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3 Sag ~~ wry he may desire ts higher. )), swhicl! these ‘lectures afford, that this new function of We /@ night as “recreation centres,” by which they are that their Publishing Company, No. 5 to @ Park Row, New York. @ntered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. ——— WOLUME 44.......0.0ceeeseeeepees NO. 18,307. —$ WAGES AND COST OF LIVING. According to the figures of Secretary Job, of the Chi- @ago Employers’ Association, the workman was never 80 ‘Well off as now; the age Of steel is his golden age. There is no disposition to controvert the statement. dl But some doubt may be expressed regarding Mr. Job's eonclusion that because the,“employee is receiving from 15 to 40 per cent. more in wages than he was paid five Fears ago, while the cost of provisions has increased only 113 per cent. in that time, it is all cakes and ale for him. Wages, like theatrical salaries, are not computed for @ full year of fifty-two calendar weeks, nor do they re- main always at concert pitch. This is specially true of Railway employees. The New York Central is preparing to reduce its labor expenses on a large scale. Its track forces will be cut own 50 per cent. and nearly 1,500 of the men employed 4m shops.and round-houses, oilers, wipers, round-house Inborers, will be laid off. The Southern Pacific and the Atchison are contemplating large reductions of their ‘working force and other railways as well, Bullding la- borers, bricklayers, masons, bridge and structural steel ‘workers, a host of men in various trades, cannot count on @ year's uninterrupted employment. But the 11:per cent. increase of cost in provisions shows no diminution. forced up. This week has seen an advance of 2 1-2 cents ‘® pound in spare ribs, and chops and other cuts cost More than a week ago. Yhe workman's clothes cost him more than they did, hfs wife's dresses are more expensive, his rents are higher in many cases. Not only does everything that omes up his dumbwaiter take more out of his week's @arnings, except perhaps flour and sugar, but every lux- Prosperity brings more dollars to spend, but they do stances, as with the laid-off employees, the supply of dollars suffers an enforced decrease the struggle to main- tain # décent existence is made all the harder. ' A BOY'S CHANCES The lads of the Armour Institute who heard ex-Pres!- Gent Cleveland say that he would “rather have his boy §row up able to build a great bridge like the Brooklyn Bridge than to receive the highest honor that the people sould bestow upon him,” heard a statement the full force of which they perhaps do not realize. It is a tribute to the dignity of constructive labor hich could not have been looked for from such a source dna previous epoch. That it could be uttered by one who has twice enjoyed the power and prominence of thé Presidency marks the wonderful change which a half century of industrial and mechanical progress has made| fm the relative rank of the world’s workers. It furnishes & new point of view from which toestimate the real im- portance to civilization of the mind which could con- eeive of such a contribution to its industrial welfare. The opportunities, as Mr. Cleveland well said, for boys to get a practical education which may lead to such a tlumph are now greater than ever in the nation’s hii tory. The equipment of scientific and technical schools ls on a par with the academic equipment of school a bot go as far as in dull times and when in individual ie] follege. It was not so a generation ago. The youth in earch of a mechanical education was then forced to g to the shops for the practical experience which he now gets along with the more valuable theory in the scientific tchool. At Cornell, for example, he finds in his “class- feom” a $20,000 locomotive, a perfect specimen of the Fd n THINKING PAPA WOULD POF 8SODFTHHSF-4-GI-GTSTTOGHTHTHHGS OSS 2 SSIS Beef Trust prices have been again’ « eo THE »# EVENING .2 WORLD THEY PLAN A KISS ON THE “Q.T! S- PPOCHOODOOE POOOLOODITEOLO LOSS « The Misadventures