The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1902, Page 10

@ by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 0 tk Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OfMice ‘at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. i UME 43.. -NO, 15,092. UP FROM THE RANKS. railroad man who has come up from the to a position of prominence is Mr. W. W. Atter- the Pennsylvania's new general manager. He ar) 0 shops in overalls sixteen years ago he has now, Irty-six, secured one of the prizes of a railroad Tt is tho route taken by many of the most successful j ad men. By #1. Vreeland, once a Long Island brakeman; even before that jumping as a lad on a locomotive tender and beg- ging to be allowed to ehovel coal. % Greatsinger, once a fireman on the Elmira, Cortlandt and Northern road, of which he became general man- ager before he was called to the presidency of tho Brooklyn Ropid Transit. HUM, a barefoot boy in St. Paul before he secured rall- oad employment and gained the experience that was to elevate him to the presidency of the Great Northern. Tuttle, a railroad yard laborer, destined to become President of the great Boston and Maine system. _ And any number of others like the Iate John B. om, water boy, afterward general manager of the bal and St. Joseph and President of the “Monon.” W. H. Newman, the New York Central's President, 9 began his railroad career as a switchman. 8. A, 4n the Grand Trunk offices at fourteen. A pre- ¥ A point about General Manager Atterbury’s risa is fact that he is a college graduate. President Buffin- ‘of the Illinois Steel Company, sald some time ago it was no longer possjble for a man to get to the in a great industrial enterprise without a collogo Hon. For the future, he sald, tho barefoot Car- sles and Schwabs would be rare. Hitherto the rall- ne ave asked no credentials of the employeo desir bg to rise except ability and hard work. Is the college & he preferred by them, too, hereafter? Tt %# noticeablo that President Cassatt, of the Penn- i and ex-President Walter, of the Lehigh Val- ‘Were educated at colleges of technology to be civil : ra, and that Prosident Baer, of the Reading, was )@ lawyer, Most of the Burlington's high officials aro f graduates who, like Atterbury, went into the ‘in overalls or into the general offices as clerks, ff 7,969 successful Americans who gave “Who's Who" tails of their early life last year 6,486 were college { xa, ‘ WOMAN ’S SUPERIOR EAR. ‘The philologists informed us years ago that woman's ciat! ia clearer than man's—that she speaks a ‘with greater vocal purity than man can ever “Hope to do. Prof. Marsh said that the best English to be) heard ‘was that spoken by a cultivated English- | & ‘we have word from a psychologist, Prof. Wen- of the University of Michigan, that woman excels Pos) jin laboratories,” says Prof. Wenley, “it has been 4 that girls’ ears have a higher range of sound do those of boys. Masculine ears have a lower than feminine and !t {s quite possible that they det -lower-toned sounds. But the greater feminine * 4s the point proved.” py The reference is probably to the uneducated ear, for et of the great musicians have been men. Tho fidest range of sounds audible to man, that between Jowest ‘notes of an organ and the highest known F of an insect, is nine octaves. To most untrained or ears six octaves of notes are readily appreciable. wholly uneducated human ear is sald by Dr. Wal- Maston to detect no sound above the chirp of a sparrow. ‘Most sensitive human ear cannot approach the audl- capacity of birds, nor can birds approach that of insects. No other ear can catch the sounds heard * Grasshoppers. They apprehend an attenuation of Sound not even remotely audible to the ordinary human Is there any other of the five senses in which woman n her lord and master in acuteness? Not in taste, for Jong and assidious cultivation of his palate has es- ‘atlished, man’s pre-eminence, even over the handicap )7t tobacco and alcohol. Has any woman ever achieved tinction as a connoisseur of wines? Sy? (Man's sense of smell is blunted by the deposits of } om the mucus membrane of his nose; but could 5 m have achieved the feat of the post-office in- tor