The evening world. Newspaper, February 22, 1905, Page 8

ed 'by the Prose Publishing Company, No, §8 to 6 ark Row, New Tork, fat the Post-OfMice at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. seeeeesNQ, 18,891. : IS IT THE JAIL AT LAST? WA despatch from Chicago states that a special Federal Grand Jury been summoned in that city to indict members of the Beef Trust who me for nearly two years snapped their, fingers at Judge Grosscup's in- It is high time that such action were taken, Ever since the unani- is decision of the Supreme Court against the! most rapacious and of- ve of the trusts, The Evening World has been asking: What are anti- ‘trust Jaws for?) What is the good of injunctions that do'rlot enjoin? And Hil the Beef Trust has gone straight ahead, fleécing the cattle-ralser with ‘one hand and robbing consumers with the other! | ‘The antl-monopoly act of 1890 declares that every person violating i) Atsyprovisions “shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by im- nt not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, in the tion of the courts.” Never until some of the beef barons are actually dwill the combine believe that the Government means business, or the law has any force, It Is up to the President to “make good,” and the Chicago prpsecu- will be watched with deep interest. \ BATTLE-SHIPS AND PEACE. ‘The House has passed a Naval Appropriation bill carrying nearly 100,000,000. This is more than three times the cost of the navy in the it of the Spanish war (4898) and more than twice the sum appro- ited for this purpose in 1900, Of this sum $15,000,000 was voted for two new battle-ships; and enthuslastic jingo paper declares that ‘“Battle-ships spell Peace.” Russia and Japan were pretty evenly supplied with battle-ships a more than a year ago, Did they ‘spell Peace?” The United States no battle-ships and no navy to brag of for half a century. Did this spell War? Was.there ever any danger of foreign aggression during time? Was the Monroe doctrine ever seriously challenged or Hed? Where 1s the foe against which we are now so strenuously arming? hat is the emergency, near or remote, that calls upon us to surpass the armament of the War Lord of Germany and to rival the navy of globe-encircling Empire of Great Britain? Is it not as true of nations of individuals that a Big Stick starts a row more often than it conduces peace? 1 fi ————_$—$ <r - CO-OPERATIVE MILK IN SIGHT. Inappealing direct to the east side retall milk dealers the milk pro- offer a sensible solution of the milk question. The mass-meeting Assembly Rooms next Wednesday evening should be at- ‘every retall milk dealer and by the consumers 28 well. They there representative farmers who produce milk and who re- their labor and their capitala third of what the consumer pays. fs no occasion for either the milk producers or the retail milk fear the Milk Trust or its threats that it will drive a co-operative ing depot out of existence and then will blacklist the farmers and dealers who took part in the plan. “ae of ait to New York on every rallroad except ‘commerce and the giving ofa rebate by the railroads to st. will be prosecuted with vigor. If the trust continues in its atenings, that matter, too, will be taken up in its tum and ‘will be Iaid bef fore the District-Attorney, il ‘Trust has no longer as its only opponents individual farm- retail dealers. The slaughter of the the tenement-houses has been brought to its door by the nts in The Evening World, Publicity has laid bare not only faut the weakness of the Milk Trust, and while The Evening g into this matter not as a crusade upon the Milk Trust but of the children of the tenement-houses, the Milk Trust that the: producers and the retail milk dealers have as t t ‘establish a milk-distributing depot as has any corporation ne} i ONABLE TRANSFER REQUEST, juest of Washington Heights citizens for transfers from “L” y, and vice versa, at Sixty-sixth street is absolutely reasona- 6 consti of a west side subway downtown, this:con- the construction “make complete, without a crosstown trip, the west side ough Company the transfer grant would mean no loss gain in the popular