The evening world. Newspaper, June 15, 1905, Page 15

a) ¥ pe 1 per it faye 4 Gashel Byron out of her mind and to + paxsage THIS IS HOW THE POLICE WOULD DESCRIBE MR. RAFFLES Height—6 feet 7 inohes, Walght—130 pounde, Color of eyes—Lark brown. Color of hair—-Dark brown, slightly mized with gray. Complemton—Dark, tvith emooth-shaven face. Features—Regular, with slight hook on nose artd rather wide nostrile, , Modium dark eyedrojos and quick, sharp eyes. Face tnolined to ovat shape, oith medium broad sovth, Onin firm and rather pointed, Walks very erect, with rather a tong stride. Wears a No, 7A shoe, a No, 6% glove and a No, 7 hat. General mannerism—Quick, alert and active, Age—Thirty-five, but looks several years younger, My Eighteenth Day's Adventures, By the Mysterious Mr. Rafiles, in the department stores rofuse to il of $150 offered by The Evening World Fiven the ejain: the re for my capture. Certainly gave them all a glorious chance yesterday, yisiting seven department stores in Manhattan and threo in Brooklyn. Byen went to the trouble of buying the most out~ landigh things imaginable, thinking that nerhaps some would walk up and ask mo to deliver the hundred one and a half, but all hands were evidently thinking of someth Jse, as they all failed to give me the slightest consideration, t's near vacation time, you know, and my {dea in out was to give some salesgirl a good chance fruits rew: but after I had made ton different attempts to deliver the goods in as many different sec tions of Greater New York I gave up the task, determin- ing to wait until to-day, when I'll try dt all over again, Started after the department stores at 12.30 o'clock, when I entered Wanamaker's, at Eleventh street and ‘Broadway, } walked aimlessly around the street floor of the establishwent wondering what to buy, when I spled the neckwear counter, back of which stood a young lady, 1 asked to be shown some ties, and after looking through three different boxes finally declared the colors were all too sober, as I wanted something “bright and flashy.” Took Gaudy Tie of Blue. Sh e trl, who wore @ biavi shirt waist and skirt, eithin Pe allel: and two rings on the third finger of her left hand, then produced a box of ties of brilliant hues, and from this bunch I selected: tho gaudiest bluo " cr ares put you to so much bother, miss, but, you see, I thought maybe you would like to win The o} "1 120, bak ti PUREE Hers at Wanamaker's I got a receipt marked “88877” and ‘193 DD,” ;f00n iM the midst of boxes of all shapes and sizes, LHL OR IRTER NNT TEST TREE ATE TPT IF RN RIE: ing World's Hom 5, iat aia a aig P . Gatch th Thursday Evening, June 1 Mysterious Mr. Raffies—Worth S315 EVENING WORLD,” T not Mr. Raffles, - Fourteenth street, where I took a try at Hearn’s store. The place was crowded with women, and when I finally wound up in the ribbon department I was the only man in sight:.but even that made no difference, as I wasn't given even a second glance, Asking a young lady to show me some ribbons, aide ex- | plained that T wanted the narrowest ribbon on sale, and the clerk finally fished out a roll of blue half an inch wide. “Give me half a yard of that,” I sald, after a lengthy inspection of the quality of the material. “Why, it's only five cents a yard!" exclaimed the saleswoman In surprise. x “LT know, but I only want half a yard,”’and then when the ribbon had been cut to the required length I sud- denly changed my mind and declared that, after all, I guessed I would take a whole yard. All of which caused the young lady to cut the material again, and me to shell | out five cents, | My voucher shows that clerk No, 4 in Department 12 | made the sale, \Then Raffles Backed Up. A pretty girl in a whit shirt waist and wearing two diamond rings, one a solitdire and the other a four-stone ‘ring, showed me a tray of collar buttons at Rothenberg’s Fourteenth street store, and after taking up about five intnutes of her time I finally bought two buttons for which I paid five cents, yen at tho Fourteenth Street Store, at the corner of | | Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue, where I nearly bought an $8 handkerchief hy mistake, I aroused no par- ticular enthusiasm, Asking a floorwalker in the Fourteenth Street Store | where 1 could find the handkerchief counter I was di- rected to where a mob of women