The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1907, Page 15

Sa a | A Marvellous Midst of a Gives a Aspect to Street Myst The Adventurer Lloyd Osbourne. by-D. Appleton & Co.) eueezseeesoeese: oN (Copyright, 1907, SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Kine) & | Lewis Kirkpatrick {known a Plucky youug American stranded In Lemaon. 4 Mnawers an advertly for men to enlist Jn a ty. ) Mgemperate enter- prise. Ho 13 examined by the advertiser, # man calling hiuinelf Siuith, whoosnys the test Je satisfact Dut who will not reveal the nature of nterpriae, Smith eives: Kiri ). and tells him if he oan e fottowing Monday the fottor eday by a £100 note ¢ return the note intact Te will be accented for the expe wise. no! is knocked a Seer eet oetlial. loses his hundred found nate. oe momey after much i Ealay, aed, Sehr " ceenene te forane ot he Pkt ine door, 1 faa that thesman who waned a laxyer BAMA ahe lattes, attics 8 galled. Kirk. bees : Known deatinat eat senda tics tor Seuth America. k sin love with a beat y Hire meets and fails | aly Golan ra Wowttinook eet Remrerions yal ate evidently. knawa Fee oe the expedition. but ail not] $5t Lie"one mint the steam to whe Rathi er. and. the cap. point on the Orinoco IL tells are at selene recelved Feith by @ eentinal. CHAPTER X. (Continued. The Wonder-Ship. ‘ LL «o wp to headquarters an report, while you take Kirk- patrick and flad him a sbake- and the, captain. yter, thern nd cd | own sever a paid Mr. | paaiert divided, Mirk following his mew friend, while de Ruyter and a qirl started oft In another direction. ‘The | pight was es diack as pitch, but Nash trode on as though he could have found his way Blinder usps baat whiteness | qaived a glimmer of ATES oh ioe Nash stopped and lit a match. tent. Ita front stood thin @ doudle line of | | eredow. | evealing a laree epen, showing wi! cots, on whioh twenty men or more | were lyink “asleep. sottly, cu! t etter, searching fo t They found a Nash Teey tintoed in ded by one Ges ran unoccupied bed. couple jn the corner? and whispered to Kirk to take his he aald, and forth- & departed. ree took off his shoes and, lying down as he was, drew the coverlet over bin. Felichiad'! go oe oe he wae too rest- eos heavy and excited to seop. The breathing a!] about him, the eccasional } enores, the gursling-and gasping of the his 7 xt to htm—all irritated vested hetped <o keep him wide awake, The cot was uarrow And the centre. It was too ‘aot cera cea coki below, and he turned and twisted in unavailing efforte to make himaelt comfortable. ‘At the firas indication of lessening Qarknens he put on his shoes and sallied forth. His watch, visible for first time, showed him half-past 6 From tho ground a mist was qising, arwho) #< gome and malartous, earthy in ito smell, and sodden’ with fever. eomerhat in the <willght of encroaching day, but not enough to give him an un- impeded view of the settlement. as Tenta and mist, tents and mist—that wos je could make out, Felicidad was a camp, military in its precision and | regularity—a compact, hollaw square of canvas, with an imposing cen:re tent that could easily have houged a small circus. Kirk made the round of the settioment, peoring Inquisitively into the various tents, Some held nothing but merchandise. in cases—salmon, lard, frultr &c. Othera sheltered machinery, erated roughly, wound round with gun- ny sacking, and apparently not yet as- eembled. It was impossble to deter- mine what !t was Intended for. Kirk i . Degrudged the time for a protracted In- 4% epection, end hurriediy_pamsed_an— in an Unknown Land. He seemed to be the only person in Felicidad who was awake at that hour, and he was oveMome jwith a sort awe as ho looked in at cota and sleep- ing figures, These dim Interiors had the Dareness of soldiers'’ quarters. They were rough and cormfontleen, with clothes hanging, laundry fasbion, from) Unes atretchod from onye to cave, A Wwrosene caso for a chair, a