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\- RSTABLIGHDD BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Sea, 8 PuPlished Daily Except Sunday. by the Frese Pudiisning Company, Nos, 53 to Stories Of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces By Albert Payson Terhun o. by the Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Rrening Wosld) No. 77.—A LEAF IN THE STORM, by Ouida. EINE ALLIX was old—very old. So old that she could remember the far-off day whon the folk of her little French village of Berceau de Dieu had kindled bonfires in honor of Napoleon's victories. Always she hed lived in peaceful Bereeau de Dicu, far from the pulsing red heart of Paris, far from the noise and struggle of the big world. Sho was happy, was Allix, in the sunset of her long, calm life. Sho dwelt in the cottage of her birth; with her big grandson, Bernadon, and with his pretty little wife, Margot, and their baby eon. There, the old woman loved and was loved. She rejoiced in her grandson's strength, his Th President, 63 Park, Rew. a bark Row. Becond-Clase Matter. ne or ngland ‘and the Continent and All Countries in the International Postal Unt 62.60) One Yoar 00.75 40! One Mont 36 secesees NO. 19,818 THE LINE-UP. RMED GUARDS patrol the tunnel under Capitol Hill used by, ilways entering Washington from the South. All bridges) between Washington and New York are said to be similarly) protected. Yesterday a German, arrested as a suspected deserter) from the Prinz Eitel Friedrich, declared that “in six months there will! not be a war munitions plant Federal officers and the police of Cleveland, Ohio, are looking for a, store of ammunition reported to have been hidden by German reserv-| ists in case Canada is to be attacked. Queer doings on Uncle Sam’s peaceful premises. Nobody can fail to see that neutrality is threatened with something worse than an attack of nerves. Bombs and factory ruins are tangible evidence tuat disorganizing forces are persistently at work. Sinister hints and) threats are too numerous to be pooh-poohed. Peace cannot disguise these ugly facts nor does prosperity conceal them. Americans must rouse themselves to face the situation aud take practical steps to protect things American. The Federal Government is collecting information and prosecut-| ing suspected conspirators. But Federal authority is limited and} works slowly. The States must set their handier law machinery at work to round up the plotters, Let it be Americanism and all authority high and low in these! United State? against sedition. nv ne Cn ‘When the duties of Industrial Commissioners take them t& this city they caarge their hotel bills to the State. Then there is no reason why they couldn't stay long enough now and then to see whether State inspectors really inspect. es ANOTHER TRIPLE ALLIANCE. AS COMPANIES do business with tite Standard Oil Company) on strange terms—if contracts prove anything. The Thompson legislative committee has turned up evi- dence showing that oil used in the manufacture of gas is furnished the gas concerns under agreements no two of which read alike as to price} or duration. A gas company in Manhattan may be charged for its) oil much more than a company in Brooklyn. Or it may be the other| way round. Long term contracts are drawn up when oil prices are! high. When oil is relatively cheap, contract periods are brief. | Cne result is always the same. Oil contracts read in such a way) World for the United States and Canada 1 operation in the United States.”| The Breath of War. c Gee AN) 7 tern “a ap, ‘ | honesty, his steadfast simplicity. Then, in the summer of 1871, came word that France was at war with Prussia. The idea of war sent a little thrill of horror through the village. But Picot—an educated man, who had actually learned to read print— |roassured everybody by declaring: | "It cannot touch us! Our heroes will be in Berlin tn another fortnight. The papers say #0." The villagers did not kpow just whére or what Berlin might be, The name had a disquieting soun’. Nor dtd Allix’s reply to Ptoot help matters. “My children,” said she, “I remember the days of my youth. Our army was victorious then. At least they told us #0. Yet bread could not be bought for love or money, And people lay dead of famine in the roads, That was long $ ago. But I do not think things change very muoh.” The men of Berceau de Dieu were urged to enlist. Some of them were conscripted. Bernadon, having a wife and child and grandmother to support, was not forced to go to the front, but every one urged him to, He merely replied: “T will serve France when my time comes.” People sneered at him for a coward. But he was not minded to leave nis dear ones to starve, while he went away to fight for something he aid not understand. So he stayed on. Allix's prophecy came true. Food grew \ecarce. Famine and pestilence ruled the