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ae patty ttcept Bun Press Publishing Compaty, Nos $3 to &h day by the Park Row, New York WAM, Ben-Troms., Hi Mort 11PUA Burret. DoMEEH FLIER, Pre, 1 Bast 726 meet Post-Office at New York as Second- Class. ‘Bali Matter, ibecription Rates to the Canada. For England and the Con- Evening World for the United States tinent and All Countric# VOLUME AB i veeecst tet tn tie International Postal Union. [Re St OS wholly for ie suflrage) forthe ion of the will ofthe people, 1 tity oC America themselves. ¢ 2 There are other fealty than ‘The Eveni ng World Daily Hot Time in the Old Tow By Maurice ‘Ketten. Mag a Tua Nove sday, ‘To-Day. el mber 5, Nixola~ SCOOS’ FOOOOOCCO00CC.. f ed eo A. Law. Against Kissirg. LAW. has recently been brought to—Hight tn ‘Italy A whereby any form of. caress exchanged by. two. pe — sons in piiblic ts puriishable by Imprisonment. Tie intent*vietin of this -rlqéfous decree tn a young man. who :¢ Was sontenced to two'and a half mdnths’ imprisonment for. Kisaing hfs Nancee ns they dnedc his mother’s graye te h thay had gone on a pldiix rimgge.. A young mace! je who blaxed on i. piibjie Square In: Venice! were ran in’ by’ an alert larme, but because of: h. and. inexperience with ‘® reprimand anda warnitx. never to offend, aggia-” Orice ja awhile we read tt hs temperature of Hose ot FE = Sis ing of the After reading the despa come to the Usion that thete existe aleq a moral election day, but these other holi-> days are symbolical They-are‘in — commemoration. —__tlmes for-action, for the making. eo _In this res: * stands alone. | _ Thanksgiving, which will soon te at hand, is a holiday in grateful jremembrance of the successful t election da They are not) | outcome of this country, for the feller") ____ from the perils which the early settlers encountered, of appreciation of the| _ bountiful return which-nature makes for man’s efforts. Christmas Day is not really the anniversary of the birth of Christ, _— but the traditionary Yuletide festival of the Teuton forefathers of the i heathen toa religious character at | the time of the conversion of these peoples to Christianity. —=The Fourth-of-Juty-ts-another-purely- commemorative holiday. —It-}- “Is the reminder of the Declaration of Independence and its adoption by ~ the Continental Congress, of the first declarative statement by the repre- sentatives of an-assembled people of the inalienable rights of-man. So with the other holidays. Feb. 22 is George Washington’s birth- (day, Decoration Day in May recalls the bravery and “diers of the wars of the United States. Labor Day betokens the begin- |” Sacrifice OF the sol |— j father than good mor. js, and If the Italians prefer the kin ibtediy undergoing a "similar ses change fur tral -an_the-lanwiage—‘melta—itke—ktesex-trom-a-famate-mouit;"—1s- Krowin« purt= nical, while our once stern and rockbound coast shows #1d signs of becoming haven of ¢ infty and the happy hunting ground of the aMnancler, Let us pity the-poor Itallans and as fast ns they seek refuge on our shores fram this latest and most hideous tyranny of monarchical government méet them at ie Isiand and offer them the freedom of Central Park where the "| lover kisses his girl at will and the Passing policernan smiles sympathetically and looks-—ttre—other way) Rut per’ Lam_setting into trouble with Betty Vincent with every. “wom have read it In her column—that persons who indulge in pubiie | caremsos have small reapect for thelr neighbors and none for themselves, “And davery_trae, at nie and omer Kifidred subjecta ath Al fresco with an lence, why ft seems to me a matter for the Indiv determine. s0.se- |.times, to be sure, st might be © kindness to the young man to put him in Jail for two and a half months for kissing a-girl. It would give him time to get” over the first bewilderment of infatuation and prevent many an J ised pro- DANCE, DING BUST meee Tene OT, industrial” new yea New Year's Day_is the fixing of a-cal- ~zendar. date: 2: 5 5 peas Of all the holidays, election day is the most signifi icant and its mean- ing is the least regarded. 