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R, York as Bec! aes ‘or Wneland and the ont ‘Ail Countries in the International Postal Union One Year. One Month. nited States -NO. 19,011 TO THE END. ertending the life of the Thompson committee until tts task is finished. What the investigation hae already acoom- plished is eloquent proof of how much remains for {t to do. “If I had « year I could finish ine month. If I hed only « month it would take me a year.” With trains leaving evory dey for Palm Beach and steamers sailing weekly for Europe, it requires little @ffort to see Senator Thompson's meaning. Unwilling and absent witnesses can easily time their movements to outreach a date that ee Jess use in such tactios, Senator Brown, majority leader, and Chairman Sage, of the Sen-! O ARGUMENT is needed to demonstrate the importance of | terminates an inquiry they wish #0 escape. If no date is eet, they| “he Bvening World wvaiiy Magasine, ate Finance Committee, are said to agree that the Thompeon investl- gation must be prolonged. According to (he schedule only ten more’ working days would remain. The people of this city have no doubt as to what should be done The inquiry has disclosed matters deeply affecting their interests. Tt has shown that subway contracts by which their credit wee pledged for years to come were settled by financiers and traction interesta | with a reckless disregard of costs and a lavish distribution of Private wewards, Tt has already shown that a bonus of $125,000 paid to the Presi-| Gent of the Interborough as well as gifts handed by Interborough di- | rectors to others who helped put through the contracts were charged to construction cost for the City of New York to pay. This is al matter for the District Attorney to examine. There may be more | euch, ° Public interest demands that the Thompson committee dig on! until the bottom is reached, until every witness who can throw light on the methods by which the dual subwey contracts were carried| through has been examined. The city needs to know exectly where it stands. artes NT | CHEERING NEWS. HE more delivate the situation developing between the United! T States and Germany over the question of safeguarding per-| sons on merchant vessels armed for defense, the more will the country be cheered to find that there is enough sense in the Senate and House of Representatives to hold in check the busybodies who would embarrass the President with hasty resolutions and il-| timed excursions into diplomacy. P In times of stress, when ministers are handling ticklish faces] | tions, many of the inner aspects of which they alone can know, it ie the custom in the British Parliament to pass a vote of confidence in ‘the Government end let it go at that. Congress is, of course, not made that way. But at the present moment of complicated uncertainty the best help it can contribute to the special problem in hand is silence and plenty of it. NOW PORTUGAL. ITH the seizure of thirty-six German and Austrian vessels lying in the Tague, Portugal. takes a step practi- cally certain to involve her in out-and-out war with the Central Powers. Portuguese sympathy with the allies has been no secret. Ever! since the Peninsular Wars England has acted more or less as a regu-| lator of Portugal’s affairs and a protector of Portugal’s integrity. Portuguese troops have been fighting against the Germans in West Africa and the Portuguese Congress has all along been ready to back up a declaration of war on Germany at the first propitious moment. Two Portuguese ships have been sunk by German eubmarin ‘A few days ago a German steamer slipped ott of the harbor of: Funchal, Madeira, without formalities. Very slight pressure from | England would have been enough to turn Portugal into an active agent in securing needed transports and suppressing German sea rovers. A nation of 6,000,000 people, with an estimated total war) strength of 260,000 troops (120,000 of which are reported already mobilized), seems, therefore, likely to be added to the conflict. Tt remains to be seen whether Spain, which could put about | 1,200,000 men into the field, and which has been placing heavy muni-| tion orders in this country—250,000,000 more cartridges have just} heen ordered from the Western Cartridge Company by the