The evening world. Newspaper, March 1, 1909, Page 12

The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday. March 1, ee nes ri q een not IN } i Che x Corl, | The Day of Rest | Fif “t i Published Daily Except sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Now. 8 to 62 | ° ifty : ‘ , fl rw, New ‘ y . g if sonnet PULITARN, Pen, 08 Perk Rows BAN : amore ; By Maurice Ketten. Historical M steries my if Entered at the Post-Oftice wy 1 Matter a pak f SSR RAR ARR ne y 3 it Bubacrintion, Reteg te The i z! i Yontinent and == } 9 ; orlc oes 8 All County jor _ ree = i “Havent Tae) py : " i eae | enggry ae OO} Haven Tine > | et By Albert Payson Terhune g t One Month,. One Mon \ YUCK, V ING csxassmatef ij ——- ee | ARE FULL I'M NOT An 5 ) if} VOLUME don csuaimenuie [oF HOLES ) “actress, A 25 (ore NO, 4—THE MYSTERY OF WILKES BOOTH. | i / oN a" seb S005TS i \ QUE STON N the night of April 14, 1865, an actor, John Wilkes Booth, entered the a O Presidentlal box at Ford's Theatre, 1n Washington, shot President Lincoln through the brain, leaped to the stage, and escaped to an alleyway where a saddle horse was held in waiting for him, Then he gal- loped away {nto the night, accompanied by David Herold, an accomplice. Rither from ca hing his foot in the American flag that draped the Pres- idential box, or by a later fall from his horse, Booth smashed the bone of one of lls legs just above the instep, He stopped in his flight to have the i bone set, Then he rode on, His subsequent moyementa have always deen clouded by mystery, Here in brief is the story given out bit by bit by Government officials: Booth rode for Virginta, hoping to find friends and shelter there. More or flee close behind him followed a swarm of Federal detectives, secret ser- vice agents, police and soldlery, all eager to avenge Lincoln and to win the se) reward offered for Booth's capture, A force of thirty picked cavalry- —feurless cly!] war veterans every one of them—at last surrounded the ree and his companton one night {n a tobacco barn. Herold currendered. would not corte out of the barn, So the soldiers and detectives placed JUSTICE FIRST, THEN CHARI TY, N his address to the State Charities Aid Association Gov, Thughes said: “Here we were preaching hy- sted giene to people in’ c quarters of great cities who could not carry out our instrue- tions to save their lives. What a mockery it is to go down on the east side of the City of New York with charts and various instructions as to the manner were never or all my life. Is that barn $ would seem to add plausibility to this theory, For one thing ers. Who Surrounded the barn were not only war veterans but in which they should take care of their sick, Fee g DON'T DISTURB ~~ Sone WOMEN a cordon about it, and an officer set fire to the filmsy By It is a mockery. It is not only absurd but insulting for an aid | | MY Socks 2 tae SIR, VM ) LEAVE HOME To i The Capture ftTucture, A sergeant, Hoston Corbett, peeped through « bb a4 - Y . - = j { weitiner A ( DARN SOCKS AND ; crack In the barn wall, saw the assassin and shot him, 7 association or anyone else to go iuto a tenement house from which a La ARTICLE Fo THE ONES THAT STAY ) at the Barn, } Booth was dragged ovt of the blazing building and soon a ick zoe: sc ‘ ise her that her hea \ teen afterward died. This was April ™, 18. So much for i sick mother goes out to serub and to advise ie that eee health and AG NoBooy’s Geakene HOME Wow 'T DARN acount e i her children require removal to the Adirondacks or the Catskills and sS nee: THEN — LSS AECNNY ! hen, for months, no outsider knew what had been done with Booth's body, One a diet of milk, eggs, fresh fruits and vegetables, declared he had seen It sunk in the Potomac at chen rene A claimed to have proof t It had been