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a ET ke @ THE ws EVENING WORLDS » HOME » MAGAZINE # 1.@0S8OO9OO8 O94 wt w& No. V.--Little Tragedies Strikingly Told in Four Words. ee Stee in Wi al Zoey m lished by the Press Publishing Company, No. 8 to @ | " Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Offoce at New Yark as Second-Class Mail Matter. Ss Se VOLUME 44.......06 seseeseeeeeessNO. 15,402. ria a ae hel ile a ES cet ae “STAGNANT SECURITIES " _ |) Within a week the public acquaintance with the vo-| "‘eabulary of High Finance has been ealarged by the ed-| ‘ition of two terms of interest. The jDresser-Shipbuilding heartng ‘developed the “beneficial stockholder,” a stockholder who 1s loaned ® share of stock overnight so that he may qualify as a dummy director. And now we learn that the failure of | the Federal National Bank of Pittaburg for $8,000,000 ‘was due to the bank's possession of too many “stagnant Securities,” stocks and bonds for which there 1s no mar- ket and the forced sale of which would entail serious loss. Apparently it was “stagnant securities” which also caused the suspension of at least one of the Baltimore trust companies which closed their doors on Monday, for 4m the statement of Receiver McLane it is recited that “owing to inability to realize upon loans or to make ‘eady sales of securities” the directors had decided to A cog tie institution in the hands of receivers. This im trust company was interested in Mexican MOGerN Education jects. The Pittsburg bank had made heavy Raat newly organized corporations which bea and the McIntyres. ‘Mot deen successful and its officers had speculated in a ‘steel stock which was steadily declining in the market. | 75,4 17540. Ore ; Beare n= (0) me ot these: tallures ex-Hecrelasy w proves foo Mace for Thea: (3 u HERE WERE was saying to the bankers in convention at San ce aen YoU WEONESoay )) Francisco in praise of the trust company: “Enjoying per een me Be a : Cate Meni H Bs ity, it is not subject to the vicissitudes of death, ‘agreed, to begin ber lifelong apeint| 4 AUMTIENELUAS ed by the limitations and provisions of {ts char-|.,5 the hill of education. There was a| % ter, it 1s kept by the strong hend of the law within the/nice school on the very next block, whither each morning a troop of well- _ Mmits of conservative operations. As it is presumably Wicesedresalaceaasdaateuuares: (tore " “Managed by a competent Board of Directors, the bene-| cainerea. ‘Thither, it was resolved, jes of the trust have the advantage of the collective! Anice should go. wisdom of the experienced man.” “Think how nive It will bel" said the * guch the trust company was designed to be and such| McIntyres to each other, "to note every stage of her education; to watch ft should be, and the bank as well, if they are to enor} Vondertul rain expand (for sne STRAIN i The Woman No Man Will Marry. « < * s& & The dealous Creature, Who Wants a Man fo Account for His Every Moment While Out of Her Sight. The Frostbitten Man from Zion . é 8 I was passing Madison Square Garden thi morning,” remarked the Cigar Store Man, “I thought I saw icicles hanging from the cornices.”” “Maybe you had a highball session last night and {®| wasn't out of your system,” said the Man Higher Up; | “but public: confidence. And so much greater must the re-| ras a wonder | brain, dear), and to ee there re eee for Diana to be conted with ki ‘gret be when the get-rich-quick taint of inflated enter-| have her come running home after } here is the thickest frost located tn the Garden: spetne infects them. school every day to tell us the new that has been there since the first day the stockholders: ‘werds she's learned to spell and the ew sums she's mastered!" i STUDIES IN BILLINGSGATE. It was a pretty picture and recalled ‘An analysis of Dowle's large output of indecent epi-| scenes of the ‘dame's school,” where tion in black-|Mr. and Mrs, Malntyre had first met, _ thets shows a singular poverty of invention ea Tee oe guard terms. a ‘Well, Baby, what have you learned ~ Thus of thirty-five epithets used by the “prophet” in| to.4ay?" queried McIntyre on the first _ his Garden har»ngues, eleven, or 30 per cent., are varia-/evening. (He had sneaked home an "tions of the ancient and outworn designation of an ad- pote Ca? fron