The evening world. Newspaper, April 25, 1900, Page 6

elorid. Fratanet vy 0 Prem Pebiuning Compenr, 68 6 FARK ROW, 4 Mer (Bitives 06 the Post-cine ot Now Tork: a Becond-Ctase Mal! Matter, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1900. eee FOL. 400.0000 cecenesssees coer rere NO, 14,127 “LONG'S DAILY CARTOON. 1 7a fA cube ||woR's ro \or_ ART) | 4apbines Y AND THE WAGE-RATE. CORRESPONDENT, “J. D.,” writes to ask The Evening World to explain “the pre- vailing rate of wages.” He says in part: ‘What I take to be the prevailing rate is that paid by the city to its employees. For ex- nearly all the laborers are paid $2 for @ day of by the city. But the contractors who do only pay $1.0 for the same amount ef work, officials know this very well. They aino knew that the same thing 1s being done on that part rapid transit or work connected with it that hes been begun. In the office of the Comptroller “the prevailing wages” is understood to be the rate ordi- paid by contractors'and employers entirely of works conducted for the State or city, the $1.50 rate of which “J. D.” writes. A idea obtains in the office of the Corpora: tion Counsel and the courts have not yet final, eettled the dispute. ‘The controversy between officials is purely as to @ matter of: Jaw, and neither side pretends to gmanion the merits or desorts of the laborer. A STRONGER CHRISTIANITY. "HEN a contemporary declares that the Ecumenical Congress now in progress in this city “proves that Christianity is not on the wane” It seriously narrows the outlook of the hour, The Congress is one link inachain. The proof is all around, fm @ bettering world, the increase of helping fends and the greater forbearance of nations, And an important item of proof lies in a dis- @uasion of present moment which takes the form @ ao church disturbance—the debate over the Westminster Confession, What this means ts Set alone that in a single church is being bred G@imaatiofaction with its creed. It means that more Gnd more Christianity is feeling tts strength and developing its ability to stand alone. The awak- | @@ing and the uncasiness are to those who have 88 the instrument theroof. ‘When the Church struggles and bursts the Bonds of creed it 1s because the ideal has waxed fm power and the instrument must show corre- qpending expansion. PUT THEM TO worK! HAT 10,000,000 people are facing starvation fm the greatest famine India has ever known {is a fact monumental to Dritish failure, not in conquest, but in the educa- tlon of the conquered. it has taught the natives to work @fter @ fashion. It has irrigated lands and fur- Bished new markets for crops, About 70 per cent. @ the Indians are tillers of the soll. But the work fis all for the present hour—and for the Nothing is saved, no provision made _ for a time of drought and crop failure. | When disaster comes the natives are at the 7 of the “bunpiahs,” or money-lending grain | and finally dependent on relief from the | or the world at large. | in such adamine time as this is a melan- | ample in colonization. It is an empire of fie sbiftiess, Yet it is well that we of the fara- pay Western World pity the sufferers and try to ap somewhat out of our purses and gran- the shortcomings of nature, climate and Britain's great dependency. LAURA JEAN LIBBEY. Love, Honor and Respect for her husband to m chance remarks Your Wives, Good Husbands. ol ne — LAURA JEAN LIBBEY. ee eet ee Se ee ee 1900, by the Prose slight your wives, good husbands, 1 of you There ts nothing on earth more mortt a dear, tender-hearted, rensitive Mitte wife inht of her or pick up jshing Company, New York Ws ori frends. the tide of the Ueepent Met No husband was ever honored or thought the more of by showing the fact that he held the women whom he When y your relatives you ot [hundred little ways, following up your ex A husband sh: Je brooklet which forms {ts source had wedded in contempt play this fl-feeling toward her be , before hin reintives or 3 ‘The Rroker's Daught food husbands, jet me warn you, you can turn ae aj for the quadrille, and Gotrox, the young merchant : t nge them to t f her lightly and annoy her her and speak amd word that he reveres his wife if be wishes other do His relatives are quick to take thelr cue from him. ‘Their actions are the result of the manner in which he w Bo. of her to them when she is not present feel this truth all too