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) “alff beneficiaries of coal hed by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 63 Wark Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. VOLUME GB cc eeee cebeeseesesesNO, 15,620. The Girl Who Marries Before 21. | By other paper. day’s news: On.the one hand there lay the bodies of ten dead They are the martyrs in the production of coal. On the other hand there stretch away millions on millions of 'men, women and children. Some millions of these have been suffering acutely for years through | cold'and the difficulty in cooking what food they have had; Owing to the prohibitive price of coal. more ‘millions have been suffering indirectly through | neaven-sen the abnormal prices of all those comforts and necessi-| “74 read about for many years. And ~ ties for the production of which coal is indispensable, - from the clothes on their backs to the shoes on their) afterwara. feet. These are victims of the consumption of coal. ‘Atid between the ten dead bodies on the one hand and the millions of living bodies on the other what They were cozl miners in the Williamstown colliery ‘. Pennsylvania. tunfil which joins their mine with the “breaker,” and there they were suffocated by the fumes of the engine which ‘drew their train, dying miserably like rats in a is there? posed regulation by various pertinent queries: Js he not entirely within his rights in refusing to move from the seat which his alertness has secured him SS and te which it entitles him? COURTSHIP IS TAUGHT. Is there any rule of law or ethies or custom whieh! 7, training school in courtship, obligates a first comer, a “sooner” as Oklahoma would all hiin, to surrender to a late comer the fruits of his Vigilant previousness? { _The time-honored American practice has been to yest in the man who gets in on the ground floor full and valid title to the possession so acquired. Why, with the abundant opportunity offered, does not the legisiating Aldermanic mind turn to higher themes? Ifthe board Has power to order a car to stop on the near or far side, as suits the whim of the moment; if If has jurisdiction over the conduct of passengers, |pline. No barred windows and tinkling why cannot St concern itself with and remedy some of the real abuses of street car traffic? Why wasto its powder on birdshot when so much Wigggr came awaits its attack? WOMEN AND WALL STREET. The individual “woman in Wall street” ts a not in- frequent feature of the news. | the assignee of a woman's stock-gambling “pool” to ) _ recover for losses reveals a development of the specit- lative fistinct among the sex which will be viewed with - concern. They seem to have progressed from being the passive dupes’ of the ocasional promoter or the wild-cat mise swindler to a point where they become the active agents‘of their own financial undoing. This pool appears to have come to grief in “Steel Men who burned their fingers in the fame flame can offer reproof with au ill grace, * But unquestionably the woman speculator in risking} her small savings on the gambler’s chance of a turn in the market is not only virtually throwing them to the winds, Lut she is inviting an ine will. require all her fortitude to sustain The odds are all aguinst her. ‘will be a successful woman speculator, and the further @ woman removes herself from the safety of trust funds and low-interest investments the greater will be her risk of ultimate destitution. THE RUTHLESS THIRTEEN. An i.owisville, Ky., a professor asked his graduating \ elags of fifteen young women to promise him that they wuld not marry till they reached the age of twenty- $. Out of the fifteen, thirteen indignantly refused. ‘hey did not want to he hound for three long years 4 eave the sterner eex in immunity. hey did not wish to venture among men without the owing weapon of matrimony. 9 they were justified in refusing thelr professor's rasomable request. what about the two young ladles who did not y Why, just a small group of comfortable gentlemen ~ who, without regard'to the natural laws of supply and ‘ id, or any other laws that they can safely ignore, NS itrarily fix the price of coal, not on a basis to insure} ~ 4 fair profit to fitly equipped, legitimately organized - and capably managed mines, but on a basis to wring an unreasonable profit for the most antiquated, inflated and speculative of their properties. But who are these comfortable gentlemen who stand between the martyrs of coal production and the victims of coal consumption? A hy ty What rendered them so merciful to man? made them forego the pleasure of the chase, ire, the joy of the kill? deny themselves not only the ex- thrill of the cay _ operators! THE “END SEAT" ORDINANCE. The surface car “‘end-seat hog” is generally and