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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-26

startling incident happened. The old
Lord Raa of Castle Raa, head of the
O'Neills, the same that had sworn at
my grandmother, after many years In
which he had lived bad life abroad
where he had contracted fatal mala -
dies, returned to ELAN TO die. Being
a bachelor his heir would have been
Captain O'Neill, but my mothers ia
Their had died during the previous
winter, and in the absence of direct
male issue it seemed likely that both
title and inheritance (Which by the
conditions of an old patent, might
have descended to the nearest living
male through the female line) would
go TO a distant relative, a boy IA
years of age, Protestant, who was
then at school at Elton.
Unexpected Happens.
More than ever now my father
chewed the cud of his great disap-
poitnment, But it is the unexpected
that oftenest happens, and one day In
the spring DIR. Conrad, being called
to see my mother. who was indls-
posed, announced that she was about
to bear a child
My fathers delight was almost dell
rious, though at first his happiness
was tempered by the fear that the
child that was to be born to him
might not prove a boy. Even this
danger disappeared from his mind
after time, and before long his van-
lty and his unconquerable will had so
trlumphed over his common sense
that he began to speak of his unborn
child as a son, just as IL the birth of
male child had been prearranged.
With my mother, with DR.. Conrad,
and above all with Father Dan, he
sometimes went the length of discuss
ing his sons name. 1t was to he
Hugh, because that had been the
name of the heads of the O'Neiils
through all the ages, as far back as
the legendary days in which, as it
was believed. they had been the Kings
of ELAN
My mother was no less overjoyed.
She had justified herself at last. and
IL she was happy enough at the be-
ginning in the tingling delight of the
woman who is about to know the
sweetest of human joys, the Joy of
bearing child, she acquiesced at
length in the accepted idea that her
child would be a boy. Perhaps she
was moved to this merely by a desire
to ubmit to her husbands will, and
to Tealize his hopes and expectations
Or perhaps she had another reason, q
secret reason, a reason that came of
her own weakness and timidity as a
woman, namely, that the man child to
be born of her would be strong and
brave and free
All went well down to the end of
autumn, and then alarming news
came from Castle Raa. The old lord
had developed some further malady
and was believed to be sinking rapid
ly DR.. Conrad was consulted and he
gave it as his opinion that the patient
could not live beyond the year. This
threw my father into a fever of anx-
iety. Sending for his advocate, he
took counsel both with him and with
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FIRST CHAPTER.

XNUT of the depths, o Lord, out
" of the depths begins the
most beautiful of the serv-
ices of our church, and it is out of
the depths of my life that l must
bring the incidents of this story.
I was an unwanted child-unwant
ed as girl at all events. Father
Dan Donovan, our parish priest, told
me all about it. l was born in Octo-
her 1t had been raining heavily all
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-26
The NarydtiUe of Mar,
O'NeilI
FIRST PART.
My Girlhood

Copyright. 1912, by Hearsts Magazine.
Copyright, 1918, by Hearst Magazine.
Copyright in Great Britain. Copyright,
1918. by J. B. Lippincott Company.
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day long. The rain was beating hard
against the front of our house and
running in rivers down the window
panes. Toward 4 in the afternoon
the wind arose and then the yellow
leaves of the chestruts in athe long
drive rustled noisly, and the sea,
which is a mile away, moaned like a
dog in pain.
in my fathers room, on the ground
floor, Father Dan sat by the fire, fin
gering his beads and listening to every
sound that came from my mothers
room, which was Immediately over
head. My father himself, with his
heavy step that made the house
tremble, was tramping to and fro,
from the window to the ingle, from
the inele to the opposite wall Some
times Aunt Bridget came down to say
that everything was going on well,
and at intervals of half an hour DR..
Conrad entered in his noiseless way
and sat in silence by the fire, took a
few puffs from a long clay pipe and
then returned to his charge upstairs
NV fathers impotence was con-
Stunning him.
It's long" he said, searching the
doctors face.
Don't worry-above all don't
worry" said Father Dan.
There's no need" said DR.. Conrad.
"Then hustle back and get it over"
said my father. 1T will be five hun
dred dollars to you if this comes off
all right"
A Man of Daring Dreams.
/ think my father was great man
at chat time | think he is still a
great man. Hard and cruel as ne
may have been to me I feel bound to
say that for him. If he had been born
a king he would have made his ma
ton feared and perhaps respected
throughout the world. He was born
peasant, the poorest Of peasants, a
crofter. The little homestead of his
family. with its WhiteWashed walls
and straw matched roof, still stands
on the bleak ayre-lands of ELAN, like
a herd OF notified cattle crouchlng
together in a storm.
His own father had been wild
creature, full Of daring dreams, and
the chief OF them had centered in
himself Although brought up in a
mud cabin, and known as Daniel
Neale, he believed that he belonged by
lineaI descent to the highest aristoc-
racv Of his land. the O'Neills Of the
Mansion House Commonly called the
Big House, and the Barons Of Castle
Ran 10 prove his claim he spent his
DAYS in searching the registers Of the
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Martin, Conrad to the
Author