8 “How many voters to-day have intelligently informed themselye: ‘about the-various candidates; their “qualifications, their fitness andthe * duties which they should perform? How many voters will approach the "polls in a spirit of prayer, of thankfulness for their privileges as American pipe iNet Is Blamed for the Moths, as Mrs. Jarr Now Does Mr. Jarr Fetes of lt Giizens, of responsibility for the power embodied intheir battor? _ “Of the men qualified to vote in this city; tens of thousands have dis- “franchised themseives -by-failing-to register:—Thousands-more..althougt: _ registered will not vote. Of the remainder how many are there who wil’ : vote only as Proxies, r : tering the dictates of some boss to a Conyen- “The Judges elected toray will continue, some of them as tong 2/ + fourteen years, to decide what the law is and whom and how the law wil! punish From the highest court of the State, the Court of Appeals, te “}-the lowest district court, the men chosen-to-day will sit in judgment-de-| “termining what justice is and how it shall be meted out. Than this there_is no more im- portant question. _The administra- “tion of justice determines the true _.clvtracter_of any kind’ of: govern- From the treatment of dis- possess proceedings in the district; “courts to. the final decision’ of im- _-portant constitutional questions in the Court of Appeals every judicial | ‘Sep will be influenced by the ae-— fions-of the voters to-day. ‘Fhat-action should be: taken—in- = dependently of any boss. Neither the altar of justice nor’ the altar ‘of citizenship of which the ballot-box-is the token showld be sullied by al- ‘lowing any boss to perch himself thereon, : there's motha in your clothes. hem out and airing and bristiing them? aAYy sult vol Ray! You can't find-has been put away all summer in tar paper _Letters from the People. Owing to the Increase there would be| An Eltotion Law Point. Owtn to cre rl Se ea nh tiaMe it would be easy for any men} Piet Recitor: of, The. Eveatne Varig: to make a contract with the ratiroad You made a wrong decision concern-| company operating the old Brooklyn Bridge and thereby relieve the condi-| tion of affuirs for the common people) and double thelr money likewise. (Wish, T was tich, Don't you?) GEORGE EGGLESTON, JR. No, 1149 Greene avenue, Brooklyn, Yes—in 1896, the FAltor of The Evening World m me whother President Roosevelt ever ran for Mayor of Now ©! York City and What year? on furs y n fing the young man who came of age} on the. day after eclection, The law eeys that an “elector' ts a male citt- ren of the United States who te twenty- one years of or will be on the day APTER olection, who has resided in “the Stale one ysar. county, four m: and election: d who, {f naturalized fred ninety days prior to e! st of informa election Inspectors ifint to- a varit SIEBERT 4 The Bowery's Lodgers. | To the Editor of The Evening World: It in hardly true that Bowery lodgers are college graduates, But 1 must say that at least 7% per cent. of them come from well-to-do familien, | Dhe Bowery lodz in their ambitlous | age earned good ries when tn em- ploy but Usua! Rpreg Kiln n? ‘on Inapector. ther Bridge, He Wants Au Mm the Editor of T Why don't some _aires who are pice World: yur multi-mitiion- establishing sy. @ cdibraries which ato of no practleal usel ambition In them and orig to a man who haa no time to read or-| ness, fondneaa. {01 epee re ie Banixe a “rellef expedition’ and bulld yee ens suhigh an employer wil not | Sit auxlltary hridze clone to the old] Puen petiies, ie pecnon, has the] Brooklyn Bridge and reduce the con-|ocome a Bowery lodwer, for he cure | Py eendivons 6 FAC pESRENIT| Vates” bis—ambition tm enriy youth, an would calt Tor a bridge bullt| Ne bar a fondness ee college ot wteel-framd: cots ’tuction) vas, there | Would Oe the last thing he. waula MICHA BS would be no trina running over dt, and SENN \ @ide a lighter and cheaper bridge, Have Yes, © gi moving platform in operation, with a] 7 the Raltor of The Brecon World: rmMiuA on Hoch, side of the river con- cting Veith Use old Worldes, so that al years of ago sans woman ax well) have | on Ort. 2 te elther bridge.” to-morrow YY. 1, can be re; Texister Dapeng tied to) yoke PNATILAN, et Hd moth balls ayotha, Uf a young man becomes twenty-one], “W depths “Now you Ju: sharply. that heavy sult.’ the other reim.** me old summer sums of Ides, I asked you not to put any hs."