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fHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWb.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
(AND NEWS)
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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TUB (iKOltdiAX AXI) NEW A prtuls
no unriiau or olijeelloimlde adsertts-
las. Neither .lore ft pilul «»lsky or
uliy liquor mis.
OB If I'LATKOICM: TIIK liKOIttilAN
ANIi N'KIVM .mil,Is for Ail ion's own-
lint Its mvo pus mot rleolrlc npht
plnnU. as ll Uow own. Ita enter
works. Other ellles do this nnd pet
an. ita low sa CO cents, with n prod!
tu the ell*. This should lie done ill
miee. TIIB OEOIIHIAN AXIt NEWS
relieves thnt If slriet ralltrars eon tie
oii.rrted atiei-essfltlly hy Knrope.to
ellles. ns they iii„. there Is no pimd
pn—ti why Ihev ran not lie so oper-
sle.1 here Hot we do not lielleve this
rim in- done now. on,I It tuny he some
years before we nre ready for so Ida
nn nndertaklnp. Still Allr-ntn should
set Its In re In that direction NOW.
Councilman Rob-
nOHERTS IS erts' ordinance for the
RIGHT. eare of drunkards Is
humane and wise. It
Is worthy of the host spirit of prohibi
tion. Idtw Is always stern, but when
Its executor* Imbibe the spirit of
helpfulness and of human kindness
they are following the higher law
which tempers Justice with mercy.
Councilman Roberts has done well.
Ib It to he the Audito-
WHICH? Hum-Armory or the Armo-
ry-Andltorium? Generally
the emphnsls Is In the ellinnx sound,
and generally also good English har
mony would reserve the longest word
for the Iasi.
But In the long run the jicoplo arc
likely to take the matter In their own
hands and, with or without reason,
call the great hall Just what comes
easiest to them.
lie sure they nre not going to use
both words.
Which will It bo?
Mr. Roosevelt's
EXTRAVAGANCE Impulses carry
OP 8PEECH. him fast nnd far
when he assures
Congressman Iturlon, of Ohio, thnt he
"has qualities of leadership which no
other congressman could supply nnd
a mastery of certain subjects which
no other man In the house can hope
to attain." A marvellous man must
be Congressman Hinton or n marvel
lous opinion of him at least which the
president entertains and expresses.
Mr. Roosevelt is very human and
makoa many mistakes, one of which Is
In Interfering with the Cleveland
municipal election.
The Thomasvllle
A NEWSPAPER Times - Enterprise
CHANGE, has changed hands,
Wilson Hardy and
J. D. McCartney selling out to Fred
erick W. Royer and Edward It. Jerger.
Brilliant work has been done of re
cent years on this line paper. Hardy
and McCartney have made The En
terprise fairly sparkle since they laid
their bright hands upon its pages.
They had no superiors among the
younger newspaper men of the state,
and they were always fearless, origi
nal and heneat. Wilson Hardy is in
the West seeking health nnd finding
It. It Is good to hear that J. I). Mc
Cartney will continue to write the edi
torials for the new Enterprise, of
which citizens of Thomasvllle are
stockholder* and Mr. Boyer will be
business manager.
The Enterprise has been published
eighteen years as a dally, and for fif
ty-six years as a weekly.
May its noble and useful years be
multiplied.
TELEPHONE REGULATION.
(Prom Tlu» N**w York World.»
The telephone t‘>»mpHiilcs Imvo thomxclvvi!
made it imperative that their tiunluog* »httil
lie added to the Hut of affairs tinder the
Jurisdiction of the public utilities romuit*.
•hi®. Their rvrettt net of stmlliliitiK night
rare* on long-dUtum-e rail* Is the crowiiTiig
proof of irri‘*fHiti«Ui!o maiuinement a ml of
dlKfpeiinl for public iutoroMt.
I Jay rote* lor l«ug-,ll*tiuir«* telephoning
hare always been extortionate; f«r people
of moderate luetiiis practically prohibitive.
Mffct rates half n» liiufi coimtltuted an ni>
prom-li to reaxounbleio «h, ami iitntijr pn.|.!c
t'Ndt advantage of them, so mnnv that tin*
company lm. rnliowl in .h-ft-n*e of it* r»*-
vl-wd will-11 lie A tiie plea that the night
iMisim-H* has herotne to»» heavy; There an*
th* •Iteriialive* of stupidity mid greet t„
exphitn why n*» Attempt was mud? to til.
vide the t raffle l»y tin- linrical, g.Hxl-bu#!.
ness met do,| ,»f reduelng tiny rates to a
p<dat within iMHiudit.
