The evening world. Newspaper, November 23, 1905, Page 18

b Mon's SuPnthe as she saw Metford was not by tho Press Publishing Comi Matered at the Post-Oftive at New The Evening World's by | m vi ee talae ae) TET ee ee vie ts Home Mafazine, Thursday Evening, N Papa Platt’s Grab-Bag. By J Campbell Cory, pany, No, 63 to 3 Park Row, New Yor¥, WOLUME 46...... —_———————_—__— power? venience between the folds of which business, dates from the day that Platt and can longer tolerate such a system of we have become low Indeed! Official recognition in a conservative of the word one of the ministers fear derstand its meaning.” word” Is one of the most remarkabl In the few years since it was coined it lets, Probably no word before had ing to disseminate and popularize it, gating committees, bosses, Senators, c all contributed to its vogue. There are those, indeed, who bel quirements of $12,000,000 and tend free deliveries, tional Committee! “Por the Harvard-Yale football will witness the contest. This year s highest water mark. While college crowd in Spain going to a bull-fight, SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. in former day Ing & wagon, Metford'e dom enters the copye and ts 8 moment Iater found oh to death, thouvh the copes is apparently empty Gave yews Anion the wilt an! under ‘Care, uninvited j then le scoffs at the ten of the carnivore being Gangerous ant trusts hia hand throwen th him | bars of the lone cage wit hurle back out of pert! CHAPTER 4, | A Proposal and a Secret. SHARP word of warning from) Gault, and Noro had slunk back In his cage, while Metford stood Stupidly eying his own arm. From el- how to wrist the ve of the thick pilot Jacket he wore was rent open as (f dy & keen knife The cloth of jacket a4 shirt hung in ribbons trom the el- ®ow. By some miricie the bronzed skin of tho muscular forearm thus exposed aid not bear @ single scratch, Anice repressed a ory of terror, “No Meamage done except to his @lothes!" Stephen reassured her, “Tf the @laws bad broken the skin ft might have een =a came of blood-polsoning, 1 ‘Pushes him back just in time," “In time for what?" snapped Mettord, ly ooat's ruined.” ‘Tour arm would have been ‘to the ‘iscard’ too, if I hadn't shoved you out now "1 Delleve there may be some slight Arad from these ‘cowed, starved beasts,’ ” he added, “Tt was all @0 quick, @o mudden, that MI 479 couldn't follow the motion of the pew,” onld Antos, her color re weally hurt, “But I'm sure you pu | Mr, Metfora out of reach before Nor | @ruek, Just an instant before; but so. to save his an. How did you the peaceful-looking lion was go- to attack himt'’ T sew it in hie eye. Wo trainers a! wath the eyes of our animals, eve te the chief ‘tempor indicator.’ ‘nimale are so oraity they can Qo pring. But they can’t control ‘Tn day time or by electric what Is worse, defrauding the people whose votes have kept them in There has been little partisanship in the rascality, There can be no partisanship in graft. The party name has been but a cloak of con- ' ey have collected praise and plaudits under false pretense. No Benedict Arnold was ever so great a traltor to the country. They have | disgraced the name of the great Republican and Democratle parties; they have been money changers in the Temple of Liberty. Out upon them and all thelr evil kind! The wretched history that States Senate to the present hour stands fully revealed. If the people Graft. “Graft” has not yet got Into the dictionaries, But the use of the} word in the resolutions of the Church Federation Conference gives it! On the contrary, the sudden development of graft into a “household | present time and pass it on to posterity as the “age of graft.” Postmaster-General Cortelyou announces an’ Increase in postal re- erly offsets this with visible econo-| Wanted—A “Goose-Bone Mam” for about six months, and nite yy orues and inhuman thing being done ) than a lot of boys kicking and throwing 5 ans 4 4 To the Baltor of The Evening World Was more esome than I had ¢ every day to the poor anir & football tn . . miles rated at $350,000. Most of the Increase goes to railroads and rural Wer Whe Sone vo. yeane. 