cremated, More It is worse than a mockery to tell the painter who is suffering 3 stated that the murderer Was buried In a Government from lead poison procured in earning a living for his family that he persons boldly asserted he had never been captured ner anes and iv y ont had be He e tobace it was ulking tramp. ] must go to the seashore as soon as the weather gets milder and take i ie Pant ey Aine 5 nM eR HNO i | the salt tonic baths of the ocean. It is like telling the dairy farmer Gay way casting doubt upon the Government statements {t must ? ild c eow stable SHivaradh i ERICA 4 the country was in wild excitement from the civil war; that H to build concrete cow stables, to whitewash and spray them, to have moral furlously for the pu nent of the Mactyr President's { a steam disinfecting apparatus, and the milkers themselves to wear th s MMghly needful for the authorities to find and Kil tho assas- 4 o » duck clothes cl $00 ¢ -__this aha Gary h ‘ of Booth was carried aboard a gunboat, Then 1 fresh white duck clothes cl twice a day—this and the feed was secretly removed. A few years alter It was turned F 4 hill to he paid for by 21-1 cont: milk. nver to the a tor, Edwin Booth (eldey brother of Wilkes) for ‘nterment at Green i Bast] Moxley, of Baltimore, one of M-bearers, sald in 193; ried In Green Mount was not that of Bo + ¢ ¢ There sembled each otler less, [ had known Booth e that Booth was ever 6 ‘body several times, I do not bell ALL THE WoneN ARE Joun Wouto You AN MINE PAPA Busy SONNY. Don'T MIND DARNING For years they had all fought heroically; often against terrible DISTURB THEM — Tou, IT'S YourDay oF ei Wee Ge Said He veaGeeR ME tEATNTO cuanitintontaN buliding eee PaeN Give ME THES REST Ane You HAVE é, T d offered a t & q VE HE SOX Ne You which was defended >y only one m Phe Gove: nt had offered n tremen- GUMS TOSS — asl NOTHING To DO fod \ (38 PS dous reward, Fame awaited Booth's captors, The 4 ; the hero who was the army's dol, In view of all t A ) esin had struck down cavalrymen have feared to enter the barn and re one lone fugitive? An- 3, would thirty brave ussins were executed their When Garfield's and McKinley's a odies were seen by many. They were dissected and no attempt was nade at privacy. Nor was there any secret as to their place of burial, Why should such secrecy have been observed toward Booth? It has also been pointed at the assassin rode straight Into a section o, the courtry that contained people who hated Linco end who might reasonably be expected to pro- murderer, Moreover, several men L, Bates, a well-known Memphis (T ch he said that he met a man tn Texas in and who also confessed purder, disguls . wounded Confederate soldier, This according to Bates, killed himseif at Entd, Ckla, in A New Jersey actress in the latter year advanced a have since then been Identified (7) as Wilkes Booth. Fy in.) lawyer, not long ago wrote a book fn S68 who confessed to being Wilkes ed safely to Mexico after the Lae ; Rumors of j Booth's Escape din the early George, acoording dow whom she said he ma David E. George, This m: entucky mountains, where his knowledge of acting Nobody eats poor food by choice or lives in a dark room for the mself at the st ong In the 1 much local comment. y to which most eredence has been attached ts that he be- ‘syman and s I have cc consulted repute and cl y and the facts = ar to have yore striking resem= ung vernable, ms, but that he wae t. Also that hat he was F) pleasure of it, or keeps away from the seashore, the mountains and the country because he prefers to spend his time looking out the tene- a : i ment window across the fire escape. % coil eat bad on Mean is ae than eee food. | i Mrs. Jarr Wants Her Son Willie to Learn to Play the P; iano, | not the « er who puts short weight in canned