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@ ; DODOOQOGODOOD) _ The Evening World Daily Magazine, ee ey a were ahs. OOO @) A Pedigree Is Sometimes i Really an Impediment nw By John K. Le Baron DOOOQDOOOOS [ EN, who have nothing else tojled men to claim, with apparent pride, boast of often boast of thelr! a direct descent from that profligate pedigree, composite of every sin forbidden by the The real, the vital question, |ten commandments—Henry VIIT however, is not what we] It would better become them to dam think of our ancestors but what our) the stream that leads to such a source, ancestors would think of us. | Some one has expressed sympath; Are we a credit to our forbears? | with Adam because he had no ances- | It matters not what your claim, the! tors, world will take you for what you are, | ‘There is no record of Adam having Bive blood is no disgrace, but good, | filed any such regrets. | fed blood is better worth while. Carlyle says—And who is there to} Emerson calls attention to the fact | “ispute it?—“One of the mostconsid-| that sometimes ‘a hero {a born from a\érable Sazon men of the elghteenth | fool, and a fool from a hero.” century was an Ayrshire peasant | Maximilian fancted he could trace his| named Robert Burns.” Mneage to Noah. Eplctetus, one of the greatest minds of Charles Bradlaugh was the son of &/ Greece, was a alave. man who could write the Lord’s Prayer} Rousseau was a cobbler’s son. on the back of a postage stamp, but] Homer's pedigreo began and ended the great agitator claimed no vicarious with himself. eistinctlon ion that) account; For lack of authentic data the parent- Lovelace ceased to boast of his ances | age of Cadmus is ascribed to the gods, | try when he found it involved In Span-| "yet these are names that live | Bhi piracy, These are the men whore veins swelled | Mark Twain jocularly claims to have| with the red blood of achtevement. found that lis family tree was a gal-| The hue blood of caste and pedigree lows has left few such names upon the tab- The Strozzi family were of the N0-| Jets of the ages. bility, Savonarola was a peasant’s son. | ste you wlah to reflect eredit upon | As children they loved, for children | your parents, accomplish more than know no caste, they did," says. Ingersoll, ‘solve prob- Later the peasant boy was forbidden. | tems that they could not understand, History has overlooked the Strozzis, | and build better than they knew.’ but it has devoted volumes to the pea- To get the value of a man we must | gant of Ferrara measure him, not hia ancestors. Men are equal; it is not birth’ cong any ancestral legacy compen-! but worth that makes the differ: sate Shakespeare for his genius? ence,” says Voltaire. Would any man, however blue his Cromwell could trace hls family line | a8te, discredit’ Shakespeare because back lo the Hatl of Sussex, but we do ius suit was a wool-stapler and a S Giaima’to that| uuccher? “There is a cont for pedigree by er rascals than they keep out. M o man of mettle rests his claim on men who can th ves do things.” | oe stry remarks Hubbard very true man prefers to be himself In England the » craze has! alone. Urn My “Cycle of Readings.” | | By Count Tolstoy. “<—Translated by Herman Bernstein, ~~ (opsrigcies vy Dy areas uDuscing Company, tae New 2} ork, World, 1408.) eas (Copyrighted by ilerman isernateln.) The italicized paragraphs are Count Tolstoy’s orig: {nal comments on the subject. Self-Denial. life may be ameliorated only by the self- emamaaatl JAN. OclAL denial of the people. T ts satd that one swallow does not make spring, but because one swallow dves not make spring, should i 21. the swallow which fee's the coming of spring watt | tistead of flying? I each and crery dad lui, aaa grass were to wail spring would never come. Thus aiso for the establishment of the kingdom of Heaven tt ts not necessary for us to think of whether | am the first or the thousandth swallow. BAVEN and earth are eternal. The reason why heaven and earth are H eternal is that they do not exist for themselves. That ts why they are eternal. For this reasun a saintly man is selfrenouncing, and thus he saves him- aclf, For he does not seek anything for himself. It is for this very reason | that he performs all that he needs, N private as in public fife there is one law: If you would