The evening world. Newspaper, February 22, 1895, Page 4

5 UPTOWN OFFiCE—Junetion of Broat- “weg ond Sixth avn ot 80 ot. RARLEM OFFICE ot. aad Matt mane PA. Prem Rallfing, 109 Chest- ot fe who are experts at such trick: Jultus Harburger is @ member of the Steckler organization, and astonishment is expressed that Mayor Strong should have been Induced to believe that “he owed the Steckiers an important office, such as Excise Commissioner for Har- burger.” Is it not instructive to find a ‘re form” organ objecting to an appoint- ment, not because it fs made aimply as A payment of a political debt, but be- cause the appointee and his friends did not render enough political service to earn it? And is {t not droll to find this objec- tion coming from a reform politictan, who has himself been rewarded with an office, although he had no organizi tion at all at his back? the news Btecklers, s, DOWN WITH THE FLAGS. ‘The country ts safe. ‘The bill prohib- iting the display of any foreign flag on @ publio building has passed the Legisla- ture and gues to the Governor for hi approval, It will doubtless be signed. When tt becomes a law the Grand Old Party will be able to boast of having protected the city from the humiliation THE WORLD'S _* W\ctRCULATION MONTH 4 AVERAGE WEEK-DAY " CIRCULATION FOR JANUARY, 1895 991,139 More than Fifty Thousand Over Half a Million WANTED, WASHINGTON FOR ONE HOUR. If George Washington, on that famous --pight. when he crossed the Delaware to lick the Hessians, could have foreseen the Rothschild-Morgen bond contract he would have turned his boat around and Bone back to the other shore. The idea that the rulers of the nation he wus founding would one day make « clear gift to English bankers of more millions ‘of dollars than would have saved the country twice over in Washington's hard times would have been intolerable to the Father of his Country. It has taken a century of prosperity ‘with its epervating tendencies to make the {dea tolerable to the American People, if indeed, it is to be tolerated. Prosperity 1s very comfortable, but that it has ite disadvantages is evident from the fact that a President and a Becretary of the Treasury dare to make +» guch & contract with foreigners. Wash- ington would have been Langed as o traltor if he had connived at such usury on @ Continental loan, and even so late ‘es- the time of Andrew Jackson con- epiracy against the public credit was a serious offense againat public sentiment. In view of the progress of the na- tion and of civilization it would be rash to wish for the old times completely back again, but what a blessing it would be if we could have G. Washing- ~ fon and A. Jackson with us again in “ “their old capacities for just about one hour! Would those bankers get those bonds, contract or no contract? Well, we should see! 1s HE THE MURDERER! ‘The arrest of the German, John Boeh- mann, for the alleged murder of the two boys, Seims and Knoop, who were found yp ead in Miller's Hotel, Williamsburg, “Yast Sunday, through asphyxiation, ‘5 & very singular feature of the tragedy, Boehmann had come forward as a friend @f the dead boys; had offered his ser- and National disaster of seeing the green flag of Prin or the colors of Germany or Italy or any other foreign nationality floating for ten or twelve hours about once a year over the City Hall. To be sure, the people have not suffered very severely, nor has the National honor feceived any serous damage from the Gisplay of the Irish flag in union with the American flag on the top of the City Hall on St. Patrick's Day, or from the flying of other emblems on other festivals honored by foreign-born and naturalized American citizens. But, then, the growing demands of the A. P. A. on the politicians must be respected. ‘Those who are interested {n such matte: may be grateful that a constitutional doubt prevents the prohibition of the isplay of the Golden Harp on private buildings or in atreet processions. IF @. W. DROPPED IN ON US NOW. If George Washington could etow him- self away in old Charon's boat and ateal @ ride back over the Styx, he would see and hear things on this whilom battle-ground of his that would make him weep copious weeps, as Artemus Wart used to say. He would be pleased with the splendor and wealth of the country whose flag is flying numerously in his honor to-day, but when he rubbed the sleep of nearly a hundred years out of his eyes and took a look around tn search of that grand old myth, patriotism, he would want to trample his dear old white wi in the dust and kick himself all over Washington Square. Patriotism is going out of date here. Patronage and profit are taking its place in the administration of National as well as local affairs, And when his righteous indignation had reached the boiling point, oh, how he would sikh for that axe with