The evening world. Newspaper, January 26, 1895, Page 4

Ce Mike at teil nda , marched down again. The Senators are now looking ner- +4 vously around and asking “What next?” A personal encounter is improbable, as big O'Sullivan would wipe the Senate floor with little Lexow, and the latter will not say whether or not he con- templates a challenge. The general im- PARK ROW, New York ¥, JANUARY 26, 1895. NOMS TO THE EVENING WORLD © (tnoluding postage): France will content himself with his march up the hill, and that there will be no vacancy this year in either of the Senatorial districts represented by the O'Bullivan and the Lexow, MILITARY TRAINING. An effort ta being made to introduce @ regular military dritl as a part of the exercises in the public schools of the city. The veterans of Lafayette Post are tal- -ng a prominent part in the movement. Yesterday there was an exhibition drill In the armory of the Seventh Regiment, the soldiers being ubsent on duty in Brooklyn. The Governors of Rhode Isl- and, Pennsylvania and Connecticut, with thelr staff officers, were present, while Gov. Morton and the Governors of Jersey and Massachusetts sent repre- sentatives, who headed the full staff, Tho drill both of the boys and girls was entirely satisfactory, the forces be- ing from grammar schools which of their own volition have practised mili- tary tactics out of school hours, It {9 understood that the Board of Education favors the adoption of the aril as a regular school-hour system, ‘The only opposition seems to come from the New York Soctety of Friends, who regard the military training as contrary to the principles of “peace. Do not the Friends know that the || best way to preserve peace is to pre- ||pare for war? Besides, is the Society really fearful that the drilling of the Uttle ones might make them the blood- thirsty advocates of war? VIOLATIONS OF LAW. The Legislature of 1892 amended and made more stringent the provisions of the Code relating to the destruction of property and malicious interference with the running of raliroad traina, In August of tha: year the Sheriff of Erle County and the Muyor of Buffale called on the Governor for the ald of the National Guard to protect the lives and property of citizens from the riots caused by the strike on the Erle and Lehigh Vailey Railroad companies Several regiments were at once de- spatched to the scene of the disturbances, ¢ of the incidents which go to|Jmmediately afterwards Gov. Flower ts- the Brooklyn strike pitiful as | sued proclamation setting forth the fle Age massacre. Almost with-| Provisions of the Penal Code and the ‘exception, the killed and injured in| Penalties for their violation, and offer- contest have been innocent of any|in& @ reward of one hundred dollars for ‘with rioting or violence, A|the arrest and conviction of each per- en and soldiers have re-|#0n oe violating any of the sald alight ctual | Provisions. Ore ccaieuy, ron nee only] Among the acts declared felonies by ry, but alo the indignity of|the amended law are displacing, remoy- ing or injuring a rail; placing any ob- those other innocent sufferers, | #truction on a track; discharging a fire- iting the great body of Brooklyn | 4m or throwing a stone or other misaile there is no precedent for their|&t @ car or train or wilfully displacing, even in the Middle Ages, Imagine | cutting or injuring any wire or dynamo ity of nearly a million persons | connected with any railroad operated by lved for two weeks of its usual| electricity. e@ transportation, its streets and} Every one of these provisione has ‘practically blockaded! And for| been violated time and again since the Teason than that two or three| Brooklyn troubles began. The penalty whom public franchises have| Where the safety of any person ts en- farmed out, are disagreeing with|dangered 1s Imprisonment for not more employees over a matter involving| than ten years. In other cases the pun- measly thousands of dollars. ishment 1s a maximum of three years! Jong would @ Middle-Age commu- | imprisonment or two bundred and fifty bave put up with such a state of | dollars fine or both. | mffaira? Why, even ancient Rome would| Many persons believe that if Gov. ig managed the thing better, though | Morton had offered a reward of two ‘with incidental unpleasant con-| hundred and fifty dollars for the arrest | Sequences to the obstinate traffic mana-| any conviction of any violator of the law, gers. We om are, - BROOKLYW—09 Washineton =t | PHILADELPHIA, PA—Inquirer Office, 1100 Mar- THE WORLD'S Circulation Tuesday, 754,530. Over Three-Quarters of a Million. Vorrgres Gurtert The sad case of the mweetheart of Carney, the roofer killed by the soldiers at his work on Hicks street, ts one a t | pili g ls { and Mayor Schieren had supplemented are more civilized nowadays and| this with a reward of one hundred dol- things more neatly and graciously, |lars on the part of the city, It wouid have it there are occasions when one must| checked lawless acts more effectually the suddenness and efficiency | than calling out the military. There Is of ancient methods of dealing with men| reason to belleve that Gov. Flower’s