The evening world. Newspaper, September 24, 1895, Page 4

Published by the Press Publishing Company, 4 to 6s PARK ROW, New York. —_—--— Gncluding pomage): PER MONTH... PER YEAR. way and Bint ave ot 884 ot ‘WORLD HARLEM OPFIOB—isich ot. and Moti- fon ave. BROOKLYN—200 Wastingwn ot. PRILADBLPHLA, PA.—Preme Building, 103 Chest- it {WADHINGTON—W0 van ot PER ORY. BATT Gin ors a. THE WORLD'S GREAT AUGUST CIAGDLITIO 560,655 PER DAY. ‘Thy RXOREDS the COMBINED CIRCULATION of ton Now Yorn Bewscapers, or, to be more specific, fe OVER 300,600 mere than the COMBINEL CLACULATION of Floral, The Telerram, Cr oan, a artbes ‘Te ead Yex- pres, ‘Adveriiser q ry jeruing Journal. CIRCULATION FOR | Angus, 1006 + + OE pe tay ' August, 1886 = + M07, 681 per doy : August, 1001 = © 088,016 per ey August, 1000 - = 089 per day Gain in one year....n. 73,234 Gain in four years... ..226,680 Gein in thirteen years.636,423 x ‘WHY EOO8EVELT 18 OF PO ED. | The following communication comes bo the editor of “The Evening World; the employ of @ large concern where ( hundrede of men cecasionally talk @bout politics, and nearly all of us are unable to ‘account for the opposition of the public prose 1 Roosevelt's tactica 1, therefore, write to you, Doping that thie may be the means to give In- formation to the befogged minds of a great many More of the thinkiag workingmen of this city @han you may believe. Tt te an admitted fact that the occasional black- Mailing by Individual pollee officers of saloon- Reepers and disorderly bouses in years gone by (ald the foundations for the most complete Black- Malling system ever brought nto existence. After aeve two classes of people had been whipped into Aine other small tradesmen ware brought to tt ati Anally even the merchant princes bad to fauckle down to our foreign-born magnates of the brass buttons and bickory elubs. ‘The personne! and sentiments of the Police De- partm are the same as ever; only Gee igh standard of our present Police Commis. loners saves us from the old outrages, Why, Gaeretore, does the dally press antagonize the Mhonest efforts of howest men to give a better Delice torve by striking at the root of all the eld eviat 1, and by tar the largest part of the working- fen I have come to contact with, am againa re present laws im regard Lo the sale of liquor, asd elect shall cast our votes ac: eordingly, but anti) the laws are changed we (wih to be free from the old persecutions It is easy to answer this correspondent fond the inquirers whom he representa “The Evening World” ts glad to an: @wer them. Commissioner Roosevelt is | opposed because his tactics are not hon- est tactics, He ts a pretender. In a Youd voice he declares for the enforce- ment of all laws, In practice he selects the laws which his men shall enforce. ‘Hin side-door spies have made dry Bun- days the past Bummer for thousands of New York's tenement-house dweil- ers, They have not disturbed the rich clubs, though the best authorities de- , alare that the clubs violate the law as Gagrantly as the saloon-keepers do. Roosevelt has deprived whole families of their customary Sunday beverages @t the dinner table, He has not die- turbed the men who drink luxuriously ut their social resorts, “It is impossible ‘to get evidence against the clubs on ac- eount of their stringent rules and regu- ations,” That is the filmsy pretext ‘Wah which It is sought to cover up rank hypocrisy. Police spies, police clubs and police bootheels would be as effective at club doors as they have been Proved to be at saloon doors if the orusader In Mulberry atreet dared to a0 extend his policy of survelilance and force. But no. The Roosevelt crusade fe a crusade for effect. It ts making all the noise its projector cares for without Interfering with the pleasures Of the select. The “blackmail-must-be-stopped” cry | fa a part of the general pretense. Black- J mail would have been stopped the mo- ment it became known that a new power ‘Was established at the head of the Le- partinent and that corruption was to be sternly dealt with wherever exposcu fim the force. It was not necessary to es- Yablish the police-degrading slde-door ’ *py system to secure this end, In fact, > the spy system is @ promoter of black- * mail. In a word, Roosevelt haa assumed to- ‘wards one lot of free men the attitude of complaisance which, he claims, the Jaw forbids his assuming towards an- other. He has enforced with severity, in @ way not necessary to (he peace nor welfare of the city, the strict letter of part of a law. He has set back the cause } of real reform, He has forfeited even F the right to the “American Sabbath . line of defense, since he haa d.stinctly disclaimed the motives either of the $ @abbatarian or the temperance Worker. ” seamed It seems as if reform might march a SURCCRIPTION} 10 THE EVENING WORLD who ta nweet sixteen, yellow skinned, almond-eyed, plays popular aire on the guitar and sings “ching-a-ling” in artistic style ‘The offer {s a natural one, ax Hip Sing Lee ie in the lottery burinene, Let us hope that tn this venture at least he will meet with success, and that he will wevure @n Intelligent, good-looking steady “American” husband for the in- teresiing Miss Mot ‘The Spruce 1V. will have to spruce up. Bhe's lucky, though, to have an owner of the real blood. A CA‘E FOR INQUIRY. A