The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1905, Page 10

id? savy by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 63 Park Row, New Tork. ‘at the Post-Ofice at Now Xork as Second-Class Mal! Matter. NO. 16,889. HSL) SRILA DI hea ad dian } CRAB-LIKE. REFORMS. { “Phe statutory organizer of the Raines law hotels in this city will Fhobody but himself to undertake a reform of these ‘hell holes.” es which Senator Raines proposes look to an improvement in dings occupied by these fake hotels, Me would require thelr on and approval by the City Building and Health Departments. the proposition is made to increase the license fee from $1,200 to 0 nich a measure “ould no doubt abolish a good many of these places. The) cannot, by mere alterations, be made to conform to our wise build- ie and health regulations, So far, well and good, Butit is not a paradox yy that the better you make these hotels for revenue only the worse By will become, By compelling the license-holder to have ten or more “rea lrooms for guests, with a real dining-room equipment and provisions cleanliness and light, and for safety in case of fire, you constrain him to fetit his rooms in the most remuneratiy » way—which is for improper and . to sell liquor at-any and all times, and to buy the heap, adulterated brands, He will “get even’ in such ways. © 4n'other worus, the Raines amendments will increase the premium n vice and on violation of the law, Is the Republican party—the “party great moral ideas’”—ready to stand for this crab-like, backward-creeping side-stepping “reform?” {ia SAS ae ee ae FARMS AND SAVINGS. ‘W State Senator representing a farming district says that the tax on th Surplus funds of rags banks will not be repealed “until some other iay is devised to raise the $700,000 revenue which it ylelds.” What s the matter with restoring a little—a very little—tax on ? Has there been any class in the country more generally prosper- iihian the farmers during the past six years? The farm property gildings in this State were val the land alone at $551,000,000, From the lime of Gov, Odell this property has paid a share not now pay a cent, founding of the State until ‘this vast amount of real and lances of the poor”—funds held to safeguard their savings? ‘CO-OPERATION FOR PURE MILK. n the united action of the Board of Health, the State Department Secutture, the milk-producing farmers and the retail milk dealers men! for pure milk at five cents a quart is on a fair road to ‘mnllk trust and the milk embalmers are coming ard in support of the movement begun by The Evening World. “This movement, if successful, will open the way for a direct meeting | the producer oads of vegetables are thrown in the river which the 4,000,000 is of Greater New ‘York would have been glad to consume, is of thousands of barrels of apples were left lying in tha ‘a few hours of New York City because the apple, ry to reach the apple-eaters, In the’ Wester part of this State jC and ic:bbaies can be bought for less than a quarter of the New York consumer pays. milk problem is most urgent because It affects the lives. of ids of children, But the direct co-operative experiment tion in the milk trade may be fruitful of valuable MIDDLE AGE IN A PRISON, e years in State, prison! les Sandrock Smith has finished thls term he witt have ( ‘youth across young manhood into middle age. He has boyhood, ‘heavy sentence, many years upon which gpportunity and might haveentered, door closes now, for him, against possibilities of frlend- “se Si hope. His winter shuts him in at springtime. fs there ‘here to inspire the “boy imitators” whom young expects yet to deal with? What cornpensation for the five years does “the boy ‘hold-up’ bandit of the west nd in the memory, of his brlef days of newspaper notoriety? WOMEN’S BILLS, oman’s club the other day debated the question whether married fn should pay their bills. Strange to say, most of the good ladies ‘were disposed to think that they should not, ‘where a woman has no property or earnings of her own to of, it should be a matter of pride with her to pay the debts she her own person. To run up accounts at random, leaving it to else to settle them when due, is one of the surest ways to cul- vagant habits, Thrift is an ornament in every housewife, and in spite of all our modern improvements, is the best type manhood the world knows. matter of fact, the average woman is a shrewder buyer than the rave man within her sphere of experience. She knows when she gets y's worili, and she insists upon having it, Even where she has ed the value of money by earning it outside the home, she often ch her helpmate how it is best spent. At any rate, nothing is more than that without responsibility she will never learn, The man Telieves his wife of this routine responsibility has no just reason for somplaining if her bills are so heavy