Telephone* were omitte<| from the list
rover,.,| by the utilities bill t hlelly Itecause.
unlike rttllroioN, gn* plant*. t motion era-
,h, ‘ v ha ' 1 «nl»Jeet ‘to
jysttlatlon I>> state i-ojntui«chNie. The multi-
"*»»»■■ “ tuliitHke. ami the stnte must tin-
teuShm ,h ** f,,r . m 'f r, *?«ilntl»u for
,,mt 11 prescribes for
wuur public wrvhe corpora liona.
$490,315,934!
Four hundred and ninety millions of profits stored away by the
Standard Oil Company within the last seven yeers!
The imagination almost reels b-fore the contemplation of this stu-
liondous sum representing the profits and perhaps the dividends of the
most colossal monopoly of modern times. Money enough In silver dol
lars to make a girdle more than twice around the world, has been amassed
by this corporation through method! of arbitrary control and by the un
restrained power to crush and to kill all healthful competition with the
product which It sells.
Surely, these tremendous figures should be a new and thrilling Inspi
ration toward those high agencies of government and society that are
fighting tills colossal trust.
Acquit the Standard OH Company of all other crimes for the sake of
argument and there Is yet the single and consistent cruelty and arrogance
with which It has destroyed and trampled upon honest and healthful com
petition, for which this monstrous monopoly should be brought resolutely
and completely under the domination of the law and compelled to content
Itself henceforth with smaller dividends and yet more humane and hon
est methods of dealing with the people.
Right here In Atlanta we have an Illustration of the system by whies
these gigantic figures of profit have been rolled. A competing company
seeking only honest competition and having no purpose to destroy nor
any other design than to market Its own products In honest trade, Is day
by day being throttled and destroyed hy the octopus which has almost
made It Impossible for any other company on this continent to compete
with Standard OIL
A DEVICE TO DEFEAT RAILROAD COMMISSIONS.
Governor Comer, of Alabama, has laid the traveling public under
renewed obligations by refusing to accept tho coupon rebate atachment to
Louisville nnd Nashville tickets sold at regular prices.
The Alabama commission has established a 2 1-2-cent rate per mllo
on Alabama railroads. The L. & N. seeks to evade this by selling tlckeU
nt the old rate of 3 cents per mile, and attaching to each ticket a coupon
which contains a promise to pay to the traveler the sum of 1-2 cent
per mile In case the courts sustain the validity of the rato established by
the commission.
Governor Comer has declared that this does not meet the situation
and will not be accepted by the state administration as a compliance with
the law. He has announced himself In flatfooted opposition to the techni
cal evasion.
And the governor Is exactly right. The editor of Tho Georgian has
seen these "coupon promises to pay.”
They arc constructed In such a way. and so honeycombed with diffi
culty and red tape that two-thirds of the travelers would not toko the
trouble to proceed In the way prescribed to secure a refund of their
money, if the courts should sustain tho commission. This Is what the rail
road knows nnd presumes niton. It is safe to say that under any sort of
logni ruling the vast majority of these coupons for small amounts will
never bo presented or collected, and the contrivance Is simply a shrewd
scheme to defy the commission and defeat tho law.
Tho rosrls should Ik: made to abide by tho commission's rates In good
faith, and to fully recognize the dignity nnd force of the state law, lend
ing Us trial In the higher courts.
The experiment of the lower fares Is a wholesome one, both for the
railroads nnd the state, nnd tho results of It can best bo known by a fair
trial In the Interval of final settlement.
Meanwhile the act of the railroads can not ho construed In any other
way than as a refusal on tho part of the railroads to recognize the au
thority of the state, until some Federal court hns established It. It Is n
fie.t contempt of state rights, which should he vigorously rebuked both In
Alnbnma nnd In other states where the couiion device It-In existence.
Instead of the principle of the corporations In Ignoring state statutes
until they nre proved, let us sot up the sounder principle of obeying state
laws, until they nre demonstrated to be unconstitutional and unsound.
Upon tho question of difference let the state, not the corporation,
rule until tho settlement.
Otherwise tho corporation Is likely to think—or to continue to think
—that It Is greater than tho state. We shall follow Governor Comer's po
sition with Interest and all good wishes.
THE MACON “KALEIDOSCOPE.”
As tho years go by. one comes positively to admire the dashing,
slashing, devll-maycaro Inconsistency of Tho Macon Telegraph.