Spanish Government—will be able to resist the temptation of an alliance with the Teutonic nations which would give her the chance to overrun her smal! republican neighbor. What little pe is left in Murope may presently be squeezed | into. Switzerland, Holland and the Dani sulas, and Scandinavian Penin- Dollars and Sense sa). ape T the easiest way for a By H._J. Barrett tries corresponded with the It required about three days) the er crooked clerk to rob his em- | fronts. ployer.” said the proprietor] to nati the culprit, *aeaye (peippetide “ “One sale which read 85 cents on inate eaedineaige SBF othe front. was plainly $8.60 on. ¢h @ man. say $5 worth of bo I was out $7.65 on that little doctor his sales slip to read 76 cents| deal. When confronted with the evi- and pocket the difference. dence, the culprit confessed. He had *Bome years ago, I had occasion to b psa in my employ for two yeare end uring that period had etolen about muapect a leak somewhere. I took an| $600 by that aimple method. The inventory and at the same time in-| young man’s father yeas made stalled a systom of accurate stock 800d the amount and not to prosecute. Of course I itamediai Fecord keeping. A month later I took| Biecharged the offender. @mother inventory. My suspicions) Were ‘confirmed. Stock was leaving my shelves for which I received no eas) equivalent, But which of my @lerks wes robbing me and just how was he doing it? “I equipped my clerks with ales Dooks tn which were double face car-| the battle, Dons, | took care not to explain the} eee records are absolutely tn- DE ae th spenmable to guccess in ti Merger of the latter feature, | Crtcime competition “Ata tens onl system of checking my in- ventory against @ stock record would have told me that I was being souhed by some one. And to know this, etead of merely @uspecting it, is hal | don’t do anything to encourage them; The Jarr Family — By Roy L. McCardell — Copyright, 1016, by The Pres Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World). 66] F I was to start little Willle to-|Jarr, ] morrow you would kick at the| “I'm playing with my dollies!” re- and, piled little Emma, who was busied in the corner, “Come and play for your father; let him hear how nicely you can play your scales, that's a darling!” coaxed Mrs. Jarr. “I don't wanna!” protested the little girl. Mrs, Jarry picked up the child from the floor and sat her on the plano stool, “You play when your mother tells you to!" she commanded, “Yes, play for papa, that’s a nice Mttle girl!" said Mr. Jarr in his most moral manner “When asked to do anything, dear, do it gracefully and expense anywe you Dut I don't mind t at so much, It's the way you talk. Som» day you'll be making remarks of that kind and you'll hurt people's feelings and get into a lot of trouble, because some people are sensitive about such things, and, anyway, it's culture, and even if it wasn't, you've no right to talk that way!" Having delivered thes» utterances, Mrs. Jarr closed her lins primly and @hook her head if to say, “There, now, I've sald i “If you will tell me what you are talking about,” sald Mr, Jarr, looking | pleasantly.” at ber as if dazed, “I'll be much) “1 can't, I forget!" sniffed the ittle obliged!” irl. 'm (talking about how well little| “Emma, you play your exerctses, Emma ie getting along with her) and at once!” sald Mrs. Jarr. |musio lessons, and I said it plain) So commanded, the little girl com- | enough, {f you would only have the | patience to listen!” sald Mrs. Jarr with some asperity. “Just think how young she is, and has only been tak- ing a few lessons and”--~ “My dear,” sald Mr. Jarr, “inter-| rupting her, “If 1 may be so bold as to contradict you, you never men- tioned little Emma's name. You start- @4 first about my objecting to the ex- pense if you began little Willie at something and ran off into a wilder- ness of words regarding my hurting | people's feelings with my tactless re- marks about something you did not mention.” menced to cry as if her heart would break and put her little hands be- hind her. Mrs. Jarr endeavored to THE CHARITY OF WOMi OMEN are often treated in books with the most sov- ereign contempt by the most accompli#hed and thoughtful writers. ‘There is in the fem fear of offending, a self diMdence, a delicate sense of