The evening world. Newspaper, August 13, 1918, Page 12

WEA ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 52 to 3 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZUR, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 62 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER,’ Jr., Se Park Row. MEMDER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRVBS The Associated Prem is exclusively entitied to the tise for rerubiication of all news dewatdheg credited! to Tt or not otherwise creited inthis paper and ais the local news published herein, “VOLUME 89....... +03 a PRUSSIA. HE backbone of the German F NO. 20,811 npire—the part that most needs breaking i@ the interest of world peace—is Prussia. It dominates the rman étates and the heterogeneous compound called Austgia. The God-given rights claimed by Wilhelm are asso- ciated with his kingship of Prussia. The wider dominion was brought about by Bismarck. How far his Prussian powers came from “Gott”| is well described in this notation by John Lothrop Motley, made in 1841, during the course of a journey to Russia via Berlin: “Prussia has no history-—the reigning family {s an ancient one; but the state is new, and an artificial patchwork, without Natural coherence, mosaiced out of bought, stolen and plun dered provinces, and only kept together by compression, A Prince of Hohenzollern-something-or-other-ingen bought the Mark of Brandenburg with the dignity of Elector of the Empire, and his successors, after having in the course of two or three centuries subjugated the barbarous Prussia proper (already well hammered, by the Teutonic Knights as the Polish King) haiped themselves to a slice of Poland, and stolen Silesia, bad the pleasure at the beginning of the present century of seeing this ingeniously contrived kingdom completely sponged out of existence by Napoleon, and then repaired and put to. gether again by the Cabinet making of Vienna. Since then Prussia is a camp and its whole population drilled to the bayonet.” And so it has remained to this day, allowed to grow into a military menace to the world, That menace should be “sponged out” permanently. ——— Both Senator Hardwick of Georgia and Senator Vardaman of Mississippi, who have been banned by President Wilson, ere choice products of the purifying “direct primary” system It is to be presumed that they represent their constituencies, _——+. THE ’PHONE IN JAPAN. NDER the rule of some tea chest Burleson, the Japanese tele- | phone service, a Government monopoly, has long been at 4} standstill. It practically ceased to grow ten years ago from Jack of money to extend the lines. While there has been some recent promise of extension, it does not seem to have been kept. According to the Far East, the current value of a telephone con- tract, which of course can be transferred to a new user, is $800. This fact was established by a Japanese doctor, returning from America, where he had been increasing his knowledge and desired the convenience. The Government could not supply him. Deeming the price too high, he “rented in” with a phone user, being somewhat amazed at the conditions, coming as he did from a country where an instrument is readily installed on a few hours’ notice. For this he pays $17.50 per month, plus a Government charge of $32.50 a year for service and a fee of $6 for the privilege of having his name in the directory. So he gives up $248 per annum for the use of the deyice. of which the Government gets but $38.50, the balance going to the fortunate possessor of a place on the line! ——_———_+ ¢ - ——____. It begins to look as if Mr. Shonts had been so busy with his editorial duties as to overlook buyiug enough cars to go around on the new subways, Too many distractions are bad | for business, He should concentrate more. | + PIGS IS PIGS. | UTO riders who explore the inner recesses of Westchester County and its Fairfield neighbor over in Connecticut, Teport the prevalence of a new sound, accompanied often by an unwelcome odor, It is the squeal of the pig ruminating in his pen, putting on flesh, it is to be hoped, for the coming winter, and subsisting largely on farm, garden and kitchen waste. Time was when all country folks kept pigs, even in villages, from which last vantage they were driven by the fastidious. War has revived this important factor in food providing, and New York is doing its bit with the rest of the count Good business! Coincident comes the news that all fat has vanished from Vienna, save smuggled morsels sold at the fabulous figure of &t per} The pig is ju t as important as powder! — — ++ The New York b: Keep Him Dancing! "By J. H. Cassel | . . Stories of Spies By Albert Payson Terhune Coprright, 1918. by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) NO, 49.