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the Press Publishing Company, No. 83 to 6 Park Row, New Tort™ gat the Post-Omice at New York as Seccnd-Class Mail Matter. (0. 16.264, ‘ae exile there in becoming state. He occupies the imperial suite in the great floating palace which em- bodies the latest ideas in ocean lux- ury. In the French capital Mr. Me- Curdy will find his environment en- tirely congenial. There the art of life on the side of Its creature com- | forts has been brought to the high- hard A. McCurdy departs for | Paris to join the colony of kings in} est degree of perfection. The world’s most illustrious chefs, Ye the Vatels of modern gastronomy, vintages are procurable. In art and literature the fast word !s said. The drama Is a perpetual delight, Everything concety- ‘eble to charm the senses and to lull remembrance of old, unhappy, far-off things into a lotus-like forgetfulness is to be had for the asking—and the Price, Socially Paris offers the fastidious visttor agreeable companionship of every description, according to his bent. There ts the old noblesse of _ the Faubourg St. Germain, and there are also the rastaquoueres who spend _ with a lavish hand the millions amassed in Peruvian copper or Pennsyl- Wania steel or Chicago traction franchises. : There are gorgeous gentlemen in fur coats who have left their coun- | try for their country’s good, but have not omitted to take a full treasure hest in their luggage. There are petty potentates deposed from Balkan thrones, grand dukes with an intimate acquaintance with army contracts > temporarily away from home for their health, Russian princesses with in- | "Meresting pedigrees. In no other capital can so picturesque a variety of Motables be gathered under one roof. 5 In this society there is abundant solace for those who have a propen- sity'for it. Paris, in a word, is 2 place where every prospect may be made | ‘to please. Yet for the exile it is not home; for Mr. McCurdy it will not | be Morristown. 4 For him there will be no Whippany Hunt in full career over the “Moris hills. A four-in-hand through the Bois will not be a four-in-han? on the Mendham road to Bernardsville. The salutations of servitors wi! |) leave a sense of something lacking in one accustomed to the familiar nod "and lifted hats of his own townspeople. There may even be at times sigh of regret for the fellowship of the club car and the cab rattling fro: “the ferry upon the beaten track to Liberty street. ‘ Altogether there will be a large drop of bitter in the sweet and son hag inward vearning which gnawed at the heart of Mr, Hale’s her ip Nolan, that other man without a country. The rule of the day: If you have something you don’t want or that does, Py Wnjoad, H on the city. If the olty has a good thing gire it to Ryan an WIPE OUT CHINATOWN! ‘As Mayor McClellan well says, the reasons advanced by The Even- fing World for making a park of Chinatown are “unanswerable” and “the Small Parks law the most potent weapon,” here as elsewhere, in - the city’s battle with slum conditions, i : «It is a weapon too little employed. It could be put to no use so Profitable as to eradicate this plague spot and accomplish a work of civic Purification which has taxed the combined efforts of the police and the Board of Health. A Chinatown park would be a memorable landmark in - elty betterment. Ing Fif in the conviction of the disinter- ested character of Bent's overtures were his parting words: “If you feel you have it in you to make a success in a broader field, go and do {t; the way and the means will be found. Success doesn't come to those who wait, and {t doesn't wait for any one to come after It." The words aang hopetutly in Fif's ears as again and again she recalled | them. | It was in thie variable mood that she (at last mounted the steps of the pen- sion and found Mme. Gervais awaiting | her to tell about Ettenne's excited visit. “Poor Etienne!” reflected Fin, but then he would suffer no more than she, Their affairs had reached a crisis, Something radical must be done. As Fif mounted the single long stalr- way leading to her own room a volce eted her from above, “Ig that you, Mile. Pint’ Fifi recognized the tones of the old musiolan, Before she could answer the Destiny! Jold man was beside her, having sham- Y= this greeting the old woman! bled down the intervening atairs. This story is here adapted || “by the author from Fritzi Scheff’s comic opera, ‘‘Mlle, ‘odiste,’’ now at the Kuick- SINOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Etienne de Bouvra; young of noble fi is ttle milliner nam fi. ‘Count of St. Mar, dttierl: mer @ high pon! age t is momentarily disapointed. in miliionaire, arrives in "in -refusal Mme, Cecll turn Ft in \ Gaston and the |! jt I Fitt @ shop, | CHAPTER XI. had left Fif at the door to retura| Ff unlocked her door. Together they to her kitchen in the basement.