The evening world. Newspaper, February 10, 1895, Page 2

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Oo THE WORLD'S | GREATEST CIRCULATION MONTH AVERAGE WEEK-DAY CIRCULATION FOR JANUARY, 1895. 551,139 More than Fifty Thousand Over Half a Million Per Day. ——— TO.DAY'S NEWS IN BRIEF Beverely cold weather continued yes. ferday over two continents, In som German towns the mercury was at degrees below zero. Londor fruits and vegetables. Hullroad tratti and every kind of transportation is par lysed throughout the United Stal People are freezing to death in the Okla oma Strip. 1t will cost $1000 to re. Move the snow from the streets of this | city. The tc the East River wented the ferryboats running ani « quently there were fearful crushes w Morning and evening on the Brooklyy Bridge. Milk is scarcer and the pr food is still rising. It appears certain that Congress will Mot heed the President's suggestion in| Fegard to gold redemption bonds; there. fore, his contract to give Morgan and Belmont a 3% per cent. coin bond must etand. pre. D. Rothsehiiyg, , appeard In opy @ttion to the Mayor's Power-of-F Dill at the public hearing yesterday Mayor Strong expects t> have the law | Feady to act upon on Wednesday | Mra, Pensal, who says she murdered fer child, was watched yesterday by a policeman, as she is under arrest and il, She insists that a witch prompted her to the deed. Her husband reap. eared yesterday an! denied that he hhad neglected his fami! A committee representing hundred men, who hay | service examination, called on the Police | Commissioners yesterday. Presilent Martin told them that he was in favor of making immediate tments to] the 30) vacancies, but that the look to Murray and Kerwin for on @gement. The latter says he has faith in the present applicants Cuban revolutionists have plenty of| Money, Quesada says, und will t.row off | the Bpanish yoke soon. An awful crush crowds Sherry’s to hear and see “Songs and Scenes from | Trilby," presented for the benetit of the | Kindergarten Association. Mrs. Eri Pape gives an artistic impersonation of Du Maurier’s gentle heroin Judge Grosscup, in Chicago, orleres that President Greenhut, of the Whis- key Trust, show cause why he should not be punished for contempt of court fn having brought about the appoint ment of receivers for that concern b flagrant imposition and misrepresenta- tion. Weather indications for to-day: Highest temperature yesterday, 18; lowest, 3; average, 11%; average for corresponding date last year, 37; average for the week, 1119-28; average fur corresponding week last year, 90 53. over five passed the civil | must bur SPECIAL FEATURE hensive article on th thrifts of the day tells of the es- capades of these reckless youths, and the famous beauties upon whom they have squandered fortunes, and also describes the meteoric career of the newest “spender” in Paris An exposure of the Tax Office Vveals many evils in its ment, and shows that fa’ pulls, poiitics and ignorance are feat- ures of the system of assessments Page. A compre- kreat spend- > ek 45 pages, 30. It was very cold In Tt is estimated that $10,00,000 | @amage has been done by the frost in| Florida by the destruction of growing ne ing club of the Four Hundred, who best skaters are and how this exclusive institution has become a Notable social success Exactly what the new broom of mu- nicipal reform has accomplished at City Hail is explained in detatl Four champion pugilists in the differ- ent classes write about their first battles... ecco Mme, Patt! writes some Interesting reminiscences of her operatic career, and gives many practical hints to girls who hope to be prima donnas.. Mr, Beerbohm Tree tells what he thinks of the up-to-date American girl, and gives his impressions of our institutions . {nue remarkable revelations of a phy- sician are given in the case of a young woman patient, who died from tight lacing while at a dance. | A clever burlesque of “As You Like It" shows how Shakespeare, coud he have lived to-day, would have portrayed the character of Rosalind in the person of an end-of-the-cen- tury young woman Pani “ROA. B.” the English caricaturist, contributes a striking sketch of the typical Ameri girl ‘of the proposed theee-decker {roncl 18 ‘The strange adventures of a corpse that was burled three times y Opinions of the future of China an Japan from the point of view of thelr possible amalgamation. ‘The most Parisian effects tn ante-Len- ten dancing costumes are described, among other subjects, especially for women... 6 “ teens B Miss Gilder reviews a book by an English woman, in which she writes a scathing criticism of London's mart” set... Verreataree eel ‘en writes of the production of “Palstaff,” and makes a study of the opera as a musical farce. a COLORED SUPPLEMENT, —Cartoon by MeDougall, “Our Purltanical Sab- bath; Will New York Ever Get Rid of Those Old-Fashioned Blue Laws?'