The evening world. Newspaper, January 6, 1903, Page 10

ae * pine warfare we lost hardly half as many lives by Fill- In the seven years from 1896 ; oe ae , v GA LPS ‘Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 63 _ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Oflce at New York am Seoond-Class Mai] Maitter. MOLUME 48...... -NO. 16,118. THE LOTTERY OF THE STAGE. How many New York women now matrons nearing middle life will learn with a feeling of personal regret ‘of the threatened eviction of Clara Morris from her ‘Deautiful residence at Riverdale? Foreclosure proceed- Mngs on a mortgage for $2,000 have been begun and for Jack of that sum the actress may become homeless. It seems only the other day, though {t {s actually twenty years or more, that Clara Morris was filling the ‘Union Square Theatre with weeping matinee girls and) earning her manager nearly $2,000 with one perform-| ance. How many feminine eyes were reddened by the! sorrows of “Miss Multon” and “Camille” in those days? Of all tearful death scenes that the stage has witnessed Sone surpassed hers in emotional intensity. But a new generation demands new favorites. It lets Janauschek go into retirement and permits Modjeska to play to empty houses. It pays $300 a week to see. Rose Coghlan ip vaudeville, but forgets her great ‘Countess Zicka.” Does it remember Rose Bytingo, or Genevieve ‘Ward, or Mrs. Bowers, or Lotta, cr Maggie Mitchell? It) is soon to see Agnes Booth in a new play and pass its @wn judgment on an actress whose merits were once penerally acknowledged. A long list might be made of the contemporaries of Clara Morris who aro dead or lost to public view or quite forgotten. Yet there are actors of an earlier era} who were on the boards before Miss Morris was born who have survived the vicissitudes of stage popularity “and retained pubiic favor in a manner as noteworthy es the loss of it by others, Mrs. Gilbert, now eighty- two—what a career has been hers! geventy; H. C. Barnabee, seventy; Jefferson, seventy- three—these are veterans at whom we may well wonder. Not one of them lags superfluous on the stage, But is it the younger generation that goes to see the septnage- marian Bob Acres or is it chiefly thelr parents realli old days? THE AMERICAN MURDERER. Last year in the United States 8,884 murders were committed. That is to say, ei#bt thousand eight hun- @rea and thirty-four Americans took the lives of fellow men! It is a difficult fact to realize, and the realization is made all the harder when one recalls that iu all en-!|jore eo far form bindi: gagements and ambuscades of three years of Philip- pino bolos and bullets. to 1902 inclusive the number of lives lost in the United| Btates by murder was nearly three times as great as the entire Confederate loss in killed and wounded at Gettys- burg, and came near surpassing the total number of killed and wounded at bloody Waterloo! In that time @ city larger than Yonkers was wiped out by murder! Prof. Ferrl maintained that homicide was most fre- quent among the Latin people, the Italian, French, Spanish and Roumanian, and least among the Germanic and Anglo-Saxon races, but the figures quoted above cast | an implication of doubt on his own statistics. Prof. | Bodio's figures for 1880 put the entire murders of France, | Italy, Spain and Germany for that year at 5,543. As for the relation of punishment to guilt, Dr. Nagle, of the ‘New York Bureau of Statistics, showed that of the 130 homicides in Greater New York in 1900 only three wore convicted of murder in the first degree and only one executed! The causes of last year's murders as analyzed ard tabulated by the Chicago Tribune were as follows: CAUSES OF MURDER Denman Thompson, lution of the asked his constituent. trusta will have to be wiped out, course, but It's got to be done with a | chloroformed rag so they won't know a wife, a parrot, phonograph and a barbs KUNIGL, LIPTON, {JOKES OF THE DAY! “Did you hear about poor Palmers? | He went ¢c New Guinea an a missionary, you know, and he was pursued by can- nibals, He was cunning away from them as fast as he could when ho happened to fall. And then"’— “And then I suppose the Cannibals fell-to.'* “Tt'd be awful intereatin’ to consider what you'd do if you was Gould or Morgan or Carnegie." “Not half so Interestin’ as to consider what they'd do If they was me.” Bhe—Do you regard marriage as a necessity or @ luxury? He—Well, when a man marries a cross-eyed git] who says sily things, whore nose turns up at the end and whose father 1s worth about $2,000,000, 1 should say tt was a necessity.