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whe “The Evening “Worlds Mlome Magazine, Saturday Evening, December 23, @udlivoed by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to @ Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. VOLUME 46.. ; Farmers a NO, 16,194, S. Patrons of Hus- nd Senator Hope Grange, representatives in the Legislature to call upon Depew and Platt to re sign. People forget that New York {s a great farming State. It follows close after Iowa, Iinols and Ohio, It leads Texas, Missouri, Kansas and Pennsylvania. In dairy products it leads all the States, There is no “get-rich-quick” fn | the farmer's life. He must be) @hrifty. He must know something about soil chemistry or be behind @e times, He uses the latest germ discovertes in “ripening” his -butter fand cheese. He works for what he gets. . There are only a few ways of creating wealth for aft of us. You) fay catch fish in the sea, hunt Leasts for their pelts, dig useful metats-out fof mines, chop wealth in the forests, or grow it from the soll, That is (bout all, The farmer is the greatest primary producer, Is he “represanted” | By Depew, who belongs body and soul to the railroads that exploit him?) {® he “represented” by Platt, who leads the Express pad on lobby in @warfing the Post-Office, which might at a protit do ten times as much Mfor the Taieners as it does? Even if these men were not morafly rotten their unfftness to represent people of the State would he evident? As it is, the Legislature ought rout them out forthwith. But will it? The Factory Law Hypocrisy. | F sa Factory law Imiting the hours of labor for boys and women to ain ‘a mere expression of a moral aspiration,” as Commisstoner rman calls it under present conditions? 1s itedegislative concession to @onsclence not to be taken seriously? | So far, the law seems only to have served as offical notice thatthe! te disapproves of exhausting toil for women and children, but not to extent of correcting the abuses, The Commissioner's inspectors found it the exceptional case where factory superintendents were living up to the provisions of the law, Boys| “ id women were often found working twelve hours a day in the principal) lustries of this city. The law is a dead letter. It is time the State was purged of its hypocrisy, The law should be made effective or it should be repealed, so that the #lave-drivers might say openly, as they now do in effect, “Yes, we work og children twelve hours a day. What are you going to do! Public Life and Domestic Ties. ‘After twenty years of marriage a prominent couple have decided to Bive apart, because “public life has spoiled the husband,” so the wife alleges, as a domestic partner. Participation In civic affairs and the de- (mands of club membership have weakened his home ties. the Oswego County | By Julian Jerome. with their dollies, following Reginald jand Allce, who march {nto the draw- ing-room to the music of a wedding march played on the plano; then linto the dining-room, where the dol- lHies sit at a tab¥e that has been am ranged for them, with a tiny wedding leake decorating the centre. Then comes the wedding tour around the garden, and then the F are to have a wedding, “We Come to Murder Caesar, Not to Praise Him.” A Wedding in Toyland. By J. Campbell Cory. You ave ta le my little wife, And I your husband tall. 1 love your pretty eyes of brown— My own are dark and blue- But as they're only glass, my dear, They see no faults in you, My china lips, they long to kiss (I your dull eares away, But [must wait for three tong weeks Until our wedding day! newly married pair go to housekenp- ing in a big closet that has been tur- However, time will pass, sieet maid, | And then we'll never part; | T awear to love you all my life With my true wooden heart, Your on REGINALD. Dee. 8, 1908, | UCH was the love letter written S by Mr, Reginald Graham, of | New York, a beautiful doll, twenty inches tall, Nght hair, blue eyes, with long dark lashes, to his lady love, Miss Alice Winchester, a orown-eyed doll beauty, of Boston, | The fact {is that a marriage had been a ged between these two | dotlies by thelr litte mammas and iseveral grown-up aunties to take place at Christmas time at the home of the doll bride. But making the clothes! Grand- |mas, cousins and aunties spent days| OFF FOR THE HONEYMOON, using their nimble fingers to fashic b| nished for them with all the latest + fthe tmy manly garments, as no little conveniences, girl could possibly