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ae nt the Prom Publishing Company, 12 te @ PARK ROW, Nee Tork FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1895. ONS TO THE EVENING WORLD (meinding postage): «No. 12,253 | © Barared at the Pow-OMce at New York os 2 eetond-class matter, ‘Wasington PA—Press Building, 109 Chest- THE WORLD'S February Average Circulation 565,996. ‘The Grentest Dally Circule- tion Ever Attained by The World of Any Other Newspaper Printed in the Englua WE. GERRY TOO MUSH HUMORED. it in time this nonsense about reviving the whipping-post in New York was stopped. Mt. Gerry is a nice old man, far whom the public has the highest re- Is willing that he Bhould advocate the whipping-post, the guiliatine, boiling in ol! or any other fad he chooses, Jt amuses him and it harms But when good humor goes so far as tu Permit the passage of one of his crank Dille through the Senate and gives it Serious consideration in the Assembly, the Joke is being carried too far. There is nothing to be said in favor Of the whipping-post as a punishment It ts brutal and degrading alike to the criminal and to the com- The experience of Proves that violent punishments breed vidlent érimes. As a preventive of @uch ag petty thieving and malicious the whipping-post A majority of the men who commit such offenses have a cer- tain amount of maniiness left and that will operate to deter them from incurring a humiliating and painfal penalty. But the brutes for whose benefit Mr. Gerry wants the whipping-post re-estab- Ushed are far beyond and below any No fear of physical Punishment can deter them and no pen- alty 4s adequate for their crimes, are wild beasts chained up away from humanity, pests to BE removed from Wh. ppings would be only troub:e wasted To let them loose on the com- munity after such a punishment would merély increase the danger. Legislature has Gerry enough. It should avoid accidents by kilting the bill at once. has sorhe v: sucn sensitivencas. to be capture the community. TH" ORCHARD STREET HOMICIDES. in the Orchard 4 disaster become known, the more convincing Is the proof tha the Victims of the tragedy were sacri- ed to the grecd of the owner of the collapeed building. When houses are put up in a cheap and unsafe manner, it ts almost always ith the object of welling them as soon as they are erected. The owners know that they ure unsafe; the builders are quite ware that they are death-traps It is just as certain that the Orchard street building was one of these traps! puptic bra as it is that it fell down and killed a/ push It al number of poor workme fallen when it did it would Bled to pieces when filled with tenants, and the slaughter would have been even Worse than it was. @urely there can be but one judgment fm euch acase. The owners and contrac- 7) ters should be held responsible and their q trial should take place promptly. PAntwhment in such cases is essential to the lives of If it had not POT AND KETTLE AGAIN. When Representative Cannon, of I)li- Mols, attacks the Fifty-third Congress for extravagance and imbecility, the facts Jeatify the assault and no one can find ‘fauk with what he says It W@ entirely true that Congress last Session proved itself unequal to the task @t effording relief to the financial (oubles of the country. It is true chat the Fifty-third Congress piled up ap- Propriations unti) it outrivalled the Bill- @n-ollar Congress run by Czar Reed, But whey Mr. Cannon proceeds to laud the virtues of the Congressional brig- of the Tom Reed regime; when he flares that under Harrison's Admin- istration there was “universal prosper- " and the country was marching on ~t & financial millennium, he destroys il the effect of his just criticism of the fast Congress. The Harrison Administration was a id, reckless profigacy, and the Fifty-first Congress was simply a unprincipled spendthrift. Vor four years under Harrison, the peo- it's estate was squandered and the Hien, after a term of prodigal extrava- once, was left on the verge of bank- thoughtless, the Demecrats with an empty Treasury, with business paralyzed, with the pub- He credit impaired, with confidence lost and with labor unemployed. No one blames the Illinois poittician for assailing the Fifty-third Congress. It deserves censure, Rut when he lauds the scandalous, profiigate, reckless Har- fison Administration, to which all the evils of the country are to be traced, he proves the partisanship and dishonesty of his criticism, iga'co | LOVE AND LOCKSMITHS UP.TO-DATED. Chicago has a world-wide reputation & divorced-while-you-walt centre, Until South Dakota entered the fleld, a Chicago divores was accepted every- where as a synonym for chain-lightning or anything else that moves with almost {nealculable speed. ‘The far-Western UPTOWN OFFICE—Jenetion of Broad-| rival dimmod its record a little, but the Mint ave. at 294 ot MARLEM OFFICE—1251 and Mati. - ‘WASHINGTON—T02 14th ot divorce atmosphere «till hangs around it, and in the woof of its multi-meshed fame, connubial-knot-cutting still shines with