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Ta esday, February 26, lass Mail Matter. ss Entered at the ost-Oflce at Now Yerk os The a vening ‘World's Daily Magavine ims, _ Don't Be a Mollycoddle! By Maurice Ketten; ) Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. $3 to @ Park Row, New York. | ATiessee A DOLLAR A WEEK. ‘According to the annual report of the New York savings banks the <fumber of depositors 1s now 2,753,295. and the total of their deposits is | “over $1,400,000,000, an amount greater than the bonded debt of the; United States .. NO. 16,625. MOoLLycoDDLE These depositors, who outnumber the inhabitants of Manhattan Isl are to. be commended for their wisdom. If aif men of small means wer | to follow their example-the community as a whole would be much better | of. There was not one savings bank failure in the past year. There is! nota single sayings hank now whose report is not creditable to its man- ~ agement -and-whox snot beyond question. a i In these days of get-rich-quick schemes, ‘of mining stocks, of specu- ~- lation in: bucket-shops; poolrooms, on the curband: in the Stock Ex- : - change, ts most timels—to tint to the sayings banks and to point out the superiority ‘to every man) of small earnings'and limited means of depositing:a definite surplus regu- | Jarly_at-interest. Lanta. | '. For a rich man to speculate is one thing. He-can afford to lose! Some money. He has time: for per- | sonal investigation of the risk and he has the power to enforce’ his legal rights: He may win or he) zn = may__lose, but in either_case the transfer of wealth is not a vital. matter. To all the men who work for wages or on salaries their only hope for a peaceful old age and for a life free from racking money cares is, to provide teforehand fer the future. They should take no risk. When | ___ they spec ey stake their family's future and their own peace of | mind against a few dollars. Even were the chances ‘equal—and ‘in the | Case of a small s:.an the odds are~always against him—the risk which he | takes is vastly disproportionate to any possible gain. | Few-men- ever -heard-of progressive compound interest and still) avhat-it-does.—One-dottar-deposited-in-a-savings bank-which pays four per cent. will amount to $2.19-in-twenty years. This is simple compound interest. But how many men know that if they deposit one dollar every year the. Value in twenty years’ will not be $2.19, but $30.97? Any man or woman who is earn- } Ing wages at all can save one dollar a>week. That money deposited in. ings bank for-twenty years will be $1,612. A deposit of five dollars’ a week wil! amount to $8,C00. The annualeinterest on this at four per cent. would be $320 a year. Thus a man who deposits five dollars a week in a savings bank _can_after twenty years draw out six dollars a week and still leave to is_wife and_child-en_at_his death ————— the money that-he deposited and-morethan-half-as-much-more—Fhere olvency —ment-of-what-any-savings bank -will-do, = —Eyery wife should: read these figures and go over them for_herself_ They are accurate. The only necessity is to make the deposits regularly If, instead-oF discontinuing the -weekly deposits at twenty-years, -they “are continued for ten years more, every dollar a week ‘will have becom $58.38 and the $524 y “dottar-which-had-heen dep 1 r ited Wve Uollars a week can then be drawn | THE SUBWAY, é MOLLYCODDLE | { i MOLLY CODDLE: OF COURSE V PANOT a MOLLYC ODDLE “Pane you i; THE QUICK LUNCH MOLLYCODOLE of having seen, heard, is no paradox or catch in this. It is a plain, simple mathematical state- i ail-wavers.!