The evening world. Newspaper, May 16, 1912, Page 21

‘“S'Matter, Pop?”’ HM-M, ADDRESSED To ME IN LADY'S HAND WRITING AND PERFUMED. JUST TO BE ONC, THE SAFE SIDE 1'D BETTER LLGREM THis one 1H SACL YsION, | y By Maj. Archibald W. Butt One of the Tttante’s Heroes and Former Military Aide to President Taft (Copyright, 1908, by J. B, Lippincott Co.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, Palmer, 0 neway focial and indi Spende, nriien elmer te be hie a) ‘8, athletic and Elen, th ate F th tee fogs to bay that be’ fe not really ‘pay me court for this one evening.” CHAPTER IV. (Continued. ) U have other courtiers,” said one of several men who came forward to join us. She held owt her hand, 4s sue Aid so she looked at me for @ second. She withdrew it gracefully and added with a smile, “I was only admit- ting a new one,” and then bade me fol- low her. She introduced me here and there and told me how many times I must dance with each. We went on the indifference by wishing for what is ble. It was at this stone that my rides cong jeTendtather wished for they were 0 seek this spot before wi women of thetr chotce, Rvp stran bend that all of our family | not done so have gone to their Sraves unloved old bachelors and the | bgt who have derided it as old maids. | t later years it has become the cue- | tom for the love-sick youths and maidena in the town and in the country to seek it out and to test its charms, and many a happy home ow ore than we may imagine to the nd Tae cine about this ivy-cevered dial, ent has arr! tet capeeita a ived when you can ready I had become a firm in th hing-stone, Laying Bea tel on it and looking into the lovely eyes of Ellen. I made my wish and added a Prayer that {t might find favor with the fates. After I had finished we Joined hands again and fe. thers porch, and standing there I was again @truck with the resemblance to the lady in my dream. “You are like the first part of my pic- ture,” I said softly. “Then let me play it for this evening,” she said. “And if you can imagine me 1 be @ Courtler ure.” if you will admit I have come across the sees a- grag hed gown and courlesying, "But f een? zene Skcae, “Then. al Cogn. te wit not be responsible. for the Comser | one al eeae one started up the. gol: | ‘quences;’ bo see to it that you play well your part, slse I will send you to your love, hat makes the world 0 round.’ All Joined in save Miss Ellen and me, for we strolled back somewhat slower than the others, ihe aia pu wish?" IT asked, but she only shool ehelaely te hee head and sald she only Mistress I wooed her in the strange and hundred years | ago. Sometimes sho seemed startled at fay earnestness, and when thinking my mpeeoh too fervent she would bid me go and add another wallflower to my already large bouquet, I would! e@traightway return and tell her of the @ourt life, and wove amid my imagery em odd mizture of my New England and looking. into her eye: T love you well and would court in truth where you Zilen.” quaint ladguage of a “I wished that you-—"" further, for she gave a Mates erie checked me before I could finish the sentence, | “Don't, oh, don't!" she ya have already eald too moh bg ert to have told you not to tell your wish, for 1f you do the fates become perverse and mock you, If you even hint of ‘SSIB was the envy of ali her chums. For had she not by her latest conquest captured THD SPORT? Now all gay, bright life would be hers—theatres, dances, late suppers, Nobody slept in this new world, the word! where all was golden glitter—the world pf sport. The cup of mirth and gladness was brimming—until the tinsel began to tarnish and The Evening World Daily Magazine, Thursday, May 16, 1912 Cae this mode of life waxed dull, Her new friends did not ring true; everything proved a sham. “Ohl” sighed Bessie. “A little rest from these lights would be so refreshing! A little quiet evening at home would be delightful. 