Here, for Instance, Is thnt ancient and charming pharisee, who care
fully ensconces himself In the caucocrntlc don In which ho thinks ho
really 1s a Democrat, and attacks The Georgian for certain Independ
ent expressions of loyalty to goot^ Democrats and to ronl friends of the
people. ■>
Smacking his lips with complacent unction, tho dear and ven
erable editor of The Telegraph actually has the audacity to Imaglno him
self a Democrat and to berate the editor of The Georgian, whom he has
the even greater audacity to think Is not a Democrat. We have neither
time nor space to keep up with the nuiltlplylng Inconsistencies of our
esteemed contemporary, but here, In his Sunday Issue, ho boldly comes
out of his caucocrntlc shell and frankly advises the Democrats of Geor
gia thnt the Macon platform, formally adopted by a legally elected Dem
ocratic convention. Is no more binding upon Georgia Democrats than
tho Khornn Is on Christian people. Of course, says this most rcmurkable
of all living Democrats—"of course, there arc good things In the Macon
platform, just as there are In the Khoran—but it does not bind any
Democrat cf conscience that does not want to be bound by It.”
Now we confidently predict that before three weeks are over the
author of this most remarkable statement will, with unblushing audacl-
•ty, assume the right to criticise tho Democratic loyalty of some men
who recognize the ronl principles of Democracy and fight for them
wherever they nppear und by whomsoever they may ho advanced.
Watch it! Not for any particular Importance thnt attaches to the
performance, but for the delightful and Infantile humor which attaches
to 'the kaleidoscopic changes of one of the most honest, one of the most
sincere, hut one of the most misguided public men that can be found In
the commonwealth of Georgia today.
THE WIDE WAVE OF PROHIBITION.
Oklahoma takes its place In the temperance column and starts tho
leaven of prohibition In the Southwest.
It Is simply marvellous how this wave of moral reform Is spreading
throughout the country.
. With Mississippi certain to follow Georgia, with Alabama more than
probable, and Florida and Tennessee coming Into line, and with Texas
throbbing with the spirit of the great reform, the time Is rapidly coming
when one can travel from the capital of his country to the Pacific coast
without finding a drink of whisky on the way!
If ever there was a time when tho great plan of national prohibition
seemed possible and probable, this Is the time. The country Is literally
swept from one end to another with the spirit of this moral reform, nnd
the several bills which nre to be Introduced Into the national congress
looking to a national law nre likely lo astonish the republic with the
strength nnd vigor of the support which they will receive.
Whatever apprehensions may have been entertained that Atlanta
would suiter to the advantage of adjoining cities In other states, are like
ly to disappear ns these other states themselves Jolu the stntely proces
sion of morality, temperance, and reform.
THE GREAT HALL ASSURED.
The successful conclusion of our long agitation for an Armory-Audi
torium Is a matter of general congratulation among the people of the city
and of the stale.
We shall have nt last a hall In Georgia large enough to entertain the
great conventions of the world.
We shr . have another great architectural structure added to the
stately array which makes up bo much of our reputation among the cities
of the republic.
The doubt Is over, the obstacles removed and we now have only to
await the completion of this great and henceforth Indispensable struc
ture ss rapidly as men and money can be concentrated upon its erection.
The Georgian congratulates all those who have been active In the
work from Chairman James R. Gray, who haB given hts time and execu
tive ability with great and effective faithfulness to the work, down
through the committee of the Chamber of Commerce and of the city
council and the director* who have been faithful In their intelligent zeat
la Its behalf.
Growth and Progress of the New South
the outran! progress of the Sooth*
BY
JOSEPH B. LIVELY
The Georgia mul Alabama Imlimtrlnl Index «iy» in It* Issue for till* work:
“Attrnrtod Hr <1i‘tuoiistrnt<’<l production of profit nnd l»y vnnt lesourcos unit in-
rlte development, tin* flow of money into GcorKin nnd AlMlinitin for Investment Is
sternly nnd luiccnnln^. In unlxoii with local capital It I* helping to advance the
two states rapidly toward that point of great material wealth and «*»ii»uwfrwi pres
tige rojjiuicnsnrute with their possessions nnd possibilities. Definitely projected in
vest ments nnnouueed during the past seven days are expressed in tUe minion*, a
mining company with capital stock of $."#,000,000 hns been organised In New \ork
city to onornte In the Blrinlnvhiini district. New York nnd Georgia capital will
build a $500,000 cotton mill at Manchester, tin. During the week twenty-one new
corporations. With total minimum capital stock of $2,<45.200, have been formed In
Georgia and Alabama. These (tie larger Items of it nuin!»er of varied Industries
reported by The Index for the week.
by-product plant, nirinlnghaiu. Ain.; bottling plants. An
ts. fin.; cotton picker plant, Augusta. On.; excelsior fno-
..,4r|ty of fertiliser factory to In* doubled. Valdosta, Cm.;
lumber manufacturing plants, Alnpnha. Gn.. (itronelle, Ain., Tuscaloosa. Ala.. Pre
toria, tin., and Wnycrot*. Gn.; wood filter plaster nnd lime plant. Huntsville,
Ala.; power nlant. near Mobile, Ala.; turpentine plants. Hnldw!i> county. Alabama.
