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OPR PLATFORM: TfTB GEORGIAN
AND NliWS stands for Atlanta's nwn-
Iiirr Its own gas and electric light
plants, ns II now dwns ftg weter
works. Other cities do this anil get
gas ss low as CO rents, with a profit
to the dry. This shstiM ho tloue at
oner. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS
believes Unit If street railways esn ha
ops ra tad ancccsatullr by European
rith-s. as thee are. there it no good
red non why they esn not be so oper
ated bere. Hot we do not believe Ibis
ran be done now, and It mar be some
Onr Trade With Germany.
An Interesting comparison Is fur
nished la the figures showing ths
tot.il commerce of the United States
with Oermnny in the months, of July,
August, September and Ootober of
several years past On an average
for the periods given, our exports to
Germany have exceeded by one-third
our Imports from that country. Tho
figures as compiled by the Depart
ment of Commcrco and Labor are os
follows:
Total commerce of the United Mates with
Gcrmnny In the months of July to Octo
ber. Inclusive, IK! to 1»W.
Only twelve more days to do your
Panta Clausing. ,
John D. Archbold is turning the'
light on Standard Oil.
Tlut General Funston can not swim
the sands out in Nevada.
Now York state Is still misrepre
sented In the United States senate by
Depew and Platt.
Ben Tillman doesn't propose for
any new man like Jeff Davis to mo
nopolize the calcium.
Four national banka are preparing
to put $854,000 new currency In At-
lanta'a Christmas hosiery.
Innovations are alow to tako hold
In Baltimore. The Sun hotly stafeads
the right to eat with a knife.
Anyway, white paper Is too expen'
atvo to think of using the CongreS'
atonal Record aa cord wood.
The Flsb-Harrlmnn row Is fast ap
proaching the stage when nothing
short of a libel suit will settle It
Each province and every city In
China lias a different tael. That Is a
queue to Chinese characteristics.
Several paragraphers have openly
and flagrantly violated the ban
against Hobson's bellicosity, since the
new baby’s arrived.
It Is estimated that 500,000 foreign
ers have returned home In the past
■lx months, taking with them $150,-
000.000 In good American money.
Several tigers will be located In
Georgia after January 1, without legal
objection. The state It getting popu
lar as a winter resort for circuses.
"Six Ponco City boys got 100 quail,
13 geese, two ducks, 1$ rabbits and
one coyote In a 24-hour hunt” No,
that did not occur In grandoldtexaa,
but In young Oklahoma.
When you e«e our searchlight rest
ing steadily on the office of The
Houston Post for 9 hours, the ob
server may know that Bailey haa lo
cated that 12-foot Brazos collahl.
Every time the prohibition forces
move on a new stronghold of the
whisky Interests, Uncle Henry Wat-
terson throws a lit. By the way.
Uncle Henry la the busy old boy
these days.
The Cleveland Leader remarks that
"It's getting so now that the trans-At-
lantlc liners load up with gold as bal
last." It might have added that It also
serves as pretty good ballast for the
old ship of slits.
A VOICE FROM SWEET AUGUSTA, LOVELIEST VILLAGE OF
THE SAVANNAH.
From tho banks of tho soothing Savannah comes a voice of com*
mendatlon for Tho Georgian’s plea for the village. While not having In
mind the Quiet and serene village of Augusta, It might have been taken
as the model for the placid and ideal small town.
Writing from the hurly-burly, the rush and roar of a great city like
Atlanta, tho wearied mind turns lovingly -to the village life of Augusta,
where the lowing klne graze In tho thoroughfares, and tho citizenship
sinks to sleep at twilight, undisturbed by tbo multitudinous nocturnal
noises of a city llko Atlanta.
% • That The Georgian's editorial on the small town haa won the favor
and commendation of Tbn Augusta Herald, Is something worth while.
The Herald Justly says: "Washington, Charleston and Louisville are
not in the same class with Atlanta,” Of course, it is not the habit of At
lanta or its papers to gloat over its leadership as tho greatest, biggest,
best, llrest, busiest city In tho country, but this recognition of the fact
from tho esteemed Herald is gratefully acknowledged.
We can but meet such a spirit of fairness in the same way. Though
some may claim that wo are stretching things a bit to pat The Herald
on the back, we freely and without fear class Augusta along with Griffin,
Jcsup and other villages of similar commercial importance.
Whoa Augustans tire of village existence, they run up to Atlanta to
have a day or so fling at real city life.
