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The Root of Evil SYNOPSIS Stuart, southern lawyer In New Yeork, i= tn love with Nam Primrose. His friend, Ir. Woodman, who has a young daugh ter, is threatened with the loss of his drug business by Bivens, whom he be friended years before. Stuart visite the Primroses. Nan wants Stuart to accept a place with Livens chemical trust. e dislikes Biv ens’ methods apd refuses. Bivens calls on him. Bivens i in love with Nan. Stuart re fuses the offer, and Nan breaks her en gagement with the lawyer. Bivens asls Woodman to enter the trust Woodman will not yie!ld and sues Pivens' company. The promoter tells the doctor ho and Nan are eagaved. Harriet Wood man 8 studying music. Stuart takes Nan for a day in the country, Stuart pleads with Nan to glve up Biv ens, but the spell of millions is on Ler ands st yields to it, Nan becomes Mrs. Divens, Harriet loyes Stuart, but he does not know it. Nine vears pass. Stuart becomes district attorney. He investizates criminal trusts. Nan asks him to eall. “1 assure you that if the cuse comes to its final test you are certain to lose.” “S 0 you have said again und again, my boy,” was the good natured reply, “hut his sudden terror and this offer show that we have won alrendy, and he knows it. Bivens has seen the handwriting on the wall. When the American people are once aroused their wrath will sweep the trusts into the bottomless pit.” “Bivenssn't worrying about the pec ple or their wrath.” “Then it's time he began! the doctor eried. “Mark my word, the day of the common people has dawned. This mud sill of the world has lesrned to read and write and begun to think. [le will never be content again until he turns the world upside down.” “But you must consider this offer You have too much at stake. Your factory has been closed for five yenars. Your store has been sold, your busi ness roined. and yon are (ighting to pay the Interest on your debts, [l've secen you growing poorer daily until you firve turned vour home into a lodging house and filled it with strangers,” *l've enjoyved Knowing them My sympathies bave heon made larger.” “But is this battle yours alone. doe tor? You are but one among millions You are trying to bear the burden of all. Have you counted the cost* Har riet’s course in music will continne Iwae vears longer. The last year she tiust spend abroad Her expenses will e great. This settlement is a gencrous ane, no matter what Bivens' motive ™ “1 ean’t ¢ompromise with a man who has crushed my business by a con spiracy of erganized blackmail.” *Oh, come, corue, doctor, talk cotn mon sense! You were not ruined by biackmail. You were crushed by a law of -progress as resistiess as the faw of gravitv.” ; *“lf the law of gravity is unjust it will be abolished. I can't compromise l o 2 \ (), B \ R = ;!’T/?"f A" ‘: S A | LA Tt \ I\¢ /,( ' Ay b= |Y N A CRNNEZ “The last tribunal will give you noth ing.” g with Bivens. 1 refuse his generosity. I'll take only what the last tribunal of the people shall give me—justice.” “The last tribunal of the people will give you nothing.” the lawyer said empbatically. “I'll stand or fall with it. 1 make common cause with the people. | know that Bivens is a power now. He chooses judges, defies the law. bribes legislatures and city councils =ad imagines that be rules the nation. But the Napoleons of Gnance today will be wearing stripes in Sing Ning to worrow. A despotism of money can- ! not he fastened on the people of Amer fea. Oniy a few years ago a zreatl "millionaire who lived in a palace on Pifth avenue bholdly sald to a newspa per Feporter, ‘The public be d-—d” Times have changed The millionaires | have began to bny the newspapers and | beg for public tavor. We are walking |en the crnst of a rvoleano of publie iwrath. I am content to live and fAght | for the right. win or lose, and play I my iittte part In this mighty drama!” i “1 had hoped you were tired of tight | ing a losing battle.” “I'll fight this battle to a (inish and 11l win., If God lives I'll win-I'm so gure of it, my boy."” The doctor paused and his eyes flashed. | “r'm so sure of it that I'm not only | zoing to refuse this bribe from Biv 'ens. but my answer will be a harder blow. I'm going to begin another big ger and more important suit for the dissolution of the American chemical trust.” | Stuart slipped his arm around the older man' with a movement of 1 stinctive tenderness | “Look here. doctor, I've lived in vour ‘ home for fourteen years and I've {gruwn to love you as my own father | You must listen o me now I can give ' no time to your suit. 1 am just enter ! ing on a great struggeie for the peopi | Tremendous issues are at stake” i “You'll go down a wreck if you fail” ' “Perhaps, but its my duty.” : | *Good boy!" the oider wman cried ! seizing Stuart’s hand. “You can't fail | That's why I'm going to risk all in oy fight” i “But the cases are not the same.” “No, I'm old and played out-—my ! life's sands are nearly run, | haven't | much to risk-—-but sneh as | have | 'um'r it freely to (God and my coun | try I envy you the opportunity to i make a greater sacrifice-and you ad - vise me to compromise for a paltrs s of money a righteous cause mere ! ly to save my own skin ' proud 6f | you—proud that yvou live in my house. ' proud that I've known and loved you. | and tried to teach you the joy and the | foolishness of throwing your |life ! away!” $ . With a wave of his hand the stil E wart tigure of the old man passed oul Cand left him brooding in sorrow i - dllence | He seized his pen at last, set his face 3 like flint and resolutely wrote his an ! swer: | Dear Nan- Your letter is very kind. I'll ‘ be honest and tell you that it has stirred ' memories I've tried to kill and can't. } | hate to say no, but 1| must. Sincerely, | JIM | On the night following Stuart work | od late in his oilice developing his ';:reat case He was disappointed in i the finnal showing of the evidence to ' be presented to the grand jury. His ' facts were not as strong as he ex | pected to make them. At 10 o'clock he quit work and bur ried home to refresh bis tired spirit ! with Harriet's music. As he hurried |l up the steps he nearly collided with | & bandsome voung fellow just emerys: ‘ ing from the door. He wag dressed well, and he had evidently been calling ’ on some one—perhaps on Farriet! Stuart let himself in softly and start | ¢l at the sight of Harriet's smiling ! face in the parlor doorway. His worst | fonrs were confirmed. She was dress | ed in a dainty evening gown and had | evidently enjoyed her visitor. Stuart pretended not to notice the fact and asked her to play. As he sat drenming and watching the rhythmic movement of her delicate hands he | begau to realive at last that his little pal. stub nosed, red haired and frec kled. had silently and mysterionsiy grown into a charming woman. She wis twenty-four now, in the pride and glory of perfect young wotmanhood, and yet she had no lovers. He won dered why. Her music, of course. it hnd heen the one absorbing passion of life. And her eves had always spar kled with deep joy at his slightest word of praise. For the first time it had occurred to him a 8 an immediate possibility that she might marry and their lives drift apart. A sweet comradeship had grown be tween them. [He resented the idea of a break in their relations. Yet why should he? What rights had he over her life? Absalutely none, of course. Who was that fel'ow? Where had he | met him before? 7 He rose with a sudden frown Sure as fate—the very hoy—the tall, dreamy looking youngster who danced with her so many times that night ten years ago at her birthday party! She said he was too frail-that her prince must be strong. Well, confound him, he bad got strong. : Stuart said. with a studied indiffer ence: : “Tell me, little pal, who was that tall young fellow 1 ran into oy the steps?" “Why. don’t you remember my frail voung admirer of long ago?®™ “Do you love him. girlie?” : “When ] was very. very yvoung, | thought I did. It makes me langh vow, It's wonderful how much we can outgrow, isn't it?’ *l just don't like him, and 1 don’t want you to like him. You see, little l pal. Pm your guardian.” “Are you?” : “Yes. And T'm giving youn due lezal l notice that you have no right to marry withont my consent—you promise to l make me your confidant?’ A soft laugh. full of tenderness and ‘ joy. came from the girl as she turned { her eves upward for the first time: | “AN right. guardie, 'l confer with ; vou on that occasion.™ i i ] CHAPTER Vi A Straight Tip. AN received the announcement of Rivens' failure to settle © Woodman's suit with a grim THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1912 reswiuion o win new. af sll hazinrds The senxitional reports of Sruart’s action against the big finap viers had given her guick mind the cue to a new line of stratagem. She bernn cantioasty. “You ure net going to give up a thing I've set my heart on merely becguse old Woodman's a fool, are you?' she asked her husband. with a touch of scorn. “Jim Stuart is the best friend vou ever had. He hag become one of tite most famous men in America. | want him at our next entertainment.” “The thing that puzzles me,” Bivens broke in, “is why he will not come te tie house. When | meet him down town he's always friendly.” Nan's lips guivered with a queer lit tle smile. “Wi!l he sueceed in this action against these wmen?” “No: he can't get the facts. If he roulkl be'd shuke the foundations of the finnncinl world.” “Why not give the facts to him?” “1 had thought of that, but it might brive on i panic.” “Wlhat have you to lose by it?" “Nothing. but a panic’s a dangerous thing to monkey with.” “It couldn't injure Stuart?’ his wife asked cantiously. “No [t couldn’t hurt him On the other hand. J might make him the un conscious instrument of a great per sonn! vengeance, double my fortune and possibly laud Jim v the White House.” “Yon wust do it. dear!” his wife erviedd. trembling with sunpressed ex citement. “It's piaying with dynariite.” “It'y worth the risk to double your fortune. Do it for my sake!” Nan leaned close and pressed her hushand's hand while her dark eves found their way into his heart. | eIl do it he said with firm ac cent. “I'll phone him at once.” ‘ When Stuart sat down with Bivens in one of the magnificent private din ing rooms of his millionaire club two days later he was strnck with the per foction of the financier's dress and the easy elegance of his manners. “Nan has surely done wonders with some pretty crude material!” he mused He recalled Nnn's diary with grim amtisement. - it took two years to thoroughly break him so that she could always be sure that his naile were trimmed and his clothes in perfect style. He had long since ceased to struggle and had found much happiness of late years in vying with her in the perfection of his per sonal appeariance. When the dinner was finished Bivens dismissed the waiter, lighted one of his buge cigars and drew {rom amo rocco case which he had placed beside his chair a typewritten manuscript. He turned its leaves thoughtfully a mo ment and handed them to Stuart. “There's a document, Jim, that cost me $lO.OOO to prepare; for whose sup pression $1.000.000 would be paid and no questions asked” “But why this generosity on yows part. Cal?” “1 have anticipated that question | answer it fully and frankly. There is enough dynamite in that document to blow up half of Wall Street and land somebedy in the White House.” “And many in the morgue?”’ “And sowe in the penitentiary. I've watched your work the past nine years with genuine pride, Jim. You've said a lot of hard things abont rich malefac tors, but you've never touched me."” “No. 1 think you're too shrewd to be caught in that class, Cal” “} pride myself that 1 am. It's only the clumsy fool who gets tangled in the criminal law. But a lot of them have done it—Dbig fellows whose names ill the world with noise. I've taken the pnins to put into that typewritten doenment the names, the dates, the places, the deeds. the names of the wit nesses nird all the essential facts. Do what vou please with ir. If you do what | think vou will, some men who are wearing purple and fine linen will e wearing stripes before another year and you will be the biggest man iv New York.” “And your motive?” “Perhaps 1 wish to get even with some men who have done me a dirty trick or two, and perhaps incidentally in the excitement which will follow this exposure of fraud and crime I may make an honest penny. Is that enough "’ *“Quite.” “And you’ll make the attack at once ?” Stuart glanced rapidly through the first page of the document. and his eres began to dance with excitement. “The only favor I ask,” Bivens add ed, “is twenty-four hours’ notice be fore you act.” “I'll let you know.” : Stuart rose quickly, placed the decu ment in his inside pocket and hurried home. v The deeper the young lawyer probed into the mass of corruption Bivens had placed In his hands the more profound hecame his surprise. That men whose names were the synonyms of honesty and fair dealing. men intrusted with the management of companies whose assets represented the savings of mil lions of poor men. the sole defense of millions of helpless women and chil dren - that these trusted leaders of the world were habitually prostituting their trusts for personal gain. stagger ed helief. He delayed action and began a care ful. patient, thorongh investigation. As it proceeded his amazement fin creased. He founnd that Bivens had only scratched the surface of the teath New York. the finnncial center of the nation. had gone mad with the Insane passion for money at all hasards—by all weans, fair or foul The nation was on the tidal wave of the most wonderfu! industrial boom in its his To_be continuined our next issue We are still maintaing our past