The evening world. Newspaper, July 6, 1895, Page 4

ey ] 8 w @ PARK ROW, New York. SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1895. QUBSCRIPTIONS 70 THE EVENING WORLD Gneluding postage: Vol. 86 = Batered of the Post-Ofice at New York as second-class matter, ————— @@ BRANCH OFFICES: WORLD UPTOWN OFFICE—Junction of Broad- wey ond Gizth ave. at $24 ot WORLD HARLEM OFFICE—126n ot and Madi- on ave BROOKLYN—809 Washington ot. @HILADELPHIA, PA.—Press Building, 162 Chest ont ot WASHINGTON—102 14th ot. = OVER HALF A MILLION PER DAY. The World's Circulation for the First Six Months of 1895, 553,813 rer oay. XCEEDS the COMBI CIRGUEATION of ten Rew ¥ ra, oF, to be more spect! reat in ta ata ie tuts Evening Pout aud the Mall aod xpress. oan ‘The World’s Circulation Per Day Firat Six Months of 1895 - 653.813 First Six Months of 1894 - 474,065 First Six Months of 1891 - 822.100 First Six Months of 1883 - 26,587 Gain in One Year - - 79,748 Per Day Gain in Four Years - 231,713 Per Day Gain in Twelve Years 527,276 Per Day —— —— A BACE ON THE OCEAN, It is seldom that the great Atlantic | Mners have a chance, except at the | start, to challenge each other for a ra on the oceai Nevertheless there is plenty of ocean racing—mare, many | think, than there ought to be with a view to the perfect safety of the pas- wengers. But the story is told by the fog, and is not an object lesson to the eye. Last Tuesday, however, the Cunarder, Lucania, and the American liner, "aris, sighted each other in mid-ocean, on thelr way west, and a breast to breast Face was run by the two great boats for three hundred miles. The Paris was @head when the Lucania came in sixht and the contest of speed begun. The Paria did her best to maintain her lead, but the great power of the Lucania’s engines gradually did their work. The wea was smooth and the morning clear, and when at last at 6 F. M. the Cunard- er closed the gap between the boat the two ran abreast, and for sovera’ knots it was nip and tuck, But the Paris hung on to her rival's flank, and for a time it seemed to promise a “won by @ neck” race to the Hook. But the Lucania drew gradually a! and late Iast night the lights of the Paris disap- peared astern. ‘The race was an exciting one to those aboard. Was it an entirely one? Will these giant trials of speed, by which there is a tremendous straining to gain a fraction of an hour, go on forever without a mishap? Let us hope so, But can we really expect so? Under conditions of real municipal ome rule New York City would make ite own Excise laws. The city knows its own needs thoroughly, The average | ural legislator, at Albany, either does |h not understand the case or Is too much @fraid of his rustic constituents to act up to his knowledge. A DOUBTFUL COMPLIMENT. Recorder Goff has a new cane. It fs @ handsome cane, the hanile Fepresenting a dog's head. There 4s @ collar around the neck and from the mouth of the dog sticks out a tiger's head, conveying the appearanc of the cane having ewallowed the tiger all but ite head. On the cane ts the in- scription, “I am the dog that killed the) tiger.” The giver of the cane is not to be complimented on the delicacy and re- finement of his ideas, Is it in qood taste to represent the Recorder as a “dog,"’ and as one, too, wearing a col-| lar? Is it becoming to remind Mr. Goff ef the good things he haa swallowed once belonging to and enjoyed by Tam- many? Recorder Goff certainly did excellent work in the exposure of the evils under which the city suffered and is entitled to thanks, as he has already received solid, substantial rewards, from those he served. But individuals who desire te give evidence of their admiration of ur new Recorder should be careful to @o so in @ manner not open to the ob- fection of bad taste. Two Itelian dignitaries fought a duel with sabres yesterday. We shuddered when we first read about it, but we find ‘this morning that the principals came @ut of it ap safely as if they had fought @ach other with feather dusters, 4 HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. Again Chicago ts ahead. The whole @ale murder and suicide that destroyed the lives of Frederick Hellman, his wife end four children on the night of July the fourth beats any tragedy of its Bind of recent years, Hellman was thirty-seven years old, Res wife thirty-two, and his four chil- vely eleven, ten, seven and if age. The