The evening world. Newspaper, July 28, 1904, Page 12

a. wt aby ANTI-GRADE.CROSSING RESULTS. as piven incentive by the almost simultaneous occurrence f “Of three fatal accidents, we now have the Aldermen and % the Mayor raiting to secure the abolition of one par- Weularly hasardous crossing and preparing to consider Ganger spots within the Greater City. In Brooklyn, fter months of delay, the Grade-Crossing Commission railroad: concerned under which some fifty cross- * ings will be made safe by the depression or elevaiion Of the tracks. _ This is a gain for public safety which it might be ‘paptious to criticise because it is achieved after and as * p direct result of the sacrifice of life at the Van Cort. famdt, Merrick Road and Kings Highway crossings. “The lesson at least has been put to profitable use and “peourity of lite assured for the future where it was lacking in the past. In the fight of the people of Bayonne to restrain the Central Railroad of New Jersey from crossing the “Hudson County Boulevard at grade it 1s alloged by the City Council in eacuse for its action in granting the Toad right of way that the spur is needed for the manu- facturing development of the city, But is that de- “velopment to be encouraged at the expense of human ter | THE LOCAL MOSQUITO CAMPAIGN. The local campaign against the mosquito has now aken three forms. On Staten Island Dr. Doty, Health D@leer of the Port, has renewed the work of spraying the ponds and pools between Concord and Tottenville with @ mixture of kerosene, soda and copperas. At Goney Island the marshes are to be sprinkled with petroleum and the ponds near by drained as speedily as hy ls feasible, In Central Park, which has recently come tm for investigation ns a breeding place of mosquitoe: ' ’ gateh basins are to bo treated with ofl and the treat . Ment extended “if it does no harm to the fish and flestrable aquatic insects.” But this is exactly what the experience of the New Jersey investigators has shown to be the result of this form of attack—it kills the smaller fish and the insects which make the mosquito larvae their prey and in the tnd helps as much as it hinders the propagation of ‘We pest. The present approved methods are drainage fad ditching, partial use of which is to be made at Coney Island, though the complete redemption of the large tracts of sunken meadows and marsh land there ie obviously impracticable at present because of the axcessive cost. The plan Broposed for the rellet of Central Park, Which contemplates the drawing and filling-in of its lakes and ponds, seome to offer the unnecessarily harsh “alternative of enduring the pest or parting with one of ‘Whe Park's most attractive features. According to Prof, J. B. Smith, whose experiments ‘fe New Jersey give his words weight, Holland, though traversed by numerous sluggish canals, !s ‘practically from mosquitoes because the canals drain the Perfectly, allowing no temporary pools, and be- ‘Peuse fish and water Insects abound in every ditch.” A freer circulat.on of water currents through the ponds, » larger supply of minnows and the more Mreful removal of slime and rubbish from the borders Hight accomplish the very result which the promiscu- ue une of kerosene is calculated to retard, | Mustc and Street Signs.—By @ coincidence not without In- terest the $0,000 appropriated by the Aldermen for offical fejoicing over the completion of the subway is almost @xactly the amount of last year's appropriation for street signs and their maintenance. Noto dollar of that appro- priation ia left, though from $10,000 to $15.000 Is needed to » Gomplete the work. Could not some of the money that is to go for mucic and cerriages and a day's display have Deen made avellable for this juster use of the city funds? vy MORTALITY OF THE CHILDREN, ‘The extraordinary increase of mortality among . joung children from disorders of the digestion, reach- Pig a point for the third week in July where it Is Souble that of last year and very much greater than ¥. the high mortality of 1902, is made the more alarming because the best efforts of the Health Department * Goctors to detect its remoter causes seem to be baffled. S) It has occurred in spite of a iarger corps of physicians "tm the field and the better supply of milk, which the i greater vigilance of the inspectors has enabled the » thildren of the poor