1 Have aAved non the Western pinins. 1 astee| downtown business Streets ith men and ‘Sohndel aepaia ie: Mr, Cortelyou {s still chairman of the Republican Na-| your toresania tn reeant to winters be: | “Honest” and “Curious” 98 10 on pavements, Winter or summer {t 1a | step and dodge to wave thelr faces, lit- This is indeed a “business” administration. lng hard and have found them to be | the diMoulty of becoming acqualntel IB) har Our Soolety for| tle tote Hable to be knocked down and right, I would Itke to ask weather | New York GA y to Anfmals injured, to say nothing of two-follar 41,000 seats have been sold and 2,000 more are to be provided. That is to say, a crowd larger than twelve Metropolitan Opera-House audiences populace flocks to the arena to see the gore with all the zest of a holiday | They A New Yorker's Strange # | & ut Quest for a Pirate Hoard | bodies tnort even when they | N puplla of thelr eyss axe ea, ‘words York a« Second-Class Mail Matter, ueRtows Suosan aid nd (TGS o clay, f Might atop a hole to keep the wint evepoessecs sees anecro ts 36; 164 ita Da ‘0 keep ani E = |And Nelson's ehip that set the w ms flutter + * 5 putter, The infamous revelations of cor- i In more prosate diction, a 7 f th Tuption at the recent sessions of the stout oaken timbers whiter 11 ' H H } ak all Nelson's famous fhigslp, Victor insurance investigatic n make plain Na cea Matartaa int © Kaa to the public the extent of their formal patt of the wil Porves, of E ek ts betrayal by so-called party leaders. What have Platt, Odell, Depew and Hill been but cheap and de- graded persons, dealing in the souls of men? How many delegates at political conventions have howled themselves hoarse in cheers for “our honored leaders” — leaders who have been selling them out and, carved the inscription tory, 1761.” It ts noedless to a Mr, Purves keeps the putter m @ curlosity and does not further ¢ the relio by using it to prope: gua percha pills, Fach section of the country, oity enough, has preferences in tt f food that differs from the ¢ other sections, Even in the w rica, the long-grained yarleties are higher-prioet—not that they are more nutritive or that they possess a better table, North, while in the South it is given ¢ (Aaa J fad a these men and their kind have done Conkling resigned from the United politics and such morals In business quarter. In opposing the adoption ed that “some people might not un- cause he cowld not work on the Sunday Beine, In the cave {9 the statue of i Through thi pour the waters of th fe things in the history of language. | \ fest Wa ou ites aoe us eran has penetrated to the remotest ham- so many different agencies combin- | Legislatures, city councils, investi- | contractors, the press, the pulpit have | leve that It will give its name to the | Letters from the People = Answers to Questions id look into this. shoul H. R. Football tn the Streets, to bel To the mai “AIL Right,” Not (Algight.” To the Biltor of The Evening World: How {@ the word “all right |propheia among your readers to give towevasts uf this coming winter. A.M. vanes of glass in constant danger of being smashed, together with the roars game at Cambridge next Saturday son Horsen and Wooden Pavements | playing foctball in tho streets. }To the ¢ The Evening World. ys That |anclent gag, "You were a boy yourself | f The Mvening World jand yells that go with the game, I The Lonely Man tn New York, written? As two separate words or a8! [ observe that one of our voluble KnOW not of it. I think lews talk upon To the Baltor of The Evening World one won! (as “alright")? - been 2 the part of His Honor and more effort I came to New ity an entire | PERPLEXED. | the police in the of to snow the boys the error—and nul- sance—ot thetr would be in order, AG ees the