The evening world. Newspaper, March 4, 1905, Page 8

ph Pena ‘by ‘the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 6 Park Row, New York, tered at the Post-Omice at New York as Seoond-Clase Mal! Matter. .NO. 18,001, dase ee eeeaenees _. SHE LITTLE PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE. ay 11.—On Using What You Know. "They can never know too much,” said some one long ago, ‘who the happy faculty of using what they know.” With due respect to ‘and skil! are all at his ready command is the really efficient person ‘any capacity—whether he te thirty or sixty_years old, , Such a man may not know nearly so much as his inefficient neighbor; but the knowledge of the latter is water in a pond that has no outlet, while that of the former is water turning a wheel and moving a part of the Of this busy world, “Knowledge is power.” So is steam. there is a vast difference between steam wasting itself from the spout ‘a tea kettle and steam shoving a piston’rod or harnessed to a flywheel. . bine ‘The field of modern knowledge being so vast, the first question for he aspiring young person is: “What shall | learn?” To measure the task f§ the wisdom of aright beginning. Step into a great library and look at books, Compute the number that you can possibly read, and learn Tegulate your ambition and to guide your search for knowledge. Go out.into the world and see what science, art, invention, discovery al enterprise have made it necessary for one to know who would not be Oneidered ignorant, There are multitudes still engaged in the old futile task of trying to Out the ocean with a dipper, but, the reasonable man perceives that he ee thoroughly but a few even of the things that appeal to him. He chooses’first those that he needs to know, or has to do, in his chosen The practical abolition of the apprenticeship system, and the fatal fas ath which many ihings are learned superficially, from laying bricks ing for the nation, has filled the land with “half-baked” men— ined for nothing in particular and good for nothing in general, “1 will break,stones with ony mon in England,” said a’brawny Scot Ae tad acquired the strength and ‘‘the knack” in hammering stone for Ming the highway, He knew his work and had an honest pride in it— things that lie at the bottom of all-worthy success. yin, Pony ne ee @)¢ But this one thing learned, whether it be a profession, an art or a there is no need for stopping. « ‘He who doeth ONE THING is /" said the Greeks. But nowadays it helps a man to do one thing yw many things. There are some things that only specialists can do thoroughly.’ But a man fs all the better lawyer, doctor, cler- “Osler, it remains true that a person whose knowledge, experience, | Said on the Side. Ens of the Rapid Transit Com- mission for an elevated road to aonneet the bridges is that it will run through back yards and Baxter street and will not be allowed to stay up more than five years any way. Sounds familiarly like an echo of Com: mlivstoner Best's plea for the ‘tempo: |Tery" use of Clty Hall Park for | bridge terminal, and is not unlike the vument of the camel when he poked |his head under the tent, oe BR, 1, has had many hard things sald ot i, but nothing quite equalling Mr, Crr's statement that {ts elevated structire {s too weak to carry subway ears und its o@n cars too filmsy for subway use, oe . Wonder if the express agent who re- Celpted for those eix trunks full of Shipbullding books indorsed them "Value asked, but not given.” eee Seems, according to Alderman ‘*Iim," that the Connecting Railway franchise has not been held up, but ts merely “sleeping in committee."" Knockout drops? oe “We shall be dining out this evening, though.” “Oh, have you inherited money or has your cook left?"—OChicago Record-Herald, eee New downtown hotel to have a “laun: dry on every floor." Intended for work- ing girls, though, not for stock brokers. oe Ohicago University professor an- nounces @ ‘superior smoke” that possesses tonic properties, but fs not a stimulant. Nature of the brand used) there has long been a subject of popu- lar curtosity, er) What is a ‘British Counsel” that he should expect courtesies in @ magts- trate's court? The majesty of the law seems to have been sustained im Jeffer- much cannot thography of house, be said of the or- the little red school- eee Salt water mains would have helped Sreatly at the Duane street firc, as they would have helped at the South street fire and at the burning of the Grove street schoolhouse. But though the project's ‘a year old this month, the only plan