The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1902, Page 10

Gye Mie! Se hed by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to @ Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. “the British diet specialist, “that the fleshly machinery hecomes worn out, by flesh food.” How well New Yorkers understand this is shown by their weekly con- sumption of 16,500,000 pounds of beef, the yearly total reaching the remrrkable proportions of 390,000,000 pounds. To provide this great amount of roast and steak requires the slaughter of more than a million head of cattle. Besides this we eat 182,000,000 pounds of lamb and mutton a year, and more than one-half as much pork and bacon. f ‘ An idea may be had from these figures of what even | __ slight rise in price means to the domestic pocketbook. /* - Meat is still as fear as it was last year, and far dearer, as The Eyening World's investigations show, than it should be. It has dropped from two to three cents a pound in Kansas City: the increased supply of cattle at the packing-houses there bore the price down from $8 to $6. But the reduction has not yet reached the | seaboard. Three cents off the beef bill alone will mean Bi: - “@ loss of nearly half a million dollars a week to the 4 Beet Trust. There is no reason, from the trust's point i of view, for hurrying the reduction. Consequently the | nse! e extra tribute will be extorted from household allowances At this time of the year the housekeeper is more than ever at the mercy of the butcher because the tem- perature demands a larger consumption of animal food for the body's well-being. It is essential to the pro-j “Guction af heat and energy. We do not need, like the} € Esquimau of whom the Arctic exvlorer told, to eat} of physical warmth, but a man does require nearly a pound of meat a day in cold weather, and if the Arctic come necessary to increase the allowance. In develop- sents nearly four pounds of cabbage, and it is economy ‘the meat-eater on even terms he is obliged to consume heat and force. a THE JOCKEYS’ EARNINGS. Balzac’s father was uncertain what would become of _ his “useless fat boy." Jockey “Winnie” O'Connor's first turf employer thougit him “of no account" and got rid of him. Now O'Connor has signed with Baron de Roths- id and M. de Floch, of Paris, for next season with} _ | “retaining fees” of $35,000, probably the largest sum ever » paid a lad for riding. It exceeds by $10,000 the amount reported to have been paid “Danny” Maher for riding in England Jast year. Sometimes the elders are not wise about the boy's future. O'Connor, now <wenty-one, was a newsboy before he became a jockey, and Maher, now twenty, was a boot- black. They are both graduates of “Father Bill” Daly's patrick and Slack were developed. Daly's method is to “tako.a bey of twelve, weighing about sixty pounds,” and make a number-one Jockey of him; and how good a schoolmaster he is, and how profitable his school has “* deen, is shown by his boast that in twenty years he has sold jockeys’ contracts that netted him more than $30,000. Is it to be wondered at that the princely income these ‘ youths receive and the adulation bestowed on them + tempt them to the short life and the merry one that ant mieans fat, or loss of staying power, or general incapacity within a few years? Pleasant vices, soon to get a grip on the jockey that will pull him down. The fifty new may not hurt their owner's form, but how long will the big black cigars which O'Connor smokes permit him to Temain at the head of the bunch? » Burns could afford his Beau Brummel wardrobe. His retaining fee from W. C. Whitney in 1901 was $12,000, and he was credited with making $25,000 that year. Clarence Mackay paid Gedrge Odom $12,000 last year, and /_* Henry received $10,000 from J. R. Keene. Mr. Whitney > paid Harry Cochran a retaining feo of $15,000. J. B, * Haggin paid Otto Wonderly the same amount. Cochran Was a midget jockey, riding at eighty pounds, where Uttle Johnny Reiff scaled up to elghty-flve. The perform- _ ances of these two small boys, the former now only 3 seventeen and the latter sixteen, are, everything con- sidered, the most remarkable examples of youthful achievement which the turf records. Reiff began to ride at.eleven, and Cochran at. fifteen was earning more than -, any bank president in New York but two or three. Per- ~haps the wonder should be that a jockey keeps his head as well as he does. e RICH RECLUSES. _ A very interesting woman recluse died in Orange, ~ N, J, the other day. She was Miss Minnie A, Harrison, "and though very rich and the occupant of a fine home, ‘were permitted to cross her threshold. With her “case may be compared that of Abram Slimmer, of “Waterloo, Ta., a millionaire, seventy-three years old, im the woodshed. But even more profitable for pur- of comparison are the cases of other rich women uses, such as— Ellaadeth O'Leary. found dead at eighis-three in Fort Wayne. an old chest in her living room the era brought for $2,100 in 