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Park Row, New York. at New York as VOLUME 42... 14-Clnss Malt 2 THE BROOKLYN HANDICAP, Pieture dealers on Fifth say that the Sporting prints such forefathers liked been s0 much in demand in a lifetime as now the most popular are those of horse- ven Am nts as con grand stands show in these old jp the crowd of 30,000 or 40,000 p: to-day to see the Brooklyn Handicap! New Many men so much in Jove with that prize product of the animal kingdom, a thoroughbred horse. Wise in his generation is the youth the city to-night with a s} in his roll, Even the prophets ha Which horse was to be the dead sure thing of the day, Richard Harding Davis's Mr. Van Bibber came back to town from a similar outing elated with the reflection that he had won $100 by the bets he had not made—by his neglect to placo-his money on the horses pointed out @s certain winners. ‘There are those at the race track to-day who are likely by nightfall to envy Van Bibber his serenity of mind. ns due at Gra returns to Deen puzzled as to Hearing. he the uses of the s Churchill blackmall trial ce" “Seeing” and ») es of seeing and hear- throws light o ing in the red-light region, Apparently they are not used at the same time, Like the model small boy, the discreet Fr Aisorferly housekeeper when she had becn “seen” was not heard. AN OPENING FOR PHILANTHROPY. : In the way of money giving Andrew Carnegie leads |, the world with gifts for various endowments amounting 3 to more than fifty millions of dollars. has given some ten millions to his Chicago university, and nearly as much more to religious objects. Mr. Mor- and to charity. All of these expressions of philanthropy are com- pb mendable, and some of them are admirable. But no one nished by the opportunity now offered to the corpora- tions controlling the anthracite coal mining industry. To increase the wages of thelr workmen would extend the _ beneficent agency of philanthropy over a wider area than x hes been reached either by a Carnegie, a Morgan or a Rockefeller. It would immediately improve the condition of 150,000 deserving families and promote the prosperity of all the industries depending on them. It need not cost anything, as the cost could be forthwith transferred to the coal-using public. It is a magnificent opportunity for philanthropy, but 4 we do not belleve that the coal magnates will recogntze it. They ore not built that way, The Point in Mispute.—In the Tammany game of ping- pong it seems to be a disputed potnt whether {t's Wantage in or Wantage out. : MERELY EVOLUTION, 3 The report that the ublquitous and omnipotent } Morgan has now laid his plans to capture the soft coal have not} neing scenes, What} § & pitiful handful of spectators the Ascot and Derby| mpared with) 3 re of the bookmakers’ lucre | Ps Mr. Rockefeller gan has also been a liberal giver to religion, to learning of them serves so good and useful a purpose as {is fur-] ‘ AND NOW. {In olden times, when 8 became a Sta Mnding trump of mighty med his deeds afar, But now we blazon h his name & On some Five-Cent Cigar. THE ORIGIN OF THE SONG. “Ane! ato ify the T suppose they ‘2 Happy Mome for You.’ * nt living dosing hymns near cratet to nations TO DATH. NOT U "I soe there’ wrote ‘There Is © 4 Yo Death,’ " the day of subways and volcano cURL PAVERS, this morntng."* “I saw her hair in tt, too." AN UNLUCKY QUOTATION, “Man proposes, and” — “Oh, Cholly, this Is so sudden!" —_—_ BORROWED JOKEs. IF THEY WOULD GRow. One day little Ester Walkup was out in the yard. His mother asked him what ho was doing. 2 “Plantin’ some rags, ao Lelo and me @can have some nice clothes," he sald. ttle Chronicle. verry, “Sho'a young. yet she doesn't hesitate to VERY YOUNG. » “Yes; as TRUE DREAM. he other night I took a nap on the sofa and dreamt something sharp was going through me.” “Did the dream come true?” @ "Yes; when 1#.woke I found my wife had gone through my pockets. I guess Bshe 1s sharp enough."—Chicago News. © NEEDLH IN HAYSTACK. % Miss Goldrox," besan Mr, Forehen- @runt, “I must confess that et last 1 have lost my heart, and—" “Too bad,” she interrupted; “it's s0 small you can never hope to find again."—Philadelphie Press, business and to form a three-hundred-million-dollar trust will surprise no one. The only comment on the announcement will be a mild wonder that {t was not done long ago. Tho absence of a bituminous coal combine ts an] FAURE, MULE. LUCTIR—Aaughter of absurdity in a country which enjoys the advantages and benefits of a hard coal trust, a railroad agreement, a steel corporation and a shipping combine. These are all good things to have, especially when taken in con- fe nection with such blessings as a Meat Trust and a Sugar Trust. The soft coal combine may be temporarily delayed by the strik uation, but it is bound to come If there is any truth in the theory of evolution. A LOST OPPORTUNITY, The effort to conduct a metropolitan enterprise on @ country store basis almost invariably falls. It is to this law of commerce that the collapse of the American vated Railroad must be ascribed. The neglect of its president to utilize his abundant opportunities of stock market distinction is one of the most thetic 3 incidents in the recent history of finance. 