The evening world. Newspaper, February 16, 1895, Page 4

| © Pubtisded by the Press Pubiianing Company, 2 w @ PARK ROW, New York. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1895. Cn eee BRANCH OFFICES: UPTOWN OFFICE—Junction of Broad- way ond Sixth ave. at 324 st. WORLD HARLEM OFFICE—i26th at. a1 oon ave, BROOKLYN—200 Washington ot. ! PHILADELPHIA PA.—Prese Bullding, 102 Chen + met ot > WASMINGTON—To2 14tn ot. THE WORLD'S | GREATEST | CIRCULATION MONTH} —— AVERAGE WEEK-DAY CIRCULATION FOR JANUARY, 1895. | d01,139 More than Fifty Thousand Over Half « Million NON-PARTISAN, NOT Bl-PARTISAN. Gome of Mayor Strong's superservice- @ble friends are explaining his state- Ment of Intentions in regard to the Po- Mee Board by saying that he really does mot mean to make the Board bi-parti- fan, but only to constitute it of two Democrata and two Republicans! ‘The Mayor's friends would be more |n- telligible and probably nearer the truth ff they said that what the Mayor pro- posed wes a non-partisan, not a bi- partisan, board. A bi-partisan board, in the political eense, Is a board of men chosen pri- Mmafily and expressly for political rea- sons, half of one party and half of an- other, so that a fair division of the ‘offices, contracts and other spoils shall be Insured. Public interest is the last thing considered in the appointment of bi-partisan boards. A non-partisan board is a board se- lected regardiess of politics, compossd of men whose official obligations are solely to the people and the public in- terest, and not to any faction or party. Yor practical reasons a non-partisan beard is most conveniently composed of @n equal or nearly equal number from each political party, but a board all of | Democrats or all of Republicans can be | as non-partisan as a divided board. The bi-partisan board {s a stam and & fraud. Its very purpore Is inimical to | cued | | that | recert Vanderbilt millions is now to be in- vested in a title, It 1s not stated how much the articie will cost, but the beg- gardly Duke has not got enough money to keep up his household, and go a big price Is doubtless to be pald to save hin from being turned out of house and home. Old Commodore Vanderbilt made hie money by hard and honest work. Titles and coronets did not trouble him, He would not have given a month's in- come for as Dukedoms, Mut somehow the neh in Amerton have a passion for these English luxa ries, and are buying them up freely for thelr young daughters without a thought of the misery they may entail In after life. AFTER THE POUND OF FLESH. When a man like Russell Sage draws more than half a million dollars in gold coin out of the Bub-Treasury, simply to Jock it up in a safe deposit vauit at a time Uke the present, plain people who do not Yellow the singular financiai policy of ts Government or bother themselves about syndicates and contracts, can form some Ktea of the manner in which the money sharks are taking advan tage of the necessities of the country to Increase thelr own wealth. ‘The Government needs gold, or fancies that it does. ‘The banks and speculators begin immediately to hoard gold In order to Increase the fears of the Treasury ineapables. The Government rushes into a bargain by which ft is buncoed out of millions and made to pay a most out- rageous rate of interest. Then, In the Knowledge th&t the gold has yet to be obtained, the hoarding continues, and the Russell Sages of the street draw thelr coin out of the Government vaults and lock !t up in their own, with a view to obtaining a premium before they re- store it to the Government's possession. ‘Thus all the sharks, great and emall, have thelr large mouths open for a share of the pound of flesh, and Congress stands by helping to throw it Into thelr greedy Jaws, A FORTUNATE ESCAPE. The Westchester Temporary Home for Indigent Children took fire at an early hour last night, after the children were all in bed and asleep, and was burned down, Two hundred boys and girls were inmates of the Home at the time, and had a narrow and most fortunate escape. All were got out safely and without any accident. The fire started from a de- fective flue of the furnace. ‘The fact that both the Superintendent and the Matron were absent when the flreoccurred is causing comment, ‘The Bu- perintendent has before heen in trouble through charges of inhuman conduct preferred against him, and it 1s not creditable to the management of much an 1natitution that both the male and female head should be absent on the same night, leaving the inmates to the care of the attendants only. A# !t hap- pened, the latter did well and prevented a panic, But it is evident that a change la needed in the management of the Hom ‘THE MAN WITH PIE IN HI8 EYE. Confidence tn the man that fills his system with pie has at last gone by the board, We thought that, like the man whistled, the ple-eater had no neatling-place under his hair for ways that are dark and tricks that are trucu- lent. Pie per se has always seemed to us innocent and inoffensive, and it is really distressing at this late day to have our leve and reverence for It shattered and doubt cast upon the quarter section of it that has been wont to crown #0 gracefully our prandial menu. A nea captain who pines a great deal for ple has struck a mean and measly blow at this fond institution. During a voyage he yearned so appetite- fully for ple one day that when the ship's steward was a little