The evening world. Newspaper, March 15, 1918, Page 22

ye Che en ° ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZOR, President, 68 J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 JOSEPH PULIT? Park Row, Park Row, 4 dr, Secretary, 63 Park kiow. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, eee eae ee STE ie elf nd Siete Tonal VOLUME 88. PERFECTLY REGULAR. | NE MILLION TONS of Dutch shipping will come in exceed- ingly handy in meeting the immediate needs of the United States and its allies. If the Dutch Government dislikes the manner of the erizure scheduled for next week, it can blame only its own unconscionable Gelay in agreeing to an arrangement of the sort already made with Norway. International Law clearly recognizes the “Droit d'Angarie,” which authorizes a belligerent, in an emergency of war, to apply neu- tral property to a hostile use—the appropriation having commonly taken the form of seizing neutral] merchant ships which “were com- pelled to transport soldiers, ammunition or other instruments of war; in other words, to become parties against their will to carrying on direct hostilities against a power with whom they were at peace.” The neutral owner is, of course, in every case entitled to compen- sation for the property which a belligerent thus seizes and puts to military use. Germany is ecarcely likely to register any protest againat this Allied appropriation of Dutch ships. For during the Franco-Prussian War the Prussian Government ordered the seizure of several British vessels in German ports and later had them eunk at the mouth of the Seine to prevent certain French gunboats in the river from coming out. The British Government demanded indemnity and Prussia premptly paid. Fi The Dutch ehips now to be taken over by the Allies will be armed and insured and their owners furnished every guarantee that they thal] be duly returned or replaced. The whole proceeding is ertirely regular. It offers no offense to Dutch neutrality. At the same time it effects a certain moral compensation for the extensive use of Dutch barges on German canals, not to mention the long-standing Dutch habit of passing food from the back windows of Holland, so to speak, into waiting hands just across the German fronticr, *SAVING CHILDREN FOR FRANCE. HAT the American Red Cross is doing to help savo for France some of the thousands of French children boro amid the confusion and horror of the war zone and left {n many cases without parents or protector, has been movingly de- scribed by The Evening World correspondent, Martin Green. Here is another beginning in that vast task of rebuilding and restoration for which Americans must be prepared to furnish aid even as they furnish it for the winning of the war and the expulsion of the Germans from French territory. Beyond all question it is going to be the ravages made in human-| {ty that will be hardest to repair. Towns and cities will valiantly rise from their ruins once secnrity returns. Farm buildings, homes, industrial plants can be speedily replaced. As to the soil—battered, rent and torn as areas of it have been, there is little reason to believe its fertility has been impaired. As the American Exchange National Bank of this city points out in ite current monthly letter, urging the soundness of loans to the thrifty people of France and Belgium: Some of the hardest battles of the war have been fought on tho richest and most valuable soll in the world, which has ‘Deen deluged with blood many times since Julius Caesar crossed the Rhine and called the Belgians the bravest foes be ever met. At the worst, only a fraction of the acreage has een torn up by high explosives. Photographs of ruined or chards and vineyards do not disclose much disturbance of the ground that cannot be levelled with slight effort. ‘No war can trample productivity out of the famous soil of France. Whe rich earth will be there to play, with a little help, its prompt part in the restoration. Steel, stone, bricks and mortar will not be lacking. Against that time of replacement and repair, what France needs} most is aid in caring for the youngest and most defenseless of her population, that there may be the least possible loss of lives apor which her future depends, Hits From Sharp Wits Butcher, spare that hen, touch nqt| seems if about the time the &@ single feather: she's got to do her| Worst ts going to heppen conditions Jayin' bit, all in the springtime | !™prove.—Toledo B'ade, . 8 seeatberiboeme le Commercial AD-| 15 courtship it ts much better to as ting the helle than to knock,—Phila= One form of frenzied war garden- delphia Record. eee ing this spring will be planting voal im the cellar.