The evening world. Newspaper, September 18, 1917, Page 14

——— Pert few ‘ Ff > . soevrd Pi as Pere how Dintered 0: the Pest thee @: Kew Tork ae Rerond-Ciase Mei + Lee ae Neves ° ‘orld fer the t on One Teer One Mowth VORUME ob . . NO, PO,4"" A BRITISH TRIBUTE TO AMERICA. AST » ‘ no of Americans ted the riguificant { e nation hed we ver allied for tra This, « recog effective ¢ Ar submarine f " ¢ matched to the wer sone, follow: ’ American troops, American @ Americar ry Britieh and French eot!, not to epeak e prompt molilizat f billions of dollare of American money for the Allies’ ca s fort » tribute to the American spirit. Amer Lond y Mail telle ite readers, are in one Teepect far a t Kir “It they ee at times slower to rise to an emergency, they are much more thorough than we when they have made up their minds to grapple with it, They deliberate long and hold themselves in to make it ‘ap or as though nothing they launch a smashing blow. os; the cobwebs of debate are would move m, and then eudden) Everything swept aside.” The Daily Mail probably has in mind the long months it took to convince the British nation that, despite its past military achieve- ments and renown, it had nothing like the armies requisite for the mighty task in hand, There can be little doubt that in recording the entrance of the United States into the conflict, long after Col. Roosevelt's horrors at the way a Democratic Administration is conducting the war have) changed; dis ion ¢ been forgotten, history is going to find special words of admiration for tho extraordinary speed with which @ non-military, peace-loving, | demovratic people came to a@ realization of what it had undertaken} and what it must do, German efforts to stir up trouble for us in the Philippines seem to have been a fiat failure. Why don't the Imperial mischief makers concentrate on Guam? 42 —— . KERENSKY COMES OUT AHEAD. EPORTS from Russia that the suppression of the Korniloff R revolt has left the present Government stronger than ever may be credited. The new Russia has got a lot to learn about itself, but every lesson mastered without bloodshed is bound to strengthen confidence | in a central power that has come through perilous crises without | losing its balance. Kerensky has proclaimed Russia a republic. While that does not change Russia over night, it does establish definitely a national idea} to which even Socialist and labor factions may be expected to rally| with something more nearly approaching unanimity when reactionary y OY: xo f What Ne xtP |_Fables of Everyday Folk eee ee ee ane _ ee Le MEXICAN 708 Jar Fami Mm Under Fire By Albert Payson Terhune ee ee ee ee NO. 14--THE FALL OF THE ALAMO, 08 te the story of ae Americas Gefeet Bet fh one Getent that ied to ferreaching Victory, And & oes © defeat wherein death wer chosen rether thes ourrender Dore inte the rick lends of Northwesters Mentos inte the region that te now Temes ted Roeked Dundreds of Amerian pioneers (o make bomes end careers for themerivee im the! my land ef promtes at 4 clashed with the Mexienes Whose was the fault ts no concern of ours, The Meaioans complained that the newoomere were brutal ond grasping The plonerrs declared oo a4 hot treat them fairiy, Blt by bit the breach widesed between the country's old eritiers and the new, At leat the Yankee settlers combined against the Mexicans and starte® They drow wp & declaration of independence and chose Gea. pander-in-chiet, 4 rebellion fam Houston as their leader, Banta Ana, the Mezioan marched into Texas with « og army, to put down reboilion At Ban Antonio stood @ mission house known es the Alamo, Ite outer Walle covered an area of about two and one-half acres, These walle were ant feet high and @ yard thick, The pioneers had setred the Alamo and had turned it Into @ fort. And now, despite Kam Houston's urgent wishes, * party of them decided to hold it against the oncoming Mexican Army, It was a foolhardy thing to do, of course, But the lors were bora and they looked down on the Mexicans es eatures, feeling that a ha | of Americans vi the Alamo awminet the whole Mexican Amy, Sam Houston knew better, But they would not listen to him ae An Error That Proved Fatal. eee About 140 Americans garrisoned the for Hither, the Mexicans drew nearer, numbers of women and children came from neig! ranches and villages for protection, The garrison was even more short ef food and ammunition than of men. But