The evening world. Newspaper, January 24, 1900, Page 9

i atid i BY ROY L. M’CARDELL. [¢ SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTER. @f the household of Lawyer Jafrey Brenton, Genly finds himself treated Ike a dog. Koown to him his previous goed usage has been: be ation of Dreaton that he would orien throngh «mining 7 ich a mining fem Gevieed by Warren's father. Hence the change. Because of the lat down the lawyer’ 2 a realising. that het Ta and realising that ber ‘ap end, he reso! | c her own living. Driving | mm the Settlement she sees Warren's afray ry . im the Bowery. in, ned whose Daliéing. Nemporary lotgings at the chea rerd's office joome Jack and Helen have the ame ideas on che ond tion of the poor, They become engaged. ‘A aynticate paying 600 per erat. © year pene tterhorn Dutiding. Richard is Milles a Yeart” Hi in the Mttle Harlem flat begar. @ honeymoon, the passtonate lov- ing of two fond amd noble hearts. For the present Helen had refused to relinquish her position with Mr. Jenkins Learoyé, Upon holidays and a@ certain night in the week so set aside behold the man of multitudinous affairs and the belligerent Mr. Bm&th, this lest, within the sphere of Helen's influence, learning to coo as gently as the suck- ing dove, visiting Jack's modest menege and there in@uiging in various decorous rubbere of whist, a game which young Mr, Smith loathed with un@ying con- tempt and hatred, and which for that very reason he blundered through with the same unshaken faith in the sacri+ fice he was making upon the alter of A would hold h John Warren, after ttteen years as an tnmate| water until he surrendered and permit +. /fromn Jest to earnest, and Merrington, use f ment store, mankind with ever | ¢radle to the grave.’ upon his hobby, which included 4 baby incubator under a portion of the toof at the top of his vast estabilsh and a cremator Parted of this life in the basement own a fine Kentucky stock farm, with « Private race track and a pavilion tn Which could be bed between im) Native exponents of the manly art of eal erente. wy land," he would say, iron gato would be inscribed * Bmit! any themselves, and yet of those who ha ati WHAT WOULD YOU ould kidnap the perfect Jack, and, co! ey ini min on Fer low, sak yack him prisoner on bread anc Miss but from the mtich-talked-of bed Urn tm > natul THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2%, 1 1 wh 1 lerrington tnter have spoken of-that's what shc done with a milion a year! Spr nan ld be 4 the | put 0 WITH A MILLION A YEAK? would 1, moment at the window as they peo- t he night they first came to bring |home man and wife and) Helen put her arms around him and ed her to get him a divorce and marry r joal. or said earnestly, “Ja you & | her. brits ure to its back door, even in night has impressed me. gre It |, But always the conversation passed so fina.l a Way as the home parks | would impress otbere You spoke but hin earnest, have t into it, P want vasually, you, althor no ‘great thoug geen, to her poner, would you do with a milion a would bg the invariable propo- Mr. Jenkins Learoyd thought he would It to capitalize the greatest depart- “An institution to provide want from the as he expressed it. | nd then he would proveed to expatiate | | nment, to incinerate the de: Mr. Smith thought he would like to pulled off contests to a! @ Most notable of our can't describe this blue grase fairy | “Over the great | ‘Sorappy’ place, every good fellow Is mel- Boctalist,”’ Jack would | ‘A milion @ year ts more than could or should spend upon 1+ Fack’s domesticity. With Helen the little jest that she had only married Jack tn haste to save him Mise Merringten, the milijonairess, ll gave her ecoasional opportunities tease, Miss Merrington, so Helen 14 vow, was a gtim, determined young women; she had seen her at the averred, and if once Migs Merrington ever put her eyes upon the perfect Mr. Warren, for | ¢: Belf Help Settlement, a! who coult help falling violently in lov wits euch a gallant and handsome Mre. Jack, then Indeed youth, said ‘would the young woman with « million @ year have lavished forth her gold te ture to her side such a paragon. “But & 1 caw him first,” Helen would add with “" \@ merry twinkle in her eye, ‘and now ‘when Mise Merrington does eee my cack, of her wealth will a terpose charming yoi bachelors and would ve no fmewity in supplying Miss lerrington with an Al husband at the usual commission. Mr. Smith would darkly hint, with a, manifestations of mock fear, o ‘kota divorces and how a young wo- man with Miss Merrington’s money f fl her pal ‘At this Mr. Jenkins Learoyd would in- | {1 that he carried a side line of such Incomes how seldom can these occastons Jac! interest was aroused by some chan Temark during the converes sion, that it Was better that one pr cson’ should | squander vast personal incomes selfishly than that money should be indiscrimi- nately distr buted in unthinking charity, for in the first case but one person was injured—the prodigal—and tn the other a vast number received the benefit of mon- y for which In return they gaye no ef- fort, and money so gotten did more harm to spirit and self-respect than even rty poverty “There is no need of dotng either,” maid Jack, warmly. “A milion a year could be expended {udictously to give employment in the building up of en- terprises and institutions that would forever bless and enlighten those in con- ™, taot with t pose,” he wald, “that Miss Mer- rington, aed with her success witli her Self Help Settlement, should decidir }to bull great Industrial sehool ( in the bullding labor led , at present unemployed, Su pose she purchased blocks of rookerles in the sluins and tore them down and in thetr stead erected the model houses we spoke of, Helen? uares of light, bright workingmen's with park in the centre, where the tow bred children coold see flowing water land growing grass and trees and flow-| -DELINQUENTS FAL TI The Clever Ruse of Book Firm to Catch Debtors. fhe life of the big policeman at Broad- aay and Fulton street is not a happy ame these days, because on an average of three hundred times every ten hours, he has to answer that he does not know where or what the “Eureka Express Company, of Broadway and Fulton Street,” tn. Every one of the inquirers bears with ~ hiso a iittle card which reads as follows: “The Eureka Express Company, “Broadway and Fulton streets, N. Y." “Mr. — 1s informed that there ts awaking him at our office a package consigned to him. If he will send his address i: will be delivered.” ‘The bearers of these letters always have envelopes addressed and read- Greased to different points, and they are Very anxious to get the package, ‘The Eureka Express Company is the latest and cleverest method of a pub- Mashing be prend to ascertain the where- Best tasers pues & Anstalment plan, and sometimes the Way without sending their leaving the books, office today wh "fal tay ot trap If they receive a pty a ave notice and Davie Travelling for Mio Meatth. WASHINGTON, Jan. %—The news- Paper gossip about the visit of Webster Davis, Avsistant Secretary of the Inte- rior. to South Africa, was touched upon in the Cabinet session yesterday. Secre- (ary Hitchovck explained that Mr. Davis Seaway trom Dy post on sich leave, that “YOU ARE HIS SWERTHEART. IT IN YOUR BYE had propaganda of cleaner, brighter, fer lives, help mankind to ” After the com; 1 CAN sme [hat | teade Jack a dull boy and Helen health- EVER LACK HOMES? “Why de gtrie spurn good inte vice for a livelihood?” Can't I find one just before It is too late? “T can't steal to get a crust. Every girl in « ‘has less comfort, but I cannot got Servants Sparned Socially. ‘To the Réitor of The Evening World: Was the writer of the letter signed “ “Girl Hunter” really puzzled as to why 4. refined, educated girls shun such offers as hers and prefer to do anything r: than “take service’ with rich women I can tell her it is the fault of the rien women themselves, for they fix the |soctal status of all kinds of labor. A ‘y j#irl who ts “truthful, reliable and clean & tn thought and deed.” and who is also educated, Is a lady. |B Yet, should she accept such a position, she 1s cut off from all assoctation with |her equals. All human belngs m e| companionship, but “my lady's" nurse OF seamstress would be obliged to seck it with the cook or the grocer’s boy, or descension of those whom she knows go to be