The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1902, Page 12

THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, DE Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 83 to 6 * Wark Row, New York, Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Cigss Mall Matter. FOLUME 4B.........eeeeeseeeeeee NO. 18,087. CHRISTMAS STORIES. It used to be the fashion at this time of year to write whit were technically known as “Christmas Stories.” They dealt largely with crippled boys and patient _ Widows and other unfortunates of fate who suffered but| entured heroically with hearts that radiated content-| ment until in the end they received their reward of it from some rich Mr. Cheeryble in the shape of substantial check. Dickens alone wrote a thick volume of them. They were a kind of fiction that {s now out vogue, but in their place we have some real life les in the daily papers that quite equal them in _ pathos and in tearful interest. For example, in tho " news reports of this week there have been these stories | ‘Pathetic misfortune: a tof Andrew Chippie, aged thirteen, “breaker boy," in the | employ of the Markle collieries. Testifying before the Strike Commission of his daily work Andrew sald that the only words of kindness he ever got from his ovn- ing boss were, “Hurry up there, will you!” ‘Tals mi boss, sald Andrew, “pulls your ears good and hand when he raises you up and lets you down with a bang un the seat, He will sometimes swear at you, and If you don't hear him he will throw a plece of slate at you and hit you in the back.” Not very nice, but this Tiny Tim of the minex endured It without complaint at of Kate Burns, widow, also before the Strike Commia- sion: After her husband was killai In the mines she scrubbed the Markle offices and took in washing to support herself and her five children and pay the rent of her two-room cottage. When her eldest boy was able to work he brought home, as his earnings for the first month, a wage statement showing that the family owed $29 for rent. What money he had earned was credited on the avcount, but no cash was pald shim, It took Mrs, Burns and her two sons thirteen years to square themselves with the company That of Henry Coll’s family, cruelly evicted, his wife dying ©) + from the onferced exposure. THAt OF Mrs, Winifred Owens and her three-year-old son Jobn dead in Williamsburg of starvation and coldl. ‘These short and simple annals of the poor need no emibroidery of words to make them more pathetic. Death’ by hunger and cold in the richest city of the na- tion and conditions in the wealthy State of Pennsylva- !'#uch as to make one shudder if told of Siberia! What did the fat and happy negroes of the South, com- ing up to the “big house” for their “Christmas gift,” know of slavery as compared with what Chipple and the Burns family knew? To carry out the analogy with the Christmas story We need the intervention of a Mr. Cheeryble with a check, Letting go the Pennsylvania cases as not within New York's province, where was the Mr. Cheeryble for JJOKES OF THE DAY} “Pa, the bottle they "t they?" I believe so." “Then when the they may be salt to ‘speak with baited breath,’ 1 s'pose.’ when men go fishing they call ‘balt,’ take with them “Now, deur, for goodness’ ank get me any cigars or tes for Ch: A man’s wife never knows how choose such things.’ ll, I don't belleve my choice of cigars and tles could possibly be much worse than my cholce of a husband.” the farmer's Poet—Don't enay fe? Bunco Willlam—No. good enough for me. you envy His easy cash is Till be heard from divers pastors That men reach heaven sooner If they do not serve “two-masters."” ‘He married twenty couples in minutes fifty-nine this to opine: orth no one can tell me the par- gon has no power Since he could make that twenty knots an hour.” “He record of “His only possession is an old copy of the Constitution of the United States.” “Well, he needn't starve, then. Think of all the ‘provisions’ in that Constl- tution.” ‘Teacher—Now, children, what sort of mon always work thelr way to the front? Actress's Child—Bald-headed — men, ma'am. “Christmas and New Year's are a week apart this year, ma says.” “Mustn’t It seem queer the years they come the same day “1 wonder,” mused the thinker, “Why no one's yet declared vay horse 1s an ‘auburn’ horse And a red-haired girl's ‘bay-haired.’ ' A “Hiram,” queried Mre, Meddergrass, "dla you ever see one o' them air ovs- | the%starving widow and her child? A Wall street em-| ties?" loyer received twenty-five “cris; (000 bilis"* “IL ow I hev, mother,” rep.ted the ‘eo y, Dae Mis from) sy man. “I eeed one o' the tarnal the Sub-Treasury tho other day for presents to his elerks, The Rev. Mr. Stires, who has raised $27,000 at _ St Thomas's Church for the poor this week, says that . “the people of New York are as generous as any people | Om earth and are continually growing more so.” But _ their generosity did not reach Mrs. Owens. Is not her © @eath and that of her young son an indictment of the chiirches in the district In which It occurred? Is it not an indictment of our civilization? The loss of these Sotils is an ineffaccable blot on the fame of the com- » mynity. ‘ E TRUANT SCHOOLBOYS. _ Walter Profit, the young son of the rector of Christ - Church, in Sparkill, ran away from school recently and + the truant officer had a summons served on his father to appear before a Justice of the Peace in Nyack on a charge of wilfully violating the Truancy laws. Walter g is-ten years old and was recently castigated with a hose » by his teacher, ‘There is no doubt that Walter by transgressing the school regulations has shown himself to be a wilful But we do not suppose that he has thereby started OA the road to perdition. The bad boy sometimes makes an exceptionally good man. Here is a list of a few who - df not disgrace their families because they found school life irksome: Syrragut.—His biographer says of him at nine: _,. had started on the road to ruin. He was feild in sinful habits, He was uncouth, profane, reckless. He _. Was not ambitious. He was content with low asso- © Hilisha Kent Kane—Ho was a “regular litte rebel.” Once| flogged by his master until he was compietely subdued, ey, but bore the marks of the licking for aeveral weeks. Henry.—His father “found {t impossible to make him Studious and the longer he studied the more he d Uked school. He was idle, ‘hating work as heartily as he did Latin, doing nothing but mischief. He loved fishing, hunting, loafing, carousing. As a clerk In a store he drew around him the lowest class of charac- . ters in town.” L. Marcy, Polk's Secretary of War and Pierce's Sec- retary of State.—A tmd boy, “headstrong, disobedient, Tough, profane and ugly.” ‘The patience of his parents was exhausted with him and he was told that he was the worst boy in town and going to ruin aa fast as he could. “Bo there's hope for Walter. And perhaps he will be interested to know that Grant left school at seven to go | tnto his father's tannery and ride the horse in the bark- = and that Garfield counted as among his choicent jories those of the year when, as a potash manufac- | clerk, he came upon a collection of books that led “The Pirate's Own Book. Sindbad the Sailor" and “Lives of Eminent Criminals.” The reading of these books inspired him with a desire to go to sea, and | he»got a place on a Lake Erie boat. Nevertheless, he | . Woijd probably have advised Walter to stick to his jolbooks. It is best for most of us, any qi ¢ Ai ART AND POVERTY. her, the distinguished French sculptor, mindful early struggle with adversity, contemplates the bh of an apartment-house for poor artists in Paris eh they may secure for a moderate rental quar- | will be luxurious by contrast with those they . Mr. EB. A. Abbey said a year ago that there I 2,000 American artists in the French capital, ef them pitifully poor, and the house Boucher pasposes to erect will be a boon to them. Wit “M% heh thes in tuew art? Most of tue =: 5 have begun life iu dire poverty. rld's was Giotto. another shepherd boy, made his first (on rocks. Millet, a peasant's son, drew ‘of cows and trees while his father was asleep rest. Canova was a day laborer's ity Meleb wore wooden shoes and a peasant's | ‘After he had become famous. Macmonnies pr doy. St. Gaudens got his first inclination ther’s cobbling shop, where the Lyceum d to stand, and was a Cooper Union th flowers to get the colors he ay apts Boucher | shepherd boy who modelled statucttes out | things last time I wuz tew th’ city.” “What air they built out uv, Hiram?” asked Mrs. M. "Gold bricks, mother, nifieant reply.