second was a js the rest boys. All had been killed 3 the gas, which had just u. imtroduced into the house, evi- for the purpose, having been te eacape, while every door and had been tightly closed. had not come to the unfortu- peacefully, however. The had evidently been aroused, Gesperate efforts to escape, father hed choked the two to death, Supposed to have been letter written to his 9 the horrible crime to berately planned, and if extated them and placed before them that th may appease their hunger; not that That should be the rule for Sunday also. meal and ts merely an evasion of the law. case must be judged by itself. It is not the amount of food, but the circ stances surrounding the service that must determine whether it 1s or It is not a& meal, but it must be observed, Sensible men should get together and wipe it off the statute books, Gray Gables last night was too wet for the show, He did not fire Prof, Harrington in time to secure good weather for his Independence Day. bike, and has no aspirations in the di- rection of the sile chief off a bike and head his own inaugural pro- cession on a wheel. Should the chosen executive be a woman, the remot there is even greate will be a biker f the other contingency. the murderer's papers. @uch terrible and unnatural tragedies are sufficient to shake confidence in human nature, ‘Roosevelt tells why. That's just what the next Legislature will have to do if It doesn't change the Sunday Ex- cise law for New York and Hrooklyn. WHAT I8 A MEAL! What is @ meal? ‘There is not the slightest doubt in any teasonable man's mind, It is not the one-half pennyworth of bread to an in- tolerable deal of sack, nor is it a seven- course dinner to a bottle of beer. To keep a cracker on @ table that @ group of thirsty men may spend an afternoon in boozing is a violation of the law, but so also ts it @ vivlation to say that to some men a sandwich Is not a meal. There are thousands of busi- ness men and others in this elty whose luncheon, thelr midday meal, Ix a sand- wich and a glase of beer; there are other thousands who lunch on crackers and milk, and others still whose meal 1s graham bread and frult. There are few who eat @ heavy meal downtown To all these cases, though, there ts this feature, The food i ordered by they may have an excuse for eating. If food is ordered and served for that purpose it is a meal; if not, It is not a The Police Justices are right. Hach m- It fs the law. Ridiculous it may be, ‘The President set off his fireworks at The Fourth HARRIGON AND THE BIKE WOMEN. Ex-President Harrison doesn't ‘ride a t steed; yet It Is ssible that the man elected to the of this land tn '% may ride which Is among Kent poswib.lities, tof p om Bikerville than in With this condition confronting us, it seems that Gen, Harrison was rather rash in making some remarks about | wheelwomen that have been credited) to him, He ts reported to have sald that | “he did not believe there love match time of late when he most he had his gun was when he saw a wo man riding « wheel and chewing gum.” ld ever be Ix, and the | shed that! s made on whe These are hard words General, and we are afraid the wheelwomen will re member them should you run for the old office again. There Is only one way by which you can retract them and restore yourself to favor with the girls in bloomers and divided ekirts, ‘That Is by wetting a bike yourself, donning knick- ere and becoming an enthusiastic gum-chewing whi Iman, The sport will | do you good, even if you do get left in ‘9. Then, again, the “bleycle face’ twn't half so bad as the “Presidential face, About one point, at least, Sheriff Tam. sen ts quite right. It ty nat the thing to have privileged civil prisonera and desperate criminals confined side by de in a common Jail. In his denunciation of the woman- cyclist, ex-President Harrison has struck @ bit of dungerous coasting. His boom- sters better teach him to back-pedal, Noarly 0,000,000 silver dollars in the Philadelphia Mint, No wonder there isa owl for free silver! Turn some of the shining rase The Forty-seventh Regiment boys made a good showing at Peckskill, de-| spite the rain. They are not mere fai weather soldiers, The police magistrates do not care to say what constitutes a meal with a drink, It all depends, of course, on the | size of the drink. Valkyrie 111. has won a race, a private one; but there won't be any privacy