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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 22. \VH. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Published Every Afternoon. (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At a West AUbsms St. Atlanta, Oa. Subscription Ratesi One Tear MSO fill Months Thrw Months One Month By Carrier. I'er Week J® Telephones rnnneetlng alt depart- merits. Long distance terminals. Smith A Thompson, adrertlstnx rep- resentatlTes for aU territory outside of Oesceta. Chicago Office Tribune Building h'ew York Office Brunswick Bldg. tbe circulation department and bare It promptly remedied. Telephones: Ball itzi main; Atlanta 4401. It la desirable that all eommnnlca. tlona Intended for publication In TUB GEORGIAN AND NEWS be limited to 100 words In leogtb. Iris Imperatlre that they be signed, as an evidence of good faith. Rejected mannecrlpts will not be returned unleaa atampa are sent for the purpose. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS prints OUB PLATFORM: THE) GEORGIAN AND NEW8 steads for Atlsnte'e own- Inc Its own gss end electric light plants, as It now owns Its water works. Other rltlea do this end get 5 a as low aa 6-) cents, with e pruflt the City. This should be done at ones. THU GEORGIAN AND NEWS bellevea that It street- railways can be operated successfully by European cities, as they are, thero la no good reason why they can not be so oper ated here. But we do not boilers this can be done now, and It may be some years before we are ready for so big an undertaking. Still Atlanta ahould sat Its face In that direction NOW. Mr. Brynn’a defense of South ern governors in their contro versy vrlth Federal Judges would be more convincing If Mr. Bryan were not so much In need of Southern support In the next Democratic national convention. —Kansas City Star. Isn't It possible somewhere at some time for a public man. to build a char acter In which his utterances can be held alncere without the aaperalon of a aelflsh and interested motive? Bry an does not deserve this paragraph. The campaign In Oklahoma has reached that acute stage where one Republican paper demahds that Presldont Roosevelt must take action at once to aave the people from the "reprehensible, contemptible, diabolical and dam- nable” policy of a county - board In refusing to give the Republi cans an equal division of election Inspectors.—St. Louis Republic. Did you erer stop to think, gentle reader, how Insane a thing Is politics poisoned by passion and self Interest? Leslie M. Shaw, ex-secretary of the treasury, has becomo con vinced that the need of the hour la for "universal sanity.” But If this condition shall be attalnod, how does Mr. Shaw expect to realize hli ambition to become president?—Kansas City, Times. Thero goes the paragrapher again. ‘Secretary Shaw haa said a wise, good thing. But the paragrapher has spoiled It by levity. It Is estimated that last year Paris ate altogether 40,000 horses, or moro than 22,000,000 pounds of horseflesh. In 1899 the consumption was less than 10,000,000« pounds. Besides the low price there has been n demand for the meat, because It Is supposed to be wholesome In cases of tuber culosis tendency. Many regard It more healthful than beef. From conservative figures Just com pleted It la estimated that since 1892 to date the total production of gold from the Cripple Creek district has amounted to $1 SO,000,000. it was Col orado Springs capital which was Drat used In the development of the camp, and the Investment has mado two- score millionaires. Commander Robert E. Peary has purchased of her Damarlscotta own ers the ancient plnkey schooner Mary and will have her restored lti an ef fort to perpetuate this vanishing style of craft. She Is the second oldest merchant vessel under the American flag, having been built at Portsmouth In 1811. The gutters of Rio de Janeiro ran with beer for several days recently. The municipal laboratory, hkvlng dis covered that practically every beer In tbe local market contained a danger ous amount of sulphuric add, the au thorities proceeded to destroy all stocks on hand. "The career of a Titan"—so Mr. Watterson describes the career of Mr. Dans—and In a review more than two columns long he discusses the life of "the moat abused and admired editor of his time." A man who has given the subject a great deal of study says that there 1* ■ greater