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H ome” Ma fa zine, Monday Evening, § eptember 11 ‘ 1905. When Woman Rules the Roost—No. 7. THE PRICE OF PEACE, | By J. Campbell Cory. —_—— By Nixola Greeley+Smith. HB other it wea announeed that the only reason T the Nobel prize will not be awarded to President Roose his year for his services In the cause > is ard had to be made in February the: te © himeell eligible for it, To me it y household in he land there is one mute, inglorious pacificator far F sre promoter of @uditehed by the Press Publiching Company, No, 63 to @ Park Row, New Tork Entered at the Post-OMce at New York aa Second-Ciass Mull Matter. veeeesNO. 16,002, ! THE ACCIDENT ON THE ELEVATED. The accident on the “L” at the Fifty-third street curve is the happe ha had oma. s that in almost ¢ sng of the long expected after a quarter of a century of immunity from all but minor casualties. This, in fact, is the first very serious mishap due | to inefficiency of ope: 5 ef she prize tha yom om in the road’s history, | i fi ical di mity could be. 1 refer to the husband of Whether the accident resulted from mechanical defect or Rurnian) Siale SAH. (ACG Heeb: RENGREROTER carelessness is yet to be officially determined, | ic sealan@lhi autos TH a faneerene ateNdy Aline These deduciions are, however, clear: | nt bullving of her tor’. Is there not emong ns 1 the marriod coun! yw one or the The “guard rail” of timber was a safeguard in name only, other who pays usurious retes of meekness and mild ns the price jof Peace, one who bullies and the other who J have all heard that In the clash mat rie] it is 9 yields And it mey be that pleasing unctiox | surrender we so often see or the m ‘ jently bullied? We 1, ’ the superior that ¢ vihes the feminine under that we as } frequently deplore. = Still, if the defeated in t domestic turmoils were to put as much store on preserving their self-respect as Russia did, matrimony would be one long pitched battle $ @ of a series of skirmishes. a | Stronger couplings and heavier platforms would have held the train together and prevented the ci the light “trailer” which left the rails. A train of steel ca patiern would, in all probability, not have parted. from leaving the “L” structure. It was ts of modern t With regard to the question of human culpability: | t If the wrong signals were set, why was there no hand on the emer- | i gency brake the moment the mistake was discovered? | a 5 I know a great ma men who, it seems to me, pay too much for peace. And I supyose eve; rs among his male friends similar vo Ums of comrestic ust ‘There are so many wiyes and daughters and sisters that surrender their most inallenatle rights in the daily jangle rother than have its house maid or the women in the next flat | y man nim If, as alleged, the motorman took the curve at a speed of thirty miles an hour, he was guilty of criminal recklessness. How far did he follow go-1 Yyou-please precedents? That “tremendous wrench” whic echo reach the Furthermore, wo know that our familiar friend Mr. Nagg and his illustrious predcecszor, victim of the Candle curtain lectures, were no mere Preceded the accident has been felt before in only less degree, figments of an author's brain. But a woman always pavs more for peace than a man. Fer he at least can fight and run aw: while she as to stay right on the battles ground and minister to her wounded pride and bury a few illusions slain grave because of its occurrence at a time when former fears had been lulled to a feeling of fancied security. The demand on the Interborough | management will be to give ihat fictitious security some substance of | ¢ i The effect of the accident on the public mind will be all the more, t f t } i ity by the. lsevof- new: Fi - ‘ in the struggle. } reality by the use of newer rolling stock and better operative safeguards, | Mr) Nagy can always pution his hat and go ont oven though tt be i =a 4 o'clock in the morning. The feminine victim has no such privilege and i EVER GREATER NEW YORK. . no less renowned than and a woman generally wins them. The Nobel ‘ peace prize ought really to be awarded to the wife of an exacting husbang who doesn’t have a quarrel