«'Iffsens of mighfsriHe, tin., nre organising n companr to build a railroad be
tween that city nnd a m»lnt on the Atlanta and Florida railway.
••Continued activity isf shown In construction line*. Among other thing*. The
Index report* eight or ten-story apartment house, Montgomery.. Ala.; fifteen resi
liences and fifty-room hotel, near Mobile, Ain.; eight residences. Oellla, On.:
twelve store blindings. Cordele, Gn.; two bridges, ttyo church buildings, court
house. Chattooga county. Georgia: three school building*, theater, road improve-
ments. sewers, four warehouses, paving pliuis In five cities, numerous other real
de„re* and business buildings. Erection of four four-store apartment houses nt
Harm tilth, (In.. I* contemplated, and the construction of 125 residences nt May
crows. Git., Is under consideration. Municipal and county Improv
twee with private enterprise. Cobitnl "
H ... etits are keeping
. . v ,„„ MR, bns voted $70,000 of l#onds for build-
bridge: Baxley county, Georgia. *40.000 for meting court bouse, and Bessemer,
Forsyth.
I . . n $56,000
of light plant, water works and school building bonds nml Conecuh county, Ala
bama, upon *100,000 of road Improvement bond*.
“In bitldwln county. Alabama. 17,400 acres of turpentine lands have I#een pur
chased rnr develnauent; at Wylnm. Ala., and Easley, Ala., tracts of land have
been purchased for sites for manufacturing plants at the rates of $4,000 and $3.-
000 per acre, respectively; building lot In residence section of Montgomery sold
by the day fixed
Slog per
irneflenlly nil* of lot* In Columbus. Gn.. subttrbnn section were sold
originally for opening of sale; n Georgia farm t
i was sold for nearly
MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO.
Corner Alabama and Broad Streets.
Capital . . $200,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits . $600,000.00
Commercial Accounts Invited
4%
Compound Interest Is Paid In Our
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
WHO IN VEM ED THE GAG?
FIELD SA YS DAN EMME17
WAS FIRS! TO SPRING II
Author of “Dixie” Was
Minstrel to Old
Age.
Dnn .Emmett, the man who wrote
Dixie” nnd who xvas the founder of
minstrelsy, was n great friend of A1 Q.
Field, the minntrei man/who comes to
Atlanta this week. Mr. Field says:
“Emmett had a wonderfully Interest
ing, churacter. He started me In the
business. I applied to him for a posi
tion In 1872 when he was In a little
theater In Chicago. 1 was there for
eral years and then left him. I
heard Inter that he had died. In 1897# I
went over to Mount Vernon, Ohio, to
help the Elks there in a minstrel show
they were giving, and one of my friends
enumerated ns one of their chief at
tractions Dan Emmett. I questioned
him nnd found thnt he was really the
man J had known. He was 82 years
old then. I started out early In the
evening to see him.
I found his home, a little house set
back from the road with vines and
shrubbery growing around. The door
of the house was open, and as I walked
slowly up the path I heard Dan playing
his violin. Ho was putting his whole
soul Into the strains, and the soft,
dreamy air that floated out of that lit
tle house thrilled me ns only Dan Em
mett’s music could. I paused and
looked In when I came to the door. It
was the same Dan. He glanced up In a
moment nnd saw me. He didn’t recog
nise me. laying down his bow and
violin, he stepped to the door and In
his soft, courteous way, with a sweep
ing bow, said:
” ’Come In, sir. Pardon me, sir, for
not welcoming you before, but I was
Just n-dreumlng.’
”1 didn't have the courage to call him
Dan. ‘Don't you know me, Mr. Em
mett?' I asked. 1 had to expluln who
I was. and then the old man was de
lighted to see me. We sat there In the
moonlight until late at night, talking
over the old clays In Chicago.
"We gave the minstrel show the next
night, and Dun was on the program.
He played his violin and then made a
speech.
" T had thought that I had left min
strelsy/ he said slowly and quietly, 'but
nn old friend of mine, who has a com
pany, wants me to go out with him,
and I'm going back to the old life.’ And
then the audience gave him cheer after
cheer.
‘‘This was a complete surprise to me,
for 1 had said nothing to him about
going with me. I arranged It, though,
and he went along. All he did
come on the stage and be Introduced,
and then lead the chorus when It sang
his Immortal song, ’Dixie.*
“On his eighty-third birthday w
were In Dnllas, nnd on the stnge during
the performance we presented him with
a gold watch. The boys In the com
pany hod several times angered Dan
by teasing him, and he had had a few
quarrels with some of them. The watch
came as xi surprise. He forgot there
was an audience, and began to thank
the company assembled on the stage.
