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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1911-02-22

rerested 7 shall take pleasure IN
making any arrangements that are
necessary. Again. ! beg your pardon
And IL will not be so very di1cult,
after al. will it.~ she inquired, and
she smiled tsuotingiy.
II vil not Be at all difficult, Md
am the ambassador assured her
grsyeIy. I shall take STEPS az once
20 have an invitation Issued 70 ron for
tonight: and to-norrow I shah bs
pleased to proceed as you may Eus-
gest~
she nodded He folded the note. re
PLACED II fl the envelope and returned
II 70 her with another deep bow. She
drew her skirts about Der and sat
down: he stood
1t viii be necessary for your name
10 appear On the invitation the an
bzsssdor went on TO explain IL yOu
give re yozr name I'll have ny sec
retzry-
oh, yes. my name" she interrupted
gzily. Why. Count you enbarzss
ne You know. really. have no
name Isn't IL awkEard77
I understand perfectly. Madam
responded the count I should have
said name
She nedifstei 4 moment
Well. szy-Miss Tho-ne-Niss Isz-
BE- Thorne.- she suggested a. last
That viii do very nicely. don't you
think
Very nicely. Miss Tho-ne.- and the
an bzssador bowed again Please eI-
cuss ne moment, and I'll give ny
secretary Instructions how 10 proceed
There -ill be 2 delay o. few min
ute.-
He opened the door and went out
For minute or more Miss Thorne sat
perfectly still. gazing az the blank
wooden panels. then she rose and
Tent 20 the xincow again In the dis
lance, hazy in the soft night the dome
o. the capitol rose mistily: over 70 the
right was the congressional library.
ana out there where the lights spar
killed. lay Pennsylvania Avenue.
thread Of commerce Miss Thorns saw
IL all. and suddenly stretched CO: he-
arms With al aii-enveioping gesture.
She stood so for a minute. then they
fell beside her, and she vas motion
less
Count Of Rosini entered.
Everything is arranged, Miss
Thorne." he announced. VIII you 90
with me in my automobile, or do you
prefer 70 90 alone"
I'll go alone. please" she answer
I'd after a moment Il shall be there
about eleven"
The ambassador bowed himself out
And so Miss Isabel Thorne came 10
Washington,
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SO nuch,- commented Mr. Camp
bell
He cIssped his hands behind his
head. lay back In his chair and sat
for . lorg time. staring vita steadfas-.
thoughtful eyes into the iDpzssfFe
face Of bis subordinate Mr. Grimm
perched himself on the edge Of the
desk and With hss legs dangling read
the despatch . second tine, and a
third
II he observed slowly. If any 9th
- nan than Gzult had sent that
should have said he vas crazy
The peace q TIE world IS in perl.
Nj Grimm said Campbell impres-
siTely. a. last 1t had TO come. Of
course. the United States and Eng
land against . Urge part Of Europe
and al Of Central and South America
Il had 70 cone. and yet
He broke OF abruptly. and picked
Up the receiver Of his desk telephone
The White House. please. he re-
CRESTED c1rtly, and then after q NO
nent: Hello, Please ask the pres
dent II be Ein receive Mr. Campbell
Immediately Yes. Nj Campbell of
TIE Secret Service There vas a
pause Mr.. Grimm removed his i'm
nscuists person from the desk. and
took chair. Hello, In half an hour
So much
The pages Of the Almanac de Gotha
Huuered through his fingers. and final
ly he leaned forward and studied
paragraph OF il closely When he
raised his eyes again there was that
il them which Mr.. Grimm had never
seen before-a settled. darkening
shadow.
The vorldvar has long been q
chiners. NJ. Grimm he remarked al
last. but nov-Dow, Think Of IL, OF
course. the Central and South Ameri-
can countries, taken separately, are
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had barely disappeared when Mr..
Rankin lounged along In front of Miss
Thorne. He glanced at her, paused
and greeted her effusively.
Why, Miss Thorne." he exclaimed.
I'm delighted to see you here. | un-
derstood you would not be present,
and"
Their hands met In a friendly clasp
as she rose and moved away, NTH
nod OF excuse to Mr.. Cadwallader. A
thin slip Of paper. thrice folded,
passed from Mr.. Rankin to her. She
tugged at her glove. and thrust the lit
tie paper, still folded, inside the palm.
is 1t yes. or nor" Miss Thorns
asked in low tone.
Frankly. can't say" was the re-
ply.
