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The Evening World’s Mome Magazine, Tuesday Evening, January 2, 1906, ; “What’s the Use?” By J. Campbell Cory. @udliehed by the Press Publishing Company, No, 58 to 63 Park Row, New Zork. | [| AT) WTI TT) I PT ~ Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York a= Second-Class Mall Matter. VOLUME AG.......0s000+5 The Year of the afoot. cea | DEC ° 3 ( st (905 to do-so, not the will, is lacking. or is to do so in April-atthe annual meeting, he must go. Tweed asked of the people of do about it?” He found out. McKane said that “injunctions don’t go” in| Gravesend. They did “‘go,” and so did he. Croker boasted that he worked | “for his own pocket all the time.” He took his pocket abroad ané stopped | working for it in just that way. To come nearer McCall’s own case, Alexander, Hyde and McCardy were afl active insurance men in office on Jan. 2, 1905. ‘Bhey had to) go. None of them was anxious to do so. | The new year will be the Year of the Broom. Who will venture to predict its power wielded by public opinion? Mr. Yerkes’s art collections go to great gift to that institution and Mr. Freer’s to Washington, D. C., are very recent. Collectors collect, but the people in the end get their treasures. Yet our Govern- ment puts a tariff upon examples of art! Albany and State Labor Commissioner P. Tecumseh Sherman points out that five years ago his.department had fifty inspectors. The number was “de- Hiberately reduced, while their work has since been multiplied.” At whose fastance? It-would be well to increase the number to more than fifty. Mt would be well to amend the Jaw, as Mr. Sherman suggests, applying to night work and to the hours of children. This is a most important department. It should have legislation to further its work and men and women to do that work. ‘A Brooklyn man has been arrested for stealing his wife's letters, which fs all very well. But what is wanted is something that will cure a man of forgetting to mail his wife’s letters. A Moral School for Pittsburg. John A. McCall, President of the i| 1 | le 59 PM ‘ New York Life Insurance Company,| || | some time ago gave two pledges. One was that he would repay $235,000 of “yellow dog” money by Dec. 31 if Andy Hamilton did not. The other was that he would hold his place. It was when he made the second pledge that he set his firm jaw as if he meant to fight. It is now said that Mr. McCall has repaid the $235,000. But is not holding his place. The power Whether he has already ial NLY SWEAR 7o able New York, “What are you. going to the Metropolitan Museum, Mr. Hearn’s | Child Labor. In refusing a request of the Pittsburg College for Women for an endowment fund Mr. Carnegie writes: “I think I have already done Letters from the People w w Answers to Questions enough for Pittsburg from an educational standpoint.” | In a sense this is true. For what in the plain old days were tha) 7 the Battor of tm essentials of education in Pittsburg, for academies, trade schools and “lepnant's oreath," B says tere 8 The Man Rehind the Dow. they Just’ do 1 Decation thelr wives teil] ™ Sie Fattor of the Bentng Wort: ry Ky rf i " | . | To the Editor of Th pening World: them to? It ts; itiable spectacle and. rea in Thackeray's “Pendennis of libraries, Mr. Carnegie has provided bounty, “But lau ee To Prevent Truancy: Every night ae take my ovening|#0 fer ae I know, confined largely to|\ woman who la ‘linfaahionatiy tall,” city’s need of spiritual education. at has he done to found schools -, oe z: 2 A 1 traini eae there seems to be a vital need of this form of Te ee Din The Dvening World that a 5 says of his love, “She {3 as high as my Comes ng truant officer in Kansas City hes de- Thumbnail Sketches. | heart.” Du Maurier drew only instruction? A schgol of this character would fill a long-felt want in the life of |caugnt. 1 think that ff this plan were URIECT— barefoot boys who become steel kings. It would add a desired finish'ito | Pe aes neve severely ertigped) tesch= the education of youthful scions of great wealth who woo violet brides. ers would have less trouble rit an It would modify the wish of the newly rich to discard the wives and hus-| ™™¥ Pupils. I would like the opt Its establishment would fittingly round out the steel master’s generous benefactions to the Smoky City. bands of their youth. ‘The dancing master who has sold for $450,000 the farm he bought for $40,000] ¢.