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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS
Copyright 1910 by cris.enden Marriott

A abou, the e same time mysterious messengers
beautiful young woman The former visits Professor shis
s aes IN h S mist Of Russia The lat
bachelor named caruth and amazes him by presence
mands his obedience to the dictates Of the
brotherhood both members; then he tells
OF plans to recover the vast Russian treasure that
scuttled by the commands shiskin
to join the seekers thus lead the world
the Baltie sea bottom The young Marie Fitz-
near the coast where a Russian ship was wrecked rh
comes; she demands it While caruth is nrotcsne
her claims to his letter his valet Wilkins
open and finds that Wilkins prediction to
with threats of dire vengeance upon
wilkins buys the letter. but when Wilkins has gone
pusues wilkins only to discover his body
lying in blood, murdered and robbed of money
ss Matters are gnmpeaed by the appearanee of
the dead wilkins This man he %
missing letter. l@ter from sailor that eps Of the the
millions Of sunken Russian treasure
conhdes in him emissary of revolution
sunken gold but she or her friends
killed XII Wilkins the valet caruth mpulsiyely declares
s i on meeting the weserner Wilkins and finds from
ship he is taken into the plan and caruth
own private yacht for the expedition.
his bis aausher with him Professor shshkin plots
ns woman % his to some
enters into the scheme gives consent
I" ms immediate marriage Olga. daug and
secures a music hall girl for the
IN the meantime Baron Demidron. of he
san secret police receives n
cphei message divulging to him plans of rev
oiuti'iists ana warning him on lookou fl
'aruth Yacht When it search of the
the fictitious daughter Of Shishkn tells her that she
twenty years before by Shishkin escape from
prison. where he had been placed plotting against
the car oendrof also tells that he is in
truth hefs Tor 1t represented upon he
l.hslsh estates of her dead father
ehds he secures her promise
'he police as soon the gold
on board on her return the ship approaches
her with details of his to gold He
asks her to Join him and become his Wife
OF their pottings. the gold is
are informed make a night repulsed.
missing Wilkins young woman and Shs,kin
Immediately taruth orders flight Petersburg
where he plans /" seek protection
sulae There he unexpectedly Bristow, wi tells
him that Marie is to be condemned by
Tor her failure unless she
task Caruth faces the OF
demands Marie's freedom; it is only
pledge of million dollars. Taking a
man caruth fees from the police, a
guard hurredy informs them known.
Caruth Immediately his cap Marie and
in the confusion attending finding of Caruh's body
she escapes In the meantime the bogus Shishkn
deserts wilkins and the gold and Denarof. who
proposes marriage In the of schemes
Shislln appears before them.
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"She is safe and we'll. /
will tell you about her in
good time. First, however,
comes that affidavit. Will
you draw it up now?"
Professor Shishkin falter.
ed. The question with him.
however, was not one OF
sentiment and not of moral
ity. If need be, he was will
ing to make a hundred aft
davits, careless of their
truth. counting it a virtue to
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CHAPTER XXI

~ rEITHER Florence nor
~ the professor was as
much surprised at
seeing the other as might
have been expected, and this
for the very simple reason
that neither knew that the
other had been missing. Ever
since her flight, Florence had
been cut off from all in
formation concerning the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-23

commissioners have, therefore, big prob
lem on their hands. Some says they are
divided, three members favoring higher
rates. three opposing, and one on the
fence. The best guess seems to be thai
the rates asked for will be scaled down
and then granted.
Tn the absence of a valuation basis 1t Is
next to impossible to say what would be
a fair return to a railroad, and the COM
mIssioners will simply be compelled to
attempt to do equality although they
have no definite way of ascertaining what
equity in a given case would be. Prob
ably a percentage up or down will be
agreed upon to the best of the commits
sioners' ability, and they are each and
all men of rate-making experience and
knowledge Commissioner Clements is a
Georgian who certainly understands the
problem from a southern point of view.
He is indeed an excellent judge of the
entire situation.
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HEROIC DEED

