The evening world. Newspaper, January 6, 1906, Page 8

ge OLUME 46... Euphrates valley. id culture, land thieves in the West. \ ind a defiance of the public interest. d straw by the Gas Commission plishes nothing for present relief. vived. . ‘Wovyriaht. 1905. by lt little, Brown & Co.) | along it maybe fifty miles, Mke crawling @xNOPSIS OF PRECEDING Jshiannon buys Holy Crvas ian Bu cl Ansong, living there with bis wife and by a gap in the desert, a sort of crack le eon dim. 2 “Heetat: eyDavies (who Baishanton's ‘ex*foe ‘by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to (3 Park Row, New York, » “Watered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Ciass Mall Matter. The Land of the People. ‘will alternate with drought, the valleys will be washed away or covered > with rubbish, and water power will fail with the fertility of the soil. ¥ This is not guesswork. Such things have happened again and again nd the impassive desert has blotted out the garden lands. Some of these nds are being reclaimed. . German savants are to restore the fertility of Rain is more frequent in Cairo since the British Agineers in Egypt increased the area of irrigated soil. ill follow irrigation in our Western States, as it has already followed in- The “lumber kings” who bribe wardens and steal timber hack with ‘Yheir axes at the prosperity of the city and the State. They should be | punished as feientlessly as the Federal Government is Push the 80-Cent Gas Billl Mr. Page's bill for 80-cent gas:should have the immediate favorable attention of the Senate at Albany. The defeat of the bill reported last by the Stevens Gas Committee was a defeat of public expectation _ The people want the measure made a law; the Governor favors it. t Should be passed. Only by legislative act can instantaneous relief be tiven and the delays of legal obstruction avoided. The threshing over of Factories and Crowded Manhattan. The project of an industrial city on the Hackensack meadows is re- y Though the idea is still remote of realization, the extensive use of ‘the eastern and western margins of the meadows for factory sites within a decade makes the project something more than a dream. en eect cece e 8 sow oe tall chieaneys between Jersey City d Newark? There is abundant waste land on Jamaica Bay which may tally be put to factory uses, to the financial benefit of the city, as , Grout suggests. The appearance of large manufacturing plants on en Island, which nature designed for a residence borough, is not fa- How far will the establishment of industria? cities in adjacent locali- es where land is cheap and access easy as the result of the extension of rapid transit tend to draw factories from crowded Manhattan? ‘Present conditions of city growth and congestion factories and power plants in residence sections are an anomaly. The manifest destiny of the borough is to become a place of homes and hotels, stores and offices, -effurches and theatres. It has mow no more room for factory structures, lectric-light plants, gasometers; and the eventual removal ior many of these to other locations is not improbable. «NO. 16,209. The suit to be brought against S. D. Coykendall, of Rondout, a railway president, for chopping 231 trees on State land in the Catskills may seem a “long way’ from the Bowery.” But the city is as much interested in the preservation of for- est land as the country. “New York is New York because of the Hudson. The Hudson is what it is because of its mountain sources. Clear the mountains of trees—they are too nearly cleared now—and climate will suffer, floods The same result following up the in its present investigation accom- C-x,,, Southern Cities. ‘Te the Bittor of The Evening World: I read « letter inquiring about South- ern cities of about 10,000 inhabitants ‘where there !s a healthy climate and prosperity and chance for a Northerner to mettle. I would suggest the citles of Nashville, Tenn.; Atlanta, Ga.; Mobile, Ala., or Birmingham, Ala. I think the inquirer would stand more show if he would ein some smaller piace, where advantages, resources an possibilities are greal ALEXANDER HELPER. A Word of Thanks. ‘To the Editor of The Evening Worle- Honor and esteem Under the ° n ty Coes files in the sand. Beyond the clty we curved around Letters from the People d| troduced Dec. Wow Magezine. ‘He Is from Missouri.” By J. Campbeli Cory. é- World for its noble and needed endeav- ors for the east side subway. JOSEPH WOLFSON, No. 22 St. Mark's place. The Monitor Bill To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘A bill was introduced in Congress tn 1881 for the relief of the crew of the U. 8, ship Monitor, that defeated the Mer- rimac March 9, 18@, The bill was tn- was favormbly re- ported on April 5. 