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How Th By Albert Payson Terhune | z Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), No. 92—EDWIN BOOTH, Who Made Good as America’s Greatest Actor. FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Maryland boy in 1847 was taken Out of school to travel with his father as a sort of cross between servant and guardian for the eccentric parent. The lad was Edwin Booth. His father was Junius Brutus Booth, a stage genius, who was also a di en eccentric, Junius Brutus Booth was not fit to travel without some kind of guardian. Ahd his son's job was no sine cure. For example, once as the elder Booth was 4 ering the tremendously impressive “curse” in “Riche: lieu,” before a crowded house, he is said to have caught up his flowing red Tobe and to have enlivened the “curse” by a series of wild can-can steps. At another time he was locked in a closet at a hotel {o insure his staying sober for the evening's performance. When it was time to let him out he was found sprawling on the closet floor, dead drunk, He had bribed a bell- boy to bring him a quart of whiskey and to serve it to him with a straw through the keyhole of the locked door. Yet the old eccentric could act. And‘he taught Edwin his trade as few Pupils have been taught. The boy was started on the stage at sixteen in his, father’s company, and for several years he acted under Junius Brutus Booth’s stern direction. Then, after several years of this 2 grindingiy hard apprenticeship in small parts, came young Booths first chance to make good. Junius Brutus was billed to play “Richard IIL” at the old National Theatre in New York. A few minutes before the play was to begin the old fellow collapsed, He was in no condition to act. Edwin begged him to make an effort to get through the part, but it was no use. The old man knew his pwn condition. “Play it yourself!” he suggested. And Edwin played it. He had never played it before. He had never even hehearsed it. The linés and business of the role were, of course, fa- miliar to him through having seen his father pla it so often, and he went Father Taught Him rrr { to Act. cold indifference to thunders of applause. He had made his start. Bwverything now seemed to promise clear nailing, He got a job at a Baimore theatre at $6 a week. But he failed miserably. In despair he went back to his father’s company for further Practice in his chosen profession. He was great enough to know he needed more training, and he accepted a return to his earller drudgery in order to gain it. Retired After Brother Shot Lincoln. marvellous has happened. ie “devil's advocate” formerly was an official appointed by the Cathblic Church when names were offered for canonization, This ad- vocate, called Advocatus Diaboli in old documents, appeared before the Ecclesiastical Board which would de- cide the question, and opposed the making of the new saint, It was as. sumed that the advocate would dis- close any evil in the proposed saint's life, The lvocate therefore prop- erly was said to represent the devil. “Cheating the devil" also has a churohly origin. An old chronicle tells that the devil had torn down several bridges in the diocese of a certain Abbot Giraldus. Then, fn his usual role of tempter, the devil appeared before the good abbot and told him that he would permit the one remain- ing bridge to stand if the priest gave him the first lMving thing which crossed the bridge. To this the ap- bot agreed, threw a piece of meat to the farther side, and set a hungry dog to cross after it. So the devil was cheated, and went away in chagrin. The bridge about which ths story is built was long pointed vut in’ the canton of Uri, Switzerland, as the scene of the devil's embarraas- ment, It is said that a person holds “a candle to the devil” fire for the devil," when he con- nives at an evil deed. It has been set down that an aged woman penitent once lighted a candle before a church picture of St, Michael trampling the devil, And she also placed one for the devil. On being rebuked, the good woman answered: “Sure, your reverence, it 8 uncer- tain which place I shall go to at the ruptcy. But he stuck to it, and he had his reward. For when at last he came back to New York he took the theatrical world by storm. During bia long period of study he had developed his Matent genius and had emerged from the struggle triumphant. He was ac- clatmed the greatest actor in America—a title he held unchallenged until the day of his death. In the first flush of Ma hard-bought success came a setback that all bat wrecked his golden career. In 1865 his worthless brother, John Wilkes ‘Booth, assassinated President Lincoln, Edwin Booth at once retired from the stage, refusing to affront the outraged American people by ask- ing them to