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oe SeramseneD fT porern PCLeTrer ~~ An Axe to G rind es By J. H.C asse] The Evening World Daily Magazine. Wednesday. October 6. 1915 The Stories Dement tate Bovays Supsey vy sme F-n0e Huviening Comgnan, Meo 0 te , a ha . on, ies —— nUnE eae { o! Va Taye POF 3 ee Plot of ee, As ee eet A By Albert Payson Terbune hl LLL LL ALLELE A Sm 004" One Teer on #8 One Mont ” Garrge, 18 We he Cree Pommniag tn (Tur Bee Vers beemng Wort — - —— NO.61. THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM; by Bdgar Allan Poe. TOL a» l * ’ ME o BO. 10,008 FRENCH officer captured by the Spaniards war taken to Toledo ree BONE 7 } for trial And as he was one of Mpein's bitterest torr, he wEe THAT NEEDLESS DIRECT TAX. Pa oe meneer be Sar doomed be Gtr MILE Mayor Michel strives to alley pul aguet ot the The « ar ill, tainted 18 court When he come to bimerif he fantastic inflation of the city’s personal tex vacuation by wae lying. unbound 6 etane Gener, 06 9068 knees He hed heard of pointing to bur of Btete tasstion, The bvening Wor he borrors of Spenieh dungeons Aud whakily to bie feet to on teks, ‘ bis prison we sea ee than over, ite old — Groping bis wer throug dark bis outstretched fgets present + oa ti ies fied tovebed « He \ore « bit of cloth ond laid 1! on the floor ot that ay Theo rept slong the feeling bie wey The ® ito be me Last epring, by exhauetive analysis of money iteme voted by « of @ series of (rou plates, and wot of stones When be @ to (by place Peeklese Legislature, this newspaper proved a @20,000,000 direct tex re he bad left the plece of cloth he catimated that he bad paced en < actly fifty yorie ena eeerty Sowerrentes Next be started across the dungeon After a fow steps hie foot slipped Now, by © carefol estimate of State revenuce and charges for fab feowerd. bp andes ih thaey conten Oth stm oe the current fiscal year (Oct. 1, 1915, to Oct. 1, 1916), based upon re ot Hie face touched nothing at all. Me fe 4 harm | - —" t nd found be had falien at (he edge fa ' « ceipte and disbursements for the fiscal year just ended, The Evening rdfeost sige Prop tioaengl + Rpt yo prove sad ove ibe 8 World has shown that on Sept. 86, 1916, the State Treasury should bold Bhuddering at bie narrow escape, the officer dropt _ ash varplas of 620,010,980 $19,99 more than the supposedly indis aus cement dwn the pit Reveal sreonde pasted be © pensable $20,000,000 levy which Gov, Whitwan helped to lay upon inthe { found the floor @ loaf of bread “fasabie property in the State danwmmweel Gr one draught. Then, fro the ar More plainly than ever: The direct tax was weedlen 4 that the w bud been druge Did the Governor think that once the measure was signed, bie Woke the dungeon wae no longer back A eulphurous iueot home city would forget to ask why and by whom this loud was piled froma some unke wn source made the whole room visibie to him, He wae ying on hie back #trapped to a wooden frame by ue ¢ atout jeathe Spon it? If 10 he was mistaken. belt. His arme were free and Just within bis reach was ¢ spiced ‘ The demand looms bigger, more insistent than last spring, food, He ate ravenously and at once begun to suffer from t) No water was there, Governor: The ceiling of the dungeon, he now uw, was fremcved With @ figumt Why that direct tax? figure of Father Time. From the firure’s hands huge peode that ewung slowly to and fro above t prisoner's 1 And th officer ‘noticed that the bottom of the pendulum wae sloped ke a: biad know terms of the Bulgar’ b in wit hed cate alt et we wager Ki Verdiosad dian’ Beg too, that Re had been mistaken as to the dungeon’s size | the Teuton! jee. je wag ne was barely twenty-five yards in area, not fifty as he had ated, Rate Jcok bimself. swarmed all over its floor ns The officer lay gazing upward at the swaying pendulur toa he ganed he fancied the keen axe edee was not ao far uway f as COUNT VON BERNSTORFF’S LETTER had been when first he saw It. Gradually this fancy merged into horritie’ » ” certainty. The pendulum at every swing was descending nearer and nearer to his helpless body. Now he understood the full measure of his tort Ha thera, defenseless, while the stsel monster slowly « At once hin brain grasped his only chan of the remnahts of greasy food from the d | bound him. ‘The hunerr swarm of rata began | The belt parted under their teeth fust as the pendulum | tim's body. He rolled away to safety and the pendulum | back by unseen hands, Presently a new terror eripped the prisone | owen longer twenty-five yards, It XPLICIT disavowal of the sinking of the Arabic, deep regret for