The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1906, Page 12

The Evening ‘eutnanca by the Press Publishing Company, No. 83 to @ Park Row, New Yorks / .. Bntered at the Post-Office at New York as Seccnd-Class Mail Matter. E MOLUMEAG «0... coerce ccceee cess eseee socces ssnecs NOw 16,261. JOSEPH AND JOHN D. Young Mr. Rockefeller pays a glowing tribute to Joseph as a pio- neer in benevolent monopoly. In the years of plenty in Egypi Joseph foresaw the approaching famine to which the unthinking pop- ilace was blind. “He knew, as we all do,” says Mr. Rockefeller, “that it is difficult o get the people to look ahead and srovide for emergencies of this sind.” So Joseph relieved the pub- ic of that responsibility. He gar- nered the corn into great granari wa “rom every one, willing or unwill- ‘ Commammengeyaus ing, he exacted a contribution of grain to hold in storage against the day of a shortage. Like the life insur- ance companies, he enforced thrift on the part of “the masses, who,” as Mr, Rockefeller says, “‘are not apt to think seven years ahead and lay by.”” ‘And when the seven-year distribution period arrived and starvation threat- ened, Joseph gave the people corn at first on what Mr. Rockefeller calls _ itheir own terms, but in the end at the price of their chattels and their + personal liberty. It is with a sympathetic hand Mr. Rockefeller sketches this beneficent act of primitive monopoly. No doubt he could show how what Joseph | @id with com in ancient Egypt a greater than Joseph in business \. sagacity has done with oil in modern America, and with equally laudable . intentions. 2 Pog How the superior insight of the latter-tay Joseph enabled him to See possibilities in petroleum to which a people were blind. How he gathered the entire available supply into enormous tanks for their use, refined and purified it for their benefit, piped it vast distances to their “-wery doors, drove out of business all who sought to interfere with his « “philanthropic purpose, and holds it-in trust at their service. Has not he also encouraged thrift in the unthrifty? How otherwise could their millions have endowed universities and erected hospitals? Similar instances of benevolent monopoly are observable on every hand. Consider the mountainous heaps of coal laid by by the operators ._ in anticipation of a strike, when they will dole them out to an improvident ‘public. Consider the million tons of beef in cold storage against the day _ when a demand for higher wages at the packing houses shall shorten the * fruitful of imitation. THE YEAR OF THE KICKERS. The year 1906 is known in the Japanese calendar as the “Year of the " Kicking Horse.” It is a year for which earthquakes and tidal waves are _ predicted and volcanic disturbances without end. H In this part of the Western Hemisphere 1906 bids fair to be known supply and inconvenience the dear public. Joseph’s foresight has been | * tap the year of the kicking populace. orable. This story is here adapted by the author from Fritzi Scheff’s comic opera, ‘‘Mlle, Modiste,’’ now at the Knick- erbocker Theatre. Capt. Etienne de Bou 7 at oble tasptly, iner named i fre Gount of St, Mar, bitter! Tustch, and Etienne, Guels," ts forced to rely ounce Fits. Fifi has hopes ‘on the stage as a sing: ly disappointed. Hiram arrives in Hinge high, position, 5 ptt Rmerican millionatre, . Paris with his wite. CHAPTER VIII. America to the Rescre. .OST of the several score of giris employed in the workrqoms had arrived before her. Some of her own work left unfinished from the after- noon before called for Fif's attention. | Her duties in the store consisted of sell- ‘ing bonnets, trimming and delivering them. | Bobbing a greeting with the quick toss of her head characteristic of her, Uttle Fifi quickly doffed her short outer Jacket as soon as she entered che store and went to the counters that hoki the bonnets requiring her attention. Her principal chum, Marie, across he aisle from Pifi, was busy assorting the fruit ‘ trimmings of her department. “Look out for Mme. Cecil this morn- ing,” admonished Marie, over a cluster of great gooseberries she was arrang- dmg picturesquely on hat frame. Fin frowned when ehe hear Marie's ‘warning. Truly, her distresses weie fast multiplying if this new cauBe for de- pression were to be added to ner already heavy burden so early in the day. ‘Her son Gaston did not come home at all last night. But, just the same, Madame had to cash two checks he een: one of his artist friends with. His . mother was in a