seriously discussed is pro- nounced “useless and {mpraoticable. muntolpal enthusiasm sometimes, but {t's to be hoped that in this case the peasimist’s fears are unwarranted, eee i, vartisan'or trader, and a woman all the better wife and mother, for mg some things outside of their vocation, “a little learning is a dangerous thing” depends a great deal dgé gained, but more on the person who possesses it. A of vice or wickedness is dangerous. A little learning of art.will probably prove to be so if one sets himself up as an au- f, In the sense in which Pope wrote it the caution to “drink geep, p flot the Pierlan spring,” is doubtless wise, But it is manifestly a ‘to apply it generally in’a world where we stop for so short a time there are so many things tb be learned. e s e ° all comes back. at last to ‘the happy faculty of using what we And this is largely a gift of the fairy godmother who smiles over dies. Some men haven't a useless fact in their heads or an idle their napkins, Yet it is a faculty which can be cultivated and Nd be carefully considered by the young in the formation of If you can sing, or play, or read, or speak—if you can write, or paint, or model—if you can memorize readily or do any other y thing better than all things else—begin to do it. Cultivate your ‘Some Sayer of wise-Sounding words once wrote that “Half the failures result from pulling up one's horse just as he is ready to jump.” ccording to our observation, ‘more than half the failures result from *horse up and feeding’ him till he is twenty-five or thirty years siting. him ready to jump. It'is the men and women who begin do what they can do best, and who put what they have learned “Who make the great successes in life, ne People’s Corner. titers from Evening World Readers ‘Have Natural Limitations, or ot The Eveping World: -wpook, while alive, ever read ters through several folds of i ? Spirits don't know and can't do any more than ry mo! Mrs, Pepper's blind» Paafling of sealed letters 1s a fraud he very fice of It, Only bilnd- | abiritualists could be fooled SPUD, THE SPOOK. } Nork's Funny Laws, itor of The Evening World: ‘Taw to arrest a man for ‘on Sunday? Around here “bak _ stores and delicatessen n for the entire day and the /fon't reem to care, I read In g World of a poor nan arrested, ight before Magistrate Crane ‘and the stage wae repeated in a tone of volce that drowned out the words of the actors, Should not there be some method of saving theatre patrons from such annoyance? L, M, NORMAN, The Flirts of New York, To the Editor of The Evening World; What sort of a city Is New York, that it places no restriction on the dis- gusting habit of filrting? I am a com- parative stranger in the city, but 1 only had to be here a day or #0 before T found out that it was not possible for a respectable woman to walk along the streets elther ajone or in the com- pany of another woman without being insulted, What are we to do? If we complain personally to the police it creates a scene, and no self-respecting woman can endure a thing like that, , Mrs, ISOBEL HARRIS, Iun’'t Thin Husband a Birdt To the Editor of The Evening World: I have been married four years and have a child three years old, My hus band’s salary I believe 1s $11 or $12 weekly, He says It is not any of a woman's business to know what salary her husband receives. Since we have been married he has never given me more than 60 cents a day for the: food for the house, He pays for coal, wood, gas and those things, Anything I might want to buy, even though {t may only cost five cents, I must ask him. If he doesn't care to give It 1 must do with- out It, I have never had five or 10 cents T could say was my own, We pay $12 rent, Now, what I would like to know is, do you or your readers think Jt Is right for a man to act that way? Cc. RA. | The Hoge of the Subway, To the Editor of The Evening World; We hear a great deal about the anti- spitting crusade and we see warnings posted at every possible place, but what does It all amount to? Yesterday in a subway train a big vulgarian expector- ated In the middle of a crowded aisle, |T have seen men do the same thing in letter fn World and having occa- suffered from sleeplessness, I ‘he glad to give a simple remedy I bave found exceedingly success- On such occasions I would rise iA bathe wrists, temples, forehead and he eyes with cold water, This Drought the desired rellef and enjoy In peace the charms of BURRO, iter Get a New sult, @Bdltor of The Evening World: | dmmproper for a oridegroum to} & Tuxedo sult at a quiet home! Nay L have @ full-dress sult, but} rn Mke a new one for the occasion Md do not care to purchase another ji-dress, ANXIOUS BEAT oP Beitor of The Lvening World: take deat people to the theatre? ded a performance at a leading theatre the cther evening Performance was practically at leagt thirty people who | “Do you think that a man 4s use- less to soctety when he ia forty?” “It dan't true uf all men," an- ewered Mise Cayenne. "But a great many are just as useless at forty as they were at twenty and thirty."