The evening world. Newspaper, April 26, 1902, Page 6

Published by the Press Publishing Company, No, & to @ Tark Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mal! Matter. VOLUME 42.... «NO. 14,8588. FIGHTING THE DEVIL WITH FIRE. The project of getting even with the Beef Trust for | 4, {ts extortions by ceasing to eat meat !s gaining popu larity. Two thousand ra{lroad employees living in Bloom- | ¢ e an Nh Ington, Il, have signed an cgreement not to purchase | . butchers’ meat for thirty days, and the Rhode Island Mule Spinners’ Union has voted to eat meat only ¢ week. At Wickford, R. 1, the fishing firm uf Lewis Brothers yesterday gave away 800 pour of fish. 1 pharmaceutical phrase this was “something as 000," and really rather © for spring diet. Retaliat res such as these, if persisted tn, will deal the tal blow. The middleman eqneezed in the action, as usual. It is not p go think of the deficit in the Bloomington butch fas a result of the loss of thelr SEOPDDH 20794694 3.4.060426% bao bas 6a $6Ooteegedt tee etdteoeetetetes A FLANK MOVEMENT. shout loud # Wheat matters it gets | t Alec eacthatisk stock on rice and prunes tion of principle sometimes runs counter to a paint | Sa) acute matter of sentiment. 3 PARADOXICAL. —————_—__—- 2 ‘Was that « good photo of your deat ys Sea superstitions have persisted longer | t and dumb sister?” st with ocean liners sailing o: Yea fixed of them than others, one of the most firmly Frida, day fail som but if the jack tars consent t double {ll omen they will ha TRUST AGAIN. ith Carolina has ued a when he d to ride “lodge beca Pthe goat it reared and hu “The rise of butter inju there as well as in ems" 8 pe New STATISTICS WANTED. | Bishop Potter, who ts usually accurate, {s quoted) as having said in his lecture on “Capital” at New| Haven that “the people of a yearly income of $500 or Jess own eight times as much as the multi-millionalres of this country and fourteen times as much as the - A DREAM OF PARADISE. millionaires.” | ms 7 2 “When my ¢ or nald to This would be interesting !f it could be verified, >. Palin ra gaa Chak oral cniater 5 “She went away In @ p — but reliable statistics, which alone could support such | $1 aia7” an assertion, are wholly lacking. Nobody knows how| + “Probably you chanced to wake many people in this country are millionaires or multi- | 2 '°%" pb. millionaires and how much aggregate wealth they porsess, and no one knows how many people there |} BORROWED JOKEs. } q gre with a yearly income of $500 or less and the) + JUST A BLUFF. Af)? aggregate amount of their possessions. } City Battor—wnay @. | the Colonel ts a Utell you fe The popular impression {s that the control of the wealth of the country and the ownership of the greater Political Ry part of it is in the hands of a very few, and that the) next minu! tnvt would be drink.—Philadelphia Press inequality of distribution fs increasing. It Bot only interesting but valuable to be able to de-) f termine which of the two conflicting opinions ts the | . nearer to the truth. | Hie Dog—How ts the court. ting on? Her Dog—Not {talk about books very fast Detrott FY ‘The Sen Lords.--It acems to be tn the everiasting tness of things that In the organizat! pf a tr Atlan steam . er trust there should be a cert m0 of water In the © stock. And the'water ty there. : A PETTY OUTRAOE. | After the Police Commissioner has made the mistake of abolishing the annual police parade without r the wishes of the force, {t Is on! ul that ¢ missioner of Street Cleaning should go to extreme and insist on a parade of the “White W not only without consulting the f the t in disregard of thelr strong protest This is a petty outrage which should not mitted. The street cleaners are not a military emi- military body, they are not orguniz« ad drilled for | © . parade, and it was never intended t should be! } ordered out for any such purpose. \' have their feelings respected quite as fully as If they) were bank presidents or “Captains of Industry.” If Com- missioner Woodbury has any regard for the disc his department, not to speak of ordinary propriety will call off the obnoxious parade. THE DUST NUISANCE. ft << Po = rdto! Misses are good as Miles. A switch is as good as a Root. (And a Hawley Bll cuts Just as