variety to be found among divorce laws of differed nations than among the laws governing any other subject WELL DONE, THE GOVERNOR. No one thing that Governor Smith has done up to this point In bis administration gives The Georgian greater satisfaction than tbe tender of the special attorneyship of the railroad commission to Judge James K. Hines. It Is a timely and merited recognition of that great company of Populists who having recorded In three campaigns their proteat against tbe corporation drift of our modern Democracy, and having engrafted many of the best and wisest of tbelr Jeffersonian principles upon the platforms of tbe Democratic party, have come back In good faith and In self-respect to the house of their fathers to remain. Tbe appointment of Judge Hines Is an act not lesa of personal ap preciation for loyal support, but aa well of that high and comprehen sive statesmanship that builds parties above prejudice and beyond the narrow lines of faction. We congratulate the governor upon the tender. There were never any better and truer citizens of Georgia than those who made up the old Populist party. They were honest and con scientious farmere, of the bone and sinew of the state, genuinely per suaded of the necessity of reforms which they feared could not be at tained within tbe existing lines of the Democratic organization. They fought their battle fairly, bravely, capably, and they won. They carried Georgia with them and were for a season the dominant party In the state. They were Georgians to tbe core, and not an unworthy act mars the record of their brief career of power, which resulted in tbe partial ac ceptance by the Democratic organization of many of the principles for which they contended, while every subsequent year baa given them more abundant vindication In tho adoption of their creeds by the great party of the people which Jefferson founded for tbe people. No Populist need ever blush for the history and achievements of his party so long aa our definite Democracy survives to vindicate and per petuate Its principles. And Judge James K. Hines was one of the ablest, tbe cleanest and the beat beloved of the leaders of theso honest Georgians. He was their candidate at one time for governor. He was at all times their loyal and eloquent advocate, and the asperities of politics never discovered a stain upon hli character or record. When Governor Smith launched the great campaign that carried the Incarnation of that definite Democracy for which James K. Hines and Thomas E. Watson pleaded In large part, under the banner of Populism, both Hines and Wqtson felt that they could without a trace of Inconsist ency fall In line behind this real champion of the people. And they did with power and eloquence gfve ling and currency to the Hoke Smith campaign, fighting In the ranks like men. It Is well that the governor should tender to James K. Hines the legal counaelorehlp ot the great railroad commission which he haa bulld- ed to establish tho equality of the people. He could not find a truer Democrat In the genuine sense, to fill this station. He could not reward a cleaner and more virtuous citizen. He could not honor a more Incorruptible patriot. And he could not do a wiser thing than to tonic tho whole rank of his own party by this Injection of the good name and the high talents of an organization that has been from the beginning an Inspiration and a helper to the better Democracy of this larger day. Well done. Governor Smith. Welcome, Counselor Hines. THE GREAT FIGHT OF PATRICK CALHOUN. Few men are better remembered In Georgia In the light of vivid momorles and of vigorous Intellectuality than Pat Calhoun. Atlanta recalls him as ope ot tbe ablest and most vital of her at torneys In one of the most strenuous periods of her eqonomte and po litical history.' The writer recalls that as for back as 1884, Patrick Cal houn, then a struggling young lawyer, sat on his veranda In Edgewood and outlined In personal conversation tbe entire scheme and scope ot the Southern railway as It stands today, and a largo port of which was fashioned by his own constructive brain and energies, first In tho Rich mond and Danville, and then In the West Point Terminal Company. He Is In point ot mentality the greatest living descendant of hla grandfather, John C. Calhoun, and of his almost equally famous grand father, General Duff Green, the famous editor of The