The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1904, Page 16

Che World Published by the Press Publishing Company, No, & to @ Park Row, New York, Entesd at the Post-Office at New York as Second-(iass Mall Matter, ni te 16,816 | a sea a te Gat rine months 1903 s.se1.... 8 285% A WHOLESOME REACTION. M clergy of Trinity Church have announced that by they will not henceforth officiate in the remarriage ot e ‘any divorced person, no matter whether that person {s the guilty or the innocent party in the divorce, This may seem an extreme position to take. It de- ales remarriage as {nexorably to the sinned against as to 5 sinning, It not only justly refuses to condone the } of the offender, but it sweepingly visits the conse: | quences of that sin upon its victim. a; git not only prohibits marriage to those who by their os very guilt have shown themselves independent of the e. nged of marriage, but it also withholds matrimony from & ‘those whose virtue may render {t indispensable to their happiness. q It holds that the sanctity of matrimony may be dis 4 pated by divorce, but that the sanctity of divorce f May not be violated by remarriage. | 4 zy But although this position may be extreme, it is only | the natural reaction from the revolting depths to which divorce has been dragged. git ig a protest against the perverted Quixotism of fusbands who permit thelr offending wives to secure a. trom them, and thus make it !mpoasible to w which in reality is the innocent and which the guilty party. It is a protest against the shocking recklessness with h divorce is indulged in by couples oo little sure of thelr own minds that they subsequently remarry one a ¢ . | adorned a fountain In River View Park, It is a protest against the shocking recklessness with | Jersey City. y of sombre solemnity, as was shown by a phy- sician who a few days ago courteously accompanied his 1 ‘wife to South Dakota to ald her in securing her divorce, ha The action of Trinity is undoubtedly a swing of the| #Ut, unfortunately, we must all reoog- nize the sad fact that it hasn't done any ‘7 Pendulum to the limi: of the right direction and perhaps a aYiittle beyond. But a violent evi! needs a violent re- 5 to bring about an ulti a A SAD FAREWELL. sings and arrows of this outrageous happy medium, savage races to beat and even smash the idole that refuse to respond to thelr | petitions, But it is not known that the a THE » EVENING »« WORLD'S # HOME .»# MAGAZINE w . OSH O4d o4 4 > ? > ° > ° % +4 4 é 4 $ + $ ” cs bsg spenes bapeeaenDee Ta pTe Love and F: the Cupid =; Smasher. : ——— By Nixola Greeley-S mith. O whom | T It May coycern I have no use .for the Ged of Love, for | have been —erossed Dan Cupid did me an tojury Revenge! 06 | venge! _ The police are looking for a broken-hearted individual, who, | after writing; ‘thie note, mashed a fg- ure of Cupid Smith, riding on @ stork that Nixola Greeley-: No one who has suffered from the | ittle person can fall to sympathise with this action of the impulsive Jersey man, PSFFLSTDH-HE-HOD 006003066 It le the fashion among a number of s general esmash-up ever accomplished & ‘ The Canfield case of world-wide fame has anything, To be sure, in the days when WS edurse Fan ts belief in witcheraft was general \t was | ; the fashion to undertake the vicarious | and come to its momentous end. os ‘This case burst forth upon the scene with a spec-| slaughter of one's enemies by making 4 © tralar raid on Dec. 1, 1902, It seemed born with @ Iime-| ¥*Xen Images of them and sticking pins ¥ Hight in its mouth. A detective with false whiskers and in some vital portion of thelr anatomy, But statistics do not prove that any) @ testimony was ita godfather, Mr. Jerome, with #| more enemies died by this process than 4 of assistant district-attorneys, detectives and po-| "OUld have died by the more usual mc: @ a cidents of nature. ® Meomen bristling with axes, ladders and broken win-| Aya retiet to One's outraged feelings, | 5 _ gws, lent effect to its baptism, therefore, invective and even more 4 Tt became Mr. Jerome's absorbing pet, excluding trom pci hag manifestations against] i a wpld or his counterfeit presentment) 2 fs Bf devotion less favored foundiings, like the Ship- aay ts nad. bo Coe el f for contempt of court. Yesterday Richard Canfield pleaded guilty and was| extraordinary cross between an anticlimax and a mouse '® THE LIGHTING EXTORTION. |soned variety, {. gThe extent to which New York is vobbed by the light- fing monopoly is graphically displayed in the compara- tiWe table of prices paid for electric street lights in this and sixty-eight other American cities. ‘Why is the metropolis required to pay $146 for the Game candie-power which costs Evansville only $60, Peoria $65 and Washington and Cincinnati but $72? A a @aprehensive answer must include particulars of legis- ‘ ive lobbying and Aldermanic persuasion, of collusion connivance extending from years long past down to’ ‘the Oakley contract of to-day. It 1s a suggestive story of the gradual but sure tightening of » monopoly’s coils about the city through the subservient action of the Official representatives sworn to protect that city from tile encroachments by which it has suffered. This atti- tritle of the city’s servants Is characteristically expressed Dy Alderman McCall: “If a fake body of reformers want to investigate, let them investigate!” plt is a challenge which the Merchants’ Association, to Whom the Alderman refers, should accept. The public ‘would be glad to know more in detall about the favors ‘ed by the monopoly through which {t is permitted tq,charge double the rates of companies elsewhere, and ‘by Which it Is enadled to pay large dividends of extor- Op its enormously inflated capital stock. ® A GRADE-CROSSING FIGHT, Pal fight of more than local interest is in progress iim Hudson County, N. J.