The evening world. Newspaper, April 18, 1913, Page 27

™ta Become I Tord YA NoT To CHATH CHicrren & DAT AN YA WENT AN DODHHOHDDDODDDOHOODHHHOIHHOHIOH at New Yorkers Got Their Start 1.—HENRY WARD BEECHER. t , The Dull Boy Who Became America’s Most Brilliant Orator, RY WARD BPECHER,; confessedly the most brilliant pulpit orator America ever produced, was @ dull boy with @ weal memory, and @e a child disiiked all kinds of study. Though in manhood -he had « fine physique, he was as a boy ill-favored in form and featdre and had a half-stuttering way of speaking. Sailor. But his father, the great Lyman Beecher, notwithstanding He had m up his mind Wthe boy's duiness, kept him at school until he was thirteen years old: Honry became decidedly religious fourteen, and the burning fires of his * Rew fove overcame both his indifferenee and bashfulness. He det@rmined to be ef service to society and began to study with great seal, entering college tent @oventeen and graduating from Amherst at twenty-one without distinction, Me was a poor etufent dt college, but the foe of all wrongdoing among the itudents. At-Late Tueological Seminary in Cincinnati he continued his studies, ‘~ showing no evidence of thdse intellectual achtevéments which were later to } win him tmbhortal fain His firet church, at Lawrenceburg, Ind, with a salary of $200 a year, had ** néteteen members, ' ‘Prof. Stowe, who taught him theology and afterward * married his sister, Mar: it, thought auch @ small church in such an obs: town Just sulted Herify's talents. The cheerfulness which always character- ised him Beecher catried info his work, and he determined to do all the good ‘he could fn all the wayd he could to all the people he could. He visited the poor in their cabins, made congenial, work of sawing and a splitting wood for ‘the church fire, which he built regularly, nd showed Great delight in cleaning lamps, sweeping floors and washing windows as he @14 in preaching, To do good he considered nothing menial. In his enthusiasm for humanity he shunned no man because of his appearance. He never stood on a hi, He never went about with a countenance gra envugh to break an undertaker’s heart. At home he washed, baked and built the fires when his wife was unable platform of empty to do the housework. his fellow men hi az to surprise himself and astonish his wife. dignity. As he became forgetful of self and got in touch with vocal defects and difident manner disappeared before . ie earnestness, which. araused unsuspected resources. of sbility. Difficulties fo bis enthusiasm: In» his eelf-forgetfuliess he dicovered himeeit, and, burning with the enthusiaswy of enkindled genius, he became so eloquent His success in Lawrenceburg ‘sWas due to-his desire to do something for somebody. * “He did not wait for a pla: He did not stand to be made for ht Sfound waiting for somebody to g He made it himself, him a lift. He lifted ‘imagit. “He did not wait for « call to @ big church with a big salary. He gnew, that-a fine church and a great salary could not make him a great m: eplt wee work that he wanted. He felt if there was anything in him work would bring it out. He wanted the opportunity. him thet. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds, ‘opportunities are the wise improvement of small ones, And God gives a man enough when He gives Great If Beecher had slighted work and worried about his salary and earned no more than he was paid for he might have died an’ obscure country parson. ‘When the call came to Indianapolis, and a few years later to Brooklyn, he had the good sen large opportunities for usefulness. Ta, his willingness to give away his clothe '¥ food to those who were hungry we have the real secret ba Beecher’s greatness—his goodness. oF ap, \ E Authorities say that entirely by women, who are re-| 1s claimed that the men are rising up Fitzroy w ible for guch rude laws ag arel eng trying to demand the vote, to see that @ larger church and a bigger salary meant to the naked and his ne of Hehry Ward Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers p me Versus Courtesy. pee Broken Engagement. “I was engaged to a I happened speaking to a former girl friend ~My flancee's father came along promptly broke our engagement. J. GM owrlt funti! two week: : ‘O girl should assume that @ man is in dove with her because he shows her common civility, ‘That would seem to be a euMtently self-evident | DH. truth, but {t ten’t self-evident to all of you, judging from my correspondence, whenever he meets me. man tn the office picked up my handkerchief when I dropped it. Do you think that he is in love with m ‘A man emijes and bows pleasantly Do you:think that he cares?’ “A Those are samples of letters I receive from girls so foolishly senti- mental as to interpret everything in terms of emotion, or #0 Intolerably conceited as to assume that every male who acknowledgse their existence has fallen a victim to their charms, ‘The wise and modest girl avoids both assumptions, 8 ago, he justified in doing this?” o not think so, dD." writes: summer?" have been n't wee why not. b G.” writes: man, onabdle moods, am engaged to @ bat sometiines he Is cold uiky for no reason at all I shall be happy if I marry him?” jepends on whether your love is enough to make you overlook his H." writ) “ram n whom I see every morning in the Would Do you out it and there came to know several men very well. for my mother to Invite one of to spend a short time at our home be subway. We speak, but have never been formally introduced, Shall I ask him to call? Ir (Copyright, 1903, by B. J, Clode.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALMENTS. her, mM said to . ter mer. Ventnor is « puitor for ber bat Chine See tbe Sinlar goes, down, Th K Tivore patruther and Iris, sli PAD fhe girl to © nearby island, There, having Hetded many of ‘the Binders stores, "he imahes '& Dome for Iris in cave, tn, the cave he finis of gold, "While Irie ts) walking ched band title “at ‘the ‘as sure set by Anstrutl ire cl @ hidden ledge o they" hare “iavared, and. proviamed cy, The Dyal apareach, Teme, and oe the ‘ad yey igcover 's ‘and open ineffective fire on iy heat of te day F) Walter casks nd heat render the defenders’ si: ry Futher confewes his love for badd oath eat de oH who deve ott luces Anstruther to for euch un than elghty ard annonces her engagement, wari hes ale on ID. at, Arthur's gratitude by offering to ie certain financial troubles, Anatrit Offices about thie own ‘co-mt plots anew to ruin him. Learning « villeiny, the father refines to. coerce In er Certainly not! For all you know he may be @ married man. “8, L." writes: “I am in love with a young man who has been away from town a month, but has neither written nor telegraphed to me. Do you think he loves met" Frveevir not, Did he ever tell you 80 “TL. VA" write young man kissed me, making me very indignant. He apologized, but I would not fogive him, Would you advise me never to speak to him again, as I am constantly thrown | in his way?" I think you might overlook his offense, since he has apologized, “B, F writes: ‘Is it proper for a |young lady when going to the theatre vith a gentleman to take with her her with [own opera glasees " Certainly, Where Woman Rules and Man Can't Vote. BRITAPS one of the most interests ing and least known countries on one successfully the face of t has so far jefed civilization the Himalaya moun he globe pretty ’ nein it ia presided and Necessary even in a lawless diatrict, manage the affairs of State, and lve in a luxury of inverted Mormonism by possessing four or five husbands apiece, All the rough tasks and menial labors "5 ave ausigned to the hill men, and “mere man” Is of amall account beside these jm, though Rowing Ventnor can’ cause i) fal ruin, CHAPTER XVII. (Oontinued.) Rainbow Island Again. IN.the local banks the baronet had about a thousand to his credit. Surely among the rich merchants of the port— men who knew the potenti- alities of his schome—he would be able to raise the money need- @, He would try hard, Already he felt braver, The old fire had returned to his blood, The very belief that he was acting in the way best calculated down the hatchway. “Oh, there you are!” she cried, "I was just coming to find out why you were moping in your cabin, You are missing the most beautiful view—all reens, and blues, and browns! Run, quick! I want you to see every inch of it.” She held out her hand and pulled him gleefully up the steps, Leaning against the taffrail, some distance apart from each other, were Anstruther and Lord Ventnor, Need it be sajd to whom Iris |crew her father? | “Here he is, Robert." she laughed. °L Himalayan amazons, though lately it do believe he was sulking because Capi. so very attentive to me. Ze you we me 4, he inquired. it toally. Dey 1TH NO UTHE WY-IN COTH YA GOTTA TAKE WHAT Ma Git QUST Leave tt TH wel GETTING A PITCHERS GAT 6 ASouT We Gast he Wings of the Morning |wusiat tin The two men looked into each other's eyes, They smiled. How could the: Tesist the contagion of her sunny tur “I have deen thinking over what you je just now, Anstruther,” sald the shipowner slowly. cried Lris. @ you two been WW” talking secrets behind my back?’ “It is no secret to you—my little wirl"——, Her father’s voice lingered on the phrase. “When we are on shore, Kobert, I will explain metters to you more fully, Just now I wish only to ‘tell you that wh Iris has given her heart I will not refuse her hand.” “You darling old ded! And i that what all the mystery was about?” She took his face between her and kissed him. Lord Ventnor, won ing at thie effusiveness, strolled for- ward. ‘What has happened, Miss Deane?” “Have you just discovered what an excellent parent you possess?” The baronet laughed, almost h. Pon my honor,” he eried, “you could not have hit upon a happier ex- planation.” His lordwhip was not quite satisfed. “I suppose you wil take Iris to Smith's Hotel?” he sald with cool im- pudence, Iris answered Him. “Yes, My father had just asked Rob- ert to come with us—by inference, that is, Where are you going?” The adroit use of her lover's Chris- tlan name goaded hie lordship to sudden heat. “Indeed!” he snarled. “Sir Arthur Deane has evidently decided a good many things during the last hour."* "Yes," was the shipowner’s quiet re tort. "TI have decided that my daugh- ter's happiness should be the chief con- sideration of my,remaining years, All else must give way to it.” The Earl's swarthy face grew sallow with fury. His eyes blazed, and there was a tense vibrato in his voice as he aaid— ‘Then I must congratulate you, Mias Deane. You are fated to endure a ventures, Waving escaped from the melodramatic perils of Rainbow Isiand you are destined to experience another Variety of shipwreck here," He left them, Not a word had Robert spoken throughout the unexpected scene. His heart was throbbing with a tremendous joy, and his lordship’ sneers were lost on him. But he could not fall to note the malignant purpose of the parting sentence. In his quietly masterful way he placed his hand on the baronet's shoulder “What did Lord Ventnor mean?” he anked Sir Arthur Deane answered, with a calm smile, ‘It te diMcult to talk openly at tl moment, Wait until we reach dhe Bote.” Sdll Another The news flew fast through the set- tlement that H. M. 8. Orient had re- turned from her lon arch for the Sirdar. ae lowered te ers, Lieut. Piayéon ‘angements being made for sub- Ings. Once their courteous duty was enied, the oMicers of the Orient could not give him any further social recognition. Lord Ventnor was aware of this fact to the commander descend the ganzway, nda any others not detained by duty, to come and dine with me to-night. pt. Fitaroy answered blandly: “It le very good of you to ask us, but I fear I cannot make any definite ar- rangements until I nm what oniers are awaiting me he: “Oh, certainly. Come if you oan, eh?” “Yen; suppone we leave it at that.” It was @ polite but decided rebuff, It in no way tended to sweeten Lord Vent- nor’a temper, which was further 6: perated when he hurt hin shin againat one of Robert's disreputable-looking tins with its accumulation of debris, swung off into the tideway, rogress shorewards was watch: all knot of people, moatly lou era and coolles. Among them, how were two persona who had driven idly to the janding place when the rival of the Orient was reported. One bore all the distinguishing marke of the army officer of high rank, but the other w@ unmistakably @ globe trotter, Only in Piccadilly could he have pur- oni his wondrous sola topi, or pith helmet—with imftation pugert neatly frilled and puckered—and no tallgr who ever carried his goose through the Ex- fle's Gate would have fashioned his expensive garments But the old gentleman made no pre- tense that he could “hear the East in'."" He #wore impatiently at the climate, the place and its inhubitants, At this instant