The evening world. Newspaper, September 6, 1901, Page 7

‘TA , the EOPIE BY MRS: C: CN: \ WILLIAMSON geet Scotland Yard, calling in the asslatance) of the poll ‘Rut 1 was reluc to do} at this, for I felt that euch & courne would | tn be abhorrent to my mother if she Could | tle Bur 1 could only do my best to guess ring In the dark; {her velco rang In from the past. I t y cars lke an ech SYNOPuIS oF P pcs |Know. Hesldes, there was really | pricked to eagerness In the desire a C an Important one. without delay theatre. ence E eatre eacouster a mysterious it On 8 kept the cloak, already vaguely) [t was not yet 1 o'clock, @id no time; ica forming a plan in my mind’ coneern-| would be better for my auest than when there would be no prying sent drearily down Into the coun- ono Pa tenigizes mother’s body; and Loger Cope, my cousin, who had Inher- Hedin vathioen estate, tent with us| and was very kind. a Then came the fune the night which follow. and It was on} that my mem. | Lady Cope recur qittens flor Purple 4 ry begins again to paint vivid pictures at te she 4 the scar." 1 was tired out. A pall of desolation | e to'do. with “money: ‘had fatten upea my spirits and [had kone early to my room. Old frends of | 4 my mother’a had come tp me and tried to be kind. but it was a great religt to} be alone. had sent 1 for « respite of a few e busines any sort need be diacussed, but Roger had urged that everything must remain at a atandstit) ter had been thrawhed out (Copyright, 1901, by the Nationa! Prema Agency.) A Sound at the Door, THE WORLD: FRIDA =| MINISTERS I had thought that when 1 Swift away and was quite by myn above all things in the world It wos! eid | atter dome ood tovery—to cry til should NLY ono thing I recall distinctly In connection with that night, nce He would prababl CHAPTAR Iv. the moment that brought the | be spent with erying. long. and would hav be invited to 1 si 4 dint when T stood by the window tn) pater St eokonntns Meow lsdie and shock of my mot her's | y tong, white cashmere dressing gown | luncheun (ley win only the cold glase ween me| th yo Tt seemed a trife to stand out, while and the furious storm, the relief T had | os Y walt ether matters, mpre i:nportant. per- beens pecking: forward! to would not | entee until to-morrow afternoon 23 ot | £0 ad-no longer any desire for| “Yhad aent Switt io bed, and ! was sure Bape: reesdee Into the background of (ears, [ could not even concentrate my | anniheLoihersservantant my mind; yet the great events of !fe | mind’ upon my sorrow, rooms alae are reared on a foundation of triftes, Suddenly I thought of the West ena Dp oby thie tim: When my mother's beautiful dead | 4nd the broken words my mother had nk. tiring day, stammered. Had he meant that 1 ently people at Ar bods, In all its bravery of miat-gray crepe and glittering stars of aieel, was Ufted from the sofa from where L had! wae ty search for something end find it in| the Went Wing? ‘The West Wing was the oldest portion {took up abr pilvers ok RaGinpetern VoanGlensetioeui nye imanel and went into the corridor outside my CCC eee Eee Ce PRE e ceil tt ee he ee ee eer eee he ete | Bi 5 THE CLUE IN THE BLACK CLOAK HRD zi iwi REMRE MTS PS RM NR Ha Cos METS PUNE 2 aE BEE TEI NL SERS UD SAN ER UO FINN Se SMI ISTE BIS BE HIRST BFE SE BL cs OI HURRISE BTR TH E35 20 TPO BERIT? bedragm. which was dimiy ighted for the nfignt by one hana the end of this « door, which upene am) rridor was a Into the West not a cowardly or syperstitious mother had brought me up in creeds, had no fear ing at night Inte a part of the house whieh happened be unoceupled. quiver of the nerves 1 fata her Gewn to die, I noticed some- thing that pad pessed unobserved be- a oor and toved from. fore, tn