about the cup races over here, Lord Dunraven, Sheriff Tamsen had better not take too | TM ™ much time explaining the Ludlow Street Jail escape; some other prisoners may wel away Commisstoner Roosevelt produces a pe rlod of depression in a rushing business in suppressing the Sunday growler. Saratoga’s gamblers realize that the law holds the better hand, ‘They would know a bluff If they saw it. The escaped Ludlow Street Jat! pris- oners have not yet sent word to the po- ce where they can be found The horse continues to hold the advan. tage over the bicycle, that he needn't Stay In out of the wet. The former police justices’ first blow for their old places and thelr old “pull? Wag not a heavy one. To-day it 19 Valkyrie Il]. When the Great races come on we hope to see Valkyrie second. Watch “Dhe Evening World" Baseball Extra, day by day, fur a Glant spurt in the West Sheriff Tamsen “caught a train." Tt would be more to the point to caich those escaped robbers. Farmer Dunn {3 atill guessing. It amuses him and doesn’t affect the weather, No more gambling in Sara ea, but you can still get shaved there on Sun- day. _ Spain will pay the Mora claim. The Spanish head has its level streaks, Well, the rain record was about the only one left for July to break. It ta no paradox that the Sunday side door is now at the front. doorway is to be cut in the An the destruo- | Blue Room of ine White House. A new | card the City Hall flag flirtation, chance that she shebang to get G in should he be ni than McKinley's to-day, Let the Greater wood roads, familt tear day know little & place In avery read other, ‘They ai Times. H. Nothing seems to di 40 much aa the climate at Columbus —Kansas ity Alar. And Ta 1 Dancing in rage and tearing (Twas really a matohsate, And did qu But the robbers laux Yelling 1 sarcastic tones, "Barles \helr good-by to the Jail; ‘Thus they observed Inte With Tamsen two buudred miles away! » Lawler for revealed by @ search of front door will have to be made for the | THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, JULY ¢, 1806. A HINT TO LORD DUNRAVEN. My, Evening World's” Gi Living Pictures, ery of 5 \\ r on My ANON [Valkyrie IIL Might Win a Race if the Course Was Down Hill THE GLEANER’S BUDGET. policemen are put to in the station. house," sald one of New York's finest to me the “In addition to paying « woman for keeping our beds In good ordi Judgow and lawyers. during the late With & number of oti ha subsequently endeavored to free Ire his native land, from the yoke of English ‘apt JEROLOMAN ‘This is a picture of the President of the Board of Aldermen who is now acting Mayor of New York, He will not use | the Mayor's t apot during Mr, Strong's ce, and he will also probably dis- r Cleveland's head minwted for a nder's boom Is more talked about No es ape from the Ludlow Street Jail this morning. Look out for another dry Sunday. The rain it raineth every day. “ — a AN EDITORIAL MEDLEY. m Apelitng reform wilt m The Quakers wouldn't fancy ne of thelr city spelt “Filadel k to Spelling Reform, The Dectaratio ‘The Declaratiqn of Independence ought to be to every wchool boy and girl, but we iat the majority of the young of the present f ite contents, It should have book with the names of all the #igners.—Rochester Democrat. pers’ Shoes, been decided that the New York police- y Not wear tan shoea while on duty. Yet why not? Lala of them are of @ eopper shade,— Buffalo Courter: Flattering Ex-H Crok Rosebery and Croker ought now to console each In the same boat.—Richmond Biamarek, Bismarck has tho gratifieation of knowing that he t# dearer than ever (o the hearts of th German people, and that he has triumphed over the plottings of hia enemies and th of his politi opposition 1 foes. —Byracuse Courier. Ohio's Roving Governo: Gov, MoKintey tn visiting relatives at Freeport, e with the Gov: me as See THE ESCAPE. Out from the jail in the light of day x the keepers with Y pistol that lool burglars unio Leaving the keepers to be Teitin With one re wore A two hundred miles away! " en the Barber Warden ts an to awear hair 4 lost their wits, |, had had weven Ate Damantug his keepers whs And, at aight of the p Well ae @ big army gun") egabed’ Kegabed!"” wai With Tamsen (wo bundre Hee away! Laughed as thoy bw Laughed aa the keepers set up a wail; Leaving the Plumber in awful despair Leaving the Tailor actearing his ving the Harber as cromm