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Chapter -Continued
Morris stood a few steps back of
Jessio and devoured her with his eyes
He noted tiio soft folds of her hair
the rounded curves of her neck and
a3 one spell hound watched her deft
fingers as they glided over the surface
of the sketch book
With a little sigh of disappointment
Jessie dropped the folio on her lap
Not in months had she drawn with
less skill What could he the matter
She felt oppressed and under some ma
lign influence Instinctively she
turned and looked squarely into the
ardent eyes and eager face of Arthur
Morris With an Involuntary cry of
surprise fear and vexation she sprang
to her feet the sketch hook falling to
the floor
Why Miss Carden exclaimed
Morris with stimulated astonishment
Really this is an unexpected pleas
ure I am delighted to meet you Per
mit mo And he picked up the
sketch hook bowed and extended his
hand
In these brief seconds Jessie had
regained her self possession You
have surprised me Mr Morris she
said quietly ignoring his proffered
hand You must be aware that this
is not a public reception room We
can talk without disturbing any one in
the lobby
A minute later they were in the
comparatively deserted cuter hall
You have no right to follow mo
here or to annoy me by your atten
tions said Jessie Carden confront
ing him with flashing eyes He fum
bled nervously at his watch charm
It was purely accidental I assure
you he stammered
Your arrival was announced in the
Berlin papers said Jessie coldly I
learned this morning that you bribed
my servants and realized that an in
terview with you was inevitable but
I did not think you would presume
to intrude your presence during my
study hours You take an unfair ad
vantage of an accidental acquaintance
That acquaintance was terminated last
summer by your acts and conduct and
I have no desire to renew it You
have had the education and oppor
tunities of a gentleman and must re
spect my wishes
She turned and entered the gallery
Morris stood as if riveted to the floor
dazed ashen faced and speechless
Obeying a wild impulse he rushed
after her but halted at the door
With a smothered oath he retraced his
steps and hailing his coachman drove
through Unter der Linden
For the second time in his life the
fact had been forced upon him that
there were ambitions beyond the reach
of his money The thought envenomed
him Again he made a vow that Jessie
Carden should be his Kis heavy lips
parted in a sullen smile as he pictured
her surrender The longer it was de
layed the sweeter would be his tri
umph
The morning train for Paris had
Arthur Morris for a passenger It was
months before he returned to New
York to become a junior partner in
the firm of Randolp Morris Com
pany
CHAPTER XVIli
Diplomacy
After an absence of two years Jessie
Carden looked forward with pleasure
to a home coming She had bidden
her instructors and friends adieu and
was about leaving Berlin for a brief
visit to Paris when she received a
cablegram from General Carden re
questing her ro return home at once
The message was so worded that
Jessie was mystified but not alarmed
After a stormy voyage the liner
steamed into Boston harbor and Gen
eral Carden clasped his daughter in
his arms At first glance she hardly
recognized him His face was drawn
and the dark hair and beard had
turned to silver gray
You will be brave my pet he
said his voice choked with emotion
I have sad news for you Jessie
There can be no very sad news
papa dear so long as you are alive
said jessie With a womans intuition
she guessed the truth
I am ruined Jessie My bank has
failed and fortune is swept away
That is not all Our old home is in
the hands of creditors and I am a
bankrupt a bankrupt at the age of
fifty
Jessie smiled bravely through her
tears
I am distressed on your account
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papa dear but you must not worry
in the least over me I have money
papa lots and lots of money I have
saved nearly two thousand dollars out
of my allowance We shall get along
famously
That evening in the modest apart
ments he had rented General Carden
told Jessie the story of his downfall
Randolph Morris was his principal
creditor and negotiations were then
in progress by which he hoped to
transfer his L 0 stock to Mr Mor
ris in consideration of a loan which
would enable him to settle witli his
minor creditors
If Mr Morris refuses to extend this
accommodation I shall be in lasting
disgrace faltered General Carden
Jessie Carden had listened quietly
Until that day she had given little
thought to the problem which ever
confronts the great mass of mankind
how shall we live wherewithal shall
we be fed clothed and housed The
little room in which they sat looked
mean and want haunted The faded
carpet the cheap wallpaper the taw
dry decorations the low and marred
ceiling the wailing of a sick child
through the thin partition the odor
of a kitchen the rumble of traffic over J
a cobblestone pavement surely this
was a dream from which she would
awaken to find herself in the stately
mansion on the great boulevard
Yet it was not a dream At the