were struggling, evi- dently in a pargatn rush. I picked up a handkerchief and told the/clerk to wrap {t up, when I suddenly dis- covered the little plece was worth §8, which caused mo to back up, Going further down the aisle I encountered a sales girl wearing a blue necklace, from whom I bought a handkerchief for five cents, While I was making my purchase a tloorwalker came up and inquired of the sales- girl where all the other girls wero, and, she answered that they were at lunch, and that she was "just too busy for anything.” At Blegel-Cooper’s I became real reckless and spent. as much as a quarter. J was in the store for ten min- utes trying to make up my mind what to buy, when I) struck the Jewelry counter, and seeing A salesgirl who wos not busy I asked to he shown some stickpins. A tray containing about a hundred pins of various HE Mysterious Mr, Raffles is walking, undisguised, about Greater New York every day. He will admit his identity and accompany you to the business office of The World, where you will receive $100 reward for capturing him. have on your person when you capture hima copy of the latest edition of The Evening World that is on sale on the newsstands in the district where the capture is effected, | you will receive an additional $50, Your newsdealer will tell you the hours at which they place on sale the various editions of The Evening World, | The Mysterious Mr. Raffles will NOT DENY his identity. HE WILL ADMIT IT INSTANTLY. If you see him say: Argument or fussing He will forfeit $100 if it can be shown that any other than genuine photograph of him have appeared in ‘The E¥ening World. He NEVER wears woman's dress, The Mysterious Mr. Raffles. shapes and sizes was produced from the showcase, but I trolled up Broadway to Leaving Wanamaker's I w& Cas explained that they wore all too ordinary, “What I want, jointed out the glade door. It seemed to her that @ silence Permission Mun! Bons, | Tece courses. She yright - i hel run, | fell ‘thi owd, as if her deceit were ony RNY, GeoeeS M , na ete na if the guilt of the. deo uiready discov. ‘Then Mellish, who ING CHAPTERS eturning ie “ uc oa England Mt Woman's seats cast oh Ea CHAPTER IV. The Fugitive. F°: the next two months Lydte re- But she spoke wit S| police came up wi on revs, hie a Private Baghville, rf who had spo! ‘@m and he ain't ft for a d mained quietly at her country seat in Wiltetoken, ¢rying to put shoulders Qrown uncomfortable memories in work, | thtous! Bho chose asaher study Warren Lodge, ‘the cottage in the woods formerly occu pled by Cashel and Melliaa. There sho spent her days writing. ‘One morning Bashville asked for a Qny's holiday, Lydia reatily assented, “Phe road ie quite thronged to-day,” whe observed os he thanked her. "Do you know why?” “No, madama” said Bashville, end blushed, ‘The forenoon passed away peacefully: | aon't CHI Buddenly there was a rustle and @ yh blanket, awitt footstep without, ‘Then the| 42 have @ clon latch was violently jerked up, and/Jydia could devise Cashel Byron rushed in as far 88] ping him, he wont the threshold, where he stood, stupe- fied at the prosence of Lydia, and the change ip the appearance of the room, ‘On his face was a mask of swent, @ust and blood, partly rubbed away Jn places by a sponge, the burdera of its marked by black asroaks. "I didn't know there was ony cno ere” he said, in a hoarse, paating whisper, ‘I'he police are after me, faaye fought for an hour and nun over a mile, and I'm éead beat—I 60 10 further, Let me bide in the bi room, and tell-them you taven't seen any whe, wih your? "you ask me to shelter you,” sald Lydia, sternly, ‘What have yow done? Have you committed’ murder?!” “No! exclaimed Cashel, trying to open his eyes witely ty astoniah- ment, but only succeeding one, as the other was gradually closing. 