as to embarrass him, he People’s Corner. y tters from Evening World Readers nothing else to do but to jump Into the water, There should be a platform there for the public to get on in case of emergency, A.D, The Police and the Snow, To the Editor of The Evening World: or Stenography? ‘eAitor @ Evening World: a Man veh sixteen years of have talent in drawing and to learn designing for mit ‘Dear readers who have had eperienca, would you qdvise ma wn this or would stenography be ble? JULIA. Want Platform on Trestle. the Baltor of The Bvening World: pthe Long Island Railroad, going pokaway Beach, there is a trestle, Hk, for the safety of the public, o'clock the morning after a snowstorm, ring the bell and order the sidewalk cleaned off, It was formerly done, 1| believe, and if the order was disobeyed | people would be fined. Now we have snow on the walks for days and days, People fall about and injure them- selves, as a friend of mine did last night, J. BM, and| “°° every bride, and consumers of other food products. Every |**ve t take to the woods ‘6 club-house, which ts to be “Just lke a man's,” will contain 2} S8EOOOOOODOSOOOHOONVOODOOOOOS Xk Long Red Record of Assassinated Russian Kulers Poison, the Axe and the Sword Employed as Freely Formerly as Dynamite Is TorDay Said on the Side. The Evening World's “shooting craps,” releasing a boy arrested crime. Lei Nine’s to appear? eo. In getting a twenty-five-year sen- tence, Roy Bandit Smith has done well Better, in fact, than any professional heard of up to the for an amateur, Present tithe, of their value, In @ éortnight, . to give him! “Mrs, Ohellus has been awake every night for a week past.” we) tdea! What toas the mat- "Bhe discovered about @ week ago that her husband talks in his sloep and, of course, she had to Usten,"—Kansas Oity Independent, “Against tho battles of men, whet of Tonelineas of women, thelr secret i it road poser nig cares, sorrows and desires?"’ census an irs, Craigie, ‘What of their eo- ued at $1,069,000,000 int Peed and domestlo worries? Worries a marrying and not marrying, of the State taxes.| about huspands, about children, about Servants, about kitchen boilers, about no ‘ dressmakers, about nerves, about oc- Do the farmers and thelr representatives at Albany think It falt to ex-Jeupetiont” || productive property, while taxing the) pe Centra: omce sleuth now done sailors garb for Bowery work and puts On tits top hat and dress sult for Ten- Gertoin sherlooking, Jacobs is gone, but there are indications thet his ample lives after him, e . prudent New womi att of Juatice Gaynor says he cannot see where the child's act disturbed the public peace, and he expresses the opinion that If sent to jail the boy culprit would learn more of vice In fifty days than In a year of crap shooting, Painful to observe the disposition of the bench to discourage police activity in the suppression of ee Katser has 160 uniforms, but wait till he arrays himeelt in the doctor's gown which the Universtty of Pennsylvania is . “Plucky girl with fiu-jiteu Imocks olit hold-up man," stoner Mosely will note that the femi- The great agricultural papers and everybody affected except | Msation of New York proceeds apace, together in hearty} atorristown clergyman has estab- Mehed a dangerous precedent. book of trading-etampe ia to go with bachelors will schedule !s out, When Is the Benator Grady's week-end contribu- tton to legislative bills included one giving every street-car passenger 4 Seat, one prescribing jail sentences for chauffeurs, and others dealing with rail- way rate discrimination, stock ‘wash- Ing’’ and the sale of articles of mer- chandise through false representation ‘The Senator, if pushed to At, could probably fill a statute book swimming pool, Turkish and Russian baths, sleeping rooms, gymnaeium, run- y) ning track and squash court, Nothing {gs sald about a bar, With an Ibsen and Audermann library it ought to prove an tractive lounging place, The growth the club habit among the sex has Commis- COYHHDDHHOODOHOOHEPQODDDOOOOHDE OODHHOOTODDSHOOODOHOHO €0019099HOOODH9HTHONCOHHDODHOEOOOGHOOOHOOOOOOHOOHOOO ‘Mary Jane Becomes an Inventor. °@ ww The Improved Bean-Shooter She Constructs Works Like a Charm. for } rouno tm Au RORT!), {Fae te) ( @) ® 0) 0) 6 % ) wone ® {isda S503) THEY, STRETCH SOSOCD DONT, THEY, STRETCH FING? LETS MAKEA BEAN- SHOOTER! OO GEQOQOGCOODNO: TF QPOOQOQODSG®: blow It a DOOO00D 0000 000000000000) Attadned a substantlatity in recent yer to which abundantly testifies, ee Bho—It must Ye terrible to fina out after one te married that one don't really in love, He—Oh! I don't know. are lots of married people who ‘seem to be both cheerful and hope- ful.