The evening world. Newspaper, November 14, 1903, Page 8

'Y EVENING, BER 14, 1903. )) Published by the Press Publishing Company, No, 68 to @ ‘f Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office ‘at New York as Sccond-Class Mail Matter. -NO. 15,425. _ THE TICKET EXTORTION. “@id not think or care to stand in line before the Metro- the day set for the sale of the “Parsifal” seats are noti- be from ticket dealers. ‘Those desiring orchestra seats may procure the tickets | for $14 and in some cases for $12. Is not the extra a Or $4 asked a smull fee in view of the amount of annoy-) | Ance and physical fatigue and nerve strain which the| spectiiator tas considerately saved the purchaser? | Re, Mr. Conried is credited with a desire to be perfectly | S fair and just to the public. He encouraged the reser- © ation of seats by mall. Bui the fact remains that the | ‘Dest seats are in the hands of speculators, many of those) ‘who endured the ordeal of the long and exhausting wait| or opsratic attraction seem now to have re- @ themselves into the alternative of paying the Hlator’s extra price or risking the chance of failure ir a physically prostrating siege of the box-office. It ‘® cruel alternative. But it is offered so periodically, cwhen any performance of unustal interest is adver- tised, when Irving comes or Maude Adams begins an en- @agement or “Parsifal” is announced, that {t has come tobe the regular experience. ? | With managers countenancing him cither as the re- % sult of lielplessness or complivity the ticket speculator ixes rich in ill-gotten profits as he grows in popular : ' TOO MANY CHILDREN ? Tn the course of a very comprehensive survey of s0- ty, Pénging from Pericles to J. P. Morgan and includ- thoughts on imperialism, education and national Dr, E. Benjamin Andrews, Chancellor of the Uni- of Nebraska, takes occasion to raise the race issue anew, Dr. Andrews thinks that President. Roosevelt has “incalculable evil” by his advocacy of larger fam- } ‘The President's recommendations are alleged to fe accomplished an undesirable end by swelling the us among the poor and thoughtless. Mr. Roosevelt asked to amend his plea by urging quality of popula- ~ tion a8 moro a dosideratum than quantity. __ Where Mr, Andrews has obtained his statistics of an | abnormal increase of the birth rate among the poor is not apparent. but granting the truth of his observa- tions, what is to constitute “quality” in children? 21s. it not AB likely to exist in the thirteenth child of “Jongshoreman as in a boy born to wealth? How was dts presence 10 be detected in the ploughman’s son, ‘Hurns, the dull schoolboy, not to say dunce? Or in “Farragut, the truant who quarrelled and swore and ‘Smoked ana at sixteen was a reproach to his family? | Or in Frederick Douglass, the negro boy who slept in a gunnysack ? If the number of children in a family is to be regu- _ lated by the size of the household income the world’s | crop of geniuses must speedily run short. We.can then Took for n@ more barefooted Barnums or poor black- smith’s sons like Faraday. There will be no Linnaeus _ to fill the holes in his shoes with paper. If the poor are to be denied the privilege of having as many chil- / dven as they wish we must look for a deterioration of > hiational greatoess. ‘For i: is from among the baker's dozen of children tenement that we are more likely to get a great name then from the single child of the well-to-do home. Dr, Andzews's alarm will not be generally shared, Ge Sis THE GAMBLING MANI-. 