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

aon ls Se w eve SPRcaor WWM by the Press Purtishing Company, No. @ to @ Park Now, New York Batered at the Post-OMce af New ¥ Stoond Claws Mall Matter VOLUME 87... vase ov savevee NO 6,41 “THE AGE LIMIT IN SPORTS. In the opinipn of representa reaches f hockey at by women at f at sixty. R nti] the oarsmar This table of a has been comp in reply to tt s ent of Prof Allbut, of ( that a Id n bridge, WCoCrdce ‘ implies that at thirty-five sports which call for viol ight te be abandoned | Forty for cricket will appear untimely wi Grace at fifty t making 78 runs in a match game 1 Dr. f Here ts a veteran who has been active with the bat for more than forty years, or since in 1864 he scored 170 funs against the gentlemen of Sussex. On the other hand, sixty seems old for rowing men. The Insurance actuaries make that the age of apoplexy. Yet there is F. J. Purnivall, the Shakespearian scholar, still sculling on the Thames for exercise at eigh one, with sixty years gone by since, In 4845, he built the first narrow rac ing shell seen in English waters. The old theory that rowing plays havoc ‘with the heart was disproved by the census of Harvard oarsmen in after _Mife taken two years ago Sixty seems old also for tennis. ‘Phe “wind” is then an uncertair quantity and the ability to repel “volleys” impaired —__ But it ls good to have the rebuke these figures give t athletic habit into which mgn are prone to sink prematurely. The average of Wfe tas lengthened. We are younger at fifty than our grandfatl ‘were, and there is no reason why the age limit of gthletic spo Not be correspondingly extended. As for the lean and siipy ani period, golf has put the finishing touches.on itsabolition. Outdoor sports more than any other ggency tend to keep mankind young, and the mis- sionary work done by the-sountry chub to that end fs recognized. It will do more if it attracts the middle-aged and the elderly away from the links to the tennis courts where the boys and girls are. ¥ Casy-chair ered 70m A WIDOW’S MITE. By the will of Amelia B. Lazarus bequests amounting to $680,000 are made to charitable and other societies. The beneficiaries include in Art, the Corcoran Art Gallery, in Washington; the Philadelphia Museum, the —— Manhattan Eye-and Ear Hespits! andthe Firemen's Retief Fund t These benefactions are notable for the absence of discrimination on account of creed, but no less so bechuse they cemprise practically the en- tire-estate-of the testator. By comparision with the Sage million the are only a widow's mite, Yet the dishasition made of the two Tortime Wil, Suggest inevitable comparisons, e "The Evening World's Daily Magazine, wee “A War Map of Russia.” By J. Campbell Cory, enw Sy THE FEMALE SHERLOCK HOLMES Adventure No, 5.—The Fifth Customer and the ’ (Coprrtat. 1906. WW. 0. Chaphan) family.” | BYxOPss OF PRECRDING MNeraLanette. wr make * wala Hagar, with a piercing stance. | Hrigar Atohiey & bemutitut erper wir Kew Becta hen how comes the if esi gaciste puwneinin’ in endon peading wes" rately ot BA! vy agen comnee the hey woes Buivnlonn $5m,, Zeses Die” A aibreoutante lawree vary Wy y |. 7 fon"t thcownise your rtyht to ask auch aves | Revie, elie es tamer Jo iaentin oh a fod haired Batt, | tone,” sald Parsoos in en Augry tone “The kes ag i Ace = & Std mtO MY PoRne newtly { Seem ta ink Jacves pa aye laen over | “Wety prapably, but % should like to koow how 5 ee. Waele's Torture. re departs gad. for Deo not get in a rake, Mr. Pareons 4 Hagar, ttc ing: VOOR |haatily: “we pewnbrokers beve to be very partlou | ter, yon dena." > CHAPTER I, “ don't know," nappa the cumpmer, ‘eat If 7 | HE beveral Maventares in which whe had beth | CUTIOWY MuiT he watratad, ThA We w wef eheawed bagot in Hagar a thirst for the ™y tether MEre, « former steward of thd Danatrees rormnuc. To tnd thay wtrange em were | TC Was given to him by the then head of the family, | etiwthes to mahy pawned articles, Jo om ome vixty years ago.” i Rivtories of the pait, to Collow up their ¢ tn| “What are all these tures graven on the stam? hs future—these things greatly pleased apd | saked Hogar, noting a number of hteroglyphye marks Save her kn" intervet in a somewhat dull Bhe iwkn to jperontve that there war more romance In ‘OMinary Arabic numerals, What they mean I know no mc moderh times Uhan Iatter-day skeptics are willing fo 1 did, I whould be rich.’ he « = eiritt ‘Tropien) sognery, anptent inna, rained casties Ah! ther: ts some sscest Bre HOt Hrcessery to engender romance It ts of the | figureel”’ eid Hagar overhesring Pamons It f hivtwian heart, of bumyn life; end even in the dingy) “Tt rhere th, you won't find it : Latbeth pawn-shop mM blossomed end bioomed Wke) ma ungradously; “and it is gome rare flower thrusting itn " betwixt yhow- What you have to do is te money the arid city ptones Romance ¢ y to the! the key.” shy SYpey Firth, even in per promalc Yosinews oxistenes Iagar hesitates. The article, notwithetand ite Out of ® plant tooth, unburied be ety | workmannhip, ita age and tus historias) ass ~ footprint, Cuvier could cogptruct a nw and | waa worth Very litte, Had interest consist prehiviorse world. In manner, trom some trile| these merely ake would nat have taken the key tpon which ahe lent money Hagar Would deduce tales! pawn Bat wr eh witititiont Heures. Eaciaan ' er trotartic ay the Arwbian Nigite, as | Haye wag & secret connected—as wap sable from as the story of GI! Bi hoch wort was the *} the remark of the man— w & hidden treasure Drought shout by the pawhing of the copper key Remembering experiance with the eryptogeam an who pawned Appearance 1} ne Florentine I Wikeds “Malaersinia Ge cas mami, and ¢ with tts ov ne Wey and, If poppidie, i ie > eee s i wmlghit- 3 If you are peal » want of nd on It 8 the shop one 5 rtiy hetore : sat 4 ‘ w swept bis breast Hagar ve F vation he threw down @ paper pa ame of Katt P . 1 wish to pa at an te atlence H eve dehy ¢ the shop. 3 w mhe took up " - woun oa exe the Seures y ’ 4 B MOTORTAM. .A ‘ hor 68 "the " a om Imeraly—he: pate to a . xamined It care x Taking pey gully, * a * a the ter, | and per ee b mount & Pa L" sald whe! following rew « Hed profitiess tls ight the strang to be the } TT © kept his » ah. It has t tree 1h es meant. Neverthele ee w year cht . fretrent™ Vyewif, To hei rt key” Wa Parsons, the moward of the Sphina—es mysterious, a unguess, Copper Key. Friday; August 3, 1906 VANE NAVAN VER SEDONA Hagar of the Pawnshop. / i , ‘ fy | what d |! veivtty retorted Hage Ave come to You've lost }to Jc or. der after | print the crudely papered w wap of & dark-green hue wpeimaied with houquate of} ree flowers, made any dered duly, comfortable of the umly chalts i Why do yu want to know the story of the kayT Parsons, slippery avta. ; : cfecaune T wish to read the riddle of the key Parsons stay eked or closing Ant foe You're & handsome woman and a Wid oie,” jhe slowly, “0 now the w Accepting the lowed her ecce! | ntehed tn piece was swe 2 of the Queen and the Pringe Consort decorated Alt bare . The FIFTY GREATEST EVENTS in HISTORY By Albert Payson Jerhune No, O- MAHOMET; and the Rise of « World Peril, N the marty years of the seventh century A Arabian pelsista Spfiep= tt eon, Mahomet by nama announced thot h to mankind and that he war also th > ew religion, He backed thesn at aod a few neat, hand-made miracle’ ceeded Ip thanging the nap and ty Arabia and tts turrousding countries. at th jade up of email, comparatively on! mp fubjeet to Greece or Persia. They dD. a was God's chosen mouthplece hist priem of a brand men cataleptic tranéed piate-famatic and hétfcharlatah, he soe ry of the world ] time of Mahomet's bitth, were independent, some t. half-hearted States, son afte wore oan way « long Met of gods, with Aliah 3 Mahomet within a brief lifetime converted the Bast to a re as Ininm, plagiarized by him aJmoet entirely from tho Christian + Meriptures Fe hed pervuaded lOrtentate to reward their eubsdiaey goda na (for he whs too pollo te Geny thejr allowed dettion’ axtetence), and to reconméze Allah fa the one true God. Had he wtoyoed there, no great harm would have been done, But unfortunately he preached conquest (or “boly wars”) ae well as religion The result was @ ) (2 to 1808, and @ united hore a pence and progress three He wae reared tm WeHhGod Deas a © commercial traveller for @ business owned by a rich widow (n Mecca He soon After married the widow and became a power jn hie home Giiy, He was afflicted with opiieptic fits, which were followed by long swoons or ¢rances. In theme trances be claimed to hold commutileation with the Angel Gabriel and other diving messengers, who MMttle ‘by Hittle taught him a creed which was to eeplace beathentam, and bade him proclaén the new teachings. | ‘These teachtngs, though Geclired wholly new, bore a startling resemblance to A hodgepodge of other and older religions, But many Orientale—a race who @tl Fegard the secentrically manne with « sort of awed reverence—tetencd eagerly to him Atk @immehtéd to fle claim that be was a prophet. He set forth his “revétations tn a book called the Koran How tar Muhorhet wae sincere and how far a mere trickster can pever be known. He hed & wrong, fanatical temperament and probably believed that certain heaventy revéiations were made to him i visions Bot he ts shrewdly pected of twisting his visions on ocod#lons to euit hie own desires or plant A number of Meconne i Joined dim: while the city serertment an siren | “woamy “tpptset him. Winding he could make no great headway in hie own efty, he and Me disctples. GH AD. left Medea and fet to Medion, an Arabian i town Where his doctrines hed niretdy tsien root Mahometan time dates from | thie “Hegira” (fight) of the prophet and he followers | Having ewtabiitied Aimeelf at Mecing, Mahomet streightray pexain collect ing mew recrutte frowi the surrounding country, rotiing up weetth and power | for his cause, and eombting earthly power with his @o-celled heaverly emission. He becams, in @ inedsure, a sort of medineval Dowle;: forbidding his followers | to nay “Good morning” am forcing than to subevtute “Peace be with youl” | nd performing countishs acts of temporal expedience in the name of piety. Hite ineptration mppealed t) the fanetion! temperament of the Arai He waar an undoubted genfus and lender of men. State after State was absorbed br } bim. From being an otwoure prophet he was becoming @ powerful miler Working on the flery, susceptftie Arab nature, he made his gubjects 6+Teve that if they Gied for thetr tatth or while Killing infidel, ehey would at once enter Into & very @orgtous port of heaven, whose delights tnchaies an many and jae garish attractions as & semeite amusement park Maving thas prepared his forces, working on the well recogn! ed plan thar & fanatic is the mont dangerous of foos, Mahomet declared the (iret “Doly war.* « | ough It cimneed to (+ aguinet the city of dh bed cart him out. Having conquered the Meqpans he tarned his attentions to other “unbelley ers,” and haf eo far succeeded that he was threaten ing the Greek Empire Mself when, In @2 A D.. at the Aero Of tixty-two, he died But he had set rolling « ‘sll that could not be Mopped. His suceesom, Ge OCaltphs (“Representa- extended the conquests of Mehametaniam throughont Regypt, Byria, Paice Asin Minor, the Eamttn Bitnire and the Picstim and i Cretk pometenions They even made Oonetantinome thelr capite and penetrated Spain, the Adriatic and other parte of Wurope, ‘ new world-power had Ingte pemerat wn Me T a POT eT MMPS, UP, N88 sinete eneration, with tanaticien |taxed the prowess of & thousand generals, from thy mares oroevtece mew ee Lord Kicatmoer, a aes Wer ommalartn Aad, amalne only” the henry mot destructive fimme; fores that © bern, | opponed to progress, culture and true efvillsetion ae ee Series of confilete streteting intermittently ¢ of fanatics who for centuries menaced the w Mahomet wns left ® penniless orphan Meteoric Rise of “The Prophet.” 6--—--.e —— Dectares the First “Holy War.” —~e fiver of the Prophet”). By Fergus Hume. “How M4 It dinappeart ity rushed toward her xis © growled Uke an angry bear My father bid it.” teplind Parsons dolty. t WEA not known at the tities, but the old man we place, test in the @econ4.” 'fesned on hin Meathbed wat, determined > maw the , Tat me in, Mr. Parvons, 1) family trem ruin, he bad foncemled the ploture while bee about t copper key Squire Dapetree wan indulging in hin med otgtes fe nT” 9 od the gruff cresture | London, When my fathir conteswed the qpendtartte in my pocket. Bub I wian to know Its | squire wan dead and he wished the son—the phuadat Mien Danetree's father—to powsess the plotars and t with | sna, opening the gates | sell It, im Ordér to restorw the fortunes of the family,” f bid } Well, id be mot tel where the Picture waa hide n : Hexar watched past hits Sato | dent j his warden and the porch of his house, Fie No. he died on the polit of revealing the eecrat,” | took her seat Parsons had vectted waid Parvons “All he could way wan "The key! The ! man seemed rather pleased with her ungractous} key! Then I knew that the Riding place was to~- dicated by the row of Rrures gfkven on the shame of the copper key. 1 tritd to make out tht meaning, fo did my son: a0 4/4 Bauire Danetree and his daugd- ald) ter, But ali to no purpoe, Mone can read the tide you wish | aie” “Rat why 4 you pawn thi emg 2 “Tt waen't foc money, you may we wury of that! snapped (he old man—ot { should not have takes & paltry pound for It and her hed so well with hie own, he came to store at h mat gates me inside and ted we why tory of the key.” invitation with ctrility Hagar fol t Into a prim Littie parte fur Visto san ner the shion uf the eary No, t pawnea it to put tt be Chaire ang sofa were of mahogany and herse-| Yond my son's reach. Ha was always poring over a round table with gilt mlged Sotke tyne there-| it so 1 thought sha might gues the meaning and at regular intervals oesyciad the centre of the} Gnd the procure.” Apsrtment, and the gilt-framed inirror over the Bre And Why nét? Don't you wagt it founar’ Copper plate #1 in green KaaRe Parwonv'a face assumed 4 malimant exprasslom “No! sald be sharply-‘tor then, Frank would be foolish enough to give the picture to Miss Danetree— to the woman who despines him & you guem the Gor el him, aa 2 don't want to make the Proud Jade rich.” tue well-worn cerpet | » and ogether a paintaily ggly roum, which gifted with arcist:s aeptrations ahed- one Hagar, whose eye wan trained to Demuty, ehud-| “I can't quows the riddie,” replied and then took ber seat on the most] iy “Your tory dowa not eid me Bean Bionetaal While thus speaking, her eyes wandehed to the walle! the back of the ghim old steward. Theréon she wew ne frame of DlWck Wood one of those hidecas mam which our grandmothers were woe ford of working. It was & yellow square, emb: Father stitehed—with the alphabet in divers. estore Gnd also An Rrray of tumerals up to twwnty-wix. Hagar idly wondered why the worker bad stopped ! throwing his bulky Agure om the ted up Abd tile face Brew red with ! You shail not-qou must not! Never asked Hagar, aatoniahed at Make whom rich? at that partiovlar number, and then elie wotieed that | thie outburst the psd sine wan ane directly under the { loves | row of jotters At once the me: | “Marton Denetreestoe proud huey! My — vowet | key HAs flashed oo het beain: ‘Tie See ood hee t whe disdain bim: He i# breaxing his ceedingly bimpie. AN Cvet had to aon, te While abe IAURHa If. that pleture were found she) Subetlfute letiara for che Aguren. Ubtered o me & r 4 ¢ ulation which rowel ol 1 can't guesg the riddie,” would vet and Genpise my poor Frank the more. | Stainge i ons his neni . fore ne ee learS - ed Tho picture? What ploturet’ “What's the matter?” @id he, turamge nie " A & wd se ihe one that ts Ridden,” wala Parsons in| ~whar are you looking AL mitt? Oh het added tale en tt 4 to her that thers might be wome | orchards, to run soross the #p y turf wide 7 vn lue to the Biding place ts gad to | lowing her geeq, “that simpler: ‘twas done Oy my ne or tradition atteched to this queet| tooors goiden with gorse! 6 a fair expanse WAP] py oe. rhe ow < mo the Mey. If you And | mother, & rare hand &t needlework, he was. ut which might throw some light on the mystery Mtretched out at the back of tha station, and BCTeRS| +. Concegtnd In the fi ee one eT na, pounds | BAYT fata har Juat now, want te know shout i : ia a ‘ ; py an obliging portar—| tare ft WIN well for 7 | riddle ° * she learned the »' t wag not hee Hager was to by An ONE FON | the pletars MWh te crasl ties Denetrie Mcha't Guens. It," oAld Hogar, Xheptne her that she might gain @ hint therefrom. Dapetres Hall war to nd. At the Katte t would go a esta tather be. | counsel for reasons to pe revealed Rereatter, “De Al events, Parsons had spoken of toncesled riches) of, Iu a pretty and nt lodge, dwelt sur | sr don't quite wnderstan Hagar. | you wish your key back? J have it here,” vected with the reading @f the cipher. To wten Pardons, and th Hagar;( but, in truth, whe) ed (youd you ‘mind telling me the story Na 1 iy rs gp Eh to ot ft ss hee thes . r of the cou agen es toa?” wens) 4 the problem without knpwing the reason | aimomt dorgot her errand in the deligpts of t 0° | ah the pegtantos ‘ cd WNC TOR by ana dale. Roget e the figures were engraved waa, vulgarly | try : Jease,” replied the old man, moddily. “I'll k of milk?” ng the oart befora the horwe. Hagar! Her gypsy bj nang In her velne ae Abe ran across ‘As you p vet as 1 can, Squire Dawetres, ‘The offer wae howpitebty made, but the cart alould be in its proper the wreenaward, and her heart leaped in her bosom | make It as # t lady, who fs the only | it As she had no desize to t the v , par | th Zale sis Kueaat Uk cate 4 ) grandrather of the presen 4) ony | malignant old man, Making & curt excuse e/a AL the tal of the apimal In ather worda, | for veer Mahtners, & re i ary Lambeth veentative of the family, wee very Fidh, and e| her legve and within An Dour ohe Was resolved fi md of the kay and, pawneabop, #he thought not of Bustace Lorn’ she did] represenh™’ O's pourth Lake alt the Panetress, | back to London with a clue tf erward « rigaie, To gat ot her mthd dwell upon Me return of eth-and, trien “ \prain. The wi rew : t lal aealeal I lignite eritance; all she knew wasl he waa & ecamp afd squandered the property of the) Sitniue goubs, it was stim Nia ry frut wan hecessary (o fae Parsona her subsequent a * emiy tn entertainments during the tegancy, He wold | that the Parsons of sixty years pooner had Hagar made up her guind in tbis| that abe was s Romany ihay, ® child the road, “ ie pictures of the hall #ave one, “The Nativity en of atreatiom ie ory ptogram, . ahe resolved to carry out her pian, Leav-!and had entered agein into her ithe: In auch | All the pict oe canten Piseundiien ealas ures ware place ar i mind the shop sie went of owe siapey vein abe saw the red roofs of Danetree Hall | ty Andree dol Castagne, Ma esa Canty tetaek ABCDEFOHIJKLMHOR | Jae, Buck bat sAdreae w raing above the trots of & #teat park, and almoat | vf the Renalsmanes ol ee LISS TIPMOHNMREMBM | ® of piven to teow B the sicket. With! immediately ahe affived At thO BFOAt iron gator, be- | Pounds for thie weNt NaN Nk oe QrervruUVvVWwKYS 1 nhe took the key, Inoawe Kamight be wanted, end | uind which, on one side Of & FIately Avenue, ane | HAtOP bene hia obly son and Wished fo leave him yu vpns oe Me M argon 40 rabb' n patter midday whe alighted at & Uttle rurel| napied the lodge wherein dwolt Pargous we the only thing mved out of the wreek. [My was sitting outside smoking ® Pips, morowe even | the Went of flowers in ne was mweet to De-onew wore th the country, | io the golden sunlight, wilh through greey Wanee O'ererbed wih pais nostrile, the tauvic of birde in his ‘ * to smell the petfume of Kentish ing Hagar peering between the bate of the gate be ture ploture ae But as Mine went On re. On nee. | determined to well this last ‘ 0h" And Parsons jn sna, sues letter: a4 Sqid WaoRey DACREKE BCATEO he] why, with the ka pamper marine Toa the plo- | Une wteww ™ Roney ia , (Yo iw Sn ear oe siti nile LAs mean i init