* here -Ien't-a-—moth in this house!” and { pee Gunle af we “Phen theyre” eate howe Uitte, fos fra worm inshie ut them) “That nhows how. much—you know," yst-colored butterties.” “That's:old Mr and sire Moth weld Me. Jaze pegs the Messenger Boy’ Wout TOONS ZS) ee ‘Oowy INTERRUPT ME >) Bi, aed See li hang your things in, you picking things up! ago. You didn’t half look!" By Roy L2 McCardell. ee HERE'S that heavy winter suit of mine?’ asked Mr. Jarr’aa he fumbled around in the dark of the closet. st_ come out of there!” sald “You'll get all my skirts rumpled that havo just=J Jon know your “clothes Tare not” Where arethey=-then t!—asked— Mir, Jerr, sal4-Mrw Jar: sald Mra, Jar. And -your winter overcoat XlAlhed MF Tarr Don greasy rolls about as big as a_grain of rico sald Mes Jarr “Moths are eS but you tnrow'-them—all over. the house and it takes up all my time running around after You might be a Mtile considerate. "You're always saying How coutdrthere—be_when I'm alwitys-taking for I put them in there just Mrs. -Jarr in “They an there in the cont they’ “tC reyer h and_not make my work twice aa hard! I do declare I ¥ De al ssuraged drone You get then “Gimme a place to hang my things then!" said Mr. Jarr. “imme a pince | Mult: tat mo) that I can really call my own! There isn’t anything in that other closet but | mine and a lot of your things and the children's, of my things In that closet. It’s full of Pamot our nobhy dres ‘here's rot holes Mr, Jarr_ made no reply fo this, he had stopped arguing for the nonce and had ppeared in the other. room and! fad penetrated the ‘recesses in the ethor and that omer. aE His (nce beam MSP her tI —know SN ihe? Jooking for (6 Ijttle tiny ron Can 2a Teer i METSAGE T GAVE ROMEGUR HOURS "THE ELEVATED HORRORS 1> My ORCHOS ARE ALL | 7 MESSENGER - BOY! You neyer did! ng like haying af) What are tone, lady anid Mra. Jarr, Baroness von Rhyner d Make Him High- Erowed. tle worms that eat the clothes, Hayen't I ploksd them off my) tenencugh to-know.? ‘Thore ten‘t on the lapel of this coat, ut ora burnt sur Cigars on your clothes and burnitie holes th thom." will sty I burnt holes {n that red house coat! susgested Mr * said Mrs, varr. asketl Mr, Jart. closet,” sald Mr. Jarr, ‘1 kept the oes coat hanging in “1f there were maths they’ de. g00d fellows and only-eat already-rtartetl-on, and=not-touch_my- other clothes.”* eard sugh nonsence!’’ said Mra. Jarr, with pour me this morning and mothé are just as good 4 as anything else. Why den't you anke eqrr of your things: fuil the did 1 “{ don't Ike to wear clothes that look like they were shot up in an Indian iteeak,' said Mr. Jarr, “I don't think this-wedther Is suitable for peek-aboo) prvide good vertlation but they are not affected b) comet in any of_yeur clothes, I. tell you! said Mrs, Jerr.- h holes ma seers this & Tao E-fow-moments-he-reappented- with a heavy sult of clthes_on his, arn}. ed with-victory “ook there, under that Leak ‘aon that. aeam | maths, m-o-t-h= oally,. “people th me alway; ~And if there are any moths + Moths, madam, ye ooking them over sure to findt-t+ uble are ‘alwi | By F.G. Long. SCENE IN A LIBRARY. WHEN THE MESSENGER BOYS GE le (MPRO VED _ UNDELIVERED PACKAGES SAY, BOSS WILL YER GIVE VS ER PACK. OF CIGARETTES: PER 2/5 SCA KES PERRE 2 | sald Mrn. Jarr. hot looking, “yiw are always drov- “but I suppose you-are toa. and burned with cixar ash and then you say It's my brought then home yourself! There's none in -mine; posal and marriage. Some one sald the Puritans objected to bear-baiting. not because it hurt } the-bear-but-because tt gave pleasure to me Spectators. “And it looks as ifthe Ttallan Jaw agains: kissing in pubic had a similar inspiration, ' {ROR JOG IORI is = Just Gne Minute, Sisters! os Millinery Briefs. — % _6y Heten Vail Wallace. OME of our bex shapex are funny engugh, tnt there ts a phase of millinery thi ts fer from fun: Aboulsmnety women in every hum cred wear a dirdy birds’ wings or some sort of bird plumage on “thelr hater ; i ] But no government, hss the right to protect him in thie tuutix of the wholedale slaukhter of- our feathered friends necesstated tm suppiying woman'a demands! “Is the daughter of my people becomencruel" ntatione tv., 3) or ust imoughtieas? Docs she want birds idiied by the wholesale to ecom her hots, or is an unthinking condition into which she nas drifted because of the madness of the hat habit that causes her to go on year after year with no et {empt to stay the hands of those slaughterers. of the innoceme? - Tree