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STV VV | * The Evening World's Home Magazine, Wednesday Evening, October 25, 1905, Sta ered. |A Group of Oddities By J. me Cory. in Picture and Story. : | Pubitaded by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to @ Park Row, New aid A. MITCIIELT, an English sclentist, bas decided that, In order to make a 5 “Bifered at the Post-Omico at New York as Beoond-Class Mall Matter, . . Cc Successful flying machine, the propeller must be barat on the mechanien | —— Z : * of a bird's wing, Having reached this point In his Investizations, Mr, | )S_ VOLUME 46 sssses srnsee sarees senses eee NO, 16,186, Misuhelh Arat connieveted @ ama machine, With Who: ho used «pair of deal | ie natural wings having an area of t Viree square feet ‘ Who Is the Fool? A mechanical vontrivance w I by a Hitlé electric motor was attached to | ' move them up and down, He found that he could cause them to fap from Se “He must be a fool,” !s James W. Osborne’s contemptuous remark concerning Mr, Jerome, “if he did not get It.” “It” is graft. Mr. Osborne {s too plain in his comment, He was once honest, Perhaps he has not ceased to be. But he Is voicing unclean thoughts. Evil thoughts lead to evil deeds, Perhaps if Jerome had been “‘sen- sible” and “reasonable,” and had ac- cepted the Murphy-Odell conditions, “he would not now be fighting for his official life. Perhaps the people, too, are fools and will let him go to defeat. Perhaps they will not! In any event Mr. Osborne has written himself dawn as unfit for the EXPERIMENT WITHNATOHAL WINGS WDistrict-Attorneyship, He has lost his head; he ts losing the good to #0 times @ minute and to lift a welglt of five pounds, anys the Philadelphia i | North American, trom which the accompanying illustration Is reproduced. This pision once held of him, He ts wrecking himself, Nothing could paint | pucceas resulted” tn the sonsiruction of a lurgsr foachine, ‘with arificlal. wings, ‘more terribly the effect of Murphyism than the collapse of this once | having an @rea of about alxty square foot, The machine measured about twenty | foot across, and the wings were geared to bout 10 times a minute, It ie brilliant young man, mith thie eiaohine thet the Inventor hne wd a liftiig power of 22 pounds. ( The associations and requirements of Murphy politics have destroyed He has not yot att A tight with It; in fa has never taken [t from the , ris *, tree } » to ich it has be sperded ' “ or owever, Bit) Mis self-respect, dimmed his intellect and shattered his morals. | pel Eg ie Hk tl da boeing : pater Nahe OT aoe ' In this shape the people are asked to make him their most im-| | result ant servant! | Who is the Fool? | A new monument eat yindien teats bere reine em | theous ® deadly polson for Buro- | | Shh danicbaen of Ans ¢o eat, but which the . Records and Safety by Rail. | Europe, has Just bee ta rowan end us plotorian-and an joyable diet, In parte 0! Mr, Harriman's much-heralded Pate Taslane tilen. Witt Sow Zealand there grows & special train is under way in the de- known ag Honrl Taine, rt of orange walch no one : ‘ L¢ = | wes bora at Vousteres: (n it @ native can eat without \ termined effort to bring Pacific | coming very M1, while two Coast time nearer to New Yort : bably polnon the aye than it ever came before, isha lh This rushing train is a fit symbol he colleeting of edible birds? ich | f , ats in Borneo Ie thup dee of an age which is never so thor- ribed by Mrs. Caton in her oughly happy as when it is break k on iife among the head- ing records, ters: “A man climbs up @ winging ladder, carrying with If Mr. Harriman shall succeed in ma very long rattan, and h erature” have both had vhen he has marked out any is undertaking to make the fastes } siderable vorve in 6 spectally rich In neste he Tun across the continent he will add 8. Also his three b xes the rattan by a peg Into © Imestone mot elo: ider, and then, trusting