de- » gervedly unpopular; public opinion by a majority of four to one heartily disapproves of him. Yet his pro- Aldermanic ordinance opens up common” at forty. t made of, Leads All the Rest. During Jeruary, February, March and April of this year The Evening World - carried 5087 columns of paid dis- | play advertising. "Wo other New York paper equalled this showing. ‘The increase over The Evening World's own record for the corresponding four months of 1903 was 1270% columns—more than twice the gain made by any A PICTURE. There was a picture of striking contrasts in yester- UT of fifteen| || | Nixola Greeley-Smith. graduating class in Loutsville, Ky., asked by tho el of their school to pledgo themselves mot :c marry until tney had reached tho age of twenty-ona, thirteen resolutely declined to do so if matrimony was thelr aim tn life. And they were wise In their generation. ‘The late Ward McAllister, in his Inte book on “Society as I Have Found It,” gave as his earnest opinion that a The Great and Only Mr. Peewee. Mr. Peewee Discourses THE » EVENING # WORLD'S # HOME # MAGAZINE. on the Hot Weather. young girl should marry in her first season, for the reason that the pro- posnis she recelved then were apt to bo the best she would ever get The truth of this statement ts more than doubiful, for a woman rarely reaches the zenith of her charm before twenty-five. But while she Js apt to be more pleasing nfter she has attained her majority, she Is far more easily Pleased before she reaches it, At elghtech the average girl is ready to fall In love with almoat anything that comes along. And she is perfectly sure that falling in love with a man is rea- son enough for marrying him. If she wanders along a moonlit beach or sits in the stern of a rowboat under ro- i mantic circumstances with a young! ||| Many man who Is properly attentive she is very apt to believe that he ts the t hero that she has dreamed They were caught in a she continues to belleve it until she ; marries him, and even for a little white ‘The girl over twenty-one knows, on the contrary, that Just because she likes to Inger on a hotel plazza with a stal- wart young person more or less roman- teally Inclined, and discuss the witeh- Ing effect of moonlight on the water and other topics of leas general Inter- eat, It does not necessarily mean that she would care to face him at break- fast for the rest of her natural life, | The girl over twenty-one Is critical, fay. Udious, hard to please, She doesn't take her emotions for granted any longer, She Is not sure, as sho was at sixteen. that she Is destined to love madly, pas- slonately, forever. In fact, she rather hopes she tsn't, And sometimes she assumes a cynical, sophistical attitude toward men which STHIS 1S CHILL iG Hor ENou: FoR Y DEAR FELLO OMPARED ITH THE ENCED IN 7 ‘ou 1s STILL ON ‘a not apt to endear her to them, nor increase her chances of marriage. Of course there are some women who, when they begin to near thirty, and face the narrowing vista of old maiden- hood, got frightened and indulge In an undignified scrambie for husbands, But there are also many who by the time they have passed twenty-five have be- come wedded to ‘the independence of 1 detached state, aml have realized that wille she who marries may be oc- easionally happier, she who does not marry is, as a rule, more generally contented. And it takes a great deal to make | them ahange ulelr minds. Why, these are the extortion—the distinguished which ts one of the institutions In the Salvation Army, has no counterpart tn any other organization in the world Indeed, it Is so far removed from the ordinary that it 1s entitled to be de- seribed with that’ much abused and misused adsective “unique.” There are three training schools in thls country New York, Chicago and San Francisco ~and lovemaking ts conducted by rule and regulation. Cortship is carried on in accordance with prescribed discl- soni new eae gultars, as in Spain, for Sulvation Army lovers. No clandestine meetings, and no rope ladders, with fleet horses waiting at the lower rung, while Romeo carries his Jullet from her prison bod chamber, All the courting Is done In public—that {s to say, in the presence of other members of the army. Strangely enough, the girls appear to lke these extraordinary rules. ——————— katt “I fre Phe But Miss Clark's sult as the PURPLE LILACS. A pretty maiden rose one day Ere dawn began to glow, And in the amber brook washed out Her lac ceiico, All In the morning and the dew A youth came riding by, And saw her on a tall green bush Hang up the dress to dry RYp ta Jan A look, w kins, a word, away | They went by tower and town, She followed him across the sea, And so forgot her gown, Look yonder by the garden gate, te Its flowery purple, see, ais Is hanging where she left