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4 . ■■ THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2S, 1!KTT. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, Presldfnt. Published Every Afternoon. (Except Sun*.ey) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At 25 West Alabama St. Atlnnta. G*. Subscription Rates: Ono Tear Klx Month* f- Thro* Months Gno Month .#*.*.* * Ry Carrier, Per Week % Telephones ronnectlnj? ell depart* moots, Loog distance terminals. Cblraro Office If you base auj trouble getting TflFJ GEORGIAN AND NEWS, telephone the circulation department and bare It promptly remedied. . TelfOTODMI Hell 027 mala; Atlonti — Subscribers desiring .tfielr Georgian discontinued must notify tbit office on the date of expiration: otherwise. It will be continued at the regular sub scription rites until notice to stop Is In ordering a change of address, please glre the old as well as tbe new address. It la destrsble that all communlca- „ jeeted manuscripts wu) not be returned unless stomps are sent for tbe purpose. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS prints po unclean or objectionable advertis ing. Neither does It print whisky or any liquor ads. OCn PLATFORM: TUB GEORGIAN AND NEWS stands for Atlanta's own* Jog Its oh'/j k'.ik nod elrctrlc light plants, ns It now owns Its wnter works. Other rifles do this nod get gas ns low as 60 cents, with a profit lo the city. This should l>» done nt ited here. But we do not believe this «et Its fact Id that direction NOW. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS THE GRAND—Dark Saturday. THE BIJOU—Saturday matinee and night, the Four .Mortons In "The Big Stick." THE ORPHEUM—Saturday, mati nee and night, hlgh-claaa vaudeville. PASTIME THEATER—Vau.l.-vill.-. ST. NICHOLAS AUDITORIUM — Saturday afternoon and night, akatlng nnd fancy exhibition.. Tho danger that Ilea In reaction I. tbe far swing back to apathy and slavery. Tho matter of ga. is nearer by far to somo 65,000 Atlanta people than Is an official junket to Jamestown. Meanwhile the city council may find It perfectly conservative and safe to pais some reform legislation touching the opium habits of the Chi nese. When John Sharp Wllllami accepts the challenge of Colonel 8ldney Tapp to a joint debate, we shall have shining Illustration of the real value ot a collage education. Our money Is upon Colonel Tapp. A correspondent rises to Inquire that If the constitution Insists that the Southern Stove Association Is a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, whether It Intends to attack the Farmers' Union on tho same basis? We reckon not. It Is to be hoped that "8quare Deal Teddy" will shoot no caged bear In Louisiana. Nor do we think he will. It Is all right to catch a tied ’poBSum, but no genuine sportsman will shoot a penned up bear. The glory is In the hunt. All the telfchone companies of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and the District of Colum bla have combined Into one. What a difficult combination for Congress, a state legislature, or a dty council to eolve! The Fitzgerald Journal aays F. L. Seely and ourself ride In au tomobiles. and Infers from that all publishers sre not broke. Not by any means. It* pays to be good.—J. D. McCartney In Thom- asvlllo Enterprise. Yes, and the rapid motion always "Increases the circulation.” Colonel Pendleton flustered Mr. Graves so much this week that he has forgotten to nominate any presidents.—Sparta Ishmaellte. The Colonel never flusters us. He delights us. We could not exist with out him. It Is a joy to respect him. but It Is a pleasure to prod him, and whenever he gets too gay wo have a little touch that reduces him to hu mility. Me&i.while It Is not strange to find the Colonel the Idol of The "Ishmaelltes.” It Is perfectly natural. The Atlanta office of the Game- well Fire Alarm Company Ib to be closed on October 1. and the Atlanta manager, O. R. Crocker, will establish a new branch office at Cincinnati. Mr. Crocker claims that he Is tearing Atlanta be cause of the enactment of the Georgia prohibition law. Tbe en forcement of this law It Is under stood will interfere with the cus- tomary practice of entertaining locally prospective purchasers of fire alarm systems.