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

Evening World'*s Home Magazine, we Thursday Evening, August 3, 1905. Published by the Press Publishing Company, No, 68 to @ Park Entered at the Post-Oftice at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. Row, New York. VOLUME 46.00.05 seceee sencee ces .NO, 16,083. millions of people and no trees. the United States in perspective, but New York. In Greater New York there are more people than trees. More people than trees can live on one houses four, five and six stories high. pne tree growing on the same spot, and the larger the tree the greater area on which its over-shadowing growth will prevent the existence of other trees. Even in Greater New York onty a minor fraction of the earth’s sur- face is built upon. Staten Island has many more trees than people. The upper end of Manhattan Island, the outskirts of the Bronx and large jreas in Kings and Queens Counties have more trees than men, women If the radius were taken of thirty miles from New York ind children, t the number of trees and people might tended further, to the Ramapo Mountains, to the New Jersey pine forest, ind to the Long Island woodland, there would be more trees than people. If men followed nature’s example and insisted that a human being should be allowed to occupy as much of the earth’s surface as a tree the tongestion of the population on the east side would disappear and the | four millions of people in Greater New York would spread out until a tree, a patch of grass, a flower-bed and a garden spot went with every family. SAVINGS BANK DEPOSITS. Reports of the savings bank deposits are proof of increased pros- perity and thrift. There are 130 savings banks in the State of New York. The New York City banks, while not to the rest of the State have a larger total deposits now are $1,252,928, number of depositors is over a quarter the interest exceeds the total expenses New York savings banks not only ple and secure a good interest for them, but they also breed habits of thrift $ They are a beneficent institution. and encourage a law-abiding spirit. A DEAD WIFE’S MONEY, In refusing to accept the share of his dead wife’s estate which the law would have given him a well-known author acts commendably. His wife had brought suit against him for divorce, and while the Court had decided in her favor the findings had not been signed nor the formal de-’ A cree entered before her death. She left a will bequeathing the property to her sister and her brother and giving nothing to her husband. The law of the State wheré she lived and died gives the hushand what corresponds to a dower right in his wife’s estate. This was refused by this particular husband, although it amounted to a number of thousands of dollars. If money conside: lacking it the modern divorce suits would be. “Texas Jack,” who fought at San Juan Hill, has been convi If this sort of thing States will contain an undue proportion of Spanish-war veterans, highway robbery. If the job of Queen instead of King of the small sovereignty knowh as the Calf of Man were for sale would there be such a paucity of pur- ‘chasers? Col, Mann sa. would like to see it demonstrated in s- The Detac DING CHAPT ay is SYNOPSIS OF PF Samuel Russell, streets, dying head “alone rel richest His 1 Haanclal powers hur, going up Hradwe Attacked and knocked 4 had @ woman. CHAPTER IV. Another Surprise. MORE PEOPLE OR TREES? ‘A correspondent asks, “Are there more irees than ¢ A world? In the forests are millions of trees and no people; in the cities Which are in the majority?” It needs no Sherlock Holmes to point out that the questioner must have been born and lived all his life in the city. 99, gate assets of the Equitable, New York and Mutual Life Insurance com- panies. The increase of the deposits of the past year has been $86,- 836,855, of which two-thirds was in the last six months, since the public agitation of life insurance matters has been going on. 4 The total number of accounts is 2,513,570 and the total amount of Interest $41,748,434, or an average of about $15 for each depositor. The 4 ions, alimony, w snecuiatic ng speculatio that he is a fighter. we w people in the He has never viewed only the nearby neighborhood of acre if the people live in tenement- Nature’s laws prevent more than DOSE IGREOODHE DM Z be about even; but if it were ex-} 3 38ONT329OG, so many in number, in proportion proportion of the deposits. The: ; gr almost the same as the aggre- of the population of the State and ; of the State government. take care of the savings of the peo- PODOPHISHOHSSHHE HOS: > w