1 think a man who likes home life ¢ THE KIND OF MAN FOR MB." ELEANOR SCHORER, what you have asked in t some thing will happen to mar its mmr! Herwig I am sorry you spoke out | at all,” and ! thought her f. } @ Iittle paler. ere Be queen to smnew you, and I would so guard you @hat neither poverty nor sorrow should ever come near you er to those you love.” Betty The Spring Girl. HE season of the trolley is ap proacning, In two) or three weeks young men and women all over the city will be mak- maid, And now,” she said, looking into my eyes-and laughing, fo and seek out every maid over twenty-nine, and when you have led them through the graceful minuet come back to me. And 1 would do as bid and dance ome old-time waltz with some lo: maid, and then return to Miss Bile! @ide only to be sent away again to some ne who she noticed was not dancing. Finally the supper hour was announced ‘end I was made happy by Miss Ellen, her partner for thi was soon forgotten in the frolic old Virginia Ree! St ue Bud saddied his horse and rode out into the night, to think of some young girl, I thought, but Miss Ellen said no, that sometimes when he became reat- Copyright, Wiz, le 1 INCH upon a@ time there lived | near the edge of a dark for-| est a poor woman and her fon, Dickie, Their only means of livelihood was by keeping hens and pigs for the market. Now {t so happened Dickie's mother ing excursions to! was sore beset over the loss of many ot the beach or the! her pigs and hens, which she would find | Sune ta theron oe | eed in the highway that ran past ber) ‘ “| house. Arann ‘All she could learn about it was that & horrible monster with two glaring one bit of advice? ‘Try not to display | eyes, emitting sulphuric bresth from his ht on the landing I held the tips of her fingers for a moment, ‘You are my queen to-night," I cried neatly. ‘Your queen of to-night will be your cook egain to-morrow,” Before I could reach her side, for my and then one and all, save myself, for I/impulse was to throw myself at her your affection for a ing fiendishly, oF @id not know what was meant by the|feet and pour out my love to her, she postrile GHG SrpanINg 1a | tone, joined in the clamor. |giided swiftly up the staire. each other while shrieking in derisive laughter, wou you are travelling in public conve ances, Of course there's nothing mor- ally wrong in arranging that the lady dash past the house at night, or at) Ellen yielded at length, and, still jelded at length, and, si bevel i“ abide dusk, sometimes rushing into her very| holding my hand and bidding me give the other to the girl behind me, and so CHAPTER V. ahall ait within the hollow of your tr yard and there killing and maiming her) on down the line, we started out of the ITHIN the next week 1 ra-|1¥ arm. Of ccurse her giggling pats| pigs and poultry. *houge through ono of the deep, low-cut) celved a copy of the paper |&Pd pushes are mere playfulness. But| ‘There was more than one automobile windows, We circled the porch, crossed | with my letter in tt, pro _ | it's such dreadfully bad taste to do that |in that vicinity. In fact, being such the gardens, and passed down the nently placed on the fire, #0ft of thing before other people! | nice highway, the autoists from all terrace.. The moonlight fitering through | a ae a nck ta GE | Just because a caress is Ho beautiful! * icny used to whize through that the trees. giimmered brightly on the page, ani e in the same and perfect a thing, it should not wep eeereee he country and laugh at the Colored frocks as We shed down the {mall from the Editor congratulating me | profaned by public exposure. One doesn | Section of the natives when they stopped, or guess what tho country looked Ike when they travelled so fast everything was merely a green streak, Finally Dick thought out @ plan, He would go to the town fathess and be| appointed constable. He did tt, When ho stepped into the road and| held up his hand for the next autoist| to stop, he had to Jump back again to| keep from getting run over, Then he| rigged up a chain go tt lay harmless on the ground across the road, and by pulling a lever {t popped up and made a barrier across the highway, ‘Along came the Phosphate King in his | auto, He merely honked his auto horn| dovisively at poor Dickie and put on more speed, When "snap" and up went the chain, “Cra-a-a-ash!"” went the auto, and Mister Phosphate King got on the excellence of It, He told me to send one or two more from Georgia and then push on and write up the bayou counties in Louisiana, ‘A fine sense of honor had kept me from making use of the life at the | Pines as a basis for a letter, but I longed to handle the subject as I saw it and to make others see it through | my eyes and appreciate {ts beauty. | hut iy my room away from the influ | ence of Miss Ellen, of Bud, and even | secret plotters taking the oats of ale) Of the Colonel, I argued that such @ legiance on a tomb. It was no Jesting | ieee could do no