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The Ev -_ —_———— RETAPLICNED BY JOFRPN PUL TEEN Pvvisned Desty Facent Oupaey vy oe ee Fytyieriog Compeny, noo 66 v6 CME One Te Monin The nation's wheat crop may not promise as wel! ae in other years, but there is every reason to believe there will be not only « supply of wheat amply sufficient to meet American needs but # mar gin of at least 150,000,000 bushels left to export to Europe ' i Jumping prices are largely due to speculation, which takes ad vantage of every rumor, and i* utterly indifferent to the ultimate | supply or distribution of the product with which “it momentarily The “quoted price of wheat,” however, is held over the consumer ae « compelling reason why he must pay more to the retail de for the bread he bays for his table. With Europe’s demands constantly setting new and increas lagty extravagant price standards, the utmost vigilance ts needed to protect American householders from rapacious and anpatrictic conspiracies among the handlers of this country’s food products. Feed and clothe America first. That is a policy upon which | every anthority, National and State, should agree to concentrate. | ———_—-¢ = King Victor Emmanuel led the entry of the victorious Ital- fan troops into Gorizia. Which must remind the Kaiser how bis schedule of triumphal entries has been deranged. VOLUME 5° NO ; AMERICA FIRST. VARING whet prices, a further adver ff S ip the cost flour and the possilility of ten-cent be the i? Nation ation of Bakers in session at Salt Lake City / has already de d for # ten-cont loaf naturally perturb Amenoan a consumers, who are more and more appalled a ‘ { i common articles of food an! clothing Eighteen months ago it became necessary by take vigoros 4 Weasures against the wholeswie Lakers who thought they could make the war in Europe an excuse for putting up the price of bread 4 New York = ; + THE PUSHCART MEN ENLISTED. F HE prompt and practical way in which the pushcart peddlers | 's of the city have joined in The Evening World’s Help-Your- wey Noighbor-Clean-Up campaign deserves a special word of praise. > Most of this class of street merchants have little time or money ae to spend on sanitary niceties. Nor can they usually fight anything ie but losing battles against the larger dealers whose interest it is to sell them damaged fruit and vegetables. Yet, acting through their delegates, 7,000 pushcart peddlers of a Greater New York have voted to take special measures to keep their carta and the nearby pavements clean, to appoint monitors for each 3 block and to do their best to stop the practice of buying decayed oe rae Pe —_—eeearaeseeeeeeeeee nnn, PRR RRAALDLL LPL L ry from wholesalers. As the President of the Brooklyn Ped- Pf ‘ ; : : dlers’ Association points out: J ust a Wife {Her Diary) Old Bet rot h al a) “The wiolesaler is at fault. He violates the law three | a nd Sense Edited by Janet Trevor ! times, First, he buys the rotten foodstuff, which is against the . Customs } law. Second, he keeps it, which ie against the law. Third, he | SHEA, Levey Yay ever Eemment Op, (EDs, Fes Kate Breaine We.) ‘ } . fe 5 CHAPTER LI. charged right along. W sells it, which is against the law. By H. J Barrett. OW died’ hee been cauacatty change your tresemment ee Conmright, 1016, ty The Pree Pubiahing Co, Something should be done to discourage fruit dealers who make|7he Final Word in Chain Store busy, #0 that although the] neigniorieod protes cask vate one nt I FIR RIA OE: ae carsenpny Of: bee . yee! sto oll a business of dumping their unsaleable stock on the pushcart men. Organization. ae howeentta ile arrived the obs I replied. pei . trothal defined as “the giving 4 Ww. a of the moni not look at them| “There must lenty wi one’s troth ‘The latter are prepared to do their part in helping to free the city el yon Pegg oie balay ld RA Oe res . stand for bil Delhe run Up tn our | faith to marry” te Aen lavas a name,” a | trom disease by