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be Chen edloria Probe Pubtianing Cofopany, No, 69 to 6 Park Row, New York. }at the Post Onice rs New York as Second-Class Mali Matter. hs UME SB. iccccsssscssese UTOCRATS AND THEIR PROTECTORS. Justice Joseph A. Burr, speaking before the Brooklyn Bar Associa- uttered a warning against ‘‘the danger from the accumulation of ous wealth in the hands of the few.” Corporate power, said the Judge, can be curbed by law, with the aid faithful Executive and a competent prosecuting officer, But he asked without suggesting, a remedy for ‘the accumulation of enormous Ith inthe hands of an individual.” A combination of sich men and Invading the field of politics and seeking contfol of the Govern- forms the basis of a plutocracy—which is the rule of wealth. Justice Burr suggested that “if there is a remedy it is in the hands of members of the bar.” With due deference to this opinion, we should that lawyers are the main dependence of the plutocrats, ‘Where would John D, Rockefeller and his Billion Dollars bé but for ‘assistance of the corps of astute ‘egal gentlemen who have enabled n to evade the laws of to break them with impunity? Who but “the Of the bar” enabled the organizers and wreckers of the Ship- building Trust to hold on to thelr millions and kéep out of jail? Whom he Individual members of the Beef Trust, with their many millions ‘extorted wealth, rely upon to protect them from punishment for their violation of the law and the orders of the Court? Whom but the ers? Prevention is better than cure for the evil and danger mentioned by Magistrate. Cornell, “has + beginn!ng In a dance hali, 1 intermeiiate stage in a Raines la tuted the Raines hotel a on the road to run. Fath defines a Raines law hotel a: whose terminus is Hell Ga’ Teseniative hotel of this character, th fs a shameful record, i . * . ation: A train at the. Bridge is wort two at Worth ‘s:reet, ee 8 women's brains move more quickly tna! that large bodies move slowest. eee * has placed the foul broken-ston Promised some months age, eee 48 ts predicted, the world which amuse: {twext with cards will be in debt to, th and whist came from Engtund, Poker, a8 now played, Is a native product, 6 Burr, Repeal the dutles that foster monopoly, enforce the civil criminal laws against trusts and combines and provide for a stiff tax large incomes—thus may something be done to limit the danger. But lawyers who are engaged in fighting plutocracy are as scarce as icicles =the infernal regions! / ‘ | REPEAL THE TAX ON THRIFT | ‘The Senate Committee on Taxation has resolved, it is said, to op- the repeal ‘of the tax on savings banks. “Why should we throw of revenue?” one of the members asks, 2, Both parties in their platforms explicitly promised its repeal. ‘ Gov. Higgins pledged himself in his letter of acceptance and in peechcs to favor the repeal, and recommended it in his message, , The personal property of the rich almost wholly escapes taxation, | dd outtage to injustice to tax the savings of the poor. IS. ANOTHER ELECTION COMING. from preventable cause. Dr. Darlington, President of attributes the high infant death ate to the milk sold to Yenement-houses, who are poisoned by the thousand, Who produce the milk are receiving such low prices that are reducing their herds'or going qut of business. While dogen Increasing, the! price. niltk to the farmer, whictt meeting of the MINK Exchange, ts ‘x thint lower farmer receiving an average of 2'3-4 vents'a quart for his ds transporting the milk for a half cent a : in\the advertisement a line of applicants had overflowed into the street, The insurance agent’s ‘Not t0 per cétit; OF the applicants got even so far]. 5,000 'to'4100,000 unemployed'in the city.’ It will, be weeks. at the earliest before the, army of un- through the usual channels of employment, Somehow, merely:as a. matter-of. public BOYS WHO SWAGGERED,: Pao ivery from ‘the Columbia University group, with a long bent stem: ~ It was held between the teeth two of them smoked’ paper cigarettes. These too as they walked, Were they not also “smoking like men?” pipe, although it is unnecessary and profitless,-yet is honest. there Is no virtue to’ be claimed. ‘This is why the Pipe, Mi: ‘Agity, however, that tt must be the wasteful and harmful habits f-ups that the schoolboy of the day thinks it manly to copy, men who do not mind. making millions out of misery, a Milk grip on New York should offer great opportunities—until Ww York conscience wakes up. E ‘Manager Hedley promises The Evening World more trains for’ Third fue,’ It is wise not to prepare the people for too great a joy when the toad shall.come down, rs from Evening World Readers Houston Street Kick, 9 WAitor of The Wvening World: night this torture of delay and over- wy crowding is Jadled out unatintedly, would ike to know why It is they Y, A., Springficld, Mass. ; wWearly every big street in the Not an isolated Cane, city’ Dut) neglect Houston atreet, One| m, the maitor of Tho Bvening World: the busiest east of Broadway and o! (fam paying for a steam-heated apart- in thoroughfare, ©, A. |mient, with a gas range In kitchen, Halt un" 4 Dela: the time we have no steam, and ail . pang eS lant week no gas to cook or see by, | » re alt. thanke for have spoken to agent and janitor tl! “ay on the ‘Li’ Lem tired, Not a bit of notice is taken. Water last week poured down all over ie you B¥ECO™INE @ tor-imy kitchen” for two. dase, spoiling QW delicate | everything, t they never came to see agian ame ot] What damage was done. To-day It ts oulen gE ‘y again. What redress have hy minutes f Worth street out of ite schedule, who may feel gtad that they wre not the foyal bables. of Italy, The Italian Gisen, although @ tender mother, is afflicted with @ “theony,” which she |» . putting into practice. Her pede thet resources ernment ani chiiliren, from the very finst ig Of the of the, city gov and of thelr éxistence, must be hardened, a process ‘which elther litle or oures, Her three whildren seem 'to thrive unter It, Ap Ahhat Lt. witl evidently be ‘ours’ with opening their eyes in @ room at 4) garden even in this Aroticweather, thelr $ with the Clgarettés were more foolish to a degree than ‘the one| D0 ular drenatully crom chibatns, “Do you mean to say you don’t have any trouble in keeping your i wife dressed im the height of fashion?” “That's what I said. My trouble comes when I don't keep her’ dressed that way,” — Chicago Journal. eee departed some years ago. e 8 8 Nine, es 8 8 “Hoch refuses to @ “Bluebeard.” . “the Side]? buh By typteal ‘Gal ense,” says hotel and its end In a disreputable re- aort.” Te is the route laid cut by the lemislative hypocrisy which ha¥ consti- | } y house | 4 MoCarty Arsenal, hos ‘a six monvas' record ¢: four deaths "of mystery cr suleide, It Aphorism for Mr. Hedley's consider- Viennese man of science says that men’s, Loft for the misogynist to say You have perhaps notol that asphalt rondbed in the Subwhy stations as Tt goctety abandons “bridge” for skat, Germans fcr another popular game. The Fatherland his aiready given us euochre and plnochie, Cribbage, ‘bridge’ Tt aeema that a ellk hat does not contér immunity from atrest on tne epitter, The distinction once claimed of the @ilk hat esa badge of reapeatability ® Norfolk engraver who hes inscribed the’ alphabet on a pinhead might turn his hand to reporting progress for the visit’ ‘Widows’ Club.” Limit to the audacity of even the tho we h e Greater New York consumes 1,888,000 quarts of milk dally, Number of pounds of formaldehyde swallowed with e @ e 4 ., Moy—Yee, indeed. “Why, Ne tb as ” ° e ‘CMosgo thug’ knocked out a victim of bread. Confirmation of Inethtute, Not a color line, elther, ‘ ° * ‘There are tenement home dhildren ‘They are taken from their warm ‘eds and plunged into cold water; then they are dressed in flannel, but not much of it, and with bare legs, The Student who. swaggered 25 he walked and puffed, Other|patace is sunny but unheated, so that they must move to keep warm. They are allowed to go bareheaded into the little blue lege twinkling about in the moat frisky way. Even when driving, the little calves are exposed, but: they Bard—I thnk I will write a poem on the “Bultio Fleet.” Do you think i$ would take? Friend—No, it 18 sure to be re- turned.