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quiet him he'll break loose and leave
us to walk home, to say nothing OF
smashing himself and the trap to pieces.
Lend a hand. won't you, Bruce?'
He set of at a run as he spoke. Bruce
picked up one of the lanterns. and with
Hilda on his arm. followed quickly In the
direction whence came the sound OF the
frightened horses struggle for freedom.
Scarcely had they gon fifty feet when
from behind a tree slipped a mar. He
ran stealthily toward the treasure
chest. The light of the remaining Ian
tern illumined the shifty eyes and sharp
features of Ezra Raynor. With a CUR
gle OF deiight>he ga1ed or the blazing
Jewels.
no time to waste!" he muttered,
feverishly, Chests too heavy to carry
of. Sui I can get all the jewels and
some Of the gold and then away before
those idiots get back"
He spoke haf aloud. mouthlns his
words. his eyes shining with delirtons
joy. as his lean. olaw-like fingers buried
themselves lovingly In the heap OF gems.
Chucxling, muttering, shivsring. he be-
gan showing handfuls of the treasure
into his pockets. q grin of almost i'm
beetle glee 'wrinkling his sailow face
You seem inteFested!"
The words were spoken quietly. Yet
at sound Of them Raynor bounded TO
his 6eet chattgring with terror.
o. AsaA - esrtA. ret een feat from
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him. stood Hyde Clayton. revolver In
hand. y
you shan't have it!' shrieked Ezra.
the light Of insanity cleaning In his
red-rimmed eyes. TITS mine! IT'S all
mine! Mine!"
HIS knife flashed out. Chattering and
mounting like an angry monkey, ne
crouched owe the treasure chest. his
barred yellow teeth showing in . snarl
Very calmly. very slowly. Hyde Clay
ton raised his revolver. Carefully he
aimed; and. smiling, fired full into the
diStorted face Of his victim.
The heavy y bullet dtd .ts work.
Clayton stepped forward quickly. He
lost. He must stun into his pockets
as many ny q the jewels as ne. could and
But al the fest step he stopped as
though turned to stone.
Out of the darkness. toward the faint
lantern glow, crept a shape.
A huge formless Something whose
Drawn 81 scent o. human blood frSesh
spilled, II drew Onward.
With a howl of terror Hyde Clayton
fred twice in rapid succession at the
advancing Horror. HIS cry was
shook the ground.
The tiger. mortally wounded, launched
itself with q tremendous spring on ita,
assailant, A. the brute leaped Clayton
frsa agsin. The next g. Infant n,sc o E Slow
crushed his SKULL like an eggsheil, and
victor and victim crashed down in a
Inert mae gcroas the heap OF treasure.
fyho End
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emeralds and pearls; red. white. green,
blue, yellow n hame-oolored centres.
"oh. It must be a dream!" murmured
Hilda. breaking at last the silence OF
administrator with a sigh OF wondering
delight. "It can't be true! It cam
They're'-
A roar, d~eep-voiced n terrible. burst
like a thunder-clap through the hush
OF the forest. reverberating and re-
eehoing down the silent woodland
aisles. waking to life all the sleeping
denizens OF trees and bush.
Good heaven! What was that?"
gasped the lawyer.
1t was like nothing that any OF the
trio had ever before heard, vet hered-
ttary fear. bequeathed through a lapse
OF countless centuries from cave-dweil-
ing ancestors, drove the blood from
their cheeks and checked the beating
OF their hearts.
A new sound awoke their faculties.
The horse they had kept tied some dis
INC away was snorting and plungins
with terror.
.'Whatever the noise was. It scared
my horse into '. panic" cried the law
yer. isaDins to HI fee. aand " We Arz's
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He snatchcd up the pick and leaped
into the shallow excavation again.
The others held the lanterns close to
the box. while, with two sharp blows
from the pick point, Jack broke the
hinges.
Kneel!nE beside the receptacle Bruce.
with a mis'ntv effort. wrenched of the
lid.
A simultaneous cry of amazed delight
burst from all three.
There. cleaning redly In the lantern
glare, lay row after row OF gold pieces,
not piled In confusion. but neatly packed
to, economize space, the milied edges
shi0inS Like the surface of n new Ale.
