The evening world. Newspaper, February 6, 1912, Page 15

oo lees The Evenin LE CANT Sec NUTTIN’ An Impossibility 6y CHARLES DARNTON d . 7 the Fulton Theatre last night a desperately good-natured audience wes A offered the rare privilege of paying two dollars for a ten-twenty-thirt’ . melodrama, for “Making Good" certeinly looked more ike thirty cents than anything eise. At the same time it proved a great targain by bringing longeforgotten Third avenue to Broad- way without extra charge. And still we ask for transfer Manager W. A. Brady evidently hoped for the best, but for once in his life he didn't take any chances by appear- tng before the curtain, The author, Owen Davis, was equally careful, Mr. Davis called his four-act arrangement cf the Maine woods and a New York drawing-room—take off your boots and put on your pumps'—"'a drat But, as IT hope to die laughing, ‘Making Good” 1s an impossibility. Nothing could be further from lif than the winter trip we took to Maine last night. ‘Tho only thing that saved it from being &@ huge joke was the serious WwW IGotener [Gotecner e ON THE Leap Year Holdups * ,(0,'s acting of William Courtenay as the lox- jamming hero who cleared the way that keemed not only clogged but cluttered. ‘The fact that he managed to keep his tace straight while staring at the ridicu- lous fate that was leading him on to the high-rolting #peech about the tm- potuous logs turned loose by the stage carpenter went to show that this lesd- ing man may be depended on in any emergency, no matter how far-fetched. x f Nothing ‘unnier has happened since Doris Keauc a6 Deronda veane, sr Courtenay and Miss Dorls Keane ure them on with “The Lights o’ London.” But that was a revival, while “Making Good" never seemed more than a forlorn hop: Mr. Courtenay and Mic: Keano hung upon the lightest word of the sertous @uthor, but every word was ke a rope around their necks, This rope could not strangle the laughter of the spec- tators when the mother of the hero, in her kindly attempt to get a Ine on simple, pine-reared hi inquired, she a good girl?” And after that Miss feane wis « liged ty come forward in a red cap that added to the Joy of ihe occasion. The strong moment of the play was ‘fully realized by the audience when Mr. Courtenay found | massary to knock ‘out the “lu r-jac who was deter- “mined that “Miss Keane should remain tn the woods for rest of her day’ lowod Mr. Brady to not to mention the long, st nts, At his thrilling polut “Making * made wood as a “play with a punch." The spendthrift hero, abandoned by his New York father In the Maine wwoods, loved every step that the little “schon teacher took toward the counter of the “Keneral store’ he started whey , bis spoiled parent turned right around (and went back to New York, Mie rival floored him in ‘he opening ferap, but he fully on a diet of at he won the ¢ dslon in the end. Nothing could ston hilw blows after his general store was called by the curtain at the nd round, and after getting Into evening clothes in Now York the shifty here danced Into the Maine woods again aid won @ %0,000 purse for hip father Sy sending logs worth that emount down the river, This time he dised a little dynamite to give added power to his miguty right. As he paused “It was splendid! Tho ditile heroine gurgled ‘Don't be stll And zms Uke a good girl—in a bad play An “Aeromania’”’ Notoriety Seeker. [ieee the aviator, first attracted | the English Channel two-thirds of the special notice to hiniself as the| way across, and, when the boats ar- clearette-smoking flyer. rived, sat smoking his cigarette on the Here ja a feat that won him muct.| floating wings of hia machine, There notoriety during his fiighta 1m and | Were more photographs. ‘around Paris: Then a few days later, on July %, ‘After startin, he would reach {nto , 1°09, Blerlot made tho first flight across ‘the Channel from Calais to Dover. Latham devieed other performances. He made a specialty of flight In storms; the high winds, which sent the rest of the flyere to their hangars, brought him out. At that time, when no flyer knew just where a gasolene engine would stop and let him down to the ground, he drove his machine across the country ‘to at- tend sporting events, his pocket, bring ont his holder and hts clmarette, and, taking his hands off the contro}, calmly proceed to light up. ‘The ugiy Antoinette—which had ale ready capsized with one or two men— went satling along by !tself forty mile eenchoury two or three hundred feet above the earth, says McClure's Maga- zing, Riding