—Insurance Herald. Barely It fs not necessary to make them drunk In order to make them buy. "REFORM” AND “REACTION.” The wrangle over Sam D. Jones and the stove rate Is a mere Individ ual Instance of a general condition, and Is pot worth tbe time and paper that It consumes. It may as well be frankly admitted that a distinct crisis In Jhe re form movement is at hand. The first wave of reaction, carefully fostered and skillfully created by those of an opposite Interest, has come. That It will recede In time to be succeeded by other waves which will also ebb and flow Is evident to all who study history and know tho people. This I* neither to be feared nor regretted, and of course It was to be anticipated. It Is tbe rough but wholesome and Inevitable way of experimental reform. If any man expected this great movement to swing on oiled hinges without noise or friction to Its destined end, ho sees now that he was mistaken. If any man cherished the delusion that these mighty corporate forces, .resourceful, brainy, and experienced, would meekly accept defeat and regulation, without lighting sbrewdly, plausibly and persistently, the de lusion has been dispelled. If any reformer indulged the hope that this great vital economic revolution would culminate without some Inconveniences, some priva tions and perhaps some preliminary suffering to Individuals, he knows better now. No vital reform—no wholesome revolution—since the world began was ever pressed to victory save over the faith, the persistent courage and the cheerful sacrifice of Us followers. What Is worth working for Is worth flghjlng for, and what Is worth fighting for Is worth enduring for. And the soldier who would desert his post or the reformer who would strike his colors at the first outcry of the enemy Is not worthy to wear a uniform or to enjoy his liberty. Some odtery, spontaneous or Inspired, has been raised against tbe operations of the public utilities taw. Some public works have been ostensibly suspended, and some men, not many, have been thrown out of work for a season. Some unrest and uncertainty Incident to the process of establishment baa disturbed for a brief season the run of In vestment and some currents of trade. These things are temporary and transient They were what any man of ordinary sagacity might have foreseen. But because of these things logical, natural and Inevitably passing, shall the great movement of a half century be discredited and retarded? Shall all the patient discussion, the earnest deliberation, and the splen did 90-operatlon of this great fight agalflat the overpower of the corpora tions be suspended and perhaps destroyed? Shall tho strong men and the loyal citizens who for fifteen months followed the open and fearless and unanswered arguments of the governor upon the hustings—and who In full hearing and full understanding of the Issues that ho pleaded, Indorsed him In tho magnificent majority of their Intelligent votes—Is It hoped or believed that these men, under the clamor of a few ^Individual cases of Inconvenience, carefully magnified by hostile voices, can be reduced from their allegiance to a great cause and tempted to desert the ranks In tho. first hour of trial which they hnd every reason to expect? God forbid! It Is small statesmanship, It Is Indeed mere peanut politics that would magnify a little casual discrepancy to clog the wheels of a great reform. We have no obligation personal or commercial that ties The Geor gian to Stove Maker Jones. If the circumstances had demonstrated him guilty of wantonly celebrating the reduction of freight rates by an ad vance In tho price of his product, we should havo locked arms swiftly with any criticism that assailed him. But when tho figures are plainly given to demonstrate that In advance of the freight reduction tho advance In the price of stoves was announced becauso of tbe Increase of 130 per cent In the price of Iron nnd 70 per cent In the prlco of coke, wo can not fall to believe that a more captions ndvantago has been taken of an un fortunate condition to raise an outcry whose result can not fall to rejoice tho corporations, and to Impede tho progress of reform. The eyes of an honest and Intelligent people will not be diverted from the fact that the great central question of tho timet In Georgia and In other states Is whether we shall be ruled by a real democracy of the people or by a corporate oligarchy? Tills Is tbe fact to keep In mind, and we have no fear that factious clamor behind corporate activity will blind the peoplo or mako them traitors to that which they havo already fought