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i} hy "a THE w EVENING ‘ < rs ent a ‘ Tv w WOR % | ‘Peevenees sone PPDLG EEL DE E04 14499090 999048 DD14F00609 O440 04-14 46440000d040d00000009. PPD ED 6040640480404. , EPcaoo | WILLIE WISE w# » & Gene Carr’s Brainy Kid e4 By the Press Publishing Company, No. 8 to © | ‘Row, New York. Entered at the Post-umce 4 at New York as Socond-Ciass Mall Matter, i 5 «NO, 18,787, NOW KID, IN A~ \ Sour a Youu NOW You STUPID SOMETHING You 10, F You WATCH NEVER KNEW VL TEACH SEFore , i YOU SOMETHING. ‘ « a ELECTION NIGHT, Tho night of a Presidential election in New York is ** Pa OB ett =| “WN extraordinary phenomenon, It 1s one that a support: a ‘es : “rr Infatuation : HigherUp . &Y MARTIN GREEN, —_— Why a Man with a House. é keeper Is Sometimes to Be Envied, bad | SBE," said the Cigar Store Man, “that a Call- ees fornia millionaire who cashed in recently lett his fortune to his housekeeper.” “The chances are,” replied the Man Higher ‘ | Up, “that he had a lot of relatives to whom he {| Was passing out sections of his bank roll all this life, e | but when ft comes to a show-down the courts will de cide that he had a right to leave his wealth to his house | keeper. ook what the housekeeper can show: “She can show that while sho had charge of his ranch * he did what he pleased. If he had had a wife it would have been a case of doing a sneak every time he wanted » | to go off and blow some of his easily earned increment jon fizz water and music, Then he would haye had to | He to her when he got back. A sad South American Liama | “As for the housekeeper, {f she had butted In witha 02-d-22-25-46 aoe FPSs Popular permanent Bde it hopeless to explain and 4 For Many months the great majority of the people PoLi$h THis Mave been earnestly preparing themselves for this, the a, ON Youe Coat, ' | They have been conscientiously studying the By Nixola Greeley-Smith | Hons on which their cholce will hang. They have | | have advanced for thelr support. Whether they HERE are We had luteliect enough to evolve reasons of thelr own, bom a } rt of other men, they have alike seriously and eerupu- and, indeed, ly tried to fit thomselves to perform the highest duty actually believe infatuatt And now the great day has come and gone, they are Spher yeu mi bled in streets and parks, in halls and theatres, to are usually If you described such a aituation to a foreigner and pity Rampiere| him what such an occasion would be like, he would n hearsay knowledge of and earnest effort) solemn moments, moments hi a Suspense and tenee solicitude; and then when h cee a umph in victory and of eplendid fortitude in defeat, Nixola Greeley-Smith, ‘estimony — ts, we And what would this foreigner really see? He would, thereat: | 568 Tack of dignity; the incarnation of the Irre-| ‘rnere ts a vast difference between the & rowdy night of tin-horn patriotism, a ruck of to, however, which is least visible to it to dwell upon. p | and Its Victims * You Coup important day in every four years of their national soberly weighing the arguments which the various | | OF whether they have had painfully to spell out the rea- ple who declare th ir cit hip. that love and terme, But they ear the results of their Joliberate judgment. who have only {ae the logical result of these months of serious either phase of l ‘Tesnit was known a mingled scene of splendid tri- sions, and thelr t’ competent or What he could not be blamed for thinking a ene of | samtesinie frivolous multitudes with childish playthings ‘hose In the throes of either disturbing |» There once was a frivolous Chamols | This fellow, the wise reader thinks, ore ; |malady, For the reat the distinction ts ® Who was known by the title of Samols, |e dressed up galore for high jirks, circus went through ‘thirst for information he could have fired her. Thad ' year’ mame