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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-22
The Other Man

He met her in miserable garret, bring
Ing relief to a starving family, and
though he saw her but for a few minutes
she seemed even more pure and beautiful
TO him even than when he had first seen
her
He inquired of the rector who she was
She was the daughter of Walter Girard,
the superintendent of some works stu
ated at some distance from the town and
owned by a Mr. Trafford.
Both Trafford and Girard were Roman
Catholics. The motheress Sybil had been
brought up by Mrs. Ira ford. but now
resided in peighboring convent. 1t was
thought that she would take the veil.
1t was Girard whom Charles had seen
with Sybil in the abbey ruins.
The other man was Stephen Morley, ed
itor of a paper at Mowbray, devoted to
the interests Of the working classes and
the disseminating of several fads Of its
editor regarding sociology.
SO much Charles was able to find out.
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sued the business of antiquarian and
made a specially of investigating genealo-
gies.
When the elder Girard died Hatton dis
appeared, and, though Walter had made
every effort to get trace of him, he had
so far been unsuccessful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-22
Worse Than Savage Africa

The interior horrors of these dwellings
OF happy peasantry'' were even worse.
No hut of savdges in Africa, no hovel
OF the serfs of the Saxon period of Eng
land was comparable in wretchedness 10
the habitations with which the great land
ed proprietors supplied their peasantry IN
the era of which we are speaking.
This town of Marney was the metropo-
lis of rich farming district which was
not farmed.
From a contemplation of all this Charles
stroled to the RUNS of the ancient abbey
which stood at considerable distance
from the modern mansion, looking majes-
tic even in its ruins.
Part of it had been pulled down for
stone to use in the modern house and the
rest had been despoiled by fire and sword
when Henry's troops stormed it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-22
The Evening Hymn

As Egremont gazed with surprise at
the two strangers the sun set and sud-
denly, from the ruins of what had once
been the Lady Chppel of the Abbey
church. he heard a sweet, clear voice
singing the evening hymn to the vir-
KIN.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-22
Awakened Conscience

Ihen he becan to muse and dream. He
caused letter 10 be sent to Lord de
Mowbray, stating that action would be
oegun against him for his titles and es-
tates By Walter Girard. Mowbray came
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-22
Strangers in the Abbey

''They have destroyed the old without
supplying better new thought
Charles as he stood looking at the desc
Grated shrine and calling up to his i'm
agination the poor coming for their dole
at the gate. the traveller receiving his
rest and refreshment, the busy laborers
Of the abbey lands cutivating every inch
of them-making wealth and a happy
and contented people.
To his surprise he saw, standing near
q tomb which had somehow escaped the
ravages of time and despoiler, two men
who stared at him, as he at them, with
surprise.
One was tall man of middle age,
whose bearing seemed that OF a gentle
man who was calm and self-possessed.
His clothing did not betray his station
in life.
The other, younger. more nervous,
was dressed in clothing which, though
not exactly shabby, had evidently been
often mended and patched. but was, new
ertheless, adjusted to look the best that
was possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-22
The Mysterious Singer Again

MoWbray was manufacturing town
ands II possible, things were in q worse
condition there than at Marney. Also
there was more discomfort openly ex-
pressed, labor agitations and threats of
insurrection.
Charles Egremont was far from be-
ing anxious to marry Joanz- Fitzwarcne.
But he was a man of the world" and
would probably have submitted to the
fate decreed him by his brother had he
net, while investigating the condition of
the factory operative with the resident
vicar, again met the beautiful Sybil-the
mysterious singer of the evening hymn
in the ruins of Marney Abbey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-22
alt Hatton.

in a panic I'd consult Hatton.
He can do nothing without those pa
pers,'' said Hatton. Il suppose you still
have them safe?"
Yes, they are in the original box with
the Valance arms upon it and are ilr the
imminent room st Mowbray Castle"
That was what Hatton wanted to find
out. He had sold those papers to Now
bray for large sum-they had furnished
the beginning of his fortunes.
1t rather hung upon his conscience now
that transa ction with MoWbray. lie
really felt like restitution, especially
after he had seen Sybl, and especially as
1t would be made at no cost to himself.
He determined to get possession of
those papers and to place them in the
hands of Walter Grard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-22
Missing Proofs