4 Here was control which by prope fortune and added his name to the list of contemporary of railroad charters should man in manipulation ve made his financial Nz His company had the Legls- lature’s perinl to build an impossible road : from the E ntic project. is The extimates put $50,000,000 as the amount to be ex- pended to cover the covt of right of way, construction and equipme The possibilities were enormous; the pitiful performance was the tasue of lees than a million of capital stock! Has the preside been asice le the “sale” of somEpopies. } the late President of France, {s about to publish a book on the Church of England's "Oxford Movement."" FORD, MARY H.—a Maine woman, has translated Paul de Kock's works for an edition de lux which Is to cost $200,000 per set. These volumes thus represent almost as much cash as a Blue Book, GLAISHER, JAMES—the meteorologist, who ascended 3,00 feet In a balloon forty years ago, is ninety-three yea! old. RAND, DR, C, F.—who ts said to have been the first volunteer for the civil war, and who was also the first sol- dier to win the Congressional Medal ot Honor for distinguished bravery, 18 aul! ving In Washington, D. C. SAMPSON, MRS, 8. RDVERE—who has lust died in Hast Orange, N. J., was granddaughter of Paul Revere. RBLLY, LIBUT, CORNELIUS— will give up a trip to Europe and go inte camp for a week with the Twelfth Regiment on May 31 tse FARE TT THE DARLING. She sleeps! She sleeps! your tread nt and catiie, her bed— Her little bed 90 soft, #9 white— she lost Who knows what before her eye, O tet Be |i Sweetly in visions pass the Monon to the Louisville ar By what bright angele she te progress? Why has he to fall from Nantiadtt 45 to 1? A “literary bureau" worthy the name, a few The golden curly fall backward Judicions “‘waeh rales” of the stock to “peg it" and} y,,,,70™ Hee in whinp gradually move {t up; the hypothecation of the stoctt A i ee with the right kind of broker and the use of the pro- A softly sh ceeds to corner Manlattan “L’’ and unload the Ameri- ean on It ut a full Seure—this would have been genius; this Is what makes our Gateses great. Hut we fail tode-|§ 10" beautiful she ist She might tect seintilia of such talent In Congleton, We should] gaye that mer rounded, dimpled not blame the stov coking to depose him. cheeks are rod | - + Mt! Boft!—she moves a | MEAT AND MUSCLE, moa at Here ig a vegetarian, Karl Mann, winner of the Inter- mathe chiral ational pedestrian contest tr lin to Dresden, with}{] To wall againt But now our B® ment cater » bad second in the ra If Mann fs not tronblaia: sled the exception proving the what Is to become of the Kimara the Chisago : as the chief muscle producer? Munt rd-Herald * fe revise our dictary fl @exeals have heen making great encroachments on | —————— i breakfast menu, Chops a wh — jd ge Were in households vinoo pereuanive brealti Tl i ELY Glitterateur began to advertise his goods. Man pis breakfast food is, we are led to beileve. And ‘whe ¢ nr this particular Mann 9 the man he cause} 7 the Kol | Buberior coreal “mude in Gormany.” 11 I# theno| wheraye nn pa akeat anethod that “put the starch Into a man.” There to ono} ;wed not be eurtooted 1 che dieag ea | es longer staying power than meat;” another; ble necveaity of inhaling the breath ind Of which represents ton pounds of me: a {Of the barber bending aver him? Here's] Mauppliew the delicate gray substance which |* An’ for an Wvontive Reina iny celle without which the vtrongeat muncles ean IAUtCeilaia’ aude, | this that a discriminating choice of| 'y B will 40 much for a man phyatoally| uns lady who complained about } B of retaliation on the o the Killor of The Byening World unt a few words of advice to th young span bechume be got mad when whe wat holding #ome other fellow's hand, No wonder he wot mad! uf I! JOKES OF OUROWN ng ‘I'll Leave My a dispute as to who “Well, whoever wrote It lived before “I eaw your wife's name in the paper | Board of Hoa) Ly @USYkKes TUCUS Tere RREEEmr IT eran woe — NG, MAY 24, 1 pear on we ODDO Keeper—Here! Here! Here! What are you doing? Lunatic—I'm a moving van, an’ I'm moving the plano. SO THOUGHTLESS OF THE BIRD. The Stork—I've bro't you something. Turtle—Well, it's @ pity you couldn't watt till we got moved! ONLY A RELATIVE. ® Young Lady—Who was that gentle- Zman who Just spoke to you, Willie? Willte—Aw, that wasn't a gentle- man. He's my uncle HE FELT RELIEVED, d bor > "Inn't 1 Dokes ean house toomonrowy had been in his place 1 would have