scouring out ite crannies and corners and selling ney and his chain of 125 dry|_! Dave known, all along, that they |{rritation “I'm mot exactly a rite | BY many historians it is held that the ; only clean food to the public. They are themselves entitled to pro-|#oode and clothing stores,” satd a| Were too large But what can I do?) you know. When I send these fel- | Custom began with the ancient Romans | ce Ag Duriness man, “and, remarkable aa| Ned has always been accustomed to| lows checks I shall tell them that we | @bout three hundred years before has been the achievement, even more| #004 living, He 1s especially fond) trunt “around and “ua Botte em, | CBrist when the exchange of rin { ate noteworthy in my mind is ita ultimate|°! Meat, and he prefers the most ex-/ aren't shark: vm between a man and @ woman was held - significance. | pensive cute, He simply will not eat "And are you sure that to be a pledge of faith preparator: } Mr. Hughes alithers weetward like @ harmless chunk of pais “agreed Sgh lg Ratoni Pim |atews, or hash, or left-overs in any | the Deneftt of al” thin mutt? “per: | the formal marriage in the temple “ / feo, Why don’t they tart T. R.? pels port of Bis form. Tae pareha is having a little side- | the reigning gods. © of her own. I've heard ¥ B: ————-¢ 2 “Fourteen yours ago, when Penney |, THOR. too, since I have no cash al-|vants who end butter and Tent and| _ TRe first form of betrothal as a gen- . THE RIVERSID! was but ‘twenty-six years old, he be- lowance I cannot buy to advantage. other supplies out of the house in| ¢ra! custom is found in the form of an el E PARK PROJECT. [exe's paviner in «ara cntning| #90 ‘ade with an expensive re:/ SE, SHO re, Merking wt “chet | Irregular marriage finaly abotahed by : a‘ ‘ atore tall grocer, meat man, fruiterer. And the Counoll of Trent as inimical to 3 HE Woman's League for the Protection of Riverside Park pe fee ee ae when a bill 1s not submitted till the ht" L implored, for Bertha | Morality. z ‘ makes public the report of « consulting engineer, 8. J. Harwi,| syndicate ‘comprising four or tive| track: exnedly or how much we are it she were anywhere near the dining Hp “a ga Oe aaah aoe who has been studying the projected “improvements” with a *t°re* operating in small Wostern | #pending. room door, and I know that ane is Pay ysis spill A gia eg ald | + epecial view to possible further engroachments of the New York|‘OW™ BY the time he was thirty. ened never made s fuss before. But | scrupulously honest. foo pelt ase sea 4 oy ‘ m appre-| “Oh, very well, but upon con- : Central on park land. sapling M4 pole Owoee. GF, the benstvely, ay, packer, batweatt hia too Gerned esay.” Ned fumed "Ana summation the firesreabraes valid , . ; : ; eyebrows deepened as he opened one|we men have to pay the b y } Mr. Harwi arrives at the conclusion that carried out in their “Penney was interested in the pos- long sprelone ee. Cy but what I'm perfectly mtn to re Ee up to within t ; ‘ . wn bint! phaln-store e: © slapp © last one down on . of course; A hin recen' ; present form the plans would “leave the city with a disfigured park |i, ea 9. mals store expansion, feno brealkiaat table and Tooked acroas | MMH try to keep Come reat ake | Yeara the mere verbal declaration by ; resembling a fortification and with a water front bounded by an em-lof the chain-store eee ieee Richio, wetre. pending too. much |kiuwetim eet ace ren ten wale couple tn the presence of witnesses . stor y f n, . 