The evening world. Newspaper, September 9, 1919, Page 13

‘Written thus: ee It will be remembered that the _ “the hobogoblin of little minds.” _C-o-n-s-i-s-t-e-n-c-y! By the Rey. Thomas B. Gregory © ee Copftight, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Rrening World). T @ pity it is that we cannot curse and swear in good society! Cannot the stinging "dialect of the sailors be domesticated? It is ™ "the best rhetoric, and for a hundred occasions the forbidden words fare the only good ones., My page abdut “ Consistency,” would be better “DAMN Consistency! ” CUE ————w ——— “page” referred to by the Sage of Ooncord was the one on, which he had written of Consistency that was . LITTLE minds. It is only to such minds that consistency is posstble. ‘The greater the mind ¢ho greater the inconsistency. The greater the mind the groater the number and variety of facts the harder does it become to draw anything Ifke a hard and fast conclusion. ‘There is nothing so wise as Ignorance; while the really wise, who have sounded the depths and scaled ready to exclaim with the poet: “ Behold, we know not anythigg.” Even tn the case of the man with the widest mental horizon, the heights of knowledge, are ever ¢ known as compared with the unknown is like a mill pond in comparison with the ocean; and the disposition to be dogmatic—to speak “by the card,” as it were—becotnes iinpossible, = Real wisdom is always undogmatfe, provided the wisdom is accom- panied by HONESTY. If one is dishonest, with a system to support no matter what comes, with a slogan to sound, no matter whether it be true or false, then he may dogmatize to his heart's content. 1 7 j ready for the latest word; knowing which is never more to be changed. ‘whiverse, is infinite, and that something is, liable to come moment which may force us to change the old thought into a newer one. ‘The impartial and honest-minded student of things is “ always learning, yet never coming to a knowledge of the truth "—that is, the full knowlodge. | He is steadily learning more and more, here @ little and there a little, but he does not deceive himsolf with the delusion that he hag reached the end of the search, that there is hothing more for him to learn, and that, thero- fore, he is quite prepared to speak, or write, the FINAL word, the word But to be both wise and honest is to be undecided, open minded, ever only this, that knowledge, like the ng at any A @reat and good man has said, “Truth fs our name for the last generalization, and, of course, its sense differs to-<iay and to-morrow "— Greatest subjects of human thought differs because to-morrow brings new light from, the fountain q of i and in the added radiance we see what we did not see yésterday. It is no disgrace, then, for a man to “change his mind” upon the and investigation. If he fs a real “student and sincerely loves truth he must of necessit: . ¥ see thi then from now angles and draw from them now pitti aecs bine The only consistency that is worth a rush, or that the honest man would waste a moment's thought on, is the consistenc 5 y of PUR) EFFORT to find as much of the truth as is possible to us, eee OR a perfect salad all ingredionts should be fresh, crisp and cool. Use only the dolicate white statks of celery, the most der leaves of cabbage apd tho small heart leaves of lettuce, The salad should not be mixed until ready to be served. For ohicken and fish salad usc mayon- Deaige dressing, Vegetable salads are best with French dressing. To get a deliciqus, creamy fudge the Sutter should not be added until the fudge is done. Oprinkle a little salt In the bottom of the oven ‘before putting In the cakes and they will not ®urn. Put a little lemon juice in the Wal- Gort salad and tt will be several hours before the apples become discolored. After emptying the greasy dish od water into the-sink it is well to put 6 6g piece of washing soda over the PMe sink drain and pour ecalding water ry: rit. This will prevent the pipes Pf} fram clogging. iia Mf you scorch a garment in troning \@ tub dry starch over the stain, then sponge it off, Repeat as often as necossary. Whito silk gloves and’‘stockings ‘will not turf yellow if they are care- fatty washed in warm, not hot, water and dried in the hous, Before hang- { \ =, \ ing them up to dry press them out smoothly with the hands, iron. Do not ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S Kwiz. 1, Stonewall Jackson was :a Con- federate officer, so called because he Btoon “firm as a stone wall” and re- fi to retreat in battle: 2. A fellah is an Mgyptian peas- ant, or laborer. 