k i a j V w J i 4 4S r j 1 j J C v - -4 - efHH 4444S54S44344 H6e Bondrrveurv By HALL CAINE CHAPTER V Continued IV Then in that breathless silence Ja son stood erect and said in a firm clear sonorous voice You know who I am Some of you hate me Some of you fear me All of you think me -a sort of wild beast among men That Js why you caged me But I have broken my bars and brought this man along with me The men on the Mount had not time to breathe under the light and fire that flashed upon them when Jason lifted his clinched fist and said O you that dwell in peace you that go to your beds at night you that eat when you are hungry and drink when you are thirst and rest when you are weary would to God you could know by bitter proof what this poor man has suffered But I know it and I can tell you what it has been Where is your Michael Sunlocks that I may tell it to him Which is he Point aim out to me Then the people drew a deep breath for they saw in an Instant what had befallen these two men in the dread shaping of their fate Where is he cried Jason again And in a voice quivering with emo tion the Judge said Dont you know the man you have brought here No yes yes cried Jason My brother in suffering my brother in misery thats all I know or care But where is your Michael Sunlocks I have something to say to him Where ds he Jorgen Jorgensen had recovered himself by this time and pressing for--ward he said with a cruel smile You fool shall I tell you where lie is Heaven forbid it said the Bishop stepping out and lifting both hands before the Governors face But in that instant Jason had recognized Jorgen Jorgensen I know this old man he said What is he doing here Ah God 3ity me I had forgotten I saw him at the mines Then he is back And now I remember he is Governor again Saying this an agony of bewilder ment quivered in his face He looked around Then where is Michael Sunlocks he cried in a loud voice Where is he Which is he Who is he Will no one tell me Speak For the mer ciful Christs sake let some one speak There was a moment of silence in which the vast crowd trembled as one man with wonder and dismay The Bishop and Judge stood motion less Jorgen Jorgensen smiled bitter ly and shook his head and Jason rais ed his right hand to cover his face from the face of the insensible man at his feet as if some dark fore shadowing of the truth had swept over him in an instant What happened thereafter Jason never knew only that there was a shrill cry and a rustle like that of a swirl of wind only that someone was coming up behind him through the -walls of human beings that still stood apart like riven rocks only that in a moment a woman had flung herself over the prostrate body of his com Tade embracing it rising it in her arms kissing its pale cheeks and sob bing over it My husband my hus band It was Greeba When the dark mist bad cleared away from before his eyes Jason saw her and knew her At the same instant he saw and knew his des tiny that his yoke fellow had been Michael Sunlocks that his lifelong en emy had been his life- sole friend It was a terrible discovery and Ja son reeled under the shock of it like a beast that is smitten to its death And while he stood there half blind half deaf swaying to and fro as if the earth rocked beneath him across his shoulders over his cheeks and his mouth and his eyes fell the lash of the tongue of Jorgen Jorgensen Yes fool that you are and have been he cried in his husky voice thats where your Michael Sunlocks Is Shame Shame cried the people But Jorgen Jorgensen showed no pity or ruth You have brought him here to your confusion he cried again and its aot the first time youve taken this part to your own loss More he would have said in the merciless cruelty of his heart only that a deep growl came up from the crowd and silenced him But Jason heard nothing seen noth ing felt nothing knew nothing save that Michael Sunlocks lay at his feet and that she was coaxing him caress ing him and kissing him back to life Michael she whispered Michael USy poor Michael she murmured while she moistened his lips and parched tongue with the brenni vin from the horn of some good man standing near Jason saw this and heard this though he had eyes and ears for noth ing besides And thinking in the -wild tumult of his distempered brain that such tenderness might have been his should have been his must have been his but for this man who had Tobbed him of this woman all the bitterness of his poisoned heart rose up to choke him He remembered his weary life with this man his sufferings with him his love for him and he hated himself for it all What devil of hell had made sport of him to give him his enemy for his friend How Satan himself must shriek aloud to see it that he who had been thrice robbed by this man robbed of a father robbed of a mother robbed of a wife should in Ms blindness tend him and nurse him and carry him with sweat of blood overtrack less wastes that he might save nim alive for her who waited to claim him Then he remembered