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

4 : jaar une Gen SMe BBS aver Pelided by the Prev Padtisning Company, ‘ @ PARK ROW, Now York. MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1895. TIONS T0 THE EVENING WORLD tm postage): © Metered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-class matter. ————————— ae BRANCH OFFICES ‘ IN OFFICE—Junction of Broad Bigth ave, at 324 rt. AM OFFICE—125th st. and Madi- Warhington st. IA, PA.—Press Building, 702 Chest Oe 83.50 No. 12,208 ~ DVERTISEMENTS in the Evening Edition of THE WORLD are taken upon the <Bpecilic guarantee that the average bona fide paid cir- calation of THE EVENING WORLD is considerably larger than that of all the Chet Evening papers in New York COMBINED, to wit: thé Bveblag Post, the Even- tag Sun, the Evening News, the Evening Telegram, the Commercial Advertiser and the Mail and Express. | | —— ‘THE MOUSE IN THE MOUNTAIN. ‘When the Lexow Committee was ng up the crimes and rottenness it Police Department, sessions were every day that the legislators could apare from what they call their duties at Albany. Many times Lexow and his laten would have adjourned from Saturday to Saturday rather than have kept up the work of exposing on the following Monday. But Mr. Goff was a public spirit, spurring on those men; he not let them halt for stop or stay, Sanne which the hidden half of plots ‘evils but half dragged forth could forever kept in the dark. He was ; he wae looking for proof of Wrong, and his word to the Committ “Ride, ride,” and, yea or nay, they to ride. Where they left off Satur- thoy began again Monday. words are sald because of the hbte 6f this O'Connor Committee named: tenes fe charges of bribery against out ts members. A little mouse comex @f the mountain and frigtténed nearly to Ueath, fun away for a week. Dore Any. one suppose that after # week's time the public will ever see the rest Of ‘that moune's bady? Never, Next @Sturday that mouse will have been led Beck into his mountain, and he will aver Get Into the light again 1 jor had gone on Investigating ié Whole story of bribery might Game out. Now ft will never be a, Who is to blame? Why? A CITY'S TRAGEDY. tragedy of the streets of a , & young woman not thirty of age was found at the foot of 9 @tadrway of a Thompson street tene house at 6 o'clock yesterday morn- p theensible and smelling strongly of . Through the good sense of a po- Ghe ts carried to Hellevue In- @f to the station .oune, At the they are They have whe is at first regarded as a vic akcoholism, and it is nearly & LA re the discovery is made @at she ts dying from loss of blood through a terrible stab in the lower part @t the body. She never recovers con- @elousners, and dies between 11 and 12 @cleck. %t is pretty well that known the had been lying bleeding to death since 4 In Htatian Ot the foot of that stairway the morning. At that hour an Bootbiack, who lives in the hor out. He saw the bundle at the foot of the steirs and thought it was an od Mattress, Striking a mates, he found it Was & woman. Bhe seemed to be @runk, “What do you do here?” he sald, @tirring the bundle with his foot. The Women did not reply, The Italian's Mdteh went out, and he continued on Big Way to church. ‘The next person saw the woman about B o'clock. He called a policeman ty “put the bum out.” Then followed her re Meval to the hospital. What a terrible story this is. Yet it f by no means a rare one in a great ity, The care i6 made worse by th et that che victim was the daughter Of & respectable fat and that she a virtuous, respectable sisters in the ty, who have done their utmost to eclaim her. The deceased was known as Al Walsh. But what matters her name bo Was a mere atom of humanity in Breat city. Not one will remember @xcept & few dissolute companions. will mourn her. Even her si fee! her death as a rele will our excellent police tind hei ? He deserves deat! el {mponsible that he should SOMSPHING TO THINK ABCUT. bank angel has fallen, An He @acattent, moral family man, wh in the contidence of his em lor more than twenty years, hia Giscovered to have been all the ing the money of the institu $lon, fa now. on the accidental dis Of Bie dishonesty, in jail fs the National Shoe and +9 ‘was overhauled, and the bant of bookkeeping and general manage: ment was exhaustively investigated. The Examiner found everything al! right, with the exception of the Seeley thefts, and gave the bank a clean biil of health. What can be thought of the capacity and usefulness of the National Bank examining business in view of the fact that while this special certificate was given another robbery was being car- ried smoothly and quietly along by another employee of the bank, a rela- Uve of the convicted thief? The other noteworthy point Is this We are told that no suspicions were entértained of Aymar for years because he was regarded ag a quiet, unaseum- ing family man, llving respected “with- in a salary of $1,400 a year Aymar has a wife, @ daughter twen- ty-two years of age, and a son, These two are the eurviving children. the President of the Shoe and Leather Rank think a salary of $1400 a yeur 4 liberal ealary to pay @ trusted clerk |who has the handling of a bank's | money, after over twenty years’ service. THE “BIG FELLOW” A HERO AGAIN avery once In a while John L. Sulll- van up as a new kind of hero. |The expression he has