The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1900, Page 6

» DAILY HINTFROM M’DOUGALL EeBpeaker Batt, Bat vo; see that I can handle him without © @ratory consists in having something to say and | ti eaging it s0 that people hear. It is a matter | A tmpulee, a8 well as of gift. It cannot dle while) cowa stop and send one up to the house alee, every emergency in social and political his- Bateres at the Pust-Office at Now Yortt on Senead-tase fall Matter. TUBSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1900. ' VOL. 40. »NO. 14,086 Reeé—The octopus is large, I ad- the least danacr. THE ORATOR STILL WITH US, CAUSE of Prof. Isaac Franklin Russell, of the New York University Law School, there is atil] more to say on this subject of oratory. Prof. Russell is the man who has been telling the aluman! of his school oratory {s a lost art. It is an cxcecdingly | Barrow and inaccurate view for a gentleman who _ Bite devoted his life to a study of evidence and —— @eashestons. As The Evening World pointed out yesterday, | Mem have emotions and the tongue. Every ocea- { has produced its orators. Such will always case, Russell attributes the decline tn oratory commercial spirit of the age. “Lawyers,” he, “who test their progress by their incomes themselves assiduously to financing great Corporations, reorganizing commercial companies and promoting new enterprises. Actual litigation ) engages but a fow members, and politica, to be fo! _ dowed, demands an almost complete surrender of 5 hopes and ambitions.” | Now ft te true that of the 10,000 to 11,000 law- yers in Manhattan Borough the smalltat imagin- able percentage will be found figuring in trials by jury. The reason for this, in great measure, is that eo many cases nowadays are settled out of court. Reversed judgments, processes of appeal, tre i ‘The trial court-room as a field for oratory pre- Gente, perhaps, less extensive opportunities than fm other days. It is not yet a barron fleld, as the @orts of counsel in the Carlyle Harris and Ro- Jand Molineux cases will establish. In smaller Gommoenities than New York, with less crowded @alendars, the speech-making lawyers get more But in the pulpit, in the debating soci- the political campaign and wherever men for earnest discussion of conditions and "Borrowing can get one to-day for 27 cen and went into the big shop which was making @ run THE GROWN-UP BOY TWENTY YEARS AGO | technical faws and troubles with the jury system the paper ince creations ¢ es Landay rd et a ‘an array of terrors such that thousands Of! g:oo4 a paper angel, blowing @ sliver trumpet. The feet of the angel rested upon a «| spotted with green and yellow, ‘Thad existed for his inex pertenced eyes. those days, they used to cost vastly more than 19 weeks to sawe the money to pay for the first one he purchased, as he thought of it than twenty years ago. old Union School. Girls’ Fewelry (Copyright, 1900, by the Prem Publishing Company, New York World ¢e JQ ROKEN-HPARTED NELLIE, of Breok- i) lyn,” writes me a very pathetic letter, which calls for more than passing com- ment, arousing my indignation and pity for her to such an extent that I hasten to give the sub- Ject as much publicity as possible in this column, The tear-stained little missive {s as follows: “Dear Lady: Reing a constant reader of The Evening World, I am going to ask your advice. There is a young man with whom I have kept company for a year, but his people separated us, 1 have frequently met him since, and he seemed #0 very cool. On one ocasion he admired a ring which I had on my finger and which my mother, who is now dead, had given me, “At his request I loaned him my ring, and he loaped me the one he had on. “I have asked him several times for the return of my ring, but his answer invartably ts: “‘T have lost your ring! You can have mine!’ “Now, dear lady, do you advise me to send his ring back? “I certainly loved my dead mother’s token, and ‘am heartbroken over its loss, 1 am all alone in the world, and have no one to tell me what to do. Will you please advise me through The Evening World and give a working girl comfort and con- solation?”" Once before, in this column, I have warned young girls against the error—nay, I must use a stronger word than that—the folly—of loaning their jewelry to men. If this correspondent read those earnest words she did not heed them, I re-) gret to learn. Little Nellie, I would say to you, the young man THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1900. |LAURA FEAN LIBBEY | "¥en I may also add, a man who would thus appro-| These pleces of jewelry invariably find their way priate a gift a dead mother had given to her child/to the pawnshops, and some of the most adroit has neither heart nor conscience, and Is wanting | adepts in this shrewd awindle openly boast that in honor, honesty and manlins |they make as much as a dollar per day at the Tt may not be known to many, but there {8 a) game and never get found out. class of young men, the kind who live by thelr! But the police have been looking for this class wits, who eke out a precarious existence by form-| of swindlers for some time past. The first one to * Ned Pi ee ek ee ee ing the acquaintance of working girls, dally, and | be brought to justice will be summarily dealt with through their suave manners succeed in securing; as an object lesson for the rest, the loan of some plece of Jewelry which the foo!-| Perhaps, little Nellie, this young man belongs to ish maiden may be wearing, under the pretense) the class I have named. and if he were brought be- that they admire it and want to wear it for a Iit-| fore the bar of justice he would, in all probability, whom you describe has no love for you; nor has he respect, or consideration, . . w yf 6é] HATE to trouble you.” said his wife to the | Grown-up Boy, “but they are only advertised for to-day, and I can't powrthly get downtown.” Bhe handed him an advertisement cut from a morn- ng paper. “I've needed a coffee mill for six months, and you Do you think you The Grown-wp Boy got off his car at State atreet on kitchen utensils, The place was already crowded vffee mils?" Bixth floor, right hand nection, State street front, | elevator three aisles to the south, two to the wea.” The Grown-up Hoy got out at the sixth floor, as he had been directed, and turned to the right. A big paper sign, projecting Into the ulsie, caught his eye, and, for some reason, held his attention VALENTINES, He stepped to the comn- pank of pink clouds, | “I love you,” was the tender legend, The Grown-up Boy rememberod when nothing more beautiful than a cupid and flower bedecked valentine And, in ents, It had taken him He smiled Tt muat have beon more | He had just entered the fourth grade over at the When he took his seat on the @vemts, eloquent orators are as abundant as ever.| joys’ side of the room At Banquet tadles, too, wherever spread, are found| the first day he noticed | PReatiful graces and fiuencies of speech, across the centre aisie, | And of famous lawyers who appear seldom or| "2" the sitls of ‘the | Rover in the courts of record, can woe say that|svire tes tide checker WA MSARTS DESIRE | Robert G. Ingersoll showed by any failure of elo- and a white apron with shoulder quence of practice in a trial room? Or] straps. eyes were big and by and her hair) Reed is lose of a speaker because & corporation lawyer? Is Bourke , or Blthu Root stricken fi et d that even if the preservation of entirely on the law practition- and even if It were a matter bright lights alone, which it 's contention is {1l-founded. [sit 4 ae | presi, the gad hung down her back in tw A blue ribbon. She was giggling an the room at jong braids, each ted with ooking around | he part of the 0 * ‘That morning at recess he waited until she came THE BROAD-SHOULDERED GIRL. WHY, HE FORGOLIHE COFFEE MILL The Story of a Boy’s First Love, Recalled by Valentine's Day. $f tle while, Pretending to have lost it is the ital: able to Inform you of the whereabouts of your dodge in the clever swindle. dead mother’s ring and recover it for you, or pay #0 proud a moment as when the coveted masterplece of valentines became his property Finally tt wets decided to rend jt without any magks to identify the sender, It s certain, as he looRed at it, that Laura would know at once that It came from him. Besides if the “gang” ever found ft out they would make fe miserable for him, Bo he went so far as to carefully disguise = his hand In writing the ad- dress, and he slipped out in the dusk after supper to drop it into the mail. He went to school next jooking more beautiful than ever {n her little pink onnet, Then, in full sight of his goddess, he fell upon and ‘Sicked" hin best friend and hench- “eked” quently before, and ther fore felt sure that he should make an imprei sive exhibition, When the snow