CALEB CONOVER ~ RAILROADER: wiH^'wi of LOVE,POLITICS,INTRIGUE; y\ OP A RICH &r POWERFUL BOSS BY ALBERT PAY-SON TERIiUNE r i cqpvuiSHT 1907 BV ALBERT PAVSON TERHUNR 1 ] * - U Something swished through the air from behind Clive's head. Something swished through the air from behind Clive's head. A big shapeless object hurtled forward and smote the broken-Jawed tough full across the eyes on the very instant he flred at point blank range. The ball went wild, and surprised at the odd blow he had received (appar ently from nowhere), caused the man's pistol to clatter to the ground. The girl in the box —innocent cause of the whole battle—had paid her debt to the man who had imperilled his 11 fo in her defence. She had crouched, trembling, in the background watching the progress of the fray. But as the Intended murderer's trigger-finger had tightened, she had hurled at his face, with all her frail force, the huge bou quet she carried. For once a woman's aim was unerring, and thereby a man's life was saved. Her act—melodramatic, amazing, unlooked for, eccentric in its poetic Justice and theatric effects —sent a roar of Applause from the onlookers, even as the pistol-shot momentarily startled the group of ruffians into san- ! ity. Cltve, without waiting the result of the shot, had flung himself upon the little knot of toughs who were locked in death-grip about Ansel But even as he did so, a cry of warning rang from a dozen parts of the big building: "The cops! Lights out! The cops!" The hastily-summoned cohort of blue-coated reserves, pistols and nightsticks drawn, charged down the centre aisle. And before their onset the rabble melted like snow in April. The historic Grafton Opera House riot was a thing of the past. CHAPTER X. Caleb Undergoes A Home Even ing. TiHERE'S no use glowering at me every time you speak of je£|SfiS poor Clive," protested Mrs. !™"tJ Conover with all the fierce courage of a chased guinea-pig. "It Isn't my fault he's running against you, and it isn't my fault that he's my nephew, either." "I guess both these failings would come under the head of misfortunes, rather'n faults," retorted Caleb. "And they're both as hard on him as they are on you, Letty. 1 wasn't glower ing at you, either. Don't stir up an other spat." The idea that Mr. Conover was cap able of inciting any such disputation go flattered that poor, spiritless little creature that she actually bridled and looked about her to make sure Anice and Gerald, the only other members of the household present, had heard. The quartette were seated in the Conover library, whither they had gathered after dinner for one of those brief Intervals of family intercourse which Caleb secretly loved, his wife as secretly dreaded and Gerald openly loathed. The Railroader, at heart, was an intensely horue-loving man. He had never kno'-n a home. Least of all since moving Into the Mauso leum. He had always, in increasingly blunderingly fashion, sought to make one. The wife he bullied, the son he hec tored, the daughter with whom he had forever quarreled, the secretary who met his friendliness with unbroken re serve; all these he had tried to enroll as assistants In his various home making plans. The results had not been so successful as to warant de scription. Finally, Conover had centred his former efforts on one dally plan. He had read In the advice column of the Star about the Joys of "pleasant even ing hour In the bosom of one's fam ily" and directions therefor. The Idea appealed to him. He ordained ac cordingly that after the unfashlonably early evening meal the household should congregate in the library, and there for at least one hour indulge In carefree, confidential chat. This, Caleb mentally argued, was a capital opening wedge in the inculcation of the true home-spirit which had been his lifelong dream. The household obeyed the order, even as all Conover's orders —at home and abroad —were obeyed. Theses slon usually began in laborious ef forts at small talk. Then an unfor tunate remark of some sort from Mrs. Conover, or an Impertinence or sneur from Gerald, and the storm would break. The "pleasant evening hour" oftener than not ended in a sea of weakly miserable tears from Mrs. Conover, a cowed or sotto voce pro fane exit on Gerald's part, and In Caleb's stamping off to his study or else around to the Kerrigans' for a blissful, shirt-sleeved, old-time politi cal argument In front of the saloon's back-room stove. On this present evening Caleb had Just received Shevlin's report of tl>e. Standlsh tour. He was full of the theme and strove to interest his hearers in it. In Anice he found, as ever, an eager listener. But Gerald yawned In very aparent boredom, while Mrs. Conover shed a few de lightfully easy, but irritating tears at the account of the opera house tight. Caleb had silently resented these nioist signs of interest, and his glaro had called forth an unusual protest from his weak little spouse. The butler entered with a card, which he carried to Caleb. After one glance at the pasteboard Caleb crushed it In his fingers and threw it to the floor. "Turn her out!" he ordered. "Why, who is it?" squeaked his wife in high excitement. "It's some woman for Jerry. Gaines brought me the card by ml?