The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1906, Page 8

‘ Rigs ; Bebhanea vy tno Press Publisning Company, No. & to @ Park Row, Now York _ Batered at the Post-Oflcs at New York as Seccnd-Class Mall Matter. EEMOLUME 46 «..c0ccescscsasenses wesees NO. 16.251, THE WHITE HOUSE WEDDING. are the centre to-day not only of a entire world’s curious attenticn. have ever elicited an international tribute of esteem in any way com- Roosevelt. Never before, indeed, has an event of this character had the importance in foreign eyes which moved as the Peace of Portsmouth and Secretary Hay's diplomatic note on the administrative entity of (China have combined to give to this wedding. It is the daughter of the Chief Executive of a New World power fwho is marrying to-day, and the list of wedding gifts from kings and Potentates reads like a register of royal presents to an heiress to a throne, The spontaneous outburst of affection of which the bride has been fhe recipient at home is equally remarkable as a demonstration of love. Where are those who see manifestations of flunkyism and snobbery in the excess of attention lavished on her. Is it not rather a natural and Wholly admirable expression of the universal sentiment which young lovers inspire? The picturesque features of Miss Roosevelt's courtship, conducted as Nellie Grant’s was under romantic conditions on board ship; the person- lity of the bride, in whom traits of character admired in the President fare reflected—afl the circumstances of the mat indeed, conspire fovest it with unique distinction. = Z . _. Surely few brides have come to the altar with better augurles of happiness. From the ancient empress in the palace at Peking to the thumblest constituent in Congressman Longworth’s district, all the world that loves a lover wishes the White House couple godspeed. MOTHERS AND Boys. “i At the late meeting of the Mothers’ Club in this city a proud mother ald of her seven-year-old son that he—— has never tasted cooked food of meats; does not know anything sbout God or fairy tales; has never been punished or forbidden; his first plaything was a human skull; can dictate letters to his father’s secretary on business matters; was taken _ to the Morgue after the Slocum disaster to inure him against the fear of death; ean lift fifty pounds with each hand af What do mothers in general think of the desirability of rearing son in such a manner? Is the mother building in him a Frankensein monster? Can authority and punishment be dispensed with in the educa. tion of youth when nature and iron circumstance unerringly demand them TURN THE LIGHT ON HAINES: The White House bridal couple nation’s admiring interest but of the No previous nuptials of the kind/| parable with that bestowed on Miss! influences as dissimilar and far re-! ome. Magazine, sia ed Da ie) Saturday. Evenings. busy)” By J. Campbell Cory. A Commuter's Appeal. To the Eéttor of The Evening World: I wish to Gack up the statement of a The attempt of President Haines, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, to stifle criticism of his management by packing a meeting and extorting from it a manufaotured vindication seems already to have defeated its object. The ward caucus tactics rayed against him many of his former adherents, The charges openly preferred against the society are too serious to be suppressed. It is alleged that the management is inefficient, or worse, Employees are reputed to be incapable or dishonest. The Protection afforded to animals is notoriousty insufficient. ‘The need of a thorough investigation is afl the more pressing because of the exceptional facilities the soclety enjoys as a chartered institu. _ fon deriving its support from the State and from liberal private con. Gibutions. The ugty hints of- graft and of mismanagement cannot be quicted-by arbitrary pe ey fullest publicity must be given them a complete reorganization to restore podlety tothe standard-of efficlency from which it has sadly i bak /THE NEW. # x w DETECTIVE Hortin Howttt, @ brillant pri- “My enemies—my grent enemies—ene- ‘mies politique. I am a great man"—this with a faint revival of vanity amfa his fear—'a great man in my countres. Zey have great secret club-sieties to kill me—me and my fren's; and one enemy Coming in my rooms does zis—one, two” he indicated wrist and head—‘‘wis a choppa."’ 