recerd for handling the most complete line of Holiday Goods in Fitzgerald. | Our line consists of: Sterling Silver Dressing Cases Sterling Silver Manicure Cases Ebenoid Dres’e Cases Hand Mirrors Military Brushes Collar Boxes Smoking Sets Chafing Dishes Brass Jardiniers Brass Vases P S G G : o % M b e O el £V G 9 o it Y 3 NNe o N 3 A B ER B gl S % oY 98 Y i BA&BNBh4e i . ) % N 3 i # K 3 ‘“‘ I:f\. o "fi’ o 3 1“-. L 0 Rd a.l' Y)L‘*- 50y, 187 G 45 i . SN i : PPy t,a‘"“ir 3 h 4 : The 9’(@% Sitore 5 " Bankrupt Sale. Will be sold on the premises at the hour of 11 a. m. on November '3oth 1912, in Fitzgerald, Georgisa, the following property of Booker and Britt, Bankrupt to-wit: An undivided 3 One-Fourth ip terest, in City lots numbers 1,2, 3, 4, 5,6,7,8,9,10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, 10 square number 15, in block number 7, in the City of Fitzger ald, Georgia. Also All of the stock of lumber, shingles, flooring, etc., and all machipery of every kind and de scription, and all office fixtures and mechanica! instruments, wagons, and other persopalty, including an office and a grist mill building of frame structure, fermerlyibelong ing to said Booker and Britt and now located upon the above des cribedjland. Also all notes and ac counts of said bankrupts, Seid praperty sold free from all liens and encumbrances whatever by authority of an order from Jas, F. McCrackin, Referee in Bankrupt cy for the southwestern division of the southern district of Geor gia. [his November 20th 1912. D. P. Adams, Trustee. Clavton Jay, Attorney. 90 2t, Sherifi’s Sale GEORGIA, BEN HiLL COUNTY. Will be sold at the Court house door in said county between the legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday in December 1912 one Wing, Piano Style 23, walnut wood, case No. 37510. To be sold as the property of E. A, Witham under an execution issued from the City Court of Fitzgerald in favor of Wing and Son against E. A. Witham This November 8, 1912, : C. C. (ozier, ' Deputy Sheriff. FOR SALE—Flour, mesal, meat, oats, hay, nalls, C. S. meal, wagons. wire, fencing, At the lowest price. ‘ 87-6 t. Dodd Supply Co. Real Estate For Sale--The following Property My residence, a 9 room house and 2 lots at No. 317 Magnolia street east. 4 room house and corner lot Chattahoochee street east. 5 room house and lot near Oil Mill. 4 room house and lot at No. 306 east Suwanee street 4 new houses and 3 lots on west Orange street. 2 nice dry vacant lots on west Lemon street, these lots face the north. ; A good business location with store house and and ware house en Pine street, all in the city of Fitzgerald, Ga. I have some fine located tracts at a bargain: ‘5 acre tract only 2 miles out on public road. 2 ten acre tracts with 4 room house and fruit trees, 18 acres in cultivation. 30 acres with tenant house, 20 acres in cultivation, 3 miles out. 60 acres good land, 20 acres in cultivation, 4 miles out, has a 4 room house. A good farm 4 miles from Ocilla 5 miles from Fizgerald. 165 acres with 125 in cultivation, has 7 room house and 3 tenant houses, good barns, stables, wagon and buggy houses, fine pebbly land. A bargain if taken by Nov. 15th, only seven thousand dollars ($7,000.) Purchaser can get terms $3,000 cash, balance 4er 5 years. 4 lots in St. George, Ga. I have 2 good Automobiles for sale or trade. Owing to the fact that I expect to move from Fitzgerald about January the first I will sell this property at a low price and give from 1 to 5 years time with a small cash payment. Call and see me at once and let me show you. . B. A. KINARD, Office 317 east Magnolia Phone 208 Fizgerald, Ga. By W. Friend, Room 5 Phillips Elock A Few Bargains In Real Estate Two forty foot lots, large house and barn, corner of two streets. This place 1s worth Sixteen hundred dollars, Will sell for eight hun dred and fifty cash. ; Lots 1,2, 9, 10 S, 13, . 13 on terms, these lots are on the corn er of Roanoke and Merimac drive and are a bargain at $lOOO. One lot at. $250 on Roanoake drive between Johnson and Jackson street $250, It is cheap. 4 room house and fine lot at St. Cloud, Florida: also five-acre tact included, all for $450. This is a snap. A good 25 acre farm, close in, all under cuitivation, There isa good bouse and barn and a never failing spring of good water. Some fruit, pears, Figs and peaches, This place is cheap at $2OOO, but can be bought for $l7OO, 83 4t-law, ARCHER, CRIPE, and DEESE UNION BARBERS HOT and COLD BATHS 117 SOUTH GRANT STREET Brass Un br’la Stands Fountain Pens Fern Dishes Music Folds Perfumes Casaroles Pipes | Merschaum Pipes Cut Glass Christmas Candies