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led by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-OMoe at New York as Seoond-Class Mall Maitter. OLUME 48. «NO. 15,218. SOME USES OF WEALTH. of the Vanderbilt wedding finds it “an orgy of haracterized by “extravagances of taste” and vulgarity.” The critical comment is closed by the smug reflection that the wedding was “distaste- fal ‘to the mass of plain American citizens, in whose “minds it excites reprobation.” On the contrary it was a match to which the Amer!- "ean public lent its heartiest approval. The bridegroom ‘Was not a titled roué, bankrupt financially and physt- ly as the result of a youth of excesses. The bride not selling hereelf for a coronet. Two very nice ung people were entering upon matrimony as the consummation of a romantic courtship which Proved them much in love with each other. And | Public, always loving a lover, did not withhold its ion because this particular bridegroom hap- ‘pened to be rich, Is it an orgy of wealth and extravagance when “Croesus spends $100,000 for something he can afford? Te it vulgar to buy a florist's entire stock of flowers en the cost js no more to you than that of a half- dozen American Beauties to a clerk? When Croesus is raising the price of ofl or of coal ‘end combining to make beef dearer and rents higher, or Planning the artifices of combination that are to mulct _ the public for the benefit of his purse, he Is sufficjently _ @dious, and there is nothing to be sald in his behalf. But when he good use? In the wedding presents given the young “souple there were dozens of gold dinner plates, gold ‘vases galore, emeralds and diamonds in profusion. ‘Their purchase represented the distribution of several hundred thousands of dollars. Was it the “extravagant “Oatentation” {t is called or rather a welcome addition _ $© the community's stock of cash whereby the jeweller @nd the goldsmith and tho florist and al! recipients of the bounty were enabled to pass some of it on to em- Ployees for the support of small households and the easing up of a local financial stringency in humble homes? \ If the multimillionaire stopped what are called his extravagances, if persons of less wealth reduced their ex- pending his money is he not serving | © ‘penditures to a minimum, if an era of economy weré to "be entered upon by all the community, what a monetary Alen would ensue, one with which no financial panic /record could compare in evil results! Tt {s on extravagance, so called, that a large part of the Wwork-day world subsists, At the time England ‘went into mourning for her Queen {t was estimated that ‘Several thousand London waiters lost their jobs because the cessation of public entertainments. This was @ specific instance of the effect of ‘the cutting down : expenses by the well-to-do. Se af. aa REPREHENSIBLE FAMILIARITY, og Im a circular issued by the Merchants’ Association charge is made that the street-car companies ‘‘to en- moa thelr profits are violating the primal laws of de- and by their crowded cars subjecting to the degra- Hon of secret insult the mothers, wives and daugh- of the community.” | The offensive conditions exist, as charged, and the & for them rests with the companies in providing pa “Opportunity for the insults specified. But how much Greater blame rests on the unmanly creatures capable a making use of the opportunity offered for subjecting _ Women passengers to {nsult? “4 It 8 evident to the most casual observer that women ' and girls are treated with too great familiarity by the stiee sex in public in New York. It does not need the ditions complained of by the Merchants’ Association, the stabbing of Assemblyman Ulrich in a surface car,! _ Or the institution of Brooklyn anti-mashing societies, to i % © the existence of this laxity of manners. It may © Sie noticed in the freedom with which ferryboat' hands Waddress working-girl commuters and in the small lib- les of speech nnd manner exhibited too frequently by! the uniformed employec everywhere, It is an offense to - )=arhich half-grown boys are largely addicted, ) "his tendency to familiarity is a bad one, decorving | rebuke of the severest kind. It is too much to expect} "that it can be stopped by a few words of blame. But! hile it exists {t encourages the disgusting street-cer > oe against which the Merchants’ Association pro- UNCLE SAM’S TRUST SCHOOL. James M. Beck, the Assistant United States Atorney- tral who successfully prosecuted the Government's against the Northern Securities Company, has re- his place to enter a firm of Wall street corpora- Hon lawyers. Mr. Beck was paid $5,000 a year by the overnment, the customary salary of a managing clerk | @ New York law firm of standing. Another year will Dis income increased fivefold. Mr. Beck graduates with honors, as Eckels and Fair- id and Vanderlip and a distinguished ist before bim, from the Government-service preparatory school whence ising pupils emerge into positions of importance the financial world as presidents of national banks trust companies or as attorneys for corporations. fo the young aspirant the Government salary is the wages, the West Point allowance, on which the Supports life while studying for his degree. 