The evening world. Newspaper, July 16, 1902, Page 6

Publioned by the Press Publishing Company, No. 3 to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Poat-omce at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. SO MOLUME 48........00..ceeccseeeeees NO. 14,9389. | FP THE CORN CORNER COLLAPSE. ‘ Re Chicago corn speculators’ house of cards has col- Sepeed, ns such fabrics do, and rather sooner (han usual. Whe Aifference in this case is that the occupants got with 2 certain amount of profits, otherwise Funder before the crash came. ‘fome of the operators have been caught in the ruins, 2 ‘The shrewdness of the Gates clique was shown in its | ¢ ~ knowledge of when to quit the game. Other corn kings See and wheat maninulators have held out to the end and gone down, engulfed in the rush to market of the mill- tons of buehels of the cereal which cannot be reckoned ©) with in éstimates of the visible supply. The Gates crowd ‘when the rush began forcsaw the inevitable collapse and | got out with what proceeds they could, leaving those to mourn who had acted in good faith on their prediction that corn would pass $1. Z Except for these squeezed shorts and the long train of > pmaller speculators following in the wake of the big men| there will be few to regret the collapse of the corner. ‘Phe farmer, who got none of the profits, will have a momentary feeling of gladness before the sobering real- sation comes to him that the unsettled conditions fol- lowing the crash will make the outlook for corn next} Z year rather worse than it was this. | < | Preserving His Honor.—A Philadelphia wall paper manu- fecturer has abot himself so that his $100,000 of life In- surance may go to his creditors. From their rolnt of view he was an honorable man, but the insurance com- panies which lone the premiums due them during his matural life may have another opinion. | | LINDENTHAL’S LATEST. Fridge Commissioner Lindenthal's latest suggestion | for relieving the Brooklyn Bridge crush by a system of g be who are ready to furnish the money for its construction. But the first objection to this proposition is that New York does not want to hand over the contract of moving passengers over the bridge to a private corpora- tion. ‘If the platform plan Is a good one the city and not © the contractors ought to get the benefit of it, New York oes not need to depend on private capital for any public bee =—- improvement. : 4q But is the plan a good one? There are a great many = questions to be answered. How are the travellers to be | protected from winter's snow and summer's rain? If they are to be covered and housed, how are they to get from one platform to another unless the roadway | transformed to a tunnel? Above all, is not the platform plan teo much of an | experiment to be tried on such a scale? Is not the pas- fenger traffic of the bridge too important to be exposed | to the risks of any untried experiment, no matter how "well it may be indorsed? > A Brooklyn Cinderella.—The pretty Brooklyn girl who \s fighting a shoe firm in court because of a pair of slippers that did not fit has given Justice Walsh a puzzling prob- Jem to solve. To steer an even course between the con- aigcration of gallantry and the stern exactness of the law ig in this case a peculiarly difficult feat. DR. WILEY’S FOOD TESTS. Dr. Wiley, the chief chemist of the Bureau of Agri- culture at Washington, presumably has a great deal of “leisure time at his disposal. At least it is announced that he is going to conduct a series of experiments on the effect of food on the human body. For this purpose he wishes to secure fifteen persons of good health and habits whom he will feed on various kinds of food, with special reference to the effects of using adulterated, =) “doctored” and even poisonous foods. » . Ome would think that the chief diMculty would be in finding people of good health and habits who would consent to being made the subject of such interesting experiments. Dr. Wiley is a little bit late. Four years ago the War Department conducted a series of experi- ments on a larg: scale on the effects of embalmed beef as an army ration, but the results