The evening world. Newspaper, July 2, 1902, Page 6

ete Published by the Press Publishing Company Park Row, New York. Entered at the t-OMce at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter VOLUME 438. i | WALL STREET'S MELON. The great sum of $20,000,000 in dividends was dis- bursed to stockholders in Wall street yesterday. And more is to come to-day, the amount ultimately aggre«at- ing over $100,000,000. Clerks who usually leave their desks at 3 o'clock have been busy until midnight draw~ ing the checks that carry this vast consignment of cash to the fortunate holders of securities. The clipping of con- pons has been loud in the Jand, and except for the stork- holders in the “Coalers” and “Copper” there is a radia- | tion of happiness all around, Occurring as it does only a ‘day or two before the anniversary on which the orators in a hundred hamlets vaunt our superior greatness to all the world this distribution of profits comes with attrac- tive timeliness, The halcyon hours of prosperity are still here. The housewife whose husband is not in recefpt of @ividend checks may say that it takes more planning and scheming for her to provide out of her household allow- ance than ever vefore. She may argue that everything which comes into the flat via the dumbwaiter 1s dearer than it used to be—meat, poultry, ice, eggs. Articles of dress or adornment that she wants in the shops seem to be higher. Her husband’s tailor bills are bigger, while his salary or wages, unless he has an unusually generous employer, has not increased to correspond, But these facts, of course, do not affect the main proposition that prosperity is here in chunks. 4,028. A Masher Fined.—The fining of a masher was a minor tnel- dent of the day's doings In Magistrate Zeller’s court-room yesterday, It was an Incident that will please every reader. The masher comes near being one of the most objectionable members of socle = THE OAME OF DRAW POKER. It is to be regretted that Minister Schenck is not alive to answer Mr. J. P. Morgan's aspersions on poker. As a statesman of the Ohio school, a diplomat regarded as worthy to represent us at the Court of St. James and an * author whose attainments are attested by a very unique and important contribution to native literature, namely, his “Rules of Draw Poker," Gov. Schenck was capable of ranking as an authority; and !t was by him that we were taught to.regard this pastime of cards as the great Amer- fean game. Yet Mr. Morgan thinks that the man who “labelled it so “ought to be shot.” Poker, says the great banker, “is not a game characteristic of the American people. It never was. It never will be. It is a bad game. It is based on a lie.” Gentlemen of the green-cloth persuasion take issue -with Mr. Morgan. ‘Honest John” Kelly thinks that “there is no more deceit in draw poker than there is In rigging the stock market.” Bat Masterson, Tom O'Rourke, Dick Bernard, all the shining lights and eminent authorities resent the financier’s allegations. One Tenderloin card expert gifted with an abillty to draw parallels likens the formation of the Steel Trust to @ jackpot in which Mr. Morgan, after he had filled his hand, said in effect to the outside companies: “The pot is < open. If you come in you have a chance to hold your ' property. If not you are very likely to find yourselves Re: frozen out.” The point is not badly taken. Perhaps a gambler with _ @ liking for poetry might say that the financier Compounds for games he ts Inclined to By damning those he has no mind to. A CHANCE FOR WVALLELY. The police of the West Sixty-eighth street station acknowledge themselves baffled by a thief or thieves who stole $1,200 worth of jewels from W. Fish, jr., in that precinct a week ago. The robbery was committed in broad daylight, but the mystery of the thing is still as dark as blackest night. The thief or thieves left no memorandum as to how the house was entered, and as the bolted windows and barred doors apparently had not been tampered with there was not a single clue offered to the police upon which to hang any sort of a guess. If the West Sixty-eighth street police, in their clue- less plight, were to call in Detective Vallely, who got back Mrs. Kingdon’s jewels as mysteriously as they were s@ien trom the Waldorf-Astoria, he might be able to introduce them to a long-whiskered district telegraph boy who could