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10, 88 to 68 Park Row, Ne ey Second-Class Mail Matter, eee sNO. 16,188, — the rs Publishing Company, atthy it-Oftice at New York IME, AG , 010+ crsens voveee ov Neca nobees cossse Ss What Is Honesty ? What is ‘Tinith? asked jesting Pilate nvaeteem centuries ago. honesty to-day? Where by aS pa What ; is it to Le found? Certainly not in the hig places where it was. ‘once conspic VOUS, Not in the line of life insurance presidents crov ‘ding on each other's heels to make stitution of profits gained by the ise of money not their own. . Not in trust © ; company funds at} nomi of interest. ! _ rgd of the Statesto collect who dnwoke: fhe power : Net!In party bosses: who practlsesextortion understHsents of retnta- Not in auinen who: acosptrretaining "fees. contingent Not.n the bought legistator-or fits purchaser. Not ‘in thencustodlans Wicers who loan \ upon services of “yellow dog” funds, Not in feanchise-bartering City Comils. Not tn political leaders who receive rich contracts as eaves gh “Ig all the world given to graft® Is the comma ' he keynote of modean. not steal” ? Is corruption t met eit : the theme of the nowelist and the, ficant that graft has become n a) te writer, eo text of the pulpit orator, the topic. of the public speaker, the platform of the successful candidate for office. It is through antagorism of graft that aspirants for public honors now most quickly | Thie Evdaoling wWoract's ome Magazine, thursday uvening, wove ‘wirrreward. Standards of honesty may rise or fall, but thatwof the plain | ? nd wumalterable, re vat Aes New York’s shame to go as the eader in the alliance of politics with corporation corruption? Are. there arn depths yet to be sounded? When thieves fall out honest men get their dues) When master thieves disagree the revelations amaze and astound, ‘The spectacle before the nation of men of eminent station accused of the crimes of the footpad and the blackmailer is a sorry, one, ': Women, Horses and Dogs. ou rominence of women as exhibitors at the Horse Show and i carttpetca in the trials of hunting dogs in Virginia serve, to call | attention to the development of fenrinine Interest in horses and. dogs on the practical side of the brood farm and the kennel, At the Newport Horse Show Mrs, J. B. M. Grosvenor won ‘three championships, eighteen blue ribbons and seven second prizes, Mrs. B. R. Bruce, to whose kennels J. Pierpont Morgan has sent a valuable collie pup, has a wide reputation as a dog fancler and exhibitor, The adver tising columns of periodicals devoted to country life activities show a very considerable number of women engaged professionally in breeding | cattle, horses, dogs and cats. Women chicken raisers are legion. Atto- | gether in the nation there are 1,081 women stock raisers. The nomber | of, women following the occupation of gardeners and florists, and in- cluding nursery women, is 2,862. There are 525 women vine growers | and fifty-one women make a business of raising bees, In New York City a number of women are florists, 7° There is ro reason why these pursuits should not be most-congenial to women. The awakened national interest in out-door life no doubt | will give a yet greater impetus to their adaption by the sex, “ ‘The New York Central has applied to the State Railroad: Commis. | sion for permission to abolish a grade crossing on its Harlem branch, Js thé Board in receipt of any application from the Long Island road to | H abolish the grade crossing at Great Neck, where three persons have been | killed, or the Benton avenue crossing, Jamaica, where two. children were | crushed to death on Tuesday? ae The Canyon of Go @YNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTER: | aoned, mtking for further assistance, Frank Rand, a young New Yorker, pp and promising, in his own sanguine for mold ID A. . meets Tom fas for wold, 1p ’ way that In end thelr efforts must. H be crowned with the most abundant i guccess, y| Unknown to all but Pedro and hte cousin Manuel, Mrs, Fleming fitted out Jan expedition with such supplies an j Might be needed, and