The evening world. Newspaper, January 13, 1903, Page 12

Park Row, New York. Entered at tho Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. € THE COAL DISTRESS. ©%t appoars by the report of the Congressional In- It appears also by the report of this Commission ‘hat less than one-eighth of the coal carried by the i Railroad is mined by independent operators. according to the testimony of R. G. Brooks, of the largest independent operators in Scranton, railroads control the anthracite region absolutely.” independent operators are simply in the hands @ coal-carrying railroads, which themselves have interests in tho mines. fe facts being as stated, it is entirely possible for coal-carrying roads to put an immediate end to }eoal corner. is possible for Mr. Baer by a word to cut the prices in two and relieve the distress which the ion is causing. ir; Baer expresses sympathy for the consumer who 194 to pay double prices for his coal. Why not this sympathy practical by compelling the inde- Operators to sell at a fair profit? Only in this can he remove the gmspiclon of hypocrisy from sympathy. ft is an extraordinary situation in the most highly rai of nations that a community is obliged for ‘relief of distress to sleze upon coal in transit and lscate it. It is perhaps no more extraordinary the appeal of poor women on the east side to the -to preserve their places in line until the pre- fuel can be doled out to them in pails. he Socialist propaganda of half a century has not plished more for class antagonism than is accom- by sights like these. people thus pinched by the high prices know ® word from the coal magnates would bring them They have had the promise and had it reit- |. But no relief come, and it is but natural they should hold the railroads responsible. pty coal bin is the condition that confronts them, | the theory that the independent operators alone are le with it they know is humbug. * “Tt is in distress such as this that the {niquitous op- “pression of ithe ‘tariff on anthracite becomes fully understood. _ This is literally a tax on the vitality, the life-blood ‘@f-the poor, because to procure fuel means to deny plemnselves food. It is a criminal tax and cannot be too soon repealed. ON KEEPING YOUNG. “Stow do I keep young?” sald Mrs. Langtry to an ‘Bvening World reporter. “By not worrying about get- ting old. I believe I have succeeded in ‘keeping my - age,’ as they say, simply because I never think about | @eiting old and never permit my thoughts to dwell on janpleasant things.” ‘aAn invaluable recipe, and, like most good advice, yw. It is the recipe by which Ninon de L'Enclos kept her beauty until she was seventy and ber ‘and grace till sho mas ninety. “@Biane de Poltiors was able to appear youthfal at sixty-seven. queen of Parisian aociety for thir jooks and tn epirit until git] married at sixteen waa long past alzty her do- jer men romained undiminished, At alxty the boys in the atreot + @Ull turned to look at her as ahe went by. low, two of these celebrated beauties were married sn only children—Diane de Poitiers at thirteen and .Recamier at sixteen. Early marriage did not mean fh them as with so many women an invitation to early approach of old age. TaThese were wives who paid attention to their clothes affected a personal tidiness which, next to the ab- of worry, is the best recipe for keeping youthful. fomen are too inclined with the coming of matern- ' 4G to shirk their duty to their husbands and them- gefves of remaining as attractive as possible. They ‘are too willing to make motherhood an excuse for the donment of the old girlish attention to personal ment and the eare of the appearance which made sought in marriage. This neglect carries its own penalty, Every time the hair fs left untended or unwashed ‘Dernuse it is not worth while to take the trouble for Jt— Every time an old gown ts put on for comfort and to ave the few extra moments needed to button the mew one— “Every time a wife lets herself “look slack'’—on each Wh, Ot these occasions she hastens by so much the ap- of old age. For to be carefully dressed is to Ipok young, and to look young is to be so. eA woman's duty to her children—that ts the first eatedt ofthe claims on her attention. And the ‘and next in importance is that she shall look QS attractive as she can, On these hang good looks ey happy home and a remote old age. i ¥ A MAN WITH A MISSION, -“ipvery now and then a detail of bluecoats salites “fost from the City Hall station in pursuit of a push- ph fm man, -\ reconnolsauce having been made and ; y) enemy located, say on Chambers street, the at- taping force debouches from behind the engine-house, i his position, carries it by assault and hales the ) oftgnder away to jail. A bird's-eye view of these mill- operations from the Pulitzer Building furnishes tator with an instructive elementary lesson in of war, only mystery has been as to the cause of this it police vigilance and the identity of the