The evening world. Newspaper, March 7, 1895, Page 4

a ‘ RES errors | Peatiaaet by the Pree Pustisatng Company, «te @ PARE ROW, New Tork. B0c. 83.60 No. 12,252 fPutered at Ge Post-Ofice at New York as a ‘pecond-clans matter. ——- jp BRANON OFFICES: UPTOWN OFFICD—Senction of Broad- ‘way ond Sixth ave. at 114 Riis (WORLD HARLEM OFFICE—126th ot and Mati. ‘BROOKLTH—00 Washington ot PRILADELPEIA, PA —Prees Bulléing, 708 Chen ont ot (RAMMINGTON—T08 ih ot. THE WORLD'S Great February Record. Average Circulation Per Day, 565,996. The Greatest Dally Ctrouia- tion Sver Attained by The World or Any Other Newspaper Printed Bpain is Bourbon to the end. Di ‘plomacy guided by any instinct of later Gate than the seventeenth century would Tealine that the time when Cuba wa Fising in rebellion was the worst time fm the world to stir up a row with the ‘United States. But Spain, true to the traditions that Bave wasted a colonial empire once the Greatest in the world, must needs choose his very time to affront the one nation ‘fm all the world whose sympathy can be of use to Cuba. + It te not Iikely that Spain's impetuous end apparently discourteous demand for Feoall of the United States Consul @ Havans will have any direct or im- mediate ‘Bellion. Cuba, of course, belongs by mature to the United Btates, and is Neertain to be annexed to it at some time, but there is no hurry about tt, and ien't worth even a threat of going to war about. But Spain's action relieve this country of any duty beyond legal Reutrality, and leaves us free to give ‘the under dog in the fight at least our sympathy, and, maybe, a shipload of supplies or reinforcements, slipped out quietly, unbeknownstlike, from a port where the customs officers occasionally dose. MAKING DISCOVERIES. Mayor Strong is beginning to ancertain that the tax rate has been kept down by Tammany, not because there was an ‘honest decrease, but by skilful financial dugeling. "The tax rate of last year was ficti- tious,” says Corporation Counsel Scott. am slowly but surely learning con- siderable about the finances of the city, ‘In the absence of Mr. Gilroy, who in im Burope, I must decline to discuss the Matter ‘at all," says President EB. P. Barker, of the Department of Taxes and Assessments, the pre-Tweedite office- vbolder, whose services date back to the Gays of the genial Tom Ficlis und the ancient Tammany ring. “The Evening World" has exposed @ome of the manipulations by which the tax rate has been fictitiously kept down, including the diversion of certain funds of the Sinking Fund from their legal and legitimate purpose. The Mayor will find this a fruitful field of inquiry. He will also find that the tax levy sup. Posed to be based on the regular annual | Cost of the city government is a sham and a deception, The Mayor and Corporation Counsel wil find enough to investigate. As the President of the Tax Department comes Gown trom ihe old repudiated regime, | what he has to say is of little conse- uence, KILL THE HATEFUL BILL. ‘There is a prospect of the defeat In the Assembly of the bill which ts the enter img wedge to the revival of the whip ‘will be lynched. Robbers will do no more business with the Iowa State bank at Adel. THE OLD, OLD STORY: Alleged betrayal, love, desertion and @ revolver were the “properties' ured In ® tragedy enacted in a saioon at the corner | of Third avenue and Sixty-#eventh street at about 8 o'clock yestentay evening It 1s the old, old story, A man and a) girl of twenty years of age went into the large room back ar-room and | called for beer, Noo) e was in the| room, and a waiter after serving the couple returned to the bar-room. ‘Then five pistol shots were heard, and when the police entered the man waa found on the floor shot through the eye and tn the neck, and the woman standing over him, weeping and wringing her hands, asa matter of course. ‘The man is Isaac C, Cochran, @ real estate dealer of #1 Broadway, The woman is Bessie Fairbanks, of Hartford, Conn,, who has been living with Cochran for three years, If Cochran lives, which Is unitkely, he will be blind for life, The story tells Its own moral. STILL LOYAL TO THE “BLACK CROOK." | It's @ pity that the crop of Solons) should run #0 tremendously to bald heads. Hair on the dome of thought and way-up estatesmanship reem to be wholly Incompatible. Take any body of | advanced thinkers or think-they-are- thinkers, while their Jaws may be joy- ous with whiskers, the probability 1s| that not one out of seven has enough hair on his shining Knob to thatch the cranium of a baby. The sad part of the whole thing is not the absence of hair only, but the reckless proclivity for gayety which goes with it. A bald-headed man 1s irretrievably and irredeemabiy a gay boy. He may pretend to be staid and circumspect, but his hairlessness gives him away. A fresh evidence of his man-about- towniehness has just come from Lansing, Mich. The State Legislature ts in session there. ‘Tuesday night a} “Black Crook” show struck the town and the Senate had to adjourn for want of @ quorum. A bald-heatled Sergeant- at-Arms was sent after the absent mem- | bers, but he got into the front row at the Opera-House with the others and stayed there while there was @ limb left | to twinkle on the stage. Meantime leg- islation waited. Benator Parsons has introduced a bill | providing that the Court Instead of the Superintendent shall fix the extreme limit of prisoner's term in the Elmira | Reformatory. The term may, however, be