harm and might ine matter, I could seo, for each one in that! Guce to much good. I do not hide from gay party approached the stone in| mygeit even now that there was with silenee and reverence, The only sound| me a certain satisfaction in pleasing that broke the stillness wos that of Miss|thoge in the home office, nor did I cons ¥llen's voice as sho calle’ each name| coal trom myself then’ the additiona in turn. At last my name was called, «| prestige such ry Uttle more gently than the others, J) with my critics, The Editor had com thought, and Miss Hilen, seeing me ap-|piimented me on the first 1 whi roach, held vp her hand and motioned | would he not do when he received one me to stop. written with a pen guided by love and “And now, Mr, Palmer," I heard heg| every word of It poured from the heart? saying, as a stranger to the wishing-|If Miss Ellen loved me, I argued, she Stone it behooves you to approach it| would rejoice with me over my success reverently. There is no reason to tell|—and then too she might not gee it, the others this, for they know the legend | This last thought brought a blush to my its secret charms; but to you who|cheek and I started up, determined to ee te tot ‘and, who come aa a|show Der my letter and tell her what r to it, tempt not its anger by|T contemplated doing. ft, even in your thoughts, or its (Te Be Continued.) ay cedar lane. At length we emerged on an open knoll in the centre of which was fait old stone sundial, covered with ivy, ‘We tormed a circle round It, and Miss Bllen, letting go my hand, stood on a step by its side, and calling one after ‘another by name bade each lay his pr ‘her hand on the bare surface of the) Stone, whero the ivy had been cut away, nd to make a wish, One log.tng on! might have thought we were a band of Say one’s prayers on @ street crossing. “BE. 8." writes: “I have just begun to | pay regular attention to a girl, and I keep telling her how much I love her, but she won't belleve me. How can I eonvince her?” By your actions than words. They speak louder | “B, E." we'tes: “I have been engaged | to a man for five years, Since his re- turn he has been very different in his attitude toward me. What shall I do? ‘Ask him frankly if there 1s some one else, and offer him his freedors, “Dp, R." writes: am twenty-eight and the man to whom I have been en- | ged for four years keeps putting oft our marriage, because he and his sister | feel that they must make @ home for) oyt suddenly and sailed over into a pig an old, insane housekeeper, who took! gy while his friends scattered all ¢ of them In thelr childhood, Am I} yround the yard, selfieh in asking my flance not to gac-| Dickie calmly told the Phosphate King rifice our best years to this duty?" he was arrested, The Phosphate King You certainly are not selfisi. The|told him to go—but that all came out man should put the old servant in alin the testimony later, For Dickle plage where she can be properly cared| hitched a yoke of oxen to th» smash , [Men pnd wet keep you wasting longer, ‘Old Fairy Tales | fancy prices for killing them, eutomobile and Gregged it back to the | bedge The Day's I dared not speak again, and we! : 4 4 “T have naught to do with courts, my| walked on in silence and Joined the| Vincent’ s oe >) Goo@d Stori esi Lord,” she said with # certain pathos, | others: in the old oaken dining-room, | DICKIE n e WwW Oo t e S *t: ols and I know she was thinking of her duty| Mr. Lamb asked the blessing and the | + D De tthe Pines. “So go back to your king, | #tris sat down, while the men waited vice A Not Annoyed nd, whether he be ambition or gold on them and brought them supper, THE By James Alden. yed. th, forget the simple Colonial dame| After a .morry hour we danced agnin DRAGON, ‘. i “who more often plays the part of dairy} and the incident of the wishing-stone fs. ole Now York World) King’s summer home. Then he had him tn the Distriet Court for vio- | lating the speed ordinance, for refusing | to obey an officer's order to slow down, for attacking an officer, for profane lan- Suage and for obstructing the highway. ! 1 su, = A supposed it wae the early robina *—Oourk Ho was fined $100 on each count, and | Journal, ” when he wanted to appeal hie lawyer, rere ry who knew how the County Attorney | i y > stood, made him settle. Half the fines | Meaning of-C, O, D. went to tho town, . ‘" HARVARD or ordered a couple of sults , afd the other half clothes f bis tailor, and as bis allow Was equally divided between the County | m7 Wie abot gone see thems sony ta hip “IE exy 1 hope my factory whistle doesn't. 4 fury you. 1 suppose you hare noticed the vo "Why, yes; L have moticed tho noise," re sponded ‘his neighbor, "But I'm @ qifle deat aud Attorney end Dickie. | rooms . 