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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-23
MISERERE
BY JOHN BARTON OXFORD.
Copyright, 1904, by T. c. Mcclure.


lighting a good fight and winning
victory-when it's too Late he added.
The girls head went up proudly.
1T was not a good fight" she said
scornfully IF it had been, do you
think l would have said there was too
much to forgive? 1t was a dilatory
sort of battle you put up-until-
until"
Until L had lost your respect and
with it-your love" he finished for
her.
She nodded miserably.
You are quite right" he said
And l ask thousand pardons for
the pain this intrusion of mine has
caused you. AS an architect of trouble
I'm huge and unqualified success. I
promise you l won't repeat the Of
Tense"
He rose.
I'm going now" he went on. but
before | do. may | say that even IL 1t
Is a tardy victory ] have won the
Victory is due to the one good and
perfect woman | have known in the
course of my somewhat unenviabe
life; and because Of her and the mem
DRY of her the victory will be a per-
manent one"
The color had died away, and in the
gray-black sky the stars We're flash
ing. The bell within the monastery
wall tinkled again, and from the dis
tant chapel floated the deep strains OF
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They followed the little footpath
that wound along the blum by the
river. The red dusk was fading into
the gray hues of early evening. Far
away sounded the plaintive notes of
q poor whippoorwill. and in the
marshes across the stream the frogs
were beginning to pipe.
The girl led the way along the path,
her eyes fixed pensively on the dying
embers in the western sky. The man
followed walking very slowly. and
now and then wrinkling his brow in
a perplexed frown. Each felt the
tension of the silence. yet neither
spoke.
The path came finally to an abrupt
ending just outside the gray walls of
the Trappist monastery. Whether by
accident or design the girl had led
him thither. the man could not have
told; but those walls rising on the
bluff above the river seemed to
breathe of hopelessness and futility.
And yet too, they seemed to signify
great and an unending peace.
The girl stood on the edge of the
bluff looking down at the swirllng
river many feet below The man
came to her side and stood quietly
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studying her face for some inkling of
her thoughts; but the girls expression
masked whatever emotions were strug-
Cling within her She turned TO him
with a grave smile
This is the end of the path" she
said. Shall we 20 back?"
NO" he said impulsively. Lets
rest here bit--on this stone," he
added leading the way TO n we'll
worn granite block on the very brink
of the bluff.
As they sat down a bell tinkled
unsteady behind the gray walls.
"Vespers." the girl explained, at the
man turned about.
NOW, II ! were only as good as
they" the man began suggestively,
nodding his head toward the walls.
The girl smiled a trife YEARLY.
Ifs are eternally futile" she said.
the river to the ragged fringe of pines
standing out sharply against the sky.
There is too much to forgive,
suppose" he said.
Yes. too much" he answered.
He laughed bitterly.
80 like me-" he complained ito
close the stable door after the horse
has gone"
II warned you, please remember
she said
yes, know you did" he replied.
you warned me against what Is bred
I'm the bone-against inbred faults that
are not mastered IN a day. Mind, I'm
not blaming my sins onto my ances-
tors; only, please give me credit for
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HOW PATSY
SETTLED THE FEUD.

The feud started from nothing at all.
Walter Sheppard was sitting on George
Martins fence and slipped and fell
into the rabbit coop.
None of the rabbits was hurt, be-
cause they were busy burrowing in
the ground, and the coop wasn't badly
broken; but George said Walter did 1t
on purpose, and Walter lost his tenn
per and said George lied.
They started to fight it out on the
spot but the other boys pulled them
apart. Walter wouldn't apologize and
George wouldn't take back what he
said. Some of the boys sided with
one and some with the other, and the
girls followed the boys, and next day
the whole street was In open feud.
When Patsy's father heard about ii
he said they were having Kentucky
mountain life in the city.
Patsy wasn't sure whose side she
was on, although her brother Jim was
for Walter. because Walter had really
and truly slipped.
The part Of the feud that Patsy
minded was that II spoiled the first
meeting of the dancing class, and that
was the very incest thing that hap
pened all winter.
