The evening world. Newspaper, December 10, 1907, Page 15

"Kirk the es nee His “Desperate Adventure” With a Br hen Head ie tonishment. He felt shaky and siok,;brain. You'll come back here on_a-+Smith, the house In Tedworth street, Santly, ‘I'd soon show you whether| “‘You've got the figures upside down,” Kirk bellowed these Questions like @ e i i but able, nevertheless, to get up and|astrotoher!"’ |the Desperato Enterprise—everything. |$t's mine or not. There, can't you see|he said. ‘You've gone and give thi] maniac, His eyes were fashing and his A Fight With Th ugs on the) eeax sie nod to wet up and dress. - | "Brine me my clothes!" roared Kirk. | ‘Then a man appeared with the olothes.| t's made for a man nine sizes wmaller | poor fellows duds to ee!" fata oloring convulatvely on the eowe i fy ‘ ia ‘Tm bab tebe ath he said. “I bad haven't concussion of the brain. I/ But why had they changed from-blue| than Iam! Here, put it on.” Johnson faltered, and nruttered some kids 8 bundred-pound note #ewed up in the!want my clothes! to a dingy mustard? Kirk gazed at} With the alr of humoring a very stok) thing under his breatti. “You'll find all that ta*she book,” oad Thames Em bankmen t, and the} lining of my vest. I cannot remain! A dresser arrived on the acene, Also | them in bowliderment, | patient, the aoctor held out the coat for | The doctor flushed angrily. Johnadn, . with — lambuke meh omet Next We Hear of Our Hero! He | x: [another nurse, They formed a little | sigimed eat Bcott, those are not| to gat them in, but that was the most |aitted ¢o the bottom." be cried “And |tha book not being tn |niy department," 2 | More profesmonal coos of the poor-|@roup ebout Kirk while he still tero- | my clothes! | that coun be dona Everybody laughed. | sifted here and now!" he weat on, “I really ¢annot positively, jear-crmin-do-be-quiet order. | clously insinted ‘on hie clothes, |It might have teen a boy's, while ICieh| Johneon threw up the sponge definitely say for aan as Is in Hospital Delirious and Has| Lost His Mozey. ; here without knowing whether it is || In Strange Quarters. | But the poor, dear man roared for hs ‘clothios, and raised wuch en watery am hullabaloo that a doctor came run- | ning In from the next ward. He ex- ee Decem ber 10, some convalescents with brooms. Also “Oh, well, then, get him hla clothes," leaid the doctor, There was °an interminable delay, while they were being brought. Kirk Gevoured nome calves'-foot jelly, and “They are not mine at ail!’ he ex- K Costly Mistake. i “Yee, they aré,"’ eaid the man, “You gan ees the number for yourself—see— just as they were stripped off you ané Mloketed, 1 ought to know, for I did ft Kirk to allp his arms jnfo, He managed | was a broed-moultered, deep-chested roan, The absurdity of ita Selon Kirke comt was patent. “Johnaon, thero's some mistake here,” aid the dootor. 7 “Johnson, I'm going to have this thin« On a New Quest. “It must have deen that, hemorrhage case yesterday,’ he quavered. “He did make a most awful tutmub, I remem- doctor, “Leastways {t orter lke the book. But | “Bring the dook direstly,” shouted the “‘If tha matter ia°not cleared up instanter I'll havd you dlemineed!’’ Johneon slowly turaed, and in a most: Woebegone manner/ walked down the, and in an instant returned to con- polourness, A. pair of hands. nore | obanged a few words with Kirk, :tried’ fircely repeated the tale of the hundred. | inyseit!!* “Why, I took It oft him myself, air,’ ter, and went away swoating like the| ward towurd the door. 5 ‘ | throtdtne his He out, while another | ineffoctualiy to bows him, into aubmjs-| pound note sewed In the lining of his The whole party regarded Kirk as|cried Johnson. ‘Look at the ticket, air) | old Nick. But it was, his ticket and I} “Don't get €xctted, “dear,” sald tne he dventurer | pair were pintoning his legm: Stil! an-| lon, and then: very -erudgingly gave! vest. It waa. tot by. A’ row of tncredu- delirious. He heard | Number 654. The cont'a all right, str: | made him take them," nurae to Kink ‘it vou allow yoursele ;olberabanaiwas roving .through hin lous faces, So incredulous, irideed, that] something In an undertone about a} it's the, man what's changed.” ‘Tut do you know ha name? Do you| [0 f°! ahi have to Lave ioe put seal rete | trousers’ pockets. Kirk was a powerful You're a foothardy fellow,” he sald. | fot a moment he wondered whether the | ‘straitjacket."’ | ‘Then one of the sonvalescenta bore} knqw where he went to? Have you €ot| poor head! Won't hs, doctor?’ ; “You've just shaved concussion of. the whole affair were not a d¢ream—Mr.! “Give me that cont,") hé cried, de- in. his address?” (To Be Continued.) ~~ Lloyd. Osbourne (Copyright Given by D. Appleton, & Co.) | : GYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING ' (knows. pa CRAFTING. Ta Leadon for meri 1a enters y the pavertiser. & wecatlin imsele Brith, who says the teat entiata bu rt the man—quick, cunning and resoxtceful {n the face of danger, He tore away the fellow ‘from hie throat, sprang over sideways and landing @ kick into some- thing som and human, managed to scramble to his feet. ‘There ensued. a random, tn@iscrtm- inate punching. Kirk, yelling “&furder!"" at the top of bie lungs, staggered backward. reeling from a blow in the mouth. But even as he did éo he hit Love % ¥ DEAR, Stoo eees: CLLLITOPOVTHLE SOLE ESEDSSIETENOSDS SSESD IED tThe Newlyweds @& Their Baby Now TOOOLEUNS) & Bs y. George McMan us “SEE SnoonuMs,. d The ‘enterptive. “Smith gives Kirk | out right and left, smashing one of WILL Yow PLEASE P Pati nae . ¢ hii 3 BF State nian nt Tusttng nda? |ammtlanta,eadiong, to. the, pavement MAIL’ THIS LETTER? Ler) PARA GRIT Cay LETTER accepted for the expedition; But the second one presseed him hard, 7 NICE MAMAS. ONE CHAPTER III, Disaster! E have said that Kirk's hand closed on the hundred-pound hote. But touching thet note also, and jortiing beside it, was the sum et one shilling and tenpence halfpenny— the most of it In coppers. One shilling and tenpence halfpenny to carry him through what remained of Friday, all of Baturday and Sunday, and at least a breakfast for Monday morning. Any Sea of @ bed he had to put away from { him; Even for food it was going to be ; @ tl¢klish operation to spread a shilling ; : and/tenpence halfpenny over—how many : meals? ‘At the standard number—three _ & day—there were ten to be provided for, Ten, with lunch on Monday. Nine, with no lunch on Monday. Well, | Say ten! One shilling and tenpence hal | | penny In American money amounted to @bout © cents, or a shade over four cents a meal! At this rate it was possible to keop @oay. and soul together. Not exaotly dapped in luxury, perhaps, but still to- gether. Though it wes early in Novem- ber the weather hadinot turned very cold, end to a hurdy fellow ike Kirk the prospect of a few nights out of doors was leas dreadful than you would imagine, The safety of the hundred Ponds was a much more serious oon- sideration. What oo.earth was he to f Go, with #7, Where wis he to hide it? Horror Gt horrors, suppose some of his Dighthawk companions were to hold Bim vp and rob him! That was the worst of tucking Into « packing case . @F prowling up eome dark, riverside ley where barrels and lumber were apt to be found. Yet he couldn't well intrust {t to anybody to keep for him. ‘He thought of the grim young \lady in free Treading room and his heart What of a police station? They'd probably think him a thief and look him up. It wasn't « etory that would - Be readily, delleved.* A dirty, starving } Soe with a hundred-pound note! No, there was no help here. K& Dilemma, — Se sewed the money inside his coat. ‘That night, wending his way ‘to the Sal- vation Army shelter, he found ft in flames. There was no help for it. He must sleep in the streets, There seemed nothing for it but the Embankment—that wide, stately boule- vara that bordered the Thames, stuck ‘out at intervals with green benches and He had often seen people He had read policemen. asieep on the benches. allusions in the ber of people si fdmillarized pimscit with the {dea of sleeping on one of them actually Griven to It It was well policed—that whe the great thing. He knew it was