The evening world. Newspaper, December 27, 1915, Page 12

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In considering the use of the HE Aero Club of America, in its Bulletin No. 7 tion to the value of the aeroplane and the flying boat for t Tho advantage of the aeroplane for nut important matter lies in its speed and ability , devotes atten- ch block the way of railroads and | aeroplane for postal purposes the plan of the United States Government for establishing forty-three routes shows, for instance, that mail can be carried between Albany | and Lake Placid in two hours and fifteen minutes, against the present eight hour and ten minute echedale. Maricopa a sack of mail must be transported 410 miles, requiring fif-| teen hours and ten minutes to cover the distance, while one hour is) It is noted that machines are now in use the aeroplane schedule. Between Santa Maria, Cal., and which can carry a ton at a speed up to ninety-five miles an hour, with | 4 flying radius of approximately one thousand miles. The slight cost! of the machines and the low charge for operation make it certain that the near future will see the skies full of useful mechanical birds. | In shallow rivers through countries where the railway is but little developed, the flying boat cannot help proving valuable. The recen* | successful trial at Nyack of such a craft for use on the Magdalena River in Colombia is a practical demonstration of utility. This craft! can easily make forty miles an hour and will cut the distance ~) Bogota from eight or nine days to one-quarter of the time. Undoubtedly larger craft, with possibly a little less speed, capable of carrying light freight and passengers, will be developed. of ponderous steam engines and heavy machinery for driving we shall | Instead have the light gasoline motor and the simple beating of fans against the air. The economy in time and cost is beyond estimate. pe We fear our old and esteemed friend Col. George Harvey ts giving too much attention to the cultivation of his ears! to ——_—__—_— eter, largely because the game played there is Stocks are sold “short” in anticipn-) Between | win, tails you lose.” tion of adversity and “long” in expectation of prosperity. the whipsaw radiates gloom or sunshine, as the case may be. If it} were a true market place, as it ought to be, bursts of prosperity such | as now exist could be safely underwritten, but unfortunately the gambling instinct too often leads the way. would be little motion and small frank. ployers are sufficient rewards for speculation is something no one has yet been smart enough to fig: | ure out. Incidentally “Bond Topics” for November points out that on the) Mnvestment side listed bonds make ing by the October market. For example, $400,000 worth of the| It welcomes anything that starts a current. bursts of Wall Street prosperity which feed it up to a point whera office boys are reported to have made Christmas presents to their em-|% Without it, however, there effort. Business is usually quite Whether the the calamities that follow undue a remarkably poor showing judg-| Anglo-French loan notes were traded in, at which rate it would take | about seventy years to dispose of the issue on the Stock Exchange. There are listed on the Exchange about 1,025 series of bonds. In Oc- tober 514 of these were traded in and there were 511 in which no sales at all were made during the entire month, and of the former 136 wers purely nominal trades, amounting to $5,000 or less during the mont!,, the 156 issues actively traded in to the extent of $100,000 or more, totalling $97,601,000 out of an entire sale of $105,191,000, That is to say, 93 per cent. of the sales were made in 15 per cent. of the issues isted and these were speculative. So, on the face of it, gambling outdoes the market place, even in bonds! oe oe Mr. Ford advises his peacemakers that he {s having a com- tortable trip home. Delicate irony! WHERE ARE THE GUNS? OR half a century the Government has maintained cannon factories at Rock Island, Ill, and Watervliet, N. Y. Yet Mr. Frederick Palmer asserts we have barely guns enough to defend twent¥ miles of trenches! Where are the guns? What do these great shops employ themselves with? Hits From Some men are as rich as they look, while others simply have good credit at the clothing stores, The genuine glad hand is never a gloved hand, oe A “grouch” is merely a vulgar pes- aimist.