gen- ommanding. This has been cleared by the dis- that tho attacks are all instigated by a retired Merchant, Mr, Parley Dailey. Mr. Dailey hia time and large means to the suppres- pusheartism. It is a form of merchandizing ces us in some insidious way and we ought sul for bis active ‘guardianship of the city's 4a Rag ie that Mr, Dailey ts in need of all the @ moral support, that is coming to him, “Papa won't let us marry as long as Iam a minor,” “Believes In non-union miners, oh?” “They say that married mon are more ele things get the chance." about Canfield in Rhode Island." much of hig information.” “A granite tablet,’ remarked the mor- allzer, ‘Is a splendid thing to perpetu- ate one's memory." “Yes,” replied the demorallzer, “but personally I prefer a string around my finger.""—Chicago News. “T hear your rival ts to give a dinner in honor of his engagement. Are you invited" “No, I haven't even a dinner engage- ment to his engagement dinner.” Most of the “big guns" that you find In all ranks of soctety Aro apt to be, to most folks’ mind, Of the “large bore’ variety, “With ooal at $12.50 a ton, every ceic] { inch of heat that comes through our registers costs about a dollar." “Comes pretty near making them cash registers, doesn't it? Pepprey—What's the matter, Cholly? | { You look weary. Cholly—Well—aw—I was just think- ‘Ah! No wonder you're ex- hausted.—Philadelphia Press, “The true philanthropist thinks it ts} better to give than to receive," “Dat's nothin’. De true prize-fighter’s got de same idea.” irene } SOMEBRODIES. | ADAMS, RBV. J. J.—has appealed to the various religious denominations to unite for the purpose of bufiding a church which shall be degilcated to the negro anti-slavery agttator, Frederick Douglass, ALGER, RUSSELL—s one of the three ving ex-secretaries of War now serv- ing in the United States Senate. ‘Meo other two are Senators Elkins and Proctor. DEL VALLE, MANUEL—of Menlo Park, Cal., 1s said to be tte oldest man in the world. He claims that he ‘will be 153 next November. GRUELL, SAMUBL—one of Indiana's oNlest Democrats, claimed to have orig- inated the Rooster as the Democratic party emblem, MEYRIER, MME.—wtfe of the French Consul at Diorbekir, Turkey, has re- colved the Awdiffred prize of $30,000 for her herolsm in alding Armenian refu- gees during the massacres of 1895. POE, THOMAS—ot Rushville, Ind., 4s bolleved to be the oldest magistrate in ‘this country. He has held office for forty-nine yeans. ee DO YOU EVER NOTICE THAT— To decide between love and duty has caused hours of worry to men as well as to women. A wife often permits her affection to blind her reason, attending to the affairs of others, Regard for petty things often will dwarf @ man’s ambition, exaggerated love of self 1s found to exist, Marringe based on honest affection will withstand the ravages of time. as well,as burdensome. The man with a vice wonders why so many persona think it thelr duty to make public the fact, When a woman gives way to anger she begs her own pardon with tears. Man often shows the hard side of his disposition to mark more strongly the generous Bulletin. —_—————__— A JEWEL OF A SERVANT. The name of Barbara Kolb should bo engraved on @ block of purest white. marble, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. At a recent meeting of the Old Settlers’ Axgociation In Chicago she re- ved a gold medal as a reward for having lved as a servant in the same family for forty years, and with tho medal she got a certificate, granting her the desreo of M. D,—Master Domes- tlc. Her employer ts the daughter of Mrs, O, 8, Steele, of Chicago, Ba: bara made a speech, in which she gave much good advice both to mistress and maids. She sald as a girl in Wurtemburg she had studied the allied art of sweeping, scrubbing, dusting and arranging furni- tur 0 that when ehe reached Chicago, in 1802, she was prepared for anything in those lines, Her most notable boast that in the forty years she has worked for this family she n siped pver the back fence, _—— y HOUSES. Some wear in grandeur, princely and apart, Tho imperial purple of the builders 5 Bome lift thelr high-bred foreheads in the afr, The calm aristocrats of etreet and syuare; Some show the wisdom of thelr days well mpent, e from the incubus of discontent half-diemantied, cling to humid nd In hodden gray of poverty profound; Some, long dishonored, crouch in ein and grime, withstanding the encroachments of @ over- opposing (he waves or ! The odds The hopeless haunts of misery and crime; Some show thatched roofs, or stan! tm conscious pride Above the quist of the countryside; Yet in thronged cities, or in goltitude, Dailey should|$Au are but news of « vast human iB be ‘ Aa alee pean Hey oe $5 Youth a {JOKES OF THE DAY) |: apt to talk tn their sleep than bach-| ; “It's tho only timo most of the poor ‘ “Jerome found out a tot of things! ‘ "Yes, he has to thank Providence for} ¢ ol Fa, re Many women find happiness only when | { Confidence 1s not easily gained where| « A woman's love can become annoying |; shades.