—A page of original humor, jokes, sketches and comic pictures, and Bill Nye's opinions on the gold shortage—A page of selected miscellany and cartoons from the comic weeklies and magazines—A page of original humor, comprising jokes, verses and dialogues, and the car- tons, “Vanquished by a Cigarette; or, the Tale of a Cowboy and a Dude,” and “He Was Such a Wonderful Violinist He Was Quite Overcome by the Sadness ot His Own Melody.” = DISAPPOINTMENTS OF THE PEOPLE. In 1890 the voters of the United States showed their disapproval of | the Harrison Administration and of | Reed - McKinley legislation. They gave a popular plurality of over 800,000 in favor of Democratic Con- gressmen, and conyerted a Republican majority of 8 in the House into a Democratic majority of 148. ‘The people voted for lower taxes, for greater economy, for a sound and stable currency and a foreign policy of minding our own business. The | paralyzing effect of an Administration and a Congress at odds prevented the execution of the people's will, In 1892 the people repeated their rdiet, with hostility to trusts and other monopolies as an additional issue, The Democratic victory was still more complete. A Democratic President was chosen, a House Demo- cratic by 86 majority was elected by a popular plurality of 640,000, and the control of the Senate was most un- | expectedly wrested from the Repub- licans. “| Nearly two years of complete con- trol of the Government leave the peo- 1| the ql with reference to each department. 2% a 19 +2 19 ple still disappointed. The repeal of ederal Elections law and of the| Sherman Silver-Purchase act, and the | Page.| who have nothing better to do than to dine well, chat in congenial com- pany and kill time in an agreeable way, the club is an excellent institu- tion, A fine club represents, eation. gymnasium. men do, society and recreation, he would do better to seek them at home, in the social circle of his acquaint- ances, or at the theatre or opera. The club is really a place for old fel- seventy. RTOCK EXCHANGE REFORM. The Governors of the Stock Ex change have at last decided no longer to lend the countenance of that insti- tution to swindling enterprises, The: have resolved that hereafter every company that asks to have its stock listed must furnish satisfactory guar- antees of its soundness, including an engineer's report upon the “physical condition” and value of its property. ‘This is what The World urged upon the Governors at the time of the Cordage Trust collapse. That con- cern was a swindle of stupendous proportions, Its exploitation was a bunco game. Its result was a panic from the effects of which the country has not yet fully recovered. Yet the Stock Exchange by author- izing the purchase and sale of Cord- age stock in the board room had helped the operaturs to accomplish their fraudulent purpose. This of- ficial action gave an apparent guar- antee to the public that the concern was reputable and that its business was sound. A little inquiry would have shown the Governors that neither of these things was true, It would have revealed the fact that the property of the trust represented only a small fraction of its nominal capitalization, that its business was wholly insufficient to pay the prom- ised dividends, and that its manipu- lation in the market was simply a bubble-blowing swindle. The Exchange made no such in- quiry. Its Governors lent their coun- tenance to the fraud without looking {t in the face, and thus rendered its perpetration possible, as they have done in many other cases. They have at last decided to reform their methods in some degree at least. It was high time. ‘WOMEN AND THE WHIPPED ROOSTER. Says the old song, “Hens, like women, though the deed be cruel, won't have a cock unless he'll fight a duel!” Whether or not the young man who got whipped on an Bighth avenue car knew this, he certainly undertook to fight for his girl, and when some one crowded her he “let out with his right” in a style that would have done credit to a professional, This was the beginning. In the end he was knocked off the car and pom- melled until he could stand it no longer, Then he did the prudent and sensible thing by getting out of the reach of superior and brutal strength. hardly anything else does, certain so- cial phases of a high and rich civill- But a young man can afford to walt for this luxurious and leisurely life. If he needs exercise the open air Is a hundred times better for it than a If he needs, as all young lows of forty and young fellows of | has not been reformed, and now au | of power | plenty of sleep and rest, with tem on New York real estate. se BB A Gescriptive article, with a striking Glustration, tells all about the skat- adoption of a new tariff that, though affording some measure of relief, is satisfactory to nobody, are pretty much the only results to which the Democrats in power can point, The trusts have not been honestly prose- cuted, the Carnegie frauds were con- doned, not punished, the currency thority has been denied to the G nment to protect the nation’s credit in the best and cheapest way. It is a failure due to lack of leader- ship in the Administration and lack of fidelity, of capacity and cohesion in the p: in Congress, No party ever before so misused a great oppor. tunity. None ever brought deeper disappointment to these who intrusted it with power, This disappointment was reflected in the ‘tion in November of a Hiouse anti-Demoeratic by 147 ma- jority, representing a Republican plu- rality of 1,100,000 and of a Senate in which the Populists hold the balance Is this too to be a disap- What do the people ex- What do the Republicans pro- pointment? pect? pose? THE YOUNG