The evening world. Newspaper, May 3, 1905, Page 12

Bntered’ at the 1’ost-Oflice at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, pil da eer TE TIME WB. .ccebourenenencr sy neces sees +NQ, 18,961, (naeneraal THE PROFIT OF FREE LECTURES. To-morrow evening, at the Hintel Astor, the Free Lecture Corps of Board of Education will meet fbr its fifteenth annual reunion, The lectures themselves have been in progress seventeen years. During Ife first season, in 1889, 486 Jectures were delivered, with an ag- e ettendance of 22,4 . IB Be SOR UE RES ee qwere given, with an aggregate attendance of 1,155,000, In its expan ‘tion "a practical good results the lecture system justifies the felicita- fons in which its active agents will Khdulge tomorrow night Nothing @ould exactly reptlice it in the scheme of public education. "At the beginning, only those parts of the city which are now the Borougts of Manhattan and the Bronx had lecture centres, The 494 fecturers of the season just concluded wilted 135 centres, scattered through the five boroughs of the consolidated city. The lecture appropriation for the season was about $130,000, making the cost of the system per bead of attendance 4434 cents. Thens Is probably no Investment offering equally large retums for so small an outiay. As the first advocate of the Wise locture system and of the legislation through which it was established, he Byening World views with a pride surety pardonablle the marvellous @access of the experiment, ‘The hundred thousand mark in attendance was passed in the fourth geason of the lectures, the haif million In the tenth season and the million in the fifteenth season. Further steady growth {s, of course, assured, Crime and the saloons do not keep up with the population, These lec- tures do, both in number and interest, Agreeabte characteristics of the lecture attendance, course by course, are {ts complete democracy and the wile sweep of Industrial citizenship represented init. A census taken at onet of the Brooklyn centres recently brought count of the folowing occupations: Silk weaver, toolmaker, ctvil engineer, firiman, cut-glass worker, stenographer, petesiady, housekeeper, feeder of printing press, gasfitter, butcher, bookkeeper, boy, artist, clothing cutter, machinist, photographer, dock master, paint. , confectioner, housewife, carpet layer, compositor, Interior decorator, ma- ghine worker, manufacturer, broker, Insurance agent, packer of gelatine, druggist, printer, surveyor, salesman, tron moulder, carpenter, chair caner, conductor, box- maker, postman, boiler maker, shoe dealer, real estate, stone cutter, copyist, moulder, laptdary, solderer, file cutter and! rallroader, As results of the free lecture system’s working, it ts calmed that: Adult education is established as a petmanent part of our educational scheme, Reading and study have been enoouraged, @ deeper interest in school life de~ yaloped and a refining influence spread. + Co-operation has been brought about between the lecture, the library and puseum, The echoo! ts becoming the soetal centre of the community, The school of the future must be constructed with a view to {ts use for rivious educative influences, so thet may become not alone nursery for chil- but a place of Intelligent resort for men and women. Perhaps one ef the best tributes to the good of the system Is the fact that free lecture oourses on the New York plan have been started in Chicago, Boston and Milwaukee; in Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New Ro- fhelle, N Y.; and in Hoboken, Jersey City, Newark, and Bast Orange, N. J. There is, Indeed, every reason why Dr. Lelpziger should feel frengthened by encouragement in his work as supervisor of the lectures ind why the Board of Educaition should care for the system with in meased liberality. In face of thelr shameless subserviency to the Gas Trust, the bolting members of the Senate displayed really adamantine “cheek” In voting to ake from our Aldermen their immemorial opportunity to “strike” and ‘hold-up.”” A MOTION TO AMEND, "The time has come,” said James J. Hill, in declining for reasons suf- iclent to himself to serve on the Frick committee to investigate the Equi- able scandal, “when the whole business of life insurance must be care- ully