The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1905, Page 14

; ath by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 63 Patk Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Omice at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. IMB ABs seissssssessesceeea vooes :NO, 18,886. IS INVESTIGATION ALL? An investigation of the Standard Oil Company, like a motion to ‘adjourn, is “always in order.” ‘Therefore the inquiry into the affairs of this gigantic monopoly, voted by the House and ordered by the President Ahrough his Commissioner of Corporations, is to be welcomed, 7 It will be interesting to learn how and why the Trust has defied the ‘Govereign State of Kansas and driven its “embattled farmers’ to build a refinery, of their own. Even those who have read Miss Tarbell’s fas- iclnating story will be glad to get official evidence of the dark and devious Aways in which the ‘Standard’ has crushed competition, monopolized the i) Market; pald from $36,000,000 to $48,000,000 a year in dividends and * enriched all I{S directors “beyond the dreams of avarice.” _ BUT—are not the investigations and even the prosecutions of Trusts Hing tO he @ trifle monotonous and uninteresting because barren of LTS?'The Beef Trust has been enjoined three times, last by the “Subréme Court, And yet the prices of cattle and of beef are unchanged, ha Combine seems to be doing business at the old stands, in the old way. has’ béen' punished or even prosecuted for defying the courts. k the Atchison and Santa Fe Railroad is not still giving rebates it Is ot becduse it tas been punished for admitted violations of the law, “If investigation of the Trusts is something more than a bluff, it Is time to'maké the fact appear. ‘Words re good only when backed by ~ deeds,” said Theodore Roosevelt. HOPE IN THE MILK SITUATION, If, the truthful information printed about the milk. situation In The Evening World ‘shall result in bringing together the milk-producing armers and the small milk dealers and the milk consumers of the tene- nent-houses The Evening World will feel that it has performed a valu- public, service. The facts have been printed not for the purpose of Crusade or-an‘attack, but in the belief that publicity is the best cure for nafly Public evils and that when all the parties interested in such a vital nas the pure-milk problem have been made aware of the facts Solution 1s In thelr own hands, ' In calling a conference between the officers of the farmers’ organiza- is atid the small milk dealers and the.consumers the great agricultural e per ing a worthy service, Such a movement is not attended hany suspicion of self-seeking, but is the proper performance of those ns which a great newspaper owes to its readers, "There is every hope that a better understanding will be the. first ult, of such a conference, Further results will come in direct dealings den'the farmers’ associations and the smaller ‘dealers who supply the ment trate, These will eliminate the Milk Trust and the middlemen's _, Shemic: ls and embalming establishments from being factors in the high Mhfant mortality rate in the poorer neighborhoods, ., me A STORY TOLD IN VAIN, ‘The day’s news tells briefly the story of Isaac Reisman, the first chapter there were Reisman, a good produce business {4 comfortable fortune, Chapter Two, as told by the police, “Playing dbs/14Chapter Four was that in which the bookmakers had wiped forliine and the business. Thien adespondent man and a bottle of bolic acid in Central Park. Finale, death, These were in sections of headlines over the story, Some of the type black. But nothing was black enough to turn the'endless pro- of race-track victims back from following the fatal phantom of i ‘¢hitig,” ) Thug men have continually died miserably, while bookmakers have LUENCE VERSUS “THE STRIDE,” many létters of recommendation are brought to New York bright young men from other parts ¢’ the:country, Some of such letters in-former years have won here good fame ine, Some have fallen into the ruts. Some have gone back to fy, homesick for.old scenes and associations, ‘There are others itis as well not to speak, ‘ | thinks’ of these matters in reading something Mr, H. H, Vree- said in.an address. It is like this: ‘may: secure to a youth an opportunity, it may set his foot in the tlon, but there never was a time when the length and swiftness of his Nled so entirely upon the man himself as they do to-day, Vreeland is President of the New York City Railway Company. deat, the moment is to corporation measure, But to young men j wish to rise he speaks with the authority of one who has risen, for relat d began his career