The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1907, Page 18

ws 4 ¥ ‘4 “The Evening World's Daily Magazine, Friday, January. 25, 1907. Owdlishes by the Press Pu! Company, No: 8 to @ Park-Row, New! Tork Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. oecet septa set ood bel Rid ENOLUME AT 00. i peccsn sere covcee cucees erseee veered NO, 16,583- ee ICE WEATHER. - With the winter half gone the Ice Trust houses are still unfilled and | President Oler and his associates are preparing for another ice famine. This extortion should not be worked on the people of New York twice. The time to call attention to it is now and not next July when it is too Rte There was opportunity In December to fill eyery ice-house on the upper-Hudson.~ The-severe coldspell froze the river and the ice was to ten inches thick, strong enough tp bear the weight of a railroad | winter, but the harvest then was not gathered and ¢, tsvas waiting for fifteen-inch and befare he weather changed. 1 cost of cutting and storing nine-inch ice and} “fifteen-inch ice is about twenty cents aiton. The thicker ick costs .a) little less in-proportion to cut and-It.cam:be handled in larger cakes. ‘Another cold spell has come-and the: Hudson ice again is nine inches thick, but the Ice ‘Prist would rather-run_the-risk-of‘an-Ice-famine than $ profit: . , With the experience of last year} asa guide, itis even more likely nm tons of were. sold for inore- than. the ordinary six million ton crop’brings. The profits were augmented “both: by'saving the cost of cutting and} handling two million tons of ice and “by the higher price which the scarcity enabied. ‘The people and’ the= business tn- Se Sra eR see terests of the city shou!d not allow themselves to be caught twice by this device of an ice famine gratuitously created-by not-cutting ice. easy to make artificial Sshrtts-use-thanhaturat Ice." “The “bioeks are “more uniform, the freezing “ts harder and more even, and there are not the flaws and air bubbles to cause waste. Between now and next summer every large ice consumer i : plant does not take up much room: It is easy to = tun. A cellar is an excellent location. ‘The motive power can be taken from cant engine or gasoline éngine.or.eléctric motér, The water | to make the ice can be taken from the Croton supply pipes. ats chines cost-from$500-up, not-including-the power.There- trist-and-there-aremany different styles of machines, | some utilizing ammonia or other chemicals and other machines taking ——advantage of the -welt-known properties of compressed air. The cast-of making ice varies from 80 cents to $1.50 per ton, the larger the capacity of. tl | the cheaper the power—the-less the cost. of. The Central Association of Liquor Dealers in the Bronx Is arrang- ing to make its own ice. The saloon-keepers use at Ice Trust prices “$15,000 of ice per day during the simmer months. They can make and deliver thelr own ice in large quantities for 10 cents per 100 pounds, and they would make a good profit selling the surplus to the public at 45 cents to 20 cents per 100 pounds. The butchers and milkmen should follow the example of the saloon- keepers and arrange to make their own ice. Indeed, the saloon-keepers and ‘the butchéts could profitably co-operate and save duplicate delivery . Toutes. Lai Toide emilee es ut as The most effective way to put the Ice Trust Out of business is to make your own ice. It took the people of England less than.a month to _ put the British Soap Trust out of business by using other-soap,-and-it would not take more..than_one-season-to-wind- up-the-tee- Trust; should ~ its artificial ice famine all to itself. . Letters from the People. Indorses “Separate Care” Idem | syllon, The brute Mo the Féttor of Tha Fxantng World; —-—| board the-tratn—ther Uek-her int effort-that-The Evening World la| Mie aide with his e:bow and the qu making to put an end to that disgrace-| ahut the door tn her face fal “Brookisn Bridge Crush’ by having] dqn't