The evening world. Newspaper, March 18, 1895, Page 4

/Pratmed by the Prom Pubiieting Company, p $2 we G2 PARK ROW, New York. MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1895. EURECRIPTIONS TO THE EVENING WORLD S) (frehac'ing pestage): Barived ot the Post-Ofice at Now York on ercond-class matter. SS BRANCH OFFICES: UPTOWN OFFICH—Jenetion of Bread- way emt Bisth ave at S94 ot WORLD HARLEM OFTICE—imu @ ond Moti. mm Ore. BROORLYN—S0 Washington ot PHILADELPMIA, PA.—Prom Buliéing, 700 Chest- ————————_ Record. Average Circulation Per Day, 565,996. ‘The Orestest Dally Circule- ten Ever Attained by The ‘The tncome tax is the least thing that the United Mates Supreme Court will Ihave to consider during the week which it proposes to devote to the digestion of the arguments made before it last week by Messrs. Edmunds, Carter, Choate and other able lawyers, The question involved is far wider dnd deeper than the mere constitutionality or unconsti- tutionality of thie particular law. ‘The question has two sides—a legal and a moral one. Legally, the question fa, How far may the Supreme Court regulate and control the taxing power, which is essentially the whole power, of Congress? That any tax shall be absolutely equal and just is impossible. No human power gould devise such a tax, and no court can set a tax aside Decause at some points its operation ts unequal and unjust. "Uniformity" can- not be held to apply further than to the general scheme of the tax and the man- ‘er ex ite collection. A court which sus- tains a law that taxes the farmer for the benefit of the manufacturer, that taxes the too!l-user for the benefit of the tool-maker, that taxes the tobacco- user and not the abstainer from to- bacco cannot set aside a tax simply because one class of men have to pay it and another class does not. If the principle of the income tax Is @eclared unconstitutional, it must be upon the judgment of the Supreme Court that the Constitution lodges in M authority to overrule the judgment of Congress as to the justice and fairness, and not the legality merely, of the tax. ‘This ie @ power greater than has ever before been asserted by the Court, but it ts conceivable in view of the extent to ‘whictr the lower branches of the Federal Sediciary have in recent years as- @umed quasi-legisiative and quasi-execu- sive authority by way of receiverships. A decision against the income tax on this ground will be the forerunner of a @ontest between Congress and the Su- preme Court, which can result only in the @urrender of the Court or the restric- tion of ite powers by a constitutional amendmen’. ‘The moral question involved is whether the Government of this country is for the benefit of property or of people. One epponent of the tax before the Court ex- Prcesty declared that the laws were first flor tne protection of property. This is & pew @ectrine for a Constitution founded wpon the ideas of personal tiberty and universal suffrage. ‘The election of Andrew Jackso stopped the progress of the Repubiic towards an ar:stocracy. Events more Geplorabie destroyed the dominion of a Glavocracy. Now we are confronted with the danger of a piittocracy The decision of the Supreme Court, it Bhould ve noted, will settle nothing. It ts not possible. that people who have breathed free air for more than a cen- tury will submit themselves to the rule of money power~t0 a piutocracy they are descended. They have money, so no matter if tt came by peddling hides, selling pilis, watering stock, steal- ing railroads or running breweries. Mr. Wheeler might have found enough to criticize at home without making A rald on New York. Much that he said about the New York Four Hundred mav be true enough, but the Chicago con- Rregations ought to remember the old saying about people who keep pigs in their pariors. They ought to exclude their hogs from their pulpits. A MIGGARDLY POLICY. ‘The Legislature has appropriated five million dollars for additional school ac- commodation in the city. With the money already available this wil make & total of $6.639,000 to be expended in in- ereasing our school facilities. Commissioner George Livingston, who drew the Five Mililon bill, says: ‘Since September last we have had to deny 12,000 applications for admittance to the public echools, Some have drifted off to parochial or private schools, but it Is my firm belief that the great majority of these 12.000 children are going without any education at all."" Some idea of the rapid increase of our school population may be formed from the words of Supt. Jasper, who says “This time a year ago we had between 155,00) and 160,000 children in our public schools, To-day we have 170,000." ‘This Js an Increase of from 10,000 to 15,000 in one year without considering those ex- cluded for want of room. Commissioner Livingston rays it will take three years to put up the new build- Ings already determined upon. He also says: “If we had that money spent now and the achools erected, we would have Just about accummodations suffictent for the children that we cannot care for now.” But by the time the new schools are ready the increase of population will have thrown another army of applicants for education on our hands, ft ts evident that we are too niggardly in our educational policy. The present appropriation ought to be ten millions instead of five, Woe to a city that leaves twelve thourand of its children to grow up !n idleness and ignorance, the parente of vice and crime. TRINITY'S RECKONING. Last Saturday the Board of Health received a check for 9600 from the cor- poration of Trinity Church. The