The evening world. Newspaper, September 15, 1906, Page 8

Norid’s Daily Magazine, Saturday, September 15, 1906. by the Press Publishing Company, No, #9 to @ Park Now, New orm Batered at the Port-Omos at New York as Second-Ciass Mali Matter, NO 16,406}, MONK EY TALK. Oto Benga, 2 Congo pigmy, iis visiting the Park. The Constitution League and a en have protested to the May tting Oto Benga tc fn a cage and to associa : ‘ Mr. Benge would bec rei illiterate ygical Gar nittee. of colored read or write. ing about any ‘of the subjects fails in the it E : However ignorant he may be of book learning, Mr. Benga can d Ome thing which nobody else in New York can do, and that is talk t and monkeys and under- say when they All domesticated animals can talk, and all other animals which are able to 1 is can talk Not of hat, but many animals can talk to animals of a distinct kind from themselves. The family dog can talk to the family horse. The} dog's barks and gestic vey distinct ideas to the horse Every farm boy has seen and heard 7 Ghick to her chicks, and most farm boys know the meanin: ng. +! the different clucks. The shepherd dog talks to the sheep. The cow sand the calf talk to each other. Pigmies have an advantage over other men in their ability to talk} arid-animats-of the forests where they Ives TMs Is Calne By’s entists to be evidence of the evolution of mankind from gorillas ps aboohs by successive steps, of which the missing links between the gorilla | and the pigmy are less than the links between the pigmy and the Anglo-| vocal sou That pigmi¢s can talk with monkeys does not really prove any * Blood relation. 1f white men made a study of monkey language they could learn monkey talk. Duck hunters have ieamed the calls for wild ' duck. The woodsmen of Canada and Maine have learned some of the | Moose language. * a Animals have learned the speech of man toa greater extent than men ©” hhave learned the language of animals. A horse knows what “Whoa!” means. Oxen know the language of “Gee! Haw!” The hens know the feeding call of the farmer’s wife. Dogs learn many words of the humar vocabulary. The efforts of mankind to acquire learning have been concentrated | more on utilitarian objects. What possibility remains of a wider field of S knowledge! With the phonograph sounds can be preserved and experi ments carried on! The day may come when the emotions, sensatigns an thoughts of animals will be expressed as faithfully by them to men as b 7) men to one another. It is not animals who are “dumb,” but men whi are deaf to animal talk FROM CORN TO A CONCLUSION. | Following the.forecast in the West of a bumper crop of corn come Mews from the Department of Agriculture at Washington of a freshl § discovered process for making alcohol out of corncobs and cornstalks. | One importance of this lies in the fact that sci hard to make alcohol the power fuel of a near fu largely in use Another interesting fact is that the discov ific men are trying ure, It is already } which coms utiliseds. This will simprise many peopte, perhap-Pbe Gides those whose personal experience is limited to observations of. gree com, seed corn, popcorn and cornmeal. Corn ranks particularly high as a food for both man and beast ee icc sounds of pork on f the stalk cost of like ot t manufactures from wood fiber and rags. “From the pith come pyroxin varnishes, the cellulose for guncotton and Sives and the pressed Blocks which, placed behind the armor vessels, absorb the water and close the aperture Pierced. Corncobs are turned into pipes or grour Slucose, whiskey, alcohol, oils and various by-products also come f corn. The importance of the paper-making iny from the t about 53,000,000 tons of ¢ yearly to waste in the great fields of the Western With the new process in full swing, corn in all its parts of Seed will be as fully turned to use as are cc 1 and hoofs of ¢: Half a century ago coal Now it yields by-products beyond counting tracts in more than fifty shades, There is still a vast field for discov e materials to offset our unthinking wastes. We use 1 tures only a handful of fibre-producing plants like Of about 110,000 varieties that grow on the ¢ Washington may be overcrowded, but inventi age, at least. In view of being made in the best use That men t ‘outcome is ing how to d stalk | ms are being so! the conclusion see d for