slow about getting it he knocked that gentleman the public welfare. Its organization must be feeble and ineffective, for it can never have a fixed majority. Its administra- | tlon must be a euccession of deadlocks | and compromis It introduces parti-| sanship into whatever department it} ontrols, and inevitably enforces parti-| @an activity upon its subordinates as a) price for their places. And yet the par- | tiean responsibi:ity of such a board ts | absolutely destroyed, Blame for its acts @an be fixed upon neither party and pun- fhment for its misdeeds can come only | through the infrequent judgment of a| Fevolution auch as that of last November. | The bi-partisan system bars out of Public service in a block the independent element of the voters. To be a member of such @ board a man must be either a Democrat or a Republican, And this at | @ time when the independent voter is the strongest and most conspicuous element | in public life, and when the line of di tinction between a Democrat and a Re-| publican is one of circumstance merely, | and not of principle. | A non-partisan board can never be created by law. It must be the act of the appointing power, supplemented by the henor and integrity of the members | @f the board itself, Mayor Strong has | made © good start towards @ non-partl- @an board by the appointment of Mr. Andrews, He will vindicate his faith (@ the platform on which he was elected {f be makes three more appointments of ‘the same sort, TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE. Mayor Strong took the public into his @enfidence yesterdey and told why he had appointed Avery D. Andrews @ Po- ce Commissioner. “The tact le that Mr, Andrews belongs %© no political organization and Is no- body's man,” aid the Mayor. “That ts one of the reasons why I appointed him.’ + AB excellent reason, too; one that is in harmony with the princ:pl> on which the people were induced to believe the cam paign of last year was conducted, and ‘with the pledges made by Mayor Strong before the election. Is it also one of the reasons why the Mayor made Mr. Brookfield, the ex-boss @f the Republican machine, the flercest Political partisan in the city, Commis @loner of Publie Works? Or does Mayor Strong hold that what ts gauce for the Police Department goose fg not sauce for the Public Works De- partment gander? THE TITLE MARKET. While there is a general depression and dujness in trade everywhe now, considerable activity » Vall in one line of goods. British Lite are in demand, and notwithstanding h« fact that they are in a dilapidated con- dition and considerably soiled, the mar- ket for them seems to be improving. ‘The report comes over the cable from London to “The World” that another English Duke is to be purchased for an American heiress. A portion of the | to b senseless with a marlinspike, or a haw- ser, or something, and the steward came near perishing in the cause of ple. Now the captain must answer a charge of fe- lonious assault. We are sorry that all this took place on account of the damage it does to ple's reputation, but perhaps no m harm will come from {t than to empha- size the fact that when a man who has become a slave to the ple habit has his mouth fixed for ple and wants wants It quick Ata lively meeting of the Professional tt w League it has been decided, man’ by an overwhelming vote, that man is more®just than woman, One of the par tlcipanta in the debate preceding the vote gave utterance to the opinion that the quality of Justice, like the strength of muscles, can be developed py prac tlee, This {dea suggests a side tssue which should be full of encouragement to Divver, Grady, Martin, Koe! a other present ornaments of New York's Police Court Bench. It ts to be feared, however, that the period of encourage- ment to thease fellows must be of but brief duration. A public sentiment but Uttle fn sympathy with this beautiful theory of developed Justice demands that their opportunity for practice shal! be cut short. | Albany despatch: "Some of the Re | publican statesmen sata that if Mr. | Strong wished to honor Mr. Brookfield |he should have made him City Cham- berlain, instead of allowing a Ta many Democrat to remain in that snug berth. Tie then could have put inte the Public Works Department a Re: publican who would have been friendly to both fact n the Republican County Commi and, s one sald, ave done the square thing by all Strong waa elected by the people « New York (ii for the express purpose of doing “the square thing’ by: several parcels of greedy politicians, at Albany assembled Th rror of iss 4 warrant the payment ot $00 ty due has just been made at one ok lyn’s city departmer ere t ats leystem has re tly el t conspicuous adva ss inetdent ts plain, bur not ne 1 1 partments, There were only seven Senators pre evidence however, tt number had been increased aN nothing 1 wld have cor it Both branches of the Legislature ma haste with painful slowae Ard now Col Waring promises the jclty 4 rew and enlightened and de system for disposing of the garbage, all it he} e arranged for within a moath or| THY WORLD: SATURDA A DAILY HINT FROM MDOUGALL. Garbage « Hite’ Sketeh, Street, Any Day and Any Any so. He has made no fuss about the matter, has sent no junketing committer around the country; has, in fact, given | no sign of what he was up to. He has simply looked at the things in that same businesslike way in which he went | at the