money {a in payment of the fine imposed on Trinity for its failure to supply its tenement-houses with running water in accordance with the law after an order of the Board of Health requiring com: phance with the statute. The amount goes to the Pension Fund of the Board; @ fund for the relief of the families of {ts employees. who lose their lives through disease contracted while in the discharge of their duties. The obstinate fight made against the enforcement of the Sanitary Code was not creditable to the Trinity corpora- tion. Cleanliness ‘x next to godliness, and {it was to be expected that the wealthy church, enjoying princely gifts and great privileges, would have taken pride in making {ts houses for the poor models of cleanliness and comfort In- stead of lurking places for disease and pain. But It 1s an ill wind that blows nobody good, and the stubborn but unsuccessful fight made against the law by rich and powerful Trinity will satisfy every tene- ment-house owner that the Banitary Code must be obeyed and that the courts will protect the rights of the poorest tenants, There are very many instances in the city where the requirement of running water for each family, an well as other provisions of law, will be found disregarded. ‘ TRE NAWAS'S WIFE'S BONNET. The Nawab Imad Nawaz Jung Bat. jdur, of India, is in the city looking up at our high buildings and wondering why our local Nawabs, like Platt and Croker, do not wear red Mother Hub- bards and bands of precious stones on their ankles and wrists as the Oriental bosses do. The Nawabess, Mrs. Baha- dur, is with him, and lovely lady though she be, and radiant as the morning when all her jewels are on, we cannot help feeling deep regret that she came here at this particular time. Mrs. B, called on the Turkish Consul's wife Saturday, and those who saw her say she was a blaze of splendor; she glistened and sparkled with gems. It was brilliantly evident that she had | diamonds to burn. We might rejoice in her abundant gorgeousness and be glad to feast our eyes on the scintillant sight were It not for one little thing. Mrs, B. wore a bonnet whose ample stringe were lines of rubies, diawonds, emeralds and | sapphires, Those of us who work for wages were sorry to see the Nawabess's bon- et strings described in newspapers this morning. Easter i# too near for this sort of thing, Our wives and daughters will kick about their Easter bonnets now if the strings are not studded with diamonds. “Close the rich man's club 6n Sun- day," is the ery of Prof. Dickie, in an- swer to the plea that the law is unjust in shutting off the poor man’s supplies while the clubman’s are uninterrupted But the law cannot close the clubs, and the lawmakers know it. That is why lthere has got to be a more reasonable ‘he | }4W for the saloons a DAILY M'DOUGALL. TWINKLE IN THE THIRD ACT IVS CREAT jample Scene from the New Scheol f Acting Introduced by'M ry Solely with a View to Daasling American Audi- nee. drove him to the rash act. Had he been fortunate in his ventures his opinion of the business would have been very dif- ferent. Britannia beat superior seamanship. sion to remark again, that @ fast boat fs not all that is needed for the defense Ailsa yesterday by This gives occa- of the America’s Cup this year, got to have fast sailors, too. We've Lieut.-Gov. Saxton says the question of legislating Mayor Strong out of oMfice by means of a Greater New York juggle was never seriously considered. This is both kind and discreet, Dr. Rainsford caught it from the pul- ~it yenterday. So did Dr. Rylance. But they have @ popular majority with them on the question of a fair “American Sabbath.” ‘The Brooklyn police deserve credit for capturing those two professional and perennial burglars. Supt. McKel- vey's administration begins well. If Mayor Strong makes war on Platt- (sm, it is only because Platt makes war on the interests the Mayor is pledged to guard. Rev. “Tom” Dixon, jr, t# going to preach Sundays under the same roof with Dr, Talmage. Can the roof stand it? What has become of the movement to have New Haven road train stop at Mott Haven depot? They ought to atop there. St. Patrick has two days this year. Wearing af the green began yesterday morning and will continue until late to- ight, ‘The “L" road's all-night trains should be all light trains. ‘They are far from that under the present kerosene regime. As might have been expected, Spain takes a perfectly friendly and reason- able view of the Alllanca incident, Come, Uncle Russell, isn't it time for more talk about electric motors and electric Hghts on the “L” trains? Before this week ix half over Com- missioner Andrews should have good company on the Police Board, . Give the Ridiculous Boss no possible chance to laugh last. Everybody 1s laughing at him now Now, Mayor Strong. for a Police Board that owes allegiance, not to a Ross, but to the public, May the memory of good St. Patrick never grow less green. Will Divver still be a Police Justi on Easter Sunday? -_ FATHER KNICKERBOUCKEW’S DIARY March 17, 1885.