The evening world. Newspaper, August 30, 1905, Page 10

Sa ETT ET eee Wodnesdss Bveoning, Augost”’ SO,"1503s ipa ses Si y ; . ip agin Ore | Aquarium .. . Queer Fish { Have (nown By J. Campbell Corv | Published by tho Preas Publishing Company, No, 3 to @ Park Row, New York Entered at the Post-OMmce at New York as Second-Class Mul Matter, “THE HAM TREE” At the New York. VOLUME 46 «NO, 16,050. A MAN WHO GAVE UP. Fritz Becker was a man with a Fifth avenue education whom fate condemned to an Eleventh avenue job, and who ended it all miserably on Sunday by turning on the gas, Becker was thirty-three years old, a graduate of a German university, educated for the church, master of many languages, versed in philosophy, law and the Scriptures. Yet with all his accomplishments he lacked the Yankee quality of “gumption” which would have taken any one of his several talenis and made it return some yield of workily success. After fourteen years of effort in this land of opportunity the best he could do wa’ to dig trenches for the Consolidated Gas Company and tinker gas pipes in the tenements while brooding over the act of suicice, ce \ \ , to which he finally nerved himself. He was ever in search of a higher grade of employment and “a more refined companionship” which he.could | not find. | A case with parallel features, so far as concerns the presence of a man of talent in a wrong environment, was revealed by the arrest of an ice-! cream peddler, Adolph Finkelstein, earning 35 cents a day. Finkelstein was able to converse with the court interpreter in Greek, Italian, German, | Armenian, French, Spanish and Dutch. Here, too, the leaven of gumption was missing from the man’s make-up. Though possessed of what to one of finer stamina would be seven keys to success, he has proved) himself, unable to use one. | Yet Finkelstein, peddling ice cream in Second avenue and waiting for something to turn up, has shown himself the better philosopher of the two. If he is tempted to brood over his humble lot, at least he has not become coward enough to quit. “What is a man to do in this country with shabby clothes and no friends?” Finkelstein asked the Court. With the gates of seven literatures opened to him he might properly regard him- self as better off than most of those he envies, It is from that point of view that the sin of Becker's suicide is seen to have the less excuse. Having learned! the painful lessoa that an educa- tion in itself carries no guarantee of success, he at least had that education as an inalienable and enjoyable possession. Even as an educated incom-| petent there were mental pleasures for him which are out af the reach of men whose larger means he coveted, ATS | He had at his command all the city’s great storehouses of art and Titerature. Its museums and libraries and lecture-rooms and picture gal- leries were open to him free of charge. Whichever way he cared to turn there were offered to him opportunities for aesthetic enjoyment for which he was equipped to a degree unknown to hundreds of thousands whose better clothes were poor compensations for his superior capacity for ap- preciation. To a man of such attainments a single winter in New York is a liberal education of itself. Yet along with Becker's learning and the mental re Sources which should have been his pride was a Poverty of spirit which blinded him to the real treasure he possessed, Happily, a more rational view of their advantages exists for the most Part among New York's educated poor. There are philosophers side tenements whose earnings do little more than keep hody and soul} ROE SLED who yet are not plunged in suicidal despondency, When the day’s task is done they can turn to pleasures of the mind which the city! provides and which console them for all their penury, | « Letters from the People, # view of all the circumstnnces, It is rather surprising that Klaw & I Erlanger should have chosen the title of “The Ham Tree” for the ve- hicle which nas brough: McIntyre a! Heath out of vaudeville to the | New