who tracked a thief by the odor of the paste An resealing a registered letter? ‘Nor is the feminine eye equal to the masculine; it jae man who first trained his sight to distinguish 00 different colors. Let us therefore ungrudgingly her the credit of superior ‘hearing, remembering as do so her own inferiority to the humble grasshopper. USES OF A SPENDTHRIFT. Most ordinary members of society called on to spend for a night's fun would find it a serlous task. wer Hilliard says that an epicure can get rid of amount of money quite easily in a dinner for a * few at the Waldorf. Peyton Mandel, the New forker who essayed to blow in a like sum in an even- ee Lincoln, Neb., was dented the Waldorf facilities f expenditure, but he is reported to have accomplished Spendthrifts go Mr. Mandel appears to be only Fales, of Syracuse, who dissipated an {nheritance 1,000,000 within five years. ‘To spend $800,000 a Asdicates distributive talent of a high order. Lon- fecord achievement was his trip to New York fora Sfvith a party of friends. In that time he disbursed Tenderloin and other resorts. Malon W. Rus- © myent $20,000 in three weeks in the Tenderloin, ye Second. “Billy” Deutsch is reputed to have )800 in a night in Vienna when he bought up ) entire seating capacity of a music hall, bmen the performance of Mrs. O'Neill, wife of fing,” has never been equalled in this coun- } reputed to have spent $100,000 in a year dorm pnt and household luxuries, includ- 4 e One item of expense was for th seems to endeavor to secure an aver- Of compensation, gives us the spend- Miner. Viewing the expenditure of of the other in a dry, eco- the Sm ae the more tho miser by “gone upstairs,” as the raflroad phrase {s. In the! , another Central President, began as a junior | President, J. N. Rutter, began as a station agent's! her acuter sense of hearing—that her ear {s ca-! 8f detecting sounds unheard by man. “In the uni-! |}JOKES OF THE DAY} “What luck that man has! He's just {got a seat on the Stock Exchange.” | “If he keeps on Ike that he's likely to get a seat on the ‘Lt one of these morn- ings." “Ma another 1 Johnny writes that he must hav He $5,000 to finish his colle “My! I'm Just beginnin’ to understand folks means by a ‘I!beral’ educa- “My dear Mrs. Newgold, what a u- perb dinner you have given us! 1 felt all the time as {f I was eltting In Wash- ington Market!"—The New Yorker. “So you're no longer engaged to that Wilkins girl? I’m glad to hear it. We all knew she was just playing you for @ good thing. What's become of her? “Oh, I married her." Little “L" track thin rail, (Frozen drops of rain, Make us think we's riding On a Philadelphia train. “You commuters all look happy these Why?" Christmas," “What do you two. big boys mean by kicking and stamping on that poor, little fellow?" “Please, ma'am, we're Engiand and Germany and he's Venezuela, and we're Just refusin’ to arbitrate.” “Dearest,” passionately exclaimed the visiting youth, ‘you have led me to ador*— “Good!” interrupted a voice trom the stairs, in relieved tones. ‘Now, 1 hope you'll open {t and go out.""—Philadelphin Record, Hor small brother anid to him: “Mr, I was under the lounge when you Kr, We must love one another For you're my twelfth brother Since she promised that she'd be your "T hate these they're 6o noisy." “Yes, indeed. One can hardly hear what the people in the next box are aay- ing."" An author wrote a little book, Which started quite a quarrel; ‘The folk who read dt frowned on it And said it was {mmoral. ‘They bade him write a proper screed. He eald that he would try tt: He Aid, They found no fault with ft ‘And neither did they buy it. —Washin«ton Star. 1 somenoies. | RABAM, REV. DR—of St. Louis. hes been in active ministerial service longer than any other clergyman in that city, his pastorate having ex- tended over half a century. KATSHR WILILDUM—was the first Ger- man govereign to visit England since Wagnerian operas; 1620. PRINGD OF GONACO is a scientist. In spite of the fact that he ts part owner of the greatest gambling estab Mshment on earth he never gambles PRINCE PURACHATRA—of Stam, has become a pupil at the Chatham (Eng- land) School of Military Engineering. SANTOB-DUMONT, ALBERT—has