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vaca sa ws ~The middleman receives the farm products and stores them in « ‘Here We ESTABLISHBD BY JOSHPH PULITZER. Pudlished Daily Except Gentes dy the Press Publishing Company, Nos 63 to. 63 * Row, New York President, 63 Park Row. Treasurer, 62 Park Row, 63 Park Row. econd-cInws Matter d and the Continent and the Toternational Union. ° World for the United Stat and Canada, DOES IT PAY? ERE is the Centra] Railroad of New Jersey charged with mak-| H ing preferential allowances to Burns Brothers, the biggest | retail coal concern in this city. “To eum up in a few words,” according to District Attorney Swann, “the Central Railroad of New . Jersey is granting a practical monopoly to Burns Brothers of all the, ooal coming over the Jersey Central.” | Does this represent the fixed attitude of this railroad corporation | toward the laws of the country? In March, 1915, a Federal Court fined this same Central Rai)road of New Jersey $200,000 for giving rebates to the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. Does rebating pay? Oan Jersey Central officials furnish proof that it pays? To the average man the law prohibiting rebates looks like a pro- tection for the railroads themselves. Under the rebate system a rail- road had constantly to share ite profits. Forced to grant costly favors to big customers, it must be continually squaring itself with indignant smaller ones. The drain of meeting insatiable demands for preferential rates must have been enormous. Now, with the law to supply « final answer to all favor-seekers, one would think the rail- roads would welcome the chance to figure uniform rates and retain their profits unshared. Would the Jersey Oentral or any other road maintain that there is still enough to be gained in rebating to outweigh prosecutions, fines, penalties and loss of public confidence? Then why not be done with it? —_ 4 = | The farmer sooner or later sells the product of his toil to some sort of middleman—quite frequently upon consignment THE CIRCLE. HE farmer and the ordinary citizen keep their money in hanks, or credit. The middleman takes care to buy when the farmer must sell at the lowest price. warehouse. The warehouseman issues to him a certificate which the middleman takes straightway to the bank—the place where farm- ers and plain citizens keep their savings. At the bank the warehouse certificate, representing tangible property, becomes collateral for n loan. With thi#*loan the middleman reimburses tho farmer, while the warehouse retains the goods until the consumer’s need of them becomes so pressing that the highest price can be exacted from him. If the money of the farmer,and the ordinary citizen could not Are Again! asthe, — Bening World Daily Magazine anit, “By J. H. Cassel | NO, 21—-SIR HUMPHREY DAVY, Fifty Boys and Girls Famous in History By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1916, by The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Prening World), ; the Boy Chemist. HIS boy Humphrey is incorrigible!” bellowed an elderly Man named Tonkin, who had charitably given refuge im bis house to @ halfstarved youth named Humphrey Davy, “He is incérrigible! And he is the fdlest dog unhung. He will Diow us all into eternity with these ally chemical messes of his!” The old fellow's rage was not wholly unreasonable. For Davy after refusing to continue as an apprentice in @ so-called “respectable trade,” had just blown part of the Tonkin kitchen to atoms while testing a home- made explosive which he called “thunder powder.” Humphrey was the eldest son of a family of five children. He wae 4 i; | born at Penzance in England in 1778, His parents were poor and busy, Too poor at first to send Humphrey to echool and too busy to teach nik at home. « Children in those days often began to study before they were four years old. But Humphrey, to his own joy, was spared this early discipline, He spent his babyhood years in dreamy idleness that made his parents fear he was going to be @ hopeless idler and dunce. His mother in her rare moments of leisure used to read and reread Bunyan's “Pilgrim's Progress” aloud to the children. One evening, whea Humphrey was about five, Mra, Davy could not find eee b A Feat the volume when the reading hour came. rt. “Never mind!” spoke up Humphrey. ‘Tl tell of Memory. - $ p st to you.” And to the family’s boundless amaze the five-year- erm old child began to repeat from memory page after page of Bunyan’s great ? book, He had unconsciously learned a large part of the story by heart from’ hearing his mother read tt #o often. ’ At six Humpurey went to @ village grammar choo! kept by a brute of a’ man named Coryton, This amiable schoolmaster had a habit of pulling his pupils’ cars in most agonising fashion by way of punishment for stupidity. As