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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
The desire of the slothful killeth him,
for his hands refuse to labour. Thorns
and snares are in the way of the froward;
he Jthat doth keep his soul shall be far
from'them. He that hath a bountiful eye
shall be blessed, for he giveth of his bread
to the poor." He that loveth pureness of
heart, for the grace of his lips the king
shall be his friend. The slothful man saith, \
''There is a lion without, I shall be slain
in the street!’ Bow down thine ear and
hear the words of the wise, and apply
thine heart unto my knowledge. For it
is a pleasant thing if thou keep them with
in thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy
The Why of the Postal Deficit
HSRE are two items, both of concern to
the American taxpayer, which evident
ly are related byway of cause and
>ffect. First, the cash deficiency of the post
office department for the last fiscal year was
f
fourteen million, four hundred and sixty
three thousand, nine hundred and seventy
ux dollars. Second, the cost of handling
Congressional and departmental mail during
these same twelve months Was about four
teen million, four hundred and sixty-three
housand dollars.
It needs no seventh son of a seventh son
» account for the deficiency or to suggest
' s logical preventive. Whatever might be
/ lid of collecting postage from Congress and
lie Government, it would be obviously un
til’ to place the burden of this deficit upon
a. class of mail or a group of patrons-not at
all responsible for its existence. Challeng
ing the equity of certain proposals of the
'ost.master general in this connection, the
\merican Newspaper Publishers’ Association
leclares that if the free services of th'e
>oßtoffice were discontinued it would be
ound to be operating, under present rates,
t. a substantial profit. Though, the depart
ment report charges the users of second
class mail with more than twelve per cent
»f the general overhead cost of the service,
he publishers maintain that on a proper
iasis of calculation this would be only about
ix per cent.
If it., is wrong to rob Peter to pay Paul,
hat shall be said of adding to that injury
he load of special tax?
Yes, U z e Have So me Afafiles
THAT justly popular author and play
wright, Mr. Channing Pollock, pro
pounds to our own and only Don Mar
inis a question of pith and moment. “Are
here," he writes, with the plaintiveness of
me Who has sought long but. has not found,
"are there any good apples in the world?”
Every Georgian, of course, knows the an
swer. But first let us hear Mr. Channing
Pollock through. "Those obtainable in pub
lic* markets (the markets of Gotham, he
means) seem to mo typical of our time
externally attractive, nothing worth while
under the skin. I am one of thousands who
love an apple, firm, tart, with juice enough
to trickle down your chin—when you were
a small boy—and leave a white mark.”
Alas and alack! Such are not to be found
along the paths of his present questing. The
itinerant huckster or the street-corner ven
ter “unbl’tshingly takes your dime in ex
change so« something round and mealy and
’s guiltless of liquid as the exterior of a
dentist's rubber sheet.” For the first part
if the following assertion we must, excuse
Ur. Channing Pollock because, evidently, he
has not yet feasted upon the incomparable
fruit of Georgia's orchard-bearing hills. "The
best apples on earth," says he, "grow in
New York the. hum), but these, apparently.
■ >t irnt the trees, while refrigerator cars
ross thousands of miles, bringin . desert
nd in scarlet skins delight to the e\c and
ly and cheertuly see
that things are made
right.
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E ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
1 disappointment to the palate. Dust and pig
■ ment! If the serpent hadn't, been a better
' picker, our costumes still would be designed
1 by a landscape gardener.”
: It was not a Georgia apple that brought
i Adam's undoing, for it is only the Tree of
the Knowledge of Good (not of Evil) that
yields our delectable pippins. But undoubt
; edly it was to an ancestor of the Georgia
fruit that King Solomon alluded, when he
! sang, “Stay me with flagons, comfort me
, with apples,” O that our every fellow
American knew the truth of these fragrant,
ruddy, juicy, soul satisfiers!