and won. The period of danger In every reform movement Is the first period of reaction. One thing Is sure: If the people can be cajoled Into a forget fulness of their long fight nnd their great victory; If they can be tempted by clamor to relax their Interest and their loyalty to their own concerns, tho reaction Is sure nnd swift to apathy and to slavery. It took a long time to| arouse the people in this matter. Ten years—twelve years of agitation was consumed In the vital awakonlng. It was no demagogic agitation. The facts were crystal clear that Inspired action. Not only In Georgia, but throughout tho republic there was uncovered the same story of predatory wealth—tho .tyranny of the tfuits—the arbitrary extortions of the coal trust, the moat trust, the Ice trust—the Illegal merger of cor porations, tho graft in the Insurance companies, the railroad domination and defiance of the people through lobby and legislation—the confession of railroad presidents themselves thnt they were mistaken and wrong and unjust—not a more clamor or suspicion but everywhere a proven demonstrated story of corporate selfishness and popular wrongs. Finally the people were aroused. They rose In their might, and through presidents and senators and congresses—through legislatures and governors—and more than all In the thunder of magnificent majori ties—the people have set their seal of condemnatloa on these conditions and sternly demanded correction and reform In the republic and In every state. And all this—mark you, all this—Is to be abandoned now, or discred ited; the reform president, the reform governors and the reform legisla tures. are called upon by a mere specious clamor, by a mere magnifying glass held la front of minor circumstances—are called upon to halt tbe progress of reform, and with the reins In their hands, with the machinery ot government In their possession, and on the high road to a great con servative reestablishment—the people are asked to let go, to surrender the heights so hardly won, and suffer the conditions to swing back where they were before. This Is practically the proposlton that Is behind tbe clamor which Is being raised about tbe governor and the public utilities commission. Will the people Indorse It? We think not. If they do, they will drift back Into a subjection be side which tbe conditions or three years ago were child’s play. The lit tle finger of tbe re-enthroned corporations will be heavier In power than the entire loins of the corporation* whose sovereignty we have curtailed. The people will never havo this fight so well In hand as they have today. They will not In this generation front such an opportunity for the establishment of justice and the people as they have juat now. It may be true that some things too radical have been charged against the corporations. It may be that they are not guilty of sll the faults laid at their doors. It may be that some demagogues have ridden on this great popular wave Into power and preferment. But no sane man who Is without a selfish Intent in the matter, can possibly fall to see and to say that the corporations have grown danger ous through greed, selfishness, the arrogant control ot legislation, and the arrogant disregard of the people's rights. This much Is acknowl edged of all men everywhere, and the necessity for their regulation and restraint la as evident to a free people as the necessity for sleep or bread. If any sane man risee In this crisis to counsel conservatism and mod eration, let him be beard. The commission Is fair, the governor Is pru dent and the legislature Is level-headed. The clamor of sheer radicalism Is rarely crystallised Into legislation. 'Much that Is radical has been sug gested, but so far nothing that Is radical has been done by the governor, the legislature and the commission. The cry of the conservative Is timely and right to the people In the saddle and ready to ride. But the thing that In this great period of reform we protest with all our hearts and minds Is that Subtle Serpent or Reaction, which, taking advantage of small circumstances and unusual or unfortunate conditions, will feed the clamor that calls back lo apathy, cheering the protestant against the Executive of Reform, psttlng on the back unrepresentative adventurers, and loudly applauding unknown voices which boast that they bare "flopped from the governor,” whe carries the mission an*i method of reform. This