CALEB CONOVER SEs=r~ RAILROADER CONOVCftf 1 wtHo oFT^I/\ STORY o/- LOVE,POLITICS, INTRIGUE; '• J OP A RICH &r POWERFUL BOSS AND AN INTREPID YOUNG '• REFORMER tr( |)ii/ BY ALBERT PAYSON TERNUNE COPYRIGHT 1907 E. V PAVSON TERMUMC,-] Gulping, panting, .'ill flic spirit mo mentarily buffeted out of him, Gerald Conover lay staring stupidly up at the angry man. "I'm I'm married!" he bleated. "I —I meant to tell you when " "Who to?" demanded Caleb in an agony of self-control. Enid Montmorency. She " "Who is she?" "She is—she's my wife. Two anonths ago we—" "Who is she? Is she in society?" "Her family were very famous be fore the war. She "Is she in good New York society?" "She—she had to earn her own liv ing and " "And what?" "She—l met her at Rector's first, j Her company—" "You MARRIED a chorus girl?" "She her family before the war —" Caleb had himself in hand. "Get up!" he ordered. "You haven't ' money enough nor earning power enough to buy those boards you're j sprawling on. Yet you saddle your- j self with a wife a wife you can't support. A woman who will down all your social hopes. And mine. You let a designing doll with a painted face dupe you into "You shan't" speak that way of Enid!" dared up tin l boy tearfully. "She is as good and pure as " "As you are. And with a damned sight more sense. For she knows a legal way of grabbing onto a liveli- i hood; and you don't. Shut up! if j you try any novel-hero airs on me, you young skunk, I'll break you over my knee. Now you'll stand up and you'll listen to what I have to say." Gerald, cowed, but snarling under his breath, obeyed. "I won't waste breath telling you all I'd hoped for you," began Conover, "or how I tried to give you all 1 missed in my own boyhood. You haven't the brains to understand -or care. What I've got to say is all about money. And I never found you too stupid to listen to that. You've cut your throat. Nothing can mend that. We'll talk about the future at another time. It's the present we've got to 'tend to now. You're going to be of some use to me at last. The only use you ever will be to anyone. Your allowance, for a few months, is going on just the same as before. But you've got to earn it. And you're going to earn it by stay ing right here in Granite and working like a dog for me in this campaign. If you stir out of this town, or if your —that woman comes here, or if you don't use your pull in my behalf with the sapheads you travel with at the Pompton Club if you don't do all this. I say, till further orders then, for now and all time, you'll earn your own money. For you'll not get an other nickel out of me. I guess you know me well enough to understand j I'll go by what I say. Take your | choice. You've got an earning ability ! of about $4 a week. You've got an allowance of $48,000 a year. Now, till after election, which'll it be?" Father and son faced each other in j silence for a full minute. Then the latter's eyes fell. "I'll stay!' he muttered. "I thought so. Now chase! I'm busy." Gerald slouched to the door. On ! the threshold he turned and shook liis j fist in impotent fury at the broad back ' turned on him. "I'll stay!" he repeated, his voice j scaling an octave and breaking in a j hysterical sob, "I'll stay! But, before j God, I'll find a way to pay yon off for j this before the campaign is over." Caleb did not turn at the threat nor ' at the loud-slamming door, lie was j scribbling a telegram to his New York lawyer. "Gerald In scrape with chorus girl, Enid Montmorency," be wrote. "Find her and buy her off. Go as high as $100,000." "Father Healy says, 'The sins of the j fathers shall be visited on the chil- i dren,'" he quoted half aloud as Jie finished; "but when they are visited i in the shape of blithering idiocy, it seems 'most like a breach of con tract." The Railroader was not fated to en- j joy even the scant privilege of soli- I tude. He had hardly seated himself I at his desk when the sacred door was j once more assailed by inquisitive : knuckles. "The Boys haven't wasted much time," he thought as he growled per mission to enter. . The tall, exquisitely-groomed Ilgure of his new son-in-law, the Prince d'An tri, blocked the threshold. With him was Blanche. "Do we intrude?" asked d'Antri, blandly, as he ushered his wife through the doorway and placed a chair for her. Caleb watched him ■without reply. The multifarious branches of social usage always af- i fected him with contemptuous hope lessness. He saw no sense in them; but neither, as he confessed disgusted ly to himself, could he, even if he chose, possibly acquire them. "We don't intrude, I hope,' repeated the prince, closing the door behind biin, and sitting down near the lit tered centre table "Keep on hoping!" vouchsafed Con over gruffly. "What am I to do for you?" lie could never grow accustomed to this foreign son-in-law whom