He read the message" she ex-
planned hastily. and now hs has gone
to dsciphsr It." fesr
She gathered up her trailing skirts
over one arm. and together they glidsd
away through the crowd 70 The strainsa
Of Strauss valta. A-fs p y. r. l-'
Ito be continued.)
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inconsequential, and that is true. too
Of the Latin countries of Europe. ex
cept France, but taken in combination.
under one directing mind, the allied
navies would be-would be formid
able, at least Backed by the moral
support Of Germany. and perhaps ia
pan Don't you see? Don't you
see?'
He lapsed into silence Mr.. Grimm
opened his lips TO ask question
Mr. Campbell anticipated it unerr-
ingly:
The purpose of such an alliance?
1t is not too much TO construe il into
the FIRST step toward a world-war-s
war Of reprisal and conquest beside
which the other great wars OF the
world would seem trivial For the
fact has at last come home 10 the ma
lions OF the world that ultimately the
English-speaking peoples will domi-
nate it-dominate It because they are
The practical peoples. They have given
10 the world all it's great practical in
ventions-the railroads. the steam
ship. electricity. the telegraph and
cable-all OF them: they are the great
civilizing forces. rounding the world
up TO new moral understanding. for
what England has done in Africa and
India We have done in smaller way
in the Philippines and Cuba and Por-
10 Rico; they are the great CONNER
cial peoples, slowly but surely winning
the market-places Of the earth wher-
ever the English or the American flag
is planted there the English tongue
is being spoken, and there the peoples
are being taught the sanity OF right
living and square dealing.
1T requires no great effort OF the
imagination, Mr.. Grimm. to foresee
that day when the traditional power
Of Paris. and Berlin, and st. Peters.
burg, and Madrid will be honey
combed by the steady encroachment
Of our methods. This alliance would
indicate that already that day has
been fOreseen; that there is now a re-
sentiment which is about to find ex.
preston In one great, desperate strug.
gle for world supremacy. few hun.
dred years ago Italy--or Rome-was
stripped Of her power; only recently
the United States dispelled the illu.
sion that Spain was anything but a
she'll; and France. One can't help
but wonder II the power she boasts is
not principally on paper But II their
forces are combined? Do you see?
Ii would be an enormous power to
reckon with. with a hundred bases OF
supplies right at our doors"
He rose suddenly and walked over
TO the window. where he stood for a
moment. staring out with unseeing
eye:
Given yard OF canvas, Mr.
Grimm he went on finally, "a Span
ish boy will waste 1t, a French boy
will paint a picture on 1t, an Eng.
lish boy will build a sail-boat. and an
American boy will erect a tent. That
fully illustrates the differences In the
races"
He abandoned the didactic tone, and
-Nturned to the mater matter in
ID. Mr.. Grimm -,m the
are Itch and he ~ engraved G..
n the M, soon q D.
anarsdelI d ate Pub. Co., Inc.
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CHAPTER n.
Mr.. Campbell and the Cable.

Just as IL IL one mans business 20
manufacture watches. and another
mans business 10 peddle shoe-strings
so IL was Mr.. Campbell's business To
know things He was a human card
index. governmental ready reference
posted 20 the minute and backed BY
all the tremendous resources OF a ma
ton. From the little Office In the Sc
cret Service Bureau. where he sat day
after day, radiating threads connected
with the huge outer world, and en-.
abled him 20 keep firm hand on the
diplomatic and departmental pulse Of
Washington. Perhaps be came near
er knowing everything that happened
there than any other man living: and
no man realized more perfectly than
he Just how little Of all Of IL be did
know
In person Nr. Campbell was not I'M
Ike retired grocer who had shaken
the butter and eggs from his soul and
settled back TO enjoy life Of placid
idleness. He was a little beyond mid
die age, pleasant OF face, white of
hair, and blessed with guileless blue
eyes. His genius had no sparkle TO
II; Il consisted solely OF detail and
system and Individuality. coupled
with memory that was well nigh il
fallible. His brain was as serene and
orderly As cash register one almost
expected 10 hear II click.
He sat at his desk intently studying
a cable despatch which lay before him
II was in the Secret Service code
Leaning over his shoulder was Mr..