keenly. And th! a flerce conflagration at last There is nothing which endears a husband to his wife so much as the knowledge that he never loses an opportunity to pay her gracious and gallant little courtesies on all ocoasions where it is possible before Strangers, friends and his own relatives; especially the latter, Love, honor and respect your dear wives, good hus- bands, and compel aj} with whom you come fn con- tact to do Iikewine by your example. If any one were to ask me why many merriages were failures I would reply. with all candor and from the “Ln nine cases out of a dozen It Is because husbands sight and make light of their sensitive wives before depths of my heart, and oh, so earnestly their friends and relatives.” No man could have a greater fault. heart, wrecks a home and turns love Into the bitter. Could more be Inid at the door of any other grave LAURA JEAN LIBBEY. Laure Jean Lidtey eres for The Evening World by permin fault? Hardly, on of hatred. the beginning of the fire of resentment that burns | THERE. down deep in their hearts, and which breaks out into? Ament (of philanthrople society)-My dear young woman, the proprietors of this store assured ug they had provided » ‘or the'r clerks. 1 don't see any. of the Family Slory Paper. Birthdays. NOTHER birthday! Like a nun that telle Her beads within the convent's narrow celia My woul takes heed. Not those dull beads she loves, Although she cons them with such eager eyes It {s because they bear her sou) above And aid the yearning spirit to arise, peed; ke the meek nun’ And do not sorrow Each one a blessing prayers Told on the sacred romary she wears. Faith Willis Linn. — HOT SALT POTATOES. HILADELPHIA boasts of her “serapple” Boston of her baked beans and brown bread, Byracuse has a tidbit th Balt potatoes, prepared as @eesidered bi‘ndly that Christianity and the|brine to Mil a kettle three-fourths full, Select Ghureh are one, instead of, as they are, an ideality | /lum-sized nmooth potatues, scrub clean and put triest, most ardent affection from you In this way more quickly than by any other plan you could pursue. as the sharp pebble can turn the tide of a mighty river as ft Hes in the bed of the Tt Dreake a utshines them all— _THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1900. THE COMIC SIDE OF oc eee YTERIANS vn @ LOVE piety - THE ARMORED RAT-TRAP. | CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE, - = By Rev, Edward Hele, Unitarian, ee een een one eens” ,| THE HEART OF A SINGER. “ OME back to Erin, Mavourneen, Mavourngan,” Joyously sweet\and clear, nearer and nearer, came the voice. The professor eat motion- Jess,. Tistening with bated breath, lest he lose « sylie- ble of that sweet old song, sung in that sweet young voice. As the voice ceased he looked out. toward the house, balancing in ether a ror. beg REV. EDWARD EVERETT BALE. Ls $4 Od 94 DG66 PHOT 4OOHRERIOADA ooo 4 HOPE that movement (to reform the Presbyterian |} er (at her first ball)—tt's time | t, uly hope it with rucceed, No church can exixt long with oue creved for the people and one for the clergy. No man in his senses really beleves in that creed, with its doctrines of infant Gamnation | 1 predestination, ‘The clegy screw themselves up| > "i try to believe, but the effort ts bad for them. ‘The position many of them take is, to my mind, | anything but a manly one, Old Homer had his say) @ About the Presbyterian of to-day 2.0% yenrs ago. He said: who's down on my order for this dance, isn't here! It must be papa’s right when he says Gotrox's #ig- nature tsn't worth anything! SO NEAR , YET SO FAR fore hink w # think one thing and apoher tell ina te him Like Cry gates of hell? As a matter of fact, there are many Unitarians in the Presbyterian Church: 1 have been told myself that I might be a Presbyterian, even with my present | | beliefs, but I would not want to be in a church in which I could not preach what I believed, —=a——_—_ JIM THE PLUMBER pall of milk, was a young girl. Eveg ere the song wee TALKS OF HAMMERS fluished a harsh, tired volce called sharply, “Come, U '| Beth, don't yell so. You'll wake baby, and I've. been ven ata alae an hour getting her asleep. Hurry and set the tapia”* . : cee | ew ee 8 The Campaign Article and Others. The world was two months older. Into the, Best “ | OBSERVE," raid Jim the Plumber reftectvely | parior shone the afternoon sunshine, playing