The evening world. Newspaper, April 9, 1895, Page 4

(ettisnes vy the Press Publishing Company, te @ PARK ROW, New York. ~“Tuespay, APRIL 9, 1895. © Watered at the Post-Office at New York as econd-class matter. \ WORLD UPTOWN OFFICE—Junction of Broad- | _ way emt Sixth ave. at 324 ot. D WORLD HARLEM OFFiCH—i25m ot ond Matt. gen ave. )) BROOKLYN—200 Washington ot. S PRIRADMLPHTA, FA.—Proee Building, 102 Cheat wet a (WAGHINGTON—T08 14th ot. THE WORLD'S Circulation for March, 1895, 560,195 per ay For March, 1894, 481,316 per day For March, 1891, 325,846 per day For March, 1883, 24,595 per day ‘Per day. Gam tn One Year, 78,879 Geta tn Four Yuurs, 294,349 Gain in TwelreYear, 635,600 NOT £0 SERIOUS AS IT SEEME. ‘The income tax decision will be a dis- + appointment to the more ardent frien _ @f the tax, but the feeling will have More of « theoretical than of a practical basis. Of course, the position of the Court as to taxing income from real ‘estate, however constitutional it may be, $e Wogical and absurd. But what ts ‘there in our tax laws that is not illogical and absurd? ‘Wealth is astream from which Govern- ment levies a share for public uses. If this were a new world and we were a Brand-new race of people just starting to live in it, with a ready-made system of laws, we would undoubtedly levy the tax at the source of the stream, for so ‘the lows would be shared equally by all below, But being a very old world, and Very Old people, whose laws and customs fave grown by piecemeal and patch- ‘Work through ages, we secure our taxes by dipping out the water with buckot! or running {t off through eluices, here, there and everywhere along the course. Ite burden ts not equal, it is not logical OF sensible or just, but it is the system, Gnd such as it {8 we must put up with It until time and progress work the kinks out of it, The Supreme Court decisic Merely shute off a new sluice and ‘ Gmiashes’a new bucket which were to have been used in drawing a little more tribute from the stream, Practically, the effect of the decision 1s being grossly exaggerated by alarm- fata. The Astor estate and a few others like it, whose funds are invested in im- Proved real estate, will pay less taxes om account of the decision, The vast bulk of real estate held as investment utside of old cities ts either owned in @vch small lots as to produce no income over the tax limit, or else, being held for speculative purposes, produces no Fegular income at all. The tax on the Profits of this speculative land, when it omes to be sold, ts lost to the Govern- ment by the decision, but that is not an immediate affair, but of future years, ‘It would have cut a small figure in this year's taxes. From the point of view of the people the exemption of real estate rents is @ relief, rather than an increase of bur- pay it, would simply be added to ts_and paid by the tenants. The the people would have had to portance of the exemption of from Btate, county and city ip also exaggerated, The bulk of securities are held in small, scat- ts, the income of which would blocks by charitable and similar tutions, which would have been ex- empt even had the law been sustained im full, Vast amounts of them are also held abroad, and the possibility of col- Jecting the tax on them would have been doubtful. ‘Take it all in all, let us all, caxers and anti-taxers, step up to the captain’ effice and settle like little men, ‘things are no worse, or sorry they are Be Rain ecoerding to the way 1@ look, BYRNES AHEAD. Supt. Byrnes was in ‘Albany yesterday for @ conference with Gov. Morten and the legislative leaders. It 1s understood Ghat he attended at the invitation of the Governor, who desired to obtain the @uperintendent’s views touching the provisions of what are familiurly known en the Plett Bi-Partisan Police bills, ‘The Superintendent is sald to have been pleasently satisfied with the politi- al features or Plattitudes of the bills, Put te have suggested several additional powers for the Chief of the force, all of ‘which seem to have been conceded as Gosirabie. \ ‘Bho Superintendent is fortunate in the + possession of @ sort of hypnotizing | power over the heads of the govern- aM ‘When he became acquainted with S, he at once struck up a friendship Ypmith the leader. When he grandly and ‘With a Gourish placed his resignation in hands of Mayor Strong the Mayor it voluntarily, with @ sort of iy. tay where you are,” air, When he Superintendent got into the hands the Lexzow Committee there was a wt o€ Goff paralysis in the Committee, the cross-examination failed for the Now the Prgaciniendent have captured the ‘Go ite © Hon of in other 1 @ useful ence and fought has bee leg proposed position, doubt wing? INTEMPERANCE AND INTEMPERARCE ‘The Rev. Dr. writes a letter apologizing for the state- ment recently made by him