7 much | kno ot so rich that 7 bankment, making it practically inaccemible.” If the beauty and| These Maws are two, Firat, tho ehain| Money.” he announced. T don't Ite | BROS to PAY PArONRD the nnee tor ay | wite or Aen re eA Mir ‘ i y . : ; are really| food. You have sald . og . + value of the park are to be preserved the tracks must be lowered plank serve us training schools for| preposterous for a month's food ter | wanting to help. mer Molligy Gout | Your loving husband” was held to : " lovee ho later ve vo py ¥ " ib sed Cure MiP ® instead of merely covered up. And, in short, Mr. Harwi thinks COMpelINg Blored, nd, mecond’ as the] lunch wud T dont Ga much tress, | Meena sent ZOU ty to Keep the bills | constitute a marriage—a condition of : “The whole matter should be referred to a board of engi- employees work on « salary, they lack | fast. "I can't, see what wo do with | Ned was actually scolding met 1|l2W cectively treated by Wilkie Col- . the incentive derived from actual|all this stuft, was overwhelmed with misery. lins In his novel and play “Man and : rests partnership in the enterprise, I felt’ myself coloring painfully. ope a “4 ¥ Wite,.” ‘ bey fy agers bapeeatl polition) SF reed ine r ag etry rn my the Penn iT f ia ae iuty sorry you ind the bill b ; - x aes i HL once, Lote or @ careful si @ complete report before tt is finally pai owe the Penney plan o ; d the bills | Then T put my head down on tho| In the time of the Planta oo wantzath which results hat} too heavy, dear, T said, tryin 10 | tableo! nm wKenets and disposed of.” in In effect, a combination of Indes [control that limp in my throat, Ht |help ie and sobbed. I couldn't | up to the early elghteenth century the P Add also a board of park experts and landscape specialists who [Damient euler. || But with ‘thin in] you would Rive mo a fixed allowance | “Oh, “Lord, can't T ask you to do betrothals of children between the , pombined every advantage of actual] T would promise to keep within it.” | anything without raisin ot ages of seven and twelve wo . x: have nothing to “put over” save a plan that shall be a lasting and |Chaln-store management,“ Concen-| "Nothing doing on the allowance,” | this?” my husband eeolsimaed Mee mon, the Church, Deeatact tes sa satistying improvement of one of the finest city water-front sites in brated Suylon power a 1 the high ae od fala brusquely ‘ “You spend | rushed out of the room and I haven't | that a betrothal did not constitute : t . © 8 y cleney possible m the} enough as 5 pet you're ov seen him since. 4 Pe: i A s. . lication of proved pee to marriage but merely a sole! mT this country or the world, and most thoughtful New Yorkers will|onoh unit of the wrewnieatienn those pig ang’ Wo marry, and that all'aueh betrothale a ee agree, are two competition-crushing advan Taiping ta tke loving on the harps there 12.49 Much te laying the! MUSE Se tuniy. j or : tages which Po noy's plan includes. | hands on the strings to stop their vibrations as in , in Mogland and France up to the AY The Riverside Park problem is in reality a problem of remould- fetetians (ones eee She added aid of] out their music.HOLMES wy eanatng: hem, te brine solstan and warn stcrinet ate thal wee 4 ‘ . . A Individual incentive, . ated sat rol was ‘ : ing and permanently beautifying a conspicuous and hitherto raw edge! "Kac’ g0 yy est — enerally practised among the labor- be ie ‘Fach manager of a Penney store | —————— — -_——-—_—. = Ke claeren 6 the labor : ‘ ee " 5 f the towns and agricul. tr of a great city. So far the whole project has been mainly handled | OWN* PO! only a third interest in his} « tural districts, the btn z , \ own store, but is also a partner in} ° ¢ hip preliminary union . : ; . i > |being marked among t as if it were merely a matter of roofing a railroad many other starve As ho maven the { Pronouncing War Names } | bourgecise Saas by ths exch, OF ’ Questions and Answers. i starting under the foanecerns mt of RARE L gad , Menderes, ia praaveing the French version of a U. jaan and girl each taking a part, the “ a a " omoted om a the French viewpoint, » he] Aisne ts pronounced “ayne," Loire ia |!aW in brayce, however, requirt - ROBALINE K—To change your) MR. SMITH—Whether a natural. | clerkship and, consequently, throughs pronunctationa given by ‘Tommy | “loo-are,"” Meaux i@ “moo,” Meuse ta | Priests sicstthistlg Pe name in legal manner apply to Bu-|ised American citizen can be made Out {he nlite chain there is a clove | ariing to che names of French p “morse,” bus with the “r atlont; |i weeme Cok Pear the seremony preme Court, County Court House. [to serve in the army of his native|°°'Ny man is hired aa a clerk unless| localities and geographical features, | Oise is “was,” Seine is “sen,” and|Gouple to pledge each other In wine, ANXIOUSLY WAITING —- Fort | Country depends on treaties betwoon| he is of partnership timber, Ky pmy's rather lame attempts to; Oureq is “ourk.” Peronne ts “pear.