they were men of iron breed. Thoir commander was Travis, a bora. keneral, and as bra Davy Crockett was there, too. So wag Col, Bowie, the dead who fought always with a knife he ha@ shaped from a blacksmith's file—firet of the million “Bowle knives.” Santa Ana, with 4,000 Mexicans, latd siege to the Alamo, Travie reale ized the awful odds against the Americans, and he said that any man {= the garrison was at liberty to depart with no taint of cowardice while there | was still time, But nobody cared to go | On Feb, 23, 1836, the siege of the Alamo began, Santa Ana's 4,000 men surrounded the fort and began a vigorous cannonading to batter dows, its stone walls. For ten days this terrific bombardment kept up; parties of Mexicang | meantime trying to find some portion of the walls that waa unguarded, #0 that the bestegers micht swarm over. So few in members were the defenders that every man was kept busy, night and day, on the walls; the women reloading the guge for them, But few as they were, they beat back every charge made upoh the fort. Word of the siege spread to far off settlements. Not enough pioneers could be mustered at such short notice to beat off the enemy. But enough of them could be mustered to do what they deemed the next best thing. ‘ » Thirty-two of them cut thetr way through the Mexioas y Defeat and ¢ Atmy and dashed into the Alamo, yelling: i enna “Boys, we've come to die with you! At last, the foes’ cannon ripped a break walls, Through this gap the Mexicans poured into the enclosure, Then ensued a fearful hand-to-hand battle—twenty Mexicans to each American, No mercy was asked or offered. There could be but one outcome. The pioneers fought like wildcats, (Bowte was later found, | pleces, against a wall, still gripping his knife, and with a semi-circle of dead | Mexicans piled around him.) At last, every American man was dead or @ prisoner. All except five—who were overpowered and captured—fell figh ing. Then the women and children were butchered, But, as you shall see in the next article, the Alamo unavenged. Their blood sealed the liberty of Texas, eee” hacked to heroes did not ate ly By Roy L. McCardell i gat a " p i ; naval Gash “Ablb.t6 do batore, Copmight, 1911, by the Press Publishing Co, | calculator when the digits are from) They turned to the word “p ™® plots have to be dealt with. The Woman Who Wanted Too Much ‘To make a long fable short, she in-| | (Te Sew York Evening World) | lone to six, Get out the pill box. | and read: ry ‘ e a! 7 ° old, and she ha¢ tle money be-| sisted on more and more. No matter| [> je intervals betwee “| “What's them digits you are talk-| “Digit: Raving Uetuaiiy the Osesacks eee nner controls marensley By Sophie Irene Loeb ae en ee ee eee twat thow hard he worked or tow far hel || ing whether they should worry inp vabantre kaked Guns (eal he Bot l Acginnte palate one ‘of the: Si, appears to have emerged from confusion that looked hopeless with Copyright, 1017, 9 the Presé Publishing in nice wearing apparel, for which restart Bimaes, ne bt ia whether the war would last long] out the dice : Tenet 3 see ie ha yaar \ flying colors and the future of Russia more than ever dependent The New York Evening Wort) ag Pind i ping en ibat he could ! mands. | enough to make distillation one of the’ «nigits means single figures such| “There!” said Rafferty, Mena NCE upon a time there was a gratify her little whims and they| Always he had wanted to save up| lost arts and a gin fizz rank as jew-|,, you can count on your finger: ¥ upon his vibrant, dominating personality. ‘iO young woman, She had sev-| Seemed to be very happy. enough in order to go into business |elry, somebddy remarked that the |.7 told you so! Jarr, Rangte, 1 Ho has not yet}won through to stability and permanence, But he is immensely stronger for having quelled by merely a show of power an uprising that might have resulted in Russians killing Russians and a far bitterer alignment of hostile factions. ene For dull days a silver-plated periscope might do, but sunshine or search-light should turn it into a shining mark. WILL IT DO? ARLED versions of Germany’s note of regret to Sweden are grimly amusing. According to the Stockholm correspondent of the Central News Agency, the Imperial German Government regards as “highly regrettable the disagreeable issucs raised on account of Sweden's! transmitting telegrams to Germany” and is also sorry that Count