—Deseret News Sharp Wits The average man will reveal the faults of his friends but conceal those | of his automobile, eee It takes longer to explain a fatlure than a success, see let it he said that er yot been told." A gossip doest “the half has ne Dollars and Sense us be introducing one of my prod- ucts," remarked a manufacturer of a trade- marke material, sold extensively through dry goods stores, “| overlooked one of the very vital links in the chain from the manufac- turer to the consumer until the lust moment Une day. accompanied by my wife, Tent d a department store loc a in a city of moderate size. We ap- Picached the counter at which my product was carried and she request- @d to be shown some of it. The clerk displayed his assortment and indulged in a few words of general commenda- tion, My wife thereupon asked sev~ eral Questions designed to betray the clerk's knowledge of the reully vital talking points of the material. His response demonstrated that he had no knowledge of the cla) virtues of the goods, and that he was not really equipped to deliver a convine- ing sales argument. are ivst al Giat critical poin' ‘What a quantity of possible ‘ ey reflected as we left the store. ‘My ad- vertising partially convi: the pur- chasers and they come to inspect my goods, Then the le is lost Cd By H. J. Barrett clerk's lack of interest in ular product.” nL returned to New York I he situation with my ad- Ward we executed @ of Avention Which proved to be an Unqualified success, Through our mailing lst of retailers we an- hounced prize contest open only to tants would have a fair idea of whut was desired. We urged them to sug gest novel talking points and wible uses, We also stated that the winning articles would be issued in booklet form for free distribution. “The result of this was to focus the attention of thousands of clerks upon Actuated by the depend- they our product. able motive of self-interest, studied the material thoroughly, thus Its virtues became firmly im- pressed upon their minds. As a con- sequence, whenever o customer quired for our product the without effort, delivered a sales which carried conviction. And the ef- fect upon our sales was ingmediate and most satisfactory.” JOY IN WALL STREET. | ALL STREET hae long been considered the national barom- | employees for the five best short ar- ticles on how to sell our product. The | sort of article we wanted was de. scribed in detail so that the contes pose Men Who | g Fail oe Rete ea, ARAAADARDIRRRRBRADDDANRPRRDZ AA RBD * J NAN”) World Daily Magazine, Monday, The man who always misses his train to business Decemb | —— By Bide JIM AND JERRY. LOSER friends you'd seldom C strike—not a trace of trouble! Fact, they looked 90 much alike, one was t’other's double, If there fell from off a limb apple or @ cherry, chanct was, If {t fell to Jim, ‘nother fell to Jerry. Ev'ry day to district school off they'd go together—rain or sunshine, warm or cool, any kind of weather, Slip away to fish or swim down below the ferry. Lickin’ likely waitin’ Jim; ‘nother one fer Jerry. Bully pick a fight with one; give the |ktd @ drummin’! Sure to find when that was done, ‘nother battle comin’! Chance to lick ‘em mighty slim; hardy youngsters, very! Gritty fight ‘ud come from Jim; ‘nother one from Jerry. Years passed on; the two chums grew to be self-supportin’, an’, like other fellers do, started in a’ courtin’, Saw the deacon; talked to him ‘bout his daughter, Mary, Had @ pleasant A Tale or Two in Rhyme | Dudley. —— Coprright, 1916, by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Prentng World), Looney notion, anyway, Til's ra wreck, She just like Jumped an’ screamed an’ to had a fit jerked! Ezry says the trick’s no good ‘cause it never worked. Then he tried to palm an egg; make it disappear. Says: “Now gents an’ lodies, watch! It's here in my ear.” His hip pocket got the eg, but the folks all bit, Then he let tt slip his mind an’ set down on It Next he took a dollar bill, right there in our sight, out of Uncle Aleck’s vest. Ended In a said the bill was his; tri back, Now both him an all swelled an’ black, Y sleight o’ hand's all its way, but it's for the i man—not the country jay. Ezry's got to git some sense; cut out all them tricks. Farm work an’ them mysteries can't by no means mix, Sury's got ey I declare Mieht in Reflections | amile for Jim; ‘nother one for Jerry, Rivals from that very date for her love a-seckin’, Friendship turned to bitter hate; even stopped a-speak~- |in', Bach in turn by moonlight dim | spoke of love to Mary, Had a nega- tive for Jim; ‘nother one for Jerry. Time went on; each nursed tho| hate that he bore the other. Mary, way in autumn late, wed a school chum’'s brother. Folks was glad she | | married him; owned Jersey dairy. | Had a pity look for Jim; ‘nother one ied Jerry. News one day come to their ears} go'n’ to be some shootin’, Read the! call for volunteers; heard the bugle tootin’, Full of fightin’ to the brim, |packed an’ took the ferry, Feller had a gun for Jim; ‘nother one for] Jerry Fought like demons through it all; then, somehow or other, Jim he other, On the fleld ‘neath star-light dim thoughts came fast of Mary, rry murmured: “Sorry, Jim!" Jim says ory, Jerry!” When next morn at break of day Jeame the sun a-creepin'’, on the field two soldiers lay, side by side, a-sleep- in’. After comrades sung a hymn, squad detatled to bury, dug a shaller hole for Jim; ‘nother ono for Jerry, EZRY'S SLEIGHT O° HAND. Ezry seen some sleight of hand other night, an’, say, zry's gittin’ crazier ‘bout