—OMcago Record-Rerald, The closing of an alleged gambling- house’ doubtless benefita the commu- Yet there remained, before the follies which have |nity's morals, But an aeathetlc question decorative pan- Arises in the case of t! clousness of denyi to works of art of oe Critlo fears that our laughing powers are Iikely to ‘become atrophied through disuse,” with the result that the art of smiling will be lost and the human face assume a vad ape-like expression, Does not say how much modern vaudeville and comio opera are responsible for this mirthless evolution, eee Minister complains that there 1s too “holy rag time" music, Luther sald the devil should not be permitted to have all the good much ‘tunes, ee Nevertheless and notwithstanding, this winter has been two-thirds of one de- greo Warmer than last. The figured are oMcial and not subject to argument, Pick of Filipino exhibit at St. Louls to come to New York. Between the auc- tion rooms, the museums and Madison Square Garden, New York has been large section of the World's Fair without going away from able to see a home, ee Mrs, Younglove—Our cook says you sent those eggs were anoient, Record Herald, Washington thinks his bear's testlmony to * Encland ts aisct a Fiat a Home?’ r to bo @ platform on it, Last fu X hand ononaton to go to Rocka- Frock sult, Gray Glov ‘thote was nome trouble} mo ime Baltor of The Bvening World and it @topped night in! What is proper for man and a ial Ll, i Be hiasgur ty A stone found jn Finland {9 highly prized as a barometer, because It turns pak on ihe inparath (Ht bad weather, impossible to put entire pavements 4 auollar barometric! New York to application. ’ @ frequent abandonment of rented quarters for private club-houses yesterday Grocer—Very worry, ma'am, You see, all the young chickens were Killed off for the holiday trade, so the old hens tvere the only ones left to do the taying.—Chicago the assassination the work of students. Whatever else he learns, the Russ'an student acquires a proficlency In the theory and practice of explosives which ng the question “ Referred to Harlem The police ought to call around by 10| {8 In question, "possessed a laughing dn chureh _— In the Zarliest ‘‘Removals’”’ of Despots Piadic, Plain Plurder and a Snake Fig- ure—Forty Slain Rulers in ll. / UBSBIA'S history !s a tral] of blood. R Its pages are,orimson with slaugh- ter, Since the foundation of the a] Russian Empire, even going back to the earliest days of Rurik, when the legends of the land began to take shape in definite chronicles, few of the rulers There virlle, bloodthirsty, stalwart, handed, arrogant dynasty which Rurik founded eleven hundred years ago. Rorls way destroyed In a tempes' when, with a fleet of 200 vessels, he se! eall to extend hés warlike wanderings have died a peaceful death in thelr but since the earliest times polson, the axe, the assassin's knife and the sword cancies on the throne and in overturn- {ng and establishing rulers and dynas- . ' No. 1—Rurik, Slain by ' Miracle. I shape with Rurik for its first Prince, Rurik was a Varangian, His tribe climate and more fertile fields than fhe cold lands of thelr origin, They flowed the Gauls poured over France and the Normans over England, a conqueror successive generations In the more popu- lous blood of the conquered, but con- mental dominance and arrogance, and of physical stature and strength, ans as to the origin of the name Russa, One theory derives it from the Swedish beds. Removal by dynamite 1s recent, have taken thelr turns in making va- les, N the ninth century Russta first took came from the north seeking a milder over what {8 now Southern Russia, as race swallowed up by mingling through Unuing' strong racial characteristics of There is no agreement among histori- word Roslog, from which oarsmen and} sallors were called Roslagen. The Varan-|t5 Constantinople The details of his glans have originally come from the|ieath are involved in the mysticism o} north, and retalning tho seamanship |the annals of the Middle Ages. qualities of their Scandinavian ances-| ‘he account preserved in tho old ar (000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000; high-|rels took place then which have ac- companied every ruling dynasty 1n tussia since, and Oleg, the brother of vurk, killed Askold and Dir, Rurlk's dest sons, and made himself chief. History recites that Askold and D.r serve not killed in battie, but that thelr le pretended friendship for them, after surrounding them with his suards, slaughtered them, tors, the name by which they came to|ohlves of the Greek Church 1s that, , Jn (hose days of Russia had » called was the’ name for oarsmen! Ruril, at the head of his pawan fleet, | Hive how marks land sailors instead of thelr tribal name, |ussembled to besiege Constantinople, | of . they were In support of this theory 1s the fact{and that the Patriarch Photius, the drunken, Hcsntious, | duarrelsonlo and Morcow ay F “ i BUL the early records, even that the present day Finns call the|head of the Constantinople Christian smies