which he soaked the cherry tree! And, whiz, how he would swat that Fool Financter in the White House with it! And, m-nyah, but what a delightful smite of it he would give the Easy Boss of New York Politics! Q-o-0-0-oh, if G. W. would only come back! If the Legislature would devote its Gay off to an appreciative study of Washington's utterancen on official and citizenly duties, it should feel moved to pass New York City's demanded laws with a rush, next week. ‘The witness bug trial are all the more thrilling and horrible because they wre true, We shudder at such things in fiction, but {t frightens the shudder out of us when we know they are real. A new solvent for gold has been dis. Covered. It is doubtful, however, if tt would cause Treasury gold to melt away | with anything like the celerlty produced by the operations of a cunningly handied bond syndicate, In bis farewell address Washington gave clear warning against the min} chief to popular government which h feared some Ridiculous Hoss would some day sirive to work. How many Congressmen have ever read Washington's words on the public credit? They are just us good to-day as they were when they were written, Yices to the police in finding the sup- owed murderer, and had sympathized ) §nd wept with the parents of the vic- tims, Julius Nelson, a Hoboken detective, hed his suspicions of this volunteer worker, but was for a time shaken in Bis belief by the man's complete cool- ess and confidence. At last he made up his mind to arrest Boehmann, and after he had done so a search revealed the fact that a number of articles be- longing to the dead boys were in his Possession and the money supposed to aye been stolen trom them was found @oncealed under the carpet in his room. There i strong suspicion of the pri: ener’s guilt, and the detective deserves * @¥edit for the arrest. ‘WHOLESALE ARSON. ‘No more startling revelations have ever ‘been made tn @ court-room than those re- gulting from the firebug trial now going ‘en before Judge Martine. ‘The idea that an organized gang was @t work in the horribie business is a: most beyond belief. One witness testi- fied to having helped to set fire to a ‘Dasement shoe store in Seventh avenue. ‘The stock had been removed and old Doots substituted in place of the new ‘ones. “Did you not know that there were a Bumber of sleeping people in that house?" was asked of the witness. “Yes," was the cool reply. And when Judge Martine asked this man how many fires hia employer had set his reply, ausing a shudder in the eourt-room, was “about twenty.” There is no hanging for erson. But there ought to be. Such wretches as ‘these, if proved guilty, ought not to be aliowel to live, A SINGULAR OBJECTION. & New York contemporary, professing y>extreme devotion to the cause of Re- form and Independent city government, Qseails Mayor Strong for his appoint- ‘ment of Julius Harburger as Excise Commissioner, ‘The ground of the objection 1s that _ the Steckler organization is ‘simply “Wind and peper;” that while the elec: “thon of the “reform” ticket was going “on, “the Btecklers simply walked the primtreets and talked,” and that al! there ~/ te ef the party eonaiste of puffs, the in- A whole new Poltce Boant, If you please, Mayor Strong. New York does not take kindly to the suggestion that Kerwin and Murray may remain, Aren't the legislators forgetting that police reorganization in New York should be prompt to be thoroughly ef- fective? A Bishop ts running @ saloon in Chi- cago, but it is a non-alcoholic saloon, and up to date It possesses no political pull. While Divver, Grady, Koch et. al re- main on the Police Court Mench the Better New York lingers by the way. Mrs. Rainsford has every reason to be gratified at the chorus of approval over her appointment ag a school trustee The Westchester authorities pleatl ignorance of the fact iat Monte Carlo is ry cannot “Lite The underlying principles statecraft have not Washington's time and Ut Lestelators would do w much respect for Wash tgto ples as for his birth It ts unfortunate that the por in the suffering Mayor cure for his rl of honest The Ridiculous Ty {t would tak» more thar fight {t out on his ling. s has decitod that Suppose Japan Hung Chang's antee of good faith were to dem That was more like tlon which s' istry last night. the Rosebery ‘The spollsman's ex dence than the W these days. As was expected, the 1 roof the two Hoboken boys, Knooy aid > turns out to be @ villain of varied The Writing on the Wall (Street). He not only killed the young men, but wept beside the casket of one of them, and sent a floral piece purchased with money stolen from his victims, Anna Gould's wedding gowns are of American make. Why not? So is the girl herself, The dogs that have had their days this week have had no reason to com- plain, Farmer Dunn's promised cootni on time. But ai tox —. was for Prof. De Voe's ‘With what fine contempt Washington would have regarded @ Ridiculous Boss, No whipping-post legirlation for the New York of the nineteenth century. All men who never told a Me should stand up and be counted to-day. “Platt doesn't want a fight.” well that he has found It out. Gov. Morton ts now, apparently, easy boss of the situation, You cannot revere Washington more and your country less, Tt ie the It 1s great news that the Greater New York bill ts safe, Welcome to the Mat of Giants once more, Col. Rusle. —_————— FATHER KNICKERBOCKER’S DIARY, Feb. 21, 1895.