t, poe sea feay--we love and other people become 3 “Go mild do | look,” He's peaceful and tame Said he, “Like it? Not! she worked for him until he died ehows that she neves het be iach! alkene, ik 6: Nundsea Seach said piven t0'bs RtGRRNe ps Bald he, “that each crook And fond of his game; This place is so hot | made any falne moves, than love, and, indeed, when it confictas, ? —‘!Magines that he can flim flamois.” You see he is just the Golf Lynx, | only can wear one pajama.” “It he kept her for years it shows that she knew how Bem wares Ge) Which stand the adeptable| iit it trequently carries off at leant | vere err : | 90 cools to galt bis It h "t Hike their aspirations: “I told !”"T told SIADDANINADODD4DO244 4-4-4 O @ | too to suit taste, e didn’t ike the cooking ott ra you so YOU @ temporary victory. But the inevitable A ied ae Ate sti *. i tee e Ge apata Maal ear @ 4 th the Republic's hour of travail and of birth, reswit of sudden infatuation t equally could cali her down and the best she could do wee | resign, But if he had a wife and hed kicked at the : y «sudden distilusion and unhappiness, r for their unthinking en- le rein Het be vt oad tet Sd ot a And love at least has ponsibilities of | 9 9 . more or less permanent happiness. aA the head; ith a plece tnt & foreigner would os vie The most noticeable charactenatic pf | he iS sin rs les ott a 4 fone ¢ headpiece with a plece of diningoom furs election night, And could we sudden infatuation Ie the compelling pat es him hard | tibet that this tendeney "mene its vietims to violent ° ° It there is anything a man likes it is to be let alone, Qvirrels and equally disturbing recon- but if his wife lets bim alone he goes off by himself ané mob would before the next elec- | | y A sober thinking multitude, ving “inrivaton i ntotey wre mine J By Treadwell Cleveland, Jr., Author of “A Night with Alessandro.” | 2m! (nous. It she dona tet nim tee And conselences to what they thought reactions. and no one who has expert. | or lose her job. Is it any wonder she cops the coin?” | enced itt joys and tortures can doubt | “I should think {f a man had one of those paragon | that the latter tilt the very much CHAPTER ye [about. And now I'm going home.” He| out.” calmly pursued Wendover, who|news and the construction which the) housekeepers he would marry her and cinch her,” suge | |to the side of unhappines draw the plan of an ocean liner from Oe oar ree Of Re thought, Van ave. | Managing clerk had evidently put upon| gested the Cigar Store Man. AND FIRE DRILLS, Infatuation 1s jealous and entirely GJint of a Pistol Barre] !*o"-hole and pushed It toward the [Myles with hls lett ar wing blow with it were #0 entirely unexpected and so] “On a proposition Ike that,” sald the Man Higher selfish, Love, on the contrary, strikes managh Jerk. “I've marked the sulte ht. He 1 hold. | ri ” \ ible #olf-contro! shown by the 2,500 children re hayes te patonaabines. oh Death Struggle in|! anag ne, be 9 BS Doe he at is right. e 1001 his hol The | suggestive of mystery that he felt his} Up, “he would queer himself both ways, ie 9 next moment he lay at Myles’s mercy. Behoo! No, 17 while leaving their buraing schools Tafatuntion demands, while love gives, way to the ‘L' and get the tickets.” | Ry a clever wreatle: trick Myles had heart chill as if in dread of some un- ¥ i‘ With t om d shut the roll-top ¢, f foreseen catastrophe, But worse than everything; from which it may be in-| the Office=The Misge \\'th this he rose and t the rol torn his arms free and his strong fingers Oph win a now tribute of praise for the discipline of his desk sharply, a e would | closed about Phil's: throat. | ‘all, he felt that, before he could satiety a 4 od rmar tn peculiarl: - ' A t beneath It and all its)" "Before. you me,” breathed class-room fire drill, ‘The children were subjected {erred that the