The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1895, Page 4

ect eee erientncr nee sete meanness Published by the Pree Publishing Company, 2 te @ PARK ROW, New York. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1895. GUBACRIPTIONS 10 THE EVENING WORLD (tncluding postage): B00. 83.50 ‘Vol. 85 . + No. 12,231 ———_—_—_ = Batered at the Post-Ofice at New York as eeocnd-class matter. a ge BRANCH OFFICES: WORLD UPTOWN OFFICE—Junction ot Broad: way and Sixth ave at 32d st WORLD HARLEM OFFICE—i25th ot. and Madi- on ave, BROOKLYN—300 Washington st. PHILADELPHIA PA.—Press Building, 102 Chest- ant ot WASHINGTON—T02 14th ot ————— fs | THE WORLD'S GREATEST i) CIRCULATION MONTH) -+- | AVERAGE WEEK-DAY CIRCULATION FOR JANUARY, 1895. 901,139 More than Fifty Thousand Over Half a Million A BAD BEGINNING. Mayor Strong has made a bad be- ginning. The appointment of William Brookfield as Commissioner of Public ‘Works was one distinctly unfit to be made by a Mayor pledged to introduce Rou-partisan and business methods into the city government. Mr. Brookfield ha: neither inclination nor special ability for the office, It has been forced upon him eolely for political reasons, and not with @ view to public interests or the efficient Management of the Department. Mr. Brookfield is a glass merchant by Profession and a politician in practice. ‘His position as head of a political faction fa the sole reason for his being chosen ‘His appointment carries politics into the city Department where politics must be most harmful and where business meth- 49 ate most needed. His first appoint- ment, that of Gen, Coliis, another “practical” politician, as his chief as- sistant, has already set the seal upon his administration. He will make an honest Commissioner and as efficient a one as he can, considering the political interests which will hamper him, but his appointment is no more fit than ‘would be that of a Tammany politician by a Tammany Mayor. His appointment is received with some commendation because it is “a blow at Piatt.” Mr, Brookfield, it Is true, is for the time being an anti-Platt man. He is against Platt because Platt would not Bive him what he wanted. Does any- body doubt that Platt can have him whenever he is willing to “make proper eoncessions"—to pay the price, an we @hould say if we were talking of Tam- many? The Brookticid appointment may ve “we blow at Platt,” but it is essen- dally a triumph for Plattism—for the Platt principle 2f administering public oMice for the party good. Against Mr. Scott's appointment as Corporation Counse! there is nothing to be sald. It is, of course, a reward to the Grace faction for political services, but Mr. Bcoti’s fitness for the place is @onspicuous, his political work has been @ subordinate feature of his life, he has filled public offices before with credit to Rimself, and the place which he now holds 18 not one which invoives great Political interests or power. ‘The new Park Commissioners are un- exceptionable, but it is too bad that their |ppointment has to be accompanied by an announcement that an arrangement Rot a deal-—by which a Repubilcan is to get the $,000 Presidency of the Board Preceded the appointments. Are we never to have a city govern- ment where men are appointed for their fitness, and enabled to act upon their conscience, unbound by political obliga- tions or by foreordained “arrange- ments"? A ONE-SIDED CONTRACT. ‘The new bond contract !s worse than was expected. The Government agreed to accept 104 for thirty-vear 4 per cent, bonds, when the market price for 4 per cents., with only twelve to run, is 110, Not only this, but It ac- cepts payment in instalments, at the has | years | shipped here for the next month's pay- ment, and so on for the whole year over which the contract can be ex- tended, the net gain of gold to the Treasury being nothing. Of course, the Belmonts, Rothschilds and Morgans being honorable men, no such thing is likely to be done by them personally. But there is nothing tn the contract to prevent it, and there is noth- ing in the contract or out of It to pree vent practically thie very thing being done indirectly and in spite of the best efforts of the syndicate. Even Beimont, Rothschild and Morgan are poor names to conjure with against the inevitab: operation of the law of supply and de- mand. It is probable that the syndicate oyer- ation will work a little temporary re.tef, but there should be no mistake about that contract. The Governme:: has simply put itself at the mercy of the syndicate, | WE DON'T WART IT. Periodically a proposition comes to the surface to remove the State Capitol from Albany to New York. This year it is started by Senator Childs, as he alleges, “after a conference of Senators,” and comes in the shape of a preamble and resolution to be presented to the Legis- lature at an early date, The “whereases" set forth that {t will cost six or seven million dollars to finish the Albany Capitol on the lines thus far carried out; that less than five million dollars would erect a building in the city hotter adapted to the uses for which It Is needed than the present Capitol, and the resolution appoints a joint committee of the Legislature to prepare the way for the transfer of “he Capitol to New York. It 1s a wild sort of proposition to throw away all the money that has been in- vested in the new Capitol, which, how- ever much may have been misapplied or wasted in its construction, {s at least a handsome and creditable