it ev'ry day, Bought a book of mysteries; cost him ‘bout a dime, Now you see it don't!” mutters all the time, now you Tried caught a riffle ball; Jerry caught an-| . By Helen 115, by the WHAT Copyright, THEY GoT a Bachelor Girl The Jarr Family — By Roy L. McCardell — Coprright, 1015, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), “ HEN the curse of strong | drink is not the detriment in the arts that {t t# in the professions?” queried | Mr, Jarr, “His addiction |to strong drink was no, impediment to the career of Clarence, your horse, | when he left the undertaking business | t© fo into moving picture acting?” ; “You have doubtless seen the fa- | mous five-reel thriller "The Railroad | Renegade. Did you not recognize Clarence as the equine star of that , | Popular production? “You will remember how Starlight, the railroad intelligent and faithful d, rushed down the railroad track, seized a red {Mag in his teeth and signaled the Overland Limited to stop ere it plunged through the open drawbridge, in the picture?" said Mr, Berry, of Rowland ress Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), FOR CHRISTMAS. Willie got sick, Mother got tired, Father got bills Sister got kissed " ‘til he raged neath the mistletoe, And Brother Bob got—engaged! gan and ended? will be ashamed to record tt, violets, or cachou, before she stands five he has chosen one, and is wishin the other. © unconvincing as too much rehearsal A man looks on women as a woman looks on hats all appear fascinating; at twenty-five his admiration has narrowed down to three or four; at thirty he ts trying to decide between two; and at thirty- Why should & man waste time and thought in trying to write an in teresting letter, when all a girl ever remembers about it is the way {t be-) When a woman starts keeping a diary, she discovers that if she 1s liv-| ing a quiet life, she will have nothing to record, if she is living a busy life, she will have no time to record it, and if she is living a frivolous life, she Now that Hpsticks are being scented and flavored, it might be comme {1 faut for a girl to ask the caller of the evening whether he prefers mint, under the mistletoe, Nature is a humorist, but you can never make anybody believe that, | until he bas married “for love’ at least once, At twenty they ig With all his heart that he had taken Too much practice in the love-game makes a man as mechanical and| sometimes makes an actor. “Eternal Friendship" between women: The interval between the intro- to take a reg’lar frog out of Tillle's' duction and the arrival of the first attractive man President's daughter's | nose | Mr. Jarr remembered this “punch” scene well, “I was so vitally interested that 1 made inquiries from a client, who was engaged at the moving picture stu- dio," Mr. Berry went on “The way of It was this, my client informed me,” continued Mr. Berry. “There Was beer on a sponge closely wrapped around the flagstick. Clar- ence had been rehearsed with this beer saturated flagstick. Then, de- prived of all beer for a day, he was held out of the ploture and the flag- stick, dripping, was passed under his carried up the track and laid again beside the prone figure of the old one-armed switchman, who In a previous scene had been struck down by the train robbers. Then the crank of the camera was turned, Clarence was released from outside the vista of the lens, and headed up the track. Naturally, he galloped up the track, picked up the flag and trotted on with it between his teeth, shaking his head, The audience thougnt he shook his head to wave the flag to signal the fast express and save it from destruction, But Clarence's only objéct, I grieve to say, Was to shake the last drop of beer from the saturated sponge close- ly wrapped, and therefore not notice- able to the camera, around the flag- stlek."* “And the old fraud was only after beer in a sponge or saturated in the ropes that bound the fair heroine in the hovel of the train wreckers?” asked Mr, Jarr. Mr. Berry nodded {n the affirmative, “Well, I am sorry to be disillu- sioned about the equine hero,” Mr. Jarr confessed, "But tt was not all a craving for his addiction, I feel sure,” he added, “Look how gal- lantly he galloped up the track, to stop the train, even if he did have the flagstaff in his teeth, Why, he must have run a mile up that track as swiftly as he could go, you'll have to admit that.” “I am sorry to say even in this he was only further prompted by his de- praved appetite,” remarked Mr, Ber- ry. ‘I made inquiry on this very point from my well-posted informer, and he told me that Clarence had been rehearsed to dash up the track in pursult of a gasoline section car, on the back of which Clarence knew there was a bucket of beer. This gasoline section car was off the scene when Clarence was permitted to run madly after it--and the bucket of beer.” . Mrs, Jarr spoke up for theg firat time, “Dear me," she said, “fhom can we believe in these days? | of mi er 1915 27, OO ¢ Tsesy Pahliehine € iW Of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces 8 By Albert Pa yson Terhune DOK Oo The New Yorh Trening World). | NO. 89. THE DOCTOR, HIS WIFE AND THE CLOCKs | by Anna Katharine Green. DN July 17, 1851, a New Yorker named Has | I dered in his old-fashtoned home on Lafayette Place, New York City, one of the famous row Astor Library Hasbrouc The police sought in vain for a clue. Dr. Constant Zabriskie lived next whom he jealously adored. He was b rouck was found mur y of “Colonade Houses,” opposite the had been shot, in his own unllghted room, at dead of night. There was none door with his beautiful young wife, lind and had been so for years. About eighteen months after Hasbrouck’s death, Zabriskic came te the police and confessed the murder. home, late, on the night of the 17th, and had entered the Hasbroudk bet | by mistake. He had been alone, as \°* hearing made it safe for him to go where he would without @ guid He aid he had entered a room he He said he bad been returning his wonderful powers of touch and mipposed to be his own; had heard } man's voice call out and had fired in the direction of the sound meprennnnn> Husband's } 2 dealousy, pectedly from an out of town visit, to # excitement had made him mistake the Hearing Hasbrouck’s voice, Zabri | pictons were Justified. Thon, reaching his own house, he had sponse to her ¢ In @ frenzy of rag learning his mistake, he had crept home undetected be+ fore the alarm was raised. On further questionini that he waa miserably Jealou that a frise friend, who secr that jealousy and had lent him a revolver, the blind doctor admitted of his lovely wife, and ly loved her, had fanned Zabriskie had returned ungx- urprice any vieltor he might find. Fits house, skie had feared bis own worst sus- he had killed his supposed rival. told ‘his wife what he had done, In re- aties, he hed not made public confession at once, but had | waited until conscience would no longer let him keep silence, New Jersey shore. There, in a field, some distance from him. When the | The police did not belteve one word of this strange story 1t was impossible for @ blind man to atm a pistol accurately by mere sense | of sound. They hinted broadly that the doctor's m | and that he had imagined the whole thing. ‘They refused Zabrinkte offered to prove to them the truth of his confe: 13 marksmanship, At iast he prevailed on them to permit such a test. It_waa arranged that he and several policemen should row over to th ‘They declared had became affested to arrest him. ion by a test a polloeman was to place a clock a clock should strike, Zabriskie was to fire at it. Ifhe hit tt they would give credence to his story. Mrs. Zabriskie insisted on going along. The past eighteen months hav marred her beautiful face with sadness. | hin Jealousy she was heartbroken, | “A email clock was set on a stump who waited, pistol clock stood’ Mra abriskle, , and fired. His wi Beyond Reach of the Law. | husband's hand. had held {t Just a back to New York. Dr, Zabriskie sat her. Half way across the North River “See how peacefully ehe sleeps! fully as T should.” Refore hia intent could be guessed, | to his breast, and dived overboard. in hand, for # to strike the hour. } There were several minutes of tense allence. Then came the sound of a clock striking, I have no Retween her husband's crime and about twenty yords from the doctor, Thirty feet from the Dr, Zabriskie levelled his pisto: ife fell dead. She had concealed a clock under her coat (havin it a minute faster than the clock on ¢ stump), bove her heart. This was the way she had chosen to end her troubles—by dying at her adored Reverently, the police carried the body to the boat and began the journey beside his dead wife, his arias about he whispered: watched over her as oare- . he sprang up, still olasping bis wife Neither body was ever found, The Woman By Dale Drummond Who Dared Copyright CHAPTER XXXIV, O into br mean erily. “Just what I say, Haskall,” IT an- |swered, trying to speak calmly. 1915, by the Press PubMishing Go, (The New York Evening World). wine, T told him as little as was pos- iness! What do you! sible to be consistent, but 1 was sure he demanded an-| td understood how my position galle4 ne. “How much do you need,” he asked, reaching for his check book. T named a sum so large that I was |*Many women, rich women, are do-| Hlahtensd that he would consider | ing so, and why shouldn't 1? looked’ down on as it used to be, you! \know,” I told him in my effort to bring every argument to bear, “It te considered quite the thin “May I ask whore you are going to jget the money to do what you con- template?” he asked scorntuily | “I had hoped you would lend it to “ Treplied on the apur of the mo- m “Well, I'll do no such thin how do you propose to get it?” “That is my affair. If you refuse to lend it to me, I shall refuse to tell you where I shall go for it got it I'll tell you then,” I added as I saw the frown on his face. “Are