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FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1904, Baek. Moka vw THE » EVENING w WORLDS # HOME w MAGAZINE. 2 by the Press Publishing Company, No. 8% to 63 | Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Otfice at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. VOLUME 44........ veuesNO. 18,634. _ hehehe TOO MUCH LAw. Judge Coxe, of the United States Circuit Court, is d to have “created a small sensation” when he told iN Overproduction of law.” Ho said that we have too many statutes—14,000 new a year. “We legislate to cure all evils, to remedy jt ones, to prevent new, to raise money, to stop im- "And in spite of all punitive precautions, by reason of their excessive number and con- nature, “Justice lies dead” and the mob finds @etected an increasing tendency on the part of those harged with its enforcement to arrogate to themselvcs authority beyond their powers and in conflict with * # the individual liberty which fhe law {s presumed first ef all to guarantee. | The axe and the crowbar smash an entrance to the ‘suspect, the policeman’s club usurps the judge's func. - tlons, aud the theory generally obtains that the guilt of ‘ accnsed must be regarded as established until full | proot of innocence is judicially forthcoming. Tt is a bad theory. It is a development away from " and contrary to the principles of human rights, and one * to be viewed with misgivings. : NEW TROLLEY ROUTES. By the laying of fifteen yards of track to connect the 1) way and the Seventh avenue lines at Forty-third > street a new “diagonal” route is made available which wnt make a much desired addition to existing street car accommodations. By running Broadway cars through to Fort Lee ‘Ferry, as is contemplated, the upper west side will be . an improved shopping and theatre service. Also, ‘the diversion of traffic thus effected and the further ition of the Boulevard, congestion will be relieved ‘at various points above Forty-second street and par- | tloulerly at the Ninth avenue and Fifty-ninth street ins ncaineet “ It is an improvement which the increase of popula- between Amsterdam avenue and the North River has made advisable. Why cannot it be accompanied by @ corresponding improvement of the Seventh avenue “service? It would seem to bo perfectly feasible to operate the hort-route cars on this line, which now end their trips are in the rush hours, Forty-third street cars, practically “empty, alternate with through cars crowded beyond LEVI Z. LEITER. ‘The career of Levi Z. Leiter was the kind of career which used to serve ns the basis of the boys’ books of Qn earlier period in biographical literature. He was a . “self-made merchant prince” of an era of business; é : es which seem smal] by comparison with the t a 5 2 achievements of a Morgan or a Rockefeller. 4 | But his life was suffictontly rich in the romance of trade ; } _ to make it notable. The !mpecuntous lad who worked ‘his way West und made the millions which were to Bive & daughter semi-royal honors as the first lady of wheat market may bo said to have contributed a large phare to the social history of the nation. Columbia alumni that the nation is suffering from) India and a son a brief spectacular monarchy in the] of Punctuality. | By |Nixola Greeley - Smith, EAMS have and mostly | shymen—on th pleasures of | | the pleasuresof the pleas- of almost! | Safoures gun—but) whe celebrated, in song) or story. the pleas-| area of cunctuality? | To be sure, punc- So tuality as a duty} han been preached to death, but it is easily demonstrabs| {that in @ great many Instances it Is) jot only a duty we owe other people, but a pleasure that we owe ourselver, Witness the exceedingly punctua! young woman told of in Wednesday's paper who. wanting to commit sutcide At a certain hour, set an alarm clock on the pler, and when It sounded the psychological moment plunged Into the river. At the frst tinkle of the alaris sho plunged, for she wan of a muinctun’ habit. But the bell continued ta sound and Sts clamor summoned two working- men who promptly Jumped Into the river and pulled her out—presumably t» live hapnily ever after. Now (f that girl had dallied till the last rumble of the alarm before jump- ling in, there would have been no sav- | ing summons. no hurried rescuers, and she would have Seen a corpse. It ts to be hoped that this valuable object lesson will impress Itself upon women, who are reputed the unpunc- tual sex Of course, every woman resents the accusation of unpunctuality. And ery woman who has had an appoint- ment with a man—sweetheart, or hus- band, or casual acquaintance, as the case might be—will rive in wrath at the recollection of the anxious .moments ahe spent waiting for him to turn up. But she belongs to the unpunctual sex, nevertheless, as distinguished from the late sex. for while men are very generally just in time or la‘ an appointment, all women may be divided into two classes in this re- spect, those who arrive late and those who arrive early, No woman is ever Just in time. And yet think how much trouble she would save herself