given to | his mantiness is the rescue of m gervant- girl in Boston whose clothing was on fire. John L. heard her sereams, ran to her, and using his bie, once idolized tists text on the fire flend soon put him to sleep. ‘The woman dled later, but the pugilist's act loses none of its distinctively herote quality because it fell short of saving her life. John L.'s hands and face were badly burned, and he had to take to bed, bur he will be all right In a few days. It is for things like these hat the public still tears a cheer loose every time John 1.'s name is mentioned. His gladiatorial laurels are in the dust, and he has some tremendous faults, It in true, but the big heart that beats under his rough breast Is easily reached by the lightest human appeal, and Jt is that which makes ali humanity his friend. GOVERNOR AND SENATOR. paid a visit to Senator Gov. Morton David 1, Hill in Albany yesterday, and remained at “Wolfert's Roost” three hours Of course, the gossips are all agape to find out the meaning of the Interview Of course, the Albany rumor-mongers WII] be put to their wits’ ends to invent conversations between the actual Goy ernor and the ex-Governor, Of course, the alarmists will find in the friendly call a foreshadowing of trades and bar- gainings, of ombines" to defeat this measure and to pass that one, of course, they will all be falae and un- founded. Goy, Morton simply paid his distinguished neighbor a vist In return for a call made on him by Gov. Hill me thine ago, and as it was Sunday the conversation probably turned on ri ligious subjects and the morning's mons to whicti both had listened, It is one of the penalties of politicians and high offictals that they cannot be expected to do anything like other mei If they pay a friendly visit, some terr!- ble conspiracy i# going on, If they give a dinner party, ft Is with the object of reading a severe lecture to their guests, If they talk with an acquaint- ance about the weather or on any other ordinary subject, they are plotting @ combination, ‘There ts no #ignificance in Goy. Mor- ton's visit. But the Sabbatariana are Ukely to be In his wool, nevertheless, for making calls on a Sunday, NOW FOR THREE MILLION: “Here we are again, Mr. Merryman!"* The Health Department, which te an excellent census-taker, puts the popu- lation of the elty a Ittle over two millions. The police, who have just com- pleted a house-to-house enumeration, are understood to credit us with a frac tlon under two million, Netther authority Is to be wholly re Hed upon, ‘There are reasons why both should be short of the correct figures. ‘The Health Board, becaune Ita estimates, based on vital statistics, start on an original census much under what the population was at the time tt was taken, ‘The police, because they put down only the names they get, and It Ix well known that there are many they do hot get If a full and correct census of the city could be taken to-day it would probably not be less than two million two hundred and fifty thousand, And this t# In a compact city with an area of about forty square miles, after a Protracted season of dulness calculated | to driv le awa creased Immigration, y and in face of de. VALOR I NO NAME FOR IT. Pull of the valor of old Quixotean in tte knighttt [battle which Mr, W. B.D. Stokes fought in the hours of yesterday) morn: ov in his West street mansion, We Was a splendid battle, heen Stokes has told us so himself, © night-shirt and with a spar |tcimg bottle of ¢ h hand, Jhe tackled his wallant and him to bay Neither man was hurt ji the exciting ter, but heaven knows what the It might have had not intruder's sister, who Was a servant house, ching to the neck of Mr impeded movements that contributed to the truculent invader was the two ch almoat Don was that St early ing with a drunken intrud kn ' jar vy ina ne truculent a encounter ve been Kee and Another th Afety of the of meeting th tried to cross. faction Mr them nto Me Mpagne bottles Indian ss head the colt frappayed 1 xomewnat discon as they elub over Stok One was broken Stokes was wh him. er be fought nobly and was Some other man would Jail the doors leading to his Jroom and yelled “ire! Murder! Help!” jer things out of the win- Mr, Stokes. He is made ff We know it, because himsett, Five New York bicylists have ridden on their wheels to Washington, perce, frcently 8 sufferer from |rnoy made the trip in five daya, One of fier Secéntricities on the part of tts] nem js fifty-two years ol. nnd bookkeeper, Samuel (. Seeley oir guiate ores vy . ! pnd {ies are Fhe ndw defauiter, Samuel 12. Aymar, is} \ ie and whee! in-law of Seeley, but there is rio hip in their robberies. Whi y's Gefalcation ran up towards four th @ dollars, Aymar's, at at lea is set down as only twenty thousand. But such tig- Ht, @re two striking features about ditcovery, When the Secicy became known, about six @go, & very searching examina- batik's affairs waa made hy Bank Examiner. Everything polar oer ore case of Aymar at the Sho following that of and Leather, points out this, among other things: That bank examiners who will examine are ag desirable as bank directors who will direct. Let it be a good week for the Greater New York bill Many rooters for the New York ball team are sorry the whipping-post meas- system ! Does | THERE WAS A REAL MOUSE. And When thetnve: It Out, They Ran Away for a Weck. Jelusion