The evening world. Newspaper, December 4, 1902, Page 12

3 ot THK Woiios 10 Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Class Mall Ma’ Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 6 VOLUME 48........060e00eeese0++sNO. 18,080. SUICIDE. » this means of making away with themselves. the young business man found dead on Ward's Islanq, the Ninety-sixth street real estate dealer who shot him- self while in the bathtub and yesterday's case of the Horace Mann student—indicate a preference for the re- ‘volver among men as carbolic acid is preferred among frequent in the United States. "The suicide of young Baldwin, a pathetic case because of his great talent and taste for scholarship and his am- Ported nine cases of suicide at a single university within One year. Suicides are most numerous in Germany, where they reach the great total of 246 in every million. More men kill themselves than women by about three to one. It is 4m Spain that the percentage of women suicides {s great- est; 29 women there kill themselves to every 100 men. Curiously and surprisingly the next largest proportion of Women suicides is found with us, where the figures are 28 and 100 respectively. herself is the wife with children; such suicides number only 45 per million where those of childless women reach 168. The number of suicides of widowers with children 48 526 in a million and of widowers without children 1,004, with us among farmers but abroad among soldiers. Next come saloon-keepers and physicians; clergymen and - miners most rarely take their lives. The favorite time of the day is between 6 in the morning and noon. The | favorite days of the week are Tuesdays and Thursdays, cides than any other day, THE PYROMANIAC. | ___ Sammie Friedman, aged thifteen, charged with set- _* ting fire to a building in Wooster street so that he might _ “see the eugines come,” {s the latest victim of the kind Of paranoia or incipient insanity which the doctors call pyromania. There have been various notable cases of this form of monomania recently, among them those of Edward Farley, aged twenty-nine, Astor House elevator Doy, charged with setting nine fires in the Astor House and elsewhere. Hugh Miller, Brooklyn Sunday-school teacher, aged twen- ty-two, who set fire to tenement-houses at which several Hives were lost. Denniston Bell, rich young resident of Newport and a s churchgoer, charged with starting various mysterious fires. country of similar incendiarism by boys eager to witness i e the resulting conflagration and to thrill with the excitc-| ( ment of the clanging gongs and puffing engines. This Was notably the case with a gang of boys In Chicago, Whose monomania ciused the loss of much valuable property. The crime {s rare among girls, but the cele- the work of a band of young women. Dozens of hay- ticks and barns and agricultural property were consumed before the perpetrators were discovered, Pyromania js distinctively a crime of the young. Even if we include Nero among pyromaniacs it must be re- _ membered that he was only twenty-seven when Rome was burncd. It is a manifestation of diseased personal- ity of the kind that leads the victim to attract notice to : cf himself. Dr. Montyel in his diagnosis of the disease says that the pyromaniac prefers Sundays or holidays for his acts. He does not fly from the scene of his work but is often the first to give the alarm and stays to help ex- tinguish the flames. Friedman's case answers perfectly _ to the diagnosis: he set his fires on holidays and at the Mulhall says that in Burope hanging 1s the favorite “inethod of suicide and his statistics show that in Den- mark 73 ver cent. of those who take their lives adopt This is _ certainly not true of the United States, and very likely _the rope is preferred abroad in the absence of easier means. The suicide in New York within ten days of three persons of prominence by the use of the revolver— women. Suicide by hanging is indeed comparatively in- bition, recalls the high percentage of self-Infilcted deaths | « among students. The London dailies some years ago re-| % The woman least Ikely to kill| Suicide js most frequent in the summer months and| , Saturday, for some reason undetermined, sees fewer sul- To these are to he added numerous cases all over the! © brated fires in Normandy may be recalled which were| { once rhythmically remarked. BIRDS OF A FEATHER. —_— A StICHEMUP TAIUOR PRED LGEGH2G206O 79SEC EGO Gh ONE OF THE THREE. Freee Unouak iy VRNLIVOT Thy Looking on pe DEWEY + Hobson and Dewey—the Merry Mac Twins—crowd a little unexpected excitement into the life of their Pa and the other folks in the flat-house. Gremind an organ grinder and his monkey, the fire department and police that life is real, is earnest, &c., as « poet who uad no twins, but found it out all the same, NATURAL SEQUEN Caller—You say that you detegt that “You failed to tell the occupation of that last young man,” said the manager of the side show. e Merry Mac Twins Enjoy Themselves. More Pictures of Their Happy Doings, by Artist Powers, cE. . SPEAKING BY THE CARD, “Pa,” queried “what kind of a fish is an ttle Johnny Green, el fish?" {Wooster street blaze ran down the stairs screaming|j Youn« Bluflman. Did he ever do any. mat etdtras etki e cealnd reader, (ef) Mise Tnirtyood—sotteleh Dad the au 4 poe dal Coin eee Cela CA ‘ “Fire!” $ thing besides swindle you out of a ault? ad long hair, and for the life of me lacity to propose to me last evening. ‘ond parent, who had once pinned his oe, isan Bell, a member of a volunteer hose company,| % —‘pajlor—Yes, he recommended me tohis $ I couldn't tell whether he was a poet, Miss Twentyeven—Indeed! And when 3 faith to a comle opera star, “ts a aucker with the machine” to put out the fires he had|® friends. planlat or football piayer. ia the wedding to take place? who backs a theatrical troupe." ; caused. DBDVIOTGEHDHOVGPHHHHHIG-HHHHG9S09HGHOHGHHPHHIHOHOS >DDDO-D.} FHHHDOHDOHOHGHID GOGH IHHGHGPOOGOH HOOHOHS Qe nt It was noted also by Montyel that the pyromaniac is Tarely afflicted by any other form of insanity and there 4s usually no eccentricity of conduct or oddity of dress or | Manner to attract attention to him. J A BLIND MAN’S SENSES. ‘The law of compensation by which when one of the five senses is gone the others are strengthened found an tnteresting {llustration in Dr, Milburn, the “blind chap- Jain” of the United States Senate. The passing of ington, has brought out many anecdotes of him, one con- cerning his preaching in a London pulpit on “What I Saw of England.” “I had been doing England in a half- thorough fashion myself,” said the relator, “but it was _-® revelation to learn what this blind man had ‘seen’ in | _Bogland, and even the natives were astonished.” ‘The Wind man's sharpened senses of touch and hear- ing enable him to get about with surprising ease and facility. Members of the large colony of the blind at ‘Amsterdam avenue and One Hundred and Fourth street _ may be met a long way from home, in the Central Park "6n Riverside Drive, in elevated stations. The incident "de still fresh in the memory of the elopement of an in : . q ts 4m a furnished room downtown. hat trite, but these two may be published here: One, credited to Prot. J. B. McKendrick, tells of a boy hom he met by their characteristic odors, mm," the planist. While on board ship in mi piintroduced to a fellow-passenger with | to be im the audience at a cofcert the pianis ‘and on its conclusion went up to “Blind Tom’ dhim. Tom immediately called him by nam, Virgilian line in Latin. vin every one thousand is blind. It was this venerable man, long a picturesque figure in Wash-|° '~ mate of this institution with a blind woman from an- other part of the city and their establishment of a home Stories of the acuteness of perception of the blind are Mitchell, born blind, deaf and dumb, with whom |* *nadows darken sense of smell became extraordinarily developed. It hed, in fact, his main connection with the world at| In the course of time it became so delicate and tive that he could thereby detect the presence ofa r in a room and he formed his opinion of persons other relates to the wonderful memory of “Blind docean he | whom | for only a moment, but long enough to hear all qnote a familiar line from Virgil about the sea being everywhere about them. Ten years later, | ‘men not having met mean time, the stranger | | HB three love-letters, for which The iT Evening World will give prizes of $20, $10 and $5, have not yet been selected. The prizes will be awarded in Monday's Evening World, Thousands jetters have been recelved, and all have not yet been read. Here are a few of the competing letters: “Anticipation of Joys.’ My Dear Margaret; After your whis- ed confession evening the olor and Tam of world has assumed ne The words, “I love m inordinately happy. you," have been spoken, and conte plation and anticipation of Joys to co’ are ineffably sweet. Ah, how I long for the annihilation of time, for the ar- rival of the day when I may clasp you |in my arms and call you “wife!” Surely God will sanction this love—this amal- gamation of souls-for He has so willed {t, and He never errs, Au revoir, sweet-| heart, and sweet dreams until the re- elization—our wedding day. TAS 8) “You Are Mine Alone.” My Darling Husband: Heart of my heart, another day of waiting for your return, Oh, how I will watoh for de- parting day with love-lit eyes, When and the allvery moon shall shed her glorious light, then, my darling, 1 will be waiting with out- stretched arms and heart of love for your sweet self, How sweet to lay my head upon your bosom and feel the Joy of one long, ingering kiss, ‘True love like ours will last forever, and to know that you are mine alone, to me, Js the sweetest gift that Ife can give, Your darling WIFE, “Your Soldier Boy.” Dear Girlle: If you will be as glad to ecelve thia letter aa I am anxious to write, everything is allright. Last even- ing at your request I took a short walk before going home and spent the time in thought. I can see that you have our t| mutual welfare at heart, and I want to +l guy right here, Pet, that if ever I amount to anything in this world It . dear. make you my wife. It seems a great way off now, but I have your assurance and, my Httle Pet, your own favorl Everything comes to him who Your soldier boy, MAX. “Kies the Bables for Me." My Dear Stella: I have succeeded. 