—-Philadelphia | « ae SJerome.” }sociates. PPOOHHTOOHOO HG, HE BATS up Jacoss DISGUISES In the first place the pride of Bronx Park was strenu- Gous; in the second place he was “as big as a donkey.” There was nothing to it but he must be named ‘Willie He has a record as a smasher. He has broken down more fences than Inspector Byrnes did during the time he was raiding Mme, Mandelbaum and her business as- 2 Asa “bugter in’ he will take the medal. District-At- gtorney Jerome with Willie” on his staff will be invinci- ble, and Artist Powers has depicted a few of the services {this powerful auxiliary is capable of, 969000 OHH OOOHK $09040056050600O000H $6-6060000061900000060 A NEW JEROME BUTTS IN FROM THE BRONX. Artist Powers Shows How His Namesake Downtown Might Utilize Him. Waue Jerome BUTTING INT CANFIELDS & ;|as the vermiform appendix. = we Ture WHEELS AND f0.CoL.D DECKS For LUNCH 993-099-9309 9 Oo THE MAN HIGHER UP, I ON MRS. ASTOR’S NEW “550.’" | “6 I | dred to Five Hundred and Fifty,” said. the | Cigar-Store Man. f “So I read in the papryey’ replied the Man Higher Up. “T looked all through «..2 list for my name, but [ couldn't find it, and as Mrs. Astor failed to send me a bid to her ball, I figure that she has overlooked a bet. I wouldn’t have gone to the ball anyhow, being as I had a previous date to go to the French Ball with a lady friend of mine whose husband {s out on the road selling ladies’ and misses’ cloaks and sundries. Be- tween Mrs. Astor’s ball and the French Ball give me the Madison Square Garden function. with the bunch that was there last night than with the bunch up on Fifth avenue. “I never could figure out the acid that Mrs. Astor and Harry Lehr used in framing up the new entries in the Soclety Stakes. These society people give me the willies. If {t was up to me to make up her list I'd pass up the job and put a personal in the paper invit- ing all persons owning dress suits and having a guar anteed capacity of three bottles without having to call for help.” “What are the requirements of a society person? asked the Cigar-Store Man. “So far as I have been able to see,” said the Man Higher Up, “the only requirements are an ossification under the hat and a sense of humor about as useful If the sense of humor was. removed from each member of the Five Hundred and Fifty they’d never know the difference. That is why they take themselves so seriously. They think that the interest of hol polloi in their movements is inspired by themselves, whereas it is nothing more nor iess thar? an appreciation of their divorcing themselves from their money. “A caterer I know who has a sense of wemor tells, me that the society functions he attends are sad affviss. Most of them are like funerals compared to what &9& jut up by real pleasureloving people who have te hustle for what they get and who enjoy themselves | SEE Mrs. Astor has enlarded the Four Hun+ that it don’t do anything but try to enjoy itself, an® it don’t know how. “Now, if I was invited to a dinner at the house of a friend and took a monkey with me they would send out for a cop and tell him to call a fast ambulance for a trip to the batty ward at Bellevue. They would alzei me up for a case of wet brain, But when Harsy Leh took a monkey with him to a dinner up at Newport last summer the simple-minded guests thought it was the funniest thing that that excruciatingly funny per son ever did. “They are handicapped in thelr amusement: schemes because they always train together. This Plye Hun- dred and Fifty think that if they knew anybody out+ aide of their set they would be putiing their dignity in the subway. Take a crowd of people who are to gether all the time, and after a while they begin ta . hate each other. Variety is the spice of life, and wart ety in acquaintanceship is the spice of friendship. “A man or woman who has nothing to do all day but loaf is bound to wind up to the bad. That is I'd rather train .. when they get a chance, The trouble with society is » > |reason there are 80 many domestic scandals in the 4) 8 098000008 “Willie Jerome” will scorn Detective Jacobs’s false whiskers, He has his own could refuse to allow “Willie” to gambol on the green? He can pretend he wants to come in “Just for a kid.” and if diplomacy is of no avail he will butt his way in, despite steel doors or iron bars. natural face fringe. W'ho $406 Oe Jerome can lay aside his axe; he will not need it now. “Willie” will “buck the tiger” till the tiger wearies of the game, But let us hope that ‘Willie’ never gets the big head. Alhough he is strenuous and ‘as big as a don- key,” he mustn't forget that real thing. POO0909OO48 society crowd. The general public don’t hear of these scandals, because the society people keep out of the newspapers with that sort of thing as far as possible, unless it comes to divorce, but I'll bet there is more happiness—domestic happiness—in an equal