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OL Company, No, 63 to 6 Patk Row, New York New York as Seoond-Clats Mall Matter ssev arene eomresreereree INQ, 16,880, ; ‘Press Publishing of at the Post-Oflee at 9 098: iN THE MILK TRUST BE CHECKED? i the farmers stand together better this time than they did be- efforts to throw off the Milk Trust and to sell direct to the ‘will be unsuccessful. Toutes in Greater New York, Their customers are valuable To build up their retail delivery system took years of time and of dollars of capital, The value of the delivery horses and o fs larger than the value of hundreds of farms, For the get into touch with the consumers will likewise take a long ‘Much capital. farmers would gladly sell their milk for five cents a quart and iroad and delivery charges, but they have not the machinery of fon at their disposal, and while it is being organized—even sup- large capital necessary was obtained—they would be unable to their milk’supply. This was the rock on which the old Inter ‘Assoclation, promoted by Charles R, Flint & Co., was wrecked. had to sell their milk to the Milk Exchange members or yy, for they were able to market only a very small fraction of atta 6 rF > inless the law can intervene, or a strong and business-like organiza Mailers and consumers can be formed, the Milk Trust is likely, to own vay i THE ILLUSIONS OF MEMORY, ator Plait, of Connecticut, protesting against too many of the led scientific notions” in agriculture, lamented that he can “pure maple syrup” for his buckwheat cakes. ‘There is not,’ ‘an ounce of that delicious, smooth, pungent, old-fashioned maple used to get when we were boys.” ) “old-fashioned maple syrup” was made by boiling the sap of t maple in an open kettle, over a fire built inthe woods. The sap d in wooden buckets, and discolored by rain and leaves, The flavor was given to the syrup by the smoke from the open rich color” was the combined product of soot and dirt, That there can be no doubt; and that when boiled to a consistency d it to “wax” when poured over a pan of snow or a cake of ‘élicious, all the old fellows who can remember the “‘sugaring Gof fifty years ago will enthusiastically testify. g real maple syrup is honestly made, as it still is in some the modern, more ‘rapid and cleanly processes, without the fe of dirty brown cane sugar, it is really finer than the “old. ‘Sort, with the “pungent” tang. | the illusions due to memory and to youthful appetites are not i. It fs pleasant for elderly men and women to think that 6 ples, or cakes or breadstuffs “like mother used to make,” is truth and how much a fond delusion does not matter. fs sometimes a cheat, if it really makes us happy in NS RBURDENED FIFTH AVENUE, the Side. N‘= ‘Wisconsin joins Kansas, ‘Toxas and Tennessee in taxing bacher lors, If the movement continues the bachelor must either take to the woods or come to New York, where the {resfom of the city is his and the good | things thereof, and a social attention | Whioh sometimes, {t is feared, swells hie head. owe A Committee of Nine may do to deal with the police, but the Legislature (deems a committes of ten necessary to je the baiest Jani question, eo The trouble with modern maple sugar, of which » New England Senator com: plains, ie that i bears the brand of| cana, bn baldlele e 8 e Gorky, from late accounts, seems to be nearly as comfortable as it he were! in Ludlow @treet Jail. eee Preatdent of a woman's bank who binds depositors’ check books and bank books in finest leather of the fashion:' able shades has established a rash prece ¢dent. Rivals may have recourse to pink tea and mandolin attractions, ary Mr. Wise--What did you do at your Bird-Protecting Clud to-day? Mrs, Wise—-We passed o resolu tlon condemning “cuckoo clocks.