The evening world. Newspaper, September 9, 1912, Page 13

NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY, DONT STRIKE Him BACK TURN THe OTHER CHEEK WILLIE \ In “ Discovering America” Wailer Fails to Land. BY CHARLES DARNTON. HM BAYING he wanted to be made part of the throbbing life of this country— , Bodle speech|—Lewis Waller may have spoken for himself ae well aa for the pulseless character he played in “Discovering Amerioa” at Daly's on Satur- day night. But uniese he produces something better than Edward Knobiauch’s faternational tommyrot during the course of his @econd visit to these friendly @eores, the hopeful English actor-manager {s in @ very fair way to be doomed @ diéappointment. In “Discovering America” he certainiy failed to “land. j ‘Why Mr. Waller imagined for a single moment that a play not only poor in fteelf but far from flattering to Americans would be eagerly ewallowed by them fe @ mystery that only he aimself can solve. That this play, at the eleventh hour, showers praise and tobacco juice on “that magical olty, New York,” doesn't @tter the fact that tts American typos are, with one exception, crude and com- @on. And there {s little satisfaction in noting the: exception with Miss Madge ‘Pitheradge making Ruth Dix, the little button machine girl, ee English as herself, Ewther Mr. Knoblauch was very young when he wrote “Discovering America” @@ alee he has dived abroad so long that his country has outgrown his lofty view @f %. In this instance, however, there {a no reason to take the self-expatriated e@athor seriously, for he is unintentionally funny. The promise he has given in “The Faun" end “Kismet” still remains to be fulfilled in ‘Milestones.’ In jump'ng from an Itallan palace to workaday New York and then back ‘again, the play gives one the impression of a moving chromo. The here-to-day- ead-gone-to-morrow hero seems bent upon promoting ocean travel. On the very might that he hes planned to start on an impronyptu honeymoon with @ six-foot \ HAVING Satisfied HE REQuiREMenTs OF Good BEHAVIOR WE WiLL “PRoCEE ON OUR WAY ALMALI INE HEADED For ‘He NEAREST CANYON tA (Coppright, 1908, by the Frank A. Munsey Oo.) and the Myst ta Ca Sate a, Se eee CHAPTER Iv, |\Contianed) « The Seaman's Knife. baa chest Lena bap holding fearful fascination. ectously he throw himself Into an attitude of defense. The Diamonds By J. S. Fletcher Romance of a Hoard of Missing Jewels Which Followed Them bound box lying in the window, but much had happened thee time, and now the box lay ‘aie arm carefully hidden beneath the coat—and that reminded him, he bE himself of it. ne i i tt through Lindsay’s brain Grew the pint of ale wi had ordered. As it was Qim in a pewter F Petncess whose husband makes.life very dull for her, he is hustled off to America @@eave what be can trom the wreck of his fortune. Ever eince the day he first saw the Princess in black velvet he has loved he eye as though he expected the dead man az he then Bess thought of how her parents and friends would like to revivify suddenly and leap upon something him, Not until @ moment had gone The way dack wae long and weary, but finally ahe reached home. All, by 414 he relax. Then it waa with Der playmates had grown to be young men and women Wke herself, yet they: ® Watchful slowness, as If he were not were not like herself, for they all could read and write—some could play Pr} O-DAY te the firet Gay of school, Besste, aren't you glad?” asked the Uttle girl's Daddy. Bessie did not need to anewer. Her pretty face showed a sulky pout which was answer enough. She silently wished that she could go to some place far, far away, where no one ever hoard of schools. Well, evening came that day, as it doce every day, and with it bedtime and the Sand Man, And the Sand Man led Bessie for, far away to a place where no one ever heard of schools! It was a pretty place with wild woodland all about and plenty of flow- ers, dees and butterfies flying about, and sweet frust to eat. Here she stayed, in her dreams, until she had grown to be a beautiful young lady. Bhe knew that she was beautiful because, though they had no mirrors in that land, there were plenty of clear streams in which she could sec her