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RSDAY EVENING, _ OCTOBER 1, 1903. ee 28DOOOOLDODAD 294446 04928 0OOO4O4 | The Misadventures of Archie “An ley Occasion with Edith’s Father. Be wt we Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to & few York. Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Class Mal! Matter. Said Archie to his sweetheart , “Tve come dear, to adore---—-—* | °A door?-said papa .-"then pass thro’ NO. 16,381. | ‘ = || ! THE COTTON CORNER. When t..e cotton shorts settled with the master of the market, W. P. Brown, on Tuesday, the scene Is said to have been one of the most exciting in the recent his- tory of speculation. Except that the commodity dealt in was cotton and not wheat the description of the “screaming brokers” fighting against the inevitable set tlement or abjectly throwing themselves on the specu-_ lator’s mercy in his office, ‘a veritable torture cham- | “ber.” was a page from ‘The Pit"—but with this dif- ‘ference, that it was fact exceeding fiction in draiiatic | -Antensity of interest. {> During the day the former farm boy of the pine, ; lands, by a nod of his head, put up the price of cotton! *$7.50 a bale and forced that price on the markets of “London and Liverpool. It was a great triumph; no “financial Jupiter of modern times has been able to do “more. The pool's net profits have been $7,000,000. »* - But In giving Brown his meed of praise for his suc- ‘*eess, and not forgetting Sully, let us recall briefly the “history of the corner since its formation in February. Beginning with purchases of May options at 8.81 the speculator soon forced the price of cotton up to 11.15 9O064 6.0. POPC CRS ODEM «4 sats poxnt Hay i fine nad roel? monte] Physical Culture | Mrs. Waitaminnit--the Woman Who Is Always Late. | price since 1879. The market was then “completely at for wg ~~ g ~—sss—SszThis Shows That the Ice Always Grows Cold No Matter How Hot a Man's Haste a ba STIR WELL => THE (CE 15 TOO OPEN TH HEAVY FOR WIFE 1 REFRIGE Rare YES DEAR INA RATOR) he VSHALL Lier it WORTENSE - INO RE, PLEASE Now THERE'S A? MA { DEAR. *to close. By June 29 “all the cotton In sight” was “Brown's. English looms were thrown into {idleness and LESSON II, Lancashire industries were reported to be “fighting for existence.” How to Breast July 15 cotton mills began to close in numbers; two the Bridge Rush, @ays later 15,000 operators were {dle in Fall River. On ] "sscorans tusky) sigbsh penaye a 4 . urday half-hollday during the Aug. BS oop more, employees iyhit) Cela e ALD o fall, dress yourself neatly and care- forced idleness, and on Sept. 5, when the ring had $7,000,-| puny and proceed to some vacant lot 000 .n profits in sight, 1,300,000 spindles were idle. On| near an tron foundry. P - Sept. 21 the number of idle spindles was 3,000,000. pA aM there: pointe a sean 4 ame on between rival lermakers, Fully 50,000 persons were out of work, and in England Make pour avi candanyitnroden ithe Whole villages were idle and cotton spinners were)}crowd of rooters and approach the starving. centre of the field. « — “Brown’ y."" ‘The high pri “ ing the : Bera teaae”” On June 2 New England mitls been | HUStling New Yorkers The Way Women ‘Run a Club. bh I SEE they've got a soldier on guard at that meet- ing of a woman's club up in New Haven,” said the Cigar Store Man. “For mine,” said the Man Higher Up, “It * would be anything but that soldier's job. The way I‘ ‘This is the other elde of the Brown triumph, and it}, The minute you see the man with 3 makes a less pleasing picture. The jewelry salesmen cut Fall River out of their routes this autumn; it was ‘small sicn signifying much. the ball rushing over the green pur- sued by @ score of wild-eyed giants, frame it up from the reliable and truthful publio prints, he {s the lookout. There !s a bunch of de termined females outside and a bunch of determined females inside. He is to keep the bunches apart; and 'T'l bet he'd rather be on the Bowery. ., i “You never hear of a meeting of a woman's club r.. THIS ICES COLD) Nene Wyatt) ; vee hasn't got an account of a scrap