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The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday, June 5, 1916 anil | 9 AAAAAARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Men Who Fail = «vette. By J. tt. Cassel} | The Stories Publisass Daity Exespt —— e At gs | ° nen Ep Ree hh ee ee Of Stories JOSUPN PULITZER, dra Secretary, 65 Path Row ie Lrgeeat ‘ Dale aid a hice d : ———- — Phtered at the? tt Now Yors en secontccune Mater | Reach Mode ‘s aes dla at : i Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces Subscription Rates to Toe Evesing| Por Engiand and the Continent and| ’ “ Tar ae ‘ | . Works tor the Co Au Couttries i te tatermational | 82 ct ‘ er ran By Albert Payson Terhune Jne Year... 85.50 One Year.. . Oe oe et : pbk obidthbl Ab Mb tkoont Md 3 6 ¢ op , é- Com nant, 1016, by The Pies Publishing € Toe New York Bening World) VOLUME it NO, 20,012. | Fi if Jory THE SKELETON IN THE CLOS by Edward Everett Hale, 2 uu . oe » BUTS H i HE secret service sub-chief came to New York from Richmond, under a flag of truce, in October of 1864. The Civil War had entered on {ts final, fiercest era. The Federal blockade had shut all imported luxuries out of the Southern States; and there was no money or material for manufacturing such things in the South itself, So Southern | Women were wearing ancient clothes and plaiting their own straw hate and making coffee out of beans, It was the lack of new clothes they minded most . | So, when the sud-chtef went back to Richmond, he took along as @ present a dozen of the latest and most fashionable hoopskirts (“skeleton as they were led) to his wife and mother and daughters, These won- drous articles were received with cries of delight. Then trouble set in. Soon after his return, the subchief received a set of cipher despatches from the Confederate Navy Department, to be taken by him secretly and at once to Wilmington, These ciphers contained directions for the safe 9 shipping of 83.211 muskets from a Belgian firm to an unwatched Confederate |port. The muskets’ arrival would have meant new hope of victory to the |ill-armed Confederate forces, | The despatches in his pocket, the sub-chief entered a clothes closet tn ; ss Hf his own house tn search of a coat to wear on the journey. His feet became it is the most important of the pro- ¢ ; le ‘ entangled In a mesh of wire on the closet floor, and he P § The Delayed {fell breaking his left lex. He had stepped on one of Daspatehes, { the hoopskirts, When he was able to think of business \g 3 again he remembered the despatches, But then tt was too late to deliver them, Thus, because of a hoopskirt, the Confederates lost 83,211 precious muskets, The sub-chief's wife, in remorse at the dainage done by her lucklees bit of finery, threw the offending “skeleton” into the James River, A few days hment of the Confederate navy caught a group of Federal EIGHTEEN VARIETIES. TTORNEY-GENERAL GREGORY has submitted to Congress drafts of eighteen new Federal laws designed to cover the ANH tae AONE CaNOND tanta , gee! LE a GIR Re i Ji Shit Sean eae at eaten Various hinds of propaganda and plots developed in this coun to further the interests of foreign nations since the beginning of the war in Europe. Under existing Federal statutes the lederal prosecuting officers have found it hard work to draw up indictments jor many recent crimes against neutrality. The recommended legislation, among other things, would make it a crime for aliens other than diplomatic or consular officials and attaches to act here as agents of foreign governments without pre- viously notifying the Government of the United States and obtaining its consent. This cuts the ground from under the busiest and most dangerous classes of propagandists with whom this nation has had of late to deal. In many wa posed laws, Other recommended measures would make it a crime to swear folsely to any document intended for the use of a foreign Government in a controversy with the United State the affidavits regarding meunted guns on the Lusitania being remembered; would authorize afterward a de Collectors of Customs to inspect foreign vessels in American ports at funboats off guard further down the river and made a sudden attack on ae) renee ; rahe : them, an attnck which by rights should have cleared the river of the gun+ any time; would make misstatements in applications for passports 8 and left open a route whereby provisions, &c., could have been brought plain perjury and their fraudulent use or transfer by alteration or forgery a crime, and would make it a crime to injure property in the! United States belonging to a foreign Government with which this nation is at peace. into