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| y é | “J @uthor of “Childs Harold” and brilliant, “Don of rottenness and 4 and, or anything. rh i the ited up Ih i E them, and, I must not significance. which is a fearful le—a 5: R see all over the world to-day. The Passing Show By. Rev. Thomas B. Gregory. Conertaht, 1819, by The Prete Pubtiontng Oo. (the New Tork! Rrenins World). HOPD it is no crime To laugh at aii things, for I wish to know What, after all, are all things but a show?” Byron was a cynic, and when he penned the lines quoted above he meant just what He wrote, Brilliant as the brightest of the stars, tho fmtensest intellect that bas been robed in flesh for a thousand years, the have been otherwise. No good thing ever came out of jeht, like that which comes from things phosphorescent, is in the true senwe of the word, makes us Inugh, a6 Shake- does, a6 Corvantes does, as any one of the great Optimists does. be said is that he makes us smilé—in o sinister, devilish, amiled when he looked back upon the infamous trusting, unsuspecting denizens of Eden. ¢ countenance of Goldsmith's “Vicar,” and the eyés of the Abon Ben Adhems” who “love believe, in spite of all things, in the innate good- is impossible to one who feels for mankind the poisoned the gifted soul of Lord Byron. that almost preternaturally endowed poet looked out upon Mite and it really seemed to him but a passing show, shadows upon the is, the flattest of unrealities, without a scintilla of sub- to the most fearful results, Juan” always cast a light that was Cannot possibly cast « healthy ray the face of “My Uncle Toby,” that forget to say it, without an jdea of 11@ which, if really beliéved, leads even the monstrous results that we Tt is nothing more nor less than this same Cynicism, with its con- tempt for humanity and its lack of faith in the MORAL BASIS of things, Ghat is responsible for the unprecedented fix in which the human race now ‘Minds itself. If “all things are but a show,” if there is no right and no wrong, if + “Man is the Measure of all things” and Man himself is a phantom, why | have not the Kaisers and Turkish Pashas and sctilless Profiteers, and the vest of the miserable tribe of gougers and plunderers, a perfect right to exploit the shadows to their hearts’ content? No, not Life is more than a show, It is indeed a show, sometimes @ very sorrowful one, as the present time abundantly demonstrates; but @oen underneath the show is that which is not a show, that which is veal, and which abides. Said the great Kant, “There are two things that always fill me with the eense of amazement and awe, the starry firmament above and the Moral Lew within.” That starry firmament proclaims a harmonious ORDER, and that Order reaches its grand explanation and ultimatum in the still mall voice within which tells us that there is an everlasting Right which ‘we should ever obey. om over tho slice of ham before brofting it? Try {tt You will fied tt gives a delicious flavor. You need not boll an entire exe to the har yolk for salad or gar- be Separate the white and yolk nishing. without breaking latter and poach this hard in salted water. ean thus bo saved fér some other use. ‘When making ginger cookies, use cold eoffee instead of water, and you wil probably fina an tmprovement in Di veer ies ice of barn betore Hf you have a sponge cakd or a cake that is @ bit stale, dip it milk and rebake it in a mod- Your family will eat it ae Before putting on the new ‘awe of- eleth paste cotton over the corners ‘The advantage of this ‘The housekeeper will find Ita satis- the clothes basket ‘with white olicloth instead of using towel to protect the It can be fastened with large will always keop your heavy ‘ware in good condition tf you @ eotation of soda and water or ten minutes once or twice _ {To-day'sAnniversary} HE ingratitude of princes” has become a byword in our language. A great satirist thas said that “Gratitude” is thank- fminess tor favors to come. Ingrati- tade is base jealousy of the power to Nestaw blessings—without which heir recipient would have perished, ‘The vil ingratitude in history is commemorated to-day, Sept. % Co- ‘umbus set sail from Hispaniola, on Gept. 2, 1504, for Spain, bis Anal leave ef the country which he had discov- ered, a discovery that had been to him a source of unutterable vexa- ftom and the meanest