1 tell you I have been fighting; and it's fiegal, You don't want 10 see me in prison, do you? Confound him,” he added, Feverting to her question with den wrath; ‘a steam-hammer , Wouldn't kill him. Zou might es well hit @ sack of nails, And ail my money my timé, iny training and my day’ every hue that a a iin Sie, Wri rl ia RS castlo, where th a Met hi ‘Some thiet as Moljish, sultenty to ‘our wants anid the Kergeant, coat N's of him, big fh MAY Pa pre ant It's enough Go, wale Lydia, ‘with tincontwollapte “suet. yt i 70% BP. ase Fou “oome to Ee i OW & crowd fer teers tees at minted’ antinak Ladin could not ker we she oPepin oe bt the Anner rit tan RT sey . fae cet ene, 8 oe he Was Practicing was wrenching fibre in her heart from ite natural &ession, and no shade of suspicion fell on the’ minds of the polige. Soon after a secon @nd another crowd, among whom was “Better @o in, mum," said the police- m Hs unt Keep together, being. so Lew, But Lydia had lool “| Sueased chat tho last prisoner was Par~ iso, although his countenance; yond recogniti ifs was Kerohiof “with white enots, h One. of fer Ma a hakod ribs could be seon, tnked. with | Eis An Bs- ike that of Cashel, except x lush. "'Now, boys. Come alo) girded with a blue pand-|* when Lydia turned to co saw Cashel cautiously che vey anigh' a eBashville,” 3 snow hein tha @pectacle ampeare tis in, Rerhuerly, hee. Whe they a gone?" ho said. “Mhat See eth! | gorvant 0 rs 4 8 good sort. Ho vsnih sae sigas| SESE Pe Pepe oe tate wee 8 for you, you're ded fe na ate ake ee thet atte?’ Where are yOu poing tor! ‘ O42 BE on her hat and was sMashatvoco eat 0 "ar Ow ‘color’ were chasing on PO. t “cet itt i et It for you.” Al ‘de ¥ im xe-entering the lodge by the ullt of the deoeption sh ome pret pow q F had been waiting for an opportunity to protest ngaioat, the lapt remmaxk of the policeman, said, angrily: i 1 nay ate dea Tar a Mak ed nua struc! a ever net eyes on him in my ilte ‘before. Tiydia, logked' at him as might look at a wretch to ‘was to be chained. was doing 08 she had done—lying, ‘Then Bashvilie, having passed through the other nom, came (to the Ubrary by $he inner duor, with an old livéry cloak on his arm, “Til get clothes at the castle for the that wants m,'' bs 5 et Ming to. return her but failing with ) apparent sel detachment of th another prisoner ken to Lydia firet. ‘ou to look a d already and had was on, cos- ing trom lain, concnaled. room in po ee bE gg! iy ‘ exoitemen| 3 looked cold and anxious, as if m reac: ‘bad bi worse than you," “It there was an ola 0 put over returned safe, him.round th each other through her cheeks, bee eyes and nostrils, usually ao tran- quil, wero dilated, Rs arts you spenk to me?” he eald, Arresolutely. “Just this," she replied with pastion, Let mo never pee Pon ) Nhe very foundations of my life are loosened; I baye, told a li I have mado my servant-on honorable man—en accom- plice in a lie, We are worge you; top out peri hea! 4 al ra ‘back MANTON’S oe Daily Fashions TS antnts nat ore ‘full dbout the test. ios the ‘most graceful sod Gestratile ones for ‘Walling, and among | @U the fewhionaiie A Photograph of Mr. Raffles, hel Byron’s Profession, By G. Bernard Shaw. for even your wild-beast's handiwork is a less evil than thé PHNEINE of @ falsehood tnto the world. This is what pap come to me out of our acquaintan Thave given you a hiding place, it. I will never enter it again.” Cashel, appalled, shrunk back with an expression such as a child wears when, in trying to steal sweetmeats ym a high shelf, jt pulls the whole cupboard down about’ its ears. He neither spoke nor stirred ag she jelft the lodme Bhe returned to the castle, Half an hour later Bashville came to her, “Well?” she asked, He was daunted by her tone, for he had never before ‘heard her speak haughtily to a servant, He did not magerstend eat ho had changed ire lee ly and was now her accomplia yte's given himsolf up,” sh ob “what sudden dismay | “Byron, madam, I brought some glothes to the lodge for him, but when} 1 got there he was fo the gates In search him in the hands of the palice, gone, 1 went round told me ho'd. just given himacif up. He; &itered the store, and, singling outa salesgir] who wore wouldn't AR any, RepoUne of himself, | a white peel hirt ist, T ed to be Gnd he lockedswell sullen and beaten nwa like." “What witl they do with him?” she | uM Jabor last asked. turning guite palo, “A man got six weeks’ month for the same offen: ably that’s what he'll get.’ He had given himsel robable imprizonment! er sho knew why. (To be continued.) Most prob- you have @ handkerchief man, The Farmer's Puzzle. motels there 4n|' eS ee a ae { ra | --| HOUSE ! i | | — ts, Gi al FARMER has a« plot of ground and wants to divide it into four equal parts all of tho same or | shape. This te a pretty hard Job, and ood ey May Manton Fathion ese tet the eatution will be found marked off 11 On the diagram abeve, Lf you Want ty pusslo any friend who does not already Iknow thts problem draw the figure with ‘he house only. and Hee how long it 18) takes to make the four equai divisions as showa, How to Make a Muffler Man. Roll @ handkerchief at the sides until meeting in the middle, lower ends and spread out a little, Thon bring down the upper ends © and D, spceading them out, bring them around the middle, tie them in the back, and igaw out the ends of the knots for arnia, Pull the other ends out longer for legs, » The Natural Laxative ‘Water was awarded the Grand Prize at the 8t,. Louts Exposition, 1004, for its Purity and Excol- *lence, Hasy to tako— Basy in action—Ease for all stomach ailments, CON STIPATION THE SCO HIP-FORMS PBASHION PHDANDS for PREROT figure FITTED oves some AMUSEMENTS. OER WAR rr ee ERE, “YOU ARE THE MYSTERIOUS MR. RAFFLES OF THE If you is unnecessary, It can o¢ only when the person is is something outlandish,” I explained, “something, you know, that might attract attention,” The young ludy thought a moment and then, diving ander the counter, reappeared with a miniature akull | with two bright bits of red glass set in for eyes, “That 1s just the ticket,” I remarked as I paid for the pin, “Now everybody in town will surely know me.’ And yet the salesgirl never said a word, Clerk No, 2 in Department 1 signed both the sale and trading stamp youchers, Going across the etreet to Alexander's shoo store I asked a young lady clerk to show me some shoelaces, Blew in 13 Whole Cents. “Whit kind do you want, oxfords or high boots?” asked the clerk. I said 1 wanted laces for low shoes, and the next {natant was handed a pair of laces neatly done up in a paper bag, That also cost me five cents, From Alexander's I walked over to Broadway and took @ ear down tc John Daniel's Sons and Sons, where T askett a small blackhaired salesgirl in a white shirt walst to let me see some handkerchiefs, After rummaging around for several minutes I se= lected a handkerchief which the young lady told me 1 could have for 18 cents, I paid the money and the hand- Kerehlet went up to two little girls who sat in a box e the counter, One of these girls, after examining > handkerchief, called to the salesgirl, “Say, ts this j ha AESoE 18 cents or 16 cents?" “It's 1) cents,” answered the salesgirl, whereu ttle Miss Cashier returned “Well, there are no Tiveont handkerchiefs on your counter.” At that moment, how-| ever, a man with a light mustache, who was also in back | of the counter, put an end to the discussion by telling | her to wrap the package up and hand down the change, See the chance yon missed, girls? You might have | won $150 {f you had looked at me instead of that chenk 80 closely. | Taking a Brondway car down to the City Hall I | found a good-sized ferns around t very cheapest battle of ry on sale in the store. i "a fis Sa the cheapopt thing we have," ae nee ie rl, as q juced # yer) taining'a yellow re Only Soete tve ete ” ia bought the pe uh left the store sé : ere was nO chance captured there next thousand Pheri sf oe rr the perfumery has “2” on it in ink and is stamped a6 having’ beon “examined by No. From Namm’s I crossed over to Chapman’ lig for next the young lady whom er Re ca}) u box of candy for 20 cents. I'll keep 1as, ) Oa eee Cee 'T returned to Manhattan “f way of the Brooklyn and ¢] erot B walked up to Pouiecneatetaect Cyd peg dite i as much as “Howdy do?” ToT Now, can any one tell me why IT was ayorlooked 1 those department stores yesterday? I mare absolute! no effort to hide myself, walked about with all dom of an ordinary #hopper, yet conscious of the fa tor me, Tam going to try it over again » The ment store clerks shall haye the chance pedi thoy want to scoop iu some easy vacation money, Took for me in your stores to-day, IH be there with- ont fall, and the first person who addresses me‘ with “You are the Mysterfous Mr. Raffles of Tho Evenini World” will get $100 in cash, and if that person is wisi enough to have in his or her poasession.at the same time the very Intest poraible edition of The Hyening World, they will win an extra fitt Here's to you, girls; I Letters to Mr. Raffles. Saw Him, but Pidn’t Speak. To the Mystenious Mr, Raffles: Brom a haly:hour's observation of you to-day from noon tH 12.40 P.M, 1 hesitated about approaghing you till