The evening world. Newspaper, March 3, 1906, Page 8

March 8, 1906. Home Magazine, Saturday Evening, th By J. Campbell Cory. Feeling the Edge. ERE Js a photograph of the youns- iH est king in the world, He is King David, of Uganda, and he lis only otght years ota. Despite his ox- treme youth he {s a model of pro- gressiveness, and speaks English fulrly well, thanks to his European tutor. Here 1s @ letter he recently wrote, which he and his’ black subjects re- gard as a monument of erudition and | Mterature: “How are you, sir, my friend? I am | writing this letter to you to salute you, if you have reached home safely. And uigo to show yout what my handwriting is Uke, which Iam able to write now- adays, “Well, now, good May God take care of you always, I am your sreat friend, who lgves you much, “DAUDI CWA KARAKA." The accompanying {lustration from the London Sphere represents the lIit- tle King learning to use a kodak. Hoe regarded the machine as mirac- , but eventuaily learned it and nature and fs now an enthus! amateur photographer. UWurnanea py the Press Pubianing Company, No. 88 to @ Park Row, New Yori 5) Entered at the Post-Oftice at New York as Seccmd-Class Mail Matter. ~ NO. 16,268, — {CE-FAMINE FEARS. On the plea that the {ce crop is the shortest In sixteen years, the American Ice Company has put up| wholesale prices 714 cents a hun-| dred pounds and retail prices 10) cents, | The consumer now pays 40 cents a ‘hundred in place of 30, and it is intimated that by summer the charges will be further increased, not unlikely to 60 cents, On ice at 40 cents the consumer pays $8 a ton for what costs the Trust un- LUND ASPECT GRIM DARK The largest Neld of corn In the United . if not in the world, was der normal conditions of harvesting farm tn Sac near Odebolt. One hun and handiing about 63 cents, It is gratifying to have the assur- ance of President Wesley M. Oler that the Trust “4s responsible to Its customers and to the whole city” and that it will “get the Ice samewhere.” That is good. But do the circum- Stances justify putting on the screws to the point of extortion? The city's annual consumption of {ce is about 4,500,000 tons, of > which the artificial plants produce 700,000. To sppply the remaining "3,800,000 tons there has been harvested from the Hudson fields 600,00¢ tons. By the Trust's figures, 300,000 tons was left over from last year “@ surprisingly small amount in view of the fact that the crop of 1904 was “the best on record and last year’s large. The left-over Hudson supply in (#900 was 1,500,000 tons, But, accepting the Trust’s figures as showing a deficit of 2,900,000 tons, do the conditions warrant extortlonate prices? Hundreds of thousands of tons of fourteen-inch ice was cut in the Port Jervis district in February. Quantities of eleven-inch ice were har- ‘vested in the Kennebec, 700,000 tons of which was to go to the Trust. Some of this ice is now in process of shipment to near-by houses. It is an entirely legitimate inference that if all sources of supply, inchiding all dred, and five men working with Horses and S87 corn cutters shu corn to the estimated amount of £00,00) bushels, Mr. Adams, the owner of the farm, spends the most of his time tn Chicago, where he resides with his family, operating his large farm by ex- pert foremen. 2 Do you throw away your old cal- endars? A Paris statistician has dis- covered that {t 1s a mistake to do so, and belng of an economteal turn of mind has discovered further that cal- endars for 1600 will serve equally well for 1908. As a mile. of co Lil (ali i ( ay Instead of 866, the days of the 18% week Here ts the nowest thing In war and the iB thing In autos. be known as a mobile.” The hope that the petrol : tor will entirely supersed horses, The i "1 shows a fighting i) HANK VARNA NR AANA AAR i ‘i available artificial plants, are drawn on, anything like a famine may be é averted and with it the excuse for famine prices, | a ‘But the possibility of a shortage and the certainty of overcharge at- mere, while Me tract attention to the necessity of reliance on manufactured ice to end Ice sarin tor si ah ee, that by means of smtll i} tee! pri = ars o The manufacture of ice is no longer an experiment. Upward of ie cd : x ) $40,000,000 is invested in this industry. The Product is free from im- The apenolef “x © purities. The average cost of production is $1.50 a ton. A retail price | ‘ovate 2 : p Of from 15 to 30 cents a hundred pounds permits of ample profit. Savan- ism bh drum pleture of stationary artiller Nah has been profitably served at 10 cents a hundred, The establishment attack. 