He held the watch In both his hands
und kept Ills eyes on It during his
speech, which was as pathetic und as
pretty ns I ever heard. Tears were
streaming down the cheeks of every
man In the company when Dan had
finished. 'Hoys.' he said, fingering the
present and looking lovingly nt It, ‘I
don’t deserve this. I haven’t done any
thing to earn It. It’s fine of you nnd
I’m mighty grateful. I’ll say this much,
I’ll let you plague me all you want to
now, and I’ll never be angry with lt>u
again/ It wasn’t so much In what he
said as they way In which he said It.
"The old minstrel shows never had
any gags In them. They were made
up of singing, dancing nnd banjo play
ing. Dan was the first man to Intro
duce Jokes Into the pieces. Ho nnd
Frank Bauer were doing a banjo turn
in New York In 1842. Dan broke a
banjo string and the men had to stop.
Frank made some funny remark about
the banjo, nnd Dan, who was excep
tionally quick at repartee came hack
with another comical line. Both men
had been clowns In a circus, and they
passed those old sawdust jokes back
and forth while Dnn was putting the
string on his banjo. The stunt made
such a hit that the dialogue was Intro
duced Into the banjo turn. Later came
the regular end men und Interlocutors.
"When 1 took Dan with me from
Mount Vernon I bought him a dress
suit to wear on the stage. He stayed
with the show only a few months and
then returned to his home. The travel
ing was too hard for him. That dress
suit I got him he took with hint, and In
his Inst days he told me he was saving
that to be buried Ih. He died three
years ago last June, In Mount Vernon,
and he was laid away In the dress suit
he used to wear when he led the chorus
singing his song. ‘1 Wish
Dixie* Hooray. Hooray/”
ARMY-NAVY ORDERS
—AND—
MOVEMENTS OP VESSELS
Army Orders.
Washington, kept. 18.—Colonel Valery Har
vard. assistant surgeon-general; Majors W.
Fitzhugh Carter nml Charles Woodruff, sur
geons. detailed to represent met lieu I de
partment nt sixteenth numial meeting As
sociation of Military Burgeons at James-
town expoHlMf.il.
. Lieutenant Lucian D. Booth, to Fif
ty-eighth company, const artillery corps.
Lieiitcniint-Coionri Charles McClure* Her-
enteenth Infantry, detailed In the adjutant
r nernl * department, vice Colonel yfmrlc*
C rnne. ndjutnnt-geiiernl, who is assigned
to Seventeenth Infantry.
Llcutcnant-Colonc! McClure, to Snn An
tonio. temporary duty.
Navy Orders.
Midshipman II. A. Htralt to Kenrsurge.
Hear Admiral .1. G. Walker, retired, died
nt Ogonquit September 1«.
Movements of Vessels.
THE BRACEBRIDGE DIAMONDS
A Thrilling Story of Mystery and Adventure
SYNOPSIS.
Frnnk (tho hero) and Heginald Brncebrldgc
(cousins) meet Mmo. Vera Hldvlnskr. n
beautiful woman, nt 6‘aratogn. She is at
tacked by n foreigner (Dr. Cnrl Mueller),
the latter demanding thnt she surrender to
him "n bit of paper nnd n stone." He
claim* he hns the missing fragment and
that “the others were then In the hotel.
Frank rescues her nml is given n package
with nermlsison to open It wh*»n he thluk*
the right time hns coine. A telegram an
nounces the sudden death of Reginald s
father. Frnnk Is mnde executor of the es
tate. Reginnld is charged with forgery, and
calls niton Frank to save him from arrest.
A tunld rushes Into (be room nnd tells Beg
should have married Sylvia Thurston* '
You!”
She turned away from him as thfi
words passed her Ups, walked a few
steps down the path, and, with hands
clasped together, gazed out on the laka
with shocked, abstracted eyes. Her
thoughts had flashed back to the time
a little over three years ago when she
had first seen this man, “Dr. Newell,”
or whatever his true name was.
She had gone to Tarrytown to a
country rectory to her first nursing
case, and during her walks when off
I mild his wife Is dead and that he I* char* duty with Miss Trenerry, the rector'
ed with her murder. Frank and Reginnld
leave the house by n secret psissnge nnd
reach the Brncebrldgc country home oa
■it'Ki i:.i tu ih spin r nilice. r riiiiq ' , •«
thnt the physician who attended Reginald s
wife ivsemfdes T)r. Mueller. He hires n
her 17:
Hepten
baric
Hulled—September J5; I'ncDM, from B»*-
on f«»r Cape Cod Bay. September 18:
Jrnlrle, froui Cluirle*toii for Hampton
Bond*: Ilngley from Norfolk for Annapo-
II*; Stundr*h, from AiiiuiihiIIs for Norfolk.