sound of the name of Arthur Morris
the past and the present stood before
her in glaring colors She must be
brave she would be brave With that
superb insignt which nature gives to
woman the plot devised by Arthur
Morris lay bare before her eyes Her
father was enmeshed in the net which
had been set for her To release him
must she be caught in the toils
The Bishops had purchased a resi
dence in New York and there was
waiting for Jessie a letter from her
aunt inviting her to spend April and
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May with them in the metropolis and
to be their guest in Hingham during
the summer
General Carden advised her to ac
cept the invitation but Jessie had
at first declared that her place was
with him and would not listen to his
arguments
I have changed my mind about
aunt Helens invitation she said
later in the evening I have de
cided to go to New York for a few
weeks at least I believe I can sell
some of my sketches and paintings
there and and well I think it best
to go
You are a wise little girl Jessie
said General Carden I shall be in
New York nearly as much as in Bos
ton and you will be much happier
there
A week later Jessie was fondly
greeted by ln r aunt Thomas Bishop
belonged to an old New York family
and was proud to introduce his beau
tiful niece to the exclusive society
circles in which the Bishops had been
welcomed
It was at the Cregier reception that
she again met Arthur Morris For
a moment Morris was unable to speak
and gazed at her blankly first at
Jessie and then at Mrs Cregier
Really why really why why
dont you know Mrs Cregier Miss
Carden and I have met before he
exclaimed In fact why in fact we
are old acquaintances are we not
Miss Carden
I recall having met Mr Morris
said Jessie addressing her hostess
It was a trying moment for Jessie
Carden Before her stood the man
she hated Why had fate cast him
as a reptile ever crawling across her
path She longed to crush the ser
pents head with her tiny heel yet
she knew that the snake had cun
ning she knew that her father was
caught in his coils Never until that
moment did she realize the damning
power of money or sound the depths
of a womans hatred
May I say something to you Miss
Carden ventured Morris Ive
wished to talk to you for a long time
or rather to write something but
but lets get out of this crush so I
can explain myself
I do not care to listen to you sir
I beg of you hear me for a mo
ment pleaded Morris as Jessie
turned haughtily from him
Since you seem determined to cre
ate a scene in which I am to be in
volved I prefer the less conspicuous
disg apf of listening to you she said
bitterly Here is a quiet corner
What have you to say to me sir
I I want to apologize for what I did
In Berlin or rather for coming to
Berlon he began I was wrong and
I beg your pardon
That is not the offence for which
you should crave forgiveness said
Jessie Carden Scorn was in her voice
and a warning flash in her eyes
Your intrusion in Berlin was inso
lent but it was in harmony with a
greater affront which preceded It
and one of which no gentleman would
be guilty If you have nothing more
appropriate to say leave me sir
I have I have cried Morris cow
ering before her gaze Pray be seat
ed Miss Carden and and give me a
chance
I should not she said coldly
I know the time you mean Miss
Carden His face flushed a deeper
red and he looked at her with ap
pealing eyes You mean that affair
at the clambake I was intoxicated
Miss Carden Its a hard AVord but
Im going to be honest and throw my
self on your mercy I am very very
sorry really I am Miss Carden and
I want to be your your friend
She longed to spurn his prayers
and to ask him to take back the white
locks from above her fathers brow
and remove the stain of disgrace
She realized that the man who had
crushed her father was now in her
power and felt that triumphant joy
which only a woman can know But
it wounded and tortured her pride to
think that Morris dared aspire to her
love She charged the sacrifice she
was about to make against the ac
count of a future revenge and turned
to him with a softer light in her eyes
I should not forgive you she said
When a man who pretends to your
position so far forgets himself he
should first obtain his own pardon
He should then seek to redress the
wrongs caused by his offense Are
you prepared to do that Mr Morris
I dont exactly understand what you
mean MissCarden
I will make myself plain said
Jessie You attempted to murder
a young man who resented your in
sults in a public place and in the en
counter you were injured For years
you have had a standing reward for
the arrest of this innocent man Are
you willing to take steps to absolve
him John Burt has been the greater
victim of your conduct
But my dear Miss Carden I havent
te slightest notion of where he is
dont you know said Morris with a
puzzled expression Pon my word
I dont We had a beastly row in
which I got shot and all the fellows
who were with me say I started it
and that the pistol went off in my own
hand I assure you that I dont re
member a thing about it The gov
