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high spirited and debonair. a Prince
Charming. whose prideful rebellion had
been atoned for by a touching and
manly surrender
All this Harry had watched with a
painful sense or impotence. and this
feeling was upon him today as he
stared out from the study toward the
white porch elistening In the sun
At length. with a little gesture ex-
pressive at once Of helplessness and
puzzle. be turned from the window.
took his violin and began TO play He
began a barcarole. but the music wan
dered away through lnSensible varia-
lions into a moving minor. a compost
tor OF HIS own.
II broke of suddenly at dogs fierce
snarl from the yard and the rattle OF a
thrown pebble. Immediately a knock
came at the door. and man entered
Don't stop" said the new conner
i've dropped in for only a minute.
That's an i'll tempered little brute or
yours If l were you I'd get rid OF
him"
Harry Sanderson laid the violin care
fully In its case and shut the lid before
he answered "Rummy is impulSive."
he said dryly. How is your father to-
day. Hugh?"
The other tapped the toe OF his shin
ing patent leather with his cane as he
said with look OF al humOr:
About as well as usual He's plan-
ming now TO put me in business and ex-
poets me to become staid pillar OF
society-'like Sanderson,' as he says
forty times a week How do You do
il, Harry? There isn't an old lady In
town who thinks her parlor carpet half
good enough for you TO walk on. You're
only month older than am, yet you
can wind the whole vestry and the
bishop &c boot around your finger"
Il wasn't aware OF the idolatry."
Harry laughed a Iittle-a distant laugh
you are observant, Hugh"
"Oh. anybody can see It I'd Ike to-
know how you do It. 1t was always
so with you, even at college. You
could do pretty much as you liked and
yet be popular too. Why. there was
never jamboree complete without you
and your violin at the head of the Ia
BILE"
That Is a long time ago." said
Harry.
More than four years. Four years
and a month tomorrow, since that last
evening OF college. Yet / imagine &c
VIII be longer before we forget It"
Harry did not speak. An odd con
fusion blurred his vision. Perhaps to
cover this, be crossed the room to q
small private safe which stood open In
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at the spotless coverlid. No: some one
might appear, and II would not do TO
be seen in his present condition. 1t
was scarcely 10 Time enough for that
afterward
He drew out the drawer OF a chiffo
nier. opened a closet and gloated over
the order and plenty Of their contents.
He made difficult selection from these
and. steadying his progress by wall
and chair. opened the door OF an ad-
Joining bathroom. IL contained a cir
cular bath with needle shower. With
out removing DIS clothing he climbed
into this. balancing himself with an
effort. found and turned the cold fau-
Get and let the icy water. chilled from
artesian depths. trickle over him IN a
hundred singing needle points.
II was very different figure that
re-entered the larger room half hour
later from the Sinking mudlark that
had CLINT bed the rose tre!lis The ola
Hugh lay. heap OF soiied and sodden
garments: the new stood forth shaw
en-, fragrant with fresh linen and clean
and fit apparel The maudlin had van
Ished. the gaze was unvexed and
bright. the whole man seemed TO have
settled into himself. TO have grown
trim. nonchalant, debonair He held
Up his hand. palm outward. between
the electric globe aud his eve. There
was not tremor OF nerve or muscle
He smiled No headache, no fever. no
uncertain feet or trembling hands or
swollen tongue after more than a
week OF deep potations. He could still
sober ~" as be used to do with
Blake. the butler. 10 help HIM when
It had been q mere matter OF an even
ing's tipsiness- And how fine II felt TO
be decently clad againl
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The parchment crGckling tindeT his pen
yer. the parchment cracking under his
pen.
Judge COnweu glanced curiously AT
Harry SanderSOn as he blotted the
emendation. He knew the liking Of
the cross grained and taciturn old IN
valid St James richest parishioner
Tor this young man OF twenty-five who
had come 10 the parish only two
months before. fresh from his theo-
logical studies. 20 an n place tempo
rarily vacant and had stayed by sheer
force Of personality He wondered II
aside from natural magnetic qualities
this liking had not been due first Of
all 10 the curious resem blance between
the young minister and the absent son
whom David Stires was disinheriting
for as far as mold OF feature went the
young minister and the ne'er-do- well
might have been twin brothers.
no one perhaps had ever interested
the community more than had Harry
Sanderson. He had entered upon his
duties with the marks OF youth. good
looks, self possession and an ample in
come thick upon him and had brought
with him a peculiar charm Of manner
and an apparent incapacity for doing
things In a hackneyed way. Conven-
tion sat lightly upon Harry Sanderson
he recognized few precedents either
in the new methods and millinery with
which he bad invested the service or
L Ais personal habits Instead OF at
tending the meeting OF St Andrews
guild after tho constant cuStorn 90
ais predecessor. he vas apt 20 be found
playing bis violin "a passion with
HIM IN the smart study that adjoires
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cit IS the Hugh OF the present THAI
am dealing with" said th~ old man
For David Stree was just and he was
feeling a grim respect for Hsrry's
honesty.
