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rorld Dail ¥ by the 3. ANGUS SHAW, Pros. an 63 Park Row. Treas, te Entered at the Post-Otice at Now York as Second-Cle Press Publishing Company, rk how, ‘New York. + gp | Yos. 53 to @ | Jos i PULITZER Junior, Sec'y. ij Row. § Park Matter, Cubscription Rates to The Evening) For England and the Continent and orld for tho United States All Countries In the international and Jane Postel Union, ane Yeon, + $3.80] One Year. Mont! wee 301 One Month. WMBUMN Sli visvecse vvsesveevess socvveversas NO, 18,014 CONSIDER ing upon the wel than th deservi THE POOR. 1 to do at this season none is mor¢ a MONG the many claims for attention that are press é New York is t of the country, flaunting paiace of luxury, and he wretchedness. Here, therefore, is at which calls for a generous, sym- pathetic consideration of the poor. he centre not only of the wealth but of its poverty. Here is the lid refuge of enerous hu » also is the squ the place whe 1 manity and a Christian charity can most amply manifest themselves in good works. For the service of the unfortunate a hundred channels are open. No man of means need withhold his hand because he does not know where, nor what, nor how to give. to solve those questions for him. respect is ample. The one issue be us hope that in no home in New Yc when Christmas comes. 7 Well-organized societies are ready The choice before him in that pfore him is, Give promptly. Let wrk will there be any lack of che A CHRISTMAS CONTRAST. at Christmas cas) HICAGO reports that her large industrial establish- ments will distribute as gifts among their employees 1 bonuses, increases of salary and shares of stock amounting to upward of $1,250,000. Philadelphia reports that the brokers of the Stock | Exchange will reduce the rate of gratuities distri uted among the employees last year, and that the banks of the city will be equally economical with respect to an increase of salaries. | The contrast in these reports cities as between the two classes of cago will distribute shares of stock brokers in Philadelphia will not. There is, of course, a reason for manufacturers during the year have made more than banks. : large manufacturing industries in Chicago have learned the Advantage of profit sharing. It appears the Philadelphia bankers have not. fe The Bee e Roy L. McCardel 2RE'S one that reads good,” sald Mrs, Jarr, looking up Sef j from the Want columns: ting Bankinson’s bell, | “No cards? peated Mr. Jarr, “Reads like wedding or a fu- neral—no flowers and all that sort of thing, What! does that mean?" | “It means that! they don't want! postal cards so people will know their business, At least that's what I think it means, replied Mrs, Jarr. “But maybe, it means they don't want eards from employment agencies. I notice when I advertise for a girl I get dozens of replies from employment agencies telling me they have any amount of excellent servants with ref- erences; but when I go to see them Te .the managers want from two to five dollars, and they'll guarantee to keep me supplied with girls for three months. If T could only get one that would stay that long! Honestly, I'd get to fee! that fine, tolerant affection the English have for old family servi- tors. ‘Don't you remember when we were a@! Skellingthorne Grange, in Warwick- @ilre, how Lady Fyfe used to go twice @ week with teu and gruel to ‘her poor Just like one used to read of in the mid- Victorian novels? “I went with her one Monday, and we Visited the cottage of old Gubbins, the edger, who was down with rheuma- tism, and a deaf old lady who was so grateful for a small bottle of brandy. “Of course, the climate in England ts dopressing, and t) ng ip bad, and the houses are so cold one has to go outdoors to get warm, and they have no bathrooms or fifteen-cent magazines or any other comfort of civilization Ike fee cream soda or chewing gum, But at least they DO have servants. “So that's why I think you might! ftop in at this address on your way downtown and see if this girl can tall English, and if she'll come cheap “Maybe, df she's big and strong and a greenhorn who doesn't know a better, we could make her do the was ing and Ironing, too. Mr#. Rengle had a girl from Sweden once, who had no yelations in this country to put foolish Ideas in her head, and Mrs. Rangie made her do al! the work, and only paid her ten dollars a month and had | her so frightened about the police she never asked for a day out, and avas getting along lovely with the xirl, who was a splendid cook