3. Making a voyage across the At- tie Ocean has for many yoars been ularly referred to a8 “crossing the nd. 4. According to tae Scriptures, Elijah was lost in the wilderness and ‘an fed by ravens seit down from Beaver, 5. A mate duck is called a drake * 6 The orange, lembn and lime are elthas group of fruits, 7. "Tougher than sole leather" the complete, phrase 8, The initials “A, M. @egree of Master of Arts. 9, Sitting Bull was a famous Indian | nder of the savages of the Custer massacre 40. The term “unearned increment" means money accumulated without effort. indicate the | | NEW QUESTIONS, 1. Of what ‘educational institution | was Woodrow Wilson President when he entered public lif % What is a lapidar: 3. What is the final word in the ex- | pression, “Madder thao ao ? b 4, Where is Plymouth Rock and why_is it famous? 6. What famous author wa, by his initials, often | Rey called merely 4. Who is Israel Zangwill? 7. What is the meaning of the ex- ression, “open sesame?” ‘What is genealogy? What was the most recent Ipition of territory of the tates? 10; What famous novel hinged upon @ eriminal who taught children to b pickpockets, and what was the chai amter's name? |she had said thi eee Fe NN meee The Housewife’ s Scrapbook it by making a paste of z powdered whiting and yellow soap and filling be, hole with this, You can then fly await the dela; of the plumber, seem te Place @ good sized rock in th of the grate before piling on the te It will save wood because when well heated the stone remains a0 @ long time and emits considerable warmth, Tho rocker, will not travel across the room wi you rock in it if Zou Paste strips of velvet on the| ttom of the rockers, Glazed tiles can be beautifull: cleaned by. them with» cut lemon. ‘Then, after fifteen minutes, polish them with a soft cloth. . The Evening Wor es” Kiddie Klub Korner : Conducted, by Eleanor Schorer Coprrieht, 1919, by The Prom Publishing Cn, (The New Tork b eeued — Beat webha, y Maurice Ketten G | By IRVING, BURKOWIT2, aged fifteen years, New York City. = 5 NOTICE TO KIDDIE KLUB APPLICANTS. LL KIDDIDS who have sent in six coupons ing forward to receiving their membership ‘wajt only @ little longer. Word just came that a big supply of Kiddie Klub pins will soon capeeted to arrive tn Now Tom O7 of | ROMP AND RUFIT WITNES® THE PITCHED BATTLE A OW, an we already know, itis oe F l it it i . = = s i LEE sky ’ 2 s . rt i iF HT ut z 5 ; iz: pf bi é | Hy 2g ke 285 bbe. eit ip if | i i i AND THIS [S THE AUTO TRIP. : i i ae fi i iz g - ee Nimble, were facing each other from either gide of stone in the middie of the brook where Romp and mimutes of three. aly ‘The children hid Oehind @ boulder and watched. Sharp at 3 the battle” began. i ‘The Stitch clan had no shields and the Fuzzies had no weapons, but, !.1) cach menaced the other, The fairy folk charged the eatorpiliars with«nec~ si% 416. swords and the Fuzzies protected themselves with shic\is made of «“@ leaves. . ‘ my braves,” cried Thimble-nimble to his men, i a Rutt i a & “Pierce not a singte leaf, ta Well behind your shields,” commanded the Captain of the Cater-’ pil \fagh held thelr position; neither budged an inch until the wind blew: st the 4 o'clock whistle ‘ a q “Time's up," called the ‘command-*!' to eating designs in thelr shields wit the Stitchers, as usual, made frantic” efforts to mend the holes. “Great Fussie Victory,” eald @the: ~ Caterpillar Gasette, reporting the ©! battle, “Men in high spirita at cele) bration feast aftet encounter,” Abd’ TH FURTHER DVENT Which was it? The Crime Club, or PES? UMM DA writing nor light. Those long, slim, the single, closely written sheet be. the leather girdle; then Love for a Woman Prompts Jimmie Dale, a on "yoleee hia coat and shirt ran noise lessly across the room to the wash- stand: ‘A few drops from a tiny phial poured into the water, and the pallor, the Magpie? Here again he could not “know, though he inclined to the belief that it was the latter; but here, in either casey the means of knowing, be dae fingers, those wonderful fins gan abruptly, the writing Itself indl~ gérs of Jimmie Dale, that seemed cating that it had bgen composed in to combine all faculties bums in dapperate haste. He glanced quick!, their sensitive tips, hi . ss “epi already tele- over the first few lines, Rich New York Clubman, to Masquerade in|) oft hetping her, the wey, the gat, graphed thelr measago to dle drain ‘You should ot bare 20 the sickly hue from his face was gone, ‘ was clearly defined— e roa as the same texture of paper tl stoukt hare, seme, tp It. was to 6 Dale—not the Underworld as Larry the Bat, as the Gray the road to the underworld, But she always psed—it was from her—it 3 me ed you ine 240 Suinriinghue—who would keep the Seal d Ss nih the P. VAvtiet Larry the Bat was dead and pike ae tpom the Toon a, tata ioe, Sat: “il rendezvous at Malay Jonna a, ° road was . ni en « hal loy, gladness, « re! wo te as A at An instant anc’ eriti- | eal, and as omarlinghue, oor Haitned painting standing on 0 ft’ surged tipon him as to leave him Trae bay cally about him ten the" roller ell — _s. easel Asif Fear — ae ca we for the. moment physically wer held shade over oe . bp dhe 4 4 roug jm Inspiration, im in a je stim! ¢. . ani dow | ‘ually (GegprIeRA, 3019, by Gece 0, Demen Comper.) OP as hobbicseund it awung Wide across the room, and alipped down tnduy **.