ernor offered the reward I can get
him to withdraw it and put a notice
in the papers promising that no pros
ecution shall be made Ill do any
thing you say Miss Carden
Publicly announce the withdrawal
of the reward and state that he will
not be prosecuted said Jessie as ii
the matter was merely one of ab
stract justice And if you are con
fident that I shall not again be em
barrassed by your indiscretions I will
try to overlook the past
You are very good he exclaimed
effusively Its more than I deserve
but you will not regret it Miss Car
den My governor and yours are
mixed up in business and its a beast
ly shame dont you know that Ave
should be at odds By the way Im
awfifly sorry about the generals finan
cial troubles Hope he pulls out ol
them all right and think he will Im
trying now to make a deal which will
help him out And youre not angry
with me now are you Miss Carden
Lets shake hands and call it square
Morris extended a clammy hand
and Jessie with an inward shudder
permitted him to clasp hers for a mo
ment
The summer season was at hand
and Jessie was looking forward with
pleasure to a sojourn in Hingham
Arthur Morris Had oeen devoted in
his attentions and Jessie felt a thril
ling wickedness at the tacit encour
agement she had given him
To be continued
NOT WHAT HE WAS SENT FOR
Irishman Had Reasoned Well But
He Was Wrong
A farmer accompanied by several
of his hired men went into the woods
one morning in the fall of the year
to cut down some trees When about
to begin work it was discovered that
the cant hook had been left behind
Turning to one of the men an Irish
man not very long over the farmer
instructed him to drive back to the
farm for the missing tool The Irish
man did not know what a cant hook
looked like but was averse to expos
ing his ignorance so drove off on his
errand trusting to find some one at
the farm who would enlighten him
At the barn however there was no
one to help him out of his dilemma
Casting his eyes about the place for
the thing which would be most likely
to bear the name of cant hook he
saw a mooley cow with never a sign
of a horn upon its head and conclud
ed it was that he had been sent for
Procuring a rope he fastenafl the
cow to the rear end of his vehicle and
exultantly drove back to the woods
What in sam Hill nave you
there shouted the farmer on seeing
his messenger and the cow I sent
you for a cant hook to use in moving
the logs what have you brought that
cow for
Eo jabers boss divil another
thing could I see around the barn that
cant hook but this Star of Hope
Chance for Man With Brains
Cash for brains is still the cry The
Queensland government find that the
prickly pear a kind of cactus has
proved so vigorous a weed that 25000
has been offered for a sure means oi
eradicating it
SHELTER EGR TRUSTS by Prtectln from Intolerable op-
THE BIGGEST OF THEM SEEK RE
PUBLICAN DOWNFALL
Havcmeyer Belmont and Other Mo
nopoly Magnates Are Working Hard
for the Election of a Democrat as
President of the United States
Will the free trade newspapers and
the Democratic campaigners who are
trying to make a counter issue with
the cry that protection is the shelter
of the trusts explain why then the
trust interests are so furious with the
Republican Administration and party
Isnt the protective tariff law to day
what it was a year ago and two years
ago and three years ago If the shel
ter of the trusts was in fact tho
Dingley law before ought it not to
give the Belmonts and the Havemey
ers and the other backers of Judge
Parker as good a thing now as
when they were selling printed paper
calling it securities at fancy
prices or trying to sell it What is
the difference between a tariff shelter
to day and one two years ago If
the Dingley tariff enabled shipbuild
ing monopolists to put hundreds of
millions of value into watered stock
a couple of years ago it is strange
that it did not enable them to keep
that value or any value in those se
curities So with the common steel
stock So with any inflated stock that
was tipped off to be Standard Oil
duplicates but which has proved tar
iff shelter or no shelter to be waste
paper
The truth about the trusts which
have flourished is of course as Sena
tor Gallinger stated the case in the
upper branch of Congress on April 22
Under but not because of the tariff
now in operation great industrial con
cerns commonly known as trusts
have been built up during the past
four years Not because of the tariff
has the Standard Oil Trust been built
up for the reason that there is no tar
iff to shelter it Nor the Anthracite
Coal trust which no tariff could shel
ter if the wall of protection were for
ty leagues high for the reason that
there is no other coal anywhere in
the world to sell in this country with
the product of the American anthra
cite fields Yet who will say that any
where else in the United States there
are two trusts to match both the ab
solute monopoly privileges and the
enormous profits of those two trusts
Because of the tariff this country
has prospered unquestionably The
trust which had genuine value and
reasonable opportunity took its share
of the added prosperity just as the