building. But it is still wilder to assert that a State Capitol could be built in this city for five million dollars. ‘What is Senator Childs giving us? These sre not, however, the most serious objections to the location of the State 1 tive halls in this wicked city, Im the country members subject every evening to the “attrac- tions’ of the metropolis, Think of the lobbying that could be done every day by the great corporations that might want favors in legislation, Oh, no. Better leave our legislators in the good, old Dutch city of Albany, where the hash-houses serve to chasten the body and the walking up hill and down hill preserves health, We have quite enough evils in the metropolis without being affiicted by the presence of the Legislature, THE KHEDIVE'S CUTTING UP. Whea the Khedive of Egypt heard that he was a fath he was so happy that he wanted to Jump over Cheops, the big- gest of the Pyramids, and take the Sphinx by her lollipop paw and ask the grizzled old girl of the desert to con- gratulate him. But when an “extra’ was I.sued from the harem conveying the information that the baby was a girl the Khedive was so mad that his fez was in danger of taking firé, and he felt like going into the front parlor and throwing all the bric-a-brac at the oda- lsques and whaking the base-burner stove so hard that ll the furniture in the house would rattle. He had no business to feel so bad over it, Girla are getting to the front, and the twentieth ceatury woman, of which this daughter of the Khedive will be one if sho lives, promises to be a wonder. With Sorosis, the Professional Woman's League and the Political study Club pushing the sex along, {t. possibilities of development are unlimited. If the worst comes the girl can learn type-writing, and see then what a solace she may be to the old man if affairs in Europe should take auch a turn that he would be obliged to quit Khediving and look to his family for support. There was some mashing at Twentieth street and Broadway yesterday. A masher mashed a woman and another man mashed the masher, and the last mashing was better than the first, all who saw the affair agreed. The girl that went to a grocery store in Astoria a week ago and hasn't been heard of since was probably frightened out of her wits by the high prices of provisions brought on by the blizaard, The Board of Appraisers declares that diamonds are to be free, but it will be a long time before ‘longshoremen take to fastening up their trousers with dia- mond brooches or lace pina There 1s nothing in the Penal Code about a knockdown blow for the loafer who Insults women tn the streets. But sometimes it is the only remedy at hand, The roster of the brave who go to | thelr death has been lengthened. Four j firemen perished in pur ata fire in Lynn, Musi yesterday. A rainbow was seen in the sky over st Liverpool, 0., yesterday. Whether Gov, McKinley had one eye on {t or not We have not been informed. Co. Amos Ruste had better be getting aboard with the other Giants. There's going to be a better New York tn base- | Dall, too. Mr. Platt’s assertion of bad faith on the part of Mayor Strong is to be taken pleasure of the buyers, and throws in @n option on any other bonds the Goy- ernment may iesue up to Oct. 1. The sole consideration which the syn- dicate gives for these favors, which will net it millions of dollars, is the pro- vision that the parties to it shall get from | h they | broad half the gold with whi: buy bonds, and “as far as lies in their power, will exert all financial influence and will make all legitimate erforts to protect the Treasury of the United Sates against withdrawals of gold pend- ing the complete performance of this contract.” Even if the phrase “as far as lies in their power” does not deprive this agree- ment of any binding effect, what does ft amount to at best? The syndicate ean draw $30,000,000 in gold from the Danks to-morrow, and pay it in for that many bonds. The banks would, of course, at once draw it out of the Treas- ury again. What could the syndicate or the Government do about it? Then they could take up the rest of the bonds at their leisure, on the instalment plan. Or they can import 150,000 ounces of gold, ‘150,000 ounces of bank gold to it, make their first payment. The can at once draw out the 150,000 ‘whole 200,000 ounces. If exchang are favorable, ee ie the same 150,000} said on entering, the Public Works ean be shipped abroad, and re-| Department: “This is ® nice pleasant with several large grains of political salt, | The People's Rights party have issued | | manifesto against the Czar, ‘They is-| | Sued it at a safe distance, In London, i That temperance petition at Washing- ton is thirty miles long. It will be lucky [if it doesn't drive Congress to drink, A few days ago It was the streets that were under the weather, Now it is Com- | inissioner Waring who is so, That the present Congress has two} Weeks more to live has become a fact | of no earthly consequence. ‘There 1s believed to be good authority | for the statement that Mr. Platt does not | | like his Strong valentine, | It 1s not reported that Tom Reed shivered at the news of McKinley's raid on Albany, Wili the New York and New Jersey bridge project awake with an early Spring? Here's hoping that Mr. Brookfield may be able to say on leaving, as he uit of their duty | thrown over 4 DAILY S2NT FROM MDOUGALL, office.” it's a matter that reste largely upon the new Commissioner's own ef- forts. He can easily make it a mighty unpleasant office. Mr. Platt’s bossism is a bit lop-sided, It needs a pull on the municipal side, ‘The cleanly, Mayor’ cuts new guillotine No tears for the old Park Board, The grief is all for the things It left undone, What does Hrookfield care for a ittle thing like a County Committee? ‘A true Valentine to every fair reader f “The Evening World.” Blue-eyed Billy Sheehan still falls to answer “Here! Francis M. is now one of the Scotts wha hae. February has her other half to do better tn. Who 1s there to mourn for Milholland? FATHER KNICKERBOCKER’S DIARY, Feb, 13, 1895.