The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1905, Page 16

The Russian Situation. By J. Campbell Cory. | @untiehed by the Press Publishing Company, No, 58 to 63 Park Row, Now York, New York as Second-Class Mafl Matter, | N¢ Will the Ring “Run” Metz? - The statement is y ’ | the Brooklyn real-<s “smooth” men of both parties who} unloaded the M k Theatre up- on the city and engineered the Liv. | ingston street deal has made “ar-/ rangements” with the Comptroller elect, Herman A. Metz, for two! more years of profitatile activity. Mr. Metz is a business man, His) candidacy was commended on that | ground by posters in the street cars, Is he going to be a business man’ the city? Will he as an officlal be) tate ring of nta for McCarren and tts crew or for | gingeidden or respectable? Tho Comptroller has great power, He Is the city’s paymaster. He Gms three votes in the Board of Estimate—as many as the Mayor, Mr. Metz may have observed in the flgures of the late election what Brooklyn thinks of McCarren ard his gang and what ft will think of him if he at- (Pempts do ald It at the city’s cost, \ 1 George Westtington Perkins, the hero of “frther's letter” ts to go from the [Blew York Life's Vice-Presideney and Pinance Commtttes, Did—ob—did my one Beer Mir. McCall rise to remark anything? Not yet quite ready? "The Lingering Six-Day Race. | ftw good that the bicycle did es a promoter of ontdoor fiving and ‘Pealthtul exexctse hes largety passed away. The ste-day race fives on, with statutory amendments designed to Beep tortured riders from riding in the!r sleep, | Men thousand persons saw, just after midnight of Sunday, the start @P the race now in progress at the Madison Square Garden. Bnougly fwere on hand at 8 o'clock yesterday morning to see the agony and cheer fhe pluck of a wheelman who tried to ride on after having been injured yon the track. Somebody has s2id that in America we take our emusements serl- Wusly. Very often we take them incomprehensibly. There Is certainly nothing to the six-day bicycle race except the (Bate receipts and the lack of pure air around the arena. Do the thousands | attend that they may acquire a tuxurlous tired feeling by substitution? “I would advise placing dynamite under London snd'blowing ft off the fice of ‘fie earth,” says “Pat” McCarren. If he would only gO over and try {t himselt Brooklyn would be delighted, | ‘ Letters from the People ave no effect. She ta fou 4. Please answer me. some Changing Governments, | iw delve iby Oen n ! We have at last in session the new Congress which was elected qe the Mtttor at The Brentng World! I read of many remedies to bulld ur fyear and a month ago, consumptives. Here ie a simple one tha: | SMSbty per cent. of these will enjoin | Lm % sechew tntoxloanta, and not only toa, Dut he will be surprised to find | that f Y per cent, of the bar- MOTHER. A Bartender’s Advice. ; tenders Ives are total abstainers, 7 , 44 Ihave tated, It is olive oll. I alwa La Not issues, nor opinions, nor the conditions that should control Poll- | cot the best and take two tablespoonfuls | 0 TED? Te eHAutbas Big veld acdc oe A RARTENDEE, ties have stood still while we have waited thirteen momths for the wil] |* {#™ times® day with o pinch of wal 4 . . ee him from making useful business oppor-| the Editor of The Mvening World: tunities, I would say that he may ex- | inke | der, or (what Is to make {t go down eas! Allow ts to, iY eu Pr better to my palate), @ dash of orange tof the people to take effect, by y readers tO | the old subject, ‘1 “ abe the of] and futee pect to be advised by many te Jeo! 5 & man supposed to But we must stand our Congress two years, no matter how mis- 5 apg: fave tried ft myselt, ano |KO away from drink The greater | give up his car grat to w Indy a mot?” Phievously it may stand pat, jothers. BT. | number who will eo advise will, I have | Tarrytown, N. Y. In England, yesterday, a Ministry resiened and the process of form-| Aa Unrsly Daughter, fog a new one began at once, Ty the DARIN of Tp Reng Weds woul o the advice of paren We may sneer democratically st Government by Cabinet. But! wre have had experience as to what W Wander It something gives way when the moment presses or the people tire, 9, "ith a unruly daughter, upon whom scolding, whtppimg and other punish- A New Yorker's Strange | mw ot Quest for a Pirate Hoard | Gaul, & jew Yoruar wae ” atl 8 oun at eleven @clock at might? On