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7 x : We dnesday Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 82 to 61 Park Row, New York. ‘tered at the Post-OMfice at New York an Second-Class Mail Matter. «NO. 16,528, GOING SHY. Gamblers can afford to pay higher interest for the-ise-of money than any legitimate business can | stand. If a man knew in which pocket the roulette ball would drop | or wwhat card was next in the faro}! box ‘he could pay 50 percent. a) minute for the .use-of money to bet} “with and then make a large profit. Wall street runs the biggest) crooked-ganibling—game- inthe Te takes a great deat of ‘ VOLUME 47. WALL STREET world. The public must be convinced that he control of (+= zeal money to cond 2° there &§ money there’ to wi great industries and transcontinental railwa, =~ for their purchase.” “The Wall street layout is thus enormously ¢ y and the ‘conduct “of the xame requires an immense amount of gold.and greenbacks. \ Like all other gambling games, the Wall street game is regulated by rules and customs, The Stock Exchange has a set of stringent rules re preyent internecine Competition. The banks have rules. Nomina stipreme to all is the United States banking law, to which all Ww all street jbanks ate supposed to conform, on penalty of having their charters forfeited and their directors and officers sent to jail. ; One of the requirements of the United States banking law js that a * Bank shall constantly keep on hand, in real money, 25 per cent. of its cur- rent liabilities. —Real_money- ineludes only gold, gold and silver certifi- cates and legal-tender siiver and greenbacks. . National bank notes, cérti- fied checks, drafts, promissory notes, stocks and bonds and the other |> counters of the Wall street game are not real money and do not sutfice — —wnder_the United States law + For three weeks this year the banks have failed to comply with this Jaw and to keep on hand the required 25 per cent.of resl_m: they have the big gamblers’ notes, which are equivalent to ms an ordinary gambling-house. 5 At present the Wall street: game has an enormous antount of chips outstanding, ‘Through the London, Paris and Berlin, distrust of Wall Street's methods foreign loans have had to be paid, with the result tha: the real cash in the drawer has been depleted. The European money _lenders do not take markers in payment. sates To get hold of the cash and to be in a position to redeem th the Wall street gamblers haye put up the rate of interest to a fictiti height. Every storekeeper, manufacturer and builder hiss his legitimat business tnterfered-with-by this process, —Every-customer and-consume: _— has to pay more and every farmer and other producer receives less, be- cause the Wall street gamblers manipulate the real money supply of the United-States.-—— 2 : There is an easy way to stop this. The United States Court is sit ting now in the Post-Office building, five minutes’ walk from the Stoct __. Exchange. The United States Marshal there has a number of able _+ bodied deputies. The United States District-Attorney has suflicient com petent assistants, Fre ¢ ‘ All they need to do is for the District-Attorney to take the weekl bank statements, submit then to the Federal Grand Jury, issue warrant on the Grand Jury's indictments, and have the marshals go down anc Taid the Wall street gambling-houses. : Tt Would take only a few hours, and it would put a stop to a ~ of gambling in-comparison- with whietr tie tiree-shell game is In his: game. u or they will not gamble. | ems requires. real: money, y Sy: ‘Kers in = baths Ordinary. gambling is at the loss only of the gamblers The Wall gambling game is at the expense of the demoralization of the business of the United States. ” — Letters from the People. One # More Tranait Kiek. To the Tditor of The Evening W yant to register a kc trains make between as far as/Ferty-seventh ht passing only two or| bot when-the train gets! the tires losals, hereby Trust wil) centopae—orwill the Tntiza We hone Titue a abmething i aide between oatictheeny AED; the ‘Munlenl” Languages, Way la tt ¢ Evening Werld? 