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RTT le RRR Re RR pe sorter gummi eaten sharia et etme eC ett The Evening World Daily Magazine. Friday. April 4. 1919 7 She RE saiorio. ESTABLISHED BY JOSHPH PULITZER. PeMened Daily Except 8 by the Presa Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to tk Row, New York. ries of Famous Novels By Albert Payson Terhune | tion on ni 01 World for the Vaited Stater | All Countries tn the Interna: O. ai Pr One Yeu i 6 OOOH a 5 ‘ostal Union, A 7 Copyright, 1913, by The Press Pablishing Co, (The New York Breuing World), ve 20 One Mont deneveune $5 ; \ ; a NO. 5—BEN HUR:2By Gen. Lew Wallace. iF aga TaRE \ . ’ oo ' 8 the Roman Governor Gratus was riding through the streets ef New x or to The Evening For England 4 C Jerusalem a young Jewish noble, Ben Hur, leaued from @ root parapet to watch him pi A stone broke from the parapet under the youth’s weight and struck Gratus on the head. Mes- | wale, a Roman officer, falsely accused Ben Hur of trying to assassinate the |Governor, Without trial the Jew was condemned to toil for life as a gafley ;slave, His sister and widowed mother were thrown into prison. In a sea battle a few years later Ben Hur saved the life of a righ Roman tribune, Arrius, who, out of gratitude, freed the galley slave, took him to Rome and adopted him as his own son. Soon afterward Arrius died, leaving Ben Hur the heir to his great wealth. For a long time the youth sought for the mother and sister who had been imprisoned when he himself had been sent to the gall He could | find no trace of them. He found, however, his father's old steward, Simoné- ‘des, who, with his gentle daughter, Esther, was living at Antioch. Bether at once fell in Jove with the handsome young Jew; but he at that time had eyes . only for an Egyptian girl, Iris by name, whom he had recently met at Antioeh OLLOWING the announcement from Berlin that a learned physi- F cian has developed an elixir of youth out of radium, we are likely to have a new cult busy in the world before the year’ closes. Meichuiko® bad millions of good citizens drinking sour milk a few years ago on a mach smaller promise than this, Still earlier, Dr. Brown-Sequard had a hosi of the hopeful following him | im search of a return to youthful vigor through the medium of ineculations developed from guinea pigs. Fortunately radium is not cheap nor readily obtained. The Bumber of the votaries of the new cull will be few-—perhaps. ‘There Temains the fear that under the stimulus of demand some inventive BE KS Ny and for whom he felt a strange infatuation. ‘ ‘ \ " i i vii ° f tivity fr case AY Ne py At Antioch, too, Ben Hur once more discovered his old foe and accuser, Mee- IM sella pals white taal eld i Mle pla : RNY i) sala, and upon him the Jew vowed vengeance. His opportunity was at hand. A or crude petroleum. We should then have the thing on sale at every Great chariot race was to be run within the next few days. M | charioteer, was looked on in advance as the certain winner | Ben Hur sought out Sheik Iiderim, a Bedouin who was encamped near the | town, and he won the Shelk's permission to drive the latter's four matchless | black Arab horses in the race, Then through an agent Ben la, @ famed irresponsible drug-store and on tap at every bar, What woman will not do to look young, man will do to feel young. Each knows the | other to be a fool; cach rejoices in his folly. Hur {induced Messala to wager his entire fortune on the i The Chariot outcome of the contest. It was to be a duel of a new and | exciting sort between the lifelong foes. The race began, There were six competitors, AMessele | deliberately ‘fouled one of these whose chances seemed | 800d and laid him dying in the arena. As the race progressed one contestant after ed until at last the victory lay between Mei ced, neck and neck, Messaia leaned sideways and Arabian horses viciously with his long whip. he desert-bred steeds had always been treated with loving tenderness. They had never known the cut of the lash. Under the cruel sting of Messala's whip they bolted, ‘ehile the curses‘of the spectators at the Roman's unsportemanitke | trick filled the vast amphitheatre. { The mighty strength that Ben Hur had gained at the galley oar now stood WHAT SURPRISES SOME FOLKS. B= NING with commendations upon the clean streets