From 1.-THE Fall of Guaimaro," by Gen.
Frederick Funston. in the November
Scribner.
Devine spied a magnificent saddie-horse
tied to a long rope in a little swale about
200 yards to our left front, and about
500 yards from two of the Spanish block
houses. The horse, being out of the line
of fire, had not been hit but was pranc-
ing about, snorting with terror. That
horse would suit my style Of beauty" re-
marked Devine. and before any one could
stop him he had got out and started down
the hill on run. Once at the foot of
the slope he was out of view of most OF
the Spaniards, but was in plain sight
from three blockhouses, two of them quite
close, and every man in them did his
best to get him. He reached the rope,
united 1t. and tried to lead the animal, but
the terrified beast declined to follow, and
was soon brought down. Devine. having no
use for a dead horse, started back up the
hill. Osgood and l were breathlessly
watching him from adjoining port holes,
when we saw him pitch forward into the
grass. Osgood cried out, my God. he is
hit. I am going after him." and started
down the ladder to the lower story. the
only way to get out. I followed. with no
very definite idea as to what I was going
to do, but in my haste slipped on the top
round of the ladder and fell into the
| lower story, taking Osgood with me.
| Both of us were we'll bruised but not
disabled. Reaching the outside, we found
that Janney was running down the hill,
| racing like mad. The enemy now con-
centrated their fire on him, as they had
on Devine. Janey was a powerful man.
and half carried and half dragged the
wounded man up that slope under a fire
that It would seem impossible a man
could live through. 1t being especially
severe after he had got half way up. and
was exposed to nearly all the Spanish
positions Several of us assisted him to
| lower Devine into the shelter OF the
| trench. He was shot in the hip, very
severe wouDd from which he did not
recover during the war, though he re-
turned to duty after couple of months.
In our service Janneys act would have
brought him the medal Of honor, or in
the British army the Victoria cross, but
| the Cubans had not yet reached the
stage of distributing decorations for gal
lantry. a.
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Poe and the Hall of Fame

The colonnade 800 feet long connecting
two of the buildings of the New York
university on Harlem river was COM
pleted 10 years ago, and it has taken 100
eminent citizens that length of time to
ascertain that Edgar Allen Poe had quail
tiles as a genius emitting his memory to
g panel in the colonnade. These high
brows did assign a panel to the memory
of Robert E. Lee, but they hesitated a
long time over the author of 1.-THE
Raven and victory came at last with So
votes out of the 100 Only 70 panels were
nlled in 1900 and II in 1905. and now II
riet Beecher Stowe. Oliver~ Wendell
Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe,-Roger VIII
liams. James Fenimore Cooper, Phil
lips Brooks, William Cullen Bryant
Francis E. Willard, Andrew jackson
George Bancroft and John Lathrop Mot.
ley. It is singular fact that the mos
influential persons in the northern states
in the war period go unhonored in the
Hal lof Fame. These two men are Henry
Ward Beecher and Horace Greeley. MANY
men of less capacity and less infuenc,
have been honored by the cranky jury o.
100.
There are $50 panels in the colonnade
and only 81 have been filled. No NOR.
names can be added by the terms of tn.
gift until 1915. This hall of fame is III,
gift of-Helen Gould, although unlike som,
-,other large benefactors she has endeav
ored to conceal her original gift of $3.50,
600
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at st. Andrews tonight Mr.. Mosher s
old home Is in Albany, N. Y, but he has
been living in China IA years. coming to
America at this time as delegate to the
general convention OF the Protestant
Episcopal church. which ended its trien-
NAL session in Cincinnati on Friday.
In speaking of Pierpont Morgans gift
of 100000 to promote the movement for
church unity, Mr.. Mosher said: II left
Cincinnati just before the convention adj
journed but the cause which Mr.. Morgan
Is so generously backing is, take 1t, the
| one which has been very dear to the heart
| of the Right Rev. Charles II. Brent of
the Philippines. The great gathering of
Christians of various denominations
which met In Edinburg last May had to
do with missionary work. 1t was most
notable convention. for, although 1t was
held under Protestant auspices. a letter
of greeting and good will from an Ital-
ian bishop, presumably with the Pope's
approval, was feature of the meeting.
But that was only an international mis-
sionary rally. Bishop Brent appealed to
our general convention to undertake a
great worldwide Christian convention for
the purpose of considering matters of
faith and polity. The proposition met
with quick response, and committee
was appointed to formulate plans and
nominate a place of meeting. 1t may
take several years-two or three years at
least-to get ready, but when that meet
ing is held it will have far-reaching
effect in furthering the much-to-be-de-
sired unity of all Christian bodies. This
movement Is partly the outcome of the
third Lambeth conference. held in the
SOS, which adopted the famous Lam
beth quadrilateral for reunion of Chris
tan bodies-the Bible, the Apostles, and
the Nicene creeds. the sacraments insti-
tuted by Christ. and the historic episco-
pate"
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Who is't can say 81 am at the worst:'
king Lear.
mr. CrIDDeu Before a British Court

