The evening world. Newspaper, August 28, 1902, Page 8

Published by the Press Publishing Company, Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at Now York as Second-Ciass Mail Matter VOLUME 43.. 10. 14,989. AGAIN THE BLUFF, The power of Publicity !s now being demonstrated fs making itself felt. wtrike was coucerned only workmen and themselves something which Uttle discretion. show of operating them. They are going to rush all the available supply of coal to the markets and, if possible, reduce the price to $7 a ton. deceive neither the public nor the miners. The normal consumption of anthracite is over a million tons a work of 140,000 miners. During the whole continu- ance of the strike, which has now lasted nearly six- teen weeks, the operators have never pretended that they could operate the mines without the labor of the men now on strike. months has demonstrated that they are utterly unable to replace their striking employees, and their only hope of success has been based on these men return- ing to work. Of this there is no sign at present. The game of bluff undertaken by the Coal Trust will not work. WHAT WILL MR, STUROIS DO? The Supreme Court has acted promptly on the application of Fire Chief Croker for reinstatement and has declared that the action of Commissioner Sturgis in “relieving” him from duty was unlawful. It hardly needed a decision of the Supreme Court to tell us 60. The suspension of the Chief of the Fire Department without charges preferred or reasons given by the Commissioner was such an arbitrary abuse of authority as would demoralize any municipal department in which it might be permitted. Few officials of the rank of Commissioner Sturgis have had the experience of having their official acts reviewed by a Court in the temperate yet forcible language employed by Justice Hall in this case. Mr. Sturgis has the right to appeal from the de- cision, but it hardly looks as if it would be judicious in him to do so, THE PRIDE OF THE HARBOR. The belief that a special providence Watches over the “suburban commuter 1s greatly strengthened by the con- tinued existence in active service of the Jersey Central's favorite old ferry-boat, the Mauch Chunk, which has as * many lives as a cat. Although the Mauch Chunk frequently makes the long and overilous trip between Communipaw and ‘Whitehall street in safety, she is subject to the ordi- mary dangers of navigation. But when she playfully rams a sister ferry-boat she does it in shallow water and without loss of life, and yesterday, when her machin- ery broke down in midstream and left her whirling around in the crowded harbor, she never hit a thing, and her 200 commuters reached shore a little late for buei- ness, but otherwise unhurt. The venerable ferry-boats of New York are among the city’s most previous antiquities, and their owners may safely be relied on never to replace them by any ne fangled modern Improvements. CANADA'S NEW SETTLERS. Canada naturally feels somewhat elated over its {m- 1 migration figures for the year ending June 30, which show 8 total of 70,000 arrivals in the Dominion. More remark- ablo still is the fact that the largest number by national- ity is of Americans—meaning, of course, people from the United states. We congratulate Canada on her growth, which ts In every way gratifying. It is healthy, natural, promising and bused on a substantial foundation of prosperity, The explanation of the American invasion is that the rall- roads have opened to settlement the rich wheat-growing country of the West just across our northern bordet, and the American farmer sees therein his opportunity. He is selling his cultivated farm in Minnesota or in North Da- kota for its full value of forty or fifty dollars an acre to buy land just as good in the Dominion for ten or twelve dollars. It is a repetition of the story of the settlement of Okluhoma. This movement ts equally States and to Canada desirable class of citizens it also gives us a strong assur- ance of friendly feeling and continued peaceful relations In the existence of an influential element of Cauadians who are really citizens of both countries, and who make phrase but a fact. THE SMITHS OF PLAPACK. Virginia may vaunt her John 3 h of Pocahontas fame, but Jersey has one no less renowned, still first in the hearts of his countrymen, to wit, the John Smith who came from Holland in 1740 and settled in Péapeck. Yosterday, as annually for twenty years, bis thriving progeny met at that little Jersey village ‘where the lime comes from" to glorify their illustrious ancestor. Nearly three thousand of them gathered together their given ranging from Aaron to Zoza. It fa a fruitful family. seven there, names In the oulet hamlet on the hill, where the sun lies