The evening world. Newspaper, May 21, 1895, Page 4

or = 5 by the Frese Publishing Compeny, (2 te PARK ROW, New York. TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1895. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE EVENING WORLD UPTOWN OFFICE—Junction of Broad- at 824 ot WORLD HARLEM OFFICE—126th ot, and Madi- oc ave. segin aut ot ‘WASHING TON—102 1 ‘Washington ot. PA.—Prees Building, 102 Chest a DVERTISEMENTS In the Evening Edition of THE WORLD are taken upon the specific guarantee that the averave bona fide id circulation of The EVEN- |G WORLD Is conside: larger than that of all the other Evening papers in New York COMBINED, to wit:: The Evening Post, the Evening Sun, the Evening News. the Byening Telegram, the Com- mercial Advertiser and the Mail and Express. RE APATHY OF THE PEOPLE bag J wee. of the le is to blame $v ter of the children.""—Rev, ea 0 hing at the funerai ‘Confor, the child last killed m by the ‘trolley. has been done about the maim- ings and woundings at Bensonhurst Bun- Gay? Of course the motormen and the conductors have been looked after, but what about the directors of the Com- pany? Has any official called them to account? Have they been entirely over- looked as main causes of that accident? Apathy! Of course there is ‘among the people because they ‘ways satisfied with scapegoats and never iusist on their officials pursuing the men ‘who afe at the hoad of the system. How many of the tnjured have begun uit for damages? if people will be ‘ic and the directors deaf to duty, injured and the friends of the 1 Jered can put a stop to the woundin end killing by making it too expensive for the companies. Every time they filla Grave or a hospital empty one of their pockets. That is a slow remedy and one unwerthy the public spirit of a civilized ity, but it is sure. them besides, The law says the companies can be fined. How many —+—Wimeotors have beea indicted for the 110 Jives alresty lost? Precious few. Sce that Mr. James Ridgway, the Distric Attorney, does his duty and has them all {ndleted. There is no law for the trolley ut strict Justice, every time, The old josaic law was an cye for an eye anda tooth for a tooth. We have got beyon this, but let it be a fine for an eye and a fine for @ tooth and a heavy judgment along with every fine, ‘The trolley murders must sto) THE FIRE ISLAND STEAL. The Legislative Committee engaged in the attempt to steal Fire Island from the State by recommending its imme- diate sale at about one-third of its ac- tus! value alleges in pretended justif- catjen of its impudent proposition that the enlargement of Hoffman's Island mekes the retention of Fire Island . tine station unnecessary. Mommen's Island is not enlarged. Gov. Flower recommended and approved a Dill to authorise the enlargement and to eppropriate an amount suffictent for the work, @ portion of which was to be ralsed last year and a portion this year. ‘The work is naw progressing, but is not nearly finished In 1893 tens of thousands of persons ‘were detained in vessels in the bay be, and praying for a landing place and in peril from the dread 4d! cholera for want of one. Fire was the only refuge attainable, and when the passengers were landed there they were grateful to Gov. Flower for his energy and generosity in securing its possession. If the same danger should visit u year, Fire Island would be an actual this necessity. Until the enlargement of Hoffman's Island is entirely completed no legislative jobbers should be allowed te teal Fire Island. To part with it Rew would be @ criminal risking of the public safety. 4 POLICE SUGGESTION. ‘While police reorganization ts pend- img, oF supposed to be pending, why do met the reform Police Commissioners Qhiak of recruiting the ranks of the force from the girl detectives employed im the city dry-goods houses? Hore is one of them, a detective in a @ieth avenue establishment, who fol- lowed @ shoplifter from the store to the stwet, saw her transferring the @telen goods to a male companion and @rresied the two. ‘The man ran away, but the plucky Wttle detective chased the woman, an Amgao, on and off the car, had @ rough tumble fight in the street and stuck Gerely this young detective can give “finest” odds, and make them look ot that AGAIN ON TRIAL. Ingraham made very short Festerday. of Justice Pratt's order . 