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Gre EFeity “Tatoo. ESTABLISHDD BY JOSEPH PULITZOR, Puvlishea Daily Except Sunday hy the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 83 to $3 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZPR, President, 63 Park Row, J ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER,’ Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row, at the Post-Office at Now ‘York as Second-Clane Matter, to Fvening|For England and the Continent an@ All Countries in the International Postal U! a Enters. tio | Evening World Daily Magazine | Waitin \ | g for His Contribution By J. H. Cassel tk Vrening World ‘| ifty Boys and Girls Famous in History, By Albert Payson Terhune (Tie New York Evening World.) Copyright, | No. 42—WALTER SCOTT, the Boy Story Teller. 1917, by The Drees Publishing Co BIG, fatr-hatred, lame boy of fifteen was set to work in his father’s One Year. sv. | , One Month sy... os A Wdinburgh law office to study for the bar. | ‘The lame boy was Walter Scott, and his worthy father looked i\f WOLUME 87.0... ...cssecvessssccccccccvessmssesNO, 20,246 on Him with a sort of hopeless despalr, vowing the lad was {nour 7 i | ably lazy and that he had the soul of a tramp instead of a lawyer. ' SPEAKING OF LEAKS. | The study of law had no great Interest for Walter, either then or Tater, i ; " - Pi | | His chief delight was to wander through the more desolate parts of Scot is JHE “Teak” Committee and its formidable probe wielder appear | land, stopping overnjght at laborers’ cottages; listening to the folklore ? to think they have accomplished enough for this week in per-| | storles and historic legends the peasants loved to tell. suading the President and Board of Governors of the New Ney allah beet . esi i a crowd boys, ea oe ee [ A | , cot Jeorge's Square, Edinburgh, \ Merk Stock Exchange to “request” members thereof to report the | ey tie sea renee tbe sane te ary te woold.tavent legends “long” and “short” accounts of customers during the period from |and ballads for them, or else would take some dry fragment of » Des, 10 to Dec. 28. history and work {t up into a thrilling, exciting tale. \ t How the “requests” will be recetved and what results they will ‘This sort of thing made him a favorite with the other fellows. rf ‘ a eo lawyer, And seem kK produce remain to be seen. Apparently the committee is content higdeessihiod dil erasing TE rete @ eats. wis barntng & the bis, » te go back to Washington and wait. marra-seronad. 4 lazy lad, which could be made of moro value to himself ie i | jueer and to the world at large than all the law study on earth, ‘ It will be « great pity if, in the course of an investigation which Study. } Every time Walter could steal a few days’ holiday ie expected to cost the country at least $100,000, this Congressional Orns trom the dry office he was off among the mies “ ise u g col i es by Committee does not turn np a few general truths concerning the na- Goring into obscure villages, luring country folk Into taik and learning i thelr traditions and customs ture and value of Stock Exchange activities which may be useful for ‘Bootland, At that tme, was Tooked on by the aay a iene ved siveld the enlightenment and guidance of the public. dingly dreary country, oe ‘opled by shee wd and cold-blooded folk, a ‘ f amour or heart Interest For instance, withont wandering too far from the alleged “leak,” oe aut Walter Scott was already acratching below the surface and exploring couldn't the committee contrive to find out why, between Dec. 10 the mine of romance and natural bes gt which he was one day f ” A Jothe his beloved land in his novels and poems. and Deo. 23, tho trading in United States Steel on the New Yor | vow in the course of his law studies the youngster once faced a Felice Stock Exchange reached the amazing total of over 5,000,000 sharoa? | oral examination. His LiL i ecshoterelilg cape ter ed eect ae verness, who knew far more abc examination sub; Why, in the short space of two weeks, should a volume of Steol | | Porc loverne ’ h This rival, when answering any dificult question, had a way of fingering tok equal in value to the entire capital stook of the corporation go the ton button of his cont. Always, in moments of stress, his hand resohed pouring through the market? What sort of “lenk” {s it that lets out for that button. From {ts contact he seemed to draw Inspiration. » seh a delugo—and what is the of: cott, alone of all the students, had noticed this