sent ft off tn chenge of the Mexicans, who were in- structed to hand {t over po Alabam. The night after Pedro started with his cousin and his well-laden pack mules for the south, Mrs. eming called on Lucy Moore, who, since her father hi taken to his ded, she now day. f late Lucy had grown pale and. regu country, Bie fare left in a cave in char can and Alabam push blaze with rich ore, @ canyon Loading the selves down, with gold, | th h the way Frank » FoR On an earns chat and though she made a brave (i jal venture i on ‘ ried Frank ten seecved sb she could not hide me Yaqui girl from drowning, and {9 ow that, apart | by the Indians the doctor ute breakdown, j ther great ble was gnawing | a art ' _ my dear,” eaid Mra. Fleming, CHAPTER VII. }s the two sat down in the semi-dark- | ness the @ parlor, “I came round A Girl’s Heart. | tonight to learn what all the trouble | HERE at least one woman {n|{s, and you must tell me | Tueso: no knew her o A sobbed Lu “Father is and oould keep her ows and the doctors say he cannot | forty-elght hours as Well as tho secrets aeuited to her, It 1s un ater, my dear child, that this very remarkable woman was |80 the & little widow * the Widow Fleming. i! \ , and God, w ¥ 1 it, gives us one and all the No one could te Hp that ‘at heart Mrs Fleming we dealt i, troubled, for Lucy Moore 8 all, Trust Gahssa were the o ti 8 with me, for i¢ 1 ftakén into her confidence 1 elp to bear dt, town had come t * & And Mrs Frank Rand was de nd the girl nearer and k dam would meet with the same e ihe remained within reach of the Yaquis, as ie was sure to do. m T Captain Mantel, whom she heart- ot 80 much fron 1 § MP hated, and Pike, whom she as c wh she surely had that—as that sh @iNy despised, Mrs, Fleming was ever! might hush her 1 gracious and encx Pimight safely tr clever ac rom this} with a suppressed cry arms about Mrs. Flem ww with the t and. na 1, the very © tears 7 Bpons to fevad but as she fought) Will quen heat of } Willy realized the odds against | leave the mind cles , storm clears the alr I'm through Pedro, as we wil)|away down in the dumps—and most had written to Mrs, Flem- Pe het everything that bad hap. women get there at times—nothing so! aomforta M4 As & good cry,” And the is | regres i905. Filling Another Niche. By Charles Ray A Weather Philosopher. ‘Do the Dittor of The Mvening World: In all my forty-six years’ expertence than he {8 to be found to be Mayor he the lecture rooma when not in use? I| magazines which have ‘er known #0 glorious an Qc-/0an “pull the cord” on Murphy with “nd many men who want to speak at| Wha: do readers advise me to do? 1| tection, happens among mankind every summer and nobody ever notices It, Thave n tober and November, so far as weather Js concerned. Tints is noteworthy, be- onuse {f the weather had been as bed a5 it has been good, everyoody would | have been kicking, Yet I don't hear! any praise or self-congratwlation on this| gorgeous weather, Human nature ts a| funny thing, Ie takes blessings as 4 matter of course and screams Itself hoarse over grievances, Meantime let's enjoy this ideal autumn, c & Lesson in Powers’s Cartoon, To the Editor of The Evening World: I note Powers’ n in a recent Evening World dep! Mac pulling cord. How can Murphy go and Me. eure from what I have observed of so | is my mother would not think of allow- Clellan stay unless McClellan is vindl- cates by a re-count? Id widow {\lustrated her meaning by cry-} ing a little on her own account After the storm of anguisa had passed and Lucy could pull herself to gether she said, between choking sobs: “It ie terrible to lose him, for now that Fravk is gone he ts all I have in the world. But for father to die with disgrace on his name—tit fs that that's me!” Yisgrace on his name?” repeated Mrs. Fleming. “Why, there js no man ‘ore respected in Tucson; and but for s ‘aking up with this Cap'n Mantell, d say he never did a mean or @ fool- wh act In his life. And I'll say now at he's not the man to disgmice him- “| Made a Fearful Discovery!” Letters from the People # & Answers to Questi mond Macauley. ons MeCielan will be under suapicton un-|!mprovement tn the manner of public | taste for millinery, and I dearly love to Jens he comes out for a re-count. If ‘the applause of everybody. 