improve your v| life be prepared to, give it up. N these times whea nations are -walting only a sign in order to start ihe ] Greatest struggle between good and evil that has ever taken nlace o earth, When from all parts of the world are already heard dull peals of thunder, when everybody feels that the time of the clash between these two armies Is near the army of God and the army of Satan—and that the future fate of mankind, {ts Gberation or its e vement, depends upon this clash—in these solemn days it Is| nece: y lirst of all to know well that the name of warrior of the army of cas be pained enly by following the example of its leader, who likened him- self Lo the poor whom he had come to save; to renounce one's-self from every: thing even as the of Man had done, to have no place where to rest the head, | 80 as not to grow over-tender, to be able to be here to-day and there to-morrow, | to be wherever there Is danger, wherever there Is struggle and to let the dead | bwy the dead. Tue dead are they who, absorbed by the cares of the transient and the material, do not even know that they have a soul within them which demands to be liberated, that to lve means to struggle, to die that this great Uberation may be accomplished.—De Lamennais. eee Ts most !mportant In the history of a man {s that toward which he was striving. Everything accomplished by him always depended to a consid- erable extent on accidental circumstances, and !n the best case was only a very Incomplete fulfilment of his intentions, And the life of all the greatest People expressed Itself more in their aspirations and their efforts than fn the realization of these aspirations, and, therefore, they may be justly appreciated by their aspirations ard thetr feelings and not by what they have succeeded to accomplish.—John Ruskin, By William Dean Howells, Poe’s Tales Are Orcnea ee |; OULD the best of Poe's tales be accepted now by one of | ohe of the next following magazines? to answer I do not think dt would We take two of the best, very ditverent in material and Fall of the House of Usher’ and “The Murders of the a ir ral We shail find th, same mechanicailty of motive in both. In the first the cll cali fa effected by a Succession of thrills and chills, of which the finest ts im et by the opening passages; after these everything coarsens, In the last the dates 8 ment Is worked by ineans of the closest analysic mechanism, which at firat in| 5 terests, and then with its interwoven mesh hampers und wearics the renedr imagination, "The Mystery of Mary Ro; Is entirely tiresome, with its labori- | ously and circumstantlally ingenious adaptation of New York's tragedy to a Parisian scene. | The simple fact Is that Poe was as lacking In Imaginat! cerlty, and that he vainly endeavored to supply his lack with fancy and with science. Sclentific subjects were always taking his fancy, which responded with Snexhaustible fertility, with Infinite invention, It 1s Wonderful how much he gets in, but it is not delightful, and the curse of unreality {8 on all his careful plausts a the leading or To this question 1 am obliged + NO, not the/best of his tales, Ir on AS he was in sin bility.—Harper’s Weekly, { (See ! Of} MOS$8050000000 DODDDIDH-DIDDG HHDOHOP IDG HIGHNGIO SN: || The Newlyweds? Their Baby-t-5 George MeMamas | ( BABY, PRECIOUS, INU ‘A HELD, than whom there !s) 9 better known or more success- actress tul the .\merlcan stage to-day, was| born in Paris,| France, March 18,| $73, being the off- ring of French id Polish pa 52 The youngest | seven children, the others of dled th In- ancy, her ecbild- hood was ee a happy one, po erty and hards: playing const parts in her early life, Upon the death of her father, in 18%, Miss Held and her mother, hoping to better their fortunes, went to London to live, where, four months later, her mother, too, assed awcy. Previous to the death of} her mother, however, Miss Held had/ egun her stage career, appearing as a| horus singer at the Palace Theatre. | abandoned ils field a short time| ard, being of most ambitious cal-| upon of all whom those ea and em-| acked upon a music hall career, mak- in her deb this line In Amsterdam. Asa singer of chansonettes she made a marked Impression in Holland, after which she adyanced upon Scandinavia rnjany, fulfilling engagements of several months’ duration Jn the leading itles of these countr! | By this time Miss Held was an estab- | Mshed factor In the music hall world, and she determined to Invade her native country, It was In 1889 that she first eppeared professionally in Paris, and! for several years she was a great fa-! * The (Copyright, 1908, by Harper & Bros.) CHAPTERS, beau, on me 1 ING SYNOPSIS OF PREC fe, post trader at san, indian w ter 2 cut, hoping to arrive on the scene of strike in time to eta claims recognizing Star a onetaqo wronged, tries t CHAPTER VIII. The Knife. 