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THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1908. , Puplished by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to @ Park Row, New York. Hntered at the Post-Ofmce et New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. VOLUME 42. aoe oe NO, 14,898. A BIOOER MAN THAN THE JUDOE. oo 2400 b84d649 64.4864000880400084S09 OSI 98OI60 0995403804 HOTOESOOD What is a magistrate of a municipal court that the ‘ ‘ District-Attorney of the County of New York should be 5 mindful of him? Why shoul a judicial officer of na-|%> e ann 7 e O 7 e. ‘ 4 tional reputation, an orator on whose words a listening 3 ry pubic hangs, a politician about whom editors write, the \$ : ‘ Dright partioular #tar in the reform constellation—why ¢ ans: should such a man knuckle down to a minor judge on a | HA I DEVERY IN | ERVIEW 2 / a - . e , | question of law? 3}ORIGINAL GORDIAN KNOT. UNTIE JT. q It is easy to get Mr. Jerome's point of view in the You STIRRED & : McCoy case. It is the blind and biased view of one THEM UP THAT $ whose clear vision has been obscured by notoriety and i tid ST aL acineh wath ik A TIME, SPORT 5 Whose experience with authority has upset an equillb-|% such ots of nice hot alr. $ Bf rium that was never too stable. 4 3 2 ‘ q ‘As Magistrate Crane said, with a sobriety and self- POKER TERMS IN LOVE. 2 restraint that do him credit, it is not for the District- Pamiihrts teed ravine Miss smith, did 3 q ‘Attorney to decide as to the Innocence or gullt of Mc-| Qe ee ee ee cue Lellan. The Jaw lies in the plain facts of the case, A citizen has been shot, probably fatally, by another citi- AMENITIES. 4 gen, Instead of delivering the guilty person up to the} Stella—Mabel has started a friend- oe . hip garden and @he saya she wants & 4 court Mr. Jerome, a prosecuting officer and not a judge, Sentry plantlis wernd her’ etigou assumes the innocence of the culprit, shields him from’ Bella—That #0? She told me she fi arrest and throws about him the ample protection of the C3 wanted @ rubber plant for you. District-Attorney’s office. He thus constitutes himself % =e ° ‘ en in id judge and jury in the matter of a most reprehensible dis- ni i ‘A farmer named Gordius was chosen ruler of Asia. He took his pruning shears to the temple q turbance of the peace and usurps to himself functions Hi Gee ene his capital and tied them to a staple on a pillar with an intricate and original knot whoso ends 3 not his. eteony mee ea could not be seen, It was then announced that whosoever could untle the Gordian knot should 4 Ad be Emperor of Asia. At last Alexander the Great made the attempt. Failing to untle it, he drew _ It is a very arrogant assumption of authority by one SLANG TERM. his sword and cut {t. A writer in the Pittsburg Gazette says the knot can be untied. Prove yourself ‘who appears to set himself jauntily above the law. a cleverer than Alexander the Great by doing it. Take any kind of ordinary scissors and a string 2 “So the dove of peace has lighted in r | the Transvaal! I vell you the Pnglish after the manner shown in the skete! é ‘Tho ‘4/a” Coal Gupply.—it appears that in the Manhattan | ¢ are @ great nation! 8 | eee ER 3 “L’ locomotive tenders a thin top layer of anthracite |® ‘Yea they beat the Dutch.” é A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE AN ELECTRIC TRICK, 3 coal conceals the bituminous coal beneath. Some persons $ § . ¥ may suspect that the road’s superintendent was engaged Bo OWED JoKE > ‘aa e boy in packing apples or filling strawberry boxes. | 2 RR! S- Sing a song of scissors; shears and paste-pot, too! 3 4 ‘The boy is father to the man. ie Four-and-twenty editors grab an interview, And How the Boston ‘ \3 SIGUA. Touchin’ on and appertainin’ to Bill Deveree; Man Profited by It. q NOTHING TO SAY, ©) “My entire clerical (orce went out on Isn't thut a pretty sight for Tammany to see? ‘A remarkable feature of the illustrated Devery inter. go nal tor" replied. the caustlo ae The other night a young west-sider took a Boston friend Ww : of his calling on a young