The evening world. Newspaper, October 17, 1905, Page 12

The Evening Pabilished by the Press Pudliching Company, No, 08 to 6 Park Row, New York, | Bntered at the Post-Oftivo at New York a* Second-Class Mall Matter, «eNO, 16,12 Courtesy “Above the Average.” class of this e “ ws VOLUME 468 .4,..5. A very famous Bi ity has decided informally, after 2 fiscussion of street-cay ethics, thas, New York men are above the aver-| age in kindness and courtesy, How pleasant a truth this may be! depends on the height of the average. It 1s believed that above ft there Is) stil] plenty of room for men to climb, A stranger in the class said he had found New York men more polite) than he had expected. Blessed are) they, sometimes, whose expectations are modest, | In The Evening World of Saturday, Catherine King summed up the experience of three weeks of “rush hour” riding on cars of the various focal transit lines, | Six men out of thousands gave up thelr seats to her. St. Louls street-car conductors are credited with a spasmodic chivalry which causes them to pass by a pretty face when they are collecting fares. Eleanor Bradford told in yesterday’s Evening World how she found even this questionable courtesy Jacking In New York, Miss Bradford's story |s an amusing side Issue, Not even Miss King's Felations are conclusive. It 1s admitted agaln that there are several ways Of looking at the matter of giving up one’s seat. Comfortable places are probably never denied to cripples, to sick people or to women with babies. But we put the question polntedly to— The\man who {s al! clbows In the Bridge or Subway rvsh; The man who stops on "L" or Subway stalra to light a match in the face of the crowd; | The “between the acts” man who stays ont too long; The man with the "goo-goo" stare The man with the Foot In the Aisle Various other men who will know thelr own weaknesses It they give them a thought— Are you—any of you—doing anything to raise New York kindness and courtesy above the average? | Ridgway! The impudent flinging of James W. Ridgway Into the faces of the people of Brooklyn shows how a Boss can easily furnish the means for his own destruction, McCarren’s general character and associates are perfectly well known fn Brooklyn, but when he showed Independence of Murphy he found Strong and instant support. He has not learned that this came of what he did, not from what he is. Now, when he takes the cour of him he has turned on People should not f the blunders of their bosses, If these never blundered they could never be destroyed To the BAltor of The Evening World The community loves to be bossed, but it resents an affront, | A Few Pointed Paragraphs, delet tees hs fe cuieped as ee A otien. happena that @ go ker tier to get a wise man to give ent? 8 a moor tinker : in tt Is to get a fool to take tt, About the g sold ina A pelling race is v Aw, and Kangae te a prow Log t but ft 8 ‘ 1 A spendthrift ¢ tonally, " who sn’t say that But @ miser is alw ‘ r ad re 1 It's better a villain’ A than never to { trut Sometimes the race wittla ¢ But more ofte ken Wopyriehted. 1908, in Great © and the Pear? BYNoPsis oF : rc Mel ; y Y en with her jtps up’ " n passion entered. w my shame, !t for him in | Wae otherwise Iam an old man Fi . e with such fralities, . . ¢! ’ Ayes me \ ¢ Kaloon, Prot Frie pee a ‘ 1 : is t ' e ed : A " 1 eas s eat m Jofe eld, "e ail ” } threw 6 CHAPTER XXXVII. r 1 he F , ke @ cor A Woman Scorned. a A y sta “ to “ f mine, which 8 Avesha stood, ther we back (0 me, tha gome, sank bef c his } ers In the toy wind; [t's my eptrit's “Arige,” she anid, “it 1s 1 who should breath of des- kneel to the d she stretched out ‘ love, my love, offended er hand to rajse him, whispering in his | pow © no’ easily appeased, ever e walle. | waen they appear to pardon, and though he would not, or could not, ris, /1 shall nore be made @ mookery in fo very slowly she bent over now Jong |8 given us together | touched him with her lips upon the | world 1 know no; but @ It b Nex eckoned to me hour perchance, Well, ere we pass came and would have knelt also, but/‘omenwhere, we will make tt glorious, ahe ered it not | drinking as deeply of the of joy as) N e sald er rich, remem-| we have drunk of those of sorrows and | no Bultor; it shall |o¢ ghame. ‘This place ta hateful to me, 4 worshippers | ror tn it I have suffered more than ever Siw f 1 will it not But | 4 epest hell, Dt ts hateful, it ts di awe her friend Uke to| omened, I pray tavt never ayain may gand with her lips} she tae brow—Just magician?” and of a sudden she turned to rq me of the ancient foes I hate, Prog vs § g to her | breast had been so calm and happy, love! ‘ sieamed |) “Only, thou beautiful," he answered, wpon him like fire