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The Evening World Daily Magazine. Saturday. January 14, World. | =. Company, Nos. 63 to eal Published Daily Except Sunde; yw, Ni Ga i w, s EPH PULITZER Junior, Seo'y. 1 ANON SAN ft Sob wea ter, Oy Bubseriptlon "Rates “to The Evening |For England and. the ‘Gontinent and me ingiand and. the _Contine ‘ Road tor ae United State et | ait Counteten ity {he International | i. i - a. Your, 9075 Fens: $8 Month: wt 38 _.NO. 18,043, | VOLUME 51... BOOKS—ESPECIALLY FICTION, HE book production of the United States for the vear 1910 passed all records, the World Almanac in- forms us, in an output of over 12,000 titles—that is to say, an average of a thousand new books a month, all the year round. Al- though it has been facetiously ob- served that nowadays books are written to be published, not to be read, the Public Library statistics of New York City prove that a large proportion of the people borrow books (to say nothing of the still larger proportion who buy) for the obvious and sole purpose of reading them. During tho year just passed 1,500,000 per- sons took from the of this city 7,500,000 books. What kind of books? All kinds, but with fiction far in the lead. More novels are called for, apparently, than all other classes of literature put together. It shows that Thackeray was uttering a universal truth, and merely boosting his own special product, when he wrote: “Novels are eweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them—al- most all women. A vast number of dear, hard-headed men, judges, bishops, chancellors, mathematicians, are notorious novel readers, as well as young boys and sweet girls, and their kind, tender mothers.” There are certain other hard-headed and possibly hard-hearted men, including ¢ome public-spirited individuals who subscribe for and even donate libraries, who frown on the popular demand for current fiction. They say it is putting too much jam on a thin slice of bread. But it appears from the current quarterly bulletin published for the libraries of the State by the University of the State of New York through its travelling library department that the librarians are ready and willing to demolish this unjust prejudice. For one thing, undigested statistics of circulation do not truly represent the proportion of people who draw out books of fiction. Investigation recently made at a typical city library showed that of 000 registered borrowers only 890 drew fiction during the year; and of these, 1,050—or only seven per cent. of the library’s patrons—drew 60 per cent. of | libraries vt At the Theatre. By Maurice Ketten. the novels issued. The extensive and important use made of refer- ence books in all the public libra- ries does not cut any figure at all in the circulation statistics. More- over, a reader will go through four or five novels in the time | given to a single work of science | or histor: Even if a library be used mainly as a place of entertainment, where “best sellers” and ardent | fiction readers meet, it is doing | good work, All reading is beneficial, provided it be clean, and the light is the best, because the most appetizing, introduction to the | serious. Romance is the flower of literature, the rest is the fruit, Copyright, 1911, by Th (The N “What Trader compass on the ship. ‘The ship ts then ‘To the Kiitor of The venting World «radually swung round until her head | said, tinally Tam a young lady aged twenty-one. | rests successively on every point of the "Were vou trying T am trying to find out which one of | compass. | Wider these trades 2 tow for me to learn: | observer on board takes the bearing of | Wilile adinittea he be . 0 Bookkeeping, erthand Tursing or|the shore compass by the standard | ‘I'm not going to mantouring. Can expert readers advise | compass; at the aame tnetant, by a pre- |thia time,” suid Mra, me and thus imerest ma: oth aunt? pluady ee jl arranged sixna!, the observer on shore |to impress it upon York World), By Roy L. McCardell. 