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4 THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1900. aw « w& THE EVENING WORLD'S S SPECIAL SA TURDAY EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES. # 2 eve Danenn. merveremecw em il MR. LONEL Y OF LOVEYDOVE YVILLE-ON-THE-SOUND; tin Pot BOS Fok etn a a SATURDAT, AUGUST U, 190, OR, THE JOYS AND WOES OF A COMMUTER.—By T. E. POWERS. THE HEROES IN PEKING! Before the allied armies a are near the city + Peking has its heroes, :| They are the besieged Foreign Ministers. : “The escort that comes to save us," ! they say in effect, “ must be strong enough + to save 3,000 converts, who otherwise must { | perish for their faith.” 3] It is the sublimest form of heroism tc have thoughts for the saving of others, in the face of one’s own deadly peril. Honor to the brave Ministers at Peking! | — ae ni sabi UREV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE Calls for a Change in Church Methods. THE EVENING WORLD'S | A Little Call. Altogether, this ts the story of or A Little Privolity. A Little Marey, A Little Late. night when Mr. Lonely missed all the trains to Loveydoveyville. Not in the picture-the dinner which waited for the Lonely who never came. TE worlt’s popula- shelf a degen pews, and leaving the minister at night; The full change will \ave to come from the rising; Ard ft will be, as In the Johnstown freshet the long Journey up and down the land that recetved ton annually tne | to sweat through a sermon with bere and there a| mintetry, We now in the feld are too set in our | ncaraet when & government station wae revel je Him not. There are so many persecuted souls; every DA I LY FO R U M Afters ove |lone traveller, unless, by a Sunday evening snared] ways, We are lumbered up with technicalities. We | the supply of bread and {t took officers of the law to|hour of His life was under human outrage. ‘The . ne pretends concert, he can get cut an audience of respectable | haw too many compordances and @icitonartes and en-| keep the sufferers in line because of the great rush | world had no better place to receive Him than a half that numb f wee. cyelopediaa and systems of theol%y on our head to for food. cattle-pen, and its farewell was a slap on His cheek @ are converted te If there be fifteen mitiion persone added every year | get down on the plain. Our vocabulary is too frosted. | When this famine-struck world realizes that the | and a spear in His side. Bigned Editorials on Leading Toplos of the Day | |} (oa {0 the world'® population, then there will be thirty) We are too much under the domination of customs |Chureh 1s a government station, set up by the gov-| So intensely human was He that there has net by R nized Authorit lahometans fhud@htets mtilion alled to the Church, and forty milion, and] regnant for many centuries, ernment of the universe to provide the bread of | been in ai! our race a grief, or infirmity, or exhaus- i Hind make up fifty millt and sixty miiiton, Come on, young men of the ministry. Take the pul-|*ternal life for all the people, the rush will be un-| tion, or pang that did not touch Him onee, and that — e-thira of the wor How wil tf be done? [t will be done when the] pits and in the language of the street an! the market- |Precedented and unimaginable, does not touch Him now, The lepers, the paralytics, FATAL PRIZE FIGHTS, pulation. Protestants, | Church wiii meet Christ on the plain, place and the famiiy-cirele preach Christ on the plain. | Astronomers have been busy measuring worlds, and |the imbecile, the maniac, the courtesan, the repent- A Bee Rathoves Dr Stephen I. Tyo, areat on earth and tn} As soon as the Church says by its attitude, not) they have told us how great is the clroumfe ag jant brigand—which one did He turn off; which ene By 6.000; Buddhists, #0.