popularity of the game at its|stranger, After becoint: presidents discuss its brutality the| "2 the fellows In. the acquainted op I tried, through n, to meet a fe pI) I saw a letter in reference to leaving | once," Is the theme of his remurks, [ No, 289 Broadway. ed as if they frald| horses without dlankets these cold| belleve there ia an o 8 forbll IN To the BAItor of The Mvening World: | from stealing bits of the statue for re they would spoil thelr chances with the} days, which practice, I admit, i# unjust | disonerly condwat In this town, and if| What ts the addrose of @ free er ly beskte the fountain, This tt girls by Introducing me. ‘This went on/and inhuman, But there is a moro! thers ts anything m more disorderly | reas Legal Aid Society? K, a, |feience which haa a special sentinel, * The Lion Tamer ¢ By Albert Payson Terhune = tremely small, just as Nero's are at ; this moment, But when they grow angry and mean to make trouble, the pup suddenly dilates t!ll the Irie almost disappears, That gives the eye a flery, some sort, maclt 4 she felt, to lose control wm utterly; a r thought him insa revolting, nto her eyes added, @ menacing note cresping Into ‘dis expreasioniess voice, “I belleve you would have learned to care for ma fected Anioe and even held th it wasn't for Gault. I've @ score to set- uar, he sald, stopping at one tle with him, I’—- caro; ‘I trained her myvelf.” "If this other ‘life-passton,' you cell tt, is hatred for stephen foroke in Anioe, acorntully, "Lat mo t you"— | “Btephen Gault! he echoed, laughing jalowd, "my remaining hope in lite {e eo vast @ thing that any @rude [ |hold Gault 8 & mere pin-po nt com- |pared to tt, No, no, your friend Gault |has no part in what's left me in life. But he shall pay none the less, for “You talk like a cheap melodrama vil Jain,” she said. ‘You must be crazy! T don't oare to listen to you, K20d-by." She turned away, But he was at @ide a moment later. “You spoke about my betn, he said with gome anxiety, really think I am, do yout The smuous creature rubbed her vel- vety epotted aides against the bara in eager (riendiiness as Gault carexe! her, “How pretty she orfed Anice, ‘I should think you'd love her,” "On the contrary I almost hate her, Bhe is utterly heartiens and treac ova, Lf L were to take my eyes off her f one moment now she'd have her jaws unk in my arm Jaguars are the mos treacherous brutes of the lot, a hardest to train; just as the lion ts the | easiest animal to train, next w vhe dK Jaguars are tae only oarnivora tia elt cram ou “aS XY), Ay Beoaus mANOH keep thelr eyes half enut all the me ‘he went on, “I sometimes wonder If the Jo you can't see whether the purdi Is quest I'm ‘on ne really turned my ldtlating or not But 1 bored you fi mL Pt wers full Jong enough with my yarns a | |pets, Lets get outside again where the air is better.” Whey left the tent, none of the tr |dreaming with what tersible vividn din m your mind,’ mid Anloe, more kindly, “why not abandon the search or whatever it is? It can't be worth all that risk.’ ey eeereee: ia Fats Rink he ect piclously, id I must say gool-py "Who sald anything abou ny risk? hove,” suid Gault, at bus borders of tue Ans Sota rae Brita ves, “ye eee Srv The. aniinels oe the dream of years! But just the san ways fed at twelve, and | inake it a my head does feel odd at times, An polne o€ being there and feeding, them sinking his voice, “queer thins happen myself It etreng omy ‘pul’ wits to me, too, Only last night as { was ba i eee, side Pa ae " walking: about the edge of the Clay Jeasure you've given us," sald Auice The spy! He has stolen my secret! The spy! THE SPY!” by Wid Siar eyes Patt ie Sray, holding out her hand, “It was! ewouta you have caret?” » i ii i ‘ . A ; ould you have caret?” he anked hin ' K cliff-edge; and the Thing went down th he ino lntererting hour T've sei | nglrouyh ek Ds cet” Be ark thing Fe,ounit, Mayber’ he added, struck by health tp thet drawn, seamed tage antl eeap