ADEQUATE SALARIES FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS.
The latest Issue of The Journal of Labor contain, an editorial force
ful and algnlflcnnt relating to the position of the Atlanta Typographical
Union, No. 48, regarding the present salaries of public school teachers of
the city. The Issue Is one of great Import not only to the teachers them
selves, but to the vast army of children, whoso early training Is committed
Into their hands.
It Is absurd to expoct to socure or to retain the best talent In the
public schools of the city when pitiful and Inadequate salaries are paid
the teachers.
It must bo understood that years of study and preparation have been
necessary to qualify these teachers for their duties, which represent a
certain financial expenditure, often made at a great sacrifice. The class
of work ranks necessarily with what Is most Important and elevating to
all degrees of citizenship, for It means the laying of tho moral as well as
mental foundation for the children, who In future shall direct a,id con
trol tho destinies of the state.
Every laborer Is worthy of his and her hire; the greater the moral
and mental responsibility the more adequate and commensurate should.bo
the salary. An economy which strikes a blow at the proper conduct of
the public schools of the state or city Is short-sighted In the extreme
and must oventually result In a serious and permanent Injury to the'
schools and to the children of the city and state.
Tbo quostlon should not bo “bow small a salary can the teacher live
upon?" bat, "how much is the position worth?" Atlanta Is too rich and
prosperous a city to practice the niggardly economy represented by the
pitiful salaries paid her public school teachers. Tho future welfare and
well-being of tbo children of Atlanta largely depends upon the funda
mental training received In the public schools. And this training Is worth
far more than Atlanta Is paying for It.
CLAYTON TAKES INITIATIVE AGAINST THIRD TERM.
Hon. Henry D. Clayton, representative from the Third congressional
district of Alabama, created decided Interest on Monday, when ho Intro
duced In oongress a resolution directed against the Roosevelt third term
boom.
Mr. Clayton doclaros In his resolution that “to break down the bar
riers against perpetuity of tenure In the presidential office Is fraught
with gravo peril to republican Institutions.” Tho resolution also ottes
the example set by Washington and other presidents who retired after
their socoud terms, although urged to accept renomluatlon at the hands
of dominant political parties.
Mr. Clayton I, said to have the sympathy of 8peaker Cannon In tho
spirit of his resolution and hopes that many Republicans In congress
will vote for It, provtdod an actual vote Is taken by the hoilso.
Mr. Clayton's resolution is especially significant at this time whan
tho popularity of President Roosevelt throughout tho South Is unprece
dented In tho political history of the country. It 1« to bo regarded oae of
tlio first guns fired In the approaching presidential campaign, and Its
eChoos will be heard In many sections of the republic. Mr. Clayton Is a
Democratic national committeeman from Alabama and will be an Influen
tial factor In directing the next Democratic presidential campaign.
It look, aa If the remarkable popularity of Roosovolt In the South
was tho Inspiration of Mr. Clayton'a resolution against the third term
boom. 1
HOW TO LABOR AND TO WAIT.
A study of success conditions among the really successful men of
our age reveal* two vary remarkable things. First, that thoso who have
made great success of their lives early In youth recognized the fact that
they were cspablo of great possibilities, and, second, that tho full realisa
tion of these possibilities was not to bo the work of a day, a year, or
even ten years' time. '-Tficy seemed to realise that between them nnd
the evontuatlbn of their hopes and dreams there must bo a long strotch
of years, years that must be full of preparation, toll and patience before
the much-to-be-deslrei consummation might come. .
Not In a day or a week does the whoat sown In October come to Its
full harvesting time. Bstwoen seed sowing and harvest there must bo
time for germination, unfolding blossom, rlpenlqg grain. Nature, when
■he would give to man her greatest blessings, gives them to him by the
way of patient waiting and slow development.
Mushrooms grow In a night; It takes tho full storm and shine of a
hundred year* to develop tbo date palm. But the mushroom fades with
the morning light, while the palm tree lives a blessing, a benediction for
centurtos.
Coal in the mountain Is there after long centuries of decay of fern
leaf and tree. Not until It has been compressed by the compression of
ages, the turn and the overturn of long drawn out periods, Is coal per
fected to beoome the friend of man In tho twentieth century.
The grain of sand In the shell of the oyster Is transferred Into a
pearl only through long years of waiting In Its prison confined.
