The evening world. Newspaper, July 24, 1900, Page 4

Pedticdes by the Pree Puviisbing Company, 12 1s G FAKK ROW, New Yor. (Ganared 01 the Post-Otice at Now Tork os Govend-Cese Mal! Matter. TUESDAY, JULY 24,1900, NO. 14,217 Y WITH RESULTS. The Rrening World's Sick Babies’ Fund fs a charity that works, Last week's rec- ord: 962 ailing little ones cared for THE EVENING WORLD'S DAILY FORUM. Twe Definitions of “True Heroism” by Men, Qualified to Discuss It, | . ——-—-# | THE MEANING OF HEROISM. | By WILLIAM S. DEVERY, Chief of Police of New York City. How can heroism) be defined? What constitutes ft, and what makes a hero? Heroism, in plain languoge, fe the tak chance to save a fel- low-being from dan- ger or death. The {deal hero is the one who does not stop to weigh his own life the life of another Is at otake. A woman |s drown- ing; the water {s deep, the tide ewift. The chance of resous fi wmeertain, but the chance is there. The brave gem leaps on the mere possibility, The shred of Bape ‘a enough. game opfrit that tmpete a man to dash in @ ranaway horse io enateh a child from him courage to etand before « loaded the hands of a robber. have HUM Be Tat ae f. + e Hay el iH i i Hr .s 4 Rg COURAGE MAY BE ACQUIRED. By EDWARD P. CROKER, Citef of the New York Fire Department, PR Heroiem, in my es- Gmation, ‘e merely conedientions § fulfil- ment of unicoked for . duty. I hoki that every man ‘s a hero. ing of a forlorn|!s x in the balance when |; , ‘HE WORLD: TUESDAY KVENING, JULY 24, 1900, WILLIAM J. BRYAN # IN MOVING # PICTURES. ARE SINGLE lhe Democratic candidate for the Presidency permitted) Mr. Bryan wore «a black alpaca coat, dark trousers i] j{himse!f to be snapshotted in the front yard of his hore i» bagged at the knees, white shirt and white lawn tle and WOMBN UNBAPPY -oln, Neb, by @ moving-picture man, and the dozen light fedora hat with black band. Coprrighiet vy te Pre Pht notographs here presented of the great efiver statesman) The new porch which is to be Bryan's forum for the =e In action are the result of the snapshotter’s work. campaign {8 also shown in the pictures. vi MR, BRYAN RECEIVES AN IMPORTANT TELEGRAM. jueation happlest but ine trouve Is some f the tt to beleve it ey begin to lengthen thelr Gres ’ at the next step In life tant one-ts to net o rematn un in and there are such Kg waves.” Constance Maynard put down her sus- Fosy, sunburned face of her Little “I don't ke waiting,” sald the cbtid,. éiscense- lately. He had planted hie elbows firmly on her lap, hie oolish ones grow hb and pause of blue eyes were fized wistfully on her fixe and ehe look cere oe could never resist Laddte long. The little fellew’s upwant an * words kept repeating themeeives iu ier eat, “T thought, Hoot te lost in th clouds which obscure the future? omen have garnered together sdom by the (ime they reach th eet to retrograde alarmingty a! epoch of their existence, especially where a man ls concerned. They tmagine themselves pitifully un- happy, and firmly belfeve th thelr morbid sually take t thelr path—an: enon from Gon’t like waiting.” No ove Uked it, she with a sigh, and yet for years her Iife seemed to been all walting—welting. Bhe was marly thirty years of age, this creature whese fair, blooming face spoke of health, whese eeft eyes had a pathetio expression in them as of ene who haé suffered. It was long since she had quarrelied for the last time with Rupert Laird, and he had gone away—so long that every ene seemed to have forgotten him but herself. She glanced over to where the breakwater ran out qinto the sea, « picturesque object at low water, eer- fered with green seaweed and tiny shells, Léttle of tt was to be seen this fine Bummer afternoon, fer the (de wes flowing in deep and strong, but as Ghe looked her eyes dilated with horror. Scrambling up the slippery ede was a small, white- H aTeat amount Ave; others ii ‘THD 0B ® FROZEN OW HIS LIPS. MAKES 4 MURRIED BECAPR INTO HIS) nous Ai, MPRE COMMS A \TENORR BOT.” ‘ON HERS PLEASE, MR BRYAN.” MEETING OF WILLIAM J. BRYAN AND CHARLES A. TOWNE. marry {fe fitting mate comes to ke marriage the Alpha anal P hts by nipht and by day, year chase the fickle titterfy—tove-tt will mt flower ran boldly out along the top. Throwink down her sunshade, she few down toward { re as fast as the rolling pebbles would permit, ' loudly to the boy as she went. She saw the beautiful baby face fii with sudden contrition, saw him turn to come to her-—he was never afraid of any one, least of all Conme—then