fight between eome citizens and two policemen on Bunday night, at injury of one of ice Board to resulting in the bad the officers, has led the P: twht club to the force. Ths policemen were in citizen's dress, having been employed during the day a. decoys or spies to make arrests of sa- loon-keepers and bartenders whuw wey might induce to sell them a giasa of beer or find violating the law. Tho citi- gens were William Coleman, twenty en years old, a professional acrobat, and three friends, who were returning from Long Inland City, It ts claimed the young men were making a noise and the Bunday-peeping policemen took them to task, A fight resulted, Coleman claim- ing that he and his companions did not know the men were policemen, and he admits having «truck the blow which knocked the policeman down. The off- cer fell to the dewalk, fracturing his ekull, and his life is in danger, ‘Tho unfortunate incident scarcely war- rants the return to the de stick, But It was abolished by ex Byrnes, and that ts sufficient cau Its restoration, If Coleman and his companions were disturbing the public peace it Is singular that an officer in uniform and regularly on duty did not check them; or at least was not on hand during the whole fight. ‘The New Yorks lose games with w persistency worthy of @ much lower salaried team. HOW TO PUNISH THEM. In view of the recent long continued | Becond avenue and Thirty-fourth atreet, Vote in favor of restoring the murderous} THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, SEPIEMBER 24, 1895. “The Evening World's” Gall Livin, MRS. JOHN W. GRIGGS. This is @ picture of the wife of the Republican candidate for the Governor- hip of New Jersey. Trunt. It isn't too soon, {e seldom too late to hit Ustic head. But then tt! &@ monopo- | When you think the clever politician | {8 giving you a line, most likely he-ts merely stringing you. In the matter of properly lghting their cars, the “‘L” road magnates are aul in the dark. The Syracuse Convention does not for- get that good rouds go well with good government, Thanks, Farmer Dunn. ‘That cool wave, that ia, It got here, ‘The sea serpent season lingers tn the lap of Autumn. The football face is about to reappear among us. The straw hat's little additional hour hot spell and the persistency of a cer- tain class of abominable nuisance: a contemporary suggests an amendment to the penal code by the addition of a section mak.ng it an offense, punisla ble by fine or Imprisonment, or both, wo ik anybody during such a@ trying UUme the question “Is this hot enough for you?’ While conceding the gravity of the offense, “The Evening World” ts not willing the offender should be punished as a malefactur, as if he were @ auloon- Keeper, or subjected to arbitrary arrest and imprironment, like a barkeeper who has dared to soll @ gluse of beer on Sunday. A punishment more in accord with American sentiment would be to send him to freeze in Minnesota or to wade knee-deep in the anow drifts in Kan- fas while the thermometer stood above the nineues in New York. There ts plenty of good platform ma- terial at Syracuse, All that is needed {8 good carpenter work in putting the planks together, 4 MAN OF FAM'LY IN>EED, In these days of new women and fancy and all sorts of frills In civilization It in decidedly refreshing to hear of a man of the good old-fashioned kind. One of such has just died at Southard, N. J., at tho age of seventy-five. His name was John Matthews. on the vea twen ty-three children to mourn hisdeparture, He was the father of twenty-five boys and girls In all, and the achievement of thia numerous offspring is the only clatm we know of that he has to posthumous distinction, While brains were throbbing elaswhere with new and giant thoughts and na- ture's cyclopean forces were ylelding one by one to the yoke of man, John Matthews went along hun through life, sing the The roar of Broadway never reached his farm, and Wall atreet doings were nothing more than fairy tales to the qutet, easy-going but rapidly expanding Matthews family ‘The lights of New York did not lure any of the children away from the home stead. They ure all living near the me old spot apparently contented and happy. The Pelham Club, in Pitt street, ie a Social organization nine years otd and composed of young workingmen, It | gave a@ litte party Bunday night, and & keg of beer was on tap, free to all Kuents, ‘Three well-dressed men came | along, “Can we go in? one of them ed. "Yes," said the doorkeeper, “You look reapectable.’ Appearances often deceive, The men who looked re spectable were really three of Roose velt’® spies They accepted the Pel- ham Club's hospitality and then ar rested the President. It Is loudly pro- claimed that now the polica have a test case on the rights of clubs. But the question at the Union League next Sun- day will be the old one: "Well Senator, what's yours?" Neighbor Wolff decided to build a it-| tle addit on to his house In West Ninety. | |third sireet and Mrs. Neignbor Groh | did not Nike it. ‘The addition was built, | hevertheless, and now Mra, Groh, who feela crowded, proposes to put up al hty-tive-foot fenea between her house and her neighbor's new struc- ture, This is a new and original idea | in keeping the Wolf from the door. | © from promoting the peace of New York, the stringent