non trust industry did as the wage
earner the shop keeper the farmer
did The trust which sought to make
something out of nothing whether be
cause of or under the tariff failed as
any individual would have failed no
more and no less The interests
which were not trusts whenever they
had anything of real value prospered
under the tariff prodigiously and they
other prosperity anywhere in this
country there is none in the world
like the prosperity of the American
farmer There is no agricultural
trust
In England where there is no tariff
trusts fare exactly as they fare in this
country where there is a tariff Gain
ing a monopoly of a rich field by
agreement among competitors or by
exterminating competitors who will
not combine they wax lfat and op
pressive Where competition can be
maintained or where the trusts com
mit an economic folly they go to
smash so far as any inequalities of
advantages are concerned tariff or no
tariff In the United States one of
the richest and most unscrupulous of
all the trusts in existence is the Sugar
trust which is managing Judge Park
ers New York campaign with Mr
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against the sugar consumers of the
United States It is barred by tho
tariff law which by enabling the Inde
pendent beet sugar Industry to be
come established and to flourish in
this country has created and main
tained competition with the Sugar
trust
If the tariff were the shelter of the
Sugar trust why should the Sugar
trust be managing Judge Parkers
campaign for him on free trade prin
ciples while yet declaring for non
interference by the Federal govern
ment with combinations in restraint
of trade Why should the Sugar
trust have spent oceans of money try
ing to buy the repeal of the tariff duty
on raw sugar from Cuba Because
with a free entry for the Cuban raw
material which it absolutely controls
it could wipe out tho beet sugar in
dustry in this country exterminate
competitors And having done that
the Sugar trust controlling the stiua
tion here as porfectly as it controls
it in Cuba could work its own pleas
ure under free trade with the Ameri
can consumer as the Standard Oil
monopoly unsheltered by the tariff
as the Anthracite Coal trust unshel
tered by tho tariff work their sweet
will with the American public which
consumes their products
The trusts which are running Judge
Parker for President in the hope of
preventing interference by the gov
ernment with their combinations in
restraint of trade and the Democrats
who are accepting him plastered over
with the trust and free trade declar
ations must think that the American
people are fools as big fools as Mr
August Belmont plainly takes them to
be to give them such arguments as
they are putting out at the opening
of the national compaign of 1904
which is to determine whether the
IF IT RAINS CATS AND DOGS THERE IS THE UMBRELLA
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l voters of the United States shall elect
President Roosevelt and go on man
aging the nations affairs for them
selves or elect Judge Parker and li
cense the trusts to manage all the af
fairs public and private of all the
American people even to the songs
they may sing and the prayers they
may say New York Press
True Test of Prosperity
The chief result of the tariff in rela
tion to American industries at this
time seems to be to permit the larger
manufacturers to charge more for the
same goods at home than they do
abroad a condition which will al
ways be annoying to the home con
sumers who are unable to believe
that they profit directly from such un
fair treatment Detroit Free Press
The Free Press knows or ought to
know better than this The chief re
sult of the protective tariff since 1897
has been prosperity and national sol
vency It is undoubtedly true that
some concerns sell their surplus pro
duce abroad a little cheaper than they
do at home but they are compelled
to do this in order to compete with
foreign manufacturers However it
is far better for the American consum
ing public to pay a little more for
are prospering to day There is no i manufactured goods at home than the
same could be purchased abroad and
at the same time secure steady em
ployment and higher wages than can
be secured in Europe It is better for
a workingman in Kalamazoo for ex
ample to pay 12 for a suit of clothes
and at the same time earn 3 a day
than to live in a country where the
same suit costs 10 but his wages are
only 2 a day
The American protective system
has increased enormously the consum
ing and purchasing capacity of the
mass of the people This is the true
test of prosperity Kalamazoo Tele
graph
Our Long Suit
It is difficult to predict just what
issues the desperate Democracy will
force to the front in their effort to
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Cord Meyer Jr one of its factors thev declared to be of paramount
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Committee and benator McCarren
its legislative agent chairman pf the
Executive Committee This trust
overflows with riches because it ab
solutely controls the cane sugar re