Uke poise » v s falnt but}“a dim shadow of things tu come, I emai. | Ww Orau avveuwwsy w~vening, Se | “Three Cheers for All of Us!” . By J. Campbell Cory. wie Y } \ jot Weatern countries, | these youthful widows, ‘There were tn India tn 19)! nearly 426,00 widows v contain enough power to raise 10.00 ton, other way of stating the same estimate was that ; a that might well have been expected Letters from the People 4 Answers to Questions. A Question of Employment. for insurance protection during the pert il some clever reader elucidate T memn at least three quarts of milk | will find out his dotngs soon omoagt ound of very rare steak, & without your telltng them. And most 1, Do they charge the large bow! of any cereal and lot# of men are such lars, he will fresh air. The boy should walk as many miles a day as he o or two blocks and tnorease every day & few more blocks until he gets used to walking, ‘This ls the only cure for ‘Will some reader who ts business ways ple rate to prevent people from tak- rn ——— | person who is already employed wri family will be foolis! enough to believe he sa76, #0 take my advice EXPHRIENCED WIFR. To the Bittter of The Hveniag World: What fs the population of Japan at the present time? The Horse Problem. To the Baitor of ‘The Evening Wortd, ‘Samuel 6.” ashe: If @ man 9 fhorees for $500 each gains % per cent, soses 2% per cent, loas in per cent, rotumed because he is employed at pres-| pany capltal for speculation? larger sum out of the Insured be- fore he dies, should he die? 6 Or to ‘hat disense that 1 know of. cwuse lapses because of inabittty to pay | cured by It so heavy a premium? POLICY-HOLDER. A Diet That Oured. f The Evening World As to Insarance. n Kansas recently eloped with! Te the Bdltor of The Evening World In all the ineurance investigation I va have seen no explanation as to why all \ true herotne te a mar-|the large companies charge premiums e| apparently go much langer than the ac- rained single cual coat of insurance. As I understand EX-CONSUMPTIVE. The Buffalo Girl, ¢ Editor of The Evening World writes asking ff may shut her eyes to thelit, they guarantee a cash surrender re | about her only boy having consumption. herself, but she never turns|fimd, at the end of a specified period. /1, too, was very sick for about ten 4 the doctors told me that cure for {t was good Mving. mean well enoug into family matters, ust-Be-Obeved to the truth about her|of about two-thirds of the premiums | months ago News pald tn, keeping one-thint as their fee ATESHA: * Theat man’s family FVRGHER. HISGORY OF She-Who-M Never to my knowledge have I seen one nau to hust lovelier, but oh! how comme and poor lee ’ she showed, beside the wid, ethereal beauty of Ayesha born again, For that Jems 90 Indeed than it had been in the Bik, fearlessly upon the very caves of Kory now it was the bemny, AeA puma ee Deals, | ri per the with the blue darkness of the heavens the attempt had been Wherein they float; the ourved lps, so 90 quickly indeed that it ok, t wistful vet eo proud; the tress fine as) [420.and [ compared ou npreadon Stossy silk that still spread and rippled had happened, '@ could be as though with a separate life; the gen-| feling thet whe hed eral adr, not so muah of majesty as of lay Ai like the sudden some secret power hard to be restrained, |jn0" iene rues et Ayesha, hat strove in thet delicate borly and dopths beneath. her proclaimed its presence to the mont |! /is went it her, careless; that flame of the soul within | MM." seemed ro stir, Yea, ites of alabaster and of pearl—none of these |beiring all her things and qualitios were altogether hu-| NCKM' 4 saatly as though she not shine midst yonder fires or a glow- Ont shapo which heaven has given m Atene felt it aleo, for she answered: “Pooltsh Woman!™ she eat, tn “I but & woman. What thou art, |/M tones. "'Wast thou #0 vexed worm against a fallen wa We et “Dost think, poor creature of an hour, to sweep away the rock of my eternal strength?” and here stayed him. | “Great one! now as ever T anlute thee, | she broke in with) Yes, now as the Arst beginning whereof] he stammered Now Atene spoke for the first time. thou mean, Hes-if thou art stil] the Hesea and not @ demon arsen be e { can find a plenty | woman did on earth or phaarom in the | wisdom, the sift of foresih “Another word, ] ” fury born of some dark fear, ‘and thou' we know alone, the y thus T greet?” }7 penold it shalt be that man. Fool, put me not| had no more to say; the face of that the apex of the soaring pillar. The sun y, what te {t passes tn thy mind, jn ming that now I have strength again So, still led by Leo, she passed from “| that chamber and stood presently upon short-lived territories to this man as If