66] OOK, mamma, took!" cried the Uttle Jarr boy. sky killed a sparrow with Tis t the defunct sparrow ‘But, mamma, I couldn't hit any,” he When at rest on a point the |poor Jittle binds?” asked Mrs, Jar. Press Publishing Co, | alr gun, he?" “Tezy Slavin- bean shooter and he gave it to me!" “Oh, the poor, dear little bird!” how could you be so cruel as to stand by and see the poor ttle bird Killed and not pro- test? Master Jarr teet- I ered on one foot and looked down hamefacedly. to hit them—the had been trying. punish you for it | Jarr, “But 1 wish ou as strongly as He wants an alr gun, doesn't “He did want an air gun, but he can't “Best Chances?” ‘To the Bihor of The Evening World Will some of your wise readers ad- vise me where in America a young man of twenty-one years should best mo to make @ good living? I have been five and @ half years in this country and have worked during that time for one firm and in the city of New York 1 fina that I cannot get another post- tion here. I want to go to the part of the country that offers the best chances, M. 8. A Wors-Out Plea. To the Eéitor of The Evening World Your recent editorial, “Lock Him Up, Mr, Whitman!" echoes my sentiments 10 a dot. I am mighty glad to see euch a widely read and (nfluentia) paper take up the cause of the herd-hit deporitor victims, “Inaanity’ seems 10 be the most powerful plea of well-to-do crim!- nale nowadeys, anf ft le beyond me how they are allowed to get away with it, It surely omnnat be the fault of our w; it meg be the negligence or the tardiness of the executives of the law. “Ineanity," indeed! If any depouttors who have been #horn of thetr hard- earned @avinge should at any future tim be charged with crime “insanity please’ would not help them much, I am sure. “Steal a watoh and you go to Jail; stea! 4 bunk and out on bail, the sftuation nowedaye, 1 think. JOHN DONOVAN, ‘The Compass at Sea. To the Editor of The Evening World Replying to your correspondent who | inquired about the method of counter- acting the deviation of the compass at sea: As he mentions that deviation due to fron or ates! used in the construction of the ship, the method often in use ts | as follows: Before leaving port the ship is “ewung’ for compass adjustment, in which operation @ compass ts taken on shore to some open space, free from outside magnetic attraction, and in lens wiow of the viliver 6: vi PY) about sums up| takes the bearing of the etandand co.:-|I can that it Is wicked, cruel and wan- pass by the shore compass. This pro- ton to Kill a poor Uttle bind. See, Just a coms ia repeated on each polnt of the |feW moments ago it was alive and compass, and the deviation on any |¥fbrant with health, Its ttle eyes, Point ia the difference between the bear- ing by the standard compass and the bright and alert, It is gone, passed shore compass bearing reversed, A Het AWAY from the flowers, the blue aktes, of the deviations on each point ts post- | the fresh air, the bright au ed in the chart room for the captaina “It Was hiding out of the rain in e Use, and allowed on all courses atecred | SPOUt." sald Wille, mournful by the steering compass. In the mod- | !sn't a nice, bright day to-day at all.” ern standard compass adjustable mag- ‘Phat doesn't excuse you, Willie,” sald heis are fitted in the binnacle, which Mrs. Jarr. ‘It may be @ nice day toe ean be turned or placed in sucha ma: em ether the n= Ow |, no i oe pineed tx morrow; and, no matter whethi true bearing. ne are Weather is pleasant or unpleasant, we 1B DINGIE. | have no right to deprive a living crea- The Tariff Prop jem, ture of its existence, But now that your To the Pilitor of The Evening World I send my solution of the tariff prob- | Jom offered recently; ‘The difference be | “I was Koing to give It to the c tween the old duty and the present duty | said the abashed Wi is ® per cent, and 2 cents on each| ‘The cat!” repeated Playmate has Killed the poor litte bird, what are you golng to do with it?" knife. If the invoice price is $3,182, the| would only encourage the cat to catoh Aifference caused by the Increase of ad | tirds for itself, The cat ets plenty to valorem duty (20 ent.) would be!eat from us, It shouldn't be encour- “per cent 8.192, whieh is $626.40. 4 to Kili the little birds, elther, Bes ee e $1,118.40, which Js sides, don't you think it is @ cruel and | fet Portion of the duty’ wich ls werd unpleasant thought, the thought of the Molde: Whe thane wee ant rece cat eating a poor little bird?" knives tmported as 2) cents Is ‘What's the matter?” asked Mr. Jarr, times in $1,118.40, which is who came in at this point, Wilke has been p on the roof and Wa q rs Ge Rte ee Ivey Slavinsky killed a sparrow with aly ee, his bean shooter,” explained Mrs. Jarr, The have been travelling ° e shoot straight?" asked Mr, Jarr, Br, Panne Rees ip There you go!" cried wife and os OF Wmportance, 1 © mother, “When I try to teach kindness fore I graduated, and hon ‘ge a Meve I am as smart as the of my age. I have just passed my eighteenth birthday and have no tr nor profession to look forward to, I intend to settle down, but would lke to learn a trade or something which would be « benefit to me in later life, as I have been around