—William Brookfield for Com- missioner of Public Works, vice Daly; Francie M, Scott for Corporation Counsel, vice Clark. ‘Thore are the products of this day—frst frulte under the Power of Removal bill, Brookfield ts aj pointed to the larger office, viewing both places with regard to the patronage attached, the money handled, the responsibilities Involved. Andy under ordinary circumstances, it would be the appointment of Scott which would rankle most fn the bosom of that Hous to whom both sel tions, under present conditions, are blows in the face, . Brookfield 1, a Republican, and there have been days when he waa a party man aft Viatt's own heart. He ts the head of another faction now. to be sure, and Piatt and his agen’ worked hard to the end that he be not pre- ferred, But ciroumstances, while altering cases, frequently dictate leaders’ policies. Nobody ean tell what might not bave happened, ax between Platt and Brookfield, had things stopped to-day with (he latter's nomination, eee Dut with Scott It tm diferent. Ie in a Demo erat; that fact stamps his appolntmont ax a token of the Mayor's determination to follow out the polley of non-partiaunship, which Is so opponed to the spolls-and-patronage ideas of the Kepublican Hows, ‘Then, again, Scott ts the man who had the temerity to stand for the Mayoralty at the head of a ticket of Independents and draw Repub Mean votes in a year when Mr. Platt would ha nd a Mayor of his own party much more use- ful to bim than the man who Is now the clty's Executive, J don't think Mr, Platt has forgotten this, . 8 8 There In talk of a wp to be thrown to the Platt- {tes Im the course of later appointments, Bome- thing may come of It 1 do not know. Frankly, were Tin Platt's position I should be bard to sat- fety, Aw the Knickerbocker that Iam T only re- urd theno factional ¢! alctpal affairs with sion which I hope ja in New York's mu- eret, and with an appre untoygded. At any rate, tho ri ton for which my people voted 1s now In the way of completion, May its final result be the Better New York for which we have prayed! a GREAT MEN OF OUR OWN TI Albany ta Danforth HE. Ainsworth, who practices Jaw at Sandy Creek (population 723), Oswego County, when he isn't leading the other 104 mem- bers of Mr. Platt’s Legislature into the machine- made paths of reform This is Ainaworth Just under the hi fairly good 1 picture of Mr, It gives a Ne kee dns, of the wort of man he in fe mall in stature, but looks big when hi edged tongue gets to working his hy Yolce Into passionate Aguros of rhetoric to Improw his colleagues with th doing soineching they don’t 1 Worker, however, and h | talative menagerie with consiteratle skill. He ts Chairman ot the Ways and Means Committee, whose duty 1t t# to save the people money by cutting down appropriations, and his admintetra. | don necesaity for e. Me ty a hand send of the Leg the affairs or that Committee have gained | for him the reputation of @ ‘close man. Per |wonally, he te very Liberal, He ts about forty- seven years of age, and before he weit to the Legisiature was famod throughout Oswego County | Ae the beat Village Trustes Sandy Creek ever had, ‘This ts bie seventh term im the Amembiy, pe —— : THE GLEANER'S DUD aT. Gossip Here, a Hint re and Troe ‘ales of City Life, The mreat FE: t Side ts right in the mitat of its fancy ball weason, — Masqueraien atid fancy dress aflaira are of nightly o 6, and riders in the surtace care at certain houra fh themselves surrounded by throngs of young wou Whose bright by costumes F wraps. These girls wear n met, but sit with hoods or mant thelr head. They make up pi are but partiaily as back from a by as picturesque, 1 tney are less lively, but qu o 8 And apeaking of balla, there was the great Freuch carnival of last Monday night, one of an annual tain of super-testive eventa Do you happen to be on talking terms with any gente manly dispenser of lquid concoctions in the Tenderloin disirict? And did he ever remark to YOU upon the pronounced boom in the trade tn cocktails and other restoratives, on the daye fol lowing the French ball, the Arion ball or some Similarly great afair? If he never did, ask him cee A friend tells me @ good story at the expense of Judge Gaynor, of Brooklyn, He has a great habit of throwing bis arms bebind him in» yawn and twitching his fogers. A lawyer in- Quired the cause of this act, so suggestive of « 4 ‘tired feeling.” “Oh,” remarked a wag, ‘Gay- oF thinks be is scratching bis bead,"* . . THE GLEANER esque loada for the dull old street cars, and thoir happy chatter as they go to their dan. | cing 18 enough to interest even the most stolid of the other passengers, When they are coming SLLIS BLY SAYS: Everybody with a theory has protested against my remark the other day that 1 was tired of the entire theory business; that, In spite of all their talk they mever accomplished anything, and the world ts rapidly