—Chicago Record-Herald, ‘Twas the Man once who sought out the office, ‘But he placed himself under a ban, For he pinched the negotiable assets, ‘Then off to Ontarto he ran. And now, with the ald of detectly “The Office 1s seeking the Man." ‘When T asked you to name a patri- | otle song why did you cite ‘Good Morn- ing, Carrie “Well, 1 "t that a Natlon-al air?’ “What do you conceive to be the so- trust problem, Senator? “well,” “the of sald Senator Lotsmum, '—Chicago Tribune. “I wonder who invented the phrase, ‘Silence ts goldent' “Probably some luckless cuss who had a ten-year-old boy, a “That man Greene seems able to read the detectives and wardmen lke a book.” “Yes, and he's even carried his book- to put them all in ‘unt 1 SOMEBODIES, alapr WILHBLM-—recently shot @ pure white pheasant; a type of bird hitherto almost unknown, He had It stuffed; perhaps under the delusion that It was the Dove of Peace. MAJOR, COUNT the oldeat officer in the Austrian army, has just died at the age of ninety-nine, SIR THOMAS — has con- tributed $1,000 to the St. Louts Expost- tlon, the gift to be added to the fund for a building dedicated to Ireland and the Irish, MANCHHSTDR, DUKE OF—has re- ceived the appaintment of Deputy Grand Master of the Orangemen of Ireland, PATTI, ADPITNA—has made a fortune by her voice Imated at $5,000,000. one year her earnings were $30,000, and she frequently received 95,000 a day. POWER-PALMDBR, BIR—Lond Kitch- ener’s predecessor as Commander-in- Ohief of the British forces in India, ts 6,907 ) Resisting arrest 86 nicknamed “Long Palmer." He ie 6 955 | Highwaymen Killed 73| feet 6 Inches tall, + 540! Riots 4 ———___— 238} Self-deten a ABOUT MOSQUITO EGGS. Aare (1) Dr. W. Dupree, of New Orleans, Batanticite . Mi says the Chicago Inter-Ocean, who has In the Breen oy any tabulation for the United States of the weapons or means used we may adopt Prof. Fer- ri’s for Italy, which was in part: INSTRUMENTS OF MURDER. ine » | Tools | Domestic Firearms Knives . Clubs, &.. ‘ _ Prof. Ferri found that the immediate cause of mur- der in Italy was: WANE seeieeeeereeee BY CAUSES OF MURDER IN ITALY Anger leove bee be + ™% Hato . Cupidity . 3% “Hato anger,” as forming 58% of the Itatlan} homicides, ted with the 6,307 “quarrels” that had @ fatal issue with us, show that we are ahead of the ot-tempered Satin races in being sudden and quick In| fata! quarrels. THE GOOD A wasp HAS DONE. A mamboo cane full of silkworms brought from | China to Italy formed the basis of Europe's great silk Industcy and the importation of a peculiar kind of wasp from Smyrna has been responsible for the raising of 6,000,000 pounds of figs in California last year, It 1s the Very little things that amount to most in this world. For in the case of the wasp, If {t had not been intro- @uced into California it would have been impossible to raise figs tlere. It is to the wasp that the fertilization of the flowers of the fig is due. The female wasp, after feeding on the flower of the wild fig, seeks the flower of the cultivated fig as a receptacle for her eggs and in #0 doing fertilizes it with the fructifying pollen of the wild fig. Without this process the edible fig never at tains maturity There !s no end of romantic stories about the fertill-| ation of plants. When clover was first grown tu |e Australia it was found it never came to seed. Then the discovery was made that the tongues of the Australion bees were too short to reach the pollen of the cloyer and hence there was no fertilization, It required the intro-| uction of bumble bees with longer tongues to assist In| the process and perpetuate the growth of the clover, [1 Bas happened that other plants transported to distant] Wis without the company of the particular insect by | | Which their fertilization takes place have died without | ropagation, It Seems to be a law of nature that flowers are aivent OF ahd scent to attract insects, And one of the queer! of this process of attraction 1s that certain in- i are led to show a preference for certain plants and! or no others. Thus the butterfly will have nothing to jo. with the honeysuckle, which to man is one of tho! Scented of flowers. A moth is its favorite visi- rose attracts the bee and some bugs, but repels seent other bugs and beetles which find rank- more desirable, thing, and the marvel