The evening world. Newspaper, December 3, 1903, Page 14

IURSDAY EVENING, “Publistiod by the Press Publishing Company, No. 83 to © 4. Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Cinss Mail Matter. < . VOLUME 44. NO. 18,443. THE BANK ROBBER’S FAREWELL. Why are the days of bank robberies over? It is ex- plained by the increasing difficulties, now almost in- _ superable, which the banks have placed in the way of those gentlemen interested in the informal reduction ‘gentlemen would not have been so easily discouraged field been opened to their energies. ‘This ‘new field ap- 4 pealed to the very type of manhood which the bankers Were trying to dishearten—the manhood of quick de- | Cision and steady nerve, unhampered by morbid beliefs fore ideals and ceuts before sentiments, who craved - } only a fortune for a future, and did not care: what kind * ‘ of a past was involved in getting it. To this type of _ }ttianhood ‘opened the new, glorious vistas—a veritable / promised land—the field of high finance, /What was the good of laboriously scheming to gain dangerous access to guarded money when by a few in- genious calculations you could have that money voluntarily brought to you? What was the use of fussing painfully with an ungainly jimmy when the adroit manipulation of an artistic stock certificate or sinking fund bond would secure better results? What was “the use of taking the risk of getting into an uncom- _ fortable jail as a criminal when, without risk, you could get into an exclusive club ae a financier? In fine, what ‘Was the good of organizing bank robberies when re- Organizing trust mergers was a better “graft?” These Were the questions that every intelligent bank robber asked himself. There could manifestly be but one ¢andid answer. So bank robberies have become obsolete | Gnd Wall street offices are in great demand. OIL AND PHILANTHROPY. eight times since September the Standard Oil Trust has "advanced the price of petroleum. At $1.85 a barrel it is ) Row 31 cents dearer than three months ago. The value ') of the £0,000,000 baryels annually produced ‘in this sountry is thus arbitrarily increased $24,800,000, and _ @yery independent refinery depending on the Standard for its supply of crude oil is forced tu pay additional tribute to the trust. __ The'excuse for the higher price is that the oil flelds ‘2 giving out. Yet their product last year was 7 per aise last October it wus said in the North Lima field, . Where the purest crude oll is obtained, that “conditions| for oll producers were better than they had been for| 3 *) years.” They appear to be good also in the Texas fields, Where 13,000,000 barrels of crude petroleum were in storage on Oct. 22. This is a yield from new fields more than ample to offset any deficiency in the old. This oll ead by the arbitrary increase, of price acquires an additiongl /- value of more than $1,000,000. : " But is thore any shadow of excuse for the monofolistic ~~ abt which has forced up the price of the refined product © correspond with the advance of the crude? ~~ From those 80,000,000 barrels of domestic petro- leum, some 46 per cent. of the world’s entire output, the Standard sold 1,766,737,000 gallons of refined ofls and ‘from imported petroleum enough to carry the total prod- _ “uct of its refineries up to 2,500,000,000 gallons. Within three years it has increased the wholesale price of kero- Sene from 8% cents a gallon to 18%. It has wrung 8125,000,000 out of the host of small consumers of oll, aot to make up for greater cost of production, but to) idcrease dividends already enormously swollen by the unfair trade methods which by crushing competition | have made the trust sole master of the oil market. * By an interesting coincidence in anniversaries the | few oil extortion occurs just before Christmas. It was | fust before Christmas last year, when coal was high, | tha: the wholesale price was advanced from 1034 cents Bagallon to 11%. According to Chicago despatches Presi- | dent Harper is expecting to get some of these extorted _ “millions tor his university this Christmas as he did last. _ #* -But will that gift to a university constitute an act of ) grace exculpsting Mr, Rockefeller for what Dr. Slicer is his “responsibility for untold suffering among the | throughout the Eastern States?” In Dr, Slicer's words again, “when a millionaire after wpending his life in acquiring anu hoarding wealth sud- denly comes to realize that, he has done no good in the ‘world for the welfare of his fellow-men and endows a benevolent institution does hts one charitable act make * reparation for the sins of the past?” Perhaps the answer may best be put in the words of Dy Newell Dwight Hillis, who said at Boston: MGod gave genias to a man to sell at Uving wanes und to bay at Hvink wages, and any man that can way he made $7,000,000 Inst year, be it in vi or anything else, in not serving G us he should.’ CONSUMPTION CURES. Last July Dr. Margeliano, of Genoa, invented an anti- tuberculosis serum which, introduced beneath the skin like vaccine, was warranted to cure consumption, , In August Dr. Soddy, a ritieh chemist, if we recol- Tect aright, advocated inhalations of radium fumes as of Penefit. to tuberculous lungs. » In September, from Australia, indorsed by Dr, Schnel- er, of Berlin, came sanosin, a preparation based on eucalyptus, to which extensive remedial virtues for con- Sumption were ascribed, _ + Between times, the exact date of which ts not re- galled, Prof. Marmorek, an Austrian bacteriologist, de- vised a serum for tuberculosis which he declared to be ficaciotis, Now word comes from Paris that the more serum has killed five consumptive patients out ven on whom it was tried. _feturns for the rest are not in. Expressions of ‘as to their efficacy may be set down as pessimistic, e general public is growing sceptical of the vaunt- ceas which are produced at intervals in the pro- 01 i Jaboratory. The remedy, however good in ‘Seems to fail lamentgbly in practice, though not i th such disastrous results as are recorded of RE “ge died under the minjgtrations of a it hear talk of a prison cell, , The ite of the professor excuse him. F and sunlight, remain as of old r OF | in which : “ot their balances. It is probable, however, that those! a jin their life’s work had not a new and more seductive, im the sancity of thine and mine—who put dollars be-| « Again this week as twice in one week in October and’ {7007 SIE DEAR, 1 IS'NT ® 4 When Cupid Takes His Pen By Nixola Greeley-Smith. e all know he makes a mistake, the first of many, which may land him in @ divorce sult or a breach of promise case, according to the legal status of the Indy lo wham he writes. The folly of writing love letters is | indisputable. Yet who has not a con-| tempt for the smiling man of the world | who declares that he never gets into mischief, for he never writes. Women love men most for the in- difference to danger, the contempt of consequences which ‘they are capable ot Aieplaxing in critical situations. And, however mpch In love’ a girl may be) she is not prepared to bdelleve that a man will either live or die for her untes: he'is willing to say so on paper. If he calls her by a doxen more or less foolish pet names in the process, 80 much the better. How can you tell whether ho ix really in love or not unless he !s allly? Of course, none but ner eyes will ever look at them unless— Q well, she may read a few choice sell tions to Mabel or Edith, her dearest chums, but they are altogether to be trusted. On the other hand, there ta nothin: men fear so much as exposure to rid! cule, and a man who would. face a rag- Ing lon without filnching shrinks from the prospect of having his inmost thoughts bared to even the choicest of the multitude, ‘The average lover does not know how to write a love letter, The man who does know how is generally not a lover at all. The man who would give his life for a woman, who, like the ill-fated hero of Tennys ud, accepts his madness, “and would die to save from some slight shame one almple girl," 1s the very one who, when separated from her, will wri that he reached Boston on the § A. M. train, took a cab to the Parker House, had ham and’ eggs for breakfast, and that she krmws he Is her most nftec- | % tlonate John. While the other man—he | % who never sits down to write to a pretty | @ woman without words that are heart- beats, phrases that are kisses, flowing with the facile Ink—may be for the moment sincere, but it should be remem. dered that to persons gf his kind the temptation to write for the sake of writing well, to round a sentence and a sentiment at the same time, Is bound to ccme and to be yielded to, All women write love letters—that 1 all good women—when they are inclined, an® in general it may be sald that to write love letters Is foolieh, and to refrain from writing them from prudent | « motives is cowardly. gome of the Best Jokes of the Day. IN MILD LANGUAGE, She—Don't you think you were rather severe in saying that Matilda was the most inveterate talker you ever met? He—Oh, I didn't put it in that bald way. I only sald that it was Impossit for her to keep her mouth shut, e: in a dentist's office.