The evening world. Newspaper, June 18, 1902, Page 8

by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to 6 Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice fat New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. ..NO. 14,911. ee. CUBA'S CAUSE. President Roosevelt has made a good fight for justies to Cuba and for the fulfilment of our national promise M to the sister republic, but he has been beaten by’ the Pedrdid interests of protection and of bect sugar, aided © perhaps by the potent influence of personal and political ) Jealousy. | Cuba will not get justice at this session, but ft {s the @irect popular vote could be taken on the question can be no doubt that the great majority of the “people would declare themselves in favor of securing ‘permanent prosperity to Cuba by an equitable and well- | guarded reciprocity. THE SOFT-COAL AGREEMENT. q A very nice question of casuistry and of morals 1s “raised by the proposal to call out the soft-coul miners al miners, As the result of a costly strike the soft- miners now have a satisfactory contract with their “ployers—a contract, by the way, against which the em- fight against the recognition of the United Mine} ‘Workers’ Union—and the question is whether a sv " pension of work under existing conditions would be a violation of the contract. + It is, as we have sald, a very nice question. guspension of work would not be a strike in the strict ' meaning of the word, and it may be argued that a new condition of affairs has arlsen when the bituminous coal miners are employed in mining coal to replace anthra- cite and to destroy the union to which they belong, but ptill a contract 1s a contract. A fair test of the ethical question involved is to asl whether the miners would consider it a breach of con- tract if the mine owners should for any reason agree to _ guspend production. Such a | TWO RAILROADS, While the rich and prosperous New York Central | Rallroad is balting and hesitating about improving its tunnel and terminals and discovering all kinds of diff- ‘eulties and objections, and incidentally paying heavy @amages for its incompetence, the Pennsylvania boldly _ géizes the neglected opportunity, makes a fair bargain with the city, buys the property it needs and takes our breath away with a proposition for a through tunnel system from New Jersey to Long Island, and an under- ground station at Seventh avenue and Thirty-third _ street, to be constructed at once and to be operated by smokeless electricity. Jt is about time for the Central to wake up and send one of its sleepy directors over to Philadelphia to find out how they do things in the Pennsylvania Railroad _ Office. THREE FILIPINOS. If any of our readere are under the impression that | all the Filipinos are merely savages fit for extermination ; ‘we recommend to them the study of the portraits of Filipino gentlemen printed in last week's issue of | na ‘Weekly. They are the portraits of Rulz, Purdo | de Tavera anti Legarda, the three Filipino members of Gov. Taft's Civ! Commission. Finer faces arg not to be found anywhere. It 1s im- Possible to look at them without accepting them as evi- ences of manliness, of ability, of character and cultl- vation. Their originals are not merely intelligent and well bred, but even refined and aristocratic gentlemen— fit to hold a seat in a Presidential Cabinet or on a Board of college trustees or a Prince Henry reception com- mittee. It is easier to understand the Philippine question when we understand the character of the men who havo the solving of {t. If there are many men tn the Ph.ip- pine Islands of the same class as those selected by Gov, ‘Daft for the Civil Commission there can be no doubt of the fitness of the islanders for self-government and of our duty to give them their independence at the earliest moagible moment. HEADLESS TAMMANY, There is a popular impression that the occasion al- Ways brings forth the man needed to meet it. Like other popular impressions, this one occasionally proves deceptive, as witness Tammany, The occasion {s there, but where is the man? He js not in sight. Nixon evi- dently was not