and kept the house like @ pla, when the old Janitor left and a Swedivh jan got his place and told the gir] where she could et twice as much money and a da and a half out Gnd al! her evenines of. And she left without even saying ag mach as “Thanks! to Mrs, Rangle, nd Mrs, Rangle said that would be he last time she was ever kind to a irl, simply ‘because she might be a C00 or Jarr Family Mr. Jarr Fares Forth on a Wondrous Treasure Qyest Copyright, 1910, by The Prees Publishing ¢ is not so much between the two industry. Manufacturers in Chi- and cash bonuses. Bankers and this contrast. It is not likely that | But . (The New York World). Go see this girl who advertises as ‘just landed.’ I go down tn the subway and this ts away over on the eant alde, ventured Mr. Jarr. “Besides, ehe seems very sophisticated for one just landed, ‘That ‘no cards’ admonition, you know!" “Oh, very well! T suppose I'LL have to Ko! You leave everything to met!" cried Mrs, Jarr, “I've been so busy, and 1 put off trying to get out to look for @ girl because I was so hoping Gertrude might come back, She's left some of her things here," “I thought you wouldn't take Ger- trude back if she asked you on her knees," said Mr, Jarr, “She won't ask me on her knees, you may be sure of that,” replied Mra. Jarr, with @ sigh. “But I'll go down on my knees to ITER, I haven't any pride any more. Gertrude had her faults, but she was nice to the chile dren, and ehe'd have been here yet only you make it so hard for a girl.” “Me?” asked Mr, Jarr, YOU!" cried Mrs. Jarr. “You come home at any hour you feel like and expect the ginl to get your sup- per. You drop your cigar ashes all over the house and Jeave your hats and coats around on chairs and throw things on the floor and grow! if the place doesn't look like wax. If I were rich I'd hire two girls. One to do nothing but follow you around picking up and cleaning afcer you!" Mr. Jarr having now had all the lame of the girlless flat heaped upon him, was placed in the position of be- ing utterly selfish and unthinking un- less he rushed over to the east side at once and got that girl “Just landed” before anybody else landed her, He hastened on his way. (Half an ‘hour later ‘he telephoned to Mre, Jarr that a howling mob of mar- ried men seeking servants for thetr wives had blocked all the streets in the vioinity of the treasure trove. “] got @ peek at her as a police cap- tain snatched her from the mob and took her to his own home, guarded by the reserves from his station house," he added, "I may be mistaken, but 1! think {t was Gertrude, Anyway, it was one wearing what looked like your dest clothes." The Day's Good Stories ‘ Kitchener's Sarcasm. CERTAIN oman w ¢ fon WAS serv who had a large —— lb AvouT As toon BE A Mook ¢ lawrnreee | husband's heart gro rapher. w Magazine. Oh, You Ophelia! «e«« Copyngit, 1V10, by The Vress Publishing Co. (The New York World), NLOHS ME y Tavs) RENDEERS- HASTEN $- THE \1 DAVIN APPROACHES: By Helen Rowland It is 80 hard for a girl to hold her skirts just high « Why is it that as soon as one man begins paying a| mud and just low enough to escape criticism. woman alimony all the rest begin paying her attentions? _Decemb By Clare Victor Dwiggins vere e eee of a Bachelor Girl eee nla HERE ts nothing like a wife's absence to make a| helps bring in the income never strikes a man as being any reason why he Jonder—of his stenog-| should help carry out the dishes. to -scape the Another ARSENE LUPIN Story “The Hollow Needle” By. Maurice Leblanc - (Copsright, 1010, by Maurice Leblanc.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. ie reat country, house ut the Count de | yes, in. Francs ta enter M 8. Th daughter, Suzanne, and | . ece Haymonde, Be sole eg iee't, soem cto with @n armfal of plunder, Raymonde fin him. He falls, The Count de Gesvres is a Weatelone te he Beater, ie retary, Jean abbed to death, The | Count revives, but » light oo at has oe, i Les ‘ we hed — for) setae Witte. Sagiee indent iketied at midnight | mnoned They describe the One of the supnas solboy named Isido ai cleverness ia. tel ans are oral investigation odd ndveutures of the might, porters Heautrelet, who ten to sereral in the mystery. The pol \ toy Raymonde is hiding in, 8 | ru a the estate, But he cannot be f plicea Kida a famous doctor | whom they force to tend the wounded thief, Reautrelet explains to the police his own theory { the robbery. \ CHAPTER I. (Continued) VY reasoning is gust th! stripped of all extraneous comment—on the one hand, | there has been a theft, b