and confusing streets. The next trouble was to find a benoh|that was empty. ‘The raw, damp weather had not thinned the ranks of the dsinherited. Bench ana from behind he gould hear the third, breathing violently through his teeth, ahd awaiting a chance to spring on him. A volce orfed out: ‘Bing him, Bil! Why don't you sive himr* ‘*Phurder dl ftelp!'” Kirk fell on his knees, turned and grabbed ome fellow behind him by the legs. ‘ey both went over with « rash, @wotlcg and writhing in a death battle, Kirk had a momentary peep at the stars—then of a hobnalled boot de- soending. A skinny hand wes gripping his throat in a vice, while he was dea- Derately hammering his elbow ito what he hoped were human ribs, The hobnajled toot missed him by an soh, thanks to a covulatve effort that taxed every atom of hia strength, The hob- nailed boot rose again, aimivig another violous atamp, ‘Murder, help, murder!" fee Pee, yeep, peep! Ie was a poliocman's whistle, The sound was taken up and repeated from peveral quarters. Piephantine fo.tateps. ed rtuming. But there was the Jed boot stil! smashing at him. a rnca ees ae ‘Then oblivion. mien CHAPTER IV. Robbed. K eure awoke in a sort of dormitory, the occupant “Or one of @ long row of cots. He was extraordinarily tired, extraordinarily confused and dissy. His eyes rested dully on the white-clad figure of « nuree. Ghe came over to hie instantly, and her kind, good tace was conifprt- Ing just’ to look at Her voloe was low and pleawant, and her hand. as ste laid {t on his throbbing temple, gave tim a childish contentment “You ero better?’ she asked. Kirk smiled and nodded. He- felt for his head and wes thunderstruck to find that he no longer had any hair, Bandages, but no hair! What the deuce had_ become of! his hair? Why band- ages? ‘Then, with @ wave of recollec- Hon the wholé affair of the Embank- ment recurred to him. “Nurse, he said feebly, hurtr’ Bhe cooed,over him in clotted cream Engiis;. accents. “And the hundred pounder” he orled out. ‘In heaven's. name /ere in my dundred pounds? ‘You mustni€ get excited,” she eald, 4enoring his question. ‘Then another thought struck him | “What day (s tt?’ he demended- “Sunday |"? He eat up in bed, greatly to her aa "arn I much Ask Her to Go Out. Dear Betty: AM twenty years old and oonsitered weod-looking, About two’ months @go I ‘met a wealthy and pretty young lady ebeut two years my senior, BRE ts a com- H plete set of un- Gerwear that ts as carefully modelled / MY OWN AND PAPA'LL TAKE BABY CERTAINLY WHAT'S THE MATTSS.? a PAPA DIDN'T KNOW PRECIOUS WANTED LETTER WAIT ONTIL MAIL ~ CARRIER Comes, CPAPA GET LETTER and f fell in love with her at frat sight. Since then we have corresponded, and although we have never met alnce, eh Appears to be in love with me. I am Anxious to call on her and take her out, aa I know she lives in the city, but I do not know tow and where to ask her, Do you think whe cares enough for me to go out with me? H, B. {Write and ask the girl 4% you may call {on her. Then ask her if she will con- sent to go out with you. That 1s the only Dear Betty; — ULD tt be entirely proper for me, ® married man, to make a small the second I am deeply in love with. The first girl le deeply tn love with me, whereas my second friend's love appears to be only spasmodip and her goal In life fs money. Shai! I stick to the first girl and know I am being {dolised, or to the girt I love and await further developments; er, possibly, for- wet the Arm, sacrifice my love for the second and find Mee No. 8 with the! LETTER! BET TY-VINCENTScADVICE® LOVERS final purpose of marrying by judgment? ANXIOUB. The girl you love displays a metcen- ary dispositon and I am afraid would noc make a good wife, The girl who loves you seems to be the better one, attention. Don’t look for another love, for you seem to have your hands full now. \/ i the Imagination. and 'I advise you to pay her the most! similar medicine, aurpasses the first in awfulness, for he gets the “Mdther Gegese” begs to sutenft the fellewing fer cur pesstite “There was a man in ew town And he was wontrous wise; ‘He jumped into a bramble-baat well policed. Rows of police! 