8.7. Suggests School of Oratory. To the Editor of The Wvening World T bag to offer the following migees- ‘tons; Let the Board of Education pen | the leoture rooms of our publi hools | during the winter months, any one night each week, for the Improvement of pudlic epeaking, public debate and dis. oussion of all public questions, each | school to form {ts own literary sooiet) and have ite critics to correct errors | in manner and voice. Contests coulk be arranged botween the schools, T am | many young men speaking In the late campaign that there is vast room fp, into it." "¢ wid a other, Ob, the doctor may have been blind to thelr game, as have others | in this town, but they couldn't blind me, though they tried mighty hard, But tell me, my dear child; did they et your father Into the Chiquita juena mine?’ Lucy nodded her head with emphasis. “And they all his money and want mor! at's the game, and It's as od as it's mean,” wold the widow, The tee was now broken, the fear of shame was for the moment gone, or forgotten, and Lucy freed her heart of the sad secret that had been crush. ing her Into the # self or you.” “He could not do wrong himself,” egid Tucy, “but others bave led him ¥ mine of great and a Sens Col. Gore, on the quick returns, had invest his last cent speaking. Then why not let us use|write, I have sent several stories to been rejected. times, but fear oritfalsm, and hence think I will finish this term at college teglect it. Now, ina ahool they would jang then leave, because nothing oan not feel as timid and would make &n |induce me to study. I read on the effort, Surely H ie worth @ trial, What |averige of four novels in & week, out: do your readers say? side of my studies. i WALTER EUGPEN® BIRD, | COLLEGE GIRL. Can Do Anything but stady. | To the Editor of The Eventn, Dress Sult, Iam a girl of etxteen, aud have been | ry the Editor of The Evening World: going to college since September, but 1| What is the proper attire fora hate to study, 80 my mother says I do | wan at a ball? Tuxedo, white white vest or dress sult, whit ot have to, and I can leave at any time and take up a course of muste | white vest? nd French at home. I am satistied with that, but I would like to earn some pin money, But them the trouble Yes. To the Editor of The Evening World: Did Columbla play Syraouse at tho ing me to work, as we are in very| polo Grounds on Thankagiving day comfortable clroumstances. I have a | jpree years ago? N.C. and R. Bo venture. But not only had he Invested all bis ready money, he had mortgaged his house, and even his furniture, and, This is what the t-aptaln told Lucy, when that day she le dd that their home and its belongings were to Worse than all, he had gone heav! sold to meet the mortgage and the ns- debt by borrowing from Capt. a sessments on her fathers stock. But “And Why did Sap, Mantell loan the) Capt. Mantell, when told her that doctor money, when he knew that he| he had tried to dissuade her fsther couldn't repay jt?’' asked Mrs, Fleming, | from golng Into the Chiquita Buen with a glow of anger ja peers te AR nat ay Oe ag Ball Lucy explain at 5 tel 0 on tried to dissuade her father from was fionsele & large stockho! nor 4! into the mine, but that wh he explain it inglated on ering So oye or ot or pemege vg ia Sapa batty tmaor v6, — ‘Where Letters Travel ROP a letter addressed to Beabe Plain, Que. into the postoMce at Beebe Plain, Vi, and tt will travel a distance of 29) miles, of which 67 Is in Can- ada and the remainder in the United States, before it reaches {ts destinas tion, ‘The aotual distance batween the two offices is about ten feet, D boundary line, contains both the United States and Canadian oMces, Therd are feparate entrances to each, but both are in the same room, have the same lobby and there are no partitions to mark the division between the domain of Uncle Sam and the possession of King Edward, The postmaster on the American side is