The evening world. Newspaper, March 26, 1903, Page 14

re) 2 T OM “Publishes by the Press Publishing Company, No, 83 to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Omee at New York ax Second-Class Mali Matter. Oe Seas NOLUME } WHEN IS A MAN OLD’ At what time of life is a man to be called old? Evi- ently for Oliver Wendell Holmes when he pronounced himself “eighty years young,” not yet; for the blind doge _ Dandolo leading the Venetians to victory against the Turks, at ninety-five, not at all. King David fixed man’s allotted length of years at sev- @nty; Dante approved when he referred to himself at thir- Pat as “in the midway of this our mortal life.” But in 48. «NO. 18,192 light of the achievements of the veterans who have the world’s progress in science and art and literature, and as generals and rulers of nations, seventy may be ‘but the old of an old age still far remote and not ‘Setoketied by any decay of bodily or mental vigor and ‘Virility or by any abatement of natural force. Is Herbert Spencer old at elghty-two? His last year’s ‘Volume of essays, maintaining the high average of earlier , Proves the contrary. Mommsen at eighty-six is 'busy with his pen, As with a candle in his hand he Weached up for a book in his Charlottenburg library the other day the bare flame ignited his long, silky white Bair. “Alas!” said the veteran, “my good looks are gone forever!” Is such a man old? ‘Von Ranke at seventy-nine working on his “History of Bagland;” Landor at eighty-five writing his “Imeg- “{mary Conversations;” Sophocles, past eighty, proving his /) @anity by reading a scene from his new play ahd moving “his quditors to tears; Goethe intellectually active when i ‘wighty-two; Sir Isaac Newton busy with new researches Matural philocophy when more than eighty; Verdi @omposing “Otello” at seventy-six—these men never grew old. e If to call one old carries with it an imputation of @enility, could Titian or Michael Angelo have been so ted while, at eighty-nine and ninety respectively, . fe at work on the masterpieces that are the ad- of succeeding centuries? In commercial life, @id any one dare allege decline in Commodore Vander- Dilt at eighty-two? Does any one dare allege it in Rus-j ‘et Bage at eighty-seven? Were there premonitory symptoms in Horace Claflin when at seventy-four he ‘was conducting the most extensive mercantile business America? In the Church could there be an allegation of senility in “Newman, a Cardinal at seventy-nine; in Lyman Beecher, at eighty-eight the dominating religious ‘@hinker of Western New England; in Robert Collyer, " ‘@eventy-nine; in Edward Everett Hale, eighty; in Pope iso, now ninety-two? Was Chief Justice Taney old ‘when, at eighty-five, he was ruling on the intricate questions brought up by the litigation of the Dred Scott} a seape and the Free Soil discussion? Was De Lesseps old en called on at seventy-five as the most distinguished ench engineer to build the Panama Canal? _ Old men for counsel, young men for war, salling the movement of the mighty German host across the Rhine into France in 1870 we see among the leaders Von Moltke, seventy; Von Roon, seventy, and in the van the rugged Prussian king, seventy-three, soon to be first ‘German Kaiser, and destined to live on to ninety-one, * | three years past Moltke’s age, In England we remem- “ber Wellington surviving to eighty-three. And we re- ,Gen. Lord Roberts sent to South Africa at seventy ‘bring order out of the tangle of incompetency in the ‘Sransvaal. ee In the drama Joseph Jefferson remains a popular fa- jte at seventy-three, Denman Tnoompson at sixty- ‘Bine, John Toole at sixty-nine. Can it be said that veterans lag superfluous on the stage? At is im statecraft that the most exacting demands @ré made on mental and physical vigor by the require- Sy f galled statesmanship. A list of the world's great minis- _Beventy when at the summit of success. It would show Palmerston, British Premier trom seventy-one to elghty- §; Giadstone, Premier at seventy-seven; Thiers, Presi- * bd of France at seventy-four; Crispi, Italian Premier * @t aixty-eight: Metternich, dying at eighty-six after a acne] in diplomatic place of the highest order; Tal- ind, Louls XVIII.’s Prime Minister at elghty and Ambassador to England at eighty-one. It would show ‘our own Ben Franklin negotiating at seventy-seven ‘the Peace Treaty of 1783, “one of the most brilliant “HrfilinbHe{h, tne Whidle history of modern