fearful temper when phe opened up this morning. Said she was going to turn Gaston out of ber jhome, bag and baggage. She asked if you had arrived yet. I told her you had, but had gone out for coffee!" “Well, you tell her when she comes downstairs egain,” sald Fis, throwing ¥ ‘OW lof the Already, with its first quarter not yet spent, it has gained distinction as a year of moral cataclysms—of in- surance immorality overthrown, pillars of dishonesty laid low, bosses de- -throned, scandalous journalism throttled, monopoly subdued and graft in public office exposed for punishment. Tt is a great year for the kicking thousands. And whatever they Yevel their kicks at, from petty subway impositions to gas extortion and - ‘oppression in high place, they invest their protests with an effectiveness which is one of the marvels of the moment. The success which has attended these popular reforms gives a hopeful to those which are yet to be enforced. Particularly it ing outlook to the legislation under way at Albany to confirm wictories over corruption for which the year is destined to be ever mem- ives a the I shall be back as soon as possible.” And without pausing to look back Fifi hurried to the door and was off, turn- ing to the left toward the Avenue de | VOpera when she reached the wali, Mme. Cecil's outbursts of temper were common occurrences to the girls, and none paid much attention to Fifi's obvious ruse to «scape a possible lec- ture, A idndly scul at heart, Mme. Cecil had had much to warp her nature be-| fore her possession at forty-five of one busiest and most fasiionab!e millinery establishments of the Rue de) la Paix. Deserted by a worthiess hus-| band six years after her marriage, she hud, though left pennitess, succeeded in building up inch by inoh this emporium that now vielded her a handsom: profit yearly. Of three children left as a legacy by her runaway spouse, two girls| and @ boy, the latter hind been a severe trial to her always. Yielding to his ambition to be taught the art of painting, Mme. Cecil had spent fortune on this boy's tuition be- fore he wes twenty. But she soon dis- covered that while Gastion had learned little of the art of conjuring pictures from ofls and pigments he nad absorbed during his schoo! days a most disturb- ing variety of pretenses for securing money from her. Genial and weak in ability to withstand the hire of pleas- ure, Gaston Cecil was one of the say- est spendthrifts of all the artists’ colo- nies, besides being one of the worse painters in Paris, and yet one of its ™most popular citizens. Every one liked Gaston and every one pitied him. Fifi had scarce hurried to the street before madame issued from her private room. Marie informed her mistress of Fifi's errand. Mme. Cecil with a ges- ture of annoyance resurned to her re- treat. Fifi the whfle was speeding her way down through the public gardens, past the monuments and on over and up the hill thet led to the Bois sec- tion where Mme. Bercy lived. Fifi did not feel well this morning She found her limbs weak whenever she encountered « rise from the level walks to ways that were graded. Guided by a sixth sense she tumed her steps back in the direction of the twisted ways that led toward the shop, her feet moving quickly, her mind busy with her troubles and Etlenne's. As she crossed the Seine she felt herself grow faint World’s Home Magazine, Devil Is “The Tuesday Eve Sick! © By J. Campbell Cory, Me x ANS oe HANNS RR ox AAS TAN “ x \ y Meng, February 27, 1906. 1 NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASSES. By Irvin S. Cobb. HEY may try to tell you New York wants only that which fs new-en@ T original. Patient reader, don’t you believe it. The chief reason why we no longer cover the parlor floor with a rag carpet and drink out of | a gourd in New York is because Axminster and Royal Worcester cost mora, For an example, let us take the regular Sunday supplement of Satnt_ John D. Rockefeller the Second. For years and years now papa has been watering the pnblic on week days, and on Sunday Son John repeats the dose, only he adds to his a little lukewarm skim milk and an unsalted sods cracker, crumbled fine, It's the old story that never grows old to us—John D., jr., folding his wings, which measure eight feet two inches from tip te tip, slipping a godly high hat down athwart his halo, folding his hands across his bosom and passing out quantities of the dear old Mexican salve to a class composed of three youths in white ties and sixteen reporters with . notebooks. And