regarding the alleged habits of President Cleve- land, and withdrawing that the President waa intoxicated on three occasions designated by him in his Salem address, This is all right a@ far an it goes. But it would have been far better had the reverend gentleman observed a tem- perance of assertion that would have from giving pain others and from drawing humiliation on himself. A very little reflection might have satisfied the Rey, Dr. Lansing that intemperance of the tongue Is a grievous fault, and one which leads to many de- plorable remults, Yot nately a vice in which enthuslasts like Dr, Lansing are too apt to indulge. prevented him SAVED BY MATRIMONY. There ts in Bridgeport, Conn., to- @ Swede who does not think marriage On the contrary, he has a high and joyful estimate of it, and no under the same he would tackle matrimony @ second or a third or even @ tenth time, He was booked for a passage on the ill-fated Elbe when she sailed from Bre- men for this country, but he fell in love with a giri and jet the boat sail with- our him, while he pressed his sult and won his charmer’s heart and hand. By remaining behind to get murried, he es- caped a watery tomb. A few days ago he arrived at Bridgeport with his bride, All the other blessednesses of matri- this man has reason to the conjugal bright hues and a fullure, mony apart. hold rosy views of Let us hope that tl glad music of his lot may never grow dark or Inharmonious, and that the day will never come when he will stand on his storm-tossed hearthstone and tell his wife that he wishes he had been on, the Elbe when she sank In the eea. Isn't It @trange that Police Commis- sionerships for which there was such # mad rush some time ago now go beg- furnished the explaagtion when he said that the Po Commissionership pald only $5,000 a year, It used to be a great deal more than that, you know, Even New York's Board of Education, which would be legislated out of office should the measure become @ law, in- dorses the School Reform bill at Albany. But by the simple word of a Ridiculous Boss the bill is held on the side track. By @ tremendous vember, New York City voted for the dis- persal of Divver, Grady, Koch, Martin Police Court bench. the word of a Ridiculous Boss to out- weigh that vote? et A new bill for the completion of the State Capitol provides for the expendi- ture of $2,000,000 within four years. The people would like @ little encouragement to believe that even at that the end would be in sight. ‘Warner Miller says in a Chicago in. terview that the Republican leaders at “the Lexow tdeas.” Mr. Miller's statement contains a vital error. There are no Lexow ideas. Albany are for A fine epectacie, but not fine enough t. make up for the ‘That was last night's fire, which burned the trades school building of the New York Deaf and Dumb Asylum. It te easy knowing that the dreaded Ahkund ts no more pedition, we are told, succeeded tn car- rying the fords of the Swat River on Saturday. The theatrical managers have plenty of popular indorsem against the passax Ml-Judged anti-tights bany. Mr. Mitchell will not serve on the there are good men Commissionerships. Let us have them quickly, Mr. Mayor. Police Board. who will What power or pull is k misioners Kerwin and Murray in oft ‘They grow bolder and bolder every day in thelr deflance of Mayor Strong. People who haven't had ex; with the lone train-robber always when they read of one man holding up prison for receiving @ present of apples and peaches for police favors while an- at the head of the force who received three or four hundred thousand dollars for similar services. look well to send one man up the river reen-goods game for 4 DAILY SINT FROM mM'DOUGALL, Gallery of Liviag BETWEEN US WOMEN. During this unseemly, fractious Win- ter New Yorkers may have ‘The bicycle enthusiast is not the only woman who will wear bloomers, and judging from the fact that one of these apostles of dress-reform Went spinning down throug! of Broadway. a day of two sinc that we shall foon accept the innovation clounly aa we do many of Dame Fashion's lest less atriking decrees. members of my "ex to don the bloomers a who are pressing thelr wi They will wear the gloves and the spurs along with the bloomers and climb where the electric light Is ad- sa man, 1 am told, the Workmen's Union saya, at lest, ‘and 1 dare say it may bee of the dramatic possibilities of water-pipes, around the imperfection of which Ibsen has built his play, “An produced for the first time in this city at Abbey's Thea- for backing a money and to place at the hi reorganized force another who has backed @ Jay Gould game for money. But, then, everybody seems will ing to keep the Superintendent in power, everybody at least Parkhurst, emy of the Peopl He takes the homilest episodes fe and shows how they call