The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1903, Page 14

o 2O00O09bOO0OH 9: 3 $0$000e Little Tragedies Strikingly Told in Four Words. x Wadliadea vy the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to @ Pr Park Row, Now York. Enteref at the Post-Office » + at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. ‘ oe VOLUME 44 NO, 16,465. ; PREYING ON THRIFT. Pudge Grosscup, of Chicago, is no hot-headed agi- . Im times not very remote he has found it his to give judgments in favor of corporations which “have caused him to be denounced as an architect of ‘Mgovernment ty injunction.” It 1s not a ight thing such a man to say: my opinion the men who have passed off bogus securl- ‘on the public have done more harm to American institu- ns, to American spirit, unity, good feeling and prosperity £ if they had delitierately spread over this land pestilence fever. Pperbapa speculators do not deserve much sympathy, sthese promoters have not confined their ravages to fall street. They. have ranged the country, luring | (> the earnings of the masses out of the savings banks as pe a AARC AAA AACA PAPA PEAS APES PAPA | e@he Panama Canal conspirators lured the little hoards 2 Py Y Cm tie Prone pemate out ot te moses 67 86] When the The Important Mr, Peewee, the Great Little Man. i eres, J. . ¥ _ Take tho caso of @ man who three yoars ago had) Aji Cracks f # & Miss Sixtoot’s Pastor's Sermon Lulls Him to S’e2p and the Size of His Snore Appals the Congregation 9650 in the drawing 4 per cent, interest, He had| MIPPOP CracKS from : . Ree aries we tae aie TOOTSIE DEAR, { son! WE'RE IN! @h opportunity to buy ten shares of Steel common with Sid . pip vouleveR § RYH SUR OA © if at 55. The most distinguished financiers in the coun- ide to Side. HEAR SUCH A 3g NOTH ‘Say told him that the investment was absolutely safe. stow SE MON‘ yi, ' s stock was bound to go to par, and to prove it a 4 ¢ eS SD cent. dividend was declared. It was a chance to By > “got in on the ground floor,” as Mr. Rockefeller did in] Nixola Greeley-Smith, |< fidard Oil and Prof. Bell in Bell Telephone stock. Exactions of the Christmas- Tip Habit. so acd 2 & The man drew out his $550 and bought bis ten shares Steel. Now he finds his savings shrunk to $100.| sys segs thies poses throueh the room. , The dividend has beon cut in two, so that he gets no w the water-lily bloom, more from it now than he formerly got from the sav- w the helmet and the plume, c3 a EM,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that the _ 3 grocery boys of Bayonne have balked on neckties for Christmas gifts from custom- ers.” Maybe they want automobiles or manicure sets,” re- marked the Man Higher Up. “It is getting to a stage where the consumer not only produces for what he con- a zi looked down to Camelot. Ad bank, and the indications are that it will be wiped! out pew the web and flonted wide, altogether. And now the financters are saying | The mirror cracked from side to side. Steel common has no Investment value whatever, | “The curse is come upon me!” cried ut is worth having merely for its voting power. Pest ~ Is it any wunder that the little investor is in an ugly ND all because this saddest and od? Is it surprising that the workmen who were most elusive of Tennyson's hero- d as a especial favor to buy preferred stock at . Z points above its present market value foel that |‘O"°" where, to be sure, she could not i sumes, but helps pay the salary lists of the people be ; ® $ look it, but where ving through a ofit-shariig” {8 a confidence game? These things| mirror, clear, that fnuas before her all ‘@tfike at the very mainepring of American prosperity, | the year, shadows of the world appear,” | for they break the spirit of thrift.. They punish the in-|thet she might gaxe directly upon the 4 Knight Lancelot paesing below. dustrious and the far-sighted, and make It seem better] For the Knight Lancelot was a very buys from and pays rent to. After the ordinary wage- earner gets through passing out his Christmas tips he has to do the Santa Claus act for ‘his family in a ten-cent store. money for the work they do they wouldn't be under- | cover beggars. The people we have to pay tips to and i stake to Christmas presents get shy remuneration from their employers. % 4 AT YOUR AGE LITTLE Br “A boy. of about