The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1905, Page 8

' | © possession of the " put up with the dilator * the Borough Presiy » park plots on Broadwa iF } * beds and for building ~massable and s ? i * } & i i $ John F, Ahearn, as President Without his consent no gas can he laid, no excavation made, sewer of a sireet way. N 1 trench can be dug or the surface of | i thoroughfare in any way be dis- bed unless he gives permission. Yet not since the Subway wa under construction has there bee $0 flagrant a case of wanton City Railway Company i eet | Grand street, w! | The contractors, taking street ripping as ig in new tracks, ctically closed it to tr as of ttle. The dealers, threatened usiness, have applied in vain for relief. Why is it not given (hem Borough President by a word could siop this devastation of the street. Why does he not do so? Why also is his aut! not exercised to eflect the long-delayed repair of the streets al he line of the Subway? Lenox avenue, a ( Twenty-fitth street, has Hundred a ! ss and danger. After a year of repaving it it remains a municipal restored? How much longer must residents) vhich a litte forceful action on-the part of vould bring to a speedy end At other points 4 he route of th the streets w 1 Borough Presid cised in a way far trom satisfact been. left in a condition of contention as to the 1 disgrace. Why of nsibilit it not Subway that supervision of is charged itas been exer-| ry. The slovenly restor: has come in tor deserved criticism. h wh ion of the! Dangerous | wed t depressions have been all Itis lar » exist in many places through laxity in the Borough President’s-office that the! general disregard of private rights in all construction work has gone to its present length. It is because of the contractor's knowledge that | will not be held to account that he pre-empts the streets for his mortar} material, forces pedestrians into the gutter and | under bedroom windows at nigin. plants his noisy steam dri In this office also resis ihe ultimate responsibility for collapsing | Harlem flats. What has a Buddensieck of to-day to fear as the result} of the investigation of the Building Department which Mr. Ahearn under- | took with such as of activ building some months ago? ¥ It is within the power of the Borough President to protect citizens! from the invasion of their by contractors and to keep the streets] fe by holding street rippers to the letter to their permits, following the revelations of insecure rights eee eee om — —— ares The Evening World’s Home Magazine, Saturday Evening, September "4 Dat. oon ne d Phe Kei Black Hand , mapbhell Cory. | @udliahea py tho Press Publishing Co apany, No. to @ Pack How, New Tork Wntered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter, HEC ee evtueenthe «NO. 16,104, _ From these evils they suffer more and more-as those chargeable with them grow more bold. When will Mr. Ahearn wake up to his opportuni y and his duty in the matter and give the borough some of that protection it so badly needs? t When Bachelors Were Taxed. Letters from ——— Bo eraduatlor the People wt Answers to yuestio | eoerals so Way don om flat mb may get noo! of ‘hich » lowing hecessfully passed an One was perfeat in a exam THER one of the surprisingly tshable crime.not-eo marry-or-to marry work. Ghee cae et - A old projects that has recently/ too late in life. an average good mark. The firet was] we as cropped out again is the proposed| At Rome marnage was fostered by valpl a eacona his a k ate and tempe Ber- tax on bachelors, The idea is gray with | positive penalties imposed on uamarried a 4 mula during November, December anid age, and, as far as effectiveness tr correction of evils is c a6 inefficient as ‘t \s old, land News. Bachelors, or probationers for | Men and sometimes even on women, a8 well as by discrimination tn favor of. heads of famMies. In the allotment of candidates |the Campanian lands by Julius Caesar ve | Portions were given only to-the fathers of as marriage. bh formed the subject for legislation from To the Wittor of The Eve! WEARY HOME ‘an explain | Get Gat Your old and W ANXIOUS. | Tu the E t ing Worl Poor.” Is 4 | fig Jat I take pleasure in stating weoording to an amcurate thermometer, the temperature of Bermuda from Noy. intil Jan. 31 was ae follows: jordid Rich or Very 1 means of 1 put gold M ree or more children. Under Au-| New York City is « 2 to | of pure ee pher 6 i the earliest times, Penalties have often & se peohibiting /nive in for the sordid +r very What Js a “Moderate Smoker?” # and Ly bee: imposed on male celibates in vari- Hix men and fifty in women’ from ue ee ‘ je saving st ous countries, In proportion as the intere taking possession of a legacy, and thie nd {ea | December 60 fats of the State were regarded as above| Nas applied even to widows, who) in i ass Tadinewnt a y i order to secure their part of t \e- ‘ Januar; ‘ Shoes of the individual the enforcement | csised husimnde” aataves, were forced |® Month, and Ihave no so- Junuary M1... sree 10 of marriage was the more severe, In| to marry again within a period of two|t keep up to save thelr pul But | m n "FRANK H. VIZETR ancient Sparta it was considered a pun- | YeAars., [Manhattan is a hard place for the man | {n ne an| NK H. VIZETBL| GHE FVR_GHER_ HISGOR_Y OF ed Ea s s Cd ed w rd s B - sl e eye e e 0 us ° Copyrighted. 