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The Evening World baiiy Magazine, Frivay, march 14, 190 ns ————— eee a — rye ROO Che MH Mion, Give Up! Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 83 to 68 Fark Rowe New rere: ; By Maurice Ketten. ark Row, NOUS SHAW, Sec.-Tress., 63 Park Row, 2 ’ Wey ~———~ Fifty Historical Mysteries | , JOSHPH PULITZE! EE j Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, f bscrintion Rates to The Evening ) For England and the Continent and : Bea yorid. tor the anited States All Countel i fhe: Tnigene tional By Nipent Payson Terhune and Canada, al n . $3.50 | One Year., + .80 ! One Month. One Year..ee oe One Month. | NO, 9-THE MYSTERIOUS “JUNIUS LETTERS,” «] MUST be more cautious than ever. I am sure I should not survive & «, VOLUME 49. discovery three d * ¢ © Though you" (his correspondent) ‘ » are others who would assassinate. * * * & ry of my own secret, and It shall perish with me!” U & man whose identity no one has ever been able to learn; a man who for years stirred all Europe to fury and to ma& euro y; whom the British Government hated and feared; whose secret the cleverest minds of the day could not fathom, The mystery remalns unsolved, The writings of “Junfus” have long since become “classics"—perhaps the only classic works {n all literature whose authorship Is utterly unknown, Beginning in November, 1763, a serles of letters appearal in the Londoa Public Advertiser flervely attacking the government, flaying public abuses demanding greater liberty for the British people at large. The writer, with a lash of satiric scorn and keen invective, assailed the foremost men of the ay, even England's King, George IIL, The letters were couched tn polished, less English. were brilliant, fearless, mercilessly direct. Thele age was ferocious ta {ts Intense bitterness. The Ww uld fight, the am the sole depo: Thus wrote "J NE of the objec tions made to the MeAdoo subway extension is th it will take people y from New, York to New Jer- sey. It would be better from one point of view ifj it took them to aw flaw Ake i fins i signature Was—"JUNIUS!" Long Island or te From an { 58 to 1772 these letters appeared In the Westchester, or to Unknown Hand, Advertiser, Woodfall, editor of that papery knowledge of the mysterious authors declaring that the letters came from an unknowg all efforts to get into personal communtcation with thelg one of the Hud- son River coun- e, and th ies, where they ) ‘ they led nowhere, From the state secrets Juntus was evident he must be a man of high rank ang vern the King, But, of all statege would continue te pay New Yor ly exposed, associated w taxes, but, wher ever they go, how Sra VTAIT TH much better it is for the people| sed authors iutionary fam Lee's claim wae "the handwriting of Junius to be Identl= this statement was that nearly @ dozen othor 1 by “experts” to be precisely the same cal with Lee's themselves to ex-| change a tene- themselves to be d. The last and all se supposititious authors was Sir Philip Francis, which convinced many that ckly riddled and sank his claims, can be better than {ts author's neatly and exquisitely penned; hand, Francis himself spoke a silly falsehood.” Sald Tierney, when asked his tdeag ther, thelr assertions were disprove ment ora flat for a roof of their own, grass and flowers. ier Except for transportation problems, why home on Manhattan Island by preference? 2°.) The essence of a home is that it belongs to the man who lives ould any one make a there, If his stay is transient, he is like a roomer or a boarder who must have constantly in view the moving of his household goods. | Nothing tends to contentment so much as a fixed and satis home, as the feeling of possession which its ownership brings, interest which attaches to every room, to every rosebush and path. A hotel cannot be a home, no matter how many years a man lives there, An apartment-house is little different from a hotel, except that the tenants hire from month to month or year to year instead of hy the week or day. A tenement-house is dependent on real estate changes, on the landlord’s and builder’s judgment of their profits. | 1D ery spot of ground within twenty miles of the City Hall should | be within a half-hour's transportation area. Thirty-five miles should r reason for supp: dedly proud of sor yw to be Juniue than that ng and no one could ever guess once wald he had proof as to Juntus's Identity t vets. But he died shortly afterward, eM of England, whom Junius jow who the man of mystery was, ing that {t was Francis, he would not divulge the secret, fon told Boswell, his own blographer: “I know no man but is capable of writing these letters, And Burke dentes It." was not a public man who did not tremble lest he