The evening world. Newspaper, July 29, 1902, Page 6

z F Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-ofico at New York as Second-Ciass Mail Matter VOLUME 48. oy sss NO, 14,0582, THE PRICE OF COAL. Tt costs no more to mine a ton of goal, or to transport ft, or to deliver it now than it did a year ago, and con- ° paquently the whole increase in price which the public 4 he pays is profit which goes into the pockets of one set of} ¥ a robbers who collect it in their triple capacity as c : 3 miners, coal carriers and coal venders. ‘ ; Less than two weeks ago The Evening ees iw an 4 JOKES OF OUR OWN eG analysis of the situation, estimated the profits of the ‘ robbers as the proceeds of the hold-up at $50,000,000, If CHANGE WANTED, i any one thought these figures exaggerated then he has) = ere hwnd organ that plays upon our j probably been convinced of his error by the recent ad- block vance, It Is not eure that this is the last advance, The} ¢) (is but one tune Ths more than T price may be pushed up another dollar next week—there | @ yy) 0 ney vous wreck, or die from is no telling what the victimized public may bh ble to] > shock stand; it may be put up another dollar the weck after, |p If! or I don't get 4 hange of air and, worst of all, it may stay put. There is no reason)? 14, SSALE MANSLAUGHTER, why it should not. iin mi Fe r . While the situation is rather hard on the victims it) 2," McSadleigh eed to take life 69 is in every way satisfactory to the robbers. They Have “Well, since he's taken to riding in an every inducement to make it permanent. Instead of} % auto he takes life easily enough” Josing money by the coal famine they are making more - money than they ever did. When they contemplate the ce) EA) Uh submission of the public they may exclaim with Warren ed) poker, three noura)and came Hastings that they are “amazed at their own modefa- apo tion.” They are in uncontrolled mastery of the situa- ——_ tion, and there is really no reason why the present basis © A DRY COUNTRY, of supply and Price should not be made permanent. > “In Chine plays sometimes have acts Re SURRTNT ae t three days long. Counting the Conxt.—Yesterday’s collision on the Brooklyn] {2% What a\ frost for the saloon “If indicates the existence of a belief that It is cheaper| @ next to the theatre! to pay damages than It is to insure safety — ‘ a ae ar * BORROWED JOKES. BILL THE GOOb. : There was once a man named Peabody who acquired | A SURE SIGN. ss some repute as a philanthropist, and there is Carnegie, | ily Pinktighis—The prima Gonna not unrenowned in that line, but their lustre dims and |¢ "st be Font DO Ra Lc Hee: Sion their Lenofactions seem cheap before those of Willlam S$. ] 2 think so? b. Devery in the Ninth District. Deverv has become an|"?) Polly Pinktights—She’s beginning to ambulating charity bureau, ministering to the sick and} «Jose her diamonds, and that's a pretty the afflicted, alleviating the pangs of the distressed and | j,°"/" *#6a-—Philadelnnla Record seattering plenty broadcast about him like an over. |‘) WI NE Dip IT. ‘ turned cornucopia. Bevisons greet Bill wherever he)? ..1,, you think that dog is wo! A goes, the crow of the satisfied infant, comfortably filled] 2 money you are paying for a tag | with lactated food of the great man's providing, rising} SH sul anawered Mr. yin unison with the thanks of the relieved mother. EP ane UE Tds eike oleneinibalandle ‘ _—s~Preettty ‘soon it is likely there will be a catechign in| *\.))) yoa2—AWashington Stat TH the Ninth beginning: Who fills the widow's coalbin at i; $10 per? Willlam S. Devery. Who pays the poor man’s A BDA SONIC a rent and “sets them up’ besides? William S. Devery.|% , sna a ela a apie orscallita : Who puts $5 bills in the hands of the hungry, and|© 1, sponders—Yes? I'd call ita “pelle throws dimes in the street for Johnny to scramble for,| {can . and gives an exoursion where Nellie can spiel, and sets|@ Mrs. Spenders—A “pelican?” f the rockets off, and hires the band to play and makes|o Mt Spenders—¥os. on account of the a ‘3 cd > Size of thé bill.—Philade!phia Press, the wheels go round generally? None but William 8S. | 3 \ It 1s an inspiring spectacle to see the ex-‘best chief” | 2 FOOLISH MAN, in this paternal and philanthropic role, and some who|:s¢ Postal Clerk—You'll have to put an- © helped him make his fortune will be glad to see it spent] Cea eae ist i that way. Postil Clerk—Recause it's overweight 9 —— Miss Pert—But, gractous! Another i fhe Unrecorded Accidents.