ingratitude. Court favor had turned against bin fm Gpain. His sons had been greeted by Jeers. Bobadilla had been ap- pointed, by Isabella herself, Gover- wer of Hispaniola, He put Colum- as in irons, and shipped him to The great discoverer insisted wearing these chains in Spain they were removed by royal : But he kept them always in his cabinet as “the me- ‘4 of the reward of service,” e, Le ee uy nor in the gold—but in ea doing ‘ap great deed! \ . J the Joy ‘The whites! \ The Housewife’s Scrapbook damp before rubbing them with the Polishing medium. They will’ clean mere quickly, You can save gas by bolling to- gether sweet potatoes, white pota- toes, carrots and parsnips. ach will retain Its own flavor if the water 1s boiling hard when they are put d salt is not added until tbe ens) ahha ONCE INVESTIGATION OMMITTEE INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE SOMETHING SIT Down Lt MUST BE START AN DONE Ar INVESTIGATION kiki —X—__"_— HOME PAGE INVESTIGATION ComMiT ree a - The Evening World’s Kiddie Klub Korner Conducted by El nor Schoter Coprriaht, 1919, We the Press Pubtening Gn (The Mew Tort Herning World). ’ FW thi i di i as > HAUL i R UDDY and Ready, like the wise to be few valley betwe neatest buneh, towether with the long stem of in the brook to keep until th that the swift-moving waters mi ‘Then up to the Romp and Ruft Go for a Holiday days in the gayest way they knew how. Vacation days are and they decided to make the most of those they ‘They tramped up hill and down. They pulled early autumn fdwers two round-topped hilla, (Ruddy picked the biggest and iy but she said nothing about it). & caterpillar weed, stich went home, and banked stones, ht fot carry their posies of the westerly hill kiddies they are, spent their yester= getting ony ‘They bound all the them, tame down, away “isin thé, climbed Mp Up top and the gitl to ate who could beat. Of course, the honors went to for climbing, a» Well 4@ for the game of “Thumbs Tug of War” and “@ailor Boat” played on the hill summit against the sky. “t Beat! 1 beat!” sang the boy, on the grass for « bit of a rest be~ the ot | nde of the hill, Ruddy smiled and plum) down rolling down “You're jolly,” said Ready admiringly. “Romp ot “You like to play on the edge of the ocean and in said Ruddy, “Youre ought to be Ri And that is how it happened that the names from Ruddy and Ready to Romp and t to be your mame.” 6 fields and woods,” two playmates changed thetr COUSIN ELEANOR os FAIRIES. Bome children say ther But 1 don't think It's #0, ‘They have never geen one, 86 I think they do not know. ‘There are fairies in the roses, And in the violets too, eDi There Is a Mysterious Cross of Diamonds; a Watch With a Poisoned Needle; High Voltage Electric Wires; an East Indian; Convict Who Wants to Confess; Girl With Money Who De- fends Indicted Suspect—and—Read the Story (Coprright, 1019, by George Sully Company, ew York) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CrAPTERS i ii Ucking loudly in her right ped at various times, Detect! i ' ft He finds bie cousin, Aire Amelie Darcy, murdered in tho jewelry Woman belongs to Sings Phut, an Hast Indian. Bimultancously @ dagger is revesed aid Harry to him, Darcy/and the Grunkca King are taken to that be Reard Darcy and the dead woman in » Colonel to tey and clear her lover of guilt, Aaron Grafton ts pla & mysterious visit to tho Colouel’s New York headquarters diamond cross which has disappeared, Grafton relates to the Maser Mra, Lerch’s possession of the mysterious cross, ban E i E feet King z ACH 2FF FE CHAPTER X. (Continved,) BELIEVE so, The watch be- longed to an Indian named Singa Phut. fy the way, what became of him?" the doctor asked of Detective Carroll, who had strolled out of the deteo- ‘tve's private room and was listening to the conversation, “Oh, that gink? He made a big howl about getting back his watch, and as he had a perfectly good alibi, and we could fasten nothing on him, we gaye it back to him and told him to beat. it.” There was a knock at the door and Shag entered, bowing and saluting military style at the same time. “Bouse me, Colonel, sab,” he began, “mut does yo’ want t’’ heah any news?" ‘The Colonel scanned the front page with its black type eagerly, Surely enough, there had been a murder. Shere All, Singa Phut's partner, had been found lying on the floor of the little