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The Washington times., 1908-07-19
CHAPTER ~.

WHEt; DEATH FOUND 4 vOTCE
II was the next morning I'm the
court 10 on, about II O'Clock.
Acton '-lough. paIIid with tn. D-is,,
Pallor, bUt stiu holding 70 a seunbI,,-.
Of uncOncArn that was DItff,,I7,- y,-I{.5
oy MS nervously twitchinE hands ms
leiilo-iIs eyehcs and, at times. Tie
shaAlhg OF his whole lean body. SAT
beside his lawyer and his ewes v-ers
nxed IN a curious stare uDou rbs
picture OF the Three Fates--fr. i'm
2erturhable spinner. weaver. ana se,-
erer OF the destinfes OF man-pic+u-s5
on the wall Of the grim room, Ubsra
me deeds OF so many men ana vy..7,,a,
had been weighed in the scales ~
3usuce-the fatal bIindfolded vron,s,
IN ms accustomed seat near the dis
tr1ct attorney sat Henry Rravsts-.
and, as he looked az MIN. HolbrooI-
thought
That man is not far from d pbvs5-
cal and mental breakdOwn-despite b,s
serene bearing He shows the sim
OF TIE strain upon HIM. he NAV -
outWardly calm, but iuwardlv L fosl
sure that he is in d state Of friebrf,,I
turmoil"
Not Tar from HOlbrOOk sat EiUv
roster busily writing 4 new introd,lr-
ton 10 his story OF the day.
Inc court room YVES throneed IN III.
doors There was a tense feeling %
expectation in the air. Ii was ON
expected that the case To- The desa,s.
would close with the cross-exan,iv,
ton by Colville Of the witness the,
on the stand. after which the ,sfz4-5,,.
attorney would make his closing s+ata-
menJ' MS summing up CT the prose
cution's case
The district attorney was an orator.
learned and yet highly eloquent
man, whose thuRderous periods had
m almost Irresistible effect upon audi
ences and jurymen alike rev had
been the cases he had lost.
At one CT the press tables. not Tar
from Foster and Holbrook. sst Mar
celia Vincent By her side vas Clara
Goodman
The witness then on the stand vas
former servant OF the dead millionaire.
and his story OF hearing the sounds Of
the quarrel between his murdered
master and the latters nephew was
not at ali shaken by ColviIle's rigor-
Gus cross-eXaminatiOn- The jurynsn
listened with a bored air, the audi
ence was restless; everybody wished
that Colyfue would conclude and give
the district attorney a ch-nce 70 stir
the Interest
It's all ove-~-bUt the seotence.
whispered a reporter . P:lly Foster
CContinue5 OF EsssSH Psze)
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No. sir. Mr.. Sinclair has sent no
word"
Deeply worried. Tor he feared tina;
harm might have befallen the ex-
plcrer, Hoibrook FASTENED 20 Sinclair's
house. There was no answer TO MS
ring. The house was empty He
turned away. perplexed and Undecided.
II Sinclair had been killed OF spirited
Nay. of what avail would DE his UNI
supported story of the strange inter
view between Ling Foo and Brewster
in the secret shrine? 1t would be
laughed at rs The tale OF a crazy man:
nc was sure Of that.
His story. moreover. threw no direct
iisnt upon the Clough mystery though
II contained many possible clues And
apart from considerations y the work
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TOMS AT WAR AGAIN!
HiThbinderS Say Another Unknown
Victim.
BODY OF CHINAMAN
FOund Mt Daybrak In Trunk in
Chinatown.

H.
There followed a brief account OF 4
highbinder's feud that had been inter
mittently raging in Chinatown for
some time past. ans a description OF
the murdered man. The detectives on
the case could find no clues to the
murderer and confessed themselves
bafned by the orientals HoIbrook
had barely read the description of the
slain man, before he mad jumped from
hie chair and was on his way to the
Tlorgue.
There he found what he had expect
ed-the body Of Dr. Ling Foo. cold in
death He had been sandbagred- No
papers had been found upon him nor
any Identification marks on MS cloth
ing. He was unknown to all the DO
licemen and an the Chinese VINO had
viewed the body. And Holbrool-s
heart sank. In his mind was the
though:
rs this Brewsters work? Has he
overcome his Captor and rid himself Of
this danger? 1 surely think so
The import OF Ling Zoos death be
came more and more apparent as the
day set for the trial or Acton CIouEb
approached.
