The evening world. Newspaper, February 6, 1895, Page 4

(Peetiahed by the Press Publishing Company, 2 w @ PARK ROW, New Tork. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1895. GUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE EVENING WORLD (including postage): raat Matered at the Post-Ofice at New York as eecond-elass matter. =— e@ BRANCH OFFICES: WORLD UPTOWN GFFICE—Sunction wf Broad: way and Sith ave at 224 ot ‘WORLD HARLEM OFFICE—125th ot. an@d Mati. ton ave, BROOKLYN—800 Washington ot THE WORLD" GREATEST CIRCULATION MONTH, a= ; : AVERAGE WEEK-DAY a ~—s-|}|_“ CIRCULATION FOR if JANUARY, 1895, a - More than Fifty Thousand ES Over Half a Million Per Day. b aS SS —_ ‘THE MAYOR'S DEAR CHARMERS. BS Mayor Strong hes, in the Sunday Nquor affair, a great opportunity to make enemies. Whatever somebody wil be offended. Sunday seliing, the temperance people 3 3 will be down on him. If he favors : @unday closing, the liquor sellers and the Mquor drinkers will denounce him. If he takes a moderate, sensible course, giving the Mquor drinkers their right to buy on Sunday, yet limiting it in such a way as not to offend public scruples, he will incur the undying en- mity of both the temperance people and the radicals among the liquor sellers. ‘The Mayor's situation has not the usual solace of a dilemma. He cannot be happy with elther dear charmer, Dut only longs to have both the dear charmers away. However, the moderate course he seems inclined to take will meet with the approval of the general mass of the People, and a Mayor who has that can well endure the emnity of the extremists ‘on both side: 18 THERE REALLY HOPE! The Rapid Transit Commissioners took & step forward yesterday by pushing aside the “expert” five thousand dollar 3 Suggestion to give up the city to the Elevated Ratiroad system and resolv- ing to go ahead and bulid an underground road at least as far as the fifty million ollars they are authorized to expend will go. Whether they act wisely in a hering to the Broadway route below Fourteenth street is a question open to E consideration. The most practical feature of yester- Gay's meeting, however, was the offer of Ryan & McDonald, the successful Bal- timore contractors, to construct the oad for the amount designated by the law ‘The statements of the contractors are Fose-cu..red. They say the tunnel can be made without any serious interrup- tion of business or of the underground operations of the city, and can be com- pleted in three years. Well, the con- tractors are experienced and capable men, and profess to be ready to give bonds for the performance of their work. Of course, the city would take care that the bonds were suMcfent. he does, R RO FOOLING. ‘There should be no fooling on the part of the Board of Estimate and Apportion ment over the street-cleaning business. Col. Waring, the new Commissioner, 1s @oing the work with which he Is in- ~ trusted in an efficient manner. He has shown himself capable of struggling with @ snowstorm, and there should be no esitation about giving him the money Recessary to continue his work. I: r Pay $3,000,000 for cleaning the streets thoroughly than to throw away half that mount and not have them cleaned at " “rnere is every reason to beileve that true economy is practised by Col. W ing. Under such circumstances the peo ple who reap the advantage in comfort Cleanliness, sanitary advancement ant Dusiness facilities will not begrudge @ost of continuing the work of kerpins the streets clean. WHY {T WAS PASSED. ‘The Power of Removal bill passed the Senate yesterday with the time within which changes may be mae in the Gifferent departments extended from four months to six, in accordance with ‘Mayor Btrong’s suggestion. Mr. Cantor, the Tammany leader in the Senate, made a conventional fight against the bill, as a matter of course and presented what would under or- dinary circumstances be a strong case against the principle it involves, As a Fule legislation to fit a special occasion, or whet is known as “hand-to-mouth Jegisiation, is bad, and so ts legislation seemingly designed simply for the sei: ure of spoils. But Mr, Cantor forgets that for some years the city offices have been so ex- clusively partitioned among one set of politicians that all departments and all ‘bureaus and all offices, great and small, S@hief end subordinate, have become | It remains to be seen what use Mayor unworthy of confidence and desired to make a complete change in thelr gov- ernment, they could not do so by electing @ Mayor only. The great body of the government remained as before, and in order to carry out the will of the people, as expressed by an actual revolution at the polls, it became an absolute neces- silty to give the Mayor extraordinary power to make changes In offices that could not be directly reached through the ballot-box ‘The bill will pass the Assembly with- out any delay and will become a law, Strong will make of the enormous and extraordinary power placed in his hands. If he carties out the wishes of the people and the pledges made before election and puts not a single hackneyed