—In tho biography of Mrs.| Jstamp would make it still heavier. Mills, the wealthy diamond expert, it gy stated that her] Philadelphia Press , death was duc to shocks received on two separate occa 4 * sions when she was violently thrown from trolley cars. t This fe probably the most frequent form of accident and t ih Persona! injury in New York, 4 n 4 ‘ ae i D 9 q A NEW FRILL, SOMEBO IES ; ; u pAbvien 5 * e ron K, IRGE Wo—reeently ine! i “The Mayflower has left Oyster Bay for Larget prac-, lated semen ae pe ne (tice at Gardiner's Island and during her absence the} jig three ehildven and halt of them * Sylph will take her place as the President's yacht.” were givls, He then went on to When, where and how wid it hecome necessary | that other half were girls, too. that the Prosident of the United States should have one| Hels children bis hearers took ne of the vessels of the United States Navy placed at his| MPS toward retaliation, disposal, maintained at the Government's expense aid | CUM Neos mx Ey rene ian neriues stationed in front of the President's summer home to be | iy gorestry used solely for purposes of pleasure by the President and |, wi Deiscclveal a laa his family? What would the earlier Presidents have |U. \y ia maid, on writing to West! ¢ thought of this? What are the “plain people” out West | Point gp learn what progress his son | ¢ going to think of it? Is it proper? Is it edifying? Is it! was making there. The instructor, an |r f mmove in the right direet'on? Does any one belt: ve that} Md clnssmate of tis own, te whom he) >, it Bryan were President he would imitate this semblance | jy wyerything than vou did in any-| + of ‘of royalty? Would it not be better if the President of | thing £ a the United States should set an example of simplicity |sicHoLAS, CZAR-of Russia, has) } : ? aken up paiating as an amusement] ¢ ) Moon on Matrimony.—George Moon, who has deserted his SOPHIA, QUE of Sweden, ds the} ite, is alleged by her to have sald: “There Is no marry-| Armest friend of the Salvation Army | i ing or giving In marriage in heay what ds good) and has given tt much flnanetal ald, | t enough in heaven {s good enough for me ‘elestial laws, | SIMS, JAM of Cazenovia, N. Y., has! ¢ however, do not always hold good in magistrates’ courts, | brated his one hundredth |} — He cast his first vote for] @ OVERWORK. | piney 2 f oy Mr. Schwab, of the Steel Trust, is a philanthropist as Mi a TBDIAREE ey : eh $ ), well as @ plutocrat, and the public will be glad to tearm | i) ty. tenort tnae he maw stingy, Be [2 that his recent attack of nervous exhaustion has passed | 4 numuor of gifs to charity he has off and that he bids fair to draw his million-dollar sulary | at Just lived down the rumor for many years and to carry out his plans for his sum- a mer playground on Staten Island for poor children. (SR RE, | Mr. Schwab has probably been working too hard. He ONE LITTLE WORD. should learn the lesson of wisdoni from his elders, who |] It was merely # word you sald, dear, seem able to combine an immense amount of work with || Merely « it | ¥ due recreation. Mr. Morgan is off playing golf in Eng- |] BUt the ansels bent to ilaten 5 And smiled as its so y heard fand. Mr, Hill has been fishing in Labrador. Mr. |[ i: sent the rinalen breaking | a Rockefeller not only plays golf but is succeeding in rais- |} ‘Yo. the uttermost ve the || ing a new crop of hair, There does not seem to be any | earth f eerious danger of an epidemic of nervous exhaustion 4 And it made a proud heart ¢ He . the result of overwork among the captains of industry. And kindled a tame on the | ‘ ity —e It was merely a word you sald, dear a MORE BRITISH CAPITAL HERE, Sie HENADTSePRTE id , ‘ But the one who held and kissed you ag English capital has sought investment in many] Was cwtert to have it ¢ ig American industries, but {t hax remained for Lord | Par of were age and stghing, » Rosslyn io seek to place a Jump sum of it in a Sarat And clos: were life and love, TWO set out 10 Journey togethe gambiing-house. The sports there will welcome him and probably hall as a henefactor thy man who aspires to make two