The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1903, Page 8

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Ente: nt the Post-Office | at New York as Second-Ciass Mall Matter. a VOLUME 44.........cseeeseeeeeees NO. 18,466. ——$—$——— ese NO RETRENCHMENT HERE, ‘* Yf the Board of Education had wished to deal the Weadliest possible parting blow at reform government it could have found no better plan than the one !t has adopted in voting to abolish the recreation centres, the vacation schools and playgrounds, to reduce the sessions 0694099S9O9OOO0904 000094 DOO DLOCOFOOOOOROHOOOOOH SASSY SUE - By the Creator of “Sunny Jim’— She Examines Her Xmas Gifts. © prs D> SOOOOOO’ $292900094O000 0 90.4 vw THE » EVENING »# WORLD'S # HOME # | of the evening ‘schools by one-fourth, to reduce the sal-| ¢ vf | aries of evening teachers and to curtail the free lectures, | | | ‘This action, according to the board, has been made neces- 1g larevani f 4 | sary by the cut in the school appropriation made by the| ¢ (7 ado Board of Estimate and Apportionment. The incoming authorities are asked to restore the grant to the amount of the estimates. If they consent we shall have the re- markable spectacle of Tammany healing the wounds inflicted on childhood by reformers—a sight that will fill | lovers of good government with mixed emotions. In itself the curtailment ordered by the Board of Education is utterly preposterous. It simply cannot be allowed to stand. Nothing but municipal bankruptcy could excuse it. ‘The recreation centres, the vacation schools and play-' grounds, the night schools and the free lectures are the very things that mark the progress of an educational system. They show that the men in charge of that system have not been moving in rute—that they have WORLD! OEAR BROKE 7°-DAY! all 7) —™\ & SOME BODYS y a: fi. ee LONG-LOST BROTHERS IN THAT «See this patent coffee-grinder; here’s the screw. Laws, hear it sing! It's Black Magic! Shoo! you imp! Dod gast the fool who sent that thing!” ‘Sakes alivel!’’ cried Sassy Sue, -‘see the presents people's sent To The World a ‘care of me!’ What a lot they must have spent. “See this little bunch of sticks! Ain’tthey cunnin’! I allows They must be for handin’ licks when you’re drivin’ home the cows, been thinking of ways to mako the schools more useful ; to the people. The playgrounds mean more to the chil- dren of the poor than Newport and Bar Harbor mean to. those of the rich. To close them would be to darken the sky of the east side. We need more of them—we ought to make every school yard and every school building a centre of joyful life. It {s not to be believed that the backward step proposed by the Board of Education will really be taken. The board is trying to frighten us to induce the new authorities to make the necessary appro- priation, but it is to be doubted whether its strategy Is altogether judicious. How to Tell 4 Whena Man |; Is Married. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. | e ae WITH THAT SIFAG A | WONDER IF MY TOOTSIE IS INSIDE SEEING PARSIFAL LONG:LEGGED STIFF! The Important Mr. Pewee, the Great Little Man. oh ot st ot «<n “Parsital’’ Night the Gerry Society Gets Him and Gives Him Some Christmas Cheer. BIG MINNY MAUD Herr Conried Hm can you tell when a man Is ! THINK HE’S A p married, that is, supposing him to | ¢ CROOK- LET HIM Made Good with belo « Jar class of semi- | © « A QUESTION OF EARNESTNESS. ibs eaaarae ahs aa r hae | @ AX, BEWARE - IF HE “Parsifal.” “If New York gves after the National Democratic Con-| the very last thing @ pretty Kirl should | TRYS TO STBAL MY eh is he fact of the! bility? _——_ A vention 1 belleve we in Chicago will have a most dan-| jn iM the fact of thelr inchyluliyt a TOOTSIE, | Tail ns al nee ee "5 7A. A. Goodrich, Cha husband abounds, the question is by no | z Bee Man, gerous rival,” says Mr. A. A Soot h, Chairman of the a n " rts Herein a? Airy th ee) | ‘Parsifal’ performance at the Metropolitan Opera- committee that is preparing Chicago's offer. “Heretofore where the brand seems to| % House made good.” 4 New York has made a perfunctory bid for the convention | be worn exte nally as Well ns upon the } 1. You can “Of course it made good,” answered the Man Higher souls, nothing is less dif and has failed to get it, because its bid was merely the} (oil tue married man by his yearly in up. “They say there was $19,000 in the opening house, % formal sort. I believe at this time that New York's |" A UL DA Ut LITAN and it wouldn't cause me to call anybody a Har that chances are stronger than the chances of any other city,! ra A very husband's face if eer = ee ae owes sere ie bites It ought to make f {f she is really in earnest.” there was one, He