what he had come for and that all was not yet done Should he do it after all Should he give this man back to this woman Should he renounce his love h Contlawi Story 44hs4k34 and his hate together his love of this woman his hate of this man Love Hate Which was love Which was hate Ah God They were one they were the same Heaven pity him what was he to do Thus the powers of good and the powers of evil wrestled together in Jasons heart for mastery But the moment of their struggle was short One look at the piteous blind face ly ing on Greebas bosom one glance at the more piteous wet face that hung over it and love had conquered hate in that big heart forever and forever Jason was recalled to himself by a dull hum of words that seemed to be spoken from the Mount Someone was asking why he fcad come there and brought Michael Sunlocks along with him So he lifted his hand partly to call attention partly to steady him self and in a broken voice he said these words Men and women if you could only know what it means that you have just witnesses I think it would be enough to move any man You know what I am a sort of bastard who has never been a man among men but has walked alone all the days of his life My father killed my mother and so I vowed to kill my father I did not do it for I saved him out of the sea and he died in my arms as you might say doating on the mem ory of another son That sons moth er had supplanted me so I vowed to kill him for his fathers sake I did not do that neither I had never once set eyes on my enemy I had done nothing but say what I meant to do when you took me and tried me and condemned me Perhaps that was in justice such as could have been met with nowhere save here in Iceland yet I thank God for it now By what chance I do not know but in that hell to which you sent me where all names are lost and no man may know his yoke fellow except by his face if he has seen it I met with one who became my friend my brother my second self I loved him as one might love a little child And he lov ed me yes me I could swear it You had thought me a beast and shut me out from the light of day and the company of Christian men But he made me a man and lit ud the dark ness of my night His deep strong voice faltered and he stopped and nothing was audible save the excited breathing of the peo ple Greeba was looking up into his haggard face with amazement written upon her own Must I go on he cried in a voice rent with agony I have brought him here and he is Michael Sunlocks My brother suffering is my brother in blood The man I have vowed to slay is the man I have tried to save Some of the people could not restrain their tears and the white faces of the others quivered visibly Why have you brought him here asked the Judge At that moment Michael Sunlocks began to move and to moan as if consciousness were coming back to him Jorgen Jorgensen saw this and the proud composure with which he had looked on and listened while Sun locks lay like a man dead left him in an instant Why have you brought Michael Sunlocks here asked the Judge again Why has he brought him here said Jorgen Jorgensen bitterly To be arrested Thats why he has brought him here See the man is coming to He will do more mischief yet unless he is prevented Take him he shouted to one or two of the guards from Krisuvik who had come with Greeba and now stood behind her Wait cried the Judge lifting his hand There was no gainsaying his voice and the guards who had stepped for ward dropped back Then he turned to Jason again and repeated his question Why have you brought Michaei Sunlocks here At that Jorgen Jorgensen lost all self control and shouted Take him I say And facing about to the Judge he said I will have you know sir that I am here for Denmark and must be obeyed The guards stepped forward again but the crowd closed around thorn and pushed them back Seeing this Jorgen Jorgensen grew purple with rage and turning to the people he shouted at the full pitch of his voice Listen to me Some min utes past I put a price on that mans head I said I would give you twenty thousand kroner I was wrong I will give you nothing but your lives and liberty You know what that means You have bent your necks under the yoke already and you may have to do it again Arrest that man arrest both men Stop cried the Judge These men are escaped prisoners said Jorgen Jorgensen And this is the Mount of Laws and here is Althing said the Judge and prisoners or no prisoners if they have anything to say by the ancient law of Iceland they may say it now Pshaw your law of Iceland is noth ing to me said Jorgen Jorgensen and turning to the crowd he cried In the name of the King of Den mark I command you to arrest those men And in the name of the King of Kings said the Judge turning after him I command you to let them alone There was a dread hush for a mo ment and then the Judge looked down at Jason and said once -more Why have you brought Michael Sunlocks here Speak Before Jason could make answer Jorgen Jorgensen had broken