4nd bills of exchange on Liverpool to the amount of £50,000, Wee Hester Thorpe, of Flushing, who, when the died at the age of ty-two, bad not passei her fe for years, She had not seen a trolley le, who had lived for atty togecher in bermit-llke pesiusion ts a bea house overlook! ‘Bowell, once « belle of Suffolk County, who passed fort if im one room at Mattituck, L. I. Gallagher, worth $20,000, resowed halt frozen from hee home in pod Gaturday. Chips burning in a tin can were the only means he made use of, sire for solitude is as normal a manifestation of Mi the fear of loss of wealth, which frequently lop? 0 poor in youth but «ich in the West? You must have mi ne for doing work should be continuously replaced, as it| presence yesterday.” to act as chaperon.”* cated.” goodn pany will devise some plan to cope “oirds' am I? You used as long as it is possible todo so. —* bey on Jaz The time draws near that all men fear, » thirty-five pounds of fat to supply the necessary amount} jje"\) not rem “I've Just returned from the courts of temperature continued through the year it would be=} pupope.” y+ing a given amount af energy one pound of meat repre- |!" ‘he courts of New York?" im the cond to provide it. It is at this season that the /any. What wa etarian recognizes his limitations. To compete with | they get any pi ‘ enough spare cash -a larger quantity of food to gain an equal return in} yj, ine Feast Ci CURZON, LORD—Viceroy of India, has | not, it tem Hl effect more than a few of his many proposed reforms, owing to his ina- bility to persuace the gentle Hindoos IEWITT, ABRAM S.—who recently cel- KING GUARL famous “school,” in which McLaughlin, Garrison, Fitz- SHAVPRNA, J. H.-a former s TE sults of clothes a year which “Tommy” Burns affected | °° “YOLUME 4d.ccssssssvsssssssNO, 18,102. ' el £5364 : RICE OF MEAT. _I}JOKES OF THE DAY} !¢ ay “It is Male aie "says Dr. T. K.Ghambers,| tis your husband's travelling ' ‘ T URK EYS "Oh, no! We sent them by mall.” “At last I've react A the proper ag “Reached your chaperonage, eh? “Why did you take back all the unkind dl Turners |g things Y facents You used to say about her?” E ats cried, I took them back because 1 wanted © on some one else,” Elaine re plied “All European noble are edu- “At Ienight-school, 1 suppose “The Christmas tush js over, thank | “Yes, and now J suppose the ‘Ly Young Wife (wit pout)-So T am a ay 1 wasan Young Hasband—Well, 1 + having wings, don't 1?7—Chi- ibune, I give you “Golng to make any new resolutions ! 1 haven't broken all nat he'll do— e's past December nineteen-two.” For each kno But still “Are the fines there any easier than “1 heard your ehildren crying yeaer- he matter? = Diin't ts?" Well, no. You see | had only just this Christmas to SOMEBODIES, } succeeded in putting lito to hustle is cightieth birthday, has « ork record of over sixty years 3 ity In local business and poll- S-of Roumania has stecl crown made from part of a ‘Turk- ish cannon captured at the battle of Plevna Jersey js about to run for Parlia- gland. Should he be elected hoe will be the third “American mem- Wer? of Parliament. Seaverna has lived in England ten years and was re- | cently naturalized, NOFF, CON of the Mme. Tsilka with Miss Elien Stone, has Ju hed working his way” throu nd Ison his way hack to Mac STIN—brothes —— OUR TEAR their functional duty t other fluid of the rymal nd is THE a = srs = A VEN ENG Ss Mrs. Harlemflatte’s Experience Illustrated by Artist Kahles. O80 0OOE2809206OG0690048 Poresees SO2OCd WHAT THEY SEEM. =: |THE MAN HIGHER UP. |- oe 667 SEE the snow tied up the ‘1! again,” remarked CHOPPER THE BUTCHER 6X “Tt, don’t take a snowstorm to tie up the ‘L’,” sald The Man Higher Up. “If somebody should accidentally drop a chocolate eclair on the track from one of the stations it would etall the system from where the em{~ gragts come in to where the trains start for Yonkers. A watermelon on the right of way would put the road » {on the plotz for three days. “As domedians the managers of the ‘L' have got | Weber and Fields looking like a team of undertakers, wal BE LEGGO THAT It is the funniest managed railroad in the world. A@ long as the people stand the gaff and laugh at the com+ Ieal efforts, of the ‘L’ course workers to run cars the show will continue, “Every other railroad that I know of is managed with the object of giving the best possible accommodations $ | to passengers with a view of getting more passengers, +|The ‘L’ is managed on the principal that the less you give passengers the better they will like you Up'to date they have got away with it. z “When the ‘L’ was built, back in the ’70s, a certain number of engines were procured. The engines and cars were sufficient at that time to carry the public. As the city grew, and grew, they kept the same old number of engines and cars, and while other ‘L’ roads in the United States were installing electricity and hustling to keep up ; with the times the ‘1’ was hustling to stay back in the ‘70s. “Then, when they were