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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
NINETEENTH CHAPTER.

| TSAW, as by a fash of light, what
| was before me, and my whole
soul rose in rebellion against il
! That my father after all the years
during which he had neglected me
should come to me now, when my
| plans were formed, and change the
| whole current Of my life, was an
outrage-an iniquity. 1t might be his
right--his natural right-but if SC
his natural right was spiritual
wrong-and l would resist ito my
last breath and my last hour l would
resist it.
Such were the brave thoughts with
which / passed that night, but al
10 o'clock next morning, when l was
summoned to meet my father himself
/ was on trembling limbs and with
Il quivering heart that | went down
10 the Reverend Mothers room.
Except that his hair was whittier
than before my father was not much
changed. He rose as | entered, say
ing, Here she is herself" and when
l went up to him he put his hands
on my shoulders and looked into my
face.
quite a little Italian woman
grown! Like your mother, though,
he said, and then speaking over my
head to the Bishop who sat on the
other side Of the room, he added:
Guess this will do, Bishop"
Perfectly said the Bishop.
/ was coloring in confusion at the
continued scrutiny, with a feeling OF
being looked over for some unex-
planned purpose, when the Reverend
Mother called me. and turning 10 e.
to her l saw by the look of pain on
her face that she, too, had been hurt
by it.
She put me to sit on a stool by
the side of her chair, and taking my
right hand she laid it in her lap and
held it there during the whole of the
Interview.
The Bishop, whom had never
seen before, was the first to speak.
He was type of the fashionable
ecclesiastical suave, smiling, fault
lessly dressed in silk soutane and
silver buckled shoes and wearing a
heavy gold chain with a jeweled cross.
Reverend Mother" he said, you
would gather from Mr. O'Neills let
ter that he wishes to remove his
daughter Immediately -- ] presume
there will be no difficulty in his do
ing SOP"
The Reverend Mother did not
speak, but | think she must have
bent her head
Naturally said the Bishop, there
will be d certain delay while suitable
clothes are being made for her but |
have no doubt you will give Mr..
O'Neill your help in these prepara-
tons"
Quivered With Fear.
My head was down. and did not
see II the Reverend Mother bowed
again But the two gentlemen, APP
parently satisfied with her silence,
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what she was going to do, that
would follow her example.
1t was something of a jar to go
back into the streets, so full of noise
and hustle; and all the way home
with the Reverend Mother l was
forming the resolution of telling her
that very night that | meant to be a
nun, for, stirred to the depths of my
soul by what | had seen and remem
bering what my poor mother had
wished for me, I determined that no
other life would live under any cir
cumstances.
Then came the shock.
AS we drew up at our door post
man was delivering letters. One OF
them was for the Reverend Mother
and | saw in a moment that it was
in my fathers handwriting. She reaC
it in silence, and in silence she hand
ed it to me. 1t ran:
Madam:
Il have come to Rome to take
back my daughter. I believe her
education will now be finished,
and | reckon the time has arrived
to prepare her for the change in
life that is before her
THE bishop of our diocese has
come with me, and we propose
to pay our respects to you at 10
o'clock prompt tomorrow morn
ing.
Yours, Madam,
""DANIEL O'NEILL."
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90. The Greatest Nouel of the Twentieth Centuru