lady. In the course of the conver- view in The Evening World—which was promptly ap- >What was his grievanc '—Philadel- WHY HE DID IT. sation the subject of hold-up men was mentioned . fi propriated by every’ morning paper in the city—is the {phla Press, “You want to be careful,” said the young lady, “for there 3 utter inability of the gentlemen whom he honored with & NOT SPORTSMANLIKE. wot YER are two men who have been terrorizing the city. One is a 3 his notice to make any adequate reply to his criticisms. » Mrs, Summers—I never knew my DAT. long man and one {s short. They walk in dark strects and reply at all, being apparently struck “dumb and speech- Mrs. Winters Gracious! Docent he FER Tice ca sinsaei Coins’ wet eroenii thers Vasa f2hey (Gal on" hie % Jess.” The only coherent response comes from ex-Sheriff 2 ing?—yonkers Statesman. and deat and rob him.” t Dunn, who accuses Devery of base ingratitude to Croker ® ‘The young visitor from Boston laughed at the warning. Paste a strip of tinfoil around the and who says, “Why, Devery is the one man who lost PLENTY OF TIME. Wee criEnlentiars Da a she was try- pugs ste Sera ieee ean 4 | 9 ye ‘ “How c yin’ Att t » Bay hd arrow strip nfoil le 0 E the election for us last year. If it hadn't been for him we ¢7 "How come vou allus sayin’ ite hot ‘Phe next day the native went around to see the easterner| one end to within one inch trom the ez de place whar de devil live at? a ‘would have won hands down.” Pasked Brother Dickey of one of his at his hotel. He found him in bed, with his head bandaged | other strip. Wrap a silk handkerchief Has Tammany neither brains nor sand that it allows « ‘white folks.” And then he added: “Great Scott! What's happened?" asked his friend. “You]or piece of silk around the chimney a {tself to be rated and ridiculed and jibed at and raked “Don't you know you come of a long- ook as if you'd met the long man and fhe short man. cleaner (the little brush) and .rub the 7 i cahd at with hot hot tine a * life family. en it'll be some time yit “T have,” ruefully remarked the Bostonian inside of the chimney industriously, be- i na ne As orn and sarcasm from @ A) you'll know fer surtin des how hot “After I left you last night I hurricd in the direction of| ing careful not to touch the strips of . mere mutinous private and has never a word to say in @ft is down dar?"—Atlanta Constitution, my hotel, thinking of the warnings you and the young lady| tinfoll with your hands. reply? eGTLT naan had given me. I came without a mishap to the street that ABE Ca ane is peeceteae the Truly the present plight of Tammany is a sad one to wzole? SINESS. runs along the side of the hotel. You are aware of the In-/ dark an electric spark can seen d contemplate. “Have you observed that man who tense darkness which envelopes that place at midnight.| Jumping from the ring to the strip as 4 SS SSS bas Leen abusing your” Suddenly I discovered two men approaching. I had been chen es the Prog is pulled back, says ; S : . ‘Yes," anawered Senator Sorghum, congratulating myself vpon my safe arrival, but the appear- | the Chicago Tribune, Klas bapaeeees Os Livclagml nee all the Boer war bills are piacidiy, “I've been watching him with ance of those men tallled so closely with that of the robbers| Fasten a piece of wire around the tin- paid the cost to the British Government will probably @ a greut deal of interest, If I wanted whom you warned me against that I became alarmed. fol] ring and on its end a few strips of Feach $1,600,000,00, or more than the total capitalization Z anybody abused 1 don’t know but NA bold course sugested itself, It was to make a sudden| tissue paper. By rubbing the inside of of the Steel Trust. Our little Philippine war 1s not cosi- ‘» should hire hum In preference to any- ius z t full speed before they | the chimney with the silk-covered brush ing us much just now, but we cannot tell what the dy 1 know of.’ Washington Star, Bs Lats Pepe ese Ndsy wee sie aiput ates ae head rad the ring 1s filled with electricity, which foeenite total" will be until we begin estimating on 044 94444404000004900000606,) 6 rea nA beppense: passing through the wire affects the the pension prospect. 