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% Second ayenta claar smoke into his face.” © oad Bone Pitan! an PPFFOR 2 full minute Royce Ballard sat fablished by the Press Publishing Company, No. 8 to @) Park Row, New York. Wntered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. oa VOLUME 44......... sees Number of columns of advertising in The _ a | | Evening World in March, 1904.. 1, 50134 | Number of columns of advertising in The Al } Evening World in March, 1903,...,. 1,03214 INCREASE,, York EVER carried in regular editions in any one month such a volume of display advertising as The Evening World carried in March, 1904. bn. | By Martin Green. Harburger’s Grouch Against Commissioner McAdoo.| SE! said the Cigar Store Man, “that Julius Harburger is making a holler hecause he can't sit on Commissioner McAdoo's desk and blow “ | “Julius don't seem to be hep that the city is being run under a new set of rules,” remarked the Man Higher Up. “The old collar-and-elbow method has been given the slide. The people who are running Tammany Hall now are wise to the proposition that letting the district leaders run the city fs what has made the periods of ammany control so varionsly periadical . “Maybe Julius would like to see the old days when a Alstrict leader could sit on the bench with a Magistrate and steer the course of the court; maybe he would Nke fo seo the return of the day when a district leader could fo to the Cominissioners of Police and demand the! transfer or :emoval «f a cop with a cinch chence of getting the demand granted. If he wonld Ike to sca! those days again it is a sign Mat he desires the present Tammany administration to take a hemorrhage a yi from next fail and be run to the bone yard ‘f "You notice that Julius sevs that it is a sid thing, for a district leader to co te n department for patronage and have to sit out in the ante-room for a eouple of hours, If he didn't like the way McAdoo is running the Police Department with respect to district leaders, whi did he invite McAdoo over to his meeting and advertics that he would msie a speech? [f McAdoo is such a bloomer, it is funny that Julius should w to listen to him. “Tim Sullivan ought to call Julius down to the Bowery and give him a couple of rehearsals. ‘Vhings are not going the way Sullivan would like to see them go, ‘but you din’t hear him make anv yammer, and he hae had a line of political experience that makes tha ¢ of Julius Harburger look like a cou training school. Everybody knoy ser, and he has our symp inst looking for patro: out to throw the boots into.the to remember that dis distric corner of Greater New York.” “There covms to be quite a lot of dissatisfaction with Tammany’s policy of liberality toward {ts enomies,” | ruggested the Cigar Store Man sah “Weil,” agreed the Man Higher Up. “it does took al little on the white rabbit to see Tanimany Hall inviting Webster Mavis, whu \ cted Mayor of Kansas City onan A. P. A. ticket ¢ ago, to give it political aat his people Areer ina manual Harburger ts a thy in the frost he Rr. init when he goes (ministration he ought udyter Smallest Soldier. The smatiest con wt the latest drawing for it fn the Froneh Army wos Jounnes Chabaud, of Verpiitiore His height Is 2 feet 11 inches and he ghs 67 1-2 pounds His age is twenty-one Most Artistic Stamps, Japanesy fn the wor At present few rare on paid for one betes postage There Jan gre amps are rated as the mi demand for them | maps were issin in 1871 st price ever known to have deen iv an extremely smal °* admir most sought # THE # EVENING AES DEED AD Why 00 You PAY ~ b RENT WHEN, WITH A tf LITTLE ALAMAGOOZLUM, $ CHOP SUEY AND A 4 a « & The Telephone Girl and Matrimony By Nixola Greeley - Smith. A tern newn- paper is. authority for that of all great army of em- ployed women the little telephone girl has the best chance of matri- mony. It given as A rea- son for tha marked preference ¢xhib- ited by the mar- viageable young man for the “hello” girl the fact that she who goes Into an office to answer valix at the switchboard often does #9 directly fvom her own home and ts hereforn “fresh, pretuy and absolutely lnspolled by business Ufe."