—Washington Star, eee Pretty good show for the success of the new woman's hotel in Hudson street If it's true that there will be @ roof garden for the use of the oc- cupants and their ‘beat bedus.” oe 8 : Burglar arrested, indicted, tried, con- British judge has ruled that the “pos- session of a gun Is evidenpe of meat Possession in New York now evid of ability to produce $250, ewe Any lights seen in the northern sky to-night should not be mistaken for far) jections of Pennsylvania avenie. An rora borealis is due, ene Medical name for fear of appendicitis Is perityphitophobia, which seems rather worse than the disease iteelt, oe A spike driven by a careless workman puts the Pennsylvania's signal system out of order, and a workman's sleeve Intricate modern ra! way mechanism al Gensltive to disturbing element as the human Man who can hold up 80 easily of useful. subway service, might have a greater sphe ness “higher up, ee According to the Rey. Caroline Crano “most of the women In clubs are over forty; they have brought up their chil- dren and sent them into the world; they ure in thelr second youth, with theenipe experience which makes them tender and sympathetic,” References to ‘second youth” help to explain some things formerly not quite understood, eo ee A young theologian named Fiddle Refuaed to accept his degree; “Nor,"said he, "'t ia enough to be Fiddle, Without being riadle, D, D." —Puck, eee Another Preaident of a woman's col- tinues to be the main obstacle to the entire success of the “higher educa- ton,’ cleans Shamrock seed passes the customs In- spectors as "clover weed." Case of frat cabin passenger given a steerage rat- ing. ‘ Minister engaged by a Peoria congre- gation found it necessary to pass those requirements: "Notover thirty-five years old, Must be married, Must be an evangelist. Must be a lodge man. Must be a mixer, Must be a crank.” Some- thing In that last requirement. Lt is the crank nowadays who makes things! move, ery Bishop Fallows (links that the nat- ural age mit of man ought to be 110, Metchnikoff put It further on thar that. General duration of human Iife by the Insurance actuary's figures has {ncreased some twenty years within a century. (Might prove profitable to have Osler and | Metchnikoff get together and strike an laverage, eo 2 6 Chicago minister says that “in cer- tain respecte the drama has a great ‘and surface cars, much to the dis- gust of every one. Why js not ordinance mote Filly eno 2° my BNRY H. CLARKE, ' Tange Pf 4 worhan who ex, advantage over the pulpit in enforcing moral truth, The preacher can only peak the truth, the stage can demon- atrate {ts repulte in Life,’ os uerertmenn ts nas a cadres on Market, but it is feared that asl ¢ A year sees & great elmmering down of | 2 lege reatgns to marry, The altar con-) soMiatasielteth mevtzsie scat come ON! "Thy OING TO WA FoR THAT Ki $304 0908000000000005 OO HERE, MARY VANE, | MUSTLE AROUND THE CORNER AND FeTcCH ME A 9009460006 the Tast Ru The Reign of Catherine II, TER the aesassinations of her hus- band, Peter ITI,, and her cousin by marnage, Ivan VI., Catherine Tl. nougtt to distinct the Russian pen ple from internat tngurrection by in- wupurating a series of foreign wars which greatly added to Russia's teeri- tory. On the wedt Russla joined with Austria ‘and Prussia {n a partition of Poland in 1771, and under the general- ship of the Orloffs the Russian Army extended its territory at Turkey's ex- pense to include Crimea, the nortinarn shores of the Black Sea between Dnelper and Dnelstet, part of Bulgaria and Agof, Inthe treaty of Reace walsh Mtlowed Ruasla did not hold all this conquered territory, Like the preceding Romanoffs Cath- erine II. thought it advisable to make friends with the merchants and manufacturers, and in 1766 she as- ombled at St, Petersburg a general convocation of 652 deputies representing all parts of the empire, This council did Ittle of practical valuo, but it was of great ald to Catherine in securing na- tlonal support for her wans, and it liad @ great effect in pleasing all classes