8 the McLaughlin trial, and the motion for a change of ue at ence. The second trial of the how on, and it seems likely Will be Jess diMiculty than be- : fi i I : | by implication in his condemnation of the ho granted the stay. He de- to be “absolutely frivolous” to @ trial could be postponed at Of the defendant. If a stay for days could be granted be- ®@ motion why not for ten j i ! | E 5 H i sf Juriediction, But the trial is proceeding, and it will be a good thing if the incident @erves to place a check on the dispo- aition of certain Judges to let them- elves be used for retarding instead of hastening justice. THE INCOME TAX DECISION. ‘The practical operation of the dect- sion is not only to disregard the great principle of equality in taxation, but the further principle that in the imposi- tlon of taxes the burdens should be Im- posed upon those having the most ablil- ity to bear them. This decision works out @ directly opposite result tn reliev- ing the citizens having the greater abil- ity, while the burdens of taxation are made to fall most heavily and oppres- sively upon those having the least abll- Justice Howell BE, Jackson, United Supreme Court. ty. State A SIMPLE QUESTION. There ought not to be a question as to the fate of the bill now in the Gover- nor's hands to legalize the expenditure of the one million dollar fund for the relief of the starving workingmen of New York by the late Park Commis- sioners. If the money was properly and honestly used there can be no necensity for legal- izing the expenditure. It ts legal with- out legislation. If the money waa dishonestly used It cannct be made legal by any legislation. ‘The law may save the men who spent It from punishment, but the fraud on the people will remain forever. ‘The question is a direct and simple ene. Will Gov. Morton give his sanction to the perversion of the law, by per- mittli @ statute to be enacted for the Protection of law-breakers? If he is will- ing to do this he will approve the bill. If he stands for justice he will throw out the bill and the guilty may be brought to justic OPANIOH BOMBAST. ‘The presence of a “World” special war correspondent in Cuba, his fearless pub- Meation of facts, and the courage he haa dipplayed in visiting the camps of the rovoluttonists and holding personal inter- vieww with the patriot leaders, has aroused the wrath of the Spanish Gen- eral. It interferes with the systematic lying indulged tn by the Spanish authort- ties in regard to the revolution, and lets the outside world know actually what is going on in Cuba, So Captain-General Martinez Campos haa Iagued an order or proclamation threatening that any newspaper corre- spondent who visita the “insurgents’ and 1s afterwards taken by the Span- jards will be shot. Of course, this threat will have no effect on “The World" correspondent. Ho will continue to do hiy duty fear- lesaly and thoroughly, But if the order should be carried out in a single instance in the case of an American correspond- ent it would be the last of Spanish rule in Cuba, and Gen. Campos would make areturn to Spain more hurried than dignified, HARBICON SAVES A FEW DOLLARS. Human nature again. No matter how high up the man ts in public esteem or how lofty bis aspirations, a little eddy of selfish Joy finds whirling space in his heart when circumstances make things go his way. Here in ex-President Harrison, who has his eye again on the White House, chuckling gleefully after a few perfunc- tory comments on the killing of the In- come tax, as he says: “It will save me @ few dollars, anyhow. How many there are lke Indiana's favored son who summarize their feel- ings over the knocking out of the new tax in words of like self-gratulating tmport. The decision will them a few dollars. So that they save their money they do not care who saves the country, O mean and musquerading Human Nature! If the police authorities of the good town of Babylon, L. I, are level headed they will let wrathful Trustee Uakley pursue without their assistance his pro- posed campaign against Sunday bicy- cligts. There Is no warrant of law for the arrest of bicyclists on Sunday any more than there ts for the arrest of pedestrians. Fortunately, the rest of Babylon appears to be In a more rea- sonable frame of mind than the officious ‘Trustee, and it is likely that there will be little or no trouble. Why don't the police stop fast driving after dark on upper Seventh avenue? Every night since the fine weather