The evening world. Newspaper, April 2, 1907, Page 5

_ [THE EVENING. WORLD, TUE Matthew Handford Turned Miser When Girl He Loved SADLED CRABS AS Threw Him Over and Wedded His Richer Rivat Chquettish s¢ Sourherat Beauty Had Smiled on Him in the Beginning. USED SISTER AS LURE, Vanly Tried to Excite {| ousy by-Parading the } Streets With Her. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. CHAPTER I.° M terday. from the little room ATTHEW oh the top floor of No. fourteen years. Matthew Handford's soul died and was buried ‘way back fm 1809. That burial took place dur Mis The wedding ceromony of a wom an and who, he thoucht im for another man with y Mon the other man power to triumph over him, it be came at once Handford's God. The ab that killed bis soul gave birth ton c ving to quire money and hoard it that became a far pas the love fever 1 ink fruit Jobs around nd made | enance. had brought o in @ you 1 mode which. h Nice in 1897 t ts do ford ever no Alt custom to beg a day-old pape stands, he never reed a reports in !t, thu: stock, a of which he died. pos geswed. The woman who had wrecke4 his youthful romance and permanently warped nature retained for him Lis last hour the same charm. Never seeing her, never realizing the advance of years, he had the disappointed jov- ers privilege In Greame he might“oshotd her, BUY fair, and ind @ed young CHAPTER II. This woman was Anne Maria D @as-lAppincott, grand daughter of James Dundas, owner of the big house at the cotmer of Broad Walnut streets, long known to. Philaetphians as the “yellow mansion” a great brick etruc- Sure with plaster ext down a year or so“ago for the store Dull@ings and theatre now being com- pldfed on the ol Once this site wag known as Vauxhalt Gardens and wag the pleasure ground of Philadel- phians in Colonial days, James Dun- bought it in 1837, and built the huge yellow structure in the midst of the beautiful gardens which became the ecche of this pretty grand-daughter's romance, ages Maria Dundas-Idépptnoott came up Brom Virginian with her mother JatBes Dundas's daughter, in the early wixties to 1 “yellow manston.” Shé war only a child at the time, but ene haat mature beauty and early @oquetry of the Bouthern child, and tt wag not long before Philadelphia's Young men realized that quite the pret Test as well ws Lhe mcet wilful and darfng plece of ninity In town Forgped with her dogs In the old Vaux Dalf Gardens and cast distinetly ap: preplative hoes at the comelier Youwhs who "'Handtora, Schuylkill vandsom « was making ery dey He @ favorite ry much liked CHAPTER III ‘Thereafter Matthew Handford walked Dy ithe yellow mansion every day at the same hour, And the ques toning heart of the little Southern girl realized his passion. What words or gtunces of encour egdnent paseo’ between them none to day can say. Bat in the county insti Sulfen at Blackwood, New Je a Bo@iens victim of ah incurable brain Ginkawe, an woman who was Matthew *yandford'e sister, To her ot ren, who, it le thought, will in portion of the old am old the man's funeral f CHAPTER IV. wall, he waid, sur ore wasn his rounding the old mansion thid Uitte Miss Lippincott would run in the early evening and, peering over wayé her handkerciiief wt young Hand « he passed by m, Ite said, the fret ‘of dawn tt deepened but the young aly & Da faivation iy » evening when weeks Hand dally. peer wall’and tered windows in the again. His tortured by the fear that might be seriously tii or that her her or rere ie had saconered ‘schoolgirl A ‘and appt her niin Common wae Jeal-| HANDFORD was buried In Philadelphia yester-| 223. Spruce} Street which had been his home for | tor that was torn{ and toward! | announcing her engagement told him everything, Apna Maria Dundas-Lip- pincott. he read, was to marry 1. jam Wurte, ho, at her request, wa! to change his name to Wurts-Dundas CHAPTER V. Matthew Handford, after the frat eK of the discovery, made up his] ind that he had atill a” fighting ance to win the woman he loved, and ho resolved to take it. Amna might have been compellod to the engase- ment, he thought. It Was then that he confided his .shat~ | tered romance to his sister, and upon her advice