The evening world. Newspaper, October 1, 1906, Page 10

Sa fwas-not enough-ieft-to-go-around. —The-volume-of- business on-the Stock - ee \ Publighed by the Press Publishing © Entered at the Port-0: Dull times ha asserting its_tight Island. A fe s loose on Broad street and-mo it Mr. Blur » Several other and to route of horses, th and racing charts were in- rited to qe he public were in speculate. To actions free Junchebn of a better characte: a alOons. For awhile everybody prospered. | The members of the g saw the value oftheir gambling pris ileges increase, The short-<ard anc Jayout gamblers made money added free drinks to their free lunch- pe eseeri : cons. To give free drinks or cut} rates-to- customers is forbidden by the Stock Exchange rules, but these} didsnot apply to the other gamblers. ; Things were going on amicably, and all the gamblers were making | money, when Edward H. Harriman sprang his Union Pacific “coup” and took $20,000,000 from the lambs. Henry H. Rogers cleaned out the , Players in his copper game. George W. Perkins and the kitty disposed ofthe Steel lambs. These big gamblers took so much money out of the game that there Exchange decreased. The brokers’ commissions fell off. Even with the United States treasury-helping out the bank roll by encouraging gold im- ports-and transferring money from the treasury vaults to the stock gam- blers’ drawers, the lambs had been so thoroughly depleted that there was competition between the Stock Exchange and the faro games and pool- This would not do. The Stock Exchange has the legal right to gamble. It has the same right to a mondpoly of speculation on Man- “The Evening World’s. Da The New: Emperor Willem ‘The FIFTY GREATEST. 'Campbeli! Cory 3 ey Z2ihOo,; Octo b er ee JOO. Ag BRING INSTANTLY THE ROYAL EVENTS in HISTORY Ss By Albert Payson Terhune Se WHAT “HO YARLET - No, 34.—CHARLES XII. and the Flood Tide of Sweden’a ‘Creatness, ROUGH-LOOKING boy of Atteen came to the throné of Sweden: In 169% A under the titleof Cha II, and started {n at once on a cress between / | the simple and the a name for himself. for hated th» atup 1a fe. He gave no sign that he was going siness of state and spent is time in hunting and athletics, Nor was there anything very kingly: his looks. His val dress was an old blue coat with copper buttons, | » skin gloves and huge boots that came above the knees. hn thowe days of hard drinking and high Hving his way of life made him @ | marked man. He drank no wine, ate only coarse bread, and slept on the bire | Bround. covered by a cloak He seemed to have no thoughts beyond ontdoor sports, yawned over dry official routine and in other ways was more like a college te than a soverelgn = : Patkul, the wily Lithueotan diplomat, thought the boy-king a fool and hit on ® plan whereby other countries might take advantage of Charles's careless. Ness of stato affairs, He. formed a triplo‘alllanco—Russia, Poland and Denmark— jy Against Sweden. Denmark opened operations by Invading Swedish territory. ; ‘Doen, for the first time, the word realized what character of. King this une kempt, sport-loving boy was destined to be. {For Charles, with a flercenasa and vigor noone had dreimed he. possessed, rove out the Danes and turned on the two other members of the alliance, Hw. put away forever the pleasant outdoor hame life he loved and turned to Mes | wilder sport of hunting men. Rusasta, tc ark-s lead, Nad advanc |on Narva and the country around the G Poland s army had be tered Riga. SEAL ! CHET ARN INAT ThA STN Raven 4 with: barey gh omen, mar sen | camp er the wall/of Narva. followed one of the strangest and | a Crlefent battles tn the annals of warfare b [A Strange Battle} ttedaining “all enown—mipitary + } ea the enemy'e camp, charem “|. and Its Outcome. Imes the alza of his own In Irae than Atteen || he had atormed it. OF the #).00 4 apturol or acattered. Without pausing, Charles | hurried hfs Ite army across tha Dwina. attacked the Saxon arm enched | there and utterly routed tt. ‘Then he turned hie attention to the Poles, By 1106 jall Poland was helpless before the twenty- id Bwedieh youth, and three years later hie dictated peace terma to hin three enemies. Cita He had these o werful {dex whe yet he treated them a area pa | magnanimoualy. ‘Ther one exceptic Nia. ec of kindliness, ond F [that excention was Patkul, man who war against Swoden. | 90,009 were killed and the reat ne-yeRT: ES 5 - | d that Pat delivered tht nhis was done, and ng King at once had him put to death by torture. Patkul's death Is y the 1 : of personal re ina en's career, and ft | was- probate Dagainat Sweden + Lonnie ts more $———Heving—c: robe |country, Charles migat have been ex Ko back | to hits old, easy-going mode