when Umpire Lynch made his | rulings against the home nine the other day. State Senator Childa threatens to re- sign if his Jamaica Normal School bill Is vetoed. This is not the kind of fight- ing and running away which puts a man in the way of fighting on another day. Has Supt. Hyrnen the murderer of Walsh under surveillance? He was keep ing close watch on Mary Martin's mur- derer, after “The Worl reporters pointed him out to the police. Supt. Byrnes would do well to drop polities for a time and find out who set fire to the west-side apartment-houses and who murdered Alice Wals! Colored folks are still popular in the South with lynching-bee-ers. ‘Three wo- men and two men have just been hanged by a mob in Alabama, Hismarck is atill celebrating that Dirthday. It will have a rear collision with his next birthday if he doesn't look out A child's Ife was saved in Jersey City by a trolley-car fender, It must have been a fender that didn't know tts bust- ness, “Increased wages for 24,000 men.” ‘That's the news from the mills at Fall River. Good times, keep on coming! Tt still remains a question to which party peace comes more cheaply—China or the telephone monopoly. The Senate should find tt convenient to do something with the Police Magia- trates bill this week, Mary Martin, No, 1; Alice Walsh, No. 2, We can do much better without vic- tim No. 3. Beef and the come down, telephone rates must Tuke the rubber to-day, good Messra. Glant Who are the Albany * ee HITS AT HITS OF NEWS. Joha Le fullivan, attempting to save the lite of @ poor woman whose clothes were a magn of flames, oot a better example than ever before in hin lite. He put out the fire at some personal Hsk and incurred a large measure of pbyaical Pain, It took some nerve of the right aort to ac compiiah what the ex-champion did. Yet sone people who don't look at things quite ax broadly as they whould have held that prize-fighter and Jobn L. Sulit Rut when he heen posible o-betweens?” coward are Intorchangoable terms y low at times it van has fallen pre has been himself truthfully to call hi never Tt te doubtful whether the addition other gifts and grace of an extremity of po: Mtenemn towarde members of the gentler aex te going to make (he house-breaker any more of @ favorite in society circles than he has been in to his the past. On the contrary, the question ari whether It doesn’t render him altogether A more desirable object to capture and to neonrely tno in quarters where h Personal pevuliarities an cle development of the species burglar clovely studied. The ap chivalrous crackaman ix chronicled at Greenwi Conn bedaide, He appeared suddenly at a young woman's foothed her feara with soft ” fisted her to arise and threw Ket over her rhouiders. that might take cold hile pointing out to him the resting places of the household treme This particular knight of the Jimmy ia a gem in Bin way. He should be quickly caught and Anelved and led ord, property lab oe 8 That wan what moved to the mate vinttor to a lady's MT WOR OD Stokes fomidnlent battles, a The Jag trae thoughts of murter h maid in \ a matt fled ant a dered partially h That plain Pretending that he was th ty dan Hon tway shh kiniotortos kere And berwoon aap wane pane to plain beer, MEN SENT TO AL the lady's pale servants. ren; The j1@ fercioal Retity to nephew and | exquely mba Mw Mikades eA ins oo the cups ANY. There ara two Colas nthe Assembly at Al pany Thie Is one of chem. te distinguishes from the other when the clerk calls the roll hy his initials, which are dP Ma ‘ath tesa an, she famous as the introducer of biNa, but three of four New York men aay he keeps (he My nthe of Greenbuad, he Hudson from Alvany, and ot a Tenderivin Mr tan't much Coty Amen epudlican eng well informed He 6 about ait @ loader in Greentieh and for About thiNes worth seding contury el@, OBAMATIONEWS AND NOTES The Kei Have Had a Seccessful Sennon--Last Appearance of “Pivot Nighters” To-Nig! ‘The deep, dark and unbroken silence that surrounds the movements of Mr. rnd Mra, Kendal seems to have grown more Intenre, People don’t neem to even know that they are in the city, and the Kendals make no effort to break the gloom Their agent ts evidently afraid to talk for fear that he might aay the wrong thing, and the atmosphere around Abbey's In nick and sorry with listiess- ness and indifference. Five years ago Mra, Kendal couldn't have had a pain In her cyelld without that fact being te: xraphed all over the country. Rumors have heen going afound that the Ken- dals have jost money this season. These rumors have been very widely circu- lated. There is, however, not a particle of truth in them, In spite of the falling off In thelr business, the Kendals have made from $30,000 to $40,000 this year. ‘Theatrical managers through the coun- try gave them the same terms they celved when they were the rage, and as those terms were extremely good, the managers may not have come out very satisfactorily, but the Kendals have uone nicely, In spite of farewells and all that sort of thing, they will return to America. when they have secured a big play—a play that would be succersfal even If the Kendals were not in it. They are going to hunt for one and will pay anything for it. The scheme of a Lon- don theatre for the Kendals is no longer talked about. At the Avenue Theatre last year thetr season was not such as to Invite