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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-16

THE other day in Charlottesville
Southerners saw Mr. Hanna at his
! best, says Lucien Julian Walker
IN the Birmingham Age Herald
and he charmed them as he charms ali
men who come within the abundant sun
shine OF his genial presence No man can
meet MT. Hanna and have speech with
him without feeling something of his
Overmastering good heartedness and his
transeendent intellectual force, his great
humanism and al1-embraeing spirit of
present goodwill of our emotional South
ern nature no other man conspicuous
in our national life is qualified to appeal
half so powerfully as MI. Hanna. But
politics has kept him and the South apart,
and in the partisan sense he and the
South are certain 30 remain separated
In politics it is impossible and certainly
undesirable for the South to come around
to him Equally impossible and by him
self undesired is it for him in the political
sense to cross the Potomac. The South
win remain Democratic; Mr. Hanna viii
remain Republican. This much is in the
nature of things, and is so evident as to
warrant no discussion.
But a greatly needed and most urgently
desirable condition is that the South
should know the man Hanna personally
as he is. He already knows the South for
the best it contains. and in the material
and practical sense the South does not
possess on this good April day any other
friend so powerful and so perfectly sim
cere. The man is the very. essence of sin
cerity- He is entirely ignorant of every
method Of demonstrating himself to be
false.
This is why Mr. Hanna has been ma
ligned- His greatest virtue has Ieat ven
ON to aspersion. and that very quality of
his which Southerners most OF ali would
esteem manifest and bravest has been so
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-16
THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF WEALTH
By Mrs. RUSSELL SAGE.

made personal visit, and took the money
with them. Mrs. Vanderbilt used to draw
5000 from the bank at time for various
charities. and distribute it personally in
currency. She was always interested in
knowing how it was used and who profited
by it. That is the true spirit of RESPONSE
bIiity IN those who have wealth-not to
feel that their duty is done when they
have subscribed or mailed a check, but to
realize that the responsibility rests upon
them to take a personal interest in those
who are thus brought near to them
through the action Of human sympathy.
do not say that the women of forty
years ago felt this responsibility more
than do the women Of today, only now
charitable giving has taken a little diff
ferent form. Instead OF a conservation, it
has perhaps become more a fad The ba
zaars abroad for charity, the booths OF the
Queen and of the women of title-aH this
display of pomp and benevolenee indicates
the faddish character of a great deal of
the so-called charity of today, and that
TO be interested IN some philanthropy has
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-16
HOW MEN AND WOMEN ACT
m THE DENTISTS CHAR

when the nerves are aggravated. she viii
not utter one word of complaint
a man comes in maintaining a buster
ing, bTavado attitude, and gets into the
chair with so much apparent resignation
and determination that if you never had
seen man in a dentists Office before
you would declare ne was Woman's super
Tor in point OF bravery at every point
But just wait. The minute you begin
70 hurt him you hear something. and this
something depends upon the religious ten
denotes of the particular man If he is
pFofane he s#ears, and if he is not given
TO profanity he uses language so close TO
a violation Of moral law that it is rather
hard to draw distinguishing line.
The woman win go through the first
operation and when told TO come back the
following day viii agree to do so. What
is more, she viii keep her word. But
man viii 80 away crashing his teeth, and
the chances are you won't see him again
for week You have to use ali sorts
OF means TO get him hack The fact OF
the matter is he hasn't the courage to
undergo repetition of the pain to which
he has been subjected
There is another great difference be
tween men and women which involves
personal pride II woman has bad
teeth she wants them treated in the best
possible way, no matter how much physi-
cal suffering is involved. She will sit
for a whole day aud subject herself to
any sert of treatment IN order to have
crooked tooth Strengthened or some other
natural defect remedied. This, of course.
is largely a matter OF pride. but man
won't do it. He wants good work, Ger
tainly. but he wants it done IN the least
painful manner, and isn't 50 particular
about his personal appearance that he is
willing 10 endure torture TO bring about
the result
IN justice to the men it must be said.
that in eases OF sudden shock they have
more nerve than women This is evident
in the pulling of a tooth 4 man stands
this ordeal better than a woman. but
where endurance enters into the operation
he is not her equal II point of nerve in
any respect"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-16
SENATOR MARX HANNA
PICTURED BY A SOUTHRON