land. Dally came word of some new French defeat, | At Inst, the Prussians reached the town next to Berceay de Dieu. In that town @ man fired at them from a roof. By way of punishment, the Ger- mans burned the whole place to the ground. Then, next day, on they camo to Berceau de Dieu. Meantime, Bernadon had tried all night long to rally his neighbors to @ defense of their village. But these patriots were no longer noisy in the!r clamor for war, They were sick with terror. They knew if one shot were fired the village would be wiped out. So they gathered all their guna and other weapons and buried them under the White Christ's altar in the ohurch The Prussians awarmed into the village, looting, bullying, destroying. ‘They seized the peasants’ acanty grain and ilvestock. They stole the fee | Roarded, tite of stiver and other valuables they could lay hands on. They smashed chests and cupboards, What h | stroyed. vhat was not worth stealing, they de- | ___ Then their leader chanced to hear # rumor that w 0 somewhere. He saw Bernadon standing in his comune door, & ip hdib tes eral soldiers to drag him forward. He demanded the whereabouta of the | hidden weapons. Bernadon refused to tell, saying merely: } “Tam no traitor! At an order from the leader, @ volley was fired. Margot screamed in horror at the murder. With he: threw herself on the ground in front o! rear cavalry horse, and the plunging hoofs ecbed out her Me and her little son's, Bernadon fel! dead. r baby in her arms, she Old Alix had sprung from the doorway 4 ¥ and se Hernadon's lifeless body. With unnatural pallens mou drew it into the cottage and she sat for hours crooning over her slain grandson as over a sick child. Her mind had je old woman 1 gone, A é ° : | peasant rushed in, that the gas companies at any given moment can claim they cannot een ab RS WECHIG Soe oe ive yoo sen slaughtered five unarmed i re to the village, \ afford to sell gas to the consumer on lower terms. The Kings County merely looked up with one finger on her lips nulage. Reine Altix " vat : Be quiet! Don't you see he ia asleep?” shade 4 And then she rocked to and fro and }.1 until the flaming roof crashed in upon-her Dollars and Sense By H. J. Barrett. Covrright, 1018, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Pventng World) Lighting Company has constantly referred to its oil contracts to jus- tify the 95-cent rate it imposes upon its consumers while people in other parts of the city pay 80. \ And the Public Service Commission has stood ready to sanction the obvio.s injustice. | Gas consumers begin to see what they have been up against.) Standard Oil, Gas Interests, Public Service Commission—what show] ould the public have against that entente? The Jarr Family —By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1015, by the Pres 1 The Woman Who Dare By Dale Drummond mmed lullabies to the dead man hing Co, (The New York Evening World) | Coprright, 1915, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) D: n . - LL 1 “id RS. RANGLE had just | backs. She knew that this Christmas CHAPTER XX. You have everything in the world to “A itt rebar said a Prete caatly remedied factor ts > dropped in for a minate" | she would snare in thle pelcerieet 66 SKALL, if you have time I] make you happy, yet are always} Gay. “Ite merely. the fast] gif, 2oF example: a man is using a eurly in the afternoon, As| Prosperity of the family she served. grumbling about something.” ‘ fast burn: plat y Picea bulge “and I can get a big box of steal should like to talk to you a s a ne that many kinds of coal are unintel- | ing, volatile coal, he Word comes from Belgium that the supply of clothing for it was few minutes. I should have| Tears came into my eyes, What keep close tabs on his air building things and an electric en- c ° ligentl, Med whi the destitute will be exhausted before Christmas. The world sho was just getting roady | building things and an eléctrt told you last night, but it was ao late] Was the uso? He know that I seldom| (ki"NY APeoed whlch Kives them an| Th type of fuel releases huge quan. seems to have cordially consented to recognize Belgium as to depart, exclaiming, for the hull. | ing, can't 1, maw? naked Master|when you came in.” found fault, and never grumbled. “Take the case of Ignite, for in-|t@TOWn into the furnace, Ths gna our burden. dredth time, “I really must be going! $ And a gun and roller skates! «pats right; commence to find] “You don’t understand, Haskall,” ant . ~|demands air and lots of it, Other. when Mr. Jarr arrived home. i} a bieycle*— 1|I pleaded. “You refuse to listen, then |*@nce, millions of acres of which He fault as soon as you get home. might have known you would when I let you go," he returned impatiently. wise it will go up the chimney with- out having been hurned. But this condition maintains for but-a short SS “And I want five dollies and twenty