so on Monday morning we open our paper at the Children’s Fat) and look for young John D.'s column of thin gruel. “Take care of the pennies,” says he, with a rising accent, ike Sunford used to use on Merton in the Words of One Syllable Series. “Take care of the pennies and pa will take care of the doilars themselves.” Or else it is the beautiful little story of the man who was oh, so good and pure until he was thirty-seven years old, and then in an evil hour he drank one glass of lager beer—accursed stuff that it is—and so came to such a bad end that he wrote magazine articles about Standard Oll. There's another standard favorite that’s even older. We refer to the hyphenated curtain-call which begins with the Lady Heavy and ends with the Manager. Ah, how familiar to us all—that well-beloved or age-buffed scene when the Lady Heavy turns and beckons to some one in the wings and then turns to us again and shakes her head, as much as to say: “Did you ever! He simply won't come out—the bashful old thing!” And then we howl and stamp our own and the next fellow’s feet and carry on something scandalous. And the Lady Heavy, standing there smiling and still, except when the limelight wabbles, assures us in pantomime that now she is going to do something desperate. And she glides to the wings and seizes the coy, shrinking Manager by his right hand, which happens, providentially, to be outstretched in her direction, and j-u-s-t drags him out bodily against his will. And he makes a little unbeknownst signal to the calcium man tu turn her on strong, and with a chaste yet a simple gesture, bows low. And The Insurance Problem. Te the EXiitor of The Evening World: If, as reported, a high official of the Mutual Life opposes that part of tle reform in the insurance programme which pertains to prohibitian of invest- ment and speculation in stocks, it cloar- ly reveals the character of the man and the interests he is belleved to reprosent. My brother unfortunates may weli take heed. POLICY-HOLDER. You Are a Citizen Already. To the Eater of The Evening World: Am a young man twenty-three years of age, born in New York City, My parents are foreigners, and as yet my father is not a naturalized citizen. Am I a full-fledged citizen under the above her Jacket over her arm, “that I have gone to Mme, Bercy's for the evening bonnet she desires to return, and oat bly toward the rail of the bridge. for. sup- rising, gradually passed away en- a moment. without waming. Little black specks fitted before her eyes, She edged quick conditions, or is it necessary for my _ THE LITTLE MILLINER “Where had she seen this man before?” port. Reaching the rail and clinging upon it, the attack of dizziness abated, But Fifl found herself unable to con- tinue her way at once when she decided to step forth again. Seeking che support of the rail again, she placed her box on the walk beside her and turned her face toward the Seine in an endeavor to avoid attracting (he attention of passingiwaters had carried down to the sea in This second brief spell oflall the ages of its passage through the rest with her half reclining posture re-jcity! ‘The terrible suggestion that some- ‘The weakness, now traced times comes to the sorely tried in mo- waytarers. vived her. Letters from the’ People w father to take out his papers before I can be one? J. F. DAVEY. Relatives in Kilkenny. To the Editor of The Evening World: Con you tell me where to write to in Ireland to inquire of relatives who lived in the town of Kilkenny? P. J. White to Sub-Inspector, Royal Irish Onstabulary, Kilkenny, Ireland. Sailor Boy and Landiubber. To che Editor of The Evening World: A toller on the ocean wave complains in a letter to The World about the food furnished him by Uncle Sam. Among the things he mentions are grease butter, lye-water coffee, roast | horse beef and imitation tea. I assure | you, my dear sailor boy, that the land- lubber does not fare much better in at onee. | trials was not only cowardice but folly, tirely, She still clung to her position against the bridge wall, however, the while she awaited the gradual re-estab- lishment of her composure. ‘The Seine, moving turbidly beneath the arch, op- pressed her ominously, yet fascinated her, What miseries its silent, creeping \sh had Answers to Questions this our age of trust oppression, care- less cooking and diabolical food adul- teration, which is converting many a amiling optimist into a grumbling pes- simist. The country that produces the nest flour gives us sour, ill-smelling bread. Most