gs a railroad “hand,” Jtheiisiport of his words is that while eat cities and great enter- have’ places ‘Iways for youth, it must be youth with strength and /Potpose points a path. . Strength and the stride do the rest, some direction the young man may be coming even now, with i whose useful task it shall be to show Mr. Vreeland how to at Surface transit system prove its title to privilege, Owners of unsafe theatres will never complain so long as public {disagree—and do nothing. District-Attorney Jerome threatens ak the tragedy-inviting deadlock by doing something Belford, of the Church of SS, Peter and Paul, says he woutd a'Subway tavern in every block in his parish, Far better that wehotels at every comer, ANIA 4} | e People’s Corner. etters from Evening World Readers ‘It fe Pronounced “Harth,”’ ‘the Maditor pt The Evening World: Whatitp the correct way to pro- ince “hearth?” D..G. Fortune-Teller'a Ruse. itor of The Evening Worl ly experience with Perin and Sir (now appearing each Saturda: y in | bikiivord Wort) Doyle received 60 el ‘ word. The book rights, the English tatrte, feo., will doubtless bring his Toyalties for the eeries up to at least | $1 a word, and perhaps much ™ore, A Partnership Problem, the Side. T {e gratifying to have the District I Attorney's assurance that the city’s Unsafe theatres will be made safe, "even if they have to be rebuilt”? ‘Tim Sulllvan called New York “a nine-day town,” It will not be a week until to-morrow since the Casino burned, Be- fore vigilance is relaxed again some- thing definite may be done to safeguard the patrons of the theatres which somehow got through the fire lines after the nine daya’ uproar following Lroquois tragedy had subsided, eee Divorces at the rate of only five an hour will excite Kansas City's deserved contempt for tho slow-going judicial Droousses of Now York, «oe . “Plan for another world's feir.”’ The nation ie getting the habit with a ven- geance, ‘ i Fashions chi Book Monthly notes that ‘just at present the woman & future,” a ate "My object in coming to Chicago,” etudents to enter Yale.” Such prose- lyting '@ only done at the opening of the football soason, eee “The average duration of human Ufe 48 becoming greater.” “Maybe to. But wait ttt auto- mobiles get @ Uttle cheaper."'— Washington Star, eee The Equitable'’s biggest man, never- foot Cardiff giant who has taken out '® $10,000 policy in the company. oie es “The lower one goes in the scale of olvilization," says Miss Rannett Stevens, becomes the sway of fashion,” Fifth avenue please take notice? e . (2 Only @ few years ago first editions of “Omar Khayyam" were selling in Lon- don book stalls for a shilling, Boston man who parted with his for #817 wisely took the cash and let the credit go. oe 8 A pawnbroker in hock for recelving stolen goods ie a pledge of police activ- ity which should come in for the oredit M deserves, eo. e A megasine writer on "The Simple Lite! in Newport” estimates the cost Of “ew quiet establish at $300,000 a yeat. Really a simple life by compari- Bon with @ $1,000,000 ball in New York, eee Curlous visitor to & tall office building in London found that of alx ‘fire pails’ On the top floor one contained a half Inch, of water, two one inch and two three inches, while one was empty. It !s to be hoped the curtous intruder will not do any nosing around New York buildings, e ° BSeedy—Don't you think you'd be satiafled with envugh? Greedy—Don't know. I’ve never had enough,—Detroit Free Press. oe 8 Bixteen-year-old girl in Brussels came to pref after negotiating a promissory dently has the making in her of @ Mre. Chadwick when she grows up. oe 8 Another dining-room thief fotled by a house maid. Number of candidates eli-}// gible for membership in a Maid Ber- vants' Home Protective Association in- creases dally. ‘ : ee / Editor of Our Dogs believes thi man's canine pets suffer from not hav- Ing enough exerciee and suggests a them, beasts of burden. Thinks that “such dogs as Great Danes, maastiffs, St, Bernards, Newfoundlands and one or two other breeds might be made very useful, under regulated conditions, and the health, stamina and happiness) of the dogs and the pockets of their owners increased by the change, They; are gluttons for work, appear to revel tn it, and to be healthy, happy and con-f tented, To attend the Brussels vegeta- ble market in the early morn and see from 800 to 400 dogs yoked to #0 many carts, some of a very substantial pat- tern, is a sight to be remembered.”’ eee y Critics note that Gorky's drama pro- |) duced at the Irving Place Theatre |: “nauseating” and “reeks with the at mwoephere of degeneracy and disease, Probably in for a long run, eee Unele Sam hardly seems to be in his most dignified role when he puts women passengers from Europe on the rack for two hours in a search for amuggled diamonds which extends even to silt- ting the linings of thelr garments, The end may justify the means when the goods are found, but 1 bit awkward when the ‘'tlp” proves falsa, eee “He ta one of the most pro- found thinkers of the age.” “But is he thought/ub in Uttle things?” “I guess 80; he occupies rooms in a flat,"—Houston Post, eee The public health committee of Bel- fast has inaugurated a novel scheme for encouraging household cleaniiness. It offers substantial prizes, consisting of fifty-two weeks’ rent, twenty-six weeke’ and thirteen weeks’ respectively to the three householders who shall keep their premises in most cleanly con- dition between Maron 1 and Dee, & of this year, oe A public speaker in England having paid his respecta to Joseph Chamber- lain's “big, long, black, nasty-looking lg: a tobacco trade journal re- marks that the popular bellef that the light-colored leaf is the mildest is a mistake, The demand for lUght cj {s reported to have led leat growers to Pits Ele of the Evening We-='4; | and B formed a partners} week with a joint capital Maine diately after forming partnership 4 withdrew § per cent, and B14 per fant of their Investments for per- fonal ex } At the end of tho was exactly the same, word for as your Mary K, Milea described. Wo, no doubt in my mind that the “fan did not burn the papor I ‘pertain questions and tnforma- ih On, but burned another paper and ‘ithe one I wrote inside to Perin, try to meet the demand by cutting their} leat when !mmature, with the natural result that the leaf thus preferred {s apt} to be acrid, bitter and strong-taated, o 8 e “There {8 one thing," says the Lady's Realm, “no woman can ever understand, paid Preaident Hadley, ‘te not to induce | ¢ ‘theless, must continue to be the elght- fi 2 lecturer on dress, ‘the more absolute] wilt? note for $65,000 without security, Evi-} i return. to the old practice of making} New York are incapable of grasping what every ward heeler, every saloon- ki e champion of ‘the sex, posed a cynic, “anybody that has % and wants something, ome one that hasn't, has grasped the first principle of every variety of polt- tles—civic, Slate, National or inter- national,” gent views is warranted by facts? Are women really incapable of understand- the aversion to politics implanted in the feminine breast is but a part of the instinct of eelf-preservation, rado!" exclaims the suffraglist, i ticlan whose prowd boast it is that she stands every election day at the polls clectioneering for her candidate, and if her sister politicians may ba judged by her— or anything else altogether weird and uncanny, | women are not interested In politics, I believe that the minority who are should ‘Mary Jane Spoils Pa with a past does not make a book with | ® Woman and Politics, By Nixola Greeley-Smith. OMAN'S “W mind is at fault if politics 4s beyond its ken." So sald a very in- telligent | member be allowed to etectloneer and vote to thelr hearts’ content. But the States where women are already allowed the full suffrage are quite large enough to contain all those in this country anxious to share tn the Privilege and {t seems to me the easiest way for the suffrag- Ists to accomplish their purpose is by general emigration to these Meccas of the woman politiclan, Any woman of average intelligence can understand politics if she wants to. But she doesn't want to, There are s0 many grave problems of modes and millinery that require her more immedl- ate attention for thelr solution, — A Boiled Grafter, Tn 1890 the last instance of boiling to visit to @ woman's club, where political discussion waxed fast and furious and unintelligible, ‘Do you mean to Nola Greeleven 88Y that the most ’ cultivated women in eeper in New York at his finger mds? asked an ‘indignant ‘feminine Fudge!” inter- fender, guilty of stealing state reve- nves, was put into a Jarge culdron of cold water, which was slowly ‘heated to the boiling point. Hie bones were die- tributed, as @ warning, among the provinclal tax collectors, —— Where Is He? and knows Which of these three widely diver- ng political questions or are they mere- y Indifferent to them? T am Inclined to think that the latter Is the correct view and to tbelleve that “But look at the results in Colo- | I once met a Colorado woman poll- | “They are netther man nor women, | ‘They are neither brute nor human, | They are ghouls"— | | However, though the majority’ of) “A handy man.” Deteriorated in Value. death took place In