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4 " ‘ " nf 2 . @ubMshed by the| Press Publishing Company, No. to @ Park Row, York. Entered at the Post-Omice at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. MOLUME 44......... se000-e00e-00sNO. 15,602. Leads All the Rest. During January, February, March and April of this year The Evening World carried 5087 columns of paid dis- play advertising. . No-other New York paper equalled this showing. The increase over The Evening World's own record for the corresponding four months of 1903 was 1270% eolumns—more than twice the gain made by any yene. -“ WIDOWS AND ORPHANS," “*"" (The-pulpits of New York came yesterday to the aid *Peftthe press in denouncing Western Union partnership fin ,pool-room plundering of the public and in pool- fwoom profits. Dr. Slicer, who helped plan the ex- ‘posure-of the ‘Western Union, in hissstrong sermon on \thescubject, said: \. ‘Aemew aspect of the case was presented to me to-day ‘Wall street man, who asked what was to become of widows and orphans among the stockholders of the ‘eo ol 1 ym re- titudes, Widows and orphans, indeed! For every-one whose could be even slightly harmed by 2 cessation , péthe Western Union partnership with crime a thou- ‘sand could be counted who suffer more than a little, Swho face and fight and faint: under the crushing weight of :penury to which the open door of the pool- ‘toom was the easy road. Widows and orphans! Suppose that Messrs. Schiff, , Hyde, Clowry, Sage and the other personally estimable gentlemen who in their corporate capacity abet the violation of the law were running a manufac- tory of burglars’ dark lanterns and sectional “jim- mies,” and furnishing “operators” of them who “know enough to jump out-of a window if the police, come.’* Suppose that then a moral community, protested. “Would Mr. Clowry say: “The officials of the Western “Union Burglars’ Supply Company are not moral cen- “sors, The company has wares.to sell and any one who gan pay for them can buy them?” |. Would “‘a Wall street man” ask what was to be- come of the “poor widows and orphans among the stockholders of the Burglars’ Supply Company?” ». Burglary is no more illegal than operating pool- «rooms and it does a good deal less harm in this town Just now, i “What's an isthmus between friends?” remarks Colombia, 3a she prephres to send her Minister back to Washington. SULLY’S FRIEND RAY. Mr., Sully, the “King” of the late cotton corner, de- and says that he was taking an auto ride with ‘Ray, one of bjs partners in the corner, at the height that operation. Ray left the auto near the Waldorf, region a telephonic seJJing movement presently which knocked the bottom out of the cotton » Sally had, he sald, previously appealed to Messrs, and Ray for further funds to “margin” him. at ewas that Ray in refusing sald: “You can’t stand can we. If any one must De sacrificed it would be you” The “sacrifice” game off on schedule time, it would Bome thousands of clerks and office boys who -gampling in cotton were “sacrificed” along with , and the creditors of the “firm” are left-wondering ‘there is after all any “honor emong—financlers.” | \AlLot which furnishes Demonstration No. B—635,419, “margin” gambling in ‘Wall street fs a good thing out-of, @apan could not bave got “soaked much worse if she had |, filed to borrow money of the late lamented Globe Security ' !Company, ae “THE “MODEL TENEMENT.” ~ On Saturday the new tenements in Sixty-fourth street bf-the City and Suburban Homes Company were opened to inspection. Curious visitors noted of these apart- ments thet— \. The first floor is fireproof; stairs and staircase walls fireproof throughout. ‘Wyery room has outside light and air, steam heat and hot water aupply, wash trays and a gas range. All the Iarger apartments ‘have porcelain bath tubs; for the others there are general shower baths and tubs ia the basement, The prices per room aro about the same as those charged for shelter {m the unsafe and unsanitary rook- cries of which the clty still has by far too many. The best thing of all about the operations of this com- Dany is that they are profitable. They have yielded 4 per cent. profit and are expected to pay five. The capi- tal of the company has been increased from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 to put up more buildings, , Kyen two millions will not go far toward the needed rebuilding of New York. But such work as this sets a standard. It shows what can be done to better the homes vf the people by kindly intent, which ts common, coupled with something much more rare—Intelligence, best He | Remember! By Nixola Greeley Smith.