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. pimes or part of the Pacific seaboard, Good. ESTABLISHMD BY JOSEPH PULITZOR. Published Dally Except Gundy. by the Pr Pudlishing Company. \ 43 Park Row, New York. VLITZ President, 63 Park Row, mgten coe JosaPH PULT 9. BB to ‘reasuret k Row, TZER, Ir, Secretary Park Row. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Secont-Clasn Matter tion Rates to The Evening| For England and the Continent and ¥ ‘World for the United States All Countries In the International . fend Canada, Postal Union. + $8.60) One Year 69.76 40! One Month 86 THE END IN SIGHT. _ ILLIONS of soule all over the civilized world will join in fer- vent prayer that something decper than the desire to put new heart into armies or peoples lies beneath Minister Ribot’s words when he declares We can say without exaggeration, without {Illusion and without vain optimism that we now seo the end of this bor rible war. \ From the beginning French officials, civil and military, have been for the most part notably guarded in their utterances concerning the} probable duration of the etruggle. Over and over again we have had strikine instances of how Gallic optimism and exuberance of speech have given place to patient silence and steady movement from cer- tainty to certainty. No nation has had a surer grasp of the war and its meaning than the once volatile French. | For this reason we listen with an attention that is more than hope when the French Minister of Finance solemnly assures the! Chamber of Deputies: “We have reached the decisive hour.” | Twenty-six days of Verdun must have revealed much of strength or weakness to those in authority for whom the whole truth lay open. Lessons learned and probabilities calculated must have been of a more definite sort than could be even hinted to the public. Moreover, there! comes a time when nations can no longer hide from oue another tell-| tale facts concerning food and finance. The war may not end in a month or many months. Neverthe Jess, M. Ribot’s official statement ie the best encouragemout the world has had to date for belief that those in a position to know most are able to judge how the balance hangs. : ——————_—- AS IT LOOKS FROM TOKIO. HERE arrived in Tokio recently an issue of the San Francisco! Examiner which contained the following: | | This country (the United States) will have war with Japan just as surely as Germany and England came to blows and flerce battle. The ignorant, fiippant, shallow epeakers and space-fillers who are blinding the American people to the formidable menace of Japanese naval and military preparation for war upon the United States will yet be responsible for a dreadful and wholly unnecessary waste of American lives and American wealth. Upon reading this Tokio roused itself to a frenzy of warlike zeal and confidence. The Japan Advertiser sounds the note of challenge: ‘What are the United States and Japan to go to war about’ How are they going to wage a “worth while war’? What has America that Japan might conceivably covet? This takes thought. Well, if nothing better offers, the Philip- How, then, is Japan to, eet about war? A naval slap in the face ts always possible, but to get any | of the prizes theoretically obtainable from a victory over | America Japan will have to send an army. The soldiers are there, equipped to the last gaiter button. The Pacific Ocean is also there and it is deep and cold. No doubt England has transported a million men from the ends of the earth to the battleficids of Europe, Asia and Africa, but consider the circumstances. England disposes of the greatest mercantile marine in the world; compared with Japan the ratio is 8 to 1 (England 21,000 steamships aggregating 12,119,891 tons, Japan 2,000 ships aggregating 1,528,244 tons). The transportation of 150,000 men will call for at least half a million tons of shipping. Secrecy will be utterly impos- sible, The ships will have to be drawn off all routes, passenger and freight business will be disorganized for weeks beforehand, and when finally the great Japanese Armada salls {t will pre- gent a target such as submarine commanders have ouly seen in their dreams. Wiewed from various quarters in this country, the “formidable menace of Japan” looms as big as words can make it, Seen from Tokio, it takes on the magnitude of fact. ——--—»¢e-—————- A DOUR MARCH. LENTY of room and welcome await oue arrival in this city to- day. The sooner she feels at Lome, puts down her own par-| ticular carpets, yets out her dec “unlocks the flowers,” the better pleased everybody w There ought to be a way of penalizing a March as guilty as this! one. Ten days fine would be about right. ‘Ihe tirst twenty contained | more shivers, shakes, snowstorms, slip-ups and ele period inflicted upon New York for many a year. The average temperature for the first cig ent month has been 8.3 degrees below normal. climax by setting put to be the coldest Me days out of the eightoen snow, leet or altogether. Most of t! unwashed slate and cl ing down and up. The weather man taiks faith in this Mare! Tf we had our w: tions and *s than any like} teen days of the pr * | Saturday capped the | 118 on record, On seven| » water fell—22.2 inches e other da U winds ys tho sky looked as cheerful as an blew in every known direction, ae have even leas fa mild s Nouse. We 1 most Mi we'd murder it. Hits From Sharp Wits There are some spots that can't res “It was not bidden by an annual coat of fresh way In which | paint.