green baizes flourish ye only one has flourished before. The new club will siart as a rival to Canfield's, but in the natural course of events they will) ~ - probably combine and the old monopoly will ba re-estab-| stars wore shining |) Mahed in the orthodox trust method | Til ry ELY LE ; ] = # That future contingency is not so interesting, how- Pd) ever, as the evidence of acquired wisdom reveg the} oe Jord in sevking to place his capital in this sort of | 7% etry, A few months ago his lordsuip had a ayatem qr iin en What Was the ¥ rriage mar bank at Monte Carlo, His ambition was gratified, | T, 0 Biller of The Boaniog Wo bank is still doing business at the old stang,; *’™° pesele ny ae é op i ai learned his lesson he now aspires to replenish |). yt uth midew of tive sjuention then inpty coffers and he sevms to have gone about i: In| might change thelr opinion. 1 was out ght way, It is safe to predict that his lordyyip|in my rus ike more money out of his American investment|2%# “dared cach other to stand the been the good fortune of most BAtish in-|/VBUN IP front ot Mth fale ike thrashing them, as they were very pro- WN ‘voklng, Agalmy many boys, nyt ea- | it Bunday and several TAS pe The Puma's broken So you and Miss May have been at tt again. Why do you quar- rel about trites? You egotistical fellow! eaime that we are quar- reliing about SEND-OFF. rae + | lo tertainment vet perlenced wide of the Withough | Che right A i ahe would proaches. iat Was Warranted to win out over the most obstinate ino! marry a man Who wore a Panama) the | ta Urrence mince Sf Swithin's Day? due to last forty daye, watt twaditio; Mre 8. LN waking them | cod, BOW Up pet adverse conditions ai any gambling-house, — Phore, )"! am we to look for ia’ hodm: th leg v 96 4 thy Panama hat marie f #0 Many occasions on which {t just missed proving! Panamaniac. | 4 fink, | 1 that Its proud possessor burned to try it op More Defense for Auton. ut SEE Naluy Daye Swithin's day 1 can make out, p prophecy has been fu year, apd, the oldetin $364OO 4-H) 4 unny Side of L THE DEVERY PUMA IN THE CHILLING. Wife—It's so dreadfully warm, can't you suggest something cooling? Husband—You might read your mother's poem on home fe? ~~ "DISCOVERED, Little Girl-Sh-h! Nota rd, os- sifer! Here's were you Kin make good! erado yander Is Ban- ai ays so hisself! Lady—Is Hquor your falling? Cinder Charley 1 guess so. ma'am Al least 1m always (ailing to get It eee ERS FROM THE PEOPLE. vest hat, Has a od my husband's d how raiy hast wr ny One elke ni hey Are Cro To the kAitor of The Kventne World 1 travel considerably and am atruck with the croxyness and irritability of the average commuter, A commuting friend of mine tells me tt is because they must riso at the sereech of dawn, dress ian a hurry, bolt their breakfasts, rush (o the station and then rt n hour or ao ln #@ jammed and jogging train T don't greatly wonder they are |eross if all this tg true, Will some com- to| muter please tell me what is the com- poll our summer with dally shawers.|pensating 40¥.(apart trem economy) of 1¢ haw spoiled two of my drewses and|commuting? Of course, life in the coun =a) ) LEADING "? exactly alike He called them put. they say; he'll put them all to rout, they say. using; Goodwit, Smuih, et al.; he’s put ‘em in a hole. They're stampeding like wild horses, Dev'ry’s in among their forces Tle'll gend them screeching to the woods or shinning up a pole. ONE FOR GUSSIE, SOULFUL. of a new ni 1s contended and one-half miles and ir Jartillery range to ime were going out to the Philippines toy your sea-ored principles you luf to hear: rechister al- UNPOP’LAR. oODpI!TY CORNkR. aaa OUR NITRATES. | HHO)MELY OBJECTS CAUSED DEATH. ‘The reported dis- covery of beds of nitrate of soda near Lovelock, Humboldt County, Nev., may, prove of considerable importance, Chili at present fur- nishes the world’s Supply, and the use of the mineral for agricultural purposes I's ine creasing, due to the resuits that have been gleaned in that alleignpor- tant matter of “mixing brains with the soil.” TOBACCO. STRANGE COLLECTION OF A LONDON CORONER. Last year the | Eich of these ordinary-looking objects Is to blame for the loss of a human life. French Govera- | rake for first example, the metal knob, which onge ornamented a ded post in ment made a pro- At of