The evening world. Newspaper, April 12, 1906, Page 20

The Evening World's Home Magazine, Thursday Evening: April r2, 1906; Hopeless. | The Says the HIGH-BR.OW J. Campbell Cory. eee as Fuvtished by the Press Pub’ By Martin Green. 4 th . second-Class Mall May en = - = n + Entered a: the Post-Oice at New York as Second-Ciass Mall Maxter ~ ————— — ~ 6$P HE Barnum & Bailey people,” complained the Low-Brow, “advertise VOLUME 46..... 16,308, VIOLENT WA ie ‘The Limit,’ but th-y’re in wrong, The limit is Andrew Carnegie TERE F : rae soaiaee VAYA , DANGER : travelling around the country kissing da THE FOURTEEN | = VAINNME! “They certainly do make a deceptive punch down there in Atlanta,” Twe nators and the Y mused the High-Brow. “It like temonade, and they serve it In glasses nt-Gover of the State of q PATIENT NO, g U macs CRAZED e t you could put a dachshund ash in. Generally people who partake of PF = ‘or the first time are impe « > clim € aph pe oost in e¢ crosse ed for and cartied TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE SAL Ee a LON aed Sa BL eget a | CONGRESSIONAL INTERPRETATION OF “Far be it mo to insinuate that they threw any ef that punch Into Ss hh v Ca “” Sts LA " Andrew Carnegi faybe {t was the beauty of the Atlanta women that went perjury by inserti RA E REGU TION to his head. Hobson became eligible to the promiscuous kisser class In ten.” | Atlanta, and'the only {ntoxicant he falls for is the Iimpld cadonce of his That was bad enough. But four- own yvolce, teen Senators also voted to recomn “Anyhow, as long as a female don't object to Andrew Carnegie Dress- ea bilisswith intiructions to strike Ing his microbe cage against her map the first time he secs her it is nobody's PLE CHAS SUES ai die . edt a) business but her own, but if he is going to enter the kisser stakes as a con= out the enacting clause, they voted to | sistent performer he ought to get his germ-sifters baked, There's a strong stand between perjury and punish- sentiment against whiskers nowadays. Look at what they are trying to do ment; so far as they could they to Dowte. It is a significant fact that as soon as Hobson got his whiskers voted to permit “yellow dog’’ pay- cut he declared himself out of the kissing game and went Into politics ments to be made out of the people's! a “Speaking of old Dr. Dowie, I doff my ld to him for a game four-flush, sana Can CpOTEMIOIEY: cee radi terareeas inkcara| His pulse compels my highest admiration, If every honest man was as rt cian Hanuet 45 insistent on having all that !s coming to him as Dowle is we'd have a new Statements to “'stationery’’ er “office expenses. | deal In this country. These men were Malby, Raines, Allds, Cassidy, Gates, Goodsell, Hill, “Dowle'’s success demonstrates that an adult bluff continues to deliver L’Hommedieu and Smith, nominal Republicans, and Grady, Fitzgerald, | | the goods. The people who are throwing the boots into him now waited Foley, Frawley and Riordan, nominal Democrats, Really all are of the | until they thought he was down and out before they drew back for the same party. | first Kick. The nearer the bearded old blasphemer approached to Chicago Why did they so vote? It profited them nothing. The amendment the more they feit like beating it to the woods, ‘They may pin the number did not pass the Senate. | 23 on him, but they'll never be able to make him read it It was a vote fi bli { least,” suggested the Low-Brow, “Dowie's experir shows that sa vote for public advertisement of the fact that these fourteen you can’t fool all the people all the time.” men are so obliging that they will do anything for anybody—including “On the contrary,” declared the High-Brow, even Persons planning perjury for future commission in the course of haye to.” Scheming robbery. te THE ELSBERG BILL. HOT GROUNDERS BY BARNES, r “ ? The Elsberg bill as it comes to the Mayor and the Gove c cy . ee 3 no} entirely what the city hoped for. But considering the ~The Star of Prunty Town. our ears mauling it has had at the hands of tile interests it has emerged with its symmetry less impaired than was feare : Even the rent which Grady made dees not mar it beyond recovery. ‘And though the separation of the contracts for construction, equipment and operation is made permissible instead of mandator i tent of the bill is in some measure preserved in the provision that the con tracts shall be let jointly only when in the opinion of the Board of Esti-| ise mate and Apportionment the public interest