if she were, and how much trouble she would save the man. Say she has an appointment to moet ® man—her “‘steady gentleman friend,” or flancee, according to the point of view, on an elevated station at 4 o'clock. Nine times out of ten she will arrive flustered and out of breath at @ quarter to 4 and prepare to wait For the firs} five minutes she will be comfortable, perhaps. ‘Then she begins to wonder If the tick- et chopper and the news-stand boy are t wondering why she d train. She knows they from ti way they look at her, They know she dn waiting for some one. And, oh, they don’t understand, If she is very young, and the agony 1s very vrolonged, she will probably wander up to the tioket-chopper, ask him if he ts sure that clock Is right and then explain with elaborate careless ews Unt she is) wailing fur ue it prob- obly will be. with a «ri friendly but sophisticated incredulity, she will Mush hetiy and wa Aw As one of the remarkable group of country boys— Marshall Field, Pullman, Farwell, Phil Armour among them—who wentfo Chicago with no capital but industry ‘end intelligence and amassed fortunes, Leiter exempli- fied to an extraordinary degree the “push” and pro- lveness, the energy and self-reliance, which are ' @istinctive traits of American character. That migra- to the West from Eastern farms and country stores <f which he took part was one of the most interesting | of pioneer movements, hardly Jess so than that of the “Fush of the gold seekers which produced the bonanza Be 3 Country boys st!ll come to town to make fortunes, but somehow in circumstances which appear to be less romantic. ‘ s DIVERSE USES OF THE JIGSTEP. © ‘To get on or off a car gracefully, learn to dance. ; Such is the prescriptive dictum of ‘the United Dancing! "Masters of America. Perhaps it 1s what the conductor means, as well, when he says “Step lively!" ‘The opportunity !s now for the wise masters to form 4 Classes in which one of the cotillon figures will represent 4 the proper terpsichorean method of mounting or alight- ») img from the high running-board of the open trolley > dr. Then, after a little time, the conductor will have » to say not a word. He will merely whistle a tune in two- » step tempo, and the agile, light-toed passengers will do * PR the rest. The dancing teachers—they are in convention at Cleveland—insjst also that the jigstep should be taught fp every public school. This way may lie a remedy in New York for the present breaking out of the old spare- the-rod-and-spoil-the-child neurasthenia among the in- ctors. If it shall become a rule that principals n: subordinates must lead the pupils in a daily morning halt hour of “jigging,” few of them will care for further physical exercise, even for disciplinary ends. Thus will be made good a saying that the jig is mightier than the rod. THE LOOKERS-ON. An {ngenious reporter, noting the crowds where Chicago's newest skyscraper is going up, is able to estimate that when the building is ready for the tenants 815 years of elght-hour days will have been spent idly by people watching the job and other people stopped - ti the blockaded street. | A&B a city where many persons like to see others Work, New York is not far behind Chicago, if it is be- at all. We may assume, therefore, that potential ages have been spent in the rebuilding of Broadway, accomplished tie during the past decade and a half, and that ages huve gone into the construction of the new, ul, many-storied city above Fifty-ninth street. ‘takes sume degree of energy even to stand still ok on. And the scientists tell us that no energy gbsolutely to waste. What a grand push promptly at the hour, the culprit man arrives, she will tell ‘him that he left her waiting there for half an hour be inauited by strange men and ticke! choppers, and that he doesn’t love her. Trere ia'a qunerel and the afternoon in spolled and one more catastrophe hax resulted from the number cf wamen do not othe pleasures of punctuality. LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS, To the Editor of The Brening World: Ia % necessary to have a license to marry in the Btate of New Jersey? INQUIRER. Leap Year. To the Editor of The Evening World: A sys that leap year falle every four years. B says it comes every seven years, Kindly decide. "A. G. P. All years exactly divisible by 4, by 400 and by 4,000 are leap years, while years divisible by 100, by 200 and by 900 are not. ‘Thus, as a rule, leap year falls every four years. In 1900 the exception occurred. How Mach Buttert To the Editor of The Evening World: Will some agricultural reader kindly decide whether one quart of pure cream will make one pound of pure butter? Will that reader kindly state how much butter the above will make, If not one pound? c. H. No Pass In Required. To the Editor of The Evening World: Where can I obtain a pass to visit the Pullizer Bullding dome? W. R. 8 To Reduce Weight. To the Editor of The Evening World: By what means can | take off weight? What must [eat, &c.? JAMES 11 Avold milk, butter and sweets of aj! sorts. Eat no fried or Do not drink beer or a more than eight hours a night. no