cause the two young ladies + “You mean to say that the rest was more so? 1 remember, in fact, that when we first met you seemed to know | all about It. Let me see, as far as | Fecollect you said that you knew the me of the murderei ‘Bo J dae What's that?” eclaimed M. Fitiul. “The man whom M. de Gesvres sew in the boudoir and struggled with, the man whom the young ladies saw in the drawing room and whom Mile. de Saint Veran shot at, th in who fell in the park and whom we looking for: @o you #uggest that he is not the maa who killed Jean Deval?” "I dy.” “Have you discovered the traces of @ third accomplice who disappeared 06: fore the arrival of the young ladies?” “L have not.” “In that case, I don't understand. Well, who is the murderer of Jean Daval?” ‘Jean Davai was killed by" — Beautrelet interrupted thougat for a mom “But 1 must first show which I followed to arrive at the cer- ainty and the very reasons of the mur- der—without which my accusation would seem monstrous to you. And it is not—no, it is not monstrous at atl which ha CI are agreed and because they rea saw | There is one detail Ly {vo men running away and carrying | unobserved, and which, nevertheless, s with them of the greatest importance; and that here s been a theft.” is that Jean Daval, at the momen wore tne other band, nothing has| When be was stabbed, had all Nis appeared, t 1. de. Gesvres | clothes on, including his walking boote ‘a taade ged oh Maal h was dressed, in short, as @ man ts so, and he ts in a better post | dreswed in the middie of the day, with ion than nybody to know a walstons collar, tle and braces ‘Nothing has disappeare Now the crime was committed at + From those two premises T arrive | o'clock in the morning.” és Jat this inevitable result anted that| “I reflected on that strange fact,” sald here has*been & theft and that noth- [the magistrate, “and M. de Geavee) hh : 1 that Jean Daval spent @ pa TAD aie (he) of his nights In working.” carried has been ed by | “The servants eay, on the contrar jan exactly similar object. c he went to bed regularly at a very n to add that ssibly hour. But, admitting that he was may not be confir: why did he disarrange his bed | ¢ But f maintain that it ts goa) Orie beni iee tat he had to bed? nd, pe | first argument that ought to oce orld be gh rade iment | us and that we are not entitled to waive | it until we have made a serious exam: nation.” “That's true—that's true," Jagistrate, who was obviously ted ow," continued Teldore, “what was here in this that could arouse the covetousness of the burglars? Two things. The tapestry first. It can't have been that. Old tapestry cannot be ated. The fraud would have been vle at once. There remain the fowr Rubens pictures."* “What's that you sa “I say that the four Rubenses on that wall are false muttered tne the room im are false {ana without a doubt “I tell you, it's impossible.” “It 1s very nearly a year ago, Mon- prior, Inevitably After the honeymoon a woman begins to economize + ana| #3 | st le Jug d' Instruction, ine a Oh, ves, marriage has its advantages; a woman must have SOMETHING scented soap and a man to economize on shaves and kisses. aie hanna Aw his nice as to worry about, and nothing affords her so much opportunity for that as a| ‘ Charpenais, came to the Chateau d'Am- husband, i The chief charm of a widow is that she is wise enough to know the ad-| brumesy and asked permission to copy Men no longer regard flirtation as an art, but through which they must go in order to kiss a gi The modern marriage may be a “partnership,” but just because a woman is indifferent. merely as irl, Babbling Bess et a lot of ved tape vantage of a baby stare over a blase air. Success in the love game depends on a woman's abdility to appear indif ferent when she is in love, and on a man’s ability to appear in love when he ae By Harry Palmer Copyright, 2010, oy The ress Pupuawing Co. ne dew Yore Wor You'LL HAVE TO EITHER, TEACH Your, HiLD TO Quit BABBLING ORL Te HER OuT SCHOOL. HER TER BESS! WHAT OID Nou TELL Your, TEACHER. TO MAKE! mely foreigner. Mrs. Rangle says, ‘pose that girl had gotten into a emily that would have tmposed on her fenorance of the ways of this coun- try!" “But I'm afraid 1 won't have time to GABBLING HAS CEASED GE A dOKE. ; ING (LOOK AT THIS LerreR L Gor FROM ESS’ S TEACHER, SHE'S BABBLED COMES. WELL FIND OUT Wha IT WAS WHEN SHE HOMEt j impogtance sent thls vibes eh st eS mi my won to retum at once; urgent ke ite swered tt tacontea!ty T * 1 H 4 f C h 2 S itis od te tt Sy reoan i imely ints