| Il do, ma ami think I do. And
when the human being happens to
be my own daughter l don't allow
that anybody else has anything to
say"
'If her mother were alive would
/ she have anything to say?"
l thought my father WINGED at
that word, but he answered:
Her mother would agree to any
| thing I thought best
Her mother, so far as I can see,
was most unselfish. most submIs-
sive, most unhappy woman" said
| the Reverend Mother.
My father glanced quickly at me
and then. after moment, he said;
| I'm obliged to you, ma'am, much
obliged But as I'm not a man %
throw words away I'll ask you to tell
/ me what all this means. Does Il
mean that you've made plans Of your
own for my daughter without con-
i sulting me?"
No, sir"
Then perhaps 1T means that tho
girl herself"
THAT may be so or not-I can nst
| say. But when you sent your daugh-
| ter to a. convent school {. .
Wrong, maam, wrong for once 1t
was my wife's sister-who thinks tho
gel disobedient and rebellious and I'M
| ruly
Then your wife's sister Is either
a very stupid or very bad-hearted
woman"
"Ma'am?"
| 81 have known your daughter
| longer than she has, and there isn't
! a word in what she saws"
II was as much es I could dc &c.
| to fall on the Reverend Mothers
neck, but l chung to her hand with
a convulsive grasp.
| May be so, ma am, may be so,
| said my father. But when you talk
about my sending my daughter to
| know that I've been so busy with
my business . ="
| THAT you haven't had time to take
| care of the most precious thing God
| gave you"
"Ma'am," said my father, rising to
his feet, may I ask what right you
have to speak to me as If :. ;. :"
The right of one who for ten
years has been mother to your
motherless child, STR, while you have
neglected and forgotten her"
At that my father. whose bushv
eyebrows were heavily contracted,
| turned to the Bishop.
Bishop" he said, 'is that what
I've been paying my money for? Ten
years fees. and middling high ones
too, I'm thinking"
And then the Bishop, apparently
hoping to make peace, said suavely:
But aren't we crossing the river
before we reach the bridge? Tho
girl herself may have no such OBJ
jections. Have your" ne asked,
turning to me.
l was trembling more than ever
now, and at first I could not reply
To Be Continued Tomorrow.
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Mildred Takes Vows.

| was just Is years of age when my
desire to become a nun reached its
highest point, and then received its
final overthrow
Mildred Bankes, who had returned
to Rome and was living as novice
with the Little Sisters Of the Poor.
was about to make her vows, and the
Reverend Mother took me TO see the
ceremony.
Never shall forget the effect of ii,
The sweet summer morning, tingling
with snow white sunshine, the little
white chapel in the garden of the
convent, covered with flowers, the all
tar with its lighted tapers, the friends
from without clad in gay costumes as
for a festival, the bishop in his bright
vestments, and then, Mildred herself.
dressed as a bride in beautiful white
own with a long white veil and at
tended by other novices as brides
maids.
1t was Just like a marriage to look
upon. except for the absence OF Wis
ible bridegroom, the invisible One be
ing Christ And the taking Of the
vows was like a marriage service, too
only more solemn and sacred and
touching bride receiving the
ring on her finger, and promising to
serve and worship her celestial lover
from that dav forward, for better, for
worse. for richer, for poorer, in sick
ness and in health, as long as life
should last and through the eternity
that was to follow IT,
cried all through the ceremony for
sheer JOY Of its loveliness; and when
II was over ard We went into the re-
fectory. and Mildred told me she was
returning to England to work among
the fallen girls of London, / vowed in
my heart. though hardly understood
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North Pole, and he was like a sea-
gull in the nest of a wood pigeon"
always longing to be out on the wild
waves.
Finally of the young Lord Raa-
that the devils dues must be in the
man, for after being sent down"
from AFFORD he had wasted his sub
stance in riotous living in London,
and his guardian had been heard to
say he must marry a rich wife soon
or his estates would go to the ham
mer.
Such was the substance of the
news that reached me over a period
Of six years. Yet welcome as We're
Father Dams letters, the life they de-
scribed seemed less and less impor-
lant to me as time went on, for the
outer world was slipping away from
me altogether, and / was becoming
more and more immersed in my spir-
itual exercises.
| spent much of my time reading
teiigious books-rhe life of Saint Te
esa, the meditations of Saint Fran
els of Sales, and, above all, the let
.ers and prayers of our Blessed Mar
garet Mary Alacoque, whose love OF
the Sacred Heart was like a flaming
torch to my excited spirit.
Inc soul OF rome, LOO, seemed 10
enter into my soul-not the new
Rome, for of that | knew nothing, but
he old Rome, the holy city, that
could speak to me in the silence of
the night within the walls of my con-
vent school, " it'll its bells of the Do
minican and Franciscan monasteries
on either side, its stories of miracles
performed on the sick and dying by
he various shrines of the Madonna,
is accounts of the vast multitudes OF
he faithful who came from all ends
{ the earth to the ceremonials at st.
Peters, and, above all, its sense of
ne immediate presence of the Pope,
lalf a mile away, the vicar and
nouthpiece of God Himself
The end of it all was that l wished
20 become a nun. l said nothing of
my desire to anybody, not even to the
reverend Mother, but day by day my
resolution grew.
Perhaps it was natural that the
orphaned ami homeless girl should
2lunge with all this passion into the
aurora of new spiritual life; but
when | think how my nature was
made for love, human love, the love Of
husband and children, l can not but
wonder with a thrill of the heart
whether my mother in Heaven, who.
while she was on earth, had fought so
lard with my father for the body of
her child, was now fighting with him
PNr har Snl11
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"And that during that time she
has only once been home?"
Il was not aware-but no doubt it
is as you say"
I'm short, that during the greater
part of her life she has been left to
my undivided care?"
You have been very good to her
very. and I'm sure her family are
extremely grateful"
"In that case, Monsignor, doesn't
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began to talk of the best date for
my removal, and just when | was
quivering with fear that without a
word of protest l was to be taken
away, the Reverend Mother said:
"Monsignor!"
Reverend Mother!"
You are aware that this child
here she patted my trembling hand
has been with me for ten years?'
Il am given to understand so"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
The Narrative of Mary
O'NeiU
FIRST PART.
My Girlhood

