The evening world. Newspaper, October 8, 1907, Page 14

eo BU Pudtishes Dally Exoept Sunday by the Preas Fublishing Company, Nos. & te 6 Park Row, New York. — S-ANGUO SHAW, Ges.-Trowe., 101 Woot 12 Street, Geconé-Clase Mall Matter. ¢ England and the Con- tinent-and All Countess in the Ta teraanonsy Inion. Pos' 90.75 BJ 7 © JOSEFM FULITEER, Pree. 1 Rast YO Breet, ‘Entered at the Post-Oftice at New York as @udecription Rates to The Canada. Bvening World ‘or th spree Diited State +7 .@ | One year VOLUME 45, A VOICE FROM THE GRAVE. Cf -OR the edification of Thomas For-| | tune Ryan and his associates in) traction infamy we beg permis-/ sion to quote a single paragraph! from a speech made by Roscoe; Conkling before an investigating commiitee of the New York Sen-} ate March 24, 1886: - “But let. the Broadway Sur- face Railroad Company go: scot- free; let it flaunt its stolen mill- ec = _ Jons; let it triumph. and ‘flourish | fn its rottenness and shameful ‘venality; let the glamor of impunity and) success cover the festering offenses, and then the rising_and risen gen- eration of honest corporations and honest men may well tremble at the prospect. Before the tribunal of public conscience, before the enlightened - judgment of mankind, these stolen mifitons wilt buy tess forgiveness than the bottom-of-a-beggar's grave” __ Seer ee cae al - Teddy in the Cane-Brake. His First Night's Drzam. By Maurice Ketten. ning World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, October 8; 1907) Jar: the third act of “The Round Up,” ‘There’s nothing going on now.” ‘ HAT are you applauding for?" asked Mrs. Jarr during the progress of “There's @ Kong on, isn't thero?” asked Mr. lot of othe Ps nd I den't see what for. The Sheriff is just sitting then making & NYY ® \ NON ay) yy ) S th n-of abe: In many respects human nature fs perlodic, like the tides-and the - seasons. The collapse of the Inter.-Met. traction merger and the exposure __.of the corruption in mith it Js little different from the collapse | =the-Jake-Sharp-syster-tweny years ago andthe exposure‘ of ‘Its corruption.» : —— = Public indignation was aroused to-an even greater extent in 1884-5-6 fhan_it-is now,..The District-Attorney of this county at-that time was —much-more-vigorous-than the District-Attorney now. Three boodle_Al- - dermen were sent to Sing Sing. Jake Sharp himself was convicted of bribery. A legislative investigating committee brought out the facts. : Roscoe Conkling’ was its counsel. SY e& ig | __Lemuel Ely Quigg has admitted the disbursement-of-a-political-cor- ruption-_fund. Somebody: must have received many thousands of dollars; which Quigg paid. Those somebodies were men in politics, some of || __.them public officials. What is to be done with them? ; = Quigg -has-testified—that-his-authority-came-from—President—V4 land. Like Quigg, President Vreeland was also a hired man, employed “= 9p a sdlary to-carry out his employer's wishes : : No-one imagines for an instant that the tens of millions of dollars | which have been-diverted from the Metropolitan treasury went either-to | “emuel Ely Quigg or to Mr. Vree- ‘Somie-one:higher-up-has the | i == lt is -well that President Jand is not called by Mr. Ivins as a ‘witness, because that would give him Immunity. The proper place hi: is as 3 s before the Public Service Com: mission, but as State’s evidence in . ~The waming of Roscoe Conkling should be read again to-day. The - : necessity forcit-will continue until a big criminal has real Dehn the bars OF Siig’ Sir H | ly been shaved “stipe Suit _. Letters {rom the People. — forth and solith, thus siving tie Brook- lyn-"L" roads a chance to-form loops Br--thie-means—atl—abiigestion at any |: point could be avoided and Brooklyn|: could also tap the west side. Tho ele; vated roads of Brooklyn could haye an extra track and more cars could be run. Proper connections should be made with the Manhattan Dridge, 90+ that trains could operate ‘on samo us| soon ev finished. and not duplicate the! Williamsburg bridge delays. sate a Nowark, } The Anto and the Bicycle. To the Editor of The Evening World: ~ffen yeare:ago-fitty- bicycles wers-sesn: en the roade where one {s now seen. Yet bicycles are better and cheaper now than then. There are ten autos to-day where there was one seven years ago, _- Im tho automobile a mere fad ike the " Dicyole.. readers, and in ten yearm will: ft be as infrequiitly seen on the roads? Will st-be relegated to commercial uses land the horse come into his own again? be of intereat to all. \{ {fh A w Ths Secret We All Keep. 2” ee Ths S Pp wow woe i WOMAN in Hoboken went with hor prospective hustand , vagueness on the subject until they get to be so v WO w hiagistrate’s Office to be marrval, but iett + having the ceremony performed, because the Justice —a: -Inalsted-that- she-tel!