—Chicago News, ee 6 Words fall from grace. There is “villain,” which came from the re- apectable pedigree of ‘‘villa."" But can- not “cadet” be rescued from the mire Into which !t has undeservedly been cast? Why not “shimsha,” the ex- pressive hiss of contempt with whith east side mothers designate the most “espleabie of men? oe Athletlo trainer says that “people who take up walking as an athletle exercise, and not merely as a ready- made means of lpcomotion, may have the satisfaction of knowing that this same walking Is really recs che best general exercise | every kind of speciat t champion boxer, or jum player founds hls scheme of training upon walking, The modern champion may be sald not to run but to walk into form,” oo Unprecedented demand at the Chica g0 Automobile Show for sutomobiles for farmers and ranchmen. The lace curtain and plano siage of prosperity seems to have been left in the rear, A to put on the coffee, mtachtef-mak realized. on both sides, , Still, iharly involved. a long time. you're @ goner, Mr, Coon, Farmer—A few more wha CTING upon advices from the aptrit world, a Philadel- phia-woman has sued her hysband ‘for Bivorce, Bhe de- olates that by cour teey of the spirits she was kept in- formed'ot tis move- ments, knew wheth- wager or not he was ma coming home for supper; if not, why not; and if so, when | One would think that there are enough ers of human origin with- it calling the spirit world into play. But perhaps the Philadolphia wife has hit upon a good scheme for making the spirits useful to other than the mediums who exploit them for @ living, Spirbta must come a good deal cheaper than detectives, and if the courts de- cide to admit ‘their tesiimony, cating them from the vasty deep may become a! recognized feature of future divorce sutts, Indeed, they may ultimately do away with lawyers, and Hetty Green may live ¢o see her dearest ambition At any rate, it ought to be possible to save balf the expense incidental ¢o "fF wecuring a divorce at the present time, For mediums are po powerful ard spir- ity #o dractable that the same “Little Lylght Eyes" might interpret the tes- timony of a score of spirit witnesses feot of taking a fee on both aides is sufficient to dis- bar a lawyer, and it may be if “Little Bright Fos” or amy other alleged “control” exercised in court the amaz- ing versatility she displays at a seance and appeared alternately for plaintity and defendant she might become sim- ‘The Philadelphia woman's testimony as to the sound practical advice fur- nished her by the spirits is the best advertisement Spiritualsm has had in Experience with the in. habitants of the spirit world who com. Ones The New Detective Spirits. ‘ By Nixola Greeley-Smith., municate through mediums generally Jeads one to believe that they confine their counsel to vague, unpracical gen- erailties or tho single recommendation: to “nell all your possessions and give: the proceeds to the cause.” That thoy can actually be made to tell whon' to (Put the coffee \on ds @ revelation whic may furnish unpunctual tusbands with & new ‘excuse, but t9 nevertheless of Brent practical value to the housewife. And even the most flirtatious husband will think ‘twice before indulging, his tendency ‘to sentiment outaide of his own home if he always @ detective spite on fis trail, Little Willie's ©” Guide to New York. NO. XIIL—THE DISTRICT-AT- TORNEY’S OFFICE. nesesaity noze no law and maby that’ why some fokes think thares no neses- sity for the distrik aterneys offis, tho distrik atterneys offis ts a plaice wel stokked with pljjen-hoales and @ stool pijjen in each the jentleman cutting alygret coopona with a ax is mister ferrome, in oalden daise the distrik-at- emeys offis was Jeounduckted on a low baysls but poppa sale mister jerrome has chainged the lokayshun and now kon- duckts {t on a bluf, mister Jerrome sais the ax is mitter than the sord of justis und pattenta are pending for jerrome proof doara und advane orders hav been sekured from eum peeple naimed kan feeld and eelyas, when mieter jerromes sens of justis beggins to sizzel he puts a stop to gammbling and every gamm bling joynt in town i¢ purmenently kloaged pout) the Rapee hawle in the it er, je distr fs kontan es suum of the finest footbal and goff pl the