witness the acting of a murderer's brother. But the wave of public hatred which engulfed the memory of John Wilkes Booth did not extend to his blameless / brother. Almost at once Edwin Booth was recalled to the stage by popular tdemand. On his return he met with an ovation which proved once and for La thd enap adhe iaisag) ced poor oreogg ore way, there is a legend that Shakespeare always 41 fhouses when acted by Booth. This is not true. Datept ils inet paate on the stage Booth often played to houses ttle more than half full—even when he had Lawrence Barrett as a colleague. His acting was as supremely ioe tas But audiences seemed to prefer lighter and more modern By James C. Young How Everyday Expressions Had Their Origin W9 Gatanic Majesty the devil| tnt ] J plays a large part In our con- versatton. We probably cal! wpon him all too often when it ts de- fired to use special emphasts. And fis name has been connected with ja large number of expressions which {we frequently employ. Often we hear that “the devil batches the hindmost,” a picturesque phrase of obvious meaning. This expression is aid to have originated In one of the Scotch universities where it was a custom of hazers to make their victtms run through a Jong hall. The last, or hindmost, was ®elzed upon and became the ‘mp of the devil, or chief hazer. This in- volved considerable rough treatment, bo that the men hazed made a wild ‘dash down the hall, each seeking to ‘avoid being hindmost and meeting ‘heir particular devil “The devil and Tom Warker!” is an Americanism often used. This ‘Tom Welker was a miser who lived tn Qassachusetts during the elght- éenth century. ‘The gossips sald that he bad sold his soul to the devil and wotained money with which to open & banking business in Boston. Those were superstitious days, The public regarded Walker with dis- ‘trust, but he grew steadily richer. ‘Then he disappeared, and it was re- ported that: when he was in the act of foreclosing a mortgage beld against poor tenant that a black man astride a black horse had seized Walker and carried him away. This of course could have been no one but the devil. And on the same night, it ts said, Walker's house was burned. All of his money dis- appeared just as mysteriously as its ‘owner, according to the legend. So that when we say “the devil and Tom Walker” we imply that some- “THE LADY OF THE NIGHT WIND” By Varick Vanardy Katherine Harvard, as hostess at Myguest, meets Belknap,, the crook with @ master mind; matches her wits against his and wins, despite Belknap's threat to expose a skeletor in tho family closet, His imprisunment in “The Nest,” the houge of mystery, is thrill- ing, and— Start Reading It Monday through the difficult part in a way that stirred the audience from its first In the West, with his father, and later alone, he served a long ana| Redious apprenticeship, often dead-broke and seldom far ahead of bank- | or “kindles a lest, and you cannot blame a poor! woman for wanting a friend in both,” Can You \ | HEAR You Just Got MARRIED AR STUFFIT So You MARRIED Ha STurFIT | ee Beat it! OW PAGE TUS DAY, OCTOBER 4, 1919) YEs, THIS IS MY FouRTH VENTURE . 1 HAVE Buried THREE Not if HE EATS NY COGIRINC - THE OTHER THREE DIED FROM AcuTE Copyr eit, 1949, Ws The Brews Dinh ig CO Mie New York Erewing Wo: T Coo! SMALL HUSBANDS INDIGESTION Jewels CHAPTER XLV. (Continued. ) 6 ORT, the man couldn't help it, Why, here's & fortune for @ prince; and yet he remained here for more, Wel he's gone; poor beggar.” ‘They burrowed into the suit-cases and trunks, A dark green bottle came to light. Forbes took out the cork and carelegsly sniffed. A great black wave of iness swept over him, and he would have fallen but for Crawford. So they went down-stairs, And Forbes tells me that when Thomas acknowledged his identity, Kitty did not fall on his neck. Instead, she walked up to him, burning with fury; so pretty that Forbes almost fell in love with her, then and there, ‘So! You pretended to be poor, and entered my home to make play be- hind our backs! Despicable! We took you in without question, generously, kikay, and treated you as one of us; and ail the while you were laughing “Kitt remonstrated Killigrew, who felt twenty years gone from his sheulders. “Let me be! 1 wish him to know exactly what IT think of his conduct. She whirled upon the lucklesa erst- while haberdasher's clerk; but 28 ry held out his hand for silence. was angry, too. “Miss Killigrew, I entered your em- ploy honestly. I was poor. I am poor, I have bad to work for my bread every day of my life, For seven years I was a clerk in a haber- dasher’s shop in London. And one day the solicitors came and notified me that I had fallen into the title, two hundred and twenty pounds, and those sapphires. The estate 2 80 sma}! and so heavily mortgaged that 1 know I could not live on it. The rents merely paid the interest. 