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tho Press Publishing Company, No. & to @ Park Row, Now Tork ‘St the Post-Office at New York as Secend-Ciass Miafl Matter. - NO. 16,254, »- THE TEST OF STRENGTH. ‘When the Armstrong Insurance Committee presents its report to the Legislature a skirmish ends and a battle begins. The report is a great one. Its recommendations should be carried out in new laws. But the power of Wall street will be exerted to pre- vent this crowning of the work of the committee. Especially Avill the money manip- ulators rage over the recommenda- tions that investments of insurance + ompanies must be limited, as those of savings banks are now, and that _ the insurance companies must sell within five years all the stocks they Tow own. Yet that is the most necessary part of the proposed new legislation. Your money has been used to buy worthless stuff in order that directors of the insurance companies might profit. That must stop. Your money has been used to bolster up subsidiary trust companies and banks in _ which directors are interested. That must stop. The System will use every form of sophistry and chicanery to defeat or to hamper reform. It will try bribery where it dares to do so. Every man who has an insurance policy upon his life can bring some influence to bear upon his Senator and his Assemblyman to put the Arm- strong report into the form of law at once. Let it be plainly understood that there must be no such failure of justice now as shamed the State in the defeat of the 80-cent gas bill last year. Public opinion compelled the insurance investigation against the secret influence of a hundred grafters who feared that they might be ex- posed; and some of them were exposed. Public opinion can now compe! the putting of the report into law against the secret intluences that profit by the present system, The committee has done a great work. The Legislature should F have the active, positive, emphatic mandate of the people in every county | to carry out that work and make insurance safe. Not only that, but to | Prevent the use of insurance money to corrupt and debauch Politics, And not only that, but to save the honor of the Empire State, which has | unwittingly suffered a great wrong to be done under its seal and sanction. gi A WHOLESOME FEAR. According to Inspector Brooks, every man on the police force is in a | State of fear. The doorman is said to feel it. Patrolmen and roundsmefl feel it. The sergeant on desk duty is afraid he may have left something undone. led ee hesitates to look into the blotter lest he discover an error » made by a competent sergeant. From inspectors down the ai rehension | is reported to be general, aga What aa caused it? What mysterious influence has “thrown’ a scare” into the force? Has the new man in Mulberry st pris Siri? Ty street surprised the Whatever the cause, the effect must be salutary. A wholesome fear 0f suneriors and respect for authority ought to exercise a good disciplinary { nee on rank and file. And this in spite of the Inspector’s misgivi about the efficiency of the Department. ‘ ey Yes. To the Editor of The Evening World: Mayor of New York City? against? buy we eriaa's In 1886, Hewitt and George. Did President Roosevelt ever run for If so, in and whom did he run JAMES TAYLOR, Columbus, 0. Buy “Lung Block.” wha year, To the Editor of The Evening World: An editorial si “Lang ts for the city to by condemnation. “When officers are agitated over petty matters, how can life and Property he properly prof&cted by them?” he asks. weil as under the former laxity and insubordination. of fecr is the beginning of sound discipline. In the confession | i | been finally adjusted. It was Btlenne's If I temember rightly, | Lederle, when he was Presiden Doubtless quite as | Bo proce: [by tt “hés story is here aizpted by the author from Fritzi Sehe's comic opera, *‘M1ie, Modiste,’’ now at the Knick- erbocker Theatre. | HENRY BLOSSOM. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTER, Cupt, Etienne de Louvray, a young French Robleman, is betrothed. by his upcle, the { Covat of 'st, Mar, to Mile, Frochard, Etienne repudiates the match, having lien in love with a Uttie milliner named |. Mile. Frochard's Ugh of Fit| and is by ._ Fro- ee “4 CHAPTER II. The Memory of a Face. HIG sky hung over Paris like a blue sea studded with Jewels as a di- Japldated closed flacre, in strange Ancontonance with the neighborhood, rattled away from the main entrance of the St. Mar mansion three hours after the foregoing Incident, The Interval had had moments of con- orn for Etlenne, now stowed away on the cushioned seat at the back of the vehicle alone, ‘The flacre in which he was being driven away to the woods of Ville D'Avray for his duel with Capt. Fro- chard was but one of phe details that thad issued from the meeting in his moms at 2 when Frochard's two friends called. These, Lieut. Coppe, and Capt, Jermon, had effected arrange- v ments for the coming encounter with ‘gommendaible expedition. operating in goncert with Etienne’s supporters, Pri- ‘yate Gerard and Col, Boshe, of his own ‘Matter of devising a contest of | fatness | the weapon: |of his right arm and wield his weapon own suggestion that had finally {llu- minated a wrangle that had looked for a time knotty, if not hopeless, It had been decided following this proposai of Htlenne, that swords should be he to suffer the binding with his left, The flacre entered into the prelim- inarles, masmuch as {t was decided that the livery of the St. Mars encountered on the highway at an undue hour in the morning would probably excite suspicion, A fiacre stand had there- fore been telephoned to, with