the besieged city, But, as the assault was about to begin, the Con- federate flagship all at once became unmanageable and then helpless. Not only did the daring plan fail, but the Southern flotilla barely made its way back to Richmond tn safety Investigation showed that the flagship's propeller and steering gear had become entangled in the meshes of a submergd hoopskirt. Another hoopskirt went by mistake to the Junkman and thence into a 4 pile of papers and rags that were to be used in making Confederate money. The scraps of steel wrecked a whole Issue of bills. The General commanding {n Richmond learned through «pies that a supply train was about to reach Gen. Butler's army, Just outside the efty. The Confederates planned to make a night sortie, strike Butler's unprepared forces, rout them and seize the supplies, Lieut, Scheff was sent from head- quarters with the order for the sortie. As he galloped across a field, his horse stepped into a snarl of wire sprin he discarded remains of one of \the hoopskirts—and fell. Scheff was picked up senseless, For more than @ day he was delirious, When he regained consciousness the supply train had arrived and Butler's lines had been Richmond fell early in April, President Jefferson Davis escaped from The sub-chief prepared for him a package of maps to guide ais _ fight around the watchful Union armies and to some The Wrong ¢ /lofida port whence he could take ship for another } country. Too late tt was learned that a blundering ‘i ? messenger had left the maps on a table and had carried ! to Davis a package containing one of the hoopskirts, A few days afterward the newspapers told how the lack of gulding maps and the alleged use of that hoopskirt had alded in the fugitive President's cap- abe Reviewing the havoc wrought by his “skeletons,” the sub-chief mused Sw sadly: Events have shown the need of these additions to the Federal statute books. Nevertheless that need was largely forestalled by the recent warning issued by the German Government to German citizens in the United States that “it is their duty scrupulously to obey the laws of the State in which they reside.” Our Jaws and our neutrality have been but little disturbed by plotters since Berlin was wise enough to pass the word: Drop it. | ———— | NO DECISION? T IS five days since the great naval battle off Jutland and not even neutrals can agree who won. Is it going to be any different when the final item of the returns has been received, checked and admitted by both sides? | Suppose it is established that Germany lost fourteen vessels, in- cluding the powerful Hindenburg, as against the fourteen or fifteen, British cruisers and destroyers sunk. In tonnage and number of men Great Britain’s losses were undoubtedly the greater. But if we con-| sider the relative sizes of the two navies, Germany was much the| harder hit. To have wrought such havoe upon an English fleet at no greater cost cannot fail to seem to Germany a triumph for her hitherto untried sea strength. On the other hand, it does not appear to be denied that the German fleet was the first to get enough and retire. Even the fact that Berlin is wildly rejoicing while London is in A “That fatal present of mine was the rutn of the Confederate navy end army and treasury. And—it led to the capture of our poor President, too!” ; : . The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure ts t “Ithink I'll throw up my job for the summmer. I'll get something in the fall.’ ourselves.DEMOSTHENLS. ; pees! The Office Force | The Jarr Family — By Roy L. McCardell — — By Bide Dudley — la ) POPPPPLPLL LPP PP PPPS PIPPI ISI L ILD DDL PSILPLPPL PLES ELIDA Dollars and Sense By H. J. Barrett f . | Copyright, 1918, by The free ishing Co. (The New York Evening World } Copyrigit, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co. (Tue New York Evening World.) How a 25-Cent Investment Paid This) nied an interview, lu gloom proves little as to what has actually been accomplished. Ger-| M's Tl the blond stenog-| itere he comes now,” said Mopple. | VERBAL passage at arms had) ment, “If @ man does behave bim- Salesman an Annual Dividend | ™4n Knows the damarenniedaenttes eae if é RC ina etal lai ate rapher, stuck her gum under|.TBe boss came in and stopped by aken place in the Jarr bouse-| self and try to do right, bis wife isn't @ succession of thei ces, It many is over-elated at having done so much. The English are dum rsp Mere ate Bee ie ory | Mist Belunn's side, "ve boea think: Held the detella oth weion lantaneds Kida Jeet cn aook cure coe Ne io eee /, eng | URES one for eucee milly aniveriee founded that their mighty sea weapon did not do more. about the Kaiser