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coe wonse serssesveesesere NOs THE STOCK TRANSFER TAX. t ‘ ker Ahdtihelves, “And why sho place and pay the tax in their’ stead? JAIL FOR BAD-MILK MEN. 4 40-quart can, dnd a profit of $1 a can will pay many fines, ow Is ON MINDING ONE'S OWN BUSINESS, tof minding his’ 0 m added the Bishop. us that ‘abuses without protest or interference, TEN O'CLOCK GIRLS, ie y Hy fair morning faces. would tend to diminish these horrors, eat, ig power, by the Press Publishing Company, No, §3 to 6 Park Row, New ¥ ‘at the Post-Oftice at New York oa Booond-Clase Mall Matter. 18,012, Protests against the stock transfer tax come mainly from speculative “To an investor the tax would be one-fiftieth of one per cent, | Speculative customer the tax would be a little less than one-sixth ) present broker's commission, On the room traders and the pro- stock-gambling brokers the tax would amount to less than the Went of the “kitty” in a professional gambling-house, and it Js only professional gamblers that the tax would be at all appreciable, if the Stock Exchange brokers would reduce their commission a sixth hit would have no effect whatever on any business except that of the wuld not the stock brokers pay a tax? They receive i protection for themselves and thelr property from both the State and wunidipality, ‘They have abundant wealth out of which they could be asked to pay a much higher tax than 62 on each'hundred shares transactions, If they are not taxed some one else must be, and ness or class of people would these stock brokers suggest should ‘In sentencing milk adulterators to jall the Special Sessions Justices b doing their part in The Evening World's pure-milk movement, A fine, Which has been the penalty for previous convictions, is hardly y's profits: Aduiterated milk can be produced as cheaply as 75 ‘ALIS also a good move on the part of the Board |of Health to prose- the and not the drivers. The proprietor is really the ty.one, and nothing is gained by prosecuting the employee in his stead, the time of year to purify the milk business and not to wait ummer, when the greatest harm fs done to the children, Every|“* _ Who adulterates milk should go-to jall, and|if the Court of Special yuld sentence to’ at least three months’ imprisonment the half embalmers, whose names everybody in the milk trade knows, f supply of milk would be better next summer than ever before. The fig Of the: Norfolk street milk adutterator to fll fs a step in the right neat little speech of congratulation to the rector of a local n the twenty-fifth anniversary of his pastorate, Bishop Potter NN “never known the rector to be guilty of but one| *#¢ #¥vem owt,”—Chicago Journal business.” . And “it’s a yery un-Amet-| 44 tne ’ Bishop Potter meant to convey, of course, was habit of poking into the private affairs of other people is mis- ‘impertinence. He-was thinking of the Paul Prys that everybody is another Kind of “minding ‘one’s ‘own tistiess” that re: At is the indiffexence and.slothfulness.sa,peevalent da which feads thousands of right-minded citizens to tol- ‘not a faithless public official or’ corrupt corporation but ‘49 see more: people’ mind their own ie gab ye What the great sinners against soclety want most of ‘all is would be the last man in the world to preach non-in- An all things: In spite of ‘the manifold duties of his diocese, he j time to figure conspicuously in’ many a public protest against i evils thus seting an example of good citizenship. ck each night the girls of Mount Holyoke College, in mid- is, lust go to'bed, At about the same hour—at seasons, of 1s not Lent—New York society thinks about going out to olyoke's girls protest against the early-retirement rule, We r iow anybody can resist'a going-to-be sweeb graduate when with tears, yet, on the whole, we are glad that the Protest is} only $3,000 in cash, Result of relian luty sleep” is early sleep, and it is a good thing even when f nen nthe way they should go and the world will|ieague ves some ioeu ot the aoxal hhvtim,, and thas tt musrory he rhe | jer for it, ¢ 10-0'clock regulation makes not rh Hhful discipline in school, years, but very possibly for good nd steady nerves in later life, It will:have done excellent service 'Wéad toward social recognition of day as day and night as night— ¢ when