perverted by critics who never saw him
as to deceive oar people into regarding
him as man no more like the real leader
that he is than mud is like marble.
Mr. Hanna, to shift the comparison,
bears no more resemblance to the Mark
Hanna of the partisan cartoouist and
chatterer Of paragraphs in false syntax
than he bears to King Henry Willard
everybody OF every political view con
fesses that Mr.. Hanns's private life is
above TIE compass CT the swiftest shaft
from the bow Of malignity: and to his in
nate humanity, which we call by the 9TH
men appeal today.
To the South Dir. Hanna sent three
months ago The most memorable message
Of material value yet sent TO that part Of
the Republic by any one man-sent it
through the "Age-Herald'' and made me
its grateful bearer. The other day in
Charlottesville he in part repeated that
message, dwelling again upon his Arm
faith that in good time the great indus
trial centre of America would be trans
ferred to Alabama and part Of Tonnes
Ses-tO territory OF Wn4cn Birmingham
is the natural capital. Mr.. Hanna speaks
with authority that is Of immense signif-
canoe. for he is one of the greatest and
most successful business men on this con
tinent- He has been nearly forty years
in active business and has made for him
self an ample fortune. Il he be not
competent judge Of business and indus
trial conditions, where shall We look for
such judge?
In his remarkable interview in the
Age Herald he proclaimed his abundant
faith in the whole South. as regards ma
teriaI greatness. and specifically dweIt
upon the greatness OF Alabama and Biz
mingham.
This is not politics; it Is practical
friendship and practical business. The
South ought to know Mr. Hanna as pow
erful friend and Jolly good fellow"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-16

ENTISTS have an excellent oppor-
tunity for observing the varying
distinctive actions of men and
women while enduring the in
tense pain usually accompanying dental
surgery. and they are authority for the
statement that men are natural born
towards" when it comes to facing an op-
Grafton which they know will set fheir
nerves to jumping and cause them much
physical suffering.
A woman viii sit for hours and allow
a dentist to gouge and prod her gums
with any number of sharp steel instru-
ments that he chooses to use, without
whimpering, and if the operation is not
completed she will come back the next
day and have the painful ordeal repeated.
But man! Not so with him, says the
Chicago Tribune" He may show up for
the first days treatment, but the chances
are that on the second day his appoint
mcnt win remain unkept. He hasn't the
necessary nerve and inclination to sub
ISCL utHSClA duOI1Cf Oh torture,
and so he gives the dentists office wide
berth.
1t is not a fact. however, that all men
are towards when facing a dental chair;
nor is it true that all womrza are brave
under similar circumstances; but taken
as a class, and viewed under the inspect
ing glass of the D. D. s., women show
more courage than men when called upon
to endure treatment which at the best is
anything but pleasant
A Chicago dentist has observed the dis
tiuetive characteristics of men and wo-
men who occupy his chair from day to
day, and has gathered some interesting
facts
The actions Of a man in my chair are
as different from those of a woman as
day is from night" he said. ''In the first
place woman will present herself at the
appointed time, trembling, perhaps, but
determined to see it through, no matter
how great the pain may be. She gets
into the chair, settles back against the
head-rost. and though she may finch
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-16


numberless examples Of "grotesqueries'
which, curiousIy enough. were used in en-
forcing the doctrines OF the church by
means Of satirizing the devil But the
eighteenth century was the heyday Of the
cartoon
Beginning in France. and overrunni1g
into Holland, and thence acrcss the
channel into England. the flood of carl
caturists carried everything before it; and
it is safe to say that We read the history
of the times with clearer vision and with
more accuracy of detail for the mirror
which the caricaturists held up to reflect
the striking peculiarities Of the men and
events passing before it.
Gautier mentions a Spanish eartoonist
Francisco Gaya Y Lucientes. mixture OF
Rembrandt. Vatican. and Rabelais, Who
preceded the two great earieaturists OF
the latter half of the eighteenth century
George Crufkshank, in England, and Mons.
Charlet. in France Chariot is known as
the father of modern social caricature,
and holds as good title to his position as
does PhiIiDau to that of the father Of
COullC Jun udllSIliy Win IL S-'eAA >
the strongest paper of its kind. Then
came Punch in England. which still re
tafns its subtitle OF the London
Charivari, for over sixty years the faith
full. if not the most highly polished, re-
fector of British life. Upon it's staff John
Leech, Richard Doyle. John Fenniel.
George du Maurier, and a dozen men d
lesser name have kept Great Britain in
good humor for two generations.
1t has been reserved for America, how
ever. to bring forth new race Of carl
caturists, which. for lack of a better title,
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-16