in again My guards are at Reykjavik he cried and I am here alone You are traitors all of you and if there is no one else to arrest that enemy of my country I will do it myself He shall go no further Step back from him tvtf rt -- So saying he opened his cloak drew a pistol from his belt and cocked it A shrill cry arose from the crowd The men on the Mount stood quaking with fear and Greeba flung herself over the restless body of Michael Sun locks To Be Continued Mrs Ixrals Botha Mrs Louis Botha the wife of the Boer general who has become so prominent in her efforts to bring about peace is of Irish extraction being the great grandniece of Robert Emmet She has been one of the most beautiful women in the Transvaal and though now the mother of a numerous family is still a very charming and comely little woman She is a highly-cultured woman well read musical of ar tistic bent and in times of peace a most successful and popular hostess Mrs Botha is on her way to visit President Kruger in Europe Educational Position at Mindanao M A Colton who has bem appoint ed superintendent of education in the department of Mindanao and Jolo Philippine islands was for one year instructor in French at Yale He was one of the first appointees of the Taft commission Last year he was espe cially valuable to Superintendent At kinson in the work of organization be cause of his knowledge of Spanish and his administrative ability Gold from Hirer Dredcings In the operation of dredging navi gable channels at the mouth of the Moruya and Shoalhaven rivers in New South Wales it was discovered that the mud contained much gold dust An automatic gold saver was then at tached to the dumping machinery and it is estimated that enough gold will thus be obtained to defray the expens es of keeping the channels open Russians Emigrating to Siberia A Russian contemporary states that tie emigration of Russian peasants to Eastern Siberia and especially to the Ussuri territory Is going on at a fever ish rate During the first three months of the present year nearly 3000 people left Odessa for Vladivostok One single steamer carried 800 emigrants to the far east Most of the emigrants are from southern Russia Oxford nnd Cambridge Men One day when he was in Cambridge the late Eishop Mandell Creighton was asked if he could state the difference between an Oxford man and a Cam bridge man The professor as he then was immediately replied An Ox ford man looks as if the world ba longed to him a Cambridge man as if he didnt care to whom the world be longed Advantages of Fort Cities The revenue New York derives from the rental of piers to the Cunard the White Star the American the Atlantic Transport the French the Leyland the National and other lines is nearly a million dollars annually The White Star lien pays the largest rental 217 000 the Cunard line is next with 120000 and the American line third with 88131 Ainslees Magazine Bronze Ball Unvollod A memorial of Rosa Bonheur pre sented by Senor Gambert the Spanish consul at Nice has been unveiled at Fontainebleau near which town she dwelt for many years The memorial consists of a bronze bull an enlarged facsimile of one of her sculptures the bas reliefs of the pedestal give her portrait and representations of three of her principal paintings A Potrltied Diluvial Man Prof Gorganovic Kramberger of Agra university claims to be the dis coverer of the missing link in the shape of the bones of a petrified dilu vial man The bones found he con tends would be the eye bones and crania of ten men who in all proba bility were ape like but show the ex clusive characteristics of men Kentucky Rich In OH Oil hunters are flocking to the Ken tucky mountains in search of fortunes Experts declare the fields to be very rich in oil The oil district comprises about 4000 acres in Wayne county and a smaller section in Feutress county Tenn The output of the wells is nearly 1000 barrels a day Forkors In Coal Mines One million and a half men work in the coal mines of the world Of these Great Britain has 535000 United States 300000 Germany 285000 Bel gium 100000 - Russia 44000 The worlds miners of metal number 4 000000 Uor Son a Youth of 70 Mrs James Mills of Woodham Ont who recently celebrated her one hun dred and thirteenth birthday will visit the Buffalo Exposition with her son a sprightly youth of seventy six She is not sure about the Midway and will consult her pastor before visiting it Golf and tho Parsons A clergyman who is himself guilty duringSthe week days says that Sun day golf is forging ahead of the church He finds his male parishion ers more anxinus to make the holes than to have L jn make them holy Philadelphia Ties J iTT Artesian Wells of Mexico In the City of Mexico there are 1071 private artesian wells and eleven pub lic ones This number will Boon be in creased foi at the present time many property owners are having wells bored In their yards - Mrl 1 i TwuirrrfSffrr Commoner uomment 5 Extracts From W J Bryans Paper 44HmHhHkm A Question of Expediency The