12 THE LAST SHOT By FREDERICK PALMER Copyright* IVH by Scribnpr'* Sana. Though the premier, could he have beard Hub, might have smiled, even grinned, he would have understood Weeterllng s unconsciousness of incon sistency. The chief of staff had set himself a task In victory which had no military connection. Without know ing why, he wanted to win ascendancy over her mind. "The man of action!" exclaimed Marta, her eyes opening very wide, as they would to let in the light when she heard something new that pleaeed her or gave food for thought. "The C&an of actioa, who thinks of an ideal aa a thing not of words but as the end o£ action!" "Exactly!" said Westerllng, sen sible of another of her gifts. She could get the essence of a thing in a few words. "When we have won and set another frontier, the power of our nation will be such In the world that the Browns can never afford to attack ua," he went on., "Indeed, no two of the big nations of Europe can afford to make war without our consent. We shall be the arbiters of International dissensions. We shall command peace ■ —yes, the peace of force, of fact! If It could be won in afty other way I should not be here on this veranda In command of an army of invasion. That was my Idea —for that I planned." He was making up for having over shot himself In his confession that he had brought on the war as a final £tep for his ambition. "Yqu mean that you can gain peace by propaganda and education only -when human nature has so changed 'that we can have law and order and houses are safe from burglary and jjedestriane from pickpockets without {policeman? Is that it?" she asked. "Yes, yes! You have it! You have lound the wheat in the chaff." "Perhaps because I have been see ing something of human nature—the human nature'of both the Browns and the Grays at war. I have seen the Browns throwing hand-grenades and the Grays in wanton disorder in our dining-room directly they were out of touch with their officers!" she said «adly, as one who hates to accept dis jjllusioninent but must in the face of logic. Westerllng made no reply except to fenod. for a movement on her part pre joocupied him. She leaned forward, |bs she had when she had told him he [would become chief of staff, her hands ■clasped over her knee, her eyes burn tog with a question. It was the atti tude of the prophecy. But with the prophecy she had been a little mys tical; the fire in her eyes had precipi tated an Idea. Now It forged another question. "And you think that you will win?" she asked. "You think that you will win?" she repeated with the slow em phasis which demands a careful an- Bwer. The deliberatenees of his reply was In keeping with her mood. He was de tached; he was a neferee. "Yes, I know that we shall. Num- Ibers make It so, though there be no of skill between the two sides." His tone had the confidence of the iflow of a mighty river In Its destina tion on Its way to the sea. There was nothing In It of prayer, of hope, of des peration. as there had been in Lan stron's "We shall win!" spoken to her :in the arbor at their last interview. She drew forward slightly in her chair. Her eyes seemed much larger and nearer to him. They were sweeping him up and down as if she were seeing the slim figure of Lanstron in con trast to Westerllng's eturdiness; as if she were measuring the might of the five millions behind him and the three behind Lanstron. She let go a half-whispered "Yes!" which seemed to reflect the conclusion gained from the power of his presence. "Then my mother's and my own in terests are with you—the interests of peaoe are with you!" she declared. ' She did not appear to see the sud den, uncontrolled gleam of victory In his eyes. By this time it had become a habit for Westerllng to wait silently for her to come out of her abstrac tions. To disturb one might make It unproductive. "Then if I want to help the cause of peace I should help the Grays!" The exclamation was more to her self than to him. He was silent. This girl In a veranda chair desiring to aid him and his five million bayonets and four thousand guns! Quixote and the windmills—but It was amazing; It was flnel The golden glow of the sunset was running in his veins in a paean of personal triumph. The profile turned ever bo little. Now It was looking at the point where Dellarme had lain dying. Westerllng noted the smile playing on the Hps. It had tie quality of a smile over a task com pleted—Dellarme's smile. She start ed; she was trembling all over in the resistance of some impulse—some im pulse that gradually gained headway and at last broke its bonds. "For I can help—l can help!" she cried out, turning to him In wild in decision which seemed to plead for guidance. "It's so terrible—yet If