place hunter or political partisan into any responsible municipal office, the legislation will be justified. If he only turns out one set of such men to put Another set in, no matter to what fac- tion they belong, the Power of Removal bil will stand on the record as “one of the worst measures that could well be devised.” which is what Senator Cantor yesterday prematurely designated it. GENERAL SESSIONS LINEN. The high and mighty Judges of the Court of General Sessions are determined that no square inch of their solled linen shall go unwotted of by the public, Re- corder Goff takes his turn to-day at the washtub and scrubs out the misdeeds of his associates and predecessor with @ vigor and bitterness that remind us of old times before the Lexow Commit- tee. He explains that {t was merely an ac- cldent that his bill at Albany fixed his salary at an increase over his present one, a fact which has led to the charac- terization of the bill as a “gral Then he gives details as to the lack of regular rules for the procedure of the court, the lack of discipline in the at- tendants and other abuses which are evidently very bad indeed, and which need immediate reform. The changes Proposed by his bill, he says, will make him the Presiding Judge, but not the dictator of the court; will simplify pro- cedure, improve discipline and equalize salaries without increasing expenses. After all of which explanation the Recorder's statement proceeds to narrate the real origin of the trouble. The Re- corder, it says, when the Judges met to divide the spoils, demanded as his share all the offices that had been credited to his predecessor. He had his list already made up, and it included the Chief Clerk's place, The other Judgea would let him have everything but that, he says, but they insisted on the retention of the present Clerk. Hence these rows and this laundering of the General Sessions ermine. Everybody will sympathize with Re- corder Goff's desire to do away with abuses in the courts, however much they may doubt the expediency of pa: ing for that purpose a law which will breed the same abusea or worse ones whenever a non-reformer happens to be Recorder. But what a pity it is that the Judges and the Recorder could not have come together like four gentlemen and effected these reforms by themselves, aa they have ample power to do, without the Passage of any dangerous laws or the exploitation of so disagreeable a scan- dal, BALKING HORSES STOPPED THE BLI88. A sleigh-load of young men and young girls represents a marvellous lot of joy possibilities, ‘The girls and boys of Bioomticld, N. J., who started out for a ride on Monday night knew this, and euch member of the party expected to have a Jolly good time. And they had up to @ certain point. ‘The young follow who was driving was using only one hand, of course. The other young fellows had both arms free and wrapped them around their partners to prevent thelr warm young blood from being frost-bitten. The sleighbells Jingled, the breeze was de- ightfully bracing and along they skimmed as happy as larks tobogganing on a morning zephyr. All of a sudden, however, their horses balked--stood stock still In the road as if frozen to the ground. Whipping, kind words, pushing on the reins—nothing could stir the steeds. And the sleighers were four and a half miles from home. Their only hope was shank’s mares, so they all walked with heavy feet and heavier hearts, A sudden interruption like this of sleighing bliss would increase the speci- fie gravity of any young person's heart. Those Bloomfield girls will no doubt in future require certificates that the horses behind which they go sleighing are not slaves to the balking habit, That was a singular remark by State Senator O'Connor, at yesteniay's ses- sion, “The situation Is peculiar,” said he, "and we are willing to go with our censors and with those who assume to represent the people, but who hav. never had a vote cast In their favor, or in favor of this assumption.” Mr, O'Con nor should study the situation a trifle He will then find much “peculiar? to be disap more clos that he pearing. so discover that th is much In the recorded yute of vember in favor of an assumpt leadership and representative dut the part of the men previously chosen by popular voice to serve a¥ the ad vance guard in the army of metropol tan reformers. Justice Gaynor, writing as a citizen ind not 4 judicial officer, tells the of Arbitration and Mediatic oy © real cause of the trolley: strike in Brooklyn Ie the stock manipula Hon and Inflation of capital by the officials, Although complying with th law, the traction companies floated enormous blocks of paper employees were pinch tal increased charg i Justice Gaynor ful argument in favor of the trolling the roads, by most pow city ¢ A DAILY HINT FROM M'DOUGALL. Marti (in choras)--"We ask to have the Hench vestigated and vi drink, soup and sandwiches are served. But like “home, sweet hom afraid most Chicagoans will not think of these saloons till all the other sa- loons are closed up. The news that Mayor Strong's axe In ready will delight