The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1905, Page 20

he Evening @ublighed by tho Press Publishing Company, No, 83 toiss Park Row, Ne Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Secord-Class Mall Mat . + tenes coveee eoeece NU, eadlight Nuisanc The efforts of the ub to sup light The use in the city candle-power acetylene lamps on motor cars occasrons a serious con fusion of traffic. The dazzling lights | ntensify the surrounding darkness | ind greatly increase the risk t dri of other vehicles and t pedesirians, It is gratifying to have the assurance that the members of the club have agreed to discontinue the use of such lights in the city limits. But what effect Js mora suasion likely to have om the automobile guerrillas? Falling a law and a severe penaity, they will be the menace to safety they now are, In any city of France, in Berlin and other Buro- pean capitals they would be arrested, as they should be here, The acetylene light annoyance ts another illustration of the extent to which automobiles have appropriated the streets, as of right. If every. delivery wagon had a locomotive headlight, if private car- rlages bore searchlights, the law world have found occasion to interfere fong ago. Why should motor cars be permitted to disturb traffic? There is now a more general disregard of safety in the matter of peed recklessness on the part of all drivers than there ever was before. The hard-hearted police refused to entertain young Mr. Gates's plea that as tt was Christmas Eve a little matter of speed violation tn an automobile should not | count. At a time of the year when the eye of the law looks kindly on-the hilarious and the disorderly this was real harshness, After Yule Is Over. If the good nature which the holiday throng exhibited in the thronged trains and street cars Saturday and yesterday were shown all the year, how much pleasanter the life of the city dweller would be! If the holiday spirit in the family were stretched to last from Clrrist- mas around to Christmas again—not the feasting and the gift-giving, but the kindliness and consideration—how much happier the homes of the city would be! If charity were always as thoughtful throughout the year of the | teeds of poverty, would not much of the poverty itself disappear through greater general intelligence directed to removing its causes? Christmas afl the year round ts the “truly Christmas.” Croesus and John D. Congressman Sulzer has discovered that Croesus, whose name @mong the ancients was synonymous with great wealth, possessed only $10,000,000, As this about represents a Standard Oil quarterly dividend, Mr, Sulzer is probably right in thinking that the celebrated King was not bo be compared, as a rich man, with John D, Rockefeller, Croesus does not appear to have been alive to the opportunities mature gave him for acquiring riches, Had he had a little of the Rocke- 6 ers amare sparse: Wor i LORE A TRIGOKE HNL SS as sine ateta, 4 Ayes My, Kn? Ay 3 Vay 4 wy wy Mt nf Wen Nensei i The Only Way. By J. Campbell Cory. IN FIFTEEN MINUTES Coctoy om To che Battor of Evening World. “ae reading TMo Yank’s” pratee jatety of American citTes, I cast my eyes on your editorial, ''The City of Violemt Deaths.” If “Philo Yank R feller spirit he might easily have discovered and controled the Baku oil| will read the editorial and compare that wells, with their output of 50,000,000 barrels, He could have monopo- | fized the Oriental rug trade or cornered dates or put figs up to famine! prices, Whatever way he turned there were millions to be made. In| Athens was a legislative body peculiarly sensitive to the clink of gold, | One trait in common with the modern world’s Croesus the ancient bad. He gave with a lavish hand to the temples of Apollo, He was a) friend of Solon, but as to whether he provided a professorship Yor that wise man, whereabouts in Lydia his pet university was located, and who &s Harper was, history is silent, | i jo) “ay Ry jo} as WOoprright, 1905, by Little, Brown & Cod; the morals of a grizetly bear. Flee _— from thi 2,” GYNOPSIS OF PRPOND! "They © him into the nearest saloon and enjoy him for the t the day, dance?’ aya one of the 6 4 gun at hie toes. “Whirl 4 dancef” walked right at bim, eye sane cowboy went as you 4 throws @ wines guntiedt cawt soda and now yore white as @ corpse wit nixed sing, Go take 4 p son, | at before yo're a! The boys wate saloon anky Joe, m Mu The Robher Chief } ha was high noon when while the preacher | From there to} wut that he craved } eating tobacco was 4 eqting drink w y t ple pereun the Ips, but + ‘ ward parts @ays he, is to esche Wicked man ‘@yllabiec es, Then he would do } ‘meal and strayed out to where I stood deal the cowboys. “Bittle sinners,” says he, "I perce! ft @hat you have fallen y. This Chalkeye ul influence, which m no harn mt reach, a saidied jaws within No, not that I ‘ of retreat from here," | with @n account of safety trom mobs tn Japan, I think he will change his views of Amerita being the most clvi! ized of nations in this respect. K. YAMADA. Palm Trees on Long Island. To the Dittor of The Eventing World: I read an article same time exo written by a ectentist who claimed "The onild is now born who will see palm trees growing on the southern shore of Long Island." At the time I laughed at the fdea, But I begin to believe {t A few more such wWinterless winters 1s we have thus far had will readily window Phe guccds they hear the crowbar thumping.” ww wv t are fur caps! it was in New York We ime due In northern countries have semi-troplc alimate hem befo Ife Canada people go literally swathed| some of us die, PROPHET. WY Thumbnail Sketches. * | UBJECT—Willam Jennings Bryan. | S Favorite sport-Promoting echoes | Favorite taak—Responding to encores. sPavorite book—"Try, Try, Agatn.’* Favorite aushor—Coln Harvey. Favorite artist—Aguinakio, Favorite frult—Wildgoose plum. | Favorite plant—Prairie windflower. Favorite vehicle—The airship Favorite musical {nstrument—The basoo. Favorite character in history—The Mad Mullah. , “Shoot him up quick if will be full ourious when | hia toes lirt at akin gam “I reckon they watch, and the rowbars going to be heard. So 1 4 run to see you Here comes ky Joe," ust him?" ight of bim makes my fur | craw trier to satere, Captain,” says Cranky, offer- ing the cocktatl; but the outlaw bored him through with a cool eye. pass that gate,” “That's w the matter, I gent some Hr 88 greaser to “My name,” says he, ‘is the Rever- them es and music— end Perkins, and don't you forget, | cially m Now you'll send Mutiny here, and “Will the Frontier Guards miss the you'll stand on guard yourself, If I | ig blood money for the wake of @ to| get captured @ friend of mine is to BELMonr ik) Beimont Has Grabbed Up Ali New York Transit Lines, but He Doesn’t Own the Upper Air Yet. Answers to Questions dream) in Antes, . if ine alialike fe cnoe tf waa in oe” wens Deo, #1 Is Shortest Day. will be as) land. 8, a yor Tead| To the Eiitor of The Eventme World A says the Mth of December Is the shortest day of the year, and B mays |! fe not. Which is right? MA The Blacksmith Problem. To te Bittor of The Brening World: In answer to J. D. G's problem of the Blacksmith and the mason:—l, 3 9 and 27 pounds are the only possible 4 feoes. the stone of 40 pout eal have been broken into @o as to welg!: every pound froin 1 to @ pounds, DMILE STEPHENS, England, Henry Hodgson. ‘To the Editor of The Eyening World: 1 had an argument about Henririck Hudson, the Dutch explorer, tell me what was his real nations and his rea! name? I alwa stood he was a Dutchman, sage not. What wr and original name? tty under- a friend ea i Wy dh {tm} Oe wes ar nt name and address sneak off. “I turned him out of my gang," sald the robber, "for being dis- vonest."