over £14,- 100,000 on its mo- nopoly of the sale a Jondon uctel. The occupant of the room in which It belonged threw himself with full weight upon the bedone night and so loosened the knob, which fell upon i ith futal result r onject in tae coitectton is a paperknife, a ot trobn eeel ie usual conditions. A young woman attempted to carry {t downstairs stuck in her elgareties and |yviice. she fell and the knife transfixed her breast, She lived but half an hour matches. after: armless enough thing under Ra The flower pot feil from a sscond-story window upon sn old gentleman's head, | LONG ENOUGH. | restr, an inniest Forty-five hours ‘Pe horseshoe was caught in the spokes of a bicycle and threw the rider so constitutes a ]qulekly that he broke his neck we « for The roller from a roller skate came women and girls | ne: he si while the bits of s! in New Zealand. | swallowed by with disastroy FEELS BY THE LIPS. A REFMARKABLE FISH. John Porter Reilly, an Akron, 0. thirteen ars old, aston- ished his physiclatis and nurses during at th Huron Street Hospital nomenal development of sense rough the touch of his n blind for severa tity an article after led It by merely touch- i the a oft at an inopportune time and broke the te pencils, the money and marble were consequenc kis Ww years. He ea has once ha ing it to his lips. nomination of mi His nurses provided him with a number jaythings, among them two tops, Tom and * and could tell which was Tom Ty 4 act with th ul, ell them ap eresting fucutty nge boy Is the he hands. He told| Caspar H. I nurses were by placing his] ¢cuntry oy a hands on thelr hecus, Physicians were| tion of its teeth the juzaled over the boy's strange power af] Cent family, if such a classification could he made of fish. identification through his lips, They Its teeth project from th snt of its mouth exactly es do Eva davenihnd eiiatla GlmilKe case! those of rats and squirrels, and fis head is devold of gills. pa There are no scales upon Its body, but tt Is covered with small, rough ossicles or bony plates. At the base of the tall A NEW POWDER. arc seven lance-like spines on one side and nine on the other, France has secured the patent rights| ana the eyes are set at the top of the head. In spite of the glycerine powder which IK generat piratical appearance of the, fish, It is sald to be good il send a rifle bullet seven Peuting, the averagéTength being about eight inches. No fish so the| Mike it has ever been found in this country and the species s is sald to be scarce in the Philipgin possessed sc of per-| A most remarkable specimen, of fish Is in the possession of racr, of Milwgukee. It was brought to this om te Philippines. From the forma- fh might be sald to belong to the ro- shteen mi PAEL EEE EESALEEAEDERONEOEESERSESOEIAALESELS SAAGESSAAEREEES: ON THE HIGH SEAS. By E. H. Lancaster. soesseeeest topyrient, 1902, by Daily Story Publishing Gomoany.) I began to think that you had gone back on all and were having an at- teuch the young ideas howto shoot. tack of mal de me: The deck of the F quite teemed with} She smiled, more at his manner than at his enthusiasm, educaponal, religious and otherwise. | words But one man hung on the rail and sulked. ‘ome on,” he urged, “don't you know that Three days out from San Francisco and he kad] sunsets are catalogued along with time and tide? seen nothing of her, It was not mal de mer, of] Wait for neither man nor woman, Besides, you that he felt convinced. ought not to cut the acquaintance of waters made “Do you suppose he ts homesick?” a girlish-| famous by Drake and Cavendish.” looking teacher asked of the man lounging be-| Still she hesitated, She had promised her pride side her, to ayold his society during this long vi and “Was It his uncomfortable mood you were pon- | pride, like Shylock, is prone to demand the fulfil- dering £0 deeply when I came up? ment of her bond.—~ . “No,"" she smiled.at the tdea, "I was thinking| ‘You see, I don't understand Spanish very well about Tyake and Cavendish and the villainies)and will have td study it stendily during tho they committed in these waters and them got| voyage.” praised for when they went home.” “Then,” he interrupted her, “I'll tell you what “Mediaeval morality was a queer thing,” he ad-| ¥@ can do. We can practice speaking Spanish mitted. ‘1 dare say ten or twenty genetations| together while we are admiring the sunset,” he from now ours will appear as queer,” laughed a little exultingly, ‘tlaven't you found The aulky man had drawn insenalbly nearer,| Ut now that I do not Intend to take no for an The speaker's pessimistle views coincided com-j 478We) fortably with his own evil mood. The girl spoke| “But the sunset must be gone by this time,” after a pause. 