Humphrey at firet seemed the stupidest boy in his class his-ears were in a constant state of pain. He did not mind the hurt eo much as the shame of such humiliating public punishment, One day he came to echool with both ears covered with enormous slabs of q@Presive plaster. Corytoa angrily demanded the reason. The ohild replied: “I put these on to save me from being mortified by ear-pulling. “He quickly won @ reputation for odd and original thinking, He reasoned everything out, diaecting the causes of all happenings and forming his own conclusions. Some of these conclusions naturally were idiotic, as when on @ cruelly hot day he wore a heavy overcoat and explained his actio®f by saying: | “If it will keep out the cold !t ought to keap out the heat too.” When Humphrey was sixteen his father died and the Davy family found themselves poorer than ever, Humphrey was apprenticed to an apothecary surgeon. His chance had come, He had always been crazy about chemistry, And now at last he found time to plunge deeply into the study of it His apprenticeship was not an entire success perhaps as regarded the mastery of #urgical lore. But he soon knew more about chemicals than jd the apothecary who employed him. And he was forever making strange experiments—as in the caso of the “thunder powder.” He was desperately poor, and he began to write for a living. Also to orn pay for such simple chemicals as he needed. Hie > ‘Falture laboretory @pparatus was confined to old bottles, wine Glasses, tea cups, earthen fars and tobacco pipes, and Success. Sneered at as an idler and as an impractical aero dreamer and a hopeless loafer, he kept on, often making | blunders, but always advancing step by step. Before he had reached mane hood his immortal life work had begun-¥a life work that inspired the famous eulogy: “The name of Davy, like those of Archimedes, Galileo and Newton, which | grow greener by time, will descend to the latest posterity.” be obtained in this manner, woul both be whipsawed by the middle- | Surgeon of Old Knew How to Use Knife | URGCDRY was already an art when medicine was only @ phase of superstition,., the earliest record of surgery having been found among the Egyptians in a period about 3000 B. C. In European mu- seums are instruments, lancets, tweezers, iron rods for cauterization and other things used by Egyptian practitioners, Jeowtsh and Greek surgery immedi- ately followed that of the Egyptians, and surgery was held in high esteem among the Indians at a remote age, 4s proved by their ancient proverb, “A physician who {s no surgeon ie like @ bird with but one wing.” In- struments now on exhibition at Madras, Calcutta and Alexandria af- ford evidence of their skill. in Greeco surgery had attained bigh proficiency long before the day of Hippocrates and in one of his works is found a complete treatise on the physician's operating room, surg!- man with the present deftness and facility? As things are now, producer and consumer furnish the means for their own undoing. Break this circle and you put a stop to a big per- centage of unnatural fluctuations in the price of farm products. ——_--—_—-— LIBERTY NIGHT. \ O CELEBRATE the permanent illumination of the Statue of fy Liberty the city will enjoy to-morrow night one of the most brilliant spectacles it has ever witnessed. Amid a dazzling play of searchlights from men-of-war, through lanes of illuminated ships and yachts, the President of the United Stated will sail up the harbor and give the signal to turn upon the famous statue a flood of light that shall henceforth irradiate it through the darkest night. Meanwhile the streets and buildings of Manhattan will blaze in honor. The public has special reason for pride and pleasure in the occa- sion, Just as the pedestal of the statue was built thirty years ago from smal] sums contributed by thousands of Americans, so now the great figure is to be superbly lighted, not by subscriptions from the rich, to whom the money is nothing, but by the help of pennies, nickels and dimes collected under the auspices of The World from| cai instruments and appliances, to- men, women and children who love the statue and what it stands for, | 8*ther with instruction in tho correct method of use; on the proper posing Following so closely upon Thanksgiving, the illumination of | or (ue patient, and the use of water Liberty takes on an extra and happy significance. Who in this/#%d bandages. ‘Then follows a do- ‘ 4 i Yi |acription of various wounds, from country could turn the light on anything for which thankfulness} which 1 would appear that hemorr- |hages were arrested then, as no should glow day and night in more human hearts? {With cold compress or styptica, wh! | wounds were healed by primary unt {or suppuration Sharp Wits. | Lesion of the Joints, Injuries to the Hits from spine and various kmds of disloca- It seems to us that the high top; Strange, that @ professional up-|tions are dealt with. ppocrates aboes, the fancy hosiery and the ekirt |lifter always starts with attempting | surge irests instructively on frac- would reach an agreement tha: wili|to put some other persons down.