Through what long arduous processes must iron ore pass through be
fore it becomes t\e steel, capable of withstanding all kinds of strain and
weathar, when It gives the time of day to the explorer In the northland,
or the adventurer In the tropics.
All over the face of nature, all through life, are wrltton tho words of
tht poet, "Learn to labor and to wait"
A boy Is Just a bundle of possibilities,- that Is all.
A young man is Just a prophecy of what he may bo If, using his tal
ents wisely and well, he comes to years of manhood and strength.
Orest characters and great achievements do not leap forth full-orbed,
as Minerva Is said to have loaned forth from the brain of Jove. They do
not spring at n bound Into full completion as Mothor Evo Is said to hare
sprung forth from the side of Adam.
The cllmatte period In a man's life la not boyhood, nor yet In youth,
rarely middle age. The majority of men whom tho world delights to
honor rarely reached their climax until comparatively late In life. Their
youth was a prophecy; thejr age the fulfillment of the prophecy.
We are deeply lntereited just now In the various forms that teleg
raphy Is assuming. We have passed through the experience of the sin
gle message on the wire, the double and the multiple message. Now wo
are at the threshold of wireless telegraphy. But Morse, the father of
modern telegraphy, was fifty years of age before he could convince the
American people that there was anything in hi, proposed telegraph.
William Carer, the great missionary to India, at the age of thirty,
was still a cobbler on the bench. At forty he had not yet mastered
Sanskrit and the Bengalee. At a time when many men regard them-
aelves as too old to do much more he waa advancing to a professorship
In College of Fort William. Then came the glory of translating the
Scriptures Into a number of Oriental languages. He gave as the aocret
of his success, "I can plod.”. He waa content to labor and to wait
Benjamin Franklin waa practically unknown at the age of fifty. At
the age of seventy he had the honor of placing his name upon the Dec
laration of Independence. At eighty-two he was a delegato to the con
vention called to frame a Federal constitution. When he was called
from the scenes of earth tell at the age of eighty-four be had Just begun
to work In his harvesting field. He gave this bb his rule: "To go
straight on doing what appears to me to be right, leaving the conse
quences to Providence."
Tho life of Button, the great naturalist, reveals tho same characteris
tic of willingness to wait At forty-two ho had not yet published "Nat
ural History.” Not until ho was sixty did appreciation of his prowess
as a naturalist come. At seventy he was still working on "Epochs of
Nature." His success he gave In these words. "Genius Is patience.”
Today, young man, you are full of ambition. To you, as Darwin sug
gests pf the young eagle, there Is the desire to uso your wings. Good
for you Is It that you have tbo deslro to aspire. Well for you If you
learn to labor and to wait, for out of the patient continuance In well
doing will come the achievement that glorifies all,
"Learn to labor and to wait.”
Growth and Progress of the New Sooth
The Georgian here records eneta day
tome economic fact In reference to
the onward progress of tho .South.
BY
JOSEPH B. LIVELY
Special to The Georgian.
Jackson. Miss.. Dec. 10,—The following new Industries have been organized In
the state during the past few days jaud will shortly submit their charters to the
governor for approval!
Co-operative Cash Grocery Co., Hattiesburg; Perry county. CaUtallzed at $10,*
000; J, A. Frazier, F. II. Ilartman, nnd others.
Adams Brother* Lumber Company, Pelahatchle, Rankin county. Capitalized
at 120,000; J. J, Wilson. P. It. Adams, G. EL Adams, and others.
Gatearllle Realty Company, Crystal Springs, Copiah county. Capitalized nt
$10,000; I). W. Gates. J. w. Grantham, and others.
Greenwood Mattress Company, Greenwood* J.efloro county. Capitalized at $25,-
000; W. T. logins, N. S. Wright and others.
Pouml-KIneannon-Likins Company, Tupelo. Lee county. Capitalised at $10,000;
V. C. Klncsnnon, T. F. Elkin, It. L. Pound, nnd others.
Amendment to charter of Itnnk of Madison, Madison Station, Madison county,
increasing capital stock to $20,000.
HnntSTlIle, Ain., Dec. 10.—The Merrimack Mnrtpfncturlng Company Is Install*
Ing a consignment of nbout $00,000 worth of new machinery In Its mills near this
city. The naw machinery Includes n large number of new Draper looms. The ca
pacity of the plant la being Increased. -*
Twenty new cottages have !»een finished by Contractor B. L Patterson for the
nse of tho additional operatives that will be employed by the mill. The aame con
tractor Is now engaged In enlarging tho capacity of Merrimack’s warehouse.