. HE story is told of an able of the
seventeenth century. who was as
1 deformed in figure as he was ri
diculous in dress, and as sensitive
about his physical deforur-y a h was
vain of his eccentric attire, that while
serving mass one morning he observed
a smile of contempt on the face of one Of
the courtiers present. and determined to
avenge himself by serving process upon
him for appearance in court the following
day
The offender. VI. de Lassou by name,
knowing that things would go hard with
him unless he could show some reason for
his mirth. made a hasty sketch of the
hunchback able. exaggerating in size the
six black caps aud their waistcoats IN
which he was wont TO appear; and when
he was solemnIy asked to show cause for
his unseemly mirth and indignity to The
holy church. he suddenly displayed before
his judges the caTicature II the able as
his excuse" The likeness was so ex-
ceilent and the cartoon so grotesQue that
the entire court fell to laughing and the
accused was liberated without a repri-
mand
This is the first authentic case of the
power of the cartoon in hall of justice:
but it illustrates the power of the pencil
in depicting the soIIies of the foolish and
the Alterations OF the artificial
There is no telling when the art of
earicature began There are number Of
grotesques that have come down TO rs
from earliest Egyptian tigass. The Greeks
employed pictures to emphasize their
satire, and so did the Romans All
through the Middle Ages there we're
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-16
REFLECTIONS.
By ETHELwYN WETHERALD.

Tho briIfiance of one mind IS a pub
lie square deIuged with electric light;
Of another a tea-perfumed parior III
| by wax candles
Only the well-fed discriminate. The
5onoasfic mouse has a more sophisti-
Gated face than the field mouse but
I a starving eat never found that out
The green mind, like the green field,
has more things growing IN 1t tnah
you would suspect.
! II you would enjoy your infatuatien
/ never serutinize it.
The woman who takes In washing
0 support nine children is cheerful
but so few Of US can be washerwoman
with nine children.
Pygmalion turned marble woman
into a loving wife simply by loving
her. Nearly every man has had
similar experience.
Love and pain are twins that nearly
every women has nursed.
When for moment 1 am privileged
TO see myself as others see me am
astonished at the size Of my smallest
/ fault.
The woman who dIeads the common
place may be sure that her suffer
ings, at least. viii be uncOmmVs1.
The diamond star in young girls
delicate hair is less brilliant than her
fancies about life.
4 woman's gravity and brightness
should be like the dusk and gIcam of
a June shower-no chill in either.
There is a type Of man who thinks
he can make a girl believe anything
if he puts on 4 sincere look while say
ing It.
The young girl counts the minutes
till her lover comes: the old maid
counts the years sin, he went away
Life grows richer as it grows old
The setting sun reddans the stream
to wine.
We wouldn't object to times flying
if he didn't insist on dragging US
along with him
The most obvious fact of human
life IS its unutterable pathos.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-16

become a social obligation. But because
it is true that the actual weight of re-
sponsibiIity is not so much felt. it does
not follow that Just as much is not being
done.
Persons of wealth must feel response
bility from the very fact that they are
the minority of the world. and that they
rule the majority. The majority are poer.
The minority must, therefore, feel that
this disproportioH lays a very heavy re-
spoHsibiIity upon them, and they accept it.
The rich man who spends money for his
club for pictures, for travel, for luxury.
is not, however, sinking this responsible
ity. What the rich expend in this way
does not amount to so much IS what the
poor expend for beer and tobacco For
the rich. being the minority. their mora
expensive luxuries do not cost so much
as the Iuxuries of the larger class.
Those who have wealth must and do
realize that the world is divided into tWQ
elasses-those who help and those who
have to be helped. The chief respensi5iI-
ity OF wealth is in the helping.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-16
our Ere DEPARTMENT--As 1T OUGHT no Be.