curiosity shop with his head crushed tn, “And in the dead man's hand was & ticki watch,” read the Colonel, “S morrow!” “Yes, sah, Colonel!" And, having put himself in a fair way, as he hoped, to solve some of the problems connected with the Darcy case, Col. Ashley went down to Police Headquarter to learn more facts in with the murder of the CHAPTER XI, '' HAG!" exclaimed the Col- onel. “Yes, sah!” ’ “We're going fishing to- Carroll and Thong were there, and Colonel as a Kindred spirit they at least accorded him the respect duo & fellow craftsman. “Go as far as you like, Colonel,” re- turned Thong, needlessly generous, “We've Ot our man, and that’s all we want. The other isn't our case, Ob, Donovan!" he called. “Ivhere isn't much of a story to St,” and Donovan's voice showed his dis- @ppointment, “Phut—I don't know whether that’s bis first or his last name—anyhow, he had a partner named Shere Ali. No one knows much about Ali, for he came hero Just recently, Anyhow, he and Phut didn't get along very well it seems, “Ha!” laughed Donovan shortly. “I should worry about that! The watch don’t figure in the case, except parte they quarreled over who owned Col, Ashley said nothing, He was careful examining the watch, which he still held in the palm of the hand— holding it as carefully as though in- doed it might be laden with germs, the least touch of which against a tiny scratch might produce death, But at that moment the doorman of police headquarters stuck Ris head in "Sootland Yard," as the patrolmen designated the inher sanctum where the detectives had their rooms, and called: “Donovan!” “Hello,” angwered the sleuth, “Some one out here to see you.” “All right—be there in a second. Pxcuse me,” he murmured to the Colonel. But it was tn less time than that aked sewer, “Briend of inne Rint ped me off ore san ge a ta Later that night Pout, @ F. eeee TEST Ts silent, shrinking and somewhat pa- thetic figure, slept in a cell at police headquartefy, Donovan, om the in- formation brought in ‘by a@ stool Pigeon, had made the arrest and was Jubilant thereat, Col. Ashley, with Shag at the prop- er distance in the background, and with Jay Kenneth as his invited jest, was sitting on the bank of & ittle steam, fishing, or, at any Fate, he was somewhat {dly’ using @ rod and line to aid him in his thoughts, Following the visit to police head- quarters and his return to the botel, he had called Kenneth on the tele- phone and arranged to spend a quiet day with him in the fields near the stream, CHAPTER XII. OLONBL ASHLEY fished for @ time in silence, broken only # by the gentle snores of Shag, farther back in the field, and by the murmur of the water, @ got itl” “What?’ called Kenneth. solution to my problem?” “I think I eee it now.” “The reason she asked no alimony?” inquired Kenneth, “It isn't generally known,” said the lawyer, “that the hotel keeper's wife has left him, She went away a short time ago, and came to me and told me her story. It was one of What’ at fret might be called 7e- fined cruelty on her husband's pért, degerferating gradually into that of the baser gort.”” “You don't mean that Larch struck her—that there was physical abuse, do you?” asked the Colonel. “That's what he did, He seems to have been decent for a while after their marriage—which marriage was & mistake from the first—I can see that now. I used to know Cynthia when she was a girl—she was the daughter of Lodan Ratchford, and her mother had peculiar and, to my mind, wrong {deas of social posi- tion and money, Well, poor Cynthia is paying the penalty now, She was reall forced into this marriage which, to say the least, must have been distateful to her. “But I don't suppose more than two or three know that.” The Colonel @id not disclose the fact that it was no news to him. Aaron Grafton’s statement was being ‘unexpectedly confirmed. He remem- bered that Cynthia and Grafton had ‘nce been In love with each other, And it was this man, it was vaid, handsome certainly, that Cyn- thia Ratchford had married. There had been other lovers whom ight have wedded, it was rumored, hh more than one had remarked: “Why did she take him?” To this was the answer—whispered: ‘Money!” Langford Larch ‘could not himself be caked drinking oon fos gs ally, ae almost perforce he to, he on ‘a little wine, But he was jceably drunk, Nor was that “The of his business