moming Sunlight wilt have a better chance to do its t progress in commercial pureuits. Yet 2 iiives were lost inthe Allen street tenement fire—because, ac- Chief Croker, the police were not prompt in sending the,alarm, b the fite-escapés were encumbered in violation of the law. In dS, the patroimen were not patrolling and the inspectors did not ‘One just verdict of MANSLAUGHTER for criminal neglect of egislative search-light is really to be turned on the New York line care should be taken.4o employ an arc of at least Lexow A Doomed Street, Béttor Nd Ike to asl hy, which Ip carting the ref-) ® few daya ago, five than a country road, even the 8 being covered) that It is a do not touch it any more and © ‘mud when !t 1s woft and the When it is dry our houses, eyes iy Chnnot a city like New York| have to Pay ‘@ WhO! OF institution for back-' his meals. : Ch e People’s Corner. ters from Evening World Readers could pay for thelr tuition? They havelof danger from fire, footpads, house- of The Bvening World: schools and inetitutions for the deaf,| breakers and in other emergencley dur- “What 1x to be-| dumb and blind, but not for these, | ing the past three months Je calculated @ Muriy-fonrth street west off Whom there are from 5,000 to 10,000 In enue? ‘The Murphy Contract. | New York, aa you stated in your paper| not losing his laurels as a household de- the Pennsylvania Railroad AN ANXIOUS MOTHER, hag it in such a mess (which Woodlawn, N. Y, Watters, Tips and Guests, To the Eéitor of The Evening World: fo public health, The street Too bad about “Antl-Tpper,” would not stop at a first-class hotel ] News, it he had to live on $20 @ month like a Chiaial . walter, who must also support a family} Boston millionaire to wed the trained If the} nurse who attended him in the hos- He! an atoftit toaste of good money.— MB lunge aro filed. O RB land be dressed well besides, Reasonable Question, Adalegl hae not Mires to accept tips, . el Keepers woul we to pay higher te to ith i 7 Raltor of m4 Evening World: wages, and Maar “Antl-Tipper” would PAR eee et en i four times as much for How would he like that? Cleveland girl has sued-pw Mf 9.400 dam- tpable- vainded ehildren (not He Woyat come from Chicago, Tj ID or ‘e Darenta, if Meod be, HOTEL WALTDR'S WIFH, ie printed on @ blotter, res ANew # # >Comic Series ¢By Gene Carr.. Said on ' the Side. 66 CANE of the disappointing things O about attempts at police re- form," says Commissioner Mo. Adoo, "ts the misdirected efforts of good } 3 men and women to reform little things and to neglect the big things, Stop the} ¢ boys playing ball in the street, but never mind about the amusement places that are poisoning and rotting thelr souls.’’ | ¢ But how about the police themselves when they arrest boys for playing craps, aa resently in Brooklyn, or devote thelr detective skill to ferreting out petty Bun- day law violations by delicatessen deal- era and small grocers, as in the case of Police Capt, Ferris's orders in Tremont? } 9 Magistrate Baker was quite right when he sald to the Ferris eleuths: ‘It would be more manly and much more like detective to round up the crooks which} 4 are about this neighborhood.” $ eee ‘ “Ministers in turmoll at mention of Jerome.” May yet find it necessary to] % pray for him. eee Some sages say this world @ run All wrong. With pain they view tt; Yet when there's duty to be done They're not on hand to do #. —Washington Ster, eee Commisstoner’ McAdoo'a “eivia @oc- tore" necessarily include Dr, Grout, who Ajagnosed the Aldermanto body es the city’s vermiform apperdix, eee “L" station-eidpping habit reaches a dangerous pass when ‘tt creates a rict and endangers life, Better'cut out some of the utscheduled stops and pay more attention to those regularly provided] 2 for, » 13( | WONDER WHA) oe 6 Diatrict-Attorney Sullivan, who prose:| SMITHS O91NG outed Mra, Chadwick tm Cleveland, ex-] 2 tubits a congretulatory telegram from] Andrew Carnegie (signature guaran. the Contemporary Club of Philadelphia, declare gambling “ ‘a diguipation but a recreation,” Teoommend school course in it! Might be, just well to make i @ gourse of home tn-| struction, with mamma teaching brid end papa poker, ‘Too many echool fade as it la, and besides, the quailty] § of home instruction ts calculated to Prove superior to thet af the cl: Toom, : “How long did