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JOHN I PROMIP By EMERS( AUTHOR if ITHE MISSISSIPPI ILLUSTRATIONS by Re COPYRIGHT 1912 BY EMERSO SYNOP3Kfc CKAi'YER Wohn lUwn Is bom t| Tr-xas. Early In ttfe h? masterfulness and inordinate seuuuwM. CHAPTER II?He marries Laura Johtt*0. He is a cleric In a St. Louis railway pice when his daughter Grace is born. later he hears Grace's lover, a poung engineer named Charles Halsey, peak of a scheme to utilise the lost curT*ot of electricity. With his usual un*?crupulo*jsnes8 he appropriates the idea fcs his own and induces Halsey to perfect a experimental machine. He forms a eotnpacy, with himself as president, at a *3ary of $100,000 a year, and Halsey as operintendent of the works at a salary C $5,000. CHAPTER Rawn takes charge of toe office in Chicago. Virginia Delaware, a beautiful, capable and ambitious young woman, is assigned as his stenographer, he assists in picking the furniture and decoration for the princely mansion Rawn has erected- Mrs. Rawn feels oat of place in the new surroundings. CHAPTER IV?Halsey goes to New Tork with Rawn and Miss, Delaware to explain delays in perfecting the new motor to the Impatient directors. He gets a Message that a deformed daughter has been bora to his wife, Grace Rawn. He return* to Chicago. CHAyTER V?Rawn iterrains with Miss ? a ware to wear his Jewelry and appear public with him. aa * means to help i In a business way. CHAPTER VI?Rawn la fortunate In ma fir of mATiilatjonlL niW QJ) Wealth E1M attains prominence. CHAPTER Vn?He frets because his Irlfe does not rise with him In a soda) way. He gives her a million dollars to Imt* him. TER IX?Grace moves to Graynail, and Halsey continues to live in the cottage near the works. CHAPTER X?Halsey*s machine proves ft success, but he keeps the fact a sewst CHAPTE R XI?Virginia Delaware becomes more and more Indispensibie to Raws. He takes her to New York oo a business trip. Idle talk prompts him to offer her marriage. CHAPTER XII?They are married. Through Virginia's tact and ability they pake a place for themselves in the social frerld. CHAPTER XITT?Halsey threatens to get a divorce because his wife refuses to ivtuj-n to him. He tells Rawn that he has * ?* ? -" c+te>T nmvlne WW.W1 Uy Will UiC iaa<viMi4V0 u*r-^ w tbe raecess of the Invention. Rawn, In a ?TMt rag*, threatens to kfll him. CHAPTER XIV-Halsey declares he wlH never build another machine tot ?iwn and slaps hi* face. Virginia Rawn tercepts Halsey as he Is leaving the house and, with arms about his neck. Implores him to reconsider, because his decision will ruin them alL CHAPTER XV?Halsey tells Virginia that he has abandoned his invention because It would put a great power in the hands of a few to the detriment of the . many. Inntnnop on the Ladv of the Lightnings ?" suggested Ackerman, grinning amiably. "Yes, on his young wife, and his aew house, and his boats, and his automobiles, and all the regular things. He can't have done it out of International dividends, that's sure!" "All the better that he hasn't," ventared StandleyJ The old man nodded. "Go over there and call Van," he said simply. The slender man with pointed IteArd came up pieasantiy, ms eyes twinkling. "Well, my fellow sports and department heads!" he said. "What's the good word this morntog?" "Sit down," said the gray-bearded man. "We know why you're here, and why you've been hanging around here lor the last six months. It's foolish i f y.-"> ^ iiLr'.i:: ;r- . X ILL IiO'- i.nC'.' IV". \ Z. i tl* other, Lis e. ' -o 0-. "I'v-, _ ^ 11 mace i:.y peace; "Yes,"' commented Acliermiin. "The friendship of some of the gladiators is surely a wonderful tiling! Rawn hates you, and you hate Rawn. Don't your ears hum?" "No, my heart!" He laid a hand on that organ with mock gravity. '"What could you do with the Lady of the Lightnings, Van?" asked Standley discreetly. "Nothing, absolutely nothing:" "Hasn't she any social instincts?" "Plenty, but all gratified; that's the trouble. There isn't anything those people want that they haven't got. No, I must say his position is pretty strong." "But it's not impregnable, Standley," cut in the gray-bearded man, stopping the twiddling of his fingers above his round-paunched body. "Now, look here, we're all friends together, when it comes to that. You belong with us a lot more than you do with that Jasper from the country. Of course, you split with us, got mad, took your dolls and all that sort of thing?we're all used to that?and we all sat tight because It looked good. It looked better than it does now. So, we're friends again." "Of course," nodded the slight man. "I understand that" ' Sure you do! Now, it's plain that when it comes to being on the inside, you're there as an ex-director just as much ae we are as real directors? 