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FRIDAY EVENING, 7 APRIL 1, 1904, | . Cublished by the Press Publishing Company, No. W to | § Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office t at New York, as Second-Class Mall Matte — VOLUME 44. NO. 18,564. | The Evening World First. | j Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World in March, 1904...... i Number of columns of advertising in The || Evening World in March, 1903...... 1,03214 ; INCREASE............ OO’ No other six-day paper, morning or evening, in New York EVER carried in regular editions in any one month | such a volume of display advertising as The Evening k World carried in March, 1904. i} OF THE MAKING OF TOO MANY LAWS It is just made known from official counts that the legislatures of the United States added !ast year 14,394 new laws to the burden of the statute books. Once on a time, the Table of the Twelve Laws was | Sufficient to the very head centre of the universe, But that was before men had become fixed in a lawmaking habit. | To fully gauge ihe capacity of State legislation as an unprotected industry in America it is necessary to take | into account the biennial session. This prevails in thirty- eight States. In Alabama there is even a quadrennial session, and the lawmakers are not missed during their three years of abstinence. With all handicaps in force —thirty-four States limit the sessions themselves to periods of forty to ninety days—the mills of the com- monwealths are yet able to grind out about 20,000 laws every two years. It is well that not all these are marked “fragile Is unfortunate that a good many bear worse marks. Of last year’s laws, the Index just published by the New York State Library is able to find 5,406 worth summarizing. The others are “of private, local, or temporary interest.” New York's own Solons con- tributed 651 acts and resolutions to the grand total. This State and Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island and South Carolina constitute the old guard still rallying to the standard of the single legis- lative session. Mischievous haste marked much of last year’s legislation, of course. It was particularly to be noted in North Carolina, where 1,263 acts—an average of twenty-two per day—were passed in sixty-three days. What can be expected of such lawmaking as that? But how is New York prepared to throw any stone of criticism at any other State when on the calendars of her own present session at Albany there appear, pre- pared for “rush hour” promotion before adjournment, no less thangforty-seven salary “grab’’ bills affecting New York City departments? BREAD THAT CAME BACK. Twenty years ago a Californian fell in love with an English actress. When she became ill and unable to follow her profession he gave ler enough money to pay her passage home. After that he lost his fortune and Jearned to know the pinch of poverty. The man has just received a remembrance from the woman. it contained a diamond ring, a draft for $1,000, and an invitation to meet her in London and marry her. Taking the view that when bread cast upon the water returns to reject it would be folly, the man accepted the tokens and the proposal. Humanity ought to be in a mood to tender con- gratulations over an episode that is a sign of mortal! goodness. Here is the showing that gratitude is not a fiction, and that affection abides. Not every kind act declares so tangible a dividend, but the chance is worth taking. Moreover, a kind act {s In itself pleasing enough to be worth while. SUICIDAL COURTESY. When Jacob Fedder made up his mind that life was : no longer worth living he wrote a letter to the pro- fe prietor of his hotel apologizing for having to commit | suleide there, but explaining that he had no other place in which to kill himself. Most men could with propriety apologize for their) lives, but very few have the politeness to beg pardon} for their deaths. Such a one can ill be spared from a community too apt to regard politeness as the frivolous luxury of un- / limited leisure for which busy men cannot spare time; too apt to forget that the hurt of a rude word cannot ‘be salyed with a raised salary and that bank bills never yet made healing plasters for bruised feelings; that courtesy goes further with many women than cash, and that tact has ried many men as high as talent. | Nixola Grecley-Smith, | | | Friendship and the Eternal Feline By | women each other? does the eternal feline, older and, of course, longer-lved the eternal ne, Introduce fa latent element of treachery tnto their most amiable rela tlons with each other? eSnsiee = = Every woman Is convineed that in her heart Hes a vast amount of ¢ender- ness and sympathy for other womer particularly those with whom she is on terms of personal intim: Every man believes, on the contrary. that women are absolutely selfish in their relations with their own sex, and that they are incapable of genuine regard for each other Which Is the correct view? The ques- tlon Js Interesting, supposing, of course, that one p a predilexion for positive way or another Quite independent of sex