The evening world. Newspaper, November 2, 1903, Page 12

MONDAY EVENING, - NOVEMBER 2, 1903. Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 5 to & Park Row, New York. Entered ap the Post-OMoe at New York as Second-Cinss Mail Matter. 16,418. VOLUME 44. -NO. SPENDING A HUNDRED MILLIONS. The city budget for next year calls for an expenditure of $106,674,955, a cclossal sum. Merely to disburse it with an exact accounting of dol- manner as to secure to the city the best returns of depart- vastness of the outlay should assure demands adminis- trative capacity of the highest order. An amount almost as large has been spent yearly for two years past with an intelligence and honesty and with — tangible results in permanent betterment which have $ ion proved the ability of the present government to handle the city’s enormous disbursements to the best advan- tage. 1 vise The millions paid out have been used for the purposes ee for which they were designed. They have been honestly ™ @ppropriated and as honestly applied; there has been no ‘“graft.": Along with demonstrated ability to account for the money spent there has been proved capacity to spend & judiciously. Can as much be expected of an administration under ' the dictation of district leaders clamorous for thé spoils? To intrust the epending of the greatest of city budgets to incompetent and unscrupulous hands would be to afford opportunities for plunder unparalleled. A DEAR LESSON. “The bursting of the Shipbuilding Trust bubble,” says ‘Mr, Carnegie, “was a grand thing—a grand thing!” Why? ‘(Because it has taught the salutary lesson that “the great- ‘est menace to the continuance of the prosperity of this country and to business interests generally is the con- stant practice of avercapitalization.”| . Granting that the educational value of the lesson {s as great as Mr. Carnegie reckons it, it must be confessed that we have paid a big price for it. It has cost national confidence in the processes of ‘high finance and tarnished the commercial honor of some of the great captains of industry. It has convicted capi- talists of previously unblemJshed reputation of making use of vulgar get-rich-quick methods of flotation to un- load securities of doubtful value on the mvesting public. It has revealed inner secrets of capitalization the remembrance of which will cast discredit for years to come on every issue of industrial stocks. In rendering the public deservedly suspicious of stock inflation it will foster a perhaps unwarranted suspicion of all new incor- porations of industrial enterprises. lars and cents is a feat of auditing. To expend it in such | ¢ | mental efficiency and improved public service which the! ® ® rs & | KISS HIS HONEY BOY Love Is Love, but Infatuation Is Foolishness. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. By ares 1s a difference between love and infatuation,” said a very wise young man who, presuma- bly, had experlenced both, the other day. “If I could only write a book about ft, It would win money. But the difference {s hard to explain. Infatua- tlon 1s stronger than love, you know, In actual shrinkages of values the lesson hag cost More than the tremendous indemnity of $1,000, ,000- which France paid as the price of the war with Germany. Tt was from the stocking hoards of the peasants that this war tribute came. How much of the loss in stocks has ‘been exacted from the small investor 1t may not be pos- sible to estimate even approximately, Yet we know that the 93,000 holders of Steel stock pald $400,000,000 of it! They may not share Mr, Carpegie's enthusiastic deslg- ) nation of their dearly learned lesson as “granc.” TALENT AND LARGE FAMILIES. Mommsen, the great German historian and scholar, who has just died at the age of eighty-six, leaves posterity thirty-five works, cwo of them monumental, as legacies of a lifetime of industry. “He {s sald to have written 24,000,000 words! A tireless pen, Tho fiction writer whose fame rests transiently on a novel of from 100,000 to 200,000 words may turn from self-complacent thought to think with awe of the unremitting energy of the illus- trous old German. Yet the children of Mommsen's genius, his books, appear not to be more interesting than his brood of elve sons and daughters. Here is a refutation of charges of race suicide which {t is good to dwell upon. If with It we note Mme. Schumann-Heink’s eight children nd the five of Mme. MathjJde Serao, the greatest con- temporary woman novelist of Italy, we gain a new point of view of the family life of persons of talent. This parental trio have not found domestic life in any way inimical to the requirements of their professions, ‘While winning world-wide celebrity in music and litera- i: ture they have suffered no handicap from matrimonial tles. The “artistic temperament” did not demand of them ov any sacrifices of domestic affection such as the young author and artist feel called upon to make, They have lived prosaic and happy home lives without any search for “affinity” and without the abandonment of an early trimonial partner for one inspiring loftier themes. ; nd meantime they have gone on achieving celebrity. \ "heir example serves to controvert some established notions and to give occasion for pralse of the wholesome q substantiality of family life on which they based their greatness, CAMPAIGN PERSONALITIES, In a heated political canvass a certain amount of vituperation is looked for from the cart-tail oratur. He is down near the ground and his surroundings force which there is excuse, But it {s difficult to recall a local campaign In which there has been such a flood of invective of a Billingsgate order from regular platforms. The plain passing of the Me has grown “to be a euphemism, a conventionality of speech of meaningless import. “Base and unprincipled hireling.” “renegade cegencrate,” and other phrases from ® Dowieite vocabulary have been made use of by the first orators. The practice is not so much in vogue now as they say pea tt ‘was in the evrly days of the republic. It merely excitcs emark by contrast with the less passionate oratory of it years. But does personal abuse persuade? Does it win over doubtful voter to bandy epithets with your opponent? fifty cries of “thief,” “blackguard,” “lar” change four 7 It 1s a question whether intemperance of gpeech the speaker's own or the opposing cause the more trom Street Vehicles.—The street peril claims at- anew because of the shocking deaths of two in upper Elghth avenue Saturday from Injuries sted by a rudaway horse, The, responsibility for the sing-rooms where ho 1s likely to meet biting words from his lips in the passion of argument for | * but luckily {t doesn’t-last 0 long.” Which was as near a definition as he could get. Apparently, though, the dis- cussion was prolonged for half an hour. It seemed to his listener when all was said, however, that love is what you feel for the man or woman dearest to you, and infatuation 1s what any one else not a blood relation has the bad taste to feel for him. If there 1s any other difference it is one which men alone feel, and therefore one which only a man could explain. Perhaps it may be sald that to the normal woman it is natural to love, but diMoult to become infatuated, while the average man greets each infatuation as an old and tried friend, but looks upon a dawning love with suspicion and do- nial, With women infatuation may re- sult from love, With men it may ocea- sionally be the cause of it. But women do not recognize the difference as men do, There {s no difference to them. And for this reason a woman rarely loves out of her class and can never be made to understand how a man of her own world can, under the Influence of a temporary {nfatuation, walk the streets with a woman who talks loudly and un- grammatically, scious finery, or appear in public din- ais friends with one whom the first glass of champagne prompts to discuss at the top of her volce whether or not she Js a flirt, or perhaps her own abso- lute Indifference to what people say or think about her, Of course there are some women of food birth, as, for instance, Clara Ward, with her gypsy Rigo, who be- come infatuated, as the great majority of them do at some time in thelr lives. Rut they are exceptions. The average woman, after she has passed the matinee {dol stage, does not experience the senseless, emotional enthusiasm that may be classed as infatuation. But when she loves, she loves all the better for that, Her admiration for her o1 is not diminished by the thought at he has a nose like so and so, whom she loved before she left college: or a mouth Uke some one else whom she flirted with crossing the ocean, as A man's is apt to bs. The raptures of thelr kiss ts for her not profaned dy a Kisses of long-dead infatuation, And his “I love you" does mot wake a hun- dred haunting echoes in which it is metimes confused and lost, For because she does+not know the difference between love and infatuation she waits and takes them both together, And if she is very magnanimous and happens to think about It, she feels sorry for the maa whose many infatu- ations make pasts; many drafts on his future happiness, for she knows that some day when ho wants happiness most, hjs drafts will be returned marked overdrawn, — A CONTENTED PRISONER, ‘The Prussian prison authorities are perplexed what to do with a man named Michael Keller, whose sentence to death passed upon him in 1893, was commuted to penal servitude for life. The prisoner 4s now an old man of eighty, and, al- though he has been offered his Liberty leave the prison, He declares that, after being in jall all these years for a crime of which he is innocent, he does no: wish to be released in his old age to be misvrable, ‘The man's relatives who struts under con-| § host of intruding ghosts—the phantom | 3 lH Ir isiCr KA par AM MY | A THIS CARH | POPSEY SHOH 4 peer 4 nl | ENUF-HE <j a WANTS TO iii PPLIDI9OSSGG9OO0090H996 0909000000 w THE » EVENING »# WORLDS w» HOME Pet edi te +p e * 9990990 2OO9 000900 ‘THE NEW bITTbE COON, & & uw |The Importance of Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man. MALL MEN WALwAaYS DID TAKE THE nN} RY $E9SOOSEG-00 on snore than one occasion, refuses to} © have been traced, nd are willing to look after him, but he will have noth. ing to do with them, Js (Ailiicult to place. Jt 1s usually sos®but the thaintaining year att G8¥ from a atreet venta Mra, Ni Mr,’ Nippy— Wing mM lows. a BEST OF REASONS, 1 bate nervous people, ‘They make me #0 nervous, FER DETG YC Ui, FISHES. ( j IN TRAINING, $ Bruln—Oh, no, I'm not emac- Mr. Fox—simply trained Sdown to cprinting weight so | can catch some of those city sports DON'T PLAY IT, Possum—Come over to the house, Owl, and play me a few games of freezeout? Owl—You'll have to excuse me, Sthis fall. | never play, possum! ELSENSHSHFG-LFGOIGHHHOHHHLGGSS 3 THE RECORD. THEY MOVE THERE. “Young man," said the stern parent, ‘to aie know what is the greatest aim in lite?" s ” Slur" ald the unregenern “Huh, what common,lace name, flier on th’ Indlanny wot aman a "That “ t halt me, i