Is the danger against which we warn ifie people. It men wish to vote against Hoke Smith for any other office, they have a right with out regard to previous affiliations tc do sc. And there are some who have a right to condemn them. But we do not hesltatq to say that the mat. or the aggregation of men who In thle crisis of the reform' movement set up or encouragf clamor against the governor of Georgia as governor and executive, are simply fighting the whole prospect of "reform that has pulsed through these long years of dauntless agitation to a glorlouB and well-founded promise of substantial fulfillment. It will not work. These things rise and fall. The reaction of today will recede within a few brief tomorrows. The people are still In the saddle, and the people are still In their senses. The pendulum swing may go forward and backward, but the great clock of Reform will continue to mark In days and months the progress of the people toward the appointed time of their establishment as the controllers of this government. Growth and Progress of the New South The Georgian here record* each day •ome economic fact In reference to the. onward progress of the South. BY J08EPH B. LIVELY The accompanying list of new Industries entabllahed In the South during the week ending heptemner 25 Is compiled from report* made to The Tradesman ami verified. In the list nre n milllnn-ilollnr coal, laud nnd oil company nnd n million- dollar laml company In West Virginia: n $500,000 preserving company In Oklahoma, a $200,000 lumber company ami a $100,000 cotton mill In North (‘nrollnn, a $100,000 n fining company In MlaaourL a $120,000 manufacturing compauy In Kentucky, nnd a IwOO.OQO lumber anti creosotlug coni ^Arkansas. Cotter—$5,000 warehouse company, Springdale—$150.00) vacuum evaporator company. Texarkana—$.100,000 lumber nnd creosotlng company. Hot Springs—SjO.OOO timber nnd Innd enmpnny. MISSOURI. IIuffnlo—$50,000 mining nnd development company. Joplin—$50,000 mining ntul milling rtunpany. Karinas City—$25,0)0 novelty company, $100,000 refining company. St. Isoula—$10,000 supply company. * NORTH CAROLINA. Hillsboro—$100,000 development company, Lincoln ton—$25,000 roofing company. Thomnsvllle—$10,000 foundry and machine shops. Wilmington—$125,000 amusement company. Rear Creek—$10,000 gin pnd lumber mill. Leicester—$5,000 telephone company. Gastonia—$200,000 cotton mill. Fairmont—$2S.ooo cotton storage company, Taylorsville—lion,000 cotton mill. Mooresvlllc—$100,009 cotton holding* company. GoPisboro—$2io.(X)0 lumber company. North WlIkesboro—$100,000 lumber company. Oriental—$23,000 lumber and ginning compsny. OKLAHOMA. C handler—Two $5,000 cotton gins. Oklahoma Cltr—$500,000 preserving company. UutftPitr—*200,000 development company, „ . * WEST VIRGINIA. Huntington—$1,000,000 con!, Innd nnd oil company* ralnnout—$40,000 metal culverts oocupnny. Woodbine—$25,000 lumber company. Charleston—$1,000,000 laud company. Huntington—$10,000 development company. THIRSTY DENIZEN OF DELTA CITY FINDS ATLANTA A METROPOLIS, BUT VERY DRY OF A SUNDAY The Harlequin, a sprightly weekly “tippling house" must close at 10 urnal of criticism and comment, cd- o’clock p. m. Journal of criticism and comment, ed. lted In New Orleans by Joe Leveque, who Is shortly to take on dally journal ism as a side-line, has In Its latest Issue an Interesting psge devoted to Atlanta. This Is occupied by random observations, from some bewildered denizen of the Delta City who probably had stopped over night In the Southern metropolis. The drift of what he has to say Is probably best Indicated by the headlines, which follow: "Oh, Rare Atlanta! "City of Many Contradictions. "New Orleans Can Give Them Points on Holy Joy. "A Pretty Oood Place for Business, But Not so Very Warm Apparently." Here Is what the commentator, who signs himself "King,” has to say: Atlanta, the anomaly of tho South! Cosmopolitan, and yet provincial. Asserts that Its people are Southern, but hard to find a man who claims At lanta as his birthplace. Its men nnd women bright, progres sive; the men leaders In finance and business, and doing well their share In the civic life of the community; women dainty, charming, but very shy. Bustling. A "hustling town.” and yet the •lac- trio cars stop at midnight. During the week, while the sun shines, Its people are up-to-date, thor oughly metropolitan, so to speak. But a Sunday game of baseball Is