— " "For me?" cried Gerald, Jumping up, his face aflame. "Why, it—it can't—" "Yes, it can. And it is, or rather it was, for I've sent her away. Maybe you forget I made you promise—" "Stand aside! I have a right here." "Stand aside!" spake a dramatic contralto voice from beyond the por tieres, "I have a right here." The curtains were thrust apart, re vealing the protesting, discomforted butler; and, pushing past him, a tall, slender young woman, quietly but prettily dressed, pompadoured of hair, and very, very determined of aspect. "Good Lord!" grunted Caleb under his breath, "she ain't even a blonde. I thought they all—" But Hhe was in the library itself, facing the amazed master of the house. Gerald, at first sight of his wife, had sprung forward and now grasped the newcomer ardently by both hands and drew her to him. "I was sure," murmured the intruder in that same throaty contralto, rich, yet Insensibly conveying a vague im pression of latent vulgarity, "I was sure your man was mistaken, and that you couldn't have meant to turn me away without a word when I had come so far to see my precious truant boy. Did you? We women, Mrs. Conover," she went on, eyes and voice claiming alliance of the meek-faced little nonentity who shrank behind Anice Lanier, "we women understand how hard it Is to keep awiy from the man who has taught us to love him. Don't we? Men never can quite real ize that. Not even my Gerald, or he wouldn't have stayed away so long or made me stay away from him. Would he?" "It was Dad," broke in Gerald. "I told you that in my first letter, darl ing. He won't Btand for our marriage, and —" "Ah! that is because he doesn't know," she laughed archly. "Mr. Conover, this big splendid boy of mine Is too much In love to explain as he should. And he's so high-spirted, he can't listen as patiently to advice as he ought to. Can you. Gerald? So I came myself, when I couldn't stand it any longer to be away from him. I knew I could make you understand. Can't I?" "I can tell better when you've tried," answered Caleb, watching with a sort of awed fascination the alter nate plungeß and rearlngs of the vibrant black pompadour, which, In deference to the prevailing style of the moment—and of the chorus —was pen dent directly above the visitor's right eye. His curt rejoinder rather took the caller aback. She looked about the group as if for inspiration. Anice Lanier had risen, and was at the door. Caleb saw her. "Please don't go, Miss Lanier!" he called. "I would much prefer to," answerd Anice, "If you don't object. This seems to be purely a family affair and—" "And at least one person with' a de cently-balanced brain ought to be present. Our affairs are your affairs as far as you'll allow. Please do me the favor of staying." The visitor had, by this diversion, regained grasp on her plan of action. "Mr. Conover," she said, stretching out her suede-gloved hands toward the Railroader in a pretty gesture of help less appeal as to an all-powerful Judge, "I am your son's wife. He loves me. I love him. Does that tell you noth ing?" "Yes," said Caleb judicially, "It tells me you love each other; if that's what you mean. For the sake of argument we'll take that for granted, lust for the present Now get down to facts." "I am your son's wife," repeated the woman, somewhat less throatlly, but still with brave resolve. "He sought me out and wooed me. He told me I should receive a welcome In his home. He made me love him. Didn't you, Gerald? And I married him. Ah, but we were happy, we two! Then, like a thunderbolt from the blue sky fell your command that we part. He and I. For long—oh, so long—l have tried 'o be patient, to wait for time to soften your heart. Hut at last I couldn't bear it. I couldn't bear it, so I came here to meet you In person, to cast myself at your feet if need be. To—" She paused. The cold, Inscrutable gaze of the Railroader's light eyes did not tend to inspire her very creditable recitation. As a matter of fact, Caleb was at the moment paying very little attention to her words. He was noting the hard dryness of her skin and the only half-hidden lines about mouth, brow and eye; and contrasting them with Anice Lanier's baby-smooth skin and the soft contour of her neck and cheek. Iler pause brought him back to him self. "Well?" he demanded. "So I am here to implore you to be just, to be generous," resumed the girl, slightly raising the pitch of the scene as she approached the climax. "I throw myself on your mercy. 1, Enid Conover—" "Enid Conover!" snorted the Rail roader. "Why—" "Yes. Enid Conover. How I have learned to love that name!" "Have, hey? Then take my advice, young woman, and stifle that same wild adoration for my poetic cogno men, for you aren't going to have the renting of it any longer'n I can help." "Not—" "Oh, you'll get over it easy! Just as you got over your love for that high-sounding title, Enid Montmoren cy. And Just as, before that, when you left your mother's Germantown boarding-house, you got over any pas sion you may have had for your orig inal name, Emma Hlggs. You see I know some little about you. I took the trouble to have you looked up. You and your family. You told Ger ald your family's old. From all I OurffIEJMTMMIIIK PRIZE 35JHOIESAOd'r'V™"i • ik MJrn-v-s OFFERED edge, that It may become the better known and entity recognized s* our special loader in black taffeta silk*. 