The evening world. Newspaper, June 10, 1903, Page 10

rm ’ Very definite progress was made yesferday in the public movement against the pirate cabman by the instl- | ution of a test case against a driver accused of over-| “ barging @ passenger in Central Park. This suit will be| carried into the higher courts for a decision of sufficient _ Judicial gravity to serve as a precedent for all future eases of similar nature and to establish a basis for the further interpretation of the cab-fare ordinances in their at New York as Second-Class Mali Matter. CAB REFORM PROSPECTS. details. ‘This is hopeful and encouraging. _ tax, to denominate it by no stronger term, that a ju- @icial interpretation of the ordinances should be sought mow for the first time at this late day and that it should “be gought on the initiative of a newspaper? ‘The abuses complained of and now about to be thor- oughly probed for a remedy are of long standing. Bave been burdensome enough to citizens. They have Qested most heavily on the hundreds of thousands of daily visitors, whose ignorance of the cab and carriage fariff has rendered them the ready victims of very gross overcharge. ‘That this extortion is now af last to be ended once for all is as much to the credit of the authorities as its dong-continued tolerance was to their discredit. Is it odd to think of a nation which intervened in the Philippines because of the most enlightened Christian ‘motives establishing a monopoly for the sale of opium? Does it seam inconsistent with the elevated principles ‘which led to our “benevolent assimilation” of the islands that the United States should in any way countenance traffic in this stupefying drug? Perhaps. But {t must be borne in mind that wo are sanctioning {ts sale only to. the Chinese, whom we have no national mission to OPIUM AND EDUCATION. elevate. But a question of very immediate importance {s in- Wolvyéd*in the expressed intention of the Government to -tse the royalty derived from the sale of this privilege ,of monopoly to educate Filipino youths in the United States. It is the best use to which the royalty could be put. But money so derived is clearly within the meaning of ‘the word “tainted” as applied by Bishop Burgess to ‘ands of immoral origin given to churehes and colleges. ifs the “taint” any less because the funds are handled sby, the Government and the immoral source approved ‘by the high civilizing agencies which we have set at fwork to elevate our benighted protegees? It is a question for much hair eplifting, rivalling in tweedledum-tweedledee possibilities our local excise problem. THE DIAMOND IMPORTATIONS. ) . if one were needed. The amount seems enormous, yet is the supply equal to ths demand? It may not be exactly true that “a Milifona!re is born every minute,” but it is certainly susceptible of proof that the crop was never so large as mow. According to good authority, the formation of the United States Steel Corporation in itself created a ‘batch of 100 new Pittsburg millionaires. For one year's harvest in a single city this was doubtless unexampled. But the nation’s annual crop is probably even greater. And the purchase of diamonds is one of the first and Most regular uses to which newly made millions are put. Diamonds have advanced in price 100 per cent. within ‘twenty years; pearls nearly 500. With the latter an in- ereasing scarcity may be alleged as the cause, femain dear because of the artificial restriction of prod- uct by the Diamond Trust. What a necklace will cost ® Fifth avenue purchaser now or next year depends entirely on what the head of the trust in London thinks i ought to cost her. Seemingly fewer diamonds are now seen on feminine fingers and more on the throat, in the hair, on the cor- sage. The change of fashion is one to gratify good taste. Tho sight of fair fingers heavily armored with rings is not pleasing. Apart from the suggestion of bar- baric adornment conveyed, the rings spoll the appear- nce of a symmetrical hand. A Leander of eighty-nine, J. A, Soard, swam a Missouri Hellespont, to wit, the swollen Platte River, a flew days ago to reach the side of his bride of six weeks. In Salt Lake City, Jonathan Lefevre, ninety-one, is AGE COULD NOT WITHER. @bout to marry his ninth wife, In Brooklyn, before the Supreme Court, a contest of the will of Paul S. Brown has been begun, in which the allegation is made that when Mr. Brown married young ‘Augusta Andree at the age of ninety