The evening world. Newspaper, June 29, 1906, Page 14

ly The Evening World’s Daily Magazine, Priday; June .29. 1906, 3ack to the Old Stand. Why the United States Is What Tt Is Co-Day. © By J. Campbell Co Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. © to G Fark Row, New Yor Entered at the Post-Omce at New York as Second-Class Mail Master. FOOTSTEPS OF OUR ANCESTORS IN A SERIES OF THUMBNAIL SKETCHES. WHO KNOWS IT? | Who can say with truth that he| knows New York? | One day a pistol flashes at a roof A ; é a glimpse of VOLUME NO, What They Did; Why They Dia It- What Came Of [t. CUS e OO OOO T EET OOS By Albert Payson Terhune. No. 44.—Bull Run and the First Year of the War, Its echoes stz 21 is the first step that counts,” or at least that counts for more than a dozen ensuing ones. And the first step toward ultimate conquest was made, not by tho th, but by the South: 1861 was the South's y ined, better » better prepared in every cy won ree penetrate into yn. On $ round the east side y, the armies the children of the poor are being | ieeesebea ginia and sae Caro- nered in the school rooms and] \ Bibel eaiae the ‘we are transported to darkest Russi. girl fury drives a knife into the ads @ siniliar Federal defeat at Vien- heart of uncle and aunt and we a of blood vengeance. fees had raised t . McClellan was pro- A present goes through the mails 2 are in mediaeval Italy with the Leese er ealdsaet : Lie conreder, Borgias. | mained loyal to the Unton), in hopes of destro nis and res The country visitor spends a “seeing New York” from an auto-| BetGgEIES cere eae encanto” lc at Paing mobile seat and thinks he knows it. The native to the manner born| cr mithorige ut for 500.000 a pata! Passes his life in its cafes and clubs and bohemian resorts and thinks he ih ppsrerrsnecaears ase of the Navy knows. St jon him at Houston street and the Bowery when the | Cry Leads to le of July. The people “™ going human tide is at its flood and ask him if he is sure. | Bull Run. and not realizing how The settlement worker traverses a few mean streets and peers into b-smepanerrenearaees. dark rooms thinking he understands. Slumming parties “‘do"’ Chinatown | SSP wep emu ares and and the Bowery and gain a transient point of view. Ambulance surgeons, t con inaae pinata detectives, reporters, church missionaries. rounders, inspectors, all whose h ae duties or the pursuit of pleasure bring them in contact with contrasting a eAtittas kinds and conditions of life, feel that they comprehend. How far do t A reiveee sin get beneath the surface of things? What real acquaintance do they 2 with the soul of the city? cy It will require a greater than a Balzac to portray even superficially} fat this extraordinary human comedy. Perhaps it has its parallel elsewhere, ta Possibly in London. Yet when New York is considered with respect to the | i 4 contrasting elements of which it is composed, its Berlin of Germans, its i ial Moscow of Russians, its separate communities from all quarters of the Hy a ra 1.92 Blobe, together with its social and moral subdivisions, its Sodom and i a in gra Gomorrah of night revelry, no Jess than the sweetness and purity of its i ry g home life, its old Dutch conservatism and modem spirit of progress, its ft a LZ ei ce very complexity baffies analysis. He is indeed wise who can say he i O knows it. 4 i} 2 iss i 4 SPELLING REFORM FOLLY, NS The ruling passion for fads remains strong with the Board of Ect tion. It is now seriously proposing to saddle phonetic spelling on hun- dreds of thousands of helpless pupils. The superintendents have * recommended the adoption of some three hundred words which have been | { clipped or condensed to conform to the whims of spelling reformers, and the Board has referred the matter to a committee for action. the flying The recommendation should be turned down. The public schools SiFinstiGreatiBattle sage @re the last place in which to try an innovation which disturbs the} EndeintOnion and missing) foundation of elementary instructi Every boy who is made to write] Rout. Benacaisloay thru, fixt, gript, clapt, leapt, rime, sithe, gazel, &c., and has these a Gerona - ement of the grotesk (1) forms fastened on him will to that extent be handicapped Soutn nad won a me pe er CDCR NEST ORSZEERS HL when he goes into mercantile or professional life. feeveny, ° Seba tke He will be laughed out of the college classroom and the business | ee ee ae cu mr nent: e. Either he must unlearn what he has learned or continue to burden = apreme cor et a his memory with the two kinds of spelling. B ESS od) es Gen.2 Broke If the reformers wish to experiment on themselves, well and good. | SSS SES devoting themselves But to force generations of school pupils to go through an orthographical SS | ne bpesict Ad) wilderness for the exploitation of theories on