But what he did not know, but what the
reader is entitled to know, was that
stephen Morley was secretly in love with
Sybil. And these other things-walter
Girard was the real heir of the De Now
brays.
For many years his family had never
risen above the ranks of yeoman. but
his father had discovered some old papers
which clearly proved that he was heir to
the possessions and titles Of the sup
posedly extinct De Mowbrays.
The father Of Walter had given these
papers to man named Hatton, who pur-
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No Room for Thein

From Narper'a Weekly.
f'Whst were poor old Hastssy'a last
TerisF' ashed Hicks. ~ thA fanstal.
! rf1e didn't have any" eRid the WtdoUL
" ~ With him 70 ~ Ngt.s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-22
Firing on Friends

defense some regiments of regulars sta
toned in a neighboring town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-22
The Storm Brealks

After the beginning of the disturbance
In that region Lord Marney had gone
down to his estates and called out uao
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-22
BENJAMIN DISRAELI

until Lord Marney fell ifeless on Now
bray Moor, literally stoned to DEATH.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-22
Their Devoted Lives


Lord De Mowbray did not contest
Sybils title to the estates which he had
SO long unjustly held, and died soon
after broken hearted.
After few months Sybi and Charles
were quietly married and went on a
trop to Italy From there they re-
turned to reside at Marney Abbey,
where they busted themselves in i'm
proving the condition of the tenantry.
On Sybirs Mowbray estates, also, the
greatest reforms were set In motion
and. in fact, to the betterment of the
laboring people Lord and Lady Marney
devoted the rest of their lives.
AS for Mr.. Hatton, he had to content
himself with the thought that he had
made restitution-by proxy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-22

Next weeks one page classic will be
Frank Mildmay," by Captain Frederick
Marryat
Oopyrgh, 1913, by Irving king.l
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-29
Wilson Currency Bill Approved
By Democrats--Party Measure.

Washington, Aug. 2S.-The admins
tration currency bill, after nearly three
weeks of discussion, was finally ap-
proved by the House Democratic eau
Gus, tonight, by vote OF 163 to 8. The
nine disscnters We're Reps. Henry, Ea-
gle and Galloway of Texas; Hardwick
Of Georgia. Lobeek of Nebraska. Blu
chanan and Fowler of Illinois, Neatly
of Kansas and Sisson of Mississippi.
After agreeing to the bill. thecaucus
adopted Il resolution by an almost
unanimous vote declaring the bill to
be party measure and that 'mem
hers of this caucus are pledged for the
bin to its final passage without amend
ment, provided. however. the banking
and currency committee may offer
amendments in the House.
The feature of today's session was
the adoption of committee amend
ment as substitute for the section on
bank reserves. which in effect simply
served to clarity the section as origi-
naily drawn.
The measure will be re-introduced
in the House. tomorrow, by Chairman
Glass and referred Immediately TO the
banking and currency committee which
will meet, next Tuesday. 1t is expecter
the bill at once viii be reported back
to the House, which Mr.. Glass predict
ed, tonight. would pass it within 10
days, many Republicans having indi-
Gated their purpose to support it. The
measure as it stands after adoption
hy the caucus is summed up by Chair
ran Glass, who piloted it through the
caucus. as follows:
There has not been written into the
hill from one end to the other a sim
gle sentence except by the initiative of
the banking and currency committee
itself, which has altered in the remot-
est degree the essential provisions OF
TIE bill as originally reported by the
committee to the caucus.
The bill establishes II regional re-
serve hanks, with capital OF not less
than s5,00,000 each, to which national
banks are required to contribute an
amount equal to 10 per cent. OF their
own capital stock and to become liza
liable for an additional 10 per cent. in
case OF call This will give the regional
reserve banks n combined paid-up cap
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-29