an look Island? de retamed, rolling up Fentualy becomes a lion h "7 satan God Writs the arouse ‘BM Block Lelang|™8 shirt sleeves “IDvery ialnnder was in Whom he has loved bed two hours ago, As for Metford, if We'd been carrying any implements for no doubt, be temperance enthuslaste whose advice might be oonaldered one | sreaspective of sex, It is ‘true, however, mided, But tf he wishes advice free| tat under the laws of tmuman nature from bias I would suggest that he im- | tne stronger fex shbuld naetst th terview the bartender in, say, & dozen | weaker sex, But I oan see no reason first-class — oot Raines-law places. | why « man wbo has put ina han! day's He will, I feel confident, find thet | work should «ive up his seat to @ young Gault, ua a boy, had found a despatch he \ fg hy possession of lsrasl. On ite ing anything 80 @ doggerel verse was tehed, Paul it he was spying on a eects SuMpect What we even | us, he wouldn't ing to do. And I dount if he'd sat @ htened and rune hew, we must take thowe chan @ wagon, fort's doy Thare’l) never be « time when well fo & moment later we'd heve a fearful tas or it two one af for nearly one place testing various epota about t t rand agemed to at-| emuse Puding @ y t his plen-| | { Ga ita oe CHAPTER XIV, Vert et Hy | The Shadow of Death tg, NICE GRAY and 5 A down the stoap, narrow cliffside |!" path to the lane at the atge The wea and on toward the “rock , Wtone.” The night was deoely black and @ fine drizzle drenoned them to the| widn, They moved slowly and with ¢ ton; for a misstep would have m@ bad fall and possible tmmersion in ‘the sea that lapped the base of the! flourdoot ledge. With the hich olift to their left and the sea to thelr right they continuel wotll Stephen's out-| | Stretched hand brushed against the| fr» Pocking stone | aunched him self across the pit, full at the throat of trainer, At last the entire Stevhen ¢ experience But he turned to Anice and Jand me the crowbar, please. And dear, not to count hea) on finding anythin e ches : ptacle, E ¢ a minute later, as the| “Yes, yes; I know,’ He fell on his knees and groped tor | 1 dull sound ‘Here's the crowbar! Do hurry, pleaat Phe lantern ho had Hidden there, Wwith| | substances, | He @ald no more; but, receiving | crowbar at her hands, Inserted Its edge MMoulty he Ugited st and the strong| i : bi ae ‘tt : f vas * between the lid and the box, and bent we from the or forced ne} or er his whole force to prying up the top, Me tigesnation rou the pleshy | bel {It held firm, and ho ‘called for the )) loom. Y | with, - anding to one side, he brought down A 1 Oy cavity, , stroke by stroke, Gauls rae pareaune the top of a long, - ad fter bone, and at length askull, cofMla-Hke box. the chest where @ paton of rust riaed, These later tinds be also "Oh, ite like “Treasure Istana!’ "| betokened the presence of io eas sa Ra aa Ss a * the “uieh the heavy Implement with all his force V), “Buppose some one should happen to| * and wel thong the ‘Trail?’ hagamled Anico| to ¥ H abe watehod hin piace the lantern| (Att and « PAjacent stone and pick op the metal devin &3 ‘ht upon a spot on the side of| sal wi a ia 7 Tae ” w” ww Answers to Questions trl who tt te very Itkely tas been ath ting all day, I bave often seen that tn & crowded car as soon as a young lady entered @ seat has been offered to her. An old and infirm man may have been standing for fig time, but no. ntien- thon hes been tohim, HJ. H The Domeatio Problem, To the Biktor of The Frening World: Servant girls’ life te work and noth- ing but work, from early morning untll In my optnion a man should xtve up thts | ae at night, with Ittle rest during the | sont only to an aged or infirm person, | 44¥. Even her own relatives and friends | -smove fom a man's eyes. | sometimes seem to be ashamed of her, Yet I often wonder why the young men of to-day expect thelr future wives to |do thelr own hotsework, but preter to marry office and shop girla, who, as a rue, don't know very much abou the 4. DISCOURAGHD SPRVANT GIRL, ¢ The Lion Tamer ¢ By Albert Payson Terhune * jtantern, and I looked to see what it was n and. iid, One heave, and the lid «slowly rose. The hinges heavily rusted; but an impatient wrench of the bar threw back the entire top of the box and the two ed eagerly at the 8 exposed only a ed t of some Bort. "Sall coe Pronounced Stephen, pre- ating to lift {t, and not even mildewed! ‘hat meane that tever neath has been kept alrtignt and thero- gr In perfect condition, al nit frightened cry from Anlce, caused to turn about, still gripping the Holowh. “What te it?” he asked, impatiently, answe: me as joould «t ha latent accounted oy ye ey tne ta UNCLE DUD ON ANCESTORS, _ By I. 8, Cobb, Gince the vistt of Loulm of Battenberg the business of looking up ancestors for am» ditions eocta! aspirants has boomed.