tene tee eye reaHo naTreactre SUCTPOPOTTOTI” BN TO” TPRRLTEY ¢ exuncilon of ‘otir most beautiful bie. Humm.ng birds, nightingales, king= fohers, &c., all shot down. And cruoler than—all bird-traM@ickers at mating an the plumage at ttat period. nk of the destruction of bird-joy, thtw willing of sweet bird mualo, just — ee of thim thoughedess ‘folly ct promen | tee women wtio-make the home news of our nation. as Reait thin: One London dealer in binls ercelved a mingle exec: @ 2.0") dead humming birds, $900 aquatic birds and $000 pairs of wings) Am@ New York: alone; means hundreds of thovsante more bind murders. -Forowhat?? > To beautify (2) us. Inconce:vabie that woman—tender-heacted, humane woman. should: Yemand such a thing. 6 mage utterly Mirds, ¢hie still continue; for wheh déath means pro: vear inte nod wings thie 9 S Of sweet song and mother-love, ‘0 dealorn, death beconies inevitable. “pina feathers tostrich” plumes excepted, for ostidéhae are + tot ee 2 : make fine women. ——Why- Snakes: Exist: Close: to- Mani: By an Expert Snake Hunter. To the Falltor ot The Evening World WO of. your_orerp nents write that _they_are_yuasied atthe -pesetetewt = a3 oxtstence of snakes In civilization when serpents have so ans iredity. enemles, manitrt—included. Prolite tn reproduction, etust monty inyiatble, sérpents Unger longmrin-close priximitysto a dense hanna oes lation than other witd creatures, even {f the latter be protected by game laws or. humane legislation: Eutaenta alralla, the commén garter emake, “Tntithesls of rnce sule ocal representatys Teveais {n ite life hi: Eighty at a birth fltustrates’ the feaundity Getta of a tamliy of twenty-four mpectes which covers North Ampere on, north ‘to the high latitude limit of serpent Hie, Besides rapid multipiicatios of the Mtoen epectar-of snakes «Ill cmmon In New York Btate and Northarw New Jersey the serpent genor: In an adept at concealment. An experi Snake hunter might see_the head of a water anake or a hinck enake in the @rMaw, a brookside while an army of passing pedestrians would see no sign of_peptiie. fo. noms » apecien Bre niture—tmitaters ‘Onca, In The Che, Old Cro* Nest, in the Highlands of the _Hudeon, 1. In coloratio: tanaka. before sevetal persons could eee &, 80 woit-dtdttecotor- patter: armonize with the terrain on: whieh it Jar: Snakes also-giide-aliently “Into-water-when-epproached; This; to some emf explaina why snakes maintain existence close to man and why even the abppere head may ett be found within ten miles of Now. Yorks City iall,on. safes of the Hudecn, end the Crotalus horridus, or banded rattlesnal fifty mles of the metropolis, ALLEN SAMUEL WILLI No, 10% 6tmpson street, Bronx Bo} Odd acts: ’ of comfort : I It costs over. $1.00 tm fire & angie. shot from one of. the: Jarwest uss ured try fhe ile nc army, the Balt River 200 years A460, Near Wolcott, N, Yo lightning struck « trouse and killed a oat. Ing with the cat was not intired The Cold Btorage Company, of London, sometimes hae charwe of #78 Be of turn betonging to Ite patrona, 00 etal ‘Tho ears dt w child seldom change en # Ghyelope simto an adult, = poe) m&idle age they sometimes grow larger, Over 70 per cont. of the natives of India till the land; hence the i soaltered, and thelr power of co-operation is greatly leerened, vovetaien Chill, which hus the reputation of beinx the most progresalve.o¢ the —* upeaking countries, bs over 3,000 miles of railroad and 11,000 milos of tana | Yady Ernestine Hunt, eiest duughtor of the Marquis of Aflertury,’ operates a horas ranch at,Calyary, Alberta, on a stretch of Innd nearty, acres {n exfont. Ce ‘Science ‘and the Catchment N the onatern side of the rock of Gibraltar there is a enrious-lool ener which recently led an Amerioan touriat to azk whether the being armor-pinted, It {s wendly a catchment for rain water @ tte reserve water on she rook. The’ catchment cojverniten actos, It ta galvanized corrughted Iron fixed to pilen driven deép Into the sandy the village of Catalan, The water collected at the foot of the cat rough the rock Into a tunnol’Z,00) feet tong, amd in delivered into On the western side. Tha Yield td each Inch of rainfall js 240,000 gallona, ~ i th Last of Lincoln's Volunteers. » AJOH: GEN. MCASKSY, recently retired on socount of.age, was tel commissioned officer on the active Met who amewered. Presidin