he was in @ state of wild excitement. He wae very tall, very stout, exceedingly red-faced. Any budding medico who understood the pre-eminence enjoyed by aq. ad in @ Prescription, would have diagnosed him an 4 first-rate subject for apoplexy. Producing a tremendous teleacope, he vainly endeavored to balance it on the ahi , you blithering futile attempts “or shall n't you stand st! idiot!” he shou to focus the ady ring bon I steady you by a clout His companion, the arn looking through Pair of Meld-glasses. “By Jove!” he cried, “I can see Sir Arthur and «8 git who looks CHATHING A CHicIreN AN’ By Louis Tracy. lke his daughter. There's that infernal @camp, Ventnor, too." The big ‘man brushed the servant out of the way, and -brandished the tele- ecope as though it were a bludgeon. “The dirty beggar! He drove my led of to misery and death, yet he has come back sat and sound. Walt till I.meet him, I’ “Now, Anstruther! Ri ember your with ord Ventnor, My vengeance has first claim. What! By the jumping Moses, I Go believe— Y It Anstruther! Your nephew ting next to the girl.” telescope fell on the stones with 7" int’s rublcund face sud- He leaned on his ¢riend for support. “You are not mistaken,” he almost whimpered, “Look again, for God's sake, man. Make sure wefore you T ‘Tell met" if, Anstruther, It te Robert, as sure as I'm alive, Don't you think IT know ‘him, my poor disgraced friend, whom I, like all the rest, east off in his hour of trouble? But I had some excuse, There! There! I didn't mean that, old fellow. Will be the last man to blame either of us. Who could have suspecte@ that two People—one of them, God help me! my wife wound concoct guch a hellish plot ‘The boat gilded gracefully alongede the steps of the quay, and PI nm sprang ashore to help Iris to allght. What happened immediately afterward can best be told in his own words, ag he retailed the story to an appreci- udience in the wardroom. ‘e had just landed, some of the crew were pushing it flendish row sprang up. That is, there was no dispute or wrangling, but ono chap, who, It turned out, wae Col, Costobell, grabbed Ventnor by the shirt front and threatened to smash hia face if he didn't Usten then and there to what he bad to say. about interfering, untll Comtabell's opening words. would glaily have seen chucked into the harbor, liked him, aid we?" “Ask no questions, Pompey, but g2 ghead with the yarn,” growled the first Heutenant. “Well, it seeme that Mre, Costcoell ts dead, She got enteric fever o week after the Orient ealled, and was a gomes in four days, Before she died she owned He paused, with @ base eye to effect. Not a man moved a muscl “AM right,” he cried. ‘I will make no more false starts, Mra, Costobdell begged her husband's forgiveness for her treatment of him, and confessed that ~ Leora Weataor 1 heard Col. After that I the bexgar We never Robert himself) 1 really thought h T Mutd Punt 41M Democratic party's been a Jonah fer me eo far! I ain't even dreamed uv nothin’ that sou: ed like = weda' belle since they got in. And pros- ects is sour! My figger bothers me e lot, ‘cause T simply can't look slinkay, An’ yuh GOTTA resemble a motheaten string bean these days to have ‘em flag yuh at al the ingenue slump. Ain't it the limit? T ejaculated, “Oh! don't mind me,” she said quickly, “When I get one uv these here spasms @0t enough complaints stacked up tn- part- ment worried fer a year! I break out Uke this pertodically. 1 stand bein’ a lemon as tong as I can an’ then, all uv @ sudden, somethin’ smashes an’ my Feal disposition comes out to see how the world’s changed since its last ap- pearance! But other times 1’: ow thing—an’ I'm nige. Gee! I'd give my neck to hear some REAL guy say that “bout me some time as though he meant ft. I'm gettin’ sick wv sayin’ it myself. “Aw, what'a the use?” ea he rebelled euddenly and defiantdy. ‘T ain't guin’ to gét mushy about it. But, hones, I got a heart that get's hurt just like other people, even though I do sound ike a tough mug! Tl tall ywh abont the Scrapper, Muyhe it'll make me feel fighty, ‘stead uv bhve “Phe Berapper wus elways ready Cd i hill everybody. Not fer doin’ nothin'— . y ft an’ left me etranded. Te he @dn't feel day tha Wittle teler: jus’ fer livin’ killin’ more'n three peaple every day he knew he wus goin’ into a dee-cl! T