esteem, Commissioner McAdoo in his efforts to re- congested and dangerous traffic in Fifth People’s Corner. from Evening World Readers self, and in ight youre { have had two drosees and one coat, Do you really ‘think I am extravagant? Would some reader.pleage tell me how to economize? Jt Clean Sidewalk, ‘ot ‘The Evening World: mt has owner of half & One Hun- Mrs, M, BR. L. Tenement-Hou Department, No, banow ‘and ice on the sidewalk for 61 Irving Place, That sidewalk is never “what ie the patrolman on doing? The sidewalk should , Itke all others in the neigh;. L To the Editor of The Byentng World: To whom shall I apply for relief in regard to unsanttary condftions in my flat? I have notified my landlord a number of times without avail, EB, N. “Variant and Limit” Ag To tho HAltor of The Bvening World: A dog ‘s chasing a rabbit, At the start the rabbit 1s 100 feet ahead of the dog, At every hundred feet the rabbit runs the dog decreases ithe distance be- tween them by one-half, Readers, how far does the rabbit run before the dog c. Apply to Your Congressm the Billtor of The Eveulne ‘Works Where can 1 obtain flower seeds or ants for home gamen culture, without nee fu pe? R. Telit Her How to Econom! “pattor of The Bvening World: 4 ike to ask the opinion of ‘World readers concerning @ eother-intaw who tells my husband | catches him? E. x, ¢, gb mor) that I (hls wife) should be Frook Salt. pide % vim the house and clothe the), my Raitor of The Evening World: ‘What's the gorrect dress for che bridegroom, the bride's father and the ushers at a 4 o'clock wedding? Rac white waistcoat, gray non #10 a week, I receive $15 a dk deom him, and I will give you an ibd account of what I have to do Angurance, a week, $2.12, and nt, #4 every quarter; rent, od and light, $17; milkman, 66 ® ‘week, and clothes for three No, OL Irving Place. food for the table with!) The maitor of ‘The Bvering World: to bake my own bread| Where ts the Tenement-House Com- which Iam very glad to be | misstoner's office? 7, 'T. Y, WM y goed saving for Means “From Many, One.” food, I make every a Tee Baitor of The Bvening World: Frock = suit, gloves. joker."”” the. University of London Mr. A. C. ‘Acland said that “scholars wouM have ‘ far healthier bodies end minds if about thousands of inno-} tour be atruck out he belteved it would be doing @ better thing for educatidn than aty that had ever yet been done,” Might pay to follow the Pyrdon Clarke precedent and import this foe: of fade, oe 8 they increase the Said on the Side. HW YORK'S oldest resident, Jo- N seph McGrath, who died on Mons day, was one hundred and seven, By un Interesting coincidence that was also the age of another Americas conte: narian, Henrietta Johnson, who has Ju dled at Kingston-on-Thames, Miss John~ son was @ Haltimorean, Just before her death'she laughingly told a London re- porter thut el ttributed her long life to “early rising and a drop of whiskey taken as a nightcap.” McGrath used to say that he “had had his two drinks day for eighty-five years and smoked a room full of tol Moral lesson of these methods of those who are com ° petent to interpret it, oe Perhaps the best way for Standard Oil to deal with the obstrep: Governors would be to elect the Senate, , them to e ° e oo ‘United States to get no red hat this year,” But is Russia to get cap? That is the cardinal question, e . s Mra, Guaher—Your husband has such a knightly air. Mrs, Rounder—Yes, such an ont- allnightly air, as it were,—-Chi- cago News. , eee Another Roosevelt "If elected Prest- dent” promise to be redeemed. The boy band of. the Catholic Protectory will lead the ¢nauguration parade, There is} the f & growing ‘belief that the view ‘White House from the windows of Po- lige Headquarters in Mulberry ' street | g was unusually clear and distinct: some ten years ago, oe. Pplacopal Bighop just decoased® began his fife work as a newspaper reporter, but’ was converted, In the words of the billboard, "You Never Can Tell.” ° e e : Alderman's little joke holds up tunnel franchise. Might have been worse. Might have been an Alderman’s ‘little . . Push-cart men who are beginning to rely on “pull’ to ald thelr cause are met ting atthe seoret of acientific traction, eee ‘There ere times in, your Wye.” says fan ex-Congreseman, “when your, Intel- Ject ‘telegraphs you that eomebody ts} ¢ golng to etrike you for financial assivt- ance.” Ht is in the nature of things that (tia, eat in pereons of Rhe—I_ wonder, why so few men are regular church-goers? He—I don't know, unless it's Decouse there's no law prohibiting &.