—Boston Transcript. WHY THEY PARTED, He—Thelr engagement 1s broken off. She—for what reason? “Why, he told her one night that when he was at his work her face was ever before him.” “Well?” “Why he's a cartoontst,"—Yonkers Statesman. HOW OLD IS—THIS! Madge—Oh, yes! Bessie is very strict in her temperance principles. Many Umes I've heard her say, ""Dhe lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.’ Kitty—As though any man really sober would think of kissing her!—Bos- ton Transcript, LETTING HIM DOWN, “1 don't know why It Is, Miss Snap- peigh, but I cawn't look natural when I am facing a camera.” “I wouldn't let that trouble me, Mr. Millsaps. You always look fine in a photograph."—Chicago Tribune, HIS CONFESSION, | The Deacon—Pastah, 1 hab a sin to Ws CUPID takes his pén In hand $ The Hog in Evening Dress. Cartoonist Flynn Suggests a Way of Dealing with Him at the Theatre- A Hoist for the Perked Up Porker Who Climbs Out of His Seat at the End of Every Act and Ruins Women’s Dresses. THE DERRICK OOSOOOODOOOHD MR. REEWEE---IS N’ T HE GREAT kITThG MAN? . The Souvenir Mania Finds Him a Willing Victim and Miss Sixfoot Almost Has to Take Him Home in a Barrel. THINK ALL THE GIRLS ARE STRUCK ON ME. DONT You? IT NICE TO BE POPULAR WITH THE PE IN OPERATION- 3 WO MORE LADIES’ RUINED,-NO Moz PET CORNS WALKED UPON NO MORE LOCKET CHAINS BROKEN WHATS THE MATTER 1OGES LIKE with 8 | WIS P EXPLANATION. id that shi st man on o: rth. THAN DOIN’ ROLES wy OPLE! Canis 18 BET7E a ovER 1 wonder why that Bal- imore girl wished to. be married @up Ina balloon? Whealton—Probably she had ouldn't marry THERE, THATS A NICE MITTLE MAN. 1 JUST WANT THAT PIN FOR A SOUVENIR. frmere THERE! PEEWEE DEAR: YOu CAN WEAR TOOTSIES COAT Aut THE SWAY HOME os OH MR. PEEWEE, I'LL STUFF THIS HAT. (T With MAKE A SWEET LITTLE! {sus7 one ® PIN CUSHION. & LEAVE YOUR SEAT NO. AT THE BOX OFFICE AND THE DERRICK WILL CALL FOR You IF YOY WISH TO GO QUT BETWEEN ACTS. Cinch Ways to Get Next _ to Xmas Cash, 74 LOT of my customers are figuring om, schemes to get a little Christmas money,” re- marked tho Cigar Store Man. “Getting Christmas money these days,” sald the Man Higher Up, “is Nke getting water from a hydrant, All you have to do is turn the handle, The newspapers are engaged in the philanthropic work of handing out Christmas change to everybody who needs it and is willing to do a stunt in the way of thought. “There was a wagonload of mazuma distributed to: people who were lucky enough to sit right down and figure out the age of Ann and put a special delivery stamp on the answer. Tho Sunday papers give cash prizes to the toys and girls and grown-ups who can take a vacant face and decorate it so that it resembles| the map of some well-known man. There is a mine in newspaper puzzles and cut-outs, and propositions of! figuring how to get a team of horses and a wagon four | feet wide through an iron gate only two feet wide. _ Anybody willing to devote a little time and paper to effort is up against a cinch if the work is scattered, Should it happen that the puzzle worker don’t land in one place he is certain to land somewhere else, “The softest frame-up I have seen is casing out the age of the Girl in the Terra Cotta Gown, or figuring amare patties See Hy MULL Yy ee 1 y FEE FER MINE, oTAck} » fo" ORNER ME A SCOTCH HIGH-BALL, OLD MAN | THE LADIES OUGHT TO GO PREPARED FOR THe out the name of the Man in the Rubber Boots, or some- “BETWEEN ners @|thing like that. This is a new scheme that not only: FOOTBALL g brings in the cush, but improves the mind. The puzzle SCRInM AGE”! is buried in a story and to ‘lig it out you have to read: the story with care. I don’t know whether the Authors’ Union is onto it or not, but I'll put the authors wise to’ a strangle hold on the public, “The name of the Girl in Black, for instance, was concealed in misspelled words that ran through the story; the ngé of the Girl in Red is concealed in figures: that have to be added, multiplied, divided, subtracted: and generally ill-used. The changes can be rung to a fret, and here is where the cue comes to the down- trodden author. “For instance, a young man has been starving him- ‘2 self until he is balf way to the Morgue trying to get publishers to accept a scream he has written entitled ‘Elizabeth Among Her Incubators.’ Every publisher has turned him dowa until he feels like a policeman in. uniform ‘trying to get into a pool-rqgom for evidence. | He takes this hunch of mine and goes to a publisher! vith a spiel like this: é “‘In every chapter in this story there is at least a: ‘letter upside down. In some chapters there are two or: more letters upside déwn, Taken in sequence, these’ letters spell out a chapter in the Bible. “Now, you publish this book and advertise that the first purchasor sending in the chapter concealed inj the story written out in full will get a cash prize of; say, $500. Ring in about a thousand other cash prizes: and the book-stands will he mobbed.’ “Would a publisher fall to it? From some of the! books they put out nowadays I am convinced that al publisher will fall to anything, but he would have to’ fall to this, The advantages of the scheme loom up like: ©, a grain elevator in a fog. “In the first placo, the book would be pought it it! was advertised—and it would have to re advertised; like a circus. In the second place, the book would be: read., The readers might be sore because they bought, it, but they wouldn't miss a chance to get back maybe as much as they paid for it and maybe a whole lot’ more, How are yor figuring on getting your Christmas money?” asked toc Cigar Store Man. “Well” replied the Man Higher Up, “if I can get-an xclusive beat from the Hold-Up Men’s Union I know © here there is a nice piece of lead pine. BARGAIN paring ES SSS OR TRAP POORS TO rs “THE SMOKING PARLOR= Effie | MUCH WORSE. BENEATH HER. ecto Pointed Paragraphs.\ . : Beware of Ure banber who IHustrates bis stories with cuts, Happy is the gitl who thinks her father {s the test man / . on earth, ~ be. Many a candidate for oftice 1s not as immaculate ar he is’ wh:tewashea, i Responstbiiity 1s a coat which the man at fautt thinks fs a misfit on his own back. Women lnugh when they are in love for the same reason that cowards whistie—to ken up thelr courage. A man {s beginnig to lose confidence In his theories when; he is unwillirg {o listen to arguments agninst them. i arlor. luxuries that } need and | should McFez—Why, you put yourself Many a man will notice w decided coldness on the part of} “Well, this one smokes a pipe. never bother about mere money. } Into your picture so much. his,annexed rib vis winter if that sealskin sacqque is not 089-0 SPXDOPPIHHH OOGEOE-8HH94O9900O049O99O9O 00H ©80000090000000009 | forthcoming, ! ea oH MoFez—Hard luck, old man, that you er are able to get good models. 1 Splasher—What makes you think that? “| am sorry, now, that | dis- couraged that first college stu- dent from calling on my daugh- ter.” He—Do you think money ry to happiness? ‘No; caring for money is | the good yachts and confessionate, Las’ night I whar pass. In! by a chicken coob, an— ‘The Pastor—Wi dat, Deacon? The Deacon—I whar passin’ a chicken coob an’ heerd dem chickens a-brexthin’ heaby. 1 whar tempted, but I say, de behind me, Satan!" The /D ov" the salary was jot | to accept office as he, made the oh os] neal ; i THE DOCK ‘BOARD. A number of years ago a Tammany clan holding a city office, of which $8,000 ‘a year, Dook Commisssioner ‘at a salary of %5,000 a year, nays Losile’s Weekly, When. friend asked ‘him why ange. he sald: ‘In the the work is) Epa: g realgned PRINTED PARAGRAPHS. Love is the only, sure cure for feminine jpetry. A quiet’ lttle game ts one In which A CLEANING ARMY. The Oldest Flower. Visitors to Paris cannot fail to notice Cultivation of the chrysanthemum in China may be, tearpall that the street-cleaners of that city form ‘back to @ very.early date. Already in the eleventh eantiry, .* a ttle army, ‘Dhey number altogether two strains, were cultivated, the one bearing yellow. ray!’ 3,880. ‘They are divided into brigades, f and her white, Dr, Henry, who. ‘has éollee ) the ‘he t ? ODDEST VILLAGE. A unique spot in Europe ts the village of Altenberg, on whose border three countries mect. It tn ruled by no mon- aro, bas! no ores no. popes and no taxes, Its inhabitants speak a cui DOM karen ce Ogle pontp Ay under the command of 44 superintend- ent® and 159. Hive hundred io upton let ie pe ee Py R tyson to pelleve that a