The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1895, Page 2

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There was a good Wj @eal of sporadic violence, but none that 4 ome the intervention of troops. The “strike is still on, with little advantage In the opinion of © Carpenter the successful completion of the railroad tunnel under one of Balti- more's busiest thoroughfares demon- Gtrates the practicability of a similar tunnel for rapid transit under New | York's Broadway. i i] Engineer B. F. Irving Place Theatre, i Frederick Bossunyl de Nagy Bossany. Phousands of prople attended Mrs, “Cleveland's annual reception of the pub- f>* | Uc at the White Hou: Bismarck 1s to be asked, it 1s reported 14m Berlin, to take part in the Prusstan Btate Council meetings to consider agra- rian questions, Nathan Straus returned to New York after a three months’ trip to Europe. He | told why he left politics for good, and of | plans for making the city more health- | tui, Banker Raven and G. W, Tooker, both ‘aged men, squared off for fisticuffs at a Meeting of depositors of the falied North River Bank who criticised ver Hi ) gins for delay and de to investi- gate. ‘The drain of Amerie: |, London Statist thinks, trust of America’s tin: The banks yester¢ to marry Baron | n gold Is due, the to European dis- 4) poll y report rve, and for export were dull n National Lead o fe were § was withd Tuesday next. Sto feature wi liquidations, Cleveland and Car , to be consider: » celal plan to be The magniticent bu of William Pick 81,000,000. at Fifth fourth street, is soon to The Senate as a substitute solution on Foreign policy é wn . were reported compr fin ret, avent eventy A nar r Mr. uphold Mr adopted rye a Mills in debate. (The trial of t | epirators was fo eago. Benator Brice made a report Benate on the Pacitic ronds Chairman Wiis peal of the bounty sugar House and spoke on the o : Treasury with a copy of The W fore him opened at the arti "Gold, Gold, Gold,” The House the Navigation bill, At @ baswier tf Washington Batolli highs eutogized the press. 4 to arg for the b Mer. te vs } i. Pa ff SPECIAL FEATURES.—A World re- porter has been at the front for sev- eral days in the Brooklyn strike as ®@ member of the ‘Twenty-third Reg- iment, and he writes an interesting account of his experiences helping to quell the mob at the point of the bayonet, and also describes the duily Ufe of the citizen-soldiers. . 7] As emivent veterinary expert writes G) «9 _horeefesh as an article of food, | Ammerting phat it is as nutritive as si t Se the }A World reporter's Soskeeaeltl beef, better than the meat fold to the poor, and, when properly cooked, 18 perfectly palatable, ‘The very latest fads, newest fashions and nice points of etiquette are ex- plained by an authority and are ac- companied by some clever silhouette pictures see McAllister contributes a read able article on snobs, both of the American and English variety, and says that they have their uses ‘The tailor-made girl and the terles of her elaborate wardrobe are described, together with many other matters of especial interest to WoMeR....ce.es Remarkable instanc suppe ad © belng buried alive, and the American Humane Education Society will petition the Legislatures for a law governing Inspection of the dead Queen Margherita of [aly ten am Interesting Shakespea heroine presents them in original light wee Dr. Bertillon has added to his won- derful system of identification a new theory for proving the author ship of handwriting by means pulse by % said , A World reporter has spent several days on the new electric lightship off Sandy Hook and deseribes tts discipline and many novel nautical appliances... sees. eeeeee deeeee Miss Gilder reviews a book by a Frenchman who writes critically of American wome The inside histoi mys- are given of has writ work in which evel and a f arriage with a en for the first account of a -dancer Is gt time, together with her recent death heart ...000 n from a bre gations puneh mutilated quantities Is given In show that pin in tare 2 eu 28 2] 219) 26 THE WORLD: SUNDAY, JANUARY 47, 1605, complicated monetary situation, the the products of their statesmanship| Hall Caines, Doyles, Du Mauriers, people would as surely end the trouble in three days by subscribing for a Joan of $500,000,000, as they would furnish a million volunteers to repel invasion. The final adjournment of this Con- gress without the remedy for the existing stress will provision of a mean not only the discredit of the | Democratic party but danger to the country of a much more serious char- acter than seem to understand members of Congress The country appeals to Congress. The relief asked is imperatively ne- cessary. The means: of affording it are simple and easily within the con- trol of Congress. It is only necessary to give the people a chance to come to the country’s rescue from a dan- ger which threatening as war itself could cre- ate. Will Congress act? Will it act at once? THE VOICE OF REASON. The truest friends of the striking railroad men in Brooklyn are those who have given them the best advice