The evening world. Newspaper, December 29, 1902, Page 8

; by tho Press Publishing Company, No. 8 to @ > (Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office PL (at New York as Second-Ciazs Mall Matter. OLUME 48 .NO. 15,108. Ey BEEF TRUST PRICES. © Birlotn steaks are down two conts a pound In Chi- ago, pork three cents, and beef for roasting or boiling tl cents. The reduction in prices began in Kansas ) Oity, where the increased supply of cattle and hogs Ymede it obligatory on the packers to furnish the trade with lower quotations. The cut reached Chicago a week “Mater, It 1s overdue in New York, but no confident ex- pectation is indulged of its speedy arrival. _As for the prices of meat that have recently pre- Walled here, figures compiled by Mr. E. G. Dunnell show the extent to which the Beef Trust has been mulcting ¢ ers, and particularly those least capable of meet-|t ing the higher prices. ‘Thus, whereas in two years the © price of sirloin steak has advanced 15 per cent., and that > of porterhouse 22, chuck steak has increased 71 per cent., pork loin 40, ham 44, pork sausage 50, and corned ‘beef G0. Chickens are dearer by 50 per cent. than in w A It is on the very poor that a rise in prices of the staple commodities always falls heaviest. This year " they have the additional burden to bear of dearer fuel. Kerosene of] in the east-side groceries 1s 14 cents a ‘gallon, nearly double what it was last summer, when price of seven and a half cents a gallon was quoted. Goal to-day, bought in small quantities, Is 18 cents a pail, which is at the rate of $14 a ton. These are pro- ‘hibitive prices, and their worst feature is that they “necessitate an economy of expenses where economy 18 “most oppressive—in the food that means good bodily health. A a i « DANCING AND DEATH. _ Sometimes when a young athlete, conscious of hts Wbeolute physical soundness, presents himself at a life “Amsurance office for examination the doctor says “car- @inc hypertrophy” and rejects his application, His trouble is the same as that from which a dancer at Weber & Fields’s died, and from which a dancer in “The Silver Slipper’ is reported to be suffering—ath- Jetic heart. It is a form of enlargement of the heart, “gyernourishment,” as the euphemistic medical phrase * means, and is the result of an undue amount of work put on that organ. It progresses into fatty degeneration | and causes death. i The exertion of drawing-room dancing, such’ as “waltzing, is sufficiently severe to have been the direct | efuse of numerous sudden deaths. One of the most pathetic was that of a bride at McKeesport, who dled 4 nh fo Se ing in that aity for fitty-tw * her wodding night after her ninety-fourth waltz! | 1 ..'" 1"%h enor thao he never had killed Jennie Howitz, a Bridgeport factory girl,| an acctaent. eelebrated for her graceful dancing; and Mrs. Caroline|rAaNNA, SENATOR—has closed his Nash, of Greenport, expired after a prolonged two-step. On the other hand, Prof. Carter waltzed for sixteen con- | secutive hours at Tammany Hall without serious result, and Prof, Julian Carpenter made a waltzing record of ‘thirteen hours in Philadelphia, 1 "Professional or ballet dancing, far more taxing on the muscles and exerting an excessive strain on the “heart, is very rarely productive of a breakdown, There was an exception in the “Lynda” figure dance in ‘The Rogers Brothers at Harvard,” in which Georgie Irving yerexerted herself with fatal result and several other dancers fainted. The difficult muscular feat of standing for a prolonged period on the toes of one foot while the other was extended at right angles with the body was + responsible for these cases of collupse. But in general professional dancing has been found conducive to longevity. This has been especially true of ‘women dancers, Taglioni lved to be eighty, Fanny “Eissler lived past middle life, and her sister Theresa, an almost equally famous danseuse, was seventy when J o1 skirt dancers; Bonfanti—all these lived past middle life. | Of some more recent dancers of repute Otero is living, amd Minnie Renwood and Lottie Collins, Carmencita is dead. \¢ Several of the celebrated clog dancers, like Billy Welsh and Barney Fagin, gave way to consumption, Perhaps the dust of the old-time stage had something], to do with it. A similar cause laid up many members of | the Metropolitan ballet a few years ago with what thelr Medical adviser called “ballet dancer's catarrh.” But Billy Hmerson and Dan Rice, “Little Mac,” who did the ‘@ifficult ‘Essence. of Ole Virginny” dance; Andrews, the} and others survived to old age. | Tt is to be noted, of course, that the old-school @ancer went through a long and rigorous training to fit “her for the ordeal of the ballet. Usually the light opera ‘or vaudeville coryphee has had a far