shortened under the parole system by | the Heformatory managers. The step | here proposed Is @ wise one, and the parsage of the bill will undoubtedly bring the actual working of the ticket- of-leave-system nearer to the law's in- tent, and more certainly within consti- tutional Imits, than it has been, Investigation of that Orchard street) butlding disaster reveals a startling Jack of respect for the building laws, If the present Department cannot make the contractors live up to the laws’ re- quirements, {t should speedily be dis- placed by one that can, Meanwhile, let no guilty builder go unpunished. ‘The Lincoln Club of the Highth Assem- bly District has indorsed Mayor Strong. | ‘This 1s more than the Mayor did for | the Lincoln Club, He failed to make! ex-Postmaster Van Cott of the Lincoln, | a Fire Commissioner, But Van Cott! may have hopes of something yet. | Chairman Lauterbach returns from Albany, “well pluayed with the situa. tion.” It tw trusted that he took warn- ing from the experience of Mr. Platt and the capital let city’s drinking water now refer to Mayor| | Strong as the “Great I Am.” If he can make Tom Platt a “Great Has Been, citizens who aro not in politics for pull | or patronage will be very grateful to him, Warner Miller explains that the views | in hin statement were all his own. He {w entitled to the credit of demonstrat. | ing that one man, as well as many men, may be of many minds It's a good echeme, that of making | the road managers run trains all) night on all thelr branches. But why | t also make them light those trains | decently? | Would any rural member of the Lex- | islature at Albany care to indorse a Divver, a Grady or a Koch for Justice of the Peace tn his own town? It 1m pleasant to note the passage of | Assemblyman Burns's bill looking to the performance of New York's share in the | werk of saving the Palisades | There 1s a suspicton that Dr. Depew {a having a hard struggle to keep from being as funny as he can over the | quandary of Mr. Platt. | | . | orth Carolina need not miss the squabblings of the late House at Wash- neton. ‘The He was passed In her own | | Lewis! ture y stenlay. It is a remarkable coineldence that a New York Legish wolr » should be ping post in this State. It le to be | hoped that the return to bestia! bar barism will be prevente!. ‘The whipping post favatics hope to @ucceed by confining the infliction of the Punishment to the most revolting erimes. But the laws can be made se Vere enough without degrading and de- basing the whole State. Kill the hateful bill, and make the erime against which it pretenda to b @irected a felony punishable by tmprison. ment for twenty years or for life. A RUA ON A BANK. ‘They take better fm Iowa than re of their banks they do further West At 9 o'clock y rday morning two rob- Bers drove up to the State bank at Adel, hitched their team, entered the bank and at once shot down the cashier, who was getting his money out of the vault, and a customer who was in img @ paper outside, The Sverif hap- pened to be near by, and hearing th @hota, rushed into the bank and opened fire on the robbers with « revolver. Finding things too lively, the men @rabbed a bag of money and fled to their team. But the people were soon hot in pursuit. An excited chase resulted in the thieves @bandoning their team, One was cap- * tured and made to fire a barn in which ls companion had taken refuge. When ee made his exit he was shot to ‘The prisoner is held, and if one hack to the whipping-post Just as Rus sla abolishes the knout The Japs thelr victorious n honor of the Manchurian town they have Just ¢ red from the Chinese now give Jiyres a New Chwat We hear of nothing but Bi-Partisan bills at Alba! tin it with Plattism these tlean and Vatriotisin day | It would be funny If the Civil Service | we should turn the ¢ the Exetse joand’s little hatchet | “Fifteen minutes to Harlem" would {make a bad quarter of an hour 1) magnates | If China's envoys don't hurry u Add another to the list of pleasant talks: on and Fish have seen the Mayor, evi taneinolecnian sorry, Me |says he will never do tt again, Possibly Mr. Platt !s not so surprised as some other people seem to be, at the fact that Saxton and Fish did not! 4uineas in muntetpal affair, barely relieved by Col, Waring’s reply, and Apportionment, to the oriticiams on hia work, | more tee and snow in thirty-eight daye than his |e paid $2 per ered slowly dragging thelr brooms over the pay- Ing-stones, while their foreman encourages them fo Cleaning Commissioner hansom Strange How Strongly the Co ry Legislator Objects to Cheap Gas In Brooklyn or New York. call on him las night. It tn not to be too hastily assumed that the Bors and the Speaker are quits, in New York dollars for the A free sliver organ would scarcely coin el Mr. Platt's underground trolley suffers from crossed wires, Central Park 1s becoming too much of a muictde's resort. Again the murderous fury of the woman scorned, ‘What has become of the “peach” in politics? — FATHER KNICKERBOCKEWS DIARY. March @, 1896.