The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1911, Page 19

Sone en eeeeteg Li rete ere mpen ~ ~— aE The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday, “ The First Lady The Best Cowboy Story in Ten Years fs ETALY, ; oF ET \\ SAY, POP, GIMME FIVE SAY, POP, T_ONNY NE SEVENTY: Soubce G GoLtARS- E inthe Land” Uj PENNIES - I NEEO SOME UA EEN TS FOR A PRESENT ANT GUY SOME By Charles Alden Seltzer MONEY FOR CHRIS'muS.| ESENTS (Cowra, 1011, ty. the Outing Pvbtiehing inten” “Mie, symone’ Be, eine, aa PunonD! ran, | bothert ‘Dave @ heap, a in’ Dave @ heap.” ote « ey Stafford eniled coldly and wae ebest 7 ' arop- inaneger the ping from hia pony et the corral gate, or tag aUer ile | Following Stafford’s gase, Rope also @b- < ‘urgisit, coment the ranch, ao | eerved Ferguson. He looked wp at * tor stray. cattie, On Ge | Gtaftord. ” ¥ at Pianeta and 8) New man?’ he questioned. a an Hadtord, (& neluhboring rancher, : has | Stafford nodded. He had invented « come fo material for @ conte povel, u-| plausible etory for the presence Waele rach Tite “Moat of the feattt, | eueon, Sooner er later the boys rween Leviatt and. Fermuson an. tn: outfit. Therefore, tf he advanced hi be ive Sn ee Pp, ieee be pate vowel to. know Nhe Two Blmest | #tory now there would ture later, Son toe Fenquson's iresrnce at th CHAPTER VII, Tou ove bave got enough to 40,” be The Measure ofa Man. | $1": ee ee aa t RING the week following a te oa vet ne beep of Gime Ferguson's arrival at the Two | at it.” writs be o . sance upward ertoned \ Too Flirtatious. BY CHARLES DARNTON. wetting her Quaker cap first for one man and then another and then, ap- Parently, not being altogether satisfed with the huevand she gets, Dolly Mad- {gon 80 confuses the romantic issue in “The First Lady in the Land” that he play becomps something of a puzzle. The author, Charnes Nirdiinger, may justly contend, of course, that @ vain woman ts very apt to behave In this fashion as long as her looks hold out. Only her mirror can tell her when to stop. But after the second act, at least, a stage heroine who expects to win the sympathy of her audienq should de- clare herself in unmistakable terme and let the good people out in front eee that her heart is working steadily. One trouble with the play ts that Dolly te too flirtatious. To give her the benefit of the only doubt thet can be emertained, it is barely possible that a peculiarly feminine sensp of pride keaps her from being honest with herself. Even the child who had an upper box all to herself at the Gaiety Theatre on Saturday afternoon must have seen that Dolly was in love with Aaron Burr and that @he would have a pretty dull time of tt with James Madison. Mr, Nirdiinger evidently felt he EY Diemond ranch Mafford saw} Rope shot Very iittie of him. Mornings|¢the manager’e back, ‘Then he = urtively. eaw him proceed to the cor-|""inwo.gun,” he observed quietly; ral, catoh up his pony, mount and de-|., wae petwere Dart. He returned with the dusk. Sey-| With the bottoms of his 7 eral times, from {|down, I reckon your stray-men afm’t ford ‘hed soon him ride away in. tne| {2 £0 be monkeved with,” moonlight. But Stafford had told his story emé Ferguecn 414 hia own cooking, for the| KNOW that within a very Hetle time cook had accompanied the wagon outit| ope Would be telling tt to the ether down the river, Stafford aid not aeck|™men. So without answering he walled out the new man with instructions o:|toWard the ranchhouse, Before Be advice; the work Ferguson was engaged |retened It he saw Leyiatt unseddling @& in he must do alone, for if complications | *! corral gate. coukin’t afford to ignore the historical fact that Dolly married Madison and “got on” in the world at a pretty feir chp That's the worst of historical facts thet stand stubbornly in the way of a Playwright who may havp romantic no- tions of his own, Working againet these odds, Mr, Nird- Mnger has done more, probably, than he counted upon, for Burr alowly but surely becomes the most interesting fig- Mise Ferguéon ae Dolly Todd. "sn the play. The only thing against @0 far 4 Dolly is concerned, te his reputation for saying more than he to ‘wWamen, and because of thie she keeps a curd on her tongue. But the os has no reason to doubt his sincerity. Nor is