briefer preparation, | « he grace and dexterity she may possess @iways the physical stamina to stand the st rain, a © ¢ IS SUICIDE A SIN? -In August, 1894, the late Col. Robert G, Ingersvil) “wrote for The World an article entitled “Is Suicide a| _ Bin?” in the course of which he snid: | mp to Aroamicss res -- Létters from correspondents who approved and from “others who emphatically disapproved immediately began ‘to pour in until at the end of a month The World hat| erry perhaps fitty columns of them, A jury of repre- © gentative New Yorkers impanelled by The World re- Viewed this evidence of popular opinion and rendered a) “ag against Col. Ingersoll’s proposition. The vote mine to three, and among the jurors were Supt. , Recorder Goff (then the Lexow prosecutor), Re-| Smyth, Sousa and Francis Wellman. | ‘The finding of this jury is important now in view of he death by suicide within the past ten days of three! jons, One man and two women, doomed by their doc- “verdict to a painful and not remote death from! as was the case with two of the unfortunates, or tion, with which the other was afflicted, Poison if the bullet ended it all for them speedily. The ques- { which the Greeks began to discuss twenty-five cen- § ago, and which is still under discussion, they sot- ndiyidually with an affirmative answer. general opinion is that those who seek to an- Mature by inflicting death with their own hands d Certainly we must acknowledge that | Who struggle on under the torture of these dic | brave. In Greater New York last year there! deaths from cancer and 38 deaths trom The question came to each of these sut- suf obese That book canvasser so gay, When with @ gun you chased him from con than of subjects.” more prospects she has of « ‘late’ hus- band.” getting on? CANDBA, KAISDR WILHPLM—speake six lan- LAMSON, PROF. State, says the Pittsburg Dispatch, she died. Carlotta Gris! survived most of her contem- ‘ went across the continent a few weeks Doraries. Cavalazzi; Sarah, who came over with Lydlajag, with one of the ploneera of the ‘Vhompson’s British Blondes and was the first of long) State of Oregon. In the midst of @ warm argument with a third passenger dispute arose over the proper use of a| % word marian,” ty turned, with some tndtgnation, an Oregonian, and I'm proud of it.” jpurt enough, but there can be no doubt in full, but not | more of Lord Kitchener’s opinion of the ‘womunish” man. Nothing can be uncompromising than his con- tempt for efiminacy. On graph, kerchief he * “No, sir; my own. A very pretty 7d aan doing eaten by a cancer—a burden to bimnelt and others, os-| pattern, isn't tT’ replied the young Viaee tn every way—has @ rishi to end bin pain and pase through happy | lord. “Very; what ts your taste In hair to the three who killed themselves, | { ee eee eet ith 2 aii nc viet lala sa evens avn ae “That slangy follow referred to my hd as my ‘upper story.’ “How rude of him! ‘Vacant npart- nent’ would have been so much more ‘opriate. HPTDUSSOD and that, conversely, a properly con asa flying machine !f provided wit ~ % “Now is the time for farmers with |@ struction, one capable of carrying hiskers to visit New York.” 4 swhvr’ 3 “The bunco men are afraid to tackle | ® ny queer-looking chap for fear he may | 4 urn ont to be Sleuth Jacobs.” 3 Had he anything to say, your door?’ nd the grim householder sighed: Il, It #eemed to me he tried make some ‘running comments.’ Nothing more. objects can kings have “What in fe?" “T fancy it's less a case of objects “Who is that arigtrocratic person ver there?” “That! Why, that's the lucky fellow who Invented the wormless chestnut."— ‘eveland Plain Dealer. “Do you believe in early marringes women?” “Wen, the earler she marties the Although the old date 19? Goes out of date so soon, Most folks will keep on writing It TI "Nong about next June. “How is that Russian patient of yours “Oh, he's all well, I thought at firet 6 had a violent fit of sneezing, but T mind afterward he was only trying to ronounce his own mame." — SOMEBODIES, { ELISHA—has a unique rec- ord, He t# seventy-five and has just retired from the position of engineer on the Wabash Railroad after serv: Washington house and will live at a hotel this winter: to the disgest of those to whom his famous comed- ‘beef hash breakfasts were #o pleasant An attraction of capital Iife last year. USTIN, M.