a bieycle, hands off, on a aix-ineh plank over a chasm, contains ‘some few elements of the danger of this performance. In 1910, during his American trip, he Howover, the notoriety from this|var! 4 his programme by going duck- source could not continue !ndefinitely. | hunting in his acroplane, He drove out In a few menths Latham proposed fly-| over the marshes armed with @ shot- {ng trom’France to England, He led|gun, swooped down and flushed his his retinue of reporters nd photo, birds, and followed ft! a couple of plfers to the coast @ d cumped out on|/ miles, killing-—accor ze to presa re the cliffs of Calats, ports—one duck and wounding several Finally be started, aplashed down into others. An Odd Invention. | Oddities. use of gasoline nd a more or UBA imports from Canada, most of its stone ‘PRINCIPALLY for P barrels standing a C less public garage, a locking and ‘There are about sixteen deaths latching faucet has been des 1 to| for every birth occurring at sea. safocuan) the contents of the barrel.) OMctal figures show that New Zea- ‘The handle consists of three p | land has nearly 26,000,000 sheep, ‘he latol engages in the closed position,| Soda will brighten china that has and if it is desired to lock the faucet a) been burned or darkened by long use, By the addition of pulverized mica concrete is made to tmitate granite, Pulverized street rubbish and coal tar have been found to make guod fuel briquettes in Amsterdam. Interesting teats in Germany have shown that pens made of tantalum out- Wear those made of steel or gold, mull padiock on a chain {ts slipped through a hole which pierces the three mrts of the handle, To make the de- vice doubly secure, one end of the chain tw secured to the screw at the lower end of the plug, thus preventing the “abstraction of the contents by the re: oval of this part of We taucets ane Oy oh nS a entangled in her net. orld Daily Magazine, 4 “et, WE Wikk Give Iv SUMPiIN TO MAME IT CouGH, Deo va Gar me, Do Ya Ge Tt) ma (waitin ty Prees Publishing Cé x (The New York World.) There is no uec in Mere Man beating a retreat from good old terra firma in his effort to escape the Leap Year Girl, maid form or otherwise, no matter how far from shore he may cast anchor, Inatead of deing a deep-sea fisher, he will find himself the fish—hopelessly As They Measure in Jersey. 667 HE wilds of New Jovecy," said Frank Malone, “reward the explorer well, If they who sojourn at Atlectio City or Long Branch would but penetrate inte the wilds, they would ee end bear many teresting things, ‘Take for example, the measurement of dis I once asked the keeper of the general ‘with sand | bow far it was to Bkeeter ewamp, ‘thester ewamp,” otid the storekeeper, ‘Well, 1 would say Skeeter swamp wuz "bout two whoops | from here—or mebbe two whoops and a holler.’ 1 asked a man in Skester swamp bow far Wiytown was, The man shifted bis quid te the loft, cheek and replied ‘Wiytown, stranger, 1@ about three chaws to the south—tnless y're a fast chawer. ‘Thea I'd: faz, gus shout three chews and» bal,” "dt, Betty V Advice t Lowe and rust. tance, ‘tom in a New Jereay village choked Good Stories | or to love. It ts have promised to It an't fair to endless hours of ui bad Inside Information. BH was s country physician, @ Kindly man | H who loved hia patients. | Ko might was! eres too cold for him to get out of ber and elde ten or twelve miles to the bedaide of « sick man, ‘The whole countryside loved him and trusted him, ond many families rose ap every day to call ‘him themed, But at the lest there came a rift im the tute, a note of discord (@ the general cong of the doctor's pralses, ‘A woman became very ill and her little daughter was standing at the front gate, A Kindly neighbor came by with am inquiry about the mother’s healt, “he's going to die," eaid the itttle girk eul- len} ‘How do you know?" asked the neighbor. ‘That doggoned old doctor says eo,” replied the dhild angrily, ‘And T guess he's right, knows what he gave he ‘opuler Magazine, —_——>_— Seeing Double. APLEY HOLMES, who succeeded Madyn able prospect. whom you feared conalder marrying feel sure? Betty Vincent that doesn't grow from the root of trus| Calls on Two Girls. “A. W." writes: “A young man calls on me nearly every night in the weel but Wednesday and Fridays he calison another girl. What shall I do?" Unless you are engaged to the man you have no right to object to his know- ing other girls. “FE. FB." write: Is it proper for a young man of twenty-two to take @ girl of fourteen on @ sletghing party?" Yes, if they are good friends and the Birl's mother !s willing. Contant travel piles the weight on him, be: couse of the difficultion attending regular houra, |"@ insulted her, The zed for xercise in one night sande, When be having the trouble while she Test he weighed 960, |was there, but she wouldn't accept my fe i gs comer 8 restaurant | apolog What shall I do two friends spied him across the t00 " ae eg a Se a aid, “Who is that in the corner?’ The girl must make ¢ You have done what you could writes that's Rapley Holmes, LT see Rapley; but who is with himt—chy. cago Evening Post, Mm. M." How ) The Press Publishing Oo, sow York World). Copyright, 1912 a (The the Show had Departed! F you find Time's Forelock Slippery, a | put Rosin on your Hand! We've Heard @ Lot of Money Talk, | —_ but it was Always a Iatant Bank- | When “They Scy" that you're, Wad! \"Stuck on Yourself,” the Interpre \tation, Nine Times out of Ten, (| Opportunity may Play no Favorites, \that you've Really Done Something | Sut he hes n Natural Martin for fotice of Him | Worth While! those who Take Some of us with Eyes Good Raough Sometimes "Gerting the Lough to Read by Moonlight nevertheless Needful Goad! Blink @ Heap of Facts about Ourselves! | os — Bome of us Waste so Moe Time | Moaning about Yereterday ta Whe waiting for the Bo-Termed Mayol Running Around the olf Gawdueg toni Momens thet we 29 enilely Arbuckle as the fat sheriff im “The Round i Up," weighs 10 condition 280 pounds, | 9, A." wri with a And there 1s little fat ov him at that, young man in ® & because “Cheer Up, Cuthbert!” 3% Circus Ring of your Royhood after Deaf to ! incent’s o Lovers you feel that you can trust him, G*= it 13 not right to promise to marry @ man unless It iw not playing fair to the man or to yourself not fale to the man, because when you give your life into his keeping he may rightly expect that you will belleve his word. yourself, because you are prepuring for nhapping and pain. Your very love for the man will make his possible unfatth an almost unbear- You wouldn't deliberately buy a pet dog might snap at you. Why should you & man of whose affection you cannot Finally, it's not playing fatr to love, because the love t is bound to wither soon, (begin a letter to @ young lady whom one has only met once or twice?” “My Dear Miss —. “L. Bo writ am engaged to a |young lady who tries to bow# me, Do ‘ou think that I should give tn to her Ither of you should “boss” or “give in” to the other, In love there ts no jinat nor first, } MC. Mt writes: Tam tn love with ja girl, but fad my positton dificult ba I once paid attontion to her tne Umate friend. What shall T dot Don't hesitate to snow your affestton to the girl you care for, since the other has no real claim on you. Is it proper for three ed tn an office with | “w. or young « man makes it perfeetly Invitation comes from and his wife ear the Clock Strike when tt 1 Comer! Tuesday, He will find her, in mer- By Clarence L. Cullen ° « v a... Hey! WHAT'N .SAM ¢hike ARE You KIDS BoTHERING \ MAT CAT February 6, +} Por J HEARD You TELLIN’ MISTER GIN ANOUT PLAYIN, CARDS LAST NIGH AN You said You Put Two Dewars iw THE WITTY. aw Range (Copyrigit, 1911, by the Outing Publishing Com- ) be forts to capture horse, Suddenly she Aver by Veraling fim tor nit comluy souner to het"ah CHAPTER IX. (Continued.) The Prince of the Z. O. 66) OU didn't get hurt?” he ! auestioned. “I Imagine you wouldn't she returned. How N. Y. Streets Got Their Names NQ. 15.—-CORTLANDYT’ STREE: was bounded on the north by the twelve-foot wooden stockade known as “the wall,” the olf Damen farm ex-! tended northward from this stockade on , both aides of Broadway, Even then wise men knew that the growing young city must some day epill over the wall and spread out to tho north, $0 when the Damen farm came {nto the market a large part of It was snapped up by @ wealthy Dutch burgher, ; Olafte Van Cortlandt, | | Van Cortlandt was one of the fore- most mon on Manhattan Island, Ho owned great tracin of land and held high authority in the Council, He ts, even said to have defied, once or twice, the tyrannical authority of old Petrus, Btuyvemant himself. \ On his part of the Damen farm Van Cortlandt bullt a mansion for hdmeelf. There his big family grew up, One of his sons, Stephany, was three times Colonial Mayor of New Yor! The Van Cortlandt estate remained in- tact until 17%. Then the hetrs “parti- tloned” it, By that time dt had high value as buliding lots. Streets were at once cut through. of these was named Cortlandt street, in |honor