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; The Evening World Daily Magazine. Fridsy, September 6, 1916 iT A Fair Exchange ! Stories of Stories a ROTAPLIONED PY fo8RPH PULITERR é a i Vita of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces (Preetisdes trai Povey by the Poses lehing Company. Nee 1 te j . by onape Sy Sos," ass | By Albert Payson Terhune ony 09 Bevont Cle For “Baslont and the loutinent ond | All Countries to the Internetional =| ee ee ee 1B “SENDING” OF DANA DA, ty Rudyard Kipling, EB coiled bimeri! Dane De ilo oun » Sate, Ouny ois and Ga a reve Uses feylabie Mul wh iehey of eplum pusseamed pim be weed to hae Ses p Ald “1 pit at | ley Gelme We magic powers ¥ } Au Engilebman once lifted Dane De out ef the gutter, giving VOLUME 67 NO, 80,107 him money ond clothes and much food THE P. S. C. TO THE RESCUE! | EW YORK can hardly have been so much harassed by prectioal Gnnoyences of the traction strike as to mise what ie happening to ite boasted Public Service Commission. / This eugust Board, created to protect the people in the enjoy @ent of the public utilities for which they pay, has about a# much Power to stop « sirike as Hwitveriand jes to stop the war Boubbed by Messrs. Suonts and Hedley, lectured by Atrike Or @enizer Fitageraid, the Public Bervice Commission appears to be at ; Dene De beaged leave to show bis gratitude by puntebing any enemy the Englishmen might possess “Lat me despatch © ‘Bending’ he suggesied. “I oan send o ‘Hending’ anywhere Fou Choose and in any form except in the shape of 6 man” The Engitehman bad davbied ip Oriental magic. He knew that e “Bend tng” wae © myeterious Visitation in the shape of some animal, which was | Guaranteed to pester the recipient almost to death Now It chanced that be owed « jong elan erudge to @ fellow Englishman named Lone, who was « believer in such magic Bo be gave Dane Da 10 rupees and bade bim affict Lone with « “Bending” “Write « letter to Lone Sahib,” dir: 4 Dace Da, “telling bim end ait ’ whe believe in him thet you and @ fiend are using & power greater thes theira” ee Lone, in @ distant Government station, read. Present merely » convenient tribunal before which traction offic } Refit ng tale latter, ween bie corvant onsenseed v0 Bi and union leaders can declare what they will or will not do H : CS under hie bed dao & positive horror of cata Me | scolded he servant for allowing one to get into the house, |The servant timidiy reported that ell the doors had been shut and that ho real cat could have gotten in An animal, he eatd. | fo Lone himself went to efect the intruder, | rown cat, but a newborn white kitten, to be drowned, That evening, in hie sitting-room, Lone raised his eyes from his book, to behold another tiny white kitten eprawting on hie hearth rug, He toased the kitten out of doors, and again scolded his servant. The latter trembiingly declared the kitten could not have entered the closed room fn any normal man: Lone calied a meeting in his roome of several fellow believers im thi Oocoult. The meeting was broken up by the presence of a wee white kitten crawling along the mantelpiece. ‘ Thenceforth, life became a@ terrifying burden to Lone, He awoke in the morning to find « squirming kitten on his shoulder, He put his hand into his overcoat pocket for hie gloves and drew out « half. suffocated Ritten. He found kittens tn Rie locked trunk among hie dress ghirte; in Bis “The Public Service Commission has no authority in the ea: Chairman Straus and his fellow commissioners have it straight f Lawyer De Lancey Nicoll, speaking for the Interborough. 1 «public, by the same token, might as well understand that its authority fin the case is exactly on « par with that of ite Public Service Com eaission. | Notice, in fact,.ie evrved upon the public and ite defenders to “etand back and keep their lands off until the traction row is settled Whether the situation improves or grows worse, the Interborough Proposes to forget that it has obligations to anybody except itself. Another interesting view of the P. 8. 0. Hetablished with extraordinary powers to enforce upon public service corporations the) proper management of these affairs and due performance of their, fanctions, what can the Public Service Commission do in a practical He preferred not to touch #9 mysterious He found tt was not o Me turned it over to his servant, RESTRICTION emergency like the present? Only “attempt to intervene” and be on Ke tapenr Pg and wrapped in the folde of the rolled-up mackintosh behind UF told to hold its tongue! éstan ‘a There were kittens everywhere In fourteen days Lone found sixteem | AR ANCE these penta, } | —————————————————— ~ The Englishman, learning of Lune’s utter demoralization, went to Dana The German Chancellor says submarine warfare was not oF Da for a solution of the mystery. tie worth its cost. We believe that argument