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THE WORLD'S GAS VICTORY. 'SWless us, this is sudden!” says a morning news- “There is something curious in the way the Gttention of the authorities has been all at once directed }the financial methods of the corporations controlling | fhe Tighting facilities of Manhattan.” _ Tt hes not come with such a shock of surprise to Byening World readers. They have watched the pro- presentation in the columms of this newspaper ire evidence of overcharge and extortion by the i jas Trust. They have seen proof proffered of the exist- - “Sire of an unscrupulous lighting monopoly and have deen daily witnesses of a fight for the people's interest fought vigorously and finally won, not by abuse or hys- teries or irrational hyperbole, but simply by the con- wineing testimony of the facts in the.case furnished by “the people themselves of the fraud and swindling by which they had been victimized. These facts revealed the Gas Trust in the light of a Monopoly inimical to the public, and moved the city guthorities to action for relief. It Is to the complain- ‘mg letters of Evening World correspondents, each - qiting an individual instance of extortion for addition _ to the cumulative mass of evidence, that the course of the authorities was due, Their aroused interest is “sudden” only to those who were blind to the impor- | tance of the fight as {t progressed and those who with Tying claims entered it after it had been won, Se 10, it lta ST. PATRICK HIS DAY. - ®t Patrick, who brought the true faith into Ireland, might feel justifiably proud to stand by Archbishop “Warley to-day at the archtepiscopal palace reviewing ‘Phe procession of the sons of the old sod. ‘What a stream of voluntary exiles from the Green fale bas come to us, diminishod though it has become dn volume! Now down to 30,000 a year, where once it \was 78,000, but still a surging tide. In the four years that have elapsed since the flames burst out of the (Windsor as the parade was passing, a city the size of Worcester has come across from Ireland to the United tates. Wvery ten years an Irish Pittsburg is added to the nation. In the time from the old Black Ball sall- ing packets to the present era of Celtics and Cedrics more than 6,000,000 persons have left Ireland for this Jani of the free. The pioneers have passed on, but "those who are left, with their sons and grandsons, num- ered 4,900,000 by the census of 1900. Is % not a wonderful showing for the hospitality of freedom that one-fifth of Manhattan's population and \@me-third of Boston’s should be composed of Irish refu- gees to whom America has given shelter and welcome and opportunity? It is hospitality well repaid, as we wee when the boy who came over in the steerage goes + 5 aot o’erfond recollection presente to his view. art explains to us why no other national guch honors here, It is surely a proud wn the bells of the Cathedral toll out the the choir boys within are chanting it. @ large afternoon, with a Del- the day. have besought the inhebitants to touch the potheen till after * Buch is the tradition, and it is to be hoped ce will not be honored in the breach. Was it thus that the celebrated snakes were driven out? i HEALTH OFFICE BLACKMAIL. " It ts given to few public officials to receive a certifi- Rs (All glory, laud and honor are paid the Health Commis- sioner for what he has done to dispel disease, abolish [public nuisances and establish new hospitals, In effect~ _ ing departmental reforms, securing a pure milk supply {and reducing the sale of adulterated drugs by unscrupu- ‘Jous pharmacists he has done much to merit this high praise. His wer on trachoma in the public schools was Im iteclf an achievement to make his work memorable. | One paragraph in this City Club pamphlet greatly /; Meserves attention, It is that containing the specific ~ @ilegation that— Persons who mede special investigation of the matter pharged that the average blackmailing by officials of ‘Health Department amounted to fully $1,600,000 a year, If, fo) Instance, a manufacturer could save $2,000 = year by burning oft coal he could afford $500 to have his violation of the smoke ‘ordinance overtooked. It was well