MAN AND THE CLUB, A father asks The World's advice as to Whether bis son, a young man of twenty-five, should be encouraged to join a club. Without knowing the circumstances all that can safely be said is that much depends upon the boy, his en- vironment and the club. As a gen- eral rule a man under thirty is better | off in keeping away from clubs. A/ club is a place for leisure and loung- on must work, and work hard. And the conditions of health are! perate living and proper exercise, The tendency of club life is towards | English think every day English of the newspapers of 1895 is better than the best of the school of Johnson and Gibbon. At the opening of the eighteenth century English sty1e was wholly out of har- mony the language. son and Gibbon strove to write © ronian English becoming so elegant that where they are not wearisome they are painful This is true ing of the first quarter of our own century Scott with and his imitators the other In order| sense the best English of the to do this he must keep his health. | tury. Instead of taking this view of it, however, his girl told him never to speak to her again, that she would “have nothing to do with cowards, and marched back home alone. The Darwinians say that the same law which around the neck of leads the hen to scorn the barnyard rooster that has had his comb pecked off in fighting for her, the survival of the fittest, and say it will be the making of the race. it is hard on the whipped roost puts the militant red the PREBENT-DAY ENGLISH. Magazing writers of a certain class continue their custom of sneering at the English of the newspapers, yet] one Who knows as much abou ax some they know knows that and almost until its with the underlying laws ot The admirers of John They sue eded in in some gort of the writ But a change It became more marked Tennyson, In William Morri extr Perhaps “Th came been reached, 1 Story of the Glittering Plain; or, The ing. A young man’s life, if 4 worthy | Land of Living Men,” which Morrt: should be active, To succeed he| published some years ago, is in one cen It ranks with Tyndale’s Bib) above Shakespeare in tha gamecock They call it But magazine writers the close with ne THE WORLD: SUNDAY, cBE UARY 10, 1895. which have been in the language since the fourteenth century. But however much such objections may be urged against excess in the use of the Saxon vernacular, it is certain that the movement which has resulted in Morris has also resulted in a great change for the better in English style. Educated men who study the classics prefer the terseness of Horace now, where their grandfathers delighted in the high- sounding sentences of Cicero. Writ- ing in shorter sentences, our best writers use shorter words, and so the strong and noble Saxon speech 18 restored to the dignity which belongs out It. It is quite true that in the discus sion of scientific and allied sub, which belong exclusively te modern times is ary Latin and Greek derivatives now than it ever was before, But it ix not less true on that account that for treating all that lies between the simple and the sublime, all that Is a part of everlasting human nature, unchang- ing from century to century, the language has been greatly improved by the increasing use of Saxon, The World's police reporters average bet- ter English than Dr. Johnson or Gibbon wrote, and The World is ready to prove it before any tribunal really competent to decide. nec to use more A NARROW ESCAPE. The first test vote in the British Parliament has settled accurately the relative strength of the Rosebery Government and the opposition. The omission from the Queen's speech of any reference to the agricultural depression and to the sufferings of the unemployed was selected by the opposition as its point of attack, An amendment was proposed covering this question, which really amounted to a demand for a vote of censure on the Ministry, and with the Parnell- ites supporting the amendment it came within twelve votes of succeed- ing, the vote standing 273 to 261. This is quite a shrinkage from the majority of thirty on which the Gov- ernment counted, and is exactly the majority which the opposition cred- ited them with, It brings the strength of the Rosebery Ministry close to the danger-line, with no pros- pect of improvement and with every chance against it. The record of the bye-elections shows a change in pub- He sentiment since the last general election, The retirement of Glad- stone substituted rivalry for unity in the Liberal leadership. The question of dealing with the peerage has re- vealed a further lack of unity not only among the members of Parlia- ment but among the voters. And the issue which precipitated the vote of Friday was merely an illustration of the unskilful tactics which have marked the Government policy ever since the Liberal party lost the active services of Gladstone, and presuma- bly those of Harcourt also, THE CHICAGO CHURCH SALOON. The “home saloon” which was opened in Chicago under church aus- pices during the week has all the comforts of the ordinary saloon ex- cepting the alcohol. It even has a plano and pretty girls to play it—tin- ducements which in most cities the ungodly are not allowed to offer as a means of drawing custom to their bars. It has been sald that the churches are