warm all the afternoon, a true gota dor, Sunths have ripened like grapes for six generations, Theirs is a choice human vintage. They bay the lime-bearing qualities of the water are re sponsible for the fumily’s stay! powers, Perhaps a fudicious dilution of the watay creased its preservative potency, The only regrettable thing about these Tounlon» is the pride of birth engendered ip the Smiths Dy their social contact with each other, One might Ynter that there was not a Brown, Jones oy Robinson / the world over with apple jack has ine Peapack Rey. Edward Everett Hale. The only once a year, but their lority lasts them each a twelve month. Smiths get to- The farce of Public Opinion as a dynamic Influence The coal barons, who have been insisting that the: their and that they would per-, mit no outside interference, have begun to realize that this policy may possibly prejudice their own interests and that it might be well to temper their valor with a|é Yielding before the universal demand that «hey should operate their mines, they are going to make # This may make a show of operating, but it need week, and to mine this amount requires normally the The experience of nearly four gratifying to the United! While it gives to Canada a most! the brotherhood of the United States and Canada not a ee to it thut you have dealings once by day with some person who is your superior,” saya superabundant named Smith may console ourselves that we PrOken 4 dren of Smith blood in our veins, as of Adam's, od tan’ THE WORLD) THURSDAY EVE NING, AUGUST 94, 1908. OOD OOOO OO COO OUO UCU OOOO!) TOO OOUOUUG Ghe Funny Side of FUN FOR THE TRUSTS, J Ju TAKE HIS PGOLO TEETH— HE WonT NEED THEM : JOKES OF OUROWN LIK OTHER Wiv Six or seven speeches Tourlng Roosevelt makes each day; But Mrs. Roosevelt, all the same, Has the last word to ut EQUAL TO THE OCCASION. ® Mrs. Porkington—How was the De B Styles dinner? | Mr. Porkington—Rang up affatr! There were a lot of queer-looking forks by my plate, but I didn't show any ignorance; Just used my knife. A COLD-STORAGE KISS. He—Your kiss ts like Chinese tea, It has an exquisite flavor, but It's not very trong. She—Perhaps tt Ano iit TAKE HIS CLOTHES draw didn't long Shadrach, Mosach and Abednego haa just been cast Into the flery furnace seven umes heated @ “And to think,” % this is for us, with cou! at s10 a ten! @ Pleased at the honor shown them, they strolled about until thoroughly © warmed before starting the winter in |@ their Hariom flat. BORROWED JOKEs. | ONE DRAWBACK, 8 Briggs wns lucky to escape from that ) boanting-house fire.” ) “Yes, fairly lucky. His wife got out ® wearing his only euit of pajamas, and @now she refuses to give them up"— @ Cleveland Piain Dealer. they exclaimed, ‘all fo} HER REASON, 2 Tess—He said if I didn't accept him his § vlood would be upon my head. @ Jess—And so you relented? |@ Tess—Yes. My hair is so Ught, you &B know, st would look awful.—Philadelphia \® Press, ® ————_ i2 HOW HB PLAYED. Blobbs—He plays the plano entirely by ear. Slobbs—It sounda as though he played {t with his feet Philadelphia Record. SON Will make you laugh, when it should make you feel EXTREME: @ “I don't sce any difference between the ) society woman's dooollete gown and the @ contume of a ballet girl.” 2 The only difference is that one'a too %) far from the celling and the other too ® tar from the floor."—Philadeiphia Pre f SOMEBODIES. } BOYPR, ALBERT —a French builder, 1s studying our skyscrapers. He will go home with “a erick” in his neck. DOCG, For the little man—AND THAT'S YOURSELF—who' HIS PREFERENCE, MERELY AN OVERSIGHT. TOLSTOI, COUNT—Is anxious to leave St. Petersburg, but the authorities will not give him a passport. He ts too old to “cut and run. M'LELLAN, CAPT, CHARLES H.— commander of the cutter Manning, has discovered a new fur seal rookery in the Aleutian Isiands, | RURDOF, REY. W.-of Belle Center. O., travelled 5 miles to get home to vote. He covered 146 miles by rail, 17 by carriage, 130 by bicyele asd 7 afoot Just think of It! And some folks get only 32 for thelr vote STAFFORD, PATER SON—Just jan at the Yakut Agency, F Washington, 18 a colored man. Newspaper mehow or othor Tam unable to see any sense x-Sonatoriot Mise N, Thuslasm—Isn't baseball § in this thing. i eer ® perfectly grand, Mr. Lush? Can you Poet—Oh, 1 beg your pardon, 1 ‘) 3 think of anyt botte made a mistake and handed you a poor Yon Yon+ Lash (promptly)—Yes; high ball poem Intended for a magazine || THE HOMES OF KANSAS BUT— Tu AAYBE IT'S This comic picture Mr. Powers 's drawn for you to-da, anotner ‘way. The game is funny for the Trusts, but there's no humor in it 's always up agin ft! She—I wonder why a woman sel- dom talks to herself? He have to do the listening. The cabin homes