2 = ss sound, Rameau mete the case plain to Net- soome, wtch pines te a gh | tings, so far as the actual ctroumstances oo ae Saas “Ea A Mtlerof the assault on himsel were con-4 ‘Ramen. who a aia the | cerned. A regro whom he had noticed bortans bersalee fates bo a: aeweces cat the piace more than once during na cannot be found. previous day or two had attacked few Gaye; soturn- b Hew hs oes Ones rith bimedtf, | him suddenly in his rooms, dealing him She pat badly wounded. two savage blows with a chopper. The —————— first he had caught on his wrist, which was seriously damaged, 26 well as ex- cructatingly painful, but the second had taken effect on his head. His assailant | had evidently gone away then, leaving | him for dead; but, as a matter of fact, de was only stunned by the shock, and had, thanks to the adamantine thickness of the negro skull and the fll-dtrection of the chopper, only a very bed scalp wound, the bone belng no more than Grazed. He had lain insenstble for some time, and must have come to his senses s00n after the housemald had left the room. Terrified at the knowledge that | his enemies had found him out, his only thought was to get away and hide him- | self, He hasty washed and tied up his head, enveloped himeelt in the biggest coat he could find and let himeelt down into the basement by the coal lift, for CHAPTER III. The Confession. HE negro looked around nervous- T ly, and shrank farther from the anor, . “Yes,” he said! “but please not 20 Joud—please not so loud “ey may be near, and I'm afraid.” “You will certify, will you not,” asked Hewitt, with malictous glee, ‘not only that you were not murdered last Satur- @ay by Victor Goujon, but that, In fact,‘ you were not murdered at all? ‘Also, that you carted your own body way in the usual fashion, on your own legs." “Yes, yes," responded Rameau, \ook- ing haggardly about; “but is not #e— zis room publique? I should not be seen.” “Nonsense!” replied Howitt, rather fear of observation. He malted in the testily, ‘You exaggerate your danger |P™ement of one of the attfoining build- ings til) dark, and then got away in a oa, with the !dea of hiding himself in the East End. He had had very little money with him on his flight, and tt was by reason of this circumstance that Hewitt when he found him, had pre- vailed on bim to leave his hiding place, since {t would be imposatble for him to touch any of the jarge sums of money in the keeping of his bank so long as he was supposed to be dead. With much diMovity, and the promiae of ample police protection, he was at last con- Vinoed thet it would be sate to declare “unself and get his propesty, and 4 and your own importance, and your enemies’ abfiities as well. You're safe “I suppose, then,” Nettings remarked, slowly, like a man on whope mind @omothing vust was beginning to dawn. “I suppose—winy, hang it, you must have just got up while that fool of a @irl was soteaming and fainting up- mairs, and walked ut. ‘They say ‘there's nothing so hard as a nigger's gloull, and yours bas certainly made a fool of me. But, then, somebody must Rave chopped you over the head. Who > ares tet employed have ar-| Centre. “Lynbrook Commuter," who says we gre entitled to “at least decont train service on the Montauk Division of the L. L BR. R. from Freeport, Rockville Lynbrook, &c, As The ven tng World seems to be the only paper that can cofrest such abuses, I hereby write, in behalf of suburbanites, con- foerning the service tendered ue by the officials of the above mentioned rail- road. WILLIAM J. HAMILTON, Lynbrook, L. 1, The Stumbrous Attorney. To the Miitor of The Evening World: ‘Through the sickening revelations dur- img the pest year of financial and po- Utloal corruption in the great life in- wurance compasies of this city The World was the one journal that wes afways in the lead in forcing « real in- vestigation and that always struck Letters from the People without fear or favor. Ita broadsides on “Equitable Corruption” were the! Martin Hewitt, Investicator. “To kill me! run ,away and hide wherever he pleased. | “Well, Mr, Hewitt,” Nettings said, “this case has certainly been a shock- ing beating for me I must have been as blind as a bat when | started on it. And yet I don't gee that you had a deal to xo on, even now, What struck you in the beginning {t seemed rather odd to me that the body should hawe been taken ewny, as I had been told it was, after the written paper had been pinned on it. Why should the then murderer pin @ label on the body of nisten the floor just below whbre the w # Answers to Questions only editorials that (to my mind) had drudge instead of a companion for a; these “canines” was a certain very well- the gemuine ring of righteous imiigna- tion and a desire to see fair play for the policy-hokders. Every one knows that unless some of the big crooks are | Punished future grafters may excel the old gang in rapacity and deftness. Or Goes Mr. Jerome intend to postpone | Prosecution until grafters have signed) all their property over to thelr wives and taken up thetr residence in Paris? | A dally broadside to awaken the word-| smith and clccksmith of Lakeville to his pledge seems to be imperatively needed. MARCUS B, LAMBERT. For Happier Homes. Te the Editor of The Drening World: If men were less selfish and thought more of the comfort of their wives and children, and on their return froin business would help prepare the supper, instead of having the alr of “nobody works but father,” there would be hap- Pier homes. Father doesn't appear to realize mother has worked harder than he all day. If men expect to have a of wife, ta cook, wash and tron,.just for the sake