—the great Russian singer, has “Insured” his votce. He pays pre- mhums yearly to a Buropean company on the underatanding that he shal! re- celve a large sum of money from them when nis voloe gives out. guages with perfect fluency and speaks Pngiieh so well that his German | said to have an English accent. H. G—has returned from the Philippines with the state- | « ment that the Fillpinos like our schoo! | ‘ eyetem and that they soap. —— NOT A GRAMMARIAN. Senator John L, Wilson, of Oregon, ts ne of tho most popular men in the He “I am willing to leave {t to my friend rom Portland,” sald Senator Wilson. “Tell us which ts right; you are a gram- “What did you say I was?’ demanded he pioneer, 1 “You are a grammarian,” repeated the ator. “Lam nothing of the kind, sir," he re- “T am ‘The Senator “bought.” ae A KITCHENER ANECDOTE, The charge of woman-hating {s ab- his return from Egypt, tt 1s sald, a young eocial fop asked the General for his auto- which he intended to have worked {= sik on a filmsy lace hand- wok out of his pocket. Kitchener took up the scented handker- fef with the remark: Your slater's, I presume.” pins?” asked the man who had won back Khartoum, ——_— ema ns a LL LIVE FOR THE LIVING. A new mound rose near the foothills, And my heart was underneath; My friends were good, for they strewed tt With blossom and “linging wreath; A voice came, borne on the stillness “Though the way seem hard, be true; On—llve thy life for the living, As the dead have lived for you.” 1 ruis-d my Aand unto heaven And a pledge | made that day, (Dhe Voice had shown me my duty And a light shone on the way.) And these, the words of promine, ‘That my constant guide shall be: I'll ive my fe for the lving, As the dead have lived for me.” rhe dead since the earth was cre- ated, Lived they mot for you and me? they made the world that we live in Such a glorious piace to be! ‘Take mine for your life's motto— It will make ~ou strong and true; And live your life for the living, As the dead have lived for you, —L. W. Giliilan, in Baltimore Herald, 9O9-3-503989O50336 OP. ae 503009 RIESOSP DI-DS- take kindly to 3 093-000 “I have come to the concjusion that a properly constructed flying ma- chine should be capable of being flown as a kite, if anchored to the grounds structed kite should be capable of use h suitable means of propulsion. My experiments have had as their object the building of a kite of sold con- up in a moderate breeze a weight i —_— ae Wns GHGS SETHE DAO sseoneenseanen - Br scleib bcuseae oO ieee ® . _ JOKES OF THe ey’ EIF ALL GOES WELL WITH MR. BELL THERE’LL BE NO ‘L.’ Bee ee eee cr icetr save ; The Rapid Transit of the Future Pictured by Artist Powers. 3 his Sack!” 2 equivalent to that of a man and engine, and so formed that it would be suftable for use as the body of a flying machine—and with supporting sur- faces so arranged that when the kite is cut loose it will come down % gently and steadily and land uninjured. I have successfully accomplished « this, but do not care at the present time to make public the details of con. struction.”"—ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL to the New York World, $ > Come Home EARLT DEAR 99999699906-460 DEPDIRITO HOLS DH 500-32 Here ts the way to make nine marks out of three without using a plece of chalk or dividing the lines, Make three lines with the chalk on a table. Strike the three lines with the open palm of the hand and (hen this palm against the sleeve of your coat, which must be dark. ‘Three lines on the table, three on the palm and three on the coat sleeve make nine in all, —_—$—$—=— A WALNUT TRICK. Here {s an amusing after-dinner trick, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. Take a walnut between the thumb and the second and third fingers, so that the pointed end of the walnut is on top and thumb and finjygees jtouch the o between the parts of the Squeeze the nut very hard until pour the shells separate slightly at the point, | then press your forefinger on the point and stop squeezing. The shells as they come together again will pinch between them a tiny fold of the akin of your forefinger, Now you may open your hand while and show the watnut hang- ing from your forefinger by the invisible fold of the skin. rr HOW JAPS DO THINGS. Two Japanese youths sent out by/and was held in high repute. their Government to make a practica! study of trade are at work in Lima other in @ sllk-weeving establishment THE MAKING OF A TRI-COLORED STAR. slar standing on one of its points; from similar star standing on two polnts. hold a plece of red ass in front of the other The centre and green, colored gins ix not at hand, a glass From one-half of a folding sereen cut out a four By placing candles or lamps directly opposite the centres of the stars you make on the wall a patch of Hght shaped Mke an etght-pointed star. lass in front of one candie, av remains white, while the point become alternately red Tho red glass alone produces nearly the same effect. H the points become red and the others appear green by con- trast, while the centre, though really red, appears white be- cause all the {Mumination Is of the same color. Of course, all other lamps in the room should be extinguished, Simflar effects can be produced