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§ © Where private philanthropy had before huited at thou- ‘WEDNESDAY EVENING, _ OCTOBER 28, 1903. w THE .2 EVENING .2 WORLD'S 2 HOME .s MAGAZINE of, Publishes by the Press Publishing Company, No, 8) to & Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OmMoe at New Yaerk as Second-Cinss Mail Matter. — VOLUME 44.. «NO. 16,408. OIL AND PHILANTHROPY. On the day following the interesting discussion by " young Mr. Rockefelier's Bible class of the Christian quali- floations of the successful business man the Standard O11 Company raised the price of ofl one cent. Last Friday ‘there had been an advance of half a cent, so that the con- sumer will now be called on to pay 12 cents a gallon for what but recently cost 10 1-2. It isn't much; no householder will suffer any depri- vation of luxuries as a result. A couple of eggs the less or a few slices of bacon curtatied and the extra experlap entailed will be met. Of course, with similar econoinies PEDHOSHHHOOSSHOGOHGSSOD Line THEMY SDESOSSOTS Mecessitated by dearer meat, dearer canned goods, dearer (ARCHIE . THEY, > elothes—with nearly everything the householder uses ooRABLE * gosting more, there will be some grumbling; but consider @he opportunities of philanthropy which this slight tax @m oil will afford the elder Rockefeller! The amount of refined oil marketed by the Standard Gompany in 1902 was 2,337,000,000 gallons, which at a gent and a half additional a gallon will return an extra Of $35,055,000! Now, in 1900, out of the Stand- | @rd’s yearly dividends of $48,000,000 Mr. Rockefeller re- @eived $14,880,000. His proportionate share of the 985,056,000 thus arbitrarily extorted from consumers will} _@mount to about $11,000,000. What possibilities of oo pang expenditure there are in this vast mass of Weather-Wise ‘What gifts may be made from it for Christian charity, Hi ~-fer-mission houses, hospitals, universities; what appli- and Other Lies. @ation of funds for the betterment of society and the ele- ation of the human race! The golden stream of princely | The Oldest Inhabitant Discusses gratuity will percolate into thousands of humble homes. Warm Winters and Sen- hall they cherish a feeling of discontent that they have sitive Ships. been forced to make a small and unwilling contribution | (; ’20D MORNING, gentlemen,” said to it? G the Sparrow Cop as the Oldest ‘The methods of the Christian business man are se6D| sieciiog yin cere boleh oe Aneel fm their most concrete form in the Standard Oil corpora-|seata on the bench facing the fountain. tion. This trust, the parent of successive mergers and ke boc Seen Neeceeee, gtill the unique example of a perfect monopoly, has for | ,, Ncinaa aha (SCE Eece TG wanthierire years pursued a consistent policy. As a corporation It|na4 nere ‘bout thirty year ago. It never amassed millions by the ruin of rivals, the crushing | enowed ner got cold until ‘long in Gf competition and the defiance of national law, But|March. Winter thet year was jest like ‘ its individual members of it has devoted much of | Sumer, Never, nended no overcoat an’ ite great wealth to good works, distributing millions|1 ‘member it eo well wae ‘cause {t was thet year thet I took my last vinge on th’ Mary Jane, the best whaler thet ever Its officers are successful business meh and men of | esiled ti tea Pace Peligious life as well. They are quite within young Mr.| y+ might say. We'd allere held th adel Rockefelier’s category. . ord fer whalin'—allers brought in th’ . Yet human nature is such that there are doubting | biggest cargo 0° off o' any vessel out 0° Bedford. When we came in thet ‘Phomases even in the young teacher’e Sunday-school peekclwal iba ny tel Nee? Yeea tee some eupplies before goin’ on t' Bed- ord an’ we got word thet th’ Bary : A CITY TRAGEDY. Griggs bad brought home thirty-elght more barrels than we did. Well, sir, I . How many other furnished-room “homes” are there| read th’ report out loud t’ th’ crew on this city in‘which a young and refined woman like | th’ deck o' th’ Mary Jane down there at Maud Blanche Hayes is “battling hourly against poverty” |th’ wharf, an’ we started figgerin’ on _ Bd postponing for a little while by untiring effort the ee sedieg ore ee ewe eon fevitable approach of illness and destitution and des-|conciusion it wa'n't no use, as folks pondency? down t' Bedford would hear ‘bout our these “genteel poor” of high alms and hopes.un-| touchin' here. Well, sir, just as we gave Fe Poa in ert eitacarare that ya earsiaactaae Ge pio Rb