Grimm-the Mr.. Grimm OF the bureau
Mr.. Grimm was an utterly different
type from his chief. He was younger.
perhaps thirty-one or two, physically
we'll proportioned, little above the
average height, with regular features
and listless, purposeless eyes re-
plica Of a hundred other young men
who dawdle idly in the windows of
their clubs and watch the world hurry
by. His manner was langud; his
dress showed fastidious care
Sentence by sentence the bewilder-
ing intricacies OF the code gave way
before the placid understanding of
Chief Campbell, and word by word,
from the chaos of IL, a translation
took Ineligible form upon sheet
Of paper under his right hand Mr..
Grimm, LOOKING on, exhibited only a
most perfunctory interest in the ex-
traordinary message he was reading;
the listless eyes narrowed a little, that
was all 1t was special despatch
from Lisbon dated that morning and
signed simply "Gault' Completely
translated 1t ran thus:
Secret offensive and defensive al.
lance OF the Latin against the Eng
disappearing nations OF the world is
planned Italy, France, Spain and
two South American republics will
soon sign compact In Washington.
Proposition Just made to Portugal,
and may be accepted. Special en-
voys now working In Mexico and Cen.
trail and South America. Germany in
vited to join, but refuses as yet. Civ
ing. however, tacit support; attitude
Of Russia and japan unknown to me.
Prince Bensdetto d'Abruzzi, believed
to be In Washington at present, has
absolute power to sign for ~
France and Spain. Profound >cerleS
,njoined and preserved. It brands
il by underground Shall y
minister? Cable instru~
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Mr. Orinn
ceries ch and b. So engraved a.
'njoined and It brands on the M soon =
Minister Cable instrue yanarsdel 4 ate Pub Co., Iuc
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-03
LOCAL DISPOSAL STRIKES A SNAG

|s HE bland arrangements by the mayor of Montclair and other
wellmeaning but somewhat selfish individuals for disposing
of the sewage filth of Montclair and several neighbor towns
by sewering it into Belleville and a part of Bloomfield, and there
collecting it in disposal tanks covering many acres of land, have
been Disconnected TO some extent already. When Montclairs mayor
and former Trunk Sewer Engineer Randolph Herring announced the
carefully planned arrangement, and when the mayor told of his
acquisition of BeleyHle and Bloomfield land for sewage disposal
purposes, it was with an air of great satisfaction, the air Of one
who feels that a project has been successfully accomplished. It's
with some surprise now that Montclars mayor finds himself con
ftonted by fierce opposition and by difficulties that he had not
dreamed of. The abortye attempt to lug Passaic into a position of
opposition to the trunk sewer was gratuitous as far IS the plan
offa joint disposal plant goes, and it would indicate a deliberate
intention to hold up the sewerage commission or wreck its costly
plans for a trunk sewer. But the end of local disposal for sewage in
the Passaic valley is already in sight. In the interior of the country
Tar away from the sea or a large river, sewage must necessarily
have some method of disposal. Atlanta is far from the sea and the.
Imhof system is desirable there Il it is better than any other local
disposal system. There are waste tracts near Atlanta where a
plant can be placed without much objection. But in the Passaic
valley there is neither room nor excuse for a sewage disposal plant,
and there will be none.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-03
E TRUST ASKS GOVERNMENT CONTROL

1a HE policy of the United States Steel Corporation since it be
came established has been open and aboveboard. ut was
the first large corporation to give publicity to its business
affairs, and for several years it has made complete annual state
nlents such as it would be required to make under government con
troll. Judge Gary, chairman of the board of directors of the corpora
tion, talking to the House investigating committee yesterday, sur
prised the committee by his statement that he favored government
control of all large interstate corporations, Just the same as the
government has control over the railroads and national banks. He
was perfectly willing to submit all the private business affairs of the
corporation to a duly accredited department of the government and
would be satisfied to have that department fix the rates at which
the steel corporations products could be sold. Said Judge Gary:
"The Steel Corporation would be glad if it knew where it stood.
We want to be free from danger, free from criticism by the public.
If we had some place we could go and say: Here are the facts
and figures Of our property, our cost prices, etc. Tell us what we
have a right to charge-if we had some such governmental body
we would be glad to avail ourselves of the opportunity. Corpora
tions have no right to ignore public questions and public interests"
Judge Gary was speaking for his corporation, the largest, richest
and most powerful in the world. When this corporation yolun-
tarily offers to submit itself to government control that control
cannot be far distant. 1t will be remembered that former Senator
Dryden took virtually the same attitude as to life insurance in
terests.