enforcement of the Sunday excise liw ts stirring up discord Ia over, A convention for all Democrats—that's right, HILL AND HARMONY, ‘Twas in the prime of Autumn-time, A morning ralm and cool, And many, many Democrats Were kicking ‘gaint Hil rule John Fellows, Gilroy, Martin, | Spite of the fact that Mr. Carleton Is THAT IMPRUDENT YOUNG COUPLE. The pistache-tinted programmes at the Empire Theatre last night gave us forgeous hopes of « singularly interest- ing John Drew season, and Drew him- self came forward and told us that “with our kind permission he would remain with us a long time. With our Kind permission? Can @ duck ewim? We want large doses of John Drew, Vecause he Is nice and talented, and because he bring# to the stage the atmosphere of the drawing- room. In fact, he ts not like most of your lead actors—out of his element amid polite surroundings. ie doesn't suggest an arduous tussie with ribbons and gewgawas during the day. He |# ap- parently what he seems to be, And that is no refreshing! ven Drew's galvanic popularity, how- {nto the sugar-d4vored slush concocted for him by Henry Guy Carleton under the title of “That Imprudent Young | Couple." This piece, deserived on the pistache programme a comedy, Is neither a comedy nor a farce. [t lacks the refinement and truth that would place It tn the former category or the} Quick extravagance that would give It! to the latter, It fs a mongrel affair. | Tt ts w farce-comedy without sungs and dances It 1s artistically of about as much value as “The Widow Jones," in| ot times clever—but not clever enough to atone for his dearth of originality by a deft manipulation of old matter, Mr, Carleton has tried to build upa play without a backbone, It has no sup- port, It ig Uke a temporary building put up without a frame. It topples. The ldea of the play—the clandestine mar- rage of an Impulsive young coupie (and Drew, by the bye, can't play impulsive adolescents much longer) and the sud- den reduction of his saiary from $15,000 to $1,800 a year—ts lost sight of most of the time In the billows of talk, and the long washes of dialogue, with which the play is riddied. And the side tesues are dragged in peevishly, as though they had to be there to “fill up.” Besides, one of these aide-Issues—that in which Anna Belmont, Arthur Byron and Lewis Baker are concerned—seems to have been tak- n bodily from “John-a-Dreams,” The part of John Annesiey, given to John Drew, is an unmanly and un American role. it {s so un-American that nobody but an American could have contrived tt. Annesley is a w shy- washy, uninteresting and most undesir- able Imitation of one of the lelsure-lov- Ing, traditional g.lded youths of Eng- land. There are not very many of him in this country. It is the duty of Amer- tcans to snub him, because he Is contra- constitutional, Yet Mr. Carleton trie to make this young man, who lives in Tom Grady and Hugh Grant, *Gainm Hoeber, Strauss ané Ridder Began (o curse and raat. Away they sped with troubled minds To lively Pyracuss; ‘And there they buckled to the fight, The Ti Garvoa, ‘With many schemes they gathered there; Each had hie tittle plan; But Dave Hill afood remote from all, A deep and silent man “What makes old Davy stand remote?* The eager Sacheme cry ‘Thecause he loves the German vote” ‘The Garoos do reply. But David spoke one iittle word, Qeroo lamb Lay peaceful. aide by aida And then the little busy bee That tn Oe @ bigh hat sticks, Went busting ‘round his head in give ‘To think of ‘96 NM. A JENNINGS, oe TALKS WITH THN DOCTOR, A@vice for Allment jafely Tre: To the Editor: Kindly publiah @ remedy for the blood; seme- 16 10 Improve the condition a Try tincture of muriate of Iron. Take ten drops in water (through @ glass tube) after each meal. eo. That May Be ed at Home, . you be Kind enough to print @ remedy for @ red nose, which I not caused by drink? Mor Ww, Bathe your nose with very hot water at bed-time, dry thoroughly and apply @ lotion composed of two drams of lac sulphur, one dram of spirit of camphor, one-haif ounce of glycerine and four water and leave it on all eo 8 jense give a remedy for hives In a girl ten re of a Try rhubarb and her one or two te: meal. For the | A MOTHER ofa mixture. Gtve poonfuls after each hing apply a lotion composed of one part of water of am- monia, one part of spirit of camphor and two parts of alcohol, Use it as re- quired, Will you please 4 remedy for whitening and softening AKC You may tind a good remedy in the citric acid and glyéerine lotion given tn Iv The Evening World” of Sept eo 8 1am troubled with pain and @ fesling of op: Preeion in the stomach and invescines aicer meas Please suggest @ rematy MOB OK, Orange, NL J. You may find a good remedy bn tab- lets of pure pepsin and pancreatine, ch tablet should contain two grainn of the former and three grains of the lat- ter, Take one after each meal. You! should also d haste In cating and| masticate your food thoroughly J ¥, WHITMYER, M.D, TO A WOULD-bE BENEDICT, You say vou want to cho a wife, And wink ce to Agvin® you | My views, pert f viaried lite WIM very much surprise you | You might wel Pa whose is dit heedie She ur Fe tui, sol fa, And plies @ busy needle among the leads of the local courts, Witness Justice Jerome's remarks on the transfers of excise cases from Spe Clal Sessions