tell them something about recovering stolen jewelry when it seems to be absolutely beyond hope of recoverability. MILLIONAIRE BURKE'S GREAT GIFT. John M. Burke's gift of $4,000,000 to build a home for convalescents is a munificent charity—great even by comparison with the rich bequests and donations that have made the last half decade record-breaking in such ‘ bestowals of wealth. A commendable feature of the charity is that no portion of it will be diverted from the eiver's original design to satisfy contentious heirs or luwyers in post-mortem litigation. It is to be admints- “tered during the lifetime of the donor. Strangers wonder who the tenants are of the endless rows of brownstone fronts’ {n New York. Mr, Burke 1s one of them. His house in West Forty-seventh street 1s as unpretentious as its owner, who grew rich so long ago that he has long since been forgotten by the public. He returns to their remembrance by a deed deserving the | i Dighest preise that a man of wealth can merit THE BUMPSOME YACHT, The landlubber {8 loose on the raging main at this time of year, and owner: gre decker ferries and other and sea craft had better keep a good stiff lookout for the long, low, rakish And miscellaneously managed private yacht, or they may \ be bumped into hard and perhaps sent suddenly down » to Davy Jones's locker in MeGintyland Last week somebody's private yacht ran into a 5)! ne steamboat in the Sound. and after damaging it con- siderably swiftly sailed away. Yesterday ming a pri Wate yacht poked its bow in a highly un-Chesterfleldian way into the elde of the Astoria ferry-boat Steinway and ba) pwithout so much as signifying in any way that it was | Sorry steamed down the river and was soon lost to view, % A dozen razors distributed around a aursery or an eutomobile with a biue-nosed mandril at the lever are nearly #0 capable of making a record of disaster as yacht with a buckboard skipper at the helm hounds, doubie- Ot The best thing would be to give them a wink each other to their heart's content, No. 83 to 63 Gh JOKES OF OUR Sean THE When the gates Our patriot porte, from each vale anit hie 3} NEW 1 proposed AND, nal has oped Its ®Can say, describing the United States, ‘Hurrah for Uncie Sam's ‘tight little island! "* SAME OLD CHICAGO FEET. Why did she refuse him when he iatd 3 his vast fortune at her fect?” “Because {t wasn't big enough P cover them. She was from Chicago UNRECORDED HISTORY. Blind Belisarius begged at the brazen POOIO0 G04 Peates of Byzanttum; yet at nightfall twenty-elght pence and a twopenny plece was the result of nis day's labor. “Hall, most noble Belisarlus!"' ob- i served Justinian in passing, "and, in % cldentally accept this bag of gold. Nay (checking the other's gratitude), thank me not; 1 but give tt to thee that thou may'st not say that the thirty obolot thou hast gained to-day make thy for- tunes in life look like 20 cents.”” For, with all his vices, the Emperor Justinian liked his gags new. BORROWED JOKES. To FOOL HUBBY. Mrs. Gay—But I told you to itemize the bill The Milliner—The dill I sent you on the first was itimized; every item war there, Mrs, Gay—Graclous! You don’t under stand me. I want you to send only one item each month, or my husband will never pay {t.—Philadelphia Press. ,)) (Hy, Ye yj OLASSIFIED. “Were you a bull or a bea the inquisitive friend. “Naither,”’ replied the speculator. was a donkey, pure and simp Chicago Daily News. asked A MERE NOTHING Nell-I saw you at the remnant coun¢- er yesterda: Belle—Yes; I was buying material for fa bathing ault,Philadelphia Record. FOR THE LAND’S SAKE! “Will you share my humbie begged the suitor. “Yes, if there's a cottage on It,” an- 3 lot?” swered the crafty matd.—Philadelphia Record 064000 O6O-9O20-000G-06 NO REASON TO BOAST. i SOMEBODIES. i ALLEY, R. H.—who has just returned from Australia to his home at Seat- tle, say's he has $1,600,0% Australian capttal for the atarting of a woollen mill in Seattle, where Australtan |{ sheep ralsers may send the product of | their flocks. BRADLEY, G. W.—is the oldest living veteran of the Confederate army. He is ninety-four and walks with the help of two canes, one of which form- | erly belonged to Daniel Boone COARSER, CLARK G.