hard, if you can't tind a switch to sutt.) { And ‘Teddy looks on tn amaze at the plans that have had a fall; While the Meat Trust Hog chews away unobserved—the happtest of them all. TWO STRAWS. SOMEBODIES. BARRETT, eral to As BOURK) a nm fete party cf tho Houae of C | CARNPGIE, ANDREW burg, at an million dollars. “What | DEPEW, CHAUNCET—Ia sald toh | recelved @ request recently fron i nelety in an Indiana town agent, asking “What facilities have you for extinguish-| ing fires?" was answered: “It rains sometimes.” It ta in Greater Now York that tho question facilities have you for laying the dust In the street? must be answered: “It rains sometimes.” fokes to be used in Not since the prehistoric period before Waring Bas amateur minstrel show NETHPRSOLE, OL43A-—i8 In Parte, en | the nuisance of the dust been as offensive as it is at the present time in this city. ‘To explain it ts not to excuse ft. It is both inexcusable and unendurable. Its preva-| Yenve ts the result of gross incompetence and neglect, the | blame for which is about equally divided between ¢ to that elty Btreet-Cleaning Department, the Bullding Department) ——— ané the Rapid-Transit Commission rf . =a ea | A MAN WHO WOLLD NOT BE MATOR, | It is becoming that the office should seek the man, | Dut when the object of the search eludes the pursuer| #0 effectively as is the case of Mayor t Klein, of | Uhrichsvilie, O., the desired ends of diff_idence may be Gefeated. Mr. Klein, as the man who would not be Mayor, is the star in a role which makes the con- ventionsliy coy candidate a monument of tmmodesty by | comparison. Three weeks ago he was nominated on the Democratic ticket against his wil! and given the Tare honor of election in a city previously regarded as| hopelessly Republican. A week later, on the day set} for his inauguration, the new Mayor disappeared and it} ‘was not until yesterday that he was found, in hiding,| fm another city. Mr. Klein obstinately refuses to re-| turn home til] another man has been elected in his place. | To be an Ohio man, to be honored with election Partisan opposition and then to decline! gtarted on the one sure road to high office and tien to balk through bashfulness! A commission in lunacy,-if chosen from among his fellow-citizens, would make ehort work of Kle AUTOMOBILE NOMENCLATURE. | ‘The Pullman Company some time ago ran out of ap- Propriate names for its new palace cars. There would} seem to be a similar danger ohead for automobile own-| ers, whose methods of word-formation to designate their) ™ POHPEEPOS 5 machines now keep almost wholly within the Mmited Lees TEE aa -— aeeences soope of alliteration, Mr. Belmont’s “Red Rattler” and | TI EI Y LETTE F Bi eeere. “cray Orioger” for cxanyin tt | 5 RS FROM THE PEOPLE. permit of many imitations. We may havea “Pink Par-| Pellah Removed W re @lyzer,” a “Mauve Mangler” and Rises, pore ‘Te the Editor of The Posies TYSEC | rae cewe tniel! torzae) sromtines Stow | ormserky, when) t this sort of invention ts not Iimitlves, Jeroen) Get Pay er nare | youn, shoes to ADMIRAL—may dt Day address at Bangor, Me that Gen Miles may ac route SoH Teacher—Wouldn't y in the lovely Cty Matden i drese a0 ou cntch at straws. much ridicu! ones SERIOUS. (They're buildin’ wireless graphs Fur use across I don't delieve tele To be well ‘They don't fill any Fur Mary Jane an’ m Pur as we strolied in y b: The moonlhts enough Fur me an’ Mary Jan: Washington Star. Soakem—Ifere, walter, | Pie | Watter—tnare your eue to keep e quiet, er. le thie beer d we read aloud much tore, Beer that oan be bought|or she sang and played to me. Now she at five cents @ bottle they sell at five| drags me into the dining-room the mo- live in an uptown fiat. to old coaching names of the “Good Times’ order may be had, but they will seem To the PMltor of The Bvening World To the Kditor of The Evening World If the restaurant people don't earn| 1 am engaged. Three months ago I money I don't know who do. There is| Would have sworn I was the happiest A Free © po enemy in steaks; but they must clear|™4n ellve To-day I am the miserablest. | 7, ee maior of The Evening World: (Per cent, oo each onder of choga |MY fences has gotten « ping-pong set.