who have appealed to their reason instead of their passion, and have told them the unwelcome truth rather than pleasing lies, is as positive and as the result is disappointing. TO LOWER THE DEATH-RATE, ‘The fact that the death-rate of New York can be lowered by making an honest and intelligent attempt to do it has already peen demonstrated in actual practice, but it still remains to be shown—as it can be—that hon- est, Intelligent and effective govern- ment will make New York City as healthy a place as there {s in the world, It has been said that the New York death-rate is high because of the cli- mate—that the large number of deaths from pneumonia, grip and other lung diseases are due to “the humidity.” But that is only a half truth. The humidity is the same for every section of the city and for the suburbs, yet the death-rate varies according to sanitary conditions and almost wholly in disregard of atmos- pherle conditions, Thus in the sub- urbs of New York we have an aver- age death-rate of only 19.12 a thou- sand, while the average for the city itself Was 28.59 (census year), as against an average rate for the entire country of 18 per thousand. In New York City itself the death- rate for whites is 2247 and for negroes 3 s. In St. Louis the white death-rate is only 18.15, while the colored is 34.65, In Nashville, Tenn., the white rate is 14.39, the colored 23.92, In Boston the white death- rate is 24.62, the colored 33.29. change by ticket-sellers London has several ri tists, each of a sche and specimens of the produced A man without arms steel fingers by mea’ writes, eats, an hair, and an describes, and fHlustr De Koven reporter 2.0.5... All the news of particulars of a fasl tion for Lent The Actors’ Trade t 2,000 members and Is condition portant events mew’s Church.. An interesting pag: COLORED = st Thine Congress Sult?’—A page of humor, and verse, and Till on the United 8 original humor, an¢ The country it will, tutions. tional faith is $58,000,000 and is Experiment, twice Treasury culty, Without waiting to permanent finance, lar loan to meet ded to replenish the T nd te nst impendir If something like this is not done a premium on gold traction and chaos mean, seems now ne The responsibility "| Democrats in Con trol both houses President with the only to unit days they can clear | Only a re les | patriotism, and a x ts upon the they prefer | to the performance of duty, they will |not obstruct but aid every effort the dominant party ma the evil that impen¢ It matters little what Dill 1s passed | It would be invidious to raise the if only it provide a simple means of | letting the people come to the relief ready, as they alwa: to a national need. including Jol confronts apidly decre shown that the means no bill or some other calling for secondary Ke at brie sing you ol of hi ir we of which he shaves and does other things just like other men...... There are new fashions In women's authoritative article ates them. reviews the musical week and defends “Manon” charge of immorality... : The wife of the Chinese Minister gives an interesting chat to a World tet pable ri inion now in a flourishin, Nym Crinkle reviews the week's im- An account of the successful loan bureau conducted by St for the ch EMENT. Misfit National Currenc: Provik bright Senate A page ¢ 1 the a eee: MAJORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY. ment, a reproach to republican insti- | We have more than $800,000,000 ot} paper currency outstanding. The na- | pledged |Yet the gold reserve is now only repeated, at command are utterly in- sufficient to meet the emergency is for Congress to remedy the am) The appeal should be to the people. | mature a new financial system, without trying to| harmonize discordant opinions as to | | Congre now, at once, pass some simple meas- ure of Treasury relief, the Sherman | the imperative n sury, ire the cou with all of con- that that ar at han rests upon nd they Th wilt m vin the skies. public i national ed isanship y ds. If w bill were passed ordering a popular loan and | creating an expert mons Kk are re- against the Including Bartholo- original sketches A page of selected miscellany and cartoons from the comic weeklies eartoon, “Our Reorganized Police Force.” a grave! emergency. Congress can meet it if If it fails to do so its failure will be @ reflection upon self-govern- to redeem Charlotte Durand, an actress, of the! every dollar of it in gold on demand, sing. should | a popu-| to restore | niry would amity muke to avert It was good advice which warned them that they had chosen a bad time for their strike. The middle of a hard winter, with thousands of men jout of work. {s not a favorable time in which to throw up a job even in | protest against such niggardly policy and oppressive evasions of the law | as marked the trolley management in 26| Brookly It was friendly admonition which rned the men against all acts of violence and lawlessness, and bade them “remember Homestead and 2 | Chicago." Conceding the fact, true in t strikes, that much of the and crime fs due to the | hoodiums and rowdies who flock to | the