Walter got 10 class first. and when
George arrived and saw him he made
all the boys on his side walk right out
of the hall before the dancing teacher
could stop them. Then there weren't
enough boys TO go around, and every
body talked about the feud, and the
teacher was angry, and no one had a
good time.
Things ran along badly for several
weeks. Georges crowd made their
headquarters in his yard, but Walter
had to use Jim's and Patsy's for his,
because he lived In a Hat and hadn't
any yard.
one day Patsy was sitting on her
front steps after school, and Walter
came along and sat down beside her.
Walter" said Patsy suddenly, 1.-THE
feuds spoilin' everything. You two
boys oughta make up. We amt
goin' to have any fun all winter"
After she said II she was afraid
Walter would be mad. but he wasn't.
II know it," he replied almost sad
~, but / said ] wouldn't apologize,
and never break my word"
Walter held his head up high and
said this very grandly. and Patsy felt
little thrill Of pride run down her
back.
You're both Of you to blame" said
Patsy boldly. you wouldn't either of
you give In and you acted horrid, and
you both oughta 'pologize"
Just then the boys whistled for him,
and he ran back into the yard TO join
them.
Now, curiously enough, as Patsy
was going TO see Mary Mitchell that
afternoon she met George Martin
walking through the park all alone,
and before she thought what she was
going TO say she stopped him and ask
ed him n he didn't think the feud was
spelling everything, and he said
promptly that he did.
And without letting on that she had
spoken to Walter, she got George to
say that II Walter would ever apollo
gze, he would. and that was what
Patsy wanted.
"Mommy," said Patsy, a few nights
later, may / make some fudge for the
boys? They're Dlayin' In the yard, and
I'd like 10 treat EN-"
When the nice. thick hot chocolate
was cooked and cooled and cut in
squares she called the boys IN from
the back yard. When their hs
were full she slipped away and called
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paign contribution as any part of that
fund. For the last five years we have
worked only to the end that this law
should be passed. If it fails. the party
will lose power in the state for all
time to come We shall be cut on
from the city. state and national pat
ronage, and the leaders will"
He paused with a shudder, and II
was Hawkins who in a word epitom-
lied the fate. Jail" he whispered,
hoarsely.
But il was not Hawkins cue to
terrorze: there was no profit i'm that
I'VE can't lost, Guv'nor. he de-
clared, taking a chair nearer the state
chairman.
"They can't even take an appeal to
the courts. Every man who has gone
to the bench in the last five years is
our man-state or federal. We made
this legislature. and we've got the
crowd BY this time next month the
Light and Power Company will have
the whole state for its own, and If
the people don't like It they can move
out"
He helped himself unrebuked to one
OF Graham's private stock of cigars,
and, adjusting his hat at jauntier
angle. started for the door. Graham
checked him at the threshold.
What about Macy he asked.
could you get him.
Hawkins winked expressively.
Easiest part of the job" he de-
clared Never cost a cent. The
promise of the governorship landed
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his strength in other ways disquieting
to the state chairman, who was risk
ing the work of a lifetime upon the
issue of the Light and Power deal.
Graham had first formed the party
when a gubernatorial candidate. of one
of the established parties had not
given satisfaction. His Independent
candidate had won, and Graham found
himself able to make his position the
more secure through the distribution
of state patronage.
Then the idea of the Light and
Power Company had come to him. A
few of those closest to him were taken
into confidence, and then began a five
year preparation for the steal of the
franchises for which millions of dol
lars should have been paid to the
state. Central light plants We're to
be established at convenient points
where water power facilities might be
ACQUIRED by condemnation through
commission of their own selection,
and the entire state was to be covered
by the stations. Tt was virtually
light trust, and, as such, was worth
the effort.
Then it began to be whispered about
that a lighting company was about to
be formed which should be of vast
benefit to the state. and through
few newspapers, owned by Graham or
his friends, II was urged that these
public benefactors be afforded every
encouragement.
Gradually the Independents APP
peared to adopt the issue as one
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views with Macy over his position,
but he had convinced her that he was
guided by a sense of right, and by glib
argument had almost satisfied her that
his cause was just Never did he refer
to the promised governorship.
