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The Evening World*s Home Magazine, Saturday Evening, November 18, 1905, : 2 as | “A Good Joke.” THE MAN HIGHER UP. By Martin Green, SER," said the Cigar Store Man, “that they are digging close to the vermiform appendix of this insurance alt- uation, but it don't look to me like they'd ever do any~ thing with it.” “Uh!” remarked the Man Higher Up, “so you're one of those ‘what's the wee’ guys, You're one of these gazoolikers that laughs it off when you get the worst of it because laughing it off saves trouble, Well, you can throw bouquets at yourself for one thing—you're with the majority. ‘What's the use’ {s pretty close to the motto of this town, It ought to be posted up {n all the raflway stations and ferry-houses, so that people coming from other places might get wise to the municipal scream, | “The ‘what's the use’ spirit is more or less national, but !n New York {t has been cultivated to a hard finish, That is why the New Yorker pays more for what he gets than the resident of any other city payg. Some Gothamites will tell you that the privilege of living here is worth the extra cost. This is only another phase of the ‘what's the use.’ If there te any edge in living in a community where three-fourths of the population pays everything {t earns to the remaining fourth we certainly are in right. “We laugh off street blockades, poorly-heated flats, bum shows. dirty etreets, ‘L'-train crowding, hog-pen ferry-boats, exorbitant restaurant prices abominable waiter service, poisoned food, boozeless booze, unventilated theatres and office buildings, discourteous public servants and general dis- comfort because we are all selfish to the mit By J. Campbell Cory HO- HO- HO- HA-HA =F BEST Jone yer! WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO About 17 mow ? HA- HA- Hl —= HO-HO-HO_s! Published by tho Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 63 Park Row, New York, | Entered at the Post-Omice at New York as Becond-Class Mail Matter. NO, 16,16v, — VOLUME 46. — The Education of Conscience. Not the least instructive feature of | the life insurance investigation Is the | awakening of conscience It has stimu- | lated in the eminent financiers whose conduct has come under the commit- tee’s scrutiny, As If under a hot-house forcing process, moral character has been de- veloped almost in a night as a bud} unfolds into a full-blown flower, There was the case of President Hegeman, of the Metropolitan, and the syndicate gains which he covered into the company’s treasury after | /the limelight was turned on the Equitable, | Up to that time Mr, Hegeman had been serenely unconscious of | “any violation of law or morals” on his part in the transactions from | ‘which he had profited. So sure was he of his integrity that when the | first question was raised as to their propriety he called in his friends to/ convince him that he was wrong. Try as he would with thelr assistance, | he could detect no moral flaw in his behavior. In the end, to give his| Bcruples the benefit of any possible doubt, he pald the money over, or, in| the rude phrase, made restitution. Similarly President McCurdy, of the Mutual, was moved to see a new light in the matter of his $150,000 salary. Acting presumably on \Wudge Gary's theory that an excessive salary is not excessive when paid | to the right man, he accepted it with complacency until an inward monitor | hegan to assail him with doubts which would not down. Now in the | glow of an aroused moral sense he asks to have it cut In two, Wherever the seed fell it has grown with a vigorous growth as in a Mallow field, . It has led Mr, McCall to question the strict propriety of “yellow dog” {funds for a company conducted on philanthropic lines and has moved him lto make himself responsible for the repayment of the sums intrusted to \Andy Hamilton for disbursement where they would do most good. It has raised doubts in the heads of all the companies concerned about the legitimacy of ‘‘house of mirth” influences on legislation, The man who tries to stand \up for the rights of the public in a crowd te hooted and guyed and set down as one who has engaged accommodations tn a bughouse, | ‘The new arrival in New York makes a holler about every ten minutes until he is suddenly put next to the fact that a kicker in this town ts | looked upon as a comedian. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred he imme- | diately signs articles with the ‘what's the use’ brigade and makes up his mind to take the short end of life with a grin. The one ina hundred who continues to roar for everything that's coming to him, and is willing to take a day off to get it, eventually figures {n the Elite Directory, and is ree | ferred to In the papers as a prominent citizen “Do you think that J. Pierpont Morgan ever said ‘what's } at's i | he thought somebody had handed bim a lemon? If he had maura habit of regarding !mposition as humorous play fn life he would probably be a curb btoker to-day, getting his name in th ys { ne papers o betting stage money on the election,’ i arr RELY “You know what the Bible says about turning th M a he oO hed minded the Cigar Store Man he Ohne, Fee “Oh, very well,” replied the Man Higher Up, ‘tm | » “but that a Ff | template a time when you turn the other cheek and get yur ice ates renee wcoeee Mechanism in Disrepute. \ ena was regarded as somewhat vulgar in ancient times, Are! edes made little of his mechanical {nvenitons, They were only the amuse- mente of geometry, he ald) and only at the wdehew of hte aoveraign did he consem! to e pructleal expression to the many wonderful schemes with which his bralr cudoxus and Archytas took sertously to mechanics (hey were denounced by Plao as corrupting and debusing the excel teemed. And when It has shown Mr, Depew the possible misinterpretation which might Jonce of geometry, by making her descend from intellectual to corporeal things, |The tnventor was long thereafter despised by the philosophers, and mechanics regarded simply as a branch of military art he put on the act of a director voting a loan to a deserving but im- pecunious company in which the director was interested. It has led Mr. Alexander to feel that where an unbiased and Imper- jponal view is taken of syndicate participation the motives of participators paay be misconstrued. , ; It is not to be thought that pubfic criticism has effected this moral transformation in life insurance officials, Mr. McCurdy expressly denies t he regards such criticism as either ‘just or deserved.” It has come from within and not from without. It fs the result of senna ar E awakening to activity of atrophied consciences which a course of MRS. N AGG AND MR. a we ini as res ) normal condition, oral training under Mr. Hughes has restored to normal cond Nobody Touches Hia Things, Why Should He Carry On Sot ‘LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE Cruelty to Animal sive meats and delicacies, Buch fam- ‘To the Baltor of The Evening 4 Mes are to be truly pitied since they ‘crit weather hae come and all over|¢@nnot afford children. This te only an — —_— the city you can see poor horses ehiy-|!"fant country whose backbone ta the ering In the cold and not even © descendants of imigrants of all nation- By Roy L, McCardell) intiat’over”ism tne seen ini aies rat standing outside buildings for an hour iekwiy. Ghitvanen: and more, 1 have been watehing jd gloves in your drawer! The only time we jTe the PAitor of The Evening Worll: OW, please, Mr. Nagg. please do not begin at me ni ous is waa about gloves. You kKmow you aiways of 4 " . y J f ne, and many horses are in the] At the Seve j soon as you get in the house! I do know why | cbject, 1 » you object, every time we are out when I ask you to put my | wagon’ any Hl [ yesorond atreat tioket The Ste nway Ta gain. | I am 80 foolish as to be anxtous for you to come | eloves or my veil in your pocket! same plight. Now, fw It not w pall Window of the Subway during moming f A ~ feet et q home when your coming home ts only the beginning of The only time we ever did have words, as I say, and {t wasn't my fault,| and cruel? It seems to me aoe beds hours there is but one tleket wins | uinsel for the Rapid Transit Commission report as to the legality one of your usual outbure emper! was when T found @ patr of gloves and a veil In your packet and thought for a) +o think that any one ean look at thow low cnet, and there is @ line usually tnuray. al H q “ y in do ) r “ dogo out with me this t they belonged to another woman! poor, dumb antmals unmoved, Bur (ing for Uckets. In this way T and the old Steinway tunnel franchise that they are “greatly in doubt as te If you are going to dress an y belo eae Hema + ad eins Sa eer ee Tiahlonte hacer anl ue tee f : ., evening please do so, but do not, 1 ay, please do not, 1 yet T didn't say a word! IT just !nqu' , as any other woman { people can affe o bu ay everal times miased ex- fwhether the franchise is still alive or not.” ay unrest quire who finds a strange women’s gloves and vell In her husband's pocket seine afford a blanket to put over| presses, and reached the office tate, The This is the franchise under which the New York and Long Island You did not say a word, you say? Oh, Mr, Nagg, you] Oh, yes, I know they were my gloves, Mr, Nagg, but they might not have] ijn) tt ie cold