THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 19 13. PAGE SEVEN The Root of Evil By THOMAS DIXON Copyriflht, 1911, by Thorns Dixon SYNOPSIS Stuart, southern lawyer In New Tork, Is In lovo with Nan PrlmroBO. His friend. Dr. Woodman, who haa a young dauch ter, Is threatened with tho loss of his drug business by Blvcns, whom ho bo frlendcd years before. Stuart visits th Primroses. Nan wants Stuart to accept a placo with Blvens' chemical trust. Ho dislikes Blv cns' methods and refuses. Blvens ca oa him. Blvcns Is In lovo with Nan. Stuart re fuses tho offer, and Nan breaks her en gagement with tho lawyer. Blvcns asks woodman to enter tho trust. Woodman wltf rio yield "and sues Blvcns' company. Tho promoter tells the doctor h and Nan are engaged, Harriot Wood man Is studying music Stuart takes Nan for a day In tho country. Stuart pleads with Nan to give up Blv cns, but tho spell of millions Is on her and he yields to It. Nan" becomes Mrs. Blvens. Harriet loves Btuart, but bo 3oce not knew it. Nine years pass. Btuart becomes district attorney. Ho Investigates criminal trusts. Han sks nisi to call. Btuart wants Woodman to end his eult against Blvens, but tho doctor stands firm. Blvens aids Stuart In his Investi gation of crooked financiers. Stuart's revelations aid In bringing on a I crisis. Blvcns promises to aid the Van Dam Trust company, which Is In trouble. Woodman needs money badly. In tho stock market slump engineered by Blvens, Woodman and many others loss all. Tho trust company falls because Blvcns, at command of the monoy king, breaks his word. Stuart faces his critics In front of Blvens' bank. ffio mob attacks Stuart and Injures him I slightly. Nan sees It and reveals her lovo. Blvens piles $90,000,000 on a table and calls Btuart to boo tho money to re fute rumors of his financial weakness. Stuart Is tempted to loin Blvens as his I confidential man. Ha accepts an lnvlta- Itlon to visit tho Blvcns house and Is re ceived by Nan. At a meeting of tho discontented, at I which Blvens Is denounced, a bomb I thrower Is killed by bis own missile. I Woodman decides to contlnuo his fight gainst Blvens. Stuart's plea with lilt-ens for Woodman lis In vain, and tho lawyer refuses to Join in tne millionaires plans. Woodman (pleads guilty and Stuart, who has re- Islgncd as district attorney, defends him. Sentence Is suspended. Blvcns Is HI. I At his insistence Stuart accompanies him and Nan on a duck hunting trip to Virginia, although Stuart fears Nan's presence may tempt him beyond his stroiurth. Stuart and "Btvena vontura too far from I the yacht In tho marsh, with a storm coming, and they are Imperiled by the icy sea. Blvens Hie is eaved by Btuart. al- Ithougb tho thought of Nan tempts tho (lawyer to leave the. mlUIonolro to die. hey return to Now York, where Harriet Goodman sings ouccossfuUy In grand opera. CHAPTER XXII. Through Purple Curtains. ' HEN Nan mado up her mind sho acted with lightning rapidity. Sho would forco Stuart to an avowal of lovo Ihnt would fts their relation bo- hond disturbance by tho little singer. feha had too fln a senso of values to hermit herself to become entangled la an Intrigue. Sho could wait and gain ta power I or tho waiting. Her physician had old her that Blvcns' days wero num bered. But on one thing 8ho was deter- lined. Sbo must know that Jim loved or still, loved her passionately, mad- as she believed ho did. But bo inst say it Sho had no difficulty in Persuading Blvens to urge Stuart to Mslt their country estate In tho moun- lins of North Carolina. Tho doctor lad ordered him there to Ilvo in tho Open air. Tho young lawyer re fused to go at Irst, but Blvcns urged with such pa retic eagerness ho was compelled to fcept. It was a warm, beautiful morning Uo last week in March when ho alight- Id on tho platform of tho llttlo railroad Ion on tho estate and took his seat bslde Nan in her big touring car. Tho ait trees wero in full bloom, and their fumo Oiled tho air. Tho hum of Iocs and tho song of birds bo had nown In his boyhood thrilled his heart. "If s glorious, Nanf ho exclaimed. "Tour coming makes it perfect, Jim." answered tenderly. As tho river mado a graceful curvo livens' house swept into full view a nnlng pllo of marblo 300 feet long, Is tower piercing tho turqnolso sky In umn grandonr. Tho stono parapet : which its front wall was built roso li masslvo strength a hundred feet I -cm tho ledgo tn tho granite cliff bo ro touching tho first lino of tho white Lanes of tho house itself. At tho end a formal garden had been lit on tho foundations of masonry thlch cost $100,000. I For an hour tho car swept llko a splr- over tho nillcs of smooth macadam