of the | east side and passing to comments on things generally, Mayor | Gaynor said: “It will astonish this town when they know} how little has been brought out against the police with all this) neise and fury.” | , The value of this appraisement will depend upon the amount | of wrongdoing the public expected to be brought out against tho 4 K\ ‘ ‘ 2 S =~ | him in good stead. He reined in the frantic biack horses and brought them again : Police. Some deem the disclosures resulting from the Rosenthal | @ Hy oe Seon eg control. Tittle by little he gained upon Messala, urging on the fleet Arabs ‘ ed RK PSS y his v ; killing to be in themselves a good deal. Others look upon tie f \ ; Ep ges | lo neared the goal Ben Hur swerved his horses ao that his chariot wheel | struck that of Messala, The latter's chariot was overturned. Messala, under te hoofs of the horses, was battered into senselessness and was borne from the habe a helpless cripple. The duel was over. The race was won. |. Vengeance complete, Ben Hur made his way to Jerusalem, atill his mother and sister. He was safe from punishment on the old cites aE Gratus was no Jonger in Jerusalem, Pontius Pilate having succeeded him as Governor ther® At the Holy City Ben Hur first saw Jesus of Nazareth, the | Messiah. And straightway he enrotled himeelf among the Saviour’s followers, even raising a legion of soldiers, in the Idea that Jesus was going to cast away the Roman yoke from Judea by force. Two women—unclean, wretched lepers—came forth from a hovel one day revelations of money paid from gambling houses and brothels as q@mounting to more than a little. Still others wonder why much. more is not brought out if it be that all in high power in the force are eager to free it from corrupt elements, | This town is casily excited, but hurd-te astonish, It is habitu- | ated to noise and is not afraid of fury. “Occasionally it has a sur- prise. When the Mayor says, “But we want to keep at it and gei| every rascal out of the police force,” it has that feeling; he has such asinine | |a# the Master passed by, praying Christ to heal them. At His touch they : ch dink | were made well and whole, The women were the mother | ex and sister of Ben Hur. Thus the wanderer's weary seareh ; he End of ended, and he was united to his loved ones, o om + aia a Quest. After the Crucifixion Ben Hur returned to Rome. Sle had seen the folly of his mad Dassion f turned to the tenderer, truer 1 Gr ioe a EPORTS from Washington that it is believed the action of the of Esther. President in retiring from the six-power project of financing Ohina, and in recognizing the republic on our own initiative, will incline the Chinese to break away from the influence of the and seek a loan in this country, are interesting. The thing The Day’s Good Stories ‘ — — _ And He Was Unha) eked that each pupil draw from his or her own is not bable. The Chinese Government has never looked with 2 SCHOOL teacher sald to her PY: ow, | 28, Picture of Plymouth Rock. The eit - ‘ Cecereser ccceccooooooooors cocceooooooooooes A 1 am goi0g to give you each three buttons, Sridoriy Rent (o work, but one Little bay approval upon the terms demanded by the powers as a guarantce You wane Witah ors us cones ing | Dtated and finally raised hie tend, ina in vi | | atte, Of their loans. The acceptance of them would place China in virtnal | . Jarr Indulges in a Nice | Sam Tateree suse t mape seatie crsoe teas hich do you want us to deem, q vassalage to foreigners. Something like financial as well as political | 66 ” buttons and tell me what they represent.” Bazar, “ Fy : + 1 eS independence dawns for the Chinese in the action of our Government. « Little Day-Spoiling Chat Pgearl geenineg ff ogflow cece a Kale Naturally, . Should these probabilities come to pass, the situation will be a 99999SS9999SS9SSS 9999999009S999999 88T8TT9STTIVOOOD | OO” Be totded. “Here's ite and here's ‘viet 1 eae . ie an 4 liberty, but me mudder went and sewed heppi- Visiting a butcher shop, called *stiking proof of the superiority of straight dealing in international Jatr. “What's your rave? What's the ppeople in Mansfield, Ohlo, Why, when) the low-brows stopping, looking and| new on me pants,” bi uckig: bg | froygea oad preg fe ’ paper Py H matter with you?" she was in High Schgol and recited at |listening’—— agra seer