|entered her room, Fifl pushed a chalr towards her visitor, “I've been waiting since morning for you.” said the old man. “I have good news, This afternoon at the coffee- tne | house I rovetved a letter from @ friend phe |now tn Milan, Italy. He works in the | Scala Theatre there, He has a position for me, They need a Mbrarian at the | theatre. My friend spoke for me. They told htm to get me on to Milan at once,” IVA congratulated her new friend warmly, “But that tent afl," he eaid. ‘arty friend hes authorized me to tring with me any material in the way of good votoes that may be avatlable for ume at the theatre." Yor an instant IYfi's breath atopped, PiN's exciting experiences at the bonnet Ghop preceding her filght involved sen- fations she was sure she could forget, Her first feeling as sho # the highway after passing throug! Goor of the shop was one of reile very air itself proved an exhiia: er. Booanse of her excited o ‘the first glance she cast at tho oa the box as she hurried along did not tn- form her a once of the big part this) ‘bamdbox was to play tn her fortunes, But when her confusion abated, as it @34 when she neared the Louvre, she Grew the card forth again and read and reread {ts message unt!! {ts meaning ‘was.at last clear, With the card's com- plete Intelligence bofore Fif's frat] Zor An tat Impulse was to rash at once to the itue|,,~ 12 "94 # voice, money and she spoke Ge la Paix and indignantly filng the box vely then, old musician's arm, tiedly the events of the afternoon, all that had preceted it, Wack into the store, Be’ hh a hand? on the had hardened to a reso! Feealled that her customer ha | Placed an envelope in the box. I if now ght sh als with er love for reached for this and opened it, That the| Etienne, his uncle's objections, and the >) gorprise of the revelation money| vistt of the American at the store, in- Powas for her, as well as ws ts, did] cluding reference to hie pre of the} hot cause her there and then to swoon|bonnets and the money, now in the Was always afterward a mystery to her. |bandbox on arm The monoy the message sii, was ad-| The ardor of a boy was reflected trom anced mersty av a loan. She was tol the jubilant chuctdes that escaped the Fat back when she had exploited harlord musician as Ustened to FIn's bition and succce This surely | recital, Hwas not the act of one of the class of! “I tell you," he exclaimed with ant- OF) geckiges geilants wim paid random triv-| mation us Fin finised, ‘%'e destin ) Wte to strange women with the pope of] this whole thing. So you've run coun- themselves into favor. Aid-| ter to that old bumptious blockhead, le tek The Evening Worta*s Home Magazine, Friday The Flight. By J} Campbell Cory Evening, ch 2, 1900. CLEVER TH OHN DP, ROCKEFELLER and I J wore trotting down the side of Po- cantico Mountain just a few yards ahead of a subpoena specialist. “rm afraid he'll cath us,” (Just ito make conversation), “Don't be afratd,” chuckled Genial John. “Do ag I do and put your trust In Providenc “Well,” I. reparteed merrily, “that might be better thin dragging Provi- dence into your trust."* said I I was attending a lecture on “Toet!cal Affinities’ with Dick Croker in 196. “Poetry’s all to the good." quoth @idactic Dick, “but it's money that makes the mare gv." “Quite no," I agreed, “and it has a similar effect on the Board of Aléer- men.” President Roosevelt and I were re- from an executive session of Tammany Hall one evening in 196. ‘What do you think of the way I Letters from the People Snow and the Unemployed. ‘To the Métter of The Evening World: This practically snowless winter has saved the olty many thousands of dollars, but tt has also kept thousands of willing men from working as snow cleaners. But, partly compensating, the warm weather hes saved the poor man much money in coal and gas bills, If the {ce companies run up their price fn