—One of Zion's (11) oldest residents, olghty-fve yea old, has defiled ophet” Dowle make him stop smoklog and» will submit to arrest sooner than obey this order of the “prophet.” Dowie's | IneMciency to enforce this rule should | go far toward getting him a Job as an | “LY guard, HECKERT, COL. tas patented test of which Js q combination steam | er and s| and gas engine. It} {s self-fring and bums crude oll RRUGER, MRS. TJARD Oom Paul's son, has torla detective name "I don't owe a penny to if my credit was as bad as that 1 wowldn't boast about it.” THE DIFFERENCE. a W.—Of Toledo. 130 Invent! Widow of | MITH. CAPT. 1. M st teleg i {s atill alive and js ar a, Kan Fi fty Je Scientific weather ¢ — A CASUALTY. The sculptor's stone; the graver praise The tablet in the chancel dim The by familar ways Are not for him. A strange sod, And strangers bear him & his rest, hand turns a stranger Ke “What the difference between a Far from the homeland paths he fons P psomnamoulist and & messenger And loved the beat | bos 7 eacan hye ritce lin cA ladieata Y © walks in his sleep; the other 1 his walk, A Wiltestone (1, Roy's gets into the society of real marine hustlers, | bavy ) d be some way of yogulating these amateur | vet water of their own where they could| aealnat the celling, Who ts really at Flea. )lutely anathoric in the matter of this » altor of The Evening Worid fireworks quisance In our streets | I hear that Anarox Carnegie has given Kte | feih.oon to. the Borough of Queens Are Brooklyn Girls Ficklet ue : i q here ta Ho saakitn To the Biltor of The Rvehing World tone, Je Ts} Are Brooklyn girls all Mokle-minded? rome one) tf not, why have I, a Brooklyn young r here are} man, nineteen years old, and passably , han. wi AY® | good looking, b shaken by several? Bel nino8 ee arian ras cai bred 1 have tried to become a favorite with | us aon ae Ail, Ap ae Whe fair nex, but all in vain, I took the Hamer Tine, WHITES it Mite | several girls to the theatre and yet hav Iways received the cold shoulder in ree Narrow Eacape from Deuth, by isa ‘ pe srom Death turn, Will not some Kind readers sym: the Editor of The Evening World 1 live $1 an apartment-house on Bast Beventy-second etmet. Last Sunday evening J sat in the window looking out | In the next window were my wife and Suddenly a large skyrocket came whizzing through the window where my wife was eitting, The stick of the rocket wrazed the baby's arm and etruck AVnlge with me and advise me, and ex plain this phenomenon? HEARTBROKEN ED. K Boys Who Fight. To wl FAltor of The Bveniag World ae time ago President Roosevelt said @ boy who wouldn't fight on just provocation was a coward. My ten-year. old boy holds that up to me as a reason why he may tear his nice clean clothes fault? Our “oollexe” city administra: TIMELY LETTERS FROM THE | to learn ta be good housewives was all | helpmate and not @ hindrance to ® man, OME HDODS Funny Side of WHEN IT RAINS IN FhATBUSH When the City Hall Park’s flecked with commuters that have trekked The Brooklyn Bridge to tackle once again their daily toil, And the bootblacks there get busy, you can bet the weather's dizzy Down ‘round Flatbush-way, and Jupiter's just sprinkling its old soil, HEDGING IN TIME, = for jobj—Naw, I dis town, That will be won't you away plying a relative 41 s Man—Hum convenient. In that a!low any funerals to ta from your office work Boy—I sald tives. go! a lot of intermate frien IT DIDN’T HURT HIM. But 1 Mother—Don't sit there, palnted! Oscar—But I sat on sister's lap lost night and she was freshly painted. OOn8 it's fresh- home after @ fight, but it does no good, Oh, mothers, what am | (odo? He usu. picks out boys bigger than himeelf who bully smadler boys. 1 tell him it is np business of his and that he is a dis- grace to @ decent family. Advise me, DISTRACTED MOTHER, “Phe Brivolous Girl To the Kastor of Tae Kvening World 1 wish to say to the Former Bayside Girls that thelr ttle article advising girls of the BSingle-Bleasedness Society right, and Tm glad to see that there are some sensible girls. It pleased me (a bachelor of thirty-five years) im- menaely. If a girl would learn a little more of household dutiesund take pride in keeping a home neat and manage it that she could show that she is a. there would be more happy unions. Bur the trouble te the majority of girl wieh to be employed and get a salary so that and get ugly scratches and brulses by ont Ous policemen seem to be abso-' fighting, I whip him each time he comes they can dreae well and look pretty, and POoe PEOPLE. £ O9-3-4-99464OOOOOOO @ ife & a> oe 00060000. SASSY é Shippen Clark—They say yous Ked back to the boss. Did you? 4 Meeker—You bet I did! He can't blu me, He sald, “Git out o' my way. you blankety dazo!” An’ I says, "I ain't no dago, sir, I'm an 3 erican!" NO GRACE DARLING, Lady of the House—Yes, I want « girl to do Mght housework. Bridget (Just over)—I am afraid of the sea 6440900 aside, I do not réfer, of course, to the fir) who works to Mipport her family, hut to the \se frivolous girl. Ping pong may sll right for them, but It hot substantial enough to make @ 690d housewife, NEW YORK, Scores “Handsome,” To the Haditor of The Evening World Replying to “Handsome's" letter, In which he claims he 1s s0 good-looking that girls insist on flirting with him, 1 would say; This fellow may be hand- some in hia own Janguage, which no doubt is the opposye from ours; but Such @ conceited pup must surely, to other people, ook like the most unclvil- | of London. —e— WILTONS, Eleven — experts have worked for >|five months on a Wilton carpet In- tended for the PRO ey IN RUSSIA. A publisher in St. Petersburg has issued a directory giving, In pages, the ad- dresses of all the pharmacies and drug stores in Russia. LOTS OF ROOM, Australia, twen- ty-sIx times larger than the whole of the British Isles, has a population emailer than that drawing-room of a London club. Although it has almost gone v JERICHO. The Jericho of to-day 1s a collec- Uon of wretched ca dings inhabited by a pecullar peo- ple, unlike any others in Paledtine, Hpre we have both the snuffer and the out the dazzling light, Between tne a a number of dots may be seen snuffer, Can you so move the snuft he dots u the spinster and the candle. | TO GUESS THE DICE. A pair of dice being thrown, to find the number of points on each die with- out seeing them. Tell the person who cast the dice to double the number points upon one of them, and add 5 to it, then to multiply the sum produ by 5, and tu add to the number of points upon the other dik This bein done, desire him to tell you the amount, and, having thrown 2%, the remainder will be a number c sisting of two figures, the first of whic to the left, 1s the number of polats the first die, and the second figure. the right, the number on the Thus: Suppose the number of points of th first dle which comes up to be 2 and that of the other 3; then, if to 4, the double of the points of the first, the duced, from which, !f 25 be subtracted, multiplied by 5, the product will be 43; to which if 3, the number of points on the other die, Ue added, 48 will be pro- duced, from which if 25 be subtracted 23 will remain; the first figure of which js 2, the number of points on the firs die, and the second figure 3, the number on the other. ——$———— AN OLD-TIME TERROR. Among ancient relics at present qn exhibition at Chicago Is a sheet of papy. rus bearing a complaint to a chlef of police who held office just years ago that the premises of the writer had been robbed, says the Buffalo Courter Whether the work was done py a parc climber, a dupliicate- key man o ordinary hall sneak is not recorded, Ui the antique document Is Suggestive that in some ways a score of centurles hac not greatly changed the world, One can imagine that old-time chief threat ening his dusky Egyptian force witt the terrors of a “shake-u: THE REAL BOWERY GIRL. 2 Owen Kildare, the Bowery Villon, Says She Is the Epic of All Girldom- Listen! ‘Tho eple of all girldom is the Bowe: Flesh and blood, not frocks and frills, she W loves with spirit. Her finery tg not the finest, her speceh and | the quintescence of flowery phraseology, but she is true and | square and that, surely, is much, Jf not all, There are Bowery girls and girls, who are called that » those who do not know the difference. Also t caricatures, which are apt to mislead, With all my life on the Bowery I have yet to see anything that looks like tho “realistic” Bowery girl or “close life study” of the stage In the first place they're beautiful. Only the other Sunday I took The Party up to the Grand Centra] depot to show her the freight trains going out. (It was tho best entertainment my pocketbook could afford.) On our way we saw many fashionables and The Party asked, sort of apprehensively; “Would you swop me for one 0’ them?" Well, there were many people, so I could only utter @ fervent Not much!" And I wouldn't What matters silk and satin? It's the least of the girl that counts with us fellows, and ours—God bless them!