The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1905, Page 10

ished by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 63 Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Oftice at New York as Seoond-Cldss Mal! Matter. yNO, 18,888, A Peril in the Homes. arrest and conviction of the bandit who held up and robbed Mr. Woerz in his own home on Jan. 9 is made with a triple purpose: It seeks the apprehension of a dangerous criminal, It calls attention in a special manner to the inefficiency of the Police "Three other “inside hold-ups,” similar in character to this, have been reported and’ verified, and apparently a fourth occurred on Thursday night ‘at Third avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street. In every case he robber enforced his demand with a revolver and escaped. Though the “Pest men of the detective bureau have been detailed on these cases no has been made—no promising clue has been found, This failure the derision in which the police administration is held by the “Street robberies and hold-ups have been common, The burglar is Ways with us, But now for the first time homes are boldly invaded, their privacy no outcry can ordinarily be heard—no interference is d, It is thus a peculiarly dangerous and terrorizing form of crime, ome is safe while this robber is at large. : e Evening World therefore invokes the ald of Publicity in catch: bandit, and stimulates the search with the offer of reward, When ce have failed The World has often succeeded heretofore. It ap- ‘to the public now to help it hunt down a public enemy, Panny Seen A Perpetual Sabbath. imable people who belleve that 4 man ‘he virtuously thirsty for six days in the week, but only viciously so seventh day; that to quench his thitst on six days is his natural ilege, while to quench it on the sevénth is his depraved perverseness, eve that the Sabbath should exert on the human system an ex- effect, akin to the Keeley cure, ‘they are right we should all become total abstainers at once, for ‘not a minute in the whole week in which we could gulp down a thout having done it on the holy day of some race or creed, For greeks observe Monday, the Persians Tuesday, the Assyrians Wednes- There are a great many est Hans Sunday. - ther. the amount of sinful Sunday thirst that is quenched in tha ‘week {s grievous to contemplate, or perhaps the estimable may all be wrong, and neither a thirst nor its quenching is more ‘on one day than on another. Suffering Snow Shovellers. estimate that 2,000 of the city’s snow shovellet$ were frost. in the Blizzard 1s not creditable either to the kindliness or the ight of the city. ‘of these men were from Southern Italy and had no concep- i¢ danger they ran. Many were not provided with proper pro- the ears or the hands. i ‘ provide warm gloves or mittens for ‘men who sadly needed ‘for which they were so {ll equipped, to furnish with hot coffee dwiches the poor wretches who literally dropped in their tracks et and cold while waiting in line for work, would not have cost “Will this be oone next time? i po The Smoker in the Subway. ih the midst of the close-pressed throng struggling up the narrow “from, the Subway somebody stops to scratch a match, throw- confused mass into greater confusion, Down on.the station plat- linderground, men puff away ‘on questionable cigars and on cigar- néerning which there can be no question, 4 “smokers have’ no'time to be decent, Lifé ts short and the lights of the weed are fleeting, Therefore, light sp and puff up, and ce take him who is particular as to the air he breathes! Ie i nature of the beast” to grab every indulgence and ‘yield no consid- n in return, What can he think of himself who thinks nothing of 3? And what shall the public think of'a railway management that no pains to enforce its own rules? “Supervising Inspector-General of Steam Vessels Dumont testified Slocum case yesterday that it was not the practice of the local in- to inspect vessels; That was the work of the assistant inspec- ~ Another witness swore that the assistants “counted the life-pre- but never examined them.” The public will watch with much ‘to see if inspection that did not inspeot is to receive any punish- for the sacrifice of a thousand lives, ES Ce aa ‘The riots and strikes In Russia may blow over, as the upholders of gcracy say, and again they may blow over autocracy, “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush—but it’s apt to pect fice as hard, he People’s Corner. tters from. Evening World Readers Gurean of Vital Statisites, BAltor of The Evening Wor can I find out about my elster's th? Bho