gleefully to the man who was trying to byy @ tack-/on walls that seemed to shrink from upsocus- hammer for % cents which’ was marked §ltomed giare. In one of the prim, sesapphtncased ‘ cents, “that hammers are much in demand. Ham-| chairs at the front windows sat Prof, Helfea, whtle’” rs in campaign times always is in demand. opposite at the other window sat a weary, da@-feced + “1 don't know but I have a little hammer myself in) woman, tearing idly at the huge red woollen: curtain. hand, and I don't know but I'll vote the Republican | tageci, that had never before been treated so romghly., ticket this time. Up to the boardin’-houre there's a! «y4y good woman, think! She-has a fortune in her mighty lot of discussion about them things, and I} voice. She has a voice in a thousand—e gem. But it * can't conscientiously believe that I'm doing myself a) is in the rough; It needs polishing—years of It; and® good turn by votin' for McKinley. ft must be polished gently. Then it will shine-oh, “One pot of paint finished me on the trust question. | acon!" san) &o ‘Trusts is the great issue, you bet. Now, there's that! Over in the corner a slim, dark-eyed girl hung | pot of paint. I gets the pot of paint to-day, and It| proken-breathed on their words. i comes several cents higher than it did. There's a) 4 alence that seemed to the girl full of strange cireular with {t which says. ‘On account of the in-| pright sounds chasing one another nolselensly till they ° reased price because of the trusts, of linseed oll, of | met in one clash. “Yes, yes; she can go. But bring paper, of ink, of tin, of solder’—— I stopped reading| per back. bring her back! I've seven, but I caa’t there, as that was enough for m rever.”” Then somehow Beth found herself HER VOICE WAS GLORIOUS NOW. . a is Salengir!-They're all in the furniture department, ma'am, TOO EXPANSIVE. “Tf 1 had a pair of wire clippers methinks I'd dine.” FROM A MAN'S POINT OF VIEW. When a woman has a secre\- Although she may not show ft— She's just as angry as can be If no ane wants to know tt, weeecnn enn nnn ennnnnneeeeceneneces IN THE POTATO PATCH, “They had ‘em way back in his-| habitual self-control had giv tory, There's that fellow Citlo as Mayed the life out) timatum went forth. Beth was to go. of Caesar, who was nothing more than a carpet-| Qut in the garden twilight was falling; the beautiful, bagger, anyhow, and just corralled everything in| tender sky colcrs were slowly fading inte the dua of sight. Citio was a peach. Even the Chinese had) night; the very ult, full of the scent of the hay, was thelr politicians a thousand years before the Chrit-|» caress. The very peace of It seemed a mockery to tlan area. Look at Conspicuous, what a feller he| paul as he stood before her. Just collected all their books, he 414, and burned| “you say you'll remember, Beth, but you won't— ‘em in the markei-piace, Well, we have our Cit‘os| you won't; 1 know It as if years had already passed.” ‘and our Conspicuouses and we have our trusts. “Listen, Paul,” her votce, soft and soothing, hed But/returnin’ to our hammers. There's one thing | caught his earnestness. “I shall never forget; you the feller who's always usin’ ‘om forgets, The head's| know my nature too well to believe your own wonte. generally loose, When a man comes knockin’ at some| This {se the hardest part of it, Paul; to leave you Bus one you examine his hammer, You'll find it's wigaly.| ine yesrs will adpn pass, Paul. We are both young, - . . ------ eeoeo- = Sees oy young friend, of the man with the wigsly |and no lesson he may try to teach me apes 4 5 re of life, and White and Red Wines. Crowns Made to Sell. ——— | ee eae fauvewe Beh ° HITE and red wines owe their difference to {RMINGHAM |s the only place in which manu- (7 . (seater AC «oe Ws fact that while the former ts permitted tel facturing crowns is an industry that may be ONVENIENT BROOM DUSTERS The two weeks of the opera had begun. In bresttn. , : ferment without the grape skirts, these are al-! said to flourish, The trade is principally with HERE are trials enough that the housewife | jens darkened silence the vast audience. waited ter... |lowed to remain in the case of the latter, The color | Africa, where the numerous kings have come to re- | must endure without attempting to dust ceilings | the opening arta, to be sung by this unknown singer, lof the grapes makes no