In a single week the trial of DR.. Haw-
ley II. crlppen, the American dentist
charged with the murder of his wife, was
begun and ended The jury. after being
out only so minutes, returned YER
dict of guilty. DR.. Crppen is sentenced
to be hanged November Is.
The British trial was really an inter-
national event. and yet the jury box
was easily and satisfactorily filled in less
than one day. and in five days all the
testimony had been heard and the law
yers had Completed their speeches to the
jury. and these lawyers were selected
from the foremost in the kingdom.
The case was tried before Lord Chief
Justice Alverstone, England's highest
Judge, and no time was wasted in tech
nicalities or in hearing expert brainstorm
evidence The trial was exhaustive al
though it was lacking in legal skirmish-
ing. It was conducted solely with an eye
to the determination OF the prisoner $
guilt or innocence with no lawyers high
flown efforts in it. Nothing of that kind
is permitted in English courts. From
start to finish it was what criminal trial
should be and as such it stands at every
point in direct contrast with great Amer
lean trials which are as rule made up
of matters that are sensational and ex-
traneous and misleading.
And yet no one doubts or ever has
doubted that justice would be done. The
verdict is final, and 1t is wholly safe to
say that it will prove satisfactory to the
public. This much cannot often be said
of verdicts In great criminal cases in this
country.
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KINGS IN EXILE
he New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
Ex-King Manuel of Portugal has de-
cided to settle in England, the tradi-
tional friend and ally of the country
which has deposed him. Necessity has
often made England the chosen refuge
OF deposed kings. 1t was absolute me-
cessity, apart from all question of
prediction. that drove Napoleon III
thither, for he would have been unwel-
come elsewhere. 1t was necessity pure
and simple that sent Louis XVIII there
after he had been ordered to leave
Russia and had been Informed that his
continued presence in Prussia would
be unwelcome and embarrassing to its
government. In Vienna he was az
heartily disliled as Napoleon himself
Charles x. remembering his brother.
humiliating experiences. naturally re-
turned to the country that had shell.
tered them both before the restoration
and Louis Philippe had nowhere else to
go In turbulent Europe of 1s4s. But even
If England has been in these instances a
necessity rather than a choice for de-
posed rulers. 1t has offered them. and Of
fers them today. advantages which they
can ma nowhere else--a maximum of
liberty compatible with the interests of
the state, security Of person and life and.
last and best, an transformations. delicately
tactful dignifed hospitality, the hospi-'
tality which is Of the genius of the race,
and which Is balm to the self-respect and
wounded pride Of the royal recipient
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Rate Advances In February

Until February ! next there will be no
advances in railroad rates, the interstate
commerce commission having postponed
to that date all of the propositions of the
railroads. Each party consents to this
postponement, and the railroads at least
are presenting their side of the case fully
and freely. They are granting increased
wages and are asking the commission to
give them the right to collect these in
sreases out of shippers. The shippers in
turn Will collect the wages in question
from consumers. who are already bur-
dened with high cost of living.
The question involved is complex and
all believe tie seven commissioners will
give both consumers and the railroads
q square deal. The decision in February
will probably be broad enough to coyer
th~ >ntirs transportation field. and the
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Disposal Of Garbage