-Al- | tures and contusions of the skull. For fractures the standard operation. was trephining, which, in the view of the , should be performed as speed~ the development. of Roman froui the thne of Galen, the ruments used increased give all three of them a showing. | bany Journal Columbus (Ga.) Inquirer-Sun, | oe | . & nk | What haa become of the old-fash- foned man who used to call his ‘The hope of wealth that ts In every! oe ( " human being ts the lamp that lighta|Diother'# watch @ turnip?—Toledo the way of the members of the get-)'"” wi rich-quick brotherhood to where the! + may be well to explain that pas: »t nun of 300. Among ex- y marks ere.—Albany Journal, ing the buek fs in ho-way related 10 | amples of 1ow in the museums | pes bucking the line Columbia (8, Co). of R lex are needles, hol- The world owes no man a living, | Star. {low ®, cautertes, bistou- | but it owes many a man a kick--well, | ee Vane ries, scissors, For almost where it will do most good.-~Milwau-| Those who talk of themselves have Mttle about kee Nows. “« Sniping” © the surprise of military ex- count, It is the business of the entper perts, the sharpshooter has | | past a neelf at some point of van- proved to be one of the most! sy are nemicent in exposing ‘then uable of soldiers in the present p Anniversary XANDRA, Dowager Queen of Britain, will pass her eventy-second birthday to nee the war the former Queen hos been st constantly engaged oe selves. yn of the British Res oss war, Unusual expertness with the he sloot p Res Ores rifle was not considered an important | OU! of @ hundred Alexandra was a Dantsh accomplishment at the outbreak of | piousiy wounded Princess, and she is t ’ the war, but since then the eharp-/ They are in aimost Muropean monarchs—Emp 5 shooter has come into his own, and) characterized yy nawerate olay 1 of Rusaia, ising Ch jan ‘ectior or the » no of Jenmark, in aakon J the man who can displey upusuel! io uncommon sight to ace a sharp. | Norway and Constantine 1. Ring ot proficiency in that Une ts greatly in | shooter off cleaning his rifle and the Hellenes, It 49 Bald that Alex+ demand, : occasionally patting 1t loving! andra hos written several letters to The art of “sniping” has been car-| calling it pet n T her royal nephew of Gre urging ‘led to @ high stage of perfection | contingents Vin to espouse the allied cause, but Along the western front, Ip the ranks | sharpshooters the influence of Constar aunts, of the British there are not a few/and the 7 Alexandra and Dowa empress @amekeepers, and the: re ali seV-| wary in show Dagmar of Ru a,b not been suf ral notorious poachers, who have where withi: ficient to ‘ome the resistance of furned their eMofpucy to good ac- Canadian, j fered by his wife, the Katser's sister. wounds, fractures and dirlocations, aried by blood-letting, remained un- changed, Under the Byzantines, medical aer- vice, including every appliance for the treatment of disease and wounds, was well organized, cavalry and in- fantry alike being supplied with a company of surgeons and assistants whose duty it was to bring the wounded out of action. Strangely enough, surgery, suffer- ing from the general superstitious horror of the knife, save tn conflict, which pervaded the early peoples of all lands, continued for many cen- turles to be despised by physicians, professional standing being denied to the men who healed wounds and set fractured limbs, it was not until the sixteenth cen- tury that surgery shared in the ad- vance common to every art and sct- ence, Its practitioners torresponding- ly improving their social and profes- sional position. In this reform the day was led by Paris, with her Col- lego of Surgeons, founded in 1279. Berlin and Rome followed her ex- ample three hundred years later. In the eighteenth century London, Edinburgh and Dublin were added to the various centres of surgical learn- ing, while America, leager of all other countries in these days, laid the foundation of her proficiency in the school established by Dr. Shippen at Copyright, 1916, by The Prem P * iudhing Oo, (The New York Brening Vs orld.) 66] DON’T suppose you would mind going over those bills of lading and straightening out things for us in Jenkine’s place?" sald Mr. Jarra boas. enkina ts very sick, as you know.’ “Certainly mot!" said Mr, Jarr, with cheerful alacrity, “Certainly not! I'm only too glad to help out any time in that way,’ “It's very nice of you and I won't forget it,” said the boss, as he moved away. Philadelphia, Dollars a By H. J. nd Sense Barrett | The Proper Po 66] one of the most famous mur- I der trials ever held in this county," remarked a business “the attorney for the defense man, | based his argument for an acquittal) jUpon the grounds of the justice of | ‘the unwritten law.’ ‘not guilty’ on the grounds of the! defendant's insanity. It developed} the nllghtest impression upon them. In other words, he had utterly missed | | the proper point of contact. He had entirely misjudged the jury's potut of view. “The same error ts made every day in business lite merits of thelr goods, salesmen and! | advertising men are constantly em-/ | phastaing features which are of minor {interest to their prospects, and! | slighting telking points which’ would | close the sale, To y people as | sume that ai which would convines ther nvince others. They fail to that ‘a different | universe walks about under your hat from that under mine “The other day T was discussing | this subject with one of the countr: | ablest advertising men, He referre he sale of a mas- >A campaign for Jucted some year int of Contact | “"T naturally assumed,’ he remark 04, ‘that 4 commodity of that ch acter, books, would be of inter only ‘to people who wished to read them, I buy books to read and so no| doubt do you. I planned my m-/ paign along those lines and for some Weeks {t Was a flat failure. No mat- | jt was slight. “One day I fell into conversation ele i pli with one of our canvassers, a man of | on | that the lawyer's plea had made not jittie education but plenty of com- | ense. mo is that it's t ‘The folks who buy books of this type don't buy ‘em to read; they buy ‘em to look at. They want ‘em aa fi ture; part of the interior decorations Tn explaining the’ you remember the old song about “the | @P th! organ in the parlor to give the house | a tone"? That's the with bod of this sort. Talk 4 the bindings, number of words, the prestige at all that Ine of That's the way to get ‘em com- “In my next ad, I fe Ned strongly. ¥r these Lactic owed this tip. » then on I I ured mmodity an intellectual re npaign which had utter fizzle turned You It pursued these books as a physical rather than as source. The threatened to be a out to be a complete success, spirit point of contact.” HE firet refe ery of pe Tee ten In 1629 by J }d’Allion, a French missionary working among the Indians, He had crossed the Niagara River and made his way southward through Western New York into Northern Pennsylvania, where he found a spring from which oll flowed, This ofl was highly esteemed by the Indians for medicinal uses. The jetter of priest was pub Uehed in 1632 in Sagard’s “Historiv um in America din a letter writ- ehh de la Roche When Petroleum Was o the discov. ; du’ Free anada.” This oll spring was probably {dentical with the one de- seribed by the Massachusetts Maga- zine in 1789 n the northern part of Pennsylvania there is a creek called Oil Creek, which empties into the Allegheny River, It issues from ja spring, on the top of which floats jan oll, similar to that called Barba. does tar, and from which one may gather several gallons @ day. The troops sent to guard the Western posts halted at the same spring, col- lected some of the of] and bathed joints with tt. This gave them reat rellef from the rheumatism | with which they were afflicted” he trouble with this campaign | » high-brow,’ he o4.| 4 ey hooks of thie tive | commencing that old talk. I'm always | ‘Oh, you won't forget it, won't you!” muttered Mr, Jarr to himself, “But I'll tell you what you will for- get! You'll forget to tell the cashier to slip me an extra ten or twenty, after putting all of Jenkins's extra work on me! As if T didn’t do more now than any three men in this office, as it ta! | When he want out to luncheon he called up Mre. Jarr on the ‘phone. | “Say, be said, “I won't be home till late to-night.” yell, that’s nothing new!", came | ter how interestingly I described the back the voice of Mra, Jarr over the "The jury rendered a verdict of! contents of those books, the response) wiro, | me; it's more than you generally do.” ‘ow, took here!’ said Mr. Jarr, ‘It's bad enough as It ts, with all | unis extra work shoved on me—and I won't gat a cent for tt—without you the goat! ‘There's @ dozen fellows Arni- | at the office who don't do @ single | the lunch counter 6 whole day long! But who ets this extra work? I, the old slave, the easy mark, the good thing, Patsy Bolivar Jarr.” | “you tell 1t well,” answered Mrs, |Jarr over the telephone, “but you must admit that I've heard euch | things before.” | “You know T wouldn't tell a ite to lyou. UM be working at the office on | Jenkins's accounts tll after mtdni and I'm if you have tho least doubt that not there, call me up on the |sive reference library he had con- see, I had been missing the proper | telephone.” “Oh, I believe you,” ed Mra, Jarr, tn a tone that