wently ted the other fellow outside rome fonely spot and there hand bim out bunoh uppercuts, jabs and hat ho'd think he waa half kuiiled. my adyloe, young lady and by your be trated 7 HARRY Wornet Tu the WA Lor of The Hvening World 1 & problem for the eminent to solve, I would Hho to Know which ix the better plan--the butcher to ei ide meat on Sunday morning during the summer months, or the people to ext tuinted meat on Bum: | | OCCUPATION. S Visitor—Hollo, Ap ean all the latest magazines, I presume? ,» I am not through cut- ting the pages in last month's yet flectively, “if he licks my husband I'l give him Fitz.” COULDN’TCURE HIMSELF “Doesn't the ‘divine “Yes'm."" “What in he doing to-day? LIF O44-00004 ife. ® DOOD OOSDHIHOD 6 Ps $ o “I should dearly love to attend the « coronation lady who was fat wasn't forty. “T read remarked in the papers, > thoughtless person, ‘that they could % the young { and fair if she ¢ * said the > allow but sixteen square Inches of & floor spave to each spectator.” And then he regretted and re & gretied and regretted. RIVALS, Bhelverman what's all Soakem's store for? Clerk—Oh, they sa. had a fit, Shelverman—It's could get a ft in (to In the firet piace, the butcher’ is far superior for keepin ight Ow a day? Apply to Frank Dy To the Bditor of The Byening World What must I do tn order te mira L. BD, ore Liberty. ‘To the Kdilor of The Ryeaing World it \9 a hopeful and wholesome sign of the Umes to see some of our sects or creeds endeavoring to expunge from hel religious tenets ome of thelr old> a fashioned prejudices, here, 4D oaOOEELOOD ‘LETTERS FRO? THE PEOPLE. his clerk)-—Hi, that crowd going into % y a man inside & a le! Nobody § Tt shows that we are slowly progressing in the direction uf rhood,’ a “Universal Brothe apart, had a itttle in tenet and Would be preaching day, It is hard to « | fave°lfvad nd’ det beliefs are desorving bigotry infused tuto 4 couple of conturie ta the sure In revolt against such i bie Sounmon wanise' GP to-day, and Ip the end to m ‘ whence atl Op. more lessening of bigotry pulpit fowe | preachers to empty pews to- Ivo up «id customs the multitudes who A euch UbeChristian of sympathy, Tho fectarlan dootriney thin) uneChristian gore % EF fore, let us congratulate our ‘J. M'CORMACK, OoDp!TY CORNER: EXTRAORDINARY DIFFERENCES OF CLIMATE. Summer bathing at Santa Monica, twenty-seven miles away. Winter snow above Pasadena. eee at the top of Mount Low, above Pasadena, at 1.15 A, M. The snow 1s deep there and the cold Intense. ‘The other picture shows the sort of temperature you encounter a few hours later. It illustrates the bathers at Santa Monica at 3.30 in the afters noon of the same day. The two spots photographed are only twenty= seven miles apart It seems almost ridiculous to call an American's attention to any of the wonders of this country. Still there are some things in it that are sur- prising and that Eastern people especially, with the exception of a comparatively travelled few, know nothing about. Here, for instance, are two photographs recently taken which fllustrate the extremes of climate to be encountered almost In a breath in the State of California. In the picture on the left is shown the arrival of a touring party ———eS—————d MAKING OF ROSARIES. TWO NAMES ARE HERE. In the parishes of Mieming and Rletz, in the Tyrol, the members of nearly every household wre engaged in the preparation of rosaries, through the stringing togdther of beabls, Every person of the female sex, old or young, spends her spare time in this manner. ‘The workwomen are pald dy the piece and receive for stringing a dozen rosar- jes of the ordinary kind from 10 to 13 kreutzers (4 to 5.3 cents), while in the case of those which require more dell cate handling as mach as 40 kreutzers (10 cents) per dozen {s pald, after the cost of all spoiled material has been deducted, —— BABOOS. On the occurrence of a plague scare in one of the afflicted cities of the Pun- jab the clerks of a pubilc office took flight, leaving behind them the follow- ing application: ‘We poor, unfortunate Baboos, In solemn conclave assembled, RS pray your lionor to be pleased to permit us to leave this unwholesome spot; for, pray, what can Baboo give in exchange for his soul? In anticipation of sanc- tlon we leave to-night.’ Hold these figures before a looking glass and you wilt sce the names of a boy and a girl. Or hold them page up to the light and look at through the back page and you will get the same effect. iF ——_—_ > lthey were bringing him back wounded along that awful way HIGHROADS * * yc| GEOMETRICAL PUZZLE. * * TOHAPPINESS. By GRACE DUFFIE BOYLAN. XVI.