came in some half-dozen men in light wagons make that road dangerous between 8 and 10 o’cleck. It 1s not a speedway. ‘The police should keep the avenue safe. Wil they walt, as usual, until some one is sent to a hospital or a grave? A good deal is being said and written about compelling intelligent cit.zens to serve as trial jurymen, Something should also be urged about permitting such men to serve. Under the present condi ons, the intelligent man stands little chance of getting into the jury-box, no matter how willing he may be. Up in Danbury, Conn,, last night three hundred yqung women signed an agree- ment not to marry young men who drink. ‘That there may be no difficulty about the keeping of this agreement, the young men should sign an under- taking not to ask them. ‘The artist who is painting Harrison's picture will have to put a snowstorm in {t, or the General's old friends will not recognize him. They say his whilom frigidity of manner has thawed consid- erably In the past few years. Grand Bachem Smyth. of Tammany, ways every citizen should be a politi- clan. Many citizens would be willing to if they could make it pay as well as “sassing’’ incident between Ad- miral Meade and the Administration may probably be considered as closed, The President got in the last word ‘The A worrled contemporary wanis to know | what's ta be done with “the deadly cycle.” The best thing so ered is to learn to ride tt. It's an ill rain that doesn't benefit somebody. Yesterday's, at St. spared the Giants all possible risk on the baseball field. bi- far discov- A policeman of the Broadway squad, rua down and badly injured by @ care- leas teamater, complains that he was left unattended for more than an hour at the New York Hospital Nog because Louts, | Pity her Destitution! She Has Nothing to Her Name but Bi, Diamonds and $500 Dr vening World Living 1 JAMES MITCHEL, picture of our t firen w York tigating ‘This ina who knows more a any other man in } Strong taiks of in the victim was a policeman, cause he was a suffering patten| prompt care, this at be sternly looked into by th authorities: “Will shoot reporters who Cuban camps.” Spain could ne MeKinley and 1 ing to pass on th ‘The Income tax has been Kil Dit as effectively as if a Broo! ley-car had run over It. to Impose upon Dr, tence that will go. Now that you need not pay income tax, give it in chart Sick Bables' Fund, Perhaps if the police would fuspiclous, a stop might be pu suspicious fires, If the weather can't be trusi If, what are we going to It Is now the Income tax who gets off the grass, Good speed to the Columb! trip to Kiel, At any raj cision decides. —— EDITORIA! How to Tell Her, How to tell the new Hornpipe w Mr. ton oat Harrison's Dr, Ric At the laut ait on dodger be has alwa: e prefer a man artful bute the Marshal says he has nothing to tor Persons dodged; the Greater New York dill, e Marshal, bugs than M him . but be- t, needing et should hospital visit the ot do any- be worse | thing which would eventually for her, ‘There begins to be a suspleior n that the rixon booms are try- same track, led, every Kiyn trol It ought to be possible, Monday next, Buchanan © sen it as an ty to th get more t to those ted to run do about This ts Gen. Campos's day to have things his way tn the Cuban revolution, collector ia on her the new income tax de- Ss AND THAT, woman, Whisper tt to her. Milwaukee Journal m Reed's Hope. By proveeding in a modest ‘and unasuming manner Toin Need hopes to play a auccesetul Washing- Senator Persons as Seen at Home. be aia been a auc- ts not [afraid to take responsibility Buffalo Commer- cial. Tt seems likely that we elves of making m We Shalt See in the Fall Mitte two ¢ preity wmail business tthe United | the leading literary light of Wal 14 my friend, who wi Mar and necktie that he donan't ‘I'm & Jonah, or 0 hoodoo, or any men- ton, Everything I'm thwarted by fate tn great things and little things This morn- ing T thought I'd wear my patent leathers fave the nickel I would otherwise spend for & shine, I got ‘em out and set ‘em partly in the Fange oven, with the door wide Some chump told me once that patent leathers would orack It you ldn't warm ‘em before you put them on. As I was about ing my coffee I heard a ih, followed by a «washing noise out in the Kitchen, ‘Guess you dropped aomething, Dora,’ 1 called out pleasantly, Just to reassure the girl ‘Yes, air, 1 guess 