. For three-fourths of the area of the
chest the gold extended. There a parti-
ton separated 1t from the further end
OF h box. And 1t wa on this re-
naming quarter of tho chest n a the
Watchers eyes were riveted.
Glstterlng, giving back the lanterns
CLEANS from ten thousand points of
light. blazing like a rainbow ahre. were
heaps upon heaps OF gems-the Mario
family Jewels. collected by a century OF
connoisseuts.
Tiaras. bracelets, girdies. necklaces
and rings diamonds. rubies. sapphires.
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THE HOME OF DEMOCRACY.

In the past ~thirty-six years five cities have had eight
democratic National Conventions There are more
democratic voters in New York than in all of them
combined. Even in the disastrous election Of 1900,
when the Eastern Democracy was a wreck. New York
City cast twice as many votes for Bryan as Chicago, In
which he was nominated the first time, and fifteen
lines as many as Kansas City. in which he was nomi-
mated the second time.
More Democratic votes were cast in this city last
year than in Texas and Georgia, the banner Democratic
States of the Union. combined.
To bring the convention here would be to renation-
snze the Democracy. 1t would be the proof that tho
Democratic leaders no longer considered any part OF
! the Union the "enemy's country" but that they were
I prepared to appeal to the COMMON sense and the patri-
otism Of American citizens wherever they might be
found.
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A minutes walk brought them to II
little clearing. in the centre OF which
stood a tiny one-story house.
This should be the place. said
Bruce. throwing OF Goa and waistcoat
and rolling up his sleeves.
For some time no sound broke the
silence OF the woods except the cleav-
ing n thud OF earoh and the heavy
breathing OF the toilers.
Deeper grew tho excavation and high
er the heap OF soft earth piled up to
either side.
At last Bruce spade, driven through
the ground. struck something hard.
with a force that sent a Jar through
the dtgger'S whole body.
Hilda prang 10 her feet at his cry
OF Joy and ran forward.
We've struck It at last!" painted the
lawyer. Look! 1t was the corner OF a
box that your spade struck
By the pickering light they could see
box Juttlng through the surrounding
earth. Tho spade had struck through
the rust n the brown mould tina in
crusted the receptacle. and a CLINT of
freshly scratched metal showed where
the edge had cut deep into the iron.
A few moments more of frantic dig
cling n the entire box was unearthed.
where's the pick" -cried Jack, his
voice shaking with excitement. The
iron is rusted. One good blow will
smash It open"
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When the ~
Butterfly Becomes
~ a Grub.
By
Nixola Greeley Smith
Granddaughter Of Horace ereeley.)

OF horace Greeley.)
IT 10 a peculiar fact, and one which
has never been satisfactorily nc
counted Tor, h n marriage. which
seems 10 sharpen n woman's wits. al
most inevitably stupefies n mans.
Else why the w~ell-known wariness
ana guile or the widow m the equally
patent gullibility OF the wldower?
why Is a woman's power OF attack
strengthened by a plunge into matri-
mony and n mans power OF resistance
lessened by a similar step?
Why does the most unsophistie,+ed
maiden emerge In Widows weeds and
wiles from two or three years of
marriage and the most nastidIous bach
eior, when once he has made his en-
trance and his exit from ~connubial bliss.
succumb at the drop of the least lovely
eyelaah or the pout of a faintly seduc-
tive mouth?
Inc fascination OF widows is proverbial.
n ease with which widowers sue
cumb TO II Is scarcely less so.
why, even a New York bachelor who
VIII no rise save to the most brilliant
and carefully m]anoeuvred hy. wben
once the sea of matrimonv In, on
'suifed him be baited with a garden
worm.
A widow marries the first man she
lays her eyes on-if he suits her.
A widower Is married by the first
woman who sights him whether she
suits him or not.
He Is so easy that even an inexnsri-
snuea young girl can marry him II she
Generally she doesn't vant IN ,o.
wnlle the bondage bought with n ring
seeths 10 make a woman more attrpr-
nv u almost invariably lessons d
r. value. sentimentally considered.
mere may be something romantic
ahout a married woman. but about a
hurried man there cannot be.