| "Xow that windows are open on het |s\fuany ad a cornet was 0 up the block. MARTYR. | 0.8 un 2A, M. To-day I can counsel me? hauated and my tead uches oe UP-TO-DATE CHILD. ou Stke to It oe | ide of Life. | girls, but one night aw she stood tn the window of a dall-| ‘ODpITY CORNER. MAKE THE CLOWN SPIN THE PLATE, ¢ Move this picture to and fro, laterally, with a rapid mot lon of the hand. and the clown will apam nn will start him to spinning it in wider circles. HIGHROADS %* X* X| __ THE TRAIN MISSER. there dwelt a * % TO HAPPINESS. " sion me | (Through many ead commuting years, in sunshine and In rain) !To reach the station soon enough to catch his morning train By GRACE DUFFIE BOYLAN. | At times he'd miss it by an hour, and +sometiines by a minute. XII_—Jealous Wives. Coverieas, 29et, Sy Grose Demo Beylan:) Fach morning from the station, with » Men are credited with a directness and frankness not Ren- | deafning roar and din, {t erally accorded to women; and it ts true that they are not! sfoved slow!) off toward Gotham Town; given to concealing what they beileve to be personal In and he was never fn ft . Juries. If a man ts Jealous of his wife he knows only one ‘emedy and that ts to kill of otherwise dispose of his sus- | At | peoted rival }_ 8 ngth one day he orted aloud: nd for this no more, But women, as @ rule, take this agony in quite a different | Th muyed me on my getting left, way In feeling sure. It ts quite true that the presence of jealousy in a family | !ll catch that train to-morrow, if I 1s likely to @et the poor woman who feels its wretchedneas| Start the night beforel™ into nugging ways. Gorded by the spirit that tortures hor) to do as very worst things imaginable for her own cause, |" hbtee erie COCO CL ICI) she makes her w Uttle blows at her husband's pride and “! worries and suspecte until the light that he has loved in her| "bounds tewccd the ste ~ eyes changes to a glare, and her mouth grows too hard to| «+g barely &. His train's at 6!" they meet his kisses. led in consternation. Millicent Gray wae not @ clever woman, particularly. She! “"" partioularly. jumt loved her husband tn the dear, old-fashioned way, and |Past Durling’s store and Roome's hetel never doubted that he loved her. She liked to have him| With reckless speed he mn; «9 about among hia friends and dance with all the pretty He even passed good Deacon Cart, who Grtves a 210 span, room he passed outsi%e with a woman clinging to his arm | And finally tnto the station agent's arms nd she heard her say: he ran. ‘It was sweet and dear of you to send me the ross. But | em nere on time for once!” he you must not aay that you love me because’— “Tve caught my train! Hoprayt” They passed on and Militcent did not need to hear the rest | van Onien, the big stationmaster, only to tell her that she was that poor “because.” She was alone| paid: “You jay! with her soul, and she fought her battle out alone Then ‘rnat train don't run this morning. It's she went back {nto the room and took her place in the| @ legal holay’ dance and laughed through the long hours, and was her! THE COMMUTER. weet melt sol bee husband when he tucked her in the oar-| —$<—<—$——_— riage and drove with her to thelr home. Then began her| work. Sho never mentioned her discovery to him through CAN You DO THIS? all the time, but she was merrier than he had ever seen her, more elusive, more extravagant and better dressed. = Sho read bright things and told them charmingly. Not be- caune ale wished go be conspicuous, but because {t was part of the campaign. She Invited The Woman to her hou a Hvalled her in wit and excelled her tn costume, and who she was trying to capture that one straying heart she won A number of others that @he did not in the least desire Hor husband, at first amazed at the butterfly she had be- come, became Interested, and finally fascinated; then, seeing | the hearta dow down to her, suddenly anxtous, | “I never ae you any more,” he complained. “You are| getting to be the belle of the placo and I suppose have no| lime to bestow on @o poor a fellow as your husband.” She laughed and flung him @ saucy word; but her heart sang psalm tunes. So {t went on until he cried out for her ove as for his greatest Diessing, but when her eyes were soft with Joy he tried to make his confession, \ “Not now," ahe