number of homes among people who spend twenty-six days out, of thirty in casing out how to stand off the landlord than there is in a lot I could pick out from the new Five Hundred and Fifty.” “Do you think the list will ever be enlarged?” asked the Cigar-Store Man. “Well,” replied the Man Higher Up, “there is a lot of new money in town.” SAILING ON THE RAIL. the Dibtrict-Attorney is the $09S00O CONUNDRUMS, Where did Goorge Washington go when he went out of his forty-ninth year? Into his fiftieth, Wihy Is the letter "k"' Ike flour? You can't make cake without tt, What letter ts the centre of gravity? Tho letter V, What animal has the most brains? A hog, Docause he has a hogshead full of them, What makes a coach dog spotted? lis spots, It you pull a dog’s tall why te it ike your tea caddy? Because you're teasing It ur tea ts in it.) Why 1s the letter ‘dite @ sailor? It follows the "tc! (wea,) Why {4 wtlck of candy Ike a horse? The more you lick tt the taster It goes. ‘4 man {8 on top of @ hill and yet is “Yet” is his dog 8 NO questions but requires on answer, A door bell, Why are hena worth keeping? Be- emuee for every grain they give a peck Why should a cabmun be brave? None but the braye deserve the fair (fare) When does & man sneese three times? When be cannot help it er THE COBWEB GAME, To make a codwed, get @ ball of pluk bwive for 6 cents; Ue @ prize on the end and hide it, then carry the string around chairs, tables, d&e., Whole bull Is U¥ed t mace 2 the guests can'al pu until the 4 fi The Vanishing WINTER EVENING AMUSEMENT IN THE HOME.| Thimble Trick. THE MAGIC HANDKERChiEF. A surprising trick 1s one performed with a handkerchief and a candle, The performer, taking the handkerchief, aske if it will Ourn, and the owner answers, naturally enough, that there 1s no doubt that it will, ‘Suppose we try?’ queries the performer, and taking the handkerchief by two of its corners, he draws {t three or four times obliquely across the flame of a lighted candle. The handkerchief is not injured In the lightest, There i# really no mystery about this experiment, althouga to those who have never tried it it ap- pears very surprising, and the specta- tors are convinced that you have sub- stituted for the borrowed article a handkerchief of your own which has been prepared to resist fire by some chemical process, The performer has only to take care not to allow the hand- kerchief to rest motionless while in con- tact with the flame, since the contact, i ery & thimble and place It on the! thimble, be caveful when the left hendjin the act of drawing the bandkerchief Up of the first fin er of the right hand, ake it Into the Lert hand, Now open both hands and the tumble has vanished. Firat you elect a thimble wiich will At quite tght to the first finger of whe right hand amd hold the hand in the Sune position a8 shown in Fig. 1. Now, a% poon as the left hand come: lo met the firet finger o| ch eo ly the frat at iba ihe a 7 gon bt canes to get hold of the thimble to | make the change of the finst finger for the see | nobody o. | ove e nd one very quickly, so that 1 see the Substitution. While looking at th hand, which slays closed and ts au; t hold the thimble, you take advanta, of that moment to palm the thimble from the tip of the frst ged Gright hand), wh! will gut easy, an all the flogers are | through the flame, is so momentary that the cloth is barely warmed in its passage. ceca emeaieemenee eet BITS OF KNOWLEDGE, ‘The longest word jn the English language of one ayllable ir through. Vehicles like the one here shown are to be seen Bie railways which traverse the wind-swept prairies of ‘They often attain a speed of thirty miles an hour, SMALL MEN’S MARITAL WOES, “Did you ever notice,” asked one of a group of frientta, “that in ninety-nine out of every hundred separation actiong that the man 1s amall of stature? Well, it 1s so, Just notion in the future, Of course, in divorce actions the rule will net hold, butdn separation suits, where the partes wish to part merely through an inability to live happily together, you willl find that the man $s slight in build and below the medium of helght, 1 attribute three-fourths of the trouble to the man, too, The smaller the man Js the more egotistical he ts, and will not as a rule give way to his wife in anything, Hie meddles in the housefiold affairs, decides what the baby etiaal, wear and takes any wWifely rebuke or fauit<inding very sere ously, Whereas, a big, burly man would laugh, or at least keep stil! and say mothing. Mind you, I am not sexing thet all email men are egotistical, for I am rather small myself; but in cases of this kind it is a fact that the majority ef complainants are small in steture and small in mind." >> TUESDAY AND KING EDWARD, We are surprised to find a medical journal of high repute, growing superstitious with the rest. It hae been at pains te prove that Tuesday has always been the most eventful i If a pack of ¢ull-sized playing cards| In }