—ANNE CLARKE, Spy and Spy-Catcher. N earlier article of this series told of the clever work done by Agnes Ford in enabling the Confederate guerilla, Mosby, to raid Fairfax Court House, Va, and capture United States Brig. Gen. Stoughton and most of the latter's staff, and fifty-eight cavalry horses, This story tells of the equally clever capture of Agnes Ford, The whole country buzzed with the sensational news that a Union General had been seized, asleep, within his own lines by a Confederate guerilla, Presi- dent Lincoln said, when he heard the news: | | : I'm sorriest about the loss of those fifty-eight | horses. We can't spare them. I can create all the new Brigadier Generals | | I want to. But I can’t create new horses.” The Union Secret Service was especially keen to prevent any future exploit of the sort. It was evidently the work of a spy. seemed to know who the spy might be. | But nobody | Lafayette C. Baker went to Fairfax Court House on a secret tour of | | investigation. There he became convinced that the facts Stoughton’s capture had been supplied to Mosby by @ woman. a a. He suspected she was one of a group of pretty i Pretty Stranger i girls who made their headquarters at the Ford leading to ie Weteomed. home—a huge and hospitabie mansion near the \e centre of the town. | Baker had too much sense to wreck his plans | by erresting a pretty woman before he had full proof of her guilt. Ho | tealized the spy was too clever to betray herself to a mere soldier, So he | sevt back to Washington for Miss Clarke, one of his most brilliant as- sistants in the Secret Service there. He gave Miss Clarke her instructions and stood aside to let her do the rust of the work, mating it a duel of woman against woman. j Miss Clarke, among many of her other accomplishments, was a cleves jfetress and had a genius for mimicry. Though she came from the North, ohe could imitate the soft Southern accent to perfectiou, Presently at the Ford home at Fairfax Court House appeared a fugitive with a sad story and a plea for shelter and help. She was pretty and de- cidedly well bred, and her accent and manner as well as her statements secmed to prove her a Southerner. She gave her name as “Anne Clarke,” the only true part of the story she told. Miss Clarke said she was a Confederate Secret Service agent who had been on duty in New York and in Washington, and who was now anxious to set back through the Union lines to Richmond with her report. The Ford family were Virginians and were warm sympathizers with the Confederacy, although their house just then happened to be inside the Union lines, They welcomed the pretty fugitive with open arms. Miss Clarke pretended to be in a high:y nervous state and said she was frail to sleep alone. So she was told she could room with Agnes Ford, That night, after she and Agnes went to their room, Miss Clarke grow hoastrul about the wonderful spy work she claimed to have done for the | Confederacy. This too much for Miss Ford's discretion. She began to babble. | She told how she had found out from unsuspecting Union officers that Gon. | Stoughton was to stop for the night at Fairfax Co House, and how she | ond gotten word to Mosby. |___ Miss Clarke professed to doubt the truth of the varn, To prove it Miss Ford unearthed from under her mattress a commission appointing her as Bann “honorary aide de camp” to Gen. Stuart, and a Woman Spy Boasts note thanking her for her splendid services to the South. Miss Clorke stayed for another day or two with the Fords, In that time she not oniv learned all about Miss Ford's methods of work, but discovered many inter- esting details as to the plans of one of the Confederate armies. | went on her way, | "The following week an officer of Baker's staff arrested Miss Ford and | conducted her to the Old Capital Prison at Washington. He also seized a | quantity of Confederate documents that were hidden in the Ford house and which he had no trouble in finding. Miss Ford was not put to death. After the war she was allowed to | recurn to her old home, having learned a valuable life-lesson In the folly | of bragging to a stranger. of Her Wit. ———eeeeeeeeee Then she is sold by condemnation proceedings, | where it is utili |being deple everywhere. husband has been very ill and children for & to] years, but never again! ends| had two children in one of my flats. meet by keeping « little store and thi number of | private property sould the children play on the back The yard was of an ordinary d, so | dug up a goodly sized | Landlord tch and planted vegetables. No, indeed! twice the size the children, struggle has been salary, this question dren under ; put the children {n- “Now, I did not object to the chil- oh! why, must they get into the war) shovels and pails | When | complained | !