just recetved from the Brazilian Congress a gold medal commemorating his aerial tour around the Biffel Tower. SHEPPARD, MORRIS—the new Texas Congreseman, is only twenty-seven years old, Ie looks tke a boy of eighteen, FATE'S WHIM. It ds a sad tale of an inventor being killed by his own very harmless Inve: tion which the Gaulols tells concerning the conductor's baton. The famous French musical composer, Jean Baptiste de Lully, got tired of marking time tn the time-honored manner of beating the floor with the sole of his foot or clap- ping his hands together, Instead, he Introduced an enormous cudgel, six feet long, and knocked {t rhythmicaly against the floor. One day, however, he knocked his own foot by accident, and as ho took no notice of the wound mor- {fication set in and very soon Lully was dead. But his invention lived; one musical conductor after the other caused the slx-footer to ehtink in size till {t reached its present elegant pro- portion, —— GOOD LEATHER. A fen thetcher named George Oldfelds, of ‘Whittlesey, Cambs, who was born be fore the railway era, still soorne the use of trains, says a British exchange Recently he walked for the sixty-frst time to Peterborough autumn fair and back, a distance of about fourteen miles, For the last forty-elght years he has walked to the fair in the same pair of boots and 1s most anxious to complete his fifty years’ walk dn them, but it 1s journeys, Thay were recently sent for repairs, Dut the bootmaker could do nothing for them, ap the leather was too old to retain the atitches, ———————— LOVE’S DREAM. “Before my vision dances A form of grace divine, ‘Whose loveliness enhances ‘The rapture that Is mine, ‘The fairest of all fancies, Love's dearest gift and best! Give me but this One dream of biles; ‘The world may have the rest. “Take melody her volce 1s; Her face like morning falr; ‘And all my heart rejoices Because her love is there; What dream of dreams so'choice is— So strangely sweet and true? Give me but this One Gream of bliss; Sweetheart, the dream of you," Sherman ‘give the emoker it a aingle cook will leave till after} ¢ doubtful if they wilt stand another two}: THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMDER 16, 1902. THE ee ~———-» ood EN HEAR BETTE Artist Kahles’s Idea of It. o* HARI ‘Si BET A’ DouGHNUT, SH (ME THIS TIME. HA FOOL HER NQ_MATTERTHOW} Qu FR eo —— FEETSTEPS APPROAC Hine!) SOUNDS LIKE OGHN Sy COMING UP THE qEy Revence! REVENGE!! /ACWOMAN’CAN (LISTEN TO THE CONVERSATION OF THREE MEN, HEAR THE LATEST/SCANDAL OVER HH! EASY NOW! = DONT HEAR THAN LUG ALLTAT THE SAME TIME, AND STILL COCKED.FOR SUDDEN EMERGENCY,” Your Pocxers! (ae UP! HET YOU'COME OM “THE LODGE) YOUR WIFE)CAN HEAR YOU-EVEN IF. YOU BLEW IN ON, A ZEPHYR, WILL YOu BE mince? YOU DONTIHAVE ‘TO SHOUTETH QUESTION, BOYS) THEY'LL HEAR I SHEFCAN;DETECT"THETJINGLE, ORATEN:CENTEPIECE AIBLOCK‘OFF: E ABOVE IT NO MATTER HOW, SOFTLY YOU SAY IT—AND VERY OFTEN EVEN IF_YQU DONTASAY IT TRUE HAPPINESS, ® Mre. Nextdoor—! suppose your © daughter Is happily married. her hus! afraid to open his presence. iy -uth In her > © GOLDDLDODNLLHOHHE-O9HHHHIHHHODHDOTDOGH-S USE FOR IT. J Larry—Murphy wor Intoxicated on th’ day av hia golden wedding. Denny—Yez don't si Well, some wan shud hov prisinted him wid th’ gold cure. he always loo! May—Indeed! toonist? 0990000 Ne INN Cy 94 9409999096O6096OO8900$00006009 THAN MEN? - n, says that women have a finer sense of hearing than men, and has made a course of experiments The above are somo of the tests that may have convinced him. INTHE NEXT, BOX AND FOLLOW.THE PLAY, oe \da—The “artist upstairs says at me for In- splration for his pictures. Is he a can (wien twas. IN LONDON, Ete ; HAVE ONEIEAR THATISEWHYETHEY ALWAYS HAVE WOMEN INSTEAD.OF MEN AT TELEPHONELSTATIONS, TAE MAN HIGHER OP. THE VENEZUELA SITUATION. é46Q-,REAT doings down there in Venezuela,” marked the Cigar Store Man. “The curtain has gone up on the first act,” said The Man Higher Up, “but the plot doesn’t seem to be holding together very well. Hore was the scenario: “Germany and England were going to step on the stage and make Venezuela look Mke a coal yard on the east side. The action was quick In the beginning. The allied