1 N every commu be it never so I small, undesirable zens; While the little party was still at breakfast on the following | morning, three such members of so- ciety came around the cabin and let ty vente Let Us Be Joyful. UNI7, § SBEOOL TEACHER—Elmer, which wou 1S —} 4? Bags or your finger? ZAitie Elmer—My finger. Sunday School Teacher—Why? Elmer—'Cause I can't te a rag ipround my feellngs.—B: . ld you rather have hurt ange TAUDE was afrald the girls wou date Notice her engagement ring Hd they? “Did they! Six of them recognized It at once,” . SHE—I don't eee why a woman shouldn't wear a man's clothes if she wants to. He—Ghe'll never want ta, They’ -THt- Bits. @ fall their packs, greeting the occupants | volsterously | . “Well, well.” said Lee, coming to the Jdoor. “You're travellin’ kind of early, ain't you?” Yes—early and late,” one of them laughed, while the other two sprawled | about as it to rest ‘How far are you goin ‘Not far,” the spokesman answered. Now in the North there Is 01 }mality that must be observed wit | friend or enemy, and, though thea they we “Better have some breakfast, any- how “We just ate” ' There wes an un 9OO9-0O00-004> POPOHDOHDOY P>-OHODH, | ILL ASK THE SERVANT, MAYBE SHE can EXPLAIN | 3 ; {curl your front hair and wear violet By Helen Rowland. | silk petticoats and a hat that turns up and to play ‘ds and dance round dances—and {t's almost tmmoral WHERE DID You GET THAT POLICE OOD-LY!" sighed tho Bachelor, | at the side, |made her HAT? give It To PAPA! WHERE DID YOU FIND THAT? c ing WE'VE BEEN toon UNDERSTAND ge & of vorite at El Dorado andlater at La| New York stage Sept. 21, # No, 27.—Anna Held. 1896, at the we wt By Johnson Briscoe which she Introduced her song special- | | the other, ho dey thted two handbags, one golf case, one silk ulster, | one umbrella, a! bunch of four pounds Huyler's and Widow on va «G violets, of the quired the Widow, “ancing up arc [ELEN ROWLAND, under her er- mine toque. “L] can't Co both, .2u know," she acied pin atte “it's Just Hke a mo tell a woman to o out and swhin | out golng near the water!" “Oh, well," retorted the Bachelor, | sinking wearlly into a seat beside her, | “hang your morals on a hickory limb §f you want to. Don't mind ME!" | “But I don't want to,” pour the| Widow “and I DO mind you. If we} women didn't mind you men we'd all! be | as good as gold and as sweet and sir) le ag sugar candy.” "What!" exclaimed the Bachelor in| shocked amazement, | “From the time you are old enough to | teach us to climb fences,” explained the | Widow calmly, “and stea, apples, and | Kill bugs, and play fick-tack, you make | it clear to us that those things are at- tractive and that ‘good little girls’ als to sith: | NOT to do those things In New York or at Newport. A lady who gambled at bridge and wore a sheath gown | twenty years ago would have been ex- cluded from polite aoctety, but nowi days she's excluded from aoclety it she seats in th doesn't. After all, being good ts only Central keeping up with the styles," and the “If you Wit | Widow sighed. GO—be a good lit- — tle girl and Lave good time” — | “Which 2" tn. | “You musty’tl” "The fashions {!n feminine morals HAVE changed in the last few years!" ways get left out of the game.” “Certainly!” agreed the Bachelor | admitted the Bachelor sadly, promptly, “When we want to play, we| “Of course,” agreed the Widow ch want a playmate, but when we want a/ wife’ — “You want a miracle!" broke In the Widow, "A peerless paragon who can cook your meals with one h while | she leads you straight to Heaven with But I'm not talking about the ‘perfect being’ you are going to marry, but about the girl who isn’t married and who wants to have a good time. How Is she going to do it and | live up to your ideals? It's