just about one-hsf the size it ought to be.
This declaration is based upon the ter
ritoriaI conditions obtaining here, as well
as upon a comparison with other cities
IN this city each fire company covers a
district of 2-S7 square miles. almost
double that covered in New York and
Philadelphia; three times greater than
a company's territory IN Baltimore, Buff
faIo. Cincinnati, OF New Orleans. four
times larger than in Milwaukee and Lou
isville, six times !srser than IN san Fran
cisco. and seven times larger than in
Boston.
What makes things worse yet is that
a considerable portion of the local fire.
fighting apparatus is antiquated and
worn out and that we have not here a
single engine which is actually rated as
belonging to the first class What We
need is more and better apparatus, more
and better engine houses. more men, and
a high pressure water service Besides
all these we should have a combination
police and FIRE boat These are not arbi-
trary demands; they are dictated by the
actual necessities of the Capital City Of
the United States
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-16
Painters of Four Madonnas.
BY A. F. GoRHAM.

OF ali Leonardo da Yinci's pupils
Beruardino Luini perhaps approaches
the great master the nearest. Many
OF Leonardo's pictures arc now at
tributed by the best critics 10 Luini,
especially the Christ Disputing with
the Doctors" now in London, and the
Vanity and Modcsty,' in the sciarra
palace at Rome.
Some of his best frescoes. such as
the 'CrueIfxIon," are full of splendid
figures, and be was distinguished, like
his master, by the warm, clear tint of
his coIoring- Helhas not. perhaps, re-
ceived all the honor due him, as his
work was 50 absorbed in Leonardo's;
but he could never have achieved the
highest rank among painters, as there
was too much the same character in
his faces.
Luini's finest -fFescoes are to be seen
in the Brera, at Milan, which city is
probably the richest in his pictures.
The Breral contains the beautiful
Mother and Child surrounded by
trelIis of trembling roses, and TIE
mothers face is very womanIy and
loving, but pathetic with the pre-
science of coming sorrow, while the
happy child is pIueking a lily which
stands in a pot before him.
Little is known Of Luini personally;
but. like all the painters of his time.
his pictures are full OF religious en-
thusiasm.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-16

IT. HE greatest responsibility Of
wealth is to distribute a large
L proportion Of it where it viii 10
the most good. JudIeious charity
is the first responsibility wealth brings
And by charity mean not only the Civ
ing Of money! mean the personal inter
est in charitable work, without which the
money giving, important and necessary as
ii is, loses much of its value, both to those
who are helping and to those who are
helped; for the responsibility OF giving
is not alone to those to whom one gives,
but to the giver.
He who gives best is he who goes with
his purse in his hand and with sympathy
in his heart.
Forty years ago the wealthy women of
New York were most generous. Giving
vas 10 them conservation Mrs W H.
Vanderbilt, Mrs. AstoT, Mrs. Robert Min
turn-it was their daily habit TO respond
beautifully and carefully to the constant
appeals made to them for aid They we're
not satisfied merely to send a check TO
some charitable institution. They usually
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-16
Of RURAL FREE DELIVERY
0AlLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION


He Introduction Of the ruraI free
delivery system has had a wonder
L fuI effect on the circulation Of
daily newspapers. In nay home
Washington county, Pa.-the results may
be taken as a fair example. It adjoins
Allegheny county on the south, and no
part Of it is more than sixty miles from
the city Of Pittsburg- The area Of the
county is $50 square miles.
The rural delivery system was fuaugu-
rated in the county nearly four years ago.
and Two years ago a complete system was
put into operation, with 81 carriers and
one wagon. These carriers serve an aver
nge OF over 100 families each, or more
than 10000 families. The superintendent
Of the service tells ne that, when inspect
ing the routes. he has made Inquiries con-
corning the circulation OF the daily news
papers, and finds that every family takes
from one 10 four daily.
It is the exception where a daily news
paper fails TO get into any house along a
rural route. Very many farmers take Two
daily newspapers, a good many three, and
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-16

