The evening world. Newspaper, January 15, 1903, Page 12

MC GOOTIO. 4 by the Prees Publishing Company, No. 58 to 0 i Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Omce > at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. PONGLUME 48........0c000005-.NO. 18,122. THE COAL EXTORTION. * Tt ts immaterial whether there has been an agree- it between the coal operators and the dealers regard- fan increase in the price of coal to New York con-| ers or only a tacit “understanding.” At any rate, ‘we know definitely that coal is sold in the city at from to $12 a ton and in not readily procurable ut those xtortionate prices. And we know with equal certainty that there are— | > Eleven miles of loaded coal cars on the D., l. & W. (tracks at Secaucus, N. J. Five miles of loaded coal cars on the Long Island C a Pennsylvania line, at Woodside. And miles upon miles of loaded coal cars near the Jersey terminals, at Elizabethport, Perth Amboy ad elsewhere, of other coal-carrying roads. ‘And we know that many of the river lighters which uld long ago have transported this coal to the city re lying idle without a cargo. Why are their cargoes delayed? The railroad of- Say it is because the coal is frozen solid in the anc it is well nigh impossible to breek it up for i nt. A World reporter thought a few more men ‘ little more energy would do the work. And why Is it possible at Newark and in other New e cities and at Philadelphia and Buffalo for the blic to purchase coal in abundance at rates only jtly in advance of last year’s, while here the price Made prohibitive and the supply kept limited? ‘Whe Evening World's pictures of raflway yards on} d with loaded coal cars make a most convincing bit. The coal is there in quantity only a few miles , but the suffering city cannot get it. | The coal is there and {s not permitted to cross the fiver. Whatever the name of the restraining force, ‘effect is just as hard on the public. ‘ CONSCIENCE MONEY. Conscience, which makes cowards of us all, impelled eitizen of New York to send $5,000 to the City Cham- berlain last Tuesday in liquidation of taxes long overdue id hitherto evaded. During the year just closed a ‘similar prompting of the still small voice led various Seltizens of the United States to send the Treasurer at Washington money to the amount of $35,868.22 as con- ‘fPibutions to the national ‘conscience fund.” These payments ranged in size from one cent to $5,875. During the entire existence of the conscience fund, from its establishment In 1811, the very large sum “BF $850,000 has been contributed to tt by reason of re- for the undetected dishonesty of past years. ome dated back forty-five years, but there is no statute “limitation for an uneasy ccnscience. It sometimes more and more troublesome as the years go by. list of a year’s contributions to local and national jence funds, as reported in The World from time time, would fill various columns of this newspaper. and variety. _ CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE OoNeCIMNCE FUND. Cause. Restored by © Creston, (Ie.). farmer to the bank that iid overpaid him twen- ty years before. Restored to the Internal Revenue Col- Jector at Louisville by ‘‘persons mrho had robbed the Government in 1863." Restored to the United States Treasury to cover the amount earned by the restorer in work on Sunday while in ‘the Government service. ‘Restored, with interest to the amount ot $1, to Joneph Gilmore, « Corning GN. Y.) grocer, for an article purchased ot him forty-Gve years ago ani charged. Deposited with National Bank of Ilion in payment of fruit stolen when » bor. Bent to United sta the duty on « from Canada. ‘This amount in @ bag left with The World Cashier ‘‘tor eharity.'’ Restored to Chicago and Northwestern Railroad for tickets uncollected by the conductor. », And many more of similar purport. Who shall say ‘that we are not a conscientious nation? In the case of conscience-stricken smuggler who repaid the one was not his act an indication of insanity? The ‘possession of so supersensitive a conscience may well ‘De regarded as paranoia. ) ‘The number of persons reported as restoring re{lway fares uncollected by the conductor is very small. Does the conscience compromise with itself about lapses of Mis kind? 2 4s one to do who receives a few cents too many in change at a store, or perhaps an article not purchased om d up with the one patd for? To retain it megns twit of the conscience; to return it with a statement ) of the circumstances means trouble for some employee— 4 imputation of carelessness which will be remembered ‘Ris discredit. It is a delicate question, CRUELTY TO MICE. ‘The gayety of the nation has been Perceptibly in- by the Connecticut cat and mouse controversy, = "Phe Cat Club, of Stamford, having decided on a series of » field trials in which the mouse-catching qualities of cats | Were to be tested by actual practice on live mice, the y Mayor intimated that such a contest “would tend to pro- mote cruelty in the community.” The answer of the § ladies concerned was that “a mouse-protecting Mayor p {would tend to promote levity in the community.” His Honor, thinking the point well taken, withdrew his ob- )) Jections and the trials will be held as scheduled, >> It is somewhat dificult to te wholly consistent in our ). views about the killing of insects and “small deer,” Ww > balk at a bird in a girl's hat and view her after-the, theatre consumption of a bird and a bottle with cane ‘pimity. A squab on toast has had its neck wrung a 4 Presumably suffered as acutely as a pigeon shot mate . The reptiles of the Bro. ‘3 Siticies of diet Jast year 1,776 ayn a equal nutter » of mice, and no vane protested. F Domitian was thought to be cruel because ap hour after breakfast impaling files brilliant young Harvard graduate, cil bimeelf some fifteen years ago ie Phe = 2B, 1900. .seeererene ‘Treasury to cover cll amuggied in Gas he used to on pins, A 40 entomologist, because that with every bug or butterfly added to ninsane he had wantonly destroyed a life, ae posers van wary canal ferate ot pe im that the; i anhimeel y had the same divine “wasy for erness of heart to these matters, Persistent dwelling on ine mee the sane and rational view of life: evel time we have roast beef for dinner we Alyy: ae Ma ana a LAREN Bale RUAN ea MH A LAME my me Aoki anon ila \vecd-abrords few selected at randon sufficiently indicate their ex- is to wi'uess the execution of the cow we converts to the vegetarians, ivy lobster pialtmtaary to broiling, Ay is nies ® y it, There have absolutely ta’ do the dood, . Slee PINT EN BEAN REE IIE UT VR LIBRE) {FADES A PY UTULR ALE. WS IWOP AS FAN A TRAINING O46 VES The SHOPGIRL. panne eee Five Minutes Before and Behind the Counter. ‘SCHO Artist Powers Pictures the Situation as He Sees It. MY (the saleslady)—Hurry and wrap A up that parcel, Gertie, Gertie (parcel-wrapper, sulkily)— Hurry yerself and see how you like it! BOPSSL99-08906-9990909G99HOSOSHHOGSSD @ Amy-I'll report you to the superin- tendent! “aires Maggie (coming trom another counter) Now GRow moe you girls always jawin’ each UP with A other tor? Gertie and Amy (snappishly)—tt'e none| @ SO RTEMNET, ot your business. Go back to your own|@ FOR THAT counter! Inoustay einer you please hurry WHICH ALone Gertie (to Amy, mweetly)—That Mags Rankes olde, Monahan |s always sticking her no: TOLERABLE ene people's business. Man—Did you agound here? a eee Tey ike Amy (scornfully)—Search me! man hurriedly retreats). ee leeeee Gertle—t've got an invitation to ey I'm golng to wear— tomer—Wihy don't yo. my parcel? zy ee Amy—I wisht I could go, But mq mother won't let me. Gertle—I'd ke to see my mother in- terfere with me, Customer—It you girls would tend to your work—— Amy—Beg parding. Was you address. ing them remarks to me? Gortie—Here it 1s. Amy—Here it ls, ma'am. And here's your change—$1.48 from a dollar and a half. Here's your two cents, Gertle (as customer moves away)— It's always thom bundle-carrying shop- pere that acts that way. Amy—Wel, they don't gain anything by it. Say, did you see the new floor- walker? Gertie—Hasn't he lovely eyes? Amy—D' you remember Albert that was running the elevator here during the holidays? He's bin arrested for giv- ing his flancee a black eye. Gertie—Isn't {t terrubul how jealous some of them is? Floorwalker—Here, No. 2%, you'll have to keep your stock in better shape. Look at those Hamburg edgings hanging on the floor. ‘Amy—It