—Balt\more American, 8 6 Even a good sxcuse tn the poorest Product of inventive gentus.—Albany Journal, ‘Talk about nerve! Here comes a *4 6 Florida editor suggesting a woman's! No woman I'kes to ho told that a Easier batiess day. It's a clhop how| thing 's as plain as the nose op her long he hasn't been married, -Mil-| fce.—Philadelphia Record. waukee News. £. 88 ren’ Enthusiasm ts generally a sensation And when a woman Suffera in| ‘napired by things don't have to Bi) it's generally in her Hubs-| do.-Philadelphia Record, band's silence.-Binghamton Press, i eS . . Some men make a aspectalty of It's the limited express for the man/| doing others they are dunned by.— who stutters.—Chicago News. ‘Chicago News. Letters From the People Please Umtt communications to 150 words, Making O14 Pots New, burn off, Turn on all sides and keep To he Estitor of The Evening World rolling ull the black disappears, I made @ disso ry last week, and I want other women to know of It, for, like myself, they probably have thrown away good pots and pans which had been burned, I cooked fome spinach in a nice white kettle, and the kettle burned black, 1 was 8 provoked I put it on the gas, after trying everything to get it off, and said to myself: “Now burn.” And it did, to my delight, good as new, Don't throw away burned porcelain y Ferry, To the FAitor of The Evening World: For eleven months enlisted men of the Army and Navy have not been jPaying fare on the Muniolpal Ferry plying between New York City and Staten Island. Starting March 6, notice has been posted that we will have to pay fare on this ferry, Does {t seem right that whereas Civil Service employees are exempt from the income tax we who are no matter how black it is serving our country and paying in- EDITORI Friday, March 16 | AL PAGE Over There! ances Recording the Experiences of A Young Gi rl of Thirty By Wilma Polbhock Copyright, 1018, by the Proms Publishing Co (The New York Evening Wortt), How a Poet's Mo { THEL FPRRIS, my siren friend. Invited me to one of her parties not long ago, 1 was tremendously ex- cited, for she al- lowed the poet, Royai Moore - whose millionaire | mM 1) Ay father allows bim yf $20,000 @ year ~ to take me in to dinner, I knew Royal immodiately—young, tall, slender and oh, 80 poetic. If you aid not know about his income you would pronounce him hungry looking, but having been informed of the volume of his bank account, you must call bis appearance wistful. When 1 arrived he was deeply absorbed in conversation with a very pretty young girl whom he was dis- inclined to leave. But as 1 was his dinner partner he had no choice However, very soon after we were seated he began to shower me with compliments, Ethel'’s menu was marvellous and | the champagne superb. But 1 was sv occupied in listening to Royal's love making that I hardly ate a morsel, | After dinner we danced. Roya stayed with me every moment anu took me home tn his limousine, 1] shall never forget how ardently he| declared, “From now on my misston in life will be to make you guard you." ap; The masterly nd in| ay which he took me for granted post- tively thrilled me. How he regretted that he had prom ised some men to go to Lakewood fo: a few days! "But," vowed he, see you the very second | return." 1 knew Royal expected to be back ‘on the following Saturday, and woulu A el “rh od Was Changed want to go to the reception at Count Lewbosk!'s studio if I went, so I ob- tained an Invitation and mailed it to him, When I reached the studio there was the dear boy imbibing the ount’s celebrated claret punch, He was the same adoring lover as before and asked me very definitely to marry him, 1 was 60 elated a mere ‘yes seemed commonplace, so I Just gazed lovingly at him, knowing he would read the answer in my eyes. On Sunday afternoon he came to see me, ‘This wae to be the sweetest hour in my whole life. For without artificial lights, or music, or people, Koyal and 1 would be alone and I could at last say “yes He did aot make love to me right away, I thought he was sby. But finally he began by saying, “You're a dear, nice girl, and you should really get married.” I waited to hear him again ask mo to be his wife, but Instead he sald, “There is many a good man who would make you happy.” lL asked myself what I had done .o offend him, to change bis intentions so complecely. 