The evening world. Newspaper, December 22, 1905, Page 20

| | me i uy THe Evening Pudlivhed by the Press Publishing Company, No, AY to (2 Park Now, New Tork Entered at the Post-Omve at New Tork a Senord-Class Mall Matter VOLUME 46 Tinder Box Ferry-Houses. 1 ferry termin | a and the J The i ar to have ra flared up like dry pine, The coy emblance of fireproofing “melted like a ing of lead.” The flerceness of the heat warped and twisted the steel framework, In hardly more time than it wou'd take to burn d tiquated station of the his elaho The explanation ¢ in the river at this p» wn the adjoining an- sa wreck building. Does engineering ski ack The revelation of insecurity must have a disquieting effec public. If such conditi f danger prevail at the newest and costlie ferry termi infere suses from the North to the Eas Given a fire riing during the rust Hour, and not most opr , as on Wednesday, when the sta- tion was empty, the risk of a calamity w Apart from considerations construction on the water fr constant menac Has lesson of the frequent river fires of recent years profited so little? f human. safet) ests to the and disastrous The Disappearing Andys. While “Judge” Andrew Hamilton went over, sea to lose himself in Parls, Andrew Fields, it develops, has preferred the wikis of America as & place in which to efface his identity. The messenger sent by the Mu- tual..Life to find Fields is reported to have failed “every sand-hill in California.” The New York Life better luck. He had only to follow the trail of t his man, The disappearance of the two Andys, each for the benefit of his health, will excite interest because of the different means used t gain it, Will Hamilton more quickly recover in front of a boulevard cafe with a brazier at his feet and a beverage on the table, or Fields in the balmy alr of California or the more bracing atmosphere of a Canadian winter? Laymen as well as physicians will await the outcome with con- cern. though he searched commissioner had he he boulevards to fi Mr. Carnegie’s Gifts. Andrew Carnegie's present of twenty-four quart bottles of Scotch whiskey to Representative Sulzer will attract attention to the discrimina- tlon exercised by this generous donor in his gifts according as they are in- tended for individuals or towns, ; Thus, he might have given the New York Congressman a library, Just as on a celebrated occasion when he sent President McKinley a cask of old Scotch he might have given him a set of Scott or John Knox'a sermons, Of the relation between libraries and Scotch whi planation may be offered: Reading, as Bacon says, makes a full man, and it is the kindred nature of old Scotch that it conduces to the same result, this ex- — | With Dr, MacCragken inveighing nst football elected.Mayor of Meriden and a star Yale first base an early, spring rush to the diamond may be look and with a baseball umpire eee CURLY (Copyright, 1908, by Little, Brow, & Co.) se {o} fay ste 9 es the # A are® | soowting jump him inve| @round, and keep the dust yan do abit, ¢ taints wen) hide thelr mavemenis } 0 agg ee Nabe | Gully Jim ied Femolve to’ fou Beahannse | Ming slack rein, t n an inaulte Baissatmon | gk) ages ené throws « of wi y akin mare, After the his {hoe ensues. ‘and’ Rvon | looking round, he ae oiers, Chalkeye At along the sky lir ‘Flo then aasiata Curly end tim to escape beard the whoops of ow The Ghertts posse pureuse ont captures in on the left, Feckon,” aid Curly, they'll « CHAPTER 14, | The Man-Hunt, RWCKON that scivilned folks | trained to run in a rut, to Iv Tule, to do what's expects they're chased they'll run, tf t caught they surrender, hate proper thing to do. the Our piainsman, he's @ much rasnurce- my etann \ ful animal; be never runs in the rat } and he always does exactly what - expeotet. Here were Jim and Curly sur rounded by five men all hot for war (mt. t | Broach could shoot good, but his horse } was @ plumb idiot when {t came to fir \ dng, Ho was scared he would miss! wire Sta, and get the counter-jumper my p } pranced around behind Of the reat, Ho 3 ey 3 ¥ one was 4 ratirond man, and } that, one was a carpenter, and « | @ barber—all of 2 bad sho 1 | they knew that priso 1 %F neither fight nor rar | Mhe prisoners alt broth \ amd heaps surpr! | mnustache was dropping, Cun ballet got Broach'’s horse in ‘pending him beckward f dhe man. Jim unhorsed the BM, and the counter-jury | hat posse was al! lonora! * gng ilberal, attracting hear tention. So another belated oftivens came whooping down th 4, Jim mille at first sound of battle, the crowd cleat agrinst the sky 4n @ storm of lead, (a poms ith swung at £411 gnllop to snd began co reclon they was dum at ‘ ‘ ‘Very awkward,” says | “Bay. Ourty, & fence here 90 pasture, It's brok arroyo, but fust 'w W ‘are wire!’ Were having n wine wh Bt i it whe f neless at & mile whee & most fing. = Wht wer or of t an slated for the Speakership, |‘ word ! | Charlie's By J, Campbell Cory, REF Cope Nome Magazin riday Evenings December 22; ' 19057 Christmas. lA Group of Oddities | a HIS animal used to wander down 4 | Broadway no longer ORO IAN pe nmamtammmmnti 5 Sierosaurus Ungulatus, Remnants of | | } parte of the United States, and at last | Wauee iia 60 s | e a8 been discovered to figure My pl a \ out exactly what he looked lke. He ©. ae Py} | 5 Was fat Hzard about fifteen feot long, ot with a tiny snakelike head a pr tail, He had pawa like a bear's | and s back waa covered by a succes- sion of Anilke “plates” df some gristly, {i hornitke substance. The height of the Stecosaurus Ungulatus trom the ground to the top of the Knipe's book, “'N ighest fla was eleven feet. The filustration {3 from A. R* ia to Man.’ eep like a top’ comes fram the French ¢ ‘dormir comme une taupe'’—to sleep like @ mole, It Is said, too, that Cinderelia’s -\ slippers were not made of glass, but of ‘'vatr,"’ the old French word for erming, ¢ which in the became corrupted Into “verre,” glass, Philologists claim that the phrase “to The body of M. Markoff, the great Sfherlan railway contractor, says the B& James Gazette, has been stuffed by his widow, fitted with giass eyes and garbed in dress clothes, and it now inhatits a niehly inlaid cabinet in a corner of Mime, Markoff's drawing-room, | These tree-climbing men and the others gatherel abou: the base of the trea are Bersagiieri, members of the crack corps of the Italian army, Bact man ts an athlete. They can go over high walls, through rivers and up high trees % and fort ramparts wiih perfect vase, They can also march forty miles @ day, | They are just the dart of the entire Ttallan nat! Tn peace there are 18,000. Bersagitert; in war 48,000. Every army has one particular type which Is known to the ” est of the word d The British army ts Fvery year @ good °, known {in general many people ere by fs red oat and potsoned by eating ny ilar by tts inwholesome mush- 4 kilted regiment roms, and the#® The Russian army number has lately § to mos: of us be b on the im fore the outbreak of se It ts, theres [ the present war f snor satiefaoe synonymous tory to learn that a ye Cossack very 8 remedy his knout, ft form of while the Rerea potsoning has deem eller! stands for the discovered. Itallan army as a It is nothing more whole Of course or less than powe , the Bersagiier! are fered charooal; , nly one arm in vegetable chareoat’j that service. They will de, but animal are or mn ooOF charcoal ts best of 1 s 1 all." Charcoal, when organized taken in water, ds, Sardinian may be sald, a, f remedy against mo: pysons, but ( whether & is efflica- nue st bad CHARLEY vyaters does not seam to be. certain any At i of the come m testing rmy and it# powers next ways been to poisoning. , dance at Hyat’s Hole drew a great many peo- ees the tribal custom of the Indians, Chiet imo was master of ceremonies. This dance has a special significance to the young Apache maidens who have arrived at thelr eighteenth year, For them {t {a & coming-out party, thelr debut in society, The young debutante dancec “al night, d after the formalities of the dance have been met she fs at lberty @ married. The dance Is held around ao log camp-fire and starts abous @ o'clock in the evening and Jasts unti] after sunrise the next morning, The recent Apache grean- ple from Lawton and Fort St Gero’ A man has been arrested tn Paris whose method was to tear a different plece off each of a number of bank noles, and then, placing the ploces together, pro- duce a complete bank note, which he was able to pass. Says the Corean Dally News; “Once upon @ time Corea had a man-of-war, Letters from the People — Ion Belongs to Cat Family, | os ‘To the Filtor of The Mventng World | A. Saye that the to the|™ i ‘ uy E « tha on BP ¢ : jee 1, to < Names tor Sew a at \ ihe umiue ew 8 | Churebes for War ee Ss WONDERFULLY SPIRITED AND INTERESTING. A LIVING RUMANCE OF WILD NATIVES AND WIDE DISTANCES ac A Tale of the Arizona Desert <~ ~~ Answers to She was a coller, painted white, She was, at the outbreak of hostilities, taken Dy the Japanese as a collier again We have reason to belfeve that she {s at the present time resting under #ome twenty fathoma of deep blue sea. The Japanese Minister now haa the effrontory to send the Corean Government a bill for the T ola aw have even few sad slants, whlch sus:) Hath maintenance of this phantom ship.” ‘ mee I Row ; a day y the A New Orleans) Wail, | This isn plough. Shaped like any ng old men ANd m, ene g ers a ther plough. But each of the ploughe ‘ : for an hour of 80) 1.5 ; fe ripen ats a8 ss fa shares |s made of @ sword that once Md nottee pRuS eaeaeee arnt . martial service. At the Philadelphia w be a Godsend a cont Peace Union tn 1878 some of the officers who had served In the clyil war gave thelr swords to be beaten Into plough- KL c | Bu yok my every sou Connot Hecome President. f The