--There comes to every diary Just see what be le to put Into his record, Such @ Lime comes to me to-night, and drives me to fall back upon that lasting resource of one who finds himself lagging in copversation—the weather And there {x really something to aay about the jather of to-Way, because, while the St. Pat Fick anniversary has put in Its regular appear ance, it has been unmarked by rain, Instead, there has been bright sunshine and a high March wind. saintly old patron once a year, Just as it alan the world good to indulge in the annual ts of Christmas time and of Easter ee In @ number of local papers 1 have seen fame American spirit that stretched the | Conatitutict. to prevent ai s#ristooracy and rode over it rough-shod to dest @ slavocrecy, will prevent a pluscrary within ihe Constitution if it can, but te spite of the Constitution if necessary The decision of the Supreme Will end nothing; it will merely Dut the lines upon which the fight ts tc be continued; whether plutocracy is t« Court point | Wearing is an industry tn which Amert- Diamond-cutting may or may not be a new industry in this country, but those who saw an Alabama salesman 1 the Jefferson Market Police Court m his hands and in his that diamond- with sparklers clothes. were convinced )| cans are pretty well up. de suppressed, as something illegal, or here is better business for whole Werthrown, as something opposed to| sections of policemen than surrounding Gberty and ainst the freedom of the and raiding bilidard-rooms on Sunday Stizen. Hepeclally afte 4 Supreme Court Jus A government of the people, by the Jecided that Sunday pool and People and for the peope Whi not) Hilliard playing is unlawful only when perish from the earth just yer, but} Way have to do some hustiing for ex fatence if the Supreme Court decides | What the people have no rights which emmranpied wealth is bound to respect. . £033 IW PULPIT?. ‘S sermon in Chicago yesterday, tn for bis subject the “Four Hundre: New Yo 4 in New York fate of Dr. Dixon, he believes that seu mational attacks on prop: make a preacher's popularity. ‘Mr. Wheeler described the Four Hun dred as persons careless as to how thelr @amonds are obtained, their bank ac ‘The Rev. Kittredge Wheeler preached ng | of Mr. Wheeler apparently aspires to a Undeterred by tne QeeH eocured or trom what parent stock | uf Trade." ti it disturbs the pubiic peace A wholesale delivery of murder and | other prisoners from the jail at Seattie, h., was effected yesterday. | Jailer was trightened with a wood Ho must be @ particularly ch “tenderfoot” to scare so easily You can't tell how good a guesser you jare until you try. “The Morning World cives you your opportunity fer a trial. y nto "A Piot for a Million,” and you y come oul wich @ thousand in gold ny he knows! Aothing about are all that are needed to tluman nature once more, A Chicago Board of Trade man committed suicide, -|and with his body was found thie note “Let my death be @ warning to all hon- est men to keep away from the Board Unfortunate specuiation preased, within the past few days. the thought) Aiuw her tae diectee hey declined to ot New York'# prosent need of a political evidentiy Hehe) The lee rey | Patrick to drive away the snakes of bossiam, cor | fr England care to the effect that fuption in offke, partisan blindness, &, that | Carmencita will become as much of a are lying about our municipal pathwaya — On¢ fad there as she was here. Strong as auch a delivering saint. The idea is| TV ENING WORLD" SKETCH-ROOK, fone goo! Patrick to eld the ity of all ite rep | Road Character No. 4, and true aen to do a Little snake-driving on | | oe entry in an old Kntekerbocker's diary, this much that ft ha written But there is no news of | yesterday. or of to-day. that calls for its events of municipal importance are hinted at for the coming week at Albany. Hu things do drag eo up there that the tog sigh oF Miscontent, mM contemplation of the letstat proceedings, now comes oftener than the Bash o hope. eri EMPIRE STATE BITS. | Rimira proposes to become an eleven-ward town. A Naples man, aged elabty-eight, rides horse back Like a boy of tes newt Mornelisvilie local ikem ertain prominent young business man of Ithaca n to wed one of Marnelisvilie’s fa! Jes on Vast Main atreat eof picking up Mtty bu — — Now It Always T ont. iso Ayer, and no mistake © is every oew British cup-buncer uatit | on tae wid aiongaide our champion how the Yeakee craft al @ ttle taster.—Bosion Journal keeper's experience the time when be doesn't | eee for cutting this out. Mr. a (it BL Pairlokta: memory: lh lea! WORt ut it really do Tam glad tat St. Patrick 7 I woo steadily kept aren, It dock Ue world goat to eo 8 reflect upon the traditional qualities of Ireland's! Carmencita is a success in London Ay, and is going to start « 1 is rumored that a daughters | Rob ace in securing for his wife a young Bat Then some. turns out to de just | will convince Bim that Be is 80 grea: o nuisance THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, MARCH Girls Flock to See 0 Crown--John Stetson Sald to Ne Very You should have seen the matinee &irlk turn out to gloat over that $100,000 diamond crown, with Mra. Langtry un- derneath it, at Palmer's Theatre Satur- day. The house was packed, and some of the damseia went up into the gallery. In the height of her strange popularity Langtry never had a better day than that she enjoyed Saturday afternoon and evening. It 1s quite interesting to note this, for nobody believed that Mra. Langtry would be able to hold her own in New York, On the road ehe was but fairly succersfu:, but now, with an indifferent play once again conquered, She was immensely pleased, and on Saturday night her performance was infinitely better than that critt- cised last Monday. Perhaps the pretty girl-flecked house inspired her. Bury Irwin Dasent, her business manager, dragged up the “Standing Room Only" sigh, which had-alas!shown signs of mildew and decay, and piaced it In a most conspicuous position. “It must be left out all Sunday,” he gave orders, “for Langtry ulways needs one, und always has.” Mr. Dasent’s faith in hie star ts bewildering. Never