growing worse. Arquaintance,” In rebuking me, saya: of theortea not in practice, mind you, accom: pilahing anything! oe That {9 exactly what makes me tired. Why 40 people with theories do nothing but talk Why don’t they test thelr theories? If thi theories will beneft the world, for goodness’ fake why in #0 much valuable time wasted in talking? ‘The United States In large, and would- te philanthropista plenty, If @ theory cannot be tented in New York, It may be elsewhere, £0 much talk and #0 Uttle work not only make me Weary, but make me doubt the sincerity of the talker, More can be accomplished in @ month's test than In years of talk. eee T Go not may any theory tn wrong. the theortes of Most and Schwab were w: hover said they were right. New York, them, for them to form a colony ot thet where they may live as closely to thelr Ide 1 possible, If they prove by practice that perfoct happiness Is the rewult of their theories they may bo quite sure of their immediate adoption, Stay- ing bere and trying to cram thelr theories down tho throats of unbellevers doesn't do them, thelr cause or the public any good. And, besites, they outrage the frat principle for which wo all elaim to be working—pertect freedom tn life, thought and manner for men and women, 1 merely «ite MoM aud Schwab's theories ax an example. eee My first criticism was of the Tenement Ieform Club, which I dubbed the milk-and-water roctety, nd which name has clung to them. Of what use were thelr long-winded mutual admiration apeochen when there was a law that could have been brought to bear to remedy the existing evils in the tenements? What would Parkhurst have accomplished It he had confined his efforta to hia sermon? It ts worl 4 only work, that fins an end. You can write, preach and talk forever, but withvut labor nothing can be ac- complished. T never naid ng; 1 Hut 1 have aaid tf ite Jawa and ite habit, don’t suit own oe ‘There 1s one man I honor above all others, He had a theory, and he did not talk, but he worked, He believed profit-sharing and co-operation were the aecret of human welfare and happiness, He kot some land and started @ town. He made but one law—pertect freedom did not tart, out to do @ wholesale business in converting the world. No; nia law of perfect freedom was practised as well as preached. “Let men do as they winh; believe as they winh,”* he ald, “only if T can by practice show workingmen that profit- sharing and co-operation mean their happy wel- tare, 1 will do 90." eee 4 He took a few families. He knew that It was Aimoult to teach mew principles to people. He Int the few test his theories, and then he brought 4m others, Caretully and patiently he # building & town and a monument, though he Is too fect to care for the latter, Can any one doubt the truth of his theoriee? The work ts before wo can Invent ‘and then we have to be- And what greater proof can be asked or given than the fact that during all the hard ti when aimilar manufactories all over the United Btatea wore cutting wages and closing down, to know that his profit-sharing factory |never reduced one cent on salaries and never [owt a ¢ay's work. ‘That reat philanthropist t# N. 0. Nelson, of St. Louli Lola ee % ‘Aa for myself—T confess to having pet theories, And ax 1 do not waste time talking about them, It may be inferred that I try to put them into jee, But there aim not ¢ what they NELLIE BLY, “only a Womat To the Estitor: ‘There 1s one “type acquaintance’ of the “World's'* millions of readers whom they reg with feelings of unqualified admiration, who has hay heroic work for the ca:se of nity, But she ts only @ woman, iste, single-taxers, tenement reformers, and others with theortes, that never seem to ac- complish anything, make her tired, There shows the womanliness af tho woman, The ttoa of theories, not In practice, mini accomplishing anything! How would it he if Nellie Bly, instead of condemning, were to put some of the theorles to the test of cold logic? Would she detract from her well-earned fame by having a pet theory of her own and advocating It? Something very radical, of course, it would have to be. But she won't do {t, T am sure, because—sho ta only @ woman. oaldes, who cares for women with theories anyway? QUID NUNC, Indorses Nellie Bly's Vegetar To the Editor: It has given me no little pleasure to read Nelite Biy'a artictgy on vegetarianism in Phi Ing World, 1am at present having « fon the subject. During the past year I have had several abacerses or bolle on my face, and upon conmulting my physician he (learning that I was ‘opposed to meat eating) Instantly condemned my abstinence from beef ax the cause and prescribed & meat diet. I eat the plainest food and neither emoke mor drink, so he cannot find any- thing to blame for causing them, Ie contended that we are animals and that we therefore re: qiure an animal diet. Is that not almost canni- ballstic? I content that we are animals and that We therefore require every possible effort and precaution to keep the animal in us under con- trol. The subject of meat eating would prove @ very Anstructve topic for your correspon ANTI-BE! pas ONE FOR N 3} BLY. Sa Spon your 1 gladly graze; There's thought and wisdom in each line, May Lie be long to your feuiileton! The heart-wish of your valentine, JOHN Gers, THE BOSS HEADSMAN ReeeeriERRE. | ‘Tite to « picture ef @ man who cut off |the Reads of 2,583 persons during the reign of terror in France, but it took him twelve months to do it. From the