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at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. NO. 18,054. THE COAL FAMINE Coal at $6.50 a ton, the official price, appears to be a) theory. toe actual condition that confronts the cus-| e 5 = ‘3 8 s z i- 2 & 2 z a 3 5 ? pay $7 he may get a little, and at the rate of | "$8 he will be able to fill his bin if the bin is not too ca- | Pactous. © ‘The east side consumer, buying {t in pallfuls, fs still paying prohibitive prices. Tt is alleged in explanation of this shortage of coal in the city, generally suspected to be an artificial shortage, that the mines are producing only about 60 per cent. of their normal output and that much of this is diverted to the West. ‘he operators maintain, however, that they are shipping a living supply to New York. The Erle is ‘bringing in 5.000 tons a day and the entire arrival of anthracite yesterday is put at about 39,000 tons. Where does it 20? Doen all of it reach the retailer here in the city or Is | ‘> & large part held in storage in the “pockets” near the | » roads’ New Jersey terminals? How much of it do the}; wholesalers and the speculators get, their larger pur. chases crowding out the retaflers? . If the present restrictions continue let the operators _ show an earnest of their good intentions by selling direct - to the consumer, as they did to a limited extent during | the latter days of the strike. A dealer seeking to profit | from @ public necessity in time of famine deserves to be | driven out of business. *. TESTIMONY OF THE EYE, . A young woman was murdered {n a Boston suburb © fortnight ago and some one, presumably the mur- derer, pawned her watch in @ Boston pawnshop, The pawnbroker was sure he could identify the person who had pledged the timepiece and six prisoners, among them the one against whom suspicion was directed, were lined | 7 ‘up before him for his inspection in the East Cambridge |? Jail. ‘The pawnbroker unhesitatingly picked out the man, but unfortunately for the State’s case and for his own accuracy of eye the man was not the person under . Suspicion nor one whose name could be linked with the crime. So much for the testimony of the eye, than which no other of the senses is less trustworthy. Yet, here in a _ ~~ New York court-room a feeble woman not conspicuously strong of mind is permitted to identify a man as the one she saw mailing a package at the General Post-Office in| _ the dusk of a December dvening four years ago and also to testify as to her recollection of the addreas written on ‘the package seen for only a moment in the uncertain POPS Se * of its importance by the learned counsel in the case, She is credited with an ability to do after a lapse of years what a dealer trained to the suspicious scrutiny of the faces that present themselves at his window ‘showed himself unable to do after an interval of a week. , We must regard the admission of the Anna Stephen- son evidence in the Molineux case as one of the most preposterous episodes of that extraordinary trial. PENNYWISE ECONOMY, In the suit against the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad by the administrators of the estate of a brakeman Killed in the collision of two freight trains on that road it has been ehown that the engineer “responsible for the collision had been on duty for sixty- one hours with less than seven hours’ sleep. At the time of the accident he had been working continuously for thirty-six hours and when sent out on his new “run” had begged to be relieved because of physical exhaustion. It was costly economy that sanctioned this overwork- ing of an employee. The accident, while incidentally killing three men, wrecked both locomotives and twenty cara and destroyed thousands of dollars’ worth of freight. It cost the road more than the year’s wages of a hundred engineers. The railroad company is one of the richest in the country, its stock pays large dividends, it enjoys a monopoly of the bulk of the passenger and freight traffic between New York and Boston, Its penny: wise policy in the treatment of this employee, at least, id not pay. , FOOD FOR RIGHTEOUS THOUGHT. Once again a Mormon is striving for a seat in our Senate, and once again the stanch defenders of our jhearths and homes have arisen in their moral might to I ‘thwart the machinations of the ungodly. § Reflecting that this Mormon has never practised | © polygamy and considering the moral character of some |? ‘of our revered legislators, gentlemen who escape the | ? charge of polygamy by but the technicality of dispensed- | « with weddings, who practise discreet Mormonism on the | % instalment plan and whose moral eligibility for our Sen- ate remains unchallenged by the orthodox, a certain historical story does not appear inappropriate: A certain great and pious King of France was much ‘agitated by reason of his son's intimacy with a well- known prelate whom he strongly euspected of jeanings toward Calvinism. Hearing the King express his fears _ that his son’s reiigious belfefs would be corrupted by » this ‘heresy, a courtier remarked: “But, Sire, this prelate | ce Calvinist, he is an athelst!” “Ah,” exclaimed the | in that case all is well!" | = THE REWARDS OF VIRTUE. si cy ‘That disgraceful synic by the name of Fate seems to! an ae 8 having.a lot of sardonic fun with those good men who oy uplift poor sinners to their own bright heights of | Selse to settle labor troubles atid other vicissitudes. sterling truth of this, Artist Powers goes a step further and suggests the titoptan | OBOE: PECL EDIS'ECDGHHGSOES O8OS OF ee ® aes months ago a gentleman who believed that sal- and alcohol were incompatible announced his in- | of delivering a lecture on the subject. But Fate | ¢ have played a crue! shell game on him, for think- Mhat he was finding salvation he found alcohol and when he appeared on the platform {t was | spitit that moved him. \e arises the sad case of Dr. Ide, who thought to| ® his fellow men into the straight and narrow path essay on morals. But lo and behold! this essay its career of redemption by giving rive to an ac- bigamy against the unfortunate Dr. as hastily driven that worker in the cause ot 1 far from the scenes of his labors. uly if tho whole-souled efforts of the eject for our receive puch scurvy recompense it looks ‘@8 {f betore long we should have to seck our i in his own amateurish way alone and expert assistance. Sette = = h bullders are constructing a (and an armored brougham for a . |The armor belt in the of an inch thick ng of 3 man's 5 is made a little the roadways, $O09999OO9O8 FOEGODSSSEOOEDOEGI EI HE iG, NOVEMBER 8, 1902. THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVEN THE EVENINGS ce 694492400 8O When the President’ ag ee * Brotherhood Cure’ Is Used. As Artist Powers Foresees It. SIRI How) Oy / Hi! GIVE SrehK ye Nis aiay me DP, WELLE, SEEING THAT You ARE Cant vou seri Gorongg9> ~ Sa ee PRESS THOSE A MEMBER OF TROUSERS FOR OUR LOGE, ME - SEND UP PERHAPS I CAN MORE COAL AND BE SURE AND CALL ME AT 7, SEES CERTAINLY: ANYTHING |} DOING AT ‘Here You Wh ARE OLD MAN re; , DIDNT Know You were) A MEMBER OF WHO GAYE You se PERMISSION % HUNT ON MAY LAND-GEF OFF? Wo Rigs On.THATS. Loar ‘muwe naekdar °: 2 CAR FARE. TO NIGHT: > a Tm a Memeer OF oF FRETS An’ Weenies GET Our oF INAT! YER LOOGESIGHS ONT GO WIDE, “WEARY” BEG PARDON DIDNT KNOW WERE A MEMBER, NZ, SHMMT AS MUCHAS You ease ie 4 wy fm Ve tw President Roosevelt believes that a Masonic spirit could do more than everything , a) damb and lion would be forgotten then in viewing the love feasts of janitor and ¢ While none can deny the} tenant, the bargains that the “lofge sign” could wring from clerks, and the broth- erly greetings that would pas3 between financiers and street-cleaners. tmosphere which might reign could all men join the same lodge. The tradition- | RECKLESS. IN LONESOMEHURST. GOOD REASON. WHAT'S THE USE. KS) Visitor—And aren't you going to send your son to college, Brisk? - Mrs, #. concluded it's mmy—You say yer was down in “He's orful proud an’ have useless, You see, his hair is so thin innigan's last night? “Guess you'd be, too, if Me- that there's no hope of his ever get- Mickey—Yis, 1 was treatin’ de gang. “When are you going back. to town?” Govern’s kid had Mlcked you. ting on the football team. I spint tin cints widout movin’, “Whenever our cook does.” Os $eooe Pt SOPTEIO ES HI9OE-DEOIOSTEE DIY 9OOH OF «- A DOVBLE LOVE STORY, by Joseph Gregory. vause of your yplendid earnestness and flusned (Copstigtit, 1902, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) are deluding your but you cannot long in observing that Mary Y LADY vned politely behind 1 ent LT tove you | enthusiasm. But, delleve me, 1 have | under his covetous gaze and ever and her fan and looked distinctly as much as th salle had the most experlence, and you will anon made him a sign, One day My tired. In her cyes was a gleam of k and you a factory girl, and T al- live to teas your lucky stars that I Lady In a shady nook looking out over you My Lady Pay was tired of it all, and he proved it effectually by dosert- ing the fashionable resorts at the very helght of the on and fleeing into the far West, where she found a change of at lowst, on a farm consisting of wooded hills and half-cleared prairies. ya You love will make and happ!