Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 29, 1915, Page 7

THURSDAY, By Gouverneur Morris and Charles W. Goddard Oopyright, 1915, Star Company. Synopsis of Pevious Chapters. After the tragic death of John Amnes: ury, his prostrated wife, one of Amer greatest beautles, dies. At her death rof. Stilliter, an agent of the interesis kidnaps the 'beautiful 3-year-old baby gl and brings her up In & paradisc Where she sees no man, but thinks she is taught by angels who instruct her for her imission to reform the world, At the age of 18 she !s suddenly thrust into the world where agents of the interests are ready to pretend to find her Fifteen years later Tommy goes to the Adirondacks. The interests are responsi ble for the trip. By accident he s the fit 10 meet the little Amesbury girl. as comes fortn trom her paradise as Col the girl from heaven. Neither Tom Celestia recoknizes each other. tinds i1t an easy matter Lo rescue Ce 1 from Prof. Stillitet and they hide i the mounfains; later they are pursued by stilliter and’ escape to an island where iney spend the night. Tommy s first aim was to get Celestia away from Stiliter. After tney leave Bellevue Tommy {s unable to get any totel to take Celestia in owing to her costume. But later he persuades his [ather to keep her, When he koes out to the taxi he finds her gone. She falis into the hands of white slavers, but apes and gocs to live with a_poor fam- ily by the name of Douglas. When their son_Freddie returns home he finds right in his own house, Celestia, the girl for which the underworid has offered a re- ward that hé hoped to grt. Celestia secures work in a large gar- ment factory, where a great many girls are employed. Here she shows her pe- cullar power, and makes friends with all ber girl companions. By her talks to the girls she is able to calm a threatened strike, and the “boss” overhearing her ls moved to grant the rellef the girls wished, and also to right a great wrong he had done one of them. Just at thls point the factory catches on fire, and the work room is soon a blazing futnace. Celestia refuses to escape with the other girls, and Tommy Barclay rushes in and car- ries her out, wragped in a vig roll of cioth After resculng Celestia from the fire, Tommy sought by Banker Barclay, who_undertakes to persuade him to up the glrl. Tommmy refuses, und Coleeiia wants him to wed her dirsctly. Ie can not do this, as he has no funds. Stiliiter and Barcl ntroduce Celestia to & co- Yy terfe of wealthy mining men, who agree to send Celestia to the collivrius The wife of the miners' leader involves Tommy in an escapade that leads th miners to lynch him. Celestia saves him from the mob, but turns from him and goes to see Kehr. ELEVENTH EPISODE “There's Frof. Stilliter—] guess she goes to him when she's in a fix for what to say next, There's a kind of half-witted fellow, named Douglas. She keeps a couple of secretaries going day and night There's a_cook and servants, lots of peo-| ple. Wouldn't be easy. to.come at hex, “Have you any idea,”" ngked*:)isg Blackstone, | *how much these pearis-[ showed you are worth? No idea? Af woman could live on the income, She could wear pretty clothes and have a ser- vant. 1f she had a husband she didn't like, ehe could afford to divorce him. Do you know what I'd do if any one should come to me and tell me that a certaln person was never soing to get in anybody's way again? I'd give these pearls to that person gladly, or I'd lose | them where that person could find them. ‘What's the use of wishes when your heart's sore.” “No use at all,” admitted Miss Black- stone, “and still I'd rather be rich and | heart-broken than poor and heart-broken, wouldn't you?”" “Yes,” said Mre, fully, “I would." Miss Blackstone rose, her hand at her throat where the pearls lay. “I hope,” she sa'd, “that I shall have the pleasure of seeing you agaln—soon. What do you think?" “Oh,” satd Mrs. Clunsdorf, wonder.’ And she, too, rose from the table, with a look in her eyes at once and resolved And now -the téwn of Pitumen became as one paper put it, the enter of a new world Kehr had assented grimly to the settle- ment >f the strike on Celestia’s terms Ho had come out for Celestia’s policies. And because of his very grimness and stubbornness his late enemies began #ec that he would be a tower of strel to any cause which he shonld e In that town, whers a week ago his 1if would not have becn worth a moment's purchase, he was already being talked of as the next United States senator from Pennsylvania Special correspondents had begun flock into Bitumen. jeer stayed in a btate of great wonder- ment, ahd began presently to number themselves among the falthful Stop a moment and try to reslize the power for good or evil, the collective power, of the newspapers of America. If they are not the whole voice of the peo- ple, they are alone that part of it which can make itselt heard. Suppose some one man could get control of that voice, and make It speak loud and bold for his own purposes, he would be such a dic- tator, such & “man on horseback,” as the world has not yet seen. The news- papers united could elect any man they please. They could elect a map taken or the purpose from a lunaticfsylum. hey could even elect Bryan. They puld make us as a people think exactly hat they please and when they piease. ey could turn us over night into a r-loving nation bent upon a world quest, or they could turn us into the ine jellyfish that many men who call themselves Americans ould have us. B You could conjure up to yourself a pary night marish monster out of the ewspapers united. But the newspapers ill mever become the wicked or benef- ent monster of might. Some will al- ays continue to speak for the foolish, me for the wise; some, one thing one y and the other thing the next. Even s divided, great is their power. we have any wisdom as & nation, we it to the mewspapers. Likewise we Gunsdorf, thought- I shouldn't | w0 n Huse to Many who came to | well-adver- | others welcomed and embraced it becauss S The Most Imposing Motion Picture Serial and Story Ever Create $ : : : : : Read It Here—See It at the Movies e G W o Mary Shows the Pearls to Mrs. Gunsdorf and Tells Her How to Win Them. tested the thought Still others, and in the end | tion) ~having itrwas news these became her porters, took some “You because it was new; most - powerful sup- such attitude as this may argue for the new gospel; | you may argue against it. You may call it treason; you may call it progress; but when all is said and done certain facts wiil shine out clear as crystal. “As a people we ought to be happy we are not. Millions who ought to be clean and healthy are Wirty and sick. There 1s enough money for everybody A very small portion of this s in the hands of the efficlent few; the rest is nowhere, Leing lost, wasted, thrown over- board. “In those whom we elect to high office two lities only seem necessary—in- efficiency and selfishness, | “What are we going to do about it?’ A certain scientific gentleman (of fic- constructed a- very large monster in the image of man, breught it |to life—and it got away from him and raised al kinds of Cain. Celestia was no- Frankenstein, but Prof- Stilliter no longer found in her the apt and docile pupil of earlier days. He found it harder and harder to control her. More and more she thought for her self. The reason for this fallure in his power over her was not far to seek. He loved her with a love that he found deily more difficult to keep in bounds. To control another pérson's mind great con- centration Is necessary. Now, of love makes it almost impossible to concentrate upon any other state. So, when Prof. Stilliter would be trying to | will Celestia—to say precisely so and so the state | to an audience, the half of his mind would be concentrated upon her beauty (Joyouely), upon her desirability (gloat- ingly), upon his love for her (apdently) | and upon her dislike for him (with fury and hatred of those whom she liked much). Consequently she didn't always say or do precisely what we willed her come to make the world bette lite. in, cleaner and happler. |and often so Intolerantly that of his vole: she couldn’'t have stood it she came from heaven, and that she had safer to Tommy argued with her so incessantly it she hadn't been in love with the mere sound | | By DR. CHARL) 1. PARKHURST, In my snoug! talks with young sald to possible to easy (¢ attain something man men. thus far has heen how that al though sucoess i« wttain It s not that a reaches v drifting. What drifts always Jdownstream, never up. The ten- fency of everything toward o level ®ooil {fore, wo connot | drift, but must cver come It, and leat the of the interpos of \ ver irifts |18 lower To accomplish results, (here uso sweer by some ing anchor Anc as nocessary on land as sen. A trec Is able | to stand against the wind bacause of the inchorage seoured to it by the roots | Which knit It to the ground. A rootless tree 19 no tree. Jven the rosks are held to the ground, instead of flying about In the air, bocanse bound down by cords of gravity. The earth i prevented from | rambling off wildly into space hecauss | held to the sin by the Invisible links of | molar attraction | Stabllity, whether of rock, plinet or | man, is made possible only by the firm- | ness with which it is attached to some- | thing that will not move. When a man hag learned that fact, and has applied it to himselt. hoe has acquired ane of the great tundamental lessons of life. A tree without roots might stand a | while weroe there no wind, but there in |always wind—almost always. And there | are Influences—a good many of them—that tend to keep men frum standing erect in their personal life in very much the same way thut tempests In the atmo- |sihere tend to blow down whatever stands in their path; and people are | prostrated by thern uniess they are held | fast by other influences strouger than l‘ o s that are trying to throw them |down, Now, there is no getting away from that fact. It ls true every time | Young wen 5o to the bad mot becauss {they are thomselves bad, but because | they are unanchored, that is to say, be- cause they are not so rooted and groundad |in established principles of right thinking |and noble living that temptations can |Yave no effect upon them. Temitations are another name for the winds that are | blowing fr vur moral atmosphere, and they are full of upset. They make out A | vory consideruble part of lifs. However | we may account for them they are ihere and of whatever benefit they may be to us if we overcome them, they will over- |come us if we are not in our heart so | braced as to show more resistance to thera than thev can show to us You young' men can call that preache |ing, or you can call it moral sclence or psychology, or by such other name as you prefer; it is a frank, unvarnished statement of the fact in your case, and " Fo Be Continued Tomorrow.) in every case. What we call being :f: say and do. Still, she had been under - g et a8 “brought up' is the process of having “\"nl nv:u{ fos srn mlnn) ‘wn'rr: Tul it was | wrought iInto us those impulses toward y natural for her to think upon as 1| upright living and earnestness of pu many subjects as he thought. And, in- | whict ’ Ak e deed, Celestla’s oratory was finer on the | new basis for self-initative, and she had more power on the minds of those who listened to her. If Stilliter could have been eliminated from her life, her life, for a time, must have gone on ve as it wae going on. Household Suggestions entirely | soup will keep it from turning sour. at least y much She believed firmly polish increases tho latter's brilllancy In what she preached. She believed that | sunlight; all colored articles in the shade. it to them that we are not always or on the side of righteousness. lestia then began to develop strength he newspapers. She was to develop much before her course was run as is dly believable. Already the idea of nging our government was no longer ews headline, but a definite and by means uncomfortable thought In the ds of men. Some newspapers de- His Master’s Voice July Records Now on Sale, the the best list in many months. into any Victor Store and hear that latest hit, “My Little Dream Girl.” Record No. 17789. 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