asking President) jetier offi! ton lad’a ram to spur, | Would be too harrowing to the super-| over the coals for a little thing as al && AS every salesman knows, the/his canvass in the cases where he | chances for securing an !n-|docs break into the private office. terview are greatly less-| Finally, an idea occurred to me, I ened if one carries his sales material |GrobPed Into @ tailors one @ay— showed him my in plain sight," remarked a success-| phernalia, Apatow paras ful magazine subscription solicitor, | practicable to construct « niade “And, in my case, for some subtle Pocket to contain it. The job was but very potent reason, my own self. |CO™Pleted within fifteen minutes, it t until a further trial of conclusions: Wilson tor meditation?” she asked. headlin There it is likely to re: y Materially a minor loss for England, but a serious moral setback, "“! SW it in a newspaper f. How Would you like to have/ sensitive, and the final words of Mr.|big one. Doggone it! How did It uur desi in the next room? Jarr culminated in: "And some day | start anyway?" | Miss Primm thought a moment.| J) go out and I'll never come back.” ; ; this morning.” Wf you don't mind, & snooks,” she} H& could not exactly remember For Germany a very costly matter, but a stimulating moral victory. “He probably wants Mr, Wilson tol guid, “Lil remain here, Tecan, keep| It Was not the last word, however, |now 4 started, but he remembered do some deep thinking on plans for! in clos n with the alvairs of/as Mrs, Jarr was still voicing elhow. it ended. aga he @ondered SPEED LAWS WON'T DO IT. “My! My!” said Miss Primm, pri eplie opple, the shipping | tha business here. wrongs she endured as Mr. Jarr ‘ replied Popp ne shipy Ail rights” teplied the boss, ‘Then | WFORE® she edited oe tv croased [© imacif what would happen if romplet he disappeared in his private office. | > * he did go somewhere for a few! confidence suffers greatly if in Jock- | merely oft hag or ep ocket, consiated yl oO months, onty he could not afford {t, ji : Y of a bag attached to the waist- SED laws cannot remove the menace of reckless automobile vate secretary of the bos “Fouling friends,” murmured E eying for an interview I am laden te . “You know ¥ iyi aneading. aa Mocrataty of dtato. Mug people are actually silly in your ig 4 t driving. Motor speeding, a eretary of State Hugo points Rc cs tinue "he Hamer eaten gee een poor girl cannot leave her lov- | bis mind that she still was harping | bie, upon the theme as he rode downtown | |. ney band of my trousers, where was 4 ew weeks or even a fow days,| with literature which I canno’ | t yh J nlc annot con-| concealed bj and he would lose his job for that. ! cea | y the ekirt of ay coat. out, is after all an offense “commonly looked upon as purely {the tves.aent tor mediation, wot med-! And. frowning £ itation,” aor, P re you can §0, he subway. pred Miss Primm, De ult I get for being too | This pocket has increased my weekly Anyway he did not know where to n my work I have to carry a|commissions an average of $30. It ane oon . Mr, Jarr’s mental eom mining the door, id go, and furthermore he did not care | COPY of th Bazine I . reacts favorably in three ways: nominal and which is committed by most motorists habitually and ee prima is absolt a byt cule |measuring 6 inches |no one suspects my arraads me malts i (ie sh laid Bobble, the office & 1 |inches, a folding device which, whea| confidence ig increased: b, I obtad: probably by all occasionally. twinkle in ‘his eye. Here his reflections were disturbed | spread out, shows the backs of the|two or three tines more intectees Speed limits, in fact, tend to make the driver suspend supply of inediation hus (eee nnnnnnnnnnnmmnnnnnnannnnnnnnan® by Mr. Stryver, his ponderous and ex. | set of beck we give as a premium, | than previously; and, @ My prospeat the exercise of his own judgment and act under the sanction of BNE ANOS ARR MADE RS e . Di tremely wealthy, and also very stingy |4 Pamphict af testimontals, and , dows mot promptly assume a defensive 8 8 a irom Americs ey ply of order blanks. Now, of| ude, a supposed authority. ‘The way to stop accidents is not to “What do you think mediation ¢st” J ust a W ife == Her lary Aonuaintence: r course, no ordinary pocket will ac-| “And it ts certainly amusing to wit. ‘| " - vy ary case, © demanded Spooner, the book ve yer Howdy, Jarr! Where're you go-!commodate this assortment. ‘or|ness the ri establish artificial restrictions which cannot meet every case . r he prospect's amazement eg I+ - Rei? PAMOUBIE FOWL BLA Edited by Janet Trevor. ing?” asked Mr. Stryver. nonths [ was forced to carry most of|calmly produce my voluminous but to allow the driver free scope for bis own judgment and know,” 1 Bobbie, "Well, be alli ® “Just thought I'd run downtown,"!