seventeen who opens a store at 6 t /h . NOv SHOULD BE HOME IN o'clock in the morning, builds a fire in the stove, sweepy fe UTHE NURSERY. PY out, puts the stock display on the sidewalk, attends to SucH A NOISE FOR early customers, hitches up the horse, delivers groceries \Sucn A SMALL \ Ge (RRS BOY f ers at night, puts in the stock display, closes up the store AC) and puts up the shutters is entitled to more than §3 to“ $4a week. That's about what the majority of them get. i would break, if she ventured to look di- Grosscup calls the proceedings: of the preda-|rectiy at him Instead of being satisfied : financiers “paternalism.” That is a misuse of a| with his mere reflection—and though she | as nord that has some good in it. A more fitting one|™ust ‘have known aleo that broken mir- 1d be “infernalism.” rore are very unlucky—#he could not re- $ 5 3 “But you can't blame the henny-hennies and the |, te enjoy: one's earnings from day to day than to prac-| good-looking person. And though the bg Z 7 > Aled ini and be robbed of its fruits. Lady of Shalott knew that the mirror y p Z other Christmas-tip grafters, at that, If they got more nt the temptation to take a nearer rca) view. So the curse came upon her and are she died. a OUR TERRIFYING PRICES. Wikah) adlae- aul. was ithe vor bart ‘A Now Yorker, returning from five years of wander-| thing that could have happened to her 4 and shows the advantage of being a é fing ‘abroda/ has written to The World complaining that |i, {nw eneay, toktea Of tnt veal’ lite, owithin that time New York has become the most ex-| Wor actually, where a woman, turning 3 from the mirror of young Mustons which es ve city on earth to live in, He fortifles his case) n6, renects him, looks too 10! {Nlustrations from the shops, the <ieatres and the | nearly upon the man she loves ° 5 ‘The clerks are not much better paid. Elevdtor meat, its., It is a melancholy fact that the purchasing Peed chhed hac) Wt ee Paes ge letter-carriers and people in every other branch that you ys a 4 y ¥ YZ Zz have to tl t wages that a unionized hod-carrier would reli gust to a x Bryan. Se yes initend toate ovee eines oS Ou it VLAN y Gaia hte eae ate ve sserelinata: GA veal geet aTE! ‘It might be said that this indicated general prosperity, | gather up the bits of broken glass, and g ‘ . ers and even Uncle Sam are encouraging the tip habit. ‘but in that case the high prices would be easily paid. |—thovgd often with cut and bleeding. “T was reading yesterday about an embezsier who fingers—pleces them together. 1 ” \ ; t ho truth is that they are not easily pald—they are pald,| Sut oven while she Is doing this | Z, held a responsible position. When it came time to tell \fexcept by the rich, with very great difficulty. Often they |ynows that it will never again. giv parents f \ Z his own money from the boss's he got multy in the _ @fé ‘not paid at all. Many people whose incomes a few back the flawless reflection that first, . lamps. After he flew the coop about $10,000 shy the boss {charmed her, out only one crossed and | @ S ; *$ears ago would have been considered liberal go without ea enh may aes 3 | } . Z was 60 surprised that he went into a cold aweat. that they need; many others buy and fall to pay. |" ity this time, h ‘he has learned ve g Z “ that Ee igch da & general Complaint tuat New Yorkers are linet her tiving Lancelot ls not Lance-| & | qUCCe—H g it sppearal ten this young duck had let {t be knows i bs - 4 arow! office that his wife had cash coming to her ‘beyond their means. It is easy to preach economy, | Jot at all and that to find the lost hero ‘ ‘ th. To hi him tell it h ‘ of her dream she had best patch her oR veg hath are teh dei Rent ee fo was an understudy) eee cety olpemciine. It when an 18pp1e) costs Ae coe (tome her ; ) to the Rockefellers, For his labor, in which he handled , pegenta and a healthy boy will eat three for breakfasts | OT ou rse thaps AAR. \ Z ‘ f “py Women do not have to dough b; basketful, h obese salary _ pavhen a small steak costs a dollar and a Christmas turkey | a5 aa, for they have been lucky In| & | H Z F hanes yy the ie got the of g18.6 me Aollars and a quarter. : thelr Lancelots and haye found them the st : ler and so true as altogether to ob- S = a one in “PD «THE SUFFERING STREETS. ee ie & \U . i , 4 3 pallid day-drerm