habit of his competitor's iB hat is the o feot of repeated bursts of this kind) because Scott alone had cultlvated the gift of close observation. On the ¢) om walls and foundations which industry has built and upon which morning of the examination, while the crowd was pouring into the clase- * business and credit depend? | room, he pressed close to his rival and cut off the top button of the latter's | fe coat. ; The oral examination began, Presently Soott and the cooentrio hap, Avotber North Soa battl resul | alone, were left in the contest. Then caine the harder questtons._ Instinct. November election returns, — oe | @ ively the other fellow ratsed his fingere to” the spot : | { One Way to where the button had been, It was not ther, He | peenmae Pi an groped despairingly for It Cc THE SENATE RISE } 4 Its absence confused and worrled him. Te could mot ¢ AN S TO IT? —w keep his mind on the knotty queries the examiners were hurling at him. He faltered, at last, and broke down, Scott won the compes | tition. RINGING beforo the Sonate hie resolution fixing @ time) Fiven before he wns admitted to the bar, Scott began to write poems aud when debate on tho President’s speech shall opon, Senator = ny Cummins declared: “T don't invent most of my yarns," he told a friend. “They are usually, tales T have heard. I only put a cocked hat on their head atiok a cane’ #' Hach Senator should express his views on the proper rela- into thelr hands—to make them fit for coing Into company! , tem the United States must maintain with the world. Yet it was just that odd talent which presently gave him the sills “Ras : He fi bid! Th id be be Wizard of the North”, and made him the greatest fiction writer of his day. eaven for! ere ooul no more dismal prospect at tthe present moment then an unrestricted flow of Senatorial oratory ————— SD iead the President's plane and purposes. | Lucile the Waitress oe If the Senate cannot see that here is opportunity end matter B i es | y Bide Dudley. Yew as grave, carefully-considered and concentrated a debate as has - - ever dignified the pages of American legislative records, {t has fallen Copyright, 1917. by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Rvening World) lew indeed. ‘“ ee sree un ses 8 ene oe bse hendicd ey Sane as io , 10 yho are alway! pe loom, At a time when « United States Senator ought to be expressing behing ats! todas ‘and let in the radiance of sunshine, . complaining about thelr} but he gets sore. « ~ the best and. deepest thonght that is in him in words to which history neighbors?” asked Lucile, the walt-| “Why mention dimes to me?’ : .. May turn, the Senate should have no time to waste in listening to rons, as whe offered the friendly pa-| says. ‘Do I look ike @ ten cent kin. _ « every looso-tongued member who fools the situation points him no = Noh, aie qnite often,” he replied. Tbaye. Ye ae farce ae bats ” her duty than to prove the President a lobbyist. | . : “Me, tool” 4 " fe Ap Ad Bh Dos }. Me, too!” Lucile continued ‘A sions ain't go!ng to get you a thin How to Win With What You Have | att Lae Set aaank | tt bund easier as oa . __ tH HI Vl. OCNWaD | ne Peri ta in much a vehemence| ‘© dive into rich food oF are you That Bethlehem Steo! Company bonus of $80,000,000 dem- eee at I ares laboring under the deduction that this . (add « 7 manner that I figgered his liver must {9 4 bureau of complaints for afflicted yet © onstrates again what opportunity and protection Unale Sem | The Man Who Attracts Attention Is the Man Who Ia Thinking All the Time and Expressing Himself in Little Way: be torpedoed! First thing be says to| neighbors?’ 7 provides for all, including those who ¢ail him most and stick | By James C. Young jbut the habit has certain drawbacks. | successful, would have smashed| above your desk: me is: “There's a womun fn the next warns me @ aix-cytinder bok him worst, | PN @ Mttle book that nas Just come |! NtPPen to know several able bodied | American shipping and wounded| ‘The man who has done hte hast has flat to me that’s going to wet me) “ws iGne dime!’ T maya, And away ge OH |] trom the press Charles M. Hohwan | Zentlomen who got it so, completely | American business. We wanted to| done everything. The man who has crazy.” to get him a little of everything, ay MILITARISM IN JAPAN tells how to succeed. Ho calls it) &t NOW they aro spending all their| lay the matter before the President| done less than his best has done ‘All right, my ‘ino fellow!’ T nays one might say, were one in @ jesting’ , wi), | time, days as well as evenings, in| in its real : ‘ sal ‘ow about the eate? | tense. . | uocesding With | real significance, While we) nothing. Nothing ts more fatal to commetically, ‘but how about the sate When I *, . pa “wat What You Have,” 0°¢88 Suits, serving food In fashiona-| were pondoring over ways to accom-| success than taling one’s fob as a That woman ain't in here, you know Mette anit Phage Bisa et comeige 4 1 LEARN from the Japan Times that at least one nativo! and tevcumh oF bs renautante i pier vanes aie Not! pli:h this we got a message from the| matter of course. ‘The man who falls We got othor things, like beans and Coo,’ and he gete tt ie i] co. ei Re he dress su iy uni some-| young man | h. ent “ * | to give fat whee 1 here to set you c vy," “Cut ttout, he says. ‘Tt you don't % $ a ory . . ‘ “In which case,’ i 5 . ; A ioe 7 get buay and do| "The man who attracts attention 15] President understood the. altuation| man who 1s not willing to give more her piano all evening and plava “Ippe ty, sr goes back to the wale Bote ta The Tokio Asahi pointe out that political power {n Japan is your best with the thy apaninine da shin iog 0h) the Hie, | gna had coma to aurea with Us, than thia da focilan,”? Chee Coo Coo," or some other song the Kitchenette, there to repose untf! sf now controlled by military men. Oount Terauchi, the Premier, still faculties you pos- | “4 & wing Himes! le ways.| “J wired for this young man to come| A man's wife is one of his best as- ike that. Why, I can’t keep still.’ some other victim wishes to aseamlt ‘ ? Tt 1s not the man who tries to a le ” v" 7 " } it.’ ‘ - ‘ Bena, | on to Bethlehem. 1 wauted to see! sets, says Mr. Schwab, Here ts hie = “Feel like dancing, eh? I says, fust “wel! - wears the uniform of a marshal. Prince Yamagata, who is reckoned “Nothing 1 #0 | Be employer by doing the theatrical, | nim, He had initiative; he had been| tribute and commentary upon the to sort o' abrogate him a Nttl Bath “and t ee “fal “a “pe & one of the strongest forces in Japanese politics, has been a marshal plentiful in Amer- had MaglaneEA eC WE who 4t-/thinking; be had arranged an inter-| woman of the family: “‘Dancing?' he almost shouts, ‘Not, thing to him. Strange guy, btm, and a general. Tho Governor General of Chosen is @ military man. - 10x a8 opportunity. | 1m? ‘ view with the President unprompted.; “Tn selecting men for important I feel like committing murder.’ bo LE i Vormosa is governed b: 1d 1 hi S<svae There are more| “There t# a young man in Bethle-| In short, he was just the type of man| positions, I always take into account ‘Oh, ho!’ 1 says. ‘So you'd he- ‘Quite strange,” replied the trendly governed by a soldier. It is charged that under the ; Q ' patron, . A F jews i Jobs for forceful | hom whom I expect to move up. This) that gladdens the heart of every em-| their tamtly relations. If the man’s come criminally inclined towards your| “He eure fa,” sald Lucile ‘Then she oe eee a ue —ome corpo to offices in which aan Rea hore are seen) men to| is the sengon} eo winter this re ; wite takes the part of a dlscrect prosoutor next door whe tickles the added: “Mero'n one, ‘under the of civil i nts wo! lo better work, i | is one of © terse epi-| an agitation at Washington which, is ® paragraph worth pasting | po) i vories, d ell, forget it,| nosa for you. I'm the girl thet s ei end that in Japan to-day any| grams that etand boldly forth from| helper oF co-direotor with bim, be 18 Ficaso, and siip the best Ilttie erm |tho tune in the next fate T'm learaheg military man can count on attaining high political or governmental tne printed page: that much the more valuable to w waitress in town an earful about the| that ‘Ippe Chee Coo Coo’ song to ang Seer ie dis lahartest cout eae] | ‘Succeeding with what You Have” eats. What shall tt be, beans or, at the Ladies’ League’ . position by the shortest route. According to the head of the Beth- | Q ° {s a sermon in burning words, and ite basi? They're both ten cents,’ day night. Wonder if I couldn't eell In view of the fact that England, France and Russia are fighting lehen Beet cheperation it not | acneior W. e ections text te “hustle “You know, friend and fellow olti-! that guy a ticket, to crab the climax!” Nice ; genius but hant work, unflagging © to destroy the militarism of Germany and that Japan has joined tho E ; y d geal, that gets men to the top, ~ Allies and indorsed their aims, the growth of the militaristio influ.) “! have always felt that