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» lace for her adornment. j _doving hearts are preparing a tribute for her. 4 - @aughter of the American President has evoked. White House brides __ public-service corporation, employing three hundred lawyers and thandling The Evenin by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 6 Park Row, New Yorks ‘Watered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. VOLUME 46.. NO. 16.234. Miss Alice Roosevelt. Happy the bride the sun shines on, but happier the White House bride-to-be on whom the kindly in- terest of three continents is centred. | In the stores, at the opera, in Fifth avenue ballrooms Miss Roose- velt, a New York girl, though now a visitor, is the cynosure of admir- ing attention, In the palace at Pe- king the strange old Empress is thinking of her and despatching precious gifts for her bridal. The sea gallant Cubans have a_ neck- In England, in the far Northwest, in Cincinnati A princess might envy the demonstrations of affection which the ' there have been, but none whose cup of happiness has been so filled to overflowing. $s Hearts are hearts and love is love and one touch of romance makes the whole world kin. A Deeper Depth. Speaking of his work in reorganizing the law department for the City Railway, Attorney Quackenbush says: “T am still cleaning house, but when I have finished this will be just as clean and reputable a law office as you can find in town.” A strange boast! An amazing statement, “made without qualifica- tion” and with the accompanying promise that henceforth the company will “practise law honestly.” Has, then, this great legal bureau of a great tens of thousands of cases, been guilty of corrupt practices? Have its agents, to defeat damage suits, made use of the very forms of fraud the company has reprobated in ambulance-chasing attorneys and professional damage seekers? Has it fought deception with deception, opposed manufactured evidence to manufactured evidence, and even sought to tamper with the jury-box? If so, a depth of moral obliquity is revealed which makes scandalous society journalism and life-insurance dishonesty almost reputable by com- parison. How could lawyers capable of the practices implied secure em- ployment with a company of good character? How could they dare initiate a policy of chicanery such as is alleged without the tacit sanction of their employers? It is edifying to have the assurance that honest methods will prevail hereafter because they are more economical. Vulgar Music Halls. The Milton Club, an organization of young men upon the east | side, has done excellent work for the city in beginning a campaign against the lax ways of music halls where vulgar and indecent language is per- mitted upon the stage. The east side has no need of apology for its dramatic taste. Some of the best acting in the city has for years been seen there, and this year the very best, that of the Russian players, has found there its warmest welcome. But a few of the music halls have taken great liberties in catering to lower tastes, and the evil was unquestionably growing. ~ This ought not to he. Many performers have assured the Milton Club that they are in accord with its views, but are personally helpless in the matter. This is in most cases the truth. Some managers have} promised reformation. Public opinion has power to whip the others into | line, and it should do so before the law is invoked. There are English-speaking troupes whose work demands a similar campaign for decency. A New Detective Series By Arthur Morrison, Author of ‘‘T ales of Mean Streets.” lad? That would have been a deal simpler.” “Because Steggies 's a good trainer, and has a@ certain reputation to keep up. It would have done him no good to have had a@ runner drugged while , Martin Hewitt, a brilliant private detective, with unique methods, +s the hero of these adventures, re- counted by his friend Brett. The first story of the serics was “The | | under his care; certainly tt would have A Beh teas cooked his goose with you. It was venien Urelt Aaa cer tes much the safer thing to connive at| a kidnapping. That put all the active work Into other hands, and left him j safe, even if the trick failed. Now,| you remember that we traced the | prints of Crockett’s spiked shoes to} within a couple <t yards from the! and that there they ceased sud-| You said it looked as though | he had flown up into the air; and so \it aia trainer, has abe! CHAPTER III, The Solution. “But I was sure that {t was by that gate that Crockett had left, and by no other. He couldn't have got through | n| the house without being seen, and| th was no other way—let alone the| evidence of the unbolted gate. There- fore, as the footprints ceased where | eALcepnrte 6 icrockett they did, and were not repeated any-| Buspected him, You didn't, 1 suppo where in the lane, I knew that he had + He's always been considered al taken his spiked shoes off—probadly n, and he looked aa star-| changed them for something ¢lse, be- cause a runner anxious as to his he acted it very| chances would never risk walking on aight m | anybouly. es, 1 must say Well, But there was something sus-| bare feet, with a chance of cutting picious in his story, What did he say?