-Philadeiphia Telegraph. oe What ta called love at " oo many men rogard the square rentiy a wasnty ot what Te ment {8 | eal only as something that they|cajied a hunch.—Albany Journal aught to get from the other fellow. | 4 . ae | Another old favorite: What she said, but th she said tt | ae f eo hee his ways of! edness occasionally #0 as to give |wif'e something different to fuss | about.—Macon News, | i ome | styles in women's costum 4 woman can 4o everyth! he firat lines of a chorus ayound the house. But she « for & topical song, "You never to alice off half her finger tell from @ woman's back what he tries to operate a can- is when she turns around.”—Philade phia Inquirer. | ; f ubby has to en A man never fully realizes what tlen host of friends he hae until he ri turns from a hunt with a string o birds. an |lows | RS, JARR and Gertrude, M attiring the Rangies’. Like elders of her sex, Master Jurr, being of some children of the neighborho who were not invited to the party. Gertrude had been sent down hale bh into the house, Here now stood, and the Inquisition gan urs samo circumstances, “Look at you, you bad bo: (Shake), “Your new pants all muc (Slap). “Oh, what shal) t do wi him, Gortrude “He to bed mum, that's wi luted sternness “That's just what I'm going to do |with him, too!” erled Mrs, Jarr in! “And he shan't go to the | tures, never again! Look vexed tones: moving p at hi shox Master Jarr cast his eyes down at! They were! his shoes in sulky silence, mud to above the at King Mne, t ah “Izzy Slavinsky did that it wag Ike a girl's ribbon,” anitted in justification, “And your boy ttl to the party. “Yea'm,” said aurring not, b the damp shoe laces, Party? Master Jarr began to #ob, “Crying will do snapped Mrs, Jarr, boy! your things so nicely,” “1 don't love him at all any more, Tl never tron anything again for him. | Gertrude, pull- T'm mad at him! ing off hie wet stockings, "Get men wash raj 00 If you can't find me Mrs. Jarz. ttle Emma Jarr, as soon as she heard of the party, must be dressed and permitted to go far carifer in the day than the hour set for the affair, and there, un- der pretense of giving a helping hand, be & nuisance to everybody. maseuline mind, had been coerced into his fine attire, in which he had gone out into the street and played marbles with od, to he be- It may be noted that what fol- 2 all families under the ith ught to be whipped and went !" eald the (ight running domestic, with simu- He said} the ing for you. rude, you go right! to that telephone and call up the jRangles and say Willle has been | naughty and won't be permitted to go 1 guess not!" the faithful Gertrude, | t bending over to untie| you no good!" "You dirty little! And after Gertrude ironing all Gertrude, and | whip,” eaid Men Who Fail The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell —— Copyright, 1910, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Kvenvig W the light running domestic, wer® Jary children in thelr best for a children’s party at the “Deed 1 for, Gertrude?” sharply. and has to go right to t little boy! “You asked = Mra, Ruining your cloth mustn't take part his and let him out in the street, hi him, And don't you evér or make candy fbr you, for I won't A Bac A girl Lides her emotions under a vell of modesty, a spinster under a “And look at his tle, his new stllc/ cloak of cynicism, a wife under a mantle of tact, and a widow under a cloud It was in| of mystery—and then women wonder why they are “misunderstood.” Spring may sit in ite lap.