grows Fong AM dependence on a Serre been making an Investigation of the mosquitoes in Louisiana, has reported to the Loulslana Society of Naturallets that he hae found that the eggs of mos- quitoes “ften hatch months after they Are laid, especially if they are deposited in ponds which subsequently dry up. ‘The conclusion reached by Dr. Dupree fs that the methods which have been used In getting rid of the moagultoes by olling or otherwise treating the ponds during March and April, when the esas are supposed to be batching, wilt be productive of little benefit, as the hatch- ing ty golng on ali the tim Dr, Dupree found twenty-four vantetles of mosquitoes in Louisiana ponds, moat of them In the same ponds, The species ry from year to year, some varieties yeing abundant one year and others next. ——__-— FOR WOMEN SMOKERS. Women smokers haye found @ cham- pion in Mrs, Alex writer who, in the eyes of the Britian matron, can say no wrong. Im the Queen Mrs, Tweedie exolulme: “Why ehould not women smoke if they Uke? If tobacco affords so much solace to men why should thelr alsters, who are more highly strung, and more ner- yous by temperament, be deprived of ite soothing effects? There t# surely no harm in smoking eo long a# it is not done in excess. Moderation Js all that :s required, and yet moderation in every deparument tn life is what is most difil- cult to find. —- KAISER A BAD PLAYER. Himperor Walllam of Germany is fond of billiards, but 18 too Impetuous to play 4 good game. If he misses an easy ehot he becomes “rattled” and can be easily beaten by the moat amateurish of the palace guests. But it ts not considerea 400d form to beat His Majesty and ao matter how bad his game may be his sdversary contrives to play a worse one. —-- OLD BATTLE-FLAGS. The wounded flags! How proudly ered in Jays n drums were thrumming loudly And fifes sang warring lays! How brave was all their glowing Where florce the war guns spoke! Their stars forever showing, A beacon through the smoke! |] The wounded fogs! We hall them, And revel in each hue, Though age and time may pale them, And red blend into blue; Though all grow dark and duller, |] Yet tn their every part |] We soe the living color That thrilis-the nation’s heart! —W, O, Newbit tn Baltimore Ameri- In| @ BO9OSOOOH019-40000000960: i > The Suppression of Cuss Words as Artist Powers Sees It. 2 Capt. O'Rellly’s latest move in converting the Tenderloin fs an eal (on the same principle as “isles of safety”) be scattered hither and yon 54 swearing edict. He does not seriously object to low-breathed expletives,/ (especially yon) throughout the Tenderloin, Then the hot-tempered man $ but he will turn loose all the law in sight on the loud-voiced objurgator.| whose foot has been run over by a car, the Rube who neglected to wait ® 80, if a lady deftly removes your left eye by a twist of her umbrella tip till he got home before examining tho brick, and the Brooklynite whose. in a crowd, you can say “Well, I'll be teetotally dodgasted!” all you want’ pocket has been pic.ed of his homeward fare—all these may retire to the: But if you blasphemously shout “Dear me suz!"/nearest “swearing station” and how! forth “Gosh darn it!" or “Gracious in @ thun-| goodness me!" to their hearts’ content, while the blue vapor rolls out into The Island yawns/the street and mingles with the gasoline fumes of Gen, Greene's auto. A humanitarian suggests that “swearing stations”! $ to; if you say It softly. “Mercy sak: »derous voice, then beware of the Tenderloin Terror! é for such offenders. % WO. SWEARING a 609994906806 “Oh, ain’t you terrible!” or "Gol bdlarst ye! : WHAT! A SWEARLESS TENDERLOIN? Got SLAMB THE DERN RAPID TRANSUT His Ment ht: he: pee tresses Wee sig i ip Doe tas a gia ee RANA ARAN ARRAS 33D @8-3999FDS-HGHGHHHSSODHH-9O0GH-O5 DDFDFGB999O90- 590999: 9:9:9H9SH $6.GHG0O-9-8-64 9-2906-0-24 © PLGODDLDHGH-9.$HHGHIGHHF? *HOOHOHH48O4.H9HO8-OHH 66-990000$50909699698 96604 THE RHYMING GAME, ‘NB person thinks of a word and Gtvew @ word that will rhyme with {ty the players, while endeavoring to guess the word, think of those that will rhyme with the one given and tn- stead of speaking, detine them; then tho first person must be quick In guessing what is meant by the description, and answers If it {9 right or not, Here are two examples “lL have a word bun." Is it what people call great sport or that rhymes with editor?’ . It is not aun. “Is tt a kind of fire-arm?’ o, dt Is not gun.’ "Is it @ religious woman who lives in retirement?" is not nun,’ “In it the act of moving swiftly, or What ono does when In great haste? it is not run.” “Ie ita quibble, or play upon words?" No It te not pur ‘Is it a word that we often use to futshed? each other, hand, and a tea elgnal and toll th nab Tne one who guessed the word will perhaps, say thought of a word that rhymes Baker's Spread a sheet on the A BLINDFOLD BEATING MATCH, Here is a little party pastime that will make everybody roar with laughter. joor and seat two closely-blindfolded boys on it, facing Giyo cach boy @ eaucer of cracker crumbs, to be held in his left pow OF & deesert epoon, m to feed each other, and you will have fun enough to m dn the room | rh, to be held in hts right, WINTER EVENING AMUSEMENT IN THE HOME. FIRE PICTURES. You can eurprise and amu your friends very much by lighting a matoh, blowing it out when half burned and touching with the stil! glowing matoh stick a sheet of blank paper. A spark of fre will start from the point where you apply the match and run over the paper in all sorts of ways, leaving be- hind It @ burned trace which, when com- pleted, will form a name, a picture of an animal or any other design you choose. The paper, of cours prepared beforehand, and in @ very eim- ple manner. All you have to do js to trace the design with @ pen, a fine brush or @ stick dipped into a strong solution of saltpetre. ‘The drawing need not be made of one continuous line, but It must all be connected together—there must be no detached parts, as the epark has to travel from point to polat. Saltpetre, which Is also called nitre and potassimu nitrate, contains « large amount of oxygen, which it «ives up readily to such substances as wood and paper burning or charring them, (Ordin- ary burning or charring, indeed, is due to the action of the oxygen of the alr.) Hence the part Now et flammable, and @ spark applied to one TL take him to my point will run along the whole design. sce bri Pi chheae ECONOMICAL, LUCKY, INDEED, ‘The paper along the course of the trac- eae a gentioment” Wite-I should like to have| Book—Clark is lucky fellow, He has| ing has been converted into @ sort of ect wih ta winced on my Hitle boy put Into the ploture, too. | juet won half m million dollars, ‘| gunpowder by the addition of the sait- t ‘ap yk free ‘and is moved by the| Artist—Then It will com $20 Ww, petre, for gunpowder is nothing but a w mixture of ealtpetre charcoal and o~e THE MAN HIGHER UP. ON DEVERY FOR MAYOR. SED that there's some talk of running Devery for Mayor,” sald the cigar store man. “Devery has got as good a license to run for Mayor as he has to run for a street car,” replied The va | Man Higher Up. ‘There are no lead plates on Devery’s Props, and there’s nothing multy about his hot ale works. He's one of these high winds accompanied by thunder and lightning that is likely to butt in and do a lot of damage at any stage of the game. If he should run for Mayor it wouldn’t be any betting four ways: from the jack that he wouldn't have a look in, “You'll take notice that as soon as they begin to. pound a man in public life he begins to get a whole lot of sympathy, and if you knew all the sympathy there ‘s for Devery in this town you would submerge yourself in deep thought. Devery is a fighter. New York likes a fighter—especially if he’s a winner, If he's up against it Ike Devery is now and keeps on fighting the people don’t say much, They just look on and their sympathy goes to the under dog. “Another thing, the people think Devery has been! made a mark of, and that the shots that have been taken’ at him have failed to reach the bull’s-eye. They accuse! him of being a grafter, and he sits back and looks at his deeds for rea) estate. “It's funny about this police grafting, To hear all’ the talk about dt you'd think all the kirtish the crooked captains get comes from illegal booze halls and places with red lights in the front windows. Say, that money, isn't a globule on the police grease pot that is filled by the reputable business men of New York who go to! church on Sunday and howl for good government. “Who do you suppose pays for the privilege of mak- ing warehouses out of the sidewalks in the mercantile} districts? Is it the saloon man on the corner, or is t&' the men who own the etores and the trucks and the goods that make the sidewalks imitations of mountains? Don't ‘you suppose that these merchants know where | their