- with Its hollow inted out so well Inst love you will and Margery ember that and s0 long s will love you cholee now—for ness of for the old life ness, as you have ¥ interest as she glanced at the earnest face of the handsome young man before her—hut {! was only a gleam, and an Instant later took form as an expression of utter boredom. t that you mean said, “that is—now how about next week or next year the fle.ds and: up Into the monotonous sky and trying to read betimes, when the sound of voices in the adjoining field aroused her. It was John and Mary. They had met as he was taking the horses in after a hard day at the plough and Mary was on the way home from driving the cows to a new pasture. were you lov I want you always to 1 my love will never ch tt all yut to face with hon a close obse “Margery.’" burst In che young man L ver and always “he sald earnestly looking Into with blazing eyes, ‘‘I" a ‘ou look xo tired, girl.” Yes, 1 know all about it, she inter- NI Tah Foun Ciao’ repllon: \waavily: rupted, with a smile-ob, such a worn Cre Hera bitihardes tile Rumamen chee and slaesy “You forget that 1 cause of the lady at the house. It onsvot iti and I makes more work, but she pays 80 much that dad {s goin’ to make two - payments this fall instead of one, he thinks. You are workin’ hard yourself, John.” “Yes, drat it, both o' us workin’ out a Ny serious for the moment seem that wonld really do have on ca our lives and no nearer to a home o° can't, then one ¢ 3 at ee e ee Ar our own’ than three yéars ago, Tm pretty is Wa sgadle, anil use tired o' tt, Mary, that lL am: Can't wes ’ ‘ th zo ‘way and set up fer ourselves, We Unks and ali taat wort of thing make forget—and—and- that's all there tn to it— affair comes along, ‘and another Nttle drama wn! become a tragedy. AAMT one's way, forsooth, why grand wedding and a pr a trip abroad and tn a 1 happy twain are pursuing waye—in society and at the 5 much the samo old rut, only i spark of romance thoy but) ahead Is now behind, and a world ts prosier andl mor and unendurable than ever. 5, I Wke you immensely, bu spoil auch good fellowship as ours to gb chasing a will-o'-the-wixp, misfortime to have been bx Kin git along somehow—and there'll be the love to kinder keep up contented Nike even if the work is jlat as hard." ‘0, John,” she replied, looking him fall in the eye, “My folks can't spire me till the mortgage, is lifted. We'll Jist have to wait. But bein’ as we love each other we can wait patiently, can't we, John? “Oh, I suppose 0," replied John, complainingly, “but I'm powerful tired o' walten’."* “It yer want yer prom{se back, John, ye con have it," rejoined the girl *) quickty. John dropped the reins and stepped forward with bowed head and eyes on the ground. Fergive me, Mary,” he sald humbly. “1 didn't mean’ nothin’ like, that. Ye then theey one thi oes got hopel lon't age and a set where rom2 ” FOr GIVE ARY,” E SAID HUMBLY. ow ‘at I'll walt fer you ‘s long as best of It," An aig ialatiale an I breathe I wilt come to you at the | analytical, My Lady became Intensely an angel Fergive me arte: mckned & morry iitie tauan, | siigatest sign you may make.” interested in the Ufe about her. True, But Bae ait fon yon Willies WY avegeation| Gts hatahhoneeit wevinecn My Lady looked at the flushed and | tt was hard and benumbing; true it was ek the eit, Mane eee mae otter RIGA Pal tees arsnens iC anything earnest young face before her with a narrow and @scouragtng; \rue it the time. Mel you ought tg. eee Dade cana ye goalie ed lips of | mixture of admiration and pity. “Be- | goemed hopeless and pitiful, but they Bisa ee Whois. core pinay could be described ax harsh, | iteve “me, Perey,” ehe nald, sertously, | were so brave and uncomplaining that ere ain't ne other gine’ exclaimed at this | +1 apprecta onor you have do Speech, and when My Lady had con- Ese GALA dat auierpmae thes bo inate i te nom spumrtonatcl for ‘the me and I appreciate your earnestness And honesty; but It cannot be. fo you a great Injustice if 1 ly. 1 wait for (2 Grack'o doom for ye. An’ I'won't peater And In the midst of all the poverty for yes. J ye no more, dut ou are Tend make the least bit roe a ign and ht and the waiting and the toll, a thread of romance ran, Her practised eye saw 1 would chided he Rios in passionately, with pied hands clenehed, jaw set, head thrown back and eyes blaging: the offer you make, I could ; conld give come to ye, “Ive a le—it’s all a mendacious Iie only husks. God knows I am tired’ | {tsat once. -dohh, the sturdy blue-eyed * * this talk that people of our class. of