The evening world. Newspaper, May 23, 1908, Page 8

The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, May 23, 1908. . Pubtishod Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to @ Park Row, New York (SOSEPH FULITIER, Pres, 1 Bast 184 Sureet. i) Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, @ubecription Rates to The Evening World for the United States For England and the Continent All Countries tn the International Postal Union VOLUME 48... i — Ee THE FEAR OF DEATH. tee EW MEN die as did William H. Marsh, of Brooklyn. A kindly dis- posed man, charitable and symp: drophobia. Having studied medicine He went to the Pasteur Institute and was told there that his case had de- veloped too far to be cured. The Pasteur doctors from their expe- rwere able to-tett him the-time of his death within an hour. Durfng the triat a murderer hopes for a friendly verdict. Af- sentence he hopes for favorable appeal. Until the electric switch is his hope of life through executive clemency remains. To Mr. there was no-hope. His death sentence was irrevocable and with- appeal In his great anguish he said: “1 do not fear death, but I would prefer to die in some other way. that my family will be well provided for.” This was in the face of the knowledge of the torture that death) | hydrophobia would bring, of the spasms, the pain, the momenis i consciousness which prevented oblivion. Nocmore sudden or sure death sentence was ever passed upon a) J. ANGUS BELAY, Bec.-Trese., 901 Want 112th Btrest, 5 | and } _| | thetic, he had taken pity on an in-| jured dog and cleansed its wounds. | Three weeks after he developed hy- in his youth he knew the symptoms. | | | | | | PERJURY. By Maurice Ketten. | “iw JAIL FOR PERTURY Death comes to:all men, but whether ft comes as a soothing angel )or as a dread depends. upon the man himself and on no one else. ef The fear of deathris primarily a physical instinct resulting from the inherent desire to live. Without this the only bar to suicide would be «moral, not physical. aS Doctors who have attended many death beds give assurances that * in almost all cases of fatal sickness death comes as a relief, a3 a welcome end, as a desired stop to anguish and feebleness. In battle a man can face death urged on by excitement and the . feeling of comradeship in strife. In a _ dangerous occupations a man be- 17 i comes careless to death. If the fear if f \ of sudden death had not died withe (i fl i i \ ; “in him he would have gone to.some \ bl ( sother employment. (t 1 ia i i ) \ by Mr. Marsh must have been a \ \ \ ub good man. His kindly treatment of tu “sthe stray dog must have been an ape | -4indication of his nature and of his so ER tye, Whole life. He must have been "™*"°” Gan NN ( Hsvone of the men who took Bryant's rates 0 yl WW \\ \ p -advice in Thanatopsis: Vie So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where e His chamber in the silent halls of d at i Thou go not, like the quarry-siave at night, it Scourged to his dungeon, but sust and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one that wr. About him, and s the drapery of s down to pleasar nie ea eee ; TO-MORROW Fai he ‘A Brooklyn widow caught a «ft. Since then she has had eighty offers daily. Why should the fact that a w want to marry her? This is one of World, which gives six illustrated plates of the new sheath skirts amd a d) ican Girls Make Bad Wives?” In the Funny Side the Explorigator Stepbrothers take an automobile ride eall the doctor again, Bill has another bad 1 into mischi Yanitor Yens loses his phonograph and the | Spring excursion, Then there are all the news, sporti his ¢ which you will secure with the Sunday W« Kindly ta « the trouble to order from your newsdealer iva i ' Letters from the People etters trom the People. June 1 ! thes a Behe To the Pitter of The Evening World: quir When does the mtraw hat season pla zons formally start? Is tt May 15 or June 107 . LE R i The Pollen ing mp , a. t To the Eiitor of The Taventz ht " nk about high t @uthority and powers of tt o Bridge Care. honest and p eo Fuittor curbed. There This o: P my observatio ng tha’ s three of these instances where + Brookiyn FE T was violated a mere word of five trains tion from the person in think, have deyn amply #1 « % each case the offender was ignorant ef the fact that he wae doing any ‘wrong. If the polleemen who made age way a tmirs?’’ The trolley five times as long as a or tive minutes ar then o train to cross, | Li le En i joe Fy CPT | f r S The Chorus Girl Says Men Are Getting Bold Since Mae Wood Became the Bride of the Tombs BuT THe Ju Dae) DOID1IT have some more news for you. won't be long, and see !f I ain't the told you go’ kid! “We was discussing theese things up to the flat the other night. and Old Man Moneyten ways since Abe Hummel was sent to stir leading citizens ain't had to step up to the captain‘s office and settle so much. Evidently them memortes was bitter to him, because he scowled and twisted his face up into a knot, not noticing his cigar wouldn't draw because the band on It was too Ught, until Dopey McKnight told him to ‘ake t's corset off 80 It could breathe more easy, for what was the use ef a «igur being 0 formal when we was Jest sittin’ around the flat with no strangers present? I think I'd run home to Altoona, Pa, to see my folks, now that our show ts closed, if {t wasn't for the horrible habit my folks have of going to bed at night “Of course, there a! n ise to do in Altoona. Winy, they open the | stores there at 6 o'clock in the morning. and if a clerk te five minutes late the boss asts him where he's been all forenoon, and the clerk says he was out to a social function till the wee #ma’ hours the night before and didn't get home till By Roy L, McCardell. ‘cc AMMA DE BRANSCOMBE and Puss Montgomery M gays that the way things 1s going these days & lady will be afraid to bint she needs a new hat,” sald the Chorus Girl “Why t# {t thet Old Man Moneyton should insist on coming up to the flat and reading the newspaper sccounts of Mue Wood becoming the Bride of the Tomos when sne tried to cash a home made marriage certificate? ‘Mamma De Branscombe says it's just encouraged @ lot of men to be as bold as brass, and she hesitates now to dollars, ‘Just for & morning that New Y ne @ walks in his sleep, and once when he 1e trembles when she thinks of letters she ‘Mamma De Branscombe says was on to see me he & never see such a town; he couldn't get anything to us written, because suppose it was found o @ sent ‘em out to be put in the 1) Cx I etter box by th ann hall boy, couldn't they say that was black mail? wa cfonbroak (aati Neebsoilock ‘ : “[ don't want to n ) names, but you just stick around, kld, and Iisten “He and Dopey Mc ft up to go fishing when my papa was on ror some stage and #8 scandals start to sizzle s¢ visiting. Papa didn't ere to go, and Dopey thought any place above ee eaeaTe Geht j ji : Se eer ' xth street w: papa comes and kn ate Dopevialacsrial “I knows a certain millionaire tha & parted from his le because SNe ‘ ele i ates L , ea solid gold cigarette case wii ar work of dia- LS) ash ASO wake Dopey up, but has to sit down and walt a ene Amrit Manet ee ie (areaee of oie half-hour for Dopey However, off they go, papa and Dopey, and onds on It. ‘The society Willle Is @ son of a big trust pror nd in his O*N oaton cour tarfish off th ks somewhere, and would have caught more, only on he has been ng to effect a highball consolidation. He shows the 01d th4. tee their belt fa! a beake Cc TORCIEWEET UR EEC EIS Dette eee garette © to a Little 1 of mine who is playing at the Circle, The ittle ing p Honaviooukayen th heminere eftee aise tieieereees arty ts awful Jealous of the soclety W souse, b carise 6 an awful | c e a few weeks. They won't take any board from | * money takes the Kold cigarette case and puts tet rks all over tt, | yoy nvelloveavdaiikt hel tilielbneicen iy intateestcote eeaienes ig a half dozen diamonds out of {t In her rage, but 4 © rad presence jase } Of ated crough not to swallow, and then she sends the 1 marked &0'd es et back to the young milli fre's wife with her compli nts. = into an awful mper the mililonaire's bri <n dozen of The Dear Old Days. girl's. photographs s them in silver and gold fra 1 story, a Harrisburg woman recently furhished a meal e soused soclety W s wife with an anonym xing hobo who had applied therefor at the back door. no name signed to it, telling her if she will go any to the Circle out the middie finger of your left hand so straight see why her husband 1s afrafd to come home in the dark. compassionate woman. “Was St ever broken?" the soused as yt vered the hobo, with a snuffle. “But during my halcyoe ring on that finger, and old habits are hard to break, he state of affa all parties is separated clety Willie and the lttle pa “Ain't I the village gossip? Reddy the Rooter. NOW TUST A MOMENT AR EEROERES 5 THIS