188 It passed the Senate May and was on the Speaker's table in the House of Repre- |sentatives, The House bill was favor- NOW GEN7LENE: YOU HAVE GOT TO SHOW NE half a mile deep, with ea river slong ‘the bottom. It swung about like a snake, getting deeper and deeper; but! lifelong Bett j Sate | we keot to the level desert. until we ‘Chalke: ae and Jim to escape. ‘Tnauent is held. and ‘Michnel Ryan rns with we. ‘Jim © Ryan, Shik ve $90,000 to hold Curly. telling Mite take Curly ‘ArizO Ue ‘confesses to pee fellow-fuctt who ie irl, who has been bi rough’ ub them while they are Eee oe ‘They retreat, tn to lynch 8 escupen froes_ to. rwtvere, Durly, 27 hiding, A sd at the” ond bye him, ve the hoi (etd Th oe bd nd ey KO. to the moune Chalkeye’s men are a, where ee, dinectine, er, io" reas. Tide to warn the robber. CHAPTER XXVII. The Stronghold. HAT with ya in packing’ and driving I to track Curly for maybe thirty miles before I her up at Clay Flat by the edge the forest. Her horse was dead, and eat beside him, her stone-white face ‘cold, staring straight ahead, Below Of people, dreased up in their} ¢,. brown skine, with great plenty ‘wisp of breech clout, riding with | and arrows ¢o hunt rabbits. They @ few arrows after us; but ee rete 5, =e" OD: we aut We came to the Clty of Rocks, reached a little side canyon, where there was feed and water. We resaddled, there, taking Curly's buckskin and my | pet horse Sam. The rest of our bunch We turned down into that pasture and left them, riding on along the rim rock. Just after sundown we came abrupt to what looked like the end of the world, a gulf so deep that we couldn't wee to the bottom. j ‘There was no rest for us, but seven miles of such a break-neck trail as I'd never imagined possible, for it overhung black death from start to finish, loop- ing round the face of outrageous clifts which seemed to have no bottom. Mid-} night wes past before we got to camp beside the river, flung off the harness, turned the horses loose, and dropped | In our tracks to sleep. A gunshot roused me, and. starting broad awake, I heard the echoes crash- ing from wall to wall. “It's only me,” sald Curly, “signal- ling."" A gunshot answered from the fur- ther bank, then Curly gave the cougar war-howl, The yelp of a wolf came back. “Both bunts,” sald Curly, “are on this side of the river—something gawn| wrong. Cook breakfast while I cross,”’ She took a little crazy boat and towed it upstream, scrambling over bould ie barter-mile or so. irom. there sie | Davleay thes. beak warnas ee great gr Sluice, fevohing the other bush ee | mile rift downsiroun. ‘There was | ‘Tail; then, quitting the bottom, turned trong backwater along that further | #arp back up a ledge, threading the and she pulled euwy, drifting past | ce Of the clitts. the camp up to a rocky Weadland ‘ne | ‘Then we swung into a little arroyo man who had answered the signals was | W:th trickling woeter, shady trees, and a waiting there to throw his saddle fate lee i the boat, and follow, leading two horses 80 they’ could swim behind. By the 1 crossed again I had our two Bat I noticed horse tracks scatter- |thg everywhere, but no trail whatever and then even the horse-tracks } there was not ¥, we ba} come, . tirst mile We headed toward sun would set, now we swu @ long curve until we pointed camp, and breakfast waitin says Curly, “this Pir ce 8A that ten of our boys ‘were sent to walt for the ransom, were camped at Clay Flat, you remembs “T'ain't much forgettul,’* this meant that all serted! says I, the