of life Hut his fighting blood | had fred his drain and tia former pleasures n . and fn 1707, with an army on Moscow, But Instead of xv as was kis cu: Mazeppa, th Ager appealed to him. mm) strong. ne thither direct and striking one de: he listened to the ad ally, the Cossactc c h frst through the Uxraine in the ho; ne Ukraine ex wan a failure, i Charies attacked the rich-city of Pultowa trur Péter 1 or} 4 Dom Gown Upon him to meet this new. foe. 8 woUNd in the thigh 1709), he had to Issue bis commands from Inspiring presence, and w by ata the superior Russian force, na prelim ln the battle itaele (Ju His troupe, deprived o: ALON an fatigue, feil back before j old capture, was forced to walk fox 1 ora his wound. He took refuge in Turk ing of hin defeat. invaded Sweten, but were driven | Hen. A_large Jtugstan army chen advanced on Kirn Hils hopes baftied had. hitherto. gained invasion. he promptly | diplomats, however, per his army beaten, Charles Reemed to have los 3 Wasted ho time in despair. To check the Revie Turkey to war wits Mussia «The latter countrys | i the Turks that Charles had designs against Tur- key, and dn armed body of men Wus sent tb % > arrest him 7} One -htan's Stand See somes wae still at Varn i ory, and ‘a é Agaiast a Nation. SSE YE ir oe sea ls i fetended os ie" ages \ urka and foug! 0 bast | ed the house over his head, He was ecoca monet to the fortreas of a mighty. army of in Turkish terris | 300 Bwedes, sheer welkht of numbers defeated him wa ex. Saxons and Prussians assailed him on Des, $3, 15, and wr () oe eee eee es Pe TE MEN IN THE NEWS—Straight Talks to Them—By Nixola Greeley-Smith. in/ -Histe.* uitoinn vigs'ch tia Rabe te St set To bet on a horse olitside of a race track inclosure Is a crime. To bet on a case card across the street from the Stock Exchange is a crime. Therefore the brokers complained to Police Commissioner Bingham. Gen. Bingham was properly horrified at the idea of competitive gambling. Ha told Inspector Formosa to have it stopped. Inspector Formosa promptly sent around to Mr. Ullman,. 4. Blumenthal and Mr, Comiskey and-closed them up. ‘ The-law- should -be-obeyed.—-Gambilng-4s—wrong. Except in-ex- changes and at racé tracks it is a crime. No small gambler, whether tin- horn or legitimate, must compete with an institution the market value of swhose-monopoly-is at present over-$90,000,000,———~ oS + fee World Al Wor the Hao ve Te vedlug World! 7oaF eons. foeer ta-Jert-handad. Bvery Wisere can I find reconia of profes-|Proman who ts ngkt-handed naturally sional and amateur athletics, including | «Tasps the atanchfon ur handle with the English reconis? A. COHEN, |hand moat serviceable and ateps down es teacnt—Franni te: | the first atop with the foot natural tothe | hand. Wero the majority of our wom Torthe Mdltor of The Evening World: | teti-handed tc would be unnecessary ‘Qferg-are-a few tres suggestions fori -Rrite this, aa they would ail ae Improvement of Greater New York | #8 of the tins{t ventole looking F x botthet “tha et transtt. our tunnels (at. various | and) nearly Late points) “under “Hast amt Norby River | tmndod: and one to Staten Island. Electsio fog: | At Any Children's Hompital. ry-boais with twen: aeanhOll tr 5 Etltor of The Bening apeed. Four_bridgea over each of the} “witrs can T apply to two big rivers, ant moving platforms | rece yr raightaned? ftwelve-mile speed? H ees town and -#tx- cross Booket=riqoe; versal Uckets of the Evening W. line of any. sert_te—any oin which Ihave carried greater elty.: Buburhe ket piece for severs! years doubled; in track, trair to double-decked eurtace pars. a fected express .and local syst subway, ““L,"" and auburban-r GN Tegal Ald Soctety, No. 239 Broad- way, ° Evening W. Discipline. Evening Wo! whe Street Car Werarm: |mon us unmasked from the great world of nothingness which we may Hever A Plea to the Implacable Father Whose Society Daughter — Such erimss-are-ategitimate competition witha lawful morcpoly. —_}- Has- Ruffled His Temper-by-Marrying Agains| 3WWe cannot choi hers and moth §onra generat yopt-the—best— is-always well mrant aad yery often would work our ultimate 8 with a watering pot or ste of the heart « pld_man anda xory determined man, but “sed you of n to forgive her, of © But youth is accustomed t nd no absolufely unreaso: [erred of not that of the parent wh cotldren. tack and conquer Norway, ¢ | Britain and dethrone King’ € nce was madewith Runsia, > Nov, ® while beieging Fre He arad_gone on hin daily. ro: . eine found: bint standing ght. supportad by a punipet. druwn_aw a2 nd, his tno to the f dent 7 *ix when he died. and with his death Sweden ¢ fr , " L e t ‘om Norway Ket cross to Sco invade Great a choosing whose erence-in our divinest} " Charien