1 did," came back Fi idly, Then, after a moment's allence air, T api coffee pot over, alr, and 1 ti & Ite slopped into your ahoes." Sure enoueh, Dora had carefully moved my beautiful patent Feathers out onto the little aholf in front of the they wouldn't burn, and had then bout a pint of rich amber Mocha Into each tle himself, other personification of hard luck you Gen. Thomas L. Watson, the banker, is street, a Iness circulars are regarded ast of elegance and Uterary style. They fairly bristie With choleo rhetorical Agures, classical all and poetiral quotations, and are of ax much Interest to the “street’* at large for this reason an for the useful and instructive ‘points’ which they eon His productions are all graphic pen pictures of th tye altuation, le) Inspection at the Seventh Regiment this year ‘Was more wevere than ever before In the history of the organization. It was unusual, tn the fr place, for the guardamen to aswmble in dress uulform, as the orde wired, and for the first timo era in the company roome were Inspected pre day by I spector-General Me who has instituted the how system, The result was that the ever Vofore worked so hard in mahing thelr prepara: tone for onteal, and they were well repaid for thelr trouble Inspecting ome by the unstinted praise of che As ail hin friends tn the Ninth Ward know, ‘ommlsstoner John P. Faure ts a pi reotio reformer. He did a great deal for the achools when he was trustee in the Ninth, and tn hie new office ho has @ wide feld for operation In the reform line, If he carries through hia gohome to hay provided with rubber tires Dlesaings of thousands of unfortunates, who, while racked with pain and auffering, are accustomed to be Jolted roughly over the cobbles In being transferred frum one hospital to another, oe State Senator Mullin ts an enthusiastic sports: man, and delights especially to dally with the fy-rod. He le said to kuyw from end to end every trout stream in the Adirondacks, and he has Just started for the wouds with @ party of Senatorial friends to recuperate from the wear and (ear of the session, Among those amateur fy-casters are Senators Lexow, O'Connor and Pound and Lieut -Gov. Baxton THE GLEANER, —- THEY MAKE THE SCHOOLS, New York Clty employe the grei authority on Ingtruction In elementary Phe efforts of Dr. Norman A, Calk ways been to elevate the teacher's dev jeans and methods to make childhood appy. Hie Work has been ao appreciated by the re that he is koown among them as tbe bers Friend.” HEART MUSIC. work ‘There are hopes which are horn to die Like thoughta uneapressed ‘There ia music dwells in tae aout To the barp unconfessed love that evas But there never Is love In the Beart ‘The eyes Rave unspoken, Walter M. Hazeltine, Some Bicyclists Explain in Pollce ‘Court “TNE LILY OF KILLARNEY.” ‘I cannot sing the old songs,” declares the sentimental spinsterette. And she doesn’t. Bhe tackles the new, and is instantly pronounced up-to-date, and fin de siecle. The art of retrogresion is almost criminal to-day, and for this Feason nobody really dare to say last night that “The Lily of Killarney.” at the Grand Opera-House, was enjoyable. Folks @miled at each other in the lobby with a sort of sickly embarmessment. “Bo old, you know," “So played out, “So much has happened since it was lant done in 1676''—and all that sort of thing wan heard on ail sides. They re- serve critical opinions for an opera- chowder; @ comic-opera hash like ‘The because it Is illicitly stamped “The Lily of Killarney.” by Sir Jullua Benedict, is restful, tuneful and grace- ful, and it seems odd that New York haa heard so littile of It. It ts perpetu- ally being Carl Rossa’d through the English provinces. Whenever that or- ganization produces anything startling {t falls back for repose, with a sigh of relief, upon “The Lily of Killarney.” ‘The opera is ‘The Colleen Bawn" set to music, with a singing billy O*Connor, & vocal Danny Mann and a melodious Hardress Creegan and Myles-na-Coppa- leen. About a month ago I heard some comlc-opera purveyor utter a lachrymose lament because there was no Irish opera. “What @ great thing it would be,” he sald. ‘The flavor of Irish music is al- ways grateful. Why doesn't somebody evolve an Irish opera?” Well, what's the matter with ‘The Lily of Kilarney?" If it be possible to express nationality in music, Sir Julius Benedict certainly did it in this opera, and did ft