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‘ sk ef ‘ Whose etore wos yesterday, in any ext ' , nt @xeited about it end New Y $ lone distinet But i @ bomb more oF len “ \nd who is Vito Mirer ne of the many w ve ble g letters from bomb Unlike mort other e ‘l tetives and captured one blackmaier, who went im Sing after that Mirenda had tore letters, Ho eat up night after nit in hw bedroom window watching his shop ecrons the treet One night he dored A bomb wrecked bis etore front. ‘Then letters again. [ast Sunday he took a night off Another bomb mace havoc of his shop, broke windows in half « doven buildings op and Gown the block and terrified the neighborhood Mirenda takes it philosophically. These things wil happen—in Bew York. Bombs are a recognived article of metropolitan manu feoture. It is true the police frown upon the industry, But how it thrives! One can always eit up with a shotgun and watch if one ealy Mirenda. But suppose some of the ehop owners in Broadway and Fifth ‘Avenue had to spend the silent watches of the night nursing guns and eniffing for bombs! What « lawless and barbarous elty it would be then! And what « scurrying at Police Headquarters or somebody'd tow the reason why! +-—-- YOUNGSTERS DO LEAST HARM. ARK COMMISSIONER WARD is tolling the public school chil P dren how to treat the parka and urging them to show what they think of youngsters who gouge lawns and beat shrubbery. He plans to talk on the subject to 100,000 boys and girls in the schools before the summer vacation begins. A good idea. But don’t forget the adult park defacers. They are worse than the children and talk is too mild for them, Park “to exercise his back muscles.” Before his sport was checked be had done $500 worth of damage. On thie kind of vandal the police need waste no gentle words of that playfilness of this sort gets the full penalty. Children destroy through thoughtlessness. They are quick to learn and to become scrupulous in their dealings with nature. Adult ment that will be remembered is the one cure for their case. —_——__-4-__—— WITH SLOW, FIRM TREAD. A and trade conditions throughout the country comes from the American Exchange National Bank of this city, which, efter a canvass of representative banks in various sections, summa-| Crop prospects in the Middle Atlantic, Central West, Northwest, | Pacific and Southern States are uniformly excellent. ‘The wheat belt their acreage. The South, having learned its lesson, is cutting down fte cotton acreage and turning to grain, fruits and cattle. General business in most sections is described as only fair but In only two lines is there marked depression: Lumber and jew- @ry. The former is eaid to be suffering from overproduction and eck of organization and selling policy.” The output of jewelry in wormal times. On the other hand automobiles are the best selling articles in the whole length and breadth of the land. In general, the reports indicate an optimiatic feeling, and eervatively. While the Huropean nations are settling their Glaputes on the battlefield, a gradual readjustment is at work fm this country along lines of improvement in our binking and fibre dn our people, which will increase our efficiency as a ne téon and will aid in placing us in @ position where we will be @ble to compete for « share of the world’s trade, cvoeddd in conveying the slow but «ure confidence of the nation’s tread toward prosperity. Throughout the rest of the world commerce and finance are shaky. They are likely to shake worse later, ‘I'he best Last Sunday a man was found pulling up young trees in Riverside warning. Promptly arrest all such and let the magistrates show them offends, on the other hand, are no better than rowdies. Punish- COMMENDABLY sane and conservative report of agriculture wives the results for the benefit of its customers. | Yooks for bumpor harvests. ‘The beet sugar interests are increasing | markedly hopeful. Money is plentiful and the demand for it light. the New England States ie hardly more than 50 per cent. that of thet bankers and business men are handling their affaires con- Dusiness systems. ‘There has been a strengthening of the moral Few attempts to gauge the state of the country have better suc- thing this nation could wish for is its present firm ‘step. Hits From Sharp Wits one who not unly,) say about himself what you haven't but also never) the norve to say about yourself, A good talker is knows how to talk, misses the psychological moment for ee him to stop. Wo don't wonder some men look ee }wo sturtied when their wives call When @ man is in trouble most of ie em “sear in public Philadelphia bis friends give him sympathy by ab | Mayire a + * pent treatment.-Aliany Journal, Seneca a s! is hat our Some men are 50 Regie te of telling stories they pie shrine lain truth sound like a lie.