he had known but two days. Obedient, for once, to his wife, and to his daugh ter's written instructions, he had yielded to the marriage, and con sented to its performance it the Amer ican Embassy at Paris rather than at thi- white marble Pompton Avenue "Mausoleum," and had readily allowed himself to be convinced that the union meant a social stride for the entire family such as could never ; otherwise have been attained. His wife and daughter had returned I from Europe just before the reception, j bringing witli them the happy bride groom. Caleb had never before seen a prince. In his youth, fairy tales had not been his portion; so lie had not even the average child's conception of a medieval Being in gold-spangled doublet and hose, to guide him. j Hence his ideas had been more than ' shadowy. What lie had seen was a ! very tall, slender, very handsome per sonage, whose costumes and manner a keener judge of fashion would have decided were on a par with the prince ly command of English: perfect, but a trifle too carefully accentuated to ap peal to Yankee ta.-ies. Beyond the most casual intercourse and table talk t.her< had been hither to no scope for closer acquaintance ship between the two men. There- I caption had taken up everyone's time and thoughts. Caleb had. however, studied the prince from alar, and had sought to apply to him some of the numberless classifications in which he was so unerringly wont to place his fellow-men. But none of the ready made moulds seemed to lit the new comer. "What can I do for you?" repeated Conover, looking at his watch. "In a few minutes I'm expecting some " "We shall not detain you long. We have come to speak to you on a a rather delicate theme." | "We have come to speak to you on a— a rather delicate theme." "Delicate?" muttered Caleb glanc ing up from the politely embarrassed prince to Ills daughter. "Well, speak jit out, then. The best treatment for j delicate things is a little healthy ex- I posure. What is it?" "1 ventured to interrupt your la ! bors," said d'Antri, his face reflecting a gentle look of pain at his host's I brusqueness, "to speak to you in ref i erence to your daughter's dot." "Her which?" queried Caleb, look | ing at the bride as though in search of symptoms of some violent, unsus pected malady. "Amadeo means my dowry," ex plained Blanche, with some impa tience. "It is the custom, you know, on the Continent." "Not on any part of the Continent j I ever struck. And I've been pretty i much all over it from 'Frisco to Que bec. It's a new one on inc." "In Europe," said Blanche, tapping her foot, and gazing apologetically at her handsome husband, "it is custom ary as I thought everybody knew - for girls to bring their husbands a marriage portion. How much are you ! going to settle on me?" "How much what? Money. You've j always had your $25,000 a year allow ! ance, and I've never kicked when you overdrew it. But now you're married, I suppose your husband "But, Mr. Conover," broke in the prince, with more eagerness than Caleb had ever before seen on his placid exterior, "1 think you fail to understand. I we " "What are you driving at?" snapped Conover. "Do you mean you can't support your wife?" "Papa!" cried Blanche, in distress, "for. once in your life try not to be coarse. It isn't a question of support. |lt is the custom " "For a father to pfty a man to mar ry his girl" I can't see it myself, though now you speak about it, I seem to have read or heard something of the sort. Well, if it's the custom, 1 suppose it goes, llow much?" The prince shivered, very gently, very daintily. "If it affects you that way," growled Caleb, "I wouldn't 'a' 'brought up the subject if I was you. Say, Blanche, if you're too timid to make a suggestion, how'll this strike you? I'll Couble your present allowance —$50,000 a • year, eh ?" "Impossible!" gasped d'Antri. "Not on your life!" retorted Caleb. ! "I could double that and never feel it. i Don't you worry about me not being I I able—" "Rut I cannot consent to—" "Who's asked you to? It's to be her ( cash, ain't it? Not yours. I don't think you come in 011 this scene at all. Prince. It seems to be up to me i i and Blanche. And —" "Oh, you'll never understand!" ! : cried Blanche in despair. "For the 1 daughter of a man of your means, and 1 the social position I am to occupy as I I'rincess d'Antri, my dot should be at ; I least " "Hold 011!" interposed Caleb. "I think 1 begin to see. I " "You don't, see,' contradicted his 1 daughter, pettishly; "I'll have to ex- j | plain. It—" "No, you won't. If I couldn't under | stand things without waiting to have : 'em explained, I'd still be braking at | | ?r.O a month. As*l take it, this prince \ \ party meets you in Yurrup, hears your ] j father is the Caleb Conover an old j fool of an American with a pretty I daughter to place on the nobility