1- - _ _ * 11 T 1 19 mayue more bo, ior an i snow. "Maybe more, yes, that's so," smiled the slender man, his brown eyes twinkling yet more. "How much more, then?" "Why, a whole lot more!" "What do you know?" "I know what I've learned for myE?lf n"d by myself Gentlemen, it's on tne table! Play the game? I did. Tr'iu-r r>tTi7r\T i Ksi i iz^i> DN HOUGH BUBBLE; 54-40 OR FIGHT ix7_ ii. ty VYdiieid NgHOUGH I've had some of~those~college professors at work for me?they're the people that first got us locoed, anyhow. Rr.wn, or rather his son-in-law, got his first notion from his own professor in his college.** "The real trouble with business today," interrupted the gray-bearded man, reverting to his universal and invariable grievance, "is that things I are all going wrong with the American j people. These Progressives down | there at Washington have set this I whole country by the ears?not even i the Supreme Court can square things , any more. The suspiciousness of the j average man is getting to be almost ! criminal, that's what it is. The public thinks every man with money i3 a rascal. The public is damnably ungrateful. Look what we have done for this country, this little set of men sitting right here?what we've built for them, what we've naid out to them for "wages! What are we getting in return? They envy us our daily bread, and by the Eternal! they'll come near putting us where we can't get that much longer! Look at the railway rate cases?it's robbery of the railways. Capital hasn't any chance any more! The public seems to be getting ready for anarchy; that's all." "Isn't it the truth?" remarked the slender man sympathetically. "Still, we have to handle men as we find them, my friends. In my own case, I've been fighting the devil with a little of his own fire." "How's that?" "Well, for instance, I went out to see if 1 couldn't land that little secret of the receiving motor myself, as I just told you. If International doesn't want to take me in, or if I can't break in, maybe there can be another company formed?there's considerable corporation room left in New Jersey. You folks on the Internationt. Vave been having your own troubles >. ith labor, haven't you?" "Well, rather!" growled Ackerman. -"We put that up to old Colonel J. R. Bonehead, our president! He seems to have got in about as nearly wrong as any one could with our esteemed friends of the labor unions!" "Naturally; well, I'll make a confession, since we're all friends together?I've had men conferring with your horny-handed citizens and suggesting that the International Power Company was 'unfair,' and a bad outfit to work for!" 'That was nice of you!" growled Ackerman, getting red in the face. "Fine business, for you to come snooping around our works." The slender man smiled at him pleasantly. "How else could I get information?" he inquired. "You must remember that I'm no longer on the board! But you must remember, also, that of late I have picked up an occasional dollar's worth of International. I wanted to know how about certain things!" "Well, how about them, then?" demanded Standley fiercely. "Where do we stand?" "You want me to Incriminate myself!" "Oh, fiddlesticks about incrimination! Cut out that part of it!" "All right, I will," said the other grimly. "Well, then, I've tried my best to bribe your people, and I've got little out of it. I've tried the fore man, tne nignt watcnman, ana everybody else. I've bad a dozen of your workmen slugged for scabbing, and four or five of them shot, one or two at least, for s good, permanent funeral. And I paid the funeral expenses! You didn't know that? Well, that's the truth of it!" "Well, what do you know about that!" gasped Standley, aghast. "I know a good deal about, my Christian friend," said the slender man relentlessly. "I can tell you what you already know, that your motors are dismantled to-day. I can tell you also i that there's a very good chance that ! the secret we've been after is in the of cr.e man, and he's holding It for soma reason best known to limself. We've got nothing on him! i can also tell you that if he won't give up?though why he won't I can't imagine?it's possible we can work out a receiver of our own elsewhere, without him." "Well, what does he want?" This from the old man. "That's the everlasting mystery and puzzle of it. He doesn't want anything, so far as I can learn. There's some factor in him that I can't get my hands on, try the best that I can. Not that I don't expect to break you wide open eventually, my friends." "Now why dc -u want to do that?" asked the older dnancier. "Why not join in with us and break the bonehead?" "Fine! But how can we do tnat? He's sitting pretty tight. The man's played in fine luck. I admit I rather admire him." ""Roll ffcat'a +>\o rrra v -orftVi nil new ones; they all play in luck for a time. Each Napoleon has his boom, but after a time boom values shrink? they always do. This chap'll find his level when we get ready to tell bim." "For instance?" J "Well, for instance, then! He's sitting there with a small margin of control in the International. That gave him his start, and he's wise enough to hang on to that. But it didn't give him his money?he's only made dividend money out of that; and who cares for dividend money? He doesn't own control in the Guatemala Oil Company, does he? He's made a lot out of Arizona and Utah coppers, but he doesn't own control in a single company there, does he? He's in with the L. P., but he borrowed to get in. He's made a big killing in Rubber, but h6 doesn't own any Rubber control of hit own, does he? Now, you fellow him out in every deal he's made?iron, copper, steel, oil, rails, timber, irrigation, utilities, industrials?and you'll find he's simply banking on his inside information and on hia outside credit Who gave him both of those things ?? Why, we did, didn't we? All right! Suppose we withdraw our credit What hannens?