The evening world. Newspaper, August 26, 1908, Page 12

f i (t ; . oe The Evening PF Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 te [] Park Row, New York. 1 East Td Streek, J. ANGUS SITAW, See.-Treas,, 901 West 11a Sirens, Entered at the Post-Oftice at Bubseription Rates to The Evening World for the Unitea States and C di ew York as Second-Class Mail Maxtor, For England and the Continent and ‘All Countries {n the International Postal Uni VOLUME 49,...064 os ease THE “DOLLAR DREADFUL.” ERIOUS concern is felt in Germany , over the vitiation of the public taste for reading due to the flood of | World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, August 26, “Come On Over!” penny dreadfuls, Stories of a low) order and details of crime rehashed) and sensationally embellished are printed in pamphlet form and circu- | lated throughout the empire. It is/ stated that 8,000 booksellers give) employment to 30,000 peddlers of reading matter of this character. The American public has pro- gressed beyond literature of such crudity, It has put aside the dime novel of its childhood but only to take | up the “dollar dreadful.” For this higher priced sensationalism the cover! fs changed from the old yellow b. It now embodies the binder’s most | ornamented art. For it publishers use their best fonts of type. | But the changed dress does not disguise the old familiar lurid letter- press. The style is in some respects improved. It is the work nowa- | days not of hack writers but of authors who possess fat bank account's. | It is a style freed from the grosser impurities by the application to liter | ature of witat are alleged to be packing-house processes. To drop into} “jungle” metaphor, it is treated with rhetorical formaldehyde and dosed | with verbal boracie acid. In the “dollar dreadful” the scenes are shifted from the border cabin Gr city tenement to Fifth avenue and Newport interiors. The charac-| fers are adapted to fit the new environment, The villain is no less a vil- Jain, but one of whom his tailor is proud, His manner is polished. Gone Z | ee | MGs) are the “beetling brows,” but what depths of depravity lle below! With what consummate devilishness does he scuttle a bank or blast a reputa- tion! The heroine still flies to save her honor, but the flight is from a! private car or a palatial yacht, from the inner staterooms of which come cries for help. It is the vital weakness of authors of the improved “shocker” schoo! that they take the special for the general, the individual for the type.) No, 20—Frightfully Fev- Because one millionaire is amorous, all are monsters, Becausé one woman gets into the divorce courts, all are faithless, Virtue is a byword §m the pages of the “dollar dreadful” and honor a mockery. The slime of corruption is over the home, the business office, the stage, every- | where. ‘¢ Into the rendering pot of the sensational author go all the tidbits of public scandal for a generation past, all the trimmings and parings ot contemporary court cases and backstairs gossip. Thé boiled down prod- uct is the highly spiced devilled fiction for which publishers bid as at an auction, and which the public devours with an appetite which grenws with what it feeds on. | | That perversion of appetite is our serious concern, For it is not | among servant girls or a peasantry, as in Germany, that {he stuff circu-| lates, but in the refined homes of America, It is read aloud on summer , hotel piazzas and gives the minds of the young false conceptions of life. | The vogue of the “dollar dreadful” seems now to be at its height. How! long will it continue to defile public taste and to malign American society even worse than the pure home life of France is maligned by “French fiction?” The “muckraker” had his brief day in the magazines and passed. In that fact lies the hope that this pernicious class of muck-| raker is merely strutting his brief hour and that there will be a return| to sanity and sweetness in popular authorship, Letters from the People. Civilized Savagery. @o the Editor of The Evening World: Allow me to express my highest ad- Miration and praise on your edltoria Si tegart to “Civilized Savagery.” It | fs most educational, Race riots are! Moat certainly a disgrace to this o Qry which boasts of hi 1 Forty-Six, Evening World States are there In the nt? C. HASSLER Praise for Editorial, | Ivy and Brick, To the Edttor of The Evening World The question has b: asked whether creeping ivy on a brick house spol Of all the poll the brick and makes the house damp. over read, the editorial It does not. Bricks absorb a great, World entitled “Democracy vs. Quantity of moisture. When creeping ivy | tocracy’ je best. . Grows over the bricks the water wulch & F, NORTON, Troy, N. Y. the Editor of grounds without s Ing around with bated breath over {t? | how, Murgat | over this go be [I've met ‘knew thls betore y | bee In here ers, Republican e for Vice-Prea-! Ident ls Wil | who did the b | some few years ba AROS 9 SOO By M. De Zayes. POTOOOOOQODOQIIOOOONEPGEDIOOOODOS, | Monologues of a Mixologist —-:- paign So Far, Not? Yes, Not. |county fairs, jupon decided sss of this year'e x-fight between | the Two Big Bilis| | for the right to) | swing the silver ving club on the | White House! nding for 4 pinch CLARENCE L CULLEN Notice how e' HP ALS tae Of course they balt their breaths any- | yd, ond you | r exit now for the Old sign at the Knickerbocker | , because they need new nd you are new. | a lot of ringside breeze | een the brace of Bills, well make c Cole One of them bet a crock of cook against a pound of pretzels