6 the trusts that will pat-them out of dors Kindly disctise this teint: | pustiess? “It In ae that they mo the sweetest, most ‘musical | nopolize everyting. You say\in your World—Fronch, | editorial, nksglving whould “be » ere dors En- | real giving by a tiation of mien u HG | women whose hahds are clean.! ‘That Usuntty in Early November, | 1s whal Thankegiviig should be. Bu. Is RT ~You-say, "The public!seryice cor- porations can pay Into the olty, treas | ury the $29,000,000 back taxes whiqh they | owe.) Yes, they could pay !t tut do Lsid soy CEES 5 | vou think they will pay 1) No) Be SAP airteal adbanais Wort ange | ® lone sight. The only way they will pay anything te -by.force,.and that—tx for a pound (Bri money). He want- pte y shillings aaetxpences, with | Wat 4 advocate—lemil force, good and | ¢ Hittor of The Evening World: 3 do we have Indlan summer? R, British Money :Again. one Sixpence over, How did he get It, | Plenty. readers? vA OC. “Overtin A To the Fdltor a 1 Who ¢ ole, FLWhao Cha | Cools T employ elven men. Of that list Just nk SVoeldi | three ever take the trouble. to get to\ the shop ah arriving there | early, by goto work ahead of time, Only th three will ever work [a minute after hours —withett, special Orders. None of. the eleven are union ig Young men cook and wagh, do those two ; + or, se ith good com- mon horse senso, ax the waying ges, dnd who will make home m tite! Members, eo have no schedule to gulde cheavens Companions are very hard to| em, Therefore thelr long or short find whore tastes and ideas correspond| ROUF® are pu . nd ideas correspond | sang. “ho with thos of the {find i so. ~Ty be aatd, however, ne other ‘elght 4 brute end @ willl wonder 4) raises at Chri vit and } m Rag alriktit-to ask for ina man. such | Mey don't get raises too, Let. other _P man should pe of principles, of goog, MEOH We mer boss, | why the papers shduld make such a +} INSTHE- HOUSE 30 World’s — Dail y Magaz ine, Take Your Choice By J. Campbell Cory. papers? twig didn’t you re: muse I don Ing “\Well don't start fussing at me. then," said Mr, “November 21, 19,06) ,/amd-out Into the streets shouting abroad ityyppHAT’S all thix talk abolt trial marriages I see in the * asked Mrs, “What do Jarr. ad it? th SVENInK PUPS Noms wilh 2 = ‘sald Mr. Jarr, “you could find the time rejoined paper aw; Fa, and Til tell you about the trial marriage eclieme.” “I'm _not fussing with nt At any. time, ‘Tim sure my jnarriagé has been a triatto me," said Mrs, Jarr, ns if to her- era severe glance 9 Jarr gave “Oh, yes, 1 -kna: nd the children, and the man Hmony, either; and — “You are (atking about divorce triais, pat trish marriages? A simy That's uttngly, “But go on, you make 4t all “I'm glad you think 80,” replied tui sure 7 can't 89 Mrs. We can fuss ou ask mo for? time to read a thing!’ declared fl Ret time to iook’ at the deaths gagementa and read the ¢ry go aa Jarr, sarcastically, with you when you so down word but what y yout whether we fuse or time reading {t}"" replied Mr. Jarr, up words. Mis. _ and we-get twith-ssmie heat declared Mrs. Jar’, “yout the preacher up Jarr, re ke tone, Tal marriages’ n@_continued: ces are when people find out thoy can't get along togethor’ interrupted Mrs. Jarr. “Then they go to court fora al jrew- and Bay horrid-things about each—other, amt the woman wants alimony dogan't want her to have the children or any no clear a Sarr. about tt, other th nothing “on gently, “why don't at yentenced for lifet"* why I say I don't see GA’ OFCOURSE. Coons gAAVEE JF ROOM “SHOULD BE THE Mo: ; ATTRACTIVE Room WOULDN'T 17.BE CUTE TO MAKE A SUN PARLOR FOR aT OUT OF THE CHINA CLOSET _ DECORATE WITH PALMS TELE PHONE UP THERE IT MAKES IT TWICE AS NICE FOR COOK. SUN PARLOR COMPLETE. ints tromethe House tion M60) Sot Ube Room SOME. | T'S A GOOD PLAN TQ HAVE A FEW OF COOK'S FRIENDS PRESENT, WHEN SHE ,. COMES