as NAD ae e yHO FIGHT FIRES, Dauiol Lawler, captain of E onnell apent six years in an Enel aty made him free. seene of Custer’ fight Fetreat was ontered by who was a private, to surcor a wounded orderly they were mounting th marks of Aeverul Foon last week, Very seldom a er make much progrees | nor Of in the atilly night ere slumber's chains hath bound me, 1 think of Jokes I might bave spru Whea many were around Conatructively I weep, And often in the atilly night T kick myself to sleep. Detroit Tribune, Not Likely, “WIL your father make any odjectio “1 should think pot! Harper's Basar, Dick and Jerry, t fashed in the gum Dig man im the nation— they could say— ougd to keep Dick goin’! Adana Constitution, loud as they took the keye Abybody ean catch col And for a nibble beg; Some use an old tin can for bait Exchange 1 think he ts louking for bis fourth avapalia Journal, bh Book-Learning, ¢ New York Weekly.) board” comes from steerboat rudder was at boat instead of at the stern? Hired Sailor the right side os FLAT was appointed to the Deparimont May 1, | 1978, going to Bogine Company No 3% He was ied 10 be assiaiant foreman Aug. 16, 1454, aud was made foreman Web. 1, 1885. Me was) transferred to Engine 1@ March 1, 18K Capt the Stephenson medal for 1s6T tor ‘Seueral eMiciency as & commanding oMeen, e Hint There and True Tales of City Life. we aro to make tce. 4 Invariably the bill amounts to be- tween $20 and $30 @ month. furnishes the cooler, but waht good Ix @ cooler without the toe? ua with furnaces in. th it be a nice thing If they made us buy the coal? The Commisaioners ought to look Into this." ‘The Department t also furnishes but wouldn't desk in the Special Term of the Court of Common Pleas nits Charles Under- wood O'Connell, man whose kindly manner and Attention to duty have won the exteom of all the He fought with distinotion ame out at its clowe yr ardent pat- sh privon with offices tn . r Reno's divl- Reno, was directed by his Hefore he of from the retreat- broke through ceded in regaining Nik comrades just as of the Little Big Het of Dia exciilng experlence, 1 was (alking with a fashionable florist In hie Broadway store one af when king young chap He lerk and atier a few mo- | Menta’ conversation with him left the “That young fellow," said ihe proprietor, from his father of $250 a month, He spends at least $100 every m: for hin awentheart that he does not leave an order here for flowers, waym very prompt in th 1 wish all my customers were like TH GLEANER, WHAT WILL THE MORROW BRING? th on flowers day pasnes payment of 0 my I ohave six aisterst.— ich of eourea, Looking for a better An. you siar- and was or of the T han't much «but 1 know tf you dor nove that steerbourd, as you call Ieee ou call It, ittie more to starboard welll be wouci.® THE NAME CAUGHT HIM. Dale Had to Turn from Sometimes I find it absolutely impos- sible to read one book at @ time, A dreadful notion that I shall succumb to an overwhelming ennui haunts me, and you don't know what a horrible feeling it fa. It ts no joking matter, I assure Of course, this only happens when ® volume ts particularly prosy, glaring- ly padded or obnoxtously illiterate. It has occurred this week, when I started in on W. E. Nor: latest novel, “Billy Years ago I loathed Norris, but the other day I was fascinated by the title, “Billy Bellew.” It somehow sugmested Kyrie and Cora Urquhart Potter, and goodness knows that no- body could accuse them of being prosy. There's such @ great deal in a name, unfortunately. “Billy Bellew” soon proved to be #0 &trociously prosy and padded that in a sort of frenzy I took up the first book that came to hand and plunged into it Sratefully, It was an exquisite little classic, quite new, called "99 Practical Methods of Utilising Boiled Beef, and the Original Recipe for Stewed Chicken,” by Babet, with # preface by Mme. M. de Fontelose.” It is a trans- lation from the French, and you'll never know how I revelled in it. It was such a@ relief from “Billy Belle 1 left that hopeless dolt in love with a conventional minister's daughter, and, @t the same time, in the platonic tolls of @ married woman, who was rather old and rather faded, and exceedingly stupid. Aw the relations between Billy and the wedded charmer were absolut: ly platonic—and Norris, who is fero- clously proper, impresses that fact upon you at every opportunity—it is almost inconceivable