self. Dut th he had to 4: must be done, thing else, Leg coe it tl Lindsay wen clutching the brase-bound the poor, disappoint- 4 Princess is ie! place @ light in the window—a Mght that under happier circum- stances would have burned as the flame of her love. The castle fades from view and in ite place fe revealed @ boarding-house bed- room in our own plain Forty - fifth street, Shades of “The Wastest Way” seem to fall upon a | yet certain that the hlow had done ite aweet mustc and sing pretty songs. shaking himeelf, and stretehed forth a herself, for now that ehe saw how nice t¢ was to know all the things her 4 to him that the flesh was al- When she awoke and found that she was still a little girl and that ¢#/4n4 looked about bim with a vague “Present.” ELEANOR SCHORER, had been talking only @ few minutes without roused him from his partial ork, Beaste could do none of these! hand to touch his victim.; He put Iriends knew, she wished she could be @ Mette girl all over again @0 that) ready atiffening in the embrace of stare of wonder at his surroundings. toas all only a dream, Besste was very glad. be tar he peareely Gonsnes thet earlier, ¥ \\ HOW G RARER, stupefaction, and he suddenly woke At last, with @ long sigh, he moved, Every one was very happy to have her wtth them, every one but B. faaes ch he uate ee she might go to echool and learn them, death. He drew his hand hastily awey When teaoher called the roll on the firet day of school Besste answered, |», naa just kilied the man to whom he The sharp cry of @ oat in the square (nto feverish energy. He snatched the Cheer Up, The Day’s Good Stories} Jie vas trom the dead man's fingers and Degan to hurry the gems into it. When he bad seoured them he tied up the mouth and erammed the bag into his pocket. Cuthbert! By Ciarence L. Cuikn @ stangy friend in a cheerful wrapper. A Knock at the door ts followed by the ro- Raw Chickens. O8F PASTOR PHDLPS STOKES, to mm address DETECTIVE. WP mantic hero who re-| Copyright, 1912. by Mo Preas Co, CAMERA bebalf of a New York ces In the unromantic name of Peter. Her one-cylinder sewing machine Inter. SFO, Fee 208 a 7 A poor A 276°") SHERIDAN ee tatty 4 ein nf Peerage phy) “me “aurer tte him, With {t she sews a button on his comt—and he is hers! The fact that Pridig de a wind A Series of Articles Fxposing the Every-Day | qa'sins‘'tu Sis inte teisvarte geoaing : the button on be of no possible use to him ose matter tn the least, He wears an tekatienine Deceptions of the Powers That Prey. Radio’ Mrnd. we We te, ty Se 4 HF tt proudly, His admiration is divided between Ruth and the machine her inventive ‘ate Bentence! “0 Eye" Tigi footie, cat Sorrets, sad whgsct. + | that must pot be forget=ne anus eho HP father ieft her when he died. He goes out for ice cream, but xete back in thme r (roatere ave sertien ty regeréed en one vi aan oan. grayed, ball to heneitt nL GRAY Mah OF thee ES Atew. GAP ene If to eave the machine from falling into the hands of a scheming fellow-boarder. If you Can't ad ever eatsted outside of fiction. Pika" fet look at the hickene—al ewanta’| POO7 stop by (ees ina ‘A momont Inter the ‘No-Sew" company 1s a8 good an organized with his $4,000 Boost, pretend of memory which gave him his nickname, when he was | eround eae "—Weshingwe Stan ear coneea Widens oie oes head of the Bureau of Identification of the New York Police Department, are proverbial. It has been said there is no man in the With Ruth and the other members of the corporation he sits \ce cream, and all {s well until the gas goes out, After one of what would happen if he withdrew the knife, Would the blood spurt over him? [fas capital stock. on the floor and A Nice Little School. you've got Laryn gitiel! “we Dobpi ‘atta Fath holdin Pcie ane ist atest ectiatanniaital — United States with so thorough a knowledge of criminals and their ways as i te Pardue, Caters “ovngrase, toe ne Oa, fe Ei B.. 5 Slie a lant, There's Fun in, Detective Bheridan. In this series he gives the public many valuable pointers | |. a Ade, bg and keen eyes. Giving the Mitt to your Game Buddy (a hye pp R At last, with an effort, he laid hold of life. ges ed 4 number of college men wore there, of the glories of thelr