1 could bardly wait until be went so that 1 eouid find consolation in a good ery. In despair J told Ethel Ferris the whole miserable affair Why, you unsophisticated dar- ling," she said. “I sometimes think you are lacking in powers of percep- tion, Di you realize that when n't oyal proposed to you he had been drinking? One cocktail makes him very romant If you had served highballs instead of tea at your purl- “inical home he would doubless have repeated the proposal. But he would not have meant it. A clever woman would bave made him propose whea ho was sober, I must warn Royal to be more careful, Some girl may take him seriously and be will get himself involved.” I am grateful for having @ friend like Ethel, who always makes me see things rightly. First Postage Stamp Machine H® first machine for manufac. turing postage stampa was the Jnvention of James Bogurdus, who was born in Catskill, N. ¥, When the British Government | advertised for & postage stam, machine in 1839 Bogardus was o of 2,600 competitors for the prize, which was awarded to him for his device, Before that he tnvented a} new Kind of clock a “ringfiler’ for} England ware, burned. Put \t on the gas stove and come tax must pay far ii eat red bot, The black will then ai 8. Py pre cotton spinning, a¥ eccentric mill, a watch dials o 4 @ machino for print- ing bank in 1847 he con- structed tn w York for his own use a building entirely of cast fron, the first of 1ts Kind in America, He completed many other successful in- ventions and was at work on several ambitious schemes when he died in 1874. The Bogardus postage stamp Peess was first used In 1840, when pemny postage was inaugurated In Stamps with gummed backs were adopted by the United States maobine for enyraving figures on in 1847, Coprrtaht. 1018. 9 en aes inte 9 * Yor Evening World.) wat By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1918 by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Even! Wort), office whistling “Patrick’s|on Louie. Come to think It over, Day," for the feel of spring| mebbe some of them empires knew j was im the air, even though it bas) this war was coming, and, as they been a cheeriess, wheatiess, moattens,| was Golman spies, they called balks heatiess winter, | on Loule.” “You're as batty as Jenkins, the} «1 thought spring didn’t interest bookkeeper,” sald Johnson, the cash-| vou remarked Mr. Jarr. “Yot here ler, “Look at him playing desk golf." And he indicated the little bookk er, who was batting paper pellets across the top of his desk with the brass bound ruler, “What's the matter with | You are talking baseball and the frost not out of the ground. “We are going to have an early spring, at that," Jenkins, the | bookkeeper. long before (‘ll be hearing the birds singing un- ” : shippin booze? ae ee eae .| der my window in the morning at my This was the only norms, | little place in the country.” whipping clerk could comprehend, |°" I “No, I think it's Just spring f him— clerk, %, you mean!" said Johnson, ever,” replied Johnson, the cashier .|the cashier, “Your place Is right near them get that way every ® swamp, is They should take iron for their] “I don't care what they are!” snap- blood.” ped Jenkins, “The sounds of nature ‘ t East Malaria beat the hoarse 0 3 re an, | . che eae ee r 7 c e the o: ound tall around Bim all the year around, |"f-Fies!’ which are the only sounds of spring you city dwellers hear— “1 gee them ginks get that way this time of year ever since I've b here,” regnarked the shipping ¢ huckster hicks that ought to be some- where in France bawling out the enemy instead of making life hideous n | “When it comes March and then f or 0 that live In th April—well, then they sure gels ton the poor boobs tha’ dafty.”” “Going to have flowers this year, Jenk, or only vegetables?" asked Mr, |Jarr, “You'll raise your own straw- berries, eh?” 18 the boyhood of the year that} puts us all on the gui vive,” sad Mr, Jarr, “Not mo tt don't!" replied the ship: | | ping clerk, “Spring don't uifference to me. “I'll have flowers and I'll have vege- ay tables both, And I've got hens and Only I'm wonder- | no} | busted up on account of the draft, . too, There was Louie, the Wop, who run an elevator right in this building There's a jobble that has a sure eye, and if he was coached by a profes- sional would be a comer in the box. He's got @ fast straight thaye like a machine gun, And bis spitter would fool Ty Cobb, Well, if they put that guy to throwing them band grenades in the trenches there will be some extra military funerals on the side of the Heinies!"" “You might know he was a shipping r clerk!" cried Jenkins, “He is a for geography, Prunes from Canada! “Well, I don't care where prunes come from,” said the shipping clerk. | Even the youngest prunes you meet has wrinkled