The evening world. Newspaper, January 10, 1903, Page 8

by the Press Publishing Company, No. 58 to 6 ‘Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Omoe at New York as Secomi-Clams Mail Matter. VOLUME 48. NO. 16,117. THE GAME AT CANFIELD'S. Tt were almost better for man’s faith that Canfleht PhouM escape conviction than that we should have to Delieve that his gambling-house, was “crooked.” Here, " $ was supposed, was a game by gentlemen for gentle- ‘won. Yet now there is talk of “lever” boxes and “crooked layouts” and allegations of fleecing. If the taint of suspicion is to attach to Canfield's we may well @espair of the honor of the profession. The stream is pelsoned at the fount:.': head. | As a matter of fact, there is no gambling game in which the player stands an even chance with the pro- fessional, and those in which the dealer or the man at fhe wheel 1s not aided by some mechanical device to in- ‘irease “the house's” chances of winning are rare. The Awamufacture of crooked gambling paraphernalia is a flourishing industry in New York and Chicago, and pre- wumably in other cities. The extent to which these con- a traband contrivances are sold indicates the sure fate of > the “man with a system” and the wholly hopeless as- ptration of the amateur player to win out. OFFICE MARRIAGES. Reports of an employer marrying his private secre- tary or stenographer appear in the daily news with such frequency that they are now noteworthy only when the ‘wealth or social position of the bridegroom makes thé ‘Merriage of exceptional interest. Bs. The marriage of William H. Bradley, the rich Mil- | Waukee Inmberman, to his secretary, Miss Mary Han- is memeyer, was an example of such a union meriting at- a tention. Mr. Bradley was reputed to be worth $40,000,- | 000. He was undeniably the richest man in Wisconsin and lils death makes his former secretary perhaps the ‘wealthiest woman in the United States. The marriage of his private secretary by Gen. Stew- art L. Woodford, and the marriage of his typewriter and office assistant by Charles W. Spalding, the Chicago bank wrecker, may be cited as cases in point. A ro- mantic feature of the Spalding marriage is that it was 3 performed after the bridegroom had been convicted and i sent to prison. His wife at latest aecounts was support- Ing herself by employment in a Chicago business office while awaiting her husband's release. A matrimonial statistician attempted to show a few years ago that 63 ver cont. of all marriages are the re- pult of propinquity. How he procured his data need not - concern us. Whatever their value, they confirm a preva- Jent opinion. A matter of interest for us fs to discover | _ whether the propinquity or intimate association of em-' ployer and fair employee in business offices is not largely : responsible for the decrease of the age of marriage _ among women. | ‘That is to say, has not the employment of women in_ ‘tpusiness offices increased their chances of marrying: young? The facts and figures in the case are worth consideration. | ‘Taking the countries of Europe in which women ma-’ fare at practically the same age and comparing the ex- ‘pectation of marriage in the typewriter-using and tho 7 wwriter-using countries we find that tn a thou- gepd marriages the number of women marrying at twenty or under was: + 149 | In Holland +184] In Norway . + 85] In Sweden And also we find that whereas in England in 1838 ‘the number of marriages per thousand at this age was 142 in 1880 it had increased to 149. In Belgium in 1851 _ the number of women marrying under twenty-five was i 36 per cent., while in 1880 it was 41! Has not the asso- » ¢lation of business life had something to do with it? - As regards this country, in Massachusetts, by the eensus of 1890 the number of women marrted at twenty or under was 161 per thovgand, 12 more than in Eng~ Jand. In the larger cities the ratio per thousand of wo- men marrying between the ages of fifteen and forty- five was: ‘M Boston ..... 436 | In New York ‘In Philadelphia 47) in Brooklyn + 608 + 486 i “an re THE WOR : LD: SATURDAY EVENING, J ANUAR. ¥ 10, 1909. {JOKES OF THE DAV! “What would you do ff you waked 3 some morning to find yourself famous?” | “TM know T hadn't waked at all, and) ¢ Ta try to stop the dream before my | 4 breakfast «ot cold." e @ “When the days begin to lengthen” @®o runs the anctent saw) “The cold begins to strengthen.” But another surer law Ia: “When the cold begins to strengthen, fee bills shrink and coal bills lengthen.” | “1 eupposs you call your new auto modoile “The Scarlet Killer,’ or “The Sky | Blue Demon,’ or some auch fool name.’ “No; I've named it ‘Disparage.’ hy? It's always running people down." “1 don't think reference," “T gon't wonder, ma'am. My mistress was too busy to write it, ma'am, an! #o T got her maid to write it for her, ma‘am, an’ she's only been to night school one winter, ma'am, an’ the pen very much of your | was a bad one."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Bureaus were not invented until the eighteenth century.” “Wihat the deuce did collar tittons find to roll under before that time, 1 wonder?’ Tattooed Circassian—'What's the | ‘ Sword-Swallower main’ all that fusu | { about? Dog-Faced Greek—Says the dinner knives fa made 0 sharp that he can't eat "thout cuttin’ hla mouth, And One of Them Went Wrong.—Adam was lucky in another way, He had no |‘ friends to come around telling tim how he ought to bring up his boys.—Chicago Record-Herald. A hot-tempered youth misanthropt!cal Loathed songs of the nature called top!- cal. When folks sang ‘The New Bully,” Or about ‘tMr. Dooley," ‘His language grew hectic and tropical. “I hear he talks about nothing.’” “Yes; he'a always (telling about him- selt."" { SOMEBODIES. {| BERNHARDT, SARA—says she has spent her leisure hours during the past four years in writing memoirs which will be published in four lan- guages. EMERSON, MRS. I. B—of Baltimore, hes recelved a decidedly unique pres- ent from her husband, Dr. Emerson. ‘The gift tee luxuriously-fitted private | * car. 2 KOCH, PROB. ROBERT-—the great bacteriologist, i» © nhis way to South Africa to atudy the cattle plague. He lg to receive $7,600 per month and all expenses during the trip. STANFORD, MRS.—owns a California ranch over 1,200/acres In area, yleld- ing 600 tons of grapes and about 62,500 gallons of brandy per year. WENTWORTH, SIR JOSEPH—has made @ measuring machine of such accuracy that it will measure one- milMonth of an inch, and will indicate the sudden enlargement of a bar of fron incident on the touch of a human finger. a ee A DREAM OF VIOLETS. The breath of vtolets by my pillow blowing So stole upon my senses that I dreamed; Methought along a mountain path- way going I came where starry hosts of vio- lets beamed Are not these figures suggestive? In New York, 5 ‘home of the typewriter, we have the largest number of / young women marrying, except in Brooklyn, the home of the typewriter girl. q TELEPHONE AND PHONOGRAPH. The long-distance diagnosis of a case of croup made by @ Newark doctor over the telephone adds another to the various uses of that useful electrical instrument. Bell invented better than he knew. With a megaphone and stethoscopic attachment a physician might examine @ distant patient’s beart and Jungs and count his pulse Without leaving hir oflice, Apparently its possibilities as @ travel-saving device have not yet been fully realized. je same time we find that electrical toy, the ei serving many unforeseen uses, The language teacher uses it to instruct non-resident Et Garner took it into darkest Africa to register the talk (of monkeys. , Dentists have made use of it to divert a patient's at- tention from the forceps. ¢ Yale professors are preparing to preserve by its means the disappearing dialects of the American Indian. ‘A car equipped with phonographs and gramophone plates is to be sent from New Haven on a phonetic sur- Wey to effect a record of Indian languages and also of “Peoullarities of pronunciation throughout the United ; The number of Indian tongues that have died im this country since the white man’s occupation is Pilot transiated a Bible into one; who can read ? Humboldt met a parrot in Brazil which alone ed an extinct Indian dialect, Who can speak ten of meliifiuous Iroquois, said to have been the of Indian tongues? would not the world have given to have had when Plato was talking? footlights when Malibran was singing! Sex when Webster was replying to Hayne! monologues? nu in Rome when Cicero was lashing Catiline or Or by Liszt's plano Or in lat are we recording for posterity in the phono- ae vaudeville songs, minstrel jokes and i Haye we any orator gare to send on for future admira- , but any poet's or playwright's jer's? Only Morgan's and Rock- So thick they grew, such heavenly fragrance strewing, A very paradise on earth 41 seemed. Then spoke my heart, "Her eyes have rested yonder, And left where'er they shone this} | > purple wonder.’