have never been scien- tifcaily tabulated. J Whether Dr. Wiley succeeds or not, it is interesting * —Ss_ to know that it Js one of the functions of government in a this country to find out through the Department of Ys Agriculture just what are the physiological effects of | ) food on the human system. : SPELLING PROSPERITY. ‘The iatest news from the country’s corn belt is that the hot weather of the past week has come at just the right time to help the corn, and the outlook is that the crop will be a record breaker. Wheat is also looking ‘well, and a large crop of oats is reasonably secure. Other ‘Yarm products are equally promising. | This spells prosperity, and spells it in capital letters, The combination of big crops and good prices, which has | been the marvel of the past six years, Is likely to be | repeated. Chicago's “Corn King,” Phillips, who ought to | know, says that even with a 2,000,000,000 bushel corn | crop the increase in our cereal supply does not keep up with the growth of the demand. | There are some drawbacks on our prosperity. The Btrikes are costing money, Congress has been wasteful | And the trusts are getting more than their hare of the | product, but, on the whole, the prosperity of the country | ie unabated. This ie good news for everybody, for the farmer, for ‘the capitalist, for the wage worker, for the speculator, even for the politiclan who had nothing to do with . bringing it about. i MARY CHANGES HER MIND, i Perhaps by the influence of telepathy, at any rate by @ coincidence that must be regarded as remarkable, just | bs the Aldermen were about to take up Alderman “Tim' | Buliivan’s resolution formally inviting Miss Mary Mec: | ‘Lane to visit New York—just at this psychological mo- | it the spoiled child of genius changed her mind, few her prejudice against the metropolis to the winds | decided to give us a glimpse of ier. She who had} d she would ne'er consent has consented, And | should like w attribute her change of mind to the e persuasion of “Tim.” | Irie of existence be livelier of hue for her presence. y will give her a big send off,” says Alderman But why should the Wigwam have a monopoly ty? Mary will come as the city's guest, with u d with ber and her toothbrushes, Any monopolize her charuns will be resented, Let ted to turn our “‘flahy eyes of desire” may her dear devil not forbid. In previous corners | woving platforms has the indorsement of practical men | @, CUYLPR, GARLAND, Ooo 9O90O00006454G446 O69 HIS RELATIONS. ‘The child is father to the man, 54 The girl is sister to him, 2 And many a whiskered gentleman Ig As “uncle will undo him 4 QUITE so. $ "Senator Platt advises young men to @ keep thelr wor “Yes, that's Ju st a Platt-itude.” THE RACE. “Are you much Interested in the race?" > “What race? The human?” § “No; tha race between corn and the thermometer for the 10) mark." BEYOND HOPE. “*a& atitch In time saves nine.’ “If the nine is as rotten as the Giants ll the stitches in the county can't save them,” THE FAMOUS INTERVIEW. “Do you suppose Devery went to Rock- y for the view?” No, for the inter-view.”” BORROWED JOKES. INSULT TO INJURY. He (reproachfully)—Perhaps you for- ®@et What happened yesterday. I was cut ‘by my dearest acquaintance, the one G1 love beat In all the world; in fact— ye She (cootly)—The idea! Do you really @ “Here, here,” exclaimed the hotel por- @ter to Uncle Reuben, who was pouring Qwater on the electric iight, “what are “Wall, I tried tew blow th’ thing out,” replied Uncle Reuben, abashed, ‘an’ it wudn't blo’ so 1 jes’ thort I'd drown it out, b’gosh!"'"—Columbus State Journal. % PERFECTION. “Do you think perfection 4 ally attalned in this life?” erious youth, © “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne, ‘some people become perfect bores.""—Wash- @ ington Star, & ——————— © FROM HER DEAREST FRIEND. @ “I think," she said, “I should like to 3 marry an imaginative man.” “Well, what other kind of a man can 3 you expect to marry—lf he has a chance @ to see you in daylight?”"—Stray Stories. BE GOGHGOGHHHG008-HEGO92HO00 ever act asked the i SOMEBODIES. (|: ACTON, LORD—who has just died, had the largest private library in Eng- land, numbering more than $0,000 vol- umes. It was not donated to him by ‘Mr. Carnegie. REV. DR.