it allowed to forget him. he fen't on hand to speak for himself, Dolly talks of him or seems to be should happen to arise tt waa the man ager'a business to know nothing. The Two Diamond ranch was not un- Uke many othera that dotted the grass Plains of the Territory, ‘The intermin- able miles that separated Stafford, from the nearest did not prevent him from termined—and distances thus determined were nearly always inaccurate, traveller inquiring for his destination ‘was expected to discover ft somewhere in the unknown distance, The Two Diamond ranch had the en- viable reputation of being “slick"— referring to that particular owner as | “neighbor,” for distances ware thus de- | When Ferguson, with his saddle ea his shoulder, on his way to place ft on tts accustomed peg In the fean-to @@- joining the bunkhouse, passed C3 was by the merest accident that one ef the stirrups caught the cinch buckle ef | Rope's ‘saddle, Not observing the tangle, Ferguson continued on his way. He halted when he felt the stirrup strap drag, turning half around to eee what was wrong. He smiled broséiy at Rope. “You reckon them sad@les are ee quainted?” he said Rope, deftly untangled them. “I aft thinkin’ they're relations,” he returned, grinning up at Ferguson, “Leastways I never knowed a ‘double cinch’ an’ @ which meant that Stafford was indus- nh of him. It is for her, acoord- 2 Writt id ‘centre * to gi 1 eh cig ie ca secn'a aaa Sandman Stories ©) vittsrrstea By Eleanor Schorer { |}. T he Ppearance of unugunl neatnas, [centre fw’ 10 git teal SRUMBELS g aclence of irrigation. A fence skirted |fuson, his eyes gleaming cordially; ‘an’ hig bulldings, another ran around a|l've knowed men to lose thelr tempers Aiscussin’ whether w centre fire or a falp Aoesn't help her. Interest centres He wins the sympathy of the Papers Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). audience ¢rom the beginning, and when foes. mut of the door in the end to fave that celabrated trial at Richmond the play goes with him. ‘This may be cxplained by the fact that Frederick Perry, who playe Burr, more about acting than the other rs of the company. His perform- distinguished for tte ekill, polbe ml \rm. Miss Fisio Ferguson is by 0 | ™ \e wanting in physical charm. I he is @ deckledly pretty wom- an, tl h she can acaroely be called a twain, actress. Her enthusiasm seoms to lead her astray until she fairly shouts, This is her greatest fault. But there are morpents when her Dolly is more than a merely pretty thing, when tena. “es and womanly understanding hold fo-th promises of @ bright if not brillant goture, Training !s what Mies Verguson needs. Sho is inclined to for- ket little things, including her Irish dladect. Lowell Sherman looks well as Mfadl- son, and may, perhaps, be forgiven for being unintoresilng. Miss Florence Ed- ney ie amusing, though a bit obvious, as Lady Merry, who vents her spite upon the “yahoos” with a free tongue, In the further interests of comedy strange diplomats come to dinner at the White House while the President, with true Frederick Perry as Aaron Burr. The Brave Hunters. (8, little children, is a story of | the adventure of two little boys in @ Strange Land. “Quick, Bobbie! There goes a big Non!" called Johnnie. “Awh! You just missed him. Sh! don't you care! Here comes a herd of elephants! Don't you hear them crashing through the jungle?" “Bure,” answered Bobbie. ‘Here they @re! Get behind that bush! Hurry! Don't be so slow! Ready! Fire!’ Bach lad shot once, and the whole herd of fiften elephants dropped dead on the gpot! Proud as peacocks, Bobbie and John- nie walked up to the fifteen enormous beasts, which lay quite still about a hundred feet away, ‘Well, said Bobble, throwing out hin chest, ‘when once we take these back to New York we will be rich, AW- FULLY rich!" ‘And they pratsed themselves for their Good shooting. In the midst of this they heard @ loud snort, and, upon turning saw two gigantic rhinoceroses heading thelr way. * Bobbie and Johnnie took alm and jlarge area of good grass, forming pasture for his horses, His bulldings | were attractive, even though rough, for they revealed evidence of continued care. Hts renchhouse boasted a sloped Say By Fohn L. Hobble Convo. #83. ee Eop fmm Co URING a retent French