For it| the Penny Post, derived hiv idea of was in 1653, during the Joint regency | the modern posiags stamp, of which | © 18 justly regarded as the origina jot ‘Anne of Austria and Mazarin, that| fo. /® {isiy, negerccome years. prev the latter, made desperate by con-| ously James Chalmers, the famous ant thofts of valuable packages in| Printer of Edinburgh, had made e: perimentally a stamp printed wi rdinary type and rendered adhesive the hands of mounted messengers, hit | J upon the 9 of a sealed envelope! by the use of gum. | bearing the Government stamp, the| ‘Hill, realizing the value of Chalm- carriage of which, prepaid by the|¢rs’s invention, brought the adhesive | cerkee was protected by @ epecial| stamp under the notice of a commis- | guard of courlers. sion which was then debsting the tn- | Quickly the use sealed and|troduction of the penny post. , | guarded envelopes, at first designed | advocacy of the Chalmers stamp led feo tne exclusive service of the no-|to the usual protracted series of in- of took the trip to espouse the cause of ou will seo ery effort 1s made to cheat the electric chair of wom! this innocent man?" Many, many hours she sat tn the death house, trying to get from bis weak brain every possible scrap of evidence to save him. And messages came to me during her trip, times| “What are you doing And at last her bus- | telegraphed to me from her ‘Can't you say something that will strengthen her and will re- Ueve her mind us to the fate of Stie- without numbe about Bticlow ? deathbed low?’ Unselfish? Almost to a fault. wee tndesd an example. A eka for the Idle rich girl who 1s pos . deed, whose time, hangs heavy’ bee cause it is full of nothingness. example for the pretty girl who be- lieves that all life means is to smile and dress, An example for the wom. an of brains who hides them under el wave because she has be- her mi come a parasite, woman Who thinks that he can gain love when she acquires a man's bank account, An example for all woman- hood—Inez Milholland Bolssevain, An exam) An example “You are rather vague es to how much money would make you hap- py,” remarked Mr. Jarr. ell, any of those amounts would make me happy til I had epent {t, of course,” said Mrs, Jerr. “You're foolish not te be more def- nite,” sald Mr. Jarr. “A hundred dollars wouldn't last you very long.” “That's all you'd give me if you had @ million,” replied Mrs. Jarr with ‘an Injured air, “You pretend to be very generous with me, but ‘that shows you are not generous at all.” “Why, Great Scott! I asked you how much you wanted,” eried Mr, Jarr. “I asked you how much you wanted, and you did not know. You said five thousand dollars, you eaid a hundred dollars and you said a million dollars, I won't haggle with you, I'm sure, You're welcome to ten millton dollars.” “Oh, you cay that now!” replied Mrs. Jarr, “But you didn’t Iike it Copyright, 1916. by The Preas Publiahtny Oo, "thd Now York Breclog World.) 66] WOULDN'T like to have that woman's worries for all her money,” said Mrs. Jarr. Vhat woman's?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Mrs. Stryver's, of course,” replied Mrs. Jarr. Yes,” said Mr. Jarr, “we all think we'd be happy if we were rich, and yet the possession of riches in no case that I have met with appears to be able to drive away worrtes.” “That isn't the fault of the money,” replied Mra. Jarr, “that's the fault of the person. I know if I had all the money I wanted I could be happy. I wouldn't worry.” “How much money would make you happy, would keep you from worry- ling?” asked Mr. Jarr with the air of jan indulgent husband who could |deny bia wife novhing. “Pive thousand dollars, @ hundred dollars, @ million dollars,” said Mrs. Jarr. An ple for the when you saw moe hesitate, I could see ap expression come over your face B you do it, bility, spread to the wealthy middle|quiries by successive commissions, class. and it was not until 1889 that Parlla- | Stumped postal letter paper was|ment passed an act authorizing the used in 1818 by the Government of Treasury to fix rates of postage on Sardinia, this being succeeded in 1820 letters and regulate the mode of their by envelopes bearing the Government collection, ‘Ai Marrying your first love is like taking a role in @ pley at a tew moments’ notice, and without any rehearsals, eflections of a Bachelor Girl ___ By Helen Rowland | Copsright, 1016, ty The Prew ; = % REVITY is tho soul of wit, frocks, firtations, epeeches, and epitaphs. women woman As prop it to her that he goes right out and takes a drink on the strength of it. Optimism will never be dead so long as thore are still people in the world