foreheads.” And he walked off whistling Mendelssoha's “Spring Song. MEANING OF “BUG.” UG originally meant a gobdiin The Welsn word bug signifies ghost, The Hebrew word, which In Psalm xci.:6 i8 represented by terror, was in the early translat! rendered bug, the verse ling, “Thou shalt not need ty be afraid of any bugs by night,” “It's @ wonder we never beard of this talented young man as a pitching marvel until he is grabbed off in th draft,” said Mr. Jarr scoffingly. “Aw, and you would have beard of him, only his wind up Js ike a balk, and when there's a man on first, some or them gunmen they pick to ewpire rei R. JARR camo gayly into the) at the Sunday games calls the balk | get fresh eggs, too,” replied the| ing if all them professional ball play- | 1, ooK, iGecien® Gay. Til have ers is going to be drafted, If so| ea eathge as maybe some new blood will get a chance I got @ brother that the] “Cukes? interrupted Fritz, the Scouts Is Havle to pickup. There's | shipping clerk. “Does them fruits kid what 9 SOME ball player, And| grow ground here? Why, I thought that reminds me, my kid brother be-/they come from some place down | longa to a semi-pro nine that $8 41!) south like Canada, where the prunes “But they must see a lot of trouble, | Stories of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1018, by the Prous Publishing Co, (The New York Krening Wortl), ’ No. 6—LADY ELEANOR MONTEITH, the “ Loubie-Spy!” HEY spoke of Lady Eleanor Montelth later as “the € double-spy,” for reasons which 1 shall explain, | She was an Irishwoman, only daughter of a nobles man of vast wealth, She was a belle in Dublin and . in London, her beauty and charm winning dozens of hearts. Out of all her many suitors she choso to marry a man whom her father disliked. bere was more of less of a family row, and Lady Eleanor and ber buss | band emigrated to Canada. There the bride's cleverness and looks aud ane cestry won for (he couple a hearty weleome and an established social position, A daughter was born to them. | In 1858 Lady Eleanor's husband died. In 1861, about the time the Civil War began, the widow and her little girl left Canada and went to | Richmond, Va., to live. In the war-shaken Confederate capital there was | ttie money and less frivolity. But there was much work to do—perilous jand daring work of all sorts, And Lady Eleanor offered her talents to : Secret Service. ' i | ‘ The Union had established a tight blockade around the Confederacy United States warships lurked outaide the Southern harbors to catea and blockade-running boat bound to or from England. All the Middle AUantia and New England States stood like a wall between the South and the Cone federate agents in Canada. To t letters and des atches through to Canada and thence to Boge land was a strong necessity for the South. But it was also nearly 2 to dv. Here is where Lady . @ was well known in C em \@ ' i When a Woman's Wit i Found the Way. nada und in ¢ Oey Britain, Easily she established communi with agents there and built up a regular system.” She undertook personally the task of carrying despatches, and fro for the Confederate Government, Her birth and her social connections, combined with her uncanny elev- ,erness and her charm, enabled her to perform this dangerous work unsus- pected for nearly a year, | She did risky errands for the South that no mere man coul! hav» she was shopping tn N federate mission, she was Military House of De! death of the man she {achieved. Daily her services grew more and more valuable to lis em- ployers. Her name became a synonym for luck and resource: |. The “Surgeon Director General" of the Confederacy fell In love wits her, as did many another brave Southerner, Lady inor promised marry him, It was sald at the time that love for this man rather t ai great sympathy fc he Confederate caus nduved her to serve the South, and ter results seem to show this was true, The Union Secret Service was long In suspecting Lady Eleanor ant still longer in proving she was a Southern s But at lust Ler luck de- } erted he Wh j + ew York on her way to rrested, Pendir on.” And here nows w had been about to marry, Union authorities meantime had learned much about her Ife 4 | Richmond. Including other tales, they had heard that she served the Con- federacy merely bec of her love for one man. Now that that man wag | dead her tnterest in the South might be supposed to Lave lessened. ‘anada on a Cone was locked up in the brought to her of th tria On this supposition an offer was made to L anor by her captors } | She was told that her life would be spared and ‘ ® she would also receive