the aity @ mi Baltimore Nin the ee pow, called ‘Joneshurs! will want to be ‘kno' ot J Ph “He's booming @ new subdrban town he figures that every Jones] “Ws has) for my bi usband, Re Is a Conspicuous Figure in a Woman's Cabin on a Ferry-Boat, but Only tor a Brief Moment,? $99O0S0OO89O090000: WHY THERE knots? Well, | guess | dol How's this for one? ‘who sells monumenta?” ‘He Takes Kindly 3 # ot ot! wots DE MATTER| MISSUS 2 Sit Dow { THIS 1S OUR CABIN, Si wWouLD \N LIKE To LOIDY YOUSE SPOKE JEST IN TIME. 1S{ ] OW TOOTSIE DEAR MY LITTLE Ls S’S’SAVE PEEWEE! Mim'mMeee!! >. ; Zone SECOND ime MORE, Yo MOV MLITTLE PEEw WOULD HAVE _@ TIED. Snake—Do | tie matrimonial ON STRIKE. Chick—No, my ma says she ain't going to lay any more eggs. till the price goes up. She -hates to see her cgge sell for 10 cents: a dozen. FORCE OF HABIT. re you the mai @ padiy asked, STRUGGLING BARDS, “So there are many obstacles in the to a Cable $10 Will Be Paid by The Evening World cn Acceptance for the Hepplest Name for This Little Coon Suggested by Any Reader. Address Suggestions to “Little Coon, l Leueve pea pees Car Conductor? . Evening World, New York City.” IAG ip | THE | jCHOCOLATE prop} O0-009000000000 Ps e Higher (0/ All Over Now But The Shouting. $6 WW" do you think will be elected?” asked the Cigar Store Man, “After massaging the situation thor oughly,” answered the Man Higher Up, “I 4m quite certain that it will be either Seth Low or George B. McClellan. I can’t see where any of the other candi- dates have a look-in, Devery had a chance once. His chance was that everybody in town except the Bugs in the Ninth District would drop dead before eléction day. It was a long chance, but he took it by the hand and has been leading it around for weeks. If he ever runs agai he will have to start a factory for turning out money, because this chance of his is settting him back good and plenty. ’ “About all we know of the campaign at this time da that somebody is a liar. Never have there been so many accusations of untruth slid back and forth between the contestants in a municipal campaign: In any other game but politics there would have been a few fine funerals before the campaign was a week old. : “Grout began it by calling the Mayor a lar. The Mayor came right back, but he was more diplomatic, He admitted that he might be a Har, but it he was tne fact was a stranger to hun. ‘hen McLaughlin called Murpay @ liar and Jerome called Cockran and Grout. lars and Cockran called Jerome a liar. All this was among the arc lights of the struggle. ‘The incandescent lights have been calling everyooay Mars, If you beuieve all you [a hear we haye gut the star mendacity bunch of the world bucking the line for office this fall, “So you've got to vote for a liar whatever way you dope your ballot. We have no use any more for G. Wash: ington in politics, If it came to a showdown a man who told the truth North, East, South and West wouldn't last any longer as a politician than a one-armed man in @ rowing club. We have got so used to being strung by cauipaign orators and men with a yen for ottice that wa wouldn't be satisfied unless we got a diet of campaign con, *T 4 “To-day it's up to the voter. The great American citi. * | zen 1s beginning to have a lot of admiration for the per- son who can et a strangle hold on truth and put it four“) points down, ‘The best I can case out trom the way the vampaign has been conducted is that the managers of the rival parties expect the people to vote for the men who’ aave been most proficient in kicking the stuffing out of facts,” “What do you figure was the chief incident ot the campaign?” the Cigar Store Man inquired, “The arrival of the aurora borealis last Friday night," replied the Man Higher Up. A Vanishing Lake. Lake Shirwa, which has covered a considera! country to the south of Lake Nyassa, in Africa, ever since hat region has been known to white men, haa now dried a completely, and local opinion leads to the theory that it phe wnished for good, SUli, 1t would scarcely be advisable tor Settlers to attempt tho operation of any garden cities of other establislinents anywhere on the bed of the old Iake which might fll up again at any time, Men drive thelr bug. - gies and ride thelr horses along the soft, sandy beds of the #! Australian rivers in times of long drought, but when the rains come the river steamers resume thelr old place on 1 newly flushed streams, | Gutta-Jootalong, Gutta-Jootalong 18a new material which te utilized ax substitute for and In conjunotion with india rubber. It is a product of the East Indies, ohlefy the sland of Borneo, and In the form in which it ts imported i deacribed as “whitish in color, looking’ something like marshmallow candy, smell- Ing strongly of petroleum and oxidising on @xposure tothe air, becoming hard.” Its smportation bas” {ner from, 6,600,000 pounds in 1899 to 14,000,000 pounds in 1908, “Chief Dairy Maid.” “Chief Dairy Mati to the King” ‘s the official title of a pretty young woman Who haa just been installed in Mia Made esty’s home farm at Windsor. The position {s by no meatis — i» Binecure, for the chief dairy maid must supervise the but- 2! \ poetry line,” remarked the bosom rh “Wihat.do you have to be careful culated the otruggling post, he replied. T want to seo about Could I have it sent at a take Chios ter and cheese making industry under royal patronage. Her + chief duty 1s to serve up for the royal table two pounds of ” butter every morning and supplies of cream and thiol. oream ae Mary Child and she te “Her name is Mins sty