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Senator Penrose had a couple of per-' sonal interviews with President Taft j in Washington last week, following his : official conferences with him and Post-' master General Hitchcock regarding the establishment of postal savings banks. As chairman of the committee , on postofflces and post roads, Senator | Penrose has given' the subject of pos tal banks much study and he says he! is pleased with the progress being made by the postal department to pro-' vide for this innovation. He is of the; opinion that the proposed system is in advance of the methods employed in \ older countries. Sonator Penrose's conferences with the president were made the occasion of much newspaper comment. The Washington, D. C., Evening Star, an independent paper, directing attention to the strength of the Republican par ty in Pennsylvania, made this state ment: "Senator Penrose, since the wiping out of the New York "Old Guard" bosses, remains, next to Theolore Roosevelt himself, the greatest, politi cal chiel'taiu in the country. Undis puted in his control of the Republican organization of the surest Republican state in the Union, Senator Penrosf watches with interest the factiona strife and contention all over the coun try. The storm has not roached his own state, and he and his organiza tion are passing through the 1110s quiet year politically they have had ir some time. It is so placid that Senp toi Penrose has had little to do in tht way of directing tin leaders through out the state." Penrose seems to be one of tht- few prominent men in the Republican par tv who stand well with "the Ok Guard,' and who are on intimate terms with Roosevelt. It is believed that th< relationship between Roosevelt ant Penrose has more ot a personal side but while tie was in the White Houst there was no one with whom Roose volt talked more confidentially upot Important political matters than h< did with Penrose. LAFOLLETTE UNDER KNIFE Eight Gall Stones Removed and His Chances For Recovery Good. Senator LaFollette was operated on at Rochester, Minn., for gall stones. Eight stones were removed from the gall bladder. Prospects tor his recov ery are good. All tin gall stones were small. The inflammation ot the gall blad tier and gall duct is not extensive, bill the greatest tlangei at present lies iii tin possibilitj ot the inflammatory area increasing the danger front septic infection. The appendix is not affected, and in general there is positive!) no occa sion toi alarm MOODY WILL RESIGN Justice Will Quit Supreme Court Bench on Nov. 20. President Taft recti veil a letter at Beverly, Mass., from Justice William 11. Moody, announcing tliat he will re sign from the supreme court on Nov. 20 next. Justice Moody told the president early in the summci that he would re tire tins lall u ill health still prevent ed liini from resuming his seat on the bench. The justice is crippled with rheumatism and lias given up all hope of being able lo occupy his seat on tht bench before the Standard Oil and To baceo cases come up lor reargument. IJROPOSRI* AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO I TIIE OITIZhVNS OF THIS COMMON WEALTH KO.H THEIR APPROVAL, OR REJECTION, l!Y THE GENERAL AS | BEMIILY OK THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND PUBLISH | ETI lIY ORKEK OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PUR SUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE i CONSTITUTION. Number One. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to section twen | ty-slx of article live of the Constitution | of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the following amendment to section twen ty-six of article live of the Constitution i»f Pennsylvania he, and the same is here by, proposed, in accordance with the ! eighteenth article thereof:— | That section 26 of Article V., which reads as follows: "Section 20. All laws re luting to courts shall he general and of uniform operation, and the organization, jurisdiction, and powers of all courts of the same class or grail*. so fur as regu lated by law, and tlie force and effect of the process and Judgments of such courts, shall he uniform; and the General Assem bly is hereby prohibited from creating other courts to exercise the powers vested 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: j Section 20. All laws relating to courts phall be general and of uniform opera tion, and the organization, jurisdiction, imd powers of all courts of the same class or 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 courts, from time to time, as the same may be needed in any city or coun -1 ty, and to prescribe the powers and Ju , visdietlon thereof, and to increase the j 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 same wherever it may be deemed neces sary for the orderly and efficient adminis tration of Justice. A true copy oT Resolution No. 1. 