with him in a ye i By the estimate of the State census enumerators Greater New York } has now 4,140,622 people, an increase of 703,420 over the Federal census : figures of 1900. ft That is to say, in five years the city has added a San Francisco and a ‘f Buffalo combined, or two Cincinnatis, seven Albanys, a dozen Hotokens This is progress in municipal population to which no known parallel exists ‘% the world’s history, All roads led to Rome, but Rome had no ocean liners to add their quota of humanity seeking new homes. The time when we shall outstrip London and become the world’s metropolis is now measurably near. | According to Dun’s figures the cost at wholesale of a year's supplies! of all the necessities of life for a single individual—meats, breadstuffs, food of all kinds, clothing, metal and miscellaneous requirements—was for last year $97, Adding to this the retailers’ profit in a city in which the cost of living is very high, this total may be reasonably placed at $125. i Thus the 700,000 of new mouths to feed and bodies to clothe neces-! 4 Phin plead every year from the retailer cof material to the value! The Same Old Stor y. Taking a Stroll in the Thames, Where is this enormous sum to be obtained? What new industries i : = EE lostadaee kale, ee what increase of old, must be necessary to provide it! Within five nae DO WO M E N LAC K T H E | N D U ST R I A L Ss E N Ss E?” W blues 46 deytalne ease Ge | additions have been made to the volume of retail trade greater than the ng the air..o few less aspiring —_F f therefore the price she pays for Peace is higher. ‘Peace hath her victories | This Man Walks in the Water. ite PTI 4 : a PAU $4TY? $00 Brow. T would not like you duced {nto certain religious an excels in drts |. How- fof ejecting the ball with t force, 4 folks are employed with more terres- q entire assessed valuation of Rhode Island or Virginia. To the clothing : s of early day fever, In genezal, re is ny And It ts quite an impossibility Rata ‘One of eee a tailor | ) dealers of the city there isa yearly addition of $14,000,000, to the butchers] wns?" came the ever Nalnoah moxement ent whieh ¢ m $8,000,000. nine inaulry, possible, tea meenn® | to walk, not on the water, but in tt,| Mr. McEvoy in His WaternWalking - : i “Because you would not be the Las 4, | The pletures here reproduced from Costume. } To house these newcomers five in a family would require 140,000] woman you are if son eauid sharpen t= | ¢ run ond jump | London Sketeh show the Invention and! as ary uted with brass wt j new flats, to provide which nearly 5,400 seven-story single flat-houses|@ !a4 pe y. Girls are not a Ke of in-|ag well as men, but thelr hing are too oe Na Ae aie ere | Thien open and anue asthe wearer oer, supposed to "i vorite is given as the explana- | large is does nc rere w Potty Sctewen nce ce) COatameul OF 5 he wate r i would be needed. ! Ii ts proverbial that there are a num- her | tion, ae a thet el sath ea * : a nother | Utell attached to tts wast and a pair ue Nea ie i lantuaraen A single annual visit of each one to the theatre, occupying orchestra] P¢* _°f apparently simple things ArDBD = en can accomplish the pulling [of skiris 1s overcome they can accom. | Ot °Pecitly constructed galters. These trations of hisrability to walkag. | Seats, would i the box offi ipts b 400 i3 can't do; for, It Js sald, woman lacks) tering Is ilmited. | tudy of iy Semana, ane coud | plish (isa o then | Sellers) Cenek of whieu iwelghs two | tholwater aide by this anparaea, Yel “ a a who had made quite a 5 y 0 Lsteee satdaat Ai os HIN 8 a - ats, would increase the box office receipts by $1,400,000. What 18 known ag “the Industrial ee ae aa oe ee, ait © pulling gracefully tf she —————__ a A single ride of each on a surface car in a year would add $35,000 to| 8°" depend t Gir A ‘5 hi 1 in fi The rare instances where girls have! neeag pre fhe company’s income, Assuming that at least one in five has become a] tearned to whistio ate cited as or Wrectiaiienl genius. q regular patron of transit lines, it would be interesting to know how many] ° freaks of nature. In t try girls riva) their brothers in ca on the woman and what themse! mince successtuly-| Highest