° the public atreets or care? I knew how to keep step with the city’s progress. sated @opyricht, 1905, by Little, Brown & Co.) rE Balhae Hos Gras, Ran » ’ ne in Ani \ivinut” there with his wife and an Jira. the, Tare iTeude. of Calmont., teaser orlou ste end” $5 ‘sapere faeCal: "5 son, Curly, “‘Chalkeye’’ Davies (who the s ox-foreman, Ryan haw a iifelone feud nies ; oe vegan of opt ite rd and hires re shannon. ne into ambling way ail his fortune. | non's wife him nto, iF) wien the ‘ R: eater Geer as yr confesaga to. her Swilvw-toettive, im, by A. who’ baa bees brecebe ub Beam, hee Sha jem while they ere i y Ct a ett EE BR ran eames, i Iroont - Ineruste . "The latter tales the kist to ewe ad | lv to maid relative of his, CHARTER XXIII. Robbery Under Arms. N those deys of our little unpleasant- ness in Arizona there was anotler Aiscussion proceeding along tn South Africa. The Boers had their tail up and the British army waa indulging itself tn “regrettable incidents about once a week. Which I allude to here because the term “regrettable incifemt” $s good; it's soothing, and it fMluatrates exactly what happened on the night when I de- livered Curly, damaged but cheerful, Amon¢ my cousins, the Misses Jameson. Just to the east of the home inhatéted Dy these Indies ocours the Jim Crow Mine, the same being the very place ‘ ‘ where the robbers once had bronikdfast was eny talk, but then the preacher - y i with ‘old man Ryan, making him poy|ryerea ap to aduress the meng, (niente sere Soe See : th | hi the Dili, as aforesaid, which was $75.00, | | ‘and annoying. On this further occasion which I now unfold there were only four men work-| ing the'Jim Crow clalm. It seems they | Were in the bunk house playing poker When thelr foreman up- rose with regrets to surrender his hat, boots and pants to an avaricious person Holding three aces and @ lr of jacks.| nis partmers of their lawful dug.’ gd stock were gatpered and run off! who went along casual, feeding them Spot remembered all of @ sudden bod clerk, Dies 1 is yeast until i P. (She foreman's warm Yen. ; Women ag I do in this city. It seems "Sc along the upper west side I sre a ] one they were all suffering from| scattered procession of men in tow vi Ge of pray catled |“O2¢ Physical or mental aflment : t pet dogs. Is {t a solemn rite they per RANGER. | form in leading these pests about or do A says there is cided to whip the truants that are) Jes Warren Fairbanks. yort~ (D:emintag of 1908, Favorite ‘Tas<—Fence building. Favorite Book—'The Winning of the West.” Favorite Author—Eis own biographer. | @avorite Artist—The White House architect. Davorite Frult—The stewed prune, We rang r Favorite Véhicle—The ice wagon. Tove ket Favorite Musical Instrument—The mouth-organ. Favorit adopted In New York schools and all of other teachers. A TEACHER, Seur Faces in Public. ‘To the Editor of The Bening World: Why do the women in this city have much sour faces on them when they are in my life saw s0 many cross-look!n; ey the subject of cheating were then cut off suort by a masked robber standing in the doorway with guns. This robber proposed thet all gentlemen should throw up their hands, and al- lowed they had @ fervent invitation to dle unless they stepped out pretty soon lo the tad of the Jim Crow ahaft. Ac- cordingly the sad procession trailed away to the shaft, and one by one the mourners went down in a bucket to a total depth of 104 feet. ‘Then the robber teuled up the bucket to keep them frou straying out, and promised faithful that if be heard any noige ie wend, just<drop dn a few sticks of dyammite. Ther was not much noise. Meanwhile other excrast qoung rob- ders were every citizen wlio passed the mine and inviting him to Join their sumprise party down at the foot of the shaft. Tue citizens all accepted, and when some candles, a deck of cards and s | a few bottles of nose paint were sent to , - ~y i) uesist the levee underground began to 4 4 ? | Yi y y eet quite a success. ; ) PY XN iN Mixed up wita these proceedings and hold-ups various and switt wes the “se cook with a Tobber bolting bis tull while he fixed supper for twenty- | five men, Afterward the Ukewise was handed down the shaft. 