shuffled into it. ¥ RY HANDS A 0. Gh 4 gang of men can get together and do each other up pal sa it ae without any unseemly display of violence, but women, He Doom. ‘SH GY bless ‘em, are only balked from sailing into each 5, |Other when there is a disagreement by the fact thas thelr corsets are too tight. { “There is a reason for this. In the first place, & , woman who has got time enough on her hands to joim a club {is generally the trousers wearer in her own home. She's got the old: man to a stage where he’s afrald to let a peep’ out‘of himself. When the club gag comes: up he falls*to'lt with Joy, because it keeps dear mother away from the house, “Scramble together a lot of women who are bosses {at home in a club and you can bet your right ear What is the moral responsibility of the gambler who, to increase his profits, has brought hardship into thou- sands of homes? Is not such gambling criminal? Is not such a k gambler one of the worst enemies of society ?, CAPT. PIPER'S RAID. | Not since the retirement last spring of a patrolman for ‘obesity acquired in the line of duty” has there hain After the Scrimmage. @ more ludicrous incident of department history than | rush forward and grapple with him. the descent of Deputy Commissioner Piper on the somno-| During the ensuing few minutes you| { Jent City Hall police. In the “old men’s home,” as Devery| Will have some lively exercise with) bh Janche of har “! ho} called this station-house, the invader found the sergeant| Win snteavor to tear vou to pieces forl | ‘mapping in the back room, the roundsman nodding, the| interfering with the game. 3 doorman off duty. After a search of twenty minutes| Unless your nerves are very weak! ‘°° through the posts of the narrow precinct he came upon |his exercise should be pursued studl-| ously every week. > ‘one lone patrolman on his beat. “Any one might have| yp yoy are not lucky enough to have| © j 4 against rt run off with the City Hall clock,” said Piper. the @aturday halt-noliday the following | $ Aa ie ad ae utches that each individual female The irony of this is that one of the most vigilant| may be substituted: o as got n her mind the idea that she Is going to be \the boss of that particular gathering or know the reason why. And when the reason why comes along she don't know it, no matter how hard it strikes her | in the face. ae ; “Women are naturally suspiclous of each other. It = \an old scream that If three of them get together they ®|chew the rag until they are blue in the face, because Squads in the service was caught napping; a good com- . peste Sora aaah meeting sive inl] mander should have placed his outposts to better ad-|°0° "0" Stace 2 sneer etlerel 2 vantage. But three nights before the City Hall force}, p. 4.” across your breast, had acquitted itself with great distinction in the rout of| One of these meetings a week should the Greek peanut men. With an admirable intrepitity | sumMce for an adult. it had swept the Bridge plaza clear of the enemy and| Another simple Presenect ts to keep a gathered in a station-houseful of contraband of war. If! Shar? eye out for @ steam streot- ae re. mane v sweeper. s > Fi {t rested on {ts laurels rather too long and succumbed] afake a short run and jump upon tho ® one is afraid Mo) Ro for fear the other two will roast hes to somnolence the fault lies with fate. revolving brush. 3,;to a frazzle. ‘Take fifty or more of them, each with an The charges to be preferred against the negligent| After a oy turns with the brush al- ‘2 |ambivon, put them in a room, start a discussion, and \ policemen will do good in restoring a relaxed discipline. | 7m yom au, Coane against & |!3 Ike tossing a lighted cigan into a pilq of | N In recent years there have been numerous hold-ups| rf possible seleot only streets with Senpowder: ay within earshot of the City Hall station. The state of | cobble stones. ‘After a club is running a while:a couple of strong~ Ry affairs when Capt. Piper appeared unexpectedly was such cea SER sxerclee can be taken as minded sisters walk on the others so persistently that as to