| them. Ordinary, broad, smooth-soled Crockatt had remarked a ohilliness and| ®llppers would leave no tmpreasion on the coarse cinders bordering the track, and nothing short of spiked shoes would leave a mark on the hard path in the lane behind, ‘The splke-tracks wet leading, not directly toward the deor, but In the direction of the fence, when they stopped; somebody had handed, or thrown, the slippers over the fence, and he had changed them on the spot. The enemy had calculated upon the fasxea for a swoater, which Steggles went to fetch, Now, just think, You understand these tulngs, Would any thainer who knew his business (as Stee- les does) have gone to bring out a aweater for his man to change for his Jersey in the open alr, at the very time the an sas complaining of chilliness? © course not He would have taken Wr nan indoors n and let him! spikes leaving a track in the lane that schange there under shelter, Then sup-| might lead us in our search, and. had posing Steggles had really been sur-| arranged accordingly. prised at missing Crockett, wouldn't he have looked about, found the gate open, and told you it was open when he first came in? He said nothing of that—we found the gate open for ourselves, So that from the beginning I had a certain opinion of Steggles.” "So far s0 good. I could see no foot- prints near the gate in the lane. You will remember that I sent Steggles off to watch at the Cop before I went out to the back—mereiy, of course, to get him out of the way. I went out into the lane, leaving you behind, and walked + one child. children were born, making four. T.W. World’s Home Magazine, What Are the Wild Waves Saying, Sister? Wednesday Evenin By J. Campbell Cory. \'M AFRAID iv$ Too RouGH eS) White Is Not a Color. To the Editor of The Evening World: Is white a Coors ra KEELY. Matteawan, N. Y. Domestic Problem Solved. To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘A correspondent says “A man and) wife had four children. Each was parent | of three, but not same three, which ap-| ro the Raitor of The Evening World: parently made six; but there were only | four children in all.” the problem is this: A widow and a, hea at night brush the teeth, using widower married, each already faving plain baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) It ts a good alkall, | and preserves the teeth as does noth- I just pass this along to who- PHILANTHROPIC. My solution of After the two marriage ltalian Winter and Colds, To the Editor of The Evening Wortd: This is the sort of winter rich people pay thousands of dollars to go to Italy for, we who stay home and get all the win- It is a typical Itallan winter. Yet in my pocketbook, by the by. Of course this ‘mmy’ might have meant ‘Jimmy’ or ‘Tommy’ aa possibly as ‘Sammy,’ but they were not to be rejected on that Account. Certainly Crockett had been decoyed out of your ground, not taken by force, or there would have been marks of a scuffle in the cinders, And a5 his request for a sweater was prob- ably an excuse—because {t was not at all a cold afternson—he snust have pre- viously designed going out. Inference, @ letter recolved; and here were pieces of a letter, Now, in the light of what I have said, look at these pleces, Firet, there {s the ‘mmy'—that I have dealt with. Then see this ‘throw them ov'— clearly a part of “throw them over,’ exactly what had probably been done with the slippers. Then the ‘poor f, “What you say seems pretty piain| its whole length, firet toward the Old Row, although it didn’t strike at| Kilns, and then back toward the road. the time, But, if Steggies was selling| I tound nothing to help me except these Qpuldn't ne have drugged the small pieces of paper—which are here i coming just on the line before, and seen, by joining up with this other piece might easily be reference to ‘poor feet.’ ‘These coincidences, one om the other, | Personally, ter joys of Italy free also get colds. Nearly every one has or has had heavy How do doctors a0- Is the horrible zero- and-snow winter of former time, after health? the present winter seems MARG. colds this winter. count for this? all, the best for Americans’ to me ideal. “Philanthropic” Tooth Tip. Here {s a free tip to every one whose When going to teeth are going bad. 4s a tooth powder. ing else. ever wants it, The Kingdom-Maker. To the Editor of The Evening World: Of the four great your readers (Wellington, - Martin Hewitt, Investigator A ‘left him’ and ‘right away,’ but there is another, contaiging ARET. men discussed by Gladstone, C2 a 4 go % Zi fh —_S* “Final heat—Crockett went far to estatlish the identity of the letter and to confirm my previgua im- pressions, But then there ic something else, ‘Two other pleces evidently mean perhaps, eknost Bismarck and Napoleon), I believe Bia- marck ard Napoleon to be the greater. And while on this subject I beg to deviate slightly from the question in hand and call attention to one states- man greater than elther of these two and the peer of nineteenth century statesmen and diplomats, viz, Count Cavour, the founder of Modern Italy, and one of the greatest men of all times. J.B. EB. Watchmen for Schools. To the Editor of The Evening World: Aly son was