that he should have pa- traded himuelf with her before the girl he reaily loved, when one word would have severed the fragile bond. It was at this point that I flew to the “Boiled Beef’ and read with a sort of tinkling glee how to make it a la Languedocienne, a la Parmenterte, @ la Brouxelloise, a la Perigourdine and @ la Diplomate. It was such breesy Teading. The style waa so unaffected, 80 concise, so neatly turned, There were no silly attempts at epigram and no dull moments, ‘To use the dainty little suggestions, “Cut Into small pieces a little lean ham, an onion and a shal lot, and parbotl in butter until of a golden color,” was infinitely more poetic and more apropos than Norris's silly chestnut, “As we grow old we learn to distrust appearance, and we also, unfor- tunately, learn to distrust our in- atinets;” or “We are quite content to do what other people do and say." Norris undoubtedly is. In lly Bellew" he saya what far cleverer people have been saying for the last century, and he says it with such very evident deliberation that it wearles. However, I finished the book, thor- oughly disgusted with Billy and his author, Even Norris had to make ex- cuses for his hero's unpardonable stu- pidity In continuing to dance attendance upon Blanche Littlewood when he w. dead in love with Winnie. “It is very well to sneer at his weakne says Norris, “but, under the circum- stances, no amount of strength would have availed him much. He had to choose between surrendering and quar- relling with Blanche, and he would not quarrel with Blanche; he would have considered himself a downright brute if he had done that” Yet they were merely friends. Norris hadn't the audac- ity to make them anything more. He tried very hard to conjure up @ Gellic situation for the use of the Young Per- son, and failed ignominiously. Under the pretense of supplying champagne, he administered large and unseemly doses of sarsaparilla. Winnie was engaged to a very tame young man, but she was quite disposed to’ love B.lly Bellew, who was sup- posed to be remarkably dashing, She had a sister, and of course imagined that Billy was smitten with this sister, who also had a lover, And go tt went on, in a series of tame and stagy com plications that wouldn't interest an in- genious maiden of three, At the end Billy fell from his horse and was killed, and that waa really the best thing that could happen to him. His death took place on page 302—exactly 900 pages too late. If it had occurred on page 2, Mr, Norris might have done himself proud, I wonder what class of people pa’ rontze such books as “Billy Bellew. There must be readers for them or the Harpers wouldn't have wasted such a lovely cover on the novel. Give me the “Bolled Beef” and the ninety-nine prac- tical methods of using it, any day. I am not hard to please in my reading, ut I prefer a cook book to an uncooked novel, and I'm not afraid to say a0. ALAN DALB. OFF AND AWAY. (Of and away trom the heat of the clty, Off and away from the bustle and noise, Eyes dancing brightly, hearts beating lightly, Mothers young girls again, fathera but boys, All of the little ones crowing with pleasure, Prattling lips voicing the cheer of the sout, The past and [ts sorrow, but Joy comes to morrow, Down where the sea-billows restlegsly eet. Off and away on the Summer vacation, Cares and perplexitics barred from the brain, Laughter ts ringing and joy-birds are singing ‘The carols of rest in their merriest strain. He alight with the sunshine of pleasure, Merriment rules with a sceptre of fun, ‘Au revoir sadness, howly-do gladness, Work-day is past aud play-day has begua. Cheeks that are pallid again will grow re@ay, Byes that are dim will be Mashing agaia, Hearts ail aweary again will be merry, Bodies will stip from the meshes of pate. nd away for (he breese-tempered cougtry, For nature arrayed tn her Sowery gown, Old will grow young again, arms will grow strong again, Fer from the heat and the noise of the tows. BARTON. ——— CRADLE SONG, Boarcely & twink! #0 mofily they rem, Never & flower from its slumber ts peeping: The ships are asieop on the dark ocean's breast ads sink to sleep tn ‘And each little bind tm ita Hushabye, baby, the hyacinths’ faces Are drooping sad dreaming the whole algt 9 darkness through, ‘Tre fair ity sleeps ia ber cobwed laces And sparkling Jewels of gleam a ‘The moon is cloudy cradl ‘And slar-fringed Viankets of Ob, some little babies ere softly sleeping, Sheltered under the warm green aod, And some ead mothers are bitterly weep! For fair litte soule at home with God; But thou'rt with thy mother, And oale ip the realm of ue. AMONG US WOMEN. 