lantern, a) @in wash basin—such was the prevailing furniture. Sonre-of the tents were tled fast from within, forbidding entry. ~ Others: stood broad!y open, concealing nothing—kitchen messroomm with board 1 tables and long benches, a rort of of- t fice wi “holed desk and more storerooms. Thera was a carpentér shop, knee deep :in shavings; a smithy. with fonee, bel- lows, drilis, lathe, and open chest con- taining mechanics’ tools; a hospital, emelline:iof disinfectants, The Rifleman, Kirk next kurned ia attention to the central marquee, but stopped short, and then drew’ back as he heard the mras- ured tread of the sentry. He had a vis- © Jon of a man passing and ropassing, mith @ rifle on tin shoitlder, Tramp, ‘tramp, ¢ranrp, and turn. Tramp, tramp, tramp, and turn, Kirk retreated. He folt ko an Interloper, a apy, and shrank from bdelng challenged. He had &m{s- Teatoh after an-|D¢W Sa¢manship was ikely to be twice It disappeared | a typewriter and a plgeon-| Monday, pecember 16 COSO OO OSS IIS | <The Wonder Ship; It Sails on Land’ eneece soe S@EREOES Craft in the® Military Camp New Thrilling & the Tedworth ery... - were red ® e® ning, There yet remalival | >| a few: milnutes’ more of freedom, ‘a faw minutes more in which to satisfy’ consuming curiosity, H» made his way tp the end of the white squate, attracted by 2 so: that showed fitfully beyond—a pole or Nagsta® of immense height, elusively wrapped in mist, He walked fast, pass- ing the last line of tents, and fo! ing a wide and well-defined track. He wax excited. There now seemed to be two poles, togethnr with; mister cordage and yards high in the alr something - ahiplike and extraordinary | that surpassed his wildest conjectures. | Hip redoubled his pace. He began to run. But the mounting sun was fast than he. Ans it fashed ‘pyer the hor!- zon the mist rolied up Uke the curtain |of a theatre, vanishing with a startling | his! of pole | suddenness in the frst rosy beams of | | morning. | Ko Kpparition. ‘The sight that met his eyes filled hin with an‘ {nexpressible astonishment Before him was a veanel, a topsal | kohooner with the loftiest masts hr had ever seen, resting, not on water | {but on elght @igantic wheels, It was a atupetying apparition. Kirh stool still, unable at first to do any thing Out gasp. Yes, on wheels twenty foot ign, with ures eightecn incher wide—powerful and macsi: as though for the carriage of xome giadt cannon But inatead of a Brobdingnagian cannon | wan a fanric of colossal Proportions surmounted by two powerful masts, “A+ Vessel of a hundred and fifty fect Jong, rigxed,’ not for the ocean, but to skim the land. An astonishing conception, carried out with boldness and intre- {pldity. No oversparred racing machine jever carried thalt the spread of canyae of this monster, Her main boom passed alxty foot beyond the taffrall and the sail itse't was double the or- dinary height. Her foretopsall yards were inordinate ly Jong, The slender topmasts seeme! to plorce the sky. She would not have lived an hour’ et sea, and as Kiry @azed up he wondered whother si: would fare any better on land. This es exacting as the old. The man whe sailed this towerlng mass would havr his work cut out for him. To keep her on an even keel would tax him to the utmost, ahd he would find. himself contromed by problems: that none. but he had ever ‘faced before Kirk Explores. Kirk hurried on, the strange yesrci looming up before him end grow yaator and higher with every step {took toward It. A wooden stairway | gave -temporary accers to the lower deck, which was about ten feet above the ground. Kirk mounted {t and found himself in a apidery cage of aluminum, a skeleton, so to speak, which had yéi to be filled in. The framework hind been | finished to the last rivet, but the sec- ondary stage had been hardly more than bogun. Evidences of work were | visible on every hand—planks, tools, Kreat rolls of ‘sheet aluminum, partl-| tlons of the eame material in