DEAL eee GAME At DE Povo er sD) f GRouNos ' win peeRress| MAA? OF AIG GoGee MIKE DoNtin BATTin- ty in the chorus. Bring your knitting over Wedne and I'll “§ ay “fe By George Hopf AT A 360 CLIP-TENNY Dom’ Cincus STONTS ON FIRST ~ Devin CAN THIS BE TRue! (Gok, ME For THAT Gane TELL mR, BoNOS The SEE Hin “Yes, and mosquitoes and gnats and bats’ ble garden or picking 1 pany but screech owls and bu veget Gertrude Barnum’s Talks to Girls. Back to the Land. TT « bindery girls were eating luncheon tn the open windows of the factory, whither the sunshine end breezes had wooed them. Through the atreet below @ funeral procession wound solemnly alon “There's one person that'll get to the country this spring," said a dreamy-eyed “gold leaf layer,” dropping her longing gaze from the cloud-flaked sky to follow the hearse “The country 1s 0. K. for Qsad ones,” sald her rosys chieeked eill-mate ‘You wouldn't be #o crazy about it if you'd lived there all your life like I have, I loathe fresh. air end abominate lands-apes.” "You'll feel ifferont when you get my age,” saii the gray forelady, with a homesick sigh. "I can Just see the old place now—meadows with clover diossoma and butter— Ales, woods with equirrels and birds, brooks with eweet= emelling willows over them and yellow sand under"—— Nothing doing but weeding the tries among the thorns and bramtvles. No com ogs. Not for mine. Give me the ainging elestrie wires, the smeil of olty smoke, and hot roasted peanuts at five a bag; the com- pany of a few that speak English; and fifty cen: fot a trip to Coney Island. one would be fool enough to free of charge, all of me, over at the and of the week Our place at home ts empty and I don't think any uy it. Whoever wants to can go and live there foe It's only four hours from here." My friend Edna looked up. suddenly, as though struck by an Ides. “Do you mean that?" she « "Sure!" said A week later to make use of summer home for bookh us housekeeper board at nets! ked. the rosy-cheeked girl. a motion w made and carried tn the Bookbinders’ Union A certain wv farmhouse, f r hours n the city, for @ nders, with the forelaty (now retiring from the factory) and house parties over Sundays, with young men Invited te cant boring farmhouses As we came home from the meeting I askal Edna how she ever thogght of the « (lke the city | beacause ft was: | worked out a happy combinatic she added. railroads. and boat lines, and special automobil And the workers circulating jeme, and she answered. T've been thinking of !t ever since that noon-time when one person a@ant decause f wasn't coumtry and the other didn't Mke the country t city I wouldn't Ike to choose either alde myse!: for the summer." fon: “When we get gorernment ownership of trains and flying machines for so T just with convi and the s!x-hour day, and travelling cinematograph @hows, an@ oney Isiamis—we may get the people ‘back to the land’ then; but we won't before.” + On the Edge of the Precipice, jwith her ot | Seems lost in | "Yes tt She drew a wee bit he going to propose? hide the glad ight in the shadow and crept into his, By Joseph A, Flynn. T was a beautiful su zephyrs tering suckle in prmma donnas of The isy and the bruebel] ut t mer evening. The sweet-scented ed in and out among the trees, scat ay and fragrant honey- ted sachet powder. The had retired to their bou- ad long gone to rest, while the josed their tiny heads and lay was bluebell still doors warvlers gay and was now coming down the lonesome, white road with him, the catch of the town, her side. Silent and colorful, the countryside lay stretched before them, and over the summit of a distant h.li came the weloome ateliag “An!” he exclaimed, his rigit arm moving danger- 6 asly near to her sylph-like waist, “it is a glorious night! s drooping head, She, pale flower, ts repos ng in Slumberland, along r fair sisters, Not a sound breaks on the languid air. All nature jopy dreams."