The evening world. Newspaper, January 5, 1903, Page 10

Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office ‘St New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. 'OLUME 48. NO. ON GETTING A JOB. World reporter representing himself as without Hoyment and willing to take any kind of work, Application at thirty-six business houses and cor- Hons which are latge employers of labor, and was i to get a position. 'The invariable question asked him was “What can } do?” and his answer that he “had had no exper!- Drought a uniform refusal to give his request consideration. Wherever he applied, at grocery meat markets, clothing stores, publishing houses, vi offices, his fatal confession of lack of experi- en brought the one response—a politely given but rm refusal. At a grocery store the refusal was varied the comment that if employed he would “only be inference must be drawn from this that in es- d business houses unskilled labor is not wanted Gt ty price. To the man who comes with knowledge , d information to dispose of at agreed upon ps, the employer is willing to listen. But he has time to teach the applicant a trade. As a matter of when he is found willing to consider unskilled at all, he is offered the choice of a high grade. If 4s @ steel mill or factory superintendent or machine manager, he finds the young graduates of the of technology willing to work at nominal wages ‘the experience to be gained. If he is a manufacturer ints or refiner of oils he is beset by young chemists from colleges asking employment regardless of . ‘The graduate of the manual training school is on similar terms. In the grocery or hat is the old clerk’s son or nephew waiting for 16,112. > tl hhege the employer finds a class of unskilled Offering ite services with some guarantee of use- which the reporter did not furnish. It is with of supplying this knowledge that the manual 46a -1s,being' extended tn the public schools, fm pudlfe uchools Nos, 1 and 105, instruction is to in Venetian tron work. It is obvious that a fy of seventesn graduating from these schools would ‘More useful toanironworker than a reporter. of twice years, without training in mechanical work. CONCERNING GHOSTS. I believe in @hdsts, I have never seen one myself, but 1 bve becom convinced that they exist.—Rev. Dr, Savage. Don't ridicule the man who believes he sces ghosts. geen them.—Prof, Karl von Thaler, of Vienna. Hardly a month passes without a new contribution the ghost lore of New York and its immediate vicin- y. Within two ‘years these spooks, spectres, appari- ms and other visitors from the realm of the super- have come to terrify mankind in this neighbor- 1 of @ dog Im West Vorty-third street, wildeat ab Weodclita, N. 3. Dearded ghost at Hillsdale, N. J. an old man chopping wood at Perth Amboy 2 hi > z i z : i f Ph breer ie I HEE aL of a conventional typa and deserving notice. But from Hempstead, L. I, news of ghosts of an unfamillar kind, exhibiting characteristics—submarine ghosts, dwelling in Take, near which Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt, jr., is & country house. In the slime and ooze of the bottom they lurk to draw workmen down to Men venturing into the shallows near the shora } pulled down by unseen hands and have escaped with ity. The work on the Vanderbilt house has several been interrupted by the fears of the superstitious en, Savage once said that “If a stone were thrown in New York it would strike a house in which phenomena of some kind had occurred.” , houses we have in numbers. And ghosts in ies, as the citations above from a restricted area - But why is it that we have no more distin- ghosts? For us there is no Banquo’s ghost that Rot down, no Hohenzollen white lady, no Caesar's rit appearing to some modern Brutus at a Philipp!, the great ghosts seem to have gone, leaving only merate apparitions, or roadside spectres in their ‘Place. MINISTERS’ SONS AND SALARIES. *|with them: JOKES OF THE DAY} “He says he owes all his euccess In Wusinass to the dact that he learned to eat the food lls wife cooked." “How fine of him! What ts his bual- nese, anyhow?" museum under the name of the ‘Hu- man Ostrich.’ "* “Isn't it wonderful.” aaid the man who wears an air of perpetual astonishment, “to think of the earth revolving on Its axis every twenty-four hours.” “Oh! I don't know,’ answered thy man who loves to chill an enthushastic nature. “It doesn't @eem wonderful to me. ing that would be something to get good and suprised Washington Star, Wife—I know, dear, that great wealth like yours must be a heavy burden, Husband—Well, dear, the fault 1s not yours, You've done your best to lighten lt for me. “They say Shakespeare had to be careful what he wrote in order not to| offend the crowned heads of England." “So playwrights hall to look out for their royalties even in those days, eh?" “And you say you have been wan- dering about doing nothing for the past three years?" And there's one thing about sure an’ certain.” that?” No man ought to stick to one thing gg without an occasional vaca- tlon,""—Cleveland Plain Dealer. When Mary Jane the pounds "Ns evident to all that she's pursuing ‘The ancient Scripture mandate, “Not to let Her left hand know what her right hamd ts doing." grand plano “So the ‘L' jam ta to be stopped!” “Yes; after most of the passengers! ® if have been mashed to a Jelly.” } SOMERODIES. BRUNER, PROF. LAWRENCE—Ne- braska's State ethnologist, has’ collect: | ; ©d 60,000 grasshoppers, His collection includes 20,000 varieties, enough to fur- nish black bass bait for a whole sum- mer. GOULD, MISS many begging letters and does so much charitable work that she keeps three secretaries busy attending to her cor- respondence, fiend," has gathered in 12,000 signa- tures and 1,706 photographs of theat: cal people. His collection also con- tains 60,000 programmes and posters, SEIFDRT, H. O, R,—Milwaukee's public echools euperintendent, has a plan to make all Milwaukee teachers learn German. @ llving and a reputation as @ poet if the royalty business failed. She tn- herits this versical talent from her father, the Poet Prince of Montenegro, —- FEAR NOT THE KISS, That Southern Legislature whose members are considering the abolition by law of the pleasant practice of ki ing, because there sre microbes in the mouth, and disease has been known to be conveyed by a kiss, are golng too far, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. The German Emperor also seems to be pro- ceeding to extremes, Recall the sturdy figure of the ok German Chanocllor, attended by his favorite Danish hounds. He lyed to a goo old age, and his canine companions increased the joy of thie life. Fanoy how he would have cumb friends, for fear they might be the means of infeoting him with ease. which ohildren have caught fatal tIl- ness fram oaressing househol pets. That ts dren from taking dogs or cats to bed It is a reason for caution- Tn times not remote it was expected of a minister's that he should follow his father’s profession or go Miterature or the law. Among clergymen’s sons who the latter alternative were Emerson, Gold- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Grover Cleveland, An nation of the Dictionary of National Blography in it showed that 60 per cent. of all the persons of con- uence mentioned -in it were sons of clergymen, In hi ‘country the greater financial rewards of a business have been so alluring as to draw young men of ancestry away from the learned professions. @ $400-a-year Methodist minister's son who gave that pomination’s ‘“‘Twentieth-Century Thank Offering” 000 was said by Dr. Mills, the committee's secre- f, to be worth $20,000,000. Another minister's son Prominence in business life is E. H. Harriman, reward which the Church offers its loyal ser- 4m the pulpit is not Hberal. Among the Presby- the highest salary ever paid was the $16,000 a and use of a parsonage which Dr. John Hall re- from the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian congroga- “The average clerical salary in the United Btates, ‘to Bishop Fallows, is only $800. Dr. Scholey’s Presbyterian puipits show an average income and for the divine earning this for thirty a passing the age of seventy there is a pension ¥ year! The Episcopal clergyman, whose aver- ¥ ing children against letting animals lick thelr faces, ing animal pets. ee KINGS LIKE PARIS, before his marriage to Don Carlos 1. the Princesa Amelie, the jewel of the Orleans family, went to Paris very of- ten; it 1s sald that he frequently went Incognito and ved quietly in modest pled a terre, which he had furnished, so a8 to be free to go where he liked or to stay as long as he pleased, After his marriage those who pretended to have authority over him requested him to give up that Paris house, but he sternly refused; all that he would con- sent to do was to stop at a hotel and