every man \with ave thus far proved the ¢ proposition, “My life |s-ai] | had to give," sald the Russian gir), Ze p Manged' for the'niurder of Gen, Min. Assassination {s the wea of the Mhought she represented. Can we say that her sentiment was less than our Plath Hale's regret thatihe had but one life to give for his country? On two mornings {Bln two weeks a girl cashier in a New York restaurant, AMM after mic mt by her work, has bad to defénd herself against section of Broadway, , Safety for » woman sat the twentydour would be one of tbe, priv + Prva tends a list of more than one hundred different articles in the preparation] nC Md PAA TEM WALL YOU KEEP out oF 3 Vederal Office in Post-Ofitee THAT Jam, O'VE | Building wi oe aR? ft Back to the Wigwam! By Charles Raymond Macauley. | ] THE MEN IN THE NEWS — Straight Talks to liegt Nixola Gres Smith. In Which All New York's Family Skeletons Dangle. fish and that me main difference between people is that the judicious keep the Skeletons s where they belong and the Injudicious hang theirs on the | LETTERS FROM THE DIARY OF A BAD BOY. 2 By fop.” se THE PEOPLE. - - ne iO, WiLL Jones WAL, NORA,JAM on You Dare > GAD FOR Bors TOUCH THAT Jamin! 2 the Faitor of The Evening World seventeen 41 have not t sralized vet, but I-was Where can I & Write to Secretary of State in Which Incorporated. 4 ° oF t Evening World | ; : : Sak she Stop Laughing! The Lost Stitch. _ : ' y | summer Boarder—Do you have va‘e By Margaret Rohe, bearer | tables from your own garden? t ware \ a | “Uncle Silas—No, I hain‘t got no garaen “Janis A to speak of, but I got the best, dan Shor aa sf | ope o1 h et, bigosh.—Phila- “Washington Avyenne, New York BAO reR WittLE jopener on the market, . g Gove Pp | delphia Record. City, Bronx Borough Haiti cd coe Write to Cooper Institute Write Superinigudent of Pabile . ONE MORE TAR, Wwitue, ‘On! me stoma: nH — AND You woul, OM! me } at % : HAVE BEEN AN Macht \nana! se <2, ) Address Charitt Organization, Twenty-seouud Sire Fourth Avenue, City, To the Edler of The Evening World While reading an evening paper I saw |@ notice of an institution where crippled people ean obtain employment, Will jatorm me-where to. | write a-letter,”” NEW YORK THROUGH, © as > FUNNY GLASSES > By Irvin §. Cobh The Ballyhoo in Politics. . 8 has been stated ip a recent numiber of this series A for the young and moral, New York is the town ing front. A chest seven {iches catches that appreciates a palpit that abuts on the landscape a the popular favor, even if there's nothing behind it except atmoephere. We certainly do love a strong ballyhoo—love {t a country bride loves the Eden Musee, For example, take us in the matter of our political affections. Every now and then there arises in our midst a statesman with an impressive torso and noth- ing else tn stock. All his goods are in the front showcase, but nobody seems to know it until it’s too Inte, and then nobody cares The chances are that he could swap his brains for the contents of @ two-grain homeopathic pill without cheating anybody except the pill. but an soon as be acquires a black coat and a working knowledge of some of the big words {n the Unabridged we feel called upon to hop right in and elect him to some {mportant office, in which he rattles around Ike @ baked bean in a coffee-boller. Naturally in time we discover that what we tcok for the Whole Cheese was merely one of the holés in ft, but aa long as he can keep on making a noise like a Limburger we are very apt to keep on voting for him. It is the magic of ths ballyhoo—the mystic enchantment of the bass-drum that has enthralled our common sense We attend his public meetings, and when tho Hon Francia X Foflush arises in his statesman’s clothes and ladles out to us more prom- WHAT'S THE MATTER, wor b —— — co | ises than there are in a sample life insurance policy, We get hypnotized and go to giving creditable {mitations of the Wild Asses of tho Prairie We interrupt his cloquence with the shouted inquiry, oft-repeated “What's the matter with our candidate?” And because there {s no doctor tn the audience to examine his head and tell us what really is the matter with him, we let {t go at that. The eve of the election finds us abroad in the highways, with redfire and loud cries, carrying on like the end of a second act on Third avenue Of course, the sad