HOME_IT HELPS Mr, Jarr, controlled trial marriages, I believe," {happy or had no childre hew,’ tsa naar you' mean—old thing A-Mr. Sarr, |didn't-mean it when T-said-that-my marriége is-a-trial THE JARR FAMILY % yy By Roy L. McCardell You're as bad as the newspap | Parsons,’ [though that sounds disrespectful, and I think ‘preacher's wife’ sounds better, “She isn't a preacher's wife. student of sociology, and that's her nacie, ‘Mrs. Parpons!'"" declared ‘Well I'm sure {t ts all the same, andy: “Dreacher's wives ara ve dea-runaway marrage and stopped at the preacher's wife, Ic hhsband gave the preach gto you. but it takes 3 “And we wouldn't escape {f we ceuld!” declared I'm glad T didn't bother my lwas decided that they wouldn't buy a copy of “The Family." eh? ALWAYS BE CAREFUL NOT To PuT TO adeeb IN THE “Oh, you are, are you?" sneered Mr. Jarr, ‘Well, please let me get a word in edgeways and tell you that they are| two different things. “Mrs. Parsons'’—— " \interiected Mrs, Jarr, “the -way you mix Al Why don’t you say “the Parson's Mrs. She's a\ Congressman's wife, and sh peodin't ba-sosnappis: nowy, ooked at het, although Mrs. a” Kreat 'r,_Jarr, doit -it ts ve Mrs, Kittingly’ sald when Jersey parsonage, the way that Kittingly says her and It was ‘o'clock In the morning and they woke ad He married them tna dressing gown by the-lght of a kers= jrene lamp, and I'm glad, anyway, even if I might have done better, I had a nice home wedding"=— . c ou Ustening to me, or am I listening to you?" demanded Mr, aa night to tell 12 saplled wre, 5 TWENTY-FIVE E ROMANCES PROGRESS By Albert Payson Terhune No, 6—ARCHIME DES—The Absent-Minded Discoverer. T | word te wild of eye, long of beard. He was_yelling at intervals the Greek. ureka!” (“I have discovered ft!) Nor a atitch of clothing covered or was he aware of his own nnde state until arrested by the scan= authorities, + The man wha:thus unconventionally burst upon the public gaze was Archimedes, greatest of old-time inventors and mathematicians, - The reason for his peculiar action was that a certalh amazing discovery he had just worked out had so elated him that he absent-mindedly forgot averything cleo in the joy of the moment. . % And this 1s how the discovery was made: | Syracuse, had ordered a heavy and beautiful gold crown con ted for him=. self. He had reason to suspoct that the jeweller co whom he had intrusted the task had cheated him by mixing a quantity of alloy with the gold that went into the Minking of this royal emitlem. But Hiero had no means of proving wisest man in his. realm, and asked him to find ont some way whereby he could make certaln of the presence and exact amount of alloy in the crown, Arclilmedes undertook the problem, though he had no reason for sup~ morning while thus. pondering he stepped into his bath. Ashe did so he noticed that the tub, aiready, full to the brita, overowed when his body entered <i > million people had eryed simflar action on the part of water, but-to-none of thetii had it suggested any espectaitdea, To Archimedes, hawevér, the incident meant something. He instantly, « | use. This principle, briefly, erts that any object plunged into liquid sustains an upward pressure equal to the-weight of the water it displaces, In other words, that the body Immersed loses as much weight while under. was but a step for him to' figure out an absurdly simple plan for determin- ing the amount of wWloy fri Hiero’s crown. He would drop the crown into a Vessel full of water and then, after removing it, drop in an equal weight of Delighted at,this double mental feat. Archimedes leaped from the bath his great discovery. He wna heavily fined for hls indecorous action and rewarded by Hiero with a laurel : Nor was this the only scientific discovery Archimedes made in Hler behalf. The King had 4 magnificent galley whose hold became full of water, With tha primitive appliances of the time {t was well nich impossible to cylinder, which st.ould rim from the bottom of