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ATLANTA. GEORGIA. MONDAY. October 21. 1901.
SCHLEY'S FULL VINDICATION.
It Is very clear that the evidence so far
aobmltted to the investigating board is
overwhelmingly In favor of Admiral
Schley.
Some of the witnesses upon whom the
enemies of that officer relied most confi
dently have.discomforted them, and th.
prospect of Admiral Schley's full vtndica
tion is now so dear that it may be con
sidered a certainty. *
The testimony ot Captain Cook, given
Monday, is so complete tn every detail
and so conclusive that it cannot possibly
be overcome.
Captain Cook commanded the Brooklyn
during the entire war with Spain and had
a better opportunity than any other per
son to observe closely the conduct of Ad
miral Schley in every movement, both be
fore and during the fight.
His estimate of Admiral Schley was
summarised in this strong statement:
•1 have always regarded him as an
eathasiastieally brave and patriotic of
ficer. Never in any other way."
Captain Cook went into every detail of
the movements of the fleet, especially the
Brooklyn, and declared that Admiral
Schley not only displayed great skill and
capacity as a 'naval commander, but
courage and coolness of the highest order.
The attempts of the government's coun
sel to confuse his testimony or to draw
him into the slightest variation in his
remarkably clear and straightforward
narrative failed utterly.
Chptain Cook was speaking from knowl
edge and not from hearsay. He was the
best witness of what he testified to. and it
will be impossible to controvert him.
' The two men who know moat about the
part of the Brooklyn in the movements
•gainst Cervera's fleet and in the battle
* itself are Captain Cook, who commanded
the ship, and Commander Hodgson, who
navigated it.
Both of these officers have testified in
the plainest terms that Admiral Schley's
conduct as a man and an officer was
above reproach, tactful, courageous, cool
and effective.
Not one of the witnesses who have criti
cised the actions of Admiral Schley had
anything like as good opportunity to ob
serve Admiral Schley during the period
covered by the investigation or jo esti
mate the quality and effects of his con
duct and commands as either of these of
ficers who have brushed away like cob
webs every charge and aspersion that has
been made against the gallant vietor of
Santiago.
MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY.
The reverend uncle of Bulwer's Kenelln
Chillingly was an enthusiastic advocate
of “muscular Christianity." and was very
proud of his success in teaching his pre
cocious nephew how to "lick Tom
Bowies
An illustration of “muscular Christian
ity" which would have delighted the
heart of that game old gentleman was
given by a New York minister a few
jl nights ago.
Rev. Dr. Erie St. Croix Wright, pastor
of Lenox Avenue Udllarlan church, lives
gi • hntme next to one which was until re
cently occupied by a club which was really
• resort for gamblers.
The club was recently driven out by its
indignant neighbors, but some of its hab
itues were slow to ascertain that fact.
Dr. Wright has frequently been rung up
by late callers who mistook his home for
the gambling den that formerly bad quar
ters next door.
Naturally the persecuted person grew
weary of these attempted invasions.
Last Friday night four men demanded
'admission to Dr. Wright's domicile. Thqy
refused to accept his assurance that it
was not the place they were looking for
and pushed their way in. This was more
' t than the pious doctor could stand. He is
a man of powerful physique and well
skilled in athletic art. He did not call for
help. but. unassisted, threw all four of
the prowling gamblers down his front
steps, sending them sprawling to the
pavement below. The intruders realised
that they had run up against a man who
could handle them all and fled as soon as
they could pull themselves together.
Dr. Wright set a fine example of the
righteous use of the manly art. and is
»ow the cock of the walk throughout the
aalghborhood.
It is a good thing for a preacher as well
as a layman to have a liberal supply''of
muscle and know how to use It when nec
eaaary.
> PROFITABLE CONVICT FARMS.
Soon after the war like
Georgia and nearly every other southern
state, was driven to the convict lease
system as a matter of necessity.
These states were so impoverished by
the war that they were not able to adopt
any other penitentiary system.
In Mississippi, as in every other state
that has tried it. the convict lease sys
tem was afflicted with abuses that made
it odious and provoked a very general
demand for its abolition. As they have
become able to do so moat of the states
which adopted this expedient have aban
doned it and adopted various substitutes.
Several years ago Mississippi resorted
to a convict farm plan very mueh like
that which Georgia adopted a little later.
It has worked well in both states. ,
The results in Mississippi have beefl
•ven more satisfactory than was expect
ed.