of Olafte and his descendants, | When Olaffe Van Cortlandt had bought @ portion of the Ds part of {t had been purchased Dey, a Dutch miller whose mi was |near the North River's banks, In mem- ory of the long-dead miller the th Joughfare just north of Cortlandt street lwae named Dey street In both cases by some odd freak the \etrecta hear thelr names only from the \North River to roadway, the continua- tion of Cortlandt street to the of |Hroadway being Malden Lane and that lof Dey being John street I" Dutch days, when New York City + t 48 an Acrid Dose, but it Sure ts Good for the Soul's Complexion! The moat important | “Any man who will alt and watch @ woman in distress” — “Why, ma'am, 1" ‘——and laugh at her because sie Jost her temper for a moment, couldn't feel very @orry for her if! — “I wasn't ao tickled at you, ma'am: {t was the’ turning abruptly around and facing him, her eyes Glled with resent- ment. “Why, ma'am, I cert'nly didn't know he had throwed you. I would'nt want you to break your neck. If I'd knowed that he'd throwed you, I'd have caught him before thin, He's an outlaw, ma'am, Ho cert’nly deserved all the things yeu said about him. She rose from the rock and stood erect, looking at him spirited!; I suppose you know that he won't let me catch him’ ehe ald. “I reckon I couldn't help but aee that,” he retummed, grinning. “But I reckon I can, “It's a wonder you thought of that,’ she said sarcastically, “But perhaps you thought that I could walk home?’ He was uncolling the rope that hung at bin saddle horn. man,” he sald eri 4 women. take atrenka, Hut sometimes they real mean. They're only puttin’ He spurred hia pony after the mie- creant, leaving her, with his last words, without @ defense, It took him some tlme to catch the pony, for he had to race the animal clear out of the basin, , and a mile or two out on the plains. But Presently she saw him coming ‘ack, leading the pony, the latter now docile Wearing a moet guilless expression. ‘The young mi id no word to her as she arranged the bridle rein and gave a few deft touches to the saddle. But af- ter a moment, when she had swung into the saddle, she turned and looked at him with a smile. “T thank “T suppose T havo treated you very badly. But IT was very nervous and worrted. Won't you forgive me?" He smiled. “There ain't nothin’ to forgive. I hadn't ought to have acted the fool. But you ain't goin’ without lettin’ me know who you are?” he sald, looking frankly at her. “Why, no." She smiled again, Altea Burroughs. ZO ranch.” She saw a flush mount to his fore head, But he smiled. “I'm Bill Grant,’ he returned m working over at the T Down." He wan allent for a moment, while #he arranged her akirta prepara- tory to departure. Then he spurred his pony closer, “Ma'am,” he said, “things are pretty quiet over at the T Down, I reckon there ain't very much to do at the ZO elther?” “Tam My father owns the She considered him for a moment. “We are very buay,* she returned, | "Fathor sald yesterday that tt would take him all his time to get the brand- ing well along. It's awfully hard to Ket good cowhand He contemplated her for a moment. Then he smiled gravely, “I'm comin’ over to the 40 t rrow to get a Job," he natd ¢ well. After we quatnted Pm She started "Tike you real got good enough ace n’ to marry you with surprise. r eves mocking him. ‘You are?’ she sald In- eredulousiy, "I supp » ty have nothing to say wbout th He had urged his pony around and now reganled her over his should “Of course you have someth say." he eatd, | earnestly at hy to Mt you're goin’ to may ‘ye ell, * she mocked, os she pulled tightly on the reins, But ah heard tho clatter of his pony's hoofs as he departed up the slope that ldencended to come to her assist Te law tie mprnGR ARTA. Gay nearly monta Hurroughs, the owner jthe 40 Was sitting at 9 wine dow of bia ott wverlookinyg the ar Ka " ranchhhouse, watehing Boy ‘ punchera at work amid th dust of orral Oo en ing; his loops fe e did k without flo 1did tt well, At the Ine atant that hats glince fell upon th 8 rope rovgha w ! ting with a nent mal Unda k 2 Ways of! The Poauty about Keeping in Traine Geiting Out of an ning ing is that When they Get you On the with the Man w hanges hia. Run you Know Mow Mind | | We can Kid Qursel muh with: 7 a the t Asking Hard Luck Break it Aponge of To-day Genuy! There ts no Earnestness or Bioquence| Ew Tobow can be Sicered Off to he Compared with that of the Man to One Side! who hae Learned to Rettove hie Own | ores Ties! Many a man believes in his Heart — that he