instruc- tions to have its driver report at the sates of the palace at 230 to hear way @ passenger to the St. La- zare depot, the destination assigned in the message being, of course, a sub- terfuge. The flacre had rolled slowly up the avenue e half hour ahead of time and had taken a position under sthe shadows of the great arches that spanned the entrance, It was-arranged that Frochard would leave his own quarters at about 3 In a trap of like non-committal appearance, An element thrusting itself painfully | into the pictures that {iltted across Btionne's mind as the vehicle rumbled along in the wake of the shambilng horse was the attitude of his uncle in| this affair. The Count had asked per- mission to be presen: at the meeting Of the seconds, and because of his re- lation to one of the principals and his distinction as a champion of honor and the army it had been granted. Ne- membering the sinister character of the General's last «Words to him as he had left, the Httle table in the saion | of the ballroom early in the evening, Etlenne was inclined himself to object to the presence of this uncle ax the ses- sion of arrangements; but as he con- sidered the talk his remonstrance might evoke, together with tts trail of sub- sequent gossip and certain miscon- | struction one way and another, he de- elded finally to let things go as the others might plan them. When the old General had entered the room of Etlenne's chambers where the meeting was belng held the ld soldier had come forward at once and stood before his nephew, his hands on his hips, a scowl on his face. Etienne had turned away from this figure of his un- cle, His relative's attitude toward the contest impending was one of the least of the youth's concerns. Of other interests engaging him he was very sorry for Hortense, the Dr. of Health, revo:nmended thls but nothing has come of recently, when {t Is proposed city to purchase a few lots on tur Letters from the P The Giant-Killer By J. Campbell Cory. eople Piayground. It seems to! me that While the elty 1s about it the entire “Lung Block” should be acquired for this purpose. I believe that Commis- sioner Lederle and other sanitarians and philanthropic citizens selected the block bounded by Catharine, Market, Hamilton and Cherry streets, and I think that the avthgrities would be justified, on the evidence that Com- missioner Lederle produced, in taking this block for a playground or park for the children of this section of the city. OLD NEW YORKER. A Greenwich Villuger's Kick. To the Editor of The Evening World. I have a grievance! Formerly in erry and Catharine streets for a THE LITTLE MILLINER Still he remembered when discussing the affair with his own sister, Henriette, that the Countess had been accused by Henriette of belng insincere. He had had sufficlent experience with feminine traits to be ready to be- eve the Countess to be guided in her ambition to marry him purely by the distinction the alliance would bring her family. When the plans for their en- gagement had been broached to him by his uncle he considered it his duty to seek out the other half of the pre- engagement proposal, to confer wlth her as to the wisex way to dissipate his uncle's foolish agreement, feeling certain that she, like himself, could not possibly favor a proceeding #0 absurd, He had found the Countess embar- rassingly eager for the plan instead of against Mt. ‘hat a young woman could be will- ing to precipitate herself into the arms of a man she had never met was a shock to him. Under the composure Sheridan square, opening off Grove A | with Answers to Questions street, stood a lamp that was very ornamental, with {:s five globes ot white light. Last summer it was robbed of two globes, when electricity was put in, I suppose. That. was bad enough, but now it stands unlighted, a black tron post and frame, probably to lynch us poor dwellers of Greenwich Village it we enter any protest. Mr. Mayor, do rej ve pretty globes! prpce the Ave BRGL Rochesrer. How to Lay Wut the $100. To the Editor of The Evening World: “Marie” asks how ty use $10) she has laid by from ‘ner factory wages. If mall wages in a factory you have becn able to save $1 you certainly have some will power. I would advise you to find out what line of work you like best to do end spend your money for instruction in that branch. It will be money «well spent, and you will reap benefit in increased wages ana greater happiness in doing something that you will not be so completely tled down to as in factcry work. “WELL-WISHRR,”. Blmford, N. Y- Origin of “Stateroom.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Please inform me as to the origin of the name “stateroom” as it {s used on steamers, &c, J. SINGER. On river steamers the cabins were once named for the various States of the Union. Hence the cabins were in e known @s staterooms, 20th CENTURY ROMANCE OF LOVE, VALOR, PERIL AND TRUSTING HEARTS He was driven away to the woods for his duel with Frochard. studied her. She had done most of the talking at this meeting, he for the most part listening. Bit by bit, word by word, she had revealed herself to him. He had taken the little slips, the unguarded admissions of her char- acter, and in them found proof of his sister's admission that the Countess was willing to fling herself headlong into marriage with him, not because she might love him then or later, but { because of the wider avenues of social j travel it would open to her. While listening to her almost cease- less flow of talk Etienne had found time to study her face. His supple- mentary impressions gathered thus but added fresh confirmation to Henriette's conviction and his own suspicions, He had come away finally in pity that in a narnow nature might have been tinc- tured by scorn, Gently, when leaving, he had told her as emphatically as the situation would permit that nelther of them should be held bound to plans to both combatants had) Coumtess de Panne, sister of Bwochard.