fell and the boys set out “to wash the girls’ faces he pursued his heart's desire around the school-house yard, as an Indian chief purs morning in an excited the squaw he wants for and unhappy frame of a wife. He then threw mind. He feared lest the her down in a deep drift “gang” might discover con teeny and rubbed snow into her that he had become a eyes and mouth until she cried and went tn and told “wolty. the teacher, Then, when anothsr boy called her “tat- tle tate.” he promptly “licked” him for so doing. When Christmas came he got @ shock. The Perkins boy, whose folks were rich and who never played “one-and-over” for fear of getting dirt on his sbirt wast, gave Laura a litte ring, with a blue stone In tt, and a whole pack of chewing gum. The Grown-up Hoy witnessed the presentation and writhed. At the first opportunity he “licked” the Perkins boy, taking | WHEN SHE MADE A PACS AT When school “took up” uM Laura was in her seat, but she did not even look in his direction. He won- dered whether the valentine had not yet been de- ivered, or whether she was entirely overcome by the magnificence of the offering. Next morning, when again she neglected even to glance at him, he decided to bring matters to a crists, He skilfully threw a “paper wad," which landed on care to select time and place so that Laura should be | her desk. When she turned quickly he was prepared there to see, Nor did she seem am unwilling mpectator, eloquent ac slgement in her eyes. But Not yet had the Grown-up Boy dared to breathe @ ly “made a face’ at him, That was the only acknowledgment that he ever got, The Perkins boy and Laura grew up together, and finatly he had heard, after he was a Grown-iip Boy himee'f, that they ve married. Twen' years after the valen episode he had gone back word of the passion that was gnawing at his vitals, But one afternoon, on the way home from school with the "gang," he passed Myer’s drug store nd saw the window full alentives, Heretofore he had no use for any- | thing but “comics.”' He home and had been intro- had seen the Perkins boy Juced to Mra, Perkins f a tace and turtle and her four children and onfection, and had had wondered how he Men heavily for its market value, though {ts actual price to you, dear child, is far beyond rubles, If he were to be made an example of thus, who’ knows how many young girls might come forward with similar complaints against him? The man whose game is to borrow a girl's rings is dangerous to the community at large. Take fright quickly, my dear girls, when a man asks you for the loan of your rings, or any other Jewelry. Consider it a danger signal. No self-respecting young man woud c*& such a) favor, or accept It, at the hands of a young girl. w.ether ho had known her a day or a lifetime, Innocent, trusting women have suffered from this cause from time immemorial, {t would almost seem to me, and will during all the future years unless they grow wise in this respect, My dear girls, the so-called lover who would take the ring from your fingt? and wear it upon his own fs wanting in true regaré for you. He does not love you, If a man {a in love with you and admires the ring you have on he would # thousand times rather see {t upon your hand than on his own, be! sure of that. The man who schemes to appropriate what {s| yours does not love you. The man who truly leves surrounds the object of his affection with benefits, but never, no, never, is he the recipient of benefits from her, Send these words to the man who has shown you so little courtesy im appropriating your dead mother's ring, little Nellie, and request that it be returned to you. An original effect in velvet and chiffon. And write me if your demand is complied with, | COSSSUUMEDSSSOSETSOSODSOSIOOOOOOR. THE TRUEST PRAYERS. HI saddest tears are thove that never fail, But are held amarting in the aching eyes. ‘The truest prayers can find no words at all, But flutter wearily to Ged, in sighs, We need not speak if with our hearts we pray, And by our living try to do His will, ‘Who feads us gently in the Narrow Way, And when we murmur whispers, “Peace, be oc.” . LETTERS Mise Libbey writes for The Evening Werld by arrangement with the Family Story Paper. (pJtus (perrren oN Byarteerienos. TO THE EVENING WORLD. Many queer and pathetic wills have been found uwpen the bodies of dead British soldiers on Sowth African elds, and tn every case the wishes of the testator have been respected. 