seat of disturbance, the work of 1) unlawful interference has been too stematic and pervasive not to tach blame to the strikers, It was wise counsel which urged them to 38) disavow and ald in preventing such outrages, When the mob spirit and mob rule had made the calling out of the mill- tia inevitable it was good advice which besought the strikers to banish |the bayonets by making their pres- ence unnecessary. To the success of any strike It 1s essential that the cause be just and reasonable, that the time be oppor- tune and that its methods vhall be peaceable and lawful. The first con- dition, according to the universal pub- lic opinion in Brooklyn, was met in The men's grievance was real and just, The last two condi- tions have not conjoined, It is sen- sible and friendly advice which sug- gests that they now abandon a con- test that can end only in failure. 18 Pal i of UNDERSIZED STATESMEN, The difficulties in the way of form- ing a Cabinet in France are many and weighty, but they may be all ummed up in the one assertion that France has not a single statesman Bi of has | the the Republic. the gre ons in civilized modern nation, that 0 | It} | is ‘e in any country at any time. of able and patriotic public men ft has no great statesman, Carnot was but a respectable me- diverity, So was Casimir-Perier, and aure and Bourgeois and Ribot Waldeck-Rousseau and political possibilities and so are and | other ’ | public life, The fact that the Repub has had thirty-ei wenty-four of & reflec yo years emphasizes — the s among the leaders, Intended on No on eapacit t! w is ir ontatives. than the In the leading nations of the just now under the man ef undersized statesmen. sland Rosebery is r is Balfour a Beaconsfield » Caprivis and Hohenlohes tr could not Wikerle we that they ¢ They nei re off deed, all hbors many make one marek tor ence of Deak or Kosst hardly rank in history with Cavour, Nowhere In European diplomacy de ‘ognize the skill of a Metternich genius of a Talleyrand. Ever: of the smaller powers of Euro will to itself, question as to whether the states. men of the United States are under. sized or not. sat enough to control the politics The faculty of leading the opinions and determining public affairs of a faculty which is called statesmanship, It is possessed only by great men. And while France has an abundance all the im- | possibilities now prominent in French ht Cabinets in the the French people or of not a Glad- Bis- nd Banfty have yet n wield the influ. uffering for the lack of one really 4t man to show it how to govern The discussion could of the Treasury, And the people are! hardly help betng acrimonious. On are, to respond | the one hand, if we were to take our statesmen’s own estimate of their size| past to demonstrate the duty of we should wonder how the country | readers to like what in fact they do|the Wholesale Bakers’ came to have room to hold them all. commis-|On the other hand, when we turn to|come into true sympathy with men| bread a ceut a loss These figures from cities of such widely differing climatic conditions show how little climate has to do with the death-rate, High as is the death-rate of New Orleans, the mor- tality among the whites there is lower than among the whites of New York, And that the high death-rate is not due to any natural vnhealthi- ness among the negroes is shown by the fact that in the average country district the death-rate among the negroes is about the same as among the whites. The cause of the high death-rate on Manhattan Island is ignorant care- lessness. Push the work of munici- pal sanitation and tenement-house re- form. THE NEW NOVELISTS. The literary activity of British writers of fiction during the last two or three years has been extraordinary both in its extent and in the value of what it has produced. ‘rhese two or three years have given us some of the most widely popular books in the English language and some that seem to possess permanent | worth. These years have seen the rise of a new school of novelists, remar ble In numbers as well as in power, and almost phenomenal in the mea: ure of the success they have achieved, “Trilby,” “A Gentleman of France,” “The Heavenly Twins “Dodo, ips That Pass in the Night," “The Manxman,” “The Priscner of Zenda” these are reminders only of what has} been produced by a school that in- eludes Du Maurier, ah Grand, Conan Doyle, Hall Caine, Stanley Weyman, Christie Murray, George Meredith, Anthony Hope, Mrs, Humphry Ward and half a dozen other writers of more than ordinary capacity and power. During the same period the sterility of American literary endeavor has been such that not one novel of recent American origin can be named in the same list, whether we reckon by lit- erary value or by popularity. Literary history shows that, other things being equal, every people reads by preference those novels that reflect its own life and character, a fact which Irving discovered when the “Sketch - Book” and “Bracebridge Hall” sold two copies in England where their scenes were laid--to one in America, where the © ithor was held in universal