1 was notified this morning that I had suocesst passed the examination Possibly I shall receive an appointment within a month's time, If you and the babies were with me my happiness would be complete. But never mind, When I secure my appointment I shall hasten home and you and I will enjoy the frults of our struggle. In this hour of triumph I feet that the vic- tory 1s more yours than mine. Your loving encouragement and your confi dence In my ability Induced me to try. Kiss the babies for me, YOUR JACK, A Heart's Agony. Deat Heart: Just one year ago to- day I saw you for the last time. After six years of happy companionship, bat~ tles and biisa, we now are widely sun- dered. Does memory of those happy, golden, sunny days now forever gone creep Into your dreams? Do you recall the vows plighted beside four dead mother's bier? Although wé may never meet again, deep in my heart dwells a glowing fre that time will not quench, for In the wide world there Is for me no fairer flower. You are my heart's idol, and Jn heaven they never say good. by. HORATIO. “Frank, You Are a Jewel,” My Own Dear Frank: You are a jewel. Your letter to mother won the day. She has consented to my attending the game ‘Thanksgiving with brother Charles. Oh, I am so very happy, and you may be sure I shall be ever watching you, and, if fond wishes for your success avail, you certainly will be victorious, Charles says no use of my going, aa I can see no one but you, and when the game is discussed I will declare you won every to-day, My heart's beloved, have you forgotten me? Ah, no! I know the heart that Hes behind those wonderful eyes of yours. The tle between us 1s beyona the comprehension of all but those who love as we love. I live only in the memory of those last smiles you have given me. The reflection of your yleld- Ing tenderness ts like wine to my soul. My heart's beloved, was there ever so| peerless a woman? Good-by, my best nd dearest. You are my love divine, "ith love and a kiss. Yours lovingly. “My Peerless Darling,” My Precious Girl: Every word of the Sweet confession you made to me last night Is indelibly stamped on my mem- ory; yet I hardly dare belleve that such happiness can be mine. My peer- less darling, to think that you will be my wife! Oh, I thank God, humbly ang devoutly for your love! May He help me to deserve {t. My heart is too full to write another word, but I send to my American beauty roses that will pale with envy in the hands of their namesake, Au revoir, beloved. Your loving and devoted M. “God's Dearest Gift.” Dewtest One: I cannot address you with conventional sanction, and I can- not forfelt the one chance for my great- est happiness, and so take this qeans of revealing—that I love you. I have loved you since the fire day we met and I will never love another, If you K Few Remarks. Gamblers are going to axe play. “eopper”* certified kiss. tlons to New Yorkers’ very doors, “I hear you've had twenty auto accidents. w; brake unreHable?” that one could rely on." If one could stay indoors and read What Woodbury and Partridge say About the highly perfect way Thetr two departments fill each need, We'd think that soon old Gotham will cannot be mine I will remain in loneli- ness and be true to the memory of jmy love for you so long as I live, I | cannot tell all you are to me. Oh! dear lady, I pray, grant mo the chance to win your love, God's dearest gift ro me. I love you. BV. EB. Brooklyn, N, Y¥. “Jeet For One Kins’? My Only Love: You doubt my love, yet I put pride aside to assure you how empty my life is since our estrangement, Why, darling, just for one kiss your lips have given me in the beautiful past Yd barter my hope of Heaven, and I int. Fathor said I would make an un- | will be owing to your good Influenci | Have you ever heard !t said that life ts not worth living i one does not have a thet is to be the one great life, and thet is to one day satisfactory Judge. Perhaps I'm in love. Are you a good guesser? Your devoted sweetheart, DOROTHY, Jersey City, N. J. My Love Divine. My Darling; 1 bad o glimpse of you, know were an angel to stand at the gate supernal and beckon me and you by the gate infernal held out your hands, would