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! oer ee Miorid. ESTABLISHED BY JOBmPH PwOteRea Dafly Except Oupgey by he, Prose Publishing Jompany, Noe, 89 to i OR, dry octets ark Row, ‘at the at Now York as Second-Class Matter, ning] ior England and the Continent and Countries in the International Postal 68.60] One Year. One Mont! THE CAPTURE OF THE APPAM. HE capture of the British liner Appam puts down to Germany’s| credit one of the most audacious exploite of the war. It does! more. It brings home with extraordinary force what might) have been. If Germany hed chosen to treat thue all merchant ships, what odium she could have spared herself! The Appam was taken os a prize, treated es @ prize. No shell or torpedo sent her to the bottom, leaving women and children to take their chances in crowded Ufebonts or to struggle and sink in the waves. The attacking German raider put a prize crew on the Appam end the prize crew took her to an American pori, “where they oould be eure of decent treatment” (be the tribute noted). If any lives were lost they were lost in fair fighting when the English crew tried to keep off the boarders. No innocent non-combatants were mur- dered or left to drown. If recognized principles of international law had thus governed afl Germany’s warfare on sea she might have taken 4 thousand prizes) without protest from this or any other neutral nation. So far as her sea exploits were concerned she could have aroused admiration instead of horror. She could even have counted on such sympathy as scru- | pulous justice and humanity toward non-combatants are bound to win for a belligerent nation in cases where it puts them higher than its craving for destruction. Nine months after the sinking of the Lusitania Germany’s {reat | ment of the Appam is a measure of her mistake. | th | i A Residents of Yokohama were much interested recently, acvording to the Japan Weekly Chronicle, in an old ragman | with excellent manners and cultivated speech who made house to-| house calls, offering to buy rags, waste paper, etc. Somebody finally recognized him as Mr. Kubomura Kensuke, former Superintendent of} Yokohama Police and later manager of a big dock corporation. The] native newspapers found out the rest. It appears that after he retired from active life Mr. Kubomura cast about for effective ways of teaching the poor how to better their condition by thrift. He at length decided to spend his leisure work- ing among them as @ ragman. Instead of paying cash for the rags and waste he buys, he ! fesues a coupon for the amount, and the recipient of the cou- | pon has to deposit it with « certain bank, to be left untouched | for @ number of years. According to Mr. Kubomura's esti mate these deposits, after a certain length of time, will make i ‘a substantial capital with which to start a savings bank ex- clusively for the benefit of the poorer classes. He is said to have already enlisted a thousand households as members of his “Japan Thrift League.” Many rich Japanese have begun to help him with money and active co-operation. Readers of The Evening World are well aware that a big Thrift Campaign is under way in this country. Philanthropists ready to join in may find inspiration in Yokohama’s ragman. “Now and then I'll wait on half @ MORE MURDER BY ZEPPELIN. |dozen people in an hour who are dis E™= the official reports admit that fifty-four persons were | Possessed with the idea they want THE RAGMAN. THRILL story from the East: 66 in this old world, don't they, kid?" said Lucile, the walt- ress, as the newspaperman took seat in the little restaurant. ‘What's up?” he asked, : fe ‘4 4 corned beef hash, Next I'll get a few killed and sixty-seven injured in the latest Zeppelin raid which | with black eyes, and eo it goes ad in- seems to have swept almost at will over England. ; Bane eel fe quote aes the tas ct Mist, so far from hindering the raiders, appears rather to aid rei naam ‘o-day was dec! them, since if it liev comparatively low, it cuts off the searchlights| “well, anyway, the first one this irom the defense stations. The London press inclines frankly to admit that the moral of 5 takes a svat and I approach . ‘What'll it be to-day? I ask, “He looks at me a minute and says: this raid is that “unless the Zeppelins make for some quarter whera special preparations have been undertaken we have practically no de- fense against them.” a) | In warfare, hitherto, women and children asleep within the} boundaries of a country at war were safe until actual invasion by the enemy. Even then civilized warfare protected them from harm. Is regular wholesale massacre of non-combatants by night now to be taken for granted? Hits From Sharp Wits. nt, once it A neutral country is one in which | ‘an artistic temperament.