Private detectives In the service Of
Coughs lawyer had ransacked the
house once occupied by Ling Foo. only
to find it empty and deserted. with
out trace Of the secret shrine or of
my of the objects or men seen there
by Holbrook on the night Of the re-
voIver battle in the darkness. No
doubt il had been dismantled and
abandoned that very night.
And not a trace could be found Of
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Indeed shanr' declared HoI-
brook.
He lsft the lawyers office and went
TO that Of his newspaper. Hardly hau
he entered wnen ne was called 20 the
managing editors desk
'HoIbrook." said his chief this
CIouEh case was left entirely in your
hands. and ] have to say that you
haven't made good. but have Eot the
paper into a bad hole You saw what
the Wire had today2 The Wire, Hoi-
brook. has beaten the Budget at near
Iy every point Of this game
Holbrook flushed 20 the roots Of his
tair-
1T looks as though YOU were right.
sir. ne said, but Id Ike 90 yeu you
that think m on the track OF a beat
that will make an the stories the Bud
gets had fade into nothing Give me
"a chance ami lIf Nuke good.
The editor hesitated. HoIbrook had
always done tne Des, ct work. but ne
had certainly fallen down on the
Clough story.
us up 10 you he said finally.
II know it's up TO me" said the re-
porter; IN make good. too. II
don't. III take what's coming"
All right said the chief, "go
ahead
Torn between dis Oura cement and
determination. Holkgook won't TO his
desk and picked up the last edition Of
his paper. His eyes were attracted By
brief story on an inside page:
TONGS AT WAR AGAIN,
HiThbinderS say Another Unknown
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agree that you could not convince a
jury Of the real truth. Words are
words-and their obvious meanings
are what carry the most weight. I'd
like TO tell you what has happened
to me
The lawyer listened with breathless
interest and close attention. When
HolbroOk concluded he jumped 10 his
feet
obviously we must fully investi-
gate these matters he said excited
~: and what Miss Vincent thinks
about The possible guilt Of Ling Foo
demands serious consideration. We
must leave nothing undone TO FIND
Bradley Sinclair ] viii have detec-
tives pat on an ends OF the case at
once. and meanwhile I suppose YOU
ID continue your own work 2"
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hN was so ardently engaged upon. HC'-
brooks mind was overcast with dark
misgivings for SincIair's personal
safety.
He liked and admired the daring
adventurer, and felt that II he
had come TO serious harm through
being Iured into this affair he
should never forgive himself Besides
he had relied upon Sinclairs help
in probing the theory pro-
pounded by Marcella, TO the effect
that Ling Foo or his agents had mur-
dered old Clous Oh.
lie made M his mind. however. that
nc had best seek an interview at once
with Acton Clough's counsel. lay az!
this new and startling matter before
him. and seek his advice and assist
auce in tracing Bradley Sinclair and I'm
shadowing Ling Foo.
A ne rode downtown he read The
DAYS papers His own, and the ma
jority OF tho other papers. contained
little news On the mystery. save spec
uIations and anecdotes Of John B. and
Acton Clough and Henry Brewster;
but he saw with an cnviOus paug that
BiHy Foster had thrown another
bombsheu into the camp OF the few
believers in Acton Cloush's limo
cenCe.
This was in the form Of signed
statement by a servant in the Clough
mansion. who declared that on the
night Of the murder he had been pass
ing through A dark hallway near the
n{Ilfonaire's bedchambcr and had
heard Acton Clough say, under his
breath. as he went rapid Y toward the
stairs:
My God, This is murder have
donei This IS murder"
Again Holbrook was visited by sinis-
ter and disturbing doubts. Perhaps
Foster was right Certainly all the
tangible evidence pointed to the truth
Of his couteution-that the artist had
killed his uncle. And jus, as certain
". all the evil facts betraying Henry
Brewster's double life. did not Gasten
the murder on his shoulders.
Holbrook found ColviHe, Clough's
attorney, deeply detected.
This statement" said the artists
lawyer. ''Of the servant is a very seri-
Gus matter-very serious indeed Mat
ters are looking very black for poor
Clough."
"whst does he say about IT, asked
HoibroOk.
"Oh. he admits saying what the
servant says ne did" muttered Col
VILE.