— San Franoisco Call, * . . Composer of’ Moonlight’ confesses that the tune has made him a ‘con: firmed victim of insomnia." Other vic- thms will regard it asa case of poetic retribution, eee Bridge plana which one expert hav drawn with care another pronounces a “monstrosity,” It has been sald by a competent authority that ‘experts are capable of considerable elasticity of opiplon." # ee The Eleventh avenue death tracks are coming in for a little oleventh-hour at- tention at Albany, Railroad cothpany answers that it tm open to pei "but has no definite plans as y such cases plang rarely begin to take a definite form before public pressure js brought to bear, The only remedy is a mibway such aa Tho Hvening World long ago suggested. . ° e “Bandit holds up and binds servant irl in the house he enters,” With the protectors he had to rely on failing him the householder has cause for real ap- prehension, e * Teacher—Suppoxe your mother bought sie pounds uj ham for din- ner at 15 cents a pound and two heads of cabbaye at 5 cents each. ‘Figure that out, and tell me.what would be the result, Tommy--Pop would have dyspep- sia,—Chicago Journal, * . * The doctors’ bills for Yale's athletic ireau of Highways has collected figures to show that in point e Fifth avenue leads the world of streets. More actual ay be counted in a day on the Rue de Rivoli, the Avenue da d the Rue Croix des Petit Champs, in Paris, and on King church street, Queen Victoria street and Cheapside, in Lon- 88, 11,787 vehicles in eleven hours are a good many-— onstrate the urgent need of traffic restrictions and of force before the trade expansion along the avenue has Eighth avenues have the greatest traffic tonnage next to avenue’s burden is very light. Madison and Seventh ould figure largely in a scheme to relieve Fifth avenue, enough, apparently, for observation. statistics may be studied profitably by the ordinance-) 2! FOR BOILING POTATOES. Mh prayed to St, Patrick for a gift which should make her ‘vain. Thereupon the good St, Patrick himself taught the iow to boll potatoes, this little story Douglas Jerrold lamented that the gift im- rah had descended to so few. ys of the day we read that the women of Kansas are to vote for President, Also that women are crowding men ical places at Albany, In New York a woman's club ca wmoon debating whether or not women should be responsible they run. are plenty of women to push a harmful anti-canteen law for fid' to lobby for a prohibition clause in the Oklahoma State: ‘But there are not enough to settle the servant question, which home, is great that the gift for potato bolling should be renewed, Fe ehh Catarina oner McAdoo has made the blood-curdling discovery that tres have been violating the Sunday law. So have a lot of nd fourglars been violating the law. Why not catch them first ? and Publicity are the advance agents of reform. Watch w east side “'L” trains on Monday, People’s Corner. from Evening World Readers His Salary?” “of The Evening World: Prain-(wisting problem for vable, but only by a ere goes: A man intends juarter of his monthly sal- 4; but the cheapest flat he “has & monthly Tat aul to at Js hid nine i honth pe ing busy, IBAAC O'BRIEN, Jr. it Mother-in-Law, ‘The Bvening World: PMaetvaabtgs wor let 6# much of my mother-in-law as I did of my own mother until she lived with us, DISSATISFIED, Go to Y. M,C, A, Gymnasium, To the BAltor of The Evening World: Tam a young mun of sixteen years and would like to know what directions 1 can follow to bulld myself up so as to be an all-round athlete, I cannot afford an expensive gymnasium, J. M, Was Massacre Premeditatedt To the Edjtor of The Evening World: No one who has lived in Russia, or | who knows Russian conditions, was | Hive with them. | sunprised at the greeting the mob re- | it in saying “No | celved from the soldiers, In countries to hold two fam-| like Russia such uprisings are con- | "My wife and 1|stantly ferred, and plins are made Happily together until | !ong in advance to cope with them, It ‘our roof, It seems | W48 a preconcerted line of ation and a surprise to no one—except perhaps the mob, If the Czar had come out in per- gon to argue with the strikers, as they ‘| had wished him to, how much chance ae ves, and peace and would he have had to get back to safety dhe your roel " , re before a bunch of Nihilistic bombs un- He vou have enjoyed #0 upholstered his re t Foust, almest *SUSHAN ExILe, team throw an interesting light on the felative wear ond tear of the various jaports, For a track team they amounted ‘to $22; for the crew, $88; for the nine, $225, and for the football $446, oe ‘The tonnage »f Fifth avenue trafic Is Neported to exceed that of any other thoroughfare in the céty. ‘The truck driver always wan a sociable man. He Mkes to go with the