it yer, Naw Upon the lilac tree, Minna Irving In LAppincott’s. bre | A itavle loss which it There never was or| To: prison bare. “A brief xrown paler and paler, now withdrew her hand as though from some loath- Wh sald to M it Mason's woodland, barred “He Your Honor,” PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for to-day, $1 paid for each: FLEMING, No. 343 Fifth avenue, N. Y. City; No. 3—JOHN DUNN, No. 409 West Twenty-fourth. st, N. Y. City. IN NY coo ABLE The Mosquito Made Harmless. Red Ink Will Reduce His Thirst for Hu Blood. hanet Pub. Co keeping philosophers AWAKE at night ever since their advent upon earth, It has remained for the Editor the problem, He has proved by long and diligent ex. periment that by holding their bills ‘Come to think It {s blood, and by holding them there long enough they become so GLUTTED on horror of blood ever afterward. + We had a DETECTIVE watch a mosquito thus treated. He followed him over the Jersey Meadows all ‘seagon, and he would not even go near a blood orange. STRANGE that Plato, Aristotle, the petulant Jerome NEVER thought of this before. We Will immediately recommend our DISCOVERY to the Board of Health of Jersey City, as bis remedy cannot be charged with cruelty to animals. hey thus have an ADVANTAGE over those unfecling H people who truculently propose to EXTERMINATE one of the species which Noah took into the Ark, i ‘We shudder at the horror-laden Idea! Hi Course JI CAN STAND ( BETTER THAN (no ComFort— : BUT,OF IT Much Eurekat AT LAST we have it. How to render MOSQUITOES harmless has been of Fudge to SOLVE in RED INK they It that they have a Spencer and even any one who uses Depew’s Advice to Young Men Is Populated with Flaws. 66 ¥ SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that Senator ] Depew advises young men to keep out of the administrative departments of the Government and the cities.” “T’ve heard Government clerks say the same thing,” replied The Man Higher Up, ‘‘but all the same they hang on to their jobs like barnacles to a battle-ship. The hardest proposition in the world 1s to pry a clerk in & Government or city job out of his license to a place im Ine at the cashier's window. “The estimable Senator seems to have framed it up that the young man of to-day can pick any jot he wants after he gets past the barrier on the race track of life. ‘The fact is, that unless a young man has a pull he has to take the best he can get at the start, and after he gets planted in a job he knows the difficulty of getting another and wisely concludes to stick. The young man who is gifted by nature with extraordinary application or talent will rise out of his early environment in spite of all handicaps. The others will be the pluggers. “A slob always holds to his level and the most of us are slobs. Tpis thing'of saying that any young man can rise to wealth or eminence is talk fit only for the supper table in a bug-house. Men are like race horses. There are stake performers, selling-platers and skates, with the skates in the vast majority. Unless a male baby gets a free gitt of a good brain or sufficient gall to make up for the lack of brain his chance of getting to the front when he gets old enough to shave is diminutive.” “Honesty and sobriety go a long way in making suo cess for a young man,” asserted the Cigar Store Man. “You may be right,” replied The Man Higher Up, “pbht you will find that the honestest and soberest men are generally locking for theirs.” Mrs. Nagg and Mr. -- By Roy L. McCardeil. Gof) He Mr Nags, how can you go around such weather as 0 this wearing your heavy flannels? We have had no spring. It 1s just a Jump from cold weather to hot, and the humidity has me nearly dead, “I would not mind it so much, but to see you sitting there! grinning at me, wearing your winter flannels and yet looks! ing cool as a cucumber, is just aggravating to me and ® can’t stand {t, Mr. Nagg, I can’t stand tt! “I am not the sort of woman who files to pieces and finds faudt with Httle things. I put up with a great deal, as you know. But I simply can't stand this warm weather, ar it {s all your fault. “How is it your fault, you say? No. 1—JOSEPH WHITE, No. 438 Broome street, N. Y. City; -Day's Pine “‘Fudge’” Idiotorial Was Written by Blaine McCollum, No. 397 Willis Avenue, New York City. No, 2—JACK To-Morrow’s Prize ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotorial Gook, by a Woman, ‘‘Lon’t Judge Fudge by Its Smudge.” Great tay Woman’s Sacrifice. “uck Willi Face to Face, and grewsome ne reptile, Ke and ‘Tor tn bewilderr ring Ji hy othy sit all mean?” phophecy mmy stared ment, cump {and cane forward ND here is the bride's face be- hind prison bars, kypsy in a still lower tone, Mrs, Mason, whose cheeks during this had ated the As soon as the two ladies