Macy. was just about to make the
principal speech i'm favor of the meas
ure, and had already begun, when
Horace Langston dropped into the
aisle beside her seat.
PITY Jack has sold himself for a
mess of pOttage," he said. as he be-
slowed himself more comfortably on
the step. Il hate to see the old chap
get mixed up in this"
What mess of pottage?" she de-
manded. He simply follows his be-
lief, and that is his birthright"
That's his birthright" said Lang
ston, with emphasis on the first word
But you can't make the world believe
that the pottage is not the nomination
in the fall"
Her fathers words came back to
her. rs it true?" she demanded,
breathlessly. He nodded. She rose
hurriedly and left her seat. When she
returned Macy had reached the close
of his preamble.
In mastery fashion he had summoned
up the advantages accruing to the
oNdAt liOIi the tbldDllSHIleIlL OF LnlS
vast system of electrical supply-a
supply which should attract foreign
corporations, and thus return to the
treasury many millions of dollars.
He was always a convincing speak
err Now, inspired by a mighty au-
dience, he was doing his best. His
heart was not altogether I'm what ne
said, for there stil existed the feeling
that perhaps, after all, there had been
bribery and corruption.
There had been a suspicious activity
in the members room before the ses-
sion was called. Hawkins had how
cred near him, apparently anxious that
others should not speak. as though
there were something he was anxious
TO have kept back.
He was sitting I'm the front row
now. watching. hawklike, everything
that transpired.
There was no personality In the
speech, but 1t was a mastery argu-
ment in favor of the measure, CLOSING
over the effect on established COM
panies who were to be driven out Of
business through the cheaper prices
afforded by the general company. And
Hawkins. with his beadllke eyes scan
ming the faces Of the assembly. felt
with a pang that some OF the thou
sands might have been saved Macy
argued in such mastery fashion.
Graham, gray-faced and haggard,
sat IN the members gallery Just across
the aisle from Edith. For two nights
HIS head had not rested upon n pillow
A few hours only he had snatchod ON
a sofa in the headquarters. Already
"a sense Of triumph lifted HIS pulse
With Mays speech even the most
iimid member need not be afraid 10
vote for the bill. Macy brought out
arguments which would release them
from all suspicion Of bribery. Even
from where he sat he could note from
The changing expressions that The
doubtful ones were now Ca line.
And now EdithB voice attracted
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must show himself Thereupon the
leader of the chickens cries:
"A fox / seel fox / seel
Run to hiding behind mel"
The chickens must all race then to
get behind the leader The fox rushes
out and tries TO catch chicken. The
hound must run out Of his hiding place
at the same moment and protect the
chickens by getting between the leader
and the fox. II he succeeds the fox
must run away and hide again. II he
falls, and the fox succeeds In getting
q chicken. he leads Il away to his
den where it must stay till the game
is ended
After he has caught a number OF
chickens-say five or slx-the leader
and the hound call to each other:
I'VE must hunt the villain down."
Then they race after the fox, keep
ing the chickens behind them all the
time The fox seeks to escape leader
and hound, and also tries to catch a
chicken. The game ends when the fox
Is caught or when he has caught all
the chickens except the leader.
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MIN. He thinks it's all on the level
men, with careless so long" he
slouched out and Graham's face lit
ure.
He needed Macy more than he
cared TO admit. Even when one has
purchased the legislature, it is better
mat Tor appearances sake, there
should be some show of debate. some
brilliant speaker to apparently win
by his arguments the wavering voters
10 MS standard. Macy was Just the
man and the only man.
Nhen the Independent party had
peen formed five years before Graham
mad taken up George Miller, had es-
tablished him as state attorney, and
mad made him, socially and politically.
because his was the glib tongue they
needed.
When he had died during the last
session they were left without a
spokesman. and John Macy was won
over after fashion, but not admitted
TO the confidence of the inner circle.
Even at the eleventh hour, when
the fruit of five years work would be
garnered or lost, Graham was still
uncertain as to his man. If Macy
could be led to believe that this was
strictly party measure he would up
hold it. He was a brilliant speaker,
fluent in thought. clear in diction and
with fund of allusion and quotation.
