The evening world. Newspaper, July 15, 1902, Page 6

een y iblished by the Preas Publishing Company, No. 5% to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Omce at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. / VOLUME 438.. «NO. 14,988. THE CORN DEAL. h Certain operators, otherwise gamblers, in Chicago | have sold 20,000,000 bushels of corn, which they do not / now own, with the understanding that they are to pro- |. Sure it and deliver it to the purchasers before the end of . , July. Such sales are made on the expectation that when \ the time for delivery comes it will be possible for the » feller to buy the corn cheaper than the price at which he | ) has contracted to deliver it and thus make a “legitimate” y ' profit in the transaction. The one party to the contract mi takes the chances of corn going up and the other of its )) going down. This year July corn is hard to get. With 1); the month half gone only one-quarter of the 20,000,000 * of bushels has been bought for delivery, and the pros- | pects ore that the remainder can be obtained only at Prohibitive prices—prices set by the buyers themselves, because they control the visible supply. So when the CPPDISIOSIO-9-099 700, 2 Gay of settlement comes the ‘‘shorts” will be at the mercy | Wowld suit you to a T. of the buyers, with an assignment the only recourse of g LACK OF SUPPLY. “many of them. “What makes you think there'll be a In other words, the jackpot {s now to be opened, ey, of Panama hats next oe % “4 ” “Oh, all the natives down there those who succeeded in ‘‘filling,”” otherwise the buyers, elese Susy woreing’ cH dneveainal 65) proceed to freeze out the other players, the sellers. | % make any hats.” 2 latter trusted to chance; the former, by getting con- of the counters in the game, have been betting on a FROM QUAKERVILLE. “dead sure thing.” And the result will leave eome of the ane ene girl sald she'd be “ a sister to me. players “kings of finance” and some others bankrupt. It | wert, you lonow she comes trom the 4s & great gamble. ® City of Brotherly Love." ) Whe Wily Celestial—When Minister Wu refers to the|% SOMETHING TO BOOT. “calm, discreet views of American statesmen, thelr fair/2 “go you asked him for his daughter's Propositions and unswerving good faith” we understand| hand? What did he say?” why he is great in diplomacy. Yet we see no occasion to|@ “Oh, he seemed to think his foot would + mend the Bret Harte opinion that ‘the heathen Chines Is peculiar." NEW YORK IS SAFE. The collapse of the famous campanile of St, Mark’s in Venice is an event which may well startle the whole | elvilized world. If a massive tower which has stood erect without a flaw or crack for a thousand years can ) give way thus suddenly and without warning, it sounds '@ note of alarm to other tall buildings. New York, however, need feel no apprehension for ita Skyscrapers. They are not of the crumbling kind. The Venice campanile, built of bricks and mortar, rested on % | Venetian lagoon. The New York skyscrapers are firmly | bolted trusses of steel resting on solld rook. New York is safe, but the same cannot be sald of If it is true that the disaster to the campanile was caused by the dredging of the harbor Chicago may be in serious Divorce and the Child.—In the Lederer divorce case the « referee holds that while the father is to have charge of the ohlid the mother is to have custody of it one day a week. A Solomon's decision. THE LATIMER MYSTERY. It {sg to be hoped that the Coroner's inquest, which is ib set for Thursday, will clear up the mystery of the Lati- as to whether the murder was really the work of a bur- | incompetence have done all that was possible to surround the case with mystery and uncertainty and to obstruct the course of justice. é Judged by the standard of efficiency in the prosecu- tion of crime, the great city of Brooklyn is even more antiquated than the rural county of Suffolk. 3 The Fireproof Question.—In refusing to commit himself ‘on the pending question of relaxing the fireproof require- J ments of the skyecrapers, Building Commissioner Stewart = mays; “There ie no such thing as real fireproof wood." fireproof as possible. WORSE THAN NEEDLESS. handlers and teamsters of Chicago was wholly needless and easily preventable. It required an unusual combina- tion of wrong-headedness and obstinacy to render it possible, ‘There was nothing at all at stake except a small quea- a Rather than concede this the controlling influences in the railroad management have accepted the alternative of a strike, well knowing thet {t would probably cost them | question, and also well knowing the probable damage to 4 the seneral business interests on which the railroads Mepend, '¥ More conspicuously