—Chicago News. —__——_— i SOMEBODIES. | BALFOUR, ARTHUR—Premler of Eng- land, could make a good living os a professtonal plantet {f politics ceased to Interest him. OLARK, SYDNEY—of Black River, Wis,, who invented the paper-collar, is now, In his ninety-fourth year, at work on a new sort of automobile. DPAN, ABLAI—who has just died In Kentucky, was the last surviving veteran of the Mexican war. He was eighty-five years old. UAWRENCE, W. C.—who served for seventy years as a Boston fireman, ‘thas just died. SLID, MRS. JACK—has just been appointed Lady in Walting to the Duchess of Connaught. She ts the firet American woman to hold such a position in any European court. NELSON, W.—of Paterson, N. J., owns the manuscript of Poe's poem, ‘The Bells.” MORISANI, PROF.—physician to the Queen of Italy, ts the smallest doctor in the world COSTERS’ CURLING TONGS. “I often curl the hair of scores of coster young men twice a week,” says an East End barber in London Tid-bRs, nd I sell a very great number of curl- z tongs to costers and barmen, two curls from the forenead to the back of tne head belng apparently a necossity of existence with the smart barmen. Butchers’ lads, perhaps—they are often without hats, are great patrons of curl- {ng trons. In proportion to thelr in- comes even celebrated West End swells do not spend more.” Another barber bore this out to the full, and referred the writer to a shop at Deptford which sells {mmense quan- tities of cheap curling requisites to cos- ters, barmen, young soldiers at Wool- wich and to butcher boys. The pro- prietor of this shop declared that he sold almost as many of such requisites to costers and barmen as he did to women. c ———— LAZY MAN’S INVENTION. I. G. Waterman, a mililonaire rest- dent of California, has invented an electrical device for controlling the splgots of the bathroom by a touch button in the bedroom. By this means one can reach out from the bed end turn the water into the tub, and when the latter is Milled the flow is automatl- cally shut off. With an installation o7 this character in the house one is en- abled to stay in bed until the bath ta entirely ready, and then jump almost from under the covers Into the water ne . WIDE MARGINS. Print ne my Book of Deys, I pray, On meagre page, in type compact | Lest the Great Reader's calm eye stray Skippingiy through from fact to fact; But let there be a liberal space, At least ‘twixt lines where iil ts writ, That I with tempering hand may trace A word to dull the edge of It, And save for me a margin wide Where I may scribble at my ease Blucidative note and guide Of most adroit apologies! Meredith Nicholson in the Atlantic, He was mate on a two-masted achooner O48 28d What's the use of sending expeditions out after the anybody who is looking for arctic troubles can get all tackling any of the New York or Long Island surface [HATHA M And now an old sea captain's been heard i was the stg-| { L STATION Wife (during the quarrel)— What made you marry me, then? < Husband—Why, you did, of © cou 'GOOD MORNING! WAS riding in a Manhattan “L” or a Brooklyn Rapid Transit car, or by MATRIMONY TEACHES, The Bachelor—l've often won- dered why women always turn to the end of a novel first. The Benedict—It’s because they are bound to have the last word. CEMBER UU! North Pole when he wants of it by Greater New York about the low-d cars. There isa wild shriek of complaint from trolley and “L" patrons everywhere in nme GooPr OLD eae [ULL = | sao Singleton—How long have you been married? Wederly—Six months. Singleton—And of course you think your wife quite an angel. Wederly —No, not quite — but then | have hoges YOUR CAR COLD THI If It Wasn’t You Didn’t Ride with Artist Powers. which the companies are playing on them. here furnishes a pictorial record of a shivery ride on the “L” road with. a frappeed side trip on a Flatbush trolley. : 725) jown Greenland’s-icy-mountain game The Evening World artist. re xe - SaPowE RF THE DIFFERENCE. Y Q me. 2 heey She—Did papa offer you a situ- ation? : H Nothing but a job. DIDO DODO No. | HOME FUN F CAN YOU MAKE A HAT? Put these pleces together and make @ hat like that shown in the picture, OR WINTER BVENINGS. | LIVING GEOMETRICAL FIGURES. Draw any geometrical figure, a mjuare, a triangle, &c., on & square plece of white paper, using a lead pencil, the point of which has