One who recently had occasion to investi
gate sent The Journal an interesting com
parison of the costs of apple orchards in
Georgia and in Washington State. Being
particularly interested in Wenatchee Valley,
he ascertained, byway of Bulletin No. 446
of the federal department of agriculttire,
that the average investment in eighty-seven
cases officially surveyed was twenty thou
sand, nine hundred and seventy-four dollars,
or two thousand and twenty-six dollars an
aere. The average size of those "ranches,”
as they are called, is given as eleven and
four-tenths acres; the average size of the
bearing apple orchard, six and five-tenths
acres; and the average valuation per acre
of the bearing apple orchard, one thousand,
nine hundred and twenty-five dollars. “In
Georgia,” our correspondent writes, “where
the yield and quality of apples will average
at least as high as in Wenatchee Valley, and
where, by reason of nearer markets and bet
ter freight rates the net returns to the own
er are larger, orchards of bearing age may
be procured at less than one-third of the
Washington State costs as reported in the
official bulletin.”
Be it far from us to disparage the prod
ucts of a sister commonwealth, north, east
or west. There is glory enough for all. But
evidently there are not apples enough for all
who demand the firm, tangful sort, “with
juice enough to trickle down your chin.” To
all whose taste runs with Mr. Channing Pol
lock’s we would say, Georgia's latchstring is
always out and her apples always tempting.
QUIZ
Any Tri-Weekly Journal reader can
get Hie answer to any question puzzling
him by writing to The Atlanta Journal
Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has
kin, director, Washington, D. C., and
inclosing a two-cent stamp for return
postage. DO NOT SEND IT TO OUR
ATLANTA OFFICE.
Q. How many broadcasting stations are
‘here in the United States? How many in
the world? W. M. B.
A. On June 30, 1924, there were 535
broadcasting stations in the United States.
Phe department of commerce says informa
tion concerning the service in other coun
tries is incomplete. Countries reporting sta
tions are: Canada. 44; Cuba, 34; England,
9; France, 5; Mexico, 4; Brazil, 4; Ar
gentina 3.
Q. How far up the Thames do the London
docks extend? J. L.
A. The London docks now embrace thir
ty-five miles of the river from the Tower
bridgie to Tilbury dock.
Q. What is the South I’ole colder than the
North I’ole? P. J.
A. It is due to the very considerable ele
vation above sea level.
Q. Does marine insurance cover damage
done to cargo by rats? Al. S.
A. If the proprietor of the merchandise
injured can prove that the ship was not fur
nished with a cat, he can recover compensa
tion from the owner of the vessel.
Q. Who pays the government for the coins
struck for the Stone Mountain sum ? E. L. K.
A. The government furnishes the bullion
out. of which the Stone Mountain Memorial
coins are made, but the Stone Mountain Me
morial association will pay the government
the face value of the coins before thev are
delivered from the mint. These coins bear
the images of Jackson and Lee. They will j
not be coined until after the Christmas holi
days.
Q. How large was Babylon? H. F. P.
A. It is now believed that the ancient city •
of Babylon was fourteen miles square, sur
rounded by a wall sixty miles in length, 300 i
feet high. 100 feet broad at the base and
wide enough on top for two chariots to race
abreast.
Q. Who introduced the Gothic style of
architecture into Italy? P. R.
A, Lubke's History of Art says that, the
Gothic style was introduced into Italy by
Cistercian monks from Burgundy.
Q. Are there any tribes of the Mohom
medan faith in the American possessions?
R. G.
A. In the Philippine Islands there are
about 4 50,000 Moros who are Mohommedans.
Although the wildest and most fanatic of the
natives, they are the only ones who have
petitioned to have the United States keep
control of the Philippines.
Q. Which are the best American race
horses of modern times? M. T.
A. O’Neill Sevier, an expert in such mat
ters. is quoted as saying that Man o'War,
Hermis and Artful are, in his opinion, the
best.
Q. Where is the oldest paved road wav?
B. E.
A. It is said that, "probably the oldest, au
thentic remains of a road surfaced with
some ytone are found near the Great Pyra
mid,”
Q, How are birthmarks removed? B. A. S.
A, A birthmark is merely the result of ex
cessive development of fibrous tissue, hair,
blood vessels, or pigment in a circumscribed
area. Surgical treatment is generally pre
scribed for the removal of a birthmark.
Among the methods employed are electro
lysis, X-rays, the use of chemical caustics,
such as nitric acid or the acid nitrate of
mercury. The removal of a birthmark is a
delicate operation and should only be per
formed by a competent physician.
A. The National Zoological Park says that
the largest giraffe in this country is found
in the Zoological Park. Cincinnati. Ohio. It
measures about seventeen feet from the
ground to the tip of its head.