The state has direct control ot all its
convicts. They are placed on twelve large
farms where they raise cotton mainly, but
•Iso enough provisions for their own use.
First rate land was bought for these
farms and they are so well managed that
last year they paid Mississippi a net rev
enue of more than $25,000.
The state has recently purchased 12,000
acres which will also be cultivated by con
victs and a large increase of the revenue
'rem Its convict labor is confidently pre
, licted.
The health of the convicts is said to
average much better than did under the
lease system; little trouble is found in
their management and there is rarely any
complaint of cruelties.
Mississippi, from every point of view,
made a happy exchange when she swap
ped her convict leases for convict farms
under state management
NO DIVORCE CANON.
The Episcopal convention, after long
consideration by both the house of bishops
and the house of deputies. Wednesday de
cided *to take no action at this session on
the subject of divorce. It seemed certain
a few days ago that the convention would
adopt a very sweeping canon on this sub
ject, but objections to It on the ground
that it was too stringent increased so
that it was found Impossible to adopt the
canon in its original form or to agree
upon any modification of It.
The discussions and votes, however, de
veloped the fact that there Is in the Epis
copal church very strenuous objections
to divorce and a growing determination
to set the influence and authority of the
church against it as it is now generally
permitted by Protestant churches.
The action of the convention after re
jecting tha proposed canon Indicates that
it is to continue its war upon the divorce
evil in away that may make it more ef
fective than the independent action of
one church possibly could.
It was resolved that a committee of
three bishops, three presbyters and three
laymen should be appointed to confer with
official representatives of other religious
bodies with a view to uniformity of prac
tice on the subject of matrimony and di
vorce. i
The Protestant churches all agreed upon
an anti-divorce policy and the Catholic
church arrayed absolutely against di
vorce would undoubtedly have a power
ful effect in restraining an evil which now
sorely afflicts our social system.
MANY BRITISH—FEW BOERS.
The war In South Africa still drags on
because, as it seems, the Boers have de
termined that though they may be ex
terminated, they just won’t be conquered.
The British secretary of war, Mr. Brod
rtek, has recently* made a very striking
statement of the relative strength of the
British and Boer forces In South Arica.
He shows that there are, in round Am
ber* tn the field 200,000 men and 450 guns.
In addition to these there are no less than
100,000 men in Great Britain who are un
der training to supply reinforcements.
The British government is furnishing
supplies dally to 214,000 persons in South
Africa who are directly or Indirectly em
ployed in the war.
It is feeding 248,000 mules and horses
and bringing in horses at the rate of 10,000
a month.
Look at the figures for the Boers:
The total number of Boers available for
army duty is put by this British official
at 11,000. Such a disparity of nominal
strength hns seldom been known since
Leonidas and hjp three hundred stood
against the Persian host at Thermopy
lae. Nearly 20 to 1 is fearful odds, but
the Boers keep on fighting.
ROOSEVELT ON TRUSTS.
Ajnong all the great opportunities that
lie before President Roosevelt that of de
vising and enforcing some method of re
straining and regulating the trusts is
surely one of the most important. »
The president Is on record In favor of
trust restrictions and it Is hoped that
be may effect something in that direc
tion.
In an address delivered at Minneapolis
shortly before he became president Mr.
Roosevelt said:
'More and more It is evident that the
state, and if necessary the nation, has
got to possess the right of supervision
and control as regards the great corpora
tions which are its creatures, particularly
the great business corporations which
derive a portion of their importance from
the existence of some monopolistic ten
dency."
Publicity is dreaded by nearly every
trust and If full light could be thrown up
on their affairs their power for harm
would be greatly diminished.
The right of supervision which President
Roosevelt says “the state, and if neces
sary. the nation, has got to possess" is
the first necessary step toward the sup
pression of the evils of the trusts. It is
believed that in his first message Pres
ident Roosevelt will handle this subject
in a manner that will show that he means
business.
OUR ENORMOUS FIRE BILL.
In no other country is the loss by fire
every year anything like as great as that
in the United States.
And yet we have the most perfectly
equipped, the most expert and the most
expensive fire departments tn the world.
The main reasons why so much of our
property goes up in smoke every year
arc defective construction and the care
lessness of property owners and tenants.
Many persons who are prudent In other
things allow combustible material to col
left in dwellings, shops and stores and lie
ready to catch every spark that may fall.
The careless use of matches is accounta
ble, perhaps, for more fires than defective
flues, incendiarism and all other causes
combined.
We cannot wonder that fire Insurance
rates are so much higher in the United
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1901.