was not overlooked . by the U. 6. A—among others. et FIGHT FOR THE FIVE-CENT LOAF. . HE price of a gallon of gasoline came down another cent this} | week—the second cut in a month, Gasoline is now twenty- two cents a gallon. ‘Three months ago the price of gasoline was above thirty cents and soaring steadily. The oil interests were issuing ominous reports | _ ae to the supply and the offect of war. Fifty cent gasoline was freely He found the old Hindu il unto death from a prolonged eprea. The dying man whispered faintly: “I gave the Bahfb's servant money for cats—tittie, ¢ white cats. I wrote, and he put them about. Very { clever man! Very few kittens now in the basaar,” And this was the gorgeoualy simple explanation of @ mystery, which the English-born Occultists in India still speak of with bated breath, and which passes muster as one of the most remarkable “manifestations” of modern times, The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell ‘Capyright, 1016, by The Pram Publishing Co. (The New York Bwmning World.) 66] T seems to me you act asthough of euch @ bargain were too great for I your home were simply &)words—she simply gasped. boarding house—a place to; “T really didn't want them,” con- ponmcenpnsoeser | The M: | Maine” « 3 Then the public began to sit up and protest. The Federal Com- mission started an inquiry into the oil situation, And suddenly the| price of gasoline stopped rising, shut off its engines and came down tinued Mrs. Jarr. "price volplaned. Why nvt take a look at flour? in ewift and graceful spirals. ' Flour is now 87.25 a barrel. Six weeks ago it was $4.50. The Master Bakers are threatening to bake no more five-cent loaves of | bread but only « ten-cent Jouf “of a weight consistent with the present | price of flour and wheat.” , Millions use gasoline. Many more millions eat bread. | When the Government turned an official eye on gasoline the EE Pity the unfortunate who have to roll down town in their automobiles and get caught in the extra traffic jams! i WATCHING THE EARTH TURN. 2 How Weapons Began Oopgright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (Tee New York Kvening World.) ' No, 13—Guns, HE gun is the little brother of the cannon, Artillery was made first, but it was easy to gee that something a man could carry was needed, and in the four- teenth century the Flemings were, “Don't you care,” he laughed eas- the proud possessors of hand can-(|ily. “Here's two hundred that I non, small copies of the bigger wea-|made on @ lucky tur@ of the market. * » CHAPTER LXIII. CTOBER 20—"You must have a new dress for Mrs. Denford's party,” Ned told me last night at dinner, and the theatre party to have a coa- tume made,” I said. Just a Wite—(Her Diary) Edited By Janet Trevor Copyright, 1010, by The Ire Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World:) “But there isn't time between now |“ > | jthat of any society woman I have! ever met. When I told her that I wanted evening gown, preferably white, she! escorted me to a wonderfully com-| |fortable armchair, Then she went to| all slip of a girl, About my height, 1 patiently in one corner of |the long showroom, After a low-spoken sentence the girl | | disappeared through @ pair of heavy) | Velvet portieres. ¢ will show madame certain of our models,” | was informed. | who Dollars and Sense By H. J. Barrett. aes, | © 0 The Technique of Inside Salesman- ship. 66]'VE worked both as outside and ] inside salesman,” said a clo- thier's clerk to a new and in- experienced employee, “and my con- clusion ts that the technique of inside selling {s more easily grasped than come to and get your meals and then fo out again,” sald Mrs. Jarr. “What do you want to go out for?” “No, I want to stay home,” replied Mr. Jarr, “and I am staying home, ain't I?” . “Oh, yes, you are staying home,’ naid Mrs. Jarr, “but you don't seem to relish it. There’s Mr. Pinkfinger, he hardly ever goes out of the house, and it is a pleasure to call there, he's ao interested in everything bis wife does and interested in bis home, and says so many bright things when ladies call on his wife. He's what I call an ideal husband.” “Well, you ought to hear what I call him,” mumbled Mr. Jarr. “What did you, say?” asked Mrs. | Jarr. But Mr. Jarr whistled to him- “Of coures, they are nice to have if company comes, but Mr. Jarr and the children are #0 careless at the table. If I woulda’t * watch them they'd out bread on them, and as for stains!" Mrs. Rangle shook her bead as if to imply ehe knew. “The woman was eo ill that she waid she must have some money to fo to the hospital, and she couldn't carry them any further, #0 out of pity for her I bought them.” “But it's @ wonder ehe sold them for that money,” said Mre, Rangle. “She didn't want to—sald she could aell them to the stores for more, but) she had to have money. I was afraid” she'd faint right there, eo I said, ‘I'll sive you elghteen dollars.’ She finally took it." “I'll be bound that you couldn't hear @ pitiful tale like that,” eald self, and just then Mrs, Rangle dropped in. “So glad you came,” eald Mrs. that of outside, In other words, the! proper tactics to pursue in closin, & customer can be more readily ré I waited, and presently the Iittle maiden reappeared. She wore a won- | \derful frock of white and pearl and silver. But as I looked at tt I felt pon fitted to a stock. They were in-| Take it and go to a swell place on teresting more than effective, how-|the avenue. You probably can find E NOTE that a group of priests and scientists swung a pen- dulum from the lofty vaulted ceiling of a big Brooklyn church the other day and demonstrated that the earth is ;2experiment so simple that a schoolboy can direct it. etill rotating on its axis. In the course of its steady swing over a Board marked off in geometric degrees the pendulum deviated five degrees in half an hour, showing that while the oscillating weight kept to its plane, the earth and the board had been all the while turning beneath it. i A fine demonstration, just as impressive now as when Foucault “first made it sixty-five voars ago with a pendulum suspended from scaring badly every one who facod| teration,” them for the firat time, “Dear,” 1 sald timidly, “it's lovely Improvements came in the course | of you to give me all this money. But of time and the arquebus, also called |! could get along with a simpler the caliver, and which was modelled | somewhat after the crossbow, came) you're taking risks with what you on the market. The work the Span-, have in order to provide me with ish did with them in Italy in 1526/ luxuries. Are you going to do much proved that the new weapon was not! more Kambl—I mean speculating?” I , and did little damage beyond | something that will do, with slight al- | dress, and I don't lke to feel that) |my cheeks growing hot. There emed to be no corsage at all—merely skirt ending in a wide belt. The | gown was sleeveless, There were not even shoulder straps, | 1 turned decidedly to Mme. Felice, | “That won't do,” I said “But it is the very latest thing In | frocks for formal evening wear,” she | protested, ‘And it would be’ most| | becoming to madame.” T sata! duced to rules and formulae than i'n outside work, This, no doubt, ts because the factors involved tend to remain more constant, The entire transaction Is less complex. Often in outside work half the battle in in securing the interview. But in store selling that obstacle does not exist “Now, I noticed that when your Jarr. “Now, maybe, Mr. Jarr will find one evening at home Interest- ing." n you come downtown to-mor- jrow? asked Mrs. Rangle as she | kissed Mra. Jarr and bowed to the head of the house, “The stores are | Just selling things almost for notb- ing, Just before the fall season they | are getting rid of lote of things—the Mrs. Rangle. “I couldn't either.” "Oh, anybody can impose on me,” sald Mra. Jarr. “I'm too kind-heart- + ed; but, as you see, the materials must have cost that much. The wom- an told me she did the work all her self end it took a month, and her eyes were ruined by it.” “One doesn't get a chance like that every day,” said Mrs. Rangle, equal- 1 “Please show me something,’ last customer approached you didn't ” ? J OM). Joke, And under the Duke of Alva, {Added hastily. Armin “in which the decollatkge is) nee PP y ‘ papers are full of bargains.’ ly divided between her admiration ethe dome of the Pantheon in Paris and a circlo of sand around which|, ‘jitio tater, they also introduced! “Little Puritan,” smiled my hus- | jue extreme” Ke '*/ open correctly. You began to show “ugpeaking of bar | for the table linen, her envy of the “the swinging body nicked its wa: A simple device to thow stupendous fact. Astronomers and sphysicists with all their instruments have never found more graphic ‘means to mark the actual motion of the whirling earth than by an j the musket, an Improvement on the |band, who was in @ radiantly good arquebua, but still a clumsy affair,| humored mood, “I am not gambling, fired by @ match and so heavy that! A® I told you before, I'm playing a it could only be aimed from a rest,| sure thing, It had a tremendous bore, however, | are looking out for me, Now take the and could stop a@ hor: t 600 yards | goods the gods provide, and don't #0 {t soon became the universal mili. fuss!” velved by madame herself, a gun in the bands of American sol- Denford and his crowd | Madame allowed herself the merest lsuggestion of a shrug. Then she turned on the girl, who was standing inear us. “WH you never sell a gown, bete!” she exclaimed in French, “Go put on the" + She did not finish the sentence, for Rat | not a doctor's wife ‘a man's choice the nearer you ai him our stock without first learning his preconceived !deas. That