of saving them their board laundry and mending expenses, they would better apply to an Intelligence oMce. No twentieth century American sil wishes to marry to become a menial. Business life is easier and much pleasanter = ¢ aecanery hun household The Bulldog and the Bone, To the Exittor of The Evenng World: | F. Deeckman writes a clever lotter| on the European squabble, but while | the “bulldog” af Europe ¢by which T| presume he means Russia) was having troubles of its own, from which {¢ esems to have emerged slightly the worse for wear, the other “oanines" | were doing anything else but mope in| their kennels. Instead of that they | were industriously barking and biting around the sald “‘bulldog’s’’ heels and | doing all they could to help the “little brown bear gf Asia,” and tncidentally to see if they could get any of the! bones themselves. And prominent among! His Seventh Case THE TORTOISE C Me and my rlends!” viotim if he meant carrying that body away? Who would read the label and | learn of the nature of the revenge grati- | fied? Pinitiy that indicated that the person who had cartled away the body was not the person who had com- mitted the murder, But as soon as I began to examine the place, T saw the probability that there was no murder, after all “There were any number of indica- tions of this fact, and I can't under- etand your not observing them. Firat, although there was a good deal of blood housemald had aeen Rameau tyinis, there was none between that place and the door. Now, if the body had been dragged, or even carried, to the door, blood must have become smeared about ‘the floor, or, at feast, there would fhave been drops; but there were none, and this seemed to hint that the corpse might have come to tteslf, sat ue on lete, known one. When tne “bulbfog” with one of Its feet named “Rojestvensky”” Rappened to step on one of Ks toes “aocidentally,” was that canine mopng then? Nothing like that, And the over the “bare bones of Morocco’ Produce some mighty ripe fruit vi goon, I should judge that the class of peuple who read your valuable paper and who write letters to it are above the ordinary intelligence and afility. 1 always enjoy the letter column very much. RH. MURRAY The Phonograph M ‘To the EXiitor of The Evening World: I am being driven mad by phono- graphs. Close by three of them are steadily at work six hours at a time. My nerves are quivering as if lashed It's simply terrible. Is there nothing I can have done to stop this ungodly racket? I cannot very well move. What shall I do? I appeal to the readers of The Evening World for advice. Is the ure as in other parts of the town as in West Forty-second street? B. rl es a LU iiie sofa, @tanghed the wound, and walked out. I reflected at once that Rameau was a@ full-blooded negro, and that @ negro's head ts very nearly in- vulnerable to anything short of bul- “Then, tf the body nad pera out—ae auch @ heavy body must have Of necessity the carpet and A Group of Oddities In Picture and Story,’ / sé ATIR-BILL- W IARDS" {5 the newest and oddest of Kuro- pean pastimes. A bill- fard table fn floated In & quiet pond, some times where the water 4a only four or five feat deep; sometimes in very deep water. Players tn street cos- tume and high hats wade or swim out, cues in hand; and, to the delight of the @pectato: play a “straight” game of Dillards. The hazards | of the sport include a | frequent ducking, the ‘oocusional capsizing of the table during a difMoult shot, and the certainty of ruined clothes. The ag companying iHustration is reproduced from a photograph in the London Sketch Baron Rothschil¢ was named sole beneficiary under the will of a Nice miser, Abraham Fidler, who left him $00,000 on the principle that “money must seek money.” The baron hunted up the relatives of the departed and gave each an equal share. Near the town of Arica, on the coast of Northern Chill, there are still to be Here is a snap- shot of the famous | “Yorkshire Horn. | blower,’ exponent of one of the few seen uge boll- quaint mediaeval era of an Aierican English gustoms still man-of-war, the | | extant. At 8 o'clock Wateree. This ves- | every winter's night sel was swept two the hori here shown miles {nland on the | is blown on the crest of the tdag | wreen of the litle wave accompanying | village of Bain- the great earth- | bridge. in Yorkshire, quake of 18% and to cheer or warn stranded there. any wayfarera who may be wandering | om the surrounding | moors, There is Ut tle doubt that many Lahr, a town t= Germany, has been greatly annoyed by iwo footpads, who ‘a traveller lost in waylaid many of | the fog has owed the Inhabitunts and | his safety to this demanded that they | custom. The origin should surrender | of the custom ts ui their boots or . known, down thelr value if —— when new, The two men when arrested confessed that they were operating on behalf of @ local shoemaker. | A Topeka girl, Mabel Iluston, saved her father’s wheat crop from a threat- J ening rain by giving hugs and kisses