has there been # more loyal manager. He im enthust- astic about her crown, ber acting and her play, and can even find an excune | for ben Plympton's clothes. “He has had them pressed,” ald Mr. Dasent, “what more can be expected of hi Pictures of Mrs. Langtry in her crown are now to be seen on ail the highways and byways of th city, Aseistant Treasurer Mahler suggests that he wear it in the box-office while he is selling tickets ae 4 glistening inducement, but it is not likely that Mrs. Langtry’ will allow this, 8 8 John Stetson Is reported to be very Ill In Boston, and the fact is being kept quiet. His condition causes his friends @ good deal of uneasiness, He talks with great difficulty, and is unable to ke active part in his theatrical bust Mr. Stetson, however, has a won: I Vitality, and his constitution is an excellent’: one. His indisposition, was discussed in this city Saturday night with some serlousn ERS, The cousin: aunts—by marriage—of the Sadie Martinot, have agreed to differ Sadie starjed on tour with a whole crowd of them, as already related in these columns. ‘And now comes the sad hews that Rowe and Adolph have left her, She still has the leading Figman, her husband, however. Miss Martinot has been doing very ‘well with “The Passport,” and the out-of-town papers have been quite enthustastic about he ‘The latest is that no American actors Will go, to London to appear in The Girl T Left Behind Me" at the Adelphi ‘Theatre. That fact has just been cabled over to Charles Frohman, who refused to send Americans over for nothing a week and no expectations. All the jan roles will be play ed by cockneys, here'll be Indians thout his," sold Charles Frohman yesterday, ‘unless they manage to secure some of Buffalo Bill's left-over contingent.” Willlam ‘Terriss, by the bye, is to play the part of Lieut. Edgar Hawkesworth, while Miss Jessie Millward will appear as Kate Kennion, | ‘ Bessie Bonehill’s maid ts a thoughtful person, of @ mathematical turn of mind. She has figured out that Miss Bonehili in “Little Christopher” dresses and un- dresses no less than twenty-one tines nightly—or forty-two times on Wednes- days and Saturdays, when matinees are given. This foots up a grand total of 168 times a week. Think of that. ve soclety women who rebel—or profess tu rebel—at your three or four fashionable daily changes. It is not that Miss Bone- hill, personating the cabin boy, wears so Very many costumes—there wre only half a dozen—but she ix Kept the whole blessed evening shifting from one to another. By the bye, pretty little Mabel Bouton, who neatly died from ‘pneu- monia, returny to the cast of “Little Christopher’ to-night. She has been ill for five weeki ee Busines» Manager Shea, of the Empire Theatre, has received two facetious ap- lications for seats for the opening per- formance of “John-a-Dreams" to-night One humorous individual wrote: “Hod two seats for J. A, Dreams, esq., and an: | other, wishing to be even more e.abor- ately funny, asked for his usua! tickets for “Jack McDreams." ‘This opens up a whole avenue of jokiness, Della Fox has been ill, and the other | hight in Montreal her part in “The Littie Trooper” was taken by Marie Celeste, who Is said to be very chic and charm: Ing ano cuptivating—and all that sort of | ing. What a valuable addition t x's company Miss Kittle Lauren adeleine; or, ‘The Magic Kies,” would | be, As far as appearances go no audi- once could possibly distinguish between Miss Fox and Miss Laurence, Wouldn't | ‘ sa Fox company, with Miss | Laurence as’ Della, be a hilarious Idea? John Drew puts on “Christopher, Jr. in Boston to-night. New York has never seen it, for The Bauble Shop” answered requirements here. very time ‘hristopher, Jr." Is presented the members of’ the’ Drew company are miserable, for long rehearsals are al- Ways necessary. Improvements In the shape of new ines and altered |Uons are constantly belng made. It in | said that “Christopher, Jr." just fails to hit the line that would make a good | play of it, and that tine ie being dilt- gently sought. a Isn't this dreadful? Tun't this posi- tively awful? Jusi_as we were begin- ning to believe that we were some- bodies, too! It is culled from a London weel Listen: "If accounts ‘which ‘reach me are to be believed, Mr. Beer: bohin ‘Tree is anything but” satisfied with his receptian in New York. Ameri- fan taste In theatrical matters is pecu- Ma With hardly an exception it seems to be unable to appreci suve sickly sentiment an garity, And Cissy Fitzget situa. after all. Her first night semi-failure, it is sald, was due to the fact that she | ersisted “in singing as well as dancing. | Carmencita carnot. sing, although she herself to be a superb vocal.st, as highly indignant with Messrs | The man who is tho central Ggure in this litte action thinks be will catch the train. He will not. He never does But he cuts a wide swath while he is making the effort. The only things ho catches are bia breath and the maledictios “ - ary DRAMATICNEWS AND NOTES | "ventas Worta's Gattery of Living | AA N EX-JUDOE NOAH DAVIS. This in a picture of a man whore mind fs made up concerning liquor sell- ing on Sunday and every other day. He said at an Anti-Sunday-Saloon meet- ing last night: “I tell you if I had the power I would close every saloon in this country and wipe them all from the land." THE GLEANER'S NUDGET. Gossip Here, a Hint The Tales of City 1 At the Coroner's inquiry over the recent house disaster, on the weat fide, it was brought out that while one of the men injured by the falling wajls still lay on bie cot at the Bospital, & lawyer