Is a mistake, The more you can narrow to closing. It finally developed that he wanted a blue suit, but objected to serge for fear of its wearing shiny, buying impulse slacken while he Jarr, “I want to show you some drawn work I bought. Wait till you hear what I paid for them.” So saying, she left the room and returned with eome table cloths ard centrepieces. Mra, Rangle went into raptures. | "I saw some downtown not near as bargain her friend had secured and the latter's kindness in buying from, the poor Syrian woman—at @ good advantage. “I Uke to help out poor people when they are industrious that way,” simpered Mrs. Jarr. “I wish another ———— ldenly the gale little creature top- te tary arm, | So 1 said no more and this morn- | tied Tika: Meat: Crushing benente | I, when iy Feta ening ie “These are handsome!” she ex-|one would come along who was in { early | “elice's e a ore, red as to just what he had tn mini “Just look at that work! It/ distress like that and had * Horse car service in the city is nowhere interrupted, Karly in the eighteenth century the| ing I went to Mme, Felice'’s for my her the white satin skirt she wore, | 4 claimed. “Just and had to have : fourteen are ssc viet aP flintlock displaced the matchlock. Tho | KOwn. | drag melige save A SURnE scream (you could NANe steered him directly | must have taken days and days to|some money right away. For they Charleville musket, introduced, by | There are aoft carpets and quiet | And. atoning. seis . FEIT! | to the blue worsteds or cheviots and/ graw those threads, and sll the nee-|are very uppish when they are pros- Tafayette and the first regulation | corridors in madame's establishment.) ““tmbecile! she muttered, avoided the danger of having the! aiework tool” perous, At the seashore last sum- | Hits From Sharp Wits loud. “Will the blonde become extinct ?") we the Philadelphia Public Ledger. | yne | i, si woman, inp reetly ft | ting black satin and with & manner Alexander | infinitely more distinguished than diers, was of this type. A Scotch clergyman, nothing. Be careful, madame? sald, “That child has fainted because she hasn't had enough to eat.” pored over these grays and mixed goods. Furthermore, you'd have fine, with not half the work on it, {and they were fifty dollars,” aaid, mer # Syrian man was positively in- sulting when I offered him four dol- lare for a lace shawl; he wanted, sixty-five for it. He asked me if I } a hat | Hi egaily the one who gets the maddest hy imagine new horrors wh ve Forsythe, was responsible for tho saved ten minutes’ time, and t Mrs. Jarr. Rt he had’ av ry | on you ask that she share a double|have eo many. troubles already? next bis advance, the percussion cap, | often means a $10 profit, “Well, I should say!” replied Mare, | he eel aH ik, jeoat with you—-Macon, News, Charleston News and Courter, which he invented in 1807, The Dries “Another point, always get the tape “Where did you get them?, though?” asked Mrs, Rangle. ‘ being thoroughly "No one need wonder what the! ‘The. total horse power derived © (ime can be simplitied it] goods are in or the values are un-| gre wealthy enough to buy pianos by the dozen, yr lod % says Popular Science Monthly. After ees Toe) Ae Seine P senna? ane weapon of the near future will be. All| from burning coal and of, direct and} the sick is hung ina barrel, says] usual, or the price has been reduced, se \% ‘4 " 0 wet, ch a coat of good war departments of the world aro|indirect, is more than 80,000,000 Inj Popular Science Monthly. Four curved © spend lots of money in the ' pineal jie deer opie st goad, Varnish ‘compiaten the process: ‘This tageriy mearching for the ‘ertected | the while, Wi hate wie plnved BE euial distances In vs Sa ae eae ee Although there is no amendment to the Constitution compelling tt, there, o Gat siowea to ary, ‘Theo & sacond|of real Wincleum and may be washes SUIOMANG TUG: MO a BS 8 eee |e aie Ia ear Pate PEL Aga BR RA se Ide sure that they purchase all that| (# tacit understanding among dealers that there shall generally be two * . rible weapon indecd—a miniatwe wae) °* furnishir 1,000 ho: | trom these 1 jt is ited the sack |! Sc HDRS | BM belie : ioe be laid ond allowed to dry. thors 'and poliabed io the uaual way. noe vg, AiawON Fabs, 1 das Deen cauinared cap be easily semoved. ee aed while they're bere" shoes in @ seb, ie ; ° During the heated spell every house. wife can stand for her visitors’ short- comings provided they make them The man whose watch ts always! baolutely correct also has a ther mometer that ts more reliable than sian needle gun was the first success- ful military breech-loader, although | a Power for World from Four Waterfalls | nnn f) on the customer at once. terns in which we are not stocked This will} enable you to avoid showing him pat- | never any sales of this qua} ity of drawn work.” “She was at first, but