invite lawlessness right under the station-house = they gain recogniton as the goods. There are always windows, } GOT THE REWARD. ire or more. The club of women never existed that ; A ‘ i q one absolute dictator for any length of tl A superstitious Ozark County young! me. If THE FAITHFUL SERVANT. man tried recently for luck to kilos the | she became deaf, dumb, blind and paralytic, the others would figure: out some way in which she could da them, “I went to a big meeting of a woman's club once, Pasther-Carey, an old domestic servant of the Kobbe| ride before the bridegroom could kiss | 5 her. He ts now nursing two black eyes famity, was buried yesterday by her employers with | 14 4 broken nose. He got the luck, all| © marks of the esteem which her faithful service deserved. | rignt—Kansas City Journal $9$90-59.H9-909O9.9-90400HH.H009HH0O0H She was eighty years old and she had been the servant ve SODOD € There was an election of officers. The candidate for rev of three generations of the family, covering a period of election stood outside the door and kissed ever) ainy-three yore cand altnrly portormet The Rainbow Feather w By Fergus Hume kK Girl of Mystery IGE Wat they Wouldlogs ¢ tess even Can results in ties of affection between employer and em- By Permission of G. W. Dillingham Co. The other candidate stood inside the door and ktased ployed. In the old Granary burying ground in Boston,| STNOPSIS OF SEO Cae lal ear aantother Jimboy know I was to meet) wore talking the clock in St. Dunstan's calmer T found myself on the high road. oeren began a, cackling laugh, and|them all over again, They fed her the same grade of My ol aad Milly 1 eroveries ci begin (o strike nine, anc y,| Thea I thought i would protect my. hoked tn the middic of it, : where the headstones are thick with the names of per-| faxed te yancos, NU ALN MMe A hac she'must go home, Fe ee oud eT had aot| “Oh, ‘tis grad aa knows the pure ¢ruth| Hot alr. At th met Milly. "I went to Mother Jimboy'’s] 0’ that," she sald, when her breath] «yy \ ve poor [tent ani, told her. ail. Bhe aad she | camo back, Wanted to tell you, When tt came to the voting, a large lady, with s 7 What I felt | would help me, and made me lie down.|dearle, so that you may be clever and|face like a zebra and a pair of , her ali “cried ‘Lovel, | That us all T know. of the rime, M0 | Baye yourself bog Glamond earrings that pI at ne. ¥ % Ad sons illustrious in the country's early history, there is} she is loved) by Luews Lovel, a young eee eA ‘The\ eld) woman|ia shart: Al re painter, ody, Ww! pistol wound ¢ n ier, warn jot to | shy we a slate slab to the memory of “Prince, servant of John bre hea, di found in n latte er father, © keep the appointment, end then revenioa [Ril fell, ; Y Sianken” doctors ts. auavec Jed | ion Tgawt x cane To see it 18 to appreciate the depth of this |x jane eee the a yi 2 Ce "| clasping his han “I did not see front | ton, T did not kill the girl, I wear; and} | (To mei” cried Lucas. bending. for looked like the Iamps on an automobile, got all the ection, rele ar Lovel,” sald Paul, coolly, direction the shot came, but bent |T swear also that Herne ts Innocen: . “Do vou know who killed Milly?" ' votes but two. Then it cai aae,| "no doubt by informing Herne of your |° Ecame outtharahe: had i . ey , oved a little, and the ny , Lovel,| “Kes, for sure, Iw t the stil _ In slaveholding days where a lifetime was passed on irl" | meetings she thoug! hn fis Be eee ein ver Sie tee Bad Eee ArDBier CoA ear Bela hey pat: when he fired | wit pistol i 5 : the secretaryship of the organization to nine di! the plantation this bond was severed only by death. |! Minto Pa Wy ectipeeia td Lt dade * asked Paul. © difterem{ An old ypay woman, prophesied the xirl's death, 4 ‘a feather. tinted ‘And you?" asked Mexton, who was/ting on his hat, “and wo'll see what| “Who fired tho, pis like i eht of which throws Herne into| Ing In your intere Remember, shej foliowing this narrative with intense In-| she knows of the matter.’ much excited. ‘Herne women, each of whom had a drag. « ‘ errible “exeitement, wa ’ MEMO ee si ny wl we netatt . - | tergible ex non a | Wanted you to ML Miyde; we o Ow! a not out "No; nor Miss Clyde, nor Brent, nor] «« ‘The young black boy who became ‘“marster's" body ser ciquspicton te next thrown on Misa Clyte 8) 40 she could t Iss Clyde; well, of ene anes nothing; she was not y BTANGHON here: Bente, dearie: and ‘Well, the women began to make motions. Bmougt Herne. to stop Your meetings Joubt vant remained in friendly intimacy with him to the last. ted ancled you we “In South Orange an old colored woman, Mildred Lomox, dead and rushed | e| who had Killed he at first, but I setthouratn? “ \ ” Til whisper who killed thé good maid.” the rain. Tam not so certain of that," sald or who oo re a held their resolutions were hurled in in five minutes to Daper t] Mexton quickly. “If she wrote those] Both men bent forward ai sound as if| letters, as 1 suspect, I am certal nshe| Oreath room. . The presiding officer, who happened to be thi eno On «! ie irl, and consi our wife, s z hotey hist Netenth Tt roliowadllerswie tae sas t Was ithe parson." sald Gran Jim: past eighty, ia lleiogimith tis Faas meas ae Fou itty tne f eatkiy, and in the anadow of ches Worl iwould) qo toiaeaiit Herngwasiwatohing, “Master "Chaskin—e killed t'} Zebra-countenanced lady aforesaid, waited until they , e of the older ‘0 all, resumir fs Qistance awa Ll saw— “she did no’ c 1 st i r des! resuming h distan way saw rie Gg HOE May ino ona Aenlles. “Tt 1s impossible! cried Paul in-]2ad all talked themselves out of breath, adjourned nolety. Tot she had Inid the feather on servants in this region is Adaline Smith. who has been 1 met Milly in the with the Hayner family, of Yonkers, for sixty-seven \ Pate Tam as|dignantly. "How dare you bring n|convention and sailed out of the hall like an on her, the assassin as you|Charge like that against Mr. Chaskin! years. (Copyrtehted, 1808, by GW. Dillingham Co.) Ai where What motive had he for killing an inno- liner, It wasn't according to Hoyle, or Cushing, o¢ When such a servant dies the funeral at the em- SHOE EL. Neti I to speak ney tett CeMIe dearie, he loved her, Iss, gran|@Bything else.’ but she won out because her nerve pat loyer's expense 1s one of the smallest of his tributes to LovelarTeventes m well, {nterJeeted Paul Herne Arms ‘ es trew," ( the others in a momentary trance.” er memory, EXTON sought out Lucas Lovel a." Herne Arms dent yeaterday—was} “Suppose we grant that Mr. Chaskin| ©, i = =: =— M at once. He found the young ray: hing lon that by a baker's cart and has suf- Ba in love wth M ie Tester ieaait My wife is president of her club,” announced te ’ HGG) MaReaeal anal hells oomily. “hut me internal injury. Dr, Lester] Paul after a . “why should h Store N PRESIDENTIAL NAMESAKES. ay als rae Hsia kn sag ben th morning me ela CE enced ike Gri tent an dor which was thrown @ gally striped quilt. | here,” and gran was lylng on the ground in her in peril, wy, , id a pile of dingy Kets, over| “Ye dont think I 6: d me, ohm Xton en e Arn ald Mexton replied gran.| “Yes,” answered the Man Higher Up. “ pale tow! Ger die}you told me once that you always got up and prstonl pillow. “I picked this} your own breakfast.” Where that poor malil A youth bearing the name of Grover Cleveland Fu earning $50,000 a year as a jockey. The in notable as the achievement of a nam ler “Hast thou foun: uted his sitting-room ay tt am not your ¢ ont VWATe and was afraid lest T shi yf killing Milly, 1 had met her Y with and T aay 1 is more rie, be main glad to see ea r An’ t-othe: ye— Ww! b ol other rye—who be Wan: tool se : aul Mexton,” said that gentle-| Lovel undid the bundle rapidly, anc eee eoine With Me Teeal| there lay before him a-neat silver-plated Postal Cards Popular, | E yor ve to istol, the weapon, as he knew withot 5 hat you have to say adout the | pistol, the pon, 1 eatin ha Hout) Interesting statistics In regard to the use of postal “Lam Pi man, “an. 1 Yet you wormed my st oul}she should break mot w yh owith bm Well, while w way , but When h ° 2 vo McCle es of Bs uubtless belleve me the | Herne and marry