ex- § ‘made themselves public nutsances. | perience would have determined him to try the experiment if he had still been Governor, STUPID DEMAGOQUISM. ‘The refusal of the Assembly Commit- ly report the bill to repeal provision of law which pro- loyment of any but citi- ‘United Btates as street- gnow-shovellers is a very of business, It is dema placed and unprofitable, for he question is properly un- tood the adverse action of the Com- repeal bill will be con- A BACK NUMBER. Young Mr. J. Sloat Fassett, who was once @ State Senater and afterwards a candidate for Goverir, now appears as an amateur debater on the reform sues of the present day. At a Political Science Club meeting last night, Mr. Fassett expressed him- self as opposed to a blanket ballot and a wingle-headed Police Board. He favors @ bl-partizan Police Commission, and doubts the expediency of a Power of Re- moval law. It might do with Strong, perhaps, but would prove a club in an- other man's hands, Some persons may feel curious about Mr Fassett's views, but the ex-Senator is a back number. The active events of the last year have left Fassett and get employment from private | Fassett campaigns and Fassett investi. ey become a public bur-|8*t!ns committees so far in the rear ter the number dependent | that they will nover be heard of again, table institutions the heav- oe our taxes. The honest,| In the Steinway cash accounts there laboring man has to pay his full| are entries of money “ gratifications to taxetion. Why should he be|the police.” If that word “ gratifica- for the support of foreigners|tions" had only come out during the be left to starve and who|Lexow revelations, how it would have able to earn their own Hving| softened the thuds which the pantatas jeeping and snow-shovelling, | ¢xperienced. which very few citizens are accept? the employment of for- broom and the shovel ieee fH 3 i Be i } 7 i Seity like New York there ts neces- population of foreigners, of whom come here to stay, im time become naturalized The law, however, requires a ft five years before they can rivilege of citizenship, of them are miserably poor fithe f ? i i t i [ tt | Ex-President Harrison has promised to end a Commercial Travellers’ Club moker”’ in this city next week. Per- the padrone system ix all |haps he will give the “boys” a peep at Employ « sufficient number | his political samples for ‘96. to pay off every individ- : — ed by the Hepartments, keep| The Fitty-third Congress ts appar- iste properly euthenticated, |ently not even to come to “a lame and estrous of work make appii-|impotent conclusion."” It simply "faxes @ sufficient number of official |out.” as the old New England phra eon, and there will be no | eves. the padrone His work has a4 iH l i | i x ij ¥ tt gee cane Mayor Strong 18 going to appoint Mesmtatoce been succmstully done Ply omen to office. Now they will think 4 - s ee 3M him a very nice man, Mrs. Grannis's with him and have Wen bought with « 4 op.nion Wo the contrary notwithstanding Mase of his nefarious profs, He has! @ebbed the men and shared his plunder It was es easy to see through this morning's fog in New York as it is to lp e atmosphere of Congres ps ut Washington, officials Bvening World” killed the pa- . At ie not likely it would course that could revive the é : f wi Mexico Nobody seems to care and Gustemaia fight aan but Mr. Cleve ‘WIL IT BE BLOODSHED' jand, who has advised them to divide fe danger of bloodshed in the | the purse and cal! the event off Genate Chamber of the State | York, or at least of bicod-iet-| out of & personal quarre! ‘Chainver. O'Bullivan ssked Benator Lex ip debate the simple question, “Did buy @ vote?’ Mr. Lexow grew! 31 ig trusted th over the question, and stalk-| tors need not bl ; meroes the chamber to where his |\the story of their eet, demanded an uncon-| periences i apology. Mr. O'6ullivan bad tyagyd it By reference to Bor manifesto, it is perceived that the Tioga eon still believes in the princi- ple of an I for an I Platt's new mmester eu L if the Republican edi pencil any portion of jew York City ex te make. Indeed, he justified the| If the Better New York had its way ik by easerting that his own elec-| Senator Cantor would win in a gallop cost him three hundred dol-|egainst the 1i-Partisan Police Board Mr. Lexow spent eight | scheme. a dollars. Then Mr. Lexow| J. Sioat Fassett—perhaps you will re fo bis own seat. member who he is—talked to the Polit- Of France, with Atty thew-|ical Science Club last night about re- Pression is, however, that the King of iaioaauieaiiacedaeteaineiinemanctomemencaaanee nt ettetiomeion “rp meen RNa Fe RNR erm om THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28 1608 Come to Think of It, We Air Have a Single-Headed Comm: ston in All Departments. form. He talked through his coat this time, for he kept it on while he made hia speech. It 1s a sign not altogether without & hopeful quality that Mr. Platt has deemed it necessary to “manifesto” again. Singularly enough, the new State Con- atitution begins with a “We, the pe ple,” instead of an “I, Thomas C. Platt. Mayor Strong will go up to nee Gov. Morton, The two Executives together should be able to raise Mr, Platt. Tt was easy to be in the swim this morning. Atl you had to do was keep | In the middle of the eldewalk. The lawyers are having a lot of fun| with Hetty Green, but they won't get much eise out of her, ‘Yesterday was Robert Burna's birth- day. Tom Byrnes has just been born again. Tom Platt says he's going to run things and he doesn’t care who knows it, ‘The weather dispenser has given Col. Waring another fine opportunity. A day like this means real aoldiering for the militia boys in Brooklyn, —— - —— FATHER KNICKERBOCKER’S DIARY, Jam. 25, 1898.