cowards had d We had seen no men at Clay Flat, “The chief,” says Carty his ear, and sends this out whate wrong at Clay When this Pie-face took both for 1 Wway to the left 1 saw a big! with a dust of horses inside, and | n sitting round on the top Tail, may- a dozen of them, Beyond it’ la: streak of water, and ret: In front set In the standing} see a} 48 right on Pie-: a-face to find Fiat. erson had hit the ats Beross the 1o¥ | i, ee | aha ‘against whe gubl chimney. "Pwo or the doorway smoki stood a dry stone ce men stood In and but for the ht have been out shooting rabbits for all the fuss that these me mace about her coming. We addled and th set our horses In asked me in, and through the mess- log walls were hung ns lay on the foor be d, ana with antler ‘ore the own the Ww. on either f long table with ite olveloth tinware set out for supper, off fis. ‘That cow home-like and of mess to Kk 2 tha room house— 1 Mo cubby hole beyond it for Curly, We found her sit- ting on the bunk, gun and spurs un- use! buckled, and holting her legs out for the oid’ man to pull off her shoes, I Prats) et Ly sa asd ageecadnanne: ea, on Naval Affairs Jan. 31, 1882, and was on the private calendar. Can any reader tell me what was the reason nothing Was ever heard from it? The fey wus $200,000. Prize mone: given in ergs auras. barotnera Ft that fi fonane is ange such a merl- torious battle should unrewarded. ‘Sirs, FEENEY. Pensions for Judges. To the FAitor of The Evening World: Don't you think the Legislature should advocate the passage of a law whtch would abolish the pension which the Supreme Court Judges get in this city? I see one of them who has been on the bench forty years at the beggarly to The Evening ably reported by the House Committee salary of $11,500 has just been pensioned Saturday Evening, 2 Answers to Questions for the rest of his Ife at $10,600 per. I think this might open the people's eyes who are 80 willing to chip in and pension thelr underpaid and over worked Judges. W. F. MEYER. A Soldier's Widow. To the Editor of The Evening World. Can any one explain to me why some soldiers’ widows get $12 a month and others only $3? I have heard much of ja n uary 6 GROUP OF ODDITIES IN PICTURE AND STORY. HIS ts @ snapshot of one of the oddest boatmen and boats in all BDurope, The boat ts of canvas. The paddler is A. M. Nordin. The pic: ture was taken at Crell as Nordin wa: on this way from Copenhagen to Paris. He made the entire journey in his little canvas boat, travelling by rivers and canals and sleeping on board. He 4s @ vegetarian, apples being his prin- olpal diet. The boat is water-tight and decked. It was designed and bullt by Nordin. An association in Manchester, ‘Eng- land, known as the Minnehaha Ama- formances for cbarity. On the roof of Colchester Castle stows @ large oak tree. It fe a hun- dred feet above the ground and juts out from one of the bat- tlements, where the acorn was long ago accidentally bodged in a niohe of the stones. The ilustra- tion fy from the London Sketch, A bench of seven Magistrates at Wa!- sal, England, an- nounced that they wore “equally divid- a” In opinion of a case and that no de- cision would be given, The German Goy- ernment has offered three prizes for the best field kitchen available for army use, and ft is stipu- lated that every Japanese women gild their teeth. sibar. ‘Museum in London, the other ts in the “Yet tusks of over 100 pounds A Thought an increase and I think all should get the same. I read in The Evening World not long ago that a Mra. Loeffler, lost a_son in the Phili ippines, is seetting: $12. Do you think that is right’ Suck an arrangement would have the bless- ing of all the we roldiers’ yao. LDIER'S WIDOW. “What new treachery Io this?" he asked. Es felt right to home the Curly eee what my Jim?’ wnat, you ain't met hin 3 Mi Calmont.” “He's ghno_to Tooke for you. under the tan, « low long?” she asked. “Ob, quite. time. Why, ohitd, wha Per my bo} hide ohatr, “Dade scart you rhaps he's with ee Painted Desert.’ Se ght, bad shay oT |e ind ‘on 4 a4 maa, Ena dis, Sat on the edge of the bunk, his ‘on hers, as she lay loosing out bit the story of the ransom ederal Government oa the war patie wali he. ald ae with a as ‘these om aE fied." “hen "he hoa ‘an uy And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies power; for | grow weary to behold strong still tyrannize Such The selfish and the é Without reproach or WONDERFULLY SPIRITED AND INTERESTING. A LIVING ROMANCE OF WILD NATIVES AND WIDE DISTANCES A Tale of the Arizona Desert e~ 2 Be! aha oalh Pocock on ‘ite feet and turned ing as guilty as a uekpuaras are Poaed en ae ett Mr. Ryan," says 1. imseit, for war, “State your busi nee and get right out of here. I'm ene likewise” i eects aa came ‘0 me—“wharas this dow ts pollte, nnd seta an example. He's plumb full of decor, um ‘and depawtment." the dog po |qutcie"t that Ryn! ret ree ie time Beals we alone’ quit remetion one Jog wall, and atood hen _acked wie at dawg,” aye 1, “ls acting sort ‘ome to the te “Now this yere ts upto, seh, that I bears neither gun peed: malice, calls, ne no (penne ti rEaped id th severe, ith plenty soa t gentle Tngulron, ‘whar any you keep rh sigs Ls ho: s ere you keep your honesty,” says he, sort of sarcastic. “You know TI can't escape, #0 I've got to listen, Talk. my good man, and when you're through you can g ‘The town scout still had his office manners, a lot ontemptuous. He climbed up on top of his vanity—like 8 frog on a ladaar=to call me ‘my good a Thad Sones him enough ice,"* says I, “that on the rough-on-rats. This condiment seems to affect yo' dawg some poignan with wiggles and froth ao egies | a He's swelling up, too, ikewise re- marks that thar's enous: of these Pon ater aatiae Prgey balls to kill Mc- Calmont May I itely ees how ioe you been Sook for this ranche?"* “Mind your own. business,’ ‘Which {8 to further test these same teur Minstrels, nas made a business for the past twenty-five an chat time it has raised $97,190. In Greenland women paint thetr faces blue and yellow. The women of Arabia stain their fingers and toes red. manjaro, the tusks of which hai a combined weight of 480 pounds. mous teeth created quite a sensation when they were brought to market In One of these tusks, the largest in existence, ts at present in re pretty ra ‘The weight does not epend on the age and size of the animal. ta]. maybe unusual in meat balls, and it be years of giving per such outfit must be of a size making it possible to carey it on a horse, with space left for the driver's luggage and forage for the horse, In the Breslau 20o~ logical garden there is a spider monkey which was operated upon for cataract, and now weare glasses. For more than a year after &. was received at the zoo It was very healthy and lyely, then it became very quiet, ceased to play and crouched in a corner. It was examined’ and to be suffering from cataract, so was tm- mediately taken to the eye hospital and operated upon. In less than a month it was fitted with @ pair of spectacles, Here ts a queer picture from a Gere man “Rogues’ Gallery." As will be seen, the subject's hands ere almost as prominent as is his face, For in many German olties the hands as well as the heads of criminals are photographed for purposes of identification. It is claimed that to the expert's eye there is as much expression and individuallty im hands as in faces. the tusks of elephants: welght of tusks of exceptionally Jarge animals are sometimes phenomenal. 1898 an old male elephant was killed:by native hunters not far from the ‘These I¢ the Bri! United States of America. i for To-Day. I will be wise —Shelley, that, the, mest 4 “The news) made you sort of desper ate?” "Bo you took precautions Arar” why: do you torture me?” 'Preter a ha ~ball?” Pe atleht be. ind mi juced ene icacles. Also thie te i “you sot me tree in the regres towne a he peters “Two hundred thowsana,"" “and that's my last word." man mene you ‘ash, with ‘a ere, © geing to our piloe, you a The sound of the thering elgnal, 4g been a gut striving in from the « shelf above yo" huld there's a tin of) Saale’ Soliggctee. Wy NIImE fc aey) Pell! oh |X woe Abe. ay Try he. “tay vat Symone, Meal Suny tor wine € ie ppt eat aa aye been be been grabbed @ long butcher-kniife from e