The evening world. Newspaper, October 16, 1903, Page 14

at and thick Australian _ Ohefs, and New York tal shares —<$< $$ — VOLUME 44......005 essseseeeesees NO. 18,396. : A PROPHET IN A PRIVATE CAR. | -Bilijah the prophet was made conspicuous by his long who has assumed the role of his successor under the name of “Elijah Il.” is bald and, to quote his own words, ‘“‘bandy legged.” The prophet of the Hebrews wore for his ordinary clothing a girdle of leather around his loins and his “mantle” was a sheepskin. He dwelt in the lonely hills and ravines of Gilead. He had no acquaintance with a “shiloh house” of palatial kind as a dwelling. He trav- _ Biled about on fot. Dowie inclines to marble bathrooms, brass beds and formance for him, no sackcloth or scourging or abstin- tnce, but the fat of the land and the fulness thereof. Religion on a commercial basis with a syndicated Zion and a vast congregation of stockholders, preferen- A Stran ad er fue of Zion stock, approved last July, a $2,000,000 block in Netw York. of $100 shares to be taken wp at par, no more, no less. 1.@0OROSO9O0906 New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. hair, which hung down his back; the former clerk and present “overseer of Zion City,” he begins his crusade for the regeneration of Vv in a private car. No Peter the Hermit per- and common, that is the idea. The latest is- by Dut at $15,000,000, probably an overestimate. if who sees things Ry: Can any good come out of Dowie? God works in a] ‘shortly before 9 o'clock, Of how In this ing of the him down agreement. shouta of their lack stitations. suance of <A ard jof personal abstinence extending to other indul- -LITTLE LESSONS IN FINANCE—IV The terms on which the underwriting of the secur-|!2« the crowd that ties of the Paobititins Company was undertaken, as (Reseed creer eee eee Prete @isclosed by the Dresser testimony, furnish the fullest | giing flow to this outpour of the Empire showing ever made public of the enormous fees exacted | Bullding. It was « continuous belch. lor the “financing” of stock company enterprises. ‘Im order to realize $8,100,000 in cash the company|was a good deal of the oven, steady | > J Htood ready to give up to the underwriters $9,000,000 in| low of water in the way That is to say, for every feady to surrender more than half a million additional | count. fa stocks and bonds, The fact that the stock in ques-|heerd hi Hon was soon to be worth only 1 per cent. of its face Yalue does not alter the extortionate aspect of the|gan to totter. tsurious bargain. a A newspaper in South Carolina edited by a man of good repute having made charges against the character of a citizen, James H. Tillman, the citizen in question _ proceeded to waylay the editor on the street and to shoot Quitted the prisoner. The Judge's charge had been dis- tinctly in his favor and it is regarded as “surprising” that the jurors consumed twenty hours in coming to an As was to be expected, the verdict was received “with But this does not alter the fact that an editor in pur- killed in cold blood and his slayer permitted to go unpun- ished for the deed. emy what must I do? WHEN “UNCLE TOM” WAS YOUNG. Remembrances of “The Black Crook,” in which the fate Henry C, Jarrett made $1,100,000, seem like recol- Jections of a former state of being. an outgrown plane “Of consciousness. The veteran manager will be recalled| wo Unive: by many mainly for his fast special train which broke Fecords between New York and San Francisco in 1876. But there sre some who will remember his “Uncle 's Cabin” troupe, a pioneer venture, which attracted d@ attention in 1859. Last year was the semi-centen-| Where is the Vanderbilt Clinic? atal of the appearance of Mrs. Stowe's powerful story, pnd ® few years after its publication it was produced on came opposite the Empire Building, at mysterious way his wonders to perform. Of the 4,000) x4 7 weonaway, I aaw a man of very devoted followers who agreed to accompany the “over-|rural appearance standing on the curb general morality. His jaw hung down about Be? Probably this pseudo-prophet reaches many who! prthodox church teachings have missed. actually on tbe pop. of a Skyscraper Dazed Him. many times before as I treked the lanes against his lung box. His eyes were eee THE # EVENING # WORLD'S = = Se egtemnce eal W/ 7 e Vv a WAS sauntering along to my office mii the other morning,” said the man | store Ma: in a crowd, and when -| 4. park Sela “It was a couple of minutes before I} 4 lesson down and eddied away in bonds, pay $1,650,000 in bonds and stock as a “commts-| g:-ections. ¥on for underwriting” and allow a bonus of several] “As I tooked et the Rube eguin I Millions in bonds and stocks for “promotion.” naw that he was counting, teeth were tn «rave danger $1,000,000 #0 secured tt stood |Sottapee under the frantic eure of the I edged over toward him and im mutter in a dazed tremor: thousand.’ and gasped: ‘feel kinder sick. Am I this promoter’s pound of flesh saps the life or ain't I? I've stood in pf @ corporation we have another striking current ex-| 4oorway half an hour an’ watched about ample in the collapse of the White Mountain Paper|eight million men, women and boys Company, which the United States District Court at Con- » . sord, N. H., has this week declared bankrupt. Court last July-it was alieged that ‘item minutos after /SlevAied UTI citen overdelft on it fits organisation the company had expended its tire capital of $25,000,000 and had less than §$10,- 900,000 to show for it!” way to earn eno! in ‘these see hereabdou' 2 same petition the bondholders alleged that they were “further influenced in investing by the stand- LETTERS, trustee of the mortgage,” a New York trust QUESTIONS, Pompany, whose President, they asserted, had reported that the bonds “had been underwritten to the amount of 95,000,000 by. responsible men.” Here enters again the question of that “moral respon-| 1 the Editor of The Evening sibility” of the reputable banker in recommending an {nyestmert in securities of dubious value, ol, Mary 1s twice as old when Mary was as old as years. with a revolver. Yesterday the jury ac- @) x—y=13 @) M-y= x July, 1876? * what he conceived to be his public duty was country? No. 15 Amsterdam ‘To the Editor of The Eventn; A. ‘an event in American theatrical history to ‘Tittle Eva? How many playhouses did they ot extract trom sympathetic eyes! The hisses) asleep and will not let an; im protest at Legree’s brutality if com- | distur le ime denired, {t Striden dem; "6 mali 4 not lee it eon! ation might | one’s mini aly fel to the perch of his «gitmpse, Then it came over me quick. He was watoh- surged out of the ‘There They were coming down over the steps lie the overflow of @ dam, and there “He turned pale under his tan and be- At last he caught at my come out an’ not @ durn person go in. “It's @ tarnal big dullding, but, by the great pimpled turhip, they couldn't get + This rival to the Paper Trust was incorporated 10} that many in if they put them through New Jersey in Decomber, 1901, and organized in March,|a cider press. Tell me, Me 1902. Its capital stock was $15,000,000 in preferred and fommon and its authorized bond issue $10,000,000. ‘opriend,’ I sald, ‘the In the petition of the bondholders to the Concord} pujiding opens on the Rector street e, am I alck or how'— \ I got under his dream in @ second. nto tip the janitor ing stone boxes you ANSWERS. ———_ Solution to “Ann’s Age’ Problem Problem—Mary !s twenty-four years How old ts Ann? Answer—Bighteen SOUTH CAROLINA LAW. years, Solution—Let x—Ann's age, and let y=the number of years since Muy old as Ann is now. ‘hen, “y" ago Mary's age was %—y years. age was x—y years—12 years, Ann's present age te ty yearssex From (1) and (2) we got x=18. WILLIAM P. GARRETY, Teacher in P. B. No. 109, No. 209 East Forty-sixth § Not an Evening High School. ” To the Edit ¢ The Kvening World: approval” by the friends of Tillman, who|” where is Public School No. 78? Is it a crowded about to offer congratulations, Why not? The| young ladies’ evening high school? man who killed Gonzales had acted in accordance with cavalier tradition. He had followed “the unwritten |p, the eaitor of The Evening World: law,” avenged his injured honor with his own hand and| Did Ruhliin knock down shown himself superior to courts. For the populace to| ttle at Madison Squere Garden? withhold a tribute of esteem would have been to show ‘Tharaday. of support of one of thelr most cherished in-|1o the Raltor of The Evening World: What day of the week was the éth of Apply to Your Congressman. To the Editor of The Evening World: > dn order to get into the Naval Acad- JOHN sAssH. | 3 Democratic, To the Editor of the Evening World: At the time of a Presidentia! election does the Republican or Democratic can- didate generally carry the South? 1 National Fi ‘To the Hditor of the Evening World: Have we any national holiday ty this} ‘ R ‘To the Kditor of the Evening World: How to Wake Ea: ken at w.ll by merely using his He in pervading interest with the debut of Uncle|will ‘power. If a person on retiring wilt concentrate his mind on the one idea of : waking at @ certain hour and will con sfuffocation, Gow many pints of scalding tears) tinue that train of ¢hought until he fails they tripped their various and “hat his ot seein’ people front of this tor godliness rear of this nd what you World: as Ann was Ann js now. OOOO00000000000GSS 609609006005 0000G6-00: RSC. Fitz in their = $FS000S000000 0000006000 JAD, Tv. J. M. Oe M. W. oa A. A Avenue, World: inflicting ideas “Whi ve it up| tong.” ing that | oy, drlone ‘arai| e.