he. lecture? “Adout an hour after his ideas widow losing her’ matrimonial fascinations? Statistics of the British} Registrar-General ‘show thet the per- Centage of remarringes of widows hes lined frorn 98| per 1,000 in 1876 to 66) 1908, Remarriage of widowers mean- time thas declined from 186 to 87. Woman still more constant than man in be-} 2 wement, Pathetlo instance of this constancy t# the case of the Flushing widow who for twenty years never! dined without setting; @ plate at the table for her dead husband, eee “Bo elim,” edys an authority on wom- en's fashions, or be out of the swim, ‘That is, in the words of another author. ity, be hipless or hopeless, oe « Tea olgarettes said ito be playing] 66066000 000004 havoe with feminine nerves in Hngland,| —- and Cincinnat! woman accused”by hus- band of rulning her nervous system by, excessive tea deinking, May become] necensary for the teetotaler to specify]. whether she apfils it t-doul or tea, by "| . Stork's thirty-one visits to Homestead within two days may explain his sence from New York. ARY HAL- Philadelphia lecturer, announced the other @ay that mthere is no doubt that insects con- verse with one an- eo 8 Wigwap—Why do you inatat upon carrying your shirt home from the laundry instead of hav- dng it seni? Harduppe—So that folks wilt ‘ other, She went know I have two.—Philadelphia ; even further and Record, stated that they eee talk {n poetry. i) “On what grounds | can Wo gay poe- try?" she asked, "On the ground that poetry is uttered under emotion, Burglars who looted Ohlo bank got ‘on the old jimmy method instead of the Improved Cassie way. Toe ee mood of the poet. In courting time these little friends are far more poetic ‘tinagine,” sald Mrs, Charlotte Perkins} than after marriag ‘ould anything Gilman in London ihe other day, “that! be more humanly pathetic than this?” ‘ali the wotnen in the world were dead.| Alas, no! For if it be ascertained aH Ho palde§ ot boil eleregcm ne that tho inaect tribe suffers afe what heart certain high-flown women lecturers hav late, perhaps, but all the industrial prd- jveberll Marital unrest,” we will iy ceseea ‘would go on as before. Reverse] to admit that the malady ts funda- the picture, and see how the wheelsl mental and that even the oyster and the would stop.” Still opportunity for fur-} sea anemone, the most primitive forms ee advance by, women, but the} of animal life, are subject to Its snare. te they aro making it the versel There i every reason, however, why of the nicture” won't seem go differenti both men and inseots should be less from the obverse by the time the cen-gpoctic after marriage thon tn thoir tury 4s halt over, courtship days, and this entirely with- ® out’ reflection on the objects of their ‘We ail know that among the nimals the male assumes more colors during the period of ‘Westward the course of culture tak: its way, |,” @ failure in Be ton, becomes a howling success in C! cago, and a Chicago woman grew so ab-fcourtship. “In the spring a livelier irig sorbed in Dante that she was burned|changes on the burnished dove,” &o ‘Even the Bugs Love. ' By Nixola Greeley-Smith, But after marriage the live Her tris disappears, and the poetry with it, Among men and women, it 1s the latter who assume the burnished age, which too frequently diss) a8 soon as it has accomplished ite pur The fact that marri poetic does not mean that it is not happy. The finest poetry in the world has been written about love. But where io there @ great poem with marriage as its main theme? Coventry Pat- a good many Nttle verses on the subject of wedded bitss, but they had about as much poetry in them as a rhyming butoher's bill ‘would celebrated | the oon nubial felicity of Adam and Eve in “Paradise Lost.” but Ad@am and Bye are not a fair test, because they en- joyed as absolute freedom from compe- tition as the Standard Oil’ Col and were happy because they 00! help themselves, Besides, Wi Lost" or @ patent medicine almanac, would choose’ the almanac every time, and other poets have written miums in celebration of mar- But {t can't be sald that their hearts were in thelr work, For mar- riage, whatever else it tRioak, een te out. —_——— THE ETERNAL FEMININE, Mrs, Chairman—You are out of order, je insects have found Member from Tucson—Heavens! Will some sister pin me up while I continue to death. True, she had fallen asleepfAnd perhaps the greater beauty re- over the volume when the lamp quires poetry for its adequate appre ploded, but the interest was there, eee “Woman Repulsed Armed Burglar," “Woman Held Up by Negro Takes the| ‘hief Felled Her, but ‘Post-Office Hold-Up Falls Through Woman Clerk's Braver; &c, Dally chronicle of feminine cour- age growing somewhat monotonous, but interesting for the light it throws on the Mosely commission's reflections on the “Feminization of America.'’ Complete record of the sex's bravery in the face to raise doubts as to whether man is) fender, ee Algernon—Yaws, it—ato—-cavoxta me ail of $10,000 a yeah to—aw— live, doncher know, Miss Knor—My goodness! What pital, Profession of nurse almost at ag that of echoolma’am used to be, 1 8 Oe ages because her phot wo. likeness my remarks?—Commerclal Tribune. Her Hated Rival. | All the Comforts of "Hone. @ Gay Routs for the “Boys,” but Not for Hearth-Loving Mr, Smith, Hungry Hcbbs—Say, son, have yer Mer Kindness to share that lunch box wid me? r Scotty—Dis is a camera, an’ if yer hold still I'll take yer pictur an’ make a valentine wid it an’ yer>kin see it make me brudder laugh, Little ‘Willie’s Guide to New York, BROOKLYN BRIDGE. over to the eestward on verry cleer days nu yoarkers can see a long raik- fah dark strip of land looming up and its naime is brooklen, thare are a lot uf bridges leeding’trom nu yoark to brook- len—some of them are on watter and some are on paper but the biggest 1s brooklen bridge. some years ago lt waa discovered that there was no aproa- priate plaice for iddiots to Jump from and no way of oaning your own hoain nO way for people to eggalbbit thare innate shivvalry by shuvving wimmen to one elde at car entranses, So to alleevyate theese deefeckts brooklen bridge was bilt it Is a massiy and !m- poosing pile and is the missing link between B, r, T, methods and 20th sent- chery sivvilizashun, peeple reed in boox albbout the oald gladdyaltoarial commbaty and the way the llons uscd to massaker the marters in the col- lyseeum and then thoase peeple go down to the bridge terminie at rush hours and watch the gentle crows for a few minnits and then thay reeturn house in the days of neero, A. P, TRRHUNE. . et VITAL QUESTION, Lillfe (in background)—Fer years an’ years I'se tried to get Willie ter quit @mokin’, an’ now if dat loidy succeeds I'll bow hi he don’t love me, blonde or @ brunette?"—Yonkers #1 $|By Martin Green. * PTHERE 1S NO USE OF TALKING, | HAVE NO FAITH IN MEN~ "AND “TOO BE FRANK, THERE S'NT ONE tp i it{eturned the other way, This tact ie of sufficient importance to warrant Boys ARE |, | fnertes, That\ was because they akait to-day. They, have just moved in, and I feel like as If a fight } | dinner service and their rare ol eepskait ls BO re- fined, In the parlor | they have copper just Uke the 400 have in Newport, and Mra, Cheepokalt has a beautiful gold toothpick set with diamonds, she {8 fond of displaying it in public, but then, that 1s natural for it i@ a beautl- ful object of art, Cheepskait hes the loveltest furniture she made herself out of soap boxes covered with cretonne, She 1s 60 Bhe tells me that she and Mr, Cheepskeit chopped up all thelr ol Colonial ‘mahogany furniture for stove wood, because so many of the newly righ were having the old Chippendale Styles reproduced that {t was hard to tell the genuine from the imitation, “She says she wants to express her own Indivyjduallty in her home decora- tons, and /it is certainly lovely the way she drapes her folding beds with cheese loth, and then she is 80 handy with gold paint, and haa a bow of ribbon even on the coal scuttle, “Bhe burns wood lovely. No, I don't mean the mahogany furniture they destroyed, I mean burnt wood designs, Why, her towel racks are just lovely, I suw some in a store not much better done and they wanted 48 cents for them. Roy L. McCardell. SHB,” sald the Cigar Store ‘4 GGT tan, “thee the Runetane say thelr army will keep on fighting in Manchurta.” : “More strategy,” assert. ed the Man Higher Up. “When it comes to strategy the Russians finish with thelr mouths open, Hore Oyama leaping from orag to crag 4 around Tie Pass trying to catch the army of Kuropatkin, and not. wite to the fact that Russia is playing him for a sucker, i “Our old friend Prot. Maguire, of 8t. Petersburg monthplece of the Runssian strategy works, has kept under cover on this latest move But anybody who haa kept cases on the wat can get hep in & minute, ‘@ Here fe/the dope: y “The Japanese are utterly unable . plerce Kuropatkin’s front because ®.