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Tk Ws BN IANE ETT: NAR Ee l She Eening ior, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 63 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZOR, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PU ER,’ Jr, Secre 63 Park Kow. MEMNER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Amociated Prem is exclusively entitied to the nse for remblication of af! Gredited to It oF not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news publish ~VOLU i SOLDIERS’ MAIL. HAT is the uge of writing when our letters never reach their destination?” cries a despairing maiden to ‘The Evening World. “Can’t you imagine how heartbreaking it is to receive cable after cable from your sweetheart, wherein he asks if you have forgotten him?” To which a soldier’s mother adds: “My boy has not had any mail since he landed in France. Why does Gen. Pershing ask us to write often? Why doesn’t he see that the boys get what we do write?” ‘The papers of a thousand towns are printing letters from soldier boys in France and communications from anxious folks at home, both plaintively complaining about the breakdown of foreign mail service. yA 200-pound soldier is delivered in France by the War Depart- ment with far more speed and certainty than any letter from home ever reaches him thereafter through the Post Office Department. We do not know, of course, how far the exigencies of war compel the delay of mail. We do know that no higher duty lies before Post- master General Burleson than the prompt, if possible, remedying of the difficulty, + It is reported that Capt. von Rintelen had hysteria when he heard he was to leave the tombs for the Newark jail, fearing that he was to be shot. Knew what he deserved, perhaps! + WHAT IS A PUBLIC UTILITY? HE Brooklyn Borough Gas Company, after twenty years’ oper- ation, now asks its consumers to pay $1.25 per thousand fect for gas. This is the rate it charged twenty years ago. It never voluntarily reduced the ra! The 1906 act prescribed a dollar charge. The 1916 law further reduced it to 80 cents (90 per cent. of gas sold in Greater New York at 80 cents). This company never received less than 95 cents. The Legislature acted on the belief that twenty years is sufficient time for a city like Greater New York to have @ universal rate even though some sections are sparsely settled. Such a view is of great importance to the metropolis in reducing congestion, In districts where this company competes with other gas interests it charges 80 cents. In surrounding territory 80 cents is charged hy other companies, An important point to be urged in this case and to be decided is how long must the public be culled upon to pay high, rates until a gas company has sufficiently gone through its growing pains to meet com- petitive rates. In a city where trai ‘oads of working people come daily from this area to the centre of business activity some security from high rates of public utilities is essential. This company has which means a population possibly of 65,000. Has not a public utility ceased to be sucli when it is run as a private business to secure the highest rates possible? 8 accounts, ‘The despatches state that !n the course of the latest drive, east of Amiens, a German General was beheld fleeing before a hippet.” Perhaps he was only leading his dachshund home, epee THE BEEF TRUST. HE Beef Trust had ite beginnings in the extermination of the! buifalo, The free land of the plains bred cheap cattle. Chi-| cago, Kansas City and St. Joseph made easy centres for slaugh- ter and distribution. Refrigerator cars brought the markets of the Kast into touch. The local butchers who handled home grown cattle began at the neck and worked down toward the tail in disposing of a beef. The choice cut, the careful selection and utilization of parts cattle rose, the Eustern stock raisers who were out of business were and are unable to resume competition, ‘lhe control of tanneries, chemicals, extracts and fertilizer is in the hands of the trust and gives them s margin against which no simple producer can contend. A monopoly has been created because of economic effectivencss, It will be a wise statesman who can change the conditions, » aaa More British barbarity! The latest drive interrupted the cultured German’ soldiers peacefully harvesting grain on French soil. Such a rudeness! Letters From the People. Would Give Exempt Men Distinguish- pate ing Mark. a aes ‘To the itor of The Hrening Word In discussing the appropriate pun- As an instructor, I have a very |ishment of the German Emperor af- large acquaintance, Time and again 1|'€F the war it should be remembered have met young men of draft axe, [poet 2 cngland there in a warrant arrest on a charge of mur apparently in tho best of health, |der, the indictment harine bees ees | wearing civilian clothes instead of |at