many office- hunters—until after It has fallen. Then will be a time for disappointments, ‘The people who are looking not for place, but for good government, however, have reason to belleve that the disap- pointment will not be theirs. Princeas Colonne may take her money- squandering Prince back. This is right. A Prince going around in cold weather without the price of a package of cigar- ettes must be a heart-rending spectacle. Hawalian royalists threaten to burn and ravage if ex-Queen Lil ts deported, but we do not think the ex-Queen’s friends have as much “pull” or pluck as a thoroughly Lexowed pantata. ‘There should be some impressive way to deal with employers who discharge men for fulfilling their duty to the State by turning out with the National Guard under orders. Now that the Rapid Transit Commis- clon has decided to go ahead, It Is safe to predict a new shower of “1 road promises from your Uncle Russell Suge. Attempts to take off the chill of this morning by the publication of prelim- inary baseball schedules failed signally, one and all. Bankers at the White House ready with their money; when the bonds are issued they'll be eating cake and honey. The Rapid Transit Commission has at last decided that the popular vote of Nov. 6, 1894, meant, “Do something!” Among the few places colter than any other places this morning were the in- tertora of the road cars, A trolley line to Peekskill. Pretty soon we will be able to go around the world by trolloy Mr. Platt haa discovered that when the people are aroused, they are not easy bosses. It has got past the point where “no news 1s good news,” as regards La Gascogne. ‘The weather prophets had better go back into holes and sleep six weeks longer. - se _ “Waring has a big deficit." Yes, but he can #how results for the money epent. Supt. Byrnes caromed against unex- pected things In bis billiard hall ralds Jack Frost Is the boss to-day, and he's not @ very easy boss either. Speaking of weather, w along with less zero in ours. could get The Power of Removal bill left the side track in # hurry, Albanyward the course of reform at length bends {ta way Fifteen minutes to Harlem ts cheap, even at $50,000,000. ‘obody was called a lar in Congress estenlay, This was Prof. De Voe's day for fox. See itt The prize dogs are coming. Platt heard @ Voice. FATHER KY KERBOCKER’S DIARY. Fed 8 breaking cold wave for to-day ha fulfilled, New York has hat zero weather coldest in two years. And the prese 1896. —My emt-prediction of a resort proms f 1 may make ao bold as to prophesy to my Stary again, ts winorrow w turther Mayor Stzng triet to take the chill of a for he oMice-serkera, by. ain zt he wiket the ground over, | gin the ewineing of bis official axe tr ment tie Legislature giv 3 the powe That the p Unters might not get too warm | uowever, he ated that he wher eis time Jatout making changes, and that no amount o pressure could alter his mination ® wel and murely | What a change ant a reliet tt 9 to Near talk ke that from New York's City Ma’ At Albany to-day the Power of Removal assed the Senate as amonde!, ant was r the Assembly for concurrence, One Asse ed immediate a | mect the demand, | One-quarter per cent. seems a small rock to split upon, but when $10,000,009 Pp; 1s involved in the transaction, dent Cleveland 1s to be comm, for the firm stand he has taken the three per cent. basis, 4 for ree parte of a vast machine ru'ed one and devoted to one ‘Thus, when the peopie be- ) semvinged that chia machine was Chicago has a “ home saloon" in which coffee, tea, chocolate, &c., are sold at 6 cents, and with each nickel's worth of A morning contemporary suggests | legislation providing that the “L" road | Jenail cote I} fare only from passen 8 for whom there are seats, others to pay only three cents, It is greatly to be feared that under such an arrange ment it would be the supply of strap instead of the seats that would fail + und permi road a $50,000 today BKer hol the theory of nis predecessors that streets can't be cleaned, there uceda't be ar fuse over the matter, A somewhat picturesque melodrama ts Sutton Vane's rip-roarer “Humanity,” now at the Fourteenth Street Theatre. Of course, It is @ trifle odd for any English melodrama to allege a devotion to humanity. London melodrama #lav+ ishly follows artificiality, and “Humane {ty is no exception to the rule, Ite onventional features are most conspic- uous, Its villain ts of the old double dyed pattern, and its wronged girl wears a black dress and gilt hair, The villain wrongs her, and the hero is suspected of it. ‘The heroine believes tn the guilt of the hero (that's so like @ heroine!) and learns in deep chagrin, later on, that the villain t@ the wronger. Then they all go to South Africa to fight the Boers, ‘The heroine tikes @ clean black dress with her, probably out of sympathy with the wronge girl, who 1s beginning to get over her wrongs: and wear violet—the flag of half-mourn- ing. ‘The hero and villain are both in Africa, and tho villain 14 also a traitor, | They Indulge in a duel on horseback fn ; Act IIL, at Hellpoort, a rocky ravine