facility and promptness with which Mayor Strong has begun work with hie axe it seems very probable that he will make a better record for speed in the be- heading business than the Frenchman made. A VALENTINE MEMORIAM, Best and most blest of memories— Remembrance of the dead! BL. Valentine, forever twine With living love their bed! 4 Place mignonette and hero's bay Upon old Neptune's shrine; ‘To Elbe's captain send to-day 4 horo's veleating ah THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING; FEBRUARY 14, 1895; JOHN B. MILHOLLAND. ‘This is a picture of the young Repub- llcan whose organization has just come 69 an untimely end because, while he hated Platt most, his late followers loved the regular party more. — DRAMATIC NEWS AND NOTES. Proctor to Mave Two New Theatres Popular Operan at the Star, The latest is thag the enterprising Proctor is not only to have a new theae tre in Fifty-elghth street, but another at Forty-second street and Lexington avenue, where ® Kas company |s now located, This deal, it {3 sald, has just been made, although Proctor Is etill in Europe. This will give New York quite @ long list of new theatres. The Canary & Lederer house is now under way, &round has been broken for Hammer- stein'’s contemplated vaudeville-opera- roof-garden-star-gazing temple; another theatre is to be reared on One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street and Lexington avenue, and a syndicate is to construct ®& home of the drama at Thirty-third Street and Broadway. In the mean time managers are all compluining that there are just about six too many theatres in she metropolis as it is, What buri- «ess will be when there are more it 1s hard to imagine. The time has already t come when the most gorgeously # ie play attracts but @ fleeting interest that scarcely repays the manager for the cost of his production. Said a grumbler Yanterda, ‘ew York has not the popu- lation of London, and it cannot support many theatres, ‘The new influx of lay-houses will simply drive the popular jouses to vaudeville or continuous per- formances. ‘The theatrical business 1s in a wretche condition, Pessimists won- der if it wil! ever be what it once was. They say that New York has had its best day. ‘The only thing to do is to hope that of the, ‘contemplated schemes will fall through.” eee A thermometer was given away as a souvenir at the Garden Theatre Monday Right. It was pointed out to Business Manager Price that this souvenir was hot a new idea, as he claimed. Hoyt fave away a siinilar thermon ai ing the rin of, * Chinatown.” doesn’t matter,” said Mr. Price, thermometer | ‘registers higher there ts to It,” Hoyt's. ‘That's ul see There is some talk of a season of Opera at popular prices at the Star eatre this Spring. Works such as “Trovatore’ and “Fra Diava are to be sung by German artists In English, and coming right after the Italian of boom it ts thought that this scheme might succeed. English opera for some occult reason never appreciated by fastidious music lovers, but the masses Uke it, After all English is a pretty nice language, and the more you study It, hear it, real it, the better you like it. wee By-the-hye, the now popular thunder- storm, has been tntroduced into “Rory of the Hill.” No well-regulated pl can afford to be without it at the pres- ent time. Folks who loathe thunder and lghining, and women who rush under beds at'the approach of an elec- trio storm, go into ecstasies at its stage resentment. Mr. Roach, the star of he play, was badly broken up by the Prelude to the storm in the shape of Fealiatic whistling wind. He rushed off the stage Monday night and, seizing the orm-maker by the cont,’ cried out: if that wind doesn't stop, you can make it the star of ‘Rory of the Hill. I'm simply not in it when it begins to whistle.” ‘There ts such a thing as being jealous of a thunderstorm, eee Perugini sailed for England yesterday to recuperate from the many annoyances to which ho feels he has been subjected lately, and to bring the effects of the late Charles Chatterton, his brother, back to this country, for distribution among his friends. Perugin! expects to Ing again in the Sprir ° More “Fatal Card”. ers. Mr. Brady's Mr. C two letters that were published in the London Era of Sept. 15, 1894. ‘The first let- ter refers to the production in London on April 2, 1893, of a dramatic eketch en- titled “The Bomb,” in which an infernal machine is thrown out of the window just before it explodes. The second let- ter tells of another sketch entitled “The Village Smithy," produced in 1890, in which an infernal machine was used for an explosion. SG “Trilby” is being rehearsed at last, and Wilton Lackaye 8 to play the part of Svengali ‘Kaye seems a trifle meaty for the role of the nervous mu- siclan, but perhaps he can manage to make the audience forget his abdominal importance, As a hypnotist. this should be easy work for him. vackaye to be verv good at character business. be: umanity" point- I has discovered fore he became mentally as well a sicall, inflated, His sketch In" brain’ ison Square Theatre w y fine plece of acting, When ‘The Fatal Card” enda its sea- gon at Palmer's it will be seen in Har- Jem, In Brooklyn and at the American ‘Theatre. An effort was made to put It on for a run at the Academy of Music, but contracts with “Rory of the Hill" made that impossible. THE WRATH OF THE noss, I might have swallowed Brookftel4, But Scott! Great Scott! Don't talk to me of harmony! W's all dead rott TA e'en have taken Godkin, ‘And havo mur nured not; But Strong piled it on too heavy When be named Seott, “Twas bad enough that Wheeler His old berth got; Yet that was scarce a fecler Compared to Scott, He'd talked to me so kindly— Ah; aad fe my lot!