* ry York ~o stutistics have been red which could determine whether the presiding geniuses of our switch- the ords do indeed meet with greater rimonial favor than the giri ste- rapher or cashter But. 1f she does, the reason for her sie has cast about professi her by her very \ whot is suid to be the great- vet enarm of womankind—that of mys- tery The stenographer ts acen every near 1 the men with whom she! mes in contuet However retty, she is apt to become tn tie eyes uf those | Whe see her daily a mere office txt Nev Acquaintanve Is Hmited to the ephone girl, on the 4 ver mites addy sally and ts addressed wand per a pleastog she excites the curiosity and interest man enks Lo her, The very fact that she caunot be seen adds to her charm, for she is left aito- wether Imagination of ver ad- mirer, and imagination is always kinder than niture Women generally do not realize this In appe: they’ str whos to the * Kool point, like prett which he would ap) wuch more if he were left to discover has tine eyes learns ogle every tim . direction, and by he of fre- ion she wi the clon suftices her, the statement | J not be far to seek, for | 2 | | OH -SIR-I CccouLpNt! KEEP |T YERSELF) LEAVE 'T IN 4 ENVELLUP FER ME WHEN YER I never TooK A_PORE MAN‘S LAST CENT IN ME LIFE} To-day’s $5 Frize ‘* Fudge’’ Idiotorial Was Written PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for to-day, $1 paid for each: + LAUGHTON, of Westwood, N. J.; No, 3—J. B. ALLAIRE, No. 261 West 44th street, New York City. TAL CHORD; Dies! he Great and Only Mr. Peewee. = PtOOOOObOO IPE EER TTTTEOTE TET NOWDWVEDTTINTIT: 7 : The Rapidtoodleum Solves the High-Rent Probtem You CAN PRODUCE NT GAFIOTOODLEHURST Wow WATCH CLOSELY) BY THE SEAL 4 TENT LARGE ENOUGH. FOR THE OMmA DOWN AND a WHOLE Farany I ae Lock vs OVER! Mr. Peewee, Like Carnegie, Doesn’t Want to Die Rich. Your RASCAL! You \ LOAFING Scum! HOw DARE You = x ea WE THINK UP OUR WAR NEW THE EVENING FUDGE Plato’s Sagacity, Our Veraclty, § and our Readers’ Simplicity. Which in a Measure Explains Our Frightful Circulation. Copyrot, 1904, by the Planet Pub. Co. think It will RAIN to-day?” either case I'll have the umbrella.”* an Idiotorlal on this thrilling topic: before he should PROPOSE to her daughter?” Sweet dreams tll) we mect again! o To-Morroy Th ee aa had ts worth {t, Shall we foin the B Alt t Pp crowd that are congratulating him? y Albert Payson Terhune. ie oa. stepwed ‘inraui halt cael Cate a, Avawn porticres, but snrank back with a little gas: 2 fale ate OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. . sent. I carry tt with me all the time, “What's The matter?” asked Royce, Lilieh during a meaicate ci Paul coadtocics There® fo ovidence that will let them |unensily, ‘apartments in Carnegio Hall arrest ine search my clothes, But “Way man's feaning against the parently supernatusal even ny Ulird-rate detective-yes, or any] Wail rleht by the edge of the bay win- Geath. Polson table’ woman with a grudge against me, for | dow, two yards of us? How e that matter-might gain ac }much do 1 suppose} 2 ot rooms in my absence and ft _ | thought ry one was ac room where I was wise.” nearer the plano, To'enun, “YOU say no one had evidence against | Royce litted a corner of the portlere nN to rel! we} vou that could warrant you. urrert? | in the «i jon she indicated a ok tetin | How about me?" & long look at the man, ‘Then he dropped pin) “I didn't know aut to-night that you| the curtain with a algh of roliel had any xnowledge of the’ —— It's only that stupid lishman, sae. stone fall on Royce | “YOU Know tt now, My dear Royce, hal hia NValtias Back with si triaga Yraitara, with me for an en aeacontemptucisly He's lean- reread man, owing 40 an overhenrd conver tween Rorce [a millionaire. The a plain gold 1 CHAPTER TV, On the Tratl, sullenty, A snarl of Irrepress: vou a dog's life, 1 /@s though paralyzed by tiip news he‘had just heard. n he spoke it was tn so low a tone ful union, I—" With me for an ally 3 against!