tabooed, prohibited by the wise law which prevents a man who has worked six days from witnessing,'on the day he calls his own, an exhibition of the American game. Drolleries. A peculiar combination of Ideas to prevail In a city known as "the New York of the South." Is It not? Do not Imagine that I am seeking to convey the Impression that Atlanta In dulges her drolleries because of lack of contact with the swiftly-moving East and the breezy West. Nothing of the sort. Kesnness. On tha contrary. It has absorbed much. If not Its larger portion, of the keenness and energy of the far-seeing capitalists of these sections who are placing their money In the town. And an equally large amount of credit for Atlanta’s progress Is due to the ca pable. ambitious workmen from all parts of the country who are giving Atlanta today the best of brain and brawn they have In them. Advantages. Everyone knows, of course, Atlanta's high position on the commercial map of the South at the present time. Of the many big railroads running Into the city, and the many more which have large offices and shops here. Of the Immense Skyscrapers, over twenty In number, .of which the people are proud; of the large branch offices maintained by each or the big Ameri can Insurance corporations. Of the constantly Increasing manu factories located here. So we can't do any searing to speak of on those points. People But Atlanta Interests me In another sense—the people. Hearing so much of the vaunted Atlanta Spirit,” before I saw the city, I prepared myself to fall, after the workaday world was left behind. Into a seething, restless Coney Island-Uke atmosphere of fun and frivolity, where everything healthy and wholesome was permitted and laughed at. Pastoral. But, too late (or I wouldn’t be here now), I found out I had landed In a pastoral, sweet-stmpltclty community. My resignation as a member of the Owl Club went to Nc ‘Leene by the next mail. It seems that It ts a sin there to drink, ever, moderately, any of the products of the God-given grap*i and malt and corn. Sin. Therefore, in order to compromise with the Sin—capital S, please—ever;' And when a man from Chicago or Denver or Cincinnati, or any other R lace, arrives after that mystic hour, e is not to bo permitted to enjoy a small bottle of beer. My tired traveling friend must wait until 5 o'clock In the morning of the next day for any refreshment stronger than coca-cola or a lemon and llthlo. ' Temperance. Not satisfied with this blue laws condition .of affairs,, the White Ribbon Brigade, by Its pious begging, hypno tlzed the legislature Into passing a pro hibition taw for the state, of Georgia, to go Into effect In January forthcom ing. Is this 1007, or are we In the days of the dyspeptic Pilgrim Fathers? "I don't drink." says the White Rib bon Brigade, "so you rausn't drink!" Recreation. Thousands and thousands of people In every big city look to Sunday as a day of rest and recreation. Same of us find recreation In church unfortunately, alt of us don't. A few of tho heretics believe It Is pretty good religion to take the young sters to a rattling good ball game, or even, If Inclination prompts, to a sum mer show on Sunday night, or a good play during the winter. Sabbatarianism. It doesn't go In rural, nectar and cream Atlanta. "1 am not frivolous on the Sabbath," says solemn White Ribbon, "so both of us will stay at home and pray! And, not having any place to go, you generally do stay at home—and try to forget who you are and a few othet things. In other ways without end Atlanta Is Interesting, delightful, amusing, tnd, from the standpoint of the Owl Club, profitable to study—but only through u microscope and at a safe distance. Contradictions. All in all. It Is a city, of contradic tions and puzzling to the uninitiated. "The New York of the South,” and yet the Cara stop at midnight! The subject is too harrowing and painful, and too personal! I go forth to drown myself In a quart of cherry phosphate. Owl Club, farewell! THE KING. ARMY-NAVY ORDERS —AND— MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS Army Orders. Washington, D. C, Sept. 38.