Boston Transcript says that there can be neither escape from nor evasion of the conclusion that tinder authority of the Porto Rican decision congress can maintain a colonial sys tem Then the Tran script says Today there maybe a disposition in some quarters to say that the people will not acquiesce in the supreme courts decision any more than it ac cepted the Dred Scott judgment as final but that disposition will pass away It is but the ebullition of a heated moment The people will ac cept if for no other reason than it will see the vast moral distinction between the case of Dred Scott and that of Porto Rico The former was in its essence a case of morals the Porto Rico tariff is in its essence simply a question of ex pediency It is strange that such a statement as this should be made by a newspaper printed in the shadow of Bunker Hill monument and within the sound of the waves that dash against the harbor made famous by the Boston Tea Party There is no vast moral distinction between the case of Dred Scott and that of Porto Rico At the time of the Dred Scott de cision slavery was an institution recog nized by our constitution Dred Scott was a slave who sued in the federal courts for freedom He was put out of court on the ground that although he had been taken into territory covered by the Missouri Compromise he was yet a slave and therefore not a citizen and having no standing in the federal court At the very time that the supreme court denied to Dred Scott the right to sue for his freedom there were then in the southern states at least 3000000 human beings in slavery and not one of these would have the legal right to sue for his freedom If the Dred Scott matter was purely a moral one then how did it happen that no proceeding was taken in behalf o the 3000000 slaves The reason was that however immoral the institution might have been slavery in certain states had a recognized legal standing In the Dred Scott case then a purely legal question was presented to the court In giving its sanction to the slavery of this human being the supreme court had at least the excuse that slavery was recognized by our constitution and our laws however inconsistent it may have been with our declaration of in dependence In the Porto Rican case was involved the right of taxation explicitly fordid den by the constitution If a case were presented involving the proposition that a tariff duty be levied on goods going to and coming from the state of Massachusetts the Boston Transcript would very readily recognize that a great moral as well as legal question was involved in the proposition Such a tariff would be illegal because ex pressly prohibited by the constitution Such a tariff would be immoral because every section of our union is entitled to equal opportunities and equal privi leges with every other section As the Boston Transcript says of the Porto Rican tariff so the slave owners of the Dred Scott period said of that case it was a question of expediency Every public wrong sought to be per petrated under conditions where fund amental law must be violated has been excused on the ground that it was sim ply a question of expediency Both the Dred Scott and the Porto Rican cases were cases of law The element of immorality enters in both it is true But the Porto Rican case has the advantagethat the immorality sought to be accomplished under the guise of a statute is forbidden by the letter of the fundamental law and re pugnant to the spirit of American in stitutions The Dred Scott case in volved an institution likewise repug nant andinconsistents with our declar ation of independence but an institu tion nevertheless formally sanctioned by our constitution and laws of that period If there are no morals in the Porto Rican case there were no morals in the Boston Tea Party If there is no morality in the conten tion of the Porto Ricans that they be given equal advantages and opportuni ties with other sections of the country of which they are a part then theie was no morality in the contention of the men of the revolutionary period Mr Foraker announces that the Ohio campaign is to be fought out on na tional issues This is an interesting announcement because Mr Forakers lieutenants were always loud in declar ing that state compaigns should be fought on state issues when they thought that the easiest way of win ning The civil government of the Philip pines will be answerable to the war department Onejaf the first tasks set for the Filipinos is to learn the intri cacies of our elastic language- Of course Kansashasrenderedthanks to the administration for permission to harvest a bumper wheat crop It is amusing to read in a high tariff organ words of rejoicing because Amer ican manufacturers are competing suc cessfully with foreign manufacturers The high tariff organs are continually shrieking for protection against com petition The Ohio republicans havo learned that it is not their part to think All they have to do is to accept Mr Beveridge should hasten home if he