—of Brooklyn, has | { Just completed his book, “Recollections of a Long Life.” PISNER, REV. JOSEPH—of Baitl- more, Is going with his wife to Jeru- salem, where the couple intend to pass | > the remainder of thelr lives. HAMLIN — the author, owns an Indian tepee eighteen feet tn dlameter, made for him by Cheyenne women, Tepee-making seems to take the place with Indians that the em- broldering of slippers for the does among their white sisters, HOAR, SENATOR—has just bought « house at Washington. Heretofore he has lived at hotels and boarding- houses there, Henceforth tho hall bedroom and the prune will hold no terrors for him. SANTOS-DUMONT, ALBERT — wants $1,000,000 with which to continue flying- machine experiments, Peril comes high in more senses (han one with such inventors, HEAT IN THE CITY- Over the scorching roots of tron ‘The red moon ri Sw. Uncomforted bene: 6 Nght The pale crowds gasping go The heart-sick city, spent day, Cries out in vain for sleep, ‘The childless wife beside her dead Is too outworn to weep. witu The children in the upper rooms Lie faint, with half-shut eyes, In the thick-breathing, lghted ward ‘The stricken workman dies. From breathless pit and swelter ing loft Dim shapes creep one by one, To throng the curb and crowd the stoops And dread to-morrow's sun ~The Outlook pastor | % THE WORLD: p " * WEDNESDAY EV ENING, JULY 16, 1902. DPOIEGHHS Ghe Funny JS ide of Life. ih | \ \\ ‘Mother—Gladys, most months, but ols Are On DESPERATE CASE. sets Vly all. young man was gone, Gladys—That’s all right; he's been awfully gone on me for six JUST AS GOOD. aR 7 ys “I hear there's @ desert scene tn D KHEELADHOLHESHDOVEDHE OOHHHHDHGHOSD H HESOHOHSHOSOH OOD & @O2-OS- THE BURGLAR'S NEW SWAG. OOD | ployed SOP 36 20OOF eS 00OSOOC: Bold Burglar Bill has turned him from the plate and gems 60 rare, And swift his ‘sneaks’ ure sneaking down the winding cellar stair. He's blown the sturdy cellar locks and won ambition’s goal. He's rich for life wpon his precious half-pint hoard of coal. Oe HAUNTED. EDUCATION. D2 99904600000 ~ ioDp!TY CORN ER.; BomBast. | FUNNY CHOW-CHOW CLOWNS. Bombast once gnified the cot- ton that was em- j to stuff garments, par- ticularly the enor- mous trunk hos worn In the four- teenth and fit. teenth centuries. AN OLD BOWL. A Roman bowl of Samian make, sald to be 2,000 vears old, has been brought up from the sea bottom off Beachy Head by a Brightlingsea oys- ter dredger. PENNY X-RAYS. Penny X-ray in- struments, by the ald of which the curious may see thelr own finger bones, are being sold in the streets of London, Dozens of funny clowns and in every possible position, This puzzle 1s meant asa test for your alertness In ocular observation, ‘The disk printed at the corner of the picture will fit in every detail some portion of the larger drawing, Cut out the square and the smaller one within, and slide it over the clowns until your eye catches @ spot where every line will match. oS KING EDWARD’S NEW ORDER. KIPLING’S COURTESY. When Rudyard Kipling was last in the United States he dined with a party that included several other well-known writ- ers, a fair proportion of men and women who knew something about literature and a larger number who knew very Uttle and made up for the lack of knowledge with pretense, says the San Franctsco Chronicle. Several of the 1a described kind started a ust discus- sion concerning spellings, pronunciatians, synonyms, anonyms, &c., and, apropos of nothing at all that had been said, one, firing her remark straight at Kipling, as the lion of the occasion, declared: “I find that ‘sugar’ and ‘sumac’ are the only words beginning with ‘su’ that are pronounced as though beginning with ‘sh.’” Bored though he was, Kipling’s polite- ness did not desert him, and, assuming an expression of interest, although his eyes twinkled behind his glasses, he asked: “Are you sure?” ——— NOVEL ROBBERY. The London Express reports a most ingenious theft on one of the railways in Burmah. The Burmese head-covering, it must be understood, is a silk ker- chief, often of considerable