—OMoago News, . e e "You.cannot legislate morals tnto the people,” sakl Benator Cassidy in a speech opposing the “private graft” bill, But Albany will keep.on trying, never- . ee 6 “Other banks hit'by gitl.” Feminine ip of this kind dates its from the new. oot by Mrs, Chadwick. Three Bronx hold-ups within seventy- two hours, Residents of the new bor- ough are getting, a good imitation of life in livellest Manhattan. u eo. ‘At @ disounsion of choo! questions at fifths of the present examinations were out out. If by one stroke of the pen the lists of school honors’ could “Oulde’s” opinion of automobdttes: “hey are hideous, perilous, monstrous, Thoy disfigure the face of the earth; they crush children’and dogs to powder;| modern de! which makes people tear madly from place to place, learning nothing, wast- ing thelr, time and money.” It.is ims posabble even to imagine a speed-mad Bartle Cectl, ° “Don't you want to do something to which you can point with pride sohen you get out of Congress!" “No, ‘The ambition to point with pride has been the means of - getting too many people ont 'of Oon- grove.” —Washington Star. », jail under the terme of the Btate Anti- ‘become the Hoch! ‘Trust law." Topeka may yet Mosoow of anti-monopoly. ws her automobile. Popular automobile ecnblem here a little red devil, oe 8 The opposttton of t! Watdte Owners to the a fund of $27,000 collected from in- dividual owners, ‘The fund would be put to @ better use employed to comply with the law's) provistons, oe 8 ‘The, pawnshops of Paris last loaned money on 160,000 pairs of b' ets, 35,000 coverlets, 22,000 pillows and 9,000 mattresses, The largest sum ad, vanced was $26,000 on a single article of jewelry. A SEV ae Professor in London has been giving a acientific iilustration of why a pound of feathers 1s as heavy as a pound of lead, Illustration of varying welghts In Wall atreet this week 11 ¢ 4-point drop in cotton while ‘Steel’ was rising. oe ‘Weatchester road's plan for through cars from the Battery to Port Chester fs likewise of Incidental Interest to those who know just where the road's new stations will be buyllt. eae “Which will you have, Ruby, ice cream or jam?" “Give me a little of each and a lot of both." —Lippincoitt's, * 9 8 The flusitsu professor who che to | griet at West Point may have fatied to recall the Army's’ footba': record, e 8 ‘The former millionalve who complains that he can make only (400 a year out of ithe Orange County farm ought to buy a few heng, { “striking students . vein” At Am- t my children | What is the meaning of “% Pluribus herst, though. The Asnt, 19 nota .quirte |, Petersburg ptur evity referred tof ¢ Liberty | 4 Rurik,, Slain by Miracle, Slain by, Sword, Snake. _, der by Trees. urtun headed aiid’ Skull Used as Wine Qup by Slayers. No. G6—Oleg, Slain by tis drinking cup, there was a cessation for & few. yearp of the attempte of the vthaad ot Kanees grain poot ow OL OV'S and the Spirits. ° Traltan Queen qarries Saint's mage tn fnatrimorial cannot be tons a6 to whether Jane ip fai it Harry, Hereafter only quest are feally ly. questions that the Tenement-House law te backed by he those who are troubled about their . ‘ Me oS) ieee har Mar a rd ws Western} $ Russians to conquer Constantinople, Oleg, who was named after his great- wnele Rurik’s brother, began by trying to subjugate the territory of his other brothera--the provinces of Kiet and Nov- gorod, In the civil war that followed Oleg was killed by his brother Iaropolk. No. 1—Flrst €mperor, No.:'2—Askold and Dir, No. 3—Oleg,, Slain by No. 4—Idor, Torn Asune through their heads, No. 5—Sviatoslaf, Bee magicians, in the fire, Brother. FTER Prince Kouria, in the year 2 A. D., had out off Sviatoslat's head and used the skull as o ‘There wereeno unusual features con- nected with his assassination