THE FARMERS AND
THE MACON TELEGRAPH.
The editor of The Macon Telegraph,
after worrying himself Into a frenzy,
after having been persuaded (perhaps)
by the means which are usually em
ployed by corporations to get subsi
dized papers to advocate their cause,
brings forth a very labored editorial In
which ho tells of how the people of the
New England stutes secured the serv
ices of Daniel Webster to help educate
the people against their own interest,
nnd then winds up by saying:
"In view of these strange and In-
•ontrovertlhle facts. It Is a most sin
gular thing that the Farmers’ Union
ihouhl oppose immigration, and thus
throw the weight of Its influence to
New England and Old England In this
renewal of the old-time struggle for
the mastery over the South.”
Geo Whlftusf Was not that a Jaw
breaker for you? And The Macon Tel
egraph said nil thut Just because the
Farmers’ Union was fighting Immigra
tion. Yes, thank the Lord, the Farm
ers’ Union Is fighting Immigration, has
been fighting immigration, nnd will
continue to fight Immlgrnton, The Ma
con Telegraph to the contrary not
withstanding.
There Is n man, so “we've hern tell,”
(hut is a president of a railroad In
Georgia, and also president of some
cotton mills In Macon, nnd we would
not fall down with astonishment if
somebody should tell us that he is the
financial advisor of The Macon Tele
graph; and of course, under these cir
cumstances, It would be nothing but
natural for this railroad president, cot
ton mill president and newspaper finan
cial advisor to have the editor of his
periodical fight the Farmers' Union on
immigration.
We recognize the fact that it Is a
very unbecoming thing for a little In
significant thing, like the Farmers’ Un
ion with Its 1,600.000 members to even
dare to attempt lo think much less say
anything contrary to the views of a
great big Influential paper with Its 5,000
or 6.000 circulation (and It may be |>os.
slble thot The Telegraph has thut
many), but we dare even to oppoge the
views of this big paper and its editor,
and its financial advisor.
We have never seen tiie editor of The
Macon Telegraph, but we have been
told that he Is a gentleman of some
ability, and that he is a scrapper of the
old school. Now without any spirit of
audacity or unbecomingness to a young
chap like us. we desire to say that
nothing would give the Farmers’ Union
more pleasure than to have the privi
lege of meeting this editor face to face
on the platform in a public discussion
of the Immigration question at not less
than five points In the state of Geor
gia. Can we meet you there, Mr. Ed
itor? Or does your boss think that you
are unequal to the occasion? Pleas#-
step over and consult the gentleman
and If he will give his consent we will
meet you at the places named in oui
challenge to the Bankers’ Association.
Very respectfully,
THE FARMERS' UNION.
R. P. Duckworth, State President;
J L. Barron, State Secretary-Treas
urer; J. G. Eubanks, State Business
Agent; J. L. Lee, Slate Organizer.
J. P. Morgan to Entertain.
Richmond, Vu„ Sept. 18.—J. Pler-
P**nt Morgan, who will be among the
lay delegates to the general conven
tion of the Protestant , Episcopal
church, which assemble* here ncx:
month, has madc^claborate prepara
tions for entertaining while here. Hit
hlence. for the period of his rtay in
Richmond, will be one of the handsoni-
of Richmond homes—the famous
old Thomas mansion, where the. New
were In York millionaire wilt entertain in hand •
some style
daughter, she had frequently met Pat-
tlo Pollard and "Dr. Newell” together
and Miss Trenerry had explained the
story of these two to her companion.
“Dr. Newell,” It appeared, had been
staying for nearly a year at the Black
Horse Inn, and when he was about to
leave some unpleasant scenes occurred
there between Job Pollard, the Inn
keeper, and himself, and matters were
suddenly hushed up by a hasty mar
riage between “Dr. Newell” and Puttie
Pollard—a pretty girl of her own rath
er ordinary type, to whom the “Doc
tor” since his arrival at the Inn had
been paying somewhat marked atten
tions.
Victim of Poison.
Since their marriage. Miss Trenerry
explained, “Dr. Newell” and his wife
had never left the Black Horse Inn,
and It was whispered about tho neigh
borhood that Pattle was nn unhappy
wife, that her husband was very in-
kind to her, nnd that she bitterly re
gretted her marriage.
Listening to this explanation, and
watching the faces of “Dr. Newell" and
hfs bride, Ethel Creswell had taken a
strong dislike to the “Doctor.” a sen-
sought shelter at tho Black Horse Inn
from a thunder storm.