cleverly. It is not even neo essary to label ‘The Lily of Killarney” with an Irish ticket. It speaks for itself, It has a wealth of genuinely emerald music, than which there is nothing more soothingly melodious. It tm dealt with seriously, too. Too many folks who have been brought up on an exclusive diet of mavourneen burlesques and asto Parodies can scarcely credit the singing of a “Cruts- keen Lawn” seriously, without the ald of the incessant Irish comedian—the unending Hibernian fun-seeker, It is just this merciless humor that has cast Irish opera and Irish drama into dis- repute. The Hibernian subject is used almost exclusively nowadays for horse- play, Comic opera evolyers go to Scot- land for new Ideas—to the land of the |chestnutty “bluebell,” and to Russla— |forsooth! Irish tunes are looked upon as cheaply popular, as ditties to be as- |slened to the Hridget Mahoneys of farce- comedy. Itisa great mistake, and this was surely realized in last night's re- vival of “The Lily of Kilarney.” There is no earthly reason why this opera should not be sung more frequently. It 14 not easy to sing, either, for it makes very exacting demands upon mana- gertal selection, The cast was a good one. William T. Carleton as Danny Mann acted remark- ably well and sang with attractive abandon. Mr. Carleton Is pleasingiy con- trasted with the comic opera sticks now in vogue. Miss Helen Bertram splashed her way through the role of Elly O'Con- nor, and in one or two Instances sang very well. She 1s very much in earnest, and has a really fresh and pleasing volce, Charles Bassett sang admirably, but he acted with the fervor and zest of @ skittish sardine, Payne Clarke sur- prised his hearers by the excellence of his work as Myles-na-Coppaleen. A very self-satisfied young woman called Emma Siebert, indulged in the role of Anne Chute, and heaps of flowers were hand- ed to her over the footlights. I couldn't discover the whereforeness of the gifts. Trather thought ¢hat Miss Siebert should have presented “every lady and gentle man present” ith a little tribute for thelr condescension in listening to her. ALAN DALE, ——e— THE POLICE OFFICIAL’! MARE. NIGHT- (Suggested by the mysterious Aitting of Dr. Park. Durst through Police Headquarters) igh Cop ie discovered tossing trom side to fide on his bed and groaning, Gigantic Agure ot Dr, Parkhurst standing im @ broad beam of Ngee.) eodoo; to all I koow about thes, 1 could @ tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; trees thy cop dloot ; Make thy spheres; ‘Tey knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular balr to stand on end, Like quillqyypon Ge trettul porcupine, Butvthis elerpal blazon must not be Until you reach the courte. List, list, oh, If thou didst ever thy corruption love— HIGH CoP: Wow! Ob, my prophetic soul! He's oa. Heipt helpt (Enter ordinary cop) ORDINARY OOP: Didst cal? yy HIGH COP (awakening). What (elle de matter wid you? Can't I snore Without you coming in? Get out! But, stay; ‘The neat time that you let that boodoo in Tl tranater you to Goatville. See? Now gitt (Exit ardinary cop.) BUILT would Gre Qi my dard-worked-tor tue ‘ene Could I but lay that ghost and atill my palaat (Tries to sleep again.) CURTAIN. ‘reased Trousers Don't Make a Man eves, Ike stare, start trom thelr Hist NAD ‘Women are prone to conjecture as to what they 1d do if they were men, and & convem among @ members of my sex for ideas reveals some interesting points of view. Christine Terhune Herrick, who knows everything about dining and wstronomy and triumphs of the cooks’ art from IK® to chafing dish, confided to me when ques- tioned about what ahe would do first if she were © man, that she believed she should enter a eate and explore the mysteries of the free lunch which ts served up tn the elegant, tanteful and tempt- ine manner and which men love so well to tell about. eee Dr. Jennie M. Lozier, who te the most Hebiful of Soronis’s ex-Presidents and moat ap- proachable, smiled wisely in answer to my query mout what she would do Srat if she were sud- denly transformed to a ma have never thought of the subject,” said she, “but It oceurs to me that I should take off my coat, for I am nure I never could and merry young girle were; ‘ha yenterday morning when ri@- Ing downtown in a Ninth avenue open car. The man who sat directly in front of them was the uncunsctous eause of thelr merriment. He an evident