|my literature where It was subject|of Mterature from its place of cons hold him fully responsivle for whatever happens in consequence Lukeiee adeihatie Comrie, 1018, by he Brews Muvucliug Co. (Fue New York kreming Work) replied Mr. Jarr. Leet Bi ne a peurlny OF the men coalment, Generally, tt raises a laugh he does.” | "Oh, tor goodness suet” said Miss CHAPTER XXII [irregularity of tholr hours of work.| «Come seo the new quartera of our! of three, It resulted In my beine decline enw | creat asect in breaking utless prosecution should follow every example of What would {he Kalser want’ arquisy 18,—To-day I recelved an | Oi ave tani 'a certain strange tas. /cltt,” sald Mr. Stryver in a patron ? . ngerous, reck) and even grossly inconsiderate driving Lire ple ay teat explain,” came anonymous letter jeination which they seem to possess sway. Hoknew Jarre could not; SCS nd for really serious offenses that are proved beyond doubt, from the bos, “He wants to plant 7 never even saw one before, This | for tle opposite sex combine to make atford to belong to such a club and the doctor who ¢ meals ooxe and § «lot of morning bu people 0! the culprits should de imprisoved without the op on of @ fine one, about my husband, was brought eminently successful roue the Toin an gat property empusce co tm: = Facts Not Worth Knowing vr the hiss and should be proaibited from driving either for a substantial doormaine | understand. they have to me on the first delivery after h ‘Lam writing you this letter out portance of the rich man to take the ‘ hy," we crop of Chewask eft the house this mornin Tj of no particular friendshi» or admira- | poorer one through those palatial and By Arthur Baer period oy perpetually just raised a f had left the hi Pt 5 y,) Wheat and now thes utend to plant gunpose 1 should not have read it tion for you. 1 h ve never met vou stupidly dull halls. Besides it would Popsright, 1916, by The Pres Publishing Oo. (The New York Evening World.) ; alice ies HAM The Motorist Diiscil, | metation we te iy-NOT!" snapped Hut what woman could toss aside 4) Oy probably would. prefer not. to | cost very Uttle—the price of a bigh- A curved razor is the idea of Daniel Goofus, making it casier for the kn Ie sibility--revocation of licenses, are the two fundas! gtise Pri rbbie deserves a letter which began like thi have your eves opened, You look like ball or two; for Mr. Stryver was one shaver's wife to open a can of tomatoes ee wi ra . re de- that Kind of sweet, trusting little ne thoea’ ty Fae halle is mental princip wu whiel any effective automobile regulation Hii wivy i Rik GE eu Dear Madam: You a lee |t ae epee Ming little fool. 'of those men who never bought wine, i 4 gant eee ahi, Rite ceived, Although you have been) i, Miss Duryea, despite everything | because he said he did not like it, but In order to favititate the transportation of noodle soup a new spoon Det r x Ob, that rewunds me of the goat! married less than two months your| she has done. ‘LT want to. see her be always drank it when somebody | combines the priniple of a pair of scissors and an umbrella, f ‘ gislature of the State of New York cou MeTay family brought trom) pusband is rue H drawn out of the snare whieh |else bought it. ‘ und,” suid the boy, solemnly. |cucntiy hus been seen the come |she ha len before it is forever too} : come to it was a discriminatory and wneonstitutional measure whic Tn what) way, Foolish,” asked | ee Me Oiriog wasintant, Lallian {lite ‘Therefore Lam sending you this | The Invitation did not a -| Being absolutely uncivilized and naked, the Gamboozi tribe of South (eae he tk label BOBUM f thiwhom his aeqiaintanee ;letter in the hope that your threat |Jarr. The thought of spending the, America have never enjoyed blisters from new oxford nies aera ; t n residing in this city but left Seoten, so | DUEved. With whom \ i e that your tht : n P ¥ or green marks en ; Pia ORs WAR Be DELGY Ree itt. Ee by ins restricted to oitice 19 expose your husband willl bring levening with a dullard like Stryver their necks from Won collar Uuttoi r \ er | tie State under no re restraint Mise xe at NMR el Hee tna tnely takes her to lunch, He | him te nia wenses and induce Bim to) crated on bim in his present nervous tha proaans funny,” said the blonde, “Bobble hu n dines with ber and zoos to beri S'sMy_ name Would mean nothing :o/ condition, "I've @ very important It is the custom in the Mexican ariay to start in as Generat ' \ i 1 to got t pW real sense of bumor ; blindly suppose that be ls busy on a YO, Besides, if you W it, you business