has a Yellow Streak until That GetsNext-to-Yourself Medicine » the Big Waliop A-Coming! | He had seen mon take three and caste With the rope for young bheeves that had deciled to keep free of the Drend--beeves with a constitutional anything that savored of ‘captivity or custom, They usually 1912 “Horwes are like |. Riders Another Great Cowboy Romance ByC.A. Seltzer, Author of “THE TWO-GUN MAN” turned out mavericks and were seped and ‘branded again in strange piaces, or they were killed and made stows in desolate corners of the by rustlers, But they never held a contented place in the line that I6d from tho range to the Eastern market. Whatever the reason, this partiowla yearling evinced @ decked antipathy toward capture, As the man with (he rope approached, he backed warily off and then suddenly took a turn around the edge of the corral, ing to mix with the other cattle. But the av with the rope would not be dented. Sevoral times he pursued the yearling: around the edge of the corral, working patiently unt he had a fair target: Then the rope fell true, wae around the enubbing post, and the thing war done. The yearling rose presently and rushed frantically into the herd, bearing a big "% 0." ‘The young man cotled his rope for another cast. Bur- roughs jeaned back In his chair with ¢ laugh, “That young man will get anything that he goee after. It's that new man Grant, he sat his name was. He watched gravely, whil roped another yearling. “That man will get anything that he oes after,” he repeated, “Durn him,” he sald after a moment. “But I kind ‘of lke that determined tind.” For a time he meditated absently. “B Georg He rose and wafked to @ door tha: led to semowhere within the ranch house, “Allca!” he called. ‘There wae a short walt, and then the oor opened and Miss Burroughs stood in the opening. “Come in,” Invited Burroughs. The young woman seated herself be eide the window, where she could ser ‘Nye you eee that young man dewn ” you see a in the corral, Lod ewinging the rope?” sald Burrousg! “Of course.” alien Barrougbe piushed. his name?’ " returned Mies Burroughs, her face averted. i'm," grunted Burroughs. twirled his thumbs over one another. “You know his name ell right, Gen't your? Miss Burroughs nodded. And nowshe turned and looked her father equavely in the face, “Well?” she said, “I've seen him and you Fuantat gether pretty much in the last weeks, I didn't think to sald, “that I love Mr, ing to marry him—@ rroughe looked “It T don't mind, eh?” goin’ to marry hint (Mo.ternet end soweee of eat, po ways given you {for, haven't 1, wares * | She nodded. He meditated oat. “How tar bes thie thing gone? he questioned. “He has asked me to marry ” ghe returned. She met his gase re “Him,” said Burroughs. ‘What @o you know about him?’ % “I know that he is a gentleman,” €e- clared the young lady. Burroughs amiled, when you're in love,” he said. what T want to know ta this: what was he before he came to the % O and where did he come from?” She flushed. imagine he was always a cowpuncher,” she returned. “He came ere from the T Dows “The ‘T Down!" snapped Burroughs. He brought a fist heavily down on the ldosk top. “The T Down!” he said again, his face bloating with anger, “How in hell did he have the nerve to come to work here!” he demanded. “Why didn't ]1 ask him before I hired him? ‘hie lwouldn't have happened, I never thought it woukl happen.” Why, father’--- @egan Miss Bur- rougha. But father held up a warning [hana s anger had left him as aud: denly as {t had come and he was now alm, ‘Alica,”” he sald, * told you before, wouldns be nes ve | “maybe I ought to Maybe I thought ary, but since this | thing has come up I've got to tell you, ' ears ago Everton, wae owned * Down, put a bullet in my shoul= der during a quarrel over some white Herefords, It didn't do him any good, be s dead an’ some day I'm n’ to get the Herefords anyhow. But re's always been bad blood between maT got out and got among the joys. ‘There's heen many a fight over t. [never spoke to Everton from that day to this, He's dead now, and bla boy, who owns a ranch up tn Wyoming, owns the T Down, too, I've heard that 8 going t it, and 1 hone he AR | does. Ik wi t the durn trash out of the way." { “L don't see how that affects Mr, Grant.” toternosed Misé Burroughs, | “It hadn't ought to," admitted Bure I've always considered that any one ; who came from the T Down was taint- ed with the old grudge. Maybe I'm wrong, a& thought thet I've got and always bad. There hasn't any- thing happened tn years to make ebange it i