formar la peculiarly mas) ing Wife's Note, Myles, who fad not spoken @| ppl "whats it fore | the Jealous man before him, he would yles, w , got up jJerkily, slowly pocketed — "You coward! You thief!"' erled the| be compelled to make some almost In- ; to ‘ordeal of actual danger which it is to be feared —j.ove seems to belong to (he Saxon Mrs. Nags and Mr. — ot plan and stood’ looking LS F other In the high, strident tone of pas-| credible disclosurey touching the his: |} bs | their elders, lees prone to obey orders, could not have race and tnfatuation to the Latin, tn HIL WENDOVER ited back » ne neover’s beck a8 the tier bea, in sion. “Twill Kill you for taking MY! tony of the woman who at the s the great French dramas “4 - ack his t Y PI | i . mt ures: Will: Ke aoted, tor purposes of with all thelr intensity of pa: deak chair, which was covered Meni wataght a glimpse of him #0 In area ana ells mur u're Wilk ee te voted ¢ 3 , highly creditable to the children, that (ner ee ene eee oe eat with expensive Russia leathor, the mirror over thal and was) igo yt Sever oud teeaks matters Al this pessed| Bas By Roy L. McCardell, se “Wasa nearer approach to a pante in the Bowery theatre foiind. The idea of unselfahness, of lighted @ Turkish cigarette, and ex: about to turn rou | "You're a War!” ie oes ertenthaoony eae 4 © on Tuosday after the foolish ery of “Fire!” than in the aelfsacriie for another, does not arem haled the fragrant amoke with an alr| fe nek | “histen,"" wivepered Myles, his wel ts pegiaeee (ne Pie a : ae : to be considered a worthy theme by | of complete natisfaction with all things. quickly ™ to Phil's ear, “Dare you tell me that| ‘9 Desin. is . " Forty-seventh street school in circumstances of real peril, Latih authors, ‘This may be merely be- | And if ever there was a young broker axing clerk K. Then he begna ¢¢ | you never saw Amalie La Roux?” ‘Why don't you speak?” suddenly de-| ¢¢' Heslelllagg Fig snd a § foun — T have got © The public will bo justified in asking certain ques .\..,, they are more uncompromising | With but five years of business ex. | finly mors goad to te already wealwo | Amal mally 14 Dever lsd asd manded Myles, glaring ‘upon his em- apne aikie tee Sher Lae Pee ow you are not tions of the school anthorities regarding the conditions rraiisis and care only “to paint the perience behind him, tonether mith an from rhe Wearing uf the Green.” In| Mis thro dd smile passed across lei oe erie sult fault . bie "ee, how ‘ rreproac je fo } velle , ‘ of safety in this schoolhouse—conditions quite as ini shins as re seo ft for the god Ld PBB pea Re sev rasa salbeceetard seen the glint of @ plrtol-barrel. ana | voAin so y | you can, begin, I'm in no humor for| “You know we needed those rugs, besides we won't F pings ae they a asen fo “ if » sudde: “k of surprise fev a ? ry ‘ yi v portant ao fire drilis, The building Is sald to have been Thare are timos tn all our fives when |Iation, then Phil was that young) ph {he suuten ahovt notning bu that | Neve stolen her from Te and't trif ing. feal paying for them. 1 gave $10 Gown and we will Dal & Originally erected in 1846. It was “modernized” tn 1881, \). oeme to un first a great romance, Stoker, Exceptional business talent had thé longer he Kept washing his nands| . “before I say what I think,” returned | Week: | yo a cc e between ‘ band fs . < 5 yet “owing torts old construction and fire-feeding quali+ tien a great satire, and finally a great | enabled him already to amass a fortune {he mor 7 i Bg took bie wand a gE yghaven't ween of heard at Phil slowly, “I am going to ask you 1 don’ twee pry Seed Nags. I am paying inetab | thes” the firemen with difficulty prevented its total de-. tract ighteen or twenty we write to which the society papers alluded as for a few critical moments was a total : exactly what you think yourself, What| ments