National Intelligen cer, In Washington. The genius of Pat Calhoun ran In an equal current between the large statesmanship ot bis paternal grandfather and the gentna for finan cial and material development which moved his maternal grandfather Green. The first twenty years of his active life was a struggle between the political and material forces ot bis career. In his political era he swept rapidly to the front and was In 1891 the nominee of the Populist party for the United States senatorshlp from Georgln. He was defeated by only four votes by General John B. Gordon In one of the fiercest and closest conflicts that the state legislature has ever known. Shortly after his defeat Pat Calhoun drifted to New York and be came a man of large and ever-increasing wealth. He made several mil lions out of Cleveland real estate, which ho subsequently doubled In tho Pittsburg Traction Company, and In the laat five years has had his chief business occupation as president of the United Railways ot San Francisco, In whose handling he also amassed a great fortune. It Is out of tbe struggle for this tremendous property that Patrick Calhoun haa fallen Into the fierce controversy which has Involved him In the courts of San Francisco. Among the hundreds of friends whom he made and left In Atlanta, there Is no man who believes for a moment that Calhoun has been guilty of any personal corruption In the conduct of these vast enterprises. It has been the theory of his friends who know him here that he was literally blackmailed by the San Francisco boodlers In securing the franchises absolutely necessary for -his great corporation and that he simply submitted to being held up with his usual Imperturbable serenity. Within recent weeks It has developed that the struggle In San Francisco Is simply a colossal fight between Claua Sprccklea and Pat Calhoun for the control ot the United Railways of San Francisco. The franchises of tho properties ot this great corporation make a mighty stake worthy ot the great brains and colossal energies of the financial giants who are grappling over them. Pat Calhoun so far has won and Is In possession of the properties as their president with full direction of their destinies. It Is over the details of their future control, according to The Graphic, an old and strong weekly paper ot I .os Angeles, that Claus Bpreckles, the financial giant And genius ot the Pacific slope, has grappled with tbe Georgia financier In a death struggle for the future profits of this vast corporation. Sprecklea has been for more than a decade almost omnipo tent In the politics and finances of San Francisco. He has controlled Its ward politicians, dictated Its financial policies and haa been pandered to by all the potential forces of the great city of the Golden West It Is the great hand of Spreckles that has brought about ihe prosecution In whoso meshes Pat Calhoun has been Involved. It Is the great hand of Spreckles that la behind the charges of graft and corruption which In volve the Georgia financier. It Is the great hand of 8precklos that di rects the prosecution of lleney, and the prosecution, which has now de veloped Into persecution, against the strong man who holds the United Railways. A weaker man than Pat ’Calhoun would long since have collapsed and surrendered under the assaults that have been made against him, but those vlio know the stern stuff and the Iron caliber ot the Georgian will not be surprised to learn that with hlk usual dauntless courage and his great brain and dauntless energies he has fought his light almost alone, and Is Just now about to emerge scathless and triumphant from the most terrific ordeal to which a man has been subjected In the finan cial history ot tbe West. The Graphic, In Its issue of July 20th, comes out whole-heartedly and eloquently In tbe espousal of Pat Calhoun's cause. It denominates his battle h "fight for industrial freedom and the liberty of the Individ ual against tbe form of-government by the Big 8tlck.” It ex'poaes the hand ot Spreckles. It makes plain tbe conspiracy which the sugar king and his friends have made against Calhoun, and demonstrates not only the courage but the blimelessness of the Georgian In the entire tragedy ot finance which has been enacted In 8an Francisco. If The Graphic Is to be believed In proportion to Its high repute, the germination of Calhoun’s trial Is near at hand and the triumphant