diplomacy.” AA We'Agtériean precedents like that of Franklin jeh'are»most pertinent in our consideration of this; retention of vigor at the time of life popularly called age. ‘They aro sufficiently abundant. They confront us in ‘Thomas Jefferson, at eighty-one personrdly superin- tending the construction of the University of Virginia, ‘the greatest building project of the day in the old do- @minion—engaging the workmen, buying the bricks, se- Aeeting the treen to be felled for lumber, In Jobn ed Adams dying at his desk in the national House @¢ Representatives at eighty-one, and tn his father, John Adams, surviving in rugged old age till ninety-one. What a family this for hereditary vigor! The founder, Samuel Adams, seventy-five; the son, ninety-one; grand- gon, cighty-one; great-grandson, seventy-nine. It has = interesting parallel in the Field familly, which gave A a David Dudley Field, the clergyman, eighty-six; his oo David Dudley, eighty-nine; and the other sons, ‘q hen J., on the Supreme bench till eighty-one; Henry eighty-one; Cyrus W., father of the Atlantic cable, nty-three, brought no decline of the powers were Thomas , Bepton, at seventy-two busy on bis memoirs and at four @ candidate for the Governorship of Mis- , pnd Henry Clay, leading the Senate at seventy- ‘Madieon lived to be eighty-five, Van Buren Seventy-eight, Fillmore seventy-four, ty-seven, Monroe seventy-three, im etatecraft, in invention, as great captains of industry | ters of state would show most of them past the age of| be suppressed. DBmeng other American public men to whom length | active at eighty or thone in the full flush of mature 4¢2¢66000¢0004¢0 manhood at seventy can he be deemed old? think of J. P. Morgan, born the same incompetent for the direction of the terprises with which his fame is Hn Given a life of high thinking and that has found {ts relaxation in the physically eanatory pleasures of shooting and fishing, and from the insur- ance actuary’s computation we can expect at least ten vears more of robust activity after sixty-elghi. and the reo! kept Izaak Wa‘ton, greatest sherman of Sis Have they lost their era, hale and hearty at ninety. preservative powers with the lapse of Salvation Army Work.—Gen. Booth, the rich do not give us enough fun: addresses of these rich.’ The thteat as the fact thai these criminals are t| an Indication of the vast amount of militant religious order. Army, js reported to have said in Boston our shelters at this time more than 13,000 criminals, and if work we will turn loose the 13,0 men and give them the Shall we «& year, as old or as 3 vast financial ae § ked? 3 of the plain living <eo<8 The rod 2Ooo-u time? of the Salvation “We have In ds to carry on our is not so Important hus cared for. It good done by ti I tribute 8. P. C. H. badges to all who Josh M. A. Long. Prof, Jowh M. A. Long undoubtedly exists among your force of graft. Within the place where an unprincipled man works Home Fun for the Young Folks. litth Pats. Miss M. L, BLISS, No. 880 De Kalb Prot, Jouh M. A, Long: Don't you think Police Captain O'Rei! ferred to the Old Jokes Home? Prot, Jouh Mf. A. Long: But in re-| Please find room for these few lost jokes: When has a man four hands? When he doubles his fists, Caught in Church. A minister was asking the congregation one Sunday morn- that want to go to heaven, please rise," So they xcept a poor oki drunkard Who was sitting all alone dng, al ror in the last pew. “Now all that don't want to go there please rise,” said the preacher. Just then the old fellow stood up and said: “I don't know what the question is, Mr. Minister, but be the only ones that agree on the subject.” OFFICER WILLIAM WINTERBOTTOM, 8. P. C. H. Don't Tip Of This Rata, Prot, Josh M. A. Long: Could I ask you to detall OMcer Jerry Sullivan with five other officers and the blue ambulance morrow night to al din a raid? I sent Officer Neverlaugh, disguised, to reports a terrible state of affairs. We find that the oMcers assigned to this district are not of suMolent numbers to in- fe a successful raid and ask you to qment of that clear, inner vision, that clairvoyance of] Jf Jerry Silivan and Joe-Miller could be assigned to this dis- ental wi the hi trict we wou'd rest contented. yi Rao waked: Je ae Antalleck aa) gaat | ta report of the rafd will be forwarded, unless you think the interests of the Old Jokes Home demand that it IRA SCHMATHOLINS, Inspector Third District, 6. P. Population of