the fi procers) of erection. cebina and pas-/ sageways hanily more than outlined in| a slender framework of the all-pervad | inz dirty-white metal, with gaping tn ferstices through which the sun w broadly shining. On the upper deck things -were less Jadyanced, hardly a. third of: it being | covered over, Kirk had to pick his way {with care along tli lanes of planks lest a false step stiould precipltate him be- Ww hing was in confusion. Machinery was.stacked under tarpau-| \\ina. A temporary forge stood ‘beneath tho bridge. An ‘elxht~ winch was in the course of installation | abadt the foremast, and a number of Ita | parts lay scattered about on sheets of canvas, A hundred joba had deen s multaneous!y going forwart and over- lapping. one another. “Ready! For What?’’ Kirk walker’ through « Ittter of boxes | and Ddarrels, cordage, tool chests, car- penters’ benches, paint pote—a bewil- | dering tangle of a thousand discordant Jobjects. thrown poll-ell ” together, 7 ‘There seemed work enough to last a hundred men a hundred years. The |land-ship, #0 ¢rim and stately from a distance, revealed’ on closer inspection ‘@ bhaatic interiér which was most do- | pressing, She was hardly more than an aluminum shell—a delicate, spidery | framework—requiring weeks of hbor, pomslbly months, to make, her inhubit- able and ready. Yan Ready? For what? To sall those vast and billowy plains? Inoredibility, keen and palntul, overcame Kirk an ho clambered to the bridge and -lookcd down. Had he fallen into the hands of madmen? What an egregious undertak- ing—what an absurdity! And it Was for this, then, that he had travetied so far and allowed himaelt to dream such dax- sling dreams? The whole {dea was so novel, #0 Amazing, so unheard of, that hia first sensation~was one of frightful disappointment. Then, little by Httle, he began to reason with himeslt, What right had he to declare offhand that such a thing was Imposalble? He re- membered that everything new had acemed Impossible to somebody—to the | most, in fact. The frat steamer was! an impossibility, ‘The Sucz Canal was ‘an’ impossibility. Tho St, Gothard tun-| nel had been derided by the best ong A Perplexed Maiden. ot | man very much asked me to correspond. yiinder gasoline |. Dear Hetty: | AM @ Young man and am very friend-| lwo leave [leaves me at the “ | passes on her way home. 1 had an appointment with four gon- ¢ Wiving that he would be ordered back| nena, Yet all In time had become facts, | ¢ to bis tont. Ho had to nee more be-'Possilily this thing he stood on was! » fore that happened. It was alill dark destined also to-become « fact, gad misty, though the eastern clouds ‘t ce, Be ee hte The Evening World Daily Magazine, The Million-Dollar Kid 2% # Ou! Isnt WHAT 2 NO ‘ PERFORMANCE TAT Too ON su ? BAD! im NO Bata So sorRy! HERC'S “WHERE 1 Lose MY -CIRL! WE'LL HUNT UP A VAUDEVILLE TLL GIVE: You 2900 DOLLARS To PULL OFF YOUR MATINEE! WE FIXED THE CoP! No ONE PRESENT, BUT Just us! Dear Betty: HICH {3 proper wentieman friend a box of Initiatied | than usual. handkerchiefs—to have the iets me to walt f the first or surname embroidered, there being more bmther: g ANXIOUS. Have the Initial of the Chri embroidered. 2 | Two Silly Girls, Dear Betty: sgeayt AES | Y friend and I formed the acquaint- but the friendship @asted but a short time. He ceased to speak to or notice us, we were too sill: hia only reason: being that! ‘Aa we like the young | we would like to re-/ gain his friendship, A, AND B, | Don't be so silly in the future. He) will protaly notice the change anid re- new the acquaintance. | An Expensive Present, | Dear Bett AM ghteen and ‘have “known a young gentleman one year my senior fir the last two yea. Lately he has pald me especial attention an as | Thave in mind a Christmas present which I would Ike to give him, It will cost about %. you think it would be prop. give him sich an expensive gi M. J.B, As you have known the mag for two! ars there fs no Harm fn