duet D one of the combatants was but another Industry. He had 1 in tie youth Stafford had lived on a accused of eneezing without | tarm and he remembered days when his ent. father had sent him out into the meadow asking the pardon of his oppon to,drtve the cows home for the milking. ‘© were many other things that A rich man says it should be the ford had not forgotten, for chickens scratched promiacuously about the ranch, ambition of every man to die Poor.) varg, occasionally trespassing {nto He has devoted his life to helping | sacred precincts of the garden and the flower beds. His horaes were properly others carry out this ambition, let during the cold, raw days that Inevitably: his mon had ttle to Reading the beauty hinte of an au-| complain of, and there was a general atmonphere ‘of . thority convinces that being deauttful | tire ranon, . DronPerity over the en requires the same precaution as being| But of late there had been little con- pgs tentment for the Two Diamond man- |ager. For #tx months cattle thieves —— | had been at work on his stock, The re- A perfectly honest man went into) sult of tho spring round-up had been ‘ar from satisfactory. He knew of the speculation to clean up a fortune, DUE) ocistence of nesters in the vicinity; one lost. The man who won 48, of course,|of them—Radford—he had suspected double cinch was the most aatistyin’.” me men is plumb fools,” returned Rope, surveying Ferguson with nerrow, pleased eyes, “You didn't obsetve that the saddles rode any easier after the ar- gument than before?” “[ didn't observe. But mebbe the men was more satisfied. Let @ man angue that somethin’ he's got ts better’n eome- thin’ that another fellow’s got an’ he falls right tn love with his own—an’ goes right on falling’ in love with it, Nothin® en ever hie mind efter an er- ument.” I know @ man who's been studyin’ human nature,” observed Rope, grinning. “An’ not wastin’ his time arguin’ foo! questions,’ added Ferguson. ° “You sure ain't plum greenhorn,” de- elared Rope admiringly. * “Thank yu," smiled Ferguson; *‘1 wasn't luokin' to ee whether you'd e-teeth either.” “Well, ,"* gemarked Rope, r.sing and ehouldering hie eaddle, fe ale most convinced me that @ double cinch ain't a hegilor y=! Geoms to make a ® man'e hungry an’ right close to the place where he's goin’ to feed," ald Fergugon sta “he hadn't ought to bother his head about nothin’, * « ded (WER RERTARET RS eAR REE RRR ARRE RS Pere es upon evidence wubmitted by the range} + ¥ hand at a thief. boss, “Radford had been warned. 40 | cne™ cio heesasned Tote delighted vacate Bear Fiat, but tne warning had| with h A man cuts off his wife and leaves iy bp eggs Soma tan Soveral of the men we jut one other course waa left, and Nis fortune to a lawyer. He provavly | cianont had adopted that. There had! on itd ee Th knew the lawyer and determined to} neen no hesitancy on the manage which they performed their ablutt let hia money take a short cut to dte| parti ho must protect the Two Dia-| was not delicate, but It was thorough, Jeffersonian simplicity, remains out of eight. This reminds me that Dolly as-/4..4 put, alas! the rhinoceroses’ ski: puree the fat wito of tho Minister from the Netherlands that ahe looks “out of| oes o ina and the bullet wlanced @At,” proving that slang at least knowe neither period nor place. oft! The first thing the boys thought of All this grows a bit tiresome, In fact, after the second act the play drags! was to run, And they certainly DID joe pread aimlessly. St! "The First Lady in the Land” has a certain charm/iin: with the rhinos after them— described as ‘quaint, Uckety split! —- 2a ——— | On! How frightened were Johnnie . mond property. Sentiment had no place} And when t had been removed and Bobbie! Even though they ran with final resting place. in the situation whatever. ‘Therefore| their faces shone with the dusky all their might, the rhinos were gaining naa toward Ferguson's movements Stafford | jealth-bloom that told of thelr bard, jfast. They did not dare look back, tor both knew that the animals were very Now the snorting sounded in their And the hot breath af the first beast fell upon their cheeks! When, muddenly—they awoke! The two brothers sat up in bed and “a adopted an alr of studied indiffererce, | healthy