* oretist of Pht horror of th nether scen nor) heard." = a This theory—namely, that an olfyctory Impression, not rising Into explicit consclousnes: A-paneege tnt cat which some people earches and publishes his results In American Medicine. W Tist of questions to al ef {j lea and Germany. truat. ear ill have become over $3,000. For every | now far th ed 159 answers from 5: A few, were from people whom he knew personally and could | ned that cats, Uke ho sthma ts due merely to done twenty eniniior-of-feline-meciety-to-star i i ; s vat fear her instantan out without impairing the principal, which has.been doubled. jhapa they ( {the Chic 4 Eyer prerinnn } Tempo x by cats. gestion. cause asthma-tn some patterts,. though (* he docs not say. asthma, aherras-people who fear ¢ terror and disgust. previous state of existence, suggests Andrew Lang in|fes¥! Mitchell does not allude to that hypothesis. | ch {mpresstona ax the the form of #u But it takes {°° . the They may feel mi Teal Gonvulaaw and sea-slckness may all be caused {a by dint of imitation and sug-|efte pla runs in families, probably family were the Ke: ven strange cats retm to have an unumial hare tau “pre-catab- sani follaw thes v* between cats and ailurophobes. througli*no kn ; MOULY-COo0 LE betrays the cat to the jatlurophobe—I had Invented before reading | the beer Dr Welt Miteieli wettes “It seems to me possible that elthet they smell the cat too slightly to be able to define the édor or else recelye an cjfactory impression of which they are not | ious as being an odor, (yiathle cat would also evoke." -Agaln, y 3 ngujsbed by some as odors, and by dthers felt not as odorn but only in thelr {s on nervous systems umisually ajnd abnormally susceptible."* Qn the other hand, the smell of tiqer does not frighten the wa shaw In—felinesoclety,—otheratrom—fxed-opendew: nnd afraid of cats. The question Is why a \this hero, ‘or any other person, {Lo Why does cat produce tock mw; horriptintion”(as-a-ghost doesy-and-ather s of terror? Cats are fond of allurophobes. teatlonis_conselouaness of-the-presence-of-n-eat-derived {desire to—be-near, jump on_thelr nnel of the senses—that ts, when the patient ts not con- nna! i erdaith+ ‘Phere is no “secret alsuhiy no niystery, no alirement, no dazzling specti<4 Jation. All that it requires is industry and a little self-denial every week betterUiany aly” GoM OF copper mine; than any pool-room or kel-shop. 2 : and fortunate itis for the State of New-York that’so.many- citizens have recognized the value of modest thrift and honora ble trug Letters from the People. A Traveller's Teattmany siete Sditor. of; The:ivening..Wort Btstere thane puget In-reference to the Fire Department | a or} of this clty I wish to say that dn all my for ¢ travela through Europe I have ‘not] noth found a better depart=| Why here. T have visited London [it so ma —tertin and TaVve Ww etch fire force el: pand work ase }}as clk berng’T receive v1 low wages SUT it ts bette a that tw the reason T atay, | et we 3 Well ay the ay ely, but none Taken uniycattentlonsaac mucha ne The Muddy Cast Side, | York's, ‘Thy very me In which te |; (ne EAttor o re | horsey respond to the y of the boll ts IT wish to attract the a a marvel in iteelf aA but the alertnos« of the men tr tng twoexcollent. 