city's dirty streets, And, behold! & result. Will somebody kindly pinch New York and see if she merely | dreams? There was no lack of good news in this morning's papers. Some of the best, how- ever, lay in the fact that not a little Ife was lost out of the two hundred threatened by that orphan asylum fire in White Plains. ‘Ten Inches of snow in Texan, eighteen inches in Georgia, five inches in Ala- bama. Revolutions in the United States, it appears, did not stop with politics this your. ‘They extended into the weather as well, Even when there shall have been more than fifty-three Congreazes the present one will come pretty near to being Int on the lint in the public estimation. ‘The Board of Health wants a census of the city every April. Why not go further and adopt the Chicago plan of taking a new one every few minutes? Perennial Arion seema to have made his latest entry among festive New Yorkers with all his accustomed. brili- fancy last night. With that indictment hanging over hin head, Mayor Gilroy will find his optim- ism again at a low ebb. Platt proposes, Strong dispones. At the present rate the Mayor will soon dispose of Platt. Every day strengthens the conviction that New York elected a real Mayor. Perhaps Russell Sage is hoarding gold to buy new lights for the "L" road, ‘Thus far, the battle in New York has been decidedly to the Strong. Jimmie Martin ha» long been a got- to-go. Now he's @ soon-to-go. “The Platt men ina rage.” And that's about all they are in, — FATUER KNICKERBOCKER’S DIARY, Feb, 18, 1898.—Mayor Strong Is giving to those | whon he surprised earlier In the week thie day | fand to-morrow in whioh to recover thelr breath, | He is making no more appointments, for the Ume being But he has heen talking @ little to-day, and 1 may confide to my diary thin little fact—that 1] like hie talk, TC is an explanation that he han made, yel not an explanation of the sort wht Impiles whining, buck-crawling or apology, He haa told why he appointed Mr, Brookfleld, why | Mr. Andrews, why Mr. Green, And the sum and substance of bis reasone each time He in auch words ae "I thought him Mtted for the place,’? An to Mr Andrews, in particular, he made the statement that he found him a man of practical ideas In the very line he desired, Only to think | of that! Ideas to count in the matter of Alling 4 political office in New York City! cer I have already written that the Mayor does not inake his explanat an those of m man who! Apologizes. His statements are the piain, matter- of-fact reports of © man who bears a commi n from the public and who recognizes the pub- | Me's right to a full knowledge of how he i pe forming his duties, He has confidence In the peo- ple who really chome bin to lead the way towards | a lteter New York—It t# to those people whom he twike—and between the Hues of his, statement | You read that Ne expects that confidence to be reolprocated. Has he not a right to expect that? eo 8 8 An for some other things. the Mayor saya he expects to have a Mi-Partioan Police Board, be: | ho can't hetp bimscif, and he will ap-| int @ successor to Jimmie Martin. Meanwhile the Plattites at Albany attil grum: | dle and don't know just what to do, —— GREAT RU DRM RUS! Now Reformers all At the City Mali His Honor to see And they go in To recite choir Insist that to them the And tw show ‘That, althouga not after do well have it Are ansto cy Ther are they might f the rascate Repubitcan heelers, The Mitholtand squea! eform Liquor-deate: Murw TREE AS FALSTAFF. Versatility is Beerbohm Tree's bu bear, and he made another offering upon jits shrine jast night at Abbey's ‘Thea- tre. He appeared as Falstaff in “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” and then as {Gringolre in The Ballad Monger,” just to show that he could be both fat and thin, well fed and starved, in the same evening. Versatility! It is a rock that has wrecked many fair human ships. Versatility is, in fact, a fraud, and the sooner we pull down the old traditions Jconcerning It the better, It is just am Junnecessary for actor as for men in j other walks of life to be versatile, Let euch ian stick to his specialty, and be master of one trade, rather than jack of all. If Beerbohm Tree were great in one particular line of business, it would pay him better than being good in all, | He is never great, but he is always kood. He haw none of the elec sparks of genius, merely the dull glow of merit nbove the average, Tut he is versatile! He can play half a dozen different parts in a different way! | tile-who would care him in |farce? Bernhardt is not versatile--who would wish to gaze upon her In common melodrama? Booth, Barrett and scores of actors who won fame and fortune scorned to be led by the myth of veraa- tility, Its will-o'-the-wixp light tempted Nat Goodwin, William H. Crane and others, and taught them a lesson. A. rolling stone gathers no moss, and the versatile man is a roller As with the actor, so with the novel, Would the public lke a Clark Russell sea-story from Thomas Hardy or a “Tess of the D'Urbervilles’ from Clark Russei:? In the language of Laura Jean—T am digrersing. Tree played Falstaff last night and made an excellent Impression— that phrase acems coined for him, His work showed careful study of what he belleved to be the correct Falstaff. He was fat, yet stately; ponterously humor- ous, yet amorous; always coarse, If 1 had not #een Maurel in the role, Tree would