8, a entendar ts only of year upsets this calculation pretty often: ODDITIES IN PICTURE AND STORY. eleven years yes But was allotte » warfare and will be far more effective than a mere of extensive plants in New York offers the only feasible relief from Trust Letters from | There In No Kelationship. To the Maltor of The Evening World: What relation !s my wife's brother's A LABORER AND HIS HIRE. ‘Thomas F. Ryan, in the Independent, defends high salaries. “If a. z * Fanti ty A 2 My wife says that she !s "+ man of intense mental application or natural aptitude can introduce econo- | hen recrnareed and I say she ‘8 not = Mies into railroad management he is worthy of a large salary. The salary | Which is right? 7. S., Orange, N. J. would not in any case absorb the entire saving made to the stockholders.” | And as with railroads so with the economical administration of cities. | In the case of New York's Street-Cleaning Department, in view of the | increased yearly. expense of $1,900,000 under Woodbury, it is obvious | that the right man at a salary of $1,000,000 would have been a more | Profitable investment than the $7,500 man under whom the extraordinary | ~ extravagances of management were permitted, . Nenrer hy a Length. To the Editor of The Evening World: I beg to contradict that smart “Eng- ‘\ishman” who has solved the train | problem. He says the trains are 6x- | actly the same distan: York when they meet. I i | would naturally meet “nose to nose, \ a one going from Ne onsequently the one i York would be exactly its own length I say that they See the ereat singer. Etlenne, now In the plot n ing beside his mele when an usher BN proached the Count and asked for an escort for the prima donna, Le Comte Jgned the honor to Pttenne, When fi had concluded her song. all the G ‘ ee tena eoeral, nom i S on the outstde of this admiring circle. 1 RSS aH fee \ stood up and tried to force his way f Th ‘ S through the throng. S SS t “Oh, don't mind m S : petulantly, as at last he dropped back after repeated fallures to break vhrouah the lines; “I am only the man who |s ee ee mente Ex I HE Lh } J | si% A 20th CENTURY ROMANCE OF LOVE, POF : Ho i 5 VALOR, PERIL AND TRUSTING HEARTS = %g¥ = wae stand- ond of ad the left and openea ag admitted, ag 1 be, to a salon ests, Fi found herself | ; 2 maid, she turned on her way down at | by the author from Frit Scheff’s comic opera, ** 112 Modiste,’’ now at the Knic. erbocker Theatre. was seated, He Ordered supper ‘and An attack of gout i Fin was em- arrassed whea the old General arose | offered chalr, This the on tug she had | ie notlved that the old sol- | der wus In pain. He informed her ut hehman off ttle milliner Count of St er he exclaimed i: ®& hikh wwsition « is 4 sing. | 6ome/of his sufferings trom his malady: Ri i, y momentarily tinted. HI ne Fifi y iN ihe party! apa Rimeciiay wilh, arives in | At once Fif's bitterness gave way mo. MW siving Mlor ne bexwed tor the honor of PPAGC meets FAs weno stots for bm | Tne old’ wolaiee Rag nr ct Seatlenesn an introduction to the great, prima t to help, her in, her operatic old so) i : aunbitions ee a Borie donna, Bent brough 3 cS foot from a cushion on which it had re- posed when he had risen to greet her. In pity Fifi offered to help’ place the painful member back upon fits soft couch. The of soldier's habitual acerbity softened under his visitor's so- | Uottude. At Inst he to let Fit Mit his foot back to the footstool He ‘a second le Comte gazed at the young woman at Bent’s side. | Fin!" the old General cried, con- fusediy. i “ymle Bellirt, if you please, wered smilingly. 