— F e'en suspected ‘That he'@ choose Scott. But since he's been and done tt, Tt stop at naught ‘An Easy Boss no longer, 1, Now he's named Scott. MIND-READER, WORLDLING: It takes @ enall exactly fourteen Gays and ave hours to travel a mile. In 1893 there were 60,025 distiileriee tm opera- tion in the German Emplr ‘The Molucca Islands have a combined area of 43,000 square milee—e Mttle more than Onin, ‘The annual production of the Grand Duchy of Laxembourg amounts to almost 1,700,000 quarts of brandy. Scores of Quaker families in Southern Pennay)- Vania have presorved the marriage certificates ot Aneir ancestors for many generations, signed, as fa the Quaker custowm, by all the guests at ihe! coremoay, aan ALL LOVERS LOVE THIS DAY. It Ie St. Valentine's Ti fe i Hearts with Hope a Joy. There's a Gear little rosebud, pretty! Lying halt-hid in @ fresco of | And Cupid, I'm mure, when he ti ott chaste, and 60 tt bie story, ingles my mame with the romance he weaves, For he solemnly told me the beautiful treasure Toward my heart alone should ite petals untold. Bo 1 trust him, and patiently wait for its bloom- ing, ‘Though many tong days in the tesue are told. Where the crystalline waters of wild Winsa- hickon To kiss Tulpehocken leap joyously forth— ‘This flower of my choosing Is growing divinely, Unrivalied in beauty and matchless in worth, Ob, mine fs the rosebud! Waking or dreaming Budding of blooming, the treasure ts min And clove to my heart tt shall flourish for My cheeriest, fairest and best valentine. John Fora, A Southern Valent Here's a song of sunshine! Let us all be merry! Here's a regular valentine— Fourteenth February! Heart of mine, T love you= Sweetest here below Take, oh! take this violet— If it doesn't snow! Queentiest woman ‘neath the (When he's shining nt Come to me, divinest on Through a wail of ice! Like @ red rose te thy mouth; (Stick this partridge feather In your hat, and through the South Let us skate together!) Atlanta Constitution, To a Somewhat Elderly Lady Who Complained that She Had Not Re- cently Received a Valentine, My heart 16 tike @ silent lute ‘Yea, madam—but, you knot I'm much too old to stand and toot ‘Wild tales of love and wo But, dear o'4 girl, the songs may atill Beneath the allence be; Touch thou the chords, and wake at will Love's deathless melody. Emma Carleton, in Louisville Courter-Jour sal, A Song of St. Valentin ‘The wun comes back and the earth grows warm, Sing helgho to my Valentine, Summer will follow the Winter storm iM thea be min 4 the nights are cold, ‘Tho dawn and even are red with gold, ‘The heart in my boom is growing bold, Sing hey to my Valentine, 1 saw two robins within th Sing helgho to my Vatenti ‘They eat apart, but they sang of lov And Chloe shail yet be mina ‘Their songs bent into one meloty, ‘They rocked and sang on the self-same tree, And they bullt @ nest that was fair to gee, Sing hey to my Valentina rove, IT eaw two streams flowing down the hill, ng heigho to my Vatentine, And each of them laughed and sang at will, And Chloe will soon be mine, But in the vailey the streams were one, ‘They laughed and sparkled beneath the sua, ‘They danced and sang till the day was done, hey to my Valentine, T know two lovers who sit and dream, S.ng heigho to my Valentine, Of dee and bird and the dancing stream, And Chloe wii! soon be mine, While the happy birds flit to and fro, And the singing streai 11 onward flow, And Summer shall come and Summer go, Sing hey to my Valentine, A. T. Worden, im Loutsville Courler-Journal, “EVENING WORLD" Clubs of New York -- XXX, -- The Aschenbroedel Verein, ening of Nov. When tho Aschenbroedel Verela took pos sixth atreet The members marched up to the place 750 from their former habitation at 62 Hast Fourth street, on the afteruoon of the open- ing day, ‘Then, for the further ceremonies of moving Im, there were speeches, songs, amber | Beer, white wines, toothaome German dishes and | kenerally delightful surroundings, ‘The Clud was anized in 1860, Ita aim Is to promote good | muaic, good fellowship and other good things of [ite The membership, active and associate, is made up of representative musicians and thelr enthusiastic disciples, The club-house has @ con- [cert hall, which will seat @ thousand people. It has also a real bier-atube,"* four bow! ing alleys, & reading room and library, @ ladies Feception-room, @ handsome dining-ball and the Recessary kilchens, &c. All theso behind as Sue Drowastone {rout as one could wish 0 oom, at 144-146 Enat Elghty- | \ Tastey ii " » Ae { Aig * Creacent Pinca This pincushion is made of two cres- cent-shaped cards, covered with bright- colored satin or brocaded silk, which is sometimes additionally ornamented with Eastern hieroglyphics or gold embroid- ery. The lower edge of the crescent is trimmed with a thick fringe of gilded sequins, while the narrow ribbons by which it is suspended are selected from brilliant but well-blended Oriental color- ings, Hominy. No Southerner in good health and in his right mind ever eats “hominy with milk and sugar” for breakfast, notwith- standing the dish is undoubtedly safer than “salmon with egg sauce’ for sup- per. Hominy in this part of the country 1s dressed with butter or a little of meat gravy, ard is