The evening world. Newspaper, August 16, 1907, Page 8

Steemarse erent @udlished Daily except Sunday by the Press Tubliching Company, No. 8 to a Park Row, New York. JOREIT( PULITIER, Pres. 1 Kast 1H street, S.ANOUS SHAW, tee} rome 991 Weel 110th Street, Entered at the Post-Office at New York ua Sevond-Class Mai! Matter. Gxdecription Rates to The Canada, FUE Lisginud an the Con- Evening World for the ert eer a United Stutes, One year. i the Internatic 33. | One mont 30 VOLUME 48 BEER. WHISKEY AND TOBACCO. ; EER pays more than one-tenth of the running expenses of the Goy- emment. of the . United - States. Whiskey pays one-quarter, and to- bacco. pays almost as much as beer. ~~ The: tariff pays almost all the-rest. This is according to ‘the report. ot the Collector af Internal Revenue, just made public; for the fiscal yeay ‘which ended June 30. It is erroneous to argue from this that the people of the United States’ are intemperate. Quite the reverse is the fact. Considering how many _ people'there are, the total amount of whiskey consumed is surprisingly Se tee The Evening World’s Daily Magazine, Friday; By Maurice Ke vamall. Last year there were 134,142,074 gallons, equivalent to only oder pint bottles apiece, allowing for the shortage on the average quart _ 4 Whiskey bottle, which does not hold a quart. EY +901 BEER TOBACCO $5688. $51.81. 069, TP ans A gallon contains 231 cubic inches and weighs a little more than 8 pounds. A gallon and 2 half, which is the per capita consumption, would weigh 12 pounds, or. 192 avolrdupois ounces, If everybody drank whiskey at the same daily rate this would ‘be < only half an ounce a day, not much more than a tablespoonful, 2 If only one person in five drank this whiskey regularly there would not be more than enough-for one three-finger drink week days and two on Sunday. 5 The only way a man can get drunk is either by being abstinent unti! = quota has Sane or by depriving several-other men of thei: share, - The first cost of whiskey fs nearly all Government tax. At sixty drinks to the gallon, which is bigger drinks than the average over the bar, the wholesale cost is only half a cent a drink, plus the Government tax of two cents a drink. At two drinks for a quarter the saloon-keeper makes 400 is one reason why there are so many saloons. Actually a saloon-keeper does not make as much money from his —whiskey: sales, because the-State license-fee, rent, -wages-and-police inci. dentals cut into the gross profits. The growler trade disposes of most of the beer. There fs as much Gross profit in a small glass of beer at 5 cents as a quart growler can at 10 cents, ‘but the net ‘profit is more on the growler trade. It can be handled quicker and easier, The United States tax on beer is only 15 per cent., as against 400 per cent. on whiskey. That ex- plains why so much more revenue is obtained from whiskey while more beer than whiskey is consumed. On neither beer nor tobacco does the Unite.! States tax affect the retail selling price appreciabl, The retailer's percentage of gross profit is less on tobacco than beer and less on beer than whiskey The big whiskey expenditure on which the Prohi- bitionist tracts comment is not its first cost, but the price over the bar. If whiskey consumers bought b the demijohn instead of the drink the expenditure tor whiskey would be reduced three-quarters. In dollars and‘ cents the cost of getting drunk is in reality trifling. ‘A-pint-of whiskey will Intoxicate-most-men.--A quart is-sure-in-almost all cases. Few bars sell ordinary whiskey that costs over $1.75 a gallon. Thus 50 cents will buy a drunk. A dinner, a trip to Coney Island or a theatre seat costs more than a drunk. A pair of shoes would buy eight drunks. A necktie, a straw hat, almost any article of apparel or comfort is more than the financial equiva- Jent of a drunk, : Obviously the American people do not refrain from drinking more whiskey for lack of the price, but through choice. ne | Letters irom the People. Home-Loving Girl per cent, gross profit. That Jas hissing, 1 [many snakes, by’ hiss, Now, 1 ¥ perpetrating anyt 0 Ann's age, b ou ev re please The Ever 4 Ke did one o to long be the off. PTICAL. Mayor Strong's Adminia(ration, fteon-year-nid V e Grace the next ot tint Nature tnet To the ms ‘This tw the season for stories, 4 a the enake 1a Invariably referred