have been almost satisfying. But tho English actor lacked all the fine pointe dixplayed by the Frenchman, His humor was not spontaneous, and his love making wan not amusing. Maurel ful- filled Shakespeare's notion. He made the fat knight exquisitely laughable, ‘Trea was funny by diagram. He had lala dowa certain stereotyped rutes for mirth, and the result was not satlefac- tory, You instinctively felt that half the art of ‘Tree's Impersonation was in his make-up; In Maurel It exuded from the pores of his skin; ft compelled appre- clation. Tree gave us the husk of Fal- staff; Maurel his subetanee, [am quite sure that if the Engiish actor had seen the Frenchman, he would not have pro duced “The Merry Wives of Windsor." The play, however, was beautifully staged, and extremely well cast. Miss Ully Hanbury and Miss Frances Ivor were the merry wives, Although Miss Hanbury’s volce was a trifle strident, she did remarkably well, and no better wives could have been desired. Mrs, ‘Tree was not in her element as “sweet Anne Page.” She was scarcely youth- ful enough for the part. She wore a sort of comic-opera dress, and you half ex- pected to hear her burat into “I'm such an artless thing." Herbert Ross was excellent as Master Slender, and Misa Emily Cross was a very good Mise tresn Quickly, Henry Neville was Ford, and Edmund Maurice, Page. The scene representing Herne's oak in Windsor Forest was a most artistic picture, but Sir Arthur Sullivan's music written for it was very commonplace. Let us hope that we shall have no more Falstaffs for a fow reasons. It 1s hard to endure “The Merry Wives of Windsor" just for that one part. It ts a dreadfully tedious play, and that buck-basket ncene is most offensive “as it was writ- ten.” Daly sould have sewn lace friils on all those clearing-out sale under- clothes displayed last night ALAN DALE, an oe USICAL JOTTINGS. 3 si ‘Ta-ta to the Italian opera artists! One could Almont grow pathethic over the abandonment by these world-famous songbirds of the Metropolitan, Nut one won't—one won't, There will lant concert to-morrow might, at which will appear Mme. Emma Eames, Mile. Mira Heller, Sig. | Campanari and M, Plancon, Then the Itallan Opera Company will hie Jtaelt to other cities Mme. Zippona Monteith, solo soprano of Grace Churoh, will give another concert at the ¥. W. ©, Amoctation Hall, In Rast Fifteenth street, Thursday night. The artists will be Conrad Hehrens, M. Flavle Van Den Hende, the E more trio, N. M. Halfpenny and Master Arthur Mochmann, a pupil of Herr Xaver Scharwenka Mme. Montieth will sing a new ballad, called “The Shadow and the Song.” | According to a statement prepared by Rudolph Aronson, the comle operas tat enjoyed runs of over one hundred representations at the Casino during his management of that house were: * minte, he Merry War," "The Grand Duch- ena" The Yeoman of the Guard,"* “Poor Jona- than,” "Prince Methusalem, uy. The Drigands,"" “'Nanon,"" "The Gypsy Baron.” “The Reggar Student," "The Queen's Lace Handke chief" ‘The Lite ‘The Princes Trepizonde'* and “i ot The American Symphony Orchestra, under the Airection of Sam Franko, will glve its second con- rt at Chickering Hall Thursday afternoon, Feb. 28. Richard Hoffman, the well-known planiat, will “agatat."* GREAT -MEN OF OUR OWN TIME, And Union League vote: ALL wait in expectant glee Club Nights 4 city Mats ae 8 Mut the with t venty ted saan true ding! Vor they have no desire Tu Jump out of the (ryiag-pan take the The most wus trait of chis gentleman te hat he Is @: the most public-«pirited member f the Assembly at Alban’ ta the most im. | pesed upon man that ever sat in that august body. Mis nam i and when he ts not ni ® volutionite A great any th they sh nh passing, he | sella @ pretty falr ar up | owers. Thin te M Irving is not versa. | Dahle test a Kha Evenin WILLIAM: M, EVARTS, This is the picture of the distinguished York Bar Association's first President, And who participated moat happily last evening in the exercises on the Associa- tion's twenty-fifth anniversary. 5 oa THE GLEANER'S NUDGET. When I read the story of May Robson's sad Atacovery that se had paid oot money for a comfortable howe that wax groaning under an in expected mortange, 1 couldn't help wondering how many people knew that the slender little comedienne wan own sister to Stuart Robson, and that Alicla Robson, years ago retired from the atage to become the wife of Mr. Howe, a Roston millionaire, was Stuart Robson's daughter and May Robson's nie ‘The family name te Stuart an4 Biuart Robson's baby boy, named after hin father, a David Robert Stuart CaicieG ‘The death of Harry D. Polhemus Focalled the great favor in which AL the White Houre, Many poop's who admired the magnificent orchide which adorned Mea. Cleve Jand’a room at the inaugural wondered who sent thle contly gift. Mr. Polliomus war the man, He fished and huntoa Me. Cleveland, and wax held in high esteem by the President in Brooklyn, bu: A aray-mustached man, short in stature Jong in tongue, awore at a Ninth avenue Fad guard all the way from Twenty-third atreet to Thircieth street last Wednesday afternoon be cause he wasn't allowed (o got off after the train had started from the station at the atreet frat Ram@l. He had been caught napping, and ao misaod his stopping place. The guard simply Iaughed at him, which made him all the more wrathful, [like to wri the step as he looked out ahead, ‘The messenger had