The Huntsville Hallway, Light and Power Company Is receiving new machln*
etjr. Orders have been placed for a duplicate power plant at a coat of about $40,*
MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO.,
CORNER ALABAMA AND BROAD STS.
ESTABLISHED 1880.
Capital $200,000.00
Surplus and Profits $600,000.00
Banking in all its Branches
PEOPLE AND THINGS
GOSSIP FROM THE HOTELS
AND THE STREET CORNERS
Attorney Hunt Chipley, one of the
most able corporation lawyers In the
Southern etates, has tendered hie resig
nation as general counsel of the South
ern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany and on January 1 he will become
a member of one of the most promi
nent lnw firms In Now York.
In tendering hi. resignation to the
company Mr. Chipley does not leave the
telephone field, for ho and his firm will
be the advisory counsel of telephone
companies throughout the United
Slates, dealing specifically with the re
latlons of telephone companies and cor
poration commissions In the various
states. Mr. Chipley has hsld the posh
tlon of advisory counsel of the tele
phone company for the past seven
years. Ho will be succeeded by Judge
II. E. IV. Palmer, assistant to Vice
President W. T. Gentry, and Brutus J.
Clay, who Is already connected with
tho legal department of the company.
J. Fred Lewis, political and editorial
writer on The Constitution, who has
been very 111 from an operation for
appendicitis for several weeks. Is able
to bo at his desk again.
Mr. Lewis' friends In Atlanta and
over the state will bo pleased to learn
of his restoration to health. He Is one
of the beet known and most popular
newspaper men In the state.
Captain J. H. Flythe, commercial
ngont of tho Seaboard In Augusta, was
In Atlanta Monday attending the meet
ing of the outside freight men of that
road. Captain Flythe has many friends
In Atlanta, one of whom Is Assistant
General Passonger Agent Janies J. Pul.
ler of the same road. They were both
stationed in Columbia, 8. C„ several
years ago.
After an absence of several months
spent at his old home In the New Eng
land states recuperating from a long
Illness. Fred R. Saul, one of the beat
known Jewelers of Atlanta, has re
turned to the city and resumed his
position with the Kiser Jewelry Com
pany In the Kimball House block.
Councilman Charles M. Roberts has
returned from Washington, where he
attended the National Rivers and Har.
bora Congress aa one of the Atlanta
representatives. Mayor Joyner, who
also attended, went to New York for
a few days, and Alderman Hlrech to
Baltimore.
"People who live In a boarding house
will appreciate this ono from Harper's
Weekly.” remarked Alonso Effingham,
of Milwaukee, at the Aragon. "Just
listen." Anil he rend:
"A scientific friend of mine has drawn
up a boarding house geometry that
strikes ms as being noteworthy." says
a youth with a third-story “front."
"Some of hts definitions run aa fol
lows:
"I. All boarding houses ore the same
boarding houses.
"S. Boarders In the same boarding
house and on the same floor are equal
to one another In the mattgr of price,
but not In the matter of outlook.
"8. A single room Is that which has
no parts and no magnitude.
•'«. The landlady of a boarding house
Is a parallelogram: an oblong, an an
gular figure which can not ba described,
but Is equal to anything.
"S. All the other rooms being taken,
a single room Is said to be a double
room.
"Among postulates and propositions
the following are worthy of considera
tion:
"1. A pie may be produced nny num
ber of times. . . . ,
•'J. A landlady may be reduced to
her lowest terms by a series of propo
elttona. . , „
*$. A bee line may be made from one
boarding house to another.
"4. The clothing of * boarding house
bed. although' extended Indefinitely In
both directions, will never meet.
"5. Any two meals at a boarding
house are together lean than one square
meal.”
ARMY-NAVY ORDERS
AND
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELa
William 8.
pares, ordnance department, from f
' Held armory. Philadelphia, to relieve mmi
Haranel f/off, ordnance department, as li
spector of ordnance, nt works of Midvale
Steal Company.
Second Lieutenant Ernll CortrlH. mounted
■ervlco tcboolf Fort Riley, to bUn Fran*
cleco, to take first nrnllable transport for
Philippines. Join bJ» regiment
Captain Raymond II. Stephen*, Twenty-
third infantry, to Washington barracks gen
oral hospital.
' Navy Orders.
Captain A. Miirlx, supervisor of naval
auxiliaries, Atlantic coast, headquarters In
New York, December 30. to duty aa member
of lighthouse board, department of com
merce and labor, Washington.