which educators are by no Sorte means in accord is cruelty to children: | i leouiai bara i Pir oaesardeleh ets Tes 1f) ILAANANAAAAANAAAANAAAAARA DAR EAA AAAS TARA AAA TAMANADAARTANARR AACA A CARIAVAAAARAVAAAA ASAE SATA SASS AS SSA SAS SAAS EASA E ATES OTRO NNER NES PeecececccecencecuneccunnccccenccccnnctCanreccevnececnnceyryynnyeny PRRCRR NOC CCAS anSOnGEnCCCCOCUCTCCLAT UTA REESE , (2) [o} i | as QUIETE athnerine Gecil Waurtion fe (Copyright, 1903, 1904, by Harper & Brothers.) He spoke quietly, but his eyes were reso ised in absolute silence. In the inten-{ ken, uneven voice. averted from her face as they crossed the ening she heard her own faint, irre ave, looking up at him, caught his hand. “Wh ’ she questioned. Her tone was low a CHAPTER XXXIII, ent court, Phi BAZ oe ze 9 See Z 5 : vfeathing, and the sound filled her with (Continued. Ente . the solitude, the vague, instinc- | s became su ITHOUT a sound, almost W ment, she returned his thing in her eyes chec have said. In that one ex: | stood all she had desired, all she had renounced—| “Come!” he repeated, in the same strained the full extent of the ordea! she had consented to) voice. me! It isn’t far-—three or four flights.’ end the motive that had compelled her consent.| With a white face and a curious expression in & the gloomy doorway that led to his without a move-|own r ns, he felt her fing t ble on his >me- | arm, then tighten in their fpressure as the bare’ d cheer] stairs met her vi lenly unendurab he drew her imperatively as relieved, Loder!toward the stairs. “Go very softly,” he come manded. “No one must see you here.” sed for a second in the shadowy door-| In the first moment she obeyed him instince then he turned unsteadily, drew the door tively; then, reaching the head of the stairs, she ‘to, and locked it. stopped. With one hand still clasping his, the Eye stepped forward. Her giimpse of him had | Other clinging nervously to the banister, sh been momentary—and she had not heard his volce fused to descend. “John,” she whispered, “I'm —yet the consclousness of his bearing filled her not a child, What is 1t? What has happened? 1 but he He drew back with the heavy sense that repent-| her eyes, Eve moved forward. She hi eased with Instinctive alurm, Abruptly, and without must know.” | Fear area von . AA aaa BaP Palamitnevenomsla liter atl reason, her hands turned cold, her heart began) For a moment Loder looked at her uncertainly; and pity were equally futlle—equalls | Loder's they crossed the hall; : to beat violently. “John'—she sald below her|then, reading the expression in her eyes, he sitar. reaching the stairs, she put out her hand grop- breath, ylelded to her demand, Still In silence she stepped to the pavement and/ ingly and caught the banis stood aside while Lod ssed the ci To} numb sense of su both there was sc hing symbolic, son ng | sunk to ) in the dismissal. Without intention | anc » began to mount the stairs, | they drew closer to-| ent was 0 in silence. Loder went » turned, Its hoofs his head held erect; | atchful of all his mov , nd. With weary mo- succeeded anoth eming m i e than the She had a pained, suffering that had For answer, he moved toward her. His face) “He's dead,” he suid, in a very low voice. “Chil- was bereft of color; there was a look of conster-| cote is dead,” nation fn his eyes. “Come!” he sald, “Come at| once! I must take you home.” He spoke in a (To Be Coneluded.) on—o! Moving forward without resi ade lattering his shoulders il raced, stony one fil as it moved ought. they toward nat | ¢ to he pss they THE BETRAYAL the road Reviriea|Romanceret ment LOVE MYSTERY INTRIGUE » ‘ : ‘Willi Appear Sertally in ‘\ ] contac THE EVENING WORLD Beginning | f simi | TO-MORROW. unr ks oad Raed nO iete ALOiinea neo The first instalment will comprise a large, handsomely illus- ‘ rest of ATO ligameline ladierani | trated color supplement. Mining st , nin | — : pull aaNet STS ar | “The Betrayal” is a story you cannot afford to miss, ered ! ently, The sense of mystery conveyed by the BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM, fi 1 p t V The ked and) ¢ ] Her susceptibili- Ww she watched Loder Author of gee t 1 have h it in the lock, With The Mysterious Mr, Sabin, A Sleeping Memory, lc 1 ! ne saw the door yield The Traitors, The Master Mummer, ' w . I ) 1 ash in the dingy The Yellow Crayon, A Man and His Kingdom, = { t rtion she Enoch Strone, A Maker of History, | Peon, : 1 Yeu) § nd heard The Prince of Sinners, Anna, the Adventuress, ; ir } erday, followed seemed extraordinarily and A Millionaire of Yesterday. : intently, she heard him move { ! ove room to the other. And at last, to| SEE TRE ee es ur band my arm,” At last, slowly, st he turned | 3 , Eve drew b utely nervous susceptibilities, it seemed Setters pert eeeternernemeroncnnienrite eeeiamenmememmieesesey