— “You have conquered,” “I'll marry you. B: Til take my chances on that, Royce. [moments later his volce| The woman who can make vou cringe 4 before her and agree to marry her can take pretty good care of herself after- knew that! ward. They're applauding. emy vou are lost. are safe and of my alll A wife can. there with price ring. jis savage breast’ he growled, * with to understand us." ible rage, ‘1 make vou curse! he was, Nn: Watts te | Yo Who “AN I'm really] Aide. Beckwith Englishman quatatunce with Beckwith on the other) breast pocke. of his coat or his walst- he wes him something, for hu takes bis’ Tesearchamsinto Can he have been Is 1 lead pretended to be asleep? 6 he'd have moved awa the day vou forced me into this hate-|the mecond we discovered he was there. | | ‘a negiigible quantity.’ ‘© sure? He guve me a ascnre, she, anyway”? Ns eyes shut h open and his silly head nodding, | sic’s charms seem to have slumber. era been awake he ween't enough se: who seems the” talc we've = just! everswhare,:dven in his. and his ‘soothed Even it scraped to think or, the Bafling Mystery of the tng while he | was merely a torn envelope he glanced | 24 he refused to permit such {ntrus ¥ | caretessl | nee Sia; brother's, murder, = It. No. 1--F. M. HADSELL, No. 145 High street, Brooklyn; No. Prize ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotorial Gook, ‘‘The Russo-Japanese War Must Stop.” Doe One day, as PLATO was emerging from a get-full-quick res- H taurant, 2 pupil of Ms stopped him = 2 and sald: “Master, as I saw you going in without an UMBRELLA, and seelng you come out with onc, leads me to ask whether you To which Plato replied: “If it rains, we will have rain; if It DOESN'T, we won't; in That's the way with our CIRCULATION; if we have it, we have it, and nobody KNOWS It, and if we don't, why NOBODY cares, The EVENING FUDGE guesses its own circulation every day, and some day, like the “How MUCH must a young man owe his Jandlady. , Street, N. Y, City, 2—CHARLES C.° DODD OEHO9HOSHHO00O99600009O9OO 3600000000000 WHEN THE LANDLORD: 1 RAISE THE RENT, THEN THR TENANTS ARISE THE TANT! Tat ENS 5 PDPRDDDDOODHD®: DOOOOS-~ . 3 {Mrs.Naggand Mr.---, By Roy L. McCardell. o ‘Why don't you point’him’ out to me? “Wy HICH 1s Smoot. the Mormon Senator? ‘0 don't care how anxious I am to see Senator Smoot. “You do not know him?, Oh, Mr. Nagg. do not attempt to deceive me. I try to please you in everything. I never criticise, I never contradict you, do I? Don't you dare say 1 do! I do not! I can prove it by mamma and my little brother Willie. They will take my part. “I know what 1s !n your mind. I know why yeu are hiding this man Smoot from me! “You are plotting to be a Mormon. see me your toy and plaything, a nonenity in your hous your other wives, as Tam for you! “You think because you have in me a meek, patient, suf- fering, uncomplaining woman that you could «et a dozen others to terrorize over. “But other women would not keep silent aa % do. Then perhaps. after I was dead, you would miss my gentle emile and quiet way. } “No. Mr. Nage. You would get wives who would not put - up with what I do. ‘ “They would not be silent, smiling martyrs. They would show you! They would scold and scold, and jaw and Jew, and fuss and fuss, and row and quarrel with you til you would wish you were never married. ; “Go, Mr. Nagg; be a Morman elder. Break the hearts of other women as you break fine, but do not stand by my side Jeering at mg and taunting me with your Jntomous boasts that you know Senator Smoot and thet you intend }tg be a .sormon, too. “You never thought of such a thing, you say? “How do L know what you think? “But do not stdnd here quarrelling with me about’ the Marmons. “That {s Senator Frye in the chair, you say? “What do T care who is in the chalr? You would not give me any information if I begged for it on my knees! “This is the House of Representatives? Oh, thank you, put I'm not a dummy, T know that much! nn {s that speaking? Congressman Sulzer? And thad ts Congressman Goldfogle? Isn't he cute? y “That's Congressman Bennings leaving; he is going out to Bennings to the races, you say? ‘ “Why