the inquest on the Lusitania ines. the uniform Uncle Sam pro sacre, F Sunilar charges might of course be defenders of Old Glory, made to stand in the courts of any | be ee ea nd : the globe, Familiarity with a sub- and the disposal of all residue through the making of by-products was] fect will enable any man to discuss unknown, it rather broadly, and so it ts with As a result, when the plains were no longer free and prices of aay | were married three or fl hal ol Wi WH EDITORIAL PAGE ay, August 10, 1918 “Hey! When DoI Geta Vacation?” rte. IIs, ty The OO in Now York ter Bisons Stories of Spies “ By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) No. 48—LAFAYETTE C, BAKER, the Much-Arrested War Spy. E was one of a throng of volunteers who flocked to Wash- ington in the spring of 1861 to get a job in the United States Secret Service. He was a tall, powerful young fellow from the Far West. His name was Lafayette C. Baker. Instead of seeking the position through official channels Baker Managed to get an jnterview with old Gen. Scott, who was still In command of our armies. Scott liked the young Westerner’s manner. As & test for the work sought by Baker the General curtly bade him go to Richmond, pick up what information he could in the Confederate capital and report back to Scott in person. He left all details for the perilous trip to Baker’s own wit. Baker's first move was to buy a big camera. second-hand machine that was out of order. Then he set out, southward, in the guise of a wan- dering photographer. He had no credentials. Before he could get through the Union lines he was arrested as a sus- Picious character, He escaped from his guards and once more tried to get through the lines. He was promptly caught and was taken before Gen. Heintzelman, who examined him, proclaimed him a Confederate spy and sent him back to Washington to be condemned to death by Gen. Scott Scott, of course, released him, and at once Baker made another start for Richmond. e He attached himself to a southbound infantry regiment under cover of darkness. In this way he went in safety for some miles. Then a keen- Baker Is Taken eyed officer noticed him slouching along with the line of uniformed men and Baker was once more i by Enemy. } rene arrested. This time he was released with a warning and ordered to go back to Washington. He worked his way southward by stealth, however, until at last the Confederate lines. F There a sentinel arrested him, (Arrests were getting to be an old story to Baker by this time.) The Confederate General before whom he was brought was certain Baker was a spy and sent him as a prisoner to Richmond. There he w brought before Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, and interro cated, Baker gave his name as “Samuel Munson” and said he had Jost arrtved |{n Virginia from his home in Knoxville, Tenn, He mentioned Knoxville a: random, having once spent a few days there, ‘At once Davis sent for a Knoxville man who was visiting in Richmond jand bade him fhterrogate Baker. By luck Baker chanced to catch the * name of the man who was sent for and, on the latter's advent into th room, the spy greeted him by name and began to chat glibly of Knoxvilio happenings. The Knoxville man was completely binffed. Before the interview ended he declared himself certain that Baker's tale was true. Asa result Baker was set free, and he waste! no time in acquiring the information which Scott had sent him to get. When he had learned all he he could he left Richmond, by night, and started back for Washington. Too late, he found he had | beon under surveillance all the time. ‘A company of Confederate cavalry pursued him. He took refuge under | a pile of hay in a barn, The cavalrymen searched the barn, digging tnto the hay with their | satre-points. One sword grazed Bakers crouching body. | At last the searchers decided he had gone on and they clattered away to cvertake him. Baker crawled out of the barn and made his way across country to a river. He stole a boat and staried across, The cavalry had caught his trail ‘again. They galloped to the bank and sent a volley of bullets through the | dim light at the boat. By a miracle Baker was not hit. ‘After more hardships and perils he manoeuvred his way into Washin, | ton and reported to Gen. Scott, The next morning he received a commi sion as a regular agent in the United States Secret Services After that his rise was steady and before the war ended he was @ Brigadier-General and | Chief of the Secret Service he had entered so hazardously. | he found himself within | eee Stranger Aids Him — One Happy Cayyright, 1818, by The Prem Pitiishing Co, (Tue New York Rrening World.) YOUNG man writes to me as follows: “Your recent article in ‘The Evening World with reference to the number of words spoken in a man's lifetime regarding that world-old condi- Ation called Love for love is a ¢ dition — interested | me very much. “Two complete | tours of the world have made me famillar with people in all parts of | Newin aie vomer, “I will cite one case with which 1 am thoroughly acquainted. A young man, eighteen years of age, was in- troduced to a girl of fifteen, just growing into womanhood, A mutual admiration seamed to spring up be- tween these two almost immediately. I wih not say it was a case of Love at first sight, but !t was as near to that as Love can possibly be, Fre- aqvent meetings were the result, and this infatuation ripened into the! most beautiful Love ever existing between a man and a woman, “The young man left all his friends and gave up his best pal so that he could be with the girl every avail- able minute, and the girl did likewise. They had seen each other every day for a year before the young man had reached bis twentieth year, and they four months before the young man had reached bis majority, ‘Very few moments in the two lyouth and the sober, settled and quiet jat things in the same light, Marriage By Sophie Irene Loeb » actually grown into their likes | and dislikes together, Having begun very young, they had the splendid prospect of seeing life from the same strata of exis- tence, that is, looking at it through eyes of nearly the same age, which is ha woma dull, It may be that our grandmothers were happier than we, but this is the situation. Yet the girl who seeks marriage as a means of relieving n, And she doesn't want to be herself of responsibility, to get a one of the big fundamentals in the/home with a “good provider,” and| happy marriage who has this in mind only, usually People who “marry should always) gets just this and nothing more. be nearly the same age. Very’ few] After all, time and civilzation have marriages of May and December re-| not changed one thing—love. It is suit happily, because when one would| the one pillar that withstands ali. blow hot, the other wouid blow cold.|No other element ia as important. as it were, since the enthusiasm Of) On, yea, there are happy ones, many of them. Yet thay are made qualities of old age rarely make It| not by one but by two. After the possible for two such people to look adjustment that is always found tn Yet there js something to be said every successful union, the adjust- about these very early marriages. This| ment of give and take; an adjust- one proved yery, very happy, and) ment of to nee; an adjustment of there are many like it, However, In) personal responsibility; an adjust- the present day and age the early | ment of common interest; an adjust- marriage is not to be encouraged, It was all very well in those good old days when the average woman want- mont of individual taste. It is ali necessary and not difficult tf love is always in the centre of the Now, many of these men have been | civilized nation; and even In Gore | eerie, More of thelr courtship were unable to don the uniform because of |Many, if the people could Sevoted to any toplo save that of unfavorable circumstances surround. |'@"erarily lucid enough to enfores 1at% and the 7OUIE TAS, ROW more ing their particular cases, One of the | jaraiiy Bide the Kalser might be jae eed rere of age, le bell boys was rejected because be hud a| Hut he cannot be hanged for each| op tone ween tn eee ne BP “murmuring heart,” another beeause jot the murdine oro eked f of Love would fill any encyclopedia he was color blind, a third because land it would be ludicrous | “In twenty years of married Life! upon. him had fallen the burden of|him for only one of them 4 husband has not left his wife supporting @ Krandfather, a mother | leavin others inished, alone for a period of a week, and and two sisters under twelve. In eaoh| Since W mM cannot punished | neither of ther egrets thot Of the three cases mentioned, a rep-land cannot de forced to make | reeeer, & BERETA SA are Fesentative of the different families |amends, the question remains; What | #8? at 49 early age, but rather they waa in the army or navy shall be done with him? I suggest |@F@ Proud of it, and will encourage Uncle Sam recognizes the fact that |that he be presented to the Helilan |their children 10 do likewise, Rot all of the true and loyal sons of |people with the compliments of the | s w America can go “over the top.” Yet lother civilized nations; and, further jay pees! Doause E Was the YOUN' those physically unfit, those wholthat so long as he lives, for twenty, | AN must support a family, ‘are subjected |four hours a day. u crtificiat! Ht i# worth while recording such a to undeserved remarks, Would it not light in the dark houts, he be kept \€ : who say that be @ good plan for such men to wear lon exhibition in a public place, |" : rN marriage is a failure” take notice. either a band around their sieoves, where he may be observed by hia| atiec S| OF @ button in the lapel of surviving victiins. 