daytime naps, Exercise regularly and take long walks and runs. A Plea for Workers. To the Editor of The Bvening World: I read Horbert Wheeler's letter op- posing Sunday baseball, What would Mr, Wheeler do with the thousands of drudges who toll ten, twelve ami four- teen hours a day? Would the have them loll around all day Sunday, breathing he il-smelling and foul air in tene- ments, pale-faced and haggurd aad careworn from sixty hours’ hard labor, or would he ‘have them resort to whe comer barroom and lay the seeds of future degradation and drunkenness? Who 4s the best judye of whut rest we need what kind of rest, Mr. Wheeler or the writer, for inatance? What did God create sunlight and til) the world with pure air for? For His fd we should all get when destiny sets | t ted force of millenniums of “bossing the jobi miserable jetiee aay those gifts? Cer- creatures, And when or how can the W. J, FITZPATRICK, | 4 aul alta, FARRER EEE EERE RHEE EER ERR PREP PPE P EEE per rrr P rere PPP PPP ss tt: iM! fotos os oe iF! ss oinini 1 tela! fee eeiriebistt tat. | Helelleleleleinisietetrieieleieieieleirivieieloler The Pleasures \ The Morning Doze as a Domestic Embroiler. # Husbands That Hate to Get Up May Caus2 Trouble f Awakencd Too Rough.y. Rh Raph RT es tt feleinleinieteietnieleteleioi elebelelebeletnietaiele ail iy Cingeye? dk aunt Pe Oe Bros oe es FFHATS RIGHT LA ‘OE ARIE, WAKE SARC poletk By Martin Green. o. -" Grand Jury Refuses to Chip In When Jerome Opens the Pot. EE," sald the Cigar Store Man, “that the Grand 66 Jury balked on Jerome in this Nan Patterson case.” “The first thing the Grand Jury knows.” re- plied the Man Higher Up, “the District-Attorney, with seven assistants, eleven detectives and a squad of cops in uniform, will be breaking down the door of the Grand Jury room with an axe and turning the hose on the honorable body. What right has the Grand Jury to refuse to chip In when Jerome opens the pot? “It is the understanding of persons not well versed in the new criminal law that the Grand Jury is a sort of a barrier between prosecuting officers who are daffy to convict everybody accused cf a crime and persons who may be accused wrongfully; but of late the Grand Juries of New York County have becn machines in the hands of the Disfrict-Atiorney. The members of the Grand Jury are generally citizens with large business interests who are anxious to get through with their jury drag on the jump. “Handling a Grand Jury like this is a soft snap for prosecuting officers who are wiling to let their convic. tions butt down the evidence in the case of a person accused of crime, There is something refreshing about a Grand Jury that acts as though it came from M!ssourt and had to be shown “The prosecuting officers of this county are working along the old Byrnes system. If a man is arrested he must be guilty. In this Patterson case the sole object of the prosecution has been to make Iars out of people who assert that there is a chance that the girl might be innocent of the actual crime.” “They haven't found anybody yet who could prove that he saw the man shoot himself,” protested the Cigar Store Man. “Neither did they produce anybody to the Grand Jury who could prove that the girl fired the shot,” answered the Man Higher Up. The Trick Whale. eltieeieiei-ei-bi-b-i-i-t Ietinielei-iet + CT THink You wie |, OU HEAR NT YOU; —E~ GET uP! da tell SEE Im iieiieit ebeleteiete as oe a os YL) "AND The ciTy PAn'S THE PIPERS I AINT A-GOIN TER MISS DAT STATION-House CONCERT TO-NIGHT! Blow an egg. Make a little hole at each end, blow into, one end, and tho contents will come out through the other, leaving the ege empty. Now, with a black pencil or black paint picture on the! egg shell two eyes like those of whales in your picture book. Having done that, make a little sack or bag of strong,! soft material (like flannel), any color, put some shot or! other weight in it to keep it right side up, then in {ts mouth place the egg, with the outside hole plugged up with gum, putty or wax. Fasten the edges of the bag to the egg by means of seal~ ing wax. Pink the edges of the seams in the bag to repre- sent fins. Now you are ready to set your “whale” free in the swims ming pool. This pool ts a gines jar full of water and closely covere@ with anything In the rubber line. By merely pressing your hand on the rubber top you eam cause the whale to rise or dive as you please, The Gook, 53 ee IDIOTORIAL PAGE OF THE EVENING FUDGE N that Cg Croup Cured While You Walt.) surstroxe sen. Sunstroke Season Makes the SON fs at hand,the ¢ EVENING FUDGE) (Copyret, 100% by the Planet Pub. Ce.) REMEDY *FOR CROUP: ‘ The foremest Sclentists of the day dectare that if | H croup attack a patient BEFORE THE CLOCK ! STRIKES MIDNIGHT, tt will not attack the little suf-} ferer AT ALL that night. ALL mothers, doctors.and the | ALITTLE PRACTICE On THE CORNER: MUSICALES IN SILK- STOCKING PRECINCTS. >. OH, THE MOON 15 ALL AGLEAM, on THE STREAM-- AH! SUCH OH!-LISTEN Technique! To THE BAND! Bui BAneY WONTCHER PLEASE Go Homa! varie Houst WE SIT, $ STAT HINKING. MOTHER DRAR.OF Yor! : west abi canel auel ali