forth such human emotions as love and hate and revenge and pity and family affece tion and patriotism. the People,” twelve people are moved to do what they do by the pestiferous condition of the water-pipes of a pro- vinclal town that relles for prosperity n its baths and by the myrtw infusoria in the water, fon Howards and Willlam Gillettes, of Ftaging Infusoria and of waxing elo- quent on the subject of water-pipes! Yet Ibsen's play is interesting, for It tells a gcod many truths, thor of *Thi The New Eton. walsts will be fashioned like @ Bebe bodice at the top, with a close fitting, Others will show a short postilion jacket with @ draped vest of taffota beneath, the short jackets will have a deep. | pointed trimming around the armhole, the Vandykes radiating outward above the full sleeves of silk matching the While the round waist will still in popular favor, bodice will in @ measure supersede it this Spring for certain styles of dresa, The graceful “Princess May” waist has still a great number of admirers, and will constl tute one of the favorite styles for youti> ful wearers and slender matrons, ‘The cut of this coat is quite simple. The fronts have no darts, the centre of the back {s entire, and there {s only one side piece on either side. in one with turns thie back, and sharply presses it before joining on the collar, which 1s also pressed 0 as to turn down into Its A half width of silk or satin is then tacked inside the front, and and he does amount to much about thes: In “An Enemy of justed and do it as weil ‘The tailor cuts GIVE IT IT8 NAME. Mr. Danforth B. Ainsworth haa been of Assembly. value has been mainly tn his indep apparent honesty. ainst objectionable men objectionable members on the flo supposed to be an enemy of Above all, he has penized aa the oppo- {dea is put forward by cortain progressive members of the nobility, who have dressed thelr nurse In London the Ia ‘Think, ye Bron- proper position. maida in bloomers, jall never become English enough to fall The housemald’s cap in with thie innovation, has proved as great a problem as the American s been able to battle with up Wo A maid in a cap is @ and always ive jobbery. been generally re nent of Plattism, It Is now satd that Mr, Ainsworth ts to be made Deputy Superin' Public Instruction, sition, with very little to do, raise the salary deputy from four thousand to four thou- sand five hundred dollars 4 year. position 1s controlled by Platt. Mr, Ainsworth is well fitted for the He will make a good Deputy Buperintendent, no doubt about that, But the thing ts @ job. A troublesome member is removed from the floor of the Assembly chamber. A thorn plucked from the Boss's ede, Mr. Ains- worth ts disposed of. Things may ea well be called by their proper names, anyway. KING OSCAR. This ts a picture of the ruler of Nor way and Sweden, who, besides being a sovereign, is a sailor and a poet. He has @ little crisis on his hands at the pres- ent time, owing to Norway's desire for independence. THE GLEANER'S BUDGET, sof OMcial Rheamatiom and Sprained Ankle. Like the au- Modern Lies of Our Civil- fzation,” the Stockholm dramatist ratls against existing conditions of society, the present writing uuirable domestic attache, hold in reference to this regalia are of a grave and profound nature, The Americai the whole city and defying mandates and asserts loudly and frequently that the majority fs made up of fools, and a nice, genteel po- Keep Your Chafing Dish Cleam. It should not be forgotten by those who own them that chafing dishes need especial care to keep them bright and attractive for the table, The pans should not be put in water when washed, but the water put in them, and the nickel surface carefully wiped and pol- ished over with a piece of chamois. If Particles of whatever has been cooked adhere to the sides, clean them off with grease and salt, then wash with cleam, hot soapsuds, rinse and dry carefully, Isn't there @ laugh on somebody In the minority Themas Stockman, has discove: of the water pipes, and the wickedness of teeming infusoria, an dhe resolv to tell the truth at all hazards Peter Stockmar, and chief of pollc It for @ consider 46 per month to her value, sometim Law in @ very funny thing when elght tourt judges many interpretations of the same chunk the villainy can furnish Here, a Hint There and Trae Tales of City Lite. ‘The most artistic and the most successful of awindlera ts the “bread-crust rat saw him elght years ago, and the way he worked me for a quarter was a falr ex- A man of middle age, rensed like @ mechanio, perhaps fresh from his ‘Work, stopped in my path, American housemald humility, and the cap is a and conciliation, while it is regular stepping-stone to grace. adopt bloomers tn thi fe naturaily wanting ign of adaptability tthe mame time a burgomaster el to