managed.” A motion is In order to amend this declaration by substituting the word HONESTLY for the word “carefully,” Abundant care is generally taken in the details of business manage- nent that are not intended to bear the light of day. It is doubtful if the legal and dishonest use of the Equitable Society’s funds would have be- ome known at this time if the rival factions in the corporation had not Juarrelled over the division of “spoils.” The time has indeed come, if the life Insurance of American com: manies is to go on prosperously, when the business must again be done or the benefit and protection of the policy-holders, not for the surrepti- jous gains and illegal profits of the officers and directors, And preliminary to this there must be a full Revelation, Restitution nd Reform in the Equitable, If President Roosevelt is wise he will stick to the “bars” and keep way from the Chicago strikers, What a touching spectacle is that of Senator Cassidy lamenting the ‘waste of water power” at Niagara! He would see only waste of stone | saving the noble Palisades of the Hudson and Waste of lumber in the! \dirondack Park. It would be a waste of boodle to attempt to influence a practical” man like Cassidy to vote for the destruction of the sublime ataract, The People’s Corner. Letters from Evening World Readers ) Irving Place pply Centend oni and Bighte @ the EMitor of The Providenne for it. Ith. virtue of being cheap wo the other day, he supreme y wife bought and when I had seen the bill for only $ I knew there ho Str it World apply ‘Wirere may a young lady tor Bulls ing has eradicated the breeding places } ° "position AW pay tune is eee bean such benutiful | of the pest, and the contdent prediction | hata ie te. Catton imo many ? , ca AB. lity inade of “a mosaultoless Newark pieee Ae) BTUs ior ot A Insitute for Stammarers, In the Morristown region, where $100,000 It takes more than e bank aratt wo|| Let Us Try 1 tb Bala Neate un has already Deen spent, a society has jase the neaveniy Rane, MY tam Are many | D@D organized to take further meas ry to Be Bad ‘ages Ae i u # himself 00] yore me woo] Utes for thelr extenmination, N It ts easy for the wooden-legged man ft Brahe might Hitinnin have repiieds| Nowlt tke to. be and oured, Mavanie aieit totals of) in |to preach against dancing, My LeRoi ia fules of mosquito netting ant Wie spare 1 BL BURKE ene gether and Al uatohe Guanine ebay oe Buin & rey iced oh & Gone (Copyrot, 1008, Planet Pub. Co.) Try a Collecting Ag Wane (as of these precautions, ad A sum? © the Dattor of Mme bye Tam a lady who ts ey Japanene Old ywent to the genuen | De the Eaytor iminens to ek for dt, but an oficer| There are no pas called to put me out. He said he) Cause every {6 permitted @ number PMG arrest me if he had the time, If; Of Wives. All my Japanese frienda in ’ Toklo of good sorta, than one ricult nding had more chlet tn the Ag- head ix, yho freely entertained their master’s al~ tors, You see that it is not all told, Want to euy a word in favor of the | thy 4 hunt. Of course, it's u | his story of Japanese, who want you TIER eed Dig | ANd tho rest of us to believe them Fepeet theve calle atm T lable, to ar- . M.D, In Praise of the Polo, p the Faitor of The Evening Worlds wife, One, Department d by the Preks Publishing! Company, No, 58 to 68 Park Row, New York. are the only benefits the Anglo-Baxon races peoples they have tried to ‘‘olvil! weot so far haye been fattening on the of] eprink about for their extermination just as vided for them on the Jersey meado w: sade the statement is madesthat ditoh- }PEODPDD ODO IPO 0D9OO000O099OOOOH940008 090900008 6: May Day and Warsaw: By J. Campbell Cory. D the Side. NTERESTING additional aidettght on I the violous progress of the cigarette around the world furnished by Ma- jor-General Bie W, G. Knox, of the months I lived entiwly with the men. I cannot describe te you the tostores that, oonarmed snokers saffered when to- Dacoo ran out, but the ora were in Woman of wealth who had eros Clowns for waiters at her dinn party haa made a strong did tor adméssten to the emart wot. e 8 6 British reformer who eays the feml- ine petticoat is sdiotic and without e@xcune for existence should take note of how Nanny Gibson saved the train which waa rushing to destruction tn Werth Carolina, AM intention ef @ threat m the m- merks to the Mayor by the Peausyl- vania representatives now ed.’ Merely “said on the side,” as tt were, incidentally, and casualty end mot to be taken seriously, eee Qian who hes given Colimbia $000,000 @m condition that his name shall not be Gieolosed will et least not be cabled on to deny that it & “tainted,” e ee “Perwonaliy apeaking,” gays Marte Corelli, ‘I do not know any man who ts mot sbwolutely under the thumb of at Least one woman, And I will not beltiev. that there ls any woman #0 feeble, 40 stupid, wo lost to the power and eharm of her own individuality e@ not to be whole to influence quite half a doen men.” N79 7, y MT / x WI Meininn W) eo 8 e “You ahouldn't borrow trowdle,” “I don't—I wouldn't take aa @ otftr'—Oleveland Leader. GOSS 90O40O9OOO9OOG0H. PLLHLOGPOD ©O00066O06O4604$$0006000000200495-00004000000506000 | them.” FOOCOSSOEOIIEOR The Man Higher Up, By Martin Green, 467 SHH,” said The Clear Stora I Man, “that a pleasure partyagy @ yaoht thet went out didn’t got back untfl yesterday, the relatives of those on the besll thought they had been drowned,” “Fortunately,” remarked The Mam Higher Up, “this yacht was safe, ba’ her experience is the prologue of the qummer tragedy of the sea around New York. Experienced sailors took the Mayflower out Sunday, but they couldn't keep her from running aground. The undertakers harvest will begin when people who don® know any more about handling @ yacht than they 4o about handling & slide tnombone will load a sallboss up with landlubbers and take them out for a pleasant epin on the wreres, “The spin arrives all néght, but im vertical instead of horizontal, and the happy wailing party goes to the rollom to remein until the mariners jarrive with grappling hooks Ey» perience i@ no teacher, The papers on Monday will be stuffed with ase counts of disasters lo amateur saile ors and the next Sunday a fresa buneh of sea food \will go out to sate isty the appetite of the ocean, “No man of reasonable intelligenee Ud attempt to run an automobile ] fi] >| until he had taken lessons and qualt- *| aed himself, But the very man who urd foalk et tiking obarge of am automobile without ¢deeling sure thag could handle {t would leap withe out hesitation into a catboat and ate tempt to navigate it in a high wind There seems to be some drawing power about a sailboat that makes any old slob think he can make it obey him, although his navigating experiences may have been confined chietly to steering a plough, “There ought to be 4 law prohibite ing anybody from taking out any » | kind of a sailboat without a license, isaued by a competent authority, and the license should be granted only after a strict examination, Those who think that the necessary equip- ment of a sailor comprises a yacht- ing oap, a double-breasted blue coat, a pair of white pants and rubbers soled shoes should bo looked upon as bughouse and so treated.” "I've noticed,” sald The Cigne Store Man, “that the amateur sailor who takes a boat wut and upsets it always drowns relatives or intimate friends,” | “Sure,” Up. agreed The Man Higher “Strangers wouldn't go with Ami hore ts additional testimony to his helplessnese by Mrs, Craigie, whe ways: ‘Man must have somebody to look after hin, a wife, @ mother er a A Family Arrest. The Peril of Friendship. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Mrs. eee Much to be eaid in support of the ob- B are constant-) People we don't know don’t bother gue Seotfons of the Reading High School iW ly reading nd-! about us. They are busy looking after 4 HERE are ari tolwearing ‘cave &h0 mown et coms H vice to young | thelr aircle of friends, Amd if we take Wier pocks 4 menoement. Right of the sweet girl nen and women on} it into our Beads to lose our money Flow do | graduate to receive her diploma in her he @osirability of |r elope wieh the bank funda or crack tmow, Mr, Nass?] naking many ] rienda, Go into #o- lety, Make lots of xquaintances who cay later develop a genuine interest in you that will help © law years joké or a sate, st ts not they who will @ay us nay or hold us forever to account for it. It fe not our friends edther, but be- tween a friend and an acquaintance there ts often but one step, the