for friendship ts extremely even than that for love, wh jeans the very wnt people There are Ay men dower But it ibtedly here are even fewer w son for this ix t the capacity wo! hy ot, © not so mar artif They noither busin ing Interests In comm and the one common te not suMficient to link their min Manent friendship. Rut the greatest preventive and de swtroyer of budding friendship among women ts their universal love of 1 line admiration, The average man, no matter what his opinion of his own charms, is satisfied If in a Ufetime they manage to make an impression on the ten, twenty or even a hundred women that he considers worth while, He does | not harbor ns agalnst 4 eX nor seck such wholesale slaughter of hearts as women do. It is not enough for the usual young woman think that some half dozen of her acquaintances of exe mation regard her as quite th thing In petticoats on earth want the entire male sex to think so, and the momemt one of them shows signs of deserting to the enemy—t. ©, another Woman—she leaves the entire flock of | admirers to take care of iteelf and gocs after the erring She feels that she has a natural right to his homage and though her pursult may lead her into the drawing-room of her best friend, she dows no 1 Like Voltaire, who, when necu: plagiarism, orted “Je prends bien ou Je le trouve’ (E take my prop: erty wherever I find 1), she regards | an ent of mon everything seh wants as hers—and sh: wants everything on earth There are men, of course, with sim ilar propensities, but they are not so and there ure women who rise al them. ‘The reason there ay yao mu te treachery, usually go the felendly relations | noare naturally | of w more poll pointedly courteous t inimical to them, Tt is natural te | teous when w ' want to be, But tot we don't want to the art requir Is at the expense ¢ All polish The samo art which polishes a dls mond makes it many-stded, myri ed—yet women are sometimes re- ached for belng two-faced. i i So far us friendship te concerned, there fs one thing that every woman learns sooner or later, that ft can exist only Detween equals ‘The mom to Intima ferior in any woman condescends | assoclation with another, in- intellect, social position or what not, sho is lowered In tho other's eyes, and other women more worldly wise who refrain from doing so are ex- altod. But between women of more or loss equal mental endowments and sympa- thetle temperaments friendsilp occa- sionally exists—and when It does tt dom- Inates the eternal fell | \ i a oe The Pd am % Gg ON GOOD FRIDAY RUSSIAN BtOt POU Oe Great and Only aod ° y Mr. Peewee. : THE MOST IMPORTANT LITTLE MAN ON EARTH. ‘ Mr. Peewee Couldn’t Be April Fooled, but He Was. APRIL) Foo... To-Day’. PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for To-Day, $1 Paid for Each: York City. To-morrow’'s Prize Zz Fan gig a vs Be Cool-Headed—Eat Ice, Don't Eat Hot Rivets Under Any Circumstances. Copyrot, 190%, by the Planet Pur Co reasonable to sup. + Pose that ice} abounded {n cold , = Dlaces, although + history docs not enltghten us upon the subject. ' MAN was created with a COOL HEAD. So was! WOMAN. f What happened? Man's head got WARM. Woman's | head got ditto, f Did they cat tce? NO, They sie APPLES, t Are you hot-headed? EAT ICB. Are you cools: headed? Keep on eating ice. Are you red-headed? ) Eat MORE ICE, ' This paper recommends cold ice as beng the best | feed on. ' Just think of it! Only three pounds of ice per ca: ita would keep all our bralns circumspect and serene, ie To be cool-headed and SURE-FOOTED eat Ice, P, S—Don't swallow the JUICE! ohlyn. No. 1-WILLIAM G. DOWNEY, No. 494 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn; No, 2— JOSEPH WHITE, care of A. R. Naething, No. 436 Broome Street, New York City; No. 3—HAROLD DAGNER, No. 2177 Bathgate avenue, New udge’’ Idiotorial Gook. ‘‘On the Management of Babies."’ An April Fool Tragedy Told in Four Words. ut uM @ OHOPDEDDOH HD OIG 6.90GO9-HHH-9HO9GO w Lady Valworth’s Diamonds. he got them. Munro's Sons.) jily (By Perminy (Copyetmnt, of George Munro's . by George Yes, Jacob Fedder, instead of inhaling gas, should have lived to teach the practical as well as the tdeal uses of politeness. LOVE FOR THE BABY, | she had no child of her own, ran away with that of a friend. She seemed not to have been impelled by any sinister motive, but merely to have allowed her affections to sway her judgment. She was brought back only punishment she had to undergo was the sorrow of being separated f-om her wee charge. A few days ago a baby was found in a Park Row building, No natural or legal guardian could be dis- i) _ covered; yet many are ready to offer the waif a home, The only embarrassment of the authorities Is as to ction of the & rat. These simple incidents are tlustrative of a common Love for babies is so normal.and pervading that ty and neglect of them is virwed without toleration, ch monstrous crimes as reported from a city excite a horror not to be expressed. y - | Recently a young married woman, disappointed that). The) SYNOPSIS OF 1" Millicent ¥ t at A while loving ‘Granit wily 4 CHAPTER V. A