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Caper wine. CMorld. Weviiahed vy the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMoe et New York as Seoond-Class Ma!l Matter, NO, 14,884. VW RULE > In attacking the character of the witnesses In the Me- (Amliffe case Disirlot-Atturney Jerome has Introduced a Rew rule of testimony criminal practice which may feturn to bother him This is the rule that no testimony as to the commis- gion of a crime can be considered or admitted unless the witnesses aro persons of unin r che rand the records of their lives are flawless. It Is not ed by the necessary that thelr standing shall be impu » look efonse. It is the duty of tho prosecution thetr records and, {f these are not immaciiate, to exclude their testimony How will this rule work? Mr. Jerome ts that he is going to put an end to police blackmail, Will he got | the testimony against the blackmailers from witnesses of @ood character and standing? It was one of the Issues of the last election that dive-keeping should be abolished, Is dive-keeping carried on only tu the presence of repu- table witnesses? And how about the pool-rooms and policy shops, and the “creeper joints" and opium dons, and other haunts of vice and crime? Are they to remain under the protection of the District-Attorney’s office until the evidence against them oomes from churoh members? In outlawing the McAuliffe witnesses and in protect- fag the McAuliffe murderers tho District-Attorney has Outlawed other witnesses aud protec ther criminals. His now rule of evidence is a stro) yteotion to thowe partioular forms of crime which ho is specially pledged to prosecute. BD Who Automobile Test.—It has been satisfactorily demon- strated that an a ing not faster than ten miles an hour can be st Ut tty longth, And the logical deduction from this an autor cannot be stopped In hale {ts length It ts going faster than ten miles an hour is that when THE STRONG MEN OF COLUMBIA, If the popular delusion that city life breeds a race of weaklings still survives, it should be dispelled by the | strength tests of the Columbia undergraduates, which places our city boys in the front mnk in the {nter~ eollegiate strength competitions. Theso tests are the most accurate that sclence and | experience can devise, and Columbla !s exceptionally a @ollege of city men, of students from the biggest and most crowded city in the country, and yet in sheer physical strength, in the development of exceptional muscular power, Columbia leads them all. They are of good stock, these strong men of Columbia, New York should be proud of them. Let us dismiss the motion thet city life means decadence, either phystcal, mental or moral. Did not the experience of the evil war how that the city boys were the equals of any In endurance? By Way of Contrna' this little Boer war John Bull has just Mgured out that haa cost him up to date something more than $1,160,000,00, all pald for b 1 new taxes. ‘The April statement of Ur Dreasury shows that his puvite debt tia oil ue the month by something more than $4,000.00), If this keeps on We shall begin to mpeak of British couain as “our poor relation ” our THE VIRTUOUS BOWER. The suppression of McGurk's Suicide Hall, together With the closing of the Volks Garden and of other old- time haunts of vice on the Bowe periious thoroughfare an air of re nity at night which will class !t with lower Brow Ith Indeed, long been a better ed str r fora pedestrian’s foo Mt for hi We are not to suppose that « purification ite aPre sean that the Bow Ugion. They will st sfanerdn may lol do such ti t t Places w! femoval of the re Ught region bey« seckers Tho ch Visitor in t discover w will add to city fellers are j prices of re turning to the consolation things and JUST LIKE EATHIER, te were « Hee wn we whee - hl —- will give that once | | come ar find the | NOLL ee ed ae |: JOKES | OF OUR OW wExTCo, A TALVAD wn at Albuquerque, ‘ime, 1 tried ty ahiraue Rut Bill aia And 1 had to draw ) Ho'e dead. the Peace Act wouldn't wore ny dire NORFIBLD, “Don’t you wieh it were May all year A OHANGH OF FRONT. ‘Juwt give nm a few ecraps of bread, Xind lady, and TM thenk you en me knees. Any piece of food that yer 6om yon’t eat.” But I don't keep a dog." Don't, eh? Well, you just hand me ut the pest line of grub you've got in ne hows@ and all yer apare cash be- ides, or I'll burn yer barn down, See?" * 4 4 * > yong? “Jodeed T don't. It's unlucky to marry in May." QUITE DIFFRRENT. 2 “You say you wish to became my gon- in-law?" “Not in the very least. I merely wish }to become your daughter's husband.” ——— BORROWED Jokes. : NOT LOOKING FOR FIRE. |{h an old colored preacher was tolling & bis congregation that after death they P would probably go to the moon. After > meoting one of the best informed of | ® the brethren said to himt i $ “Brer Jinkins, don't you know dat de S moon is col’ ex foe, en ain't got no fire all in it?" “Beer Thomas,” replied the parson. vet hits fre you a-wantin’, des keep on |.in de way you gwine en you can't miss 1t."" Atlanta Constitution. $ SERENITY, ¢ “1 am very much afraid,” sald the Jtriend, “that 1t will be han for you to Ube re-elected. * “Not a bit,” sghumj "it ma + diteuit.”