for ristmas Shoppers oceans * I RRA fk Couldn't Foo! Rastus, HIE shops, of counse, are catering |larly pretty, while the cherries are most letters arte @ handy commodity and sell | quisite cut steel buckles and are $5.50. OLE Binin Ase males ec | strongly to Christmas trade just attractive. The twelve hemstitahed nap- at $1.35 ¢ red tinsel ‘have very pretty a1 fund of the A. M. B, church ine | now and aul the faney goods de- | kins dave a flower in the corner, The! Folding slippers in soft lew $ ave $1 ( J wall town, orgr in New denies, Year| Partments are very, very busy, but this |set sells at $12.8 can be had for elther adults o; puld feel very come " Hr a Me, ame spirit of activity is apparent in| A dozen exquisite napkins in doira at $2 ty qu wrap sadilied Gado now ta: all other de: te Kine many | embroidery are tY¥st tn a fancy box with | Nickel extension plate warmers are s at $4.98 | At the sual me. the parmin avirachd Hastue| People prefor to give practical presents, |ribvon and bear the mark $138 much nicer than theating dishes in the) A tiny silver eitain has the medallion file, ats hime to. be eesertil are not only are special dl SL and wool mixed flannels make | oven. They sell at $%. of white metal set with briliianis and a emp hast ain't gwive for git no menes | DIAYS beng made throughout the shops, comfortable and dainty waiste, They| For the hurried note there are pads bright jJawel In the center ey are Out ob me fo" oad this wintah "| mit apeclal prices also, and many a can be had in elt ght or dark! made up of sheets of hemstitched paper very attractive and sell at $2, dominate, mattabT” asked the surprised | bargwin, with good assortments (0 se- colorinyrs wt 6 conte a yard what. seal™ to form an envelope, ‘These ew purses for children are o a | Guna belo! witout de pecuadty of mda’ tron, St | lect fr can now be had. A box of fancy neck bandings 1s 5) are very handy and can nad in blue Velvets made up to repri various | Yes, sah," was the prompt reply of tre hatt.| White Garman linen lunch sets con-| cents and @ box of neat ruchings is % |at 15 coats and in white its. animals or dolls, They will appeal to joe oF ain't foot “mew ute Ht feist of the «oth, omamented with an |cents Novelty phGto frames are of Deitt| NY little people, and are only ang ht yf rye wit J glial elaborate border in floral design, the! Pretty med leather cases, with com- | china and gel at 60 gents | et eet ations ame Gelp lia Lelegraph, purple cluiyeenthemumns Lelng parlcu- partments for anawered and unanswered = andsome gray Unme belies bave ex- plain chiffon border, They are &. ‘ | the Rubens pictures, M. de Gesvres gave him pe! jon, E day for five months Charpenals worked in this room from morning till dusk, The cop- ‘es which he made, canvases and frames, have taken the place of the four original pictures bequeathéd to M. de Gesvres by | uncle, the Marques de » no proof to give. e because it Is false; that ft is not even these four Neul and glances of unce A pleture and I con- ecessary to animard exchanged led astonisiment The Inspector no longer thought of | withdrawing. last, the magistrate | muttered | “We must have M, de Gesvres's opini ‘And Ganimard agreed: “Yes, we must have his opinion.” And they sent to beg the count to to the drawing-room. ‘The young sixth-form pupil had won a real victory To compel tw ex. perts, two professionals like M. Filleut and Ganimard to take account of his surmises Implied a testimony of re- spect of which any other would have been proud. But Beautrelet seemed not to feel those little satisfactions of se conceit and, still smiling without the | Yeast trace of irony, he placidly waited, M. de Gesyres entered the room. “Monsieur le Comte,” sald the magis- trate, “the result of our inquiry has brought us face to face with an utterly unexpected contingency, which we sub- | mit to you with all reserve It ts pos- sible—I say that it 1s possible—that the burglars, when breaking into tae house, had it as thelr object to steal your four pictures by Rubens—or, at jeast, to replace them by four copies— copies which are said to have been bmade last year by a painter called Charpenais. Would you be so good as to examine the pictures and to tell us if you recognize them as genuine? The count appeared to suppress % movement of annoyance, looked at Isi- dore Beautrelet ‘and at M, Filleul ahd \ replied, without even troubling to near the pictures: I hoped, Monsieur te Juge d’tnstruc- tion, t ) might have remained unknown, 3 is not so, | have no aring that the four pic- co , thent aning, “Why didn’t you say so?” “The owner of a WwW ne y to declare tha , is no ton it was them that tl eoret known, not to lars and to offer to buy he pictures, which they must find more or less difficult to dispose of, “How would you communicate with them?” ‘As the count did not reply, Isidore latin runs: d to buy back the picture with a Once » Was teaching bis showed hin a 1 abt about tt, my he exelain I'm beginning to think your school-fellows were quite wrong, By Jove, what e What intuition! If this goes on there will be nothing left for M and me to so ‘Oh, non complicated!’ Ganimard of this part was so very at take the trouble to dress himself from head to foot instead of slipping on any thing that came to hand? T went to bis on the first day, while you were at lunch, his gilppers w at the foot of the bed, What preve: 4 him from jutting them on rather than bis beavy natled boots?" | room |. “So far, in fact, you cannot see any. thing, except anomalies. They appeared | much more suspicious to me, however when I jearned that Charpenais the painter, the man who copied the Ru bens pictures, had been introduced and recomme to the Comte de Gesvres {vy Jean Daval himself. “Well? “Well, from that to the conctusioy }that Jean Daval and Charpenais were accomplices required but a step. [ took t step at the time of our con- versation.” A little qu: ly, T think.” ‘As a matter of fact, proof was wanted. Now | ered in Daval's room, on sheets of the blotting pad a material had discov- which | used to write, this address: ‘Mons | A. L. N., Post-€ " | will find it there still, traced the re- | verse way on the blotting paper. The next day it discovered that. the | telegram sent by the sham flyman from Saint-Nicolas bore the same addr ‘A. L. N., Post-Office 45." The mat proof existed: Jean Daval was in cor- respondence with the gang which ar J the robbery of the pictures. *jMeul raised no objection. “Agreed. The comp y is establishe And what nelusion do you draw “This, first of all, that it was not the way who killed Jean Daval, be- ca Jean Daval was his accomplice. \nd after that?” ‘Monsieur le Juge 4'Instruction, 1 | will ask you to remember the first sen- tence uttered by Mansieur le Comte when he recovered from fainting. The sentence forms part of Mile. de Ges- vres's evidence and ts in the official re- port: ‘1am not wounded.—Davalt—Is he alive?—The knife? And T witl ask to compare it with that part of own story, also in the report, in which Monsieur le Comte describes the as sault; ‘The man leaped at me and felled me with a blow on the temple!’ How could M. de Gesyres, who had fainted, know, on waking, that Daval had been stabbed with a knife?” Isidore Beautrelet did not wait for an answer t> his question. It seemed as though he were in a hurry to give the | answer himself and to avold all co! ment. He continued straightway: “pherefore It was Jew Daval who brought the three burglars to the draw ing room. While he Was there with the one whom they call thelr chief a nois was heard tn the boudolr.. Laval openea the door. Recognizing M. de Geavr he rushed at him, armed with the knife M, de Gesvres succeeded in snatching the knife from him, struck him with {: and himself fell on receiving @ blow from the man © m the two girla were to see a few minutes after.” Once again 1, Filleul and the inspec. tor exchanged glance: | his head in a dizcon | magistra’> sald: *“Manzieur le Comte, am T to believe | that this version is correct?” M, de Geevres nyad> no a “Gome, Monsiewr le Com silence would allow us to suppose—I bes you to speak." ing in a very clear volee, M. da sald e version {s correct In every pa } | gave a start. erstand why you hy conceal an ac: wfully éntitled 0 pur fe?" years,” sald M. da whked by my side. ¢ ed mic, ag t on or other, | sg, for the Bake of ery should be | the unwilling, T agree, but you t to he. of your opinion, Monsteur iy ietion, As long as no inno m Was accused of the crim ely entitled to refrain fron, ho man Who Was at the same culprit and the victim, He Ig nsider death « suMfclent pun |, “But now, Monsienr le Comte, now that the truth {s known, you can speak."* | "yes, Here aro t © rough dratts of letters written nim to his accon | plices. I took them from his pocke: | book a few minutes after his death," And the motive of his theft?” ‘ » do la Barre at Dieppe, ddress of a certain Mm, It was for this woman, whom ot to know two years ago, and to supply her constant need of mi | Daval turned thteg."" beac $7) Be Continues by one of the