atond at his bedside trying to induce his wife to sign papers in a suit for damages. It is not usually the case that even a newspaper re. porter, seoking Information in the public Interest, can get to the bedside of un Injured person. T am moved to ask how it is that a lawyer who finds it necessary to xo out and drum up his own Practice can get special hospi:al privileges, oe Every business man, especialiy if he be a poll- Hlelan as well, has bad his experience with can- Vamers for the advertising space in the pro- gramme of John Doe's widow's benefit. A cer- tain poplar Park Row restaurant-keeper, whone Mberal charities are well known, hes a novel way of utilizing bis opportunities in this direction. After a promoter hax dilated ana expatiated on the value to’ his busines of an advertisement in the Programme, this friend of the needy tomes over the price and furnishes “‘oopy’’ for his advertise- ment something like thie: ‘Who pays for this space?’ or a D. & N. eee Away up in Lenox avenue last Gunday at chureh time, I saw an example of the inconsistency of paternal government as practically applied to two boys, the one an uneouth youth of fourteen, the other a thoughtless boy of ten yearn. ‘Pop’? and the boys were crossing Lenox avenue, the old g tleman a rod in advance of the boys. The of the boys ‘cut aoroms."’ The little chap followed hia big. brother. lt wan muddy. Landed on the ‘Pop’ turned about and shou ed, out er that mud!” The boys shoriened the cut and reached the sidewalk when, passing over the uncouth, ‘Pop’ grabbed the little chap, who had simply followed his big brother, and weiting him just below the buttons on the back of hie ulster, moried, “Pile o' xood It does for me to clean you up! I'll teach ye." eee ‘The youngster, thus chastised before all (he peo- ple in thelr Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, and he io bis, was dreadfally humiliated. His cheeks burned with mortification, and he slunk behind in ‘misery, you! Now, you get that look off cr you go back home!" yelled “Pop,”* and then start- ing at bim again he yelled, ‘You mog home now, I won't have you slong at all.’ The little fellow ogee: while ‘'Pop" and the Uneouth pursued thelr way. The larger boy own fault, and perhaps the Ii {ellow's sense of the Injustice done to him may iast io his heart UU he Is big @nough to give * # licking When he does, T want to be a spectator in a! front seat. “Pop” devervan it. of e Did you ever cross Fulton ferry in a hurry to reach the Cortlandt nireet boats, when there tot a blorkade of cross-town cars? And this 's to the vexatious delays on the Bleecker ‘These cars reach the ferry stand at when one is in baste to reach the west ai je tn eight There is something radically wrong (o management when these evils are never remedl 1 the starter coolly reminds you | that “If you want @ car you can wait untt! one comes utong."’ THE GLEANER. — LOVE SONG. Ob, go, pretty rose, ‘To the maiden whove smiling ‘Was quick in beguiling My heart from ite plat And say my love grows Kvary time that I meet her; And vow that she's ow ‘Then all of her race. ‘That no one before ‘Trough fair as Aurora, My fancy could win. And plead for me, fower, For that happy hour ‘When love to her bower WII! usher we tn. Oh, 69, pretty Tone, Sweetest flower that grows, And tl how my homage for her ever flows; Mm. go to her bower, And tell her, aweet flower, Her love is the baim which can comfort my On, 0, pretty rose, To the maiden whose giancing First set my heart dancing To Love's melody; And gently disclose ‘All my fond thoughts about ber; ‘That my life, rose, without her, But torture would be, ‘A poet's tongue borrow, And say naught but sorrow Can come with the morrow If she answers "nay"? | This message, pleane carry, | And if she will marry No longer Ul tarry, | Hut wed right away JOHN J. MINTYRE, Port Richmond, 8. 1. BY OTHER EDITORS. n ‘This, jeian called om a politician the other day ind ork, and it was admitted that the call had a political significance. —Syracuse Standard. Salary Lists of Citles, Jt ie true not only of New York, but of Dut falo and every other city that (cs qalary list a other expenses should be determined at home by its own people. —Buflalo Times, ‘ome to Aw Ameliorating Condit Private Secretary Thurber writes postry, bat people disposed to think badly of bim on that ‘account must bear in mind that it is very bad poetry.—Chicago Mail Mistakes of Le If legislative bodies would simply correct. the mistakes of their predecessors it would be well enough, but most of them, baving done this, pro- | coed tc pile up & lot of thelr own. —New Bedford Journal. The Cup-Det Crew. ‘Trust Wank Ha@ to get @ real American crew a {he people whom he passes on ihe su ‘ Almost too much to hope that this little attention oo be really i for the pew cup-defender. The captain has his ‘ows construction of the word Americas, and it epelle ‘‘Yonbes' ebont ovgry, time—Bosten Rec-| censeience in preparation far tho income tax.