—-It It were not for that Mayor of mine, I would not have a thing to write to-night, outside of the usual weather observations Th day has been cold and bright. The Mayor has been bright without being at all cold. He received a gmail host of Republican editors from all over the State and talked to them Ike the moat cheer- fat of political grandfathers, He also received le third delegation of ant!-Sunday-nelling good people and didn’t lose @ fot of his patience. oe Of course Col. Strong has only been In office twenty-five daya out of a thr term. Nobody can tell whether he is he has begun, Bu: he has given grounds for the strongest hopes and {t does not seem an if the ex- ample of binft, manly Independence and courage combined with hearty good mature, which he has set thus far, could be wholly lont in any event, oe e He indicated to-day his intention of appointing several women (o membership In the Board of Education, That has pleased me. It {a an idea which I have always favored, and I belleve its! carrying out can but have a good effect on th public school system of the city. There are many affairs connected with achool adminiatri ton in which a woman's eye can sce further than a man's eo ee ‘The Legislature hasn't cut up any new shines to-tay. It has probably been aa funny aa it dares for the present. Gate vite MAYOR'S VISITORS. (To beer oF not to beor—Sundaya) On Monday mornings, just at 10, The Mayor recelves the whiskey men On Tuesdays, goirg by hie lists, He welcomes Pronibitioutsta, On Wednesdays this contrary maa Smiles on @ Sabbatarian, ‘On Thurstays, eo arranged his plan ty, ‘That ho can talk with Mra, Granta, On Fridays, with mom placid features, He listens gravely to the preachers, On Saturdays he puts out feelers To sound the views of liquor dealers, On Sundays ‘tis quite manifest, ‘Tho Mayor stands in need of rest, He goes to church, hia soul to cheer ‘The sermon ts on "Sunday beer!" If excise cranks don't soon ety quite Woe fear the Mayor will lose his wita, It He'll In wise as he te stout, let the others Mgnt it out, NAD —_—— EMPIRE STATE BITS, Olean has twenty-four barher shopa. Canned corn poisoned a Batavia famtly. Mra Tompkins, aged one hundred and three, ts dying at Hedgesville. Last year's bean crop was Yates County's larg- om A Lockport teamster was arrested for keeping two horaes in @ stable 12 feet long and bi fect wide. A robin f@ making its home this Winter at the house of a tava, w York Central flagman, near Ba. Ten lawyers appeared in a case befor toga Just a Su which only the involved, Gasette calle attention to the t the custom of opening prayer was abolished in 18a. int Vinors, county taaes have other day, in 6 BY OTHER EDITORS, ‘The Mayor Is No Swerve: Piatt sees lo be seek @ contest with Mayor Strong if the Mayor is the man he appears to be he will mot swerve one hair's breadth from the path of uty through fear of what the boss may Ge —Bullalo Eapress, For Blood Without Water. Possibly the only thing that prevents some Con- sresamen even ning to the of the allan war le the water. They want blood. — adeiphia Times. A Gilt Needed ut Albany, As this is Burns's birthday, we might reftect (nat in politics as well as in private lite the weak reaults would come “if some power would aut gle us" @ chance to see ourselves as others #0 wh —Philedelpaie Press, Jan. 6 Oh, Sydney, Sydney Rosenfeld—you who were once ao bright, #o clever, 80 joyous and fo satiric! "Tis well for you that you stood last night before an audience of friends, at the Bijou; that you were not new and untried, and that the people had faith in you, Other- wire, my friend, you would have been hooted and jecred when you had the temerity to step before the curtain, It wan like adding insult to injury. At the end of the second act we hoped that we might never look upon your agree- able face again. Yet you came and bowed and scraped, Just as though you really believed the audience wanted to fee you. Oh, Sydney, of the tarnished brightness! As a matter of fact, “The Twentleth Century Girl’ has all its brightness in its title, It fe about as dull, as witless and as inexcusable an affair as we have had for a long time, Messrs, Canary and Lederer are not responsible for its failure, for they have done all they could by way of supplying an excellent cast, pretty dresses and appropriate scenery. Ludwig Englander has also done his share satisfactorily, for the musie ts catchy and neatly turned. It is Mr. Rosenfeld's book that works the mischief. As he is the general over- hauler of other people's manuscripts, can he