the superintendent gave me the names Of
some who were the subscribers for four
daiiies. Comparatively few Of these per
sons we're readers OF the daily newspapers
before the Introduction Of the ruraf free
delivery system
believe that the establishment Of the
rural free delivery system in Washington
county has added from 10 coo 70 u 600 to
the circulation OF the Pittsburg daily
newspapers. It has also helped the daily
newspapers Of Wheeling. PhiIazelphI and
New York. as the papers published in all
these cities have subscribers throughout
the county
The service has been established in a
steat many counties OF the United States.
aud presume the effect on daily news
paper circulation has been the same
everywhere It might be said that every
new rural route means 100 new readers
Of the daily newspapers This necessarily
must have great influence Ia the spread
ing Of intelligence and the knowledge OF
the affairs Of the day among the people OF
the rural districts
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-16
THE EVOLUTION AND INFLUENCE
OF THE NEWSPAPER CARTOON
BY THOMAS MAST, the Famous tweed Ring cartoonist

may be called personal cartoonfsts-men
who seize upon the characteristics of IN
individual AID SC exaggerate them that
the subject of the cartoons are known by
the most prominent features in their
physical mental or moral makeup
True. there was one man in London
hundred years ago. CiIlray by name. who
had this faculty Of dissecting his subject
until he found his weakest point and then
numerically pricking it with his drawing
pencil; but with him the race died out.
to be reincarnated in America GiIIray
was q close observer Of people and events.
He would sit in his publishers window
and watch the tops of the court as they
passed. and fasten in his memory every
feature by which man would be recog-
nized by his acquaintance. He remem-
bered every story that related to the
traits of character of those in the public
eye. and the Saint James Street OF 1900 is
faithfully reproduced in his art.
Perhaps we Americans look at the drolI
side of life more than other people, but
certain it is We have more and better
cartoonists than elsewhere. The very
quickness with which we see the point
Of a joke demands equal facility in por-
traying drolIery in q cartoon We sketch
boldly and leave much OF the unnecessary
detail to cur slower cousins. Then, too.
our public events happen with such
startling raDidfty that a cartoon OF yes
terday's doings would be fat today, and
we must keep very much alive and be
ready for political change over night
IN other words. the alert American must
have depicted in his cartoon the very
traits of character that have made him
what he is-the quickest and brightest Of
men
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-16
CONFOUNDING LABOR'S. OPPONENTS


ingS are now turned over from one set
Of men to another, under the ten and
twelve hour system.
That different sets OF crews Of men are
engaged at different furnaces in the smeft-
ing OF steel for one and the same forging.
CT casting; and, therefore, it is not only
possible but now the practice, that four
Gifferect crews of men often work at
different heats-for one casting a.a forg-
ing
Tat there must Of necessity be condi-
lions exactly alike in all of these heats.
for otherwise the slightest variation in
any one Of the four heats would ruin the
casting or forging Hence II this can be
done now, there cannot be any obstacle
IN the way Of men of equal skill taking
over an unfinished heat under an eight
hour rule
Personal investigation. as well as tezti-
mony CLEANED after the close Of the hear
ings before the House Committee on La
Dor, have demonstrated. beyond question,
that the opposition to the eight-hour bill
upon this ground is absolutely without
any basis in fact.
Apart from this. tho opponents to the
eight-hour bill claim that they are not
opposed TO the eight-hour system, if It
were generally applied in the industry Of
the country, yet, by the only witnesses
they have put upon the stand, they have
endeavOred to prove that the system"
is impossible Whenever this inconsist-
eRcy has been pointed out to The COM
mittee, the legal representatives of the
opponents have fared up, and by an as
sumption Of Indignation tried to hide their
discontinue.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-16
A SORDID MAID

He wrote sweet sonnets to her eyes,
Her lips, her brow, her hair;
Impassioned gems of polished thought,
And flights of fancy rare
She thanked him with radiant smile
And praised his graceful art
So every day he poured in rhyme
The yeaFnings OF his heart
But since he saw his poems in print,
nom de plume above;
He keeps to prose and hints no more
OF poesy or love.
While with the proceeds Of his lines
Her lovely self she decks;
For she sent them to the magazines
And gathered in the checks.
Nina Irving.