5 me. No. perhaps I had better stop a © OMcial figures from France recently give us a con-|intie before him. It would be more | | etete idea of the enormous aggregate of money spent in| dignified.” betting on the races. The amount invested in paris | mutuels in twelye years was $480,000,000. In a single F: year, 1899, the total of betting transactions was $51,000,000. The figures stagger. Yet the disclosures of the re- ‘ceipts of policy games resulting from the arrests made Uy Goddard. Siciety agents on the east side within a petty form of gambling a daily re- ngly large. turn of profits surp) The detectives found’a polivy backer counting up re- <eelpts of $297 for the morning drawing, out of which vonly $15 had been allotted to winners. From the two daily drawings the game was paying $500 a day. The figures seem sinvll by comparison. But as the returns for a limited area they poiut to an enormous aggregate Improvident persons and those lacking in energy who, fled that the choicest seats in the house may be obtained | $ im line reaching the box-office only to suffer disappoint- | ‘ grandmother or even like! her, parent that constancy, a virtie quite » ASK DIX! JES FEE: REE ¢ @ ® 3 rs ® © “We Swore Eternal Lobe,” Says Maurice. PEEPLES 99 99GO6-9000H By Nixola Greeley «Smith, 461,/£_ swore eternal love.” says W Maurice in the charming little French comedy of “A Furewell/ Supper,” at the vaudeville theatre, peomtned each other that the moment we fell in love with some one elne we would confess it frankly." The speech, shallow and cynical though it be, is typical of New York, as well as of Paris, where it originate For in these days of rapid-fire court- ship, ten-minute marriages and divorce- while-you-don't-walt, constancy has nat even a back seat among the virtues held in modern egteem. ‘Time was when men and women prided themselves upon fidelity. A man won the one woman and was true to her all his days, or, failing to’ win ‘her, thought that it was better to have lost her than | to have gained any other. In dreams he} might behold her, etill fair and kind and young, and see the thick puffs of his after-dinner clgar, the solace of his buchelorhood, wreath themselves into so many haloes of his old Ideal, Women, too, prided themselves upon loving once and forever. Among our grandmothers & young woman lost social cast by breaking her engagement oven for very serlous reasons, and a divorced man or woman was a person to be siunned by all righteous members of society | It Is not the purpose of this article to sing the praises of a past nage. However! fast and frivolous the resent generation | of vipers may seem to older and wiser| serpents, any one who belongs to it may be pardoned for not wishing to Ve her 208 3060000 PELLETED GOTIDTD OFOO0 se But to the unprejudiced mind it is @ 33900600004 ag important to ourse}yes as to those who love us, is not the all-Importayt | requisite In a lover that it was thought | to be fifty years ago. | “I love her,” says the modern man to his shaving mirror. ‘‘T will love her for- ever—or as long as it seems mutually agreeable.” | “I love him," confesses the modern | ¢ maiden to her midnight pillow, "I witl| love him forever—or as long as he loves | > So thelr loves are born and so thes| die, and sometimes only the tear of the Recording Angel blots them out, , and sometimes his more modern pro-| totype, the court stenographer, pre-| % serves them. And, parhaps, from mo- tives of economy, men now pledge the! @ new love in the same bottle of cham- bagne that drowns the memory of ‘the old. ($100 7EDING CHAPTERS. ef gains for policy sharks from the entire city and ex- Morner Rebeyanea plain the m!lions amassed by Al Ada tie faceted ate an Miche profile aro wrung, from the very poor and rep- Hak i a see Fesent dimes and nickels and dollars diverted trom SR em aN Household neers, ‘They are the evil harvest of swindling cit torm the pame of tne an {ts most despicable form, ihe will wine thee Rin, Seosten nt Van ‘Nostrand mi and ‘loves the Giri, in Biack, but she demands that he guess her : aie leo save im f 4 the DIET-AND DIVORCE, Senator Pettus thinks we eat too much gravy. Mrs. w warns against too many A wealthy New dersoy woman, pers reign efficacy of ‘® vegvtariau diet and opposed to the sacrifice of animals for food, seeks to assure a painless death for her herds § inticipating the butcher's knife with chloroform, So ‘many men, so many minds. The ancient proverb ap- a with peculiar aptness to modern dietary views. . Rorer’s tieory is particularly interesting be- it has points in common with the old belief of direct influence of food on the humsn temperament. what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he is 80 great?” Jions’ hearts, wild pgar steak and ‘tonguer for the valiant according to the theory i Finn ate rabbit flesh he grew timid. And so claret for boys, port for men, brandy for Pe aed in uence of the egg, according to Mrs. Rorer, ix Yoree, because, weighing heavily on the di- i and taxing them too severely if eaten day Arst Anduces lassitude, then irritability, do- “gid the services of court counsel. The wht h eggs are now sold will doubt- its in a diminution of the di- hans a ewel hin for weeks, a's grands girl, who lo fan’ a love charm) Roderick Should. t according to Rypay I | CHAPTER VI. i} Two Leve-Letters. OR two weeks a bearded, {Il-looking E man had shadowed Roderick Van ‘ostrand wherever he went. The man’s object apparently was not rob- very. For though he often found him- self close to Roderick and twice man- aged to enter the Van Nostrand home, exploring {t from top to bottom, he stole nothing, His sole alm seemed to be to study Van Nostrand's every ges- ture, every mannerism, every trick of speech or Intonation of voice. On the evening following the noe: turnal adventure related in the pre- ceding chapter Roderick strolled into the Hamiltgn Club, where he had an appointment. As he was looking about for the man he had promised to meet he noticed that several members glanced curlously at him and that one or two more appeared to avoid speaking to him. As he had not, to his’ knowledge, an enemy in the workd, he set this down to his, Imagination and. strove to diemiss th@ymatter from his mind, 4 ‘ NOW DONT YO INDEEDY — DESE AM $ WoT DIXIE’S GOT on 2 ‘Dont You KNOW bob IN" HOW OLE 15 €- COs DIXIE AM AS OLE AS HE LL UMSELF -YAS LY REEL PANTS UMPIN’ WATERMILYUN | eas de DERE MusT A BINA EX FACTRY - DATS Fo’ SHURH- T Guess, li, RUN Home AN’ TAKE MINE OFF — PANTS” 1S GETTIN’ Too CONTAGIOUS ROUND HEAH Fo’ A RESPECABLE GEMmMAN TO WEAR EM ANY MOAH. se FF RESCVE! ~~ | WOULDNT !T, DISLOCATE GET ON To | YOH GIZZARDT) rHe- How ‘Some Hert PANTsIES! A WiLL {was THE CHAMPION SPRINTE! AT YALE -@1 CLASS YOU Tootsie DEAR! MUST To THE THAT LADY HAS LOST WANT THE WHOLE G ROAD! 1 WILL HAVE YOUR LICENSE REVOKED IMMEDIATELY. -— —— As he sat waiting in the club smoking- room an elderly man, one of the Board of Governors, accosted him, “Mr. Van Nostrand,” he said gravely, “I have known you ever since you were a child, Your father is one of my oldest friends, For that reason I am doing my best to prevent the House Committee from taking any action tn your case. But"— “What on earth are you talking about? asked Roderick amazed. “I don't wonder that you choose to pretend Ignorance. It shows you still } have some sense of shame, But it would be more manly to admit your fault, apologize and bo careful it doesn't hap- pen again, Young men will be young men, I suppose, but there ts such a thing as carrying it too far,"* “Will you do me the kindness to ex- plain what you mean?" asked Roderick In despair, “I suppose you're driving at something, but what it s I don’t know. Is It a joke, Dr. Gternet’ “If so it le 2 costly one to me,” said Sterne grimly. “When you came to me last evening In this room, and asked me if I could lend you $00 for a week 1 did not see that you were drunk and I Save you my check without hesl"’— “3500? Last night?" broke in Roderick. “I haven't been in this club-house for a week until to-night. And I never bor- rowed a dollar in my life.” “The drunkenness was more bearable than the les with which you aye try- ing’ to hide it,” answered the doctor, “but I"! “You are an old man, Dr. Sterne," said Ven Nostrand, white with anger, “and I do you the credit to suppose you are insane. Otherwise it would be a long day before you recovered from the «x Oherx~ Girls ~ins-~ effects of calling me a Mar, 1 demand _ @n explanation of this."’ “So glad you've come, old man!” broke in a stout, putty hom Roderick particularly detested. ‘When, you bor- rowed $200 from me last eventing and promised to pay it back to-night I knew you'd keep your word, but the loan left me pretty near broke and it's good to know you've showed up to pay me.” “To pay you?” echoed Van Nostrand, his head in a whirl “Mr. Van Nostrand,” said a volce at his shoulder, and a hand was laid on his arm, “I'd like a word with you, please.”’ i The speaker was a tall, military-look- ing man with an angry red scar across hin cheek. He drew Roderick to one aide. “Now,” sald he, ‘I'll eve you an op- portunity to apologize, and when you have done so Ill leave it to your honor —If you have any left—to decide which of us two shall resign from this club, for it is not big enough to hold us both after what occurred last night."’ “Walt a second, Dashiel."" interrupted Van Nostrand, “I don't know whether I've gone crazy or not. But I do know I wasn't here last night. You are the third man in five minutes who has sprung this line of talk on me. You're one\of the best friends I've got, So, for the sake of old friendship, I ask you to tell me what you're talking about."* “I was right then.” mused Dashiel; “you were drunk, and pretty drunk at that, {f you don't remember anything that happened. You came in here & little before 9 o’ajock, borrowed money from every one who would lend it to Moin! included--and grew of- MY LITTLE Boy, HERE'S A. NICE LONG STICK’ F CANDY FOR BEING So OBLIGING, oN p , Halstead because he wouldn't lend you $100 that I saw you must be drunk and I tried to get you to go home. You struck me across the face, Then you stamped out, saying you were going to call on Miss Haynes. Because you were mv friend and because you were dunk, T didn’t resent the blow or the use of @ lady'’a name in a place Uke this, * waited for you to sober up. What have you to say?" “To say? Only that it Is a Me from first to last. I did not touch one drop of liquor last night. I was not within a mile of his club-house. I never bor- rowed money and I am not a drinking man, Nor do I shout ladies’ names in public, Either you people are all off your heads, or else this Is a huge prac- tical joke. If the latter, it's in rotten taste and I want it stopped." “You say vou weren't here last night?” rejoined Dashiel ‘Then where were you?” ° Van Nostrand opened bis mouth te reply. Then the memory of his promise flashed across his mind. He flushed ecarlet. “I—I cannot say,” he muttered. “It would have been more honest to tell the truth and confess the whole thing," 1d Dashiel coldly as he turned away. Half crazed, Van Nostrand hurried out of the club, fearing to meet more men who would disbelieve him, and utterly bewildered by the strange events of the evening. His last vestige of comprehension van- ished as he reached home. There he found two notes awaiting him. He tore open the first. It read: Dearest: It {9 all so wudden, so beautiful ‘that Tecan hardly, understand st. All I or care‘is that I love you, and that you G 4 WHISKER f EEMUN i The Importance of Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man # #& & Like a Gallant Knight He Aids Woman in Distress and Receives from Her Hand a Sweet Reward. BE COMPOSED MADAM! REGAIN YOUR HAT. OD 2) ) ait? Se i” me, For you do.lo and over again last thousand times for showing your trui then by telling me all your financial trou- bles and letting me help relieve your straits. ‘The $150 you so reluctantly let me lend yott after telling mo of tho bill you had to meet could not ha I way that, would hi tenth as much pleasure. t asher fs all I want in life. call this afternoon o1 I've wi aid you would? 0 eagerly! groaned aloud: Black 2 (100) ‘Yours (al! Roderick Van Nostrand read, reread and then read again this tender eplatle. ‘Then hé buried his face in his hands and —_— 4 i The “ Glad-Rag”’ Grafter of-the Tenderloin. HEY don't seem to be gaining much ground on that young duck that took the alias of Goelet and tried to ring into the matri- monial stakes with it,” said the Cigar 5 46 Store Man. “No,” replied the Man Higher Up. “He did’a quick get-away, and the best the sleuths have been able to do {8 watch his smoke. Even if he comes back there are plenty left on the eastern edge of the Tenderloin to hold up the pace he set. “Rvery once in a while McClusky sends his bulls out to round up the hard-visaged crooks who hang out on Broadway and Seventh avenue, but he overlooks the soft-handed ‘con’ men who hang around the swell food foundries in Fifth