giving expensive present if you can afford Capricious Girl, ¥ ly with @ young lad employed in the | Same place with me. Occasionally | together and who "L"* station which ahe Lawt Friday the place four.” “I hear you are walking ten mites every day fo | reduce your weight.” “Yes, but of course I'm odliged to take a car for most of the distance,” marl jwal a very dusy BEAT IT, Youse! Tee DERE'S No WHAT'S WRONG, SHow ON |IMISS TONES % WANT To SEE A’ SHOW ? JUST T HOPE we GET IN SOMEWHERE! THE THEATRES are CLOSED, MR. MONK! tony By R. W. Taylor) @ SURE, TIS THE MILLION DOLLAR Kio! 1T Teo BAD! HERE, JOE, 15 Your ‘xmas qiet! NOW BEAT IT FOR 1 THREE HouRS ! : \ ne YOU'RE ON, You ARE MR. MONK! TLL TARE A’ CHANCE! OH, MR. MONK | WHO WAS DOT LADY { SEEN OOH! DoT VAS NO Lavy | DOT VAS MY vire! BETDY-VINCENTPCADVICE > LOVER = \any's friends, one of whom travelled | She knew Jars miles for the occasion, and’as wis |T informed her that I was already Inte the young Indy] so 1 phoned to my friends to walt for when giving /and myself were cetained an hour later | me. After delaying fifteen minutus wait- Ing for the young lady, we walked to the sthtlon as usual, but she asked mo day When I started home sh her, which I ald, ! I had the appointment, and to sce her home, which would delay me Qnother hour. I answered that I would glndly do so, but as my friends were Waiting for me I did not care to disap- point them, and I did not consider It be told from hia teeth. “Cortainly, GRANDFATHERS Raz Puz21e , the veterinary doctors son, Teplicd grandpa, Then the old man floored the fresh kid by asking him to tell, from the facts given, just how many upper and lower teeth he hal In stock. Can you tell? Some Peripatetic Fun $ * + & & 4 “go10's all the folks, Jim?” “Oh, they'ré all pretty lively, 'cep} Bill, He lives in Philadelphia,” 1 ed grandpa If his age could What shall T dot ‘The number of my upper teeth multiplied | y the number of my lower teeth gives the nuniber of years, which are ofghty- | falr for me to disappoint them. She, jkowever, insisted on me seelng her home, which I consented to do. providy fur she could give }T even told her I wan willing to nacrifice the appointment if she thought I would benefit her by doing no, to which she answered there was no reason in her asking, but simply wanted me to sce her home, It appeared to me as if she “was trying to prevent me from keeping the appointment, so I refused to take her home, and she went away angry. | cB. | You were entirely right. The young woman's demand was feltish, wnreason~ Nble sand capricious, Assert your rights at all times with her. | To Pay Her Carfare. Dear Hetty: Je ft a man's place to. pay a Iady's carfare if he meets her on the street Ve pay her own carfare every morning? every morning, or Is it a lady's place LOVER. ‘The lady should offer to pay her own fare, as jt Js a daily meeting. How.to Drop Him. Dear Betty: ‘AM twenty-three, and for five yeara haye kept company with a young man. 1 gave him up three times pecause he Js so jealous and gambles. 1 have told him no} to come to se me Ta not want tis company any more, and I am going 0) with another | young man that I like very much, But} tho, first one still comes to my house jand says he will never, give mo up. ALG. X Drop the first man slowly, as {t might nop be safe to give him Up too. sud- donly, ‘reat him kindly, but do not allow him to take up your time or in- terfere with the other man’s suit, En- courage the attentions of the second sultor @nd tho first will soon eee that you have ceased to love him, tat + By J. K. Bryans. “Will you be a good girl now that Ive bought you that pretty mug?" “Yes, ma; but if you wants me to be a real angele Just buy me a boa and Jur: “lined coat to go with iter! | wiped out these an |tu-Jay may he dese {bent nobles to agcept the hospital fit me a reason for it.) _|it can be eaally and gatisfactorily laun- {dered, and tt can be trimmed in al- @ @ By Henry Gees