he resorted to the world- ola trick of trying to rekindle her lov by arousing her jealousy. This s! Dr, Mary. Pratt, often tod her son | Jolin all about the vain efforts ee her brother made-onoe more to win & amile from the little lady ef the man sion. | For weeks Handford went every Sun- ing giri herself, him in the afternoon He beught her of gowns, and insisted that litte the finest she should wear them on these « TB (the foolish device wes vain, In Anne Maria Dundas-’ Lncowt and William Wurts were married. And from that moment Matthew Handford became the sordid, penny-grasping miser that Philadelphians have known and jeored at for nearly forty years. | CHAPTER VI. Handford felt thet he had lost the | idol of his heart beonuse of the lack of money. In some hat-mad way he concelved thé idea that if he accumu- lated vest wealth he Imght yet sain her love. He left hie home and moved fmto the cheapest room he could find, thirty years of systematic rvation of soul and body began Meantime, Mrs, William Worte-Dun | das, entirely forgetful of her youthful | Sweetheart. lived with her husband |» | Phiadebphia. In 1876, sever years af | ter her marriage, there appeared tn the Quaker City a dashing Wngli«h man, Cagt, Farquhar, who head to attend the Centennial Within ten years a euit was filed in the Philadelphia courts against the | Dundas estate by a young Tan calling himself Arthur Fitaroy Somersct-Dun une | das,-who clalméd to be the son of || Capt. Farquhar and Mre. Wurts-Dun | dus | Hie claim was dented by tailed to necure mr Appincott milijons | yundas died at 3 1s, as you have read. CHAPTER VII, But she lived on dn the heart of the | ragged, unkempt old miser who dwe Yiddiah quarter and wan hooted | boys of the neighborhor once kept tr arden of the ye 4 ae "OW low mansio: For fifteen years before he move: the room at No. lived in atmilar i#olation at Spruce street, across the street In the room on the top floor at No 223 Bpruce street hie rent wa» $1 a8 month, It was very hard to ge! # do! lar out of him and bh uid only par with it after every possible evasion | He never a fire in the | cept when he found tt absolutely neces | sary to cook somethi to warm te coffee, B in YANT EARS | orem to invite figteu ule and are most. abl | fhe. tae val co room ex ' Thirty-seven yours ri | ae Woodbajy Method to " Institute, BO Wark B06 B.. tes: Bert. the room was kept warm by w Handford’s on’ tant portion of C to see them on’ these occasions the old man would wait |changed with for a huckster pcent f he gave & ride on street Wiliam Slute Little shop on the ‘ground floor of No 23 Spruce street A fireleas, and Han rapping himeelf in y relatives live in a ¢ EES: ‘amden. Handfo:d went | Whose sees his nephew's he said to them. For thirty years tie had not paid for lover tt his_marveHous Marla Dun it the story of passion for Ant BOY A HUMAN TORCH FOR “FUN” OF CHUMS. | ndford | yours, or twice a year. On| teen ane of Michael Lac ar old boy, while tt yan la hallway. The boys gave the names erry \Sr fester Hall, Walter Leonard and five cents a-plece to! | James White on. Aocording tO thelr wtony the act waa Don't wasta | done for ‘tun. botde he: rn jothing, and lighted the pia acoce rushed about. the stree! and finally fell unoonecious. He taken to « hospital, where his oon- Gitton was eaid to be serious car or train, ard his wite hag fhe | etre Seeing Handford was B. Altman & Ca. SALE OF ORIENTAL RUGS WILL BE HEIi: TO-MORROW, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 34, COMPRISING CAUCASIAN RUGS, ADAPTED TO USAGE IN COUNTRY OR CITY HOMES, IN SIZES 34 TO 4 FEET WIDE, BY 48 TO 6 FEET 6 LONG, AT $9.80 AND $14.00 ALSO PERSIAN HALL STRIPS . AT $26.00 RUGS A! ND DRAPERIES RECEIVED FOR STORAGE AND SAFE-KEEPING THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER MONTHS MO! B. Altman & Co. WHITE GOODS, RROW, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3d, A QUANTITY OF WHITE HANDKERCHIEF LINEN, 36 INCHES WIDE, AT THE SPECIAL PRICE OF , . SUITABLE FOR DRESSES, WAISTS AND CHILDREN’S WEAR, 38c. PER YARD. B. Altman & Gn. DIRECT PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THEIR FACILITIES FOR THE FITTING