1 would not leave| After Ml failure in marriage tx, for coats, with emt him entirely without to read, | ‘Nose who recognize it, Doubtless timguish the the sla The history of the wo r would |this man and woman who have never be i good cholee, D. A been separated for more than @ day, honeymoon days are over there ts an} The Jarr Family | Capyright, 1918, by The Pres Publishing Co, | (The New York Drening World.) | RS, JARR gazed ruefully at the iM largess tendered her. “Is this all the money you can let me have this week?" she re- marked dolefully. She didn't count the money Mr. Jarr had handed her. She knew how much it was. replied Mr, Jarr, “and the same amount is about all I can let you have next week. It was the same amount you had last week, and the week before that. There is no sliding scale of wages at our shop. And if there’a any bonuses, or cost plus 10 Per cent. or other wer profits, the ‘oss gets it all.” “On, dear,” said Mrs. Jarr, ‘one simply just CAN'T get along these days! Everything is more expensive than it ever was. I don't see how I'm to get through the week on this!" “You won't,” ventured Mr, “You'll have to slip me back a few bucks, as the saying is, You know, Jarr.| By Roy L. McCardell thrust upon me—ALL, and I'll need|Jarr, ‘Here it is in @ nutshell: We transportation and a few odd dimes| can't savé any money riding in the for luncheon and such like luxuries| street cars; we can save only steps. through the week.” Resp if we rode in a taxicab at half “] wonder is there anything we can| the old rate, we'd save twice as much do to cut down our expenses? I'm|as we used to, Say we now pay 26 sure I'm not wasting my money; if I) cents for each succeeding mie inw was Mrs, Hoover I couldn't econo-| stead of fifty, we would be saving a | cise more than I do.” whimpered | quarter on every mile. A taxicab can Mrs, Jarr. easily make eight miles an hour, ape | that’s $2. Adding this to the 40 cents \ e) isn’ to do except) | on " ing te 4 | We saved the first mile, and say we to be patient,’ replied Mr. RET | ralel peed ogter seame ee “Maybe the prices will begin to fall! °° i . lay re when the leaves do—atter our boys| Wouldn't he any use to tire ours selves out simply to be greedy—that | would make, say, in ten hours, a savs Anyway, taxicab riding is cheaper.” | TO) 9a, “What good would it do for me it| DS °f $2 an hour, and, counting the first mile in the first hour at 40 cents, they only charged 10 cents a mile tol One mond, cava eso 20.16 ride in taxicabs?" snapped Mrs. Jarr. | \ barged nl have licked the Germans some more. | i b tas | taxicab riding day of ten hours, As | Penuidn t aftord it, wn Ue : Save, (708 know, we don't get rich on what | “But de logical,” said 2 vs we earn, but on what we sav. ‘Don't you see, if we did ride in laxi- Therefore, if we saved $20.16 a dary whs and the rate was cut, say, in (his would mean six times that much in a week, or $120.90 a week—am & right?” | “Maybe you are right,” sala Mrs, Jarr, “But I only know Clara Mud half, wouldn't we be saving 40 cents a mile?” “I suppose we woul Jarr, “but"— said Mrs, en age. hata that the boss reluctantly! “ ‘But’ nothing!” interrupted Mr. | ed but little here below, and wanted | ™ le kasd sa ridge, Smith uses « taxicab when hen a town car is out of order and sha that little long. fe A ; : To-day the situation ts different. M | Sl k |Saye it costs terribly, so, even if ad | Peles wer y _ Yosea pone fomand, more ta th usings of a IMiatrimonia ACKEL is ree cw lin ie “taca ony new ways of living. They want life 7 z u cabs cos to be easier for them than it was B William V. Pollard I lomt ten pounda trying to decile) her, and,” here Mra, Jarr's taco for their grandmothers—and rightly y $ a whether to ask Pansy to release me. | lightened up, “I see now how foolisi. TETIESIMT IE RAP TAll aestina CAGE Copyright, 1918, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Prening World.) After a sleepless night, I determined | You're talking—even if we saved 80, F a the : ” Love to-day must be accompanied by| 42.—The Girl Who Read Poetry “at Him it was the only thing to do, When, | twenty dollars a day, if taxicab rate4 something more substantial in order | OW well I remember the morn-|let Evelyn know that I highly ap-|!0 and behold, that very Morning, | were cut in half, we'd have to spend to hold it. ing years ago when I set sail| proved of her. Evelyn appeared at Auntie’s lavish | twenty dollars to save twenty dollars, for New Orleans on @ business| In exploring the ship she and I| breakfast. table with her treasured] so, if we only saved as much as wo By this I do not mean that money| sal “ecg ‘ frequented ana tor-|Yolume of Browning. Treat wer Oncaea ; ve. For| mission, and little Pansy, to whom I| discovered an unfrequented and for- ; 5 ave anything, is the mainstay of marriage, Fo date Ri 4 ce en eeL| AB I took a bite of meion