2 Tell 4 strips of paper, causing them to fly @ @ & “Well?” queried his friend. —_—_—_——_—_. eS & apart : | re ®] “When they brought me to In the corner drug store and I}. This experiment should be tried in dry : A NATURAL MISTAKE. SOMEBODIES. $]¢ $ | asked for explanations they told me that the long and short som tuer, ins numidity, ie AAG rants: ‘ A passerby in the nefghborhood of Broadway and Rec- i 4 "A white fox. | pair were hotel porters. When I attempted to charge past| six cloth and lamp chimney should be — ‘ tor street last night, finding himself enveloped in a denee' ARNULT, PRINCE—ot Bavaria, will 3 "Great Scott! From its length 1¢ they were carryi:; a large trunk between them. absolutely dry. eae bi "| come to this country, unofficially, In| took it for a white dachshund, at the.) ——~ ny a aA il pape ne al econ oe Me ce 03 very least.’ GAVE HIM HIS HEAD. A FAMILY GROUP. q arm ich was promptly and properly respon to by| CARUS, DR. PAUL~announces that | ® on ” E Das, g Now, there,” sald the shoe saesman, ; the Fire Department. the Saxons, the Hebrews and the Chi- $ AW! J EVEN AT HOME. s Just what you want.” 7 4 SEST “Is it?” asked the prospective cus- He was under the impression that such a volume of| Ne#*, aro the three most hardy rac gmoke could come only from a fire in some ono of the| Sn¢ that they will aurvive ait other tomer, “I thought I sald’’— FER CE arnsy | This may Interest believers in the | $ “Just Jet me put it on,” interrupted big and costly buildings around him, and his mistake was| doctrine that “the Chineas enust eo" | 2 TER write. renee ae . @,natural one; it is shared by hundreds of thousands of COLE, HENRY—of Denver, Is to give g 50mMe Tin “But it is my recoflection'’— 4 ethers. He might easily have supposed that a little] the Methodist Church of that city, |@ g ldn't have a better fit,” broke In a) > in, an. “Everybody Js wearing Mount Pelee had broken loose somewhere in the imme-| ™0Fe than $80,000. q vicinity. HAGGERTY, CAPT. JOHN—the diver © > FA eter pafore has tho fate city of New York been vo| Phe, skHlored the wreck of the Maine | Heol eaten tneloinen hasan at : Defouled and begrimed as it is now within less than two) Brook’yn, ; 3 ter a moment: "There you are, alr, 4 r after the outbreak of a strike that might easily | WATIARAJAM OF JAIPUR-ds oarryine | 2 eas He Bee: Pareerhtly,iPieaeer been averted by a little common sense and good| 1) pounds of luggage on his visit | @ ‘or the shoes." 4 will to the coronation, He may in time § “But I don't want the shoes. You equal the summer resort soclety girl. MORTON, J. STERLING—Father of Arbor Day, will have a monument erected to his memory by the Ne- braska City Arbor Day Memorial As- asked me to let you put them on, and I was courteous enough to let you do it. I always try to be obliging. You said they were just what I wanted, but that was your judgment, and I'm ace: Whe Real Thing.—The promptneas with which The Even- img World's Devery interview was accepted us genuine by our esteemed contemporaries is as flattering as it is 3 SapreHeeel.” Tt epoke tor staat, sociation tomed to back my own, Now, if you've ——— PERSIA, BHAHORcwho de: winitin had ail the divertisemont in this matter 4 OLTTING GREAT BY DEGREES. thie alan) will nat Eo vol toate tan that you desire, will you please. trot me out a pair of proad-toed, soft-tipped shoes, according to vhe plans and speci fications 1 gave you when I came In, aod perhaps we can do business. I have found by experience that the only way to get what one wants from a shoe clerk is to let him have his own way for the first fifteen or twenty minu: and then he may become tractable. Chicago Post, ‘The LL. D. season is now fairly open, and there is an} ten miles an hour on. the railroads, fective competition among the colleges, great and small,} &4 has @ eulte made up principally of » _to secure proper subjects for the distinction, So keen Goteotiven hae the competition become that almost any man who q gets his name in the papers may find himself an LL. D. defore he knows it. Prince Henry was LL. D.'d because his brother was an Emperor, Senator Hanna has just Hiram Dewtell up on the bridge fishing. Tney say he's just come ® back from a visit to the city. 4 The Other Fish—Say, let's bunco 6, LOVE, Let me but love my love without Maguise, ‘The camera levels all ranks. Here are the King of Den- f mark and his two daughters, Queen Alexandra of England been made an LL. D. because he js a great statesman hi is id th x m again. Here's a goldfish for him.