The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1904, Page 14

| MONDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 8. 1904, w WORLD'S # HOME # Park Row. New York. kntered at the Post-Office ut New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. VOLUME 44..... = steseseeeeNO. 18,5.11 ms The Evening World First. Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World for 12 months, ending January 31, 1904..... er sehzicals Nurhber of columns of advertising in The Evening World for 12 months, ending . RBUINYES1; AOI ace sce as scarce 7,856 This record of growth was not equalled by any newspaper, morning or evening. in the United States. STRICKEN BALTIMORE, Baltimore has been visited by one of the monumental amictions of history—a calamity that will be remem- ‘ered by future generations along with Nero's burning of Rome, the great fire of London, the destruction of Moscow and the devastation of Chicago. | Fortunately the suffering will be less than it might have been. The destruction has bi more among business houses, well insured, than among dwellings, and the work of reconstruction, energetically pushed with the help of scores of millions of insur- ance money, will keep the city’s industrial blood in circulation. Nevertheless, there is bound to be much distress among the thousands of people thrown out of employment in the dead of winter by the paralysis of so many kinds of business activity. Baltimore's sister cities, and especially New York, will stand ready to fur- mish whatever relief may be needed in this direction as they did when the first call came for engines to fight the flames. 198 iain oe & OOo 29 €-394- SHRI-GSDHOS9-9-0O90-O- THE CRIMINAL MONEY-LENDERS. ‘The State of New York has a usury law, probably the most rigid in the country, under which any person, _ outside of the pawnbroking business and the call- money market, who makes’ loans at more than the legal rate of six Der. cent. not only forfeits principal and in- * terest, but becomes liable to criminal prosecution and _Amprisonment.” Yet it has been found that a single - ehark, lending money on tcrms that net him nearly 200 _ Der cemt., has been clearing half a million dollars a year from this city alone; and he {s only one of many. This ), colossal stream of wealth is made up of the trickling heart's blood of thousands of little borrowers. The usurer prefers to lend in small amounts—$18 {is a favor- ite figure. If he could find immediate reinveatments for all his profits at his regular rates without loss or de- duction @ single loan of $18 would grow to $10,000,000 {& 4m ten years. No wonder he has extended his operations until they take in fifty-five cities, scattered from ocean to ocean. If he clears half a million a year on his New York business alone, how much must he make ip all? This loan robbery is an evil that overshadows the pool-room and policy pests whose suppression has prop-| 3 erly occupled so much of the attention of reformers. | { ‘The player who loses his money in a gambling joint is Personally not deserving of much sympathy, but thel > Wictims of the loan pirates are often people of the most | « @eserving kind, who turn to the usurer to help their] ® families out of some desperate need, and who find too PS > late that they have sold themselves into slavery and| * ruin, ‘The existing usury laws ought to be able to deal with a wrong of this kind, which ts the very thing| > against which they were aimed; but if they ure not the Legislature should lose no time in passing others that will be. The bill introduced by Assemblyman Russell, of Kings, is meant to stop any holes in the present Statutes, and that or eomething better ought to go through without delay. Lets 599-99390-304 a4: D99-F3-3-90 94:2-990006¢- 09300O i Ps 3 THE EFFECT OF NEW BLOOD. © The Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis has been studying " ovy recent immigrants at first hand, and he 1s not «is- turbed by the prevalent fear that they may be a danger to the Republic. “It is time,” he protests in the Sun- day World Magazine, “for our people to stop talking ebout the filth and mud of forelgn countries. Out of a little Italian mud came Garibaldi and Dante. Out of a M@tle Bohemian mud came John Huss, © * * Out of @ little Dutch mud God made the Holland Society of New York and all the family of Vans,” Dr. Hillis counts scores or hundreds of Italian im- migrants among his friends and acquaintances, and his observation teaches him that they are “among the most e industrious, thrifty and hopeful of all the peoples who] 2 fre coming to our doors.” From the mixture of Italian and Slav, German, Mnglish and Celtic biood in this coun- try he foresees “the greatest artistic and literary out- burst of genius in this world’s history.” It is well for the future American race to tie moulded cn the rugged Anglo-Saxon stock, but when this rather arid strain is tempered with the artigtic sensfiility of Italy, German Idealism, Slavonic imagination and Celtic vivacity and romance we shall not nave protessors of music and literature