another attempt to recapture the affections of the Londoners. ee 6 The “first-nighters” wil! assemble at the Empire Theatre to-night, to “The Importance of Being Earnest,” and they wil say ta-ta to each other. It will be the final “first-night” of the season. The theatres will filcker for a Uittie while longer, and will then go out. ‘The playhouses ‘will in a few weeks vied up thelr sway to the roof gardens, iF fabulously low temperatures modern iced improvements, It is all very sad, but it is a sadness that comes annually. eo 8 Augustin Daly haa secured the Amer ican rights of “An Artists’ Model," the peormedy, With music’ now running at Palys Theatre in London. | It Ie by Owen Hall and Harry Greenbank, with music by Bidney Jones. Its success in London ts due to tts phenomenal cast, which in- cludes Marle Tempest, Hayden Coffin, ty Lind and a number of other lly people who own better turn-outs ive in finer houxes than thelr man- Mr. Daly will produce “An Ar- Model” tn September, and run ft until he ts ready to do Hansel and Gretel.” eis After all, the judgmant of the theatre- woers of New York and London tx pretty much the name, New York declines to have anything to do with London fail- ures, and the day will soon come when London will see the folly of tackling New York failures. Sims's farce “Fan- hy" was such an absolutely disastrous failure here that Charles Frohman with- drew it after a run of three nights ‘The cable hax brought the news of tts failure in London, And same ix the case of “A Woman's Silence,” Sardou's play. At the Lyceum It was a dreadful frost, and on Saturday we heard that London had indorsed New York's ver- dict. ee 6 “Pudd'nhead Wilson.” Frank Mayo's dramatization of Mark Twain's story. has just been produced for copyright ea at the Elephant and Castle atre, London. It is not likely that the play will find favor with English audiences—while it is {nila present shape at any rate, ee 6 5. J. Henley rode up to the Herald Square The Saturday morning to get is mail, He used a bicycle and lett hie Wheel aguipat the curb, He had herdiy disappeared in the lobby ere another rhe of the same pattern halted his alongside Henley's and made for the box-office. Manager Mann, of the "Pudd’nhead Wiison” company, runs to practical joking now and the In a minute Henley's wheel was hidd In the security of a convenient cafe, ant unt what Mann looked for occurre:i fenley hurried out and mounted the duplicate wheel. ‘This, of course, was Mann’@ cue. What he whispered to the owner of the whee was corroborated by Henley's a ht. The liveliest kind of a chase ensued and threatened to end in all sorts of complications until some one explained matters, Henley got his wheel, still looking for Mann. ee Seven of Charles Frohman's compa- nies close on Saturday night. That will he the first bugle call. ‘The second wit be the folfowing Saturday night. Al- ready the unfrultful Sumnier haw begun for a gcod many, and the fair face of the Rialto ts dotted with actors search- ing the elusive next eason’s contract, oe ut hi The Lyceum and Empire stock com- panies will enter into friendly rivalry in ‘hicago this Summer. They both open in Chicago on the same night -Aug. 2 The Lyceum, at Hooley's, will do “The Case of Rebellious Susan," the Empire, at the Columbia, will open with “The Masqueraders.” ‘The brothers Frohman Will to put in concert-hally languas doa double turn, and enter upon. an amicable contest for Chicago's favor. eee Ry the bye, the oid protests made by Eastern companies against San Francisco have been turned from the Pacite slope, and are now directed with fear ful Vehemence against Chicago. The theatrical business In. that city. since January haa been eimply atrocious Chicago has become impossible, and dozens of managers have had harrow ing stories to tel! appears to haye deadened the sense apprectation of the Chicago the faree-comedies done th very mention of the name of the Fatr here is a silence for the rest of the evening that nothing can break. In fact, the ailence is not broken, but the man: ager Is An intense apathy y Hampton and Mr. to play the leading parts new play which Is called Service.” the action all takes place within twe four hours, Gillette won't he able to the plece himself, cx he is tled to the incessant Too Much Johnaon,” at the Richman are in Gillette's “The Becret The play is in four acta and ty: Standard, which ts doing Just as well as ever, ee Olga Nethersole will make her reap- pearance In New York at the Empire heatre. The season at that house will open with “The City of Pleasure.” That will be followed by JohneDrew for seven weeks, after whicn Miss Nether- sole will hold forth for three ive way to the stock company, — IN DAYS OF OLD. In aya of olf, whem warriors bold, Wore helmet, sword and shield, Did they catch oid of locks of geld, When on the football feild? Were youngaters taught that when they fou, For glory of for fame, right (0 slug the other mug, Until they cailed the game? 