Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-09

| quishes his grip on the situation and makes
! a speech to the stock exchange, in the
! course of which he tells the bullying eyed
7 brokers certain dark secrets about the
Safeguarding game that are today
| known to every office boy in Wall street,
| and then agrees to pour his modest little
fortune of a billion dollars back into the
| hopper in order that the mill of 1niquity
may continue to grind it's grist of grief and
| crime and tragedy.
Mr.. Lawson, it is said, believes that Fri
| day the Thirteenth will cure the evil Of
stock gambling. 1t will not do this. but If
| 1t will cure Mr.. Lawson of the notion that
| he can write novel it will have served a
| good end.
THE PORT OF MISSING MEN. By Mer-
| edith Nicholson, author of The
House of a Thousand Candles" etc.
| Illustrated Indianapolis: The BobbS-
Merrill Company.
| Those who visited Mr.. Nicholson's me-
dieval palace bv an Indiana lake, popularity
| known as The House of Thousand Can
| dies who followed the girl with the red
| Tam o Shanter, heard the great chande-
/ lier come down in the midst of the final
/ fight and participated in the other stirring
| adventures set forth in that charming vol
ume will be all cooked and primed for an
other iunket. Here is an international ad-
venture. 1t starts in Geneva jumps to
| Washington, with thrilling episode on the
| ocean. and brings to an end a series OF IN
: teres:ing events at the Port of Missing
| Men in the hills of Virginia.
| The story is confesseJly one of entertain
ment and adventure. The reader is invited
| in the foreword to take the road as
| knight Of DID, and fare forth in search OF
! stirring things.
Given for the foundation of the plot
missing heir to the throne of a crumbling
| European monarchy, who has disappeared
| somewhere in America, the conniving of
courtiers who would produce a fictitious
| aspirant for the throne, handsome and
| devil-may care young nobleman whom the
| reader does not know, until the end of the
! story is reached. to be the missing heir or
! not; sprightly American girl for love of
| whom events are set in motion which dis
| turb and finally upset all the Vaccinations
! of the plotters, and you have the ground
work of a lively story. The author does not
| hesitate, In treating with the subjects of
| his pen to use cold steel and cold lead to
! solve problems that otherwise In this work
| a-day world would seem difficult of sou-
| ton. With daring freedom that makes one
| catch his breath, Mr.. Nicholson introduces
| into the quiet and innocent country life of
prosaic Americans deadly plot and intrigue,
| sudden death and murder, and gets away
with the undertaking.
The characters are all well drawn. John
Armitage is the hero, a man of considerable
mystery. In the course of the story, 1t APP
pears as if he might be one of number
in the end. Shirley Claiborne of the Clai-
bornes of Washington is a girl whom any
one would love and number of men do
love her. Her brother, Capt Claiborne, who
was stationed at Fort Myer, is manly fell
low, the type of the army officer often seen
in Washington. There are some diplomats,
and group of villains in the plot who come
on and off the stage as their presence is de-
manded, which is often.
There's interest, hints of intrigue, mys-
terry and impending tragedy Events moved
swiftly and John Armitage sets out to find
a paper, the purloining of which causes one
death, and which finally leads him a chase
across the Atlantic to the Port of Missing
Men and happiness 1t all ends in a good
old-fashioned healthy American way, and
is worth reading to beguile wintry even
ing or spring afternoon.
THE DANGERvILLE INHERITANCE; a
Detective Story. By A. C. FoX-Davies
New York: John Lane Company.
Unlike most detective stories, this one
| does not begin with a crime. 1t starts
with the second marriage of the elderly
! Lord Dangervile, an Irish peer without
| means, living in Paris on money-lender's
bounty. Then it introduces heir, and
| with a swift lapse of years it brings the
| young Lord Dangerville into London So
| ciety. Presently a tragedy occurs and the
| untangling of it engages the attentions of
| two of Londons smartest detectives and
| one of it's cleverest barristers The net of
| their Investigations catcneS a large NUMBER
| of people, and the consequence is most
| confusing tangle of motives, opportunities
and contradictions with some exciting pur-
| suits. The climax is totally unexpected
| and satisfactorily complete.
THE TARIFF AND THE TRUSTS. By
| Franklin Pierce of the New York Bar.
| New York: The Macmillan Company.
| Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
| Mr. Pierce is a firm believer in the doc
| trim tat cd fauy bafo
Senate committee by Mr.. Havemeyer of
New York, that the tariff is the mother of
the trusts" He believes that until the
! tariff is reduced on liberal scale the giant
monopoles will continue to exist and extort
enormous profits from domestic consumers
of their products. He Furthermore believes
that only through a persistent agitation of
the question between presidential cam
paigns can the subject be sufficiently eluci-
dated to enable the people to clearly under
stand it and intelligently to vote to the end
of securing tariff revision. After an ex-
haustive account of the state of the world
| of production and commerce today and
review of tariff conditions here and abroad,
he states his remedy in this striking man.
ner:
The true remedy against our trusts is to
| seek out the cause of a trust and to remove
that cause. This is perfectly simple and
applies to public matters the same rule of
wisdom which men apply in their own af-
| fairs as to health, business and every pri-
| vate transaction in the world. If typhoid
! fever or some other epidemic is sweeping
| over your community and you find that 1t
results from sewage or some other physical
| cause. you will remove the cause and not
| rely solely upon the skill and remedies of
| medical practitioners. Some visitors who
| were being shown over a pauper lunatic
| asylum inquired of their guide what method
was employed to discover when the inmates
were sufficiently recovered to leave.
| We'll replied he, you see it's this way.
! We have a big trough of water and we
| turns on the tap. We leave it running and
| tells EN- to bail out the water with pals
! until they've emptied the trough
i - How does that prove it?' asked one of
/ the visitors.
E" Well said the guide, them as amt
idiots turns of the tap.
| Throw down the tariff wall which encir-
| Giles every trust which is selling its domes-
| tic product at high prices, and at the same
time selling in foreign markets at lower
prices than at home and let the trust con-
| tend with the full stream of international
| commerce. II it continues to exist it will
| be because IL sells its products at home for
| cheaper prices than the cost of the import