doesn’t wear a wed- OPER fi BO with a Bishop, . Parlchurst and preachers all i ding ring, of course. Why should he? over the country knocking {t. That Is the whole point. Are we really In earnest?) i¢ would be very unnecessary on his “I met Major Burke, Tody Hamilton and ‘Whiting It {s not in human nature for a National Committe to be) thls: and the fashion of nose rings Allen, the chief publicity promotors of the Buffalo Bill | uninfluenced by such advantages as ours when they are} backed by reasonable energy. Everything ts # our favor| political strategy, convenience of delegates, hotel | accommodations, attractions for visitors, convenience ot! mewspapers—and all we ueed to do is to work as other clties are working. It looks as if were beginning to do that now. The fund started by The Evening World is growing, the mer-| chants and hotelmen are working, and the theatrical| But the) time is short, and at this stage of the proceedings minutes Managers are promising benefit performances. las gone out. Besides, he is led easily enough without one, But the New York ed man is another story. For ap- tly he only remembers that he ts married when in the society of his mother-in-law, Uptown he may have a very charming wife and perhaps a lit- Ue family to whom he is devoted—in the hours he devotes to them. Down- town there may be a pretty litue girl in his office or another man's whom he likes to take out to luncheon occa- sionally and in other ways to be agree- uble to during office hours, And mid- way between there Is probably a more hing and altogether worldly mi pare or loss little Broadway siren who thinks it ts HERES ANODER YOUSE TO LOOK AFTER > MUDERLESS KID FER & IYYLE BOY HERES A JUMING TACK FROM SANTA CLAUS FOR You. WY eo ov Tiss my and Barnum & Bailey shows, this afternoon, and they were doing a weeping trio. Up to now they have been considered the star theatriaal and general amusement steerers of audiences. After they saw the mob at the Metropolitan Christmas Eve they realized that they were pikers. “This man Conrled has got us beaten to an im« palpable powder,’ said Major Burke. ‘I have seen per- formances boosted in advance in my time by some of the greatest minds in the profession, but never have I gazed upon such an artistic and remunerative piece of work as Herr Conried has pulled off for a Christmas present to himself.’ eae really tov bad thut dear George isn't x “The Major was right—he's always right. Did you rich enough thin yeur to wet tht auto- = WONT ; ] \ notice any lange bills posted up announcing that ‘Par- Usteambont Saltora."—The captain of the Hohenzotlern ae-| Gy enurae, phiis caternelsing. vounk per POOR ITTLE BOY, Qevane | sifal’ would ‘be presented at the Metropolitan Opera- mounces his crew as cowards becauer out of a hundred son may know tat dear Georke. Is Did ‘ov LOSE ‘OOS MATA c—~ [Dory ? ef House? Not on your life! Did you see any paid page portance than he does himself, he may ay) >| you picked up you saw something about religious oppo- JUSTICE FOR A CRIMINAL Tat Have ithoughe lt nesrmeary \to) cone 1) sition, When ministers oppose, the box-office is all to J eval it, < the good. The friends of Mrs. Jennie 1. Van De Water have} so that really there ts only the little “One man who saw ‘Parsifal’ told me it was seven Jearned with the keenest distress that the charges against her have been found by the Committee on Ele- mentary Schools of the Board of Education to have been proved. There seems to be no doubt of the painful facts. This formerly respected school-teacher was gullty of get- ting married, and it cannot be said even that she has shown any repentance. There is good reason to belleve that !f her past could be wiped out she would do the same thing again. Mercy in such a case would be clearly mis- applied. To say that Mrs, Van De Water {s an unusually competent teacher, whose dismissal will be an {rreparable loss to the children, !s absurdly irrelevant not exist to benefit the children, but to carry out the rules of’the Board of Education. “He That Will Not When He May."