of the citizens and In allaying popular dis- content. Catherine diminshed the power of the church by secularizing a great part of the church property, In religious mat- ters she adopted a liberal policy, allow- ing both the Mohammedans and the E may have “H hy pnotie eyes," ad- nitted the sixteen- year-old heroine of | \ recent elopement, “Whenever I am with him I will do anything he says, | But, he declares, 1, have the same In- | fluence over him, #0 | (am as bad as he." | The hero of tho tale was a detective, | And detectives are| suppose® by persona who have never | had occasion to employ them and by | small boys who read about them in the detective stories to which they supply the central Interest to exerc.se a cer- tain hypnotic fascination which com- | pels criminals to render unto them the| Innermost secrets of thelr hearts in ths cage the heroine was the daugh- ter of a snake charmer; and surely any of the only original serpent of Bi ought to be able to counteract the In- fluence of a mere son of Adam, i Howevor, the hypnotic explanation of the most wonderful phenomenon in the world, since it permits every one Impare tlally to discover It, Is one which is very Bencrally accepted nowadays, especially by women who have always shown a tendency to blame every one but them- selves for falling in love, The popular fads for hypnotism and appendicitis came in at about the same time, and atm one having power over the descendants | * ssian Rulers Roman Catholics to bull churches and to worship under thelr own religious in- structors, The Partition of Poland, NDER Catherine Russia attained U @ greater population than ever be fore. The census returns showt< 40,000,000 inhabitants, After continuing for some years In a alllance with Prussia, which include: che time of the first Polish partit.on Catherine returned to the Romanoff Policy of an alliance with France. Pe- ter the Great belleved that France and not Prussia wks Russia's natural ally, jand that only by such an alliance could both cOuntries be restrained from Pruasia's encroachments against France on the west and Russia on the east, In 1793 Catherine having mado peace with Prussia again joined with Prussta in the second partition of Poland, and when the Poles rose in battle the Rus- sian soldiers conquered them again and {n 170 Poland was finally dismembered, |The Empress Catherine was not heart ily in favor of these successive dismem- berments, as it gave to Prussia a great part of Poland, which the Russians had hoped by conquering Poland themselves to absorb entirely, but the King of Prussia declared his country in on the partition, and with the war against ‘Turkey Hkely to break out again at any time, Catherine feared a war with Prus- sia too, Catherine refused to have any diplo- matlo relations with republican France, Love and Hypnotism. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. nelther has yet shown any signs of los- ing favor, There is this difference be- tween love and hypnotism, however, 'The professional hypnotist before mak- {ng his experiments Instructs you to let your mind remain in a@ passive state. Once you get the Idea of falling In love, however, you don't remain quietly wait- Ing for trouble to come to you,, You In- sist on going out to look for it, and needless to say it rewards your enter- priso by meeting you half way, Love is hypnotism; but It is more Generally se}’-hypnotism than the In- fluence of another, We love people, not becatse they want us to, but be- cause we want to, Persons are frequently hynatized by looking steadily at a ten-cent plece heid before thuir In the case of wom- on Lie coln would certainly have to be larger, but they are undoubtedly pe- culiarly least in New Yor a far § bhat of | h gowns i And diumonds are tie tuust hypnotic Compared with any one of these things, the hypnotic influence of man [is as the hg of a single tallow-dlp to tne sun. A great many women marry for love, to be sure, haven't on There was, according to Grecian | a Greek ‘maiden named Danae who, when Joye himself fe!l In love with her, requested him to turn himself into & shower of gold, And if New York hus bunds had this Jovian power, and ex: ercised it for the benefit of their wives, there would not ba many women In the city who would have sense enough to Come in when it rained, Taken Off by Assassins. Paul I. Strangled in His Bedroom and Alexander II. Destroyed by Dynamite. and recognized Louls XVIII, and not} endeq in his downfall and abdication, the French Directorate. ; and oe resulted, after the battle of Waterloo, In