Q. Where is the oldest frame building in
the United States? W. W.
A. What is believed to be the oldest frame
building is the Old Quaker Meeting House at
Easton, Maryland. Local history places the
date of erection in 1 684. The only preserva
tive used on it is old-fashioned whitewash
applied on the outside.
Q. If a healthy dog bites a 21-month-old
baby and the dog should go mad two months
Inter, would it have any effect on the
child.’ S. N. C.
A,. The Public Hea Ith Service says
if the dog remains w ell for two w eeks the
child is safe. t
i THE SEA HAWK ~~ 1
BY RAFAEL SABATINI
(Published by Arrangement With First National Pictures.
In;. Cony righted by Houghton-Mifflin Company.)
CH tI’TER NIX (Continued)
S HE looked at him and she seemed to
measure him with her unwavering
glance.
“Y’ou speak of the past?” she echoed, her
voice, low. "You speak of the past and to
me? You dare?”
“It is that we might speak of it together
that 1 have fetched you all the way from
England; that at last I may tell you things
1 was a fool to have kept from you five years
ago; that we may resume a conversation
which you interrupted when you dismissed
me.’-’
"I did you a monstrous injury, no doubt,”
she answered him, with bitter irony. "I was
surely wanting in consideration. It would
have become me better to have smiled and
fawned upon my brother's murderer.”
“I swore to you then that I was not his
murderer,” he reminded her in a voice that
shook.
“And I answered that you lied.”
“Aye, and on that you dismissed me—the
word of the man whom you professed to
love, the word of the man to whom you had
given your trust weighing for naught with
you.”
"When I gave you my trust,” she retorted,
"I did so in ignorance of your true self, in
a headstrong wilful ignorance that would
not be guided b.v what all the world said of
you and your wild ways. For that blind wil
fulness I have been punished, as perhaps I
deserved to be.”
“Lies—all lies!” he stormed. “Those ways
of mine—and God knows they were none so
wild, when all is said —I abandoned when I
came to love you. Nq lover since the world'
began was ever so cleansed, so purified, so
sanctified by love as was I.”
“Spare me this at least!” she cried on a
note of loathing.
“Spare you?” he echoed. "What shall
I spare you?”
"The shame of it all; the shame that
is ever mine in the reflection that for a sea
son I believed I loved you.”
He smiled. /
"If you can still feel shame, it shall over
whelm you ere I have done. For you shall
hear me out. Here there are none to inter
rupt us, none to thwart my sovereign will.
Reflect then, and remember. Remember
what a pride you took in the change you had
wrought in me. Your vanity welcomed that
flattery, that tribute to the power of your
beauty. Yet, all in a moment, upon the
paltriest grounds, you believed me the mur
derer of your brother.”
"The paltriest grounds?” she cried, pro
testing almost despite herself.
"So paltry that the justices at Truro
would not move against me.”
“Because,” she cut in, "they accounted
that you had been sufficiently provoked. Be
cause you had not sworn to them as you
swore to me that no provocation should ever
drive you to raise your hand against my
brother. Because they did not realize how
false and how forsworn you were.”
He considered her a moment. Then he
took a turn on the terrace. Lionel crouch
ing ever by the rose tree was almost en
tirely forgotten by him now.
“God give me patience with you!” he said
at length. “I need it. For I desire you to
understand many things this night. I mean i
you to see how just is my resentment; how
just the punishment that is to overtake you
for what you have made of my life and per- ;
haps of my hereafter. Justice Baine and an
other who is dead knew me for innocent.”
“They knew you for innocent?” There
was scornful amazement in her tone. “Were
they not witnesses of the quarrel betwixt ;
you and Peter and of your oath that you
would kill him?”
"That was an oath sworn in the heat of
anger. Afterwards I bethought me that he
was your brother.”
“Afterwards?” said she. “After you had
murdered him?”
"I say again.” Oliver replied calmly, "that
I (I'd not do this thing.”
"And I say again that you lie.”
lie considered her for a long moment;
then he laughed.