isn't my fault, Mr. Pinkling; that Maggie Monahan ts always— Tloorwalker (interrupting) — Never 1A @ who it 1s, Fix that counter to look liq “eomething or I'll have you docked a 29909900000 the, 3 rPSOTOOOH GOTO THEYNEVER FoR GET TMS. WHY! 15 TH ALA ie ay (floorwalker walks away). F Gertle—Hasn't he the nerve! Amy—Say, do you know he atands near the door grinning like a monkey, and wants people to believe he’s store manager. " Gertie—If the manager only knew that! Amy—He's nothing but a nasty spy. He reported Clara because she was talk- ing to her feller Just half a second. Gertle-Did you ever hear of auch a thing? Customer—Can you tell me where 1 can get a cheap-—— Amy—The ten-cent counter is in the basement. Customer—I was told you kept velling here. Amy—Why didn’t you say what you wanted? Black or white? Here you are, twenty-nine, thirty-nine and forty- nine a yard. Customer—Haven't you— Amy—We've nothing gheaper. We cater to the better class trade, P'raps Amy—What part of Jersey? 4 POYDL®®OPOS 9OGG GOGO 0GE- 2G G59-G-199-09-080-09-95-098.00 G00: 390306 “PAPAS Pawrs Wibb FUPWILLIE Now" Powe RD ee The Rey. J. L. Jones has waked up a social Mt. Pelee by telling the National Housewives’ Association that the average American girl is unfit to be a housewife, and by suggesting a school where damsels can learn the best tricks for making hubby’s life one grand sweet song. Such a school offers boundless chances. There Arethusa may learn the supertority of Bread over Browning and Pie over Ping-Pong. Also she may con that noble household work “Five Thousand Foolish Ways of Feeding a Husband—by one of Them.” She will quickly learn to “toss- up” biscuit which won't make a hole in the floor when they come down; and will master the glad art of preparing a dinner that need be followed by no ambulance call nor brutal intrusion from the Board of © Health. She will be taught not to speak chidingly when her husband® comes upstairs at 3 A. M. with the gentle grace of four men carrying a piano. Nor will she take a nocturnal census of his loose change with: the idea of converting it into a spring bonnet, Altogether, it won't be @ the Rey. J. L. Jones's fault if the wife of the future is not almost as far & shoad of the girl of to-day as the coal demand is ahead of the visiblee supply. > you could find what you want down in one of them cheap stores, Gertie (aside)—Get on to the made- over mohalr. Amy—Her friends ought to tell her tight sleeves 1s gone out. Customer—Pleaso send it. NO CHANCE, —l > PROMISING. SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT, 1 rf ® Customer—Morrisania, (Gives address} THE RULING PASSION. and departs crushed.) Gertie—Emma Johnson won the prixe for politeness, attention and sales, Amy~So we all could if we made go0- g00 eyes at the manager. Gertle—I do wish |t was time for the closing dell, I'll be 80 tired I won't feel lke dancing, Amy—I'm going to study stenography. I know a girl who was a typewriter and ‘6 going to marry her boss, awful rich, Gertie—I wouldn't marry the best man that ever was, unless he was a million- aire. Amy—Neither would I. Game time I wisbt they'd put us at the gents’ fur- nishings counter. Don't you? Gertle—Sure! But thet'a a snap for pets. ® 3 | 3 He—I suppose your mother won't let you read awful French novela? She—No; finishes one the library another, Grocer (to mother of appli- cant)—But your boy doesn't look strong. First Robber—Why did you run Just as soon as she he hustles it back to s Penh pe Yeu maw snes |aat eo that she can get me—Oh, just force of it wa {JOKES OF THE DAYS reat drawback to suburban life is the diMculty of getting water in the WINTER EVENING AMUSEMENT IN THE HOME. lor. my t. less than six inches of water standing in our cellar, winter or summer, ‘A tagtidious girl from Paree, Dressed to match any place #he might ey Vee wo os THE ENCHANTED RING. oo) * CLEVER LITTLE TRICK. She put on loud jackets, ‘0 make a ring digappear from a glass = A Shanta ANOAROKRM Po irre oat arte eae = Make two bread pills and way to the And when ping-ponging wore pink|¥Ppon @ stick, Spectators that you are going to throw nana taches one of them away, and. put the other — three inches long in the centre of a in your left hand