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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-28

w ' the sun was was shining HS1i E'''a and,
after my hair had been
was sitting up in bed, eating for
breakfast the smallest of bantam
eggs with the smallest of silver
spoons when the door opened with
bang and a small figure tumbled
into my room.
1t was a boy, two years older than
myself. He wore a gray Norfolk
jacket and knickerbockers, but the
popularity of his dress was a white
felt hat Of enormous size which be-
ing soiled and turned down in the
brim, and having a hole in the crown
with a crop of his brown hair stick
ing through it, gave him the appear
ance of damaged mushroom.
Except that on enterting he tipped
up his head so that | saw his face,
which was far from beautiful and
yet had two big blue eyes-as blue
as the bluest sea-he took no no.
tice of my presence, but tossed a
somersault in the middle of the floor.
screwed his legs over the back of a
chair, vaulted over a table and finally
stood on his hands with his legs
against the wall opposite to my bed,
and his inverted countenance close
to the carpet.
In this position, in which he was
clearly making q. point Of remaining
as long as possible, while his face
grew very red we held our first con-
versaton. | had hitherto sat propped
up as quiet as a mouse, but now l
said:
Little boy, what's your name7"
Mart" was the answer.
Where do you come FROM"
"SpitZbergen."
! can not remember that this intel
ligence astonished me, for when the
inverted face had become scarlet, and
the legs went down and the head
came up, and my visitor tossed sew
eral somersaults over the end OF my
bed, to the danger of my breakfast
tray and then without a word more
tumbled out of the room, | was still
watching in establishment.
| did not know at that time that
these were the ways which since the
beginning of the world have always
been employed by savages and boys
when they desire to commend them
selves to the female of their kind, so
| that when the doctors wife came
| smiling upstairs l asked her II the
| little boy who had been to see me
was not quite we'll
| Bless you, yes, dear but that's his
way she said, and then she told me
all about him.
Martin Conrad.
! His name was Martin Conrad, and
| he was her only child. His hat, which
| had awakened my interest, was an old
one of his fathers, and 1t was the last
! thing he took off when he undressed
| for bed at night and the first thing
he put on in the morning. When the
hole came into its crown his mother
had tried to hide It away, but he had
always found 1t. and when she threw
| 1t into the river he had fished it out
| again.
! He was the strangest boy, fun Of
the funniest fancies. He used to say
| that before he was born he lived In
a tree and was the fellow who turned
J on the rain. 1t was with difficulty
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-28

X pened at school, ! must say
- how and when I first became
known to the doctors boy.
II was during the Christmastide,
On Christmas Eve I awoke in the
dead Of night with the sense of
awakening in another world. The
church bells were ringing, and there
was singing outside Of our house, un-
der the window of my mothers room.
After listening for little while /
made my voice as soft as could and
said;
Mamma, what is TT"
Hush, dear! 1t is the Waits. Lie
still and listen," said my mother.
I lay as long as my patience would
hermit and then, creeping over to the
window, | saw a circle of men and
women. with lanterns, and the frosty
air smoking about their red faces.
After a while they stopped singing,
and then the chain of our front door
ratified. and I heard my fathers loud
voice asking the singers into the
house.
They came in, and when l was
hack in bed ! heard them talking
and then laughing in the room be-
low, with Aunt Bridget louder than
all the rest, and when ] asked what
she was doing my mother told me
she was serving cut bunloaf and
sherry wine.
I fell asleep before the incident was
over, but as soon as I awoke in the
morning | conceived the idea Of sing
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-28
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FIFTH CHAPTER (Continued)

Another compensation was the
greater opportunity I had for cult
waiting an acquaintance which I had
recently made with the doctors son,
when he came with his father on
visits to my mother. AS soon as the
boots Of the horses were heard on the
gravel, I used to dart away on tiptoe,
Ms through the porch, climb into the
Gig and help the boy to hold the reins
while his father was upstairs.
This led to what 1 thought a great
discovery. 1t was about my mother.
I had always known my mother was
sick. but now l got "skute" Gas old
Tommy used TO say into the cause
of her illness. 1t was matter of
milk. The DOCTORS boy had heard his
father saying so. If my mother could
only have milk morning, noon and
night. every day and all day. there
wouldn't be nothing the matter with
herr
A Quarrel,
This, too, impressed me deeply, and
the form it took in my mind was that
nanny wasn't sed enough" a con-
usion that gained color from the
fact that l was Betsy Beauty Terched
up in a high chair in the dining
room twice or thrice a day. drinking
rice warm milk fresh from the cow
We had three cows, l remembered,
and to correct the mischief of my
mothers illness, 1 determined that
henceforth she should not have mere
" more of our milk-she should have
all of it.
Losing no time in carrying my IN
tention into effect, 1 crept into the
dairy as soon as the dairymald mad
brought in the afternoons milking
There It was, still frothing and bub-
bling In three great bowls, and tax
ing up the first of them in my httle
thin arms-goodness knows howl
made straight for my mothers room
But hardly had l climbed halfWay
up the stairs, putting and painting
under my burden, when l met Messy
Macleod coming down, and she ieil
on me with her usual reproaches'
Mary O'Neill, you willfuL UNDER
hand little vixen, whatever are you
doing with the milk?"
Being in no mood for explanations
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-28