| that followed this surprise he had|formed by others for thelr engage- ught a note from his uncle to the principal of the academy asking that in view of the occurrence of Etienne's birthday the boy be accorded a holiday, The principal himself had smilingly e#- corted Etieane to the great gates of the school’s combination play and drill grounds as h# stowed the boy his uncle's note and bade him run off and enjoy himself until sundown, Etlenne thrilled afresh as memories of this day's experience returned to him. ment; that for his own part he had no intention at the moment of marrying any one, He beged the Countess to forget the engagement, as he would proceed to do. From this picture Httenne's mind swiftly moved to others directly related to It. Even while the mental canvas was preparing for the new figures of the drama now holding him Jn thrall as the fiacre rattled toward the Bols, he , found himself remarking the Infinite powers of reproduction of the human With what boundless joy he had looked mental apparatus, t only the fact® beyond the gates to the rolling hills over themselves of this new serles of pic-/far at tha other side of the valo, a tures came back to him, but all the mystic Elysium that his monitors had various lights and shadows under whlch ‘never allowed him to explore, It was the incidents had passed illumined the midsummer. July was shedding down « pictures as from a lens of delicate and glad and grateful heat. His young blood wondrous refraction. raced with joy through his v ‘With He was a boy again, back in the days }a shout and a laugh of glee he was off when the arrival of his fourteenth birth- | fairly before the echb of the principal's day had seemed like the consummation | parting dismissal hed died away. of manhood to him, He had risen early | Then the exquisite joy of those hours and gone through the various drills of | that dey all alone among tthe vales; the his classes, The early morning bad | epirit of adventure that had taken pos- NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY-GLASSES By Irvin 8. Cobb. NCB upon a time there was a man who moved to New York in omer to be sure of a quiet existence, He hailed from far-away Texas, where life is supposed to be very uncertain, because once in a while some~ body, who in this section would belong to the Didn't-Know-It-Was-Loaded Club, made a mistake and called the wrong men a liar. Whereupon the Eastern papers would refer editorially to the “still lawless West.” It is eus~ tomary to hand the still lawless West a good, stiff clout on the jaw when- ever the Fall Killing gang reduces the minority representation in Great Jones street or the Heap Sing Tong gleans a few innocent bystanders from Chinatown. It serves to distract attention from local incidents of an un- dertaking trend and encourages emigration. So the man came to New York. On his arrival in our fair city he was seized by two of our most robust cabmen, who pulled in opposite directions until the referee decided which of them was entitled to take the fragments to the hotel, it being the rule of the game always that the cabmau who gets the larger piece of the wishbone wins. Nothing happened on the ride to ye local hostelry, it being a compara- tlvely quiet hour, except that an automobile owned by a member of the So- clety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ran over a baby carriage containing twins, and he saw a brewery wagon fall in a Subway entrance on top of a family party. He disembarked at the hotel doors just in time to be scooped up by a porter with a trunk truck and flung in a crumpled heap into the hands of a desk clerk, who took his name, address and last words ta rolatives and turned him over to the gentlemanly elevator chauffeur. The ‘Westerner learned the fun of being shunted fourteen stories aloft and then halted so abruptly that his innards came up into his throat, where he could taste them. After convalescing, he started upon a round of the marts of trade, Firsil off he got caught in a bargain rush in the shopping district and was ine stantly shucked down to his suspenders. Repairing the damage and secur jing suitable refreshment in a gilded recuperatory on the corner, he reache@ the City Hall in due time and started down Park Row, ‘while Brooklyn was etill crossing the Bridge. The regular rules were observed—those who hit him once got a cigar, three times a half a dollar. The driver of a delivery , Wagon had every hope of harvesting the capital prize, when a heroic police | man ran into the crush and heaved him bodily out of harm's way with such dexterity that he passed entirely over a furniture van and alighted in the- hogpitable fender of a trolley car. Thus cradled, he rode until the conductor had time to collect his fare. He was then permitted to alight in front of a place where the merry dynamiters were excavating for one of the current month’s ten best cellars. At that moment the blast went off. Our hero was among those who dropped unconscious in a shower of old red sandstone and window glass. ‘When he came to he was in the ambulance. It was a crucial moment. The surgeon in charge chanced to be a very young surgeon, with a set of new tools, which he was anxious to try. He was preparing to operate on the stranger for the removal of everything south of the Adam's apple. The ‘Westerner preserved his interior intact by a flying leap. He ran all the