take a hand on these express » separate cars for women !s not only! tat we will have to take the law tn 7 deaaible but practical and worthy of the| our own hands and ee ie @tehest “pratse ‘Troma, ‘ite care!» r coe enerenrouaes tobe pote: Keep “up the 50d work, gad a eepaTate entrance at idge f0r unprotected women would help ats feo: Zam aure you the all true gentle- men with you. E.G. B, T. tera greatly in that direction, Lam sure, After that haativecnbraccornilaned Nad’ Weather and Earthaua fwould also be In order to force the| To the Ea‘tor of The I “Brooklyn Rapid. ‘Transit Company to| The aniaelaglon ten weather we have employ—at tho company's expens4—at | had most of the winter must have son Jeast ity extra polwremen who would) scientific cause, In It In any away oon bo under the Jurisdiction of our regular! nected with the Jamaica cadence os Police Department, to keep the plain, | with the conditions which cased (het ‘ordinary hogs—mon and boys—who aro! earthquake? Last year we had eats Pacing | usundly mild winter. Then came the on} Vesuvius earthquake, We had the fan r o-earthquake, and then came euumer for years. Is there ist who can explain Chis? DSA. 80 anxious to{ at a Ifthe poilce ering Wortd: aiways pushing, squeezing and } he others when they reach platforms, in thelr proper F. G. BIGRI = A Grocery Problem. ‘]o the Haltor of The Evening W SWI readers discuns the problem: A grocer sold goo ‘Aomer amounting to Ho afterwards wold to the sa “tomer goods amounting to ~jawelghts averaging 161-2 ounces “ppind. How’ mucli did the grocer make ‘or lose by the falye wetgtts? Cc. hh f The Subway Cro To ttm, EAtlor of The ‘Evening W. On miysway home I read the article! auntitled, “Police Clubs Needed to Check Subway Hoga"! and (must say that 1 year ity —agres with sit, “When f got home T)seerns to be i erin bed sick fron a} by that-the Ice~Trust~ prefers “an ice parsed into-an uneasy doze, = the people of New York make their-ownice-and-tet-the teeTrust:have{- NOW You'RE SURE YOU CAN RUN THIS) MACHINE ARE YO. COUNT DE KAKIACK? WATT! Twit, TORY CINE You Z& FINE PLHIBLTION | IRR ENGINE Dreams That Came Tru URING a breath of promise mult on eplstle written by the faithless lover In It he stated that he would terminate all relations with the young lady, as there ‘were “no «tyns of the coal business ever becom: ing m fact." In explaining this peoullar reason the defendant stated that for three nights In succession he had dreamed that the father of the girl had been made of his lands. This dream had ted him te the matter and aes. the likellhood of the dream ever coming truo, but his efforts being fruitless he doxded to break oft the engagemcnt."In summing up. the casé to the jury the Judge commented soatiingly upon the ord’ motivis.of-the mercapary-toyer and the-Hited one was ‘The father, though a hard-headed business man, could! waa produced. rich by finding a rich seam of coal on to court tho girl that ho might in awarded §20 damages. que! proved, found it tn! married file gis. Search partie: success. One of tho sear: and disappetred one evening at durk, country during the night, but witho: early the noxt morning tired he a ut with lus long search, but, unable to: sles} when he-dreamed_that_he saw-tho missng-—oh: passed in ther | a: not rid himself of -certain-inipresstons received during the young fian’s teNing of his oft-repeated dream, 00 com:nenced boring for coal In tho field and, ax the so- h quantities that he ond his daughter are now | eaeth—a seal! fantuno thrasch-sici-nd.The faithless taxer-now-avisheshe-bad ‘A story comes to us from Scotland of a dream being the means of waving the }vea of two Nit!e children near Dumérien. They were daughters of a blacksmith scoured the neighboring By R. W WELL; GUESS CAN CAN FOR pew FEST OF FIRG HOS | ANOA PEW ‘hADDERSG THEYRE CHARGED of went to the place, and, lo and behold, he found the children fast asleep, Gen by ® dense pile of brushwood, In 18M George Baudler