Thom- which he knows will ruin and divert patronage into He threatens to disming the medical man from his position !f he brands the baths as pestilenti tad, editor of “The People's Messenger,” refuses to pubiis! ticle in his paper when he learns that it will be necessary to close the baths for two years in order to purify them. ‘Thomas finds himself hedged in on all He is not allowed eged everywhere. ‘meeting and tells his hearers that they are fools; that he ts Proud to stand alone; that he will fight for all he is worth, and that it is he, and he alone, who has the Interests of his native town at heart. He 1s hooted The people at the mass-meeting cheer the burgomaster and the editor, poor doubting Thomas to The Police Hoard rem 3 to 1 against the public interest. more than time for changes, Mr. Mayor, sat odds of orld below stairs, for the 1 atmonphere of tragedy. keepers all have experiences to relate on other channels. ample of ht ; Is there the least touch of persecu- eBid) Coins tion about the Mayor Btrong’s la’ treatment of host in Chinatown? Six littie Japanese maidens with a Japanese es cort came over in the Brooklyn Bridge cara yes- They were clad in Kimonas and broad sashes and each caried a parasol. dignified as though they were posing in a tableau, picturesque as though they belonged One of the little maids dropped her parasol and a gentieman in an oppo- alte weat sprang to pick It up and with @ pro- found Upping of his silk hat, restored the sun shade to its diminutive owner. the little maiden alld from her seat and mi daintest and most gracious of court re in the car alnle, Embroidery. One of the most effective, though alm. ple, styles of embroidery is that styled stamped upon linen, ‘s worked in button-hole stitch with silk or linen, and the pattern con. nected with bridges of the twist in a sort of lace stitch. After it is finished the linen 1s cut away between the de- sign and the resulting open-work effect , is extremely pleasing. A centrepiece or scarf for the table placed over colored silk 1s both showy and useful. Dr. Stockman le was putting something to his mouth. He besltated and brushed that something on his coat sleeve. It wasa dirty crust of bres. Sudden- that he was being observed, and, thrusting the crust Into his pocket, he quickened le pace with @ hunted expression In his sunken, AEEATA eyes. Of course, my hi to e00 a fellow-mortal reduced to eating crusts found in the gutter, and, calling to the poor f fow, I gave him something to buy food with. He sobbed his thanks in broken Englis! ‘tood in the hollow eyes, in which there was the @iltter of tliness; his thin yellow hands combed through his thin black beard, and he tottered ‘The lst of things that are certain now besides death and the tax col. lector, the bridge cable road breakdown. The design, with @ pound of tea. brought over the lapel so that {t forms a lining to the front as well as a facing to the lapel, but the facing for the col- is cut on the cross, stretched over the collar, the seam oc- curring at the junction of the collar Here's that the second century of New York's publio school system may be as glorious as the first has been, sides by difMicultie rt was touched the assertion He calls a ma Then it hat Meat goes up and «1 yen It was that coal goes up. For the Trusts, the goose hange higher and higher. Bhall public It waa all done with such absolute gravity and not a soul in the car amiled ‘an she again took her seat, If the Eton coat {s made without lin- ing, the seams must be well pre: a bone is an improvement at the under- in the centre of the ntiment or a Ridiculous Boss rule New York? That's what the issue has become, It was a bridge car that same fellow pick up that tdenti- in since then, and I feen other sympathetic people forget the Tule never to give to @ beggar in a thousand charities, and drop money Into his well- trained, trembling hand. ‘all a Sunday morning among t Avenue, and picking up many o dime or dollar, But his easiest victims are among the shoppers and the Grate half a pound of maple sugar and dissolve it in a cupful of cream or rich milk. Let it boil, stirring it frequently so that It will not burn, keeping It on the When it is of the con- sistency of a thin syrup, use @ sauce for for batter puddings, or such puddings as have not much flavor of their own, eal crust over and 0} That to what she replied to my question when I inquired of her about the vocation of her best young man. she 1s the dearest, sweetest young thing in York, and she hasn't plexity of lite, about him I merely “Avhat is his business, dear?’ said with auch a satisfied, beatific amile, Col. Waring should present his ac- knowledgments of the services of last night's rain, have begun, Public opinion 1s so ve. hemently opposed to him that his land- lord turns him