-her-age: the many million instances that go to prove there is one) ferent, but the majority of u mort tender deta!}]s of our lo\ ~SRAPOWINE TEVeTATIONS OF OUT Uirert to the woman we chance to alt next in a ferry bout, keop ‘A _Mttle secret corner i our minds that not even the acarchilght of love can rea | have lived are written * legible even to ourselves. For many wm 2men don't even know how old they a “They have contled. their years-so-long-and-ao_effectually—from other | poop that they actually forget it therhselves, And they exist In a state of delicious 1-know one insn—whose ofits He was a marvetlously pres of many yea 4 Which merely adds one to rs. n keep against all) and lock f fhe truth ttn-mge-at-ail the exaggeratl though we may tell the! st ; make the most . de or so to their records. ar-inesbands ihre Wheh—we-are—proudal-wit yOu und 6 the massage artist prererye our damask cheeks Once the secret of our years. Is: out, and in that corner the years | tiny-figures that rej Woman who had guarded her secret so zealousl, te | 20 be married. = 5 T don't blame her Lemuel Lemon R.LEHON, You MUST] MORE-ORTENIM YS DELIGHTED TO) Seven. Chicdgo Dally News, To the Exlitor of The Evening World: Q) How many fireboats has the city ot New York? (2) Does any Chic Rewapaber publish ati almanac? | GD. ¥, | PEDESTRIAN. Address Clerk of U. 8. Court, P. 0 i Rallding, N. Y. City. Fo the Editor at The Evening World: . Kindly inform me what the uniform charge \s for taking out final papers to Decome a citizen of the United States. J. BE The Fly's Uses. To the Editor of The Evening World: | A correspondent objecta to my jocose | praise of the house-fly. To be serious, the objectionable ways of tho fly, his+ natural) yoracity, his numerous deeds of tickling annoyance perpetrated on | man and beast too well known to require explanation. If the fly were considered @ useful. insect; {f, ille the bee, he supplied us with some com-| modity, we, the most greedy, selfish and covetous of livmg being Fo the Editor Gf The Evening World: probably not mind hig annoyan New Jersey js 1: a-falr way to nb ete neen Meena on en mina Brooklyn of its heritage to Manhattan's merchant. net and eauze everfiow of population. ‘Moving Platforms for Droadway. ‘To the Editor of The ning World: A moving platform on an elevated \ trestle running along the curb on Broadway would be a grand {dea for the hurrying crowds that throng that thoroughfare during busy days. He ELLIOTT, Crosstown Subway. 1 make Why should not | Hainters cd whitewashers, &q, would) Ehosstown mubwaya be bullt connecting. feel, the disastrous effect. m their busi- ‘with the present Manhattan subway and ‘There's no eyil oodness, leeatn; without some alto the west sido subway? Th Nothing we are told ino | eo ie wl if ese We e told, ts cre i vain, andthe case of our jittle | Ghowstown subways could be all con- oie in vain, 2 ir Mttle is je ty, furnishes sh Ox: esoted by a sutnvay to be built anole 1°? We DeMucMAN.” LITERALLY. Hook—The boss of a brewery gives i ands all they want to drink, ye—Gee! 1] should think ne would always have his hands full.—Philadel- phia Record. CONSIDERABLE. FLIES! Jenkins—Flics never annoy « sleeping man. Perkins—What nonaense! Why, I Jenking—The man wales up and is an- noyed.—Harper's Weekly- : By Nixola Greeley seventy {t suddenly ccuurred to him that {t was-tmore remarkable to be seventy forty than to say he was the age he ! He grew tmanty.three, years older in-anight and tow if he misstaton Ja the -other-way,—Nearly-all centenarians save a. lar pride jn thelr years and many succumb to the temptation to add: a But there is a long, weary stretch between the =prlot-period—when—the number. of our years gives ua pleasure, And during that time we let concealment and the winds wn time makes} and the atars twinkle derision at our pretense of youth. Smith. old that age Becomes the of pride that youth has been. Anil this is true efsome men as well ionge was forty-seven for many, person and when he got to b& jooked. So he started in telling as best ‘they can, er-tt, ta sea sings: it ‘0 wonder the Hoboken. ¥ refused to give H-us-merely. cigarette ft," sald Mr. Jarr, “Didn't you see bim roll ft with his left hand? “That's M | From flake tobacco, too! Rather neat, eh?’ "I don't seo anything in that,” said Mre, Jarr coldly, ‘If I colled ple crust | with my left hand, weuld it be anything wonderful? ,| alther one hand-or two," sald Mrs, Jarr, “and I could just tell he wouldn't have jHave tried to roll a cigarette with two ift with one hand ts going some.” | for_har,*t "I don't know. I've never tried to roll pie crimt.” mid Mr. Jarr, ‘but F ands, and made a totch of it To roll (Maybe it 1s Just a trick,” sald Mrs/ Jerr. : “85 Ht 1s, and @ good onc,” replied /her opoure, “I'm told that the cowboys and Mexicans can do It while riding Yorse>ack Ina stife breeze, You ca 300 there's & lot of’ people present appreciate itts’ a slick thing to-do." rs “Men, mostly," said Mre. Jarr not @t all enthusiastic. “I notice that anything concerning rum or tobacco is very interesting to men, It's a pity they fiaven's i higher Meals! I wonder how st-will ail come out?" : ‘ “It won't conte out See he's lighting the clgarotte now,” sald Mr. Ji ‘Oh, I don't’ mean the tobacco!" /aald the good lady. “‘Tsithat all that intere ests you? Will the Sherif win the /girl from the young fellow?" sisi ‘I hope not," safd Mr. Jarr. ‘Whe Sheriff js a happy man now, altHough he doesn’t know. It. thee an ¢ 18 fond of cigar) It Stee ee ‘eirt-she-will ree hi “Why ‘shouldn't’ het * whts; nake him’ quit smoking them.” 4 Mra, Jarr. “It's a very poor/love that can't make some sacrifica . If hg is fond of cigaretter—and. anynaf. they are Not healthy, the doctors all say/so—why shouldn't he give them u/ ir hls wite :| eka him to? Here the entrance of the soubrette and the resuming of the heart interew® silenced Mrs. Jarr. but on the way home tho discussion was resumed. “He didn't get the girl after all. yougnee!’ sald Mrs, Jarr with a note of triumph; “Of course ohe may have been foolish not to marry a man who had an amsured position, becatise I suppose being Sheriff pays well. but I don't sup< pose he cared. «He had his old tobacco and he wouldn't aavo given up smoking “I don't think a! ed t young fettow rmoked t! 2 ¥ Yea, Dut you nould see he wasn't eo fond of smoking. Maybo cizretted made hin? atck. I know when-I went to bigh schoo! some of us giris tri smoke cigarettes for a lark and they made us ¢readfully si#x. Dur the § was all the time amoking them, and I syppose, too, he lke} to show off th heccoutd “nake-th : = = “One hand!" suggested Mr. Jarr. y "He wouldn't have Deen so proud of dotng things around the house witt at all! anid Mr. Jarr; “probably the given up emoking forthe girl, Those fat people look good natured, Out them are most obatinate’’ +30, anything a m-n {s fond of must be given up when he marries?’ aske® Mr, Jarr. “Certainly!” replied Mra. Jarr. fond of something else?” 8 Can't he be fond of something else and his wife, too? asked Mr. Jarr, | you marry to give up everything for you, but you don't want to give up ange 7 ig tor her. ES ATER = ree I gave up my club for you, didn't I?’ asked Mr. Jarr. Yes, but you told me yourself that you were going to resign, anyway; thas you never went to the club. There were other things that you promised'to give — up, but you didn't keep your word.” “You told me I might smoke,” said Mr. Jarr. - = ‘1 wouldn't have told you if I knew how fond you were going to get of it,” replied Mrs, Jarr. “When we were first married you hardly ever smoked, and you told me you really Gidn't care for !t and you'd quit if wanted you to, an@ that's why I-eaid that you might smoke.” z : “Ono!” sald Mr. Jarr. “Then if I had been very fond of tobacco I woubd had to glye-it up?” Certainly!" said Mrs, Jarr. “A woman wants to.see a man really cares fey | her, and if he won't rive up hia friends and other things he likes, 1t shows BUS “How can a man be fond of his wite if hew n't the woman selfish?" asked Mr. Jarr. y “Certainly not!” was the reply. ‘Doesn't {t show she cares for her husban@ and wants him all, for herself?” Cos Cob Nature Notes: | 47E-wil4brown—rabbita_run_acrosa theroad from. sight fame This ia sign “of-tack.