to General Sess.ons, Now th re exp ing wh b What's the Mr D bays the hot wave went Let it go at tha Xow to be renominated. His con. Mttle further without police night sticks | stituents do not want him, bu to clear the way. {ers are efraid to turn him Such is vindiation, A CHANCE FOR YOUNG MEN. ecbaoiuely without ‘The matrimonial cattle market is ex-| There speaks the wew cup-ctal tending. It is no longer coniined to the| He ts the kind of a Lirkon we like \o operations of ambitious mothers who are | hear from, for their daughters. Now comes Bing Lee, a p'! Hip marry his daughter, anxious to buy damaged titles of nobili:y - tailed Chinaman, of San Jone, who offers five thousand doilars and a half interest in his business to @ny reputable young American who will Mob Hip Bing | Speaking of the race of the half-rat- ers, those people Who expected to Ethelwynn were not disapp Attorney-General Maloney, of Ilinois, ums inclined to get afier the Beef And halt @ lade? } "Jane Uke wo muedt’’ that’s femining, Shes chic and very folly Bhe hae a wir thar'e quite divine, And aifie her fin from toll OF, best of ail, wel poor old Beas Rasbe, dreas, \ father (uany 8 sor win ruana y ® seh? abd four-tn-haad, Ard beape ya of ene take your e-you know the | y Hor won't, ugh. 1 yow, 1 should recall That old aivice of~ Lon'tt | La TOLCHE MANCOCK. sloth on @ $15,000 Income allowed him by, his uncles, a lovable and sympathetic individual, 1 hear so much of the mis- sion of the American playwright that I can't help protesting when I find one of them mak’ng an American character of the very English type that the people of this country are most anxious to slt upon. Carleton has made a vigorous effort to be ‘high-life” In thie play of his, and probably Mary Ann and Saran Jane will greatly admire the audacious daubs that are supposed to Indicate life at Newport, Bar Harbor and other re- sorts. The moat human touches lurk In tennis courts and golf links, and he str.kes no note deeper than a buckboard party. John Annesley as a type to con- trast with human Americans might be amusing, but as every character in Thac Imprudent Young Couple” modelled on its lines, there ts no con- trast, and the sketch Is worthless, There are entertaining moments in Mr. Carleton's effort, and at least two brilliant speeches, but the story Ie most told at the end of the firet act, and the remaining acta, being merely variations of {t, are tiresome and long drawn out Most of the humor lacks true artistic sparkle. It shines with the false gleam of the paste diamond on the shirt-front of the Bowery politician, John Drew made the most of his part and was very much the same John Drew that we have ao frequently applauded— a trifle more extravagant and somewhat leas legitimate, Still, {t was @ pleanure to see him again, and may he stay with us, as he said, for a long time. Aliss Maud Adams was delightful. What a charmingly dulcet little person she ta! She almost managed to make the heart- less role of Marton convincing. Frank Lamb in the role of an impossible butler Impossible for comedy, possible for roaring farce~mado an undoubted hit, and a kind word must be sald for Miss Anna Belmont, who quite distinguished herself Lewis Baker was as singy as ever, and Arthur Byron gave a good Imitation of Fritz Willlams, Of course, Virginia Buchanan was great, She a ways ts, Virginla Buchanan and Kate Meek are the best dowagers on the American stage, and Frohman has ‘em both, ALAN DALE, —e— THE OPENING CAMPAIGN, Idea of Local Option. Tt would seem tha: the {dea of local option ts hold tn quarters that entitle tt to consideration tn every part of the SL Under auch an ar- angement the moral localities can protect them: solves fiom the Liguor traMec if they 0 desire, ving the cites free from outside tater ference {n @ purely loca! matter.—-Buffalo News, The ¥ Polley. While Tom Plate fo = far on Mr, Harrison in trusting ta the Lord ta politica he will do the next best ching In the religious tine press the Morton boom and take up frequent collections. Washington Pos! You Khmuw the Dgctor, Ina hes resolved to ctueh Mr. Platt, [t woeme that Dr. Parkhurat would have well In in the lovigorating climate Switsertand @ few weeks longer —Deirolt Ne aH | | Piatt and the Outlook, Platt base ane will sbelwes Mr It would be singul he f Indeed, f the recond they jade at Aibany.—Wiaghamtoa Leaver. A Party Hontr Expiaiute ke waa right when he n an Convention tee 100k hin a week explaia te twittied aay . His pi he could have uid a | — | A LEGAL DEFIN Syracuse Cyar 410N, wholesome and | ever, will scarcely he able to infuse Ifo | MEN WHO CARRY OUR MAIL. | Charies P. Recoring Secretary of New York Branch No. s6, of the Letter-Carrter's Na- (Yona! Assocation, was born im the olf Tenth Ward of thia city, tHe werved several years in the Blackhall Hne of packet auips and entered rable monuion 1m sea 1860, while eamship Gal from the Navy Department tor excei manship and. gunnery serving on he In October, United Statoe a medal from the revatved rus the age of pineteou years, he was & petty oMcer, Mr. Kelly has cruised around the world He witnessed the bombard ment of Alexandria, Egypt, in July, 1862, KANER'S BUDGET. Gossip Here, a Hint The Tales of City Life. The propriator “fa certain barber shop In an unfashionable quarter of