now, and It @rieves me| way the crowds are handled at the \ if ‘ ‘ : ‘ haven't anid a word, but I can see by your look aa you | heen to think of how horses must auffer| ticket boxhs of the Brooklyn bridge (Railway Company, a Belmont enterprise, is constructing an underground opened that bureau drawer tliat you were ready to begin| I do not trust any of you men these days, and just the evening before I] ion the colder weather comes, Thope|(weet side) entrance of the Subway te : 1 % inal i C ) hose things tn c < home very late, If you will res r his|fierce, Often only two tick Sity to a terminal in Porty-seconi , Man- a Urade found t things In your pocket you came home very some other readers will take up, this y icket windows Toad from Long Island ¢ ity t \ me , orty-second street, Man If you cannot find your dress tle and if the collars| rember, and If you were Innocent that time you might not be another, and |" AF. |open and sixty people in tine. Let's i Failing to secure legislative validation Wf Its decayed charter, the i ie ara" Wad GARSAIS. OOM iy (Hh ‘iy | while T would soorn to be Jealous I think I have a perfeot right to say some- tay “Balioht a new tikataal ttan, Failing deg) : ; hteal| in that drawer are my percale collars from thone § j § { ; cuildvan Yevsun Bate ketseller for hcompany has proceeded with its construction wok without that formality. old percale ahirt walste I had last summer, tt {8 no reason | thing If my husband does come home with his ay full a gloves ae veils ren et Christmas, He needs one badly. By . by 1 < nearer its gr 4 Mayor ella H su should rage and rave. And here. wh I give you a whole drawer in my bureau for your things YOU lg the Biltor of The Evening World: the way, I dropped dead with eur t is now tw » months nearer its goal than Niall Naye Ilorin directed | pov that You shou rete te drawer, the whole bureau Grawer,|come home and start to quarrel with me because you can’t find « collar snd] | according to etatiatios) tables of Now cn the Grand Central Subwey Auitens orough President Ahearn to revoke its permit pending an opinion by Wey Taga for your very own. There is nothing of mine |because your things are all mussed up! York race suicide is more prevalent to-| to-day, Up comes an attendant and Khe Corporation ( ounsel on its legality. . drawer except three pairs of the baby’s old shoes, i's roller skates, a stock.| Yes. you dtd, Mr. Nagg, yes, you did, and you brought it up about the! any than at any previous time. Tho] points at my flagrant Havana stub, and | Whenis the city to know definitely what its rights are in the matter? | ingfw of combings, the gas bill and one or two other thtigs rioves I left In your pocket! ; Welleto-do can afford poodles and higii-| says, “No smoking, please” I believe Ns it to be tricked out of another rich franchise? The Steinway grab pro-| ‘The drawer is yours and nobody touches it but yourself Don't try to may ft {sn't so! As soon as you came home this evening 84/1. eed Persian and Angora cats, yet) this is the first time on record that | TO Ee ve ibe : nensali fo most value ble railroad f My gloves are in it? Well, they are not my new gloves, just a couple of olf arked me to go out with you to the theatre, I could see you ware dying to Dick | may claim they cannot afford large] that no-smoking order has ever been wides for only nomut al compensation for a most vaiuable ratiroad right gloves I dropped in the other day intending to clean them with benzine as soon A quarrel. | tamilies, Some of them can afford a| enforced ne Subway, Heretofore I way granted in perpetuity and not subject to city control, If it is t Why do you do tt, Mr Naga? Why do you 4o it? I never say a word, but| mata to care for thelr pot animals thought the signe were just ormamental, Ys ae I get time & m Mlegal; as believed, it should he stopped Tho not see why yon ahould carry on itke @ madman simply because 1 you carry on Ike a flend about nothing These peta are fod on the most expen PETER CLAIVERES, JR. — TA m. at . Who Describ : HE PARSON OF JACKMAN’S GULCH .:°:.:°:. 