The evening world. Newspaper, August 10, 1906, Page 8

7 The Evening Worid'’s Daily Magazine, Friday, August 10, 1900. i 4 Publiened by the Prese Pudtiching Company, No. & to @ Park Row, New Tork | Bntered at the Post-Ofice at New York a» Second-Class Mall Matter | —— 4 — a VOLUME 47. THE RIGHT OF WAY. Ars. F. R Highway ay Ooudert, resisting the wrimissioner to dem fe Coude Oyster Bz made «a e. There was the If y pull di ‘ Y } ise ye F a Frietct ae =_MrsCougert Yet this resolute old lady was cle: T which = has been the subject of a three years © thorities and its owner, directly interferes with the publi = over which it projects from the ( rt ft had pulled down, and the Comr when opposed t =e were carrying out a further « of the Town Council | These attempt rotect th re Mine from private and will be up } held. Of zs little in the town officials of Long Isla A as ir t tiout, where, as at Belle Haven, the shore Une, sold for 2 tong gers, is now walled tn by wealth | ra “Hereabouts the <ight has bee ) lakes tso-| = Yated ‘to imp Mionaire’s es feel water front cut off by large land hoklings order these lake of a A as 4s Bac Hast pa. Ja cres miatters better. In Maine ni eer zi et feo oe © than among smaller cottage commun zens alike is jealously guarded. Public sentiment will not permit any bartering away of a town's water rights for the fut: And it will applaud all attempts to them from the aggressions of private ownership such as the Oyster Hay officials are now making. AN UNHEEDED WARNING. ‘K runaway Amsterdam avenue car yesterday dashed down the steep| incline above Manhattan street into the rear of another car, injuring four- | teen persons. Control of the car was lost by the failure of the brakes | to work. Very recently car became unmanageable on this hill If there was any excuse for the previous accident, what possible “apology can the road put forth for its repetition? “The warning cannot | have been heeded. The fact that so simple a mechanism as a car brake 2 could fall twice at the same danger point indicates «negligence of in | Speclion amounting to criminal carelessness. An explanation is due from ) the management and a promise that defects of equipment from which = —-Such—actidents oseur—will_be remedied. The travelling public Is not > Woking for scenic railway hazards on surface car Iines. i preserve Lt SK THE FEMALE SHERLOCK HOLM Adventure No 8--The Eighth Customer ee (Compright, 1900. wr W. GO. Chapman’ ST NorsID OF PRECEDING INtT+LMENTA. moles had been pawned soarcely forty-eight ing abot almost fn her w#hop hours afterieard—#he was strange and was read now 2 in @ RewepAper ineredible; but, to quote @ trite and wel worn saying, “Truth is stranger than fiction.” Bi y, the history of the crime was on we ‘ Tuer oes Lasite Crane, of Welby Park, Marlow, had beon ‘ 4 Oh more of him. that th man wae engaged ¢ merry « farmers = w, Laura Hrencon by and Bir Laalie z t had bean paying the girt me th ; CHAPTER I. consistent with their “ Kerrts remped’ Wan a very Witle iad, reaching #carcely to the dar t Keen f ntelligent bey in the park, had the preeacit t by povert n as the Queen's bie wok of red hair and the abr . 20 eaten: peered up her face, guessed 4 a toud pear Wd when he spoke his brogue the so he ® oorrect one She -stare the solea w G” and ES footed urchin with nome amur t ae * 4 trace ue the amvallent om e had 3 Ke George Kerris, Th ar no he Wave his mame—Wwas quite as sharp as m rented. elther Gentes ht nis of mors mature yeurs—in fect ' mained tne +. BU, an the there could be @atutely with Hagar, and evid ae that he Leslie in @ ft of mnatt mind not to leave the phop ur i 4 rage and ale se be nad been dis his own price for the article he was “8 * ane T boots cor 4. #0 undoubt wae # pa ti ig ° ndly 4 hem gfter weating them stout in the sole he re wy he font the counter with a mighty clatter and d seven shillings thereon is cousin, now @r Lewis Crane “Pit give yo wald Hagar, after exe the boots a fomee. TAR. pow, wou! a. OW ueht Hagar, fapudence. “In t Ov “ i ye wuld be af er sid « vee pels 20 Supp ORS Kereta —iis ve é £ x ato key the Mth Let me ses tone of the lad ‘* are letters marked lo fra, 7 P Baile : M anemated M ue . Kf me Av | a Ww we pop them, ¥ key who wa.” wala Hagar, persuadly *y ‘ a Hagar ¢ sitndnd (die the les a 2 ee af wid & : t ie t ken ay you, me deart’ a ON hee ©, thke the tidbet @ad the money, 1 dare.ea. “ on by stole the b s”" - * . , takin’ away te , Moe ee arity an hove & ® . : tn Bivin dob;, ike Ue uny ' * * the wre of lookle tio’ t . knioreing A oe ; they av the Maxon torre. and uw gat » the winging “The Woaring of the : wirt dtd b ; end Mupieasant voles. ' , ’ Hagar pat the boots away, never eapooting that a! . . Pawnod, giory Could be attnched to so ordinary & pawned arti * Howe psi ile, But two days afterward whe war reading an go-| , yislt from the detective whe wo of {Of & murder,and, to her murprise, the very | oan ‘ ROW reporting On. # high whelf in her ehop were! tle was called Jit @ loan, tall, dark ad soloroy aso link ip the chain of evidence Lkely| ereature, W!7 Wenl very eoutiously to w ape Dang ihe aieemnin. Colneldences coeur th tye! life| cially in canon of murier. He had @ consctance Wan Che World onres to admit, and thie was said, and woud hever Corgive ‘himwelf did he heng fe point, A pele af boots with mitials om the, ee WhOHe or oliMA Jult knew bow often ciroum. “ ‘ By i Ty fe; and the Pair of Boots. Melted. J. Carmpbell Cory. Queene: “You Say that the Pletol Can't. Be Found?” t evidence helped to dom ant;| bave a plato) puwned he s likely even the momt dot wes to! "Nothing w : aia Hom 1 urd appearancer, and how intricite| “and Kerria ould 1 p ark ¥ the paths which bed ed ee ft neems that he was in pr t yater) . lience be was slow and cit Sot them. ‘“ ' 1 Hag *, 904) Kerris is inn, “ : p sat down with her to matter t mys Hag You say that ae Cat the gut was Bhrewo BF ow trom) Ke plete! oi rem ashe bad made anent the pawning of pot i dare juae i so he wan gubte willing to dischan the.af-| way after kiting Bi av ow be In contrast to many eeit-wum r wald Hoe 4 t tie skee y rv st always beleved that in|» nt Was cont * ote y onpecia wh t . 4) found ¢ ad wast taw He had» ¢ expect) "But the pnt 10; H Med tt, end ¢ st Weak om tt rid. of Ur 1 the man's gullty Why dor 4 aoaroh f wr Lesile & een! found insolense. Besides it of “Have you Arained the nd near which the crime park at W oc ‘oak wee comms tind T “Had be ble wn with him y “Why, no,” said Julf, moditutively; ‘we haven’: ‘No; but thats no master, Gir Leslie was shot| dane that, Ia a ideo," te hrough the heart with & pistol Now, Kerrig ar sighed impationtly. "I wis ad this Spinal, but ‘sas oaa't be fovad either, ‘You mgd | tot aay oun hendat abe éaldy “abarsiy; 4 i basi " + eterna Iie scent se Son pec cma 8 NS The FIFTY GREATEST | EVENTS in HISTORY By Albert Payson yerhune iver ost Norsemtn-goot Lora Htany ns up in one sentence the the @oandinavian sea-rovers ed all over the d tenth . wiliged earth by of the minth ar turlea, A. D. On the aterjie { Norway, Sweden and Denmark ttved a hardy meee, Known to the World at Inree as “Danes” or “Northmen.”” Their own rocky Coumi- (rive could not support them. T we of wand and of battle was hot with- In them They were sin thelr devotion to the sea. ‘Thus, just an Murope was beeinning to settie into sor of international peace and sta bitty of @overmment after the turmoil of the dark ages, down swooped homies f these wilt Northmen wpon nearly every rich and fertile country they ould find. durniig. murdering, looting, conquering was the “northern peril" the people of that day dreaded. For no comst- Aweller , nd, Francs. ¢ might awake to aew the horison hung galleys of the invaders. yellow-hatred barbarians It was before the day of telerraphs. cates or any means of rapid communi. cation, Hence, there was mo torewarning of thé aWift, terribte raids, no oppor ¥ or Ta A tell on what morning @ dot long-oared, shield- or find hig city in the merciless grip of tuit-naked, “i by the serpent-prowed eee tity to muss 4 sumetent force to repel them. The The Sea-Robbers peace, the government, the progress of the world was and imperMed. Men hesitated to Ddufld permanent cities, When in a single day the Northmen might rame the labor of years to the ground. Folk dared not til land, Ber threw aside the eword, but must be ever on the alert, Much poetical lustre has @ince been cast upon the Northmen As a matter of fact, they were simply pirates, sea-robbert, eut-throate. They nad no stable gor ernment, no modern laws. Hach community was ruled by the admiral of some partioular pirate fleet. He was known as a Sea-King or Viking. Thelr vietime had no way of retaliating. Ry the time an army of resistance could be ratend the Vikings were at aea again ani had vanished Into the mysterious North, They were men of trom, their climate and p y having accustomed them to benr cold. hunger and every other privation wittout They had no settled home. no patriotic ambition no pleasures. 4 feasting Yet they left thetr mark on the wot Mae berceep Thelr Conquests. wn... ve w on SKWST Rollo « party of Northmen ravaged Frame in ere Vie 2 AD. plundering Parts and putting the French King at their mercy. To appease them, the King gave Rollo @ vast tract of French land and made him a duke. On this land the (TRANS SUTISE, Be KAmS Werte chaNEmig Mores end thelr new cukelch © * taking the title of Normandy, It was a direct and near descendant of Rolle Who was destined ister to conquer England and change the English language, jaw and government For two centuries Great Britain was devastated by the Northmen, Alfred the apres 1 xg whe mare eng perme eae a ag Sa of them. But on Alfred's death they returned in fresh numbers and soon oon- quered ell Engiand. Per many years they ruled the Norse King Canute being still remembered as one of the greatest of English sovereigns, Little by ttle, as large colonies of Northmen tnvaded and conquered other lands, wettling Gown tn thetr new possessions, they became merged In the Sormer populations of those countries lending fresh vigor, energy and hardiheod to the conquered races, but losing thelr own Norse identity. There thus developed « trace of wea-rover blood in nearly every Buropean race, leading nations to age Kreesive conquest. to exploration. to marine trade and to personal prowess. In | thme Soandinavia lost so many men by those wholesale emigrations thet there | were no longer enough left to terrorize other countries ne country Eric the Red. a ruddy-baired, ruddy-feced Geandinarian pirate, discovered | Greenland le in the tenth ury and eettied there. Then in the year a0- ry cording many authorities pnts Mogg Lex, oraging and exploring expedition, with & orew The Pirate th e men. They oat their Dearings and Who Discovered é before S,5ai, arriving at last at 2 eae such ae had never before seen or merica. of. It was North America they had blundered From the masons of wild grapes at the various me nere they jandod ey D the new coy tert wna watted back to report thelr discovery Rae. SOMES: Se orm ony Of sixty Greenlanders came to Ametica and ng, it is sald, on t * of Khode Island, formed what was planned to be Aittionent fora tims fourtshed. Dut soon all trace of ie were probably massacred by Iadians longer América was destined to Ue undlscavered. Yet to the untry owes A vast debt. For it wae due larwely to tumern Northmen this traditions axes that Columbus firat comosived the Mem that was a con setward. I was due also to the love of the ara and the tendency nied in Buropeans’ hearts by @ Not avers Columbus's v rendered pasatole : CO CNAINT TORS So Amer 1 Nirien Of the earth. | kindly “of th derous. yellow-hat Norte giantn whose qerror to the whole civiltred world WAAAAAAANENANASAAARA CANAAAAAANAAASANAAAAAAAANANANAAA RIAA A AAI DATO oe \ f the Pawnshop. } Y S SE Hagar o op By Fergus Hume. a find * asveasin.” 4 © fou his. replied the dete i KiTied Bie Leewtte* t ve it ie, amped w on of avericn, Eiugur * dooen't he deny ith Ad meen just such anothe inched, cumming look om ts ls Kerris much in love with thle of Jacob Dix, and she knew without much a Brent asked Hagar, turning ber large, at the man before her was s miner. Mowe right eye duit © wasted no time in analysing hie charepber * 4 «oe Me's madly in love with her.” =e that would revea tae kt the forth ls coming converaat ut at once mentioned ber ia ” business < may that.” replied Jnlt; “that ts quite) a . t from what I have heen! that Am come on the part of Mr. Julf to ene about ng. 1 fancy trom wt thie mure aie aia eurtiy wave fa much emeouragement to wat young | — jg NIN eae evidently had cause for Jealousy, | OT bowls rivet his eyes. “I did not know that ° t 4 _ aie he Government euipioyed lady detectives!’ was bis I der he killed Sir Leslie | wocnasts h Ye " 4 prove that be did. f s ng to teke his leave “Pe am not a detective, but the ewner ot the shop iw \ net; be was discharged. His ian © boots of George Kerns were pawned.” a miasing, and the dead man wae ahot|_o'e box Which prove his gullt.”” waid Crane, pit hen there fe the evidence of the, With a0 alr relief, which did not escape Hagar - Gals Oar thd ore. Pon -went T rather think that they prove bie innocent,’ u talk nonsense, my gir there bene cold reply * Kerrts.”’ 0) ‘ou are out them having been given there ls one point ga his tavor.|' hat tramp wi was in peison. 1 how twots to Micky,” | Sdout that, ae the dotective told it t me, Mut, all the his guilt But to. prove that point we must wame, Kerria is gulity, else be would deny \ | Have you any ide hy he does not do ao?’ This was easier anid than done, for Micky-and hin! Cone 208 any Mea why be des not do a mother h peared as completely as though the] ina: ho knows himself to be euity, “me Me earth had awallowed them up. All the police and I belleve him to } ae detective forced in London tried to find the BOY, BAL) pyhaw! My cousin Laura Brenton. whe ‘ ot. no is avidence turned the WHO | wax engaged to Ke und was foollably attentive ane. And his time George Kertis, to her. On that score the man was innolent Tune: low prison, refused 10 open his mouth, Most people) |i. aicnareed ed 5 him. took 1 -gounie eve on the evidence of the boats: in Sorommittiag she ioarges i pawning, ingisted e could not under. « tongue at such « eriala. “Whére were you, Sir lewis, killed T* {. St wh en your covain wae that he was ntand why he eld “In the park,” replied the Baronet frankly. “vatter jit ae peer a lisboa on fauna! dinner my cousin and 1 went out tor a sro ha pvery opportunity to gain for herself @ Uttle diver some eXCURG WO TEKS theta sion A chance of Amusement In unravelling the » meet Laura by the Queen's mystery of the boots offered itself mow, amd thin! PV) 7 walked in the oppowite diction, and shortly, goad Piecsytiag Also the conduct of the case; Stterward I came back to the house, Lewlie had nok ‘ould wecensitate a visit Into tha country; end,| *tUrmed, wo 1 went to iook for him and, found ble . weary of. the narrow streets of Lambeth, Hagar) 04 body by the poe cagorly desired a breath of fresh air, he lett tha] “Old You hear the pistol shotr’ shop in oharge of an elderly mat, who had bean | “Yew, but I4paid no attention to it. My cousin was r aaniatant since Bolker’s departure, and took the) im the habit of firing at « target, ang ( thought be to Marlow. When she arrived there, Julf,| might be doing so then. solemn than ever, met her at the railway) “What! Firing at @ target in the twilight? Qpald “ your cousin wep In the dark, ike © catt’ #ald Hagen, Z , aaid ho quietly. ‘You set, 1 have] with tron ‘ t you agalat me in finding out the truth] “I @on't know anything about that!" ret Crane . see, though 10 my mind the truth, Is @le| enappiahly have you the. story, pepo lat Apia nt the detective Julf, I say mo more,” 1 don't jeve it, Mr. Julf. Take my worg for] “I don't want you to say More, May I go mam ot , nnocent of the orime look at the pond? ‘ sald Julf, in #ceptioal tones, Then who ‘Certainly, Qne of the servants aball show tt to a gull ‘ at ia what I have come to find out.” retortea! “Can't you come youlneitt’ anid Hague, sett go Hos ‘am obliged to you for letting ma help | ROSS Kiance . ; ¥ vag. to be wure, 1 do m0 only to grality my | Crane drew back and his yeliow feos grim tale ‘ioaity, But you won't repent of your gon-| “N¢ {4 he, in an almost inaudible voles, “TD heey oletgge 4 Gute wires hana been enough of that hurriblo plage!" Jo exactly ax you ke.” ‘Very god; I'M mo With the servant,” te ee tt rher I #hall Ars, oul) and mee the new! gar, and marched toward the door: oven as aie | “What do you Want to mee the poe! fort” te aaleam g tho offer of Aylf to accompany’ her, on| fotlowins ‘ the plea that ake could axecute her business ibetter! “1 wieh to Ond the lost pistol” ae alone, Hagar watked to Welby Park, which waa on'| are ee yt ae yh departure, att of Mario oy | pa i nervous, stood near the open window, he Otter tie Owing, to het mypay-like sposanceee | (ound this women!” he shougét, cece a sho was refused adiniitance, Dut Qn mentioning that) Bho %& far tao clever, BAN} don't think ue fer business had to do with tha Murder of tha inte | Hulls sever enough SAL DIMI," be Gi, a baronat, Bir LaWwis consented to see her. When > sriietind ‘tans, a face Wo inde with Wim, Mager, for keasgna of her ows.)