on eight sets o ks, the plano player, the parter 4 4 building of this type if not a fire." if we write at ull, because |the Wendover Millions, apelt, with blank, “Hut as suddenly there came, ae feason have you to suppose that Mile,| fTnlture and the two new brass beds. If T was ike some Een. ete een vviarns Ce TRG SIDO HERO 8 fire |e eo bectar, After tmentyufive | move thencondinary encuse with a ead Bie On Intuitive Tnslene ines tbe oe ak her La Roux” — women, who spend every cent thelr husbands give them a>‘ (rap, certainly falls far short of furnishing the wecurlty yo write ond taink cynically becausa|ital M; health, good friends were his against firs which should be an essential of schoolhouse we know a great ot—ahi ,"' replied Myles | ™4 , ence, such as he had achooled himself dren tad ieee, fresh outbures| ‘She Is now my wife.” travagantly you might have oceaston to find fault. deal worse, and Anatiy , Without stint; a hapoy temperament and | to command in the Exchange when the | of rage pe vent on: "You know where| “Mrs, Myles, then; that Mrs, Myvles| . “But it Is always economical to pay a dollar down and @ floor was in an uproar like that of i " 7 I n you, ing to mo dollar a week for things; you don't _ architecture. we are tempied to stop thinking alo- a genial, humorous way gilded the lite Teo ytd his fortane had hung, with tie is, I tell you, and I am going | should leave you in the way you have Tay ind ste cans ps ‘ee Create ees for them, i oe Wid Ih in tha sitet A wibiosl:dee wether because we know nothing at all. which for him had a0 far held no serous a hundred others, on the decision, the | Kill yu aie as and it | described? mm men come round pre paere others iike it in the city? A school sccom-|" 11, in the earliest stages that men| setback, or sorrow; an elegant and, called, ag it to de-| YOU, let me up. t will prove it to you! “ne is tired of me—that's all, X sup: |¢ hie On the clock or whatever it 14, and they get se. Hodating 2,600 pupils, a number exceeding that of tho yw; ut love read poctry and belleve in better will, a loving home gave. the hee: Fonttharet and we Malt talk iouee Hegou are not| Pose. She has taken a funcy to-to| impudent, and then the frm writes you the mow tertble ) Sverage theatre audience, should have all of a theatre's taings Later, when life has seared its domestic peace and security which per Ap ntly constraine! by the sheer |Soti nea von may shoot me in cool| some one else.” ¥ y y genlality of the tone, the success he has ered ‘ safeguards against fre, and more, weaning or lack of meaning into our! mit a man to en: Myles slowly aN- | Diood if vou like. If you are satisfied| piy Interrupted him, “For my own part I would sooner not have things ¢haa ; th 0 > eving tn lov nine er of fact, it - - T will help you find her.” A one, ” to get them on the Inetalment plan. One has to two Se alavane Wietmlinas (ee welikate Soest pete he Wao tatahing deat Asthe, get tar Keys from the shalt fealty” omer Mielea'e tore sited the Vina oak on sald he, with! vsices for things, you don't get any treding pretty yoa. r the-wis geion th els fe and you. and unlock the desk again, | [*P ually relaxed of themselves | sq; Sane never have a cent to buy anything with, because ft takes! ‘ FOR A SEASIDE PARK. he-wisp of passion that i “like the slow, of rather of his wife and sunny | will you anc ck the desk Again | ingore gradually Whatalo'you mean?’ demanded the ; " h hould be of direct 4 | Hureslls race, woich Mite ‘ere we can iittle five-year-old Ruth; and because 5.0, "AO IViee ‘her ecdoped water in Std at, lant Ne sprang to he fel. | other in puasled eort of way. linet ts eae nee Oe See A public hearing which should be of direct interest: join: the place he was thus occupled the teh coUP( his hands yet tower {Ol ing with arms folded for Wendover to| “Don't you realise that, however, ‘hat and the other, to every citizen is eet for to-morrow on the project of a W noen, however, are apt reat seaside park ot Rockaway. 