ever accentuated. Gradually there had come about little whispers thi Cynthia Larch had made a mistake in her riage. And, also, old friends of Mrs. Larch observed that the amile did not long Unger on her face, And that behind the laughter in her eyes wae the sha- doy of a skeleton at the feast. Then came the lega: separation and the Parting, Mra, Larch, resuming her maid , it was announced, had gone to a quiet place to rest. Col, Ashley was @ very busy man, and to no one did he teil very much about his activities, He saw Daroy frequently at the jail, and to that young man’s pleadings that something be done, always returned the answer: “Don't worry! It will come out all right!" att you know who killed my cou. in “I think I do.” “Then for the love of*—— “T can't téll you yet, Darcy. All in good time, I've got to be sure of my ground before I make too many moves. Oh, I know it’s hard for you to stay here, and hard to have the stigma attaehed to your name. It's hard for Miss Mason, too, although she’s bearing up like ® major. Gad, sir, that's what she's doing! “You've got a friend in her of whom And her father, be proud, “Thanks, Then prove it by not ask- ing me to play my hand before I have all the cards I want, You aren't the only suspect, though, ‘There's Harry King, still locked Lae saga “No, he Isn't, Colonel,” “He isn't?” cried the old detective, and there was surprise in his voloe. “No; He was balled out to-day, 1 {henge you knew it” “{ didn't, ['m glad you told me, \Famous Women| HE first band that touched our American Rock of Ages—the boulder that we call Plymouth Rock—was the hand of a woman, on Dec, 25, 1620. Woll-grounded tra- dition has it that upon the little May- flower, nearing the shores of Ply- mouth, after ite fearful voyage, the f.st of ite storm-wracked company to leap ashore were Miles Standish and Priscilla Mullins, the Puritan maiden, During the appalling hard- shipe of the transit a maiden’s love and faith had burned undimm: cheering others in despair, Signi! cant indeed that her trembling hand grasped first the rock of America’s thou bBo King got ball! Who put it it wae hig Varont “The hotel rr The Colonel spent that evening in the grill room of the Homestead, “Good evening, Colonel,” be called entally. “Will you Join me in a ‘elsh rabbit?” “Delighted, I'm sure” and wat down at one of the encloses tables in the grill and o1 food and drink, The evenin, ssed pleasantly tnem ‘They talked of muohe Include ing the murder ,and the Colonel Li 4 more than pleased te find Jeweler had no very strong suspicion ‘against young Darcy, Came, at that instant, fairly burst- room, some to take them ing into the aul “Jolly good fellor at thelr own valuation, There were three of them, the centre ave be- ing that of Harry King, and he was ver much intox! ello, Harry! Where bave you been? some one called. “T have bean ing & week end in the country,’ King remarked, with biting sarcasm, “Found I waa get ting @ bit stale in my golf, don't you know—" there was @ momentary pause while he regained the use of his treachérous tongue, then he went on— “I caught myself foozling a few putts, and I concluded I needed to work back up to form.” Nodding and smiling at bis friends, who thronged about him, standing under the gay lights which reflected from,costly oll paintings, Harry King plunged his hand into bis pocket to y the bill, a check for which the rtender had thrust toward him. “Gad, but he's got a wad!’ body whispered, as King pulled forth @ great roll of bills, together with @ number of gold and silver coins, There was a rattle of coins on the y bar as King sought to dis- a single bill from the wadded-up currency in his pocket, Some coins fell to the floor and rolled in the direction of the table whereat sat the Colonel and Mr. Ket- tridge. The latter, with a pityln smile on bis ivy’ leaned over fo pic! them up. As he did so, and brought a piece of money up into the light, a curious look came over his face, le stared at the coin, “What is it?” asked Colonel Ashley, noting the unusual look. “It's—it's an odd coin-—an old Ro- man one—that Mra, Darcy had in her private eolleotion, kept in the Jewelry store safe,” was the whispered an- awer. M as he looked at the odd coin, was eager to accoat Harry King at once and demand to know whence the roysterer had ob- tained it. “It won't do now,” the Colonel sald