The evening world. Newspaper, October 9, 1903, Page 14

Qublished by tho Press Pudi Company, No. & to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Class Mal! Metter. — @@— ——— SMOLUME 44......... sseeeseeeeeeesNO. 15,389. — $$ $$ $< $$ at pr A BANKER’S RESPONSIBILITY. * By the revelations of the Shipbuilding Trust littga- Hom that old adage of the law, “let the buyer beware,’ de given added emphasis. i Before the cra of “industrials” there was a prevalent Motion that an investor buying stocks or bonds from a ®eputable banking house was afforded a general guar- Gates of the quality of his purchase by the fact that the rm in question dealt in none but approved securities. felt the same confidence in the banker to protect hin against wildcat investments as in his tailor to see that tho cloth in his ovat was not shoddy. What has become of that implied guarantee? Is the the shoddy from the genuine exposed for sale on the wame counter? If that counter along with choice rail- Way bonds contains Shipbuilding stock which a year , later will be worth only $1 a share, is it entirely the cus- {bomer's fau't if he chooses the inferior investment? The latitude allowed the seller is very great. If he ) happens to make a specialty of the securities of Now | Mertey industrial corporations, of which the Shipyard | Company was one, what a mass of depreciated shares “he has dealt.in, whet an amount of bonds hardly worth “the parchment paper on which they are printed! From Jan. 1 last to Sept. 12 forty-four public corpora- chartered in New Jersey with a capital stock of ,000,000, failed with assets estimated to be less in $2,000,000! Were those who sold these worthless securities nag no responsibility to the buyer other than to per- & le him to buy? Was there no moral responsibility ‘davolved? “The questicn may seem a foolishly rhetorical one to fil at a time when tho otiquette of High Finance 1s ‘ghown to have permitted a house of national fame to Whloed on the investing public unrebuked large blacks cd stock of not even dubious value, CIVILIZING THE FILIPINOS Some time ago the army authorities enrolled for ser- Vice with our forces in the Philippines a body of 6,000 Filipino scouts. Their presence added ‘‘a new racial @ement to the army” about which there was much josity and some uncertainty. It was an experiment @ade with caution. +, From the report of Surgeon-General O'Reilly we {n- fer that whatever their military conduct has been they Rave shown very unsoldierlike qualities morally. For @xample, by the hospital average of intoxication among White soldiers, 133 of these Filipinos should have been tted to sick report for the excessive use of alcohol, Actually, only three of the 5,000 little Drown men were treated for alcoholism in one year. That is, where the White rate of admission for the liquor habit was 24.78 per thousand that of these Malay scouts was 0.62! Much of the increase of intemperance among the American soldiers Is attributed to the loss of the canteen, 2 its place there are low resorts on the outskirts of the reservations in which a stronger temptation to _Vice is brought to bear on the soldier. In the case of the Filipino there is no need of this - excuse. But it seems unquestioned that with the Amer- fean soldier the removal of the cleanly and temperate drinking facilities provided by the canteen, and the @ubstitution therefor of private groggery and dive has been a gain neither for the letter nor for the snirit of temperance, RADCLIFFE'S SMARTEST PUPIL. Tt is easy to understand why Helen Keller, now a )@entor in Radcliffe College, is ‘an object of more general imterest” than any other of the numerous undergradu- -utes in that large woman's college. This girl. under the appalling handicap of deafness, @umbnecs and blindness, is studying Shakespeare and} Feading tho most dificult Latin authors. She is taking| '@ course of instruction fully as exacting as that taken| by the senior classes at Harvard. And she is not only proving herself competent for this hard mental work, but sne is excelling classmates who have had the ad- ‘vantage of the full possession of all their senses and faculties since birth. Helen Keller is at once the glory and the shame of feminine scholarship—the glory because of what she has accomplished over tho most formidable of obstacles, and the shame because of the reproach her industry casts on these of greater original talent and less * achievement. What a reproach she is to the dawdler, the dreamer, the indolent whom the anaemic life pleases, the life of| Mothful idleness, e‘fortless