Lieutenant Commander W. W. Rash, to
charge navy recruiting station, Oklahoma
City, December 23,
Lieutenant Commander C. M. Knepper,
detached bureau of equipment, navy depart
ment.
Lieutenant H. F. Yates, detached Georgia
to duty connection Chestor, with view of
being ordered at senior engineer officer of
that vessel when commissioned.
Lieutenant L. I. Wallace, detached charge
navy recruiting station, Oklahoma City, to
Pennsylvania.
Movements of Vessela.
Arrived—December 6: Virginia at Hamp
ton roads. December 7: Illinois, Alabama.
Kansas, Kearsarge, Connecticut, Iowa nnd
Georgia, at Hampton Roads; Prairie, at
League Island; Ajax, at Norfolk.
Sailed—December 7: Kentucky, Boston,
for Newport; Vermont, from Tompklnsvllle
for Hampton IlOads; Maine, from League
Island for Hampton Roads; Choctaw, from
Washington for Hampton Ronds; Brutus,
from Baltimore to Rio de Janeiro; Nero,
from Ilrnford for Rio do Janeiro. December
8; Wasp, from Peaksklll, N. 1’.; Rainbow,
Galveston and Chattanooga, Shanghai, for
art rubbered skyward 7
Well, you hate Robert G. Rennnn, a
bright, hustling and euergetlc yountf CM*
■go man, to either thank or cosa for It.
ft la hts fault that those aeroplanea are
flying high up In the air doing advertising
stunts and causing unsophisticated Atlan
tans to stop and gate upward. .....
Mr. Hetman Is president of the Aerial Ad
vertising Company of Chicago and Inci
dentally the inventor of the contrivance
which keeps the big advertisements floating
thousands of feet In the air. These are
not kites, bnt aeroplanes, and ao well do
they work that the government has pur
chased many of them to use with the sig
nal corps or the army and (a the depart-
rhlefa U attracting
IPI«*t of to
bacco and Governor’s Cup Coffee. These
Ada are shown on a Mr sllkallne canvas and
at night a big searchlight Is tamed on the
floating banner, bringing the tobacco and
coffee ads Into prominence to all "rublwr-
neckt.’* The Walker A Tipton Cotnpaay
was one of the first to adopt the new adver
tising method. . . _
"be sente device wes used by Rostock
his big trained wild animal abow and
be secured these patented aeroplanea from
Mr. Keanan. Mr. Itennnti now hns one
of his crews on top of the Empire build
ing manipulating a etrlng of aertkdanes for
the Walker-TIpten Company of Atlanta.
Mr. Reiman ha* Jtmt returned from Lon
don end Paris. where be hai several crews
*t work, end dropped to Atlanta from Chi-
e*«ro to ,-rof th'nrv running here.
WITH PRESIDENT REMUS.
(From The Nashville American.)
The recent visit of Uncle Remus to the
white house has brought him more Into the
limelight than usual. Ho remarked that if
he were president lie would hare a regi
ment drilling and two bands playing in the
white house grounds all the time—which
would bo more unlike Uncle Remus than
anything he evor did. The Washington
Herald thinks, that If he were president,
the white house would look like tho old
homo down on the farm: "Ho would hare
a garden in the back yard—a big one. at
that. He would rnlso snap beans, okra,
cnltards, Irish potatoes, roasting ear*, tur
nip greens. beets, parsnips, radishes, lettuce
and the like, nnd off to one side he would
hare nn aaparnguit bed. lie would have a
big cow lot down toward the eorner of the
back yard somewhere. Nothing could in-
ducw him to do without that cow lot. If he
could not have It he would not have the
presidency. Doubtless he might menage to
— along with as few as six bovine*—but
less. Then lie would have chickens,
plenty of them, but they would have to
keep out of the garden, on pain of dlshon
oroide discharge. Dally shipments of water-
ground meal would come In from Georgia,
to keep the corn bread and dumpling* up to
the famous ‘Dude Remus' standard." -
Bless yo' soul, honey, dc.v’d Ik* mighty
iris golns on ’bout (lot ole white house,
_ 11 be bound yo; Icaatweya dat whnt It’d
‘pear to dem city folk* what ain’t reely
know nothin' ‘bout livin’ In da country,
whar dey bd* aaunre an’ bans fur brekfus
ebary winter mawnln’ an’ whur dey ain't
no mo* ebanst to find dlshyer taiele** stuff
der keen In do town slo’ dan dey Is fur ole
Mister Itnhhlt to keep be feet rutu glttln’
stuck on a Ur baby.