she needed the money,” replied Mrs, Jarr, “Oh, [ don't care what they say Y the principle wax not new--the Span- |e. sone er cin engincer| by an Argentine engineer, can supply | “I got them from @ Byrian wom- eit T can get a bargain,” said Short enough—Philadelphia Inquirer, | the weather bureau's, Toledo Bada, |iah had them aboard the ships of the I hate sey) a L ede ne Flat i Pi totes haves Komen ee lin bis sige. ant esia Mrs Jar, “lm alw Raasle witrucuaet ieaaen Armada. w Avent A system by La Guayra Falls can furnish about| “Then, too, I noticed that when 20; you were helping the poor thing.” Once upon a time there was a wo-| French actentiats report that tn-|. Rifling also is very old. Gaspard electric. power can be trana-| sith gunfire rane cal Re ree Nae nie capaing lin Gre buy trove sae. eee eeet I|, Meanwhile Mr. Jarr had escaped, ‘man who bought what she wanted and| sanity from the war has been less Koller of Vienna and August Kotter mitted over wires to distance custo! |eho did ask a terrible pric a left without wandering around pric-|than was expected. The ante bellum ° | No matter how good a man tri: Oo} World would be full of a lot more! ought Most of the fighting up to 1850 was . vill be| the giant falis of the Zambesi, th Be, the neighbors still think he domestic happiness if wives were con- done with smoothbo: on N; non jueen calculated that these w seal cr § = pennants. sue therwise doubtful sale Me ba bettas Virtue le its Own ve: |aidered more Of am macoeslty (honk | cea te Tee clae Branch ee eee exhausted within’ 100 yoara i¢ the) PAFAnK and ‘the Isusaan le that thay closing an other . ‘ward."—Toledo Blade. tim An Inexpensive Floor Covering ¢ HREE sheets of str brown joughly before laying a third sheet, paper, pasted together, with| If a pattern floor covering in de- sired, ordinary wall paper en th & top covering -f ordinary Wall) purpose admirably. It is pasted to paper, make an excellent, inexpen-|the top sheet of brown paper already @ive, sanitary substitute for linoleum, ;laid, The whole, “| War and very soon the muzzle-loader | ton of Nuremberg are rivals for the honor | of from. 6,000 to 8,000 miles without @ day of better workmanship were used near the close of our Civil) present rate of continues), ase of consulp- there are four became a curiosity, | waterfalls that ‘can suppiy far more Winchester, an American, inventod | than enough power to turn one of the first successful repeating | wheels in the world, says the & rifles and the Turks used them| trical Experimen v against the Russians in 1 toria Falls of the Zamb all the great military powers Niagara, the La Guayra b rearming their troops with small call-| Parana River and the bre repeaters, using high power /|of the Iguassu Hiv smokeless powder. One of the best 1s| ter ¢ our own Springfield rifle, our own uay. Jexhaustion of its coal and oll (it has » are Vie-) alla of the Iguassu Falls . both of the lat- » to the frontier of Brazil and | United States Government hydro- The difficulty in the way of utilizing IL from 600 to 800 miles from the points to which It would have to be carried, and almost trackless wilder hess lies between Hore then is a problem worthy of an Edixon, & Coop witt, a Marcon, a Tesla or a Pupin; a task that, so) 1, will earn for its sponsor an ‘undying fame. HE clumsy performance of hold- ing a sack and filling it at the his wife you practically ignored her. era companion, whether it be wife or male friend, It often results in and, in the latter case, Is lkely to add a new customer to our books. “After the transaction is completed don’t say: ‘Anything more you need? “Mention some specific article, em- phasizing the fact that it Is a par- ticularly desirable moment to pur- chase. If the man has bought a sult, mention overcoats, And give a reason; either some new 4 , and vice-versa, got it for elghteen dolla ! But the ladies never missed him, in, and praphers calculate tha ® stre . templation of Degin with Pas tesen 6 nae h ved the ravallauie seppl bare es- (of the invention, about 1620, AS had) serious lous, tho world noed not find rivera. of the Untied ater tae That ts a fatal error, Always make| Mrs, Rangle'd raptures at hearing good bargains. i ‘ wi u — allable supply.—Boston | been pointed out, however, these im. | Selous loss, the world need Dokl Ay, of giv 23 je / Columbia (8. C.) Btate, ‘Transcript, 4 | provementa had to be laid aide until | Worry about the possible or probable Sanne of giving 280,800,000 horse |a bid for the support of the custom By Arthur Baer | Facts Not Worth Knowing > Copyright, 1016, by The Praw Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) i) N ear trumpet won't help you tures. A to see any better at the moving pio ‘ A good rope should always be longer than it is wide. entre nae Census statistics show that only sirty-siz out of 89,864 American famthes 4 .