something like splendor. Who would imagine that tn such a place men would be so wildly eager to marry that they had to be tled down to keep them from rushing their necks into the matrimonial noose? This seems to be the case, though. A young Chicagoan has just been locked In a safe deposit vault to save him from figuring as a bridegroom at a wedding. His father did the locking up and kept his son in durance until the disappointed wedding guests had dispersed to their homes. There was nothing else the father could do to keep the young man from marr; ing. And the bride? Oh, she has taken the commonp:ace course of sulng the young man for breach of promise. Reported amendments to the Police Courts Reform bill are, first, that the measure ahall take effect July 1 instead of May 1, and, second, that the Mayor may appoint any of the present Police Justices whom he may desire to retain as City Magistrates, There is probably no ob- Jection to the latter amendment with Mayor Strong in charge. But the post- ponement of the operation of the law is another matter, There has been all alo.g every reason why the present po- lice bench should go, and go quickly, too, And through his coarse, heavy-wit- ted trade against reformers and re- form delivered last night, Tom Grady furnished additional cause for the speedy decapitation of a gang of which he is a shining light. Thomas Rudden, a murderous young scamp, cut an old woman's throat tn upper Seventh bvenue one night last January, It turned out that she was the wrong woman, “It was a mistake,” said Rudden, “I thought it was my mother-in-law. If It had been, I'd have cut her head off." ‘The fellow was con- victed of assault in the first degree yea- terday. The jury made a strong recom- mendation for mercy. Why? Foolish Platt Republeans at Albany still talk of Mayor Btrong’s *‘precon- certed plan" to crush them in New York County, It 1s the spreading of such rot that has earned the Tioga lender the name of a Ridiculous Boss, ‘The Mayor ts carrying out no “concerted plan” to crush anything. He ts simply and earnestly keeping faith with the 154,000 men who set him in hin high office, Last night's despatches stated that the Police Courts Reform bill would be re- ported to the Assembly to-day. Some reports went so far as to say that the measure would become a law next week. The bill cannot pass nor take effect too promptly to suit the Better New York. Tt 1s not time to abolish capital pun- ishment. ‘The Legislature should rather devise means to make such punishment more certainly and promptly follow the conviction of murderers, A law. slu gishly and uncertainly executed is al- most worse than done away with. The spolls politicians know now what It means to have a business man in the Mayoralty chair, Col, Strong doesn’t want any silent partners in his admints- tration, ax Messrs, Platt, Saxton and Fish are finding out more convincingly every day. Da Gama ts revolutioning in South- ern Brazil. This Is the first intimation we have had since the collapse of the other Brazi revolution, when he showed his heels so cleverly, that Da Gama had quit running yet. Woman's day at the polls draws nearer, ‘The Maine House of Represen- tatives has voted municipal suffrage to the gentler sex. If women can help rule cities it is iogical to say that they cannot help govern States, The Astor trustees should not lose an time in voting unanimously, aa the Lenox Library and Tilden trustees have already done, for the great con slidated It will be a good thing. ong. If that Extra Grand Jury holds out much longer, the guessing at the number of indictments it is going to turn in will include nearly the whole Police De partment. The last number guessed is sixty-four. “Indictments probable,” is the report in connectYon with the Orchard street building disaster. “Indictments sure. would appear to be the proper word in the light of the evidence If the State Senate would stick to the rule of strictly mi business nothing of Mr. “Dry Dollar’ tions on Col, Waring. woull be h illivan's resol Hetty Green is getting very chummy with the Mayor, After awhile Hetty may have a yp Platt’s Jealousy will be all the greener It is singular that the Assemb!y sh be more cour Whipping-Post bill than to the well-meaning author « me seibly Police Justice Grady {s much more at home while exercising his course wit in abuse of reform and reformers than he is when sitting upon the bench A National Cat Show is the next thing we are to have here, The natural s« onal Bootjack Show. Ailsa. ': its 1888, the country was turned over] Mr. Platt can sympathize with the Se 10 the Republicans with an overfowing| commander of the Havel. He, too, >» With prosperity prevailing| knows what it is to strike @ shoal, ite credit better than labor well employed} Sing Sing’s name will stay. The vil- 9 turned over to hed one of two Sings to do, THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1 A DAILY HINT FROM M'DOUGALL, Only One Hons In Desired in Albany These Daya. name of the prison, and they express themselves almost unanimously