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The Evening World Daily Magazine, Mondsy: July 31; 1916 ees, By J. H. Cassel Stories of Stories Plots of Immortal Fletion Maserpicces | By Albert Payson Terhune Hodoiphe lived ie ot » Quarter garret end wrote ‘ ht 4 iy iesvane Wa te Wo Pre Foca we te bene Vos a } : f ° A LATIN QUARTER TRAGEDY; by Henri Murgat, +7 j ODOLPHE eas 6 port, Mim ware model, He wae | ee be j he Phe was cighiorn They were very poor, very Bappr, and j 4 Feascvebly much oo with each other ; ‘ —s Ne ene Sew wee 7 dertui plays in veges, Nobody read or bay bie plays, Bat | kuew they were great, For Modoiphe bimeelf had told her se, 7 xara pees come ‘ } All at once the sky of their happiness grew black For Mimi tol a ‘ ‘ work t WHEN THE PUBLIC SUFFERS. ' i —— yy ty yt ” UBC BERVICE ie but half rendered government regula \ ¥ owned and borrowed every penny be could lay hands on to buy wh blic serv porporations ie but b effective if New u and medicine for her. | Ales phon the temanenbnen ‘the rele re the dan 1 | But dally the fragile invalid grew worse And neat? besos & , i wonder if ever he bad ki happiness in so borrl world, GPF of strikes on ite transportation lines t At last, Uhroush Ue influence of & young docior whom be BROW, Es We hove « Vederal Intere Commerce Commission in Wash ; 7 H had the sick girl placed In @ ward of the hospital of La Pitie, The ) , ‘ ork © ed at the henpit he | bagton, @ Public Service Commission in New York City, another up } th quosaavanace free omploved at the heopital, and. be arranges ea State and o variety of similar commissions in nearly every other | ) ; |! Neopia Nodolphe weed to apend much of hie time , hedelde of bie lithe sick ‘eotheart as © Mitte, all designed to protect citizens from the oppression and extor ae wanavovoncany, wetede of We Wile seh owostheart a & ne hoopla thems of franchise holding corporations, a) | Arving to earn of borrow money enough to buy flowers for her. ‘ ° We have been saved from high rates. We have been given bett 4 ween te Le ee arew better, Bodo) os le Soe : © qaality of service. We have had our franchises looked after, and there | he hospital ae ad, the young doctor ead, This morning whea & , as deen « remarkable conversion from the “public be damned” policy «sof former deys. On the whole, improvement is general excepting in| "L have aad news for you, he ts Re Botable instance, im In @ time of crisis, when the public cuffers ite greatest losses, the eystom of government regulation of otilities te weabeot, On the day that the average eltiorn wants and pecde protection ond insurance most be gets the least assistance, j In the thousand and one little complaints, the regulatory system 4 works very well. Tut in the great big event, when lines of transpor- tation are tied up by strikes and the public is compelled to walk miles, lose time, miss business, encounter mobs, run danger of injury and suffer in many other ways, then regulatory commissions merely look on and see their nurtured structure collapse. They can direct companies to operate care, but they cannot order workmen to do the operating. ‘They can protect the public from poor service, but they cannot + protect it from no service at all. They can guarantee investors issues of stocke and bonds, but they _ ¢annot guarantee a car ride for the tired workman going home at * The esteemed Chairman of the New York City Commission, Mr. * Oscar Straus, acting as a private arbitrator and applying his eminent tense of justice, settled a strike in an industrial establishment in © Brooklyn on the very day traffic in the Bronx was paralyzed and dis- va orderly mobs filled the streets. 1) | aene ©. The anomaly is presented of the chief regulator of public corporations being able to act successfully fer the of a private industry and unablo te do anything in his @fficlal capacity for the bencfit of the public under similar etroemstences, Criticism cannot be justly aimed at individual members of the eommission for this condition. They move only within limits pre- by the law that created their system and provided their highly | paid offices. If there are incompetents to be denounced, rather should we look to the makers of the law who purposely omitted pro- \. wd vision for compulsory prevention or adjustment of disputes between © capita) and labor in public service so that the people might not be 4 made the principal victims of strikes. Government draws a marked distinction between public service corporations and private business enterprises in all their operations _ excepting labor. In the conduct of public utilities by private man- 4» agement the State insures service to its citizens exce,iing from acts ' © of Providence, accidents and strikes. It cannot govern the first, it ; fl minimizes the second and it does practically nothing to remedy the » third, which is more subject to control than either of the others. 