hand, as something that belonged to
him, and before the schoolmistress
could recover her breath, or the schol-
ars awake from their establishment,
he marched me, as If his little stocky
figure had been sixteen feet tall, in
stately silence out of the school
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-28

tHdI ne could be educated and eyary-
morning on being awakened he said
he was sorry he ever started this
going to school," As a consequence
he could not read or write as well as
other boys of his age, and his gram
mar was still that of the peasant peo-
pie with whom he loved to associate.
Chief among these was our gar
dener, old Tommy the Mate, who lived
in a mud cabin on the shore and
passed the doctors house on his wav
TO work. Long ago Tommy had told
the boy a tremendous story. 1t was
about Arctic exploration and an ex-
petition he had Joined in search Of
Franklin. This had made an over
towering impression on Martin. who
for months afterward would stand
waiting at the gate until Tommy
was going by, and then say:
Been to the North Pole to-day,
Tommy"
Whereupon Tommy's "starboard
eye" would blink and he would an
swer:
Not to-day. boy. l don't go to the
North Pole more nor twice a day
now"
Don't you. thought" the bow
would say, and this would happen
every morning
A Young Explorer.
But later on Martin conceived the
idea that the North Pole was the 10
callty Immediately surrounding his
fathers house. and every day he
would set out on voyages Of eXplora p
ton over the garden. the road and
the shore, finding, by his own ac-
count, vast world of mysterious
things and undiscovered place.. BY
some means-nobody knew how--the
boy who could not learn his lessons
studied his fathers German atlas,
and there was not a name In IL north
of SpitZbergen which he had not got
by heart He transferred them all to
ELAN, so that the Sky Hill became
Greenland, and the Black Head be.
came Franz Josef Land, and the
Nuns Well became Behrlng Strait,
and Marthas Outlet became New 81
IBERIA, and St. Mary's Rock, with the
bell anchored on II, became the pivot
Of the earth itself.
climb a rock like a lizard and he
kept a log book, on the back pages
Of the Doctors book of visits which
he called his "diarrhea." And now
il you lost him you had only to look
up to the ridge of the roof. or per-
haps on to the chimney stack, which
he called his crows nest, and there
you found him. spying through his IA .
theirs telescope and crying out:
Look out ahead! Ice foes from
IS latitude. Ia point north. 3 knots TO
the larboard bow"
His mother laughed until she cried
when she told me all this, but there
is no solemnity like that Of child,
and to me IL was a marvellous story,
] conceived a deep admira ton for
the doctors boy. and saw myself with
eyes Of worship walking reverently
by his side. ] suppose my poor lone
ly heart was suffering after conrade-
ship, for being a sentimental little
ninny | decided to offer myself TO the
doctors boy as his sister.
The opportunity was dreadful long
in coming II did not come until tn
next morning, when the door Of my
room flew open with yet louder
bang than before, and the boy en-
tered in a soap p box on wheels, sup
posed TO be a sledge, and drawn by
dog, an Irish terrier which being
red had been called William Rufus.
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Going to give kiss to make amends or are YOU going tn
owe me grudge for the rest of your life my ady?"

all this was the opposite of what
had happened to my own dear mother
who having everything had nothing
while this good creature having moth
ing yet had all.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-28
The NdrrotiUe of Mary
O'NeilI
FIRST PART.
Ny Girlhood

Copyright. 1912. by Hearst's Magazine
1918. by Hearst Magazine
in Great Britain. Copyright,
1918 by ]. B. Lippincott Company.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-28
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE.

TARY ONEIL begins of
W in ELn the of peasants gone to America become ron
and had then returned BIRTHPLACE ,ohee he married The
laughter Of Captain ONe Of the ONeis chanoed his nam
Daniel edte to Daniel ONeU her oton birth and of
Gthe for bog had been
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her earliest memory and of her ,oho came to Keen
Daniel ONet
epddughter Her
Mary mother to
ohtch MdrVs father dloags aunt eere mann
after one OF them he declared that the children
NOW READ ON
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-28
SIXTH CHAPTER.

~ EFORE I speak Of what hap
X pened at school, I must say
- how and when I first became
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-28
SEVENTH CHAPTER.