tn this strike than in any other the unoffending public are the chief sufferers, and this bg circumstance may have its effect in diminishing the Sympathy which might otherwise be extended to the ‘4 men. Moreover, Mr. Samuel Gompers has officially noti- ee fled the public that a strike is none of their business. Am the Wild West—Are the good old days returning to the West? Following the Tracy bad-man episode comes the robbery of a train by highwaymen at Chester, Col, A feature of the hold-up was that the passengers were made to line up and shel! out as in the most approved sbage- coach style. Nature would seem to be preparing the soll for another Bret Harte. LOBSTER AND ICE CREAM. ‘The death of Mrs. Grace L. Patterson at a Sheepshead Bay hotel 1s attributed to the lobster and ice cream she had imprudently eaten together. There may have been , ‘ontributory causes in the matter of cucumbers and ‘Gorn; these articles of diet figure on most seaside bills _ of tare at this season. Quite likely, as so many inoau- @inera do on a hot day, she may have begun the with cold clams and cold bouillon and washed it o is cooling and easier of digestion than warm when “thermometer is high, 4 OW erroneous this theory is is apparent to any one tte that in dealing with chilled food the stomach raise It to the normal temperature before the ‘Process can begin, and this proceeding warms bod) Father than cools it. It is a fad of some mid- | ¢ ye one redeeming feature of such @ meal is the condemned as heating, but serving a Ye cease to concern themselves about the a @ Chicago, There the conditions resemble those of Ventce. | with cold tea. It is a prevalent theory that cold | % ipmands to have thi th i ha’ ¢ entire menu one of iced preciscly what hi Queries About “L!' Express Trains, ice by stimulating digestion, ‘To the Wiitor of The Bvening World: BOO0$0O009000006- OE HOW TO GET THEM. clothes Is more than I can tell; A copper quick will collar you, And cuff you, too, aa weil. ‘And then to make your outfit whole, Complete, as it should de, A pretty girl, undoubtedly, © do just as well.” BoRROWED JoKEs. WHEN WINTER COMES. “I see that the coal strike has alr caused a loss estimated at $22,000,000.’ “Phew! I wonder what my share | “You'll find out next winter."—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. HOW STUPID. rid tuste. Maude—Why eo? State Journal. ADDENDA. Neve one-half the things you hear. (He—No; nor one-third, even. She—I guess that’s so. thirds, can’t you?—Philadelphia Press, A PECULIAR SUPERSTITION. will go well with them as long Americans remain on the island. "Yea, of course. The Americans are the only people who ever go there with any money."—Toledo Bee. "| Mer case, at least to the extent of settling the question | $¢¢66006000002000000000000 lar or not. At the same time it must be admitted that (' enane ial dias the ground for such hope is slight. Official neglect and SOMEBODIES. } ALBERT, PRINCE OF THURN—Is the king of the dandles. He dons an en- tirely new ault each 4 being perfumed with at $25 an ounce. His tallor’s bill 1s $15,000 @ year. He wears annually 1,000 neck- tles afd 200 pairs of boots, CURTIS, CONGRESSMAN—of Kansas, {s one-fourth Indian and {s looked on by the red men as their legislative champion. ‘That, however, 1s no reason for not making wood as near |FIBLD, DR. HENRY M.—who is now in hin efghty-firat year, 1s the sole sur vivor of the famous ‘Field brothers, which included David Dudley, Cyrus and Judge Stephen Figid. It is not enough to say that the strike of the freight |rURNESS, DR. H. H—the Shakespear- fan authority, owns a pair of gold embroidered buff gauntlets once worn by Shakospeare, ONES, REV. J. H.—of Alli been in the ministry ov. years, He ts now elghty-nine, O., has nty tion of money in the shape of a slight advance in wages. |PAYNE, A, W.—of Bangor, Me, 1s Probably the oldest practising lawyer, ‘He Is ninety, mands a large pi Sa aEEneneeeEl ten times the amount of money involved In the WU >) > rrr LOVE’S TRIUMPH. In summer when the days are long, ‘The Roses and the Lilies talk; They hear a murmur like @ song, As ‘neath the trees young lovers walk, ‘They wonder what the words may be That make the girl's cheeks like a rose; And what he says—that gallant he~ ‘To etir her heant from {ts repose, Ah, Roses, you have not the spell; And, Lilles white, you must forego The language tn which lovers tell The secrets only loyers know. To be @ flower were joy enough, If summer Jasted all the year; But autumn comes and winds are rough— Roses and Lilies disappear. ‘Tis lovers who outlive the year, And triumph over winter's snow; If love be true, they need not foar, Though mocking seasons come and KO —Loulse Chandler Moulton tn July Smart