in chon ess ident ded (ca \eolb home) ©E9O9O90O0000O 009999 O9OOOD oe BDOF 0640060006066. th’ Mary Jane quivered all over an’ tlie great city crushes. They came from country homes ‘began t' sink. ‘We scrambled out, an’ to strive for a fame that is attained only by the fortunate | she sank right there at the wharf. Wihen many whose faihure struggle * per-| they tried t’ raise her she fell all apart, : ‘gan Ne Jae nat hard: ichiata an‘ "twas all we could do t’ git th’ oll 3 pathetic agai ship Neglect. | out, Seemed as though she jest gave up pay in the end for food and creature comforts with | an’ fell t' pieces when she heered she'd 5 ‘womanhood. It is among these that the man-about | bin beat by th’ Samy Griggs. Yea, sir, “pol]"" |. | hips te human. ia a Sola Sie vee sae “Talk ‘bout goin’ swimmin’ in De- Bot cape, an news columns from time to time | semper," said the Forty-niner, “I had , and the pity is that it should be made as the price|an experience of thet kind onct thet @ bare existence in the scene of the blighted hopes of | was certainly cu-reeus. Fi mse sac ambitious girlhood. winter, an’ jest fer fun T went in ewim~ 7 min’ one mornin’ ‘bout Christmas, an’ The wisdom of city experience is a better appreciation | .iiist { was in the water th' weather of the advantages of village life for the defeated—of ohanged, paueny) and th water {rozé friendly companionship, neighborly assistance and com-|tad to saw ‘a great big cl munity of interests which the loneliness of the city for-| Mt on me ty Never had t4ds, It is humdrum, but it brings better returns than | ‘ouch 0’ roomatiam since thet winte “Aint either of you gents heard te the glamour of the metropolis, tal choot tare, Wave you?” asked the 4 8 . Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. WALL STREET LOSSES. ‘The gross earnings of the nation’s railways for 1902 are given at $1,726,380,267. It is an aggregation of in- come which the mind is powerless to conceive adequately. But the vastness of the figures serves an interesting ‘ibe for comparison because it very closely represents the A “HOLD-OVER.” shrinkage in value of 100 industrial stocks as shown by| «1 met Kernel Kaintuck a month aco ‘The World's figures. That is to say, between the high-| and he was drunk, and I just met him est market quotations for these stocks within the past| up the street and he's drunk again.” three years and the lowest for the current month there ta| N° Pot “asain ‘yet’ "Houston @ difference or decrease of $1,753,959,793! No more HIS ONE MISTAKE, striking object-leseon can be given of the far-reaching) 41, jo5 always prided himself on his| ‘ extent of the loss of public confidence in industrials for} apinity to size up a woman's character which over-capitalization and reckless market manipula-| and disposition.” gn hasbeen responsible. “Yes, he only made a mistake once" ‘dn {dea is had of the extent of the, speculation in in-| Jus Refore he was marrind. Gustrials by the report of the United States Steel Corpo- WINGED TRUTHS. ration that it has 98,000 stockholders on its books. This) peer Williams, how does you ex-| > ‘the country, and as the showing of one industrial com- pany it is eloquent of the immense popularity of such Willams (23 Gon't went “as i gospel te (ecks among investors. fly so fur dat I can't keep up wid it!’ ‘The distribution of doubt to 60 many homes by the|—Aatanta Constitution.”” fall of the shares of one company gives a new notion of BUSILY ENGAGED. the meaning to the nation of Wall street values. Spay carried Thomas," replied Brother] { —New Orleans Times-Democrat. 4 FORECLOSED. “I see you have chicken for dinner." Yessuh,” sald Mr. Erastus Pinkley. "I hope you bought the chicken,” ‘Well, no; but de transaction were NEW WORK OF OLD MASTERS. At an uptown auction room this week the public will ‘Be afforded an opportunity of acquiring a line of post- Mortem canvases by old masters unique in the history of out payin’ nuffin’, an’ I reckoned !t were “to work anew in the spirit world for the composition | out time to fohclose.""—Washington }other legacies to their fame. A comparison of their] star, work with that of thelr prime will prove instructive, NOT VERY MUCH. f @ Shakespeare appears in the cabinet with a fi NATUR . miss in his disjointed sentences the literary “p' Auber is Are reat trip to the ."" Perhaps he did not talk as well as he| Rocky Mountains, isn’ ‘Phere was Goldsmith, who wrote lke an an-|of time did he have?’ a! he spent PODODDH $OEGOOLHOHOGOOG9000 05000 05O90000H00HH8ODOHOGHHOHH30 €0 1©94O0008O0000 © $4009004-06040008 &S The Misadventures of Archies + + Edith’s Papa Makes More Trouble G& EDITH LOVED THOSE EYES OF BLUE HER PRAISES NEVER LACK. BUT PAPA LIKES THOSE BLUE EYES BEST —WHEN THOSE BLUE EYES ARE BLACK The Woman No Man Will Marry. ~< The Advanced Darling Who Spends Her Young Life at the Clubs. 