Me tire welght to that one og. he swings off Into space ) the direction of any nests he rtioularly wants, Higher and slier he swings himself, unt e comes Ww in reach of any e books J# one of the best ot projection or crevice in the roof; holde ing tight to it, he takes another peg another rattan, making ane e from which to gqing.” distinction to what has already been quite a year for new marks in rail- roading, Eighteen-hour trains between New York and Chicago have become Star fixtures within a few months, The Walter Scott run of forty-five hours from L 0 Was a last summer event of ‘interest, i Railway mileage additions and traffic 1 high figures since the 1904 reports, Hortense ode rrev tetas “Letters from the People # Answers to Questions. |. x.2:2e ey ew et mia a pete ' t nd which was clutched tn bis grip as he was struck down aboard And, according to reports just issued, eleven more | ci ve he wro une wad wronghend deserved a monume | —_— hamme In the rivers of some of the otrer o ; ‘ | eceipts have gone into new} Killed j he vear end ‘ M 0) vt Lost Apple, retor had transacted the business thy about #. You can walk and go rt, and sometimes for monthe the Killed in the year ending with Kast June than in the previlus uae ‘To the sig a aN pula World Ga Goud tava bien out He abd hats | coon your ‘business without every | faye ld not ace tts Fea New the year aoe actual accidents to trains, ee Me A goes {nto business, welling 8) | ¢ver he chose to consider the cost price|Tom, Dick and Harry that Dace | father haw married again and wants t nis last is an item to dwell on, apples at the rate of 8 for 1cent, and/of the bat 2. 5 wars pg [efound the corrers like lampposie io ltake the ehild, I love child more increz p 16% ¢ ) WELLES. |New York ting you. The people in| 0. ay. Hee Rea An increase of eleven is not large, but even a single addition fo a) nts a ne eee tin as| Baye Women Ave Gratetal, | Pilladeiphia. reapex thelr town and |(ni" Mm lite. Tell ma readers, what to year's number of the dead on the rail would be bad, It would still show | cents toxether, A third party, Mr. ©,| 7 the Buitor of The Evening World |thetr townspeople more than the Now ey Premew ack of progress in the most vital particular of railrond management, | ells 6 arples, being the amount that| 1 ave read many times that many Yorkers do. Many a Southern boy has | 5 - Our railway death rate has been frightfully hig! Bement, A and B ell together, at the same |Men have given up their sete without |been ruined when he loft the soll of the) 7 the Bilitor of The Evening World: A h fi ‘i “ ” ; : ee Wore | Ih New York City there are thousand grows frightfully higher, What does it profit us to Or years, and It rato an A and B combined (that is, |fecelving a “Thank you” 1 bave| sunny South to come to New York. | |/ Reacld coepsd 6 Ler Rime Giant For Homes on Jersey Meadows, 5 ' cut off a few hours | 5 tor 2 cents), and all he makes Is 4 SPOken to quite a few of my girl jmere aro good people in New York, but| 3 ; a long trip when within the same hours and others We are cutting | cents. How t» it that C only makes | ‘tienda, end they all egreo with me| they are very fow. Bh & fe MA ties Ce ata lls ween totes off hundreds of useful lives? [4 cents dnatead of 2 cents? A.C. M. | Swat they twive plways thankal @| A, Grandmother's Sad Lot. At ustmrteved “ane almoat worn | B Block signals over 2,500 miles of trac’ “ y | Gentleman who gave them a seat. 80g, the Raitor of Tho Evening World jland, known as the Jersey meattows : g , S of track could have been put In for Ome View of ‘tat Trananction.””| wny not find out how many “Toank I would Ike the advice of your read: | These could readily be drained al money equal to that lost on cars, engines and roadbeds by {as ‘i ri a!" RTs ‘ds by last year's | 7 the Maltor of vhe Rvening World |you's” the avemge woman gives by Two yel ny daughter died, ‘ mecks. Or the last of the deadly “facing” switches ‘could have been | eit Smaner %0 RB: ©. Btruble's question waing on the different ear lines? | ea Fy e daa SEE a iepginge nian mle ed coir ace ! 