easy enough to be good,” she added with a sigh, “but It's pretty hard to be lonesome,” “If you are pining to take the road to | ruln’"—— began the Bachelor des- perately, fully, “It used to be atylish to wear | your morals on the outside and play the saint, but now it's fashionable to; wear them on the Inside and play the sinner, Women are just as good as they ever were, only ‘whited sepulchr have lost thelr charm for men, But, and she clapped her hands with sudden Inspiration, “IL have an Idea; I'N-T'll swim without going near the water!” she gurgled delightedly. “What?” The Bachelor Jumped. “I'll be so good—so fearfully GoOd"—— , “That's right!” commented the Bache lor approvingly, “that peoplo will think I'm trying to hide something! And so proper that I'll rouse suspicion and'’'— “Go on,” growled the Bachelor, “and so prim and quiet that they'll think I've a ‘past’! Then I'll be inters J esting!” and tha Widow glanced up trie Scala, participating !n the “reviews”! Herald Square Theatre, singing her|ties, being in no way concerned with | umphantly. for which the Parisian halls are noted. | songs In the second act of “A Parlor/the action of the dramas, The next Url hope) youll havelay nicen tiaisit Finally Miss Held became ambitious to| Match,” being heavily featured with | season she was seen as Suzette, the commented cue Bachelor Orly) try her talents upon a London audience, | this plece, ‘he following season she/ title part, In “The French Mald.” It | *Vhy/i1 tholight VouWANDEDitne (6 Where ten years previously she had attempted her first role in a legitimate | was the season of 189-1900 that saw t Known such hardships, and In 18% she | It was during this engagement that she | Alesia in sang her first song in English, "Won't | failure. You Come and Play With Me.” Here, too, It was that she first came under deville headliner at bow at the Palace Theatre, | (now Criterion) Theatre Oct, “La Poupee,” A trifle over a fortnigh to be exact, on Noy. 8—she was a vau- i an immediat it later~ musical piece, appearing at the Lyric Koster & Bial's, 3 Held take permanent rank with | leading stars, appearing for two rs in the role of Anna In “Papa's ife," after which she was seen for a| like perlod In the title role In “The | Little Duchess,” being most successful | our be good!” exclaimed the Widow in re proachful surprise, “Tye changed my mind,” replied the Bachelor firmy “L want you to be very | wicked"-— “Mr. Travers!” “And worldly and broad-minded. 1 the notice of F, Zlegfeld jr. and Charles | and @ short time after this she was sent | in both pieces. | 5, Evans, who promptly engaged her /on tour with a dramatic company, pre- The season of 1903-4 she starred/ | want you to hang your scruples on a for an American appearance, senting a double bill, “The Cat and the|as Mile, Mars, in ‘‘Mam'selle Napo-| jhlekory limb this minute”— Miss Held made her debut upon the|Cherub” and "A Gay Deceiver,” in| leon,” and the year following this she | | ‘It wouldn't hold them,” gasped the The Conqueror. By Cora M. W. Greenleaf. HERE Is a field where I would rule, a realm whet T I's a long road, a hard road, and few there be who take it T would reign, A most rebellious, stubborn one, to conquer It I'm fain; The journey to that conquest, I'm striving hard to make It— was leading woman of the Weber- Ziegfeld Company, at Weber's Music hind the footlights at all, tho greater part of which time she lived in Paris, | She took up her stage work again on {Oct. 2, 1906, at the Chestnut Street Opera-House, Philadelphia, Pa., being | Anna in "The Parisian Model," re-| appearing in New York, on Noy, 27, at | “Good-by!" sighed the bachelor. “I'm not!" broke in the Widow In-| dignantly, 'T don't want to BE worldly; | T only want to SEEM worldly—in order | |to be attractive, We women are all Widow, “And kiss me good-by!"