of Oleg, the sixth Russian Emperor, After a series of battles between their troops, the two brothers met én eingle combat and Iaropolk waa the better ewordaman, ' No. T—laropolk, Slain by ’ tis Brother. HIS brings Russian history down T to the time of Ieropolis, who reigned for several years after his slaughter of Oleg. During this time misstonarles came from Constantinople to try to convert the Scandinavian and Slav pagans to Christianity. ‘The first death penalty Infllcted by Russian jaw waa inflicted against these Christan misstonaries. Before that time there was no death penalty {nfileted by the community, but ta man killed another it was the business of the deceased's relatives to attend to tm, and the tyibe as a body paid no By Nixola Greeley-Smith. hag natty . Hayy, and if the spirits won't enlighten 13 them on these subjects, tt ts doubtful UD Gee Atie4 ‘whether they will care to make other inquiries. Sometimes in moments of supreme dis. couragements we may have wished to join the spirit fraternity, But in the face of Mrs. Pepper's revelations, we will surely never do so any more, For if they have cut out of the other world the only thing that makes this one tolerable, what earthly misery could drive us to change places with them? It must be, however, that only the particular brand of spirits retailed by Mrs, Pepper remain so sublimely aloof from earthly concerns, For only the other day a Pennsylvania wife sued fo divoroe on advices from the spirit worlds \and in court told of one bright particular ‘spirit’ who kept her fully Informed of her husband's movements, and even told her when ‘to put the coffee on, Now, that Is the sort of ‘'spinit’ to Yat Rea ERD “Oka tHtingn ” laromted!| LAN Oe ae SL UNE BOE ne eto one in anjhow? We aro all familiar with | that will tell vou with equal eagerness the Biblical dictum that In heaven there | and despatoh why a chicken crosses the Ss neWther marrying nor giving in mare aaa hes ge SAR OS a he riage, But the fact that the celestial | yasty deep to te!l us whether we shall Inhabltants don't take any interest In| give #0 or $100 to the medium. We ought to Know the answer to that by “The eoeels are jow much Tom loves Anna, or wheth Wht be wiee tor @arah to, Marry rteant will be answered, imir left Rogneda Here O Mrs. Mey Pepper, the Brooklyn spiritual medium, announced that the ii inhabitants of the | mysterious other world, with which she claims to be on familiar terms, re- gard questions con- jj cerning human love affairs as too frivol- ous bo answer, Hereafter, any in- quiry involving the tender passion wil) be ignored. hand in marriage. ‘was not, Norse noblewoman, Viadimir naturally tacked Polotsk, first proposal, Turopolk’s widow. ugainst Constantinople, constitute the gravest problems of exe|have no trouble in Hnding other me- istence for Anna ard Tom, Sarah and diums more accommodating, Intereste ———- | concubines, nA ODP PAPAL PPA, As They Sing It in Russia, Um going home, | think I'm right, ith the help of a stick of dynamite. that he woul wives and concubines, and nationallty that He also called Bielgorod. aevy Founding kingdoms Notwithstanding this,’ other mission- artes kept on coming, and several of them were allowed to remain on ac- count of the interesting miracles which | sian they performed, which were much more remarkable than the tricks of the pagan One of the missionaries had A copy of the Bile, which was thrown The fire refused to burn the copy, which the Russian Emperor henceforth retained for his own use. Taropolk, Russian Emperor No, 1, relgned for a few years, rother ‘Viedimir slew him, This assas- sination took place in the eamo sim! straightforward way in which G; Uncle Oleg slaughtered his nepht Aaskold and Dir and that Iaropolk had already killed off Grand Nephew Oleg, , No. 8—Vladimir, the Kopostle, MPDROR VLADIMIR began his reign with a romance, the first recorded in the annals of Russian history. His brother Iaropolk was be-| trothed to the daughter of a. Norse chieftain whose name was Rogneda, The assassination of Iaropolk by Viad- unengaged, and Viadtmir formally applied to her guard- fan, the Norseman Rogvoled, for her fan missionaries So