caught up and was setting hin ejaculatory Apparatus in position to ropeat his pravious re- mark. If he sald “scah'’ again, however, hh could hantiy have heant it himself, for he pro- Rounced it from at least a fout'n depth of the anowbank into which he was suddenly Uiruet by that same little, meek-looking conductor. THE G SOME GIRLS AND OTHERS, Letters and Verses About Members of the Fi Sex. To the Editor Tam a young man and In love with w young Girl, One evening not long ago T and courage to ask her to be my wifo and she promised she would if T would walt three years, Will ‘The Evening World" give me ome advice, as 1 am young and inexperienced myself? Im tt proper for mo to ask ber parents, and what words will It be proper to use, or in It necessary ty ask them? Or shall 1 ask her mamma firat or both fat once? Is it proper for my aweetheart to be present when I ask the DCENT. st wa To the Raltor: Where Tam employed 1 became acquainted with a very aice gentieman, who Is married, and who belongs to several societies, clubs, &°., and one day while taking he happened to menti ented, They had a meeting about two months ago In which the members proposed that they should Nave more entertainments than they had. The I renult was that they are to have one this coming | month, about the middle, This gentleman told me he would «ive mo an Invitation, and that was All that was sald about 4 until a day or two ago I asked him when the entertainment was to nw for the Invitation, be. Please tell mo if I did right or wrong in asking him, or would you, if you were me, ask him again. fam very anxious to go, but not with him, as Tam able to furnish my own com- pany. VERY ANXIOUS. ‘The fond love-days soon te And vaniah with the yoart And some are glad and nome are gay, ‘Tho many full of tears My soul in full of grict to-day, No Joy my wan heart cheers: Sincw fond love-dayn soon fade away And vanish with the years. Down at thy feet my heart I'd lay And soon forget the tears, If thou, dear friend, my grief allay And banish all my fears, ‘That fond love-daye soon fade away And vanish with the years All Girls Want Admiration, ‘To the Editor: I Dave been married for five years. and @ lovelier, truer wife mo man ever had, But before we were married, like “B. B Birl, she was very fond of admiration, And yet I found it was my fault, |r aid not call on her aa often as 1 should, nor | did I let her know 1 admired her, and, of course, | ane went elsewhere for it. Hut “BR. B.”” if you [want her to care for your admiration only, be ‘attentive to ber, and if she ts a model in the other respects marry her before it is too late, as you had better get @ wife with some life in her than one of the cranky olf maida. HAPPY HUSBAND. The Kiss Defined Aga! To the Editor: Baldy” gives us what he calls a sot Lat the readers de the following |: not a better one: “A kiss Is a paroxysmal contact between the latial appendages attached to the superior and Inferic ectively of @ man and woman or two women. is lMaelt the paro: It ts mere. the vibration of the superincumbent a! from the expulsion of sweet h of the pairs of lips en De The ly phere result: * in create QUIXOTE, Comes High, | from | ing tt To the Editor: 1 am @ young man of ordinary means. 1 know & Deautiful young lady, but she tas many 1 One is that ahe would not Kiss a fellow for less | than one million dollars, aad another, that she | would not marry unless he carned $50 per week Kindly advine me what } an to do in orler to gain her affections. Cu | When Should He Say od Nightt | | To the Editor Does it look well for a young man to stay uit | midnight whenever he calls on a young lady, to whom he ts not engaged or does not think of en- x imselt? Ie not 1PM or 19.96 PM proper time for @ young man to leave « young fen though they are not ea WISHES TO DO RIGHT, Brooklyn, N.Y. lawyer and ex-Senator who was the New | he was held | of the incident, becaun ft was one in which the "Ic" man was clearly Fight, and in which he exhibited @ patience both Deaytiful and uneaperted vee “Seab!"" ried a half-grown youth clad in | fan trolley cir paesed along, kiyn, the other evening. Ax the oar got further away the boy's ery grew louder, Near Atlantic avenue the var stopped 4 the little, meek-looking conductor ptood on ih ed di aban pbidatinet Y_ EVENING, FEBRUARY .1, 1898, To the EAltor: Nothing brighter hax been written lately by Nellie Aly than that delightful little disquiaition [on “Theorlow’ in Thursday's “Beening World,” What If #he did tear my letter all to pieces, rip up the seama, slash It into goren and cut it every kind of Blas. She, being @ woman, In en- titled to the lant long word. I concede it, Yet | speak back—Jumt once—and brieny? + deluge, N. 0, Nelson, of St. Louis, whose philanthropy han earned her unstinted praine, IM @ tingle-taxer By sharing profits with his employees ho hax in no way side-tracked the main issue, He, am well as every other single-taxer, knows that all the good he can do favorably affocts but a few hun- drede—that no amount of individual effort can more than relteve poverty in. spots Byery single-taxer knows, and I appeal to Mr. Nelson himselt if it ts not wo, that single tax cannot be practined hy individuate, tt te an im: proved wyatem of collecting public revenue, How rould one man, of even a number of men acting Indlvidually, control such an operation? An edu- cated public opinion could, and in New Zealand id