0 nen the expressuban ag After that Dickie usec to arrest a uae without paris tia rr my = bunch of autoists almost every day. | promised to noe the tailar lator, A wee went Adition to that he bought up all the | by 40 tie tailor Leveme anxious and called upon nderesised 800 BO-g00d plge in’ the| ME EsS IME i ns cate on tat country and a cheap lot of poultry, end | q and suits 0. 0. 0, and thos not paying my trained them to stay ip the Dighway means! Then he would charge the autolsts | it weans call on he next spring Dickie had made so! much money he bought himself an auto and used to ch ."" as his mother st and down the highway, © these “drag called them, up nd down th Macbeth of Cicagy tl the foo No iekie Was a g004 looking chap, tive of @ type of outgrown theo und one day when he overtook an ante | gu ats i Pe | containing a charming girl and she cxpremion on his. fa begged him not to p-ress her he| Wien 1 au promptly fell in love with her, Hefore |. hue ween long the charming girl ns | idtaa tne was ring) usm of about the country with him, helping him | catch speeding autoists and arrest them, | She thought it great sport. } One day in the fall Dickte ana the A charming girl eloped and were married. Then it was she revealed her tden- | one of her letiers { uty, She was the daughter of the Phog. | at er fathor was phate King! (iii aretha oF the father of une of Instead of being angry her father | for Mayor Ellen sol tdi Hit Up the Pace. CERTAIN Mimourl boanting shoot tor girl’ named Kut be Mearing that we booluates was runniag er out. “I hear tha; | will make @ splendid m \ aiaanbate (uae TABGASHT G8) Zap Not a Hard Joh. when he won fortune with hb bride, @ trust and | "an nickel constable | “ut ery reckon ab dvs, jahson,” Rastus replied, know, oun, f eelthes,"etiugoeng ale's p'Ue'lasly stuce ub ‘Megraina, By C. M. Payne By Barton W. Currie Based on the Successfal Farce of the Same Title (Copyright, 1912, ty H. K, Fly Os.) SYNOPSIS PRECEDING CHAPTERS, An erratic young man registers at @ New Xork uoiel fee ,name ef Binith. the jurton, who site at & Whose chapero rage 9 push Helen Lob Helen treats the matter as & bearing Tle eee nd be, ewiftly Gtvined from CHAPTER VI. the bow ewitty atv = (Comtinved.) trol Purpose connected es he for some om Ml a the mysteries Officer 666 on Pai oan [burner eae é “ aa) AYBE the wind biew it joolt man moved : “pe ye he tried to tell himself, wrigeiea ae “ | something inside him re-|ly carpeted hallway, door into the rich- | jected the explanation and ‘ eS wae with @ distinct e fi | he felt an icy Anger draw | that he felt his Sonne "St ratte} up and down his Again be 0 nolse- plunged his head into the capacio precious jand o ed in reviving (posts action. knew thet More minutes of dreadful sitet “a passed. A leaden = : eweltering room. the tenements had died away 6 he ton | nereal murmur, Battle aa be os | all his will, Phelan's eyes were oMthe iene that Grawn from thelr fixed gase Upo® too ed pale ot wall, and what he saw this dosen tet duced « strangling sensatlon rat ‘Three toes nad distinctly wigs nt the: He withdrew hia eyes on the | wast f sound and his shaking hand reached : ‘short for the can, His fingers rage res | wa touched it when an awful shrie® x ta the the air, Tho ahriek came fx he bed, and it was followed by @ #000) no yell and then by @ third. gas ™ Michael Phetan aid not ope the sete a whe Me aie he passed out, y iY} rye a k song door and it went down like card: Phelai iceman ‘ed ta Tl board before the impact. anriek awoke the eohoes just as bag wd 446 was coasting down the stairs on ae seat of his departmental trousers, tot departmental coat and his dopartmen: te in no way connected with bis Chae! errs’ to the Eldridge street| “How you get tn here?” retorted the stati wrtehe pre: |JeD in the same’ sharp * Getsuouions station @ little later. as tones. “I saw ye anakin’ in an’ atén't Jatoh the door after yes,” pureed Phot t taking @ step nearer K? ‘oti! wewh sesjieg with profound mate “What you want?” aaked the Jap, missional vi a serious | a “alight teeaee or seetttaaaa with “ ‘adduced in evidence that OMcer 