married a woman ten years older than himself aher Ww In turn obtained the infyrmation that George had gon money; it not en for a dream the real bulidiug ween beycle factory, and at noon she #23 der of her nusband = saved and the"real murderer 4! beim hrd-concemnimg-the-erent-—Her-rame wee Mar Ther nton~and-6he in jail a month whenjshe requ This-being- done she to! | morderat her husband (her to the astonished Judzo, who |that hs caused a search to be and tho Judse, charging him -satching tin HENRY. PECK! THERE YOU. ARE AGAIN, SELFISHLY ENJOYING YOURSELE! Y% NOTHING TO APIUSE PIE= POSITIVELY NOTHIN Irs YouR MOVE HENRIETTAL “HIS MIEW OF IT. all have to ank sunt to come for en Hox menue ex: pad ob streotsup-town Lntment, or whatt?'t ereonally, I’ should call ft a! She-I sald all o toby Bie me AW COMI Fane teh skentien ef dreams, he getup and sanfosecd ta-everething and ihe womanwas pelea! If YOU Had a Wife Like This. NO EXCEPTION, t She—No, I can never marry you. All la tew days, Jack. Shall Teal] st a visit] our family ts opposed to He—But. jf you are note ur family,.—Smith's| have the heal eens | ONY, ua, {cHESs! THATS WHAT] YOu oe el { C Irs- Your MOVE; SHENIIET TAL S7 G STRIKING-A_ BARGAIN, Misa Millyun—Ono can be very happy {n this world with health and money, Degdbroke—Then’ let's be mado ons. I th and you have the alluntrated Bites!) 5 meio ee day,” paid Meeker, _fDhat'a’ more than I yer to: ®& tone By John A; Morris. roll County, Ul. For awhilo'he was eatisfed with life as a farmer, but after to ses Guorge's mother, disguised: aaa} ing a wondrous knowledg» of the latter's affairs, she to Chicago. Borrowing left the city, hut migitt not have located the object of her search had fis had concerning his whereabouts. Tho fourth night after janding tn Chicago she saw, in a dream, her husband coming out of a ing which she-recognized ma ‘Tattersol!'s Next-day-sle went there and: sewthe r recreant epouso Jeo W lunch. Ho utterwards won aryested-anditatled ona charge -of-desertton; ‘Another dream comes from Bt. Louis In which a wif charged with the mur- ed through a dream HER EXPERIENCE. — ‘J found a bargain tn men's shoes ti “Faylor THES® TITLED® WITH HOMICIDE, ARSON, SHUPFERS Come HIGN, DUT WE, MAVE_TO HAVE EM! JL AAAME Sr AS Lisi] ASNOUCAN Juven ! though th Car- but! asted one of the Jallers to Tet her wee the Judge. | him-that she dreamod that a man namod George Ray Full details of how such murder occurred were given by 50 {Impressed by the woman's earnestness The man wea found, 1 details of the occur- ren trence ae the woman te) given them Ray was thunderatrinl Tt was ns If some minit the crime had reported the matter In every detail “Ha! 2 & & & & ByF.G.Long | In the keeping of this vow he mai Yet he was soon to tast six! ih SIXTY HEROES WHO MADE HISTORY . By Albert Payson Terhune. No, G6—SCIPIO AFRICANUS, the Hero Who Avenged Hia Father by Conquering #« Contluent, : \ ROMAN GENERAL had fallen, sorely wounded.~ Aboyo him, sword ~~ lA in hand, stood his seventecn-yearvold son, fighting back the enemy ~ who pressed In to slay or capture their wounded foe. Andso hero~ ‘feally did the boy defend his fallen father that the assailants gave back”. | jand the General's Ife was saved. ‘The Roman who was thus rescued by. @ | half-grown ind’s prowees was Publius Sclnio, the elder, His son was Pub- | us Cornaliuz Scipio, destined to become known a8 Scipio Africanus, Tha, {ume wns. 217 BOC. | Carthage, burning “to avenge her earlier defeats by Romo, had sontw “nlghtarmy under der greatest General, Hannibal, to Invade Europe. Han~ i nidal speedily urade himeclt ntester of Spain, then marched across Gaul | (FSance) intottaty.