—Toledo| side and a part for another.-Nash- | Blade, Aires ville Banner, Rice eh ‘ ik woman to make her} If the time women spend in powder- hasaa gras ona ‘beg her into doing] ing their noses were put to some use- | the very thing that she intended do-| ful purpose the world would be much ing all the time.—Macon News. better off.—Philadelphia Inquirer, ——— - dopa nat 8 aa Letters From the People. A Plea for Evening Schools, ‘To the BAttor of The Evening World I have been attending an evening school since it opened this term, and found it very interesting und instruc- tive. Can't the city let us have four nights a week? I want the evening schools to stay open. To think that New York is considered the largest city and still it hasn't enough monoy | for a thing that is most important to every growing man and woman. I want to better my position and can- not unless I know more, Please look this matter over, readers, and also think of the ones who need such schooling Vv. Ww. Dollars and Sense “ HY do retailers fall?" re- W peated a merchant who has specialized on the purchase of bankrupt stocks, in answer to the interviewer's query. “There are lots of reasons. found five grocers in one small town whose scales were inaccurate to the customer's advantage. “A dry goods clerk who gives over- measure in selling goods by the yard will cost the house his salary weekly, Many do it, however. “Ignorance of costs; there's one} “Merchants who fatal error which is almost universal. | their bills loxe an important source of Not one small merchant in ten but] profit, or rather savings, Discount that underestimates his cost of doing] ing one's bills means in many store: business. @ saving equivalent to an annual ine in billing; there's an-| terest of from 8 per cent, to 12 other evil. If you overcharge your! cent upon one’s capital, About 7 customer you alienate his trade. If] per cent. of the grocers of this coun- undercharge fail to discount you him, tp most cases|try fail to avail themselves of this the money is gone. privilege. Exorbitant delivery ex- “Overbuying causes many failures.| pense, unintelligent lighting, poor It tles up capital which should be, store arrangement, imedequute dis- rapidly turning: it results in forced] play of stock areless packing, les at intervals, which means) breakage, shrinkage and spoilage, bad 6 an actual lows. debts, these are some of the items “Overwelght and overmeasure will! y goon put a merchant on the toboggan. A good inspector in a Western btute . if not closely watched, put a |merehant in such shape. that 1 come into the market for his stock, ’ i at Na 0A 0 er se “No ot By H. J. Barrett | ‘That's strange. By ee ere | sou “lm mad by this tim I spout.. “You wouldn't land coffee if you heard it! N and coffee?’ he replies, Weill, bring me bean iD. “Zowle, kid! Little Lucile is get~ "Yes, it certainly is a fine day’ I think ‘he's spoofing ‘Don't get funny,’ comes from He shakes his head, “No, he says, ‘I don't care for honey. Let me have fried eggs, toast and coffee,’ “1 begin to realize there's some- thing peninsula in the whole trans- action, so l just study him in soli- tude, not saying a word, you know, | Finally 1 give him one more chance his sincereitud friend,’ 1 me, » ‘are you ad again, jo beef for me," he says Ii right, Kid—there you are!’ 1 fetch his eggs and the rest of t order and put ‘em down before hi qT 1 forget and say, ‘Iie? ‘Hecause I'm hungry,’ he replies. He thinks I'm asking him why he wants all the food. I see it's hope- less, 60 1 plod along unsuspecting to the next arrival, ‘Exgs or what? I ask. me again, he says 1, kid, can you round und round Uj ginning to believe I’ you deef, too? 1 ask. “'No beef stew for I ‘Bring mo toast and me going crazy he says. sees ting terrible fussed. He it. |What's the matter? he | “‘Nothing here,’ 1 “He muffs part of tt a jeh? he says, grinning |your looks, baby. What do you y to a long tramp uptown?” | “I frown, ‘L never nothing to long tramps or any other kind bums, | answer, With that I turn on my hee) and beat it for the kitchen. “L serve him in statute quo silence and then go to the next customer, He's fat and red-faced, ‘Spill it, please!’ I tell him, »ple don't linger long here. Bat and run is our motto. “Rum, you say? he replies. ‘Do jyou sell it here?’ “I'm half delerium, ‘Are you ear weak, too?’ I ask “No, T won't be here a week, he snaps in reply, I look around in despair, I'm about to say a lot of i Lucile, the Waitress By Bide Dudley — Copyright. 1916, by The Press Publishing Co (The New York Evening World.) IHINGS sort o' run in bicycles head waitress, comes along. Don't “Dhese men got Their hearing 1s They'll come I'm be-|t ‘Are | of | Kind of a home he get are subway employ slowed up for nervous, she says, 3s and they too near a blaet. while, ut all right some day.’ her apron pocket. mix me up. that word, some grammar. him for a while, ar emi. 8 SA NOPIE BAIR A | “Well, sir, {go to the kitchen and, “Say, gimme that ord again, will you, kid?” she asked, “A floor-walker from Green's big dry goods natatorium comes in here and uses Fifth Avenue dialogue just to I want to hit him with When he don’t get me I'll |tell him to go home and learn himself I guess that'll hold Pes pepe —— By Roy L. 66 HO'S that letter from?” W asked Mra, Jarr, as the al- leged head of the hous® was looking pver the morning mail. “What letter?” asked Mr. Jarr, with an assumption of indifference, setting on the ice-cream freezer, o Aad laugh until I begin to catch cold, It] “The one you put tn your pocke was funny, kid, don't you think? said Mrs. Jarr. “Exeruciatingly sof replied the| “Oh, no Exeruclatins ecih, just a bith" ead Mr. Jerr Lucile dug a stubby pencil from i Mrs. Jarr’s face this morning had been at “set fair;” It immediately turned to “cold with indication cf storm.” “What have you got @ grouch on for now?" asked Mr. Jarr hotly. “Have I done anything to you?” “If you feel uncomfortable, if your OHAPTER II. she wouldn't work in Was Robert hool again first to make the dishes and clean ihe even do her own home! t beds, house? id he ex pect he to do such worl “Hello, ready?” called when he came in at six-thirt; “No, dipner's not ready, but 1 am. dinne: dinner? It change your mind,” “Don't be 1 can't do know that en, as won't go t have to go t bring home a cup of tev Robert put on a word left the a reste th Ms ¢ oust W instead of the one he had dreair ‘Then he thought of J and remembered thateshe would, course, know ments later, as he deposited several | on the kitchen — tabi ‘s cold! Is the tea ready? Not yet,” 4 answered, \elously, yet, in spite of her sponding in a measure Itered 1 mM to Robert sit bette remarked, as 2 complicated words when Marie, the satisfactory dinner. Cnn nnnnnnnnnnnAAAAAANARARARARRRNAAARAAARAAAA AS When a Man’s Married -— By Dale Drummond — Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Breaing World.) HT along without a servant when G shar girlhood 2 She'd | ha {Then when the hot weather comes wash the Surely he hadn't married her expecting her Robert “What do you mean?” Ready for) what? I burried home as fast as could. I’m starved. Why didn’t you} unreasonable, Jane, you ¥ he at and without 8 this the was going to hav i of? he's teaching, of little of housekeeping, “Here we are!" he said, a few mo-| really lovely when the flowers are tn bloom and the lawn in omer.” He had made numerous trips in the eu mer before finally deciding where | they would live, and from the first i been in love with the old pla: you will be glad of those two glant | trees that annoy you so now. Their shade will be delightful.’ “Mrs. Fisher said there was an aw- fully pretty house you might have rented on Willow Street, ine with all the modern improvements.” E “Yes, I looked at it, but the rent was too much.” “Oh, dear, will we ever be able to have things like other people! Mrs. Fisher brought that Mrs, Brady who wet was all you had|jives down the street to call, and she ori Eo nave to do, ts it? That's an|M#t,8 the loveliest seal coat, OY KNOW AbOUE Ie” You eta ee hae [couldn't take my eyes off it all the you Know about it. You stay at home |time they were here. One needs furs and do it for a while, You'll soon|iving in the suburb: It looks so n to go about in a tailor suit,” The neighbors had called, ‘They had ted himself of } t | Rebels ire, Sete OMS Eee NS, og ionaelf Of his coats Brady invited them to dinner, Robart « et ne OReth objected o, we Ww there's no dinner to| “Dear, we can't acce| " t ar, pt dinner in- get. I didn't order auything. “1 knew | vitations without returning them, and