he had given a slckene ing ellp on the treacherous green slime. There was @ flash of two little bare, brown legs, a vision of a GLAD TO MIDT YOU, MR. TOWNE" |= “LES GO INTO THE HOUSS AND HAVE A "1 WANT TO TALK OVMR THE SITUATION THY DIMAPMEAR IN THE BRYAN DOORW:). baying straw hat, @ loud eplash and he was in the from | have tt make search for you 4, single women—an! re those who never permit The aye there » thoug If mi hus propos, as to whether or nm accept or walt atill longer for one and such women usually get at t they have watied for. single woman that you find unhappy you wil fin ecore as blithe and contented as the day te jong, I am gied to aewure you. ‘The unmarried woman should always remamber that she ts never so ol6 tnt there is some worthy man who would gladly win her, an@ who ts searching pa- tiently among the world of women for her-—some. where 4 is neither wise not best to cut across toge to mert him, but to ret ber that the path you are treading must, {f you push steadfastly onward, merge at last into the road which he ts traversing toward you--to be Drought at last by fate face to face with you. Lat no one think that the average single woman ts unhagpy. Bhe {s as free as a wild tind on @ bough. and che knows {t—and therefore contentment {# hera LAURA JBAN LIBAITY cuar. Reig cl water on the far side of the breakwater, where it BRYAN AND TOWNE STARTING FOR THE TRIANGULAR CONFERENCE. staping and dripping, was once more in ber aru, “Ok, we can never thank yeu enough,” she pante® a9 che hugged the young scamp. But the man maée no answer; his hand otf jgrasped the boy, and eomething on it sesmed mitar. Gurely she had knewn that mac ve signet ring in the past. Glaneing @ saw the face, older and more wern, i ! 4 { i by the gate in the gloaming. ‘Tt te I with years have dealt hardty—! iy rT i Lewes Liveey writen for The Brocing World by wrange- fool and had te euffer fo ft rd ret SR, Se Me no one {mn your place. opt your image ta my we have met Osante: READY TO START POR THE COMPBRERNCA (1 QQPT GIVE INTERVIFWS UNTIL AFTER ‘I WONDER WIMRB THAT CARAMGS IS OFF FOR THE TRIANOULAR CONTERIN' ; “once,” a Wy. 1 AM! OFFICIALLY NOTUPTED ef i 18 THE ROOP SKIRT ““PEROXIDING” HORSES. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS? COMING BACK?) (NE of the moet interesting and novel echemes I’ yée conte 4 stil srees 0 otek, : i f i i 2} ii YEARLY COST OF SOLDIERS. HB yearty cost to the state of the American ecldier ig about $1,5%. This tnétvidual sum is ‘largely in excess of the cost of Buropean troops. Great Britath, which hae the smallest army of all the great powers, expends, roughly, #45 on each of hee Or atick crossed stick across () ese freceeny On etick a crossed stick across a orossed stick, France, the two military heed hereon Reid the viched up This viesching dove 26' | op cross a crosted stick across & eroes, et geet tpl caplet bch Any more than it does the average) oe crvss across @ or A etick. of $M5, Italy, second 4 army, epen' cally tinted coat seldom looks well 90 on every soldier she maintains; and Rusels's cost i } i ; E ! kept the faith that seemed tretes, and after years had met again. FOR THE MORNING, that are resorted to when !t comes to “doctor- ( ” one nor atick, The hoop emit 19 to be) J ing’ up « horse for sale ts “perexsaing” Horses) |.) ote pihchiodlpabenycetng revived! Just sultable for carriage work, save that they de not OF tasea 6 eens enrcl peg OF crose a cross across @ cross, clare heop im. mined, the @ark roots of the hatr| Would this be an acrostlo? fs estimated at $185. In 1888 cash poldier cost the moral. “The revival of 1 Inepection. Tet it decetves the i United States $1,398, 9 that the lapse of fourteen years the hoop skirt,” says thts nd 9@ anewers its purpose. HOW LONG WE LIVE. exhibits no small difference in national oost per man. haughty dame, who has a8 Ome-quarter of the people on the earth die before oo Scattered Italians. The Minute Hand's Travels. the age of six, one-half before the age of sixteen, tip of the minute hand of the average watch | and only one out of each one hundred lives to the nearly four-fifths of a mile every year, age of sixty-five. ‘There are to«fay in all countries more than 1,000,000 Ttallan emigrants, SEL y oon wom =A KAUGH 115! THE! TEST # OF! A? MERRY ' JEST. OF one’s reasoning powers over anything ee will-of- PAST EscAPrn. ¢ ORATORY. the-wisp-Hike as the decrees of the Goddess Farhicn.