Set. he Funny Jide of Life. JOKES OF OUR OWN WHO WILL WEAR CROKER’S SHOES? t |New WoNDERs, Why, one should pay good cash for Millicent—That Miss Splasher has hor- Miliicent—Why, ch & foundation of piles driven into the soft mud of the| * water eth ae inte raut eae She—Oh, no! I admit you can’t be+ He—But you can usually repeat four- “It is claimed that the natives of Martinique ‘have a superstition that all the OEE a RTT RNR OTT RRR RET pEMIEE geet ee > SOO00O4 By the new elev. trical apparatus of Prof. C. W, Car. en, pictures on @ny opaque ma- terial are project- ed upon a screen, Even a view from the object ttself, if the latter is not %| too large, may be >| Magnified and thrown upon the sheet, without any lantern slide. —10:— VIBRATIONS. The vibration of the diaphragm of &@ telephone re- celver is not easily measured, but the best calculation is said to show a movement of about one twenty-mill- fonth of an inch, AN OWL'S DIET. Eighty pigeons had their eyes picked out recent- ly by an owl which entered their loft by night at Nordhansei Prussia. She same owl the night be- fore picked out the eyes of a whole which were in the the printed loaves in a thick. During the prolonged = Ufic name of this tree o The Wigwam is a-wagging with a mighty slice of news; Bill Devery is going to try on Croker's cast-off shoes! The shoes the Joke, the Two-Spot and the Sport together tried, And had to use a microscope to find themselves inside. NO CAUSE FOR ALARM, ALMOST A CHILL. magnified to a height $ eae aae ae OO$OO9¢ Poe says the Ban Francisco The Pollceman—Well, are you lost? The Boy—' was born and CRUSHING CRITICISM. Mttle boy, ss Mr, Seasun—Do you ever bathe, Miss Blossom? Miss B.—Sir—r—r! Mr, 8. (haatily)-I mean—do you ever go in bathing? DIDN’T STOP. I should way nit! 1 in this town. the door I heard him SF 2D9O99O $949006909909604 rr ae have been thinking."” youth must have its day and {ts thoughtless deeds. Six emall chaps ere shown fm the circular cut out at the top of the illustration; their hands extend over thal Utter of kittens |edze of the circle. Cut this plece out and by moving: it over the part conteging} the numerous nests, find a place for {t where every lad will have @ bind negg im | same bulldin, his hand, AN OLD GERMAN CHARM. eee, ‘This ts one of the few examples of the “dullbrett” yet to be found in Pomer-| probably as much ania, where it was formerly very common. “Dull” is low German for “toll,” | more. meaning med, and “brett” {s a board, and a dullbrett is a board engraved with — letters and rune-like characters. Its use is as follows. On the appearance of 3) pan rumor that a dog or other animal in the vicinity has gone mad dough made of GER. rye flour 1s pressed upon the board and baked. The baked loaf, which showa| Both eyes of w the cabalistic characters in relief, is broken up and a plece Is given to every | wolf in a menage ff ‘member! of the establishment, brute as well as human. This done there is no| erie at Lyons have ty danger to be feared from the bite of a mad dog. been operated on The superstition still prevails though the existing boards are few. The for-| for cataract. Af- tunate possessor of one can therefore make a good deal of money by the sale of | ter the operation ‘Why the boards are not made ad libitum is not clear. Apparently they must | lids were be very old and have an authenticated history to be efficactous. The dullbrett | gether to prevent here shown is trip of oak 10 inches long, 2 inches wide and less than an inch | it opening them BOTTLE TREES. PINE HOUSE 800 YEARS OLD. devastated large areas of Queensland, a. few squatters have been able to save @ remnent of their flocks and herds by feeding them on bottle trees. The sclen- its popular name gives an idea of. its shape. It is like a soda-water bottle, feet. The bulbous part contains a muct- laginous substance, which Is wi OMe and nutritious to those who have ac- DIPLOMACY. quired its taste. It was pathetic to see the thirsty sheep gather around a bottle tree, pick up the chips, chew them, and extract all possible moisture — THE BABY KILLER. ‘While the late Frank R, Stockton was planning out his book of “Pomona's Travels" he had a business appointment with his dentist, who was an old friend, Btookton once told the story: “While in the chuir I got to talking with this friend about my new book. I told him I had serious thoughts of Ik ing that baby. He was much Interested. We talked over the advisability of doing} This 1s one of the buildings called “‘staburs,” which are to this, and while he was not quite con-|be seen in Telemark, in Norway. They are bullt of pine wood ho in the main agreed with me. | ang most of them date from the eleventh or twelfth eentury, 4 vines