awell and from the crown of hi hat to the toes of bis patent leathei simply tmmaculate; but from the rim of that shining hat at the back hung a spider of blonde halr—her har. However, he may have loved her, he couldn't have cared for that adornment of yel- low combing. Ten to nothing he was pretty mad Che A gown of jonquil-yellow crepon (C) looks well arranged in combination with @ bleck and yellow “chess-board” taf- feta, as shown in this illustration. The black paillasson hat is trimmed with al- wh he disco silly girl re still laughing about tt. PRUDENCE SHAW, —_— MARGARET MARY JOSEPHINE. (My atece, @ year) Laughing eyes of sunny blue, Hair of goider amber Peachen cheeks, whereon the rose ot dealta and color softly glows, Cherry lips for amilen and kisses Hes our iit heroine, All there charms combined, and this is Margaret Mary Josephii Chubby hands and fingers amall, Rosy like and dimpled all, ‘Holding @ toy horse and cart, Dear to every baby heart. Gweet we think her, who can blame us, That we love our baby queen? Bless ber darling Margaret Mary Josephine. t, ber name ts Prat Stil from mor till mlghe, In her childiah, dear delight, Clapping hands and emiling Never for one moment aad. ‘May your path through life be eh Strewn with flowers and ever greot rie, Ab! we love you well, our dearie Margaret Mary Josep TYRONE BENHURB. THE DODGE THAT FAILED. Why “the Roy: fore Had to D Miss Ketchon—Why, Mr. Drye, where are you going? Mr. Drye—I have a dreadful headache, I'll go over to the drug store and get something for it. Miss Ketchon—Poor fellow! How lucky that mamma hag a bottle of med- icine in the house, Miss Ketchon and the Other Dear Ones, all together: And How pale Mr, Drye looks! the boys, safely back after one |omile, here indulged in another. ike uy Why Thelr Lamps \/ere Out the Night Before. red it—and it is Mkely those ternate bunches of white and dark vio- lets, plaited coques of ale jonquil Gauze, and two black feathers. A white batiste sunshade and gray gloves com- plete,this costum Mash the yolks of three very tne and add to them half @ teaspoonful of salt! and @ pinch of cayenne. Now add very slowly, stirring steadily, three table- spoonfuls of olive oll and the yolk of one | raw egg. and lastly add one tablespoon- ful of tarragon vinegar. Peel the six eggs and set each in a cup of lettuce leaf. Mince the three whites small and put them around the dish, pouring the wauce over all. Or the eggs can be cut in halyes lengthwise and laid tn the let- tuce leaves White Parasols. White parasols are the thing for Sum- mer with thin dresses, and they come in Great variety. One of the prettiest styles is of plain white silk, with two rows of lace insertion set in a little above the edge, but perfectly plain ones are good style and quite inexpensive. The handlesare of white enamelled wood. Mere is an endless variety in handles, gold and tortoise shell, with the mono- gram of diamonds and pearls, being the most expensive and quite the exception. Dresden china, agate, mother-of-pearl, coral and ivory in the natural color are geen in laree numbers among the sticks of natural wood. English Method of folling Ham. Ingredients.—Vinegar and water, two heads of celery, two turnips, three onions, a large bunch of savory herbs. Mode.-Wash {t thoroughly clean, and trim away from underside all the rusty and smoked parts that would spoil its flavor. Soak it for a few hours In vine gar and water, Put it on in cold water, and, when it boils, add the vegetables and herbs. Bimmer very gently until tender, take it out, strip off the skin, cover with bread-raspings and put « Paper-ruche around the knuckle. Time.—A ham weighing ten pounda four hours, Decayed Wood Bree Ante. An amateur gardener has had a great eal of trouble, year after sear, with @ certain bed in her flower garden. ft was 80 infested by ants that nothing could grow there, but was invariably devoured by the Insects. She tried every vermin destroyer known, with bolling water, and other preventives, all with out success. At Iength she found that & portion of the outer boarding of the shed which stood near this bed was de- cayed and needed renewal. When these boards were taken away they were found to be alive with ants, which, being Stroyed, disappeared from her flowers, and she has had no more annoyance from them. Often ants will-get into the house-closets and into the food, in the same