crowd. eee ‘People go away and talk. That is how 4 play is made or marred,” says John Hare. “Music Master” must have been the subject of a continuous’ kaffee- klatach, ig igeatts A writer in the National Review says the Csar suddenly interrupted Rojest- ventsky as he was making a report on the Raltle Squadron, by asking: “Are you aware he weighs fourteen pounds?” “Who, Your Majesty?” asked the Ad- aniral, his mind still entangled in ques- Alona of displacoment, quick-firing guns JF and ovher kindred matters, “The heir to the throne,’ answered the happy father. Seems to deserve the name of ‘“Wbtle father’ after all, oe MeQuerry—I suppose your wife always meana whut she says? Henpeck—NSometines I wish sho did, For insiance, when she says she wants “a little money” she means she wants a whole lot,— Philadelphia Ledger. so 6 Parchment is said not to be of as ood quality as formerly. The cdd rea- gon ylven is that farmers fatten their sheep nowadays to a point where too much of the fat gets Iniu the skin, . e . Mi “The Raines law hotels are respon: sible for the degradation of more young women than any other agency that ex- ists,’ So Lawrence Velller, Secretary of the City Club, before the Women's Munlolpal League. The city knows that. this is true. Albany knows it. Yet the law whch sanctions the infamy remains on the statute books, to the lasting shame uf the community. owe Special feature of @ new Astor hotel to be built on upper Broadway will be a restaurant covering practically all the ground floor, If New York's appetite Js not yet appeased it Is not because of lack of facilities. . 8 e Perhaps, after all, the “good old limes" were better than we give them enedit for, According to Dr, Frank Lyd- ston's "Diseases of Society,” “modern statistics tend to show that crime is now increasing faster than population, A oomparison of the census of 1860 with the census of 1890 showed that the popu- lation had increased 170 per cent., while the proportion of criminals had in oreayed 445 per cent," meg the sitth chupler of “The Wom: an in Mauve,” &, De Lancey Pier- son's thrilling New York romance, till appear in Monday's BVEN- ING WORLD, Read the first of the new Sherlock Holmes series, in the color supplement of to-day’s EVENING ‘ORLD, You sctll fina it an in cresting substitute, PPP PL LAPP LPL PLL PLLA LO standard than the thermometer, Evl- and momentarily hatless, will find, if ANew # Comic Series By Gene Carr. CANT SEEIT- ME FoR HOME HERE'S TO SMITH SMITH, WITH ALL The COMFORTS OFA IME AT HAVE wel? ee tae Iloboielelotefoleloletetetobotototeletetednioteleteteleiotelelolot shebibielibrieilieietitlebinielttlleteetllleetteletetitetteletoieit ‘All the Comforts of Home. \ The Charms of Travel Are All Right, but They Are for “the Boys"—Poor Homeless Fellows. Women and Bonnets. By Nixola Greeley-Smith, ESTERDAY'S Y papers chron- U {cled the fact that, a petition in bankruptcy was filed against one of the langest whole- sale millinery houses In New York and the lawyers for the firm stated that thelr financial dimcultles were due to the lack of minine interest In millinery this sea- . son. Nowhere has it been stated that this is a hard winter, judged by any other resolve themselves into the vision of @ pretty woman wearing a gigantic hat, And he will not believe that there has been any falling off In the demand for millinery, If the same pedestrian ever saunters along Grand street—and It js barely possible he does occasionally—he will observe the same feminine preoccupa- tion with headgear, Given a stunning hat and an elabor- ‘ate boa, It js hard to convince many women with limited pocketbooks that despite other sartorial shortcomings they are not thoroughly equipped for conquest, Tf, therefore, there has been In an oth erwise prosperous season a falling off in vhe demand for millinery, it may be taken as a good sign, since it shows a diminution of the feminine tendency to concentrate thelr decorative efforts on the outside of thelr heads, ———- No Pipe Dream. dences of general prosperity are every where, and if lovely woman does indeed display s lack of enthusiasm for her erstwhile {dol it must be for other than financial reasons. It Js a peculiar fact that the average woman cares more for a pretty hat than: for any other article of