downright 1912. by Hearst's Magazine.
1918, by Hearst Magazine.
-on,right in Great Britain. Copyright.
az by ]. B. Lippincott Company.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
Letter From Home.

Next of Tommy the Mate-that he
sent his best respects to the III
missy" but thought she was well out
of the way of the Big Woman who
was getting that highly tightly that
"vou couldn't say Tom to a cat he
fore her but she was agate of you to
make it Thomas.
Then of Martin Conrad-that he
was AT college studying for doc
tor" but his heart was still at the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06

n FTER my mothers death there
~ was no place left for me in
my fathers house.
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Quivered With Fear.

My head was down, and l did not
see II the Reverend Mother bowed
again But the two gentlemen, APP
parently satisfied with her silence,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10
GOOD ROADS Help
PROPERTY OWNERS
Benefit Whether Or Not Lam
is Directly On Road tC
Be improved

Washington, y. {. Nov
road building specialists Of h..
partnent of Agriculture. in hi -,
No. 136. entitled Highway ..sU
have the following To- SAY ,t..t .a.
beneft OF g weli-constructcd hEa4a.
to property owners whose prcI.rr. s..
not directly on the road +.
proved:
In planning the hiShway $685..
the main market roads. r. o1 t.
found necessary TO omit Na3r r...s.
the Improvement Of WHOM Isl -~-,.i,
desired by abuttine landowners rh.
fact that such properly holders 81 q
pay a tax for the bond iss.e - .nfy
an apparent injustice, for L IT,. h#rt-
way system is well planned II. ,ntr,
county will feel the dement's sd 10
improvements. AS a rule. MAJ. man
ket roads reach h majority II pro-
duclng arcas and when they r., I'M
proved 6ll land value teuG sr-
crease.
The fact that cities anu .t-,,
towns are frequently taxed tn l.rd
issues to build highways outside II
their own limits, IS sometimes mao,
a point Of debate in bono clerI,.~
1t is argued that because 8 Lara, ..rt
OF the county wealth is within rht
corporate limit Of such cities md
towns, highway bond money si, I'D
also be used to construct then streets
1t is ven urged has the ,>r.ut.-
ture should be made prOPortIouere
to the assessed valuation within ,ae
city limits. If the proceeds to me
assessed valuation within III. cy
limits. II the proceeds Of hI4hNay
bond issues were distributed III tt.
way, their urpoS in many cases
would be defeated. The primarS b
ject Of the county highway bond issue
is to build county market roads end
not to improve city streets. although
a high percentage OF the assessed
valuation may be city property. II 70
now known that the expenditure #
city axe on country roads Is o sound
principle and that il IS one Of the hest
features Of State aid for highways
In Massachusetts the city q Boston
pays possibly 30 per cent Of the total
State highway fund, but not a 1niit -
State-aid highway has been at
within its limits. New York CITY also
pays about so per cent OF the tusi I
the State highway bonds. Some S'a''
laws prohibit the expenditure Of pro-
ceeds OF State highway bonds "ltttn
corporate limits Of cities or tCNF>
The Improvement OF market r.ad'
result in improved marketing ConGl'
tons which benefit the city. Mos1
cities are essentially d%ependent 4rol
the surrounding country for uNell
prosperity and development. Gne Ct
velopment of suburban property l3
resident purposes is also d~ep@Ld"f
upon highway conditions ano G .
becoming evident yearly that NhHl
ever makes for an increase Of r4"'"
traffic, country highways are as .
an increasing extent by city T"slcf'te
IL fact, the cost Of maintaining 1ne#
country highways has been srcat# +.
creased by the presence OF clU -."t
ed motor vehicles. The genera. "#
vance in facilities for doing to-t
business from town headQuar'ti
l when roads are improved i f" +.
considerable factor in the coHur
} life of the community.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10
More than 800 kinds Of Asf
to produce sounds.