died in this city a few ago. The person who had her and are in a better position than the teachers to judge of results, Nowa- days too little attention is given to the views of parents, They are told that the teachers or the trustees are the erin as amrees YD, aud aun an on the] #0 GPS & duplicate o Aon part of parents are some kind of ‘reas CARPE DIEM. An Exploded Bridge Recor? To the Editor of The Evening World: I wish to flatly contradict the state- ment of one of your correspondents, “A. D, T.,"" who claims to have walked across the Wilthimsburg Bridge in HF. 0. A. Twonty-stxth street and Madison Avenue, Mo the Waltor of The Evening World: *T whould like to obtain a badge or other means of authority to interfere ‘when I see a man ill-using a horse as I omvtimes seo when { am walking long the streets and If I can get the|5 minutes und 38 seconds, As the bridge! qctiye existence in t Britain, the tions 1 will do all I can to pro-|!n question 1s 7,275 feet in length (1. €./ oldest having been established In 188% t our poor dumb animals, Where, 1!-3 miles), and the world’s record for) The nurnber of cremations which have Mall T apiy? RL, | one mile, walking, 1s 6.272-5, how can| taken place there since the establish-|! "A, D, 'T."" have walked 11-3 miles in the time he claims? The distance be- tween the two towers 1s about 1,60 feet, and it is doubtful if "A, D. 'T." ean walk that distance In the time he claims to have walked the bridge, The > letters A, D, 'T,” stand for “American District Eelegrep, Possibly he ts a messenger, ey have "fying feet.” BLM A Sehool Grievance. Wo the Waltor of ‘The Evening World: Many of the parents of public schuol olers are former teach #8 KOod an education The Evening World's offer of $1,000 for} information that will lead to the detection, | ‘When the smoker befouls the air in the Subway he reveals it as}® Tt would un 1 102 elsewhere in Westen cities. ‘The manager who has ouste’ Irving his place owns twenty-one low- rice amusement halls and “has never }@ failure" In his small-town theatres jhis Highest change Is a shilling (2% cents) and his lowert twonenoe( four cents), A eixpence (12 cents) procures @ good seit at any o° his cltv play- houses, ‘This Progtor of low prices | goes on the correct theory that the pud- j lic Is willing to diepense with scenery If it can have music and acting. eee 1 t A medical journal reminds eaters of ght lunches that ‘the organs of the body were made to work and not to loaf,” There has been an {mpression that the averago New York stomach put in something more than an elght- hour working day, + ee One of the things the city was going to do right away a year ago was to Install a system of salt water fire mains, They don’t seem to have helped much to put out the stubborn South street fire, What has become of that other good intention of last year of having special "L.'' policemen at every station? eee Daisy—I have made up my mind to enter society, Hardhead—What has your mind got to do with t?—Smart Set, eee A mute, Inglorious epicure in Wa: verly, O., squandered bis patrimony on things to eat and has been sent to the fsylum, A Kindler fate ‘would have located .him in New York and made him the hero of $17,000 dinners, eee The Subway now carries almost as many lines on the side as q hustling travelling man, e . ‘The food speolt who lives on three milk punches a day must have pos- sessed a pull if the got the ingredients .on the morning after the blizzard, oe The man who was mistaken for Mr, Vanderbilt in Pittsburg seems not to have been allve to opportunities which @ Mrs, Chadwick would have embraced ‘on the spot. e . A Macaulay of the morning press talke about ‘the disabilities of trans. fluvian euburbanites."" Reads lite re-| print from the Aota Diurna of ancient Rome, . Hippocampus—What are those two crabs fighting about? Btarfleh—One of them called the other a lobster.—tJhicago Tribune. eee ‘There are 2,011 clubs in Great Britain| and Iretamd, of which nearly halt are golf clits, In London there are 250 @o- clal clubs or athletic clubs with club- houses, and of these twenty-six are ex- olusively for ladies, while another half} dozen admit ladles as members, The most expensive club in London is the Naval and Military, in Piccadilly, where the entrance fee Is forty-two guin- @as ($210) and the subscription ten guin- eas ($50), Three New York clubs, the Knickerbocker, Metropolitan and Union League, exact an entrance fee of $900, Seven have annual dues of $100 or over, eee : “Beared crackamen away, Policeman! came along just in time,’ Happened in Cleveland, however. « The