aides of the cllf'e0 fast T could for @ song thine, Dem’'t forget you re “Ot course I should. It wou'd have] world 1 t to talk Tm 4 poor man, because | wear rough] most of madness wed. hear the pebbles it dislodged rattie on to, wail to the lighthouse With me Aha) been horrid to see the lion injure you. | onate, "a " sen-clothes Ike’ these islanders. But| "stop!" —entreated —Anice, — *You|to the beach below, and T could w. the afternoon a} T expect you ie | she protested I'm not poor. I've # bit of money in| mustn't talk like that, Can you Imagine| rolling clody of earth it dislodged and’ I da oe ree tr uted rut Metford al rot to Say it,” he went on, un» MY own night and I've the ability to] that money, or even the wealth of the; “What did the Thing look like? 1 wat to a edt el tie } . told you’ a month ago’ that| @arn more, sides," his yoloe sinking | universe, could make m@ marry any| Wass't it probably @ dog or a sheep?’ | ve a & In Land you told me that you! £9 AM exetted whisper, in @ month of) man unless I aleo loved him with ull) “That's the queer part of 8 bill to I you annit tng mu etid you) tWO Jf all goes well, Ti be one of the] my heart and IT am glad for} Toe Exponent waa brilliant and yet rute that ki! my do, Pe ody else, go [| tiehest men In all New York, T'll have) your sake if there le a prospect of your| couldn't seo whatever |t was ‘that we of tt, Jd drop arou Ag me,| Money to make you a soc queen—to Ithy. But I cannot share| brushed me. pouldn's sou ti at me night R t Thers| load you down with fewela—to give you! y, ” all I hear tho pebbles rattl: Anice, humfl give you pd sie | heart oan me You'll: be ie4 from Paul Metford’s| down ee ce : Teves maw one OF ull be tate to lune y ne who will Snvied bY every one WhO knows you. Matened, and the tense mus: | {NO of, the latger stones splash nic Gault 3s ehh on et | his health and have a palace there, YOu face, Felaxed, leaving im | ies "dislodged them, Either it (ra: ell d n't ashamed to be | of mine? t care to N an oody Dut my Ris Qeees anc have & pares there, Fou oxpres lonlees., ne to hg here O‘quickiy" tor me hora it fares ha man Whore sleeve's| poken o} 1 w you 4 sino in we ror, he bu: ‘8 face In ni rn , Mtn served Matford, us he| not to discuss him tn my presence, \ st got to have nateatiee APTaR' RE, Hkly, slmoet inae- tanned hands and broke into a wild be tm ry in She sha je nd®Anice started down the road toward| “Oh, don't Ket mad." boxved Mattord, | 99% t for me, girl! Bay fel" | harentivy in ile Rerelble exelent in| pagsion of weeping. Anco hed never| at’ von protabiy some dog run: ine New Shoreham, quikily, "I didn’t mean to. hurt. your taltered Anica Gray, 1] EMER, SUM nan, tense, and Ny faciss| before seen a min cry, and the atrange| qlody "he Git and Ht way Seeks "Wis. how silly! Of course I'm not.| feelings, Only I. don't. sve "hy ‘you Would, have spared you ‘this If I could, | ghe'attove to check is torrent of plead | sight. Of the giant. body shaken by|cws® an'*you" couldn't "wn it ‘plainly! I'm only glad you aren't hurt.” Met. | #pould take the trouble to defend him. T can't care for you in the way You) ings, Anice not he! ing her| hoarse, wordless sobs filled her with| ane told him, “I'm sorry you al er fords heavy fave brightened et her we ta aay tebed ron to.chane were moe to, Mr. Metford, Can't we Just | words to Gault concerning Mettord s @p-|an awe not unméingled ba repulsion, with uy head. Why? OU so, change ¢ ae of sapien . Bul C wie et." Interpaged Anion. "Please to " ine the man aaa ied TREE HR AA Hee Porter RR ha anled angen MBCA. exmmiathe!" 