WORK] f2) ana ee versary as ‘a dog.” In the list there is plain “dog,” |4¢ yo. lr Pash ee irty yellow dogs,” “dirty hungry do; “I don't now what ‘spell’ ts," replied ‘hungry, filthy curs’ and canine compll- | the child in @ pussted voice, “but,” she B if 1 “rats, “lice,” »| added, brightening, ‘I learned a lot to- _ ments of other kinds. “Files, rata lice,” “maggots, day. Idsten—and, in a singsong vol “pigs,” “swine” and “mosquitoes” show further draughts | accompanied by weird contortions yaa made on the animal kingdom. “Trash” sounds puerile. | foreign to her natural tone and manner, i ‘Almost alone in novelty are the “pot” epithete—‘stink | she began: ey "Good ing, good ing, mood 1 pot,” “whiskey pot,” “beer pot" and “drug pot,” but In ie youle meen seoeaine met to get their dividends. “Our able friend with the Calamity Jane vocabulary) has fallen against a bloomer in New York. When h took his Zion tank drama on the road he hit the wrong witlage for ‘the opening performancey The failure won't hurt him much, because he has his dough stashed, but it is golng to put an awful crimp in the bunch of human onions who are playing the thinking parts Dowie's visit to New York will prove to be a side-wipt to Zion City. If he plays the engagement jout he can us¢ the tank for a skating rink, “There are as many suckers to the square foot in een ee on |New York as can be found anywhere else in the United @ | States, but they don’t fall to a man whose sermons hava to be fumigated. This is a pretty clammy community, = It has been stung so often that when it goes agains{ these hardly a scintilla of originality can ‘be detected. | Good (ate good morning, g00d morning yee new there has to be something to grab ontq They are mediocrity's own. Good morning, sod morning, ood morning hy be can’t grab onto anything of Dowie's but hil If Dowie is going to continue to call names he ought 2) soul vi whiskers. There is a prejudice in New York againg to utter something worth hearing. The standard of per- Sad GERNERISSGIE Te nner eat whiskers. Another thing that opqrates against the self ae, “sonal abuse has been elevated to such a height by our ’ Bae hard to learn, but I learned r of polite personalities, William S je boasted. - ebter local Fee: z 2 aang nee | The MoIntyres eyed each other in ees inee Domes bal BE ee NO jdread. Molntyre felt as if he had heard _ The man who gave us “sport” and “two spot,” “flower-!q pad ghost story and wanted to ory “moulting politicians” and other historic} for help. has educated our taste beyond the Dowle gutter] “Yhey'll probably begin the alphabet In the composition of compliments he ts still|t¢-™orrow,” sald Mra. Mac, hopefully. u ne Next evening MoInt; oa what\je would call ‘‘a pretty lively corpse,” whose laurels! isree dol ee Prosuced @ constituted Elijah is the fact that the Dowles in Wall street are holding the centre of the stage just now, and they form a hard attraction to play against. “After a look at Dowle I have a strong hunch thaf he has conned himself into the belief that he is on tht level. His bump of egotism 1s 8q, Prominent that it is 4 wonder to me how he puts on his hat. If the egotiew wasn’t scrambled up with earnestness there would be om license for thinking that Dowle Is in the class with the ison. For a little girl whi grow (Nesher by ‘compariso Man eber enna eciceae Cant: say ‘the lady in the bug-house who puts a washbasin on her + WIFE-BEATER’S WAGES. Betis @ alphabet? queried Anice. head and proclaims herself the Queen of England. But ¢ In dischatging a prisoner whom he was about to sen- ae me Sreterae es pen a there are no funny angles in Dowle’s knowledge foun- tence for six months for wife-beating Magistrate Breen work and work, taid: In my little garden I work and work and Sater fund established tor the| 1a my iittie canton; there ought to be some fund establis! ja my little garden T work and work and Ng cee ics tyrsbandslate sent to prison, Tn work nd work, eine the Fifth Avenue Hotel for the purpose of calling them “many cases the man is the only wage-earner for the family, ‘My heart is » dear little garden!” famil: ther st down because the people of New York have been so rude “and when he is sent to prison the family must elther starv: eeeaeely fer (s piisoner'e release. In this way