York Wheatre. For, after all is said and sung, this Hobar=sured amusement fare is only the old “Georgia Minstrels" sketch in three slices, | | “Tho Ham Tree” fs strong varioty ment. It is flavored with the burnt | cork comedy that gatned its performers popularity when Long Acro Square | was Mttle more than a theatrical winderness, and {t fs served with a vealy chorus dressing supposed to appeal to up-to-date appetites. | McIntyre and Heath always have been and still are absurdly funny, | Tho tale of the trusting Alexander Hambletontan, lured from a livery stable | and three square meals a day, only to walk back with the bass drum of the \ | minstrel troupe that fell by the wayside, has lost none of its droll, food- \ | craving humor. \ i" SS ; But {i has gained nothing by the padding that has made it three times b ee its original size. For one, I prefer it in Sts old form, when {t provided a | comfortable, jolly fifteen or twenty minutes. | Now there are tiresome interruptions; talk that wearles, and songs that tun the scaies on your nerves, The “Kid” chorus, which hes all the assurance of youth but few of {ts graces, was evidently selected with more of an cyc to age than to beauty or | Voice. The crowd dancas well and vigorously, but there friendship for it | ceases. | Klaw & Erlanger would do well to vary their staging of so-called Wy masical pieces occasionally. Their productions of this kind aro getting to | be monotonously alike. In this instance the “specialties” are chucked on the stage without any I place having been made for them. McIntyre and Heatn are left to wander | on and off Ifke two lost black sheep, and sometimes they stay so long that even they wear out their welcome. In the last act they rob themselves of | their legitimate humor by masquerading as Oriental Somethings-or-Other, | after the Williams and Walker style. | W. C. Fields, the erstwhile “tramp juggler,” performs some of his old | iricks, and Jobyna Howland, once famed as the Gibson Girl model, plays | un ambitious soclety woman as If it were the speaking part of a “Seeing New York" coach. | And won't some ono with authority please make at least ona member of the Empire Quartet—if that's the name—resume his disguise and stop singing through his nase? Or, better still, stop singing altogether? CHARLES DARNTOD Said w on w the we Side. Ren or by a writer in the Lon-)safe entire and cracked it at their don World that “Only the man |leisure must have had s Manhattan whose opinion of himself Is so bad | training. ‘that he thinks tt necessary to buy a fleeting deference from servants need up.” Fact, acconing to a FrencH 18 statistician, that $10,000,000 1s paid out o 8 Sald by the Sketch that “However un- |witing he may be tw admit it, the |wchoolboy of to-day reaily feels rather |FeHeved when the summer holidays are in tips in France yearly goes to ShOW | over, especially if he ls near the top of that man’s moral ourago must be rated ling school and 1s a dit of an athlete,” generally low. In the light of the vast | Evitent that they did not play football | sum epent in gratuities the tip system 1, Shakespeare's day, must appear to have reached tts climax | Some abroad, though there are symptoms that | Automobile coti.lon at Newport com- . * ‘ America tg running close for second | prised a floral car, with French motors, HONK-HONKUS BUMPINTICUS CHAUFFEURIBUS—Habitat, highways that the trolleys haven't already made unsafe for pedestrians, Habits, |)... Boggles, &c. Final touch of realism of | deadly, except to quick jumpers. Sometimes served up in ho: sauce before police mazistrates- Mostly engaged ia cutting dowa tims and overy= ee a stuffed figure representing the victim | thing else in its path. Young couple who are taking thelr seems to ave been omitted, in east] > = = honeymoon «rip In an elevator car will | pis as A M atrim oni al Octo pus. & 8 By Nixola Greeley Smith.) cicr'sincr' dattaciet uy the sassing | CMAs dish wine her a wusbona, tne scenery. | of this recently neglected culinary