—It has been a day of deadly in the Board of Eatimate uttered last week by Mayor Str truiler Piteh, ie and Comp- He showed that he had removed predecessors had in Give years, and that, though yy for labor that cost the other fellows $1.60, the total cont of bie work was $7,000 lesa tham that of theirs. eee “4 oleaned twenty-seven miles of stresta,"* anid the Colonel, glaring at the Comptrotier, ‘tin a Aietriot In which @ member of this Board says the streste were untouched.” I wonder if Mr. Fitch will be good, now? oe Mr. Garry has beaten 150,000 other people of New York City to-day, Ie has got his whipping- post bill through the State Senate. And the great New York reform bills are not even reported there, as yet. It ina great thing to be the head of & moctety with fur letters for ite tnitiale eee Plane for east-nide and west-side rapid transtt were adopted by the Commision to-day. New Yorkers could only ride on plans, my great elty would have at last the facilities for travel uptown and downtown which should have been here long, long ago, However, while there are plans, there te hope, Annexed district dwellers may be happy yet. . . T learned this evening that Lieut.-Gov. faxton and Speaker Fish had come to town to see the| Mayor. Kvidontly another Uttle excursion in the Interests of harmony. Well, they will see fo: themselves how New York's sturdy magistrate can mmile and smile—and be the Mayor still, THE SLEEPLESS DEPUTY, (A Tragedy tn One Act.) foene: A atreat in New York. Sweepers discov- “Intentional apathy’ Enter Deputy At Moore, disguised an a “night hawk" and driving Col, Waring’a $100 cad. He has a large axe concealed under his overcoat and a whetstone in his pocket. Time, 2A, M Chorus of Sweepers— Lartly we'll do our eweeping, Working litte as we may, | For the Colonel tn a-aleepin ‘And bis deputy's away. (tr, Moore whete hie Sweepers (much alarmed)— Gootnens me, What are those er Foreman — Silent ‘Twas only hackst Sweepers (reasured)— says ‘twas only hacks! ng edue of axe) — He ts wrong; {t waa my Sweepers Sweep away in fashion lazy, | | short sojourn of the wounded citizens should dle, he| A DAILY HINT FROM M'DOUGALL. | DRAMATIONEWSANDNOTES Mere. Langtey's Turkish Ba viewed--An “Extra Lady, 84.50 Per Week, Who Has a Maid. Mra. Langtry has not evinced any very atartling inclination to meet the “Interviewer thie season, and—as far w York ts concerned—the “inter- viewer” has reciprocated with extreme cordlalty, But on the road it was very otherwise, and a couple of days ago Mra, Lang received a newspaper from Cine cinnat! containing an interview obtain under very odd circumstances. fact Mra. Langtry, when she talked, was nol ring a Worth gown, of any gown at She wag clad simply and sweetly @ sheet, The star declares ahe had ho idea she was talking for publication, and Was quite shocked to see herself In prin i happened ike thie: Mrs. angtry “experienced the need of @ Turkish bath while in Cincinnatt 8! entered an establishment, and soon baking felicitously in the hot room. “While there a comely maiden came—like the big = spider und at down beside her. | Lung: try was perspiring but talkative, and the malden delicately induced conversation. Langtry says that she took quite a fancy to her and chatted affably, She aid lots of things, and felt quite refreshed; In fact, she Was Horry when it was time to be scrubbed. Langtry came to New York, and lo! he has just learned that she was Interviewed tn the bath, Bhe recognized some of her sayings with dis- may, and was startled at the neterprise of the femipine journalist. Were It not for Mra. BAngtry's assertion that she did not know she was being interviewed, the sceptic might have his doubts on the subject, For the star managed to get in the ‘interesting fuct. that she loved dear America and the dear American: Suil (t i# ungallant to question a lady word—and question {t wg won't. In the new play, “Gossip,” that Mra. ts at Palmer's next Mon- nor Barry makes her ap- pearance in a bathing sult. Mra, Lang- try—perhapa embittered by her Turkish bath—declines to do so herself. The play, it appears, contains Incidents sus: QEu74 by one of Jures Claretie's novels. Mrs. Langtry; 8 the part of “a lad} from New York;” “Aunt” Loutsa Eld- ridge that of a dame from New Jersey. An “extra lady” of the " Rory of thi Hill" company, at the Academy of Mi sic, has just been discharged under pe- iar circumstances. The other night a Unted damsel appeared at the stage door and showed & paper asking the doorkeeper to admit her to Mi cent's dressing-room, she was Miss Vincent's maid, ‘The stage doorkeeper had never heard of any Miss Vincent, and the management knew of no such lady. After diligent Inquiry It was dis- covered that she was one of the extra girls. Business Manager Van Dusen asked the stage manager what salary she recelyed per week, and was to.d that her name was on the books for $4.50. ‘They had thought she was some- body out of the ordinary because she came in @ carriage every night." And she has a maid, too,” growled Mr, Gil- more. "Fire her at once and give the Position to somebody who needs It. “Uncle’ Denman, Thompson retires from the cast of "The Old Homestead” when that play ends its engagement at the Star Theatre. Mr. Wilson will play his part. "The Old Homestead goes to San Francisco, and Mr. Thomp- son {# not anxious to journey as far. “I've played there four times, you know,” sald Mr, ‘Thompson yesterday, Wonderful reallam! In the new pl “An M. P's Wife,” now running at the Opera Comique, in London, one of the ladies takes @ watering-can and sprinkles the flowers. We are told that real water Is not used, but that silver sand has the same effect, In another play, real champagne flows generously, and ‘real corks pop realistically, Oh! wonderfully progressive properties! Still, the public «eems to demand real cham- agne on the stage, An audience at he Lyceum recentiy