goods or load- | $ W. W. butter with w nd salt or skims part of the cream off the n ‘ Willie Says He ants to Be g Burglar, hich Pleases Mr. Jarr) ne or sells tainted meat. es Everybody, whether he lives in a tenement house or anywhere | y Roy L. McCardell, | "That lent to have his food good and cheap, his clothes well ON'T you think Willle 1s old ti nite ; { made and comfortable, his rooms neatly furnished, and his oceupa- i“D bite xt to ma t taking plano "An tion so arranged as to be healthful and with ample vacations. Ma je eueTey The mere sending of a patient to a hos dd possessed W d his striking manner: hich Booth broke in ed once while ver} and love for lquor, same ankle ag that rgyman is reported to have Later the same preacher moved to another clty In the South, It is but jd Mrs, eke Look] "We t goes! If he T think ft would be real sweet 4 the plano," sald Mrs, Jarr. ould.” replied Mr, Jarr, “very Hay Wille shown any inelina- isical career?” always putting the cat In he can play chopsticks 4," sald Mrs. Jarre, opinion,” said Mr. Jarr. the newcomer was not Booth, A y different color and that ne belley Interview, dated 189, tells that the mysterious clergyman was once n by Edwin Booth, and that the two were closeted in private conversaden for uours, tue story, the rumors and the varying testimony, Each else, would profe he should ajttle Aubrey nk doesn't look, Cireas: a 1 older, and | would he plays the plano | eg He's much | There, In brief, are w.| the plano, It wouldn't | reader may draw his own deductions. What became of Wilkes Booth? | with little En | “Let's get pital no more prevents dis case than does the sending of a | Mrs. Jar Jar, Minstng nambers of this sericea moy be obtained by sending one cent t man to Sing Sing prevent crime 4 a ng pr pi raahl oa “There's no J to do tha sald %} The cause existed before, and Sih He i umVans | Mrs. Jarr; * the way you a slight] stamp, for each number required, to Circulation Department, Event; : We : reAt athe p # talk and he says only girls play the na plano, I can't even get him to learn: son. | his notes.” gel oBuny Id enough and be taught} Load © rushipe, football, baseba SMT lis yet hope. ma) all the de “You should be ashamed to talk that not for plano playing or the cause is removed all asked Mr. Jarr, Naw!" said Willie, CCT mi" sald Mr. Jarr. "There| “I want to play the bass drum in | band.” way!’ sald Mrs. Jarr, “Little Aubrey hee RF ues Bae ons Prink created @ furore at a children’s The boy hung dot arty at his mother's house the other rubbed the tow of aay, He played Schumann's Melody In carpe F and recited a French poem.” "IT thought it was our Willle that) “what do you w created the furore at that party,’ sald 1 want to be M , I think hey e mapping out for ou i enough," | If I can afford it, he shall go to rr, when he's of the ¢ rs bee dren that rem ean is to alter its | Inanilestations, is where certain kind etic ¢ ed Mrs, Jai ne y do so much harm. Like head end 2 oon th irs, Pri said Mrs. and her Some of tho an opiate relieves some bodily rt Call Re boys are so Aubrey practises f heue son day, ! 8e® them tn the subway some be we should have started Willie at and they carry on dreadful. We : Willle to some qi andarenned ational Institute,” said Mrs, J te Tay wer your mother,” safl Mr. Jars, burglar or the man Jarr, what runs @ taxicab!” blurted out the ing for boys “He behaved terribly, if thatis what! boy | gata you mean Mrs, Jarr, “He broke! 