you crazy?" he asked. “What do you think poople will say?" “] lack independence, Something to occupy my mind and hands, my time. Tf you will look at the matter coolly and withdraw y continue to remain with you if you | wish, but 1 tell vou candidiy, Haskall, if you make me choose between thia venture you 7. shall not choose to stay with you.” “You—you mean that you would brave the gossip it would cause and leave me if I do not agree to let you do this ridiculous thing?” “That is exactly what I mean.” “Well, there ts no use talking about it, as I absolutely refuse to let you have the money, and no one else will back you in such a thing,” and he left the room, distinctly slamming the door. I did not again mention the sub- Ject, but the very next day I went to Mr. Larkin, His surprise was gen- It ten't) But too much of a risk and refuse me jo my investigations I hm learned that the stock I intended te put in was an expensive one, that the )/ Atting up of a shop such as I want to have would cost a gocd deal. | ex biingly I waited. | Without again looking up Mr, Lar | kin wrote a check and gave it to me | lt was for a thousand dollars mor: |than 1 had asked for. Tears canke t: my eyes as I tried to thank him. “Make a success of what you ar | undertaking, my dear Mrs. Borroughs {Pr id you scarcely realise wha’ that will mean in hard work, din couragement and perhaps @ loss of | aocial prastige.”” When Haska!! came home I told him T had the money, and that T should at Jonce open my shop, He was furiouy ; that I would not at once tell him wher |had given me the amount necessary to go Into business, | “Well, you can’t do this thing an |live with me! he decinred. “Pac your trunk and go! but remember. madam, that you will not be allowe? to do anything more to disgrace me You will be watched day and night.’ Then, as If a thought had come t: ric Lucknow lend yor “Not” I answered, glad that I coul4 do so with no feeling of gullt. ‘Mr. Lucknow knows nothing of my plans Why should he?” “Well, you give up this thing you are planning to do or leave my house,” he again told me, ignoring my question, Vory well, Haskall, I'll go?" (To Be Continued.) ‘Be Mythology ala Mode Mercury. IMMY M'NUTT got his working papers when his enterprising father swore that he was sixteen years old, That he was only twelve didn’t matter much—not even to him. They got him a job in the P. D. Q. messenger service, Long Acre Square branch, One day a new manager dawned on the horizon, He was a pretty thing, lately escaped from night school, and his learning pained him. Jimmy adored him on the spot, especially the oleomargarine veneer ‘on his raven locks. “Come hither, Mercury," he re- marked waggishly one day to Jimmy McNutt. “What d'ye mean, Mercury?” dark- asked Jimmy “It's a fancy name for messenger,” explained the new manager. “And, boy, take it from me, that guy was some envoy.” Fired by the additional tales that the new manager told him of the messenger of the gods, Jimmy set up a shrine to his divinity In his heart, He had a record to live up to and he realized it, He made phenomenal time, he got the largest tips from pa- trons and the greatest commendation at the office. He got his home folks to call him "Mercury" for short. And his adoration of the lesrned manager knew no bounds, He was his willing slave. In between calle he would weave romances around him, Te saw him sitting up, burning the midnight oll, poring over shelves and shelves of ly heavy volumes, all about history and Greek gods, He saw him pallid trom overstudy. Then, always, a beautiful woman would come and put her arm around him and make him sleep and rest. The woman had hair of gold and very pink cheeks, That was Jimmy's favorite dream, » to my residence, Mereury said the manager one day, “and ge the puck of cigarettes I left on ths table t} orning, Ply, fleet -ot-feot.” And Mercury flew. He flew eo fai that he got there before the wife of the manager had cleared the break fast table, And she didn’t have gol: hair. It was black and fell in oily sticks around her face. And her cheeks were pasty, yellow-white, not pink at all. She sent him into her husband room to find the cigarettes. It was there that the ruins of Jimmy Mc- Nutt's dream came crashing about his ears, He looked in vain for pon- derous tomes and midnight ofl, What he saw was a stack of sporting papers, lithographs of — burlesque queens, and & mound of cigarette butts, He vaguely sought a statuet of the nimble Mercury, and found instead a speaking, plaster likeness of Charlie Chaplin, And his adoration curdied within him. He took two hours to traverse the four blocks to the office, and when he was censured for it, came back caustically: hen I was out 1 took looked up this here Mercury guy and found he was d with kidney feet, Now I got And ever since Jimmy McNutt hae bean 8 charter member of the @nat) quad, run over w By Alma Woodward Copyright, 1016, by the Preee Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), '\