It would hasten peace—l—l know much of the Browns' plan of defense! I know where they are strong in the first line and—and one place where they are weak there—and a place where they are weak in the main line!" "You do!" Westerllng exploded. The plans of the enemy! The plans that neither Bouchard's saturnine cunning, nor bribes, nor spies could ascertain! It was like the bugle-call to the hunter. But he controlled himself. "Yes, yes!" He was thoughtful and guarded. "Do you think it is right to tell?" Marta gasped half inarticulately. "RlglHT ¥es to hoctnn »ho trievlt- MONDAY EVENING, HARRI6BURG TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 5, 1914 abl®—to save lives!" declared Wester ling with deliberate assurance. • "I—l want to see an end of the kill* Ing! I —" She sprang to her feet aa If about to break away tumultuously, but paused, swaying unsteadily, and paesed her band across her eyes. "We Intend a general attack on the first line of defense tonight!" he ex claimed, his supreme thought leaping into words. "And you would want the Informa tion about the first line to-night if— lf it is to be of service?" "Yes, to-night!" Marta brought her hands together In a tight clasp. Her gaze fluttered for a minute over the tea-table. When she looked up her eyes were calm. "It Is a big thing, isn't it?" she said. "A thing not to be done in an Impulses "1 Want to See an End of the Killing." I try never to do big things in an im pulse. When I see that 1 am in dan ger of It I always say: 'Go by your- Belf and think for half an hour!' So I must now. In a little while I will let you know my decision." Without further formality she start ed across the lawn to the terrace steps. Westerling watched her sharp ly, passing along the path of the sec ond terrace, pacing slowly, head bent, until she was out of sight Then he stood for a time getting a grip on his own emotions before he went into the house. CHAPTER XV. In Feller's Place. What am I? What have I done? What am I about to do? shot bb forked «hadows over the hot Java-flow of Mar ta's Impulse. The vitality that Wester ling had felt by suggestion from a still profile rejoiced in a quickening of pace directly she was out of sight of the veranda. All the thinking she had done that afternoon had been in pic tures; some saying, some cry, some, groan, or some smile went with every picture. The sitting-room of ihe tower was empty to other eyes but not to hers. The lantern was In the corner at hand. After her hastening steps had carried her along the tunnel to the telephone, she set down the lantern and pressed the spring that opened the panel door. Another moment and she would be em barked on her great adventure In the finality of action. That little ear-piece became a specter of conscience. She drew back convulsively and her hands flew to her face; she was a rocking shadow In the thin, reddish light of the lantern. Conscious mind had torn off the mask from subconscious mind, reveal ing the true nature of the change that war had wrought in her. She who had resented Feller's part—what a part ehe had been playing! Every word, every shade of expression, every tell ing pause of abstraction after Wes'er ilng confessed that he had made war for hiß own ends had been subtly prompted by a purpose whose actuality terrified her. Her hypocrisy, she realized, was as black as the wall of darkness beyond ihe lantern's gleam. Then this demor alization passed, as a nightmare passes, with Westerllng's boast again in her ears. When war's principles, enacted by men, were based on sinister trickery jailed strategy and tactics, should not women, using such weapons as they had, also fight for their homes? Mar ta's hands swept down from her eyes; •he was on fire with resolution. Forty miles away a bell in Lan •tron's bedroom and at his desk rang simultaneously. At the tttne he and Partow were seated facing each other across a map on the table of the room where they worked together. No per suasion of the young vice-chief, no edict of the doctors, could make the old chief take exercise or shorten hia hours. "I know. I know myself!" he said. "I know my duty. And you are learn ing, my bov. I<- [To Be Continued] Business Locals CODING BVJENTS Leaves are falling one by one; coal will soon burn by the ton. Is your furnace in good shape? If not. vou will need h rape, new pipe or lining, door or grate. Phone us now and' do not wait. We will get there on the run. Wni. W. Zeiders & Son. PILMED BRANDED AS fl FILSIfIER Senator Oliver Says That He Has Been in His Seat Oftener Than the Monroe Man Senator George T. Oliver branded Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer as a teller of untruths r about the time that th£ hard-pressed Democratic candidate