leading to the river, T belleve that ts why they are in Africa, but tt doesn't matter, for the duel on horseback would be just as effective anywhere else. The ditt boys In the gallery went wild over It, and, after all, it is their affec- |tions that “Humanity seeks to win, The fourth act ts the act. It casts the duel on horseback into the shade, and recalls “The Fatal Card." The hero ts tled to a post and a dynamite bomb placed costly by his side, with a lighted fuse attached to tt. It is whizzing pleasantly bombward, when the heroine arrives in her black dress, She seizes the bomb, throws It out (I was going to say “chucks {t out, but paused in time), it explodes, and the building falls, And there's your melodrama. ‘The picturesqueness is probably due to the handsome scenery and brightly tinted costumes supplied by Manager Brady. Sutton Vane {s not clever. His senaa- \tlonaliam o'erleaps himself, and he sel- dom spears a novelty. His ‘Span of Life," with the living bridge, was newer than this, and even in that melodrama |Mr. Vane jumped over himeelf when he |made his villain inject morphine Into ® bunch of growing grapes for the hero to eat. Why do people revel in artificial melo- drama, with Its impossible types that never could live? I can understand the | success of a human drama like “The | District-Attorney,” for example, where |the hero and heroine, at any rate, are possible, T suppose the success of Eng. |1sh melodrama dates from childhood, | when woe used to erjay stories of the very naughty little boy and the very good little girl, And no doubt we pre- | ferred the very naughty little boy, who couldn't be bad enough to please us. The Lonion types of villainy and virtue |never vary. Year after year they are [rolled out to us with the same tabs on. |‘Those from the Adelphi are a shade | better than the Surrey types, to which category, I believe, “Humanity be- longs. We are getting weary of It. We want a reason for our very naughty | little boy and an excuse for our very | wood Little girl. ‘The leading role in “Humanity” ts | played by Joseph Grismer, who Is nel |the dashing, picturesque hero of Mr, fancy. Mr. Grismer plays the part rather awkwardly, and his love scenes are particularly weak. A hero who can't make love is not of very much use, and Grismer will not achieve jfame in this role, Miss Phoebe Davis has her pleasant moments. ‘They occur when her volee does not squeak. Then she Ja agreeable, and sym somewhat stagey, Frazer ( imitation of Henry Miller, uthetic, if pulter, in an is a gentle- anly villuin—we must have gentlemen for our evildoers—and creditable work |1s done by Belle Bucklen,Dore Davidson and James B. Sullivan. ALAN DALE, GREAT MEN OF OUR OWN TIME, he Wald Pagie’ n Empire legis roles, which te as tt because the Halt One who gered yeaa ag a watesman ant pois was undeniably a grea man. Great may et be the name of Musto! for twenty-three years . cause there ia anther Husiet come to take the alt One's place It te hte son, James W., aad the youngster, who ta warcoly a year more than Uwenty-tiree bimseit, 4 of the olf block Me te by tar th man in the House.reaily bandeme ina rt of a golden diond way, with @ pate of eves tha: aay 8 would pronounce “pertectiy es Stutlova statesman, however, ant |e yehing eam Old the Yale nan fant * ca practises law in’ New —— HINGS IN KANSAS, some 4 wet with thel owt list 4 Wetter ke bis last wi ty again, Is the kind of an takes his he will talk re coming atan as he ob: 4 of ix pleces king after eo world ts an f cold the ®, dear beart, woather, our loves If Ne our lives together, Sweet, put your little hand in mine And let me be your Valenti Nor “The Evening World's” Gallery ei Living Pictures. 4. PIERPONT MORGAN. This is a picture of the New York banker who was at the White House yesterday while the Cabinet met to discuss the financial situation, = THE GLEANER’S BUDGET. There and True Tales of City Life. T happened into one of the city police courte the other day, jum in season to witness the ar- ralgnment of @ young man whom I recognized as the holder of @ responsible place in a downtown office. ‘Were you ever in that condition be fore?’ asked the Justice after looking at the Prisoner @ moment. ‘Never, air,'* was the reply. ‘The Justice meditated again; then he sald: “You aren't obliged to do any uch thing, but will you consent to take an oath not to take another drop for | yeart’ “Not @ drop forever," eried the youth. ‘No, don't put it that way,” sald the Justice, “Make {t @ year." And the boy held up MMs right hand and took the oath. and keep your promise, the Court, ‘The young man went away with his eelf-reapect not lost beyond recovery and with hie Position wate, I called the Court's action « ‘mingling of judgment with justice, ee 6 ‘1 hed @ front seat tn the ewellest theatre in town lant night," said the fet man to the office boy as he pulled hie fingers through his whiskers complacantly, ‘‘and it only cost me 50 cents, at that.” ‘How did you work It?" asked the office boy, Aropping @ bottle of ink in his excitement, ‘Sat {n the gallery,” answered his stoutnes, as