°! * tela eae Se wks Ha Made ety ff senso wage CERTAIN OR TIMENGSTATEBE 4 ys nc wae pig 1" een oor of the Under= Ini Shy TAT elon snimle ‘And inn” fr le while, Jimmie fine n" wull of Ae bulge | show peeping. owt from Dekind thy” laney of Hes nt e uae hue, 5 a ie wi of a ircatraf wi tn Gp Yo he pa, fe daa QUarLET® Ottis fio’ SunarLnghue wo 06 orld. , wore still alive! ‘The Dele Telstd “hie, hend, and then he’ Dale sited’ ther? staring abdut te hidden in the Diack shadows, ‘Timmic| peeraee pr beer Sag yr Rate — thought came flashing back; and ig up suddenly from his chair and room, motionless, rigid as stone, Dale, so silent as to be almost un- d y ery CHAPTER 1L This cagernoss as he had recognized witha low, Involuntary moan, mi Rene game Bue even then be hesi- cave’ that his fingers moved in @n canny iwhig moyements, crept along | Beedle from the ababbard and pricked’! “ the well known hand wnong the pile ling anguish of mind with a bitter, tated as he,turned the note automatic, mechanical way as they the few intervening feet to fence ¥ s “ 5 ie tt correspondence, the thrill akin to merciless fury, he turned restlessly gpeoulatively now, in his fingers, began jo tear the note into little that inclosed the courtyard, Here, 1H Tocsin! Marie LaSalle to the (ingorness with winch he tad wponed BPD the cot. If she were still al! He tore the envelope open. There shreds. ut presently into his face ho wall, a leosened plank T world, she was always, and al- ways would be, the Tocsin to him, Gone! A hand unclenched and passed heavily across his eyes and flirt- ed the hair back from his fprehead, ghe had taken her place ia her own world again; her fortune had been restored 10 to her, its management placed in the hands of a trust company; the in- terior of the mansion on Fifth Ay. nue, With fis slidiig walls and passages, that had Berved as Weadquarters for the Crime Club, was in the procesg of reconstructiod—and sho had disappeared. It had come sud he understood now, tl had only attributed it to an exag- gerated: prudence on not without warning, In the three weeks that had” intervened bet the night of the fire in tht old Sanctuary ‘and bor disappearance #he had per- mitted him to see her only at such times and at such Intervals as would be consistent with the most casual of r He remembe her answer to his constant protests, an answer that waa always the same, “Jimmie she had said, “a sudden intimacy between us would undo all that you have done--you know that, It would not only renew, but would be almost proof positive to those who are Jeft of the Crime Club that t suspicions of Jimmie Dalo wi tified, and frpm that as a star point it would not take a brain to identify Jim: Larry the Bat—and th You never knew me misery and -trouble nothing betw enly, and yet—as wh then he the w on us then. ‘To see too much of each other now, to have too much in common now would only be to court disuster, Our intimacy must appear to come gradually, t# come must walt year at least—Jimm! A year! And within a few hour following the last occasion on whic! , Jason, his butler, had laid the morning mail upon the breakfast table, and he had found her note. It seemed as though he were living that moment over ugain now, 4s he lay here on the cot in the dankns es8—* was tia acta No sign, no word.had come from her; ; he had’ found no clue, no trace of her as yet throygh the channels of the underworld; his surveillance of the Magple, whose friendship he had begun to ‘cultivate, had, so far, proved fruitless. To-night there was this vital, im- minent danger that he had to face, this decision to make whose pros ond cong seemed each to hold an equal was No preface'to the note, no“Dear there crept a,menacing look and an Philanthropic Crook,” as there had angty red began to tinge his checks, always been in the old days—instead, and his jaws clamped ominously, So that wes the game at Matay ¥ it? Birdie Lee was but a had not needed to mea- tion any scar to enable him to iden- tify Birdie Lee, He knew the’ man of ‘old. The slickest of them all, the cleverest of them all, before he had been caught and sent to Sing Sing toueh, and ks was standing in @ narrow, Dl areaway beyond, There was only the depth of the house between himself