the bald to the upper alr. Inside this cylinder he arranged a long, spiral, close-fitting screw, air tight, and twisted by a crank from above, By turning this screw the water was King Hlero, Greek ruler of nee) A Strange Problem and Its Solving. Ais suspicions. He therefore sent for Archimedes, whom he admired asthe posing he could solve it. For days the matter was ever on his mind, One the water, This was a simple phenomenon. while stilt bathing, sot ‘to work on the great “Archimedes Principle,” still in* water as the weight of an equal volume of the liquid {tself. From this it gold and watch'the difference of the two overflows. crown for his Invention, ball it. He appealed to Archimedes. of course drawn up from the hold through the cylinder and emptied out. This achievement of making water flaw uphill was regarded as miraculous, But thepsrohimeneg screw hada greater use. importants fea On its principle is modelled the scilew which forms so of modern motive power, In jnathematics Archimedes excelled all men of his century. He worked out the a:utual relations betveen sphere and cylinder and the measurement i of a circle and made known the sclence of lever- age. ‘The complex crank-and-pulley are also of his devising. By his various discoverles and In- ventions he founded the ‘entire art of mechanica 2 _tn tne 1o-lay._To-no—other man do mechanics, mathematics and physies owe so much. ‘ Those were the days of Greek decadence. Marcellus, the Roman Gen- era! besieged Syracuse. Archimedes at once turned his talents to account in devising catapults and othet war engines that worked havoc on the in= yaders. He is even seid to have orranged a collection of burning glasses 1m such n way as to Set fire once to the attacking Roman fleet. Marcellus. like all the world, regarded Archimedes with reverential awe, He gave strict orders that, In case the clty should be captured, Archimedes gud all Ns-property were to be spared But-when, in-212-R,-C,, tho-Romang,- ‘after a three years’ sicge, stormed Syracuse, Archimedes fell victim to his own absent-mindedness. : The victorious soldiers, rushing through the city, came upon a man, seventy-five years old, seated in the middle of the market-place, tracing geometrical figures in the sand with the point of his staff. It was Archime- He was so absorbved {n puzzling out a problem {n mathematics that ha As the soldiers ran up he erled ROS Devises War Engines Against City’s Foes. pay des. aid not even know the city was cxptured, warnin, “Don't disturb ny figures with your great stamping feet The next Instant a half-dozen spear-pofhts passed through hfs body. oh t Why Jealousy Is Not |= Proof of Tru By Helen Oldfield. () all popular fallacies there is probably none which ts so generally belleyed, and at the same time so ul- tenable, as the idea that jealousy 1s an indispensable accompaniment and an indubitabdle proot of love. On the contrary, mot one per cent. of the jealousy which disputes, so many uncomfortable ours, ts ¢) Indirectly Pdi te tee teve of self ‘True and ganuine affection for - sther sceks and desires the good of that other above ait> ae eine aboutt a Tf Witt a viotent-cftort.“Wewere talking about fin TF -ROOM — Fit in C1 LODE T QND FASTEN FUMMLY. ia LIBRARY. 0. MARY SUN' PARLOR ONCE- WE LosT “Mrs, Parsons's book suggests, among many , that people might marry on) probation; mI Mer-ttthey were not might separate |and marry othera.” fi declared Mrs.) Jarr,. “people do that every day, tf they can afford divoree or going to Dakotit.