going’ out of school toward the main entrance. but befpre he got to the entrance a boy came rufning in from the street, knocked my boy over and madé u wound in his head. It seems no one is responsible for it. This Ix the second time I have had to pay doctor's through the capeless- ness of boys at the school. This bov re Ze me p J first; Willis second!” all of the words ‘hate his,’ with the word ‘hate’ underlined, Now. who writes ‘hate’ with the of Letters from the People » Answers to Questions was playing tag in the street and then ran into the school. If they allow chil- dren to play, why isn't there some one | © watch them go the children can come in and out of the school in safety? _ Mrs. W. J. Apply to Commandant of Y¥: To the Editor of The vening Wortd: | How can I get admission to the Brooklyn Navy-Yard? Ww. R. Bureau of Vital Statistics. To the Editor of The Evening World: Where can I get information regard- ing @ marriage which took place about sin or elght years ago in New York City? H. J. W. Apply to Supreme Court. To the Editor of The Evening World: How can I have my game changed? It cannot be translated’ into English and {t aleo is very dificult t pronounce B.C. N. J. it in any language. ‘Jan NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASSES By I. 8. Cobb, BOUT this time of the year the troupers begin to straggle back from the silo gnd red timothy circuits. Those who come in by rail shed cinders {n the cottage cheese when they reach across for the pretzel Jar and shrink involuntarily if they eee a brakeman in uniform. The others may be recognized as they stalk the Rialto, or lunch route, because they, cover exactly two feet seven inches at each step, that being the distance between cross-ties on all standard gauge rights of way. There are fringes on their Marks-the-Lawyer spats and their fur overcoats need the dandruff treatment. It fs diMfcult to look prosperous in a fur overcoat that has-begun to moult 6o early in the season. Various causes contribute to the return of eo many who delight to wear the buskin since they so seldom wear the sock. Perhaps the agent made the mistake of putting on “Ten Nights in a Barroom" in one of those dis- tillery towns down South where the graft from the licker license enables the Mayor to own a pair of 2.20 trotters and a road cart with hectic wheelm, Perhaps at Emporia, Kan., Eliza failed to cross the ice with sufficient ginger and vervy. Folks at Emporia never get a whack at the real imported frankfurters until the butcher buys up the Siberian bloodhounds that the hotel man levied on. Maybe it was a repertoiry company that played Indiana dates without Mustrated songs between acts. Modern Indiana demands a series of land+ scapes done in a scrambled egg salmon salad and paris green color effect, tho whole being thrown upon a white sheet, with a baritoning person stand- ing at the edge of the calcium singing about the valley where the malaria ‘bushes bloom and the woolly microbe gambols at his mother’s side, Or possibly it was a musical comedy which committed the fatal error of trying to go through the Herbiverous Belt with no number about “Dear Old Manhattan Isle" in stock. Persons who never saw anything more gid- dily metropolitan than the Paper Flower Festival at Sant Jo must have the dear old Manhattan Isle number. If it {sn't on the programme they go to the box office and carry on very unpleasantly, often demanding their money back. Be the cause what it may, they are back among us, living on soda crackers, rib ends of hope and the smell from the gasoline buggies along Broadway. Sixty-four leading cafes and hot oyster soup parlors offer a warm welcome, with food and lodging, to every hi cites “The Face on the Barroom Floor." Soubrines having a c costume changes, with ballads and imitations of well-kno favorites, never lack for engagements during the w in Southern Illinois. Every missfonary aid society clamoring for a lady elocutionist who can do “The acceptably and come bac with “Oh, Listen to the Mocking [irs xylophone as an encore. Sister turns are stil] popular for at the normal school in the Panhandle of Texas. But they will return to New York oven if the walk doo3 mae ‘holy ¢- horny-handed. at Paducah, Kx: y man who roe er Chautenqs west of the Voinsz: THE FUNNY PART: And all New York has for them tz a chance io st: rapidly. —e$o—_____ The National Department Store. HILIP LORING ALLEN fn an article in the American Mlustrated Mazazine gives the standing of the several States in the different lines of production, He says: Here, to begin with, is New York's list of winnings—seventeen in this one de partment in Horticultural Hall: Potatoes, onions, beets, carrots, parsnips, ture nips, green beans and peas, sweet corn, cucumbers, rhubarb, cabbage, caulle flower, beans, currants, raspberries and hay. California stands next with foucteet prizes. The Golden State, though no longer first in gold, 1s still chief in pump kins, asparagus, peaches, nectarines, pears, plums, prunes, almonds, walnuts, figs, lemons, olives, oranges and pomeloes. Next is Florida with a line of low latitude products, cassava, fragrant with memortes of the Swiss Family Robinson, cocoa- nuts, guavas, Japanese persimmons, limes