t! bore convaaona tee ry a ueciee: of 3 The Political Agitation Has Reached the ZooO.: to him. If the city officials don’t show up he Will be as Ags tain. He is simply up against it. “I understand that he is going to summon Mayor Low, Borough President Cantor and other city officials to me working in my little gar- honestly disappointed cs a man who has been spurned by ‘The evidence against the culprit was clear, but as the she explained, as her, frantic par- his ion beyaectiea bap ahead having vg |mt@ rushed to her ald. ‘Kind teacher People do at he want at he can’t understand a ‘Magistrate was about to impose sentence the orisoner’s tila ie that, And’ r inaroeare mace wife raid: “Judge, if you send him away there'll be no-/a paper goat, and"— as turn-down. When he sent messages to the managing: whody left to feed me and the baby.” The Malntyres, hand tn hand, fared editors of the New York newspapers the other day ho + Probably the ends of justice were better served, as|t? the school next morning, with a believed that they would drop around and see him. A humble inquiry as to whether they had New York managing editor wouldn't go to see the ghost ertainly the cause of humanity was, by letting the pris | pornaps mistaken that tamdGation iowla ft George Washington on a pass. ner go to beat his wife again when the ugly spirit} Retreat for the Ohildren of the Con- : rea don't have to 3 away from New York to find should move him, but at least to keep her from starving. | €enitally Insane. “I fear you have hopelessty old- counterparts of Dowle without his shrewdness as a Doubtless the establishment of a fund such as Magistrate | ,."7,,{eur you have ath Seek \ money-getter, I know a lot of actors who think they ara ,Breen advocates might be an experiment in philan-|o¢ modern education,” said Kind Teach- the best in the world, when they are really high polishes. thropy of a nature which the law could not countenance. |ers in a cold tone, before which the \ | y And when the audiences don't go to see them they are But could it not be arranged to give the prisoner the pobriibied costes MasyinD Aoloeie ' ! Ry sore, and their soreness is honest. They have thought alternative of going to jail or paying his wages to a court | rudiments, fumbled sonehiy. tomeeter Vai 80 much about themselves that they think they are it.” officer for his wife's sole benefit for a term corresponding | but ts being allowed to expand Yke \ » rN i 2 “It's too bad so many have been duped by Dowie," to that of his sentence? Such an alternative would do eels ipiceronn ‘ine ton \ y 3 s atone iCeat ere an replied the Man Higher Up; “if ac. A H sway with the more distressing one to which the abused | .onganiments of a toddy-blossom,"* eur- xl Y / : ® | they weren’t giving it to him they'd be giving it to wife is now subjected, mured McIntyre, sotto voce. alg A , somebody else.” y “She oannot read,” went on Kind NI 8 | ~ Teaoher, “but she 1 Mi a WOMAN'S ACTIVITIES. Salleat Gal TREC Week ene x TA£ PELICAN IS ** Fever Mosquitoes.” Reports come from Nome to the effect that two wom-| “I think, if you don’t object," sald PRovuD of pug ° The mosquito which injects yeHow fever with his probos- + Dovem Bac’ cis bites by day as well as by night and ts called the day or striped mosquito, It 1s found chiefly in cities, where it breeds in any chance receptacle of water. The eggs are laid en miners, Mrs, Isabella Healy and Mrs. McG!Imore, have|Mrs. McIntyre timtdly, “we'll let her made fortunes estimated at several million dollars tn the | OW UP thoughtless. “Perhaps,” ohtmed in Mr, ntyre, mining districts and are about to start on a@ trip to!*you can spare her the time oa such ‘a d z y $ |in standing water, and, although the receptacle may dry up, ‘ Paris. waoful, epoch-making acoomplishmenta as yA shatewtn'deice Gasiconthe oat wed arent aa" acou as ee eaie On Tuesday The Evening World told of a woman,|P4Per goats and Bughouse Verse long | & 7 contains watcr. The larvae resemble those of other mos- Mrs, L. Curtis, who has successfully raced horses under |pnovl” ‘0 teach her that allly old art = i Y known as reading her own name and colors, and has been the first to do! “In that case," sald Kind Teacher ". 