Balloon Ascent. The First Steam Engine. a a to sel:sors or a hatpin, or some XACTLY one hundred years ago, patent on a steam engine they had ime ( t | been proved that the whi | pentering, and women who lve alone ay a woman does Hud-| vented, and may fairly be sald to have + new cars, “L,” surface and Subway, have been put in use to accommodate) oniy violates the laws Slearai iar nulla’ tnalkcownetincen cites r famous them. The increase of population by 420,000 in Manhattan and the| but antagonizes the intents of nature.!and hencoopa It Js-merely a matter et the professor phate ee to the helght of 30,000 feet, losing con- | the fat a se put omstiae gle eB Slams tials pnehiee) Wes paver tae i i a But there is an “other side’ to all| of trainin ly not constructed for ba sclousness for brief intervals, They | engine that could Ic ore elabora 01 Bronx helps to explain the present congestion of all means of transit, | gneories, and it, is claimed that thia| The elory of the woman with the|should make her exempt from alll continued to eacend to 38100 fect, when | purposes. Asa matter of fact, Instead | pump water out of the earth, and It The fact that more than 10 per cent. of this new population has gone] state of affairs is simply the result of | hammer is proverbial. It is known that blame. Her by arm Js put on at! one of them became completely uncon-| of celebrating the first ganjanial et mas ett ie Watt tastavent ® condenser is ii ‘i ‘ ich j¢| habits extending through century after| she aims at the nail but hits her fin-| the shoulder diffe and with an! scious and could no} aroused. ‘The | the invention of the steam engine the| whereby ho was enabled to reduow fo Queens for homes is interesting as pointing to 2) movement which is) century. 11 1s supposed that the habit| gers, which, oven though dainty, aye al. (entirely different muscular arrange-| other atier opening, the valve, also bec| corid should be celebrating the second | steam to water again for further use,* likely to be greatly stimulated when rapid transit facilities are at last Sup-| of whistling was cultivated by prim{-| ways In the » while man's clumsy |ment. The overhand metihod of throw-| came insensible, and neither recovered | century of this invention, for in 1706) In Germany the first’ machine was lied which are at all adequate to the demand tive man as a signal while hunting. | ones—never, And then man “Jest natu- |ing a ball, whlch has brougat eo much| till the balloon had dropped to 16,000|two Englishmen named Thomas New- | built in 1732 by Joseph Emaruel Fischer, pi - Also the records show that whistling | radly es a nail straight, while wom- [contempt on the fair sex, is not capablo | feet. comen and John Cawley took out a! Baron von Eylachen, 2 credit of having reached the highest altitude in a balloon Is given to Mr. Bersen and Dr. son River. James Watt was the| Inaugurated the “age of steam." Byt egarded a8} while they t Vatt's Inver Suring, of Berlin. ‘They firat went up| iventor, and 1s generally regar le they anticipated Watt's inyen- a @ CHE FURGHER HI/GORY OF 4 # # # # # 2 w BY H. RIDER HAGGARD AYTESHA: 2°" She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed. Author of “She,” “Allan Quatermain,” “King ; Copyrighted, 1904, in Great Britain and the | through ft laborious, while, accustomed nlted Biatee by Hi Rider Heart) | thougn we were to such conditions SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. | through long years of travelling, Its Jo Vincey, # young Englishman, vows eter. | continual glitter affected our eyes, ‘conatane: of 3he,"" the i Weal Queen of Kor, who shrivellea into| The morning of the weventh day years old mummy by bathing tn'the/ found us in the mouth of a defile which hor death, when in despair) wound away into the heart of the Hop is pbout to commit suickie. sper mount | Mountains, As it seemed the only pos- Soles and vallexe ¢9 @, ‘shaped mon-|@ible path, we followed it, and were toward which we headed, |Mected with dismay that unless we. Betwe us and the mouth of the |could shoot somethi: ur commissariat gully rose, or rather sank, an abso-|was now represen the carenss of ¢ lutely sheer precipice that