ac- ales Cr w NT with the discovery of the ax ezing Into the seething cauldron with a sigh of rellef. Or, I€ the patient woman) op a. nace Soe] eetaeitoleepeuns|icossory, eC cunlan; cbse ave (akon Gk Dr. Witzhoff, the number of whose wives in- victim of one si uan's caprices pavsed to multiply her woes by eight) s,ivania couple {s attributed to the neglect to give a copy of the Northe creases almost us rapidly as the Rockefeller mill- she would cease her denunciation of the wifely octopus, knowing the rime} curse of a jilted lover, who declared Western Walversity, professor's antl-di- ions, came the story of a young woman the cheerful of polyandry is so outmeasured py its consequences as to suggest that its abet Whe Bride roula Besos, ne mois rupee econ [book \mittheveryieale, possessor of eight husbands. would be to 1 Peete z t ger of allowing at large a youth who, Submarine boat inventor who ts going According to the dictionary an octopus is an elght- 7, ene cannot help speculating, can wreak auch a revenge ts obvions, | t@ leave us for Germa: ause ho petrator to her doom, ve the p ho ge No. Russia Has a Rigid Censor . feelg he ts not appreciated may think > ee D+) ers as to the hehavior of men on the aemed cephalopod; so, perhaps, it is not quite correct to as to what the lve of ev multiple matimony m: a (that perhaps the Kaiser would like to my c u hi To the Ealtor of The Evenings Worl slevated roads is unjust. It ts practi- fl vefer to this enterprisiug young person by such a term. To me it sugge y that oncleut egene of tue ple woman wno| 107g Branch burglars who stole « take @ plunge also. Russia. the freedom of press? | cally Impossible for any human be ‘ tha i t vhen asked wi = y bE | : 5 a order to ar e cent apiece thar. cost hey two vents, aud when asked where Bids, |todiang toe ettap with one men non Indead the) Word) scons | badeniwate, for, In order | to yaeld tartsiationeiceat ap Danish Jags. British Jackies for U. S. Silk Handkerchtet in a Fish. @ newspaper In the other hand and h please all her lords, she must heve had an equivalent the profit came in. re HE Danish method would do 8 a result of the policy of retrenche fastens mane tind avudine arene: © hat between the teeth. I trust th of sixteen arms, eight different dispositions and an “Oh, I sel! eo man them!"" \6 | away with a great deal of A ment and redistribution recently On opening a pike fish four pounds in au ees will wee dt in the same light eight horse-power capacity to enok, sew on buttons, The matrimonial profit is so hard to fi », you know. | drunkenness,” said a woman instituted in the British navy, it & n Mot be too severe in shel: °) ge ek for ha 5 th vhite ribbon fixed to her breast. !s reported in England th. meight on the morning of Aug. 2 1 q,, ee -;°" | serub, wash, clean the stove, put down carpets and look pleasant. There Or, perhaps, considering how wemen long and seek for happiness and | With @ white xed to hes : ugland that hundreds of found in the stomach a small allk hand. |" Cs™ of men, WM. GRABER, 2 2 ne Danish method? What is , the story about the countryman and the oyster plant Detinark. was theranswerecwives ster plant for the first time the q drunken man oomes forth from a sa-| S¢!Vice are seeking places |: trained men thus discharged from the the United ron’ clines the professional moralist to kerchief. Should itr former owner re- | Yon’ve Got It Right. {s no crime in the calendar that so inclines P } Quire the same, be can have {t upon |To the Edstor of The Evening froth at the mouth as that of bigamy, or tho reverse proposition of poly- may apply fi Pee alae eae fe ore, th ¢t yas very loo afe he ls at once put into a States Navy. Mr. Stephens, American orld farmer kept on bravely eat ising for more, though it was very Toon or a cnt , & States Nav, . ca f{dertification, A. DOLBY. Waa ts dae “third qegree?