Persia. The of>) pa’s Highball | 2 & & & & gw Showing How She Interfered with Two'Large and Burning Thirsts Mrs. Nagg «ee By Roy L. COTE you would I not mind, Mr. Nags, I would like to have a little extra money this week to get some clothes, Goodness I don't want you for them, y but 1am ashamed to go out in the old made-over duds I : have. Now, don't ask me where the money hit ds eC eree tent you gave me! If you ran this house one day you |would see where the money went to. ‘The cost of living is something dread- ful. Good butter ts 35 cents, lamb is ¢eents a pound. “T never think of getting anything for myself.. I do put a few dollars aside to get a hat or dress, and then I have to get something for the house or something for the children, for, of course, you wouldn't care if they looked like beggars, And then by the time I have patd the bills and bought new shoes for the children, and pald for the gas and the coal and the telephone the money Is all gone and you come home to find fault with me! “I saw the loveliest dress toMay at the Big Bargain Bazaar, It was in French taffeta in the new olive green shade. It was one of those new ‘sus- pender suits,’ as they are called, The sult just became me beautifully and the floor-walker and saleslady were in eostasies, If Mrs, Ladyfinger ever tried on such a dress, and it become her half as well as everybody sald It did me, Mr. Ladyfinger would have run to his wife's mother and begged her with tears in his eyes to pay for it even if his spending money of 10 centa a week had to be cut off. “But mobody makes any sacrifices for me. I am the last person in this house that is thought of, “And yet there Isn't a woman I know to whom good clothes are more be- coming, “I can have a susupender sult if J want {t, you say? “Oh, that's all well enough for you to say, but they cost from $115 to $150, — A Quest. What ways through the wide world, east or west, Shall I follow, dear, to find you? Perhaps by some road I know the best I should fare and—not far behind you |] Perhaps by the changing tracks that cross Where the suns | beating, ‘Mid the lonely reaches where swift and storms are for the place of ver the road, or south or 2@ cents and any sort of steak is 25) oow 2! oH By Martin Green. 667 SHE.” sald the Clzar Store | | Man, “that this Chicago big» amist, Hoch, says that all he used {n copping out widows with the long green was a well-heated and lite erally applied mixture of conology,” “Sure,” replied the Man Highep Up. “What did you think he wom them with, an axe? All this naw | faced, greasy assemblage of egviters had to do was to pick out a homely, sensible widow, tell her she had Liles Nan Russell skinned to @ fret on . looks and {t wae @ case of hike ta. the preacher, “ "Twas ever thus, as the poet says, The man who hasn't got the ma» chinery for the manufacture of a sue perior brand of hot alr doesn’t class « with the female sex. A woman hates © to have a man Ile to her, but ahe bee Neves him when ‘he lies ang thinks he's a lar when he tells her: the. truth, Some men would be willing to tell women how beautiful they are if they could believe it themselves, But the more sincere a man {s the more likely he 18 to encounter a frost ‘ when he hands out the admiration’ \ dope to a she who has attracted his fanoy. i ‘Men fall to the blarney thing; too, : but they generally are hep to the fact that they are being conned, The plainer the con the more likely a fee male 1s to take it as the first cousin to an affidavit, Some wise women admit that their own sex is naturally deceitful, They are so successful in keeping men guessing that after a | time they become inoculated with the idea that they are the only entries in DDD S DPGOOSS chanoe, Along comes the con man and sheds a prose poem about their beautiful eyes, hair, features and 60 On, i “Right here the female deceives herself, She may know that she’s as | homely as a storm door, but she fige ures that the man {s such a four-ply + sucker that he takes her for the reiny © carnation of Cleopatra, All that re- mains for him to do is deplore the fact that her beauty {s not sufficiently adorned and borrow money where- with to accomplish the requisite adornment.” “The percentage of decelvers among men {s mighty small,” asserted the ‘| Cigar Store Man, and Mr mn “Yes,” said the Man Higher Up, “and {t's @ good thing for the women, McCardell..., too, and even more, and just You get an expensive thing Little Willie's the style ts copled by the ch stores Guide to New York, |and every woman you meet is wearing 3 THE BOWERY. j one. fie i een sults, I am alck and red of y and the; v4 vogue now for three oe ag