* nearer to his manly form and pink ned shirt. Wes Her little heart was madls te beautit she answered dso as to her pretty brown eyes: wil 1 stole out of tipping it firmly. “One could almost weave dQ spot."” she whispered. Did nprehend? She @ romance tn this enclian held her breath, | *Look at the bright Wait tM the papers print the partioulars; It |down like angels keepng guard over our hearts.” likewise the sleeve of his coat twinkling stars,” Hearts! He was surely coming to !t now "And look at fair Luna!’ he exclaimed, the most beautiful all Heaven's wonders, She is magnificent ght. arrayed like a queen {n her golden gown, but with all her beauty s not as fair as’— ‘What? gasped the trentbling bluebell, nestling a little closer to his taflorm made sult | He dropped his eyes for a me lon the edge of the Great Precipice; he had nearly {4 now for a little plied, And they c for because ten dollars won any longer for fear of a private detective {i back to the Mat 9 o'clock, and thet gut so neryous that he lay awake and heard the clocks with a sullen look and saying . yous! You know strike 10 and 11, and so he overslept himself when he Gid get to sleep at Inst. | what happened to this Wood “My papa 1s a dear old stew aa ever wus, but he gets up so early in the | | Even Satan's Ju sure sign th | That swellin, The peril, ery | trated News. It | Cannibal Islands. abandoned many | sympathize with the | from the coalescing and conybining of the planet, PaLEN ROWLAND When other women 3 ‘at she is a little better looking than she need be. g which a man feels in his throat when he {s about to pre pose is the “Don't” lump. Love must always end fooner or later—usually sooner than the girl expecte® and later than the man Intended, HERE {s no more deadly delusion, none more full than this notion that trains and wires have created @ real undet- standing between the nations. Do you think that the Chinamen wilt love you because you can write a Chinese telegram? Chinamen (and Tight they are) will not love you The world has not shrunk at all, and raising her fair face to his but that moment was enor He was was out too farg t moon he re nent, strategy. And with his eyes glued on the di ‘as she was last night.” nued thelr walk. + Reflections of a Bachelor Girl. By Helen Rowland OUNG girls are a man’s bread and butter; widows, his It’s the sunny side of the street a woman, that always att a teary wife, @ cuiliy wife and a stormy w bad weather, drive him off in search of a change of feminine atmosphere. June is the month of folly, in which people fall ta love for no particular reason und get married “just bee of ife, and of cause.” i Q not be a prison, but a privilege, and should not be jallers but joiliers, Perhaps it’s because they owe one another so much that some husbands and wives appear to regard each ovier with that smothered resentment one feels téward @ Matrimony shou husbands and wives relentless creditor reputation would not keep him out of the best soclety if he wore a dress suit and had his hoofs properiy manicured. s that a girl is ‘no better than she should be" it i@ World Has Not Shrunk, By G. K. Chesterton. of quite practiom unt!l you can write a Chinese love-detter, writes G. K. Chesterton in the London Ilus- ix not one fota more easy at this moment to understand tfie It fe only more easy to look at them and misunderstand them, The misunderstanding has actually grown greater, because we ourselves have healthy and instinctive things which would have helped us to vages. On the eame page on which I read of these hopes I found a Moslem aervice called | dirty or disgusting because It involved the Idea of blood. A few hundred years | ago | But we have got we should have realized that our own religion involyad the idea of blood. further away from understending their religion by ceasing to vnderstand our own. +2 * The Hypnotic Eye at the Circus. beasts By Harriet Quimby. HE man who wants to test tie power of the human eye on savage ts legion, and he affords no end of amusement for the attend- ants at the circus, who are always on the lookout for him. Often he may be detected standing before the cage of a lion, gazing intently straight into the eyes of the dignified uld beast. who guses back with | indifference and finally | uence, but because something el ifts his eyes, not because he feels any mywtic tn- has attracted his attention, A story ts told ‘of a man who tried the hypnotic trick on an ostrich. At first the bird crowched down and fluttered his wings nervously, but made no other manifestation for | some tima. thee Memmeate Oe A few hours later the dody of the man wes found, with the huge bird alternately stamping end sitting on &. Another fe told of a man who to outgage @ leopard, with the result that the animal made @ fierce against the tare of tis cage and et the omn, and attendants the two created a disturbasce Burrying to investigate the cauble—Lesiie’s Weeltyn , +3 he continued. “See how they peeps, { \ | TS eNT