do the diflcult) yt wag really the most bdrfffisnt A Sz) } < QV |sewing, |marriage that was ever made tn Toy It was dectded that a black broad-|jand and {fs the true story of a dear {cloth sult must be made, but as A) jittle brown-eyed girl’s Christmas full-dress evening coat could only be| present, |used for formal occasions a "Tux-| A great many dofle guests were tne edo” or “dinner coat was finally yited from “Mother Goose” land, and | lamong those most noticed weret Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick, He was the first one there; Then came little Goldle Locks, Who ran away from the bear, fright Miss Nancy Etttcoat, Used to standing long, Shone beside Tom Tucker, Who sang the supper song. Mistress Mary, Quite Contrary, Brought from ber garden fair Severa ns all in a row, With pretty curling hair. Bobby Shafto, from o'er the-sea, Was in a happy mood; T saw him gazing bashfully At dear Red Riding Hood. Little Miss Muffet had left her tuffet, And surp! 1 us all—oh, my! By going to a corner with little Jack Horne And sharing his Christmas pla THE HAPPY PAIR. agreed upon as being of more service, | All the time we have been telling ut the bridegroom dear little Alice |Shy Bo Peep,-without her sheep, The complaint seems a novel one, yet no doubt it might be found to We the insidious cause of many cases of incompatibility. With a man of ‘active interests in the city It is not only the occasional “lodge night” which leaves his wife alone. The claims on’his time of associations and fellow-| Bhips which contribute to his social or business advancement, but in a tne réttor of The Bvening World Which women have no part, are bound to become more or less pressing, | To a certain extent they must inevitably endanger home attachment: > Where the line should be drawn is likely to remain, with neglected wives, | 0°" and women. I se no more of It /tothe Dittor of The Auentng Works | here than I do tn any other ofty. If the @t least, a vexed question. g, | Mostly visitors, decrying the {mpolite- as been so busy having along white, Many sweet glances won; e And there, without his lttle pig, Was Tom, the Piper's Son. in wedding dress made, a real and the dalullest kind o} trimmed underwear, Awtravelling gown of cloth, an au-| tomobile coat of champagne color, a| white hat with feathers and flowers, Mary a} have been prepared for the “going. 4. Wha Id to Ann M. JM v ae~ | |Marjorie Daw and big Tom Stout Attracted much attention, And many more whose names, alast T haven't room to mention, Letters from the People ~ Answers to Questions Defends New Yorkers | typical New Yorker wus to go to some) houses (say of six or eight rooms) @ bring up a Other city he would very Ukely find | short distance out of town, and sel! him, ea. ny family EB First Cousin Once Removed. To the Editor of The Evening W: Mary and Ann are first c fa married and has a ch the relationship of that ch | heen to respectable people by letting them pay for same as rent? I for one would purchase, and there ere a great many others, as rents are 8 Meh and capitalists bufl smafl apartments so small ft is diMoult to T hear a lot of complaint ‘rom people, | enaush drawbacks there to ds It was a wedding 80 very grand, All in the month of December, With the very "400" of Toyland thera, As many will long remember, ss and tad manners of New York Cheap Rates for Homes, costume A procession of twenty Ifttle girls Why don't ' YY WONDERFVLLY SPIRITED AND INTERESTING. A LIVING ROMANCE OF WILD NATIVES AND WIDE DISTANCES “ey : ~~ —_ 6) ge ale o e Arizona Desert «<> % oger oS =~ GSCO@DY g ococ Woprright, 1905, by Léttle, Brown @ Co.) horses and those two poor kids who | 1 the N whole = world-llars! Liars! They lay between them, they thought the nt leave it which are BYNOPSIS OF PRECHDIN whole outfit must be dead. They reck- Be 1ouR! fed, and eworn oned up Jim for one of th country- ' ; and nselves with men, and surely did everything in thelr . A lh. Sabet Ab he dirty bar-room power to act mereifal. : A nousaid pesos ghs, selling ls to that youn Firtng the range comes pretty, near , Ryan—and mad vant ale o being a Bertous thing, causing tncon= themselves for wt! that 1 mer. venience to ametie JP homes and’ ook: de ma an old man i femillon, Naty: y eh be Tt wasn’t you whe and ‘the a Xs were only ot ; y ext fighting! | gies » ity in arrest! $ out against Don ° tor eee Shey didn act at murder. {aww the ware ire 10 pay tor sole hn eet heugnty And opore ive, bur Beas ores kaned?! that [ hired you and all os AMS fg Je made camp | wore killed {n Pere, 2 Bean, mur. de nk of woffee, ° soe Ryan thaults E | pled them a di lane ot whisker tnto hie noe. | SOO tes che The tentente woke them up, gave ‘A muntiant eneven, Telshanmon and Ryan | enhre ,fopente woke, them up ee Beli ect fhe iene ee Mere) et, while the rest of Kreasers Ing al} at once, exp ‘Officer meant ~y were Interested whole He then aasiats Curly ard Jim to eseape. ere posse purmuict and captures 6 two, ‘They fight thelr way free and ride for the tn and ready to ex- coffee lexican borer, the pomne at thelr heeta, juards; put the check thelr pursuers ete the grass of & pack of ire, ‘They cross th nto Mex!on, em. aie tS od they fold them ‘not to fuss, and slept throuel the rest of the sermon. When they woke ap again they found them- CHAPTER XV. eeives {n prison. The Frontier Guards. The calaboose at La Moris @ batt of tho usual , mindiried brick, with ELL up to windward of the ring j owing of cncbis sticks laid on V fire, that fool horse Jones came to ay, Dh Rg de Lo to a finish sudden all a-ntraddie,|A ‘dove house Is th n ying, nose down, and blood a-drip. Gomfor in. a climate like owes, where \ping. Bo far Curly had just etayed tn waddle from force of habit, but ‘when the umm motion stopped between Bais knees he murély forgot to be a Bmy more, and dropped tke @ shot © Brass, As for Jim, he was Mo dismount, but the buckskin fay down with tim complete y were @ure purzie’, for len, the moon’ was and the place wns | 8 mouth stiff ng, Jim got up mar 6 he darknega, ravaging | Foiled trom the saddle, and managed to * ped eR MMigger wound. He omcinched Jones's baye been changed | Waddle, eased his mouth of the bit, sat up a howl for Boned the mare's girth as phe lay, peted Cuny'a hott Mhen bmelt by Curly, feeding him over) ‘H ot says for wounds, He didn't know until then hat's ample, Qateh me Ghat Curly hed a tntlet in the rent frm; but al! that side wae tn a mans ff dry blood and when he jar, AWAY Arn) Ww Bre cont tt nto spurt. He pingced| Jim threw ee m “ ’ hrey on the wound. Wp the hole, mate a handage with My “Is It very bad?” he 1 Bandkorohiet, twisted 11 wp with a ator ; It's sure attracting WNL the blood quit coming, then ral : rm wn dead asleep beside hi : ind fl Bimsett Ao) P te his non toe ret partner, ae —they t ‘The big gale ronred overhead a hore Ff flying dust; the coun ‘Was a flaming volean Whirl of clouds, « Perimson with the « Bide 9nd their horses cared not D “More at all for rtorm or fire. Then the| skyline along the east began to glow wwhite-hot, burned by the Mft of the un; and stark black agatnst that bunch of horsemen. They wer from. La Morita Custom-How out what sort of felons hed age on fire, They were Mex ler Guards, | Heutenant told me afterward they sun the playetout | —— , And BAW the eckered with ron bars; ther 1@ heard @ muttering of Spar and noticed the door of th ret with «@ lgimmer from the | Tm starving rether, ay 4 im gure net “io, Tak we Bel i ummm ter “what time| faye Oukty, le rub. | SO, @ killing myselt Loulsiana and hese ladrones es. | nd sey gang to masm ends—the onwards, the lying ont" boys with masks 5 rporal—the popu- 8, and he just cov. There was riding!” t » to mve them after ese ladrones escapes zept Chico and Curly, the two An who' iN 4 The ‘pose caught, them’ near ret buy the witneateny the as Salina ji the judge, the law! ‘And got the great reward—two thou- ae there and can't be bribed fand pesoa d'or! {9 that leery old cow-thiet, Chalkeye, But walt, These two oabaileros | but he's mixed up with us, and likely would not submit, but fought and killed enough @ prisoner by now. Do oltizens; en escaped, |think that a Grave City court i Y which runs thee would believe an honest pa ’ yond there again) we're trapped, and we're sold, they fought terribly, Then the big posse we're going to be butchered now.” chased them clear through the} "Well," sa boundary rr ie (Curly in that slow, soft way he had 1 allow its done you goo] to turn yo’ wolf loose, and you've Shorely howled; {t done me géod to hear all the cussing said while I resun’, That's relieved me a ‘lo “Yes, stampeded a hundred riders! It ou Tutt hare seen the fire at dawn | Mad, me plum forgettul of being A ring,” a "Ei Jim began talking haughty, Santos! That was El Chico — lisguieed ag @ vaquoro?” | Jvuied to know if Curly IMiked the no- tion of being hanged. id Curly a8 @ farm boy—you “That 1 shorely «do, saye nd aw them?” vi Soft, “You sea, only whe Sooke ty Was going to be taken out oar e ‘Man, we've got them here In chains! Wo thousand pesos d'oro! Por Dito! have made me rich with your/Shot—which It was a ca! to i snakes only to think of, That didn ains, corporal? Then they dia|™MAke me happy 9 lil’ bit, but now we after all! They fought like now. they’ be claim: | Bot more prospects, a slow trial ¢ ng, tne to turn around in, and Out how Lo escape. i caballen That sobered Jim, but st made How did you ever take auch fighters, |2estile, too. Youngater, ‘will noth! corporal ?"’ his wire your’ he asked. "Can't get a “On, just arrested them." | ber out of you even for company’ “Rut they fought a hundred Amert-|8*k¢-you're go Beastly felfieh,” ' |, Curly rely “Yes, yes, but we are Frontier Guards his band,‘ Was ei | fee —me and another man; we just arrested ya he very quiet. ‘goin’ to be si i ts all thousand pesos!” or hung most of the time. It" a rloky “It's beastly awkward; but we've got to take our medicine.” hey fought?” thing bein’ alive when you come to "Oh, yes, we had to disable one of think of It, eh? We-nll is mighty or'nary oe st We country, You see, there used to, Guards feel a heap discourt about |r 1 t ne, and yo're wanted | them; in fact, I myself shot him folks in a trifting sort of world, Jim} in old Mexico soners they eateh. They're | bad, so Unele Sam will be asking Mex- | through the pistol arm, Then they sure but 1 reckon {t's ure nice being heab, ' but gosto aved if they get a thief who | feo, and suy, ‘Why did you shoot my | ren 1, made thelr bow to force, Two, We got sweet range hay to le on, and a ng by nto be thelr own cousin, t ment?" ‘The velees in the guardroom had quit muttering, but now @ horseman pulled } up thousand golden doliare!’ | hopes of a feed in the mewn! “Miraculous! Well, senor corporal, | Place Is sure quiet, but we cayn't com. it be permitted to ask where for- | Plain of belng dull, As to our Ill’ wore , | thes, I don't fuss about crossing a river e ally if he's @ white man, guine and In season. That's why lash him hands and feet to & im off into the desert, and » make a ’ ay, oT else | ( fe 1 et tired and Or id t horse, trot » at the front door, und A fi he: 1 | a unl T done reached the bank,’ 5 i bd ‘ 4 Buenos noches, hombre , step thls way, 1, Pablo; MM (i) } , Aire ool. then find | gers and. PY if atounted Fan | eee Ok teewand thay Son hie bee somebody answered: “Buenas Two thousand!’ Santa] jah With Jim groaned, "ehat I'd got Bye Aree Sa Wiens | Sine ann tor thet vat Ts ‘ escape ‘is relations are des, senor!’ ” Catalina, thou shalt have candies, a} 7" Aah ” 18 Gown to Fron {Oe eee oh A ‘ to bury him comfortable, and. Then talk began in Bpanieh, "Can @liny of candles!” I've suffered some," says Curly, “and ys Ourly, “when 1| Wore nom shoot put up actose to his memor™, That {| feed of comm be bought here for the| qe voices faded out, is aod Jim jay |I rockon that what you call courage faye J Why the trails along the Meafcan fron-| horse’ He arrives from Grave City.” k, wiping the sweat from his face, | just tralning. Now you. Jim, you Me year for Holy Grose 1 | Re Pie hie uel ire ail lined with neat ttle crosses. veRvhat news gf, tae erinoea "eehough then Ne burst gut laughing | down and think alrout aomnethiiig to eat e ” | “You reckon,’ says Curly, "that we'll “Muchos. El Senor ox been | sy, he howled, “the gentle, |und prese 'o ‘ onthe Mextonn aide |? Well, thanks’ t2 Diaz, Mexion has! hays, Iittle orviane i a on 7 carnnt iiara!- Oh, pat me, Curly, tor | aslee Groping of gbee. gary the Ittle wooden gravo|gone ‘so tame tit life ain't real “Ita beastly awkward,” saya Jim, | "Don Rex in murdered?" Tim weak—the jop-eared, | spavined, | there's, feed and wader, If in’ tens by the trail worth living, and the Frontier Guards “but we've got to take our medicine.” No, tt was a fight. It must be under | eri wacked, cock-eyed Hagel” good I'll wake othe night, See 5 Curly and Jin, sat there m the dark, | ag 1 of being difpanded because | "And yet T dunno,” says .| atood ‘that his son, Don — Dut Curly’ was shy of and you get two We [and thought of the wooden crosmes. They | they're obsolete, Likewise the Mexican thoughtful about those enoases| } wanted the nows. "Win ars?” Ner'n one, nderatood. hut I believe ICs up aguinst | people ares huninno that they. don't | Ret apaiit that way the Uni "overybody—they’re t (To Be Continued.) — emplelu for tolka-who don't, koow | iow capital nd the won't be pleased. You see, Ht Bcd Ba Raat, nm