difference whatever to the gard a Birmingham crown as a far more elegant and side walls with a broom around which a] whose fame, rumor had whispered, would besume . color of the wine which they produce, for the Juice emblem of royalty than the stove-pipe hat which cloth ts pinned. Not that the dusting is unnecessary, of all grapes is as nearly ap possible colorless, For they formerly affected. A nerviceable crown, gaudl'y | Out that a set of canton flannel rags just fitting the and |!nstance, the grape which yields champagne ts almost decorated with imitation precious stones, may be | broom, with a shirr-string in the top to tle securely put | Mek th outward appearance, ‘purchased for quite = smail sum. | Sota ae rb tb ba pesbenee fer aide Cond, ewe u | broom bags are to be prepared for gifts (and there Photographer—As a father of fourteen, 1 quite un- derstand your pride, sir, bul will vou amile a little less, so that I may get the group into a half plate. eee we tenn e+e + nnn THE POINT OF VIEW, The Philosopher-it’s a shame that he treated you! Mrs. Potato Bug—What are the weather probabili- 50; but you should heap coals of fire on his head. [ttes for to-day? The Miser—Not now; I'll wait till next Summet,| Her Husband-Strong winds and heavy showers of ‘ when coal will be cheaper. paris green. ane é g 2 e i B 5 & | z . the little unknown country etrt, her. She tore it nervously open. “You locked lng - ‘at me more than once to-night. I knew then was whispering to you. Was it fali Did ft tell you all? Did it tell you ant we last met? Did it repeat the words thet spoken then?” There was no signature. . —_—_— —_— - + = are few offerings that will prove more acceptable to | 4 FLOWERGARDENINTHECITY \atenr nny ec ten into jonly half depth, and embroidering some simple de- the brine when It hae reached the tolling pant, Cover HE making of « flower garden In 90 myntertous |be an tnaptration. An hour spent tn studying the beds! sign in wash cotton or linen upon tt, and crocheting | "Tt seemed ages to Paul before the boy returned. qaitiy int and doll untt q straw will plerce the vegetables. a (ling that the beginner must have advice upon jof plants at the parks. will also help you. the upper half of white cotton or yarn to cor- ‘newer. He opened it slowly, yet-with quick fin- Drain and serve at once. When eating these they are the subject to be successful. Everybody does not| Personally I should have all the walks bordered| respond with the color used in the embroidery. adh “Memory has been whispering eight long never out—the ends are pressed with the fingers, whICh nae rosn for a garien in the city. But many &/with a narrow strip of lawn grass. Fresh green grarn| Crochet it in almple open work, with a small border | Su. "te you whe Durets open the centre. Now add @ generous lump Of |igck yard filed with tomato cans and rubbish can ts one of the most beautiful things in Nature. There| at the top and a shirr-string tipped with little tassels 4 prime butter and the delicious potato wil be relished. 1he mate to bloom jim not half enough ini the cities run in near the edge. The outside will be covered with salt crystals, the IM-| Now nnd then there is @ front yard that ts mot) In the damp shady corners where the sun seldom Mr meee scar SRT Don't Box the Baby's Ears. side mealy and enowy white. British noblemen are the only ones In Burope whe! ever wear coronets on their heads, and the sole oc- casion when they do so is at the coronation of the The Only Coronet-Wearers. sovereizn. —_— oo RAILROAD PRESIDENT WORKS FOR NOTHIN | N appreciated by the people living In the houses, It shines rock-ferns and maiden-hair ferns will grow. irre n fash he saw all; heard the professet’e velbe saying, “You can't love, child; art has ne fecm for love.” Amd the seven long years of ollence oe shorter. Paul knocked at the door the stage hand petnted )« ft to him. He had evidently been ; FN Al Pager peel: c~ ON t Paul!” and the door slowly —_——* LETTERSeveninc worun$) A well-known specialist on ear diseases has made ‘ the announcement that half the deafness prevalent of Al the present time can be traced to the practice of , boxing the ears of children. \THE SURPLICE SHIRT WAIST. 6. iE Hit Hl ; [ =} i ea si i i BPSD ALAA EEAA EAE EEE EEE EEE C0 BH eHEe bish. Then see what the nature of the earth is. it is rich surface soil there will be little trouble.