* Mutiny st “Old friend, do to help? “Watoh Joe, and shoot him up quick if he tries to pass that gate." 80 Muuny pulled his gun. all the boys?” he asked. | "You're honing to come back to being Med in and shook hands. says he, “what can we “How's | “Cayn't,"" Mutiny @rwaned, "I've sure repented and turned smuggler now, Be- | widgs, I'm due to get married, so I'm dead tame and gentle, boss. What brought vou South?” “You may inquire, ah," “Ain't vou trusting me?” “Well, Mutiny, since you want to | know, [ came down to hold up a train.” \ “Big plunder?” Mome Magazin esday Evening, Deeember 26, 1905. HIS {s not a mythteal centaur, but Bngland's newest amusem ty ent od A GROUP OF ODDITIES IN PICTURE AND STORY I inerry-go- rounds, ». But Engla Now her new 1 further, animals have the the heads of fa while his adtnirers are pro ride behind him. When the fad strikes America the list of well-known me depicted will be amusing to study Fram Roosevelt to Hyde, the characters may rum into ihe thousands. A J, Beaman, an eccentric bond buyer of Omaha, who Lives en 9 cents a day, Is receiving hundreds of letters from women who wish to merry him. @eaman's story was printed In the Sunday papers. To those inelosing a stamp | Beaman is answering on a postal card, making 1 cent on each application. ‘The famous diamond, "Star of South Africa,” belonged originally to « witcn doctor, A farmer named Niouwkerk traded a wagon end sever! oxen for ® and sold it for $65,000, An Engtishmen named John Barclay committed suicide under extracniinary ctroumstances recently. Six years ago he stole $80,000 from a London Bank, fed to Paria, gave the money to a trusted friend. and returning, gave himself up to the police and spent five years im penal servitude, On his release he hastened to Paria, only to find that his friend had decamped with the money, In the Rue Ge la Chappelle he blew out bis bralis wilh a ‘ A letter in his pocket gave the story just related as the reason for t+ 1 ‘The bicycle mn tse A Seattle Judge today was evolve! : ited thirteen dl- fn a very few year: es fn seventy- | from the mode minutes. The shown tn the accom et day, mM one | panytng {lhustration man was | This was the fire’ anted a divorce | aagety Moyele. Ne ause his wife had thee tte queer fray ned the ‘Shak- | and the tremendou * and in another thickness of = |t cause his wife | | Will you | | | worked on the hin. chain The bral vd cirowated « re- rt that he was aa archist, Prom waste paper lamps shone pearl) one one raliroad @ yard in from of last year reallmed the handle bar, $5,000. Mearty $300,000 worth of Missourt cornoob ptpes wore smoked tngt your, At aD average price of ten pipes for a dollar, but little tha ¥.0) pipes bave shed their eweetness on the alr. Bight o nine lengths of steel pipe three feet | the ocean somewhere off the Northern Callfornia coast were down the Trinity River to Junction City, end, getting away from the other pipes, drifted out to sea Being plugged at both enda, they casnot sink, but will float till they drift ashore or are picked up. Misaourt A @tone weighing a ton and ® half was split open by blasting at Blackburn, Beotland, and a living worm waa found embedded in it, being located eleven inches from the outsi!o at the nearest potnt. Here {8 a shrine that for more half a century escaped the notice ovuste-tovers, and whtoh ls even now not generally famfiiar to devotees whp make a prectice of undertaking pfl- grimages to euch spota It t the tomb of Morart, in St Mark's resting-place was unmarked. At last admirers erected the monument shown in this picture, It {s a shaft of marte above which the muse of Musto {s de- ptoted as mourning for the composer's death. In the muse’s hend is carved a shut copy of Mogart’s “Requiem.” The skull alone of Mosagt reste in this grave, The rest of the body was long ago dug up and the remains scattered. The eon of the gravedigger saved the skull from @estruction, In the course of an Interview with @ representative of the Paris Matin, M. Dulllot, the engineer of M Lebandy‘s balloon, declared that a balloan could soarcely be injured by rife fire. Two rough the ailk would dtintnish the dalloonts powers of ascension, while its exceeding ly mobile properties would render the | possitudity of disablement by shell fire exceedingly problemattcal. WONDERFULLY