summer, claiming they heave hed no chance to harvest enough fce, let me aay I have seen them at work this win- THE LITTLE MILLINER Compte de St. Mar, have you! And the old fool has threatened you, has he? Well, 'N show you how to fight this battle, and while squaring up your scores with him I'll even up several of my own. He was a director at the opera at one time during my emplo: ment there, and also held shares in che other theatre, the Theatre Comique. Because of the friendship of the man whose life I had saved le Compte, who hatod this man, took to despising me. Ho injured me in many ways—had me dismiseod several times. Each time, howover, my patron had me reinstalled, 1 know the old curmudgeon and know just how he schemes His bark 1s worse than his bite, Det he neods a setback or two himself. The first thing he will try to do now that he has learned who it le whe hee enlisted the ter gathering thelr usual full supply of ice, Also that there Is sald to be a vast store of {oe left from last year in the ice-houses, So that bluff, if made, should be called. Taken all in all, the | mild winter has been « blessing. ANTI-TRUST Defends Modern Girls. To the Editor of The Evening World: Reading what “Bacheles of 82” says of girls loving amusc~ent and disliking housework, I would say that I like all the things he mentions, but I can also wy, Bed a) S TS Answers to Questions “cook, wash, eew aud mend,” and there are @ great many more girls between lghteen and twenty who can do the saine, How about it, girls? EIGHTEEN, A Grain Problem. To the Biltor of The Evening Worm: Rea here is @ problem to puz- zle over: “What !s the amount of ao single «rain of wheat ceometrically doubled upon itself from the first square of the chessboard down to the last (or th) square? Gtve the num- A 20th CENTURY ROMANCE OF LOVE, VALOR, PERIL AND TRUSTING HEARTS For an Instant Fifi's Breath Stopped. favor of his nephew will be to play his cards directly against you personally, He will be here to-night, you'll see, or an emiseary will come to threaten you or cajole you into signing a release of some sort, or to commit you to paper [in some form. But we'll fool him, If you say 80 you shall come with me to Milan. My sister Is to cake the journey with me-' Accopt this money the phil- anthropist has loaned, but only as a trust; place it In the bank In his name, with your power to draw upon its funds as you may need them. Tha: will ease your conscience, I shall at- tend to all those details when we got to Milen. With a position assured at once on your arrlyal and your protec- tlon against want provided for by this bank secount you can then in a short while find a place for your volce that will eventually have all Paris at your feet." As a few minutes later the old man and Fifi crossed the Seine on the way to the depot, the little milliner cast a glance along the crooked course of the stream, heunted im apots ky sweet { memories, and wondered if she would ever see Paris again. eo e« © e¢ ee # @ A great fete was on tn the gardens of the St. Mar Palace. Three years had elapsed since the evenings the St. Mar mansion had wit- nessed the scenes ending in the @elf-ex- fle from his family of Capt. Btienne do Bouvray, Viscount de St. Mar, About | the same period had imervened since | the young scion of tthe noble house had parted from Mile, Fil Faydeau ono afternoon in the bonnet shop of Mme. Cecil after soveral distressing scenes, Netther had seen nor heard trom the other in the interval. Muoh had occurred meanwhile, Btlenne, a changed man, during the last year of the separation, had grown | to accept Fifi's absence aa evidence ab- solute that the girl no longer lived. For his sister's sake he had returned to the palace. He and his unele, now aging fast, matntained superfiatally cor- dial relations. The old General retained much of his old pesvish resentment agains Btieans, The old man otill ) ber of grains, also pounds, bushels and tons: also the oost of same at $1 Per bushel. DANIEL J. LEARY. A Hint to Jorome. To the Editor of The Evening World: I think jf Jerome would display the same strenuous spirit in punishing the big in New York City as he does In following up the “pier orim- inals he would he conferring a favor on some honest people who are kept | poor by supporting the rascals who | ave the nab sgine of every commod/ty our families eat and wear. swung the Big Stiok down at Panama im that Colombia matter?’ he asked, putting his hands playfully to his ears to ward off expected applause. “It the Big @tick imparts some of its back. INGS I NEVER SAID, By Lowe R. Case. strenuousness to the Small Spade,” I answered, “the canal may be dug some time In the next century or #0.” Dr. Wiley had invited me to one of, his delicious Polson Banquets, and we had reached the prophylactic anti-toxin course “Always boll the water you drink,” he warned me. “Otherwise a million harmful germs will be swimming around inside you. Bolling the wa: will kill them." "Well," I retorted with my intmitasie dry humor, “I'd as soon be a germ aquarium as a germ cemetery.” Chauncey Depew acd I were drafting an article on Insurance Frauds. Sud- Gently the Senator glanced up from his work and said bitterly: “It's hard to be advised to get out efter I've been consistemly practising the various virtues all my life.” “®enator,” I answerei, coyly, “there’a only one virtue you won't consent te practise, and that's the only one thas would make a hit with the le."* ee virtue is that?” shouted, erly. eine virtue of resignation,” I came ODDITIES IN PICTURE AND STORY. HE oddest thing about the ao- companying photograph the fact that tts original, the Ranos (Queen) of en up-country India state, broke all precedents of custom and re- gion by permittling herself to be snap- shotted. A few years ago such a breach of royal dignity would have been {m- possible to imagine. She was, however, the temporary hostess of the Prince and Princess of Wales during their In- dian tour; and, on learning that her im- perlal guests did not consider it an in- fringement of ‘divine right” to be photagraphed, she at last graciously consented to pose, perched up, cross- legged, on her royal throne and weight- ed down by ropes of jewels and price- less robes of state. Time was when “Oh, yes!" called after the American or British tourist {a the streets of Paris meant no com- pliment at all. But the entents of ‘Dlessed cordiality has changed all that. Now, when they say, “Oh, yes," when you stroll by on the boulevards, it means a sort of password af amiability. Wonderful !s the progress all things English have made recently in Paris. The language schools are full of youth | jnarning the tongue of Shakespeare and | Rudyard Kipling. A Frenchman js des- perately spologetio when he cannot speak English. can speak as fluently as ever now. This te not @ bunch of blots on a laundry slip. It is the sacred and imperial autograph of His Majesty Nutsahite, Dm- peror of Japan, a signature dif- ficult to @btain or even to be- hold, but one which at the bot. tom of an order has power to plunge all the Orient {nto war. ‘The youngest king in the world 1s Daudi Chun, of Uganda, At. rica, a protectorate of Engtand G. Y. M, Atbany, N.Y, | treasured a hope for an eventual aris- tocratic alliance for his nephew. To awaken the latent temper and bombast of the old warrior, it was atill necessary but to mention the name of the little milliner, To all Paris, as to Btienne, the little miiliner waa dead. None of her formor associates ever heard of her after her filght from her shabby little pension over the Seine, But there was one man in Parla who knew the particulars of Fifa filght, including her destination, when she and her companions boamied the express at the Paris station. A cratty tactician, schooled in the cunning of secret-service espionage, Le Comte de St, Mar from a hidden point of view had geen the ttle miliimer board the © = | train. He is now about eight, and The emissary who had appeared at Mme. Gervais'’s door on the atter- noon preceding the evening of the little milliner’s fight had not been deceived by the old patronne'’s clumsy evasion. But the old General ceased plotting for little Fif's banishment from the capital when he saw circumstances accomplis! [2s what he himself desired. Letters that Fil wrote after her arrival in Milan to Etienne were delivered to the tricky olf eoldier himself through an arrangement mith the post carrier as- signed to deliveries at the great mansion. Bribed, too, by the fear and favor were the ocagriers of the route that embraced the address of Ma- rie, Fif'e chum. ‘With all her prayers and pleas to Ftlanne and the others tnanswered, Fin in Milan passed through the suc- cessive stages of fear and hope and doubt. As the old