enough to know that tt 18 always the trained man who makes good, 1 am of several minds as to what to do, m T seek expert reade » advice, I don't get on with parents and they ¢ t an wer AUG) oFy ain anger to mals and gentleness with ail liv- ing things you encourage the boy to do exactly what I tell him not to." ‘The little boy looked from one of hts parents to the other, and Mr. Jarr saw that he must side with the gentler in- | Quedices in fife, “Oh, 1 didn't mean tt that ay," he said hurriedly, “I want our Willie to be alert and manly and foremost in all sports and athletic exercises, ike—er, shooting with a bean shooter or a putty of course use it would be average What's the matter with Willie? Can't | geconds! |which are now dull and glazed, were| sie Bay catamaran! It's imbecile enou And then again the fellow who Says himself detached from that palm-callousing job! ‘The chirper who is always peeving, 1s classy enough to get his way! “Just-as-Good" Be ready for the Fish- who can be Bluffed out of Your Own Jackpot! ‘The fellors in the giaes-bottomed Catalina Island to-day, ‘Cheer Up, Cuthbert!” What’s the Use of Being Willie Jarr Displays Sportsman Instincts; So Does His Mother, but Only on Her Hats. have one,” said Mra. Jarr, “and I wish shoot sparrows, you hadn't reminded him.” “If you’ get me an air gun I won't| them, because cats are Blue? There Is a Lot of Luck Left. By Clarence L. Cullen (DOES occasionally come out of his hole! Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York World), F {t's our move let's make this Getaway Day for the Goblins! The difference between the Groundhog and the Grouch 4s that the former Our idea of Being Ready for the Slag Heap is when we develop the fool notion that nobody can Put the Skide Under Us! If we could our Doppelganger we'd change our Mod. Johnny-on-the-Spot is a Man of Action, but Buttinskt ts @ Man of Mouth Many a man who grandiloquently quotes “I am the Captain of My Fate" couldn't successfully captain a Canar- It keeps some of us 80 busy hearkening to Premonitions of Approach Trouble that we haven't time to attend to the Regular Job! ‘ow, if I had my wa nyed Guy in the Game who sizes YOL Some of us wouldn't be so keen to Tell Our Troubles if we ‘Them in a Rain-Barrel! To-morrow ie a Mystery—but it may be THE Day! h to dream about Picking Up Money when we're asleep. But about Thirty of Those Days is what we need for indulging in that Bunk | Dream whilst we're awake’ fothing and Saws Wood often fatis to get varely or never A Mollusc doesn't have many Mental Processes, but he sure knows how to Jarr. “Nhat | Stick Around! That well-known eketch team, Always-Right and Never-Wrong, are so used to The Hook that they carry one as part of their Prop ‘There are plenty of Stars’ Dressing Rooms that are occupied by Nebulae! Temptation just nachully loves the near-Ajax who double-dog-dares him! ‘The Boss says that Day Dreams are fine things on a Day Off, but that they never helped him to Balance a Ledger Article is manufactured for the Man who Smokes ‘ up as the one had to Holler | Adversity hates to be hugged—he'd rather have you cut and run! boata are catching big tuna off Santa But, seeing as how we can’t make tt, more power to ‘em! Many a man who caves under a Bunch of [ttle Annoyances turns around 1s thing to let him have an and fights like a Beardog when bit by @ Big Wallop! Lu Copsright, 1911, by The ['ress Publishing Co, (The New York World) honest I wont,” sali "11 only shoot cats wt cruel and the little boy. the poor little bint “No, Willie,” said his mother solemn: ly, “you must not shoot the poor vat either, They can feel pain, and we must not be cruel to any living creature, whether it be of fur or feathers.” ‘And if you promise to be as good as your mother tells you, here is five cents | to go to the moving picture show.” And Mr. Jarr passed over the plece of money and the child hurried off. “There, he'a lef ered Mrs. Jarr. “Call him back!" But he was gone too far to be re- called. “Oh, dear, I euppose I'll have to giv it ito the cat,” said Mrs. Jerr. a hat with," “I came near asking you why scolded the boy for killing a sparrow or rather aiding and abetting in its | taking off—when you are wearing dead | | birds on your hats,” said Mr. Jarr. ‘I had nothing to do with the done aa Ta antie ct has ha Had seats virds on my hats," said Mra. Jarr, only pought the hats and I don’t know | whether they are genuine birds or no! There's so much trickery tn plumage these days.” “So it is all right #0 long as wome: don’t see the Jarr. ‘Or see then afier they've just been! was “They look so| But