* It seems! andry. ‘And yet, there !s none that so Inevitably carries {ts own punish- evident that it was not to hi i pid ary an Horne, era tne sabaians Cone at Plymouth, Eng., sa Blevatora, Not Blevated, air. | {0 Me ftom what T can gather it s| ment along with it, If the bored husband equirming under the infliction of “Do you lke that stuff?” asked an onlooker, Yenose House the man Ipsueds” saya the Byetsions fe Join the Am an ulsition whi: | ” iT kK J he ed Philadelphia 31 a or fe: e sc. ged ‘fro t4 Graber. law or antenie hakse pelioes wmithaut | one peevish, fault-finding wife would only stop to think what half a dozen span a nes pee er Who allows a man to depart from hia been Wreharged clon D. Wo the Editor of The Evening World: fF et ee 1) : r to | % 2 y 2 7 establishment in an intoxicated condition | ¢, Well as guilty to obteia e confession | of them would be like, he must certainly realize that {f boiling in oll were if ablishment {nian intaxieated condlon | éhsage ihe (hat man's cabfaro home,” | United “Why do I eat it? Why, I'm trying to get a tas' Bhe barge made by one of your read. the prescribed punishment of the detected bigamist the latter would sink, And that. maybe. Js what the lad eight hi MY LOVE AFFAIR, siin7czt vc. FH By SOPHIE WITTE, sisSin fect i vey Rehnsdl, Sd umierstand what ¢his parting cost me. ‘1 am vour neighbor, madam" easily, ever lower and lower, And, with. | : ‘ Out notletng it, I soon ft “ @YNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. n found myself Daria Sergevevus, @ diuasian girl staying Seated on Leonov's knee. her’ sisto er-ine We aneeia, Yury Lecnovs a taimous palnier, | 12 Dent his head nearer to mine and attraction between them iv mutual and | aged into my face with alarm, as tf | n love c rhe 4 ROCA OVA Rud chee ce 7 | trying to read what was going on with- i Peter Dyich ‘Macia's brothiertn-law, pub; | in me And he did read my soul! Hie! ‘tmande Maria for @ leplay 01 7 Nanity, Piques whe socks to wreak her il A Joyous fire of triumph began to ren Ae er shine in the dark pupils of his clear ‘Accordingly at mupper in a restaurant she oves, and ss leoaa oe eae | 04, gome caste In Fealy aida eet] not open my notebwa after! "Ora crafty temper?” V; Beet | Leonov lett Vienna, and I opened kt to- PLEDGES Varenike (wane [day merely to lovx at ovec and thea empt you I ;tarow it aside again, But I few sory for lum pages, as i tney were pages iruin Ute, pages of hove, which way “enat's iy mi. ‘be wed by another page, and tnen| inarist,” explain have no desire." a duet?" I usked the wevuus Son. the seme the old — won 5 by tll anotaer—thus «owing iia a| adding’ angiiiy: “Why. nas God nae hovel—my own iWoVvel: “My Love AL- | Ished me With such a son? Whats tar, |have T committed? Don't I teach hi 1 had no time to reply to his last | at the cost of iy heath? He gets hi pei his tnt: qnened Hotter, because Yewor siyich auadenly | from me everywhere, I box hin ears, T Lt in tly closed lips changed his mind about staying in ‘his har, I strike him everywhere, Geatine flirtation between Katya, ors! I felt that somethi | ter that I should die at ‘home, e | ‘eachings of his mother are of no avall ‘wife, and an officer, Maria, to save her ‘ mething clasped me and | suid, and We ran from Vienna as’ from|to him! T'll sing a duet with him right a, diversion. held me in an tron grasp so that I a fire, away, but a real one!" s On reaching the Russian frontier the | Old) woman pointe? to ‘a door at the Ochotins took a train to Malinovka, | half-Gark stnlr-head, ond then hastened through Kiev, whiie £ took anothes—|{Pto the other. homeward bound. When I eniered I found Varenka My return to grandmother's house, | Standing before a looking-glass, which after absence of nearly three | #0 served as a months, was marked by a bad omen, | Tam not particularly superstitious, but | why did irishe olsen the | naked ttle | singing that for same t Maia als the “flirtation. She and Leonov go for a | Ud not stir even if I wanted to—1, walk and Leor Vv wketches her. A’ flower | felt that something hot touched my ch y Hel Interrupts. ther . S'Laohov tye ail her flowers tor Maring| PS, which were already opep to utter | They quarrel. On the drive back home ahe|a cry, 1 fosomen mervous atid in cn the verge of % ‘Then he was gone tea August 25. Tnonoy tells her he loves her, Later she admita whe returne his affection end learns |, 8UCM foola as Chebarey should have | fiom him ha ts married been born into the world deaf and A dumb, I came to this conclusion to-day | men,” as calls y "Vi bronge frame bf the mirror which she | helther my presence In her room nor the CHAPTER IX he ygte. “Volksgarten,"” where I could | broke—why, I say, did she clean them | ¥6! 