1 speak r who has ity experience In. the vncious cities of tie world, FRANK TARULARUS ' keep Up the Good Work,” To the Pi) The 1am a commuter of -that | Toad of which we a thenw'daya, ‘The car eve ing editions hit tho nail on the head Keep up the Rood ¥ bout the desired Imp: needed. © 0 J. H. HUCK W. Rutherford, N; J, A !not at ie WAL) Street Cleaning Dopitr: respond | wide down town, Th AN one | wilh mud y life, but from fe W Fair Gro} Tobacco was tntrod tito Spain by. 168. It wan ons In 4 Into I y Ralph Lane in’ 16 may being The Man avd the Apptea, | ¢ Editor of The ber Case of Hard Luck, ‘Wo the Editor of Tho F We Mr. and Mrs. Pinch. By E. F. Flinn. Wounnow Met Te FROM PITTSBURG OUT FOR._A.GOOD-TIME. EVERY CRACK-AND BOTHER THE EXPENSE! BROTHER Biking wh WANT TO GIVE YOU A.BLO WOT ON WEDNESDAY. NIGHT! HARRY, Gi ABA SWELLCLOTHES THINKS WE'RE TRYING. TO MAKE A SPLURGE WITHOUT ANY Money! YES Mien GIRL, ANNIE, SAYS THAT HER WKS YOU RETA TO MAKE AtAS WITHOUT ANY Money! ATHING OR Two! SHE SAID THAT ? (ORREAL SWECL RECEPTION AND A DANCE, YOU “(YES SAiR| | WE ONLY CATER TO th 250, YOU SAY? LEVERYTHING WAS _\ SRSUEICENT LEY T SERVED!— COULDN' E BES: DO ANY BETTER, Gant WHY, L THOUGHT TWAS TO BE AN INFORMAL AFFAIR, HELLO, CLARA! \RUN OVER ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT DONT DRESS Up! JUST A FEW FRIENDS COMING DRESS UPAT ALL! MISUNDERSTOOD. ME!-HOWEVER-> 39 reply to J. 1 cripple'n di ment, 1 <years ago part cluding four fingers ehinery, or more 1 could ot Ket anyth Tgot work (and ptt r boy In a (grocery. store, id 1 sem nut up orders, walt on clistomera WILLING TO LISTEN TO SAVE Him. AT THE MINSTRELS, waltah? non run an elevator a Custodian of Building ‘tween a pet dog and Interlocutor—I don't \know, Mr, Bones, tam de difference E55 wpen what you Mr. Bones—One feedb out yer hand and do odder hands Philadelphia Press, , he's ton young a boy Mfting that all day.—Pittsburg Gazette-Times, , g Timisurprised y Mt wasn't vour fault, uita's Weekly, do difference a {ny Permiwston of George atunre's sons) — Tefen tient —tigy dieters —aetven — Cpe ¢ * Plain Tales from the Hills.’ + By RUdyecd Kipling. & ® you wos a little, smitchy ‘boy lying loose tween tho Temple an’ the Dark Tarot No bloomin’ guard-m tin’, 'The Madness of © | ii i3%8tan rotten stones nor iad: wat | i yourself your own master with « 1 te of take oan’ e the Humuaners praotisin’ Private Other ts.) sisixin dets emer out oe the Bere pentine.o" a An’ I lef all that for to serve the Widder beyond the seas i hero woul froat waa| Where there ain't no: women and there On! were mvid Tbe whem my nnn "and there Oho Where wold i be when the tal fat Ui 10 eee, ner do ner say, ner i, nor thing. 1 love you, Siinley: fool than the re » Tex’ment and m-dyin' ell old ty “ead, Ms 1 ‘There's the Y- friends Mulvaney. and Ortherts * . had. gine ‘on mshosting expedition for one day, Learoyil woe atill in cverdndtba raroa tit ‘-livosbitat) Fecovering trom fover picked but looked at’ me ap if “Ma. | Pecked that T could bi eace up in Burma. They sent me an inv Ortherta's troubled. brain soPoer tion to: Join them and were genuinely) I remembered once, at Rawal Pindt pained when I brought, beer—aimost | having seen a man, nearly mad _ with. though-beer to watisty two Privates of | Some" regiments Tha naw SRR COE the Line-rand Me. ° : mean. I hoped that we might shake off ST wash" lor that we did. you-welkim, | OMheris tn Ihe sameway, though he sorr," ald Mulvaney aulktly.” ‘Swan wna, perfectly sober Sof “anid: d Vhat'a the uso of grousing- there, the pleasure av your comp'ny and speaking against The Widow 2" Ortherin came to the rescue with: 07 dldn'th ns { gortheris. “Sthelp me ‘Well, ‘e won't be none tha worse for] y wouldnt onot If 1 wan cone yee an 5 ¢ 0 —not if I way to desert bringin’ liquor. with ‘m.A¥e ain't a fle| minute! 