she be-|qould wo?" ‘ ‘ he only lubricant |Was engaged, cried as if her heart|pidden nook on the uppermost ; voy ee : lo asiee Ah leche enly | k. near the lookout. Early one morn-|#@® to read from “Any Wife to ANY} "Do we have anything, anyway?” that makes the marriage wheel go | would break, ' Evelyn in our trysting |Husband,” “My love, this is the bit- 0 we don't,” ventured Mrs | without screeching. In a word, young| I really loved her, but I had no de-| {ng I found Fe ao vestatibla Pree |terest, that thou”—-/ My first sip| Jarr with seind ae people should be assured of a safe|sire to be tied to her, That parting| Place, looking quite Irresistible, Pro-| 0+ | toe she accompanied by, “Eyes, iocnehow per reg aoe “bur £ how feel sure we'd be ‘oe income or a sure position to give| gave me an insight into the sublime| ducing a big, fat volume of Robert calm beside thee." A mouthful of| tpat pcalead reer ah Bhi is watt marriage the real chance for hap-|relief a husband who is starting on| Browning’s poems, she said: “I have}i aon and eggs she garnished with “What rs Fr vig pd way piness, 4 matrimonial vacation mut experi- | Dever before read Bobbie to any man. |seppere's a woman like a dewdrop,” | oo ait Ape sried Mr, Jarr, “In ‘The majority of marriages that | ence. He is tao sacred. But you will @P-| and she made me choke over my| li." Pe a ieee 650 18 SAE sa start out on the sea of life with love] ghortly after we passed Sandy|Preciate him, because your pretty |ravorite of all dishes, Southern flap- | *! | nne ROGININE Of Se neorioul only—unless the love is very strong|Hook it began to rain, and most of|*Pceches remind me so much of my| jacks, with “Oh, love! love, thou that |‘ !t and after it's fitful fever is and each of the parties has enduring |the young people aboard ship gath- | d#rling R. from the eyes diffusest yearning” exer, We owe the nurse and dootor qualities—are bound to meet the rock 1 in the salon, There I first saw| I was never much for sentimental] When she accused me of not con-| f°" Our coming, and again we,are | of disaster resulting from the starva-|velyn, pretty ase picture with her| uff, but would gladly have listened | centrating I wanted to get up and seed to them upon our going! | Uon of unfulfilled needs. I eNRen atest A naib tay meals: to all the nine hundred and uinety-| run, I preferred Pansy, the clinging|*"4 @dded to this is the extra ee é r [are Jae 4 pang | "ie pages just to hear her musteal|yine, any day to Evelyn, the Brown-|charre for the mortuary adjunets, eee acre nat dave, or) She played the Diane and. wank voice and to gaze upon her bewitoh-|ing fend. If she had only waited| We je bora io dabty we live in dati | rather expect, because it is so preva- | charmingly. < mi © ling countenance, til after breakfaat. we die in debt lent all around them, is to have| became rivals for her regard. It took is an er breaxtaat, ay » i ant , sia Vaicthen thal iy aurialde ince tall bee aye @ day to impress wpon| At New Orleans, Evelyn's aunt.) he: day J fled to other rooms, and hh ENE Oy Bai |hind their neighbors and their friends,| them that Evelyn preterred my #0-| mnt the gory fed ith charaeten: | 20t @ Week later T received an ae eee ee ae e comfortable homes with modern con-|ciety to their, I won her through a] iar. alin cus eno min character. | nouncement of Pansy's wedding to| UO") He gay mo 8 far te ventences, to ay nothing of bemg|box of “divine fudge” which eweet| He Southern hospitality urged me| Uncle Ned. Needless to say I kept |" Eel 008! me aken out” and treated to pleasures| Pansy had made for me, Evelyn|{® Femain with them wntll I found |inis secret trom Bvelyn, who nover| ,,\1 ‘1 Yeu 1 know!” interposed Mry such as our grandmothers did not} thought it was my sister's dopation, bi hnoe dared s reeoyn knew that I was free to marry hor, [07 10" he Wee Cangerous ground, k ; i a recklessly accepted Auntie's Invi-| Shontly afterward I returned to New| it Isn't 3 . no | By the third day out Evelyn and|tation and had I not been bound to| York ‘and’ Bvelyn married anotner| “We do try to live wit | Grandmother was content’ with|1 were the gre t of pals, We had| Pansy, the number of my bachelor| man within the year, come thou, don't we Jcontinued care of the homerand obil- | enjoyed usual Promenading, sit-|daye would have been few. What) ,,1 wonder how her husband likes| placated Mrs, Jar. dren, and there were very few #0 th sncing, star-gaging| with Evelyn's beauty and Auntie's| .MPicaktast amid crying babies, nol | “Certainly not!” replied Mr, Jaen, calied pleasures, But to-day all work! « nd holding. Pansy was my|mateh-making propensities, a man| tice-giving cook and bills? The gods “We're not such cheap skates aq ‘nd no fun makes wife a very dull ic bu t ho opportunity to) tod litle chance of escape, ware nocd to taal that.” i y & a amenatmeitnsenn ae SMR aSIy Ip aseneneonts