the man. No man fs fit for leadership who takes it very much as a schoolboy takes a prize from the teacher for good conduct. A leadership of three will not do. Bven tf the chosen ‘Trivmvare could pull together—which they can’t—they could not compel any following for their leadership. The circumstance that they are treated humorously {s fatal. In politics ridicule kills. The occasion in Tammany awaits the man. @ great opportunity for him—tf he exists. THE SKIRTED SLEUTH’S FOOT, K ‘Three huggers are running loose around the Bronx © eeiging and embracing unprotected women and ofher wise creating consternation in that usually peaceful dls- There is for the hugegers, and Capt. Price, of the Tremont station, selected several of his most shapely and beautiful and inserted them into London and Paris and Division street hats and set chem afloat on thoroughfares in the hope that the huggers will dere by their Irresisttble pulchritude to waltz up ive them a hug. veg Bronx huggers should be speedily rounded up @nd summarily punished, but it 1s not possible to see skirt-wearing policemen are going to catch them or ody else. The policeman’s foot ts proverbially a , and when a pair of broad-beamed, heavy- oofe “beneath his petticoat like little gunboats {a and out, as if they fear the Nght,” the most fatu- Pihuigger in the land will perceive the difference and te no on that sort of masquerader. Capt, Price's ‘Many be beautiful and Venustan and all that, but have folding feet and can climb tnto at least Woman's shoe they are wastivg their time 4 in feminine raiment, Btnte,—An energetic pastor in Western Giscovered that Sunday olf ts a viola- “ig at Sénate, not the American people, who are to blamé. If} with the object of helping the strike of the anthracite| z ) ployers fought as bitterly as the anthracite operators | y JOKES OF OUROWN THE LATEST. ‘That she {s strictly up to date There's no one can dispute, PLENTY OF OPF 3 Is there any opening for a yorng ‘e:nan in New York?" + “LT should say so, 1 fell Into tha, Sub- THE KING ht times the day IT was there. WANTS To BoRRow MY KNEE BREECHES NATURAL SUGGESTION. ‘Wa'al, stra the bear was a-com In’ after me and my gun missed fire eid my huntin' knife br so all I nknife, and 1 killed pad left was my tells the same at you fellows don't penknife, since it sooner or 3 BORROWED JOKES. ® NO CHARGH FOR ADVICE, Floor Walker—I'm very sorry, madam, but I can’t exchange this hat for you, Mrs. Smithson—But my husband doesn't Ike It, or Walk: get a divorc —Then Td advise you to —Syracuse Herald. “BECAUS nette—Why did you accept Jack in- of Tom? Jack, you know, has ng and half a millon e—Well, Jack om if you must know, Tom didn't.—Chicago me and kiss at the door, that I've been saving 1 panama hat, Now that she ed to be mine i can take the and get an elegant engagement nicago Record-Herald, f SOMEBODIES. EDWARD VIL—cxpects to visit Cork} 4 and take a ton it's a lucky thin, is RASON ENOUGH. 2 Manager—Thorpson, you are dis- by a, 3 Clerk—Rut what have I done, slr? © Manager—Nothing, absolutely —noth- J ing. what T complain about.— Stray y N LUCK, 20 "An." he sald 10 himself after she had © permitted him to in hia arms up to buy Se ee ae Let Father Knickerbocker send his t Let the shapely For though Morean' Ce eee THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1908. | Ghe Funny Side of Life. MORGAN’S KNEE BREECHES. DID You Invite GATES? MY CALVES COST MORE users to the hocker; calves of England's conrt go hide behind a fence. “long” on riches, yet he's grown quite “shor' And he makes John Hay’s poor “Little Breeches” look like 30 cents, ADMIRATION. | trict. Citizens armed with revolvers are lying in wait} next qgutumn, GOULD, KINGDON—Goeorge Gould's fourteen-year-old son, ts said to be one of the best polo players in America MORGAN, J. P.—1s sald to be in bad health amd to need a long rest, He seems to have overlooked the neod of organizing a Health Trust. MORSE, PROF.