XII, was but thirt from the high power to which his genlus and mad courage had -ralent ter So perished one of the moat picturesque, brilliant figures in history, dying An age when most men are barely launolied on thelr life work ane with a mosquito netting as to gee it has found {tself and its other - “| TWO-MINUTE TALKS : == WITH NEW YORKERS. By T. O. McGill. HE way of the TRERETHT beyond ths Nights of the ro- inter don't you yw you might as well try to put out ause it wil] ato Your OWA rly beeguse 1 Je has done nothing th > bolas forgiven whether it h 18 T booked tha x i Weta v atl ee ven minutes from no doubht Mrs. Batony! will be very glad_ta letiyou| maiiliclataittanern | | niraal: Ot aieakel per said Theodore Szar-| ‘toes and salnd on the table for themy he win peing opened. esterday. Animal O pauities The Diary of a Bad Bo Saarvas |x thet 0. check che mend. including wine, cordia}s and clears,(waa $81. u e man whom| 0 ji" 7 | "Thy maw sho lost pala the check a . » c- th $3 Jere i He-satd By “Pop.” dired-doiart to the man whe had wan: Intrusted™ sett | Aah i cans cue we HEM GOL BARN HUNT ORF THIS WEAR ORS Ucular notice the women who gets off the it WELL DE HUNTIN' SEASON I5 HERE, Sot Guess TLL’ Hitt A-COUPLE OT \ Rasairsi! apd of tortoises I will match you for this $6,'¢ “It Was done and he qo Then he ‘ t sald OA Sust Look AT bE FAT ONE WN $10,000 electric broll- : er that has been put “up_in_the’griil room Uomatch you poker reninst TR TOT Th whatever it Is ‘unsight and unseen’ | You're on! sald the nan—whe had but. | swift] won, Aneaty of money. +One sd andthe other had $h3— — Ttyrot-twetvarcametn-tors-oocktat=l-rrenman-who had leat ihe aise dost They were.all/from the West. They #4tl'tha roll'on the poker numbers, Then he c seas mixed and 1p sel me ts—-nend—ott—and—seectt we one of them called the attentton of the | could get thema-couple-of-boxes-tor-w. resf to the broiler. He announced that} popular Broadway show. When the {G-Ts snind—t-tas a_good thing, be- | tickets wera brought in-he bet the-man + cause you could now get a good thick | who had won the dinner and the matoh- steak hot off the fire in neven minutes, | ing money that he couldn't guess the ‘or instance, the other evening Aa ete HCO DARWIT TT, Won'r Stop Laughing! agaiost a walt of twonty-fve or{colorof the theatre. tickets before rty minutes In the big dining-room | envelope containing them was open shetuamacthinn | "At tho ratio of 20 to 1 he gus “Onn of the party with a dig red hat |biue, and they were blue, The man Veald the man. ‘wan ‘talking: ‘rag-time |had lost upto date’saldy for something iike—that—and—that—he}—“f-guesx that. will be about all-fo1 Would bet the price of the check for | me thin evening!’ ¢ \ the meni of the three, with a quart of} “They all got up and went out just wian-per man. t the brofler ataff | though they’d had an ordinary Mtle couldn't deliver a meal of steaks and |cial meal and cigar with an j salad to the table Inside of ftteen min- I check of a couple of dollars or On the Other Side of the Earth. ¥ Nee all the workmen employed, sprinkling electric Hgts in tts anctent}> ti in the naval arsenal at Toulon, } streets. Aap France, add to thelr salaries by|* The motive power for these instalia= exercising another trade during their long Is derived from the harnessing of (GOSH TLL CATCH YE IFAT TAKE STi TH XMAS, lelaure hours, Some’ are Actel carpet ithe river falls twenty-two miles off. beaters, others distribute prospectuses Vtree-and a half miles of the street and hand-bills, or act ax parcel carriers | rallway ara alreudy-being lata. | for local shopkeepers, | ratic on the Hejaz Rattway, which - One man complained recently tn alllsoma day may reach Mecca, finds @ | nerlouaness that ho was so overworked | vonyentent entrepot in the old-time eme at the'arsenal that he had no time to} oorium of the2nlow-moving caravan, exercise his profession as masneur, A umber of arsenal hands actually carry | on thelr supplementary. trades in the| yards. fay ara |" Therw are amateur shoemakers, watch Eeyore ars tts makers and barbers, who carry on z| meritorious poopielverilt ire upeaeraee thrlying teainesd among thelr comrades.| (i cla, POR - : Damascus, sald to be tho oldest of SGrent dtagpaet will prevall, The'rioh [iiving witles, t« losing its character. A] will satlsty’thelr hunger at the oxpense, ‘| Belgian company js cutting through itjof the poor nnd the earth -will qual "J [with an electric street railway and ta’ thrice ae ALL RIGAT, BUT JUST Ww, i AVY. ELT GET WELL AGAINUHELL REGRET IT! OF COURSE PA! HAD TER BUTY-IN AN GIVE ME A LICKIN TOO! WELL WHEN 2M DEAD AN' Gone THEYLL PEG L Sor ‘ A Jama iving at-Lhase has issued a series of predictions for 19 ‘ | |