@7ge return accordingly? not something to be said about the re- “Will you please tell me how I can get a few rooms in my so I can keep my five children with | told wherever 1 at no children are allowed, garden’ with their » dence. and dig it all up neighborhood packed up and | turn given you in having the protec- tion of a great pation—a free nation? “Ask any landlord why he does not with children, | per- | tection and police protection and your you will | property rights conserved, &c.? want to rent to people Is it not something to have fire pro- |rooms to house them in? | but, believe me, 1 would never have | brought thought that there would be no room home away pound. |from a mother’s love, the one great- world and what @ child needs the most. “I have been an orphan since | was k and think eacn | what you can do in a civ Of course, | Promote the “common good.” | And as for you, mother | take yourself a who exclude you have two cas with her vested interest there is considerable to be said about | the landlady’s grievan tenants and There are | mother-landladies, the solution is for in each others’ great | places Wents to Keep the Boys tu School, Would To the EAitor of The Fi Why should America at this time | Te the Biitor of The Krening Wor be compelled to give up her young pee duys ago an article appeared children othe world conmlcr? Boys | if) tegration of Germany after of eighteen to twenty are nothing] peace has been restored to the world more than children just growing into| ! n the united efforts of Allied manhood, and it seems to me that| 4 You spoke about dissolution America will make a great mistake in| 0%, {he strongly centralized German | nation and restoration of the an taking them out of truining schools. cient petty principalities inte whieh ave Germany Made Into Wore | Small States. colle &c., just @ tin when) Germany had formerly been divided. ! they should be working to learn their| #9 such action, as” you shrewdly trade or profession. The world war| 20-Pted out. that barbarous race cannot last forever, We are striving| menace to the civilized Wocld Where for conservation of our raw mate-|there is unity there is strength, but rials and mineral products, Shall we| here there is disunion and lack of non to conserve the youth of United effort their can be no strength, Riericae An example of this is seen in Russia e As suon as the Caar was overthrown We have a large army not in|and deposed the Russian em fell France, Less than one-half of { into numerous little st each army is equipped, Let us ende: See eo eeni: | DAL Wee to train our eighteen to twenty-year| Teuton hordes penetnereg (ime the boys after school and working hours, | hea kewise shall the We have done se with the boys and \ divided into sm men in our National Guard during netleet econ evening hours and Sundays, | nations of the world be per No one can object to the training | pet of our youths, It is ruination of their ki"8% at the merey of fanatical § ven by greed and avarice future development that must be giianmens nei, thd virtue M. D, or the Sh interests, RB, three, brought up in a ‘home’ and so Over-the-Top Empey seems to have over-topped himself. |! know what I have missed and want Discretion is not unreasOnably the better part of valor, es- {to pecially in exhortation lean Righe ‘The Office York Evening World.) * said Popple, But how can I when I have to ee — jpay $18 for two rooms and @ little] Letters From the People. | store, | destroying They don't take to him in his language i by the papers, in his childish : farms out in California trouble ola ‘You mean the t | with little John it i¢ Tommy borrowed hy Secretary to the h ttoh | meant he returned it to maybe they children and the "TL have one girl and four boy is ten years of wht and a half, Although there can they get from a bee * demanded Popple ee vst children “Buzzers to use with push-botto: take Blond Sten have hea | man, but r than have Miss l'rimm, frowning deeply common cause is a public obligation involved ght-thinking might he to-day | has ev musical home," taken from private owners. That is, very often private property mean?” demanded Miss Primm, expect of them?’ A Mother Landlady and a Mother Tenant) The Jarr Family By Ro By Sophie Irene Loeb 1918, by The Press F WO mothers write to me the fol- | Copyright, 1018, by ‘The Prem (Puttishing Co, (Toe New York Brening World.) population Is \¢¢y THINK I'l tell the children,” | said Mrs, Jarr, as a scuffle of little feet was heard on the r families who will raise children, | stairs and the voices of the children 8 well as running streets through | coming home from school In the meantime a little bit of introspection on the part of every landlord and every | will go a long ways toward solving Do you not re r Mrs, Landlady, that you |are doing your bit by welcoming chil- rented roof? | pose a little bit of your property “Tell them what?" inquired Mr. Jarr “That you are promised a raise of You know Marjorie Marsh- mallow, President of the Modern | Jarr. | Mothers and author of ‘Child Culture’ and the ‘Psychology of Adolescence,’| cycle and broke it. He threw it Guwn| my bills as big and advises us to always consult with our | the basement steps!” replied the hoy.