| from which begins the custom, now Pong Bay {e near Montauk Potnt,/netions, The United States has | employ’ RR rl with the idea parler” the Francaise are @ constant | Fone" Valenciennes i# “Val-on-see-en,"" aah id universal, of drinking In | yco! yer ¢ ow i hiaucour “toe-0- ” ion of an: ¢ eastern end of Long Island. tration wits mee pountrien Protects | Phy Pennoy chai already numbery |AOUFS of Amusement to the natives, | fy 'Manancteayeas” Mawteiae ey jeontract or parent ve eee oe W. J. MARTIN—For camp sites at |'"S naturalized citisens, Italy| 126, Conceive the puying power of| although Monsieur Atkins {# now/ burs," with the “r’ silent; Me.| Under the civil law of tho etyht- Interstate Park, apply to Interstate etill claims authority over its Sona, }such an organization? Naturally it] showing great improvement, and be- is “may-se-air,” Mons te ent century aifts given aj abe. Park Commiadon, No. 61 Broadway, |¢ve? though naturalized in United (eee te oe a eee eatey 8] foro ho returna to bly tight little alo With a nasal sound; Toul | Hage did not take piece ue cry ae New York. States. stock tWico Ayer, His atotes refuse | Ne 1 likely to be an accomplished Rheims is yey ‘and bern Bib onally, Sab man had hada : overstock and turn the : french conve! rh wayes.” i \ he should recover J. R—For duplicate of citisenship| MRS. W. ELPHICK—For informa. |? overstock and turn their stocks on] French conversationalist--a regular | “nawng tehyee.""” Argonne ia "are | Ou aie te Toney jsenal 4 i an average of six times a year.|parieur, in fact. Tommy has now} gon,” Camplegns is" = only halt of that which he originally papers apply to court that tesued | tion regarding the Community Chorus |‘They “make no deliveries; weit only! ieurned. that. Somme. tt pronounced | 44 40 On.” Thesy aro ‘but Rie tt | OPES: two cantuciac did ences them, with proper identification. tear one Music Settlement School, for cuab They do an immenso busi- | vumt--although even that i# not ao | te stumbling blocks whieh have! and elvit mute ities (te acne READER, BROOKLYN—An aero. |Fberd 1103. ofter Unswunl Valies. No ‘ealos' are | caay aa tt acoms, for tho French U|of tho Francaise ‘an sho ie ‘epokes {auenion of Jurimdlction over betrath. plane cannot remain stationary in! READER, NO. 2650 BROADWAY | ever held. Thoir cost of doing busi-| gound bas no Hnglish equivalent, | and In hurdiing thom he has given M@Bchaos, until in England im i168” the | but an airship of Zeppelin The firet man flight in a flying ma- to chine wae by the Wright brothers, Deo, 17, 1908, at Kitty Hawk, N. C, { currents, Gatheri 4~ ening World Dail ng! + Magssine. Prides ness is between 11 per cent, and 12 Per cent, as against their competi- tora’ Coat of probably 20 per cent. to % per cent.” The French U sound is pronounced by pursing the lips as if to say O but “ in arms, Many of the latter, ever, are striving to learn En, 0 eay B instead, the combination eo that the enjoyment is mutual, little pleasure to his French comrat whole question was settled by an act which decreed that an aggrieved party uld obtain redress by a suit for ch of promise of marriage A A good pancake should be flat and should be able to pase under the Plote of Immortal \merrg~ 8 te he Pp Y couree bie ree! same ae not “Micheré Doubiedie®.” Mo man over hed so ebeurd © same as thet on oe an ee bineel! chen he ame eweggeriog into Chatham ene day ta to eniiet tu the British army. wiihet. we shall know bie. ‘ Richard joined the army with the med hope that he might be billed. Finding bit regiment was wot yet to be ordered to the fromt, te the Mage leonte ware, he tried to driuk Bimeelf to death Anything seemed totter to bim th life Stories of Stories Fiction M He bed querretied with the girl he loved and he hed proven unworthy of her, Now the young tool longed to lose his torturing heart- ache by loving bie life nt It wae after dran of bie 1 that Capt in every way to reform him Touched by his Captain's interest in his lonely self jdo better, Me turned from drink | im his own A Biren Friendehip es rank and soon was a comminsioned offi Mt tes ton w dear fi devotion to his resewer th « skirmiah during the Richard officer command his men to fire ed. Richard dashed forward to slay th, tn the if re to track him some da: When the war ended and Burope himaelf a military hero. to an honorable career, been reaponmible for the Captain's de: “When Doubledick and that offi man, “there will be weeping in Franc Then, yearn afterward, the two mot af a French chateau, duced was the offic era of fierce duels, lenge his olden for. In A Vow of Vengeance ? looked out. The last time of peace and prosperity soul, Half aloud he murmured to hi | “Spirit of my departed friend, | Forgiver of injuries. Presently his regiment wae ordered to war waged hottest. There by sheer valor Richard rose te Ww By thle time he and Capt. Taws- tude ame jon and Richard were Richard heard a Freagh At the volley Taunton fell mortally wound of Badajos, Ta side by side tn @ charge upon a French position ny of the charge he lot sight of the When Richard Doubledick touched the French of! own that day at dawn he secretly forgave him in the name of the Divine Richard Doubledick hed become the disgrace Taunton, bi him = =Taunton had been watching Hieh company commander, better natu: ie an almost rever the officer who wax responsibl kill him again at ya w ath er come tace “*r to face er he had #o long sought. It And to such a duel he resolved is perturbation Richard walked to a window and ho had beheld this Iandscape it had been hideously war scarred, Now its wheat fields and vineyards shone with the loveliness A strange gentleness stole into Richard's angry maelt is it through you these thoughts are rising lin my mind? Ia tt from you the whisper comes that this man did his duty, even as you did—and as I did under your guidance?” rs glass The Jar ~ By Roy L. McCardell o Coveright, 1016, hy The Frees Publishing Co, (The New York Vrening World ABEL MARSTON {# coming| Mrs, Jarr, aarcastically.. “But 1 “M to spend a few days with said Mrs. Jarr, when her husband came home. “I want you to be nice to her.” “If she's a looker and I'm nice to her you'll kick,” replied Mr. Jarr. He knew what he was talking about, too | “Oh, poor Mabel's looks will never jet her into any trouble,” sald Mrs. |Jarr, carelessly. “But I do want her to have a nice time while she is with us, She was like an older sister to me when I was a little schoolgirl, and the poor thing does SO like to visit, and I'm only too glad to have her with us a few days.” “Won't the late hours, the gay life, the merry, maddening, rushing swirl of life we are leading be too much for her?” asked Mr. Jarr. ‘Well, we'll give your friend a good time while \@ho is with us. Will sho want us to take her to the midnight cabarets?” no,” replied Mra. Jarr. fa a quiet, old-fashioned thing. She'd be satisfied to go to the moving pictures of an afternoon, but she'd be probably too tired to go to any midnight cabarets.” “Too tired? What's to tire her?” ked Mr. Jarr. ‘ou don't suppose I can afford to entertain an old maid by letting her sit around all day with her arms folded?" said Mrs, Jarr. “You don't suppose T have any money to spare to take her to midnight roof gardens, where It costs ten dollars to sit at a lable to see the show and eat one supper? Well, I guess not!” “Oh, very well; anything you say,” said Mr. Jarr. “I