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+ @ublished Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 63 Park Row, New York YOSEPH PULITZER, Pres., 1 East 124 Street, J. ANGUS SITAW, See. Troms, 201 Want 1120 Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. i oh For Engl ind the Continent and Gubscription Rates to The Evening | For Engla a ther Continent S World for the Unitea States All Countr and Canada. $3.50 One Year. One Year... 80 | One Month. One Month., (etetneineine CALUMET AND HECLA, SHE Calumet and Hecla Mining Com- pany, since its organization in 1871, has paid $107,000,000 in dividends on a capital stock of $2,500,000, | The history of this Lake Superior copper property is a modem won- der story of mineral wealth, It is Boston's “bonanza” mine. Yet how small this great output of wealth by legitimate industry appears in comparison with the pa- per “wealth” produced by the New York City traction system! It took Calumet and Hecla thirty-eight years to produce $107,000,000, During a shorter period, beginning just before the building of the first elevated railroad, a sum approximately five times larger was produced in traction securities, culminating in the $25,000,000 issue of new stocks and bonds at the time of the merger. This statement is based on a preliminary es-| timate of the appraised value of the property and assets represented in the present enormous total capitalization of the Manhattan and Bronx traction system. To create this new wealth only a printing press and a pen were needed. In the hand of the franchise exploiter the pen is mightier than the pick. There are some drawbacks, it is true, to this method of production. Calumet and Hecla has kept out of the courts and there has never been) a “trail of corruption” leading to its executive offices. Its equipment has not been allowed to degenerate into old junk. It has not had to take over undeveloped properties bought for a song by insiders and unloaded | ‘on the company at an excessive valuation. It has not been charged 4 Tomei double for the installation of new machinery, The investor who bough ee Ss a share of its stock still has only that one share to show for his invest- The Evening Worid Daily Magazine, Friday, September 4, 1908. Signs of the Zodiac---No. 3. By M. De Zayas. ment. He has never been privileged to exchange it for a certificate with Mrs. Jarr Has Been Learninz How the Alimony System Works a face value twenty times as large. But on the other hand his stock is not a mere counter in a game of stacked cards. Calumet and Hecla has been run on absurdly antiquated and obso-| lete lines. lis management still retains the primitive notion that small stockholders have rights which they are bound to respect. They have the idea that their mine is a property to be improved and developed, no exploited and looted. They are survivals from the past. It is painful even to consider the possibilities of stock jugglery they have left unutil-| ized. On the basis of the recent market quotation of $1,000 for its $25) shares, certificates culling for a single share should be made to call for! forty shares, The capital stock should be increased to $200,000,000 at least. Py Roy L, Mcvardell, CERT OURE a lucky ¥ regarding her b fly friend, Mrs, Kitting!s had dropped in to call on you, nothing | j“and so; mes I wis! shook her ve her t nicured han: “You wouldn't sey |4 e dreadfully She said, w you can say said Mrs. Jarr home.’ ss widow, “I it Tw ! T Just get of my maid my cat ht you hated y * sald Mrs farr quietly | “E ysed to think I Calumet and Hecla sadly needs an executive of the new school, one who would put it in touch with modern conditions of company finance. In resisting the overtures of the Copper Trust it wantonly put aside an opportunity to get into the vortex of the Wall street whirl. pool and become a factor in panics and monetary crises. Under proper manipulation this valuable property could be made one of the most spectacular of the “street's” fea. tures. It could be run up and down and used to make gy, break operat- us You say that tor, “And , but you are | not dependeat are 0 he check will come, and g what you will do if ft doesn't, with every. | man acts ring y oF money you owe, your drese-|@ devoted yman, the tradesmen, somes ort that I have to borrow from my jTd makes her so !mpertinent to ma | “I do go out a great nd It bee tingly w am very pins and needles whethe And I have to 1 I know * T owe her so much, ars my things when I'm away Im ry and even my|husvand who the waye of J know I'm follow it isn’t your that's more than mos he?" never get anywher “But think of ey if he can't send {t to me, t go to si said Mrs, Jarr, ce to me was but men are just after your experience?’ asked Mrs. Mre areful wite to, be watch 2 if I thought I was And Begins to Think Grass Widows Have a Happy Time of It. to| Mot death intervened to save him from this crowning disgrace. her come and us to and eatd * said Mrs. Jarr peevishly, npudent and deceitful maid. out the © m in a temper T have to take {t out on myself just to) ee Maw |i T7, atody to love, nobody to love fre!” fice ie wore) nevertiot > nobody my ‘s. Sarr, world for the r ep onnecti- to scold somebody," said Mrs When you are diy nor widow—you are just vulgar ourtosit Here ery, but remembe Mrs. Kittin ler complexion rting tone, “Your alimony {s ‘ou please with, I su “It's just {n it 4 wanted to, couldn't you?" ‘Yd lose my y* this Isa hard worl +/a husband and alimony too?” y When Mr. Jarr came home that night Mrs. Jart of curse.” Mrs, Kits/told him that she thought Mrs. Kittingly wasn’t as t so careful, and I|bad,as she was painted. You have aj And Mr. Jarr sald he hoped not, tors. Merely to conjecture how many millions of gamblers’ gains losses have been made impossible by the adherence of i antiquated ideals of honesty strains the power of Sue | Isn ue It Al ways the Way ? Letters from the People. bf the punishment of Salome; One day While walking on a lake on the |e the fce broke and she sank to Her feet began to dance til fler head was cut off continued to dar oy religious rites w rob a bakery (“Intent tt. Yiwonder if the a0 yeasts end | the Salome dance know an NH REPR AU TOMBE R DOES | this legend’? “Countess.” “Sale 9 To the Editor of The Av ve Wor « Wor What Is the feminine of “Earl” In the mat de lone eoueorraes? i BALOMANET N You'Re AS BUSY AS A BEAVER, BOOK AGENT State Flowers, ; Dirty Hrldee Windows. WANDER IN WITH"NEVER BEFORE OFFERED Eiitor of The F w ay A prominent criminal lan : once asked if he w of a prisoner charg d with la ; replied; “Yes; {f the orivoner nee fag.” In addition to his own p Munger, the story of kis wife a Me dren's sultering. told 1 . Gay by themselves, would undou ; a . hile in this condition «with ghe t mi iwindows besmeqred withel cas Bary expert (estimony), ca 4 2 10 grease, ' wequire “delusions,” “brainstoltn,"” emo- Ww. R Winans. | wor st Lows, RA ee a * SAgprention allowance. : (y SS PROPOSITIONS AND & & % YOUR WIFE COMES DOWN To SEE HOW Your HEADACHE 15 No Books! * CLOSE THE DOOR AS You Go out! dinners, and] n do, They i ng nobody to say a word to at | ¢ “t 1 Notes of a Journey North---Il, | that is hard, tingly. “But no, I] neither maid, wife | York dock: ct of everybody's | butlt then: on the waters where they By H. A. Sohl obY COMES NEAR THE OFFICE- MODIBOOOHDDODQOHDHODOGHOOIDOC|OOHHGOGOSOOSS Fifty Great Love Stories of History By Albert Payson Terhune | No. 31.—Sheridan and Betty Lialy. | OR love of a sixteen-year-old girl a certain hot-headed Irish lad In 1772 F fought two sensational duels and made himsolf the nine-day hero of England, The girl was Betty Linley, daughter of a famous Bath _musteal composer. She was a noted singer and so beautiful as to merit the |nickname of “The Fair Maid of Bath.” The youth was Richard Brinsley Shentdan, the most brillant playwright and parliamentary orator of his j thne, As a boy he had been looked on by his parents and teachers as a | hopeless dunce. Later he proved himself a marvel of wit and cloquence, as jhag many another man whom his schoolmaster thought a fool | While Miss Linley was living at Bath she attracted the fancy of Capt. | Matthews, a dissolute “gentleman of fortune.” So ardently did Matthews make love to the girl that she wae on the point of