American lives lost, offer of indemnity, and aséurance that| stringent orders to submarine commanders make the recur: | “weace of stich incidents out of the question—all this over the German _ Ambassador's signature—appears a final guarantee that the Imperial © German Government accedes in every important particular to this| veountry’s demands. '» MW rubh rn belt that 1 teathe an eraring the vie as at once drawn The dungeon's area was no Was narrowing every min- . — Alittle more than # month ago, on Sept. 1, Count von Bernstorff, { Bwaying fle. ‘The walle were contracting, closing in on him. lean Aeting on that occasion also upon instructions from his Government, | onthe Brink. $ ing him almost no space between (hem and the pit. ¢ fe edge of the abyse. Then, as he tottered on the brink, he heard a « 4 sound of shots and cries, The walls flew back to their former pos! A man dashed into the dungeon and seized the prisoner Just as he was reeling over the brink into the pit. The French had captured Toledo. himself who had rushe the last possible moment. ‘How to Make a Hit By Alma woodward and closer they pressed u very tli the officer was on assurance that no more liners would be sunk without warning. "” Brents following closely upon this promise, together with the refusal + of Berlin to admit evidence accepted by this nation as to the sinking of * the Arabic, gave rise tb unfortunate doubts just how far the German - Ambassador's words corresponded with the actual intentions of the ~spperial authorities. ‘ Sinoe then, however, we have every reason to assume that Count _von Bernstorff and: his Government have been in closer communication | ‘and that he is now in # position to dot i’s and cross t’s in any official promise which Germany makes to the United States. | : “My Government,” he distinctly states, “has given me these in- nf It wan the French General Lasalle into the prison and rescued his tor Husbands and Umbrellas :—The Only Kind You Can’t Lose Are the Worthless Ones Prevent Lim from being hurt and astonished, after marriage, when she Reilections of Copyright, 1918, by the Pres BP) blishing Co. (The New York Evening World) e gtructions.” This nation is earnestly desirous of appraising the in-| A B ach e ] or Girl Fequests him to endow: her with a thin bunch of Paradise feathers. Bitint,) % After you've pecled more than “atructions at their full value, of congratulating Germany upon her, a Husbands are like umbrellas; the only kind that you can never lose are|s eg | Yon peat ie get kind of abanzonment of a position that left no room for our friendship, and -B y Helen Rowland | the worthless ones, Made in, ae af nea | You're, NOt no part cular about where of seeing the final seal of success upon an achievement that brings | --: > Panini Nace at alt bog Frode & fae inte abe oeaire Copyright, 1013, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) Pieridiey old usich cad ag Senlus like a few months tn the close comy OMETIMLES even being married to a woman doesn't seem to ‘lessen a} man’s love for her. At Preserving Time. IRST.—Hise one-hour earlier than usual, Call Nora, from dreams of the Limerick -ball, If your husband complains of the unwonted hour, explain patiently that the peaches are waiting to be done and that if you don't get an early start, you'll never finish, because it's an) no gazelie) makes a skating rink out of them and almost commits hart kari with the roiling pin, trying to regain her balance. 4. To save time, put all.the different kinds on the stove at the same time— in different containers, of course. The next step ts to get all mixed up 8 to which Is in what pot. In your deavor to find out, taste until your taster goes out of commission—then the highest credit to American diplomacy. | > New York observes the Sabbath by closing its saloons and sl) tis Chentree enoept movies and vanderille “concerts,” Cat- What the average man wants in a wife after a bard day at the office, | cago 1s going to close its saloons and even its hotel and club —— 4g not a vaudeville show, nor a three-reel thriller, but a qulet Mttle “Old bars on Sunday, but wo take it the theatres will all be open |Home” stage-setting, with soft music, low lights, and no melodramatte sur- according to Chicago custom. levis Municipal morals is curious. (gees The husband who lives up to the letter of the marriage contract can't seem to understand that there is not much comfort in a man's bodily pres- ence around the house when bis spiritual over-soul is off dancing at a tango palace. Recipe for the Plixir of Youth: A lot of optimism, a little massage | cream and @ eoupoon o¢ tistation awful lot of work, dnd that really the| guess. “Tell” Nota that your grand | tation. only reason why you do them up at! moth 1 to make the th | Most men acquire fatty degeneration of the egotism from swallowing ati abe aus he jores them so ie cious peach butter, but that it and 1 : , ; —" breakfast during the winter, and the|to be an all-day job and upset th DPCTORING THE CHARGE BOOK. ererdane fattery, bit somehow Wat nares. spoils thelr appetite for more, | — Pghiaw! It ts easy enough to “keep your husband”; what every wife| (nes you buy wil dono up have xluc| house, Observe thre in this emtighe. wants to know {s how to keep her SWEETHEART, after she bas married dim. cose and benzoate of. soda in th and you want bim to eat only purest and best! 2. Place a comfortable chair in a} comfortable spot in the kitchen. Get Nora to put a dishpan at your feet to catch the peelings. Have an assort- ment of paring knives at your elbow, and a preserving kettle on your lap. |feedin’ fr the banofta!” ust when you're all set remember! 5, After filling every Jar and Jel suddenly that peaches stain the fin- | glass in the houre Pealdes calling inte gers frightfully, and that you're go-' emergency service a couple of your ened age there must be a shorter way. Then try the shorter way, To your dismay the mashed peaches refuse to associate with the water and sugar to any degree of Intimacy. As she ‘throws the sickly mass away Nora bewalla the fact that you don't keep piks, as“ that thot'd he foine HE Court was right when it described as “the meanest kind ot} a .thief? a» New York grocer convicted of tampering with| figures in a poor woman's charge book. At the trial it was ‘ghown that 4 cents entered as the price of half a pound of barley be- s came 54 cents after the grocer had kept the book a few days to set down other items. But would any grocer have dared to put that 5 in front of the, Before marriage @ man may endow a girl with wings; but that doesn’t the ve Everyday Perplexities Do You Owe These Calls? | Weeks just because we have been cor- WENT to a luncheon last week,” “it! to them when they dropped !n “ upon us?” sald my out-of-town friend. “Do “phat would make a sort of endiess I owe the hostess a call or not?” chain of calls and dinners, wouldn't Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers Dollars and Sense. By H. J. Barrett. 1918, ‘The Prem Mublians) erie New York Evesinn Weed) = HE young man who is tn love with a girl, but who earns only moderate wage and is sup- Courtesy—a Bank's Strongest Asset. | ing to a bridge on Friday afternoon | husband's Heidelber; ¥ e ” 4 m ” tt" ” * i. usb d ‘K stein spread “4 unless he knew he could count on the carelessness of the customer?| Porting his mother or some other) “Strictly speaking you do,” said I. ‘t." said 1, “And I'm afraid You) ¢ rave personality of the recely.| 8° you'd better wear gloves to do it.| them all over y cteins, spread ‘ jclose relative, is placed in an un-| That is, unless it was a very infor-' Would soon have to put @ mortgage on Go in search of After dili- | make a good showing. And when th This housekeeper was sure she had been /robbed for a year. But she) joony situation, He cannot bear to] mal aud simple aftulr indeed, but if, fag ause to stand the strain. Call: ing and paying tellers of | ent exploration decide on a pair of | poor victini gets home from business, ‘I taken. the trouble to check hi Sob: 4 * Naat: ‘ rageteed ng etiquette does not apply to such bank !s a vital factor in the| your husband's old white evening, before he even takes off his hat and had apparently never taken the trouble to check up her purchases! give up his sweetheart, yet he hesi- | it was anything of @ ‘party’ your duty Informal occasions, If any calls QF iastitution’s succe said @ bank|rloves. Then, after you've peeled | coat, arm yourself with a tablespoon i | tates to bind her by a long engage. | is plain, One sould always call after: Owed you certainly one who owes - a basket | 0 oa ana Slvbs Ai site took the easiest way and trasted the charge book, \ratat, to keep her waiting, when, a8] s Ginner, a formal luncheon, « weds SHeB.. ‘The whole vexed queation of [President. "I can think of but tow) PAM teak Anvae aD Muaratont Sando dwn ate theeat te fatte How many hundred thousand women in New York run up butch-| ye sensitively imagines, she mlght| Jing breakfast or @ musicale, whether g oF not calling depends entirely | other lines of business in which per-| the old ones, after all, but the last|/wo that he loses all his appetite for upon the formality or informality of| sonality plays so large a part, Tho teller is in somewhat the same posl- tion as an actor, a hotel manager or a preacher; bis personality is his prin- cipal asset, In the minds of the aver- have a better chance if he were oul ere’ and grocers’ bills every month in the same easy-going fashion?) inVitauvn is décineu or acc How many find it too much bother to insist upon duplicate slips with{°F,{P° 0S 5 “orders to be compared afterward with the monthly totals? |. saee CR chin fon Ee VORA FoR | to do is to explain the situation fully Not only is the instinct for marketing rare among New York palr he got, for Cousin Julia's wed- ding! . epied.