from his home; the mob Mix in a sponge at night of very early in the morning named ingredients: One cupful of milk, scalded and cooled; one tablespoonful half a teaspoonful one-fourth cupful of yeast, two cupfuls When well risen add flour enough to make a stiff dough. Knead and let it rise again, fourth of a cupful of butter rubbed to @ cream, half a cupful of sugar and one egg, beaten with butter and sugar. it rise in the bowl till light. Shape into small round biscuits, put them close to- gether in a shallow cake pan, that they may rise very high, bake, rub the tops with sugar dssolved in milk, sprinkle with dry sugar and bake in a moderate oven. back of the stove, T have seen him work the following- stone his windows; his daughter Is cut and his children slighted. gentleman who was going to lea fortune to Thom: and invests his money tock, and the final curtain de. scends upon a picturesque group of Thomas and his family. decides to remain in the town and fight manfully for his rights, and with thie Picture Tbsen 1s satisfled. He leaves us to Imagine the requel, “An Enemy of the People” ts uncon ventional and highly interesting to the people who don't have to pay for their Perhaps the purchasers who, as a rule, don't want to be entertained thinkingly, might resent the water pipes. dramatists the theatre is not designed but for instruction, babbling ‘theatre fresh from a choice dinner into the playhouse 8 of water pipes and a microscopical examination of tainted You and I, who are so awfully superior, don't you know, do not het tate to express our inte‘lectual apprecia- tion of Ibsen. highly refreshing to our jaded senses, for do we not suffer from such inflictions 48 poor popper's socks from the other acces- sorles of the brain-deadening trash that finds {ts home on Broadway? Lieerbohm ‘Tree made an excellent tm- pression as Dr. Stockman, has done nothing better, except He was nervous, Ispy dently MM at sed and his “conception of the part” distinctly good. burgomuster was well played by Charles Allen, and a comedy role interpreted by Frances Ivor as Mrs. also be congratulated for her Lily Hanbury ts about ag un-Ibsen-esque a young woman could be found. Tho atmorphere of the ‘trand lurked about her personality, and Tt Is unfortunate that the Metropolitan Traction Company's pull is not confined When she was so enthusiastic 4 out of pure solicitude, ‘Then it was ol Even the old Se hsueeant She Can Stand Trouble Better. Recent insurance statistics show that if the wife dies first, the husband on an average survives nine years, while if the husband dies first the wife survives | eleven years, Chicago freebootinm is always on tap. Now It is going to furnish a few rebels A Broadway cable car stopped at Thirty-fourth street. Two people got off. A woman started to get |. and had one foot upon the started onward with a sudden jerk. The woman wi saved from an ugly f who sprang forward and caught her. Fegular conductor of .he car was inside when he ve the signal to start, but upon the rear plat- form were two men in the uniform of the Metro- polltan Traction Company, neither of whom pald ‘any attention to the woman. Fence, and I make this little note apropos of the to pasa a law requiring companies to employ an extra conductor for each car, he to look out for passengers, while the other man Hooks out for fares | ‘The housecleaning season is upon us, and woman's economy is rampant. man's pet virtue bargain-counter, then add one- Economy 18 wo- Bhe takes It with her to the and she hugs It to her bosom when the Jelly and jam season comes in, and Row again at the Spring housecleaning. Econo- my 1a the sparkle on the cup of duty which woman dally touches to her lips. adverse ciroumstances as naught else can, and ‘& glow to the otherwise stupid details that come within her line of action. A vast amount of drudgery 1s sugar-coated with economy. The woman who Is cleaning house this season her- tnatead of hiring a woman to do it, will Rervous prostraticm after it, but she won't mind. The principle of economy must be sustained at any price. economy has retarded woman's development far more than she {e aware of. te what my eex Iacka We have never been able © with financial expendi- Wo are slaves to fictitious values. PRUDENCE SHAW. ——__we—---- JESTS AND JINGLES. ~ The doctor Did you think there were still 70,000 sweatshop employees in New York? by the quickn circumstances A Bald and Toothless Race Coming, Congestion of the socal bald; the teeth die of anaemia, That the race is destined to become abso- lutely bald and toothless enough to many thoughtful minds, The Income Tax law is badly hi Income Tax principle is unscathed, kin makes us It embellishes New York's parks now begin in ear- nest thelr wearing of the green, When ready to I saw the occur- theatre ticket