States than in Europe when we remember
the much greater risk the companies take
here.
Instead of decreasing, as it wouM If the
lessons of experience were regarded, the
annual fire loss In this country is in
creasing.
Fbr the completed nine months of this
year it reached the enormous total of
$111,679,950 and for the like period of last
year It was $105,361,899. or over $6,000,000
less. During the first ten days of October
the fire losses in this country aggregated
$3,706,000.* The prospect is that the total
for the year will be alarmingly large.
We boast of being the richest nation on
earth, and it seems that we literally have
"money to burn."
THE DEVELOPING SOUTH.
The Illinois Central railroad is one of th*
most prosperous and best managed rail
way systems in the country and has done
a great work toward developing the large
region of the south through which its
lines nass.
It maintains a bureau of information
which advertises the south in a very at
tractive way and gives publicity to the
enterprises and improvements in its ter
ritory.
Recently this bureau has sent out the
statement that during the present year
363 industries with an aggregate capital of
mow than $10,006,000 have been started
along its lines. Os these no less than 244
are in the south and they Include a great
variety of enterprises.
To the Illinois Central Itself belongs a
large part of the credit for the establish
ment of these industries, the investment
of the large amount of the capital they
represent and the benefit to the great
number of persons to whom they have
given work. ,
That company has for years been ald-
Ipg very materially the developments of
the south.
It has encouraged the Inauguration of
those already established. It has given fa
vorable freight rates and fine transporta
tion facilities. It has purchased immense
tracts of land, cut it up into farms to
suit settlers and sold it on easy terms.
Such a rairoad company is a power for
good wherever It goes. It benefits Itself by
helping along the territory In which it
operates.
POSTAGE STAMP CURRENCY.
The habit of sending postage stamps to
pay for small purchases Is very general.
Retail merchants, publishers and others
receive so many stamps through the mails
that they are put to serious inconven
ience, as nobody wants stamps for change
and they are not readily convertible into
cash. Many merchants will not take
stamps In lieu of money, but it is often
inconvenient for those who send orders by
mail to procure postofflee postal notes and
they do not like to send coin in letters.
Assistant Postmaster Hubbard has a
plan that he thinks will be a great con
venience to both merchants and pur
chasers by mail.
It provides for the Issue of postage
stamp certificates. The customer would
be allowed to buy from the local postmas
ter at very small extra cost a stamp cer
tificate for the desired amount and send
It instead of the stamps it represents.
The receiver of this certificate could
convert it into stamps at its par value,
or into cash at a discount of only 1 per
cent. ,
This plan is approved by many Chicago
merchants and has been endorsed by the
newspapers of that city.
It will be proposed to congress at its
next session. •
WIRELEBS TELEGRAPHY.
Recent experiments indicate that wire
less telegraphy will soon be of far great
er practical value than was at first
thought probable.
The theory that this method of commu
nication Is impracticable where there are
intervening obstructions, such as walls,
seecns to have been exploded.
Last Saturday messages were exchang
ed between the steamship Umbria lying
at her pier in New York and the Lucania
more than thirty miles away at sea.
The operator of a* Marconi instrument
on the former vessel asked “Where are
you?” Very pftmptly from the Lucania
came answer, "Off the bar."
Wireless telegraphy has been used be
tween ships at sea much more than thirty
miles apart, but this is the first clear
demonstration that tall buildings, masts
and other intervening objects do not in
terfere with the passage of wireless mes
sages back and forth at least for thirty
miles.
Marconi’s wonderful Invention will un
doubtedly be very useful and will prob
auiy soon be perfected far beyond Its
present possibilities.
We may now ha ze to have another court
of Inquiry to find out who really did make
that loop.
It might be possible to solve the Carrie
Nation problem by sending her over to
do a little missionary work in Bulgaria.
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Quite an innovation has been introduced
in Kentucky. Spectators in attendance on
the Caleb Powers trial will be required
to leave their weapons at the door.
The heart of an Indiana man is said to
be slowly turning to stone. If this keeps
up he may be able some day so qualify as
the manager of some charity bureau.
We will all probably agree that matri
mony is a good thing if it keeps Chauncey
home at nights and prevents him from
making any more after-dinner speeches.
Now that Judge Cantrill refuses to‘al
low Kentuckians to wear concealed weap
ons in the court room the attendance on
the second Caleb Powers trial Is likely to
be considerably reduced.
The late Ameer of Afghanistan, being
asked how many wives he had, replied:
“How many? God only knows.” And yet
we were told that his death was a “sur
prise."
