The evening world. Newspaper, May 2, 1907, Page 16

The E ere Sheard Podrened vy the Press Publishing Company, No. G to @ Park Row, New York Bntered at the Post-Ofce at New York aa Second-Class Mal! Matter — VOLUME 47. LAUDABLE LARCENY. F anybody in this county knows.of a rich man appro priating other people’s money through forgery, lar ceny or perjury he had better keep quiet about it « he will speedily find himself In jail, The ordinary public should clearly understand that when theft colossal and high financiers are the beneficiaries i becomes laudable larceny, and whoevertinterferes or exposes is promptly prosecuted, The fate of Sctugham, Stirrup, and Carrington adds three more names to the list headed by Amory yj who discovered ‘the theft of $32{000,000 from the h Metropolitan Street Railway Company; Tillinghast, who exposed the jury fixing and witness-bribing of/Mr. Ryan’s damage- sult lawyers; the little braker who said that the B. R. T.'s stock was water, and the stenographer who had evidence of Harriman’s corruption. * A score of murderers may wait in the Tombs; burglars may plead to larceny as the easiest way of disposing of their cases; pickpockets ma . Tun loose on bail until the complainant witness ——— TU appears; Perkins may escape even the lgnominy of a] ¢ —— station-house pedigree; Hyde and McCurdy may de-j/ SS NO, 16,690 - to oust the old McCurdy trustees from control of the’, ‘Mutual Life and the Perkins directors from the New What crime have they committed? If anybody should be punished for presuming to Perkins, Peabody, Baker and Rogers it is Samuel Untermyer, who organized the opposition. Why was not he arrested? For one thing Mr. Untermyer {s a millionaire himself, and>all mill fomaires are sacrosanct. For another reason, Mr. Untermyeriknows to smuch, aa if When affidavits proving the coercion of agents by Peabody, Baker and Rogers were submitted to Mr Jock them up in the Tombs? When a New York'Life agent confessed forging more than a hundred ballots, why was he paroled? When MoCurdy committed perjury, why was he allowed to go to Paris? When Harriman violated the insurance law by his Equitable loans and syndicates, why was he no! ae prosecuted ? é ~ What larceny, forgery or perjury can any multi {millionaire commit that will be prosecuted ? a: | Is it any wonder juries are lenient to petty criminals and that judges ‘Suspend sentence on men who have taken only a few dollars? Is it any “Bet a Million’ By vening World ie Daily __ Magazin e, Thursday, Maurice Ketten. BET AMILLION IT’S DISSOLUTION BET A MILLION HE RESIGNS Modern Love Knows No Obstacle. &2 &2 A YOUNG MAN landed jn New York Tuesday who had similar restriction om the man. came ten thousand miles to be married to a girl he d had not seen for six years. Their courtship took pmoce Oxford. Engiand. but they were too poor to marry, and Fate sem the girl and her father to New York, the evolded fa No surer course can be taken to reed anarchy and to destroy re- _ ,Bpect for the law than Mr. Jerome's manner of administering the affairs ‘of his office. ( It Is time the Governor of the State took cognizance of the lawless- | Mess in this county. ' Letters from the People. rw" A Wife's Allownnes. - Pe Ge Datttor of The Brening Word: Lam terested in the discussion con- @eruing te amount of a wife's allow- mee. Wives would find the following | @aGistactory, as my husband and I have Unhealthtal Weather, tried ft for eoven years My husband | n, we mater of a 0 $3 earns $3 per week, We pay i) a month! J read a ee eee py the ter for rent. Oty husband Keeps £10 each |ribile wore throat experience that Week; $7 of this je for rent, the swept end is sweeping Greater balance (4%) is Dis to do as he kes yore § «¢ te @ fact. Also, my With Highteen dollars ts mine to ke | sey typhold is unusually preva! a Rouse with and clothe myself and Our! now, and has been of inte. Ba, Swe Mule children, Five dollars of ™Y | wevaiency of certain Iii money generally goes in the Dank for! 0... horrible weather thas i weiey dey. 1 make al) my OWB om ang on for a year or @lothes anG hats. 1 pay 7 cents Der) song the weather here hes wores eek to bave the washing done, doing |b, ros than in London. New Yorks « the toning myself. rie |mate, I honestly think, ta the w Dros Clerks, earth, bar pene And it hae become D> the Piitor of The Evening World Qurtng the past few years. Who Grugwists or rug clerks wo , OF Invest in real estate He therefore turns Mis at Yention to the field of mining stooks. BROOKLYNITR has eon the follows ' Jd interest many readers p-Hanger's Bu What are the average