Largest Cities. To the Editor of The Evening World: What {s the population of London and Greater New York? Cc. R. London's population is 4,686,063; Greater New York's population ts 3,437,202. The population of Greater London (metro- districts) politan 6,590, 616, Apply to Board of E ‘To the Editor of The Bventng World and city police is To the Editor of The Breving World: ‘The question of chiid labor has been dischesed for acme time, and no de- cision seems to have been reached as yot. it has long been a disgrace to our so-called "Metropolis cf the World” thet children who are too young to under- stand what work really means should be forced to lwbur in the mines, mills and factories, regardtess of thetr minds, hodies and future welfare. K.L. A “Frederick” Is To w Editor of The Evening Which of these names reouly; ‘Fredrick” spelled cor- or “Frederick? JH. P., Jr, funday. To the Editor of The Evening World: | On<what day did the 1th of June, | 1885, fall? J. H. THOMPSON, | He Iv Eligible to Presidency. To the Editor of The Evening Wor! Can « child of foreign parenta who ts | born in this country become President of the United States? R. R., Wanaque, N. J A Whitney Query, ‘Te the Editor or vue Byeuing World: A says that Harry Payne Whitney ts married to one of the Vanderblilts, B says he is married to Mr, Hay's daugh- ter. A and B, Harry Payne Whitney married Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt, His brother mar- ried Miss Hay, d will bo nol quite saly-cight when he re- Found » U. A. BR. Badge. To the Ediior of The Rvening World: 1 have found @ badge bearing the in- seniption of the "“Gramd Army of the THE BUSY BLUE AMBULANCE. ! N response to many requests from out-o:-town memvere of the. P. C. H. we print the above correct representation of the busy blue ambulance drawn by the good old chestnut Joe-Miller, the only horae with a hyphen. sons a chance to sec it, the blue ambulance will stand for an ‘hour tn front of the Worth Monument next Monday nigirt at 8 P. M. in charge of Officer Jerry Sullivan, who wii dis- can't be there to get one, send a two-cent stamp to Prof. Am Awful Accusation! I wish to call your attention to the horrible fact that there ihadow of the Old Jokes Home ¢: most tearful wrecks of conundrums. This place is calle) Undowdtedly the young folks treat them ently, but this outrage must de stopped. From whence comes this man's pull? Do you know, Prof. Josh M. A. Long. you are suspected as the man higher up? Now is your chance to uphold your good name. Use all your strength to get ri@ of this cruel place. the strength use force! Batter in the doors. bodily! No. 450 Chestnut Captured Contndrums, What 8 itthat goes up white and comes down yellow? An oss. ‘When is butter lke Irish children? When ét 1@ made into A Splendid Suggestion. BROOKLYN EUCHRE PLAYER. From = Badge-Wearer. (rye "goo" wr VELOOPSOG DIGS BOF FGSOH ® 49O9O: To give all per- may appy. If you a) 92082 899999904 officers a system of nightly some he It you haven't Rescue them F. H. GIBSON, street, Brooklyn. 7 ESCORT. avenue, Brooklyn ly should be trans- PPHPIBIDHHD $040006+ you and I seem to 29090 to this district to- re investigate, and he oo send us some men, co. i. 9 308468 orsrrier) HE w EVENING wt WORLD'S: MR. CHESTY GIVES A An WERE Comms ~ COUNTRY MAN TUL. STOP THE GOOD Man AMO Give wien A PEW weno or KmMOLW 4AKE SHORE ESCORTS AN EMERGENCY THE MESSENG es ‘Male sacorts are to be orovided at the next Dressmakers’ Convention in Chicago.—News item, When the dressmaker so pretty next assails the Windy City $ Strong men will be provided to escort her to and fro. But these timid maids sartorial should prepare a Thanks Memorial To \ 46 ee : ne HOM SSE49D0OD9O00O000-0O6 H5HD.HDOHO$ ® SOOO) 90 ¢ DVICE—WITH THE USUAL RESULTS. ES ee PV AAME iS VAKOPS “tat ee teh cane wa SME Mayor Low continues to insist that the sm loon-keepers pay blackmail,” said The Cigar Store Man. 53 “The trouble with reformers is,” replied The Man Higher Up, “that they have their hair-triggers in their vocal apparatus, Of course the saloon-keepers pay black- mail, but His Honor oughtn’t to shout off his mi about it until be is sure he can throw his official hopks into somebody with the goods on. This persistent-rumor Sg has got barnacles on it. There was a persistent ru- mor when I was a small boy that they have census-tak- ers {n the moon, and it is as persistent as ever to-day. “What clinches my interest is the declaration