with yellow and blue glasses. water tmted with a little dye, will serve, Anted the other half cut a a green of the eight-potnted If of red wine, or of that of wearing a flowor in the hair, to lw by the majority of have fraternized with the spinning © opposite past. | the sensitive sentiment within him. If to the voleings of the poets. There swa: as ‘a blossom in her tresses, her hair,” and “that rose above her ear Whether the hair be black or Mune, de Genlis, in a work on "Time," tells us that the famous Chancellor DiAguesseau, observing that his always delayed ten or twelve minutes before she came down to dinner, and, reluctant to lose so much time daily, began the composition of a work which hoe prosecuted only while thus kept waiting, At the end of fifteen years a jbook In three quarto volumes was com- pleted, which ran through three editions Mme, de |Ganits profited by this example, Having to wait at the dinner hour in wife ru, one in @ grocer’s shop and the the Palals Royal for Mme, de Chartres, who was always Afteen or twenty min- FLOWERS IN THE HAIR. One long discarded custom is being brought Into favor— Had woman reailzed hat an extent the pretty custom was admired and ev! wheel, and the lace mitts in the dim and cobwebbed garret of things To man, and that man a sweetheart, such it Is, of putting a flower in the hair ts a signal to all and running riot as roses on an old wall such phrases flower brown, red or gold, | charm of primeval femininity remains the same. | WROTE BOOK WHILE WAITING FOR WIFE.) sex it never wou the blue dishes this ttle art, for you doubt this look ‘ou will find holding to bewltch me !n was my undoing.” the ‘THIS IS HOW IT IS DONE. THE AGE TO MARRY. | Otlver Wendell Holmes, tn the course of a letter to a young friend who had married, wrote Utes Ite, she utilized the time by copy- ing a selection of poems from eminent authors, | "1 do indeed « It is told of a German critic that h€|ohanging your isolat could repout the enting ‘*Hiad” of Homer |tne peatifie state of duallty. with scarcely an error. How many|moment one feels that he i falling into years, think you, did he spend in de-| the old age of youth—which I take to positing the tmmortal epic in his brain?| trom twenty-five to thirty. !a mort Yoars he had not to spare, or months or|——he must not weeks or even entire days, for he was a@ first phystclan in the full tide of practle | but he contrived to store in his memory |OVer i if the twenty-four books of the old bani | AMG, (one, comes aniy to his tie bes of “Soto's rocky Iste in the brief, dis-/epoch of life begins. the connected snatches of time while hurry- foo gh Huse nah wife Aa) agcee y uys & horse—sensibip, shrewdly and ing from one patient to another.—Will- fence ; jos from at [merely aa 4 convenience in hia domestic y live half his bright d f ‘woman's pure kiss, aw s Ik great dan- 6 Jf SPE the reform administration agrees with Saat, that it is all right, all right,” remarked tie Cigar-Store Man. : “You don't suppose that the reform administration would get up and throw rocks at Itself, do you?” ested The Man Higher Up. “You don’t suppose that hawng the deal it would give itself anything but picture cards and aces? Even if the streets were piled up with gum bage, the parks were Iike back lots, the hospitals were falling down, the finances were on the blink and the tenement-houses had mould on them, the reform edmine= istration could produce figures showing that the peoplé are better cared for and happier than ever they were before. So could any other administration. “One of the first things a man learns to do when-he takes a new job is to make good with himself. He figures that if he can stand pat on a statement he can make people think it 1s true. I'm not saying thet the reports of the reform commissioners are not true. All I'm saying is that I’d like to look at the annual report ot any administration that ever ran New Youk tiat didn’t show {t to be the best administration that ever came out of the election incubator. “As a matter of fact, reports don’t out more than enough Ice to chill a Mexican dog. If you witl look at the Tammany reports for the first year Van 'Wycio-was, in office you will think the streets were paved with-gold, that everybody in town went to work in a private han- som, that all tenement-houses had tiled vestibules and that food and drink were free—if you deleve the Te ports. It’s a shine Commish that can’t make-compari- sons odious to the Commish that preceded him tn office., “You know the anolent wheeze that figures can’tMe.' Neither can they without a supporting company. But’ I've seen men who could take a troupe of figures an@ make them perform in a way calculated to cause Ana- nias to turn over in his grave and ask somehody-to hend him one for being such a heel dn the prevarication tine, “Mayor Low will come out with s few yards. off” words and figures to show what his assistants done, About the only people who will read through will be the printers that set them up and” reporters that put them down, The people will look the headlines, wade in a couple of inches and end discover that they have been reading the same year after year. The reformers went in to make a ter elty and if one of them said he wasn’t doing he was elected to do it would be the cue to give him fj run of the bughouse. 