at Constantinople, Swedes Rootal, Church, took a sacred relic and, ace nthe seat of Another theory 1s that the Varanglans|companted by his priests and the high pay constant acknowl 7 courage and their did not com: yom Sweden, but from| officers of the Church, went to the i the further ea@tn north, and that they|shore and immersed the relle tn the) i ine en progiot were not Scandinavians, but Slavs, and| waters of the Bosphorus, praying that tele EE tH Pals llact) y , they might rise and destroy the pagan fleet The tradition Is that In answer to his that the word Russia js not of Swedish origin, but comes from Rouss, the an- clent name of the province of K'ef, quered France, and then England. ‘The | Varangians gradually spread to the Black Sea. ‘Whichever theory 1s correct, and this+ Rom sons cannot have been with him at the time of this great catastrophe, because they prompt- ly undertook to reign in hy stead, wales and that their Ninlatures and tap- ke those of the Nor- early the works of art, estries were al mans, No trace of them ts found fn (TLC ‘The more generally accepted historical | prayer a great storm at once arose, that! eithor the joiustern, Christian “oF the ‘i - coef theory, however, Is that Rurlk was a[the waves mounted higher than had Arab records until Ruch mate hie ap. Rick Edinburgh Sheriff, whos» sanity] grandinavian, and that the original|ever been known before, that the light-/neirance with, Ns atiy, | the /Anion Ist d also a flirtati val Russian race came from the Intermar-| ning descended from the clouds, and! pre as tall vs palm trees’ le tho phrage walsteoat and also a flirtation walst-| ages of the Scandinavian warriors and | ihat while Photius and his attending| used by an Arab writer In describing coat. He carried about with him a : ridowa and the daughe te | thers antity of camphor, which he mt seamen with the widows and the daugh. priests stood praying on the shore, un-) ' Shynaal Ba tdaslosen it of the Slavs In the country of the/harmed by the storm, the whole feet| NNO. d—Oled, Killed by Was an, anigote ‘Gaming tmatrinenial and the tributaries of the{was swallowed up and that Rurik and | infection, He had an Idea that ladies T attributes a com- his army were seen no more gnake. ents: eat Se eae aM ‘gin to the Normans of France iil 4 1 who succeeded to Rurik's ried small rolls of guttapercha for the} and the Varangians, of whom Rurik i O ne after assassinatin eal a n 5 = me 4 assy ating Ru- purpoge of mending them," Clear case, wag the chief, Roving from their No. a Askold and Dir, rik’s sons, also met with a vio- apparently, on the wet count at least, | northern homes, part went southwest i cd, Jont death, First his enemies tried to CUE G and part southeast, The Normans con- Assassinated. poison him by giving him polsoned food, put he detected this and slaughtered them, He continued the war against Constantinople which Rurik ha and ‘built a linge fleet of 2000 [aa ede ae Yavaverty “ i Ww THIS RUBBER BALL {9 JUST THE THING: DARN SUCH Luck! land the boats would be dragged along as wagons, and on water the wheels would be taken off and the sails holsted, This enabled him to carry a Jargxe quantity of supplies across both sand and streams, Oleg believed in magic, and kept ma- giciams around him to direct his move- ments. One of his magicians predicted that his favorite, horse would be the cause of his death. Oleg promptly had the horse sent away and never saw it again, The magicians assured him that except by this horse he would never be killed, ‘his prediction was con- firmed by his preventing and detecting several attempts to assassinate him. In the course of time the horse died, and Oleg, believing that no further harm could come from it and that he Was destined to live forever and become & god yee his Scandinavian ancestors of the Norse traditions, went to see the dead horse, A venomous snake had been concealed In the horse's mouth, and when gles stooped over to pat the nozzle of his favorite charger lying cold In death the snake pricked his hand, and his enemies at last succeeded in their determination to assassinate him The early chieftains had large fami. Nes, 90 that even with deaths In battle Gnd assassinations at home there was always & successor to the thrqne, Tho wars were always going on and the principles of warfare were as primitive a8 those of the founders of Rome. The men and boys were slain, and the wom- en were kept to provide future warriors in whose velns would flow the Varan- | STs an latereatt an interesting commentar; point of view of ithe original Rugsiene that the name Rurik is the Bcandina- vian word signifying The Peaceful One, and that war with other tribes was not regarded as a contrary term to peace, but as a natural form of Industry, and that the contrary to fog) was only houschold or internecine dissensiona, Kven these did not