don't you take me to the races? “ ver thought of It, you say? aiaaee ya fidn't. ‘You never think of anything to make me happy. when all T think of Is to please you and to be loving. kind and patient! “We are going to the White Houss: you say? Please nywhere else, I am so tired. done ee “hall we go now? Anywhere I ike? Why, [ want to seo everything, But never mind now! You have taken ail tne pleasure fron my tip by your tndifference and neglect. “Why did yo arl at me? oooh, I wish T were dead! Let me die You would ike to for u drag me along to taunt me and to jeer and ; Ife has no interest I want to go to Harvey's for some steamed «/ Nass, T am as hungry ae a ‘And at once, sir; at once. <7 The Laziest People. n exaggeration to say that the Coreans are 1 day long they He about thé y fs a alx- ing their gigantic pipes. A native pipe ‘of bamboo with a metal bowl, and ts carried the neckband and down the trouser leg. All work vho occupy ‘early every kind Is done by the women, w perhaps the most degraded porition held by the sex of any Mation, The unfortunate female population is collectively @ ©} | feast of burden and dented even the most elementary recog- 5 (tion as human beings. A Corean girl has no name: she ts Merely. known ax “Daughter of So-and-so,” her father, It is hardly a the laziest people on earth. Al streets smok foot length tucked into Carnegie Hall Murder. q “4 and find what this secret is. gt the canse of Cyril's death,” jin London there are a dozen of my aa-|rooms since Ballard had fallen dead) Beckwith as the two detectives walked tae ‘be the chemical formula for the e “Ia Mr. Beckwith on that case? — | gistants who could help me get pos-| there, and that thetr careless footprints | homeward down Fifth avenue late that) poisqn, Tb may be some of the pols “Yes. He is always meddling In other| session of It. As it is, “this stupa | had doubtless blotced out ail sigmucant | night, Healt LG mayne seas incriminating peoples’ affair » iy his Idotic| Watts fellow” may possibly outwit the | es of tha crime’s origin and or-| «tres the sort of man who stands) TE a oer” cea) eo canoe nickrame of Millionaire Detec-| the clever Mr. Royce Balle | tor head and shoulders above the aveT@8%"" [any marks of poison in the body, an: tives 1 suppo Phero's nothing to) | Fer some tin | Moreover, there neemed, in view Of | inawered Beckwith. “In times of Panic those mysterious brown, tablets, when tr from him) No more than fram this/ had been qui such probable obliteration, no absol Or trouble the rest flock to him lke | anal ved, contained, no known | “leo! x stupid Watts. fel Introduced by Beckwith ish [necessity for such a search. Yet frightened children to a father. He pet Rn Ow te to my. laboratory The “stupid Watts fellow" meanwhile! friend who was Interested Linglisiman wos resolved at the Aret | 45 good nerves, cov, to sicep in that | NY endon for certain tests, of ris) own ertdualy awoke from hts. doze American methods of deter Mi opportunity to make it, Though place ater the awful ‘tragedy (hat hap- | invention which [ mean to apply to ia Pont Alls dere Ane irae Paria st ch passing day made bend there, Wapecialiy ater the seem-' thyea tablets, The tests. should ba overs to where V Rickerl! he had accompanied the "Millionatre | , nd 1081Y superhuman events that accom-| here Ina tew days. 1 flatter myselt the plano, While seemingly] Detective’ on the latter's investiga | & more and | vunied tt. By the way, have you formed! that they will lay bare the most subt} | ; ; more unlikely, he was determined to! any theory to account for that Instant / pen’ Whon find ithe nature 0 CO BERG La Che milslentidiaalig= | Goh ant naLye iste. case -* inake me, such a thorough mi- | of uiter darkness and the crashing out | fre" pojson Twill algo know ith effects, 1 going on there, he did not fall} ined fully the body, a’ for crosco! atigation of the apartment} Of, that one loud chord from’ Che Ginen Lat ewill. be RB. seer, nesrer kn note that Rova Pittant and Royce| Craddock would permit, the surreund-\ 45 his soul craved 1PitNoe. vat!’ ahewered The. Eingllal- [ave Sne body genumed AAT see te emerged from the bay window and! ings Jn the latter's apartment at 75% mane’ Sue gw Not het on | suspicions, are corteer vill, be to one fh ‘ i , fF f With this object in view he had gedu- Hage DY were and far simpler course: will be to ob- had Joined the other « Voking an] negie Hall, w me had Veen | isygty cultivared Craddock's. acauaint.