Vary acknowledged the brusqur
kindness OF the tone with a little mo
zion OF the hand AS he spoke be had
81 q feeling bis way through S maze o.
contradictory impulses. For moment
be had been back In that old irrespon-
sible time; the Hugh be had known
then had sprung co his minds eye. an
initiative idler. with a certain grace
and brillancy or manner that made
him hail-fellow-wen-m but withal
shallow. fopplsh and incorrgible. a
cheap and shabby imitator OF the out
ward manner. not the inner graces. of
good fellowship. Yet Hugh had been
one OF his own fast set" They had
called him "Satan's shadow a tribute
20 the actual resemblance as well as
20 the palpable Imitation be affected
Harry shivered little The situation
seemed. 10 ante Irony. 20 be- revers-
Ing Itself. 10 was a. n not alone
Hugh. but ne. Harry Sanderson. in the
person OF that past OF bis. was now
brought 20 bar for judgment IN that
room. For the instant he forgot how
utterly eharacterless Hugh had shown
himself or DID,. how devoid OF all de
sire for rehabilitation bis present rep
utauon In the town argued him. At
that moment II seemed as n 10 saving
Hugh from this condemnation. be was
pleading for himself as he had been.
FOR the further chance which be. but
for circumstances. perhaps. had needed
too.
You" he said. have lived life OF
just and balanced action II is bred
IN tho bone You hate ali loose con
duct. and rightly. You hate IL most In
Hugh for the simple reason that he Is
your son. The very relation makes Il
more impossible 20 countenance he
should be like you-of temperate and
prudent habit But did you and he
start on equal terms2 Your grand
father was a Standisb; your ancestry
was urdiluted Puritan Did Hugh
have ali your fund OF resistance with
me 10 was the turning OF a long lane
Hugh perhaps has not turned-yet."
A breath OF that past life had swept
anew over Harry. the old shuddering
recon again had rushed upon him. 10
gave his voice a curious energy as he
ended. And / have seen how far q
maD may go and yet-come backr'
There was q pause The Judge had
an inspiration. He folded the parch
meut
Perhaps IL would be as we'll" be
said To matter OF fact way. "if the
signing be left open for the present
He rose as he spoke and laid the doc
ument on the table.
For q moment David Sures sat in
silence. Then be said with a CLINT OF
the old ironic FIRE: You should have
been a special pleader. Sanderson
There's no client too bad for them 20
make out q case for WeI-wen. we
won't sign tonight. will rad IL
over again when I am more equal 10
It"
For long the old man sat alone. mus
ing In his chair At length ne sighed
and took up magazine lie was
thinking Of Harry Sanderson.
How likew he said aloud $50 San
derson sowed his wild oats too .
When he stood there. with the light on
his face-when he talked-I-I could
almost have thought II was Hughw
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outward Consequences he had so dras-
| Ideally banished. and partly 10 sheer
nervous excitatlon.
Father be said. and came and
caught the gaunt hand that shook
against the chair.
Then the deeps OF the old mans
heart were suddenly t-oken up MY
SOM he cried and threw his arms
about him. Hugh my boy. my boyr'
Jessica waited 20 hear no more
Thrilling with gladness aud flushing
with the sudden recollection OF her
bare throat and feet. she slipped away
TO her room 90 creep into bed and lie
wide eyed and thinking
What did he look likc7 OF his face
she had never seen even a counterfeit
presentmenC Through what adven-
lures had he passed. Now that he had
come home, forgiving and forgiven.
would he stay7 He had been In his
room when she entered Il with the
roses-must have guessed. II he had
not already known. that she was blind
Would be guess that she had cared for
that room, had placed fresh lowers
there often and often?