who continue to try to domesticate everything, from lions to love, and to tame everything wild, from bear cubs to bachelors, ‘The female of the specios may be more deadly than the male not more deadly than the male who can sit all evening In @ dim cozy-corner | under a rose-colored lamp and talk about HIMS: Lying 13 either @ ein or an ert, according to how, when, and why| No matter how academlo or spiritual a man’s regard doesn't prevent him from taking a new and vital interest fn shaving he ts going to call on her, A bachelor ts never weary her heart, he seems to fancy that he has merely to he tries a few other locks. | After a man has finished advising a girl to live up| | that seemed to say, ‘She's going to |nsk for every cent I have, She wants jit all!’ ‘That's why I was confused and hesitate iabing Co, (‘The New York Brening Woeld money {f & woman's husband 1s rich. arguments, after-dinner | Mrs. Stryver paid more than that for \her diamond necklace, Yet when I ARS |saw you look pained I changed It to only wishing for a hundred dollars. I need so many things and my tastes are ro modest that a hundred dollars would have made mo very happy | Then I sald to myself; ‘You are very ish. Why not have a million, if s to be had for the asking?’ “You don't moan to of remarking that “all are alike’—and never tired of changing one for another. , goon as a woman has given a man the key to open, and go off and leave it that way, while I eatd five thousand | | dollars, and surely that's not @ lot of | | would refuse you @ million, if I bad it?” asked Mr. Jarr, “I don't wish to say anything, but if you had a million I suppose you'd be lke everybody else and want to keep {t for yourself!" replied Mrs. Jarr. “I would not!" eaid Mr, Jarn “I haven't kept everything to myself eo far. I haven't bad muoh, but what I've had has been yours.” “Oh, yes, but would it be tf you were wealthy? Money changes peo- ple's dispoaitions eo,” answered Mrs. Jarr. “It wouldn't change minet* de clared Mr. Jarr. “Didn't I es& you how much money would make you happy? Well, if I had the money 1/4 given it to you.” “Why did you turn on me commence to find fault when I say how much I wanted, then™ eaked Mrs, Jarr, “{ didn't find fault, I only fe. marked that you were rather hasy jand Indefinite about how much you wanted,” said Mr. Jerr, “Do you realize how muoh @ million dollars 18?" “No, I don't suppose T do,” repiied Mrs. Jarr, “and as long as I'm your wife I never will realize it.” “Now, say!” cried Mr, Jarr in an Injured tone. hat's a nice way to talk to a fellow just after I have been telling you I'd give you all the money you wanted—tf I had it—to twit me with not having {t, and with the fact that I'm never going to have It!" “Well, you were very sarcastic with me,” sald Mrs. Jarr, “What good would it do to wish for ten dolla ‘Why, a whole jot! Here {t is!" vaid Mr. Jarr gaily, and he handed Mre, Jarr the astonishing sum in say that I question. highest ideals he feels so noble and virtuous! HE first blow in the Polish revo- lution of 1830 waa struck elghty- six years ago to-night, Nov, 29, 1830, Poland had been divided tween Russia, Austria and Prussia, but | but tho people, while they remained outwardly calm and submissive, bit- terly resented the new regime. ‘The impulse to revolution wi |vy the French, and it waa begun by students, who hoped to seize Grand | ‘Duke Constantine, brother of Emper- or Alexander of Russia and com- mander of the Polish army, at his for a woman, {t| residence near Warsaw. The attempt n| We | 1880, an oLF. | although it fatled of its ob- | ject, the populace of Warsaw rose in | ‘revolt, and the | with the people, ‘The insurrection was \soon suppressed. made on the evening of Nov. 29,| troops fraternized| people 2 Dr. Theobald Theodore Frederic Al. lar sovere! fred von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancel- lor of the German Empire, will pass his sixtieth milestone to-day as he was born on Novy. 29, 1856, the second son of Privy Councillor Fellz von Bethimann Hollweg. From the beginning of his ofMfiolal reer as Landrat of Obernim thirty rs ago, Bethmann Hollweg has en known as one of the cbief sgiven| spokesmen for the divine rights of the Hohenzollerns. In bis addresses he has dismissed nb ides of @ sovereignty of the people” as unknown to the Prussian state, and only a few years ago, in the face of the heckling of the socialists, he as- kerted that “it must not be wondered at when democratic tendency appear: to treat the king as the official ot the that the King of Prussia strongly emphasizes his consclous- ness that he is not mubject to popu. Lamia’