II have talked about. Do as
YOU like with them. Alter,
amend, add to or take away from
them, exactly as you think best.
They were written in the first
instance for my own eye alone,
and hence they take much for
granted which may need explana-
ton before they can be put to the
more general uses you have de-
signed for them. Make such eX-
PLANTATION in any way you con-
slider suitable. 1t is my wish that
In this matter your judgment
should be accepted as mine. The
deep feeling you could not con-
ceal when I told you the story of
nv dear ones life gives me conf
dence in your discretion.
Whatever the immediate effect
may be, I feel that in the end l
shall be ustified-fully justified
In allowing the public to look for
a little while into the sacred con-
fessional of my darling's stainless
heart.
| heard her voice again to-day.
She was right-love is immortal.
God bless her, My ever lovely
and beloved orei
AUTHORS NOTE.-The name
Raa (of Celtic origin with many
variations among Celtic races) is
pronounced Rah in ELAN.
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The Author to the Reader

TTOW much OF the story of
IL Mary o'Neill is a work of
my own imagination, and
how much comes from an au
thentic source / do not consider it
necessary to say. But as have
In this instance drawn more
largely and directly from fact
than is usually the practice of the
novelist, have thought it my
&nty to dereat all possible at
ternpts at personal Identification
by altering and Disgusting the
more important scenes and char
acters.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-26

~ B. - Write TO: Ladies' Advisory
.ept., Chattanooga Medicine Co.. Chat
enooga, Tenn, for Special Instructions
ana 64-page book, Home Treatment for
women, sent in plain wrapper. on re-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-26
SECOND CHAPTER.

DY 6 o'clock the wind had risen
Is to the force Of a hurricane.
The last of the withered leaves
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-11
heIndeterminate Sentence and
the Hope That 1t Holds Out
to the Criminal