0OO900000000% No! ITs M UMBRELLA, THE OLD JOKES’ It you want & badge eond @ two-cont stamp to Prof, Josh M. A. Long. THE 8. P, C. H.'8 OPPORTUNITY! ADGE-WEARING members of the Soclety for the Prevention Crueity to Humor, Frimrose & Dockstader's Mi at the Harlem Opera-Houxe and will be at the Grand Opera- next week, For years George Primrose and. Lew Dockatader have been the verlest Simon Legrees of guggery. They have overworked old jokes for years, keeping hidden trom there the fact that Prof. Josh M. A. Long has Issued the emancipation proclamation of humor, While ta this clty nelther Primrose nor Dockstader will dare work an old Joke if they know an officer of the 8. P. C. H. fs present, Should duty call you to the Harlem or Grand Opera- House this or next week, keep your badge hidden when entering. But of- ficer Jerry Sullivan and the busy blue ambulance will be outside. If elther of the offenders works an old joke do not hesitate to take It Into custody, Do not ve daunted by Dockstader. Do nbt per- mit Primrose to feaze you, But, re- member, men, no violence! And on the other hand, if the jokes are fresh and new report the fact to Prof. Josh M. A, Long, who will then indorse the jokes employed by this aggregation. An Old Stuttering Joke. Prof. Josh M. A. Long: I send you herewith a few aged and in- firm jokes which 1 place In your care and hope you will find a sultable bunk tor them in your Od Jokes’ Home. C-c-c-sn y-y-y-ou advise m=m-e what t-t-to d-d-do for st-st-st-ut-t-t-ering? S-s-8-ec D-d-doctor S-s-s-smith; h-h- h-e ¢-c-c-ured m-m-m-e, OE-DPDF2ISI0S-H 049-4-99-0-00% Such a Bunch! Prof, Jash M. A. Long: What is the sign of death? Crape on the door, Did you hear the story about the eagie? It's a bird. A postmaster was coming down the and ate him, SP. M. What time of day was it? It was a peach. A man that made {t doesn’t want tt, the man that bought it has no use for it, and the man that has it does not know he has {t? Coffin. Why does a plg eat? To become a hog. Did you hear the story about the tramp's hat? It's on the bum. Did you hear the story about the two dirty shirte? It's one on you. M. E, WINTERMUTE, 31 West Bixty-fourth street. Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. “For some time past,” sald Mr. Pom- pous Nuritch, who had engaged passage 8 Secretary of recognized position, a Carlisle or or Griggs, the salary makes poesible @ post-gradu- Course ot advantage. Mr. Carlisle, for example, like jeaker Heed, is reputed to have earned more by me fee in New York than in several years of Washing- Mr. Beck's value to his new employers lies in his .0f corporation law as interpreted tor the i! the people; knowing the weakness of his own 4 ites qualified to attack it as attorney for Having helped to make the armor of Presumed to know the particular weak ean be most easily penetrated. 11 is Ukely Worth his price, -——- for Europe, ‘Il have been contemplating a vistt to the scenes associated witn the lve of my ancestor “That sot” replied Peppery. slumming, eh?''-Philadslphila Pr GENEROUS ZEKE, “Maria,” drawied Farmer Crawfoot, ou have worked pretty hard in the Hlast six months,” OY, Zeke." replied the weary wife “Well, veour Industry shall be repaid Iam going to make you a present, "Oa, Zeke, are you going to buy mea coat?” ‘0; but yeou can have the o blanket to make over Into ‘Nobody shail say 1 am st ny ' GIVE ME THE ® 3 street one day and a bear came along | % bs Did you hear the story about the ple? THE w EVENING w EF. Give Me THE Ht Ms THE WAY MosT OF eS US WILL GET HONE. (HE ARISTOCRAT WILL BE WHEELED 8YHIS Man! 7 Get HOME, DEAR! CANT VATED TIED UP. él oemeraisg puSHEA STRIKES J ciNcH lL If they “tle up” all “L” travel ‘twill need genius to unravel The quickest ways to get to work and get back home again. And the chep who's WORL pis sf DS SLOELODODIDODD HDD OAD DH HD FHDNGSEDOLDDIDDDDLODS OD IPDDDDHDDOCHA DOD HHSHHD HOH DHD THE SCRAPPIE SISTERS FIND AN APRIL P CR HN OMMOEIM RT REVS 17 RICH, “sore on walking” will have cause for lurid talking; While for once the pocr Commuter’ have the Jaugh on city nien. CONCEALED What saying? What can you mil make it lighter? moon? False-hood, deiphia Record. AMENDED “OTTO, Do 1 het any suggestions tor a mottos for this cospciation?’ asked the meeting of the G) pia. When is a seca a CONUNDRUMNS, rel with to one not PROVERB, a Holes Why do the giris like to look at the Because there is a man in it. Which is the ugest hood ever worn? Who was the first little boy mentioned in the history of Bagland? Chap 1, what profession is every child? A| whi “alow ands ten ittle red (rad! seas? ee) "4 ath ore rn Aurnip), P the aves lor even have. ELECTRIC TRICKS, On @ dry day rub with a brush, or with the hand, @ thin plece of paper; it will become electrified in a short time, and adhere to your hand, your face or your coat as If it had gtue on it and you will not be able to get rid of tt. Blectrify in the same manner a thick piece of paper, a postal card for exam- | ple, and you will see that as with seal- |ing-wax, glass, sulphur or rosin this card can attract lght bodies (small | pleces of cork, &c.), Balance a cane on the back of a chair and tell any one in the audience that you will make it fall without touching it, blowing on it or moying the chatr. All you need to do ts to dry the card well before the fire, rub it vigorously with your aleeve and put it close to one f the cane, whloh will follow it fon follows a magnet ust, having its equillrium, the cane will fall to the floor, pt teas oe THE MIMIC CLUB, All the players with the exception of two leave the room. One of the party is en called in and told that a new club been fonmed and his name en- roiled, but that he cannot be formally Admitted unlers he can guess the name the club from the movements of the cond member who has remained in od iidate for fered a cbalr and been DRAWING PROBLEM, Who can draw this estar without tak- ling the pencil from the paper? You may cross the lines if you choose, but you musn't go tack along any line, ——— BHADOW BUFF, This game is played as follows: If there be a white curtain at the window {t may be fastened at the bottom, #0 4s to make a smooth gurface; or, in the absence of a white curtain, able cloth m: be fastened upon the wall, The one chosen to act the part of Shadow Buff alts before the curtain, with his back to the light. When all fe arranged, the others in the game ore the opposit if % a. 0 Om thay shadows ‘on hewls or any ott $ 3 HDD DHSD99: ST GRR: a Rivka] aN SERVicg @NO THIS 13 wo FORE EF Flin. ~< $0-4006000889809000099009-9009899900008002990099592%-07090999690099D $0 940006-9000590306-000009:6 00003900020 LETTERS, QUESTIONS, _ ANSWERS. It Is Spelled “Dankhorst.” To the the @Attor of The @vening World: A eays that Ed Dupleborst, Fitesim- mons's former eperring pertner's name is spelled “Dunichorst.”’ B saye thet it is epelled “Dunkhurst." Which te 7 BW. Accident Brought Good Luck, ‘To the the Editor of The Evening Werla: In answer to “Mabel’s query as to whether breaking @ mirror {s an fll-omen I will give’ my experience. When I wea) first married my husband earned eplen- did wages. We hed a comfortable home. We were happy as could be. We had one lovely child. It died and the-day it wes buried we accidentally broke @ 1, of course, thought ft meant. ars’ bad luck. Instead of which we had the most prosperous years My husband's business and another baby came to molserable awaiting ind when the seven fears were up, lo, and behold! our real bad luck began. My busband lost his position, sickness came, and distress of every description. I can assure you I had no faith in that old eaying, What age is 4 man. born on Jan, §, F 11874, on Jan. 6, 19087 And what year of + | ae age ie he in? y a sen" EACEMAKER > OSLO4OO6000O0OOCOOOD AMAZING DISCOVERY BY WILLIAM PEASELY. President Roosevelt Still with Him. OOZELY, Wyo., Yesterday.—Tho President's party, com B {the President, Willlam Peasely, known here Bill,” and Fred Coseynoble, who was taught Ranching, Herding and Prospecting by mail by the William Peasely Western School of Correspondence, arrived here to- day. . A negro resiment also accompanied them. To your com respondent William Peasely denied the published story that ‘he is responsible for the statement that the ground hog di not come out of his hole on Ground Hog Day (Feb, 2 last), place, The President's party only killed sixty-flye motntain Mohs, “Lying on the mountains hunting mountain ons ie no soft snap!” declared William Peasely. The timo of the party was taken up with discovering the wonders of the West—both flora and fauna. In tue way of, fauna the President was much interested in the blind pies that abound on the Government reservations, about whiok Uttle has been said or printed. In the way of flora the Presl- dont 1s greatly delighted with a etrange luminous shrub, oF night blooming serious, discovered by William Peasely and Fred Coseynoble. “ty This ls a wiry climber, with a bulbous growth upon ft thae shines 60 brightly as to be seen for miles, aifter nightfall, It 1s known In the Yellowstone as ‘tthe electric light plant.” It must be approached carefully, cs 1t gives off « severe shock {f handled. To yet tho best results tt should be insu Inted with rubber plants. The President 1s much perturbed over the word that hag reached him concerning the Post-OMm, partment beri William Peasely, better known here id Bil," and Coseynoble have both suggested to the President that @ clean @weep be made of thone smirched by the scandals and thag * hereafter letter carrying be taught by mall to honest appl cants, ROY L. M’CARDELL, Special Commissioner, GERMAN DESERTERS, A French writer reports the result of an inquiry into esertions trom the German army corps at Metz. Last they numbered over 1,000, including a large proportion of; Alsatians and Lorreiners. The deserters complained chiefly: of Ill-usage and insufficient food. At a certain point ness the frontier a French postman often (nds a deserter waitii tor him at a letter-box, which 1s regarded as a kind of official’ sanctuary, ON THE EVENING WORLD PEDESTAL,