4 The heavy hand of authority is not to be laid om labor Blome. The same authprity that governs rates, limits cap- ftalisation and supervincs service will have to be extended to relations between employer and employee in public service corporations, if regulation is to be wholly effective and pro- tection of the public made adequate, " 4 When executive management becomes so indifferent as that of * the Third Avqnue systom, whose President, Frederick W. Whitridge, tails away to England in the midst of this trouble, leaving the public to look after itself, there well may bo felt strong resentment. In » these days the president of a public service corporation has a double | responsibility and duty—to the public as well as to his stockholders, When employecs of a public service corporation think only of their own personal grievances and strike without regard for public interests, there is still a lesson to be learned by labor of its moral | *° obligations toward the thousands of citizens whom they serve. ” a v fet ‘ service strikes. Whichever side is to have this powerful support must , quickly settled. +-——___—_——_— ‘The terrific explosion in the carly hours yesterday morn- fmg that spread death and terror in New York harbor, tum- dled Father Knickerbocker out of bed and set him back a heavy sum in broken window glass may have been unavoid- able. Byt why should neighbors in New Jersey or elsewhere be permitted to pile up explosives in such formidable quantities et any one spot? eet Questions and Answers. A. P. R.—Your inheritance in Ge: ag ears affecting property, such as taxation, | York. @macted in Germany, but there is no Aiscrimination because you are an|tano's or Putnam's book atore. American. M. DE VRIES—Yes, feo $4 M. C.—Yes, you may enter evening igh school chemistry classes. oy JAMES E. KELLY—wWrite the (| Getentifc American, No, 288 Broad- 2) wey, N, Y., or to Superintendent of| readers of The Power, New York Central! month's vacatl a MICALL-A Digycle driven by ers, jon, Aug. 16, co. } More and more the great public is growing restless under the ci inconveniences, the losses and the hardships inflicted upon it by 7 unrestricted and unsettled strikes. Public opinion is a strong factor « in private industrial disputes, It is the deciding factor in public * * show, and show quickly, justice and right in its contention, for this » town will not long stand outrage on its conveniences and limitation of its already insufficient transportation facilities, This strike must be motor must have a license. Apply No. / many ts subject to any domestic laws | 227 West Seventy-fourth Street, New PAUL WEBER-Inquire at Bren- Bee World Almana®, puge 156, for full in- formation regarding naturalisation C., A, LowManrice Ketten, whose cartoons please you and so many other ovening World, ts on His pictures will reappear in The Evening World about “If | was boss i'd take It asy and make the other fellows do the work anew NF Lid -<> ay ‘ e Dollars and Sense. By H. J. Barrett. Three Factors Explain This Man's Success. HAT is the secret of my success?” said the proprie- tor of @ chain of retail stores, in answer to the interviewer's inquiry, “I suppose you expect no to answer with a lot of platitudes about hard work, thrift, &c. You'd like w line of talk that would be ealled inspirational, wouldn't you? “Well, I'm going to disappoint you. The secret of my success lies in just three phrases—speedy @urnover, vast volume and system, The first arises from frequent buying in small quan- Uties; the second from intelligent ae- lection of locations, coupled with cut prices, and the third ts merely com. mon horse sense, “My policy works in a circle, I se- ject @ good location and cut prices; this automatically creates a big vol- ume, which reduces my proportion of overhead, 1 find my percentage of net profit permits of still lower prices, which still further increases my vol- ume, and so it goes, My speedy ex- pansion was due to my quick turn. ever, This meant that | had my money back from my purchases in a few days and could pay all my bills well within a thirty-day period, In other words, I was, in effect, financed by the men for whose goods I secured an outlet, “Enter any one of my stores any afternoon, You'll find customers lined up to await thoir turn, Often forty or fifty are there at a ti Consider the, volume of busin transacted by each clerk. And thin! of the small percentage of labor cost that sults from this conditioa, Kent, too, ts very slight in propor- Uon to my fotal volume, | mako no deliveries ahd give no credit. Is it eurprising that I can sell cheaply? “It ts true that a great ceal of timo {a lot by the customers, because dur- ing the busy period of the day they have to wait for attention, But this is @ factor which doesn’t concern me. If to effect a saving of from 4 to 20 per cent, they're willing to wait that's their lookout “Any man can score a success by pursuing the methods I followed. 