in favor hristening the prison, If the Assembly had simply put out no complaint of scant courtesy. © moving on to Pekin, And they'll get there, too, long before| hand of Rapld Transit reaches Harlem, & thing before. ed somewhat, but Mr. M ho more bouquets in his own thew’. >. It 1s @ good new Fire Hoard ao far, Mayor Strong, Why let the old Police Board linger on? Why not organize a Soctety for the} rad; ‘evention of Cruelty to Legisiators, Mr. ‘ ave ev’ sound about !t, hasn't it? n’s armies have evidently struck | SOUnd epee tt aaa te erat, tas: that long lane which h nation Is due from Col. War- ing to “ Dry Dollar’ Bulllvan, might pos pudence, The war in the East has not any of the spice of variety. PARE A Bre but beaut! ee 7 her at Koster & Bial's “Platt's sword drawn, The} next week. ‘This will undoubtedly be Ridiculous Bosst = to order @ few tons of vo! FATHER KNIC! KERHOCKEWS DIARY |Casion. The little Loftus lady hard, launched Ma, March 7, 1895.—Ae a general thing, tf T heard that Platt was really satisfled with something I should have fear for the effect of that something| Kathryn Kidder’. Imitatlo en tho welfare of my big city, that way an I write tn my dlary of the report that Gen, Tracy, ex-Secretary of the in reorganizing ‘Tracy 14 the wort of & man of whom It In eary to bellave that he can be friendly ut Uelng untelendiy to New York. diligently. F ‘e |e one very naughty episode that would be simply appalll not quickly dt This report, by the way, echo following. th comes aa another visit of Saxton and Fish to juder, too, the mention of ex- Secretary Fatrhild aa another of the Commia- The naming of these two men ia to hinge, tt Is mald, on the matter of whether the power of appointing the polt with the Mayor or not murance trom Mr. and Fatrchild ie a organizers In left Hence the practical as Strong that he will name Trac of ag Van arnugement. Woll, If the Mayor dommn't go any deeper than enemy of mu- atelpal reform, I guess New York and the ppirite of the Knickerbockges can mand it. ‘The Tioga Moss has can out of thie“ arrangemer get any out of the aslostion for a second new Fire Commissioner which the Mayor made t- fox. Ansomblyma: waa a reform meinber ot a Lagi lature which didn't begin to be elected on any maa tie present one ie #up. ot all the comfort he such reform plat that he Ix not a Platt follower, In fact, he is an open friend ot Brookgteld Rrooktetd, reminds me that Jam exhausted his the oMce hunters patience with was high time to shut n hand at all the pub from this tim AN OLD TAR'S SOLILOQUY. (Respecttully dedicated to the members of the A Yankee salt mt on a ateing-plece bare, A quid tn his mouth and tar in hie hatr, And he growled like a tiger at bay in hie lar: “WI they beat us out this Sux ‘There's his Royal Albert BAward of Uelannia® deck he yelled, And wateh how the Vigliant after ua traiist* Can be say It again this Summer They've bullt a new boat on the other aide ninia they way she And like grease past 1 nka match Alisa thi ‘Qur millionaire yachtsmen aren ol that the Yankees must etill rule a'4 Cup they must help us keop They'll try bard to bold it this Summer, get a gait on! 1 sure keep the 8 of defeat don't leave us to wup, us 4 winner this Summer nus be wiae, And put op a boat will hold on the prise OLR OWN ding its own 1, and then Granny ald ous to the barbarous mpromixing reformer in quence of this, of course, will be a Na- Probably with their new Britannta- beating yacht the Britons expect to show our next cup defender just what of governing the meiropolia Wildy has int Absolutely probibit ing betting on horse r ber of the Committer on tous racing bills presented, to Inelst that the constitutional embargo Yodes, which is hand four years old, lagers Ing in legislative @hange the name of the village or the | uuip is soupit vy bis colleagues, nd although reserved and exact. | nat DRAMATIONEWS AND NOTES | ** A nice bouquet of fragrant roses flung cross the footli¢hts to a smiling artist who hua finished a trlumphant song oF conclided a particularly fetching reci- tation has never been known to give sity of the offering offense, The sponta ie always apparent. Yet a bouquet thrown w nh the Avenue ‘Theatre Wednesday night, at Miss Anne O'Nelll, made that young woman furlou and awoke the ire of her explosive mana one Joseph Brooks, The bouquet fell at a very critical moment, just as the dinphanous Anne had dropped in a dead swoon, caused by Intense mental anguish, at the feet of her husband's wife's father, This ts the one dramatic scene in the play, and when the bouquet fell the scene might have bee ruined. For what would have been more natural, more feminine and more probable than that Miss O'Neill should arise from her syngope, pick up the flowers and cour. tes} sweetly? Nine out of ten would have done this. Miss Anne, however, who has an eye to the artistic, allowed ‘the flowers to stay where they were, and kept right on fainting. | Mr. Brooks, who has a horror of the floral tribute, sent around to Investigate, He charged George, the Archbishop