— "The elder Selplo wab-sent-to-head im_off, but was unsuccessful. The armieq:imet several times, hotaoly on tho Trebla (where © eiplo'stife was saved by his sq), and each time tho Romans were beaten, Scipfo was then,sent into Spaia to check’ Carthage’s growing power there, - | He was defeated and-killed.Yet-his death was a-greater blow to Carthage than to Rome. For his son, the future “Africanus,” vowed ‘to avenge him. jo his name. fmmortal and saved die coun- | } pirytrom-ruin 7 wont 3 When he was only twenty-two young Scipio wis made high magistrate . | (oedlle) of Rome. ‘At twenty-four’ he voluntecred to lead an army inti. }Spaiit to-complete the wore there im which his father had fatled and died. © 4 \He recelved the office-of Proednsul and ‘at the héad-of a smatl army began *%, vhis Hfe-task-of vengeance, Ina whirlwind campalgm he atuicked the Cars) | thaginians, defeating thi Pe f em agjin and again, and at Jast capturing New Car. | thage, their Gpanish headquarters. . By his merey + toward the-comucred hi nthe ‘allegiance of the | wild: Spanish @lbe no had sgilled themselves | Carthage. Hannibal's brother, Hasdrubal, oo + } ed whatowns believed to bo an impregnable posi- ; ption, ' Sctplo drove him from it, beating him in a decisive battle. Carthage! j raised a'new and Jarger,Spanish army. In 207-b. C. Scipio crushed » t00, | 'He.had thus swept Carthage's power out of Spain and ade nearly the | latter country a Roman dependency. % iy -to-Romsintriumph and was cect Consgt.— But Ne was sutisfed, He hud carried out to a Victorious conclusion his [father’s uncompleted wor} ficiently avenged! He adked Ing the wr jnto the enemy's own bi ta. j itself. Ths plan at first sight seemed Yash, and the Senate ‘hesitated, Ton | Hannibal was still. in ltaly, or vears he had-ravaged the country-and had + | once even-marched to the very gates of Rome. No ono had ever been able | ftocbext him nv batter and nistiame was 0 terror to every Roniane “But Sclplo | | pointed out that by carr) r into Africa and menacing Carthage he tmight frighten the Car! inte calling Hannibal home. to-detend | | the capital, and thus rid Italy of Tae Senate finally consented. | So, in 204 B.C rs old, Scipio landed an army thoa-coast-of—Afric. Tarthaginiansrushed-to—_repel_hit Dut he repeated): boattham, unt; ee-he-had-foreseen, ey recalled Hannk- ; |ba! from ltaly to repel the invaders. Back came Hannibal, bring-} ying with him veterans of the Italian wars and ralsing a hugo levy | | of raw recruits. ‘The armies of Rume and Carthage met at Zara, Oct. 19, 203. |B. Ce Setpio won an overwhelming victory. Hannibal for the first time in | is life was defeated, ‘The aufeat placed Carthage-at Rome's morcy, The | --Africans-sued-for—peace,-and—Selplo—foreed-on- them-terms-so humiliating — that he felt his father was at last ‘avenged. On his return to Rome Scipfo was acclaimed as-a hero and the preserver | of his country. The Senate conferred on him'tho 6urname of Africanus (th +Atrican);tn-honor-ot-hisurthage campatgn, and 1oaded, him with honors, |, 4 e the ingratitude of republics He and his trother+—— | Lucius were sent to congiier Antiochus, King of Syria. They. did so,‘ but | {in their absence Scipio's enemies had-been busy. ‘They dared ‘openly.| _| ;attack sO popiilar A mA AK Séiplo himself, eo they accused Lucius of mis- ; eppropriating public moneys. Lauctus- came to trial; carrying with dim his ; 7 account bocks, whereby he could prove his inno- | Most Remarkable? , i$ Spench in History. 7 - Pa rn His enemies, growl: ; accepting es from Antfochus. ‘The case. 3 ‘or_trial in the Forum, }Selpto-scorned to defend hiineolt, “Wien sated upon aa oe the charges he arose and, addressing (he througed assembly, made mn speech) fwhich, tn the light of present notions, was a monument of conceit. But it |must be remembered that modesty, real or assumed,’1s a modern virtue aud was unknown fn.anclent Rome. Scipio began ‘by telling over the great ‘deeds he had dono for his country and tho debt the fatherland owed him,, | He sald, with truth, thathe had raised Rome from a harassed and merely, |tocal power to the-practical mastery of the world. He went on to remind his hearers that the date of the trial (Uct. 19, 189 B.C.) was the anni; of the battlo-of Zama, and ended by asking the citizens ef Rome to drop all other business and follow him to the temple, there to pray that the gods might grant them children as good and as great ‘as he. At the conclusion of this remarkable harangue Scipio stalked, unmolested, out of the place, followed by the entire enthusiastic audience, leaving no-one in\the Fortuny except his baffled accusers. | The case was at once dropped. But Scipio never forgaye his ungratofat fellow-citizens, He retired to his country seat and there remained in-voluntary. Lextle-suntt-his-death;-tn-183-3.