When the other work was done £ T told you that was Impossible’ this nould be too Ured to cook, inter,” don't know how, anyway, If you| “No ‘servant, no company, no- 0 go Aurant, why you'll) where! Nice winter I shall have. You » delicatessen and) remember you said when you asked © cold stuff, I'll make) me to marry you that you would soon be earning more. any signs of it.” “Give me time, Jane. T surely shall © get a raise in the spring.” He felt like adding, “If you don't make me so miserable IT can't work," Jane sald nothing, and asked: “What have you for breakfast?” Yh, I don’t know!" | “Have you any bacon in the house?” o, but I think there's an don't see Robert ORR. ungra-| head half a dozen, but I spoiled five if, re-| trying to make a cake.” Robert groaned, then thought of the cook book he was going to bring her, re in the| and laughingly replied: the red away the remalns of their un- “The place is y| “Never mind, we will divide (Yo Be Continued.) the Coppright, 1918, by The Pres: Publishing Co. (The New York Drening World.) The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, February 2, tal Ore A Stranger in New York, ~~ expostulated the ‘ Of Stories} depeenintemamaetis | ’ Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces ——— H had been a shepherd out in Solano, Cal. He wandered East with $700 in his pocket to eeek his fortune. He reached New | California, ‘The weird costume and the outlandish manners of the Solane simpleton aroused the Tourist’s pity. And he took the helpless stranger from Solano gravely began to pay court. This courtship seemed scremtiie ‘ingly amusing to the girl's friends, and they set out to have fun at the flattered at their attention. Also, he tried to make himself look like @ righ New Yorker. To thia end he bought a huge watch and chain, palpably barely $20. He felt sorry for the ewindied Man Solano, until the Inttor casually mentioned he had ni newcomer with less pity and more curlosity. A group of young Wall Street men heard the Man from Solana waa‘ rich, paid in cash, Instead he had traded ten shares of stock in a California mine known as the Peacock. | stocks I bought and I came out of Wall Street about $100 better. You see, waa a ort of risk after all, For them Peacock stocks MIGHT come up’ with a bankroll a little larger than before. The same set of sharpers never tackled him twice, By Albert Payson Terhune York woarlng a sult of acoumulated handme-downs, And that | under this care, trying to shield him from the jokes of other New Yorkers etranger’s expense, by protending to “take him up” and to make muels imitations of real gold. With pride he showed these treasures to the Tourist, paid for them in cash, but in gold nuggets to the same They took him to visit the Stock Exchange and induced him to buy several “But those Peacock shares aren't worth a cent,” Many New Yorkers heard about the simple-minded Man from Solano, He continued bis solemn oourtehtp of Miss X. She was rich, And hie The Jarr Family McCardell — conscience reproaches you, I'm not to blame, said Mrs. Jarr. “My conscience doesn’t { reproach | me, except to show me I'm foolish to | think you are ever going to be pleas- ant or good-natured for longer than five minutes!" And Mr. Jarr banged the table with his fist. | “Please, please,” said Mrs. Jarr, ‘If | you are going to fly into one of your! usual rages—you'll be swearing next let it be after I've left the room,” and she rose to go. “Now you just sit down there!” shouted Mr. Jarr, ‘and tell me what IS the matter with you? Have I done anything?” “Oh, I don’t know what you have done,’ id Mrs. Jarr, ‘I do not even know what you are doing. I don’t ask you to see your mail. You neod not be afraid that I would open your letters “Are you Kicking about this let- Copyright, 1910, by The Pres: Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) THE MAN FROM SOLANO; by Bret Harte. night he went to the opera. ‘There in the foyer he chanced to meet a Tourist he had known in whose acquaintance the man chanced to make, Among these acquaintances was Mise X., an heiress, to whom the man of him. é ‘The friendly man from Solano did not see it was alla joke. He wad saying their price had been $126, The Tourist saw the watch and chain were worth Me value, and that the nuggets were some he had manuface tured out of brass fillings, After that the Tourist bogan to watch the shares of a stock that had begun to slump. He told the Tourist about