of Kansas! | How modestly they stood, Along the sunny hillysides Or nestled in the wood They she men and women, Hrave-he one Of Preed: i ploneers ime a Jandmark m's trial years ‘The splendid homes of Kansas! How proudly now they stand elds and orchaunts, the smiling land |] ‘They rose up where ark And are \\ \ ww ANY . XS of Kansas! ANA \ The sodhouro of the West; ‘The dugout, low and jonely The mansion, grand and great i The hands th laid stones Have bullt a Gol Miller, in Kansan ( When we push the button we ferl But when the elevator shoots up ji Wee tits we feo] like this COO MMOOR F®OOO TOOOC TIMELY LETT Who Can Tell Himt |Stone Works in Pearl street, one block jcame along and she was told to get off To the B © Evening World from the station-how last Thursday | the pier, I went to ask the reason why | Wsindl, ) why there ave still so] Might C. Murray Low's, one block from |she was removed, but in reply he hit many cara in New ne stath NOL th In the latter place | me with his stick so hard that the next York, which ts eredited with retaining | (hey mast have Kot seared away after | morning | was all black and blue, which more than half of such of tho |Ariiling the safe next to the tock. gThe lt don't think was much recreation, primitive to be found in the entire coun [last pluce (Meade's) is atill nearer. That | cow. t try, The Information might possibly Sone consolation ‘They will probably | At Kennedy's, No, & Barclay Street, yreckited by city fellers as much as the #tation-house next 4) | To the Editor of The World A CURIOUS COUNTRYMAN, — | Capt, Reilly himself Kindly inform me where T can get a Middieport, N. ¥. One Reere w York Catholle directory, Fearl Street Hobberiten, To th ditor of The A FOR ‘To the Baltor of The Kvening World 1 am one of the many young men Py 1 read tn to-day'n World (Aug, #8) about |who are ineulted on the Hast Twenty. The Werld Always W To the Raitor of The Evening World Many of Meade's atore on Pearl street being |fourth streot recreation pler every eight | yy are an uptown family and natur- but how about the oth by oMicers down there, The other night | qijy se ne has Nis favorite newa- About two weeks ago Punchard's (one | while I was sitting down there a young paper. Owing to the fact that each one bieck from the station-house) was broken y friend of "mine came along und |yanted hia or her favorite aunday Jinto; a few nights after the Alterenc Jepoke to me, Just then @ policeman |paper. recently it. scemed impossible} cut ri like this PLE. per bearing the was, paper, The World. TAKE Hts HAIR“ITSRED, THE MYSTERY SOLVED. Because in that case she would And when it comes down we feel DODODOGOODODAOQOOGOS proposition was brought forth that several pleces of pa names of the desired newspapers be placed in a hat, and a drawing of a alip then proceed, while the same slip should be proclaimed the winner and the only paper that day. The winner, 1 take pleasure in stath ond always will be, the only rea FP, BB. A, Borough of the Bronx, Terrible Lessons, To the Fi Th rice, Deaths wot a fow more ordinars Hoople CAN Uso the ing thelr ives, itor of The venting World recent automobile agcidents are lorable, but they may be of some If the owners of the Red and Black Demone and Devile and Purole if he fails he will be accorded a public ODpITY CORNER. CHARLES DICKENS COULDN'T DRAW, AS HIS ONLY ATTEMPTS AT ART SHOW. Mr. Frederick W. Leh- man, of St. Louls, has acquired by purchase the ownership of three original aketohes by Charles Dickens, the novelist, says the Bt. Louls Republic, fram which these illustrations are reproduced. ‘They are the only drawings by the famous author of Nckwick Papers" and 1d Curiosity Shop” that as yet have been discovered. Critics have announced that they go to show that Dickens could not draw, but that ne might ‘have learned had he persevered. They ex- hibit, however, the hu- mor of the man, and flavor decidedly of the well-known “Tom Weller.” It ls sata of Dickens that bjs illustrators suf- fered severely. His de- mands were many and often not practical. Though great iitustra- tors lent themselves to picturing his works, he was Invariably disap- pointed with the results, One of his dlographers states that Dickens would have preferred his books unillustrated. The first and largest of the three 1s probably intended to bear the ti- tle written by the au- thor {n the corner, “Mr. Diblin's High - Mettled Racer.” Either that, or the one transcribed above, ‘Two Miles an Hour; or, How to Frighten a Jackass." The other sentence, al- most illegible, at the top of the drawing, nankeen breeches are famous for riding in. ‘The second Js the most puzzling. The point swings on two ob- Jects, barely discernible, in the centre of the picture, one