one we take up or down the ladder of fortune. most bewitching costume is time-hon- Do you think I hav ored and iualienable, and properly oon- widered 1s as much e reward for years of diligent application as the diploma (\teelf, : Bald by Prof. Bterr, of Chicago, who has not twinkled for publication for ou all your life] Friends are necessary to us—so ne: some time, thet “fancy drinks, ru hey are told, Yet} cssary if they didn't exist we eiways buying socks shoes, bolled ehirts and alarm oloc: after they have! would hi to invent them, to para- for you, I bought phrase the irreverent Voltaire, Indeed, we often are obliged to content our- selves with what is merely a dressed-up acquaintance, But the idea that there {s in each now person we meet a potential benefit is & mistaken one, For we give in ex- change for ther good will just #0 much of individual Hberty, pursued thig course how many real friends will they have? Friendship is the most elastic word in language, It may mean more or than any other, with the exception of love, which has perhaps greater pos- shbdities of meaning or the lack of it. Our real friends—rich indeed {se he who can number them tn the plural—are our most precious possessions, But it seems to me that our acquaintances are just 90 many hostages given to public opinion. When Gulliver awoke on the Island of LAlput, pinioned by every hair to the round, he was in precisely the sate position as the man—and more particu- larly the woman—of many acquaint- ances, For, if by any adverse thrust of fate, we waken suddenly to find ourselves supine, it will be the thousand petty oriticlama of our liliputian acquaint- ances that will pin us thera. ——= HER CALOULATION, ‘He told me that I was one women tn ® thousand," sald the lady who had caused her husband's arrest for bigamy, "And," she continued, while @ bitter smile wandered aorosn her face, ‘from the way the returns are coming in I am inclined to think that he waa literally and mathematically correct.’—Balti- more American. you helt a dopen' Fed of are ones month, and th, fast color and good qu cheap, beceuse nobody in hous to economize but me, ia have conferred on the heathen Hardly a full achedule of the “'trade that follows the missionary,” but cor- t. goes, eo “Golf, eays Dr, Macnamara, in the Pall) Mall Magazine, ‘is the great test of oharacter. I have seen men mar- ried—condemned to death by the steth- omoope—returned at the top of the poll for the oounty—and notified of the ad- yent of twins. But the real man didn't reveal himwelf on any of these ooca- sions half #o conspicuously” as in his play on the Hnks, Remarked by othe: that the game Invites a serious atral. in the matter of keeping the score on tho player's mental arithmetic, Good deal of w feat of honest addition to put down six and carry two, sometimes, oe @ Bill—Ha! Hal Jimmy te being pinch- ed. Bob-—O' go ‘long—dat policeman is Jimmy's father; and he's goin’ to git Woree than pinched when he gets home, Sentence Sermons. from one department atore Encouraging, No, you do not! Sloth makes slaves, * ‘The prodigal are never Itberal. * Hungry men ask few questions, * 00d quality, Love is the secret of good books, id “You ought to be ashamed to “But” objected the hetress, “IL Bincerity ts the out Gaserting iteetf, have been decustomed to every lucury.' “That's the more reason why you should marry me," said the impe- cunious suitor, “I'm a luoury my- self.'"—Philadalphia Record, * © 6 Meport from Panama that mosquitoes ‘The pain of lows is the price of gain, * ‘Wak for your worries; but not for your work. * Mt takes more than a despising of fame to deserve it. * It te easy to be cigereus without being righteous, Patient—Dootor, my breath ts getting shorter and @horter every day! Dovtor—Oh, don't worry, I'll that entirely! atop * Veith never has eng need te dream about the future, Wonderful Improvement. ey throve on @ afmilar diet onoe pro- ° Profanity is @ good deal mere than a matter of grammar, Regarding Jenmey's antt-mosquito cru- makes no change in the musio, A * Bald In obituary notice of @ prominent club woman, @ member of five women's organisa , that “no children sure vive her The wore speak volumes, se 6 Bald by the Natal delegate to the Mail- way Congress: ‘‘But your New York