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 ]
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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
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tween you and that same family is
that one's older'n you make out and
the other's younger. Take your choice
as to which is which. And now —"
"You insult me!" declaimed the girl,
her eyes flashing, her figure drawn to
the full height of a really excellent
pose, her pompadour nestling protect
lngly above the arched brow.
"No, I don't. I couldn't. (Jerry,
you sit down there and behave your
self or I'll spank you!) If you think
I'm wrong, maybe you'd like me to
tell my son the way you first happened
to go on the stage. No? I guess I've
got this thing framed up pretty near
straight. It's a grand-stand play, and
Papa Is It, eh? A masterstroke ol
surprise for the old man, and a final
tableau of the bunch of us clustering
about you and Gerald in the centre of
the stage, while you fall on each
other's necks and do a unison excla
mation of 'God-bless-the-dear-olil-Dad!
How-much-will-he-leave-us? And-how
soon?' You waited in town awhile.
But Papa didn't relent and send Ilubby
back to his lonely wifle. Then you
sick Gerald onto acting like a human
being, hoping to win Papa over by be
ing a good boy. No go. Then as a
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start back for Broadway. Take my
blessing, if you want .t, and take
Jerry along for good measure, if you
like. It's all you'll ever get from me,
either of you."
To Caleb Conover's unbounded hor
ror and amaze, Enid, instead of
spurning him haughtily, burst into a
crescendo, throaty gurgle of contralto
weeping, and flung herself bodily upon
him; her long-gloved arms twining
about his neck, her pompadoured head
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"Oh, Father! Father!" came a muf
fled, yet artistic wail from somewhere
in the region of his upper waistcoat
buttons. "How can you? You've
broken Gerald's heart. And now
you're breaking mine. Forgive us!"
"Miss Lanier!" thundered Caleb,
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heaven's sake won't you come and
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"Do not touch uie! I)o not dare to,
menial!" commanded the bride, relin
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made no move whatever in response
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(To Be Continued.)
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TEI)|»Y FOLLOWS lk 1)' (From paKC ont'O
nipt practices act and the personal
registration law, which were passed
by Republican legislators and signed
by a Republican governor.
President Taft is showfhg a keen in
terest in the success of the Republi
can party In every mate in the Union,
and his speech at the dinner of the
National Republican League in New
York attests the concern he has for
the election of every Republican nomi- j
nee for congress.
Penrose Confers With Taft.
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,