not be induced to overhaul his own? I have always been one of his admirers, and I hate to tear down an idol. In “The Twentleth Century Girl” ts a mannish woman. who is not a bit funny. She {3 supposed to go in for politics, to smoke and to ape the manners of a dude, and she does it, but somehow she does not provoke the ghost of a smile, Her guardian, who wishes to cure her, attempts to do so by donning some of the garbs of woman and posing as a boy spinster, but he is vulgar rather than amusing, and nothing occurs to enter- tain an enlightened New York audi- ence, Then there is Michael MacNa- mara, a tiresome character very popular in the one-night-stand farce-comedy companies, and a German professor, ungther horse-play role. These people wander on the stage during the thre long acts. They never say an amusing thing, and It was sad to see clever actors and actresses so deplorably wasted. ‘The cast was a most creditable one The new lessees of the Bijou must be congratulated for that. Miss Minnie Landes and Miss Edith Howe have arming volces, far above those usually heard In a rough-and-tumble farce-com- edy, and Edwin Stevens is a genuine comedian, Poor Stevens was never less fortunate than with his part in “The Twentieth Century Girl." It simply swamped him, Miss Helen Dauvray 18 a clever comedienne, but’ she should be wise enough to avoid singing, for the Teason that she has no voice, Her part was that of a damsel twenty-three years old. I will say no more. John T. Kelly and Al H. Wilson have their admirers among the vaudeville lovers of the city If those admirers see them at the Bijou Kelly and Wilson will have to look out for new patrons And poor Sidney Drew, @ most entertaining young man—his lot was a woful one. He was about as un- happy as Miss Jennie Weathersby, an admirable artist in her pecullar line. ‘The role that Miss Cissy Fitzgerald de- clined was given to Miss Lilian ‘Thur- gate, who did very well. She lacks Miss Fitzgerald's grace, and 1s inclined to romp, but she 1s a nice little lady, and she deserved the roses that Miss Cissy, in an ecstasy of irony, threw her from a box. ALAN DALE. ag ee MUSICAL JOTTINGS. The production of Verdi's “Falatam’ at the Met ul politan Oper Monday, Fe fouxe has been postponed un 4 As @ matter of fact, good old operas seem to meet all the require ‘ute of the patrons of the opera reason, A ew production, of course, cayses a good deal of comment, and comment, of course, ‘makes things lively lar, “Falstaf’ 1s not Likely to be very popu es 8 6 The second subscription concert of the Osten Musicale Club (It spells “'musical with a fuel Why?) will be given at Chickering Hall Thurs. day evening, under the management of Mra. Ox den Crane, The programme Is an Interesting one. Miss Gi Foster, a dramatic rea Miss Blanche Harrison and Lilian M. Stratton will ap pear. eo 8 Haydn's oratorio, “The Creation." will Ye given to-morrow evening at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Walter Dumrogch. The soloists will be Miss Lillian Biaw ano; Leonard B, Auty, tenor, and ¥ basso, A chorus of four hund the New York Symphony Orchestre will asyjat Miss Sybil Sanderson ta very pleased with her Feception here. She hal, perhaps, been adver teed a ttle Injudiclously, and stories of her nhenomenal success in Paris had been told every sand men, marched up the hill and then| A DAILY HINT FROM W'DOUGALL, | THR TWENTIETH CENTURY GIRL. |“The Evening World's” Gallery of Living Pietares. JACOB CANTOR. This is @ picture of the State Senator and Lexow Comitteeman who dissents from the Platt-Lexow views that a Bi- Partisan Poltce Board is the New York desideratum and that the police re- organizers should be appointed by the Governor instead of by the Mayor. ——— THE GLEANER'S BUDGET. Tales of City Life, “IT gaw Tho Gleaner’s paragraph about shop- girls and snobbiah ahoppers,"* sald a woman whose perience places her beyond dispute. ‘It was entirely true, and volumes could be written on the subject. No shopper who goes into @ store Prepared to treat the sulenwomen as one woman should treat other women will have the least trouble. ‘The great fault with too many women {4 the deaire born tn them to bulldoze others of their sex; and to this desire they naturally yield further in cases where circumstances seem to have placed victims more easily at thelr disposal, ‘This ts true in the big stores Hence most of the trouble which the shoppers, Hy at fault, attribute to themaely ‘impertinent sho} girls. e 8 6 Some social attention In Philadelphia, T observe, 1s being divided between Actress Marie Burroughs: In the flesh and Actress Ada Rehan {n the form of the Montana silver statue, once of the World’ Fair, ee I saw a boy over In Hrooklyn the other even- Ing using @ bicycle from which to deliver news: Papers over Nis route. I caught gim am he dis. motiated, and he explained that the additional territory which he was able to embrace in his delivery made tt proftable for him to use this method. Down East, over country roads, newa- boys employ wheels more frequently than they go on foot. An old lady whom I know, wno watched the militia on picket across a lot from her