butter is rank. Cigars are mixed with cabbage leaves; candy with chalk. Some tea should be dumped into the sea. Milk is well trimmed and skimmed, “fresh” eggs well timed and Mmed before they reach their destina- tion. ¥F. DEEKMAN. A Suggestion for Bingham. | To the Editor of The Evening World: It Commissioner Bingham wants to increase the police force why dovsn’t he put all the plain-clothes men in uni- form and put two detective-sergeants i i ts ‘ ( ‘That way of escape from her concluded. How many instances she road in the newspapers of peo- ple doatroying themsclves because of misfortunes that another sunrise had dissipated! No; for her life meant that one should stay in the thick of the struggle, what- ever it might be, until the fight were won or lost legitimately. The new turn of Fif's thoughts acted as a tonic. Under its stimulus she grew strong again. Renewing her way across the bridge she turned once more toward the ways leading back to the Rue de la Paix. Before entering the bonnet shop she went into the litle basement booth around the corner from Mme, Cecile's and had a light breakfast of soft-bolled eggs, rolls and coffeo. After the refec- ——————————————— by her to her recently exciting exper!-|ments of extreme physical and mental ences and her failure to break her fast depression occurred to Fifi, but only for She dismissed the “thought tion she felt almost buoyant again, and inwardly then roundly lectured herself for her surrender to the depression of ithe hours preceding. As Fil issued in each precinct, same as they had in Brooklyn years ago? AN EX-DETECTIVE-SERGEANT. Solves the Animal Problem. To the Editor of The Evening World: A correspondent gives this problem: “A farmer gave his boy $100, and told him to buy 100 animals, cows to cost $10 each, sheep to cost $3 each and pigs to cost 50 cents each. How many of each | did he buy?" My answer is this: He bought 9 pigs at 50 cents, $47; 1 sheep, $3, and 5 cows, at $10 each, $0, making in all 100 animals for $100. ‘Iam a little boy and go to St. Stephen's School. My age {s eleven years, F. V. Apply to Your Congressman, To the Filltor of ‘The Evening World: Where can I gain information re- then in our mad abandon we eat all the plush off the orchestra chairs, and the curtain comes down very, very slowly. If it doesn’t the curtain hand 1oses his job. THE FUNNY PART: Since the Rollo books went out of print you won't find the John D., jr. stuff running anywhere except in New York. And now that McIntyre & Heath have taken off the “Georgia Minstrels” the hyphenated curtain-call is the oldest vaudeville turn in the world. A Brace of Brain Twisters. 8 ALL THE ALPHABET. To the Editor of The Evening World: 1n:o how few words can readers con- dense all the letters of the alphabet We have tried this feat with the follow- ng results. First we evolved the fol- lowing sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the log after the lazy doz, That holde all the alphabet in a sentence of forty-six letters. Then we condensed it so that it read: ‘The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” This holds all the letters and is only thirty-three let- ters lung. The foregoing is beaten by the following, which embraces all the twenty letters of the alphabet in a sentence thirty-two letters long: “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. This we believe to be the shortest po: idle complete and intelligible sentence garding entering West Point? A. C. KIRKE, A 20th CENTURY ROMANCE OF LOVE, VALOR, PERIL AND TRUSTING HEARTS fron: the little restaurant and proceeded toward the bonnet shop she suddenly beveme conscious of the presence of a form walking abreast of her, Looking around she found her feltow- a tall, lean, clean-shaven, dressed man. Fit! noted during her fleeting glance that the man's gaze was fastened upon her Interestedly. Next Fifi found her- self wondering what looked at once 30 strange to her and yet so famillar. She pondered this problem, as she forged on toward the -bonnet shop. The man, garbed according to the Lest vogue of ‘the hour in Paris, had dropped behind her. Where had she seen this man be- fore, if aver? Dimly at first, like the preliminary shadows on the plate of a stereopticon, Fif'e eesston at the bridge slowly returned to her. During the moments when she had been récover- ing from her weakness she recalled now, as through the haae of a dream, the presence of this:tall, lean man at the left end-of the bridge, watching .her, smartly bonnet she had just brought