it, adding that he. had bought $500 worth of these stocks, but that he had not ‘Tourist. “The whole thing exploded ten yoars ago.” “That's 0," was the Solano man's cheery reply. “I realized on we And they brought to his attention vartous get-rich-quick schemes. He con- fidingly went in on all the swindles, somehow emerging from each of thems rugged honesty so impressed the girl that she asked him to invest a big sum for her in stocks, He obeyed her wish, being overjoyed to do her such ‘a kindness, The stocks he bought for her were some that he himself bad treasured for years—stocks of California enterprises that had long ago died a natural death. He was fond of his bundle of shares tn those defunct stocks, willingly parted with’ them for her sweet sake. came to an abrupt halt, His last recorded adventure was an effort to Join a fashionable club on Fifth Avenue, This ambition was so humorous that it tickled the fancy of several of the club's richest and sportiest young members, Thoy invited the simple-souled Man from Solano to dine with them at the club one night, and to sit in a poker game afterward, Suspecting no guile on the part of these shrewd young gamblers, who seemed to like him so well, he accepted the invitation, One of the party met the Tourist on the street next day. The Tourtst had heard of the plot to lure the ignorant and trustful Westerner into a club poker game, and anxiously he asked how much the young Man from Solano had lost. “He cleaned everybody ow enertled the angry clubman. must have raked in nearly $40,000!" Yet he After which the courtship The Trustful Countryman, barr “Why, he Wit, Wisdom and Philosophy By Famous Authors ON AMBITION, By Arthur Christopher Benson. AM afraid that Milton's great line 1s to interpret why tho possibility of about ambition, “That last infirm-| @ seat task is indicated to one if {® ity of noble minds," is responsible da Bot, intended that one shoula per- for a good deal of harm because it] How very tew people there are wha induces high minded persons of in-|do learn the higher lesson of ambi- exact ideas to think ambition @ noble| [on of the truths born out of dis appointment and fatluro, The success~ infirmity, or at least to believe that| fui man generally continues to show they need not try to get rid of their] to the end of his life a contempt for personal ambitions until they have|unsuccessful persons, which is only conquered all thetr other evil disposi-| 00d-humored because of the coil tions. A man who desires to fill a He high porition in the world is apt to jousness of his own triumph. rare again is it to find an unsuccess- disguise bis craving to himself by thinking or trying to think that he ful person who does not attempt if desires a great place because of the he can to belittle the attainments of his succeseful rival, beneficent influence he can exert and all the good that he will be able to do, One must try to learn the large lesson in the course of time that the which shall stream from him as light from the sun. Of course, to a high- sense of ambition is often in reality only @ sense of personal vanity anid self confidence disguised, and that the minded man this is naturally one of the honest pleasures of an impor- tant post, but he ought to be quite sure that his motive ts that the good ehould be done and not that he should have the credit of doing it. To see @ great personage move with dignity to his appointed place in a great ceremony attended by all the ter?” asked Mr. Jarr, taking the one tn question out of his pocket, “Ie! that why you always grab the mail first, because you think I'm in cor- respondence with—well, I don't know who? If I were, do you think Id get letters I wouldn't want you to see | wise Providence that guides our path, | treasure within, at the house?” | “I suppose not, In fact, I'm sure you wouldn't,” sald Mrs. Jarr. “But | your friends may not be so discree “Well, look at the letter that wor- ries you so, then!” sald Mr. Jarr, | “No, thank you; I’m not interest. | 4," sald Mrs, Jarr, but just the same she gave a look at tt out of the corner of her eye. Mr. Jarr tore it open see!" he cried “There, you “It's a tailor’s adver. | tisement, that is ally” “T wasn't inquisitive as to what it was!" said Mrs, Jarr, frigidly, “but all I can say is that if you were not afraid that it was something 1| shouldn't see you wouldn't have tried | to hide it.” “I didn't try to bide it,” said Mr, Jarr indignantly. “The