the city pranided eome the yor * ago over 6 Slates Ho! ‘Amor the “‘tonmortal parior’? at 1 in Saratoga, during the my patrons (iere,”” said te the other day, the late Willian H. Vander! and after the season was over and 1 bad returned to my city shop, Mr. Vanderbilt often summoned me to his house by a messenger to trim bie hair, There was a grat deal of patience about the operation. It Recessary to stand away and jook at the effect very knowingly, straighten a few hairs here and there, gently dab with the towel, click the shears behind the chair and pro- he Job as much as possibie. If he dozed tt all the easier, for 1 could seat myself and watch for his awakening. Thes he would remark that he had closed bie eyes for a moment, and discovering that 1 had be him for some me pay me it proportion. Had he come uere 1 or one of my men would have served him equally Jghth of the time at the regular rates. It coats money to be rioh.”* eo 8 Last Sunday aight, nearly 13 ofclock, 1 happened along Forty-third streot, on the we de. People in the tenements were seated on the stoope and ethers were leaning out of the wi dows Every liquor store In the block was closed UUght, and it seemed as though the proprietors must be far away. Suddenly the clock im the tower of @ nearby factory began to sound the | making an THE BLOOMER GIRLS, jon of Their Good Had Look re Dincu To the Tajtor: T have ottven yoles read 1a your paper how tie ladies are efittctaed by the man, eayiog ta nice-looking one amvag (hem, at tt te a very txnoeant wort of eitelem, for 1 have aeen vite laden riding a wheel whom I would snamed at any Uime to call my own, Everybody must atmit that everybuty canuot ta goof luoking, 1 have often seen men riding & wheel who perhape at they were good looking, but imag: ht ination wil go a great ways { never rode a Wueel because tt im fot my pleasure, hut 1 never pass any Jutement upon any 80, aentiemen, take the macter into consideration, and you wilt in ute GEORGE PARKER, A Brookiyn Young Man. On the Brovkiyn Bonlevard, To the Editor: Thursday afternoon T was taking a walk on the Boulevard, and 1 saw about two dozen girls on and, oh, heavens! what a terrivie look I don’t think I ever saw auch a lot of ehromoa In ai! my ilfe. fome were eromeye!, and fay that it ls very ignerant to critiel way. j some looked just as If they never bad anything to eat Now, for heave siris take a tumble 8 take, why doi 4 stay hom: on of thelr limba, a au Ir race to thelr sex, that that they a busTY RuopES, Beginners on the To the Editor: In reply to M.A. FT would Ike to ak {fa man learning to rite a wheel has not as much right on the Boulevard as sume of those so-called profasatonal riders, Now, “M.A. FL," you had to begin yourse:t at one time, and 1 guew it w sant sight to watch you when you began, but I guess It was not ao pleasant for wat got in your reach, If the teuth 1 wan always under the tmpreasion 4 belonged to the ctty, but you | known, that the Boule seem to want people to distinctly understand that | 1 was built Pressly for you and your §10 wheel. | Qk Did You Ever See One Walkingt To the Editor: 1 sce im your paper that a Brooklyn wheeiman saye “the contemptib.e remarks of some of your correspondents end writers on the girls who wear bloomers are disgusting.” He also anya he ts fot acquainted with any bloomer girla. I wonder if he ever noticed @ girl in bloomers walking; it fe @ most disgusting eight. 1 admire a man rune the bloomer gir! down. Others say there are 10 pretty girls on the wheel. Let them come to Harlem. Ring your bell, Harlem girl, and run down those ‘bike’ cranks. RODGERS, Oh, but Wouldn’ Billie” Onteh It! To the Editor: Ot all the blubber ehopp dared wield a pen I think * have signed bimself medal. He must certainly be a crabbed old baldy who spends mos of bis time in the front rows of our cheap theatre entirely carriet away with powder, paint, false bangs and wigs and apes that ever (he shoutd midnight hour. Growler cans rattled, the police- won walked away from the doors, and before the aizth etroke of the clock had sounded the barrooms were ‘open. They were instantly Giled with men and women, clamoring for a pint of beer. [t was an interesting sight. Roundsman Roosevelt should have been there to preciate It . ‘The very latent tad . to the once wild and woolly Weet ia moon Te has become ao great erase through in and Tilinole A young lady wamed Kimbark, at Bear Lake, Wis, claims that quite recently she discovered well defined profiles ef Gladstone and Della Fox 10 Further investiga ie tue moon's orb in medali (lon may reveal that the moon aleo hath Croker, a2 the earth hath, and porsibly a Ps hurat and @ Roosevelt, THE GLEANER, OUR WOMAN PHILOSOPHER, A girl of consideranie wealth underwent @ sur. ‘cal operation In a hospital, Her fees were Given {no grose gum, and she was told that It was fot tn accordance wi:h thy lspital rules to give aratuition This abe did not apply wo ihe doar In charge of her case, whorn position and dign'ty forbade the thought. ful, and after much © a9 tnd show how she had To dar cha and he dovtor wrde it am 8 the poorest of patients atudied hie @ the mbtle compliment went un tastes, 1 to her hin now mney. S1ip docvere are vecutiasly placed tn thin mat- Uueke that the edie entor "be ship doctor -eogaites h wervicas