the Russian Cossacks rid- No. 39—Paul I, Strangled ing through the streets of Paris, \ Alexander became a reactionary after to Death, his finai break with Napoleon, He callod FTER a long reign, Catherine died|"0 popular assemblies and frowned Av the age of sixty-seven, and {| UPon liberal ideas. He believed that 17% Paul I. succeeded to the| the only safety to himself and his suc- hrone. One of his first acts was to | °¢#80ra on the throne was to strengthen ange the law regarding succeasion ty] TUtocracy and to set his face firmly ne throne so as to abolish government ae all popular movements, as from by women and to provide that the eh as these had sprung the French otasion should be from male to male, | Terolution, He also ceased the imitation of French danaitan rite bolioy the) seerst. po: manners and customs and quent a) jog had thelr birth, and what is now Pruselan alliance, He Joined with | (mn he Minis began. The frat se- Prussla and Austria in the coaliton | (0) CrRaNsation was called the Bo- agenst France, and the allied armies |i 0400 Virtue, and had among ite Warn deesiadl bir GlaveroRe, aerial ay of the nobility, Its ob- Napoleon made friendly overtures to archy, ce torn) S.shhatltutlonal: mops Paul 1. and flattered his vanity hy : attributing the Russian defeats to tho| No, 40,.—Alexander Il. the defection of the Austrian contingent in the coathion army. Napoleon pro-| First to Perish by Bomb, Posed that Paul should join him and LEXANDBER dled tn 1825, but the that a Russian-French coalition should | A war ‘between Ilberal Ideas and the rule the continent of Europe, should reactionary polley went on, drive England from its supremacy o¢|Nicholas tho First succeeded Alexander, the ea, and that Turkey and India| Members of the secret socletias sought Should be divided between Russia and |to take advantage of a few days' In- France, terregnum between Nicholae's corona- ‘T)1s magnificent plain, which would|tlon to exact a constitution, tut they Nave made France and Russia the two|Were shot down by the regiments of the dominant powers In the world, was/Suard and their leaders were hanged. welcomed , by Puul and accepted by|The Poles rose again in insurrection him, A treaty of alliance was signed|and were again suppressed, The secret and the Jirst army was formed which, |Patriotle organizations wpread to the nal French and half Russian, waa! tniversities and they were closed, to sali to Astorabad, on the Persian| ‘To distract the people from the do- shore, and’ from there to oust the|Mestic agitation for berallam war waa English from Indéa, again made upon Turkey, and England ‘This plan would doubtless have besn| and France joining with Turkey de- carried Into execution had Paul I, lived, | feated the Russian army and captured but a conspiracy of the favorites uf | Sebastopol, While this war was going Catherine was formed, which included |" Nicholas 1, dled, Alexander II, suc- the officers of the regiment guarding the seed him and tried to propitiate the palaces On Maron fa! 1b) shese ahOere peebla By Uberattng the serfs and by burmt Into the Tzar'é bedroom and ty-| the rights of compe ioe and defining Ing an officer's sash around his neck) On ‘March 12, 1881, while Alenander they strangied him to death, ‘hls wa] 17, was driving in a sledgh, w bomb agsassination No, 38, thrown at him exploded and tore him to pleces, His assassination was the Alexander I. on the Thrones! tortietn, Ho was susconied by tie eon LEXANDER I, assumed the throne | Alexander III, and there are rumors A the next day and promptly re- that tho death of Alexander III, in 1804, Waa due to the assassin, His successor, vorwed the policy of a French el- eae Nicholas IJ,, 1s now on’ the throne, Nance, He again joined the coalition of Higher Up. «. By Martin: Green. 16 4 | the Standard Ol] Univer- ality th Chiongo, ts experl- menting with mombers of his class Of a sitbetitute for tobacco that ren- ders a man smoking it unable to see.” “Maybe he is cooking hop for his class,” suggested the Man Higher Up. ‘That Chicago University is a great Joint. Prof, Starr is always discover ing @ aubstitute for something that John D, Rockefeller don’t ke. ‘This latest substitute he has resurrected looks to me like a Rockefeller plant, ‘John D, has a grouch againet to- bacco, His prejudice, is so healthy that it has kept him out. of the. To- bacco Trust. But he knows thet even his opposition will fail to keep men rom smoking and eating tobacco, and it makes him sore that he is not in on the play, “What's the matter with ‘framing up a