not as hospitable as the saloons. It has been asserted with some vio- Jence that the weary and heavy laden are put into the pauper pews when they go to church, but that at the saloons they can get as close to the stove as they Ike, that they can have lunch thrown in with their beer, and that the barkeeper treats them as men and brethren, not as misera- ble wretches so infinitely below him in spiritual condition that he is to re- ceive special promotion in heaven for condescending to draw their beer for them To meet such objections and to | silence such scoffs the Chicago church | saloon has been opened, It is a credita- ble effort to establish a half-way house | between the church and the groggery It ought to succeed, Perhaps it will if | it pays. And perhaps it m thing for Chicago religion in that mil- f)jennial time when Chicago is so far “| Christianized that Weary Wraggles ~|and Dusty Rhodes are free to seek sal- 1 vation on velvet in the pews now oc- cupied exclusively by the oleomarg: rine aristocracy and those who can le | country. to it of right in a language that | would be lifeless and soulless with- y do some- | not expect us to place faith in his predictions of weather three weeks away, The Government Weather Bureau may make mistakes occa- sionally, but on the whole it turns out @ better article of prediction than , We get from the amateur prophets. The gold holdings of the seven principal European banks on the 7th of February amounted to $948,376,- 220. On the 8th of February last year these banks held $755,367,375. They have thus gained in a year $193,008,845. Of this gain about $80,-/ 000,000 was withdrawn from this) How much more we are| going to contribute to the enormous European hoard before Congress shall take rational measures for placing! our financial system upon a secure scientific basis is one of the impor- tant questions which the future must determine, An organ of the elevated roads speaks of the project indorsed by the people by a majority of nearly 90,000 as “the rapid-transit mania.” The experiences of the past week have not diminished the desire of the inhabi- tants of New York for a system of transit that will take them comfort- ably “to Harlem in Fifteen Minutes. And they expect to see the commis- sion created for that purpose take decisive action on Tuesday next towards beginning the work. The London Times of yesterday sald that “with the existing difficulty of finding a first-class investment yielding 3 per cent. lenders will be grateful for bonds that will return 3%.” In its treatment of American public affairs the English press is be- coming subject to frequent intervals of intelligent lucidity. President Dole of Hawaii is hardly likely to secure even Mr. Gresham's consent to shoot the American citl- zens who have been court-martialled as rebels, and it is safe to say he will think several times before executing the British subject who has been sen- tenced along with them. The Ways and Means Committee of the House yesterday postponed further discussion of the President's latest request for gold bonds. The subject will be discussed further on Monday, but no such bonds will be authorized, and the foreign syndicate knew it. PERSONAL AND PERTINENT. ‘There 1s reason to believe that Anna Gould Is playing her absolutely fare- well engagement. ‘There 1s no fireside, howsoe'er defended, but Is apt to feel draughts In this charm- ing winter weather. Mrs, Dominis can comfort herself with the thought that she has long held the record as a tempest In a teapot. Since he lost his decorations Li Hung Chang has been finding it more and more difficult to disguise the truth. The Emperor of Germany has been officers for ill-treating their It takes a good deal of mental activity to keep up with Will- lam's changes from Dr. Jekyll to Mr, Hyde and back again. Count de Castellane, who has oused a sixth of Jay (iould’s fortune, Is sald to) belong to “one of the oldest families tn France." As the Goulds belong to one of the newest families in America, the average Is about right, One of the curious outcomes of Mark ‘Twain's assertion that there are only thirty-three jokes in existence is the fact that he Is constantly receiving let- | ters from men and women who desire to refute his statement by sending him an entirely new and original joke. Taking Mark Twain too seriously t# of | itself @ joke. In Vienna they still talk in whispers about the tragic death of Prince Ru- dolf, end no one dares to refer openly to it as a case of suicide, An American tourist who was belng shown through | the royal stables sald whe she saw the Prince's riding hors bh, yes; that was the Prince who committed sulc ide.” <7 madam; he died,’ sald th a serious tone. M. Fav President of Franc good linguist) He learned English dur ing @ two yeurs’ residence in London, | It was there that he picked up twe | eight years ago his neat style of dres: ing. He has travelled on business Russia, and bis knowledge of and Africa i» extensive, He trader, He is hostile to a belitcose trend In French politics, but favors mill- ry and naval preparation the worst that may happen, ‘The Empress of Austria has been lead- ing @ lonely life in Algiers, During her | stay there she break: ted at 640 an dined at 5, taking all her meals alon Six hours of the day she