he worked bie whiskers to a point. This Iittle ory ta strictly true, . A story comes to me of a big baker over the bridge who devotes much of his time to clipping coupons. He has @ ne‘er-do-well nephew who was out of work. A grain dealer had an tn- dustriows young fellow, wno drove @ wagon for $80 @ month. The milfonaire baker gave notice that unless hie nephew was given this $80 job he would withdraw his patronage. Result, @ man with @ family is minus work tn which Fich man's nephew has displaced him. eee Aa & matter of fact, the big hat has pretty Rearly aboliahed tteelf in New York theatres without waiting for the Legislature, ee ‘W. C. Hayes, gentleman rider, of Weetbure, 1. I., has been talking to a Washington reporter im this vein: ‘“Steeple-chasing 1s growing in popularity all the time in the United States, ‘The sport will have @ tremendous boom this sea- on in the vicinity of New York, because of the checkyon fla: racing through the prohibitive gambling laws. People flock to a asteeple-chase for the love of it, and {t does mot need the ex- citement of betting to attract large crowds, The Dress has, if anything, rather tended to prejudice the public againat this form of racing, and has persistently magnified its dangers, when the ruth ia that serious accidenta are rarer in the Jumping than In ordinary racea,"’ THE GLEANER, A REFORMER'S LOT. (Air: Poltcemen’s Song in ‘Pirates of Pen. fance.”’) Reconter Gof: When Judge Cowing dose not want me for dic- tator— For dictator; Or ta interfering with my little plane— Little plans; Whan each judge objecta to me as dominater— Dominator; ‘When my bill for power the pubHe closely ecans— Closely scans; My feelings 1 with diMculty smother— Culty smother; And I wonder what's the best thing te be done— To be done; Ah, take one consideration with another— With another; A reformer's lot 1s not a bappy ene— Mappy one: When I find it dimcult to yank the bua— Yank the bun; A teformer'a iot ts not @ bappy one— Happy one! De. Parkhurst When at Albany I try for legislatton— Legislation; While “the Angel" looks out for the otty's crime~ City’ orime; Then I find that Lezow won't have my @icta- Yoa— My dictation And saya I didn’t get there im good time— In good time; When I'm toid my letters are not diplomatio— Diplomate; Platt the Legtelature etl! would rus— SUL would ru ‘Then, although I plainly show he ts erratio— Ie erratic; A retormer's lot 1s not @ happy one— Happy one! ‘When with us the Wicked Thomas has his tuz— Has bis tua; A retormer's lot im not happy one— Mappy on NAL — =—____ BY OTHER EDITORS, Time to Cover Tracks. Surely the new woman is on our trall.—Min. veapolis Journal, Wher ‘The Winter tourist who went to sunny Italy ts worse off than the one who went to Florida. He ry Vit as cold and much further away from home.—Washington Post, On Rapid Tri i The New York Rapid Transit Commiasione: * © are taking, and seem to be justified in taking, extraordinary care before committing themselves to actual expenditures © © © These repeated precautions mean that the New York taxpayers will be relieved from the tremendous expense of possible blunders, and hence, the ‘lon taken Is in all respects Justified by the re. sults likely to be secured. —Bostom Herald, We Conld! We Could! As Sollcitor-General Maxwell has resigned, couldn't we spare Olney, toot—St. Louls Post Dispatch. ‘The Key to Such Situations, Popular Senatorial elections would pick such deadlocks as that in Delaware.—Philadelphia Record. “Easton Mo te L NELLI® BLY SAY! T have o dear little friend who has the bert heart in world, and as only good-hearted People get into trouble, she Is constantly in hot water. About two months ago her husband, whe ia @ Special Government Agent in Nebreska, got tired of his loneliness and sent for her. So she and the three children started off on the long trip. eee As the train started my kind-hearted little friend noticed @ young woman who seemed very 1, Her escort, an awkward big man, reoved © young woman's hat, and instantly the fair curly bead sank languldly against his shoulder. eee ‘There she rested all day. Noon passed and even tng came, and the big man, without once stirring from his place, still patiently bore the fair head upon hia shoulder with herofc fortitude that won my little friend's warmest approval. eee All the day ho had hesitated between shyness and kindness, Besides the nick woman, she was the only woman in the car. At last, unable to longer endure her mental reproach for letting @ woman suffer with only a man to minister to her, my Uttle friend timidly approached the couple. Tam so sotry for you,"*she sald kindly. ‘Won't you let me assist you?" ‘What do you meant’ ring flercely at her. “I beg yout pardon,” she exclaimed in fright- ened haste, “I saw tho Indy was sick and 1 wanted to offer my assistance.”” ‘The man snorted savagely the ain't sick! . My little friend went back to her section and cried for shame all the way to Chicago. . NELLIF BLY, demanded the mai he replied: We've just been married ee TALKS WITH THE DOCTOR. Ailments That May Be Treated at Home, To the Batter: Kindly Inform me what 1s good for chiibiains and frost-bitten feet. OR. An ointment prepared according to the following formula is usually of benefit: Carbolic acid, fifteen grains. Tannin, fifteen grains. ‘Tincture of fodine, fifteen drops. Simple cerate, one ounce. It should be applied twice a day. eo 8 Safely Will you please tell me of @ good remedy for chronic heart-burn ? 