and he paused now, niees against the wall, listening, He heard po footfalls from the pavement—only, like @ distant murmur, the night sounds from the Bowery, a block away—only the muf- fled roar of an elevated train, The Just for that I'l He dia not § finish the sentence. Before you could say Jack Robinson he had squeexed a >" drop of the juice of a bitter berry up- | On the head of gach of the children, justi and they found themselyes surround: ed by f mated ress OOS which toby Soent not wee and One sentence in the note stood out above all others, a eentence that had lived with him since that morning months ago, tho words seeming to visualize her, high in her courage, brav in the unselfishness of her : “Jimmie, 1 must not, I cannot, 1 will not bring you into the shadows again; | mugt fight this out alone,” He had Had, of course, no means . How It Started By Her mine Neustadtl ’ f Eads OF ne meas sie of dutuay. What was ne} Don’t Start on Friday. \for a tvs years’ ‘term wan 'nirdie way wan presumably clear, afd he) which they cult And he, petbeay of knowing; but the sort of peril that to do? W to it that Lee—the one qian of them*all that he, ‘Moved forward again—cautiously, | home, COUSIN threatened her, his intuition told him, He Jaughed shortly, ironically after J at out of the uM- | rie Dale, pious seaard ana ti0al, en — Wag not such as to be diverted by g moment. It was as though some numbered = mystglems § a0d|'s9 to @p where the mastery of CHAPTER WI. AUGUST CON AWARD the mere expedient of absenting here malignant ingenuity bad conspired superstitions of the Dark Ages| the intricate mechanisin of a vauntod : WINNER. self from New York temporarily; to tap him. He was caught either |inis nay withstood to #o great cad aon ari eieee p veunig IMMIN DALW suddenly found On the Hay Wagon. Perideteat ie cut ae teas meaty vay’ pibat was he $0 do? The cue, [tent the aun of our pelle ayn i burglar-proot sat concerned! himself vefore a certain doors * E ' a tlon kept pounding at his brain, ‘ug ertal z Bo’ that ‘in’ the person of Mario La PON neve, pounding St ith cach | Our intellectuality te more and more| “whew Wel7e, Was Out Sualn! way in © certain alley sot tar Salil, or away from New York, She There was danger if he went to from Chatham Squate. The By ABNER EPSTEIN, Aged ning years, New York City. repetition, What was he to do? Vecly| tending toward investigatica into was clever, resourcefi, resolute and the po) : tool Malay John’s, she had*sald—and it rear of a low bullding rose black and feariegecand those," very traits (re, DOloe ane Oe Oe aes ein overy | matter hitherto paneed by with awe,/wAs true. Hut what if he did not gol Unlighted above him, Cheap music, opened ‘a Vista of possibilities that q . Some of the greatest minds of our| “St for Instance, if Birdie Lee accompanied by the scrape of scores nook and cranny of the underworld? He could not do that. Everytbing, all that meant anything in life to him now would be swept from bis reach at even the first breath of sus- picion. Nor was it an idle threat that his unwelcome visitor had made. He followed the moon-path's slant left his mind staggering blindly as in & mage. She was gone—and wlone in the face of deadly menace, He remembered then the curious, unnatural calinness underlying the b srg whirling of his brain at the hough, that that was not literally went through with this night's work! Jimmie Dale removed the section of the baseboard from the wall for day are humbly attempting to delve into the realms of the after-life. But this t# @ scientific resoareb, and the|the stoond time that night, ut came the neatly folded clothes be of credence in mystic meanings,|o¢ Jimmie Dale; and With them, serv- of bogy accultism, is gone, ing him so well in the days gone by, ard from the front,of ‘A dance was in All n Malay was @ queer customer a bad enemy. Openly he con- ducted a public dance hal, but below the dance hail, known @nly to the! . We are gmphatically not su ti-| the leather girdle, or undervest, with a i jubcellar, hoqawi true, that she waa not, nor would she with hii t it touahed the a pers girdle, or undervest, with jnitiated, deep down in a 8 ; Pe eee virile he Tiveds Lewes ee ae Oy ee tO inary ie coy torend|Sous, yet I have seen many people|!ts stout-sewn, Upright pockets in was gambling joint aud pipe lay- NNANT-WINNERS, only g question of how he could help hare, pititul carpet. A’grim whimal- [otherwise sensible wnostentatiously | or ginct tigniy “wameenes ‘lnstnee 2Ut, Leonard Bull, Orange County, her, It had seemed almost certi cality fell*upon him.. It would be too] ue steel, highly tempered instru- ‘The next instant he opened the! Sadie Gotdberg, avold Fridey in starging anything 60| ments, a compact