dollies and a doll house and a doll beneath the surface of North Dakota. People of that vicinity gave it a trial Mr. Jarr was in great spirits, and held in his hand--Mrs, Rangle could accuse me of finding fault. I saw George Lattimore last night; he was in the box with the Larkins, THANKSGIVING. en "| Berlod. After the gas is burn note from the distance at which ahe| baby carriage—and a whole lot of| “But tam not finding fault. I only| whut T wanted to talic to you abouts [oe fue! for thelr stoam otler fur-|Gampers should be partially closed k . . stood—a flat package of crisp green-| things!” cried the little girl. Can't! mentioned it as an excuse or reason| “bout him.” naces. It proved inadequate and wa8/and the air supply diminished. I¢ HANES will be given to-morrow-—as happens every yoar—by} packs. Crisp is always the word.|1, mamma?" rather why I did not tel you last], Lattivore’s all right! | | Why abandoned, Dakota manufacturers rd jot done, much of the fuel f ve “ ! « “ y y . energy is wi t - some who have everything to be thankful for and by others| Mr. Jarr was counting the green- I suppose you can, my dea: re-| night.” Pe eanied Rete hee aon hk re | Comsnes to pay the heavy freight | eo (fied eaatie oe ee an un who are thankful to be no worse off than they are. N backs into Mra, Jarr's eager hands. | plied her mother with that placid) “Well, go ahead.” member.” charges of Pennsylvania fuel. It now! “4 furnace may bo well adapted to , . they are. Not @/ “vgeventy-one, seventy-two, and|contentment that marks a mother! “1 can't talk where the scrvants| “Yes, but, Haskall, { MUST tell you |4¢velops that for gas producers ltg-/ burning a high carbon fuel, but totally few of those who have received the best of everything the world af-| nere's ten more, and ten more, and} who has ample means, when her well- | can hear. Come into the library,” and COPE ero ar amt: (AP im only: Set eve e ae ete ee cent Ce tee | One ea ee Tecan ae fords are sure to forget even to make acknowledgment, while here| nine, ann te ue Lalas loved children have desires to sratity. I led the way. “Well?” [stalling plants of this type, and lig-| with a long flame, ‘This means that A % hs i _,| Mrs. Rangle could hea yj ay.| “What do you want, papa?” as! “Will you listen to me for a few {Rite is coming into its own, Each| they require ample space. Three and oes Sth starved, care-burdened souls will swell with purest Then Mr. Jarr having received | Mrs, Jarr, the head of the family. minutes and not blame me until I/step in the conversion of fuel into| a Halt feet ot space between tha ankfulness. “ smacking kiss from his appreetatt wife, departed whistling to the din- ing room to loo” for his pipe. “T wish my husband would come home for his dinner to-night and bring me a present like that,” sighed Mra. Rangle wistfully. After dinner in the Jarr menage, the have told you all there is to tell?” “Well, what did Lattimore do o: y to offend your high-mighty-ness?” he asked as I closed the library door, “Ho made love to me,” I answered apathetically. “You remember, I told you he brought me home last night.” “That's what you get for gadding around. If you had stayed at home where you belong he wouldn't have power permits room for loss of en-| ergy. In the case of a steam plant two steps are involved: coal heats | water, which makes steam which | runs an engine, But with a gas pro- | ducer the coal gas is sucked into the gas engine, thus reducing the con- version to but one, “Many steam plants give unsatie- factory service merely because fed with the wrong kind of fuel. And vero’s plenty here this Christmas to get something for us all!” “Ob, never mind me,” said the in- dulgent husband and father. ‘I only want you and the childrén and jertrude to have what you want. I gratos and the shell of the boiler is none too much for coal of this vari- ety, Otherwise the flame may come in contact with the cold surfaces of the boiler, be ‘snuffed out,’ with a consequent precipitation of carbon. “The proper method of planning a heating plant is to first consider its geographical location. Install a plant which is adapted to the proper com- can get something for my: on, for Tam not going to swear off smoking New Year’ Yes, of course, 16) were cigar store coupons, Did you think the Jarrs had green and yellow backs in real money? The most thankful of all ought to be those who can give thanks that the spirit of thankfulness boards and lodges with them the year round, holidays and all. There is no greater blessing. Hits From Sharp Wits. ow. A doctor says that girls would be, One of the greatest regrets that a rettier if they ate more onions and] woman has in life is that she de- less candy. But—they would have|clined to marry a fellow who after- Jarr family gathered around the din- ing room table and took inventory of all thely wealth, Mrs, Jarr produced Refiections of had the chance. Is that all you have to tell me?” ALL? Surely tt should have been enough. I had been outraged in my even when the proper fuel is used bustion of the coul which is cheap- est in that particular locality.” fewer close frien Macon News, ward became rich and prominent . Macon News. Pop’s Mutual Motor a box which she had locked carefully | | Womanhood, my — wifehood -- and a Bachelor Girl Haskall has asked it "t } Some have seen their pictures see In her closet and placed It on the | ALL" pall “See By Alma Woodward. in the newspapers for the last time,| Nothing looks bigger than a big| table, where Gertrude, the light run “No, it was not all!" I burst out. and the thought produces a sinking sensation.