@horter now, you ae Deputy Commiasioner Piper’# carriage for three| slewalk. “I've seen J. Pierpont Morgan's carriage held up/ layed trac only a Uttle ove: a minute. Mr. Piper, | blue flannel shirt putting in a ton of coal,” raid The! ous criminal personaty—and sat on the bench w7th Man Higher Up, “and all Mr. Morgan did was) the Magistrate—said' that he had held the watch, and to sit still and look holes in. the coachman’s back.|{t was three minutes. And the policeman who made ‘Beer’ on his eastern crusade, not one, as a true Dowleite. | before the entrance of the dig building. | wen you frame up that Piper values his time at @| the agrest, he trafled along with Deputy Commis- uses tobacco, There {s a gain here, and with this atand-|! had seen the rustic gape of wonder | agar a minute Morgan must be a plker. stoner Piper. It wac three minutes for the cop. “Probably if Mr. Piper had put the truckman wise| ‘what else could the cop do? Could he stack up his of this little village. but T was really | +, nis identity there wouldn't have been a hold-up.| judgment of time against that of Deputy Commis- fences there must undoubtedly be a resultant gain for |alarmed about this particular poll-tiller. | ne proud and haughty manipulator of the reins over | sioner Piper? If you show me three inches, ! 4 couple of horses with whiskers on their fetlocks| hasn't got his arm around his m [Crushing his Ittle bunch of wiiskers | coulan't keep his dignity stiff for a second if he got|advertising eign in your front window. next that he was keeping Deputy Commissioner tper| “This truckman was at work before Deputy Com- from Mulberry street. But Mr. Piper wants to plant| missioner Piper was out of bed. one-armed man coming along behind him in a carriage|the man who stakes him to $9 every Saturday—bo- JOOL OF ME HEART, fp SD) sy # #& No. IL--Little Tragedies Strikingly Told in Four Words. # The Man HisherUp-OntheValueof).7.C.Piper’sTime Brom the 6,500 acres of land on Lake Michigan, which | The Endless Crowd Coming Out BEE they fined a truckman §% for holding up efter this he will probably drive his team up on the was bought at a nominal figure for the alte of Zion City «J _ and parcelled out among the followers of the prophet, “how much was realized? The figures were at one time | §6 “There was one point about the arrest and hearing in the police court that was a scream to me. ‘Ine papers sai that the truckman awore that he had de- nutes on Broadway,” remarked the Cigar Row for ten minutes by a large man with &/ who went to the Police Court to prosecute the hein- New York cop that b I'll bite an artistic had his horses store owned by for the truckman. If one of them sees a| hitched and was on his way to t ee ' Should a Man Be Obligedto Do Allthe Conrting? fore the icicles were off the face of the sun. He He was told to deliver that case of goods to a cer-| (>) PINIONS differ greatly as to the amount of encourage- tain business joint. ment to woo which {t is becoming and judicious for a the curb and started to unload the goods. He wi Many a woman has frightened away a suitor wffom she * doing what he was told to do and what he was get-| would willingly have accepted by a frigid demeanor which + Commissioner Piper was rushing to work and the| to meet his advances, says Helen Oldfield in the Chicago ve firet thing he knew he was sloughed." Tribune, ron f bling into bed after a hard'night’s work, all barrooms| should be allowed not only to smile upon tut to hold out her were being cleaned out, pool-room keepers were olling| hand to the man who she has reason to suppose desires It. and dips and moll buzzers were pounding their ears| like {t so long as one {s not overbold about it," says a fash- between IIncn sheets.” fonable Englishwoman in a recent novelette to a girl whose Cigar Store Man. his vanity; once capture that and you may lead him as you “Well,” retorted The Man Higher Up, “a man with | Choose, ; hit driving « truck" Js in love with him, but {t does not always make h’m in love ~-=* with her. This is a case, on the contrary, where pity is free — \ t Encouraging a Lover. backed up his truck and a case of goods was loaded, By Helen Oldfield. Path “He drove over there, bumped the truck against 0 woman to extend to the man whom she loves. ting his pay for. He didn’t know tit Deputy Police] was merely the result of her Aesire not to appear too eager + “At the same hour tired-eyed gamblers were tum- On the other hand, there are those who cla'm that a woman up the dope for