|the entertainment offered. A ‘But half thi ople don't," objected) must be paid after a formal dinner, a my friend, hen a fow neignbors luncheon or a da that are elabor- come in in the evening and perhaps ate enough to need written or en- get up @ little impromptu dance, they graved invitations or even after a certainly won't all call upon me telephone invitation if the affair is at dinner and has to consult the bicar- bonate of soda on the side! and frankly tovhis sweetheart, with Wit. Wisdom and Philosophy - a ns , ¢ y i) ; 5 ison. | havior of a treache . A , out whining or bbustering. Then he| within two weeks, aud I don't want all large. Besides the calls I have; ®&® depositor the teller 18 the bank. ON FRIENDSHIP; by Jos. Addi , acherous and self-in- housekeepers, rich or poor, but the simplest system of checking BP! should place the deciaion in her | ‘tom to anyway, Or suppose a trleud just mentioned, you also owe a call to| His impression of the institution ty an VIULY was the first who observed | tergmted friend: i eine an runs out from town with @ car-load the bride's mother after being in-| absolute retlection of the man he secs ‘ e n ve < thou wouldst get a friend, prove food bills is too irksome for most s them. Lannie ee coe. OBE Stes. Sot me f men and women and my aunt begs | vited to a home wedding or a wed-| at the barred window. Sh : Ue ela Aten nie Brat, ind be not haaty to eredit neat careWianask Bt re Jane probabl Ki i | them to stay to dinner, She's always! ding reception or breakfast after a| “I am so convinced of the force of pines anc e m; for some man ts a friend for his Dealers are for the per nt the great encourage [he ix reaty to clam her tt ah | doing this, she was brought up to be chureh wedding, An invitation sim-|this assertion that 1 pick our tellers the doubling of our Joy and the divid~| own occasion, and will not abide tn ment to dishonest ones is the thriftlessness of housewives are ieee so hospitable, and as it's just a nice ply to the church does not require a|chiefly by this single test: are they|ing of our grief; 4 thought in which| te day of thy trovole, And there ts na j the better, as motor ride from the city we always call after it. And ag soon as she/lixeable, amiable, genial? In hirtng| he hath been followed by ali the|® friend wh » being turned to enmity | "Thave been friends | PYe,comPany Flaht through the fall. returns from her wedding {iP you) messengers and clorks who may some | oo avers on frienduhip that have writ und strife, wiil diseower thy reproach.” * . like to see them, but people seem! must call on the bride herself.” day be candidates for the teller's | CSS4yers 0 js sada " e gain: Hi ts From Sharp Wits. with a girl for about two years. Re-| to imagine that country hostesses can{ "Must I always call before I ven- cage, my Houtenante are lostructed to | ten since his “Some friend is a companton at the Gently Yer elder brother haa taken me | pick iineais off bushes: they have ‘ture to invite any new acquaintance | apply this test. ‘Thus we are sure of] Indeed, there is no subject of moral- table, and will not continue In. the . “Sometimes,” remarked the Man on] ‘Time drags for the worke . IF eee ie eteiee An elie” Woda | ta Cee niece @ GTO 0 a tea or dinner ne? always having plenty of available ma- has b better haudlea| GY of thy affietion, but in thy pros, ‘me'Crm, “I feel that the married fel- | garda a week oo roe Boz | Bot to tell his sister, a& she would | and butcher's bills run up through the! | “The strictest rules of etiquette say | terial In st®ck. i cane nas Deon better hauded! perity he will bo as thyecit By prone Jows who continually knock matri-| tween pay days, and his work drags| jee ie Spo Wwhicl of the | spent that ratie | that this ie necessary, but many well| “use many methods to strengthen | Be ee eee ina: cng] Re. bald over thy If thou bo instead of boosting the grand | too, Jealous Gisposi jon. ‘ re \c he | Isn't that rather wandering from bred people are growing rather lax in| the bond between the teller and de- | ‘ings which he Hainst thee institution, are afraid they will have * ee two pall A fait ay Ly Smeets I returned. “You began this respect and nowadays no offense | positor. Every afternoon, accom. | shall be to quote fa. . to buy wedding presents for their! at sanrinee J think that Pose 4 you end with the should be taken if a cordial invitation | naniad hy tha paying tellar who will! a very 1 nUthor wolf from thesg ene young friends—Toledo Blade. ally the thin brather's twavesl. > Kun ais Wot jae of city friends in js received from @ hostess who has no|in future be in contact with them, [| would be regarded by and take heed of thy frienda, ee Newe. juring your other friénd, the sister, ing to dine with you when they! time for such civilities. But women | call upon @ selected list of new deposi- | Wits a8 one of the most As furt xamples of this writer's Much of what !s called enthusiasm end if she Anda out and [Scones | were urged to do ® | who are punctilious in matters of et! | tons, of morality that Is ¢ i Junderstanding of the human heart 4 ‘ else — . » age ade many a man’s fortune. Yes, and | ur ©! BRP RLOG avers nog. end ia uf strony defens " op ome neemnleeey sa fees carthine BO An Impertinent Youth. fal hol te Invite Any Whe was tn the If a mutual friend requeste from a Heay ab innitucion's prosperity, and |opher. 1 mean the little apecryphal| hath found such an one hath foarte 4 se Just b meal @ | hostess an ex - “r, G." writes: “A young man called at my home recently and intro. duced himsel! tq@me as a brother of most conspicuous example of this axiom was brought to my attention very recently. The genial teller of the treatise called “The Wisdom of the! treasure, Nothing doth countervail « Bons of Sirach; | faithful friend and his excellence: “dow truly has he described the art | vainatty faithtut trent ten aes not had a dinner or supper to our- man guest, the hostess, if she con- selver on Sunday all through the sum- sents, should always call on the per- " ; y \ friend 19 tho mI mer.” she added plaintively, “But son for whom the favor 1s asked, or Bouto \ of making friends by an obliging and! medicine of life and they sane eae ned talked a whe mel about calls, ware all these people at lease leave cards before sending out Bal Hey etter one morsing taforan | amable behavior, and laid down the, ford snail tind hime Whew “eerece At told me he wasn't the young ‘man’s|blged to call on us within two the invitation.” ing him that he had fallen heir to aj precept that w shoula have many the Lord snall direct his friendship r s brother, but that he worked at the substantial legacy left him by an oid | well wishers but fow friends and &/uriebt, for as Me ty sy shall hig Qelgh ‘ co to allow tim to call an scornful: ‘0 . A io imp ¢ i e | : = eos . i old friend, Yes. Needs Ne Papére. tyrone yesre of oper, Does he need) orised, Ho has. written twice sinee, | times she a © for me and young lady whose acquaintance I am| young man's unfailing courtesy that Be In peaco with many; neverthe- new ix not comparable to Rie oe Mo We Bitton of The Krening World: Pere es Se Nori ven | What shail I do if he writes again’ than again ahe doesn't. I do every-’ most desirous of making, Butt know |jt resulted in this, windfall totalling | (94%, have, but one counsellor of new fri 184, New wine: when ft male child born in the United ‘4 id , Why not refer the whole matter to| thing I can to please her. Yhat do | nobody who knows her. How can 1I| many thousand dollars. housand, ‘i | ts old the alt drink it with ph rue S @f allen parents, whore the |" % "éi™ of Th Breving World: the young man whom you love and | You advise? |get acquainted without firting? ‘courtesy pays big dividends in any| With what prudence does this un- | pleasure. c eth @ stone at the bi ce) 9 white a color? (2) Is black | ask nim to suppress the other? Give her time to know her own mind. You can’t, unteas you can find some-| business. But in banking, a Ine in| known author caution us in the choice) prayeth them away any ia upe "4 1 he that ‘Mever took out citizen's papers, | » ? (8) Is green a color? ee body to give you # proper introduc-| which price and quality do not enter, of our friends, and with what strokes | braigeth bis friend b bad $e vote wpee, becoming twen- a WG." writes “I hein, "RM." writes "Coming eee ee eee rie imply tnoaloulable,” "of nature hay he described the be- ae" Mf breaketh trleade H - . at i ! 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