o! Canterbury—as_ they call the white- haired head usher of the Fifth Avenue— to find out the name of the mixcreant. And now comes the really thrilling de- houement of this story-a denouement that has the charm of the unexpected. The bouquet thrower was not a frivo- lous dude or a glided lounger. Not at all, The flowers were flung by the chubby @ manager of the theatre himself, to wit, Mr. Henry Clay Miner, who his never been known to do such Mr. Brooks's fury abat- wilt throw “The Advanta, Y windert my ee ft Being Wild(e),; oF, of Meal” Husband ‘ot No Importance,” is the captivating title Pe tery, that, Is acon to be done, in London. ft has a thoroughly London Nobody has, ee 6 Maggio Cline and Cissie Loftus, who together as dignity and im- ave become very chumm They breakfast together, chat and change notes, Mise Loftu: going to entorian Marguerite by imitatin Concert Hal Cissie’s triumph, though she will have @ for the oc- still ,, and when she has fe Cline at Koster & working Bial's, she will deyote her atte: me. Why doesn't she an- nce iss Loftus's imitation of of Mme, Rut I do not tee] Rejane?” ‘That would make @ hit. oe Mme. Rejano { ly to a play called “Ma Cousine,” and the entleman who attends to the rise and ll of the curtain at Abbey's Theatre will have to rehearse his work very in “Ma Cousine™ th ing if the curtain were ropped, Fortunately ev thing works very smoothly at Abbey‘s, and it is not likely that our sensibilities Will be shovked. es 0 . T, Dazey, the author of “In Old Kentucky,’ “Athy. Candidates,"" and, more recently, of “The War of Wealth,’ is at work Upon a brand-' ew Charles Frohman, - e Weulth,” it appears, 19 a great success out of town, New York will get @ glimpse of it la oe Arthur Law, the author of “The New Boy," which ‘we tried so hard to ke, but ‘couldn't, has from the farce, ‘This sum has been wieaned from the company at the Vau- devilie Theatre, London; from two com- Hanes, in this country; one in Austra- and three in the English provinces, “the New Boy" was not Mr. Law's malden’ effort, He wrote “A Mint of Money for ‘Toole; Chirruper's For- tune,” for Kate Santley; " Dick Vena- bles," for Mr, Willard, and " Culprits for Hdward ‘Terry. ‘Then he dramatized “The Mystery of a Hansom Cab,” and Bre the libretto for “The Magie pall. Here {s a plaint that a pathetic ring wbout it: "The Pifth Avenue Thea- tre advertises the sale ot admission tic second balcony at & cents ats 2 cents extra, Wednes- day evening last 1 purchased two tick- ets for my wife and self, paying $1, On arriving upstairs, at 7.45 P.M. 1 found about 20 persons standing buck of the last row of seats. AU R10 P.M. there Were at least 360 people crowded in aisles, and at the same time nine rows of seats vacant (not. sold by ticket agent). One usher boldly canvassed the crowd and offered seats at 2% cents apiece, AS a great many could not see the stage, they were compelled to give up, or go home, and forfeit the admis- jsion price. In ten minutes the nine va- cant rows were filled, the ushers being at least $50 richer by the speculation, It does not seem possible that Mr. H. . Miner, or his manager, uid have al- lor this robbery to go on ever since he new theatre opened. If you say any- (hing to the ushers they laugh in your face and exclaim: *W ii, what are you solng to do about it? eee “The Fatal Card" will open. the next season of the Star Theatre, and after It engagement there will open the season of the Boston Museum, The rage for melodrama does not as yeu show. any easation, but It will probe away ax the faree-comedy mania has done eee William A. McConnell, the theatrical Lumorist(—who owns @ serious vein withal has moved uptown, where all the good folks go, and started clearing-house of his ow has so’ many managerial friends. that there wasn't really a ha'porth of risk in his enterprise, Kew 1 perfesh" can boast of popularit: tensly ase as that possessed by MeConn orge Th. MeClellan, Mise Pau! Hal's husband, was inthe elty seas diy, radiant at the success of “Dorcar”™ Mr. MeClelian bas had one or two rather felleltous comic opera eaperiencer: so the ent stination. ts qartionirt Jnrecable | Miss Hail will imate ney frst appearatice in San’ Francisco in| Noptomber. “This Simmer she will cross the Atlantic for the first time nnd. vtett Francs and Germany. Mr Meclellan Joes not know when we, of New Yorke reas.” A brief vielt te the lis sometimes undoes the res ths of toll niside. Miss H. owing here, fig fa bre oO Yeason Wh BY OTHER EDITORS, Celttetem an own, Silver Landa, at Douver le to have a mint for olnage of | gold and Maho wants one. The yellow ary getting quite a boom in the strong of the silverive sier Democrat. Our Soclety Com oulds are ahead of they are rejoicing In a wadding a the pave had divorce seautal so far Where the Astora should | re mie s dowd Th ntact towel the family in his roves bad taste and. bi Rochester Post Kind Wishes for a New Party, We are txlad the atlver cram and repudiationiais are going to cai! them: attere {sa man waver Erlewd- saives a political party, and