—of Salem, Mass. has recelved from the Emperor of Japan the rarely bestowed decoration of the ‘hind Order of the Rising Sun. MILLARD, MISS he well- known milsstonar Just returned to her Milx home after fifteen years’ work in the India. Bandits are not named tn her category of adventures. SALISBURY, LORD—will be the recip- pnt of the highest decoration within the gift of Japan, In recognition of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. SMITH, CHRISTIAN — of Harper's Forry, Md., 18 the oldest locomotive engineer In this country, his services dating back to the days when eight miles an hour was considered fair Speed WILHELMINA, QUEEN—Insists on knowing the contents of every Btate paper she signs. Hohenzollern Museum several hundred souvenirs of Prince Henry's visit to the United States. etiam PRETTY MISS NOBODY, When frat my eyes looked into hers, These words unto myself I sald: ‘More beautiful was ne'er maid; She Is the gin I fain would we4." Her eyes were blue as summer skice; ips red-ripe as cherries wer hair a gleaming, golden tint; Her velvet skin was matehlass fair, When first my eyes looked into hers, “Tia she," I gnused, “whom would wed; now, alas, I mind, |] Tor there ts nothing tn her head, } —Ohio Btate Journal But changed my gue district of {2 WILHELM, KAISER—has given the|é ), $ ear some good news. Uncle—Well, Horace, why do you stare at me 60? Horace—I was just thinkin’ what a bully whiskbroom your whiskers > would make. AECTUU DUET UU ee eee TON) TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE: Fortune Teller—You ai going to Harlem Phiats—What? Hee ® somebody killed our janitor? HE WONDERED. % Uncle Hi—Lots of what, I wonder! PELGHEDSEPOOMOIS: PDD PHD OOL GOPHER HGP HDG A HARD LESSON, “Father, I am going to cooking school. What would you recom- mend that I learn?” “Learn how to keep a cook." THAT’S WHY. Geonge—What man money for? stranger, just come over. Cholly-I know it, my dear fellow, But his manner was 60 charming. He asked me !f 1 wasn't English! id you Jena that Ho's a perfect PODHOD, Yes. To the kéitor of The Jvening World Is It proper for a young man when of- | fering @n old gentioman a seat in a car or any public place. to lift his hat? | Y Ammonia for Mashers, he Kditor of The Brening World | “Sweet Eighteen’? complatns of being jannoyed by “‘mashers'’’ and asks for young men to write in defense of such men, if they can, Now, I, as a perfoct | gentleman, cannot write in defense; but I say that "Sweet Wightoen' did perfect- ly right, Flirting Is most shockingly carried on in all the prominent streets of this city, I would advise ‘Sweet Wighteen" to procure & water pistol and fll it with ammonia end ~ about mtd Mica aire) and in case of ¢ have the amm. reency use it, Don't a strong enough to 1 annoyed the the whole neighborhood, For ot hundreds of people can- blind, “My sister, who is about ele years old, finds Pry ]| ROL a special oMicer be put there to quell Weapon efficacious, F. W. W. | thia nolee? ‘The small boys surely do More Fire-Cracker Complaint. To the Editor of Tae Kvening World 1 read with Interest the plaints from persons living ia che neigh: borhood of Amstemam avenue and West Hlghvoth street against the nuisance of | the small boy with the fire-crapkers, I) also live near there and can vouch for the truth of the complaints, Also of the remissnoss and utter neglect of tne Policemen on that beat, who do not abolish the nuisance, Sunday is the worst Ume, All lat Bunduy eveniog & succession of loud reports of fire-vrack- two com-| mot bribe the police. Then why do the latter permit this ehameful state of af- fairs? GORDON V, GRANGER A Rescued Woman’s Thanks, Po the Editor of The Evening World A letter entitled “A Timely Reso told of the rescue from @ sloop yacht of & party of four ladies and four gentler men by the captain of a tug. 1 was one of the ladies aboard the yacht. She Was disabled in the Bound. Our mast was smashed by the gale and we w thrown about in the roughest seas I ever want to be in, Launches near by 8909 GO2636 on breeches, UNLUCKY WOMAN. ‘There js a preju- dice in the navy against giving a ‘woman's name to a war vessel of any type. It 1s belleved to be un- lucky. NO PNEUMONIA Pneumonia {8 practically un- known within tho Aretic circle, ob- serves Dr. EB. W. Kelsey, who has returned to