to obtain in a state of reasonable purity. The prevalence of a high death rate among children fn England at the present time has called forth from Bir James Crichtor-rowne the statement that ‘mal- Py Butrition is et the basis of the bulk of infant mortality” it Is pamphlet ou the culpable homicide.” In a strong neglect of children Miss thildhood turns the whole question” of physical vitality. “It up to the age of three years or four years every ebild were fudiciour': rot years of neglect. bundre< were bettle fed, eapable of performing a mother's first duty.” mv | ds far lece prevalent here. ‘ to Smoke at Seventy Mighty was noi more interestli ‘ato learning Greek at some respects than are smokers. Mr. Atkinson may temper hi as an outcome of the public movement against the jpurtercus grede crossing, which was stimulated and comprehensive plan for the removal of all such| !!° °F private m that for twenty-five infants nursed naturally |{uture hues ‘Only twelve mothers | out of @ hundred in Shefleld are willing to perform or How much is thet shirking of ‘duty having to do @ith the present lorger mortality among New York's SPhildren? How far is that “substitute feeding,” even| wus! the food is milk of good quality, contributing! BO the death rote? In the absence of traceable causes| ; Question may he properly asked, though in the be-| that the muterpal Indifference complaine? of inj) Atkinson, the eminent statistician, learning to fe at seventy and expressing the wish that he had It ts © fact frequentiy noted that most | Mother Takes to Government by Injunction. —_—— By BAVANNAH, Ga.—The Superior Court has granted Mrs, Eva Creighton, & widow, @n fnjunetion restraining one D. E. Currie, a young man of this city, ter Celsa' letter, ne Afteen years old, “elther by nger, or by whistle, sign, signal, scheme or device whats or beoome intelligible to sald Ce Judge George Cann requires to appear before him on July 9 t why the injunotion should not be made permanent. umpha! that one ta, after all, not altogether sorry to see her score, & relief to discover a mother who does not seem to be in & mad rush to marry her daughter off to the first man that looks at her twice. It Is rarely the mother who objects to her daughter's sultor, however thoroughly objectiona- ble he may be, The father is the stern parent fearlessly portrayed in novel and play and fearlessly defied in real fe, Doubtless it must be very uncomfort- able for a young man to be enjoined from communicating with his heart's desire “either by letter, note, tele graph or telephone, publle or private messenger or by whistle, sign scheme or device whatsoever.” But !f he has any ingenulty he can manage to get around even this very specific decree of justice, Lovers have been far more ually separated and yet have man- ed to communicate, Indeed, most of man | debarred from using are Unetly modern—the telephone, tele nevertheless ot apposition known to each other, At lea uses of the Injunction ts dead letter—the whistling the swain might stand across and whistle all day without the object- ing parent betng able to prove that he was impelled to do it by anything save sheer gladness of heart. Of course she might be morally cer- tain that the melody tasuing from bis pursed lps wae directed at her Imprin- oned daughter, And she might commu- nicate her moral certainty to the judge, Hut whe couldn't prove it, In reality, there Je no more pitiful spectacle than that of the stern parent struggling helplessly againsct the set determina tlon of & young man or woman bent on matrimony, wise or unwise, as the case may be. It Is so futile, 20 hopeless and 0 inevitably injurious to the stern pa- rent himeelf, There may be~indeed thers generally are—good reasons for it. But the better the reasons the leat Wkely they are to be heeded, And all the stern parent accomplishes by his opposition is to win the permanent t- manged in the face Nixola Greeley-Smith. |: from communicating with her daugh-| ' » telegraph, telephone, pub- | ¢ ever, whether practised alone or tn con. | 4 Junction with another, by which his) bas reached an agreement with the representatives of] ‘uoughts or will may be communicated ow things have been golng @o mush the other y of late! « vhe devicss which the Savannah young | { graph and) = memsenger = boy — and| ‘ were, of course, unknown to lovers when the