vindi cation of the Georgia financier will be followed by bis remarkable vic tory over tbe greatest financial forces In the West, and hla establish- I /■ -IV ment In tbe control of newer and larger millions than be has ever op erated before. There are hundreds of friends In Atlanta who will be pleased to hear these things. . NEWSPAPERS THAT TELL THE TRUTH. The esteemed Atlanta Oeorglqn seta forth with peculiar fe licity a truth well worth recording: "But the Democracy these day* la getting Its real facta and the whole truth not from partisan newspapers, but from great In dependent journals like The New York World and The Washing ton Post and The Georgian. These are sitting upon the watch •tower and describing things as they are.” It la only great and independent Journals nowadays that can deliver real facts and whole truths. The Georgian haa aptly dis criminated between real facta and mere facts, and between Whole truths and fractional truths.' The partisan newspaper, happily becoming extinct. Is extremely lucky if it can distinguish and utter either a mere fact or a fractional truth. It Is utterly unable to give its own party real facta or whole trntbs, or both. The impartial and scrupulous student of politics will find In this - fact—this real fact—the secret of Democracy's weakness. There is no one to tell It the truth—the whole truth—except a few In dependent journals. Its own journals are unable, and Its - oppo nents are unwilling, to set It right. As the party decays, partisan Journals decay. With the in crease of Independence and honest speech, virility returns. The party learns Its weaknesses and repairs them, and strikes out with fresh hope. If all the Journals claiming to be Democratic would throw off the yoke of partisanship and tell the truth about the Democratic and Republican parties, without bias, the coun try would be vastly benefited^—and the country's benefit la the aim of all parties. > Aa for The Post, It is glad to alt on the independent Watch tower In company with tbe urbane Georgian and describe things as they are.—Washington Post Whatever may have been the mission of tbe purely partisan news paper In times past Its usefulness Is spent and Its force Is discredited In tbe freer and braver atmosphere ot thla larger day. The cheap newspaper and the rural mall delivery have created the freest and most practical Democracy in the.world. In this day of wide distribution of news, every man does his thinking for himself, and agrees only with those opinions that are in themselves free, honest and full of common sense. There la not a countryman from Tybee to Toccoa who does not instantly recognize the partisan newspaper, and who does not read Its opinions with the necessary grain ot salt When the paper tells tbe truth the reader knows It and applauds. But when the partisan organ colors facts to political purposes, and twists news to the ends of partisan -advantage, no man knows It more quickly and rejects it more emphati cally than the country reader. The emptiness of parties, their factional divisions, their platitudes too often meaningless and hollow, the tyranny of caucuses, the selfish ness of leaders, and the pusillanimity of politicians' are just as evident to the quiet reader In the country as to the most active rounder ot the town. The man who pays for a newspaper in this day when there are so many newspapers wants one that will tell the truth, and give the facts and let him make up his opinions for himself. But never before have honest opinions and fearless expressions of conviction in a newspaper had greater currency and larger force than they have today. » Let an editor establish in the minds of his reader a conviction of his honesty, and not even Duff Green or Horace Greeley, or George D. Prentice or Watson Webb, will have a larger and more loyal clientele than he. / The independent newspaper is the power of the present day. REPRESENTATIVE NEEL ENTERS PROTEST AGAIN8T SABBATH DESECRATION. To tho Editor ot Tho Georgian: Now that the streM and storm ot tho dosing hours ot the recent legislative ses sion hare passed, and there Is time tor retrospect end reflection, I am prompted to enter modest hut earnest protest against the custom ot stopping the clock on the closing night of the session and continuing work of legislation Into the succeeding especially when that day Is Sunday. __ Is an open secret that much of the most