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The E Published Dally Except Sun the F Park Row, eas Publialiing ¢ New York JOBEPH PULIT Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Se: @ubecription Rates to The Evening y For En World for the United States All Coun and Canada + $3.60 W, See fies Mail Matt the ndet 4 and oO Year Yoar.. + Month ‘On . One Month..... VOLUME 49 (i eneacnen COB WEBBED INDICTMENTS. ORMER ATTORNEY iENER AL MAYER stated to the judi ative investigation com- cial leg mittee “that ordinarily a magis trate sits for fifteen days and is semblyman Murphy. of Brook added to this that the justices the Court of Special ‘ every third month off. Yet the magistrates are asking z for additional judges and clerks ‘and the Justices of Special Sessions are asking for more judges and ‘clerks. Gov. Hughes saved the city enough money to put new floors in the City Court House by not appointing two judges to fill the vacan- leies there. There were more judges than there were courtrooms, and ‘to fill the vacancies would only make more judges without courtrooms There are enough courtrooms now in the County Court House in City Hall Park for al] the Justices of the Supreme Court to sit at oe time. Neither are these courtrooms constantly occupied. because though their number is in excess of the number of judges, the exist- ing courtrooms are rarely all occupied at the same time with trials and hearings. No wonder court calendars are years behind. No wonder that justice is delaved so Jong that in some cases it becomes hoary or dies of old age. then off fifteen « sions take Hi VAnsopstanys ney In the criminal courts prison cases are tried in preference to bail ‘eases. That is, a man who is able to give bail waits for the disposal of | vening Worid Daily Magazine, Saturday, December 26, 190d. The New York Girl---No. 11. By Maurice Ketten. his case until jail cases are tried. This means that with the Gomnteya The Chorus Girl on the Tinsel and Pathos of Stage Stories in the Christmas Magazines iijflux of jail cases the day of trial for bail cases is long postponed. <{ Time in a criminal case always operates to the advantage of the Sefendant. The prosecution must prove its case. If the State’s wit- Nesses die or move away the case falls. In any event, time weakens memory, and the witnesses are more likely to contradict themselves, to forget and not to carry weight with the jury. =; Under the professional bail system any criminal who can raise a Tittle money can get bail. The more successful criminal he is the more likely he is to be able to raise the bail money for a professional bondsman. hus justice, instead of being most swift against the worst offenders, makes victims of defendants without established criminal connections or of the failures in crime. Letters From the People. “I Canght That Fish.” girls. Ww ay why? Now, 4 merrily, thinking we do but tease ‘To the Editor of The Bvening World please, rev t answer that it is e ter The head of a fish is four inches long. because ¢ so badly ted t amen om r q b j i 2 ated a re ER Ea en he Gay Life’? opens Broadway, as I can sign with Ita tail ts a8 long a8 the nead and half They treated than they | Ue Jo : pions abartmont st ve of Dogwood Indian Remedy Co: ‘Strongly featured of the body. Its body is as long as the |were te go. And many a #tringing poolroom ever in consequence—th! ord t expected to pull teeth or double Ip b. and o. As head and tall. I caught that fish, How family still treats its servants. with | sight Into the tawd nd the scenes will, by its heart ap, you know, 1 a ker, looker and aregser on and off, and drag skirts van it, readers? idle maonaineca tit ae te euanalvet o fill ladies’ z tinees to capacity, and do not booze or dope. Vire et IRRE wee tt, readers? = indl. sider ati There must be | a BUY. ng high MARMADUKE MARSH SIDNEY LEVY. (some other reason. It can't be that | flock the most fa er has been t —Can get you refined little lady for tron jaw act. Can you have : The American Fl girls hamed to he servants, A | cughly stertliz nay read of what in to introduce her specialty? Would be scream with tough i , Rood servant who does her work well | v#fell the little daz se we may all agree beefsteak bit