were out of at asked the I didn’t cateh what the woman na Khost." mise wouldn't have ho toned or anne oso KYpsies are tres Let Mrs. for m off the premises,” ied with this pay encampment, 8c fellow, path, gigantic thelr OU BYPSY. ullying ton. oa . Mason, but whatever it was made her look as ,htough she had able hag!" growled Jack, Mason 90 anything, pasing on Arthur go and order ble Idea, the two collegians started toward the wood with the avowed intention of breaking up the had they entered tho shadows of the trees when roughly dressed, Although garishly attired as the fortune-teller, he | was easily recognizable as a Romany. — began Juck in As the young man svoke | the intruder put his hand quickly to his not so pocket as though to draw a revolver, » two colleglans mad uk for the neares puting. Lust yell of sa. thy man caus ir Might and to ty ard him. This is our dea t “Don't shoot!"* astle Inughter from the em to stop in shamefi Slowly from his hip pocket {the blz man drew out a sheet of paper, rmit from Mr, Mason, he said civilly. “I belleve Prison Bars 59 fredrigk 4 Brown RS. Mi |You were about to order us out of the woods, were you not? Well, the owner ;sindly permits us to encamp here to- | Might, See, here ts his signature.” ‘The boys recovered from their fright laughing at each other, A shot re-echoed through the woods, and both the young heroes made a wild| I dash for the house just as a fine pair) of pointer dogs appeared, ranging the nearer woods and followed at a slight distance by two men {n hunting costume with guns under their arms, “How magnificently vour dors work! It is a splendid sight to see such train- ing. imed one of the men, “What artist could depict anything more beau- Uful to ® sportsman? No wonder a man loves a good do: ‘The speaker, the foremost of the two huntsmen, was 4 man of verhaps thirty- ‘ive, with a dark, Alscontened face ring premature marks of trouble or ipation, “It is a covey of quatl,” rejoined his companion—a taller man with a falr complexion and well-groomed appear- ance, “You take the first two birds that rise, and I will come in after- ward," A bird was flushed as they spoke and rose with a whirring sound like a rock- et, George Howard, the dark man, fired, ‘The bird fell, A second rose as he fired, and the second barrel brought it down, ‘The other birds of the covey rose in a cloud, and Arthur Mason empticd both barrels at them. “Pha shooting 1s splendid," continued Howard, as the dogs picked up the birds. “We have had @ great day's yoprt, You have lost none of your siill with a gun. “Nor have you," rejoined Mason, “It seems like old times to have you back agaln, You were greatly missed during your absence abroad.” “It is kind of you’ to say so. Every- thing went wrong with me just after you last saw me. I had a lot of queer expericnces. But enough of that. Tell me of the lady you recently made your wife, T hope she will like me.” ‘She will be sure to do so when she knows what a splendid fellow you are.” “Don't, old man!” objected the other, sharply. "I know that you mean tt, ‘and T ought to be thankful for such praise, ———______—_ a £ but I don’t deserve 4 “Don't deserve it?” echoed M. laughingly, “Oh, thal is your modes! the modesty that moralists tell us al- ‘8 accompanies true worth.” rue worth! T have little enough of; that. I wish I could blot the events of one year from my memory—from my lite. “Hut I cannot, and fear [ never shall. The image of’ the woman whom so madly loved and so cruelly wronged" —— “So cruelly wronged!" repeated Arthur Mason in astonishment — “cruelly Wronged—are you crazy?” Howard’ replied doggedly, | “Yes, wronged! Brought up aa I have been to believe in caste, in famlly trees and pedigree and all ‘that sort of rot, 1 could not ‘reconeile myself at once’ to the {dea—the idea, of marriage with a ] a mere governess, “You fell in love with a governess, then? Was she worthy of your love? “She was worthy of tho truest love the best man on earth could lay at her feet; she was-a hundred times too good for me Wy she loved me I never knew, except, perhaps, because I loved her so madly. She was young, knew little, of the world, had met few mon, was unhappy—lonely, She loved me and she trusted me, and—I abused her exclaimed Mason, in horror, . & ceremony was performed— bv a clergyman She belleved that he was regularly ordained, She was duped into a-false marriage. Later 1 wished to right the wrong I had done, and I told her the truth, mean- but to ing to her to consent to a second ceremony—this time a legal one. But she gave me no chance to. make such amends. On ing of my deception she turned from me. with Icathing and fled. I don't know where. I have searched high and low, but she seems to have vantshed from the earth, Jt was only after she had gone that I fully discovered that my Jove for her was real and would only end with my Nfe. I would have re- patred my fault with a genuine mar- rage !f she had given me an oppor. tunity, but ft was too late, She had gone—gone without even knowing that er wan honest. t have here in vain, But one day or another T shall find of that. It is my lfe hope. Mason stood silent, absorbed foresome moments after the’ other censed — to speak. At Inst he aroused himself and looked at his friend, And if you should find her a wedded wife you would not again blight her lite by bringing up to her what. must have ‘been a hideous nightmare?" he said. “I shall never give up the search,” declared Howard” vehemently, “And her, be sure when TI find her, even ff it is at the very altar, I shall drag her from It though all’ the world cried ‘Halt!’ " "My God, George, how changed you are! You talk Mke a madman. If you aren't mad you are dangerously near it. Give up this phantom hope, this morbid longing to repair a wrong that can never be repaired. If you have sinned you have repented. Forget the past; live In the present and the future. et past misdeeds serve as stepping- stones to a better Hfe henceforth. That is the true, the divine philosophy. The Aight of auilet, domestic happiness will restore vou to'vour former happin and Nnking his arm in that of his friend he led him toward the house. It was a pretty pleture that, met their view as they emerged on ‘the lawn. Kitty, with her apron full of wild flow- ers, was seated on a bench near the veranda, arranging them in a big bow! for the dinner table, ‘Tommy, who had evidently been in search of her, had at last discovered Kitty's whereabouts and was leaning adoringly over her. Mason meantime had stepped! down form the veranda and without seeing her husband and his guest who were approaching, came toward the rus tle seat where Kitty was once mo busily engaged over the flower: h, Kitty, at your favorite pastime, I se “Yes, I gathered these flowers ex- pressly for dinner.” “And you ran out here to arrange them all by yourself?" “Yes, and now study ‘my lessons. forgot all about them.” “well, I will go with you and see that you do not forget them sxuin, said “Tommy judiciously, and ran bolsterously into the house to- gether, Mrs, Mason smilingly looked after them and then sank into the rus- tle seat and took up the flowers. “Twill boutonnlere | for Arthur," tender smile playing over her lips. happy my life tinual summer without a cloud George Howard, crossing the lawn somewhat In advance of his host, now observed her for the first time, Her ‘ace was hidden, belng bent over the flowers, “Ah, a lady!" he said to himself; “no doubt’ Arthur's wife, Shall I wait for him to present me? No, I will intro- duce myself. Tt will seem less formal. She must have heard of me.” Advancing to her side he began: “I beg your pardon, but, am J’ At the sound of his voice she sprang to her feet and ran toward hiya. “My God!" he gasped. ‘‘Allce, speak! You are not Arthur Mason's wife?" (To be Continued.) On the Hog ‘Tran, To the Editor of The Evening World Make way for the hogs! Get off the end! The hog that ‘entrance clogs Must yield the seat wallows To later-coming GRUNTER, So. he hogs! in To Definen % M oy of The FE a: the Rnd Seat Hog, let me say ‘ord in defense. The American defi- ition of “hog” Is as follows: “A Hog" is a men who has something I want and who reftises to give it up to me.” ‘The man who bas the shady, accessible armebair-l'ke end seat ts lucky. I, too, | want to be lucky and to@nnex that seat, He Is indisposed to shift from his pleas- ant quarters for my benefit, nor does he sce why he should be called on to but the sweet interest of possible] ao so. Therefore, J stigmatize him as a hog. A man is clever enough to grow Tich, while my stupidity keeps me poor. \ to if an wh Hing ts all right further heel do inate leg: I draw a EN “Puntshment Fitn the § ir itor of The Even Long's 5 Mus a0 te outmanoeu' you want as the n with all yo p, shin or ankle, nich he will draw and leave you @ ‘on A Cane of Hog Apologize one did this the end seat would soon be a highly unenviable situation, D SEAT ASPIRANT., the Crime. 