Revelation. se, horror-stricken, A follows on his words. Miss Roche has fallen back from tim and ts | with her hands clasped upon ler bosom and her es, large and affrighted, fixed on his, “Stolen! sho says, the wonds coming with difficulty through her white Nps. "Do they think I stole them?" She shrinks backward against the wall as though she would fain sink through tt, | and so disappear forever, “Oh, no! Good heavens! No!" re- | plies he, shocked. “But this man An-| nerley. It ts essential that he should | [Pe found ana competied to aay where | Nadine, with him: not to wear th ahem too h You say you don't know ss, but surely it may be dis- native land necessary? Oh! to think that she had been loved by, bethrothed to, 1 cowers as these thoughts flash with a clear certainty her prain—and then reaction She has been too ready to In a day or two sh She wil tell him all, THe 1d) “What a territ faintly, She her hands. ‘IC 1 If 1 hast follow, uation,” covers Lad only obe! tis Injunctions says comes cuse—to cond: s will see him nd Will Indeed be able, as she has declared {s sharp and kee % Durnn, to say how and where the J¢ But only because he b els came Into his possession, He will r me, Just now, | be ¢ very first to come forward and we Ww or, Afterward, |holn in the restoration of the stolen . when |b s fortune, gems, ney would sult me w | 1 must ‘see y Valworth, [ myst ‘adine's bralu ds in a wi |speak with exclaims Nadine, Little ht words of Paul's re- | eagerly, Her cheeks are burning, her turn to h hy had he forbidden her | hands tremulous. to wear these gifts of his? Why ts] Duran draws hee hand through his his address unknown to her? Ho had arm and leads her from the conserva- lod to imagine him, 4f not quite a|tory, Midnight chimes from some dis- detective, at least as belng employed tn /tant tov the solemn sound breaking that Une of business, Could the real joven through the light sparkling dance thief—finding himself hunted surely | music that comes from the badl-room dovn, have britxd him to dexeat the lon their lett and (iat swells and rings ends of the law by inducing him to |through the house. accept part of the Jewels stolen? | “The last train is in, I am afraid And, again, his determination to leave | Lady Valworth will be taken up with England—to go abroad. His desire for |her aon, He has surely arrived, or is on, © hurried marriage, Already was sys- |the point of arriving,” says Duran to picion dogsing his steps. Had he been | his companion in @ low tone, ‘“Never- lve cayse to think fight from his | theless, we will try if dt be possible to ’ sce her alone for even a few min A servant gives the that her ladysii Tioyle's her with Millicent, whom she has en- | are Nadine wife's desertion of her guests, “Lady Valworth, ’! her volce low and earnest, “it Is only Just now that T have heard from Mr, It in exsdent tn her excitement she has forgotten what {t was she had |< arranged to sax, she breaks out at last pitifully, her large eyes upon Lady Valwortli, That kind woman is touched to the Indeed she had never suspected Nadine of belng anything but a victim. “My poor child, whet a miserable {dea | dea for you to get into your head!” ahe cries! “ang have Lett ed hopes that, with our w, the Information t passed into jcover both sets of stolen gems. y expectation of | er. 1, ‘There they find engaged, and who gave you the to stay with her, and Sir | jowels?” : inerley—Paul Annerley."* and Duran enter Sir AV good name in the North. expostulating a Uttle on his ‘And where does he live Quite so. He is abroad now,” nervously, Nadine gently, t ” dress? How careless, how Dout this." pointing to the sap~ she must have been! She feels the ine ‘and your diamond cross, Butlevitable question 1s coming, and want to say isis" She she explain her ignorance? a But J hear he is resurning imi ately, If you will giva me his 4 8 Sir Thomas, now It,’ said Nadine “I knew nothing of y Bho How can with mournful entreaty believe curious tone. you have, Ina M! is office Is somewhere in the nis home? house?’ * sgya Sir Thomas, “t| “I do got know where he lives.’ a SOSOSELCODEID OBOE DOL DDHDODODDDOVDOHSEESGHOGHHOO we By ‘‘The Duchess,”’ Uttle friend's assistance'—patting, Na- aine's hand—"we shall be able to re- what did you say was the name of this gentleman, my dear, to whom you says Nadine, Oh! why did she never learn his ad- indifferent is trembling with nervousness. | she does not His rooms? \.. (To Be Concluded.) w THE w EVENING # WORLD'S # HOME w# MAGAZINE. SSF FOSE DEITY YO PSS rs * > | 4 By Martin Green. Will Jerome’s New Bill “ Put the Kibosh on Gambling ? 