—Toledo | Blade, . | Aes Confession may or may not be good A man with exaggerated ego ts a) for the soul, but it ls always good for chap who has the reasiveness to! the prosecation.-Deseret News, ‘The Tap Meanure, Wo Ge Mtitor of The Brenig World: D0 the Diitor of The I bave solved the tap problem and! J contend that these two sentences, have obtained tho following « ss es, telat Aes aa on, wore ere,” &re both correct, depending en- ‘The three taps working together Will| tirely upon whom you ene Aey dead fi) the measure,in 6-17 of minute. | ing, whether an individual or a group ‘The Oret contributes 4-17 of tho meus- of people, “B" contends that only ‘the second contributes 6-17 of the| the latter sentence ta grammatically God third contributes correct, Which of us ts it? Your new! HAT } ) " Ww Lovecy! ee. YES, MRS JOH THis 1S THe ns ths By REAL FLAT, STS USK We (ive MB York Brenig World) one a spirituelle expression. So if Mra. Kittingly gave you a baby stare you needn't flatter yourself that she is in- fatuated with you. She's Just testing the effect of her new eyebrows.” new eyebrows now, is tt” replied Mra, Jarr, ‘“Bye- brows must be very thin and far apart. No one must have thiok eye- brows any more, They must be thin, ty defined and widely sep- sai@ Mr, Jarr in a disgusted tone. “Ps! wet Pr y are all crazy!” “Oh, they are, are they?” suid Mra, Jarr. “Well, Mra, Kittingly was in here showing me the new eyebrows, te DEAR THE WINGS F Just Lee Tid April Maurice Ketten WOVE KD ian Ggoua Rigel Monet oT fe 1SAw & vi OMAN WITH ONE \ Mr. Jarr Cheerfully Pleads Guilty Without Having Heard the Charge and ashe told me that all the hair- dressing places which make a spe- clalty of eyebrows were so crowded With men that the women have to wait.” “Nonsense!” replied Mr. Jarr. “It's not nonsense,” said Mrs, Jarr. "Mra, Kittingly has her faults, but she’s alwaye very truthful, and what she saya can be depnded on. She suys the places were full of men got- tng their eyebrows shaved thin and between.” “I don't believe it,” said Mr. Jarr. But that day busines took him in the neighborhood of a great hairdress- ing establishment, one whose custom- ers heretofore had been women 6x- clusively, and Mr. Jerr loitered long enough to confirm Mrs. Kittingly's statements. Just for that Mr. Jarr mussed his . By Roy L. McCardell Tel bbe, doe Moone Paocating Co, Ing good,” sald Mr. Jarr, carelessly, ‘Then he Added, “t met her “Oh, I'll be bound you noticed that!" sald Mra, Jarr, “But tf it was some poor old acrubwoman you “Weil, hardly," said Mr. Jarr. “T assure you my tnterest in the di- voreed lady who liven upstairs in time, I must confess that sho in rather more restful to the eyes than aod scrub ladies, no matter how “Oly don't try to look so Innocent!" suid Mra, Jurr, “You men are al- ways talking about the modest violot | other sort pase and I notice you are all attention!" Mr, Jarr thought it best not to eaid “Guilty!” | “Well, I'm glad you admit It/’ said Mra, Jarr in a more modified tone. “No, 1 didn’t notice her eyebrows, sald Mr. Jarr, “And if T bad and @atd |no, you'd be angry about tt.” jJarr, “I have more pride than that, |1t that ts the kind of people you pre- |tor, I'm sure I'd do or say nothing coy Rs, KITTENGLY'S look- in the hall downstairs.” wouldn't give her a second look.” vague and platonic; but, at the same worthy.” sort of women; but let some of the argue the matter, so ho grinned and “Did you notice her eyebrows?” “Indeed I should not, said Mra, |to interfore, Mo? I guess not!" spring moon. Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, ty ‘The Pres Pubttshing Oo, (The New York Brening World), T* “yellow peril” of the moment, according to a bachelor’s view, is not the Japanese situation, but the big, round, golden, seductive Love is like appendicitis; you never know when nor how it is going to strike you—the only difference being that, after one attack of appendi- hair and made up his mind to shave} only every other day. The Live Spirit of Lincoln. By Sophie Irene Loeb. Conyright, 1410, by Breen Publishing ‘The New York Brening World.) IFTY years ago this week Lincoln Aled. Yet the spirit of him ts alive to-day, Per- haps the world has producc@ but one Lincoln, but people Lincoln spirit. are right with among us—every minute 1 saw this Lincoln spirit the other the day. It was in a ragged boy who stood | in front of a little foreign girl and took the jeers and blows intended for her by mischievous children who scoffed at her European dress, He stood his ground like a man and led her safely home. It i# the most satis- fying spirit in the world, Lincoln's. It Jeavea you with something real, You can easily see it and adopt it for your very own, You can find It In: ‘The factory owner who looks for the Simon Legrees in his establishment and shows them the door. The housekeeper who: realizes that her servant is @ human being who needs sunshine and air and fun, ‘The millionaire who builds model sanitary homes for low-wage earners, ‘The landlord who refuses to turn @ defenseless widow and her children from their only shelter. ‘The worker in the Workshop who “itt” to his comrade just ont T | righteous and spe \T 13, 1915 — The Story of Lincoln’s Death A National Tragedy Where Sem Comenery ty Obverved This Weeb LINCOLNS LAST PHOTOGRAPH No.2 LINCOLN'’S LAST SUEECH. 