ere Cy Y, plekil 4 ones, What the dollar diplomacy intended to effect by indirection ; “There shouldn't be any of this aociailthe High School society affalr——and| “dou mean Handy to Have Around. hues Tee sini 134 sgading wil have been achieved directly. We shall have a free hand and ~ Re 3 beg i is in business,” grumbled Mr, |not any of this ‘Curfew Shall Not Ring aie at the spring, “A™, JOU One of those who believe the dog aly but you may cut # off and 1) ‘ake tt 4 71 . x yr enkin: “Now, I’ arried to fine | To-nigh' stuff, either, but Browning; ‘he day's at the morn: rT faithful friend’ along, anyhow," : Cian o free hand. As for the powers, they also will derive a profit 4 Uttle la whe ponaee peed the, best Ta . groveingl guess that had eee ee ee ‘ Seeds sean § oan 90 asked ou ‘ from the affair if they give heed to it asa lesson that it paye to do es ae et oe ee ee Rhea a QR gel A Be Ul : right. ‘The snail's on the thorn—" 3 one, but use 1 line —<——— a ventured Mr. Jarr. the brutes, It happens that the one we hare al Excei 7 ae Conquests of Constance “You must have heard Mrs. Jenkins) Tw*,noms wmercituly when my wile trie to) 9 ois ting ‘Time. PUTTING BRAINS TO WORK ——— ce ef a ee ge srg tf te igi 4 os “Oh, n ea! ‘. G . Beci ae ‘ - ; si oprian, 192, "Tig Pome tunugung ce. | The Beau By Alma Woodward “it ts’ the aelection from Browning wwy| Comtemporary History. on Su testi Thane secant ae q DOPTING as its motio, “Put the brains of New York to ee | Tae pears five sag id Uttle girl turned so exquisitely into a | 7VHE tescber tn legit detites ‘4 ‘at Mre, Newwed's across the atrest!"” p i ” | i" Copyright, 1013, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). | French vilanelle. Y: Wa bet ve each one ar Oe rend ¢ ‘What ie itr work for New York,” the Board of Trade and Trausporta- | A It petty soft:” anid Jenkines| | Aemmin’ is sure some’ hilly aur all vere well in the heeingin'; but astoniahed. “Anybody would have. been |. tM" lamin, that ther wight hare some toward her neighbor tet? tion has decided to enlist the service of fifieen hundred now the bookkeeper, with a 8 I ade frum the spirit world after @ while, when yer gettin’ kind uy | #Stonished”— | CPAs SN RR ce unss Nadie t make out," ghrilied ff, eddin’ ite Nilo green infloo- | mu yerself, y' to be more} This last was true enough, little Miss ence over my rose- adjacent kind there ain't |Jarr being seven years of age and at colored aura Present just being capable of reading Connie began de-!etamps on a lady makin’ the advances, | “The Cat Is on the Mat,” without hes!- Jectediy, “Once in| but what're yuh goin’ to do when the |tating—provided one did not cover up a month uv party uy the first part hi the picture of the cat on the mat. daye some relaxed llered a young refri “But I don’t bring my family and my tightwad opens up| ‘So I kind uv dropped hint ,| social status into my bi an’ slides me a|yuh know, an’ one night I even went so} tions,” growled Jenkins, bonus—an’, by gee.}far as to squecez his hand. My gosh!/™y work, the value of my services to, it's always got its] It didn't have no more expression 'n a|this firm for fourteen years, and that's! Mttle sting taggin'| under done waffle, so I let it drop.|#ll. But out in Mansfeld, Ohio"— on behind! Here's! Tie next day I met one uv bis old| “Oh, bother Mansfield, Ohio! And | members. From the added vigor thus attained, it will be possible| ‘asnn ina ee Trea tne ook: to increase the activities of the board in all former lines of work and replied. “All T got to say Is at the same time enter upon new fields and ‘undertake additional © Would this firm be if th: that keeps th ka didn't catch some é \of the aistakes that go through the . ; ) ‘ depart: te Motto and programme suit one another well. There is no finer | yy (Man ren caught an error of | (career open for any organization of citizens than that of getting the |@ cents, as the difference between & _ brains of the city to work for the interests of the city. The genera: beet apa mn express company tiem of giants now passing away from the industrial and financial | ‘ain't saying tt, you are, * . Pa : the bookkeeper. “All I do si world has shown what brains can do in organizing economies and there's certain parties around here} 4 baly oF her C3 of the Pilgrims, and after she bed finished she oF ter es oe keoper