The evening world. Newspaper, March 23, 1905, Page 16

by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 63 Patk Row, New York Butored at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Clas Mall Matter, PORN TERN NORA RSE WHY? HOW MUCH? ~~ "The connection between high-priced Gas and “honest Graft” must be lost sight of by the Senate investigating committee If tt really) ns to get at the true inwardness of the situation. ‘The Gas Trust 1s occupying miles of streets with Its pipes under that long since expired. It secured the signature of the Mayor to Jill calculated and intended slyly to revive and perpetuate these lapsed franchises, It profits by a system of sham inspection and faked tests leaves consumers at the mercy of lying meters and adulterated It Is currently believed to have contributed Hberally to the Tam- any campaign fund in the last election. It notoriously gave an enor- ously profitable contract for construction and extension work to the ompany which has at its head the magic name of Murphy. It should be the business of the committee to trace the connection these facts and events, And to do this it must ask of and con- ‘ering the real ruler of New York, Charles P, Murphy: ’ Why Does He Get It? How Much Does He Get of It? Hk GOOD RESULTS OF ONE CRUSADE, Farmers will, recetve a little higher price for thelr milk thts spring, is is one of the results of organized effort and of a better knowledge the situation. So far there have been several tangible results from Evening World’s pure-milk movement, For the first time there was a public conference and discussion be- Nall the parties interested, Proprietors and not hired men have been convicted of mitk adul- ‘Men convicted of adulteration have been sent to jail instead of being don payment of a nominal fine, i The railroads have provided for official inspection of the milk shipped them, The milk embalmers have temporarily gone out of business, with ue result that there is a greater demand for pure milk, and the farmers t more and better than q1l, the infant death rate in the tenement jtias diminished through the checking of the traffic in bad milk, A PLEDGE-BREAKING PARTY, “The Republicans i the State Senate have repudiated the pledge heir party, to repeal the tax on the surplus and undivided profits gs banks. Their State platform promised a repeal of this tax found to be “inequitable and unnecessary.” Mr. Higgins as lidate before the voters pledged himself more explicitly in favor repeal. in his message to the Legislature he showed it to be le, as “in its practical operation a tax upon the depositors, efore contrary to the long-established policy of the State.” enator Elsberg and other Republican legislative candidates in Pledged themselves to work for the repeal of this most unjust on thrift, And yet Mr, Elsberg was the only Republican Senator with the Democrats to bring the bill before the Senate, ‘The majority defeated this act of justice because “the State needs money”—In other words, that their extravagant appropriations may maid—and because (to tell the whole truth) the great majority of Hgs-bank depositors live in this city, which persists in its right to vote hocratic ticket. ‘the State needs the revenue produced by thls tax, some $700,000, Should raise it from the surplus of the rich rather than from of the poor. When the next election comes the voters will ember this breach of faith by the dominant party of the State. “AS TO TAINTED MONEY. protest of the Boston clergymen:against accepting the $100,000 ‘by Mr. Rockefeller for missionary purposes recalls a story of Thad is, the Republican leader of the House at Washington, during he great Radical was ascending the steps of the Capitol one morn- fter. “sitting in” all night at a poker game, with a comfortable in his pocket, the result of a fat “jack pot.” He was met by'a ittee of pious folks from his district with a request for a contribu. o the fund for building a church in their town, Taking out his the satirical old commoner handed them all over, quoting ly. to himself these lines from a familiar hymn; God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform. “organization” that is responsible for the city government which