The antl-Tammanyites are trying to
hold out the inducement that if Dick
Croker is defeated in the coming election
he will make his permanent residence in
England.
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New.
Hampshire. Delaware and Utah have not
had a lynching in five years. But then,
Illinois, Indiana and Ohio manage to keep
up the averse for the northern states.
I PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS
The following interesting paper on thq
"Prevention of Tuberculosis" was writ
ten by z Mrs. Eliza Hubbard McHatton, of
I Macon, Ga., the talented wife of Dr. H.
M. McHatton, one of the most distin
guished physicians in the south, and was
published in the September number of the
Medico-Legal Journal as one of the ablest
papers read before the American Congress
of Tuberculosis at its May session:
"I think it would be well to enact a
law compelling all premises where a case
is known to exist to be well cleansed and
disinfected a week or oftener in far ad
vanced cases, and all rooms where a case
has died to be as thoroughly disinfected
as in any other case of contagious dis
ease, the expense to be borne by the city
if the people are not well off. A point to
bo considered is <he choosing of a nurse
for children. The family physician should
tn all cases oversee this matter and that
a woman healthy in body and mind is
procured. Some such supervision is used
in regard to a wet nurse, but it is just as
important to be sure of the health of the
regular nurse or nursery governess, and
to be sure that there is no active tubercu
lar trouble in a nurse or others in the in
timate relations existing between such
persons and their young charges. Also
great care should be used in the feeding
of all young persons, especially seeing
that they have the best and most nutri
tious food and plenty of it. Poorly or
badly fed persons are much more prone
to any disease. A great factor In the
spread of tuberculous disease of the air
passages is dust—so that it seems to me
if the proper dampening of all streets in
thickly settled places could be enforced
it would help greatly in its prevention.
Also the floors and walls of all public
buildings to be frequently washed with a
disinfecting fluid and all public and pri
vate buildings to be built without sharp
angles or corners as the most up-to-date
hospitals are, thus reducing the places
for germs and dust to lodge.
"I am indebted to my friend, Professor
Dudley Williams, of the Georgia State
Academy for the Blind, for thought and
attention that he has given to this sub
ject, and he writes me: ’For small com
munities It would be well to use drastic
measures (as fir instance in cities), but
NEW STATES IN 1904. I
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Kansas City Star.
It is practicajly certain that Oklahoma
will be admitted to statehood before the
adjournment of the Fifty-seventh congress
and quite certain that it will be a state
before the national election of 1964. There
is much more speculation about the man
ner than about the fact of admission. The
Fairbanks bill, Introduced In the fifty
sixth congress, provided for the imme
diate admission of Oklahoma, leaving
it to the discretion of congress later to
embody the Indian Territory or to admit
the latter as a separate state. The bill
failed to secure consideration for lack of
time, but doubtless the same features will
be embodied in a new measure at the
first session of the next congress, for
the Oklahomans are Impatient.
Sentiment is pretty well divided as to
the combination of the two* territories in
one state. Doubtless politics will have a
good deal to do with the solution of the
question. Oklahoma originally was Re
publican by a small majority. The occupa
tion of the new Indian lands has added
about 100,000 population to the territory
without changing the political complexion
very much, the belief being .that
the Republican majority has been* de
creased rather than increased. The popu
lation is now about r 500,000, and that of
cAn Atlanta Girl's Recountal
Os Some College Boys' Scrapes
' BY ELLE GOODE.
Several years ago the two boys of
whom I shall write attended' a certain
college in Illinois. One was an Atlantlan,
who studied art exclusively, the other, an
Illinois boy, who devoted ffis time to law.
Harvey, the Atlantlan, and Guy, the
Ullnoislan. preferred a boarding house
close by the college to the dormitory, so
established themselves there—the only
gentlemen In a houseful of girls. Os
course they found it highly entertaining,
ana about thanksgiving day prepared to
give the girls a “glorious" time. So, the
night before that great festival they took
tea down town at a restaurant, and after
tea went out and purchased two lim
burger cheeses and “started” for home.
They took care, however, that it was
quite late by the time they reached there.
As they passed the college, only one lone,
low light was visible In the dormitory.
"Now Harvey, stuff every key hole aiffl
crack you can find,” whispered Guy when
once inside the front door. The house
was dark and lis occupants all asleep, so
taey set io werk with a vengeance, and
soon had everything stuffed and perfumed
with Hmburgher cheese. Then they
"turned in" themselves.