| Dear Misa Gresiey-Smith | Through the propinquity of a constant | business association, the writer grew to know @ young Iady well and to es- | jteem her highly, and this mere friend- ship, as a result of certain occurrences, | | was’ transformed, or crystallized, into jlove, which was finally declared, only |to learn that she was engaged, and hud been since before he ever knew hi The knowledge of her ergagement was | a great shock to him; when she married the other man the shock was atil: girater, The feature most deprecated ts that the strain for months has exhausted his brain and nervous strength so that he can do neither the quantity nor | quality of work of which he is nor- mally capable, #0 that not only Is his advancement blocked, but there ts dan ger of losing his position should any spectally dimfeult work happen to arise. W. K. { HE writer of this pathetic let- ter Js not suf- fering altogether from the bangs of unrequited love as he believes, but from the sort of self-hypnotism that results from any long - continued mental dwelling on @ single fixed flea, There {3 some- thing not altogether Uncomfortable 1 n even the most despondent clinging to a lort love, For we are to a certain ex- tent soothed and flattered, and in our socret hearts even a little surprised by the discovery that we ara ¢: le of that rare gift of unrewarded ¢ which {s, beyond all other things, own rewayt. Persons who, like the writer of this letter, have loved unwisely because in vel not atrive to forget the objects of thelr hopeless passion. On the con- trary, from an absurd but exalted idea of fidelity they muke the frantic efforts to remember. It ts very end—and truer even than sad—that Time heals even the most desperate of love's wounds, provided wa let the wounds alone, But the trouble 4s we won't let them alone in the great majority of cases. We take a certain melancholy pride and pleasure in them, and Jf despite our efforts we find that the slow-moving but none the less heal- ing finger of time has touched them with its magio balm, wo tear the wounds rather angrily asunder, and sometimes even rub salt in them—the salt of our repentant teara—that they may smart the mora ‘There ts no agony more terrible than that which results trom the discovery that the one person most beloved tn all the world cannot belong to us, except that which follows thp discovery that he or she must belong to another. For this wounds at once love and self-love, 4 double injury, which 1s the greatest that @ harsh fate can inflict, But having suffered it, and endured the long nights of sobbing, suffocating wakefulness and the slow, sodden, dreary days that follow, wo are sure to feel the healing hand of Time upon our shoulders. And when we do we should let it soothe us qutetly into forgetful- ness and not shake ft rudely off as though it were urging treachery and in- constancy upon us, There ts no influence so beneficent to tho victim of unrequited love as that of Toutine—for under {ts narcotic influ- ence even the most disquieting pas- fone must eventually be lulled to sleep. Aman doing a man's work, and try- ing to do it well, has but little time during his working hours for vain re- ‘Pindng, avd if after these hours are done he tries the effect of the sheer physical exhaustion thet results from ® five or ten mile walk, or a brisk ride, or @ game of golf, or somo mild form of athletics, he will find when he goes home that the closing of tired eve- Ads upon tired eyes will shyt out the dis- turbing thoughts most effectually, To be suiro, the relief will be temporary at first. But after awhile, if he strives earmestly to forget as he has, perhaps unconsctously, hitherto striven to re- member, he will succeed, and evyentu- ally only @ vague, sweet memory will remind him of what he thought waa a lovo that would outlast the gtars, ——<— MOROS LEFT-HANDED. To judge Moros by inflexible occlden- tal standards of motives and morals ts to lose at once the key to the situation. tructure of thelr languages differentiates. them from ourselves. Verbs are in the passive voice, The man who was slashed and killed pro- voked the trouble. The under dog in the fight 1s always the aggre: ‘The thief ts not blamed for “finding” things lying about at loose ends; the man who lost the property ts the real criminal— besides, he is a fool. If he were a son- sible man he would have exercised vigi- lance against the approach of the thief. Moros reverse everything. — Like all Orientals, they venerate the past and thelr folklore, myths and legends abound in tales not unlike those of the Arabian Nights entertainment, ‘They turn to the left of the road, ex- tend the left hand naturally in greetit and the scribes right from right to lett. turning the paper sidewise, as any lett. handed man would do. WANTS!! THE WORLD is New York’s great medium for “Help” wanted. During the first four months of this year it con. tained 127,559 under this classification alone. 