man t! ‘Wasn't in the Picture. enya ae in Li agiadt eel ate it mann! asstime and is sumthing Uke Gatelle stternying you hitt the baul and hat finds it eggen the saim day Wins the gaim, A, P, TERCUND, liens that there is WHAT HAVE ou BEEN DOING) ENRY GOLDEN DI f H contributed a rather poetio } » mor Night” tu the recent ‘ > | dainty ttle midday Juncheca > 19, at,9 o'clock. The tie! 4 and Otherg, By Henry Tyrrell. emy Exhibition, was accosted by @ ‘tential buyer, who spike unto paying: rf “Do you know, tt {a « favorite of mine to associate the ; painter fellows wich certain Ofarmot {otics of your respective Work, or places of residence, Now, for ample, Chase always suena a roinbow—an {deal, which he catches up with; J, Akien Well something welrd about 3 Haezam 1s a wayward ohlid | sloniam; Schreyvogel macks Ri] ob ken; Will Low's name side willows, or he) willowy which he pai pig arf the dewy marshes Lone Bromdetd; Thautew’a, the earty eprtiig 7 thews, and switling etresna, which has copyrightel-sand ¢0 on pity ; the catalogue, But I haven't yet, i the significance of your own 4 we peculiar patronymic, Mr, Dearth ‘well, er,” murmured the 4 = with a dreamy abstracted look in. tig’ eyes, ‘from my, point of . view, 5 dhvtous suggestion of dearth of . ° ° eke MORRIS BARRY Mustoale Thursday Evening at the Wale 9 dort-Astoria te in aight, Lass - Morday was the 110th Musical Mors= ing, on which occasion Miss Earthy j Walker, of the Metropolitan Opera, sang half a dozen delicious numbers, while Mr, Plerre Henrotte, one pf the. innumerable violln virtuoa} with which the town this season Is infested, did some difficult~but, unfortunately, now imposstble—bowing ard double-s Mr. Bagby has bagaed the stunts, ‘leven levees dn the grand ballroom of” the hyphenated hostelry. All the hand= Invariably occupied by the flower of fashion and urtistio, artetocracy, the embowered stage, under the shade” of the sheltering palms, lurks, Mr, dore Lucketone at the plano, to ad» company the pratty prima donne {h picture chat. It is more. fun “Parsifal’—and so . convenient Fee i ward, Last Monday's was the morning musicale of the present but Mr, Bagby has arranged for evening concert on Thureday, are ibd z ; the boxes from $90 to ful about purchasing them of apeculators. ry; HATS that the band {& WV ing?” asked od man ton, who was entertaining two Japanese merchant princes Sherry's, ; “Cavalleria Rusticana,” answered maitre d'hotel, “ i ge i Mrs. Nagg and Mr. oe eeBy Roy L. McCardell.... ° of Cherry Hill, being mobbed there when only aéventeen for venturing on the’ public playground at Seventh ave- nue and Thirty-seventh street in a Fauntleroy costume. “Brother Wilile came in for a little while, He was in great spirits, haying just found a lot of: lead pipe somewhere in Harlem in a! deserted house. He took: the «greatest interest in Clarence Marmosett, who te just about his own Age: and was very anxious that he and Mr.’ Ladyfinger should come with him the Jolly Pallbearers’ Cjub rooms ome night, But, Mr, Marmosett sald he was afraid they might be ‘wough wit him'--you know he has the prettiest Uttle lisp—but on Brother Willie's att- @mn promise that ‘they wouldn't do a thing to’ him’ he promised to come if the Jolly Pallbearers would eend a cab for him. Brother Willie sald several membera of the Jolly Pallbearers’ had cabs, Now, you see, there are rich young men ‘bslong—no, I am ‘ure thoy are not nighthawk cabmen—o there Will be Jolly times at the club, I know. Ah, you see, Mr, Nags, in epite of your example, Brother Willie is fond of re fined . He could harlly keep his hands off young Mr, Marmosett, and was especially struck with the fact that Mr, Ladyfinger's favorite flowor was ‘the violet and Mr, Smig's was lily late again to-day! Everybody sees how you neglect meand how you neglect your home, It was Ty atternoon and I ‘hed some perfectly lovely: peopte here! Mr, and Mra,’ Lady- a those new fashionable redingotes, She Juet-wanted to make @ show of me and bald before everybody; ‘Dear me, how well that dress of yours wears. I wish T. had gotten one whon you did, Sut, anyway, I, get tired of a thing if it Wears too well.’ Mr, Smig wes here, too, He and Mr, Ladyfinger have be- come recbnciled, they have so much of Mutual interest; they both collect trading atamns, and Mr, Ladyfinger had & delightful friend, a Mr, Clarence Mar- mosett; they talked of thelr old high- school daye for hours and gave thelr ‘Oh, dear mo! Oh, dear iskt atterneys of nna! Great cornatalks! of the valley, “Mrs, Tadyfinger quarrelled again with her husband ebout what was this Geason's faghionable shade, and ehe got #0 angry thea sho eald she would stop his epending money of 10 cents 2 week and she wouldn't renew his subscription to the Young I.adies’ Home Journal, He orled phtifully, but she didn’t seem to care, How would you lke to have a wife like that, Mr. Nagg: how would you like to have a wife ike that? Oh, don't speak to me. You are a brute, ett recited ‘Excerpts from: Lucile’ and showed Mr, Ladyfinger the new em- broidery stiteh, They both have lace looms and are going to exhibit at the Ladies’ Handicraft Exhibition at the Waldorf, Of course, I know that noth- Ing refined appeals to you, but Mr, Mar- mosett sat for the celebrated painting, ‘Manyma’s Boy,’ and he was the martyr A Matter of Space. i ae ‘Well, you tell ‘em, for me, to out the Ruse-ticana, and play thing Japanese,” ee JUNKIO MATSUKI'S gals ot B Japanese arms and armor at American Art Gatlertes brings spirit of the Bamural home to us somewhat dramatic fashion. “Many of these antique swords, daggers, helmets , and breastplates, exquisite examples of loving artistic craftsmanship, were se oured by Bunkio direct from noble daimyo families who would never have parted with them but for the exigencips, of the present war. ‘There are yen “battle fans” which the ancient commanders used to carry on the’ que in the manner of Gen, histori clgar case, This helrloom weapons into cash for ohest 1s as herobo in its way as, swords into ploughehares, or vice versa, ee e OW we know why most ploturés are bad, It fs that) life is toe short for the artists to acoome plish things In, while by the time oritica really learn to appreciate’ a¢oldental good work they are dead, Here is what the late Edward: Burne-Jones sald adout the matter, according to the illuming> , tive biography recently given out by hip widow: "It takes an artist fifty years to learn to do anything, and fifty te learn what not to do, and fifty to and find what he simply desires to and 90 years to do it~and when it te done neither heaven nor earth much needs or heeds it, Well, I'll peg away, * T can do nothing else and wouldn't a3 could,'" gS _ @ se 4 4 u g Q i ee 6 j IGHTNING struck Anton Mauve ta L the recent Kauffman sale, whea one of that sentimental Dutene man's sheep-and-landscape canvases brought $40,000, Since then it js sure prising what a lot of Mauves—all fing ‘and characteristic, too—are turning up in the shops and auction rooms, The trouble with this business, though, ta that lightning never strikes twice in the and take ‘no Intorest in nice peopl We Do Not Want ‘to Be Mayor, Unless—— (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub. Co.) LAST CAMPAIGN. ‘We WOULD NOT CARE to should be ELECTED, We have NEVER met Chairm to If he would LET us, Ifour “little” Mayor can hav we ought to be allowed to have BEST HE COULD GET. Bacheller (disaustedly)—Huh! You're IT OURSELVES! to be married, I hear, Oldham—Yes, to Miss Playne, Baohe!ler—Poor chump! I thought you knew better, so FRESH, WE ARE ABLE TO Oldham—So I. do, but none of them POSES! would have mo—Philadelphia Press, ‘ DEE PS eee Te PUP. TOROS R EE MCE Tew MOOT oP Ome same place, The “‘Fudge”’ Idiotorial | Some WELL-MEANING young persons who have been compute fs lig the cubic contents of our pocketbook suggest that WB MAY WISH TO BE MAYOR, These young persons have made a WRONG GUESS! If! ‘hey had used the X-ray they would have learned that WE HAVE NOT YET PAID FOR OUR become Mayor UNLESS woe an Odell, We would be GLAD é his "GAS-HOUSE CHARLIE* our “ICE-HOUSE BEN.” The , two things go together In politics, ° : If we éver DO become Mayor THE COMMON PEOPLE can . be assured that they will get FREE GAS, We will GENERATE We will a so put MORE SALT ON PRETZELS, Meanwhile the young persons do not NEED to become quite ANNOUNCE OUR OWN PUR-