1 am tn receipt of the following letter trom a Harlem girl: Dear Pru: Shaw 1 am sorry for the lub of Harlem young men who "positively tor young women who tn tm the vice of ciga ette mmoking,"’ unless they are equally positive In fosolving to abstain from the weed themselves, for { hold that while it may not be right for a woman to do everything that in does, yet It te right for her to do anything that Le right for him to do; therefore, on the principle it seems Unjust for the young men to make the wholesale ameertion in quertion unless they too forego “ne Disaaure of amoking. 1 may a8 well say that, pe sonally, I object to amoking, but, nevertheless, deatice te Juatice, you know. Yours truly, MADGE FORREST. se 8 ‘That letter has the ring of the new woman in tte tot However, Madge, you and your new woman colleagues will to reconstruct things & good deal before ‘justice 1s justice," as you say. Woman has always acted a8 a restraint upon mé Madge, and the Glepotition te adapt hereeif to hie galt 19 not @ favorable comment upon the sex as the tide of freedom @weeps over old-time prejudice conservatism and she ia encouraged to think and act Independently. ‘ ‘The Edwina Free Kindergarten, 9¢ 141 Chrystie dtreet, beld ite Commencement eases Thursday afternoon, and thirty little ehiWen and 1 teachers did justice to the Froebel system also wo the Hopeful Circle of Kings Daughter: who conatitute the Board of Managers of the litt charity, The kindergarten is held at Cam: Chapel Mission, the oldest mission in New York City, and one in which Gen, 0, 0, Howard has Always manifested a sealou Interest, Mrs, J. E. Muchmore In the Preat agers of the kindergarten, which ls the to her Httle dau for whom It 1s named. The little ones all know that the picture of @ aweet-faced little girl hanging over the mantel in the schoolroom tn nai and th she “promoted” when she was nearly thetr ‘own age, about four years ago. ‘The kindergarten te jut four years old. Its finances are managed by about fifteen ladies, whose clevernens, weal and businom management ite flourishing condition ex- empit of the ilttle ones were out In full force at the cloning exercines, and tc eream fur everybody formed a substantial and de- Jectable accessorly to the celebration, PRUDENCE SHAW. TO LAY THE GIANTS’ HOODOO. This costume !s made in a new and perfectly uncrushable material, a dainty white crepe gause, with a crinkled silk stripe in it. The plain full skirt is fin- fahed at the waist with a band of ap- ple-green satin ribbon, drawn through @ horseshoe buckle of brilliants, while the softly-draped bodice Is arranged with a simply perfect collar of fine white silk muslin, accordion-plaited, and cut in deep vandyLe points, edged throughout with a narrow bordering of pale yellow valenciennes, and also trim- med with an insertion of the same lace. ‘The full sleeves reach only to the elbow, where they should be met by long gloves of white kid, The hat made in white fancy straw, trimmed with two clusters of poppies, some white, some red, a@ quilling of fine lace on one side of thi hat, and on the other a bunch of Ma guerlte foliage, To Wash Fine Lace. The careful woman who prefers to wash and dry her own lace and em- broldered handkerchiefs has a “handker- chief dryer." This useful article consists of four pieces of wood made to fit into each other at any size by means of a series of pegs on two of the pieces with Davis picks up @ horseshoe. Doyle hunts the midnight rabbit foot. Stafford hypnotizes the cross-eyed darkey. as many holeg on the other, White felt is tacked on the sides, to which the handkerchief can be pinned, thus stretching it like ce curtain. Huckleberry Rely-Poly. Remove the strings from half a pound of beef suet; chop it fine and mix it with @ very little flour; sift together a pound of flour, a heaping teaspoonful of It and two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Pick over a quart of sound huckleberries, dust a little flour over them and mix them with the sifted flour and chopped suet. Have a large pot of water boiling on the fire; dip a large square pudding cloth into the scalding water, and then dust it