C. M. Bayley, while G. House has change of the Canadian mails, But theag personalities are conspicuous by thelr absence. J. M, Grow is the actual chai ys the Boston Globe, Mr. Grow occupies a unique position, and is perhaps the only man who official of both countries, Ho ts the régularly appointed assistant postmaster of BA Pamweenaseeenae BOUNDARY L1NB UNTTED Dnazanes, Parone rain Sowsreso Af, Srumsrtad Jer: 10 birt RARE. wine Riven det; we Smcaenoane SULRBROOKE To Sransrtap eh, Wrinsrean Ker. % Beene Peain Toray Disranca RIE + Fron PO. Witoow in DBetae Pra, VaRwonr PO. LioowW IN | DzEBE PLAIN, QUEBEC TR uz, ae Beebe Plain, Vt., and has taken an equally {ron-clad oath to perform the duties of deputy postmaster in Canada. Thus he ts left to himself the greater part of che time, and performa the dua! duties with satisfaction to both the Amerl- can id thelr neighbors, the Canadians. "Is It true t 4 letter travels @ long distance to go from one window te j the other?” he was recently asked. | 294 Miles to Go Ten Feet... The plain old-fashioned store bullding, which 1s sttuated on the International “Yes, alr; that is one of the strangest things in conneotion with this office ‘ | Tf you mall a letter from the Vermont side addressed to the Quebec silo, ft | Goce from here to the function, then to Newport, then to White River Junction and back to Lennoxville, Que., over the on & Maine, There !t {s transferred | to the Grand Trunk and goss to Sherbrooke, It ts there transferred to a south dound matt pouch and comes to Stanstead Junction, and then back to this same buflding, a distance of 2M miles. “It we wish to mall a letter from the American side to Derby Line, {t must | go to White River Junction and then come back over the official route.” Minor Miracles of Nature. HERE are certain Arctic animals, @ark-coated tn the short summer, that T in winter turn puro white, thus matching the snow-covered landscape and escaping notice and harm. ; ‘This change of color, this protection, effected no one knows how, {9 wonder. | ful, as wonderful as @ miracle, and yet @ kindred change of color, a kindred prow | ‘When the pale city people go out in the summer eun of the reashore or the mountains the light attacks them flercely, first reddening thelr skin, then swell- ing, blistering and scorching {t. If thoy kept in the sun enough and If no miracle occurred the light would kill them finally, burning off the skin first and after ward attacking the raw flesh, But a miracle does occur. ‘The #kin changes from a pale color to a tan and on this tan the gun has no effect. The sun may beat on tan-colored skin for day: and weeks, but such skin remains always sound, unblistered, whole, says the Chicago Chronicle, ‘To prove the miracle—to prove that ft {s not the darkening of the skin, but the change in {ts color which protects it from sunburn—is an easy matter, Let a pale person, unused to the sun, tain one side of his face yellow, and, leaving the other sid untouched, go out !n the bright summer sun for a couple ot hours. The one sile of his face Js no tougher, no more hariened, than the other, yet the unstained side will be inflamed, biistered, while the tan-colored one ‘will be quite enol and amhurt. Sunburn ts a mimele, a protection to mankind, as inexplicable and as wonder ful as the miracle of the Arctic animals’ change {n the winter from dark cot to snow-white ones, | othe THOmaRE urpsated, al, tt ut o e ke er 8 10) 20 herself, Pee ee | When she called on Lucy the next | morning, meaning to give her A reat It was an occasion for tr thanks, but all Lucy could de bow her head in acknowledgment “I do not ask you to hastily,” sald Mantel}, Mahe and ‘pul by taking her place as a nurse for the | | ) ‘4 day, she found the shutters clostd ont Fill be beans Pgs.) AS oi gene om the door. The old doctor waa | York, where I can ‘mal pa range aor Col, Gore and Capt. Mantel had been | for mice Gone! Re the study of musi, among the first to offer their services # at a flege, Bul f you will give ae the it whether ry " member that I am readl ¥ Tight oF aay, and thies to the heart-broken