SPIRITED AND INTERESTING. A LIVING ROMANCE OF WILD NATIVES AND WIDE DISTANCES ee A Tale of the Arizona Desert <<» ¢ By Roger Pocock 1 “Texpatot. It was a carload of birds’! the hull United States, IM rather have | | to the penitentiary, where you're want: | ono't—tried | ed most—so here's to your frecdom,” | He drank, and we watched the man | teeth, cat feathers and frawgs’ tails; but there's too many fnquiry agents | around, so I missed the tratn Mutiny had to langh, but then he| siched, my git! @ lick at Ml’ ole Mexico.” I told him that 1 had a town ful ef cowboys hard to hold, “That kind won't keep.” exys Muttngs “Tt anything. goes wrong with | “what's yo' plant’ saye he, “I'll come seratch on “I aimed," says I, “to steal young ’ | Ryan, and throw htm into La Mortta by “Wall'—the outlaw looked mighty way of consolation for them poor rows—"It she happens to get drowned Frontier Guarda when they mise thele in the desert—perhaps we'll see you plunder,’ come. Now let's to business. Them) «Now don’ ad kids at La Morita has to be collected. | Gane, Meculonets hae pap pes I reokon.” Uttle smadl 1 “Why come to we-all?” eays Muting--/cctle small lambs on him, Now, Mistes Davies," “ain't the gang handy at rescues?” eae “My wolves would jump at the craps to the name of Chatkere | A chance; I ghoked them off," “For how?" “Because’—the Captain turned his ‘haunted eyes on me-''l don't want then po’ younge‘ers mixed In with thieves.” "You wanted me mixed again,” sald Mutiny through his teeth | "Sonny''—the outlaw laid his hand on Mutiny’s shoulder—"'you been a bad alg same as me, and we'd be hard to spoil. | ready.” Rut these algs at La Moria is new-laid, | “Mutiny,” says he; “you witness that fresh aigs, 80 I wan’ them to keep.” | Capt, MeCalmont, thief, and general “You're right, boss,” |mansger of the Robbers’ Roost gang | “Wall, Chalkeyo, this ts the second time We meet,’ he bored into me with his eyes, “T understand that Balsham non's will makes you some some of susrdian of his colt,” “I reckon he needs a friend.” “Will pou be @ friend to my song” “Not more than IT have been ah “Mutiny, I sent you away for yor /®f Outlaws, appoints this Chaikeye good, ‘cause that girl may pull you| Davies suardian of Curly.” up if anything can on airth, As for| |! witness.’* me, wall, T don't know aa I care wiiat| "Moreover, T atm to corrapt thts ‘decrnes lot me. 1 tried to turn good Pd keye by handing hm — stolen mortal hard to run | money.” He passed me a heavy rll vtraight. I envy every honest man 1/0 notes, worth $80,000, which fe seo, I'm like @ crawling enakey amly. | 4% pounds by English reckoning. Hous for bird wings to fly with; but stil! |My friend," he sald, “take these two I'm no more than snake." | kids away out of this country—break “Phe kids have a chance al} right,”| them dead gentle, keep them clean, says Mutiny, make them forget." He gave me a “Phey have. A year ago I couldn't] letter, ‘Read this when you're alane,”’ have drove my Curly away from the! oy trust me?” I asked, gang, but now he's paired with that Du ‘ trust yo'self?"" Chesnay youngster. Them colts won't| “Mutiny,” says I, “you'll belp?" care for the hord if they can run to-| “Poor Mutiny,” said the robber, wether, so I've got Curly weaned from| might help himself.” following me to—to damnation.” “On the dead thieving," says Mutiny, “Mutiny,” says I, ‘will you help mej ‘that's so!’ Then he grinned at me, to gather in these boys?” “Look a-hore, Chalkeye, this. meana. “Y ghorely will," says Mutiny; “but] that yo! pull out and hit the long trail. hadn't we ought to walt until they're] Now, I want a home for my girl, How, moved up this way for trial?’ much will yo’ take for yo’ randht’ “Wall,"' says the outlaw, “if [ kin get} 1111 see you later, Mutiny, and tall; to fight with a small man, I don’t yearn) ang now shake hands, MeCalmont, To» for anything larger, Whirl In on La! night I'll be on hand like @ sore thumb, Morita, and you're fighting Mexico.|at La Morita.” ‘Wait for @ move, and you're up against (To Be Continued.) 7