} -emere are times when ANOTHER DEPREDATION. “toe have fever es Modes are not tnvented or created or exploited for] geee mute must be very fed oratory?’ the sake of the health or convenience of the WAFErs.} ha5oy. remarked the “No,” answered Gen Opportunity to show) witness the eel-shaped skirt, the coffin corset, (he? man with an intensely t his = heroiem = may | Louis Quine heele and wy ns eae ot aie recent | weary expression. Dever sbeurdities, all of whtoh have hat their day, “Tor what reason?” " Come, Dat Chat |e aise tar cay from my deck ante shirt waist and} «An no has to as whee does net reflect 00 | ciiess wkirt vostume to a Royal Highness lady {9} ny wants to whut of the the man, a fine moral rage over the tmmorality of an old f88h-P rial geo t sien on tallee t hasn't yet been resurrected. about the heat is te get votes without paying 8 just as well to consider that every £8aNlOn) wings his eyes.” for Gem” however absurd, bas always had tts de } y t fende ‘9 well ae ite opponents on moral and bh S sd \, ene man ts endowed with | ejenis gro: WHat, VERY RARE heroiem he can never | The logic employed may not be sound Man lovee the countrys Map AB pyc som ot But th lone of discomfort 7 oa hah a hg ag es esa't Mileasant ways and jote of time, en@fOf luctous frutte and ‘One whe can say good- agree with this view. |e can wear out any struggling hygienist a ive. flowers herd fain abide; I have seen cases where men were moved to ac-| when the hoop skirie were last revived, around the] Yer what were water. Gaus of the highest bravery by sesing others risk |#xtiee, they were positively indore by many phys! } — meten's pinkest slice @aate lives for those in -wit clans ee particularly bh ful because of the (res } Without a setting of good - dom of trovement in walking they permitted, and] city icet ‘Wien o freman ente: @ burning builting the) oo cause they reileved the hips of the weigh vf | eemeume-e-0-0-meneronenpae pubic calle him a hero. We say he is a brave) neny petticor's. se OonTRasT, fam. Fire and emoke are enemies to be fought| Now, 1 think criuelines, as J saw them in “Th } When days are hottest and overcome in the same way that an opposdag|iswny of the Wells.” were smo’ ridicntous ar ah von wee meée o woman « travesty on he: By laytng tn next Win- eomy fo to be defeated. You would not call every PEt “nie or immorally suggestive compared ‘of ters coal § _saliier 0 here. the tight skirt and the Freseh figure and sevecs! s Bu , they over é 7 Phere ave ciroumstances attending great fires | other foibles of the moment I might mention brotdered guimpe; applied embroidery on revers Whisk offer opportunities for heroic action I Seve seem o man lowered dowa from a roof into ‘Tho place wee like a crater, There was amali ‘visited scenes of terrible fires and woa- my men het the temertty to venture parts of wrecked buildings. Viewed | short of euicide to have gone inside, ‘we woul do the nme thing the next day. may bappen. @ Waging building with the dim hope of eaving a (diew- being. | was who is natarally heroic thinks nothing certainly are not HARRIET HUBBARD AYER. ; ———— — — 2 - LETTERSeventne worvo One Gipi’s Ideas, ‘Fe Ge Biher of The Brening Wore: T am a gért of eighteen. 1 am very fend of of beating, of walking and tennis and golf. Bet 1 do not care for the society of men, nor for dances or fitre tations, such as other girls love. I have never been {@ love, but am happy and enjoy all that to best in life, New, my friends laugh at me for this and say 1 em mental T leave it to your readers to pags judge ment. MARY B.@ THE LITTLE BROWN MATE. HIE little brown mate has left the nest, And she's half forgotten her song; Fler brood are away in the sunny Gay, Ver cares ne longer throng; But she misses the soft wings under ber breast; Abe misses the need and the ory; The poor Iittle mother, who has no other . Round ges ‘neath her heart to lie. The Iittle brown mate may fute a nota A low little note and sweet, If her lover comes back on his homeward track, With & call her own to greet; » he's only @ tiny brown mate, you see, And in naught can she find her rest; The poor wee mother, who hes ne other ; Wit niche tn the world but her nest. 1 ip Ape pay ila Margaret ©. Bangster, in Harper's Besar, Go peer hk pore ine faba emmmts by your fund. It makes me fairly heartsiok — Toads in Gardens. So useful are tosde tn gardens that they are gold tn France by the dosen for stocking gardens, to free them from many injurious Insects. and looked out over the glittertng ooean, then + otx-year-eld