way, from some decayed wood near at hand, in which they nest. If their source Is looked up, when they come they usually may be uneart killed, i ae Bread Sante. For bread saute take @ thick elice of bread, crust preferable. Put « table Spoon of butter in the chafing dish end brown the bread on both sides, Take it out and put in two tablespoons of grated ham, two tablespoons of grated chease | and one gill of cream. Beason with a lite tle capenne pepper, mix all well togeth+ | er, and when very hot spread on toast. A Distinguished Female Clergyman, In all probability the most distin gulshed female clergyman in this ce try f# Rev. Phoebe A. Hannaford, at Present a resitent of Gotham. She ts not occupying @ pulpit, however, and it hardly possible she ever will again. Rev. Hannaford for almost thirty years has | been an ordained minister in successful charge of a number of congregations. Dr. Hannaford ts @ member of Sorosis, and a well-known writer and lecturer | 4¢ well as minister. She has the honor to be the pioneer of women in the sacred desk in this country, as she was the first ordained woman minister in Amer- | tea and the fourth in the world, A Way to Cook Asparagus. Asparagus {s usually etther served as a salad, or with @ drawn-butter sauce. Few cooks know how delicious it 1s ;cooked in half-inch bite in just enough water to cover ft, and till this water has boiled out. Then add seasoning and a Uttle cream, Be Careful with Braan Bedsteads. Brass bedsteads are finished with a lacquer that is not intended to be dis- turbed, and in caring for these bedsteads no powders or liquors should be used, a soft cloth being all that ts required te keep them looking bright, LETTERS [7Ma colamn is open {0 everybody w'o Aas a complaint to make, @ grievance to ventilate, tn- formation to give, a mubject of general intered discuss or a public service fo acknowledge, and who can put the idea into lees than 100 words. Long letters cannot be printed. | A Juror’s Experience, To the EAitor: Recently wi 1 was compell for two weeks. His Honor stho Judge Juror in one of the city courts to attend jury duty every day At 10 o'clock court opened, and listened to all arguments, &c., granting adjournments, &c., when finally a case was called for trial, twelve jurors se- lected and the rest of the panel excused until 1 or 2 o'clock. Now, Mving far uptown, I do not whet to do with myself for the next couple ot hours, As I go downtown simply to do my duty aa a juror I do not care to remain in the court-room to listen to the x0 1 roam About the streets, looking at the store-keeper amoking and taking 4 drink at every 1 puss by to kill time, whteh of course gest lots of money. In the two weeks I served [ made exactly $1, which I do not care to collect, as it will cost me more time aud money to collect It than that amount 1s worth, and I gladly wil m to the city. Now, why can't the Judges make it a little easter for the jurors instead of letting them loaf around for @ couple of bours every day, only to be ex- cused until the next morning? Only once did it Dappen that @ jury was called in the afternoon 06: T am perfectly willing to attend to the duties of @ Juror, but I cannot find any pleas- ure Ip idleness for a couple of hours a day EX-JUROR, John Henry Backs Up What He Writes. To the BMitor: About a week ago I sent you notice of « labor trouble at pler 41 North River. Afters wards I learned that some reporters were down there, and the poor Italians denied the truth for fear of being discharged, Now, I am willing to bet you $10, even money, that every was true, Here is the substance of the A number of poor Italians, employed as handiers at pier 41 North River, came to me an4 told me that the rich transportation agent who employs them holds back a month's wages all the year round, and when two monthe up, and sometimes a few days in the third month, they are pald for one month's work. 1 told thei that I was afraid the newspapers would do nothing for them, because their boss was a rich man, but if they wanted to bring the case Into court I would pay the expenses and ft a test to see If sald wages can be held back In this manner. I have tho money ready to put up to prove that the wages of those poor men is held back a month, all the year round. prove and stand over anything 1 JOHN HENRY. Some Queer Statements About the Bible. To the Editor: ‘The Bible uses time, trees, stonea, not