engagement, but thank you feneral and work W good id es to get in some Where does he keen it?" asked | blindly: sur i might tell your husband and he, in re-| jast the same,” he said, [eae ee Be } Dill) Miss Primm, sourly m sure he case venge on me, mught inform the young : - ~ p Pp , , : doesn't display any of it) around pparently has a fatal a-trace | woman who still means more to mo| “How's tho wifo?” asked Mr. Stry-| A fy vou didn't wat on ihe third day & April wl Stat \ reed by public opinion next time) here oY Dy ER eRe ae _ Me has)! than anything else in the world, She! ver, ‘Mine's sore on me about sume- 4 4 . oY April 18 Now a great-great. ' Mil clit now Wetanla eon acquainted with her or an wn | will thank me some day for having led thing. It's good to belong to a club 97cdbgreal-great-greatyreat-great-great-greut-great-grandfath on arate t ’ 1 ” niable th mi i and Fi probably her of of her fool's paradise, but fo: ) her, eomey no . = re ae & ~~ see bY the papers that the Kans of hey thful servic ee Be eant . ae she A UN in such cases. er been driven from mother, as the case may b - (ity, poline “Dyond that allewed ate | l association with ins [NOW 5 |nome?* ean Th wean ¥ alan Tete ot to Kill Roosevelt by throwing a she is so blindly infatu- | "ft, so melod tie and hackneyed! 4 eng ea| The eighth wonder of the world ts working an ole aati ihite Prom Shaerv Wits at hin fake i Will not, give Rim UP land “aban Mite daly thal te, coh RO" ald Me. Jare, giibly.) | The ¢ i transfer on a new 1 an A ; it had been sleighing thine Ud of Miss Duryea's old friends | ashamed to copy it on’ your pages, “Mrs. Jarr is the best tempered wo- . y i. Ly id Or , ie ¢ ne wlieved it," said Bobbie ve dropped away from her, al-| But has it—or has it not—the ring of; man in the world. 1 can't make her view usuiily “ le ba an wie knowing when to What ¢o vou mean by that?” though it is one ef them who P ton [Cui iF lua! lanier Aiane Pane. HAAS j ee oe S “ld a’ thought somebody you_now, Ned, I'm sure it can't be true, sure| 2% j | t jor," said 3 ’ and desired Vhereat Mr. Jg wy | W yn is | £2 2 merely trying to dy ac What my arguments with her do! of your faith as I am of your love,| Mr. Stryver snorted. me how) ‘Then Mr. Stryver proceeded to give|clared he did not want to pl _ dy Ke an f 1 ike about wone Wow cam the not omplish you tay bring about | gure that you'd never condescend to) You do it?” he asked Phis country Mr, Jarr all the statistics about the; ochle; he did not tect like ee pin? | me being aiie to take ke nat Sok to vote by letting your husband know that | that Mitte, ly, pusey-faced girl L tmet|is going to the dogs because the woe war, war munitions, and the armies) declined to drink, saying ho ate se k NON IMIEEY ey SH ete Peete eae eam 118 sour office en boss too much! Well, they can’ ; Jurope, which made ater Wagon, : ons . ° : Umbia State omy " a and that stand for tt any] But why were you so insistent on celpeedi thie y OHAY Oas't in Sehting Furor Pee iHe ad BP they EW AREN ’ ro yon h 1 longer ly ts fond of you—| retaining her services when [urged | boss ™ arr peevish, ax he had heard all this en he walked out and v 4 <a . Auer i fonds van hy of her—although | you to let me take her place?’ Why! “L to he bossed,” replied Mr. at the office discussed by Jenkins, the, home, f tha d ured | qh ‘ , i r tran ; stop him from making Were you so | gant wien | ‘J garr. “Let n have their own way. | boukkeeper, and the others, ao Mr.| he stepped I eaiigice Bein oH Ww t To- opine peake was out clect yur trist dr huabandsmas (youre ilar ween th Mant It lan’t worth wing about and get-|Jarr got out at the next wtation, de» | "i ali ou srt k TBPABUHETT hire ' , a h? “"lting mad over, When they see you) termined to g k uptown and sce pe earing ‘ 1 mt this, but remem- | j nt ydunch with ing ma hey se u er's the matte; | me ‘, Z . 1 t 1 n this re wo things Vim going to talk it out with you,| won't fuss there's no able with, if he could get in a pinovhle game at tting to be vv - A 1 o back to tipped Misa 1 Men are naturally polyga- | farly and frankly, when yo ¢ome) them," | Gus'a place. | Jarre mild ‘i ‘ ke a look a ine of bis “Bouble’s feeble are puch mous hom 1 can't and won't hide this] *” | nsisted they ft 1 ‘ a el us 9 4 of i) r 4 a s cafe ar ey Bo fees i rhs of the doy ' 1 d ffeel ike a for me. ll ask M ks to bave 1 loularly easy for!ugly accusation in my heart and my! "W T just go out of the house! Arriving at “iu afe, Mr. Jarr off they Went) in bes and-« Nashy Banner pike Ment a! Appeal. my desk moved to the next room { their wives. he diary and I think m@ wite was hailed with great d as thels r You never an tel, ery ‘ } ;.