1004. In, Great Britain and they bold and beautiful women, sbe was popular among them, espectally as she ‘was just and very Mberal to the poor, ‘These were many, as the country waa! over-populated, which accounted for its | wonderful stace of cultivation. Lastly, | y trusted to her skili and courage to 1 them from the continual attacks the mountain tribes who raided their | a Meer tt mith crops and herds, Their one grievance tains. against her was what she had no child ns they come to the! io whom the khenship could descend, | which meant that after her death, as had happened after that of her father, there would be struggles for the suc- cession, “Indeod,"” added Simbri, with mean-| ing, and glancirlg at Leo, out of the corners of his eyes, “the folk say openly that it would be # good ting if the Khan, who opprei them and whom they hate, should die, so that the Khanla might take another husband while she is atill young. Although he 1s mad, he knows this, and that is why he is 90 Jealous of any lord who looks at her, as | friend Holly, you saw to-night. For should euch @ one gain her favor, Ras- sen thinks that i would- mean his @INOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. | Vinowy an@ Horace Holly. two Ene. men, tare for asi unknown country” be Yond Turkestan in search of a wonderful and | aly Immortal woman known as "sie? | in or yeas he « old and to . nation, She had o or Queer and ‘ainon, | of sce CHAPTER XV11. _AThreat of Death. , that 3 Pan death.”” i om goign dies henreed “Aigo he may be attached to his of the laud of Kaloon. ult 3 suggested, speaking in a wore white, descendants er’s soldiers; the working “yellowish of -complexton, ‘the original dwellers of there were two, that of Who worshipped the spirit of one OP it of the rul- mines and “Perhaps so," answered Simbri: at 4€ 9, she loves not him, nor any of these men,"’ and he glanced round the ‘all. Uy) SS — “Do you then wish to take refuge in death?” Because, lord, MI did so there would | thetic figure in Ue midst of all that div;1 “Friend,” sald Leo when we were out; be no court left. Swine will to their} solute revelry. ‘The Khan rose also, and | side, “it seems to me that this Khan of mire, and these men and women, who] in bis cunning fashion understood some- | yours threatens my life,’ in idleness upor. the toll of rhe hum-| thing of the meaning of it all, i “Have no fear lord," ble folk, will to their iquor and luxury “You think us @ayy he shouted; ‘the and is near, for it te KiNG, rand why should we mot be who do not and vhélr children are but 67) Know how lon we Have to ve? But, anctent blood rows | you yellow jred HY a, seen Killed as he puts his key in fire-' | astery beyond-the-mountains @ sojourn | cipad adventures. j What Is a Sweet Girl? | By Nixola Grecicy+S mith. 1 Mise Greeley-Smit? je employed all declare | 8 how we can win the s f sorrow for lded to her gen- ene Bur don't y be she tries? AUDRDY. OW and then some pessimist, on some morning:the rolls haven't d rajis against the hardness and mascullnity of the modern woman, Particul: he invetgh against the New Yor varfery, denouncing her coldness, selfishness and greed. And yet, right her@in New York, as we discover from this letter to The Pvening World, there te a group of young women who, having neither ambition to write & problem novel nor to marry a duke. nor to draw alt- mony from a millionaire, see com: dows to be known simply as “juat sweet girls" and want me to tell them how to-be= come so. We are, in character, so largely what we destre to be that the ambition ‘they express and the admiration they feal for the quality of sweetness, viewed tn others, {6 really the best method of attatning {t themselves, The rarest and most charming quality in woman {s naturalness. And {t 18 a great mistake for a woman whose character has a fine acid flavor to upset the whole sugar bowl over herself In the hope af becoming a molasses stick, The bast sho can strive for {s to be a sort of sweet pickle ‘of a woman, and even that is less desirable than her original tartness ‘The natural womanty quallty of sweetness is as charming as ft 1a rare. But the frequent imitation of it that hollow, artificial women give io de! testable. ' The-only