the afternoon and hundreds of crooks ~sncourage thom all you can, the more the better; they “These truckmen are annoying sometimes,” said the| CMaperon she fs. ‘The strongest hold upon a man fs through a meek and lowly spinit wouldn't make much of a It is truo that it flatters most men to believe that a woman quently far from being akin to love. All men are not gentlemen, alack! and there are those who The Woman No Man Will Marry. (<Q) 28m rms contre ron aay ng ove » # The Wacillating Creature Who Does Not Know Her Own Mind for a Minute af a Time. the other hand, she need not be so reserved as to give him the impression that she 1s wholly ind:fferent to him. She may/V/"T\ show that she admires him and likes to hear him talk with eee even though he were the sweetheart of another in. Witt You MARRY There are few men who will risk a proposal of. marriage IME NEXT WEEK? without good reason to. hope that it will be accepted. A THERE 1S No.USE. woman of tact can imply much while she actually says WAITING, 13 THERE? nothing, and ca K v Witt, I ASK FATHE: SAY, CAN'T You SAY ANY Yj EQUIVOCAL. 4 } FEMININE CHARITY. } AN INSINUATION, PA'S VERSIC.L “My motto,” sald Miss Elder living up te i.” - aN Mn ogy /, 4 Jach—I had & row with my rich pes 7 t her probable suitor see that he Is far $ Ing unpleasant in her sight. : Hep Ls When a man devotes himself to one woman to the negtect of all others she 1s justifiable in supposing that he ts in love with her even tiefore he says so in unmistakable terms, and she may venture to be cordial without infringement of her dignity. But she ia wise who is not too much s as while a woman may welcome her lover's advances shi vance to meet them. And i behooves her always to remember that in aff: ‘aira of the heart words only, written or spoken, are to be counted valld witnesses, In lov Nae eddy e affairs er do actions speak louder Odd Statistics, The banking capital of New York Ci cans Ppa Ne City has been doubled During the racing season more t! ba: eocring he rac han $1,000,000 a day fa ° =, The convicts in the Ohio penitent! against 2.500 tn hard times, nt TOW Sumber 1.466, Nearly one-third of the $81,000 inhabitants of Cleveland, 0. were born in Europe. More’ than $10,000,000 worth of sporting goods were sold in the United States last year. French ts the language of more than a aniilion of the three and a halt millions of Canadians. ur total trade with Alaska for the fiscal : porte, $10,228.00; exports, $3,417,000 jones? The United States Treasury holds three and nine-tenths times as much gold as the Bank of England. Fivo hundred and sixty thousand person in the United States are dependent upon the street care for eupport, ee The suicide rato in the United States has increased In ten ® ; years from 12 to 17 per 100,000 population, Only nine men have been hanged in Kentucky tn the last “ five years, although there have been 798 murders, Only 11 per-ceut. of the families of London emplo} vant, but there are 205,88 persons of the servant cl Characteristics, A man will run es fast as he can to cross @ rallrond track in front of @ train. ‘Then he will watch it till it goes out of sight. Then he will walk lelsurely away. He seems to be all right and probably is. That is 2 man, A woman in @ street car will open a satchel and take out a purse, take out a dime and close the purse, open the satchel, put in the }purse, close the satchel and lock both ends. Then she will \ yj L YUy give the dime to the conductor, who will give her a nickel WY Y G %| dack. ‘Then she will open the satchel and take out the purss, Yi Y put in the nickel, close the purse, open the eatchel and put In the purse, close the satchel and lock both ends. Then ashe will feel for the buckle at the biack of her belt.. That 1» @ woman. sere Judgment of Eggs. Many Chinese frequent Philippine markets and are 00d patrons, as many have restaurants and need large supplies, Thew drive as keen a bargain as a Fillpino himself, He usually bu; number of ‘eggs an@ always carries with him to market @ emall tin pail full of water to test‘their uee- fulness. If,the egg falls to the bottom of the pail it is wood; if tt rises to the top it is bad and is refused, only to be care- fully wiped off by the vender and put back in stock to catch ' ® customer without « pail. Fastest RR. Work. ‘The record for speed in railway construction has achieved on the Baluchistan Ra{lway, which was pus! across @ treeless plain at three and @ quarter miles a day, ————— An October Incident leigh, “is ‘Never say die!” uncle on- day last week. R *) course,” rejoined Miso Edith—\What was the trouble? ‘es, but the days are’ getting Latensreve, “1 don’t blame you } Did. lose the ticket your { UF sy UR, Se