then do as ho liked. It ts harder to take care of Kings in Paris than ja any other capital, because there are haunts which thelr royal majesties will not ignore when they know they will have a good time frequenting them, ——— THE NATION BUILDERS, These do not wear Trappings of state, nor gin upon their side Rawistless steel, nor any symbol Bry is $700, may rotire at sixty-five on a pension | Year. In the Congregational Church, accord- X Ye Year Book, there are many parishes f pastors only $500 a year, wwe only thirty-seven churches that pay sala- ‘or more, The Methodist Bishop's salary 4 makes a man a bishop would make at least a figure of prominence f tect he wets & smauor return while the shep- FAW salemman Ping a v are) Tp -assachu-, bear To show they wrought a nation's Mfe and pride | These do not crave Fame's yolee, for thelr high task is far above Her wavering tone, soon mumed by the grave; These, in the royal consciousness of love, Ank but to gaze On thelr great work, and, seeing it is good, Put graciously aside al! meed. of pralae, Content in God'a beat gitt—pure pen 5 “He eats glass and nails in a dime| 4 But if ehe was to stop some morn- | HEUBN-Recelvee #0 | ¢ THE WORLD: MONDA BA MGOWN, W. H.—an Ohto “autograph | 4 QUBDEN HELPNA—of Italy, could make | ‘ snorted at the notion of banishing those | dis-| 4 ‘There have been instances tn] % @ reason for preventing chil- |‘ But {t is not a reason for| 4 depriving ohildhood of the joy of own-| % 2 Dark—Say, yo" Why, say, If 1 ma yo'd faint! Light—Dat's what! ! feint wif m left an’ s Swif mah right! 2 ity DANCING IMPS, and they ta turn will rise, THERE ARE SOME HONEST EN. Tre WARDM WHAT WOULD HAPPEN, cain't fight me. @ pass at you K! Th “All precinct detectives and patrolmen doing duty in plain clothes, ; whether in the districts or In the precincts, and whether detailed to duty by the Police Commissioner or by the Inspectors of districts or the Cap- tains of precincts, are hereby returned to duty as patrolmen, to take make a wat you Place little hollow glass imps with a jsmall hole in each of thelr legs in a bottle filed with water 4a bladder over the top, leaving a small quantity of alr below it. Press yo hang down hard and the impe will sink, Raise it]A A Tt has been reckoned that mi . li ways, | SSS SES, FORTUNES FOR THE POPE, ‘The Pope bas been happy in legacies. during ble oa 3909949000590 . fi Y VG, JANUARY 5, [903, 8 3064 BACK! BACK ATROL DUTY! e Wardman’s Uncrowning as Artist Powers Sees It. WHY DINNIS ThovanT You were JACOBS WHY THEY ARE NOT VISIBLE, SIDEWALK VENDER, BETTER Roderick—You say he has faced bursting shells, What battle was he in? Van Albert—None! chestnut roast Little Willie—Say, pa, what be- comes of the flies in winter? Pa—! suppose the airship in ventors use them in their busi- He is a pany.” $90600900O® effect at 8 A. M. on Wednesday, Jan, 7, 1903, and they will not be eligible for detail of any kind during ninety days from that date.”— ORDER NO, 3, issued by POLICE COMMISSIONER GREENE, HERES THe TEN HAVE A HARD Time GETTING Uni Forms p 8 ashamed to be seen In such com- enn ETE 9 Sad News for the Wardmen, 66 wn do you think of the new Police Commis- sioner now?” asked the Cigar-Store Man. “He showed himself to be a good chooser,” replied The Man Higher Up, “when he picked his lookout; and when he heard from the lookout that the wardmen were playing with phoney checks and short changing the dealer he showed himself to be game by putting the Icibosh on them. It was the saddest blow of the glad New Year to the cops who are out for the currency. It must be an awful jolt to a man who has been @ king for years to suddenly find himself a deuce, and a soiled deuce at that. “The whine of the wardmen is heard from the Bat- tery to Spuyten Duyvil, but the cop on the street who has been adding an acre of bunions to his feet and two fnohes to the waistband of his pants every year is soused#with joy. There is no love lost between the plain plugging cop who spends half his life dodging changes and the fly wardman who {s not responsitie to anybody, but a man who Js afraid to make a holler. “T’d hate to be some of the wardémen when they get on precinct duty in uniform tn strange places. Most of them were as arrogant as a German prince behind tite scenes of a theatre. They despised the uniformed men, and they showed it. I have two or three of them in mind who will wish they had chloroformed themselves