Tne bowery you reed eres Bias |, "You are going co say I mean the and maggazeens le just about as bolero, Well, {t 1s pretty much the| mutch like the reel bowery ag the pics rey to toch amnith only ont the|tures on the outside of the sideshow I know she could make me up one in| tent ae Mike the meealy faikes egalbe | very dulce atch Wage "R ahs) tir on whiten the leat bowery bop | such ngs. 8| ir on owery J n , No. hte Sager Ywould. not capend [bern Jn kaptivity walked fourty years | the money. Still it vow ineist—and, by |Ae0. {t atarts at brooklen bridge and the Way. Mr. Nagg, what has hap-|/rune noanth and‘etops in surprise aty aite of peeter kooper's statu the bows / jery (@ suposed to be lined on eether side by dens of innicquitty and to be full of murdurus tuffs and drunken | { dern bowery i cast by the L road") struckshure, manny fakes are worked { on the bowery but the gratest fake of the lot is the atoary that the bowery ls anny different from anny othes A wpon the lower part of the body and tail, “How dare you Beneath the outer coat, moreover, there | condition?” ts a layer of wool known as ‘pushim,” "“Sh’ right, m' dear; 's @ condition—| which Is highly prized for the making not a—hic—theory!"” ‘ot cloth. pened? You really seem to be in good and villens of the deepest dy and whene streat. the bowery peeple have been, 66 99 s s The ‘‘Fudge”’ Idiotorial TODVOGEODSD ODO: GDDDDO9OO0G-90- lala iit has al- humor this evening! Goodness knows It Isn't often. If there is any sunshine Scattered around this house ways to be scattered by me Se Guessed First Time, |novver » scene in a play ts lade on the bowery you may look out for horrers, novvelliste come to the bowery in seroty of loacle collor for thare blud and thune der novvels or for the plot of a drame mer like Cameel but thay goon dipe kuover that all the loacle collor has gone to a fow of the boweryites’ noses and that tthe bowery ie disguestenly respeke good for 20 years but thay dont know it yet, A. P, TERHUND, en The Grunting Ox, One of the langest of the mammalta og | Thibet ts the yuk, or grunting ox, Btanding between five and elx feet higty at the shoulders, the bulk of this strange: lookfng creature is not @ little exaggers || tible, all the shaydiness of the mode ated by the enormous growth of halp eps come home in that We think It was Eplctetus.’’ who advised mankind to be, : ALWAYS ON THE MAKE! WE go a step further, as usual, and advise mankind to MAKE coop! ‘ | Promfse Is always better than performance, but MUCH can |be accomplished by PLAYING BOTH ENDS AGAINST THE MID- DLE! | Let us have RECIPROCITY IN GRAFT and then the whole |country will prosper. WHY should police captalns and the Standard Oil crowd get EVERYTHING that goes ? Reciprocity | in Graft. | (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub. Co.) | the wisdom stakes with a shade of a { Why cannot THE COMMON PEOPLE be LET In Instead of belng TAKEN In all the time ? We call for FREE DRINKS from the saloons and MORE TRUST from the TRUSTS. | Incidentally we may remark that the SNOW AND ICE weok the had a proftt of $28.24, which | and that Ja—the abrupt change In her Was divided according to original invest. | iusband’s manner toward her soon ment, Now, !f the withdrawals haq| fter, and sometimes during, the honey- been considered and the profit divided | moon. She can never discover why, socondingly, ae would have received 45 from belng the most perfect of mortal i a canes se dia recelvo, | What women, cher!shed, caressed, adored, she i "| te suddenly of no consequence what- | over, It 1s a mysiory that baffles and | tortures her, Lord Dundreary sald once culled me by name but Nothing whatever except what I had written down, Keep up the good i ISAAC LEIGH. At Least 61 a Word, Hie Haitor of The Bvening We Bir A, Conan Doyle receive $1 a Ord, for his latest @henlock Holmes chill of snow, or the glowing |] Of passion-roses, I journey forth Far, far as the winds are blowing! O, heart of my heart; when I reach you, when 1 b fe WeeSTGTLEAE Bak ebeonie ee | TRUST has beon overdoing Its benetits. Th the Mito of the Evenine Wor'd: CLARA J, Readers find the nrice of eggs when | ara ‘| i "You'll only pay mo $2.00 for this ploture? Why, the canvas alone cost that | J shall know I can never find you. : as tha a Amerioan eerlal rights alone two less for five cents ralses the price es Way others vee, tee Sle insoluine nuch. || —Madetino Bridges In Smart set, Our Podunk SOT eS ROTC ET lis MAS U6: afiOW. Un ater Rerura of Sherlock Holmes’ one cont a doen, MATHEMATICS, | mysteries as well. You, but that was before you spoiled (t up above John I. Platt’s whiskers,