to ff The Byening Wortd ke re are our trafic potic o wicTDs, if Y it | | | i “Oh, See Who’ s Here!” tten. SISEHOZ LOK sg tige LIDGE ity, Should Woman Propose? A “THOUGHTFUL, considerate youth ‘of twenty pro-, “xe the Pounds the following: “Why should not woman have an equal right with 4uan in the matter of propos! powerful, 19> continues) tam somen_deare. eve: marriage to her {dealt told that most to marry; that when a woman does not marry {t is us-| history re; ually because no one has aaked hér to; that this Ja held when he as something of a reflection on her pe somewhat embarrassing to her. If this be . then this embarrassment need not exist !f woman were permitted to propose; for if she then remained xin, would “be thought that she did so because she had not proposed to ny one and because ‘shoe preferred to live her own sepa-! rate, independent life." In reply, I must say that T ‘know of no ¢ mason why any feminine 4: timately possess herself of her td eritic mon-sense,| : n of Uncle| Indeed, sband along| pore, alon Sam's domain may not leg with her other up-to-date appropriations. Bes! our ation of Inde-| man~should, for’ a period, at least, be caused to tread the lonely path of ig- pendence provides for the equal right of all ‘nd (including woman) to| nominy as one aaving ‘a defective personailty,” as one “who nas ni life, Muerty and the pursuit of happiness. All that stands in woman's way| proposed to.” Taking turna ts fair, ia that natural—or unnatural—edict of popular p that woman shall not & Initiative {n love-making and proposing was a weak, subservient, Amazonian woman—had to pursue and capture. xht how. ‘ter K_thin_muat have been to poor peats itself, the time tm no doubt fast app:oa timid ttle creature, n Uttle in mome way, to tolera foreign standards. Of course, her other ma Go ROW WAIT TICE DE SEO GUY TIPS BACKIN HIS CHAIR AND See WHAT ___ HAPPENS?! Reddy ‘the Rooter. OLIDAYS!! ENOUGH OF T Now GET To wor (GS VHEY A OMES THAT GD LL ANY ®80DY WHO OME SICK, FOR THE @D AND THEY WANT THE Whro ARm! HALF HOLiDA You, GET mr (PUT THE WAGON TONGU TO THE BULB,OL Boys AN' IVE GONE \ OEN FER DE MERRY-GO AWFUL SORRY BOSS, LL TEN To DE Bus- 3 TIME WAITS FOR NO-WOMAN, Wek LONG OVERDU "hat," 4 Tt ha "He occ wonderful | man, ery young man tn iter uuWered tel_clerix). Lin time to cate train in the morning. Vi put down a vall for you time for break- our parro y see the your Wedderly--No. make it 4 o'clock: That my Wife Cane to) dress.—Cpl. wd * g to ask ques ne old man,—Chicago | will v cago tons, Nows. ously aj a % “Yeo,” answered the other; —inuch, but what tt-doca-know It: keeps Dg until acme circumMance arises riding with another eirl, and I didn’t ed WISE MANI asionally says things that-ere ly apropos," sald one. states: | gaxoment with ‘Tom, - Hove him. e'n Uke} Maude—Indeed! It doesn't know the discovery? Clara—Last night. t at home. es the remark seem marvel: —-Wasiington Star, y feel like pulling her bair or her eyes out at all.—Chicago August | By Helen Vail Wallace. There was a time in the history of the world when man was not master that woman—mighty, It tm sad to re- man. fing when womap will exchange privileges with man In the matter of capturing a mate, Juat a3 she ynality and {s/ 1x assuming his prerogatives along-other-inen of industry, Bas Most toreign rs consider OUR women dominating, tyranhica: and out-of- place, and are prone to regard our men—our charm missive men—as defective, j cannot permit ourselves to be judged by gressive race of women and cannot be headed off by any amount of adverse gly courteous and sub- such tryanny. We are a pro- Rt I think that woman should be permitted to pro- fold present-day privileges, and that man—regal By George Hopf GINE-SOME-OF THESE 41 0S. A..HAND. Le !HUH!