7 per Nm ¢ we can one of Mrs, Prink’s gold chairs, poured | those meals a diay, lemonade In the piano and hit Aubrey in his ag yee a mon schvuol vdu: the face and made him ery, and Mrs. 4 ais Mea you ’ ey're cation 80 what's the use to bother Prink had to telephone me to come for yonder she could do nothing with the who more or | poi eciences by contributi Justice would pr Charity, however | their con- ee at they have helped create. ‘ ‘And to sive Willle pthes and a co ARRIAGE is the “acid test” for love. M This is the time of the year when the sap rises in the heart and a host of tender, new flrs tations begin to sprout, Most husbands would Yather give their wives a toke up the fine m to a plumbe ease and ns of ¢ ime , never does the w of justice. i R | World. ou want to play the plano, my | + ni . e { d . 5 an ed eee | about him, and I know he'll never be invited | children. ] SNA NR nw en KR rch on ees CT r eS piece of advice on how to economize than a piece of Letters Fr om the People , PA F veal GS oe [money with whic to pay the bills. A ; é ying to win a girl's heart is something like the baby after tha ‘ a lig h t ot Fan Cy one Ore) By F er d G ° Lo n g soap; “he won't be happy till he gets it"—but he only wants it to play with, inet ach fj pew ewew wy pee : a mae When husbands and wives feel perfectly sure that they will meet in i Paradise, it must take all the consolation out of religion. A i) 5) Tie dust L An! 1 THouGur A man always douse Ulindly; but a tcoman has to love with her eyes t aia W NBA BAIT My Hook wide open—and it doesn't take her nine days to get them open, either. ments eWith Much indignation.” S ~ WITH THIS After ten years of trying to please a husband, a philosophical wife wilt ' worth 1 ‘ ue) Ey: eae y DOLLAR BiLt. up her mind that, as far as she is concerned, “Whatever is, ig | paving a af B80 Tread with m erat Alt t gi°-—and let it go at that, 0 per cen Fy ; : : 5 : The path to divorce may be paved with broken hearts—bu! ‘* 's nore one tustalment of i ued i often paved with broken bottles, or broken dishes. ; $5,068, wh est f f ; Hee ; . It may require an actor to “lear a passion to tatters;” but almost any | igs : x ; ‘ ae Is man is able and willing to tear his emotions into small bits and pass them | $2,472, , At th around among the girls in sample packages. one year Wed te) } A man’s love is not a virtue, but a necessity; he smokes because ha he third) and fir e € Nn wants to; he drinks because he Ukes to; but no man ever loved any woman f Feria SNE ecu hee ‘ ‘ 1 if he could possibly help it. | have ¢ He T1282. is : the ina A little scandal gocs an arfully long say. j W. Po MULHALL. perveh beri au ; fe Sweet are the uses of audacity—when a man is trying to get a kiss. j Biamaate ieuio pon eh ier bbe - Whon, the gods wish to destroy, they first make wed, j ra the Editor of The live 1 Watt a (Say! 1VE GoT THE BEST \ -+--—____———. } eae we read of taints 4 Subway Lament ‘ fenerest Tony ay FEVER) ; x alns 1 conde { | ; ; zs , SAw. [Lt MAKES A | poble omelals regarding neriest of ail | We Sete mete [ray Ret ALL L ' w The Day’s Good Stories | cause the average citizen believes that : rc f (ure suet t eae : See Aa nunL cara aOR when sts his vote and sees his! .,, : seoa | THe MAN. vot + ‘ carried for, am I?” talled in of : 1 C04 |Phvant | eo Mie Gaddie'SaTnouglitsi assist ter tit eet ana f ak the prog bth / vill following golf story has been | caddie replied: i e te | I associated with the name of Os-| “Man, I'm just thinkin’ "3. ALP. j t Gee 5 f ; sche. He began a round oe, ; : : tier bad ut at engi ft cad] A Protest From the Past, ° i ; ; adour Seoteh youth, he sald: “Now, EDIUM—The spirit of your great. a a I'm not the worst player you've M grandfather, who was hanged, ing 4 fer, em 1 wishes to speak to you. | Wo ere whs no reply, Later ona long] Bellever—W-w-what does he want? ¥ xpaye ‘ Was success holed, and Mr." Sedium—He wants to tell you that he casts Vote cous s , SUBWayY Asche cried again: What did f tell was just as craay as the feliows nuwa. you? I'm not the worst player you've days who don't get hanged