ext to fall under the vitriolle sarcasm of the Unknown, came up for frequent discussion, The great Edmund de an !mpassioned #8 on the subject in the House of I! How comes this Junius to have broken through the odweds 2 law and to range uncontrolled, unpunished, through the land? The myrmidons of the court are pura. him in vain, The mighty boar of ¢ forest has broken through ail their snares. When I read his attack upon | the King my blood ran cold!" In Parl ke once tm mmons, be, be within an hour's This space i aifple to give everybody a home te In January, 1773, the series of terrible, anonymous rf . A Strange letters ceased as suddenly aa tt had hewn. Did of his own, Any | eienee Juntus dia, then, or did he feel that discovery was too 5 one who. likes gar: j : 2 close at hand? How could any man for four yearg = 44 i tr ohave moved safely and fearlessly among the very \ ening iould 2 ee a en - people he assatled and yet have eluded all suspicion? The whole affair must have his own 2 Fe \} “i s¢| Always be a mystery. ‘s reasons for remaining unknown are much easier to guess, Not Fe Ju | Little Willie Jarr Falls Down and Breaks a front Tooth! ARCH Mit Con COtrocincamitaacenivcspt ss \\ i vegetable — patch. Every woman who likes flowers should have her Tose bushes, gera- niums, asters, honevysuck les, sweet peas and ~phlox. Many men and women in New York whose childhood was ment, but the very fact that he was a “mystery” lent to his letters a strange Grea: Alarm jor Mrs. Jarr and Cruei Comment From Mr. Jarr |intuenoe that no Sdentited man could have hoped fer. Sane Sc ae Sr aici an «get age Dread As. BUN eL detint nee RCeRe s | Minsing numbers of this series may be obtained by sending one cent >! Waugh! Waugh!” ) "don't belleve you will, not if {t waa! I suppose it's my fault that he busts a | «camp, for each mumber roguired, to Ciroulation Departinent, Evening “He ed in the school yard and a second tooth—oh, was ft @ second tooth out and looks I!ke a chimpanzee’ | \\ orld. ke his tof! cried the little girl tooth? erled Mrs. Jarr. ‘Anda pretty Mrs. Jarr could have stood all but brother tell me!’ cra! Mra you'll be all the days of your life the chimpanzee allusion. "That's right,” | % edly. "I want to see if | was @ second tooth!” added the she sald coldly, “swear and carry on) Tell mother, my po now exasperated Mrs, Jarr. “I do de- before the children. It 1s a splendid | mother!"" clare children are 1g but @ torment way to make them respect us both." igh! Waugh! Boo hoo!” bel- and a worry!” “Well, dog gone it! I don’t car jured one. “Then I can spit better through my|#morted Mr. Jarr, “T've got to make the miliion| «yt wasn't @ good, new toot,” ex- teeth than Buck Muller cant” orted) ving for this tamty, and I can't be plained the little girl; “It was de fo young hopeful, and pain-forgotten be | Playing nurse to them! It's your place Fefolced in the accomplishment he in-|to watch them, and I don’t want to By Roy L. McCardell. | “B ) HOO! W Boo hoo!’ F : Reflections of a Bachelor Girl. t one dat was loose, He used to pul n | What's a eee goa ent wit his Ang. Rendeatrorsultty hear any more about tt! spent on the farm, te "Boo hoo!" yelled the boy ag * occurred at the at-/tooth? Huh, I had all mine knocked ‘whether in rihe wiped hls nose and mot ve and it was too late to| down my throat before I was half his new ack of his +: 3. rational and ¢ ck to school. Mr, %s¢!" returned at usual time Ina bad And Mr, Jarr went to the sideboard or. He had words with his and hit the private bottle, He felt too } boss, of, rather, the boss had hed words sore @t the world to even go out to Visions ¢ the little with him, Mr. Jerr had to take It out | Gus’s pled mba from girl “I dess he ain't hurt much; he's @ on some one, and hadn't he @ wife? After growling and scowling around sotors, nurses, crutehes cows baby.” Well! and grumbling at his supper and the dread. Keep your tongue out of the place | “‘His front tooth, too,” exclaimed Mrs, | evening papers, he went to bed. himeelf. won't grow!” crir Jarr, "And, oh, I thinks it fs a jast| In the morning he said to Mrs. Jarr, u tooth!” |"Don't look go forlorn over the kid's | or Aust 4, and in a perfect! the childrer “wany or Pen vania or \ or New Eng shoul be avie Trust, chickens if they 7 potato patch of their own. All this and more or HE only way to acquire a perfectly devoted hum : band—is to take another woman's husband, When a man talke about saving a woman from temptation he usually means that he wants to save the temptation from the woman—and keep t& for tuyoiw the Mila > year around, and a ferred fre and that and Treat @ man's opinions, Ma religion and Ma family as ecornfully ce h i fi that young ruffias ‘Why don't you keep an eye on your| losing a milk