22,182 MORE than all the other morning newspapers in New York combined, THE CIRCULATION OF THE MORNING WORLD in New York City is wreater than that of any other newspaper, ‘An Advertisement in the World Want Directory qyill reach the greatest possible ot Want” readers, w THE »# EVENING » W Will ral rd Jar? 108) e Via Bretes ral) ORLD'S # HOME w MAGAZINE. & ie Smudge, the Boy War Correspondent # # # ) Like Sheridan at Winchester, He Rides Down the Lin: and Rallies the Retreating Jap Army, | Fa p Wie | DA: 1 hed | } By Martin Green. Does the Working Girt Put Home Life Out of Business? | ¢G 77 HAVE been reading,” remarked the Cigar Stare Man, “an article by Mrs. Flora McDonald Thompson, a woman who worls, in which she says that the wage-earning female is an indus- trial bunion, or words to that effect. “The most remarkable thing about Mrs. Thompson's — article,” replied the Man Higher Up, “is that it was written by a woman. It has taken a long time for even jone woman to get wise to the fact that the woman worker ‘on the progress of industry. By the time sufficient work- ling women get uext to themselves to think about a change, the chances are that the United States will have been converted to the theory of the Indians that the gquaw should do all the work. “Mrs. Thompson excavates deeply into the subject, put there {s one point she has overlooked. It is that fe. working girl is destroying the influence of the home; Bhe) }is converting the dvvellings of the moderately well-to-do |from repositories for families {nto boarding-houses. “A woman or a girl who has no father or brother to |make a living for her has a license to get out and dig for Wage-earners. The great majority of the young women |who work in stores and factories and offices are not com- pelled to work by necessity. They regard their earnings as moncy picked up on the side, and they live at home. “These girls do not turn all their money into the family fund as boys do. They simply pay for their board nine out of ten of them—and they don't pay much. __ Pray Don’t Miss the Peewee “Fudge” Idiotorial Gook in the Next Column, Mrs, Nagg and Mr.— 3¥ Roy L. McCardell. (Copyright, 1904, by the Press Publishing Company, The New York World.) 66 OW, please, do not begin your eternal fault-find- ing, Mr. Nagg! I did not get to see the Mill- tary Show at Madison Square Garden, and now {t {s past and gone! “Well, whose fault waa it? I never knew it was golng on, because I have such headaches I cannot bear to look at the papers. I do read the bargain sales and the births and deaths and mar- rlagos, but I haven't time to read every- ‘thing in the papers, and, here, you never sald a word about the Military Show. “You didn't know I wanted to g0? “You didn't care, you ehould say. I stick in the house fram morning till night and never get to go anywhero ex- cept to the theatre once or twice a week or to go downtown shopping every other day or so, or when you drag me out to walk or ride in the Park, “So, of course, I'm in tgnorance of | What's golng on. You lke to keep me in ignorance. That is the way with all men. They would like thelr wives to be dull and stupid squaws, while they strutted around as the lords of creation, “But the time is coming in this coun- try when these things will no longer be permitted. Married men will all be num- bered, and they will be arrested !f they are out on the streets after dark unless they have a permit signed that day by thelr wives. “A husband will not be allowed to do anything but to work for his wife, and no one will be allowed to take money from them, under penalty of imprison- ment. ‘This will make them bring all thelr money home to thelr wives, There are other things that will be done all in g004 time to free wives from the tyranny of husbands who don't appreciate them, “You want to ask me to go out fora walk, you say? “You aro always asking me to go out walking with you. I think you want to make a show of me. You want to ex- hibit me to the world as if you were saying, ‘Here she is! Here ts Mrs, Nags, a woman I have browbeaten and buillied | ¥ and sneered at and scolded, until she !s utterly subdued and broken in spirit.’ “Oh, well, I will go. I know you don't want’me to go or you wouldn't have asked me. We will take brother Wille. I want some one to speak to as we walk along. For you scowl at me if I dare open my mouth, “Ah! here ts brother Willle now. Give him some money, Mr. Nagg. I know you want to break his proud spirit by putting him to work. Ah! but never mind, a day will come! “Here comes Mrs, Skippaway. What kind of a dog 1s that she has, Willie? | 4 ‘A Stherian Mut,’ you say? How lovely! “Why don't you get me @ Siberian Mut, Mr. Nagg? There Is no such dog You say? ‘That one of Mrs. Skippaway sa Mexican Chihuahua dog? “What are you trylng to do with me, Mr. Nagg? Make a fool of me? There is no such a do Sy what y Just as Willle says. ? ‘Brother Wiillo knows. Doesn't he go over to Long Island City and spend his time there trying to persuade bad young men from holding dog fights? “Ah! he tells me all about his humane work that keeps him out at all hours. “And you would dare say that was not a Siberian Mut! 5 “Why, Willie 1s grinning at you.” You oor little fellow's sense Showwow dog.’ rs Nags, you must really tell your ti G Jokes to your stupid boon companions. “How are you, Mrs. Skippaway? were just tall Ing about, your dog. (Isn't it a Siberian Mut? No, ti's a Chihuahua dog, “An, just as I told you, Mr. Nagg. It's a Chihuahua you say? Just as I told you. S"Faut of course you would contradict, me, just to make me silly and ridicu- lous!”’ What Is the Telephone Number? #2 w w& w& 3—6—8—2—Main (Thr Now Guess What This Is. ermiasion of George Munro's, Sons.) ight, 1803, by George Munro's Bons.) CHAPTER I. A Vow of Vengeance. (By (Copyri ND that young cub of a cousin of mine will have to turn out and| Tom. eam his own living! The speaker was Cuthbert Elliston, a tall, sinister looking man of forty. The man whom she addressed was fat, short and red-headed, with the face of a fox. He was Sam Pearson, shrewdest attor- aey In Yorksh ton in a certain racing stable noted SALGES Br eheay) Vistorise | than, Sor square denling The Hlliston-Pearson atable's latest victory had been the winning of Tho Leger in somewhat doubtful fashton} eet: you for your advice. In the with a colt named Phaeton. Elliston] meantime, as 1 presume for the next bad not informed ‘nis cous! fow dave’ Croniey Chago, ig still, ours, ( ranley C1 Allow me to point out that neither 13 »» Squire of Cranley Chase,} my moter nor am I in the mood to ‘o win with this dark horse;| ettertain visitors at prosent," , And as although he was deep in Rockingham'a] he concluded Ger motioned signifi- debt for a thousand favors and for the] CAntly to the unrepald loan of many thousand pounds. | mo: me Rockinguam had been ruined hy} out Into a torrent scrimination, but Phacton's victory, as he had backed with all his fortune Cuthbert’s second horse, Caterham, the favorite. The shock had killed Rockingham, The funeral was over and Pearson, as the family lawyer, hag come to Cranley Chase with J2lliston to announce to Mrs, Rockingham, her daughter Elles, and Gersld, her young son, then tn his first year at Cambridge, that they were virtually paupers. 3 tye, re, and partner with ayis-| 2 ee sicks ate ptomaine). “And that young cub Gerald will have to turn out and get his own living?" ‘The words had hardly left his lps when the door opened and the widow, attired in her sable draperies, and ac- companied by her daughter, entered the * said Pearson, “your lamented husband's last will and testa- ment, but it Is my painful duty to in- form you that he died a ruined man and that I can see no averting the Sale of Cran “Oh, Gerald. Gerald, exclaimed the cannot un nd son, come and talk me Well,” upon irr as if bent you ean ride rejoined rating th It Elliston, there na r was a Rocking- ¢ couldn should suggest ning under gamekeeper or pad- your tur eh the example of his finally followed y uni ined: success In elther ‘ed his papers, and as he followed his companton out of the room, whispered in hig ear; “If that wasn't a direct hint to A GREAT RACING ROMANCE. From Post to Finish «# ww B or gimekeeper? Of course, we must do our duty In that state of life Into which ft has Pt “I shall ride into York to-morrow and ask Mr. Writson to'act for me in the settlement of our affairs. He has the reputation of being an honest man and though I don’t suppose he can dp much for us, vet he may able saye something for us out of the wreck. ‘Dhere are one or two people I want to see besides.” —, ‘The one or two le that Gerald wanted to see might have been con- densed tnto Dollie Greyson, who he found had just returned to her uncle's after spending her Christmas holidays at Riddleton Grange. ie Grevson was a pretty, dainty girl, daughter of a famous trather who had charge of Eliiston's horses, The trainer had glven her an excellent ed- uca into rik, Writson, a shrewd, able lawyer, gave him but cold comfort. He said he should be happy to do his best, but was afraid that Mr. Pearson had only too accurate a knowl- edge of the Squire's embarrassments, That point satisfactorily settled, Ger~ Ald made the best of his way to Coney street, where was situated the haber- dasher shop of Dollle’s uncle. He found Dollie busy at the plano. She turned around when she heard the door open and exclalined, holding out her hand: “Oh, Gerald, I am so glad to see you again, and Tam sorry for you besides, for. ‘of course, we have all heard of your ‘os. though not, perhaps, the whole of it. IT have come to say gond-by to you, When I put a ring on your inet Ngitercyige nod cranes, wou, $0 con jer it an engaged ring neatly Meant it, T looked forw y Hawley Smart Seek ing ald, At baye asked you to marr, én the heir of “And if you