Taw being told, with wh Widual greatness? Of two McClellan namesak 5 : Se eteerereeeseorrest ee OU EER ORNS eee eee killed. As In the ‘of the in have just been published by the International Bureau, the writer one is still earning daily wages and is ) : Lester, produced) Berne. They show that during a year more postal cards ea “Man was tuo] used in Germany than in any other country, the figured LS : : which thraw light on this point being as follows: Germany, “goals,” “punts,"" “drop ANN Be TH And Rattan De TiCo Baul Fe ee ee a tesa Use) OUT SEAL ARABI ks" ard so forth, ike] with a teres Hiht In his ey 7} Lratita, 380,000,000; France, 60,000,000; Belgium, 68,008,009, otball 1s king for the yee ayes (Us soc" mumBied gran, | Switzerland. only 42,000,000 Ing hor dry lps. "was at the Stories Gold About New Yorkers. 3° JP Brcsene MATTHEWS ome since ho ¢ atal shot, You w d the distinguishing feature of his given name. | ‘uv know Hovne kt it and Garfield namesakes are doubtless too young Ne A Ai RRS, pie eels ny of his clubs who should apply the; “touchdowns, . ! pproorous epithet to him, A decade! kicks," “halt we accomplished much; the Fuller Jad has gained! “Then if neither of you killed her Ulle of “Professor.” This prefix,|of professorship, however, is sald to) their elders. ie dn an exceptional profession requiring precocity. | Wo did?" which Columbia bestowed on him cle nave ftened his resentment against | "eX (WO months |, Bie hem mun Aretethergetale there a Fillmore Smith or a Buchanan Rot ot) “That. sighed Lovel, “is a question] years ago, and of which the aycrage|the title he so worthily bears, | One of the busiest man in New York, |°* Hh lenveciey' tae ad Ps 7 ’ ag Re achncwat vial theres eaten oer aac 1 ask myveit a tundred timee « day: | nian would only. ie too proud, was fr| a oles jana perhans gut of It in Heinrich Con Aiea one IMAP ATI ihee BIA EL Latte TMother Goose’s Grave. on‘Taylor? A Webster Johnson? Since you know so much, let me tell/a long time a thorn in Brander Mat-| New York small boys who have been Ted: Eg otha fea Ko pdb ctet mel Pa COM replied Mra, Jimboy, “‘but I seed Was there ever a real Mother Goose? That ques-, done a child by parental neglect or sel- | 7)" ell I know. In the first place, Gran | thews's flesh. He made no objection to! tnterested In miggies' for the last two acral asm tane rat amg te FR oy waiken Soe fenee fo sne tion often asked by boys and girls. Yes, Neate a ‘onal the imposition of a name through ad- Nuaboy is my Krandmother. I did not} the term “Professor” when appited to/or three weeks are throwing nside those | distraction. With Conried it ig meroly | nears the shot. When I gat to that stile,| sho ved in Boston. Her grave 4s still to be seen in thee, an Who has made it great is not the least |Mro or ee nee cated At to me the} him by admiring students, but when playthings, Football engages thelr at- [a.gide jesuc. in nis hours of serious) T see nothing but the dead maid, After| old “Granary” graveyard close to the ola Park Strest effects. The boy is branded for | 3%q entre, mura although: the, old |his friends outside the University took it| tention. So toon aa there is. ‘varsity |atre For sn daya past he hag ben Cee IIa it the mont ont ens | Church, which i next to the famous Common, Only a ting MS done him an ill turn from which aunt who brought me up told me I ‘had jup he redelied. He ts even quoted as|game on the gridjron In thix vicinity | Fenearaing. nigh Ae mpany of Ger-|yon pistol, dearie; i headstone marks {t, and on It are graven these words: owing reconciled at i=} ol 4 ’ T ploked it up gypsy blood. threatening: to {mpose a fine of one bot-|the youngsters get hold of a footha:l | TANS. |S Dertunctory”, rehearaaia, [inv run back to my tent quick aa my| “Here les Mary Goose, wife of Isaa Feliev oo = a footia:l /Mther, but bonadde tena of knowledge, m ay ; Goose, wife of Isaac Googe. Died a Ho paused. Then went on, », [Me of campagne on the frat momber of|aomebow and talk learnedly about | tastewentum df you Uke stan aid legs could ‘Gontinues Pe euins forty-nine..-~ sl ee