thiekly with flour, quickly stir into the mixture just enough cold water to hold them together and pour the dough upon the pudding cloth. By pressing outside the cloth shape the pudding into @ long long and ge curely tie It up in the clan, Plunge it into the boiling water and boil it stead- ily for an hour and @ half. Meantime make a sauce of sweetened cream, or of butter ,usgar and boiling water, Bea. son with nutmeg and add wine or brandy if desired. . A Woman's Age Sacrea In @ case before @ Paris court, in which a popular actress had to appear as a witness, the Judge seemed to have shown considerable difidence about aske ing the lady, as he was in duty bound to do, what was her age. Evidently he considered that such @ Question put to a witness would be a direct incitement to perjury, so he asked her her age before she had been sworn, “How old are you, madame?" he said, After a little hesitation the lady owned to being twenty-nine years of age. “And now that you have told the Court your age," continued the gallant Judge, “you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” Compete of Cherries Gelect tart, underripe cherries; leave them on the stems, make & weak syrup, @rop them in and let boll slowly until clear; drain them and take up on @ compotur; let the syruv boil thick, take from the fire when cool, pour over the cherries. Damsons and blue plume may be prepared in the same way. Hints for Parlor Tableaux. Sojourners in a country hovse, or in a Summer hotel, often get up small en- |tertainments of tableaux for which some hints may be of assistance, The stage should be raised above the audi- ence, about three feet. The platform should be framed like a picture, and between performers and spectators should be stretched black gauze. At the back of the stage should be @ high screen draped with hangings to throw out the picture arranged before them, The stage should have a dark covering, and carriage lamps, for lighting, should be carefully placed at the sides of the stage, not as footlights; four or six of these will be required. The curtain may be of stout dark calico. Epicurean Tid-Bits. Among the French tt is gastronomia heresy to eat asparagus otherwise than eold with salad dressing. Bhad roe with eggs and parsley makes @ most palatable breakfast omelette, long known to gastronomic students. Alleged currant jelly one buys at the average grocery shop Is a strong sug. gestion of what would be considered red ink. Veal, when roasted thoroughly brown, most palatable and least harmful. It aves physicians’ bills to remember this fact. LETTERS [7 he coltomn ts open to everybody who has 6 complaint to make, @ grievance 0 ‘Giscuse oF 6 publie servies 10 acknowlalge, and whe can put the iden inte leas than 100 words Long dattere cannot be printed. | Wrote “The Facé Tpom the Floor,” ‘To the Editor: 1 was sorry to read of tl! elly, and it only @t thi excellent work should be tecognised mow that he has gone. Truly, he ‘‘wrotw gongs one boved’’ and his mem- ory will remain green for many « decade with- out giving him credit for the popular recitation, “The Face Upon the Fioor.'' 1 wrote this reel- tation in the Summer of 1887. The original manuscript was given to the late Alice Hastings and I belles is now Im the possesion of Roland Reed. The barroom quoted im the poem la Joe Schmit's, on the corner ef Union Square and Fourteenth street, Schmit bought one dred copies of the Dispatch Aug, 7, 1887, and sent copies not only through this country, but also to Gol. Cody and Col. Joha Burke, th Eng- land, Some few years ago three m elting my work at different music hal! don, and I understand each reader claimed bim- eelf to be the author. I gleo know another man claimed it im Australia, although I gave bim bis copy. Since ‘Fhe Face Upon the Fleor’’ has be- come popular in America, Eng! and Australia, T would ike tt to be finally understood that {1 vos written by H. & D’ARCY, death of Joseph P. tix Days Baough for Drinkers. To the Editor. Let the saloons be closed om Sunday by all means, ‘Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,"* Six days ought ta be enough for the saloon-keeper to do business, and if the drinker must have bie beer on Sunday, let him buy ft Saturday night and take it home ll this talk about the Sunday low being tyrannical ts Ronsense. IM is a just law and one that should be upheld by all Christian people, and