0o Tme nay think OF the bachelor as
Drain into the ,~wherewithai for vio,eta
Tor late supperP. for moonlight
rides through Westminster. without in
Jury 70 his romantic aspect. But when
q man begins to think shoes. To dream
dressmakers' bills. to scheme and III
n suner from week end to week end
MN a more or less charming person
may capture and distribute a more or
less adequate SALARY among the grocer
ann me butcher and the Naker-
whittier ds fed the visionary CLEAN?
"heFe is IT. now. the glory and the
When a man marries, n butterfly he.
comes a grub; when a woman marries.
a butterfly remains q butterfly, with the
possibilities OF wider flights and more
gayly colored wings.
When they are widowed, the butterfly
fits hither and thlther until II fnds
satisfa ctory resting place, but
tho grub, not having wings, waits pa
tlently for the first thing that comes
~along-and grubs for It.
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
Hilda Gilchrist, q stenographer, 10 engaged
TO- Jack Bruce. n law clerk. Her late uncle,
whose sole heiress she Is, was reputed rich,
Hyde Clayton. Hildn's employer. is anxious
to marry. her In order to find some clue 10
this uncle's estate. Clayton's henchman.
Ezra Raynor. offers to help his master in
finding the fortune. HildR discovers in a
strong boz OF her uncle's an apparently blank
sheet OF paper. On this paper words and
figures are treated In sympathetic ink.
A cryptogram 10 thus formed which, by an
easy method they translate. II contains d.
%rectlons to the whereaouts OF tho fortune.
Hid and Bruce, by means OF the crypto-
gram. find the strong box containing the for
tune. In the box Is also a note directing them
to dig at the corner OF a hut in the woods
near Fordham. where Hilda's uncle had
buried the family Jewels. They set out for
the woods that evening. Swallowed by Clay
ton and Raynor. A man-eating tiger escapes
their Destination.
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THE RIGHT USE OF NASSAU STREET

A city, after all. exists for the people in it. Trucks
md automobiles are run for human convenience. When
here is a question, therefore, between the convenience
Of the people and that of mechanical contrivances, the
people should have the right of way.
On Nassau street there Is no room in the crowded
hours OF the day for foot passengers and vehicles. The
whole thoroughfare is none too wide for the stream Of
Humanity alone. There are plenty Of other streets
eItabie for trucking-there is no other so plainly indi-
Gated as the site of a charming arcade, free from mud.
dzat and rain. and dedicated to the useful art Of
Falking.
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CHAPTER XII.
Nocturnal Treasure Hunt

M EANTIME the trio of treasure seek.
It ers drove or toward the woods,
happily unaware of the Horror
that lurked among the dark under
growth ahead OF them and OF the scarce
ly lesser danger that followed close be-
hind them.
Let us get out here" said their host,
alightlng n tying the horse to a tree.
This Is as near as the trap can ap-
Oroach your uncie's hut. 1t 10 only a
fow yards iurther on"
Bruce lifted Hilda to the ground.
lighted . lantern and began gathering
iuD the digging implements.
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Convention.

A q cOD' ooiu IhO 3 o"ic naout Ihoy
are trying to steer the Democratic National
Il Convention to this CITY,"
1t isn't a steer" corrected the Man Higher Up;
l"tt is a piece of philanthropy. The men who are
boosting the movement have a license to organize un-
der the name Of the Society for the Prevention of CRU
city to Delegates. II New York gets the convention
once the people who come here to attend it will never
want to 60 anywhere else.
THE delegates and. others who attend an interior
national convention get stung as soon as they get or
the trains. and after that the sting is continuous. The
only concerns that don't double the rates are the street.
car lines. The hotels import clerks from Florida re-
sort lodging-houses to press bills. the restaurants make
plans to pay expenses for a year in six days and the
saloon-keepers, that have been selling booze to natives
at 10 cents straight for three years and ffty-one weeks,
have the bartender's jackets washed and ironed and
elevate the price of the bridge paint to two for a quarter.