me hope ther will (docis Logether forevermore. Harton Tunes Gallery uf Living tage of the Fifth abl e aianENe Witton: ly the most kind and humane mode of whi ‘This in a picture of a Tammany Police Justice who seems to have pull enough to get a saloon license from the Excise Board after the Be ised @ Catholic priest representing a large and influential congregation that the license would not be granted. THE GLEANER'S BUDGET. rd had prom- Gossip Here, a Hint There and Tree Tales of City Life. I waited om the corner of Bedford avenue and Fulton street, Brooklyn, the other fifteen minutes for a oar, and was rewarded for my patience by the conductor's command to Coming back I hailed a car of ‘The conductor in his effort to Stop the car pulled the trolley rope Instead of the bell rope. The trolley pole clashed back againat J road structure instead of the wire, sprun, Itavit loose and Groped into the street. abled car was atill blockading the line when I had climbed to an ‘‘L'* etation and ridden mer- rily away. Wasn't I entitied to consider all this an gweet vengeance on my behalf? lively, there.** fo @ term used in England for « half-pint bottle, which is Itkely to become Ameri- because Apollinaris being introduced here, and bid fair to be as well thia side as they are in England. The bottling of Apollinaris water, as well es champagne, in half-pints or ‘spilt te anid to be due to the Prin: pressed & wish to receive the water in bottles of known asd pouplar of Wales, who ex- down South street a few days ago 1 ticed @ crowd of several hundred persons watch- Ing the unloading of @ coast rick had been fixed up, but instead of its being worked by steam, as is generally the case, an worn-out horse supplied the power. Dulley rope was attached to the harness, and the animal backed or moved forward as the car Later I learned that many comtractora have adopted horse power in loading OF unloading vessels, as well as for similar kinds ‘The animals used in nearly all cases ‘are old car horses displaced by the cables on the Broadway and Third Avenue Railroads, jeamahip. A der- was filled or emptte: ‘There 1s 4 cortain politician, whe frequents Park Row, about whom a pretty good story 1s going the rounds. His great hobby Fare coins. A few days ago, some of his con- of the Impecunious and thirsty kind, councll of war as to what should be done One of the number, who to drop parlor decorations the collection of to provide the needtu happened to be the possessor of a battered-looking plece of silver at that Telling the others to he hurried off to a well-known pawnbroker, whom he induced to lend him 20 cents on the quarter. The ticket was marked, ‘Then the fellow returned to ti and whispered hia scheme, were in the store of the coin collector. ticket was shown to him, and he was Invited to the coin had been found in an out of the way place, and he con- cluded that, If @ pawnbroker would advance 20 ceute, It should be a good article. hageling, he was Induced to pay 60 cents for the to “set them up'" several times Then he hurried to the should be put at child, but a woman, and {s of a matriageable age. Thousands of them are mothers themselves at that age anf even younger. She has a right to opinions and views of her own, and a right to act according to ber judgment and conscience, And in some cases ought to do It, And the idea ot allowing herself to be spanked like a child wait @ while,” “Old silver coin, ‘Ten minutes later all Iready made $30,000 over for the ero wnbroker'n to redeem the coin, the quarter he began to look for a gun, but the gang had disappeared, THE GLEANER. THUS THE F A Half Dozen Selections from the atest Remarks, ‘0 Congress T will go," sald he; “My frends "twill surely pleas To wee me resting gracefully Upon » bed of ease.” But when his term was out, quoth he: ‘That ded of ease has proved to be of barbed wire, Washington Star. ot Angry. She—And Ald papa seem augry when you asked When he led me from the room and kicked me downstaira he [never saw a man tn suct ing good humor.—Indianapolis Journal. He—Why, no. All hall to great George Washingte follow In his track. He never was nor couldn't ‘An anglo-maniac. Washington Btar. The Thoughtful B Scene—A country residen covered at work. Bill—take it along?” ‘Two burglars di “Wot'll 1 do with this burglar asks Burglar No. slip it In the bog: we can get something for tt Melaucholy, embers of “the comes a baseball club That's really most a bad. Washington Star. Compensation, take ix awful tastin Vil have to eat @ lot of things to take oe Ithaca tay twenty-two barber shops to 12,000 bo plaut has saved taxpayers &: lot a bor of uid put a whole lat Hansfeld [sa fine actor, Nut a queer | cigara on a bet {ato his mout Dave been drijied in the vain endeavor to find fa connecting belt between the Bradford and Al- | legany oll deids DeWolt, of Corning, ha who was an aide-de-camp to Washington, Aerbitte, for aged thirty-five, were married at Nunda, waterlig a horse, the animal threm up ty chin with such force | an to drive a clay pipe he waa sm: his cheek and nh was tot iinmorel, but tt was in such feeling as to be indecent.