After this day Ethel had frequently
during her walks called at the Inn to
see Pattle. and had In this way made
the acquaintance of “Dr. Newell.’’
She hud met him some half dozen
tl cs during her stay nt the rectory,
nnd when Agnes Creswell had come for
a few day* to see her sister (Agnes
had been staying with some s# hnol
friends) Ethel took her one afternoon
to the Inn. und thus she also had met
“Dr. Newell.”
But some weeks before Ethel * de-
, . . - r,,| h> If parture from Tarrytown’ the news
mil n’U'X Imn.lf "iilm n* '"hr. Hflouriv’iff In?sXJTon
" " f ,,h " k lu " h& Sbe fouJjS he? |n ), e r bH
- • room at the inn in a decidedly crlti-
CHAPTER LXV. * rul *tate. her husband apparently feel-
A Dsiporate Move. Iutmost concern.fo ( Pattlc's pre-
Dr. Mueller recoiled a little from I
of n judge In Ohio, i* brought Into the story.
Hr. Mueller fall* lu love with her. He seem*
to know her brother, n painter, who render
abroad. Sylvia. Dr. Mueller aud a girl
friend visit “The Hollow,” un old house,
said to be haunted.
Bayniond Thurston returns home unex
pectedly. alul 1* greeted by his sister during
the temporary absence of her fiance.
Sylvia and her brother go for a walk
nnd meet Basil, who quarrels with Kay
il.
o following morning Ruth Pritchard I*
found In the woods near the Thurston home,
unconscious. When she recover* conscious-
i, her mind Is apparently unhinged with
o horror. Raymond Thurston 1* found
In the studio, shot through the heart.
Sylvia suspects Basil of the murder of
her brother.
Sylvia prejmres to visit Florida lu search
of health. Nurse Mason appears on the
scene, and It deve!o|»s that she nnd Dr.
Mueller nre greater friends than appears on
the surface.
Nurse Mason tells Dr. Mueller thnt she
has the 1*1*1 r to (he Bracobrldg;* fortune safe
and hidden. Sylvia goes to Florida ami re
turns greatly benefited In health. Mueller
pleads with her to marry him III June.
Mueller nnd Sylvia are married In New
York.
Bose Thurston admits she told n falsehood
to shield Basil from susplclou of having
son. but Mueller declares she can not be
dismissed.
Mueller, on hi* way to the station to take
train for Buffalo, hears that Basil Thurston
has been found.
Mueller, fenring to meet Ethel Creswell,
who I* stopping with his wife, r<*turn*
home unexpectedly mid npprouclte
•d in order t
fame.”
carious condition.
“She ha« been In bed for the past
Ethel Creswell, involuntarily clench-»ten days. Miss Creswell,” “Dr. Newell”
Ing his right hand upon his walking | said. ”1 begin to fear that the
stick, as If he felt nn Impulse to defend ’ I
himself from some enemy’s attack.
“I—I fall to understand you,” he
gasped, after a momentary pause; he
had already arranged a desperate plan
of action. "You nre a stranger to me.
although, of course. I guessed that you
must be Miss Creswell when I saw you
now, from your likeness to your young
sister, whom 1 met recently at The Hol
low."
Oh, pray. Dr. Newell, give me credit
for ordinary intelligence at least!"
Ethel Creswell returned scornfully, al
though her voice was shaking, and so
was her slim, tall figure. “I was too
well acquainted with you thnt time In
Tarrytown to make any mistake now.
I should think. My sister had • seen
you only once, as you remember, so
that she could not, of course, be abso
lutely certain of your Identity.”
A lump seemed to rise In Ethel’s
throat, nnd for a moment she was un
able to proceed.
But Mueller was now silent; a chalky
pallor was stealing over his face,
looked like an evil spirit detected.
"From what my sister told me I had
suspicions, nnd when Sylvia showed m
your photograph I was still more Im
pressed nnd puzzled,” Ethel Creswell
resumed, gaining courage as she pro
ceeded. “Your leaving home abrupty
on the day of my expected coming and
your continued absence during my
visit added still further to my misgiv
ings; and at last I decided to come to
the root of the matter by means of u
little stratagem.
A Girl’s Strategy,
“I simply pretended to Sylvia that I
should have to leave yesterday, and
Just before tho time of my supposed
departure arrived I changed my mind
and said I’d wait until tomorrow—in
the hope of seeing you, I added.
"Well, Dr. Newell, I have seen you,
and I am satisfied—satisfied as to your
Identity. I mean, of course. But I
should like very much indeed to know
how it comes about that you and Dr.
