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og Published by the Press Publishing Company, No, 68 to @ Park Row, New York Rntered at the Post-OMce at New York as Beoond-Claas Mali Matter VOLUME 47.. wee NO. A monument was erected to Roger Williams in Pr Gay, and one is about to be erected to the great agnostic Ingersoll t #4eMowtcifizens in Peoria. Flemington, N. J., in memory of his ancestor, Johann Peter Rockefeller, Will-command a more general interest. This forefather of Standard Oil, the inscription relates, “came from Germany about the year 1723.” It was fram Germany that the original Astor in America came, and the original Belmont P¥ived its great merchant prince of the last generation from Ireland, f great banker of the present from New England, and which gathers in In: ay To KEEP Griminately from the four quarters the adopted sons who make it SFamois, may well porter the influence on its destiny exerted by these | * three emigrants from Germany. Of what the city has owed to exiled German patriots and others phere was a reminder when Sctmirz died. But Is It considered that from | sgiihe of these three strains of simple German blood came # system of land | fenure and « fortune in realty which constitute one of the most extraor-| @inary developments of the Republic? That from another came the most | , Golossal trade monopoly in history, and from the third an exploitation of | athe -dity’s traction utilities which Is hardly parallelled in audacious finance? it is in tracing to their remote source in German hamlets New York's | hotebvand princely mimsionm, TS subway and car crush and merger! . | ‘Manipulation, together with No..26 Broadway and all it has meant in the : Tast-decade of American history the defiance of law for which It has stood | ‘and the anti-trust legislation it has inspired, the muckraking it has caused, “the moral issues it has raised—it is these among other thine | Flemington monument interesting, hich make} ATLANTIC CiTY’S REVOLT, All New Jersey excepting orily Atiantic City obeyed the drastic new Miquor law on the first Sunday of its enforcement. In Hobdken not a crossed a bar. Yet at Atlantic Clty the law was treated with pt. Not a hotel, cafe, saloon or other place at which liquor is pularly sold made a pretense of restricting its sale. The State across ws Hudson has. traditionally been regarded as} soil. . Has it a foreign community of its own which does not con- itself bound to respect the laws made at Trenton? Are the statutes which are valid in Newark and Passaic invalid at the seaside resort? a What the Govemor will do to quell this insurrection of the board. ‘Walk will be awaited with interest. Will he order out the troops? It Is} Swbout time for the State encampment at Sea Girt. The Opportunity will | phe an excellent one for a military investment of the rebellious resort aad. for the addition of siege tactics to the regular manoeuvres. WHE BETR fLas way down the cliff and toward the great silent stretch of salt marshes, Ap evening wind, sharp Pe with brine, was blowing in from the ocean, stir (Coprtigst, i904 ty Dodd, Mead & Ce ring the surface of the long creeks into silent rip- ples, and bending jandward the thin wtreake ot BYNOVSIS OF PRE MAPTERS white smoke rising among the red-tiled roofs ot auaergoue «the village. I felt the delicate sting of it upon my cheeks. Lady Angela half closed her eyes at & she turned her face seaward “I came for this,” she murmured. “There ia nothing like it anywhere else We stood there tn silence for sergral long min- utes, Then she turned to me with a Httle sigh lam content,” #he aaid. “Will you come up and dine with us to-night? Blenavon will be there, you know." d % is rather a bother to you to rk,” she continued,” but I am not hospitality 1 really want.you to come Tht delighted. She pointed to Braster Grange away on tha other side of the village. I noticed for the first time hat it was t up Have oard anything of our new neigh- { case,” | anawered, “of course I ahall be I answered. “I did not 4 arrived.” » 1 believe,” she sald ss Wilt wisn 308 goed afternoon, Mr. Du- )"'T ha I dislike her—greatiy. : I Hianehe sald, turning me jt be epends most of time i " n= Ladyst she itd her, and that he has dined there the taat ‘ 4 three It tenot safe or wise of him, for any : r ne. I want to stop ft That ts why I even ave ‘ ’ tel { : p " ter ta th ” 'e tasirephe , Bhie wat looking e en ; * tng het dopa ak Jaln pe vei il pots ste nervou bigne t “ 5 1 unser , t f _ least “ Groce ir frat , : lur ne e anéw 1 ing of him tr mdor " 1B bi ‘ Bnd political work ¢v t ; b " c @o pot delleve there L y 0 works hard . bve “He bas, at least,” 1 remarked, “the con: . bray Niav oy AEA PYou are wondering, 1 vuppore,” she\naid, look-|| 1 did “not dare to look Into wher tyre Up_SL the Aickly, “what has brought me back| qt his sister, gullone’ atior hor. Teel phe. sane.” Angela, who was already in the road Ld, Gertalniy did not expect} you,” 1 admitted ae ole » the rad he Bie roae abruptiy PA sesot Beng shee what magnificent nerve MD patie che anid, Hand | , that woman mvet have! To dare to imagine tint i ne said, “and | will shaw you.) tat your hat.” Hid receive hor’ Why, she ie known tn evory Daily Magazine, Tuesda jury Yo; 1900. — i Ww YORK THRO FUNNY GLASSES; yea PESTER SHES NSS a | By Irvin S. Cobb. cc aa ae et TT Be ] F you go back far enough you find that the moderns are simply tufertor and LEER REAM : ; — adit delnaaiee dabbles The Evening Worl Cupidity. . Campbell “WHO CAME FROM GERMANY.” You Do It SO SLoomINn’ fwst Jence the otter) TT" “KNOW OLD CHAP— | || EXTRORDNRY . But as monuments go, that which Mr. Rockefeller has put up at NEAR HEXHAUSTED TRYING ) | HAVE TO DO'T THAT way JOHN — OUR PAPAS WHO ARE | RICH Topay MAY BE BRoKE } TOMORROW — FOLLOW Me_E ? re : (M HAW FULLY | ABSO-BLOoDY-LUTELY | \icaiaacennienn Da We paseed into the March twilight She Jed the | hily blurred cop pe when man passed Know that always of olf mound der, This, » met ite resident pe the drone ier: tor. wih and p a wine Jelly. Tt's becaus diamond napkin rings on them ad all the dent twice if everybody w foreground ts much fun and not ‘as mui date A edie that the dinner out of the almian concent from the neighbors beneath the ehrouding drapert to the woll and the rutebage, Hereditary Inetincta hi eo! and Broadway whe both wrists, What rieht ! | i | Jest inhabitants doze aver a checkert | etreulates wes: of the Alleghar pital, Paris, tas 20 heart of & young woman tories an of commerce te atmp ate and o it te deemed highly a sartorial relic of the or bed anything to of « swallowtail, We eller adopted ® baughty attitude toward the for the fact that at present writing the the auto hoot—that belng the elty aubsti- rat brother, 1 in placid content, lose & great dea) to answer if peek ie Why should the Manhattanese who go abroad to be skinned In four languages ng chin whiskers and saying, “Dew to meer at firet families from the spinal column of a rubber-nect F ting in the neighborhood of Forty-seo- has a system of hie own for beating the ponies to him that the bookmakers wife ts enabled to wear he to chortle at the tate es all the way from Peean Biuff, Ark. to buy a wiuat? What's the difference between J. Harold | store at or and denudes up the green- or « rube story kes. if they Keg te distinctly toes? eotor. 4, and when the game kes & move every Dalf hour or #0 na the ¥ proprietor, The postmaster is « restful person. umos of restfulness would have (© undress tier I cards and unsealed ciroulare In to-fay’s maii ihe pos »w perusing a paper which was not very tightly fastened tn the \ " printed at Lincoln, Neb. by a man who would have been Preai- so voted for him had beeb twins, The Commoner stilt * in with village characters, village humortats and @ ts of chill cures and chilled plows But surely there must be just as ch expense living among the nafl-keegere as there ts Meaping off cocktati hangovers in wondering what kind of handjes eo front windows of the Paretts Club and be worn with walking canes next winter, THE FUNNY PART: | Most of us who scoff at the farm escaped from fit at a comparatively recemt Saeed Surgical Miracle: performed the operation of stitching the had stabbed herself In the chest. ‘The pa- he a Petit Journal announces that M. Quenu, 4 #urmeOn at the Cochin Has {lent Wab AD Yo TeRve the horpttat tr good: nenith tweive days after the operas 1 thom. en RAN TAN AA § SPPENHEIM “I do not think that it In a secret,” he sald, hel ing himself to wine and passing the decanter hae mate up ber mind wt ins Ray. The affair has been hanging about for more than a year. [h fact, I think there was something sald about It before Ray went abroad. Personally I think that be Is too old. I don’t mind saying 60 © you, because that has been my opinion all along. However, I suppose it 1s all settled now.” | kept my eyes fixed upon the wineglass {n front of mé, but the things which I saw no four walla had ever inclowed, One moment the rush of the seh was in my ears, another | was lying upon t Hite horsehair couch in wy sitting-room. IT felt her soft white fingers upon my pulse and fore saddle of her great brown horse and heard her Wolce, #OW,” emotionless, yet Always with tw strange power to play upon my heartatrings. And over my bead, | sat there with a stereotyped smile upon my Ips, fingering carelessly the stem of my witegiogs, unwilling guest of an unwilling host. I do bot know bow long we sat there in silence, but it seemed to me an eternity, for all the time I knew tim upon the tack, while he, the execitioner, held the cords. I do not wink, however, that he learned anything from my fave. daned the subject. “By the by, Ducaina,” he sald, “I hope you won't mind my asking you a rather personal question.” “If {tis only personal,” 1 answered quietly, "not lat all. As you know, | may not discuss any sub- {fect connected with my work.” |” “Quite ao! T only want to know whether your jeoretarial duties begin and end with your work lon the Counci! of Defense, or are you at all in my | father's confidence as regards his private affairs?” So I stood by the m young figure diskppear I protested, but she was firm. gate and watched h e?’}iu the gathering # be bought by any CHAPTER Lady Angela's Engagement, siyiKx und Lady Angela was only was not altogether a cheerful 6 Ube moment Blenavon as I held the door o} “1 want « lesson Blenayon waa smoking. thoughtfully, Angela looked a celling and speaking as ws walk more She ts a bundle rely upon what she te e world would siwaye oold at this time in the It-te the mist One feels {tat unexpected momenta.” am not golng to take you any further,” she it over—leaving | o'clock, reniem ber, capital in Burope—a police apy,'@ creature whose! your consclenoe with nome work,” “Lam temporary sreretary to the Counell of | Defense only, Lord Blenavon,” 1 answered. “} lknow nothing Whatever of your father's private attains He bas bis own man of bus!neas,” | | am pot eure whether he believed me, He leracked some waluuts and commenced peeling them. “My father will never listen to me,” he said, “put I fee) sure that he makes a mistake in bev coming a director of all these companies. Politics rhould be quite sufficient to engroas his time, and the money cannot be so much of an object to him I don’t suppone biy holdings are large, bat I am quite sure thetyeeré or two of those Australian gold / mines are dicky, and you know he was an enor \mous holder of Chartereds and wouldn't sell, worse luck! Of course I'm not afraid of his losing in the long run, but tt isn’t exgctly a dignified thing to be associated with these concerng that aren't exacly Al. His name might lead people into speculations who couldn't altogether afford it.” “I know nothing whatever of these matters,” I anewered, “but from what I have seen of your futher | should imagine that ho iw remarkably able to guard his own interests,” Blenavon nodded » nough to himmelf, “would! “I suppose that is true,” be admitted, “But when ine for the paychdlogical he is already a rich man, with very simple tastes,! “Will you take coffee, sir?’ i fomnos; one can never Tam rather surprised that he should care to med-| I set my teeth and turned slowly round. | even What other, dle with such things.” engaged on the Thurn-; day and come down here of Ure Friday to think of courde, Her flanoe tp town?) coming up to-| Deran‘t that strike you as singular?” “In it” | waked calmly, “se genuine eaget” yon nodded. “Playing at commerce.” I remarked, “haa de-~ ‘And womens too,” Bienayon assented, “Rather an ugly hobby, I eal! it.” A wervant antered and addressed Blenavon. oi Che carrluge Ws at the door, Your Lordahip,” be yet, while the gray seas of despair were closing: that Blenavon was watching me. I felt like a Vie-7 With a little abrug of the shoulders be aban | J announced Bienavon glanced at bis wate and rose. “I sal have to e#k you to exctile me, Dacalne,” ho said. “1 was to have dined out to-night, am@'l? — fO and make my peace, Another glass of wine?” | I rose at once, “Nothing more, thank you,” I said, “I will Just fay good night to your ister "She's p bly tn the drawing-room,” he te- Tmarked. “If not, 1 will make your excuses when I seo her.” Hithavon hurried oul A few moments later I heard the wheels of his carriage pass the bead. Again | saw her leaning down from the! front of the house and turn down the avenue. ; Ungered for a moment where | was. The small oak table at which we had dined seemed Ike Al j casin of color in the midst of an atmosphere of tou. The room waa large and lofty and the lighting wax altogether inadequate. From the walls there frowned through the shadows the war Nke faces of generations of Rowchesters. At the fiirther end of the apartment four armed stood grim and ghostlike in the twilight, which seemed to supply their empty frames with the pre sentment of actual warriors. [ looked down upom the fable, all agleam with flowers and frait and | Silver, over Which shone the red glow of the shaded jamps. Exactly opposite to me, in that chair now | Dushed carelessly back, she had sat, #0 olose that my, hand could have touched hers at any moment, #0 close that [ had heen able to wonder more than ; ever before at the marvellous whiteness of het jskin, the perfection’ of her stall, finely shaped re features, the strange sphinxlike expression of her | y face, always suggestive Of some greal self-restraing, mysterious and subtly stimulating. And as I stood there she seemed again to be occupying the chair, at first a faint, shadowy presence, put galaing with every second bape and outline, untll I could scarcely persuade myssif that {t was not she who sat there, she whose eyes more than once durii dinnertime had logged Into mine with that 4 ous and instinctive demand for sympathy, event { | as regards the things of the moment, the passing 4 Jest, the most tranaitory of emotions, A tew min~ utes ago I had felt that I knew her better than ever before in my Ife, and now the chair wag empty, My heart was beating at the imaginary preagnee of the valnest of shadows, She was gov ing to marry Col. Mostyn Ray, And then I stood as though suddenly turned ty 1 stone. Before me were the great front of the castle, Beyond, eastward, atretohed the salt | Markhes, the salt marshes riven with creeks, Onew | more my unwilling hands touched that huddled up heap of extinct humanity. I saw the dead white a soldier, and He and death had becotme phrases the knew? Would bis hands be clean to her, o¢ face, which the sun could never Warm again, and |to him; but L—4t was the first dead man T had ever neen, and the horror of tt was cold fm my blood. Ray had murdered him, fought would the horror riso up Ike « red wall i 1 felt the nands, cold, clammy, horrible, Ray way MM perhaps, but killed him. What would ay it 1 them? took the cup from the tray without spilling it, “What Ugqueur may I bring you, sirt” the may | rather hobby with men of leisure lately.” | asked. “Tirandy.” 1 anewerned

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