affection. Yet dur- ing these recent years the works of the English novelists referred to have been read by every American who reads novels at 1, and ve been sold here by scores and some of them by hundreds of thousands, while not one American novel produced within the same time has created anything |that ean fairly be called popular en- thusiasm, One reason, perhaps, ts that the new school of English novelists have had the courage to reject the “fad and theories of the time, hey have gone back to the old fountains of ro- ‘Weymans and the like of our own. Until they learn that lesson the American people will go on reading English in preference to American |novels, and {t will be {dle to complain, as some critics have recently done, that our publishers “bull” English books. No publisher could in that way make such a success as rilby's” and no publisher ts block- head enough to care what the author- ship of a book may be if he sees in it a capacity to attract readers in multitudes, We are reading English novels in preference to our own simply because we like them better than we do our own, THE LONDON POLICE. It does not speak well for the in- telligence of our lawmakers at Albany that they should be debating the ques- tion whether four heads are better than one for a metropolitan police force, This question seems to have been settled as long ago as 1829 in GOSSIP FROM PARIB, ‘The American Goprane in Paris—The “Le- gend of Michel Ney "Important Anni- versaries in Frange—The Grest Banquet Offered to Puvis de Ohavannes. (Special Correspondence of The World.) PARIS, Jan, 15.—The American #0- Prano is at this moment quite to the foro in Paris, Only a few days ago Mrs. Saville at the Opera Comiquo made a successful debut in “Paul and Virginia;” last Sun- day, at the concert of the Conservatory, Mrs. Kinen, niece of our Ambassador Eustis, achieved @ real triumph, and now comes Miss Adams, of Cambridge, 3iass., who compietes the triad of hero- ines by making a most successful debut at the Grand Opera in “Romeo and Juliet." She gave the waltz with won- derful brillianey and won an encore, singing {t In the key in which It was written, It 4s well known that the Key was lowered to sult Patt! when she sang the role at the Opera in Paris a few years ago, Most artists hod to the lowered key, Miss Sibyl Sanderson being an exception, Paris papers speak of Miss Adams's debut very warmly, calling it one of the most interesting that the Acacemy of Music has offered for some me.” There {s a fourth American voice of England by one Sir Robert Peel, in memory of whom the policemen of the Metropolitan District of London are still popularly known as ‘“Bob- bies” and as “Peelers.” The London Metropolitan District covers an area of nearly seven hun- dred square miles, with a population of five and a half millions. The length of beats covered is now between eight which much is predicted—that of Mrs. Methot, at present studying with Mar- chesl, Mrs. Methot is already known in America and most favorably, But the progress she has made in her work since coming to Paris gives assurance of a brilliant future; if we may judge from hearsay, it will be a near future. ‘The French welcome the beautiful voices we send to their capital. And as a French- man never praises anything or any- body not French unless deserving 1t, and nine thousand miles, and is rap- idly increasing. The force consisted on Nov. 4, 1894, of 31 superintendents of divisions, 598 inspectors, 1,831 ser- geants and 12,738 constables, a total of 15,198, with one Commissioner at the head. The duties which are or should be performed by our four Com- missioners, which are those relating to the finances, accounts, property and other clerical headquarters work, are in charge of a Receiver, with a staff of subordinates, There are independent govern- ments in Europe whose armies are numerically inferior to this London Metropolitan police force, but it is essentially a civil and not a military organization. It is under the control of the Home Department, which is one of the civil departments of the Government, and it is completely non- political as well as non-military. Of course we do not expect our statesmen at Albany to give to Greater New York in 1895 a system of police organization as satisfactory as that which Peel gave to London sixty-six years ago. But the London example is one worth bearing in mind. It should at least suggest to the Legisla- ture the advantages of making use of the experience of others in dealing with an eminently practical question. For the six days ending yesterday tho average circulation of The World reached the stupendous figure of 648,061 copies per day. This is the very largest circulation ever achieved by any newspaper. The fig- ures are eloquent without comment — 648,061 copies per day! Judge Gaynor’s course in granting an alternative instead of a peremp- tory writ against the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, giving it twenty days in which to file its answer, sustains the view of the case taken by The World on the hearing. There are facts as well as law to be