OF OUT-OF.TOWN RESIDENCES, SEASIDE AND COUNTRY COTTAGES WITH SUMMER DRAPERIES AND FURNISH INGS, KUSS AND MATTINGS; FIBRE MATS AND OTHER VERANDA FITTINGS HOUSEHOLD LINENS AND BLANKETS AT MODERATE COT ESTIMATES WILL BE SUBMIT UPON: REQUEST WINDOW SHADES AND FURNITURE 8LIF ERS M ORDER Bitty Avenue, 34th aud 35th @ireeis, New York SDAY APRIL Se 1907. FIREMEN WORKED BEG. US PAR OrTiCE CELEBRATED HATS | | in fashionable shapes, cor- rect shades, distinctive styles and exclusive models For Men and Women 178-180 PHth Ay 184 Broadway, near 567-569), Hiith Av. Winds stSt. a | Style BS ou'll Like eer with fashion's latest cot the newest styles in || ‘Triangle Linen ( \ i ngs on a graceful, com- "5 > | fortable shape are su y the best dressers everywhere. at La be The “Tabo" is a hig ne style Progress: Motto SPEIPOER Sai dactt soo scertvont coms ore cl yoocen | + 4 } Mm cular abc i c is the or t _ Merely to illustrate our progressive ways, we may ff)|| be Particular about the quality. | Lin m i aie ot ear roca res mention that a member of our firm is now. on I on getting TRIANGLE LINEN COLLARS—guaranteed linen quality his way to Paris to select some of tie choicest and | 4ply. Collars not stam c I are atton, Be ie batt edie ei vents the saw most artistic designs of the ingenious French jewelers, éa t holes are to be laid before our customers soon. | the 2 r Every But “meanwhile: we are always reinforcing our The 1 gie Linen Collar styles stock from our own factory and from the manufac- ff} ‘les t ; hare. TT yor can't cobsbeteuly det turers of the highest class. Ihere is never a day in | t the year when we cannot furnish the fullest variety i Van Zandt, Jacobs & Co, Troy, NY. Largest Makers of Linen Collars in America, of the most beautiful and best nade jewelry in every line, and our policy of guaranteeing every article is ® }| too well known to call for more than mention here \| | N York Office: 636-638 BRO. A Be it always understood that our prices are the \ ‘i 4 spacebar the lowest for which jewelry in the Lambert class can be | 150 Styles \\RIANGL £7 15c. Each sold, for every cent of middlemen’s protit is cut ou | Vi csieay LINEN COLLARS’ hrunk-to-Size” The Work of Making Wedding Rings | . Simple as a Lambert Seamless Solid Gold Weddin, mnt appear, it represe a high order of ae and ce gold is rolled out by hydraulic machir into shir {@ grained and hard, capable of high polish. Then ii i squares,- from each of which a ring moulded The finished by hand and are practically indestructible. No charge for engraving. 6th Ave., Cor, 20th St. Spring Shoes for Boys, t4-karat.. $3.90 14-karat.. $4.40 14-karat.. $5.50 14-karat.. $6.60 » New Styles 48-karat,. $4.40 18-karat.. $5.50 1S-karat.. $6.75 18-karat.. $8.10 In all the New Styles and New a2-karat.. $5.80 22-karat.. $7.00 22-karat $8.75 23-karat’ $10.90 fa Leathers, 3 Ff | > ; 2) ; Diamond Rings The Finest Footwear. and Best | Every diamond ring in the Lambert store suggests a con- | y Shapes that are made. | vincing story of stones tly imported, so that all middlemen f No other boys’ shoes have the com- | id; of rare and original designs; of hand-made. solid WMH ; 3 ; 3 : profit is saves a 4 rs yand-made id - orr-of -longes service | gold mountings by our own careful workmen: of pr ces that are a IS binatiorr gest service, utmost comfort and splendid our shoes have. Prices Range from $2 to 55, In TAN RUSSIA, Black Kid and Calf, High and Low Cut. (Bf revelation to > SS used to old-fashioned ways of doing busines Dpearance that S <a ~ Ee Na by ond, mpg oe amond, t He He iamond, Patent Leather, Sunday World Wants Work Monday Morning Wonders. ZANUFACTURING, Retailers and Importers Third Avenue cor. 58th Street Open Evenings Until 6.30. Saturday Nights Until 10. Austen & ’ picture i in 1 colors, ing, will be given with next Sunday’s World. ‘Sunbonnet’ ready for framing or passepartout- Decorate your den, your cozy-corner, hallway or library. Brightcolors, Very clever, The hit of the season’s pictures. NOTE TO OUT-OF-TOWN READERS —4 Gibson picture, 10x15, on art paper, ready & ivreming, will be given all readers outsghe of Ureater New York, Sunday, April 7, 3 This unique ° )