The evening world. Newspaper, December 1, 1903, Page 12

TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1:03. Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 88 to @& Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. —- VOLUME 44........ 18,441. ——$—$—$—$— RICH VS. POOR? Magistrate Crane, in an article in last Sunday's World Magazine, denounces savagely “the arrogant power of Wealth.” He accuses our millionaires of being “abso- Iuttely indifferent to the common people.” He prophesies that there will be “‘n new generation of millionaires who ‘will ride roughshod over the common people of this city © ercessceeceees NO. power of wealth.” _ The Rev. Dr. Parkhurst agrees with Magistrate Crane, saying that “the rich are learning to despise the poor, and the poor are learning to hate the rich.” | These gentlemen are undoubtedly sincere in their views, but are they not dangerously misguided? It is an and the very poor do not understand each other. Their work and their recreation, their pursuits and their pleas- ures, everything, indeed, but their births and their deaths are so dissimilar that a reciprocal understanding Would bo little short of divination. two extremes between which rise countless gradations of gociety. Each gradation regarding as hardships what those beneath it accept as normal conditions; each re- @arding as luxuries what those above it accept as mere Mecessities. Does each of these numverless gradations. therefore, despise the one beneath it and hate the one! ‘above? Such a theory fs disproved by the mere fact of Our national existence. And even petween the two elasses at the extremes of the social scale—the very rich nd the very poor—must a lack of comprehension entail a lack of sympathy? Because the very rich man cannot Tealize the, luxury that a dish of meat represents on a Very poor man’s table, does he, therefore, despise the Poor man for making of a meat dinner a memorable ccasion? Because the poor man cannot realize the pre- Cise pleasure that a rich man finds in risking his neck over fences and ditches in pursuit of a bag of anise seed, does he, therefore, hate the rich man for enjoying his hunting? No; there are undoubtedly exceptions which, taken alone, would seem to justify Magistrate Crane and Dr. Parkhurst in their pessimism—some purse-proud vul- gerlans who imagine it aristocratic to be contemptuous; some anarchistic demagogues who fancy it democratic te be rancorous. But the vast majority of our citizens, | from the very richest to the very poorest, may smile good-humoredly at one another's unintelligible doings, Dut whenever they meet on common ground, whether in ‘work or in play, show that spirit of friendly equality ‘which is the particular glory of our country. Seheol Instruction—The new Chinese Minister to the * United States left Andover, where he wa: student, knowing “little Latin and less Greek, tut a great deal) about baseball, curves and all.” It seems not to be so! much what the schoolboy learns which counts as the way he learns it. THE READY REVOLVER. ‘The ready revolver was drawn and used twice with /#tal effect on Sunday, Two human lives paid the pen- alty of the abominable egotism by which the possessor of a pistol constitutes himself judge, jury and execu- tioner of a fellow-man. In Ebtridge street Harold Andressen, twenty years old, blazed away with unerring aim at a man in the Street whom he supposed to be a disappearing burglar. There was no indication that the victim of the shot had been in Andressen’s apartment. Hasty conclusions and * youthful fears prompted the vengeance on the spot as! @ result of whiea Morris Gropp2, a tailor bearing a good reputation, is dead. In Chicago a restaurant-keeper, Bergames, killed a customer who, having eaten a meal for which he thought the charge would be 15 cents, refused to pay the 20 cents demanded—refused because, as it developed, he did not have the additional five cents, so Bergames shot him dead. Here again the judge, jury and executioner in one person. The hasty hearing, the verdict, the penalty of‘death and its immediate infliction, for the trifling sum of 2 nickel. It is a grievous thing that a life should be snuffed out for the trivial offense which is almost always the cuuse of the drawn revolver, The fault is in the laxity which permits the promiscuous use and possession of revolvers. The pistol habit is a relic of barbarism, @nachronous and indefensible in a state of civilization, The Truly Happy—' Halt the people in the world to-day are on. the