the surest e _B Helen Rowland Peas The enoe in Japancee official circles is a grave inconsistency. Abolish ""” 4\° Rc or ke se be Comrislt, 1017, by The Pree Publishing Co. (The New York Drening World.) inilitarism in Japan, urges the Asahi, and try to establish a truly work a litth harder than any one FER a few years of marriage all of a man's originality appears to be | © vonstitutional government. i also on the job one is holding down. concentrated ob the vital thought of something new to bave for Conrriait, 1917, by The Prem Pobiiehing Cv. | that toys and candies are the only | pers became of vast value in the mind pS Which seems to indicate that public opinion on both sides of the CD®, f the most euccessful men T puted ‘The New York Evening Wort.) necessities of life.” of ttle Miss Jarr and he joined in * earth is busy with the same great problem and rallying forces f ¥ ti heed RATIO: OAs & woe G Pantanal’ deanie Gai ncaszun |]! balng the time of year when the| “Well, they've been good children,” | tho wailings of her brother, y 8 £ r allying forces for until he began to earn $ a year. jetting » husband doesn't make a girl a “wite,”| | woathor is the rawest, and the|remarked Mr. Jarr, “and besides {f1 “Let them have thelr money,” ed- the same great tusk, | Before that he had managed with a any more than getting an automobile makes her a ground the slushiest, early marble | sive 5 cents to Willfe and 5 cents to| vised Mr, Jarr. “It will be cheap at ane Aiekal am sigan ia oe bedroom, chauffeur, You've got to learn how to run them, time wae at hand, it being just the| little Emma, !t will melther make us/the price, Besides, I did give it to : | ich he never forgot to wind. Young season when no small boy can get, Nor break us.” | them, ana maybe they'll g ” | J ine to ®e Letters From the People men may enjoy dropping their work Bee eee ceased (eee ae a arth, rbies| “No,” aaid Mra Jerr, ebaking her| nt bby ’ 7 go|close to Mother ) as ma a o ng her| moe, and Emma will take the pen- (» More About That non Ball. |< a jat 6 or 6 o'clock and slipping into a J bring him, without contracting chills,| head, ‘Ten cents won't buy anythin, “4 ‘To the BAitor of The Evening World travelling ainety milion ee hott, Wag, dtews auit for an eveving of pleasure, aoe Net SO. Witten th oTGer: $a make snp fever and enufties. Hence Maater| these Gays, Why, if I go out to me “I don't want pennies. I want 3 Bare Td with considerable in-| would be the speed of the shell’? = = Jarr's thoughts wore all upon marbles, | soup greens and a loaf of bread a| ntokel!” orted the little irl, bd Xerest the various solutions given to Another Explanation, Lpagatod “ fi ta to buy mar- | dollar fe gone—everything | 0] coms Ae the cannon problem in your paper, | 72 the Eiitor of The Brening World: | 4 woman fe never satisfied with the man who prom. | |," um. simme tive cam id Re aire cane ene ae Wg rt take the penntor," sald Master * Dut fall to nee why any one could|, 1 wish fo stato that T agree about fece to love her a little all his life; and yet, when you |” ie ost Hi ea Be sere ae i bar. 8 ae Pgh whe oat visong of manipulating | t wibly disag ith rat nnon ball keeping up with @ train | come to think of 1 ttle ig enough—at “And gimme five cen! 'y Jacks, | the candy slot machines of the neigh- Boneibly dangree with your original it ‘red ‘with the. aamo’ speed, but 1) @ COTLAND'S sone and daughters ty @ Uittle te enough—at @ time papa?” wheedled little Hmma Jarr,| Pocketa found five pennies for the orhood, followed by «throng of nls a ° 1 . re: sn — y The reason for this solution is that| travelling’ 10 chiles an Nour if greg A On,thie fide of the AUantiC, a4) 16 seams gort of foolteh for a woman to yearn to be the sun of « man's| er, "hen small boys take to the oold | Dit 9 Ge Pit 8 SRNG Sed Sap envious and longing playfeliowa, “Tl When, the ball hae left the cannon’a| Foie at the aime rate OF ea tosday pay reverence to the memory | S*!8ten6e, when all he wants, to make him perteotly happy, ts a oute, Little, | ust nya. wouenion Hittie stele aro | “TWant anickell Ywant antckell”|ncney" me sive Emme my, the train, but te left entirely to ity | poregon i that {fa gun was placed n of Robert Burns, who was born on | revolving satellite, drawn relentlessly to play at jaok- | #° bean to sniffle, Mr. Jerr handed the little gtrt the 5 Bre ane oem, ‘ae tice enot posmlbly lan hour and fred with only fees | gan 1759, In a clay cottage, two! — stones upon cold doorway steps that| | "You've got 