powerful burglar's that the danger threatening h e dang i important as being measured for a|Kit. It was the one thing that be had from one of tWo sources—vit! and stepped inside, It was Nettie Cohen, ground to Larry the Tat, a eee eo} door N.S. Di Rose Burkm: r, is familiar bad to jose it! It was luxury to w! Larry the Bat had known! those who were left of the Crime had not even been a carpet in the,old | 26W coat! saved from the fire in the old Sane. anq therefore te Smarlinghue in the] Rose Simon, Brook’ Here Wecndean ‘savage “Tor vans Badciaeay end ne eat suddenly bolt] , Zt 18 Probably on account ofits ro-|tuary—and that .more by socident new, He crept plone the dark) Walter Spite, Biba e geance on account of the rujn and upright on the cot, his eyes, that had| gious significance that the super-| than design, passageway; passed one door that) porothy Smith, West New Brignt- & disaster that had overtuken them; He had been wearing the girdle or else from the Magpie, and behind that night when he had stolen into hanically travelle: led to Malay’s sleeping apartment, moon-path, strained and stopped before anotWer that led ‘on along. the | o 4 yw upon where Friday was the day of the Crucifixion. n, 8. 1, 4 Jeannette Cohen,* White Plains, gtition has etuck, for the first rar | ' By | i tho Magpie, massed dike some Bi the laht fell apon the threshold of| Cefturies Interwame the benighted-| tho Crime Club, and afterwards had tethe dive below. It was locked, but |. ¥, 4 tie ceoiriahx, every denixen of the the door There waa a little white | ness of the Mediaeval Ages, when hu-| returned to the Sanctuary with the not for long, after a tiny’ates! inatey- | Harry Quailer, New York, Underworld, for stiver Mac had dias patch there, a most curious little| ma life was held far leas dear than] intention of destroying forever all ment had been deftly inserted tn the! Louis Tence, New York City. ae otared “coincidently with Larry hie patedc-that had not been there | {t 18 to-day, when not only Kings, but| traces of Larry the Bat; and then, lock. the Bat, coincidently with the Mag- pic's attempted robbery of the sup- posed Henry LaSalle’s safe, to which plot she was held by the underworld to be @ party, coincidently with the dispersion of the Crime Club, and coincidently with the reappearance of the heiress Marie LaSalle—and, further, Silver Mag stood condemned to death.in the Bad Lands as the ac- complice of the Gray Seal, But Sil- ver Mag had disappeared, Had the underworld, promarne by the Mag- ple, solved the riddle—did it know, in many communities land owners, had the power of life and death over thejr vassals, To offend one's meater meant: “To th and “Of with his load!" Public executions were almost social events, which people attended with fis much seat as they to-day attend ther ball game. And down to only a few centuriés ago, when La Guillotine had her last great feast of the titled heads that bad decreed many a« wielding of her self-samo knife, the executioner was never idle. And the day chosen for all executions wae Friday, when he had thrown bimseit on the sot. It was an envelope that had betn thrust In under the door, In an in- stant be had snatched it up from the floor, and in another, acting instinct~ ively, even while he realized the fue tility’ of what he did, he wrenched the door open, stared out‘Into a dark and empty passageway—and, ‘with a strange, almost hysterical lau closed and, locked the door again, ‘There was no writing on the en- yelope; there was not light’ enough to have deciphered it if there bad been—but he had need for heither only half dreased, as he wos changs ing into the clothes of Jimmie Dale, the alarm had come before he had taken off the mrdie, and, without thought of it again at the time, he had still been wearing it when he had made bis escape. He looked at it now for a moment grimly—and smiled in & mirthiess way. He had not used ft since that night, and that night he had never meant or thought to use it again—only to destroy it! He reached into the aperture in ‘ew out a pocket flashtight tomatic pistol, and laid them down beside the clothes Not a sound could he hear trom the other side of the door, ‘The white ray of his flashlight showed the barbaric splendor that Malay indulged bim- self. ‘The floor was covered with rich, Turkish rugs, heavy Oriental hang- ings, with a heavy safe that stood against the rear wall, and—— ‘The fashiiant in his hand went out, Like lightning Jimmie Dale leaped across the room and slipped in behind the end hangings of the divan, A key turned stealthily in the lock, and then a hoarse whisper: “All clear, Birdie, Look the door,” (To Be Continued.) dungeons or guess, of suspact (hal Silver Mag Marie LaSalle?