1 was no better off than before, The cash was that was saved out of an annuit From his inner waist coat pocket he produced a docume: and dropped it on the desk. “There is the solicttor’s statement, relative to the whole transaction, And now I'll tell you the rest of it. I've been a fool, I was always more or less jalone. I met this man Cavenaugh, or whatever he calla himself, in a concert hail about a year ago. We became friendly. He came to me and bought his collars and ties and muuapanders” Two American Women Are Robbed ot Rare in London—A Man Who Has Inherited an English Title and Some Price- | less Sapphires Is Suspected of the Crime, | Though One Woman Falls in Love With Him Copyright, 1915, by The Bobbs-Morrill Co, | | | Kitty found herself retreating from a fury whiob far outmatched her owni and as he gained in force, hers dwindled correspondingly. ‘Thomas continued. “He was well- read, travelled; he interested me. When the title ‘came, he was first to congratulate me. Gave me my first real dinner. Naturally 1 was grate- ful for this attention, Well, the up- rshot of it was, we gambled; and I lost. There was wine. 1 sugges.ed in the spirit of madness that I play the use of my title for six months against the money I had lost. He agreed. And here I am.” His fury evaporated, he sank back into his chair and rested his head im his hands. “I ain't @ detective,” murmured Haggerty, breaking in on the silence whioh ensued. * “I got to see that chap, Mr Cfaw- “It's a matter of four or five thou- Do you want to risk it?” me on, Haggerty!’ — cried Forbes, with good understanding. He caught the detective by the arm and pulled him toward the door, But Haggerty hyng back sturdily. “fe this straight, Mr. Crawford? “Half an hour; otherwise not a penny.” “All well an’ good; but I'll hold you responsible if anything goes wrong. I'm not secing things clear.” “You will presently.” “Four thousand for half an hour?” ‘The three of them marched off to the billiard room. Killigrew touched Kitty’s arm and motioned her to fol- low, She was rather glad to go, She was on the verge of most undiguified taars, When she had gone in search of Mrs, Crawford, Killigrew walked over to Thomas and laid a hand on the young man’s shoulder. “Thomas, will you go to Brazil the first week in September?” « “God knows, I'll be glad to,” said Thomas, lifting his head. His young face was colorless and haggard, "But yeu @re putting your trust in a double-dyed ass,” “I'll take a chance at that. Now, ‘Thomas, as no doubt you're aware, we are alj Irish in this family. Hot- tempered, quick to take affront, but also quick to forgive or admit wrong. You leave Kitty alone till to-morrow.” Aa Half after nine, Crawford lai took @ bottle and gravely handed it to Haggerty. “Smell of the cork, carefully,” Crawford advised. Haggerty did so, ‘Th’ stuff they put th’ maharajah t' sleep with!" Then Forbes emptied his_ pockets. “Th' emeralds!" shouted Haggerty. Suddenly he stiffened. “I'm wise. I know, It's your man Mason, an’ you've bunked mo int’ letting him wve all this time for his get-away! CHAPTER XY. 6 HAT is true, Haggerty, 1 had a debt to pay.” Craw- ford spun a billiard ball down the table, “Mr. Crawford, I'm going to show you that I'th a good sport. You've challenged me, All right. I want that man, an’ by th’ Lord Harry, I'm going U get him. I'm going t’ put my hand on’his shoulder an’ say’ ‘Come along!’ Cash ain't everything, even in my business. I want t’ show it’s th’ game, too. I don't want money in my pockets for winking my eye.” “You'll have hard work.” “How ?* “He has burned the gers and thumbs,” blu of his fin- ed out Forbes, stu! “1 don't want his fingers bottle an’ these eme 1. What famous painting was stolen from the Louvre and later re- covered, a few years ago? 2. Who wrote “Don Quixote?” 3. What letter designates the note on the bottom line of @ scale? 4, What was the mame of the Queen that furnished Columbus with money? 5. Of what material is @ polo ball made? 6, What is the smalest fraction of ka cent in which stock is quoted? 7, Who is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United States Steel Corporation? 8, What State Is the home of Will- jam Jennings Bryan? 9. From what flower t optum made? 10. How many minutes does tt take the light to travel from the sun to the earth? 1, How long do the members of the United States Supreme Court hold office? 