when they're on @ hat killed," sald Mrs. Jarr pathetic. it's another matter.” “Um sure no woman would wear fur either if she saw the animals killed, sald) Mr. Jarr “They are 80 expensive one doesn’ have much chance ko worry over that, said Mrs. Jarr. Still Romin’ Off. ‘the dead bird: ‘7 wonder what sparrows were made for? They are too smal! to eat or to trim you ds Killed?” asked Mr, | out to him, dad, who were the Roman-, Madame, my teacher, told me so and under her enlightening tutelage I felt it jome branch of the Hyde family, been used to thrill to lo 1911) The Week’s Wash. By Martin Green. “ce ¥ alleged brain Spinning ‘The tawyers, who caused all the trowtie, M like a top,” remarked the |are safe, their profession af head polisher. “I have read | protection. Fortunately and re-read the|munity, most of us leci offer of the B. R.|tions that ¢o to make ‘T. to operate the | lawyer.” new subways, and I don’t know any more about It now than I did before I saw it.” } As to Friend ‘That is be- elusive fellow cttizen, Blue- cause it was Eyed Billy Sheehan, #tands framed up by law- | good show to cop the Senatorship)” us: at A aid the! gested the head polisher. al aundryman.| “Being accustomed to mingling wit MARTIN GREEN You might im-|the hy a lot,’ replied the laundry- agine that railroad men should formu- | man, “I think I can truthfully state that | late a proposition to equip and operate | trend people, generally speaking, care a raliroad. If so you are away behind | not three hoarse hoots who gets the | the times. Railroad men would make \« straight out-and-out offer. Corpora- | tions seeking to pay dividends on | watered stock or to add more water to thetr stock would be going against the | rules of the game if they put out any- | thing on the level | “By & gtadual revolution of business and polition! methods we have become |@ lawyer-ridden people. Back of every | | Industrial or business movement of any | United States Senatorship. The people | size you will find all the way from two | are more or less cynical—e state of mind to a dosen lawyers manipulating the | growing out of the continual experience | stringe—and always to their own ad-| of getting the razoo from the politicians. | ] vantans “Phe people know that the patriots “Lawyers predominate in our Legis- | whode friends are pushing them for the latures, State and national. They make genatorship have been working for jour laws and nobody can understand months for the job like a man digging j them but the lawyers. When an at-! nimself out of an avalanche. The people | tempt ts made to enforce the law it 18; know about how patriots take the pre- lawyers who are retained to combat the jiminary ateps on the way to the United | States Senate, When {t is all over the people will remark, ‘Oh, very well,’ or | words to that effect, and go on about | their own business. There is not a great | deat of public interest over the contest for a position where Thomas Collier | Piatt represented the express compantes and Chauncey M. Depew represented the railroads so ably and effectually for {many years. attempt, ‘Things have reached a stage | yi where we are forced to believe that lawyers deliberately muddle things #0 that other lawyers may draw fees fer | trying to straighten them out | “At the present time some of the big- | 667 SEE." said the head polisher, | gest trusts in the country are fighting | “that they've found Chamberlain ad 3 HE papers seem to think our errr } Out of the Frying Pan. j Enea nae anaaeaeeaaed | for their livés before the Supreme | Hyde in Florida.” Court of the United States. The fight| “Well,” eald the Inundrymea, you 1s being conducted by the highest: | = priced lawyers in the country. form me that the race would be ‘ 7 ; fat four lap track, and it Some of the lawyers who are fight- ff ck, was only Ing ty pull the trusts out of a hole pid CoKen down that I found out were extremely active in digging the > da sums for advice that got the trusts into }d shape and, besides, there was a trouble, and are now charging immense Fe that the bookies might eee my sums for advice on how to extricate {tlon and give us chance to play them, thereby getting said trusts com- remaining beans to advant, tng and going, wiich Is something that | nave to hand it to him for cousietenc: nobody but a jawyer could do. When it got too hot for him here he “There was a time when lawyers con-| went to a warm climate.” fined their efforts to keeping clients out ° yf troubl: ttt th it of trouble. ‘Then care the development of| Carnegie on Prodigality. trouble. Then came the development of NDREW