—Again to-day the statement ts printed that Mr. Platt came back from his latest Albany vinit “pertectly satisfied.’ And I bel he did, but mot in the way that some people may think. 1 be! he 1s perfectly satisfied that for tho present he ts at the end of his ropi and that ali he can do just now ta to ait down and aes things go by. . T know that Gov. . Morton ts most anztous to have ua get together,”” sald ex-Postmaster Van Cott to-day, and then he added: “I know, too, that Mr. Platt te for peace." These utterances may be regarded, I suppose, as bearing as much force ae though they had come from Mr. Platt own Iipa They tell thelr own atory of the T Home's ‘Yaatisfactton."" It wan't exactly thoughtful thing for Mr. Van Cott to go as he did, and aay that weaknens of Mr. Platt in the Legislature,’ Peo- ple will amile and have thelr own Ideas about that, I rather think ° . ether, This in not from any. Mowever, what pleases me most and what must aurprise the wily Tlogan most, 1 am eure, fa the con Appearance of Gov. Morton in the rele of an adviser and controller of Piatt The Boss had credited himself with the poltt roation of Morton, He expected to handle as he chose, and there are lots of people In bum the State to whom thin expectation seemed log cal and easy of realtzation. At this most eritical period of the Boss's whole career, however, tt wit who shown ernor who Im stro . up weakly and it ts the oe Who would have dared to calculate #0 much on Platts intacaloulatton: eee The Mayor's rheumatism kept him at home again to-day. 1 am sorry. 1 should Uke to have scen him mile at the goo! news of peace, ee WASHINGTON AND PUBLIC CREDIT, “Cherish public credit, 1 wrote, Just look up the passage, and on finding make « note. The times are midat my farewell words pe Just now my good advice to vindicate, But ‘twasn't what [ meant, to back @ greedy syndicate. The credit is the nation's; if at tt with banks, It should be for the benefit of those within her Ive not a thing to trade tm, that the rich may fain more gold; We held {t something sacred im our strugeling day of old, GEORG WASHINATON. —- BY OTHER EDITORS, A Sale T ut Waa a Se! It ts hardly progr to epeak of nei ft. Louis Post-Diapaten, the ania ot | f Soctety, | riean Credit: Abroad, Viatt amd the Fassett Patur MR. TREE IN “HAMLET.” Beerbohm Tree received a good deal of nice “encouragement” last night at Abbey's Theatre when he appeared us the morbid Dane in “Hamlet.” He was vastly applauded, and his Hamlet ts perhaps the best taing that ‘Tree has shown us, for he leaves mediocrity b hind him and gives us a finely embroid- ered and neatly conceived conception of the part. Tree's eccentrleitics and de fects are all woven into the entity © the mad Prince, We don't mind a lisp or a running together of sibilants when the xpeaker Is Rupposed to he crazy. ‘Tree's Hamlet is a rather fascinating study for specialists and psychologists, He is not absolutely deranged, but his brain centre feoms to have gone wrong. He Is a happy combination of half genius, halt idiot, He ts a gentleman who lives on his emotions exclusively, and ts ruled by them, almost automatically. He winds them up and they work, ‘This Hamlet i pale and rickly and delicate, You feel that there must be something he could take for his trouble, I recom- mended pepsine to Willard, because his Hamlet was so purely stomachic, but ‘Tree puzzles me a little, Still, his Ham- let is 80 evidently diseased that the con- dition might be overcome. A doctor would probably say, “Go into society, forget yourself and take a tonic.” Tree was particularly good In the scene with the ghost, which he made you feel was pure hallucination, and in the episode of the play. He enacted this tn an almost melodramatic manner, but tt was highiy effective and moving, The To be or not to be" speech he de- livered standing at the back of an armchair, as though he were posing for his photograph, and the photographer had sald: “Try and appear unembar- rassed.” But he sat down before he had finished, This speech was perhaps 4 trifle disappointing. ‘Tree did not at- tach the importance to {t that many actors ahow, As a rule, an actor saves Himself up for this, but Mr. ‘Tree passed it over lightly, which Is perhaps just as well. ‘The “To be or not to be" lines in “Hamlet,” the “All the world's a stage” In “Ags You Like It," and the “Queen Mab" recitation in‘ Romeo and Juliet’ have been emphasized so much that they have almost lost thelr significance. Tree guve us new mean- ings of less easily understood passages, and this was far preferable. There 1s so much In Shakespeare that we do not understand, although we sit there ke wise owls and pretend that we know it all, Mrs. Tree was a very hysterical Ophe- Na, and ehe indulged in a good many unnecessary theatrical shrieks, ‘The mrt 1s unsuited to her and beyond her. C.