the excitement of her coming a region of comparative ight into one end her sudden illness, hich would have been dark but for my two flaring candies. T went on, threading my way through several Intricate passages, ‘past the closed bedchambers, ‘until finally the door uf the rooms had been sacred to vrieat and ‘The cloak that tay loosely over her shoulders was not the one which she had worn to the theatre; I had never geen it before. he hed gone out tn a long primrose- tinted wrap of satin, brocaded with great marigolds tn shining threads of 1 ar I EXAMINED IT AND IN ONE whict POCKET r¥YUND A SMALL CLIPPING CUT FROM THE a lexend the private staircase the disused chapel that these and hich led down a haunted by th PAIR os ae RRS HEH EERE Sj gold. She came home to dle'In a short COLUMNS OF A NEWS- ay aihaunted byt wrap of lustreleas black atlk, lined with PAPER. ime ae 2 coraln ne st, deat ; to have betrayed th ro dben] sbade cc pares RRMA ERKAARARAER™ | mister ot tiie house to the enemy, and I ehuddered at sight of the thing, re- membering the black jetted dress worn by the woman with the scar on her arm, the woman whom I could not help secretly regarding as my mother’s mur- deress. When we were ready to leave the Co- burg Hotel—Swift and I—for the sad Journey down to Dorsetshire, the maid came to me at the Inst moment, carry- ck, purple-lined cloak in her Killed himself in. remorse, ever ‘nfter walking by night up and down the ptalre or through his old rooms, telling hin ben dowringing his han Tart Thad almost forgot story, and there: was no: thuueht oe: tt, In rey mind as [ grasped the handle of the 00 Suddenly, heard a faint stirring on the ot (To Be Continued.) of a very old house ing myaterious or # aa I kne: The chapel many a year. put there was noth- cret about it, co far was there, unused for here wasn great ple- y, which was algo a ballroom, ry, and i Fad da gallery for musicians at one end. as I was about to open It. I er side ‘There were three or four little wain- scotted rooms which ‘once been #a- cred to the family priest as long ago as the days of Queen Mary, These con- nected with the chapel by a private staircase, and tn; mother: ed used the Prettiest room in octagon: a ayer and = mulilio: indoweds for a atudy, HAZ discharge hreatened with “What ie it, miss?” she asked. =“ a penalty for drunkenness. never saw it before. It can’t be yourr— 2 mine employees of G. 1. Markle & or my poor lady's. Was it—what she} She had iiked writing lettera and read-| Co. at Jeddo, upon advice of thelr fore. man “swore off’ rday, ralsing wore home that night—by mistake, per- he had been iniens. ing there; and when tagon-room” it tacitly m stood that aho wan “not at home." No- T answered. “She wore it that| body was allowed to break in upon her night"— writing or ce cpalghiacncent teen were other rooms also in the I was about to add that the thing | qaohe’ Teyings Maes. inthy betehambers, should be left tn the hotel, where per-| only occupied when we had a house haps the owner would one day come to| party, a thing which seldom happe Inquire for it, when C rememberod that | (ROUR, once inn mhile, when It 1 might reproach myself iater for letting | usked, to please him, ind promising to sign the #9 In the presence of thelr home. (Fall Business @ possible clue to the women in black | ld servants, who had lved tn 4 wiil be active. Pass out of my hands. ter hip marriage Serene 4 Noatd we my mot T examined {t and in one pocket found | tell of way dol Wine Weet Wink a amall slip cut fron: the columa of a|fooms full of guests, who danced In the aaanecer: Picture gallery below nearly every night. or But my father had died abroad when Lady Cope and her only daughter, /1 was a baby. and we were traveling Mina Shella Cope,” I read, “are spending | 9M the Contine had been told, eason atthe Coburg Hotel, in Car- Telephone Service will help you to get your share. Rates in Manhattan from $5 a month. Qne-yoor contracts, Monthly peymeats. Wew Yora Texersone Company 1S Dey Street. 