he married one wife of ever: he coul within the emptre or could capture. kept 3,600. concubines, He established a city near Kief which he In this cit; bid See Wives and Cinpietr} and went wor ‘o the monarchs @ Aur and to the ohlsiaine ELSE. 1S WRONG! PLEDGE IORY GE COPD VUE DOOOD y Jane Does a G. W. Hatchet Act. Poison, the Axe and the Knife for 40 Russian Rule The Story of Thelr ‘‘Removal,” Beginning with the First Emperor, Who Was Slain by His Magicians. attention to it, Thus thefts of prop- erty were punished by cutting off an ear or a nose or @ few fingers or toes, according to the severity of the theft, but killing a man was regarded as the most natural way to settle an offense or to bring a quarrel to an end, and unless the relatives of the deceased re- sented It no one else did. ‘The particular way in which the death penalty was enforced againat the early Christian missionaries was to tle them to a post and to drive a long spike when his rs of bis various tributary tribes that in this respect King Bolo- mon, and that if any desired would’ nd’ that'*he ‘would vanqul Pe oth iio tml arned is Interest wink, be YS] the stoFies of King "solomon, Vinci started a further investigation into re- Maious gubjects, He concluded that the usslaa Empire hed NK Norse ‘and Slay hat ite Poman idots uid he had wi not udequate to the Aation’s needs, He point! several Jnvestieot!y commit- ‘tees, which he sent to iterent parts of the world ito investigate various reli«- fons. ‘Nhe committees came Teported in faver of the Greek Chui whose seat was then at Constantinople. ‘This was the eame Ch’ n church whose missionaries we been. from time to time coming to Novgorod a! Rt and against which the successive Emperors had been Lsttid war. After coming to this decision Em- eror Viadimir took an army, and going 0 Cherson captured the whole city, ine cluding the Greek archbishop and the priests of the Greek cathedral, He had the archbishop and the priests hold @ ceremony in the Cheraon enthedral and formally make him an Apostle, He then changed his title to Apostle and Yes COMM PaAe y ater Anne, re imperor Ken ir * ~whom Vadimir promptly ad hie ded to International matrimonial collectio Rogvolod was willing, but Rogneda She sent back wor to Viad- smir that he was not the full brother of Taropolk, but only the half-brother, and that his mother, instead of being a was only one of his father Sviatoslof's female ‘slaves, resented Rogne- da's comments on his birth and social position, and raising an army he at- where Rogneda lived with her guardian, Rogvolod, and after killing, Rogvolod and his two sons he forced Rogneda to marry him. to rub in on Rogneda the mistake she had made in her scornful answer to his Viadimir also married It seems that all the time that Iaropolk was payin tion to Rogneda he was married to a Greek woman who had been captured in one of the marauding expeditions In order atten- love fs something new. What do they | i de Nea this time and have the $100 ready} ‘Through the Christ want to talk about? And whalt ques-| But if we must seek advice about Bus Viadimir had become famillar with the tions do they regard as important? | love affains, "spirits" are the best pen-| text of ae Ly Son of which, In 4 1@ to ask ft of, and if Mra. Peppe.> manuserip: e pnarie: nad The very things which Mrs, Pepper Plt (0 at te ot ngor supply It eTom | brought with thei, Having ‘the Old dikparagingly refers to as frivolous| and Anna amd Harry and Sarah will| Testament read And Interpreted | to him, Emperor Viadimir became greatly in the story of King Solo- mon and the number of his wives and He declared that he was A greater emperor than Soromon, and prove it by having more race find he kept 4 Tresng Aer fret write CA tho Broubg t e other wives ere she was the only Christian among them, With this Christian wife and the Arch Dishop and priests whom ‘he bad cap- tured and the ornaments and holy relics from the Cherson cathedral, which he) transplanted bodily, Apostle Viadimir returned to Kiet and directed the Rus- sians to be baptized and to become Christians @&£ once, The pagan idol Perun, which had a head of silver and a beard of gold and | stood