ital Of S105, 900, coo. These regional banks
also are made eustodians of a large
part of the reserve money of member
banks, estimated at about $4l0. 600, 600
in the aggregate. They also receive the
government deposits, estimated at from
$50, 900. 600 to s250,000.000
over the whole system of regional re-
sorve banks is to be a federal reserve
hoard. consisting of seven members.
This board is given extensive power of
supervision. examination and control.
The measure provides an advisory
council of bankers without actual
mower, composed of one member from
each of the II regional reserve districts.
One important provision is for the
gradual refunding, for period OF ~
years, the United States per cent.
bonds into per cent. government bonds
without the circulation privilege This
will mean the eventual retirement of ma
tional bank notes. The circulation priv
ilege will thus revert to the government
itself, issuing through the regional re-
serve banks on a gold reserve of 30 Id
per cent. to be provided by the banks.
The notable reserve features of the bill
contemplate a reduction of the reserve
requirements of reserve and central cities
from IS to IS per cent. and of all country
banks from Is to Il per cent. The federal
reserve board is required to establish
graduated tax on the amounts by which
banks may be permitted to all below re-
serve requirements, such tax to be uni
fornein its application to all banks.
National banks are compelled TO De-
come members of the system under PEN
atty of forfeiture of charters. while state
banks are permitted to become members
under regulation of the federal reserve
board.
Concerning the provisions relating TO
re-discounts over which there was such
a prolonged fight. and as substitute Tor
which Representative Henry and others
offered amendments comprising Is print
ed pages, the only change maue was to
add two and one-quarter typewriter
lines declaring that nothing contained In
the bill should be construed to prohibit
the rediscounting of notes and bills Oh
exchange secured by agricultural pro-
ducts and other goods, wares and mer-
chandise.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-29
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

The schooner Gardiner G.. Deering.
which was recently damaged when in
collision with the Holland American
freight steamer Sloterdyk, arrived at
Bath, early Wednesday morning, from
Boston TO undergo repairs at the
yard OF her builder. While she was
being locked lightning struck the
ball on the foretruck Of the Deering
and. sent the splinters over. the deck
of the schooner Coy. Powers. The
damage by the lightning was small
The 10Th annual reunion Of the Stew
ems family at Strong was held.
"Wednesday. on the Allen campground
At noon, there was a baked bean din
lner after which there were remarks
by Pres. Dana r. Stevens, Vice Pres.
Martin Stevens, Sec. A. w. Norton.
Alonzo Stevens of Auburn and c. w
True OF Beverly, Mass. About 40 guests
ATTENDED The arrangements were in
charge OF Mrs. Cora b. Haley. Mrs.
Dana T. sterens and Mrs Mary Lewis.
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LIND MOST OPTIMISTIC.
q LIN
CONTINUED from Page One.)

cations was received here and while
neither side, according to the official
Interpretation, yields any of the es-
sential points in it's contentious, the
method of approaching the difficult
ties at hand is admittedly mora
friendly and framed with more regard
for a practical solution. Officials
found encouragement, too, in Mr..
Lnds decision to return to the Mex
lean capital as they had left it to
his discretion to go there if there was
prospect of renewing negotiations
along tangible lines.
The two notes exchanged by Lind
and Gamboa were published in full!
here. today.
Much interest was manifest in the
suggestion made by Mr.. Lind that
all proposals be laid aside for the
present except that which asks Huerta
not to be a candidate in the coming
elections. 1t was learned that while
President Wilson knew the gist of
Mr.. Lind's second proposals, he was
not acquainted until today, with the
text OF the communication in which
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Mr.. Lind promised that if his last
suggestions We're accepted, assurances
would be given American bankers OF
the moral support of the American
government for q loan to rehabilitate
the finances of the present Mexican
regime The White House view OF
the offer of the loan was that should
the present effort to bring about peace
appear to be bearing fruit, it would
be incumbent upon the United States
TO help Mexico straighten out her fl
naneial tangles.
The argument of Senior Gamboa that
Huerta, as provisional President of
Mexico, was prohibited by the Mexi-
can constitution from succeeding him
self and that the American contention
therefore was unnecessary was scru-
tjnized closely and some officials point
ed out that no guarantee existed that
Huerta would not resign at some time
prior TO the election and thereby make
himself eligible. 1t was suggested, too
that to accept the citation of the Mex
lean constitution as sufficient restrie-
| ton on Huerta's candidacy might be
construed as recognition of Huerta
as the constitutionalty chosen ruler of
| the southern republic.
Hope was found in the vigorous dis
claimer of Senior Gamboa that any one
should have suspected Huerta of de-
string to become a candidate for this
was regarded as tacit implication
| that Huerta finally would not enter
the presidential race.
| The chief difficulties of the present
situation, it is recognized by officials
mere, are the questions of pride and
national honor involved.
| Pointed reference was made to the
remark of Gamboa in his latest note
| we are really in the way of arriv-
ing at an arrangement equilly digni-
fled for both sides"
| The situation as a whole was strip
ped of much of the tension which held
the national Capital in its grip, dur
ing the last few days. Secretary Bry-
an felt able to leave Washington late
To-day. for lecture at New Hope. Pa.
though he will return, early tomor-
Irow. President Wilson had hoped TO
lgo to Cornish, N. H., today. for the
weekend and unless the situation
lgrows acute will leave late tomorrow
The machinery of the Washington
government continued to operate in
reinforcement of the policy outlined by
the President in his address to Con
, gress, yesterday. Customs agents ant
military authorities along the south
fern frontier We're ordered to hold vi
Jail shipments of arms or ammunition
destined for any point in Mexico.
Secretary Daniels, of the navy de
lpartment announced that no more ad
ditional battleships would be sorderet
to Mexican waters.
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GIGANTIC LINER IMPERAToR IN
FLAMES-oFFIcER SUFFocATED.