°)-| nog ce paid to me: “Tam in favor of @ dhange. | necessarily by its words, “My one mission le to help this world and how great its diameter; yea, Shey | tld He not pity; which one did He not help? : ‘ |} There are 176.8 04 at know what is the best way of doing things |for this life and help for the life to come all the | have kept on until they have weighed our planet and| Oh! Join Him on the pla JOHN WILSON GIBBS, M, D. | Vahometans and 1% " vhes, out [ know the way we are doing |peopie,” and ft proves Its earnestness in the matter, found its weight to be six sextillion tons, But by| When the life of this planet shall be threshed out It te alleged that Ralp? ! . t est way, of the world would be|people on foot and people on eback, and in |no scence has the weight of the world’s trouble been | With the fal) of thunderbolte nobody will ark about Mitier he ERA ! ation than it seema to be." | Wagons and in carriages will come to the churches | weighed your opinions. Come down out of the mountain of ! : ) wre religious| & ro we all feel, that there needs to be @|in such numbers that they will have to be met at| Now, Christ standing on the level of our humanity | “piMionativeness and meet Christ on the plain, where recorded death caus \ sea, where@a few | cha votat at which we all come short ts tn |the door by ushers, saying: “You were here last! stands in sympathy with every trouble. There are |¥OU must meet flim or never meet Him at all, ex- by a single blow mt cop Sunday morn | mv een Chrtet on the plaim Chrtat on the level | Sunday; you cannot come in to-day, Gentlemen and so many aching heads; His ached under the thorns, |C@pt a@ you raeet Him on the judgment throne, prize ring. I belleve the to a pew, of one person to! w © Wordd’s woes and wants and necessities. ladies, you must take your turn.” \There are so mamy weary feet; His were worn with T. DE WITT TALMAGE autopsy will show thet the blow was not the «! viens LAURA JEAN LIBBEY Utters .a Plea for the Erring Daughter. . Miller was auffertug from organic trouble o rrieht ty the Prem Po. | “TI have a daughter twenty-one yeare old, earning excuse to go, and left home at 10 o'clock that night.,the world may abuse her ever #0 cruelly she still'ure. Turn to them for guidance and counsel, I tm- as in abnormal cond ehing Compa er own Living: a good girl were she not obdurate “I cursed her, but nolena volens, she is my daugh-| reigns, the of the household, the idol of fond | plore you, dear child. tion. Had he been ex ( LG writes ne oats company Mies may lead to her bd Fes Tam bound to take steps to prevent her| parents, that no matter how she hae sinned in the In the hour when you need them most, false friends amined by a competent physician he would not new long inte \t She boards away from home, inal ruin, past you are willing to take her back to your home| will flee from you. If you were homeless, friendless, Rave been allowed to go into the ring. | oo ter which w A w lays before she left home for good two “Rut what am I to do? She has already told me/and hearts, remembering nothing save what (s loyal penniless, they would scoff at you and jeer at you | o of al inter vt ris callel on her, whom ehe represented to that legally I can do nothing Does the law not rive) true of her even though you lay dying. Ia the capacity of examining physician I have) many sande of World k employed where she worked. The whole any means to stop her on the verge of becoming a| And do everything in your power to make her re ‘They are more deadly through contact than the examined 426 professionals and rejected 102 Only | aders ¥ are th t f \iese young women, as well as that total wreck? lturn to the fold—a joyful, a holy and thankful event, polaon ivy or deadly foxglove. two, Billy Vernon and James Duffy, were killed in) eote ter my lave rv, shocked me ao that T forbade her, “Again I ask: What am I to do? She will read | Meet her on the threshhold with loving worls and ay The r old home folks are the only ones who have the . t t length I er scquatntance In the fdture. your answer. God give you the inspiration to find thankful prayer to God for restoring oer to you your best Interest at heart