turn my back on things t to ile in your arms a it~ 1d gh eternity ve. ‘eax. Rename itself ‘Millenniumville.” Doctor—You say his temperature 18 now only 101 degrees? Bargain Fiend—Yes, sir; marked down from 106 1-2, ‘There was an old man from Racine Whose manners were certainly grine, He ate with his knite Nearly all of his Inife, And likewise he licked the plate cline, Thomas B. Reed reports trouble in the interior, If “trials are sent to strengthen us,” Ere long poor Major Glenn ‘Will hold a bunch of medals As the strongest of strong men. “These clgara are horrible. You said they were select.” “Bo they are, My wife selected them.” | Incidentally they Mostly on Topics of the Day. Jerome's grand-stand The certified check may have a Virginian rival in the The President wants to make Alaska @ country of homes, ‘The coal combine {s aiding him by bringing Alaska condi- ‘as your “No. In fact, a break was about the only thing about it ——— tan insult women with impunity. For-) Will readers discuss for me the reas “That picture he drew of my new dog cart ts a horrible| tunately they are few. N. H.C. | sons why capital punishment should not caricature.” rhe Championship of America, | bo abolished? A.J. M wort os dog-cartocn fen ti) To the Editor of The Rvening World: Apply to Board of Education, r What was the name of the man that) 7 the xditor of The Evening World: The woman employee who gave up her husband sooner|sohn L. Sulllvan won the championship! Where can I find details as to the 6t than lose her Job In the Post-Ofice, may now be said to be t America from, in what year and In| Mary's Schoolship? CR wedded to hor work. & ° INQUIRER. what round ay {Mississippi An Astrologer’s Poem, Three we 2 Defeated Paddy Ryan, a To the Editor of The Evening World: entree wosien ror to-day Santa Claus will confront the| city, Feb. 7, 1882, In the ninth round. Simo. followin: oe cwen ut tobeachenee , Vete: Are Allowed 30 Per Cent. philosophical turkey after Thankay Her fathi tor of The Byening World: giving Day: "Then Ppeael his jtautes Guat stents Tues ‘ny extra percentage allowed |“On, they sald I should feel grateful “Your ault for my fair daughter's hand to men taking examinations for the Fire when Thanksgiving Day wae overs ‘Was lnot allfhootleaat quest! Department and for the Pollce Depast Ho I sang) of thankful prelsen:a toy x ment who have served both in army bars. ee J. BR, | But 'gainst Christmas I can’t hope; 4 { The Pian Higher Up Describes a New York Gambler of the Future. 6b ROM what I see in the papers they're leading the gamblers a dogs F life,” remarked the cigar store man. “Well,” said the Man Higher Up, “a whole lot of people think they ought to. The gambling man has been a mark for reformers ever since the formation of the better element, I understand that George Con- sidine and Paddy Roche have rigged up an exercise ground in the court be- tween the Rossmore and the Metropole hotels. where the gamblers are training for raids.” “That's a funny stunt,” said the cigar store man. “You'd think ao if you could see it,” sald the Man Higher Up. “You'd think it was funny {f you could see Honest John Kelly climb to the sou- brette floor of the Rossmore and jump into a life net. You'd think it was funny {f you conld see Tom Jolly slide five stories down a slick pole and put the brakes on himself at the bottom to keep from fracturing the asphalt. “a gambler to-day is in the same suit with strenuousness. There was a time when, all a man had to do to be a successful gambler was dye his mustache, see the Wardman, and cultivate a marble heart. Nowadays he has to be an armor expert, an artillery savant, a false whisker detector, a }) builder of secret rooms, and a patron of astrologers skilled in predicting raids by the District-Attorney. In addition to that he has to be an acrobat, a somersault thrower, a wriggler, a slider, and the possessor of ability to fall down a filght of stairs without breaking his dealing arm or his hold- out leg. “I remember the time when a gambling-house in this town was as safe fas a church. All you had to do was walk in the front door, help yourself to a free lunch, order a drink and look for sleepers. Now you have to bt introduced by a bank cashier and take a chance on a lot of cops coming i and asking your real name.” “Wha. do you think caused the change?” asked the clgar store man. “Richard Canfield,” responded the Man Higher Up. “When Canfield started in the business he queered the game in a big town like this. The old-time gambler thought he was getting all that was coming to him when has name got in the paper in connection with the downfall of 4 trusted employee who handled a million dollars a day on a salary of $18.75 a week. “In those days when a gambler wanted to open a house he bought red soft carpets, red portieres, red wall-paper and a lot of pictures of undraped