He—Darling, why did you get mad@|{,pad boon Anished with, und oleBDiN€ | mney are storehouses for provisions to be used during the is ‘001 when I kissed you last night? lny way out, This walting-r She—It was enough to make me@/filled with women. As I passed through | the pecullar hard, flat, Norwegian bread or biscuit, which 1s mad; some one was looking. i) that Pe oe veiy. I repted You should | of these buildings are adorned with artistic wood carving and seen the women stare. It was nov ted bright red. There are wooden churches of equal au A MISCALCULATION. Unt I got well out im the hallway that | Painted brig a I reallzed what they must, of course, GIVE EACH BOY A BIRD NEST. y ty PHO " SF \L= SSE Ss People there are who would chastise the small boy for robbing bird nests, buf! Mountain locust or grasshopper in 1876 destroyed $100,000,- 000 of crops ia Missouri, ka ang Towa, and the in- direct loss w hydrophobia scare—which he may have started himself. the animal's eye wn to- for sqveral hours, et —_—_— drought that has is Sterculla, but of four or five Chronicle. Mr. tin, ym was | long winters, and contain among other things quantities of call, “Phen vou! as thin as a pancake and thirty inches in diameter. Many tiquity, Stee S German, Herr Shuch, kicked nor @ouls to be Teacher—Can't you get that through your head? ‘Tommy—Yea'm. man should be ingulted “She ain't the beauty she used to me about it? ys you're @ dead one, Tommy—Berause it's gone through Fudge—He's been trying to bury my head me a long time, ‘ refer his enemy to t PLPDODLLODY POOVOOOG DIDO OOVOEOV OOO O54 ae What could be mor: $ ‘No, and tt's my opinion she never SOO4- Teacher-4Then why can't you tell the a TIMELY LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. “What He Is Paid For.” ‘To the KAkor of ‘The Brening World In reply to “Office Boy's" letter on the reatment of office boys, 1 would say at such work as he complaing of is eis paid for. OFFIGH BOY NO, 2 Why are no express trains run from Weat Fifty-ninth street or Seventy #ec- Of food tm summer time but confine | ong strect atter $04 A. M.? Why not Maple dishes, avoiding rich pastries and | continue them e@ Inte ne at stations stop at Seventy-second street and Fifty-;one. It may take you a few years to|I do a ninth street aleo atop at Bixty-sixth| Save the mune; bhas ener h Street? ‘These are but a few of the viclsaitudes of the express train. Why, ‘a1 minutes! To the Editor of The Bening World. execrable. es fete days. They are 0 ding through the park Scores the Park Roads. Fide intmany parts ot ee neice ae ko] Throughout Holland the INSULTS FOR ALL-COMERS. We have all heard of the “retort corteous."” An industrious propriate, if not courteous, retort by compiling a lst of some 2,500 inaulting expressions and carefully classifying them, ways the London Chronicle. He first of all separates them into five fundamental classes corresponding to the different Acinds of persons that we may fee) called upon to insult—in- @ults for children, and collective insults for syndicate groups and corporations which have neither bodi Herr Bhuch, we may pelt them with withering insults. If a only to pull out of his pocket the “Schimpfworter Lexicon, and, finding the appropriate section, go one better than his sAversary. If, in correspondence, he wishes to escape an action for slander, he need only pick out a choice insult and aay and effective? COURTING SUNDAYS IN HOLLAND Holland is a place where primitive custome abounl. Tradi- reat deal of bleyole riding and| tons are sacredly handed down i the on ac-| veneration for ancient things has Worcester, Mass, | count of the pleasant eurcolindin Deal nae Gani’ al coating ainda: A JAP NEWSBOY, bas enabled us to make the ap- to bi damned; but at least, according to in the street or at the club he hi foresaid lexicon, page ——, line —, four Sundays of November are kept named severally Review, Decision, d ‘This morning as 1 was je can be no block tO] Why ta it that the roads in Central! ,. luis, mon iniliing on ome Mbetae ix| Purchase and Possession Sudays. On Review Sunday every fnyn He Lacks the Price, etead of belng made with broken stone? ‘Te the Rdor of The Brening World Our Central Park roads ought to be BEVe Peter J, Claiveres, of Wyckoff, N; J.,| models of perfect road murface, but on| coi is #0 Much concerned about the ugitness the Panama hat, I bet it is @ case of ‘sour wrepes,” of, in plain Wnglish, he price, Ni Low thom, ARBONB. > Park are made with gravel and dir in-|jnohes of gravel from ‘of a hen's| One goes to chureh, and smixed’ wit i Dhte wilt pat soins Est 08 ment, they wontd Let MEP ERY, Tt would cost no more fons False the and would one. after service there is @ church par- npr bas tayo