** They went silent now, and grouped a little closer about the tabouret whicfc stood between them. The old man'! voice went on evenly, with no excite ment. Their conversation attracted the attention of none in the wide lounging room, where large affair* more than once had been discussedeven the making of Senators to order Til tell you what happens," the old man resumed. *'He quits using ue for a stalking horse, and he comes down to his own system. He's spread out. Banks are all polite, but?welL Tin Viae tn niit rm rnllafprnl nrifl fhpn some more. If he doesn't want to put up International, he's apt to find thai a bunch of automobiles is poor prop erty when sold at twenty per cent their cost. He turns off two or three butlers, but still that doesn't serve foi margins. The market doesn't suit his book any more. "He's discovering now the truth ol something my old friend Emory Storrs used to say?Emory always was Id debt, or wanted to be. and savs he: 'There's no trouble about prosperity in this country; there's plenty oi money?the only trouble is in the confounded scarcity in collateral.' Well, he goes over to this young man, who Is standing out for some reason best known to himself, and he tries to get him to come through, and he doesn't come through. What's left? Why, the diamond lightnings of the Lady of the Lightning?and his Inter national Power stock. "Meantime, all this thing can't be kept entirely sepret; that is to say, the mnrVfifc nart of it can't be. But we sit tight, all of us. We hold our regular directors' meetings of the International board, and we smile,'and look pleasant We don't know a thing about his hot water experiences in the open market He explains to us why this and that happens, or doesn't happen, in International; and we smile and look pleasant, and we don't know a thing. After a time it's up to him and the Lady of the Lightnings. Something pops! He's up against it, all except his International Power. Then Van, and you, Standley, and you, Ack, and you, and you and I, and all of us? why we're still pleasant as pie to mm and we say, 'Well, Mr. John Rawn, if you'd only sell us two or three shares of International, we'd pay you twenty times what it's worth?but it's verymuch cheaper now?by reason of Van's competing company!' "That's about all, I think!" "?J - J ?21 4.1? rm.? Tne otners noaaeu sueuuy. .me game was not new to them, and even in its most complicated features might have been called simple, with resources such as theirs. If these resources had made Rawn, they could ? |\) Y\ W"0 ^f (=/ "Meantime, All This Thing Can't Be Kept Entirely Secret." unmake him. It was all in the day"B work for them. "So I'll tell you what we'll do," concluded the old financier after a time. "We'll just let. you and Van look around here a little bit and see what more you can learn. You're one of the real directors of International Power to-da^, Van. Mr. Rawn is on the minority and the toboggan list, or is go ing to be there. We'll take the first steps when we see the boys down East The country's getting right now for a little speculation?things have been dead long enough. There'll be a market When the market starts, I think you know which way it will go for a certain person I needn't name." They rose, stood about loungingly for a time, and at length slowly separated, the older man and the ex-direc tor with the pointed beard falling baoi of the others for just an instant. "What's the truth about the row, Van?" demanded the old man, laying a large, pudgy hand on the other's shoulder. "I don't know, honestly, what it is. I can tell yon this Tmch?your factory is closed. Your superintendent, H?jj<i9SiaiBt;i t ; f - bitwuMM1 " * J?t|i,"? nrl"?' sey, has quit his work and left his old residence. Didn't Rawn tell you that?" "No! What's up now?some trouble with a woman? Wasn't he married to Rawn's daughter?" "Yes, and she went to live with Papa. Papa had the coin." "And the superintendent is going the chorus girl route here or in New York?" "No, sir, not in the least?nothing of the sort. You can't guess where's he's gone." The other shook his head. "Well, 111 tell you then, since you are one of the directors of the International and I'm not! He's gone and taken his other pair of pants and his celluloid collar, and moved over to the North Shore! He's livinr in the same house with Papa J. Rawn right now;?that is to say, he has been for two or three weeks." "Well, what