was hot very comdial. So all day long and far into the night Mr. Jarr toiled, doing bis own | work and the sick man's, At about 1 A.M. he was all through, and feeling |tired and faint, sought out a restau- jrant and ate a brace of chops, washed |down with several mugs of ale. | Then he took the subway. Soon he \was fast asleep and oblivious to all things until be felt a heavy band shaking him. "Hey, youse!” sald a hoarse voice. "Beat it!" “Where am I?" asked Mr. Jarr in sleepy-eyed confusion. "At Broux Park; change care for the monkey house!” was the reply. but it's kind of you to post| “Gee, I was 80 tired I fell asleep,” said Mr. Jarr, end he bundled out of the train as it came into the station platform, Then he noticed that he might have tipped the guar, stayed in the care and been switched to the other track, As it was he had to climb down a@ long, steep Might of stairs, walk under the structure and climb another flight of stairs and then wait in the cold for another train to come in and switch over, for the other was gone. Fifteen minutes tater another train came, Mr. Jarr got aboard, cuddled up, went to sleep again and was awakened by the words: “Get out here, you big rummy!" | “Where am I?” gasped Mr. Jarr, “Auantic Avenue Station, Brook- lyn,” said the guard in reply, “and youse musta had the prize pakitch with yer, for de way youse called home de hogs when youso taught was in de hay eoltinly shows 1s a good old rum!" “A what?” ed Mr, Jarr, “A boozeby, @ sopper dum,” said the guard. “Wi bape knockout drops?" ir. Jarr was too tired to ar point. He slipped a quarter a guard, who stayed with him the re turn trip, was awakened at his ota. “Now,” exclaimed Mra, Jerr, who eat up fully awake as he came in, me you worked all night on the books and was so tired that you foll asleep , in the subway and was carried past’ your station?” “No, my dear,” sald Mr. Jarre eol- + emnly. “What's the use? I give up. I went out with the boys last night, bad @ stag racket at the club and we kept it up till daylight. But I've had & good time.” “Well, I'm glad to see you tell the truth for once,” said Mrs, Jarr, “but why didn’t you say it that way when you telephoned me?” rion ees ~ Lucile the Waitress By Bide Dudley Copyright, 1016, by The Prom Publishing Co, (The Now York Ereniug World) ON'T suppose you worked the hamest working beauty on Thanksgiving, did you?"| Polson plant. I'l bet I tell him asked Lucile, the waitress, things when he comes out here | as the friendly patron took a seat at} aye Rat l at “DPD in the ° 4 n't, I'd lke to aii Well, sir, Lillie gets red in the face and says: ‘I'm going to Kirwin to eee my mother Thanksgiving,’ ‘T got a mother over on Ten: \. nue,’ I tell her. ‘Don't you the te would be recompense for me to g nd the day with her? 1 know way tim working that day. It's to let you Kirwin, ain't it oy Lillle says she guesses tt ts, | "No, I took that day off," he re- | piled "Suret” eald Lucile, “So did all the sensible population but me: I was [here dealing ‘em off the arm from 7 | A. M. to 5 P.M. without a pnofa |relapse. ‘The day before the manager and that scoots me off into a | comes to me and orders me to. I give) 0f verballism per sonited with Bee lhim one When 1 get through telling her @ few | “And why, Mr Pewtgrball,' ¥ ask|with torre e ve Poor sitl's eves all | suporfluously, ‘do you pick on me to|down her drugstore front, |? “ISTeRe saddle off your holiday duties ontot|,"‘I haven't seen my moth seks,” sh er for He doesn’t give mo any back talk at| utr sho says M3 1 tell her, ‘Tm in a couple of melt away with an't you? {all, but quletly amplifies into the | kitchen. Say, boy, but I'm mad, and when J really get mad I'm as angry presumptuous that Weeks ryore you'd bomesickness, woul ' , “Say, but T went | as a rattlesnake with all his buttons ‘. nt after that junbuttoned. I approach Lillie, Meelt it wae & fhame how I told “4 tow-head at the Pie counter, and alip| t+ does a em er my troubles. uld Av . alr that tally unprepared, I'm not going tolmore Hlendly patron's com. make you a specified speech, but\” Lucile smiled, « jwhaddye think old Pewterball just! ane pat se pol J's all 0, &,* slipped me? came to L that telegram? “it | |, “Ignorance shows all over Lille's| Lucile } | face, #0 1 revile her with the facts. | paper. ‘it reg. “=? P&tOn & yellow, “Old Pewterball,’ I continue, ‘just told me I got to work Thankestving. | Ma gue, You going to work, too? you are ie ae . ¥ aioe ene saya, ‘I'm not going to be lye | here that day. asked Lucite, “Say, friend and fellow citizen, that 00k fle head made me red-headed. ‘Bo,’ I aa: lady's bilnd, | throwing all retention to the winds, Well, lets you off and keeps me here, and 4 nd she's gol you kn me} day there, toon? Dave an extn tion and got home just at daybreak: . . “now I suppose you are going to tell >