The evening world. Newspaper, April 24, 1903, Page 15

PULAR SONG OF THE HOUR. HAT t# the newest popular song? If you drop in any of the Broadway cafes it does not take long to determine. A song's popularity ts beat indloated y the number of places you hear it played and the sale of ite musto. “Bince I First Met You" holds the place of favoritism in the vaclllating popu- lar taste at present. It has eupplanted the universally popular “Under the Bam- boo ‘Tree,"’ which has been taken up by the street plano artiste with undying fervor, ‘The song of the hour is not a new arrival on Broadway, for it Was introduced the opening night of “The Sultan of Sulu,” and while {t has been aung every night for montis, Gotham has only just consented to place it at the head af popular songs. At the leading musio houses the sale of this song exceeds all others, but is closely followed by the “Congo Love Song,'’ as sung -, Marte Catt in "Wancy Brown.” ‘The words of “Since I First Met You" were written by George Ade, and it ts, as he gays, his first attempt at sentiment. The music was wnittert by Alfred G. Wathall, who wrote the score of “The Sultan of Bula." \ In the opera the song is sung by Kiram, Sultan of Suhi (Frank Moulan), to Henrietta Budd, the Amertoan Girl Qfaud Lillian Berri), and as Kiram sings the refrain the American Girl leaves his aide for that of her lover. Bach principal oharacter comes on, and to her Kiram sings his song, but each deserts him for her favored tover. “The song was written (n twenty minutes,” says Mr. Ade, “It happened one day at rehearsal witle Wathall and I were eitting In the theatre. The song was not in the original acore, but {t'was suggested to me that I write e song fut of, sentiment. I laughed at the idea, dut Wathall and 1 got together, with the result that he composed the music and I the words in twenty minutes.” ‘The song made its firat hit tn Chicago, but New York hae given ft first piace in Ste repertoire. The words to the song are: ‘Tam a dashing, gay Lothario— I've a ropubation as a gallant beau. Courting pretty maNiens is & habit hard to break. I'm a bold coquette and eather eeckleas rake. T've told my 1ove to countless girls, ‘But never a word was true. For my passion, intense, it was a pretense ‘Until I e¢noountered you, MEN OF TO-DAY WHO MAKE THE WORLD LAUGH.|THE MosT Po Interviews with Famous Humorisis —Woitten by Roy L. McCardell and Illustrated 2 by The Evening World Sketch Artist, Tom McGilé. A Gold Cohn Weighing tHaSset) tone See hibits Suggested for the St. Louis Fair. 1O-MARSHALL P, WILDER. *Rinched” Pose we A Refrain: Since I first met you, since T first met-you, the open #ky-above me seems & deoper blue; Golden, atippling sunshine warms me through and through; Each flower has a new perfume since | met you, @ famous numiamatiet proposes the cotning of a billion-tiollar go exhibition at the St. Louts Fair. It ds to contain $1,000,000,000 worth of gu * cording.to his plan; will be forty féet in diameter, thirty inches thick af welgh 440,000 pounds, Bach milled edge will be six inches across the enilling being four ant three-fourth ‘inches deep. The 194 date will 96 ‘one-half fev: high, and the other jetters thirty inches in height, each star am uring three feet across. Were this giant pocketplece of Uncle Sam's Into $1 gold pieces it would malte of gold dollars 700 miles high: T've gone a-mparking many, many times— I have quite @ standing a8 & social pet. ‘Writing tender notes and composing little chymes ‘To each Desdemona that I've met. I’ve sworn that ¢ach was my first love, Dut ne'er a word was trie; For I never knew bliss of @ kind ike this until I encountered you, * THE aa Oe mittee sti! has the unique plan under indorsement. ii THE” ContICT. t CASTORIA ~ a HAVE A. NEW JOKE ° j Tange until got on-the horse it wae a-horse on.me. “You've often heard things compared and likened to the way the old woman Kee eren cee weet Ivmet that old woman. She had a haretip and had to drink her coffee out of a mustache cup, “She always slept with a dolar bill under her pillow so she could have some monéy to fall back on. Then I asked the clerk ‘How about going to bed? He ARSHALL P. WILDER dwells at the Alpine, at the corner of Groadway Gan go to sleep between eight or nine.’ |, ‘I don’t want to stop et this hotel, {t's too crowded!" icteow Eighteenth Century Jests Upon:the Interviewer, and, Altes Swearing Him to Secrecy, Perpetrates One New Joke. SS IT’S AN OXFORD. Fits the foot as easily gently asa well made glove the hand. Made ine a¥ Calf Oxford it has the ; Marks” of the Custom $10 ‘AVE you ever seen the sombre exterior of Sing Sing? that had Been inflicted upon him. Or of Kings County Penitentiary? He was simply standing, as hd told mo, simply standing, Shoe. To be had at any! Ab, these ate monuments erected to perpetuate the| mind you, at sireet corner in the Brorix one mtght, when! stores, % Memory of the Gerat Misunderstood who sleep within thé|he heard a pistol shot. Immediately afterward a men‘came|” $3.45, walis—in the night-time, Fupning up to him with a pistol in his hand. One of the Great Misunderstood was gullenly wisiding a] "For mercy’s sake," sald the man, “hold this pistol while] John Ward Pick-axe when I happened along. As the warder was not) fetch an ambulance. Don't let him get ft, or he will sHoot New YORK STORES: ¥ 7B Ressan at. 207 Broadway. ber fed the hed a dumb waiter that was the sasslest fellow you ever for. saw comething giletening out in front of the place, and aged what me ‘meer she replied. ‘Why; that's coum Jake.’ 1 told her {f she wasn’ “| kifd to me Td come around with a epongs sdine night and ‘steal the fake’-— Bist! A New Joke! Bhakihi¢ off the grewaome spell thét bound us, we sprang ub and, badge, again exclaimed, as one having authority: “You to tae Olt Jokes’ And at the words the old jokcs amtied off, shaking and palsied, but Querulously deflant. “Sor gracious’ eake, Marshall, haven't you @ new joke working for you?" ry aleve yet Osda, titervtewedt® " he: replied, “but when I saw Mark ‘twain, Olmuneey Peter Dunne, Geomge Ace, Gineon Ford, Opie Read end 5 were Sil interviewed; I knew my turn woald be next, . “Yea, I have, a new, a mice, a tresh young in town and I'm afraid het iddnap it." " we sald sententiously. He understood. Creeping cautiously actoss the room he locked and bolted the @oor and closed the window shades. Then ‘he blindfolded us and wherered the new joke to us in Hindustanee through a megaphone. ‘Then, first burning the megaphone in the grate and scattering the ashes out of the window he took off the blindfold and hypnotized us with the tense command “Forget itl” Ringiig for the busy blue ambulance we ordered ourself under aprest and were carried back to our own Old Jokes’ Home, saturated with senile sayings. Marshall ®, Wilder itves at tho Alpine, at Thirty-second street and Broadway. woe the fag’s out he’s in, when the flag's in he's out! eX ‘When you see the flag flying, fiag the flying flag and fly, and do not flag if you ROY L. M'GARDELL. NO, IT IS NOT. ROOSEVELT. Woking he ventured to ask me for a ‘‘chaw er baccy." himself?" Hear his woful tale. It is best told by himeelf. — What did the poor man do that was not perfectly natural? “Tam sorry to ask yer, guvnor, but it's what they Grive| It was no time to waste words or thoughts, A man had at- an Res est man to. tempted wuicide. He might be dying at that moment, and right» U ought ter be as free as you are. But’—with| some one might be accused of shooting him. aor a victim of the law. I didn't do a thing to] “AN right," sald he, “you hurry\up and get the ambulance, nuthin’ or nobudy, but the Judge wouldn't listen to me, I won't let him get the pistol.” “Yer a crook,’ ses he, he ses, ‘an’ even if dis crime| ‘The man disappeared. Soon a policeman came running wasn't premeditated, I guess I'll send you up fer a few,’ | along the street, follovied by another, and another, 01 ‘Bober Teflection,’ was his way of puttin’ it. poor, misguided friend then realized his position. To be for “That was wrong again, for I never took a drink in me] near the body of a dying man anmed with & pistol wes @ Ute. serious matter, and one upon which the most awful construc- “ ‘Yer Honor,’ 1 60s, ses T, “this & all & mistake," 866 I, But | tion aight be placed. he up an’ hollers, “Take him away.’ An’ I was took.’ Can any one blame him that he dropped the pistol and ran Reader, does not that fll your sdul with sndignation? To| away? Used by" people of think that the laws of this country should de so arranged} He was pursued and, alas, caught and placed on trial. The euieey of that one mere man may doom eanother to pine away his léfe} judge wouldn't listen to his explanation, only indulging in an| not my fault. The public won't stand a far Joke. They do not : to laugh. A joke must become seasoned and acclimated before ite Work 1s of any yalue to one. "While it is true that all my jokes are old, look what bes . Rak stardy sal septua- “He blew the work whistle and out they came, fgg Idsten to the Old Jokes Now, ime ego when I was travelling west to grow with the country, my father calléd me to him and sald, ‘Now, Marshall, Rieu if you need any, money.’ And T sald, ‘Pop, why do you ask, can't you see I'm a little short?” “Pho first thing I 4{d when I got out west wee to buy a horse. I bought (he biggest one I could get. Sixteen hands high. Then 1 had to walk him eight tafles before I could find « stump tall enough to climb on his back trom, And}are fly. JS tories JSrom Famous Books. THE DUEL, OF FRANCOIS, |‘te ant 1 were’ reared together. “Move o iittle, = very little, to the ‘Plocotin @aw me as quickly as I per-|left—there’ hadow from that tree— ceived him, and the minute after we|can you see me well?’ said I. were in etolr other's arms, All mon, “ ‘Perfectly—are you ready? Well—en among criminals for a crime he never committed? undignified wink at the poor man's dilemma. Here was a decent, honest, hard-working plumber dreeing his weird In prison. Do you wonder thet men are driven to crooked acts? I venturod to ask how he came to bé convicted. He was inclined to be profane at first, but seeing I had a sympathetic “You believe I'm on de square, sir?’ he asked me et the! close of his story. “I do, my poor fellow. I do,” I replied fervently. !” the convict snarled, “eve just Ike de) iester) Francois told jn an officers mens after rest of dem. the battle of Austoriits, RAINGOIS looked up with a sigh. “Here I am a maitre d‘armes after twenty-six years of servic he aid, ‘‘and there's Davoust who Rever stand before me, he's a ge: of brigad “Tonnerre de ciel!’ cried the Major, “ge lttle devil like that is a perfect Plague in a regiment. I remember we had @ fellow called Piccotin''=— “Ah, Ploootin—poor Plecotin! We were foeter-brothers," interrupted Francols; “we were both from Chalons-sur- Marne.” “What became of ieootin?’ the Major. “He jeft us at Tyyon: “T can tell you,’.eaid Francois} “no one knows better. I parted from Fic- eotin when we wate ordered to Egypt. ‘We did our best to obtain service in the for we were like brothers, not manage it; and, with, pad hearts, we sepitated, he to return to France, I to q@ail for Alexandria, ‘This was in the. spring of 1798, or, as qwe called tt, the year six of the repub- Ne, For three y: We never met, ‘but wwhen the eighth demi-brigade returned isked ad of walking with al ah on his instep at ey ing his elbows and turning om aide to side, Just to see pleased to smile, or ‘to look Closely at him, ttle Picgotin knew how well a@ ahy one, Me- ath i rit LETH cher, how many duels since last we met?| gard sald he to me, as soon as the first burat of enthusiasm had subsided. “Only eighteen,’ @aid I, sadly; ‘but two were Mamelukes of the Guard. “Thou wert ever fortunate, Fran- cols,’ he replied, wiping hie eyes with emotion; I have never pinked any but Christians.’ “ ‘Come, come,’ id I, ‘don't be down- hearted; good times are coming, They say Le Petit Caporal @Nasoleon) will us in England soon.’ ‘Mayhap,' aald he, sorrowfully. Well, in order to cheer him a tittle, I proposed a walk. “There's a pleasant wal ecrosa thd’ Blacis to the gate. As Plocbtin and I net’ oft tokether on our way to the town, the night was calm and eld; a jaft moonlight shed @ silvery tint over every Odjeot, and left the stately pop- ans to throw a still longer shadow on’ the smooth grass. For some time we walked along without #peaking, the si- lence of ‘the night, the ¢ragrant alr, the mellow ight, were all soft and tranquil- {ding influences, and we eunk each {nto his own ri “When we reached’ the middle of the pjain Plocotin came to a sudden halt. and, selzing my hand in both of his, said, *Francojs, canst thou guess what Tm thinking of? “I looked at him, and I looked around “For some time I permitted him to play hi me out; and certainly noth- ing coul more beautiful than his passes over the hil “Twice he planted his point within an inch of my bosom; and nothing but & spring backward would baye saved me. “At length, after ® long-contestea strugs! he made a feint within, and then without, the guard, and succeeded im touching my sword-arm above the wrist, “A touch, I believe,’ said he. “‘h mere nothing,’ said 1; for al- though 1 felt the blood running down my wey and oosing betwen my fin- gore, jas annoyed to think he haa made the frst ‘Ait “*Ah, Franco! were not of the I nee ly been With 1) hy Me very different from his for- mer attack, Pushing and Lodtden d with the rapidity of lightning, he evinced a ill in ‘skirmish’ I did not believe aim possessed of. In yw) however, I was din a few hima DoUne sharply, out Pama tn, ae joulde: ad Of dropping his wea e received ming he returned () err it and touched him i tne Tow Tower taown: He winged thi . tape muttered m™ ne ater © Sey sAlnne epnne 31 i |, "Yes, Piccotin, I know it, | ‘Never wes anything like it!’ orled in @ rapture; ‘look at the turf, smooth as velvet, and yet soft to the n | foot; see the trees, how they fall back to wive the Hght admittance; aud the: that Ietie founlala, Jf ome felt thirety— eh! what say your “ ‘Agreed,’ said I, graaping him by te were both excited. hie, in smears. eet The str he bi a my body, and at he dropped on the polut here. re he could extri plunged mizie into his oh tl T heard, hilt come click A, hia ribs, ihe blood, spurted upward: a as he fel sskward, iit wipea i Phir m if He x guint noah, nee th ied him?” cried out throe or ‘This profusely AMustrated, elegantiy | bound personage 1s not President Roose- vel, although the Ukeness to him ts more or loss striking. 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