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 payment 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 he amended, by striking out the fourth numbered paragraph thereof, so that the said section shall read as follows: Section 1. Every male citizen twenty one years of age, possessing the follow ing qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such laws requiring and regulating the registration of electors as the General Assembly may ennct. First. He shall have been a citizen of the United Slates 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 tion. Third. Ho shall have resided in the election district where ho shall offer to voto 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 Proposing an amendment to the Constl. tution of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania, so as to consolidate the courts of common pleas of Allegheny County. Section 1. Be It resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen eral Assembly met. That the following amendment to the Constitution of Penn sylvania be, and the same Is hereby, pro posed, In accordance with the eighteenth article thereof:— That section six of article five he amended, by striking out the said sec tion, and inserting in place thereof the following: Section «. In the county of Philadel phia all the Jurisdiction and powers now vested In the district courts and courts of common pleas, subject to such changes as may be made by this Constitution or by law, shall be in Philadelphia vested In five distinct and separate courts of equal mil co-ordinate Jurisdiction, composed of three Judges each. The said courts In Philadelphia shall be designated respect ively as the court of common pleas num ber one, number two, number three, number four, and number five, but the number of said courts may be by law Increased, from time to time, and shall be In like manner designated by successive numbers. The number of Judges in any of said courts, or In any county where the establishment of an additional court may be authorized by law, may be In creased, from time to time, and when ever such increase shall amount In tho whole to three, such three Judges shall compose a distinct and separate court as aforesaid, which shall be numbered as aforesaid. In Philadelphia all suits shall he 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 tho business among them in such manner as shall be provided by rules of court, and each court, to which any suit shall be thus assigned, shall have exclusive Juris diction thereof, subject to change of venue, as shall be provided by law. In the county of Allegheny nil the Jurisdiction and powers now vested In the several numbered courts of common pleas shall be vested In one court of com mon pleas, composed of nil the Judges In commission in said courts. Such Juris diction and powers shall extend to all proceedings at law and In equity which shall have 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 as 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, artlclo nine, of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, which reads as follows: — "Section 8. The debt of any county, city, borough, township, school district, or other municipality or incorporated dis trict, except as herein provided, shall nev er exceed seven per centum upon tho as sessed value of the taxable property there in. 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 val uation of property, without the assent of the electors thereof af a pi-hlic election in such manner as shall be provided by law; hut any city, the debt of which now ex ceeds seven per centum of such assessed valuation, may be authorized by law to Increase tho same three per centum, in the aggregate, at any one time, upon such valuation." so as to read as follows: Section 8. The debt of any county, city, borough, township, school district, or oth er municipality or Incorporated district, except as herein provided, shall never ex ceed seven per centum upon the assessed value of the taxable property therein, nor shall any such municipality or district In cur any new debt, or Increase Its indebt edness to an amount exceeding two per centum upon such assessed valuation of property, without the assent of tho elec tors thereof at a puhlle 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 val uation, may be authorized by law to In crease the same three per centum. In tho aggregate, at any one time, upon such valuation, except that any debt or debts hereinafter Incurred by tho city and coun ty of Philadelphia for the construction and development of subways for transit purposes, or for the construction of wharves and docks, or the reclamation of land to bo used In the construction of a system of wharves and dm ' as publlo Improvements, owned or tcj owned by said city and county of Ph 'phla, and which shall yield to the c d countv of Philadelphia current ne lue In ex cess of the Interest ons/ t or debts j and of tho annual lnsti/ necessary for the cancellation of / .-j*.*ot or debts. I may be excluded in ascertaining the pow -1 er of the city and county of Philadelphia to become otherwise Indebted: Provided. That a sinking fund for their cancellation shall bo established and maintained. A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 4. ROBERT McAFEE, Secretary of the Commonwealtn,