-M. Hallard was an excellent Laertes what a clever sympathetic young actor Mr, Hallard ts—and Nutcombe Gould was admirabie as the Ghost. Miss Frances Ivor was Gertrude, and Miss Lily Hanbury the Player Queen. Hol- man Clark, who suggests James Lewls so forcibly that if you shut your eyes you could fancy you heard him, was the Polontus, “Hamlet” was carefully but not ostentatiously staged, It was an exceedingly enjoyable performance, and it has done more for Mr, Trea than hii ‘Bunch of Violets,” his “Red Lamp’ or his “Merry Wives of Windso: Thank goodness, he forgot to do “The Ballad Monger” last night. ALAN DALB. A WARNING TO ANNA'S COUNT. My galtant Castellane of France, 2 fFou are a lucky chap—'est tout, y Uirlte belongw this aide A | keep our eye on 5 ou. GEORGE WASHINGTON. GREAT MEN OF OUR OWN TIME, ‘The mout fetching patr of mustaches tn the Aw sembly at Albany goes with the picturesque per- monality of the Hon. Bpenetis Howe, who comas from Mr, Piatt's voting county. ‘They're beauties, those long drooping silvery 4 that weep down over the manly bosom of the Hon, Kpenetua, aud he's as fond of them as a ainail boy ta of a pair of mew bovta They are fully @ foot long on either wide, and nothing like them has ever beom seen outsite of Boston, where they wore fashionable @ soore of years ago. Next to his whiskers Col. How dimingutshed for bia allegiance to tho greet Bons, for whom he {9 suppoxel to apeak as on He ts apparentiy having authority. > the glory that goes with the reputation of \Joying that distinction. As long as Col Howe la in the Assombly Me. Platt witl mot lack @ Howe used to be @ reformed wince then, ’ Me tna omenit tn he's © nim ree vk as Platt woult Mave him He isa few months rier. Years axo Col iroenbacker, but paper folks ran him f he has t well up mporta 4 te pretty when the way for real GEORGE WASH! = —— EMPIRE 97. BITS, 4 per a Riv @ caught tht man got blaod-potmning tram wo a dew ¢ ankle has who > be an ex crak rife 4 seventera dialect uiaster ash e Dykoman cently took @ special tra New ¥ } trom Albany 145 antes, tn hoop come alter a and a er ot | JAMS W. SCOTT. ‘This is @ picture of the mam who, if he keeps on buying and consolidating Chi- cago newspapers will presently be sigh- ing in vain for more Windy City sanc- tums to conquer. The artist has not represented him as he appears in apeech- making raiment at New York banquet tables, but In the businesslike garb of his own wild and woolly West. THE GLEANER'S BUDGET. Gossip Here, a Hint Th Tales of City I hear that there is every indication of @ tre mendous boom in bleycling as soon as Winter breaks up and the country highways are tn good condition again, Not in wheeling of the profes sional or racing order, however, which will no doubt have its usual following, but tn bicycling among those who are interested in it simply as a pleasant and health-giving recreation. The fact chat swell society has taken up wheeling Is ong powerful stimulus to the growing popu- larity of the sport. Women that have heretofore generally looked upon thelr bolder sisters in short skirts or bloomers with something akin to aversion now weor to be even moro enthualastlo over thelr wheels than the men, and hundreds have been putting im a good Winter's work in the riding schoola uptown. They will be ready to take to the road at the frst appearance of real Spring weather, A leading bicycle dealer told me the othor day that the demand for ladies’ wheels during the rast (wo or three months had been simply phenomenal, and that some of the fac- tories were being put to It te turm out auf. it Bumber before Sprin There 1s a restaurant-keeper in Sixth avenue who does a thriving business in cashing penston checka Not long ago @ veteran came to his place bearing = beautiful ‘Jag’ and his check at one and the same time. He decided that he wanted to stay right there, “Take four months’ board In advance,"’ he sald. Next morniaf the old fellow awakened sober and homesick. He wanted to go right back to Camp Point, But all hie money had been pald out for expenses he would never incur. There was not enough left ‘oven for @ railroad ticket. Humbly he pleaded with the restaurant-keeper for enough to go home with, and