4 | leaw v0 fe: and| thus be opened up for homes, A tunnel as to huw mush the clerk lost who leaving two little ones, Her husban 4 replaced by modern devices, changed a bal $10 bill to sell m man D.D. broke up his home, taking one of the| could carry people te and. from Man- | It really seems as though economic reasons ought, {f humane fm- | $2 hat, would ray shat inaamuch as Good O14 Philadelphiat |ohildren with him and leaving the other ih foing trom City fall’ co | the Victory, Is carefully preserved én London. Tt Is a short, curved weapon, se h me, saying that as long as I Myed h streot, Where Is philanthro- | verely and shaped liken old-fashioned satlor’s cuthise, As a weapon * pulses fail, to move t H the clerk mate the transaction l@ was To the Piitor of The Evening World! w hb Y ¢ jthe railroad managers to great efforts, another fa slow, Well, I could keep it, Since that time he has ; _ 0 Flt who will in thls pr fast foal {ntrinstc value in modern Umes, but associations render % for record-breaking ; 1. out $100, beciuse he was responsible for Folks call Fihdlad the probl 2 ean | it has practically no tntrinsle value in modern nes, but ations ( year, for record-breaking safety on trains. | the #88 charage and the $12 sale, If the n> doubt it ts, but them is one gol not contributed ane cent toward its sup. ce em Crea tae | It priceless to the British nation, | 6 1 nnn: i 5 7 GHE FVRGHER. HISGORY OF # # #& f# # A A SH B BY aH. RIDER HA GGARD ' ® 2 . } 4 = - = = . | \ ad e uw ce O u NS) t e e y e ° Author of ‘She,’ ‘Allan Quatermain,” ‘'King Sol ’s Mi ” { Solomon's Mines,” ete, i Copyrighted, 1004, In Creat Britain and the) who, 1 abeey. sort ns abies Duiee br. Rider Bactiet) | “yet, 3 ow Sens, had killed every for : | to sink, tub not to be able to wagn ambition, made tts formidable appease / oxo | of big kame known and fussed throug! than or to prevent taem, Surely no /afee When we had dined with her im) | SENOPEE OF PHECEDING CHAPTERA | ome perlia and encounters aaa teeta te 1d endure euch cone wae,evening, Ay habit was to dig { Waliona. Mar, Yor an cknown country be, This he teat her with his worde, and, tunt te nce hour by hour the| ue shat awiul Linceitancs, Walon | Heat capepian Ia eerih ot a momderty af | wonderful to say. Ayesha, is being See URI a THRU RIa KE had promised to us } ‘ DOr oman own arrowa of death fit unseen and Whe bi H ayesha. in fort . mony than woman, ewomitted to the Here 1 must explain, if 1 have not j fa eee ina prmaee years, ey hed bi ms wen. ome Co “eh a a heard past the breasts of each of um, done so already, that she had graciously | bene, Mave, by tse, one had claimed ty ak ak Gd th kita: ped tH of length one finds tte home dhere. | Informed nie ee acm Cane | i | Fag. 6 former Ineatnation, Fa FA Mge eigen tea a Arad oe ite 4 | What, then, must Ayesha have suf- inte. 1 alao Was bo be allowes ‘ } Gaed obs GOT lives end to Walitan tor bin ta] ea a ce 4 me fered, watching with her spirit's eyes tie my supsrannuated a acroas the nountelne, Speech and his life would have coma to (h the hairbreadth escapes of our jour- al fh though In wha | masing these mountains they come to the; a swift and simult neous «nd, for I sel esait , rge tien them, like th 4 ; | land “ot” Kalan. i Malian, Cave wat iy ae ae Hie neyings? When, for instance, in the he treais ef the m: ' i cites Talon GUN Tak anes EE (eh OO RL ene Oe OE ON, Ble ay beginning she saw Leo at my house In i er uncle Mmbri, the Shamon (mextcianr, | by the mere cffort of her will, But sie land about to kill himself in his wn } pears to win him. Hut Leo. learning thal fald not aloy: abe did mot even thr ten, and despair, and by some! ly 1 hoped that af outwal i 4 Ayrshe rules as high . priestess sd ee ahtiae Sane ie ty effort of her superhuman