eaten with @ chop or a steak, or bacon cnd eggs, or broiled am, &c. Hominy thus served is a standard breakfast dish in the South, and is fit fora king. It needs no sugar or cream or nutmeg, and to put either on it 1s to commit @ crime against gastron- omy. The Ripple Back Short coats, with the ripple back, are fast becoming the fashion and pushing the long coats into the shade, but may give thanks to Mme, la Mode that this cannot happen in a day; it must take time. It is very Ikely, though, that next Spring we shall be regarding any one wearing long coats with a sort of superior smile, wondering how she likes to wear suh an old-time garment, Cold Weather Refreshments. ‘A big egg-shaped urn, beneath which a tiny alcohol jet burns, is filled with chicken bouillon, served piping hot in small silver cups and with an invigorat- ing dash of sherry for those who prefer it so, With the bouillon are served plat- ters of toasted water biscuit that have been sparingly buttered and lightly sprinkled with salt, Sometimes in place of salt a powdering of cheese ts grated over the hot cracker, and for a relish at 5 o'clock nothing could be preferable to this light, warm repast. Men, it is well to remark, heartily advocate the change from insipid tea to the invigorating hot bouillon, but the special innovation for the benefit of women are two drawing- room pages. These are small, well- trained little boys in buttons, livery or done up in slippers, white linen and tur- bans, who at intervals of fifteen minutes carry about among the callers large lacquer trays, on which are spread vio« lets and rose leaves crystallized and salted nuts with ginger. A Beauty Bath. The temperature of a beautifying bath should be from 70 degrees to 7% degrees, and it should be of dally oc- currence, A French firm has lately in- troduced dainty bags containing al- mond-meal, oatmeal and orris-root, to be placed in the water a few moments before the bath is ready. This renders the water very milky, and has a wone derfully softening and whitening effect, Baths !n which milk, bran or starch has been placed are found to refine or whiten the coarsest, reddest skin, if persistently used. Softness and firm- ness of skin may be obtained by the of a simple unguent made famous by the Greek and Roman women. The following {s delightfully exhilarating after the bath: Best white vinegar, one pint; rosemary, rue, camphor and lavender (of each), two drams. Let the herbs soak in the vinegar for sev- eral hours, then strain. Rub thoroughly all over the body, and a@ deliciously comfortable feeling and a dainty pers fume will remain with one all day long, Serve as an Appetize A woman declares that the indigestt- dle pastry in the windows of confection- ary shops has saved her life many a shopping day. “By the time-honored manner in which pins save livee—by not swallowing them?” I inquired, to which she made reply: “Something in that Mine, I see the eclairs and wine cakes, they remind me that I am hungry, I go to @ bona fide restaurant and eat soup: and breadsticks, with rare roast beef te top off with.” A Wo! of Many Ideas, Carrica Le Favre, the woman of many ideas, who never eats meat or vegetablea that grow beaeath the ground, whose costumes cost half nothing, and who de- livers lectures on health and beauty, ts, & slim little woman with sharp features” and a cold voive, which is the reverse of sympathetic. Her costumes are all of ecru and soft browns to match her hair, which {s golden, and her skin, which t@ pink and white, She has no patience with people who have bad teeth, bad complexions or any fault of figure, Try Potatoes This Way To-Morrow. Peel the potatoes and boil them until perfectly done. Mash very smooth and add a teasupful of rich milk, a large tablespoonful of butter and a little salt, Cream thoroughly, beating until very, lght. LETTERS. [7%e cotumn fe open to everbody whe has @ complaint to make, @ grievance to ventilate, tm Jormation to give, & subject of general intercat to discuss or a public service to acknowledge, and wh can put the idea into less than 10) worda Lon eters cannot be printed, | Strenge Facts and Figures. To the Editor: Should 72 men count money for 33 days at the rate of $1 per secon4, 10 hours a day, they would have counted $85,536,000, Should other parties dur- ing the 33 days place in a room one cent the frat day, two cents the second day, four cents the third day and keep doubling the amount every next day they would have accumulated $363,246 more than the othera had counted. It {s said to be as cold on some of the peaks of the Andes at the Equator as It is at the Poles Hence, 15,000 feet (2 11-18 miles) altitude at New York City would be as cold as at the North Pole Double the rising of the sun gives the length ‘of the might. Double the setting of the sun gives the length of the day, from twilight to twilight. When the gun sete at 7.40 the day Je 15 hours and 20 minutes long. A valuable and quick way to get percentage or discount, as se in the following: I sold am article for $3; it cost me $6; profit, $2 Add two ciphers to the proft and divide by the cest gives percentage, If loss, division by the 8 gives the percentage. JAMES L. O'CONNOR, 220 Waverley place. Female as Well as Male Mashers. To the Editor: To my mind there are two kinds of **mashers.”