the man not being bad-hearted, the pleading waa not in vain. The veteran got le money back and with, It pome good advice ‘ < A well-known man in artistic circles, who commenced life as an office boy, chanced to be downtown the other day and, impelled by some curlous force, he entered the Stock Exchange, where, a a youth, he knew every face and name. Much to his surprise, he found but one familiar face, Fifteen yeara ts @ long period in Wall street. ‘There are your signs of Spring," sald an old Newnrorkes epeinn wp Fark Bow the other Gay, jo need of Farmer Dunn or ot Prot. De Voe or y of the rest of the prophets.” As he spoke he potnted to a group of downtown gamins bend- ing over the aidewa'k tn front of the Staata Zelt- ung building. The annual campaign in ‘shooting craps’ bad begun. ‘The ever-ready takir comes nobly to the front again, Ho In out with w bronze button on the face of which appeara a representation of a trolley car encircled by the legend, ‘“Rrooklyn Trolley War Veteran, 1895." The soldier boys who served during the strike across the bridge are ready victims to this new plece of ingemulty. THE GLEANER. a GEORGE TO TOM. © Maxiliisstmus, Tom Platt, With what regrets my dust doth reek! I'm thinking again, what a Boss I'd have been It T had only had your cheek! GRORGE —— JOKES FOR ALL TASTES. WASHINGTON. Called from Humor Undefiled. Laundry maiden, eer I go, Give me back the shirt you owe, Or, since that has left my breast, Keep it mow and take the rest, Hear my vow before I go. Wooed by breezes Arctic ¢ By these cuffs whose fussy fringe Kies the wrists to ruddy tings, ‘Thou hast mixed the wash, I know. Chicago News Sometimes Figures Lie, “Did Mise Oldgirl give her age wh aaked he was “DId she refuse?" No, she sald she was twenty."—Chicago Inter Ocean, The Theatre Ht ‘They leased her, they praised her, They maid she was juat pat. Was she handsome? Was ahe guy? Far from it, but on that day She took a seat in the parquet And—and removed her hat —Forgotten Exchange. Right Up to Date. hope you find your hat perfectly Millinen—1 satisfactory. Mise De Fashlon—Yea, indeed; several persons the theatre last night on account of 1 Chicago Inter Ocean, © Vision. T hear the scrunch of the editor's shears, 1 smell the snscll of his rour past ‘And the sound of bis volce rings in my ears: ‘Declined with thanks; Tam yours in hast —San Francisco Traveller, What She Didn't Cate! Bhe-You say the chicken soup tsa't Why, 1 told the cook how to make It bho didn't catch the idea Me-No: I think it was the chicken whe didn't catch London Tit Bite —-- A MESSAGE TO GROVER, If I ware tn your shoes, On, Grover ¢., Soon Olne: © would ower be: For I'd raise my lite hatchet And tn the neck he'd | And the Truss no longer would good Perhaps “Do you believe tw @resmet’ « fawyer asked mo veaterday. "t don't know," I began, but stopped ant aAded more honestly, “T guess 1 do; not exactly im the dream, but im ite import."* see “1 have & friend, @ doctor," he continued, evl- dently satisfied with my reply, “who lives tn Brooklyn, He dreamed one night that he was parning Evergresns Cemetery, and Just at the fame timo a iicarse was going in the gate, The man on the box, he noticed, was a short fellow with m astubby fed mustache, Me wore a green oat cut something Mke a drenscoat, and there were brass buttons on tt 8 “Ag he noticed thin tha driver of the hearse ‘aw him, and, jumping down from the box, he went to the rear of the hearse, and, opening the door, made a friendly motion with his hand, as though Inviting the doctor to enter or look within. The doctor looked and saw four bodies Iying in the hearse. Then he woke.” cee As the lawyer paused, I began, as {a my habit, to mpeculate on the en1 of the story. Did the doctor the next day kil! fo oF did he see @ runaway wiht four pe of their lives? “A few nights afterwards,"’ tinued east dream. It made a deep impression on his but he could not explain It ‘fome time afterwards he was in Chicago, and as he stepped from his room to go down in the elevator the elevator man stepped out- side and with @ wave of the hand motioned ihe Goctor to enter.” “There was something familiar about the act that struck the doctor, and as he glanced at the man, he saw that he was a short fellow and had ubby red mustac 14 that he wore a «1 coat cut something like @ dresscoat, with brass buttons upon it, the lawyer com- ee The doctor was 0 amared that he stepped back, and the elevator started down without him. Stil In a maze the doctor walked downstairs, and there he found everything in commotion. ‘The elevator had fatten and the four passengers and the elevator man had been killed! "I don't know,"* concluded the lawyer, thought- fully, “whether I believe in dreams or not, but I have a premonition that I will not live long, because 1 nave dreamed twice lately that I was in a strange place, and that one by one all the members of my family that are dead, my parents, my three brothers, my only sister, her husband and two children, came up and rected me as if they had been expecting me and Thad been absent somewhere. ‘The place was not fan unusual place, although strange to me. It was in the open country. I have dreame! the same dream twice lately, and I would lke to know what {t means Can you tell met . No; T could not, And yet I belleve {t means something. I have had dreams, many of them, torewarning me of coming evente. I don't at- tompt to explain ft. All sorts of theories have been advanced for and against dreams. 