do you know about that, too!" commented his friend. "I don't know much about it As I told you, there's something in here I don't understand. I can't for the life of me figure out that chap Halrpv'r mrvH vpq or his mnvoa "Rut T | don't care about him. It's Rawn I'm after?and I'm going to get him!" (TO BE CONTINUED). lApplicable Over The State. The following from the Greenville News is worth reproducing here. Substitute Newberry for Greenville as you read, and heed; "On next Tuesday Greenville will enter upon a cleaning campaign, .which if properly- conducted will result in,much good to the city. And by all means this "clean up" movement should - be made effectivfe. Every citizen should do his or her part, and in case there are delinquents, they should be forced to do theirs. A thorough cleaning will be the annihilation of thousands of flies and mosquitoes, because their breeding places will be eliminated. All tin cans, garbage and other resi due should be removed. Cleanliness in a city is a prerequisite for health pid attractiveness. Hence every man, Hie N Capital FVf V T?VI Cdifki Ull step tow man ha; account increase I liability greatest I one. "The Ban I' |Fonr Per JAS. McINTOSfl, IU= j woman and child will do w-11 to t nter into this campaign to make Gre-enville cleaner, and therefore more healthly and attractive. Not only will the gocd effects be immediate, but th y will last for the years to come. The example will be excellent, for the children taught the value of sanitary premises and made to take an interest ; ? ""will fhft STOOd 1JL1 J5UVJU liiaiicii] n ill ? work in the years to come. This is a phase of civic life which cannot he neglected without heavy cost. Where it TVonldn't Show. During the smallpox scare we interviewed the doctor, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "We understand that you vaccinate little girls where the scare won't show," she began. "That's my idea," said the doctor. "A girl who is being trained for an elocutionist, you vaccinate on the leg?" "Yes." "And a girl who is studying to be a modern dancer you viccinate on the arm?" "That's it." "How about a girl who wants to join the chorus of a musical comedy?" "I hav<e her swallow the virus." A fool and his money soon find some woman to take caie of them. For Bnrns, Bruises and Sores. The quickest and surest cure for burns, bruises, boils, sores, inflammation and all skin diseases is Bucklen's Arnica Salve. In four days it cured L. H. Haflin, of Iredell, Tex., of a sore could hardly walk. Should be in every house. Only 25c. Recommended by all druggists. TAY PYFrTTTIAUfSL Notice is hereby given that executions for unpaid taxes of the State of South Carolina, County of Newberry and Town of Newberry, for the year 1912, have been placed in my hands ewberry Savings c*?1, _ $er ULUVn^ " yw :RY DOLL i YOU PUT I THE BA l/STRENGTf iTHE ^BETWEEN ADYFRSII CopyriAtl9Qg.hrCI Zhramiffipy?1I?J| iRY dollar you j 3 bank means ai rard success. No su fknnf 5 CVCI UCC11 TTiuivuv A bank account d prestige and a sens and security, well w< effort in order to % ik That Always Has Tfc( Cent Interest Paid on Savings Presdeat J. L NO fljm 1 ly the County Treasurer and Mayor ot the Town ot Newberry. These exe! cutions will be served forthwith according to law. Persons against whom g executions have be-.-n Sled may save some costs by calling at my office and * making settlement on or before April 21st. After that date levies and seizures will be made. CANNON G. BLEASE, Sheriff of Newberry County. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY, ** COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. \ * < Eugene S. Blease, Plaintiff, against' Diana Boozer, Defendant. By virtue of an order of court herein, I will sell to the highest bider at | public auction before the courthouse | at Newberry, S. C., on Monday, May 1 5th, 1913, same being saleeday, the ^ / ] following described lot of land, to wit, all that piece, parcel or lot of land lying and being situate in the town of j Newberry, county of Newberry, State j of South Carolina, containing eleven one-hundreths of an acre, more or ' less, and bounded by Scott's creek I (which ic fronts) and by lots of R. E. ! Williams and Mary Pressly, the same being he identical lot of land conveyed to the said Diana Boozer by L. W. Floyd by his deed dated November 30, ^ 1913, and recorded in the office of the register of mesne conveyances for said county and State at page 286 of Deed Book No. 12. Terms of sale cash; purchaser to pay for papers. H. H. Rikard, v Master. j April 10, 1913. > I I 3 Street Duty and Dog Tax, ^ The street duty and dog tax are new due, and they must be paid by the first of May without fail. After that date the penalty attaches and will be enforced. By order of the city council. J. R. Scurry, Clerk and Treasurer. 2t I I i *? ' - ' ' ; Bank I >,000.00 j AKIN i , iNK 1 1 [ENS '< LLL YOU OL;* . I Wirt : -> " f put in J lother I I iccessiui j a bank ^ means se of re- 1 orth the | acquire - ?Money" Deposits RWOOB, CasUcr [ fi