money is going when a plain clothes man comes” around to get it—and don’t you think they are willing, to give it up? “Why do you suppose that a precinct that has a lot | of steamship piers in t is worth more to a captain than @ precinct that ie full of dives? They don't sell booze, on the steamship pliers and they don’t run any honkae| tonks or peter joints in those lonesome sections of town, | But you'll notice that a whole lot of cops are on duty | there. Who pays the money in these precincts? Tae Mauor dealers? “Who pays for the privilege of storing about a Gia trucks along the water front every night? The liquor dealers or the men that own the trucks? Do you sup- pose the truck owners get the privilege of making oty! property a storage yard for wagons for nothing? Re on your fifth wheel. “Nobody knows this better than the better element— the guys that ho!ler for good government, hire men to take country customers out to see the town and are their checks to Tammany Hall at election time. are on to all these things, and it would take a pees to find out the way they vote. “You chloroform the average business man, with a face so long he could eat out of a churn with it and head so hard you could crack nuts on it, and he'll te! you in his trance that what he wants is a wide-open _ town. He wants a little old New York that people will’ man, “Yes,’ responded The Man Higher Up, “and then they caught Van Wyck with the ice on him,” THE LIES OF HISTORY, _THE LIES OF misToRY. | Just as, some thirty years back, Sir Fiorelll uncovered for us the ruins of Pompell, thereby enabling us to form a very. excellent idea of the appearance of a Roman town of the first. century of the Christian era, #0, during three years past, have the Germans been uncovering ancient Babylon. The results have been, though scientifically injeresting, somewhat disappointing, for the clty has proved to be by no means either so magnificent or 80 extensive as popular imagination has always pictured it. Indeed, Dr. Koldwey, who 1s in charge of the excavations, asserts positively that the famous walls were certainly nok more than elght miles in ciroumference, Nor je this all, gor not only was the city comparattvely significant as regards @ize, but even its vaunted splendor wealth of architecture] detail could, the dootor declares, had no real existence. ‘ Sun-ried mind bricks constituted the only bullding available, and large or Imposing edifices could not possibly, have been constructed by their ald alone, thempejves, by eo ine In reality the explorers have oonvinoed tual measurement, that not even in Nebuchadnegsar’s roj palace wae there @ single private apartment which would considered large enough nowadays for a ledy’e boudolr, ‘Tie biggest public room was the banqueting ocourred the “Mene, mene, tekel upharsin" incident, and was barely fifty feet long, The houses of the common were mere hovels. Bo pertwhes @ cherished delusion, Tt la probably the eame with not « few of the semt<mythtosk wonders of olden times. The famous Colossus of Rhodes, for, inatance, which has given a word—“colossel"—to the @ngltsh’ language, and which was esteemed one of the weven wonders; of the world, would, If standing to-day, be quite dwarfed by the gigantic Gtatue of LAberty erected at the entrance to New York Harbor, THE CZAR’S POSSESSIONS. f seca lanindietoansesemcepsatneneseiicanaeant a The Cxar's possessions in Asia embrace more than twice! as much land as the United States proper, says the Com. | mercial Tribune, They are about as large as the whole of) South America and almost twice as much as Burops, The Vussian possessions in Central Asia alone, including the: nd (he Czar! fe now claiming the right to all the concessions in Chinese Turkestan, a terrtory twice as big sa the eme| pire of Germany. Siberia ts twenty-five times aw big ap Germany or France. It is «million square miles bigger tham Burope, and bigger than the United States, Central Am and Mexico combined, Manchuria, which ts now prac annexed to Siberia. Ja.blager than any 09 in © outside end which come to because they can see things here that they can’e\ | see at home—and they don't want to look at skyscrapers: | and the ocean exclusively. Do you think much of this element would help Devery? Sit down and figure jt out, You can’t tell where this Devery man {s going to land.”” “Van Wyck sald that Devery was the best Chief of! Police New York ever had," admitted he cigar store f