1 thedt lives, and doub' #0 ON In the street which he had completed! rinse tx ce. I'm fi wet up. dearly yi “Brother Willle got a suit of clothes for $18 on the tm! } they | that day seemed specially aweet to him. | he added, burying his f cooly drying his hands and face | 1@Fly you may love Amalie—your wite He feli Myleas Angers Grageing at | anu restoring hist beard. to its usual) YOU have just imputed to her the! St@lment plan, He sald the suit only cost $18 and thet he, ‘ , L hapnter for the illusiors which | It would mean that he could leave town ¢ne chain, In a flash he had ciught his Wendover, reopened the fralty of fickleness, if nothing more?’ | h€s to pay ® a week for the rest of his natured tite, Hhom the scale of magnitude on which they have been (1... s’em never wholly to outgrow. | for a few weeks and take Ruth and his right wrist, with both hards | roll-top desk, resumed his former seat! styie’s excited face still wore al “The Griggsbys thet lived near us in Brooklyn, You j } drawn the plans for this park evidence s disposition to Sonasiorialiieniineasors j Mollie, his wife, thot trp Over te Tee Ee eee cictre and’ alent. oye (and altitude, lighted a fresh, SIgwrette| wsatited took, and Phil saw that he| Member Mr. Grigsby, don't wu? That tal, pala tonetiane| > ‘Pde more than atene for the city's former shortcoudngs ja Urtilsh Isles which they had planned | ty eye batt: ight up,’ he said, “and let's 0| would have to make his words clearer| ‘'al-looking man who wrote wu the letter asking you the matter of au adequate seashore pleasure ground. A UNREST. for several summers but been compelled ‘ rare tha pietolt daynanded Bell, over this In a rational manner his seat, Pefore the outraged husband would be #¢tt him @ position and had all the words spelled wrong am 4 to poatpone each time on account of !n a steady voice, He cou Pale an i, able to his point of vi ier ' | , or 7 ti dst eo 4 erve < vist ith an impatient srasp bis point of view, | park as large as Prospect ts contemplated, with a water [ rhere in the midst of the press tha’ unforeseen disturbances in the market har :"y aad pass through the w declining to emcee bs an to talk! “Why, don't you see that, by unte! “Everybody fet that bad when they had to move away iBfrout of six miles, which will provide unexampled fa- orusies Pht! touched a bell and a boy res feverishly. As he proceeded he took out | ing for her actions in this aig ‘ag, Decuuse they wouldn't pay the'r rent. Mr. Grigguby 4 cilities for fiee Lathing, water sports and midsummer |?" phaedh 207 EGR EOD remo pfecteation. The objection that Rockaway is more d.ffl- | \urmur and cry, as the torren eult of necess than Coney Island is met by the assurances rushes sponded. A H Li WO apt a8 oa iL Bd eee auch as say that you have had reasog all thelr things after dark In a wheelbarrow and everyoota| | ame. ‘Ask Mr. Myles to step tn a moment.” n “this morning.” sald Myles, “I woke! to fear something of this sort?” |eald it was a “Yes, sir,” and the boy, a dapper little left hand he touched his left bre up to find my, wite gone, See ene ane “How could I help dreading to lose “Mamma met Mrs. Griggsby years afterward In a CHAD, AprANR oat again as St spurned POET ing Myles'e wrist securely |naiiKomt, inet wee tot thie ndte..