* Alfred Percival ¢ 4 PODDOELOGHOV ODIO ODE B-POOeR aH As 3. "That was a close call. | lost cinch I'll get to the office early 5. “Up against it again, b’ gee! be In early this time sur my hat In the shuffle, but It’s a to-day.” Blast the luck! BPARDIADEDDPOALOMDD DOLD DO®MMDODD ©9OOO6GDOOAE 94 1:9.6.6HOO* 644000444 E NING= MR. HOTFOOT COMMUTER IS LATE AGAIN. He Thought He Was All Right, but He Wasn’t, as Artist Kahles Shows. 2 4 ne dxee! PdO8 ©9066 “What's that? A_ freight here four hours? Well, | see my I thought | woutd 6. “Lat go home! > 2699 9DOHDOLGLG1G9490G54-08 OOOOOEDUSLOGOEDIAD “Hurrah! § caught her all right!” finis! te EARLY BIRDCATCHES again, and—just look wreck on the road? We'll be ‘>. at that clock! It's nearly time to THE MAN HIGHER UP. ? One Trouble We Escape—Princess Loutse 66 | the coop with a French tutor, denies that she is coming to the United States,” said the Cigar Store Man. Gi “Fine for us,” replied The Man Higher Up. “We have troubles enough of our own, The whole country was holding its breath, afraid she would come over and go on the stage. It might be a safe bet to play it open that she'll do it yet, at that. Ted Marks, Bob Grau and the other vaudeville avents haven't had a chance to write her letters telling her that she can make about 400,000 kopees, or kroners or marks a week in vaude- ville. Some of those unconyentional princesses would do a whole lot for $500. This one did a whole lot for a French tutor, I haven't seen his picture yet, but I'll bet he’s got a haircut like a plume on a hearse, 3 “As far as that is concerned, we don’t need foreign princesses who put the flat in storage and send papa to a boarding-house over here. We've got enough of them to fill Madison Square Garden right in this town. They're »|not princesses, of course, but being a princess is like , | being run over by an antomobile—an accident. Here are the papers full of accounts of the Princess and her tutor, like they used to be full of the Princess Chimay and her fiddler. Over here if a woman with more money than the Princess Louise ever saw runs away with a hosiery drummer or the leader of @ minstrel band the best she can get in a newspaper is her photograph with a cap- tion on an inside page next to the patent medicine ada, “Women are women the world over. A lot of them >}in this country will read about the Princess and think that if a princess ean do it why not they? The papers >| tell of how the Princess is living in a swell hotel with her press agent ever by her side and her French tutor coming to see her every day for a couple of hours When the American woman of leisure who is dissatis« fled reads about this she gets ready to balk on spending the provider's money. “We don’t make so much fuss about it over here We're getting used to it. Walk along Fifth avenue with :|the rest of the pilgrims from the east side some Sunday afternoon and look over the mansions with the green >| bHnds—miles of them. If you have a guide with you be can tell you some funny stories about those mansion and the people who live in them and used to live in “He will show you the house that Mr. Shine gave his >| wite when they were married, and a Itttle further on let 2, will show you the house where Mrs. Shine went to live after she had married Mr. Glitter. Along a little further |‘he will show you where Mrs, Glitter went to live after she got a divorce from Mr, Glitter on account of the at tentions he was paying Mrs. Shine. He will also teil {yon that Mrs. Glitter married Mr. Buzzer, whose wife left htm to marry Mr. Hock. It’s all just as natural, “Yon don't hear much of this in the tenement dis tricts, Only princesses and women whose husbands havd plenty of money do the hotfeot from bed and board bo another man. The woman who {s contented if she a new dress once a year and a black eye every pay day sticks close to home, takes care of the kids and nin¢ times out of ten raises a family that takes care of heq when she gets old and the old man is peacefully at rest in Greenwood or Calvary. She don’t know that the law of love {s a law of nature and cannot be governed. AW she knows is that she has assumed an obligation and she stands ready to live up to it, even at the sacrifice of her life. Idleness and benk accounts send women along the line that Princess Louise is travelling, and tt is 4 line worn hard with the tramping of countless feet.” | the Crown Princess of Saxony, that flew: 992OO$59S656000009O0OO THE OFFICER KNEW. It is related that a general officer of the British Army the Soudan, who was inspecting a post on the line of com mnnications Guly errived one Gay at a Little hut which rep resented the