giving him her heart, lvhen young Sheridan appeared upon the scene. Sheridan was barely |twenty-one. All his bright career lay before him. He at once fell In love |with Betty, To further his own sult he told her what he knew of Matthewe’s rea) character. Thia turned the girl's dawuing love for Matthews into loathing. For so clever a youth as the future playwright it Orme WAS then an easy step to win the susceptible young } An Elopement ¢ Jady's heart for himself. a Two Duels. But Matthews continued to annoy Betty with his beer’ attentions, even threatening her. Her father was M under gbligations to him, So she dared not appeal | to her family to help her get rid of the unwelcome suitor. In despair she called Sheridan to her ald. He suggested that she go to a convent !n | France, there to remain unti] Matthews could be disposed of. She accepted the {dea and he eacorted her to the convent ir departure from Eng- {land together had very much the look of an elopement, Sheridan, during | the journey, explained this to the falr fugitive and persuaded her to marry |him, The wedding took place in a little church near Calais and was kept secret. Matthews had looked on Sheridan as his friend and was furious at jsuch a breach of trust. He published Insulting stat t lyounger man {in several of the papers. Sheridan, in France, read and hastened back to England to demand satisfaction. A duel ranged. He and Matthews fought with swords in a tavern by night seconds holding lighted candles above their heads. Sheridan upon his opponent, selzing the latter's sword arm by the w and his own sword point at Matthews's throat. Matthews, taken aback sudden move, was at Sheridan's mercy, and gasped: “I beg m Then the seconds separated them, and Matthews wrote a form. K for che insolent charges he had made against his enemy. Thus endec t first duel Matthews, bowever, spread broadcast a garbled version of the affalr ‘and continued to slander Sheridan and B led to a seco The two men fought again with swords. attack, The due!lists ppled. falling to th jeach other with the broken fragments of t spilled, although the wounds were mere sc ‘enough out of the ordinary run of such encounters to s |talking. In a day Sheridan found himself famou: | When Betty heard Sheridan was wounded she shrieked: “My husband! }Oh, my husband!" and fainted. (Fainting was q a fashionab | plishment among young ladies of the eighteenth century). T |ents for the first time learned of her secret marriage hey had foll her to France as soon as they learned where she was and had brougn home. Sheridan was penniless and had no pro. ts. So Betty's f: strove to keep the couple apart. Sheridan used ev pretext for ga’ a few words with his wife during this time of parental opposi Yarn once even disguised himself as a cabmgn and v + An Extravagant § her home from a concert where she had been singing. Young Couple. } At last Mr. Linley consented to their union and a by. « public marriage ceremony was performed ether and hacking ut Is. Much blood was Il the duel was t all England to jhad Betty. So, thous stantly in debt. Later for Scandal” nt style a n Sheridan and other successful plays, the pair w | still spent money much faster than he could earn it. Afte of ma Betty died. Sheridan mourned ber most years later he married a woman of wealth, whose fortune, however, could not keep pace with her husband's extravagance. dan in his old age was wretchedly poor. As he lay dying, im | 1816, he was arrested for debt, and would have lcen carried to prison had | Minaing nambera of (his series will be supplied upon application | to Cireniation Department, Evening .World, upon receipt of ones cent stamp, no HE Lake George steamboat fleet includes three fine vessels—the Saga- T more, Horicon and Mohican—the first two side-wheelers and the last 4 have to be as pleasa’t as can be wit pody I a neat propeller. Qn Lake Champlain the Vermont, Ticonderoga and meet. For if Iam people will sa ) wonder | Chateaugay cover the routes, All are splendid boats with metal hulls e left 1 And ave me, [ left him; | and latest equipment, dining-rooms on main deck, Where meals or if ery tom ey t