house tn Brooklyn, became excited and ordered the ser- vant to lock the dours and secure the window fastenings, in fear that the soldiers might make & raid upon the houses and rob the inmates. No amount of argument could allay her fears until the cars were called in and the boys had gone back to camp at Ridgewood, She had evidently heard of war-time foraging and got @ wrong im- Pression of the present campaign. oe. A Now York kindergarten in credited with an “Anti-Rubbiah League," in which the aim te to teach the children ‘to pick up waste material, Whethe: sen within the school bullding of on the sidewalks, ax well ax to prevent thelr scat- tering much matter on the atreets."” It strikes me that few peorle would caro to have thelr children Instructed In street cleaning to the ex- tent of picking up sidewalk rubbish. It is a most excellent thing, however, to impress upon the Ute people the propriety of not adding to the rubbish that oer people leave in the streets THE GLEANER, ———— SOME GIRLS AND OTHERS. They Are All Reflected Here in Prone and Poetry. To the Editor: “C,H. W."" says he would not hesitate to marry a woman of fitty if she was attractive in looks or actions, But why must she be a widow? Tam not partial to widows myself, There are good, estimable women capable of making good, devoted wives, and they are not quite Atty, either. 1 know of one in particular, of a sympathetic, cheerful, loving disposition, who would be a per- fect treasure to a good husband, I wish *C, H.W." every success, J. 8, Brooklyn, N.Y. «a Eyes, To the Editor: My fancy, like a lively frog, k A jolly Jumping Max bounde! into even, Nor wishes to come back, Within these bright and tiquid lakes Tt gladly swims abou For no alluremeat on the land Tegrill again come out. Into the depths of Etty's ey where, It is diMcult for an artiat to win ap. proval under these circumstances, and Miss San- Gerson waa very much frightened. New York, f, has treated her very well, Her mag and winsoe presence helped her a «re: She is recognized as not great, but ex- tremely interesting Joan Geranty, tho little violoncellist, will ap- pear at Carnegie Hall next Saturday evening at the concert to be given there by the New York Symphony Soclety. Me will play a concerto by Saint-Saens and Rruch's “Kol Nitre.’* At th cert Sir A. C. Mackenzie's nautical overture ritannia’’ will be played for the frat time, ~ “EVENING WORLD" GUIDE-ROOK, Clubs of New York--XV.--The New Manhattan Athletic. The Manhattan Athletic C organized 1877, and sank {nto @ troubled slumber in the Winter of 1492-2. It was reawakened as the New Manhattan not many Weeks ago, and holds forth promisingly at the maguilicent clud-house at Mad fsom avenue and Forty-fth street. No clud in the world boasts a Gner habitation than this one There 19 4 swimming-tank in the Dasement, and In the Bummer there is a garden on the root Between these extremes are all the proper be Vingings of a club which aims to be a goctal as weil as an athlette sucess. A dainty theatre is among these belongings, and therein performances by a light-fooved ballet corps are given these nights, to which admission is held to be restricted to actua! club membera The Club m is the cherry diamond. It has Agured in al! the best amateur aibletie eosieste of the Manhattan’ It dives for Etty's dreams, Whioh are the causo of all the ght Upon the lucid streams, On, bless these beamy, dreamy lakes, Which bless the Jumping-Jack, Which unto terra firma, oh, Will never more come back! YTTLETON L. BAKER, Why Not Have a Mass-Meeting? To the Editor: Now, see here! What's all this talk about tax- Ing old maids? If there weren't so many old bachelors there wouldn't be so many old maids, Say, boys, what do you say to having an old maids and bachelors’ mass-meeting? Do you agree with me? If a0, state when and where some of you old boya can meet me to settle the questio OLD BERLINDA. Don't Want to Be Old Maids, To the Editor: Who 1s to blame for two lonesome girls be- coming what some people call “old maids?’ We are what @ great many young workingmen are looking for, as we do uot care to go out with the firts or alone. We are brunettes, eighteen and twenty years of age, and do not have the oppor. tunity of meeting the home-made “man.” We an sew and do all kinds of housework and cook- Ing: dance and are fond of all kinds of amusements. What are we to do? nd M., jarry Himt Brooklyn, Should She To the Editor Dees (t matter if « man te nineteen years older thas bie Some tell me that if 1 marry him, he will be old when I will still be young And also, at wh should a girl marry? Ie seventeen or eighteen too young, if the man je nineteen years older? If your parents should ob- ject to it, and you love bim dearly, what should be done? HEART. ‘The bruised heart forgets the joys That ere to-day made life serene, E’en in contentment finds ‘That make its pleasures but @ dream, *Tis cruel fate which thus decre That every hour of joy we know Must vanish Into weary days And nights replete with aad@est woe, P. With Decol! To the Editor: {8 proper for & girl of nineteen to wear dresses up to her ankley, going to © ball, with white alipperet JORNEOM, je Feet, Ent Sn ce NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK. Adventure, Biography, History a Fiction--A Thought-Prodacin; Magasine--Almanacs. 