— ‘The closing of the saloons im St. Joseph wold-bug |Bunday werven notice to the wortd that Lent ta shat sown Me going to be observed thie your with det eht-martitivetion 204, dinlal wan 803, ——— een ACROSS MAMMA'S KNEE. Some Spankings That Followed a Fond “Parent'a Advice, To the Filior Ni compliant agatnat th Parent * 1 had not been whing Aine vers oid, but being one how ha yesierday, my mother salt she woull take Parent's advice ant tay me across her knee Sho RAVE me a ferere application with the strap of my skate, The pleasure was not the same as the kating, and moreover she Is going to keep rap for further use, which means more spanting (nthe future, thanks to “Parent.” But siateen yeurs ts too big for that treatment, SADIE, Brooklyn, eee “ONte* Iaments because she Ippered."* Sho may congratulate herself that she did not Ret the cowhide. A light, somewhat worn allp- per, vigorously applied upon the culprit, Is prob- ping the “freshness out. “‘Ollle” objects be- cause the spanking followed #0 quickly upon the commission of tho fault. This was right, and was the act of a lady who was not willing to Tet “Ollte” suffer from anticipation. Nothing foes disobedient children x9 much good ax ‘tdrching,"* but falling this the slipper te an excellent substitute, If rightly handled, particu- larly for girls over fifteen years of age. The ating 1s severe, but salutary, and can be applied longer and more severely than by any other means. ‘Parent’ ia right. 1 only wonder he 41d not suggest the cowhide.—Father of Four, owe ‘A correspondent has asked what a girl of twenty-six could do to deserve a spanking. I will tell what my girl dia. She tet the bath tub overfiow to the great damage of the ceiling below. This happened last Friday, When she waa all reafy gr bed I called her into my room, took her acrosm my knees and gave her a sound apanking. A writer on the subject said the other day that @ slipper was used in her cake, This child was Afteen, 1 think, however, with older culprite @ stout handled bath-room brush ts preferable, It was am ing to nee my daughter ‘at the matinee on Saturday trying to disguise the pain and discomfort which the necessity of sitting down entailed upon her.—Mater. oe e 1 have heard it aMrmed that it t# not an un- common thing for husbands to take it upon themselves to spank their wives. Is there any truth in the statement? If so, In there any justl- fication for 1t?—An Interested Rea‘ o + T have always been spanked when I deserved it, up to this present day, although I am a girl eighteen, and only last week wan soundly apanked for disobedience. I advise it as the very best method, but parents must not be cruel. The best men and women are the ones who have been apanked.—P. 8. |), What in the world makes you encourage mich Nonsense as the idea of a young lady being spanked. 1 am the mother of five boys and one daughter, of eighteen. Now, I have always taught my children to govern themselves, and if I were the danghter and any one even attempted to epank me, I would walk out of such a dwell- tng, if I went to the devil himselt, which could be no worse tin eich submission, Let your dis- cussion be on a higher plane, How shall we teach our children to govern thenwelves? What shall we do with our growing boys? Teach us how nd in thelr place put living Joys in the shape of minda cultivat- ed for the places in which it has pleased God to place us. “A Mother. eee Surely there 1s @ time when childish thin A girl of twenty Is not a ts absurd, A few years ago in Herkimer, N. Y. Mary Druse was sentenced to twenty years in the State prison for helping her mother to con- ceal an awful crime, or, In other words, for aim- ply obeying her mother, for the girl did not help commit the deed, only under the tron rule of her mother, who would brook no disobedience, she helped conceal it, Now there ix a radical wrong somewhere. If Mary Druse did right to obey her mother that night, then the common- wealth of New York did wrong to condemn her to twenty years in a prison cell where sho Is to: day. I have never heard of her being padoned.— Mra, Byram. eo 28 8 T am a young girl of sixteen, of English parents, and for any wrong-doing I am spanked by my mother. Last night when I went out she told me to be back by 9.90, T did not return until 10, When 1 got in bed my mother came In my oom, threw back the bedclothes and gave me thirty eharp blows with a school strap on the bare skin, It hurt awful and I ented for an hour. If I ain't up every morning before 6 1 get the same dose, If I tell an untruth, I get Atty or more blows on the same place with « rattan, That {s twice as bad as the strap.