BRussia’s Peace Envoy Arrives. By J. Campbell Cory, DHLOOOODIDND HARHEDSELHTOLEHOSHIHEDOSHHOLHLSHOHODS sesoneasssorg| The Dangers of ot 8 Originality. By Barry Pain. fairs of life is too easy, and is generally an error of taste. ‘lo take tho first sordid consideration, it) 1s too expensive. It does not pay. | Publishers and editors will have none! of it. They ask, of course, for original work, but that is merely because they have read in some book that originality is @ good thing. or possibly a critis has been talking to them. It ts the etiquette to ask for original work, and the wise business policy to refuse it, writes Barry Pain in the Pall Mall Maguzine. They know what thetr public wants, and they are quite right. The publish- et looke out for the last thing that has had a great success, and he then @ets an author to try to do something Uke ft. If an author has succeeded with one book his second must be of the same kind. A most serious objection to originallty fn art ts that originality implies mas- tership and mastership implies disciples. Whistler was indirectly responsible for a thousand bad pictures by others and every good one he painted himself. Wagner's influence in music has been terrible. | I have the greatest admiration for | the work of the late G. W. Steeven: but, honestly, I consider him to hav | been the greatest curse that journalism » fas known for the last half century. Mis Style was infectious. Countless young men caught it in an attenuated form. Who can calculate the harm that R. In Stevenson did? In a reckless mo- ment he showed the world that there) | Was another way of writing a historical novel. Previously we had ays started with the two horsemen picking along the mountain pass. I think I could count at least tw authors who make a very good 4! to-day by writing the books Stevenson might have written been too tired to do good work. the pubife benefit I will give an aim infallible sign by wh thease books ; may be detected at the very outset. | They almost always begin wit! Ot ie in the ordinary af- 9090 323939489d39 POTOHOOM. duction! ing like this story of a t ings both b of them th, profit of tt the common eve of our Lord 1807, it ea If I stop there tt could not go on with The Earth’s Weight, A cubdle foot of earth weighs about! five and one-half times as much as a cuble foot of water. A cubic milo of earth then welghs %,649,300,000 tons. The volume of the carth is 259,880,000,00 | cubic mites. 4 In cannot but b 1s not because I it. 9$9899990H-9H19OOSH ant qualities of Uteboat Randall line noon in ep Interested spect ber of ladies, the Iffe- bout was went dow Water, out of up on the ke verfectiy dry bout was turned wit but when were released it proper position and we other. was whart , counsel fees and settlements were what the effect on many of ted of keeps on the prisons of the United ‘ the sands ne day, a lar ning along in his ola struggling to get frec ed the crab sey: ground. The crab ] bird go and ran away There are many people who ome convenient court-room, © up. the woman the ser- ma ser- | nied bis stick at Arthur, 1 she was | Nostrand, rend of yours?” | courin i = with him?" 1s in Brook DPMONSTRATION of given at ne A Queer Battle. © buoy- -inkable ‘3 not He fn any Newton divorce, I wen rconica In this parti ne obedien ne large wife. Waa ie aan been the large hus have been in no W to th ay different. | Compared man, the Russi: ni ions, a man the any in of his home ilde. that wives, little things p true but st an amiable p of Une small hush testified Dr. in his suit for b6 Y wife ordered me out of “And what did you do?” inquired the obviously unmarried lawyer ex- ilar case we consider d But if he h of a small wife the result would eubjection of the average married : erf is a triumphant anarchist, And 1 defy a battalion for his opin- makes the mem- comparison like that of in the great things of there are so few in which the wife \t that she is apt to give the !m- despot. hed Brain ... A Wall Street Romance. atmosphere 1,000, = | weight of the atmoapese given above | A Non-Sinkable Boat. | The Subjection of Husbands, By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Me get a grand totals 27 81,6000). | Letters From the People | Find Answers to Questions More Sympathy ‘To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: Iw y much Interested tn reade Inglyour article, “Foye will go to jail {f he doesn't pay." Any man who thinks a0 little of his mother that he will take occasion to neglect, insult and abuse her through the public press should not find employment with any concern; and T heartily agree with you that this uns natural son should be kicked out of any office. TECUMSEH. W. W.