1 should ulso ment! reacher in a black suit ad & white tle up under his ear, prospecting around among tue store sted for cases ot dynamite. | At 1280 8 bunch of cowboys number | fag eighteen head, with a cavvyard of | pentes, traiied In off the range. After each man had roped and saided a fresh horse, and fed corm to the same, thelr reverend pastor pat out a relief | of sentries, and told the crowd to line | up tn the rampasture for supper. | Naturally these people had to get the | Provisions off thelr minis before there | ee i} Phy “Brethren,” saya he. ‘The objec] Alocg toward 1 in the morning the of this virtuous night Is to steal a/|stableman at Ryan's LUvery met with miltionaine which goes by the name|an accident, being clubbed. Then a of Micbmel Ryan, ond holea up in a|covple of men walked round the stalls, palace ayar on the railroad sidings, If|osed all the horses, and drove the| In Main strect, hitched to the snub- you get him in reasonable preservation | Wide outfit away through the back! bing posts, stood a score of saddled we realize lots of wealth for his nan-|@ate. The same pnoceedings occurred ; horses, awaiting patient to take thelr} roud station, where the sneln game was som; but any blamed fool who spoils |@t the Spur livery, amd in all the large |druniards home. These poor creatures selng played, ‘al correct!” medicine. lications0n And so, having tamed his @grolves, ‘© the northward. him with loose ammunition is robbing | stables, untll two bamdred, head of | were cared for tender by a young man] Ay 1 A, M. the night operator in the: at each @ bunch of ary herbs, the aamel the indy Brunbla, soci pate ea Chae AR, Wass She aa UR aed Aad log - Ideal Height. being five feet four inches women. I'd like readers to tell me what their idea of tho Ideal height for a woman is, Is the tall or the short girl the more popular? and why? | AMATEUR SCULPTOR. After New Year's. To the Editor of The Evening World: vorite Plant—Presidential timber. uh pind eeluiiane: t Step forth in your manhood Favorite Character in History—The Gentleman from Ne aee Wen your Darts lA Group of Oddities in Picture and Story, HE oddest and perhaps “woter” tn existence 1a © Rou American llama that hes been, tamed and then broken to harness. Th| llama 4s one of the fastest of quad and the speed acquired hy epectmen 4s phenomenal, the experiment prove & thorough ex cess, aulky races may in a few y be axranged between lamas and be trotted in something like 135, It was fortunate for Mamie Gaulson, of Fort Dodge, Is, that she chicken for dinner on Dec, 21, for in the giszand of the fowl-¢he-found a i lace she had lost twp years before. These two children look more like the traditional Babes tn the Wood than such up-to-date person- | ages as nowspaper | owners. Yet they | are the future pro- | prietors of one of | London's greatest | newspapers, the Morning Post, They are, moreover, mem. bers of the peerage. | The boy {s young | Lora Apsley, and nis sister is Lady Mu- | To commemorate the year's yellow fever epidemic a New Orleans couptd | named thetr baby Stegomya Faclata Wilson, ft. “Damsite” ts to be the name of one of Texas's new post-offices, There ard irrigation works there, At | wedding, in Poplar, England, the bride's name was Wedlock and tml A simple, yet unusual, method for determining the correctness of each person's proportions has been devised by a phyeical culture instructor. The hetght of every perfectly symmetrical man or | woman should be exactly the same as | the distance from finger-tip to fingertip of the outstretched anms. The span of | arms is usually a trifle greater than | the length of the body; but in the {deal | figure the measurements should be | Identical, | bridegroom's Marriage. ‘Three brothers were weddei to three sisters, and a sister of the brothers to | brother of the sisters, at Durren, England, jast September. In each of the four cases bride and bridegroom were of the same age, ranging from nineteen to twenty-eight, ° A vailing in that South Afriean city: fortified houses.”" di Martino, a Sicilian of good fm: pyramid of stones. Indiana. But straight from your knew tow to Keep stp with the cis Proms Y x WONDERFULLY SPIRITED AND INTERESTING. A LIVING ROMANCE OF WILD NATIVES AND WIDE DISTANCES 1 ( | R Y ose A Tale of the Arizona Desert <=» 2 By Roger Pocock, and