should say, ‘Oh, very well!’ re- peated Mra. Jarr. “What do you think I invited Mabel Marston here for? I want to xct out a little myself Gertrude wants to be out every night either with her beau Claude, the fire- man, or with that ompty-headed Filmer, who works at that Gus’ on the oorner; I haven't a soul to look after the children, It's high |tume I had some pleasure and ex- citement myself!" “Now, don't get peevish, little one!” said Mr, Jarr, soothingly, “You can have anything you want. And if you don't see what you want ask for tt.” | “How kind you are!" exclaimed Copyright, 1916, by The Prose Publtahi LTHOUGH it takes a postal car it shouldn't take two postal Brooklyn Bridge with ease, Corn on the cod shouldn't be properly. Ddeing worn much on the Bowery, place! r Family you say it quick enough there'll be nothing like that strangers. 1 am tired of doin for strangers for me, [ can tell you!” “How shall T be kind to who will visit us, then?” Jarr. “You can admire what nice she makes,” replied Mrs. Jarr, she's splendid with desserts cuits, and you can say to her have heard of the she does and that you've wanted to see iI, She's alwa fancy work at home and she thing! will propose to her, and she have a nice outfit of linen she won't. me when I have called on made me long for them. If j maids, she believes everythin, fine napkins and tablecloths worked, good time* would bring shower you are looking for?" Jarr. “And cost me just as much ing them!" replied Mra, Jarr “IT guess not. thing for me unselfishly. Mr. Jarr, “Its ver! And, Jarr's reply, my own wa: has outgrown her clothes, marked Mr, Jarr, Mrs, Jarr, Facts Not Worth Knowing | By Arthur Baer ng Co, (The New York Evening World.) ‘d stv days to re cards twelve days, ed to shrill ecatera unless it Foreheads were greatly in demand around 1885, but nowadaye the eup- ply acems to have exhausted the demand. Foreheade were formerly weed to separate the hair from the eyebrows tion when reading the returne from the outlying counties, It 2 @ moot | question where a dakt domed man's forehead hesitates and Me neck degine, Hand carved foreheade are very stylish in Hurope thie year, but they arew? and as a parking place for * Ipereasing degradation, Now ead Richard began te nation and took a new interest He was adoringly grateful to the Cap. tatn who had done so much for him in, where the peace Richard found He married his early sweetheart and settled dows But ever at the back of his brain flamed the mur. derous resolve to avenge Tauntgn by Killing the French officer who had said an army : Richard and his wite were quests And the first man there to whom Richard was intre- notice just the same you never say to me ‘Shall | take you anywhere? but stranger's name {s mentioned. Wel Nobody does anything asked Mr. ‘autiful embroide: amount of beautiful table linen and bed spreads she has worked She always expects som> man Keeping, if she eter does marry-—but “Some of the things she has shown something like that—for, like all old says—she may give me some of the I'm sure Ive hinted enough for them withou: tt doing any good.” “Maybe my plan of showing her a the Let somebody do some- T do enough things for other people without a thought of it being to my benefit.” “Have it your own way, then,” said “I'm glad you say that,” was Mrs. seldom I have another thing, when Mabel Marston ig here I you'd remark how our little Emma | splendid at making children's clothes. jand [might suggest that I'd get the | material while she was here, and we'd | make a lot of things for the children.” }. “It looks to me as though a jolly time was in store for our guest,” re- “Oh, old maids are not hard to en- |tertain, if they are kept busy,” said the Canary Ielands i for his . Wut to chal. with hin when a for any ie things the lady desserts “because and bis- that you alw ys doing has any Pocr wants to r honse- her junt you sail ig a men he has Unen id Mr, as buy- shortly wish Mabel is te tuned "