7" A LT i eMnie Cliee the occasion demanded, sauntered in ® .y two right-hand men, They're off F owas known In the Gulch as the! a general cessation of the hubbwh, and) —_ ——-- i i . ‘i ‘ . yng the eh pt , e hills with your gold—— Ha! H 4 Bilas Bo Hopkins, but every one was turned {In the direction | emainell eee ich led up to the moon. Would ve?" ‘This to some restive mem- (t was generally understood that) Whence thin quiet atream of words | « io) The interior of the bulldiue had been) ber of the audience, who quieted down the title was an | re one, extorted flowed. There, mounted upon a barrel 500 provided with rough hencnes, and the) Instantly. before the Meroe eye and he , title wa x a | ‘ parson, with his quiet, good-humored dy weapon of the bushranger. Ey slg? ina vat qualities, and Was Elise B, Hopking, the newest of | t ReWARD Parson. with Ming at ihe door to wel-| Qn hour they will be clear of any wne out b jogal claim which the inhabitants of Jackman's Gulch, | Bik come them. "Good morning, boys.” he| ait, in 1a aad with @ good-fumored emfle upon hi < : ) cried, cheerfly, as each group came) of it, ald adiuce waibolta tae ue held one ‘ lounging up 3 in, pass in, You'll! lose n ian your money. My horse wate certainly In neod of & lute face jd an open Bible . ' And thts ies good e morning's wor! 8 A outside this door behind generator at Jackman's Gutch about |!" his hand, and was reading aloud a | ] as any you've done, Leave your pistols 1% Whe the time tp 1 wail pass n vere fly ase: ta t jun { {n this barrel outside the door as you! through it, lock It on the outside, and the beginning of ‘53, Times were flush | PM wie aken . randam—an extract } pass; vou can pick them out as you ! off, Then you may break your then over t whole eolony, it noe {Tom the Apocalypse, if I remember | » t come out 4) nut It Ian't the thing Way out as best you can. I have no than there. Our material | ett. ‘The words were entirely {rrele- to carry weapons into the house of) ore to aay to you, except Fer ‘ eat upon | vant without th lest hearin, Pgace.”” ag) the mont ctirved set of annes nad a bad eff pon yout the smallest bear! he weather was aultry and the room | {rod In bo: ather, lowe, yet the miners listened with ex.| We had time to indorse ment Ny this }/ upon the aeene before him, but hi emplary patience There was it outspoken opinion during the long sixty tion, wa © onmp waa a plodded on with great 6 Uh arid slowly to the cadencee | Y « z of novelty. in. the situation. which had | mn which followed; we were power- ad ty miles to the 2 csi wiy to the caden y - XY "Re ateraet some It was en- before the resolute desperado, Tt ts allara id 4 . tirely now wore wafted be ; that if we made & simultaneous , ars and hoots, how {t to another land and other days, Be. |fuah we might bear him down at the vliag I r Which was exhibited |cost of elght or ten of our number. But 4 aw how could such a rush be organized withoug speaking, and who would at. tempt ® without a previous Agreemen that he would be supported? There was Communtcat! een : is : tut h eh i : Z \\\ jated to applaud at the foie ots wee i sane 4a y g f : \ 7 : end of certain prayers, by way of show , , it | ' that they sympathized. with th 4 thoug ind him | sentiments expressed, no witdlence could ; F , ‘ J / |e , “ 7h Sancta. are oat othing for it but submission, [t seemed Wested by a F g applause, Be { hp y have behaved hertar There wae a wut /three hours at the least before th i Meonky Jim, we oa sional boot 04 Ha aA B. Hopk : wit ANAS | ringer snapped up his watch, stepp |B, Hopkins, looking down on the cone | hint 9g ged Sek 1 ‘ gregation from his rostrum of casks, Gown from the barrel, wal back wary, | still covering us with his weapon, to the } ] { pare f ere 8 / i yl Pay ie aga ee tee now,” he aaid, {‘loor behind him, and then ed rap itheretore, at the Gulch ‘0 more onterly ¢ tants } i : UHH} || = . Z In the course of his address! ‘Dve got |i, throu It We haere tne create aust and «| ‘ ‘ be ser,| 11, y 2 age \ : ‘ou in the right rut if you will bat wUlck | foryo'y hoofs as he galloped AWAY lanines tn . " hy 3 and f 5 in it," Here he looked very hard out of/ {this heen remarked that an oath : \ ; | XY ae \ the window for rome seconds, "You've! nad, fur the last few weeks, Deen & ¥ learned sobherness and Industry, @nd4/rare thing In the camp. We made wp t arit In him,” the | . , with thowe things you can always make| for our temporary abstention durin, Lat 7 3 i | Y — up any loss you may sustain, I gue®8)the next half hour, Never was hear |puted to watch over the primitive bank explalned, rearing his bulky red y (TA y W/L Yy * Li 2 there isn't one of ye that won't remem: | such symmotrical and heartfelt blas- \When the amount deposited became | Si" et tween the crowd and the G , y } 4 Vy, zs ber my visit to this camp." He paused|phemy, When at Jast we succeeded in onaideveble @ wagon was hired and | bse of se His ways ain't ‘ 2 s i y / z Z/ ff for a moment, and three revolver shots | gotting the door off its hinges, all alght , 1 us a an ae pare ail aalbetne fy / ) r Fang our unon the quiet summer alr. | of both rangers and treasure had beri the Whole treasure was veyed to|°! 