Important work of tho legislature Just dosed was completed after the hour of midnight on the Iftst legislative day and that the sscredness of Sunday was openly and flagrantly violated. The writer must, and does hereby, assume his full shnro of responsibility for thla Infraction and desecration of tho Sabbath day. But there la none the leea a coneclouanese that It wss wrong and ahonld not be repeated, stopping of a clock In tho capital can top the flight of time, nor change cold fecte Into n legal Action. If leglsletora expect the people to observe id obey the Inws they enact, certainly they -jotild themselves stand as dear ami con spicuous examples of reapeet for and obe dience to law. It It contended that con- dltlona at the dosing hours of the session make It necessary to trench upon the suc ceeding day. Hut It Is believed that such >sed necessity often results from n re to work with diligence and duo at- cation to details earlier In ths session, lad we come down to business from the ARMY-NAVY ORDRES —AND— MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS Importance of Rigid Rules The man who runs hla business loosely places himself In the path of bankruptcy. The same principle applies to the banking business. Rigid rules protect a bank's customers; but they are worthless unless the bank adheres strictly to them. We maintain rigid rules in tbe conduct of our business; that is not only for our own good but also for the benefit of our customers. To stand by a set of rules enables us to treat every patron of the bank the same whether hla business amounts to much or little. A fair and impartial treatment to all la well worth your careful consideration. Our many years' banking experience has taught ua wbat not to do, and how to serve our customers to their advantage. We Invite your account regardless of the amount or class of your business, feeling confident that we can render a satisfactory service. MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO. THE BRACEBRIDGE DIAMONDS A Thrilling Story of Mystery and Adventure 8YNOPSfe. Prank (the hero) and Reginald Brneebrldge jCoailni) meet Mm*. Vera Slavtnsk? beautiful woman, nt .Saratoga. She fi tacked by a foreigner (Dr. Carl Mueller), the latter demanding that ahe surrender to him “a bit of paper and a atone.” He claims be has tne missing fragment nud that "the others were then In the hotel.” Frank rescues her and la given a package with permlslaon to open It when he thlnki the right time has come. A telegram an noddees the sndden death of Reginald's father. Frank Is made executor of the es tate. Reginald Is charged with forgery, and calls upon Frank to nave him from arrest. A maid rushes Into tbe room and tells Reg inald his wife Is dead and that he (s char ed with her murder. Frank and KeglnaL leave tbe house by a secret passage and reach the Bracehrldge country home on Long Island. They* embark In an alrghlp. Reginald Is sent to France. Frank learns thgt the physician who attended Regluald'e wife resembles Dr. Mueller. He hires a farm In Ohio near the place where this doc- Dr.-Mueller falls In love with her. He teems to know her brother, a painter, who realties abroad. Sylvia, Dr. Mueller and a girl friend visit “The P*”— ” — *• said to he haunted. Basil Thurston makes violent love to Syl- Army Orders. Attention matter now, can be ) might nave been avomeo. Is respectfully called to this , with the earnest hone that a found to atop It for the future. , Js inu confess to a sense of deep regret that our Habbeth was so mtiely violated and I dare to express the hope that It will not occur again. WILLIAM J. NEEL. Cnrtersvllle, Oa. INSTALL THE FOUNTAIN. To the Editor of The Georgian: Having been appointed by the Atlanta Civic League to nsk you by letter to help ' " s lias been lying In the cellar of the Chnm her of Commerce for more than a year, awaiting a movement of the city to place It In use somewhere for the benefit of man and beaat, wo, ns niemhcrrt of the Atlanta Civic Isoagtie, earnestly wish your co-opera tion In the matter, and would nsk that the fountain be placed somewhere near the capltol, on the Hunter street side, and that for the encouragement of the children and the good It will be for humanity, and also for the sake of beasts, we earnestly hope soon to see the fountain In the servico for which It was bought. Respectfully, A. G. it ELM Kit, Atlanta Civic League. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. (From The New York Press.) Going on a vacation Is one way to learn to do without comforts. A man would Just as Itef bo honest as not If It were possible to make any money that way. go off so early. PROBATION BEFORE PROHIBITION Five months in Which to cogitate, To ruminate, to think; Five months In which to cultivate Immunity from drink. That gets Into the I Body aimI soul-lt will kill ua If we supply It food. And surely law’s the leucocyte Which soon we will employ The fell microbe to phagocyte, Its virulence destroy. ”To hell with prohibition:” That Is the outlaw’s creed. Give It your recognition In thought and word and deed. The »w is vii iunr (hit. Let's bow to Its authority And on the wagon rids. Annlstead, respectively. Captain Clark D. Dndley, Fourteenth cavalry, to Whipple Barracks. Major Clar- way. ence P. Townsley, coast artillery corps, Major Oscar _ corps, from Fort Mansfield to commam Fort Strong. Navy Orders, Lieutenant G. Da rat, commissioned. Mid- movements ot vessels. Arrived—August li, Iroquois at Midway Plaint. August 20, Rocket at Washington; Tennessee nt Boston; Wilmington at Bhang- hal: Chattanooga at Fusan, Korea; Preble at Tacoma; Lawrence at Newport. Sallod—August 20, Hull from navy yard, New York, for Newport: Olympia, Florida aud Nevada from New London for mouth of Potomac; Pratrte from Portland, Maine, for Hampton Roads: Proble, from Seattle for Tacoma; Mayflower from Province- town, Maas., for Oyster Bsy; Alabama, from Provlncetown, Mass., for Newport. JAMES BOARDMAN HAWTHORNE. now grand at eventide of life to rest From labor, care, and pain and atrlfe; And live in love and honor—hletsed By all who knew his stainless life. Groat preacher-orator, thy head la crowned With richer Jewels than those of king or lord. From sen to sea, thy name renowned Is glorious for the spoken Word. Rest now, leave all tho stormy ways, the strife: Thy work Is finished, and thy name As pure and atalnless as thy life, BOY IS RUN OYER; DRIVER DOESN’T STOP Vernon, the 6-yenr-old son of Gen eral J, L. Stoppelbeln, while playing In front of his home, 305 Capitol ave nue, Wednesday, was run over by a buggy and painfully cut about the head, it Is said the buggy* was driven by a white man and that he never stopped to eee the extent of the lad’s Injuries. Tho matter haa been report ed to tho police. cam TaiiMton make, violent lore to By] vie. He tell, h.r he know, ehe loves hit: and la only kept from saying ao l>y fear of ner brotber. Raymond. Ilnail makes threats _ — per, _ M ratio and seek hla fortune In tbe mines. IIo turns to drink In hla distress over bta nn- auccessfnl love nffnlr, end hla slater, ltoae, pleads with him to reform. Baall doe. not reform. While In the field one day h. hears Dr. Mneller making love to Sylvia. Itaall meet, the girl and begs her to wed him. She I. frightened and re fine,. While trying to escape from Basil •he rnns Into the arms of Dr. Mneller. She consents to marry the doctor. Dr. Mneller urges Sylvia to marry him at once, although she tells him ehe wishes her brother. Raymond, who Is In Europe, to be present at the ceremony. Ruth -Pritchard warns Sylvia against Dr. dueller, and Daitl Thurston declares. In n otter to Sylvia, that he will prevent her marriage at any cost CHAPTER XXXVI. Raymond’s Return. Ruth was silent for a moment, her strange eyes fixed Intently on the words as If she were reading a hld- Iden meaning from them, Invlslblo to 'Sylvia's perception. “He will come unexpectedly. Miss Sylvia," Ruth said then. "He will take r ou by surprise one of these days. If am not greatly mistaken." One afternoon In the third week of October, Carl Muoller and Sylvia were crossing the fields toward the beach Juat below the park wall of The Hollow. Sylvia had, as usual, been talking of Raymond. "Everything you tell me of your brother makes me more anxious to meet him, dearest," Mueller said, after a little pause. His eyes were lowered to the fading grass os he spoke. “1 am not surprised that you praise him so much. Jle must have a very lovable character. "There Is no one In the world like Raymond—no one!” Sylvia cried, en thusiastically. The prospect of seeing this loved brother so very soon had so filled Sylvia's thoughts and dreams during the previous weeks that she had scarcely allowed herself to turn her at tention to any other matter—even the matter of her engagement, and