of His Honor that if saloon-keepers pay blackmail to the police for being allowed to keep open after hours and on Sun+ days when the license is $800, they wnn’t pay blackmail: when the license is $1,200. The reason saloon-keepers hand out dough to the cop nowadays !s because they need the money. If they need the money when the legitimate tax Is $800 a year, It looks to me like they will need the money a whole lot more if they have to pay $1,200 a year and will take longer chances to get it “You will find that it is not the big saloon-keeper who goes out every Sunday behind his thoroughbred: that pays police protection. It is the small gin-mil) keeper, who has to stay open after hours and on Sum days to gather in the needful cash, that passes out @ Piece of green engraved paper to the collector once @ week. College professors may be able to frame up how @ man having to pay more out will be willing to take _ Tess in. I can’t, “The Mayor says that with a $1,200 license fee busi- ness will be better for the gin-mifll keepers able to pay, it, There may he better business for a few, but not one saloon in ten will do any more business because of the chasing-out of the small fry in the rum-dispensing buel- ness. Long-established saloons have a regular trade from their own neighborhoods. This trade won't be in- creased because ten little saloons within a mile have been put owt of business. At least 5,000 corner-saloon keepers in Greater New York will be forced to pay out $400 additional with no increase in their income if the new law passes, “The sentiment in this town is not for a higher Uquor tax. On the face of the figures, as the Mayot dopes them uy, the city will collect more money; ‘but the people don’t believe that if you tack 60 per cent. onto the liquor tax the total receipts are going up 50 per cent., because even the boosters of the Bill say that hun- dreds of saloons will be put out of business. For every one saloon that drops out two new ones must start to keep up the average, and the seconn-sight politicians will find that within a year the excise receipts will be no larger than they are now, and instead of getting hall BATH-HOUSE SOHN AS ESCORT IN THE viciniTy | oF THE AUDITORIUM, CHICAGOS WHITE Libny WSTRICT WHERE AN EsCorRr. 48 RE 4 NEECED— IN 7. oF ve HE “LEVEE” SECTION, 2SCORT FROM THE EVANSTON THis @3coRye *II1GHT PROVE SERVICE ARLE ER 80 ce NAGE jotham, where they needn't drag a guard where'er they go, Letters, Queries, Answer's. Republic, 1861—Veteran—1966" and do not know to whom sit belongs. Kindly let me know where I can return it, as prob- ably there t# some kind of a head- quarters where same can be returned. ANXIOUS. the Commander-in-Chiet, Stewart, Morristown, Pa, Apply to ‘To the Editor ‘The Bvening World: A says if @ son fs bom to @ United States Ambassador while in England he (the son) ts not eligible to the Presl- dency of the United States. B says he 4s, Which ts right? P. EB. For New Police Headquarters, To the Biltor of The Evening World: It 19 a shame for a fine city lke this, with our fine buildings and all the good things we ponsess, to have such @n old dirty Police Headquarters bulld- ing as ours, ALEX. CARTER, Pronunciation of Valet.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: What Js the correct pronunciation of the word "valet?" H. H. The word, in the original French, was pronounced “val-lay."’ Its pronunciation ver, become Anglicised into “yal-let.” A Mythologioal Argament, To the Editor of The Evening Worl Some friends and myself had an argu- ment regarding Venus. Was Venus a living woman or only a goddes JAMES, She was the Goddess of Love in Ro- man mythology and was known in Greek myths a8 Aprodite, Cross-By en, To (he PAltor of The Evening World: Kindly teil mo if there is a place in New York to see about curing eross- eyes. HM. Harlem Eye, Bar and Throat Infirm- ary, No, 144 East One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street; Manhattan Bye and Ear Hospital, No. 108 Park avenue; New Ameterdam Eye and Bar Hospital, No. 290 Weat Thirty-eighth street; New a A Island avenue: Now York Gy ncaa Howpkal, No ° 20h Beit Wa rd foarte best A in y a ¥ the side near the point, fire to the rim, A Jet of gas, produced ‘by the distillation issue from the sirall hole and wil! burn if a lgbted match ts put to it, covered dish containing a quantity of cake then, going through all the motions of eating, ays the Philadelphia North| Little