1 ¢ fe. Me had ran f the war ver erader of Law Aviving at the White House evening of April 9, aftes © of seventeen days, the bre dares fal ought, and om ning of Monday, April 10, plung “ne sted work wit wor. Crowds early filed the ets and the vielnity of the White House the War Department, ac wigh cheers and shouts of joy the news of the end of the war tnd came up, and a throng follow yan calling for Line When he appeared at an upper win shouts of " chi" Lincoln raised bis hand and the My friends, you want speech, but L cannot make one at this time Undue importance might be given to what tshould say, To must take time to think, If you wi le here to-morrow evening | will have something to ay to you. Thore Is one thing 1 will do, however, You ¢ nd with you, There is one piece of music I have always liked. 1 it has nog seemed the proper thing to use in the North; but now, by virtue of my prea roxative as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, B declare tt contraband of war and our lawful prize, 1 ask the band to play “Dixtes" Lincoln's oldest ron, Robert, had served a few: months as a captain on Gen, Grant's staff, returned he frown they front, In the Joy of wecing him Lincoln talked af the young manta, future and of the bles ro that were now at ha Robert had brouht to the Presiden ait of Gon. sobert #2 Lincola ecanned the pictu: “It isa good face, Mis face of & noble, brave man. nen he added, “Tam xiad the war ts over. Looking up a! his son, he continued: “Well, my son, you have returned safely from the front. Tho war ts now closed and we soon shall live at 1 trust thag WAT morning wh peace with the brave men that have been fighting against us, the era of good fecling has returned with the end of the war.” ed to deliver this apeect the grounds before the } HEN Lincoln ep White House and the avenue and square beyond were densely. packed with cheering people, Addressing his hearers “Follow Citizens,” Lincoln auld: “We moet noty In worrow, but tn gladness of evacuation of Potei Richmond and tho surrender of t linsurgent army niverti a peace whore joyous expression cannot be restrained. In the midat of this, however, Ho from whom all blessings flow must not! be forgotten, A call for a National thanksgiving is belng prepared and will be duly promulgate Nor must those whose harder part gives us the cause: of rejoicing be overlooked, Their honors must not be parcelied out with’ the, others," i HE bulk of the speceh was devoted to the probte a task, he anid, “franeht with great dimeulty, His closing words wei ems of reconstructiony ented 18 the whole case that n r at no exclusive and inflexth be preseribed as to details and Peet Such exclusive and inflexible plan would surely become a new entanglemen In the present situation, as the phrase goes, It may be m: 5 hot fail to act when satisfied that action will be proper.” When conversation was resumed dn the White House Mri monstrated with her husband for recklessly exposing himself to dangers saying that he mist stood In the winde He soothed, he real and anger ig shown by a single fy at in the crowd before cc tene night stood the man who was Waiting to take his life, John Wilkes Booth, Hooth said to Payne, who was at his side: "That 1 the last speech he with ever make. Lincoln ree (To-morrow: Lincoln's strange dreams.) My Wife’s Husband —==By Dale Drummond == Copyright, 1015, by The Preas Publiahing Co, (The New York Evening World), “You will pardon my saying it, but I never was more surprised than when L hearg you were married and had a family." “Why 2" “You don't seem like a married man, that's all,” rather embarrassed, “How much of a family have you? “A wife “and one child, a boy. Here's a picture of my wife,” opening my watch and showing her a picture my grent satisfaction Doc- tor Webb agreed with my diagnosis in every particu- lar, and we performed the operation successfully. When it was all over end Ductor Webb gave me my feo as assistant J had no more out staying at the hotel I “Look here,” said Mr. Jarr, “Whats of a hospital. quaims al of Jane I hag carried sincs befor ‘} urios! tisfl son Ww q ore than | \. re we the matter with you? I¢T tall you 1| "> veer curiosity 19 perfeetiy. satisfied. BUReE atieed In Eoatence witout ee | ome steeee The tee was mo: wero married, but which X had not meot anybody you got mad, and if 1 certuining the family history of the | S°nerou® mien Team: | HOM Nr GRIST hia: aa don’t tell you and you find out you) Nothing seems to inoculate a man against the dangerous fascination | starving one. ‘a