I examined Mr. Vernon In January, 1897, befor: na t a spoke of a dancing hall, She strongly de-|the right words to touch her heart, and I will bless) No matter bow a child may grieve you, never send| 1, « stranger, have prayed earnestly to Almighty of ten 4 ith ¥ Cort ec ; A “ef y ver having been there, but I learned subse-|you thankfully her from the home sheiter, no matter what folllis| God t you will go home again and abide with the ep rounds wit! oung Corbett, of en fam: } eve ! st her statement to me wae false. It is seldom that such @ girl can be reelatmed by the world lays at her door, You can look after her old, folks and under thelr sheltering roof and watohe fornia. I found he had gone back since his last | " ¥ apa father The Evening World of the 2th inet. tellg me| harshness, my friend; but there are many who have! better when she is at home than Were she in any) ful care encounter, and was reluctant to allow him tc we tt ¢ I+ [what kind of a place ft te. been reclaimed by love. Chide mildly the erring, en | other piace the wide world holds, There she Is out! If T could take you by the hand I would lea@ you on. t a to I lesrne! thet ohe had an appolntment to go with treat them with care, of temptation |there, and kneel with you there, and rejoice ta the " girs to Coney Island last week. I begged hee! Home is the only spot on earth where the wayward To this young girl I would say, oh! so earnestly fa reunion. He was killed tn the next contest he entered I owe not to go; t scolded her; 1 was even violent tn my jairl ts eafe, Return to the loved ones at home, my dear, and at) Wil you make my heart glad by writing me, trem When the autopsy waa held it wos f ha t k the ‘ ons answered she would go) Plead with this dear young girl who has left the the same time I would ) You most earnesily to/that home, that you have followed my advice? oir « d behavior Toft willed her 1 she went | fold to return to home and mother-—aye, and to the bews wf and shun evil associates: N James Duffy, who was ki) in 1897 at “el we them her home-coming and declared father who has only her welfare at heart bietereat sorrow can come from cont Broadwi rT Club. lected tm the Ma oven egainat their wishes and tnelina ompany of these young wam-| Be patient with her transgressions. Show her that et your parenta choose your friends, | entreat you, deel y Argel ore . e | my style, ae! am a foreigner was only too giad to get af! your love is so mighty and go steadfast that though if you would make a success of life instead of a fa ructed him never fight again. He promised to be guided by m QOODOOOOCOUGI00C000000 00000000005 2 wane erent | FTARRIET HUBBARD AYER Tells of the Shame of Coney Island. Tt fs not the blow that kills; it ls the condition died from heart disease, as | | hing but the) Please do, dear child. LAURA JEAN LIBBBY, an Libbey writes for The Brening World by arrange ¢ Family of the man who receives !t ERITAPS thors humblest mother of totl, to whom the expenditure of; As the multitude of people swarmed down any one of On every hand the open concert hall invites the pass-/I could not avold seeing. I most emphatically assert that each and every ” cock penny I of moment, may for a trife pass here a the thoroughfares ir ears were assailed by the ing throng to enter “free.” | In a visit of several hours 1 looked in vain for am prize-fighice should be under the Ly of delicious ease and physteal refreshment agents and criers for vile shows In the foulest speech The open door reveals a brilliantly lighted stage and! officer of the law : ety w cetiy [EIS & #ource of Joy and wholesome happiness to and announcements that It is possible to conceive of, half # dozen semi-nude, wretehedly shameless girls,| The brazen exploiters of filth nightly ad@ recruits to table and competent physician thirty days bef aa this vor, YounR and old, and no other sea beach eo near to @) Hack of each group of the hundreds of revolving pic who kick and leer and throw themselves clumslly