| ster always so well| Pring may sit in 16 lap. | yonaved, She's over at the party waits | “Conscience” is merely feet” which accompanies a cooling It is {t's nothing but cold fright. \ a cigarette, ia merely looking FOR it. rude, | ¢¢ “What did you bring those clothes Jarr “He's going to get whipped You bad any more, Gertrude,” added Mrs, Jare, ‘1 told you not to dress him so early | Now, you see, he tsn't going to the party. It was Mrs, Jarr who had dressed and let him out on the street, But Gertrude remarked that not only would she never dress him again, but that she never would do anything for < me to cook waffles for you again, or doughnuts ‘Reflections of By Helen Rowland | Copyright, 1916, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ACHELAORS flee when no woman pursueth—because thate the quickest and most effective way to start them pursuing. \ Many a gir) fancies a man is looking at h cee, “I don't like this job. The boss always kicks when I'm late.” The Stories Of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces By Albert Payson Terhune Copyngnt, 1916, by The Pree Publishing Go, (The New York Evening World), THE CASTLE’S GHOST, by Giovanni Vergo. ON GARZIA was a robber-baron, whose grim old castle was perched on the crest of a cliff that overbung the Mediterraneams, To this drear home he brought bis gentle bride, Donna Violanteg” a convent-bred girl who was horribly afraid of him. Violante led a wretched life in the grim castle, with her grimmer huss By J. H. Cassel > | 7 The Office Force —— By Bide Dudley -— 2 Copyright, 1916, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Kreaing World), and she went off and short- | ly with a wash rag towel and} his newspaper into the comb and the brush and Master wastebasket guess it's pretty w Willie's next best suit of clothes. like down on the Mexican border, Miss Primm, private secretary look. funn, ‘Of she sald. course ni added Gertrude. him in his dry clothes, put on ool shoes and fix his tie, ‘There now!" said Mrs, Jarr, “ Then she ki in good time, street with admiring gaze, helor Girl When a man wants to win a quarre] with a young girl he calls her! a “hard-hearted, cynical woman;" when he wants to soften the heart of a| ought woman of forty, he calls her a “foolish kid @ man’s favorite name for the attack of “old heart after the flame has died out. harrowing fact that a woman seldom finds real love until she fa) tired of looking for it and begins looking for diversion, The most pathetic sight on earth is that of a middle-aged married man| who has suddenly been ecized with the hallucination that he ts the romantio| jokes, and"—— “ideal” of every sixteen-year-old girl he meets. ‘That will be a wonderfully novel moving-picture scenario in which the author makes a perfectly respactable woman wear black oarrings and emoke ELL,” said Popple, the ship- ping clerk, as he dropped} @20ush to know that “Yes,” sang out Bobbie, the office the boss, gave the boy a withering “i presume you think that's " replied Bobbt Then she helped Mra, Jarr array! if you dare play in the mud again!” ged bin and gave him a nickel and he went off to the party while the two fond hearts looked after him down the Th or WITH admiration when he) like i, “War is never funny. You're old Miss Primm.” Yell, I do declare came from Miss Tillle, the blond stenographer. “Think of Bobbie calling Miss Primm down!” ‘Bobbie ts a fresh little fool! snapped tho private secretary, Then she turned to the boy. “Bobble, don't you to me again!" she com *You knew I didn't mean a to ‘Of course she didn't, Bobbie, Spooner, the bookkeeper, is Primm knows war is exactly what Gr Sheridan said it was ‘ou mean Gen. Sherman,’ blonde, “Spooners generally wrong,” sang out Bobbie. “Get it—wrong General; generally wrong! “That's not #o bad," said Popple. “Robbie springs a g00d one every now and then.” “Oh, bosh! snapped Miss Primm. “Now! 1 came from Spooner, said said the his ad ! Now! “Let's get over our everlasting wrank- lng. By the way, what is the name of the commanding General on the border?” “His namo is Funston,” said Miss Prim “He's a very brave man— seems to take war as a pleasure.” “On, I see!" returned Hobbie, put the fun in Funston, eh?” | “And yet," continued Miss Primm, lignoring Bobbie's remark, "Gen, Fun- ston is a man of much weight in mil- itary affairs.” “He ought to be,” said Bobbie. vhy ought he?" demanded Spooner. “Well, there's a ton in Punaton, ain't they? Now, naturally he'd be a man of weight and”—— | “Oh, shut up!" came from the pri- vate secretary. ‘Then to Popple: wonder why the Unit let Carranaza capture Villa? He ought to be well fitted for that duty.” “Yes,” sald Bobbie, “If anybody he Mexi—ean,” » golng to insist,” snapped Miss “that Mr. Snooks have Bob- ble removed from this room, — He keeps us all feeling miserable, Bob- hte, why don't you get a Job'on one of the funny papers writing Jokes” “Yes,” said the blonde, ‘Robbe to be able to write some peaches,” “[ wrote a peach Inat week Bobbie, “but she didn't answe: “You see?” anid Miss Primm to the blonde, “It's actually dangerous to peak to him. Here comes Mr, Snooks, T think I shall tell him what a trial Robbie ts to us all.” The boss entered and Miss Primm ecled herself to her resolution, Ahem!" she began. “Mr. Snooks, 1 want to say a few words to you about Bobble, He's always springing War said | “DT know he ts." replied the boss, with a amile, “Robbie ts the funniest