—have warm, true hearts. We are not ashamed of our honest loves, and a button with the girl's photo on graces many a manly bosom, And the girls reciprocate, elther by also wearing a button or some other token, ribbon or trinket, My Party wears a cunning little curl right forninst her forehead. Sometimes {t will be rebellious and hang down lke @ scalp-lock, but—leave {t to me—I fix it all right and find means of pressing it Into shape We love as we hate, direct, square and above board, and though we are poor and, therefore, have long courtships, we marry, on account of this long probation, happily, ‘The moral tone of our love affairs and marriages is proved by our ab- sence from divorce courts and by the progeny which epring from our unions. Fellows of the Bowery are mostly careless or too liberal. ‘The girls haye to work, and after the mother gets the board money there is little left for extravagance, ‘They are thrifty and “wise” enough to know that marriages between thrifty women and shiftless men end badly, Consequently the fellow has to mend his ways to win his prige—the dearest in all creation. Honest, thereis nothing like a Bowery gir) I have seen many society belles, famed for thelr beauty, put have not met one who would be one, two, three with my little Madonna with her littie stubby nose, The eyes—oh, saya keleldoscope! Roguery, devotion, health, sincerity, they're all there, and the sheen makes a fellow's blood dance with the honest desire to win and keep thiene well-springs of real happiness, ‘zed ape As for the girls firting with him, he needn't fear, for his own ugil- ness appears in the form of concelt and makes his Imagination Tun & great way. HARRY CAMIBELI, Paterson, N, J. ‘Tey Pout-G © Hosp! To the Editor of The venting World: ws there a place where I can get braces for my little girl's lege? seen MIM: _BRGRUND, Good enough—perhaps too g00d—for me and the iikes of me is the Bowery gini, with her heagt of gold, her unvarnished talk and her little level head, VENVO! ‘There are many girls on the Bowery, but the Bowery Gir! does not promenade at night. Then she reste trom her honest toll, and dreams of her Party, OWRN KILDARS. of fashion, dips were very much in use aid onuffers to be found upon every kitchen wall, Three also e are the} THE SNUFFER AND THE CANDLE. there was a time when cand! ‘ho wishes to put cle near the » and the candle pon the three corners of the that tt put out ap; wi the candle—in other words, fit down over {tin three separate moves and ro more? on the snuffer must each time touch three dots on the paper between (a how induatry-- nat of breaking ‘al aebras—4s carried! m in a wholesale fashion at the Tra-i zebra farm}! German East! A semi- ne n Atrien al round up ts nelgh- 3 over | es taking} in the work 5 wld big corral. captives oring 1090 jato aw then the ire taugat gradual to eat fodder, later to bear ns, and at last ontrary to all able and} for the neigh beasts of burden 4 ra is {mmune to dis flies, which Kill off cattle aod by the whole: The zebra- breaking tr ry has been in effect row for nearly tw "T have a square plot of ground, in one quarter of which I have built a hou Which Ihave let to four tenants, I tell them that if they can divide the remain= ing ground inte four equal plots, alike 4n shape, and each containing one of, th four apple trees I have planted, th shall have it without any increase’ rent. Huw may they succeed? ——— ORIENTAL LOGIC, A man bought three pounds of meat and brought it home to his wife to cook for dinner, and then went his way ta his place of business in the bazaars,’ The wife was hungry and ate the meat, says Harper's Magazine. In the evening the man came home asked for his dinner. “There is no meat,” sald the wife, “for the cat ate It “Bring the of wcales, “Weigh the eat, said the man cat weighed three pounds “It that js the cat," said the mah, “where Jy the meat? And if this is the meat, where ia the cat So emt LITTLE HOLY LAND, Palestine is a small country, not more than 150 miles ‘in length from Dan to BeorsheeVa, and an average breadth of not more than fifty miles, The area of ail Syria, Including Palestine, 1s oMclally enn iaied at 108,000 square miles, and the population is between 4,000,000 amd 8,600,009 j said the man, “and @ The