The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1905, Page 8

Published by the reas Pudiiehing Company, No, 68 to 6) Park Row, New Tork Bntered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Ciass Mail Matter. VOLUME 46....... vissseassNQ, 16,097, RENAL : THE MOB SPIRIT. These instances of incipient mob violence have occurred in Manhattan within a fortnight: When Motorman Healy ran down a little child in Clinton street the crowd rushed at him and threatened him with bodily injury. The police reserves were called to disperse it. When Motorman Flynn ran over Edward Ryan on Columbus avenue a dozen men sprang on the platform and struck him. — It required the) united efforts of four policemen and three detectives to arrest the motor. man and protect him from assault. For an hour the crowd stood in f of the police station and jeered, Early yesterday morning two policemen standing back to back with drawn revolvers near the Cortlandt street ferry kept at bay a crowd of 200 which was seeking vengeance on two men. The men had} been arrested for ac attack on a boy, These hastily gathered crowds are not mobs In the true sense. But} the spirit which mo If-executed deeds of violence fs to be deplored because it has something in common with that which actuates the lyncher. To scratch a New York street crowd and find a possible mob gives a Bhock. | | When Wom Rule ——————— an Rules the Roost—No. 9. By J. Campbell Cory. GIRDLES ROUND THE EARTH. As the result of concessions by Japan to the Commercial Cable Company, it will soon be possible ia cable despatch direct from New York to Yokahama and American wires. The Mikado’s permission to lay a cable from s to the United States is, by an interesting coincidence, granted just half a centur a year after our treaty with the Shogun which followed that p: begrudged first admission of Commodore Perry to a Japanese port. The line to Japan and to China, from which nation also landing rights have been obtained, will be an extension from Guam of the sub- marine cable laid to Manila two years ago. It is the boast of the company | that its own wireswill soon reach two-thirds around the globe. To get a comprehensive notion of the wonderful development of submarine telegraphy it is necessary to look back to Morse’s experiment| with an underwater wire between Castle Garden and Governor's Island, in the early forties, and to compare with those primitive beginnings, which first suggested an Atlantic cable, the 224,552 miles of cable now in use. These figures include all under-water telegraph lines except those in lakes and interior water courses, The giant of all cable companies is the Eastern, with a total mileage of 39,591. The longest single line is! that of the Compagnie Allemande des Cables Transatlantiques, which extends 8,404 miles from Borkum Island to the Azores and thence to! Coney Island. In the aggregate the world’s cables Tepresent an invest- ment of $300,000,000, | The line to Yokohama will be an interesting example of the annihi-| lation of time. A despatch sent from the Japanese city at 10 o'clock at| night to a New Yorker would catch him at breakfast. Tokio on 2. | «Letters from the People, Mulberry Street Rowdles. ‘To the Eiltor of The Evening World: The use of Mulberry street park by the law-abiding public would appear to be no longer possible from the gangs of vicious hoodlums (mostly young Italians) that infest the place. In less than an hour one evening I witnessed dresses, the big sleeve is with us again. It makes me weary, The "L" crushes j Will be worse than ever, and the cramped space in public elevators, the- atre aisles, &c., will be even more re- |duced. Sensivle women ought not to | permit this revival. I write “his to you because I don’t dare say x0 to my wife, : THATCHER. four assaults on respectable tnoffensive People. The last man attacked was Knocked down. and severely, if not fatally, tajured, On the very rare oc- asiona I have noticed a police officer In foo timid %o ‘suppress ‘the lwlesssesr mi E 4 ne # ee A PARK USDR, Big Sleeves Again. Mo the Editor of The Mvening World: Judging from some of my wife's new ATES Wooprrinted, 1904, In, Great Britain and the Bint é ea by H. Rider Heaward.) SXNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, Vinoey and Horace Holly, two Bne- An unknown country be- ig Woman in Atrira, wher worn a doen ies, "Bi yond dand to have to years of ineamnation. She had, seem= but Leo in’ a vision ta told tl ives and tx walting for him in ‘acroes the ‘Milbet mountains, ing these mountains ‘come to the FT whero they believe Shi Mee “ae priestess. There they meet Bhania or Queen) of the country and her | Hacle, ‘Simbri, a magician. |The Knanta ts! levents of \albe to we: | be | thei CHAPTER XI. “* Is She Ayesha?" NE guardian, whom she called “Shaman,” oF famp in his band, and by Ite light easy to seo his face, which I wa shed out of the corner of my eye. I From the beginning I had do me to death in ¢ pubted me of this old man, wi countenance was vindictive as it je: now F was afraid of him, which chamber, Khania?’ he said I think sho annwered slowly, “to |To the Editer of The Evening World: 14 |1 fell asteep in ¢: gician, held a 7 haa that wore a very strange ©x- | artifice, I felt sure moreover that alarmed | ordered the old gua 1050 eure algo that he would not shave he: Sunday a Day of Rest. Have we already reached a condition in this city when a man that works Mt chafr making on Sunday 1s tndis- usably necessary to the community any public capacity and especially i that of prosecutor of other breakers othe decalogue? See Lakeville ar- le in Monday's papers, ALE: H d ‘ : e@ bed. Bsr ‘The guarifan watched me « while to eee that I did not wake. Next ho stretched out hie hand and felt my heart and puise; an examination the re- sults of which for he uttered ‘hind him. ‘Then, being still very weak When I he n I awoke it was bron, i My mind was clear and 1 Gat te: than T had done for many a day, aigne by which I knew that the fever had lott | me and that I was on the high road to recovery. Now I remembered all the the previous night and was leh them carefully, This, to sure, I did for many reagons, among m that I knew I had been, and sti’! was, in great danger. I had seen and heard too much, this woman called Khania wuessed that Seen @nd heard, Indeed, had it not been for my hints about the Symbol of Life and the Mount of Flam I had disarmed her first Tage by my that she would have rdian, or Shaman, to ‘nis way or the other tated to obey her, T bad been spared partly because she was afraid to kill me for some unknown reason, and partly that she might learn how much I knew, although the hounds had bayed,” whatever that might mean, Well, up to the present I GHE FVR_GHER_ HISGORY OF & ae Firing th Are Coal and Oil Made Combustible by Microbes? He chief engineer, M. L aire, In charge of the mines of Montvicq, Depart- of Allier, F , has recently made an interesting communication to the Society of Mineral Industry. in which he advances the theary of the formation of combustible fosstliferous minerals—that 4s, coal, mineral olls, &e., In their various forme, M. Lemaire began by explaining that the transformation of vegetable growth | {nto combustible minerals was the result of the action of microbes. The fer- ments (aerobis; air-breathing, microscopic organisms), active in the marsh bea | at not too great depth, have set free principally carbon dioxide; the others (anaerobls), found at the bottom in the less aerated water, have especially set free methane or marsh gas, The enriching in carbon which of the freeing of these gases has varied with the composition of the vegetable matter, the antisptic condition of the surrounding mass, and all clr- cumstances which may have Influenced the progress of microbie action, Animal or vgetable matter introduced by the winds or streams is thought to have modified the ultimate nature of the combustible formed, sea grass giving | Deat bogs, pollen, cannel coal; organte mattor, bituminous schists. During the! transformations not only did gases emanate—carbon monoxide, methane, carbon | Mioxide—but also some liquids appeared whose antiseptic action may have ar- rested fermentation. These disengaged Mquids formed petroleum nnd asphalt. The action of microbes is a generally recognized fact. Why can we not yet recognize It as sufficient fo explain the formation of combustibles cause we cannot, by experiments, reproduce the process of enriching vgetable! seque ws She-Who-M & was safe, and for the rest I must take my chance, Moreover, it was neces- wary to be cautious, and, if need were, to felgn ignorande. 60, dismissing the ser he of ov fate from my mind, to considering the scene which I ‘ad witnesssed “To Seek to Learn its Secrets Is to Dic.” Irreatatible tmpuise, born of knowledge, , became the tenants of an endless suc- or at least of memories, drove her on, | cession of physical bodies, which they though wernee: the knowledge wad im- | chang: Perfect and memories were unde- fined. Who, ile pepe could have | the surrounding water. ry e Cook. | deposits in carbon as it goes on in nature, We can only say tat at the time of these transformations the temperature was not higher than 140 Fahrenheit. Garbon monoxide and carbon dioxide were thus produced, but by slow com- bustion and without interruption, the fermenting substances being cooled by Th fount of heat may have had some influence on the geothermie degree of o earing maeasures. The Dirge of the Straw Hat. And ‘way out West ‘tls #1 some cling To straw hats till Now /aber. | , for the benefit of man and wi | of the merits of a special corset for slender figures and another structure in | There is something rather degrading in the shallow artificialities dress- By Albert PaysonTerhune It 1s be-| And Philadelphians, too, may fall a But in New York its knell is rung, And faded 1s its glory; Vacation mem'ries it awakes | Are now an anelent story (Like the fiirtations that it crowned With bliss osculatory). NDER the spreading garbage heap The straw hat sadly lands, final obsequies At antique-gath'rers’ hands. It ducked the limelight yesterday At Fashion's stern commands, Then rescue it with loving hands From ashbarrel or mire, And give it, for the old times’ sake, A worthy funeral pyre. Let Summer's fairest emblem serve s as rd Pd a rd B ust-Be-Obeyed Some weird commuter may forget The fifteenth of September, That sad date to remember, a | canine palate | euch as is found in the various Jellies &c., which human beings buy and eat. Stuffed Prophets and Pads By Nicola Greeley=Smith. F we are to believe tho testimony of the various dressmaking experts now lecturing on the human form divine, men and women are entirely what their dressmakers and tailors make them, and the Apollos and Venuses that we encounter dally along Broadway are but stuffed semblances of theso exiled gods, (ag Prophets and priostesses of the gospel of sham have risen among us, and welrd articles of apparel that entered not {nto our most secret dreams are finunted in public places and publicly “demonstrated” ankind. There are hip pads and bust pads and cushions for shoulder blades and all the other mea ton, spols where nature sometimes leaves too much to the One would think, indeed, from recent displays of padding @, unassisted man or womun any- theso stuffed prophets ang tmagin paraphernalla that there was uot a w where. And yet there must be. Or what d prophets of stufling form thetr ideals upon? Not long ago I was shown through the newly opened corset department of a fashionable store by the proprietor, and there I beheld all the advanced devices for the figure now being so much exploited. A demonstrator talked two pieces, the uppor section resembling portions of an tron cage, for ladies of pronounced proportions. “You are Interested in the slonder kind?” querfed the proprietor, coms seratingly. “Yes? But my wife would not be,” he added, proudly, “My | Wife would need a cage.” And with this interesting domestic detail my actual knowledge of the matter ends. Nor tn a wide acquaintance with young women have I encountered any one more enlightened. Men and women scem generally, fairly well contented to stay ns nature made them. And they ought to be. For it is better to be ready-made woman than a Venus made to order, makers with distorted idcils would foist upon us. And it is better to range | with hipless creatures tn content than to be perked up with a sawdust pad (that won't stay put) and sport a whalebone figure, A good, straight, slender body is better than all the padded distortions in the world or the actual tailowy superabundance they counterfelt. And, fortunately, the majority of women realize it and cannot have the idea “demonstrated” away, Dog Dyspeptic Is Diet’s Victim. HIS dog ts not starved In fact, there 1s scarcely another dog on earth I who has had so much food and such varied food during the past two too weak to stand and ts apparei months as he. Nevertheless he ts emaciated to a pitiful degree, {3 almost dying, The ectentifie world 1s watching with keenest Interest the progress of his malady, for he ts one of science's {nnumere able dumb martyrs. The dog has for two months Itved on euch prepared foods as human beings eat. Prof. Eugene Girard, chemist of the Internationa! Stewards’ Association, re- cently bought a large and powerful dog, a picture of robust canine health. He named the beast Carlo, and fed him Uberally on every delicacy dear to the But overy article of food was flavored with some adulterant Coal tar dyes and eimilar coloring and flavoring agents in use among food Manufacturers were mixed in Carlo's dally meals. ' The result of such polsons was quickly apparent. The dog lost ‘flesh, sleep, spirits and health, until, at the end of two months, he 1s an utter wreck. Inol- dentally, Carlo has developed what Prof. Ginard calls a “beautiful case of human dyspepsia.” The professor will now begin the second part of his experi= ment—namely, to nurse the victim back to health. The accompanying illustration was drawn from Ufe for the Philadelphia North American. ‘ Y H. RIDER HAGGARD Author of “She,” “Allan Ouatermain,” “Ring Solomon's Mines,” eto, man, whom this Khania had called Magician, and who called the Khania niece, entered and stood before me. ‘The Shaman advanced to my side and asked me courteously how I fared, 1 answered: ‘Better. Far better; oh, my host—but how are you named?” “Bimbri," he answered, “and my title 1s Hereditary Guardian of the Gate. By profession I am royal physician in this land,” “Did you say physician or magician?” I asked, carelessly, as though I had not caught the word. He gave me a curious look. “I sald physician, and it 1s well for you and your companion that I have some skill in by art. Otherwise I think, perhaps, you would nat have been allve to-day, O my guest!—but how are you named?" “Helly,” 1 sala, ‘Ob! my guest, Holly.” “Had ft not been for the foresight that brought you and the lady Khania to the edge of yonder darksome river, certainly we should not have been alive, venerwble Simbri, a foresight that soems to ‘me to savor of magic in such w lonely place. That is why I thought you might have described yourself as a magician, though it is true thet you may have been but fshing in those waters,” “Cortainly I was fishing, stri Holly—for men, T caught two.’ “Fishing by chanco, host Simbrit - lay, by dosign, guest Holly, my| ’ay trade of physician includes the study of| title future events, for I am the chief of the | oontl Shamans or Seers of this lapd, and, | °% having been warned of your comin, ute recently, I awaited your arrival, “Did he? Did he, indeed? Well, that {s strange aince he seems to have found one, for surely that royal-looking lady, named Khania, who sprang into the water and raved us, must be a queen.” “A queén she Js, and & great one, for in our land Khanla means queen, though how, friend Holly, a man who has lain senseless can have Jearned this I do not know. Nor do I know how vou come to speak our langu ‘That 4s simple, for the tongue you talk 1s very ancient, apd as it chances in my own country ‘it has been my lot fo study and to teach It It ts Gi bur how it reaohed these mountains cannot tell hat spol tongue Way through the country to Qn of us, He was back, but a general of his another race the mount of this I advanced and crowed 1 ee south an} overcame the pe bringlog with him worship. He amy, and here { ringed in with d less mountain #1 tall us fils de ands Wok tel 5 ie des t a ak inte is os oh and an pped ealied Inia?” he answere: ich," I Interrupted. wv Tels, Tell mi fs bat wane