* rin}, ff-not a triat-marriage," ssid Mr, Jarr, but very By Jean Mobr. A in order to insure the happiness: of that other. The jealousy felt by such love an this tm but a passing twinge, an un- expected donging for the gracious look, the bright smile which has beén bestowed elsewhere, but nothing more, Love which deserves the name brings all) which —f = noblest arid best Ih amans OF woMan'a RAlurs to Wie frank, aiid genuine, devoted love is never productive of anything but good to both lover and object. Even: where 4t {= unfortunate in that tt 1s not reciprocated, it is still Sat Mea ie ee aie eee ennobling in (hat it is and must be unselfish, = = 2 Jealousy, on the contrary, crushes all they cood, encourages all the litties Tarr proudly. — Bonito oe aneas tie: pettiness ina. character, It secketh its own, and ts resultant of gi ¢ misery, or at least of discontent all around. No large minded man or woman ia _ capable of -mean-jealousy, and while it-may be possible that a trifiing amount mas —a-—a._comptiment tithe beloved tf -encouraetd tt bocomes source oe — perpetual atrife,—-Carried to extremes, it -becomes-n-2pecios—of insanity which: not infrequoatly Joads even to murder and suicido, the dally records of police courts. ea 4t may be safely waid that jealousy of, the ordinary sort. whict we find so. SHEA His Ana OMA WHO prowess 10 1OTS——enen er are eepectally it “women, the joalousy which warps the character and leaves uightly Jines upon , & jealousy which excitea more contempt than p S unliappy poesessor, le cauxed by VAnITY nd, besic his, jealousy which is W prev Tove, Gute Ga SORT as is abundantly proved by 3 inexcusable, 2 The prime rect of-jeatousy is vanity where women are concerned. It a as gall and wormwood to the jealous woman to see attention and admiration given to ancther, It 18 quite possible that she does ot desjre thos nttentiong for seracif, but none the less she resents the fact that they are pald to snother, Shoe wanta the centre of the stage wherever she may be; she wants to be first with cyery one and in everything. — : Stie disiikea to'hear other women commended, and though she may possibly remark upon their attractions herself, may speak of thelr good looks, more probaMy of other good qualities, however, she always wanta it understood y that her own attractions are subetior. z Nor ta thig by any means only when a favored lover'ts tn queation; It fe with; ry and any one, and 1s nothing mare or Jess than inordinate vanity, coupled n thtense selfishness.=:Chicago ‘Tribune. cle: eee 74 - Scientific Facts About Gold. HE term “old gold’ 1 understood to refer tp specimens of that prectous I metal-asit-was used fifty or a hurdred years ago when {t was distin guished by tts palo color, Modern old 1s mixed with other metnis in Might proportion and takes on a darker hue; but even pure gold has various tints, » “Most people suppose,"’ says an assayer In the Philadelphia Press, “that all gold tx alike when refined, but this Is not the case. An experienced man can tell at a glance from what part of the world a gold plece comes, and in some cases , from what part of a particular gold-district the metal was obtained, “The Australian gold, for instance, ts distinctly redder than the Californian, and this differance in color 1s always perceptible, even when the gold {s 1000 fine. “Again, the gold obtained from the placers tx yellower than that .which ta taken directly from the quartz. Why this should be tho case Is one of tho mysterfes of metallurgy, for tho placer gold all comes from the veins, ‘The Urab gold’ 1s the reddeat fount anywhere, : x o “ew people know the real color of gold, for It Is seldom seen unless heavily alloyed, which rendera it redder than when pure, The purest coins ever made were the $60 pleco that used to be common in”@sHfornia, Their coinage was. abandoned for two reasons: first, because the loss by abrasion was #0 great, ani secondly, because the interlor could be bored out and lead substituted, the dit — ference In weight being too small.to be readily noticed {n so email a piece, ‘These, octagonal cokis were the most valuable over truck,’ i \ ‘ HROUGH the crowded streets of the anclent Sicilian city of Syracuse. one day late tn the thind century BC. rushed -en-elderly-man, bald, é Love. | exists and which caUses so Moen unhappmness, xo many AX Ghd stil more tinlovely and Tait ; | AO The latter planned out a water-tght—— Hiteg with }— Pash ttas to -he-a-casiase