Willle-Say, pa, what's a war- American, place the dish back on the| #hip? d | table, Some one is sure to lift up the| Pa-A warship, my gon, is a mechan: cake, As he does it you should promptly} t9F¥—Chicago Ne! thrust your fingers in, snateh @ bit of cake and eat K. of them New York City will be getting but one-third, while the State will be getting two-thirds,” “Maybe the State needs the money,” suggested The Cigar-Store Man. “Maybe,” agreeé The Man Higher Up, “but it's @ stiffer maybe that Odell and Low are casing out a deal that will require a whole lot of Rube votes,” OVER THE THIRD RAIL, A Few Points That Escape the Average Passenger. OU have ridden on the ‘new’ electric "L" cars, of and on, for months, When you Grst entered one at night, you found to your wonder that you could see clear across the car, In other words, that you were for the first time in your life on a fairly well lighted “L train. The chances are that you have noticed nothing more, But the Observer rides daily on the Sixth avenue eleotste and here are a few minor points he has noticed; In the morning the new “Li cars have Uttle about them that is distinctive, They are usually jammed. There is, every few days, an explosion lke that of a double-barreled’ shot. gun under the car and a flash of blinding electric fire, At Grst thie used to frighten everyone. But New York quicidly Jearns “‘not to be afraid of the cars.” Bo now one or two men look up in @ bored way from their papers, a girl giggles nervously—and that is all, Tt te in the wvening that the “L’ ts of interest. Then passengers, whose business care for the day is past, show odd little idiosyncracies. For instanoe, if only two seats in @ car are occupied, one of those is the eem{-inolosed, double Seat at the end, And it is not only boys but grown-ups as well who rush for it. Now, this double seat is no more comfortable than any other, It is nearest the draught and slam of the door, Why is if then the seat of honor? ‘Tho best place on the whole “L" train 4s the front, left hand eat of the front car, Sit there and for the time you’ are in your own private automobile, The road stretches out before you, with ng intervening engine. Close to you is your cheuffeur. The motion there ts beet, too. Yet that seat, Umes ougfot ten, stays vacant until @ boy enters the With one wild rush the boy annexes that coveted KISSING FORFEITS, You choose @ partner and cross a Swamp; thi done by stahding about five yards apart and a: you lke a certain fruit. If you do answer yes and step forward; if not; step backward, and so on until you meet each other ang then kiss, Choose a partner and tie a guess knot, If the girl knows the game when chosen she will call out “I guess no} nd he, Of course, loses his kiss, Choose @ partner and pick cherries. This is done by kissing, standing on each rung of @ chair, which they climb. Pillow—Get a pillow, place in front of » and the girl is Supposed to kneel, and then you kiss her, but only once, remember, Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. TRY, TRY AGAIN, Here's to “Shamrock the Third!” she galantly float! For we honor her skipper, with reason. And re's to his pluck, which will cvuse us to mote A “Shamrock the Fourth" in due sear eon, hington 6tar, THE DIFFERENCE, “A map dat's got @ fast hoes,” said Uncle Eph'm, ‘don't keer how offfn he ot to git shoes fur ‘im. Hit's diff'runt if he's got a boy.”—Chicago Tribune. WELL DEFINED, PUZZLE. Twist a large plece of wrapping paper nto a cone and make a small in Ho'd it with he mouth obliquely downward and set Putrout the several parts of the above Mlustration and: paste them together on & sheet of paper so es to forma per- fect checker board, The peces, as they stand above, must be cut out whole and not subdivided, —__— MUSICAL CHAIRS, This game muat be played In a room May of the paper, will ——— COVER-LIFTING TRICK. Boast that without lifting the cover ou can eat @ plece of cake from a The way to do it: Pick up the dish, toop over, quickly duck both it and ‘our head under the table for a second, the room, allowing one ir than the number of players. Me vetes ont. over to wee If you really did ‘get como! loa! devine used jo, monutaaturing hie- WOMANLIKE, Now, you actually Although to elevate tho stage hav en a plece of t a cake without Some womenfolk may bry, ) naving Utted the cover, Beil orks iii thelr enews before was & mere trick to la ‘ang be re to life the coves tor you.