| amgther trail T_ should have, formed | iin the paper or whatever It is that envelope from his pocke he is ri ere, lor ou ted iC heory un a ck he carries nit nvelope from his pock: English- | comin ed. Her he for certain conditions 1 Ballard says ¥ ance, ‘fo most of the people who\ had met him through Beckwith The Eng- | * 'iishman seemed uninterestin, ed jsorbed and somewhat stupid. Rallard,” he sald, | “@ Kang of thief-takers prowling QboUt) agoK, However, who saw far deeper into) © man quietly tore off the superscription | count and able and. stepping near to Rovce, let the! obstacle envelope fall to the Moor. Craddock had calmly refused to have “Excuse me, Mr. 2 an unexpscted Crad- Pallurd’s body and self-ab- | overlook: ! A Wonderful Detective Story noted about) Royce whieh the police | 82 ‘ tors alike seems to Shave | 6, get But that theory 50 rly improbable—and be- ides, I hal no chance to verify it by ‘And that Is what | am going nd te “But how?” “Gresham can get me a biank ware rant, and I fancy I ean make up i ” 1 5 ‘tly Well as a detect! ttooping to pick it up. “hut T think! his rooms," as he termed It. Any | human nature than did those about him.|Bngar_ “xemination of the room, | ACCT Nel Youtg arrest him on, gon‘ vent hive dropped something, veg] TMORABIE tnveatigation, “ho sald, bo! Yeag Dr. Watts” differently, He aaw| “Would vou, mind toting’ me the| trumped-up, fake charge” and” 0 Royee niade an Involuntary woward | would permit with plenaure, But he! the tremendous energy, tho keen, ana-| nature of this ‘wild theory’ you at first) through Fis clothea ooh sy of the right hand toward his The Bnelishman were much together. sions, |. Tho grent dotective, Tae Engl'shman, by admitting that! keenly Interested in Qraddock. Here he was a eetective, might, of course, ! w nun who, with all hts great pow- have obtained the necessary permis-; ers of deductiop, The Englishman could sion from the authoritier. e dit} not make out. Subtle, brilliant, honor- at tt and sald: No. It isn't mine." “Good!” murmured Tae Englishmas o himsele “This ‘something’ that ha ‘carves with him all the time’ for feer unnecessarily. He knew that dozens of complicated charact had tramnedmhoutiCraddock's Chua. Indesd, be anit wk formed clues that may interest you. n his part, was ‘of Royo evening, some strong hi No, no clothes, They'd do that at the ner~ movemen saw no reascn why measurements. ra!-!tyticnl mind beneath the dimdent ex-| t own breast pocket; then, seeing that! croscopte examinations, &c., shon'd be! terior, and he felt an unwonted attrac rN oe gnu the aftate E bivad. | intionchonne. to which I. brought him, | what The Englishman had picked UP) made. The law did not demand them | tion toward the famous sleuth, He and| Then il tell you of any of my falne| id examine the papers. And F had she In tho ante ‘Put it's illegal. It's"—— «When you're dealing with a aout i) ‘he probs ities are in favor crime on our friend you must meet him on his own grount if you hope to win. To-morrow Y et the warrant and put my lit fro execution. May I count on your lard, as expected. ‘Briety he recounted the events of the "This PEARL Buh he finished, “has id over Ballard! As I proot of Its being discovered ts in the left| not: choose to jeopard his future suce | ./i! ‘omptuoun uf hig ,fellaw: ny ‘o'jt, she—and. she alone—hi hot?" able, eonieun 5. A Sif ahy other man asked it I'd an wa sig Sati |e tge” eas, ws henna to A Bh A Rs en, St sf 5 ow to get at it? And what/ Incognito of “Dr. Joseph Watt’: y ©. ‘Tus be lad sized up Craddock’ | Of fhe! : A evel 4 % zh. [im it? “Whatever it ta it lias bearing’ on Herpihisy tons Pie | ts ‘ ey RY Fear pits A, J Ree ree ee se | WORLD'S # HOME # MAGAZINE. 2, |