'T pada (hen worn, with lorks uoshora, Ant cota brought on the Meld Did eweethearta baw! and When heada were punched tail, heetea? eyes of biue @ ghastly hue And game tege all the rage In olden times and other clim Where gri@irons were the st To mash the nose of ail their tore ‘ASG cil Mem “eltiegs proats’t MOLLY. THY WORLD: MONDAY KVENING, APRIL 9%, It Gvening World's Gallery of Living Pletares. MME. FAURE. This is a picture of the first lady of France. She in the wife of President Felix Faure, and is as handsome and popular as our own Mra, Cleveland, — + o=—___ THE GLEANER's BUDGET. > Here, Hint There ai Tales of Tree Mayor Strong tn gradually acquiring the accom: Plihment of getting rid of visitors gracefully before they have told His Honor everything they have had in mid before arriving, When he firet went {nto office the Mayor would listen patiently to the end of the chapter of qualifications which each applicant would Insist on reciting, Re- cently, however, he hes learned a new trick, and when a would-be public rervant starts on about the tenth sentetice Col. Btrong interrup:s with a Protest something like this: “Why, my dear alr, 1 know all about you. Your frienda have been telling me what a good man you are, and there ts not a bit of use In your repea ing It. Now, you depend on it, I will do the best I can for you.” And by that time the icant has started away with a happy smile on hin face, never realizing, of course, that ‘‘the best I can,’ coming from the Mayor, might be anything except @ good fat offre The name of @ Iiving Gtimore In not to be permanently lost to New York's musical elrcles, John Gitmore, a nephew of the late lamented bandmaster, Patrick 8. Gilmore, 1s one of the city's mogt promising young violinists. Ie is a jad yet In his early teens, but has @ touch with hin bow that brings out finely the beautiful tones of the exceptionally good instrument which he porronten, He has been heard at a number of amateur concerts, ‘There Is & young woman in Harlem who will Probably never ait for her photograph again after her last experience. Ste showed me a bundle of proote the other night and commented freely upon the sltuation. ‘The first pose made her Took as though all her friends had died sudden- ly. In the next ate tried to look more pleasant, and the result was a semblance of hopeless Idiocy. The next proof wax a compromise be- twoen the two, and ahe seemed ready to pull somebody's hair. Another trip to the photog- rapher's resulted in an expression of abject misery, as though a pet corn had been trodden upon, Finally wie artist sald he had secured Just the expression and she went home relieved. The proot arrived in due time, showing the upper portion of the head misting. A note ex- plained that the plate hat been broken. Of course, It was a pettect likeness. Three more trips were made before an acceptable proot was obtained. ee 6 A Philadelphia paper records the recent bration of the hundredth anniversary of one famity's posseasion of an old homestead In Upper Roxborough. It te a Kecly family which is thua favored. Among the relics shown at the ration was a title in brief of the property as handed down from William Penn. The land sold for $76 an scre a century ago. It Ix now worth $1,100 an acre. THE GLEANER. at RASH ON A WHEEL, ANOTHER Mr. Traction Company nue obstructed. —- ——o A PEERLESS LIVING PICTURE. Crimming finds the Afetropolitan way Into Fifth a Tire seen the living pictures. every one. The gond, the fair, the medium, and the bad; Tye followed them nince firs they were begun, Through avery feature of the tariling tad. Tye studied them in bronze in Aimy tighta, In concert hail and on pretentious rtane, And spent a Jot of dollars, ditto night My thirst for such seupations to assuage. Rut tn my mofent home Lctien see ‘A Ilving picture (airer far than those The public date on, lovely though they be, But not, mayhap, In auch artistic. pore, Tt alwaye Alls my heart with proud delight, It has @ charm no other picture hath: And yet ‘tle just a laughing, crowing sprite, Our dimpled tittle baky in its bath BARTON. eee i BY OTHER EDITORS. Dark Horses Joned as ‘a dark horne’* in one Presidential race by some newspapers. Dark horses do not appear a year before the Convention meets. —Minneapolia Journal. ‘or Mr. Rockefelte: Anewer. How much monep are the olf speculators throughout the of! regions going to contribute to the Chicago University by proxy?—Cincinnatt Times Star. Prosperity Fi Prophets, Tho increase in wages (n all the cotton mills at Pall River {e amother severe blow to the McKinley colamity bowlers, Returning prosper- ity bas mo tigard for the feelings of false pro- phew--Portiand Ary ‘The Bion's Iden of Peace. Great Britain aid Nicarégua don't sem to got slong at all, ‘The Ion will not be quite aatiahed the lamb réposed paacetully within dis royal @omach. Syracuse News. One Pemnsat and Anot It Mt should happen thet through inudvert or absent-min@edness Capt. Anson rbould lect o lay hands @n tho pennant this year there te, of egurte, the pennant of 1896 which may be ‘whh fabulous ente.—Chicago Record. Net Yet! Piette triuthgh over the ely of New York tarough, her oficial ak acaleel Gea bet te trate. ths : Too Early fe Senator Davis is mei ie) ‘The quests of the Bt George Hotel, Brooklyn, ‘will give an evening to Mies Emma Steiner next Friday night for the production of special features in her opera, ‘The Alchemist.’ This concert Is complimentary, and is under the epe- tial Girection of Miss Fmma Trapper. Mrs. Frank Leste will rectt will Georgia Powers Carhart and Archie Gann, Miss A. M. Weed, soloist of the Inness and, will sing the Mei fan idyl, “Tecalote, trom “The Alchem harp accompaniment by Mist Clara Winters, After the entertainment supper will be served to & few invited guests, inciading Mr. and Mra. jutro, Mr. Murat Halstead, Col. Knowles, Col. treeter, Capt. Tumbridge, Mise Grace Drew, Miss Sheridan, U. Johnson Quinn and others. see ‘The most popular Runday evening ealon in Harlem has for its hostess Mra. Augustus Brow who Is more widely kuown as Miss May Robson. Some of the best musical talent in New York figures among the attractions on these weekly occasions in Mra. Brown's beautiful and artistic home in West One Hundred and Thirty-Atth treet. Thin little lady ean make @ Welsh rare- bit with the same amount of force and pertec- thon with which she acts her dramatic parte oF conducts her classes in the school of actin The Robson rarebit 1s as mysteriously successful an any fleight-of-hand performance, and the in- terenting part of it all ie that every one at the party heipa to make ft. The hostess, who te chiet cook, beate it vigoroualy, gives orders and talke to every one of the assombied guests, each on @ separate topic, and all at the same time, oe Mise Florence Willard, an artist who has made fame for herself by unique china decoration, 18 great a lover of animals as the immortal Bergh. She lives in Went Sixty-stxth street, and among the most Important members of her family are Italian greyhound and a beautifal white horse. The dog belongs to the household, and the only reason why the horse does not live in the apartment, euch a pet in he, ie because It 1 Rot customary to keep a horse In & Misa Willard in @ gentle, refined iittle lady, but she Jacks not in force where het friends the dumb mais are concerned. e 8 The other night as this little deputy of the 8. PC, A. was gol ited at the curtstone im Sixth avenue, Bear Twenty-third street, to nee juet what & crowd of workmen were trying to do to a horse that was hitched to a street-cleaning cart. The horse refured to mov melled him. A glan vealed the trouble in a trice, It took less time than it to tell it for her to order fanatch off her gloves, unbuckle some Incorrectly adjusted harnens, readjust {t, feed him a from her coat pocket, and then go if way rejoicing. Those workmen stopped awearing, stepped back, gazed in open-mouthed wonder, and 1@ left the scene they were at!ll Door beast takes Girl--Two Tests jome Other Pleasantr! And now the modern business girl Declares that all goes well, Bince gay deceivers may no more ‘Thelr truthless atorien tell of For when he lays in honeyed phrase The whole world at her fect, “Good alr,"* saya ahe, “pray let me mee Your income tax receipt," Washington Star, All for Love, (romantically)Darling, for you 1 would What would you do for She walk over @ precipice, me? Me (promptly and practically)—Walk under one and catch you.—Brooklyn Lite, Poem of Nature, A moment, and our Joy 1 Tt lives, and, living, dies, A day or two of aunshine, And then there come the files. Detroit Tribune. How He Can Afford It. Wool don't see how a dealer can afford to from all the silk ha te. ‘Van Pelt—Haa to do It; they'd last too long he @idn't,—Hariem Litt Could Not Resiat, ‘They quarrelied, and he said, with pain, He'd never speak to her again, Im fact, no longer could endure her, xt day she had an awful cold, And he felt forced that story old To tell her—what would surely cure her. Brooklyn Lite. The Burglar's Threat. ‘The burglar turned with @ sneer of malignant trl ‘If you shoot me," he hissed, “you will the baby." ‘There was nothing to do but to let him load all the silver in a mac, and carry it away, leaving front door open behind him.—Deirolt Tribu sh yard IRE STATE it Wellsville’, one “night watch’ now eon ja Ie to have a new sourkrout and plekle factory. Seneca Con the datry line, A Summer resort for Buffatonians ts projected at Hemlock Lake. Jamestoxn’s street freight and mati Auburn Theological Seminary haw just passed {ts seventy-ftth anniversary A Kingston tamtly got a burglar scare from & cat walking over the plana keys, Marlborough frutt growers are doubling fore caune of the lateness of the season, From a Hamlet correspondent bottom to roads; binds are ai and By;" crows are sreaming “eorn.'* One hundred of Geneva’s society women have agreed to remove their hats when then attend entertainments in the village opera-house. “EVENING WORLD" sKETCH-nooK, y farmers spreading out ta railway carries both Mud deep; no ng "Sweet Ry It a8 remarked of © ‘Sketch Book’ piety which appeared the other day, that {t was draw from life. So wae this one. A Apri in Park Row 4s, somehow, different to what it tt corners more fun. artist has selzed for the purpose of this # ise sidewalk stock represented, 18 & good thi ya It gives to certain papers a cl ation-—something which they would mot ordi- ‘oanuid Ti te ok given to all papers, a: 4 th -The Bresing Werld.”” to beast § clpculg Adee With which wind bas nothing lo do, A Recoming Dodice. This is a becoming bodice of pale bl silk, with a trimming composed of nar- row lines of black velvet, arranged in the pretty fashion shown in the sketch. The turn-down collar is trimmed to cor- respond. Have a Shoe-Hor' Never try to put on a low shoe unless you have a ehoe-horn; you will be sure to stretch it out of shape in the back and make it ill-fitting. Keep the buttons sewed on your shoes and good strings in your laced shoes unless you want the men to say you are a “slouch.” Have A paste patch put over the first