propriety, which renders 4 woman unhappy when she |says or does or thinks she has said or done a thing not perfectly as it ll, it's dreadful the way you/Ongnt to have been’ OA mulck were talk about people who play the piano. ception and a delicate sonsibility I have heard you say a dozen times Tender her feelingly alive to the that men who play the piano vre no|°p!nions of those around her. Hence afraid of an inferiority a woman of jsensibllity feels a certain degree of |Uneasiness in the company of hi ‘ability and profound learning. She feels a disagreeable restraint in their good, and the better they play it the less good they are!” “And to those exalted sentiments I do still steadfastly subseribe myself! presence from which she is glad to There may be exceptions to the rule,|be relieved and to find herself in a . aM circle where, though she may meet but 1 haven't met them,” said Mr. Jerr |with less genius, less knowledge and firmly. "Men who play the plano ARE jess wit, she is more upon a Footin Be good! Neither are men, especially | with those around her and less afra youngish men, who wear whiskers.” etraying any defect In herself. oy Perhaps, too, nen possessed of un- 1 know lots of men who wear Whis~ common talents and erent weniue are kere and who are lovely,” sald Mra apt to trust too much to their in- Jerr, “so that proves you all wrong, trinsic merits and to despise as be- and, furthermore, if little Willie bas Reath their reward those graces and any talent he shall take music lessons accomplishments the gole end of which is to render a man agreeable oo!” * apelety, As gold without being "Oh, very well.” said Mr, Jarr lighly polished will always be valued, D by th Be ay. ras tataepiey tha “Diane, ey em to think they may rest \secure upon their sterling merit as \sufticient to procure them the esteem @ going to tell you how nicely |@Nd consideration of mankind, How was many men of genius and of knowl- Uttle Emma played already,” said Mrs. cdge could we name whose manners Jerr, “but you are not interested in are disxusting, and to whom nothing Let him do anything.” Mght 1 went through the sales/ ont stores on the main streets of our Mie cen the back to see if’ great cities that fail to keep them,” _ jcould reconcile us but a conscious- your family. ‘I suppose you'd rather | ou! nano! . ness of their superiority in the high- wee her, child though she is, at the/e endowments of the mind. he | washtub.” Here Mrs, Jarr wiped a same quick and deltcate perception Gurtive tear away. ves pain to a Woman when eae ines she herself has been ‘Emina, come and play your new |guity of any impropriety in behav ipads her to observ exercises for your papa!” called Mi ae in manners “Something Has Penetrated” je character | vu! by The tt (The seat rent ioe Writ) LLABELLE MAE DOOLITTLE, E the Delhi poetess, thinks there are three days in the life of the average human being which should invariably be celebrated appropriately, They are the birthday, the wedding day and the day one gets a dl- vorce. Pondering over the matter re- cently, she came to the conclusion for use in pull her hands over the keys and the squeal and kick, Phere. now!" exclaimed Mrs, Jarr, turning to her husband. “I hope you are satisfied. They hear how you talk about music and I can do nothing with them.’ “Don't make it @ task for her; she's ted Mr. Jarr. Tdi say this for the 4: she isn't bold and pert and al showing off like your sister's lit- tle girl,” said Mrs, Jarr. “And I'm not going to force her in her me either; but if she isn't going to jbetter than your sister’s ttle gtr rH \xnow the reason way!” Wit, Wisdom and Philosophy EN, By John Abercromby. with attention the mennere of others; j to be charmed with the ease, the el gance, the politeness of a well-bred man, and to be disgusted with the firet appearance of anything harsn, ar or ill-bred. ere is, too, something tn the fe- male mind which delights more in the beautiful than the sublime, more in the amiable than the splendid, more in what engages and captivates than in what awes with its grandeur or astonishes with its vastness, May not the same softness and dell- cacy Gispose her to prefer those gentle manners and amiable qualities which adorn private and domestic scenes to the more splendid talents which fit a man