pitched the parcel into the ca- boose es the cars went roll! ea “Mias Brumble’s. socks!" says ‘ saya the conductor; Mr. Ryan Had a Gag In His Mouth and a fope Around His Elbows, | amd the train went rumbling off into the desert. ‘Then the night operator— being loco weed, and a heaps powerful! which bis name was Bowles—turni Now we turn to the rail-| round to point back for his office, and suddenty trod on a preasher. — “Pardon me,” aya the ‘reverend Sienna ranger. the exploration of Central Thibet, tov Seuse me,” seh, may T venture AN dala the potter, With yout’ r lost brother, I am wishful ito be infawmed if Misteh Michael I'm busy.” my ‘deah young friend, e cowboys are using such fewhful language, because Misten Ryan geiuaes to eee them, belt gawn to The operator turned on his heel, and turned off growling. “You see,” the preacher walled efter Mitte oneralsc began to nibble the bait. 0 ‘0 nibble beri He nd @udder ‘A brown African goose in North Attleboro, Maes., amazed fte-owner by p ducing an egg measuring 117-8 inches in circumferente, while a hen. at Ci ton, England, was so extravagant as to énolude three yolks in one ahell, ‘ “Old Tabby,” chief of « tribe of Utah Indians, died tn October of a catatepig | | 24 e— In Out—of—the-Way Places. : JOHANNESBURG correspondent writes as follows of the Chinese scare pree “The white workers in the mines carry? revolvers; the police are armed with ball cartridge and bayonet; campe@ yonder at Auckland Park 1s a mobile column of mounted men, ready to move against an enemy at a moment's notice; the country folk on the other side of the swelling rise are armed to the teeth and live at night in barricaded ‘That Sicilian brigands are still Nying up to thetr melodramatic traditions t# proved by the following bit of news from that tsland: About a month ago Signor ily, Was captured by brtgands while cycling near Palermo, His parenta, instead of paying the ransom demanded, hire@ soldiers to search for him. His dead body has now been found buried under @ _ OHH Scientific Plan of Explorer, R. SVEN HEDIN !s on the way to Persia, where he proposes to explo thoronghly from @ sctontific point of view the salt deserts of Dasht-l-Ka\ and Dasht-!-Lit, in the eastern part of the country. He hopes afte to proceed through Afghantstan to India, and there organize an expedition fom Baptist, and I couk not heeh the ete rude. men withos ot riel Bathurst. They are the grandohély Gren of Lord Glen« ' Mrs. Lawson, of Richmond, Va., owns a cow, and the cow owned a caif, Du® this last was drowned in a swamp. Thereupon the bereaved mother adopted af fawn, first rescuing It from a hound which had chased it Into the pasture, ! et) volee died away, pi ou putting out to follow, “when all hi inder the, animal'a belly. ot| tion a robber was Parla tunes tort at axe on the keys of the telegraph, tunla, Yelciwe of the phodking. p ‘nisguided men, breakin lows, too Let me. admonishe to eschew the company Ryan's car, dollar that the facts were true. tl eaw thoec sure-en cowboye fil. ‘Rorsen eady: iat front of the pre and the preacher was plumb hooking plenty Jim be: full of Utseouraged. "Bonvies imew that Ryan | Were, full of s most bountoous for | rma had a blanker they wero spat on, ail of them ‘ho geance. For a whole week the! had offered apa? hvesolt up the ‘waa He sitting | Tob) Grave City sudden, faiked: | the middle ot sloen’ tine, a ti town amd that wes | nets! nest for war. eo wires were being | sing lopped with lot of silence was robber point _of ; Welders went thundering somae tate tht 0! lers went hundering . As it happened, th iy eee a , the ort: Broach, Some of vhe » Others Welle oa Thee form on the end the oer tterings on \he door was | {0% tebe and the range ful) of enthusiasm. Oh Fath, ye how expensive is pain‘ ‘The cowboys were backing th p . “You go way," says he; Ryan ‘he plumb distrackful, Go ‘Let me in, foot!” Bowles wrenched tho. door wide Jumped Into th there and man busiling out on bare a ‘Sout and 7 ‘the preacher, Ly yore mpoliing he palot’ “Puke thoagnt: | town, t jynch the cowboy oir horses away beyond range of the car| trom’ private subi up, enough |, “urgent |) men, ‘By inks ches, ‘but’ th open an inch | wit! which here was some m about rohibers! This was if ones of vertlict wes 1 ) Teador, Qin. | wn ae ai nt posse OF Les afoot,