drug clerks’ | 7 of Tue Bvening World ealaries per week? What are the #| Being « strap-hanger, I have hit us they have to work? Is it @ good trade | the following plan to obviate to take up? Aino, ts it advieatle for | pultic Nights #tmp-hangens ( fn Boslish drug clerk to come to Uile | especially w . @ountr’? La % starting te at to ploy nome ata The Boy and the Job Wy the Eatin of The Bve A read . W. C. HE HY, 16 Pine stree: Military Service Aue : | ¢ EAitor of The Eventag World I pose & six military ee Be @ bilstior which ts essential in an |* der, op nea toe: Therefore 1 am for the hustler |O4 PUbotuAlity, eliminating valete ond Twill not lose Valudole time. What | M87 Clocks, to round the Maines of others say about i? = THINKER ra chesta and Matton the roundness their shoulders, tnparting the Gee Beplenstion of the Boom mealth, grace and fleatiility, Bu Be the Boiler Of The Bvoning Worns ing dimbanded her enormous Te auewer ic Commercial Tr Jes, collld turnigh us with thousands 1 wowld way the boom in mi. bon-comun je Deeeuee the email io masters in ie event of our demand axe Wants « liberel coum He hae coeding ous eupply. Wy snsnceedbiole iis wioned officers ae grille | and eo on to the end of the week, or the chapter, Absence 7 theme timer the believers, in old-fastioned een) years of coniiancy. The importance of the discovery ia, of course, lessened by the fact thet both participants fn the romance are not Americans, but come trom the sleeptest town in micopy England, where even the emotions are allowed aternities of time and space to move in. Lord Tennyson was engaged thirteen years. during which time he and the young woman who was afterward Lady Tennyson watied patiently for his poetry to pay. Such protracted engagements are not, however, popular in America, whore, {f a man and woman love each other very much, they generally discover a way of overcoming the moet disheartening obstactes at once instead, of waiting for time to remove them long engagement is, very properly, not an American institution. Tt Is. of course, an arrangement that binds the woman absolutely, without imposing a) tn I ‘Though the number of bi 1904 the birthrate je steaaily dec ae ee rd & { NEVER DID THINK MUCH OF THIS BAKING POW beR! Calamity Jane. | KNOW THESE BISCUITS WON'T 66 FIT TO EAT! as AND THIS OVEN | — ~ yr S | ISN'T HALF Pa JUST KNEW : OT ER ! se! OME THING WOULD ¢ ne NOVEM aan HAPPEN TO THEM | A > sis sc ’ |\8iscurrs! Mga ear Wy ty Qi And the American man's sense of fairness rec ognizes this and does not allow him to enter into it w! If all women were actively or potentially self-supporting, he long en-| @agement would not be necessary in any case, Any young woman who binds| herset: to an enxagement for an indefinite number pf years is extremely foolish. | HE atx and one-hal million peo The population one hundred years ago was just one-fifth what it 1s now was nearly double the number of deaths in| some time save @ life. The postal figures show that in 16 there Were 1,(@8 post oMces in London and 2.4% public telephones working: The total imports at London in 1#4 amounted to §548,084,000, and the total exports $462,299,000. Some idea of London's wealth ia shown by 194 In the administrative county Professions $364.045,000, profits of companies and other interests $498,511.00, salartes | (corporate bodies) $15,044,000, salaries (army and navy) $108,674,000 Wore 2.98) motor oars and 1,852 motor cycles in London granted to 8,070 people, the fee received amounting to $36,800, ning. Will Tour the World, BET A MILLION IT'S A DRAW BETA MILLION THERE'S AYWAR IN © MONTHS Al BET Two MILLIONS MLL MEET TAFT BEFORE | GET BACK By Nixola Greeley-Smith. m ft can possibly b young man to Cape Town, Bouth Africa, to make his for- The young man ahe loves may have to seek his fortune, it !s true, But, if sme te tuna, and after six years ‘he, has arrived in New York 9 « gractioal, sensible, modern young woman, she will seek her fortune, too, and! claim bi noes of this protracted order used tO not ot at home looking straight down the narrowing vista of 9ld-maidenhood be inevi And faitty frequent in real life “But with @ posstble wedding ring at the end. Modern love triumphs over obstacles. to-tay both tact fiction unite in favoring the quick 11 does not walt for the tides of time to wear them away | courtship wherein a man, Mke Solomon Grundy, ts born ry ower on Monday, married on Tuesday, divorced on Wednesday, Greater than Greater New York. 0 in Greater London Iive in 928,008 houses Houses representing $219,266.00, / THIS DOUGH DOESN'T FEBL RIGHT, Ooms HOW! Méy @, wensed income tex value in trades and In 1906 there | after magazine as the result of spontaneous comiustion of the powder. Licenses to drive were an accident at the close of the recknt war tore out the aide of the Japanese tee, 1907. _ ABOUT GIRLS. _ By Gertrude Barnum, How to Please Men. ONCE found a girl sitting limply in a great arm chate I in her ibrary, with a handkerchief over her face, thought she must be fll, but she sald she was onty, resting. She had four men callers in the reception-room, And she was “taking a vacation” from entertaining them. Gtrin have been trying to please men for four or five thousand years, This hasseen-their chief occupation. By it they have got their bread and butter, or @ or veni- Eve began it) and to-day tt ts a highly developed eart~ and-craft Pick up any newspaper and you will find advice as to methods of pleasing Sifting the myriad columns which @re written upon the subject, we find the principal points summed lip by Mise Loveknot; ‘Men tke to eee & gtd dresnet prettily.” “Draw a young man put to. talk of “elt and hie interests” "Men like « domestic woman* Men do not respect a girl who goes out alone after dark. ~ “Cultivate ik modest and shrinking Mannes “Avoid new. fangied Ideas." “io not be strong-minded” Acting upon this kavice, we begin by spending cwrechirds of our Incomes, time and strength upon dressing to please men (I must say the effect is not flattering to the taste of the men). It may seem something like work to get ourselves Up to please an escort and to amble with him timidly across muddy streets to & | Dail in Ught shoes and stays, a long-trained dreas and a wobbly hat. Sut that | i only half the battle, One must not forget to draw him out to talk of himself, interrupting only for an occasional rapture on the delights of dishwashing and laundry work son. men This ts the strenuous fife; but girls cheerfully martyrize themsetves for the cause Men must be pinased. And are the men pleased? Oh, yes! very pleased, However, it@# the cther irl who pleases them, not the one who tries. Men ere Derverse, While (ney praise “a low, sweet voice,” they m tor the ringing jaugh of the wariety actrei While advocating the “home aphere” they are Greaming of “4 ata cafe While their wives cook the steaks, they tele phone that they are “detained on business.” U Ones there was @ French peasant girl who was very indifferent to nleastng men. Her nome was Joan of Arc. While she could cook and sew and embroider extraordinarily weil, ehe never spoke of such things to the young men. Instead, ashe spoke to m of the pertis of France, try! # in their frivolous Preasts patriotiam end courage to defend their count the hour of Its need At last, finding Charles the Da and the other rulers of the people devoted to present ease and pleasure, she could no longer passively watch the slow ruin of her land. She determined to lead the hosia herself. Leaving the narrow sphere of the home, donning @ coat of mall, astride of a war horse, she led 6,00 men to victory anc drove the English from Orleans. Joan of Arc dki not try to look pretty, Her voloe was not low, but power ful. She was noither timid nor shrinking. She would not listen when men talked of themselvas; and she was stronger minded than any man in the realm. Al- | thourh that was ‘way back in the fifteenth century, men end women still think an well of her as though she had followed the advice of the Miss Loveknot ef ner day. There t= an ever-growing number of girls to-day who live for something | more than pleasing men. There are Joans to-day who see the perils of America, who Gream their dreams, and lead their forces bravely out of the olf rut of life against the powers which threaten the verb life of ovr people If girlie must be | martyrs, let them be martyrs to & noble cause. Let them not sacrifice their lives to Marcel waves and high-heel shoes Why should they exhaust them: selves to please men whom they do not admire? Lat them “take @ vacation” P, B—The gtrl who Goes not try is th who pleases men. Lemons! Lemons! Lemons! By Walter A. Sinclair. U= ‘the spreading lemon ¢) otands Mttie Georgie B. te rou The “B" denoting always «ting by Timmy D. or P. ‘The faithful cohort asking, “Oh, what next will Georgie BT" And the lemon-passers chuckling tm their dark, uncanny glee, For though you'd think he had enough of oftrus fruit to gorge They cannot pase them fayt enough to sult our Little George. ‘They've handed him the eltrua mes im etngles, by the peck; ‘The "X" denotes the place he always ets it In the neck. He goes to join meeting of the anti-Murphy