The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1904, Page 10

nr +NO, 18,729, 6 Evening World First ef columns of advertising in Bvening World during first six Months, 1904 . of columns of advertising in ~ The Bvening World during first six | P MODES, 1903. ...ceveeecesvevesee 6,019 | | INCREASE...406.0000005 1,681 | Mo ether six-day paper, morning or evening, n new | EVER carried in regular editions in six consecutive Sach a volume of display advertising as The Evening Gatried during the frat six months, 1904, 7,700 > } | | | = | » FOR SAFE EAST SIDE STREETS. a steps will be taken this week toward ton on the east side in resistance of a new th of rowdyism. There was a preliminary gather- of busiiess men last Friday evening. A mass- of citizens is now proposed. © im various localities on the east aide, young women ‘afraid to venture out of doors after dark. To do so (to invite insult. Young ruMans crowd the walks and corners wherever and whenever the Dollce are out ‘ There are symptoms, even, of a tentative Of the oid “cadet” system, who protest against the state of affairs speak Py temperately of the police and make no charges fast men on patrol. They make to Commissioner however, suggestions which he should promptly for extra and persistent efforts by special and Dlain-clothes men for the suppression of the gangs. “Tt the Commissioner does not aid gays one organizer for eafety, “we will act for a worry and desperation of the respectable east fs easy of comprehension, But it is amply possible ‘ them eafe streets without forcing them to supply Own vigilance committees, If the job is too big for Me precinct captains, let Mulberry Street take’ hold. ees ‘y MOTOR-BOX PERILS. _ ‘The explosion of a controlier-box on a Hamburg ave-| Mecar ov Sunday night caused the Injury of four| As such accidents go, this was relatively f unimportant one. Fractured wrists end “legs and ‘of the face are less serious than the fractured aad broken legs of previous casualty liste having r origin, Accident, in fact, was “only a little one.” But tt sufficient to show that defective motor-boxes are im use, and that the old conditions of danger exist ed. The trolley passenger remains exposed to| injury and liable at any moment to face the shock } Gxplosion, the blinding sheet of flame and the panic * ot: 4 | GOES 244494 146 4 ¢ 00000000004 And There Shall Be No More Blondes. —-— | Nixola Greeley-Smith, ING toa A report of | & Washington | Statistician the CORD- blonde marries | ® brunette 6 (per cent. of the sulting — off- be golden- | beauty eyed, joyed | will In a few centuries have becdme as | extinct as the dodo, or the stage amagon, Individual observation from day to day certainly confirma this distresing | theory. But while we were wont to | tribute the change to the waning popu- larity of the peroxide bottle due to the more discriminating taste of modern | theatrical managers, tt mes a new gravity when presented as @ natural metamorphosia t in a crowded car must inevitably result in injury, Is the ingenuity of the electric engineer unable to vise & safer harness for the powerful current? Or does 3 favit Me mainly with an antiquated apparatus? wr the blame rests, the controller-box which does control must be regarded by reason of the numerous for which it has become responsible as a very | peril of city transit. } THE FOOTBALL SEASON. | ‘The football season, which once brought with it sug-| t of Thankegiving and frost, begins now at a, me when “sweaters” ought by all consideration for the mac to be atill packed away in moth balls, The game in this year's gridiron contests, scheduled | Saturday between Carlisle and Lebanon, |s "present indications to call for tennis idea of the extent to which the game has de-| may be had from the two-thirds of a column of agate type necessary to contain the list of games| for between Eastern college teams. Yet these) Feprésent but a fraction of the games which will begin with Saturday's kick-off and continue from then until y tegiving Day from Bowdoin to Leland Stanford, from the furthest Down-East preparatory schcol to fegor academics. While baseba!! remains the “national game,” football hes become distinctively the schoolboy game—the game whieh boyish ambitions centre, and for which imine plaudits are reserved. As the season advances, list of the maimed and mangled will be printed. But/ garne's evils weigh light in the balance with the| good derived from its rough-and-tumble| 4 re | 'REEDOM AND THE EUROPEAN PLAN, | ) To the primitive idea, freedom was absolute, When s grew up, and with them codes, freedom was ified by law. Evolution had proceeded naturally up point. But what of a later conception tn which liberty is modified as to its conditions by the of an impatient landlord? The question arises in Brooklyn, where lodgers at a lar hotel have been told that they must eat dally hotol tabies at least one meal at a minimum cost Set 86 conta, There have been indignation and references W the bill of rights. Nevertheless, the order goes " Th privilege of changing hotels cannot, of course, be way. One might, then, hold this to be a liberty it © when the very act of departure from the inal hostelry on the way to another would be per- ‘ander the compulsion of the landlord's conditions? lapse trom excitement over the double fare on ¢ars, this novel step in hote! management i wupply an enduring subject of debate be- g and prunes at the Brooklyn boarding- “To an observer on this side of the river, how- ‘appear without debate that the inalienable the European plan), liberty and the are held in a sad state of land- eer the main bridge. 