1 Aldn't originate them=~L merely copie? the tried and tested policies of th: chain store pioneers. nd I don't know of a safer, more stable business, Whether times be good or bad, people must eat. And if one of my stores proves unprofitable xt because of the earn- ers."* REASONS. ‘The stinglest man in the world sued for divorce because his wife was wasteful and extravagant. “WHI you give the Court some ape- cific instances?” asked th a Just a Wife—(Her Diary) Edited By Janet Trevor | » € Copyright, 1910, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) CHAPTER XLVI. [pepes pA insure my sm. Ractyed EPT. 23 (Con.)—"Isn't he won-| Knew that to express such a je! would be to antagonize Mrs, Soames. S derful?” demanded Mrs, Soames. | F'reatised that {must make no fals6 She had reely spoken during | move if I were to succeed eventually our drive to the Radcliffe, where, she ; in opening her ¢; went “It seems to m informed me, we were to have tea. I! wile the Rahdin's theories are beau- was glad of the silence for the ten tiftully expressed they are not ex- minutes that it took us to reach the rey d erection. I ol ere, et hotel, becauso I wanted to consider! an Indian temple a statue of Buddha is moat effective, but to me it always the problem with which I was COM-|iooks out of place in a modern dining fronted. room. Just think, Mrs. Soames—if It has its ridiculous side, this rapt | everybody believed in the sort of love admiration felt by women of educa- $e Thaenta Tacorncmna es there would tlon and SommeR penne tor ® cae) sf Mituirar eonidnt bas day. febnte another raco and his philosophical} jiny.and-white, squirming, laughing moonshine. Yet I had no desire to/ bits of humanity. There wouldn't be laugh. For I thougnt of the bus-| any I tle girls with half-socks and ., @ay halr ri ns. ere wol in" bands of tho woll dreased matrons| gay Bete Hibbons. Tiled ‘boven with whom I had seen in the Rahdin's! their unending questions and’ thelr drawing room, for the most part|charming juvenilo chivalry. ‘The love cleam, honorable, hard working|of angels probably is a beautiful Americans, who wanted almple, {thing, but sometimes I think even human affection, who wanted real|angels must lous of human homes and families, nts who love each other and who The Rahdin was thé snake destroy- ing their Edens. Under the veil of intense spir jam, of paeudo-mys- jove their children. It seemed to me that the controlled ticism, he was advocating cold hearth fires and childless homes. He flat- calm of Mrs. Soam was slightly disturbed. Her eyes looked tered the vanity of the women who came to him by tacitly assuming that softer and _brighte: Her mouth they were purer and nobler beings N Oe eeeeenannaammanaaananaanaaanmmaaanamnannaannaannaaaamanmaaanadl i Suggestions for the Picnic venient article for plenics | camping parties, It ts sold in| sealed tin cans at 10 cents a can For heating coffee, &c, there ts @ tin can with a duplex handle, ‘These are sold in cartons with a can of the alcohol at 45 cents. The dishes of papyrus are best for picnics or camp use, They materially lessen the weight of the picnic bas- kets and obviate the necessity of ty Bing home a heavy basket of dishes after a day of fatiguing sport and exere These come in packages of The baking and vegetable HE solidified alcohol is a con- dishes are from 10 to 25@ent age, These will do nicely f and the pork and beans or macaroni may be baked in them, The para. fin paper you use for the sandwiches can be used to line the quivered @ bit as she started to an- swer me. Then, suddenly, the cold ness returned. I followed her glance than their husbands, and he undoudt- | to the dancing floor, beside which our edly stirred up domestic discord in| table was set. Passing us at the scores of homes. Meanwhile he was} moment, was a woman who, I knew making a good living, for my eyes | instinctively, belonged to the half- had not missed thé gold plece which | world, and a tall, fine-looking man— my companion had deposited on an|who wore a wedding ring. unobtrusive plate in the entrance! “Spiritual love need not compete t the Rahdin's hous with that,” my h ked sig- jan't he wonderful?” she repeated, | nificantly, her eyes on the pair. And we waited for our tea, “He must| remembering the betrayal of her have found you very psychic or he|}early married life, I could under- would never have touched you." stand, and I could say nothing more My private opinion was that he|just then. Yet I know sho's wrong. recognized in me a new visitor, and! Why is it so hard for a woman to that by unusual graciousness he forget? epoennne de Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied 16 advance in life as we walk, step by step—SMILES, { Of course a supply of