"Have you ever.” he asked, “known a
man to lie without some purpose? Men lie
for the sake of profit, they lie out of cow
ardice or malice, or else because, they are
vain and vulgar boasters. I know of no
other causes that will drive a man to false
hood. eave that —ah yes!—” and he flashed
a sidelong glance at Lionel—"save that
sometimes a man will lie to shield another,
out of self-sacrifice. There you have all the
spurs that urge a man to falsehood. ('an
any of these be urging me tonight? Re
flect! Ask yourself what purpose 1 could
serve by lying to you now. Consider fur
ther that I have come to loathe you for your
unfaith; that I desire naught so much as to
punish you for that and for all its bitter
consequences to me; that I have brought
you hither to exact payment from you to the
uttermost farthing. What end then can I
serve by falsehood?”
“All this being so. what end could you
serve by truth?” she countered.
"To make you realize to the full the in
justice that you did. To make you under
stand the wrongs for which you are called
to pay. To prevent you from conceiving
yourself a martyr; to make you perceive in
all its deadly bitterness that what now comes
to you is the inevitable fruit of your own
faithlessness.”
"Sir Oliver, do you think me a fool?” she
asked him.
"Madam, T do—and worse,” he answered.
“Aye. that is clear.” she agreed scornfully,
"since even now you waste breath in at
tempting to persuade me against my reason.
But words will not blot out facts. And
though you talk from now till the Day of
Judgment no word of yours can efface those
bloodstains in the snow, that formed a trail
from that poor murdered body to your own
door; no word of yours can extinguish the
memory of the hatred between him and you.
and of your own threat to kill him; nor can
it stifle the recollection of the public voice
demanding your punishment. What had you
to set against all that, to convince me that
your hands were clean, to induce me to keep
the troth which—God forgive mo—l had
plighted to you?”
"My word,” he answered her in a ringing
voice.
“Y’ou lie,” she amended.
"Do not suppose.” said he. "jhat I could
not support my word by proofs if called upon
to do so.”
"Proofs?” She stared at him, wide-eyed
a moment. Then her lip curled.
"And that no doubt was the reason of
your flight when you heard that the Queen s
pursuivants were coming in response to the
public to call you to account.”
He stood at gaze a moment utterly dum
founded.
"My flight?'* he said. "What fable's that?"
"You will tUll me next that you did not !
flee. That that is another false charge
against you?”
"So,” he said slowlv, "it was believed I
fled!”
And then light burst upon him. to dazzle
and stun him. It was so inevitably what
must have been believed, and yet it had nev
er crossed his mind. Oh. the damnable sim
plicity of it! At another time his disappear
ance must have provoked comment and in
vestigation. perhaps. But. happening when
it did, the answer to it came promptly and
convincingly, and no man troubled tn ques
tion fur'her. Thus was Lionel's task made
SIGNIFICANCE VX D BEST USE OF
CHRISTMAS
JESUS alone of all men born of women
chose to be brought forth into our
world. His birth was voluntary. The
eternal Son of God became the Son of man
of His own free will and love. He came
not by constraint of necessity, but by the
impulsion of divine care for men.
The purpose of His coming He declared
when He said, "The Son of man is come to
seek and to save that which was lost.”
(Luke xix:lo.) This He said with reference
.o both the salvation of children and the re
lemption of such hardened sinners as the
•lass to which the publicans belonged.
(Matthew xviii:ll and Luke xix:lo.)
The incarnation of the Son of God is
heaven's proclamation of the< lost estate of
all mankind. No such stupendous manifesta
tion of divine mercy would have been neces
sary to cure a slight disorder in the human
race. As the highest mountains confront i
the deepest seas, so the incarnation con
fronts the immeasurable, abysmal depths of
sin. God would not have sent His Son into ■
the world to be entirely and eternally identi
fied with humanity if any less person, or
power, should have been sufficient to accom- i
plish the salvation of men. On this high !
mission A:ame He who was born at Bethle-[
hem, and laid in a. manger. To save the lost '
He came and lived and labored and suffered
and died and rose again. Nothing less en
gaged His divine purpose.
Rescuing the perishing is the joy of Jesus.
This is the teaching of the three beautiful
parables of the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin
and the Lost Son. (Luke xv:l-24.) The joy
ous refrain which belongs to them all is “I
say unto you there is joy in the presence
of the angels of God over one sinner that re
penteth.” (Luke xv:7 and 10.) It is not
the gladness of angels which is thus declared,
but the joy of the Redeemer in their “pres
ence.”