Chicago is the only town in the West that can &C.
commodate a convention crowd without making the ma
jority Of the visitors sleep in the suburbs. The only
disadvantages Chicago has are that her hotels, with few
exceptions. are the kind that make a speciality of cater
ing to drummers who want sample-rooms; IL a frost
don't show up during the convention it rains; the wind
blows from the southwest all the time the convention Is
on. bringing the %stockyards to the heart of the city; the
coal SCOT is so thick in the air that a stranger, after be-
ing out an hour, could get admitted to Booker T. Wash
ington's school on sight. and the only amusement q
visitor can have Is to go out and be held up.
"All that can keep the convention from New York IL
New York herself. You know what a generous giver-up
the average New York business man Is To ask him for
a contribution Of 500 is like making a threat to burn
down his store. or course, New York don't need the
convention. but I've been to the national gatherings O,
both parties, and l am here to announce that as free and
unlimited spenders the Democrats have got tie Elks, the
Eagles. the G. A. R. and all the rest of the delegates
who convene skinned forty ways"
"I've heard that the Westerners are afraid OF Tam.
many men" said the Cigar Store Man.
THAT may be-" replied the Man Higher Up. "but you
can bet your shirt that the Westerners have never beer
timid about taking their money"
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tanfa Claus Needs n Gun.-lf there ever was a crime. and
a particularly mean one, 1t was that OF that PHILADELPHIA
syndicate which burned 1000 Christmas trees to keep I'D
the price OF the rest OF its stock. Are there no poor chill
dren in Philadelphia. who are not usually In the Christ
mas tree market. but who could have been made happy by
those thirty carloads OF wantonly wasted delIght2
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BINDING NEW YORK TOGETHER.

y. On New Years Day. 1898. Manhattan and Brooklyn
became legally parts of one city, but physically they
were still separate. Only the slender bond of a single
bridge held them together. To-day that bond is dou-
'bled. With the opening Of the Williamsburg Bridge
Greater New York becomes less a name and more a
reality. The East River is shrinking, and it will con-
ttaue to shrink. A tunnel is boring under it, another
will. soon be begun, and two more great bridges are
well under way. Five years hence the East River will
be hardly more Of a barrier in New York than the
Thames is in London or the Seine in Paris.
The completion of even one new connection be-
ATeen the boroughs makes it possible to plan a transit
kystem which shall relieve the frightful congestion at
me Manhattan end Of the old bridge. The jam at
hat point is due to the fact that it is a terminal, and a
ripple terminal, at that. Bridge cars. trolley cars and
Elevated trains all dump their loads in one little spot.
Of course, that spot is congested. Moreover, while the
trolley cars keep moving around loops, the bridge ana
aeyated trains are delayed by the necessity of running
INTO their termini and then backing out.
To reduce crowding and delays to their lowest terms
the traffic must be kept moving in continuous circula'
ton. Every stopping point should be a way station
and none a terminal. Then the passengers would be
distributed all along the route and there would Re no
blocIades anywhere.
It is IN this direction that all the local transporta-
tion experts are working. The opening Of the Will
~iamsburg Bridge will give the first opportunity to carry
out the idea. 1t will enable the old bridge terminal to
be abolished, allowing the cars that come westward
on one bridge to circle home on the other. and vice
versa. The tunnels and the additional bridges will per-
NIT the system to lie extended still further.
Several ingenious plans for this service have been
worked out, notably by Bridge Commissioner Linden
thai and Chief Engineer Parsons. of the Rapid-Transit
Commission, and it is a discredit to the city that none
of them has been adopted and put in the way of exc
cution. AllNthe arrangements for approaches and traffic
connections ought to have been made soslong In advance
that the new cridge could have begun Its work of re-
lief as soon as its builders had laid down their tools.
As 1t is, 1t will have to stand for some time as a monu-
@aent to- official bunglng-and certainly not a monu-
3nent that will attract admiration for its beauty.
But this is only an annoyance OF the moment. For
generations after 1t is forgotten the great bridge will
continue to serve the convenience of New Workers.
With a developing civic sense of beauty It's oil-well der
ricks will be replaced by graceful towers, and the Will
1amsbyrg Bridge will become, like It's stately ~predeces-
sor. one of the things that give us the right to feel that
we are citizens of no mean city.