00 You THINK You MY, OS +e GHT MEETING OP THE “OWLS: 2992890900000 GOOSOO a AS NEAR AS TCAN FIGURE IT, iT Wourd WHEN I CAN COLLECT MY ScaTTEREO THOUENTS I wourn SPEAK TO You at GREATER LENGTH OFCLU GO: ee The Bngine-Driver’s Holiday. BY TOM BROWNE IN THE LONDON SPHERE, “Wot O, Maria! This f a bit of all right. Ninety miles an hour and no blirking signals!” FHEDDHITHHPDHPODHOOIIOHH OOS ©0408 9006906090-9-9:90-0004 09660-0908 > May—Yes, indeed. Engaged in trying. g H39H0099099HIHHOSHOHHS GOTCOG LETTERS, QUERIES AND ANSW Back-Number Schoolbooks, BRS. If you were(the fact that friend I would come| height, and the protests of the three people remaining in the car (all ladies), who expected to be taken to the Pust- I told the conductor that we should be taken down to the Post-OMice, but he smiled sarcastically, and sald: “If you don't get off I will take you up- town, as that is where this car Is go> Refore T had a chance to think he pulled the bell, and th uptown again, j Fifth street, and | No, 99 Kast Forty-second street. GEORGE WAGNER. Champion Only of Amerton. | To the Editor of the Eventi Was John L, Sullivan ever champion Bartholomew's, the storm was at its To the Edit ft the Events World: my = gentlema: Hands that in life executed masterpieces now of price-| strictly regular. Dat chicken has been| T° (in Bilin hy the Ussnile tn in ‘value were by the persuasion of a compelling will|Tostin’ on my fence foh months, Wif-] it the use of obs the public schools antiquated data furnished by a copy tn} vee by my young daughter ts an item 4 on page seven which gives the popu-| | * How it is with painters we do not know, but somehow] yfug'strate—Did { understand you to} lation of New York City as 1,516,000, An- has Utah still as a Territory, 1 of Education per-| © geographies in| Among the many Emerald Is May Birthatone, ‘To the Editor of the Evening World: What ts the birthstone for the month Black and White Are Not Colors, he Editor of the Evening World; K a Ne Should Wear a Frock Coat. nd) To the Bditor of the Evening World: A says that a frock coat should be worn at an afternoon wedding by the B says that a Tuxedo is Which is correct? entire pages abound with the super-| ICAL SCHOOL PUPIL. Open Sanday from 1 P. M. to a Half car was flying After talking me more than a block out of my way he conde-| scended to stop the car and let me off close to an excavation. A WOMAN SUFFERER, annuated Information of a decade go. Has the world progressed In the last ten why not give our children taining at least accurate} | To the Editor of the Evening World: On what day of the week did Oct. 8 ‘Work of the spirit photographer Is never up to the|ray the prisoner offered resistance when | Oth se of the output of his mortal life. Nor do poets|%0u attempted to place bim under ar- Géh conditions equal the products on which their|{23t?” Pollceman—None worth men en Uoning, Your Honor, Only a couple of | Has th Erenitation reats, dollara.—Chicago: Dally News. years? If s new tiooks information? People’s Chor: 2 What sort] ro the Editor of the I have read several Inqu! like poor Pol. Of him ornate utterance in| most of his time making sketches 0!|may I obtain singing lessons? the mountains, He showed me a lot of|the secretary of People's Choral Union, | thom.” ‘How were they? Naturai.’'|41 University place. ‘“"Well-er—they're certainly rocky,”—| Sunday, Oct. 4, in various parts of the| nerve enough to call on a lady friend. Preas, city, including Beethoven Hall, No. £10 Jitor of the Evening World: itan Museum of Art YOUNG LADIES, Another Car Cympinint. To the Editor of the Evening World: a recent rainy open on Sunday? ‘To the Edltor of The B Heroic Mean On what day of Address | qo the Ealtor of the Evening World: “M. M. C,," of, Point Pleasant, N. J.. writes to ask what he can do to get mornicg 1 came Wecie did Oot, §, downtown to business on a Second ave- nue car, and when the car arrived at! the bridge, to my surprise the conduo- tor called: "All out," notwithstanding: Apply to Bureau of Vital Stat 'To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: out if my on ee ‘The classes opened | for at the temperature necessary to liquefy hydrogen, .the' My advice is: Get a paliceman to