—Pittsburgh Sun, eee woman's feet incased in those or champagne-colored boots. burgh Sun, white Pitts- . Any time you » sidewalk it is somebody dresses . & safety pin on the » evidence that Once in a very great while you come ‘across a recent college graduate who ‘will admit that he doesn't know every- thing.—Columbia State. re 8 It's much easier to pick a quarrel than it is to get out of @ fight.—Balt- more American. These are the “good old days" peo- ple will talk about forty years hence. Toledo Blade. “AU That Take Up the Sword.” Jand the servant of the high priest! To the Editor of The Evening World: bold car was Sut ot was d Male cebu ould no: Vilwon e cd Some days ago I read: “Wison| words of the Now Ten der the Finds Biblical Basis for Defense Plan,” and “in note to Seth Low he quotes Ezekiel, in which warning for preparedness is given.” One can read- ily see he is a very conscientious man, But if he looks up the New Testa- Matthew, Chapter xxvi, he will see the follow- “And, behold, one of them that were with Jesus, stretching forth his hand, drew out his sword, and, strik- ing the servant of the high priest, cut off his ear, Then Jesus saith bim: ‘Put up again thy ord into its place. For all that take up the sword shall perish with the sword.” St, John, the beloved disciple called by the Greeks the “Divine” (chapter xvill, MANHATTAN, Uptown Postal Service, To the Editor of The Eveniug World 1 read your recent editorial relating to the poor ps rONX, | every wo which is truth. But be- | fore you cross the Harlem River just the Two Hundred and Bev- section of the city—-not the Bronx, but the borough of Manhat- tan, and I think you will see that the ndition is worse than in the Bronx. sk almost any peoplo you meet where the nearest Post Office is, and you will find it Is so far away that they don't know where it 1s, and could not find it if they did. A Fall House, To the Editor of The Evening Workt the better hand in a poker ‘or @ common M |ishing to the mind | brought ho ning domestic, and Master Willie Jarr and little Emma Jarr gazed at tt with admiring eyes. And when Mrs, Jarr opened It, all present, even Mr, Jarr, ve way toa murmur of delight, It and yel and aston- Us Was filled with greenba lowbacks, pleasing considering the Vast quantity, the ‘vo this treasure Mrs, Jarr allded the roll of greenbacks Mr, Jarr had to hey this very eve- ning. Jarr Yes, it was all too true tho family was rich beyond the dreams of avarice hey had been in mod tances and bad known what it w to long for many things they could not afford, But now, now all was different None of all their had th me that This Chr has at least, the Christmas that was rapidly approaching, every member of that little group would have all their de- sires fulfilled “L want cut glass,” said Mrs “cut glass and a nice brooch or a gold bracelet watch, [ think IT will get a set of fine china, too. I can keep it in the china closet under lock and key, to use only when we have company, and then Gertrude smash it.” Gertrude took this remark in good erate el acquaintances they had now Tarr, can't By Helen Rowland 115, by the Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) ant ‘tell anything about the facility with which a girl can be and a gentleman won't. YooL Just about as a woman Is beginning to work herself up to the point of where she can believe that “life is what we make It," somebody in and brutally asks her how much she weighs, If a girl has a cute nose and curly hair, it requires nothing but a good dinner, a little wine little music, and a little autosuggestion for a man to persuade himself that ho and she are “spiritually and mentally mated.” When a man 4s blind to all a woman's faults, it 1s more often because his eyes have been dazzled by the glint of her fortune than because they have been dazzled by the radiance of her beauty, The modern girl's idea of a “real hero” {s getting to be just a plain, every-day man, who pays his rent, keeps his hair cut, does his work and loves his own wife, The most subtie and up-to-date lover is the one who can talk New yught while he holds a girl’s hand and gazes into her eyes with ail the The