But the angels respond rapturously to the
gladness of their Lord and, as He does, they
also rejoice doubtless, in the salvation of
men. It is no wonder, therefore, that at the
birth of Jesus in Bethlehem "a multitude of
the heavenly host” exultantly sang, "Glory
to God in the highest, and on earth peace, j
good will toward men!” (Luke ii: 14.)
The incarnation stirred the spirits of an
gels as well as provided salvation for the
sons of men. Wherefore, angels and arch
angels desire to look into the things that
appertain to human redemption. (I Peter
1:12.)
The spiritual interests of heaven and
earth—the welfare of all worlds —are in
volved in the incarnation. In Christ are
"gathered together in one all things which
are in heaven and in earth” (Ephesians
i:10); and "of him the whole family in
heaven and earth is named” (Ephesians
iii:ls). The redemption of man is no pro
vincial and planetary event; the incarnation
is cosmic in its nature,’and concerns the uni
verse. Hence, “whes he bringeth in the first
begotten into the world, he saith, ‘And let
all the angels of God worship him.’” (He-;
brews i:6.)
It was no unnatural and disproportioned
manifestation of celestial concern that angel
ic anthems broke forth above Judean hills
when He was born.
The blinded world knew not what was
taking place in the little town of Bethlehem,
for it never knows the greatest things which
God does until years have passed. But the ;
angels of heaven who ewcel in strength and
knowledge, apprehended the magnitude of j
the event there wrought, and they rejoiced
with exceeding joy.
And the devout and worshipful Shep-.
herds caught glimpses of his glory and an- '
swered back antiphonally the angelic praises.'
“And it came to pass as the angels were i
gone away from them in heaven, the Shep
herds said one to another, "Let us now go
even unto Bethlehem and see this thing .
doubly easy, thus was his own guilt made j
doubly sui‘e in the eyes of all.
His head sank upon his breast. What had i
he done? Could he still blame Rosamund
for having been convinced by so overwhelm- '
ing a piece of evidence? Could he still
blame her if she had burned unopened the [
letter which he had sent her by the hand of
Pitt? What else indeed could any suppose,
but that he had fled? And that being so,
clearly such a flight must brand him ir- j
refutably for the murderer he was alleged to
be. How could he blame her if she had ul- !
Ornately been convinced by the only reason-'
able assumption possible?
A sudden sense of the wrong he had done ■
rose now like a tide about him.
“.My God!” He groaned like a man in
pain. “My God!”
“What else, indeed, could you believe?”
he muttered brokenly, thus giving some ut
terance to what was passing through his
mind.
“Naught else but the whole vile truth,”
she answered fiercely, and thereby stung him
anew, whipped him out of his sudden weak
ening back to his mood of resentment i.nd
vindictiveness.
She had shown herself, he thought in that
moment of reviving anger, too ready to be
lieve what told against him.
“The truth?” he echoed, and eyed her
boldly now. “Do you know the truth when
you see it? We shall discover. For by
God’s light you shall have the truth laid
stark before you now, and you shall find it
hideous beyond all your hideous imagin
ings.”
There was something so compelling now
in his tone and manner that it drove her to
realize that some revelation was impending.
She was conscious of a faint excitement, a
reflection perhaps of the wild excitement
that was astir in him.
“Your brother.” he began, “met his death
at the hands of a false weakling whom I
loved, towards whom I had a sacred duty.
Straight from the deed he fled to me for
shelter. A wound he had taken in the strug
gle left that traif of blood to mark the way
he had come.”
He paused, and his tone became gentler,
it assumed the level note of one who reasons
impassively.
“Was it not an odd thing, now, that none
should ever have paused to seek with cer
tainty whence that blood proceeded, and to 1
consider that I bore no wound in those days?
Master Baine knew it, for I submitted my
body to his examination, and a document
was drawn up and duly attested which,
should have sent the Queen’s pursuivants
back to London with drooping tails had I
been at Penarrow to receive them.”