4 Tan Baiada Se way fo hy tank 1 Bithiey Present This Little Art [sea Byres oe coro Rg Why Divorcees Remarry. | By Helen Vail Wallace. HE undue haste whish most divorcees exhibit in again alipping into the connvbial noose suggests that em eakeppy metemeutel may havo the effect of superinducing in the human iwdneas which causes the vietim to imagine thet a euse Mes oni An occastonal remarried divorcee, no Goubt, has the eyes es well ese et right again; but not infrequently “the lest state SSS j 4 Nestea Will Help ie only “scratched in again,” but often gets them seratchd? very wide open i 2 fact thet “More haste, lees speet'’ might Rave motte fer adopt. as if it had been de-| birthday present to «,youne lady algned for the living, ot my scquein . after bench was occupied, though not . Who has been for ‘always by recumbent figures, however. On one « drunken woman, gabbling tn- y @ lone time an fntimate friend? She Impatience and lack of self-control are at the base of many. Grosses, : coherently to herself. On another = » humen child. Ie this 49 aio @ friend of/my; wifs's. J. P.M. changeable, impatient, uncertain, unthinking people are, I have observed the pair of such wicked-looking hooligans - case fine mainsook Yes, tf you oe id) the’ present from mont addicted to the divorce habit. These people are sot capable, as @ ruled i taking alternative Cees CS Gee _ makes the entire out- both your “wife dnd eA ates giving any undertaking a thorough. patient, tmtelligemt trial; so why should etatteninat) Pe OAED aa aaa At and embrodery| An Undecided Suitor. expects It ot; chemi) tal searriege, 00) long (88) atrotve existe as) Gn secnys for thems gered pomcan tine! aa rellsanest Pree a There faa rast of this hurry-ekurry, “step lively” Impatience f a money made him. He distrusted ming, but lawn, be-| J] PEER finding that vartety ts not Hen fadTanyerss{ falling tania tor a : ; ybody but the stalwart men tn blue, . tte, dotted Swiss the spice of ife, I have dwindled Impatient Jove that recklessly Bs. : who seemed to him fewer and much muslin, all material Bers coduatntnness, ‘oy ere. stm Geeks maugtt but ewift possession, y \ 5 ‘. i 2 le The frat I like as pF farther between than he had’ antict ® 004» companion Like the plucked blossom, soonest fades 2 pated, At last he eaw an empty bench, + of the sort, are ap-/and friend, ang possibly later on as a In incomplete expresston, \ \ and hurried to selze it before It might vropriate, with anish| Love that will not bear the waiting test, that will not, if ned be, serve Be snapped up by any one else, He of elther lace .or seven years, as Jacob did for Rachel, t# not a eafe phase of love to base Needlework, The set : consists of chemise ». drawera, petticoats and nightgown. Each , de shapely, yet simple ‘The chemise is a full - one, drawn ‘up by/| meane of beading . threaded with ribbon, The petticoat ts made in three pieces and the nighteowa tn Jumper style, Home Hints For Busy Housewives, was dog-tired, and tt was pleasant to etretch himself out at length after that long) long day, But he decided not to go to aleep. He did not dare to go Asleep. Foo! that he'd teen not to get the address of another Army stelter! . Five hundred thousand dollars! Was ft not worth a ttle discomfort? The Fight. ‘Then he dosed off, awaking after an ‘anknown interval to a penetrating real- faation of cold and achiness, He wag, riage upon. Until auch time, methinks, ae some magtoian-ecientiet arises whe is eapabta, lof putting humanity under the siide and analysing and classifying the | race, so as to determine for us accurately, without the peradventum of a ‘Just which temperaments are naturally adapted to each other before ee) is permitted, and a law 4 enforcing scientific selection of ma such time we cannot hope to rety head off the divorce eyil, so-called. Tt the only present ,nown, means of banishing from our’midst the bogie of mony, which is, to my mind, a more formidable foe to the race then the \Corn: Chowder, TOE for supper when the wind blows cold: One-halt