Coroner Hoeber atill refuses to recog- n'ze hia time for disappearing. The New Negliges. Neglige effects will continue to be a feature of both Spring and Summer gowns, on dresses such as Teviot suit- Henrietta cloth, Some of the to turnips. The emall white ones should be boiled, for thirty minut be cooked whole forty m be needed. Yellow turnips, when #! need forty-five minutes’ cooking. is such a thing as overdoing the April shower business. for entertainment Tmagine the frivolou A barber who read in the Gleaner’ Budget the ether day the story of a New Yorker who had to get abaved twice a day, known of several such cases. He spoke particu- larly of an army offic who shaved: himself at 6 o'cloc and had to call upon a barber after 8 o'clock, that he might be made present- THE GLEANER, Doubtless this es, but if they Is Supt. Byrnes to be Platts latest told me that he had inutes’ time will nse of proportion frou-frou-In| camel's hair and the like, to revel In an anal: PATHER KNICK ENNOCKER’S DIARY, Stockholm, Sweden, lance nerve Ww: ‘every morning | °° b Brooklyn with those of the trolley roats bore the bridge in New York or even the two orawte ing. Jerking, roaring cable roads to which New York Jooks for surtace transportation, and you will find that we are by no mi the Hist, And, LETTERS. [Ths column t open to everybody wo has a complaint to make, @ grievance to ventilate, in- formation to give, a aubject af general inieredt t discuss or a public service to acknorledae, cand who can put the idea into leas tham 100 words, Long letters cannot be printed. | Concerning Some Superstitions. To the Editor: In answer to a query of A Young Lady,"* con- cerning the wearing of an opal ring, I would Uke (0 express my sentiments In r Why will senaibl Auperatition—for that t= all And how can the wearing of a ring, whether it be an opal or a diamond, aft I know @ great many peop ~The wind blows a gale, the rain comes down in torrents and Col are getting finely washed out for him on Tam glad that Dame Nature te doing Nobody else, so far ux ner the Better Wartng's etirots we find him ng at the head af ain, show mea place in Brooke lyn where the public is robbed of the right te use tho croming except at the option of an ome ployee of @ company, as one has to at Broadway and Unton Square. Put, oh, that 1s for the benee fit of rapid transit in New York, and, Our Mayor @ short time ago went to Philadelphia to tnvestigate thelr trolley aye: tom, and what was his surprise to learn that they were doing twice the damage done here, and Rot @ bit of noise about tt, either, tule much for the city, [ know, bas done anything tor or the Greater Ne Outaide of the city, Borrowed from Among the Lateat Works of the Funny Men, Ride @ cock-horse to Banbury Cross To nee @ young lady in bloomers, of course, ‘Who rings with abandon the bell on her wheel, And makes poor pedestrians cold shivers feel, Detroit Tribune as I gather from the editorial remarks in various papers that come to ma, the impression prevails that @ great strug- in the metropolia But algna of the contest, on of the city, have been sally lacking for daya I write In @ spirit of impatience, ince of apathy which has sot- ‘led upon the reform hosts of the elty so sudden- ly since that last mass-meeting. the dalliance of my man Str do something? Jimmy fashion, there is. ‘Wronged Wite—Ha sand ways since I married yout Husband—There t I suffered in @ thou- ft can be called. Bot Hike the app Goy. Morton has sign: ing the pay of the Raising the salaries o will naturally raise its spirita, boys couldn't fight flames any better, or more herolcally, than they always have fought them, fe on The egotistical eo way you your fortunes? that are sensi Will not wear an opal ring, believing that by so doing evil will attend them. And if they hear a dog howl at night they claim that death will viait the lo- cality in which the dog howled. and wear the ring in spite of the opinions of Will Just atop toc to reason you will sce the folly of believing In any of thelr talk about opal, And as for your belng boi jctober, One RRNA ace Repay vnoro| uh? One Iittle misstep in life, and everlasting damnation {s our fate (unless we repent), iccord- ing to the book called the Word of evolution proves eternal 11 death {s simply an outlet from this, and an inlet to another, existence, and my firm belief is we Will always remain in the same litte groove of Progr.ssion in which nature placed us, day (it may be ages) the curtain t portals of the future will be litte Which 1s now @ great mystery to us will be ro- T expect to Journey om Progression a 1 do not lke Why doesn't he he give us that whole new Police Boar for which hie supporters look to him. Why 1s he walting om Platt and the boss-serving legislatore when he has eo much bower for ready exercise? This