second wife Is usually happier than the first because by that time a man has gotten all his bachelor theories about “how to rule a woman” and “how to make over a wife’ out of his system. Joalousy te your verdlet against your own charms and in favor of your rival's, verse 10), tolls us that the disciple rho drew the sword was Simon Peter, 1 part, She was gazing fascinajed at the stacks of crispdgreen and yellow- Manners are the orchids of clvilization; courtesy is ite sweet violets. | | “He presumed to pity me for your neglect, and wanted to make up to me for your indifference.” “You probubly misunderstood Lattl- more or onl imagined it A man can't be pleasant, nowadays, that you women don't think he's making love to you, Now I don’t want a oré nonsense, | want you to unc tand that [ won't have Larkin ded, Lattimore ia a friend of Don't you tell Mrs. Larkin any such nonsease ax you have just told me. She's @ woman and might believe you." With that he put on his hat and lef: me. “There's nothing thought, “nothing any one can do, I cannot leave him, 1 could not endure the sneers of the world, the anoma- lous position in which I should be placed.” And I shuddered as T thought of what my lot would be un-| der such cireumstances—no rela- tives, no intimate friends. I should| be almost an outeast, [ imagined, in| my ignorance. When Haskall came can do” 1 after dinner, then he recurred to the| story I had told him “t've been thinking over what you | told me this morning, and I have de- | cided that you were entirely to blame; that you gave Lattimore rea: | son to say anything he liked, From now on I forbid you to go out in the evening without me. Women can al- ways find an excuse to refuse an in- vitation, They are used to lying,” his Up curled. “LT have never lied to yqu, Haskall, You have no right to say that,” [ re- plied, determined not to obey him, “You better not! It wouldn't pay, T should find you out, you know!" with a disagreeable smile, (To Be Continued.) Copyright, 1918, by the Prew Publishti “ee ELL, if any one waited un- W til three days before to ask me to go to a big event like the Army-Navy football game,” said Ma puffily, “I'd consider it an insult. I'd think right away that they'd asked every one else they know, and been turned down, and that I was the last resort.” “Oh, well, you always think people ying to put something over on retorted Pop promptly, "Be- lieve me, any one you ask to motor to the game will be so tickled they won't care whether it’s three days or three weeks before.” “Wouldn't it be a joke if the two (ickets went to waste, after all? answered he, scornfully, ance! Call up the Greens first, n’s pate de fole gras sandwiches are immense.” “Oh, is that the kind of a lunch we're going to have?" wailed Ma. "I home he said nothing to me until | thought we were going to some swell} in ‘Swell inn! What'd I ask others for, if we were going to buy our own lunch?) Anyway, it’s fun to eat squashed things out of paper pack- ages at a football game.” Ma took down the receiver, Hor greeting of Mrs. Green was cheery, yet slightly condescending, Her fare- well, cold, “Well, what's the matter there?" asked Pop as she turned from the phone. Aor Stewarts have asked them to go with them in their new $8,000 car, “They want us to try it and tell them what we think of it. Thank you just the same, dearie!’ she just told me.” Ma muuicked venomously, ing Co, (The New York Evening World), “I guess Stewart must have cleaned up on that crooked railroad deal he put through,” remarked Pop with gentle charity. “Well, try the Browna, Mrs. Brown isn't especially long on sandwiches, but her chocolate layer cake isn't to be sneezed at—and, be- sides, they always bring a quart vacuum bottle of Martinis instead of a@ pint." “You can't come!” he heard Ma gasp over the phone a moment later. “Who? Oh, the Joneses? What? They've got a new eight-cylinder se- dan top car? Oh, really! Don't men tion it, dear, Goodby “Well, I'll be pickled!” exploded Pop. ‘wo years ago Bill Jones couldn't ‘a’ bought the exhaust valve on & motorcycle! I'll bet he hocked his mother-in-law.” “Oh, don't try to be funny at a time like this!" (Ma was perilously near tears.) “Do you think it's funny to have me stand here while those cats rub in the names of all these high-priced cars and turn down my Invitation to go in our dinky litte foot-tub?” “Say,” meditated Pop a minute later, “you know that little delica- tessen store around the corner? Tha man who runs that is really very well educated in his own language. I've been talking to him lately. And his wife's a nice, wholesome woman. They can close up for a day if they want to—and I'll bet they'd love ta see a big football game.” iIton!" shrieked Ma, ‘And,” continued Pop dreamily, ve never in my life tasted anything more delicious than their caviar sand wiches with onlo: and a new dill pickle on the sid