the army of debauchery from the passing throngs of A contest. He ;bould be exawined from time . sh " ; ereat olty offers such natural attractions, tures, with unspeakably revolting descriptive signs about the stage. In some of these dance halle the ,youth and Inexperlence time until "he leet m nt. If not In condi to « tet m vice Life te better worth living because of that etrip of above them, the bleary-eyed exploiters of nastiness in- performers are negresses, young, old and middle-aged. | What can one say of (he authorities who license thie he should not be allowed to go on. T oe of hu Ay sand whete one may go without money of price vited the youth !n unrepeatable language to share In) Roys form a greater part of the audiences, offense? Here ‘ ein point regarding condition ma ‘5 that ntoy the hompttaltty of the ceean-washed shores, (the moral contamination which ¢ Hut | saw little girls, not twelve years of age, com-| For these pestilential places are licensed by the elty who t re place ie all right |leged to reveal. Ing out of some of (hese sinks of iniquity authorities, fow ‘s s apo | was ca as an expert to b ame uf ort: There is a lot of honest fyn to be had tn democratic) Never, | venture to say. in the history of publle There Is not the slightest pretense of trying to keep| The city guards Its physical health religiously. w “oney Island. éffrontery has there been such brazen obscentty and these horrible one trom the eyes of the chit-! Ifa man were to attempt to contaminate the publie es me crossing and engaged in Natur Hundreds of decent purveyors reap a goodly harvest such utter lawlessness of degrating suggestion jetty reservoir and endanger the physical health of the reet fig One of . he merry-go-rounds, the chutes and innumerable Children are urged to look at these exhitdtions of outside these concert halle shout In People, how great would be the outcry. How quick aded by keockd t timate mirth-tnductng devices for the children of man's extremest degradation, and sod girls one’s ears « programme of the nastiness that ts to be the penalty . ‘“ ’ “4 sees who are out for a lark ke, scores of them ranging from ten to fifteen years found within. |. Here, under the Jurisdiction of the city of New York, ' " : whe th road ot for the gain of one wreiched penny, are shown A child of tender years cannot fail to be contami: |18 @ stream of moral poilution dealing death to the i nd dropp 8 aR bs re in offense there, mixed in with the wholesome | victures that can never be forgotten and must leave nated by the language heard all along the promenade, | Virtue of the coming race. ¢ is the 1 s that no decent man of woman, or even a foul, unclean spot In the memory of every child that very highway given over to the propaga-| Mayor Van Wyel ¢ you to blame? . hestant Gan ufieeted 444 (0 " hild, may avotd once jooks at them. thon of tn | Gov. Roosevelt, will yours be the hand to arrest (ie Mh . from the sea tring Soturday 1, with tens of thousands of men, women| It needs no moraltst to point out the effects upon) Certainly several thousand children heard what 1/Mmurder of innocent souls at Coney Tsiand? ; tren, and the and children, went to Coney Island. children of the pictured vices of a modern Sodom, could not avold hearing last Saturday and saw what} HARRIET HUBBARD AYER, i x 2 hid CHUCK CONNORS Talks Philosophically of the Shirt-Waist Man. L i ED | “Naw,” sea de lotdy; “ "tw one t all de clo'es, He trou fillin’ dere faces wh'n dere lamps got om ter|real prise” den de Chinks won't } so much shirt ter wash, ew gal what trun | Wt dem shirt-walst gtllies.’ mi De munk what rune de joint comes ‘long, an’ me Dats wh * down in de villi te Der Taxes de gurl whaten de shirt-watet gag wus Der walter guy what wus full o done slides up jolly freo' set tor him dat 1 wus de correct artcule Me gurl tirks I'm goin’ ter cut loose wid her t wot qe an’ she tolt me an’ sex me [ tinks it's out o' sight. ter me an’ tries ter give me der grand a-la-ga-goves. an’ mokes some remarks ‘bout not forgettin’ It. becus de loldies esa I'm de real ting tn de shies ste p ¢ Joe Wh'y LE gets ter me home down in de village | So I tess him to loose hisself an’ fetch de grub. De main guy gives me de examin’ eye. Den he waist. Dey tink I'm a regular Adoniser, Me shape ABUSE OF THE BATHING SUIT. ate © le sets down an’ tuk a tink Sea I ter meself: "Chuck, Ses he ter me, jest ‘sef he wus askin’ fer me talks ter de walter Chink, an’ you'd a’ tought he hits dem as de greatest ever, I tells ‘em It ain't Se ‘ vI te no uren uf youse spendin’ de good coin laundry ticket: [wus bringin’ de pipe fer de feller whot wears de fault o' Chuck. Blame me mudder an’ me fadder. B Ville on a In de time uf de year when youse wishin’) “No coatee, no eatee.” lyaller Jacket, de way he skoots fer de kitchen, Me An’ say, will he tells de Fifth Avenoo guys, Mister NNA LAUGHLIN ‘ ae youre woe rus te duck on de Nort’ Pole,” | “G'lang, yer Danty-gosed rat-eater,” see meself, grub comes all right, an’ me loldy frent says dere Kdditur, an’ me ol’ college chum de Prince dat - ' w wit So 1 takes me coat to me uncle an’ telle him to gettin’ mad, “Fetch de grub or I'!! fll yer face full ain't nothin’ de matter wid me an’ me shirt waist | Chuck says de Mokes whot sports de shirt waist Bin of “The Ca pny, tats tok care of jt Ul de time comes ‘round when it gets o° knuckles.” | De bull push in de village remarks ter me now/hav anytin’ In de village whot's hangin’ ‘round eee i ' One of de Chinks gets me de real) ‘Taint offen I fergete meself, but ‘tain't fer a dat it's de real ting, It's de winner. Dey sex: | loose. CHUCK CONNORS. J eal r . « an’ I buckles ‘t on an’ goes up to | yaller-taced | hash-slinger ter trows me down when “Chuck, ve gives us de dead swell fashin’, an’ de —— . wome h + Wong Suey's, the Pell street joint, where de main oa Deen mo’en ten years bummin’ ‘round de vilaace furst ting ye knows all de Chinks will be sportin’| Ths is the first of a series of Sa wrday articles to be com we oft mt vill age gets der grub. knows every Chink whot ever hit de pipe tem tings.” tributed to The Evemung World by Chuck Connors, the nies a - r e Youd a Cowght Chuck wus de Willte o° de Bozers ier wid me face lookin’ like Bill McKinley's frozen tellin’ me frent Young Yu Gang, “What's Sage of Chmnatown. the New | ! ke te way dem slant munks pute der globes on|mug when Mike Hanna gives him de touch for de de use o° havin’ de shirt wid de long tails an’ filiny” eset Gents : 5 A ey te I trew a front an swung down de)‘lection dough, I ses ter de Chink me name. wid a lot o° clo’es yer want ter give de Underground Workers. en ae ‘ eter bin wun Wille Astor Disself. De hall lot] Dere wus « loidy in der corner wid a pigtall wash An ‘he em: hueck, yer on de level.| About 1,501.0 persons are employed in the coal ‘ k lifters, de loldies and de gents, got|bioke, and she says, “Yer ail right, Chuck. Yer de Yer dead correct. Wh'n de swells wears dem tings mines of the world “WIDOW MAGOOGIN Has an Experience with Beach Purifier. by rid any Way dayrogatory av the immimorial modesty we put an our coshtooms in the hotel, an’, goin’ Mrv. McGlagger’y. Of wes nuver ro taken ty in wid ine Rat’ Baich gintieman with the howly-wather Mer bathing sult and pareding ¢ ¢ it = ¥ the ‘ %, Mra. MeGlaggerty? OF 11 hewid |down to the baich, mingle wd the other hoigh choo- me jotfe, me frind. Of thought OFd dhrop ¢where mark an He's so. ushed to connolvin’ around as? ‘The use of the bathing suit ts» ed to be cor i! i sme ye Suver did, an, fwhat'@ .core, yelnies in the wather. But the other day, motnd ye, Ol shtud wid shame an’ morthiafication. polkin’ aff that soort av thing that all bat coshtoomp ined to the water and afterward to a sun ‘ simple F will, me frind ,, Afther Of got direst fur me bat and we war half “It was me new Aygiptian red bat shoot OL Rad look aloike to him now an’ all have the same Dilsii> Phe sand. More tren that |t is not Intended for oe o ® y ve (hat mooeh ay a tanthrum or @ dolde,”| way down to the baich, fwhat dis s son av a gun an, me frind, that Ol ped cighty-notne cints fur an ntotcin’ mainin’ hy . 