It all, but I gee no way but to goon | $0n of thy owner of the next clearing, There were tears in Lady's eyes iy eyed with longing glances. Mary, the he cota a ) buxom da My Lady occupied the beat of the poor | people who are born with good blood jn thelr veins and who have the opportunities for education and culture and development have no hearts! You and endure It as best I may. 1f T have encouraged you in any way to believe it could be different, pray forgive me. 1 have always M!ked you the more be- 2O0000OOOO0O499G9OEO3OF 8090609900908 ® stories all ® oe PIDOCLLOTDISDIOF POH HE FOPTSH TLE SHIGE HY | Few Kemarks. Mostly on the One week more of grace for New York soft coal. The profits on Kaiser Bill Hohenzo!- lern's new drama may be styled roy- alty's royalties. Prince Semditch Maha Chowfa, &c. wouldn't ¢l!mb to the top of @ Pitts- burg skyscraper. There are heights to which even royal blood hesitates to fol- low the American hustler. Sho had been watching a tennis game. Finally she turned to her mother, *Mamma," she said, “I wish you'd buy me one of those openwork shingles that they hit the ball with.""—Chicago ; Post. ‘The wiid-eyed college student now may check his awesome yell; A two years’ course in palating has been started in Cornoll; So collegians of the future may hope to win renown By painting worthier objects than the poor, long-suffering town. “Ho's been telling the same funny the way from Kansas India.” “That's carrying a joke too far.” How many poilitizal aspirants who were ‘your bosom friends a week ag have crossed the street to shake hands with you to-d the. virtues of thelr respective husbands, n every other tople was threadbare. | said one, “never drinks | Indeed, he has no bad he ever smoxe,” seme on. he likes a cigar just after he has eaten a good men!. But I suppose onan everage he, her frends, laughed, hut sho seem to understand.—Catcago A are penniless law school grad. always referred to as ‘rising’ wycrs, T wonder?” “Probably bextuse thetr ready so low that they ca: [alise ottitr ‘direction! 8 ale) t move in motto this werk is “Pa: vit Her halr was raven black, Black hair she'd always bated; She tried to make it golden, she wears It “pl Was it because of the hoodoo that has perched on his recent prophectes that |Senator Platt guardediy sald he would mwent to go back to the is It because the feeble | the Senatortal "Slugging Clans?” ‘ootball,”* mused the automobilist, (oo time ‘a sport for a man of No one gets killed except the you running down with Bill Bounce | did you run away for?” has galy jamin so aa to h from his home, mother couldn't see him fg the time ae was house. we got {1 then, as my mo-her would see mi stoppeg 10 hic him, I wenc in ss be out of temptatic ray Store. from has wife her “How do you keep your te [Injunction | ‘Ol ples mother A number of Iadies began to discuss | doesn’t smoke more |’ Topics of the Day. In my clothes she's too busy collecting it to notice any change in me." A tuft-hunting girl from Dubuque ‘Was anxious to marry a duque, But'she hadn't the dough, Sough (the records will shough) ‘The enterprise turned out a fluque. ‘Too many financial intermezzi and too lttle orchestral harmony brought dowa \the Mascagni! curtain prematurely. What would the woman who fainted when she won a horse race haye done if she had won the Presidency? Father Pinkead says: “Boys mov along the line of least resistance.’ Somehow a host of tattered carpets and prematurely worn-out clothes | would seem to give the le to this idea of boys’ smoothness of motion. Tawk—It's funny how every young mun, as soon as he becomes enfaged, starts saving his money to go to how 1h —Oh. 1 don't know! Nearly everybody is fumillar how with that old Fawk- en) tor war. Philadelphia Record. the aly husband never talks about used to make." ever knew he was an in- “Really? 1 cudator baby Congressmen In the coming session brave the wrath of the Speaker eed the courage which leads mea to brave the Cannon's mouth, Th 1g arm of coincidence” seems fo stretch all the way from New York Porto Rico, so far as election be rns are cone! Every dog snouid have his day." “Wel, the dog-days are past for this Tf those who said “all flesh is grass” flved In this Health Food 4, They'd think that flesh was now ac- quired By sawdust, chaff and h r thought what Nisked. the literary for- as the caole train entered the if this structure should cave you were ie y through? Raed he Chicago man, the’ Seturn of See the Ilterary foreigner made a memorandum in his notebook, He shad discovered another interesting peculiar {ty In Americans,—Catcago Tyjbune. Seppat boy of mine won't do a stroke of work. He just sits around all day ‘and uses bad language to every one who “what can [ do,” walled the widow, "to make My poor husband's memory Unger?” And here the consoler made such a bad break: “Why not tle a string round his fin- ge “Do you find married life ‘one grand sweet song?’ “Yeu, A ‘symphony in A Flat,’ "* Of old it was sala of lucky men that “the stars in thelr courses fought for them.’ But nowadays a lot of stars learning that your love for changed.?” “As long as 1 leave plenty of change You. To tha Editar of Tho Evening World Kindly let me know whether election | days are lega! holidays in New York State. ALEX WEIS3BERG. The Third Term, To the Haitor of The Evening World: I say there is no law preventing Presi- | dent Roosevelt trom retaining bis pres- ent office Ul his death provided he Js | elected every four years, My friend says that he cannot hold his office longer than this term and another four years. Another friend of mine says that he can hold his office no longer than two terms besides this term he Is now serving, Who Is right? L, F. 8. ‘There is no law preventing a President from serving for an indefimite number of terms if he is elected to each. Wash- lngton set @ precedent, however, of de- ellning a third term nomination. ‘The “BY Is To the Féltor of The Evening World: Kindly let mo know the proper way to pronounce the word “debts.” A friend told me that the letter {s alent and I say you must pronounce the letter b in the word debts. Which fs right? F, APITZ. The Demon Di: To the Eititor of The Evening I believe the way in which people week divorce at the present time is wrong. 't is ordered by the Almighty that each and every couple that prom- {ue to take each other “‘for:better or for worse’ should adhere to that promise and bear with each other in good ‘for~ tune and In bad. There Is no fault a good va ey ty or wife cannot cure. Let hove .with, all our hearts that divorces, will cocur less often in the future than they do now, KL: A. Yes, of Cow To the Rai{or of The Rvening World: = “Is it proper for . FOune. boy of four- teen years of raise his hat to a young lady measa'gtanes of his of about { Letters, Queries and Answers. TT are too much crippled by nervous pros- tration to do much fightin; often does, by being accidentally thrown against her, she will think that It was done purposely, and “there $s one of I have read about at his * Every move will be sus- fully uphold your cause tricks again peoted. 1 | against mashers, but I think, by print- ing this letter, It might save one or two innocent men from being classed mashers, JOSEPH COHEN. , In Cane of Death: : To the Editor ot The Kve If Prestent Roosevelt ‘sould “aie who would become President? THREE. A special election would be helé. In the mean time the Secretary of State would act as President. More About Jersey Beantie: To the ‘Editor of The Wrening Worl Having reaq “I. I's" letter of Free- hold, N. J., I can myself indorse h opinion about New Jersey girls. I live in Jersey City and can say that I have seen prettier girls there than yourd in New York City. Let the New Yorkers convince themselves of the truth of this. GBORGD BLOHM, Jersey City. No, to Both ¢ testions. To the Raltor of The Evening World: Must I own a piece of property in to vote in Rhode Island? Also, must I pay the sum of $2 to vote in Massachusetts or Connecticut? HENWY GRUBB. In “Romola,” by George Eliot. To the Eaitor of The Brening World. I am told there ts a novel in which Savonarola prominently appears, If this is so, please let me know what it fs, a@ I have to read ® sketch of his Nfo 1% our literary club. MARY A A In Right. ‘ To the Raltor of The Evening Worl A olaima that "40" is gpelled as “forty.' B claims ft can be spelled elther “forty” or “fourty.”” Which Is right? R. & K. Yes. ‘To the Béitor of The Bventog Wor Can I become President of the United 023Od ‘To the Editor of The Rveying World: States If elected? I am a man born in Your, article regarding “Mashers on this country, but my parents were born ‘L' Cars” has a most worthy object. Btill. I think a clause should bp inserted 40 protect men who are not mashers. In being thrown against a lady by a sudden start or stop, which is not uncommon on the electric cars, an “excuse me’ may now’ be considered.an excuse for an opening wedge to. pit ongead ‘and in Europe, AW. | Street Car Crowding, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World. ‘The aversge man takes up far more! than his allotted share in cable car. seats, If every one could be forced td ait up straight and not to ph je tower. Lisa would have A tn. aocial Ute