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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-16
K.nsas CITY Contract for PhlIa. Firm

Less than an hour after the permit was
issued work was started on a factory,
10 cost more than Slo0,0Oo In Kansas City
by the philadelphia quartz Company. This
announcement contained in a dispatch
from the Missouri town was confirmed
today by onicials OF the company. The
main ofiiees are at i2i South Sd street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-16
CONCERT FOR QUAKE vIcrrms

The parish of st. Donato's Church,
which has already contributed $40 for
the relief Of the Italian earthquake sui.
ferers. will give concert this evening.
at 8 o'clock. In 81 Donate Hall. 65fh
and Callowhill streets. for the same bene-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-16
PATIENT REvEALs IDENTrry

The old man under treatment at st.
Luke's Hospital for exposure. who told
the physicians that he was Eugene Wolf.
or zurich, today admitted he was lying
he said his right name was Eugenel
Feiler and that he lived at 4o5s North
Marshall street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-16
HEARING ON LOCAL OPTION
Public VIII Be Given Chance to Dis
euss Brumbaugh Bill in Open.

\. 1.Islli To, FEB, ia public hear
~ VIII be held on the Brumbaugh local
opuon bill before il Is reported out OF
tpnmlttee. Announcement 10 this effect
made today BY Representative
george W. Williams, Of Tioga. chairman
me House Committee on Law and
rlaer which now has eharge OF the
measure, and which has set March 2
me date on which Il VITA be con
siesfed In committee
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-16
SENATE PASSES M'NICHOL
BILL ON POLICE IN POLITICS
Now Goes to House and Will Be on
First Reading Tomorrow.

HARRISBURG. Feb. Ex-senator James
p. McNichors bill to keep the fremen
and policemen out of politics was passed
by the Senate on third reading today by
a vote of 45 to o.
The measure will now go to the House,
and will be on the calendar of the lower
branch for first reading tomorrow. The
bill Is made to apply only to Philadelphia
by an amendment which McNichol offered
when the measure was on second reading
in the Senate last night.
The House is expected to pass the
measure. Should 1t become a law, the
police of Philadelphia would be prohibited
from making canvasses of registration
and from paying campaign assessments or
belonging to political clubs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-16
Tabor Indorses Transll PIan

Director Taylor's transit plans were In
d0rsed by the Tabor Improvement Asso-
eiat|on. Nhieh held 8 meeting iast sight
In Tabor Hall So oines asenue speak
zls said ne subway should - extended
= oIne4 avenue FIll4-sareH uaa mems
aeIa io|asd ths azsteIst|aH as the mselile
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-16
BILL TO TIE MAYORS HANDS
Organization Plans to Keep Public
Printing in Contracts in City.
LFRoM A sTAFF coRREsPoNpENr.l

IFRoM sTAFF coRREsPoNDENrl
HARRISBURG. Feb. ia bill framed
by Philadelphia Republican Organization
leaders and intended to prevent a repeti-
uon Of their fight against Mayor Blanken-
burg over the awarding of city printing
contracts to outside firms was introduced
Today by Representative Wobensmith, of
Philadelphia.
The measure is the result of Mayor
blankenburg having let the contract for
ihe printing of his message last year, at
saving of $4,000. to an out-of-town tirm
Councils tied up payment for this work.
ana severely criticised the Mayor for Civ
ing the job to any one except the printers
VINO had been doing all of the city print
ing under Organization Mayors
inc Wobensmith bill stipulates that all
PUBLIC printing, whether State, county or
municipal, must be done by printers with
N the State, and that even the type must
pe set by residents of Pennsylvania,
within the boundaries of the State.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-16
Rill 10 Amend aBlue Laws"

HARRIsBURG, Feb. 1s : senator
sehontz, OF Lehigh, introduced bill to-
day amending the blue laws OF list
40 permit tine sale OF household neees-
stiles on Sunday.
The Springdale news., 1915-08-06

and confidant. pr. Lee, that little Es- ther would be secretly delivered To him and the doctor could give out the story it was an orphan relative that he had adopted as his daughter To this sup posed daughter of his dearest friend the colonel proposed to will as much of his means as would have come to q girl openly acknowledged.
 Meanwhile the unhappy Hagar had been borne far away by the brutal and ever watchful Matt Harding.
 With him q nephew devoted to him, one Luke Lowell. m English gypsy. aided Matt ill keeping watch and ward upon Hagar without knowing or ask ing why. And then Matt Harding fell upon evil courses in his Romany pros perity. and drink made an end to him.
 Hagar succeeded to his gypsy wealth and gypsy power. The king was dead; long live the queen, His henchman transferred his allegiance from the dead husband to the living wife.
 In the grim household of Judge La mar Stanley the shadow of cheated hopes and blighted ambition fell heavy upon the family. The proud and graspiHg wife. the cold and taciturn judge, had one unifying cause in com mon: that was that death might strike
The Springdale news., 1915-08-06
frightened little girl so its cries were

frightened little girl so its cries were silenced, and drove away.
 The next morning the news of his enemy's death reached Judge stanley. With it were vague rumors and Whis- pered suspicious. Other news came, too-news of the escape of the gypsy mad woman and the disappearance or Dr. Lees horse and buggy. The judge stayed not to rejoice at the death Of bis enemy He refused even to tell his wife what strange business called him hence. with pistol in the holster at his saddle side.
 In d narrow defile i'll the Blue Ridge Judge Stanley tracked down his prey Hasar had abandoned the doctors eN' haustcd horse and the HOW broken gle and, learing the child on her strong shoulder, was climbing the rocky tFall when she heard the rattle Of horse hoofs and heard the voice of Judge Stanley call upon her to halt Sh"
The Springdale news., 1915-08-06
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP.
 TIERS.

4 bitter feud exists between Colonel Ar thur Stanley and his cousin, Judge Lamar Stanley. wealthy Virginia aristocrats The feud has been engendered in family jeal- ousy for the possession of an heirloom known as the diamond from the sky found by noble adventurer ancestor in a fallen meteor. The feud Is further augmented by the fact that the death Of a noble kinsman Tn England makes the frstborn male of the elder branch of the Virginia Stanleys heir 10 the Stanley earldom In Warwickshire, as well as pos sessor of the diamond from the sky, Judge Lamar Stanley has a son, the pre- sumptiye heir to both these coveted hon ors. But a child Is about to be born to the fair young wife of Colonel Stanley When the child Is born and proves to be q girl and it's mother dies Colonel Stanley in chagrin and disappointment and aided by the doctor and the nurse buys q new born gypsy male child from its unnatural and money greedy father. In so doing Colonel Stanley and those assisting him to cheat his enemy cousins ambitious hopes have believed the gypsy mother has consented to the secret transaction. But Hagar. the mother finds her way to Stan ley hall to denounce her greedy and bru- tai husband and secure again her beloved firsthorn. She arrives Just as the supposi- utous heir Is being verified according to the Stanley custom by the English law yer representing the Earl of Stanley and Judge Lamar Stanley the coloneIs ene- my and father of the boy who is thus be- ing deprived of a title and the diamond from the sky.
The Springdale news., 1915-08-06

English Man of Law.
 the lives that lay between their only child that he might possess both the diat.ond from the sky and the Eng fish earldom.
 Such was the state of affairs when Hagar and her tribe came back to yir- ginia, three years after the death of the colonefs wife and the substitution of Hagar's child as the heir of Stan ley. Leaving her people camped at distance, IIagar journeyed to the Heishborhood of Stanley hall, and there, hidden i'll the slrubberv. with bursting heart. beheld her son ride forth, the petted and pampered little master If Stanley hail.
 Colonel Stanley, with the boy. was riding an his daily pilgrimage to the cross surIHaunted grave of his dead wife. The road Ied him past the house of Judge stanley. Looking from his window after his eHelay and the little heir of the StanleEs on his pony be side the colonel the judge WAS aware of q gypsy woman who stalked after the colonel and tue boy as swiftly and as furdyeiy as an Indian traeker. Seiz- inc his hat, the judge quietly emerged from his house and trailed the gypsy woman.
 By the gate of the graveyard Hagar hid PantiHg behind huge bewlder She watched so intently the hare head ed figure of the colonel praying by the grave of his wife, and she watched still more attentively and with such q hun gering heart the little boy upon his pony by the colonel, that she was not aware of the presence of the Judge un- til his strong hand erasped her wrist and bis harsh voice hissed in her ear. Why do you spy upon them.' To the startled Hagar the cruel face of the judge was the face of well re memhered enemy Her account of jus tite and retribution with Colonel Stan ley was between them alone. She would have no confidence i'll or dealing with Judge Stanley For she knew instinct. lively that if he hated the colonel he equally hated and was prepared 10 harm the eolonels supposed son, her child.
 She did not struggle or attempt to free herself from the grasp of the judge But as the colonel. with the little boy, rode from the grave toward the gate she slipped down beside the judge and hid with him from the ob- eeryation of the oncomers. is though she were an accompliee of the colonefs enemy
 Neither would she speak ill answer to the judges rapid fire of questions i when the colonel and little Arthur had 1 passed out of sight. She affected a l sullen dumbness. And when the judge l hailed passing stocllily built man irving Il blackboard. the constable of the district. and gave her iii charge as | wandering mad woman Hagar would speak ID word
 That night, with gross disregard Of egal procedure. the judge, alone in his coGrtrooia with his creature, the con slahe committed the silent gypsy wo- raan to the county madhouse, with in struet 8tis t. those u charge, through ha constable, that when the seeming
 ' sulaf insane woman spoke a4 was
 sa,I4 taspaak he should lie sent for
The Springdale news., 1915-08-06

weeping adieu to the stern but kindly gypsy woman she has known as mott- CT all her conscious years, And elfe rides away as the doctors daughter from the gypsy camp. With Esther the doctor takes the diamond from the sly, demanded of Hagar as part of Iss- ther's inheritance.
 Hardly has the doctors carriage Ge- parted than Luke Lowell, Haear's head man. is given command to strike camp. In an instant all is hustle and contu- sion. Within an hour Hagar and her tribe are on their way.
 In three months. though the proud women of the neighborhood look aSkaHee, Esther is the belle of the countryside. The vine clad porch of the doctors old house sees nightly gathered there the young sparks Of Fairfax.
 Then comes q night in June. and in the moonlight are four young men, all paying court 10 the happy Esther. Chief among them are the Stanley cousins, Arthur and Blair Some slight attention to his cousin, Blair, rouses Arthur to q temper of jealousy Pret- tily febuked by Esther, Arthur leaves in q huff Then Esther vents her CO quettish displeasurc upon the till then triumphant Blair. and he. now angry also arises and departs. leaving the field to two swafns.
 In lis study that overlooks the gar dens II the side the old doctor is gag ing wonderingly in the light of the study lamp at the great diamond.
 SulkiIy straying by the house, in his jealousy and anger, Blair Stanley sees the light gleaming from the study. Curious and not overnice in his curioS- ity, he peers through the window. He starts back, clinching his hands. He remembers now the oft whispered sus- picions of his mother: "Dr. Lee was alone with Colonel Stanley when he died. Who else but he has taken and hidden away the Stanley heirloom*"
 Tue obseSSion of the desire for this priceless Stanley heirloom has been born and bred fn Blair Stanley. He hies away, but that night. when the swains have long departed and the Gbtl dbflDT dili ttip Idlf G1StUef ud ' t long retired to sIumber Blair Stanley returns prepared to break i'll and bear away the diamond from the sky
 lH the library at Stanley hall the young heir of Stanley muses and dreams i'll softened mood of Esther. His guitar lies near him, and he picks 1t up and gently strums ii. In his minds eve he sees himself serenading sweet Esther Lee, as she is now called, and begging her gentle pardon in the moonlight should she come to her win dow To listen. The romantic idea suits his mood. He takes the guitar and hastens again to the doctors house.
 Blair Stanley has clambered through the study window. closed 1t and drawn the shade. He has softly lit the doe tors study lamp and rifled the drawer of the old secretary and the cash box 1t holds. He has seized the diamond from the sky and elasped it in agitat- ed ecstacy upon his bosom. Then upon
The Springdale news., 1915-08-06

his guilty ears falls the strain of guitar. He hides the diamond and the chain and Iocket that holds 1t beneath his cellar and under his shirt.
 Meanwhile, sleeping the light slum- Der of the aged. the old doctor has been aroused by the opening of the window Candle iH hand He descends to his study and enters just ss the last gleam from the diamond in the lamplght is shroadcd by the shirt of the thief in the night There is quick, sharp struggle. FreGzied with fear and covetoasness and resolved to do mur- der rather than lose the long coveted heirloom, Blair Stanley. maddened with fear and rage, strangles the old doctor till the weak old man falls back In his chair, his heart stopped in death. Then the murderer backs from the window, where the strains from the guitar, strains of love song, tinkle In the night
 tContinued on Page SevenD
The Springdale news., 1915-08-06
CHAPTER ". What Will the Harvest Be?

FRENZY of fear and rage over came her when she found her. A self i'll the madhouse to Whi ] -0 I.,l..- .,.., :. I.... l.u.l l
The Springdale news., 1915-08-06

before the door closed on the scene. she beheld her boy her first born, ar rayed in fine linen. q great jewel glow. ing on his. little breast, the center of some strange aristocratic rite or cere- mony
 So silent had been the struggle in the hall that, while the keen ears of Judge Stanley had heard rustic and gasp, his attention had been so taken up with the anguish ell the face of his kinsman enemy. Colonel Stanley. a' the eolenei toftered and fell face for
The Springdale news., 1915-08-06

The Colonel Faced the Wild Intruder the front door was clamoring It's iron summons through the house. Two old servants rushed to the door and broke tie news Of tie tragedy to the friend uf the dead man. Hagar stole unseen down the staircase and into the library once more. There, cloaked and hood ed, stood the little girl Whimpering Wake up, daddy, and kiss me. fa gar paused. An eye for an eye, she muttered. Then. lifting the little girl ill her arms, and stifling her cries of fear and alarm. Hagar with her bur den. passed out of the low French win dow by which she had first entered and closed it after her.
 Is the doctor with the two frighten ed eoarcd servants stood over the dead man in the library, and before the old nurse had noticed the absence ef fhe child. Iiaeaf had come around the mansion to the front. Loosenius the .ff4a that he'd the horse. she entep . ting doctors elfriage still holding taa
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THE DIAMOND FROM THE SKY"
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 You are advised 10 see the continued photo play in the theaters where Il will be shown-to r:ad the story as it runs every week. and then send in your sugge stion. Contestants rnusf con- fine their contributions for the sequel to 1000 tOords or iess. It is the fdeo that IS wanted.
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CHAPTER III.
The Queen of the Gypsies.

A Colonel Stanley fell uucon- N scious across the library table IA Matt Harding silently closed
 the library door from the out side. His right hand closed tightly over the mouth of uagar, preventing the weak and aneuished mother from making an outery, as before her eyes,
The Springdale news., 1915-08-06

he spo1 sub the Chicago Tribune soo0o P
  many United States and Canada Authors o note asuelJas thousan of part
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-10-11
GREAT GAIN IN
BUILDING HERE
81 Per Cenl Increase for Sept 70
Only Washington Greater,
Records Show

TllE September reports uf building
= permits issued Throughout the
country show that with one execution.
Oklahoma city made % greater Ipr-
rrntage uf iucrcusc than ANY other
Hty In the United Sutcs. The rec.
urls as a whole make u very favor
able showing
The first gain, MS compared with
u year previous, occurred u August.
when the inrrcnse over August 1914.
wa, II per cent September scores u
more decided Improvement. one NJ -
per cent The building permits "
GJ cities fnr that month u. officially
reported IN the American Contractor.
Chicago. total S5l .0G5Ul2. M compared
with 81 1880 25l Tor September. 1911.
Primarily the report tn the local
building department say, the favor
nhlc showing Is due ru the sudden
tightening of the money mnrkrt which
occurred during the first few month.
~ the European war Comparing pres
cut conditions with those NJ fr,,
months ugu, In addition 10 O much
easier money market. there i- NOW
observable nm expansion NJ general
business aud greater disposition lD
rmhnrk I'm construction work, also ii
hardening N prices IN many lines oi
building material, which IS hastouu-
number NJ DELAYED projects
W the o. cities where official rrr
urds we're kept lG. ur more than two
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-10-11
Mississippian Killed
Sunday for Burglar
Wife Of Victim Fired Several Shots
One Of Which is Belieyed to Have
Taken EffeCt-TwO Suspects

CLARKSDALE Miss. oct H. A.
IT, Gage. cashier vt the rhutrr+ Eauh
NJ this city. wa, shot and killed nj
hi, home early sunday m an rucuun.
Ter with burglar who escaped Nry.
rral hundred citizens were searching
for the man sunday night
While Gage, who was uurncd, was
arnppllng with the intruder Mrs
Gage secured a pistol and Tired severn.
shots It Is believed that on" of lhr
hulets struck the man In the foot
A negro and II Chinese restaurant
keeper. arrested last ulgnt In cumr'
zion with the murder ~ \. II GHg"
cashier NJ the Planters Bank. were
taken from the jail here early to-day
hy posse of citlzcus After giving
him severe beating the mob released
the Chlnamau, hut mo- tur" of the
negro has been found
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-10-11
SALARY WARRANTS
Sec'y Fairey Prepares TO DiSburNe
S3l,WO 10 Teachers buchanan
Trial Committee Nets Monday Night

Secretary II VI FaDrc, of the school
board. is engaged u physical culture
exercises designed 10 develop III"
wrist prrmmtur, to siguius the sal.
urv warrants for the past month m
teachers IN the city schools There
are about 31i ~ these warrants IA
which Mr. Flrry must uffi> his ~is
nature and they represent AN cNpcn
dimrr NJ 1000
The committee NJ four appointed to
investigate charges Of moral Wpitudc
preferred against Superintendent Gru
\. buchanan of the city schools. viii
meet 80 rhr oId high school buillu-
uu Fourth ANA Walnut Monday night
Io formulate the mnnuur uf procedure"
iu tine Investigation
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-10-11
BELGRADE SCENE
OF UTTER RUIN
continued from page one,

Rcpurts NJ the results Of the visit
~ Premier Salandrl tu the Austro
Italian front nre awaited with Interest,
MS II IL reported In Rome that this trip
hn, hearing un the international ,it.
untlon
Sinking ~ the British steamer
Thorpwood, u 3.iSl ton vessel. Is re.
Iorted by London The rev escaped
harm,
ROME. oct ii-Grcat Importance
Is attached IN political circles here to
the departure of Premier Salandra
for the front Sunday night for con.
ference. His visit IL believed 10 be
connected with the international sltu-
alton
PARIS. oct. 1.-THE Greek steamer
nimitrlos, was torpedoed October o by
an Austrian submarine southeast "
Sicily. The crew was saved
LONDON, oct 1.-THE British
steamer Thorpwood, 3,lsi tons gross
Inns sunk without loss NJ life
BERLIN, oct. il.-"Mcmber Of IN,
Russian aristOcracy and merchants OF
Moscow intend to petition Emperor
Nicholas TO adopt measures To meet
the present crisis" says the overse0'
News agency. They attribute existing
conditions to dlsloynlty Of the Jews
j the pernlcious influence of the lat,
| Count wltte and the granting n right
" suffrage. Their petition will eN
press the view that Russia must re
turn TO the customs Of the ancien
Muscovite empire aud become onC
more land Of Orthodox slavs.'
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-10-11
OklAHOMh-TEX
ME. CONFERENCE
Annual Meeting Begins Tuesday
in TulSa-at Present Is I'm
weildy, Embracing States

TULSA, Okla, oct II. Bishop vii
Inm O. Shepard of Kansas city
Nlll preside over the annual meeting
.f the Oklahoma conference Of the
NylhodiSt Episcopal church which
opens here Tuesday Sessions will be-
m..d in the First Presbyterian church
'hr largest church auditorium In the
city,
The division Of trc conference a- it
DIS now constituted into at least two
jurisdictions better pay for the min.
D-rnr, In active service aud more lib
rul pensions for those who have re-.
ur.d, and the election Of delegates to
'Nr general conference next year are
tur most important matts which VIII
uu considered bv the conference ut this
.Hr