mar i ket and you make your bid. You ! marry him and he's so sure of his ! ground he don't even hold out for an j | ante weddding bonus. He chases over j j here with you, and when he don't find | the dowry, or whatever else you call ' it, waiting for him at the dock, he ■ makes bold to ring the cash register." The prince was on his feet. I cannot consent, sir, to listen to such "Oh, yes, you can. I've heard of I your sort. But I somehow thought they were all counts. I didn't know exactly how a prince stood; but I supposed the job carried an income with it. It seems you're just in the count class, after all. The kind of 1 man that loafs about Yurrup living on ! the name of some ancestor who got his title by acting as hired man to his king or emperor or whoever ruled his two-for-a-Qtlarter country. The sort of man that does nothing well enough to keep him in pocket money, i Then some lookout makes the high i sign, 'Heiress in sight!' and " Blanche burst into tears. Her hus i band threw his arm about her shoul- j ders in assiduous, theatrical fashion, j while Caleb sat gnawing his unlighted ! cignr and grimly eyeing the couple. J "There, there, carissima mia!" i soothed d'Antri, "your father knows I no better. In this barbarous country of his there are no leisure classes. I—" "You bet there are!" snorted Caleb. "Only, here we call 'em tramps. And j we give 'em thirty days instead of 1 our daughters. Here, stop that | damned snivelling, Blanche! You j know how I hate it. I'm stung all j right, and it's too late to squeal. The j only time there's any use in crying I i over spilt milk is when there's a soft- | hearted milkman cruising around 1 within hearing distance. And from | where I sit, 1 don't see any such rush- I ing to my help. You'll get your 'dot' | all l ight. Just as you knew you would j before you put up mat whimper. ; We'll fix up the details w hen I've got more time 011 my hands. "Only. I want you and me and this j prince-feller of yours to understand j each other, clear. I'm letting myself ! be bled for a certain sum, because I've j crowed so loud about your being a princess that 1 can't back down now I without raising a laugh, and without ■ spoiling all I've plana <1 to get by j this marriage. Besides, I'm going tn i run for governor, and I don't want j any scandal or 'dramatic separation 1 for lack of cash' coming from my own j family. I'm caught fair, and I'll pay. : But 1 want us three to understand ; that it's straight blackmail, and that | 1 pay it just as I'd pay to have any j other dirty story hushed up. That'll ; be all to-day. If you want some read- i ing matter, Prince, here's a paper with ' a list of the liners that sail for Yur- j rup next week. Nothing personal in tended. you know. Good-by." "But, papa " began Blanche, who, like d'Antri, had listened to this ex ordium with far less natural resent | meat than might have been looked for. "That'll be all. I said," repeated Conover. "You win your point. Clear j out! I'm busy." The princess knew Caleb too well to press the victory further. She tear fully left the room. d'Antri following in her wake. U the door the latter paused, his long white lingers toying with his silky heard. "Sir," he said, "you may be assured that 1 shall\never forget your generos j ity, even though it is couched in such ! unusual language. You shall never | regret it. !• understand you have a wish to adorn the best society and —" "No," grunted Conover, "not the I Best, only the Highest. And it's 110 i concern of yours, either way. Good ! by!" As the titled couple withdrew, Anice | Lanier came in. "Mr. Shevlin, .Mr. RourHe and moat of the others you sent for have come," | she reported. "Shall 1 send them up?" "Yes," said Conover dully, "send 'em ! along. It'll he good to talk to real human beings again. Say, Miss La nier"- as the girl started to obey his : order "did you ever write out that ' measly interview of mine for the Star, endorsing those new ideas of Roosevelt's on and say | ing something about a childless home ; being a curse to " "Yes. 1 was just going to mail it. Shall—?" "Well, don't! Tear It up. There's no sense in a man being funny at his own expense." (To Bo TJROPOSEE* AMENDMENTS TO THE I X CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO ! THE CITIZENS OP THIS COMMON WEALTH FOR THE IK APPROVAL OK 1 REJECTION, P.Y THE GENERAL, AS BEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH 1 OK PENNSYLVANIA, AND PUBLISH ED BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH. IN PUR SUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE CONSTITUTION. Number One. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION j Proposing an amendment to section twen- I | ty-slx of article live of the Constitution | ( of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. ! 