second cabin when the flames were
first discovered, had by this time
grown to a cloud. Through this cloud
the Hoboken firemen rushed, dragging
their hose. The dining saloon of the
second cabin suffered the greatest
damage from smoke and the work of
the firemen. The handsome appoint
ments of the saloon were a wreck
when the smoke cleared away.
Despite the reinforcement of the
firemen, the flames gained Roadway.
a tug, steaming slowly down the riv-
er, reused the waterfront with it's
siren. Fireboats from New York, a
fleet of tugs and another battery of
fire engines from Hoboken rushed to
the pier.
A dozen tugs We're held in readiness
to tow the ship out to midstream as
the flames threatened momentasily, at
their height, to destroy her Pnpara-
stions were made to cut the liners
moorings when the fireboats began
pumping water into the hold.
With Is streams playing hundred s OF
tors of water on the fire every minute
the fiames lost Roadway and the yes
sci began to list. At o'clock Their,
and it was practically extinguished.
The second cabin presented a disma
appearance when the smoke lifted. IT
walls and glded fittings were smudget
and dark, its costly rugs and carpets
sodden, its furniture SCARED, blacken
ed and broken.
( The damage to the second cabin. ac
cording to hasty estimate. was great
er than that to the provision room ant
hold, although only painstaking exam
ination could reveal the extent t,
which the vessel had suffered. 1t wa.
{ said that the Imperators sailing, to
morrow, might have to be postponed
She arrived here yesterday.
one thousand longshoremen, en-
ployed by the Hamburg American
Line, the Imperator's owners, went OF
strike As hours before the vessels ar
rival. Their places We're filled by mer
from the Brooklyn docks and the strik.
ers were told that they would not b,
taken back. Officers of the line said
however, that they believed the fire wa!
in no way connected with the strike
Somebody's carelessness, they thought
1 was to blame.
{ The Imperator has suffered severa
! mishaps. more or less serious, sine,
her launching, May %. 1912. Her maid
en- trip was postponed from month Il
month, first because she ran aground
while on her way TO Hamburg ani
then because of trouble with her tur
bines. A benZine explosion on the yes
Z sci, April "a, caused the death of two
men and serious injury to six others.
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Conditions Under Which Upton
Will Race for Americas CUP.