1 only know I have dreamed and my dreams have come to pass. NELLIE BLY. “EVENING WORLD" GUIDE-BOOK. Clubs of New York--XXXVI. Down Town Association. ~The Faciities which the Merchants Club, as seribed Wednesday, affords to members in the ary- goods district, the Down Town Assoctation pro- vides {n a district centring about 60 Pine street. ‘The building 1s rather more tmpoalng than that in Leonard street, and it Is very handsomely appointed; but the aoclabllity and good tellow- ship prevailing within ft “during Intervals of dusiness' are of the game order with those in the Merchants’ Club. The Assoctation was or ganized in 1860. It lives right up to ite mem- Derahip limit of 1,000, and always nas a goodly walting list, The Down Town's dinners are of the first order of excellence, — WASHINGTON'S FOREIGN POLICY, “Observe good faith and justice towards all na- tlona,"* 1 adviaed, But that's @ forelsa polloy tm late days oft re- vised. Wen with a modern navy, the lesson may be learned, ‘That the good will of a neighbor 1s mot safely to be spurned. And, since all lands are neighbors, in these times of steam and speed, The furthest is mot tho far off, her just de- manda to beed, England strong, Hawall weak—no di should be known; The pollcy for all should be what Juatice calle her ow GEORGR WASHINGTON, The Turks believe amber to b guard against (ie injurious effe an infallible of nicotine hence its exiensivye use for the mouthpieces of pipes A gigantic camellia In growing near the royal castle at Piluits, near Dresden, Germany. The | tree in twenty-four feet high and produces am Dually et least $0,000 blossoms, ‘Travers City, Mich., claims the champlon reosea for her citizens as taapayers. Slace the village Was organised, in Isl, there has paver been single plece of property advertised for ¢ In @ Shinto temple one recs hundreds of little children, placed there by parents very of a wick child, If the @ red bid ts hung about the to secure ther prayer In grant image's neck Fischbeta, the painter, spent bie childhood ta © baker's shop. Ils frac signe of @ Uste for fart were shown by hiw skill In giving pecullar and sometimes v shapes to the little cakes A Ficha Draped Bodice. ‘The fichu-like draping of the bodice in this sketch must enchain and charm the most fickle eye. The gown was in a} greenish neutral shade of miroir poplin, patterned over with the sweetest sprays of tiny rosebuds, the upward trimming of bows of black ribbon velvet flanked by pink rose bunches, making the hap- plest finish. Women snd Cold Feet. A man who has made a study of it called a Chicago Tribune reporter's attention to what he sald a fact, that women can stand more cold in their feet than men. He sald that where a dozen men would be found wearing Arctic overshoes more than three times that number of women would be found comfortable with ordinary rubbers, and that most of the best-dressed women who shop downtown wear no overshoes of any sort. Fried Cakes, With Two Eggs. Beat two eggs with one coffee-cupful of sugar, add one coffee-cupful of good milk. (If wished a little richer, use only one teacupful.) Grate in a@ little nut- meg, add a little salt, and one quart of flour sifted with two heaping teaspoon- fuls of baking powder, Add flour, if needed, to make it a soft dough. The Gossip Corner. Some Austrian railways have lady station masters. About the year 1400 the Queen of France astonished the kingdom by driv- ing about in a swinging chariot mount- ed with gold and gems. It was the only wheeled vehicle for pleasure pur- poses in France. The love of Berlios’s life was an Irish woman, an actress, homely as could be, they say, but with such a power of delineation in Shakespearian roles that his heart was completely taken. They were finally married, Mrs. Paret, the wife of Bishop Paret, of Maryland, ts a friend of the birds, She is trying to form a society in Baltl- more the members of which will be pledged not to wear any feathers ea their hats except ostrich feathers, A Compensatio: ft Fashion. It Is one of the compensations of present extravagances in fashion that it makes not @ particle of difference how many varied and motley materials you can