—The Builder and the Ships. (Copyright, 1902, by Grace Duffle Boylen.) I have sometimes wondered if the craft in the harbor looked askance at tne deep-breasted ships that were .out- ward bound, ‘The master builder has ever his own plans for ‘his task end he carries them out regardless of what his carpenters think | the breadth of the bow and the shape of the keel and about ‘the polse and balance above them. ‘And what may a cockleshell in the harbor know of the} Here fs a square. Can you divide it ‘boat with {ts heart of fire and arms of steel that thrillsin the/into seventeen smaller but \clasp of the storm far out at sea! aquares?, (The explanation | will’be eave | Ana yet we, who are not boats, but women, make our | to-morrow, ijudgments of the ways of other people, whom we do not ans A FIRELESS BOIL. understand, as the snug river fleet might criticise the ocean | squadron. : | There are lives that seem in constant battle with the storms of fortune; yet seldom do they flounder. Something "that the builder's hand has cunningly provided for euch stress of weather keeps them up through all, And there are those, splendid in thelr reckless daring, floating like derelicts forever in the wildest waters, who would not change thelr lot for moorage in the smoothest haven in the world, Martha Wilson had loved her husband completely—and he was not worth it—but I did not start out to tell her story, because there was the boy. Along in the firat years of her deep sorrow she sald that his little head had pressed all the ache out of her heart, and that overything was all right. “There 1s good stuff in the lad,” people sald; "a boy oft takes after his mother, But Martha must guide him right. So she made her hope on the work of the master builder as the years went by, and the boy adventured on the seas of trouble and sin, and every one but his mother believed him lon Open a raw egg a little on both ends to allow some of the white to run out. ‘Take first-class alcohol of high peroent- jase and pour ft in the openings. Close the two openings with your fingers as shown in the illustration, or with little Pieces of wax; shake the egg well, 6o the alcohol can penetrate every part of it. After three or four minutes the con« tents of the egg will apparently be hard, @o that the egg can be opened and pressed as hard-boiled. The egg is not warm, @s the alcohol has only made the white solid. The eggs will taste strongly of alcohol, —$$—__— THE CARPENTER’S PUZZLE ‘There 1s good stuff in him,” she said, clinging to her old hope. ‘He will come out all right. Then came the war and the boy enlisted. He was not much of a soldier, and he frankly admitted that he was afraid of a gun and horrifled at the and crabs; but when from Stooney he made his stretcher-bearers let him down and leave him by the road In the dusk, and take in his, place a more terribly wounded man, He gave his life for another in this way, for he was dead when they found him in the morning after the fight. But what of that? He had “come out all right,” and it was the good timber in the ship that had brought him to a glorious harbor, TOMMY GAVE HIMSELF AWAY, Some months ago 4 five-year-old's grandfather, who lived in the house, mislatd his cane, and offered Tommy five cents to hunt for and find it. Tommy found it with so little trouble that he wished grandpa would mislay the cane very often. The wish was father to a thought that, put dnto execution, coined money for Tommy until last week. The family had begun to worry about grandpa's mental state, so often did the old man lose his cane. Day after day was Tommy's savings bank enriched to the extent of a nickel, Saturday last he was told to go out to play for an hour or so, but objected, although known to be fond of an afternoon game of jacks with the children of the neighbor- hoo vhy, Tommy, what In the world is the matter?” asked his surprised mamma, "Why don't you want to go out?” I'M go after while,’ paid Tommy, in a matter-of-fact ay; “but grandpa's getting ready to go for his wall, and i have to find his cane in a minute,” ‘This diagram shows how the snips carpenter secured a plece of wood with which to ix a leak from a square boan® that was full of holes, ‘The sige of the piece he wanted had to be exactly one quarter of the of the board, The problem was printed in yesterday's Hvening World, ——— HENS LAY IRON EGGs, A VERMILION ANSWER, An unlettered Celt's application to the Court of Naturall- nation resulted in the following dlalogu Judge—Haye you read the Declaration of Independence? | Hens of various breels, at Prankforte Applicant—No, air, on-the-Main, have been fed with food Judge=Have you read the Constitution of the United containing much tron, and atter several state | weeks some expe were found ¢o have Appiicant=No, mir 4s much As ono~wxth of one per cent, Judgo-Have you of this substance, As the albuminate Appleant—No, sir, of lron formed |» very diges muou Judge-No? Well, what have you read? kee soem to offer @ much: tire Applicant—Ol bave red hair on me head, Your Honor, e@dy for anaemia, i ’ ad the history of the United Btat