—Fol lowing assignments of chaplains with rank of lieutenant colonel: Charles M. Brewer, to sixth field artillery; John F. Chenowlth to Fourth Infantry; Nell P. Brannen to Eighth cavalry; Horace A. l.'houlnard to Fifth infantry. Captains William 8. Scott, First cav alry; Daniel B. Devore. Twenty-third Infantry, nnd Munroe MacFarland, Eighteenth Infantry, to army war col- lege. Captain Charles H. Martin, quarter master. in addition to other duties, as sume charge office chief quartermaster, department of Columbia, during the absence of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel R. Jones, deputy quartermaster gen eral. Following chances first lieutenants coast artillery corps ordered: William W. Ballard, Jr., from fifty-third to fif tieth company; John A. Berry, from sixty-third tc fifty-third company; Franc Lecoq. from fifty-third to forty- seventh company. Nav> Orders. Captain J. E. Pillaburg, detached bu. reau of navigation, to duty ei member ot general board, Washington. Movement- of Vesiels. ARRIVED—September 36, Rocket, at Norfolk; Alabama, m navy yard. New Yorfc; Albany, at Punt?, Arenas, Costu Rica. SAILED—September 16, Strlnghant. from Hyannlsport, Mass, for WUlet's Point, N. Y. MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING CO. CORNER ALABAMA AND BROAD STREETS. Capital $200,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits $600,000.00 Commercial accounts invited. 4 ryf Interest, compounded twice a year, is /C paid in our SAYINGS DEPARTMENT THE BRACEBRIDGE DIAMONDS A Thrilling Story of Mystery and Adventure SYNOPSIS. the IH (cousins) meet Mme. Vein SlnvInsLv, beautiful womnn. nt Saratoga. Hhe is m tucked by n foreigner (Dr. Carl M'jelli'it. tho Intter donisudlng thnt she surrender to him "a bit of pnper nnil a stone." Be cliilmn he has tho missing fragment anil that "the others were then In the hotel, rank rescues her ami la given n pnckagi Ith permit!aon to open It when he think" te right time has come. A telegram an ounces the smhlen death of lteglnsld'1 ither. Frank Is made executor of the ce tnte. Reginald la charged with forgety. niid calls upon Frank to anvo him from arrest. A mnld rushes Into tho room nnd tells Reg inald his wife Is dead and that ho Is charg ed will) her murder. Frank nnd Reginald leave the bouse bv a seeret passnge nnd reaeh the Brneehfldge eonntry home oa Lang Island. They embark In nn nlrshlp. Reginnld Is sent to France. Frank learns thnt the phvslelan who attended Reginald's wlfo resembles Dr. Mueller. He hires a farm in Ohio near the plnco where this doc tor lives. Sylvia Thurston, pretty daughter of a Judge In Ohio. Is brought Into the story. Or. Mueller fulls In love with her. lie eta-ms to know her In-other, n painter, who resides abroad. Sylvbi. fir. Muotfer and a girl friend visit “The Hollow," an old house, said to ho haunted. Raymond Thurston returns home unex pectedly nnd Is greeted by his sister dtirlug the temporary absence of her fiance, bylvla anil her brother go for n tvnlk id meet Has!!, who quarrels with Ray mond. The following morning Ruth Pritchard Is found In the woods near the Thurston home, unconscious. When she recovers conscious* ness, her mind is nppnrently unhinged with some horror. Raymond Thurston Is found of health. Nurso Mason appears on the scene, and It develops thnt she and Dr* Mueller nre greater friends than appears eg the Bug* Mur York. Rose Thurston ndmlta she told a falsehood to shield ltaslt from suspicion of having I murdered Raymond. Mueller, fearing to meet Ethel Creswell, who Is stopping with hta wife, returns home unexpectedly end approaches the house unobserved In order to ascertain If "the coast la clear." lie nnd Miss Cros well meet and she brands him as "Dr, Newell, of Blnek Horse Inn poisoning fame." Basil Thurston returns home and de mands to sec ftylrla, Mueller tells his wife slto must not see her cousin. Ruth Pritch ard returns to consciousness. She accuses Mueller nt the murder of Ray mond. Ho does Basil, who steps Into the room In time to hear the girl's words. Mueller esespes during the excitement. Syl via la convinced of his guilt. Frank Brace- brldge arrives with detectives In senrrh of iMueller. Nurse Mason nnd Mueller steal Frank's airship anil escape, carrying with them ltrgtnnld nrncebrtrtge'a child. Reginald retnrna to New York from France, nnd be gins squandering the money with which bis cousin supplies him. outward seeming he had been some what Impressed by the explanation—"I am afraid that, under the circum stances, there la no other alternative. We are bound to place the matter In the hands of the police. The body must go to the morgue nnd a coroner's In quest will follow. Meanw hile, my duty la to give you Into custody at