a high salury if she woul? Changing Sidi accept a job in the Secret Service, Fos Unknown to Foe. t sake of her little ter (so said) abe accepted the off She was released, Public announcement was that she had been wrongtully arrested and that she was innocent ef harge brought against her. Lady Eleanor then went to live hotel. The room ju ry was fitted up by t Sout agents and tes u ron th vuth, 4 them tn her Ubrary, hrough hidden peep that went the room ork-—supposing » encouraged thems ling Union offt to talk freely to cials saw and h | In this way ther inforn fully perfected “mail service" |up and more than one territie blow was struck at the victory. Lucile the Waitress, By Bide Dodtey () « y the Pree Py ing Oo, (The New York Evening Worlt), 66 BOUT onct a month,” sald|in order to disinter his m onto tho Lucile, (he Waitress, to the/fact that this isn't no general pree in r the caré= nond was broken ‘outh's chances for Copyright, 1918, | Friendly Patron at the! petual jollification in here. But ho lunch counter, “we get a Grand Opera| still clings to the reins and let tha ¢ bug in here to disturb our placitude! | horse drag him, Ever run acrost one of thove Kind of | ‘I sald Gally Cursey,! he tells me, guys?” [She's a great singer. | ‘Very frequently," he replied. | “L look him straight in the Olives “Well, the ainly do love tojoptics and get his game easy, Hi convoy knowledge about che tre |trying to get me Interested tn hig and bass clef amongst us common |digsentation on singers and cuss herd, Oh, don't grin about me and|words so's I'll slip him a couple of my trebles and basses, I studied to] sections of butter or maybe au extia be @ virtuosity on the tvories until [|bean or two, So I'm very rulned one plano—yes, sir, just! “Yes? 1 says, with the ris mangled it all up. So, you see, ‘ou know. jcome by iny Paddywoosky stuff hon- ® says, ‘she can sing lke est, But to get back to our little|@ bir |taint-aw-taint about the Grana| “‘Fine!*I says, ‘N Opera bugs! One come in here this|somebody who can sing like morning, He rests his corpulency | We'll have a real Lobster Sau, onto @ stool and right away he says: |ning meal, eh wot? | “‘Ever hear Gally curse? | “‘Aw, you make mo etck,’ he says. |. “Say, boy, but tt rarelfled my nanny,| ‘Never mind what I do to your |Imagine such a thing, will you please? | health, I says, ‘Wait tll the fecd jHim asking me such # quiz! Well, | sets @ whack at you, janyway, when I recovered my equi-| ‘I want a smull steak, he tells mo liburn, L give him one look. |‘What'll 1 do if it's tough? ot only, I ways, ‘did I never| “‘Might I not suggest acutely’ f iy curse, but I haven't never | says, ‘that you get your friend Gally | met your profane friend, What'y the | to curse for you i with you—tyou got one of them| “ ‘You're craz, he shoots ba observation planks {n your "t you ever go to Grand Opera?’ platform? 1y8, ‘nor to Grand Rapida “He looks at me a minute and then | jlets out a frolicsome laugh, | “Well, str, {t cured him worsen q |) ‘I didn’t say anything about a pro- jcured ham, He just tells me steal, / fane person,’ he says. ‘I asked you|again and that concludes bis portion if you ever heard a great singer? | of the entertainment “‘Now, listen!’ I says, ‘You don't| “Squelched him, eh?" wag the need to try to come of that on| Friendly Patron's ¢ ment, the Httle lady with the breastpin, 1| “Oh, lke a fireman playing the sot what you sald, not being deef,|comicals onto a blaze, It's funny ind I answered by irn mail yery | about those kind va, ain't preciso and from the mouth out, | !t? concluded Lucile hey got @ Now, what do you know about that?’ | ¥.fa!, Drain in a tempo de forte head | “You see, # had to hand him a jolt| fall in line with thei tac brane er Ne was uscless to a the Englis? times their w York How the Dutch HB first step toward making New York an English colons | was taken 254 years a » when | Charles IL. granted to his brother, the Duke of York, @ large territory ant who were six and in the aue 1664 Fort Amsterdam and ort Orange we rendere " num r tumn « in America, to be called, In honor of the no name of New Amsterdam | Proprietor, New York, This included | changed to New Yark and that ¢ the Dutch settlement of New Amster-| Fort Orange to Albany. Gov, Stuy jam and the “colonie’ of New Neth- | yesant swore allegian : te Cdarieo TL, The 1 to Hol New erland Duke sent inst New Netherland, with Col Richard Nicolls !2 command, to be Deputy Governor | The Dutch settlers decided thut it four sl but three a ‘ time of the ’ Population of the (otal population of ' the province was about 10,000, while