Since she had come 20 the house In
the aspcns Jessca had found the
imagined figure OF Hugh n dominant
presence In a horizon lightened with
throng OF new impressions. The
direrul catastrophe OF her blindness
II had been the sudden result OF an
! accident-had fallen like a thunderbolt
upon a nature elastic and joyous. IL
had brought he- sace 10 face with
revelation OF mental agony. made her
feel herself the hapless martyr Of
that curt thing called chance. She bad
always lived largely IN books and
pictures. and her world was stn full
or idea!c and OF brave adventures.
GRATITUDE had made her love the mo-
rose old invalid with his Grabbed tenn
pers, and the wandering son. choosing
I for pride's sake resOurceless battle
with the wOrld-the very mystery OF
bis whereahOuts-had taken strong
hold OF her Imagination. or the quar-
rel which had preceded Hugh's depar-
ture she had made her own version
! That he should have come back on this
very night when the disinheritance
she had dreaded had been so nearly
cOnsummated. seemed now TO have an
especial and an appealing significance.
Presently she rose. slipped on the
red kimono and. taking "A key from
the pocket OF her gown. stole from the
room. She assembled a stairway and
unlocked the door OF wide, bare at
tic where the moonlight poured
! through skylight IN the roof upon an
unfinished statue. In this statue she
had begun 10 fashion. IN the imagined
figure OF Hugh, her conception Of the
prodigal son-not the battered aud
husk filed wayfarer OF the parable.
but a figure OF character and pathOs.
erring through youthful pride and
spirit The unfinished clay no eyes
had seen. for those walls bounded her
especial domain.
When Hugh went shamefacedly up
the stair from the library the artificial
glow that had tingled TO his finger tips
! had Iaded The poise OF mind. the
gertrude OF all the faculties OF eye
and hand that his icy bath had given
him. were yielding The penalties he
had dislodged were returning re-en-
forced He was rapidly becoming
drum
He groped his way 10 his room. turn.
ed out the light. threw himself fully
dressed upon the bed and slept the
deep sleep OF deferred intoxication.
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~ smokIng. Tie couI see the long
white mari road bending In a broad
curve between clover stippIed mead
ows. TO skirt the willow green blum
above the river. There. miles away.
on the high bank he could distinguish
the railroad bridge. a long black skel-
eton spanning 'the hole" a deep, fish
haunted pool. the deepest spot In the
river for fifty miles.
Since that mooniighted evening of
the win making Harry had learned
that the long lane had bad no true
turning for Hugh. BE had sifted him
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Clouded senses
that the past six
months OF wan
dering and M
savory adven
turC were a
drea m There
was his b q q.
with its clean
linen sheets and
soft pillO W 8
How he would
Ike 10 lie down
Just rs he was
and steep a full
round OF the
clock! Lastnight
he had slept
where had ne
slept? He had
forgotten for the
m O IN e n Z. He
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that he had resurrected when he had
called himself his old nickname OF
satan SandersOn" he had left so far
behind him had buried so deep, thar
the ironic turn OF circumstance that
had dragged them into view seemed
intrusive and malicious
He had saved an old college mate
from possible disinheritance and the
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K@O my son Hugh. in re
turn for the care and
- SORROW he has caused me
~ ali the days OF his life.
for his dissolute career
~ and his desertion. 1 90
give and bequeath the sum or $1,000
aud the memory or his misspent
youth"
1t was very quiet In the wide. richly
furnished library The May night was
still. but faint suspiratiou heavy
with the fragrance OF jasmine flowers
stirred the Venetian blind before the
open window and rustled the moon
BIlvered leaves OF the aspens outside
As the incisive professional pronounce
ment OF the Judge cut through the ST
lenee the grim face ou tho pillow OF
the wheel chair SEQ more prim'v. q
ciri seated in the shadow ~ the fire.
screen caught her breath. aud fr0-.
across the liable the Rev. Henry san
derson turned bis handsome. clea
shaver face and looked at the o'd mar
A peevish misogyui~t The nelghbo-
hood labeled the latter with the PARIS
chapel for hobby aud for thorn-in-th.
flesh this only son Hugh. q black shco
whose open breaches 81 decorum Oh.
town had borne as best So might O.
the tradition OF mis- forbears took him
OF 90 am eastern university a reel
less life there and three wastrei year
abroad had sent him back 90 resume
his peccadNloes on a larger scale. o.
quarrel bitterly with HIS father and Co.
Ieave his home in anger
''Wait." came the Gucrul0us voice
from the chair Write tn 'Rraceless
before the word 'deSertion.'