men; He hurries tn and turne about and goes right out again. He's hot and cold, now scared, now bold, in tiger's gore he'll wade; And then they get the equeerer out and give him lemon-aid. “What makes our George Mire lemons sot” the Johnobriens cried. “There's lota of folks would like to know,” the wisenhetms replied Now will the festive Iron Ball ewing at the Big One's whim? And will our little town be ruled by Big and Little Tim? ‘The star deno pot where George upon his head will land, While all the stung ejaculate: “Oh, where do I stand?” te Your Watch Is a Compass. OME ingentous person has discovered « pecullarity about, watch which S may prove very valuable to persons who are lost, The peculiarity ts thag all tehes are compasses—that se, they do not point to the magnetic pola at by consulting the face af @ watch at any time of day the compass point Jegouth't may be located, and from that all other points may be easily fix \rhe process a as follows: Point the hour hand to the @un, and the south be found exactly half way between the hour and the figure XII pn the wateh, For inetance, suppose it is 4 o'clock, Point the hand indicating IV. to the sus, land IL on the watch is exactly south. Suppose it is & o'clock; point the hand Indicating VITI. to the eun and the figure X. on the watch ts due south, This in so simple that the rule can hardly be forgotten, and its remembrance may OR I A tials Dangerous Scientific Test. ODERN smokeless gunpowder ts dangerous stuff to store. A selentist re marks; “In all probah the recent terrible disaster to the Frenah battleship Jena will be found. to have been due to the explosion of her Buch battlenhip Mikast ernment docky: ditions of temperatu: of the hip or arsena! Jin ntorage, are the o at a time when, like the Jena, she was at one of the Gor- *. The best of modern powders are iii under certain cone to result in the explosion of the magazine and the lose an the oase may be. Our modern smokeless powers, when canion of a Cegree of anxiety and watchfulness which was never felt in the days of the brown or black powde tte | The Terrible Tarpon. OME years ago ® boat waa found drifting in Galveston Bay containing a dead IS arpon and a dead angler, The fish had broken the man’s back 1 A friend of mine, writes C. F. Holder, in Recreation, was fishing when @ | companion one hundred fest distant had a strike, and the fish came aboard the | former's boat and struck his chair, knocking ft overboard. This past season @ | tarpon in Florida waters came into. boat and knocked the angler overboard When he picked himself up he found looking over the side, saw him sinking and with the boate The man was stunned, and later examination showed that ‘and sent the oarsman over onto his back | his patron gone, and | hook brought him up. | two ribs were broken. Between tiger hunting and tarpon fishing as steady occupation, the former | might be selected as the safer pastime, | ———o¢o— ” “Sea Smoke,” the Strangest Phenomenon | NE of the peculiar phenomena of the Arctie regions is “sea smoke.’ Bae O va tell of & steam, as if from a boiling kettle, which rises from the water when the lemperature te 15 degrees below sere. At @ degrees the snow and tntman bodies emit this vapor, which changes Into tiny Jey particles, fwhieh Mi the air and make @ Hg@ht noise Hike the rustie of ellk. At #@ degrees |tree trunks burst with « loud report, r@vke break up and atreams of smoking: water flow from great cracks In the earth's surface; knives break t, @ntting and lighted cigars @o out be contact with the ie upon the bearmg Om of the extreme cold days that prevail in the Northwestern States éa Har the air seams to be full of fine fee, which ls probably the same phon non as that noted above, amigo | putter, —— 0 ’ Science Tests the Jaw-Bone's Strength. XPERIMENTS show that the crushing power of the human Jaw varies trom E 1 to 9 pounds. Dr eh Head, of Philadelphia, ine number of experts ments, found that the fo corn beef, with the help of & Httle grinding movement, Was 2 Ib: for ronat beef, % to & tbh, Tough “round | rhe lowest on the list were bolled beef, # Tb. mention @ made of hash, which w roast lamb, 4 1b; ‘ungue if Ib NO id undoubtedly stand at the bottom of the | Met, or next above breakfast cergals. ' ———_4—__—_ Making Silk From Pine Trees. standpoint of industrial utility, saye Prof. Duncan, in the subject Of cellulose can be charecterised as stupendous. ® pine tree, for ingkanee, Standing, it Is worth $10 « ton, cul end it te worth Bb; dolled it ke worth #0; bleached nd spun toto sill st 9 worth 16,000, + needed to reduce