5 “There never will be a satisfactory city governm No matter how many of the arms of it work im ti there will be one or more out of harmony. The will overlook what ten city departments have done and concentrate their minds on one city d that has made a bum showing. Then they will get sour on for the whole administration on account of one department and put In a new adminfstration. “There isn’t a man who pays rent who don’t that he eould run the city better than the Mayor it, As they all can’t be Mayors they take pleasure In exercising the dfvine right of jumping o} the man who is.” “Do you think they will jump on Mayor Low?” ask the Oigar-Store Man. “Well,” replied The Man Higher Up, “there never was a man who found the proper virus wherewith to vaccinate himself against being jumped on.” “THE MAN HIGHER UP” READ AND LAUGHED AT IN AN “L” CAR. 4 ae Manhattan Elevated Packing Company's 621 P, M. Harlem express shipment of downtown iambs halted | for a moment at the Warren street station, where, | among the others who squeezed into the two cuble feat of shrinkage remaining, a tall, thin man, with a serious face, om which blinked brichtly two bright Httle biwe eyes, gt on, By the time the train reached Christopher street he well within the door, incased between three fat men, The fat men began complaining vigorously at his presence In thelr midst, at the same Ume saying hard things about the management of the road. The tall, thin main listened 1 yilence until the flnal groan of passengers ax they eettle {nto thelr allotted notches of space, as the express swang out of the Christopher street station. ‘Then he spolre “Ladies and gentlemen," he began, “I can see thet your sv of Immor Is somewhat cramped. Here I have @ copy if the Evening World. Just a minute, gentiemen’—¢e the three fat men—"take a long breath.” They di so and ne raised a newspaper above their heads and gaid: “Before I begin, do you know ‘The Man Higher Up? No? Well, then, by way of simple Introduction, he talke for The ening World, wherein he takes a considerate and. phiio- sophical view of all the public evils impending in his clty and offars the most simple but at the same time the most dreatlo sulutions of the clamored-for relef, 1 will read you what nas to say ‘On “L" Road Management.’ He had a good voice which carried throughout the jammed car, and after he had read for a few minutes every man, yoman and boy wore a ‘broad smile of good nature, and when he concluded everybody seemed to ‘have room to give way to a hearty Jaugh; and as he continued a rapid fire of iis own observations before the train reached the Harlem station the faces of all showed that the discomforts of the situation were entirely forgotten : ORIGIN OF THE HANDSHAKE. To shake hands with a person is rightly regarded as @ token of amity, but very few know how the custom arose, says the Pittsburg Gazette, According to a French ethnolo- gist, whenever two men met in former times they were ae customed to hold up their right hands in front of them as @ sign that they had no intention of attacking each other, This mark of confidence, however, did not prove sufficient™ its all cases, for a man may hold up his right hand and yet, if he keeps {t closed, may have a weapon concealed in it, and, . it hecame the custom for the two right hands to other, as only thus could full assurance be given that no weapon was concealed in either of them, Form therefor this gesture, now the token of loyalty and fri ship, was one of reciprocal distrust. NO SPICE FOR ROCKEFELLER, Mueh has been Written concerning John D. Rockefellers m to society, Certainly he is in a position to choose sompantons and pleas However, many persons bev that because of his exclusiveness ne Is missing same Of rarest pleasures of life, ‘A business acquaintances, well known in the financial world, ventured to suggest that the oll king should enter $= y, adding that “society, as well as variety, was the apie’ lfe."" ‘ “Perhaps,” admitted Mr. Rockefeller, “but too much hos spolled many & good dinne! TONGUE TWISTERS. ‘rey to say “Truly rural” a-dozen times in qutok. Here are two that it willybother you to say yen at the rate you usually speak: "She and “Shoes and socks shock Susan.” If you, from eaying ‘@hugem,'*