I miss the wretch! | and scenery be had together, There are no local boats running out of New that can compare with thei The Champlain Navigation Company as there ts no other way of introduc- y started to| ing such large craft into either lake. Tugs and barges can get {v and out of } it would make her eves red | Champlain by the Richelley and Champlain Canals, but Lake George lies high above Champlain, and its outlet has to grind wood for the International Paper 's nice to be independent,” said Mrs, Jart| Company bef e its waters are free to flow into Champlain and thence to the our own to} ose you may have in the position Tam in. T your troubles, being a grass widow, but you could | more than three hundred miles to the northward. Plattsburg has a resident for no matter how @ marry agi what elroumst, St. Lawrence and the sea, New Yorkers know little about the fine towns in their own State that He 1 street that beats anything to be found !n or around the metropolis, and Malone alimony,” sniffed Mrs. Kittingly, “Ob, | is a good second In thle respect. Huge houses, beautiful grounds and an alr of on women; why can’t they have | magnificence prevail to an cxtent that astonishes the little New Yorker who oa- | casionally passes by. The timbers of Benedict Arnold's vessels, beaten and sunk in the desperate confiict of Oct. 11-13, 1776, Ne off the south end of Valcour Island, and can be plainly seen when Lake Champlain is low. Now and then somebody fishes up @ rusty cannon ball. Bloody Pond, near Laka George, where the Sodies of the slain were thrown in the Dieskau-Sir Willlam Johnson fight with the French Sept, §, 1783, has dwindled to a puddle of dark water—grewsome yet in the memory of what {t once concealed, The Ausable Chasm ang Keereville electric road charges 25 cents for carting @ passenger threo miles and %& cents for a four-and-a-ialf-mile trip, which rep- resents the limit of its exertions, It ought to pay Bluebelis and delicate maidenhair ferns fringe the ledges of the Chasm, an@ pines and cedars shade {t from the sun | Big fish abound in Champlain, Wall-eyed pike can be pulled out of astonish= ing size, and the bass are gamey and fat Burlington has a yacht club, a lighthouse and a breakwater on which a con- tractor Is always working, with a rare seagull now and then dotting the lake- ward view. Patent mediciga, breakfast food, lumber and two newspapers pro- vide Industry for the populace. It is the biggest lake port The fort at Ticonderoga which Ethan Allen took “in the rame of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress’ has almost crumbled from view, but the long line of Montcalm's redoubt still shows through the adjacent forest, while the works at Crown Point, where England spent $15.000.000 between and 17 rvive strongly yet, great oreastworks and the walls of barrack houses defying time, The northern hatels get thelr meat, fish and truck from Boston, which, queer as {t seems, fs nearer to them than Now York. Portland, Me., is almost one hundred miles closer to Burlington than the metropolis, THE DAY’S GOOD STORIES. The Shortest Epitaph. Disappointed. HE undertaker paused In his meas- ¢gpeyRISONER,” sald the police jus aly urements, P tice, “you are charged with “There ts only one one-word drunkenness, The officer says | eptaph in this country,” he sald, hang- [he found you In a disgusting state of ling his shouders, "It {9 In the town of |intoxtcation, asleep on the steps of @ Worcester, I believe it Is quite a draw-! private dwelling.” |ing card. Hollday-makers come to see) “Is that a!l, your honor?” lit from miles around. “Yes; that {s all. What have you te “The epitaph consists of the word|say for yourself?” |'Gone.’ A Worcester auctiqneer lay dy-| “'m guilty, all right, your honor," ing. He whispered to his wife with @/gaid the prisoner, deeply chagrined, quiet smilo: ‘T've been “Going, going,” | “but I thought I had cleaned out « , | SIL iny life, Now I'll soon be “gone.” | saloon, whipped two or three policemen on, ay. toma betones dear, Thatiand got away in en automobile I only, ogaauted the| Wasn't bavin’ nearly as good o time ag i Ghought | wesa'—Chiosge Tatham,