2 : : * t er va wid veasuring off & sixteenth of an inch |av @ sanctimonious owid roosther wid upturoin' eyes Grand sthreet beyant, fwhere they towlt me it was “I'pen me sow! Mra! McGlagg.erty, but {t makes ‘The warmest weather |* not the remotest ex he end of her ittle finger, “that i4 bring the/an a face lolke a howly-wather fountain do but tho latest stoyle from the Paris Exposition. It has me laugh now—though Ol was enough thine for vulgarity. : A fwhat is bilen av shame to the ree v bP totam ge aod oon me oe pose Lt me aff OF “ fwhokte thrimmins, may the divi! fy away wid fwhin © think that it was this fairy for-rm av 4 kklek and braten ¢ mances on the It t at-/0 er tin guilty av, Mra Me \y, oF | burnin’ up fur the way Oi do. me, Mrs. MeGlaggerty, aff the skert disn't come moine, weighin’ close an to two hundhert an’ twintpe iw DT cat sats enw Yet Gheveetind er ing Carged wht aither im al! me born days; an’ It’s ‘An’ fwhat ails me coshtoom—aln't it an sthraight?’ down belyow me knees, [t's byootifll an ‘as inno- fotve pounds, Sehenicktedy or Try weight, that . — , Ye me if Want AV chances of Umptations naither, meses OL ‘Wickid woful woman, ye're givin’ tur- cint an’ onscandalolgin’ as yer man Jurry's Sunday fascineeted the heaven-cinthered oye av the balck from California. No such actions would « & fur Ofve had mv sy (hum, but me bludyrible seandhal to this ansophisticated community,’ overcoat, It fite me too quick aff anything, an aff purtfoler, fwhoile me daughter Tooy in her tolght- at any of the ocean resorts there e & r * at te filed wid bt walher-its not fwhat they|ses he ‘An’ who towlt ye that? sea Ol, givin’ him (4 hed the for-rm av a Vayaus de Mollestones ye fAittin’ biywe an’ lavindher burieskew acthress cosh- the prestige of the Pacific const girl is ther sh timpletucus bled Mra MoGlaggerty—an’ the cun eye =‘ towh meself,’ kedn't discaro a rib of a Sint through the material, toom didn't attract aiven a solle shquint an wasn't 1 « s Tun in the veins o (Mrs, Herdie Magoogin, | {what's more,’ ses he, ‘aff ye don’ home me frind, But that wolld-oyed craythure threatened much as mintioned be him as among the other per> 4 sm 18 Tooay re to be any more gay and feative at any eff yer husban's Winther flannils,’ ses he, ‘an’ pit an’ bull¢ored #o that. begorry, Ol had to go back to|sens prisint at the mominchuous tmbro-ogiio a that ‘Geeidediy against such manoeuvres, and 1 ys be way of ue nan the an’ a can of (wo ay beer allow an yer own daycint dhress, sea he, “Orll have ye the hotel croyin’, un’ take aff me coshtoom an’ go'thrily great man, Wiliam Jinnins Br.yan—God bless Girls who have been v0 foolish will rai the widow ) S) Knowle’ Chis as ye ¢), me frind, yell be sup-|taken to the polaice st: ‘we husban's widout me annule bat for that day anyhow. itn! —wad Ah, ha! but it's (2 owld gerruls that @enees in time to blush for them- sn to De Coorse ICs often (proteed to hear fwhat Of'm afther goin’ to tell ye. |fanniis!’ ses Ol, bdilin’ © War With me yersef, Tooay an’ me, do ye moind, is spindin’ our spare ‘Yis, yer husban's fannils,’ aA {whin we wint battin a: Cooney’s Olsland together, days thie Summer at Bat’ Baich, belyow fwhere the| others’ ses he, “Oh wondher Pony Rell 4 MO grr eg Me MT eg 8 MR Rasberry Pa-ark that dig) aiven in the beauty contiets, isn’t It, Mrs. MeGlag- be makin such a fumpus about wimmin's batting | gerty?’ JOUN J, JENNINGS. |Mrs. MeGlaggerty, so fwhy shud Of be afther axin prolise-fighters and vaddyville acthore that | ? oe lye that kustion Of don't know. Well, thin, that ¢hrainin’ fur the regular Winther alan y Mrs. no man yet cee ae ote, me O06 ik re ores sete Gass thay oa Senn mame ae anythin’ at the ‘sayshore or ‘n corryine-an or comhtoom that was|walks, and fwhere there's an awful cobesens’ e Widdy woman oF thet was in'now about shockin’ bet soshtocms . a at fe oe 1d Pea ayes ;