—Columbia offers to pay 1 per cent. a month for a loan of $000,000. And s might have had ten millions without any interest at a ’ HERESIES FROM A LEGAL BRUTE. Mr, Warren L. Frost earns $7.50 a week and his wife Teachers do| & important married xirl downtown for whom it to be able to tell that a man i when he doesn't tell to his valet 1s the fact that at some time or other every man is likely to be a hero to his stenographer And according w York ethics the hero is not very reprehensible if by any chance he neglects to mention that he already has a duly vertified heroine, who | “ has promised to stalk with him through | the two or three hundred pages of the book of life, in which, alas, but one heroine Is permitted How can this married man be dis-) ered in his matrimony? By what 8, or Epots, shall we know hin? Will young women who have met, and found him out give Hvening 1 readers the benetit of their ex- jee and advice? Just us true as that no man tw a nero} POODODOGY OOOO ? MoeZeNe $ T'TOOTSIE B-B-Boo!! » ee " S — NG FC : YXOGPDODD OD ODO IOGIN POPOOPOVGOQHOH OOOO hours of @ panorama, with intermissions for food, but he hasn't got a musical soul, Mystic symbolism to him {is about the same as a plate of hash. He admits that he isn’t wise to Wagner's curves and says he {s glad of it. The dhances are that the most of the people who attend feel the same way about it, but haven't the pulse to say so.” “The eating time between acts must be a good thing for the food foundries in the neighborhood,” remarked the Cigar Store Man. “Oh, I don’t know,” said the Man Higher Up, “J understand that the enthusiasts carried thelr fodder with them and those who went to be in the swim lost their appetites during the first act.” SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS: Frenoweth, while searching for 4 ded in the sand, a huge tron chest, bound round with a broad band of fron Dead Man’s Rock ## By A. T, * Ay eyes, Colliver drew one more long stgh of satisfied avarice, and Lifted this QUILLER-COVCH @ step forward to the brink and looked. He swas now upon his hands and knees ft ehall treasure {ts infernal loveliness forever. ze Love, Piracy, Buried Gold disappearing from his view; only every now and then he would chatter a few wild words, and with that break off . | : . 1 by. hig father, ty murder arns $12, Mrs. Frost is suing her husband for an allow- ener oan. me and secure! with an enonmous padlock, | Smaller lid, before the chest, bathing his hands in I turned to look at Colliver. He was eat ane we ance of $5 a week, and Mr. Frost insists that his opulent On the musty top I could even inice the Instantly a full rich food of crimson the gleaming heap of gems, catching / huddled against the pit's side, with his ges ei pissin utes or ee a work, - cdg veleomealiodl(o/cayilm’s7) Inteupport oF rudely out inttlala, As‘), theiniiials of Hght welled up, serene and glorious, | them up in handfuls, and as they ran | dark eyes gazing wistfully up at me. 4 eer Cone could be, I this plea the attorney of the husband lays down somo startling doctrines, which stamp him as either a bachelor or a man who has never learned the meaning of fear. ‘A ‘woman can live nicely on $5 a week,"’ says this fool- hardy lawyer. ‘On the other hand, that is too small a um for a man.” He needs a iittle change in his pocket for cigars and cur- reat expenses. A woman needs only her board and clothing. @ud women can get doth on $5 a week. Mr. Frost does not demand all his wife's earnings, although I think In law he 's entitled to them. He 1s very generous and {s willing to let her keep $5 a week for herself. Does a man really need a little change in his pocket for cigars when he is living on his wife's money? Would Jerer’'s daughter, herself. Jan M hand that Colllver haa alread started In search of It He follows and finds Coliiver digwing for the cheat, (Copyrighted 1893 by George Munro's Sona.) (By Permission of George Munro's Sona.) CHAPTER VI Retribution, 7 1B a madman Colliver worked. Bo Amos Trenoweth, my grandfather I held my breath as he drow from ‘us pocket my grandfather's key and Inserted in dt the lock, after first care- fully clearing away the sand. The stud- Worn lock creaked heavily as at last and with difficulty he managed ¢o turn the key. And stil I knelt above him, knife in hand. Thon, with @ long, shuddering sigh, he lifted and threw back ohe groaning Id. We both gazed, and as we gazed were well-nigh blinded. For this {3 what we sew: a blaze of darting rays with luminous shafts of splendor, ¢hat, as we looked, met and concentred in one wiowing heart of flame—met in one translucent, ineffable depth of purple- red, Cam and radiant ic lay there, as though no cunse lay in its deep hollows, no passion had ever fed its fumes with blood; suronger than the centuries, im- perishably and triumphantly eruel—the Great Ruby of Ceylon! With a short gasp of delight Colliver was stretching out his hand toward it, when I laid mine heavily on his #hould- er, then sprang to my feet, My waiting was over. He gave one start of uttermost terror, leaped to his feet and {n an instant was like sparkling rain through his fingers, muttering incoherently to himself and humming wild snatches of song. “Colliver—Simon Colliver!"' ( called. “Oh, yes, | Know you. ‘Trenoweth, of course; Amos Trenoweth come back again after the treasure. But