that DM atin that » While the bands! In Black and White i. Dear me! Are you a tramp? ‘I don't know, lady. Some places says | am an’ puts me tn de lockup, but other places says I am a champion pedestrian an’ gives me bouquets sn’ things.” tha key at home. slaved the tune of that title. The other | by nobody. | Reavy gambler bet that the name of erish Presidential Cam- Taft's running mate is Shuma ‘The reteree they agreed that FERC Y/Wrong. He told 'em that the Vice. M sakes! Did! Presidential candidate on the Repud- , ver lean ticket this year le John Sherman, you ever) . od ce anything like |Tecumo's brother, who used to be Sec. | somebody. it in all your bawn | retary of the Treasury and Senator, | they both were A Republican friend of) a wisdo mine happened to let slip the squeak and | the other day that the Taft platform | |that Shuman used to manage @ mule-| for reforestation, and five or six Mug-| |hauled merry-go-round at the lowa qwiymps who happened to overhear him! “Weil, said that that settled tt; If Taft tne) sick tended to let the Chinese everrun the country that way, why, they'd vote for |the Prohibition candidate or Debs or T leaned over and wised them up to ft In a whisper that refor-| P O'Loughlin, please write. Ing something yestetday about) alk and said that he wasn't going to be called opprobrious names! “Everybody that comes In here '@ all keyed up.” an! of course the arbitrator was right—|astation means no ship subsidies and @ Jantic | full dinner pall and all the railroad re-| the one w rybody that comes In here Js all hates that can be gouged while the| ‘hey bad f ed up over the national campatsn, | interstate Commerce Commission Isn't] how m most of them act as if they'd left’ jooking and then, of course, they were paign to heart aroun I heard a Bryan man/|chagrined because they'd been so hasty.| der we A glug, who gephyred in a few days lative and referendum, and the ago, fell to muttering to himself that| {t's al! about an was with told the Bryanite to| Bryan probably would get walloped|ter I find worse this year than he was In 190: “Bryan didn't run in 1004," slammed !n| a¢ that ~ he of the Tre: der sald in | Bryan c than ali summer. But !€ anybo: et with me th | til “Salom By Clarence 1. Cullen ® said the Democrats tn You must mein ost! Reflections of a Eachelor Girl, ed to know what J . PGLENROWEAND, don't. come to bi 1 | reat of these visitors blow out of town, | x 4 % % “Hear about Reggie being wounded tn a duel?” “What! You don’t mean to tell me that Reggie ever “Ob, Be wasn't fighting. He just bappened to be an innocent bystander, you snow! By J. K. Bryans. | Tongh in’ nis itter 1 COON DOOCCOCODOD OG TOO OO OOOOU MOU UCDO Great Love Stories com ; of History 3 By Albert Payson Terhune : |Ne. 27.—FLORA M’DO\ ALD AND ‘(PRINCE CHARLIE.” HIS 18 the story of a Scotch girl wno, through nearly a balf century of happy wedded life, cherighed the memory and love of a man she had | not married. The girl was Flora McDonald, one of the finest charac- ters of her sort in all history. The man she !oved and did not wed was “Bonnie Prince Charlle,” a Stuart pretender to the British throne, Flora’s husband was a brave, honest Scot, worth a dozen sucb princes as he oa whom his wife had wasted her girlish thoughts. | England was tired of the fickle Stuart kings. Queen Anne was the last jof the Stuart line permitted to reign in England, On her death Parliament | gave the throne to George, Elector of Hanover, a stolid German who could speak no word of English and whose claim to the crown was based on his desceat from James I, Anne had had a younger brother, James, who was ;next In line as monarch, But the English people at large had had enough jot the Stuarts, So they set aside James's pretensions, James lived on in | France, where he kept up @ semi-regal court, supported largely by contribu- | Hons from “loyal” English friends known as Jacobites, James had @ son, lowe @ Who, at twenty-five, resolved to make an effort at | A % Winning the British throne. { Dash for This son had been somewhat lengthily chris | a Threne. tened Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir Stuart, —? From his beauty of face and magnetic char of | manner he was known as “Bonnie Prince Charlie.” He had all the subtle attractivuess of his ancestress, Mary Queen of Scots, and the power of so winning the loyalty and affections of those with whom he came in contact that they gladly laid down life and fortune for him. Lspecially did he ap- | peal to many of the Scotch, who (never over-loyal to England) were quite | carried away by the young Prince's wondrous personality and who eagerly | flocked to his standard, Poets and patriots for years dwelt on Prince Charlie's charm and sald little of the undoubted fact that he was dissolute, }a drunkard, inconstant and possessed of all the worst Stuart vices, To |this day there are hundreds of Scots to whom his name is an honored | household word, | Prince Charlle landed in Scotland in 1745, raised 6,000 men, captured several cities and marched toward London. But he was soon forced to re- {ureat. An English army followed him and, at Culloden, April 16, 1746, an- |nthilated his forces. Charles was a refugee, with a reward of $150,000 of- | tered for bis head, Then it was that Flora McDonald came into his life, She was a Highland lass of old and noble family and spent much of her ume at a country estate on the island of Skye. Although she was only x she already bad a merited reputation for wit and resource, Capt. il, one of Charles's followers, declared that If any one could rescue