5 ‘Comte looked hard at Bent, The grinned. . fon Gaston On Fisive refusal sme. Ceell turna Witt out | | f the etith, te Bent’s afd, goes to Italy and ous singer. Her jetters to jonne are intercemed by St. Mar, and the Young man mourns her ns dead. Fin CHAPTER XII. deamed with as the git { Hirt We . American “4 | Victory! finally rellnquished her hold of the foot ? E i Salil Rd “phis 1s Cader Be eoaner Be HE wash of ‘the moon that had | ®tter raising it from the floor and lower- you are hol aside and the old General aie the hoax and tunnel scheme an acfive ing it tenderly upon the ottoman. With Sratitude he thanked his new nurse. ‘Thon it occurred to both that they had not beer introduced. Fifi announced her- self merely am one of the singers of the wald, as he exdigirtened him epout certain phases 0! e in which Mile, Bellint was factor, een splashing the east turret of the De St, Mar mansion on this} evening in August dropped frym the east wing to the arcade of acacia trees that ehielded the emunds like a can- ‘old soldier's face was a study 88 on the | bazaar’s programme, ma a Mar dana ct se eraunan, it waa a| That the glit before him was the fa- And seus ener ttle rraitiner: came tite herewn, oe oo ent si met 0 RApOAS arranged by Etieune to raise) mous Mile, Bellin! never oveurred to: 18'| scheme, with the Drofit It would’ mean ‘she herselfwhe thd only key to euccess ee ae name ie ives funds to build a hospital for indigent | Comte, | tor the old General himself, but desisted | \hile apparently angry under the old a ee a meee wale Bad abeivon soldiers. Suddenly le Comte effected the neces- | when the old soldicr dropped the start-|yoldier'a threat, she was sccretly laugh- past. With her gaze, davourng his romance wiih 6 NOCoyt Well, well! All Parts was Interested in the t sary relations. He recogutzed 12 this Mng admission that Etienne still loved |ing at the sorzy picture he would moi i fo peloun Naver on face through the two holes in her mask, word by word she drew from him ‘t confession of his love for one woman whom none other could displace; a pic- ture that haunted him ever, sleeping or waking. Convinced at last, ahe threw aeide her domino, Euenne gazed at her, startled. An- other instant and he had embraced her, And then, following one of tnose | sessions so sweet to lovers, during | which each was able to weave whole volumes of romance from monosyllabic utterances of the other, they repaired to the gayetlies that lured guests of the fete to the booths behind the right wing of the mansion, Into the main section of the gar- dens presently hobbled le Comte, He val, attracted by the exceller of the affalr 4 Opportunity the ease? he asked 3 side to seek lendid crentura now facing him with her and had always done so since he | pefore f-possession and poise the girl lett, Metaphorically, the two then had | purty a ephew—the lit. ft out hot and neavy, Fi with her in- | announc ® bonnet ghop, | tervening contact with the best minds! ded th. his fect, his of the Innumerable circles in whlch she | with te ( rmost. But the | ld moved since leaving Paris, proving! one of the ruclat- slower wit of/mas a bonnet shop. Mime, Cenil had y ged Opponent. At last, ina mement| contributed tt and some bonne 1} of fresh bitterness, created by @ taunt! more by the advertising It meant for | 4 her | Of le Comte’s accusing her of belng & her shop than by any particular motive d cries | Aesisning matchmaker, Fifl told the old |of charity. A touch of grim humor was | Sie her. look ain a| Warrior that if ane ever did marry |reflected trom this millinery booth MY | whirl of lghts and women end music. | her at|Btlenne it would be when he himeelf,/the spectacular presenoe among tia! ‘rye moenest that Fil had been looking | » sight of the d powling ola| le Comte de St. Mar, Etienne's uncle, | bonnets donated of the freak shape with | forward, to with mingled emotions of | Le Comte noticed Fif's mirth, |C#me to her with his hat in his hand | the long trailing green plume, dread and hope since Bent had planned "| and begged her to do so, With this ul-| 4. rig passed the booth of a fortune- visit to Parla had arrived. nd it enraged him the more. He re- ¢ ‘ her vis a nce | verted nolsily to Btionne's infatuation; | Wmatum Fifi lett the old soldier's pres-| teller she eaw Etlenne and sume of iid] “My fortune, please! | | Shee fellow soldiers approaching. Begging | Etienne had ‘addressed her. * nee|accysed Fill of having planned her! nq then followed the fete. Le Comte| the Bonta to excuse her, she dropped| Though gazing at her, yot in manner| tad come down to hear the great hed threatened Fifi that he would have ward i tent andj he seemed far away. her) singer from the ra, as he told : moe Panel the ta a ioves come fer-| volce as well as ghe cowl, and con-' everybody, the prima donna that he would appear at the fete. | retorted by stoutly refuting the infer-|wiq