rato roads Brvens had built. At Iich graceful turn his wonder increas Lat tho luxurious outlay of millions. I From each hilltop as tho hugo gleam- fS castlo camo Into vlow. from a now Jo. roveallnn Ita marvelous beauty, ; thtSh! wlfli a tpncl of pity of the ihaniDiing Uguro or tho stricken man limping through Its halls helpless, lone ly, miserable. What strange pranks fato plays with tho mighty as well as tho lowly! So frail was tho broken body now ho did not dare risk a cold by taking a rido with his wife The ninchlno turned suddenly up a hill and glided through two iron gates opening on the lawn, and tho great white chateau loomed beforo them in a flash of blinding beauty. Stuart caught Ills breath. Ho shook hands with Blvens and was shocked to Dnd til in so weak. The llttlo man held his hand with a lingering wistfulness as ho looked Into his friend's strong face. "You don't know how rich you arc. Ilm," ho said feebly, "with this hand that grips llko Iron. I'd glvo millions to feel my heart beat llko yours today." "You'll get better down here," Stuart answered cheerfully. "I'm trying It anyhow," no said list lessly. "Make yourself at homo, old boy. This houso is my pride. I want .Van to show you every nook and cor ner In it I wish I could trot around with you. but I can't" "As soon as you've changed your clothes. " Nan said familiarly, "como down to tho library and I'll show you nround." Stuart followed the man assigned as his valet to the electric elevator and In n minute stepped out on tho fourth .ioor. He observod with a smile that Ills mum number was 157. "The idea of living in a huge hotel and calling it a houio!" ho mused, with grim humor. "Boom 157 great Scott!" Ills hostess showed him first the library. The magnificent roomcontalned more than 40,000 volumes, bound in hand tooled morocco. "Tho funny thing, of course," Nan whlspored, "is that Cal has never read one of these exquisitely bound books." "Why on earth did ho make this room the most stately and beautiful one In tho houso?" "Maybe ho didn't!" sho laughed. "I'm going to give you n privilege no mere man has ever enjoyed in this houso beforo I am going to show you my own rooms." When tho tour of Inspection had been completed sho led him to her own suit which was located in tho southwestern corner, overlooking tho magnificent formal gardens with their artificial lako, fountains, statuary and a wilder ness of flowers, and farther on over tho beautiful valleys of tho Swanna noa and tho French Broad rivers. Be yond tho river valleye roso range after range of mountains. Tho magnificence of her bedroom was stunning. Stuart rubbed his eyes in amazement Sho had taken herself seriously In tho creation of this room, and had spent a round million on its Ivory bedstead, its purple and gold velvet hangings, Its wonderful carv ings. Tho picture she mado standing hi this wonderful room was ono that never faded from his memory. Tho poloo of her superb form; tho fires that smouldered In tho depths of her eyes; tho tenderness with which her senses scorned to drink in tho daring luxury; tho smtlo that played about her Hps, joyous, sensuous, cruel! "It seems all a dream, Nan," ho said. "I'll rub my eyes and wako up direct ly. I thought your Now York houso a miracle. This Is fairyland." "Perhaps it would be," sho said, looking at him a moment through half closed eyes, "If only the princo" A look of pain unconsciously clouded his face, and tho sentence was not finished. On tho fourth day Kan planned a coaching party to ascend Mount Mitchell, tho highest peak in tho land of tho sky, tho highest point of ground that 6ido tho Eocklea. Sho had taken this trip wtth Stuart sixteen years be fore. She was then but fifteen, and ho bad Just begun to danglo at her heclB. Sho did not tell him their des tination. Tho party consisted of half a dozen boys and gtrls whom Nan was chap eroning, Stuart, tho footman and coachman. Tho start was mado at sunrise. Tho morning was glorious, tho air rich with the full breath of a southern spring. At tho foot of tho first hill tho coach suddenly stopped bcsldo the banks of tho Swnnnanoa river. Nan leaped to tho ground, drew Stuart with her to .tho rear of tho coach, and mlsod her arms. "Lift mo up," sho cried, laughing. Ho placed his hands nndor her arms and with a leap and a cry of laughter sho was in tho empty baggago rock. "Now up with yoar sho cried. In a moment Stuart was seated snug ly by her tddo and tho' big red coach was roUlnpHilong tho old road. "Now, shy Nan whispered, "do you know where you aro going?" Stuart nodded. "To a certain peak among tho clouds, where you and I onco went a thousand years ago," Nan