deen dipped in water. Place the paper on the surface of water, the figure turned up and ffl the space inside of the outline of the figure with water, This will not be very difficult, as the water lines of the figure prevent the water from flowing over the mits of the figure. For instance, the figure is that of a triangle. Place the point of a pin on any point of the figure, pen trating the water surface without touching the paper ‘itself, and you will see that the figure will turn and move In any direction, until the true geometrical centre of the Fight under the polnt of the pin. See illustration, 4, ANTS’ JAWS IN SURGERY. The Indians of Brazi! have a curious method of stitching up a gash, which is quite as efficient as a silver wire or pre- pared elk of the modern surgeons, and much easter to do, besides which there is no necessity for a skilled hand, and the materials are handy almost any- where in the Brazilian forest, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger, ‘These ma- terials are a specles of very large ant, which has mandibles which can_ bite {through almost anything. One of the | pecullarities of this ant Is that when tt catches hold of anything with these jaws jit cannot be made to let go. Even it the rest of the body is pulled off, these jaws still keep thelr hold. What the Brazilian Indian does when ihe has received a gach Is this: He catches some of these ants, and holding them to the wound, which he had pre- viously closed together, lets them bite, They fix thelr mandibles on each side of the wound and then he pinches off the {rest of the body, The Jaws do not come apart, and so a row of these ants’ heads keeps a wound toxether as well As the surgeon's needle and wire would do, and as the bite of these ants ts not poisonous, this rough-and-ready surgery is quite efficient, —— BERRIES AND VEGETABLES, Not until Henry VIIL's tim letther raspberries, or strawberrl cherries grown in England, and we do not read of tullp, cauliflower and quince being cultivated before the sixteenth figure is | century, or the carrot before the sevan- teenth: : oontury. THE MAN AIGHER UP HE TALKS OF THE COAL FAMINE Store Man, “] “Coal famine!" ejaculated The Man Higher Up. “Why, you're muddy; you've got moss on your shingles. There is no coal famin “But I can’t get any coal," protested the Man. “Well, when you can't get any coal you're saving money, ain't you?” asked The Man Higher Up. “Why don't you buy a fancy vest, put gold buttons on it and be a hot thing? Then you won't need coal, or if you think you ought to have a fire burn corncobe or put up a deposit with the gas company to guarantee that you won't steal the meter.” “It's tough on the poor,” said the Cigar-Store Man. “We don’t care anything about that in our set,” re- piled The Man Higher Up. “No man has a license to bd poor in these prosperous times. Any man can get work if he wants to. Ask any man that has a job or don't j have to work, and he'll tell you the same thing. “Me and President Baer and the rest of the operators don’t believe that there is any coal famine. We are turning out all the coal we think is necessary, and we aie letting the people have all the coal we think they necd. It’s our coal, and the suckers that want to buy it have no think coming anyhow. Didn’t they sym- pathize with the miners during the strike? “If it hadn't been for that we'd have had the miners down and out, and they'd be wanting to pay us to give them a chance to work by this time. Do you think, after we've been stung by the public, that we're going to glut the market with coal and make everybody comfortable? “Me and Baer and Thomas and Truesdale were kept hot all summer by the miners and the public, and we are trying our best just now to make it hot for the miners. We can't have too many fires on our hands at one time, and New Yorkers who are cold must remember that it’s healthy to be cold. Up in Greenland they never heard of coal, but the people are fat and contented. “This holler about a coal shortage makes me tired. Here is Baer and the rest of the operators telling us every day that there is plenty of coal coming to New York. _ That ought to be enough to make anybody take books out cf the library, sit down by the refrigerator and feel comfortable, “Right after the strike was declared off all the oper~ ators served notice on the dealers that they shouldn’t charge high prices for coal. They told the dealers that, the people were entitled to coal at reasonable rates and that everybody should have a few pounds. “Then they raised the price of coal 50 cents a ton and sent two wagon loads to Hoboken. “Thi lasted for atont a week, when the operators got real busy and sent six tons of oatmeal coal to Jersey City, This coal will burn when mixed thoroughly with paper, shavings aud excelsior, and the whole mass {8 | aked with gasoline. There was great rejoicing over this stupendous shipment. Bands were ordered out and the thermometer wevt up 6 degrees. Basket plenics were eld in Central Park to celebrate the event and the praises of President Baer were sung in four languages and six dialects, “Some of the dealers found that thelr customers want+ ed real coal to burn in furnaces and stoves and madé a demand on the operators for it. President Baer and his assuciates were shocked, They told the dealers that all the coal that was necessary had been shipped to New York. “‘Who's got the coal?’ asked the dealers. “<Some intimate friends of friends of ours,’ said Baer, and the operators. ‘They're holding it for lower prices so they can sell it easier,’ “And that’s what these high-minded, public-spirited |) men are doing. ‘They are holding the coal that comes’ out of the mines until it becomes cheaper 80 that people won't have to pay sv much for it. Is it any wonder that we get sore in our set when we hear a holler about & famine?” witwWhen do you look for cheaper coal?” asked the Cigar Store Man. “About the Foyrth of July,” replied The Man Higher Us. SEE the coal famine keeps up,” said the Cigar Cigar-Store 7 i i A SEWED-UP HEART. suture of wounds of the heart are becoming | nore and more common, Hitherto, hownver, all the cases’, reported ‘have been of wouncs caused by knife or sword, but M. Launay, a young surgeon attached to tie Parts hospitals, has just related to the Academy of Medicine the detatls of @ case In which the heart was pierced through by a revolver bullet, says the Pittsburg Gazette, During the operation the. punet. was found lying In the pericardial cavity, There were two wounds of the ventricle, one on the antertor sur- {aco and the other on the posterior surface. These were sutured with catgut. The pericardium was then sutured ia its turn and the flap of the thoracte wall was fastened 1m place. No drainage was empl ed and the patient recovered without a single bad symptom A KING’S ONE EARRIN' Menelik, King of Abyssinta, Is one of the most daring hunters of big game among his Intrepid tribe, Those who are acquainted with His Majesty have noticed a diamond tolltatce earring which adorns the lobe of his left car. This piece of jeweiry signifles that the wearer has killed an ele phant and {s alao of royal birth. It {sa notable fact that in \bysainia none hut those who are related to the monarch «2 \ permitted to wear gold in any form—they may devk therm eves with diamonds and other precious stones, but the cwela must not be set In gold, The penalty for infringe ment of this law Is death by decapitation. : THE TOILET OF ANTS, ‘A naturalist has been making observations on the tollet of certain ants, and ‘as discovered that each Insect goes through most elaborate ablutions, says the Springtield Repubs liean, ‘They are not only performed by herself, but by ans other, who acts for the time as lady's 1. The assistant. Starts by washing tho face of her companion, and then goes over the whole body, The attitude of the ant that ts being» Qushed {s one of Intense satisfaction, She tes down with all her Mmbs stretched loosely out; «he rolls over on her, cide, even her back, a perfect ploture of ease, The pleasure the little insect shows in thus being combed and sponged ts, fh really enjoyable to the observer. vA Cures by f / f ¢ LITTLE SERMONS. ‘A great many persons give advice and are vexed their generosity Is not lauded, F ‘The surest sign of Weakness In argument Is to grow wrathe ful and noisy. i Many persons are in such a hurry. to express, themselves, that they cut the tails off their word. . e ‘The person with the introducing habit should be snubbed,» ly, has a right to say whom she shell 4 6d for things ardently we'll And @ Bumdiret ae them, “a pean i e 4 when