I pre- qume it {4 but I am ory to say that they are not in the majority. ONB WHO FAVORS THE SUNDAY LAW. An “L” Road Masher, To the Baltor: ‘What can be done with @ man (1 that the young lady passengers in on “L" train, and Makes himself an audacious, contemptible snob? On July 2 an individual dressed in light gray hat, walking wick an entered ® Third avenue northbound train about Chatham Square, and imagining himself (from his actions) « modern Adonis, proceeded at once to for: attention upon one of the young lady pamengera Ne carried on so that the indignation of passe: gers was aroused, one remarked: "The | qught to take hold of such a case. This was followed by © gentleman approaching the guard and asking ‘what can be done to protect the ladies from euch @ beast?’ Being informed that ‘© complaint would be suM@oient to put him off the (rain, the complaint was immediately lodged, Dut the follow's attentions not being accepted by the young lady upoa whom he was forcing them, he left the train at the mext station, Kighteenth reat. This nice (1) maa lives in a very old ‘and select street, and ts supposed to be as good ‘and respectable @ neighbor as lives in the block, Ie there mo law to protect ladies in a public ‘The mas whe will go to the polle and again Vote the Democratic ticket with the treachery, the arrogance, the despotism of the present Ad- ministration stil! surging through his mind, de- serves only to be @ menial siave. to commence now as later on to eall things by thelr right names, and that without apologies ‘The people feel the effects of hard times, aud they Know they are not the result of natural causes, ‘There te plenty produced for all, but the money @f the country has been so conjured in the in- Yerests of capital that some are made millionaires While others are made paupors, They bave beca at ay well swaying from one old party to the other Im the hope of relief, but have found It not. As they become educated and siop to think they gradu: ally but surely drift to the People's party—the enly party to-day whose principles are in ac ord with the foundation principles of the Gov- ernment. Populism is Lincoln Republicanism and Jeffersonian Democracy applied to present condi- tlona, and to It the two old parties hold the @ame relation that Judiaism held to Christianity during the first half of the frst century. They ‘old the same relation to Populisin that the Tories held to the revolutionary fathers, and that the ‘Whigs and Democrats held to the anti-slavery movement before the war. If history Is ta re Peat itself we are soon to have another fearful Fevolution, but it is hoped that in the present struggle the ballot will do what in the past was accomplished by the bullet and the sword. MEMBHR OF NORTH BIDE POPULIST CLUB, How to Correct Children. ‘To the Editor: ‘The trouble with most parents is that they ecold thelr children in the presence of othera, or slap them, and use other improper methods of punishment, and then their child is spulled. But if on just provocation parents will at bedtime use a rattan in @ thorough banner, they will he obeyed an: weeted for it, and thelr childrem, Sf not conceited, ignorant or babyish, will be Greatly benefited by it, | ‘8 WHO WAS WHIPPED. To the Baltor: Why Such Poor Gooseberry Cropst Could you tell me why gooseberries are eo jSearce im this country, or is it the fault of the | farmer not raising them? Englaud and Ireland, for instance, where the climate for that berry i 8 unfavorable, seein to outdo Amorioa int duction of gooseberri \ A Joke That Ought to Go, To the Editor: How is this for @ joke? 4 Muldoon—I'lt get the nomination for Alderman thin Pall. How do you think I'll runt Casey—Be me sowl, good! This new Reform party will keep you on the run, L References Would Keep | Principals Buy, Baltor. @ fon that went to mimar School Ne 15, Was promoted aud Was ose year in the cal- | lege class. He is a very bright boy for ap examination, but received none, Now he has asked the Principal for a reference to go to work, but the Principal refused that mach, What cau 1 do? MRS. J. License Required. To the Editor Please to stale as to w © position as engineer on j Raliroad requires 4 license aa Lo: and also is @ license required as stationary Binver on fn Istand, He Died « Natur: ‘to the Editor To decide a bet p! © S2y whether Martta her died @ matural death or committed clde? Nad