while the latter ts silk handkerchief. Have that handk chief in the outside little pocket of your coat; when you borrow a ring fr of the ladies In your audience « ring on your side), and with the right hand you place the ring of the lady (the real ring) in the handkerchief, but As soon as the handkerchief covers the right hand you change quick the real ring for the one which is attached to the handkerohtef, and you keep the real ring in the palm of the right hand while you hold with the left the false ring in the handkerchief, Now, you give the handkerchief and the ring to the person who is holding Rubber-Skinned Man—The ossified man has taken to drinking. ‘fwo-Headed Sword Swallower—Well, no metter how little he takes, he's bound to prove @ hard drinker, come into the left hand while the latter 1s clos2d, Here ts the way to do the trick: Hold one of the pill# between the thumb and first finger of your right hand for every one to see, Then make a motion am if throwing it away, but by a deft, unseen motion of your thumb you must slip it between the firet and second fingers, where you can keep It o led. Now take up the second pli! and place {t in your left hand, @kilfully placing the other pill there at the same time by ‘How far is it from here to Pompton, . ap the crow Mi iowall, stranger; if the crow knows his fusiness it's not quite six m But, if he's been dallyin’ with Jersey lignt- pin' it's about @ hundred an’ twenty three an’ @ half.” z “Did you put up your new fall over- coat the glass and ask him to hdld it over letting !t slip from between your fingers. In moth-protective camphor-balls?| so that at your command It will be easy| B® hen you roll up, the handkerchier | Close your ‘left hand quickly, and then, aaked she. ' for him to let it drop into the glass, | £ov% 4 yo th after a few words, open your hand and| malr eo handker= "No," he replied and coyly cleared his] Of course, everybody will ras ‘a tn new esate pills dn'at. ee can he THE UNCHANGING WARDMAN. SEE that Commissioner Greene has caught some if of the new wardmen grafting,” said The Cigar Store Man. “Tt took him a long time,” replied The Man Higher Up. “Here the new bunch has been in nearly a week and he's only just got onto them. It looks like Com~- missioner Greene had been working too hard. From the way he talks you’d think he was surprised that any of the hew wardmen would do any such a thing as go after the mazuma. Bill Devery could tell him that a wardman will go after anything, from a peanut to & silver watch, and that he knows every plant in the Precinct before he’s heen in it a day. “The trouble with Commissioner Greene, when he ap- pointed the new wardmen, was that he forgot that he was picking his men from the police force. To be high enough in the books of the department to te eligible to the position of a wardman a cop has got to have a few years of duty behind him. And a cop with / afew years of duty behind him knows more about going out amd getting it and putting it away than an ordinary, citivs could dream. “As I have told you before, when you put a Hiney or a Chaw on the force you inject, him full of ambition to be a plain-clothes man. Ifa hittle salary in uniform isn’t clgarette money % him when he comes to keep cases on what the sfeuth rakes in. No matter who is ©|at the head of the department the nature of @ cop can~ not be changed, and trying to do it is like trying to make a philanthropist out of a coal operator. “When the old wardmen stepped out they left a graft behind that it was like tearing out toenails to lose, but of course they had to obey orders in the hope that some day conditions might change and they could get back, When the new men went in they found the graft staring them in the face. “They couldn’t pass it without rubbing their clothes > |against it. Being cops, what could they do? Pass it by and kill the police business? “People have become so accustomed to giving up-for breaking the law or doing things that they think are against the law that every time they see a plain-clothes man they have a shiver to produce, It has become just as much a habit to give up as it has to take, and when you run up against a condition of that kind there is no uge building up