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Premature Judgment.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Labor organizations that assert that
Mcnamara and the men that are ac-
cused of being Instrumental In the
blowing up of the Times building and
making a great mistake. Decision
should be reserved until after the trial.
No man at this time can tell whether
Mcnamara land his. associates are
guilty or innocent. No Labor organiza-
ton has q right to say that the men
are falsely accused or that the whole
affair is a frame-up.
Colonel Roosevelt. who refers to dy-
naniters in every speech he makes, Is
also making a mistake. There can be
no doubt of the fact that he is of the
belief that these men are guilty.
Roosevelt always judged hastily ana
always talked too much. In the case
Of the Western Federation of Miners
he said that the men were undesirable
citizens; despite that. however, thu
men were acquitted by a jury that was
not in sympathy with labor men. Why
can We not be reasonable? Why must
Ia labor organization and an ex-Pres.-
dent of the United States form an opin-
ion Of the guilt or innocence of a set
of men before the men are triel?
Roosevelt has no right to refer to dy
namiters at this time. and the union
men should take care in what they sa.
about the manufacturers and the legal
authorities in the Western cities.
am personally of the belief that the
men win be acquitted OF murder and
conspiracy. I think that. because union
men as union men would not be guilt,
of organized murder; but how am J
to say that the men are innocent, OF
that there is a conspiracy on the par
of Detective Burns and the manufae-
l%turers' association I am willing %
submit the mater to tho court. and
know that i The men are guilty they
will be punishei; if innocent they will
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-03
go free. There is no need of prejudg-
ing a thing Of this sort and the men or
set of men that do so are unwise.
BRUCE HARRISON.
Champion TroubIe-Mnker.
tor Or the Evening Star:

To the Editor or the Evening Star:
AS a frst-class trouble-maker be-
hold the 'Geran election bill What 4
start it has made. Just think of 1t,
Mr.. Editor, more than 10000 citizens
ready TO sacrifice themselves upon the
altar of their state from two counties
alone for the sake of Jobs as election
officers. Wonder what the whole state
will bring forth.
1t strikes me that it will take some
little time before the proper patriots
are selected by the civil serpide eora
mission to instruct the average citizen
how to vote. For, / understand. the
average citizen will need to be in.
~structed In his sacred but complicated
duty of casting his ballot. 2
After the selections have been made
from about 10000 names from all over
the State, let US hope that there vii,
be some more red-tape before the first
registry day arrives. After that some
more, and when the average citizen
finally gets to his polling-place, there
is absolutely no doubt as to his mental
confusion. That is Just what the
makers of the bill want. Maybe, affep
the ballots are at last counted, sag.
just before Christmas, they viii fnd
that they. got more than they wanted.
Successful as the voting machines were
in disfrancfising citizens the Geran Bill
will beat IT out. m TT
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just a Line
A bout Men
You Knou

Do You know that "Byr1e and Cash
in" are in the insurance business OF
Springfield avenue, near the Court
House? 2
And do you know that "Dr. Lancit'
is a dentist Just a little further MP thu
street, at the junction of Springfield
and South Orange avenues? NJ W
Something suggestive in those two
names, eli? s
General Grubb's mention, in his chat
at the Soldiers Home to an Evenina
STAR man ofahis schoof-days at Bur.
lington, reminded an old Burlington
College boy OF the days. back In the
seventies when the generals brother
Harry presented the school with a rae
ing barge. A meeting Of the boys was
called to decide. on a name FIR the boat,
Several titles had been suggested, when
n of the students, Alexander Elliott,
got up and said:
Mr.. Chairman, / move We call her
Butterfly, because she came from a
9rubb.'' M tN 2
Elliott got a laugh, but no second,
and the barge was dubbed Efie, after
Mr.. Grubb's daughter.
Elliott, who was a Dover boy, he
came afterward District Court judge
of Paterson, and stlll later looked after
Thomas A. Edison's legal interests al
the West orange plant He died some
ver.s 90 r
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Sc. .+--.sry1 -H4 a-s- SCI
UNION LUNCHEON FOR
NEWARK CLUB WOMEN.
Fifteen Clubs Represented at
Caldwell Gathering.

Members from all the federated clubs
of Newark are attending the union
club luncheon today at Monomonock
Inn, Caldwell. The clubs represented
are the College Women's Club, of Essex
County, the Contemporary Club, the
New Jersey Woman's Press Club, the
Teachers Guild, the Forest Hill Read
ing Club, the Half Hour Reading Club,
the Municipal Art Society, the Civic
Club, the Ray Palmer, the Salma-
gundi Club, the Philitscipoma Club, the
Saturday Club, the Travellers Club, the
Woman's Club and the Humane Edu-
cation Society.