of Archie--Kissing Goes by Favor, but Not with Edith’s Papa. PAPA HEARD WHAT ARCHIE —“SAID. We YOU AND | SHOULD HAVE TO. PART NOT SEG IT WOULD SURELY BREAK MY HEART." LET Mm LAY HANOS ON THAT VILLAIN, $400400006004 w HOME » MAGAZI & SO. AT-WILL, BREAN AID HEAD" gale Weather Wise and Other Lies. The Forty-Niner’s Recollection of Some Sudden Weather in California, 66 changeable,” said the oldest inhabitant as he lowered him- Self carefully Into a seat in City Hall rk. ho! I don't call this so durned changeable. I've seen wuss an’ sud- dener changes in my day out In the San Juan country,” said the Forty- niner, who enjoyed the brisk morning air at the other end of the bench “Humph! You may a seen some purty sudden wenther, but I seen {t once change three times in twelve hours when I was whalin’ on th' Mary Jane out o’ Bedford, We wuz Jest off th’ banks an’ we had to change f'om heavy EATHER'S — gittin' — mighty. '' Hght clothes in the mornin’ an’ fom Ught back t’ heavy at noon, an’ then from heavy back t' light agin ‘bout 5 o'clock in th’ afternoon.” “Thet want very sudden changes." Said the Forty-niner. “Why. I've seed th’ weather travle in belts an’ the edges was so sharply defined that you could stand with one foot In a belt o° cold weather and t'other foot in a belt o' hot weather. Once a case like thet) happened when I was goin’ overland in| @ wagon t’ Californy in ‘50. It was {es In th’ spring o' th’ vear an’ this belt o' weather travelled right along ‘ith the wagon fer two whple days stoppin’ when I did and go'n' on again when | Most modern engine building. He begins his inetruction where students in his father's day left off. There never before were such prizes as now to award the genius of the student in a technical school. In chem- and electricity and engineering there are possibil- beyond estimate for making a permanent contribu- tion to the world’s progress and incidentally reaping the fichest of financial rewards. And the poor boy is as well equipped for the contest &s the rich. | ' | THE ‘‘CHROMO” CURE. | Many interesting theories have been advanced about the remedial effects of colored Ight—did not violet light nce cure cancer and were not the rays of the eun shin- ing through blue glass 8 panacea for all human ailments? —but apparently Dr. Babbit with his chromopathy pre- gcriptions hes surpassed all exverimenters who have gone before. By this new chromo therapeutle process you expose water to the direct influence of light of the color produc- ing the effect desired, drink the water and presto! the , Femedy {3 at work. If you wish to fill yourseif with ani- mation uce water charged with the sun’s rays that have passed through a red lens and await results. sumably is the chromic cocktail. Water treated to blue Tays has a quieting and soothing influence, on the bromo} order; yellow tones up the nerves and orange puts a fimebing touch of tonic in you; ‘it is an ingredient the ef- feacy of which the barkeeper long ago recognized. It would teem, indeed, that the doctor has begun an Insidjous attack on the demon rum, If both the “tonic’ find the day-after nerve restorer can be provided by the Mere infiltration of the sunlight in water through a col- ored glass the pricer of distilled stimulants must fall to ruinous cheapness. With a prism in every hougehold the Sunday «i le-door Quesiion wovld be solved forever, SCHOOL CLUB- .COMS. ‘The sight of a son-7} Louse lighted up at night, a *ene that has become a ccsimonplace of city life within A decade, signalizes a reuorksble extonsion in usefulness pf the free-school system. : It is not only in the transformation of schoolrooms fnto lerture-roomis, In whith, by Dr. Leipziger’s figures 1j204,12% pergons laet ‘year enjoyed the entertzinment _ Ubefulness ix exercised. It is by the use of public schools We to eerve as neighborhood club-roome of unity has heen widely extended. ‘: t present there are twenty-two of these centres jn @reater city, elghteen cf which are in Manhattan and nly on the cast side, ie gerve as mecting places for i; {2 some there are gymnasiums; in others instruc- mi i8 glyén in industrial art, and ral contain read: : }, No provision is made for children; boys under #re-not admitted in the establishment of these informal club- fru! a “settler Bt" idea may be traced, ir-Work ts most admire # )admits of no den boys’ dobating Teachers.