as prizes to the laborers who shocked the most grain. A cat belonging to the Duchess of Beaufort, belng taken to a country seat other than the one where It had been born, turned back “home” after two. Um happy days, covering the 20 intervening miles in safety. —— ; u to-day and the | There ts nothin } Beer chur aveia hinge of Pharaoh's =) Not even the design time to. be pram = 5 of hinge used on tieally identical tm ; the latest dvor of construction. ] the newest house. oe The hinges tn the * The worst heft i accompanying Slus- storm in the history tration were dug up of, Kansas visited j ii in anclent ‘pt. the eastern counties ; showing the hinge of tate in July. The ; flat In shape, were many of them twelve inches across. Hogs were killed, es and cows, blinded by the missiles, stampeded into the wire fencing ston: jand | and were badly cut up. . | At Stoke-on-Trent, England, In September, a Mr. Latham assisted in caring [for a boy killed by a dray. ‘The face was brulee! beyond recognition, but @ more thorough examination of the body showed the rescuer he,had been work- ing over his own son. This ts the latest thing In boh-sleds. It was built et St Moritz, Switzerland, { under the personal supervision of the well-known sporta- man, Ricardo Sort- ano, and can ‘seat four or five people. The front part looks much Iike the lead of a small tore pedo. The queer sled {s about five feet long. The cute wind in front per mits an increase of speed. By Arthur Morison, s E Author of ‘‘ Tales of Mean Streets,’” rugs would show signs of the fact, but)derer had plainly prepared for the there were no such signs. But beyond | crime; witness the previous preparation | { these sere was the fact that no long black overcoat was left with the other clothes, although the housekeeper dis- tinetly remembered Rameau’s possession of such @ garment. I judged he would use geome such thing to asist his dis- guise, which was why I asked her. Why he would want to disguise was plain, as you shall see presently. There were no towels left in the bathroom; inference, used for bandages. Everything seemed to show that the only person responsi- ble for Rameau's removal was Rameau himseif. Why, then, had he gone away secretly and hurriedly, without making complaint, and why had he stayed away? What reason would he have for doing this #f it had been Goujon that had attacked him? None. Goujon was solng to France. “Clearly, Rameau was afraid of a other ettack from some implacable enemy whom he was anxious to avold— one againat whom he feared legal com- plaint or defense would be useless. This brought me at once to the paper found on the floor, If this were the work of Goujon and an open reference to his tertoise, why should he be at such pains to disguise his handwriting? He would have been already pointing bim- self out by the mere mention of the tortoise, And, if he could not avoid a shake in his natural, smal) bandwrit- ing, how could he have avoided it in a 1 ] No, the paper was not Goujon’s, “The evidence of the chopper was very untrustworthy, especially when 1 had heard of Goujon's careless habits— on stairs, Nothing we likely than for the chopper to be left lying about, and 4 criminal! who had calculated his chances would know the advantage to ‘himself of using a weapon that belonged in the plav, and leaving it behind to di- vert suspicion, It Is quite possible, by the way, that the manwho attacked got away down the coal lift large, clumsy drawn, assumed hand? | —4' of the paper declaring his revenge, an indication of his pride at having run his enemy to earth at suah « distant place as this—although I expect he was only in England by chance, for Haytiaps are not @ persistently energetic race. In regard to the use of small instead of capital letters in the words ‘La Tortue’ on the paper, I observed in the begin- ning that the first letter of the whole sentence—the ‘p’ in ‘punl’—was a éne. Clearly the writer was an man, and it was at once plain that he may have made the same mistake with ensuing words. : “On the whole, it was plain that everybody had begun with a too ready disposition to assume that Goujon wna guilty. Everybody insisted, tad, the boty had been carried wwa; t was true, of course, although noy i the aense intendéi—so I didn't to contradict, or to say more then I guessed who had carried the body And, to tel! the truth, I was a’ little piqued Mr, Styles's manner, disposed, interested In the case to ky away my theories too “The reat’ of the job was not difficult, I found oul the cabman had taken Ketaeau away—you can a waya get Devaeed themes 2 Ol GO as Oe of them: I Yyou are atter a ilker-and from, nian’ jot @ sufficient) Yent ied. th rather ured, by the way, on a abot. I described my man to the man as having an injured arm or nd it turned out a correct You see, a may making an attack wil @ chopper re more than a a losing shovels and leaving coul scuttles | —a); and wrist attended to at a medioo's, and @ big nigget in a with a long bluck coat, a broken eet