1909. A Group of Oddities in Picture and Story, Tah flavor, but merely because people have come to think that lang grains are “proper’ and make a better display on their For the same reason broken rice {ms sold as 9 second grade article in he preference, } Hore t9 9 ple that Is causing mut commont just 1 England. Inole 4 fenialiv tts @ oricinal has caused recently an equal amount of Lonion and tn Aners } eness of George. vs the apparent , enting that clever } the gutse of an! Mephistopheles, The ¥ 1 the half-squing 4 yes, the turned up mustachios } nical smile, By the suppres | Warren's Profeas | Attacks on Shakead ‘ttlolsms of Br { this queer | to merit @ } 16 Hall of Oddtites, 2 ape Henry Irving, as well aa by photograp! niche by bir A London tatior tified that he w from Thursday ¢ morning to late Satumiay npehe / without a break, and when he collapsed | on his bench and was taken home hie } employer dismissed him summarily bes as well, He won his case, ‘or wages, tea on Near Chanosaux, France, 's a grotto which marks the source of the River * a ‘ nymph holding In one hand an urn, ng whero the Setne has ite risa Ie, this protection Id not prevent evandals ', Hi ios, S now @ sentry ts stationed per ue is belleved to be the only one in ex» . | A Wonder-Story of a Wild # & w & Duel with the “Unseen” pathy and Ill die without ver sympathized with me el Was a 1, and no- I've lived ut tn @f Gaull, wae a rumored. toh phosphorescent look and it spells dan- “You mean ft!" he muttered, and ther nt, Here's 1 rhe dherage at ig + | odes isl ger, As 1 saw Nero's pupils dilate, 1| was neither love nor hate tn his vo S saree uated onaeadon ae Knocked Metford backward, But I wes laowe ne ie i nn we Mat, i; au ince waaed descendant fa pana too Inte.” hheld two master passions for me, You vata ie sland, where he sy moved from cage to care were one. The other atill Is jeft mea.! absta idandars horse, ps Stephen demulbing hiv savage ‘That Je all that saves me trom endlnw |g} ns And was lost to aed and rune @ with an enthusiasm that quic the whole game now and here, But,” he} \neonsciously the untiappy, man walked toward the line of clrous tents, ome disiaice from the encampments he dearricd Stephen Gault strolling over | the off path at the edge of the hill }towant the farmhouse where som he Wwoupa got their meals, Stepiien, |on hie leisurely way to lunch, looked vp two rulnutes later to see his path barred by Metford. Here, you noted Ster withomt speaking} | to say to you,” Well?” querted Gault in some sur- Ino, ot claimed, as he to pass him "T've got eomething 0 ‘ust asked Anice Gray to marry mn Metford, eying the other 5 refused me, Said sho The ood out purple on Metfond's fore. ait he did not resent tho inault rat's true, he answered with forced calm. "I Hod 1 did ty to wee if yon were engaged to her, If you had bean I think ['d have rollkd you over this elif, As you aren't you oan lives while longer," “You are either drunk or cragy," re- marked Gault, turning away, ‘In elther cAso you're not In a fit condition 1 speak Miss Gray's name, Aa for your {diotle threat, vou are at liberty to try to put It Into execution whenevar yo" soo ft, You'll know you've Been tn A real fight, though, before you're through." Then, half ashamed of bandying threats with a man he so utterly de- spised, Stephen again started along tho path at the edge of the ellff, To drown the memory of tis own I!l-temper ha be- gan to hum to himself as he walked, The worms of his song came falniiy to Metford, where he stood glowerlng after his departing foe— “sho lies forsaken in her sle Port! Jam port your heimt Gault scarcely realized that It was the old pirate ditty which had risen to his lips, But the effect of the half heard words on Metford wns electrical. Bvery vestige of color left his lean face, He staggered back a pace a though shot. Then with an inarticulate shriek he rushed forward, Before he could raise a hand tn de- fonse, or even turn to face his aasall- ant, Stephen Gault found himaelt ltted | oratttly | preferred ou,” "You lel" said Stephen, ealmly, veins ino WNtanlo grip, whirled upward and dashed to earth at the ellff-brink with 1 force thut drove breath sensed from his helpless body, while aboye tford, foaming a him Paul Met 4 the meMNG april Ha has atoll svorett Met stolen mj ‘rhe apy? The BPYT" , (Tr Ra Con