1 y "Keep your seats, damn ye!” roared| peared, nor have we ever caught sight allarat guarded by the po and| | ial? : from | : \ our prenc as his audience rose In ex-|of either the one or the other since, eh Mevain: number OF mince : " fed, What 4 : y \ clitement, ‘Ifa man of ye moves, down! Poor Woburn, true to hie trust. lay yao , mints, who ed Ul base fe MAL. hee, H ; : > : he goor! ‘The door's locked on the out-|shot through the head across the thres ok it in turn to perform the office Tone z “ays ees i_, side, #9 ye can't get out anyhow, Your]old of his empty store. e villa! nce in Ballarat it was forwarded o PRU OWE iG 2 neate . huckle-headed fools! | Maule and Phillips, had descended upon o Melbourne by t 7 fan’ it | or I'll fire| the camp the inatant th ¢ had been be Lectiaia y the regular gold wag we'll p in an’ see hi q Uf * SS: hy) Q " enticed into the trap, murdered the * [ f A wtanivament and fear brought us| keeper, londed up a small cart with Things were in thin ra SS yick into our @eats, and we sat atar-| the booty. and got safe away to some é M n unsatisfa tory r more than a month Fl mn Hop ‘\ Z i Yy ly at our pastor and each| wild fastness among the mountains, naire mi ate elist, Bilas | kins is campale “If a man of ye moves, down he goe 8!” ay Ht| , t K as BH rion nde sae were they were joined by their wily “king, came mp! to the | he ; "YY d even figure apr < ; amp, trave talnad ant ts ; ‘ s one thing for which the still) like clay out o' a eradie, What 1 mie an extraordinary alteration, || Jackman's Guloh gecovered from r footeo w p h and a we 13 ie: ; on us from his| blow, and is now & flourishing townahip, spade rtrapped acrois ht t provocation . earned. He opened his heart to us| d'ye wart Hf] | . with a contemptu-| Social reformers are not in request | Bible in the pocket of his foe. wis about It one evening. Ww got chureh ged 1 8 anile on mh, tae, y rn there, powever, Rep ame a oleet. ed, The monotono’ oka a blessing on the camp,| #4me | | “"p pave your Ilves In my hands,” he} discoun’ Mt was wos not long before he Je, but It could 0 rn b "it we only had a se Have it in the open afr,” one suge sermon was a novelty to all of them, which had ever cecurred Jn the annals reniorked; and we noticed as he Spoke hens held later eon Scone j lL ye Avo! Gins a i ‘ ated and one coming from their own parson of man's Gulch, At first it was thal he a heavy, revolver In. this | ptranger show us the stuff that was mforming to the parson’s code. | ¥" some sort on the Lord's day. | sente ‘| 1d ong One trom mor announced jthougne chet the whole popwetion wae (hand, and that the butt of enbteer 11) 40 lanes © piace it would be advis- ne night the proceedings were un-|4 chronic swearer came to be looked It's n-temptin’ o' Providence to go on; in Adams's saloon. that it would interspersed wita local present, but @ Ittle reflection ahowed one protruded from MS 1 able to have ae ro ot nay 3 H By violent at the drinking ealoon, |Upn with disfavor by the community, {n this way without takin’ any notice! ‘The Inst propoval was recelved with | hits, and that the moral would be | that this waa not so, Maule and nillipe armed and | yom a 4 bi lil pe gs Lily} ei Guddenly amid this tumult of oaths |#nce the punishment of his transgres- eae hie hi bed yids more ees SA ty Rd showed that Pt hg ges Hig cy i ane [ee not returned |f¢ not, X shall not harm you. You, Poy eta and will’se for many @ tong | @runken cries, men becam: . \slon fell upon all. | y drank and more card-playin’ was considered the most appropriat® jje to gain seats, and many applications jag ye ‘Woburn, gold-keeper, | must wait here for an hour, " year to come, m became oon than on any other day.” locality, made to the brothers Adama, *PeF, | foole'” (this with a hie of Pontempt jous of @ quiet monatone which un-| Although Blias B, Hopkins appeared | Fa “The UA |was only when luslvely sho: lane anenty of the | which rang fi . vas only when conclusively 8! why very. 1 \ At first the Gulch took but a mild in- y si \ } Tong aay), do ; Albert Payson I ‘We hain't got no parson,” objected wn that Jay ail other sounds and obtruded |to derive @ certain quiet satisfaction jthe saloon could ‘hold them all with « precions metal at ° ta the ‘ one of the crowd. Sterast in the proceedings, bit when Ms margin that te camp settled down into tuck his 0 Ln RK ati «« eptpad renga ty ‘ art i from the wonderful change which he; ‘Ye fool!” growled another, “hain't became known that Bilas B. Hopk firet one man and then an- e ntn’t inconded, ator reading the. servic Me eat wll that, the billding wan wis ten t a man as is wort tates intended, ater ree whee. sine sine ataaee en tae had effected in the camp, his Joy was | we ‘was not yet rounded complete, There pari a teil