be 18 bound to render. All Vue to the oe it te hie busines 0 of by virtue of bis office. Any dleeai We Gre appearance on abt y'oard Hh the pasuepger may lay to bil or bad odor, the ship bi the Mip dostor Goes wot reconize what any has a right tw bring 0 board his favorite com- alent of img standing and put tt on be eune foaiing a& wea tirktiewe or any accred ed 4) camp aint A abore ought to ay tor n For thie reason tranpportation a8 oes Iive stock or freight. often makes much more trouble the ship doctor, while he ts not allowed bring in a DIM, fecle that If he ts om he Is entirely within bis dignity In acepting ee FOR THE FUN OF IT, to . ir Quite Liket From many quarters {t has been averred That Truth la at the boitom of « wel And, as for years he's velther spoke not atirred. We fear be kicked the bucket as he fell ~Harlem Lite, An Artstocratic Patient, Doctor—Countess, I should be glad if you would let me hear you cough | Countess—I don't feel disposed to Ao so jun: ) now. (To her maid)—-Kilea, please cough lke 1 did this morning.—Motto per Ridere, The Occastonal Hot Day, The melancholy days are thove In Autumn hore ant the With # tn (he shase and In Winter underwear, Detroit Tribune. Two Hearts with # Single Income, She—Woll, If 1 can’t live on my income, and you can't live on y would be the ting our tomes of us would be able to live, at any the Yeurs Teach, Without experien 1 a reach. To leave the F other folk ia what years teach, —Deirolt News Eggplant and Chickweed, “Your father tn his doesn’t he, Saill “Oh, yermevery year Well chickweed trouble the . good deal ago Record. ee Miller's Little Hatchet, Waroer Miller'e hatcher it the Ree publican party ia two The outcome will be ex- divgly interesting to watch, We shall have the remarkable spe Hicana supporting and (he New York City Re- of the country Repubs pubilcans repudiating the most import im fact the only plank dealing with plank, live verything else fa:se that goes to make 8 creature @ thing of beauty. Old malas wearii bloomers and chewing gum? Not om your life. ‘And If “*Billle'* (Goat) cares to wait upon half o dozen or less “oid, ekinay, grinning’ bicyeling maids away from police interference, thi i, by thelr extremities and sun-burned fate. teach thie silly snoop a lesson in physical cul- ture that he wou't soon forge. INDIGNANT. QUESTIONS OF ETIQUETTE, The Ra ft Best Behavior Ex- plained to Inquirers, To the Editor: {was Invited t attend @ surprise party tend ered to @ young lady om her birthday; {a {t prope: for me to send her @ present? = M. 9. A. K. It ts quite “proper,” but, unless she 1p a very intimate friend, it is not neces- sary. . . Tam © young gi11 of eighteen, and hare never been out Im society and I have been invited to aa affair at which woe shall have to wear “full dresa"" Will you kindly cell me what they mean by “full dress?” a B.C. Your dressmaker, or almost any g:rl of your acquaintance, can tell you what to wear. The nature of your costume should depend largely on your means and the sort of function to which you are Invited, A Please inform me what is the tatest book on etiquette, LD. H., East Biagerville, Me. “Manners and Social Usages," by M. ®. W. Sherwood, 1s a recognized author- ity on matters of etiquette. eo. A. recetves a letter; It commences with ‘Dear Madam."’ Now, A. i8 just out of her teens and she contends that she ought to have been ad- Greased as ‘Dear Mise A.” Le he right? ANxIoUs, If the letter is from @ stranger or is trictly on business matters the form Dear Madam" Is correct. Among ac- quaintances, however, Dear Miss A." is right es What wiil be a nice present to give my gentle- man friend for Christmas; something cheap, but weet? c.R. If he is a smoker you might give him a cigar or cigarette case or a pipe; or else embroider a tobacco pouch for him. Card cases, match safes, &c., are also suitable g:fta, Please toll mo if It 18 neceomry to oond an oe entation of an Invitation to « marriage ceremony at a church, NAN, No. | In writing to @ widow, how should she be dressed-—by her own oF DOF late husband's, Bret heme? That is, ie ehe Mre Elisabecb Brown or Mra Allred: Browa ‘A READER. Address your letter to “Mrs, Alfred Brown." } eee In making @ young Indy friend @ present of a/ photo trame, should one inciowe bis picture? MoE. Tt might make the gift more accept- able. . . Ie It necemary to acknowledge the receipt of {Hing announcement cards? INQUIRER, No, ' 1am a young man and am about to be en- gaged to marry Is {t right for me to place the ring on my lady's finger or only to present 1c? BB. Do whichever your flancee prefers, Seas Geneeeeeee A GOOD THING IN SEASON, | he FISH pt “Landed Property.” jesues, tn the Republican Staie platform. —| ouse News, Tor Fait W n oof woollen material, with arahesqu des «tn blaek on back- grounds, of Various colors, Is very charming. The bodice is short to the st, finished with siashings of velvet and @ tranming of guipure. Good, Cheap Gold Cake. Three exgs, two-thirds of a cup of butter, one und one-half cups of sugar, almost a cup of milk, about two and one-half cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one teaspoontui and a half of lemon extract, cream, butter and sugar (using the hands; never use a spoon in mixing cake. If the housewives will try this plan they will have better