considered. Judge Gaynor grants the company time in which to present evidence of the obvious fact that the running of its cars has been pre- vented by interferences which the law makes a felony, such as cutting wires, displacing switches or rails, obstructing the tracks, stoning the cars and assaulting the men operat- ing them. Had there been no vio- lence the law might have been suc- cessfully invoked to compel the cor- porations to discharge their duties to the public, and the people would | have rejoiced at it, The twenty days’ stay makes the mandamus practically \inoperattve so far as the strike is concerned, With the signing of the Urgency Deficiency Appropriation bill by the President disappears the last hope of | the antagonists of the income tax, and praise from this critical quarter is val- uable when It comes. . . ‘They praise our sopranos, but they often snub our views and conclusions. To- day the Gaulois goes to the lengtht of two columns to refute the theory lately advanced by some one in America con- cerning Marshal Ney, The article 1s headlined thus: “The American Legend of Michel Ney." That he should turn up in the form of @ pedagogue on the shores of the New World is held to be ridiculous, The Gaulois tells us that one has only to read the history of the affair to see how impossible it could he. “He was brought from prison on the 7th of December, 1815, conducted to a retired spot and in the presence of only several persons he was shot. Doctors examined him, sisters of charity prayed for him, the concterge of the Observa- tory followed the body as a witness. Voila tout.” That must needs end the matter, How dare one go back on French history as this American has done! eo 8 France seems to be in a perpetual state of commemoration. A great man alive makes shift as best he can; once dead and buried he fares tolerably well. The apotheosis eventually arrives. In the form of an anniversary, a centenary or what not, there Is no end of reminis- cence and adulation, It is tn the early days of January that nte Genevieve takes her turn, At Nanterre, where she was born and where they still show the pastures where the maid tended her sheep, and at the litte church in Paris close by the Pan- theon, beautiful St. Etlenne du Mont, where she 1s buried, brilliant ceremonies take place. Crowds of the faithful are at this moment making the pilgrimage to the tomb of this gentle patron saint of Paris, Outside the church sales of ob- Jects of plety go on in booths. That she was born nearly fifteen centuries ago makes greater the interest In the cult. eee Jeanne d'Are, too, 1s warmly remem- bered on her anniversaries, and the ped- est of her statue in the Rue de Rivoll ts covered with wreaths and bouquets, mostly bestowed by royalists, ce And now comes the centenary of the erusa’ Peter the Hermit must not be left out In the cold, although it doubtless often happened to him in his day, as with most hermits, But that was just eight centuries ago, and con- fidering the success that this man of Picardy had when he finally lifted up his voice, he can afford to let bygones be bygones. “It is the will of God!" he shouted, and all France rose as one man to join the crusade to rescue the Holy City from the Turks, “Dieu le veut!" became the signal of rendezvous and battle in all the future exploits of the crusaders, Therefore it 1s that great preparations are being made to celebrate the event, and Peter the Hermit will shortly be the man most in the alr. eee Another commemoration in these early ays of the month: Yesterday morning the anniversary of the death of Na- poleon III, was celebrated at Saint- Augustin by a solemn mass, at which over six hundred persons were present, Prince Murat represented the Empress cugenie, The music was beautiful, During the ceremony the Beethoven Funeral March was played, One recalis | that the same mareh was chosen on the occasion of the burial of the First Napoleon, In fact, Beethoven dedicated the march to the Emperor at a moment when he expected great things from him, 4 But to see a man honored in his own | this just and equitable method of pro- | viding the revenue needed by jof adverso legislation, For the con- | solation of those people who object manticism for their inspiration, They have taken with them modern views ,/of life, end-of-the-eentury opinic and the fresh methods of our own time, but they have clung to the old truth that the emotions of the human heart and the face of human beings are after all the themes that most engage the attentl and win the sympathy of men and women, These English writers have achieved their great success while our authors have failed simply because the English writers have known bet- ter than ours how to write that which the people want to read. It is never worth while to speculate upon what the peopie ought to want to read in making either books or newspapers. Yet it has been the principal en- deavor of our novelists for some years 1 not care for, When our novelists to paying one-fiftieth part of their | surplus incomes above $4,000 we may add that this addition to the revenue