within half an hour after they hit the police-station dormitory. Ever hear what cops do in the dormitories to unpopular guys? A man might better be run over by a railroad train than get about fifty burly and sere cops at him after he gets into bed in a station-house, “There won't bo any gobs of soft sympathy passed” te the wardmen by anybody. The people who had to,, hand the goods to them wifl hope they choke with in- @ignation. If you find some wardman lying Mm a dark hallway some morning before the order reducing them goes into effect you can make up your mind that now, that their pull is gone-some people have made up they. minds to give them all that’s coming to them before they, get scattered all over town. “Commisstoner Greene's lookout must be a cop, Mo other reformer has been able to see that the wardmen were the cogs on the wheels of the machinery of graft.’ To transfer a captain out of the Tenderloin into Church Street, or Old Sip or Oak Street and let him take his” wardmen with him meant simply that they would handle a different kind of money. “Sad for the wardmen! No longer the care-free, roaming existence through precincts where nobody would take any money for anything and where the popular song was: “Tm saving it afl for the wardman— He hall have ev'ry cent To cut up with the dear olf Captain And help him pay the rent. “Taking a wardimen’s job away from him. is like. taking the wings from an angel or the finger-natis from a Chinese gambler. ive “Do you think the wardmen Gen. Greene will put tm swill graft?” asked the Cigar-Store Men. “Some of them won't,” responded The Man Higher Up. “The Animals of the Bitty” is a very intereuting Gttip by Gambler Boltgn, the best-known animal photographer tm England. The Eke 7e0he fo jorwe mariner ef eenen aa ee contains e great deal of metter of peoullar Interest-to 7 ists: ‘Dogs an4 cats are never mentioned in the canentonl despite the fact that st thty period these artiinuls Ly 0 ie ns ANIMALS IN THE BIBLE. >, 2 DAYS. been times. Exzektel give e' masterly desortptton of the catohing was a favorite amusement with the ‘The chita, @ sort of leopan tremned. or Gunting, te- men the animale are coferred to by Isaiah as “doletul The wolf te very often mentioned to the Gcrtptures, BB tx @shonest Bears are mentioned several times, One was The behemoth (rhinoceros), the leviathan, the peli POO9GDVDOOOD THE BOY’S FIRST CIGAR. This boy 1 enjoy- ing his first smoke. You can see that he is enjoying It by the pleasant ex pression of his face, There is an, after- math though, upon which he does not count and if you wish to know what happens to him ber fore the clear ie consumed just fol- jlow these inatrucy |tlons: Cut the plor } put and first 1 it Inward along } line BB; then }fold along A A backward and bring and c C together. Next fold inward along line ® E; then out ep bring C D and F *howing how a Berlin woman’ protects her pug ¢rom the rain. shipped, tended and embaimed after Bsyot. Lions were evidently very plentifal in. Palestine ty, | rf lions and the method of them in a pit. ‘The Isreciites 414 not tnduige in Hon ie howe, 00 shown by thelr monuments, Job says, very truthfully, i old lion perishes for lack of prey." tioned in the Soriptures, but not under thfs-name, The word hyena does not appear by n&me in the Mngtish translation of the Sorfptures, but Mr, Bolton ‘thes and the seme aatmel to fooueMt t be Sneed Se Theme by the word whioh our translators have rendered as bird.” commonly spoken of as symbolic of persone, op! pressors and extortioners, It wae elec the symbot of the tribes of Benjamin. by the boy David as tt was carrying off a lamb from hile fie; ‘They there were two which devoured the cbiiiren who called ont! at the Prophet Elisha, ; The DON Te ee eo tenes ane cemtianel » tiring In the Book. Now, in the stving of # dtnner, other social layout, the one tliing nested (not to refer to after, and you may bet your bottom dollar that she got it, ‘By ‘the aide of each plate there lay the customary can@ Beginaing to smell a rat? Natu the guest turned the card over, to find—what? Why, My, Joba @mith’s business cards, to be sure, It se: forth all the things that Mr, Jobn Smith manufactured at the downtown factory and would be willing to sell on reasonable terms at his downtown office. Bright woman, Mrs. Gmith! She nof only gave her husdan@ a business boost, but suved the cost of new cards! MOTORS THAT CLIMB,