nestled c llttlo closer, or perhaps It was tho swaying of tho coach that mado blm think sho did, and softly said: "You remember this road?" Tvo seen It a hundred times in my dreams since that wonderful day. It winds along tho banks of tho Swan nanoa for twenty miles, always climb ing higher and higher until tho river becomes a limpid trout stream. Wo stop at tho old roadhouse, stay all night and next morning take tho brldlo path with tho funny pock horses and climb to tho first mountain top, still following tho llttlo stream." "Fine, Jimmy, finer sho cried, with girlish mockery. "Your geography les son was perfect! You can walk homo with mo after school. " Stuart looked at her and broko Into a laugh. Again they wero boy and girl, and tho only chango ho could eeo was that sho was more splendidly beautiful t thlrty-ono than sho had ever prom ised to bo at fifteen. "You remember how shocked you were In this samo seat, Jim. that day in tho sweet long ago when the old coach threw mo into your arms?" "Yes, I felt that I was taking a mean ndvantago of you." "I thought you wero an awful fool not to accept moro gracefully and thankfully tho provldcnco which threw a pretty girl your way." Tho coach gavo a sudden lurch and threw her Into Stuart's arms again. "And now?" ho cried laughingly, as lie held her firmly for a moment to prevent her falling. Sho blushed furiously, threw tho ring lets of dark hair from her face and drew back to her position. "Now, of course, it's unlawful," sho answered with sober playfulness. Tho man watched her slyly for tha next half mile. Sho was very, very quiet They spent tho night nt tho samo old roadbouso and slept on feather beds. Ho hadn't felt tho touch of a feather bed in years. Ho dreamed that ho was at school agam, a man of thirty-five, playing marbles with a crowd of towheaded boys, and they wero beating him at tho game while Nan was standing near, her long plait of black hair banging down her back, laughing at blm because ho was bare footed! They started next day at 8 o'clock with tho pack horses to make tho trip along the dim bridle trail, fourteen miles up tho sides of frowning cliffs and over the tops of balsam crowned peaks to tho summit of Mount Mitchell. Nan led tho way, mounted on a sure footed young stallion, and Stuart fol lowed her on a llttlo black mule ho had selected from tho barn for his exact likeness to ono ho hud raised as a pet when a lxy. Tho youngsters camo struggling after them, mounted en an assortment of shaggy, scrubby looking animals that know the moun tain path as a rabbit knows his trail in tho jungle. At 1 o'clock they passed through the first series of clouds and out Into tho sunlight beyond. Tho next lino of clouds was dark and threatening and suddenly poured rain. Slowly but surely tho horses picked their way up the mountain side through tho storm and suddenly walked out Into the sunlight again; they looked down on tho smooth flat surfaco of tho clouls through which they had passed. It was dusk when tho party reached tho summit. Tho horses wero loosened to grazo In the open field nnd the guides hurried to build a flro in front of the cave made by a projecting ledge of rock beneath which tho party was to sleep. Tho bod of balsam boughs was too sharp a contrast to Nan's million dollar room to permit Stuart much sleep. Be sides, the youngsters were giggling nnd laughing and Joking most of tho night. Only n big log marked the par tition wall between tho men's and women's part of tho cave. The space was so limited It wns necessary to sleep close together. The girls and boys nev er grew tired cracking silly jokes nbout tho magnificence of their sleeping quar ters. In vain Nan begged for quiet It was 3 o'clock before they were still at last and sho fell Into a deep .sleep. Stuart rose, sat before the log flro and watched the regular rise and fall of her bosom as she slopt llko a child. On a distant mountain sldo he heard tho howl of a lonely wolf. Sixteen years ago tho mountains were full of them and they camo quite close. Ho was re minded of the nnrrowlng strip of tho savage world, fast disappearing beforo tho march of civilization. Somewhere inside of him ho heard tho lonely cry of another wolf. "Sho's mine mine! Nature gave her to me in tho morning of life I wns a fool. I should havo taken her by force, if need be, and sho would have thnnk ed mo in after years. Sho has compiled with tho conventions of society and trampled tho highest law of life. "Why not smash convention now nt tho call of that law?" Again tho wolf howled In tho distant darkness, and It seemed the echo of his own mad cry. no waked from his rev erie with an angry