By morning the house was filled with
the odor and all the girls came down with
handkerchiefs pressed closely to their
noses, and “sniffling” was heard on every
side. But the boys took no notlc* of the
odor at all, and when the landlady, who,
poor soul, nearly distracted, asked
them if they had noticed "that peculiar”
odor, they Immediately replied: “Why no,
we haven't noticed it,” and off they went
to the college.
Harvey had no sooner seated himself
at his easel, when a student just in front
of him set upon his easel a picture of
two boya, hurrying home in the dead of
night, and each with a llmburger cheese
under his arm. > Harvey saw it. and so
did the girls, who boarded at the same
house he did. But he took no apparent
notice of it, and worked along very
steadily, until for some reason or other
he looked around and discovered that his
fair fellow boarders had lei.t the art
room. “Something’s up,” he mumbled to
himselt "I must tell Guy," and he step
ped off to find his chum.
“Let’s go home. Guy, and see what’s
up?’’ he suggested, on finding that young
man standing on the steps of the law
building whistling. “I say so, too, for
I’ve seen everyone of our girls go towards
the house. We’ll have some fun, so come
on,” and they started home too.
“Why, Guy, you crazy, this Is Thanks
giving day and we don’t have to work.
Only those of us who had a little ‘extra’
to do came over this morning. Os course
that’s why the girls have all gone home,”
insisted Harvey.
“You’ll see there are more reasons than
one, my friend.” Guy answered, as he
pointed to the baggage wagon standing
In of their house.
“Why Guy, you don’t mean to say they
are moving out?” gasped the astonished
boy.
“That’s what I did it for. Do you sup
pose I would have wasted my money on
a llmburger cheese for nothing?”
As they reached the house they saw
the baggage man coming down the steps
with a trunk, and the landlady sitting In
the hall weeping. So to avoid her, they
slipped around the house, to the kitchen,
and up the back stairs to their own
room. Having locked the door, they pull
ed off their coats and Guy rolled a ciga
rette as he sat down in an easy chair
and put his feet in the open window.
“Why don’t you put down that win
dow?” began Harvey.
Just then a knock was heard at the door.
Harvey turned to open the door, as
in larger fields of government they would
be of little use since the evasion of the
law would be more possible. Thus educa
tion of the people seems to me to be the
only sure and permanent mode of ac
complishing final results. It appears to
me that physicians, ministers, school
teachers and all other such persons as
have an opportunity of catching the pub
lic ear can most certainly bring about the
desired end. An appeal in all cases be
ing made to the Ben Franklin side of hu
man nature.’
“Another friend who has spent much
time and thought on the betterment of
humanity Is Professor D. Q. Abbott, for
many years superintendent of the public
schools of Bibb county, Georgia, and
now filling the chair of mathematics in
the State Normal school at Athens, Ga.
He advocates any and all methods, laws
and education that can possibly be used
to prevent diseases of all sorts, and
writes: ‘Really, I go further in my think
ing and would prevent by rigid and pro
hibitive legislation all marriages which
had not a sound certificate of health for
its basis. We owe it to posterity to re
duce the percentage of the blind, the
scrofuletic, the imbecile, the morally de
generate and the hereditary vicious. This
may (nay must) be done by legislation
no matter what may be the amount of
ignorance on the subject nor how Un
popular It may be at first.’ ,
"This opinion in regard to marriage
I think applies perfectly to tuberculous
subjects, and if it is possible to prevent
their marriage I think it should be done.
There can be very little true happiness
in a home built on a foundation of pos
sible, nay probable, tubercular disease in
the parents, or, worse yet, in the innocent
child.
“Long years of anxiety and nursing
destroy all the pleasure of living and
the constant dread of the sword falling
on the head of the little ones renders life
a burden. If, however, tuberculous sub
jects will either wilfully or through igno
rance marry, theh I think that the inno
cent should be protected by not being al
lowed to be conceived. This opinion I
know will be considered rank heresy, but
I utter it only as a plea for the innocent.
Is it not better to prevent than try to
cure that which never should have been?”
the Indian Territory is not far from the
same figures. The latter is strongly Demo
cratic, and should the two be combined In
one state the electoral vote would go to
the Democratic ticket, a contingency that
is likely to b$ guarded against by a Re
publican congress. The two territories as
one state would give seven electoral votes,
whila Oklahoma alone would furnish four
votes.