to shine in public life, in the Senate or in the field, or to those which qualify him to instruct and inform mankind and pbilo- sophical inquiry or deep investigation? It falls to the lot of @ very small portion of the human race to possess those talents which enable @ man to read hie history in a nation’s eyes, ‘Were the regard, the esteem, the con- fidence of the women confined to such alone the bulk of mankind would be deprived of the best, the purest source of happiness which this world af- fords. What enjoyment can be com- pared with the felicity flowing from a union with a lovable woman? Con- siderable use, er, might be made of the difference in disposition, in feeling and in situation between the sexes if in theif association with one | another those qualities which are mont estimable in each were allowed their influence in @ beneficent, not an ex- |travagant degree. Were the men to derive from the society of the women ‘gentleness, compassion, sensibility; were the women to borrow from the z Ariday, Ellabelle Mae Doolittle —— By Bide Dudley —— Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World) Iittle girl slipped off the plano stool) and onto the floor and commenced to! | divorces. February By J. H. Cassel addressing people on these days, would be much nicer than the old, conventional congratulations usually offered the lucky ones, Explaining her theory to the Live and Let Live Section of the Women's Betterment League, the poetess said: “Just suppose, ladies, you were ven a divorce to-morrow. Now would"— “Oh, my land!” gasped Mrs. Schoo- ley Pitts. “We'd call it Emanc!pation Day forever afte “Heavens, what a lot of wild there would be in this town Mrs. Kingsbury Squeeler. “What have you heard-~is there any chance?” asked Mrs, Denham Scroggins. “Ladies! Ladies!" sald Miss Doo. ttle, holding up one hand; “I am merely supposing. But ff each of you were given a divorce wouldn't you thank me if I congratulated you in| rhyme? It was one of those questions for which no reply is expected. Doolittle continued: “Of course you would gratulating women who are granted Listen!" She then read the following rhyme? & divoroe; fa sous re, ror or nde vlan thn ee n tat source, ‘The ladies thought the rhyme ply delightful. them one to be used for congratu- latory purposes in case any of them ever had a birthday. It follows: war’ jell me this is your birthday, ont are ttt Nile wee ten ‘chon call that ig aa Be ie about ¢ ni a all oat, older =a, Lat at men's wages “nd continne to five Rut vt ener tions On fering . hinthaay. ie 1 Giake its “simp! nd T don't ‘care what Sou way The next rhyme the ladies heard was meant for congratulatory use at weddin, Miss Doolittle read it with a fine sense of the dramatic. Every | motion of the hand, every twitch of the eyebrow was studied, Asa result, the rhyme was very effective, “Here | It is: Go zou. Your {i ‘rather’ silly, Does he “ah ms ‘ittie dove? Mi is great, inatitution=~ re Dy A& can be; Bat you have ‘trouble: with: vou inan T'd rather you did not blame me. My, uncle's old dog. Bruno @eeweeple, maiy fleas, Some Heart, iow’ T eoust go and wash ‘the dishes, At the conclusion of her talk Miss Doolittle told those present she would |men steadfastness, deliberation and fortitude, characters might be formed | not less amiable than useful, not less {eHereins tan enlightened, have copies of the rhymes struck ort and distributed among them. ladies applauded with great gusto. AU were pleased, | that each of| So Miss! T have here | an original poem to be used in con- | So Miss Doolittle re | 25, 1916° : The Stories ; Of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces By Albert Payson Terhune Coprrtatit, 1916, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), THE DUEL; by Guy de Maupaseant. UBUIS was a plump, peace-loving French business man, jolly and | little. The only military thing about him was his huge, upourled mustache, When the Franco-Prussian war began, be sent his wife and ebfldren to Switzerland, while he stayed on, at work, in Paris, And there he remained during the horrors of the siege. The moment peave was declared—and while France still swarmed with victorious Germans—Dubuis set out to join his family in Switzerland. On the train he found himself in a compartment with two solemn-faced, reti- jcent English tourists, who gazed stolidly out at the devastated country | through which the train was passing. At @ way station a Prussian officer entered the compartment. He was big and red-bearded and in full uniform. The Englishmen stared at hin |{n mild interest. The Prussian swelled with pride at their inspection. As ‘the train paesed by @ ruined hamlet, he remarked: | “T killed a doden Frenchmen in that village! If I were in supreme com- mand, I'éd burn everything and kill everybody!" 