5 she objected, “1 shall expect to find my pupils disigurea| “Probably it is, but there are stiil the stars mentally and morally by the degraded clviiization| Rest assured that as long ag life lasts there will that has been forced upon them,” she sald, | always be something of interest for us to look “You will also expect to find in them some | *! trace of their man-eating ancestors, won't you?"| “Yes. she agreed, “the world is in itself a he mocked, laaily, ‘Let me give you a piece of | Wonderful mystery.” advice, Don't go into this expecting to combat| “AY@ but I meant they would be Interesting only the evils of a degraded civilization, , The} ¢¢ause we looked at them together, The world wild beast ts in them, too, No doubt those early {n Itself may be wonderful, but | have tried ft for civilizers. were a tough lot, but these tslanderg] CUT days without you and found it considerably were no saints. Christianizing a savage te a good| More Of a bore than m mystery. Please get your He—My, ain't yo! getting pop'lar, ® Miss Pearlie? bse Da DHODO really enjoy It Kyening World . tne] meek and you get despised for your pains." He person who found my wallet the money wid stampa be Man with the feot is the worst * road nuinances stamps on your foot to recover his bal He stumbles over you of the many duced 10 leave his feet at home? ry 6 company run cattle car for such * [doing nothing but study for the past tour days, | ike making love to a womanche too gentie| coat and come up on deck rybody up there and meek and you get despised for your pains. 2 lalking alxteenin sentury pirases a08 ven Bboy ee ve am all gone bad on history. If you do not wis Be a Oetia th att: ye sie baka to see me cast down invthe dust before my fel- h AeA waly, 60 ¢ 24 Jt) lows, come a ? a lesson on the pubiiely, bup I have always thought tha? there] jomaincome and Rive me A leawon on the reign of was a good deal more of the savage In # wome Ana (nen, because this suggestion of superiority than in the man, Took how she udmires the] uutiered er, of because of the over-persuaaive bloodiest kinds of deeds, so they be bravely done. ’ Lh a Nght in his pleasant gray. eyes, the girl la And she had a hundred thmes the stoicism that al and dwbents ee en Rae Ovem the BiTl laughed man has know that Ruskin always sald if] vwhere we Y she asked, whe ft was not for the women there would be no more| nag decopet into age ant warned when Shay wars, WV, Of courKe, he was Inctined to bel ¢artably beneath the early sturs ee severe with the sex—he had suffered by Mt—but £] «Dpake in what -everybody Js talking," he said, sometimes wonder on my soul If there In not a| nappity a) good deal of truth In that saying of Nis." She plunged into the subject with The sullen man had ceased to Hsten. ‘Tho! exhaustiveness and earsie’ tier other man's, words filled his cars ‘He gentle and his obscure cradle wround the world grave moved away with the alacrity pf hope. He kne: y ples . the number of her berth ang before west ne A Raa, MM amEROL anit At would: know. more. way beneath the stars? Don't you find it so? When she opened the door dn pesponse to hiv] “Why, ves," she said, sury into a forget: knock whe found him standing upon the threshold) fulness of ‘nyt pledge to pride. ®A forgettyiness with a matter-of-courge alr. * | that permitted him to draw he? closer and de “The sunset iw fife, I want you to come up on fim low, onger tones deck and enjoy tt “Goodnens!" exclaimed the when they "Thank you, but I have some studying to do,"| ateplied on deck after supper, “what has come uhe' replied, sedatoly, over fhe spirit of the sullen man's dreams? “Ob, bottler be returned, with a caretesp was | ‘Heaven, 1 should judge, from prewe . terfulness that astonished hi You have ae “replied the man thoughttully, ppg he from hls cigar, ' yelopeato ‘gator from > Nis famous her listener remarkeds apprectatingly, “oolng together this