12, How many days does tt take a chicken egg to hatch? By Maurice Ketten | Yes, | MARRIED A WOMAN WHa Loves IS. RESTAURANT FoaD IS So EXPENSIVE AND THE PORTIONS WERE GETTING So Es) Ih secretly and worked his way up from Nah ws J athe gre Kiddie K1 My Dear Kiddie Kins: Sometimes day dreams and sleeping dreams get to be quite the same. I mean that often we think so hard and wisheand plan so much for cer- tain things that even when wo sleep those thoughts and wishes do not leave us and we dream about them, That ls what has happened to a good many of the contestants who entered jast month's essay contest and it is what makes them so in- tensely interesting. The best among the essays were written by: May Setbold, aged seven years, No. 549 Wost 30th Street, New York. Henry Pukats, aged eight years, No, 24 East 118th Street, Now York. Theodore De Roche, aged eight \ | years, No, 82 Randolph Street, Free- hold, N. J. Seymore Trachtberg, aged nine ‘years, No. 182 East Seventh Street, New York City, John Makelo, aged ten years, Huntington, L. 1. Maybelle Sherwood, aged eleven years, Livingston Manor, New York. Florence Chodorov, aged twelve years, No, 5903 17th Avenue, Brooklyn. Marie Twine, aged thirteen years, No, 1908 Bighth Avenue, Brooklyn. Lillie Schlachman, aged fourteen years, Woodland Avenue, Cleve- jand, O. hrnest Peterson, aged fifteen years, No. 1503 Bergen Street, Brooklyn. ‘These ten Cousins are award win- ners in the September contest, ‘ September Contest Honorable Men- tions. The following names are those of the children whose ossa est to the award winne Seven-year cluss: Harry Fichter. Eight-year class: Marjorie Lewis. Ni year class: Helen Murray, for me.” He stuffed the jewels away. “Where's th’ phone?” “In the hall, under the stairs.” " Abner Epstein. “Good night.’ ‘Ten. : ; -year class: Charles Seibold, Haggerty's telephone message had) 4 ni Wo: en, Alharte, May Cai thrown a cordon of argus-eyed men around New York. Now, then, what ba eer Biegtried Me a would he, Haggerty, do if he were in| _leven-year i Mason's shoe? Make for railroads = or boats; for Mason did not belong to with a trul a t Now York's underworld, and he would of that, aly magnpnimous iden, ys therefore find no haven in the city. a week later, to be exact. Boat or train, then; and, of the two ‘Around and upon tho terrace ‘of the the boat would offer the better secur- 4 ity. Oncoon board, Mason would and Kilisrew ville, with, ite cool, white i, easy to lose his identity, despite the fiuminea ig ge EI Wireless, And it all Dunk by en. buppy-beds, lay the bright boauty of would Mason wateh? If he hid hi f the morning. ‘The sea below was self and stayed hidden he was vaved. iy the air between and the heavens Lord Monckton had not feturned to i > above, since no cloud moved up .or the hotel, Good. More tolephon ng: Gown tho misty blue horizons, Laan- Yes, the great railroad terminals had ten'men euch, A black-bearded man !g over the baluster was « young with scarred fingora, woman, She too was still;/and her Haggerty was really a fine General; °¥¢% directed toward the sea, con- he directed his army with shrewdn templative apparently but introspec- and little or no waste, The Jersey live in truth, divided in their deeps side was watched, East and North the blue of the heavens and the green Rivers. The big ships Haggerty of the sea, Presently a sound broke himself undertook. the hush. It came from 4 neat little ‘Ten men, vigilant and keen-eyed, brown shoe. Tap-tap, tap-tap. ‘To were watching all fruiters and trainps the observer of infinite details, a foot which sailed for the Caribbean, is often more expressive than lips or It came to the last boat. Hag- eyes. Moods must find some outlet, gerty, In each case, had not gone One can nearly perfectly control the aboard by way of the passensers' face and hands; the foot is least gangplank; not he. He got aboard suarded, The young man by the nearest poppy~bed plucked a great scarlet flower, Luckily for him the head gar- dener was not about. Then slowly he walked over to the young woman. hold to boat deck. His chance lay in Mason's curiosity. It would be al- most impossible for the man not to wateh for his anctent enemy. At two minutes to 12, as the whistle ‘I'he little foot became still. boomed its warning to visitors to go — “I am sailing day after to-morrow ashore, Haggerty put his hard palmed for Kio Janeiro,” he said. He lid hand on Mason's shoulder, The man, on the broad marble tup of the balus- intent on watching the gangplank, ter @ little chamols-bag. “Will you turned quickly, sagged, and fell back have these reset and wear them for against the rail me “Come along,” sald Haggerty, not “The sapphires? Why, you mustn't unkindly, let them go out of the family, They Mason sighed, “One question, Did are wonderful heirlooms” Mr. Crawford advise you where to “I do not intend to let them go out look for me?" of the family,” he replied quietly “No, I found you myself, Mr. Ma- Kitty stirred the bag with her son; all alone. It was a sporting fingers, She did not raise her eyes proposition; an’ you'd have won out from