The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1903, Page 12

re -Qudlished by the Presa Publishing Company, No. 58 to 6 Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Ciass Mall Matter. VOLUME 44......... c.ceeceeereeee NO. 18,448. $< _.. THE PRESIDENT EXPLAINS. It takes about three solid columas of argument for President Roosevelt to prove that a lofty devotion to © duty required us to boot Colombia off her former prem- fees and turn the keys over to a new tenant. Some cases ‘speak for themselves; others require a lot of explanation before they can stand alone. But, really, the President might have rested his cause upon that suggestive little table of riots and revolutions ‘at Paname during the fifty-seven years since we bound ourselves by the treaty of 1846 to maintain free transit across the Isthmus. That is enough in itself to show the absurdity of the idea that we ought to deal with Colom- bia as we should deal with England or France in her Place. There have been fifty-three outbreaks, three of ‘which aimed at the secession of Panama. Int least ten eases the aid of American armed forces has been granted} or demanded. Of late this revolutionary dynamo has been geared up to a higher speed. There were five revo- Tutions in the two years following the opening of our Jast Presidential campaign. There were three within & HE w EVENING * & & GSASSHM SUE--By the FESESISI-IHGHI96-609004009 “Keb! Keb! Keb! Keb! Keb!” they bawl, Sue Sassafras lands at the ferry, “Ain’t done no sech thing at all.” “Git! you pesky scamps,” ci Toward her hosts of cabbies hurry. D' ps,” cried she, “You can’t make sheep's eyes at m 9999999990000 0099-000-00-000-0% ~ ys yells “Taint true! inder Sassy Sue!” the year after President Roosevelt entered the White " House. It will be a comfort for a peaceful citizen of Panama to be able to set a hen in the assurance that the chickens ‘will be hatched under the same government that presided _ ever the production of ithe eggs. Altogether, aside from ‘the value of the canal, such a certainty ought to be good be worth % | for business. It would even seem as if it night paying for, In all bis three columns of argument the President has forgotten to explain why we should pay $10,000,000 to Panama for the privilege of doing her that service. LOCAL OPTION, BUT NOT GRAFT. Gen. Greene has a scheme of local option in the mat- ter of Sunday liquor selling, concerning which the | Byening Sun unkindly remarks that just now the Com- |“ Milssioner “ought to realize the importance of being un- it." The point is not well taken, for while Gen. Ln 6 party will not have much influence in Mulberry | street after New Year's Day, it will have a good deal at Albany, and any legislative relief for New York will “ave to.come from that quarter. The Commissioner's scheme {is to have an elastic sye- »tem, varying in different neighborhoods at the discre- tion of a board consisting of the Mayor, the Comptroller and the Police Commissioner. The question of subati- tuting this plan for the present one is to be submitted to the voters «2 this city at the next general election. Evidently Gen. Greene feels a confidence in the recti- tude of the incoming Tammany administration that speaks rather poorly for the sincerity of the Fusion exhortations during the late campaign. But even if Mr, McClellan and his new Police Commissioner, whoever that may be, stand above suspicion, how can we guar- ntee as much for their successors? In proposing to give the Mayor and the Police Commissioner legal power _ to Gizcriminate among saloons Gen. Greene is fashioning ‘yarfable jimmy. It may be in safe hands for the two years, but what if it were to be handled by a Van Wyck and a Devery? Tooal option is all right. That means home rule. But I it be local option by the people, not by a syndicate of three men. If we can have liberty for the whole city let us have ft. It not, how would it do to have liberty in sppte—to have the question of Sunday beer settled, for instance, ‘by the voters of each Assembly district for that district? i , THE TROUSERS MUST GO. It is kind of the Chicago clubwomen to undertake to reform men’s trousers, which, as they justly remark, are inartistic and anything but graceful. Naturally, ‘they cannot be expected to hit just the right inspiration at the first trial. What one leading modiste describes es an “ideal business costume” strikes us as just a trifle impractical. It consists of “black satin breeches with raffles around the knee, black silk stockings and @ lace collar.” Such an outfit would be too funereal, too ~ @epressing—it would lend itself too readily to bear ‘operations in Wall street. The atmosphere of business t to be cheerful, like the smile ofa blooming type- ‘The lace collar would be all right, but for the rest of the business-man’s costume we should suggest @ robin’s-egg blue blouse, old-rose knee-breeches, mauve stockings and white