spent in walk- ing, Frequently would ti r among | the graves in the Mahometan cemetery, watehing the old women seated \inem and the Friday gifts of 1 | bread placed on the « copt the Bishop of Algiers and Archduke Loula Salvator, who came from Majorca | s- in for hear and afford to be saved in their company | The ice in the East River during the past three days has been a seri- ous obstruction to the ferry-boats, but at the same time it hds been easier to keep up communication between the two districts of Greater New York than between a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress in Wash- - | ington. e jin purity, lt is far above Chaucer. | It is with regret that we feel com- It is eve particular, But you see at once that it is the| prophet of New Jersey, but when a t pelled to part with so picturesque a character as De Voe, the weather late hours, too much tippling and} work of a scholar—that {t is forced, | prophet fails to give us any foreknowl- smoking, and other things that are not conducive to the physical and moral strength of youpg men, For The beauty of its thought and the| purity of its diction are often marred by obvious pedantry in the use of un- men who have made their place in) usual Saxon words instead of expres- the world, whose habits are fized,and| sive Norman French derivatives edge of the most extensive and ex- treme change of weather since the weather records began, when he doesn't know five days beforehand that such a visitation is due, he can- to vist her, she received no one, It vill be twenty-five years next June| since Prof, Langiell became Dean of the Harvard Law School, and anniver sary is to be celebrated by the grad | uates of the school. > feature of the | exercises will an address by Sir | Frederick I Prof. Langdell is the father of the Harvard way of teach ing law, which ¢ets the student befure actual c and leay bin puzzle | out the principle Involved, thereby doing | away to @ certain extent with text- books, He obtained his legal degree in| | 1854, and was a member of the New York bar for some years ee Protecting Its Own. rom the Springfeld Republican.) ‘The Chicago Board of Trade hi voted down @ rule making trading 4 “puts and calls” ‘dishonorable conduc! In other words, being largely a gam- bling institution, the board refuses to give up one of the chief instruments of | little court of her friends every day, | ted A WEEK IN PARIS. ‘The Genealogy of “La Grippe”—The Bad Luck of the Dreyfuses—Sudermann in Paris—Ths* Man on Horseback" Ez- pected in Paris—The War Between Ccquelin and the Theatre Francais. (Specia! Correspondence of The World.) Paris, Jan. 2. Ike New York, at this moment all Paria 1s sneezing and coughing under the reign of epitemic Influenza, At the opera and theatres programmes are constantly belng changed to suit the combinations that have or have not the erlp. We buy a ticket for “Romeo and Juillet," but must not be surprised if it ends in our Istening to the woes of quite another pair of lovers—"Samson and Delilaa,” for example, One dear soul who went to the opera for the first time heard the latter quite through the third act before she became aware tl it wasn't “Romeo and Juliet.” The bil been changed. Since we must endure this ser fs conselis know that “La has a history and an honorabl » new-fangled notion nth-century invention. Ninety yeurs aso it figured tu court circles in Russia, if we may believe Tolstol, who, in the chapter of “Peace und War," shows one Anna Scherer, maid of honor at the court of the Emperor Alexander, at the height of the coughing and sneezing stage. ‘It was a grippe,” she said, and a foot note explains: ‘The word ‘grippe’ was then an expression quite new and, as yet, little in use.” ‘This in 185, “Russian grippe” it came to be catied, but it was in fact an old disease to which the Rus- slans had given a new name. In reality England furnishes the earliest’ records of this popular dis- ease, Good John Evelyn makes an entry in his “diary” at London, where he spent much time at the court of Charles IL: “Oet, 15, 167, 1 got an ex- treme cold, such as was afterwards so epidemical as not only to afMict us in this island, but was rife all over Europe like a plague. It 1s after an exceedingly dry summer and autumn." 1t would seem that Evelyn escaped a long siege of the “epidemical” malady, for an entry made shortly afterwards tells of a visit paid to his friend, Samuel Pepys, who had gone into retirement at the Tower, and who appears to have en- Joyed a goodly amount of sympathy and soclety of friends outside, “I dined with Mr. Pepys in the Tower, he having been committed by the House of Commons for misdemeanor in the Admiralty." And a few days later: “Sending a plece of venison to Mr, Pepys, still a prisoner, 1 went and dined with him."” A sensible and thrifty pro- ceeding, that of sending the venison, thus himself escaping the potluck of a Tower dinner, and at the same time bringing good cheer to Pepys, who, next to music, the theatre, a pretty woman and goodly apparel, dearly loved a good dinner, Less than a hundred years later, in France, at the court of Louls XV., the epidemic played a lively part in the an- nals. J.a Pompadour did not escape; the maids of honor took their turn, As a remedy “strong wines” were In high favor, so the