personal attire, There are a great many women Indeed in whom the love of millinery amounts almost to a mania, and they will wear the same shabby palr of shoes for six months In order to startle their friends with half a dozen, new and different creations of the milliner's art, ‘The ostrich hides its head only, and believes that so concealed it Is abso- lutely safe from capture, Some women, on the contrary, seem to belfeve that by focussing attention on thelr heads by some elaborate combination of flowers and feathers they prevent tho observer's eye from descending ‘0 yawning collars and skirt belts awry, The stroller up Broadway on any yave a matinee afternoon, when fem- inine creation Is theatrleally housed PARLER, PPR MY PIPE GIRS Vy Age b- G FS { he analyzes his impressions, that they Nightmare of the Toys. Mrs. Nagg ...-By Roy L. 66 R&, STRY- M ver wants Us to go to Mr, Heavytop's lecture at the Sime ple Lite Society Faihis afternoon, Mr. INage, The tickets aro $3 each and the proceeds go to the Society for In- troducing Ethical Culture Into ago Slums. Roy L, McCardell ii, Heavytop su- pervises the expenditure of every cent. Tt is a worthy cause and Mrs, Heavy- top's expenses are very heavy, #0 7 think you might take a doxen or 60 of Mrs, Heavytop {9 just from South At- Hea and she wants us to take up the Kaffir language. It {s a beautiful lan- guage and all the natives of South Af- rica that work in the diamond mines vee it, Brother Willleghas already picked up the Kafflr words for ‘rum’ and ‘tobacco,’ and somebody picked up Mrs, Heavytop's purse, too, and ehe was almost prostrated. “Mps, Stryver is taking lessons 4n the Kaffir language, and it will be the fad in society this winter, Mrs. Heavytop teaches It for $5 a lesson, and I intend to learn, Some day I may be able to travel and wee something of the world, and then I will go to South Africa and talk to the noble Kaffirs In thelr own language, You may sneer, Mr, Nage, but 1 would never forgive myself if | fost this opportunity, J would be ashamed to look at a Kafr if I met one and think I threw away the op- portunity, when It only cost $5 a les» fon, Besides, when everybody In s0- clety is discussing art and philosophy m Kaffir, am 1 to sit in a corner biung my nally and unable to discuss in tne vernacular? “Mr, Ladyfinger 4s cultured, Mr, Smig 1s reflned, too, They are all learn. ing to speak Kaffir, and eo 1s Clarence he speaka*it with a lisp, and already talking of taking up Afrlean ex- He is having a portable gas and yapor bath made now, he can jouraey through the tropic He has a splendid scheme to Mr kings how to toaat he asked ehlefa in y did marshmallows, d noly but they were ve She told of a missknary lnad been saved for two ¢ among the Bong-Go-Wangos because he hap. poned to have a large bottle of sugar- coated pills with him, ‘Phe chief was too sick to personally douosrintend the roasting ef the mig+ lay the | tickets and gell them to your friends. Wi Highe By Martin Green, bh HAT did the Commit- tee of Nine do at the WV last meeting?” asked the Cigar Store Man, “They postponed the game on ac- count of wet grounds,” replied, the Man Higher Up, ‘They had a short team anyhow. Root and Schiff failed to show up, Seligman had to double his own position at shortstop with Schiff's at second base, while Bald- win played third base instead of Root and loft field besides, “Austen G, Fox wae in the box, with Milburn behind the bat, Mo- Keen on first, Osborn in centre and McAnenan in right, . Preliminary practice with perfectos and cigarettes showed that ¢he team is rounding into shape, but {s a little weak on the coaching lines. There is some talk of getting Dr, Parkhurst for coach. | “Gen, Francis V. Greene wae firat to the bat. He objected to Mr, Fox's delivery and asked leave to put on a substitute, Capt. Piper, who was Gen, Greene's Deputy at Headquar- ters, was in the grand stand, and was Inwited to see if he could bat out something, but he declined to re- spond, He has signed with the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company ashes aggregation and he js no con- tract Jumper, “Commissioner McAdoo waa exe pected up to complete the home run, He got to second base on the week before, but he sent word that he was suffering from a case of