sanitary cups are now a part of the picnic supplies. Paper table covers and napkins are in general use, but it is well to in- clude a few crepo paper towels, Six towels with soap can be had at 10 cents, For camping it is well to buy a supply. If desired, they can be had punched for towel holders. One hun- dred are 50 cents and 1,000 ¢an be had at $4.25. ‘The towels are 13x18 inches and holders for same aro 50 cents, ‘The thermos box makes It possible to include ice cream in the picnic menu, and for 5 cents you can get sufficient paper plates for serving a good sized picnic party. Use the tin spoons, at 3 cents a dozen. These look wajl when new and need not be d home, shops are offering special pack- made up of sets of five pieces of necessary articles for the picnic lunch Some of these are only 6 cents i What the War Has Cost T has been two years since the be- ginning of the European war. Just how much the war has cost in these two years of conflict it is impossible to state with any great de- gree of accuracy, but those best able to make an estimate believe that the total is in excess of $45,000,000,000. According to these figures, the mill- tary expenditures of the first year of the struggle were over §$17,000,000,000, while the second year of the war has cost at least $28,000,000,000, These estimates stand merely for the military expenditures incurred in carrying on hostilities, and do not take into account thp tremendous loases involved in the destruction of shipping, railways, factories, ware- houses and buildings of all sorts, bridges, roads, and the partial or complete wreckage of cities, towns and villages by the oundreds, For months past Great Britain has been spending an average of at least twenty-five millions a day, it is believed, whereas at the end’ of the first year the daily average wun placed at fourteen millions, France is not fer behind with a daily ex- enditure of at least eighteen mill- lions of dollars, more than twice as much as was spent in the first yeur of the war, Russia's daily expendi- ture for strictly war purposes is be- lieved to average about sixteen millions a day, possibly much more. About sixty millions a day, it is be- lieved, is spent by the allies, The cost of hostilities to the Cen- tral Powers and their allies, Bul- xuria and Turkey, Is thought’ to be about thirty million dollars a day, or about half the amount expended by the allies. Of this sum about eighteen millions 18 probably pro- vided by Germany, The German ex- penditures, however, have been very large fvom the first, while those of the allies, especially Great Britain, have gradually increased, Figured according to population, the cost of the war falls heaviest on France, in which country, it is esti- mated, the cost averages about 30 cents ‘a day for each man, woman and child, ‘The pro-rata’ cost to Great Britain Is figured at about 28 cents daily, but Britain has back of her the vast resources of the em- pire, The cost to the Germans is figured at about 23 cents for each inha}itant, Russia's pro rata share is much smaller than that of any jother country, being only about six cents, Compared with the cost of pre- vious wars, the present conflict makes its predecessors seem. like child's play. Germany and France expended only about two billions on hostilities in the Franco-Prussian war, The Russo-Japanese war cost both sides in the neighborhood of $2,150,000,000, According to Kdmond 1 *y, the noted French economist, tk total cost of European wars fr a the beginning of the Napole ouic era up to the commencement of the present war was less than thirteen billion dollars—not of the amount spent in the last two years, é ' through the ward I found her bed varant | Kodolphe could not weep. A merciful numbness ripped him, and almost delirious at the news he was eo helpless that his friends bim away with t | A week later he started hack The Inte claim “My dear Rodolphe, ed you!" “What do you mean? asked Rodolphe perplexed. “I wan mistaken,” explained the doctor. “When I wrote you that note T had just found Mimi's bed empty, T asked a nurse what had jOf the patient, Bhe told me she had died during the night, But what really happen Mimt had been moved to a convalescent ward, | it was the next patient in her former bed who Oe { Strange { wan ward his own # came running up t ugh for them to trust him alene, On the way he met the young him and caught him by both hands, forgive me the @rief my blunder must © ould not find you anywhere,” gasped Rodolphe insanely “What must she think of my: deserting her for @ Take me to see her! At once!" At the horpital the doctor left Rodolphe in a reception room and to prepare Mimi for his arrival, Presently ho returned to the mi patient youth and said pityingly: “She died at 4 o'clock this morning.” ‘ake me to her," watled Rodolphe, not understanding, he Is no longer hero,” anid