5 cente and that te the nickel and the boy the five pennies, 8 ball any more than it can upon a | ©2oush to drive tt Afty mien an hour, Miles Routh of the town of Ayr, and| — Olosing the window won't keep Love trom going out by the duinbwatter, | bring tonsilitis and whooping cough| %8me a¢ @ nickel,” ald Mr, Jarr. but as soon as little Miss Jarr aw | ae AB Rh my idea ts that the ball would fy | BOar the “Auld Brig of Doon,” |when the bills begin coming up that way. invariably, There is a season for! “Now, be a nico little girl.” her brother rejoiced at th \¢ “ a back Into the . Generous to a Mult, independent, | rejoiced at the exchange _ prove my point: Let ©. C. or any ne muzzle of the gun sesh Master Jarr paused at the 4 Li 4 of the others Who offered different so-|®#4!n. Vor example, hold @ ball tn S00PMR# Meanness, cant and hypoc- everything and it Js seldom season- hi © door on) the pennies rose in value in her eyes @ 4 B | & fetione throw a dusoball while stands |20Ur hand on a. train’ going sixty rey, bis virtues 80 far overshadowed Exacting vows and promises fram a man {8 morely putting up bars— | able. 3 wer. to squander hia nickel to {and she charged upon her brother and © | Bing motionless: ‘Then let him throw | Mile an hour and drop it, “It will cea that the world finds it esy| for him to jump over, It's too cold to play marbles, watt |°2Per Joyously in a brotherly manner |demanded them, casting awi . not keep travelling at tt . to condone the latter—rather to be lat thea cK away the > | &© the ball from a moving automobile at ff at that rate of 4 | at the discomfiture of his little sister, | nickel tn di © | © precisely the same spot with the|#Peed, but will drop to the ground, Sia that he was wild and reckons, | — till the fine weather,” advised the fond | io een tn sdain, 8 » Bite amount of effort, If he mena: {60 10 reality the catinon ball te being since ft was his closo assoclution with| A judge hae decided that writing impassioned poetry to « wo father. that, teasing your/ “You spotl them!" sald Mra, Sarr, % B Wee the distance which the bail has | carried, and not driven, until thrown COmYivial comrades that inspired some | AD ; ‘e sister eo, you shan't have the money, | You let them hav. : B *tgavelled either time he. will |into space by powder concussion, | Of, M8 chotcest bits of verse. | Proves that a man “really loves her.” It may—and then again, it may only| ‘‘T'll play ‘em tn the housm” begwed you naughty boy!" oried Mrs. Jarr | thin mon eae thelr way in everne ] that they very nearly agree. If | CLs. | nny mares pave patd postia trib. | prove that he loves to write pootry. ‘ the boy, led ane Gexterously deprived Pes oi] ar ee HAH undp all my Aisatpline, fa p apeed, at which the automobile ia|The Matra “4” te the Preterred| that beat sume Up nie work Is tint ‘An’ Til play facks in the house,!the coin in question a ae Area its igen, a i fainly would also affect the dista To the Filitor of }of the American poet Halleck In the abstract a man admires nobility and intelligence in a woman; |‘, papa," coaxed the little girl. At this the littlo girl hegen to dance | walked out of the ine ites ii ish ~ & travels, ‘Therefore the In the possessive ed on the} Phere Have been Inttion themes than his, but tn the concrete he always prefers a bird of Paradise to a wren, a deco: | “They Spend too much money,” sald up and down in glee and shout: | turning with five pennies for the Hels ' & fF e@pltes to the cannon ball Pre naines, of Persons onding in 9% Por! And layin l TR with poesy's ration to dn Inspiration and incense to common sense, mre aare re 8 on. cents sare and|'smarty! Smarty!" | girl she had found tn hor purse 4 ‘ would {t be proper 1 © noller th ve cents there, and we neod evo: 1 hur 1" PUPAR | er. wate problem wai auto or just’ Brees’ auto? | To rend the namen that know not death penny these daya with eversthing tolnor ria ecmpartial mother changed | "'Therel"" whe maid aa the ohildven ; Mall de fred from '@ cannon with | A claims that Brigge’e ls correot, Aga fom Have won a ereamae weeguiera | Sometimes a man hes to fb artietteatty all evening in order to oon |oct and wear ae Nigh oo 10 to. Biot (ee eee te erie bY taking the five | ran gayly out. “You can't wind ma Se emagerte Velocity of forty-five miles BOE P, |“ han"tnat which binds his Bair vince ® woman of his sincerity, the children thom daye sear to think | "Whoroupon the herete despised oop. | teem t2ot? AnEer Hike you do: your ¥ : /j ’ t ‘ { ' f { —————— '