fleets jumped in off the reel and sunk the Vene- zuelan Navy, consisting of two barges, @ canoe, & gAso- line launch and a lIife-presenver. The next action was to have been the capture of the Venezuelan army, put- ting {t in a fretght car and pushing it back to the mines. But something happened.” “What was it?” asked the Cigar Store Man. “I think President Roosevelt got into communtcation with Ho Collier, the mighty hunter of the Mississipp! swamps, or some guide in the tall woods of Maine,” re- plied The Man Higher Up. “Maybe he had an audience with Suspender Jack Magee or got a letter from an old Rough Rider asking for a pass to Venezuela. Anyhow he got a warlike hunch. That hunch got across the ocean yesterday and England got a case of cold feet that would make the eruption of Mont Pelee look like a biizzard. “Now the cues are mixed and the action is slow. England looks lke the man who put a piece In the re- 2 | paper telling how he was going out to kick in the slats of a certain party and had the certain party ringing at his doorbell two hours after the paper got on the street: Germany 1s playing a lone hand. “Since England went down into South Africa and licked the Boers so bad that the Boers got everything »| they wanted except pianos and automobiles, King Bd- 09-0 “1M TICKLED To DEATH | Te hearst! TAlwaysy} DIDITHINK (TOF THEM, LAYMANTWONTIREAR SCANDAL“AT, THREE PACES. BUT HIS WIFE WILDHEAR ITAT THREE TIMES THE DISTANCE. 9400000000 OOOS OO: USUAL THING. 3 SS \ Ci > Customer—What do you charge for 10 cents’ worth of camphor % Druggist (absently)—Twentyeg five cents. URH.are a few more shatow pie tures with which to amuse the Uttte folls. As told in yester- day's Evening World, a clothes horse covered with a sheet ts better than a wall for these pictures. Stretch the sheet tightly over the upper half of the centre leaf and drape the lower half with dark cloth, Cover the side too, and after setting the screen it forma three sides of a square, ft against the wall, which should make the fourth side, ‘The operator should sit in the midal with a candle on a table and his chair detween the candlo and the screen, Then, having sented his audience out- aide he {s ready for work, It will be necessary for him to have prepared in. Advance a few hats, boots, &c., but they may be easily cut out of stiff brown paper. To make the goat keep the hands well down, the first and @econd fingers of the right hand may be held back with the thumb, Keep the right little finger] smoking, but you can't make emoke. in front of the third finger, by @mall catches io tented prdwsnid eerg! 5 caniboard or thin held | ¢howing the lop of Be {also of thn or cand ‘The ewan picture requires careful prac- | board) placed on each side of the serben, By moving the little finger you may| tice. The rushes can be Kneel, the appearance of one | stitt the caitoo. Place the hands ee.ebown. The ewan should ip tts head, bring it back, and lift it up as if drinking. It may @lso peck at the rushes and appear to adjust the feathers on its meck, after ‘which bring down the hand %o the head ‘and Nft the hair, which will have the effect of feathers. Keep the tall mov~ ing at intervals. A small wet of rushes, &0., may be made for the angler recluse. The punt (a plece of cardboard aa shown in the m@etch) is pressed Nghtly with the left arm against the screen, and is moved with the help of the right hand near- ly to the centre of tho soreen. The angler pulls up Nis line empty and looks at it. Next a few articles (of cardboard) may be brought up in turn, placed on the hook by the other hand: An old sauc 1g shown dn the bketch, and other objects may be cut ward has been shy about putting on the gloves. But it's so long since Germany has had a fight, except for daily. set-tos in the Reichstag, that Emperor William is will+ ing to fight anything—even the Venezuelan army. The closest the German War Lord ever came to a real scrap was in China, and there the work was done by a lot of farmer boys from Nebraska and a few Japanese.” “Is England afraid of Venezuela?” asked the Cigar Store Man. “Not being an Fnglishman I wouldu’t like to say,” replied The Man Higher Up. “But if you had been run over by a