Mrs. Elwood S. Armitage, of the Col
lege Woman's Club, has charge of the
ushers, who include members of that
club and representatives of the other
clubs. The toastinistress, who is chos-
EN- from the different clubs in rotation
each year, is Mrs. Seymour Tucker, of
the Forest Hill Reading Club.
The program consists of an address
of welcome by Mrs. Tucker, monologues
and readings by Miss Frances Hays. of
the Contemporary Club, and an ad-
dress by Mrs. William Gerry slade. Of
New York, national president Of the
Daughters of 1912, a special guest of
the club.
There is a special table at the luncheon
for Mrs. Shade and other members OF
her organization, and Mrs. Robert
Gilchrist. of Newark. regent of Nova
Caesarea Chapter, Daughters Of the
revolution; Mrs, Everett Tomlinson,
Of Elizabeth. ~regent-of Boudinot Chap
ter, that organization, and Mrs. z.
Gaylord Putnam, formerly v~ice-presi-
dent general Of the D. A. r. Other
guests invited are Mrs. Howard Crosby
Warren, of Princeton, new president Of
the State Federation of Women's
clubs; Mrs. Frank a. Pattison, Of Col
onis, formerly president; Mrs. William
r.. Ropes, of Montclair, vice=president-
at-large. n Mrs. Belle de Rivera, of
New York.
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Believed In woman Suffrage.

To the Editor Of the Evening star;
There were thousands and thousands
of people at the unwilling of the Lin
coin statue at the Court House. Me-
mortal Day. Every man and woman
there went to hear one of the greatest
men in the country talk about the
greatest man this country ever pro-
duced. It is safe to say hat the
memory of Lincoln will live far longer
than the memory Of Roosevelt. That
Lincoln did things, while Roosevelt
talks things, is also certain. There is
not a man in the country that hoes
not honor Lincoln's memory; there Is
not a woman in the country that would
not be proud to have a son like
Lincoln.
But-how many of those that at
tended the unwilling exercises know
that Lincoln believed IN woman suf-
frage? How many of those that adj
mire Lincoln and respect his memory
have called those that believe in won1-
an suffrage fools with new tangled
notions?' 1t is not unlikely that half
the men and women there al one time
or another expressed themselves -sar-
castically concerning the suffrage
movement.
To make fun of the suffrage cause is
the hobby of some of those that at
tended the exercises. To ridicule the
men and women that are the backbone
of the cause seems to please many of
those that have the greatest admira-
ton for the things that Lincoln did
and the things he stood for.
Our city officials, many of them.
speak in praise Of Lincoln every time
they have the opportunity; they also
refer ironically, many of them. to the
cause Of woman suffrage. every time
they get the opportunity.
Those who admire Lincoln and make
fun of the women that want to vote.
ought to consider the two things and
after thinking it over they ought to go
to a woman suffrage meeting and learn
something about women and voting.
FRANCES SPEARE. !.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-03
Market street Paving.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
The only result of the scores of meet
ings and conferences held by the Board
Of Works on the Market street paving
matter during the past few years is a
column or more of squabbles and petty
fights. This body of men who are sup
posed to be conversant with matters
OF this kind, and to be able to def
nitely settle. a proposition pertaining to
the public streets, spend more of the
public's money on meetings and in
spection trips than it would cost to
buy barrels of wood block.
Some time ago someone suggested
that the different materials for paving
be given a fair trial at the -Four
Corners" He proposed to lay equal
proportions of wood block, granite
block. asphalt and brick on this busy
t~horoughfare, where they would be
given the greatest test possible. That
was the most original and the best idea
that has beer submitted to our
esteemed BOARD of Works. Seeing tha,
they could not agree on any material
one would suppose that f%air-minded
men would jump at the chance for
solution that this proposition held
forth.
Their failure to try this u and
their continuous failure to bulge one
inch on their Convictions would lead
the man up a tree to imagine there Is
something extraordinary keeping UP
this deadlock. Give the four kinds Of
paving material a fair try-out at the
-Four Corners where the result viii
be viewed by the public and not be-
hind closed doors in secret sessions. In
fact give us some action.
TAXPAYER.