in 1901 he was of mneound mind. Three old men admirable whom age could not wither. Lively each as a young colt at a time of life when for most of their sex the lean and slippered pantaloon age long overdue. adoubtedly of the three the Missour! Leander Inter- In our mind's eye we can discern the oI #s, buffeted and beaten back, he makes slow ree | against the billows of the raging Platte. We ; him, as his heart grows faint with the un- 7 erying out to heaven with the original "Spare me on my way; drown me an my re- ‘And the god of love has heard his prayer and ed him to where his bride lay, “fairer than a thou- “Bs most. ‘pters.” An inspiring déed was this, 2 graybeard putting to hare the cheap gallantry of a thousand younger but itisparks. Let us hope that bis Hero is worthy of ‘that she appreciates how much kinder Venus pher than to her namesake of old. @ Bodies—It stems odd to hear of a college Pleading that the weak should be permitted to iss the strong. This Was the burden of the ¥ nt Faunce, of Brown, to the Yale stu- any argument on the question? If the the weak’ they would have had h of Anne's relgn had destroyed have been no Alexander, Pope. “@THE w EVENING # WORL PeBlished by ‘the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to @ , Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office a (VOLUME 48......s0sersreeeereeresNO. 18,268. But fs {t not singu- They iS ‘The importation of diamonds and other precious Btones to the value of $2,422,000 during the month of (May alone furnishes an additional index of prosperity, Diamonds “ahate a 3h DS dOto © OOCOCOOOOROO01 i935 you one of two, what god do,’ Alida i— T should scream Trea! should, Tf ,dear Archie, a2 jou're Mot Qo0' Alida ~ “Now of kisses rahe your fil.— Jus” as mang ds you wi ———— TOLD ABOUT NEW YORKERS. NOW LOOK OUT FOR THE WEIRDEST TRUST OF ALLI. THE FAREWELLS OF WIVES. THAT 12-7! $7. CROWD 43 RESPONSIBLE FER TH1$ CAULIFLOWER TRUST, You BET~ 8UT Z'm Gon’ = TBR PROVIDE FRE CAULIFLOWERS FER’ THIS DISTRICT = NE of the valued possessions of O the late Stuart Robeon was a collection of scrap books compiled by the comedian with great care, They 4i4 not contain press clippings, elther. Mr. Robson was a radical thinker and he neglected, no opportunity to point out what he considered the unworthiness of Persona whose opintons on Ife did not coincide with hia, cut out all the Teport of euch persons’ misdeeds that appeared in the newspapers, and for a number of years he added these clip- Pings assiduously to his oollection. The scrap books increased go much in bulk at last that he was compelled to give up the task, But he was always proud of the monument that he had raised to his opinions, How They Speed Husbands on Business Jour. neys in the Grand Central Station. “ H, sweetheart, you're going to leave me,” she A wailed and clung to an arm of a dig blond man,, who had in a huge tag and a bulging sult-case @ sufficient load without the added weight of the woman and her melancholy wail, His jaws shut quickly, his pink cheeks took a darker hue, “No, no, Tot," he said softly, yet impatiently. “Why will you say that? I'll be back in four days.” ; “Four days!’ she sald tragically, as one might say, with full comprehension of (ts extent. “Eternity “Four days! And I shall cry every minute of the time.*- % “Why, Tot, how foolish. Don't take on so. I wouldn't go (f I didn’t just have to. Try to emil, little one I'm be back just as soon as I can.” ‘ “You don't care. You're going to leave me for four whole days, and you don't care.” She was immersed in her sor row, hiding her face against the arm thatvheld the bulging, suit-case, “All aboard!” shouted the train starter. Rer-r-r and R-r-r-r-Chicago!”” = “There's my train, Tot," sald the Big blond man He Kissed her frantically and hurried away. Tears were in hig eyes, and she—she sank upon a waiting-room seat, shaking with eobs, I’M SORRY, evr I canr ALFORD TO PAY TRUST PRICES! Beers NWT conve? ! ow! ANT LOOK vu )} LenNT ce pact) Tae TaUsTEL AS ° ° o ee Adelina Patti says she Yorker, “I can first ploture myself as a tiny girl, very, very pale and very, very black eyes, running down . Broadway trundiing a hoop,” she eald recently to a Gotham friend. “Oh, the pride and fervor I put into my task! Whatever I did I did with my whole heart, and that has been the secret of my succeag in life," ' oe is a New Now FOR CORNED BEEF ANP CABBAGE S/X PAYS PER WEEK ~ ar THE. B0ARDING HOUSE+ ANOTHER