8. RB The tincture of kino is a very good remedy. Take ten drops between meals, eo ee C. H. L.—Take a five-grain pill of monobromate of camphor at bedtime. eee Kindly tell me through your evening medical column how litnia should be taken for rheuma- tiem. F.8. #. Take five grains of carbonate of lithia, dissolve it in a tablespoonful of lemon juice, and take it in a glass of water, the dose to be repeated every three hours. é H. H. C.—Massage with cod-liver oil may prove beneficial. The ofl should be used warm.» || My little boy ta gubject to attacks of hives. Will you kindly tell me what to do for him? Mra M. Give him a teaspoonful of aromatic syrup of rhubarb and repeat the dose in three hours if necessary. oe e Tam troubled with nervous indizestion, Will you kindly tell me of a simple remedy? HENRY ©. B, ‘The tincture of nux vomica is a sim- ple and very efficient remedy. Take five drops in water before each meal, oe B. H. D.—Apply extract of witch hazel An Evening Drexn, Thie evening dress Is of white brocade, with the sleeves and draped bodice, as well as the sides of the skirt, in cream lace, Round the hem of the skirt there is @ border of white feathers, Rules for the Refrigerator. 1, Milk, butter, meat, vegetables, even fish may be kept in one refrigerator, provided each article is placed in a separate covered dish. Nothing uncov- ered, excepting, perhaps, eggs in the shell, should be tolerated in a refrigera tor. 2. Clean the refrigerator once a week, or three times as often if the weather be warm, Use clear, cold water for this purpore. late. Either make them up into some dainty dish according to one of the ex- cellent recipes that teachers of cookery have made familiar in our homes, or give the scraps away, or throw them into the garbage kettl Borax. Sprinkle places infested by ants with borax and you will soon be rid of them. Blankets and furs put away well sprin- kled with borax and done up airtight will never be troubled with moths. A little borax put In the water before washing red or red-bordered tablecloths and napkins will prevent their fading. Ringworms will yield to borax treat- ment. Apply a strong solution of borax three times a day; also dust on the dry powder very often. Mourning Form. Excessive mourning is not in “good form” at present, and even the vell is often omitted in best circles This burdening oneself with black 1s really in bad taste, and fashion ts merciful in ordaining a change. The customary se- clusion from society is also diminished, and at the lapse of six months one may appear at informal teas and “at home” 3. Do not permit left-overs to accumu- | receptions. Some mourners at that time relieve their sombre hue by ine troducing a little white, and also clain the privilege of attending places of amusement, It is in “good form” ot seeing a death in the papers to leave cards at the door of the bereaved family but no inscription (in addition to the name) is required. It is also customary for the bereaved to send mourning cards to their friends, Cards should in returs be left at the door, but It {s not neces sary to see any of the family, Mourning cards should also be at once mailed té distant friends. People in mourning dé not receive calls except from intimate friends, A Weatern Woman's Lonely Lot. On Christmas Day the Coulee City (Ore.) News man met the wife of a prom» Inent stockman. After the usual salu tation she was asked for news, and re plied: “T have no particular news, 1 have not scen a white woman since last August until yesterday. My husban@ has beon away most of the Sutuner.” “How do you pass the time alone? My two little boys are good company and we kill rattlesnakes.” “Are there many rattlesnakes?” “I killed sixty. three last Summer myself, and my youngest child killed one with @ plece of sage brush. Then, ducks are plentl: | ful, and I am a pretty good shot. 1 have killed several on the wing.” Het looks indicated nothing but perfect sat- isfaction with her lot, and health was pictured in every line of her smiling countenance. The Ribbon Valentine. A novel conceit in this year's valem tines is a card with jingling distiches the rhyme of which is made by pronoune ing aloud the color of the little lover's | knot of ribbon, which completes eact second line, so that the message reads; Tf of me you sometimes think, Send me back this bow of—pink. If your heart to me ts true, Send me back this bow of—blue, If to me your heart is dead, Send me back this bow of—red, * But if you are inclined to wed, Your pop can send a check instead, For Willow Ware. Rattan furniture that is sold im its natural color Is now nearly always cow ered with a coat of shellac to prevent that ingrained grime that so soon ap pears