satin slippers with diamond buckles, Black might be worn for a day if Steel common passed fits dividend, MASTER AND PUPIL FINANCIERS. Mr. John D. Rockefeller ought to open a business col- lege in waich simple lambs like Mr. J. P. Morgan could Jearn how to take care of their money. To-day Mr. Mor- gan and his associates of the Sheldon Syndicate have to "put up $854,000 for a supply of Shipbutlding Trust bonda ‘at 75, the said securities now being quoted in the wall- market at from 12 to 14. At the same time the 4dly Mr. Rockefeller is contemplating the sixth an- entry of $130,600 to be paid to his National City Bank by the Government for the rent of the old Custom- “House. The bank bought the property, paid for it by a gheck on itself, deposited with itself and never cashed, Feserving $50,000 to erable it to evade State and local daxkes by leaving title in the Government, and has been _ eallecting over $130,000 a year rent ever since. It is estt- minted tat by the time the Treasury is ready to vacate, bank will have received, in one shape or another, ore than the entire amount it has agreed to pay for rty, and it will have the land free. If Mr, fefeller would start even a Sunday-school class in the little Morgan boy would never have to be absent. ont PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES.” | Kings County Grand Jury impertinently wants to iwhether something cannot be done about that that is broiling people alive in Brooklyn as President Winter, of the Brooke Says that “under present circum- ean be done to minimize the danger, Rapid Treant iv allowed to chase y low advanced period of mellowness than in Perate lattitudes the best pineapples qnd apricots to be had are those which ‘pacudonyma by which the term most op- The Important Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man. 2 w& ow # In Amateur Theatricals Ae Plays Romeo fo Miss Sixfoot's dultet and Comes fo Grief in the Balcony Scene. When Love Comes in a Woman’s Indian Summer By On MY ROMEO- TO ‘ DESERT ME SO SOON. WHERE ARE You ROMEO! | CANT LET US FLY TOGETHER AND SEEK SOME SECLUDED (SLE, WHERE, UNDER THE SHADE OF THE SHELTERING PALM, WE WILL LIVE JuST ONE LONG AND BLISSFUL DREAM. Nixcla Greeley - Smith. BEEeroY 7 T was the Autocrat of the Breakfast Bry WERE rene es The Delights ] Table who declared that women, like TULIET+ LIGHT OF MY IMEA f B. pineapples, are sweetest fust before EYES = MY DREAM OF JOY One! ei nen a 01 eing Born they begin to decay. ; . However this eaay eee the question Come DOWNITO ME POPPER WILL in Poverty. of when a woman reaches the age of Guperiative excellence is one where properly, mascline opinion should have the right of way—it Is certain that, the pineaplle, women are softer at this NEVER OVERTAKE 4 667 SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that Carnigte and John D., jr., have broken loose again and are throwing the con to the dmpecunious that heath POY is a priceless pearl.” . ‘at Proposition," remarked the Man Higher Up, i feos are all to the good. Poverty is a priceless pearl. can't be sold nor hooked. About one boy in 10,000 bora bescolaea to be anything but a deficit. The one who gets) e top makes speeches at banquets and corner-stone. layings and exudes hot alr like a base burner. He says that the thing he is most Proud of is the fact that he yas born poor, and that he had to thelr more acid youth. “Young girls are unripe apricots,” is thre refrain of one of Yvette Guilbert's most applauded chansonettes. ‘And it is generally true that until the Anglo-Saxon woman has reached twen- ty-five there’ is something just the least bit acid about her. Still everybody knows that in tem- were pulled green and allowed to ripen on the voyage, And of women this is likewise true. ‘The girl who marries at twenty-five is or at least may be, if all goes well with her, at the very zenith of her charm at thirty-five, while her school friend of the same age who has re- meined single has shrunk and shriv elled jike an apricot bitten by frost. Yet as this is untversally accorded & to be the oni which women, whetnery & married or unmartied, are most suscepti- ble, the old maid, or to use the gentler “Ot course, the’ most of us Were all rich there wouldn't many'of the poor make much have to be poor. If we be anybody to rob, Not ofa yammer. They know eat the bare necessities of life.» . e of this millionaire Poor is that néarly all of them are ase A ious ry The man who succeeds in Tolling up @ bank account from © shoestring by his own hustling ts necessarily 4 Person of extremely narrow mind. In accumulating money all of hip desires have been played all ways from one card, and that card has been the card of Dereonal gain. Consequently when he gets so that he ‘has to take his deposits to the trust company vauits in a truck he f¢ sWelled on his own ability. “Some children are bora with « us for tmoney; the majority of children are cs with Apo for