compelled to put in electricity because they found out that it was cheaper, they ran- sacked the scrap heaps of the country for materials, Their third rails were made from Old Dr. Lemonosky’s tincture of T. Rail, solidified. The troughs they put the rails in were made from pieces of lumber bought from men who-wreck buildings. The only reason they didn’t get second-hand motors was because there are limitae ie tions to cheapness jn electrical equipment. ® “After the third-rafl system was installed somebody. in the ‘L’ management discovered that they had for- gotten to order cars. After they got tho cars they dis- covered that they could run six cars to a train instead of five, but that the platforms were too short to accommo- “ date six cars. “Here was a hurdle for the stodgy brain of the ‘L’ managers to halk at. They figured themselves into a cold sweat, some of them thinking for an hour in euc- cession. All the talent on the road was engaged in’the problem of how to shrink the cars so that they would fit the platforms that were built to accommodate the travel back in the '70s. “Somebody with a shade of common-sense finally sug- gested that it might be a good idea to lengthen the plat- ~ forms, The management was stung, and fired the man for anaking a suggestion involving the expenditure of | money, but findlly they lengthened the platforms—some of then:. ‘he work was started last summer, and they are at {t yet—three men and a boy. Sometimes it stops short for several days at a time because of @ scarcity of second-hand lumber and nails. “On certain sections of the east side lines the ties are so rotten that they might just as well be ¢labs of * Swiss checse. When the management decides to put in new ties the ties are piled on the station platforms and left there for months and months before the work of changing them {s begun. . Mayor Low suggested the other day that passengers leave the cars by one door and enter by another. Gen eral Manager Skitt can’t see it. He immediately con-~ cludes—because of his long training in thinking back- P | the cigar-store man. | | 2—“Think I'll fatten ‘em up a bit with this bicycle pump.” C= = TH’ BOARDERS By) oe DLPD FLOQI- 2D HVS | HSOOGDOOG ns placed behind the eve simp the body, washing thorou; sitive organ, which all Women In whose eyes gather quickly have brigat orbs than othoys, When the pi hard Ang cold the world attribur one's disposits of specch, implying tears, that are to the is to the skin or nou blood. the 4 —— | LOVED YOU So, | and me, 1 did or to give expression to emotices chemical properties of tears consi Phosphate of limo and soda, making | them very salty, but never bitter. ‘Their action on the eye Is very beneticta}. and herein consists their pr rd duty off any distressed condition of the opties, Tears do not weaken the sigh t im- pfove it. ‘They act a tonic on the muscular viston, kee the eyo soft and Hmpid. and {t wil! 99 notleed that etic tears tA mere figure ck af balmy A What salve er: to the I loved you so—I was so young, you ‘Abo shut up all the other rooms and lived in the kitchen | ba alone except for her dogs and cats. Few persons|| There lay no gulle between my love I gaye you all my spirit could be- stop to think—I loved you fluid to do the same work. STRENUOUS HINT, Nothing cleanses gle eye like a good af salty shower bath, and medical art has s-% followed natural law in this reset, ad is Vocating the Invigorating solution for > it were—that imakes 2 strong. | Mi “be a modern Samson. 5—The Dog—l'll get my teeth through this or bust fut the turkey “busted” first. HER MISTAKE. FACTS IN THE CASE. | good deal while at work underground: and it can also shout Wederly—!I believe In a man Borem (11 P, M.)—It ie a man's telling his wife just Gendurance—his staying qualities, Singleton—That' “Wanted—A gir a queer sign: Singleton—Yes, of coursé; but they tell me that since your mar- riage you have been afraid to “Ma thought there was a man in the house last night.” “Well, was there?” It was only pa. DOPHIGOROO. Cutting (suopressing a yawn)—Indeed! Then you must Wederly—Nothing o Somebody wants a nurse girl to look after the baby. ODODOL-10OO0OH9O6O6- BO29OOO010008 ward—that the only way the plan would work ts to have * people enter by the south doors on northbound trains and leave by the north doors. That the logical way would be to enter by the north doors and leave by the south doors does not occur to him.” “Who do you think would be a better man to run the ‘LL?’ asked the cigar-store man. 4 “Fred Thompson, the manager of Luna Park, Coney Island,” replied The Man Higher Up. “As a sepgrator of nickels from their owners he is a performer among the stars. Besides, he has had a lot of experience run- ning roller-coasters and shoot-the-chutes.” Sosd SHOUTS WE CANNOT HEAR. Most people suppose a mole to be dumb, but ft is not. A mole can give a sound so shrill that it hasn't any effect on the human ear at all, and another sound so low and soft | that no human being can