-HERE NOT THE REAL THING. Giara—I'm golng to break off my en- I find I do not When dia you make I saw him out ver been | No. 23—-MARIE DE MEDICI—The Queen Who Died a Pauper. ft | HEN Henry of. Navarre became King Henry IV. of France and : divorced his wife, Margaret of Valois, he sought through Europe Bourbon iine he had founded. for some princesd worthy to become his queen and to carry on.the His cholce fell on Marfe de Medicl, a Floren- | tine girl, daughter to the Grand Duke of Tuscany and a relative to the famous Catherine-de Medici. The chief difference between jMarie and Catherine was that while the latter was wicked and brilliant, /the former wag wicked and stupid. whe Marle was seventeen when, in 1600, she was married by proxy to Henry and,came to France. Her.bovine beauty at once became thq theme for, << painters and poets, her bad témper grew to be the talk-of the cburt, and the furfous quarrels between herself and her roya) husband werg the scandal of Paris. : : passa Almost from the first she and Henry hated each other. Her-haughtiness, stupid obstinacy and fits of very justifiable jealousy grated gn the nerves of the jolly, easy-going King. He avolded her society. as mych as he couldj and, although the {IIl-matched couple‘had six children to whom Henry was devoted, they had no home life whatever. ] 2 2 But by far the chief cause of thelr constant disputes ftrose from Mitt ambition to be crowned Queen and Henry's delay in pérmitting the cco.onas tion. For ten ye: ate of affairs dragged on. Henry was buliding up France, crushing Spain's plots to encroach on hfs territory and in uther, a ».Ways making his nation great and prosperous. He A Quarrel and § had no wish to share the crown with a womag i if a ie whom he disliked and who openly favored Spat 3 Fatal Climax. } xforeover, he probably had wome knowledge of ~~~ © Marie's flerce hatred for himself and doubtless knew that the chief hold he had over hér was his continued postponement of the rite which would admit her to equal regal terms with himself. Thus, fora decade, Marie remained merely Queen-consort. Yet, Henry, strong in all else, was weak as water where women were concerned. He at length yielded to Marie's pleadings and, on May 13, 1610, she was crowned Queen of France. Her husband's wisdom in postponing the coronation so long became at once apparent. For on the following day (May 14) as he was driving through Paris, an assassin leaped upor the step of the royal carriage and stabbed him to death, = 25 The murder of the King, whom all France adored, threw the nation into a frenzy of grief.’ It was recalled how Marie hated her husband, how she had longed to be crowned, and that But one day had elapsed betweert the fulfilment of her ambition and the death of the-man-who-atone—could—— heve made that fulfilment possible. But assassination in those days was not uncommon in royal circles. Marie was Regent of France until her nine- year-old son, Louls XIII., should come of age. And !t was no light matter to prove a murder charge against a queen. So the investigation was dropped, — after the actual assassin had been slain by torture; and Marie entered on her seven years of regency. i The bad wife made a worse ruler. She was under the influence of an Italian family, Concin! by name, who had done much to set her against her husband and who now guided her statecraft in favor of Spain, France's hereditary foe, and to other unwise policies which Henry had opposed. Some of the nobles, for thelr own ends, espoused her cause, and at the head of a strong party she mismanaged the country to the top of her bent. But the long-continued eb unes brought about a reaction of feeling that was almost a revolution. At seventeen Louis XIII. was declared of age. He quarrelled with his mother over matters of government. She threatened him, and he had her imprisoned. Cardinal Richelieu ms @ Fi (afterward Prime Minister of France) pleaded with _ { i ee caer Louis for her release, and in 1619 she was restored Hsesonbcsona Cell: to favor and reconciled with her son. She at once ° ——~® set to work conspiring and tried to attach Richelieu Cardinal had plans of his own for ruling France, so he rejected her overtures. In rage Marle tried to revenge herself by under mining Richelfeu's {Influence with the King. Richelfeu discovered the plot and had/her once more*put into prison. She escaped in 1631 and fled to Brussels, Thence, for the next ten years, she drifted about Belgium, England and Germany, ever growing poorer, until at length she was utterly destitute, The pauper who had once been a queen had not now sufficient means to buy food and lodging. In 1642 Marie de Medici ended her dayw in abject poverty. She is eald to have died in a hayloft near Cologne, having run the full gamut of human fortune from throne to beggary. to her cause. But the Science Makes Some Strange a Discoveries in Natural History. © As \ a Y) aes Ty