4 -] ope ied Brown, the flate of Landlord in in. town, ,a9ked what color the compromise Statisticians have not reported as to the number of real brunettes, but in| New York at least these seem to be quite as scarce as the flaxen beauties It you look along the Ii: if men and women in Elevated or street cars you are greeted by repeated vistone of light brown, almost chestnut, hair, and small | blue, green or ray eyes. If there hap- Dena to be a black or brown eyed wom- an among the number it's ten to one she is a foreigner of Latin race or a Jewens Possibly & high artistic sense would com- mend the pleasing Pastelles in petti- coats, the feminine half-tones that are everywhere presented. But a Great Many people possess a cruder taste, that likes its brunettes very brunette | And its blondes just as blond As pos- sible. The relative beauty of blonde and brunetio has been discussed ever | since the two types came into being. ‘The controversy has never been settled, but It seems scarcely fair that nature | should have stepped in to compromise |t by abolishing the blonde alto jt In doing 0 she is very like the young bride who wanted a black mantelpie, for the drawing-room, while her hus- band wanted a white one, and when he finally suggested a compromise and ce be, replied, “Why, black, of court i a blond w | is ever as pretty as a brunette ms for the reason that her very blondness being counted a beauty she is not cali ‘pon to make good in other features the dark wor.an is. She la, howe’ more striking, at | in day Nght. For gas or electricity fades her, while they merely intensify a brunette beauty, It appears, nevertheless, that white | much disinterested discussion has been wolng on in her favor the brunette has been quietly Aghting her own battle tor supremacy by following the example of certain savage tribes and quiet'y as- similating the enemy The pri le of the survival of the Attest Is once more demonstrated by | her ¢rlumph. But it seems rather a sbabby proceeding toward the blonde. ‘There dues not seem to be anything for the blonde to do about It, however, Since the only way of preserving their type—that is, marrying otoer bicodes. does not seem to be one thar they are generally willing co adopt It often pens that the made blonde is prettier than the genuine artivie, for | even after her peroxide tra rotains te brunetie’s dower ful eyes. 89 | theretore, as th are drug stores and foolish women { Adinirera of the blonde type may d gard the dismal warning of the ste tielan, and the brun her vindleation, be more satisfy tn ‘omplete. It is to be hoped, in the interests of |picturesque stage groupings. however, j that the Washington propnet is mis: jtaken and that tne plexed chorus may still furnish its quota of charming | blondes and scintillating brunettes. —<—<——__— HAIR SPLITTING. “Now, if I wear my hair low on my neck, it looks @ good deal more girlish and frivolous, and yet—and yet it's more ifkely, 16 come untied and fall off. Baltimore American, te may rejoice tn urely could not » EVENING My Hit bye > O04. T THINK we To ScHoo.! ; ® 3 | + yo’ somethin’ to remembah.” = (By Permission of George Munro's Bone.) | ‘Phere it is. (Copyright, 1803, by George Munro's Sons.) company, SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. | Abe Durton and his chum, warden gate at 12) two Australian miners, save Carrie Sinclair, the local assayer Abe in Jove with her, ® critic fall Carrie has another suitor, a mysterious | whom (high> “Thats how the posiry sald the miner, aye character named Black Tom Perguaon, umore of bushrangers y disturb the camp. undertakes to educate Abe, ecomen deeply Interested in aneers at the rum: play an April fool joke on Abe An April Fool Joke. | “ BLL, what is it?’ asked the W eager audience. “See here. boys. There's Misi Sinclar, You was saying as A on her. @he don't fancy him much, vou think, Suppose we write him a note~ send {t hing to-night, you know.” “well, wnat then?” sald McCoy, } “Weill, pretend the note Is from her, | ye ace? Put ner name at the bottom. Let on as she wants him to come up an’ meet her in the warden at 12, He'g sound to go, He'll think she wante to elope with him, It'll be the biggest i Nayed this year.” pds was a roar of laughter. {dea conjured up of honest Bones moon- ine about tn the garden, and of old Joxhua coming out to remonstrate with ‘a double-barreled shotgun was Irres sistibly comic. ‘7 was approved of unanimously, “Teresa pencil and here's paper,” said asked him, of the company, girl?” said Shamus. another, However, these objections The} Abe had received his note, spelling it out with @ palp' under the light of his soltt in Harvey's Sluice. ow to write | "Weeping down from the distant moun the humoriat, “Who's going to W7HO) Ving moaning