hear it, says Tit Bits, Yet a weasol | } can hear both these sounds iainly as you can the report of a gun, and a sound-registering machine—the phonauto- graph—will show them both, with scores of other sounds you ~ are deaf to. The usual note of the mole is a law purr, which it uses @ at the top of its voice if hurt or alarmed, but though it Hi shouted and purred in your ear you wouldn't hear tt, The] | | sound register, however, with {ts delicate pencil ‘that marks) — the volume of sound on a paper, gives the quantity of botit y sounds, A weasel, too, which is one of the mole’s enemies, can hear these sounds through a couple of inches of earth, and often catches the mole when he throws up his, hillocks of earth. ‘The common fleld mouse, too, has a purr that Is alto. gether beyond you, though you can hear him rqueak plainly Who recently gave up his $50,000 home and went to live! ahd as a desire for society {s of youth. But when! the possessor to the seclusion of a hermitage , ly a form of insanity. With it is sometimes | of recent interest was that of a n, the widow of a millionaire f owing her hus- Loved you ao was a helpless My heart, a harp responsive in each touch, and yet you did not stand then that I loved you 80, | I loved you so! My trembkng lips }| were dumb, My boing abject, pleading, overcome How could I yolve the useless words that go Yo tell of loving when—I loved you so? I loved you go I could not smile or part My lips to breathe the paesio:f in my heart. I dared not lift my eyes—thelr over- flow Would then have told you that I loved you sot on six I loved you so—and now, Is love well worth ‘The years and tears of sorrow since Ais birth? Love's crucifixion, for—I love you sot TOUGH BRAIN TWISTERS. wo numbers gre 6 and 13. nber equal to the sum of thelr | without cubing the numbers. Also find | y equal to the sum fourth powers without raising the num- bers to the fourth power. Find a gum of money in pounds and shiliings whose half is just its reverse. The reverse of a sum of money, as £10 6s, 8 £5 10s. The difference between the squares of Find the numbers. two numbers 1s 27, Two numbers aro 5 and 4. the difference of cubes without cubing the numbers, 1f.6 dogs Kil! 6 rats in 6 minutes, how many dogs will kill 100 rats in 6$ min- Pring the letters of the word ‘redeem’ ta of cardboard; place a letter on any Vacant point, as on 3, and jump {t over elther af the adjacent points to 5 or 1, and there let it ile, Continue-in ‘ +, way, pldcing letters on vacant A thousend times again I'd undergo eaindihheckte: e How.dcep must a well be in order that a bucket 31-3 inches in diameter and 81-2 ‘inches deep, with a hole 8 inches in ; re diameter in bottom, will, empty itself ‘s . in. New iene eh eat in passing to the surface at the but that is done by rubding his wings together, and is not a voice at all, But the champion of all creatures for good hearing, and one that can hear a sound that ds over 100 degrees beyond your own limit, is the common thrush, and you may often amuse yourself by watching him at !t. He can hear @ lob- TE JUMBO JOKE, worm moving underground, locate him by the nolge, and Two boys are required to personate | haul him out, ) Jumbo—one represents his fore and the| Often you may ste a thrush stand perfectly still on other his hind legs, The first boy| lawn, cock his ear and listen intently, then make @ couple stoops, steadying himself by placing his|of steps and haul out a fat lobworm. Even the starling, hands on his knees, the second boy | Which is about the size of a thrush, cannot do this, but he stooping also to the aame level, with his | knows the thrush can, and, being a disreputable person, with hands on the first boy's thighs, A|no common honesty, he follows the young thrushes: it one | quilt, doubled three or four times, is| thelr worm hunts and steals the worms from them ae oon now placed on the backs of the boys, | ## they are caught, which serves to form the back of the elephant. A large blanket or travelling shawl {s then thrown over them, one end enoligh 1f ho is hurt. A death's-head moth,,too, can squeak, ! | FOUR SQUARES, ONE LINE, , THE CHINESE LANGUAGE. | of which is twisted to represent the| Chinese is an ideographic language. It conveys the idem — trunk of the animal, the other end] and not the word for a thing, as the figure ‘'8” represents the | serving in a slmilar manner to represent |{dea and not the word, maya the Detrolt Free Press The his tail. ‘Two paper cones form. the | Chinese have invented more than 40,009 marks for thelr writ tuaks, and Jumbo is complete. A bright |ing, but it requires only about 3,000 marks for mercantile and witty boy should be selected to| correspondence, and It grog breyatal to learn them than | lay the of keeper, and he must| the words of an ordinary fore! janguage. Teetute nthe prodigious attongisi wet aiMoult for Americans than Chinese. tt | To draw p . euares|derful sagactty ang extreme doo As foneey lon site ern ve poker fumes ei meeee, 0 inten