112 Resolved (if tl>e Senate concur), That the following amendment to section twen ty-six of article five of the Constitution j of Pennsylvania be, and the same is here l by, proposed, in accordance with the I I eighteenth article thereof:— I That section 2t» of Article V„ which 1 reads as follows: "Section 2t>. All laws re : iating to courts shall 1 »»• general and of I uniform operation, and the organization, i jurisdiction, and powers of all courts of j the same class or grade, so far as regu- I lated by law, and the force and effect of the process and judgments of such courts, j shall be uniform; and the General Assem ' bly is hereby prohibited from creating I other courts to exercise the powers vested j by this Constitution in the judges of the Courts of Common Pleas and Orphans' Courts," be amended so that the same Bhall read as follows: Section 21). All laws relating to courts ! shall be general and of uniform opera j tion, and the organization, jurisdiction, | and powers of all courts of the same class j nr grade, so far as regulated by law, and the force and effect of the process and judgments of such courts, shall be uni form; but, notwithstanding any provi sions of this Constitution, the General Assembly shall have full power to estab lish new eourts, f*om time to time, as the j same may be needed in any city or coun i tf, and to prescribe the powers and ju visdietion thereof, and to increase the number of judges in any courts now ex isting or hereafter created, or to reorgan ize the same, or to vest in other courts the Jurisdiction theretofore exercised by courts not of record, and to abolish the ?ame wherever it may be deemed neces sary for the orderly and efficient adminis tration of justice. A true copy of Resolution No. ] ROBERT McAFEE. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Number Two. RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Consti tution of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania, so as to eliminate the require ment of pavmc nt of taxes, as a qualifi cation of the right to vote. Resolved (if the House of Representa tives concur), That the following amend ment to the Constitution of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania be, and the same Is hereby, proposed, in accordance with the eighteenth article thereof. That section one of article eight be amended, by striking out the fourth numbered paragraph thereof, so that the said section shall read as follows. Section 1 Every male citizen twenty j me years of age, poss. ssing the follow j ing qualifications, shall he entitled to { vote at all elections, subject however to | such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as tlie General I Assembly may enact. ) First. He shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month. Second. He shall have resided in the State one year (or if. having previously been a qualified elector or native-born citizen of the State, he shall have re moved therefrom and returned, then six months), immediately preceding the elec- I tion. J Third. He shall have reslTled in the I election district, where he shall offer to ! vote at least two months immediately | preceding the election. | A true copy of Resolution No. 2. / ROBERT McAFEE, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Number Three. A JOINT RESOLUTION j Proposing an amendment to the Const!- j tution of the Commonwealth of Penn | sylvania. so as to consolidate the I eourts of common pleas of Allegheny County. j Section 1. lie it resolved by the Senate | and House of Representatives of the j Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen- I eral Assembly met. That the following j amendment to the Constitution of Penn | sylvania be, and the same is hereby, pro -1 posed, in accordance with the eighteenth ! article thereof:— That section six of article live b<* I > amended, by striking out the said sec ! tion, and inserting in place thereof the 1 following: ! Section 6. In the county of Philadel j phla all the Jurisdiction and powers now I vested In the district courts and courts of j | common pleas, subject to such changes | as may be made by this Constitution or i by law. shall be In Philadelphia vested in j j five distinct and separate courts of equal i and co-ordinate jurisdiction, composed jof three judges each. The said courts in Philadelphia shall be designated respect- I '.vely as the court|of common pleas num i ber one. number two, number three, | number four, and number five, hut the j number of said courts may be by law ! j Increased, from time to time, and shall be In like manner designated hv successive ' | numbers. The number of judges in any I of said courts, or in an\ county where } the establishment of an additional court 1 may be authorized by law, may be In I creased, from time to time, and when ever such Increase shall amount in the whole to three, such