The evening world. Newspaper, June 19, 1906, Page 10

Evenin Daily Magazine, June 19,” 1906. 8 World's — M _Tuesday, reased by 7,000, the by $2,000,000,000, als employed by 1 s by $100,- e 400,000 more nearly concerns js Jose Cannery: $400,000,000 more. T value $2,100,000,000, This pro: ne new It has been by ap ublic seeking atered securities ue sense? HE monetary prosperity every- y objecting before the Rut- gs—‘‘on the professions, the s.” And there is Presi-i other years the gifts poverty. “Have we for-| , a centur: y temas for Hey jer dent Faunce re! g the Brown sits nts that i of God were s sed to be purchdsed by gotten,” he asks, “that in the tht teenth century, art and architecture MT chi Ys men emt and enthusiasm with wh Director North's figure ating 1905 with 1900 take no note of moral conditions, of progress in crime. Yet Dr. Lyman Abbott has beer saying to the Harvard students: “Do the insurance directors who bought stocks low and sold them at high prices to th i were directors belong to the criminal class? broke the laws of the land belong to it? Do the , who did by ‘a gentlemen’s agreement’ what was against the law?’ | New factory chimneys and skyscrapers are not about our prosperity in crime revealed in the insurance scandals, in “yellow dog” funds, in stock swindlifg, in railroad graft, in the ned refuse of the packing-houses, in food adulteration, in commercial sharp practices? When these items are entered in the national ledger it becoms a moot question whether the balance shows “a hell of a success” or a humiliating failure. Not until it is ascertained to what extent the correction of these evils has followed their exposure can the true measure of national “success” be taken. EUROPE’S SURPLUS MILLIONS. The addition to the nation of 1,000,000 citizens from Europe within a year passes almost without notice. A few years ago the feat of digestion Javolved | would have excited grave forebodings. On the basis of the American average of five to a family this horde of new-comers will require 200,000 new habitations. { They will to that extent benefit the carpenter, the contractor, the plumber. They | will make heavy drafts on our school and hospital accommodations. They will tax our charity facilities. On the other hand, reckoning only the heads of fam-| flies as wage-earners recelying a minimum of $1 a day, they will add $60,000,000/ to the national wealth. As each individual American consumes $98 a year in food materials, clothes, &c., estimating that this 1,000,000 w ill consume, h thi European habits of frugality, only half that, there be $49,000,000 for the butcher, the grocer and the clothing dealer. From any point of view the Incoming of these streams of} humanity is interesting. , Certainly not least from the vi our economic problems. a CAAA SAA AAA SAS EAAEAAAAAAA AAA A AANA AA AAAS SAAR AS, w of their influence on}. A SUCCESS!” NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASSES —SPEAKER CANNON. By Irvin S. Cobb. NCE_upon a time there was a man who came from the State where st 0 people who lesve off thelr heavy pistols too early in the epring are apt | to catch their deaths. It {s the same State where there are two sides to every quarre], and one of them {s a homicide—the State which has just had a home-coming week, when all the prominent leaders in the pure feud | movement who had felt constrained to move away owing to adverse litiga- | ton arising out of a casual massacre at a town meeting or a bobbyoue re- | turned refotcing, bringing with them the latest improvements in machine guns and other modern implements of agriculture as {t is practised in the Southern mountains, Needless to say. we refer to Kentucky, sometimes called the Dark and Bloody Ground by Northern visitors who have been lanced in a sociable poker game at the Phoenix Hotel in Lexington. This man came from Owensboro, where the worsted motto over the demijohn rack in the parlor reads as follows: “THIS COUNTRY IS A HELL OF J. Campbell Cory. inv ou Le MY COUNTRY (TIS OF THEE © OOOO DDT TOTO TTY 4 WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT A CORKSCREW? Rut when he came away he neglected to bring any first-ald-tothe- | thirsty packages with him. He thought a man ought to be able to find |the necessities of Mfe anywhere. How should he have known that here |in the Eastern border of our fair land are thousands of persons who can't |¢ell the difference between Pink Elephant face bleach and fou n-year- }old sour mash? Our hero hit Boston on a dark blue Sunday when there wadn’t a leaf | stirring, but he found a drug store man who belonged to the same lodge he did and made the double distress sign of a Brother Eagle with a dusty palate. The drug store man led him into a musty recess behind the stairs and gave him four fingers of something which tasted like Eastman's No. 2 Hypo for kodak negatives. As it starte! down the Kentuckian’s Adam's apple gave one convulsive so hard It almost beat his brains e told the drug store man, don to drink developing And then he caught the next shudder and then flew up against his chin out. When ho regained the power of sp with tears In hir eyes, th. did not f fluid simply becavse he was in a dark room. train for New York. On the buffet car he got the porter to bring him a half-pint of the best in stock le ¢ was 90 cents. He felt fous when the cork blew out of its own a companied by s 1 and green Roman candle ord. balls, but belng well-nish famished h it against it. For a minute he thought he had swallowed a lighted 4imp. Ha threw the flask out of the d it exploded and set fire to the grass ew York h haughty person h up the amount on an } hunted w places, where a d every and rings ne manufactured by a foe to barkeepers in Dayton, 0, He asked the man bebind to p e@ give a perishing sojourner some sure-enough Bourbon. He sald he of bottled skyrockets. In r brand from 's Farm and the reply he recel of the nuine that part of the Bourbon Belt which Nes betw gas tanks. When he came to the Kentuckian sald he would go to seek a place where a South