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Moulton, Buffalo.) o 6 8 The Globe one of the curiosities among Amert- can p riodicals, has opened a New York office in the Decker Bullding, Union Square, It was started in Philadelphia several years ago William Henry Thorne, literary critic of the Philadelphia Times, to give him an opportunity 40 say Just what he thought on every concelvable Subject in which the people were Loterested. Until recently he wrote every line for each number, and as Mr, Thorne's pen was not influenced by fear, favor or affection, the result was a review of the breeziest kind, that Interested every reader in the strongest manner, He wanted either to club the editor-writer or pat him on the back. Iu the West it was extremely popular, and an @Mce was opened in Chicago, Mr. Thorne has now begun an Eastern campaign, with a Now York office, and will move on to Boston in a short time, where it will create a sensation, if such @ thing Is posible, . A soclety man wearied of the monotony of doing nothing, who determines to write @ book, is the hero of Mr. Biddle's novel “A Dual Role,” To obtain knowledge of the life of the lower classes the hero turns barkeeper, is recognized, and is promptly cut by his friendy, After Sguring ight he quits the slums, publishes his “his own people."* ded several short stories to (Warwick nd returns to The author has bring the book up to the usual size, Book Co., Boston.) | oe ‘The second volume of a new work on theology, “Institutes of the Christian by the Rey, Dr, Gerhart, embraces ¢he principles of the Christian doctrine in relation to Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and personal salvation, ‘The third volume will treat of theology and the fourth of cosmology, the first having been devoted to the sources of theological knowledge. The method 1@ positive rather than controversial or polemical, and historical rather than analytic or synthetic, (Funk & Wagnal “The Swiss Family Robinsor fer, satisfied the boy or girl wno read it, It excited an ardent desire for more of the samo kind. To meet this domand, several books have been written, and among them ‘Jean Belin, the French Robinson Crusoe," which bas been the delight of French bhildren for many yeara This book has been translated for and publigned by Lee & Shepard, of Boston, to be added to the English comtinua- tons of the Swiss family. eee “Upon a Cast,"" by Chartotte Dunning, is the fanciful story of @ simple story which introduces the reader to neither lords nor millios to natural, every-day American ladi men, The rather ondinary events are reli 4 very pleasing and attractive fashion. The tone of the book ie healthy and the dialogue and style Particularly good. (Harper & Bro.) Tho siriking feature of “The Hypnotic Experi- ent of Dr. Reeves,” by sflss Ghariotie Rovalys nes, te the acceptance of the substitution of fone person for another by the hypnotized subject, Among the other mories in the book “An Inter- tational Courtship" ts the most Important, The author's style ts crisp, and the book will serve {0 pase & pleasant Nour, (Brentano,) polvon HI. and Lady Stuart: An Episode ofthe Tuileries," from the French of Plerre de Lano, describes the profigacy of the French court under Louis Napoleon, the unheard-of uses to which the celebrated Becret Police were pi and incidentally Indicates the causes which to the downfall of the Becond Empin Sona.) ed (Tat & ee Mra. Mary Kyle Dallas has written one of tho clevercst parodies tn “'Billtry"’ that has evar en published, She simply reverses the sex of jo characters iu "'Trilby,"* and in almost identi- ‘al words, only changed here and there, turns the story into @ wild and roaring farce, (Merriam Company). oe ‘The State of California has published a yol- magnificently illustrated, of its exhibit at World's description of all exhibits, It work of th T C. Judking, Bach State al report made of this mature, be congratulated one ‘After killing off the hero, the author of “Whiter Than Snow,” has fallen into the strange. mi ing thirty-two pages to tell how Fries another mat book te Skirt-Dancing Costumes. | Tf you want to try skirt dancing, here 1s a graceful costume for it, made of pale shrimp-pink nun‘s veiling, with | eeves of golden brown pongee silk and brown gauze ribbons. The square neck is outlined with a passementerie in shades of brown and gold. The draw- ers, skirts and hose are of brown tint, and fine, soft mull muslin is admirable for underwear. If the skirt 1s made as in the diagram, it need not be set in accordion plaits. Long theatrical hose are worn, and these are generally sewn to little trunks of cotton, but the long hose may be worn with suspenders. Small, flexible corsets are necessary. The bodice of the costume is made on @ thin shaped lining, cut in three parts only, and fastens with hooks and eyes in front. The combination skirt and drawers {s more usually affected for skirt dancing, and the shape and make will be under- stood