only her equals in all but wealtn | Cor and on the other Yhe sneers of those ho her Inferiors, but who think) 2 ing in common IT know of through no fault of big’ own, a a home or mon Y pleased | © to test “Girl Hunter's” sincerity. j GIRL DEF@NDER, Angele Wouldn't Please Them. Te tod Editor of The Evening World Allow me to express m; i “Girl Hunter, 1 have tern kg for the e five years as cook. time | have met with two ladies whom an angel couldn't please. ey treat | ; thelr servanta with abuse and devote! |) ther time to seeing that they get no ih spare Moments, until at night the girls! ( are scarcely able to climb to their ruvms, Bouse, re ord u . even below. with thei are two Vv: | res or bel fn a eb) Many letters have been received in answer to this nquiry, Here are some: ma A DOME Girt erful home." at service in such a irl Ha reason why \ an blame th ‘THAT KNOWS Place for “M. L. M.” tdress of who wr vening Worl Vice in p : for any other work. become @ mere machine, ‘Then, again, shop for ten manthe end” she has no hours she can call her own. oe or On *}to 16 salary be was one side she has to endure the con-/') 118 asiary before 1 was her hy ps is because the: “w. homes and rather choore to slave in shops, or to fall @aked “Girl Hunter” in a letter to the Evening World, “Where are the girls who are about to be driven to dishonesty or vice to live? get & reilable nurse for $10 a month, yet I hear that women die or h 4a counter works harder and Be” MLM." ¢ in answer very person eae pretense that he was a great spiritualis- Mt for Housework, 14 ris do not from Mis’ Phillips 'n’ dat he de gran ference arg un-! Worked in a then went to I raised mysel yeeltl Would Meet “Girl Hunter.” utting on airs” because she has! tT) the 1 1 read & refined. sensitive git! who,| te? and ain anions without |4 talk regardin, ian In that] py one i. Thursd top of the! practical, sland a et The Evening World Prt Hun mm your x the have had parenes E ancles spo the Bachelors Too Kind, iy giv h and Sunday afternoon BTENSON. me every out, ft her own me ne there kindness and no tel secure oe ap-|‘roun’ jong about suppah. Den he dun take advantage ot ws °4] woman, of 20 Eaet Pifty-aixth street, Wity. Joun-| tIfled, “dat black man yondah dun acted tof vi) ‘sides, it's bad luck not ter had @ Pibul ju, for my sake, to write down in this matter, “Others, good men and great, have thought nnd: written and spoken along these lines. “T want you to read what they have said: 1 want you to consider how much ok, dear, your that shall make Mammon Hleve with you that there is some gre nclal system d in hea « of the fundamental wrong that allows money to wk away the poor!" # "T fear I am but poorly equipped to be an author on sociological and finan- cial problema, but 1 shall do my best and, my dear, the book will be dedi- cated to Helen Warren, my wife—tte ine spiration,”” “No, J deem my ao doini “From what 1 think she wil And Jack prot oe ee | And so this was their happy way of w Mfe, these happy, All day Jac offices. At 6.20 they wire home, After thelr evening meal they read aloud to each other from thé great economic writers, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and nement-houwe rtal_ commit- ha, days. | tees” its in ( val Inquiries. Helen (ook notes passed them over for the indexed da ok was prepart Tots would have grown weariso Pad fo two as interested as Jack eien. by regarding {tas such and never) ir work or the * tring themselves of Ubjeet, | Monday and Thursday wert to the theatre; Tue: jday and Friday nights the; |T to 11 on the book ns Learoyd and came to dinner and stayed to and Sundays the young couple took walks fn the moroltg 'n the parks and | tn the evening through the poorer quar- ers of the clty. In this manner they tieal n# well as theoretical | 0 the subject upon which they pr ok progressed famously. There Was not so mush work and so little play | girl shortly after his marriage, had a dul Jack n Were at thelr | 4 But they made the task a pleas. { SRM he was energetic and ambi he had friend Smith “tly trail of the ch had mani In all the big business entres of the country, and whose head Jevery siite quarters, ({ was apparent, was in New York ‘ack, who