avenue. There are more glad- rag young grafters doing business in the Tenderloin these days than ever before, and they operate as openl;’ as though they had licenses from Mulberry street. “Go into an upper-register hotel on Fifth avenue any afternoon and you will find a gang of faultlessly attired youths sitting around smoking cigarettes and showing socks that make the rainbow look like a tank- ful of tar. Half the time you could take the whole bunch by the feet and shake their pockets ins{de out and there wouldn't any more cash fall on the floor than you can find in an incandescent Ught bulb, At other times they have the pazaz in bundles that would block the rapid transit tunnel. i “They never work, and they make as good a front ; avhen they are broke as when they are upholstered with the long green. How do they get it? From rich suckers. “Tt would make the Vanderbilt boys and other gilded youths of the ‘400’ dizzy if they knew how often these Willies use their names to outgeneral a wise guy from the interior who {s dazzled by the sights of the town. ‘The awell Tenderloin grafter will sign anybody’s name to a check if he’s even got a look-in to having it cashed. , The check goes back to the confiding geezer who has thought that he was buying wine for an inti- mate friend of the Vanderbilts, and he becomes deaf and dumb. He wouldn't make a holler for all the phony checks that could be shoved on him, because it would mean that everybody would be wise to him for a come-on. : “Nearly all of the young grafters who make Fifth avenue their headquarters have a scheme. Now and then one of them gets sloughed, and it comes out that bis parents are eminently reepectable people’ in Ala- bama or Hlinvis or Ohio or some other State remote> from the salt air of the ocean. The political drag that { these guys can exercise through their folks is something bats a wonder the proprietors of the hotels and res- taurants where these thieves hang out wouldn’t give them the run,” said the Cigar Store Man, ? They would,” replied the Man Higher Up, “but the trouble is that you can't tell them from the real thing,” pened. How prettily’ you propose! 01 You ald so over yening. ‘Thank you would think you'd had a whole lot of prac- in me and yet I know you haven't. Did you sai iy think I'd refuse you? Some day, . lone after we're married, I'll tell, you aie spell T employed to win you. But not yet. You'll cnly laugh at it anyhow, ‘ Lut the spell worked. happy since papa beat McSInde for You asked me to namo the day. Of course, will, How about the Ist of next month? ‘There's no use In waiting. And, unless 1 hear from you to tho contrury, shall I an- nounce the engagement to-morrow? Drop . around as early to-morrow as you With lots of love, KATE. . “Great heavens!” roared Van,Nostrand, . “Am I getting to be a Mormo: How many more 3irli myself to or borro Did I really do all these things, and was that heavenly hour in the park ali en spent In any given me one- ALL yours), dear, ‘MIRIAM. “Oh, I'm insane! Mad ae a hatter! 1 haven't seen Mirlam Haynes since the dance at the Pouch Mansion, Yet it seems J called on her last night and pro- posed to her and—and borrowed money of her, I-I,a white man, sank 80 low as to borrow money of a woman! Witet on earth am J coming to? Did I go there in my sleep?” He picked up the second note, It in a square envelope addressed In a 4s verely masculine hand. “Kate Clark, e mused, as he tore it open. “What does she want, I wonder?” ‘Then he @asped, for out of the en- anywhere near enough, I bit more, to put you on next rents ‘come in, dream? ‘Then, as his eye fell on the bracelet, lying in an open drawer of his dressing~ table, he selzed it and flung it on the Moor. “Ive that witch's magic that's pos- sessed me!” he cried in fury, “It's what I get for dabling in necro~ manoy| i + said a voice almost in his eary” “I think not." Van Nostrand aprang to his feet. /At’ sight of his visitor all color lett his face, and the missing letters of The Girl in Black’s Name will be (Bo Be Continued.) m0 The blank for insertion of the , \ misspelled and corrected words ... printed. again in Mondayfs 7