tittered when Kel- cey rat down to an Invigorating glat cf ginger ale! ee The members of the Italian Onera Company who escaped all the grippey maladies while they were In New York have been less fortunate in Boston, On Monday night “Lohengrin” was to have been sung. Jean de Reszke was too ill to appear, however, and “Les Hu- Kuenote’ was substituted. ‘The man- Agerial cup of misery was not full, though. At the last moment Lucille Hill ‘succumbed, and her part of the Queen had to be sung by Mile, Bauer- meister, and Bealchl was too Indixposed to Impersonate the Page, so the public had to accept Mile. Von Cauteren, It Is on the tapis that Kathryn Kidder will give a professional matinee per- formance of "Mma, Bans-Gene" at the Broadway, and thus afford Mme. Rejane and her associates an opportunity to ee what the American version ts like, ‘The Rialto teems with comparisons, as Mis, and Miss Kidder does not suffer. ‘The'two Napoleons, M, Duquesne and Augustus Cook, are’ quite friendly, and have already linched together Miss Marle Carlyle, who is to star next season with a new comedy, now belbe written for her by Charles Bradley an WHR. Wills hax gone to Koston for She will be joined there ina few weeks by her playwrights, who will accompany her on a trip to Welles- ley College, which has been selected as the scene of her play. The object of the visit to Wellesiey is to study types and locale, Bo some of the staid lady-pro- “sors may find themselves behind the footlights next) Fall As long as the playwrights steer clear of allusions. to Tammany will back ue up; “sweet girl graduates,” "twill be well, Thus we'll drive the Colonel crazy, . And with sorrow fll h UD. Mrs, Potter will do any You Like It" hy when she appears at the Herald Square Sweepers— (Moore whets ase again.) | theatre March although she will ‘Goodness me, yen With: Charlotte Corday.” Mra. we 3 Potter and Mr, Rellew are in Boston What are thone cracks this week, and they have been very Foreman-~ | kindly treated there. ‘The two stars Bilent be, Will probably deve 4 of thelr time min ihe) hacks! in the future to Caleutta and Hon hoe AERA HRS RAGED | Kong. Mra. Potter and Mrs Sweepers , [who were both known as “society itow | tresses,” will be playing in New York Moore (aside)— Jat the same time. ‘There ts v little They're wrong; It was my a | “soclety”” apout ether of them now. Moore (throwing of disguise and jumping trom! tiga Josephine Sabel, of Konter & hannom)—Hold (tatty) Thai's roof garden, is how in London, Lazy mea ‘untform, and she has been saying beatiful things 1 init upos. koowlng about herself. According to an {nter= WHY hus pou are showing View, whenever sh ng at Koster & ‘ 4 | Wal's cerowds used to congregate at Buch contempt for reform, ‘Thirty-fourth street and Eighth avenue, Now, your cooduct you ll me, Jand alsowin the. vicinity. of Herald or know 1 can lam any j Square. ‘Thin is, of course, news. to tina ene tonwemiaaay Londoners, but it ts also news to us. tng ue Miss Sabel ts very fond of England, le fooltamis sre and announces her intention f taking Sweepers out citizen papers. She probably Now, hark at that, aot members the effectiveness of that Caper Te ae NG: Rd, Lieeane here, and thinks that It will work i a a neon the other side, But it prob tan arnniany ROO Ie a0 foolish to be truet | —— Vray, may oweoask, sir, who are yout MEN OF OLR OWN TIME, Moore Tim Waring’s righthand mant A Me is 8 Waring man! Por he himaelt haw midi, As though “twas to hia credit Ty be w Waring m For he might have been @ (90:00, Hut in apie of all temptation, Me says hee a Waring mant Wer y 8 War | ‘ Nand drives off to find a new gang.) URTAIND | wae | fs —— = | Exctiow, 1 ‘ the busiest lawyers {this great man, M sus B. Gray, M ™ ¥ didn’t draw the bi he oduced t by asiog Nin Phe drainage of the Wp, OF Dasin, in which the Clty of Mes! has occupied years has cost 2 mostly of couvicia, nd 1s only now approaching completion. sports ve turt Mr. Gray ti good and an nas ot bills to Improve the public ovate roade 4 one highways of (he State. Mr ray hae represented in the lower house for two yeara, Me ls @ Platt Republican of pronounced ideas. He York City aad te about thirty CRC, RHODES. heer ee man whose picture this was blackballed by the Traveller: Club, of London, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Fife have resigned from that organisation, Mr. Rhodes is the Premier of Cape Colony. He is also known as “The Diamond King. —_—_oe—-—— THE GLEANER'S DUDGET. Gesstp Here, a Hint There a Tal of City Life. ‘The entertainment of the crowd that went down to pee the recent Griffo-Leeds set-to at the Sea- ide Athletic Club waa not delayed until the arena was reached. It began with the antics of a gang of young toughs from the Fourth Wi who, after beating thelr way down on the Bay Ridge boat, secreted themselves under the seat of the ears on the Sea Beach Railroad, Two of the lade aang ‘Pretty Maggie Mooney," and one of them th ‘round with his bat and col lected nearly §%. Following this act was a brief Gisappeerance, caused by the advent of the con- ductor, Then the young ruMans crawled from Tr the esate again, and one of them 1 mark "We will have round aet-to right here, between Brocky Bill and Rusty Pat." Two pair of etght-ounce gloves were pulled from under the coat of Brocky Bill, and the two dirty boxers started right and left and smashed each other all around the car, until they grew exhausted, Then the boxers went around with the hat again, On hing Coney Island, the lads managed to get in and see the bouts by pulling out some of the boards on the aide of the club-house, oe Here 1s a true story of & man, a woman, a boy and a dog, Scene, Second avenue and Seventh mtreet, Time, noon. Boy comes along with setter dog. Woman recognises dog. Dox joyfully starts for woman, Boy holds dog by the collar. “Where did you get that dog?’ ‘East Broad- way.” "That's my dog; he knows me, Father, here's our dog.’ Old man appears and grabe dog by the collar. 80 does woman. Tug of war for the dog. Big crowd. Dog nearly choked to death. Man and woman get away with the dog. Poltce- man entera. Arrests boy. Curt ee ‘Two olf women have driven away the boys at the entrance to the bridge, and now monopolize the gathering of discarded newspapers in the morning, They secure armaful of the varioi pepers second hand, which they sell to rivala. One of these women tolla me that on her ee 8 ‘The hot oyster ple has taken Its place beside the frankfurter and the hot tamale, and the mes- senger boys and embryo brokers in the nelghbor- hood of Broad street will be enabled to acquit gout at a rapid rate. 1 saw hot oyster pies for | gale at three cents each, the vender was Going @ rushing business. This item will remind many @ reader of the old days on the Bowery, when hot meat ples of all Kinds were sold on ‘every corner. THE GLEANER. ——— = TALKS WITH THE LAWYER. Advice Given to Correspondents Legal Quandari. To the BAitor: Ie rent legally due before the 16th of each month, of not until then?—A. J. 1. ‘The time when rent ts payable is ex- clusively @ matter of agreement between landlord and tenant. While ordinarily it is paid in advance, in the absence of an agreement, expressed or impiled, It Is not payable until the termination of the quarter. eee Tam a young man aged twenty-five, married to a young woman of twenty, We wer married about a year and a half ago. My wife refuses to live with me, although I have asked her to do eo, She will not leave her mother, who has ordered me from the house, Can she claim support for herself and baby on such grounds?—NIl_ Desperandum. A wife who leaves the domicile of her husband cannot claim any support or maintenance from him unless his own acts drive her away. an my landlord setze my household goods and sell them at auction for rent. I owe three months’ rent and am unable to pay, Pleas tell me what he can do and much oblige a family 1 trouble.—L, H., South Brooklyn, He cannot take them. | Ye & prominsory note outlawed atx yeare after date o1 drawing, or date upon which {t falls duet—8. P. P. ‘The statute of Mmitations begins to run when the debt matures, which is when the note falls due, I served as an {nepector of election om election Gay, working continuously from 620 A. M. for twenty-six hours, until 7 A. M. of the day fol- lowing, when I was completely exhausted. 1 made tome technical omlasion {a my returns, eithout any Intention of wrong-doin have | not yet been pald. What ahall 1 do to money*—ONE OF THE 1,600 UNPAID ELECTION | INsPEcToRS | If the clty authorities haven't sense | enough to devise a means for paying | you out of an appropriation already specially made for this purpose, your only remedy is to bring an action at law. Saaaaeaath immrmeasiees BY OTHER EDITORS, A Caban Napoleon--W t What Cubs needs te a native military genius revolutions always fall through the lack of ship. Some day a Cuban Napoleon may arise, and then Spain will lone her great possonsion in the Weat Indies —M jen Journal, Mad State of Society. That in rather bad state of society which Jooks upon the eating of ple with a knife as Worme than the breaking of @ moral law.—Lao- caster Examiner, No Coxey To-Day. Among other evidences of Increasing prosperity fon the part of the country and of ret {ty on she part of the prople tt may be recalled that only @ year ago whole armies of hy tramping across the country towarde W What sort of encouragement would such @ fool's errand meet to-day ?=Cincinnatl Times-Star. Ding san On Her Own ™ It must be very comt orting to the friends and relatives of the new ( ‘astellane that her husband will be port her in the | style to which she has been accustomed, —Pitts- | burg Commercial Gazette, Pavitc Library Bu Misa Nelle Bly hite upom a very timely subject in discussing our prison and reformatory system, and “The Evening World” will confer an e lasting blessing upon humanity I It (‘The Even- Ing World'') should be the means of bringing abont a radical reform in our methods of pun- ishing criminals, The question in not a new one, as will be seen from the following extract of & letter written by Horace Gresley some Sity years ago: * ¢ © +t In tong since the thieves of London <that Im, @ very large number of them—wei called together by a philanthropist, who had ob- tained @ clue to thelr haunte and the means of com nanding thelr attention and confidence. Treat- ing them tn ali things as erring, miagul fortunate, sinful brethren, he addressed them on the flagrant iniquity of thelr lives, the more palpable ruin to which auch courses inevitably tended, and closed by exhorting them to instan thorough reformation, All were affected; many melted to teara At Inst one found words to press the general perploxity, substantially thus: ‘Good sir, what shall we do? Aa thieves, we have employment and obtain some sort of livell- hoof; as thi we bave companions, friends, homes, Will you insure us these as honest men? We