1 sleep and dream of happy days gone by. The body of one soldier was found on the battlefield ‘Think of me, peor, suffering, ready to die! of Elandsiangte who, before death, had scrawled with ‘While others are giad; s0 happy, and I so nigh. the end of AN OLD MAM, lead bullet on the inside of his helmet the words, . soldier was caught while doing scout duty and shot down when none of his comrades were in sight. Weeks afterward his body was found lying before a tall rock, on which he had written in letters of blood, “I want mother to have all” In both cases the War Office hetd the wills to be valid, and saw that the proper distribution of the property was made. ——— = —_— NOT ON BORROWING TRAMA NOW, “Mre. Hockafus, mamma its to know if you'll Jend her your hall lamp this evening?” “Certainly, Wiille, Here it is. Handle it carefully.” “I will, Ever so much"— "Oh, by the way, Willie!” “Ask your mother if she wouldn't like to borrow our ‘To the itor of The Brening Werld: I have a little boy. three children, They steal and want him to steal, too. home from school #0 he will not meet what am I to do, readers? them. Wants Advice on Storekeeping. Te the Milter of The Evening World: What capital would {t take, readers, te stert © smal! stationery, candy and notion store? I have few dollars and desire to put it to seme geod led the ‘gang’ in calling bad ever fallen in love the ‘kins boy “Bofty” with such a huge, com- in @ most offensive and monplace, uninteresting insulting manner, But woman. now the world had changed for him, He That ev when the was a “softy” himself, Grown-up Boy got home and he felt that nothing from the city hin wife but the biggest valentine spoke about the coffee of all, marked at the “MCKING’ THE PERKINS | mj, tue weanr? DI enormous figure of 75 “Tt wasn't delivered this TY YEARS AFTER. cents. would fitly express the depth and fervor of his afternoon,” she sail, “L affections. suppose you ordered |t all right.” the kindling for four weeks at 10 cente| “I'm sorry,” said the Grown-up Boy, weakly, “but He carried 4 &@ week, he and sol! 11 cents’ worth of old Iron and tine ceni® worth of bottles; he sacrificed his “piingwhot” for a nickel to the Perkins boy: and, finally, at the last minute, his fond grandmother gave him the dime needed to make up the necessary amount Never, before or since, has the Grown-up Boy had | T really forgot all about it." “You're the most absent-minded man T ever saw sald his wife, somewhat petulantly. “And now i's too late to get one for 37 cents.” “My business is 60 engrossing,” answered the Grown-up Boy firmly, ‘that you oughtn't to expect me to remember things."—Chicago Tribune, A YOUNG STRATEGIST. Broad shoulders gill be on disp'ay in the Spring, says the Philadelphia Times, The girl whom nature has endowed with generous br satisfaction, and the gir! whe dth of sest will rece! ive this pronunciamento of fashion with serenity and hours in the gymnastum working up greater lung capacity now enters into her reward. Hut the Ides of March have not yet come for the willowy girl What nature has not done for her in the way of ample chest measurement, art oan. His SUDDEN BRLIEV. she sald, and her brilliant eyes sought | iw embers, “I don't believe you love) used i] ed, slipping om his dra- goon embroidered slippers, “you are my iol” “But you don't show it; you don't worship me a tiny bit” “Fanny?” an Ms voice rang with all that ts em- wicked worship Hols.” with a gage of uncertainty she again sought oF ALACK! ALAS! The wortd seemed sad and dreary, The gelid wintry Moaned thre ght to dark was changed Each individual hair~ Wher mie dyed. Customer—Have you feit young man? brehen a ‘t ter New ‘Yes, ma'am; but J haves’ = long) Pons me . Tyee vantage. Would I need « separate license for cigars, tobacco, &c.? ANXIOUS. GEORGIE’S PA ti BOERS. AW and maw got to talking about the Dores last, ‘But what Good dove it do the poor Bores te pass R nite, and maw sed She didn't Beleave the sitty | resolooshuns enny way?” maw ast. parlor chandelier.” Me} Blaness passing resolooshuns| “Qrate hevvuns,” paw told her, “haven't you got ala ets ? . enny reesoning powers a Tall? Look at the way the “And y Bores from Getting dlscur- Look at the turrable hardships the Bores hatt one nite, Becos he thot the British was going to make an atteck, and then after he Lost all that sleep he it Foay il i i H f eteetT; ‘at His | 3 + \