as real objects, or as objecta of worship, but as symbols of ideas, just as we use minerals and words as symbols of {dean A new cregtion (Gen. 11. and ill.) 1s decribed, a kind of heavenly or intellectual Kingdom, soft-moving and free, In the grammar of this heaven theorles are female. Eve ropre- sents language; balr, thought. (See Sampson and Absalom.) Every object was thought to have its counterpart unseen. Uncut stone, truth, To them dreams and silent thought were the volces of gods or angels. The finality of death was ac- cepted, and this truth (stone) had to be rolled ‘away from the tomb belore resurrection, discov- eed (theory), could be promulgated. jew Testament Ie Wnglisb. ‘To the Greek foolishness; to the Jew @ stumbling-block."” There 19 no more authority for any named persons of the Bible than there for “Uncle @am."' It ts re- corded that the bones of Motos were not. There in not and never was # Mount Horeb on earth, That {9 @ eymbol of learning. The wilderness hed no (wees, and there was mot room fer the events rated In the territory. The Hebrew religion came from China and not trom Egypt. Dante! (book of 19 @ medical text-book, and Job is in no Way connected with the other sections, Histories of the dark ages are forgeries to bide the recent authorship of the Old and New Testamente. The letter J puts tho Ile to the antiquity of the whole meas, did not exist, F. 8. WDARN, Petersburg, fad. Young Rolstere: To the Editor: Returning to Harlem last aight about 10.30 T occupied a seat in the front car of an ‘‘L!* train, There were four young men (young scampa, I should say), apparently about nine- teen years of age, in same car. They sat im slose proximity to tho locomotive, two om elther side ot the car, ‘Three wore black derby hate, the fourth a brewu Alpine, The way they coa- ducted themselves from Twenty-third street up to One Hundred and Twenty-€fth street was aim- ply obnoxious. Singing suatebes of tbe latest songs, whistling, wrestling with each other, swearing and kicking each other, aad, 19 fact, doing all sorts of things that well-bred young men should refrain from doing, especially im @, Pubiie conveyance, all of which was dlaguating and annoying to the rest of the passengers, cluding myself, the conductor seemingly indi ent ax to what they did. 1 for one consider tt ‘an Injustice to respectable patrona of the road for the Company to allow such conduct to page by unnotlced. The conductor should have ejected these roisterer long ere they got to thelr dest!- Ration; but, Instead, allowed them to ge om tm- noticed, he, no doubt, thinking In bis own mind that they might all four be ‘Mayors of Marlem,"" and in such a case, why, they were at liberty to do as they pleased FAOTA-NON-VERBA, in an “L” Car, ing’s Men in White. Col. W. To the Editor: I see in your “Evening World’? @ complaint from one of the sweepers about the new uniforms which Col. Waring has Introduced inte the Street Cleaning Department of the elty. I certainly think that this fellow has some common sense when he sees through the foolish move om the Part of our distingulshed Colonel to make @ lot Qt Juckasses out of his poor workmen, Unitorme are for the soldiery and liveried, and not for the poor day laborer, INDIGNANT. Let the Work! To the Editor: I read in “The Ei letter signe’ ‘Pegay."” 1 ai much, I am also a working boy and am very 4 of driiling, I think the city could afford te the working boys belong to the regiment as the schoolboys. So we hereby ask “ and all the citizens to some assistance, I am an office boy, P. RAHM, 208 Stanton street, City, Boys Drin. * of Thursday @ ee with bim very Th Who Can Exptat: To the Editor: Can any reader of ‘The Evening World” tell me what causes me to hai hb funny dreame? Nearly every night I dream abovt cate and dogs and very often imagine that I am a cat ‘The other night 1 an elephant and was fighting with a tiger, when sud- denly I stepped on the tiger and crushed the life Out of him. Can any one explain? NIXON SHANNON, To the Editor: ‘There ts a certain young gentleman tn our towe who t# causing @ great deal of disturbance by tattling. I would like some of your kind readers to give me a good remedy for an “idle gossip." WESTKORANNA, Where Can To the Editor: I would like to bear from some of “The Bvee- ing World” readers wh to go camping for a tew place where there is pl ing. Up in Now York Stat je Fis . 1