rnrle Remus would devote more time to
to collnrd patch than to affairs of atate.
here would ba rows of popcorn In front of
Jio executive offices, nnd down where the
bear pit and the bobcat bouse are now the
■by and timid guinea would lay her speckled
egg*. There would be • trusty rifle Jn the
rack over the door, there would ba plenty
of wood and kindling In the corner near
the fireplace; there would be a barrel of
cider alongside of a barrel of apple vinegar
In the cenar; there would he walnut* nnd
hickory nuts In the blna. sage nnd llfe-ever-
! ,a ^L ln €. antf « re<t mollen nnd dried
•umpkln along the Joists, apple* hurled In
be oat bln, and awny back nnder the Blue
loom In a dark corner a keg or two of ap
plejack would ba found, uot for puhllca-
lion, bnt a. aa evidence of good faith.
I nele Ilerou, would kaoir bnw to ran the
whit, house and the government conld run
BOSTON AN IRISH CITY.
Boaton la proportionately tho moat IrlA
ettg- In America. It haa alio more folk
of Irlih descent In it than Dublin, the
clilef cltjr of Ireland. An Irishman can be
counted on to rote. Of the rote of Boaton,
politicians claim that 6} per cent la lrl,!i.
Thera la no approach to inch n proportion
among the greater cities of the United
Stetca, nor any other city of Irlah-popu-
lated New England. Bostoa, besides, la
one of the most foreign cities of the conn-
try-aomewhat teat ao than Chicago, bnt
J“»> the equal of New York, (if about
MI.OOO people In IPX), only IA.M0 were of
netlye parentage, and nt lean one-half of
thete were thtol or fourth-generation rte-
scendantl of tbr Irlab. With the Italians
it nit otl.ee f'«1K..IL» ik. r.-.u
tlm dty roach** well to....
the total.—From nn article . ....
grtld^of Boston In Collier's for November
ii.pvr cent of
■Mayor Fits-
LETS BE HAPPY,
lata *>• happy! let's l K - happy!
Let the Joyous about reaouaif—
UappmtM w. know a contagious.
Let ua spread It all arousd.
If wa're blithesome. «ny end Joyous,
\\ e make others feel SO too;
Lot ua. then, ilo nnto others
Aa we'd have them to ua do.
Clearly It la our duty
To lie hippy at we go:
For. It we ore always cheerful,
Tho.e a pound na will bo .n, —n.
i THE PARMEN TER MILLIONS
... A Stirring Novel of Love, Conspiracy and Adventure. . .
(Copyright, 1307, by Arthur tY, Marcbmont.)
By ARTHUR W. MARCHMONT.
Author of “By Right of Sword," “When I Was Czar,” Etc., Etc.
Synopsis of Previous instalment.
Olive becomes suspicious of certain nets
of Mrs. Tlnsler nnd llerrldew nnd when her
evening meal la hronsbt she inspects It vory
closely. She is convinced that the tea 1
—d. She .makes ns If to (
Merrldew Is In the room.
latter she arms herself with nn Iron bar
front her bed, determined to attack Merri
ll e\r If ho comes to carry her to the de
serted mine. She awaits the coming of her
eoemles.
The door was opened very stealthily.
To Her relief Olive saw that It was
the woman.
She paused by the door, first peering
In and holding the lantern behind her.
"Have you finished, miss?” The ques
tion was little more than a whisper at
first, but when Olive did not reply It
was repeated In a louder tone and with
more confidence.
The lantern was put down and Mrs,
Tlsley advanced Into the room, closing
the door behind her. At fir.st she did
not eee Olive, but presently made her
out, and then crossed the room to her
side and looked closely Into her face.
Olive did not open her eyes and
breathed heavily. She felt her hand
lifted, and when It waa released she
let It fall listlessly.
An oath of satisfaction slipped out of
the woman's lips and she shook Olive
by the shoulder. “You sly devil, you’ve
taken It all right Curse youl you'll
woke up presently, and then"—
She got no further than that for
the next Instant Olive had caught hor
by the throat, and with a dexterous
twist threw her on the bed, and field
her down. Caught thus entirely by
surprise, the woman had no chance In
the strong hands that gripped her
throat and squeezed It till the breath
could not pass.