Mayor Exum inherited from the admin
istration of the lamented Mayor O'Brien
the crematory problem, and he considers
it, it is plain, one of the chief questions
before him at the present time. 1t is one
Of those things that is never settled
until 1t is settled right
The Mayor is calling for information
in relation to working and practical Gre
matories that will certainly enable the
City Council to reach a wise conclusion.
The more information the better on this
important matter.
This city needs crematory SO hot
that all matter thrown into it becomes
speedily odorless. Such crematory can
be centrally located so that garbage can
be brought to 1t in steel cars with steel
covers from all parts of the city over
the trolley lines. Only one crematory
would be needed, and its location need
trouble no citizen, for 1t will be odorless
and well (igh smokeless A crematory
fully up , the latest scientific knowledge
is what This city needs. and indeed mus
have ithout unnecessary delay. The
choice between dumping grounds and .
cremat ~ is one that no modern cit,
hesitat over.
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THE CITY WILDERNESS

From 1.-The Boy Who Went Back to the
Bush" by Mary Synon, in the Novem-
Der Scribner.
When II came dark he went up to the
highest floor of the leviathan of steel and
had brought him from the far places. I'm
der the veil of dusk, she sprawled fatty,
her lights cleaning vaguely through a
mist The sky in the west smouidered q
sullen red under the slowly settling smoke.
Here and there flames from furnaces shot
upward sharply. To the south. above the
mills a line of fire swept across the sky.
Trains on the elevated crept along like
sinuous serpents. In the streets men and
women. ant-like. scurried along. their
individual purpose hidden in the apparent
ly purposeless rush of this ant hill. Too
far away to feel the human thrill of con-
tact with the crowds, the man above the
city peered down with gaze Of Judge on
scenes he had before looked at with the
glance of passer-by. A settling caldron
Of the races OF the world over blazing
fires of energy, Chicago revealed to the
watcher on the heights her purpose, her
power, her greatness, neF Blory as Shc ndu
never shown them to him before She
was the splendid city of the toll of men.
But what did she offer him? Success
He could win success on the outposts of
the world, where the boys, his fellows.
would be working and winning by his
side. Please? He knew the taste OF
Dead Sea apples. What did she take from
him? What had she already taken from
him in payment for the pleasures? Youth
and the gift of the gods-laughter!
He chilled in the cold night air which
swept up from the lake. and he moved
over to where q forge fire burned low
As he crouched beside It the desolation
of the loneliness OF the cities flooded
over Steve macdonald. He had known
loneliness in the bush, when he had beer
miles away from camp in the long
nights of the arctic. when the wolves
howled round his camp fire and no hu.
man being was within CALI but where
an answering fire cast its light on thu
white radiance of the sky and where there
was always the knowledge that back II
| the residency the boys would be keeping
watch for his coming and down II
Groundhog Molly Law
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From Prof. Charles William Wailace's
"Shakespeare's Money Interest In the
Globe Theatre" in August Century.
VERY age has had its own concep-
n ton of Shakespeare. but we Of to-
- day are enjoying nearer approach
to the man and his associates than has
been granted at any other time since his
death. For nearly half century scholars
have been saying that we should proba-
bly, never learn anything more that was
definite about the personal Shakespeare.
but in the last six years I have had the
privilege of finding among documents
preserved in various English archives,
and of reporting, numerous records relat-
ing to Shakespeare, his colleagues and
dramatic rivals. and the contemporary
theatres, which supply materials that en-
able us to a considerable extent to recon-
struct the life of the poet.
Our first definite knowledge Of Shakes
peares financial interests in the Globe
and Blackfriars comes to us from the os-
-Hemynges records (Which made
public In 1900 and from the documents.
now for the first time revealed. In the
suit of John witter versus John Hem
ynges and Henry Condell. Previously
we could draw only general differences
from inexact data and conditions. A hum
bred years ago the theory was set going
that Shakespeare must have disposed or
any theatrical interests he may have
owned about the time he may have re-
tired to Stratford. 1t was inferred also,
and stated positively in most biographical
notices on the basis of that mere infer
ence, that he had no shares in the thea
tres at the time of his death. This no.
ton arose from the fact that in his will
Shakespeare does not mention any thea
trical interests, and from the erroneous
supposition that a will devises all the
property specifically. But the fact is that
Wills rarely enumerate all the testators'
possessions.
shakespeare's income from his theatre
cal shares is perennial subject of de-
hate. which these documents remove from
speculation In publishing the osteler-
Hemynges suit last October called at
tention to the estimate of $500 annual
profit for Shakespeare's share. and gave
warning that even that reduced estimate
was excessive Witter declares that his
own income, previous to the BURNING
of the Globe In 1873 and while he owned
one-seyenth of them oiety chat is, one
fourteenth of the entire property and prof
its of the Globe, the same as Shakespeare
then owned, was from ESQ to f4o year
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CRIME AND CRIMINALS
EviIdoers Are Full of Queer FaiIinxs
in Body and in Mind