Brothers in Philadelphia m
WheolWright began the raiiroeG ri.
Valparaiso to Santiago. and n u'
surveys toward and over the 3 Is
with the idea OF a t~ranscontfNt
route. His first road was burr '".
years before Henry Meigg4. aHet+
great railroad contractor. ais.
American, began work on the tftf
railroad southwark from Santa-
William Wheelwright's name
highly honored in Chile. He h@"
great deal to DO with the deEelolH
of the country. lie was borg
Newburyport, Mass. and Al rhe
of twenty-six was made United St@.
consul at GuaEaqgi. He served ta~
for several years n then moved
Valparaiso, where he established q
Of passenger vessels along the @"@
He was the founder Of the I@'.
Steam Navigation Company. ans
| may be called the first to lrtrr1H
steam on the west coast. lie .
/, the first gas and water Woft-
| South America and strung tHt r.
telegraph line.
Henry Meiggs, the other ar.
| American railroad constructor, I
the wonderful road which eo"-
the Andes back of Lima, Peru
also constructed the road rom
lendo to Arequipa that now GOO
to Lake Titicaca, and he did i 1f.
deal of railroad building in M
completed the road from EalPf@
to Santiago and built soIne Of NJ
is now a part OF the longitudinal ".
tenn. Today d great deal o. amer
rolling stock and rails are stu Ii
In Chile. and it is Impossible 70 VT
about the roads without rHfet+rt-
their close connection with me tHf+
| States.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10

4 most interesting feature OF me
Chilean railway situation Is the num-
her Of lines that nave been planned
10 cross the continent, traversing the
Andes and joining the Argentine rail-
way systems TO hose Of the west
coast. The only one of these that
has been completed is that whcih ex-
tends from Valparaiso to Buenos
Aires. IS about IS long as the
distance between New York and Chi
cago. 1t crosses the Ande al an aiu-
tude OF 1880 feet above the sea
through tunnel that is nearly two
miles long. The road was expensive
to build, and it is SO costly 10 oper-
ate that its freight rates Will always
be high. It has a rack and plnlon
or cog railroad system Of about TWEEN
ty-hye miles, and the gauge is such
that freight has TO be transferred
twice during the journey across the
continent. The fare from Santiago
TO Buenos Aires is Sos, with a very
small allowance for baggage. This j
more than three times a. much as the
cost of the trip from New York tt
Chicago.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10

dend OF g per cent IN 1919. All OF
these railroads are feeders OF the
longitudinal system, and hat system
has been built to connecI them as
well as to give q line north and south
throughout the republic.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10
CHILE'S new RAILWAYS
The Government Is Building a Trunk Line From
Peru to the Strait of Magellan.