way to de really sweet ts to-seok unselfishly and -persts to give pleasure to others—not to tal too much about yonrself, everson. tell your troubles and to be always willing to Hsten to theire, ‘There is about a really sweet woman a positive radiation of sympathy, Wthat warms even her most casual acquaintances to canfience amd camiant.) Sweetness does not mean nogattveness, passivity. A sweet woman map ve ag many and as etrong opinions as-she likes, provided she recogmtzes! ‘the same right in other people. | she has to have character and-strength, though many peaple-do caNvat | woman sweet when they really mean mushy or namby pamby. She mast? | be sympathetic and tender, and truthful, where the truth will beal, andy jwilent where it will hurt And she must be all these things of her ow: matnre and uot-because of any reward«shemay-reap. Borsthe enee probably: \fon't be any. B ve we the we Side.| f ping dead-at Kingston | velopmentvatthe-city-retees-tite « of $1000 Heirs | tatton that nepmseutative houses ind $10,000 in | Most Times of rotafi trade will evant! na dlack trunk, | ally be open for business through n Chicago banks |HI8tt in locates fmeqneneed by whe of foreuy te night crowds. q Des* lon of . . . 4 nediiim frequently a Dovision of PennsytwntRatrontmtiane 4 subject of curious interest. Ag'-CATS Tut come BEXt to the a> rains maieup to tsuxe! safety will exolte reflections in those’ Who have travalled im Pultmans in shits’ pressed their ard provided hy leation indicates e thimrb print Loral case of ¢ arrest med, originmteda on eubasban rans, te a cher shoD. came a fi f Fromen 8 smumnr pane, 8 fed, wma some radroad frerest. Kies eng-| Growth of “ in cluts in sEng Coffee fland, with o pensnip of 4000), hints, at a harassed life for cats and dogs. Faot that the eyp thumbs on the casil la new an i next to cars have mag- | and r i print In blood on an cee. the aetional @rinic, according: i the Department of Commperce, with: estimates that the nation drank 67,000,- 000,009 cups af the beverage Inst yea Pound a month omeumed fy ores, cen in t wonder if | Brooklynites mterested ial of steam navigation = > Neos but oats now running Oy rca in spite of thom the ferry which bears his-name. ; Soda water siphon explodes canst | serious injury. Explosion of cellule’ 5] balla starts a disastrous fre. Line- 2,700,000 Germans Here. , “LE Gorman Office of Statistics hus T Jnst published a report on the § number of Gemnan-bam inhuble } tamis of Amerion. According to the; imperial Suatiwvicmn, no less than | | alarm box charged through the cross-} ling of wires with a heavy clecirte cur- cngers of civilization Increase mene pee ae 2.10400 native boa Germans are new | eee ss My yn ay [in this commexy, wala there are Bs 3 Prospest_ of another allanight bank, | Amerioans iadng with the Goren | with quarters in New Vendome, De- Y H. RIDER HAGGARD Author of ‘‘She,’’ ‘‘Allan Quatermain,” “King Solomon’s Mines,” ete. Ko kl) ema atnce, | having no outlet and increasing #0 rap- 4 mas, Coutdnot ‘To set out its record in| both tedious and uselese, Mly, the land, lange as twil briefly of our peln- Onn ee ol cones “Mt lw feured not," she anewored, “for | the river has not vison well and tut } |few rains beve fallen, Aino the lighs in paradise. full would be eo I will only On the morpow of our arrival the | |ichania Atene rent us two beautiful white horses of pure and ancient blood, ‘and at noon we mounted them and ioe gees soa on the fre moun- { | went cut two ride with ber, Accom | ean, mae repre pe: “| panied by a guard of sokiiers. ene Sits na Se aol led us to the kennels whore the death |rchow. Let pig tes Ghat Waa ect nae hounds were kept, great flagged court# | 01.0 ‘that chisds beamuse str: ay surrounded by fron bars, in mien were | Stalled eho saaidl steetueclies pst aa 4 cked gates. Never have f jjuck. mastiffs of Thibet ware but as lapdogs | shal have to fy to the mowatadn € compared to them, ‘They were red and ie you then gieb eo take black, amooh-coated and with a blood- | qeaih?” sho aaked, durkly, “Of |nound bead, and the moment they saw be sure, my guset, M pewver, . \us they came ravening and leaping at he shall yod be ged mgs lehe bars as angry Waves leap against ampes la rock. \~-Phese hounds were in the charge of |men of certain faméites, who had [tended them for generations, ‘They obeyed their kewpers and the Khan readily enough, but no stranger might venture new them, Aino these brutes weve the executioners of the land, for to them all murdei nd other crim- ‘Inels were thrown, and with them, as we had seen, the Khan hunted any who daw turn homeward, 4 “Phat night-we did nor eat 1m tbe hadl, but ip the room whieh ‘; hedchamber. We were Tat elon, | a . ‘asa had incurred hiv displeasure. pa , \y obhers | ST gg TET swage: coe re