3 perce cnle, d° Dooks, We're bloomin' Tomailes, ye mcseray Nas my opening. "Well, you Caan Nara" cant to, anyhow. What's the tse o cantabkris, Hirlshman; an ‘ere's: your eee eyo eat e Very good ‘ealth slip now Ifyou got the chance We shot all the forenoon and killed yy +180 parial—doge,-frr—greetr—parrets; Salting, one kite by the burning ghaut, Sone snake flying, one mud. turt lelght crows, Game was pl Liman the food atth-onr-ons—p and tired at them, After that we ¢ auna, dog stealln’ Tomnms y x 1 got rid frumper inste |erac-t-cal “Vaxi-der- : Blue 10x, Nke t ae in the bayles= ° in sharne—the bury quires, in tie winder, an’ a lide had jon your oh [ae Terms hs near | carthiuxe Tal: bitterer in the Sheraply the cal mouths!" Mulvaney HAT, “AN ‘ aUratnee importance 19 It Walle from the spot vied, with his head on his arms, Mul-) But we heard noth! V “He'n always tuk this way whin he's That.an't havin’ nothh make UC out anyways. talk.-himseif.through, “The Ramrod Corps," full of chee wlustons tov battle; murder ant sudd death, He looked out across the river an he nang: and his face was’ quite! ‘Tix some sort av fit that's on Mim, I've | #4 T hud’given my word. boy was lying: shwim the Irriwaddy at night, benin me. aa a bhoy shud, or were you hidin’ Kheylt” “Rwhat haye you don sald Mule rele direct Ke, and Mulvaney meant it t| (hough: that ator, You've. dias | bring on a fight’ But Ortheria seemed! yhraced Is Comp'ny, an’ worst ay all; | ucaln’ sick for the sounds of ‘er; an! ulyaney turned. to. me, ut. yer’ feed.— the sights of 'er, and the stinks of ‘¢ avo me tall ‘to him, pena b comin’ Jn over Vaux'all Brig, Blok /Pkaetinandsonmy way home aa ight where you knows ev'ryone, an'| But I could ‘not come to any conq / the Copper that takes you up ls a old! clusion of any > kind-mhateyer, sera Jumped ng to dor” ‘ 1 and} "Help Or Bombay or. ntiful. Then er ve Ikes.: You can we sat down to Ufin—"bull mate an’ mirated: from you be: Nonculeaney! called \esbyeine 9 gunon the bank side of the rly pot shots at t—am 17" sald Mf the crocodiles in the Intervals of cute | Vhs Wary well If Orth Ttiow, » nnd foe Knifes Then i drank up all thet and Uirew" t bottles Into. the wat belts and stretched vurselves on warm: aand ind smoke meting-s Tazy to conunue witobung es help you 3 me ner Mrtheria heaved Bacaih. lay on his stomach with his he: tween his fists, Then he aworo into the blue sky. “Fwhat's that for?” sald Mulyancy Have ye not drunk ‘Tam aT nd chan, en Vil tell vou w ieuimte do thut. th 1 me_by 7 the fit's Work: ue) gulsands i kep u ifonor and Sow), wo Smee reresTritrrt 2 : often patter a tase eyTs, en Y avorbell niin Gaw towing, “ie Suite at iaght wn re It Siow 'Alt—tront t Woula Ucket. for will not make am 3 dora.) Sarac s hag In barrick An’ she sun on TDs Welr Mitchell found | tite —-whamo—tor-you. 4 them afluroi, meaning|thirty-one case. in which he was ces}ain that people “could tell when a cat, was From: this word Dr. Weir Mitchell, the eminent physi=inear, thougti It wa setpitay NaN tome wTUrOpuoDM, MeAINg Ts Inset} =F On this tople he has made Dr. Mitchell sent out ngland, Amer-| et him run, Mulvancy,” NoLcy y know what's comin’, He's tuk this 1 the resi, | Way now an’ agin, all’ it's bad—it's bad Then I onters where he until it id under your Mut in’ child. *t Bass."* sald Ort! beers nor that. Alar fo hint An’ he's att hy ide ay four| true, and 1 5 . Mutvan a the high oye ‘t care, It's all one to mo.j grass tie ive Ko and went ‘Ow a'you know T ain't “frat o” dyin’ | awa. Key higa grass. ‘tore ta my papers?” He recom: 2 tohed samenent otts—a-sing -song-volne the ¥u- grommet ort 7 |. We wi re f r the: ver Keen this side of Orthe-| disk-to fall and allow mo to tide of Chie SiMe spoke s€curtheria in whispefs. aad ney whispered to me: in the plume gra cheaked over mul” bythe cht} her they make Savjints nowaday "bo G0. -b-can't| Yell. what does it: matter?: Lethim}abie an’ Ukely by natur’.. Fwhat te ut? Piacateiteohpeedint = witott ms | hid edukushin, which he ntver got? You {-that-think=ye-know things, RSWEr ie | ts Ortheris began singing a parody But I found BGs iswer. I wae won- how: _lons. 0: the bank Mulvaney: canght:masby 4-46 x $ = bow-to- insure” nttention }of the rivet woulid Uistd Gut iid wieliot ‘Matther?