| Kyropatkin in keeping on moving toward the front with the Japanese ‘ behind, Were “It 19 @ lead-pipe cinch that before | the Japanese get through with Kuro- ® | patkin—if they are foolish enough to keep on thinking that what they ave beating is his army instead of hiv Tear guard—thef will put him out, of business, The average general, con-, fronted with the one-best-bet that he’ would lose his army if he didn’t take the count, would take the count,” But the ‘depths of the Russian military, n mind are wells of foxy wisdom, “If Kuropatkin had to the sponge, Russia would have to take the army home. Russia would have to feed the army while taking it home, This would be a victory for the Japs. “But if Kuropatkin continues to | fight valiantly over his shoulder une til all his soldiers are killed or cap- tured it will bea Russian victory, ‘There will be no necessity for taking the dead soldiers home, and the Jap-! anese will have to bury them, All the soldiers who are captured wifl’ have td be|sent home at the expengo of Japan. Of course Japan wil) draw ay « back, the dough from Russia later on, but in war victories are won in the present. Can you beat it?” “Poor old Kuropatkin wanta to.-> home and rest,” remarked the Cigar Store Man, 5 “Well,” replied the Man Higher. Up, “it's a thousand-to-one shot that he won't get any rest If he don't go home,” - ee AUTUMN SONG, The raya come slanting from oun, A haze upon the headland ‘ieee ‘The leaves are falling one by one, Bave when they're falling o Chicago Record-Herald. . + »-By Roy L. McCardell, ... Malaria, N, J,, near the off re a? $ ©0 refined themselves, you say? fy @ joke, Mr, Nagg, I do not Point, Please do try not to be tor the Cheepskaits are coming ner to-night, because thelr soli i bpliii ? z E 5 i eek boise a a, , a has been lost by the movers, I " Mr. Cheepskait why he did not | the movors arrested, and he sada it only a matter of a few thousand and he could not afford to let hime self be annoyed over ao little, Fi knows somebody who ownes the which {9 just the same and ft will pay @ million dollars @ whee, | they get the water pumped out of it, “They are pumping it out now, inte the etock, I believe, Mr, Cheepskat . said some people, sald the stock was | watered, but that makes it all the more | valuable, doesn't it? It doesn't? Why, , Mr. Nags, how can you say suoh @-' thing? Look how much more watered. | silk generally costs. Why, plafn-silk i | ‘ generally half the price, } “But I might know that when I came | and told you about such lovely people ag | the Cheepskalts you would haye some ill-natured sneers! “That 1s because they are my friendsl Do I ever say a word against your { friends? Look at Col, Wilkins, You know I despise him and I have always told you so, Iut I never say @ word): {n flatbush without going by ferry and The ‘‘Fudge”’ Idiotorial fae The Tale of, the Tadpole! (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub, Co.) the result of AMBITION. \ If it were not for this resolute determination to get ahead the | hoam saying sadly Thoas oald roamins in the collyseeum led @ simpal and pastorel existence after all thay dident understand up to dalte ruft- WITHOUT AMBITION the tadpole would remain all his days stagnant pool, As it Is he hops out on the bank and sings, IT ls BETTER to hop and sing than to remain stagnant, Hop and sing yourself IF your legs and voice permit It! ‘Do you keep typewriter :ibbona?'t asked the man in the department sture, “Yes,” gaid the saleslady; “la she a to him when he calls here, wl “Don't get angry, you say?? Isn't Co that liko a man! After wounding me tl beyond pardon, cruelly wounding me i you say ‘Don't be angry!’ , With spring comes the class In natural sclence again, Why does the tadpole LOSE his tail they want to know. The tadpole shakes his tallin > trying to become a frog. It fs \ tadpole would be no better than a SHINER or a CHUB, But as {t Is he kicks off his tall with a palr of new hind legs and trills merrily amid the scenery in the Bronx and on Staten WITHOUT AMBITION there could be no frogs’ legs on the bill 4%