luck with their cakes); add yolks of eggs, cream again; then milk and flour with baking powder mixed with the flour; then extract, and lastly the beaten whites, ickem Gravy. ‘Take the gibets of a chicken, also the neck, cover with cold water and boll until tender, add salt and pepper to taste and then add half cup of cream and just after taken from fire add two yolks, well beaten. This ts nice to pour over fried ov ronsted chicken, A Possibility of Hoops and Bustle Hoops and bustles are imminent! The stiff linings of haircloth and canvas are giving way toa wire tape facing nearly @ quarter of a yard deep, and the way they do make the skirts stand out te a caution. This wire tape business is not bad, if {t only stops there, but such ideas grow fast, and a quarter of a yard may deepen to @ yard in just no tin Of course, bustles had to be expe hen skirts got so heavy and dragged so In the back. They are not so large, and In all probability will never reach the enormous proportions of a genera. ton ago. A soft rounded pad, four Inches long, made of puiled wool, can be made at home, and wil answer every purpose. ved Cylindrical Trunks, Expressmen and those who move @ Breat deal of baggage say that by 0 means the best shape in trunks !s yet found, although the prevailing style of flat top ‘8 so far gn improvement over the older fashion of swelling Saratoge top, They say that one of the shape of a cylinder would be far and away the best, both for its owner and ‘ts mover, and they wonder that more of them are notin the market. One very rarely sees trunk of that sort, although it has been 809 much used for valises. orn Muifina. One-half cup of butter mixed well with one-fourth cup of sugar, then add the yolks of two eggs, and one cup of milk, after which put In three-fourths cup of corn meal, one scant teaspoon soda, two of cream tartar. Now add the well-beaten whites of two eggs and one and one-fourth cups flour. Bake in small tins, These are very nice and rich, a And Now for Powdered Heads, The Marie Antoinette furore ts bring- ing powdered heads very much to the fore. ‘Ihe bal poudre has been a very popular form of entertainment at the Various watering-places this Summer, jWhile In France the craze is carried |to w much greater extent, several very fashionable “grandes elegantes" appears ing with powdered locks at some of the smirtest gurden parties. This, of course, ‘recessitates rouge and a general “make \ing-up," so that it almost looks as if we would have an era of paint and rowder again. Both English and French fashipnable women now use rouge and hair dye with the utmost frankness, 60 |that powdered hair would not be as harmful as the reddish dye, which is the fashionable color at present. Rubbing Recommended to the Toe Fleahy, In the large cities middle-aged women throng the gymnasium and physical cule ture schools to learn how to reduce the too abundant flesh and keep off the rheumatism, which {8 often an accame paniment. own housework has most of her muscles, called into e ercise every day, and th anger with her {s that they are over eaercised; still much relief can be re- ceived by sponging every night after hard labor with the following tnexpen- sive lotion: Two ounces of spirite of ammonia, two ounces of spirits of cam- bhor, one and one-haif cups of sea salt, one cup of alcohol and one quart of rain water, LETTERS. {Thin cotumn i open io everybody who has a complains (@ make, @ grievance to ventilate im lormation le que, @ fubject af general interest © (raruas or u public service to acknoutedtge, and wis pat the idea mtu em than iy words Lomy ‘ettere cannot be yrented. | Rents Keep om Going Up. Mr. tgnorance of political economy makes me very tired sometimes, Political econo- my Is the actence of the production and diari- bution of National wealth. All economists agree that the factors to production are land, labor and capital. These factors, if one le to think clearly, must be kept as distinctly im mind as the factors of a mathematical problem, but ali economists, except Henry George, have mixed them up. We thus see that production ts di- vided Into rent, wages and interest. An in- creased production should mean a harmonious {n- crease of all three factors, but under private ownership of and speculation in land rent ts the only factor that increases In a steady and general way We have tp our time seen produc- tlon vastly increased. How much have wages and Interest increased? How much has ren Increased? Rent ta a stubborn fact, and can- fot be tgnored or abolished. But rent may be utilised for the good of all by the single-tax on land values, How long will our labor organ! aations pereiat tn Aghting rent (they thie! they're Qghiing capital) tustead of utilizing Itt How long will they support @ system that en: courages land speculation, absorbe wages, and throws men out of work to beat them when they strike, when by the single-tag they might opea the land to the people? STEPHEN BALL, Brooklya, N.Y. To the Editor: I have learned from Saturday's tere what « Kime le made of; what It tastes tke: that {t's known In every country; that ‘tle sometimes bought and sold, aad that {t's not ao good when cold. Now, 1 would like some one to answer through your valuable paper what a kiss ts good for, and what does a boy kise a girl for? NE THAT NEVER KISSED, After All We Have Printed About It, To the Editor: What a single tax? Would any of your read- ers kindly answer thie question briefy and to the point.? 