* One the contemptible specimen who will mot take for an answer, and still follows and annoys the woman. The other the gentlemanly masher, who desisis when be finds bis attentions are not desired, Now, one would think to read the arti- cles Written on the subject that man alone was to blame: that t# not eo There are women mashera, equally persistent as the men, I be- Nevo that seven out of every ten women you meet will flirt, It seems to be a fact that woman tes born fir. Man becomes one only when taught by the little glances and coquettish ways of the opposite sex. There are many women who will firt*wich ~@ good-looking man, When an ordinary man would not attract their attention, It is mot right to blame the man wholly. Woman is vain, and a, goon as she sces an admiring glance she will rarely discourage 1t. Admiration 1s to her « gentle stimulant, and she seeks It, Some wom will not firt; soma men will not firt—one bal- arces the other Therefore, Judge not too harshly the male masher without @ giance at the female masher, Woman's greatest fault is hypocrisy, OBSERVER, For Equalisation of Rents, To the Edito Is there any law that will compel @ landlord to have an equitable scale of rents? In other words, has he the right to charge one tenant mom in proportion than another tenant? What can the tenant who ts getting it im the neck do about it? Has he any remedy, or must he sub- mit to be swindled, or else move to other apart- ments where @ similar system of extortion is practised? I am sure many have suffered from thie practice of grasping landlords, and would be tul to learn of any way to compel them | to charge the same rents to all tenants for the bame accom.noalons TENANT, A Wife’ To the Editor: Having read the acomnt of the Becker-Feseck murder and eulcide, and myself being placed im tho position of Mra, Fosecke, of thinking « great deal more of @ man other than my husband; and 1 fear that some day it may all come out and I fear for the life of this more than friend. ‘The love for my husband which caused me to put my Hife's welfare aud happiness in bis Keeping was driven from my hea* by years of cruel treat. He has never struck me, for be claims to tlemen,”” but hie treatment was harder to bear than any whipping could have been, He os @ make me fool myself interior fo bum Ter: Confession, He treated me before bis friends and mine as his tnferior. He lasulted innocent members of my family who never harmed or wished to harm him and sent them angry or weeping from the home I thought I was privileged to share equally with him. I have for years withstood his cruel treatment, and when he would sometimes treat ‘me kindly, I would smile and feel gladdened and think that ft meant the dawning of @ bright morning in my life after years of night. I would @ about singing the hymns I bad learned as girl, showing the happiness which his cruel treatment kept hidden in my heart—o susceptible was I to kind treatment. He would ridicul singing, and even after I stopped singing keep up his ridicale for hours, until I could only find rellef in crying. Is it a wonder, then, after such treatment, when one came along and treated me kindly, that I felt my heart go out to him, 1 longed vv for love and kindness. Why had God forced this fate upon me? And now I fear lest ‘his life pay the forfeit for my wrong doing. Will “The World’ or some of its readers who have @ heart that can fee’, and minds that cam ee further, tell me the way tn which to walk. 4 HEART-BROKEN WOMAM. My Vale: To the Editor: 1 may not pen auch lofty houghts, I may not make the apt retorts ‘That bards have made above me. T may not weave such subtle words, Or sing of flow'rs or bees or birds, But I can do this—that’s sove then T cannot twang the lyric tyre, Or hope to set men's souls afre, Nor mould sweet strains to move thea, High on the gilded scroll of tame, 2 ne'er may hope to read my name, ‘But I can do this—that's love thea, 1 cannot offer wealth or station, Nor hours of ease and recreation, Most beloved sweetheart of mine; Humbly I can make this offer, Lovingly accept the proffer— ‘Have me for thy valeting, ine, This Mag Pays No Taxes, To the Editor: What's all this ‘yap about single tax and other taxes? Any intelligent citizen knows we Workingmen pay no taxes, I never saw a tax collector in my life They don't tax mo, I'm sure. Besides, didn't President Harrison, Me= Kinley and Depew tell us the foreigners pay the taxes? Didn't the Lord say: “The poor ye have with ye alway” Then how can Henry George abolish poverty? If I have to pay $1,000 0 year for @ lot to build a house on, what differenoe does it make to me whether I pay it to the State or to the Astors? It’s all the sama I have to pay it anyhow, don't 17 \ PROF. G. G. BUNIONS, \ Make ¢ To the Editor: ‘The tree lectures that are given in our publie schools at might are almost perfection but for one reason, and that is the short space of one hour that is allowed to give them in, One, is always reminded by the lecturor of of time, and just as you really begin to terested the lecture ends and it 1s time to ga, It would be @ good idea for those wno have authority to prolong them a talf an hour an hour longer, I believe there many whe think the same as 1. ©. W. 8, New York, Lectures Longer, Delights of Harle: To the Editor: Is it proper for @ young man of short ee quaintance to put on @ young ladies skates and then sit on her lap? HARLEM DalsY, Skaters, To the Editor: In it proper for @ young man, after taking o@ © young lady’ skates, to sit on ber lap and kiee bert A HARLEM BEAUTE, ‘To the Editor: Please notify @ reader, Is it proper tor @ bag fo tel om bis schocimaal «MA