three Judges shall , compose a distinct and separate court as aforesaid, which shall be numbered as n foresaid. In Philadelphia all suits shall be instituted in the said courts of com mon pleas without designating the num ber of the said court, and the several ! courts shall distribute and apportion the ! business among them in such manner as j shall be provided by rules of court, and 1 each court, to which any suit shall be i thus assigned, shall have exclusive juris- j diction thereof, subject to change of ! venue, as shall be provided bv law. Tn the county of Allegheny all the I Jurisdiction and powers now vested in j the several numbered courts of common j pleas shall*be vested in one court of com- i mon pleas, composed of all the judges in commission in said courts. Such juris diction and powers shall extend to all proceedings at law and in equity which shall havo been instituted in the several numbered courts, and shall be subject to such changes as may be made by law, and subject to change of venue as pro vided by law. The president judge of said court shall be selected ns provided by law. The number of judges in said court may be by law increased from time to time. This amendment shall take effect on the first day of January suc ceeding its adoption. A true copy of Resolution No. 3. ROBERT McAFEE. Secretary of the Commonwealth. / Number Four. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to section eight, article nine, of the Constitution of Penn sylvania. Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the following Is pro posed as an amendment to the Constitu tion of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva nia. in accordance with the provisions of the eighteenth article thereof:— Amendment to Article Nine, Section Eight. Section 2. Amend section eight, article trine, of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, Which reads as follows: "Section 8. The debt of any county, I city, borough, township, school district, or 1 jot her municipality or incorporated dis- ; j trie;, except as herein provided. shall nev | er exeeed seven per centum upon the as |.s.-v!' such assessed valuation. nia\ t.• * authorized by law to he;-",-' the a! •• three p.-.- centum in tie- a•.'area ate. at any one time, upon such j valuation." so as to read as follows: ' tion • Tlie debt of any county, city, I beiiaa-ir. town.--lip. school dharict, or oth- I lor municipality or incorporated district, j eyeept as herein provided* shall never ex- •. 1 " d seven per centum upon the assessed I value of the taxable property therein, nor I shall any sueh municipality or district in - 1 ■■in any new deb!. or air s e its Indebt- 1 • di. s to . a amount needing two per " iituin upon s.i(■ 1 s . -ed valuation of i property, with, it the assent of the elec- • ther <»f at a public election in such ; nanii'i- as hall provided by law; but j >ny city, the debt of which now exceeds seven per centum of such assessed val uation, may : < authorised by law to in - cf.'ise the same three ; K .j centum, in the a:.; a rebate, at an\ one time, upon such vahiation, except that any debt or debts hereinafter ing ui r «1 by the city and coun- I. ot Philadelphia for the construction s. i.d d» vlupi: ait "1 subways . for transit purposes, or foi the construction of wharves and docks, or the reclamation of land to h used in the construction of a i tern of wharves and docks, as public approvements, owned or to be owned by •id eit y and county »112 Philadelphia, and '• nie.h shall yield t«> li" city and count** >1 Philadelphia current net revenue In ex -1 'ess ef the mien-si on said debt or debts and of the aimu; l installments necessary the cancellation of aid •s• ht or debts, a lay be excluded in ascertaining the pow a of the city and county of Philadelphia to become otherwise indebted: Provided. That a -inking fund for their cancellation shall be established .and maintained. A true copy of Joint Re: ilution No. 4. R« )liKRT .McAFEE. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Three Drown at Sea Isle City. Three r.um one ot whom was a college p ip ssof, w hun Ire la of persons who cro\vd< .1 the beach for the Sun tin > hathine,. Two of tin victims were caught in t powerful undertow and drawn out to sen Thev were Rudolph Romberg and his hrotlp r-in law. Walter Lecht ner, of Cannbii. The third to he en juliVe ' .as iVofessor Charles Cook, of Attacked By Angry Cow. When Mrs Nathan Hrown living near Roanoke. Va.. wept to salt her cows on her farm, near Wytheville. Va.. she was nttaeked by one of the animals. She suhere,- a broken arm. several ribs wer driven through into her lungs, and she died ir a ' ,p w hours. No Stranger to Thorn. *'l>id you ever bear of snakes in win terV" "To ho sti e," replied the Ilillville matron. 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