But that was not Olive's Intention.
She was at bay, fighting for her life,
Raising the Iron bar, she stood over
and sheJiad a further task,
the cowering wretch and threatened to
beat out her brains If she dared to ut
ter a sound; and then taking the little
Jug of milk, she forced her to swallow
It. In dire fright, the woman tried to
resist, but Olive held to the task until,
little by little, much ns ehe would have
forced It on an animal, the whole con
tents of the Jug had been drunk.
Watching her Intently, she saw the
drug tako effect: and aa soon as this
was apparent, she stripped the woman'
outer clothes off, and, tearing off her
own, changed dresses with her.
Shn made the change as rapidly os
possible, but It took so long that she
paused a dozen times In fear that she
had heard Merrldow coming up to the
room.
Despite the woman's unconsciousness.
It was no easy task to put the clothes
upon her, and when Olive had finish
ed there were a hundred signs which
to a woman’s eye would havo Indicated
the deception.
But Olive calculated that Merrldew
would bo to the full a* excited as sho
was herself, and In the darkness the
trick might pass successfully.
Fortunately Mrs. Tlsley had been
wcnrlng a shawl over her head; and
Olive put this on cunningly so as to
conceal the greater part of her face.
At this point her plans were chang-
-J. The Idea of her violent resistance
by striking Merrldew down hod been
repugnant from the first, and now she
suw another way. She would keep her
u upon by her In case of bar ruse being
detected, but would only use It In the
last extremity.
Her first thought In changing dresses
with Mrs. Tlsley had been merely to
Increase the chances of catching Mer
rldew unawares, nnd so have a better
opportunity of striking him down.
But now she saw a way that won In
finitely less distasteful. If her ruse
succeeded and he waa misled Into mis.
taking the two, sho would let him con
tinue In that belief until they had left
the house.
Again she set herself to consider
what he would do when he came and
found that his victim was now at hta
mercy. He was a powerful man and
quite capablo of carrying her unaided
the short distance to the.mine shaft.
She would not be expected to follow,
as he would probably bo unwilling for
her to see the actual murder commit-
ted.
That would be her chance to leave
the house and fly. She had thus every
thing to gain by continuing the decep
tion so long as possible.
With this thought to urge her, Olive
set to work to do all she could to les
sen the chances of Merridew’s discov
ering that the Insensible body was
really that of hie accomplice.
In addition to the dress she had put
on the woman, the now put on hor
Jacket and bat and fastened a thick
veil over the featuree.
If a question was asked about this,
she could easily explain that, as she
was supposed to be walking when she
fell down the shaft. It waa necessary
that she should have on her walking
clothes.
This addition, especially the veil, ren
dered discovery Infinitely less probnble.
and Olive held the lantern to the pros
trate figure and surveyed the result
with great satisfaction.
Then another touch occurred to her.
She turned the lantcm lower, until tho
light was so dim that nny one accus
tomed to the dark would be scarcely
able to tee anything at all by It.
AU was ready at last. But when
Merrldew did not come, the delay ren
dered Olive restless and uneasy. He
might have told Mrs. Tlsley to go down
and tell him when all was right, and
In that case her absence might start
his suspicion.
She epent a few moments In adding
to her own disguise, holding the dim
lantern up to htr scrap of a mirror as
the adjusted the shawl so as to conceal
her features most effectually.
Then, the delay started yet a new
fear. The woman might recover con
sciousness and all would be to do over
again, with Its terrible uncertainty and
possible failure. She might even have
to have recourse to the more distaste
ful course of the sudden attack upon
Merrldew. And at that she went and
bent over tho 'woman, listened to her
breathing, felt her pulse—feeble, flick
erin'- nnd uncertain—and lifted her
hand and watched It fal! flaccid and
helpless and nerveless.
Then, nt »he ‘-es-ri 1 -n-rement
below.
A door was opened nnd a heavy tread
came out Into the passage.
“How long are you going to be up
there?" called Merrldew, with an oath.
With a start of pleasure, Olive no
ticed that the voice was unsteady and
the speech was thick. He had been
nerving himself for the grim work of
the night, and had drunk too much. He
would be the less likely to see the
trick she had played, and she felt a
little thrill of delight and encourage
ment
With her weapon in her hand she
crossed to the door and opening It
slightly, called, "Ready now,” with as
close an imitation of the woman’s voice
as she could assume, seeking to make
her voice thick and stumbling as with
drink.