--Complaint comes trom This pre-|, hitched up, It stuck t’ me so close that the hosses would be walkin’ on frozen ground while the wheels o' th’ wagon would be mud up t’ th’ huba, th an’ dividing line o’ the weather ke right between the tails th’ dashboard o' th’ whole two days.’ pin’ o' th’ hosses ar wagon fer th The oldest neighbor. cou guessed he's twice and @ to be going. LETTERS, ‘ QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. ntleth Strect or 357 ty-fifth Street, 2 sald he 310 Enst 1 Went 1 ay nhabitant looked at his} “ To the Editor of ing Wo Where is the newest publ school for males te East Thi street?) Straight Flush and Royal Plus Syracni Ing World: To the Editor of The What hands in @ game of poker beatt In what clty did Con 7. B. Balloon,’? To the Editor of The Evening World What fs the meaning of the word “dirigible’ when used in speaking of balloons? F. RIEGELMAN, A dirigtble balloon Is one that can be steered In any direction rhe Seven W To the Eattor of 7 What were the world?” Tho seven wonders R ra of the World. Ing World nN wonders of th, Cc 8 sm. Carta e nat Ephesus, the hang Dana of Babylon and the tvory statue of Olymplan Jupiter, ok Sult for Day Weddlug, Dresy Suit Cor Evening, of The Exening World suitable for a PSS George Gardn ‘To the Haltos of The Fy Was tho Gerdrer v Root named Le ing World » Knocked out e Gardner? | To the Bait He! Let those de: ” leense #.X monihs or a year be! marriage, In other words, be quainted six montis or a marriage. Als let those de ne apart vorce be rea to live six months or a year before being eligibl MUTH. | T. 8M ack, N. t To the Editor of The Evening World: for a divorce, Mispositicn amiong oMeiais to apply polltical Meieicy of school ‘teachers, it {s an anti- iva} “Of times when the smatier party ee lucation. In the There Is an old saying that tall women prefer short men and vico versa. My Observation leads me to doubt ¢ i would like to hear from girls on. th ® t. Girle, do you (irres) your owa height) prefer tall or short ‘men? Men, do,you prefer tall or short live reg#ons in both, cures, ‘is? 3 aS, tive ot] y gadly Sees Price of Board Joar houses with miles of ‘floor space. After killing; meat and fish and deceased hens and roosters, a cow they embalm {t and pack it away to| the wholesaler and retailer get their profit just shorten the supply and keep up stock for emer-| the same, the restaurant end hotel proprietors gencies.. The shorter ithey can keep the supply! get theirs and the man who has to eat pays all the hanler they can boost the price, and as/ of them. boosters they've got an outside man for a side-| “He goes to his boss and says that ‘he will have show down for the full count. to get a raise of salary or be eligible to enter a “You'll notice that when the price of meat goes| dime museum in the living skeleton section. The up the price of about everything else to eat goes| boss tells him that it is costing him all he makes up. It costs more.to feed the face now than it} to live. Thus we see many young and old men did in war times, when a man I knew paid $6,488, working for salaries and handling money be- for a chicken sandwich—Confederate money. come afflicted with astigmatism when they try “When the price of food goes up the price of| to separate the boss's cush from their own. everything else goes up, excepting the price of} “About the only way I sce out is to get accus- labor, The boarding-house keeper raises the| tomed toa diet of sawdust, but if everybody was price of board and then the landlord raises the} eating sawdust J. P. Morgan or some other high rent on the boarding-house keeper because it costs} financier would form a trust and corner all the him more to eat. After a while the city raises| lumber and