1c World car, ur icture of him, depicting Hing in a stye tall of A just and" equitable of the End Seat ring your welght on his The speed with d_pass on 1. GM Inseat Ho} To the Editor of The Evening World: Does the occupation of agend seat | To the Editor of The Evening World: jin B8 open car make «man or women, in his barrier of | ree passage will | 1 sec ar a hog? If so, what difference does it make whether the end seat is occupied when the rest of it Is empty or when itis full? What kind of hogs are we, | anyway? POLAND CHINA. A Poetic Pla! ‘To the Editor of The Evening Worl The man who hogs the car's end seat And makes us stumble o'er his feet, | Or past his transverse legs to stride, | Unless we'd rather hang outslde— The man who keeps that seat nor moves | Despite our curses, Kicks and shoves— ‘The man, I gay, who Keeps that neat Is Hog Par Excellence, complete, He lacks the least redeeming, trait, 1 tremble for his future fate! nsuch men. I feel above them, one is base enough to love them, Their thoughts ne'er rise past greed and pelt. Besides—I want that seat mysat. PETER CLAIVERES, Pompton, N. J. ‘The “Hog” Testifies. Es Myon eM eoMcd cin datseidy ing Why chontdn't I be? ‘The end seat is the most comfortable and convenient Hence I try to take It. Should I order Ja poor meal when I can get a good Jone? Should 1 take low wages when I! Scan get high enes? Shall I. walk in the! hot sun when I can walk in the ccol shade? Shall I take an uncomfortable seat in a car when a comfortable one Je within reach? What sort of a tool do you think Iam? END SEAT HOG. “A Subject for Tears.” To the Editor of The Evening World: I laughed myself sick over the "End Beat Hog" cartoon in The Evening World. But, after ali, it is a subject fos tears rather than for mirth. The End Seat Hog (like the ground *hog) ceagzes hibernating when the first open car bursts into bloom, under the quick- ening rays of the springtime sun. From then ¢ill snow “les the rest of us are! ~ w The End Seat Hog and the Whyness of His Porcine Reputation. forced to scramble over his legs, cir- cumnavigaie his shoes, climb his Alpine knees and in other ways swarm acri him to get in or out of the car, It Js no fun. It wakes homicidal manta, The und Seit Hog's motty is: “Come one, come all: ‘This ear shall fy Refore I move or let vou by.” Our “urges have no effect on him, Perhaps the laughter ratsed by your cartooa may shame him into decency. tYRUS A. PWNSLEY, Jr. “Endseatitia” Is a Disease, To the Editor of The Evening World: The End Seat Hog ts less to be hlamed than to be pitlod, He Ives and schemes for that coveted seat until It becomes a mania. “Endseatitis” is a ‘Mseave. Ho can't help grabbing the end seat and clinging to it as a drown- ing man clings to @ straw with a julep at Its business end, Pity the poor suf- ferer from endseatitis! PATHOLOGIST. “You never even tell me what to do. Now, b-other Witte is more thoughtful. I told him how the heat affected me and his reply was, ‘Go sit on a cake of Ice.’ “Of course I would not do such an unladylike thing, bit 1t showed that my little brother had some sympathy for me, “And there! you alt, with your winter underwear on, loole Ing cool and contented, just to exasperate me! “Lam afraid to say a word to you, for if I do you wit fly into a rage and declare that you are a much abusnd man, “What are you doing now? lemonade? “How thoughtful you are for yourself! I could sit here alt day perishing of thirst and you would never think of making me a pitcher of claret lemonade, but when you find ydurself sweltering in your heavy flannels, you jump very quick an@ make a cooling drink for yourself. “You are making {t for me, you don't want any? “Of course you do not want any. You know I do not ene Joy anything alone and of course you get up just when f want you to sit down, and go ransacking the pantry for lemons, “There are no lemony there. Oh, you brought some home, aid you? “If 1 had wasted money for lemons how soon you woul@ find Tault, But as you are making something for yourselé you do not.care. ij “No, I don't want any claret lemonade, You have taken all the pleasure out of Jt by the sulky way you act. “I have been sitting here dying of thirst and you never thought of making a cooling drink for me. It is too late Making @ pitcher of clare& now. I would not satisfy you by touching it. “IT knew it! I knew it! You did sat want me to have any! ‘ “Well, if you did want me to have some what do you ma§ the pitcher down on the table for? “why don't you get me a glass? If I was any one but your wife.you would be jumping around uke a monkey om a stick to wait on me. “Oh, please, Mr. Nagg, walk quietly. Brother Wille te " trying to take a siesta, He always avolds heat prostration by keeping quiet In warm weather. But you are so grasp» I must run away and| ing and greedy you work and toll and moil just the same Would you belleve| whether it {s hot or cold, “Give me another glass, It tsn't very good. Of course you didn’t take any pains with it because you thought ang they} old thing would be good enough for me, “Put down the pitcher, Why don’t you drink some? Th @on't be greedy! Brother Willie will want some when wakes up. “Oh, I am a miserable and unhappy woman, nobody ever ‘This diagram shows the comparative number of Chicago~ ans passing outside and under a ladder in the street in the course of five minutes, en \ 4 P