expects to get his presidential boom inflated before frost time Harrison vs Brown In his now famous or infamous opinion Jnstice Brown sought to re assure our Porto Rican subjects by telling them that they could safely de pend upon the benevolence and kind ness of congress in the exercise of that bodys unrestrained possession of power The Pittsburg Post reminds us that Justice Brown on this point was well answered by the late Benja min Harrison In the January num ber of the North American Review General Harrison had an article en titled The Status of Annexed Ter ritory In that article he said it was expressibly absurd that the constitu tion does not apply but all these pro visions in it are in full force notwith standing Then General Harrison said It should be asked further wheth er the rule of uniformity of taxation is a part of the law of our civilization for without it all property rights are protected The man whose property may be taxed arbitrarily without re gard to uniformity within the tax dis trict and without any limitation as to the purposes for which taxes may be levied does not own anything he is a tenant at will But if these supposed laws of civilization are not enf orcible by the courts and rest wholly for their sanction upon the consciences of presi dents and congresses then there is a very wide difference The one is own ership the other is charity The one is freedom the other slavery however just and kind the master may be Our fathers were not content with an assurance of these great rights that rested wholly upon the sense of justice and benevolence of the congress The man whose protection from wrong rests wholly upon the benevolence of another man or of a congress is a slave a man without rights It would be interesting to hear what Benjamin Harrison would have to say in the presence of such a decision as was delivered by Justice Brown When congress levied the Porto Rican tariff GeneralHarrison referred to it as a serious departure from right princi ples What would he have thought had be known that the highest court in the land had solemnly given its sanc tion to that serious departure from right principles Toying With the Constitution The Boston Journal thinks the op ponents of imperialism should be thankful because of the supreme courts Porto Rican decision The Journal says that had the court held that the constitution followed the flag and extended over our new possessions it would be impossible to alienate any of these islands in the fu ture This is so according to the Journal because there is nothing in the constitution that warrants the sur render of any territory or any people once formally pronounced American Will the Journal take another look at the constitution and discover if it can any authority therein either di rect or implied for the government of subject peoples For people who are so ready to ig nore the constitution so quick to set themselves above the constitution the imperialists are very prompt to rush to the constitution to find prohibitions against doing that which they do not want to do and authority for doin g that which they want to Is Is All Caution In the Cuban Affair When the Cuban commission visited Washington they were told by Secre tary of War Root that the Piatt amend ment was the law of the land that the president was powerless to change that law and before the executive could ob tain authority to act in the premises the Piatt amendment as a whole must be adopted The Piatt amendment as a whole has been adopted and now the Washing ton dispatches say that the administra tion counsellors have concluded that it would not be wise for the president to act in the matter of withdrawing the troops from Cuba even after a govern ment shall be organized there until he shall have submitted the question of American evacuation to congress It is stated that the president has fully made up his mind that he will not act upon his own responsibility in the premises Is it possible to regard all this as mere caution and a desire to conform to the laws and the equities of the sit uation Are not the people justified in suspecting that there is a vust amount of insincerity and hypocrisy in the ad jninistrations attitude on the Cuban question The man who believes that he bene fits himself by taxing himself poor to make others rich is not in a good posi tion to poke fun at those who believe in the faith cure General MacArthur still acts on the assumption that telling about it not stealing the commissary goods is what menaces the military situation It is estimated that 75000 yards of ribbon will be required to properly fit out Great Britains South African war medals This is only about three yards of ribbon for each British soldier who who has died in the unjust war upon the Boers The money the shipping subsidy pro motors ask for would make habitable many millions of acres of western arid land But the benefits of irrigation would be enjoyed by the many while the subsidy would be enjoyed by the CAREER FOR YOUNG WOMEN