the doctor, “No one claimed her, Was sent to the pauper burying ground.” Tidings. i eeeeeaaaalll Bo-she —_—_- 4-2. Prosperity 18 4 great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possesstos pom pera the mind; privation trains and strengthens tt—HAZLITT, , parihacntintiinichiditanci eit aiatibainhtehiet le PTL E TIL 7 NOT The Jarr Family | By Roy L. McCardell { endeavored to harrow up Mr, Jui 3 by giving him the impression he wi in the black books of the bo: Mr, Jarr, however, leisurely hung up his straw hat, opened his desk and glanced at the mall, Then, yawning with great indifference, he strolled over to the private office of the head of the frm and disappeared within that commercial sanctum, “Think he's going to get the sack?” anked Jenkins, “Well, I suppose we'll be given his work to do, Not that it amounts to much; but you'll see the ie; Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) 66TTTHE boss has been asking for boss will not give us anything extra, ae you for half an hour,” sald] and yet he'll be saving a salary.” ee Johnson, the cashier, when] “Well, if the boss consults me abows, Mr. Jarr came into the office the|tt, I'll suggest that we get a bright other morning. “It takes them a long|boy In Jarr's place. A bright + time to get on, but finally they fall | could do everything Ed Jarr does, hs to your game, do it better, “Yop,” chimed in Jenkins, the book-|_ “But why do you say @ Be keeper, “there's a whole lot of people |>°Y?” growled Jenkins, if getting away with it on account of|* Meanwhile Mr, Jarr was tn social pull,/but {t doesn't last for-|sultation with the boss, “I want 4 ever. Merit does finally win out. Pull|to do something for mo, Mr, ap can get a gink a job, but it can’t hold | began the boss, “It ts, in a 4 him in it if he doesn't make good.” |@ confidential matter, and is ey “{ should worry,” sald Mr. Jarr,| Which I may be financially in f airily. “I know another firm or two|'® @ considerable extent.” Ss) are anxious to secure the ser-| And he fumbled at a drawer ae vices of Yours Truly to head their|¢sk. Mr. Jarr had visions of id ales department, and as I occasion- mate oe Banana brine: or te i ally scan the ‘Situations Wanted’ |") c7 aomiitne. im pe: pense advertisements I see hundreds of |his conterring with em ae bookkeepers and casblers advertising: | noteq captains of industry, ‘ ,* ‘ ‘Willing to start at a low salary.’ | with them at their clubs and: “Well, the way to spoil some pets|ryundiy advising them as to the Ime ts to overteed ‘em,” remarked John-| vestment of millions filled Me mated son, “and the way to give the guys! And then Mr, Jabez Smith, his Sees the big head is to pay them more! produced a small, strong than they're worth.” box, “What's the matter; do you guys| tere are some—ahem!—caators: think your salaries are too large?" | furniture,” said the boss, “I am asked Mr. Jarr, sarcastically. they are the only ones that will j As a matter of fact, the boss's in-|freproot concrete floors hout quiry as to Mr, Jarr, and the request | wearing flat. And as the item o@ that Mr. Jarr bo told the head of the | castors 1s considerable tn the offen E firm desired to see him as soon as he| want you to put these on your eal | arrived, had been couched in the|chair, And if they wear well, I wistt | most pleasant and even eager terms.| you to report to me in about 61 It may have been that for this very|months, It is a confidential ‘i reason his loving office mates had} because if it were known that cous: crete floors were hard upon offige a niture castors every man Jack in office would try to wear them out the sooner.” : Mr, Jarr took the new castors S returned to his desk and replaced the worn ones on bis chair with the new ones, ; “What do you make of it?’ bered the mystified Jenkins, . It's all up with your friend." se. | plied the cashier, in cautious tonam | “The boss is putting the rollers under him.” ¢ Facts Not Worth Knowing ~ By Arthur Baer Copyright, 1916, by The I'rew Vublishing (o, (‘The New York Evening World.) VTIQUE furniture should be bought brand new, Never buy A antique furniture second handed, " If doubtful whether a gold coin is spurious or not, toss tt into @ If the gold coin is genuine it will sink much more rapidly than the imétel Learning to operate a lorgnette is a simple matter, as the only power required is one eye, Difference between harmless and poison ivy can be easily detected: the taste. Poison ivy tastes like the bottom of a rowboat looks, it If it wasn't for fishermen fish would lve forever, as it 19 tmposell drown them, Never pat a fly on the back, as he doesn't appreciate ‘caresses ond. ries germs besides, 7 Trees are thicker at the bottom than at the top, This te probably to their habit of growing from the ground up, although there te the Congressional Record to verify thie rumor, “ Ny fpeerenoverey nt ] i a RISEN