understood by property- _ @wners thet they could regularly escape making repairs or- @ered by the payment of a bribe equal to 25 per cent. of the eetimated cost of the work. If there is evidence of blackmail, as charged, is noth- *fimg to be done about it? Is there to be no official in- - quiry? If the facts are as stated, why does not the City isa Club turn over its evidence to the District-Attorney * for presentation to the Grand Jury? _ One prosecution on definite charges of biackmal! Would outweigh in importance any amount of interesting Morles of its general prevalence. am i ROCKEFELLER’S DIVIDEND. "fa quarterly dividend of the Standard O11 Company ‘than he was last week. Yow minds are sufficiently imaginative to compre- “thend fully at first thought the relative importance of vast um to other incomes. It would pay for all Gelling houses but one bullt in New York in the pe 1900 and 1901. It would buy the new Public Li- new Oustom-House, the new Hall of Records, another quarterly instalment of like size it would the great Wplscopal cathedral now in course of om but not to be completed for twenty-five years, more than pay for all the club-houses and twenty-three in umber, in process of con- 4m Manhattan. #my man in ® year use up one day’s share of income in buying clothes or ordering Oe champagne suppers? Would « woman with for gables and expensive gowns be equal to it aM on clothes? The sables might ou ‘the great sum for legitimate articles o mot prove easy, ile the check is on its way to Mr, Rockefeller lo mt ¢ golf then out of his money,” | from shim trom Pasadena that he “gots | jokes: THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1903. =~ > BOODOODOHOHO-5O9009-D9D9D OD ©F4OO600000009000500000OF 0O9505560OO5O5505H999O8OE-4D 6O9OF0OO000900 SWELL SAM PLANS ANOTHER SURPRISE; AND THE SURPRISE IS MUTUAL. ; : $ DAR GOOFS LINDY! 12k RUN UP BE- Hind AND S'PRISE HER LINDY? 6 $ o> © é ® $ THE OLD WHY NOT SEEK RELIEF BY «GIVING THE SIGN?” JOKES’ HOME, By Roy L. McCardell. GOOD DICTION. Dictated By William Dean Howells. (Copyright, 1903, by Lawrence J. Anhalt.) 5 HE very best writers are not the most correct. For im T stance. Thackeray's revels are very interesting, an@ while they have a graceful diction, very effectual and graphic, they ere not accurate; not grammatical errors, but certain forms of expression that do not justify themselves, You will find them in almost every good writer. It seems to me thet the things to be avoided by writers are expressions that are unnatural and affected. For a person who wants to cultivate good diction, I should advise reading the best authors, Good diction {3 a perfectly simple thing; good diction ts eaying in the clearest, purest way that which {s in one’s anind, One man's diction may be clear and another man’s ina curate and careless. If you have stated clearly and purely that which is in your mind, then you have expressed yourself in good diction. ‘The best newspaper writing is as good « writing as can be, If a man feels strongly upon some public event or publid question about which he writes in a nawspaper, he 1s very, apt to write it well. Newspapers are generally written in @ very clear and very good English. Often I have read good news in the way o. fine expressions, and I have written to the editor commenting upon it. What was called classical literature one hundred yeard ago 1s not so good as many of the present-day newspaper writings, In many of Scott's rovels ‘his structure 1s slovens ly—is not so good as the majority of ‘newspaper English.” ‘The differences in New York, Boston and Chicago Engilsh are mostly in pronunciation. The respective expressions that are peculiar are so slightly different that they cannot be called distinctions. IJ dare eay that climate might affect pro- nunciation, and yet I do not know why it should. The ng~ lsh who lve up in the cold climate are very nasal, but the ‘Capadians are not nasal at all. The Southern women have @ very pleasant accent. I am asked how an untravelled man may avold Jocal,pe- oullarities. ‘He cannot. It ts not important that he should. Way, INHERITS $ 920.000.