for the Senate was declar ing that there was no depression In the iron industry in Pennsylvania and that the idle mills were the result of a plot. This all came within two days after Palmer declared that the mills were all busy and the retrenchments began at Steelton-. Senator Oliver in his remarks on Palmer's remarkable bratic- of cam paign speeches said: "Because I have the temerity to re ply to his malicious and untruthful at tacks on Senator Penrose, Mr. A. Mit chell Palmer, who imagines that he is a candidate for Mr. Penrose's seat in the Senate, has honored me by making me the object of one of his petulant tirades. Mr. Palmer's statements about me show conclusively that he is cither the victim of woeful ignorance or is guilty of willful mendacity, or both. "His chief indictment against me is that he says 1 spend my winters and summers in Europe and come back once in a while to vote as Mr. Penrose tells me to. In the Fay of last year I took a short trip to Europe for the first time in more than ten years. It was at a time when Congress was vir tually in recess, and I neglected no public duty In going away. This last summer I was again suddenly called abroad by an imperative duty which I owed to one of my children. This is the extent to which I spend my sum mers and winters in Europe, and is a fair index to the truth or .falsity of Mr. Palmer's statements in general. "I entered the Senate at the same time that Mr. Palmer entered the House. Since that time I have oc cupied my seat oftener than he has occupied his. and in making this com parison I am willing to leave out of consideration his almost Universal ab sence during the present session. In faict, he has been a conspicuous absen tee ever since he obeyed the Presi dential command to abandon his can didacy for Governor and engage in a rainbow chase for a senatorial toga. "When I am in Washington I give my entire time and attention to my du ties as a senator. Mr. Palmer, "what time he can spare from the advocacy of measures designed to wreck the in dustries of his State, devotes his at tention to the dispensing of patronage to his subservient henchmen." A HISTORY OF THE WORLD THAT COVERS SEVENTY CENTURIES OF LIFE OF MANKIND Prehistoric times in world history are long stretches of a starless night. 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AND PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMON WEALTH. IN PURSUANCE OF AR TICLE XVIII OF THE CONSTITU TION. Number One. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to section one, article eight of the Constitu tion of Pennsylvania. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met. That the following amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be, and the same is here by. proposed. In accordance with the eighteenth article thereof:— That section ono of article eight, which reads as follows: ".Section 1. Every male citizen twenty-one vcars of age. possessing the loilowlng qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, sub ject. however, to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of elec tors as the General Assembly may en act: "First. He shall have been a citizen of tiie United States at le.ast one month. "Second. He shall have resided In the State one year tor, having previ ously been a qualified elector or na tive-born citizen of the State, he shall have removed therefrom and then six months) Immediately preced ing tjio election. "Third. He shall have resided In the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months Immedi ately preceding the election. 'Fourth. If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he shall have paid within two years a State or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election," be amend ed so that the same shall read as fol lows: Section 1. Every citizen, male or female, of twenty-one >' jars or age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elec tions. subject, ho -ever, to such laws requiring and regulating the registra tion of electors as the General As sembly may enact: First. He or she shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. Second. He or she shall have resid ed In the State one year (or. having previously been a qualified elector or native-borr. citizen of the State, he or she shall have removed therefrom, and returned, then six months) Immedi ately preceding the election. Third. He or she shall have resid ed in the election district where he or she shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the elec tion. Fourth. If twenty-two years of age and upwards, he or she shall have paid within two vears a State or county lax, which shall 'nave been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election. Fifth. Wherever the words "he," "his," "him," and "himself" occur !