feature of the sartorial display of the Custom Cutters’ Association in Phil- delphia was the vests, ‘‘co jarred, oheckered, striped and dotted, in wild confusion"—veritable Woodruffs of walstscoats, “Do the Smiths heep a girl?” “No, They Mre a good many, but they don't keep them,"—Phila- delphia Bulletin, oe “Women are not fond of tobaccu smoke, therefore they banish men to rooms and emoking compart- ments,” says & writer in th ntnight- ly Rewew, "But it never seems to oc- cur to them to ask whether men object to the patchouli and the other so-called perfumes which 60 many of them ai- feot.” ‘The saunterer through New York auo- tion rooms rubs his eyes nowadays to convince himseif that ls not at Bt, he doing the World's Fair foreign ex. eee “In spite of al! rclontific theorles to the contrary,” says R. F, Foster in his newly published ‘Practical Poker,” “there is such a thing as luck at oards, ‘That {t all equalizes itself in time may be true; but as le the case of tossing a coin, the length of time is uncertain, and life may be aver before the tide turns, The greate. number of times you toss @ coin the greater the prob- ability that there will be long runs of heads or tails to record, If you tossed a thousand times !t would not be re- markable {f it came heads ten times successively; on the contrary, It would be much more remarkable If {t did not," oe 8 “I'm thinking of doing a little speculating,” sald the lamb, “What's the best thing to put your money inf” “A safe deopsit vault,” replied the old bird, —Ballimore American, eee The latest member of the European aristocracy to "go Into trade” Is a who has become a An opening at the Chicago stockyards awaits the German baron who shot five boars In ten seconds. . There are nine cre orlum# now in ment of the practice is 4,407, . Miss Florrie Carr, of South Bris- oo bane, Australia, swam 100 rds againat competitors in 1 minute seconds. This {# believed to conat!iy the world's record for @ woman, Mary J from the Lyceum and put elephonts in} ¢ SOESE< CESS MARRIED woman of Kansas City, iad it an’ actually stayed away ‘ll tho 100 gave out and he discovered sim- iltaneously that he loved her #0 much "tho ungracdous lady summoned him to a police court instead of killing the fetted calf, and during the testimony it came owt that they had @ quarrel every day for the fourteen years of their married Ife, exactly 5,110 quarrels in all, Such was the husband's statement in the police court, which of course will not prevent him, {f they are reconciled, from testifying at thelr ellver or gol- den wedding that they have never had a cross word in thelr Iives. It 1s the habit of reformers to decry the ease with which the men and women of to-day rush to the divorce courts, But whiie so herole an in- stance of a determination to stick to- gether In the face of obvious incom- patibility can be found, they may still ‘hope, No be sure, 6,000 quarrels In fourteen years does not exhaust the possibilities of matrimony. It {s possible to quarrel jn the moming before the husband goes downtown, again at dinner, and still again when he comes in from the club, That would give an average of three every week day and a practically un- limited number on Sunday. So that a really enterprising couple might at- tain @ grand total of 20,000 in fourteen years, Fxperienced combatants may Little Willie’s | Guide to New York. I—Rector’s, ECTRRS {8 the nalm of a platce R whare food |s soald in smal lots for hi prises and peeple that can pay for It dont need so verry mutch food annyway for thay can by It as offen as thay Ike and thats the difer- ens betwean food and feed for folks feed when thaire hungry and partalk of food when thay want to unupholster thair poketboox, At Recters folks eat alla cart and from what | saw thalr alla cart Isn't at all the salm sort of vehickel as the water cart, Peeple go to recters after thay have gone to the theeter becaws theeter tlk- kets cant cost but 2 dolers eatch and it ns A shalm to go strate home with so mutch munny so thay stop at reeterg and all that munnled fealing is quikly disipalted, When Poppa talks Mamma to the theeter thay stop at a plaice calld Childs on the way home becaws bt t's bad and thay must salve, But ks the stennograffer to the theeter jx her mind up for arjtus work xt day at the offis he has to Reoters afterwerds to talk os heeaws Childs §s sutch a publick plaice somebody mits overhere, Poppa tould Unekle Charly this and i yerd him and Unekle Charly latt and seq ana was a sadd doe, The dog Is many veust frend and js a sagayshus reptl, 4 P, TERHUNE, A New Quarrel Record. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. + |nvoldable, O14 SOOO: ‘now I CAN TALK IN PEACE op at the ‘Phone. ¢Then She and Hickums Give Him More Trouble than Ever ‘‘Central’’ Did. $ cons'der this estimate too modest, but 20,000 is as high as @ mere outsider would dare to put it. It is a mistake, however, to think that any one of the 6,000 disagreements credited to the Kansas couple was un- An occasional man may quarre) because he can't help it, but the average woman {s looking for trouble. Sho likes It, Generally she believes the foolish platitudes about an occasional querrel adding to the sweetness of love. It doesn't, The bonds of human affec- thop are elastic enough, to be sure, but like everything else of that nature, thev lose a little elasticity every time they |. are called upon to demonsirate it, Some neople find a certain exhilaration in quarreiling, but one a day secms more than enough to satisfy the most belligeret:t inatinote, Quarrels must surely lose their zest !f indulged in too often, Wise people never quarrel, however, just as they never worry. They let the “other fellow” do it. But then, in that sense, #0 few of us are Wiss. Of course, when the number of a woman's matri- montal squabbles gets her Into the theu- sand class st is natural for her to be- come ambitious and seek to out-dis- tance her competitors in the field. But half the energy she expends in this Mrection might, if otherwise di- verted, keap her out of It altogether, and’ that surely Js a more laudable as- piration, Gamboling with a large steak, Heavy Ammunition, Professor—What a fool I was to aub- seribe for that last set of hatvy ency- clopedias, A Good Business. Auntie—I hope you've made up your mind to quit your Idle habits and go Into some good business! Young Hopeful—Yes'm, I've decided to go into the Sunday-schoo! supply business, Drinks of Different Nations. Figures complled by the Department Its vest, ‘Dhe United Kingdom requires of Commerce and Labor show thi 42 gallons to drown Jts thirst, while ermany, which shows the largest ab- France drinks. the most) wine, per erin tereg in. the, matter of et capita, and Belgium the most beer, | catty consumption, takes third place, The United States, as a consumer of) with 90.77 gallons; the United States spirits, beer and wine, falls considsr- | follows h 18,04 gallons, ably behind most countries, The cor mption of wine may be sald In getting away with the most con-|to be concentrated jn two cou nirles, centratéd beverage spirits, France| chiefly France and Italy. The figures stands at the head of the list, drinking |of per capita eonsumpton In these 2.51 gallons par inhabitant, countries—$4.78 gallons In France and Sweden shows a per capita consump: | 31.85 gallons In Italy—are almost jdentl- tlon of 2.18 gallons; Germany; 2.11 gul-}cal with those shown for beer by the lona; Belgium, 142 gallons; the United] United Ist m and Germany, Kingdom, 1.38 gallons; United States, 1.83 gallons; Russia, 1.29 gallons, and CRUEL, Italy, .34 gailon. Mrs, Nexdore-I tell you, a plano’s a In the matter of bear consumption |nice thing to pave My daughter finds little Belgium is a wonder, putting an-|it #0 easy to ime on hers— nually 66.50 gallons per caplia under jE Lepper tes Te RUE Way (OrUry 0 OOS eR EE TAN R. NAGG, “M come up- stairs and hook my waist! Are you coming or are you golng to keep me walting all night? If there ever was @ man that was slower than cold molasses it is you! Goodness only knows what I ever Roy L. McCardell married you for, It wasn't for your looks nor your money, for goodness knows you had neither, I might have married one of the handsomest real- estate dealers in Brooklyn, and to-day he Is one of the richest men In Flat- bush, But, no, you had to come along and I threw away all my prospects, I wouldn't mind that so much if you were only kind to mo, but the way you carry on breake my heart, Are you coming to hook my walst or not? Why do 1 wear things hooked In the back? “Oh, I suppose you would, like to see me golng around like a meal sack tled in the middle, You do not care how I look, You would. like to see me in rags, Mr, Ladyfinger is so proud of ‘is wite's appearance he designs all her dresses. Of course, I despise an Imitation man tke that, but you might be a Iittle more kind, Mr, Ladyfinger won't let hia wife go anywhere unless he looks her over with a critical eye, and he makes her pencil her eyebrows, Of course, I never use anything on my face, except, maybe, a little powder to Keep my nose from getting shiny, or just a touch of color, if I am going out anywhere at night, because