and pineapples. Massachusetts and Virginia are tied with three prizes apiece. The Oki Dominion has kale, spinach and peanuts to her credit, while ‘there Massachusetts stands, behold her’—= squashes, lettuce und cranberries. After these come the pair of two-prize Gtates, Pennsylvania with cherries and mushrooms, Texas with watermelons and pecang Here was something more—Sammy had been enticed away by ® woman. ‘Now, I remembered that when we went into the taproom on Wednesday, some of his companions were chaffiing Crockett about @ certain Nanoy Webb, and the chaff went home, as was plain most easily entice Sammy Crockett y “A few inquiries soon set me in the to see, The woman, then, who could) ;, The Stolen Athlete row afternoon—that the lad is safe direction of the Plough and Miss Nancy) S7und here. You will Webb. I had the curiosity to look around the place as I approached, ana there, in the garden behind the house, were Steggles and the young lady in earnest confabulation! “Ay. that I will, He'll any pe against Crockett now, #0 bet don’t come direct ino Ton oe) “Every conjecture became a certain-| ,)But, about ty. Steggles was the lover of whom Mikely ton , Crockett was jealous, and he had emi-| day or two . “Ah, perhaps,” the land} ployed the girl to bring Sammy out} seit 'pfeng fe, that nies repltet, I watched Steggles home and gave you! ‘There's four more in his tormope a hint to keep him there. row, Two I know aren't tryers, the other two I can hold couple of quid apiece any day. third round and final won't be ti morrow week, and hi ever by then. [t's was, Hon muc! you going to have on? I'll lump it on for you sate enough. This is a chance not, to be missed; it's picking money up." “Thank you; I don’t think anything to do with'!t, This profession- al pedestrian business doesn't seem a pretty one at all. I don't call myself A morallat, but if you'll excuse my aay- ing: the thing Is scarcely the game I care to pick up money at in any way. “But the thing that remained was to find Steggles'’s employer in this bual- ness, I was glad to be in when Danby called. He camo, of course, to hear if you would blurt out anything and to learn, if possible, what steps you were taking, He failed, By -way of making assurance doubly sure I took short walk this morning in the char- acter of a deaf gentleman, and got Miss Webb to write me a direction that comprised vhree of the words on these scraps of paper—left,’ ‘right’ and ‘lane’; they, correspond, the all. Pe sure that Steg- cullar a “Now, I felt perfectly well! Js very If yeu think so, I gies would go for his pay to-day. On| won't persuade-ve, though 1 don't think ef ey pinee Ghane icouimantionain 39 meh ot your RINAIEAS Jax 1 sit after at. ul, we won unr Professional pedestrianiem aie not apt you've dotie me. ‘a mishiy oo iets gnother far—t te} the must sity, an only feel better, Therefore | Steggles| wouldn't). on't level without doite something have had his bribe first. He would]. pay che debt. take care to get it before the Satur-} | «Let me have the bill and I'll pay it aa: heats were run, because Once | jike a lord, and feel a deal more ploased they were over” the thing was done, | than it you made a fayor ot lt—not & and the principal. conspirator might |T'm above a favor, of courde, at td and that's w far have refused to pay up, and Bteggles coulin't. have helped: himself, in T hinted he should not go out till T follow him, and this afternoon when he went, follow him I did. I saw him go into Danby’s house by the side way and come away ‘Danby it was, then, ad ness; and nobody considering his lerce Howitt im! idly ade ce, It was wasn't It, that f should @> your business !* you would help me in mine? | Vory. wall; v |. and we'v Performea ‘our parts. o could ended hat 1 aula at ftendel at what I Ba a phat I won't! But as to that: away was Nancy Webb. I resolved to find who Nancy Webb was and learn more of her. “Meantime, I took @ look at the road at the end of the lane, It was damper than the lane, being lower, and over- hung by tree wheel tracks, ut only one set that way it came, toward the town, and thoy were narrow wheels—carriage whee! Crockett tells me now that they dro’ him about for a long time before shut- ting him up; probably the inconvenience of taking tim straight to the hiding) There were many| py, turned in the road and went back the rue iniary kett's winning this race. “aut how to find Crockett? 1 made Fe” That would bem deal t00 flaky, with wervante. about and so on, Gtegules, once those heats are OF Y1l—well"" ¢ following Sunday w Nee eel ine his Topas i 3S rooms. London, turnat over his paper and tei f Danby. waa a builder and|under tho head. ,"Podteld Annual, 18 Three letnit ‘was on paper eyes pte ‘nat wre likely ine) heat —crckett Ara, Vas TR tevoutre cereniniy ns rmnot_ ns | KFonaway win by neRely three mehh vou must sav. Y ntppone Danby had taken down his Tho Let notice, what would you have done. then?” “We had our SOURS eran eae a) f to Panny, Pee feting. him. all about. hie little me, terrorized Sim with Savers 25 it ture, (The Case of Mr, Fogpatt,?, will begin Ja to-morrow's 0 law, on, made im throw up and back. But as {I Sariprtar wart fnow Sheen Martin Newitt» neat adven- 9