In a Tremendous Subject. To the Editor: Can any of your readers “tell me why {t ig, tm this civilized world, 80 few people can be taught to belleve in God? Not the imaginary God, thas the Christian kneels down on his knees and prays to, but the real, true God of Nature, whose mant- led to us every moment of Why do the ministers of the Gos about hell and eternal punishment 90 Wronged Wife (indignantly)—In what way 1s as excellently the Department Heartless Husband—In silence —Brooklyn Lite, Stockman muat A Conquest. He took her iittle hand in hia His love was hot and sizzin’, ¢ didn’t Jerk it back He knew that sho was hii Philadelphia Inquirer, work, but Mis Take my advice ‘These questions crowd upon my mind, I could so crowd them upon the Mayor's atten- would respond to then with deeds @ wee that as long as he delays and ‘goes Piatt can use his very deliberation to better advantage than he could use even a haste that might seem reckless? The old the Police Board ag: Commissioner Andrews festations are rev matter and Mate HIS FACH BORE A RAPPED EXPRESSION. BY OTHER EDIVORS, she was as much “out of the picture” as Mrs. Kendal would have been. n Enemy of the People” is “The Pillars of Society,” or “The Dolis’ House,” but it is more timely than "Ghosts," for water pipes are not as unpleasant as hered- itary taint. The audience, which I am | med over the moon.—Oll City Bilzsard, “very distinguished” never able to detect the distinction in audience myself), ‘Tree's earnest effort, I always think that {t's awfully guod of an audience when it doesn’t smile, ALAN DALB. — ye THE VILLAGE DANCE. Queen of the May. I'm half distracted trying to think up ‘The Queen of the May. Practical Frignd—Why not paint @ picture of a servant girl taking up carpets?—Chicago Record. than {f you were born in some other month. Jents will happen to us all and we will en- Joy heopiness and good fortune some time in our t depenis upon ourselves @ great deal whether our lives shall be happy of miserable, Aw Beef Goes Up. There te something about the price of beef in ON City which sugxests thoughts of the cow that subject for my pictur This act ought to It Murray, Kerwin and Martin do Ko at once Platt will not be slow to point to bis wavering servitore that Mayor who has seemed to be besti here im the city ie @ man who dare His Choice, Had he foresworn the cup of ol4, ‘A competence his But rather than a pot of gold He much preferred a pot of beer. Harlem Lite, Chicago's Divorce Industry. the fact that 1, from thi Notwithstanding been politically divorces there while you wait.—Philudelphia we might cheer; nd rarely smiled, vealed to all in time, through this whole untverse, evolution will be the motive power and vehicle to carry me through, without any assistance of Parkhurst and his fraternity, reader of '’The Evening World" convince me thas nature 1s not @ power, and that that pow not the true God to belleve in? I am open for JOHNNY HopRs, A woman owes stopped giving and asked her to THE NEW CIV! SERVICE REFORM 0 for goods T hat her any more goxls on trust Pay me 50 cents or a dollar a week until pald. Now she says she will not pay a cent, I her neighbors to leave their money in Woman has no money or Can I got any satisfaction, cr must I put up with all her talk and lose my money be- sides? She is owes everybody t with her big sweet stories, and lives on the fat Is there any redress for a STOREKBEPERY Raines Should Not Retara, John Raines, Ontario, Senitor trom the Twenty- stxth District unt!! January 1 next, should not be returned to the tirade against N many and are working for good government im that city disgusted hie colleagues, for even Mr. Lexow felt moved to utter @ rebuke.—Buffalo Strong eat at his desk and toyed with bia pen, And omiled as he noted the storm Will Re a New Ma teacher {9 always n't no good to anybody, ‘What does she want you to study now? Why can't she wait ‘Wide the lime tree to th: Bpreads her boughs and ‘Thyme beneath ts growin On the verdant meadows where Dancers’ feet are go Johnny—The map of Asi until the war ts over?—Harlem Lite, “EVENING WORLD” SKETCH-BOOK, ‘They aid they had come to ask him it.) Hie reasons for ail the new rules, @ dollar out of “Lat Lee Phillipe realign, And be off with bis foolish echedu! Tunning things nto ¢) When, at an exam’ Among others was found The head boas of the pound Defining ‘tranae’ ‘Through the grass a ilttle spring with jocuud murmuring; All the place rejoices leap year, and if m ‘orrectly Informe raede More Hangmen, The purposes for which this eution) was enacted app than fulsiied, and years before it will ‘States, including our own. Labor Trouble ti Tt looks as though some walking delegate has deen tampering with Mr. employees. —Washington Post. He Spreads His Umbrella. the reason Is thiet ‘The actual time in any