st wae too late, when you Jumped on a Broadway car going uptown, You had a cigar in your mouth and sat on the last seat of am, open car. You wore a brown derby, blue serge suit, dark te with a horseshoe pin in Jt, and wore a white-wing collar, Baw one fellow approac!: you and ask you a question, and later a young boy looke you over, glancing at his Bvening World to note the rescmblance, then hurried away with two cthers. Yourhave sandy hijr, If this ts you Z helleve one must be exact in waying: ‘You are the Mysterious Mr, Rafe y: wish you luck. that nearly every one where { went was on the fopkont | for, All they haye to do is to keep their ayes open if; © 4 i crossed over to Brooklyn on a Putnam avenue car, Con~ " é y o ifes of The Byening World;” else you will deny your identity, ductor No, 200, leaving the car at the entrance to Abra-\T bulleve I really tost the chance for the $100, Should it come, | ham & Straus's, In that store I even went Bo far as tolarain I won't let it slip. away ao easily. You also stood tq ive a young lady with glasses, who wore @ large white front of a cigar store on Wall street, talking to a abort fole do you mean?” she satd with | ‘h of him and found They up to justice; to And, recalling bitter words to him, Jadia thought Fold over the Mr. var | Ullle Ackeratrom & Co. els. caiuaageagemaglish stone ring on her left hand, my initials, | |. Walling over to the stationery department I asked | this particular salesgirl if she had any letter paper bear- ing the initials “M. M. R. 0, T, B. W,” ’ | ___ “Why, no, of course not,” answored the sal surprise; “our letter paper hag only one inj on it.” Walking away from the counter I strolled about the | store for a few minutes and returning to the same girl remarked that I gueased I would tale a box of paper if he could find some with the initial “R” on ft, “Oh! yes, we havp plenty of paper with ‘R' either en- raved or stamped," answered the salesgirl, and sho handed me a box of paper for which I paid 19 cents, tad Tip but Didn’t See it, | You will note that “M. M, R. O. T. B. W.” might stand for ‘Mysterious Mr. Raflles of The Evening World,” but the young lady refused to accept the tip I gave her, and I had to carry the yeward away with me. The voucher I received from Department 19 has the numbers “1810” and ‘'42” on it, Over at Namm’s store it was just the samo. (A crowd of women were around the perfumery counter when I a low, and had un Wyening Workl in your hand glancing at your face in the paper, WALKER R, Hackensack’s Bright Eyes. ‘To the Mynterious Mr. Rattles: ‘As you aco sisiting neighboring cittes please visit Hackone rack and I think some bright eye will captyre you on Biate atreet, ©. W. B,, Hackensack, N, J, A Challenge from Staten Island. ‘To the Mysterious Mr. Roffles: ‘We, the poople of Linoleuraville, dare you to come to Staten Island afd we'll warrant you that the first person you meet tu this‘town svill nab you. RANDOLPH G. Schoolgirls Want $100. To the Mysterious Mr, Raffles: Why spend ao much tine @owntown? Why not give thp schoolgirls in Harlem a chance to capture that $100 and ler them have pn good time during the coming vacation? Many of us never have an oppartuslty of belng ip the ptreet except \going to and from avhoo}. My route Js along One Hundred and Nineteenth street, between Third and Fifth avenues, at 8.15 in the mornings and shortly after 4 in the afternoons, hope to, have w look at the Mysterious Mr, Raffles, % and highly decorative effect. dressed in a pair of these Princess Ties. and sold only by us, gray and black suede, white linen duck and white buck skin, in shopping, - Linen Duck and Suede Pumps and comfortable ) STAMPED ON A SHOE MEANS STANDARD OF MERIT, Our Three-Eyelet Princess Tie Is a Beautiful and Cool Summer Low Shoe, held by a broad negligee ribbon, which adds a graceful charm The foot is exquisitely distinctive and exclusive creation of rare symmetry Prices range from $3.00 to $6.00, In Russia calf, gun metal kid, patent leather and fine black kid, Also in tans, Our Stocking Department is on the same floor, so that Hosiery o match or contrast can be easily obtained without any discomfort for Summer Wear, The Hot Weather affords the opportunity for foot comfort and foot diess that colder weather cannot equal. 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