— STARTS MAKING SIGNS, SOLER TAMMANY Wp, OF THM OLD jJOKme HOME. Philanthropist, Heathen Selea- (ist, Author of “‘Ohemistry for ChtMrea; or, The Fairy Tales of @clence;" ‘The Gertous Bide of Humor," “The Post's <I SSS SSssSSs WSS SSeeee AS oe SSSSSSSS response to many demands, espe olally from our fair feminine ¢riends, We reprint Prof. John M. A, Long’s portrait, Later in the week we will print the picture of the old chestnut horse who draws the blue ambulance and also the portrait of Old Doctor Lemonosky, physician to the home, end portraits of various vigilant and efMf- olent officers of the Soobety for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Humor, whose work in first ald to feeble fun and talc SS WORKING THE SIGN. FoR 4 PINT ON SUNoay, 7S (7 BY SECRET SIGNS his speech—his family 6 ? No Ing old jokes into custody under meri- THAT THE WESTERN Si.EuTHS Aboud seen: Seer peed iroumstan: entities them ple but ourselves di m of doing it. The Scotoh- eke = - GAIN ADMITTANCE TO our ' agent with @ strong accent; for instance, Carlyle. The merit and recognition, TO THOSE DESIRING BADGES. The second supply of 8. FP. O, Hy badges is exhausted. We will have another supply in from five to t. days, All appHoations accompanted by stamps will be placed on Mle,| > and badges will be forwarded as| { soonas they arrive. Meanwhile ap- plicants may consider themselves as probationary eflcers of the 3. P.O H. ARMOR PLATBO GAMBLING Houses? Irishman is not ashamed of his peoullarities, I think it is most important that we should preserve them and be as characteristic as possible. ‘When you hear a man speak—for instance, a Southenier— and he puts in something which 1s characteristic of his part of the country, tt 1s rather pleasing. I am speaking of pas~ f lance. In writing, you bring in something local, something iP provincial of your own immediate neighborhood. You want 4 to give the reader something of your own assurance, Slang is the new thing; !t asserts something new end te constantly getting itself adopted into the language. I should think that people who laid down those cast-iron rules aboutt such things as slang were poor scholars and professors English, Some slang ts so practical, so graphic, that must use it, It foroes itself into the language—ft becomes ® part of us. Of course it 1s @ pity to hear a person talk slang al the time. It {s used simply to spice the diction, and it sometimes accomplishes its purpose, and everybody understands just what you mean because that conveys your meaning when nothing else will. You cannot lay down any strict rules in regard to those matters that 1s not et all deplorable. Great people will use common expressions because 4t is thelr nature. There 1s aj- ways something in our slang characteristlo of our peopleg that is why I like {t. I should say st te the mark of a good writer to be very clear and ‘have an unpretentious way of saying things, There {s no euch thing as “style.” ‘Style’ 1s each man's way of saying a thing, You have your way and I have mine. We whould always be clear and forcible. ‘Those who want to cultivate good diction should read the best Hterature. If you like it you will in eome degree form yourself upon , or rather, you conform yourself to it, aa more of less you conform yourself to the person or thing yor adaire—it ts inevitable, FEMININE FOIBLES. As They Are Seen by a “Mere Man." Brought in for the rest cure: An Ambulancefal. Bones—I've got a hot one for you. ‘Tambo—What's that? Bones—What's the difference between the equator and the North Pole? Tambo—Givo It up. Bones—{Why, {t's no (snow) difference. ‘Tambo—Oh! I see (toy). Dambo—Where's that $10 you promised me? Bones—Can't give tt to you now, Tam- bo, because it's lent. ‘Tambo—Well, Bones, whet ere you doing now? Bones—I am a builder, Tambo—What are you building, hopes? Bones—What are you doing, Tambo? Tambo—I am a contractor. Bones—-Whet are you contracting, debts? Bones—~The iapdiond came around for tis rent last night and I was dead broke, but I guve tt to him anyway, ‘Tambo—Well, how could you do that? Bones—Well, I beat the rug and raised the dust. PHILANTHROPIST. ‘Two More Reoratts, Prot, Jorh M, \A- Long: Perhaps one or two of these jokes may be fit for # place in the Old Jokes’ Home. Pat and Mike up on Bt. Patrick's Day. Pat ays I'm up first I make @ chalk mark on the door.’ Mike—And if 1 get up Gret I'l rub it out. A darky took ‘his girl to supper and when it came time for dessert the waiter agked the man what would he have. GETTING ‘A 5. EAT ow THE ELEVATE, A Texas man, about-to be lynched, gave the Masonic sign of distress and was rescued. local abuses, in the hope of like restts, It {s suggested that “the Sign” be flashed on various: Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. COMING TO IT. "I eee there's talk of taking more of the Indians’ lands. After a while, I eup- pose, they'N have nothing but the mem- ory of their once vast holdings.”’ “That's eo, They'll have nothing but mental reservations.” — Philadelphia Presa, A WASTE OF LABOR, ‘Tutor—Richant, you will please go to the blackboard and demonstrate the Proposition that the equare of the hy- potenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the eum of the equares of the CONUNDRUMS. What is the difference between « spendthrift and a feather bed? One ts hard up and the other ts soft down, When does beer become eatable? When it fs a little tart. It your uncle's stster ts not your aunt, what relation is she ¢o you? Your mother, What bells have no tongues? Dumb- bells, ‘What bird does « mischievous boy Ike: best? ‘The lark, When ja gutter like a pencil sketon? When (t is drawn. When 1s a eailor ike a beach? When. he 18 ashore. i oi am aia ay BY ALPRED J. WATERHOUSE, HAVE noticed that the woman who is the best coat I ‘apologizes most for her cooking, Tt is the pretty women only who saya: “I know that fright to-day.” 7 ee es pp with @ magnificent diamond torgot her kid glove when she left home the other Tine feathers ne'er can make fine birds, but the markey price of « Japanese pbeasant etill {s considerably in advanced ‘ot 8 crow. of Mat crmman wich the prettiest howe a most ifksly €o-meel with the deplorable misfortune of holding her skirts « trida too high, says Alfred J, Waterhouse in the Phsladetphty Public Ledger. ‘Prue hearts are more than eoronets, but the daughters Get @ Ittle bowl of glass or china ware, about three Inches in diameter by two inches in depth. Make ‘spoon" DISK PUZZLE, " “ ther two sides, trips to Durope in order to eeoure Well,” he answered, “tt's immatertal | ° | DY sticking a plece of wire three or our wealthy men take less trips to me. Spolled Bon—Whatw the beet I'm] four inches in length in the end of al ,if YOUr latter ts too short, what girl {hom possibly, however, this is because they know whem ape eine iti toad aah me Willing to admit tt.—Chicago Tribune. | wooden handle, and slightly ¢urning up Rte ip? Adadine, there 4s the langer etock of the goods they want to obtain, at Why are the pages of @ book like the Gays of man? Because they are num- bered, O@O9 OG®@ The difference between @unday clothing and THE ONE WHO DARED, ‘consists in the fact that after while the former ts “I am the most important ing the point, How many shirts can you get out of a Now, with @ marble in ¢he bowl, you 2 Well, jt all depends whose yard here," said the Are prepared to work out the pussle, ; \ to everyday use. got imo, FRED Voor, |povns here one pe Ma eae wy cuine | Place the bow! on a table or some other! , 70m went out, his dog with hie; the MNolse does not prove #o much as the campaign ors Brought ta Dying. stove je putting on airs.” log a e thought; the biuejay never did succeed tn establishing wee of him; then where did he go? Un other side of him. ‘What letters of 1 Whé can arrange tiese twelye disks ly to come too late for dinner, suppos-|1n #Ix etraight lines @o that the pum- reputation as @ logician. ffome children cannot be very bright. But we should neg blame them severely; the mistake they made was in the of thelr “Perhaps it ha @ right," aid the|w “it is the thing in dares ‘to Bl " adsipais Record” Prot, Jou Ot. eos: Kindly ‘fad’ yooh for these exptring ewallowed a watoh and is dying A man at ro gw from the thraldom of destateak once more, poate ert |e oe a Sa ‘they v baal s atx each other the disk at as A SAD AFFAIR, parents. i punishments that we administer to our children agg “You say bis wife's a brunetter I Soy? : they resemble us too : when Bo