ask no reward for becoming hones ful; but we cannot consent to how to live honestly and avold starvation, and we will instantly abandon our wretched voca- ton, But your reputable tradesmen will not hire wa; your reputable workmen will not tole ate our nresence in the same shop with them; the naked cholee afforded us te to steal or utarve.” ‘And thus the conference ended, the good Samari- tan baffled, pussled, discouraged. He could of himself do nothing, and the Church was too but decorating the palaces of its bishops, sending dis- senters to prison for non-payment of tithes, and punishing {ts own ministers for preaching in heretical chapels, to trouble Itself with so vul- war a novelty as the reformation of whole bat- tallons of thieves, by enabling them to earn hon- it bread.” ‘The truta of the above will quickly be apparent to any one who bas been unfortunal enough to be compelled to steal, no matter how anzious and willing be or she ts to work. GIVE US WORK. Death's Terrors for a Single-Taxer. To the Editor: Nellie Bly aske: “What {s there about death that we fear it sot” I will tell her why I fear {t, and there are many like myself, Not for my- elt; an an earnest and professing Christian 1 feel the future Ife will have no terrors for me, and the little physical sting is not worth con- sidering. But I fear tor my children, When the few thousand dollars insurance 1s exhausted and the invalid mother must face the world with her children, just entering upon man and woman- hood, what reception will the world give them? Will my sons be forced to beg or steal, becaul they have been deprived by forestallera of their ot thelr Heavenly Father's bread? Will from the same cause, be forced into t WII my daughtere—but there, that You know why death to me scoms horrible. I am a single-taxer because I know | that {f that system of justice prevailed which men are entitled to and which the single-tax alone can give I could enter upon the future lite with- out mingiving, knowing that the welfare of my bables was assired. BELIEVER. Nellie Reasons Like a Woman. To tho Editor: I read ‘The Evening World” every day, in- cluding what Nellie Bly has to say, but her reasoning is rather pecullar very often, 1 think she aught not to write about male hogs, eating meat or about the fear of death. It is not the fear of death which prevents us from committing suicide, but ft 1s hope; tt tm the bellef that If we suffer to-day circumstances will change to-mor- row. Nellie Bly's way of reasoning is womanly, and naturally superficial, and from that point of view I like ber. oT. ———___. | JUST IN JEST. they, tramp class? ts enough. Some Rhymes Neatly Reeled Off Prose Linen Well Turned. ‘There was sunshine in the heave And the birds had tried to sing; ‘There were hopeful people talking Of the harbingers of Spring. ‘There was softness in the breez While the post with bis ode ‘Was thinking of the printer— And the next day it snowed, —Detrott Free Press, Disadvantage of Winter. “How 1s your courtship with Miss Bintie Mc- Ginnis coming on? asked Gus De Smith of young Dudely. “Very slowly. No engagement yet. The girls “ year. not In @ melting mood at this season of the Texas Wait until July, ttings. ‘The Lover's Lament The sky In Just as blue to-day ‘An when I used to meet her Dow Wax more unspoiled or sweeter, ‘And sho in still fair, they may— ‘Would that her heart was truer— The sky 1 just as blue to-day, But I'm @ great deal blue —Pittaburg Dispateh. And Qalte Right, Too, “Dear me!" cried the nurse, ‘the baby has awallowed my railroad ticket. What shall T do? jo and buy another right away," returned the mother. ‘I'm not going to let the conductor punch the baby.""—Comic Cuts. Mary and Her Hat. Mary had a little hat With feathers white as snow, And where that Mary went ‘The hat was sure to g She wore it to the matin One bright and sunny day, Tt made some people laugh and shoat, For they could see the play. —Chicago Inter Over Men Are Blind. Mra, Marketmade (patronizing!y)—And you not married yet, Hulda? Really, I think the men must be bilnd. Hulda—That's what Aunt Maria eald when you were married. —Boston Transcript “EVENING WORLD" GUIDE-BOOoK. eof New York--XL Harvard, Clabes im the lane, No bud of May | { ner, considering that I am so much younger? As A Japanese Dinner Blouse. ‘This ts @ dinner blouse adapted from a Japanese costume. It is made of silk brocade, designed with chrysanthe- mums in natural shades, the fold at the jsively a bag for nightclothes, cloth or carpet made of fine linen, satin, velvet or tissue; spread upon a table in a bedchamber where persons of quality dress themselves, a dreasing cloth.” So the word journeyed on, meaning succes- articles used In dressing, mirrors, boxes, combs, &ec., the processes of dressing, and finally waa applied to the dress itself, as in the expression of a “toilet of green, blue or pink. Try. Always using hot—never cold—pote- toes for salad. Wetting an upper ple crust with mil before setting it in the oven, and it will brown quickly and richly. Cutting shortcake dough In two pleces, rolling both ovt, spreading one with bute ter and covering with the other, to bake. A tablespoonful of brandy in pumpkin Piles, to take away the raw taste. A large cupful of peaches, or of rasp= berri added to chocolate blanc mange. A Distinguished Darner. Mme, Alboni, the great singer, grew so neck and lining to the hanging sleeves to be of greeny blue Japanese ellk. The broad sash and bow at the back