and sighing among the hill, he ieee deserted claims. Dark clouds wore |! “Write It yourself, Jim," sald Shamus, | TI cross the moon, one moment | {he Ww throwing a shadow cver the landsea and tha next allowing the silvery ra | ine terror of the woodlands—the dreaded lance to ehine down, cold and clear, | rangers of the bush? , and batho In a) “Well, what shall 1 say?" “Say what fou think right.” “T don’t know how she'd put it,”’ sald Jim, scratching his head tn great per plexity, “However, Bones will neve know the differ, tow will thie do? ‘Dear old man, Come to the garden at pon the little val eird, mysterious light the te “Yo’ sho’t-lalged good fo’ nuffin’ niggah, Ise agwine to gib comes “Ita kinder fanciful, Sounds a darned night better Trust him for guessing wh WORLD'S # H ‘That's bully,” from the | straggling “‘And the stars a-shinin’ bright, | that meet, oh, meet me, Adolphus, by the him, no matter for what, and with a “Hin name ain't Adolghus," objected | knight-errant, this rough miner weot in," This epistie was gravely passed round | the room from hand to hand, and rever- | entially gazed upon as being a remark- | able production of the human brain, It) was then folded up and committed to the care of @ small boy, who was sol- jemnly charged under dire threats to deliver it at the shanty, and to make off before any awkward questions we It was only after he had disappeared in the darkness that some sligdt compunction visited one of two “Ain't it playing {t rather low on the “And rough on old Bones?” suggested ov ruled by the majority, and disappeared \entirely upon the appearance of a sec- |ond jorum of whiskey, The matter had almost been forgotten by the time that and was y candle | That night has long been remembered A fitful breeze was great stretch of bushland on either side of tne hour of danger, A great loveliness seemed to reat |# remark: 12 to-night, vlee TH never speak to YOU) oy the face of nature, Men remarked gain,’ eh? “No, that’s not the style,” ead the | young miner. “Mind, she's a lass of, eddication and soft.” “Well, write it yourself,” said Jim, sulkily, handing him over the pencil. “This is the sort of thing,” said the | living cemg ty observe his miner, molstening the point of it In| A Ceetng of mild his mouth, “When the moon is in the | simple soul that bis sky! "— fingers could have afterward on the strange, phere hy | Hie partner, oss Mi sent in ine ich hung over the little town, in the darkness that Abe Dur- She'd put It kinder flowery | ton allied out from hie little shanty, eerie atmos- | reckoned uv the c' jorgan, Was stil; ab- bush, so (that beyond the ever-watehful owl, Blinky, there was no $04900000-006+ 2 it , “ at Lhe ‘ fie) eae whethah a man’s sho’t-laiged A ROMANCE OF LOVE AND HIGHWAYMEN. §---By A. Gonan Doyle. THE RUSHRANGERS hieroglyphica; however. | | there was the n at the foot, ant enough for him, She wanted heart as pure and as herolc as any forth at the summons of his love. He groped his way up the steep, wind- ing track which led to Asalea Villa. There was a little clump of small trees and shrubs about fifty yards from the| ¥ entrance of the garden. Abe stopped | for a moment when he had reached them, in order to collect himeelf. Tt rdly twelve yet, so that he had a few minutes to spare, He stood under thelr dark canopy, peering at the white house vaguely outlined in front of him. A plain enough ilttle dwelling-place to any prosaic mortal, but girt with rev- erence and awe in the eyes of the love ‘The miner paused under the shade of the trees, and then moved on to the rden gate, There was no one there, was evidently rather early. The moon was shining brightly now, and the country round was as clear as day. | road, which ran like a white, winding | streak over the brow of the hill, A) her behind could have seen his athletic figure stariding our i clear, Tnen he ga’ if he had been shot, and up againat the little gate beside him. He had seen somethin hich cau his sunburned ‘ill. the vraciic hole situation norsemen would ride so by nit aave It is true thai on ordinary occasions be wi sluxgish in his Intellect ee in howe wi for cool deliberation for promot and 4 » Al advanced up the he was heavy in his movements, There were half a dose lignts at the most moderat ti desperate and feariess Question was w ther hy 14 Keep them at bay for a short time and Pai. Abe looked past the little villa at the| “ ee fet .. VF “Doan’ yo’ be too decided, boy; yo’ can’t mos’ always tell 0’ not by appeahances.” 100904004 — for a longer period than that. Be he could rouse the sleepers and admission, hows , be upon him. He must content with doing hia utmost, At any mr he would show Carrie that if he could not talk to her he could at least for her. The thought ve him a a sie ot fy ure, ence had taught of the first shot. alon, Opening into the upper part of th tayere little garden, This hat high acacia hedge on elther side of and opened into a short walk by impassable thorny wall the place well. One resolu he thought, hold the pas minutes until the through eleewhere and took hi; rear, At any rate, it was his man mi fore chance. ssed the front door, but forbore Fate Binclair was an bs 8 to give any alarm ly man and woul ce in such & was before him ights in the rangers of thom for his partn for Chicago Bill, for any Mant men who would ja call and stood by Id be of little ass! leaperate at and the appes house would wal the road tn ! Morgan the very man for whom A’ Ticor Jonging from the bottom eart. Thers was short time foi tlona, A few hurried words that the B returning fro on thelr mission of hearing thelr destination, had by hard running and knowledge of country to arrive before them. 