—235,850 miles {s the mean dis tance between the earth and the moon, The War of 1512. To the Editor of Th ening World: Defending our nation’s honor and re plying to the letter which sald we were defeated in the War of 1812: As a mat- ter of fact England had 1,000 vessels, We had about fifteen. The cause was one to be settled by a naval war. Hence we made little preparations for land defense. As to the burning of Wash- ington (which was practically un- guarded at the time) an English writer eaid: “Never was a more disgraceful act recorded in history.’’ Twelve vice tories out of engagements soon made opinion who 6! will never hau. vessel tos her flag Yankee frigate.” FREE AMERICAN, Complaint, The Evening World. coats for gas for a week jected less, as they asked lector how aidn’t worth nth ¥ t cooked for © me round. The my bill wes cut to 39 t s. he gas nes to prove the vICTIM, Money and the Law weapons is who pull con Mrs. Wharton in one of the recent instalments of : * “The House of Mirth" refers pityingly to the subjection | said 2 ON « of husbands to their wives in all things social, and| makes her {nteresting heroine, Lily Bart, momentarily MPLOYMENT of a hatpin as a weapon by @ woman striker in) its victim. | For one woman who tears her husband how many Grand atreet Pia ret new ene men do you knovy tally atta ven” dreadful posstbilities of development in men do you know mortally afraid of their wives? I ius’ corm of attack. Growine famille have never known a wife who really was afraid nor @ arity of the sex with the offensive a husband who really wasn’t. After all, what is man's defensive uses of the hatpin may soon ‘timate resource In a quarrel? It {8 flight or force, 1s eee the ee a peaceful citizens ° 7 aera Speaking vatping, one worn by a it not? And women can very generally count on thelr oicyole gislvat Bexhill, Hngland, caused husbands preferring fiight. But woman has the gift of the osa 4 of a sparrow. The bird all-compelling tears and the alternative of hysterics,|!n flying across the road impaled itseif oth weapons far more powerful than any mere man {sj 0" ‘he protruding pin, possessed of. | New York declared by a newspaper wo It {8 undoubtedly the masculine fear of scenes that be a “thieves' summer resort.” Its ad- ds him into the matrimonial thralldom—often so vantages in that lne recognized by persons of all degrees. Well in tho g neck, and lually that he doesn’t even feel the foot upon his (2... of crooks to give them a warmer ould indignantly deny that {t was there. | welcome than they have been recelving. once try to get from under it and he will| eee Ae. 7 1 ¢ precious sto: ul with the world’s weight on his shoul-| saute large in the Mutory of whe ontrast an airy feather dancing in the sun.| port, Outlook appears promising for an 5 back the burden of the world” {3 a clear) nusually briliant footlight display dur- to ada to his troubles “The Man with! ing the coming season, wis married, And doubtless he had to obey| soe E Jet h realize t was by the Hoe" his wife, as all husbands, good, bad and indifferent, do.| ‘Janitor to buy a yacht?” Only sur- oe | Pand tnto his pocket, searched all his & PPT) | pockets, and gasped: “My God! they hy ‘ah have taken my watch and all my i. i} | money | “Dhey? Who?" demanded the sor- geant. Briefly Arthur gave his story, and, | without mentioning his uncle, told how he came to be at that part of Broadway where the officers found him, “But didn't you come here with your | cousin?’ asked one, “Cousin?” he repeated. cousin—» good-looking young woman?" “I have no cousin, good-looking or the e« Side. prise s that use pi purpose. - 8 mede by a Denver 1 endeavor to reform e of hypnotism, Prospect of getting pe square meals a day and being made good while they wait js calcu! ‘dd <9 ine: he @p- plications for cell accommodations, Allen's old place ap- to give the force e Raia on ‘ parently plat Urtle prelimie practice previous to the fall camp uluable also os & reconnolssasice to observe what prog- ress is being made in fortifying in. kerfors with armored doors and grilled windows to resist attack, oe Passing of the horse car from Grand street furnishes further evidenoe of the sacrifice of cherished landmarks | to the spinit of progress, Old-timers, | with a sentimental Interest in the past, ° may stll, howewr, find enough ancient survivals on other lines to satisfy chem, By Arthur Rochefort. about to Jend him off when the humane doctor sala he had to pass the station and would be glad to carry the