New Mexico and Arizona are sure to
renew tneir efforts to attain the dignity
of statehood. The former has less than
200,000 population and the latter about
125,000, and under statehood would be en
titled to three electoral votes each. New
Mexico is close politically, although at
present represented in congress by a Re
publican delegate. Arizona Is Democratic.
If Oklahoma and Indian Territory
should be admitted as one state, and if
New Mexico and Arizona were also taken
in before 1904, the Democrats would be
practically sure of ten new electoral votes,
with a fighting chance for the othef three.
This possibility has an important relation
to the other possibility of a close national
vote, and for that reason it is to be be
lieved that the Republican congress will
try to make sure of the vote of Oklahoma
proper, more especially as there is about
as much sentiment for separate as for
combined admission.
Guy rose and stuck his head out of the
window to wave good-bye to one of the
girls.
Harvey found the landlady in the hall.
“Yes, It’s even In here,” she said, snif
fling as she entered the room. “Say, Mr.
■ Guy, don't you smell it, now?” Guy
turned to answer, but as he did so, he
knocked the stick which supported the
window, out on the roof of the porch and
was held fast—head out, feet In. The
landlady approached nearer him—“ Don’t
you smell it?” she said, as loud as she
could.
Holding his nose, he shook his head, so
she turned to Harvey impatiently. "I
think it is llmburger cheese myself—it
smells just like it,” and she waited for
an answer.
“That’s what it is, I declare. I saw
the cook with some this moAiing. Did
you ask her anything about it?” Harvey
suggested.
“No, I didn’t, I guess I had better do
that, at once, and I will call an officer to
investigate the whole affair for I find it
in the keyholes and cracks, which shows
that some one has evidently gone to the
trouble of stuffing it in them,” and she
tossed her head defiantly and left the
room.
Harvey helped Guy in and f informed him
that an officer was to soon investigate.
“Well, get that half a cheese out of here.
Let’s put it in Bridget's room.” So they
prepared to carry out their words. On
seeing the landlady go out the front gate
they slipped down the back stairs to Brid
get’s room and deposited the half cheese
inside poor Bridget's wardrobe, on top of
her best dress. Then they slipped back
to their own room to await developments.
In a short while they heard the land
lady’s knock at the door and opened it
to admit her and an officer.
“You see, it is even noticeable In this
room, but much less so than in any room
in the house,” she remarked.
“Would you like to search us, officer?”
asked Guy, assuringly.
“Yes, I will look around a bit, for I’m
after a trace of that cheese," and the of
ficer proceeded to ransack the premises.
When they left the room a few moments
later the boys locked the door and Har
vey drew a sigh of relief as he sank into
a chair.
“You are not going to miss the fun
down stairs with Bridget, are you?”
asked Guy as he unlocked the door and
opened it.
"You going? W’ell, I guess I am, too.”
Again they hurried down the back stairs
and reached the back porch just in time
to see Bridget weeping, the officer with
the half cheese and the landlady with an.
angry face.
“But I don’t know nothing about it,”
sobbed Bridget.
“Well, how do you account for this
cheese in your wardrobe?”
"You ought to know I wouldn’t never
have put it on my best dress and give it
the smell of that stuff.” Bridget said,
drying her eyes with the corner of her
apron.
Guy giggled aloud in spite of himself.
Bridget caught sight of the two as they
scurried up the back stairs again.
"Well, who did do it? Have you zany
idea, Bridget?" demanded the landlady.
“Os course I know who did it.”
“Anybody living in this house?”
“Yes, and there ain’t but one more like
’em on the place.”
“Bridget, tell me honestly—do you be
lieve It was Mr. Guy?”
“If he hadn’t laughed at me just now
and hadn’t a ruined my best dress I
wouldn’t never have told on him. Yes,
he did do it, and that Mr. Harvey helped
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him, I’ll bet.”
Bridget gave a triumphant toss to her
old head.
“Very w’ell, Bridget; continue your
work," the landlady said as she left the
room accompanied by the officer.
"I prefer to go straight to the president
of the college with this matter, so need
no further services from you,” she added
as she entered the hall.
Putting on her hat she started straight
for the president’s residence, and soon
laid the whole case before him. *
“Os course they ought to be expelled.
Don't you agree with me?”
"Not expelled, but suspended for a few
weeks,” said the president, gravely.
“And you will see to it at once that they
are.suspended?” she eagerly continued.
“The idea! They drove off every young
lady In my house, and now I have only
the two themselves, left But they’ll pay
for it.”
“Yes, madam, I will see to It at once, for
this is not the first offense from these
two. Good morning.”
The president then dispatched a messen
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