In this way he was convincing, though
as rule he lacked the power of i'm
pressing the nearer with the belief
that he was himself convinced, even
when the clearness of his argument
convinced others. Graham he did not
care for. but he followed his leader
Ship for want of one more to his lik-
ing, and he was a useful man.
Several times, on minor PROPOSE
tons, he had carried the vote away
from the Independents and had shown
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the organ.
Come" said the man. this is the
end. Wen go back"
But the girl did not move from the
stone.
"It is the end" he said again. all
most roughly.
Sstll she did not move. He came
step nearer. and saw that her Shout
ders rose and fell convulsively. He
sank on to the seat beside her and
gently stroked her hair.
DON'T" he begged brokeniy.
"Don'tl I'm not worth i'll"
The sound of the chapel organ grew
louder. The voices of the Trapplsts
rose In the "Miserere." II came clear
and strong and solemn on the evening
air. The girls head was lifted. She
looked through her tears searchingly.
eagerly. at the man beside her.
He felt the power Of those eyes, and
bis head bowed slowly. Something
seemed to rise In his throat and
choke him; lac took her hand awk-
wardly and held it 80 tight that II
made her vince.
"Misererew he muttered. Have
mercy-have mercy
The voices Of the Trappists died
away. The organ rumbled on in sol
emn minor chords. He lifted his eyes
to hers, and what he read there left
him dazed and speechless.
The girls fingers frightened about his
hand; her wet face was close 70 his
and Trappist father. who came soft
~ TO close the iron gates. looked.
smiled and mumbled a benediction.
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SUCCESSFUL WOMEN
IN VARIED FIELDS
Confined from Page Twenty-four.)


Stories of failures of women in busl-
ness undertakings who retreat into the
home field for eventual happiness are
not uncommon. Less is told concern
ing the success of other women who
eVade the failure line by abandoning
the original cherished hope and turn
ing to the next best thing. Some iu-
stances of the latter sort are told which
contain varied interest.
Once a candid editor told a young
artist that her serious work was so
badly done that it was actually humOr-
GUS. The girl was Immediately cheer
ed and began to draw things whose
humor was intentional. She had n lit
tie knack of making preposterous an
giles, and she turned it to account with
an advertising firm. AS a result she
possesses an enviable income and the
distinction of having created one of
the most popular advertising posters OF
the day
Two other girls from the West came
10 New York to paint miniatures. When
they were reduced to the last few dol
lars someone suggested the making of
lampshades. BY studying old Louis and
Marie Antoinette designs from library
copies and investing in some rich ma
terlals, they We're able to contriVe ar
tistic shades marketable in the Wom-
ans Exchange, and afterward to open
their own studio. The lampshade study
has broadened into study of old archi-
lecture and interior decoration.
girl with a library training fail
ed to obtain a desirable position he
cause she lacked "A college degree and
quite by accident discovered her al
tentative. One morning she looked up
references in the library for a young
editorial assistant, and did 1t so thor
oughly and systematically that he Sc
cured for her more of the work. Now
she has an office I'm New York and sew
eral assistants and does work of CON
siderable value.
Success in sculpture is an unusual at
tainment for a woman, but one won-
an who is an Australian has won dis
tinction in the work. She is Miss Mar
garet Baskerville, of Melbourne and
there her studio is located Painting
and sketching are also among her ar
ttStic interests, and she has made
several exhibits, both in oils and wat
err color. of portraits, landscapes and
flower studies. In Melbourne she is
on the council of a sculptors society
| and a worker for the Australian salon.
beside holding little court of artistic
folk in her own studio. Recently Miss
Baskerville has beep recreating in
London, where she has made some in
teresting studies of comparative land
scape of England and Australia.
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in THE LADIES' GALLERY.