on the cliffs of Kiet as a nattonal | deity, was thrown into the Dnieper and} the whole population of Kief—men, women and children—were assembled in a body and made to fake all their clothes off and get into the water otf the Dnieper, while the captured Arch- bishop read the baptisthal service over them, Thus were the Russians Chris- tlanized. This series will continue from day today until all the stories have been told of the forty rulers of the great Russian Empire that have been assassinated, The,Man 5 |tem players who will be attracted t. ; |country who doesn’t think @jup in turf history in years. It, © |start every fiend on the ponies, $ |digging up @ new bankroll, and ena, > jand hundreds of plungers who of the way, m Higher Up. By Martin Green, 667 RE i te Cigar Btore Man, ‘that Pittebutg Phil, the plunger, left ile mother $3,250,000 when he died, and that’ all of it was won from the bookmakers.” “Pittsburg Phil put a crimp'in the: ®|hookmakers,” agreed the Man High= >|er Up, “but what he copped fr them was only loan, ‘They wet that $3,260,000 hack with interest, This statement don't mean that will get it back from the Smith 9) fly, because the members of the @mk family are probably too wise to gam, ble on the races, It will return tothe bookmakers via the pikers and nye the race track and the pool-roome by, the success of Pittsburg Phil, ° “There isn't a dope follower inher” thine te Judgment is just as good as Pitteterg Phil's ever was, All they need te'ai! chance, They point to the tact that Pittsburg Phil was « cork cutter!tm | Pittsburg and that the firet bet. ever made was a §2 bill, They to the fact that he was lucky. the atin and figure that their a of had luck cannot possttly ‘have’ ait § |perpetual lease upon their assets, “he suocesstul career of Pittebumg.:t ®|Phil is worth more to the booleg’ akers and race-track followers lly than anything that has ry roll in the army of students of one=, before. “They overlook the fact. that in hfe line Pittsburg Phil was a John D.| Rookefeller and J. Pierpont Morgan | combined. They overlook the sooreg.| ‘teked the game and ded in almehouse. With Pittsburg Phil . and the story of bis cess shoolng suckers to. them brigades the outlook is for the bookmakers.” “Have you played the races Viner" answered” the Man, High 4, i Men Hi oD, a T've Hise vined toe i Bennings on opening looks to be ail the candy,” bie Little Willie’s a Guide to New Yorks. BRIDGE TERMINAL. the camer of the yoountverss veentently sichuated midway the park row 4erminel of bridge and the exit kiosk of 1 way’s brookden bridge stedbun, croud of peaple fleaing in blend as harmoantusly as two have had thare tales tide to all beleev In the ulltunet & mannkind, when ten thousend have maid a reputashun éor ab brooklen meet ten thousend have maid the ealm kind of rep in tharltm dt is time for the'p jim jefrise and the sar of rushs ‘tm bak sects, ‘this gentle and apecktickle may ‘be obeervd, moarnii 5 vickters Fes araliarts bi . Gasp eee ee teeth and the inthe eyeballs ¢ golected a today and { got one skalp too only wie, no {left iton the trane fh glad we all ahood be that ¢ broot foarce is t and that En alge of ge! 08, meaknoi AP. Hereditary Trait. He—Did you ever notice what: black eyes Miss Scrapp has? She—Yes, They're inhertted, @he them from her father, He's @ p fighter. Do Not ‘ Eat Fruit. (Copyrot, 1908, Planet Pub, Co.) All theologians, from Adam If you do this you MAY be MIND, A New England mind Is Lodge has one! Wouldn't YOU like to be like {ng wound up. The ‘‘Fudge” Idiotoria Think of the AWFUL things that have been said about Mother Eve In the last ten thousand years | NO. Stick to pork and beans ard mince pla! to call the President “ THEODORE ?” The New England mind WILL WORK OVERTIME without be- So many cranks on diet making themselves heard © that we feel as if we OU TO SAY SOMETHING. So we say It here; DO NOT EAT FRUIT! down, CONDEMN the practice, able to raise a NEW ENGLAND awonderful thing. Henry Cabot. Henry Cabot Lodge and be able, / It is ALWAYS RIGHT because It knows that EVERY ONB, 5a att Ah Ak dg laa A hest-bets and four-ply cinches thoue {\ sands who have never played @ ree, /