1 have heard and read much about single tax, but have not found anybody would could tell me what it consiate in. ANXIOUS, t Ie It Good Fort wi To the Edttor: ‘One of our reform City Magistrates having been “Jackaastical”’ enough to threaten private cit uens with the penalties of the law should the: Gare to extend hospitality In the sacred precincts of thelr homes, a Republican morning uewspapr endeavors to break bis fail by stating that the Fou’ citizens of New York need have no fear that thelr homes will be invaded, akim milk, but bore's the cream. thing 1 merely a silly sensation effect? Ont The richnoes of Undoubtedly tt ts re to know who JEEP LoyDs, o Started Itt Thie Is only ‘The whole ter tod it political a What She Bloped Fo: To the Editor 1 am very wretched, I am almost alaciesn years olf, and have been married two yes i eloped with my husband (and have never r slave) to avoid returning to the convent where 1 was being educaied, Shortly afer my marriage he tbreatecd to whip me if I again Into a passion. 1 be.teved he was only That day he brought home @ stisk ich @ mumber of thin straps were ata: and wald he “intended to train me." Two days afierwards, when 1 disobeyed him, he took me over his kane with these straps every fault 1 received me dreadfully. He spanked me last night omly | Decause 1 gat with my foot under me. T am sure chat was nothing very wrong Please tell me thie: Can 1 get a divorce becwuse he spanks me? How does oue get a divorce? If T left him and went some place else tv could he make me come tack to bin | Punish me in that way? Had 1 potter retura to my home? If | am with my father can my bas band take me away? Do answer me these quee Cons, 1 am miserabie. [am never witho bilsters on my body. If I got a divorce woul T be compelied to say tm court tn what way hi punished me? Would I have to skow any one the marke of the atrap? Surely tell me this, and tell me soon, for you will save me many hourg crying. “UNHAPPY. hv Has he a right to A Mi To the Esitor: From a sign placed on top of the City Hall station of the Manhattan "“L’ road, that portion of the denizens of Roostervitle residing tn Goate town Ie informed that within half an hour ef boarding a train at this station they will have arrived within haliing distance of noms, eweet home. ‘Tis probably the palnter’s foul: that the Interpretation of this algn a beyond the co.npre henaion of the confiding puvtic, The RR. Come | pany 1s evidently blameless. The palnter oe don’t think’ at the end of ‘The best record from City {14!1 to the Harlem ver {sone hour, And this ry will without he allghtest doubt go with sorrow to the grav ‘ou account of mot having lived to sve the break- fag of this record accomplisho’. But there ts one thing the traveller can't complain of—he gets bie | Money's worth, which does not happen to hi Fery often. Some of those unforiunates residing in Tremont constantly carry with them a pillow and @ substantial lunes, both of which are very necessary In a foarney requiring a8 much time As an express train to Buffalo, we fontly hope that in 1995 a trp to Tremont may safely be made without the aid of a pillow or lunch, basket, GUSSIE LE BEIR FASSETT. ending “L” Sign. doubt omitted the ‘1 Mt Suggestions for the Syracuse Con- vention. To the Ettitor: Those are three reforms which would carry any. poilsical party to victory that should adopt ‘or the German every Munday wouldn't be In it. Tho Republic ignored them In their Saratoga plastorm, and ts now an open field for the Democrats at jonte Convention to adopt them and bee re owiuners, nanicly: Pirst—To declare steaves gow worn on women's 8 disfgurement of the x, @ uulaance ta public places and an encroacliment on the righta “The American Sunday’ day of pedesirians that whould be abolished “tout sult.” Seoond—That street dresses ahould be worn suM@cleatly short to comfortably walk im, without resorting (0 the vulgar habit of holding chem up. with an insinuating band, behind whe back, Third—That I sould be made a minder Meanor, puriahable by not more than two nor tesa than one year oi both, for « person to wear in tho preseat fashionable long-« MUGWUMP, Te®pernnce and the Bible, To the Editor Me MO cannot be cam ried on without re There are thousands of good, temperate men who are uot | superstitious o; religious in any way, The Bible j faces both ways on the temperance questiaa, Thus, whils It fayx “wine ts a moeker* It ad ave th ply of Uberal allowances of to the despondent, (Prov. xxxt. 6%) barges us to read ihe Divle cane tally, but be can scarcely have done 40 himself, rhe would not «ay it contains no unisutha Why, the Bibie tems with jnousistenctes and contradictions. Take there aa samples, 1 Wat variance with Gen. 1. 1% If Joke MAS ts true th narrated in 2 Kings 41, 11 {aa tle, Matt. xavil. 5 fe Invonsistent with Acts 1. 18; amd Acta tx 7 disagrees with Act xail, @, Finally, Matt xvi 27-28 proves the whole Chrle Uap religion to be a delusion. Those verses com tain @ prophecy by Jesus of Nazareth which hae never been fulfil though the time @aed tee {te accompiishnent elapsed ages ag = GRIT, The woman who does her. - + ET (> ’ a ‘