the Nghts are so trying and do make one look so sallow, Not that you care, Mr, Nagg, not that you care! You want to seo me looking like a fright, and yet, Mr, Smig told me at the Old Guard ball that he never saw me looking 80 charming, Mn Smig has the most per. fect manners, and I think it a shame that you won't go on his notes, He asked me to ask you to do so, I sup+ pose if I hadn't asked you you would not have refused, My poor papa was go good-hearted he went on anybody's note If they'd give him five or ten dol- lars, ‘and then he used to protest against them or something or other, because T never Higher Up: By Martin Green, “that the expert doctor who —— “ SHE," aald the Cigar Store Man, examines school children to see if they. are dippy or not has discove ® |ered that a child showing an ofteo > |tlonate nature is feeble-minded,” “We are certainly discounting the times in our educational methods,” remarked the Man Higher Up. “When > |1 went to school it didn't take a 2 |doctor to spot 4 child with a defeos tive thotight plant, Any teacher $ |could nail a mental cripple as easily as she could locate a boy with one eye, 3 “There were boys and gitls who were called dumb and boys and gins with a natural gift for soaking up, 5 | knowledge, but in the average rune off of graduates they assayed about the same when it came to ability to make a living, Nowadays they take the process of instruction of the Child out of the hands of the teadhe ers and place jt in the hands of spe clalists, A list of instructors reads like the faculty of a bughouse, "It a boy is naturally slow in his studies they turn him over to the brain-examiner, who aske him {f he loves his teacher, If the teacher has been kind to him the chances are that he will reply in the affirmative, SI rhis brands him dotty, He t# put in a class with » lot of others natue rally more or less impervious to quick instruction, and inmead o€ : spurring him along with ambition they anchor him with discourages > | ment, “The boy who takes his teacher candy and flowers weara no crutches lon his intellect, He is one of the smooth youths of the echool, When he goes out into Iife he carries with >Ihim a good ground-work of the > | great American game of con, He has learned that it is easier to get along with people by giving them something that will force them to pay back more than its value than ft is to try ito pry advantage from > them by main force.” “Children can't spell correctly or write ent pay more,” complained the Ci tore Man. what can you expect,” asked the Man Higher Up, ‘‘when they are making every school-room an undere study to the Bellevue psychopathis ward?” i Mrs. Nagg and Mr._—* +... By Roy L. McCardell.... I know st! No, there are no eyes there at my neck! Can't you see the ailk loops, stupid? “Now you've torn the lace! Oh, I could cry with vexation! You did thet ‘on purpose; you knaw you do not want me to go to the theatre to-night, You know how it has stormed the last few daya and I had to keep cooped up in the house, J never eaw such weather! Of course you enjoyed M, Mr, Nags. When the snow wes at !ts worst you aid you were glad you did not go to the office, No, I don’t blame you for the blizzard, but what I do say is that you would not have stopped !t if you could, "I know you have got those hooke and eyes all wrong! I can feel the wrinkles across my back, Where is the girl? Why, It Js her evening out, If I was like Mrs, Stryver and could keep a maid I would not need to annoy you, Mr, Nagg, by asking you to hook my waist in the back, “Have you got It hooked at last? ‘Well, it ts a wonder! It Is only a cheap little walst, but It's the best I eculd do, with the calls I have on me for the little money you allow me! Not that I would complain, Mr, Nagg, Oh, I never will complain, no matter how you treat me!” —a Candid. | Why the Cat Mews, (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub, Co.) WITH US. We have taught HUMANS We can tell him AT ONCEI t> THINK! taught them to TALK, had they not already KNOWN HOW! Our young animal friend asks us to tell him WHY CATS MEW! could understand those| “What !9 Fritzl Scheff playing in Vasiness detalls, now?" ‘You are not hooking that right, and| “She Is playing In tights,’ i s The ‘‘Fudge” Idiotorial Now com? our friends, the natural his ory students, thanks to Ernest Thompson Seton, Mr Seton has taught animals to THINK and TALK. This puts him IN THE SAME CLASS W* WOULD have It Is because they CANNOT BRAY] If ca s could BRAY they NEVER would try to MEWI THE BRAY IS THE SUPERIOR NOISE. You may have noticed that WE NEVER MEW! ti i Sa il