and futlle. This wonderful girl's career illotrates by its contrast the criminal mature of lazinezs. e CAMPAIGN SPELLBINDING. a F -qith the time limit of the Mayoralty campaign re- fiiced to a minimum, what the spellbinding of the can- aes lacks in length It will doubtless make up in interes* Io Tammany Hall the Chairman of that organizatior ratoricn! Committss has already opened a schco! of fampaign eloquence. On Wednerday morning |; Grst rounds of platform ammunition were distributed. As thet of the purty in opposition, Tammany’s orato a y red Mghts to apologize for and there ts no Devery #6 defend. With tho Fusion party the argu: y ely to be one cf facts accomplished, which speak Mhuder than words and move persuasively than periods, It fs during tho closing veek of the campai sity wiil cee, as it saw two years ago, the most pic- q feature of the oratorical disnliay. tha cart-to!l eretor is abroad in fullest ~ they. reckon without the cart-tail Clceros, fro: wable plutforms sunburets of glittering rhetoric d Into the ambient air, fusillades of incortro- ue2 of tho greater need cf them there. ‘Been the difference between a Tem- for i ‘ uyer to be left to his own good judgment to distinguish ; jcent wages. The "bum" is the same thing, who, im addition, drinks whiskey to diminish hia misery sree with this definition? +: OOBSHIOHS7 OFS 5 POXOSOEESLHHHHOGIODOSE $O0OOO \agionia |{The Misadventures of Archie---A Ring Episode Oo: Household Hints for the Foolish. HAT'S the use of wasting money W by going to @ store and buying! new and expensive household fur- nishings? Much prettler articles can b made by utilizing old (and even ca: off) utens! or rubbish that was lying about the house. Here are a few direc- tons: THE HOME-MADE NOCKER, A new rocking chalr for the guest room would perhaps cost you $% Save the money, Take two symmetrical bar- re] staves, and. sawing off the lower half of your Morris chair's legs, glue the staves to the bottom to form rock- ers. Buy (at any jeweler's) four gold Knobs, with screw attachments (at about $7.50 each) and attach them to the four corners of the made-over rocker. Have the Morris chalr re-upholstered tn satin or velvet of a tasteful design. And, behold! you have as pretty a home-made rocker as could be bought In any store. A PRETTY WINDOW SEAT. Remove the lid from the piano and cut two yards of material from the parlor carpet. Tack this carpeting on the rosewoot Id and fringe with nine and a half yards of old Iace (which may be procured anywhere for $% a yard) This will give a fich yet dainty effect to the whole design and will afford you as handsome a «window seat as coutd be bought down town for $1.00. FLOWER-POT AND S' Unscrew the brass stand rom tne plano lamp. (The lamp itself may be thrown away or given to the janitor for use in his beer fleet.) Buy (at any | china store) a Satsuma jar about elgh- teen inches in diameter. Have a hole out in the bottom of this and the top of the brass standard @tted Into tt. Paint both standard and jar with or- dinary mucilage and scatter over this sticky surface enough gold dust to! cover the entire surface, Thus (at a trifling expense and by utilizing mainly home-made material) you will have a flower-pot and standard that will grace any window. Cheap Window Curtains, Around certain breed of handker- chiets ts wrapped a pale blue satin ribbon to each dozen handkerchiefs. Therefore, by buying (at $5 a dozen) twenty dozen handkerchiefs you will have ten yards of beautiful blue satin ribbon, such as could acarcely bo bought at any dry-goods store for lesa AND. than 19 conts a yard. Buy (for $12 0 palr) four lace window curtains and Gnstead of buying ribbons to le them Itch) use the blue satin riobea you have so economically saved up for the{ purpose. is the acme of true economy, and If your husband's banic Account does not jump forward with a bound ,it will be because a good thrifty, economical wife is thrown away on such @ man, $= LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS, Yes, in “The Bauble Shop. To the Editor of The Evening World, Was Maude Adams leading woman with John Drew during the season of 1895? If fo In what play? E. PF. G., Newark, N. One Definition, To the Editor of The Evening World A correspondent asks the difference between a “ramp” and a “bum.” A “tramp Is a poor man out of a fob, because he can’t get decent work at de- a. Er. I, JONE He Wont Go Lome, ment 15’ he comes to seo 1 that} Woaat shall 1 do? | It Is then | To the Editor of The Evening World: ' her. are thees ‘ino hold that the oratorical art is