Uttle fellow I ever struck. T really It isn't a cool head or a cold heart that keeps a bachelor from marrying; | envy you people-—being out here with | that kid. Isn't he the funniest boy you ever saw, Primm? “Wwoll—er—he {8 rather funny,” re- plied Miss Primm wenkly, ‘The bows retired in his private room and atlence of a minut duration | followed, Then Robbie spoke up, “Thanks, dear!” he said. 0 private secretary turned on him a loness. ‘Oh. you go to the lef!" she snapped. trom 1 States doesn't | The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday. March 20, 1916 | | | | | { | | | | i} | | |band for sole companion. Yet she | cheorful spirit until she found Don | worthy associates. bore ner sad fate with a brave and Garzia was neglecting her for less Then, through loneliness, she sought the friendehip of her husband's | handsome page, Conrad. fair was absolutely innocent on both The Ind secretly adored her, but the whole af sides. One evening as Violante and the page stood talking {n the castle gallery above the sea Don Garzia happened upon them. ling the situation, he murdered Conrad and had the pag into the sea. Fearful for her own Hfe, Violante husband rushed in pursuit of her. Misunderstand- body thrown fled toward the precipice edge. Her But before he could reach the precipioe. she had vanished over the brink, The eea bolow the COeernmnmmrm—")_ cliff was dragged in vain for her body. The Baron, charge of a few } A Double i & journey. But Tragedy. | Cnanannnnnnnnnenly in a fit of remorse, loft the castle im trusted old servants and set forth on soon his remorse died down and back \ he came, bringing a new wife with him. | ‘Thts second spouse was no miid convent girl, but a woman with & will ‘and a tomper of her own. She quickly established her rule over both the castle and its lord. Vor a while all went comfortably enough. Then the Baroness’s maid ‘whispered of a white phantom that fitted across the gallery by night. The Baroness watched, e, too, saw the gallery, And she awakened the Baron. vanished. shadowy white figure steal across the But by that time the ghost had The Baron, suspecting a trick, stood guard, sword tn hand, in the dark gallery all th his lonely vigil. next night, No ghost appeared, For threo nights he kept At 12 o'clock on the fourth night his patience was rewarded. Along the ‘dim gallery glided a snow-white Sha waited, As the apy lt1is blade encountered yielding flesh. castle. pe. The Baron raised his sword and arition passed close by him he smote with all his might. A death scream echoed through the Barring the gallery doors to all save his old equerry the Baron lighted a torch and gazed down at the white figure. Violante. She had not thrown herself over pursuit in th eee The Spectre and the Baron. ae band sal be throw into the ly charged with all sorts of crimes. It was the dead body of the cliff, but had eluded Don Garsla’e Jarkness and had remained hidden in the castle, venturing out only at night in search of foo had slain her. And now her hus- i the Baron, tremblingly, as he turned ‘no one must know of this or I should Help me sea this body which some evil spirit | nas shaped Into the likeness of my unfortunate wife.” Bruno obeyed without a word. always loved and pitied the poor Donna Violante. to avenge her. So next time he and equerry, in firing at a deer, accidentally lodged @ bullet in his master’ | Brain. | + @ Copyright CHAPT. XXI. 166] WANT to go to the theatre to- | | night! Jane said at breakfast | the next morning, “I've stag: nated here apout as long as I intend Sow that you have more mone o's no need of burying myself. “tm sorry, Jane, but [can't go to- night. I have promised an old friend of mine to dine at his club with him, If you like you can go and i'll come |for you | “So you didyyou? D ted to leave me alone, | tL tell you when you |broSght me to thix awful place that I would not stay here alone? I shall commence to look for an apartment in New York right away. Perhaps wo jean rent this and not walt until the |year is up.” | “Phere Is no use in thinking of @ New York apartment, Jane, We will have to stay here another year at st. And, dear, the thne will seem for it is really lovely here {short now, in summer | “Yes, lovely for you. You only | come down here to sleep, while I have to stay here all day. I just won't do it another year, I'll teach school | tirst! “Well, shall T meet you at the the- atre or not?” Robert asked as he rose from the table. “Don't trouble yourself,” Jane an- swered, not returning his kiss, “If |decide to go I'll tind some one to |take me and to bring me home. I don't belleve you are going club," she added, but K was already out of the house, so did not hear her. “IT wonder if he is going to be with Marton was the thought in Jane's d she made herself miserabl morning