wrong scent In pursult of happiness,” says young Mr. Rockefeller, ‘They seem to think It consists in having and getting and in being served by others. ‘This is a mistaken ‘dea. It consists in giving and serving others.” By this definition both the motorman and the millionaire when giving away his millions are entitled to an equal sbare of happiness. It Is a comprehensive pre- scription. : 3 ub CONSCIENCE AND THE STOMACH. A jeweller's messenger boy, who was paid wages of $6 @ week and intrusted almost daily with gems worth more than he cbuld earn in ten years, succumbed to the temptation constantly before him and stole a sample case containing $1,200 worth of jewelry. He then fled from the city, remorse overcame him, and he returned to put himself in the way of arrest. This breach of trust in an underpaid employee is not rare, as the news reports bear frequent testimony. The @fteen-dollar bookkeeper handling money in the hun- dred thousands, clerks on small salaries who have be- come familiar, with the familiarity that breeds con- _ tempt, with cash in large sums, allow their moral per- ‘ceptions to grow confused, and they sometimes steal. Jn Fried’s case it 1s the awakening of his conscience “that is interesting. He does not appear to have realized ‘the full enormity of his offense until he had used some of the proceeds of his stealings to procure a square meal, ‘Rte good food ance again,” he says, “and then came congeience. I hadn't thought of that.” A hearty put him at peace with the world. The empty mach was fille] and the aenemic moral character be- ine strong. Becky Sharp'thought she could have been poo. if she had had £5,000 a year. Fried, with lary enabling him to have enough to eat, might not r the prospect of prison bars, ‘Beubstance as a beefsteak may serve to ige on the moral-discerninent. Food is 5 a “of the highest spirituality. w THE « EVENING “fm@ country unless we now put a sharp curb upon the | unquestionable and a deplora*le fact that the very rich | But these are the | ;culine persons who tell themselves that WORLD'S LITTLE DiXl€---The Qoos Kid Shows a Stranger How Fitz Lan REACH Roun’ WIF HIS Good OLE FLIPPAH FULL 68 STEAM AN' SAY, OAT FIGHT, was A BuRD! OE OLE MAM Airy to OEAD cHieKum vet! e METHUSALEM FRITZ PUTS uP HIS DOOKS AN' DEN HE JES-— peer F vw HOME » MACAZINE w Ce a ded an Uppereut. Hamm and Aiggs--Stranded Vaudeville Team wo wo o They Never Go Hungry. RY Does Absence Conquer Love? How About It? By AH, KINO KNIFE = SHARPENER CAn , |. WE USE YouR KnIV Jo PRACTICE our New JUGGLING AcT FoRSooTH! Bur Tis. Nixola Greelgy - Smith. OES absence conquer love? D Doen it make the heart grow fonder—of another? Or does It, on the contrary, bind more closely together lovers who, through long separation, come to realise the value of words—so valueless before—to those whose thoughts must leap the istance that divides their Ipa? These questions are old—old as the hills, and a good deal more interesting. Tor there {s no man with the image of a distant mpiden in his heart, no woman with the shadow of an absent lover on her eyes, but asks them over and over again, Poets have rhapsodized on the mud- Ject, wise men have pondered it, cynics ave derided it. And the best and most conclusive utterance on the grave ques- tlon was made more than three hundred veara ago by La Reochefoucautt, who | sald: “Absence while proving fatal to minor Passions, serves ag a stimulus to great | ones, just as the wind which extin- sulshoa 2 candle fans a@ fire into a blaze." But the witty author of the “Maxims,” Whe disposing thus of our first ques- pest suggests others still more daquiet-. ing. For at onod we begin to ask ourselves whether the passion we have inspired 1s of the great or minor variety— whether, indeed, we have lighted a tal-| low candle or a bonfire, Tt seems a singular fact that when we have vainly sought an answer to these problems within ourselves we should gravely propound them to the pontire or 4 the candle. But that la exactly what we do, never- theless. And stimulated by the dnquiry the candle, if it be a candle, blazes for the mor.ent into a semblance of the radiant fire, and the fire, if we have, indeed, | kindled a flame worthy of the name,| glows and sparkles more bravely than before. Waile with a foolish letter at her heart ® woman smiles happily at the confirma-| tion of her hopes, and a wise man keepe his two days before he quite determines to destroy it, And when the wind comes the candle flickers and goes out,-and the fire blazes radiently