method of living. Letter postage will be reduced to) ores ntiny, trom what he had seen of| Men” of various ages, were there one cent?” This will save the 04 | the man, that he would eventually ride| grizzled riders who saw me world, housands of dollars at,|in and report that the work whtch he] through the introspective eye of expert~ business men day de ; Ni had been hired to do was fintshed. ence; young men with thelr enthusiasms, the expense of the Government, ‘Toward the latter end of the week the! their impulses; middle-aged then whe the loss can be easily paid by rassing | wagon outfit etraggied in. They came in much of Iife—-enough to de able singly, in twos and threes, bronzed, the tazes of the emall corresponder. | Ti)" seasoned young men, taciturn, _ serene eyed, capable, They continued | seit-reliant, unafraid. The hotel keepers are anrtous to| to come until, thei ere twenty-seven uson and Rope entered Ge of them. Later in the day came the] yunkn find a way to stop the tipping evil.| wagon and the remuda, ready cate, Ferguson and Rope took How would it do to pay the waiters a| From a period of calm and inaction ces at one end of the long table and 3 ng [the ranch Now awoke to life and mover | began eating: No nicetios of the eon salary; or would that reduce the | ment, ‘he bunkhouse was scrubbed—| ventions were observed here; the men profits? be “swabbed” in the vernacular of the ate each according to his whim and cowboys; the ecant bedding was “oured”| wo; mune from eriticism. in the whi light; and the cook was) tiquette was a thing that would adjured to extepd himself in the prepa-| nave mpailed thelr joy of eating. ration of “ohuck” (meaning food) to| wag « primitive country; their repay the men for the lack of good) ton primitive; thelr Manner of things during a fortnight on the OpeM| no jess so. They concerned themecives I yetty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers Ash Her If She Cares. tated fe onde at etch other Thae I’ you want to find out whether or not a girl cares for you, in dreamland, they both laughed aloud - hee e EE but the only absolutely eafe and sane way is to €o and ask and Roddie sald: her. | “I guess we ate too many animal I have told this ever eo many times, but some of you) crackers just before the Sand Man came etther don't, understand it or don’t believe it even yet-|to visit us last night. Don't you think “She is very nice to me and I think she cares for me, but | so, Johnnie?” how ghall I find out?’ ‘She lets me call on her every week, | aoe sonst ca ‘and has nothing to 4o with any other young man, Does she| really love me?” “She 1s the only girl I have ever looked put how can I tell whether she feels the same way I do?" Every day young men write me these letters. Some Good Stories of the Day subhata ? Just remember that the custom of several centuries has | range with the Plot ae diy: tavacea |e little with the customs of a wend that go nice girl can confess her love without being ; you tell me to take my bute off! answered ) Mr, Sanderson, bitterly, ‘‘are well aff—well off, o in Rope | o¢ which they hoard very little. q mcenisecreed th se caahtuiness ties your tongue, Young man, re- Food for Thought. The Wrong Place. Koma adheres piueig dn the Calhoun’ we of the term, Jones, a tall, the young Puncher, whove |" Nor did they bolt thelr food stlendiy= ec dapeesapdeeed ‘Tnposee en even more rigid ellence upon her. And don't | VAPT. PRESCOTT of the Fifth Infantry was | [oy OBINSON, having tacked down e new linoleum | y,.¥! Wald . Clay Cathoun, testifying tn a case tn court, | BATE THO That ceaeslonaiin found | af has been recorded of them by dem member that convention i cad ett ly | Tending a long hike in the Philippines, Food R fn the kitchen, retired to bed, leaving, as | "008 eof one Washington White ax ‘weil of the wild horses that occasionally found | who knew them little. If they aid eet orm) hesitate any longer about putting | gave out and his command was forced to re- thoughtful husbands often do, his hammer “*Now, gitness,’ said the cross-examtning o ee Dh it wae because the rai ya ss 1 epoke to him about the matter he |ort to the emergency rations, which conslat of con: | and nails eizewn bt the Noor MINN | ing well come to it er 9; | lawyer, “when