Eng- land from a six- teen months’ stay in Alaska. RICH TENTH. Only 80,331 of the 70,000 British sub- Jects who died last year had anything to leave by will. Ing it to break into AGES OF ANIMALS. Elephants lve 100 years and upward, rhinoceros, 20; camel, 100; lion, 25 to 7 tigers, leopards, jaguars and hyenas (in confinement), about 25; beaver, 6; deer, fox, 4 to 16; llamas, monkeys and baboons, 16 8; squirrel, swine, 25; stag, under 60; horse, 30; ass, 20; sheep, under 10; cow, 20; ox, 30; swan, parrots and ravens, eagle, 100; geese, 80; hens and pigeons, 10 to 16; hawks, 90 to 40; crane, 24; bla 10 to 12; peacock, 20; pelican, 49 to 6 ru 8 to 10; wren, 2 ; blackeap, 16; Mnnet, 20 to 24; redbreast, 10 to 12; sky tItlark, 6 to 6; chaffinch, 20 to 10 to 12; carp, 70 to 150; pike, 30 to 40; salmon, 16; codfish, 14 to crocodile, 100; tortoise, 100 to , estimated, 1,000; queen bees live . drone 4 months, worker bees 6 INFREQUENT BIRTHDAYS. The members of the Berlin Society of Leap Year Children—to which none are admissible unless born on Feb, 2%—will keep thelr common birthday in great style In 194. They have had no oppor- tunity for eight years, and in 190 the extra February day, according to the rules of the reformed calendar, was omitted, Herr Monteur, the president of the society, 1s to-day a soptuagenari- an, but in the seventy years of his life he has had only seventeen birthdays. He hopes to celebrate his elghteenth birthday and seventy-second year of his life in the midst of his colleagues on CAN YOU FIX THIS BROKEN STATUE? While the servant was dusting the statue she happened to push ft over, caus eleven pieces. In order to hold her job she had te put the pieces together again, which she did successfully. Can you do it? ep CAN YOU TELL WHAT THIS IS? Give ft up? It is simply a bird's-cye view, taken from th Tournelle bridge in Paris, of a man who has just jumpe. from the bridge into the Seine. And thereby hangs a tale. Tho Paris Police Department| has for some time maintained a pack of Newfoundland dogs, | which are supposed to rescue persons who fall or throw, themselves Into the river. The dogs had rescued a numbers of mannikins—some of which they tore to pleces—but had not been tested with human beings. It occurred to M. Henri Christian, of the Matin newspaper, that possibly the dogw efficiency was not equal to their reputation, On March 15, in the presence of the dogs and several hundred other spectators, this enterprising young journalist dropped from the bridge, as the picture shows, ‘The famous Mfe-saving dogs resisted all solicitations to save him from @ watery grave and he had to be picked up by a boat. The Parisians are not %oasting of their canine lfe-savers #@ Fair One—Have you scen these new You just touch a epring parasols? spring and they— “Open this way.” RUBBING IT IN. eandpapered, wir? TIMELY LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. tug Nettle L. oursion down the Bound, boats out from brought on board the tug, the skin, Capt, Kruse Is captain, rowed us to tt Coal To the Miitor of The Evening “0 neither I nor an; el Ee a ul ‘Tonsorial Artist—Have your head}, Was towing an ex- He sent life. e barges and had us drenched to one of tho ‘008 of the Hoboken fire, To the his mate and the two men who the tug, we owe our lives, a7 YA m the (1.1 ‘orld: ‘This evening I returned home by way of an express train of the Ninth avenue We made very good tine, I ad- mit, but one thing on the Journey which iy one else in the train njoyed was the thick black smoke that m from @ locomotive thi Feb. 29, 1904. THE M'INTYRE FLAT. Care About Their Neighbors. LAD summer time {s the season wherein to get ‘next’ G to your neighbors” affairs if you live in a flat, for the é simple reagon that every | and is inhabited. ‘Across the atreet from the McIntyres’ was a stone house. They conjectured that {t must be a boarding- house. The second-story front was occupied by two elderly people whom they christened “Pa” and “BM that Pa was a retired dry-goods man, who had made enough money to spare him the need of becoming an insurance agent in his declining years. Ma, they were