'o ime to alarm any on he salned, ati] panting fram tions, "Aust stop them oursely: vome for swag—come Only over our bodies, Bone: And with these few broken words strangely assorted friends and Koked lovingly In ayes, whilo the tramp of the breese of the woods. There were six rangers in all, who appeared to be leader rode in tri while the others followed in a bod: aly | They flung theniselves oft thelr horses when they were op) and after a few muttered w their captain, tethered the animals ps ye and walked th ard ¢ te the ho posite 1" Prevent their forcing . He ) “TS iS FOOD 146 490600044496016008: w . Mary Jane and Kickums Aren’t Ready to Go Back to School Yet. THEY WANT To) SEND Ug TO SCHOOL, gain the rangers would himset row which the rangers coming ended at a wooden gate also lined Abe knew its brok: im in beat ve come a him in such . explana innounced hind ‘A ee tine ‘oad, | tour, had come across rangers ne larkness, and over- managed his exer ir eirl, nook hands each cther's horses down to them on the fragrant from Bes ui ae , ( . he uw By Martin Green, i | Se A Few Remarks for the >} Gay Boys with Snowy Locks Who Forget Bow OldThey Are. SEE,” sali the Cigar Store Man, “that another $6 distinguished pappy guy with dough has gone | {nto the courts to retrieve a bunch of houses | and lots he passed up to a young and agree able female.” “The opulent pappy guy who has to welch on his plays with young and agreeable females gets a sympa- thy play with a copper on for mine,” replied The Man Higher Up. “After a man hits the time machine for | the throe-score mark it is up to him to lew an exis tence with a soft peda! on, When he plays the feverish nd giddy career it is an even trade if he falls up against trouble. “The aged geezer with the cush has a great chance fu New York to travel right. If he js a widower he can circulate in his oWn set, drop a hunch or two, send out & couple of touts and land a woman of middle-age who will be satisfied with a good home, even if she does try to make him take a few domestic hurdies and water jumps when he shows a disposition to bolt the track, There are many instances of gentlemen {n our city who rejoice in frosted beards and hirsute deficits above the | ears that have married happily at an age when the man | who made out the wedding certificate unconsciously fige | ured on what a little way {t was to a hundred. *The trouble with the aged man who geta Into the courts as defendant in a breach of promise sult or plain- tiff in a suit for the recovery of his bank roll and rent producers is grounded on vanity. You never saw one of them yet that didn’t have a sign over his bed read- ing, ‘A man is as old as he feels.’ They con themselves into the belief that every year that has hit them has bounced a couple of months and gradually begin to be- lieve that they are winners with the fair sex. When they start out to practise their convictions nine times out of ton they get Into the zone of a more or less tens der-aged sketch who has memorized all the books and is proficient !n making an aged gazoolicker think that he is a cure.” “It's a shame to take the money,” remarked the Cigap Store Man. “Not exactly,” corrected The Man Higher Up, “it's shame to have to give It back.” tore dio juite Great Wars—Small Causes. ‘The seven years’ war was largely due, according to hte own confession, to the vanity of Frederick the Great in wanting to see his name figure in the ettes; the Indian mutiny was precipitated by the cartridges served out to the Sepoys, which they believed were grensed with the tat of animals unclean allke to Hindu and Mahometan, More absurd atill was the cause which may bo sald te havo led to centuries of war between England and France, In order to please the Archbishop of Roucn, Louis VIL of France had consented to remove his beard in common with | his subjects, and present a clean-shaven face to the world, It was a disastrous shave, for it led to eo much friation 8 with his wife, who reseated her husband's changed appear. him as da it, ht, ow ‘ the ae! mnee, ot ‘ance, that at last the King divorced her to become a few months later the wife of Henry Il. of England. From thie marriage of Henry to the angry, discarded wife of Louis centuries of bloodshed may be said to have followed, Turbines Are Not New, In some of the patents taken out sixty years ago In Eng. ‘tand are clearly stated all the essential points for the com atruction of an excellent steam turbine. Many of the eariy inventors seemed to have such clear ideas as to essential features of a successful steam turbine that their fallure te make their ideas commercially successful is singular, Boarding-House Notes, the ex- the One ‘ont, ues, y tow. é