requires it. : This check, in connection with the power given the city to construct, equip, and, as a last recourse, to operate, establishes some little restraint on monopoly. at he authorization of the Mayor to fill vacancies in the Rapid-Transit Commission as they occur wipes out the objectionable self-perpetuating feature of that body. y The provision for pipe galleries, the revocation of the Comm : right to grant perpetual franchises and the reduction of the life of leases from seventy-five to forty years represent a considerable gain, a i Altogether the bill as it survives after much mutilating and imminent oo some folks say he ain't, I know— jeopardy of defeat makes an important advance toward a stricter control nent Aha prswoways. is Hof the whole | better than no bread. | | er ot Yen! FE SESLERELELE SELEE CEE: EOP EREDAR EES OO ES CAN DAak AAAAAAAAEAAREEAA LOL EAAERAEERAEAEE AERA EREREESELEDD Author of “THE TRUTH ABOUT TOLNA.” Fe did he pronounce judgment, but mere { small ec Jules made haste - you can't get awa 1 | unce: “He son though—s .. SYNOPSIS_OF T p his mind to this, for Comte will gc To: | ewed up in his doublet. Shall I rip it out, Felix irvux, page of | he quteted down di igo?" i x 2 the | With Lucas’s own knife the grinning Jules 7 . hoped to be But it matter lashed his doublet from t to thigh to extract etnies ite ak y suspects nothing |@ folded paper the size of your pa Vigo pon- wa me from him. And! dered the superseription slowly, not much at home U out of Martin mon-| With the work of a quill save th that winged icici wakteonee | arrows. M ; rd, with a sharp “Gone out of Paris?” M. Etienne echoed blankly, | ¢xclumation snatched the packet ‘ To his eagerness it was as if M. le Duc were out {ow car 2" he demanded of ni Jules, with their priso of France | Lucas. . but i half a dozen of the "Aye. He —monsieur,} “M. le Comte was pleased to consign it for de- Calan is s hor B us and I rned of this | livery to Martin.” Kcopyrieht, 1000-1001, Uy 1 : het pen day. ‘Ifthe League’} “What purpose had you wi : Ase - y3 he can do {t in daylight “Rest assured, dear mousie I had a purpose.” CHAPTER tohing ‘The questions were stormily vehement, th Iucas and ‘Le Gaucher.’”’ ee siood how V ayaa #0 tle as to. fatily COULD handle a sword as well as the next one. speakin ae mines Bat M Buen iE 1 if M. le Duc hic me in hl da 1e. still nded ituation rey, stri Thrusting the letter into Bt Quentin, “Tt served me well’ now, ee know what he'meant, but heasked Jad instant hi 1 ho had edged up to him, could catch a glimpse sik “ na rucede toc OnC TL anu ote ape Lucas, disliked in the household, had hud some | Of its address, he cried upon Lucas: a AS ON COM, Neato 7‘ Hu VS intimacy. It had not occurred to Vigo that M. le! “Speak! You were ready enough to jeer at me ean iy aut * paid Comte if guilty should be spared. At once he had | fora du ‘Tell me what you would do with your 9 A £9 varc out o 1 boots and saddles, dupe. You dared not open the plot to me—you did bh ¢ put his ‘i urn with you, Vigo.” M. le Comte sald, | me the honor to know I would not kill my father. 19 bis Does the meanest lackey in my father's he Then why use me blindfold? An awkward game, Witauenterar ali 2 i call me parricide I must meet the ch Lucas.” Sierra oye Neyad sities 2) tather and L have differed, but If we are no longer | _Litcas disagreed as politely as if exchanging ‘Nt mantel Henaiteart friends we are still noblemen. I could never plot | pleasantries iy vJon He drove n emtioward the ttbedd LEN his murder, aor could he for one moment believe| ‘‘A dexterous game, M. le Comte. Your best eRe Ce a GAMO all pnd ack einen ais pares it of me,” friends deemed you guilty, What would your ene- Mood ("tis no lying excuse; T did slip) and lost n knife in my b I, guiity wretch, quailed. ‘To take a flogging | mies have sald?” guard, He ran his into my shoulder, as he| thickly. “For the love were easier than to confess to him the truth. But| ‘“Ah-h,” breathed M. Etienne. adsaona with svenx : \ I conceived 1 must. | “Tt dawns on you, monsieur? You are marvel- Hevwould likely have finished me had not accry | sole “Monsieur,” I said, “I told M. le Due you wera) lous thick-witted, yet surely you must perceive, ‘shaken him eG cael ee Nd t 9 | guilty, I went back a second time and told him.” | We had a dozen fellows ready to swear that your i eed \ nd he?" cried M. Htienne, hand killed monsicur.” a deepening noise of hoofs and shouts | “You, Fellx? haipacicn Vigo