The evening world. Newspaper, September 19, 1904, Page 14

the Press Publishing Company, No. & to @ York, Entered at the Past-Ofice an Gecondeiass Mall Metter, .+NO. 18,788, Evening World First ef columns of advertising in Evening World during first six 1904. ..se0008 famber of columns of advertising in Phe Bvening World during first six 1903 ..cecescsecssveonees nr Ne INCREASE ...0000.000005 1,681 OLICE POLITICS STRIKES IN, Seventy-nine detective sergeants whom Police their salaries do not want to be roundsmen.,, 1,400 patrolmen who have undergone ex-| lations for promotion grumble because they see places to which they had aspired about to be filled fe late Commissioner Murphy’s left-overs, is to be admitted for the disaffected But the trouble is of large public interest liely’ because it is symptomatic of what alls the Department in general, cal Politics! It does not require an expert to the case. And when such a trouble comes in iany department door discipline flies out at all doors. he detective sergeants left by Murphy were . The three platoons are political—and inci- fally reduce by a third the number of men avail- for sireet duty at any hour. Commissioner 00 himself began his administration by appoint. p.district leaders as his deputies. And McAvoy is Hin office. plitics in the Police Department, after such fashlon fashion, means restlessness and disaffection, It other things than duty to think about and aplenty for men to talk about on comers when ould be on patrol. ~ fics in the department—even while Ht is true the force needs more men—goes far to explain f with 449 homicides, robberies, burglaries and assaults between Aug. 4 and Sept. 12, just 173 prisoners were held for trial, McAdoo Is creditably active st the in turning over department deadwood and ng sinecures for active men. A shake-up up” is expected this week. But no shake-up na oner McAdoo is trying to put in the way| Ny LOR & DOVONING & WUE : > 46 ‘ | the Fett WIVES OF OLDEN TIME AND WIVES OF TO-DAY? By : Nixola Greeley-Smith. < % | ay wife announced she was, gelag if | o 5 ea: . ut to a late dinner. yin = AH! WAAT i — KIND OF RUSSIAN at she did not wre Win THE é TTUPOR ry . But she all out of the hall few LAST RACE, \ SIGARET ana took the freight elevator. Bhe cer- aa Bony ? DINNER ? | tainly was @ woman of spirit.” O a philo- on com- menting yes- terday on his ex-wife's im- | | he undoubtedly thought @ great deal more of her for triumphing over his mandate by means of the freight eleva- tor than if she had shown a meek dis- postion to obey it. Far be it from me to discuss the ethics of wifely obedience and receive protests from indignant husbands whose better halves had been thereby incited to rebellion, OE FOSCOGOSODAES SOD But when contingencies euch as that Involving the freight elevator arise the family circle it is ceftainly up t the wife to take the elevator or a back wu. Not, of course, that she may not be entirely wrong in wishing to take the elevator in the first place, But when once @ man endeavors to oppose brute force to a woman's wishes, It le time to show him that feminine finesse can triumph over it every time, Tt {9 @ pretty poor-spirited woman that can be made to do anything she does not want to or be forcibly re- strained from doing anything she wants to do. She may be argued with, cajoled and petted into changing her mind, but she cannot be coerced. There are women, to be sure, who really like to be bullied, and once a man finds it out, they are liable to have thelr taste for it fully satisfied, Bur these form only @ negligible percent- ame of American wives. ‘Then, too, there are others who mis- take “nerves” and « tendency to hys- teria for @ high spirit, of which their entire families are made victims. She te of the genus shrew, who makes even the mildest-mannered man feel that the only way to manage her ie with « club, There's a Big Difference. In days of old when knights were bold and gave few thoughts to seal-sacques, The wives were not a moony lot, but sauntered ‘round in meal-sacks, Mary Jane’s Papa Tries a Few Gymnastics. ) s a His Perlormance on a Horizontal Bar Not So Wonderful as It Might Be on Another Sort of Bar, By Martin Green. The Man Who Isn't Daffy | |on Some Subject das a Pickled Brain 66 SEE,” sald the Clyar Store Man, “that a phy | sician out in Chicago says that all men will be crazy in 790 years.’' “That's a long stiretch to leave for a univers | se] bughouse for a Chicago man,” replied The Man Higher Up. “The chances are that he hasn't beea living in Chicago very long or he would have declared for a unanimous population of mental misfits to ma terfalize-about next Christmas. “However, the prophecy of the Chicago doctor ts net extremely alarming. The most of us are bugs now, The difference between a batty person in an esylum and one at large is that the inhabitants of the bug bow- dotr get hallucinations and can’t drop them. So long ae a man don’t pick up & hellucinatipn that annoys others he is as safe from an ineane bosrding-house as he is from @ dinner at the St. Regis with a pocketful of pea» nies, “The man who {s not dippy to some extent in some direction can be found sitting around in a comfortable place waiting for somebody to come along and offer to buy. Every ambitious man or woman is@ bug. The dig financiers are bugs on money, and when they begin to see that