by glancing at the diagram. The drawers are cut in two parts and seamed together in the centre, and the broken line on the diagram clearly shows the outline ofthis garment. The top is plaited into a thin flat band, which buttons at either side. Very wide, full frills of open pattern lace are a tached to the drawers, and the gored Petticoat should be quite five or six yards round,, and will appear consider- LETTERS, [This column is open to evergbody who has a complaint to make, a grievance to ventilate, in- formation to give, a subject of general interest to discuss or a public aervice to acknowledge, and who an pulthe idea into Wess than 100 words, Long eters cannot be printed, | She Worked for a To the Editor: Ihave a complaint to make about a big woman in New York City. I do not think that it is prover for a Senator's wits to act the way she did. A washwoman worked in the Senator's house, this city, and from 7 o'clock In the morn- Ing until 9.30 at night. After working three days, the last day until 10.30 o'clock, the Senator's wite offered her the price of 50 cents @ day. My idea fe that a day's work, from sixteen to seventeen hours, is worth the price of $1.25. If there ts any woman in this city that will work for 59 cents a day, milk and potatoes for dinner the first day, store cheese the next and Schweitzer cheese the last day, I'd lke to know her. If @ Senator's wife cannot give a working man or woman a reasonable price, 1 don't know who ought to, jenator’n Wife. H. K Another Woman-Hater, To the Editor: What has become of that man who signed himsi ‘oman-Hace I shoud Uke to meet & follow of that kind, I hearti!y agree with him tn all he sald. ‘The girls of to-day think of nothing but dress, and most of them think there 18 no ono like themselves, If their mothers would give them something to do around the house and stop thelr everlasting talking about the fellows, they would grow up better women and make better wiven. The men of the day won't marry because they are afrald of getting @ girl wh. cannot manage their home. Poor men, after working all day, to come home and find their wives reading yellow-covered novels, TEDDY. His Gas Bill Stil Soars. To the Edito In your letter column "An Old Hand at the Business’ offers to give @ pointer as to how to make gas bills small. We lived in a whole house until two months ago, when we moved Into a flat. While living in @ whole house our gas bills month in and month out were $3 to $9 per month. Our bill for twenty days is 87, and we have only used two burners on an average, The Company Aes not rem to know any difference a to used in a house and that used in a flat, Although we know it ts downright robber; we have to pay up or do without gas, If “ald Hand at tho Business will give us a pointer he will hay gratitude, M. PENA, 305 West Thirty-sixth street, Tangled To the Editor: Street Names, I wish you would persuade the City Council to Fearrange end simplify some of the names of the downtown streets. 1 am a stranger here, having been in the city a month, I have been on the and and examined the every day, the names are still a matter of an. Royance, Take the street I room on, for exai pie: Commoueing at East River and run: ng West to Tompkins Square it is properly call Bighth street; continuing to Broadway it is called bt. Mark's place: on to Sixth avenue it ts Clin- ton place, and then there is an angle, Gr Wich avenue ant Horatio street, which well be called @ continuation. Why not call all five Eighth street? I know it is hard to give up old names that have a historical moaning ts Fesldents, but to the millions of visitors who are here every year It Iw a source of great worry, PRANK WRIGHT, entirely very unusual merit bowatays . Almanaca, as complied by modern pers, have come 19 be a& important feature of cach Dew year's library of ret mong the most useful of such publications thai have come to 4 hand are those of ¢! Ol (New York) the'fnites,Leduer and Record (Phiiedelpate), aligeoere, Week ike Mberal umber, it bee ais When Single-Tax In on Top, ‘To the Editor: Charles Cretty asks questions of Jowing are the answers: It Ie believed that « tax of 4 per cent, value of land, exclusive of (Ptah yes on, and based om the revtal value of the land lose, will aford ample revenue tor the pus ich the fol- ably wider from the very full frill at the edge, Both knickerbockers and petti« coat are made of very thin lawn. In the diagram, the B line shows where the frill is put on the skirt, and the lines marked XX denote where the skirt is attached to the knickerbockera. Wisdom for Housewives, ‘The term “ventilation” is not by any means synonymous with & dangerous draught of air pouring into an apartment, Systematic care of lamps is better tha all the patent “fixings” ever invented, as a means of securing good light. Ti trimming the lamp. simply remove the charred portion of the wick, amd mot the unburned, though blackened fibre, Remove the nickelled work before tlack- ing 4 stove, and polish It before replac- ing; do not black the bright edges of the tron, A good hot-air furnace gives the best means for warming the ordinary home; @ poor apparatus gives the poorest re- suits, ‘The ideal temperature in a living-room. for healthy adults {s 65 degrees. For small children it should be at least 6 de- grees warmer. A Pretty Bodice. A very pretty bodice of black, gray and crimson checked cheviot cloth has a slightly full front of red mirotr velvet, ending in a point below the waist. The | bodice is fastened with overlapped tabs and embossed buttons. The square col- lar has lapels of mink fur. The sleeves |are slashed and have tabs over velvet cuffs | ‘The Snind in Proverb. ‘There is an old Spanish proverb which says: ‘‘fo make a perfect salad there should be a spendthrift for oll, a miser for vinegar, a wise man for salt and a madcap to stir the ingredients up and | mix them well together.” With these | suggestions well in mind success should be assured. A Vell Stretcher. To make a veil-stretcher—which ts an indispensable part of a woman's belong- ings—cut four pleces of cardboard, eight by nine inches, Lay in a pile and punch on one side at the top, bottom and mid- dle, Decorate the outside with lettering, and tle with ribbons through the punched holes, Frozen Tea and Coffee. Frozen tea as well as cafe frappe will be found on the table at many afternoon tees. The latter is particularly delicious if made with gelatine, to form a coffee Jelly. then mixed with whipped cream and rrozen It will be found to be very smooth and rich. Of course it shoulé be well sweetened. Corn Dodge: One pint of cornmeal; ralt to tast water or milk and water in equal parts if desired to make a batter of the right consistency, so as to mould in your hana in small pones. Bake in a quick oven, - =} ones of governmont; and this in spite of the anticipated drop in land values consequent pom more land being forced into use to make ite con- tinued possession profitable. ‘This statement Is based upon estimates prepared by Thomas @, Shearman, and pon a report of select committes to Investigate tax assessments in the District of Columbia, The abolition of custom-houses for purposes of Fevenue would become feasible. The real estate business, involving speculation In land velues, witt become unremenuerative; and Public opinion ts rapidly absorbing the fact jthat a land-value tax (politically known a8 |single-tax) will bo of immense beneft ta all except those whose incomes are derived from ownersiip or speculation in unimproved tend, and has been indorsed and publicly advocated by several of our prominent Representatives. HENRY H. Law, And Education So Free, Too, To the Editor What does Wizz"? mean when he says one ‘should not educate himself beyond his station tm ‘fe? I am @ poor girl, of parents that have seen better days. I aim receiving @ good educa tion, am familiar with all the noted suthors, and T always thought that T wan on the right track to become, if not a person of distinction, @ Woman of common sense, who will be the gun= shine of some man's life and perhaps a loving |mother, But "G. Wizs's" letter raised some double in my mind, It im true that there are some people that Tam forced to come in contact with that I shudder to call friends, Because £ am poor must T aasociate with the ignorant peoe pie around me? Rather than do that I would shut myself in a room and remain there for the Fest of my life, GRACE FUL, One Wife's Courtship. To the Editor. Since "J. K.P. that loves him and wants to know if a girl J likes other gentlemen's come Pany Will make & food wife, T say yes, as £ have always enjoyed other gentlemen's society when engaged to my husband, but whon he gave me his visite I did not Uke, but dearly loved his soclety, and 1 think that I am as faithful to him as any wife, In fact all the gentlemen sed to like to put together were tar lene to me than my hubby, Mra. STONE, Ninth Avenue Express Trains, To the Editor: you not Induce Col. Hain to tet his ete traina stop at West Hundred and sation, which Is located between tracks, All express trains have to slow up there in order to awitch to and from the centre track, whieh extends from One Hundred and Sixteenth atreet down. This would cause the Company very little inconvenience and would heneft the residents of this lorality greatly, giving ghem a chance te et home earlicr and thelr dinner at Teasonable hours, Ba jation, ers may laugh In their sleeve at the in which Brooklynites are placed on ac- tot the trolley strike, but we have some fon In knowlog that the New York cable yes have got the eri ‘A WALKER, Brooklya, ‘om Bet, You Would, M. M. M, To the Euitor. 1am Miss Mabel Matilda M., fourteen years ol. am @ blonde with big blue eyes and reay cheeks. I am a fancy da 1 can high kick, do the split, bend the crab and do the hand- spring ten times tn uccession, Please inform mq whether I would be @ suitable person for the stage, MM. M. for Rockefeller, Wouldn't it be @ big blessing for a man tke Rockefeller to put ® large free hot bath at, gay, five cents for towels and soap, also ws barbers to give @ cheap shave, bathe to be open from 6 A. M. to 1 P.M. ov alt Bight? Have an upstaira also for & reading-room. A perme. nent fund for such & thing mould be « God-aend, Our meters we 6. POOR Davn.