BY EPES w. SARGENT.
copyright, 1904, by Epes w. SARGENT

Il can remember the time" said
Hawkins, regretfully reminiscent
when you could buy the back county,
men for as low as fifty. remember
wnen l bought a majority for the
Scovil Dam Company for less than q
thousand-and they give me five. That
was profit These chaps cost a whole
lot more than that; why
Which means that YOU want rnoro
money! asked Graham, pausing from
mis- work long enough to look the gar
rulous old man in the eve. Hawkins
squirmed under the piercing gaze. It
was not in him to look any man
squarely in the eye. and it was AZ
least 10 his credit that Graham could
In this instance it was also to his
proht, for Hawkins assumed an ex
preston of injured innocence.
am sald spent all the corrup-
ton fund.- he said defensively.
Graham seemed to spring across the
room, his nervous. bOny hands work.
ing as though to clutch the throat of
his heller.
Curse you" he cried, "how MANY
times must L tell you to measure vour
words? That money advanced to
some of the legislators was out of the
campaign fund for necessary expenses!
Do you hear?" For necessary ex-
penses.''
The covering wretch in the chair
excited even Graham's pity. He turned
back to his desk. Il didn't mean to
frighten you, Hawkins" he said. half
apologetically, but you must remem-
Der that this is a different day from
that when votes were cheap and brib-
cry was called by its right name
The contribution of the Light and
Power Company is as much a cam
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George Martin and Frank Kilbourn,
who we're sitting on the horseback IN
front waiting for the candy Patsy had
promised them.
She led them into the kitchen, and
while everybody was quite stil with
establishment, she said.
you boys both said that II one Of
you would 'pologize. the other would,
and now you've gotta or else III take
the fudge away"
Walter saw quickest what Patsy
had done, and walking up to George
he said:
I'm sorry broke your coop, and
I'll pay for It,"
And George said:
I'm awfully sorry / said you did II
on purpose, and IL wasn't any trouble
to mend"
Then they shook hands while the
ceiling OF the Newtons' kitchen near
~ came off with the Three cheers for
Walter Sheppard" and Three cheers
for George Martini"
When II was a little bit quieter,
Walter turned TO the boys, Here's
three cheers for Patsy Newton, for
she did It ALL"
And as the noise rang and rang
through the room Patsy knew she
was the happiest girl In the whole
city.
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worthy of Endorsement, and so clev-
erlN had il all been done that there
were few outside of the inner ring
who supposed that the Independent
interest existed for any other purpose
than the raising of party issues.
Macy was among those who sup
posed that the fight was being made
along party lines for purely political
purposes. Blinded by the promise of
the nomination for Governor, he con-
WINGED himself in a half-hearted way
that ii was for the interest of the
state to give this franchise to the
company. and his duty as a public
man to support the measure with his
vote.
The protests of the free press he
did not heed. He was 50 used to
charges ana counter-charges of cor
ruption that even when some of the
Independent papers denounced the
measure it did not affect his stand.
No great reforms, he argued, were ac-
complished without opposition, and
possibly existing companies might be
at the root of this protest. Some of
them undoubtedly would be hard hit
and they were to be expected to
fight.
Even the warning of his friends he
did not heed, and when Judge Coltrop
declared at the dinner table one night
that the whole thing was gigantic
steal, Macy was restrained from bitter
argument only by the fact that he
was a guest. That same evening the
Judge told his daughter that if Macy
came forward in support of the bill,
that she must break their engage
ment.
They may make him the Governor
or something like that" he said bit
terly, instead of trying a more vulgar
bride, but 1 want my daughter to
marry a man whose high position has
been gained through dishonesty"
At the time Edith gave small heed
to the threat, but it all came back to
her few days later. Though retired
from the bench through the machina-
tons of Graham and his party, the
Judge was still a power in the state,
and he and Edith were guests in the
members gallery when the Light and
Power bill came UP for the final vote.
Edith had had several stormy inter-
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CHICKENS, FOX AND HOUND.

This Is good game for girls TO play
alone; but II they can get two boys to
join. IT Is Just the thing. one Of the
boys takes the part OF the hound and
the other becomes the fox. The girls
play the parts Of chickens. As many
girls play a. choose to take part.
The girls pick out leader. who must
take the chickens out walking The
fox hides behind "a tree. bush or other
hiding place. The hound also hides
somewhere. near the fox
When the chickens approach the
place where the fox is concealed be