records tell us, Yea, verily! we begripped victims of the nineteenth century are en rapport with aristocratic precedents, ‘The fashion was set at court. ‘The best society had It. Heaven be p i! there's nothing plebelan in the grip. ‘This is an unlucky year for the Drey- fus name. Last year everything went askew with the Bertrands. Some pre- tend that ocenlt Influences govern these occurrences. But why carry the matter to the ridiculous point that many bear- ing the name Dreyfus are at this mo- ment doing? A merchant whose daughter was en- gaged to marry a worthy young man named Dreyfus has broken the engage- ment Upon that sole ground. ‘I'wo army officers of the name have applied to the Government for a change of name, To be sure the spectacle of Capt, Dreyfus, degraded publicly and transported to a lonely Island, and beaten en route with the canes of people who chose to thus add to his humiliation, was most griev- ous, And Camille Dreyfus, in prison at Mazas {n connection with the blackmail- ing scandals, adds another cloud to the family horizon. oe Ex-Empress Eugenie is in Paris. She is at the Continental Hotel, and holds a. It is safe to say that a detective is at every keyhole of her apartment, but one be- comes accustomed to these conditions if one ses the Chann nto France ~ especially ff the name Napoleon has to do with the matter, Another celebrity has just arrived. It Ia Sudermann,who comes to attend the last rehearsals his “Heimath'--in French “le Fo the leading role of which, Magda, is a part wonderfully fit- to Bernhardt’s great talent. ‘The great dramatist is only now recovering from @ ser.ous operation, but makes it a point to thank in person his enthusias- h interp ers—Bernhardt and her company—at the Renaissance, The “Mun on Horseback" is expected by men of a certuin party. Gen, Bou- langer Was the last of the variety A man in high political position said lately: “T hear the gallop of @ horse, but I don't yet know who Is the rider.” And Arthur Meyer, ardent Monarchist, editor of Le Gaulois, remarks: "I am more fortunate than this statesman, for 1 divine the cavalier who gallops."* But we know that although this airy young cavalier may gallop from Calais to Paris some fine day, he must needs cross beforehand from Dover to Calals on one of those ridiculous little steam- boats, like other mortals, and, like them, must be subject to that malady to which even a son of the House of Or- leans must suceumb—an unromantic and depressing fact In the programme of any young Knight galloping towards Daria er . Impertinent: “What {8 being most worn In Paris Just now?" “Handeuffs,”* o- Open war is declared between Coquelin and the Comedie Francaise. The pubile are for and against, according to preju- dice and profession. it was as unwise for the Francaise to aliow the question to arise which must now be settled as it is for a Presby- terlan Congress to start @ discussion ‘oncerning future punishment, Bets ter not Coquelin desires to play with Bern- Jhardt at the Renalssance. The Frai jcaise holds him to ite laws, and @ ee its trade. The laws of Illinois, by the way, make such trading » misdemeanor. sult Is pending. Meanwhile the brothers Lionnet, actors adored for many years by Paris, are in want. A benefit is planned for their assistance. The key of the programme was to have been one act from “The Adventuress,” played by Bernhardt and Coquelin. Permission was asked of the Francaise to use this act of the piece (which is the property of the theatre), and also that Coquelin should be allowed to play. Both re- quests were refused. Whereupon the question arises among outsiders whether it is fair that In 18% the laws of the house of Moilere, constituted two cen- turles ago, should be held to. Other con- stitutions are revised to suit new condi- tions. Why not this? Is common sense | to be sacrificed to so-called aesthetic dignity? eee It is refreshing to turn from all this and note the broad, sincere work of M. Antoine and his foilowers, whose | behult It is not aj “art for art's sake’ Is unmixed with self- | He has just re where he has ishness or Jealousies. turned from Germany, won triumphs in his rendering of Frenen | plays, He built up the Theatre Libre tr | Paris. He has fought 4 hard battle in! of Ibsen, Sudermaun, Haupt mann, Tolstot and also 2re ama- | tists of the new school, For reward he poor in purse but rich In honors Should he go to America, as is expecte let us hope he may be rewarded by artistic appreciation at least. The col- umns of The World have for many months, from time to time, shown a warm corner for the new school. We predict for M, Antoine a hospitable greeting from that quarter. A. M. M. — FACTS TERSELY TOLD, It 1s estimated by some that the pres- ent coinage value of gold bullion is about 40 per cent. of its market value, The remaining 6 per cent, is the value given it by demand for use in the arts. The copper production of the wo! last year was 330,500 tons, and with the increasing use of electricity there Is a possiblity of an almost unlimited in- crease i: the demand for it. ‘The power of freezing water is one of the greatest ta nature, and under its force the hardest rocka ure constantly disentegrating. When the water in @ crevice freezes {t expands and often splits off immense boulders from the