•» any section of article VIII of this Con stitution the same shall be construed as If written, respectively, "he or she," "his or her," "him or her," and "him self or herself." A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 1. ROBERT MiAFEE, Secretary of the Commonwealth. 1 Number Two. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to sefctlon eight of article nine of the Constitu tion of Pennsylvania. Section 1. Be It resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met. That the following is proposed as an amend- Nearly 2,000 Pages of History COVERING 7,000 YEARS! CONTAINED IN Larned's History of the World NOW ON DISTRIBUTION BY The Harrisburg Telegraph IN Bound in a beautiful do luxe bindings gold lettering, fleur-de-lis and tracery design, rich half-calf effect. Xrtn A V'Q P A ppp • Marbled sides with gold and colors. Full size of Yolumes 5| z8 inches. 3 ave J ust received a consignment of the largest, clearest and most ac- JP |j H curate European War Maps ever published; size, 3 feet by 4 feet. Printed in * our colors, showing all cities, towns and villages. Wonderfully illus | I_ I . trated. 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The debt of any county, city, borough, township, school district, or other municipality or Incorporated district, except as herein provided, shall never exceed F-even per centum upon the assessed value of the tax able property therein, nor shall any such municipality or district incur any | new debt, or Increase its indebtedness to an amount exceeding two per centum ! upon such assessed valuation of prop erty, without the assent of the electors thereof at a public election in such manner as shall be provided by law; I but any city, the debt of which now exceeds seven per centum of such as sessed valuation, may be authorized by I law to Increase the same three per 'centum, in the aggregate, at any one time, upon such valuation, except that any debt or debts hereinafter Incurred by the city and county of Philadelphia for the construction and development of subways for transit purposes, or for the construction of wharxis and docks, or the reclamation of land to be used in the construction of a system of wharves and docks, as public Improve ments, owned or to be owned by said city and county of Philadelphia, and which shall yield to the city and county of Philadelphia current net revenues in excess of the Interest on said debt or debts, ami of the annual Installments necessary for the cancellation of said debt or debts, may be excluded in as certaining the power of the city and county of Philadelphia to become oth erwise Indebted: Provided. That a sinking fund for their cancellation shall be established and malotalned," so that It shall read as follows: Section 8. The debt of anv county, city, borough, township, school district, or other municipality or Incorporated district, except as herein provided, shall never exceed seven per centum upon the assessed value of the taxable prop erty therein, nor shall any such mu nicipality or district incur any new debt, or Increase Its indebtedness to an amount exceeding two per centum upon such valuation of property, without the consent of the electors thereof at a public election In such manner as shall be provided by law; but any city, the debt of which on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, exceeded seven per centum of such assessed val uation, and has not since been reduced to less than such per centum, may bo authorized by law to Increase the same thape per centum in the aggregate, at any one time, upon such valuation. The city of Philadelphia, upon the condi tions hereinafter set forth, may in crease Its Indebtedness to the extent of three per centum excess of seven per centum upon such assessed valu ation for tl)e specific purpose of pro viding for all or any of the following purposes,—to wit: For the construc ts* and Improvement of subways, tun nels, railways, elevated railways, and other transit facilities; for the con- : structlon and Improvement of wharves ] and docks and for the reclamation of land to be used In the construction of wharves and docks, owned or to be owned by said city. Such increase, j however, shall only be made with the ! assent of the electors thereof at a pub- j He election, to be held In such manner; as shall be provided by law. In ascer- | talnim? the borrowing capacity of said I city of Philadelphia, at any time, there I shall be excluded from the calculation' a credit, where the work resulting from i any previous expenditure, for any one or more of the specific purposes here inabove enumerated shall be yielding l to said city an annual current net