the gume is getting etrong enough to be & hallucination they become bugs on horses or art oF yachting. The mechanic who succeeds {s a bug on his work, the artist who paints masterpieces {s as crazy as @ jackrabbit in the eyes of a hod carrier, It all depends on the point of view. If a man can’t get up enough ~/ terest In his work or his family or his amusements to ' ~ go a little daffy over them it is a sign that his brain ig pickled.” “I never had 9 crazy impulse in my life,” asserted the Cigar Store Man. “You to an allenist,” advised The Man Higher Up. “The next you know you will be hunting up dark com ners and counting your fingers.” ‘ The Cross-Eyed Man * _~And the Man with Whiskers, They Prove that the Days Aren't Growing Shorter, but Still Nam- ber 24 Hours Each. HE Cross-Eyed Man and the Man with the Whiskers ; boarded the Ninth avenue “L” and selsed upon thei?’ usual seats on opposite aides of the aisle, “How much shorter the days are getting!” mused the Man with the Whiskers, “it"’ “They aren't really getting shorter,” gently corrected the Cross-Eyed Man, “they only seem so, They are still twene ty-four hours long, But’— the enduringly effective which fails to shake out]! >* beaien By tet, Rawanda, bt revs ATEN PAE | WuST LET YOURSELF own wife the benefit of hie novel theory WD I'L.’ SHow You! DOWN EASY= LIKE dlcemen with things to talk over on the comers be respected by the “gangs.” What do you Mayor? le Lands and City Growth.—The sale of public lands, last year reached the enormous total of 22,660,928 fell during the year ending on June © last to acres, a decrerse in many ways remarkable, The feature of this land boom ts that it has oo at the time of the high-water-mark record of the Of population to the cities, Of the 99,000,000 Amerl- 94,000,000 are now city dwellers, Is the percentage to increase, or do the large land eales, which last wf Teached the maximum of # twenty-year increase, ® reaction to farm life? “BROOKLYN'S KILLING TROLLEYS. 4 was when massacre by trolley in Brooklyn apt the daily press supplied with news features and are Ocoupation for mortuary ecorekeepers, era of comparative tranquillity, the count of the ‘was lost. It has been started anew by one who ve that since July 1 trolley cara in the borough fer the bridge have killed eighteen people, During the me period more than a hundred persons have besn \ joer “9 Bh and conductors, it fs charged, have come mishaps to pedestrians and others as “all day’s work.” They drag the trolley’s victims to de and go their way, leaving ths rest to inspectors ambulance surgeons, Public indignation has been aroused. It would seem "90 Something more immediate and strenuous in ts * should presently be astir. For there are matters | thd massscre by trolley is one of them—-in which a serge should positively decline to heve history itwelt. art meets practical politice, it's a long time be- new East River bridges. } AGIRL AS SHE 18 WANTED. In Sioux City etoployere heve advertised for a @tenographer— NWho has red hair, which they regard as @ sign of and efficiency; ; has not the perfui 5 with the sizirstie habit: oe ees the bet aa ‘Wears short skirts, which she need not hold up with instead of having both hands free for business, Sioux City rules are interesting, but, barring Im clause, of necessarily limited scope. An : to apply them in New York would result in a fm girl typewritists and a distinct loss of attra:- > in the “rush-hour” parades, do not find in the lows incident the sign either fh boom for the graceful walking skiri, or 3% a Of lite for « current fashion in hair. | the advertirers seem to have attempted is the! ‘@t & Mino in favor of the girl who means to ‘with the business,” as against the one who! for pin money, pending matrimony. It is! Fohibition votes that the red-headed one) BONER to catch the good job will also spoil the! Wheretore, happiness to the lucky man pe tm time te the superior of almost te te rl ‘ ¥:! z § i & To Do THE i s 5 Indeed whe would measure up standard. But he was apparently very much in- terested and pleased with the idea, and evidently half regretful that he could Ret prove its efficacy in his own home ‘Though the women of epirit is often eet Gown by men as “the nervous, hye- torical kind,” they have far more re- spect for her than for the stolid mass of semi-animate matter whose mind and body are of the same jellyfish quality that they might perhapo quality as “normal.” Bhe is the woman who gets her own way, the most delightful thing in the world to get, at the least expense to hersclt and the most to those who op- pose her, Up to the time her husband says she must not do anything, and proceeds forcibly to restrain her, there is always @ chance to yield gracefully, and she should profit by it as often as possible, But after that, whatever the occasion or the argument, she will al- ways do the best for herself and for her husband's opinion of her if she will apply this latest maxim for wives— “When: in doubt, take the freight ele- vator,” ——————. HIS LOVES. “The woman | love with my beast,” he sald, “Ie & cosy-cornery girl; A sofa-pillowy, soft and willowy, | Seoother of ls that are big and], billowy, Bympathetic, nonascetic, Dear little love of @ girl.” “The woman I love with my brain,” 14, brilliant-stimulant girl; tight, A comrade true and a sweet- heart too, And « revtr-wearying