year te nearly 365% daye, and because tt 1s not exactly 365% daya the bal- ance Is made up by omitting three Je of every 400 yea leap ygar, 1700 was w (electric oxe- Not Afraid of His Own Fender, To the Editor: Yours dated April 2 says Broklym Aldermen are to solve the trolley question. Suggem that all inventors wishing to help the above stand defore their own fenders, je of from 10 to 15 miles per nd then the public, with your aid, would goon wolve the rest. writer stood before his on ue North Hudson County tracks over six times, fancy {t will not be many been adopted tm other reat aterial With their Bummer voices. as, for Instanei ot leap year, 1800 was not leap year, 1900 will not be @ leap year, but will again be @ leap year. that any year to be a leap year must be divisible and centurtal y Must be divisible by 400 without any remainder, T hope this will enlighten N, I have seen the question asked several times, JOHN J. HAHN. ——— GREAT MEN OF OUR OWN TIME, And they wanted to know why @ make Should figure a paraboliam, OF @ plumber should pass The Chitral Of the discord of polyphootem. They could not understand why» ¢! lorm Can Spare Him. loner Kerwin commences reform at fre kere. When he reaches reform in the Poll: Department he will certainly "make R and others, ad over 600 per- nd othern: 68 ‘The method af artertotomy; Or 4 Bagman should show © dummy from the bare cobt A. J. WORRALL, Jersey city. Why an Edenwalder Doesn't Ge nt In their prot The poets were versed in dicho ———— EMPIRE 3TATR How Byrnes Doen Hin Detecting. To the Editor: I see that Supt, ekamitha, they gaid, their hammers could am living In Edenwald, near Woodlawn Stas measures at Al- siy-fourth Ward, of this city, but have . w York that keeps me up te hight some time, and by thas 0 to reach this place by elther Byrnes elves himself great credit for running down the murderer of the ¢ can't see where the The sdentifivation of the body Salamanca wil! tnduli at being up in myology: And no wheeiwright would choose Hie mind to confuse With the study of paradoxology fm a new Town Hall, ourch of July credit comes In, gave him a positive clue, and an gon could have done as much under oi If the body had not been identified, innocent individual He voted down @ proposition far opem- air band converts, A Poughkeeprie barber has made @ whole table It way all very well for the Chinese, said they, idge-tender ahould learn To write a virelay On the great Milky Way. Was something they couldn't discern. living above West Farne favor gf having at least one car i Yarms for Mount hour during the night, the chances are that s0 might have suffered fo Pddyville woman Is making @ quilt to coa- tain over 2,030,000 pice Kingston item: A man from the country walking ‘swith @ yellow Jug selling maple ayrup ken as a whiskey drinker. tion Army at Olean produced « ‘War mediey in which fifty-three choruses were } sung without a pause, Two and 4 half yeare aco Charles Ensen, of Westfield, stuck @ plece of giass into his erm at the shoulder. Lam week he pulled i out Would take this tuto consideration and help ws along ani favor us poor suburbag An Apology for ¢ Brooklyn Trot 2 His Honor repited “Twill grant what you This te the umbrella fend ino ni ‘The Sketch-Book has already umbrella a-port and at @ right-shoulder. now seen spreading his parachute as he com forth Into a New York rain with the crowd from © New Jersey ferry-boat. But be would do the same act in any other crowd. His thoughts are To the Editor: After two yeare of howling the metropolitan press has succeeded in ruli transit and reduced the speed of our trolleys to that of horse-cars, and for jason than jealousy in mot having its equal, What the people of this city want is faster, and And Ore Lee Phitiips at thar— In my smiles you a It you'll do this am. Explain the homonymy of Plat.’ Store gasped, and they showed their | Rev. Dr, Lansin, to say at the same time that he fy sorry because he cannot prove his case against the President. shown him with ‘ng Brooklyn's rapid ‘There are twenty-three Germans im the As- sembly at Albany, 6nd this le one of the deat known—Simon Selbert, of the Second Disizict of Erle County, which includes Bi im politics @ll bis life, This is bis second | elbow, and hie clection in 1693 marked | The Deidge across the Genesee there Goneam, 9 of latticonwerk resting & Although built in M08 it le ry tantalizing, It 1s almost impossible to live with her, owing to the favor my husband shows her against me, Bot slower cars The ooptinued talk of the| Cen I bave a separate home for Slaughter (20 called when an accident Brooklyn) this aystem is all )] te Now York by Mew Torker, and set to, Seibert has ‘With thelr mouths tnfundibuliform ; And as they went away ‘The Moyor heard th ‘Gainet the new Civil-Service Reform, ie this town. As