Good Heavens, But that's bad-'
As a matter of TACT. what H. said.
though damning under the chvum-
stances, was natural enough answer
ed ColvilIe. But u will be a matter
OF great difficulty 10 make a jury Of
solid-minded business men see it.
"Clough. nervous and high-strung,
YOU know. has. like many artists. the
habit of exaggerating situations
When Ne left his uncle after his mutt
lation Of the picture and The ensuing
qua rel. he was much excited. and
what most Of all oppressed him was
that he had annihilated q creation
when he had destroyed The Snake
In this reference he Eroaned: This
Is murder / have done"' He felt that
he had literally done murder"
Il can understand how h. could so
speak, said Holbrook and . quite
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CHAPTER V (Cont'd)


''Oh. is that you. Phil? Gracious!
The very man ] wished 10 hear FROM
What do you suppose has happened?
While / was absent from the fat this
evening an attempt was made to bur
Elarize it,.
Nor
And believe. Phil, tbat the attempt
has some connection with the ClOugh
mystery
'Marcella impossible, How can
that ber'
I've my reasons. Phil. Won't you
come down to see me2 I can't talk on
this matter over the telephone. And.
Phil'-there was a pitiful little culver
in the girls voice which went straight
to HOlbrOOk's heart-'I confess I am
a wee bit frightened. Can't you come
down for just while?"
Sure pop-and will. I've some
strange things 10 tell. myself, said
Phil.
He FASTENED back 20 Sinclair.
1--WE got to go at once" he said.
IN see you tomorrow"
Sinclair arose.
Well, my boy" he said in his draWI-
Ing fashion. Il think that IN see you
to your car"
Holbrook protested. but the Orient
alist persisted and together they left
the club and walked toward Fifth
avenue.
See" said the older man with
grim smile. There's something do
ing in my house"
Lights were moving from window TO
window i'm his residence
There was no sign. however. OF any
watcher in the street and the men
reached HolbrOOk's car unmolested.
Tom heaved a sigh of relief when he
saw the reporter coming toward him.
Thought you had disappeared" he
said.
I'm all right. Tom. said HoI-
brook. Rush me down to Miss Vim
cents house, will you? Good night.
Mr.. Sinclair. Tomorrow at eleven. al
the club"
Tomorrow. at eleven" responded
the other and turned away
Holbrooks car made on
As Sinclair reached the corner. a
man suddenly stepped out Of the shad-
ow and brushed against him. A cloth
saturated with some heavy drug was
dashed in his face. His lips opened TO
cry out, but his stifed voice was DOW
erless. He struggled feebly, clutch
Ing at consciousness, then sank into
the mans arms. An automobile pur-
rcd to a standsull by the curb.
Just at that moment a policeman ap-
peared- He glanced inquisitiveIy at
the two men
One OF them said: THAT last drink
was too much for you. Clifford. old
chap. But never mind. III soon have
YOU at tho club
The policeman Erinned and walked
away. The stranger stored SincIair's
light supine body TO the car. pushed II
Into tho tonueau. and got in himself.
The car sped away and DR. Ling Foo.
who was in tho tOnneau. began To 60
through Slnclair's pockets in the
search for papers
This is Number One" he said to
Brewster. who was with him.
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CHAPTER VI

MARCELLA SEES A NEW LIGHT.
Holbrook quickly reached the Vim
cents apartment and was Immediately
admitted.
The rooms were in great confusion.
Holbrook stared in establishment.
'Marcellat" ne cried. What on
earth has happened"
Tho fat was upset this way when
/ came home this evening" said Mar
celia. 1T has been ransacled in every
corner Most OF what little jewelry 1
had Is missing. and some Of NV private
papers
But what makes YOU think that this
crime had any connection with our
mystery. Marcclla?"
The girl pointed to a corner Of her
writing room
You know that I'm rather 'faddv.'
Phil" she said. land that I've rather
bad habit OF keeping mementos OF
all big newspaper stories And you
know that I am rather careless. too.
Well. YOU can sec for yourself that
the photographs I got OF Acton CIough
and his uncle and Henry Brewster and
OF The Snake at the district attor-
ney's ofiice-the afternoon when 7 gave
Billy the idea to investigate the ebony
sphlnX-are all missing.
I threw them on that little table
over there in the corner when
brought them from the art-room OF
the paper. wrapped and tied Just as I
had them when / was at the district
attorneys office.