in boarding house scene, Wire answer. MM? REO Ee 9¢ oF The Bron Wd yer Guestion; Daf 8# honorable a position am a bank | with That, after all, kind) at it? And Dopey McKnight getting that proud since he's avi aralliteeraulaaba’ an’ inault: tol uae) ihe presiden | wearts ainty, coquettish, fr: wears his dress suit in place of pajamas, as if he was to be wake h rn als were above arly, mother dear, to atte 31 ley" eal ne| ‘American flag on Washington's Birth- 1 th Wo Almanac, r sea e ey ee Jear, to attend one of Gym Bagley's musical mornings at th day for a tablecloth.” I would say it To the £ The Evening World ME AYN BIEL EOD? Shier eee act twould be a great insult to the Ameri- | Where can I find a let of high schools And what do think? He makes a show of me at ‘Peggy Mnchrae! the fag; also to any American citizen |fr sitls in New York City with their W t r sleep? But they ther night, We has front seats in the orohestra, and he reaohes over and taps oe, re bre A RHSP He RECTED PERRY b. ways does and tx ‘The bass 4: and the ‘sin a surprised’tone, ‘Why, It's hollow!’ 2 ed as aRR hc « Girl's nas numbers of tne ‘Wish me a pros year? , kid; louder!" NATURALIZED CITIZEN, | As to Subway Chivalry. Ce ee BML U8 8 PD Sart TONGS, a Suggests Milk Diet, To the Biitor of The Dvening World xrend about a who lifted the Here {s a tip for the inan who w other man from the subway seat into that his doctor told him “he cou 1 first live a year,” as he is “dving of c vit sumption.” Seemingly » co seat ‘sumption has been cur y a time lifting fby a milk diet (Ave to t quarts # a, he abstinence from all forms of ex- | ®° 1 have past the w penditure of energy and plenty of fres other. I don’t believe in any nor air. The patient begins to put on fi sense about chivalry. If I already have f@t once, and the less attention he p: a keep tt. But too many men to gloomy thoughts or f CAS! | t# that tired women are about ‘etter for him. But if he does not want | sink into. And if a few of these hogs ‘to take this course of treatment on trust Were Foundly Kie it would be better let him go to one of the nearb: a, J 1 a few of them are tarlums on the high ground of orn Americar Jersey. He will find this treatment hes heen practised for years. EXPERI A Heavyweight Boy. To the BAitor of The Hvening World My son is thirteen years and elght months of age and weighs 142 ; He expects to be graduated fror School in two months f fs he hasn duce his weight Withstanding), 1 int one term @ military any wise OF puRKest anitariums iALAHAD N NCE velve Mo: ° Editor of The ths of Christmas.” Evening etter ts pri So will ce! Vhen t te WC will be over spirit, wlas’ For think kindly of i nds om to reader tell me is is best anything bette , 1 tt ANXIOUS FATHER. 4 ‘ait t paratively wean well rem housework « month. 1 tee. Now we for the sam wows bard: ® warranted t ED. PAGE By Roy L. McCardell. sald the Cho! na I bin blui BIN restin’ up all this week,’ f brain tng the holiday bers of them ten cent magazines that se for fificen cents a them but has the d Chi V's Christmas.’ s t sells fifteen * year unle hasas s called ‘The Chorus Girl's Ohrist- writt bedridden 4, Ind., i pa , them ‘The C: by an explanatory y expl staff has 1 e tnsel,’ the exp! them no at fir: suess ng our ad luck, I Marmaduke Marsh? a rst rehearsal ¢ A tu 1 dle stan: Wh I was bad! ve that good old holiday standby, ‘( re going to ask me when's our <1) rmaduke Marsh writes me every n line, Others has to come in ahead of us, and, wishing was a good guess, but what was , we didn't have no theatre; I played on the bandstand, and mail. up. : he’s an actor that acts at acting r on earth—now everybody think of a different person—iad verybody else in the cast looked at each other and said, re Was no note of interrogation in the remark. yed” says we to Marmaduke Marsh, and he answers | Sycamore Park, near Chattanooga, all last summer, and 1) ne name ‘Was you pushed over or was you thrown” tand players, but never of bandstand players before, The Ambitions of Sonny and Sue -:- 4 \ ANOTHER PAIR % < Salih Tm SURE gh DOWN TO THE (in, Sone 4 Merce AND THE 8055 7 GET AWAY FROM THOSE SLIPPERS! WILL GIVE, YOu A RAISE ier. WHEN YOU GIVE itt THE AMAS PRESENT | q ») YE ee OF SUPPERS Pe sue "AND Wilh NEVER bE mas in Many w coming to Broadway And all I can say is There's af the theatre?’ Fo By Albert Carmichael | handle women is to tell them to do what they want to do. up against the bul- warks of civilization. Lt’! declare that 4 E solemnly the very prac- W musedj/tices which are considered the most thelaun-| dangerous in the estimation of outsid- dry man, “they]ers are really the bulwarks of conser- seem to be going | vative business. The suspension of to put the probe} Marshall, Spader @ Co. shows that the“ into Wall street | stall has been fogmed already.” at last.” “However,” sald the laundry man, "A probe of spa-| “Congress still sticks to the idea of nett sald the | calling down the President.” i “Fear not,” advised the man who was getting his package. ‘The call-down won't make much of a splash, Your Pan who was get- ng his package ‘The game tn Wail street is the most complicated in the world. It e/a has been framed up through yenre of experience by clever, shifty men, look- Ing for the best of St. Thetr idea has been to make it look like a straight, square deal proposition on the surface but underneath ! {1s ail filled with cnosscuts and tunnels average successful statesman has all the backbone and determination of a «ippered herring. gress Is proceed- ng to call down the President with all the impetuous ardor of a man on his way to get his teeth filled. The reason YY ts because Congress is waiting to hear from home. “The representatives of the people want to Know what the people think ibout the insult h tled at them by the President before they frame up how to resent it. If any of them find that they * r their chances of re-election ing with the organt- cation in their home districts by throw-/ ke at Theodore Rooseyelt, they'll Je back in a way to mabe a Salome er look ike @ cake of ice. Besides, mare afraid the President an ace in the hole.” 4 1 see,’ remarked the laundry man, that a minister out in St. Louls has dvised the girls of his congregation to ° make-up on thelr maps {f they kk it make them more attrac tive.” ly 8 DW oany- thing about the Inside of Wall street are all tangled up in the affairs of the dis- trict. None of them can be secured by he Investigating committee to conduct the work esses. And n onler to exa! sses 60 as 9 get something then while the que: men who know the ation. ‘Once upon a time I saw a consclen fous country shemiff go on the grou! ‘ft the county fair to make an invest! tlon of the big wheel of fortune. ¢ Vardly this was a glittering cinch t he sucker would get an even break out nay fons will have to be pt tem of spe ut one man behind the works cc That dominie,” declared the man who nak " herever he w was getting his package, “is a few on ake the wheel stop wherever he want- | Wa* gett Piet pattsal Calisa rae an ot ¢ parti 1 of exploration 1 the pointer to rest and no outsid 3 tell how he The rube | rif spent three days investigating | wheel and lost $145. They could ave let him win, but that would have nade him suspicious. When the gang oved on to the next fair the si ff shook hands with the big squeeze an ala He \ | he was convinced the game was onest ‘The Gove rs investizatt: com mittee, having no vested power to com- |! against the randamental truth | aryncasacelao aH sl that the only way to handle w \ Wanna y tacos any neat lanavell ee Pa aha tanereeatitadey a nice, placid session. Every man t tight shoes make her { ask to come to the front a logic e uttered could tell what | ne logic ever i his graft 1s will come to the fr convince her that the way to ree hiseratt ule mulllcomestouth the redness from the tp of her | to stop wearing tight shoes. But s wise to the fact that she can put ~/ powder on her nose and wear tight sh the same time and the Ted nose “c show to the superficial observer. how, Why shouldn't a woman put and’ powder on her face? You seldom find a woman wilfully | dol anything to herself that will detra from her attractiveness to the opposite sex. A woman has as much right to paint her cheeks as a man has to shave, | hecause i1ré undoubtedly intended 4a shot out of gun and tell what the) that men should wear whiskers.” other fellow's ft fs, When it is all| “That was quite.a drastic move Mayor