sign of a break in your shoe, and they will keep in shape and last twice ax long. Buy good shoes If possible. Cheap shoes and cheap gloves are a snare for the unwary. They get out of shape, are ill- fitting and do not wear well. It is false economy to buy cheap foot or hand shoes, Fig Pudding. Chop one-half of a pound of figs very fine. ter; add one-third of a cup of powdered sugar, two eggs beaten light without separating, one cup of milk and one- fourth cup of cake crumbs, Mix well, turn into a well-greased pudding-mould and boil for three hours. Favorite Silke, Japanese silke in all manner of va- rieties are to be extremely popular for Spring and Summer wear. They are aoft and neat and wash well. ‘They make pretty ruffles, and will stand any amount of tucks, gathers and shir- rings. Persptration on Noses. I ran across a new superstition the other day, says a writer in the Wash- ington Post. It is the distrust the Virginia negroes have of persons who perspire on their noses. A friend of mine has had a really estimable maid for se’ eral months, but the other day the mit tress found the maid on the eve of leav- ing, and all because she had seen beads of perspiration on my friend's nose, and LETTERS [Ths column %9 open 10 everybody w'o has a complaint to make, @ crievance to ventilate, in- formation to give, a mubjeet of general intercst t) lacus or & public service to acknorsledge, and who can put the idea intn lems than 100 words Long letters cannot be printed, } No Third Avenne Express Trains in the Evening. To the FAitor: Why are express trains not run on the Third Avenue Elevated Railroad in the evening. This In a question which perplexes the keveral tho: sand patrons of this road residing In Hartem and the Annexed District, Although several express trains are run on this road in the morning, they would by much more appreciated by these thou- nda were they also run In the evening, when tired, hungry and worn out after a day's work, they could board these trains and gain some Afteen minutes, for which they would indeed fer! very grateful. Every minute after their work has doen done belongs to these working people, and therefore there minutes are very precious, and the Elevated Railroad Company onght to do all tt fn to help these working poopie, who form the majority of Its patrons, and thereby tend « help- jug hand towards ameliorating thelr condition. It very tedious fo sit In one of those close, stuffy rs of A slowly moving train, making srarcely more than #lx miles an hour, and tt also doesn leave temper unrufled as you see the precious minutes fit by which were meant for you to enjoy. and Ido not think that It would re quire much of an exira effort on the part of the Company to afford these trains both morning and evening, KRAU The Pertin of Central Park. To the Faitor Being an bonest cliizen of New York, and he- Ing also unemploved. 1 and a friend of mine wont to Central Park, Suddenly, while inthe Path, T and my friend were accosted by two policemen, who said we were under arrest. We Mere taken to the vourt-houxe In the Park, our names put down on the book, and we were wearched, and charged with stealing a wath from one of two ladies who sat In the court- room. No watch being found on ws, we were Alscharged. But just think—the disgrace! We wore shadowed all the way home, It will be im- possible for ub to go to the Park witheut being shadowed, and, worst of all, our names and dressea in that hook. My advire to young men In to keep away from Central Park f they do not want to be He it To the Editor: Tecan give @ ratio that can be used to cover ‘any square surface with circles, none over the Alameter of sald wurface, and make a cube, foot for foot, and inch for inch. Now if this te nov the aquaring of the circle, what is Mt, the the reduction of a circle to an equival This aunot be done by making use ht to this present day in col ton, 8 of edue: P. VALIN. To the Eilltor: It any readers can inform me what wilt kill they will confer a n full of them all her is coming on, the troublesome mosgultoes, great favor, My cellar has b Winter, and now that warm we they begin (0 act as it getting ready for bua nees. 1 tried burning brimstone, but they seem {0 thrive om that, A JERSEYITE, ‘The Letter Coloma, To the Editor A conceited fellow, wilting World’ of Wodnesiay, takes 0c the quality of the contyibutions to the "Letter Column" He declares Uist the writers cannot imagine how ridiculous thelr effusions appear to those who do “know something,” and that, in- Head of giving advice to others aratultously, it would be bel ir them to devote atten. Mian to the matter of punctuation and atyle of Composition, Now, granting they are ndt modelé In “The Evening rion to criticlse ‘Mix with two tablespoonfuls but- | “mean,” a word which to the Virginia. negro signifies all that is undesirable, | untrustworthy and evil. To Wash Ribbon Ribbons used to ornament various Pieces of fancy work often need wash- ing. Wash them in the eame way a@ embrotdered cloths and protect them from the iron with clean brown paper or acloth. Be sure to tron them before they are wholly dry. Scarlet washes best among the color. or ribbons and the satin-finished ribbons will appear after laundering almost as fresh as new, but moire ribbons lose their unique finish, Parisian Salad. Cut In small pieces six cold boiled Po tatoes, the