—| Thig ie 00 it sdould be. bh ‘and honoradio peaple av farming ammseiations to) | and as 1 took our Hittle boy L am willing to 16, Teos, nae mitted to the Layman's Association of the Phiia- Geiphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The women have long tapped at the door of the Methodist Conference, bat owing to cer- tain prejudices of certain clerical gentlemen who are on terms of intimacy with St. Peter and other interpreters “of tae Divi thority they have up to the present time been kept ont, This ‘admission to the Layman's Association is a step irda the inner eirele, and the end is not yet. . ° Th tho debate that arose in the recent meet- ing In the Quaker City Mr. Fisher, of Pottavitte, He atated that the devil was abroad to-day as much as he was when an apple vender in the Garden of Bden, and he also made bold to Dounce that when women became delegates it Spotted cloth, bound with braid and trimmed with fancy galon, which crosses diagonally the close-fitting lower part of would take two men to watch one women, and that It would soon become a question not of worsan's rights, but man's rights. The women won the day, and they are still wondering what ‘erperiences Fisber may have hed. eee Do women say theit prayers? I have canvassed among certain sets of intelligent women for in- formation on this subject and have learned that Western women say 1 by their bedside at might, but that New York women do not. Just why the prairie atmosphere ‘ss much more conducive to piety than the bracing air of the sea in not stated, One worn tells me whe says her prayers while shi heat- Ing her curling-tongs, and another tella me she ‘hasn't said them since she became the mother of a family, She has been too tired to say them. Asother woman makes them while dol her duty, and doesn’t feel obliged to say them. Making prayers is better than saying them, after all, te tt nott ee A pupil in one of the grammar school this elty received medal the other day for Ing common sense. Sich an occurrence 1s not usual, perhaps, because common sense ir, after ail, uncommon sense. Sydney Smith claims that Socrates was the Inventor of It. He was a discl- ple of that ancient philosopher, as was also Dr. Johnson. The world is attracted by common Almont insensibly, although it, like other everyday virtues, passes muster without being re- farded as a virtue at all. 1: tn well to have at- tention called to it now amé thi I bell the scheme of the school principal who singled ‘one boy out of 250 boys to reward him for having common sense is one of the most laudable pro- ceedings in educational annals. You can't learn common sense from text book PRUDENCE SHAW. — HOME LIFE IN HIGH LIGHTS, ad Some with em Hearts. ves with Woes Breaking or Bi To the Editor I would aay to “Anxious Wife” that if I were she I would tet him kill himself, for auch men that beat thelr wives ought to be dead. If he had a wife that would make him cook his own breaktant Ait him over the head with » broom he ‘appreciate her more, Do not get scared, “‘Anxlous Wife,” when he tells you that he 1s going to Kill bimself, for men like him have not the courage to do that. I would not live with such a man; for what will he be when he ie ten years married? The boys are not the same they were years ago, The young men nowadays are all for the young girl on little mony, and think when they are married they are men, He does not know what love is or he would not act like that. SINGLE EDDIE. Waits for Hours to See Him Come Home Drank. To the Editor: 1 ask your advice as to what to do in my case? I am a young married woman, with & baby boy, twenty months old, and a drunken husband. 7 have been married over two years and bad months of real happiness. Si) then 1 have been nitting up until the amal! hours of the morning, watching and waiting for my hus- band to come home. He has promised me every day that he would give up drink, and I trusted him, thinking that he might reform again, for my little darling’s sake; but no. Day after day, night after night, it is the same sad story. Ile has no cause whatever, having ap attentive and very forgiving wife, and a dear little boy whom [love with a mother's everlasting love. 1 would do anything (n the way of work sooner than have my baby parted from me Don't you think I could make my husband support baby end my- self, even though he has a small salary? If I were to live apart from bim perhaps he be a better and wiser man, WEARY AND TIRED OF WAITING. Willing to Foi 4 Forget. ive nd I separated some time ago, turn and forgive him all the wrong he did me The question (8, how can I find his whereabouts? Ihave inquired 1p several places and cannot nd him. Me was the fault of all the trouble and quarrel we had, but Iam willing, (or the child’ sake, to forgive and forget. How can I find him? HEARTBROKEN WIFE, Brooklyn, N. Y. Gossip and tie Darlin, To the Editar: ‘A Broken-Hearted Wite* must understand that there are a large number of wives who do all the things enumerated in ber complaint, but they have mo time to gossip. It te rather late to cor plain about an old man. 1 would advise her to wait until he dies and then try a husband of her | NOSRAL own age. ey JOKES WITH CREDITS. | Including Timely References ¢ Gentle Spri Oh, Spring, Spring, thy beanties I sing, In a voice that is feeble and hoarse; Of course, I adore thee, But fain would implore thee ‘To pause for a time in thy course— ‘While 1 a musiard plaster make, Bome quinine pills and whiskey take, To cure there chills, And other itt And then I'll make the welkin rin ‘With songs of thee, oh fickle Sprini Brooklyn Life. These Girls. First She—How ridiculous en a! Here he stars. my teeth to pearls and swearing that the sun retires abashed from the brightness of my presence. Second She—1 dua’ call that foolish. 1 think it pretty amart of Lim—giving you the kind of | Jove talk that was in vogue when you were @ girl. Indianapolis Journal. His Fir My firet clear I laid aside ‘When full nize-tenths of it remained, And yearned for solace while I died, Though from fell weakness I refrained (With streng:h, that fellow I'd have brained) From sending straight to heaven's bar The youth from whom that weed I gained, My first cigar! Harlem Lite. Force of Nad Examples, ‘Twickenham.