141 West 30th St, at West Ae at Dr. Lyon’ $ PERFECT Tooth Powder AN ELEGANT TOILET LUXURY. Used by people of refinement for ovor @ Quarter ofa contwys | SSS TS eee a >: BA I "Oo tthe Weat Wing had few bright’ as- fociatlons for me. 4 If my mother hiad meant to send me @ me a new idea. I rang and/on a mission to the Weat Wing to dis- gent for the manager, cover something of importance to her Of him I asked If it would be posaibla| wntheut doubteT gratia beets hats to find out, even now, whether any onejin the octagon " Peobapiy many had called to see my mother walle wa} Dapers, of hore kept there, and wera at the theatre on the avening of} o¢ eases Pentockeed, Among other things the drawers of the back | olf eseritotre at which he often wrote, that'a lady had called. She had scomed| ge hat hoy ete Hina tho eentence Greatly disappointed at heuring that| broken sh y death, for I could not Landy Cope wan out, and had inquired | Bear to feel thar therd wae an antent whore phe might bo found, Rime manor aen Lzmlghts not be:cbls The lady had been tall, dark, dressed ~ and cloaked in black, and she had come in a cab, She had left no name, CUEpBAE ames) kre que ron ne had uske woman in black had gone to the tro In the expectatizn of seeing, my ach and for that purpos lone. ‘The meeting had not come about phance: He! tall to take the cloak awa je to the country and decide inter way of using It asa clue to the ipa 1 ought to have applied to CASTOR IA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought and nothin; my about her, But ft eas An answer to the Signature a3 NC, SEPTEMBER 6, 1901. ROW OVE BOER WAR. The Methodist Conference Is Enlivened by a Hot Tilt Among Divines. A STORMY ‘MEETING. | ;| Americans at the Session Very } Generally Oppose South African 8 Policy of the British. F LONDON, Sept. 6—A stormy meeting of the Ecumenical Methodist Confer-| ence resulted this morning from tho reading by tho Rey, © W. Smith, of Pittsburg, Pa., of a paper on "The In- fluence of Methodism tn the Promotion of International Peace.’ ‘The five-min- was adopted, and the pastors made Mery speeches for and sgainst the war in South Africa. The campatgn came tn for a lot of oriticism, nnd finally the chatrman ruled reference to It out ute rule Af order, Many Americana took part in Mecusalon, but none of the more promi- rent bishops spoke. The rpeeches were punctuated by frequent, nolay inter. ruptions and cheers and counter cheers There wan a scene of conatderabie dis- unter and the discussion terminated without any conclusion being reached The Rev. George Mlliot, of Detroit, Mich. saying he had often been called the a Mtee Amertean, bitterly denounced the war Rev, R. J. Cooke, of Chattandoga n., defended the necessity of hosttit- ies to vindteate a principle The Rev. J. M. King, of Philadelphia, naid the best solution of the ques- wos in President McKinley's sen- tencea, uttered at Buffalo, as follow The period of exclusivencss {x The expansion of our trade and mereé ‘3 the pressing problem. ne rectal Lwarsin are” unprofitable.” Com: COONTOWN GAY, “DEAD GIG” WON FIRST APPEARANCE OF 9-19-29 SINCE 1895. There 1s unalloyed joy among the y sports In town to-day. The at nosphere of Thompson, Sullivan and Bleecker strects and Minetta lane reeks «ith happiness Why fo’. my honey? Doan fool, chile! Ev'body knows that 9-19-29 came out last night. That's the dead gig. The last time these numbers came out In policy