— Emma D., Brooklyn, N.Y. <= POETIC FIRE. In lofty mood I tuned my lyre, 1. @, 1 took my pen and wrote Transferring my poetic fire To cream-lald note, 1 told my passion for a maid, A fair but quite phantasmal law A simple lyric, yet it paid My bill for gas. I wrote of all the wild regret ‘That parting brings to loving souls, Of hearts afre—and thus I met My bill for coal Of hopeless passion's bitter cup, Of thirst that naught may c'er abate I nang, and so T settled up My water-rate, ‘And then a ballad brave and gay, Of warlike decds and martial ski Enabled me at last to pay My washing bill. But, ob, my heart's most plaintive cry More mweet (han aught the wild bird chants, It brought me in enough to buy Some Winter pants. k-Me-U “EVENING WORLD" Clubs of New York--SLV Me. AY IDE-ROOK, “The ¥, Not ordinarily included In @ list of New York's clubs, the Young Men's Christian Associaton yet Presents to ite members such facilities for mu- tual {mprovement in soctal, mental and phystcal Ways as to make Its classification among clubs, in a general way. very proper. ‘The main Aqxo- ctation In this city ts quartered in @ handsome $300,000 bullding at the wvuthwest corner of Fourth ty-third street. The structure was erected in 1669, wien the Association OrgAnisad seventeen years. A gymnae- and baths contribute thelr Spring Totlet. A wool crepon gown in gray and black with bands | of the same running down to the belt! | the white bordered back and front; with black Black velvet A large hat trimmed with black velvet, gray mousseline and tall dande- passementerie. How to Make a Cup of Coffee. Two ounces of coffee to one pint of boiling water makes a first-class bever- age, but the water must be boiling, not Bitterness comes from boil- If the coffee required for in a granitized iron merely hot. ing too long. breakfast be put kettle over night, water be poured over it, it can be heated to just the boiling point and then s back to prevent further will be found that is extracted the delicate aroma is pre- while the strength Manners for Boys, “How do you do?” Hat lifted when offering a seat in a car or acknowledging a favor, northern latitudes the men, as a greag innovation, added tfousers, but these were looked upon in the lifht of @ dis. tinct extra, and weré fot considerat obligatory in hot weather. There seems to be no doubt that the blouse of the modern peasant is a direct descendant of the tunica. For Wenkened Eyelashes. Often when the lashes are thin an@ short, pale and irregular, showing Mttle strength, a nightly application of vase- line will do them a great deal of g6od, the richness being absorbed by the capil- laries and reappearing in a longer and stouter growth of lash, and vaseline, or some pure embullient ofl rubbed at night along the brow will take out all atiff- ness from the shorter hair there, darken the color and make the arch, which te often but halr finished, more complete. Cambs nnd Brashes. Once a month ts quite often enough to wash combs and brushes if they are properly cared for daily. For the thorough washing half fill a basin with warm (not hot) water, put In a tea- spoonful of washing ammonia and prinkle through each brush @ large pinch of pearline. Wash the brush out quickly, rinse In warm water and dry in the open air. ‘This treatment will ve the bristles firm and unmatted initely, Combs should be washed quickly and dried on a soft cloth, For dally clean- ing nothing can equal a small nailbrush or an old toothbrush. ™ ding n Japanese Comptiime: “ond as the Japanese are of the plum | blossoms, a woman's beauty is never compared to it, always to the cherry blossom, or her slender grace to the willow. But her goodness of heart is likened to the plum. ‘These distinctions and refinement make it hard for a fore elgner to pay Japanese compliments, Curve of Children, Teething chillren may be relieved of convulsions by ‘ing immersed ih @ jwarm bath with co.d cloths cn their hi Keep step with any one you walk with. lady upstairs, and Precede her In pass- or public place, Always precede a ask her If you m: ing through a crowe Hat off the moment you enter a street door and when you step into a private hall or office. Let a lady pass first al: she asks you to precede he: gin of the After the fall of the Roman Empire the sexes started about fair in the mat- Our Teutonic ancestors was almost ter of clothes. costume which the same for men and women, and con- two main garments, Roman tunica and toga, was virtually a shirt with long sleeves, and was buckled men wore it reaching to the knee and women to the ankles, The tunica LETTERS, 17Me eohimn te onen t complaint in mate, a grienanss ft wentita! formation to give, a mihi 4 discuss or a public servic: to acknow'e ty, and who can pul the tea (eters cannot v6 9 rmersaty ona nae @ than 44d war be sable Hiecoughs Cure, Hon from a Mr, Gloss, who claimed to cure bi in the ears und drink sald this cure ea glass of wal was infallible ever saw any nine case of hic- lasting day and night for a w so did he cure them with his infatli T had the hiccoughs about two weeks, After the doctors had failed 1 was told to drink T ‘hava. Knows three cases of long standing {give me reazon to cluim t That 1 suppose would t vinegar was an ine own it to cure only a fow du; fed and failed, | sands of cases. ago of a case where It other man’s poison. COMMON SENSE. ened to be unavoldadle, #0 rhe switch could