| It children, “She says, ‘Get your child's confi- Ascertain the child's point of Chuff! Chuft! Chuff:” ' | view on questions that perplex you. |'This stimulates the mental activities of the child and also maki | : nizant of the responsibility of the; “You are not big enough for a mo-| Millionaire because when customers parent toward the child, aa well as/torcycle Willie, even if your the résponsibility of the child toward |could afford it,” interrupted Mrs. Jurr. | | the parent’ "——— What Mr. Jarra views were on| Wa), mutual understanding between parent | 00d news. Children, your papa is | and offspring of tender age will never! S°ing to get more money at the of- | be known, for the children rushed in| fice. Now don’t go shouting it ov-r| at this moment with all the Joy and) the neighborhood. Of course you cu bandon of youth when it knows that! Mention it when you are over f it has done anything it should be! with the Rangle children; it cog- L. McCardell , disciplined for the parents are not| Repler, the butcher, stops you again yet aware of it Jand tells you to ask jmamma Mommer, can't I have a pair of| when she is coming to see him, as ‘roller skates—good ones?” cried the| she promised, you may tell him to little girl, "Mine was only cheap| see your papa, ones! Willie says he's going to get a| money now.” | motorcycle, so if he gets a motorcy-| “Hold on there as he has plenty of * expostulated Mr, te cle 1 can have a new pair of roller! jarr. “If thoy hear that, all the skates that cost two dollars, like Mary | people I owe monoy will be after me." Rangle has, can't 1?" No, they won't.” said Mrs, Jarr, “What makes Willie think he !s so- who knew the and manners of ing to get a motorcycle?" asked Mr.| tradesmen, “They'll all be around Jasking me to deal exclusively with tause Izzy Slavinsky took my bi-| them, and to te!! me that I ean run as long as T wish, only when the tradesmen think € out of work and haven't any ist on bills being | "Anyway, I don’t care, Bicycles ure | you {no good. I really want a motoreycla.! money that they in d promptly.” “LT haven't the money, children,” | And are we rich now, Maw?" od began Mr. Jarr, “but if I had the|the boy, “Hurrah! T'll go out and money" —— | make faces at Gussie Bepler, He's a pana| tell him to keep » when he delivers. m «. D. his popper “But they are good children, and, any | ‘#h¢8 it from him and puts it im a ownoup, and then Gussie Bepler's father is going to put it in the business, Gussie has nearly now.” bank to keep till he I think they should know the) @"* to t “An' Il wanna ren whistle on my Motorcycle!" said the boy. “IL don't wa no jin be They don't make ying | or if Mr, | Force “IT mean he lived in @ bee fat, Now! “Oh, Mr, Snooks,” said Bobbie, ¢ you know anything about the| “what clef is a mandolin in?" trouble clef you'll see the point, a" —— “What's th spouted Miss Tillie. edie cief.” “Wrong again,” I call it the trouble clef.” Of all the far-fetched jokes, that the prize,” came from Miss Primm, “I wish Mr, Snooks could d that one, He {sa patient bet he would have given Master Bobbie the best areseing- down he ever received. There's a limit to any man's patience, e fired our budding bumor- “Mr, & The Bows entered and bid every. body a cheery gvod-morning, dea In calling it the said Bobbie. “I just what I said, My ‘brother plays the mandolin, and”——- “l’s in the treble clef,” said | Popple. “And it's always getting us into | battles with the neighbors, That's He even lake a chance," said Bobbie. “The Boss is coming in now, “I'll bet he comes back with a joke answer, ooks would never deign to spring a cheap joke like that,” eaid Miss Primm, peop! jump like a@ siren does when | you come screcching around the cor- By Bude Dudley [ner a inile a minutes" “Now, children, run and wash your | hands and ces for dinner, and be | good, for papa and mamma are going jout,” said Mrs. Jar “Treble clef,” the Boss replied, | + “But supposing a mandolin ¢: a fight because you played night! “Wouldn't you call i trouble clef?” The Boss gave Bobbie a solemn look and disappeared in his priv: office, Miss Primm and Popple were elated What did I tell you?” demanded | Miss Primm, “My, but that alleged | joke made him mad!” | Bobbie had nothing to say. Popp! slapped his knee and indulged in Pi be Pelebraia thelr promised ingresae good laugh, jof income by spending it before they “A little more and he'd ‘a’ fired | Gt 't) Which is the modern idea of enn ac hin aia menk: economy, Mrs. Jarr paused at the A moment later the Boss opencd | {08 and suid his door and stuck his head out. : od, children, Willie ang “Listen, Bobbie” he said, 1) mma, Behave fr ne table Aas wouldn't call it trouble clef—t'd call! o'clock sharp or I'll gako away your it base if it got one in a mix-up with|new roller skates motoreyele. his neighbors." Mind now!” “Very good, Mr. Snooks!” said Miss} “But we Primm, laughing, The Boss retired| ‘Hechildren, | ut you will get them if you are In his room highly pleased at his own| good, and if we Can afford s¢—trate ie outburst of humor, | you will both get something nice un- “He gets a raise who laughs best,” | til Willie Is old enough tor a moter- chuckled Bobbie, | cycle then we Miss Primm arose and stalked ou! | she added with a algh,¢." lof the room, slamming the door with | 80 Many submarines perhap ‘all her might, ‘our ship won't come in,” you goin’ to the movies? Can't cried the children. € said Mrs. Jarr, kind y but firmly, “papa and mamma are rty together, to have a little p are gf to the theatre and going (o have dinner. Poor j|mamma seldom has any treats like But she is going to have them they are Mr selves in the nd Mrs. Jarr attired theme best clothes to go out ow be ain't got ‘em yet!" eried ship comes in. eel an automobile— it ~ me