They lay there while 1 was making
up my mind where 10 place them on the
walls with my other photographs: and
every time l looked at them was re-
what its solution might mean TO two
boys and one girl Wen, there Is the
package that once contained them. but
the photographs are gone. Doesn't
that look suspicious?"
1T certainly does" admitted HoI-
brook wonderingly; but 1 don't for
the life Of me understand why any
body should want the photographs
Did they come from John b. Coughs
house ar from the gallery Of the pho
tographer who made them
The pictures OF the old man and or
Acton Cloush came from a gallery.
but the one of Henry Brewster I OBJ
tanned a: the John b. Clough house
Tor a price-it hung in the room where
the murder WAS committed, said
Marcella.
Holbrook looked at her thouShtfully
Anthem il possibly might have had
some bearing on the crime And per
haps Ling Foo's .gent knew Of it
and perhaps Le saw you at the district
attorneys office. Ling Foo says he
has an agent in the employ Of the
district ATTORNEY
Ling Foo, What do you mean.
PHIL What new mystery is this?''
Let me ten YOU my recent experi-
ences. said Holbrook. and he careful
ly related them from beginning to end.
Now. Ling Foo said that the mes
sage LETT by John 3. CIough before he
died was in my possession" he con
ciuded. That may be explained nos
sibly. by the circumstance thar the
Chinaman's agent saw me with your
photograph OF Henry Brewster in rne
district attorneys office and did NOT
know that was tying n up Tor Won
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The late Isham G. Harris was a great man, and had he been President of the Confederacy it is altogether probable that the south would have gained her independence by 1865; but Senator Harris was no political economist, and fell into the grand error of the fatists. It was in 1895 that he convoked the Memphis conference which pledged the democracy of the Mississippi valley to 16 to l. The country had accepted the Wilson tariff and had gone to work just as two years later it accepted the Dingley law and went to work. The iron and steel busi- ness is the infallible industrial barometer, and when that Memphis conference was called hundreds of furnaces that had been cold for two years were in blast. Labor was in demand; wages were advancing; prosperity was on the threshold; but all this was reversed as soon as Harris Memphis conference declared for Is to 1. Industry folded It's arms and waited two years longer. The republican party stole Grover Cleveland's financial wisdom, engrafted it on the law-not all of it. more's the pity-businesS came out or It's hiding labor went to work at the biggest wage in the world, and prosperity came back at a hop, skip and jump and the democratic party took to the wilderness. Oh. the folly of 1t But the gods are pow erless before stupidity.
 Then came the Goebel business that split the democratic party of Kentucky wider than ever, sending. as it did, many
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and probably would, have been fatal to Joseph G. Cannon had he succeeded John A. Logan or John M. Palmer in the Sen ate The House of Representatives, g. stormy body, where politics is something like a football match, is the place for James, as it is for Cannon, for Grosvenor, for Champ Clark, If you please. Those old fathers of ours intended to give the House the relative importance under the constitution of the United States that the Commons has under the British constitu- ton; but the thing did not work, and while 1t is considered a misfortune to be transferred from the Commons to the peers in England, with us 1t is regarded as a promotion to be sent from the House to the Senate.
 It did Joe Blackburn positive harm to go to the Senate, though with Beck it was different, as it was different with Carmack and will be different with John Sharp Williams. But Ollie James place Is the House of Representatives. He is a born parliamentarian, and experi- ence will make of him an accomplished and able legislator. In rough and tum- ble colloquy he Is already very dan gerous antagonist, employing the tactics that made him so formidable an advo- cate at the bar and pursuing the methods that made him so powerful on the stump.
 James is the most trusted adviser, as he is the most enthusiastic follower, of William J. Bryan in all Kentucky. If Bryan should be elected President this year James will be the happest man on the continent. He religiously believes that Bryan's speech at Chicago was in all and every respect the greatest ora
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paid. But that was easy according to the labor agent Just $5 a month to be paid back and in three or four months each laborer could at least save $100. In justice 10 the farmer and planter and lumber men I will say that in most cases, if not all. they were not responsible for the gross deceptions of the labor agent, all though after getting the men many of them tried to make these naturally disap- pointed men work long enough to get the money back that they paid to the labor agent for their transportation and for his fees. Thence arose all kinds of trouble all the so-called peonage cases in the south can be traced directly to these transactions in regard to getting. labor CTS For, of course, the conditions these laborers found after coming here were all together different from those so magnifi- gently described for them by the labor agent in New York, and even if all of them who had come south were good, honest working men of desirable class, conditions as to wages, living, etc., pre- vailing in some of the southern states would still cause them to leave again
 To begin with wages. It seems that all those who from time to time Have tried to supplant the negro with white labor
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Bryan 16 to 1-ers of 1896 into the repub- lican party, where they are this good day.