The discussion of the brutates of the Georgia Convict sys
tenn developing movement of far than local significance
It is growing upon the consciousness of right thinking
pie generation attitude of the State toward law
breakers and indicators ought find great enlightenment in
relation gospel The Divine law pre-
coded the human law and the Savior the greatest and the
simplest awmaker that the world knew In this Christian
civilization who follow the ceed and standards laid down
at Sinai and around the Gaee fail
their application into the conditions obligations of
present
In the law which foundation of all law there
line which eternay the door of hope the face of any
sinner.
there the law which make for ourselves
any everlasting barrier against the return of awbreaker to the
paths usefulness whenever the human system
any criminal shall bring FORTH through the discipline of legitimate
punishment fruits meet for repentance It would ncon
gruou and inconsistent for Christian civilization that he should
be denied the opportunities for ultimate civic and social sal
walton that the spiritual sinner promised in the Divine plan of
redemption.
utterly impossible escape logic which gather
ing along human moral lines for the ndetemnae sentence
of criminals No will plead for the luxurious
those who grossly Under the moral law
those who sin suffer the consequence physically spiritually
which the Almighty has ordained And those who violate out
rage society should bear the punishment however which
the law of the State has decided requisite the
on of its safety and for the repression of others
It right that the civic criminal should suffer it right
that he should be confined right that his punishment should
be extended the length of time and to the degree of punish
ment which his condition demands But the age inevitably
advance toward the conclusion that when
the light and the freshness of the air. and the enjoyment of the
association of his family friends loneliness priva
ton and that the human and yet immortal soul within
him must be given chance repent and ultimately saved
in the realm of society and citizenship
The Georgian unhesitatngly filings down this challenge
the philanthropy and of the times which
live The sentence of the law in all less than death should
be ndetemnate The stern decree which shuts out liberty and
light from the awbreaer should be followed by the
spread before every prison walls making plain that the
strait and way however long of diligence of duty
of fsacrfc of good will rebound peaceful fruits
pennce which through long short who has snned
against the State may purchase and his forgiveness from
the State.
not akin to the gospel of the
Fathers the phlanthropies of the just.
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would avail absolutely nothing
the nation which had accom-
pilshed it. The world grows
weary of butchery which leads
only to bankruptcy and of tragedy
which ends in farce.
1t is Just within the bounds of
possibility that when our sense
of humor is sufficiently developed
it will reinforce our common
sense and refuse to perpetuate
this sordid and bloody farce.
John Ruskin has phrased it for
us:
Friends, | know not whether
this be the more ludicrous or the
more melancholy. 1t is quite I'M
speakahly both. Suppose, instead
of being sent for by you, have
been sent for by some private
gentleman, living in a suburban
house, with his garden separated
only by a fruit-wsll from his
next-door neighbours house, and
he had called me to consult with
him on the furnishing of his
drawing room. I begin looking
about me, and find the walls rath-
er bare; ! think such and such a
paper might be desira ble-per-
haps a little fresco here and there
on the ceiling-a damask curtain
or so at the WINDOWS. All says
my employer, Lamask curtains,
indeed. That's all very fine, but
you know | can't AFFORD that kind
of thing just now Yet the
world credits you with a splendid
income 'Ah, yes SAYS my friend,
but do you know. at present l
am obliged TO spend it nearly all
in steel traps" Steel traps. for
whom Why. for that fellow on
the other side Of the wall, you
know: we're very good friends.
capital friends: but we are
obliged to keep our traps set on
both sides of the wall; we could
not possibly keep on friendly
terms without them, and our
spring guns.
The worst OF it is. we are
both clover fellows enough; and
there's never a DAY passes that
We don't find out new trap. or
q new gun barrel, or something:
we spend about fifteen millions a
year each in our traps. take IT al
together: and I don't see how
we're TO do with les
"A highly comic state of life
for two private gentlemen! But
FOR two nations Il seems TO me not
wholly comic, Bedlam would be
comic, perhaps. If there were only
one mailman IN it: and your
Christmas pantomime is comic,
when there is onl, one clown in
it; but when the whole world
turns clown. and paints itself red
with its own hearts blood in
stead of vermilion. it is some
thing else than comic. ! think"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-11
- y A Hundred Years of Peace = =
By the REV. CHARLES F. AKED, DID,, LID.
Copyright. 1919, International New serric.

which, on a narrow view. would
tempt one to despair of civiliza-
ton.
The way to preserve peace is TO
prepare for peace. Absolutely the
worst way TO preserve peace is
to prepare for war. Every dis
turbance of the political equilib-
rum involves a corresponding
disturbance else where. A boy
with n new knife wants to whit
tie something. Nations possessed
of enormous ornaments are in
danger Of using them. Andrew
Carnegie did not eXaggerate when
he said that a spark might set
Europe ablaze. Sir Edward Grey.
Secretary of State in King Ed
wards Cabinet and now in King
Georges, spoke momentous
warning when he said that the
present race of ornaments, II
continued in, would sooner or
later submerge civilization itself
John Hay. our own famous Sec
rotary OF State. described war Is
the most ferocious and futile OF
human follies"
Futile, Economic changes are
making for the worlds peace.
Norman Angel in his Great
Illusion" has brought vividly be
fore us the implications of these
changes. War does not pay. A
war of conquest does not pay the
conquerer. A nation which de-
stroyed another would ruin itself.
There is ono trouble with the
man who goes on protesting that
war has always existed and will
always exist. The world has gone
past him while he stood still, and
he does not know it. When land
was the typical form of wealth,
and a conqueror could appropriate
the land and parcel it out among
his followers, he had something to
gain by a war of ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Land is no longer the sole nor the
dominating type of wealth.
The growth OF an elaborate,
highly organized system of in
dustriallsm, OF exchange. COM
merce and finance, with ramiflca-
tons world wide, wider than civ
ilization itself. has so linked the
nations each with each that a
European war would probably
plunge half the nation of Europe
into bankruptcy and the winner
would be perhaps the biggest
loser of them all The conqueror
would ne reduced 70 economic inn
potenCe. And war stands con-
demued o-dav by the Clearest
thinkers in the world because it is
recognized as an effort on the
part Of nation or nations 10
achieve what is at bottom n log
zeal shsurdity." to accomplish
through pain endured to agony
and blood shed in rivers, some
thing which. when accomplished,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-11

n y both sides OF the Atlantic
J preparations are being
made for the celebration
twelve months hence Of Hun
dred Years of Peace among the
EnglishspeakinS peoples of the
world.
The plans agreed upon in Eng
land are well advanced. The mem
bers of the British committee are
acting with generosity. From the
proceeds of the American British
Exposition to be held in London
this year they propose to allocate
a sum up to 5000, GOO for the foun-
dalton of scholarships in conneC-
ton with commercial and social
economies, the United Etates and
Great Britain sharing upon equal
terms. II is tins American
British Exposition" which is even
now trying TO remedy the mistake
of the British Government in de-
clining to participate officially in
the Panama Pacific Exposition.
From the London exposition a
representative exhibit will be sent
to san Francisco
The American celebration will
be nation-Wide There is no
state which has not its committee
at work. Bills are before the Leg
islatures of many States, provid-
ing for official recognition of the
committee and for an appropria-
ton of public funds. At Wash
ington the celebration win be ma
tionaL Al Niagara frontier and
Detroit 70 win he international.
Al san Francisco the Worldwide
celebrations will reach their MT
ting climax in week specially
set apart for the commemoration
of hundred years Of peace.
The Treaty of Client was sign
ed on Christmas Eve. 1914. and
me war between the United
states and Great Britain was de-
clared to be ended News travelled
slowly, and there was some fight
ing after peace had been made.
But John Quincy Adams. whose
signature was appended to the
treaty expressed the hope that
the twentieth century might find
the peace made by IL yet unhrok-
en-. His prophetic wish has been
ahundanuy granted. We do well
TO keep the festival 1t was Feb
ruarv before the treaty signed on
Christmas Eve was ratified and
proclaimed So February, 1915.
viii mark the fun and formal
close of century Of peace
N would not he well. but ill. to
enter uopu this celebration iu a.
sI,rit ot eNcuslNeuess. ", speak
the English tongue. but We are not
British. other strains beside tho
English run in the blood Of this
Young nation
So u Is proposed that a memo
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-11
Judge Price Gilbert and His
New Career

The purchase of The Columbus Enquirer Sun by Judge
Price Gilbert brings to the upper ranks of journalism Georgia
vrie will stand for the very best and strongest
things in civilization.
Judge Gilbert has made the bench of Georgia of
which any citizen might be prouda reputation for rectude for
Justice for kindness for earlesness and for equity which
speaks well for the rpute of the judiciary and the majesty the
He has been throughout his district the synonym of that
justice which while always sincere also tempered with mercy
long training the discriminating conception of right
and wrong of justice and injustice of righteousness and
inquty qups him very admirable degree for giving
character and great to the old and distinguished journal
whose fortunes he will hereafter preside
Georgian cordially congratuaes Judge Gilbert upon his
honorable and useful upon the bench and cordially wei
the reinforcement good government good
living in the columns of the press
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-11

Editor The Georgian:
I notice from various sources
and especially through the press
of the State, that there are quite
a number of the executive COM
pittees OF the various counties
of the State calling their primary
elections at a very early date
some of them as early as March
of this year to nominate the vari-
Gus officers for the county Offices.
I memely wish to inquire if this
can be A LEGAL ELECTION?
In answer to the question | will
refer the executive committees
of the various counties who have
or have not acted on the ques-
ton to the act of the General AS
sembly for 1908.
hold that under this act an
election held before after the 9TH
day Of June would not only be
contrary to law, but absolutely
void. This law says that the reg
istrars in each county shall meet
on the Goth day OF April in the
year when the general election Is
to be held, "and begin the work
of perfecting true and correct
list IF the qualified voters OF their
county The registrars
shall proceed with their work and
complete the same not LATER
THAN JUNE THE FIRST" and
not later than five days after
completing the list of voters, THE
registrars shall file with the clerk
of the Superior Court of their
county a complete list of the
registered voters of the county
as prepared and determined by
them"
Section SIS, OF the 1910 code. OF
the State of Georgia, which cod
ifies the act of the General AS
sembly Of 1908 on the subject OF
elections, is as follows:
NO. So. REGISTERED VOT-
ERS' LIST TO BE FILED. With
in five days after completion the
list Of voters, as provided in this
article, the registrars shall file
with the clerk of the Superior
Court of their county com
plete list Of the registered voters
OF the county as prepared and de-
termined by them. said list shall
he alphabetically arranged by
militia districts and in case a city
is located within the county, by
wards Of the city. and said list
shall be the list Of registered vot-
ers for the GENERAL ELEc-
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o Georgia's Primary Law o

TION TO BE HELD FOR SAID
YEAR for the Governor and other
Statehouse officers and members
OF the General Assembly. and 40
PERSON SHALL VOTE Or BE
ALLOWED TO VOTE AT SAID
GENERAL ELECTION, OR AT
ANY PARTY PRIMARY TO
NOMINATE CANDIDATES FOR
THE OFFICES TO BE FILLED
AT SAID GENERAL ELEC-
TION, unless his name is upon
the said registration list so filed
by the registrars, and no person
whose name is not on said list
shall vote or be allowed to vote
at any other election or primary
except as hereafter provided in
this chapter" And
Section 50 reads as follows
NO. So PERSONS ENTITLED
TO VOTE. Each person whose
name is upon the registration list
for the general election provided
for In the foregoing section shall
be entitled to vote at the genera.
election for said year and all pr,-
maries to NOMINATE CANpf-
DATES FOR OFFICES TO BE
FILLED AT SAID GENERAL
ELECTION, and also at the FED
eral election in November Of satd
year, and the election for JUS
tees of the Peace and Constaa.f5
to be held in said year ans nj
all primaries for the NOMlNA-
TION OF CANDIDATES FOR
THE OFFICES TO BE FILLED
AT SAID ELECTIONS, and also
at all primaries for the nom-Ha-
ton for county offices ana an
other primaries and elections 10
be held for any purpose during
said year after the films of sa.'
REGISTRATION LIST, or dHE'"-
the succeeding year provided -
such person is not o,herN 7r
qualified from voting az any ..'
ton or primary held during the
succeeding year. and PROVIDED
that no person shall be qualified .'
vote at any election unless '
shall have paid all taxes due
least six months before
same"
From the reading OF i17
governing the hoidinc COY
tlons in Georgia under orr No..
eral primary law, 40 N'N" -.
that these committee arc
their election all 0Ut of a' al,
wholly contrary to the zr77 .7
of this Law. What think
II. W NAD.hl'
Forsyth, Ga
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By DOROTHY DIX

n MAN demands:
N That girl shall be per-
fectly unsophisticated and
as ignorant as a babe of all the
evils in the world, YET be able to
take care Of herself amidst all Of
its perils.
That she shall be a gay little
butterfly, YET possess a noble
soul concealed under her frivolity.
That she shall babble idiocies,
YET be capable of being a real
companion to an intelligent man.
That she shall be a fluffy ruffles,
whose clothes make other women
rubber, YET care nothing for
dress, especially after she gets
married.
That her hands shall always be
nice and pink, and white, and soft,
and squeezable, YET that she
shall be handy with the cook
stove and the dish washing.
That she shall fall in love with
him at first sight, YET not be too
easily won, and give him a run for
his money before she finally ac-
cepts him.
That she shall be FIRE to him,
YET ice and snow to all the bal
ance of the world
A man demands of his wife:
That she shall be perfectly de-
voted to him, BUT that she shall
never make her love a burden to
him
That she shall live only in his
presence, BUT that she shall not
resent his absence.
That she will be a clinging vine,
BUT that she will only festoon
herself about him at such times
and seasons as it is agreeable for
him to act the part of the noble
oak