saws, They've even raised the price the taxes on the landlord. of peanuts.” “It comes pretty close to stacking up for a] ‘We get our water cheap, anyhow,” commented sarap the be gee Sbereegy | Arse clans renal ornate auc, ic pactiannenes of the liquor men," rants, A man who eats around gets soaked for) said ‘The Man Higher Up. “It water became ex- fair every time he takes a notion to nourish him-| }eneive enough to be classed as a luxury a lot self, The packer gets his increased price for b 2 Man Higher Up A | SEE that the price of meat has gone up again,” said the Cigar Store Man. “The price of meat ought to be work- ing for the fireworks people at Manhattan Beach,” remarked The Man Higher Up. “It is always going up. Pretty soon {t will be a case of trading a dia- mond ring for a steak, And diamonds are going up, too. “Meat shouldn't be any higher from natural causes, Just as many and more cattle are being le@ into the slaughter-houses in Kansas City and Chicago and smashed on the forehead with a sledge-hammer overy day as there were a year ago. The whole thing is that the paokers need the money—maybe to buy meat with. “It has been a fine summer out on the plains, where the patient cow eats grass and gets fat for her debut in the slaughter-house. There have been sousing rains and the alfalfa is high and julcy. The crops have been so plentiful that the farmers are all smoking five-cent cigars and ship- ping their cattle in palace cars, “The packing-house guys are the men who are sending up the price of meat. They have ware- of people would begin to drink it.” e LDO000959O99O000-H950900099O0600900 Little Man. 2% & et} Peewee, the Great i OW MR, PEEWEE! DO TAKE Am CHANCE ON “OUR AUTOMOBILE, YOU WiLL BE SURE TO OH MR. PEE WEE ! You'Re JusT THE MAN I'M For. WONT YoU TRY A CHANCE ON THE GRAND PIANQ 2? { WHY To Be SURES! ALWAYS € WAS LUCKY AT GAMES. OF Look CUTE RIDING AROUND we THIS RUNABOUT, TUST OUR ~ SIZE Too. WHY THIS {S Go ued gt RR} CHANCE. GIVE ME HALFA A: } DOZEN TICKETS A PIANO LOOKING iiZ may COME (IN HANDY yf \—_-~ Some SWEET =: DAY IN THE FUTURE $vs_v He Attends a Church Fair with Miss Sixfoot and Has His Usual Luck When It Comes fo the Rafile Cal JUST PICK UP SNAP: ° g ° = WHAT A PIPES AND ToOTSIE GAN MR. PEEWEE ME SET UP HOUSE KEEPING, WE DONT J SAVE SOMETHING FOR CARFARE PEEWEE REAT PLEASURE IN PuT ON A _ MIR, PEEWEE , WE TAKE )7- \ 6 RETURN — “aD PRESENTING You FRILUe CHANGE: WITH THIS TEA ay aa, Zé WITH THIS PAIR e a OF BOY'S PANTS, THAT OU HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH TQ WIN, —_—_— C " ~ > \ A 2 ¢ NS SER eBay Dr 7 ior yp a Ce Oa / PEERSELEEOLIGHTS FIRS ERECRSHOSEL AGES HSY €64FESOEHE EE LLELOHOOHOE HNO LGHES LHS LHOHSEVGGHHOHHOOHOD “TACT, circumvent poor, weary men, woman ubes ‘tact;? NO CHANCE FOR A TOUCH, - ; M iY, my lad, Je that your) .Tallor—Like to try en your dress coat fay a nas Brae 2 be , ® rN Bald-Hesded and IrrftableCusitomer~| Bad Bi iit ith me tast oné,'#6 I parted with it twenty-sevem years ay. B [into cach other's eyes, awed and subdued, scarcely realize the happiness which Graham Gordon's noble So Fair, So False. BY CHARLES GARVICE, SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. BS tiegt ce aoe Pcs er | 01 is already betrot another man. CHAPTER VI. A Saerifice. ¢(7TOO late,” she repeats, but her voloe is so low he does T not hear her, . “Too late!" she says, and over her face comes @ shamed look of sorrow and into her eyes a look of pitiful anguish, ‘ “Why—why?"" he demands, passionately. Then, still holding her, he turns and looks around the roem with an cager, yet vacant, stare; but suddenly his eyes fall on the white dress, on the lace end ribbons, on the unmis- takable signs of bridal attire. “Tell me," he says, his eyes fixed on hers with dumb, pitlable entreaty, “‘this—this then’—and his arm moves in the direction of the heap of white satin, and then falls to his side—is yours?” He reads the answer in her eyes, “Yours! You are going to be married? Is thet eat When?" “To-morrow,” she breathes, faintly. “To Graham Gorden, the rector here. He loves me, There seemed no chance of Joy in lite ifor me, so I accepted him at last. You are tes late. I marry him to-morrow.’ “By Heaven!" he breathes, “I am punished!”* White and rigid, one.hand holding the chair for suppert, she watches,him, Hk “Yes,” he mutters, more to himself than to her. “I @> serve it" Then he looked at her over his shoulders as a man might look when he takes his last look at the paradise from swhigh beautiful face, and slowly, with bent head, he moves toward he is expelled—forever, His eyes take in every line of ¢he the door. With a low cry she springs towand him, and, falling af his feet, clings to his arm. “Heron! Heron! Heron!" Shaking in every limb, he looks down at her for a then he bends and takes her in his arms, and, with @ lght breaking over ‘his face, he cries: i, “No, not too late! You will not leave me, my darling! my jarling!"* no!” she cries. ‘Save me, Heron! Save me from myself! I love you! I love you; but it Is too late—too latel Save me, Heron! Go—go—go, now, this minute! I—I cazinot dear it longer! See, look at me! Listen!" And she ehrinisd back from him, her eyes fixed wildly on his. “Every kiss 6f yours, every word of yours, shames—shames me! I am mar ried—married already in all but the mere form! I cannol vetray him!" An oath breaks from his lps “You are mine and no other's," he exclaims hoarsely. “Who is he, the other, that he should step between us?” ‘The question makes her shudder, but it calms her, “Who?" she says panting., “One who loves me better than you did; ono who has never deserted me—whom I dare not betray. Heron, say, do what you will, I ehall marry iim to-morrow. You are too late! too late! ‘The past ean nover be revived—never—never! If—it you love me, leave me now—this moment—while I have atrength to save my honor. Go! Oh, go!” And with « great, expiring effort she frees herself. He stands and looks at her, E “Is—is there no hope?’ he groans, , she breathes, her hand pressed to her heaving! ‘None, but that wo may never meet again.’ A 1" he says, vacantly, “By heaven, ft ts hard! x have deserved it, Would to heaven I had never learnt the truth, or had known that I ‘had lost forever. I could have finished the story But now"—— And his hands fell with dreamy despair to his sfde, There is a minute's eilence; then he takes up his hat trem the floor and stands fingering it with trembling fingers, his: eyes fixed on hers with painful intensity. “Good-by!" he says at last. “After all, it is best, per haps, You will be happy with this—this other. Bo be # Good-by!"" She cannot, dare not touch him, and after a moment his hands fall to his side; he takes @ step nearer to her and touches the edge of her dress with a lingering, dumb caress of farewell, then goes slowly to the door. But even as his two fingers touch the handle the: deem opens and Graham Gordon stands on the threshoht . Erec. and motionless he stands for a moment, his @ee white and set, his eyes fixed with @ look of suppressed-egeng) on’ May's face, ( ' Heron starts back and glares at him. 34 "Who fs t he demands hoarsely, without turatagves. May. his voice plainly denoting that the question is tm necessary, : For answer Graham Gordon comes forward and. tala May's ‘hand, now Mmp and cold, and gently leads “‘her-@e; where Heron stands, white and haggard and watchful.) > Without a word he stands and looks at her, mith the same. get g3ze of noble resignation, and then he Hfts her hand @o° his lips, and, as it falls into Heron's eager grasp, goes out” into the night. fast hy When, a minute afterward, Carrie rushes in, dragsing Sidney Dalton after her, they find them still looking . of seit has wrought for them. THE END, same The Bird Monopolist- ha As is generally known, the cuckoo lays its’ ege tm neets of other birds, leaving them to be hatched an@ | young cuckoos reared by thelr, foster parents, ‘ cuékoo throws the other birds out of the nests (he care itself, After murdering its foster brothers ‘ors In the moat deliberate and callous way it | | tended with greatest dey Long after