put Ht Into practice in modifed form, but jwith Malisfactory results, In the country which |Dute Ith theoretic form in practice the condition | ot laborer will bo like that of the Nelson em- bend but an the remult of a aystem, not the After that— Will of an individual, Quip NUNC, Harmonious Vibrations, | My Dear Nellie My: Although an exceedingly | busy man I feel constrained to drop you a few Hines apropos a few reflections of youra in Mon- day'n “Kvening World." Let me say that 1 have read almost everything you have written since the time you smuggled yourself into an fnaane arylum and wrote It up—or was it @ prison? Roth, I think, and your experiences re- garding friends you have never fren have been mine towards you. This has probably arisen from my admiration of your work largely; still, | 1 recognize the fact ax you expresred it, but T have another philosophy for it which I would like to suggest to you: It in based on the theory of vibrations, | All our sensations are realized in terms of mo- tion. Light Is the impression produced by the vibratory action of the ether; wound by the pu | sattons of the atmoaphere; taste and smell by the varying vibrations of the atoms composing the material put into the mouth or under the hose, Thought In the vibration of the atoms com- posing the Rray matter of the brain, As you know, different colors and different sounds are produced by different rates ot velocity of vibr tons. AB you also know, some colors harmonize with each other and wome do not. Musteal tones may be accordant or dixcordant Why? Because the waves of Ight or of sound }ft Into each other or they are “‘misfts."” This | ts a very crude way of expressing {t, but I think 1 can make my meaning plain, No atom of matter in the universe is at rest: Jal are in a constant state of vibration. Aton that have a harmonious vibration are constantly {attracting each other, even from the remotest | part of the universe, Tune the A string of 0 violin In exact harmony and accord with the |same note on the plano. Strike the plano k and the violin string will vibrate, though many feet intervene between them. It responds because w, it this Is true, and one denies it, will not thie explain the likes nd dislikes, attractions and repulsions so com- mon among mankind? I think 0, You are a tractive to people you never saw not because you may have known them in some previous exist- ence, whether that in possibility or not, but because the magnetic vibrations of your being are in harmony with thelra; because you are in tune with them, And the nearer you aro in tune the nearer and dearer you are to each other. In this not reasonable? NKNOWN FRIEND. Some Intuit! (ken and Dislikes, Dear Mins Bly: Your article pertaining to those feelings for press frionds (or perhaps enemtea) ie a very entertaining as well as an impressive jone, To the undersigned it was very realistic, as | my Ideas coincide with yours to such an extent | au to make your words entrancing toe startling dogree. I thought after perusing same that [ "Nelle must have been thinking of me."? Senti- ment tn a charming thing, and is certainly unde- |fnable, My love for Grover Cleveland is evenly balanced by my dislike for Senator Gorman. 1 am interested In Fitzsimmons and pray for the defeat of Corbett. I admire “The World” and denpine the Sun, and but not least, 1 "lo and adore’ Nellie Bly and hate such people “Howard on the Recorder. So you can really seo that your words depict pure, unadulterated truth Ww. dM. they are in harmony. N ni A Little Sarcasm in This, Dear Nellie Bly: Count me an a convert, ‘The slaughter of animals is a dingrace to civilization. | Hut 1 am xoing to be consistent, as all muxt | whone thoughts go deeper than the roots of their ‘hair. 1€1 do not use the beat of animals as food |} will not use their kins to cover me, Good- by to shoes, gloves, pockethooks, aga or any | other article made of leather. Neither will I for- et the poor little w nO more whalebone for | my dresses. And as for allks, how many awoet [Mitte grube are destroyed for a single yard? T cannot wear it more, Tam not ure that I will ever eat another egg. It murt be wrong to de- oy even a chicken kerm, I have not mucceeded in replacing the articles thin puts under the Yan, and have been confined to my home until + when T ventured out in @ pair of arctica to mall thin letter that Nellie might learn the flat news of ane more conversion. Yours, blood- leanly, ALICE DRINKWATER. Want Patent Laws Abolished, Dear Nellie Bly: T agree with you that lite te Rrowing worse every day. 1 am working from 7 to 6, else [ would have sent you there lines | beture. Where Ix the remedy? It is this The! people's representatives in their halls of legis lation should frame wise laws to abolish the right to patent any Iabor-saving machines or de- vices. The labor-saving machines bring down wages for the laborera and profits for the bosses, and they make 1a the long run paupers out of botn, KARL KOCH. A Socialist's Sylogiam, ‘To Nellie Bly: You say you are sick of hearing of foclallam, yet you sympathize with the poor, and distressed! In other words, you would pity’ a alck mar. but you would not give him a doc- | tor. ‘The Socialists want to abolish poverty, and Yet you are opposed to them. You must there. | fore like poverty N. ——— “EVENING WORLD" GUIDE-nooK. | Clubs of New York--XXXII. New York Turn Vere: “The The New York Turn healthy organization, looking so Well to the health, m ‘al, of ite members. It wan organia ‘To’ belong to it and receive the be 1 club-house ® Man must be @ citizen of the United States. Resides affording instruction to mind ody. the organizauion undertakes 1o Felieve members 1m sickness and distress. Land ph: | in the qoodnens of her heart won't she let me ‘This ts Diana’ Ww opera cloak. It is made of black satin, with a curtous col- lar, rather full, turned down round the shoulders, of mulberry-colored velvet, resting upon another collar of pale pink velvet, while round the neck !