pound seit tat pork, cut fine, Fry in kettle mith three large onions out fine, and pint of potatoes cut in cubes, Cover with water and ook until tender; then add six crackers, one gliart of corn and nttme, while we wait for this much-needed ecientist to appear with hig magic glass to separate and classify us in such Intelligent fashion that wei shelf, no longer find doves mated to hawke and sheep to goats, making dtvoroe @ bua’ rant ‘ i jSeck fen minutes, Add ihme pints of aa Seay Hoare errs 4 aay eee! pad cre and geeson (0) fasts mane necesalty,,1t will be well for us to cultivate pokes cy, neglected planta: ; iad 4 Pas’ ‘00K a unselfishness, patience and self-control we may have in our domestic Tictoois| Bmore asratiom: carey ne oraal Pain ae ca) For the try iY a causing /'Mary-quite-contrary’’ to quite retire from the scene and A fully, Oh, dear, how sleepy he was! Perhaps if he eat up he could better fesist these overwhelming waves of ater! Accordingly he sat up and blinked at the lights across tho river, Bilnked till no exertion of will powor geemed able to keep them open. He Qoned off again, dreaming in the most positive manner that he was awako— ‘dreaming of policemen, of. Mr. Smith, @€ lighting his pipe with a hundred- petind not fi ‘There was a terrible wolght on his est. Bound end gagged, he wan lying under a ten-ton (riphammor that! was @lowly \equeesing him to death, strug. lessening the lst of “Mother Goose's’ child Nanas The Force of Prejudice. _ By Prof, W..Jeremiah Jenks, of Cornell. 3TH writers on sociology take aa the basal instinct on which soclety, MB | | Gienaea the “consciousness of kind.’ It is apparently this Cundamentall instinct which leads members of society to distrust others different Grea.” themaelyos and which brings about iin many Instances conflicts of races, ee though there may be no cauna\often or reason for these Co fiicts, In petitina, b. howaver, we need to study the force of prejudice As well 1% the force Of Tenm@my 5 nares i fans eek wigs} always place tha quantity of su: tebedon elec Gar required on lower crust first Of edging andy ni/ and you will never have = runover ple, ‘ In milncemeat or any, meat ple Inaert yarda of.beading, paper ey or funnel in upper Crust Fattera No, 5,704) And no more tears will be ahed over a! {a out In elses’: for | }enky ; es OT Hardwood Finish, ie make a common fioor tii lke inches long) te 1 1-4) y= making apple or any fruit ple| Piece of white paper 6 by § inches In the beat way you can, to form, Rou) in- weresting picture. Then take your pencil and draw in your picture at thing you like, wuch as tables, chairs, mantelpleces, or whatever wults you. N here is one of the prettiest cut-outs yet given to the clever young Evening World readers,” Many charming“subjeo’s can be made from !t. You will observe, in| particular, one of the objdcts to be out out fs the head and paw of « little! Kitten, I euppose the rest of ita body ls hidden behind something. I am sure It te WOt placed behind he clock or dust-pan, for there would be mo rooin for Its/ body between th¢ wall and the object. B: ire to remember what was told you —{ e your objects in proportion to.each ‘3 faa Tarenenye iB oan Se iaieinetion) ands Tremeest to, reéelvo | and the statesman cannot ignore prejulice as a motive force, Political of o ificed for the. party 4 Mitta biect it. not forget to give your picture a good|as a rule, appeal to self-interest. Men who have sacr: sae ' Iefcipp enthn Nara Seattle ane betel BTL aha MCLE aad a de a mote corrupt in politioal life ‘oe rush if thelr reward, but even most of thore who a) Bru bard with @ bi Broom. ond tie, De drawing to “Chiliren'a Editor, Byening World, F PB 0., Box 1954, | iia Bille Wy abaleriltertents o¢ Grete optection 5 Tre roan Pa Tar tad een oe 5, WINS Poe Dn Mortal tins Me D Bice or write out all the objects and arrange and paste them upon a THE KVENING WORLD MAY MAN. hardwood, frat paint the floor with 11 West Twenty-third strest, New «two coats of deop yellow paint, us- ually one quart will do It. Then etain with one pint of stale bear mixed with