rev- j enue: the amount of which credit shall j be ascertained by capitalizing the an- i nual net revenue during the year 1m- i mediately .preceding tlia time of such | * v • J ■ I ascertainment. Such capitalization • shall be accomplished by ascertaining • the principal amount which would yield such annual, . urrent net revenue, at the f average rate of interest, and sinklng i fund charges payable upon the lndebt ■ edness Incurred by said city for such purposes, up to the time of such ascer tainment. The method of determining , suc*i amount, so to be excluded or al [ - lowc as a credit, may be presented by , I the General Assembly. , In incurring indebtedness, for any (one, or more of said purposes of con • I structlon. Improvement, or reclama • tion, the city of Philadelphia may Is -11 sue its obligations maturing not "later i | than ttfty years from the date thereof . with provision for a sinking-fun# suf i flcient to retire said obligation at tna i tnrity, the payments to such sinking ; fund to be in equal or graded annual r installments. Such obligations may be . In an amount sufficient to provide ior ■ and may Include the amount of the lr\- • terest and sinking-fund charges accru . ling and which may accrue thereon 11 throughout the period of construction i | and until the expiration of one year ['after the completion of the work for • which said indebtedness shall have : been Incurred; and said city shall not ' be required to levy a tax to pay said |i interest and sinking-fund charges, as required by section ten of article nine ;! of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, ['until the expiration of said period of I . one year after inc completion of such , work. ; A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 2. . ROBERT McAFEE, II Secretary of the Commonwealth. Nunftpr Three. A JOINT RESOLUTION i Proposing an amendment to section i j twenty-one of artlcl-i three of the il Constitution of Pennsylvania. I I Section 1. Be it resolved bv the Sen \ ate and House of Representatives of i the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania In , ! ueneral Assembly met. That the fol- I I lowing amendment to the Constitution 1, of the '""ommonwealtb of Pennsylvania l be, and the same Is Hereby, proposed, j Amend section twenty-one, article In accordance with the eighteenth ar ticle thereof:— i! three of the Constitution of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania, which , reads as follows: i: "No act of the General Assembly shall limit the amoi nt to be recovered for Injuries resulting In death, or for ; injuries to persons jr property, and In . case of death from such Injuries, tne [ right of anion Bltuii survive, and the ' Ueneral Assembly uhall orescrlbed for whose benefit such actions snail be prosecuted. No act shall prescribe any i I limitations of time within which suits ; rtiay be brought against corporations i j for injuries to persons or property, or for other causes different from those fixed by general taws regulating ac -1 tlons against natural persons, and such acts now existing are avoided," so that It shall read as follows: I The General Assembly may enact • laws requiring the payment by em fdoyers, or employers and employees ointly, of reasonable compensation for j j injuries to employees arising In the . course of their employment, and f?r j I occupational diseases of employees, I whether or not such injuries or dis- j i eases result in death, and regardless , of fault of employer of employee, and I : fixing the basis of ascertainment of I such compensation and the maximum I I and minimum limits thereof, and pro- 1 | vldlng special or general remedies for ] j the collection thereof; but In no other | icases shall the General Assembly limit! I the amount to be recovered for Injuries I i resulting in death, or for Injuries to I | persons or property, and In caso of I i death from such Injuries, the right of I action shall survive, and the General | I Assembly shall prescribe for whom : J benefit such actions shall be prosecut ed. No lict shall prescrlho any limi tation of time within which suits may ( I be brought against corporations for ln- I Juries to persons or property, or for | [other causes, different from those fixed I |by general laws regulating actions I I against natural persons, and such acts nows existing are avoided. A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 3. | ROBERT McAKKE. I Secretary of the Commonwealth. | Number Four. A JOINT RESOLUTION. I Proposing an amendment to the Con- I | stltution of Pennsylvania abolishing the office of secretary 01 internal . | Affalm. | He It resolved by the Senate and ' I House of Representatives of the Com- 11 i monwealth of Pennsylvania in Gener- j ja! Assembly met, That article four of ! Ithe Constitution of Pennsylvania shall l |be amended by adding thereto section twenty-three, which shall read as fol- ; ! lows:— i The office of Secretary of Internal ; 1 | Affairs be, and the same is hereby, | abolished; and the powers and duties j I now vested in, or appertaining or be-' , longing to, that branch of the execu-| jtlve department, office, or officer shall ]be transferred to such other depart ments. offices, or officers of the State, I now or hereafter created, as may be ' ! directed by law. i A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 4. I' ! ROBERT McAFEE. 