do-| These speakers at least preserve the best |: likely to be more numerous than ever in| te climb lamp posts to avotd One of cléauliness and reform. are on @ leash, apé many have no ot things, joo man who hasn't sense go home be » Lovelock at night when my daughter? He has en keeping company with her for three months and 1 do) mad by, telling him Dreams Suit Should Be Worn, Is a Prince Albert coat, white goudle- usted vent how tle, with boed trous: stume for fanction after 6 F. D. The Dog Menace, To the Editor of The Evening World: | In spite of the dog-muzailng law, from ho aumier of children bitten recently and tho number of grown people trying tea by suppoted mud dogs, 1 law rhowld be more striccty on Many dogn are not muzzled. reed. Vory few ough to} 922444 O08 Ernie—You are a great lover of @ romance. p your father’s coachman? 0 Ida—Too plebcian! until he gets a chauffeur, Bd WATCH BABY— HORTENSE H MAY FALL - Bertle—How do you get on with Miss Sweetly, old chap? Willie—Grand! The other night 1 asked her how she liked me and she said, “Out of sight! Why not run away with Vit walt Count Vacum—Ah, eet seems zat ze rich American girls are getting scarcer and scarcer for us. Count Dodo—Yes, monsieur, all ze “get-rich-quick” concerns are receiving hard blows in America, PD 9OSSSHHOHSHOHEHOGOHHHDHHHH-9409OOHO00O 0000-41 Stanies Told About New Yorkers. RED G. Ross, ha Inquisitty F veloped, sald to him: “Unele, what am I made of?" “Why, you were mad the same as everybody 1s." “Gee!” wish ['a come from the street that the tunnel runs through “What for?" “Why, because by this time I'd have | theatrical been as big as a giant!" Mr. © IAs, "ATER OF CHILDREN, Ue Schools, recent!y was talking with a principal 'who related some of the amus- le nephew whose bump ef/On one occasion ke was in a classtoom ers is abnormally de-| when the teacher was hearing @ lesson ‘The other cay the yonngster|in entomology, and asked: “How long is the sting of a hor Quick ns of dust, Just | hat as A v exclaimed the Uttle chap, “I! tim is from the reurost remedy.” asked his uncle Charles E tes, not long ago pald a | visit to the office of a Chicago newspa- . |per. While talking to the city editor, a telephone bell tinkled. “Who wants to talk to me?" shouted the editor to che bog in charge of the Maxwell, Superintendent of Pub- theatrical manager, jing answers which bright pap!is made.) awitchboard, just acrces the room. net?""| jon times not to enll out the nar red-| Jadies who ask for me? Wext hat depends vpon how far the vic-| their converration. rson Cook, well known in| unfortunato switchboard boy. \v ‘Miss Jenn’ “Cut Ht elty editor. angrily interrupted the | “Haven't I told you @ mul- ot} you do that I'll fire you!” Mr, Cook and the editor then resumed In a few moments the telepbone be!l again whirred. | “Who ts i?" shouted the edftor to the | But the | lad was very foxy this time and replied In @ manner that would have done cyedtit to any diplom: “Eomebody te to pee somebody!"* oe President Roosevelt relates with much | o¢ glee @ story told him just before leay- ee , on Which Edith’s Papa Rings In. + + ¥F F Mrs, Waitaminnit--the Woman Who Is Always Late. She Remains Wedded to Her Art a Liltle Too Long and Poor Baby Suifers in Consequence. ? 3 “Since Harry Bluelace had his name stamped on his cigarette: he gives them away quite fr 1 guess name In every one’ DM SS ing Oyster Bay for Washington. |appears that an oll everybody thero calls ah article about women which him deeply, Turning to his wl sat near him darning socks, he sald: “Ba: do you know that you y, Marla ‘Obadiah! What do just been reading Womnn is the Bunday o1 that statement just about fits you. hat sound: ht e wanted his mouth.” i} SESPDSOOD neighbor, “Farmer Fur- on account of his fondness for ploughing, one evening was reading an ch an irreverent remark?" med, at ain't irreverent, Mai in this paper, thar f man,’ and 3 The New Finance ‘ a la Morgans CAN'T understand the way that Morgan “| off those Wall street killings,” remarked the}, Cigar Store Man. i “In big mitt circles,” said the Man Highep! Up, “they call it outgeneralling a sucker. When § comes to distinguishing the corpuscles in the veins @@) the system it’s like looking through a stained-glass! window to me, but I think I'm wise to the scenario, With} your kind attention I will make a stagger at illustrating: with an illustration. “Right around the corner from where you live there is a delicatessen shop run by Herman Meyer and August’ Schmidt. You are in there on a Sunday afternoon buye ing your jar of pickles or