CHANCE FOR DEVERY To (7AKE Goons “Tl be dack by the first,” sald the thin, dark man, tale lady’s hand. “Law! but that grip “I hope you've got everye } Take good care of yourself and don’t : “It's very heavy, thing you need. © | worry about me.” $ |] “rn take good care of myself, but I'd be better satiste’ Wiiton Lackaye, who has come to be known as a sort of heavy-welght Willle| ‘2 Collier through the aptness and orig! nality characterizing his conversation, was touring the South some seasons ago in the play with which be tried to fol- low his Svengal! success. It waa callea| ¢ “Dr. Belgraft” and dealt in a melodra- matic way with the power of hypnotism, but was not sumMctently potent in this respect to attract very lange audiences. in an Alabama town a climax was reached when the local manager dropped back to ¢he stars dressing-room to tell him that {t was the most fashionable audience he had ever seen in the theatre, ‘The audience, numerically speaking, was about eight strong, and Lackaye was heard to whisper that he did not care Sf they were coal heavers !f the house had only been filled. However, he would have his joke at any expense, and dur- ing the next scene, In which Dr. Belgraft| ¢ is alone In his office, the veteran Joseph \Allen entered, and reading his intro- ductory line, looked at Lackaye and in- quired; “Are we alone?" Lackaye, with one qutck glance at the entire audience, nodded his head and replied: “Yes, comparatively alone.’* eo) lene tf you were goini “That's @ dear; but never mind. If you took me you } couldn't give more than half your mind to business. I'l be all riglt. Brother George will see to me.” t “Oh, you're eafe enough. Good-by, sweetheart. I'll write , from Denver. George has got all my addresses if youneed =. , mane Kissed him daintily, smiled after ntm es he hurried through the gate, waited till he had boarded his car, waved her hand and then, very sedate, walked out of the station, BRIDAL SUPERSTITIONS. (Never, in rehearsing the ceremony, read the marrage service entirely over. ES, A bride should use no pins in her wedding clothes. ‘There 1s an old superstition against May marriages, Dec. 81 is @ wavorite day in Scotland. ‘A bride must wear nothing green. That color is em biematio of evil. ‘ ‘To change tine name end not the letter ts change for the worse and not for better. ‘The origin of slipper throwing is not known. It meang, In Yorkshire, Engiand, the cook used to pour hot coffee over the doorstep after the couple had gone, to keep tha uhresholt warm for another bride. sé It is eald ‘Blessed ts the ride on whom the sun shine.” Of THE EVENING WORLD-PEDESTAL. WILL THBY WEAR CAULIFLOWERS INSTEAD OP CARYSANTHEMUMS aT THE MORSE WHERE Affe You BUYING THe CAULIFLOWER), aad SHow P Te, BET A POUND OF P2LON 1009 (85, 500,000) ROCKEFELLER'S BaHiND THIS CAuLiH Flower TRusry PoLoniuny GATES Tee a, TT ING «-f NOVE BUT THE Clyde Fitch 1s npparently tn good pe Bd Aa spirits. A week ago he sent a postal Cow, card to Manager Dillingham in New AFAORD CAVLIFLOWE! York bearing a photograph of himself and his favore ol. ‘The scribbling on the card reads as follows: “Dear C. B. D.—I finished the play to-day! Picture of the guilty author and the dog it's being tried on, Notice | { satisfied expression of the dog—the small one. Yours truly lyde Fitch." Long Island farmers are forming a Cauliflower Trust, to be capitalized at $10,000, 3 The once-humble cauliflower is the blossom of the hour, a 13 And gardenias and orchids must take a rearward seat, 3 LETTERS, : $ While the culinary power of that self-same cauliflower , i QUESTIONS, 3 Has got terrapin and truffles ignominiously beat. ANSWERS, | 9¢929994999009009960006000609506000609860900090O99 9696090090000000O00000 rOOOOO6 ooo - [HOME FUN FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. LETTER HOLDER. Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. WORTH THE PRICE. The bore had his fest on the table and was smoking one of the lawyer's good clgars while he discussed various sub- A Mourning Quegy. To the Editor of The Eveuing World: Is it proper to wear a derby or can I wear a straw hat when in mourning? MOURNER, A straw hat with a black ribbon may be worn in mourning. “WHO CAN HE BE?” The game “Who can he be?” ts in- structive and also helps to refresh the memory. One of the’ party selects a his- age without naming him n anecdote or anything that HOW TO FIND HEIGHTS. Another View on ‘‘Mashe: To the Editor of The Evening World: waeee----- ny SOO ta S98 cond Knee Mas ern Oi: is interesting about him and names the Jects of no particular interest, isi 06; Reco ls to putt BIPlee 01 bas country in which he lived. The player I have heard {t ald,” remarked th halt of the sher" (so-called by a lot ei biiidsaseals er namnkbavineinrest® lawyer, © people. To be a masher { ously the privilege of asking one ques- tlon, glves a description of another char- acter, and so the game progresses. Here eds to be able-looking person, A ne “Shouldn't wonder,” returned the bore, “That he will avold you ever after- t and respect- and 80 pocketbook. “I couldn't get you to accept @ loan of $8, could’ 1?" he asked. But the bore, being @ bore, never saw the polnt, and thus the brilliant echeme went for naught.—Chicago Post. , WORST OF IDIOTS. “Did you say he was arrested for making an incendiary epeech at the tain may be computed without any in- struments, who was the first to strike a blow for freedom. He refused to bow to the Austrian Governor's hat, that had been placed on a pole that all should do homage to {t, and as a punishment for his disobedience he was ordered to shoot an arrow at an apple placed on his son's head or else the son should be put to immediate death before his sight. With horror at the fearful alter- native he at firstgrefused, begging that vengeance might fall on him only, but his son assured him that he did not fear the result and begged him to make the trial, He ylelded to his persuasio: took aim, drew his bow and struck the apple without injuring his son. Who was he some of the girls of the Eastern Dis- trict and say that as persons driven out of one land are welcomed in another, so when the straight-laced peovole from New York and other parts of Brooklyn drive the mashers out let them come over to the quiet and shade of the East- ern District and be received cordially by many of us, at least. As for the Antl- lashers’ League, let the members thereof beware. Many nice girls of the Eastern District are not In accord with the Ant!-Mashers' League. Not by a Jugtul! WILLIAMSBURG GIRL. Would Check Growth, To the Editor of T ping World: Please tell me how to stop growing, the only condition neces- ciadle, agreeable also generous; ts an example: F D® war, Girlito.partaxe ot refrestmenia/and make || | sxc dunnoceuat—emrmn|||/, SZHOEO! Wes a /scolebrated | Byes Ae fn | presents, &c. Perhaps I may speak for cara famous archer, a champion of erty, e 1e CF OFG ‘The lawyer produced his } sary belng the power to approach the base. A foot-rule and two sticks will uppose the height of the tow- be the distance to be taken. At some distance from the base we plant a rod AB about « yard higt, and about a yard away we place another stick, somewhat higher, CD. We must now measure the distance BF, Apply: ing the eye to A we will look to the oummit of the tower B. Upon tho stick CD we will mark the spot where : our visual ray outs this stick, G repre- | ‘Fire!’ "—Philadeiphie Press. senting that point, Then, by measur- BRIGHT SCHEME. ing the distance DG and eubtracting| Parson—Brother, how oan we prevent the helght of AB we shall have GI. Welevery one from donating coppers? From the square plece of packing paper taken from around a bottle, cut down through the middle of one side. Line with silk, Then bend it so that the two pleces of the side rest upon a pleco of pasteboard, which has previ- ously been lined, cut it out the size for @ back to the letter-holder, Before the square plece ts lined piece may be cut large enough for a small photograph. Leave the lining! open so that the photo may be sllpped| in, After the back is pasted on paste| tlonate cabmen.) Children! See on our.Pedestal ‘The worthy MISTHR Reeves! That doughty corporation wight, ‘Who's swatting one good swat for right “The idea! I didn't know he was an Anarchist." “I didn’t say he was; he elmply yelled: By joining in the hard-fought fight | ~ To bring the cabmen’s eins to light hin’ pi & pressed fern to the right of the photo| “Who. but WHllam Tell?” says & and gild all over, or it may be decorated | player, who Instantly proceeds with an- ‘With water colora, ‘ > @ther description of hero or heroine, can now conclude the problem with ¢928|/ Deacon—Oh, I have a good with the Peart Proportion; We'll take up the collection with @ cash = nvalater-Chlongo/New= 77, And grant them no repcexey ” iy Mc. | There is no harmless method ofipheck- dng the growt> ‘