General had de- aigned she should, Fif, in the end, ac- cepted Etienne's silence as an admission that she had been renounced, and sho censed writing. With the cessation of Fifi's correspondence the old war-horse drew in his outposts. This done, he proceeded to forget thet the little mil- Mner had ever ved. During the weeks and months when she was pursuing her efforts to get word to Bitlenne or from him, Fi had not been idle in the pursult of the am- bition that hed brought her to Milan, M. Jarvais, the old musician, hed ful- filled every expectancy he had held out to her, At once upon her arrival in Milan he had seoured her an audience with the leader of the Scala Opere- House. After this funotionary had heard Fifi sing she had et once deen engaged for a period of two years, Be- gides a substantial remuneration, was arranged that Fi was to receive the bene‘it of the entire ourrloulum of fa school run in conjunotion with the performances. Here everything that could possibly come under the head of stage training was taught her. Almost from the beginning Fif's voico had ‘medo her an object of apecial attention from the noble patronesses of opera in Milen. Mme. Surbcrne, the old musi- clan's sister, had been of invaluable aid to her in these firet experiences with the many phases of her now situstion, ‘The vocal teachers under~whom Fill was Girected to study the many roles of the theatre’s ohanging repertoires united in acclaiming thelr new stu- Bihrone, with a leopard skin ume der his feet and bearing in his dent's rare genius for song. Whet was necessary for Fill to learn of social | Arthur Speck, of Glomcester, England, rece!ved such a shock on hearing of hig father's death that he lost the power of speeds. bal game. In his excitement he tried to cheer and succeeded in doing #0. He Reoently he went to a foote Sholds court seated om a scarlet hand a toy gun. In emulatfon of Benjamte Frangtin, Mayor Fitzgerald, of Bosthn, has donated $1,000 te form a fund that {s to accumue late Interest for 100 years, to be then expended for purposss which will, in the gpinion of a board at that time, best serve the Interests of humanity, By HENRY BLOSSOM, The Famous Dramatist. easily imparted. Fifi's debut in Milam society, effected adroltly by Mme, Sum bonne after the girl had been in the Italian city about a year, proved @ Great puccess. With several of the moss exclusive of Milan's society doors opened to her by the diplomacy of the old musician's sister, the other portals ¢00n swung apart for the young woman whom everybody who was anybody in Milan was now speaking of eas the charming litle Paristenne with the mure vellous volce. But through all these Growing triumphs Fif's heart wes ea@ with longing, She learned that the richest fruits of ambition are sorry balm for an aching heart. As victory after victory, social an@ professional, came to her she grew more pensive, During many gay occas: sions, when she found herself the cene tre of groups of brillant men and handsome women, the fan that. cone, cealed her embarrassment because af. the importunities of some admiring cavaller for a dance shielded es well tears of regret for the hapry days back Mh ratie ‘when she wae/ Dat» boonsg At onoe, upon her arrival at M, Javais, the obi musician, hed ine duced her to assume a name other thas ‘ her own, for professional use ea well . as for the shield tt would afford against any further plots of Comte de St Mar, Within two years, Mile. Bellini, ” was famous in operatic clrffes the world ‘over, Summoned at the height of her sue: cous to London at an entertainment given by King Daward, Wid, among the guesta, Came face to face with Beng her benefactor, The meeting between the two was affecting. Long before this meeting Bent by mail one morn ing had received the sum he had thrust Into the little envelope one afters noon in Parls two years before, Witt the money had come, from Milan, @ note, Fifi thanked Bent profusely, She said nothing, however, in of herself or her distinction, troasured instead the ho} day she might ve t satisfaction of surprising her friend= by a demonstration of the ricty his beneficence had effected. some At whit 4 had told ) Bent of his wiethon ot Fifi's talent, inoluding the incidents his toan and his present the bone rets, Mra. Bent and mad-moiselie liked eaoh other at once, Mrs, Bent it was, Fifi learned, wi had buoy of Bent