as the time drepr nearer and nearer to the probable date of Raymond’s return, an uncontrollable excitement thrilled In' Sylvia's veins, and she could hardly talk or think of anything but tbs Idol ised brother. Yet there, were time* when certain misgivings harassed her. Had she really acted In a deceitful, even treach erous manner toward Baall Thurston? Had she rushed Into this engagement without due consideration, and was she wilfully closing her eyes to the facts of her position and drifting on blindly with the current, heedless of whither it should carry her? "Let us go to the edge ot the cllffa down there,” Mueller said, "Our favor ite nook looks especially'Inviting this moment.” The afternoon was a typical October GILMAN ACTRESSES USE COREY’S NAME San Francisco, Aug. 22.—William E. Corey's name Is utilized by an Oak land theater aa an advertisement for the performance of his wife’s two half slaters, Eunice and Pearl Gilman. They propose to Introduce this method of ob- talnlng publicity In New York, Sirs. C. H. Gilman, mother of the girls, de claring that they have under way ne gotiations with the theatrical mart- agers with that end In view. EDUCATIONAL RALLY TO BE HELD AT CATAULA Special to The Georgian. Cataula, Oa, Aug. 22.—The farmers’ union of this county will give an edu cational rally at this place on Wednes day, August 28. There will be epeak- Ing by Hon. 8. E. Leigh, of Coweta county, who le known to be a very elo quent and gifted speaker, and other equally oa gifted orators. Brewery Maneger Held. Special to The Georgian. Salisbury, Aug. 22.—Failing to give a bond of $600, Robert R. Taylor, man ager of the Robert Portner Brewing Company, of Alexandria,-Fa., la In Jail on a charge of embezzlement of tbe funds of the company, Tbe coze was tried before Harry J. Overman. broken.” Mueller said, looking down over the cliff and releasing Sylvia's arm at once. "I will go down for It this moment. There Is n narrow foot way to tbe beach Just beyond our nook there." "Well, it Is all your fault, Carl, so I don't pity you. Be careful of that' path though; It Is very narrow and very steep.” A moment later Mueller had begun hla descent of the cliff and was soon lost to sight behind a projecting bluff Sylvia sttll watched the beach; but after a moment or two she turned her eyes—as If Impelled by some fores which could not be resisted—upon the red sands which she and Mueller had crossed a few minutes before; and as she did so she started and her heart began to tbrob. A man’s figure was visible In the sol- Itary waste of- sand and rocks aa It came on quickly In the direction of the cliffs—a figure that was certainly not Basil’s, not the Judge's. A cry of Joyful excitement escaped Sylvia’s lips. She rose to her feet and ran a few steps forward; then she snatched her handkerchief from her pocket and waved It wildly over her head toward the approaching figure, as she almost flew over the beach to meet him. "Raymond! Raymond!" she gasped, for her heart beats seethed to choke her as she ran. It was Raymond, In deed. He, too, was running, and In a very short time brother and sister had met, and Sylvia had burst Into Joyous tears of welcome. A Surprise. "I did not tell you. I was coming so soon, Sylvia, I wanted to give you a surprise,” Raymond Thurston said, after their breathless greetings were over. "I arrived about half an hour ago at the old home and then started to meet you." "Of course you did, you darling. As If you would calmly await my return,’’ Sylvia cried, brushing the tears from her eyes In an ecstacy qf Incredulous delight. "I cannot believe It Is you yet. I did not, of course, expect you until November. Ruth was a true prophetess, I see. She knew, from something you said In one of your re cent letters, that you would come un expectedly in the end.” “Did ahe, indeed? Poor Ruth! I haven't seen her yet.” "Let me look at you, Raymond," Syl via said, as she held him away from her at arm’s length. "You’ve' never looked so well before—never so glori ously handsome.” He certainly was gloriously hand some In hla own particular way, with his exquisitely cut features, his large, clear, thoughtful blue eyes, hla per fectly shaped, artistic head, with Its wonderful sunny hair. In the wavy masses of which threads of living gold seemed to run In and out. ’And where lav Carl Mueller?" Ray mond said presently. "Mother told me he was with you, Sylvia, and