—Dally Paper) 4¢'T'0_@ man up @ tree—not a tambly trea,"* Saya Unclo Dudley Jones to me, “It ‘pears jest nowhere he turned his quid— “That the anctsiry bus'ness is overdid." In & land ike this, whar @ man’s grand-dad, It's gin'rally ‘lowed, stole all he had From the savages, it's blame pore taste, And of time and talents and cash a waste, ‘To be allus tryin’ to prove a kid Come of better stock 'n ite parents did. Why, in my day, son, as a usual thing, Folks th'owed thelr energies more, by Jing! To the gineration a-comin’ on Than to foolin’ with them that war data and gone, And ft warn't the proporest thing, not then, To be lookin’ up fambly arms, right when The fambly legs wus needin’ a chance To git inside of a new pair of panta! And that hain’ the wuat; if I understand, ‘These ancistry chaps jest @o crazy, and, If they aint got ancisters fitten to be Swung {n the limbs of a tambly tree, Bust into o graveyar’, ke as not, And soratoh till they git.'em a lot Of alee remainders of folles deceased, Winob air petty larceny, to aay the least; And next thing you know they'll up and use My kin or your’n, or Lawd knows whose, As thelr fofathers, ‘Ca'se that kind hes ‘The nerve of @ lion, as the feller sez, ‘Well, the time’a a-comtn for Uncle Dud To git himself under kiver for good , And al, And when I'm off (other shore | If one of my kin—a hundred or more Of ‘om tm all, countin’ in Wife's folke— ‘Takes ® fool idee and sort of git» up hapes Of stain’ some ohub; or in oner to show, On. the strength of my works done here below, How fine they air, and comes prowlin’ whar in ‘the orchant, I'l! rise from thar— vp with @ holler groan, And Pf ha'nt that fool til) the cows oome home! up a tree—not a fambdly tree,” Dudley Jones to me, “Tt jem now'—here he dropped his quid~ “That the ancistry bus'ness \s overdid.” ae vo The Smoking Record, PARLIAMENT of smokers which was organised at Lasken, tn Hollen’, A by @ society which calls ttself the Viaamsoh-Pi{penrookers, has ended in the victory of one Frank Kos im the principal contest. Kos established a tecoml by keeping his plpe alight for three hours and seven minutes without asking for a second match, The second in this campetition was @ man name@ Mertens, who kept his alight for two hours and fifty minutes, emd the third was one Bruynee!l, who smoked without a break for two hours and three-quarters. / a THUMB NAIL SKETCHES, UBJECT—Anthony Comatoak. Tavorite Sport—Butting in. Favorite Task—Other people's business Favorite Book—The Blue Laws. Favertte Aathor—Rev, Ustton Mather, Favortte Artist~The Balem witob-burser, Favorite Frult-Dead Sea fruit. Favorite Pinnt—The rubber tree. Favorite Vebiole—/The Black Maria, Favorite Musica! Instrument-—Funeral chimes. Favorite Character (n Mistery—i, Anthony (untempted) fe Pointed Paragraphs, EVER jodge the walt of a young Lays of the Days. woman by ber sigh ‘has By R. E. Minder. | Few mon are eat Cy | got what they deserve, Tuesday, Deo. 5, | Even when a blind man enjoys good O-MORROW le Wednesday, health he doesn’t look well I muan't forget Cinders and preity girls are hand to To order that load of comb ‘That bs, if I happen To have enough left After paying the telephone toll And laying out cash Vor brother Jobn's wedding git A very fine cut-glass punch bowl, enn | But few men ever live long enough to realize thelr own unimportance No woman who ft true % her sex ie afraid of the man @he is marrie! to. | Some men do good desde for publloa- tlon and not as @ guarantee of faith.Chicago News. \ |4 Wonder-Story of a Wild o. ;e a Duel With the “Unseen's I was tn tho full light of the Good confusion spoke of hurry, perturbation. ‘ kd ones, Anice was first to break the allenoe, "Its she gasped in awe, “% br re pe, ie! Stephen, you are ich man, It's yours, It's all 90 wonderful!" Be ee is all yours, der heart,” he ree piled, solemnly, And boop j enter thepit. mereere Se te But as did end there was nothing there. What mn?’ Before she had half finishe en Gault was out of t ner side. wn about to | 4 his attention In the other he grasped the crowbar And stood protectingly over the fright- ened girl. Her words had robbed him of all thought of the treasure and had brought back wi a ih the preg bY scene in the menagerie a few days be- oo her ¢ clutch on his arm brought Marit = bp ‘his mind the recent fear whieh he might of the treasure moment dissipated. Pan, te As he dia Falghtoned himaelf, “a aware of the sound of fly- ing pebbles and scattered earth sce the path by which they had come, The next instant a long tawny ob» Ject flashed out of the darkness into side of the lantern flare on the opposite a the two stood there tn all the night around ned no fui yaterious presence, t waa probably my Imagination ead at last, with a nervous > fen , “1 was go excited over—AH! t the from them, the exclamation that broke in upon her : fi ht) ¢ h Wa. k, fe FaNBU | One glance told Stephen the whole situation, He needed no clos uo flaming eyes, jflecked with bloody Klod, wicked face, look at the yellow fangs, ‘ae eal, tiie wrine © dria mane the long yellow bod: mt wines With hate-Gault required no or Ine Spection of ail th oo make him aware that Nero, the od Numidian it had broken trom his cage, had traces cent of his hated master's foot. steps and oad followed, wherring and rane erage Itself, to wreak his eset on the man he had once. The lion uttered no i Paute aven to eapich fore wirite at Still running at top speed (as he fh Tun ever atnce Paul Metford had opened the door of his cage two minutes bee fore), he launched himself across the throat of ‘tha defense Stephen had barely had time to throw Anico behind him a to watoh uy) {ho crowbar (useless as a straw thou; the weapon would Fiend {n such a coms bat) before the mad brute ape. hen, In midatr—in full ig above earth, in the ver, midat of bis murderous bound, the lion fell with a heavy crash to dhe earth, He had not fallen short in the ly He had been dashed backward in mld alr and fell tn a hy on th side of tho pit from his.two It was as though he had hurled hint+ self against @ stone wall with an im- pact that had sent him rebounding to earth almost at the very point where he had started his leap. Stephen and Anice both witnessed th phenomenon, the girl it was inex. cable, Across the man's mind an im- media‘e exnlanation flashed, and, he claspeu Anice with the arm which did not hold the eyvens, he gave an in- articulate ory of gratitude, The Hon, almost at the tnetant he touched ground, was on his feet in screaming with rage and mad. for desi ruc (lo But & was mo longer at Gault that his fury was directed, Not even looking toward Stephen and Anice, a unching himself ap» pare ft ines alr, and once tone scern from what er to he attack he 60 y at fon had come eared for her. ut she was gazing with wide, rapt gaze Into the pit before her, Following the Wirection of her eyes, Gault cried aloud in surprised delight. And then for 4 full minute the man the girl {n silence staring at tho spectacle shem, chest, from which Gault had un- ly ‘pulled the protecting atl cloth, Kave back in the hantern flare a | myriad points of red, green, blue and white light At first glance a 5 to dance from he of the pit. ‘Then as Gault and Anice looked longer they saw that the carnival of color emanated from a heap of jewelry, piled n masses of careless profusion, along nearly half of the chest's area. Jewels cut and brilliant; jewels uncut and dull; bands of gems in tarnished antique set- ngs; rings, bracelets, necklaces, even all ablaze’ with diamoniis, ru- apphires, opals, emeralds, and a dozen other and lesser stones. Quaint ng in vogue in the days of Louls gemmed snuff-boxes, sapphire for walking sticks, and countless trinkets of the #ort—all lent thelr share to the rot of oolor that shimmered and glowed In the lantern-light. ¢ loot of treasure-ships b noe to Quebeo, the uish Main, ithe hoar Governor of pirate-storn were there. The price of thousa Innocent lves, the rewatd of years of murder, fire and ravage, the booty of kea-robber. and Iani-robber—all lay at the feet, of this modern man and mald And, ‘@leaming more dully, In the other eompariment of the chest, | row upon row of gold pleces—lou loon! b pages 4 dor, idles, ores, laMitacagd cery aber golden von of whatsoever size, value, date and nation. ality, he hoard had apparently been bur- ted Hf haste, or ie Pane ee age 9 Y er yy the re turbed (py seg 4 A ele | rainbow adowy vin, t See eT TART