way to the station, taking the first train golng away from here. “In Texas,” he said, “you always have a chance in the draw. Out there \ A He ee there are two sides to everything, even if one of them is homicide.” THE FUNNY PART: @ It takes a visitor to realize that the best way to live quietly in New York is to charter a diving bell. Oi a ae eae - Test of Obedience. HIS ts told of James Lick, the eccentric Ban Francisco millionaire who I founded the famous observatory bearing his name. When taking any one into his service he always asked the person to plant @ tree upside down— the roots in the air, the branches underground. If there were any protest the man was at once sent away, Lick saying that he wanted only men who would obey orders strictly. % By HENRY BLOSSOM, 308 Ay ? ine The Famous Dramatist. session of him and pulled him this way | and that; his dreams of then and there saying good-by forever to the academy and his uncle and Paris, and al! of it, and striking owt for himself, out over the hills where the sky on fair days always looked so blue, and at night ;Sways twinkled so with stars when it was clear. Thence to the latter experiences of that day was sweet recapiiulation for Btlenne, On what small things be- times do the real journeys of our lives depend. Following the tral! of the brook that raced through the hollow of these hills chat he was traversing to- ward the sun, tiene had come upon two paths, One forked a bit westward Jong a well travelled way, the other, thread of flattened grass, led down along the banks of the stream, with brake and willows. He had hes!- tated ut which of the two ways to pies ‘A crane, standing on & protruding flat of slate far down th stream, where the water widened in- to a pool, decided him, He turned his steps that way. And then the sev- eral miles of pulsing delight and rap- ture that had come to his finely adjust- @1 senses of perception as he walked along, skipped along, hopped along, ran along. If his nresent emotions of pleasure | could only ever continue! The crane | nad revealed the spindle leg hid in its wing as he neared it and had flown fur- ther down the creek before him on and out and up through the sunlit way. Etlenne had been moving along the banks of the stream several hours be- fore it occurred to him that perhaps he might be tired when he got back to the a i | Hastily disrobing and improvising a | bathing costume from his under gar- | ments, the boy plunged into the brook. The intoxication of the sensation, the solitude of it, its dash of the unusual aa the tight under blouse flapped againat his breast—all these ‘mpressions now retumed to Etienne, When he had swum back to the place at which be had left his pretty uniform ho was surprised to be unable to locate it. On the banks where he had left it he found instead a sult of blue-green denim, the kind worn by peasant boys. At first he concluded that perhaps he had a companion in his ablutions and that he was himself mistaken as to where he had‘ deposited his own (gar- ments, But @ searching exploration of the vlelnity soon proved that his own uniform was really gone and another Jett in its place. Then he examined the denim suk more closely. He re- marked how clean and fresh {t looked, He had never considered it a desirable fabrio before. Now it looked attractive to him. He pondered the problem of its substitution for his own clothes, The obvious anawer had come to him that some Iad had ohanced along the banks of the stream, had seen the uniform, iked it and approprinted it, leaving his own clothing in its stead. The denten suit fitted him snugly. Hts tawny hair blew across his face with the Nght wind that stirred the glades of the valley. Ascending the knoll, he had found hime self shoer up against « low villa built ‘n the hollow on the other side of the rise. The dog, leased to a small kennel, barked again as Etienne appeared. The ind turned to redescend the knoll to the/ trail along the creek, when an apple atruck him full on the head. Simulta-- neously a peal of juventle laughter rang, out from the branches of a tree at hip right. Looking up he saw a little girt in a short pink frock, clinging convule sively to one stout branch of the tree, while ai feadied her seat on another, ‘The child was laughing immoderatel, Inclined at first to resent the aim of the apple, Etienne now, too, fell to Jaughing. ‘The girl among the branches gradually arrested her mirth as she saw Ltieane willing to share in it. When the boy caught a good look at the girl he noted that she wus of ua | age near his own. His glances up into the tree had been very shy advanvos after he discovered that It was 4 and not a boy who had made a ts of him. Suddenly a pante of bi ness seized him. He again turned face back towani the brook, when « low ery from the girl among the branches halted him. He turned back none too quickly, The girl had lost her bilince, Her body struck full against Etienne as she fell, For one brief instant he had felt the warmth of the little giel’s check a40iat his own; had felt the soft presse of the cogper-colored hair like slik agalnat his temples. The oval face with ks soft lta¥an, coloring; the browi eyes, front and oonfting; the m bile mouth (elling Its talo Of emoarcassnies.. osed ue Etienne again from the varalshed wall of the cab, as his mind reverted to that wondrous afternoon almoy a decade ago, The girl bad come to a sense of appreciation of the impropricty of the mcment firat. With a low cry mao had torn herself from his arms aad hurried, away, running with the haste of panio down toe lttle earthy path that enolr cle! the villa at the left, to dsappear around the turn of its far side, te. /