over the investigators will know a tot | MeClellan made. closing up.all the mov. more than ey know now, ‘but they an |won't kno what they are starting in Ye ndeed,"’ agreed the man who }to find out. It will surprise them to| WAS Retting his, package. | Evidences find that many of our foremost fy election in this town next Noveme nanc‘ers wil gO be them and _ ber. oe By Albert Payson Terhune. NO. 14—DONIZETT!’S ‘‘DON PASQUALE.” RNESTO, an Itallan youth, who was wholly dependent upon his rich ol@ E uncle, Don Pasquale, for support, fell in love with Norina, a pretty but poor young widow, Ernesto and Norina became engaged, and complica- ons promptly set in. Don Pasquale was a bachelor, He had picked ont as wife for his nephew « woman of means, But Ernesto flatly refused to marry the helress and declared he would always be true to Norina. ‘Vis obstinacy on the part of his nephew so enraged the old man that he ree \ solved to disinherit the lad, In order to be certain of leaving his wealth to some one else, Don Pasquale even decided to marry Pasquale confided this plan to his crony, Dr. Malatesta, But the doctor was fond of Ernesto and hated to see the youth disinhertted. So, while pratending to agree with Pasquale's views, he secretly formed a project to thwart the old man. He offered Pasquale the hand of his young sister, a demure maiden fresh from the convent. Pasquale, delighted, accepted the proposition with eagerness. As @ matter of fact, Malatesta had no sister, But he intended to persuade Norina to impersonate the imaginary convent girl and to make her disgust Pasquale with the idea of matrimony. Pasquale told Ernesto he was about to marry Malatesta’s sister, and Mala- testa explained the plot to Norina, who readily entered into the conspiracy, © ¢ © Malatesta introduced Pasquale to Norina, She was demure and bashful, and meanor charmed the old man. A notary arrived and performed a mock ‘Ke between the two, Barely was the ceremony at an end when Norina whirled about to face Pase quale, raged at him, called him a fool and declared she was going to turn his whole house upside down. Pasquale stared in dwnb amaze at the transformed bride; then demanded an explanation from Malatesta, But the doctor appeared equally mystified, Pasquale tried to soothe the angry woman. She retorted by discharging hts servants and announcing that she was going to the theatre without him 's she stamped out of the house Norina managed to drop a note 40 the floor, Pasquale read it. It contained a pledge to meet a mysterious sultor that aame evening in the garden summer-house, * * * Don Rasquale's life became a burden. He was swamped by bills for extrawe agant clothes, jewelry, &c., that Norina bought, When he remonstrated she boxed hia ears. Ernesto, who by this time wae in the plot, agreed to impersonate the sup. posed suitor who was to meet Norina at the summer-house. Pasquale was bent on golng there also to confront his supposed wife with her imaginary perfidy. Pasquale und Malatesta reached the garden early in the evening, prepared to spy upon Norina and the writer of ¢he note, Ernesto and Norina appeared, walking from the summer-houi In the darkness Pasquale could not yecognize his nephew, but he rushed forward to intercept the lovers. Ernesto took to his heels to avoid meeting the old man, But Nortna stood her ground, Pasquale overwhelmed Norina with bitter reproaches. Che angrily dente@ that she had come to the summer-house to meet any man. Pasquale of course did not believe her and worked himself into a fine fury over her’ Infidelity: At length, a8 a climax to his threats, he declared he would allow Ernesto to marry any one the youth might care to, and that the latter's wife should share | Norina’s place as mistress of the house Norina refused to allow anything of the sort, and another violent scene wes imminent when Malatesta interfered, and told Don Pasquale the trick that had | been played overjoyed to find he was not really the husband of Norina, eon- y to her marriage to Ernesto, Calling his neph to him, the old man joined the lovers’ hands and gave them his blessing. Missing numbeve of thie series may be obtained by seu cent for cach number to Circulation Department, Kveatug W: wad