charley- horse. Then Mr, Fox threw the ball away, remarking that if he couldn't get somebody to pitch to he wouldn't play at all, Mr. Seligman suggested a sesaion of batting up files for out- fleld practice, but the others decided that it was time to go home, “When Commissioner McAdoo goes to bat next Tuesday Mr, Fox will toss up the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association to him. On this the Com- missioner expects to make a home run and knock off the cover at the same time. There is some discue- sion about the persistent failure of signed, to put on a uniform and hus- tle, Rumor has !. ‘het he ts dissat- fefled with the management and te playing for his release.” “They can't all be stars,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “Well, you know how those pro- fessionals are,” responded the Man Higher Up, Little Willie’s Guide to New York, THE ST. REGIS, In oalden daise when a man prade overtime or forgot to shaiv or chainge his koller for sevven yeers or infessted a munkery or in uther wale shode how hoaly he wus fokes gave him the titel of saint. 1 doant ritely kno just hoo the orridgnal saint reejis waz but juge Bing by the hoatel thats naimed for him I guess he ran more to-ple than | to piety, thare ta several wals of pros hownsing sant reejes, but I spcase the peeple hoo can aford to Uv there can aford to get thare pronownsing dun for them owtside. the frentch way and Mr. McCardell.... sionary after he ate all the pills the time specified, “Mr, Ladyfinger jp just that jealous because he prides himself on his home- made daintles, but he can't go because 8 wife has cut off his spending money of 10 cents a week, He begged her to Bivo it back so he could save It to go to Africa. He Js learning Kaffir, too, because Mrs, Ladyfinger doesn’t det hii out of her sight, and so he Is presend when she takes her lessons, but now | that she 4s angry at him she makes | him put cotton in his ears 80 he can't feet au ghe Is relenting, for when \ gave ras mueine cotton wool, She | of paying it is sangrayjee witch {s the |.."0h, Mr. Noga, you are not inter. |frentch werd for the provvurb a foob bal but suppose you had a wife like;and his munny are sune parted, my [Pats Ashave been too kind, I realize /unckle charly gals when he went thare pena one nite in his dreskloathes the waiters wer 80 pollite that one of them neerly wated on him, amrherrikens hoo want to leed tho slmpel life go ferst to the salnt reejis to get a running start for by the time thave pade thare bil the aimpul life fs the oanly one left with- hin thare reech and tharo lukky if thave ecaven got a soot of kloaths left to garrnish it with, yoo kan get ten thowsend dollers werth of sleap jn one of the saint reejis beds, witch is tho reezen peeple come cleer from fillar delfla to sleep in that bed. Pappa gals when his bruther dide after Uvving foarty yeers in filladelfia the eppitat thay gaive him wus His Long Rest Is Bnndid witch Is aul I kno about the salnt reojis, A. P, TERHUNE. until Magnified Mouse. Puss (who has wandered into the tapir's cago at the Zoo)—Well, that's | the biggest mouse I've ever seen, The “Fudge” Idiotorial WHY all this fuss because Presl- dent Roosevelt has given “ Bat” Masterson an office? “Bat” has SUPERIOR TALENTS, He NEVER KILLED A MAN BY ACCIDENT. It was ALWAYS done on a PURPOSE. | | We*LIKE a man with a PURPOSE, Too many people DO Why Not “Bat” Masterson ? Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub. Co, Marmoset,. Kafr sounds go droll as) NOT KNOW what they are going to do next. | Besides TIMES HAVE CHANGED. Years ago people used to go West because LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS had become UN- 'PLEASANT, Now WESTERN people come EAST for the SAME REASON, This readjusts the population and LIVENS UP dull localities, New York is a DULL town, It OUGHT to be more like Tombstone or Butte. President Roosevelt believes Ina SQUARE DEAL. So does |“Bat.” He NEVER dealt crooked cards. This establishes an AFFINITY. WE think, ourselves, that a hammerless Colt .44 is a. better VISITING CARD than a plece of pasteboard. THE PRESIDENT | AGREES WI!H US. What a LOT OF FUN he Is having In his Joffice! How It will ENCOURAGE bad Ilitle boys to wish to be PRESIDENT! Elthu Root, one of the first nem ers