streets—the condition of them fs fear- ful. You know, we wouldn't stand for anything Uke that dowa in our little Natal,” Probably well for the state of the delexate's feelings that he sees Heaven may be ohangeless, but a changeless earth would be hell, * Tt 19 @ base Iife to which nothing w real but the objects of #ense, * In matters of opinion the beaten track 1# moat likely to lead astray, * sulphur or sarsaparilla, | They cannot move forward who will uot eay farewell to some things, ° Patrick (who has been to see & doctor abewt his poor appetite)—Sure and I have @ lot of fatth in that new doctor, Maggie. ave for the last\ten ought Ware ean they really are im more @owe dusk ” on tis eraN & ssmanan, ac.io, eae them now in their relatively presenta- condition and mot as they were Magsie—Why? ey were guaranteed ality, I got them e has “Why don't I let you buy your own focks, you ask? You would be a nice one to go shopping and et cheated, wouldn't you? Do you ever go around ft to an- other trying to wave a few penni “I know how you wasteful men do, You mo Into one of thowe high-priced haberdasher’s and eay, ‘Give me a half dozen of your best black socks, Some- thing good!’ and then you take any- | thing the olerke choose to folst on you and pay three or four times the price tor things that I can get in nearly as downtown with holes in your sooks! Buppose you were mun over by « trolley car and were taken to the howpital in a Gying condition, and after they un- Greseed you they found holes in your wooks? I would be mortified to death! “and I think tt fa a shame thet you do not wear No, 8 shoes instead of No, @& because Brother Wrille only bursts your whoes when he tries to get them on, If you were not #o selfish you would weer not only your shoes but your whts and collars a couple of eines larger, for, ae it is, ali he ean The ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotorial. | bs go Nagg and Mr.—=. .. By Roy L. McCardell. ... | wear cf yours 1s your neckties and handierohicfs, But what do you care for anybody else? You don’t care at all, and you «now it, | “It Js all right, I mustn't get excited, jyou say? I will get excited; tt ts enough to dr.ve me crazy, the way you act! Some day you will be sorry! And you should consider that the children are getting larger now and they hear you swearing! "You are not swearing? Well, you ‘ore yesterday when I asked you te y the ollcloth in the kitchen, and you mashed your finger win the tack ham. mer, And the words you used about Brother Wille forgetting to do it when you gave bim a dollar made my blood run cold, "Do you expect Brother Willie, a boy only twenty-six years old, to accept ev= ery responsibility and care in thie house? “Isn't he an example to us of the joy ousnesa of youth in the inenry Way he lies abed jn the morning and shouts down to Della to bring him up tle breakfast und be quick (bout it? “And yet you would 8G CATO drudge of him, when you know even Ladytinger—although Brother Willie catches ‘hi 1, in the well ena Hane bina Im ory—alth: fo gmake hun cirother Wills nes tsb ‘temperamen’ wow mi Are going downtown Pere feotly “satiefied because you have m ine miserable for me lay over the rot you mado over a_hole in your sock Decause Brother Wille ts only a boy. ——— New Natural History, HARD-WORKING fancy deat | had remsacked the whole shop. his efforts to pleawe an old “anything real nice''~for her Qaushter, Flor the fifteenth time picked up tet orto, examined neat little eetchel, ase you cunts ee, tae, tte {7 cone wevoaltive, madain, quot the deaten, on that looks rather mai groan whens tt. Something should be dono-te | offset the wave of GOODNESS | which {fs wallowing over the land! _ What with Mr. Rocke» feller paying a $100,000 fine | evuw few days, Mr. Carnegie coughing up wads of $10,000» 000 at a clip and Mr. Morgan snuggling up to the Pope, It Is TAM Somebody became BAD beside Mr. Hyde and Mr. Harriman, We have been thinking about a little toot ourselves, justeo | colobrate the coming of spring. Wo onco knew a doctor who In» | Sisted that a genteel BAT was MUCH better for the blood than | He sald he had tried both and KNEW. We wonder WHY President Roosevelt has never taken this subject up and SETTLED It. Whero there are so many differong.