respective calculated to save them lo: le the handle and withdrew the blade and as th by swindling.) was ‘And so {t {s that romance repents itself, But with droad daylight the play jth her. As a man of honor, he must go, but the old castle doesn't eeem the when he gets there. He #0 longs to be back in New York that he goes o' the piano and picks out “Phe Star Spangled Ranfier’ with one finger. He ts in cold rtorage by the Princ who awaits a special dispensation from $ situation te an egonized glance, and then, in accordance with @ tradition of/ noble family, she proposes to throw heréelf from the tower, But Peter hauls ack, whereupon she generously renounces him and places hie hand in Rut! Go much for a play thet seems « curious mixture of “The White Sister’ ha, the Sewing Machine Girl.” It has no reality, Even tts ng i poor As for its hero, he lon i claim to sympathy when he tells the deserv- Princess that he no longer loves her, while to begin with he 4@ inclined to He {s not the sort of in Loqui aty! Count wet Ith Self-Discipline ta the Cement in the Structure of Success! The Boss doesn't Want to Know WHY Leverage worth mentioning Ten before you Exude the Knook, and Maybe you'll Choose to For-| Give the Poor Gum the Benefit of the clerks and rifiin, roomsa of Mkely lod, Of course on the face of it, this 1s purely sneak-thievery, but the fellows who work tho im- personation game on the clerks go a@ little bit further than simple robbery. Usually two men operate together, though there have been many canes A CERTAIN class of petty crooks make @ very good living by @uping hotel name, "John Smith, Pittsburgh, 807," and as many other names as he thinks of consequence, Then, when John Smith, after leaving his baggage in 807, downstairs and hands the key to the clerk, the second orook joins the from different 8 in the lobby, they keep @ close watch on what Whenever possible, the thieves select an hour close to the time when tho clerks shift. But not too clo For tn that case, when John Smith came noyed ttm, By Be ver Allen,” ead one, “whet & your ty wader | darkness fell, “It would be unwise to declared 4 budding Daniel Webster, in at “Woman could not be relied five woman the ballot,” ing battom lying at its side, He slipped the tray into position again and dropped the knife into the box, Then he huddled the box under his coat and made for the door, wuttered at hia ade, Holding the door In one hand LAndsay etretcned forward ° and blew it out. A great horror came over him as the and he opened the door wide and fled into the square and up the long dark pa ears seemed to ning with th tous sound which the knife had made as tt was plunged k. jearing je fret gleam of it a gets down to business in te office of Ruth and Peter, Six monthe have brought who Declines to (Copyright, 1912, ty W. Aulick,) from the body with averted eyes. He with 1, and the office boy ts fMourishing. But luck will yt Know he’ . classes, They all tad deen to Yole, dear old eve through Beare av ertresce actaastaee vascah ernieai reliinn inci mea tae. erveesaliin ieDorent NO. 12,—“ HOTEL GUEST IMPERSONATION.” Yale ve cae | toe bax BRST ised. cee ta Coetamin, he, tamed : sy ; ‘They tld Alen sbow it told him with «| {be box. t stood open on the table, though he feared that some (ue the vlad tidings that her husband is dead and to take Peter back — aealth of detail end sire of wupeteray that oo | Pth the shallow tray which firmed 18 Greeea nis footetepa, There was a patch of faint Ad there in the stroet: Tying ta ere \‘sular wedges beneath the gae ‘and {t seemed to him once that Ge the figure of Lal Dass gilding that will enable her, @ Cathollo, to marry a Protestant. It no sooner|_ne Desires to Know WHEN! where the trick was played by a lone hand. One of the pair maken it his He turned once more and looked back than Ruth appears on the scene, She has come over to talk business with pend business to watch the big hotels for the arrival of prosperous-looking patrons, a¢ the dead man lying doubled up across bee tae other, Deweee ori absent partner, From buttons the talk drifts to love, The Princess takes In| mnererg no When one such has reginiered the crook strolls over to the desk and notes