Faintly through her mind stirred the
memory that Master Baine had urged the ex
istence of some such document, that in fact
he had gone so far as to have made oath
of this very circumstances now urged by Sir
Oliver: and she remembered that the matter
had been brushed hside as an invention of
the justice’s to answer the charge of laxity
in the performance of his duty, particularly
as the only co-witness he could cite was Sir
Andrew Flack, the parson, since deceased.
Sir Oliver’s voice drew her attention fronj
the memory.
“But let that be.” he was saying. “Let us
come back to th- story itself. I cave the
craven weakling shelter. Thereby I drew
down suspicion upon myself, and since I
could not clear myself save by denouncing
him. I kept silent. That suspicion grew to
certainty when the woman to whom I was
betrothed, recking nothing of my oaths, free
ly believing the very worst of me. made an
OLD-TIME RELIGION.
BY BISHOP W, A. CANDLER
THURSDAY, DEC. 25, 1024.
which is come to pass, which the Lord hath
made known unto us.” (Luke 11:15.) Nor
did the disguise of his lowly birth in a
manger shake their faith or diminish their
joy. "And the Shepherds returned, glorify
ing and praising God for all the things they
had heard and seen.” (Luke 11:20.)
In like spirit let us all go again to Beth
lehem at this time when we celebrate the
birth of the Savior, and return with heaven
ly joy in our hearts and fervent praises on
our lips.
The season of the Nativity excludes, or
should exclude, by its holy nature, revelry
and riotous living. It is a time for worship
ing the Redeemer and pouring out at his
‘feet the most precious treasures of adoring
love. Nothing else comports with the proper
celebration of his coming to earth on his
saving mission.
Moreover, it is a time for telling to others
the "story of Jesus and his love.” So did
the Shepherds on the first Christmas morn
ing. "They made known abroad the saying
which was told them concerning this child.”
(Luke 11:18.) The wonderful love reached
in the incarnation is not a thing, to be ap
propriated privately and withheld from oth
ers who know it not. And they to whom it
has come may tell it be the.v men so plain
and. untutored, even as the Shepherds, the
first preachers of the glad tiding of the
Gospel,
"What we have felt and seen
With confidence we tell.”
In all the year there is no season more
suitable than Christmas for evangelistic
services. What other time makes such an
appeal to sinners to turn their feet toward
the Savior who waits to receive them?
The only obstacle in the way of such use
of the sacred season is the .perversion of it
which has been widely prevalent so long. It
has been filled with profane festivities in
which no slightest suggestion of its signifi
cance was called to mind. ,
Christmas itself should be redeemed from
such unholy and common purpose.
Rightly appreciated the Nativity calls ev
ery' human soul to take the Christ out of the
manger and enthrone him with royal honors
in the heart.
"Though Christ a thousand times in Bethle
hem be born
If He’s not born in thee, thy soul is still
forlorn.”
Indeed, it has been said most truly, "Beth
lehem is now no longer His special' birth
place. Wherever hearts are willing there He
is born; wherever He is cherished, there is
His cradle; wherever he is reverenced, there
is He wrapped tenderly in swaddling clothes
and held to the hearts of men.”
"O little town of Bethlehem
Now still we see thee lie;
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent, stars go by;
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.
"How silently, how silently,
The wondrous gift is given!
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of His heaven.
No ear may hear His coming,
But in this world of sin
Where meek souls will receive Him still
The dear Christ enters in.
“O holy Child of Bethlehem!
Descend to us, we pray;
Cast out our sin, and enter in,
Be born in us today.
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidings tell;
Oh come to us, abide with us,
Our Lord Emmanuel!”
end of our betrothal and thereby branded
me a murderer and a liar in the eyes of
all. Indignation swelled against me. The
Queen’s pursuivants were on their way to do
what, the justices of Truro refused to do.
“So far' I have given you facts. Now I
give you surmise—my own conclusions —but
surmise that strikes, as you shall judge, the
very bull’s-eye of truth. That dastard to
whom I had given sanctuary, to whom I
had served as a cloak, measured my nature
by his own and feared that. 1 must prove
unequal to the fresh burden to be cast upon
me. He feared lest, under the strain of it
I should speak out. advance my proofs,, and
so destroy him. There was the matter of
that wound, and there was something still
more unanswerable he feared I might have
urged. There was a certain woman—a wan
ton up at Malpas——who could have been
made to speak, who could have revealed a
rivalry concerning her betwixt, the slayer
and your brother. For the affair in which
Peter Godolphin met his death was a pitiful
ly, shamefully sordid one at bottom.”