From the New York Press.
A criminal is one whose powers of re-
sistance are less than the stimuli that
| arise from the active motor impulses
excited by excessive selfishness, malice,
passion or misunderstanding of environ
ment His eye sees. his heart yearns
and he cannot help grabbing and crab
bing Modern preventive medicine seeks
to deal with criminality before, as well
as after, crime has been committed, and
by preventive measures attempts to pre-
vent crimes extension and broadening.
All legislators on criminal matters have
failed to discriminate the vital and fun
damental distinction between crime and
criminality. A person may break a
law, thus committing a crime, and yet
not be at all morally depraved, for. mind
you. crime may mean guilt, detection.
repentance, reform, but criminality, mis-
ter. is diseased condition of the mind
forbidding true realization of guilt and
reform. Criminality, therefore, continues
an uncured disease after the crime. even
as It was disease before.
Science finds this crime-diseased class
full of queer faiings In body and mind.
In almost all such there is an entire alb
sence of any true sense of justice.
Some forms of mild insanity, epilepsy
and all sorts and shades of feeblemind-
edness and effectiveness can be found in
such folk. II these diseases are hunted
for in the right way. Some forms of
obscure tuberculosis is Just about the
most common failing of the crime-dis-
eased, and this, the hidden criminal
side of tuberculosis, is its saddest side,
far sadder than the cough, the rotten
lungs and the grave, for these things
all people know and understand and pity,
help and weep for but who save the
Father In Heaven can read and under
stand the tuberculosis burnt brain and
so give its owner deserved pity and
charity?
criminality is highly emotional. and
without just cause flies all to pieces,
trying to smash everything in reach to
flinders, trying to hurt everybody in
sight. AS class, these poor human
buzzards are immeasurably conceited.
Dragging blaclxguards, selfish and cruel
beyond any moral mans conception or
belief In the family history of crimi-
nality insanity shows up in about s per
cent, tuberculosis in II. per cent and cpl
lepsy in per cent. All humanity has a
touch of this snakebite and tar stick, but
when Tip finds the odious and diseased
old filth hole from which both unjust
anger and swell headedness spring. then
Tip prays with all his heart to be shut of
all such faults in himself and in all
Int
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Result of Census

Among the many evidences of the d.
rect advantage growing out of Birming-
ham census figures is the fact that a
number of southern agencies are moving
from older and less advantageously sit
uated cities to this city," said Frank H.
Bell. THE Dixie Film company has Just
moved from New Orleans to Birmingham,
leasing several rooms in the Chamber of
Commerce building. Three other agen-
cies with I happen to be in touch are
looking for quarters and will be here
this coming week"
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DEADWOD REFORMED

From the washington Star.
Reform is marching on. At last Dead
wood has been reached. No more g,tn-
bling there. No more all-night saloons.
Warning has been given that the law will
be strictly enforced. No wonder the
American sports" are trying to arrange
for business in both Mexico and" Cuba.
The wild and woolly west has passed.
In that busy and progressive section now
the men in control are regulating affairs
by standard suited to the new times and
the bright prospects. Business before
pleasure. and pleasure no longer a
carouse.