80 in America. One of her racers, Bugenta Burch, has|°°ldly, “you would better send the child : to some mere grammar echool, whi “Won $40,000 in two seasons, modern thought does not prevail Very ‘recently thie paper detailed the ambitious! And they did. ‘Thus aid Anto ject of a woman to conduct a new and fashionable |{270, /08¢, ner aole. Shanice Mor Moder m avenue apartment hotel on novel lines. the trivial ‘ooompifsbment of learning ~ Can the emancipation of the sex go to further lengths 5 Fare comprehended in these diverse news ‘tems? FISnNES AND PAIN, that there is hardly any fleld of endeavor or| It 18 well known that fshes have lit- $ of activity ints which woman has not entered ana| {'® *sceptibility to pain, and that they are very tenacious of life, A @ of thone she hes entered in which she has not dis-! example of this was Been ee Noweios hed herself by a gratifying success, the other day, in the case of a trout ps the remarkable thing about her advancement | Which had been caught in the Tyne at oO ment of an executive capacity once thought Teme een A ee be solely a masculine attribute. The woman of learn-| ered from its body by a tight bani quitoes and readily killed by a kerosene film on the sur- | face of the water, “ Play’ Is Test of Brain. ’ Play distinguishes the higher trom the lower animals and ft signifies possibility of education, Fishes do not play at the lower mammals can hardlysbé taught to play, ant of ntirely devold of the Instihet. But the kitten and ¢ the lamb are essentially playing animals. The human: young, however, are the true players, and, in reality, it is play thas develops them into manhood. “Children,” says Dr, Hutch- inson, “are born litt jorphous bundles of possibilities and are played Into shape. Weather by Telegraph. ‘The Weather Bureau collects its information by tele- graph, and for a short time twice a day the whole telegrapltc ey ef Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. Je Je t tts service t is a8 old as the sex. It is not certain that the college |#0me fibrous substance. The pb: a A NO WORK FOR Him! devol at least twelve pages to gram- | that girl?" exhibition of veracity the Court fixed |a oe ee wnateoever The. augase ee ("4 - an rt - & fle who win doctors’ degrees from German univer-|"" auite through the skin and ftesh| ‘you reckon you'll want wings w'en|™&n."—Philadelphia Press, “No,” answered the wise father, “the| the prisoner's punishment at only $1 and |cipher to secure thelr correct, careful transmission and to rane more than educated girls knew in Queen| <0" {2 (he one and had the appear-| you gits ter Paradise?” ONE THIN. SURE. Idiot would marry her in spite of that. |costs.—Kansae City Journal, leasen tolls, day, when the young Misses Coke could cenne: iyeeird bee? eae “I ain't @ho' ‘bout dat—fyin's hard} wrerence, what 1s the doctor's diag-|! tld the girl.”"—Indianapolls Sun, GOOD IDEA. 4 could | causing @ deep Incision in the Mesh and| work!"-—Atlanta, Constttution. nosis of your case?” THE DIFFERENCE. Miss Pert—It you're #0 timid about it Smaller than an Atom, é pe reek with the facility of an Oxford professor. |° fot seem to have hag The Mah dees! Suge WHAT HZ NEEDED. {Ho hasn't told me yit, but I'm bettin' | ‘were you intoxicated yesterday?” | why don’t you propose to her by tele-! 1° 1 siectron ts represented by a sphere an inch In alam. , the mental grasp which makes possible the| Rot teem. to neve Pad the band fast BOG cies bine Geman tee AREAL, {tll be tv'ry clnt av tin dollars.”—Chi-/asked Police Judge Burnett, of Joplin, | hone? atom of matter on the same scale is a mile anda | ela enterprises involving large risk, ed been caught in, the toll, Ber=] Ain't kot no uso fur tt," interrupted | ase Tribune. the-other day, when Z. D. Foster was! Mr. Ugitman—Then she might not tom of matter I represented by uct of business raed thereby, and‘. tated f@th-| the busy merchant, WISE FATHER} arraigned ‘detore him. "No, your | know who I was. | theatre an electron ts represented on the same forte rts to get free that = band’ cut| ‘Judging from your remark, sir, you| “Did you tell Clarence you would out |onor,” replied the truthful culprit, ‘r| Miss Pert—Well, that Sota help your|® through Ais flegh Fight to the tone, axe not aware that this encyclopaedia] him off without @ oent if he married! wes dead drunk.” Aa & mapas fon r ii} hat 4 Ne eal