headquarters of the army in some wind-swepl hole. He entered, and looking round, espied an office tablq and two trays, one full of papers. Intorested, he read thd label attached to each, The empty one was ticketed " ness” and the other “Bosh,” Hxoellent officer,” purred visitor; “thoroughly understands his work.” But when bd went further and proceeded to examine the pape im tha ‘posh tray his feelings may be better imagined than de scribed on finding the documents consisted exolustvely of thi own voluminous orders and memoranda, SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. «young vy Rin ptoptat aed Devine and Ip told that unless he giv; ‘in family name his mother will be made sumer. Richard takes the i at MacQuarie Harbor. reaches sorted wettlement that a gang of mutiny rooned Frei Dawes sa many ways Vickers, CHAPTOR VI The Oastaways. VAPITE Dawes's thousand expe- il dients, the castwways’ store of food at last came to an end. Dawes at length killed some wild goats And started to fashion a rude boat out of thelr #kins and some bent poles, With the boat they could sail down the ot to some seblloment When he oume back from his goat hunting trip Frere told him Mra, Vickers (who had been alta) Nad become very i. Sylvia was with her. The child, at the sound of the voice, came running down fi the hut. "Oh, Mr, Dawes! Tain so glad! Wewere be winning to despairn—mamma and J," Dawes snatched her ron the ground and, bursting Into joyous laugh, ewung her into the alr. “Tell me," he cried, holding up the child with two dripping arms above him, “what you will do me 1 bring you and mamma rato bome again?” “Give you a free pardon,” said Sylvia, “and pape shall make you his servant!" 4 hia throat, put the child upon the ground and walked awny Syivia gaw how de: uneonseious hand had driven t! Lup to the man she had wor “d And, Mr. Dawes, remember tirat | shall love you always.” ‘The convict, however, his momentary excitement over, mottoned her away; and ghe saw him atretch Mim self weartly under the adow of a rock. When Sylvia had gor to bed, Frere inspected the results of Dawes's work, Slowly he wilked «cross to where Dawes Jay. “What do you want?’ asked the con- viet caldly. Frere turst out in sudden, fretful ad- miration "What a fellow you are, Dawes! What are you—I mean, what have you been?’ A tNumphant Hight came into the other's fa and for th instant he feomed about to make some starting revelation, But the Heht faded, and he checked Ninwelf with a geat of puin, “T ama convict. Never mind what 1 haye b A wall ukder, prod- igal, y abond=—what it matter? tt won't alter my tf will it If we k. saya rere, ‘TH aak fo: ron for you. You deserve tt “Come, returned Dawes, with a lMs- cordant laugh. “Let us wait until we do get back.” / "You don't believe met “I don't want favor at your pds," he sald, with return of the ol Ore’. ness. “Lot BO to sleop, We'll need all our strength for doat-buliding to morrow,” Frere moved away, baffled: “A preacher would call it ‘a special + Providence, it th haan: Natit '" he said to himself, “For i i 8 M OF HIS NATURAL LIFE. | # FOR THE TER He's a clever dog. 1 wonder who he tn." His training as a master of convicts made him think how dangerous such a man would be on @ convict station. It would be difficult to keap a fellow of euch resources. “They'll have to look pretty sharp af- ter him if they ever get him back," he thought. “I'll have a fine tale to tell of MMs Ingenulty ‘The conversation of a few minutes earlier occurred to him. “I promised to ask for a tree pardon. He wouldn't have dt though, Too proud to accept tt at my hands! (How con- foundedly impudent a little MWoerty makes these beggars! Watt until we get back. I'l) teach him his place; for, af- ter all, ft ts his own Mberty that he ts working for as well as mine—T mean, ours.” Then a thought eame into bis head that was im every way worthy of him, “Suppose wo took the boat, and left him behing he notion seemed so Iudior wicked that he laughed tn- voluntarily Next morning work began early. ‘The frame of the rude boat was shaped, the aking dried and stretched aver the frame and rendered moderately water-tignt The goat-meat was saited and smoked in primitive fashion and stowed away in the craft as provision for the Journey, Tn @ few days all was ready. The de- signing and bullding of the boat, ike its origina! planning, was all Dawe: Frere working like @ mere servant under his orders. Shoets of bark were place’ at the bottom of the craft and made @ safe flooring, It was late in the afternoon of the fourth day when these preparations were scomplered, and tt wae decided that on | the morrow they should adventure the — Journey. rock at @ Hetle distance, called on them. “I am the Queer of the Island," she said, merrily, “and you are my obadient subjects, Pray, Sir Bglamour, is the boat ready?’ “It is, Your Majesty,"’ said poor Dawes, “Then we will see it, Come, walk tn front of me. I won't ask you to rud your nese upon the ground, like Man Friday, because that would be uncom- forta) ¢ Marching im this pathetically ridicu- lous fashion across the sand, they halted Qt the coracle, "So that 1s the boat!” saya the Queen, fairly surprised out of her assumption of dignity. “You are a wonderfill man, Mr. Dawesi" Rufus Dawes smiled sadly. “It és very imple." “Do you call this simple?" says Wrere, who im the «eneral Joy had shaken off & portion of his sulkiness. "By George! 1 don't, This is shipbuilding with « vengeance, this !s, There's no schem- ing about thie—it's all sheer hard work,’ "Yes! echoed Sylvia, ‘sheer hard sheer hard work by good Mr, And she began to sing a childish chant of irlumph, drawing lines and lettors in the sand the while with the sceptre of the Queen: Guod Mr, Dawes! Good Mr. Dawes! ‘This is the work of Good Mr. Dawes! Frere-—now that the boat was made— had regained his self-confidence. “One would think that a boat had never been (ullt ‘before to hear her talk," he said. “If thie washing-basket had been one of my old uncle's three- deckers she couldn't have said much more, By the Lord!" added, with a BY Rufus Danves turned his pack to the Wont ‘dead’ and busied himself with the fastenings of the hides, Could the other bave seen his face he would have besn struck by dt» sudden pallor. It was the first naws he had had of his father’s death. The future suddenly glowed bright. He would be freed, on account of this work on the ‘sland, He would return hoine to the mother he adored and who murned him as dead, and to the fortune that uwalted him. His, heart blossomed forth in giadness, as does a plant under @ gentle rain, He saw his mother's eweet pale face, the light of a happy home circle. He saw himself necalved with tears of Joy and marvellous affec- tion, entering into this home circle as one risen from the dead, A new: life opened radiant before him, and he was lost in the contemplation of his own happiness. He looked gown at lest and’ saw that the wonds Sylvia had scratched in the sand were "GOOD MR. DAW HS," He bent and kissed them, Next day they set forth on their Journey, Mrs. Vickers was so dil t was necessary to carry ber eboard and she dally grew worse untll she lay in the bottom of the boat in a dying condition, No wall greeted thelr anxious eyas and contrary winds and tdes prevented thelr reaching any settlement, At the end of a week's voyaging they were again at ‘the pount of wiurvation. Mre Vickers lay dying and Sylvia was de- Urious from exposure and lack of food, Frere and Dawes, with drawn faces and blackened Mps, awatied the. death they felt must s00n come, Dawes con- stantly held @ylvia, in his arma, sooth comforting ter ing wd Vi MARGUS GLARKE. = had been scanning the sea wearily, shouted aloud end turned the frat! poate course ¢rom the coast towart oidecean. ‘Then he tore up the party’a one book and, with the eid of come bark, started a’ Ore in the bow. ‘A eall! he gasped. “Teo tar away to see us; but they'd see the emote of our fire! Frere blew the young flame with his breath end the bark began to burn, "Bylvia!” cried Rutus Dawes, “Byiviet My darling! You are savedi She opened her blue eyes and locked at him, but gave no sign of recognition. Delirium hed hold of her and tn ¢be town of eafety ‘the chiki had forgotten hem preserver, Rufus Dawes, overcome ty thie lest cruel stroke of fortune, eat Gown in the stern of the boat with the child in his arms, speechless, ‘The ait changed her course and came toward this etrange fire in the middie of the ocean, She came within hall of them. Orem could almost distinguish Agures on her. deok. ‘He made his way aft to where Dawes was sitting, unconscious, with the child in his arms, and stirred im roughly with his foo! "Go forward,” he seid in tones ef command, ‘and give the ghild to me,!’ Rufus Dawes raised his heed and, ese. ing the approaching vessel, awoke to the consclousness of his duty, a Jaugh, full of unutterable clternsa, te placed the burden he had borne so ten- derly in the arms of the eptenant ang moved to the burning bow. — Frere, with Sylvia in hls arms, waited for the ship to arrive.