girl." “The woman I love with my seul,” he sald, “Is a Saint Cecelia girl; Tre meanings fine of a love divine In her movements stew, Ia her lances shine, Fairest of all she holds ma in I, Bhe's a simply adorable girl,” “Then fare you well and torover, she said, Her scarlet lip a-curl; “To think that I—no o0d-by!" “Ah, Love," he eald, “tle for you 1 sigh. All three you are, my sweet, my star. too @O000 AS HER WORD. PROOF ENOUGH, Esmeraida—She weed to say that If| Vietim—You sold me that as a ‘burg. whe ever married a man it would be/| lar-proof” safe. a because she wanted to make him miser- able, yet she married that young Fris-| Victim—Woll, thie morning I found it woman speaks without reflect- PORT ARTHUR ASHES, “Henry,” exclaimed Mrs. Naggum, “those ashes from your cigar are going to fall!” "My dear,” observed Henry, “these matter, THE COME-BACK. “The difference between a woman and "sald the funny fellow, “is that as refliects without speaking, “But if they keep on seeming shorter at this rate maybe, they'll really get shorter after a while, Then we may have: days only twenty hours long or’— ! “The workingman already has an eight-hour day,” dee, lightedly gasped the Cross-Eyed Man. “That gives hip twenty-one days in every week. By the time a yeas eo gaat he has lived three years and” — “No wonder he grows old so fast under modern cond tions!’ sighed the Man with the Whiskers, “I explained, this to my employees and offered to grant them the boon o¢| perpetual youth by giving them a twenty-four-hour working day. But they weren't clever enough to see their own bess! > | interests, so they all left me. I am no longer an employes, * now. I can’t very well be an employer, you see, when § have no one to employ.” “Still,” encouraged the Cross-Eyed Man, “you might sti? eall yourself an employer if you wanted to, even if you had No employees. There's no law against it.” “No law at all!" agreed the Man with the Whiskers, “But it might sound foolish !f people heard me go down Broadway shouting, ‘I'm an employer!’ if I had s0 ome Ployees with me to prove it, Don't you think it might sound mildly ridiculous?” “Not nearly so mildly ridiculous as if it was twice a@ ridiculously mild,” dissented the Cross-Eyed Man, “though"— “But it would sound a whole lot ridiculously milder than if it was only half as mildly ridiculous!’ triumphantly shricked the Man with the Whiskers, “And speaking of machinery, the winter months will soon be here," “Some of them will,” agreed the Man with the Whiskers, “but others will wait ull later, Of course, they might all come the same time {f they wanted to, I suppose, But they, Wouldn't be likely to." ‘Most unlikely,” emphatically declared the Cross-Byed Man. “It would look foolish to see December and Marek and November all here together, but"— “WHAT would look foollsh—to see Mf those months here together?” querulously asked the Men with the Whiskers, “would ?"—— “Whatever it Is," snorted the Choleric Old Gentleman in the corner, “It wouldn't look half as foolish as you two paretics, and you both look twice as foolish as”"— [ “BARCLAY STREET!" bawled the guard. “I defy you to prove it," sneered the Cross-Eyed as he and his friend vacated the car after a vain effort ta All it. A. P, TEHHUNE ry The Smallest General. ‘ Gen, Eateban Hutstas, Commander-in-Chiet of the army | of Panama, |s believed to be the youngest and smallest gene | eral in the world, as his country is the youngest, if not the smallest, of republics. He ts about twenty-nine years ol@ and has been a soldier since he was eight or nine. His features are of the swarthy Indian type and he is proud of the fact that he has risen from the lowest ranks, In one of the revolutions of a few years ago, when he was fighting on __ the side of the Government, his right arm was hit by » shell. 1t is sald that when he found his arm was nearly oa? ered he hacked off the reat with his own knife, had the) short stub bound and resumed his work in the field. Now, for Mis services to Panama during the critical period of its. birth, ho has been granted $60,000 to pay the expense of @ | trip to study the military organisations of the leading natione, t Safe Either Way. A young graduate in law who had had some experience ta ; ‘ New York City wrote to a prominent practitioner in Ar { kansas to Inquire what chance there was in that section for | | such a one as he described himself to be. He sald: “I am a Republican in politics and an honest young lawyer.” The! reply that*came seemed encoaraging In its interest: “If you \ are a Republican the game laws here will protect you, and if you are an honest lawyer you will have ae competition.” Where the Peanut Started. The native home of the peanut is supnosed to be Brasil, From there {t spread to Spain, Africa, China, Japan and Seiten, Seley She tae Herne ae Sr & cracked open and rifled of all its oon- = he " tents. “and tl ifference between you and Grendoten Fee, It seme to dave boon wes tated wantt| 5 wlan.” id ike snap. that ~ are Port Arthur ashes; they'll hang on a long time yet, no matter what the casual observer predicts."—Cleveland inate My one, my only girl.” —Ladiea’ | | hae | India. It j# called pindar in India and goober in Africa, It was recognised and cultivated as a valuable agricultural product In those distant countries long before it was come merelally grown at home,