througt-the-long-ere: « -Pough-ekinned creature, almost the color of the earth that shows at the roots of the trees,” writes a nature observer in the Chicago News “It is a toad just emerged, somewhat tardy, from his winter hiding place (a hole about as big a Almself), and only now awake to external influences. Lethargtc and sleepy though he ta, he ta gutte suMclently alert to know that I am looking at him and wondering to see how his skin bas lost ali its color from the loig AbsaKs Of tha Ught. It ts hardly posatble to trace any shade of olive green and dusky yellow or ashen gray brown vpon the warty surface of his back. And the darker markings which sometimes form Irregular bands over the back and lege are merged Into the general Guiness and dusUneas of the soll which has covered hing for 90 long. As a rule, toads and frogs and other hibernating animals are seem in the open as soon as the first warm days of spring restore thelr lowered teme perature, Some people wonder what Shakespeare meant dy the ‘precious jewel tn Sts head.’ The brillant eyes with thelr yellow rings, like a gold setting te the onyx, ara as gems laid upon its head. Wonderful eyes they are tn thelr range of vision, and able to see meal worms placed to the rear far quicker than when some distance ahead. Tht venom of tho toad, which is an acrid, milky, ” fluid concealed {n the glands at the tack of the head, has been many times dew soribed by naturalists as harmless, “pose {t touches some abrasion of the skin, we when {t causes local Irritation, Dut though not particularly virulent when swage lowed try anotie> animal, yet Injected into a wound it ts very active and cause 7 “Piteerntton anton the wympteres of irrttant-polsoning.A.dog. which. bas nnoa $8tzed a tond-and tasted thie bitter Nuld and burnt hie tongue will never eS ) one again. Snakes will starve rather than swallow a toni During the whether the skin is sloughed and the ponderous toad shakes off the thin film thet! covers him and emerger in a new akin, fresh and bright. Go also do the frog change their aking in the course of the summer, assisting in the process them-" selves. The old cuticln divides down the centre of the back and the two halves radually fold and recede further and further from the centre. By twitching the falda are brought down the sides, and the hinder legs, first one angi re brought forward under the arm, which presses down upem t= off the old skin ins Sentence Sermons. NLY a coward whl hide behind his consalence, O . e« # «© «@ Your supertortty does not depend on your pedestal, ° * . ° ° Self tz the only thing that really can break Dove tiea ; * ° * ° . Religion ts the touch of the infinite on all our affairs, oJ ° * . s An honest message never has trouble finding hearers, * * e * * Tt tales more than soft solder to cement souls together, * * * @ . It takes arore than headache cures to est the heart right * * * ° Ps The only worthy high living in that which puts the-souten top, * * * s ° ‘A cross disposition Js no evidence of bearing the divine cross, * * . s * | No great deods are done without the doing of many Mttte detafia, Tribune, ‘¢It Happened In China.’ WO-STORY bul!d'ngs are believed in certain parte of China to exertabame< | I ful influence. A correspondent tells of a case in point, fatal results fole lowing the erection of such an edifice opposite the yamen of an ofMiclal: ‘The official protested against the completion of the building. The house was fished, nayertieless, and then the mischief’ bogan to’ work, One after another of the yamen ptople took sick and soveral died. Finally ‘the octal himself fell |. ‘a victim to this efiminal disregard of tho laws of the unseen world, Bince his death largo ncreen# have been erected between his yamen and the hotwe in question, and the merchant owner of the latter has been ordered under official survetl- lance.” Says the North China Dally News of Shanghal: “At the instance of » Chinese gentleman A -ahopkeeper was charged ut the mixed court yesterday ‘witty selling @ cake unfit for human consumption. The cake was produced ia court and contained quite mp entomological collection, inchaling several cockroaches, two or three cen: pedes and o beetle, A servant of the complainant gave evidence. uted apologized for his mistake, He had prepared the ft, His assistant had sold it to the it Dy mis-