Openings for American dapitai-Ihe
Longitudinal System and Its Two
Thousand Miles OF Iracks-Nitratc
Railroad. That Pay Big Dividends.
New Road Across the To-
Government Ownership and How 1t
Pay>-Tnc Two Great Americans
Who ;irs, Started Railroad Build
ing IL &. lie.
,Copyri@hted. 1919, by Frank 9. CAT
UEUtp~ .
The Washington herald., 1914-03-22

peared an abstracted man. one with eyes
that saw not and ears that heard not.
His fellow-convicts began to look ask
when he passed.
Shorty served three months with per-
feet conduct and was thus entitled to re-
ceive a letter. 1t was given him. He
placed it close to his heart and kept it
there until the he after supper mess
when he could read in his cell.
His hands trembled as he drew forth
the pages and his lips fingered upon the
folded sheets her hands had touched.
Shorty pressed close to the steel door of
his cell. held up the letter to catch the
light from the corridor incandescents and
read:
Dear. Dear Joe:
have good news for you. / have been
busy getting my commander interested IN
a Sing Sing revival and we have secured
permission to hold services in the prison
Christmas morning. afternoon. and even
ing. We shall be together nearly all OF
Christmas Day. The prison superintend-
ent will allow us to take in anything We
want In the way OF gifts, and even the
life-term men are to be permitted to see
the vaudeville show after the evening
services. l am going to bring You a lot
OF presents and good things to eat.
Now, Joe. am going to tell you some
thing that will be even better news for
you and for me. / have been praying day
and night for God to help us. and during
the past week a strange feeling came over
me that my prayers were already an
swered. Just how the Merciful Father
in heaven is going TO break the bonds
that bind you ! do not know, but l feel
that He Is going to bring about the mir
acle. You may think that am too hope
full but, sweetheart, I know that II is GO
ing to come to pass. God does not for
get the innocent or neglect those who put
their trust in Him. This feeling that my
prayers were answered first came over
me as I was holding a meeting on the
very corner where we first met. When
got back to barracks went to my room
and opened the Bible. The first chapter
that struck my eye read:
Then shalt thou call, and the Lord
shall answer; thou shalt cry, and He
shall say. Here I am"
1 knew then that this was a token and
sign. 1 know that the miracle will come
about. 1t is. 1t is going to como about.
Joe. God has heard us. Something Is
going to happen. l only pray and hope
that II will come on Christmas Day. Soon
We are going to be together again and
married by our brave Gen. Eva Booth.
We will both stay In the Army and under
the nag We love, the flag that takes
The Washington herald., 1914-03-22

TITS just like Mary-Sergt.. Meakins-
says" he began. II was bad because
never got a chance. After my first term
honest job. After the second term 1 found
il harder / never had a kind word or a
smile from a woman until I see Mary
that night in Chatham Square. She was
telling what the Savior had stood just
for the sake of poor buns like me. and
fell for 1t. She talked about miracles
until they got to calling her Miracle
Mary on the Bowery. I believed every
thing she preached. I couldn't help II.
There amt a lie in Mary. When the
crooks rocked me I stood II because she
was holding my hand and talking to me.
1 could have stood more for her and for
the religion she gave me.
81 never went back to crooked work
although pretty nearly starved at times.
On June 20 I had been out of work for
three months nearly and was desperate.
Men were wanted at Hampstead Plains,
Long Island, where the aeroplane races
were being held. I thought 1 could get
a dollar or two at odd jobs down there
and Mary gave me the car fare. I was
there all that afternoon. The fights be-
gan about 4 o'clock. I didn't get anything
steady, but one OF the foremen around
the hangers gave me a dollar for helping
out with a machine that got stalled.
Mary found the foreman after I was ar
rested to try and get him to help me es-
tablish an alibi, but he could not remem-
Der me. I wasn't on the pay roll and I
was only one of many men that got odd
jobs that day. and SO the foreman could
not be a witness for me. II was some
body else going in my lodging-ho with
the dress-suit case that evening. Before
God in heaven II wasn't me. The wit
ness for the police is a stool pigeon"
How did the stolen silver get in your
room?" asked the judge.
The crook must have been living in
the same house. and when he found that
the bulls were shadowing the place he
slowed the stun in my room and beat
it." replied Shorty.
Has the defense any witnesses to show
that this man was at Hampstead Plains
between 4 and o'clock on the afternoon
of June 2o?' the judge asked.
Gray shook his head.