For the first time she interrupted him,
fiercely.
“Do you malign the dead?”
"Patience, mistress,” he commanded. “I
malign none. I speak the truth of a dead
man that the truth may be known of two
living ones. Hear me out, then! I have
waited long and survived a deal that I
might, tell you this.
"That craven, then, conceived that I might
become a danger to him; so he decided to
remove me. He contrived to have me kid
naped one night and put aboard a vessel
to be carried to Barbary and sold there as
a slave. That is the truth of my disappear
ance. And the slayer, whom I had befriend
ed and sheltered at my own bitter cost, prof
ited yet further by my removal. God knows
whether the prospect of such profit w,as
further temptation to him. In time he came
to succeed me in mJ 7 possessions, and at last
to succeed me even in the affections of the
faithless woman who once had been my af
fianced wife.”
At last she started from the frozen pa
tience in which she had listened hitherto.
"Do you say that—that Lionel —?” she
was beginning in a voice choked by indigna
tion.
And then Lionel spoke at last, straighten
ing himself into a stiffly upright attitude.
"He lies!” he cried. ' "He lies, Rosamund!
Do not heed him."
"I do not." she answered, turning away.
A wave of color suffused the swarthy face
of Sakr-el-Bahr. A moment his eyes fol
lowed her as she moved away a step or two,
then they turned their blazing light of an gm'
upon Lionel. He strode silently across to
him. his mien so menacing that Lionel
shrank back in fresh terror.
Sakr-el-Bahr caught his brother’s wrist in
a grip that was as that of a steel manacle.
"We’ll have the truth this night if we
have to tear it from you with red-hot pin
cers.” he said between his teeth.
Up .dragged him forward to the middle of
the terraces and held him there before Rosa
mund. forcing him down upon his knees
into a cowering attitude by the violence of
that grip his wrist.
"Do you know aught of the ingenuity of
Moorish torture?” he asked him. "You may
have heard of the rack and the wheel and
the thumbscrew at home. They are instru
ments of voluptuous delight compared with
the contrivances of Barbary to loosen stub
born tongues.”
White and tense, her hands clenched.
R<> n th und. seomed t<> stiffen before him.
Vr>o coward! Ynu riir! Yni craven
UNKNOWN FORCES
Ry H. Addington Bruce
Fa OR months, as newspaper readers in
New York and Boston are aware, there
has been raging a controversy anent .
alleged occult phenomena produced through /
the wife of a Boston physician. At the mo- V
ment of writing, the dispute waxes as vig
orously as ever.
The phenomena in question are of many
kinds, ranging from the appearance of "spirit
lights” to the ringing of an electrical bell
that lacks electrical contact. Sitters at the
seances report touches, even blows by in
visible hands, mysterious movements of flow
ers, and strange gyrations by a certain pole.
For the most part these wierd manifests- -
tions occur only in total darkness, obviously f
imposing a severe handicap on scientific '
investigators. Nevertheless sundry investi- /
gators have been busily at work, with the
net result of developing marked differences
of opinion.
At the one extreme, fraud is charged. At
the other, the genuineness of the phenomena
is accepted, and they are attributed to the
action of a dead brother of the "medium.”
Then, again, a third possibility is recognized 1
—namely, that the happenings in the dark- f
ened room may be displays of an unknown J
force unconsciously generated by the medium
herself, or by the medium plus the sitters.
Whether or n-o this last explanation is
actually the correct one in thife particular
case, it is indeed a possibility that cannot f
be left out of account by probers of ths *
physical phenomena of occultism. And re
cent scientific progress—particularly in the
field of wireless transmission of energy—-
has unmistakably served to stress the de
sirability of taking it into account.
Certainly the old-time faith in the impos
sibility of acting on objects without tangible
contact has been shattered by, for example,
the feat of wireless control of boats from
land. Quite conceivably it may be that in
human beings there are similar "centres” ’
whence energy may be dispatched to affect j
objects at a distance.