resigning from our great univers\- tes on the ground that American college students are barbarians. $ 4 A POSTAL MILLENNIUM, It looks as 1f the New York Vost-Uttice squabble were | happily settled. The railroads have agreed on a plan| for two uptown post-offices, and what is convenient for them happens in this case to be convenient for the pub- lle, We are to have a Government building costing 3 PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for sieges, $1 paid for each. No. 1—R. J. SUITS, No. 759 Monroe street, §erockiv. : Yaphank, The Most Important Little Man on Earth. ir. Peewee Protests tp Gen. Corbin Against Gold-Muunted Government Tugs. Lesign Copyrighted, 1903, by The Ebening Worlds iw SS GENERAL CoRBIN'| 2 WH o [ARE Yours ] Am SURPRISED AT Your AUDACITY IN ASIONG THE Gov- ) ERNMENT FORA Goro PLATED MA~ HOCANY YACHT \ FOR YOuR Private) USE! HOw DARE You = PRESUME oe 2 O GET IN FURDER You SAWED-OFF SQueeJee! No. [bs 2—-C. W. WEEKS, I. No. 3—W. H. Cried Sassy Sue: “This sure Is great, *A comin’ in a house to skate! 3-8494OOOOSOODE 4H F0.96 Oo THE DEUCE bloodprints show. (7S an Oures ] SUPPOSE You wit HAVE THE FIFTH AVE~ NUE WITH TURQUOISE) CHIMNE YS vent N CARRY i to-Day’s $5 Prize “Evening Fudge” Editorial was written by E. C. Roslyn, Cebrie Park, Westchester, N. Y. City, Wall Street Likes the ‘‘Peewee’’ Editorials. Dear Mr. Pewee: I am a constant reader of your wonderful happen- ings. You are subjecting the Evening Fudge to a slow death, as the I herewith inclose a clipping from the Wall Street Journal. which might prove interesting, as it shows the effective work those great “Peewee” editorials are doing. HARRY C. RICHARDS, No. 850 Second avenue, New York City. What's that? 1 got to learn afore 1 goes alone upon the floor? POOOHSH OE 90000000008 0$FOGES:54099009O90HHHOGO94 54-88-9900 O24 OETD HTD 1900009 OO00H COOOOOYYEHHO8 DH G00 OE 90G9 96 9HOCHTHHOH 9 H0O0 0000090000 POPE ILOPESV OOOO OOS, ‘The Great and Only Mr. Peewee. ry aA wAVE Some {_ RAIN Foop.’ i}CLARKE, No. 428 South Fourth avenue; Mount Vernon, N. Y. © TO-MORROW’S PRIZE “FUDGE” EDITORIAL. “Invisible Whiskers Are Better than Hairy Ones,” & SASSY SVE — By the Creator of “Sunny Jim” — Sue at the Rinks: 3 3 Whew! Gimme’ room and let me swing! Here goes the double pigeon wing!” $1,500,000 or $2,000,000 next door to the new Pennsylvania terminal,and extensive leased quarters built by the Ni tral in connection with the Grand Central| ,U™?" om. Thus at a moderate cost we shail have postal |of our neces that will bear comparison with those of| ‘Truth lis or Slonx City—a thing that New Yorkers ate had in sight before within the memory of the ppeation, - mpl sir, but please, sir— Lo} GOOD FOR BUSINESS. IN THE WESTERN. MERCENARY. | NOT WHAT HE MEANT.. BEAMING. * 9OOOD-O- © Ps O999O9O9O6 9OOOOd906O905O* 90099 0006 $ 3 like Blanche or Mabel—what can such w great big man} see In such a little homely thing? : MAGAZINE w wv 4 ¢ $ $ - @ e, P4 : Why Killing Is $ a Pastime in 3 Maunatione 1 ————— a 4 7 =e , Al) ! oe) $ SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that a jury $ out in Iowa has fqund that Brooklyn man, 66 Blydenburgh, guilty of polsoning his wife.” j 4 “It is positively brutal the way they | treat murderers out in those barbaric communities,” re- ret od marked the Man Higher Up. “In a very short time this Persecuted person will be in a large stone building where all are of the same stripe and there is lots of time for silent reflection. “This Blydenburgh man made a mistake in picking out Iowa for the scene of his wife-removal stunt. He should have remained right here in New York. The chances are that he would be on the stage or drawing royalties from @ novel depicting his experiences in jail by this time. . j “The people of the United States outside of New | York have a curious way of regarding a murder as some- © ]what of a matter in which the whole community ought * to draw cards. In.this city a murder is generally the » |prologues for a performance of adding to the bank ac- counts of a bunch of lawyers. In other places they try a mtrderer for murder. Here they try him for exercise for the Supreme Court. " “After copping out all the rough edges of the ques- tion and trimming them down, I am convinced that the reason why murder is a pasttme in New York is because the lawyers who are paid by the people to prosecute murderers don’t know their business. I have attended a lot of murder trials here and in other places, and the proposition don't assay any other way. “The country prosecutor goes aout his performance like a mechanic building a wall. He has his material at hand in the shape of evidence, and he builds it all up in sight of the jury until he has his case. Then the U other side proceeds to pick holes in it, but nine times out of ten when the higher courts get busy it is found that the holes are nothing but scratches. “A prosecutor with an important case here goes in | with a brass band and a carload of glittering props, de- votes his time to entertaining the public and reading ~ his press notices, and finally winds up his case with the { certainty that it will be appealed. And when the \ Judges in the higher courts get through with it there is generally reason for belief that the case has been framed up by a blacksmith and not by a lawyer.” MU “We need a revision of the code,” asserted the Cigar Store Man. “Skiddoo,” answered the Man Higher Up. “We neod prosecutors who know the code as well as the lawyers who make a specialty of defending murderers know tt.” The Charm of the Mushy Blonde. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. ey WHY do so many men admire the type of women which other women of more pronounced coloring descrtbe con- temptuously as the mushy blonde? Why dogs the girl whose =» complexion has the mealy whitencss of a baked potato and, whose general as-, pect sugyests that! she was grown In a cellar please by her 4 very absence of in- tensity? Sunlight fades her. The white Ught of - the ballroom extin- gushes her, Shd never has any eye- brows and her eyes have the wan color- ing of a rain-washed tlower. She is very slender and her whole body droops pnd flaps helter and kelter lke the ensign of a hecalmed yacht. And yet, nine times out of ten in the matrimonial shuffle she wins out. She ts not n great belle, to be sure, but, then, everybody knows that a great belle seldom marries well. Her danco card {s seldom more than half filled. But it usually has some very ellgivle names on it, and when she has decided which one of them she would like to have on her visiting cards she proceeds to make it hers, The secret of the mushy blonde's success 1s not difficult to fathom, She is not often beautiful, seldom intelligent and rarely if ever fascinating. But she knows how to cling. And when a specially desirable specimen of masculinity comes along, she gets him interested by the judiclous exer- cise of the clinging factity. She hangs upon his words and waits expectantly for his reply to her remark that it 1s a very fine day, as if the secret of the uges were to be revealed or the Sphinx were about to ask another riddle, f She makes capital of her lack ef beauty—she 1s not pretty ae fp Cee Her very brainlessness, such is her adept uzy 96 tty be comes a weapon, She {s so stupid! It is so good of hing to explain so muny things to her that she thought she never could understand, But he makes them so easy! Who would have thought she would ever earn to know the difference between a “bull and 4 “bear,” and what buying on margin means and all the other wonderful things that he has told; her? Does he really like to explain them? She was telling Blanche Jones all about it the other day—you can bet she was proud to show off. Blanche is such a pretty girl, deesn't he think so? No? Why, she always had an idea there was something between them, She Is sure Blanche thinks a whole,lot of him. ‘Why doesn't he marry her? She wouldn't have him? Oh, yes, = she would! No woman could refuse him, Will she? , Oh, really, she didn't mean—how couid he think—oht And there is one more vietim to the charm of the mushy blonde. A MYSTERIOUS COLONY. A great dent of interest is being aroused in the Canten of 8t. Gall, Switzerland,’as the thme approaches for the ar. rival of a rich American colony whose agen’ j * ave been re- loyer—Yon are haying a dec cap, ed 1) ed diss| “So you are Koing to send his letters! Ascum—{ see there's some talk of] Remember,” admonished the rever-| cently buying the chofcest plots of land in the village of UIE ane aie nes cone ariel sleNRie GARG ESI seene angthing'| backi“ere yout” aneea’ tha oiondel | having the people vote at the next State | end gentieman, “when you begin to no-| Arden, which commands a magnificent view of the moun- telept ; Jo’ that clue X had to the Pennsylvania’| “Yea replied ‘the brunette, with] election upon the question of abolishing | tea the mote in your neighbor's eye! tains and has the little lake of Wallenstadt at its foot, nful Clork with cold chills runs) avenue burglars? [tears in her eyes, “But not until | capital punishment, Would you vote to| there te pretty certain.to be a beam in|, mystery ings around the Identity of the Americans, p and down his spine, vith! "Shsh-h!"" hissed the vigilant Chief;| have copied them all, ‘They will make] abolish it? your own, “| |, | whose agents, though they are paying well for everything, of instant dismissal) - e-s, {don't say a word. I saw a ¢ough-|a splendid book, and I have a lovely| Fogie—No, sir! Capital punishment| “That's right," replied Sinnlokson; “It! "iiss to say for whom they aro buying. A number of loyer—Well, keep it up. She wih looking character hangin [Baltimore News, Dp ive more attention to our calls if you front door, and I think he stole 100. Der Ris, round the title for them already—‘The Letters of) a Lazy Lover,’"—aincinnatl Times-/ Stax, ~L Press was good enough for my ancestors, and| makes the average man's whole face it's god enough for me.—Philadelphia | peam to find a mote in his neighbor's Nel" — -+ beautiful villas have been erected, while others are the hands. of workmen, ae 4