was in 135, Then only a few chosen ones play- ed them. Last night the pollcy shops were hit ty Never before. ‘This 1s how Jt came about: "Chicken" Jim, the tallest coon on Hieecker street, ‘and popular with the women, had a’ drenm on Wednesday ht. n his sleep he saw "Candle" Wire, a Virginfa coop of quality, lying in a white satin casket with nine allver han- ales, nineteen allver screws in the caske: ‘Rien ds and surrounded by twenty-nine nd MGhicken" Jim, awoke the house screaming, be! dead wig,’ 9-19-23, 1 “hey passed 1t around. de dead gig, and git down 1 nd they did. “nthe numbers came out at the f k drawing “Chicken” Jim bs real. ie paid Hie for every five ce $5 for each nic fonday they are the demand for watermelons hus iiereased Be ber ceal. | in cold figures, ® policy ma: mates that between $5.00 and Tn was pald aut on 9-19-29 y unniest, brightest day ide has seen In years. elererere aside, deposit it if neces- layers had as | SATy. law ile, and you'll short time that you have not only clothed yourself, but in addition have the Even if you live next door to a bakery you can go around the corner to the little grocery store and get your biscuit in the In-er-seal Patent Package just as freshas you could get them at the bakery. No matter where you get the In-er-seal Patent Package, you will find the con- tents are fresh, and full of flavor. When you order Soda, Milk, Graham, Oatmeal, Butter Thin and Saltine Biscuit, Vanilla and Banquet Wafers, Ginger Snaps, Sultana Fruit, and Sea Foam, for the kind that come in the [n-er-seal Patent Package. Look for the trade-mark design on the end of each package. eS FR ees ik HERE ARE SICK BABIES STILL ne BE CARED FOR. FOUR LITTLE FRIENDS OF THE BABIES. 516) DOCOGc Cone = fof k Babies’ Fund, Canhler of World, ter Huth sto) New York City THE CONTRIBUTORS. 200), Lo The Bick Madles’ Fund kas cared for] 10,908 alling children during the yp Altogether marted, thfr free medical a einen to nearly ») alck bables addition to thts it has Clothed the of chiidren and provited ter Nef for thousands of atarving families. The Evening W: simmer charity has a splendid ri f achlevement, One Hundred and FI To the’ Diltor of the Bvening World: Inclowet Ond $2. which was collected by the fon Nerbert Scheler, Jones Rheler, 1248 Madison ari Sadie Myers, Hertha Wittenhagen. of which tts frie sand wupp » may) ad, well be proud, It is not 4 red-tape chart Hundred and Pitteenth etree ty. 1 hoy given tnmtant re wherever oo ‘To Come to Madison Avenue Charch nad The Rev, from t y tmmed!- | 1, jPark Avenue M Mite draw. “atnpit id tuuch work | Ciuren, of this elty, accepted 9 call ’ pables In! from the Madison Avenue Church of Tat ana tance witt be kepe| New York. Dr. Mac fullen will enter and there will ng as there Is upon hla new | next April hh term under the Phitaded pate to ence expire: eir nervices. contributton: should be sent ttecht Bros. 2592261 Gth Avenue. Between 16th & 17th Sts, Part Payments No Higher Than Net Cash. So many people think a|money that you ordinarily lan a good one for every-ispend for that purpose safe body but themselves! lin bank. es Our system of selling the] You see the payments we most approved wearing ap-|accept may besosmall that| parel for man, woman and|they can be made from|98 child. at cash pricesand ac-| what is generai!y spent ina|| cepting in payment thereof | way that gives you little in very small. sums weekly or return—your pocket mon- monthly, is an advantagejey! And if you try even to every one, no matter/to think how you spend| Mu how situated. Suppose you|your pocket money, you make up your mind that/could not do it—no one this may be a good thingjever can. for even you—come to the] Our new store opens next store