ven us two months of dirty and disease-breeding streets ought to er that it is hard campaigning against a high death rate and a prevalence of graft. it the ostensible operators of the balled-up transit systems do not their roads in better form the city authorities should begin ations that will insure the operating. ‘Tt seems to have been all Tammany grist that went into the Building lepartment Hopper. Bellevue undergoing examination for sanity as the result of a prao- tloal joke played upon him, Father In O™ prosperous business man in ing his son feigning death. Englishwo- | Man insane because practical joker with |® Wooden arm loosened it #0 that It | camo off as she shook hands with him, Indlana girl hun internally as result of Practical joke of pulling chair from under her, In the last case a jury has awarded the Victim damages of $565, though @ jafl sentence was deserved. Pity*thet the fool-Killer in his rounds 80 rarely encounters the perpetrator of the practical ‘joke,'’ oe Uses of ‘wafety clutches,” neturalty, are to “hold up” elevators, oe 8 6 Public nevertheless rather prefers a “Keiln~dried District~Attorney” to an in- flammable theatre. eee Weary Walters—I don't believe in doin’ too t'ings at once, Sunny South—T'wo tinge! Gee! 1 don't believe in duin’ one ting at onos.—Puck, ee 8 Temperance reformer who puts the blame of the drink habit on bad cook- ing seems to have overlooked the high balls and cold bottles on restaurant tables PBN ees Writer in the Bystander says that “almost without «exception women writers have shown more senae in the management of thelr finances than have thelr brethren of the pen." Might ask Hall Caine and some others about that, eee Gubway philosopher who mays that he can't eat his supper in comfort unless he has his ‘evening jar” probably re- wards @ little shaking up of the liver as good for the digestion. oe 6 “Oyster degorges a $600 pearl for an Alderman,” fctentist some time ago Temarked on the intelligence of bivalves, eo. Employment of a woman in a Chico- peo machine #hop is objected to by the Toolmakers’ Union, not on the ground that the work is unsuited to her, but beoause she i “a competitive menace,’ May be something in this objection, as the number of women employed as metal workers in the United States in- creased from 7,607 tn 1590 to 11,018 In 1900. Number in manufacturing and mechanical pursuits generally was 1,818,668. Almost no masculine trade nowadays in which the “weaker sex” is not well represented or in which It is not giving @ good apoount of itaelf, “You have a fine piano,” aud the musician, “Yea,” answered Mr. Owmrow. “It must de pretty well built or it couldn't stand tohat 4s done to it!'—Washington Star, eo 8 Speaking of women's achievements, ‘the latest microbe is the discovery of a women, Miss Mabel Jones, who found it in the course of a bacteriological ex- amination of Soong ‘wie. ° . Report of the discovery of hidien treasure near Akron, O., excites won- der as to why it got eo far from the Broux, In the proposed Staten Island mu- seum of antiquities room should be made for the model of @ ferry-boat, perlod of 1800-1906, ee Jersey Justice who holds thet women's tongues are concealed weapons 1s likely to experience some of their cutting qualities, . 8 6 Poet—I oan’ get a bit of fire in my lines to-day, Friend—Here’s a match—Oht- cago Record-Herald, oe Pretty good Indorsement of the ‘'shoo- fly” system that Tammany wants it abolished. Regarding the opinions of the minis- ‘ters about the “uncleanness'’ of Mr. Rookefeller’s money, it used to be sal thet ‘gold has no odor.” Perfume of Standard Ol! millions offends many nos- trils, but it would hanily do to ask the pedigree of every bill put in @ contribue tlon box, ’ o 8 6 “Ag @ result of the Allen street fire, Police Commissioner McAdco sent out @ general order directing the poltve paplains to see that fire-escapes, espe clally in tenement-houses, are not clogged" Order of similar kind issued by Police Inspector just after the At- torney street fire tragedy, De ® way we have in Manhattan, eee Hicke—What makes you tink that he dan't a gentleman? Wicks—He keeps forever inatat- ing that he is.