once. You quite understand that, sir?” "Oh, quite." Frank replied; “you could not act otherwlae,” he added, turning to the policeman. "Yes, sir." Then there rapidly followed another event In the aeries that had come tu multuously Into the life of Frank Bracebrldge since the night he had first gazed on the face of Vera Slavlnsky. His appeal to the policeman was ac quiesced In, and Instead of the patrol wagon ride given tho ordinary prison er he was walked to the dingy stutlon house. Under Fire. Into the office of Inspector Lavln he was taken directly, and for a half hour answered as beat he could a crossfire of rapid questions hurled at hint by the little police Inspector, Frank related aa concisely aa possi ble his curloua adventure In the train, and suggested that Immediate Inquiries bo Instituted to verify his atatcmeni that a telegram had been delivered In the Buffalo station - to the Baroness Slavlnsky, nnd to ascertain further If the address of the New York Hotel, given by her, was correct. Pending the Investigation of the In quiries, he asked that he be released on ball, giving the financial rating of himself and several friends as Indlcnt- g his Integrity and Innocence. The request wss courteously but firmly refused by Inspectot Lavln, who asserted that no Injury could be done him by a few days' detention. Four hour* later Frank Bracebrldge os quietly hurried to the county Jail as the safest place for the keeping of a man suspected of ono of the most hein ous crimes that had astounded Cleve land during the decade. And sat alone In his cell he realized fully for the first time the apparently mean ingless Inquiries of -Inspector Lavln that had led him to tell how, in tho event of Reginald's death, he would be come the sole legatee of his uncle’s fortune. And as a lawyer h* understood fully that, should no corroboration of his explanatory statements be forthcoming, It would occur strongly to the popular mind as being the strongest possible motive for his connivance, at least. In the doing to death of his hapless young relative. Then the thought came to him, had he really been mistaken In his estimate of tho baroness? Was she, after all. n cunning, hearties* adventuress, n fit companion and helpmate of Cart Muel ler in Ids- devilish schemes, an acces sory In his crimes and perhaps even more than an accessory? But the thought was abhorrent to the young lawyer, and in the reaction came a mental resume of the events that had led up to his present position, After all the meeting had been quite an accidental one. For preference lie would have sought a smoking ear If time had been given him, and In that event some other unfortunate who pad taken the parlor car sent might have been In his present plight. But his fore bodings proved unnecessary. Ten hours after the jail doors hnd closed on him the commander of the police district shook hand* with him ns he was told he was released on ball and that Ida full release probably was a matter of a few days. A woman, answering In every detal! the description given by Frank, wns learned to have received a telegram upon the arrival of the express train In Buffalo. The same woman had personally For several weeks she had been staving with a maid In the New York hotel un der the name of Mme. Slavlnsky A porter at the hotel and a cabman who drove her to the station had given a perfectly accurate description of the trunk. No man. at any time that dav had been seen with her. ' Under these circumstances Justice Caverty had consented to accept ball In the sum of f10.000 to secure Frank’s appearance In court ten days later The most extraordinary feature In the affair, however, was that no trace of tho woman could bo found. She hed not returned to the hotel, nor. Indeed could anyone at the station remember her returning to New York. She had quitted the station Immediately after the departure of the train, and to all Intents nnd purposes had there and then vanished Into apace. Tills would havo been disquieting enough but for tho cardinal fact that Frank was. In a sense, once more a free man. Not a shred of evidence had been adduced against him or to con nect him with the crime, nnd he felt It a moral certainty that on his next np- praranre In court he would be honor ably discharged. Before thnt came about, however. Frank Bracebrldge was to pass through a further ordeal. His real troubles were only In their beginning. CHAPTER LXXVIl, The