mo, I tell thee that first thou must vonquer them," “Ungentle are thy words and mien," answered Ayevha, “yet I forgive them both, for I also oan soom to mock a rival In my hour of vietory. When thou wast the falrer, thou didst proffer tum thea very Inada but say, who le dead man was not revealed to me. saw only that some crowned Khan of I\ was up now, flooding a d | fanke, the plains of Kaloon far neath, Pouche ¢ tiercely upon the Shaman Simbri, wh jest 1 should use a sword thou thrust-| Kaloon to be shall lle here, as he whom] and the distant, misty peaks with a proath 8 stood near, his arms crossed upon his ost to my hand,” and her eyes, that| the flame has taken lay an hour ago.” “Doubtless many a Khan of Kaloon| ing the mighty prospect; then, addr + | Ing Leo, she sald: ‘The world is very fair; I give it all Ayesha stood consider- she answered, Fear not, Shaman, m: yet be wise, mine epemy, and prophesy |to thee’ thelr fearsome wrath ts past; BAlpadle radiance csowned her head; go| have what thou dost lack with all thy | might and shrank from it Ull the wall October 17, 1904 Studying the Problem of 74 Living to Be 100 Years Old, EGULARITY of life, a dally order that ts as perfectly routined as ase @e R movements of a clock, care tn eating, early boare for bed Bindcecd. ther 1 expecially freedom from worry, These are one rules for iving to bo 100, A curious passion sometimes dominates men who have entered upon the decade. The most conspicuous example of that was furnished by the tate L, Perkins, of Norwich, ¢ At ninety he had learned how to regulate his life. At ninety-five be wesve most cordial, Interesting, erect, vigorous-minded man of business, but bis \ife had been reduced to perfect system, even in the amount and kind of which sorved him best, At ninety-nine ho was persuaded that hte ambition be gratified, and upon his 100th birthday, tn 1868, @ great company of railway managers, of many of whom he was old enough to eny that be ) have been their grandfather or great-grandfat assembled to do him honor, sag the Philadelphia Press A month later he was dead. It seemed as though having reached the goat of fis ambition, that then he allowed relaxation of will and with that relaxation came reaction and then collapse David Dudley Meld found himself mastered by that ambition, and was per uaded that he would the easier gratify {t if he continued his mental work and kept up his physical exorcises, Hiis theory was that 100 years was attainable by any one who had no organio disease, provided he ¢ook lessons of himaelf eo that he knew what physical re . clue was needed, what food best nourished him and was mo tly aselme ‘ {lated, what kind of mental labor was most healthul The late Charles Butler, while he seemed less dominated by the ambition to live until hi: 100th birthday, was po: y more profoundly philosophical than any of the others, For it was his habit to say; ‘I whall live my life regularly, nor- melly, knowing what {s good for me in the way of physical oxerojse and and moral employment, seeking always reasonable content and thanking Ge tho blessings He has youchsafed me, During thie I shall lve my allotted term, ‘ whether {t be less than 10 years or more. ‘The father of the lato Frederick A. Tappen, who waa go near hie centenary that he did at last hope he would reach it, hed no paritoulnr order of lite, his sole philosophy being that content and a good conscience and a reasonable ob- servance of the laws of health were sufficient, That view arrved ho until he was ninety-seven ye: of age Child Marriages in India. ORE than 260,000 » M ried when the ia 8 was taken, and of t many have become widows. Hetween i fare the number od girls wae well over 2,000,000; between 10 and 1 yeara {t had rigen to nearly 7,000,(0, says the Chicago News Most of the widows of tender yeurs oeoome hood means. It ts only as they W out of Infancy to which they are condemned, a life of misery wht et Is enforced by Hind Ww in India would recog {nexorable custom forbids were already mate hey know what widow. ) At they learn the ead life 8 tnooncelvable to prope 6 Though the E: ah der 15 years nealy 20,000 were less than 5 years o} ————_—~+4.