== “Yast spring Irving BadiellePs hired Win” found” two wre ducks ergw = amid the dritt weed - on thebeach.—The-norelist placed them under an-ame- bitious ha and sbe hatched out two beautiful black ducklings. The same thing happened last year, They were very god roasted when they grew_up_ Sunday a chipmunk stole an apple from William Rockefellers orchard, an@ aitting-on the big stome wall by the road from Round iiill to Cos Cob, im» pudently ete It. It was a very. small apple, but as it te a sin to steal a pin, eve from Willlam—to aa; ¢ John—Squire Walsh ought ¢o ape that this “chipmunk fe disciplined Te ‘The roofts-on-P¥rcy Rockefellers modest @-room cottage, which some people — call Percy's Petroleum Palace, The roof is red and matches the big vil tants gehich In'kept'in the back yard to-make the pince seem horsike, ‘The tank sug gests Long Island City, but is used to Keep water in, though of the expaciow Standard pattern. = = Clyde Fitch te trying to sel! Aids won't let him think, Most of the hickory “nuts: brought them down ahead of the frost. = ‘The chestruts are a failure thie year and Roman colony at Dumpling —— Pond )oks for_a_hard winter. They usually fatten up on the nuts for ¢ cold period. : ae at ‘nia $100,000 house"at North Cos Cob. The katy allen; DUC Are hard Ww snuck Ins wind ograph. Ukraine Teade joom by @- Berlin dealer. This is the way it look: A tn FURSTEN, STAATS-. UND KRIEGSMANNER, -POLITIKER _The Harhpered Huntsman. By Charles R. Barnes. | (President Roosevelt haa religious guile who rofuses to hunt beare ow Sunday.—Item.) yy eo i Old-Time, Quacks. : | GY NDIAN wagon nostrums and “apeli¥’ “ure the direct descendants of the con- I coctiona offered by the quacks and mountebanks of earlier times, not with: | out proteste by contemporaneous writers. ‘Thus Coryat, describing the | mountebanks he saw at Venice in the seventeenth century, who were adépts In} tho art of advertising, speaks of the’ ‘oration to the audience of half an hour Yong, wherein he doth most hyperbolically extol the virtues of hia drugs and con- coctions—though many of them are very counterfelt and falaé."" And the author of a “Tour Through England” (1723) writes of a mountebank he saw at -Win- chester. ‘He cures all: diseases and sells his packeta for sixpence apiece * * © It {s a prodigy how! so wise a people as the English are gulled by such pick- pockets," , em emme eer arya gett ey tar ey sh emacidivt CicnLahrolasimtinphimiartsa orchestrate maternal PUT THROUGH THE PACES. He was a raw “recrulty,” But not for very long, i For he Whene vas promptly roasted er he did wrong, —Philadelphia'Pross. a EXPERT TESTIMONY. Judge—What brought you Hero? Prisoner—Two policemen, Judge—Drunk, 1 suppose? ¥risoner—Yeu; both of them.—Ch t LL day long we'd chased that critter up and down the. mountainside; Sometimes he would atop and watch us, sometimes be would go and migeg t ‘close on to midnight, we had trapped htm in o tree i J But at iast, Up stepped ‘Teddy for tho slaugtter, standing right elongmide,: Then oar guide took out his ticker, struck @ matoh, looked saeatvena’ aa “wall, by hen, it's Sunday mornip'! Huntin’ stops this minute Ted” i. That was mighty ‘aggravating, Dut we had to stand for it If we'd shot; that guide he wouldn't find us no more bears to Bt Bo we rested ¢ill twas Monday, and at half-past six ¢hat night We had tapped another critter—Tedkly had him ‘cross the sight put:that euldesatt: “@top, by aricky! Him es shoots I hope he chokes, Fer this night the wimmin's packia’ boxes fer them heathen tots.” ‘ 11. Say, that made us mad as thunder; ecemed as ff ‘twas oplitting hairs, But we stood It, ‘cause that eulder knew just where to find the bears Now we're feeling dreadful worrled—Wednesday night is on the way— ‘And we just can't help expecting that unusual guide to say: tqents, ye'll hey to put them guna up! ‘Tain't no time to ralse a fuse, _ For this here {a We'n'sd'y eve prayer meatin’ night with us.’ nin'—{ 24 tie 30,000 Voyages. NN English eva coptain who died the othor day nt elghty had crowed the icpgiian Channel b thirty thousand times in his fifty-three years of amie