"For his dissolute career and HIS
graceless desertion." repeated the law
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a June day n month
later Harry Sanderson
sat in his study. look
ing out OF the window
acrOss the dim summer
haze OF heat negligent
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Sdndersonr that CURED to him
toGs, getting his Did any man
0eSo''S reap what be
Eowed. after an7 Was he. the satan
Sanderson" that was. getting bis de
Bertsf
The later nigh, was very stnl. and
the moon. lifting Ike a paper lantern
over the ssDsn tops. suvered ali the
landscape In its placid radiance the
white house doomed IN a ghostly pauor
The windows OF one side were blank.
but behind the library shade the
Dubious lamp stu drowsed like a mon
ster glowworm- From the shedowy
side OF the building stretched a narrow
l.. its front covered by a rose trellis
whose pale blossoms 10 the soft night
air mingled their delicate fragrance
with that OF the jasmine.
Save for the one bright pane there
seemed now no life or movement IN
the house. But outside IN the moon
light a lurching. shabbny clothed &c
ure moved making bis uncertain way
with the delibeTation OF composed IN
ebriety The sash OF the window was
raised n few inches. and he nodded
sagely AT the yellow shade.
Gay old silver top he hiccoughed.
"see you in the morningi"
he capsized against an althea bush
and shook his head with owiish gravi-
~ as he diseutangled himself Then he
staggered senenely 20 the rose treilis
and. choosing itsRngie with an assur-
snce that betrayed ancient practice
climbed 10 the upper window. shot it's
bolt with n knife and let himself IN.
He painstakingly closed both windows
and inner blinds before he turned on
an electric light
In the room ln which be now stood
be had stored his boyish treasures and
shirked his maturer tasks Il should
have had deeper human association
too. for once. before the house had
been enlarged 10 its present proper
lions. that chamber had been his moth
er's. The Marechal Mel rose that clam
bered 20 the window sin had been
planted by her hand In that room be
had been born And IN II had occurred
that sharp, corrosive quarrel with his
father on the night he had flung him
self from the house vowing never 10
return
As Hash Stires stood locking about
him IL seemed for an instant TO his
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AIRY SANDERSON and
the judge parted AT the
gate. and Harry walked
slowly home In the
moonlight.
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The
fristocratic.
"blemish-a pale
eross the right brow.
assembling a scar. All
AK had haan Al, nroanrn
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Chapter l

my son Hugh. IN re
turn for the care and
sorrow he has caused me
ali the days OF his life.
for bis dissolute career
and his desertlon. 1 DO
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Was nc, ne Satan the old man-re-
Sdnderson" that CURED 10 him
t1ds, getting his Did any man
reap what be
owed. after ALI Was he the satan
that was. getting his de
ertsI
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-09-02
Dr. Cook Brooklyn Explorer, Breaks Silence of Eighteen
Months to Proclaim Successful Accomplishment of
Achievement Which Has BafIed VOyagers for Centuries;
News Flashed From Vessel Off Shetland Islands.
GEOGRAPHERS AND SCIENTISTS
GENERALLY CREDIT ANNOUNCEMENT 7

Successful Dash Accomplished by Hitherto Untred Route
Small Party of ESkimoS Accompany Dr. Cook on Epoch
Marking Journey Arrival of Successful Explorer in Copen
hagen Next Saturday Awaited With Intense Interest; Be-
Ieved He Carries Proof of His Accomplishment.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-09-02

NeT Orleans Ia. Sept. To-day
marked the entrance oi the Rock
TsIand-FiIs-o lines into Nrw orleans
and thr establishment OF through
passenger service between New or
leans and Houston Texas. Councc-
tious win be made al intermediate
points for 81. Louis. Kansas city and
other cities ef the middle west
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-12-02

Mound Bayou, Miss, Cashier OF the
Bank OF Mound Bayou, Pres. OF
the State Negro Business League.
"A Member of the Washington Par
ty in the Tennessee Tour.
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ginia Colored Institute. In the
death Of Prof. Whittico Mcdowell
County lost its foremost teacher who
will be remem bered as the first Ne
gro in the State to establish a con-
solidated school In the death of
President Jones, who fell at his post
after twenty-five years Of continuous
service In the school-room We feel
that we have lost a state leader Of
national prominence. AS educator,
author, editor and orator he exert
ed his acknowledged abilities in the
schoolroom,"in the press, and Oh the
platform ever for. the moral and ed
ucational uplift OF his race. We miss
his familiar, figure in this meeting.