—That boy of mine has been hang ing around « young ladies’ seminary now for a month, and I don't like it Von Blumer.—It hagn't hurt him any, has it? ‘Twickenham.—Hurt bim! Why, the younget has learned to smoke cigarettes —Brookiyn Lite, Spring. “Hail! gentle Spring,” The posts sing, ‘Their hearts with joy o'erfow, And, mtrange to say, It comes next day, Not only hail, but snow. Philadelphia Record, Clwar. the sleeves, and describes vandykes with pointed and falling ends. One band is carried round the neck, and also finished off with turned-back ends. Fish en Coquil'e. This is merely fish in shelle, and with large fish is an attractive way of serv- ing “left overs." To every pint of cooked fish meat allow four tablespoon- fuls of bread crumbs, yolks of two hard- boiled eggs, one tablespoonful of but- ter, two tablespoontuls of flour, one cup of cream or milk, one tablespoonful of chopped parsley, salt and pepper to taste. Scald the cream, rub the butter and flour together until smooth, add to the scalded milk, stir until it thickens. Add the bread crumbs, stir for two minutes over hot water. Take from the fire, add the fish, parsiey and seasonings. Mix gently that the fish may not become stringy. Ful the greased shells, brush over with beaten egg, cover with bread crumbs and brown in a quick oven. ‘The High Hat Crane. St. Louis papers are collecting a small fund to pay the fine of a man named Jost, who, as a protest against the tigh- hat craze, wore his own hat at the the- atre and was fined for it. bass Pet Dugs No Louger Rale. 1; 1s said that pet dogs are being di placed in feminine favor by pet cats, and that the iatter-day devotees to the shrine of the felines are as enthusiastic, If not as numerous, as those ladies of ancient Egypt who were priestesses of LETTERS, [7M column i open (0 everybody ww'o has a complaint to make, 0 rrisvance to ventilate, ine formation to give, a subject of generat interest (+ dtacuss or @ public terviee to acknmrledge, and who can put the tdea into lege than 100 words, Loro lattere cannot be printed. } it Socialte: w To the Fditor: “Dixle’ aske what Soclalism {s.°1 will tell him what Socialiom is not, if he will listen. Socialism does not consist/in violently seizing upon the property of the rich and sharing it out among the poor. Socialists do not propose by a single act of Parliament or by a sudden revo lution to put all men on an equality and compel them to remain so. Socialiam is not a wild dream of lappy land where the apt drop off the trees into our open mouths, tho fish come out of the riveré and fry themscives for dinner, and the looms turn out sults of velvet, with golden buttons, without th trouble of coaling the engine. Neither is it a dream of a nation of stained-glass angels, who never say damn, who always Jove thelr neighbors better than themselves, ani work unless they wish to. SOCIALIST, In Not. Brooklyn, N.Y. Only 10 Ce Wases. To the Editor: We are two you Frank and Howard Stafford, that the should lower the fare during working hou in from 6 to 8 in thy morning, day, and also come across the ri but $¢ a week. Out of that we pay $3 for board, © cents for car fare and 30 cents for ferriage, and then we have but 10 cents left mall amount? MAY and ANNA, Jersey City, N. J. To the EAitor: I would like to krow why the Brooklyn Bridg Company docs not give twelve tickets for conta, | week. | two mors at the end ‘As it now stands, they have to purchase ot the week, and often. | times have mot the money to do so, perhaps Hope rome of ths working class readers will agitate chin question until we get tweiv ror KaTe Yau MOUSTAKL The Only Cere for a Lazy Boy. To the Faltor I have read ‘Mra. L's complaint about her lazy boy, and would say from my own knowledge of boys that what he needs i» a spanking. 1 also know that it is di Mcult ior a woman, and industrious habits, 1 am sure that a few ap WARD Le MC | ben AN. My daughter informs me that keep 10 the good graces of the monitor by cringing, flattery and making presents of pei cils, candy, @c., or lose so many marks tbat they have earned by bard study, ‘Walter, of Brooklyn, has done a good thie 1A opening up thin subject. It is worth an sditortal Capt. VAN ALSTI Yorkyitte. Training. Browa.—I wonder how Whopper expects any one to believe the yares he tolls, Jopen.—He don't. He's simpiy exercising his A Class That Would Appree! Te the Editor: Ip reading your and other papers, 1 find there ‘e constantly somé new thing being done, and tome new fund started, to eid the very poor, I also Gnd that good ready-made | who never need to| a Week Left of Their ladies and we think like T tn the evening. We travel the road twice a and earn How can! it be poasible for any girl to cloth herself on that | to that working people who travel to New | das written me a letter comparing my eyes to| Yor’ daily can have oufficient tickets to last the | pectally an invalid, to train and discipline 8 boy properly, but has she no male friend to whom she can apply? stag xpanked a] lazy boy inte submission, and afterwards into | plications of strap cn the only spot would be they have to je Ald, the temples dedicated to the soft-fosted. pussy, To the Princess of Wales may be ascribed the honor of having partly commenced the fashion, She has some lovely blue Persians at Sandringham, Skating om the Reof. A brand new departure by the lovers of skating this season is to skate om the roof. If the roof slants a line of bricks can be run along the lower edge, then the roof is flooded until the