idea!" “I'm sure I never even noticed that | you bad the letter,” said Mrs, Jarr, indifferently. What?” asked Mr, Jarr, incredu- | ously. ertainly not, I have a little headache this morning, that's all.” “Oh, all right, grumbled Mr, Jarr, in a relieved tone, “You'll come downtown, then, and take dinner with me and we'll go to the theatre together." | “Just as you ay," said Mrs, Jarr, | “But I wonder why a tailor would send out an advertisement in a) square, white envelope, addressed in | feminine handwriting “Because the world 8 full of trou. | ble-m sald kere for poor married men,” | . Jarr, circumstances of pomp, how impres- sive it all appears. And yet I sup- poso that any sensible man under such conditions is far more likely to be oppressed with a sense of weak- ness and anxious responsibility. Thé only difficulty, if one believes very strongly, as I do, in @ great and | Making a Hit Copyright. 19) With the Family, (Volumes have been written about the youns member of a household “acting ap’ with Machia- vellian, fieudiahawm i Mow larged. bon the ‘original deity, @vng ot Turlesque, Here is how « boy bit with laa family when there exe tn- ’ formal guests ty dinner IRST. Come into the livingroom, where the guests are assembled waiting for dinner to be an- nounced, with your face a tortured, shiny surface, your hair drawn back with @ tautness suggesting the In- quisition, and dripping down on to your Eton collar in the back, Say distinctly: “Papa, dear, I don't like the smell of the laundry soap, but I bet I'm clean all right!" Immediately the ultra sympathy of the guests will be aroused to ‘inclinations of slipping dimes to the poor boy who is com. pelled fo use laundry soap at hie toilette. In answer to divers questions re- | school teacher, Les, &C,, start off grandly, “Yes, thank you, Brown, our| school is said to be the best in the! city and my teacher Is lovely all the time except when some fresh gink goes and pastes you in the bean with an ink eraser and the big stiff keeps you back another term when you ain't done nuthin'!" This is what is known ag & calamitous conclusion, especially when father has been blowing about “the one thing you can say for Wille is that he uses perfect English for a boy of his age.” @& At table, if they make you an~ ‘ one possible attitude of mind ts to go humbly and patiently forward, dia- covering the best, laboring faithfully and abundantly; neither seeking nor avoiding great opportunities, not fall- ing in courage nor giving way to rash impulses and realizing the truth of the wise old Greek proverb that the Greatest of all disasters for a man ip to be opened and found to be empty, the wise application of which to lf 4s not to avoid the occasion of open ing, but to make sure that if the open- ing comes inevitably we shall be found not to have devoted oursely to the adorning of the casket, but t have piled with careful hands the -_—— By Alma Woodward by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Drening World.) ohor your bands in your 1a) ni vent for your bubbling avihts tee Kicking the leg of the table until you misé and kick the leg of someon else, Tinkle one spoon agaigst an+ other. Put your fingers on the tines of your fork and bounce it up and down, see-saw fashion. Drink your Blass of water, holding your breath and in gulps as audible as the dying gasps of a rhinoceros, Hold your Knife as though it were a hoe, At- tack the dangerous combination of mashed potatoes and gravy as if you Were apprenticed to a cement mixer. When you have finished what yu have on your plate, gather your utensils, stack them up noisily in the centre of the plate, eat all thi erumbs around your plate, as if you were starved, relax with the fervor of @ steam calliope; and see, if by sinking down in your chair, you oa touch the knee of the man across the table with your toe 4. When dinner yer and gro folks are settling for a talk; oe mother says, “Now you may gay ‘Good night, darling and go to your room and read," approach each guest, mumble “G'dn't, Mis’ Brown,” make a terrible face after each one, and ga to your room—but not to read! Once there, within hearing distance, of course, start to imitate a drum corp: @ brass band, a menagerie with hy~ drophobia, a ‘battlefield, a bombard. ment of an insane asylum, &c., so that father will call, automatically, ev three minutes: ‘Don't that, Willie, dear, Read. Don’ that, Willie, dear, Read,” finalty soothes you to slumber,