acheme that will-put the Tobacco Trust down for the, count, and. still allow tobacco flends to smoke and chew the weed? Don't that look like & Rockefeller proposition? If tobacco users would switch to Prof, Starr's substitute, clgarettes, cigars and plug would be in the discard for fair, “But the Rockefeller substitute for tobacco goes further, It renders those who smoke it unable to see. Think of what an opening it leaves for the Rockefeller {Interests here in New York! “All John D. would have to ww would be to equip the collectors for the Consolldated Gas Company and the Eitison Electric Light Company { with a few pills of the substitute for +4 use on customers, When the unfore SHE,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that Prof. Starr, of , |tunate gas and electricity consumers were rendered blind the bills could be spruug, making the operation of collection painless, “It looks like some of that substl- tute had been run in on the Board of Aldermen. They can’t see a franchise lately, But wouldn't it be great for the rellef of the eyes of the readers of the last edition of the Evening Hemorrhage!" “Those Rockefeller professors ara great inventors,” asserted the Cigar Store Man, “Yes,"’ said the Man Higher Up, “but there's one invention they'li never spring—a substitute for oll,” Little Willie’s Guide to New York. THE SHOPPING DISTRICT, once there was @& wize filosofer naimed shoppinhower, and he gald Wimmen are strainge creéturea | dont know who toa'd him so but | guess he ‘was rite, therm ts one blok in nu Yoary whare wimmen have a chance to be quearer than annywhare else and that is the blok on twenty 3d streat bee ‘tween brodway and sixth Aynoo, it is calld the shoping distikt and thare 4s another one In west dteenth sireat = +’ allmost as awfle, These blox are up~ thoalstered with stoars that are so large ‘that a woman can wander throo them for half a day without finding just exsacktly the kind of trimming or hat~ pins she thinks she 1s looking for. that is why thoase stoars are so poppuler with the fare secks, it ismont that the stoares dont have evverything wim- men can want but the wimmen doan’t Know jus what thay do want and thay rush up and down the shoping districkt farely revveling in that sweet lgnerence, one crowd pores Into the blok from the { noarth and another crowd from. the south and a 3d crowd pushes out from the stoars and all three crowds meet and jossie and shove and pual atruggel !n the middle of the sidewalk but thay are glad to do it heoawse it puts them in fine training for barain nunter battels, Good old phopping gis rhokt, A. P, TERHU: et Could Afford It Then, She—But, what then? He—Why, I'd blow— She—Oh, don’t, be foollsh. if I should refuse you, He——myself to a new sult of clothes, the King of Prussia and the Emperor of Austria with England against Napoleon, and in the battles which followed at Austerlitg, Hylau and Friedland, Napo- leon thrashed the coalition, At Tilslt Alexander and Napoleon met for the first time and made a treaty of peace. Alexander showed a tendency to return to the polloy of Paul and/ Jolned the French In making war upon) What Becomes of the Water? England, This alliance continued until | (Gopyrot, 1905, Planet Pub, Co.) Alexander began to suspect tht It he | gee eae aaa oalition was tri ve would be two dominai: , jut only one, and that vin would be Napoleon and not Alexander, Ho doubt- ed that Turkey would be turned over to Russia and finally his pride was wound- ed by Napoleon at Erfurt showing a {vst superiority of ability and in- ‘Yhe last strain on thelr relations was The ‘‘Fudge” Idiotorial ‘that EACH NEW YORKER uses surope, Tt may be that most Brooklyn folks stick to thelr New England habits and only BATHE on Saturday night! Much of the New York water may be USED In Wall street! Perhaps some of It LEAKS OUT! It would be hard to drink elghty-flve gallons of water a day ‘and do anything else, We use the Brooklyn standard BECAUSB ! A smart man has figured out 140 gallons of water per day, and EACH BROOKLYNITE 83 gallons, This ls HARD to account for, | J when Napoleon broke off his projected more Water Is swallowed In Brooklyn than In Manhattan, merriage with Anna Paviona, Alexan- der’s alvier, to marry an Austrian prin- turned to the Prussian-Austriun ooall- tion and Napoleon began the with the grand army to Moscow, whigh the Milk Trust! We KNEW a man who drank a galion of water all AT ONCE! cess, After the break Alexander re-|Hé looked like the Paper Trust in five minutes, The cry Is for MORE WATER, but we do NOT want tt it