combine in the same gown. It is taken for granted that the sleeves are different from the rest of the dress. They are usually velvet, but any kind of fancy silk will do as well. Them if there is any spot in the gown which fs lacking in any way a piece of lace can be used to fill in, and with a bit of rib- bon to conceal the joining places the effect 1s good. Thus a whole dress or, at any rate, a whole waist can be made from a few pleces like a patchwork quilt, and it’s all right because it fashionable. Nothing is more useful to cover up a soiled place than a piece of lace. An entirely new waist may be made out of an old soiled blue and white silk one. Table Manners of Children. It should be insisted upon that the children shall make themselves tidy be- fore coming to the table, whatever may be the meal, even if they will meet no- body but yourself there. Teach them early that it is a disgrace to themselves and to you to eat with unclean hands and faces. Indicate further the pro- priety of introducing, while at table, topics that will interest and please all. Let wrangling, fault-finding and recrim- ination be never so much as named among them. Beef and Potato Pte. Place thin slices of cold beef in the bottom of a shallow pudding dish, put pepper and :alt and some bits of onion on each slice, add cold gravy or little Pieces of butter, then put in another layer of meat, and so on until all Is used; cover the top with a layer of mashed potato. A teacupful of potato saved from dinner may thus bo utilised. If you have more than enough for the top layer, put it In the bottom of the dish. Bake for nalf an hour and see that the top is nicely browned. Hay Serves as Fuel. Hay stoves are coming into satisfac- tory use in some parts of the Dakotas. They are sald to burn from three to ten hours, according to the weather, without refilling; are cleanly and economia” and are, above all, good heaters, Lacy of cheap and good fuel has been one of the chief drawbacks to the Northwestern prairie country, and a stove that will solve the hay and straw burning prob- lem will be a boon indeed. LETTERS, ITs column te open to eversioty whe has & complaint to maks, @ grievance to venéilate, tm formation to give, @ subject of general interest to discuse or a public service to acknowledge, and who can pul the idea into lees than 100 word, Long leters cannot be printed, | A Haman Brute, To the Battor: Passing through Montgomery atreet, between South and Water streets last Monday evening, I wan witness to @ truck-driver's brutal treatment of the horse he was driving. This stable is in Montgomery, just off the corner of Bouth street, next to a saloon where the horse, in backing up, happened to alip, and, belng unable to rise, to the slippiness of the atrect, the driver lashed him so that he dragged himself, harness and all, clear of the ahaftn. The driver then lashed him unmercifully across the face with the ip and also across the aides, Then he punched and battered him across the mouth with his fist ‘nd wound up his ‘‘humane” treatment by taking one of the stakes from the truck and hitting the poor dumb beast -acroms the face with {t and ‘Aloo across the sides. Why 1s the law not en- forced stricter against such brutes as this fellow? KIND TO DUMB ANIMALS. eed. AY i Brooklyn Soldier's D: To the Editor: I beg to draw your attention to the case of Corpl. George Kruger, of Company B, Fourteenth Regiment, N. G., who met his death on Saturday last from aickness contracted while doing duty in Brooklyn during the late unpleasantness, I aup- Pese—seeing that no newspaper has taken any hottce of 1t—that the losing of his promising lite tm the service of bie State was @ matter of amall moment. His comrades, however, are under the perhaps foolish impression that he deserves some Uttle mention from the press—even if it is only notice of is death—-in recognition of the sacri- fice made by him. He was @ model soldier, and bis end 1s pecullarly sad, as he was married only © few months ‘A GUARDBMAN, Brooklya, N. ¥. Man Owned the Earth? To the EAitor: T gee there are still a few people who believe that private owncrship in land ty right and vainly try to refute the arguments of singlo-taxers, Lat them settle this fundamental question first before they offer any more illogical excuses in support of their claims, Would it be right for any one man to ‘own’ the earth? If so, could mot he, by virtue of such ownership, force the rest of the Snhabitants off if they did net accede to his terma? If no, then why {eit right for 8 or 10 per cent, of the people t) own tho marth and dictate to the It ye a single-taxera are wrong, both in thelr premises and conclusions, AI! SHAH. Reads His Sister's Letters--How Meant To the Editor Will some of your readers kindly give me their opinion of a young man who reads bis sister's