—W answered Senator Sor- sive but not “Bome men.” said Wilile Wishtngton, ‘aot lke perfect fools when they are tn love ‘You, answered Miss Cayenne, “and ta great many more do not walt even for o"-Indlanapolla News, SOMEBODIES. ADSIT, MRS. N. H.—the famous wom- an lecturer, died thie week in Wiscon sin SSAND, DR.—has devised « cinema- graph for the use of the blind FARNIHAM, PROF H W.—of ha. en the University of G Ya rea a of Rovolut ts RS, SAMUEL Feder Mt Lalor Kune LOMRS KAT PLLIADODADOEDDD LADEADD DODEARADADADHODEORDEAAT DODO D OOF ’ l@ ies THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 100% ©O444995-5999900909000004 ' Ghe Fanny Side of Life. NO. V. THE FLAT-HUNTERS. WEEDAPPL* We far pour oMonr weLPpeour 4led furniture chokes up the doors, the hallway's blocked with chairs; And folding-beds and crockery and straw fostoon the stairs. The Van Men keep a table leg or chair back as a token, And china, glass and pocketbooks in wholesale they have broken. eee FRIENDLY ADVICE. GOOD GUESS, WISE. oe od ODpITY CORNER: OL ALL $ ? ey) AN AMUSING LITTLE HAT TRICK. Cut out the hats and place them on the heads of the indtviduale to whom they belong, SS ed . A FEW MORE FUNNY PENCILOLAUGHS, funny things to do with Wiows TWAM— ~ 1) 9 pen or pencil, ‘These St Aaath comic evolutions are not only interesting but, as was stated in yester- Loop or Line— <_< a <i tA ‘SALMON Fine, & | day's Evening World, they are excellent little lessons in drawing for the young folks, This is the Inst of them which The Even- ing World will offer for the present. Any in- gentous person can fol- low the {dea out in- definitely, as the poss!- bilities in this line are unlimited Cones TREES ‘Stop AT BEA AAA a LPR corset, one lost a bon- »~ CO ORK | ES eveyereus and perfumes, and they Rater Puror, :|GETTING INTO SOCIETY. CAN YOU DO THIS? A Letter from Bessie, in New York, to Her Mother in Wayback, Ga. Dearest Mamma: You will be glad to learn that your little girl, who has only been in New York one month, {s already getting into society. Last night I attended a progressive euchre party given by the Soclety for the Suppression of 4 at the Neurasthenia Apartment Hotel, on the west how ne of the finest functions of the season. t a drug store and took There was a negro porter to take care of our things, and everything else was in first-class style, One young lady waa dressed decollaytay, which is Frenob for low neck and short sleeves, and most all the gentlemen pwallow-tall coats on Prece oF StRINO— Biro To Sina. GAMBLEITIS. The dadies of Arens- burg, Germany, are ‘toa ves's passtonate card players Ow. se Wis, Bince they are not al- lowed to play at the lo- & | cal clubs they make up games at their friends’ houses and gamble all day through, As soon as the cash funds run short they take to vari- ous articles, mostly tol- let belongings, Thus @ one tost to another her Just A DAB— Wow A CRAB Uncle Rufus bought the tickets Aunt Melinda and me. Waldorf-Astoria and She wore dian a sister earrings as big ae shoe buttons, * i” You look ver i 4 ; 2 nat an rele the PR DAL A ad pad and she accused the other old lady who played at the same|may atempt at the eame time, se . cece ; sila a ae ees yew pqeeyt4 * | table with us of cheating, The other old lady denied it end |quires that the following compitosted 1° : st ah dese leet niaht: een aie ve? If 1 were | Hie had an awful dispute, and the first olé lady's husband, | pose shail be talven wp by each compe x ; (eerie eee ie Clery inv win ‘em 2 | who was playing at the next table, started in to defend hie |itor: Balancing on the right toot, wilt jn | { od 1 | wife and got wo excited that he fel! off his chair | the right band grasping the left fest ° a Puprene . While this wae going o big man with whiskers @ot up behind the back ané with the left hem@ } ainiasde AM H A Rie; oe | INGENUOUS, @ Jon the floor and shouted that he'd had four partners, one | grasping the righ ear eee Stee. " * light after the other, who @idn't keow mpades from dia-| In thin postion, hopping om eme te, MARKET PRIDE } ig i onda, and that & white man didn't etand any show et the | the feat consists in making your omy |) ae ates Rede All| kame and he was gol to quit and get hie money back at |trvard @ newspaper stood on end. ore we “ney eye f os } ¢ door. The old lady with the @iamonds told me that thie |eork placed on book, or stmtiag ter 8 ‘ + How hi } > Symmes 5 4 \ Say { on Was e gambler trom Cripple Creek, Col, and that she | Ject, about six tnehes trom the grown — i ; ists an eee | oltn't ke how he got in, anyway Then she sald that which is to bo picked up in the mouth LLL TT, - Ayes AS HE TOLD IT he didn't propose to wet left, whatever On no account must ether hand em ty DOOR 4 ore off eight blue checks fram her table lease ta hold reo J ‘ jtiad won eight games, although she had ple 04 only four, —--— Jand put them in her pocketbook NO MORE WHISKERS. NMELY LETTERS a. Hm « athe ine * —— oe oe oe oe ae You can eee that New York euniety ie lively enough for 4 to tel) We managet to 1 whan we came to the ven persone who hed Jurteen games ean “ ot one and there wae When ® young man Senator wore long Gincarded th letribution | ohenke ¢ ait hen every Merenee feertul tune. 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