rince from his dilemma it was Flora McDonald. So to Flora the cap- | tain went, with an appeal that she set her clever brain to work (and Inel- centally risk ber life) by planning some meaus of escape for the royal fugi- tive Flora saw po reason why she should put her life and IMberty in dan- ‘ger by befriending a man who was flying from British justice So she refused. But O'Neill was not discouraged. He knew the magnetism of Charles's | manner and counted on It to win where argument had failed. So he brought ubout « meeting between the two young people. The result was all he had foreseen. Flora, completely won by Prince Charlie's fascinations, agreed to do all in ber power for him. The English soldiery were close behind him, ‘and desperate measures were necessary. Flora dressed the Prince as a woman and passed him off as her Irish servant, ‘Betty Burke.” Thus dis- gulised, Charles went safely, under Flora’s escort, to the Island of Skye. she hid him in her house there for some time, until the fret zest of the soldiers’ pursuit had died down. Then she managed to get him transporte ed to France. Never again after they sald farewell at the seashore did | @ the two meet. Yet all her life Flora kept tresbh ia ps her romantic heart the memory of the Prince, Thence The British Government found out ber share of Loyalty. § jn Charles's escape and she was sent to prison. o—~~oor~? =There she remained for a year, After her release she married and later emigrated to America, settling with her busband and numerous children in North Carolina, | War, she sa.ied for Scotland. On the way home her ship was attacked by @ French ial Bit piel in hand, Flora fought side by side with the bravest sailors, even after her arm was broken by a bullet Through her courage |the French ship was beaten off. ) When, In 1790, the seventy-year-old woman lay dying, her last Tequest was that her body be wrapped, for {ts final sleep, In a tresaured old sheet that had one: covered Charles while he was her guest at Skye. For more Hig m packer who was making thé’ than forty years she had jealously preserved that odd relic and had eccretly lke a tire sale in a delica- enshrined in her thoughts the {mage of “Bonnie Prince Charlie,” Missing numbers of this series will be supplied upon application | to Circulation Department, Evening World, upon Fi ef one | cent stamp. ee | , re By Helen Rowland. ward plunge into cold water, The woman who has nothing but boy children may take some consolation in the fact that none ef them is doomed te grow up and marry @ man like his father, Some men make love with the skill and nish of @ child practising five-finger exercises—the only difference being that in Unte the child learns better, Whether a man admires constancy in the woman he loves or not depends a grdat deal on whether she ls con+ atant to him or to the rival ne te trying to cut out, When a man wants a woman to do anything beneath her he usually starts out by telling her how much above such things he knows she Is. It 1s a toss up whether {t le more anneying to have a husband who gee L= jaa dizzy flight in @ balloon; marriage the down- Jealous at everything or more mortifying te have one who gets jealous at “Just once more.” is the Devil's best argument. It 1s easier to love @ man after he has lost his fortune and his reputa’ 1 than to love him after he has lost his front hair and bis walst ne oe Prehistoric Pears. By E. P. Powell, =z yt find charred pears in the kitchen heaps of middle Europe, where op] tne lake villages used to be, These remnants date back of the apple, and so far aw we can discover, the pear was the very firet oue of this wonderful family to become of importance to human veings. In fact {t seems probable that an catable pear, or possibly 4 cookable pear, was in possession of our ancestors a good while Ueiure cuere were @atable appies or even cherries, plums, and possibly even | strawberries, fut the whole pear family was just ag surely working up toward |clvil'zed and garden conditions as human beings themselves, Mvolution has | brought us along together, with pretty nearly equal atep, and now it looks as if our future development was to be nearly as close as our past, |THE DAY’S GOOD STORIES. jot yours and I eim’t comin’,”Phite delphia Ledger, Cutting Both Ways. A COMPANY promoter who adver- tised for an office boy recelved a | hundred replies, Out of the nun-/H@ Forgot to Inquire, dred he selected ten, who were asked to MERICAN MILLIONAIR® — @ call at the office for an interview. His A you want te marry my daughter, | fina) cholce fell upop @ bdright-looking But you don't know he, ng cl Impeounious Duke—But I will get @ | ‘My doy.” sald the promoter, “T like (king friend to introduce us, | your appearance and your manner very] 4 M.—But yeu have never seen her. much. I think you will do for the place. D.—I have seon you, her father, | Did you bring # character?! whom she probably rese.sbles. | “No, air,” replied the boy, “but Ioan! 4 M.—But you don't love her, | | go home and get It.” 1. D.—What matters that? 1 but want “Very well; come back te-morrow|to marry her. morning with it, and ff {t {s satisfactory! A. M.—But you can't marry her—there i] dare say I shall engage you.” — 1s an insuperable obstacle to your wed- Late that afternoon the financier! ding her. | was surprised by the return of the can-| I, D.—There are no insuperable obste- didate cles to my determination, “well,” he sald, cheerfully, “have you; A, M, (chuckling)-This ene is, 2 go\ your character?” baven’t any daughter.—Baltimore Amer Thence, during the Revolutionary * == >—, ‘>.