of the Government is the first.and the greatest step in the restoration of that financial equilibrium on which | incomes so largely depend, Because Mayor Strong has re- |sponded favorably to Mr. Platt’s re- quest that the two shall take the same train when they go to Albany on Monday to dine with Morton it does not follow that Mayor Strong 1s in any degree open to Platt influ- ence, He was courteous to Mrs. Grannis and her delegation last week, but he did not join the church for all that, \ The World goes on scoring points with regularity and precision. It scored another one yesterday when Association the| | Government ts now beyond the reach | country during his lifetime is a spec- cle as agreeable as it ts rare. That is 48 about to honor in a special Puvis de Chavannes 1s only a nehe, for the artist has for 's been an honor to Paris and | manner | Hitting re | many yei France, . Doubtless his early years of expert- ence of scorn and ridicule of his work touched the soul of Puvis de Cha- annes, but he has gone on doing his work in his own noble way. We find the result on the walls of the Pantheon, of the Sorbonne, of the Hotel de Ville, and—proving true the old Latin saying “They change the clime, but not the soul, Who cross the sea'—we shall find the same Puvis de Chavannes in Boston on the walls of her beautiful public brary. ‘And now it comes to pass that thi master has arrived at his threescore and ten years, and Paris seizes the opportunity to fete and honor him, I say Paris, for are not the names which figure in the list of the committee— Rodin, Besnard, Philippe Gille, Dumas, Daudet, Brunetiere, Carolus Duran, Clemenceau, Paul Bourget, Coppee, Anatole France, Cazin, Jules Lemaitre, Massenet, Catulle Mendes, Ary Renan, Monet, Larroumet, Hebrard, Armand Silvestre, Zola, Bourgeolse, De Vogne, Roll, Aurelian Scoll, Leygnes, Jules Si- press, all combine to offer a banquet ta “our dear President Puvis de Cha- vannes.” On the iéth of January, at the Hotel Continental, they are to gather around him “to salute the great artist who Is one of the glories of France.” The President of the committee in Rodin, greatest of sculptors. What other name could so well fill the place? Rodin—himself so prized by France th: the Government not only gives him his large studio on the Rue de I'Universite, but also his models and workmen. The great work in hand, upon which has labored for years and which demands still many more, is an order from the Government. It is an tmmense portal, with gates, upon which ts represented the Divine Comedy of Dante. At the top the Paradise, then the Purgatory, finally the Inferno, the figures being some in high, others in low relief. It promises to be the great piece of sculp- ture of the century. At the banquet Rodin, as President, will speak for the artists; Jules Simon in the name of the litterateurs, and Ca- tulle Mendes for the poets. Brunetlere will speak for Brunetiere, and that ts promising everything. Altogether the Puvis de Chavannes banquet bids fair to be one of the important events of the year. A. M. M. ————___ PERSONAL AND PERTINENT. 1. C. Platt has changed his pastor but not his habits. Mexico seems to be feeling the effects of her rarefied air again. If Li Hung Chang ts any further hu- millated he won't have even @ suspen- der button left. Chicago has undergone a heavy fall of snow, Following Dr, Parkhurst's cold roast this is very severe on the Windy City. ‘The only Representative in the Dela- ware Legislature who has stuck to E. W. Tunnell for Senator through thick and thin bears the name Mustard. When Hetty Green gets to talking about her real or fancied wrongs she displays a command of language that would make Marshal Carl Browne turn pale with jealousy. Ex-President Harrison is confining himself closely to his law practice, and is at present pleading a case before a jury in Richmond, Ind. But he puts his ear to the emergency telephone now and then, ‘There has been some discussion among Brooklynites, especially among those of the gentler sex, as to who is the hand- somest officer among the troops called out by the riot, Col. Appleton seems to be the choice of the majority, Max Lebandy, the spendthrift, the “little sugarman” of the Paris boule- yards, has a rival in extravagance in the young son of M. Cull, the great iron founder of Grenelle, who is cutting a wide swath with the paternal millions. His crowning achievement was a supper to some clubmen and actresses, at which each of the fair guests was pre- sented with a costly bouquet. That which one of them, Mme. Liane de received was held together by a In an interview with Mr. John W. Noble, who was Secretary of the In- terior under an Administration presided over by a Bible-class teacher, appears the following: “Secretary Carlisle re- calls to my mind the story of the sainted woman in the Bible who went to the well, and, drawing water in a sieve, car- ried it up the hill without spilling a drop.” It is be thus famillar with the Bible. But would Mr, Noble mind giving the public the ference to the book and chapter where this interesting anecdote