s:de of @ cliff, It is said that in the neigh- borhood of Hudson's Bay rocks often burst from freezing “with a noit equal to that of heavy artillery.” According to the Blectrical Review the Western Union Telegraph Company collected about $1,500.00 last year for telling the time of day. “The company has a telegraph desk in the Naval Ob- servatory at Washington, Four minutes before noon the wires of the system all over the country are cleared of business, and the instant the sun passes the sev- enty-fifth meridiar electricity carries the nows to every city.” It is only in trying to realize a fact like this in ail its bearings that we can get some idea of the way modern life is being regulated by actence. It we may believe a story told In the transaction of the Knglish Ph.losoprical Society of the elghteenth century, a rat- tlesnake was killed in half an hour by having “wild pennyroyal or Virginia dit tany held to her nose—as was supposed by the scent thereof.” ‘The story would hardly be considered scientific by any learned society of to-day According to Lord Kelvin's theory all substances are composed of atoms, and atoms themselves are nothing but “vor- tex rings’--that {s to say mere whirls in the ether- theoretical substance so muct. finer than matter that it Is as near as the scientific Imagination can get to nothing at all, Dr. Felix Goldschmitt writes in. the current number of the Deutsche Rund- sehau that since the International La- bor Congress of 189 the motto of labor has been: Ml wheels stand still when- ever we may will’—a fact which the sociologist of the future may think the most important of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. When bread 1s baked after It has been “raised” by the use of yeast, alcohol Is generated in considerable quantities, but it will be consoling to prohibition- ists to know that most of it passes out in vapor. ——— The Now Lioutenant-General. (Prom the Chicago Times.) Gen, Schofield was a hard fighter at a time when che nation needed hard fight- ing, and he was a courteous, generous gentleman when, after the war was ended, he governed the military district of Virginia during the reconstruction period, Schofield was not one of the great figures of the war, but he 1s an excellent representative of the average type of the American soldier, He did his duty when duty might easily mean death, He has been modest as he was gallant. And this titular recognition of his gallant service will be indorsed by the whole people readily and willingly. — =———— An Exhaustive Compendium of Facts. (From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.) The Times-Democrat has received from the New York World a copy of that pa per'a Almanac for the year 18%, ‘The York World's Almanac, which costs the small sum of 25 cents, has fuller and hetter-digested information about the things that are In everyday request than any other newspaper almanac In the word. It Is @ really exhaustive com- pendium of facte, incidents and occur rences; and Sf it leans itself occasionally to inaccuracy, that has to be looked at indurgently in the light of the wonderful amount of valuabie information which it afforda, | | —————<—e———__ Profiting by Expericnee. (Frown the Baltimore Sun.) Thore 1* a atipulation, It Is stated, that the gold to be obtained by thls issue of bonds is to be gold from abroad or American gold not now in the Treasury, the gold reserve either before or after the issue of bonds. The famous ‘coon- skin game”—buying @ drink over and over again with the same coon-skin—is not to be worked on the Treasury this] time as In the two previous bond issues. —_—— Represents a Wozderful Amount of Labor. (From the Rochester Democrat and Chroutcle ) The World Almanac for 18% is, usual, packed with information concern ing politics, elections, current history and general statistics. This year's lasu is larger and more complete than any of its predecessors and represents a| wonderful amount of labor in carefully gathering and attractively presenting the facts and figures which make up its | contents, —— ——_ An Erymolog’ca! Suggestion. (Prom the Boston Globe.) ‘The cyclopaedias don't say where Wel haiwel got Its name, It sounds Uke « section of @ college cheer, and 4s not to be gold withdrawn from ||! | mareh LETTERS FROM THR PROPIA, Jefferson on Barks ‘of Jesus. To the Editor of The World: When Thomas Jefferson sald that banks were more dangerous (han stand- ng armies he did not mean banks which do @ legitimate banking business, but only those which give up legitimate business to usurp the sovereign power of controlling the currency—atrempting, 8 such banks do, to circulate as in: terest-bearing cash the certificates of thelr own In: dnese. Jefferson understood that you cannot turn a dollar of bank deot into a dollar of by prin it_on papel dd - culatirg it. This is why he said: “Ine terdict forever to both State and na- tional governments the power of estab- lishing any paper banks, for without this interdiction we shall have the same ebbs and flows of medium and the same utions of propert go through twenty or thirty years.” Jefrerson a great tinker who e was talking about, He mocrat = JAMES MONROB w York, Fob, 8. was also a I An Unhopyy Bachelor, F of Tho Wortét that eeveral of your corresponds P eu about the