same quantity of cold beets and cold boiled celery. Mix the yolks of |four hard-boiled eggs with two table spoonfuls of anchovy sauce, and press through a sieve. Little by little, ad@ four tablespoonfuls of oll, one tables spoonful of mustard, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, two tarragon leaves chopped fine, and the whites of eggs cut in pleces, Beason to taste with salt and pepper. Stir all well together and serve, A New Old Fashion. A pretty old fashion just revived fe that of wearing dainty turned-over cole |lans and wristlets of fine white muetin, lawn and Hnen with one's dark woollen or silk house gowns in the morning or afternoon. ‘These should be stitched by hand, and may be decorated in a va- riety of ways with infinitesimal tucks, delicate insertion and the finest lace edging. For Serim and Maslin. Scrim and muslin should be stiffened by dipping them Into thin boiled stareh, | They should be thoroughly dried, then |dampened and rolled up tightly for an hour before troning. When scrim or | muslin ts froned be careful to pull out | the edges straight, and, having the flat- ‘tron clean, press out the ruffles or lace jedges first. Brown Crumbs to Serve with Game, Put some crusts into the oven, and when brown crush them with a rolling pin. Grease a baking tin lightly with butter, and make it hot. Shake the crumbs upon it, and set it in the oven till the crumbs are hot, when they ere ready to serve. Yellow Lace Fashio The butter-colored lace which finde such favor as trimming for our prettiest gowns Is now used also on underwear. An under petticoat of sheer nainsook, with three narrow ruMes edged with {butter-colored valenciennes, was one of the pretty little skirts, To Test « Ham, Tr test a ham that you are cooking slip a sharp knife in along the bone. If |{¢ comes out milky-looking the ham ts | not done; if clean, It ts. of epistolary perfection, {s it not the least Bit inconsiderate for a more gifted person to criticite the earnest effort of his less favored brother? Give ux all a chance. Now that this erudite erltlc knows the frivolous cHaracter of those letters, there Is no reason why they should cause further annoyance tf he elects not to look at them, Frequent composition develops @ graceful style, so it Is only fair to expect that the quality of the letters will display a constant improve- ment. Why would it not be @ good Idea to have this highly educated feliow nubmit a specimen of hin composition as a model for our emulation? ‘The contributions to the “Letter Column" are delightfully entertaining, even though some of them are frivolous The thoughts expressed im the letters, and not their standard of merit from 4 critical standpoint, 18 the feature which ‘Bvéae ing World’ readers denire. JOVIAL JERRY. An Insurance-Agent To the Editor The following experience 1 had with an trem manufacturer: Being a life insurance agent £ valled to see this so-called gentleman. 1 had heard that he was a hard customer, but as he was rich and uninsured 1 made up my mind to tackle him, 80 1 went to his offtce, and 1 muse y that I was greatly surprised at his greeting. It was friendly and even cordial. ane?’ he said. “Well. now, that's @ subject that interests me. pose you coine with me to tho shop. I've got to go out there, and while we are there you can tell me all about your vompany."* As we went out of the office I mo ticod the clerks smiling, and I daresay 1 wae smiling, too, He walked hurriedly and 1 fol- lowed, till he Mung open @ door and we entered jelched. the machine shop. The din was horrible, A thousand hammers must have been beating trom ait at once, Tf put my fingers in my eare, Then I looked at my man. His lips were moving and removing my fingers from my ears I mane axed to catch his words shouted above the raket, "Now, tell me all about it. He amile@ Wickedly am he spoke, My feelings had better hot be described, Of course, T was beaten, and I cleared out. But it was a dirty, mean trick, J.C, B., Brooklym, ‘ull of © The World In To the Eilitor: ‘The people who are continually kicking abeet cable cars not stopping make me nick. One dye peptic crank in to-day's iasue of The World growl Derause a car he hailed didn't stop, and tm Jumping on he bumped his head. It in & pity be didn't knock it off, This car no doubt was dé tained by a blockade and was trying to make ap Jost time, to pleate a lot of similar addle-pated cranks who were inside, that were ready to write & letter to yor giving the car company the dd It the car did stop. COMMON SENSE. A Prophecy, To the Editor: Into each life, no matter how gay, Cankering care will sreep some da: Dlanching the cheek, dimming the Causing despair and @ longing to die, But if one haa rightly Improved his time, Self-reliance will come with {18 aid sublime, And carry him safely o'er rocks and rough way Into the sunshine of brighter dass, G. EMBB Speed To the Editor 0 a pers: use the q) ina minute? Spee fo matter where or what may ckaess of apeech, talk off 200 words STENOGRAPHER, tlomal Flower, 1 me for the edification and satisfaction rthportera if we hive a National fower if the golden rod is that flower. SEVERAL READERS, Northport, Lb and If so, Dream To the Editor: What will produce dreams? For instance it you read a story and wiah to stream over it, whee medicine oF remedy will make you dream over Ih? WiLidad FRANK, to Order,