VYJIEN l awoke next morning
wv the sun was shining. and
after my hair had beer
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-19

choice of men of all parties. Other
candidates were supported openly or
covertly by this or that political or
ganization, but Judge Kunkel stood
entirely outside of party lines in full
compliance with the spirit as we'll as
the letter of the nonpartisan law. He
had not then and has not now any
party affiliations. He is content t.
place his candidacy before the people
on the ground of his own personal
qualifications. lie has served as law
yer at the bar. as lawmaker in the
Legislature, as district attorney; and as
judge of the courts he has sat in many
of the most important suits in the
history of Pennsylvania, including the
Capitol conspiracy cases. AS a Judge
he ranks high among his fellows and
he is unquestionably the best fitted
man in the State for the office he is
seeking.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-19
a NoNPARTisAN CANDIDATE

"HE nonpartisan law for the cleo
ton of judges was designed to
= remove judicial contests from
the field of partisan politics. and
quite properly so. The selection of a
judge ought not to be governed purely
by party majorities. No party prin-
ciple is involved in the filling of a
vacancy on the bench. All the voter
ought to consider is the candidate's S
personal qualification. Is he best fitted
of those in the fight for place on
the bench by personal character, hon
esty, ability and experience? Is he of
an age that reasonably insures an
active career throughout the long term
for which he is to be elected? These
are the only questions the voter need
ask himself.
We in Pennsylvania this Fall have a
perfect example of the ideal nonparti-
san judicial candidate in Judge Kunkel,
nominee for the State Supreme Court.
Judge Kunkel was removed from par
tisan politics year ago when, as the
county's first nonpartisan candidate.
he was elected by the unanimous vote
of men of all parties to succeed him
self on the Dauphin bench.
In the May primary contest he was
nominated because he was again the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-19
Knox MAY
Follow Up
Roosevelt
POLITICAL SIDEuCHTS

Bishop Berry does not see any
difference between the local option
stands of DR.. Brumbaugh and Vance
C. Mccormick.
Judge Brumm does not appear TO
think very much OF Congressman Pal
mer.
Henry Wilson Befgey, one of the
reorganizers' fighters in the 1913
House. has formally renounced tho
candidacy of Vance c. Mccormick
for Governor.
In his speech at Bradford DIR,
Brumbaugh said: Il am for local OPP
tion. Is that plain? Shall l spell II
for you? Did you get p
Unfortunately, Boss Moore, of the
Anti-Saloon League, cannot under
stand such plain words as those of
DR.. Brumbaugh at Bradford.
The Telegraph believes in local
option and fights for it. but it does not
believe in the Anti-Saloon League be-
ing used by politicians.
Senator Beidleman will speak al
Newmanstown and Palmyra.
senator Jarrett was one of the
leaders of the Bull Moosers in the last
Legislature. And he presided at the
Brumbaugh meeting.
-Palmer's claim that he did not
oust pension examiners in Pittsburgh
has been denied in official letters from
Washington.
A Brumbaugh citizens committee
has been formed in Allegheny county
to work in his interest and many for
mer Bull Moosers are enrolled.
Senator Jarrett's action in presid-
ing at the Farrell meeting for Brum-
baugh shows that the western Wash
ington party men are going to vote
Republican this year.
Senator Penrose received an ova-
ton at Lewisburg and one at Shamo-
kin Saturday.
The old Finn trick of sending
around postal cards with the picture
and signature of Roosevelt is to be
started again in behalf of Mccormick.
Wonder what Roosevelt really
thinks of Vance Mccormick as a Pro-
gressive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-19
Plain Letters by a Plain Man

Messrs. Vance C. Mccormick and A.
Mitchell Palmer.
Gentlemen:
Recently a newspaper which is
a Jealous supporter of President
Wilson stated that a conference. of
party leaders had been held In
Washington to decide what issues
should be brought forward by the
campaign. 1t also stated that lit
was decided that the tariff question
was too involved to be presented"
Indeed! Whence this sudden
modesty? In 1912 IL was not too
involved" Every Democratic orator
on the stump; every Wilson paper
of the land was shouting out how
the poor man was crushed by the
tariff; how the cost of living would
become a mere nothing when a
Democratic tariff was passed.
But now, where can one find an
individual that does not know from
his own experience that those
pleasing promises and glittering
word tariff is loaded with political
dynamite for Democracy.
In 1912, every Democratic ward
spouter knew all about the tariff.
Now it ,%S is TOO involved to discuss
Is it because the people of the
United States are in no mood to
have another cavalcade of political
mOunteDankS udSH ITOIu
to community prating OF the elusive
horn of plenty contained in Demo-
cratic tariff? In 1912. glowing
theories had been evolved from
teeming brains and many were
ready to receive these utterances
as sterling coin. But now listless
business, idle workshops and An
creased prices of necessary foods
have given the lie to the theories
enunciated on the Democratic
stump of 1912.
orators of 1914 should remain
silent about the tariff. But, think
YOU. their silence will remove the
issue? No. ii Will but accentuate
It, Democracy made a solemn COM
pact with the people in 1912. 1t
promised us greatly reduced cost
of living If given free hand with
the tariff 1t has violated that
promise. Gentlemen. will you tell
US common people why?
Democracy stands arraigned at
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pers of the following morning they
/ announced that the thing had been all
settled. A. Mitchell Palmer was TO be
the candidate for United States Sem
ator and Vance c. Mccormick was to
| be the candidate for Governor. The
voters of the party had nothing what
| ever TO do with II and when some of
them rehelled against the steam-roller
I methods of the leaders they were
smothered under the avalanche of
dollars from Harrisburg.
And MIR. Palmer is the man who is
stumping the State to-day telling of
the awful "bossism" which exists in
the only party whose voters actually
chose their own ticket and concerning
which choice there was not the slight
est doubt prior to the counting of the
primary ballots.
The nomination of Senator Penrose
was popular nomination. He is a
candidate for the upper branch of
Congress. not because any one man or
any CLIQUE of men said that he should
be, but because the entire Republican
as pre-eminently the best man for the
place and by their votes decreed his
candidacy.
The policies that he and the pro-
tective tariff candidates for Congress
on, the ticket with him believe in and
advocate; the policies which are their
platform and our hope. are policies
which we as protectionists may we'll
be proud of. Protection is. or should
he, the chief function of government
1t is for this purpose that we have
government. If we have any reason
TO be proud of America to-day, ii is
because the American system of pro-
lection has enabled us to become the
great nation we are.
Protection makes for the expansion
OF industry; the increase of popu-
lation; the multiplication of comforts
and luXuries which make life worth
while; the elimination of poverty and
degradation and suffering; the promo
ton of education and the general de-
velopment of civilization.
Free trade, on the other hand, is
based upon the assumption that the
industry behind and underneath all
ths is a corrupt and wicked thing
which ii would be unconstitutional
to assist by legislation. The purpose
of free trade is to cut down the legiti-
mate profits of business under the dis
honest presumption that you can take
away the profits of the firm or cor
poration without lessening its capacity
to pay wages.
The experience of the United States
since the Underwood tariff law was
put into operation have been a veri.
table nightmare and yet President
Wilson. wilfully or mistakenly blind
to the best interests of the country and
the havoc his administration has
wrought, still persists in urging voters
of Pennsylvania to vote for one who
has been one of the prime movers in
the conduct of affairs at Washington
that has plunged the country into the
present awful industrial depression.
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the bar of the voters Judgment
charged with obtaining the Govern
ment through false pretense.
Failure to go upon the witness
stand in it's own defense under the
plea that the question is too in
volved" will not be likely to arrest
the plea of GUILTY which the
voters of Pennsylvania are prepar-
Ing to render in November, 1914.
Is 1T because Democracy has no
defense to make in its fiasco on the
tariff that no Cabinet officers of
other States are to be allowed to
appear in the present Pennsylvania
campaign? These same men could
speak glibly enough about IL in
1912. Then all the laboring man
needed to live in abundance at a
mere nominal cost was a Demo-
cratic tariff. 1t. like the waving
of a magician's wand, would put
poverty and want to flight
Can ii be possible that desire to
avoid this same tariff question is
the cause of the persistent abuse of
Republican candidates and Republi-
can officials? Is that subterfuge
to escape consideration of a tariff
which has disastrously affected
many Pennsylvania industries
which were built up under a Re-
publican tariff system?
ONE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-19
Durability
Guaranteed
BUSINESS PROSPERITY.
NO Reason for Industrial Depression

Prosperity is a happy state Il de-
pends upon good credit, stable prices.
employment of wage earners. and q
general confidence in the future.
OF late there seems to have been an
unnecessary amount of business de-
preston, due mostly to the lack of
FAIRNESS of one class toward another,
and to little dishonesty or overgrasp-
ing scattered through all the classes.
but not in majority of any of them.
In country of our enormous natu-
worry about. The United States, with
its insular possessions and Alaska, is
nearly as large as Europe. Our coasts
are indented with excellent harbors
and intersected by internal waterways,
and we have, by far, the finest and
cheapest cost railroad transportation in
the whole world, making communica-
ton cheap and easy. We have tre-
mendous water power and every va
forests cover great area of our terri
tory. Our land is literally stocked
with almost every variety of mineral
wealth, and with our vast agricultural
wealth we lead the world In q great
many things.
when corporations are renovated and
their ills aired by. publicity, and when
confidence. and when political "cure
alls," who have never made a success of
their own affairs, quit offering "reme-
dies" for all sorts of imaginary troubles;
when we have full publicity in politics
and in government; when business
managers and employees treat each
other fairly the causes for apparent
depression will disappear and real pros
perity will return and stay with us.