New York, Aug. 2S-The New York
Yacht Club. tonight, made public the
conditions agreed upon between it and
the Royal Ulster Yacht club, repre-
sentins Sir Thomas Upton, to govern
the races that are to be sailed in Sep
tember of next year, between an Am
erican defender and Sir Thomas
Shamrock ". No statement was
made as to the possible dimensions OF
the defending craft and G. A. cor
mack, secretary of the New YORK
Yacht Club, said the measurements of
the two vessels are not likely to be
announced, until next summer. Much
earlier indications as to whether the
defending club intends to meet the
challenger with a 75-footer-the size
he has stipulated his own craft shall
oe-are explained. however.
The rules as announced do not diff
fer materially from those under which
the last races for the Americas Cup
were sailed. With favorable weather
and other conditions the yachts will
cross the starting line for the first
race, at IL o'clock A. NJ, Thursday,
Sept. 10, 1914 The course will be 80
nautical miles, to windward if posi-
Bile. from the Ambrose channel light
ship and return.
Should the Shamrock ". the chal-
lenger, be detained hv weather or 9TH
err cause from reaching here in time.
she will be given time for fitting out
after her arrival, but the first race
must, under the rules, be started not
later than Sept. II, and the succeed
ing races are to be sailed, Thursdays,
and Tuesdays until COM
pleted.
The second race will be over an
equilateral triangle and the third SINH
lar to the first. If fourth and NTH
"a ces are necessary to determine the
winner they are to be sailed, respee-
lively, as We're the second and first
races.
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HON. D. ]. McCILL|CUDDY AND
HIS SOCIALIST STATISTICS.
Our "UnCle Ike Scratches His Head and
Recalls Some Things That Are In
teresting at This Time.

r. r. One million farmers own two
farms each; 10000 other farmers own
three farms each and 10000 farmers
own from three to five farms. TINS
proves that it is the farmers VINO
own nearly all the farms and the farm
wealth.
In 1901 the year of the organization
OF the Z. ;. Steel Co.. there We're 49,
000 owners of the iron and steel
plants of this nation; in 1912 the num-
Der OF owners of the iron and steer
business has increased to 100000 IL
other words, while the population has
increased by Il per cent the owners
of the iron and steel business had in
creased by 600 per cent In "a cor
porations, railway and industrial, nav
ing total of 231,00e stockholders n
1902 have at the present time if05l,-
600 stock holders. The wider distrlb-
ution of stock in the great corpora
tons of this nation during the pas
ten years has been the marvel OF the
industrial and financial world, and SO
has the increase of the farmers
wealth which has more than doubled
in the last decade. No other perioa
of the nations history shows such
healthy and wonderful results.
Congressman McGillieuddy's ealami-
ty howl is certainly worthy OF a So
cialist propa gandist and il viii be
seized upon by the red flag gang as
proof of their contention. The DEM
ocratic party of today is in the hands
of the radicals 1t is the Bryan ele-
ment that controls the party Of JEFF
ferson, the conservative. jefferson
said: That government is best whlc
governs least. and now this historical.
party is marching rapidly towards the
false gods of Socialism. Bryan MN
self believes in government ownership
of railways. The direct legislation
planks of the modern democracy were
stolen bodily from the Socialist party
platform. and amid all this wild creed
of the 1913 Democratic party, there Is
only one ray of hope, namely, Hearst
is out against his party, and this Is
about the only worthy thing that we
can find in behalf of a once great
party. Everywhere the fight is on be-
tween the radicals and the safe anu
sane elements in society. The Bull
Moose party is now at its critical
stage because of the fight between the
wild men and the so-called conserVa-
tive force in that party.
The Republican party is the only
party in this nation to-
day and TO that party every safe anu
sane citizen rightly belongs.
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warning issued by President Wilson TO
leave the republic Somewhat reassur-
ed by the declaration that armed in
tervention is not intended they are
now wondering whether there is hid
der meaning back of the latest warn
ing.
The American consulate general was
crowded throughout the day, by Amer
leans of all classes seeking detailed
information. The consul general Arnold
Shanilin, was unable to give any ad-
vice other than that based upon in
structions from the state department
to send to all eonsus in his district a
message which is TO the effect that
they should advise all Americans in
their territory to leave Mexico at
once.
Most of the Americans, who called
at the consulate are planning to regis
ter their property and obey Washing
toms Injunction. A few are awaiting
themselves of the fund appropriated for
the refugees; a great many put the cost
of transportation in secondary place
The great majority of those, who have
been able to arrange their affairs, have
already departed from the capital, and
some from other places. Those who re-
main have for the most part interests
70 leave behind which would mean the
sacrifice of their only means of livli-
hood.
The warning has created something
like CONSERVATION on the part of mol
a few Americans. 1t will. however. re-
suit in a new exodus and the genera
determination is to abandon everything
they possess in the belief their lives
are endangered but in which they are
unable to find a satisfactory answer.