world was young, who to make thelr love wil! of the son or Gaughter-in-law-to- be, and at least the temporary {Il-will of his own child. Tn Puropean countries parental oppo- sition amounts to something, For neither a young man nor a young wo- man may marry without it until he or she hae reached a comparatively ma- ture age—cenerally twenty-one for a woman and for a man twenty-five. But in Anglo-Saxon countries where marry- ing for love prevails to a greater ex- tent parental rights are not so sate negligible quantity. The injunction taken out by the watchful Georgia mother was only made possible by her daughter's ex- treme youth, and the girl in a year or so will be beyond the restraining arm of either parent or law. has any lasting effect is in the case of very unstable lovers, who are saved by It from the consequences of thelr in- ta bilit 4 probably fall in love with one else the week after the par- ental flat has been enforced, If the Georgia young man Is in this category, he will probably exercise his talents for writing, telephoning, telegraphing, whistling, 4c., elsewhere very shortly. And the young woman from whom he was enjoined will be left to languish wbstitute feeding is at the best an evil; at|*lone All the stern parent can accomplish by injunction, therefore, is a temporary Honnor | advantage in the case of very young Morten says: “I. is impossible not to be convinced that|peopie, which may be made permanent apon the question of feeding during infancy and early |by the fickleness of one or the other “lovers till death. But the stern parent faces more love affairs than he extinguishes and ts, tn- fed they would grow up robust,|deed, Cupid's invaluable ally, Dut no amount of ofter care will ever meke up for the} The s parent: who really wi marry her daughter off, it is well known, Cannot do better than to wear Miss Morten cites the official statistics of Shemeld, (AniQ!* 28, stern and forbidding as pos- sible, and any young woman whose ts still coquacting wiih the hook had best have her mother get 4n injunction against hm at once. Tt is merely ag old device In new guise, to be sure, but nevertheless worth trying et LOVE'S GEOGRAPHY. My kingdom Is my sweetheart’s face, And there the boundaries T trace; Northward a peaceful forehead tar, A wilderness of golden hair; A rounded cheek to east and west, Her little mouth the sunny south— |] it is the south that I love best | |] Her eyes—twin sparkling lakes Hold stars nigtht—the sun by doy tT wnhtte ai es in her cheek and chin Confusion to the traveller's way Are pitfalls Love, the rascal, makes. And | have fallen in! —W, M. Crocker in the Criterion. the time lost with the thought that possibly irty years of enjoyment of the weed befure im guarded and parental opposition in a]: HOPPED oe ‘The only time opposition of this kind! © The GO NQW THE PROPER THING FOR You To Oo |S- % ® SAY, GENTs, “WE CHarGe Ten CENTS TO Siz Here. $26 06-9-6- SOOO Hs Senet es weter sees es COOL READING, “Whew! basn't it been hot to-day?” ‘Awful! I was just reading Shake- apeare, and he amply made me mort.” “What were you reading That part where h winter of our discontent. lecalling the child to him, sald: plia Ledger ord refrained. Went to hia fathe: “Papa, I learn a | THE CITY FARMER. } About all the auburbanite raises in his | a i bilaters.—Chicago News, nd said OK Expounds a “Can’t bose” System. #& a But His Victim Runs Foul of Jerome and the Pool-Room-Smasher's Axe, Now You SEE, ITs THIS WAY- RO OSE- VELT HAS ACINCH KNEW A BETTER WORD, A father recently overheard hie young fon use a word he did not approve, and : will promise me| vice of Expert No, 1, addresses Expert! vord again Tl give | No, 1)—What do you think of the pic-) Hornthand, e little felow promised and true to) not a fine Titlan? About a week later) | parties)—I don't think you can go far| th’ penitencherry. Jest think what word worth) wr / (Wo conte," —Philedelphis Prean, las YouR MoneY OuT OF YouR SAFE -ANO THEN- BETA MILLION ON MILLION ) YEARS: PEIIGLAHTOONDHEDD THIS WICKED WORLD. Beene, fashionable auction rooms, A/ “I notice,’ said Farmer Hormihand, pleture sale, “that they've got a new sort 0’ pro-cess Amateur Collector (after taking ad-| that they call “My cakes AMBIGUOUS, I am advised to buy It. Is it) dretful wicked. A skin game is purty bad, an’ graftin’ got all them fellers Expert No. 2 (wishing