Mueller—Sylvia’s husband—are one and
the same person.
"When I last saw you, as you thor
oughly well remember, you were In the
sicA room of your first wife—Pattle
Pollard—the wretched creature who
either poisoned herself to escape your
cruelty, or was poisoned by your own
hand, os I strongly suspect, I must
say!”
Still Mueller was silent, his hand
clenched spasmodically around the top
of his cane. He was endeavoring to
realize this unlooked for situation—en
deavoring to decide finally upon his
own action In the matter—before he
trusted hlmsolf to speak again.
At first he had thought of meeting
Ethel CresweU’s charges with a com
plete denial ar.d a plea of total Igno
rance nnd mistaken Identity. But fur
ther reflection caused him t o waver in
this decision. Ethel Creswell was too
certain of her position to bo hoodwink
ed by a childish ruse of the kind.
“Dr. NcwelVz** Record.
“I strolled down to the lake shore
n hour ago, so as to leave Sylvia and
her mother alone together at the house,
is I guessed Mrs. Thurston, when she
■ailed this afternoon, wished for a\pri-
vate talk with her daughter.
"And when I was returning from the
beach I saw you coming down the path,
and I recognized you at once nnd kept
ut of sight until you entered the walk.
I am horrified at this discovery. Dr.
Newell!" Ethel suddenly cried, the
forced steadiness cf her voice nnd man-
doctor here does not understand her
case—nnd I am thinking of wiring fora
specialist.”
Two days Inter Pattle died, nnd ow
ing to certain peculiar circumstances
In connection with her death, a post
mortem examination wnt held on the
remains, and unmistakable proof ob
tained that “Dr. Newell’s" wife hud
died from arsenical poisoning!
CHAPTER LXVI.
Mueller's "Explanation."
Strong suspicion fastened upon the
"Doctor” In certain quarters, as It was
whispered about that he had been very
unkind to his wife, whom he had mar
ried from a motive that no one could
fathom.
The official Inquiry hojvever, reveal
ed the fact that poor Pittie had been
using ar^jnlc for some time In the hope
of reducing the color of her very high
complexion, and thus, no doubt, ren
dering herself somewhat more accepta
ble to a man of “Dr. Newell's" refined
nnd fastidious tastes.
A cousin of the girl, me Stephen
Pollard, who was an aasatant in a
drug store, had supplied he* from time
to time with the fntnl drug, ind wheth
er It was that Pattle had taken an
overdose by mistake or by leslgn (for
the poor girl had spoken op«nly of her
unhappy life) was never fuJy cleared
up.
"Dr. Newell” was dlschatged from
custody, and the Inquiry accordingly
to It through.
But Ethel Ureswel! had never suc
ceeded In shaking oft the stnng sus
picion which nt the time of tie occur
rence she hud entertained as to “Dr,
Newell’s” guilt. And at this tioment,
as she gazed with unseeing eyts upon
the vast plain of lake, burning In the
gorgeous hues of the sunset, tfat sus
picion was stronger than ever within
her, and a sudden feeling of htrror at
the thought of Sylvia being the vlfe of
such a man thrilled her throurfi and j
through.
She was aroused from her revrle by
a light touch upon her shoulder, and,
starting round quickly, she found duel
ler’s strange eyes fixed upon her face.
“Honesty Is the best policy, afte* all,
Miss Creswell," he said, with an as
sumption of ease of manner wileh
could not conceal his very evident igi-
tatlon. “I can not really deny, of
course, that for some years of my.ec
centric life I called myself ‘Dr. New!!/
and that I figured with unpleas.nt
prominence In that most painful affilr
at the Black Horse Inn.
“I do not care now to rake up ny
family history. But I must. In ser-
Justlfication, explain to you that ny
father never gave me a fair chance-
never! For no fault of mine, he treatd
me most unnaturally always, and woul
have deprived one of Ay inheritano
If lie could.
“During some five years before HI
death he and I never met even once
and In order to escape countless wor
ries and humiliations, to which he al
ways seemed onger to subject me, I
concealed my Identity under the nam®
of ‘Dr. Newell' for the period I’ve stat
ed, and enjoyed a certain degree or
freedom and Independence aa a result
of this step.
Continued in Tomorrow’* Georgian.
Want Pay for Overtime.
Special to Th«* Georgian.
Hawklnsvllle, Go., Sept. 18.—Haw-
kinsville haa not had a train in over the
Guif line road today on account r /-Mr
. ing tied up by a strike of all thcdraln
ner giving way at last to'the true agi- crews, who made demands for p4^ for
tatlon that overwhelmed her. “To think 1 working overtime and claim th do-
that you—you, of all other men alive— manda were not compiled with.