Jr. RISE OF THE COMMON MAN, / SDER the old regime—that 197 prior to 188, when the U feudal system prevalled—only those were regarded as Japaneso who ‘were of the roldier or samural classy just a¢ In France befora, the Revolution only thot were accounted Frenchmen who were of tho cavalfor agders, Im: the one country as in the otber, the privile; clase was quite small relatively ta the total population, Below the mamural or gentlemen-watrlors Were two Sram: folk.” It-was composed of farmers, inechant and ‘money-lenders, In that dexceniting order—a low enough origin for the modern banker. The xecondvelany were the “‘heininy” which means snot hunian belngs.” It wes composed of professional meni vandering Iénstrels, actors, the meaner. sorts of | prostitutes and-persons oullswed by soctety. For a samural to kill a heinin wae Hot-to Killa human belng, and the only punisiment was a fine, ‘The revolution In Japan and the great social And political changes following © dent distinctions, and the unprivileged or common man of sibed ax the man ‘not having a parliamentary vote, There aro approximately elght silllion adult mafes in the empire neeting the political requirements—that Js, above twenty-five years old and paying a direct tux of ten yon—about five dollars.” In a oword, Jens than ten per cent. of the adult males voto for the memliers of parliament, The otber ninety per cent./are ical outcasts, But this does not mean that they are elther ignorant or passtve. ‘They are neither, are active. ‘Aa tot education, there have beon four great factors. Industrialism hag been the primary one. It has humbled the mighty an@ lifted the weak. ‘The samural, Instead of living on @ pension as the military. retalner of tile or,that lord, has now to earn his bread by toll along with the coiamon man be scorned. Within cne life's space the whithgig of events has of “industrial upstart." Mon who before would have stepped aside and bowed their heads in the mud as the “two- |ngvord"’ aristocrats yasred now entertafn them as equals, \¢ not, by the new standards, as inferiors. The stacle of rich men #ising out of tre ranks of industriaiiam, few though they be, has dong wonders to break down the hered- itary veneration among the mass of workers for “the pastors and masters,” It has given a new dignity to labor !n tho eyes of the men of toll, Tho second great factor in the common man's edusation {s the public school Js ualversal and con It is modelled by an American—Dr. David Murray—after the American plan. The ntudies are similar to those taught in @ public schoo! In this country. The public school has not only given the common man the means to grasp and apply general knowledge; but more, it has by fm- pilcation carried with {t the idea of equality, of democracy, “It has caused— or at least Js causing—the common man to put himself on a par with all other men In the « It Is einenting the overturning work of industrisiiam. Another supplement to thls work is the third factor {n the common Ynan' education—the army, with its ice. It has put a gun_into the hands of the common man and called upon hintto ght for Japan, tls country, tind not be m mere hewer of wood and drawer of water, as was the wont from {nmemoriai time. Back of these has come the newspaper as ‘an educator ‘of the common man, Modeliad on the ( tiret—France being the country that in many respects chief “ panese on their awokening—it contained Iittle moro than polltfcs and comment. But now It is rapidly becoming Amertoantsed, containing local, telegraph aad cable rows, Illustrations and cartoons. Te ty generatiy elziit smal! pagos in size and sells /for a fraction of a cent a copy. Ench class and faction has Its newspaper, but those papers read by the common man have the widest circulation, They express, his soaring aspirations, among which are the desire to have Japan take her place among the vanguard nationn of the earth, and there insist—with arms in ‘her hand@ pol! and