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zHHza TranHft cenpctitien.-The Metropolitan win be
R|fQpHd AZ q bidder for the, next tunnel contrast. Let
lop1 that it's competition with the Belmont syndicate
HI2 ~ re, genuine article.s and not like the congestion
the BethIehepa and Carnegie works in the manu-
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With The Worlds Compliments-The Evening World
greets the new Williamsburg Bridge to-day with a special
four-page supplement. which will be seen by a good many
more people than the ctys $4,000 worth OF fireworks
Those who miss the pyrotechncs may have the satisfac-
ton Of rejecting that they can enjoy their World supple
ment considerably longer.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-05

Sardou. determined to fit the English
actor with the cloth he demanded, shows
US, in a series Of disconnected tableaux.
Dante as patriot. as lover, as father. as
warrior, as poet, as rescuer Of beauty in
distress, as scorner Of pOpes, as arraigner
of crimes, spiritual and temporal, az a fore
runner of John Martin Luther. Indeed
were one disposed at all to ribaldry the
title of the play might suggest itself in this
form: "Dante's Profile; or First Aid to the
Injured"
In a scene instinct with pictorial beauty
a sprngtide fete at Florence Dante,
disguised "a a monk, meets Comma, his
daughter She does not know him. She
Ia betrothcd TO Francesca's brother,
Bernardino. Here again Irving demon
strates his emotional power and it's artistic
presentation. Your tear ducts overflow
What more trite. conventional. overworked
as a theatric device, than the love Of a father
for daughter And such father Yet
your eyes are wet and you feel ashamed
that the crafty old magician Of Marty is
able to press down the right key in the
instrument. Here there are passages with
real literary quality. Dante soliloquizes:
Il see my dear love Florence once again!
Ay, but | stand in Florenc, once again;
An, that moment when, after all these
years my feet were set once more on Tuscan
earth; once more our Tuscan speech fell
on mine ears; then JOY and anguish swept
across my heart, the dimming mist Of love
rose TO mine eyes; through il l saw, Florence,
how vast thou changed loved marks
gone, and new, unknown ones risen; how
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As grasped at clue after clue only to see
II evaporate, I felt like the traveller in
South America who crosses precipi-
tous ravine on rope bridge. Some
times he gets over and sometimes the rope
parts and he clings to any saving strand.
A dozen times you feel this sagging of the
solid earth and wonder how deep will be
the drop. When the curtains close there
Is a sigh of relief all over the house. At
least 30 much is over.
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ute and the Red Haired Girl is so changed
in the hands OF Margaret Halstan that
she is no longer the reckless, -free-spoken
creature of the novel. Miss Halstan plays
hcr after the manner of clinging person
with PARKWAY look and n hanltering after
Burne-Jones pictures.
The big hit in the entire cast is made
by Nina Bouclcault by her imperSonation
of Bessie Brake, who destroys Dicks pict-
IRE in an access of Jealous rage. Miss
Boucicault triumph is nightly one,
though il il Mr. Robertsons duty TO turn
on the milIstrcam of feminine eyes He
does this to perfection, his third act being
sincere and sympathetic, The next best
man in the cast il Aubrey Smith az Tor
penham. The production is all that II
should he. the prologue being the most
notable in point Of scenic novelty, II
shows view Of the Soudnn. The Light
That Failed" goes to America this fall
and its title will be a misnOmer, for the
Robertsons are sure TO receive warm
welcome. JAMES HUNEKER.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-05

There always has been an ecclesiastical
fond in Henry Irving. He loves to perform
the role of an ecccsiastic, and with his fine.
lean, ascetic features, his spiritual brow
and frail fgure he s really at his best
when the priest His Dante will recall
to theatregoers his monk Beckett. And
strange TO relate, his dicton has never been
clearer, more satisfactory. There is hope,
then that when he reaches the age of 81 we
may understand everything he says.
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Some of the Dore scenes are reproduced;
the falling flakes of crisp fire; the frozen
lake wherefrom the poor souls protrude
like baked twigs; the hot tombs-all these
are spectacles that make thrall your vision
The general scheme of painting ia decora-
tive and impressionsticas in the fete
scene