it. In fact, she would have if y' hadn't been human like every- body else, an’ watched for me, Come found it diMcult to elsewhere just then, look of the law equally as relentless and he spread it out and stood on it fas that of the police—the cus- i [ remains for me, then, to relate ag he and Mrs. Killigrew viewed the toms. Perfectly innocent of In- pair out on the terrace, (The million~ tent, he was none the leas a smuggler. aire can sometimes wish happiness Killigrew took him before the Col- with his Carpet) | lector of the Port, laid the matter be- “Molly, I'm going to send ‘Thomas fore him frankly, paid the duty, and down to Rio. He'll be worth exactly | took the gems over to Tiffany's ex- fiftecn hundred the year--for years pert, who informed him that these But I'm going to give him five thou- | sapphires were ho originals from sand the first year, ten thousand the which his daught6r's had been copied, ‘and twenty’ thereatter—it he} and wore far more valuable. Twenty- ‘And T think he will. He'll five thousand would not purchase never be any the wiser.” He paused | such a string of sapphires these days. tantallzingly | All like a nice, calm fairy-story for ‘Well? demanded Mrs, Killigrew, | ehildr smiling, | Immediate being informed “Woll, neither will Kitty.” | his ‘wealth. ‘Thomas became filed (The Bnd.) oan The Evening World’s ub Korner Conducted by Eleanor Schorer Copyright, 1919, by The Proms Publishing Co, (The New York Krening World.) ABOUT TIME TO DROP. Vivian Buttacavoll, William Kalfon, Francis Link, Louise Sigal. Twelve-year class: Dorothy Plant, Harry Schwartzfarb, Alma Hallritter, Eleanor old, Kathryn Person, Lillian Levine, Fam~ ny Kriegel, Maud Doucett, Edward Pfeiffer, Dorothy Moore. Thirteen-year class: Vincent Klem- mer, Ada Handler, Florence Pollock, Charles Carlsen, “William Langtry, n Harper, Rose Rosenblatt, Sather Glaser, ‘Frank Zeffer, Clara Brodie, Alberta Solway, Fourteen-year class: Edna Seibold, Pauline Pilecki, Olga Reboll, Hel Potts, Harry Michaels, Catalda M. grino, Pauline Burstein. Fifteen-year class: Julia Quist, Rachel Fishman, Lillian Johnson. COUSIN ELEANOR. you were very rave, ‘ And you nate for your people to be sa ved, Your country was so battered, Your people were so You have earned you You have earned your name, And all France shall sing. The honor of your brave King. By EVELYN ROWE, aged twelve years, Brooklyn, N, Y. DO INDIANS LIKE CANDY? NCE upon a time there tived # little boy named Tommy, One day his mother bought him @ new picture book. He went in the parlor to read his new book. As he turned over the pages he came to a [picture of an Indian wigwam. He Faced out to his mother and said: “Oh, look at the big tent, mother!” “That's a wigwam,” said his mother, So Tommy ran out in the yard and built a wigwam of wood and p! he was an Indian. Soon his mot called him, but he stayed in the yard. Soon his sister Betty came out and said, “You missed it.” He ran in the house and saw a dish of fudge on the table, He asked his mother if he Jeould have some. She asked him where he had been when she called him. He said he had been playing In- dian out in the yard. As she put the dish of fudge farther back on the jtable she sald, “Well, I guess little In- | dians do not like candy.” By ALFRED STENSON, aged nine | years, Newark, N. J. LITTLE MISS INQUISITIVE. While I was at a lady friend's house*one day minding her baby. I beard @ scratching at the closet door. T opened the door and to my great surprise something jumped out, What do you think it was? It was ferret. It looked so funny. I called the lady and she told me that her husband used it when he goes hunting, Next time I hear a scratching I won't be so ready to open the goor, Although I think all little girls are more or less im- quisitive, Don't you? Good ai Your loving cousin, | ELEAN' of LITTLE SNOW WHITE Snow-white lily Seated by a stone, Drooping and waiting Till the sun shone. LILY. Snow-white lily The sunshine has fled, Snow-white lily Is just lifting her head. Snow-white lily: Said it is very Snow-white's lily’s Clothing and food. Snow-white Ii Dressed like a bride, Shining with whiteness And crowned beside. By ADELINE NEALON, aged ten, Brooklyn, N. Y. LONESOME, One day as I was lonesome Nothing to think about, |1 bappe ned to look at The Evening World To see what the news was about. In toe paper I saw a question along!” I you wear them?" ‘That longing to see, —_—____— - | Was t¢ I could have my Kiddie Ktub “And some day will you call me] pin CHAPTER XVL nanan id z Made Into a ring. “Yea @ © ® When you return.” By LILLIAN FIDLER, aged thit- how Thomas escaped that arm Killigrew had his Magic Carpet,|teen years, P. 8. The answer was “yes.” 4OW TO JOIN THE KLUB AND OBTAIN YOUR PIN. 4 jeginning with say oem Bs be Se ee ee a ee oe