tooth. Take It like I do, you please, but remember Ate razor and Ate vanity to keep them holy, possible, It is fact simply hecaus ‘ t } adie, but had government, corporate greed and jealousy prevent the people « How often have I told children?” snarled Mr. Jarr, “I sup-|asa joke! When I waa his age pulled| Only a married tooman can smoke a cigarette or eat an onion with the New York from having the transportation facilities to which i ith good little boys ike pose you expect me to look after them | them out myself!" | perfect assurance that (t won't spoil any sentimental scenes and that Wom f ai? all the time, and also go down town! But Mrs, Jarr’a feelings were hurt vsvon't Lever get another tooth there, every day to work like a slave for an| Her thought was that she didn't blame | body is going to get near enough to her to notice 4t. the boy, whom the that old dog lke I work for, who don't ap- Mrs, Kittingly for leaving two husbands, The legend over the kitchen door should read, “Let her who entere here hat had hurt but a little prectate a good man, but has a lot of! put then, it was easy for Mrs. Kittingly, | leave all mistakes behind!” ; dy | {tal | fH favorites that fawn and toady to him!|she had no children as marital Hea | O14 comport in “going to perdition" te the Rnowledge that most of your etters From the People i\— = ; men friends will drop in by and by. 5 ne A nice girl hates to wound a man by refusing Aim, but that doesn't On| y ¢ Watch Him Roll! revent her from being shocked to observe how 6 wou: Looie, the Bowler ile’ a Wonder! By Ferd G. Long Long eee Cobo aeo eke A a WE OS A man's inability to restat flirting twoith every pretty woman who comes Another Holiday, Surely we should not be baci: recognizing and paying du to one of the most beautifu r written; not only from « wondered is not a natl nae (see his way ts just an ingrowing instinct, as unavoidable and inouradle ae sal tandpoint, but also f T us y which les beh ust Ay kleptomania, or drink, or consumption, © been the th *rancis Sco Tt is such a comfort to have a man make love with perfect finish and eclat that it never occurs to a girl to wonder where and when and how he got the practice. A man can no more control his penchant for chorus girls than a cat can control her appetite for cream, or a monkey Ate admiration for anything that glitters. Woman 4s to the average man just the cherry in Mfe's cocktall: aha RES) (COME BACK, | (Looe! WOLD) EY Re SaamreeNG NS LOSE WHO: Q \~ ND 2) ] fA Le ae fe average engrossed tn treat the | ghange in almighty dollar" that he has too little | gives it a flavor, but is by no means absolutely necessary, there |s no time or inciinaton to attend to “Patriot in a great co ism.” 5 + cially recognized ' 4 An € ehan ” The Day’s Good Stories # | The Horrors of War. | — Agalnst the Law, ae 1? TE ana 3 horrors of war are over-| Switzerland this summer," sald As to the Word BAG? ing Ne Sack | off WD 4) he Ul "sald an American ay ® Philadelphian, “I hoard Sharle- : Fe iki na 6n) & OS 73 at au Nagolacnt (abe magne Tower describe the strins In reply to “A. B. AR (fe) wd eHow ean you say 802" T crted gent police regulation of Berlin, aingle ir al may we NEG Neat aa y kN Thee he told ma about a veteran who| "Mr. Tower, by way of filustratton, 8 I A EL Neer): 2 yer nerfed a tecrible battle to him, | concluded with a little story. I hen ( Bye Oe aie t of the engage-| “Schmidt and Krauas met one morne that he files | =a ¢ : « as follows |ing tn the park, the ¢ a "ce te of § \ ac terrible affair end no mis-) “ ‘Have you heard, says Sohmidt, sumed printed blank fc Hoos vat it, Our company lay In am-|'the sad nows about Muller?’ which he can obtain from any stati Se Ne ina wood. Every five minutes says Krauss, ‘What {a it? ery store, Ww. Cc. L SS ‘ur brava young captaln, pale as death, | ‘Well, poor Muller want boating on | “The Star Spangled Saaner.”’ 1 N aid 18a lthe river yesterday, The boat capsized To the Ritter of The Evening World \ ova, It will be our turn next.’ and he wae drowned, The water was Then we took another pull at our) ten feet deep.’ Makes flasks and prepared for death. | ‘But couldn't he swim?’ Teed from sunrise till midnight. «swim? Don't you know that afl when all of @ eudden an adjutant eefe persone are strictly forbidden by the indifference to ‘The Star Spangled cetving $10 for as Fanner" struck « responsive chord in for ime. The correspondent asks w erage America citizen does no: when the “Star Spangied Banner” \ : DIAGRAM SHOWING — est eae how LOG MADE THE e receive for each” OuT-000R SPARE ; rf i WILLIAM PROUER. - HOBSON/ZED- : p and told us we had wo ba "4 Bae OF Course! FF) adeiphia Ledger. gelice te evi im the stwenlt y

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