CARNEOIS talked This | A +| the corporation idea and the formation of trusts and holding compante brofigiows end cetentations 1 ° of a certain idea cultivated the Inwyer of the type br iooite 3 referred to by a noted financier, WhO) «je takes 0 Valeequen” eld Me it into three stripe oo that $8 United on a screen, Paul Bourget told @e werld abou! | that. And I heard the other day encther : | about him. here are many lawyers who can! “"\\ Sttieman was being shown over the $8,000, a you what you can’t do. But thte| 900 palace of one of these millionatres, | lawyer can tell you what can do,’ | teman stopped before on enormous mlewer 6 ‘om advising clients how to avold |"“"iivist @ large and perfect glass! Pity it’ violations of the law, lawyers came to scratched!’ aa) said, in speaking of an eminent attor- | “and ney, now a Senator of the States: advising them how to evade the law,| |" ‘lt is rather 8 pity. + | It was only a question of time until the | Sariesls: and Mimiee to Ne ay more blow-off was due, and it has arrived. !:o play with, Maurice,” nd 2 The Story of a Jilt —:By Herself: Copyright, 1VL1, Ly The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), SYNOPSIS. entucky girl, is engaged to Prevtim Buckner, a rich middle-aged man, She ts equi Rin. i SSifege boy. | Buckner finds Ber alone ‘with Jatk and. on the explanation, we CHAPTER 11. (Continued. HAD the explanation ready, and it was @ plausible one, But eudden!: it came to me, with an access of fury, that this man would merel listen to it quietly, and then with cool mookery release me from th engagements; that he Intended to withdraw, but that he intended 10 ‘amuse himself first. Had he stormed or raged I could have won him But he wanted to make me perform for him; he wished me to plead, that he might enjoy {t. And I determined to be defore- hand with him, So instead of explaining I remarked, coldly: ‘An explanation would be easy enough 1f’— 1f? n “Ie T thought {t worth while to make one. Here is your ring.” And I aeld it f Self-possessed as he was, a tinge of color crept over his face, But his voice ontrod as he said, still politely. hank you. ‘That saves me the painful necessity of asking for it” hat is immaterial, 1s it not?" I asked, “I mean whether you ask for it or not? The main point 18 that I do not care to wear it any longer.” And I turned rs| half from him. *| He arose and stood there like @ disconcerted schoolboy—for an ingtant all his savoir faire was gone. I had turned the tables on him, Then suddealy, without 't) warning, he took @ step toward me, his face flaming, and el his real “ness sparkling in his eyes, ‘You clever little devil," he cried, and caught me by the arm. I etruggted, but he drew me toward him and kiseed me again and again. ‘Tou clever little ‘ devil,” he repeated, “I've taken that from you, anybow! What @ wife you’ make for me if you were only honert!”” He released me, and I tumbled a@ the consciousness could marry him yet if I only said the word—it I only |him, Had I loved him but the least little bit I might | moment at its helght was too great a temptation for trionic opportuntty as I had never thrilled to love. I merely opened it and made one gesture toward it with my was gone every woman knows, Chapter III. \LISON could always be depended on to do the graceful-thing in sis-or at any other time, for the matter of that, as the hasmeny of er life bore witness, And she did the graceful thing for me-an@ with me—when my engagement to Prentiss Buckner came to this unexpected end, She just picked me up, trousseau and all, and transported me overse: And she Was generous as well as graceful in her rescue, for she @G@n%t even tion me, 1 am still grateful for that. Whatever my faults, I heve always heen quick to see and appreciate the generosities of women to women, They ate so much more frequent and so much more beautiful than has ever been admitted. Aunt Alison and T lived in Europe five years, and for the greater part of that time in Paris, where I at once began to study singing, T had always sung with the ease and Joy of a thrush, and though I had not @ great votce it had been thought “promising’’—an indefinite word which covers often « multitude of shortcomings as well as possibilities, I heard in tt only the possibilities, ang was confidently the star pupll of the Shelbyville Academy's vocal department. Now, I believed myself fitted, by nature at least, for a prima donna’s career, I was fitted for it by nature, in one sense at least. I had “the temperament.’ to life within me, I used to thrill to my finger tips as I sang—thrill as I (To Be Continued.)