upon its slightly rough surface ‘The shellac darkens the rattan only @ trifle, and when solled it can easily ang quickly be restored to freshness ané newness by wiping with a damp cloth. Gilding Castor O11, A French mother says: “Oh, to give | the castor oil, it ees not mooch troubles One lectle pan, vare clean over a leetle fire, and in the pan the oll. Make i vare warm and then break into it one egg, which makes the omelet, with @ pinch of salt to flavor and a bit of jelly to make It pretty. It ees quite enay, } assure you." several times a day. oe WIL you please Inform me how @ person, twenty years of age, should take tincture of {ron for the blood? JR. F, In doses of ten drops in water (through @ glass tube) after each me se Kindly answer the following question im your evening medical column. 1 prorisais contagious? Mra F. M. 0. No, To the Balter: Will you please tell me what to do for my Mttle girl She has enlarged tonails, and they are swollen and inflamed. MRS. J. D., Mt, Vernon, N. ¥. When the inflammation has subsided you should consult a surgeon and have the tonsils excised. . I am troupled with ecseme, Tt affects my face. I have been told that you gave an excellent rem- edy for the disease. Will you kindly repeat the remedy In your evening medical column. I think the treatment consisted of an ointment and in- ternal medicine. ELAINE, New York. The treatment suggested was as fol- lows: Apply an ointment composed of one dram of oxide of zinc, one-half ounce of tar ointment and one ounce of cold cream twice @ day, and take from one to four teaspoonfuls of rhubarb and soda mixture after each meal. ce 8 M. G.—Use the menthol and eucalyptol solution as directed above. oe J. F, P.—Apply compound gall and oplum ointment twice a day. Kinély tell me through your evening medical column, {8 aaafoetide good for nervousness. How should It be taken? veM. Zz, 1, Yes, 2. A five-grain pill every three hours, J. F, WHITMYER, M. D. ee “EVENING WORLD” GUIDE-BOOK. Clubs of New York.--XXIV.-The Seventh Regiment V ‘The handsome marble house in which the Seventh Regiment Veteran Club ts ensconced is not too far from the armory of the active regi- ment. It Ie at Fitth 9 and Fifty-eighth street. When you speak of these Seventh Reg!- ment veterans, you aren't necessarily speaking of the whole lot of venerable fellows with war records. Some of them were in the great contest of 1881-65, but some others were too small to be of any particular use to their country even when that contest had long been over. But, old or young, they are all “boys of the Seventh? and alwayn will be, and {t's the hardest work fn the world to keep them from marching right along when the famous regiment is onlered out for sera duty or plain parade: As to the clube house fn the picture, It has only been occupied ‘a few months, The Club moved Into it trom N. LETTERS. [Tha column ts open to evergbody who has a complaint to make, a grievance to ventilate, in- formation to give, a tubject of general interest to diseuss or a public service to acknowledge, and who can put the idea into (ess than 100 words Long letters cannot be printed, | To Tax Rental Values Only. To the BAitor: ‘“Landholder* Goes not seem to understand the principle of the single It the drugeist tn his {Hlustration earned the extra $8,000 per year by the extra demand for his drugs occasloned by the matural Increase in the community's popu- lation, the single tax would have no effect upon his business, for Its advocates do not propose to tax the Increase in any man’s legitimate bunl- ness, but to tax elmply the Increase in the rental value of the land, which will prevent speculation, Therefore, unless your publisher edited and printed his paper tn @ balloon the land upon which his office stood would be taxed like the druggiat’s Tot, Im accordance with the Increase In value. The land belongs in usufruct to the living, #0 if any man wants any particular spot on which to bullé his house he must com- pensate those whom he has deprived of the same privit DIXIE. Bachelor Apartments. To the EAitor: Of all the ‘growing’ evils ‘That affect the city's “growth,” ‘The one I sing at present Ia the worst, I take my oath. We women must start a crusade With flercent rage well meant, Pull down every placard ‘With ‘Bachelor Apartmenta to Rent."* ‘The maiden and fair widows Who rebel against ‘hard work,”’ Need the care and protection Of each merchant prince and clerk, Who avold the various troubles ‘That round matrimony hover, By seeking the seclusion Which theese ‘Apartments’? cover. IDA MONROF. Co A Case in Te the Editor: I was in court the other day, listening to « trial going on, and I think {t was a great shame to see the Juatice that wax shown to a young Indy who was trying to save her reputation. She had 4 young man in court for calling her all kinds of vile names. The Judge would not allow her to talk, because the prisoner could afford a lawyer. There was an officer pushing the young lady, no as to frighten her. The young man was ast free, Do you think that was justice? LWeR To the Etttor Could any of your readers tell @ man of twenty- nine years, who bas recently become partially deaf, what to study 60 that he can earn hie own living, despite this infirmity? WORLD RBADER. Mediums, Spiritoall To the Editor: I desire to state for the beneft of the party signing ‘Circle’ that I have been tne vestigating spiritual phenomena of al! kinds for the past fifteen years, and while I am free to acknowledge that I have met with « vast amount of fraud, & ery and deceit, yet underiying all 1am fully convinced that the fundamental principles of spiritual manifestations are in t main true. I have no patience with professional mediums, who, harpy-ltke, feed on the vitale of a sumeptible and short-nighted public. 