you are too Inte, too late, too late. You are dead ‘ha! dead and rotting.” As he stretched out his hand over the Great Ruby, I caught him by the wrist. But he was too quick for me, and with a sharp snarl and click of his teeth, had whipped his hand round to his back, ‘Then, in a flash, as I grappled with In their shining depths there lurked no more sanity than in the heart of the As I looked I knew him Great Ruby, to be a hopeless madman, also that my revenge had slipped from We were still standing 80 me forever. when a soft wave came took my companton'’s hand, ted him up the sands beyond Ngh-water mark, and then rat down beslav him, waiting for the dawn, And there, next morning, by Dent Man's Rock, they found us, while across the beach came the faint muslo of vil- tage church bells as they rang thelr and knew | ealing up the beach and flung the Ups of its foam over the plt's edge into the chest. I turned round, The tide was rising f and in a minute or so would be upon us, Catching Colliver by the shoulder I pointed and tried to make him under- stand; but the maniac had again fallen to playing with the jewels. I shook him; he did not stir, only sat there jab- Christmas peal, “Peace on earth and good-will toward men.” If the reader's Jeeta htm sion, enter the growin’ set apart rivate patients, ‘There he may 0 seo & strange alght. On a garden seat against the sunny wall sit two persons—a man and @ wom 4 + that even crom where + stood I the moon seamed, - | him, he (rum me back with ‘his left | bering and singing, And now wavo after 1% not be better in such cases to let the wife buy the A, could hear his breath coming hard | SParkled, and shot out a myrind scin- facing me, Already his knife was be palm, and, with a-sweep of hie night, | pee deal splashing over va, soaking ns pen unna ie osc able re i cigars and hand them out at her discretion? Might not| and fast. At length, with one last Cee eee aeearl Cirumeoe area sey | TPO foie Mace aps Pe hurled the groat Jewel fr out tnto the | yy through and hissing in phosphores- | years off) But the woman, ax the, ieeap- ) . e around elt dow: q green, pes on, , wh sea. saw it rise and curve In one > gel ers will ‘tell, ninety. She is this tend to discourage the demoralizing tobacco habit?) glance around, he knelt down and dia- | me alazding there above) hin: cent pools among the gems. mother, and ‘as they elt. together ene And what about the wife's need of change for ice- ream soda and matinee tickets? Can a woman live on appeared from my view My ume was come, Knife in hand, 1 softly clambered degrees I saw that all these flashing hues came from one jumbled heap of gems—some large, some small. but to- gether in valug beyond a King's ran- ‘Then as 1 still watched, with murder- ous purpose on my face, there came one awful cry, a scream that startled the long, sparkling arch of flame, then fall with a dropping Ine of fire down Into the billows. A splash, a jet of light, and {t was gone; gone perhaps to hide. | ‘There was no time to be lost. I tore the madman back, stamped down the lid, locked it and took out the key, then feeds him with sweets and fruit as deriy as though he wet, @ chiid. 2 when he has had enough ' 2 ‘board an meee pel ae eee kind ee oer ees down the south side of the rock and | gom, | gulls trom slumber and awoke echo at- amid the rotting timbers of what was | caught Colliver in my arms and heaved | and walks away humm! ng (9 es am “that wouldn't even buy an opera gown on gt Fopped peur Be sud | The chest menmired some 5 feat by a, | ter echo along the shore—a cream like | once my father’s ship, or among tho | him bnilliy out of the trench, Jumping | Cornish village. She Mes buried bea! Bit plan, and you couldn't expect her to wear) ¢,. 007 BELOW me. within grasp, he | and the jewels evdently lay ina kind of | no sound In earth or Neaven-a cream | ones of her drowned crew to watch | out beeide him I caught up the spade, | ray father and mother in the ttle that. ; wat, his back ‘alll turned: toward me. sunken drawer, or tray, of tron. In the | inhuman and appalling, ‘Then followed | with {ta Olood-red, tireless eye the ex- | and shovelled back the wet sand as fast | church-sard there, Above her The moon was full in front, so that It ee ganattes nt ~~ aa bce aN cust no shadow of me across him. There ‘he sat and in from of bim tay, imbed- comer of this was a small space of about 4 inches equare, covered with ‘an tom id, As we gazed with ajraining ; fom i 4 silence, and, as the last echo died away, he fell, * tremity of ita handiwork. There, for |. @gught I know, it Hes to-day, and there Gees Kas al ns J could until the tide drove us back. , Colliver stood quite tamely beside me ‘ her head, mr |