divoree question. Will you permit me space to call their attention to one fact that strikes me as of importance? I am a bachelor, although I possess, of, an’ hereditary inclination | to Addes to this, I believe that state is the happlest con- an. Nevertheless, [ hav remained have thousands of bachelors in this city—because murry- ing a woman ts practically in this State an ocable step, Of course, there Is J for divorce that the ja re to my mind “it might Knowledge none. 1 don't mean to Imply that T should approve of a scheme whereby men and women might marry “on approv so to speak, but I res affirm that the awful solemnity and utter irrevocableness of the marriage ceremony deter me from following my inelination, MALVOLIO, New York, Fob. Hot Coffee for Expoced Public Servants. To the Raitor of The World: ‘The members of the New York militia doing duty in Brooklyn during the re- cent strike will never forget the debt of gratitude they owe good women of Brooklyn who so generously supplied them with hot coffee while on duty im severe weather, There was scarcely @ se along the lines patrolled by the soldiers where a cup of hot coftee could not be had at any hour of the day for a tp of the cap, and no one who did not enjoy the privilege can estimate, the benefit to both mind and body, Could not the precedent. set by the kindly Brooklyn women be extended in severe weather to others, drivers, let who are ext cold) many To the # f dition severe, plercin, both ‘day ans night? ‘The Wo. 'P. U. would find It a most formidable” weapon with which to fight the saloon, and the recipient would be more than grateful. Would it not be a splendid thing to see the good wives and 1 «handing out hot coffee to these public servants, who are no less deserving of thelr kindness than was th soldier in Brook! New York, Feb. 9% RH. WEVILL, jong hours Linoleum from Forost Leaves. To the Euitor of The World: A company hag begun to manufacture a species of oilcloth from forest leaves in South Jersey, and offers $3.50 per tom for all kinds of leaves, It is said that hundreds of people are now gathering leaves for sule under this stimulus. ‘The people of South Jersey should be warned that in doing this they are kely to seriously i Leal mowd is the Dest fertilizer and it the farmers would collect "leaves for their own compost heaps they would make more iu the jong run than bj selling them to pany to mix wit Oil for the production of a luxury, Ut Used to be stipulated dn farm lewscs thet straw should not be sold off the farm, and : her up the wealih of ei) it for f lands will The frst ef Kill the fore HORTUS. Is the National Credit £0 Low t To the Fultur of The World: The peuple of the great West will never bel that the United States could not have done better than borrow at the rate of 3% per cent. 1 have lived several years in Missouri, and 1 now have the report of its State Treasurer before me, from which I tind that Mis souri has borrowed over $5,000,000 at 3% ent. Is the credit of the Nation rnment worse than that of one of event Adminige rom my knowl n sentiment Jam su ut there is one. o} T believe these the Democratio that few can yet SIMPLE SIMON, that incompr te: bond issues will hur arty ty an extent ee To the Falitor of The Worl ‘The concluding Interrogatory In your excellent, timely and well-deserved crit cism of t ar banks in the present financial pinch of the National ‘Treasury. Are the: and the other banks all over the country in @ tactt ‘combine’ te 1 Lond Issues: for thelr speculative i suge gest to millions in this land the more Keneral question, "A not all banks of issue and bankers always in a ‘combine? tacitly or otherwh for that end as against all other interests?” Isn't that central principle-the Very quine of the business of the present G. BO RBUPFL ‘ON. Dorehester, Mass., Feb. 8 ilitery Drill or Educational Drill? To the Eilitor of The World: With the present agitation for military drill in our public schools the imperae tive need of more educational drill ape plied particulesly to American history should not be overlooked. For instance, how very few of our scholars, comparae tively, can give you with any degree of correctness the list of our twenty-four sidents! And how much the number that can give y ing characteristics of the When this is the cas of the great beneti is lost sight of, for the influen lives of these ‘men around wh rican history gathers And now, with the Amere Ing on every school-house, history of the usable on the This ed by observing @ idential drill, Every Scholar, boy or girl, could have a fy and small flagstick, to be used as in gun drill, With every motion, ax ob- Served in regular military gun drill, the Presidents, in order, could be named, along with the States from which they fame, And at the close some special motions of the tag could be py, histor ven. ‘The whole nging one of the thirteen-step one of With each s vould be to 4 march of educae ularly obe tie time Memory patriot! the orig ? A virile tional drills could thus be served. which Would at Uh ries vation iat tie Would be so aided as to make tt eas an An wth to besa to date on the tial wii the! tha a tical than th ee arith, dd meh mare meted to yOMACCALL MACG! Ae: thGOR, ~ A DiM hinition ucational drill work hus Week li Bayon and will be given month,