deflantly had retorted that she|ward, Her heart beat with all its old| trolling her perturbation, FA agsunied| jimselt had secured. ta ‘5 ‘otmpleted tert her|ence. She was about to reveal true | would not sing. She mew how intri He| of @ seeress, With infinite; And in ig to eee ae cree ee ce eately the old General's fortune was in-| looked changed. She’ c then, by artful questions, she di- |. Ett th she) st oepetiae er when the crucial hour of the ved and Mile. Bellini wa Rent, to whom khe con substance of her encounter siniled at th uation vuction booths of the f ‘ould wonders never ce enelt, aa he left Bent a aulet spot in the garden where he mirht think the entire tangled thiag But the vid soldter’e reveries were #ud- lacnty interrupted, A shout had gone up from d crowd gathered about the pomnet bdowh, The old warrior had reached the potnt in his review of Ms part In the Aisuptes romance where the now Fill, or Mile! Bellini, had declared that she Would not marry Etienge until he him- self, le Compte de St. Mar, came to’her and with his hat In dis hand bi her to do £0. ‘Nhe old raul, wii its views of Fif undergoing momentary transformation. had decided thu. ¢ 1f as well occasion offe Announced a: Of the cone Bellin}, Fif's consent to sion had beer one finance in Par Negotiation of the i merican'’s tonne an pn- Rhuslastic patron of & Mixed up in the t ect for a |}! Bont had been adm. iis steps almost behind her. Impulsive- y she selzed a domino that lay upon a} ul table near the booth. In an moment Etienne was standing be- looking at her absently, and I happy in all this gay yellowing while 11 tried calm the old soldier. efforts with snorty of mg of distress, Fit) could moment of laughter In vain He rec rishod by F @ay nothing of her former acquai: Paris to any one when he should | appointmont on the concert programme en to the capital with word that|that she might again see Etienne, Fifl| per name struck off the programm: ce trom New) By HENRY BLOSSOM, The Famous Dramatist, jen where he! the People. nearer New York than the one coming from Poughkeepsie. AMERICAN. Man Precedes, in Ascending. To the Fditor of The Evening World: When a man and a lady are ascending stairs does tho lady precede? i EDWARD D. It In Attributed to Lincoln, = + |To the Editor of The Evening Worlds Whe sald: “You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the | people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the neopie all of the time.” A ays Lincoln: B says P. T, Barnum. | BH. expense, had helped it. retusing, as she had, to accept any money for singing jat this charlty concert. Moreover, she jhad been very tender when she had lifted his foot to the ottoman in the dining-room, ‘The intervening three years, too, had given her distingtion. Her wit he had always conceded. Arising, with these thoughts ‘pur ting him, in a resolve just formed, he sought Fifl. He found her ‘Upon A small platform before the bon- net booth. In her hand the | prime donna held the old freak shape in mil- Unery that even now none would buy. “A kiss from the auctioneer goes to the purchaser,” Fifi cried, with a wink at Ptienne that the youth retumed, as he noticed his uncle hobbling forward. And then the euction began Le Compte had heard the prima donna’s } Supplementary offer, and, for the mo- ment, was himself young agam. Puah- / ing forwamt to a prominent place ! the Hine of bidders grouped about 0D ek fir with it. At Inst he won And then, with the bonnet in hts the ol, warrior who had caused marily the two lovers all of their stood before the prima donna who shortly before been the little mull and humbly suppliicated for ber for hia nephew, Fifi's elation, now that the moment of her triumph had she said afterward, was worth bitter struggles she had aufte effect It “No! she answered the Count, im droll Imitation of his own loud tlous voice, The old soldier looked at , j Ber appeallnzly, pointing with the hand holding the bonnet at Mtenne, near by, Fil looked her triumph at the soldier and the crowd, She glanced down at the bonnet im | le Compte's hand, “Well,” she sald finally, with a sweet ! moue, 28. though she nad reconsidered her decision, “yes, aa long as you come to me with your hat in your hand.” |. And thus thé little milliner came tntot | her own, i j (The End.) “Nichtsticl—and Nowley stircing romance ef New Clty Hie, by ge: