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l45, of the Code of 1906.

! las, of the Code of 1906.
My bill of complaint sets forth
facts we'll known to all who carry
fire insurance, viz-that the Fire In.
surance Companies belonging to the
trust have conspired together t.
place the control Of rates for fire in
surance in a corporation at Vicks-
burg, called The Mississippi Inspect
ion and Advisory Rating Bureau,
which company fixed the rates to be
charged by all the 100 fire insurance
companies, belonging to the trust and
that there is therefore no competi-
ton in fire insurance rates in Missis-
sippi.
4 The United States Supreme Court
has held that the penalties imposed
by one State will not be enforced by
United States Courts and the Courts
of other States. This made is neces-
sary, in order to protect our States
rights, for me to attach in the hands
Of the local Agents for these Fire
Insurance Companies, the funds col
lected by these Agents for these Com
panies, from the day of service Of
process, in most eases December IL,
1920, to January 3, 1921. The funds
garnished or attached being OF
collections of little more than two
weeks. The attaching Of these funds
means only that the agents of these
Fire Insurance Companies are re,
CURED to hold the money in their
hands until the Court decides the
case and decides whether the agent
shall pay the money to the companies
of shall pay it to the State for the
violation by these companies Of our
wholesome laws against trusts and
combines.
understand from the papers Of
the City Of Jackson that these com
panies rather than permit two weeks
collections to be held in their agents
hands by order of the Court, are
threatening to withdraw from the
State, and leave business people as
they left farmers for many years,
without fire protection.
Their attitude is like that Of the
nation that adopted frightfulness as
its means of warfare. Their attitude
is what has been termed by the Sup
rene Court of another State as re-
bellious and retaiatory. Think of it,:
They have been taking out of Missis-
sippi something over $6,500000 per
year in premiums; but are, or pre-
tend to be, unwilling to leave two
weeks collections or premiums in
their own Mississippi Agents hands
until a Court can pass on their guilt
or innocence. Is it possible that
these companies have grown more
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powerful than our State and its
Courts?
Much has been said in certain
papers about this suit and particu-
larly about the aggregate of the pen
alties which the Court may impose
under the law, but little attempt has
been made to show that these COM
panies have not violated the statute
above quoted. Those who have been
paying for fire protection during re-
cent years at ever increasing rates,
know that these Companies have
violated that law and that it is the
consciousness of guilt that causes
them to want to flee from the State.
Respectfully,
STOKES V. ROBERTSON,
State Revenue Agent.
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COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS CELE.
BRATI0N.

There will be a big community
Christmas celebration at the Taber-
nacle church Friday night. 1t will be
participated in by the Sunday School
and the Public School of the commun-
ity and elaborate preparations are
being made for the occasion.
There will be a Christmas tree and
other features. The general public
is extended most cordial invitation
to attend.
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FIRST QUARTERLY CONFER
ENCE

The first quarterly conference for
the First Methodist church will be
held IN this city at the church, Thurs
day night at o'clock, presided over
BY Rev. A. 7. McIlwain, presiding ell
der of the Columbus District. All Of
the official members of the church
are urged to be present.
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Make this BOOK CHRISTMAS. Get
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It is true that a little philosophy
inclineth mans mind to atheism, but
depth in philosophy brings a mans
mind to religion. Get religious books
from DIyELBIss.
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A Fascinating Detective Story

house. ! had no thought al all OF
Wharf. whether he would be there
or not. He had gone altogether
from my thoughts. AS a matter OF
fact, he had left the Summer-house
hours before, but did not know
that l did not know how long |
had been sitting In ths library.
! laid my wife's body on the
floor OF the Summsr-houss. She
would he safe there from the hor-
ribls creatures. And l did not sup
pose that she would be found till
morning. Then l went back and
went to bed and came out again
when Livessy rang at the front
door. He must have found her
very soon after laid her there.
That Is all | have 10 write. But
! will add this. that when carried
my wife's body. as ] say, TO the
Summer-house, I had no idea OF
putting the suspicion OF her death
on Captain Wharf. He had gone
clean out OF my thoughts. did
not think OF putting the blame on
him or anyone else. ! thought that
the body would be found and no
one would be proved 10 have killed
her, and II would go down with a
verdict OF Murdered by some one
unknown" And that Is how 1t
would have been II Il had not been
for the girl, Matilda Manson, seq
ing Wharf there. He would never
have been suspected at all II 1t had
not been for that.
But then, when | saw that Wharf
was in tire rap, thought would
leave him there for a time. mean
to leave him there I'LL the last mo.
ment and then | shall make full
confession. II | am killed or any
thing before he Is executed, then
this will be read. and Il can b. put
in evidence and he will be Let of.
But the law would not punish MIN
for the wrong that he has done, SO
! am going to let IL punish him. by
mistake, for wrong that he has
not done.
II will serve him only right TO
be kept in prison and to think that
he Is going to be hanged, and ! ain
glad that all this should happen to
him. But do not want him to be
hanged for what | did, though ]
don't know that 1t would be any
more than he deserves II he were
to be. do not think 1t would.
That Is all | have to say.
There followed uncle's signature
and the date.
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CHAPTER XIX.


YUYHEN ! had read this ex-
MI t:aordinary confession
w sat for. long time in the
widow seat without saying a
word. Just think ing over its reve-
lat!ons. 1t made all the details alb
so!utely clear; it did not leave a
dusty corner in the whole. And a
curious thing IL that. as l read, and
as learned by degrees and SEN
tence by sentence. the full horror
cf poor Uncle Ralpi's act, it still
did not occur TO me to blame him
very greatly in my mind.
An immen pity for him was
the over-powering feeling. He was
SO infinitely better, and in every
moral sense bigger, than either of
these two people, one of whom he
had set out TO murder and the
other Of whom he actually had muir.
dered. Yet both of them seemed to
me like the sinners, and he. rela.
lively, the saint.
And then II WAS so curious that
a person so entirely simple and un.
subtle as my uncle. writing in such
very unpublished and unliteraty
phrase, should have posed such
really subtle moral and legal prob-
lems-his moral guilt of the muir.
der Of man still alive. his moral
blamelessness for the death of a
woman, his own wife, whom he had
murdered.
That was one curious problem,
and another was his legal fiction
by which he conceived the law do
ing so much hotter than It knew,
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schisviag something like equity by
its own portentous error. awarding
TO a malefactor the punishment he
deserved, in the form OF the pre-
liminaries for the final penalty, de-
creed on him for crime Of which
no Was suiltless.
I had been 30 absorbed In read
ing and afterwsrd In thinking that
II was only gradually that the rec
election came 10 me OF the man
ner In which Uncle RaIph's confss-
sion-if that Is the right word TO
use for it-had been brought TO me.
I glanced round. The little man In
gray was sitting In his own immo-
bile way In the depths of the arm.
chair. he was scarcely visible.
Nevertheless be was the first to
speak. although he had not said
word until now, from the moment
when ] began reading. He knew
that my thought was turning to
him and he said. to meet Il:
II have been mistaken In many
cases before, Miss Carlton, but I
have never been SO entirely misled
by the evidence as | have been in
this case"
1T must have been Uncle Ralph,
after ALL" ] replied. that ! say go
Ing out over the gravel that hight.
He was going to lay her body in
the Summer-house."
Undoubtedly II was" he agreed,
land II was Sir Ralph, too, when
he first went TO tho Summer house,
who made the first footprint be.
meath the window, the o. Itprint
that | asetifed to Granger. At
every turn OF this affair, Miss Carl
ton. your intuition has heen better
than my reasoning"
Unfortunately" said But
tell me-, please, what does I, mean
-thIs9" Indicated Urc'e Rllrh's
manuscript. 1T Vas given 10 you
What shall you do with ~"
1T will have tn be- submitted, in
the first place. TO C9plaiu Vi0art's
lawyers, and II WI mean without
doubt, his free pardon Thee can
be no question OF It's authenticity
Sir Ralph handed II to ne himself
before he went to France d you,
II reeded, or hundred others, can
testify to his handwriting and sig
nature"
And 1t will be made public
everybody will know what uncle
did-after the way he died?"
Il don't know" said the little
man. I'm an ordinary way ! should
say it would all have to be made
public. But the ease is an ex-
traordinary one, the times are ex.
traordinary. Sir Rslph's end was
extraordinary. So far as lies with
me, but that means very little.
will try that 1t shall be kept Sc
cret."
To the best of my knowledge It
was. THE Mystery Of the sum.
mer-House,' as the papers had
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CONTINUED from Preceding Pace
-. sheath knife and put H. In Its
sheath. ain my pocket. And so !
went ous to kill Wharf.
| don't want to justify myself st
sll-of course. | was beside myself
and ! did not resson-but ! should
Just like hsre To ask anyone who
reads this TO stop a momeht ana
think what this man had done TO
me. He had been a guest In my
house. and he led my young wife
wrong. He had done great deal
more than that because no had got
such an influsncs over her that she
could not, l believe help herself
liz was. In my mind hks bad
demon that had got possession or
her. Then he had sworn most
solemnly. like coward and Ike Q
liar, that ne would mol see her ana
would not hold any communication
with her again. ana aiter swear
Ing that ne came dowh the very
next day 10 meet her again
WAS quits sure tha' ne hsu
come TO meet her' vi course
did not know lhat' put ~nat eise
could ne De sittihs III tue summer
house there LOT except 10 BEE ner'
ana IL SO, theh she must haVs Heu
70 me ana must nave oioheh vi
Peen meaning 10 preaK ner proinise
70 me- TOO. meant 70 ASA hiH'
meant 10 give MN the chahoe VI
explaining IN some other way ~ha'
ne was doing there II could but
] dld not suppose TOT moment
that he would have any explana-
tion. And l did not mean to give
.,,. 90. o,ho- o.o,a h.d ma
W." ~, o
loea Oh nsn'ihg d due' Win pi"i VI
meeting him on equal terms or any
thing Of that kind. I simply meant
70 LII bim-thot w.s oil and 4,
w
seemed 10 me the rlght thihg 10 no.
So | went out OF the house again,
with the knife in nv pocket, and
wban q, oaro 70 tbot corner wbere
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ana .o,,sc,aa,v
u,s -, into the l,brarv
,,, a.. Ito h.cl into the drawer
=. ,ha o.L hnraau In A. usuai
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"a. m, ,h,ol n, the knifa again
..v n,or. that ,,sht but ths mart
r.a..,nu .,,., ,ook,na tha library
a.. ,ooL A, ON, 10 an. whs,har
m 80. ., VIII, 7 has aona v,,,h
a. wsrs sons. and I saw that n had
h.s, nawlv CLEANED nrohsh,v that
norn,np And then I remembered
that c,ainyer looLsd a. a, Ia haa
M, bssn 10 had the nigbt ho,ore
vhan Iivasay yaya the alarm
tb,,t ba must bsva haa, s,t,,,s
nm exnaot,rv .oma,h,ng rarhsns
sxnactins ms, that did coma I
don,t know how mucb hs saw mr.
how much IA sus,ectsd
T Iookad at his face and asked
him a ou.stion once or twice IN
lead him 10 tell me what he knew.
I'm, ba never would and his face
~, ,o,,oo
10 always ''Ae na'N De'S'e
he knows pretty well all, but he
would never tell, not even II a
dozen men were going TO be hanged
a., -. 49,, =, 49,,
iol t"o inu'eo' "h''h NC h"e"
did.
know ! committed murder, but
an ar As Gods Judgment Of me
- ., ,',t =. g.. yrso.,.. ,.,o.
eo'' VIZ We "" ''nai'' VOL
VINO Is sun awe that he VIII con-
denim me. I was guilty OF that. |
know for 7 went ont nursose,v IN
rm ,iu 90 CO., as ,,uraoroa
n.y. "' 800
MIN. but my wife ala not muir
der in the sight Of God, though |
did in the Underwent of men. for
,houoh ..-uo,, hor ,,,.h t,;,.
'"s"sn ','nN" NO. va
ann KILLED. her swear tna' nau
no consciousness at the time OF
what I did. have said 80 before.
81 Id, .. !. oo,,, 81 eat,
W." sea- "a
All the same, dio not teei any
great SORROW TOT IL as soon as hau
aone u. "neh ! saw Tue aeau
Dody lying mere AT my iee' all
thought OF wharf IN the summer
mouse went ont OF py mead.
quite iofgot the IoD ! had s'arteu
OUT 10 10. went PACK 10 .he
library as ] nave sa'd' ana aitei
oTaihger had gone out.he haa
Deen bringing IN ihe whiskey ana
syphon-i sat IN the Armenian ana
thought.
thought ana tnought ana grad,
uaiiy' suppose, out OF the deaa
STATE mat NV nv" hp' naah W,
uetah 10 thinh Hhore ciea.'y asa'h'
ana az pesan 10 'h'!. h'ore
clearly my ioys Ior NY WE ealne
PACK 10 me- ashti, 40 nole ~ tne
hate WIN IL. ! began 70 MINK OF
her as hau knowh he' IL o.
s'ppose ! ousH' 10 say a. ! ma"
tahciea her, SO young anu io'ihs,
or at east anectloha'e, or sesihlhs
a"sctioha,e 10 me ore WIS Do
yo'us an r',e's, an" INA, o,",e
u was an nIs Ia"tLn9 ~ 'nSS
inh"ehce over her WHO" she o"u'c
' Ana ,bon Noon, 70 tbi,r If hsr
49, 49, 80, II n', 80
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called IT, remained a mystery. and
a mystery which. for the public,
was only dsepened by Captain VI
bart's free pardon. The press
might not SO willingly have let 1t
go as a mystery unsolyed had not
the space OF every paper been more
thap fully occupied with events
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By Horace Hutchinson

thai we're unmaking and -.rs.o~
the world.
And only few months sftoi l's
pardon and release Captain wat.
too. met the death OF a soldier and
OF a brave man In France. 'i
THE END.
Copyright. 1870. By George II, Dssss o..
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-01-02

Just because a woman smells OF
Gasoline Is no sign that she runs q
motor car. Maybe h has been rum
ming a Bedbug.
We can't understand why other
people are not satisfied with what
they have. But we all want more
ourselves.
This would be q nicer world if men
didn't want to talk about themselves
when you want to talk about yourself.
A smart man accepts the advice
other men give him. 1t makes other
men feel good to hand 1t out, and a
man doesn't have to use 1t.
Every oma fears her neighpors.
That Is the reason why the expensive
curtains are in the front windows and
the raggedy curtains are in the rear
windows.
The moment a wife discovers that
she can boss her husband she starts
in working overtime at 1t.
A man wants something just like
other men are wearing. But it is diff
ferent with a
A woman expects to find genuine
Cut Glass in the ten-cent store. But a
man knows better.
We never saw q horse laugh. But
when a horse sees a four-year-old
flivVer staggering up the street he has
a right to laugh.
A mans body may be Opaque. But
that doesn't prevent his wife from
seeing clear through him when he is
coming to explain what he was doing
in a taxi with a chicken.
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Communication
Member OF The ASSOCIATED press
THE POINT

Whatever other view one may take
of the attempt OF the incoming
Democratic administration to beat
the federal prohibition amendment
n must admit the sincerity of pur-
pose. Senator Browns statement
which was published in the EVEN
ING NEWS on Wednesday Is a rea-
sonable argument. He raises several
points that are open to dispute and
only a decision by the United States
supreme court will settle them.
Perhaps the strongest point made
by Senator Brown is in reference to
the word Concurrent" as it appears
In the Eighteenth amendment. The
English language is so full of am
biguitios that almost any meaning
can be taken of a word and Senator
Brown cites a common use of the
word Concurrent to uphold his com
tention of its meaning as 1t appears
In the constitutional amendment.
This word concurrent" Is certain
~ the vulnerable spot in the dry"
amendment and invites an attack
especially from the wet states.
States tina are wet" are certainly
not going to concur in dry" legisla-
ton IL they can help 1t. There al
be an honest difference of opinion as
to what the phrase concurrent pow
err means and as long as this differ
ence exists the strict enforcement of
prohibition can hardly be expected.
II Senator Brown can succeed IN
convincing the United States supreme
court tfat the word Concurrent as
1t appears In the Eighteenth amend
ment makes it possible for each state
TO regulate prohibition to suit itself
he win have won a nationwide repu-
tation as a constitutional lawyer and
his position as one of the leaders Of
The Democratic party in New Jersey
will have been made secure.
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A WORD OF WARNING.

A word of warning might not be
hmiss to the members of the Board OF
Freeholders in the conduct of the
bounty affairs the coming year. That
the people have confidence in the
present freeholders is apparent from
the vote last fall, but they should
bear in mind that 1t Is they, them
selves, that were elected to run the
county and not some appointee who
would like to play the role of a d.
rector.
1t is apparent that the county So
8icitor has aspirations toward posing
rs a boss. He is making himself
rather aggressive IN Republican party
affairs and while treated somewhat as
a joke by those on the inside he can
not help but make an impression on
the public generally unless he is
curbed. If the f~reeholders let him
get away with too much the people
are likely to get the impression that
the young county solicitor is the
whole cheese.
The recent holiday junket en-
Sad mistake. To be sure, 1t made a
pleasant outing to Washington at the
Expense of the county Taxpayers. but
b these days Of high taxes and In
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GUfINY, BUT COULDN'T HELP IL

Governor Runyon, in Diminishing
the charges brought by the town of
Montclair against the Public Utility
Commissioners, says that while the
commissioners did wrong, they were
not big enough men to know any
better and therefore are not to be
blamed. This is a charitable view
TO take of the matter. 1t is the view
that the general public has already
Formed.
To be sure, the governor says only
PERTAIN members Of the commission
are incompetent, but as he does not
plention names the whole board Is
placed under a shadow.
After all, the blame goes back to
Senator Edge who, as governor.
packed the board with partisan
Emall-fry In order to bolster up his
ambition to go to Washington. If a
governor can SO far forget his re-
eponsibility to the public as to make
ouch appointments perhaps the APP
pointees are not entirely to blame for
the blunders they make.
Governor Munyon's remedy, to
pass new legislation ousting the en-
tire present board and having a new
board of three appointed, would be
as good a way as any to meet the
situation, Certainly the governors
plan Is much to be preferred to the
Democratic plan Of making the
Public Utility Commission elective,
Thereby keeping the regulation of
public utilities constantly In politics.
We believe that the lesson from
Governor Edges blunder has been
Thoroughly learned and 1t is not like
~ to be repeated.
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nus are all strongly adverse in their

nus are all strongly adverse in their
rule.
Fears of many sorts will be I'M
loosed in the coming weeks when Sus-
picion, intrigue n bad faith may be
prevalent in many dealings Of men
and even women
Neptune is in a place supposed to
encourage deceit and fraud of every
sort. This sway will affect politics as
well as trade.
Saturn again seems to bode i'll for
mines The aspect long interpreted
as foreshadowing trouble has under
gone a change, but the p~rognostica-
lions are exceedingly disquieting.
This is not a lucky direction for
aviation, although the property for
the year promises development of air.
ships so that they may serve many
commercial needs.
There is threatening aspect for ell
who practice the occult arts, for the
| stars indicate hat they will suffer
severe physical strain.
Leadership in civic movements that
| have political significance is foretold
| for universities. A college president
will be conspicuous in the I'residen-
| tial campaign, out not as q candidate.
The seers assert that labor unrest is
! due partly to the mental disturbance
| produced by the world war which
| they reflect. This mental condition,
too seldom understood, explains the
attitude of returned soldiers and is
partly due to the posting Of the stars
under which the disaster OF war was
possible.
Mexico continues under Il sinister
planetary direction that will cause
new concern In the early spring.
Persons whose birthdate it is should
beware OF accident in the coming
year.
! Children born on this day are ike
ly to be high strung and nervous but
| artistic and talented. These subjects
! of Capricorn usually have eventful
lives.