# a chiffon ruche of pale pink, and the fronts are made of ivory-tinted lace, buttoned across with two paste buttons. Oran Cheesecakes. One-quarter pound almonds, some or- ange-flower water, quarter pound fine sugar pounded and sifted, half pound butter, nine eggs, two candied oranges, one fresh orange. Blanch the almonds and beat them “ery fine with the orange- flower water and the sugar prepared. The butter should be melted carefully #0 as not to ofl, and it must be nearly cold before you use it, Then beat the yolks of five eggs and the whites of four; pound thoroughly in @ mortar two can- died oranges and a fresh one, which has been boiled for three hours; beat the whole together and bake in patty-pans lined with puff paste. Don'ts for the Winter Girl. Don't hint too much about the de- lights of sleighing. Your best young man may have other une for his salary. Don't go out of doors without your overshoes. Don't neglect to wear a veil. The laws of harmonious color combination do not approve of magenta roses worn with purple cheeks and pale-yellow ears. Don't wear a feather and a tin buckle and allude to it as a hat or a bonnet. Who Invented the Pianot The piano was invented by Father Wood, an Engileh monk living at Rome, in the year 1711. By much diligence and hard labor he suc- ceeded in finally turning out an al- most perfect instrument, which he omeo Christofori), of Padua, during tis stay In Florence, some time about the year 1714, The French claim the invention for their couftryman, Marius, of Parte, who, they declare, completed the inves tion in 1716, The Germans make thelr claim in the interest of one J. C. Schroeder, whe, they say, invented the first perfect Plano in the year 1717, when he was only eighteen years old. The Fortune-Teller Costpme An wnderskirt of soft aquamarine drapery, with the signs of the Yodiae embroidered or painted on the hem, te covered by @ loose and fantastic over- dress of brocaded amber. The belt an@ fringe are of coins, the quainter and more variegated the bettcr. Frot the shoulder fall gauzy sleeves of deep cloud color or biack, on the border of which may be sewn lizards, frogs or aboriginal animals—a piacere. The bat's wings are of gause stretched om wire frames, A creacent moon stands upright on the brow and a long-handled mirror, with a gilded serpent entwiniag the stem, finishes the tollet. Gen. Custer's Widow. Mrs, Elizabeth Custer, widow if the famous General, is a pretty woman, whe still dresses in mourning for her hus- band. She has a very sweet manner and a charming voice, in which blends the softness of the South and the dis tinct enunciation of the West. She has written three books and any number of articles and “recollections” of her fa mous husband. She ts now giving read- ings. The favorite reading, she says, is “Garrison Life on the Frontier.” She makes her home when not travelling im New York and Washington. Try Potatoes This Way To-Morrow. Peel, boil and mash ane quart of pota- toes, Add the yolks of four emg and milk enough to make the potatoes moist, Put on the fire, stirring all the while, for two minutes. Take it off and leave over night. The next morning add chopped fowl, some bread crumbs, & Uttle milk, pepper and salt to the t Mould in wineglass and fry a Ii brown, Serve with garnish of parsley. A Glave Shirt Suchet. A dainty little sachet ts made from Blace silk, six inches by three, in shape, and stitched In diamond pattern. Se” & three-cornered piece to one side, to come over the middle, and edge this plece with narrow and fine lace, Ox-Tall Soup. Chop the ox-tall in pleces an inch long, Set them on the fire with an ounce of butter; stir until they turn brown and then turn the fat off. Add the amount of broth required and boil slowly until the pleces of ox-tall are then add three or four to: sold to Samuel Crispi, the famed author of "Virginia." Crispi sold it to Faulke Greville (Count Carll says to Barthol- season with salt Pepper; boll gently for fifteen minutes and serve, meat and all. formation to give, a subject of general interest discuss or @ public service te acknowledge, can pul the idea into tess than 100 words, ters cannot be printed, | Snow im the Side Streets. To the Eaitot Are there no other street this ctty bestia Broadway, Fifth avenue and Twenty-third stree It no, why do you state a few days after a snow- fall that ‘the streets are cleaned? There ie never a load of snow removed from the sido streets uptown. The regulars sometimes scrape fan inch or so from the top, and heap it up in piles, so close together that @ wagon cannot drive up to the curb, The next day (be it they spread tt around fallen, a good plan would be to shovel all this im large heaps, about 100 feet apart, and when the carts have cleared the prin- cipal ones, let them tackle the others Commis- sioner Waring, please take note. ANTI-THAW. Another