will, |4n might change for tho better, ae facred mountain, beyond Kabon, remains only, os any other loving waman might | tae ect of being Nxed forever in ! re. Holly hel ts : d g from whatever power it was that | Uae prospeet of being bse Ine Winentnation of Amenattig cn (have dune, whe begin to ery, Yen Ul thraldom, the | Se siape of my present wad somewhal if tian princess who hed loved and been @peat toare gathered In those lovely Strength to hurl her soul across the Dapleasing personality, Ae, wot byt { ved by 40, tn, 8 former Incarnation £00 aita Of beni and:, telling one (by one world and thereby in his sleep reveal | t0 me as attractive, | n bate ef tot n her fac r ’ where he would find her, | ScemeeD | rete N Bhe and Teo \bent humbly forward—Hike heavy rine Or to take one'more example out of | et, such as wo take In & fairy tale, E Bit, CADE | Aronson the marhle flr hen she saw him hanging by | since I did not believe tbat teary t arentain five At the slight of this touching evttence eb Gas Unread of are hide from yada, now, as before, Was f t i Tera itt fof her humay, loving heart all Tests herself remained unable to save him, | &t,all certain that 1 wished to do at, ql tacare trom death while anger melted. Now tt woe he who grow or aven to look forward for @ single! paohing and Indepd terrific, Her ao a pea fellge BEDE | content and prayed hee pardon humbly, moment and learn whether of no hey jiaincanoe with whe 1 Wolivenl i ue 2 was abo @ hideous death, in | lopments—was Jon and @AVC8 Bhe gave him hor hand In teken of for. must live on alone Pal eal se inal eat frit ane nad te aie gran arene | seidlp DN ‘ en dim age he was born | power to. follow. Its growth and sotly AP a ta , } rs peal te me as they will” ties, certainly It wos one of whel ‘i CHAPTER XLIV. Len We aie ae Me Wa Tearer wince otnara| Glave, to, uae. JH preg ce Ger Kosei ; ? , hut tom: then. Lee, rie A ¢ confined to WhAt # A Mad Dream of Empire, “but from thee, Leo, 1 ca: sve haunted br inne | eared 10 pe cgnhinas to WAGh abe te {RN we had left the sanctuary h words, hou ant ernel, crue agonves Of het | which took place beuween ua upon this and were alone again in the|In what have I offendelt Can Th ag sty aneah Ay bev hlf bith subject In past time at Kor, Now her hall, the storm that f had reen| it if my spin: keeps tts watch upon 0 be exp 0 mptations thirst for information wae insatiable, dont to hie solitary existence, and more * BAKU espectally to those of her ancient elvni,| {OUR 1 is Lue Shel oie ace We Atene, who, by Ayesh: WAL Cds WILK kit Civ bedded peoples had once beon his wi Imagine a!80| namely, tor the last fifteen years cr #0, her fears jest timo and human change| we had been as much buried oe should do thelr natural ork On hin. | was herself, 80 that by degrees tho ry of her! “Still, we were able to describe to het isdom and her strength, and the im- the condition of the nations and thelr 60s Bt her loneloee (ean tate bia) atratrs as they were at the periow when ! we bade them farewell, and, her company; thus leaving her who bad yy Incorrectly, J ly, to draw of varie fewest #0 Tong, forgotten and alone at) og countries and “helr bes Mh pod, though thou knewest as done ever since wo parted q@nthering upon Leo's face broke tn! theo, as arnesi. Ayesha renewed her Inquirtes @boat his wound, and wished to call| render in tho place of Ife? Can T help Ores, the physic! to dreas them, and | !t Mike some mother who sees her an he refused this, offered to do so her-| litle child at play upon a mountain's wolf, | edge, my soul Is torn Ho degmed that she would leave his| 1 know thee Wounds slone, and then, his groat| eress to pre Deard bristling with wrath, avked her | the Ives of a few half-wild huntsmen Jon shi ed jong. solemnly }f he was a child in arms, a| ‘hat IL should let them weigh for a sin- uly, the power that Imited cur} 0% ane ponder a pp query #0 ehwurd that I could not help| gle