had been upon this work with him asked that when the time came—for been sig- nificantly ¢ he be rer Heved from t temporarily and be wed to assist his friend tn bringing band to bay was during this time that H who had 1 during the jroyd in Ho for a walk In Central Pa It was a clear, bright winter day, |such as New York has sometimes, even jin January. The sky almost. sum- mer blue o'er head, and the wind held A warmth that was as a promise of jepring She left the main travelled ways and sought her happiness of heart ang mind, i thought of Jack ttime | him the side paths. revelling. In 16 and wondered if the Would come when she must tell ull. She wondered if they then be more happy than now, when Kht her the poor little atensg- Whose half-earnest jest was that nim to baffle the mythi- | intentions of the young Hiion a year, who sup- mr seen him, ful Miss Merrington 414 was saying to herself, ¢ arrested her atten- on, Shelooked toward the person from | whom it proceeded. and the deep, wide erp, open eyes that met hers held her faa- cintes by the pathos tn their depths. It was the ghastly pale face of a man Who was evidently suffering, He was meanly, oven raggedly dressed, and his face, pale as it waa, bore the Marks of years of sorrow, Hut despite this, despite the pallor, de- spite the rags, there was a look about of some one she knew or nad own “Are you tl?" asked Helen. eagerly. | Just a little, miss," answered tie suf- jferer, “But it ten't that, T want you to |do something for me, A friend of mine is in great danger. If 1 call that police- | ponedly “Hut the get him, when a feeble ve he won't come over. thinking some. wrong—if 1 tell that policeman matter, and do more harm than good. Tt will seare the birds my friend and his friend are after.’ Helen had her stenographer’s note- with her. and the tramp noticed Will you write down a note to my (anc seg he gets it; it ts life and sor” said Helen. i. then,” began the tramp, “writ jack Warren, mre yest" to Mr The notebook fel Helen's hand. “'t need 1 she sald. “I kno . Warre ‘lie tramp smiled faintly. i “You are eetheart can see f'n your leyes,”” he “Now, listen. Don't let | him’ go - hallway of | his house, light foe wi weapon ror him, im hit, him, because friend been tracking down who would murder him. first friend afterward to save themselves y hate him for something eise, too T— Hu; that’s enough—hurry.” ‘ou-you must go some place,” 1 the now anguish-wrung Hi res, Vil go to the hospital, n—and you, you hurry ate.” ran over to the policeman who n watching them from dis- and then, turning to wave — ell at the poor sufferer who had warned her, she hurried away on her mission to save her husband |, what's the matter, old Socks?* » eman, janguldly, James Happy Hours,” looked ly over 4, “how useless @ cop- a is. However, you've Hellevue telephone number pat an ambulance, then, coppy; at all the matter with four-inch knife wound In there's nothin, Fe a th reast! ‘And then he Incontinently fainted. (To Be Continued.) vO0000 WAN Old Mammy _ Grimes Wants Her $13 Back from Reynolds. Mra, Ellen Grimes, an elderly colored) Was & complainant in Yorkville Court | to-day against William Reynolds, | stout, ministerial looking man of the same color, She charged him with hav- ng swindled her out of money on the )) Ue medium | “My Laws'e me, Yoh Honah,” she tes- Foan'iue wif me. It wus lak dis. Tse a [wash Indy, I ts, an’ one day dishyer | Rainolds dun cum ‘mn say he cum conjah ‘n’ voodoo man dat h wus, n’ gwine bring my fathah ‘n’ brothah back ter talk ter me. “Den he ‘lows he hongry. I dun reckon ter him dat a conjah man got no call tor git hongry kare de sperrits dun feed him. But nehmire dat—I dun gib him | ¢r snack ‘n’ how dat niggah did eat wuz ja steht! | | “Well, suh, aftah dat he dun stahted | de conjah ter wukin’. Fus thing he dun | jak me has I gotter Bibul in de house | Cone I has. I dun ‘long ter de Chuch--| nohow, ‘Den he dun epen de Bibul at de thurte’nth Chaptah of Deutahrom’ny An’ de dun tole me ter put thurte’n dol- Inhs on de chaptah an’ thurte'n coppahs ‘nth vu'se. Das "bout all de but I dun It. “Den he gite ter rollin’ he's eyes ‘n profickin’ aroun’ de room lik es ef he dun had er fit. J