to please both| from th’ Post-Office Dee-partment into ture s. for, anyhow, if it lan't « Titian,| combination th’ two would make\"— Rige- doh Pooh, ‘Balumore Amertesa, By Martin Green. Prof. Start and Those Sixteen Marks of Degeneracy SEE,” sald the Cigar-Store Man, “that Prof. $6 Frederick Starr, of the Standard Oil Univers sity, In Chicago, has given the students in his class a list of sixteen marks of de generacy,” “More hot stuff from the gook-house,” commented the Man Higher Up. “This Prot. Starr ought to be on the stage. He 1s too good to perform for free admis sion. Nobody alive escapes without one or more of hiv marks of degeneracy. “According to the Professor you are in good for ¢ broad to the degeneracy yard if you have red hair and are not Irish; if you have blond hair and are not @ Swede; if you have bat ears, cars with small lobes, part your hair on the right side or in the middle, get grayheaded before reaching the age of forty-five, hav your lamps crossed, use your left hand, wear jewelry carry tattoo marks, have a snub nose or cowlicks {1 your hair, are bald, wear'a receding chin or pra truding Ips, or if your teeth are arranged in opet order. On the level, every time I look in a mirroi since reading about the Starr degeneracy identification marks I rubber around for an emissary from the psy« copathic ward, “The next thing the Professor knows John D. Rocke feller, who owns the Standard Oll University, will Getting resi peevish. John D, hasn't got enough halt to make his goalp feel like it was doing its duty, but ti John D. is a degenerate I'd like to have him wise me to where he caught the disease. August Belmont parts his hair in the middle and Senator Tillman's only ey¢ ig set on the bias, Gov, Francis, of Missouri, is red: headed and he’s no Harp. John Sharp Williams, of ‘Mississippi, has ears that he folds when he walki against the wind, and Champ Clark, who {s to mak¢ the notification speech to Judge Parker, has a cowlick you could grate horseradish on. Russell Sage has 4 receding chin, W. C. Brown, General Manager of the Lake Shore and one of the smartest railroad men tw the country, was grayheaded before he was thirty-five years old, It would inundate me with joy to get io line with theae distinguished degeneracy branded cith zens.” “What is degeneracy, anyhow?” asked the Cigar Store Man, “Degeneracy,” responded the Man Higher Up, “is an alleged condition designed by alleged wise men to en able them to make a living without work.” Anti-Race-Suicide Owl, After seventy-five years of captivity, a female eagle ow) has just died in an aviary in England, Brought from way in 1829, thie bird within the Jast thirty years has r no less than ninety young. Although the eagle ow! is re puted to live to a great age, there appear to be but few re- | corded instances where the age coukt be definitely ascer- tained, A golden eagle which died at Vienna in 1719 was known to have been captured 1% years previously, and a fal con, of what species ts not recorded, is sald to have at- tained an age of ‘62 years, A white-headed vulture taken in 1706 died in the soological gardens at Vienna in 162%, thw Mving 118 years In captivity. Deadly Natal Intoxicant, At & recent meeting of an agricultural society at Verul: Natal, a speaker gave some Interesting detaile regarding deadly native intoxicant made from treacle, An analysis of this drink—which Is called isitshimtyana— by an eminent doctor showed it was "80 per cent. stronger than any known alcohol. Four milk tis full given to a pig produced death in half an hour, This pofsonous stuff ts take ing the place of Kaffir beor, and {a exterminating the popula~ tion on the coast. Whole kraals, including women and little children of four years old, have been seen reeling drunk, sal@ the speaker, according to the Natal Mercury, and the ascend of debauchery which followed cannot be described, Pasteboard Hard to Pierce. A tories of interesting firing triale recently was unden taken’ by the Swedish Government. The purpose of these experiments was to examipe the effect of shooting against pasteboard. The triais were conducted on the wharves of the Swedish Navy in Kariskrons, and the target used was a prepared one of millboard, against which fire from revolvers, rifles, carbines and machine guns was directed. 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