Snell found 6 neues be en 7 gone. Pee MLE Is CaP | a aged | The + : sidered exact © ema % get mad, | know Mrs. Kittingly lives| of blondes except marrying one. one Leger ata oe ey a small brick house, with an extra] 1, too, looked at the pictured fees wpatairs in this flat house, 1 know ey of pain in her face Street entrance to a small room off| before T snapped the case, Mise | that she te a blonde, I heard that her | A man fust loves to preach economy and then sit around, with a) The bergen, who carries the loaf of | ths edie Boggs tae rao we ne 6 had told the truth, It wae | husband —or was it husbands—were) eocktall in one hand and @ perfecto in the other, and watch his wife prac- erin Tose ube elven tie nnen with 6 him and his patients an entrance to] I liked Miss Teece, 1 iMked her brutes, and they broke her heart and | tieg it, family the proterence for the job, Tait gtreot without going into the other] Wholesomeness, her common ae then mended tt with alimony, If I ‘The individual who understands the | part of the house her reliability, T often thought tf ray 1 think she's gay you warmly de- reluctance of the “has-been to ask |~ ‘The rent was more than I wanted} could have « private nurse I should fend her as if she wero your dearest A man may lose his teeth, his hair, his Mustons, his figure, his money | for assistance, and answers. }to pay, butt took 8 year's MN a with chogee one auet ike Ber Ang trom f od | ; The wi who has me ra life |the privtiege of renewing a same mome began ‘to pias to friend, If 1 even tell you 1 passed | And his tdosyt ied; but the nickname they won him will stick to him || ,7he woman Nilo bal tie ne Ser a He hehe Kee ey wrote Jane that, 1] have her in my office an soon as 8 her in the hall you first accuse mo of | forever, | ot humanity | had the house, could afford it, Of course I said Luking too great an Interest and then $ ‘The hand that leads the blind. ML received your let Jane Fe. nothing, to her of this, But i i . ay ho give 0 ed, “and while Lam gh muy are ched her work very closel: Jyou ak me if 1 noticed her eye- When a gir] marries @ man she is sadly aware that all his old sweet-| working woman hin ea a tired looking | plied, "ony should have been pleased | this end in view. ¥ Slonsly “yaite brows,’ hearts are wondering how she did it, and that all her old sweethearts ere na kind heart that will not passj/if you had wat until 1 had seen} “Wh «to you expect Mrs. Butter. “Well, 1 never saw a man MKC) wondering wh unheeded the abandoned cat or dog | ihe house before you signed a lease, worth?” she asked mo one morning said Mrs, Jarre in great eur- ndering why. on the stree | However, if it isn't what 1 want we bout two weoks after this convers “One cannot ask you the sim ¢ ‘The passerby who takes his valuable | ean move when the fist your is up| salon 1 \ : ai | time to summon the authorities when | Olven is here packing pictures, books, ‘o> morrow," 1 replied. plest question but what you fly into A woman may buy beauty by the box, hatr by the pound and sweet- a brute dri unmereifully te RIE 1 i come directly ‘to the| “How nice! she returned; but aq vot Lonly asked you if you had, be’® by the bottle; but common sense, Mke radium, t dealt ous by the | horse. you until Mattha can|T imagine it, or did she look at me rows, because she's! grain to those whom the high goda lov ‘The woman who turns a deaf ear to) i ise livable, You must] more keenly then usual as ahe sald | the Kossip who would defame another be making + 1 know what it! it? {don't know why, but T felt @ ‘oi Jot bh x. ’ ts to stay a? such an expensive | little embarrassment, or rather ans Satna them repeated Mr. When a woman can look at her husband's profile without feeling that rhe teen who snubs the a pb who hic bf ay remember 1 stayed gad to obviate tt told her gy r, ‘I've heard the song ‘Dri iy . ry unkind to a husuble guest there with the mings.” ae I had rented, Le eee ate x Deak she could forgive him for anything fr9m murder to arson just for the im hiisn who recognizes purity and | Nae wan ate ve Sour Baan pocuplon tye dnctse treating nats @pebrcies: we aoe. a sake of his nose or the cleft tn his chin, tt 19 @ eign that the honeymoon | leaves iu igs a fly with yor dontor, before,” she told me, “He had thi . o : | i And abo: you will find It in the one morning as extra entrance made tnto on me,” 1s on the wane and that somebody has put out the love-light. man with power over his weaker | hoaptt shad been ass Sita muon obiieod ¢ his office. “Well, it's the very latest,” sald | brother who uses that power leas: Mra. ntice’a cas we had ing me the t aire’ dare, Vie Sowa Secure: aoe ‘A man does Kot soon forgive the sort of wifely suspicion that turns Aa oo Bay Seiliibe Wie spies 90 Sl a NU ltihe ta aan pireated t-te swppceed to give! Adding from an cocasional lusury tnte « daily necessity, to all, malice tor none, = now,” © told hen