sure, bossed him. ‘The fourth-floor front was occupied by a worrled-looking woman and about nine children. The McIntyres wondered if her husband had neglected to die, and decided in the nega- tive, as otherwise she need not have looked so worried. The third-floor front was the abode of a young man who came home at all hours and had a sult of pale-grcen pajamas hanging from one post of his bed, It was diverting to note his efforts to pilot himyelf from the door to the window on nights when he came home from a Sons of Temperance sym- postum. They christened him Georste. ‘The hall room adjoining Georgie's domicile was infested by a shaggy-looking youth, who whistled “Nancy Brown’ off- key Sunday afternoons. In the drawing-room eaoh evening a woman (who evident- ly occupied a back room—the MeIntyres hoped it was the worst in the house) did thing» to the poor old motherless plano. She had passed the stage of playing on It. She “per- formed.” She was what you would call a “brilliant” per- former—if you weren't too busy calling her racket by some less complimentary name, ‘These and others in the red house claimed the attention of the McIntyres, and they began to grow proud of their Sher- lock Holmes instinct in evolving theorles as to each of the occupants. They even, at last, reached the point when they fancied they could discern from the boarders’ faces whether prunes or rice had formed the chief g'2ry of that day's din- ner. It was pleasant, through the Jong June evenings, to elt at the open windows of the Molntyre flat and watch the board- ers board, One morning McIntyre was going to the Office and he chanced to find himself seated tn the Li" just behind the man the MoIntyres called 'P: “Pa” was thus addressing an acquaintance: “Yes, it's pleasanter in town this summer than I thought | it would be, We get lots of amusement every evening, my family and I, watching a poor, weak-minded man who does nothing but sit at a front window of a flat opposite and stare foollvhly at our house. 1 fancy that the flat is a santtarlum of some sort, and the pretty little woman who lives there ta his keeper or nurse, It's elde-splitting to watch hjs stupid, vacant stare as he gages across at us. It's the typleal im- hocile cast of countonanc “Dear,” said Mr. McIntyre that evening, “I think, if you don't mind, we'll sit in one of the rear rooms after this in the evening, Those people across the street begin to bore me,” A. P. TERHUNE. EGG LORE. A Britisher advertised for an auk's egg. In a few days he celved offers of hawk's eggs, merely a matter of Cookney- tem. "Teach your grandmother to suck eggs’ ts 48 old as the ‘hills, a ‘frewh" youth giving advice to his elders, ‘¢ dog’ means @ very contemptible person. t bad om e | ancient. Mr, Carnegie revises it, He eggs in one bawket and wateh the baskel Fl to the apples" equivalent to much as they used to do. How They Suddenly Ceased to! window on the block 1s open | | four-story red- "They decided | [= TYPICAL OF HIS KIND, You haye probably read considerable about the riotous Russian student, Well this is @ typical representative of his kind. He is @tepan Valerianovich | Balmashov, of Kieff University, who assassinated M. Giplaguine, Minister of the Interlof, on April 15 last. Torture | failed to wring any confession trom him. To every question he replied: “Why ask me? All Russie knows why I shot him." His fate is a mystery, One account says he was hanged May 16; another that the Czar pardoned but! Danished him to the convict settlement of Gakahlin, in the Far East. Balma~ shov is shown in the Russian student uniform—a peaked cap and a long mill~ tary coat, faced with the color denoting ‘his special branch of study, ————__— RIDING LESSONS, @plit a maton at one end and insert into the split the flattened ¢nd of second match, to form an acute angle. Place the two matches on the sham edge of a knife held horigontally in wuch a way that the heads of the matches touch the surface of the table. No matter how hard you try to hold the knife ateady, to everybody's eur prise the matches will begin to move up and down. To) vender the experiment more ef- i ache i ie de