are of chrysanthemum-leaf velvet. | Apple Cure for Dyepep: Not only are apples of well-recognized hygienic value, but there is an apple cure for dyspepsia, just es there is a milk cure, Some physicians that pra tice the apple cure require their patients | to eat from one to three apples for| breakfast, about as many for luncheon, | and permit them to take a dinner of moderate amount and variety. This diet is sometimes kept up for many weeks together, and with marked results. | Avoid Damp Bedi The direst mischief may result from the contact of an imperfectly heated body with sheets which retain moisture. The body heat is not sufficient to raise the temperature of the sheets to a safe point, and the result must be disastrous in the extreme if, as 1s sure to happen, the skin be cooled by contact with a surface colder than itself and steadily abstracting heat all the night through. | There is no excuse for the neglect of Proper precaution to insure dry beds. Servants are never to be trusted in this matter, and the managers of hotels, | even of the best description, are singu- larly careless in respect to it. “Totlet.”" The history of the word tollet !@ an in- teresting one. Coming from the French as a diminutive form of “toile,” mean- ing linen, it became “toylet," the cloth that drapers wrap about their bales of goods. It was next applied to articles! made from linen, especially to a cloth, thrown over the shoulders by barbers while cutting the hair. It then came to mean a cloth laid over the dressing table, and a definition of the word madi “Tollet, a kind of table- large and unwieldy in her later years that she was compelled to spend her days in a chair, engaged in some homely and feminine handiwork. Nothing pleased ner so much as to have put before her & pile of shirts and stockings to mend, |and while she had enough to keep here self busy would carol lke bird all day long. Her voice retained its wonderful freshness almont to the very last. and without a break in her register, although: she was over sixty. Some Famous Armchairs. An armchair owned by the Shah of Persia, is made of solid gold, inlaid with Precious stones. A year or, two ago some of the stones were stolen from one of the legs, and the thief was be- headed and his head carried on a pole by the imperial bodyguard through the streets of Teheran. A valuable armchair fs tn the posses= aion of the Earl of Radnor. It originally cost $40,000, and was presented by the clty of Augsburg to the Emperor Ru- dolph II, of Germany about the year 576. It 1s of steel and took the artist about thirty years to make. Stale Bread Made Inte Rusks for Cheese. Break the bread into small rough Pieces; dip each one quickly in and out of cold milk; put them upon @ perfectly clean baking tin and bake in a hot oven, In a few minutes they will be origp,, when they must be taken out, allowed te go cold, and put eway in a tin canister, to be used when required. Coa: Stew. A teacupful of flaked fish, soaked tes. minutes in cold water and squeesed dry, Simmer in a pint of water for five min- utes. Add, first, a tablespoonful each of flour and butter, rubbed together; next, two eggs and two tablespoonfuls cream after taking from the fire. Pepper to taste. LETTERS, 17a cohen fn open to everghoty wha has complaint to make, a grievances to venitiate, tm formation to give, a subject of general interest to discuss or a publie service to acknowledge, and who can put the idea into lees than JuJ warla Long leters cannos bs printed | A Plea for Music for the Poor. To the EAitor: Now that Tammany Hall has been thrown out of power, and the reformers are reforming the abuses of Tammany rule, I wish to say, and 1am sure { voice the sentiments of thousands of our poor people, that Mayor Strong, Dr. Park hurst of the Legislature can make no better move than to attempt to abolish the law which pre- Vents musicians from playing im the gutters of our streets. Up toe few years ago, when a man after Ly his window and enjoy thene bands. As ‘ Evening World" 1s the poor man's friend, and as {t never faile im ite attempts to better the poor, ft would receive the thanks of all of our poor People if {t took up this suggestion and made it | possible for us to have street music this com! Summer CARLOS DORINTH, Thinks "A Heart-Drokem Wife" His. To the Editor: Wite,"" I believe it to be my wife, who left me a short thme And as she knows I love her more than life itself, 1 would ask her through ‘Tha Evening World’ to come back to her hus- band, Je lamb whom she took with her, It ts true We quarrelled, but 1t was my mad love for my wife that caused it. I do not care to live without her. I want to atart life anew with her in a oifferent place, amid new surroundings. She, I know, haa been Influenced by people who urge her on, but if sbe thinks of my love and devo- ton to her I know abe will come back to HEART-SICK HUSBAND, He Is Twenty: To the Editor {am ® young man, twenty-five years old, and have fortunately oF unfortunately—I know not which—fallen in with a woman seven years my senior. Now, what I want to know is, Whether 1 would be advisable for me to marry She Is Older. I have no one to advise me, I would kindly ask you to put this tn your evening paper in the hope that some one among your many readers who has had a similar experience or who ha: im a like predicament may counsel me, IN A DILEMMA. Having read the article by “A. Heart-Broken | who loves and adores her and our sweet | == cities. The