value and called ‘“‘gaungbaung.” Some young gare-devils attach prickly bushes to long bamboo poles and when the mail train passes they yell out, which causes the native passengers to stick their heads out of the carriage windows. The train Is then raked from end to end by means of the scrubby poles, with the result that the Burman male passengers are de- prived of their gaungbaungs. Some twenty-seven silk head-dresses were thus acquired by the young scamps in the one night. ee THE BOWERY GIRL SHOPS. ne Obverse. Reverse. THE ORDER OF MERIT. On all eide action has been expressed at the institu- tlon of the new “Order of Merit," to which the first appoint~ ments were made in the Coronation Honors List. The King himself Is Sovereign of the new Order of Merit, instituted in honor of the coronation, and the twelve men who have been signalled out for the honor of being made the first ordinary members are those who have gained the highest distinction: in science, letters and art. The accompanying !llustra~ tlon shows the badge which 1s worn by military and naval members of the Order. It consists of a cross of red enamel, with two silver swords with gold hilts between the angles of the cross, The centre of the badge 1s of blue evamel sur- rourided by a laurel wreath, and bearing on the obverse the words ‘For Merit," and on the reverse the King's royal cipher. The cross is surmounted by the imperial crown enam- elled in color, and the ‘badge will be worn on a two-inch ribe ‘von of Garter blue and crimson. QUEER PLACE FOR NEST. Bas CT Ky said 9OF2O 9900S 6000 OO The Gent—If you are a college, graduate, as you say you are, I should think you could easily hay made a living. The Tramp—No, I couldn't get a Job, boss; all the baseball nines wei over supplied, WOULD RUN NO RISK, O92 you that Miss Art—Why does Daubs draw such horrible old woman faces now- aday: Mr. Cartoon—Don't you know his mother-in-law has been Hving with him for some moons? HIS GRIEVOUS FAULT. PE OGELEOGHOI1GHOG-9O009990 908 $96-096090000O Mr, Goodes E. Canby—Can you not: Black, Jr.—But, father, what if I $ ald the new small-pox hospital for’ was at the Filp Flop vaudeville $ the poo camela In it? I saw you there, too, Mrs. Noorich—No, I don't believe i plays "The Sr—That’s just what I'm } in encouraging the poor to ketch ‘ nu for such things, don't you know? going to whop PEDOOPHOGA-HHHEHH GOOCH TIMELY LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. one to tell me why Staten Islanders are Her Aversiona. health laws. It ought to be prohibited, { natural what the mind cannot grago To the WAitor of The Hvenine World ae 1. 1s exposing food for sale which ta| seems absurd. Would tt not be ad-|called “farmers.” Few of these Staten I wisa to mention a few things that | handled by any and every body. I think | yisable yefore pase | Island thousands doing business in New give me a pain in the neck: The fel-| this is instrumental in apreading Infec- | ing sent York have escaped the “kidding” of low that pute bis arm around his giri| tious diseases. The Board of Health JEANNETTE D, PEARL. | their New York business associates, on the car coming from Coney Island; | should inquire into tt A Staten Islander’s Plal “How are things down on the farm?’ the corner joafer with hie Panama hat; | H. DIFPENBACH, [| Te the Baior of T vening World: “Do you keep cows?” &¢., are a fow the girl who rolls up her sleeves to) No, 2365 Wirst avenue. 1 would like to express myself con-| of the prevalent remarks. If some New r-colored arms and the| Am Admicer of Mary MacLane. cerning the opinion exigting between the | Yorkers could see themeelves as others fancy socks | To the RAltor of The Evening World people of Manhattan and Richmond | see them when they come to the island hia knee to| I think Mrs, Leaso's analysis of Mary | Dorough#. Many Staten Island people| thelr opinion would change, A LADY ere. ‘To the Raitor of The Breuning World: I reepactfully call your attention to ar injustice to the retat! fish storekeeper by the fiah peddlers (Crooks) with baskets, going from house to house disposing of |fish, which ts cleaty @ violation of MacLane in The Evening