Some most competent students, not of the /
occult but of physical science, already in
cline to regard this as something more, than
a conceivability. To reinforce their attitude
comes now the declaration by the famous
Marconi, world-renowned experimenter with
natural forces:
"There exists in nature a means for prop
agating energy which is still unknown to
us.”
Os course, as far as mediumistic phenom-, ...j
ena are concerned it cannot be ignored that *
the history of supposed contactless action is
largely a history of repeated detection in
fraud. But also it is a fact that even me- ”
diums caught cheating have in numerous in
stances put to their credit, phenomena baf
fling the understanding of their investiga
tors.
It may be that in these other instances .>
they have simply been too clever for those f
watching them. Also, however, sjide by side
with their proclivity to cheat, they may
truly have been generators of the unknown
force. Marconi has in mind. It is only judi
cious to recognize that this alternative ex
ists.
Which is one of the reasons for the con
tinued interest of many scientists—lncluding
some of the world’s foremost—in physical
mediumship despite its tainted record. /
(Copyright, 1 924.)
The Democrary of Death
By Dr. Frank Crziie
NOWHERE (locs convention lay its par
alyzing hand upon poor mortals so .
hardly as at the funeral. ij
A man can live as independently as he )
pleases, wear a soft shirt, eat with knife and
refuse to go to receptions, and altogether——-
imagine that he is an individual, but when
he dies, custom with iron hand and velvet
glove invades his house and takes charge.
The great high priesjess of funerals is Mrs.
Grundy. The sensitive, torn hearts of tho <
fapiily shrink from any sort of conflict, and
so they submit to the absurd, expensive, and
vulgar things that make of the funeral a
horror.
The widow is anxious that all respect be
shown. Hence she submits to the extrfitions
of the funeral director anjl consents to the
purchase of a casket that costs six times what
it is worth and ten times what she can afford.
Why should people wli/i never ride in auto- ,
mobiles in their lifetime be made to pay for *
automobiles for all the relatives and friends
out of the insurance money that belongs to
the widow and children?
A decent respect for the dead and for the
opinion of our neighbors demands that there
be some ceremony, as solemn, as reverential
as can be made. But above all things their
rites shoulS be purged of display, extrav
agance, and show. They should be simple, »;
heartful, and genuine.
It is not the money spent that matters so
much. In our grief we care nothing for that,
and only wish we could squander millions if
by so doing we could show the depth of our
sorrow. But that is precisely the point of 1
error; for the expenditure of money does not
express grief, it expresses pride; it is a dis
position to make a show which is entirely out
of place. ... j,
The grief of bereavement is essentially pri
vate and shrinking. A funeral should be an
affair of the utmost privacy and simplicity.
That of all places, is no place to parade.
And what a spectacle is the modern grave
yard, with its distinctions of rich and poor
more sharply marked than among the living. /
By all means let a man live in a palace if he f
chooses, but why should he wish to project
the class lines of wealth into that region
where riches and poverty are no more. At
least the realm of death is a democracy. At
least in "God's Acre” men ought to be willing "y
to lie still in bare manhood, all together in /
their investiture of day, equal at last, princo *
and pauper, there where there is no more
"The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power.”
If we can have no real democracy while we
are alive, at least permit us to have the
democracy of death. .
(Copyright, 1924.)
Simpson and Stimpson had been great
friends in the earlier years of their lives, |
but not long ago Stimpson married and
now Simpson proposed to follow the noble
lead.
The approach of Simpson’s 4 triumph drew
near. On the morrow he intended to pro
pose to the girl, but., first of all, he had de
cided to have a chat with. Stimpson.
"Were you all nerves when ynt» proposed
to your wife?” he asked.
Stimpson sighed. "I wasn’t,” he admit- (
ted. "But if I could have foreseen the fu- (
tore I should have been!’}
renegade dog!” she branded him.
Oliver released his brother's wrist and
beat his hands together. Without heeding
Rosamund, he looked down upon. Lionel,
who cowered shuddering at his feet.
"What do you say to a match between
your fingers? Or do you think a pair of
bracelets of living fire would answer better,
to begin with?” ’
A squat, sandy-bearded, turbaned fellow,
rolling slightly in his gait, came as had
been prearranged- to answer the corsair’s
summons.
Continued Saturday. Renew ><»ur sub
keciptinn now to avoid mi-sing a chapter of
this splendid story.