Evening World ' shares as a rymbol of peace, The MN SOUNEHH GH Corel akon kome that's plough thus formed Is still exhibited in the hall where sat the Coure of Artie eaident, 80 long ax he JARRAT?D., tration on the Alabama question. By Roger Pocock sides, and we can't escape.” low beyond the Line.” "“Shoot!'' he howled, and flashed on across the plain. im circied brok to the ostly Ww urt? called. I iets rereue. ing afoot by tmy all of & heap-on the saddle, [see food atayers were on ahead, but mare at @ troh Curly sald nothing. “They ocayn't, but they wil" says “Say, Curly, you're not hurt?" Curly; “fire the gress,” "Mosquito bite,” said Curly; “look Jim grabbed a hair from the back | here, Jim, If amything goes wrong, skin's mane, took matches from his ' you'll find the captain et La Soledad to-morrow,” “What oaptaint™™ “e “My father. I made him swear he'd walt, How's yo’ buckskin tf’ “Wagging.'’ “Bhe'l) Mve through all right. you talk any mo’.” “You're losing hope™ “There's alius hope,” said Curly, Don't | greasewood bush, and cankered on Curly knee to know, ‘That flicker in lorg grass grow to @ blazing |@pread with the flaws of the wind, “Dut them @tars seem nearer Lo we-dll.” \ewayed ite emall tongues to ck new They were ciding through grease-|clumgs and pass the word to others wood bushes and Jong grass, while here | just beyond, ‘Nue bush blazed up with and there stood scattered trees of mes-/a oar as only greasewood can, quite, That made wad going for) Mung burning #Jeks upon the storm, horses, but when they swung aside for/eo that the fre spread wwift as @ man better ground they nearly blundered | ovuid run over aores of greasewoud, To Into an arroyo, cust Was mesyuite bush, whicd Only the dawn gray saved my boys |UIns like gun-cotton a gule of from breaking both their necks in that | Wand deop gap, but now vhey had ot to lose! But now the draught of the fire had the sheltering darkness, their Horses | Made that gale a goarlet hurricane with were mighty near finished, and three | the stride of @ running horse, which flushed the ilying cloud wrack overhead , and made red day along the mountain | B the in LAL Ayfhid ibe Ly =—" Mg outfits of riders were closing ull round them. Jim looked up the sky} io see if there were mira ming, | flanks, for nothing less was going to be much] i reckon that If I'd wappened with / we. Thon the Naco people came wiirl-ythat outtit of hunters 1 wuvud have | ing down on the right, and the black! known enough to bear east and circle arroyo lay broad 0} round the blage without loss of time; - they ewung north to look for a ¢ but the leaders saw tne burning mes- U ing. and. were Wivown right out of Wie] quite grove, and tried to swing west of trouble. There te arroyo barred them, and before they won tw the other horn another big stroke of luck, of the fire thelr horses had gone lobo, the Bisley crowd missed adm and had} refusing to face the heat. Anyways, pind with the men from] ghey gtaunpeded with their riders, and I i reckon those warriors never stopped to look back until they dud “brown them sel safe beyond the railroad, If they * had come out for & man-hunt, they got that Iberal and profuse beyond thelr wildest dreams, (To Be Continued.) —_—— Poison in Tin. EVER put away food in tin platen | Fully one-half the cases of poison *) trom the use of canned goois js ( lo waa left in the jown weroas thelr hope hunt af Presently soon my youngsters had because to awing In be Grave City “jim,” says Curly, “haa they closed In you?” “Our wind te covering all three outfits avhe, it belte late for pleasus- | The moon sila down flame-red behind ad to have an attack | the hills, the wind blew a gale, the oO myself, with | night went black, the aky a sheet of revolvers and my OWN. | gtarg subsoil rey pucauee. {| Jun had quit being tired aE NRA ENE MNS 1 gone numb and dead, so he felt ng except the th of hoofs n, “hen he heard a popping of ‘guns faint in the rear, and on that saw flashes of signal firing away on the full strong, steady as ‘Tight, besides other sun-flames baok be- old as the wings of Donth, | low Mule rue baat neld his teeth from 4 d Mai fuji {chattering to 8} ; The | packso Hap radar toil Rel Curly, olf chap, they've wired fora mmutner, then fanged abreas, ang) posse Up from Naco, and the City wteadied knee to knee nursing big’ Marshal's men are coming down from Bisley, procee for his body ow." . ‘Then came @ yoll from behind, for In the dawn the hunters had caugh: sight of their meat Now close ahead loomed something white like ® ghost, and Jim let out @ serach a@ ft reared up against him cudden AS he shied wide and apurred, he saw the ghost some better—a lime- worked monument, the boundary mark ‘old Mexico, ‘Pavedl” he yelled, ‘They back | . r rob 1 had turned back with my a ripple spread along alr from the south, they th as a lifting 9 | tor aflow wel Jim fought N because the i ‘Thay'se losing io on