next Monday, our!Monday. It will be worth Opening Day, or any dayjseeing. We'd like you to thereafter, purchase what|/come even though you are you need, and instead ofjin need of nothing that we paying the whole amount,|sell, because we feel sure make a part-payment, and/our preparations will con- put the rest of your money/vince you that at least we have faith in ourselves. Heeht Bros. 2592261 Gth Ave. lan for indina Follow this ds proof 2 against moisture, iS duat and yerma, don't forget to ask NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY [Ow ean ]} Lord & Saturday Special Sale at Girls’ School Dresses exceptionally low prices. Shoes. | Specitt salues in Boys’ and Cirls’ School Shoes. at Boys’ and Youths’ Satin Calf Lace, oid leather soles, Special i 97c. | * Calf Lace, | » extra value, sizes > $y tons j Reg. Missts"Dongota Kid Lace, | Value with paten ew. 1.25, to Cal sewed | $1.25 and $1.50 oles. spring Boys' and Vout s* Lace of stock, throughout. selec Aiso Little Gents! Box Calf | and Viel Kid Lace, scring keels. | ot ) , Calf, lace, Whie Brothers’ ste Jak soles and solid count sewed. sizes § 4 to 8, BSc. and $1.00. Sizes 8% to 11, $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50. Sizes 1144 to 2,$1.25, $1.50 and $1.75. School Supplies. Everything required for the desk is here in extensive variety, and you are perfectly ate in sending the children by thems:lves, hey will be well taken care of and treated White | waist band with the sane courteous attention invari- ably eatended to you, Men's Shoes Only : Stores Amusements. HAMMERSTEDS “BARADIS iE VILLE. okt fife =f ali ven! is: RENAATIONS: Aa Bs AND NEW tiene all a. 43° REFINED VAUDEVILLE. Maude Muth, Tex chow's cats, le Am! PASTOR’ S JOR WELEM, ba DOOLEY 4 168 DUFFY, & ! ly Steck Ca UNDER TWO FLAGS.< By Margaret Maya. HARLIN THAATRR FRAN «CRITERION FH, EVENINGS, £20. ONLY MAT. SATURDAY. WH. AU | A Royal Rival. Broad iA Maral y and 46th st Peony Herald Grand and Chrystie Streets, For Men & Women, $3.50 The new Crawford Shoe we guarantee to suit you, or your money back. : Men's & Women's Shoes: {¥ Taylor, Grand Street Store, Bargains. Boys’ Clothing For School Wear. " Knee Pants, made to wer to 15 years, 29¢, ’ Shirt Walsts, with patent in ercal: or Domet Flannel, Boy. well; Boy. only 2Fc. Boys' Double - Breasted Suits, strictly all wool; just the thing for boys that are hard on clothes; sizes 3 to 16 years, $1.95; worth $3.00. Boys’ Three-Garment Suits, sizict- ly all wool; cut in the latest fashion; sizes 10 to 16 years, $2.98; worth $4.00, Boys’ Sailor Suits for the little fete lows; ages 3 to 10 years. Nicely trimmed with soutache braid, $1.98, worth $3.co. Large variety of Boys’ Hats and Caps from 25¢. upward. Hosiery. Special sale of Boys’ and Girls’ Hose iery, all sizes, at 10, 12%, 15, and 19e Handkerchiefs. 2,000 dozen Handkerchiefs, at abo? half actual values, at 5, 10, 12 46 and 1$¢. Dress Goods. Saturday opening Sale of Black ang Colored Dress Goods; 1,500 remnants of dress goods, just the thing for waist: skirts and children's school dresses, abont halfactual values; New Idea Paper patterns, 10c. 5 Broadway (12th St.) fe West 1asth S (as Fulton Stree ssa, cor. F West rasth “Manhattan | ‘Manhattan BRIGHTON BEACH 4u° Seate Se. Dally Mats. Seon at aes le la), LEN Iyn'Murtea Rant and 4 rien AVI TIAMAT WAT. MATINEE askew MONTAUK: youaEbOW. ER WILLIAM COLL! VIET." | hu COLUM, eas RALLY EXCEPT MON, GE | uNDeR (_THE GREAT RUBY. Excursions. Amusement and Education Combined, THIS NEASON'S ROW. ELTY A HAN ‘S100. ca: Kein ‘The Dalry. Boating, bathing, it toetine, Caveat stent North tar tay beter al q weoRR ION £0, 95 TS ae iBY AE: TO THE: : SEA. 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