fining industry here and th cane sug
ar market of Cuba Yet it is barred
But so far as the tariff is concerned
Republicans need have no fear If
the tariff is to be trumps in the com
ing game of politics that is our long
suit and we may safely count on both
points and honors when the score is
made up Pueblo Chieftaii
BOUGHT OWMEJtt TOO
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HOG RAISER CAUGHT IN HIS OWN
TRAP
Weighed In With Live Stock He Had
Sold Would Be Sharper Was Com
pelled to Ransom Himself at His
Full Value
In one of the farming communities
less than a thousand miles from Los
Angeles there lived a dozen years ago
a man who rejoiced in the felicitous
cognomen of Hog Jackson He was
portly of person and many who
chanced to hear his porcino appella
tion supposed it to have been suggest
ed by his avoirdupois He drifted down
to California from one of tho inter
mountain states and was rooting under
his legitimate Initials firmly believ
ing his obnoxious alias to have been
left behind when one of his old neigh
bors settled in the district The new
comer bore no malico toward his old
acquaintance but from mere force of
habit in an unguarded moment re
ferred to him as Hog Jackson and
being pressed for an explanation re
lated this story
During Mr Jacksons residence in
Ihe mountain state he engaged in the
business of hog raising an occupation
for which he had an acknowledged af
finity In the fullness of time he had
bunch of porkers ready for the sham
bjes and sold them to tho resident
buyer at the railway station driving
them in on foot There was no fence
around the platform scales on which
they were weighed and as the buyer
was busy adjusting the weights Mr
Jackson slyly stepped upon one corner
of the platform and stood there ap
parently unnoticed until the weighing
was finished While the hogs content
edly munched the corn which had
been thrown on the scales to keep
them quiet the buyer wrote a check
for the amount indicated he hog
raiser accepted it and the deal was
closed Then Jackson helped the buy
er drive the bunch into the high board
stockade and to make a thorough job
followed them in Instantly the gate
was closed behind him and the key
turned in the lock After a lingering
look at the porkers he tried the gate
but found himself a prisoner with the
buyer standing guard outside
Let me out said Jackson
Oh no replied the buyer
Let me out roared the fat man
while the blank walls of the stockade
rolled back a confusion of answering
echoes
Jackson said the buyer I cannot
let you out You are my hog I have
weighed you and paid for you and
unless you buy yourself back you are
going with the rest of them to Omaha
After some further parley Jackson
passed his ill gotten check out be
tween the bars of the stockade where
upon the gate swung open and the
prisoner meekly walked out upon the
scales and received a check for 240
pounds less of hog flesh Los An
geles Times
All Waited Upon the Crank
A serious man with a long face gin
gerly stepped down into the deep mud
Behind him a load of furniture
waited anxiously
An ice wagon driver swore several
temperatures of caloric
A hook and ladder truck intensified
the heat
A push cart got inevitably cross
ways between a trolley car and a
stone truck
The serious man in the mud wildly
turned a little black crank and held
his breath and hoped He wasnt
spinning a top Neither was he grind
ing coffee
He was cranking a runabout
Suddenly it sobbed
The serious man leaped joyfully out
of the mud the ice cooled off the
hook and ladder truck scorched by the
furniture was released the push cart
was arrested
Moral What the universe needs is
persistent cranking New York Sun
Old Maids at the Bargain Counter
Salesgirls in department stores ex
perience much amusement in putting
spinsters through the third degree
when the old girls endeavor to dodge
the issue of whether the name is Mrs
or plain Miss Of course -long ex
perience with customers serves to in
form saleswomen how to differentiate
between married members of the sex
and dyed-in-the-wool old maids and
consequently when the time arrives
to book a spinsters address the load
ed complexion of the questions affords
delight to the girls behind the coun
ter When milady instructs the goods
to be sent to A Smith etc the sell
er makes it a point to inquire if it is
Mrs or Miss the buyer said The
spinster affects to misunderstand and
repeats A Smith The saleswoman
is unrelenting and not until the old
girl snaps out a reluctant Miss after
three or four repetitions of the inquiry
does the comedy end Then as the
spinster departs the girls laugh New
York Press
His Only Refuge
It was a well dressed young man
with a sad faraway look in his eyes
that stood on the steps as the lady
opened the door
Excuse me madam he said as
he lifted his hat but could you di
rect me to the Home for the Friend
less
Do you mean to say that you are
seeling it as a refuge she asked in
surprise
I am madam he replied I am
a baseball umpire
Actars Study Realism
Several prominent Japanese actors
have gone to Korea to study realism
in the portrayal of military scenes