emen might imbibe without offering an insult to his nearest and dearest membranes. But everywhere {t was the same. It was the worst drought {n local history. His stomach had all the symptoms of the Great Ameri Desert. On the eleve: h arid da ed once and fell to the street. When the ambulance surgeon saw his nose cooling off he knew the stranger was no more. At the aut ne liver of the deceased was found to resemble a map of the planetary system in four colors, So the doctors sald he died of cirrhosis. But it was not cirrhosis. It was slow starvat! THE FUNNY PART: Yet some wonder why so many Kentuckians went home last week. reece eccce coat i auanscass tetas soa oas loos lato coecat coast ascent cetn he shrie MRRCAAA ATRL AA AAA AACA AASV SAN AMARA VA USUI AAUNINS QAVAVATATELSADEATANIA TEEN OAE AEA TR TEAS UOU AD TESEAAAAA AAA RAAASEOS @ WlaSquerader by Iatherine Medill Hiurston. (Copyright, 1908, 1004, by Harper & Brothers.) laa a certainty. He looked quickly i maT q Tan " : a eae | But her sentence was never finished, Loder had She slowly extended her fingers. Her expres | cate face, the green eyes somowh: lh Hi My i (i tf teat 1h My di ie heard what he came to hear; any confession she| fon and attitude were slightly puzzled—a puzzles CHAPTER XXVIII. | the unreliable mouth; and insta ine A fo, WLU : ; ; “ , might have to offer was of no moment in hiseyes. ment that was elther spontaneous or singularly to the latte theory. The conviction tha’ DE ‘My dear girl,” he broke in brusque well assumed. As their hands touched she smiled rontinued.) ,, | Sessed the telegram filled him suddenly, and with te : trouble! I should make a most unsatisfactory | again. HE wore the same gown of pale-colored clot. | ¢ come the desire to put his belief to the test—to father confessor.” He epoke quickly. His color! “W4#ll you drop tn at the Arcadian to-night?" warmod and softened by rich furs, that s know beyond question whether her sn | was still high, but not of annoyance. His sus- she sald. “It's the dramatized version of ‘Other had worn on the day she and Chtlcote aad | concern meant mailoe or mere entertainment pense was transformed {nto unpleasant y; Men's Shoes.’ The temptation to make you see It : Aaeiieol “When you first came Into the room," he sa but the exchange left him surer of himself, Hia was too irreststible—as you know." @riven in the park, She was drawing on her ‘ Fa aie rplexity had Meopned to a qulet sense of self- was a pause while she waited for hie ou sald ‘I thought it wo ld be you." gloves ns she came into the room, and, P=using didliyouiaa gi ihner! reliance; his paramount deeire was for solitude her ‘head Inclined’ to one elde, her green near the door, she looked across at Loder and led—the smile that might be mn- in which to prepare for the task that lay before | eyes gleaming. laughed in her slow, amused wa be mi amused him; the most congenial task the world possessed Loder, consclous of her regurd, hesitated for @ “I ¢hought {t would be you,” she sald enigmati- wi “Lonly meant that thor —-the unravelling of Chilcote’s tangled skeins. | moment. nm his face cleared, “Right!” he been told Jack Chile cote wanted me it wasn't Jack Looking Into Lillian's eyes he smiled, “Good-t sald slowly, “The Arcadian to-nigh' cally. on y,,| Chileote I expected to see!" he sald, holding out his hand. “I think we've fin- ae Loder came forward. “You expected me? id | After her statement there was a pause. Loder's ished—for to-day.” (To Be Continued.) eaid guardedly. A sudden conviction filled bim| position was difficult that it was not the evidence of her eyes, Dut some- | that, strong in tho was ¢@ ng his tantall thing at once subtler antl more definite, that/ craved the ac prompted her recognition of him, relic to rest. Acting u; She smiled. “Why should I expect y a 5 contrary I'm waiting to know why you'ro here,” why Ice He was silent for an instant; then he answered | ~oked up “As for as that goes,” he in her own light tone. said, “let's make it my duty c with you. I'm an old-fashioned person. For a full second she surveyed him am then at Iast she spoke “3 particular stress on the ns you punctilious, I should have tho mould have been more the word. haying dined|” dear Ja him, ha¢ ne—“I never 6 Was A! Loder felt disconcerted and annoyed like himself, she was fishing for ! she was deliberately playing with plexity he glanced across the r fireplace. TMllian saw the look, “Wont you she Bald, indicating the couch, “I pro: make you smoke, I sha’n’t even ask y off your gloves!” Loder made no moveme pleasantly Tt was n he had seen Lil} tude had changed, It might mean the knowing herself wi @raws from a combat that has proved frui tesa, or “at he ft might Imply the ynerely cat 1g "Be it was tiike desire to\toy| eyes! : ca upset. more possession of her proof, she he 1 evidence that should ee Ny to 1 Instinetively convinced | zed discomfort, J | THE BETRAYAL A Thrilling Romance of LOVE MYSTERY | Will Appear Serially in THE EVENING WORLD Beginning SATURDAY, JUNE 30. The first Instalment will comprise a large, handsomely illus- pon th me?" } INTRIGUE On 1 always spel t as best, h Feeling Ris ed to gain his end, he | trated coler supplement, “The Betrayal” Is a story you cannot afford to miss, BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM, Author of The Mysterious Mr, Sabin | The Traitors, “My dear girl, don't trouble; | should make a most unsatisfactory father confessor.” A Sleeping Memory, The Master Mummer, interests van she began; then again she laughed, : . s 7 ker of Histor: i still ask my first question: Why] ous to any one who was in his morning-room at Enoch Strone, es ee Muga u and apprehen-| did be you?’ His} 12 o'clock to-day that 1t would bo you and not he The Prince of Sinners, Ri | ; wees , ne of Lillian’s was dis- who would be found filling his place this after- and A Millionaire o} iv noon! It’s all very well to talk about honor, but when one walks into an empty room and sees a # telegram as long as a letter open on 4 bureau"’-—— : “Bi “y an did his own moment for per-