 The present governor of Kentucky is a republican, chosen by 1900 majority, due to the impression made on the minds of some 60,0o0 Kentucky democrats that there was a machine at Frankfort that was governing the state as though 1t was a satrapy Conventions convened to ratify the will of the machine. Prim- ary elections were held to fetch in ma jorities for nominees already chosen. Frank Hatton said Kentucky would go republican when hell went Methodist. Kentucky has gone republican,, all right.
 There are two men who can save Ken lucky to the democracy and keep her in line One is Ollie James, of the First district and the other is Ben Johnson. of the Fourth district Neither of them has ever been mixed up in the quarreis and faction hates of the past dozen years Neither is in any sense boss.
 If he lives, James will likely hold a seat in Congress as long as Joseph G. Cannon, and it is good bet that he will some day be speaker. Repeated at temps have been made to induce him to seek the office of governor. and had he been the nominee last year the ma iority-10,OO0 more than 1S.00O-would have been on the democratic side of the ae- count It is likely, too that James will some day be senator, if he wants it. But that would be mistake. just as it might.
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ND THE SOUTHERN FARMER-By s. f1echin

as they were before The products from that district would have better and cheaper transportation facilities and therefore bring more profit. It does not take a great intellect to figure out why. The value of lots on piece of ground increases relatively with each new home built thereon, and the value of lands will increase with each new settler; trans portation companies will be more willing to make concessions for handling 1000 tons of freight. than for 100 tons.
 During these five years the farm CTS hostile to immigration will have learned too that these new settlers have not lowered the morals and manners of their neighbors, if he had ever been afraid of that; on the contrary he might have learned some of the moderation in all things of the German and Scandina- vian, and learned something, too, of his industrial resourcefulness and practical economy All those in the southern states afraid of an influx of people from Germany, Sweden or the north and west for moral reasons, afraid of disintegra- ton of their pure and undefiled blood, by a possible mixture with foreigners, let them compare the statistics of crime in
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Fulton county cast but two republican votes in as free an election and as fair a count as was ever had in this union
 The present representative is a native of Crittenden county, the son of lead ing lawyer of that section, and man born to public life. He was a politician before he entered the teens and stump speaker at the completion of his second lustrum. At Is he was a page in the Kentucky legislature and an active poli- tician. Ben Johnson, the present repro sentative in Congress from the Fourth district of whom this country will likely hear much the next double decade, was the speaker when James was page. Most boys would have been forever ruined living that life, half pet and half coun- selor of the leading men of the state at that tender age
 Ollie James studied law in his father 5 office, and came to the bar at the age of 20 by virtue of an enabling act of the legislature relieving him of the dis abilities of legal infancy. He became partner in his fathers extensive practice and soon developed into a skllful and successful trial lawyer in courts of mist prius. He rode circuit and was a. powerful advocate before the juries of the entire district Then, as he is now and as he will be at 70, if he shall sur vive to that age, Ollie James was a big boy with more capacity for making friends and retaining their affections than any other man in the state His sin cerity was, and is. transparent, his con
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reason out sch eme of morals on gen. eral principles. What we call the Mosaic Economy" or legal system" was probably no system at all to the average Jew, but only a list of rules which 1t was right to keep, and wrong to break. We can systematize; for the New Testament gives us the prin- ciples. The Bpistle to the Hebrews Is our best commentary on the Old Tes- tament. The Jew parsed his conduct by the rules of moral grammar. He had no idea of moral philology-the system of principles upon which that grammar was based.
 The Jews are often called bigoted and exclusive; but how could they ex- pand2 They were rule-bound and in leading strings: how could they ad- vance? Christianity. however, was meant to advance. The words of the "commission," as recorded by Matthew are evidence of this. Go" says Jesus. And this command embodies a vital principle of the system. The disciples were the living representatives of the system on earth. Where they went