guens there wusn't a walter in thi union that he hadn't put to some hor rile death—in words. An’ his special hobby wus street car conductors. They never could do nothin’ to please him. Accordin’ to him the hot place wus |e walkin’ he wus goin’ wurroundings while they were earth, “Later on he acquired a fierce fer chauffeurs, If he wus the machine he give ‘em lujah fer goin’ too slow an’ careful uv the pedestrians. to whole bunoh run in fer speedin’ “But the awfulest time uv when he got the bug ‘bout iy rif off tween him slaughterin' fer not stoppin’ on the an’ wantin’ to smash e@utomodile an’ boil oll, why, gettin’ off a to me as havin’ all ii E ®s ‘tii H I i it what ain't Gone nothin’ w! ? T got “One event theatre an’ had ‘uv them car sink whats looked foo water an’ cai a7 i i it i 4] yer 1d yuh b'lleve it. He would yu! ‘An’ Tises to “what aid yuh do that Cor? | he ees: “ Don't pun’ mind, eid. Pll blow yaa. ‘There won't he nothin’ on Broa@way we don’ see. T've hed it in fer him Sar wiz yeare—I used to be a strest amP conduetor!” Little Tales of the Railroads 1V.—THE STORY OF THE PARK AVENUE TUNNEL, * . Copyright, NCE on @ time the New York O Central tracks ran up through the middle of New York as they run up the weet side now, at grade level. Park avenuc was the Death Avenue of the days when a revolt erose over this state of things. That was just over forty years ago, and ft ts true that from the streets numbered in the middie 60's onward there was a city only in spots, But the popular kick wae just as pronounced as though the right of way had been through congested districts, How was New York to grow up with those trains rushing through the middie of a main artery? As it was, accidents and close calls were @ daily feature of uptown life, ‘Agitation reached {ts height in 1873, Oretors and editors proclaimed the outrage of those grade-level tracks were posted all over town with pictures of locomotives running amuok. Transparencies were used to carry on the campaign at ht. The watchword of the times w tracks and arch them over. For a time the rafiroad people lay back and defied the plain people. But with the election as Mayor of William F. Havemeyer of the Anti-Tweed Com- mittee of Seventy things began to hap- pen to make the Central magnates take notice. The fight went to Albany, Tammany wee for the time down and out. The Legislature was at least ob- servant of the course of events, There the affair for which Anstruther was t co when he Costobell and by sev. e vants whom he bribed to give false evidence. “He promined to marry Mra, Costo- bell if her husband died, or in any event to bring about a divorce when BE mystery of the “Typhold Mur- re” has at last been solved by Craig Kennedy, the strange ée- tective who hag reduced crime ferreting ta The Prem Pusliching Co. (Phe New York Evening World), were mass meetings to promote local agitation. A dU! was under full headway providing for eunem tracks, arched over, from Ninety-cia ‘The railroad fought hard, but progressed rapidly. There came @ urday night in January, 1873, when York put in ite last push for Provement. The measure was home to pass a cheerful Sunday. Monday morning dawned. The df ‘rousht up in due course. It was else Passed. But, alas! how changed in the event, When the dil! became a law, it Bre city was to pay half the cost of the tm- Provement.. There is an assertion that | olt of the city’s haif of the approprias tion, thus saving its own money. But that Ja another etory. ‘What happencd on that fatal last @wm- Gay of the citizens’ bill? That te une written history, An interesting item of the times Is that the delegates peters from Afoany Gaturday night wl ingly met Commodore Cornelius Vander- Dilt going up to the Capitol, not os @ epecial train. It was a quiet visit taat the Commodore mad seemed to be all done by Sunday night His quccessors witness in ‘this 1918 the completer redemption of Park avenug the Hongkong affair had blown over, Tl ned that he was after Miss — no doubt her fury is fever Costobell positions, sworn to and bi pcitemtah oe ae) ue Johnaie?” e first lu severely, (To Be Continued) murders an in running down ringly told in “THE SILENT ‘vy Arthur B. Reeve, which will eerial publication is Mepday’s @laaned to an exact science, The story of these | World, \S