Resolved, that, we endorse the sug-
gestion made by the Board of Re-
gents that the legislature be asked
to erect a monument in memory Of
his services to the State.
~. Resolved; That the thanks of
the Association be and are hereby ex-
tended to its president, Prof. Byrd
Prillerman, for his splendid arrange
nent in making this session so help
fnl, and that we regard his selection
as the new president of the West Vir-
ginia Colored Institute wise and
worthy choice. -
~. Resolved, That we note with
pleasure the growth both in quantity
and quality of the school exhibits and
that we deem the exhibit work from
Institute ard Charleston worthy of
special mention,
Respectfully submitted,
| A. HAMLIN GUSS,
MISS LOUISE sMtTHERS,
-. MRS. ~ ~: n. ~. .THoMPsoN,
j, nj KsSEssH3y; (
! u j. W. .E5EIyI H. t.a's' .
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-12-02
Fooled LYNCHING PLAN.

McAleSter, okla, Nov. 26.--A Ne
gro who is charged with attacking
Mr.. King. wife Of a miner, was cap
tured mile north Of here late today
and placed in the county jail He
offered no resistance, but 100 men
who had gathered made an effort to
tale him from Under Sheriff O'NeaN
who placed his prisoner on a hi De
and fed with him to the jail, the mob
following. An attack on the jail is
feared.
Mrs. James King has identified the
Negro as her assailaRt. The author
tics late tonight asked permi
to place the Negro in the state prison
to prevent q lynching, as the miners
here are in threatening attitude.
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NASHVILLE, TENN. NEWS.

Educational circles here are deep
~ interested in the possible and
prObab bic location Of a normal, in
dustrial and agricultural school in
their midst. For some time past
considerable time has been spent in
such an effort and influential men
have used their energies toward this
end. Such a school is needed in
Nashville since there is none of it's
kind situated here, given over ex-
clusiVely for the Negro race. The
possession Of this school would
greatly add luster and fame to the
Athens Of the South" Possibly. the
present apparent hesitation and ces-
sat1on Is due to the selection of g
suitable principal and leader 1t is
sincerely hoped that the right man
man Of integrity, untiring energy
and patience, and wide-reaching in
fluence be chosen
In the annual football game. on
Thanksgiving Day, at Athletc Park,
between Fisk University and Mehar-
ry Medical College, the Gold and
Blue of Fisk went down to defeat be-
fore the warriors in Red and Black.
~ ONOiN VI ". MSudIIJ won
the game in the first few minutes
OF play, the Fisk men seeming rat
tied and unable to collect themselv-
es. Later on, however, Meharry
found that more than a match had
been met in the men from the hill,
for time after time, Fisk carried the
bali within O. few yards Of the opDo-
nents goal, only to be repulsed by
the superb generalShip and magniii-
cent kicking OF Quarterback Lorenzo
Johnson. In the second half, Fisk
sent in the mighty king, whose terri
fic line-punching and long passes
were made In vain by the approach
Of dark. Nashville society was vel
represented, In thousands that at.
tended the gridiron battle. The
throngs will not soon forget the ex
hibition Of clean, manly straight
football, Everyone is agreed, how
eyer, that ii King had played in the
.aTst half, the score would have fay
pred the faster, lighting formation:
from Fisk. 4..~,"y'
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-12-02
The colder inhabitants" and tn,

The colder Inhabitants and the
younger circles of society were
shocked and panied last Wednesday.
Nov. "a, to receive from st. Louis,
Mo-, the news Of the death Of Mrs
Jane f. Napier, the mother Of Hon.
J. G. Napier, the prominent bank
er and attorney Of this place. He
was notified at Memphis, Tenn,
where he was in company with the
Booker T. Washington party, and ac-
companied by DR.. e. B. Jefferson, of
Nashville, he went Immediately to
st. Louis to bring the remains to
their final resting place. The death
Of Mrs. Napier is but one Of the
changes Of the old for the new. With
her four-score and seven years she
was an historic parsonage, lovingly
and affectiouately known to young
and old as Mother Napier" She
was the mother of five children Of
whom two survive, Mrs. Ida Langs-
ton, Of st. Louis, and Hon. J. c.. Ma
pier, of Nashville. The funeral SER
vices were held Sunday at Howard
Chapel, conducted by DR.. Jas. Bond,
assisted by DR.. Geo. Moore and Rev.
G.. l.. lines. Interment took place
at Greenwood Cemetery, where sleeps
her husband in the last, long sleep.