ITTLE boys are al- ee dressed in Rus- sian = dlouse guts. Tals one ts cloned right down the front, ard ts 5 : : . : . vl a . Parkerabu: West Vi la, effleiencies in railways, mines, factories and banking. The advan putting on a lot of crust and gettin That T wot tol names what had grew to Wim 90:5 ete ea Di aek yen OE TEA, | jald ina plait trem 4 ° th It. But when the @rm is in y. | knew she'd tell me the truth, An’ I si each shoulder that gemeration should show that equal, or rather greater, things can be |***",” asics but ia annia) She displayed & to her: ’ and foie SH | means becoming i i i | small pin of art! ‘Say, what kind uv breakfast food | Points up 4 Mr. Jarr. " achieved in public service, ee | the bookkeeping department! ouveuy denign in diferent ahades Ot !ig quisr‘anyway?, The Guy aie got no) "What. prt Breadth On very warm It is conceded that municipal administration has thus far beon [4° tates department or the snip. Come, out with it like a ma | jaye 1 can be worn t's very beautiful,” I sald, enthu- eally Yeh! But if you didn't see it ¢ ee ass [OUL UV A box fr with yer own Sam Loyd Puzzle. junk, wouldn't “TM buy it fro: * 1 volunteered, yuh do I'm not askin’ fer! Can't yuh let me kick once tn a while? It does me good, ‘specially in; the spring. Aw, say, what's th use anyway? Yuh make yer little bow {this tittle fe, aa’ yuh do yer Mttle efunt, In the beginning yuh get stage fight; then comes the Knocks uv the! mitts around yuh that youl gotta buck; | the ene conspicuous failure of American enterprise. In all our citics _ there is not one well governed, not one well planned for, not one that enlists the willing service of all its people and makes full use | = of its brains. The Board of ‘I'rade and Transportation has a chance to start ‘ “Well, I suppose it's none of my busl- a ty +{ness, but I know why some guys live in abe he W's & waren crowded, unhealthy Harlem flats, when hiv . Tt} they could be out in the country, with | je one, ain't good fer clothes, Tt] ey ee oe ie oe ine te ea the | takes that fresh-from-the-factory finish | tne niras, the bese. the piv a oft'n ‘em, Why, that ringer shakes any| fine Coe er i” osmoted, firl the minuto ahe begins to tle knots |aagged, paved, no. assessments” — be tow pe to Le WJ fale “Never mind trying to sell me real DI vip agli vl Well tent geo | ortate in Kast Malaria," interposed Mr. | Jarr. Wh are you tryt to kick * to do the embalmin’ at thin] o2t BAe BOON eSa SF7iRe' te Bs ‘ about?” rehearsal, we will!’ fo “Well, I don't say YOU do it, Jarr,"*| sends Claude around to the drug store| grumbled the. bookkeeper, “but. T| fer some weapons, We wuz goin’ to) wouldn't put it past some people that thet aight. There wuz @ taxt) mow ive ina tuck alley near the boss, | Jan’ just when yui've got over yer ner- | OUtside an’ he wuz bloomin’ in @ brand | just wo ax to be handy to truckle and |vousnees an’ winsd all rivals off'n [NeW bine serge. Well, gir, I had three} toagy to him and his wife” i , “ the acenery, ‘long comes the inerry Httle |!8er# Uy Brease paint on my map. t2] Phen suddenly the little bookkeeper ) into the cars in a way that no packer, rollicking “all-night city” Is blithering cabaret closer, vn’ bump! yer light goes nothin’ uy olly evebrow black, blue! purst out Into a storm of indignation. “would dare ship livestock to market, ot. Walk down Rrondway from Nine- out fer food. Aw, gee, what's the{Sading paint, sticky lp rouge an’) «py» peen keeping books for this firm ‘Rey ene thus herding cattle, chickens,| tleth street to Fourteenth street any aa : : . oodles uy powder, My hands wut roy fourteen yea Be, Would be jailed. it would be Mega! | Might after 1 A. M. and you'll see its THE PUZZLING HOTEL BILL, | “youn have to stop this soon,” 1 told {drenched in giycerine, with pink paste! ty a cent; I've never ma: animals so . glittering and all-nightful as! When Lord Wopping arrived in Goll-)ner, “or we'll he ordering tube rosea | thick on the nails, an’ inside uv my thin|the disadvantage of the house—and yet €an It be made Illegal to tri tory (own, Let's drop our] field he wasytold by the Swedinh hotellsout to your address! Come on, brace {shirt walst I had talcum tied in lttle|does the boss's wife take my children deings worse than any brute / Pose of a Bay wickedness we don't pos-| clerk that three meals at the hotellup and get another one of those shines |auze packages. to the clrous? No, she doesn’t! ‘And | dare treat chickens or pigs?) eas and be proud that we are decent} cog, $1.60 more than a night's lodging.lout of your system. ‘That'll do you| “The taxi hadn't went more'n a Mock} i'm gind of it, We are not objects of | KL, {and happy, Cabaret shows open after] Hut his Lontship aut down to four! an’ a half when I got took with a flerce| charity, as yet, thank goodness!” 