you declare White to be well off olling his @addie leathers, Sittin prordis yee or ceadll as Does She Care? first denied and then apologized. What | “aes font of one kind end soother, 1 1n the early hours of ‘the moraing Bult 1"* ® Dovmin’ tn (ack Nectory So 195 manal 1s be worny €20,00N babes oblate Sie Dusk house he instant attention. And they did not over= es . | The captain was riding past some negro roldiers kite! ee. No, sah, Mah gracious, no, aware of Stafford standing near. Bry noeany “ wlshan I 4 it?” at bi 4 old neat F y cf Cygenpe te {curus would have tome Bante a arn Streets RA Ste leeaeveiat’ om) miner ne) et Delightfully Situated, | Zap rors for OU teviatt come in? queried tho man] f° ginpieity of thet food, CORR i writes: ‘ | Cap'n,” said the sergeant, through the window ai e REMY SANDPRSON, the well-known socto. | ““Then how fa he well off?" . “ on Was mingled with every mouthéal Tees: twenty: venen ohh @nd|'0 Ue ROMY! GHISEN IMINO YONA AO) sariat te i117 Kitchen, A few seioutes, pemed ‘When eudden logist. of Duluth was condemning ‘the inter: | ‘"‘Bekase, sab, hia wife am en A No, 1 wad>| Th@ Dunoher grinned. “Nope, Last I) + one end of the table eat an {ful girl two years] ¥O% quite within his rights in calling| we-all don't like these yere imaginary | Bj!l received @ blow in the eye from his national marriage. lady end keeps ho hull family in bang-up style,’ | @een of Dave he was hittin’ tho breez¢| .jare, with no man on the benoh in college. A Sp 4 My ‘a box of nut|°? two girls, Satunlay Evening Post, “What's the matter?’ gasped Bill. Midn't! “Those foreigners that take our girls,” said! —Washington Ster, toward Bear Flat Said he'd be in|,” «pnig was the place reserved Sor Sit) younger than I sends me - = Se aa Be nae aaa amen . pn —_——-— Laviatt, the range boss, Next ¢o fudge twice a week, Do you think she y, | tids place on the right was seated a < OF) loves me?” ™.* | good-looking young puncher, whose age | | 4 might have deen estimated at twenty: 1 ctmaegaal At the moment Ferguson settled tato te New Year's Call, hig seat the young man was filling the Ps ” room with rapld talk, This talk had GIRL who signs herself “B. B: ON sik. MAY T been fnoonsequential and concerned only } writes: * \sir Besive You ? ries to'eene S| | Sammy and the Subway; the Quest of a Seat -atettie Clare Victor Dwiggins| | oc. heen ae Fs, those ema! detalles owngg whiok = 14 ot to be married, bother during our leisure, But now 1 am engas: ' Rowan talk "veered tod he wae guadenly tell at gave promiae : Jumpricunce— f Atrovl me To SiR Erampie OF / tonsecudivenese and universal interest. \F You DONT PLL Re You Eneaceod |\ Recover IT = ENGINEERING? | Other volces died away as his arose, JUMP RIGHT OUT . \ Re maRKABLE! “Levtatt ain't the only one,” he was h tt be proper for me to receive Year's calls from some of my MAY You 2! mer e@weothearts ‘es, be a call on thi) date is @ abeQ hing. ing. “She ain't made no exception ES aa ips OF This Window! ' 5 : |Sath ony or the outfit. To my kaowin las -mnuary and May. J there's been Lon. Dexter, Scapy, Clam 7s ry ” Milk Lasy, ri jes—an” a Lier who signs herself “C, D, ae ted, reddening, 3 en, Bot “a that was maveric an’ our "I am eighteen and iny gare marked. An’ pow comes Lavatt at wanta mo to marry a man much older fannin’ right on to get his’, Am TE than myself. I do not Jove him, and I . ckon he'll get ét-* at 49 want to marry a young man of - 2 . | You ain't tellin’ what she sald when si ’ ve known f | she give you your'n,” sald e votos, twenty-one whily toys: moma, tor < ‘There was & laugh, through whieh the moe tite: V8) WEN a ss \ ae - youth emerged amiling broadly, Don't marry. the, older man, as su Z p ‘ ho waid, “I ain't tellin’, “But dhe arriages are soldom happy, But T Soapy here that sho waa lookin’ for ba. while, before marry- m 7 local color, Wanted to know if he was 2 4 ? | Since then Soapy’s been using a t rt lot of soap, tryin’ to rab 9 color into his face, Culor Was tn Soapy'y face now, Be eat directiy opposite the slender peuth Bsbsh a domnd | GIRL who elgne perselt "A, N.” writes: id his chooks wore orlmaon, A young man has been calling 2 "T roolton {f you'd Keep to qreth” or ar eat eae Now I —— he began, Oday pased he many to ( onto the next,