*| her, the most beautiful creature in the| partment store in New York and hardly recognised ther 4 ‘Of the projectors that by another summer the Long Island }| T° srenee the song of (he woodland} |, “‘resh zeal by the keen glance of with one hond, Phil felt In the pocket, and he drew a small sheet of wote-| world? Besides, in a way, t had reas all because she had grown so stout, H Mi Lovs Ueland City and that the elevated rovte from ths ’ ; Mr. Myles, the managing clerk, quick: Pil renched himselt {ree and leapt {sill read ft meselt; you shall not tcuch | “Reason to think that she was not as, night watchman and that he bad raised a beard end we 4 1 bs ved. With the Pi . Tapped In peacg, where the long Dterented h He was a dark with q oat-like spring behind the tall it. It saya: C have decided it Is hetter | devoted ae beatiful?” | wouldn't know him if we should meet him, but he wad Bridge will be improved. With the Pennsylvania tunnel day passes , with an aquiline | desk. “Already his hand was pl in to go away. To not look for me: 1 Will! Again Myien was silent, | Just as economical, Mrs. Griggsby was, as she used to ba completed the park will be brought witht2 half an hour | Light as a cloud that a cool lake}! nose and sharp, penetrating black eyes, que t Of the pistol bi cl not be found. 6m Pe reel | | re zt ever have any geod cause) =“'Bhe told mamma that Mr. Griggrby had nearty beam! ( Of Manhattan, ‘Thero is also the promise of an eventual Lea faa Wenep Wiel Ll cachet eee ate ran einze: | Sanaa Ra RG plain that!” | You tor someone eimetn PeTMAPS leave) sich several timen since they moved from Brooklyn. Me! b extension of the Subway from Flatbush and connection bart ree pega r hand tetoae Sir torenees as | sudden” wrist extended a foot, and | Now, Myce “Mam come be thee | pre rd . io there s we fra Wes Meg al with the new Manhattan bridge. iiss. tris ibe plain, to the trees, tte brush away some distracting {ippad afro f - the floor, ‘falling CHAPTER I, eat liberty. I am gone to tell you sais inetey, aad as heard biped could have ate san.’ <4 *, What Detroit did tong ago and Boston fotlowed, New the grasses, thought “Contound you, Mylea!” breathed Phil | yy M Who Stole. twine in's toot paradise, or are now {cr WiC apiece. Two years later Mrs. Griggsby heard \ altor years of neglect, Is now getting ready to do, | Desire of the strife came knocking! J) “AKyles, 1'm going abroad—but have & with’ coolnéas that suiorined hitpael The Man ho Stole ’ ’ : Aa A , ce extiis or “have you lost your senses? ie minch censtscd failure to utilize unsurpassed oppor- | Nowhere content! And 1 muse it apa Posi Ba . a od omane agen this mean? " ad ta | Her From Me Will paradi his he at 4 fe seen tn tho Gast oc ait . ste even box, but ved i For answer Myles only struggled to | fell forw in atekuda | Who owned them, and he # imetand Pe providing the people with an acceptab'e)} gous with the Joys that are lke that {t fell to the floor, There must free Dimsait, White with on. te! =~ Meet the Death of at? ree on Me te! . 4 ven find cut, and, anyway, he hadn't any money, so fou ~~ ark ia now, it is hoped, to be corrected. The to seven have been something unusual tn his | fXe thinned ipa. whic 0" , lmyself: ahe did js from me that |enad'e the way it goes ‘ fon ft haa under consideration {s taken in re-|] Are vaguely stirred with the ancient | awkwardness, for Phil glanced at him Fack'In the agony of his effort, be Dia Dog’ : there at. Unt she ‘needed my ’ ‘ demands of as influential a repro-| vue ike “I rene pg Meet F dongle 4 fa pad writhed with the frenay of a “what do mean to reyes | mn there at the gold-barred gates ] ot | cMyles," erled Phil in a louder. tone, na) uate, Wendover! -dorlotion as ever urged a municipal re- of heaven course, but | leave you to act as you! «i you" don't control youreelf Twill E excitement of Myles's look a ogee me to th Appear good for ihe final sets | A dream of the world comes}! think best. You knew how I stand with | call!” ; beating, an excitement which pint only op ‘Mop.’ Anw unforsee fhuctuations “Curse you!” hissed other, “You showed that for the time he was ‘magnieent to compensate ; Sc veld pent eur ule scheme | aH fie Ihe, They ere all’#on8) completely unbelanced, warned to. knock veal dover = hie