66 l SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that Jerome's bill to make Canfield join the William Waldorf Astor colony of aliens in London has a eweet chance of going through the Assembly.” “It looks Mke a case of being all off,” replied the Man Higher Up. “When the committee stood for tht bill yesterday they put it up to the members of the | And— how medi- home cold- clty."" if » Assembly as elected persons | or thre /The use of a tin ves- And the District-At torney has gone in with the axe to such an extent that he has made the voters sit up and take notica He ‘has made a ioud spiel in Albany, and he has put 6 lot of people wise th the press to a situation that they wouldn't know a more out than they do of the changes of seasons in the moon if it wasn’t for the fact that when Jorome goes to the Legislature and lec- tures for a constitutional att on he gets the crowd In the front door. « "A man with a decisive vote in the Agesembly wha would go against the Jerome biil wouldn't have a Chinaman's chance to make a run for election when {the time comes for the alleged foolish voters of the New York Assembly districts to get busy with the |ballot-box next fall, Most of the men who went against Canfield’s gaine haven't got a \cte. because they jdon’t take interest enough in the ernment of the city to make good as eltizens. But the ordinary New Yorker who gets his littie envelop? every Saturday from the man who furnishes labor to him reads the papers and he reads the specches of the District-At torney. “Of course the ordinary New Yorker would make 6 holler that would sound like the co!lapse of an apart ment hotel if he was barred from playing euchre ot pinochle for the drinks in the back room of his saloon, and his scream would sound like the fog whistle at Sandy Hook if he was compeiled to go into court and testify that he had held a poker hand in a little game in the region behind the screen in his favorite cigar store. But he will be sore against a representative in Albany who will vote to have a man who has taken a chance with mazuma that he can afford in a regular, gambling house barred from a chance of going into a court of justice and telling the Judge that he forgets all ebout it.” “Do you think the Jerome bill will stop gambling in New York?" asked the Cigar Store Man. “Certainly,” answered the Man Higher Up. “If the Dietrict-Attorney closes Canfleld’s and Kelly’s and Ludlum's and Betts’s and Farrell's and Daly's, how 1s there to be apy gambling?” The Weather Plant, Baron Fridiand yon Nowack, ‘the discoverer of the “weather plant,” thus describes that queer object: ‘Twenty years ago, when travellin In Southeastern Europe, £ bought from a hawker some peallke sceds resembling round coral h & small dark spot en the top. I planted the seeds, ang for four months wasted for them ¢o sprout. I was neat giving {It up, whon, on Inspecting one of the seeds, T found the .ark spots considerably enlarged. Two months later @ tiny green knob peeped out of the mold. L afterward recogy Aiged 10 44 a (ropical plant Indigeuuus do India and part of South America,” ‘To his surprise the twigs and leafleta of the plant kept in continuous movement. At last he found the electricity in the atmosphere with Its changes accounted chiefly for the strange behavior of the planty Gradually he learned to predict the weather unerringly twa days in advance. ‘The more leaflets tend up- ward the finer the weather that may be expected: the more Jownward the worse the coming weather. If the leaflets \ tie same time stand close together, prepare for rain; If rotor. for foes If slanting, for wind and storm, and so on, The direction In which the twig points is the direction of the Indicated weather, and the distance {s shown by the color of the leaves.” A Queer Pledge. In the Kobe Yushin appears a story of apparently about fif “a foreign lady, y Years of age, accompanied by a young. Japanese gentleman," who delighted a crowd at the railway station by waving a Japanese tlag and checring as troops doparted for the war and also distributing money among the soldiers, Thon, saya the account, “after she had e: changed hearty handshakes with the officers, she turned te Capt, Hannosuke Miyamoto and putting on one of his arms a. gold bracelet she had worn on her résne arm, remarked: ‘My young man, please accept my present, and fight yout best.’ ‘Thank you,’ was his reply, ‘I promye you I wilh never return without this bracelet smeared with Russiam olood,’ : A Difficult Bottle Feat. stoop down and pick up a quarter from the floor wit your ips and rise again, all without Jetting the bot fall or touching it with your hand. If you think ithe expett ment might be fatal to the integrity of the bottle—that, in other words, there might be a smash-up —use n tin canister, or something of that kind, instead of the bottle. But the use of ithe bottle makes the feat decidedly more Interesting, from tne very fact that & smash-up 1s possible, B ALANCE a bottle on ithe back of your head, and the aol, therefore, would bo too tame to suit most boys. karst, bend the head forward until the chin rests on the breast; then balance ‘the bottle In its place, on the crown of the head. Be sure to do the beginning well, and the rest will be easier than !t looks, Bend ithe knees gently, coming to the floor on one knea ‘Then lower the hands to the floor, and, thus supported, push the feet gradually and slowly back until the face ts ble to reach the quarter. Resuming the first ‘position ts merely going through these movements in reverse order, Slow, steady, even, cares ful movement ia the secret of success in the feat, ‘ t