I ex pected to meet you both together.” Sylvia laughingly explained what had occurred. "But he cannot be much longer now," she said. “How surprised he will be se you, Raymond! This very after noon he spoke of you, and said he looked forward so much to meeting you. Come over to the bluff; perhaps we shall see -him coming up." Continued in Tomorrow’s Georgian. Tne afternoon was a typical October one—still, dreamy, restful, with a flood of amber sunshine falling upon sand and crag, rock and lake, and that sense of expectancy In the air, as though nature still reposing In a kind of fool’s paradise, was vaguely appre hensive at tho same time of the stern approach of Winter, with Its heralds of decay and tempest. The lake was a plain of sapphire blue, with a horizon of pearl and opal forming the most delicate backgrounds to its radiant hues. There was no sound In the trance-bound hush, save a dreamy cry of a bird now and then and the subdued monotone from -the beach far below. As they approached the cliffs, Sylvia ran forward with a little exclamation of pleasure and stood Just at the summit of the Tower Cliff. "How glorious the lake looks at this moment, Carl! I wonder could any hu man artist ever really catch that par ticular color?" "Except—perhaps, Raymond, Syl via?” Mueller answered, with a little smile. "Do come away from there, dearest," he said a moment later; "It Is a dangerous spot. Let us get into our nook and listen to the lake below.” He caught her hand and endeavored to pull her away from the giddy verge of the cliff, but Sylvia, Impelled by some whim, resisted laughingly, and Mueller found It necessary to bring a little force to bear upon her ob stinacy. "We shall see which of us shall con quer, madam,” he said, with mock sternness of tone and manner. “Yield at once, now, for If not"— "Ob, Carl, my bracelet! You've forced It open - — It Is gone!” Sylvia's Interruption came suddenly from her lips. In tbs playful struggle on the cliff top Mueller had Indeed managed to open the clasp of a pearl bracelet—one of hie own presents to his fiancee—and before Sylvia could re. cover the trinket It had slipped away from her wrist and fallen over the bluff, and from ledge to ledge, to the shining beach below. ’I am so sorry! 1 hope It Is not BIFFS NEWSPAPER Raleigh. N. C„ Aug. 22.—Rev. Len O. Broughton, the famous Atlanta preach er, who recently conducted a meeting In Brooklyn, N. Y„ has been In Raleigh, where ho was born, attending the bed side and funeral of hla father. Ho preached In tho Baptist taber nacle here and attacked the morning newspaper for maintaining a trust In The Associated Press news while Its columns teem with denunciations of trusts, etc. Today Dr. Broughton dictated and Issued a statement In which he says: Church Separate, "I did not mean to justify the methods of the Standard Oil Company nor the crimes for which the 'unwritten law’ Is brought Into action. What I meant was simply what I said: “ 'The church cannot become a party to the hue and cry that Is so popular today, 'down with everything that’s got mpney at Its back!' 1 am tn no sense a socialist. I hate socialism as I hate the devil. I believe that socialism as now advocated Is the sin of commun ism, which Is the child of the devil.” In speaking of the Standard Oil Com pany, Dr. Broughton said: "We find It very easy to denounce gambling In Wall street and great cor porations, but have nothing to say when we find It among the card-play- Ing women of our churches, who play tor prises. We make a great ado over the gambling methods of great corporations like the Standard oil Company, for example, who have Just been fined 329,000,000, while the same principle of taking advantage of com petitor* Is practiced by even the peanut venders of our city. "Inconsistency." 'Our good newspaper friends might take a bit of thla medicine which they are giving out on trusts and combines and perhaps that would be a bit or Interesting matter for the public. Here Is a paper in the city that's In the Associated Press combine. Another paper starts up In this same city and wanu a share In the news service. But no, the only treaty that can be made is that the new enterprise go out of business. There Is no bigger tntst than this. What Is this, after all but forcing a competitor to surrender to a trust? What I am making a plea for is consistency In our fight against cos* porutlona and trusts.” ) -