is nar- rated? According to the morning's cable- grams, the Sultan fears that if he does not put down the Armenians at once, Macedonia, Thrace, Bulgaria and the adjacent territory in and out of his dominions nay give him a great deal of trouble in the spring, He has in Euro- pean Turkey a large population which is Greek in religion as well as in lan- guage and descent, and its sympathies are strongly with the Armenia: All patriotic Greeks have @ natural desire to make Constantinople once more an Hellenic city, and it is in the power of the present Sultan to do a great deal to make the realization of the desire possible, —— NOTES FROMIFAR COUNTRIES, The sale in Germany of the Emperor William's “Song to Aegir" duced 36,000 marks, handed to the Church Fund, ‘The reception of Zola at Venice, his father’s natal city, was hearty and en- thuslastic. The city government hon- ored him with @ present of @ beautiful blue and gold vase, A prophet with honor in his own country is Rider Haggard, who as Chairman of the Ditchingham Council, Norfolk, will preside over the delibera- tions of the District Council, The St. Louis Breweries (Limited), an English corporation owning brewerles in St, Louis, Mo, last year earned a profit of £130,487, The Bartholomay Brewing Company of Rochester (Limit- ed) earned £98,366, At the last monthly sitting of the magistrates at Holbeach, England, there were no cases to be tried, and the Chairman was presented with a pair of white gloves In recognition of the event, | it was the first occurrence of such an event in fifty years, if indeed it had ever happened before at Holbeach, The announcement made by the Khe- dive of Egypt to Nubar Pasha that a slave of his harem is about to become a mother and that the child, if a boy, will be hetr to the Khed.viate causes great discussion, yet tkis course ts strictly In accordance with Mahometan law and has many precedents, one being that of the Khediye's father, Tewfk Pasha, In Germany the law does not recog- nize the obligation of @ co-respondent to “perjure himself like a gentleman.” Herr Leuss, of the Reichstag, has been sentenced at the Hanover Criminal Court to three years’ penal servitude and five years’ deprivation of civil rights for committing perjury in a dl- yorce case. ood Sympathy. (From the Washington Star.) “What's this?" asked Li Hung Chang. “It's a photograph, sire, of an Ameri- can society lady in evening costume.’ Paor thing! How deeply in royal dl favor\she must be! She appears to have lost. Almost 5 much Wardrobe as 1 have." —— Opinion of an Expert: mon, and many other great names—are surrendered and reduced the price of not these Paris—her very soul and brain? Politicians, poets, artists, men of the c “The mi soliloquised crossing, “ ym the Chicago Tribune.) it logan thi in sleeves,” polices at the policeman at the etreot indeed a great thing to| has pro- which are to be i Page. | sion to report in sixty days upon the| measure the size of the statesmen by and women again we may hope for | NON-POLITIOAL LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE Our Polyglot City. To the Rattor of The World: I have just been reading a speech by Senator Hoar published in a New York newspaper in a language Demosthenes could have wnderstood. How close that brings us to a world we generally think of as dead and van- ished forever! But that is only @ small thing in this wonderful city of ours, where you can hear on the streets every language spoken by the Japhetic and Semitic races. There are Sew York newspapers in Russian, Swedish Danish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Bo- hemlan,’ Hungarian, moder T believe, in Armenian well, as in a dozen or so oth people from e earth are living here as hi any people ever lived any 1s some little friction, bi Ume to justify a rease of the future a country in which hon- esty is followed as a policy and virtue 1s not set lower than the love of money, Wherever these people come from they are as good as the rest of us—as well worth the Almigh ‘'s trouble in creatin: them, as well worth sympatl worth help, AN AMERICAN 0 New York, Jan, About # Chicken Incubator. To the dite of The Worl Not long ago I was looking over Bir Thomas More's Utopia, As Sir Thomas was a believer in the possibilities of in- definitely improving the race, it has al- ways appeared to men of a certain order of Intellect that he had “wheels in his head''—or, to be more classical, that he was merely an impractical theorist at best, and often a dangerous one. No one will’ deny that in his poetical romance there is a great deal that 1s not practl- cal. He never intended it to be more than amusing, Bur it is astonishing how his’ ideas have since become ful under the test of actual ex- instance, the chicken incubator, which was to be one of the features of life In Utopia, is now turning out thou- sands of chickens every spring in the borhood of New York. More ine vented it, though it did not get out of his book and into practical use until the world got better able to understand him, It did get into use, however, and so Will every other idea’ that