ficy. he was forced to acce) i ofan OW | to obey your orders.” tell’s ald, for she was helplesi could she know that t! monste! An éxten: were as much her father's murderers nt og go 4 Ht they ‘had shot tim down on the] i, ‘and 80 the aid sn eke Here & reet ? - r her tr he Fleming 44 not Interfere with far as toe kes, * oe Mantell's arrangements for the burial emus kindly gentleman he seemed, of the old man, but tn her forceful way| After this, for two weeks, Mantell she did insist that the orphaned gitl| called at the boarding house every should, for the present at least, byt metimes twice a day, and, find her home at the boarding house, Al Y alone each time, he, with incre earnestness and decreasing effort his love, unged ‘her te follow lead fathor's last injunction and ith him to New York, But etil! ih PTL ye yd fi to het uEpon in in Tart a raonth tte . cae We ust @ month after the fi Gore, who had called saveral times on Lucy, “in the hope of straightening out the doctor's tangled affairs.” ag he put th called again, ane nies cme is rusque manner and w) told that he had vomething unteuel ae w Col Gore. inalpted Sf “ol. ‘© insisted on ae ons, and when alone he ertad i looking eagerly about nfm, and in speaking in awed whispers, as if fear. ful that the very w: night hear and in expose what he wi a. “Your father,” ore, ater he had recy and silence, nM in 4 day she ab Nn pledred Lucy to y led owing Capt Mantel! $15,900, captain {8 @ generous man, and on your account, Miss Moore, is more than witling to cancel the whole debt, Isn't i geelne that Gore waited eolng that Gore wa: for her reply, Luey bowed and sald: ie she further insisted that Lucy shone pack up all her own belongings, whic were nat listed fn the chattel mortgage, tne take Bis agit a u wi r the funeral Mantel) called he boarding house, and after he was alone with Lucy he told her that he was golng to New York, “Your father’s last requent 8 m A sald the b ashy at ould watch over you ad seen you safe back tn the old home.” Li " Lucy Moore was startled at Mantell's proposition. Although unsuspecting by had always had a dread of nd no matter how hot the ways felt a chill in his pres “T have no near relatives in the Dast,' she said, “and so I do not ca: i Mfantell evidently ted ie ie ‘antell evidentiy expected the git to fall in with his scheme, for hig k face showed annoyance, but, Ike ail rofessional xamblers, he had his feel Ings under control, “What, then, do you expect to do?! he asked, ‘an teach scliwol and I shail try position In the Territory, either ic or private,” she replied, I ie meant it, i Ny ood! 1 admire that spirit,” “But.” continued Gore, “leet night Mantell with affected heartiness, “But| while looking over the papers In the heanwhile you must live, and’ casey | made & fearful discovery!” ’ "T know ‘that,’ she broke in, “and| "A fearful discovery?” repeated Lucy fn alarm, “Yes, © discovery that cannot harm the dead, who fs out of the reach of the law, but which if known would ys | 000 with Mra. Fleming has peviege offered to care for mo till I.can care for my fa “Thal ery kind of Mrs. Fleming, 1 am gure,’ sald the captain, pulling at his lone black mustache. “But even if this rough boarding house were a proper place for @ young lady of your culture and character'’—-Mantell empha: the Inst wor would not fe to be the dependent of a woman wha hag undying Aingrace on my. name? What do you mean, sirt’’ manded Lucy, rising to her feet her eyes ablaze, to make her own way In the world as| “Be calm, dear young lady; iy hest she can, Now, | was your faders |he calm,” urged the Colonel in the Sy frend, a an ap 07 Y ‘7 be pours. fat whisper, "Bit fire and 1 will ex+ je tr o can hardi — ) If you ea you to do the same, at least not mock. biddod anes A kind resent, but T want you t Lincy dcopped into the otvair, the wall Lam ere ot your service, a whirling about her, and ssid hoa e l G0 | * ‘ pes Et EE Hd Thrilling ADUENTURES in the Unknown Land of the Yaquis, with FIERCE FIGHTING -—»<~ -~=<~ Against INDIANS, and LOVE as the HERO'S Splendid Inspiration.—By Arthur Rochefort. ) to 4 }