Luxburg, the German Minister at Buenos Ayres, “should have sent the telegrams in the phraseology he did.” That is to say, the Imperial German Government is frankly chagrined that the disclosure of its friendly arrangement with| representatives of the supposedly neutral Swedish Government should have kicked up such a rumpus. “Spurlos versenkt” was an extremely awkward phrase to have paraded at this time before a world so out of sympathy with Teutonic notions of honor and humanity. In fact, Germany can assure Sweden of its deepest Tegrets- -that they were! eral sisters and brothers, Her family was in very moderate circum stances, She stayed at home and helped her mother caro for the family while her brothers and sisters provided the livelihood. Many times the family had trouble in making ends meet; so that every member of the family naturally had to be eco- nomical, Nothing could be wasted. The girl's clothes were always handed down to the smaller sister and usu- ally she had to make over last sum- mer’a frock to mect the style. Many @ thne she had to skimp and save In order to make things do, One day at @ gathering when she was looking her best she met a young man, ‘They fell in love with each other, The parents looked with favor on the matoh and in their heart of hearts were glad that ono of the family would be well provided, The young man in question was sincerely in love, and also very am- Gow Serene both found out. If the Swedish Government chooses to be satisfied with of apology, well and good. It can still wear the Imperial Master's decorations and the Allied nations will be put to no additional trouble in determining where the Swedish Government stands, +~ Shortage of workmen on the fruftful soll of sunny Italy has at last necessitated food warnings even in that favored nation. But Italy is ready to curb her appetite if only the Allies will give her coal and cannon to keep up the hamme: on Austria, ring Letters From th e People | Wednesday. out first and secon fo the Editor of The Evening World: Jone be sufficient? i papers ie} 3" Will you kindly let me know A In Correct ea | through your column what day June | to the Ra:tor cf The Evening Word | 2, 1886, fell on? a. Kindly let me know which ts cor-| We Did Not Declare War on Mextoo, To the Editor of The Exening World: America (either Jew or Catholic), ean An ex-army man says that the! be President. B that a Jew or| United States declared war on Mex-|Catholic born here cannot be Presi.| foo and then called it off three weeks | dent, rect. A says that any man born in A.B. 1 | later, Is that @ tact? | Now’ Mereiy scedent Set by) READER Washington. J Firat Second Papers N To the Editor of The Evening Word: To He Editor of The Evening World |_ Is there any law that prohibits a I came from Italy in 1900 and was/ President from them fourteen years old. Must I take succes f serving three times in jon? 4 READER, ' bit He did not have very much to begin with, but he had prospects, this sort! ana thought that, having married a| © girl of moderate means, he looked forward. to having a great helpmav his ambitions and ful. y went to live in a modern flat The girl found herself mistress of al ine Bipveyed. For the. first time in her life she had money that sha could call her very: Own—money giv by her husband Sho cared for the house- HE first British monarch of the | House of Hanover landed in England to claim the throne 208 years ago to-day, Sept. 18, 1714, Queen Anne, the last of the Stuarts, had died on Aug. 1 of that year, and al- though she had given birth to thir- teen children not one survived to perpetuate the line, So the choice fell on the Elector of Hanover and Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, son of Sophia, who Was a daughter of F beth, daughter of James I, He German of the Germans, unal speak Engilsh and with no des learn, Goorge 1. landed at Greenwich, both} make | To-Day’s Anniversary Pretty goon the young man was pro- moted, ‘The young woman looked about for a little larger flat and urged him to move into it. He was rather reluctant because he deemed it best to wait until they had saved some- thing, but he could not withstand her pleadings. Then she wanted to fix up the new place a little better than the one they had before. When he came to figure it up, he suggested that they had best walt until they could afford it. But |she pointed out how she might pur- |chase some things “on the instalment plan” and thus it would be very easy to pay. Soon afterward she saw a besatiful coat in a shop window and went in to try iton, It looked “perfectly stunning, | That evening she told her husband about it and how much she would “just love to have it." He quickly drew her attention to the debt they |had already contracted and how !t | might be best to wait She pouted a bit and then ehe coaxed—and the next day It was her very own. That day the young man | mado application to work overtime in his office in the hope that he could |cateh up with these little debts. Soon jhe did make it all up through per- sistent efforts, ‘ow as this young man was a dil- igent worker his employers recog- |nized his value to the concern and Jevery little while gave him a small increase in his salary, On n of these occasions the | young an found something that she wanted that cost more than she jhad ever dreamed she would pay be- her marrt Sho saw her prosperity in a glowing Meht and in- sisted on securing the thing she for he husband was kept busy meet- these demands. Many a night he burned the mignight off in extra labor to fulfll some new desire of his wife, | Somehow she did not reallze this {hard work. It seemed #0 easy to get the thing sho wanted, which she had ng | Where he was received by the lords of |the regency, who had been conduct- \ing the Government since the death of the Queen, The new King’s first | ouaaial act was to lop off the offictal ds of Queen Anne's Ministers. orge I, Was not accompanied to England by his spouse, that unfortu- nate lady, Sophia of Zell, having been convicted of a marital irregularity and shut up in prison, where she died hfinement of thirt 1, Ike his sue- Up to Queen Victoria, con- tinued to reign over Hanover, and his fondness for the land of his birth and his dislike for him to spend Hanoves, Mish institutions led much of bis time in for himself, but he found {t impos- ‘sible under the circumstances. On jone or two occasions he remon-| {strated with her and urged that it! would be much better if they could) “save something.” | But it was like golng “into one ear and out the other.” She wanted to outshine Mrs. Neighbor. In this way she kept her husband down. He never had any money that he could invest. ‘There came a day when he realized | the situation was impossible. One quarrel brought on another, and they parted. She went home and had to begin the same old economical grind. She realized that sometimes those who have never had anything lose all perspective when better times come. Moral: Let your previous poverty make you careful of your present prosperity. wishes that he weren't married to her—so that he could enjoy R* love is the feeling a man flirting with her again. rising against the akan Row and these trying da. women who have no time to coddle complicated, just—uncaught, least that they are going to be done If you can't serve, at least you necesaity is @ luxury, and @ luxury i | the following mathematical problem | Bachelor Girl Reflections | By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1017, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Bening World), This {s the time for the married me! have to sit down again, dearle, ‘The average man goes through life with one hand ® stretched out to catch the woman who 4s leading him a chase and the other stretched back to ward off che A woman who is chasing him, It {s diffcult to say which is harder to live with In & pessimist, a pacifist or a humorist, A woman loves each man in a different way—but a man’s heart {s Itke | an old-fashioned hand-organ with only one love-tune, | Alas! if there were only such a thing as a synthetic husband for busy When they speak of “luck In love” a woman thinks proudly of the | man she has just caught; a man thinks prayerfully of the womam he has ‘The average wife doesn't give a Hohenzollern for her husband's ability | to prove that his way of doing things {s right. |Mr. Jarr explained. "So your fingers are called digits, too.” “No, siree! Not my fingers ain't called no such things, not in an accl- dental policy, even," said Gus. “I'll Whereupon Mr. Jarr propounded | ner a dollar on it!" price of food, which they had to have, | and not strong drink, which they did not need, was the real thing to worry over, “And what has numbers on your fingers got to do mit dice?” asked Mr. Slavinsky. “Digits? There ain't no such name fn