thinking about it | Jane had told Marlon Lawrence that nothing to her, But ft did mean a good deal, In fact, much more than the situation war- ranted, Without thinking of the debts |she had which Rol ; month's advance Robert's raise wa ntracted, or the dress for rt had just paid the first she commeneed to n what sh ould do with the ad- ditional fifty dollars Robert was to receive each montl, That he really | When a Man’s Married — By Dale Drummond —— But, like ‘all the other servants, he had And he quietly resolved the Baron went hunting together the 6, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening W 4), meant to put away iay do! did not believe. it was preposterous i for him to think of 1t when she need- jed so many things, So Robert's raise was mortgaged, practically spent, be- fore he had begun to receive it. When Robert arrived home that night Jane was not there, As she had said she would not go to the the- atre, or something to that effect, he | Supposed she was at one of the nelgh- | bors, so sat down to read until she should return He was in the back of the house when she came in, so did not hear her until she called to bim, “I thought you were never coming, dear. Where bave you been until ao Playing cards?” he asked. jindeed! I've been to the Who with? Wish T wouldn't have re. ‘To the theatre! I had known it. burried home. “I tried to phone you, but. they sald at that club that you had and had gone out.” Dene: ieee “Yes, Henderson decided , rather dine at the McLarin. I alan expect any message, so left no word, But whom did you go with? “Why, Philip Macon called 4 asked if he might call to-night. told him you were in town and that I was thinking of going out also, as I hated to stay alone, So he naked atre and of course né finished her rather elaborate explanation by adding: “E \had made up my mind to go anfway, fo I thought I might as well go with im."* ‘I'm sorry you did, Jane. I know you meant nothing by it, but people (may talk. How did you go? “He came after mo with a taxt. If you are so afraid people will talk you should take me yourself. I gave you the first chance, but you preferred the club and Hendérson’s soclety to me “Well, Jane, don't do It again, try and not’ leave you oftener than T can help. remember that you are anda"'-——~ + “If Thad known what I do now, I wouldn't have been in such a hurry, interrupted Jane as she snapped off the lights. (To Bo Continued.) me to go to the th |T accepted.” J nt nione any But please married, Dollars and Sense is a fine thing to spur one to exert his highest energies, and the security of a living wage Is j@ fine thing in engendering peace of | mind and a@ sense of permanency in ‘a Job," said the general manager of @ departinent store. we apply the combined salary and commussion idea throughout our en- tire estahiishment. “Our clorks recelve a straight sal- ary of $1.25 per day. On top of this hey reesive @ commission ranging from leas than 1 per cent, to 3 or 4 per cen:. on the gross valuo of their sales, Ooviously the unit sales in some departments will surpass those of others, Hence the variation in commissions, We have few clerks whose total income ts less than $10 @ week. “Onoe the rate of commipston in set it is never reduced unless experience proves that the rate ls too high, In that case the rate ts reduced for new employees, never for those at work when the rate was established, “Not only do we pay our sale force on this plan, but It applie throughout the entire establishment. Our stock keeping and shipping de- \ are paid and com- rn incentive of a commission “Consequently | By H. J. Barrett’ missions, A record is kept of the jnumber of parcels handled; a certain percentage increase in salaries fol- lows every Increase in work handid over a certain established minimum. “Our delivery department is oper- ated on @ similar basis, Commissions |of a cent or a half cent per delivery are paid, depending upon the nature of the territory vovered. The come mission is divided between the driv and the delivery boy, thus actir an Incentive to each “There are, of cours, some ployees the nature of whose w | renders the payment of commissi | !mpracticable. J lon: Buyers, the advertise jing man, window man, elevat ir be » elevator boy, &, there t# no method of direc iy mensuring their elliciency, But t> insure thelr devoting their bas: to their work, they are paid EY plus a small percentage of the corm. cerns annual profits, Thuy they realize that the firm's Interar's 4 | Identical with their own. And that” something which | the ‘payment oe only @ straight salar i only 8 ¥ falls to ems “The strongest motive for actions {a that old, dependable Wont tested one—self-interest. By invok. ing the ald of that mott throughoug our establishment we maintain av high degree of individual efficlenay”