Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-07


come councillor"
Can you prove this?" asked the
other. Il don't mean that | doubt
your word, but, as none of us knows
each others name, there is nothing to
prevent any of us from claiming that
he is the senior member of the council.
And If Number One is really dead, it
will be necessary to elect his successor
witho out delay, if the work of this So
| ciety is to be Srrled on"
Quite so,' said Number Two. 'Who
| is to be that successor will be for the
| council to decide, and need not yet be
| discussed but as you challenge my
statement and call upon me to prove
that | really was in our dead chiefs
confidence let me ask if you or any
other councillor can tell us what busi-
ness was to be discussed at the meet
ing last night?"
mo, | can't" said the spokesman.
as there any other councillor present
vho can?'
He looked around inquiringly, but
no one spoke, and with something Of
a triumphant air, Number Two went
on.
"The business which was to come
before the meeting was two-fold. First
the newly-appointed Councillor Num-
Der Seven was to make his report in
regard to the removal of the traitor,
Councillor Number Seven that was"
go on" said the other, nodding.
I'VE might have guessed that far, even
without being in the confidence of the
chief"
THE second business" said Council
lor Number Two, without noticing the
| interruption, was to arrange a mat
ter of Importance. A week or SO ago
the police raided house, No. SO Fas-
sett Square, Dalston, in which a con-
siderable quantity of dynamite was
stored. That dynamite had been
brought there from the continent by a
man in the pay of our chief. acting on
behalf of the council. Can any one
present tell us the sequel of the raid?"
He paused and looked around in
quiringly, but received no answer.
Il thought not" said Number Two,
with evident satisfaction. Il can, as it
was told me By our chief himself.
Listen! The police made what they
thought a big haul of dynamite, but
they have left behind them more than
they took away and last night the
facts were to have been placed before
the council, that the dynamite might
be secured and used for the carrying
out of an enterprise which Number
One has long been contemplating. Can
any one tell me where the explosive
which the police failed to find was con-
cealed?"
Again there was a sullen silence
Then Number Two went on speaking
with the air of a man who feels that
he has the game in his own hands.
I'm the cellar of the house am speak
ing of there We're a few dozen bottles
of wine half a dozen bottles of spirit
and a small cask of beer The wine
and spirit the police took with them
and the beer they drank, leaving what
they supposed was the empty barrel
behind them. Their way of looking
at things evidently was that, as bar
rels were made to contain beer, and as
this particular barrel did contain beer
and good beer-and beer was made
to be drunk, all they had to do was
to drink the beer and there was an
end of the matter. If they had taken
the trouble to ascertain whether the
barrel contained anything else but beer
they would have left the house with
full hands as we'll as with full bellies,
for the barrel was divided into two
compartments, the lower containing
that concoction of the devil, as our
teetotal friends would call it-Double
y, and the upper that pretty little
plaything, which it has been left to
man and not to the devil, to devise
dynamite
well, gentlemen" he went on, in q
briSker and more businass-like tone,
you all know the story of the quarrel
between Lord CranLhorpe and his work
peOple-that he has reduced the wages
of more than ! 900 men and women
who work in his mill, taking 20 per
cent. off the mems payment and % off
the W0men's, and has refused to lis
Z ten to anything which is to be said on
behalf Of the people or to receive dep
utation on the subject. He has taken
: advantage of the fact that he is roll
ing in money and that they are en-
tirely dependent upon their earnings
to act toward his fellow-countrymen
as the rich acts towards the poor in
) Russia. AT this moment hundreds OF
families are starving through his
greed. He is the best-hated man in
England to-day, and nothing we can
do would make the societies which we
direct more popular among the people
who support us than a blow aimed at
; him. This dynamite Of which l have
spoken was brought to England by the
instruction of our late chief, who had
intended at the next meeting of the
council to propose the blowing up OF
Lord Cranthorpe's house in Plantag-
enet Square. If this could be accom-
plished by us successfully it would give
. wonderful stimulus to our work all
over the world, and would cause sub
I scriptions to pour in, which, as the first
: handling of whatever money is sub
| Scribed is one of the privileges (Shall