@ on his right and ths Dowager Empress of Russia on his and Mark Twain has been honored for two good reasons eer # mage of spenion sold to put with his bricks. 3 A PROLIFIC TREE. lett, looking ike @ Third avenue delicatessen man and his Sarat: because he le an awful Pallowhand teecands No >| A Tennessee paper announces that out| assistant chow-chow mixers and sandwich-makers, Nobody Eee Rt am Eppes nd, second, . to speak till I can hear DESCRIPTIVE. * | of a single tree in Dyer County a citizen| would ever imagine that royal blood wags romping in their Deca: ‘as Dorn in Missouri, Riocisine ecartteatent , had got four cords of firewood, three| veins, And the negative has been considerably retouched, Varied indeed and miscellaneous are the qualifications BIRR Ce pant Soi ehinesie ahheee gallons of honey and five raccoons. too, which entitle distinguished men to this more distin- guished honor, The wonder is how two LL, D.’s can meet each other without laughing. A CHILD-WIFE'’S SUICIDE, When Mary Kolka, the pretty little blond seyenteen- year-old factory girl, married Charles Denner, just a year or two older than herself and as swarthy as she was fair, — Nor bow my knees to what my heart dentons; But what Tam, to thet let me be true, And tet me worship where my love ta due, And so through love and worship lot me rise; For love ts but the heart's 4mmortal thirst, THE MAKE-UP OF A CONSUL. VOLCANO FLOWER. A Consul is, in a certain sense, the representative of his country. To the people among whom he js stationed and to the local authorities ‘he 1s the impersonation of his Gov- ernment. He should be a man of dignity, of self~possession, of good address and bearing, of tact and discretion, says The Forum, who should cofimand the respect and confidence of foreign merchants and officials, and should be honored even there was every Ikelihood that it would be a happy || To be completely known and all by his travelling countrymen, These qualifications cennot i 2 or forgiven, be determined by a olvil service exaganation, but they aro patch, That was only two months ago, and here Is the | | OOTmiat as that matters which should recelve careful consideration. Hence, bride, the honeymoon not yet over, a suicide in the Nevers, elke thes: aomie 69, the President must be allowed some déscretion in making a river! It 1s a pathetic end, At an uptown theatre this] 0 take me, love, and understand spisction from among those whose names re presented (0 week in “Frou-Frou” an actress of emotional onpacity is my worst, eT ar lle iors eure perpen oor te And pardon it. for love, en Prince Gortchakoff was 0 | of the jan} Se 2 8 tear) audience ihe gt pong of Airey r love, hecause = = Foreign Office, the candidates for the diplomatic service, | ano. * @ must regard the real life|# And let me find én thee, my love “an! Powelkh 170 pounds! But i — “Strange—I seem w welsh just the after passing the examination, were always granted an au- drama here as the stronger in pathos, my beat Outlook. » ought to welgh myself without my ame without it as I do with it!’ dience with His Exceliency, who then made a final decision ‘Au Aching Void."