seemed to|our old friend tho yak, Then we he three or four hundred feet in depth, | Wrapped ourselves up our thick rugs And at {ts foot we could hear the sound | and fur garments, and forgot our mise & of water. erles in sleep, So we turned to the right sad| It cannot have been long before days marched along the edge of the preci-| light when we were awakened by @ Pciirigints aint much cheered to discover that here pice till, a mile or so away, we camo to/ sudden and terriflc sound, Ike the 2 must once have run a road. Not that a small glacier, of which the surface | crack of a great cannon, followed by, . Cy ‘We could eee any road, indeed, for was sprinkled with large stones frozen | thousands of other sounds, which might. everything was buried in snow, But into its substance, ‘This glacler hung be compared to the fusillade of muse ‘that one lay beneath our feet we were certain, «ince, although we wound along the edge of precipices, our path, however steep, was always flat; morc- down the face of the precipice like a ketry. petrified waterfall, but whether or no| “Groat Heaven! What is thate ¥ rock ft reached the fovt we could not dis- said. cover, At any rate, to think of at-| We criwled from the tent, but as yet aim ie we oye ana ot tempting its descent was out of the| could ree nothing, while the yak began question, From tls point onward we | to low ina terrified manner, But it we ee .|often been scraped by the hand of % Men re man, Of this there could be no doubt, itl awe that the precipice increases | could not «ee we could hear and feel, Leo e it Salcn ot is for as the snow could not oling here, | De. oY ; tn depth, and far as the eye could|The crasking had ceated and was fol- Bane o 4 4 . y by ae A reach absolutely sheer, lowed by a soft, grinding noise, the Wt Y; Boats { ile a i So we went back again, and searched ing sound, I think, to which w Aye vdeo. the t p ; : : nm : left of the road. Here the moun- ned, This was accompanied, ing to the end of the defile, and as night was . yy 7 * B a eded, so that above us was a|by @ strange, steady, unnatural wind, falling, camped there in the most bitter Z 8 r " 4 SS bait mighty, dazgiing slope of snow and be-| Which seemed to press upca ns as was | fe > low us that same pitiless, unciimbable |tor presses. ‘Phen the dawn broke and | % - cmarrer v1. now we had no fuel with which to boil Sa x 3 : %. Ms, ‘ guif. As the light began to fade we/ We saw, ). The Avalanche. ‘water, and must satisfy our thirst by ! | $ : Servelved, half a mile or more 4n front,| The mountain side was moving dowa, We va i = 2 n perpare-topped hillock of rock, which|n us in a vast avalanche of snow, the verge of the precipice, and| Oh! what @ sight was that. On trom sio9a on 4 it, think’ that. from sta |i8@ CrOst of the accep slopes above, two the warmth that we gathered from z ; 5 Sie Be. =~ crest we mig he Able 10 AIEPOYRE 8 Oa ng ding, ‘lats m4 || the yak in the little tent, the cold m thing, rolling, slidicg, gliding; pi tte for lik rep deacon ding Tehuth we had strug felt In, waves, hollowing tacit en $ u ‘ 2 the top, it was about @ hundred and ie ite suneene pss) " one of the vast lakes of which a number ( Promised Lind, and there rose the mys- < . X ifty feet high, what we did Giscover oe oan exist in Cwntral Asta, most of them now | tle Mount, #o that all we had to do was mad also, as ,beyond the w ied, iz to p ‘or ao|! Process of Aesiccation, One object |to march down the snow slopes and ens i e , was Sha, hore scridied, Ye ina ie Wave ne so ras frente aa) Meera we soe “1 cme m waves came In vel onda Sc ae a which even at that distance—for it ‘and what rly b i ery ey err tar away from ve-we ro:la dant a.garllatoa te Me own, thoushie that, Jf ey mamery 3 we were’ obliged to spend another truck ‘and. ste nt neo the outline. stood ‘beneath the shadow | #*rves me, we scarcely “® night in the srow, pitching our tent in vs 4 Ay? Bias Wefect Seas Se wet AVA Sa vga ly AMER Re a ea it plume of smoie, WI 4 r rel i i righout § [wad on nosive volcan, and ona ety he tent, haatily awalion \ tor ua it the Jenssome, ices [lB ot tbe seater. om enormous aller. Xf | ous yh evga : te at tie np te hey baad ¥, | food. ;