take ‘How can I find HA~HA — THEY ARE ADORABLE. war ofr or conon |! How BLACK! Just Loox’ ar rem He 7Z Py) now, Old Senators and Young Wives. or SBE that another of the Santa Clauses of the United States Senate has gone and got married,” remarked the Cigar Store Man. »“Why not?” asked the Man Higher Up. “Don't the Scriptures say that it is not good for man to be alone? You don’t find any description of the kind of man that ought not to be alone, do you? here isn’t any reason why a man with gray whiskers should go through what he has got left of life making up his own laundry list just because he has got gray whiskers. “Senators Depew, Platt and Stewart have done the right thing. Depew led the way, and it was a cinch that some of the other old boys of the Senate would fall int line. When a man gets to an age where he has to % through a system of physical exercises to ‘button his col- lar in the back he begins to yearn for somebody to keey, him company, “This is especially true In the case of a widower. A} confirmed bachelor gets so used to playing a lone domes tic hand that age don’t feaze him. But you take an old widower in public life and he is lonesomer than Robin~ son Crusoe. “His children are all married and scattered arounds If he has got a home it fs like living in a lumber to stay in it, even though it be filled with servants, best the old guy can do is sit around some hotel ce talk with similarly situated antediluvians about the ely! war or kindred live subjects. “You hear a lot of discussion about the old Senato: picking out young wives. Is there any reason why th should go to the Old Ladies’ Home to choose a partner The elderly seeker after matrimonial happinces is tr broken as a general thing. H2 may be a score of yeat » | over fifty, but he don’t show it, and he is only as old he feels. He would be billing himself asa candidate tor the funny house if he roped and branded with his name a female who hadn't a tooth in her head and wore @ wig. Y ‘The papers say that one of Senator Stewart's daughe ters travelled all the way from Hot Springs to Washin; {ton to stop his marriage, but she got there too a | That fs one reason why, when a graybeard takes a wif lote in life, he does tt with surprising suddenness. He knows that there ts going to be opposition on the part of his children, so he plays the leading part in what practically amounts to an elopement. “There is no reason why a man competent to run @ political campaign and hold his job in the United States Senate shouldn't be competent to take care of a wife. I is better for an aged, lonesome statesman to be marri than to be writing goo-goo letters to some giddy young thing who may happen to become acquainted with y lawyer.” “They can't expect to live very long to enjoy married life,” said the Cigar Store Man. : “Maybe they don't,” replied the Man Higher Up, “but you know the sign over Foley’s Grove: ‘Enjoy life while you live, for you'll te a long time dead.’ ae Tree that Grows Dishes. There is a tree In the West Indies that the natives eagt “grows dishes!’ It looks lke an apple tree, They call it the calabash, It bears very queer leaves and lange white blossoms that! grow right {rom the trunk and larger branches. After thel flower comes the fruit, just as our apples or peaches de.| But this fruit 1s In the shape of a gourd, only stronger an@ much larger, sometimes a foot in diameter, the people of that country make so hard that all sorts of big ups can be carved out of ft, pots and kettles are made and used over the fire, but, course, they cannot last as long as our fron ones. Infallible Finger Marks. By means of dirty finger marks he had left on a frame, George Hall, arrested for a burglary in Ki ngland, was identified as the author of another at Wii bledon, Enlarged photographs of the finger prints were duced in court at the Surrey Sessions the other day by tective-Sergeant Collins, who explained that there were teen points of resemblince, He had made thousands “Recognitions.” wafd the officer, and she had never kno’ one where, three points agrecing, the others had negatt the Identication, Odd Radium Facts, Prof. Curie now announces the amazing fact that the change in the rate of heat emission of radtum within the comparatively short distance of absolute sero ja exactly {ni the opposite direction to what might be expected in view gf! the effect of low temperatures on ordinary chemicat aces wreatest cold yot secured by scientists, tho heat.emission radium, instead.of being reduced, 1s augmented, b) REA PAN ne |