6) “Information!” cried Phelan. Mad entered the wrong flat, ‘© you doin’ in here?" , rehiy 4 1 being one flight Up. swept the room for some evidence of whole town rocked with | attempt to despoll, Thi Nace iy Phelan failed to see| none he ia not reiing natred of Precinct De-| of suspicion. The Jap jutsh , sranete ‘ney never cooled. That? speak and then Ra ee 4 abent neyight sentence of ne | continued to glower at him, he arheies Mey's fine did not in the least Improve | au (ty humor. He knew he was & marked | +t no ean tell.” man from that day, and it was oll le mother could do to urge him the force. Pe course of time, however, ine ay worn off and the young patrol learned to smile again, His hollow fe pad filled out amazingly during the period of the brewery beat end on the late autumn day when he stepped the pages 0! Weiked mixhty Kvod, not only to the raven-haired Rosalind O'Neill but to host of other pretty nursemalds who homo wheeling their aristocratic Uttle Charges up and down the Avenue, ferred charges come under the was ndor die of which the Depa tective Tim Ke he got off with yes. Now he was sure he had @ thief and he de termined to handie the situation with all the majesty of his offical person. “Bo yeu can't tell what ‘yez're éetm’ in this house,’ he said with fine gan casm, The Jap shook his head and returned a positive, “No tell!” Phelan balanced his club for a moment and strode toward the Jap. “Yeu beter come with me,” he wild through compressed Ups, ait, frigate The Jap sterted back with ened exclamation. ‘ , tall uncon- |e hes r was Michael F bey You no take me to jail? she sauntered along/ * ae! ous of tMavement and gracefully | 00 & ees aul al oa eee ron be paton, His chest Jutted out fons b twirled his baton. been lookin’ out for reast of a pouter pigeon ant solemnly aelf consoious ex- ton of @ peacock on parade, cai a he camne to the great white square manston of Travers Gladwin, he vavised and studied tt shrewdly with his ; It was one of the most important his patrol to study the ipied dwellings and ; that every ow was down and tvery door was closed looked {ete the areaway of the Gladwin home id then his eye travelled up the wide lke the bi Gladwin was im he wore the Jentered the wk resented the eurpt “Do yes meu re his valley?” Be palustraded stoop to the ornamental Met! refusing to reliRewish bronze door: on. “Whi this!” he gasped in astonish- ad again the Jap grinned, ment. “Sure, I read in the papers on'y| prtian read the nas a dtetinet | this morning that Travers Gladwin was] spn ty nis intellisence and he pounoed in Agypt, ‘Tis a bold thafe who'll go) ion the Little Lrowa man i> 9m OVER tn the front door in broad day, so here's | WON TN where Mary Phelan'’s son makes the Cladwin's valley. | grand pinch he's been dreamin’ on this doin’. here ‘aim six months back and geta bis plc ewer sane the paper and Agypt aa’ Jercvalem aa’ the luke CHAPTER VII. | Now. ty Was Phelan's srt tg ria aaa | saw the Jap sirink and tucm upon hig grinned, shook hands with Dickie ang | uf {ather 4, t90,"* abe The Little Brown Jap. a pair of wildly alarmed-eyes, remar a we ts Raponded } PHELAN : “Come! Come! lol watttn’ ‘fer a the Alissgunes ad ie TROLMAN PHELAN wrapped ‘om an Welcome to our family, you young | tebe tum iy cous hia sitewy fet. about the| answer.” Tho cat Yul his mouse backed jdare-devil. Any one with your nerve handlo of his club with a vie] a corner and mcotally Heked be clous grip as he proces * “Eno can tell,” stammered the Jap cautiously And so after that ‘Dickie and his ASTUS was hovest and Indiutriongy but, in heavy b desperate ; mother and his bride went to live in the ‘ Micar Tieneable. | oft ajar, and he hough withe| Theta enought’ fpped Out Oi big city, with Dickie of th reap " vane 4 | out opening dt further, Mused Mn . grabbing the J by the shoulder big city, Mead of the greut | tne dou tate tie | CUE Cectibule aid latened, What he;and yanking hin toward the doorway: And as he goes whizzing throu Aly reckou al fas an as dey | hoard seemed no more than the treal| "Nono--wait!” gasped the struseiis contre henna’ biashere at page she compo ae, Beats pected, Ks f spider, and the thougnt rusied iniy) prisoner, “You no say af 1 tel pow, stables, he often remembers his early |, Muravighor as yoursitt” Mh do yen {fis head: ‘one of that felt-soled kind, ‘Tits | eer ? srunted Phelag, ea ape Pheian,” Me b&S woted tbat even the inside door Coated ed)