4 Consider such people aa the very dregs of hu- 766 on the same avenue, This house was a bo: school before the moving, and about $20,000 was ‘pent im Oxing It over, The Veterans’ Club wi Henry Selp, better known as ‘‘Eelpy," one of organized in 1859 and has nearly 700 members. the Westera Union messenger boys, who was| Notwithstanding the regimental Mmitation Impited actually knows to rus om several occasions, has/ip the name, militie officers of thie and other “Mary Clarke Huntington 1p Good Housekeeping. | resigned bie situation, aston (Pe.) Free Press ‘Oakes are Ol) cligible to membership. manity, to aluk one of if not the noblest aclence tn God's creation to the level of a mere puppet show, I have, however, had the pleasure of meeting & few mediums who were not in the pro- feagion, and, by the way, who were much better developed than many of the professionsia, ‘Mow, these unprotensional mediums bad Bo eb ——— Ject whatever In deceiving me, and I do assert most poritively that thelr manifestations wen genulne beyond a doubt. Now, it “Circle desirous of investigating spiritual phenomena is order to satisfy him or herself as to the fact of thelr existence, T would advise that he or she continue his or her iuvestigations, but if, on the other hand, the only object in view is amuse ment, my advice ts to drop the matter, for you will surely be disappointed. — PHENOMEWUN, Americans’ Chances of Heaven, To the Battor: Both Bit following replies to the three qu Willlam’® asked: First question—""What percentage of the Ament can people will go to heaven?” Answer—So long our present natural and artificlal conditions ax¥ In forse, fully 100 per cent, Second question—"What will they do whem theg get there?" Answer—in the immediate future @® {s only reasonable to suppose that they will éa with, perhaps, some slight modification, what we are at present engaged in, Thind question—""What will become of the rest?” Answer—Not materialize, if at all, wotif the above conditions (answer to first question) are considerably changed, All this ts not meant am a Joke, as some map suppose, but in real earnest, and both the Bible and modern science are my witnesses to the truth, A. KAPLAN, The Habit of Profanity, To the Falter: In answer to N. F. H.,"" who wants t “break a young man of the use of profane lam suage,"’ I would advise to teach him (he evi Wontly does not know) how to be @ true ant manly man, and that means never to swear ip the presence of ladies If he swears in anger, t him control his will by counting Sfty; & habitually, the following remedy may avail: Take fone quart of ice-cold water in @ cold tea kettle, apply the spout to the young man's neck ané slowly pour the contents down the spinal columa, This dose to be repeated after each attact inform him that he ie Hable to arrest for swear ing, an It 18 @ disturbance of the peace, and eves it he does live in a free country he must com form with the law. He may doubt this, but it ts true, nevertheless, Swearing ie habit only, but habitual swearers usually have bad tempers and make dicagreeable husbands, although seem Ing to appear nice outside. LORD BACON. Crimming’ » the Editor: 1 am 4 saleslady and work on Fourtesmts stroet. along which I have to walk at night te reach my Nome on the east side, What I wish to ask you, Mr. Editor, is why the Mayor does not buy the crossing at Broadway and Foun toenth street so that we can get across in safety, . Mr. Crimmins's man stands there and gives Us permission when to cross, Sometimes whem it Is wet I ride home in the car, and if the driver does not wait five or ten minutes till Mr. Crimmins's man toils him to cross, he bap {9 make the horse gallop to escape the cable Man at the Crossing. care, and if anything should happen to the horse, Mr. Editor, there would be @ sertous accident, csi, Mignonette Did Not Write It, To the Batitor If “Mignon, the Pretty Brooklyn Girl," whe samt A the poem, Dedajtion of @ Kiss,” Evening of Jan. 19, would look Nugent & Moss's Irish Almanac of 1899 she would find some more very good poems aimilar te the one I refer to that would be well worth having published. If she had signed James McCloskey it would have been nearer to the poet's name and would have looked better in the estimation ef those who know, TRIM Debate. to A Progrens! To the Kditor: What 1» my slster’s husband's sister to me? ‘Wo have disputed that question long and often, Sart,