theories about it. As long as people will cough up you'll find cops willing to take a chance on | getting theirs: Commissioner Greene ought to know, that there are people in every precinct in town who would no more think of omitting to cut up with the werdman or the other collectors than they would think of forgetting to wear their diamonds to a ball. “If you go into a restaurant and the waiter treats you right you hand him a tip; you tip the janitor and the barber and the bootblack, and the wise President of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company passed out a hunch some time ago that it would be a good thing to tip the street-car conductors. All these men are paid to do what they do for you, but you have to tip to get them to do it. Why not tip the cop. in plain clothes who lets you do something he could pinch you for if he wanted to? That’s the way its looked at in some circles, In London you tip a cop on the street if he shows you the way and he says ‘Thank you koindly,’ ” 5 rs “Do you think Commissioner Greene can get ward- men who won't graft?” asked The Cigar Store Man. “Not till he gets them deaf, dumb, blind and with artificial hands,” answered The Man Higher Up. HOW TIME IS MADE. Poin tne Be Strange as it may seem, Uncle Sam does not make use of the sun for reckoning time, but he turns his attention to some “fixed stars,” as they are called, writes Clifford Howard in St, Nicholas. Every clear night an astronomer with a big telescope looks at certain of these stars and makes is calculations, from which he can tell just when the sun would cross the 75th meridian. One of the great clocks in the observatory 1s called the transmitter, because it transmits or sends out the signal that keeps standard time, This clock is three minutes and fifteen seconds before 12 a switch {s turned on apd the beats of the pendulum of this clock are sent by, electricity over the wires to the telegraph offices in Washing~ ton and New York. When the telegraph operators hear this sound on their instruments they know that the noon signal 1a about to be sent out, and they at once begin to connect the telegraph wires with other towns and cit! or two the “tick, tick” of the clock at in hundreds of telegraph offices. The beat stops at ten sec~ onds before 32 as a notice that the next “tick” will be the to give the operators time-balls and are time-balls in a great many clties—usualy prominent building, where they can easily be seen. The one at Washington in on the top of State, War and Navy Department Bullding, at the top of a high pole, ready to drop the instant the signal comes over the wire, In the Government offices at Washington and in many places in other cities there are large clocks connected with the ob- nervatory by electricity, These dre so arranged that when the 12 o'clock signal is Mashed over the wires the hands of each one of these clocks spring to 12, no matter what time the clock may show, In this way hundreds of clocks are sét to the correct time each day. Well, the moment the sun 4s supposed to cross the meridian the telegraph instruments give a single tick, the time-balls drop, the clocks begin to sire, and everybody an’. this district knows it is 12 o'clock, Bere { “AN AWFU’ SICHT 0’ WORDS” Oe On Dec, 8, 1869, dled Thomas De Quincey, ¢ eater.” His well-known fondness for the humor os desta makes the following anecdote credible: He is said to have addressed the cook, who waited him for epecial instructions as to dinner at the home of Wilson, in these words: “Owing to dyspepsia aMicting system’ and the possibilities of any addition! dirarrang wats omach taking place, conscquences tncaleulably Ale. Indeed, as to increase prevent me from attending to m: of overwhelming 4mportance, if you do not remember to @ diagonal rather than a k The vook's comment_on this order wa: heard the lke o° that In a’ my days; the body has an awfut sicht o° words, If tt had been my ain master that was Ing his dinner, he would h. than @ waft o' bis haun’ an’ here's a’ @ bit of mutten nae bigger than a prin,’ Bhe eh oot thts claver set and regulated by the star-time, and then every day at’ ordered @ hale tablofu' a ther that Mr, De Q would 4 whan th ak odian a t “4 s ” eS wv