machine-cut stone im these places has been such a fallure that London architects are unanimously opposed to it now. Of course, we have not had it long enough to witness tte Cheap Jack features, and sti we can see some signa of an approaching smash, especially with the freestone on the new Criminal Court-Housa, which Instead of being a substantial structure, te 4 huge sham, and more shame to un A hand-cut Mone building ts ‘a thing of beauty, amt « joy forever,” while & machine-cut stone strectere may please the eye for « brief season, but proves itself @ financial failure if offered for sales few years after being built. GENUING. Too Many Babes im the Tenements, ‘To the Editor: ‘The baby tax proposed by some of your resdere resents this objection: ‘Those who are reckless | @nough to bring forth more children thea they can rear would mot pay it Let us look at thie question soberly. For our ministers and educators to go to the east side for information and tell the hundreds of thousands there swarming in misery “increase and multiply" is a crime, They might as well enter a saloon and say to the half- drunken wretches: jentl you are not suMfictently drunk; drink more." They should, om the contrary, try to comfort the very poor wit® the fact of the tremendous responsibility that de- volves upon us in giving life to others without giving them some shred of comfort and bappl- ness. A few, in spite of the most abject pov- erty, rise; but think of the millions who struggle with hideous misery for all their lives without @ ray of light, crushed and forlorn, till death ree cues them. Are the parents of these millions free rom censure? 1IGNOTUS. Le To the Eaito As your clumn is generously open te the people to state thelr grievances, apprehonsions, &t., garding public matters, will you kindly Insert | following lines, which im brief express the seatt- ment of thousands of our best citisens, inclad- ing many of your readers, as referring to our State day. at Albany beware! Nor dare profane ‘God's Holy Day.” Rino in your might—to all declare ‘The Sabbath's sanctity shall stay. Maintain ite peace, nor let one hour To rum's accursed sale be given. Weigh well your votes; you have the power ‘And must account to God of heaven. W. H. HORNER, Doesn't Like Female To the Editor: Deing « frequent traveller on the Brooklyn ““L/? I often wonder that those women ticket agents @ allowed to receive callers during business ‘L.’ Agents. A Young Typewriter Wan To the Editor: Tam eighteen years of age and have studied typewriting and stenography, but have never ha: & position. Wherever I have applied for posi- tions I hear the sume answer, “No Leginners."* Is there not some one who takes pity on poor discouraged beginner, who obligng? HEARTBROKEN Pity. “ willing and (ten Keep on Workin; To the Editor: It tw sald that everybody tm the United Star haa an opportunity to become rich, 1 lately came from the old country and am working very hard. 1 would like to become rich but | know how to do so. | | but none seemed how to get rich. do I tried several experiments, to work. alvine oa Please me Jin 1865, Its name telle what it ts, and it has | grown and been conducted after such a fashion | aw to make it centre of just pride to . dent alumni of the great university at Cambridge. The Club used to dwell modestly in West Twenty- He seems to be as good as settied that New York t# t- have @ great public library, And ‘Mill Boston will continue to eclipse all the cities of the world Peapest te & public brary bulld- tng—Boston Morais. Mac! and Hand-Caut Ston: ‘The Harvard Club of New York was organized /4, thy Editor’ In answer to ‘J. 8." regarding planers in stone yard 1 would say that they do not bene ft of proft any one, If architects, builders and owners would study the thing an4 look ahead | they would readily tea that mouldings op stone ont fn fae botldt ry planer are 4 fous shams. The shown in the pictare, Is nd 39 West Forty. | cub With & planer are da) fourth erect The ‘structure ie. celled Harvard | stone thus cut being fired and bruised, and wo House, and besides servi Be ck it ie Derebip la now, rposes Of nave only to walt ry few years until the different members drop onto the sidewalk, as has ‘beve the case in Louden ad other large Kuropean | For the hours, Their conversations are held in such @ | loud way (as ts often the case on the bridge and | Myrtle avenue side), and every passenger In that waiting-room 1s obliged, willingly oF unwilling- Jy, to listen to the foolish talk of those people, the negro included, fo my consideration the agent Is employed to pay her attention to the Passengers, Instead of turning her back to ther and receiving the inoney sideways while enter taining her company. I never noticed such mut- | nances where men are employed. a3 Hin Sinte: , Hor: wt (wo years, every other morning, I have been obliged to arise at about @ o'clock and make the fire and prepare breakfast for my. father and myself. I have two sisters, who are fully able to do the cooking, but they always ket out of It by saying othe: men do the same, 1 am willing to make the fire, but do object te, the cooking. What would you advise me to da ‘hange my boarding-house or get married ©. W. Le, Brookiym, Snoose While He Pree rea the Breakfast, To the Ww. They Are Satii To the 1 don't see why wo many people have something to say against the marriage of Anna Gould te Count de Casteliane. If they are both satished everybody ought tobe = many BR