—______. Power of Radium. N oan address before the British Seten radium was a substance which was, per erful than dynamite, Thus it was e, Association Prot. Darwin said militons of times more pows ‘adium would his surface, An- @ ene: needed to tow @ ahip of 12,000 tons a distance of 6.000 sea miles at fifteen knots was contained in twenty-two ounces of radium. Now, we knew that the eart Ataine radiogotive materials, and |t was safe to aseume that tt forms legree a sample of the materials of the solar system, hence it was almost certain that the un ie 4 radioactive also. Said w on w the x Side. OURING car worth $3,000 aban-jetand ‘he decrease in the number @ : 79 os | Goned in a city street found to students. Might look up the path contain a dozen empty cham- ores, pegne bottles. Tonneau gets tte rane! ee @ from the mame source as that of the|_ Sad by an actress tn "The World ang oid wine tan, but not advisable co use| M8 Wife” thar 17 Unless you have tie Deauty of the bide of a rin. Mas much. | |, oceros, the co! “tution of a hore, the sin fan weds his stenog-| diplomacy of & Machiavelt, and une Pee pipes rg minister to wed bounded influence and impedence, put tik, Divides matrimonial honors now clit af your mind the thought of adopte with the nurse and the echool- |Ing the already miserably overcrowded ‘ twalnad age a9 @ career.” “Thought thet die ee |Monds and a good press ageot make ap ma/enD, Cow causes train wreck and death| for some of these ¢ Actongsen, ot five : i on an Mlincts railroad Freight . Jersey meadows derailed! Man of Seventy-three contracted the the the other day by “cows on the track." cigarette hatte, bought diamond ‘When they insist on having right of wore them consplowously and eas Recent warm weather may have (ed wens eng . them to forget that the summer ‘8 OM gorman, conductor, nats Gor the may cially over. the Brook! Tracer zee aid Lan lnaia to save worked wel end este BY H. RIDER HAGGARD - Author of “She,’’ “Allan Quatermain,” “Kitg 4 Solomon’s Mines,” eto, ' i @ tatrer now? Took at as, all of you, /#nd amend thy we, Sedge,” and whe stood by Atane|! mney find concentment bag and sedan re now tt lacks, and confiem The Khanta was a lovely woman | iiso fs that thy 2, just Upon Whem thou rs is guldarion a vost mY guest, walled pase ue beauty was not altogether human, far 4nd 6: ft & apirh. | Knanta Ww The little light that alwaye shone upon {Lruck with all ber ¢ at her rt I JAyesba's brow: the wide-set, maddening in her body. eat vaaisb to the yes whioh were filled sometimes with "ot have been ao, since " the fire of the stars and sometimes {Und and she who epould have dead took no hurt at wh: whereof Oros hed spoken, shining now rend” felt tad een) through no “vile vessel," but in a vase) her hand and Cwught ber by the man, I felt {t and wos afraid, and) ing her to mene OMe ettort thou knowest beet, Still, a taper oan- | ‘204 wouldat wtrlp thyself of the pi earely iis 8 madness, Atene, for u fl compare with the glory | knowos ou In what lken hou hast cerned from hell in payment|™iehtest be sent to tread the gifts and homage to the lord of @#Ain’ As no ye perhaps, but Nn. ‘a8 wornan I am thy equal and Peasant’s chil ‘¢ spirit I shall be thy mistress when, |€or such reward, it im anid, te robbed of these borrowed beauties those that achieve self-murder, hou, Ayesha, standest naked and °ven, as many think, shaped shamed before the Judge of all, whom | beas ¢, & oat, a tigress! thou has deserted and defied; yes, as see’-—and picked the dagger hou stoodest but pow upon yonder the ground and cast It into ruk above the burning pit where thou! “that point was polgoned, Had {t et shalt wander walling thy lost love, pricked thee now!” and ehe ‘or this know, mine enemy, that man | her and shook her head. epirit cannot mate,” and Atene| But Ateno could bear no more of caaget choking in her bitter rage and mockery, more venomed than bar & ealousy, | steel. Now watching Ayesha, I saw her) "Thou art not mortal, wince a ttle beneath these evil-omened “How can I prevail againat yords, saw only a tinge of gray touch Heaven [ leave thy punishmen: he carmine of her lips, and her deep there wpon the rocky peak Atene yes dark and troubled. In an down and wept, natant it had gone, and she was asking Leo stood nearest to her, and voice that rang clear as silver sight of this royal woman in her ery proved too much for him to yest thou, Atene, like some Stepping to her side, he stooped ummer torrent Against the lifted her to her feet, muttering barrier of a seamless cliff? Dost chink,| Kind words, For a moment she rest poor creature of an hour, to sweep away on his arm, then shook herself free the rock of my eternal strengtn with! him and took the proffered hand of her foam and bursting bubbles? Have done! old uncle, Simbri, and listen, I do not seek thy petty rule,| "I see," sald Ayesha, “that who, if 1 Will it, can take che empire of hou are courteous, my lord Leo, but the world. Yet Jearn, thou holdes: it of !8 best that her own servant my hand, More—I purpose soon to visit, ‘ake charge of her, for~she may thee in thy clty—choose thou if it shall| more daggers. Come, the day be peace or war! and surely we need rest,” ‘ ‘herecore, Khania, purge thy court (To Be Continued) —, ‘Why ra’ mG