* by observing the manner in which they entered the room, | som, i¢ a gnarled piece of wood may be * the way in which they addressed him and their general de-| taieq @ blossom, that Js found QU at the breakfast table.” It was probably nothing reeiment during the interview, A. Consul may know alll fees shat grow at the foot of n Volcano, More serious; a husband's love, however fickle, does not about invoices and «hips, and also about seals and sealing |The blossoms form ut the tp of the ‘wane ia two months, and that is the only serious cloud Tl | lj E LY LETTE RS FRO? TH E PEOPLE wax, but if he be rude and undignified, ff he lack savolr faire Fie Hy coy tee aie emia anane ai usually obscures a bride's horizon of happiness. ne je and savoir vivre, he could serve he country to better ad- | from Guatemala. ui @ sensitive child-wife unused to masculine moods Makes Audience Wink, jever, What use is there in stagtling| the city of Charleston, 1 think the| Even this is not attotly correct, as it Vantens 18 SiN ee reslon known as “the classe ————__ BES regard a “litle tit’ ae the blackest of storm clouds, |e miss of Te mening Worts aml half scaring to death @ poor faint-/ owner, who la an analytical chemist, | applies only to visiting and shopping a8 FISHES THAT SING, Pe Aitesn lesa hasty ond waited onl :| I am desirous of calling your atten: hearted person? ‘here ought to be a/ analyzed the soll and compared it with | within certain Mmite and does not hold 5 Many fish can produce musical sounds, " YUll the end] tion to “pistol-firing” in playhouses. |14w atopping such uncalled for stage>| soll obtained from China, He then ob- | good for rides In Central Park, River SWEETEST OF THE SWEET. The gurnards can produce long-drawn jlay’s work! The dinner table would have brought | or Instance, take a njurer; he must) shooting A man ean be forgiven if he| tained the seed for the experiment and | side and other places for which apectal * notes ranging over nearly an octave, 60 happiness of reconciliation, use his pistol in omer to make the eyes, shows the pistol before firing. ds & result roached the conclusion that | tates are made. According to Mr. Cure} A curious check was presented to the cashier of @ New! wor ty this fact known that the red gure overcoat Der Dorfbarbier. What was the trouble? The husband says “a little | GSA OD SERODDLPE LOOPED DSHHD-EDDCDOTPOEDOHOOD HO DDOUGD GOH HOF ” way,” said the cashier, Bhe did. And, as her husband’ account warranted it~for, ke # prudent man, he had not | o dience b) ord hi ‘ HORLAN le oi 0 4 ently, ‘The check, which was for $10, ; ‘As through the grain at eve we wont Of Hie andlanss bila An mar that fs H CASIMIR STERLING. | tea could be successfully krown in core Re a 2 fg be ork 'Siaie "Baek tee Renee a Nh) And plucked the ripening ear niall not perceive how a cerialn 10'ck pom Grown tw South Carolina, tain nections of this country, ©. B, J five milew, Phe auaurdity of tellin the | oresented to the cashier in the ordinary way, apecen Ie valled a Hiber, Ww A vate hin Wile ane dem here, Place your fingers in your ears| Te the Kadltor of The Byening World ‘The Cab Fare. when you Mere Loha him a dolar, le [naturally atartled by the unusual expression In the body of Beals isla po itn of tho opAldlon, have We ut, 1 know not why and you will perceive easier how tricky) A® to Whether or not tea can be | To the EdKor of The Krening World too Hidiculous to need exposing. Mr. /the check, asked In innocen Who is the sweetest of the |sound-produciig apparatus conmlating of | And kiewed again with tears! Currier hae very poor opinion ‘of cab- tt” “I _am,' mepiied the Indy, "Kindly indorse it that i movable faye carried on on the stage. Now, here |Ktawn in the United Gates for market,| 1 read 4 signed “John Cur- aye is th And youth és vain and knows little| is an instance when piatol-firing Is not|! bew to say that tea le now raised for] rier’ tn defense of New York cabmen, ae 90d of the moment carries {t away; it] called for; A man scarcely ing| Market, though not on an extensive | About the mont correct statement thorer Pye nen | Binss his foot on the stage, fires off a|#cale, Bt tea farms located in Bouth|in le where tho writer says the cab. eouple of shots for no reason whateo-| Caroling about uwemty-iwe mallee from | fares of New York City axe &L per hour. aA ORInIOD able bore. which san, bd ne overdrawn it~'tMe eweetest of the sweet’ received her bmeney, rit id 7 from a di ti fi! i roduoed by’ thy A