"What the devil's the matter with
you, you old fool?” cried Merrldew. "I
suppose yoil're drunk again, ns usual,”
he muttered as he began to mount the
stairs.
Olive set the lantern down by the
dobr and crossed to the bed. taking
care to stand well In the shadow.
Merrldew came up, swearing to him
self at the narrow stairway, and when
he reached heavily against the door,
sent It flying wide open and staggered
clumsily Into the room.
“Hush!" whispered Olive.
“To the devil with your hushing,” he
replied. "Where are you?"
“Hefe."
"Is It all right r
"Yes." Olive spoke In the same whis
per, so that her voice was the more
likely to pass unnctlced.
“Why the devil don't you have a
proper light?" he grumbled.
Next he picked up the lantern, held
It high over his head and crossed the
room toward her. Then suddenly he
stopped with a start and let out a sharp
oath.
Would he recognize her? Her fin
gers closed on the Iron bar, and. ready
to strike him down at the first sign
of. recognition, she waited with bated
breath for hie next movement.
CHAPTER XXXVH.
Murder?
When Merrldew stopped so suddenly
In his approach to the bed by the side
of which Olive stood In such high-
wrought suspense, she believed that
he had noticed something which had
reused his suspicion, and the second's
pause before he spoke again was like
an hour. s
He broke the silence with a laugh.
•'Why, you've dressed her for a
walk,” he said, and swore with Intoxi
cate^ good humor. Ho had been drink
ing much more heavily than she had
thought. As he stood gazing down at
the still form on the bed, the lantern
swayed and wabbled in his hand, and
he hod to steady himself by the table.
"Is she right off?" he asked with a
hiccough.
"Dead," whispered Olive.
He started and reeled slightly at this,
not understanding her. "Do you mean
you’ve overdone it, you old fool?"
At that Olive took a bold step. Stoop.
Ing os If to uncover the face, she whls.
pered nngrlly. “See for yourself.”
He stretched out a hand hastily anil
stopped her. "No, no. I don't want to
see her. Stop that," he cried.
She growled nn Incoherent retort
under her breath nnd drew back. ‘
He pauned and stroked his forehead
as if In some doubt. But Olive was
certain now that he had not a shadow
of suspicion that all was not Just os he
saw It. He was stupid with drink and
his wits were muddled.
This was all In Olive's favor; but
now It had o result on which she had
not calculated. He was too unsteady
on his legs to attempt to carry down
the woman by himself; and' diiqly he
realised -this.
He set the lantern down on the table
and -bent over tho bed.
"Come on. You must help carry her."
Sho was to help In her own murder!
With a shudder of disgust, she drew
back and mumbled a refusal.
This angered him, and he swore at
her viciously.
“Do what I say at once. Do you
think I’m going to let you off your
part In this? We do It together, or—
you shall go first to make a soft spot
for her to fall on," and he laughed with
drunken brutality.
Still Olivo hung bock; but he grew
so violent and threatened her so loudly
that sho feared he would wake the
woman and thus discover everything.
That must be. prevented at any
cost Puting restraint upon herself,
therefore,' Olive bent down and took
the woman’s feet while Merrldew put
his arms uqder the shoulders.
She's not so heavy, as I expected,” h»
muttered. Then: "Take the light, some
how,” and Olive picked up the lantern
i she passed It. f
Light though the burden was, Merrl.
dew stumbled several times under It,
and they got down the narrow stair
case with difficulty. Once he nearly
let the woman fall, and swore as ho
regained his foothold.
Olive had gone down first, and when
sho reached the bottom she did not
know which way to turn. Sho had
never been at the back of the house,
and the dim light of tho lantern was
not sufficient for her to see the way.
She kept along the passage as If to
go to the front door.
"Where are you going?" growled
Merrldew. "The back, of course, you
fool.”
Dlrely perplexed at this and Infinite
ly distressed by having been thus
forced to take port In the fearful deed
which was to be done, Olive stood still.
It was no part of her scheme that the
woman, wretch an shn wan, and vilely
as she had treated her, should pay for >
that treatment with her life. That she
had lent herself readily to the scheme
of murder was no Justification for Oliva
to help in sending her to her death.
Yet to drew back now meant In
evitable discovery and certain recap
ture. In helping Merrldew to carry
down their burden, she had had to
leave the weapon In the room upstairs,
and she was thus defenceless,
Crtntinu-d In Tnirurrow's G--rnl-o-