breath ngaine thy safely, seeing gercertions so in purest merey, for ie bstete were tie pepole in whee 1 laughing \thot if L slew tiese othora would be were it othenwise with us, our race Vv , pore hapa be was valnted with wi and rt Then he srolied her—ver, he scolded | more careful of thee? Whereas, it I Ghe purpcoed to make Leo the Abselute:Monarety of th9 Werle. Teens? MAG and perish raving In Ite) 0% wigoliaa type, and, Nhe ourselvaa Wishing to know what she) slay tnem not, they or thelr fellows atnald for me, then clothe me with that, a whfte—yes, If only for a single hou hurts} counted for the hideous and ever-pres-| Thus It would seem that Ayesha,| inderviood a Kood many of thelr dit was not a great one, for La Pwemt 1) by spyine upon him with her| may evgn lead theo into perils that {mmortallty of thine, which, although! "would thet I dared!” Ayewha an-| were mere acratches, and th MARIO, an evil gift that he hol alwaye| would bring abo hy death’? and she | dread It somewhat, holding it a thing! swered, with a little plteous motion of Gisiked and mistrusted; (2) by con-| sasped with horror at the word J unholy, and, on this earth not permitted | her hand, “Oh! urge me no more, Leo, Geroming brave and excellent men, tis} “Listen, feloved,” eald Leo, “The by imy faith, I should still rejoice to} lest that at last I should take the risk friends, to a death of flendish | life of the humblest of those men is of jyherit for thy dear sake, knowing| and lead thee down a dreadful road, t oul, thinking lects, Algo she had a motive wr he | unters, | ent might of her anxiety, Teena lave He raal dat inset tise: us| sudien, wolcdsone nigst sho revealed te Instead of being killed, were promoted, ‘Think what it would be to any one of | whe in truth but another blind Pandora’ | “4 In the mose matter-of-fact fashloty to be membera of his bodyguard, Yetjus were we mysterlovaly acquainted Fram, her mtolen enaket a Duauity and ha hiherh whek: rate Asst part of f It told us many. things, For instance, | with every open danger, every risk of | hinsrnunins poner pail lenped iio her oe plibilshed, may remember that whee Mhat whenever she chose to do so, Aye-| sickness, every peril through | hundred torturing demons, of whose nd ber at Kor £50 horrified why pon such evidence; or rather! as much value to ‘iin as mine Is tome, that then we could never more be part-| Leo, hast thou never heard of the love|sha had the power of percelying ail | which our best-beloved must pass, To ion ane moeial kind do but feel tho xpress! eB Caters nation to p (OL temper, on no evidence at all;/ and thou hast no more right to kill him ed, Or, If as thou wafest, this as yet| which slays, or of the polson that may | Leo's movements from afar, and even| seo the rock trembling to ite fall and | !¥-0! that the arnilal ‘sight bel sicple reason that wo became ir @ by giving him into charge of| than thou hast to kill me. It is evil thou canst not do, then let us be wed | lurk dn the cup of Joy too pertect?” Hn Now, however, like. her JER! * 7s Uttle ‘bo: hat & . of communicating her strength of men- | #hey loitering beneath !t; to see them " VAP, though Were @ little boy, | that because thou carest for me bio and take what fortune gives us, All| Then, a8 though @hoe feared terself,| te) vision to others, although to help | drink of water agd know it full of foul- em, her ideas them that they would have | goowidet suffer thy love to draw thee) men must die; but at least before I die] Ayesha turned from him and fled, tim in any predictment she appeared| at polson; to eee them ombark upon a| yy! wan 2 Sate thle thadone ot so sone ia #9 4K be, rare, busty | 1010 cruelty and orkna It thou art) % shall have been happy with thee gox ‘Thus this matter ended, 1n ltwelt Hg dave no power, which, of course, ao- ship and be ‘that Lt was doomed J Shee ‘Be 1 . ‘ a ; comp! hope alone still Unger: th had grown, ‘ sha for sh See, ee pe eR Oa Pe