—a fight to protect the Hudson Boulevard from spoliation by a rail- Across this splendid bighway the New Jersey wishes to extend a spur of track at grade, It Permission of the Bayonne Counsell, on which Garrison hax ruled affirmatively, From his the County Freeholders have now appealed to State court for final judgment on the ques-| the county or the town has authority over moe Mbvér che law cay be, the ethies of the case is Aathoride « new gi osatng on a popular to Ea fined $1,000, ‘The mountains had indeed brough forth an| ‘ver, and that those of us who live t Dellding Trust case. To keap it alive a Vanderbilt was| fought with deadiler Weapons than) met an exile from the State and a Lewisohn was ar-| ‘hese. With his shafts, as with the ; instruments of more ordinary wartare,| thelr effect! jepends Ot Ufted roulette from modest obscurity to general! on where iy Ges. ‘tagheranl One that lodgta| = af Such mystic phrases as “double zeros,”| quarely in the human heart is gener-| @ aie ” “second columns” and “third dozens” be-| *!!Y mortal. It can sedom ba dls-| > ; a evte, See Nebies lodaed during the victim's life, and, even| % ’ ‘househo! 5 under circumstances most favorable to. pe gallant District-Attorney with warrants for Van-| bealing leave a permanent and painful) ? Géebilts and arrests for Lewisohns piled Pelion on Oxsa, "80 great, however. is the difter- | and the stacked-up mountains volcanically labored, ence In the efteot produced by his ar sow, that it seems probable that he has more than one kind of dart in his amplo through unutterably weary years with 4 rankling wound in our hearts m have boen touched by one of the pol For some of Love's arrows are pol- foned, undoudtedly, and though ther use Is contrary to all the rules of olv. ‘lined wartare, he persists in the em: ploying of them in his ruthless slaugh ter, If, however, we are fortunat enough to recover trom one of these deadly wounds, we may generally oon- sratulate ourselves on being itomune from further injury. The main trouble is that when we onee feel the wound we take certain melancholy pleasure tn it, and often persist tn tearing it open every time it begins to manifest signi of healing, Persons in love are very generally apt to sacrifice all pride and all resentment on Cupid's altar, and it| fs only to an ocoasional rebel that it occurs to do other than kiss the hand which smites him. Of such was the Jersey City statue smasher who called aloud for revenge for iis lncerated at fections, If he bad been able to get hold of the elusive little Love God and | given him a Diff or two in the eye, some permanent good might have been a: complished for mankind, But, ala Cupid himself is too elusive and the, smashing of statue, though balm to the Individual, is of scant use to the 4 race, ‘ ——— oe IN THe WOODS, The autumn leaves are getting bright With hues of brown and red, The forest ts a wondrous blaze Of color overhead, And through the woods Myrtilla walka, With Colin at her alde, And eagerly collects the leaves By nature's colors dyed, At last she finds a lovely one, Unique among the res And in her girlish way she cries: But how? She looks at Colla, with A look that can be felt; ‘Then with a smile she the leaf belt, $4444-944906990604968 iJust to See What 690460 * + + The Simple Life. + + * (By T. E, Powers.) & MILK, TEA SINKERS COFFEE CAPTAIN OF THE CHARCOAL . CRACKERS MONDAY PIE & THURSDAY PUB ETAL ED IDEA DDO EDDIE EES DDIGADEDOEODDDDODO DDH LEDE DOD GOOHDLDEOOE AD 1649046646004 t Would Do SESSIEMEBE And Now He Knows} i GRIDDLE CAKES & COCOA eee OW THE FRITZ, SATURDAY By MARTIN GREEN. | How to Keep thé Bankroll \from Withering at Christmas | SUPPOSE,” remarked the Cigar Store Man, 66 “that you are saving up for Christmas.” “Not on your life,” replied The Man Higher Up. ‘Never save up for Christmas, The les# you have the less you can give and the less you give the fewer enemies you make, Since Christmas ~ has become a holiday of graft the proper thing to do ie make only gifts that are prompted by real rogard, alfoc+ tion or gratitude and cut the rest out, “In that way you put a lot of pikers Into the friend- , ship discard and fatten your own bankroll, I knew & man last Christmas who gave presents to everybody he had a drinking acquaintance with, and all he got in re+ ply so to speak was 4 season ticket at a mineral water store and an order for an electric fan, This year he ts blowing his cush as fast as he gets {t, and the only Christmas present he is framing up Is an automobile ride for himself and a show girl who has just started back from Crawfordsville, Ind., on her trunks, “They call this the glad Christmas season and then fill the magazines with stories of sorrow and suffering and hinky dialect that js enough to drive @ man to, residence In sections where they don't belleve in Christ+ !mas, It might be a glad season all right it everybody > | got presents and nobody had to give any, but the stores | | keepers wouldr't stand for anything like that, They overload the newspapets with advertisements that give women palpitation of the pocketbook and make men wonder why St, Nicholas didn't confine himself to strictly orthodox pursults—Like 8% Patrick, for in stance.” “I gee,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that some preache ers are {n favor of telling little children that there is no 4 Santa Claus.’ “Well,” answered The Man Hhgler Up, “the preache « ers are cutting out a lot of lines that used to be consid ered necessary to their play, and, besides, a lot of them have large families.” ose S > F SESOS3OOOSOSSSO DOSOOO9SOS 8-953? 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