usually continue long, as one party slaughtered the other, and then internal peace continued as be! fore In order that the tribe might pres sent a united front against its external enemies, This series will continue from day to day until all the stories have been told of the forty rulers of the great Russian Empire that haye been assassinated, The Man : Higher Up, By Martin Green, SEE,” sald the Cigar Store 4 Man, “that if the Casino Theatre had been ‘full of an audience whea, the fire started’ and {f/ the Grove Street School fire had: happened when the echool was full of children there might have been a loss of life,” “Yes,” remarked the Man Highér Up, “and if there hadn't been a body- guard of police around President Roosevelt when he went down on the east side the other might some- body might have hit him on the chest with a watermelon. If there hadn't been a solld brick wall between the burning car barns at Fifty-third street and Ninth avenue and the West Side Court Prison the flames might have swept into the prison and soorched a few crooks—if the guards hadn't been able to get them out. If one of the Staten Island ferry-boats alnks some night half way between St. George and the Battery the chances are that somebody 1s going to he drowned, , “Tt I hadn't made a leap that jarred my corns loose when I heard! that skiddoo wagon honk me a 28 sign & moment ago the chances are that I would be at the present moment more or less defunct, If all the pas sengers on a Subway local were standing on the rear platform and another local came up at twenty miles an hour and ran into it you could write your own ticket on the proposition that somebody would get hurt. If you don’t keep your eye peeled in this town something is going to happen to you, and it won't be a happening that you will scream for an encore on, either, “To hear some people talk you might absorb the impression that the owners of theatres in this town build thelr houses with the design of setting them afire and roasting an audience. It has been a good many. years in New York since anything in @ theatre got roasted but the show, As to the Grove Street School, I re member a fire last summer in @ Brooklyn school that was stuffed with kids and was built of wood, A fire started on the ground floor and in Jess than three minutes every kid was on the street hollering at the fire engines.” “Wouldn't the people stay away from unsafe theatres if they were told to do so by the authorities?” asked the Cigar Store Man. ‘Not if they liked the show,” re plied the Man Higher Up. “You didn’t see them tying up any exeure sion boats after the Slocum disaster did you?” . ed Little Willie's Guide to New York. BOARD OF ALDERMEN. munny malkes the mayor go but the bord of alldermen are inkorruptible thay wernt thay woodent apend thare time and branes and laber for the paultry eallery of one thowsend dollers a yeer, thay are troo paytrioty who love nu yoark sitty so deerly thet thay, are willeng to werk cheep and to pair the time from thalr foarmer lookrative jobs to toll for the good of the peeple, and all for $ one thowsend a yeer, some of them are so self sackrifising that thay apend big sums of munny, just to be eeleckted alldermen so that thay can help along there fello men and pleeze thare districk leeder, when 1 grow up and become preseident | am going to raze the alidermens eallerye to ten thowsend $a yeer as a reward for thare noatleness. an allderman | a8 grate as a pleeceman anny day, pleecemen get stripes, on thare sleeve for good servise but once thare wae an allderman who served nu yoark #0 well that he got a whole sute of cloathes kuyverd with stripes, but evry allderman {s not so justly rée- warded by a gruitfull sity, A, P, TERHUNE, ieee 8UM TOTAL OF IT. The sick man's regular physician had called in two other pill dispensers for @ consultation, “Well,” sald one of the new arrivala, y to the amount of $500 #0 fan® answered the M, D, In charge,—Chie cago News, The ‘‘Fudge” Idiotorial Condense the Milk Trust. (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub. Co.) , Now comes the MILK TRUST to add to our oppressors, When a gentle, amlable animal like a cow organizes a TRUST It Is time the President interfered, WE call upon Theodore Roose+ velt TO UNLOCK THE HORNS OF THIS COMBINE! It ls BAD ENOUGH to squeeze a gallon of milk Into a pint can, without putting the left-over water Into TRUST STOCK! Where will It all end? The COWS seem to have been affected by Rockefeller. COMMON. Both are made of The oll can and the milk can have MUCH IN INI The TIN TRUST Is close to the CAN TRUST, and now the CAN TRUST corners the COW TRUST. But you cannot get TRUSTED for MILK! The cow Is a sus- picious animal, We once knew a cow that could not be TRUSTED unless tled, Even then she would KICK THE BUCKET OVER, Perhaps things will be, BETTER when the COWS ;COME HOME]