Ordesl, The ordeal, which to Frank proved more trying than the Indirect accusa tion of being hta cousin's murderer, was the hearing of the coroner's Inquest on the afternoon during which he was re leased from the county Jail. Called upon as the first witness to Identify the body of the murdered man. the young lawyer waa brought close to collapse. It was true he was con science-whole. There was nothing tan. glble with which to reproach himself, yet as he looked down upon the face, the face of the dead lad cut ruthlessly off In tho very springtime of life— Frank wondered if he had been true to his stewardship. Had his judgment, after all, been at fault? For a few painful moments he stood pondering with bowed head. The white face of the dead boy disturbed his mental balance and he was glad tn quit the grewaome morgue. That done, he quickly recovered himself. A few minutes later he waa called before the coroner and Jury to give hla evidence. Frank hastened over hla experiences In the train, but he could see that both the coroner and tho Jury were Intense ly Interested In thnt part of the narra-. live. , "This," Frank said In conclusion, "la a plain and unvarnished statement of the facts In th« case, as known to me. I have no theories upon the subject be yond what I have expressed, and I sin- cerely trust that tho police will be able to clear up what to mo Is In certain reapecta a very profound myitery." At this point ono of the Jurymen asked who, In a pecuniary sense, would profit by his cousin's death, and Frank was obliged to confess that he wu the only Individual, whereat he saw a gen eral lifting of eyebrows In the Jury box, and even tho coroner said: "In deed!" As Frank stepped from the wltnese box a man well known to him took his S lace. With a feeling of relief Frank racebrldge recognized Detective "Mike" Loftus, ono of the cleverest sleuths who-had ever worked on the multitudinous mysteries that confront the police of New York. All through the startling series of episodes that had punctuated the young attorney’s career within the last year the figure of Detective Loftus hnd seemed to confront him at every turn. First he had known him as an Im placable and persistent seeker for his cousin. Reginald, who hod met the shrewdness of the young attorney with the skill and forethought that denote the natural detective nnd who had been baffled only by the flight of Reginald and himself In the airship. Again Loftus had proved an unfal tering friend In tho pursuit of Carl Mueller, after Reginald’s Innocence had been proved. They hod parted devot ed friends, Frank being as deeply Im pressed with the detective’s unswerv ing honesty ns Loftus had been by the sincerity of Bracebrldge. Frank hnd not known that Loftus was working on his latest development of the eensntlonal episodes of his ca reer. He nodded n friendly greeting to the detective, which was returned In kind as Loftus began h.le testimony. The detective corroborated the evi dence from the start, nnd In fi striking manner. . "I happened to be In Cleveland work ing on tho Thurston cose when the story came out that a body had been found In n trunk at tho depot." hr said, "and I went at once to the morgue. nnd In tlie presence of attendants and Detective Bltllnger made a careful ex amination of tile dead man’s clothes. "Were there signs of a struggle-" were they torn or disarranged In any way?" queried Coroner Hoffman. “Not at all," replied Loftus. "Every, thing about him wss spick and span. There was not a sign of violence on clothes or body. He might have Ju-’j got up from a dinner table and curled himself up In the trunk for p sleep. But the curious thing about It was the ab solute lack of marks of Identification not a scrap of paper even. His pockets were as empty as the palms or hands. He wore no Jewelry and ht» linen was unmarked. Every bit ot clothing on the body was of foreign make.” „ Here the coroner turned to brans and desired to know If Ills cousin been abroad. lie wns told that he hao been, but recently returned from Far' • which explained some of the pscutlnri-1 of attire. Loftus went on: , .... •'Our investigations have proved t»“ l Mr. Bracebrldge told the truth In rcr crenre to the receipt of the telegijn by the woman called Mme. Slavin'*. • It was delivered on the platform to' woman who tallied In every wny the description given by Mr. Brs" bridge. ‘V ... Continued in Monday's Georoian*