8 and disputes ti the adioining Foom ° have spent the time very plea: Ly, just to-day, and not yemlerday or any the promised duet of the pa A Farewell. sitting ao near to 1 artererrt t' Tt te provoking! 80 much | Widow and her sop, the seminarlst, bee 5 0 Leonov that our Sea ee Mustena rt Aint teas «ap, more so use one of my . Vhat important matter oan Yury Weotions of this house js connected with |mave in Kiev! I don't want tilt to eo I SAT before Levi.ov, speechless, | hands touched each other—if st had not | | here—his wife is there. id motionless, as gullty and convicted, | been for Chebarev, who exclaimed | without daring to lft my head,| When the snilitary band began to play | rani iy ‘andfather once with ‘mamma's mourning 5 roy tent Mm a tecewram which, read as without daring to defend myself, a potpaurd, from "La Belle Helene: | hat on head, ane ieee, veil was oh se 7 you love smo—don't BO. Leonoy, too, was silent. Then he] "A J& bonne heure—parole d'honneur! | | anging down on the Moor in 8, /0nk | “1 love you—and therefor there,” took out his watch and sald What a beautiful Hel ne I saw not Praia ma: neie erie’ <8 i ev ne chat Ne uh Yury replied. It 1s evident that he un- “It is time for me to 0, Good-by, | iong ago in Kiev—she was remarkapie! | wr Gtindfather, shook his finger at me (derstood from my telegram that 1 was in a Marla Sergeyevna, and * * * forgive) When she Jumped out on the stage in| "|afraid lest he should mest hig wife H + cane nd Vole: | here, an hee a 1 VY¥ou'l a i e evidently wanted me to Tenuta 9 tg her tulle costume, J felt a peasant tin: Ce day et dT eee eee with [understand somathing” trom his tele He was interrupted by a ery which | ging In my brain, It was something | childish Importance, that grew Hut T ¢> not understand any- broke from my heart tnvoluntarily, remarkable Ha. he, ha! Bravo, Jean- up I would be a “coquet and am e‘trald, ren With this exclamation 1|ette Leo!" gratulate you! T must co oo * r {am very much surprised that I can weal lermin tun earn ' dove Leonoy, who now rose That eid Hrayo, Chevare hav u ie i 5 clearly remember such trifes, I was went, to Kiev to bemin sult for | rushed over to Leonoy, “What's her name?’ Leonoy asked tn f Seite ah é 2 very young at the time. How old was fe beginning was ungic. from the arm-chair, and I threw my| 4 qui and frightened voi a Your ¢ irey is a fool, a donkey Again 1 coud not cluse aa te. at Tirana ate” wareing tware mourning, i He refused to meot his wile, hands on his shoulders, in order to keep|,, , . @ binckhead, an idiot!” I cried, yaad’ F igst long: only toward mo.ilog 1 bo after my father, who dled wx years 20d #he refused to communicate with pian Jeanette Leo, repested Ch } —=> him through’ a mediator, ° vy feet ich were giving i? hebarev. to control myself for agitation oan to slumbe; before her death, and my mother died [ nedic pyaclf on my feet witch ® “Do you know her?! i i ‘ 7 nor LA lund kien aroused me. Tt was a ae ten years ai Now I am one year| Hut why did Yury refuse to meet hie way, 1.| Chobarev's question caused Leonoy to. 1 ‘Do pas Jove him very. very pees heer Wek a addivored to. short of A quarcer ote century, There's puter io Wt ia the question which tare Beery 7 y he vas reel- i onoyv 9 Karya asked me aft had confessed |ine. ‘Tae wm Leunoy— nroblem for you, Marla Rerceveyna wf he T know not whether my head Was ree eee cnet down Ain ad Kakya asked ri He. pas Hn Leunov—rd ” fag ax and ten and enbiract the mum (tou wer fristitened by the same thought tng, or whether my eyes grew dim, but to her that I loved Leonoy ving “You lie! 1 san see by your lips you kissed each other! 