wus sholy scahed. Den bimevy he dun t wuk- in’ he gotter cum tole me notter ‘sturb da: ah money kase de sperrite git mad, he went away. “h ain't Rebtah coon him dat sight, ‘a’ BUNCOED AER. | CHICAGO, Jan, %&—Robert T. Lincoln | Hebrew Actors’ Union. They went out | weeks to joln and did not do po. wen I dun look fer dat money, {t gawn. He dun tell me ter play er at poke, 12, 27, Kase it wah de twenty sebenth of de month, 'n' 3% I dun play ft, 'n’ laws mo, Jetge, I sus’ pintedly had ter pawn m'' furnachuh.” Monday afternoon Mrs. Reynolds tn Third avenue. en 24, La Bag unt “7 im. He denied every 4 ei was continued ati! f>-mBor- row morning. LINCOLN’S BIG FEB. and Norman B. Ream, executors of the estate of George M. Pullman, has filed an inventory, in which they charge! $29.00 for “attending one meeting” of the reorgantsation committee of the Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf Railway Company, and then allot one-half of the sum to the esta’ Mr. Lincotn the $10,000 was for work done in connection with ganization. CHORUS STRIKES, 700. Posters of Peep! Sympathise wit! “posters of the People's Theatre. on the Bowery, have Joined the strike declared by the ay. actors amd actresses went on strike T ecause the management insisted on em-| ploying two women who were not mem- bers of the union. They were given six Then the management was asked to discharge them or make them join. They did nether ors may A commi the Central Federated Union tried to settle the matter, but ft. 1 CASTORIA For Infants and Childres, The Kind You Have Always pa man over there—please alt beside me, so| wer there, he will make a moss of uo | room re old, T son, “It my ent parts oy news. applied at ever, and its healing. Pile € before the Tals repu son of gists from A perwon ng a etmp! quently de rectal reetum known matied M y their home. burglar seized throat, crying: “Move an inch or make a noise and rn kill yor Mrs. Haskell jumped at the man and grappled with him. He seized a billet of wood from a hearth dasket and struck her a terrible blow on the head, Bhe fell senseless. hands. Dr. says Dr. Pierson meetings being hel t@ lead one, I t | The Executiv has not yet taken action. “SAFE AND EFFECTIVE. A Certain Cure for a Common and An- Fortunately comes deep diseases arr INCOME IN 1899. | Premiums . / Interest,rentsandotherreceipts _754,463.32| Other Disbursements . . . Reserve on Policies in Force . PRET ANNUAL STATEMENT OF Heil Insurance Company of New York. HENRY B, STOKES, President. $1,952,975.25 | Total paym’ nts: $2,707,438.57 DISBURSEMENTS IN 1899. to policyholders $1,651,122,08 718,176.24 $2,369,298.32 Assets Dec. 3ist, 1899, $15,803,962.37. All other Liabilities Surplus, December 31,1899... . 0.4, Total Paid Policynolders since Organization over $45,300,000.00 The above statement shows an increase in every account. Increase in Insurance in Force, Increase in Payments to Policyholders. Increase in Reserve. Increase in Surplus, Increase in Assets. WOMEN FIGHT and Shock. Beeing ho wi Mrs. Dennett tel yesterday, Bhe was chased but was 4: ied to Identt- BOLD BURGLAR, Both May Die in Conse- quence of Their Injuries Two women may die in Vineland, N. J., an the result of their plucky attack on a burglar, who surprised them alone tn) They are Mrs. Ellen Den- nett and her sister, Mrs. Mary Haskell, of Needham, Masa,, who |s visiting her. The women were awakened Monday alght by the noise of a man in their bed- discovered the by the ‘The maurauder then turned after Mrs. Dennett, who, in her night dress, had run down the road towand a neiguboring farm house for help. nearly belf a mile, when her pursuer wan frightened off Haskell, sti a dangerous condition. s t Is prostrated from shock at may ‘not survive ¢ burglar Constables an who ts fifty-nine years bie State Senator's Water-Rights Bill ot in @ kitchen window, | ti citizens are searching for him. A man answering his descrip- tion was arrest lexsed when the women fai: fy him. * is VIVALIST QUITS. n of the boro: 4 each Rev. Dr. Plersen Objects to His! which prohibits the sale of water to any Rev. Dr. 1. G. Rev. Dr. Arthur T. Plerson, the leader of the revival tn Brooklyn, h because he does not like the methods of | Rev. Dr. Lew G. Broughton, “One leader ts enough, resigned | ways Dr. Pler- Dr. Broughton insists upon thove who are converted getting up or raising their Pierson mays he does nc Tawa” /END OF THE CE believe In such a test of salvation. “L must insist on day in diff Dr. Bi t LIABILITIES. $13,961,201.00 216,020.12 $14,177,221.12 Increase West 49S, = pitty, ean? CARPETS | ‘The WHY 1e plein as way 10 parish As You Like “Why" these reduced prices? We must make room for Spring goods. REDUCED BEDROOM SUITES, (Reduced from $58, $71 and $93.) | exquisite new colorings have durabil- | ity of dyes, material and lowest | prices, Tapestry Brussels, 50 cents |a yard (reduced from & cents), “Long credit” is the open sesame to all batgains. CASH on CREDIT QwreRTHWAIT W4 106 and 108 West 14% St, WCARREN A BENBPACTOR, Wa Make Certain Breok- lynites Kicker. ALBANY, Jan. 24—If Senate Bill No. 4, Introduced by Senator P, H. McCar- ren, of Kings, becomes a law, certain | Brooklyn men who hold options on water jrights in Suffolk County will make sev- jeral hundred thousand dollars, McCarren's bill ts four lines long, It | repeals chapter 42 of the Laws of 1896, jelty or corporation outside of the mite of the county in which the water supply ts obtained without the consent of the Board of Supervisors of 4 county. The repea! of the bili will permit owners of land in Suffolk County to dis- vowe of thelr rights to the city of) rookiyn at a big profit and without re- criving the consent of any offictal. is held by the Brooklyn men within a year, roughton FABL' othe! Board of Ministers noying Disease. night coraine, opium or any injur no matter how severe the pali fives Instant relief, not by deadening the nerves of the part affected, but rather by ointments that a surgtes Many people euffer from piles because, after trying the many salves, and lotions without relief or cure, have come to the conclusion operation is the only thing left to try, rather than submit to the shock and risk of life of an operation preter to suffer on. this !s no longer necessary, ™ preparation has been discoverd | which curee every form of piles, without pain, inconvenience or detention from busl- It is tn the form of suppositories, easily Is absolutely free from drag wh soothing effect upon the con publ tat as extra sonable price at » Maine to ( ed treat ie package Ne cane veloping Any drugeist will tel! the safest and most satisfactory pile eure to the medical fr A little book on cause by addressing gested sensitive membranes. ‘Th ye of this preparation ts Pyramid ve and is undoubtedly the most effective, safest and most extensively sold of any pile cure that has ever been placed been secured by ree merit and the ree: b it te eold, all drug. Hifornia selling it at into like fistula and cancer rt and tn many as been som kes werious chances in ne rable you the Prramid ts 4 Pyramid of pilen > Corl i Lhe | ON RO OKD'S COMPOUND Gait Star Dawg UT PILL remove the mes MAN driving a Heavy | into the Mire up to jside a | Work. MoraL—HELP YOURSELF Our “Reliable” bedroom carpets in | |, THE HELP THAT HELPS, SuNDAaY Wortp W. . . $1,626,741.25 in New Insurance Written, _____—*For Sala, — 9 Suite, Skirts and Watsts, Watches, Jewelry and Diamonds on cay or month!y payments, Open evenings. MANHATTAN CLOTHING CO. 1403D AVE., TH AND GOTH OT, FURNITURE,$80OW ORTH ON $1 DOWN AND $1 WEEKLY, PRICES THE LOWEST. LEWIN'’S, 48 WEST 14TH ST, 267 WEST 128TH ST, CREDIT TO ALL wi TIONAL DIAMOND AND WATCH OB, 179 Broad: Take elevator. NAY DIAMONDS, Watches, presser Fae goods guaran AMES BERGMAN, WALTHAM WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY, fi weekly; article delivered on Sret payment, EXCHANGE WATCH CO., 187 Breadwai PATENTS—A4vice free. Guide Ragar TATE & way, New York. COMPANY, Ha Boel: Lawyers. DIVORCES Rio a eee NTURY FABLES, E OL Load along a poor road struck a Bad Spot, where the wheels sank the hubs. The horses ~ were weak and Played Out, the load heavy and he © seemed to be in a Hopeless Plight. leyes around for Relief he saw standing by the road pores horse, Harnessed and ready for le soon had him Hitched to the wagon and’< wse"'s| Was drawn quickly out of the Mire. Casting his ~ BY CALLING TO