truth dawns on us just as soon as we begin to have lucid intervals again—that is, !f we ever have any such fier dipping so deeply into town politics. Our hero's promises prove to been made of the same cheap and abundant material that ts used in f the inner tubes of automobile tires. We realize that his impressive waistcoat {s merely the whited sepulchre of a dead one, and ths trouble with his beautiful broad shoulders is he has nothing of | ance above them. THE FUNNY PART Dut we nearly always forget it long enough to give bim a second term, «| TWO- MINUTE TALKS WITH NEW YORKERS. OHO By T. O. McGill. aT HE low-mind- ,to have neither rhyme nor reason, only 4 pe n | blind Jealou who seeks to | “The colored post-cards that are se popular at this time go to some broad emes, but so far we have had but fonsive menseges uble with them. sig tive ple- he card chat gives us the most oe a post-| trouble i the ordinary card, on which | peopie-put-the-momt WéINt and fantestio embarrass people by sending of- { carao | creations | know ¢ | of seldom reach their! “One of the inspectors the other Gay destination, ani| showed me @ card that had been con- chat we are seox-| Hacited that bore « wonderful eym- ing 40 apprehend: Postrim of offensive messages directed te fe all the | @ «well-known married woman of the Willcox yes-| city, ali made up from newspaper cltp- pings of we med EAR MR. OWARLIE PHILL w people in | sid r pecan seer ie You: ection comprises the skeletons of thie injudicious, gathered up by the| sgh ae atege for fifty years and sentenced to perpetual confinement in the record room , jailer Be It # @ fine thing to keep them there, where they cannot annoy the individuals ” ed them down or the families have put them away 1 fine thing for us to realize that Gur skeletons are perfectly nate in that you ame less Mable to tell our secrets than We are our . ! " a i an’t be trusted with even one secret. Yet there , w 0,00 behind your locked I er if ke world of Mght and color and seeming beauty any less ts wkeietons. for seeing the canker tn the rose’s h the flaw T hope a emai The skeletons of the most beautiful things sfe not beautiful. ‘It ts the, dreams we t about them, the woven rat of days and nights with which WR WEN ag et past, to know.| you to realae 4hat your reticence, your fidelity to your trust, makes life beau- eee time. tenday. andied we have @ smal percentage of | Physicions’ announcements. that class of trouble, due, I suppose,| "The anonymous cani-sender hes @ t convictions that have been made / mentality (hac is hard to understand, for similir offonses, and Ave to the fact | and the strange thing about it ts that tat people in New York. have too | frequently it develops that persone many convenient means to entertain! ordinarily Dright in other directions will themselves to indulge in the license of | go to the trouble to Ax up an elab- thought that people in more rural cum | orately insulting card. without stopping munities have, to think whecper we are going to de The thost predominant passion that | liver it or not ak in aponymous post-cards| ‘The anonymous card-sender must jealousy, and our Inspectors gather | have an unhappy mind to carry around up many an insukting card that seems | with him.” ‘So you never find fault with your wife's cooking?” 1 should say not,” answered Mr. 1 Merskton, “When my wife condescends | cook 1 say everything I can to en- ourage her.""—Wasbington Star | “lm glad to say,” remarked Mrs.) ngminde in an insinuating tone, that my husband is not @ sporty man ‘Qhni” replied Mra, Kaftyppe, looking very sweet and innocent, “I'm = sur-/ RANDMA says she's dropped a prised to hear you say that. I hav stitch. always supposed that he must have 7 Alaatt oe At fa mairied you on @ bet.""—Chicago Ree-| 17. nunted for it everywhere ord. And can't find it at all Pee te “tt takes ‘him « painfully long time to | Grandma says she's picked it up I didn't see her do it. any sim-|I gusas old folke are pretty spry ‘Cleveland | 11 only we just knew it, "Yes, he's trying to use plified words as possibl i meters | eso asad a MTS KEEP YO" WAY BTRAIGHT. “In that tropical country,” the re- | De neat Lawd's runnin’ er dia worl’ er turned traveller was Lavan aha of the houses are constructed Sa |e wll i ne country war de good tnciogure bd the centre, which they call ‘Himes te! =