locomotive a few months ago it’s an even bet that you would do a hot leap from the track if you heard a handcar coming to-day. That may bo the case with England, but it looks more I{ke that Roosevelt hunch caused the backdown. “England doesn’t want to go into the ring with thts country. It doesn’t even want to hear talk about articles of agreement. From the despatches from London I infer that the English press thinks that Germany played the British Hon for a come-on. The papers seem to think that as long as Germany led the butt4n-it ought to be up to England to lead the butt-out.” “What have we got to do with it?” asked the Cigar Store Man, “In the game of national politics on this continent,” replied The Man Higher Up, “we are the lookout. Al good many years ago there Mved an old gentleman named Monroe who was a kind of political>ylairvoyant.. He went into a trance one day and dreantud that the time would come when Germany, England and other European players would try to sit in on this side of the ocean, When he woke up he formulated a chart that is known as the Monroe Doctrine and protects the Httle people of South America and Mexico from having their marbles and tops taken away by the big English and German boys. “This thing fn Venezuela came out of Mngland ant Germany trying to collect some bills that Venezuela owes them. Down in Washington they seem to think that when a bill collector goes into a house he {s over- playing his hand when he breaks the dishes, smashes the furniture, confiscates the contents of the ice- and throws the Morris chair out of the front window, In a play like that it 1s time to call the police. Vene« zuela called, and we are the police.” “Are the Venemelans good fighters?” Cigar Store Man, “They hold the record for fighting,” answered The Man Higher Up. “I say they hold the record for fight- ing—each other.” , RATTLESNAKE VENOM. Cyanide of mercury, prussic acid, strychnine and arsem are strong polsons, yet right here in Rochester a palson that is far more powerful te being manufactured, says the (Roches ter Post-Dxpress. ‘This is the powder made from the venom of rattlesnakes by Rattlesnake Pete at his Mill street museum. So wonderful 4a {te workings fo this deadly powder that acientiste in all parts of the civilized world are engaged in studying ite oropertias. asked the ‘When interviewed to-day Pete said: “I have just received another letter from Germany, It is from Dr. Edwin Ia Faust, pharmacological laboratory, University of Strasburg, and ho wants §500 worth of rattlesnake venom in tts powdered orm to experiment with. “He thinks my price of #25 per dram is too high, but ‘when ft comes to proouring the stuff, in the manner {t has to be taken from the snake, with a slip meaning a bite that would result in elther death or weeks in the hospital, I can tell you I will not furnish @ dram for ne cent fess, “I have to pick each snake up with my hand and force © spoon into ¢ts mouth tn order to procure the venom, and although I have handled rattlers all my life, I never court trouble unless there ¢# @ financial consideration worth taking the riske for." ‘The rattlesnake venom ts weed by the medical world in cases of leprosy, diphtheria, lockjaw and other diseases wherd desperate chances are taken for the patient's recovery. OYSTERS AND DISEASE. In @ recent ecientitc work by Profs. Herdman and Boyes, entitled “Oysters and Disease,” they report the result of their investigations on the cause which produces green oya- ters, says the Chicago Tribune. Many eplcures prefer oysters to have the emerald hue, though there {6 a wide spread opinion that green oysters aro not edible. ‘Tho investigators arrive at the conclusion that there are several forms of greenness. Copper is #ald to be present in. minute quantity in all oysters. It was found that the green- est American oysters contained about four times the amount of copper which is preset in the whitest American oysters, . | Careful chemical exambaption demonstrated conclusively that it with him, enho} nth Beers Nee there is proportionately more copper in the greener parts’ of the oyeter than in those parts which ane less green, The green color of the highly prixed Marennes