heroes S young guy had been copping off from the firm’s bankroll According to the report of Mr. Livingston, Commis- Viewed ue brett a plese CTR etanb as Ps A Kj for a front. The old man of the concern consented to be Sitoner of Public Works, in nine months of the present ee pide alge s tide. ‘But “how = interviewed: r) fyear 21,216 permits were granted for ripping up the} many of these women do you know? For] $ : “"T thought he had money of bis owa, so I paid him . of the borough of Manhattan, and in many cases| every one are there not ten whose i 4 d only $18 a week,’ said the boss, ‘If I had known of his real Ahere were several openings to cach permit. At least|Knishts on nearer view have proven : x e & The Goon Ki circumstances I would have paid him twice es much. ; thoughtless, shallow, _¢ leasure-loving, A 5 <G,57 times a month, 544 times 4 week, or $0 times a day, sens, an oniy men can be. for whom He Asks a Strange Gentleman for a Light for His Cigaret‘ He was worth the money. @ picks drove through the surface of the most torn-up| tne jilusions of life are gone, tts per- = = = MAN “Wouldn't that back you against the wall? So long SAY, DAS JES SAY, MISTAH BURNIN! Ch as employers pay their clerks and bookkeepers and other *eity in the world. About once every s{x minutes, on an | fume dead. its roses ashes of Hosen? D F fi Ropes Bu Y e , 8 new assault was made on the pavements for| Often, of course, this Is not the fault TOO 'ZASPRATIN'~ fa! oH RO! Geo, Ca help not what they, are worth, but what they can get ; of the knight—the catastrophe must SpWhich the people of this suffering town had paid their Nhat’ be Gharaed! Collie tina tocuehe “Bod money. mirror, which. perhaps was of an tn- There is a humorous theory that mutilated pavements | ferlor kind and gave back a distorted FLOP You Ocean! 2 Yu “I have to give all my customers presents on Ohrist- restored by the mutilators to their original condition. Amare/ ot which she rashly became en- J mas Eve,” complaind the Cigar Store Man, “That's the that were true our asphalt streets would be as smooth | “70"° nN But wherever the blame may lie < eame.as.a tl . is ‘skating rinks, Look at them on a rainy day, with} there are a good many ladies of Shal- Q Y “Foolish man!” answered the Man Higher Up. “You _ thains of lakelets marking the inequalities of the surface, | ott. D4 j never heard of John D. Rockefeller giving his customers ‘ind you will see the ort of “restoration” they get. i! Vi = & present.” Whis island is going to be perforated with tunnels. Some of the Best “Bvery tunnel built without pipe galleries to prevent the hecessity of street excavation represents a neglect of the Joke 5 of the Day. lic interests amounting to a civic crime. And where digging up the surface is unavoidable it ought to be tee canines un aoe tse'au oat ied : k : ‘would have furnished enough wood for the casings and HFestored, not by indifferent contractors, but by the public A DIFFERENCE. : Boats of. both Oeedion in sisth everttull orabed: trees Mat oe ; ‘@uthorities at the expense of the persons responsible for} ;s it not A fact." sald the lecturer. | © to London and New York, ; ). the damage. warming with his subject, “that owing : ‘Tha steamer Oceanic is 705 fest long, but tn one fallen tree a? * -—--—— + to the effeminacy of our modern way of in the Converse Basin Grove tffere is enough lumber to make POLITICS IN ZION AUclisssoun man are: pecan Ie) PN Ey fa box into which she could be plac ; . smaller and smaller every year? 7 It would have taken Abratiam Lincoln nine years anf three Zion, like that of Smoot, is Republican, and spometod the seetior iG te as y montha working ten hours a day to aplit the 440,000 rails there n more solidly.’ Hlijeh has cast his first vote as al evarcliakogieKiee Yfff, , " ey SEO Ie Se. CLR Dae fee he ren ore eames Uized American, and as he decided to cast tt for|c ty \) 2\ A In “The Fallen Monarch,” Mariposa Grove, there is enough Republican candidate, every one of his followers FROM BAD TO WORSE. E ] =; YY > ~ Jamber to plank Broadway from the Battery to Madison the same way, You don’t have to hold mass-| Hojax—Waat’s your friend Jigsmith ‘ be 4 Y pp cRerae pean it tat ngs, ure, have rocese | doing since he lost his job in the Y a | ‘The largest California tree wag discovered year on; ala nega pats Loree Laide Pato be pag hee ; 5 Z Mount Rob Roy. It is 100 feet in clroumference, over 400 feet , ima or Klas the behles of the Independent voters when} “pomaix--On, he's doing the-public, as} 4 ] f high and would cut into $,000,000 fest of lumber, are electioncering in Zion. Ail you have to do is} usuni < 4 “ f VY Z 2 a From @ big tree at Millwood King Arthur could have made Dowie. But it will probably be found in the end| Hojax—How's that? , ; fe sees ; . ‘ ; ham voted (tebe, Aro eaee Sere me neta eee seeing Dowle {s jut as expensive as any of the| Tomdix--He's running @ fortune-tell- a ; Lg bs bested ai ate nodes cathe ndinf Bestest P ing estatélehment now.—Ohicago Daily r YZ, 424) From one tree near Millwood enough one-inch tumber coula hhioned metheds of campaigning, aeeeet ° ‘vo cut to entirely sheath the Flatiron Building . "¢ i THE WICKED FLEA, : : , / phate ‘ Peustoner.—So there ure stlil tar - i . ‘ And venslon-drawing widows of Revolutionary | _Scr/ebler—ren going to, name my new Which Arm Is Longer? play ‘The Wicked ‘Fiea." ns, 120 yeurs after the close of the Revolution. At| "a awier—1 euppose you'll try it on +g Which ane te Loapene sEerate the civil war will stil have a number of rep- $Oe O66 rs ith @ view to determine the etcivas on the pensiva Foils tn the-year 190e, Ghana | ch® d06—-Philadelphin, Record. GPEPPEPSI OLDE LEG OUOLILEELLIOESSOOESESIOSOSOOHOOO? DOOEDODOEDIDIOOE PE DUE IEW ES OD experiments ee vi (One tne the retative length and ie gfeut-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt muy be vid UNOBTRUSIVE ANORLS. ; fe cS NGI strength of rig! nai eas, 'y and nine-tenths.ger be President of the Unité States. “L never hez seen a book wid cullud WHERE ENGLAND SCORED. [dusky King. Menallk looked ut them THE COLOR-LINE, * cent. of the men examin the right arm stronger than ‘ angela jo it," sald Brother Dickey. A 1 \for @ moment with disgust and rage, the deft; 10.4 per cent. had the two arms of equal length and objected’ «Brother ‘Williams, |. 1+ is) the custom. to Abyssinie: forall tnens thrust. them . Do ydu| In Australia, under a new law, no $27 per cent. aad the left arm stronger than the right. Of Worth of Racing.—The people of New York ho’ must be cullud angels up|*orelen missions to bring presents co think,” he asked “that Iam a child OF Josntract can be made for the carrying » _ | women 46.9 per cent. had the right arm e@tronger than the Iver $4,000,000 in the last weason to see whether one . ‘King Menelik. Tho French some years {a eavage, that I should dolignt in toys?” " foft; 24.5 per-cent, had the ‘eft arm stronger than the right, f i ’ n| ‘He felt in his pocket for a matoh, ‘run! faster thar another, and the State wan Goubl ‘ot, iu replied Drother;axo brought.a tot of Parisian: mechanical |‘fhim Russian and: Kosilsh enatesaries (OC mails by any, steamy ine wile} ties ee ta ee | In order to arrive at the average length fe than $200,000 paid in taxes on the re-| mickey, “But doy’ Rea | |showed a truer Insight Into his charac- |allows a colored man to work on any of |'02 out @ hand 20 tona were nreasured—twenty-five of c ‘Of wiiich proud, be accepted vs | O°C**Y: But doy's too wise'ter pro-|toys—sheep that squeaked, pigs that ran iter, ‘They brought him Mauser pistols, hithoet ‘Toothploks ty-three had the fght arm and le palo milano m1 951 slo roun’ much; once dey fie in dary ‘about on thelr hind lege and dolls that |Fevelvers and, bie latest and $e Dietols [the ships, ‘The mail ateamers hitherto! | vagy’ ir: matohes—tot & teo' rrensy-thien hed. ues sig bead Wence of the) dey say nuttin’, en lay low!"—Atlanta talked. They thought euch things woulg | Bey, could ees nae wan delighted: |nave been Infgely manned by dark-|rthe tot. That's what’ qhocked left arm and right leg, while in sevent . ‘mem Rata tmore N: i ae, LS are pliner ‘Constitu be crn “ol, the sane aa [ap "mal anes. a skinned British subjects trom Inala ai ( and hauls up dumbwaiters all day, waits on late custom- - 5 ALL RIGHT ~JES u ISE, GOT EBRYTING Put DIS NEX To ANTHRACITE them for, there will be embezzlers and Ohristman-tip CEpn A LUCIFAH~ oz WOULDN' grafters—licensed panhandlers.’ SEES DS VOSOVES HS ee: CALIFORNIA BIG TREES, LEOPATRA'S Neodles measure seventy fest in length and C en feet at the base, yet one tree in the Mariposa Grove EYOOOOF