any language, be- cause I know every language, Eng- lish, Russian, German and Yiddish!" All present in Gus's palatial cafe) «yy word! such a preponderance stirred uneasily. For thinking brings/o¢ asininity I never was cognizant about fag of the brain and persplra-| or" gaid Mr, Dinkston, shaking his anent the high cost of living: “If a) cow and a calf welghed a ton and @ half, at @ dolar and a half for a pound and a half—how much would a calf's calf cost tion of the body. »| bead. “Intermittently, the lack of “Tain't good at mental arithmett,” | erudition in this environment has Mr. Rangle confessed. “I givé 1€ UP: /been painfully apparent, but it never But I tell you what, I am a@ lightning) oitained its perhelion before to such an extent as this, Not that I would vituperate the deficient mental facul- ties of the proletariat.” | ‘There he goes again!” cried Gus “Never can that feller be with gen- tlemey but he don’t talk a language what I know is an insult, even if I don't know what it is he says, nor I don't believe he does neither! © Sup- pose there was ladies present, eh, what?" and Gus glared at the heavy- weight champion of the English lan- puage, has when he looks at hie wife and ‘s annual up- They all . But pshaw! fall moving ” if we are going to chuck dice, let us chuck dice, If anybody is getting examinations for the military draft let him do it, and if he ts talking as a colleger or an insulter let him get out, Are we here for pleasure or to have insults chucked us, when we |should be watching each other mit pleasure like gentlemen to see that nobody cheats? “But I notice nobody has taken up and number up to nine are not both called digits,” said Mr. Rangle, “I'll take it up myself!" said Gus, “And so will I," said Slavinsky, “I remember taking digitalis after alcoholic excesses,” said Mr, Rafferty, the builder, “However, I will string my bets with Mr, Jarr and Mr, Dinks- ton, I have always noticed that those @ real one life would be much jess win, digitalis after taking three fingers of the old stuff that ts now against the law to make during the war.” that way. | Mr, Jarr, seeking the high author- | ity of impeccable print, went out to a can conserve! In times of WaT 4! neighboring book store and borrowed @ crhre, eee @ cheap dictionary, That doesn’t prove in the | Gus's offer to wager that his fingers | ston and I win, Gus, you and Slave sky lose. Pay up!" But Mr, Slavinsky vehemently tested. Gus had lost, he sald, Slavinsky, had only been, as he said,\ “choking.” To prove this he strangled | violently. “Besides,” he added, when he had recovered sufficiently to speak again, “Besides, I shouldn't pay anything for being sucker enough to bet another feller’s gam “Valt!" said Gus. “We ain't Jost yet. The dictionary book don't say nothing about dice being digits or that digitalis stuff Rafferty took for katzenjammer being made for digits. I think {t's a draw, Anyway, look, you can only count to five on the fingers and on the dice you 6an count x “Ah,” aid Mr. Rangle saplentty, “but look at the newspaper accounts of men being examined for the army and found to have six fingers, Bo, you se Dice ARE digits,” said Mr, Din ston, “Compress your manual ap. pendages—I mean feel your fingers. What are you aware of beneath the cuticle? Bones, What do you desig- {nate dice in the vernacular? Bones who have nothing to lose generally| focus the sun's rays, “Sure! said Mr. Slavinsky, “And| again. Ergo: dice are likewise digits.” “But,” said Mr, Jarr, “none of you have answered my mathetical probe lem: If a cow and a calf weigh @ ton and a half, at @ dollar and a half for a pound and a half—what would @ calf's calf cost?” p But they rose as ona man and threw him out, How to Build a Fire | With a Piece of Ice T was an Arcti explorer who first I discovered that a fire can be made with a plece of ice, Not that the ico itself will burn, but through ite aid it 19 possible to start a fre. A plece of ice smooth and clear, not too large and pointed at one end, can be held in such a position that tt will When these I now remember that I took) rays are concentrated on a plece of | gun cotton they will cause combuse tion, thus starting a flame, There t@ no record of paper ignited by this method, an a piece ice in the desired size will melt before the necessary heat can be obta! But Arctic explorers have emplo; the means described when mat or Gins wey nat te be had. -