of which Is a duck and the other a drake. ‘The line at the top 1s taken to be the title. ‘The second word has been an enigma to all who attempted to decipher it. The most generally accepted version of the line is “The 2 Faquirs and the Ducks." The two gentlemen with tufts on their heads re- semble red Indians. The acene is a mill pond and mill, The first fakir exclaims, pointing to the drake: “and my father inhabits that drake.” ‘Then, says the second fakir: “And that duck holds the soul of my mother!" ‘The miller himself then speaks. He is the small contorted individual immediately in front of the other two figures. "You may claim their souls, but you can't do me out of their bodies.” ‘The third sketch {s of interest chiefly because it 1s the only one which contains Dickens's tnitials written in his characteris- tie hand. It 1s a sketch of pecullar rock formation in Wales called the Cheesewring, because of its resemblance to a cheese press. Tho original of the name “Mr. Diblin's High-Mettled Racer” goes back to 1831, when a song by that name was published with ten {ustrations by Crulkshank, ——_—___--+-—____ MEAT FOR CHILDREN. A FEUDAL LEFT-OVER. One of the most unfortunate evil con- Sequences of an early and lMberal meat dfet. says Dr. Winters, is the loss of relish ft creates for the physlological fooda of childhood—milk, cereals and vegetables, says the Medical Journal. “A child that is allowed a generous ment diet,” he adds, “la certain to re- fuse cereals and vegetables. Meat, by {ta stimulating effect, produces a habit aa surely as does alcohol, tea or coffee, and a distaste for lese satisfying foods. The foods which the meat-eating child eschews contain in large proportions certain mineral constituents which are essential to bodily nutrition and health, and without which the processes of fresh growth and development are stunted. There is more so-called nerv- ousness, anaemia, rheumatism, valyu- lar disease of the heart and chorea at the present time In children from an ex- “TWO MILES AN HOUR; OR, HOW TO FRIGHTEN A JACKASS.” From an original drawing by Charles Dickens. The jackass {s the an’ in the foreground, resembling a hyena. “THE FAKIRS AND THE DUCKS.” Drawing which seems in the nature of a puzzle, ads: ‘Vell, I declare, Only drawing which containe the characteristic initials of Dickens, é cess of meat and {ts preparations in the dlet than from all other causes combined," he declares. ————_— PETROLEUM AS DRINK. The Medical Society of Paris has ex- pressed the opinion that it is necessary to adopt some measures against the alarming spread of petroleum drinking. At first it was thought that this habit ‘had sprung up from the increased tax- ation on alcohol imposed by the French Government, but an Investigation showed that this was not the case; the habit had been prevalent eome time previously in certain districts and had spread with great rapidity, The victim of the petroleum habit does not become brutal, only morose. Opialons differ among physicians as regards the effects of petroleum drinking on the human system, ‘Dut all agree on the harmful- neas of this new vice. ———_— ACTORS IN CHINA, ‘The Emp! Dowager of China Is a great supporter of the stage, aays the London Expre: Bince her return to Peking she has been the round of the theatres and js disappointed at the talent, so has sent to Shanghal for Halao Chiaotion, the Celestial Sir Henry Irving. If he succeeds in pleasing Her Mas: ty he may be given @ peacock's feather; ‘his 1s a feudal coronation emblem, the Worksop glove. ‘The service of finding a glove for the King's rights band, an@ of supporting his right arm while holding the sceptre royai, was originally attached to the Manor of Farnham Royat, 4nu remained #o until that manor was exchanged by Francia, Earl of Shrewsbury, with ry VILL, for the alte of the Priory and Manor of Worksop, funeral. Actors are appreciated in China, h roads A B A KING'S STATUE. ‘The colossal equestrian statue a@t/ Rome of King Victor mmanuel 1. ts now nearing completion, ‘The statue In, about thirty-thr the level on which the horse 1 the crown of the King’s head, ‘The feathers in his helmet are about five feet extra, There will be space for one or wo persons to wet into the head four "or five in the Head of the horee BYRON AS CRICKETER. A curtous point in Byron's career ts brought to Nght by the Harrow School ister, 1801-1901, says Pearson's Week- ly. Hitherto Byron has been known, to fame & poet only, But it appears that he has a further claim, which rests on the fact that the germ of the idea of the Bton and Harrow match originated with him, In the year 1806 he arranged a ericket match, the teamg of which were principally compoved of past and present Bi and Harrovians respectively,