females designed and executed by the foreman of the National Lithograph Works, He grouped these arounu his layouts, rang the bell and let the car on. = “Canfield came in and Installed quiet colors. He put real old masters on the walls and staggered the gang that couldn't tell an old master from a, magazine cover. The nexi deal out of the box the newspapers began to print things about the luxurious furnishings of Canfleld’s gambling houses, and his place became as public as the Stock Exchange. “Speaking of the Stock Pxchange makes me ask myself why Jerome dont raid it, There's a lot of dealing from the bottom of the deck in these gambling crusades. If they put up an open and shut proposition like the Stock Exchange in the Tenderloin the suckers wouldn't stop running until they got to the Adirondack Mountains. “In a gambling house they give you a run for your money, @ dite to eat, can drink, and if you go broke you can touch the main guy for 34909 8S 000% BO999O9-3990-098OF0906090909909909999H998 © j a. ; : ; C1 O99999% ddOO+ all you @ |car fare. “In Wall street they run your money away from you, and if you make a holler the best you get is the echo. You can go to the race-track and bet against the horse, the jockey, the track and sometimes the judges, and if > |you lose and sing out that you've been stung Billy Pinkerton telegrapns to Chicago to find out if your picture is in the Rogues’ Gallery. But if you 60 into the Tenderloin to exercise a little velvet you have to keep one eye on the back window and strain your ears for the sound of the axes of the officers of the law on the steel doors.” “~he papers say that all they found in Lou Ludlum's safe was jewelry,” put in the cigar store man. ' “That's right,” sald the Man Higher Up. “They took out of Ludlum's safe elght solid gold vest buttons, a diamond stud, a gold chain, a diamond horseshoe pin and a set of pearl shirt-studs, and Lou couldn't dress up and go to the opera.” Letters, Queries, Answers Many Questions on All Sorts of Subjects An- swered for Evening World Readers by Experts. | Such notes should be friendly and in formal. ‘A bride's gown {s always cut high at the neck and never with short sleeves. But, if preferred, the sleeves may reach only just below the elbow, in which case the gloves must be long enough to meet the bottom of the sleeves. Long sleeves with the three or four-button gloves are in better form for a bride. ‘The pink and blue colors for the bridal attendants will be more correct than the uniform white. Capital Punishment. To the Editor of The Evening World: Few Men Insult Women. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: EGARDING male filrts, let me tell the correspondent who says It's the woman's fault for dressing In such a way as to attract attention, that I dress as a lady should, quietly, and in good taste, Although I am not hand- some I am fairly good looking and do nothing to attract attention. Yet I have frequently been insulted and recently was spoken to by a man in a New York car. There are some men who are not de- serving of the name of man; who think they are lords of creation and that they navy in active service? be! I've read my horoscope, i Dete! " : ne Editor menee ae world: Ana tpeve s my Onish written # VE To the estar i eater WNE, Jr. says girls pete PAL ae ‘are usually: bad tem GUSTAVE Mea eecsoloase: 5 . A er judges Kate’ oboken, iN. pered. I must say he J! peer eay Instead of girls t thine. ¢ TE tein bad tempered they are! To the Editor of The Evening Worlds nam ‘am named ‘Kate’ and| { went to a Hroadway theatre last nd mild. I Psene unin T have @ bad temper; and is of the same name and ete r iyed. a ** with lots ow men named “Arthur” with 1o erbed traits. KATHERINE. Can Be Bought at Any Good Book | 8 nleht with my brother, Leaving our orchestra seats at the end of theaper formance, I suddenly found I'd forgotten my muff. I hadn't yet reached the end of the aisle, Yet when I got hack to the seot, my muff was gone from ynder the seat, We had been among the last to leave, and only two fairly well- omen who st just to our right WY een In our row Of seats when we I So they ‘are possibly enjoying the tion of having stolen ‘a. poor mitts eutt U wish them toy of it; but I shall recome nize them easily, Have readers had such experience? I am told thefts are not uncommon, v, “He Was Hurt”? Is Cori To the Editor of The Evening World: Which 1s proper: “He wag burt” ov “He was hurted?’ Ww. C. Jan, 25, 1882, Was Wednesday, ‘To the BAltor of The Brentng World: can 1 procure & ron city? ‘A. BT. RINGWALT. Three Wedding Queries, Biltor of The Evening ‘World: Tat prover to acknowledge wedding presents? Which is the proper style Yor a bride?—long sleeves and short gloves, or stort sleeves and long ould bridesmaids dress tke bride (who wears white), or may they wear blue? Mra, D. write a note of thanks for