The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-03-05

timed TO run for exactly Ten minutes
and II by that time the speaker ha,
not finished and the chairman ha.
not reversed the action, q bell strikes
at the sound of which the speaker
whoever he may be, must sit down
1t is a rule that might with advantage
be introduced into other institutions
To be interrupted or called to order
by a member Of ones audience-eyeu
by ones chairman-is not pleasant
But no one, no matter how touchy
can accept a pull up from an ire
sponsible piece of dead mechanism
other than good-humoredly.
But what has all this to do with
us, you say. Well, I'm coming to il.
The 18th of next month is to be a
field day with the Ishmaelites, ana
they have succeeded in MODELLING the
prince OF Wales as their guest. And
who do you think Is to be the chair
man? A gentleman who has been
honored with a considerable amount
of attention from the syndicate al
ready-no less a parsonage than our
friend Lord Cr~anthorpe. Gentlemen,
wouldn't 1t be tempting Providence,
who has, so to speak, delivered these
two men into our hands, to let slip
such an opportunity of retrieving the
failure which attended our previous
attempt on the life of Lord Cranthorpe
and the royal family? The idea is not
mine, but our excellent friend Hub
books: but am bound to confess that
il he succeeds, as he believes he can,
In effecting the assassination of the
prince and of Lord Cranthorpe at n
he will have struck a blow at
the powers that be, the powers with
which we are at enmity, that would
UNNECESSARILY encourage the anarchist
spirit which 1t is SO much to our inter-
est to foster, and that will bring in
the subscriptions as nothing else we
have attempted lately has done"
How is it to be managed?" | asked:
and who's to do it?"
lubbock offers to take the sole re-
sponsibility and the sole risk upon his
shoulders was the answer. "He
Knows that 1t has been a rule of the
iyndicate that every new councillor
shall qualify for the honor and com
nit himself irrevocably to the re-
possibility attending a place on the
council by undertaking the first piece
" risky work that is to be done after
lis election. 1t is true that lubbock
already qualified by undertaking
he task OF securing the bag contain
ng the money which was tossed out
II the window the other day. He
and | hope that the fact that he
'ccomplished the difficult enterprise
conveyed and delivered the cash
afely and intact into the hands of the
ouncil has satisfied the councillor who
t II last meeting raised the ques-
OF Hubbock's honesty, | beg par
on. honor. But he Is anxious still
urther to prove his zeal by striking
that | am bound to confess seems to
a peculiarly daring and deadly blow
t royalty and at the aristocracy. We
constitute this council are paid
wage a war against the upper classes
nd the capitalists, and If lubbock
lcceeds, | think it will go far to sat
ify our clients and subscribers that
e are giving them something for
leir money"
Yes! yest' %interposed Councillor
Six rather testify, being an
Dyed, perhaps, at the reference which
been made to him. 1T seems to
lie there's too much jaw about these
lettings. You don't need to explain
Il these things to us over and over
as II we were a pack of school
oys. Ever since we lost our old chief.
ou jump at any chance of ~lecturing
same as some old women do who
ant to hear their own voices. We
! know that to blow up the prince of
'ales and the other aristocratic per-
her, Lord Cranthorpe, along with
m will set business moving in the
description line and we don't want
be told it all over again at every
'uncil meeting. The show amt a
'ayer-meeting. The point is, can the
ings be done? If so, how?'
Number Two took the interruption
better part than | had expected.
Very well, my friend" he said,
'od-humoredly, Il don't want to in
too many details upon you, I'm
Only as we all share the re-
onsibility as well as the profits, it I
emed only right to me that council
shall be fully acquainted with
nat was being done in their name. [
hen you know beforehand how the
ing is to be done, you will be able :
judge the better whether lubbock :
s acquitted himself capably and is
serving of further confidence and
lst. I'm very sorry If | have over 7
rdened you with detail. Shall | i
are you all the details of Hubbock's \
1eme? In that case we can merely U
lpower him to act and let the de-
Is make themselves known by re- n
8
did not at all approve the turn that l.
ngs had taken. 1t was only because 4
lad been apprised beforehand of the
.lspirators' line of action that | had
more than one occasion been sue D
isful in frustrating their projects. c
t if secrecy were maintained in re- b
ID to their proposed operations, the a
ne would be up as far ! was con- p
ned, for unless / knew what move "
were about to make, | should not =
DIV how to go to work to checkmate %
IN. .,
ITO Be Continued n
Didn't Want to Worry God. y