whispered, laying her fngers on his lips, | of a table. LE Balance a silver quarter on the edge Close one eye and walk but he insisted. Then as he told her all, with votce that | quickly up to the ¢able and try to knock trembied, she kissed him on his forehead, as a mother kisses | the coin off. The chances are that, with the little boy that has hurt himself with his new knife, lone eye shut, you can't bit tt in chase “I know,” ahe whispered. “I have known all this while!” | trials. THE IDIOT’S CORNER. Steressooreoesoee 4 eles i THINGS PAPA DIDN'T KNOW: Ia the electric fan @ revolver? “Take the Car .” A hatrack is not necesmarily an in- I aometimes think when Papa talks strument of torture. Window ohades ‘have their ups ani Of days when he was youns— Games he piayed with other boys, downs. Why 414 the circular saw? And jolly songs they sung— That he was detter off than I, the wood-cut, Why ts the jugular vein? Because it Who have to feel the dread Of being tokd when tired out, sees the proud-flesh. To “take the car ahead.” Because Does the soar in the price of butter make the butter fly? ‘Beet pricee do not travel on the hoof. Ege prices are low when the tompera- ture ts high, Sidewalks are not given to pedestrian- ism. Have you ever seen @ ehip spar? No, nor @ dry goods box. To hang on by « strap, Or have a crowd when on a curve Jam some one on his lap; Nor did he hear the passengers Swear till the alr was red, evenings my yearly torment begins. I Last evening [ ong on 80 was not stil} 1 limp and aes: came home worn out with n raging | ett a Mr, Vanderbilt's discarded “White Ghost” suggested for bermealitee c ee alee ars Grins unagniie Raps al AAA aloe helene bil Pare at tesgip oneaa patti : ; zs o ‘ Ney @ a far greater per-|makes me play that miserable, silly|Then came the agony. The piano In bine ot perrooature and made Mr, Payne Whit- eee end one of those women with a, centage. Also on ice-cream, tea, coffee| game. 1 h: it. It ts allly. When {| the flac next door Ration up. A plang’ Yellow Ghost” posstble, A “Blue Banshee,” a sues eves ETB and & seat,| and soups. No wonder they can serve | told her ently, she sald J¢ I didn't/and violin across the alrshaft did a Wraith” and a “Pink Pixie” may come tn due! she igre slog ps aaeeier eoeh| Ate istar oneal eiwe: af} Mallave’ Le eke, care for her favorite game she would| rank duet. The people on the floor Seen <vaaticitzallon ot private twachinen| mem ance th alk On| make enough on the other half to pay |!AVite some man who did. What was I| above played ping-pong. The woman but pet msi feat! | tt W. A. | them SIMON J. BAINTER, | do? What a fate for a tired, over-|on the floor below howled songs with a| use up avallablo designations of this sort. A Profitable Bustne: | A Ping-Pong Victim’s Wall, worked business man to look forward to| guitar accompaniment. <Acrom the! at the end of a hard day! What reader | street a saengerfest of some sort went | | ex: At being told t% hurry out v ngagement ring? e WERE Gai eeele < pet 4 And “take the car aheud.”* soclety belle, Do lambs frisk ®eoause they're ewes to it? Does the fos cooler keep the ice cooler? ‘Typewriters are male, female and neuter, Artists amd poker players both draw. THE PARBTIC. ———_— IF NOT, WHY NOT? A Mr. Harwood had two daughters by his first wife, the eldest of whom was |‘ married to John Coshick. ‘This Coshick had a daughter by his first wife, whom old Harwood marriet, and by her hy had a aon; therefore, John Coshict recond wife could say as follows But after all I wouldn't go Back to old-fashioned ways, And put up with slow-going trains ‘They had tn former days; Yor in this life If we should wish To lead and not be led, We'd detter got a hustle on And “take the car ahead.” THE KID. | SSeS eee ETI P4OOREDFIDG40-4-04 504 STREAM-POWER CARS. ‘The new electric railway to Chamountx from Fayet, which is operated by power from the Arve, a mountain stream, has ‘My father 4s my son, and I'm my|9 per cent. grades, although It has the common clectro-motor mother’s mother; cars with smooth wheels. ‘The current 1s from a third rail, My sister is. my daughter, and I'm|and § fourth rail ls used for a grip drake, The journey of Grandmother te my, brother," miles eccupi¢s about balf an how, —, 4 .