spending money. If a boy isn’t geared to the ac cumulative speed he might as well scratch his entry’ in the get-rich stukes, He has the slow dope im him fromr the drop of the flag. “Nature makes money-getters. The succeeds don’t get to the front pa allied | He rolls up the dough because he can't help it. He hag it in him to brush by the amusements and recreations that attract other, boys, There ig no effort om his ® | when he plays work to win. Too much credit ta given >| to millionaires who start in with a white’ check on credit and cash in all the yellows in the box. Some mea are born to be strong ag horses; some men are born ta make funny faces and be\comedians on the stage; some men are born to throw somersaults over elephants on tle their feet in. bowknoté around the back of their necks; some men are born to write and some men are ef & | born to -paint, and some mén ere born to make money. Most mon are born poor to.remain poor, Equal credit is due all of them, whether they make good or not. IF never knew & man who threw himself away. The fatlure > {is invariably agperson with a weak spot, and the spot ia: they are shy everything but “The peculiar probious to Wwomankind is now sugar coated, the single woman or bachelor irl, who having reached it falls in love, “falls Uke Lucier, never to rise again.” Of course no woman of average looks and dntelligence ever lived w be thiny- five without having felt sume degree 0 tendemess for a man, without having heard, though perhaps faintly and (rom afar, the call of ove, the most mar- velious of musicians, who from a eingle etring can bring forth melodies attuned to every heart, But ft sometimes happens that a wom- an does not feel the grand passion of her life until she has reached her own Indian summer. In this case—well, when an Indian summer day makes up {ts mind to show just how scorching It can be it falrly blots July and August from the calendar. The love of a woman of this age is a far greater compliment to a man than| & the sincere but rather bodiless senti: ment ‘he inspires in a young girl, For nothing js less true than the much- quoted “In her first passion woman loves her lover: in all the others what she loves ts Love."" Indeed, ¢he converse is far more ac- curate. At eighteen or twenty a girl rene being in love as the state incl- { sé to the doing up of her hair, the lettings down of her skirts, Axl as tho connivance of a man ir necessary to the alleged blissful con- dition she looks upon any one of her masculine acquaintances who dis] jaye a king for the role y one destined to nil it, eoutedly the LOVE CONQUERS HOVER EVERY OBSTACLE ty. Bowwow and Polly Pugdoodle. 2s & s Billy Shows What He Can’t Doin a Six-Consecutive-Minute Velocipede Race. Billy od as Fw ,cuT out Later, when she has been disillusioned I DONT NEED. ef this idea, When ehe bes learned that No URGIN' It THAT, TALK ere one that, ‘was born with the failure. Fepiite Poaaort aie Wectonce Bea mn sLow WALK AUsEstiTE DL ie unie eA Nowe mee ee mentsine | ., mr, one beooiies more (die ASL @|men are not to be envied. Maybe not; but if you can doves her lover, %, {show me. where young man with wealth, education and ‘This next time may come in a year or 90 or it may not come until she is past thinty, But then indeed her love is a priv: loge and a dalig! Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. ‘THE OTHER SIDE. Vegetarian—Don't you know that the strongest animals are all vegetarians, the elephant being the most powerful? | Carnivorous Friend—That's all right. If they weren't so strong they never would be able to stand a vegetable diet. —Boston Tranacript. WHAT BECAME OF IT. $ pull, hasn't a long drag over a young man equally ® jequipped with brains, but shy on money, education and 8236922426304 “Not any more than the way of the pogr young man,” peel the Man Higher Up. “Temptation don't play favorites.” ¢ Lucky Friday, the 13th, City Judge O'Connor, of Utica, N. ¥., who has fust Te-slected by a larger majority than any other Judge received in that city, asked to be sworn in lest Friday be- cause it was the 13th of the month, Numerous clreunistances, lead the Judge to believe that Friday and the ‘ring him luck, He began teading law on the SS Oe SEISOOSGOD “Do you know," remarked the mother ; month, admitted to the bar on Friday end when of the new baby, thoughtfully, “I be- went to the Lesiptature, just thirteen years eon che tant eve he bas his father's hair.” Ber of his seat was 13, There were just thirteen “I wouldn't be surprised," replied the candid friend; “hi father certainly hasn't got it now.""-Cincinnati Times- Btar. jis wedding and he is now thirty-nine years IT was, 101 Years in Jail. ‘The cold is very penetrating,” re- marked Smithers. i “It surely is," replied Smuthers, “rt went right through my best hat this moraing and ruined it." “'Nonsense.”" “Teue. Icicle tell trom the tenth story of @ skyscraper.”—Cincinnat! Times-