not the wain If 4 The aceldent Switches on all ada are equiped with these appliances. foot bars, which hug the rails, we of the bars bein n the switch lever is my tan inch above 18 turn switch while a train is on ft th: cannot be moved upward because the train A NEW YORK CENTRAL TOWERMAN, in a New old maid taxer would it not be ‘Tho land-taxer, and baby-taxer havin well to levy a tay on the workinaman uid he attain te The tax pat wo Hy to be paid by the deriv 268 Bast Tonih street, city, Jay Shaply Held Nix Own, an imoudent tn inet trick in Wall Envy one of the Your gear noods o Done with the W To the Editor: Waring, our Street-Clerning Commissioner, Instructs that aah-cart drivers refuse paper, straw feud pasteboard boxes that may be found In ash ‘The drivers being prohibited from tak~ the siraw and pan hes and after emptying the wom thle waat What 16 fo be done that tenants mis with gar- bage and send down on the dumbwalters. it ts against the law to Dalida fire on the street abd Mf stowed about in cel mee Ing aveh refuse, from among the Varrela, throw back in the owner of seve! with straw and ‘The education of delicate, nervous chile y be neglectel until the age of or seven without d) hoon, Th practice of frighteniaz little chile dren in order to make then quiet has, In some cases, resultel tn eonvuy and death, a si dish Crone: Take equal parts of codfish (squeezed from cold water in which it has soaked five minutes after being picked into bits) and freshly mashed potatoes; seasom with pepper, and roll into chapes bee tween slightly Moured hands; dip inte beaten egg, and roll in fine cracker en. | crumbs; set aside a few hours to become firm, and fry in deep, hot fat. Serve with a liberal garnish of parsley for @ supper dish. May be conveniently made at noon, or the night before if wanted | for breakfast, p every day, amt it certainty, after ao many years wheretm tak ay by our city amh= Warlng shouid teas a docroe that will inconvenience every property-owner In thie elty. The Su non he here, In the refusal, of our loner to rex everything thas comes of gatbage amd waste, such, fs generally Andy His way Into ach barrels, the. Dubite health will suffer E,W. BLINN, One » Man's Way, To the Faitor Please let _me Rave a word to my to thoee Dachelors who bring thelr complaints to your eole nM rs marriod and has three chile Jon, Her hustunt eacne $15 per week. Every ‘atuntay night he hands her an X and puts a V In hia pocket hat is hin share, Ie to buy himself two suits of clothes out ef ft and the etveteras every year, and an overcoat every other year. ‘The tom he spends for rum and tobacco, Ont of her share his wife pays the rent, the butcher, the grocer, the mitkm.a, the baker, the gaaman, the doctor anid the druggist, clothes herself and the childrea, and en 1 incidental expenses, She works fourteen hours every day and never knows what 16 is to get an undisturbed High's #leep, Tam @ typewriter, and make $8 per week and work from DAM. 0 APM, ant ub, Lord every of my Ife—oh, so ferveniiy—shat my alster e elder, because if 1 had not had her for & warning I might ve In her shoes, Let those bachelors hereinbefore mentioned, turn thelr pens on the married men, It 1a they who are bringing marelage Into disrepute by thelr distnclination te mak» the necessary sacrifices, ‘They want wives, was ut are not willing to cut down thelr allowanee of rum and tobacco to provide n decenuy, ONE WHO EXPECTS TO WAIT A LONG WHILE Brooklya, To the Raltor The fire insut companies of New York have formed what they call a New York Tarif! At soclation, which makes (he rates to ult thet selves, and they are very high and unreasonable in all cases, and a got to pay them or #0 unlnoured, ‘There Is no company doing busl= ness in this elty where a man can insure his building ur contents unlest he pays a very high and unreasonable rate, [know of a case where a man hos paid for the tat thirty yearn 3@ cents a hundred for t und for the same buildin years on ‘is butlding, he now has to pay $1.19 for one year, Tiers are thousunde of asen of the same kind tn this city. Surely there ts something wroug in this, LM, It Wan a “Holy Show." To the Eaitor: Referring to that Gould wedding, would say that the whole show Js au outrage on the people of this supposed to be grestest demonratic coum try on earth, We allow the rich to accumulate tholr millions by Il-gotten gaing, and then te junt thelr wealth in the eyes of the people by making a “holy show" of themselves, as thas wedding was, When will the poople cet together abolish this li-bred, inhuman “arlstocraey of wealth? by learning and introducing the principies of the single en Pieture. AMERICAN A To the Editor: Platt has a ‘phia" of such peculiar mien, To be distrusted nects but to be secon; So slippery and such @ snake-like creep, A natural child of some Uri Outliving many of his older |: He seeks the young, in hoves of further time Where'er you see ila queer old wrinkled knob, fig sure his oid proborcia scents a job, ALEX. POPE Wants to Do Up the Chinene, To the Editor: per