any’ con- structive thinker ever puts on record as & protest against the ignorance of his generation. For, after all, it 1s the men of brains, and rot merely the negative numskuil, mho run the world, New York, Jan, 26. ERASMUS. Western Stateswomen. To the Eiiltor of The World: Your editorial “Woman as a Law- maker” did my heart good. It shows that The World is, as always heretofore, alive to the significance of current events, ‘There are, you suggest, many fo-called “statesmen” at Albany who might well be replaced by states- women from Colorado, but I am glad that the latter are not in any danger of taking part in this year’s deliberations at Albany. Tt is in the pioneer States of the West that woman must be tested in public life. ‘Then when she has been Seasoned by experience in a more pro- gressive and less corrupt atmosphere than that at Albany she may hope to cast her benign and elevating influence over the New York Legislature. But the time fs not yet ripe for woman's advent at Albany. She must, like young, Loch- invar, “come out of the West.” This part “of the country gave the West pioneer men, Now let the West repay the debt by giving the East pioneer atateswomen. "NORA L. NORTON. New York, Jan The Political Woman and Her Religion. To the Editor of The World: The Sorosis orator who says that @ woman without a religion is a ship with- out @ rudder is quite right. An irre gious woman 1s an anomaly, She is almost {f not quite as unnatural as the woman who can be wholly just to thos who differ from her {n opinion, And here js the point on which It is Proper to interrogate Sorosis: What 1s to be done about it when the Advanced Woman with religious views goes into politics to get the control of the cala- boose so that she may cony.rt the rest of us from our errors? Of course, all there is in polities, ex- cept the mere “spoils of office,” is the control of the calaboose and of the policeman’s ciub. And as women do not Go into politics to cheat or rob or to use the lawmaking power to get unearned money in any way, all that ts left for them 1s the control’ of the calaboose for the conversion of heretics and inners, Now I who am a heretic in many things and more: a sinner would rather be robbed by the spoilymen than coerced for my spiritual welfare. And unless I grossly misunderstand the Ad- vanced Woman with religious convice tions. all she goes into politics for is to eoerce me and others who are wrong with me DEMOCRITUS. New York, Jan. 2 Can the State Run the Roads? To the Editor of The World: In view ot the inability of the cor porations of Brooklyn to operate prop- erly their railways, I would inquire what legal hindrance there {s to the State taking military possession of the lines and running them pending some settlement of the difficulties, A prec- edent can be found in the action of the State authorities insthe Albany and Susquehanna Railroad in August, 1889, when. after a week of confusion and Interruption of traffic, the State sum- marily interfered with its soldiers, and the trains ran witho 't further hindrance and so continued until the ownership was, legally adjudicated. That was, perhaps, a different kind of quarrel, being on of Col, Fisk's, but the principle applies to anything which interferes with the interruption of any of the public highe ways of the State RAILROAD. Brooklyn, Jan, 21, Consul Jewett and the Turks. To the Editor of The World: When the Sultan of Turkey, after ask- ing President Cleveland to send an American representative to help inves- tigate the Armenian massacres, turned around and refused to let Consul Jewett take part in the investigation, various explanations were offered for this sud- den change of base, The Sultan himself alleged as the reason for his refusal the extent of the agitation in this country Xt, and an ab ported atrocities ing would have kK the American to that effect al American Consul, a general Impression that the Independence shown. by Consul Jewett in his report on the Marsovam affatr was the real reason of the Sul- objecting to him, > counteract this impression, a re; has been clrculuted trough the Whore. the ged authority of “a Welle enator in Washington," that wett Was married to an’ Armes ady, and that the Sultan thought he would ‘naturally be inclined to favor his wife's per ul Jewett, 80 his brother inform esterday, 1s a bachelor, and the Armenian wife is mere invention, his ts only lous falsehc ‘Turkish A Dore! so much agitation as fr 7 sample of the unscrupu- at emanate from the BLACK WEL. Jan, 20, iste The Gold Drain. To the Editor of The World: In connection with the urfusually deep interest taken by all classes in the gold and currency problems your editorial of yesterday under the heading of “Wi! the Gold Ges is timely wand eee pint. Prof. Foxwell, “a’ distinguish nglish economist, in ‘a steiki aan” Knglish. ‘review. referring ts the single gold standard, says universal gold standard. would universal disast@r. Modern Ko wolldale that injustice is coil on those who inflict It, and when excessive, generally ove itself." afercn New York, Jan. & cupidity, rreache;