start, no shud dered that ho could have harbored the thought for a moment The eastern horizon was beginning to glow with tho dawn. He rose, walked to tho summit and sat down on tho pllo of stones that marked tho grave of Professor Mitchell, no watch ed in silence until ho saw tho sun's red rim suddenly leap abovo tho blue black peaks of tlio east and drive tho last shadow of tho night from tho val leys below. With their fading mists he felt tho darkness lift from his own heart and tho sunlight of reason 6trenm in. A new joy welled up from the depths of his spirit, no was alive to his finger tips, and his imagination glowed with the consciousness that llfo was strong and clean and worth while. "With the help of God I'll keep it so, too!" ho cried. "I'm ready for tho fight now. Let it come." no knew instinctively that It was coming. Ho felt It in every word that had fallen from Nan's lips since they loft on this trip. Ho felt it most keenly of all when she was silent, read It in tho tremor of her mouth, tho shadowy tenderness of her eyes, tho low, deep tones of her voice. (Continued in Tuesday's Issue.) Special Closing Out Salo of La dies White Dresses for a few weeks at Meaner & Co. 58w4 That splitting Headache will get almost instant if you take a Neura Powder. 10 and 25 cts. Sold everywhere. SAM M'CALL, EX-SLAVE, IS A FARMING WONDER. An Illiterate Alabama Negro's Crop Achievements Amaze Experts. Sam McCall Is an ex-slave, Illiterate and sovcnty-flvo years old, but ho is teaching tho farmers of tho world somo noteworthy lessons. Ho has won fumo by producing on his llttlo farm In central Alabama tho largest amount of cotton to tho area over grown In tho United States. This is ono balo to an eighth of an acre of land. Tho importance of this nchlcvetnent may bo understood when it is known that tho average yield for tho United States Is only two-flf ths of a bale for a whole aero. Sam McCall has developed a method of cultivation on onco worthless land which Is so successful that bo thinks nothing now of producing three and ono-hnlf to four bales of cotton an aero or eighty bushels of oats or corn. The nverago hi the southern states for corn and oats runs fifteen to twenty five bushels an ncro. When Sam was mado free ho bought land to tho amount of ICO acres. Ho cultivated forty acres and tho first year mado hardly enough to keep him self. Ho concluded that Vlth his lim ited equipment and in view of the fact that he was doing practically all his own work It would bo wise for him to reduce tho amount of land. Ho grad ually brought his cultivated farm down to two acres and for twenty-two years on tills plot has spent all of his tlmo and energies In what farm experts call ono of tho most interesting examples of intensive farming carried on in the United States. According to somo who havo gone to Alabama to study his methods, the reason for tho cx-elavo's success In ag riculture Is duo largely to the fact that ho has manufactured nitrogen In tho soil unknowingly by feeding tho soli bacteria with carbohydrates and cellu lose, coming from the refuse of tho crops. McCnll's land Is part of nn abandon ed farm. Before ho began to cultivate it the soil was perhaps as bad as any that can be found on nny farm in tho southern states. Tho former slave know nothing of scientific methods of cultivation, but was a good observer. lie noticed white fanners In his sec tion gathering leaves in the fall to spread over their land to form humus In tho soli. Sum never heard of the word humus, but ho concluded tho whlto farmers knew what they wero doing, and he followed suit no later decided to use tho refuse of all crops as a nntural fertilizer. At the tlmo lie began to cultivate his land commercial fertilizers wero llttlo known, and tho ex-slave has never mado use of them during his entire career. H EEEEEBEE E3 I ne ue B B E E B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B e S&r&togci Springs 3Hd EXCURSION Satu rday,A"GusT 2 FARE SG.OO Tickets good going on all trains, Sat urdays August 2, and returning on any regular train to August 11 inclusive. Good for stop off at Albany and north, including landings on Lake George. Special train leaves WILKES-BARRE 7:00 a. m.; SCRANTON 7:45 a. m.; CARBONDALE 8:45 a. m.; stopping at intermediate stations. Apply to D. & H. Ticket Agents for detailed information. EEEEEEEE EE EEEEEEEE EE EEEEEEEE SHERIFF'S SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE By virtue of process Issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Wayne county, and State of Pennsylvania, and to mo di rected and delivered, I have levied on and will expose to public salo, at the