—It_matthera averything! |. should bo forced to help him to desert, . ‘Ewill hould him all thig.night,| Just as the dusk shut down and, nthe middleav tt, he'll get’ out av! with a very heavy heart. I was bes t-and-go.rakln' in the rack=fo Mielke. sacdin bb. cms bores, weoS outrements. Thin he'll come over; heard wild eiouts from the river. an-eay; “i'm going to Bombay.| The deville had departed from Pri Answer for me in. the mornin’’ Thin] vate Stanley Ortheris, No, 1s Com. ine an him will fight as we've dono be-| Dany. ‘The loneliness, ¢ k, and the fore—him-to-go-kn’-me to-hould him—| Walling had driven Ulem out os T had an’ ao we'll both come on the books | hoped, Ve set oft ut the double and, for disturbin’ In barricks. I'v 5 | found plunging about wildly Photo iiUhat O ge AE se 4 Mare: dha cross with hiscoat-off—— the ft's on him, He's as good a bhoy| my coat of. T mean. He was calling an vr atepped whin his mind's clear, | for us Ike a madman, TI Know” fwhatsé comin, “thoug 7 Where fred ohim; he was drips night In harrle! Lord send he doesn’ with perspiration, ‘and trembling loose off whin [rise for to knock him artled horse, We had great down, "Tis that that's in my mind day | difficulty in soothing him. Ho ‘coms Pnlght. plained that ho was jn clyifian kit, and This, put the case In a much less| wanted to tear my clothes off mia bods pleasant light, and fully accounted for cr n to strip, and we made Mulvaney"s abxiety. | Ho seemed to. be nk exchange sa ‘quickly as. pos coax Ortherls out of tho ‘"nt,”'| alle. outed dawn the bank where the a rasp of his own | grayback(\: shirt and. the squeak of his boots seemed. tor bring Nim to himself. He put his hands before hin eyes and sald: “Wot: was It? of taint’ mad, I ain't sunstrook, an’ I've Din an’ gone ant! J, an’ bin,an' Kone an’ done, * * 9 | der a bed, aa you was at Atimea| (dan) Dilan’ Kone | Listen now, you wld the ‘pore pink an’ the ‘glass eyes! Did you This was at once A ‘gross Insult and a] van “You've diaghraced | you: — | it up tn some sort of trane enive disgraced Atel Mev that taught | answered slowly, without a ou how for to walk around Ike « man In’ the! same cadenced | yi a whin you Wi ant ty ttle,” Nahe A for ha fring Y backed little, y Ittle, recrultyy | n the Irriwadd | An you are ¥, Stanley Orth'ris!* Hi ax you know, for to take the town of] Ortheris sald’ nothing | for a whit Lungtunpen, nakid an’ without Then ho unslung his belt, heavy wit) Hand Where [was at Atimed the badges of half a dozen regiments you know, and four blo Pathana| that bis own had lain with, and handed ! - w, too. But that was sumn It over to Mulvanoy, i Are tt think On dyin tose: fot ctism, too little for, to mill you, Mul sick to Ko ‘Ome--Ko 'Ome—co ‘Ome! N t [ain't mammy alck, decauso my unelo| me before; but you can’ tke ant cut / vaney,"’ sald he, “an' you've ‘atroole | ing me up. but I'm sick Tor London in two with ‘this ‘tere If you dike,’ sorr,"* sald peel and hasphalte an’ «aa|Mulvar for tho rail goin’ down to Rox “Ill, with{@ good deal over Ortherfy tn your gal on your kneo an’ a new. nee lar and my friend, Private Thomas! po in your face, ‘That, an’ the Stran'| Atkins, whom I love, In general,