privileges accorded to the common of the most favored nation. To establish that principle, he Is exerting a great nnd increasing influence a home, yotoless though he be; and his attitude toward tho American fleet now sailing for the Pacific is bound to be considered by the Japanese Government. This power In politics of the common man of Japan will be considered tn the next article of this series, ~ ‘ HEALTE: A? B EAU LASTING BEAUTY IS HEALTH. @ is one thing for a woman to possess the treasure of I beauty, but it Is quite another for her to possess the secret of hoarding 1t carefully, so that when the great moment comes she may use it ax any other artist) uses iis gift. Phe key “to the door of successful and lasting benuty Is perfect health, which you will Sririristniord! & aun sure, when I teil Sou this little story. Up beyond the Hundreds it tloned, strong and beantiful, obey the inflexible work and trouli “a young woman, eplendidly prepor Long 0, from a wise mother, she learned to laws of hygiene, and notwithstanding the wave of hard which has almost submerged ker sho lias continued to,obey. them. ‘Ten years ago she married a man too handsome to work except @t In- tervals, After bringing five calldren into the world and enduring all the pri- vations of poverty and the miseries of debt, when the last baby was old enough to be looked after by the first one the young mother went to work. By the xtaco of der figure and the oeuuty af her face she Is now u cloak model at $16 t week, She has tentet a flat of veven rooms and takes three boarders, Thore is no parlor in tho flat, or rather what was a parlor Is now a nursery, and the Indigent husband sits-In the dining-room, At 6 Jn (ie morsing the young mother, with the face and fure of a Juno, ia up preparing Mreakfast for three boarders, the five children and indigent husband. By 9 o'clock she h. Ken up the business of a cloak inodel, and \at 6 P. M., after posing sll day ‘e an admiring circle of women ghop- Pers, who no doubt believe, | of 1 y, thit she is a child of ¢or- tune posing for parcine, the splendid model dons her very shabby. coat and tat and returns to prepare dinner for the household, including the boarders; -At'® she and the children.are sound axleep, \ “How can you manage It?’ she wan asked. ' “Why, she led, “I know how to. 1 was taught when T was a_child to eathe and eat and sicep and bathe In the proper way. Through all my yubies I have ¢ to my firensth, decease I knew I would need {ty There’ set much ploranre In my life, of course, Hut ther ‘Alldren""—who, by the way, are beauties all of them. ‘We have our Sundays together and I teselt them then—oh! how I do teach th —the value of right living.” , ' HERE is ng petticoat moro eatinfactory han the simplo fiye- forel one, which can be made with {riverted plaits or gathers in back. It wulte both allk and washable material; most any way that may ploaso indtrid- aal fancy. This one ls deetaened for young girls and can be made with the simple flounce {Ii:s- trated or with two flounces of narrow- er embroidery, or it can be made of allk’ with the flounce made twice as full and platted by ma- ohine, The quantity of Misses’ Petticoat—Pattern No, material required for the medium size (fourteen years) jx 33-4 yarde 31 or 93-6 yards 23 inches wide, with 33-8 yards of embfoldery 7 inches wide and 1-4 yards of insertion, or 11-4 yards of additional material 21, 3-4 ‘yard 36 “‘taohee wide !f flounce is mado to match skirt, Vattern No, S8Sit is cut in sizes for girls of twelve, fourteen and sixteem yoars of age. By a Hemet || Call or send by mail t THE EVENING WORLD MAY. TON FASHION BUREAU, No, 21 West Twenty-third strest, York. Sepa ten cents in cola or stamps for ech pattera DEPOKTANT—White aor seme and address plainly, oad ways mpecity size wanted... In political affairs they ore educated, If dixproportionately, and they, - if nocessary—that the Japaneso common nian abroad shall enjoy all the rights