your hunk of dried fish whem) Meyer confiles to you that the business 1s worth $2,000 “Tt happens that you have got a bank roll salted away, —remember this is a pipe—and you get a delicatesseyy microbg. You've got a lilliputian J. P. Morgan intelledt and you conclude that it is up to you to Morgenize the delicatessen business of the neighborhood, “The next night you take Schmidt duwn to the corne®, thirst parlor, fill him full of hot air and alcoholic bev ages and buy his interest in the business for $600. Thea’ you jump into the delicatessen business and bluff Moyer until Meyer thinks that you own the works. i “That is your cue to organize the Harlem Bolognm; Lieberwurst, Schmierkase and Sauerkraut Syndicate, You n.ake it a corporation with a capital of $50,000. AI it stands you Js the $600 you have put into the origing® delicatessen and the incorporation fees. “ “Just around the corner there is a delicatessen shop run by Oscas Schmeltz. You do a hot foot around gy, Schn eltz and massage him inte the belief that the thing: to do is to meld his business with the concern that tg} run by you and Meyer. To do this, you explain, it ta) necessary to get both concerns bought out by the Harlem) Bologna, Lieberwurst, chmierkase and Sauerkraut Syme: OSS SOTO? dSOBO: dicate. “You get Schmeltz and Moyer together and propose} that the syndicate buys out each business for $25,000? apiece, payable in securities of the syndicate, You give. Meyer $10,000 worth of securities and take $15,000 worthy’ for yourself. You give Schmeltz $10,000 worth of securle tles and charge him $15,000 in securities for doing it. “Of course Schmidt and Schmeltz, having $10,008 apiece in securities of the Harlem Bologna, Lieberwin Schmierkase and Sauerkraut Syndicate, fall to path ui spring, and they agree not to try to sell any of thela securities until you have got rid of yours. So you around the nefghborhood to Reilly, and O'Brien, Burns and Cody, the saloonkeepers; and Gallante, Strauss and Shavinski, the barbers; and Mulligan Himmelreich, the green-grocers; and Jones, Smith andl Brown, the druggists, and sell them the $30,000 wort! of socurities that you hold in the syndicate. In selling! the securities you promise them that the combined delicatessen business of you and Meyer and Schmelts will pay dividends amounting to 10 per cent. a wi , Wait a week and move,” ; “But,” protested the Cigar Store Man, “suppost the dolicatessen business don’t pay 10 per cent. a week' “Why should {t?” asked the Man Higher Up. “You'wy got yours, haven't you?” A Mysterious Willow. In the garden adjoining St, George's Chapel at Windeap) Castle 1s @ tree with one of the strangest of stories. Blighted! and stunted by Hghtning, it stands to recall one of thé, ‘tragedies of history. It 1s a willow and grew from a cutting! taken from the tree above the grave of Napoleon at St Helena, For long {t flourished in {ts new position. But om the day of the battle of Sodan, in which the power of New poleon III. was crirhed, a flish of lightning carried nwag its chief branch. Still, in its mutilated state it continued to grow lustily enough until, years later, it was smitten yp. | another Ughtning stroke. Careful comparison showed thet the second disaster synchronizal exactly with the death wg?” 2 the Prince Imperial, son of Napoleon IIT., at the binds of 2 | Zulus tn Africa. Ps Scr + 3 A New Tribe, 3 Tho administrator of the Government of British Now Gulnen reports tho discovery of an extraordinary tribe ee marshland dwellers in that island. ‘The land ts too swarmpy to be walked upon, and tho tangled tropical ume: in tht wide stretches of shallow water renders ca: LE ale 1t| Moat impossible, The native dwellings are built in the tro@p Wwhom | above the water level. As the result of ‘these conditions the natives are gradually losing the use of thelr bower Imbg, They are unable to walk on hard ground without suftoring. from bleeding feet. Their bodies have developed enormousiy in the trunx, but the thighs, legs amc fect are diminutive, ©] In figure and catringe they are ape-ike, Anthrozclogista impressed wh ere very much excited over the discovery, you, mean sho A Unique Remedy. - ria, I've] A physician has recently described a novel mothod of #ee moving a fish bone that was lodged crosswise in a page tlent’s throat. The bone was too low to be reached by amp 211] forceps at hand, and so the doctor tied a string in the emu of @ smooth button and had the patient swallow the bute * ton—edgewise, of course, Then he crew the button back ‘the atring and the bone was promptly dislodged,