as before, ‘There are, to be sure, grave maa- Absence is fatal to passions of the can- dle variety, and gs the majority of modern attachments are of this kind | that separation has a deadly effect on them. But there are loves, it is eald, #0 superior to time and chance, so inde-! pendent of the prapinquity that is very life of ordinary affairs, as to pe! absolutely unaffeoted by months or years’ of neparation. These are usually the loves of women, for there are few men capable of such devotion. ! There are, to he eure, graye, mas- Rel uKa To SEE A LIL TEEAYTER.! oT ; almost as | knew two “Out of = TF GOBBLE Yue | LUNCH, Alegs 4 check, get , bank, and rice of a | for him. f i the boots | Season, whi he sale of “There | him like a | him, face. NOT SUITABLE. statesmen, they will remain faithful to an absent ideal, and that ull the long separation ig over thelr hearts are ‘but danked higeaned fires. say, ‘Pooh! But even a banked fire has its posal- bilities, and—man js prone unto evil as sparks ‘a. we thought and writ. ten on the effect that absence has on love. But no one has disposed of a up to this question definitely, Will not Evening World readers give their views and experiences on ‘abson: fhe eub- Sect, Does 06 Conquer love’ Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. INCONSISTENCY, ‘Many a man," sald Uncle Eban, “Yeats a mule foh doin’ exactly what he would do if he was in de mule's place.”—Washington Star. WHY HE WENT. BUl—I saw Jerry going to church Sun- day with his wife, Jil—Yes, 1 guess he was paying an election bet.—Yonkers Statesman, MISFIT TECHNIQUE, Mrs, Highmore (at the opera)—tIsn't she grand? What wonderful technique! Mrs. Gaswell—Ye-es, but it looks as if it pinched her about the waist, don't vou think?—Chicago Tribune. ONE DRAWBACK, ‘Tis love that makes the world go round,” whispered the pretty girl as ane nestled closer, ‘Yes,"" sighed the young man as he glanced at the time, “and.it séems_ to | The Lady—But you you would not drin| been drinking. ummy Robt dat’s tight. | used to drink dem small beers cross de way, but now. 1 go where dey give schooners. Int RS. promised you have Agent—Here’s a new book enti- tled “How to Be Happy Though Married.” Perhaps It would In- terest you. May—Let’s see. | believe when she married him he was a strug- gling young man, wasn’t he? Ethel—He was. He struggled Mr. Enpeck—No, thank you. as hard as he could, but she got don't care for joke books. him. hh beer riebieebbhibbbicetrit 4 she coppy wae ability of Mike—What fer? Steepin’ on knowledge duty? Pat—No, on Kelly's cellar door, LETTERS, QUERIES AND ANSWE Apply to Your Congressman, mankend that Burns had no other idea] pio 4 rv: ning into It of different size! ‘To the Kultor of The Rvening World ‘a writing this song than that of a 1958] ‘The frst pipe fills the tank in one hour, ‘How can I obtain admission to West going through a dewy Neld of rye | the second fills the tank in two hours Wednesday. Point? Coe | D. De KREMISN. | ang sy on up to thé eleventh, which fills |to the Baltor of The Evening World: Rye River or Rye Field | "The Lady Should Bow First, it in eleven hours, How" long will it} On what day of the week did Dec, wi,| ‘The ex, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World 5 i aerial talse to All the tank {f all pipes are rén-| 1996, fall? "4 Editor of The Evening Work gy hve Toad queries, ‘asking if the) “ould a Indy recognize a gentleman | atng Into H at the same time? AUG, B. Rye: varced tolla coma. Dare’ firat cn the street or vice versat M. 8, ‘A Pugilistic Query. Re car een eesti BMGT en Cia lMN UBER EOI NG IV lenreanalaant To tke Editor of The Evening World Glasgow Herald of July 2, 1831, an ar-| ere Is No Vice-Pres! S Editor of The : 7 Mona seeded called Now Readings of | Yo the Editor of The Evening Worl: Did Frank Erne get, knocked out | his hat ehe ome} when brea ty an Old Poet," in which it was said that. Wao Is Vice nt of the United} by McCovern at Madison Square Garden , alone on street? “Comin’ Thro’ the Rye" refers to the| Stat:¢ at the present time? PHTER BS. | nui tose the light-weight championship) \ true gentleman’ accords to his motn- who would NS t cucn'forfelt his champtonahip in that lass. Tow FRED S. | 5 Yes, of Co To the Hdltor of Thi ning World; ‘accomplish male agent ft the little in ty ded to other employers who | make the hands of the clock go around, ‘Rye Water’ at Dairy. Thia was oo A Tank Probleni, ot the world? a ler we or sister the game courtesy he, cadicted tn a following number of the | -ro the mattor of The Byenine World: MoGovevin knocked out Erne at Madi- would offer to any vfeminirie , Herald, saying that it was an opinion | will clever me tackle ¢] Men, gut es-they { anc i ah ihucrwed by the entire common sense of | | 100.0) re sen Bquate G News, low. the: ia Postal freuds,” replied the Man Higher Up. by the Washington correspondents of the newspapers.’ ‘But it will be the birthday of Ann before you see any of the good and faithful servants of the Post-Ofice De~ partment who cut in on the graft eating their meals with. their fingers off tin plates shoved to them through a slot in a cell door. crooked. work only a few have been indicted, and every, one of them has a pull like a train of cars. got cold fect in time enough to allow them to hide und | the statute of limitations. @ grand piece of hand-finished work. * “A common crook who never passed’ a civil-service examination may go into a bank; lay down a phony five or ten years. , Wild bull runs against him at the end of that time it is a case of pinch and be sent away as sure as he faces thé Judge. The coin he got came out of the assets of thd “I knew a guy once that hard luck ‘had been throwing had been collecting his meals on the instalment plan and | at the bottom of the East River than {t was in his imffe+ Mate vicinity, he happened to pass a store devoted to a nice long flopper with flannel lining. but as he was going away, trying to put it on as though ; he had bought it, the boss of the store got a flash at He was a sprinter and made his getaway good. The next day his luck turned, he got a job and forgot all about the benny he had swiped, “Three years later the boss of the store got a second flash at him. To do him and let him see you was like planting a steel engraving of your map on his brain, bered the man who had copped the coat, and they gave him two years. in the statute of limitations. “The statute of limitations was created for men who go for a job with thelr pockets full of letters from how honest they are. are wise enough to keep it under cover for the legal They tell me,” remarked the Cigar Store Man, “that a charming young lady exuded the information that led “Tt heard that myself,” said the Man Higher Up. “People who have seen her say that she is a step in the right direction.” NOTH.—Numerous letters have been received by the Evening World relative to a problem that appeared in this column concerning the possit!tv of a man drinking thirty glasses of beer in five days and getting away with ~ fan odd number of glasses every day. The mathematica) During the American Revolutionary War the colonists had Breat trouble with women who were determined royallete, e mistresses of In read of a great politician who did not employ petticoats 4 Is it proper for a gentleman to ratee! telan on record Dean P-got The Curtain Has Risen On the P. O. Frauds: SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that the full iniquity of the postal frauds has been ex> posed by our fearless President.” “The drop-curtain is certainly up on the “We know much about it from the Bristow report as we or three months ago from the reports written the mob who were getting their bit from the The oth This statute of limitations is away with the goods and blow himself for If they have his description and @ none of the despositors was stung for the stamp, but the statute of limitations is not , into until his soul was black and blue. He en he was wondering if it could be any colder clothing, and on a hook outside was hangitig was nobody rubbering and the coat looked to seat before a grate fire. He nicked the coat, This boss was a man who never forgot a He remem- His Jawyer didn’t even think of ringing preachers, bankers and professors, telling When they jump off the level and slide behind the statute of limitations and pooh!’ to the people they have stung.” postal investigation.” the Man Higher Up 1s largely confined ty of when he has the right change, but he isi informed, by persons supposed to know, that it cannot. ‘ be done. However, if he wasn’t on the water wagon hd would be willing to rehearse it before any saloon-keeper agree to supply the props. re Satanic Lore. ii wrote the reveliious Governor of New Jersey: ite craft and subtlety, and I neved his designs, Certain it 49 that the ereatest polly menn the devil) applied himeelt to @ ¢o involve mankind in sin and ruin.” (tes in his new book of anecdotes the ‘J who was much upset by a maiden aunt ‘hole in the garden a letter in thése terms: