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The Evening Peditehes by the Prose Publishing Company, No, 6 to G Park Row, New Tork Bntered at the Post-Ofice at New York an Second-Class Mail Matter 6,481. RESPONSIBLE ? The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott writes: ‘Whether the passengers pry a five-cent of ten-ceat fare to Coney Island te not of real importance, but whether a lawless corporation can be made to obey the law as it b laid down by the courts ts the most important tseue now before the American people. Who are the men responsible for the issue w! WHO ARE of New York? Who are responsible for taking a baby away from its mother and holding the baby in pawn until another nickel w {? Who re responsible for the failure to collect the $1,740,000 of unpaid taxes and franchise fees due from the B, R. T. to the cit York? Who are responsible for the murder of Far dinski The government of the city of New York is responsible. ‘ The hired thug who punches a passenger is doing only what he is ich the Rev. Dr. Abbott | @o clearly states? Who are responsille for the assaults upon the citizens World's Daily Magazine, | The Future B. R. T. Conveyance. By J. Campbell Cory. paid for doing, If he did not assault passengers he would lose his job. The inspector who snatched a baby from its mother’s arms only Proved | his zeal. The motorman who knocked Fannle Rodinski into Coney Ista ‘Creek only started his car ahead at the insp gp pogaeopoibsy oy) U4 ie geasey Ohh VLE NYS SE SIEN TL PENS The men whose pictures appear hi are a great part of the government of ) Anthony N. Brady owns the B. R. T. He has nickels enough to hire the firm of Parker, Hatch & Sheehan for its counsel. The Parker of this firm is the former Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, once the highest judicial officer in the State of New York. The Hatch is a former Justice of the Supreme Court. The Sh in was once Lieutenant-Governor @f the State of New York and before that Assembly. These gentlemen constitute a most eminent, learned and distinguished | Sreaker of th law firm. It was under their legal ce that the minor employees of the B. R. T. have been acting. Of course they did not advise killing passen gers or snatching bat knocki en senseless. Th détails whom-no one more t er, and Sheehan de | Is the B. R. T. the government of New York? It is one of the three great public service corporation franchises. The Tra 2 Consolidated Gas are the other] two. All three defy the law, and tt uld not continue their defiance | {6r twenty-four hours wut the connivance of the city government, its law department, its police force, rumentalities for enforcin the law and requiring obedience t tes of the statutes The B. R. T, uses the c s its private prop at monopolize New York's publi ion Merger ar Site wien Peete SS THE FEMALE SHERLOCK HOLMES Adventure No. 10,—The Tenth Customer and the Persian Ring. 1900, by W. G. Chapman) INSTALMENTS to Hampehire and see if you oan recover your tion.” Alee thanked her with great emotion and shortly (Coprrieht j afterward left the promising te tell her of the tewub of this adventy Hagar saw him go away ; with the fullest belief in hiv honesty of py perfect trust in his story, but later on, w whe began to wonder tf whe had hot been tw shurpers, The whole wtory told Bi re so like an adventure of tha “Arablan Nichts” ‘thet tawny he Hagar became more than a trie doubtful nie wite truth. Ae the duya went by and Alee did tot return an he had promised, she faticled Wat ter bettet wae & true one, CHAPTER II. “Thone two Persians have played a comedy of ch I pave been the dupe.” abe aaid t her af all been done to get money. and yet 1 am E panned, and Hoar waited tor nim te silent, whe addressed him hot sure, The pair would not take all that tr impatiently miserable twenty * nen a A f may be tnue, att he may hate Yes—execopt that witice I have It runs its cars when and hy mvenience and necessities of the publi p the street pa f when it wil Its exaction of a means the greatest of its offenses. But why blame them any more t pendent on police protection, with an inspector's connivance, 0 for the snow the sun melts? Not impunity If the city government ¢ Jess corporation” cannot violat ments and collect double fare wi ¢ whose very duty it is to enforce the Jaw in the int against the gambler, the murderer and the 1 ing Mayor MeGowan could } Acting Police Commissioner Waldo s What right had the Pol n uniforms by sp Chief Borough Ins; The issue has f violate the law with h the more “a law rt of Appeals in sition of er the O'Reill e by the ( 1904 over al ry the Appellate Division in 1900 and “A stean be a it becomes part t J Gayr he had full juri m decided all nts. If the Barnet case had held in favor of the single fare, and ad held in favor of a double fare, and J t had deck thatthe di legal, what possible would have been ¢ This issue ha ne fs not a question of nuble fare was power of the dty government cy of the law? fare to Coney Island. It s the government of thi city. In practice Brady, Ry it are the government. Until the law is correspondingly amended and the State Constitution is repealed Such a government is lawless. Dr, Abbott states the paramount issue. ob 2 Sanaa I ais There Is lynch Jaw in Brooklyn, walls a much esteemed contempo- raty. The B. R. T. is being lynched, “aided and abetted” by the police, and “deliberately prompted by a Judge from his seat on the bench.” Dear! dear! It was always supposed that judges and policemen repre sented and enforced the law! wea a : been } Ty ng to secover ‘hin : . wand A In thia conjecture she - : Sao niga ise may k The the days of h abwence A naloets . sad ale al ssh ton vainly or Maoh and wiwhes me to dle also. despre il ottoths ly, he had met with an Kngii¢hman whom he bad Thome two wil; lane “cideatiot fy Sete it, known In Persia, This gentleman, an Ortental schol there have me slain OPE ND PREM, | SE. ar and iiberal-minded man, had recognized Ales rT an't take you out of London a dirty and. miserable, as he haunted the Southampton ” i I a ARPINSt your quays looking for the wervant of bis friend and the \ recreant Mohommed. Carthew—for t wan the ogee, Seek his band. Whe) Mnowst® wala’ he. Engilahman’s name—was profoundly shocked to find ceatgaeel A the CRRA Se wae 4 whom he had known wealthy in such misery. Aupplied him with toot and » know bow the Persian had a he would this time, 1 always keep falle Ales’ told this Samaritan the same ) embassy tory aw he had told Magar, versed in the craft > * plied Hagar, who te and topsy-turveydom of the Bast, Carthew waa not t the ring. Why ad #0 surprised or sceptical ay the aypey mrt had deen. 4 Mohonimed steal | He was sorry for poor Alée, who had been for #0 long the butt of Fortune, and detetmined to befriend explained — § rty 5 ppose there is no chance of your at I { the Shah's favert’ he awtked the ur me in tongue. ; 2 toned at ts, int J conspired trayed by Achmet; so there again the eaylum I was t nat Approac dieéa tha Tick, 3 county tole ase: ; Fhis, t ‘ ne trted to t ng trom t.° growled Carthew, stroking me, kin wo w tt to friend's ‘find Achimet, that son of @ burnt . and get n wols, In t ent he = 4 t igh in favor? w t t tN the Yes, be jw» the governor of a province, and aa he sf jiy with Ayesha, * the favorite of the She iy above all fort It le strunge | replied Aleem fully, added Aloo, reflectively, “that thowe #o rich m h © at Bouthampton. But placed » to get me back to my deat W afer pawn They know they have Wronged you, my friend, mimed tole the tteket, and, as and y hate you. But you are safe ih England ned the ring, J have no doubt the Shah cannot selee you hore has shown It to the ne tof inded Carthew, a he h had crested » naened, rene kidnapping omse W of the Jewels. Mo: a rich, and 1 reméin poor Naw tan ‘ a str in England Carthew taughed. “Why you k wowhy « darknen me over my «# s see that this cave te your veex sateiuerd: t . sald If the Persian @mimasy seized you, they why 1 felt one bereft of itfe Surely, 1 the % os Remember, how that I port of Fortune and the most unlucky of 4 I ea eee eae Won >: am he of whom the poet a: whan he eald net you, you are no diexs You stay by } poet spoke when he sald nd you will be safe from the vengeance | Strive not, contend not; thy fortune te woe and Achmet hept th: rrows, for Fo nen a re ey Portus thy not wish to live on Your charity.’ @ poor man recited this couplet tn fallering said the Oriental ouar, bluntpy. tones and Duret into tearm, rocking tmself to and “Am YoU know, Iam translating the "Epic of Kings,” whey) Feordual wrote. You must avsist me, and Ill engage You we my secretary, In @ few months you'll be on your feet again and, no doubt, I shall be able to fed you some reyular employment, Aa for that pcoundwe! Mobommed, stele the ring, I aot the police after tm Thy the way, 1 muppone be dare not go back to Periig aeuinT” “No; he woe ® eonspirMor, also.” roplint Alea lias fro tn an agony of grief Hager wae sorry for thin unfortunste pereon, Who had bean ao unlucky as to lone wife, and wealth and country. @he gave bim the only comfort that wae in ber power. “Here are twenty whillings” eal he, placing rome siiver in ty hast, “Perhaps Mohommed has net Jet gone to Mouthampton, or it may be that the ser: ‘Vent with your Jewels hae not yet strived Go down | | ck ea as lane ney ser atl. aD ean ‘ Thursday, August 16, 1906. NEW YORK THROUGH Irvin S. Cobb Camping Out—The Midsammer Madness. the fullness of time there will be formed a affclety of the New York Survivors of Camping Out. There will be a large and relement mem- | berstiip. When a thorough organization has been effected a strong dele- 4 on will be sent forth to find the person who writes those fascinating works telling how @ mere amateur, armed only with a copy of this book, some matches in « bottle anr a toy hatchet, may live happily for months in the woods, meanwhile enjoying all the comforts of home. Having found him, they will, with their bars hands, pull him apart to see what makes \nim tlek. And forever after the date of his taking-off will be « gladsome | holiday tn the annals of the society. | The fell influences of the mid-Foollsh Searon are believed to be re- sponsible for the annual reappearance in this {Il-starred community of the | camping-out germ, which Is a malignant microbe, {ncreasing faster than a ‘ede family and sparing neither the young nor the old. In milder forma | of the disease it causes the patient to go no further t¢an the teuted shores of Long Island, where, when he bétomes rational again and yells for help, somebody wil] hear him But more often the delirious victim gets a bad attack and goes pirooting away, to the North Woods, not because he knows anything about the North Woods, but because It's expensive up there A real New Yorker nevor thinks he's having a time uni he spends a good deal of money So the North Woods for his’n. In these sylvan retreats be hires a guide who would be a magnificent green-goods artist with the proper metropolitan training, and he loads himself with an outfit that no kindly disposed per- pped he proceeds to get son would think of putting on a mule, and thus eq back to Nature by sliding dawn steep hilld on the obverse side of himself. The doomed author previourly referred to goes yery strong upon the delights of stretching {n balmy, restful slum upon a bed of balsam boughs. It makes you hate a hal: mattress Just to skim through his chapter devoted to sleeping. Bui you pained to learn on a practical demonstra- tion that every hemlock twig over five Mmches long knows half a million ways of stabbing a man, and goes through the entire currieulum every night. Also the writer has given explicit {ustructions for stalking a moose, but he signa)ly fulis to inform in regard to the proper weapon for use on the new kinds of insects that always arrange -thrir DUsineéss wo that they can go camping when you do, There is nothing on the subject of the green fty about the ajze of a gherkin pickle which happens along when yo are in swimming, and taps you the same as plugging a watermelon. Nor is y space devoted to the chigger, a delightful little forest pet, which bores into you about half an inch and lays a setting of eggs, meanwhile clucking mer- rily, The man who said beauty was only ekin deep never tried to digs chigger out of his systeth, = Ard then the abounding joys of a rainy day wher the firewood won't burn and the licker runs out, and you stt under @ lean-to, or sieve, and se quire a disposition Hke an exposed nerve while cooped wp with several otb- erm, also engaged {n distilling the malt extract of munter {n their hearts. Under such circumstanors any one mat can, th half @ day, discover two hundred thousand (200,000) things that he don't Ike in his best friend. | THE FUNNY PART. | * ‘There tm't any. It'w 0 snd affair all the way throueh WADIA EA AGAR OF TH PAWN SHOP, By Fergus Hume. deed, paid Mttle attention to Aloe, whom he regarded he Acoretary of Carthew and as one “We ted towether from the wrath of the @hah. He Was nearly captured and behesded tn mistake for me. as We are #0 iike one another; but he managed 2 *, and joined me in England Mtl, he ls wafer bere than I, aa he has no powerful enemine Who desire hte return to Persia.’ I's m cane of dilly duck, come and be killed," eald Carthew. with « grim jsugh.-“Well-we must hunt and And your jewels, If pomal- ble Who was the friend who sent them to you? in HOtic t s One f i Y to 0 ory and {o the story of Mohommed and the mi Mirza Baba, in response the request of nd coffee, and greatly rl wp the scoundre! the Land Feahnavat, of Shires, He was a friend of my intend cf thine, iiithor he fathers, and te, ‘ou khow, a great merchant.” the majesty of the aa¥ You, T know Titts. aad Carthew, nodding: “a fise old man. I have no doubt he recovered your jewwls Qnd nent them here ali right. The pity le thet he feaclved that this son _o: froughe hack to Persia f male their delivery depend upon the showing of the 4 Shah's ring. Though, to be sure, he never anticipated to cam his even t that. & vitinla wanted lanes ‘ ‘ “ Realous of governors 1 ain st ; WERE “KOU: pow Of: 5h, Truly, Aled, yeu sptracy @ the evil-minc wished ¢ ; = e mow unlucky of ment him. “Orders were nt emba that Alea Not wince I met with you, oh, comforter of the should be taken, © x . poor! ed Al wratefully. “You have heen fent Back In chains t T an, but thie charitable and good, even as the woman who helped Mee, monte fo , The me in the great clty, But to both reward shall come Chinese embaany (ried with y And had to Rive him up Wat saya ths post: does hot resomntize th ni 3 pbs \Givo freely to the poor your gol - 4; What's apent will come back forty-fold.” ie true ‘he dlen** an there w Ah, Alee,” maid Carthew, with a half sigh, “your way, I wae pet And gratitude are but bringing the poesy of Kant into the prose of the West, You are in pirporting Was sent hat a box London, my friend—in ordina commonplace 1on- hie property, was Gon, and not with Salad! in the gardens of Shiraz it would be given Carthew wan as good as his word, and employed f the Shah s ring Aine to aid him in translating the "Epic of Kings.” Bs OE ee Site With the first money which he earned the Persian » for his wite. Go on.” visited Hagar—to repay her and to tell her all that That is #0. ‘The dog surrendere the Pearl of Persia, for the meancat rfie had befatlen him since he had left her shop Hagar ett ene Bo eae ad ‘ Was pleased to soo him, and gratified at the refund was arr x the of the money, for sugh motion quite restored her shoule ve faith In Alea, which she had been beginning to love. sett \ Ae She asked afier Mohommed, but concerning that Ranov Ayesha was wuc oy nl the wh war unable to give any news q Bourhaenp bein Bnding " pp servant Bf 4 sic: ey. ines en Se - glide “Ales Foshnavat. produced the and demande Ht ik my.<ines ‘and Jewels,” sighed Alse, jewels. This wan at fo atc The tent maurnt ‘and It some far away he live on Was paltod and t on board the waiting vessel my rs But the justice of Allah, who seca the taken to Persia’ a tine D tha binek’ mesic ari halite ace hat Wag very clever,” anid Carthew, stealing « Black beetle will amite bim. He at A'eE. who was painfully white “And what Mh te * mpibndor and evil doing, as the peop ned then? of Od went down to the dwet. It M written.” misfortune,” teplied Baba Mira. “This earned (he truth, swore that he war one Mohommed, and In the meantime Carthew, who had @ genuine Ik ing for Alee, de all inquiries about the absent hi > jowela, OF Mobomtmed and the missing ring. For many weeks gourae, no oF thin story. whieh, without he learned nothing, but finally chance set him on Souht ae a mete tink fo ra a bid te, He was . 4 ecareta watehed and was told that on arriving is the track of the thief, and In the end he learned all Per . would hehended at once In tear at He discovered what had become of Mohommed and h done night trom the ed and threw himaclt rehind Mm the ring. and this, of the rin & little "ke, and the discovery astonished bim not Was an attache of the Persian embaesy e man Waa dead. was taken who revealed the truth, and Carthew judged it beat Lice had beun welset” The ting la nee that the of thie same man should relate the by the Peart of ser hue never has # alory to 4 ceannd pearett ig that Aloe encaped her vengeans ried 4 After telling thie story wre Hel My friend,” sald he one day to the Per “do outward comporute but ‘4 fear ay “ine you know @ countryman of yours called Mirae took hit leave. When alone with the Peralan, Babar Carthew turned to addr s him wel . he. ily, I have heard of him,” replied Alee, slowly, “but han not forsaken’ yaw yet!" the has saved you teed he has 1 ) my face, nor have I Reheld him. puriehed Mohommed for hin theft.” Why Go vou aanee "What tn, i." ld Aloe, with Ortental tmpannives “Wecause he knows what has become of your ring.” Ree eee eer cay tive ter Soom ine ca Aud Mohommed? Oh, my friend, teli we of me Gane ha nor Achmet will ‘seek mae thoes things!" cred he Peres. ‘ eenin. T ha it ts trae, but Tt have Nay. Aleo; it ls better that the (ruth should o gained my » span of my daya in fron the ips of Mirae Haba himeelt, I will ask hi gaged. yet = were to tell you." z Pi “it inn queer ending to the mtory,” aald Carthew, Hut he may learn who I am!” muttere, i} E dente s) 1 Aled, tn refivctively. and One Niwhta’' peplied A} Tt whould be > “I think not, aa he haa never seen your face,” re rhe tile Wa aa strane ax any of the sThousend DI arth “pemd: i { wit : to wel, Sa he cy at he ils ten tn. letters of old, Th tn of such that the Bow . tat ow i riental im- bs 4 thy h, tho’ darkens Widew tty” Pigvivensan to your ad "Yow teed oournwes Thy doting insure, for Aish wuldee net, me Mt bande, Ro-day “ant po Lo | BND OF ADVENTURE NO. 3, to ie tee, Carthew next recelved 4 Mires in Bis “house and 4 to Tes Eg agent hak mame. The Adventare No, 11, (The Passing of Magny