-C.“He-dted-in the samo yea as ‘his great |foe, Hannibal, leaving a name second to none, except Caesar's, in. all | Roman history, i ing bolder, accused Selpto.ot | i i i ans aoe. > am 1 a Pee Ten Famous Women in Make-Believe History -_No, 6,—The- Maid-in-the Garden. -By-Margaret Rohe. — ATE ing Wes Th SS GaIOE counting out: Gis-moneyy Toushed.for twenty,’ he sighed aster: the rubber band on the bank-roll. “I'm willing to bet a month's rent Kid Miller in hia palmiest daya neve: had anything on’ my boocheous Queen when it comes ¢o the }-tightt:~-fingered- thing. ——And~she's-pot a rerte A] sevon wayd when 1t comea to finding out my hiding-places: E—thought—when—i—siipped—tha—bundie— back —of | onyx “stock “ligt WEht it Would be safe, but"—the King sighed “some more, as he heart the ‘Bis “consort. = re z my love," nnid the Queen "f wish , Feu; top on your mvay to the office and order me angirl intelligence bureaat.!! soe <fWhat's the matéer with Mahitable Annl aaled.th Ring. "She's right there witht the nvuffins, and the wayrahe CAN put chicken Afaryland together ts a wonder,” Ee — Mehitatile Anns too-supetatiticus-to-piease-me,"- a oo “gecigedly,—"Bhre-coeolera 1t bad 1uok to tel! tho truth. I sent. up_to the-root with the wash, after she'd said, “Whoah you-all want me to hang deso‘yer xarmonts, Missy? I don't seo no gyarden, an‘ I'a tn the habtt of being ‘ferred to as de maid in de gyarden.” I told her to beat {t on unstatre and not to let any other hired girl take our olothesling. She came back a Uf He while -ayo Ath the wxtr-all-pevted-oft-her-nose.I-asked ter what had hap~ { pened and sho handed me.out ® lot of stuff that would have made Ananias look; lke G. Washing¥in. Sald while she was hanging out the clothes along cama” a blackbird ari nipped off her nose.’ “A figure of sprec' nald the King, easily, ‘She probably got into an argue ment with the girl next door about the use of the lino and they mfxed {t up Blackbird 1s her poetio name for a lady of her own color, If I were yout,” Queenle, Ia think twico before I let her fo, Gho's good to the baby and only | goes out seven nights and ten Thursdays.” i Bes ‘yell, if you think It's best, we'll let hor #tay,” agreed the Queen, emiably, “though I em perfectly willing to dismies ter and do the cooking myself." | i t “Always my own folf-sacrificing lttle Queenlet,” eaid th himaelf he muttered, “If she over tries to make that threat ‘ll lect fms self a member of the Alimony Club eo quick {t'll make her head swim!” ———— Sentence Sermons for Busy ‘Readers, ‘aq OME heaven in the heart {s the essential passport to hemven as a home, || S The man who pats you on the back not always is pushing you forward, re “ It 1s a great thing to moye men, hut {t may be a grester thing to be moved. It you cannot say No to many trifles you will never say Yes to shy gromt triumph, 2 Some folks always ia taken, ‘As soon as a lazy man finds out-what it costa to be a sun he goes tanto tho cloud business ‘There's a good eminence. ‘Tho law that brings good’ tru from evil eowing., ‘ ‘Tne root of ayll does not become the tres of life by planting-tt In-an ecclesiastical atmosphere. i 4 : y ‘The :darkest harrdr of all is"to teeome bind to the ight of love. t ots of people -of excaplag pray, ‘Worgive us our debts" just before the offering | i "deal of atfference between social pdommence and personal 4 1¢ from good weed must bring-pain and tous