—Philadelphia Ledger, Among the technical schools in Ger many are institutions for teaching tey ANew # # Comic Series >By Gene Carr. Good Hope, Ala,, dies from shook of see- The Persistent Suitor. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. YOUNG wo) ij iA man of Brook- lya in order to give an overpersist- ent pultor his qul- etus confessed het) seoret marriage to) him as the only method of convinc- ing him that she at! least was not to be) won by waiting. | Marvellous to Te- late, he took vies hh and troubles ghiecpiens bride no more, BY ‘That a woman, no matter what he”) primary disinclination, may be won by waiting, even as a Subway express, |s not alone the opinion of the popular, Féna Lyall, who embodied the convic ton in a title page, Tt és the most cherished tenet of mas cultne philosophy concerning woman kind. And frequently no Indifference no dnult even, from the unfortunate ob ject of the bellef can distodige it. What} to do with the persistent suitor that one positively doea not want and would un | der no conceivable circumetances take, {g one of the gravest problems that pre sont themselves to the unattached wo man, Of course, suttors of any sort are not: overplentitul in New York, where tho) eligible bachelor with intentions ts be- coming as scarce as the buffalo on the Western plains. But there are eo many All the Com Flowir g Bowls and Banquets ‘atnot Shake Smith’s Love of His Hearth. forts of THIS .STEA 1s BURNT SMITH, WITH ALL THE ComFofTS OF. A HOME, AND WHAT Mave we! -- «By Roy L, “H AVE you heard what happened to poor Mr, Cheep- skal, Mr, Negg? BA Oh, it was dreadtul, land Mrs, Cheepskeit \s prostrated! Mr, Oheapsicatt won prige from “The foct Lady’ Mag: zine for writing an article on ‘How We Not #o disagreeable that you went him Qoctually to believe quite all you tell him ag to the hopelessness of bis sult. You Jet him laugh just enough to encourage him to keep on a-hangin’ around, And| sometimes when the nice little balloon of sentiment in which you have ascend- @4 to the seventh heaven with another Dot the persistent suitor, is punctured, and neither you Mor the aeronaut oan throw sand enough in your eyes to keep) afloat any longer, you are glad enough) when you bit the earth to find the pers slatent sul wreaaing. with the bi ky in uch-tried affection to bind up you! Bult Our 2, fractured heart. | $12,000 sable ge, gourte a wellcomdusted bal Roy L.MaCardellsitome on Bixty loean’t puncture, and the more ‘Cents a Week.’ Not that the Cheep- tunate of us to stay up among) the rows-tinted clouds ‘until Ht 18 too late eksdte needed the money, but juet to for us to do anything but etand by the, show that they had literary talent. And there Ta nohing for tte, perustent suitor m™ bl 16 @) for | todo but etand and watah it disappene| stayed at home in the mist or else walt oynically for it) deoorate their flat, because he is float~ to come down egain. Not an Easy Job, thowght it would get Well street peo- ple more interested If he ateyed at he has an office with in Wall street acted in the most ungentlemanly man- ner and wanted rent for Mr. Cheep- okatt's desk in hia office, “Not that Mr, Cheepskatt couldn't have bought the whole building, as he auld himeelf, but * was the principle ot the thing, ‘That was it-the prinaiple of Vive thing, doewn't intend to pay the unoouth per- son a cent now! “Well, what has that to do with you? Tt has nothing to do with you, Mr, Mrs: Nagg and Mr. after he got the § prise Mr. Cheepakait| th and helped his wife) Paper ing a $10,000,000 mining scheme, and he} er ‘home @ while, and, anyway, the man| hi ‘That's the reason he one making, tailoring, wig making, barber-} mon of the persistent kind that one ing, wood carving, photography, ViclIN} aoesn’t want than of the gently vaotilat-| making, glass working, straw platting, ting variety that gomehow or other ap- Fhe People’s Corner. tters from Evening World Readers @ Men and the Dope, Baditor of The Evening World: wing read the article in your paper in regard to young men using "dope," 1 - hink f law should be passed prohibit- Gime ave 4i8 usage. it in sold in New York Harug stores as a “catarrh cure,” and It # of neeaine. In a certain insur une of New York City the wy thiest officials congregate and uso (hat