Sack Should Pit Herself for Soisatblnsr as a Vocation The strenuous life of today demands that a young woman no less than a young man should have definite ideas concerning a career and that her edu cational work and particularly her college training shall be along the line of preparation for such career At least this is the opinion that is en tertained by the up-to-date girl and her family and the number of young girls who are entering the professions or fitting themselves for business life proves that the contingent of the com munity which believes In professional or business careers for women is a large one and steadily growing There is one woman in town a prominent worker In clubs and philanthropic as sociations who has carved out a ca reer for herself in a literary way and is desirous and even anxious that her boys and girls shall have a definite life work Three of the children havo pretty well defined ideas as to what they desire to make their life work including the elder girl who is yet at college The remaining child the sec- ond daughter has no settled opinions as to her career and her mother in discussing her childrens futures with a friend said recently in response to her visitors comment upon the pretti ness of this young girl Yes she is pretty but there it ends She is just a dear pretty goose without any spe cial ability br inclinations and I sup pose shell have to marry The tone more than the words conveyed the im pression that marriage was the opposite of a desirable career and the resort only of the girl with mediocre talent supplemented by considerable personal charm although the woman who mado the observation was the happiest of wives and has never entirely recov ered from the effects of her husbands death some years ago Kansas City Journal DAN DALYS GOLF STORY He Hits Upon Stage Jokes Sot Made to Order Stage jokes are rarely made to or der said Dan Daly to a writer in the New York World Mine turn up in all sorts of queer ways In a barroom the other night I heard a fellow say he was going to open a saloon on Broadway Who did you ever whip asked the bartender The next night I worked it into The Girl From Up There and it gets a bigger laugh than anything else I say My most suc cessful stage joke the golf story came to me by accident too One after noon while lounging about the Casino stage I picked up a scrap of news paper that had evidently been used to wrap up something In glancing it over I found the golf story credited to Exchange I dont even know what paper it was as part of the page was torn off It looked like one of those patent insides used in small towns The odd thing about it all was that I was never allowed to tell the whole story You know it goeson to explain that after you hit the ball you walk a mile and that if you find it the same day you win At that point the audi ence thought the climax had been reached and laughed The first time I tried to finish the story but nobody heard me and I never tried it again It would have been useless The story continues that if you dont find the ball the same day you send your man to look for it the next and if he finds it he wins After awhile I saw that the audience was right and that the story really ended better where they insist ed it should At first though it mada me pretty mad Giants Kettles In Minnesota Tn the Interstate Park near Taylors Falls Minnesota has been discovered a singular group of giants kettles or potholes covering an area of two or three acres and ranging in diameter from less than a foot to 25 feet and in depth from one foot to 84 feet They have been bored in exceedingly hard rock and in many cases they are like wells in shape the ratio of width to depth varying from one to five up to one to seven Mr Warren Upham ascribes jheir origin to torrents fall ing through glacial moulins at the time when the northern territory of the United States was burled under ice As with similar pot holes else where rounded boulders are occasion ally found at the bottom of the cavi ties Earthquake Swallows a afce An earthquake wrecked several buildings in the town of Aulton Mex ico and then passed on to Zopothon where it sported with the waters of a big lake At first the waters seemed in a state of great agitation and then they subsided and gradually disap peared The earthquake had caused a fissure in the bed of the lake and through this the lake had passed out of sight Our -Population and Great Britains Forty one and one half millions of people are now crowded into the United Kingdom says the National Geographical Magazine A similar density of population in the United States would mean a total population in this country excluding the depend encies of about one billion thirty six millions Carnegie Invites Johnston John Johnston is in receipt of a per sonal letter from Andrew Carnegie in which the multi millionaire invites the Milwaukee Scotchman to visit him in Scotland Mr Carnegie writes that he will give Mr Johnston a genuine Highland welcome Milwaukee Wis consin