back from taining all the alphabet. Sia BROOKLYN SCHOOLBOYS. WHICH IS NEARER N, Y. |r he Editor of The Evening World: train leaves New York for keepsie at 9 A. M. and trove ephes rate of 47 miles an hour, making no | atops. At the same time a train leaves Poughkeepste for New York, travelling along a track parallel to the firet and At a speed of 511-3 miles an hour, mak- ing. however, three stops of 40 seconds each. We will say, for the sake of con- venience, that Poughkeepsie 1s just 9 miles from New York. At the time the two trains meet which of the two will be nearer New York, and by how great | distance? No knowledge of geometery or algebra or any of the higher mathe- matics Is required for the working out of this perfectly simple problem, WHEELER. ~ By HENRY BLOSSO hii The thought quickened Fifi's steps. Presently she reached the door of the shop, just as the last of her fellow- workers had sailied forth, Swinging hurriedly through the arch, Fifi en- deavored quickly to close and lock the doors behind her; but her companion had anticipated her move and checked | it by thrusting his foot between the closing doors, Hiram Bent had hung over the wooden parapet of the little bridge over the stream at Keokuk, Ia., one night just as this little girl in the short black frock had hung over the Seine on this morning, Hiram knew how It felt to be desperate and he could pretty well guess, he decided, how one in a forlorn state looked. Lots of available help in this world he had long before con- cluded was piled up on sidings all day long every day in the year, ready for shipment and delivery, but the needy didn’t know w .« the side tracks were. Ever since the night when he himself came very near going out with the tide ot the Mississipp! he didn’t take any chances whenever ho thought he stood face to face with a case of genuine dis- tress. He would rather insult twenty men, he would tell you, by proffering un- desired assistance than have one unfor- tunate pass him in silent misery. And his philanthropy or humanitarianism or whatever you cared to call this habit of his, wasn't going to be inter- tered with by any foolish difference of sex either. He'd offer a woman hel” just as quick as a man. If she wanted to consider herself insulted, that was her funeral. Fit carried the box containisg the Mme. Berey down the main aisle of the store to a counter, Bent politely followed. At first Fifl’s impulse was to attempt to rout her pursuer, Then, with the bridge ep!- sode before her, she decided instead to thank him. But with true feminine vacillation Fifi's impulse changed a sec- ond time. The coquetry of her nature came to the surface at the sight of this good-looking, fairly young foreigner in his smart gray sult and trim white derby. “In your country do you follow wo- men you do not know?" she asked se- verely. Bent became. instantly apologetic. qr this girl was to be helped the eta} would have to be proffered delicately, Before making an offer of assistance St would be best to learn firet.aa much The Famous Dramatist. as possible about saints the girl herself from “I'm sorry to frighten you, mademot- selle,” he answered Braciously. “I merely wanted to ask you a question,” | ,Bent's embarrassment amused Fifl, | They wero alone; the bonnet shop was otherwise empty, “You wished to ask a question?” asked, with a saucy Pout. A faint twi le gleamed from her eyes. Bent nodded an affirmative, “No Js the answer,” Fin inswered. Bent detected the hidden amusement the girl was preparing to enjoy at his expense. The more he looked at Fin the more certain he grew that he had misread the signs at the bridge. She might be needy, as most girls are who have to work for a living, but this case Was not of the. desperate kind he had at first considered it. His own humor ae to the surface as he caught the er suggestion o} "4 pee f the girl's manner “Then you can't tell me?’ “Tell you what?" he ine he asked, Fifi askea mischiey- ously, “The quickest way to Louvre?” Bent babs rejoined evasivel; cessfully masking a smtle, 7 “The quickest way is a answered. hades Bent laughed outright at the “Now, just for thi he retortes, “rg ay." Plece by ples Bent drew Fin’ Pel nee ‘8 story ma Mt the sprightliest qualities of the ete . le found ther remarkably wit, of ready sympathy, as proud as a Stoic, That need of money to carry her els of her amb'tions he soon ‘by adroit questioning; that ‘haughtily scorn any help he to her directly be was ‘When her int her of Ee : i 8 g i i il i fi i i she iis i - Exe | )