World is per- It i» the easiest thing tn the world to pronounce that which we don't fect. understand as crax: Paik hnmintnn aor etna neenmmens = — lll . Bo was Columbus discovered America. Uhat bundreds of unfortunstes|the heart euffered the same fate, and it's quite} heard of it, Now, I would Uke gome THEOS ALWYN, Tompkinevitle, 8, 1, Odd Names Wanted. ‘To the Editor of Toe Bvening World: Would readers kindly suggest pretty and odd firet names ¢or with "I," ané dor @ boy, “ge re. are employed in New York, and thou- sands make the trip daily. The tea of the average New Yorker is that Staten Island 19 a distant province, reached by @ voyage of a week or more, while there are hundredw of people right in of Manhattan that never Mary MacLano is History pe Owen Kildare Describes a Visit with “The Party” to the Shopping District. Listen. It Is only my good nature to tell you that a certain event wili soon take place in our social set. Ahem! ‘The nearer the day approaches the more ‘The Party wor- ries about her trousseau. ‘There, now, I told yo Consequence: She took @ day off and I was ordered to re- port ae escort. Now I know more about chemisettes and straight-front corsets that I ever did before in my life. ‘And, the best of it 1s, she always quite seriously asked my opinions. ‘Ah, but it's @ great thing to have an angelic disposition. When we do things we do them in style and Fourteenth street—nothing less—was our field of operation. From etore to store she tripped and I stumbled, being kept in the rear by the confounded, slippery bundles. All you could see of me was my nose and mild blue eyes. ‘They ain't too heavy?" fluted The Party. “Oh, no, not at all,” and a few more were piled on top. (1 wonder what makes a truthful man the twin-brother ef Satan for lying when he's in love?) I suggested an express wagon, but, no. “They emash and mix them @0."' Do not ask how we got back to the Bowery. It was weir, uncanny, Interspersed by tears from The Party and forceful language from the conductor when I dropped half of my load in getting on the car. (Thank heaven, I'm not given to profanity.) ‘At mother’s house, just a mouthful, and I was enared away to Division street to “help” The Party buy a hat. Ever been in Divison street? ie From Chatham Square to the horizon nothing but millinery stores, and a female ‘‘capper” in front of every one of them, A male “puller-in'"' ts bad enough, but a female—heaven pro- tect us, ‘We were defeated at the first assault and found ourselyes store, Do you know why Whe Party hed insisted on my escort? Sho wanted an eMfclent critic, and I liked the job. I have seen some |} ificent pictures, but no prettier aight en been peheld by me than The Party trying oa ‘a bonnet in front of the mirror. That ttle stubby nose almost became purple with strain- ing, the forehead was onossed by tiny wrinkles, and the head swaying from slide to side, nearly revolving entirely, the bright eyes kept jumping with animation, Consequens 1 kept finding feult just to have the vision over and over again, But I got my reward for my wickedness. ‘We were in the fifth store, and The Party was netted by my unsatisfactory criticism, I bethought myself of my duty, ‘and, having led in the morning, resolved to be absolutely truthful, ‘The very first hat tried on was « terrible thing, not ft for @ queen like my Party, “How does it look?’ She turned to me. The nest of a robin redbreast built in the hub of an old wheel is shown in the above picture. ELEPHANTS IN WAR, In fighting the Greeks the Asietics used elephapts, whose howdahs were | Aled with armed Aa MAKING A PIECE OF NEWS. A good live place of news may often “Fierce!” I answered with conviction, be made by accident, Readers of Bar. | “Oh, does 1tT" rie's novel, “When a Man's Single,” And now the date ts postponed indefinitely, will recall the telegraph editor whe | VENVoI. thought @ despatch beginning “The Zu+ When criticising a Party's bonnet tell the truth, but hide it under weveral layers of auger, OWEN KILDARM, Jus have taken umbrage" referred to the | capture of & post, and gave Umbeage the beneft of @ capital f ed \ 4 Soy 4 j ee wc ala nites 4 ik Mee