1 A. M.? Yes, and the boose room of! meals diem, for he simply could a dar-rk moonlicht nicht, the {fit uv temp'rment. 1 fired my arma! «re you mean my klds,” sald Mr, Jarr, | |the village grovsry Hee A not do without his tea in the afternoon. nicht when I inet him," she Seoteh around his neck in @ half-Nelson, an'| «the boss's wife didn't take them. Mrs. without the shied, er the shield can be eut off to give a low neck. ‘There are the tion Dalek er Gomes worn beneath blouse, and for the e can be used — ve riety of materiale, White galatea is one ilustrated, simple scalloped but linen and. plum madras and gi are equally correet, belt ia made of the ma- terlal, but patent leathe er in much liked en@@ patent leather belt evar a sult of colored ligan or pique always gives e smart finish, In pleee of nealloping the edges stitches could be used or any simple ban For the four-yea size will be needed yards of matertal inches wide, 3% years 86or 2% yards 46, with 1 yard 27 to trim es shown in the Sagi ping department-— “Oh, don't let's talk shop! ‘ome |} man—he's a Bi m the right gem mill h'd ‘a’ said it wus Letters From the People i "tt Be ¥-de iMemalt” tly, go quietly ¢ v4 we of The Evening World haps twic month and @tay at home} gubway crush grows worse every other night» and go to bed before 11, Gay. The crowd 's packed und jammed }This talk about w York beipg a the theatre per- Night City. lew, in And at the end of the week his bill was|an' the minute he sez ‘Chawmed, I'm |while I aobbed out my love T didn't dol Jarr and I took them. The boss's wife ME ieca pas veal j!9e4? bopulat to be found $n one) for 447.6, The fact that Lord Wop- sure!’ T tumbled to his wraps, SOMI|A thing to him in the tranafer act!|was there but with another party"—- ; oe ators Ne, faee oe low York City OF 19 $88 other, Se Oing’s remittance was delayed, causing |shoep laid them clothings, T tell yuh!/My gosh! When I got through with| “Well, do T get an afternoon off to) Pattern No. 7830—Boys’ Suit, 2 to 6 Vears. and six years of age, @® the onder not to serve A HEETHECLIFFE JR, | qi) gortn of embarrassment, really Was |I never secn eo many patch pockets an’ |that gink he looked like a cublat’s Im-|/take my children anywhere?” asked ae nothing to Jo with the jiu % a* all/buttons an’ intermittent seams in my'| preasion uv sunset at the North Pole! | Jenkins. T's favoritism, That's! Fo Call at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION" fringe of hu A KNOWING PUPIL. that Js required {to tel! how much of |life! AM over him, just Uke scars, yuh | An’ when the cad stopped I skipped| what it is, favovitism:” | BUREAU, Donald Building, 100 West Thirty-second street (eppes in numbers a8 reycner—Wiat ie the meaning of the {that $97.00 was charged for meais know, but nifty! out, an’ I sex: “T feel awful sorry about jt old man." alte Gimbel Bros.), corner Sizth avenue and Thirty-second ANSWER 'TO CA) eM, | *Well, uv course it adda to yer rep to! ‘I guess I'm the first dame you've| And he did, too. It spoiled the reat of | Tom's height was aX feet and his/be seen round with anything dolled up| met with a detachable, an’ adhesive| his day at the office, He told Mr: i cane % 1-4 Inches long. John's height ke that, ro | hooked him, Gee, temp'rment, Cyril hope It learnajabout it when he got hom 4 Mra. , five feet 11 and 1-14 inches, and the|polite: He treated me lke a Vength of his cane % s-4 inches, ‘manners booklet all the ime, ow word “lelaure ‘Obtain New York, or sent by matl on receipt ef ten cents im este Pupli—tIt ie the nai ‘These stampe for each pattern ordered, IMPORTANT—Write addres plainiy and al Fetteras, § cise wanted. ‘AG two cuntsNipr lector postage it tn apan of the place 1 yuh a lesson,’ I ses. An" then I wentiJarr asked him if he rem red the; nome to wash up!” -, Tentinges hed no ehiléren, ARIA Aaa 8 OK oo ams kame