offi and his ch x ing from the loss of blood, Arthur rand, his head bandaged, and bis | coat and shirt open, was led before the | desk, be tn charge of the precinct captain, The sereeant told his story with @ waving thread of truth In it, but St would have been a perjury had he sworn to the statement. Without being allowed to say a word in his own defense, Arthur's pedigree | was taken, then the turnkey motioned f “h at the moment chanced te , EARCH this side, Neil! I'll take the om Philadelphia az | bad-looking,"” mid Arthur angrily. ‘I for him to follow, and man whose bludgeon had felled lis wh rH at 1," sald | | dressed me, and that is all I know about | bench. He wasn) Arthur Nostrand the woman a fine ton of her” | the barred door was locked and the man Tt isn't on this std r | “But she knew your name,” said the! With tho keys went down the stone F, woman, her experie ’ r stion could bel eat (Moor yawning and swearing. MHa! I've got il N Ah . sod an amibulans | cousin?” if gin three, Youre of iparvloe oh 0 cbaitlee tout man nnd ner and drew up| “Bring that woman here!" roared « Held? ane rthur, Y Pesan wale the pounding of night | Peni © cur) near to Which lay the throbbing head, owaing (ag eras bars. ticks and the sounds of hurrying fest wi hor nero” ; ¥ Id be heard in every dire In ar ing aurgcon dressed “Yio, Ellen Rus ” 2 SrReun for Mt, Buick. 1) £400 th in w a iighted lantern on} “Where ia she?” i Problem in Physics, paid the woman, who a! once r at and d ded: | “Great Scott! she's gone! OST of us have probably speete golf down beside Arthur, and is) '\ | These were the exclamations that shot | M lated, at one time or another, mamaysiained head in her a1 Ha from ithe oMficers as they ran dither and | what would happen if a hole emer en whem : thither, without the plightest expecta-|were bored right through the earth and calle uck,"” | it ws | 4 rthur's) pu open thon of finding the woman who had #o|/one were to drop a #ione into it; and fend had yanivhed by the time a half) i 3 listened to beating of Cleverly given ‘them the slip. 2 Am nom xivenhi vc On onen panting officers uppeared on lie | art, Afier a minute he m red, ‘The sergeant felt that to save the situ-| ts puzzling question, "The stone," he ecene. 1 here,” then began to ation something must be done, and that | ays, ‘would fall with Increasing speed umes. va: beret’ femanded the head specdily, for the doctor had mad» hiv )/to the centre of the earth, where # pfticer to catch breath \ HA bi i: bubhe'll come 4o"nras: memoranda end wus about to drive Would have attained a rate of nearly e'ye been attacked!’ oried the) ently, 1 the doctor, a# he parted away. 300 miles a minute. Its momentum » swaying her body and drawing’! the mated brown hair and took out ‘oung fellow, do you say your mon-| Would carry it at a constantly reduge head of the unconscious man furtser | hig selssors ¢ y'a gone?” asked the Gengeant. Ing speed through the remaining half An officer brought bandages from the a 1 , wir," 4 Anthur. of its journey until by the tin ed you? ambulance, and i seniagee ss water Run for It, Buck! I'll face the cops!’ xe, 9 i wept 4s to swear you/4ppeared at the anUpodcan end of the abe realled, to wash the wound and to force be-| igre guns, brought the Philippine] “Oh, you're all right,’ laughed the| ambulance swept about him in great) aid the doctor, boxing up his ap-| were knocked dow and robbed? bole Bh would fa i tween the eet lips with Lie swamps, nipa| doctor, “All vight, cvv'rady, and here | dancing clreles, but he understood the| pliances, "You can make your way| “Xes, air’ + Pad L008 Darin 1 S00 AMR I saw two. Oh, this} In a short tune Arthur opened his hromt If in ilttle old New York. Now, let us|eltuation; he had been there before| home, if the officers eay so. ‘Well this is mighty suspiolous, 11); would pertoris exsaely the same Poor Arthur! And|eyes and looked wbout him. The uni- ‘bushed again!’ ved, “And | see if you can stand alone.” And with| with a bullet furrow. along tis ekull,| “I begin to feel ail ra Bay 08 Seren f pave to take you do’ the station,’ forms, the blood on the doctor's hands |1 won't be present for roll call in the ted the sergeant, 2 and the rush of cars in the distance, | morning. O & wer Vaal sounded ot Tape ny money is in the help of the surgeon and am officer Where is the rest of the| Arthur rone to his feet, Pa A She lamps, aud the olticers, Men : ee ae eee eee ht up here, $9, the suid ‘Arthur, motioning “to ble} ap bd and #9 he understood the cause for 7 p af sien he en and os he was: Art i » ONS aoe Eoemere Sem 2 , these phenomens,