had been Cranley Chase, I think I should have said ‘No,’ although T love you very deany; but now I am yor whatever your position in life may be, whenever you come to cli me."" “Ah, Dollie,” he replied, gravely, “you don't‘know how complete u wreck it is. What is left will barely support my mother and sister, and how, I am to get my own living I feally don't know, lese I follow the advice that brute Guth, bert Elliston gave me. He told me I'd better turn pad-groom oF gamekeeper. And it's hitterly true, Dollie, J can shoot, and I can ride, but I think'I like riding best. ried the girl, with spark- i “Can ride ling eyes. “I should think you can do “Ah, well, Dollie, I suppose I'd best for pad-groom, or something of that “Stop; I rave an idea, Listen to me. You have often laughed and sald what a practical Uttle woman I am. It you turn groom, Gerald, you wil] remain from all your lite; ‘and though Twill 0 you wife all the same, I don't want that for your sake, Come into father's stable, He's a hard master, T kno but you will at all events seo me a} Mle, and I can, perhaps, make things easy for you, Father will do anything for me. “Remember, stable boys be- come Jockeys, and jockeys in these days make’ fotrune jut wouldn't he recognize me?"' Your father has not trained with mine for many yeura, J know he you at Doneaser last year; he has seen you once oF twice, he will never recognize the helr! Cranley Chase in the stable boy a situation, But I shall, Ger heavens, I'll try tt, Dollie! and dag or another—in some Cuthbert way or an-| of fourteen years, ‘The very payment of board has the effect of destroying in them the family interest that is the bulwark of the |home. They consider that when they have coughed up hold is ended, and the effect of a continuation of this conuition is 'bound to be disastrous, socially and economically.” “Women are certainly branching out in work,” sald tho Cigar Store Man. “The limit is in sight,” answered the Man Higher Up. “Almost any morning we are likely to wake up and read jof the arrival of the lady lineman.” Fables, Far, Far from Gay. a2 No. 4—The Man W ho Doped to a Finish. TIBRE was once a Man who Doped his Way from the I Cradle to the Grave. Naturally his first Medicine was the Bottle, and, just as naturally, {t proved to his Last. Similarly during the Intermission between those two Chief Events on the Card he recommended it to Others. While Rocking and Rubbering in his earliest Nursery Trolley-Rides to the Races, he would dope out the Psycho- logical Moment to lot a Scream, with tho Constant Result that the Line was Blocked and he had to Stand some Tim’ " after the Accident, Later on, at School, he doped Examinations over otjagr” Fellows’ ehoulders and was Promoted to a Farm to guaré the Geese with other Ganders. And later still, he doped a Dowry through a Matrimonial Agency, and drew a Blank bubbling over with Meaningless Words. But he was not Satisfied with this Venture, and carried his favorite Method into Business, tippling with Tipsters till he was forced to Walk home for fear a Footpad would pinch his Purse. Elated over this Successful Showing, he mixed Cologne with his Champagne at a Surreptitious, Post-Mortem Stag; and for this Noble Act, which resulted in an exit, grateful Friends and his Wife raised a Tombstone to his Mem: Engraved upon the Stone are these Affecting 1f Amb! Nes: end, as in Life, dear Dopey 1 ho Mixed his Dope, let All Despise.”* A Versical ‘‘Ad.” Man-traps, xing, and pattens likewise, And on Saturday night hot mutton pies, The Gook. ment with Artistic Carll: educational stunts ccs and Delightful Dink. f $@, 2 ' lmcide didocs, Dtbis NEEDS the money. These who KNOW how to write them now do not se:m to favor the FUDGE extensively In placing their advertisements, PERHAPS some of the new “ad” writers, whodo not know so much about circa. lation values and sich, MAY bring thelr Literary achieve- much of that they can't Pat Paris is It with WRITE about himself, ‘You LOSH interest th the war and Dut Pat WHEN Pat writes a Russo-Japanese war “: of THAT'S THE WAY to éo ft, boys! Our next af advice will be off the same strip ef bacen. To-morrow’s ‘‘Fudge’’ Idtotortal Gook Will Also Be About the Gentle Art of Adberttsings Odd Little Facts, ' Four million persons have emigrated from ireland in the. Jast forty years; mostly to the United Btates, t Austrian law permits boys and girls to marry at, the age; b) y a . A curiosity shop in Falmouth, England, displays the fol« lowing sign: Ellen Jones wells here Lemonade and Ginger Beer, Cowheels and tripe every fridey, - Sekondhand cloes to make ee tidy, Crox and ketles, pans, and all, And godly bokes to save your sole. « a » lcompeting with men, acts the part of a ball and ohain © 4 herself, Such women are not numerous in the ranks of’, ¢ \ their little §2 per or thereabouts their duty to the house-- « | ’ \