1: | Secretary of the Commonwealth.!' Number Eive. A JOINT RESOLUTION. Proposing an amendment to the Con- ' j stitution of this Comrrtonwealth In i I accordance with provisions of the; I eighteenth (XVIII) article thereof. | | Section 1. Be It enacted by the Sen ate and House of Representatives of I' | the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania In lOenoral Assembly met, and It is hereby j I enacted by the authority of the same,! That the following Is proposed as an!' amendment to the Constitution of the ! i Common wealth of Pennsylvania. In sc- t ; cordance with the provisions of the i S eighteenth (XVIII) article thereof:— AMENDMENT, j Laws may be passed providing for a i system of registering, transferring, in-'' suring of and guaranteeing land titles ; j by the State, or by the counties there- ! 1 j of, and for settling determining I adverse or other claims to and Interests j j tin lands the titles to which are so < | registered, transferred, insured, and ' 1 guaranteed; and for the creation and,' i collection of Indemnity funds: and for 1 i carrying the system and powers here- j ' by provided for into effect by such ex- 1 Isting courts as may be designated by | 1 i the legislature, and by the establish- '' ment of such new courts as may be 1 : deemed necessary. In matters arising ! 1 : in and under the operation of such sys- ' ! tern, judicial powers, with right of ap- I ' , peal, may be conferred by the Leglsla- '! Iture upon county recorders and upon ' | other officers by it designated. Such i I laws may provide for continuing the ' j registering, transferring, insuring, and!' | guaranteeing such titles after the drat j ' or original registration has been per> fected by the court, and provision may !' jbe made for raising the necessary,; ! funds for expenses and snlaries of of ficers, which shall be paid out of tha j ' i i treasury of the several counties, i A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 6. ,' ROBERT McAFEE, J ( Secretary of the Commonwealth.,® Number Six. ;! A JOINT RESOLUTION, i Proposing an amendment to section , > I eight, article nine of the Constitution ! J of Pennsylvania. , I Section 1. Be It resolved by the Sen- , ate and House of Representatives of ] the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania In \ General Assembly met. That the fol-' £ lowing Is proposed as an amendment ; , to tho Constitution of the Common- J wealth of Pennsylvania. in accordance , with the provisions of thd eighteenth } article thereof. ( Amendment to Article Nine. Section , Eight I Section 2 Amend section eight, ar- \ tide nine ot the Constitution uf Penn- . ( sylvanla. which reads ns follows: — | "Section 8. The debt of any county. I city, borough, township, school dla-J I trlct, or other municipality or Incor- I pointed district, except as herein pro vided. shall never exceed seven per I centum upon the assessed value of the ; taxable property therein, nor shall any such municipality or district incur any new debt, or Increase its indebtedness | to an amount exceeding two per centum I upon such assessed valuation of prop erty, without the assent of tho elec- I tors thereof at a public election in such manner as shall be provided by 'law; but any city, the debt of which ' now exceeds seven per centum of such assessed valuation, may be authorized by law to increase the same three per ; centum. In the aggregate, at any one ' time, upen such valuation, except that nnv debt or debts hereinafter incurred : bv the city and county of Philadelphia ! for tho construction and development of subways for transit purposes, or for the construction of wharves and docks, I or the reclamation of land to be used l ln the construction of a system of I wharves and docks, as public lmprove -1 monts. owned or to be owned by said I city and county of Philadelphia, and I which shall yield to the city and county I of Philadelphia current net revenue In excess of the Interest on said debt or I debts, and of the annual Installments ' necessary for the cancellation of said 'debt or debts, may be excluded in as certaining