dob i . monsieur, he did helleve it.” “You would kill me for my father's murder?” came down the alley from the s\ He ee ee er nee rane ence att TER | “Morblen! that cannot be true,” Vigo erted, “for | “Ma fol, no!” erled Lucas airily. “Never in the He lay on me, throttlir I uf when T saw him he gave no sign world! We should have let you live, in the knowl- is ¢ x It is true. But he would not have M. le Comte } edge that whenever you displeased us we could hbpastanedintonths Ree Hat Grn touched, He sald he could not moye in the mat-| send you to the gallows.” gh to the other street, He years atl ; ho could not punish his own kin,” M. le Comte, silent, stared at him with wild crying out M, le Comte’s face blazed as he erled out: eyes, like one who looks into the open roof of hell. AVONGHE I SteRE SEE ly magnanimous! 1 thank ‘bim not, I'll} Lucas fell to laughing, none of his me: Lexpected his faith.” What! hang you and let our cousin Valere suce love of Christ! Don't aintly ; os ‘i “You had no claim to it, M. le Comte.” ‘ceed? Mon dieu, no! M, Valere is a man!” retully wiping of Wellncaugntlisanied av lues “Vigo!” erled the young noble, “you are Inso-} With a blow the guardsman struck the words vord fk < WANYGRNY ; TaRERE. lent, sirrah and the laughter from his lps. But who no he cried, and sp i ' Grammont gasped, polnt- Ja You have one vil-| “I cry monsieur's pardon.” ‘nore tnan Lucas knew how to hold my tongue, to LI sth Ge yher, but Lam not! He was qnite respectful and quite unabashed, | thought I saw a better way to punish this brazen Ix-gr “i A W itin; T do not plot agatust fJe had meant no insolence. But M. Etienne had | knave. I cried out: the t zy t > aid Gramn dared criticise the duke, and that Vigo did not} “You are the dupe, Lucas! Ay: and coward to L ! { L answer a ¢ illow | voot, fleeing here from—nothing. 1 knew naught Lew : zo hard ) out kod t M. Etienne glared at him in speechless wrath. | against you—you saw that. ‘To slip out and wara Made I ¢ yes; acco It would have liked him well to bring this contu- | Martin before Vigo got a chance at him—that was fer_ I see my hand | | melious varlet to his knees. But how? Tt was a/all you had to do. Yet you never thought of that, i Tscan. v ( fevence th d, hyword that Vigo minded no man’s ire but the} but rushed away here, leaving Martin to betray ' " wn sitia nu ince [left mon-| Wike's, The King of France could not dash him, | you. Had you stuck to your post you had been t a 0 ef 1 16 y i 7 1 he came out of Vigo went on: now on the road to St. Denis instead cf the road t in} wied \ : dl OH EA VARY SEL “It seems I have exceeded my duty, monsteur, | to the Greve! Fool! fool! fool!" f. is were nave Kk am a St. Qy in coming here. Yet it turns out for the best,| }ye winced. He had not been ashamed to betray par It eee eave a peancaes , let ce censed and M. le Comte stood |8ee Tatcas Ia caught and M. de Grammont dend | pis penefactor, to bite the hand that fed him, to abut Tr p Hascall rota Hy chive SI oe ee eee aa tins heen | aad you cleared of-aueplelon.” desert a wounded comrade; but he was ashamed wi Le: 1 Vigo t at he could not have Y pardon,” * Grammont » looked at him in inced words to any ma n nor I--I m 1; yet I did not expec And ‘ Mo enc ‘ { am sorry for had s »wly and in ik truth | aid ets s 7 iie—without a chance. | great > me f $ © seize Vigo's arm, to him on t Comte stared, w ie “Well caught!" orled } i ‘ourse he belle M. Etienne; how, The equerry, 4 round Lucas, who was s M ake you my prisoner.” is master walt for the assurance? | unex he & sc tEere. MpY UN "cried M. Ei in a vibrat should be Imploring M. le Comte'a| “Weil, 1s Lucas trussed? ory, ere, Mauri j him?” voice that brought me back to reality; ‘'no, | pardon Mo le| Vigo! 1am no murderer, Things may look black! Dut no thought of humbling himseit troubled | \ Ah you young ux-gris eried. “What! you call me 1 were Innocent, M. le Maurice displayed a ponlard and a handful of to confront own blunder, I had the satisfac- tion of pricking, not his conscience, for he had none, but his pride. had to warn Grammont off,” he retorted. or. !*Could I believe St. Quentin such a lack-wit as surprise, Comte. ithout a word to a tinaware of having said anything | to forgive these two because they were his kin? unexpected, turned to the guardsman Maurice: You did better than you knew when you shut the door on me. You tricked me, you marplot, you sneak! How came you into the coil?” (To Be Continued.) Have you searched My