* and he bent toward her suddenly, Hall, being Mim! De Chartreuse tn} i , liggledy Piggledy.” For a year af- "Stop! Stop!" cried the Widow, “You ter this Miss Held did not appear bi mustn't, and {t isn’t right—and you're turning my scruples wrong-side-out an: mussing my hair all up, and”—— “There!” said the Bachelor, releasing her with a sigh of satisfaction, “And’ now what can I do—for YOU?" “You can do the most difficult thing ‘on earth,” replied the Widow, readjust- f the Broadway! ‘Theatre, where’ (she ing her ruffled feathers with Injured Not art nor politics I mean, nor literature, nor law, pluyed for thirty-one ey aia CAG Race dignity; “for ANY man to do when= Nor aught of aught that's public—I wage a private war— weeks, giving exactly 222 perform-|men preter caviara and. spice to| When the woman he—he carea for Is out And oh, the weary, striving hours <nd many a faint heart minute! ances in all, She continued in “Aj marmalade and tea that we try to be, of sight!” It's a bright goal, a high goal, and few there are who win It, Parisian Model” a second season, and} cayiare’— “Are you going to ask me to be 1am In battle ‘gainst myself, our strife lasts long and steady, this season she {s Anna (her third} “And foolish!" put {n the Bachelor, { GOOD?" erled the Bachelor In alarm, ‘role of that title; can It be super-| “And fascinating!" finished the| "No," sighed the Widow, “that would For self is strong and wary, too, to yield seems never ready, jstitlon?) in "Miss Innocence,” in} Widow. “Morels are funny things, any-(® TOO much! But, Billy dear—won't ‘And golden victory is coy, eludes when I pursue it. which she 1s now holding forth suc-| way," she added thoughtfully. | you TRY to be a little LONESOME? It's fleet to catch and hard to gain, and few there be who do tt. cessfully at the w York Theatre.| “FUNN things!" repeated the | But, oh, to conquer mine own self were victory Indeed! Miss Held was married on March 8, 1397, to F. Zlegteld Jr who hi Bachelor in amazement. “Well,' explained the Widow, “they're Arctic Cold, ATER thrown upon Ice in the: After each overthrow I rise and make the better speed. acted as de manager from ee tha never the same for any two people, nor W Arctic regions will crack it, T It 1 y ” ment of her first appearance in this : ‘0 see self lying at my feet, @ thing subdued and cowed! jcountry, and to whose industry and In any two places, nor for any two just as boiling water breaks I'm winning home, I'm winning home—to victory I'm vowed. | perseverance she owes much of her | present success, Barrier Look here. [t's no use to: In. We want a piece of this | flush around, What are you going to do wlth) ier" In the but it Pr jcomfortable pause, then the speaker;crooks always beat the straight men | continued: ‘Never knowed {t to fail,"" Lee agreed. “There's a dozea good men in camp I'd like to see in on this find, “Ih be DRE Sen eng rei ae Love and Gold Hunting ozen Klondike for {t 1s a custom in all mining CoH) removed from authority for the prop- | erty holders thus to make local laws | governing the size of claims, the amount of ass years In succession, For instance, it's immoral down at Pottstown Corners to lass, This happens because the ice Is; so much colder than the water, ground, could not shake off the notion that all was not right. Things moved) too smoothly. It looked as if there had! been a rehearsal. Poleon and tho trader, | + Author of **The Spoilers.’ Whether you do or not, the majority is going to rule, and we'll make what law | we want to." He took no pains now to mask his the size of the re- |however, seemed not to notico tt, and | dislike of Gale, who began to movo to- vee sbatout Lee: Welrelon tod Inte ‘gin we get back.” the character of those | Lee was wallowing to the waist in his| ward him iu his dogged. resolute way. “Who wised you up to this?” {n-! "Dose bum an saloon feller got all who may hold mines, and such other | own troubles, so the young man kept his) Nu observing them, hastened to her quired the miner, angrily, for he had /de bes’ claims at Klondike," said questions as arise to affect their per- | eyes open and waited. | father’s side, for that which she sensed other friends besides those present Poleon, "I gues: It's goin’ be de same sonal or property interests, In the days} The surpriso came when they had in ths bearing of both raza quite over- Whom he wished to protit by this | here.” prior to the establishment of courts and | completed the organization of the dis-|came her indignation at this blow strike, and he had hoped to keep out; "I don’t Iike the look of this,” ob-| the adoption of a code of laws for Alas- | trict and had nearly finished adopting| against herself. LU ane eek ah [served tlie Lieutenant, thoughtfully. | ka entire country was governed | by-laws, It was so boldly attempted and| No, no, don't have any trouble Roa mind me? 0 put us Jerry iu mie id there's some kind of @ Job in this way, even to the adjudication of | Ieeacoee f In a Sere ne a th a | she pleaded, as she clung to the rader. ofravgotd/atrike when thor wind) blowallancwered: «arwace ae ess o1 iiwas reiprimilivalmelority role th Sa VE ERA CCRT Hy | she whispered fiercely Into” ba ear: Lee. It travels on the breeze,"* Abiecener eins ‘up to them to choose | Drevaila in every new land, and the Inaativas onareevan: WU ahowedi the nest| C an't you see he's trying to make yuu The harm was done, and there was no nears it hie courts later recognized and approved | itr t St ty pi that thal fight? ‘There's too many of them, wes : and administered, \8 alee ete e Laks me) Walt! Walt! in concealment, so Lee reluctantly They were nearly res the laws so made the Heutenant had di- | trader, whi ore they very | Burrell attempted to speak, but Stark told them of his discovery and warned) Flambe: BK eANG even when they differed In every dis-| | ° ROUT RaY TTL Wee CRITORS Blaced renee Sten thornye leven when these statutes were | Viet: |who was presiding,. turned upon him ‘And see here, you tellers,” he con Gea era oe sate Broteatue and |riuleulousse-As (a)|/s Runtlon moxedu hen adstiony cb e (Aercely.! luded; ive! be ss (ite t we'd better organ mining district. however, they were direct In| fule that no women be allowed ¢o lo-| "Now thts Is one time when you can't cinta 2k bee i Y years at this phere are enough present to do it.” fect. and worked no hardship; |¢&t# mining claims, and one of tho/butt In, Mr. Soldier Man, This ts our game and never iid a creek named) swe ean ie) kind) 6 is : 8 : ge conde after ie, but this one is goin’ to be!" f EU LEE nent miners’ mee urd Preece ct ie L Taine hie pubes, te tee beie UL EL BONG tet Tae Terr poe Pca ee PEC RL sit eta P cll 1 upon to this day by those | hats that?” sald Lee, ralsing his! ‘phe Lieutenant realized that he had Pau AneGE : Runtion ehimed in, “and elect a recorder Fit as vastly superior to | 0n@ eve from the note-book in which le] no place in this discussion, and yet Sure, that's w°good name, and we'll) "Nill Rive us a square deal.” machinery which later | ¥88 transcribing, thelr move was so openly brazen that vote tor it.” 3 I'll agree if we give Lee the J | “Lt isn't right to set women in on a/ he could restrain himself with difticulty ephen go as far as you Ike sata |*tld Gale. “It's coming to him as th 3 six or more people | Man's game,” s |A moment later he saw the futility of ine laninert dlambssine then cry, discovere reeks © money wil ; dravegt That's my ad the sec-| interference, whisk ark continued, ad- I'll step along with the boys a ary Wes Wi UE ed es of g instance a waders nee Ww them where our upper stakes ar played in. sis almed at my girl,’ s isn ed at you In particular, ey tated 3 agreeable to Stark re eh, at Gale, nor at your girl, for a motion t volunteered Stark, ami Runnion of Breee a pualeat ad D estenaee wee ‘ . ied ‘ ike 1, and pr with to ¢ F e known you bums were up| disqualify her isn’t nece She tsa’t fered go do the same, adding that it and ny hold x rey were Mest to make sure of no Het f straight ‘ rooked work.” old enough to hold mining prope 4 . aivae ( $5 r eighteen, the trader, so early in the game, The five d airman by of} trom « \kewise rose and ranged htin- | . + peared ino the woods, leaving the e Ww » obje trica i vements ) the trader ley lala (oF hee others at the cabin to make prepara. * be Le wasm ot 13 $ of the I don’ stun’ for dat," sald| , tons for the Jiomeward ary, uv rite out) mee he ly You want for jump) - That man who aid the talking ts a pusines’ : ther d us, et We've J a fixed A you ean’ tinshorn gambler who driftes in a, with the A e m ean inte as I'm chairman we'll have| stinned sh fel cay Bab man month ago. the same as Runnion, e group as cleared s, and ROSPSURH WER: Gesiatec auarny slat ny if voles ZOE (BRE yourself,” 4 the others ain't much better,” said pace before the cabin to make rules queatic: t at them. “If you want trouble, you| bas : bad pone, And regulations governing the distic a ved We procesdings trom neuwal wwo, 2 seckon you can have it, bul (To Be Continued) when they w ‘Meoma Like the se) 6 Saal 4 \ ‘ } ol cca