the the table. The ieht will eputtered and Qeainet “tis” breast, He serained hs 08, Surely that was @ figure steatine after him, Could it be that Lal Dass had revived and was stalking him to his death? Those Hindus had marvwel- ous powers, he had heard folks say, and it might be~but there he cursed him: self for a fool, remambertng how straight and true the knife had gone down upon the country he left at the age of elght. creeper pg bear ae Pose yy Hap ra Pere eer arg? ag ea ad Belng Hammered Enough | down to leave his key, ho would give it to @ different clerk and that would spoll tate tha dead’ tan'a bao siralat ond Wue the Galte Bed Gone this fastidious urop antes and $4,000 in tis pocket, goes to boarding the grafters’ game, or, at least, make it rather too dangerous for them to The lehts to sty ived: MM. hoe thin aavons the tae Dee ) i : i sais y were in 4 oO! f There was A a enditnes Y . This is even a greater strain on the imagination than that he and Ruth| (ov play unless they were in sore need of funds, ff There Wet erartain friendliness in At tength he reached the place he 4 be united by buttons. We Never Saw any Sense in Just A man registering alone in a hotel usually spends little time in his to change a) me er . ay ig ho! weer deo had kept in his mind's eye e ‘aince ze ahything could weaken the play {t was Mr. Waller's tack of virility. ‘There | /! Along when they Really Got us|room immediately after his arrival, Allowing twenty minutes before cleric “nan mind suce, iy muy tale Mul rina (tania an ae ea irra gm ia he stepped out of the tavern—a quiet not @ drop of red blood in his performance. Moreover, he looked old enough |° the Rust shifts, the thieves feel they have a good margin, and that John Smith will | cy Bear, There was no blood on them, nor on his bretenes out into the themeee Thee fhe at least the Uncle of Mise Titheradge, who was ridiculously miscast as —_— appear before the expiration of that time, leave his key with the clerk who —_ lothes, #0 far aa he could sor, and he way no one about. and hie pre bere "Amarican girl, Miss Miriam Clements, an English actress new to thia coun.| The Succese Handicap was Never| registered him and drop into @ cafe or the street for a sight of the town, Securely Tied, heaved an unoonscious sikh of rellef. were quickly made He had’ left one : a fama | qey, was tho only one to score, She stood out luminously in the stained-giass role| Won by Anybody with that Sulking-| OF he may go at once to dinner Gass. dons. por ortihty Greed | ote nee, Ot Martner and farther. oad of the ell of twine: lente mmnrme Of the Princess, except when the author made a fool of that high-born lady by | in-the-Stretch Habit! In any event the operator maken pretty sure that he 1s not going im- widow hailed e cab, ands abt |g. fast, coming to @ public house, he thy brosece ey bee aan hie Gagere as nging her acrovs the water. After that experience, {t was possible to forgive | mediately to his room, And Number One, a few minutes after the whitt of 4 walked boldly in and called for Hquor. ee as bound box sank into the black ectreas @ certain extravagance of gesture and tone in her final scene. Miss KS os vay, | Clerks, makes a bold entrance through the corridor, steps to the demk and a goon ——_—__— i nubhan ted aie dunt e Cotta wriggled through the role of a yellow-hatred Countess tn henever we Become Excessively | connaently asks for “Mr. Smith's key, Room 307," which is un tingly tng retber Wind about txxva , A udden fear leet the etting sagan a! of Other Foiks {t's a Sure Sign i 1h * I" ° b long and remain floating on on, and Migs lene Foster appeared to take great delight in @ role that eet @iiesan Cs bs ther| Massed out; the lerk having no reason wpatsoever to doubt the Wdentlty gure. pene fee won't ren What H ened in the Hut, '"*,%'face selzed him, but he breathe? the author's inability to write slang, wa Ver another) of this well-dressed, smiling gentleman, , lekly relied, Leola Jat Happ * a sigh of rellef on sealing the end our’ | "4 oo £ HERE were very few people —— Number One, posing as Mr, Smith, merrily swings along the corridor | ¢ 0 children at bome sirenty,""—-Nattonal rea sae fe ar ee be an Ya aad then dip . the ; Joc! 0 Room mt aly | Mowenly. | nd parroom into wake of the box. He stood erect at the M i f “HalfeMast.’ here's an OftenOvertooked Medium} tte? leaving the elevator, unlocks the door to Room 7 and immediately Rati aaa which Lindsay turned, and rs side: tt seemed to im that now eaning o! alf-Mast. Path ectaten Taking it Too Keesiy i #Pfinge into such action as the nature of the baggage requires. Almont at] Slow Starvati: Rakha tha, Ekta ing could touch him. But emer WRHAPS you have noticed that beaten It hauled tts flag down far Heart and Laughing it Oft there Is @ ring of the telephone and the clerk announces that Mr. Brown| | ae Dy ip eater ne second glance, To them he Mere that terrible thirst was hot and whenever a prominent person enough for the flag of the victors to be is calling on Mr, Smith, Mr. Brown, or Number Two of the thieves, Is re- AUS KAUN of Sea Franclese sie th on? | socked pe ordinary seamen who was e 27 in Mis throat, and bis tongue emnpad Giles, eopoctaily if he 18 connected placed above it on the same pole. This! ‘There's Never any Excuse for Seit-|auested to come up, and he doen ao, but instead of entering Room 307 he Waing e weat into co hire “had Masell iittie down on his luck, and tf they won- ie mbered that he bad he Government, the flags on pub- was a token not only of eubmiesion but | Sympathy after @ Personally-Conducted | ™K@# UP & position in tha corridor where ho can seo any one approaching the flected te Congr, allt dewioel, & tail Ot | dered why he held hie cont somewhat y aivike. seven" ant he eiaincs ant clated auls part of nalat caanest Diagnosis! apartment where his partner 1» swiftly going through Smith's bags andj) |tightly pressed to his body, they soon T and: sutead hia tate than way up. This is called “half-mast."| In those days, when a famous soldier satchel, If the real Smith should suddenly appear, 1t would be the duty, ng he wont into @ country hotel tn iexniained their wonder by the surr rw too late to obtaln more Ma you ever stop to think what connec-| aied, flags were lowered out of respect) Somehow or Other we Never have been| f Number Two to notity Number One by @ whistle or other signal, and there- feted acenty altewmt as to (that the man wore no shirt beneath It, For that he must watt until n there could be between a flag that/to his momory, The custom long ago! Lucky ugh to Find a Boss whom} fter to stall off Smith until the active operator could make « getaway. te got food or starred w death, She| and was ashamed of his poverty, E wae not properly hoisted and the death| passod from purely military usage to|we Could Kid Into velleving that we Tho yield from this cort of thievery counts up quickly. It may be. ke bin waiting « time, and hie im) Aw for Lindsay, he paid no heed to now In the neteWhorhood of Lot @ great man? | public itfe of all kinds, the flag flying were Working when we were Boldier-| Jewelry, clothing or articles convertible into cash. It ts seldom money, a a ee SOS ee the fe his side, He gavo +) feoder, aaa Bver since flags were used in war itlat half-mast being a sign that the dead | ing! few men leave thelr bankroll in their geioe, The game (sn't @ very re | aa , taal ( aloh si sheltegea Ses has been the custom to have the flag of|man was worthy of untversal respect. spected one, even in underworld circles; but it 1s In favor wita @ certain class, ro ba en {te the dared not go-dt ‘the superior or conquering nation above| The space left above it ts for the flag| We've Just had a View of a Handsome|f criminale who don't believe in taking chances and who like to hang | nore « i et roy ve tone ie snags and otis vrglrdiren| that was his only hope now to say farewell of the inferior or vanquished. |of the great conqueror of all—the Angel | New 1919 ndar~but we Walled to} #round the principal streets of large cities and wear good clothes from other | Then,” shi Ke! you're not the one who | T: waa not yot twelve houre since he & iene forever, But where was an army found itself hopelessly of Death.—Toronto Mafl and Mxpress, (Find “Some Day” om it) people's wardrobes, [ak Songer. That ene left betere pee come 2 ' bad fret caught sight of the trea (To Be Continued) a ‘