cursed stuft and throw themselves tO all the nilsery which {t Is bringing & multitide of homes. GR > Gratt in Ballding Plans. the Baltor of The Pvening World: it possible that they are being gelved by the speculators in the ding busihess who erect shells or th traps, using absolutely unfit ma- ? Unless bricks are new or old thoroughly cleaned, which they iom are, the mortar will not adhere, fre thrown up any way so as ) get the wall up. Very scldom time ts ken to slush up a wall, plumb a cor- ‘properly or use a line, Why not 6 inapectors whose eye sight hag not been {mpatred trying to tell the difference between a set of Plans and a five spot? av. Food for the Opossum, |To the Hultor of The Evening World: In answer to the question as to how to feed an opossum, 1 would say, give him meats, particularly raw, apples and | tender shoots of trees, When wild he 4s very fond of visiting chicken houses And helping himself to all sorts of poultry, NETTIN P,, Scotch Plains, N. J, The Derivation of Shamrook. To the Edltor of The Eventing World; I would inform the gentleman who| writes the etymology of “shamrock’ that there {8 no such thing as a “Greek-Irish word." The Greek ‘“mno- ros” means long, and {t has not the faintest connection with the Gaelic “melo,"" from which we get the com- | mon prefix ''Mac,"" meaning gon, Words from different languages may even resemble each other in both sound And meaning without there being any etymological relation between ¢hem, DRPDORIO W, M. é milling and hotel keeping. Reads somewhat lke @ Het of courses in New ‘Would Kick Jerome Out of Twenty- two Doors,’ ‘Jerome and Moss !n Hot Fight" ‘Hurls the Lie at Grout.” Coming of spring finds the atmosphere already a trifle superheated in some sec- tions of the city, Rune . “Bay, pa,” queried little Johnny Bumpernickla, “what's a peace congress?" “It's a lot of men trho make woar againat war, answered the old gentleman.—Philadelpha In- quirer, Hxouse alleged for the disregard of safety provisions in theatres is that the to prohibit “are no longer dangerous," and super- intendents of the Building Department ‘have to use @ome divcretion, you know.” Use of ‘Mtscnetion" in auch cages would be more to the point If tt were not invariably in favor of the par- tles rectly interested and against the publio welfare, Reward offered for an instance ot what a proprietor would re- gerd as lack of "digoretion' on the part ot tha dnaneoton, paals to vou. It does no good to tell the persistent suttor that you (ton't love him, He aa- sures you that he will give you thme to) learn, It da useless to tell him that you! love another, for he will taugh in al superior fashion and tell you you wiil, get over It Generally, too, the persistent suitor Is Bug—It's no wonder trampe get tired so easy carrying @ wig thing like that around with them, A Miracul ous Load. Nagg, only you are eo selfish you are not interested in whet my friends are Aoing. "Go ahead, you say? I won't tell you 4 thing now, just for epite, Mr, Nags; but what I was going to say wae that Mr, Cheepskait met with a terrible mishap, “He lg @ man that ikes to wee his home cosy, so, as he was staying home, he bought a can of bathtub enamel and painted the bathtub, “Tt seemed to be perfectly dry, and poor Mr, Cheepskait took a bath in tt, and the thot water melted the white enamel], and when Mr, Cheepskalt got in the bath {t all come off and stuck to him, and his ecreams were frightful to hear. In trying to wrenoh himself oe GOOD LUCK, rt the hil’ nis load up “Say, I wouldn't let the boss know It, but It pulls easier up the hill than on Shevabet A four-leat clover In the grass Ilalf hidden in the emerald gleam; | And what should stay me as I pass?— Some occult Impulse—fancy—dream? L stooped, and found It, bright with dew, Sweetheart, blow ever; It goes, with all {ts luck, to you~ A four-leat clover, —Ruth Comfort Mitchell in Sunset Magazine, a nn h the darkest clouds Home. McCardell.... loose he fell in on his fos, and hie “When he @id get out he looked Mire the White Man From Borneo, and Mra, Cheepska!t went into hysterios beeause oe was always proud of Mr, Oheap- ance and Brother Wille and Gneenle Wish and Roble the Toad, who hap- pened to be here at the time, want! Over, and they got sand-paper to take! the enamel off Mr. Cheepekait’s face end his soreams were fearful to hear, and in the exoltement thieves got in. and when 4 aid stole the fi lcoman wae dalled in hi i ayo rouaa t be- eve that Mr, bi their money and devout vaults vaul nds of doilans, an it you il jeuurday, nd hm "It wae rather ro on say? What are xo Tag wretoht News, you heartless you laughing at?!’ The ‘‘Fudge o asa’ Higher Up. 46 SHR,” said the Cigar Stora Man, “that a lot of Congres testing against the acceptanca, of $100,000 that John D, Rockefeller assisting in Christianizing the heaths en.” & marked The Man Higher Up, “Here is the United States Government trys money in and Congregational minis« ters trying to put a stop order on By Martin Green.’ gational ministers are pros has chipped in for the purpose of “Another handicap of wealth,” ree ing to keep John D. from taking him when he wants to give it away, > What do the ministers want Rocke« feller to do with his money? “Do they maintain that becaus> he 2 got it by methods that they believe to be crooked he should endow crip games with it or stake people with systems for beating the bank? Do they think because he has wom his bankroll from Standard Oil that he ought to use it in the establish. ment of brewerles? What kind of a » {shakedown are they framing up for the Rockefeller millions? “By steeping himself in the wildest 2 |debauchery ho could enjoy, John D, Rockefeller might manage to squan« der about $3 a day, ‘He has more money than he could use if he lived a million years and his income was shut off this minute, If he believes it hia duty to contribute $100,000 ta the purchase of Bibles for the unree generate In foreign lands, he ought ta be allowed to follow his inclination, > | Even though the Rockefeller methods of getting the money of the people wouldn't stand the acid test, the fact) remains that he has the money. The people can’t get it back, He can't spend it. If he don’t give it away it won't get into cireulation. “To veto the release of $100,000 af the Rockefeller stake would be a grievous crime, If the miastonaried get ft they will spread {t freely and thankfully, Eventually it will get’ back to Rockefeller, but while it isi being exercised it will do a lot of! good. It is sate to say that 999,999 people out of a million will give three cheers to any manifestation on the rt of John D, Rockefeller to blow imeelf, no matter in what direction.’ “I wonder {f the fact that Mr. Rockefeller ts a Baptist had anything to do with the action of the Congra- gational ministers?” asked the Cigna Store Man, “Not on your Ife,” replied The ManHigherUp, “The denominational combinations in the sum of $100,000 are strong enougi to wipe out any religious denominational differences,” Little Willie’s Guide to New York. INTERBOROUGH COMPANY, | eo the (dca nickles Gs "ohver pain Bey and ann) } esrteat All hood bo wt graittul al Hr wi Soteackrttyalne At EON, ere short, while those of little countries are long. ‘God Save the King” ie 14 ; | bars, the Russian hymn is 16 bara, and bla!" has 28 bara, Siam’ ymn has 76 bars, aad that, of ay 1, Chill 48 and so on, Sad Marino has the longest national hymny except that of China, ” Idiotorial The Ice ts going out of the trout streams and this sets us to thinking about GOING A-FISH. ING, Fishing Is a matter of LUCK and angleworms, Without luck and angleworms there would be very FEW FISH caught, Yet, did ou ever reflect that MILLIONS of fish never see an’ angleworm and that milllons of angleworms never get NEAR a fish? This fs another Illustration of the Inequity of the general ad= justment, ALL the fish are In the SEA and all the angleworms onthe LAND. They can only be brought together by an ARTI« FISHIALITY, Sandworms are best for sea bass, The best fish never get CAUGHT, This is so that the fishermen can have something to LIE ABOUT when they get home, We ONCE went fishing with another man and caught 113 trout. HE caught I1l of them. But it SOUNDS BETTER when stated concretely, The Fish and the Angleworms. (Copyrot, 1908, Planet Pub. 00.) The angleworm Is blind and leads @ very STUPID life. It{s a KINDNESS to take a faw of them on a fishing trin,