1d alx an a ri Mi He maintained silence for awille. tne ‘ fey ht -| He has a py way of writing: hs ou lie ai yy y , from twenty-four, How old was 1/48 T wes? Then he {# net self-conf- I know that I was conscious all the a i) ea, 1 love him yery much," p re-| tie ee Ge Maing: tha . from, pray ime. I saw Leonoy's look of fright and| he declared In a loud vuice pied acriously Often Vag br! Nant snark word, the “Fire He was y ed and disconcert Reptember 15. | Why ald Yury go to Malinovka? What surprise, I heand his volee calling pe 18 My. Wy) Just as mu 8 you loved Andrusva! Why did ius work rt aflame i (ssi while } ¢ tneTy wae oon After lively, Vienna and he nolsy ho- Business cin he Save there with Yaror 4 X _ "1 congrat you! I must confess | or still wm with? les arrled Ins Leanay, with=|—it Was’ th ive, oninous culm] ee in which we lived our town Reems 1 eR ee EN recalls arer messes " © or eta a diferent |® iri? out any furthe nationg, iad rig Wik waleh, they’ way, the falnte ery, and our house |~ Yury ts suspicious in. the ex IN: word or a sound I was seized with a ia Fs ; Mol d bieldep It ta g alee Truc, he fell in love with her—t from th s oye to the| euted take thelr Myes for fear a} he | What change has he noticed in Katyat queer sense of invincible weakness, ° ° lve' eee 4 case of at frat sight, Un coup | domestic death ‘My first vist paid to Verena, @ | Ghe merely changed the style of her " thing ~ Hay returned home {rom the con different love?” she repeated Wiih | de toudre, qual! # © * Of course the Aug. Yury Ipnelt before me for a long| has broken all her relations T |thatr-dress, and this leads him to think Aside from weakness, 1 felt nothing i | ‘ from ‘her. e'o- - . dizziness, no| cert at the Voiksgurten,” Katya fol- ania how e 6 © ‘Pel the uidings amid whieh he met her] Ludmila Vasilyevna is dara time, utternag, in a quivering vale, stupid aunt and foow ome ane ‘that ‘there (must be me mischief LOTFI Ete camel FSFE yeaa tee f Tui, dil 'you vier Kies each otuee?” |for Wie frst Ume hnd a great deal to dol elck. Yury has teceved a teles [with are Ih’ hls eyes, certain kind] gant home inte furnished rooms in aepaaeente aeniniie sametoey, fright, no shame, ¢ # ¢ owed me into my room Of eons not” A lied without hesitu~ With It: Bie appeared before him at wn | dav’ from her doctor. ond he th leaving wordy and promises, tw! Ie: Mouse of & cer BP srasy, (and ns there Ie A ohady tat ihanel 4 laste bout a minute, then| ‘How do you like it!’ she exclaimed, ‘ ya (reach | amateur performance. represeniing &| to-morrow for Russla teued, without undurstanding them, in| Grandma says that Vare abr ut the daotor, then * es This lasted for al s 0 Mon, but 1 beirayed myself by a treach all iirab the @arret stairs 10: though the ground in an agitated and angry tone. “He «fous smile, |certuin Living pleture, In the costume of Aug. 2, | saintil silence, realiing that soon Jy clisad ue the qari’ stale 10: ‘nee ni’ ab gesined (0 ne ae though ihe gi Kaisa shook her finger at me “Fire.” Leonoy dozs not explain what’ ‘The terrible day dawned, and went 1/3 would ‘be over, and with the nriest'a widow. i wader my feet began to rock like @ listened and Iivtened—and suddenly — fYVOuM ii0Gs ie Mean Nees by your! kind of a costume that was, but must by, and 1 ved through the hour of ion was a terrible’ torture to md, mica this realizar ny wave. The wave scomed to rise, lifting fired: ‘Bhe Is my wife!’ After dhis neth- ging thet vou kissed each other. have been @ dazzling affair, for he ways parting with Yury, Thave not yet But even this torture came an me with 11, and then i genet to alak ing better could be said than: ‘I cou- “Well, yeu, T Kissed him!" J finally al) the world #eemed to him as ole ke my senses, end, and we parted, But Yary wot ’ ” je Cees 9 4 a a i 4 re cy i ; AINA ik i i Alt Nn A a al at ec a ll tt thie at