gently. CHAPTER XIil. R. KETTRIDGR, his eyes dig with unconceale! wonder Pirge|femoraland, pr ignetaige, M|a guing to. fad ott some j) ‘They tend each litle flower, And give them all fresh dew. Far away on a Geecy cloud, A fairy castle stands, And there dwell many fairies, In many happy bands. HOME AGAIN. *7OMBP again! Home agai! Home from foreign soll. Home again! Home again! For we hive finished @ few years’ tot, do the Kaiser ‘We are glad wo iana’new that we've laid aside our We at est are home, sweet home ee” BENJAMIN PHILLIPS. ct By how he came by that coin! It's rare and valuable one, I tell you. It'e worth all of @ thousand doljars to @ collector.” And somewhat to the surprise of Mr. Kettridge, the Colonel, who had been watching King as the latter sought on the floor for his fallen coins, walked up to the wastral and handed him a fifty-cent pieos. “You dropped that, I believe,” said Colonel Ashley, genially enough. “Thanks, old top! Perhaps I did. Have a drink?" “No thank you!” “Well, Colonel Ashley, I'll leave the case in your hands. God Knows, for the sake of the family name, I'd like to see Darcy cleared. I don’t Delieve he did it. Here, you keep this coin,” for the Geteotive had ‘Offered it to his companion. “You may neu it." One of the first places the Colonel visited the next day was the jewelry shop. Show you her collection of coins? Certaini agreed Mr, Kettridge, when the Colonel told what he wanted, “As I said, I saw them, and particularly the one we picked up last night, in her safe a week or #0 before she was killed.” “T think I'll ask Donovan what Singa Phut sald when he was are rested and charged with murdering partne Jd the Colonel to bim- eit. Donovan was being his night “on, jetective as som Colonel “I was going to the jail on another matter, anyhow, and i might as well Kill two birds as one, ll let you see him if I'm with yo Otherwi ou'd have to get an order from t! seoutors of Come along.” It was rain when they reached the jail, and thg Colonel, he heard watter of drops, thought of the aight e had first come to Coiches- ter, “We want to see that Dago, you know—Singa Phut,” said Donovan, as he nodded to the Deputy Warden who answered the ring at the steel Little too late,” was the What d'you meant re no fairies, | When on the earth a child should say, Th proud and scornful tones, “There are no fairies, never were” ‘The fairy queen in anguish moana, Another fairy’ gone from earth, So then « little fairy sad Must leave this unkind earth, An@ journey to the flesey cloud Where no one says with prond, cruel mirth, ‘ “There ate no fariés, never were.” By MARY WILDE, aged shisteem years, Elizabeth, N. J, TAKING ANOTHER Ri Drawn by RAYMOND NELSON, aged eight years, New York City. couron no, B14 you answer the questions asked under thip heading? Here are (he answers to yesterday's questions: 1—Charles Frohman was famous as ® theatrical producer, who was Lusitania victim. 2—The completed expression ts “aa cold as ice.” D 3—Brogan., '¢ rough shoes, deual- ly of cheap or imitation teather. 4—Three colort—red, green and for in # white is It was Col. Theodore Roosevelt visited British Bast Africa and reported the discovery of @ river that coursed up ik 6—The United States Mint manv- factures all the metal coins we use nd makes medals, plaques, &0, for the Government, T—Avo assay office Is an estabiish- ment where experts wi separate and determine the value of all metals Wke gold. copper, silver, &c, $—Modern authorities have falléd sativtactorily weld Copper, al- though the ancients knew the art, as is proved by discoveries of copper utensils, the product of welding. 9—Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Ital- jan patriot who Ged in 1881, He was for several years an exile In the United States, 10—A diva is a female singer per- forming in grand opera. NEW QUESTIONS, 1—What was the invention ef Robert Fulton? a—What were “shin-plasters?” $—In @ religious sense, what is Brahmaism? 4—What ie the final word im the expression as wise as an ——' b—Why do they call actors plans?” ! 6—Krom what source do we obtain to it couldn't be with « murder charge!” expostulated Dono- van. “He can't be out! You're kid- din't sperm oll? T—What is a Poet Laureate? 8—Who was Louis Agasaia? %—In what manner doeq the ure of the passage of time ® = European countries differ our ea i] | | H :