sure face is flat. The water freeses, leaving ‘& perfect Iake of ice, about which eas, be placed settees, cushions, robes and all manner of things to add to the com- fort of the onlookers. The Princess of ‘Wales and the princesses are extremely fond of this exercise. The idea of the roof, it is believed, originated with the governess of the princesses, In Parle this scheme has been made very sue> cessful, and being so near home an@ without the dangers attached to @ big pond, more little children enjoy the sport than in America, Temporary rail- ings may be built all the way around the roof to prevent any possibility of falling off. Kleptomania. To believe a French writer, there are no fewer than 4,000 women caught every year in stealing during their shopping expeditions, a habit euphoniously styled kleptomania. The number of titled ladles |selged with the strange malady while em- |amining the fashions of Paris, he telle us, {8 almost incredible. Among the most recent culprits were a Russiag | Princess, a French Countess, an Eng- |lish Duchess, and the daughter of @ reigning sovereign, As a rule these more distinguished offenders are let off n the payment of a round sum for the reltef of the poor, and when the shop lifter is known to be rich the sum eae | acted rises to as much as 10,00 franes Interrupte: nwelcom: Some parents allow their children to @cquire the very rude and unmannerty habit of breaking in upon their conver sation and those of older persons with questions and remarks of their own. It is very uncivil to allow them to do so, | So, even among their own brothers and sisters and schoolmates of their owm age, tet them speak without interrupt- ing. If one begins to tell a story or @ bit ol news, teach them to let him finish it: and if he makes mistakes that ought to be currected, do it afterwaris, Don't allow them to acquire the habit of being interrupted \ | French Fried Potato |. Peel the potatoes and cut into come paratively small rhomboldal lengths, \¥ry im deep, smoking-hot fat. This | should be hot enough to fry the pota- toes to a delicate brown before they become grease soaked, yet must not burn them. Skim them from the fat as they are a golden brown, and drain on brown paper. Sprinkle with salt and (serv Joan money at & reasonable rate of Interest to those wo have good security, much ax household goods, Right again, But with all my looking I fail to find any place where one situated as 1am can apply for aid, 1 have been very an- fortunate in business, and have been struggling for several months to get on my feet, but 1 cannot get enough money together to make @ fresh start, and so { get further bebind, and poorer every day. The loan of a few hundred dollars would enable me to start afresh and make my way. But I have no security eave the word of an honest woman. I do not doubt there are many others in the same predicament. Are there not some honorable people who will come to the aid of such wom | ONE WHO WANTS TO HELP HERSELR A Dream Dispetled. To the Editor In vain he pl To strip the In rapturous ted. Firmly she declined ‘overing {rom & foot which bm joquence, avowed he'd find A perfect one of Trilby rarity. Crazed was he, with a burning, mad destm To feast his eyes upon its feshy glow, To im rapt wonder study and admire Its dainty curvature trom heel to toe. t id the maid, in voice of modest ring Aver she couldn't think of such a thing. In desperation he resolved he'd see That foot before he Inid him dowa to sleeps | And in the gathering darkness mtealthily Towards her window lattice 4/4 be crewp. A streak of light came through detective bite And there he glued his eyes And whet @ sigut! | His heart in wild pulnation beat to and | Mis fair one clad in fleecy robe of might. | Upon the floor she sat in paintul pose, Paring the corns from her misshapen toes! BARTON, | Why Some Young People A Admitted to the Free Lect To the Faitor 1 notice a complaint sinned ‘Albert Fifert™ in yor insur 0, Wednesday that yout a eighteen and over are not admitted to the Board of Education free lectures, mentioning espe clally School No, 35, This is not so. The local | Superintentent, who has charge at each hall ar school-fourteen in number—where these tures are given, ues a discretionary power 9@ | 19 those who should be admitted, and becomes acquainted with ome young men of a rather "tough" nature, whom he has to refuse admise son to, as they not only irritate the lecturer, {hut annoy the majority of the audience It haw. ‘neon 4 pleasure to me tc give many lectures’ tm the free couree, and personally . can spenk ag | to the Jarge and attentive audiences I've always j met. Children are not allowed at these lectures, | The act under which they are held specifies mam | and women, JAMES BOWIE. The Whole Family Floeke In, To the Editor: Tam a young man of eighteen, calling on @ young lady of the samo age, and very intimate with her: but Tam troubled by her parents an@ slaters and brothers when 1 call upon her. & would Like to know how to get at it, 20 as te have them keep out o: the parlor while I am there without tell'ng them to get out, as they ay be insulted avout it, and 1 do not want to break friendship with the girl, of whom I think a great deal P. K., Harlem, No Such Word To the Editor: Which 1s the correct of the word “mone: Monies" in Use, to opel the plural im & sentence similar the following: The monies (or moneys) of the ‘different countries vary greatly. Is this word | apelt both ways or is it spelt in one of A Charade. To the BAitor: My love for ‘My whole will aye be reckoned. GBFTEM RIVL, Wee Bioveatn ces,