Single-Tax View of It. To the Editor In answer to ‘Prot. G. G. Bunions,’ whee @ man pays $1,000 a year for @ lot to build house he {8 paying for good government, such as fire and police protection, water, sewerage, parks and the hundred and one things that make life in the city more desirable, The fact that these things are to be had im a great city increases the price of lote proportionately, When you pay your $1,000 to an Astor you are paying him for what the whole community provided, besides |couraging him to keep his land idle by taxing it lightly on the ground ‘‘that he ts receiving no income from it," and discouraging the use of land by taxing improvements as if he had injured the city thereby. HAMILTON HAY. t Be a» Sait To the BAttor: “Ia tt proper for a boy te tell om his echool- mate?’ No, “M. FH." it is mot proper; it ts decidedly wrong. You not only win the hatred of your companions, but you injure your own repu- tatlon, Your tale-bearing may bring your com- panion's fault to light and punishment may fol- low. And it also may plant seeds of hatred and evil within bis breast. How much better to let way out and win the love and good will of one's fellowmates than to tarnish the memory of your echool days with quarrels and Gisturbances, with tale-besring the root of ail. ‘A BROOKLYN GIRL. A Terribly Bad Girl. To the Editor: Will you kindly advise a distracted mother what to do with @ wilful, disobedient girl of sixteen years? She ts my daughter, 1 am a widow. Since she was a babe she will not mind one word T say, but has left school against my wishes and gone to work, where I don't know. What she earns she spends for candy, and is injuring her health, She also gocs out Aight till 11 and 12 o'clock, and 1 Powerless to prevent it. What can I do with ber? LMR. w To the Editor In answer to opinion that if si a the Use. Eh! ‘Wat's the Use?’ I am of doeen't find any use of in this worlé, why don't abe take @ ride on the Lrooklyn troiley and get a free pass Into the pext world, And aj I should think if she would get married and bave a nice home and children abe would enjoy lit ‘what's the use of living and not think of JIM, Brooklyn. ippert ‘"R. ¥."* Mike this: ‘Tou are an employer; you must give me work and Pay me eo many dollars a day for be many houre’ labor?’ Would it be any more unressomable than {fT eay to him, “*“X. Y.,' you must wort, for me, at my terms, and as long as I wont yout’ “"X. ¥." simply wants compuleory arbi- tration. It won't work. It never has and never will work, because ft ignores natural rights. Pre- ‘mier Gladstone hit the nail on the head when he wan appealed to to interfere on bebalf of p- Pressed miners on strike. As usual, the mine owners had ‘‘nothing to arbitrate.” The Premier merely hinted that, failing an amicable agree- ment, ‘It would be the duty of the Goverament to inquire into the rights of the public im the mineral lands," and the strike was quickly set- tled. The miners got justice, because owners 41@ not dare have thelr titles investigated. Would net @ threat to investigate the tities of rack-renting chureh corporations and holders of trolley fram chines, &c., with a view to thelr resumption by the detrauded people, have « salutary effect? LUTHER @, SAND. Life To the Editor: Tam living {2 @ Gouble fiat, Directly oppestte me {s living @ woman who proves a great anney- ‘ance to all the other tenants in the house. My aughter is taking music lessons The plano te only weed perhaps two hours during the day, Rever before noon and seldom after 9 P, M. This woman at times, when my daughter practises, comes out into the public hall and rales a die turbance. She also objects to the family above hor watking across their apartments ff they have heavy shoes on, Pleave suggest what can be done with such @ person, GRATEFULLY. “What Funay Things We See.” To the Editor: ‘The girl that thinks everybody is dead stuck om her. ‘slob’' who imagines he's a regular owell tm 9 % wult of clothes, ‘The ‘mug’ that tells every ene hew many Girls he jollies. The ‘‘yap" that hangs out on Fourteenth ctrest at night, throwing the bluff thet he's an acter. ‘dead fy Dloke” whe thinks he's @ wee- New York Flats. der. ‘The “‘guy"' that talks loud and long at the least pretense. ‘WILLIE TRILBY. Has Sensitive Hain To the Editor: When I was young my hair was brows. Whee 1 got to be about seven years old, { went around without a hat, and I think the sun changed the color of my hair to be a dark red. If I sit ime warm room I feel my bair burning, I em twen- ty-two. NELLIE. Socialiom the Only Hope. To the Editor: Perhapa your readers could inform me bow can convince my betrothed that I love her élose. So far I have done all in my power to please er, but atill she doubts that I only live for her. AWLP It Came Like a Spectre, To the Editor 1am a girl of sixteen, and while being combed have discovered one gray hair, which was pulled out by the rust, When pulled out, it was one How Glad Settled a Strike, To the Editor “X. Y."" has a plan to prevent strikes by the appointment of @ non-partisan board, with power to compel atte of parties In Iabor disputes. Suppose such @ board established (one mow ex- tata), how are its findings to be eafereed? What third black and'two-thirds gray, Miss B. AL From 150 to 350 Tons, To the Editor: How much coal is required per day for the Atlantic Hiner, = J. L. SMITH, Newark, M. a, ‘« ” ‘ . ( ° 4 »t Vi / | \