Court House In Honcsdale, on FIUDAY. AUGUST 1G, 1913, 2 P. M. All the defendant's right, title, ana Interest in the following described property viz: All that certnln lot or parcel of land situate In Preston Township, Wayne counts, and State of Pennsylvania, bounded nnd described as follows: BE GINNING at a heap of stones, the corner of lots numbered 2'J, 30, 37 and 3S In the allotment of tho Cadwalder-Equlnunk tract; thenco by said lot No. 29, north twenty-seven degrees west, ono hundred and sixty-four rods to a stones corner; thence by land In the warrantee name of Michael Kryder north sixty-three degrees east, one hundred and six rodd to stones by a beech corner: thenco by lot No. 31 In said allotment south twenty-seven de grees cast, one hundred and sixty-four rods to stones corner; nnd thenco by said lot No. 37 south sixty-three degrees west ono hundred and six rods to the place of beginning. Being lot No. 30, nnd con taining one hundred and eight acres and ono hundred and four perches, moro or less. Being same property which Itlchard W. Murphy, Sheriff of Wayne County, conveyed to Bertha M. Tiffany by deed dated April 3, 1896, and recorded in Sher iff's Deed Book No. 6, page 151, and re corded In the Hecorder's offlco In and for Wayne county In Deed Book No. 81, page 151. Also, all that certain piece or parcel of land situate In the township of Preston, In the. county of Wayne and State of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at stones corner of lots No. 29, 30, 37 and 33 of the allot ment of T. Cadwaller; thence by said lot No. CO, north 03 degrees east, one hundred and six rods to a stones corner; thence by lot No. 30 of aid allotments south twen ty-seven degrees east, eighty rods to a stake and stones corner near tho EquI nunk Creek: thenco slxty-threo degrees west, one hundred and six rods to a stake and stones corner In the line of Cornelius IUley's land;, thence north along tho said lino twenty-seven degrees west, eighty rods to the placo of begin ning. Containing fifty-three acres, be the same moro or less. Being same land which Wm. J. Davey and Margaret Hughes Davey granted and conveyed to Bertha M. Tiffany by deed. dated May 28, 1900, and recorded In Wayne County In Deed Book No. 87, page 171, etc. Being the samo property that J. W. Tiffany and Bertha M. Tiffany conveyed to George E. Haynes by deed dated February 27, 190G. and recorded In Wayne" county In Deed Book No. 91, page 4C0. About one-haff Improved land, ono two story frame house, frame barn and other Improvements. Seized and taken In execution as tho property of Margaret Haynes nnd M. H. Davis, Executors of George E. Haynes, deceased, Margaret Haynes and W. J. Barnes, guardian ad litem at the suit of John A. Ballantlne and Daniel W. Ballan tlne, assignees. No. 201 March Term, 1913. Judgment, 2157.81. Attorneys, Mumford & Mumford. TAKE NOTTCiS. All bids and cost? must bo paid on day of sale or deeds will not be acknowledged. FRANK C. KIMBLE. Sheriff. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION, Estate of Warren Akers, late of Dreher town ship. All persons indebted to said estate are notified to make Immediate pay ment to the undersigned; and those having .claims against said estate are notified to present them, duly attest ed, for settlement. H. M. JONES, Administrator. Newfoundland, Pa., July 15, 1913 EE EEEEEEEE aware Hiinnn tn 12 George Children NOTICE OF INCOHPOnATION.-Notice Is hereby given that an application will bo made to tho Honorable A. T. Searle, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Wayne County, bjr Georgo W. Stiles, Henry T. O'Neill, John O'Peko and Frank Grudln et al. on tho 25th day of July, at ten o'clock A. M., un der the "Act to provide for tho Incorpora tion and regulation of certain corpora tions," approved April 29th, 1874, and Its Supplements, for tho charter of an In tended corporation to bo called tho "Browndalo Firo Company, No. 1, tho character nnd object of which Is to pro tect human lives and preserve property by controlling fires, and for these pur poses to have, possess and enjoy all tho rights, benefits and privileges conferred by the said Act and its supplements. Application now on file In Prothono tary's ofHce, No. 31, Juno T. 1913. F. M. GARDINER. E. C. MUMFORD, June 30, 1913.. Solicitors. 64eol3. TN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS' 1 OF WAYNE COUNTY. Mary E. Shevalier v A. I. Shevallcr. To A. I. SHEVALIER: You aro hereby required to appear in tho said Court on the secondMonday in August next, to answer the com plaint exhibited to the judge of said court by Mary E. 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