5 pn Th® Englishmen grunted non-committally, ‘The AANA Prussian went on: ane Tek, i “There's going to be no more France, In twenty years all Europe will belong to His gaze wandered to Dubuis. ‘The fat little Frenoh- man was sitting up very straight, trying to look as if he had not heard. ‘The train was slowing for a station, The Prussian tossed Dubuis @ coin. ! ‘Get out tyre and buy me some tobacco, Frenohman!” he ordered, “Re | quick about it!” Dubuis flushed hotly. But he auld nothing. He merely got to hig feet and went into the next compartment. Presently the Prussian followed hint thither, the two Englishmen trailing along to see the fun. “You didn't do what I told you to,” blustered the Prussian, scowling flereely down upon poor Dubuts. “Now, I'm going to cut your mustache off and fill my pipe with it.” As he epoke, he seized one end of the Frenchman's sweeping mustache and gave it a tug. Dutuis lost all control of himeelf. With a how! of rage, he flung hinself upon the Pruesian, hitting, kicking, gouging. Down went the unprepared officer and Dubuts fell upon him, pummelling madly at the upturned purple face. Then, all at once, the Httle Frenchman recovered his self-control and sank back in his seat, puffing and gasping. The Prussian scrambled up from | the floor, whipped out his sabre and bellowed: | "You'll give me satisfaction for this—with pistols—or I'll kill you!" | Dubuts nodded an indifferent assent, When the train drew into Strase bourg (where there was to be a fifteen-minute stop) the Prussian ran off to find two fellow-officers to act ad his aeconde. | The Englishmen volunteered to second Dubuis. | for a retired spot behind the ramparts. There the two duellists were placed in position and pistols were thrust into their hands. Dubuis had never fired a pistol in his life. But at the signal he pointed his weapon somewhere in the general Leto The whole party set out | swe Arection of his enemy and pulled the trigger. Amateur ve ; He saw the Prussian ree! forward, then double up } fessional. 3 and sprawl to earth—stone dead, The two Englishmen caught hold of Dubuis, one on either side: “Hurry up!" they said, impatiently, “We don’t want to miss our train.” ‘They escorted him aboard and to his sent, just as the train started. They stood in front of him and in untgon said very solemnly, ‘ “Hip! Hip! Hurrah!” Then in the most formal manner they shook hunds, one after the other, | with the bewildered Dubuis, and retired to thetr own compartment, | As far as they were concerned, the incident and the brief acquatntance- | ship were closed. When a Man’s Married — By Dale Drummond — Copyright, 1016, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World CHAPTER XII. 5 handed Robert the paper on w whieh she had made out the menu for her club luncheon, I don't see how we can give such for doing as all newly married mon go, rushing home to the women they ew There! [knew she laughed at me You probably joined in with her. Now please give me the money for my an elaborate Inncheon to twelve) luncheon, and stop talking about that | people” Ttobert looked grave. “Aren't | Woman.” /the things rather expensive, dear? Here's five dollars. You must “No, indeed! Why, Mrs, Brady and|™make it do for the woman and the Mrs, Harper both had ever so much| food. Don't get a thing do not Saran y for.” | Jane some way dia not Robert made no reply, but thought are so much about the unpaid bille “1 won't find fault with her; ahe does | nce che had heard of Marlon Law- 1 he know ww. I hate to vel | Se lh 8 FRE ey Be Five dollars! What a little way ‘And while we are talking about it,{that would go. Well, she evidentir couldn't get any more just now, But if she lacked she would get the things in some way. Tt was late Monday Robert, the woman who 1s coming