letters? He used a false key to open her desk that he might do so. I (hia sister) claim he ts guilty of @ very mean act, while hia mother Uinks he has done no wrong. He te twenty-one years old, and 1 aim twenty-four, M.A. Long Island City. Fifteen Years of Grass-Widowhood Tee Loi To the Editor; 1 read in Saturday's “Evening World’ 4 there is to be @ bill presented at Albany whereby & couple who have lived unhappily for a period of Often years may obtain a divorce by asking for It, Aw an act of justice and humantiy to many @ Weary-hearted Woman who 1a tied by law tq ® worthless monster, I am pleased to wee that pome one ts humane enough to consider that there had ought to be gi upen which @ Givoree can be granted other than the statutory his faiher baked. The sbop became famous for | fers fone which now exists, But do you not think that teen years 18 © severe length of time for @ es woman to work and wait in order that the heavy oke which is dragging ber to an early grave is Mis from her overburdened shoulders? Way not wake the law five or seven years, at the ost, whereby the agstieved and suffering vice Uma who are married, yet not wives, may ebtain that which other States grant in @ much shorter space of time? I am sure any man who acts the part of a man and husband would scora te take the hand of a reptile that could desert his peor Hittle trusting wife and leave her to the privatiens and scorns of the world through the name which she has to bear om account of his cruel desertion, that of ‘‘grase widow,’ and, in all justice te her, the law should be amended, and the same laws which govern divorce im other States should also rule In York State, that of desertion and Bon-aupport, for five or seven years, as the lew may determine, ONE OF THE SUFFERING, Brooklya, N. ¥. An Answer to Gov. Greenhalge. To the Editor: Allow me to inform the omniscteat Gov. Green- halge that ‘he's of his trolley” om the single tax question—to wit: In the first place the single tax [a not and mever was claimed to be & “panacea for existing evils," but ® panaces for existing evils caused by involuntary poverty; and any single-taxer stands ready to prove it in Public or private by the safest of all methede— Treason. Now, Your Excellency, we single-tamers claim that if the rental value ef land, which Row goes Into the pockets of private individuals, was taken by taxation, {t would be many times ‘more than enough to pay all our expenses, Ma- tonal, State and municipal. Therefore, we woul Rot require any other taxes ‘This can be preven easily. We also claim that this aystem of taxa- tion will destroy land monopoly and threw epen to the people the thousands of acres of fertile un- taxable land in and on the outskirts @f great cities, now lying idle and ‘by specumsers. That thie will abolish involuntary poverty we are more sure of than we are of the immertality of our immortal soul, D. CAVANAGE, Another Ma: Als Felly. To the Editor: I hope it will be some consolation to “Widney Smith" to know that he {s not the only feel, as he chooses to call himself. Some time age I ac- eldentiy stumbled over the ad. in question, and thinking 1t would be e proftable eaterpela 1 answered it, and in return received @ pamphlet, 1m which wore printed letters of referenes from ‘some of the leading bankers and citisens ef Ia- Gianapolis. They appeared to demonstrate the rosporalbility of the association, I elgned my name to their {mposing-looking contract, tmelesed $2.25 In stamps, with soveral sheets of mapa script. Since then two months have passed, but T have ax yet not received my credentials mer re porter'a badge. Newopaper editors hereaboute all say they never saw or heard of the Interstate Press Directory, and I am inclined to believe there {# none such tn extatence. A MOST EXACTING FOOL, Easton, Pa. VanCortlandt To the Editor: You ask what your readers would like te Reve Mayor Strong do. In answer, allow me to aay at and Pelham Parks finished. If ‘The Evening World”? te tals very Important and wuch- Reoted necotnity 1 feel certain that there would Bot be a very long continuance of this @iliy- dallying with that which a0 closely concerns the Luealth of this city. as not the land been bought And why 1X not even @ commencement the parks? Pelham Bay Pare eom fed would mean boating, bathing and Sghing and a good place for a good outing, without hav> ing to go to Long Island or Jersey City for tt, I believe "The Evening World will agree with mo that the parks are a great deal more tm- portant to our citizens than @ good many Speede ways, and T healthful, surely, aaR When to Li To the dior: In anower Co what time @ young man genld say Rood aight to his girl, I would eay that if hw has a home to go to he had better leave at wr. M. nd Pelham Bay Parks that he should have Van Cort Bay CLINTON AVENUB, Brooklya, N. ¥.