to| cook the chicken and help serve! wants two dollars. I don’t see why ! c ’ night when you can't manage to let me have | Ripert Teaehed home, ane was tre! ory, dear, but It will only be/@Md cross. She had ‘been working for ristcie walle. af you will hel me | UBuaually hard all day tov get her Ao oe eee To aebit sonal T pane | tome in order for Tus "So you didn't ask No remarked, as he helped put on dinner. but how did you know” Jane , at once suspietous, “We walked up from the train to- Rather. “Sho also quid.” continued the nt actiess Robert, “that she was afraid : Lawrence, Her name is} yoy didn't like her, and that she had I didn’t consider it necessary hoped you might be #riends. But that Robert returned, loath to remind her again that he had told her the club Was beyond them. Then, as he put away the dishes he had just finished “Have you decided to ae cent . you hadn't yet called.” “lt seein to. mg" “Robert, began agate laughed a hard, itttle, metamio awkwardly, “that since I told her you) “Yin, not such a fool as vi ‘ou 4 were to have the olub and needed a she ‘seem to. think,” she P a substitute it will look Seo tt you e don't ask her, I mean—her feelings | "hat do you mean?” | may be wounded. She's very sensi- * maybe volcan. Oe understand perfectly that you and she have once had an affair, and would like another, It would be a good blind if she and T posed as “No, I've already asied some one to! substitute for Mrs. Holbrook, and [| do! | ’ care a rap about her or her! friends,” feelings. Why should 1? A woman| “You certainly do both Marion and m I have never se You seem| me an injustice. You do not under upon yourself, Now, for heaven's sake, stop talking about her, T suppose she laughed because you left her so early last night” Robert flushed, “Not for that, stand either her or her motives.” “TI do not think I am unjust to either of you; and I understand her quite well,” (To Be Continued.) Pop’s Mutual Motor—By Alma Woodward. (opyright, 1916, by the but Syodivate Boron. The cur in tront of Pon's house. to the sinamers, jioot complimentary thls pope unt ire. a decked 40 strange hovdas | hi.” Mastarts for ule uranic a attire ribbon stzuamuere supval fhe crv rf orn ‘ther rede ef the windstoeld '3 tied a OP (nervously)—I wish you hadn't got me into this. I'm shaky as if I was going to be the| conic snd hie Mts on ‘rie groom, I’m superstitious about wed- | */™ matter her.) dings, anyway. Ma (gasping)—Milton! What dil + Ma’ Undulgently) — Now, Milton,|you do? aren't you silly? All you've got to do| Cop (butting in)—Tried to run me {a to drive her a few blocks. I thought it_would be a gracious thing to do to offer our car to Mrs. Green for her |nlece's wedding. You know It looks so much more prosperous and digni- fled to drive up in a private car when |the wedding’s at high noon, One they'd hire from the garage wouldn't have satin streamers on \t--and they jdo that at all swell weddings. | Pop (in sudden terror)—-Do T have ‘to help her in and out, with all those | | veils and trains and things? | Ma (\mpatiently)—Of course not, | silly! Her father, who is going | give her away, does that. Pop (thoughtfully)—Oh, her father, | down, madam—that's all. Pop (meekly)--I told you never to put a bride aboard this craft, didn’t 2 I almost had delirium tgemens be fore I started at all. Thén this big stiff gets under my wheels and holds &@ tete-a-tete with me for a half hour, and all the time thi bride's hollering that her feller'll es Ma (horrified)—The disgrace of driv- ing a girl up to ner wedding with a policeman on the running boar She'll never live it down—never! Pop (not as grieved as he should be)—Won't she? Ma (almost in tears)—Are you go- ing to take him to the police station’? eh? You know I know her father. Cop (with relish)—Now you said Ma—Of course I know you know! Something! him What's the matter with you,| Ma (wailing)—Oh, Milton! Oh— yway? You'd better start now or) Pop (whispering)—Lissen! 1 got 1 you" 1 be late and it's awfully bad|that girl's father's note for two bun jluck for a bride to be late. I'l be dred. I've tried to collect ii for three °| w aiting in front of the church to seo! yee Nothing doing! I guess there you driv dear mething in revenge being gale Wop dziy A bunch of kde, eaiching om Cose, after all, ohaes _