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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA„ FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1913.
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The Half-God
BY ALBERT DORRINOTON.
Author of
‘THE RADIUM TERRORS,”
“CHILDREN OF THE CLOVEN
HOOF,” Etc.
(Continuation of Chapter VII.)
Captain Engleheart wiped his brow
like one newly risen from a bout of
fever and ague. His limbs trembled
violently. With slow, shaking steps he
reached a chair and dropped into it
wtih a cry of pain. Dr. Hammersho
regarded him with slow contempt.
"You indulge too much in the drug,
my dear friend. Just now your feet
are in Iceland, your head in hades!”
"That’s so, Hammerhead, that’s so!”
A dry laugh escaped Engleheart. Gulp
ing down a glass of water from the
washstand, he steadied himself in the
chair. "I've heard people say you’re
the limit in nastiness and temper—for
a Jap.”
Dr. Hammersho looked out of the
window quickly, as though a sound had
attracted him. It proved to be merely
thffe fluttering of the'pigeon flock dis
turbed from the adjacent eaves. He
came back slowly to the ©enter of the
room.
"You know that Prof. Caleret is
dead!” he stated suavely, "and that our
chances of getting out of this country
are remote. You know these things,”
he insisted, with another side glance in
the direction of the window.
Captain Engleheart blanched beneath
the sickly yellow of his skin. He half
rose from the chair, but the sudden ac
tion caused a reeling sensation in the
limbs that forced him gasping and trem
bling into his seat.
"Don’t be too sudden. Hammerhead,”
he responded huskily. "You throw
your statements about like fishhooks.
Now,” ’ he continued, holding tightly to
his seat, "this Prof. Calaret was a
friend of Bernice. Am I right?”
"Perfectly.”
“You took me last night tnto a gar
den adjoining his laboratory And
. . . let me see . . . there
was a shot fired through the lab win
dow.
We had an argument about the
firing, oh, Hammarhead?” Capt. Engle
heart leaned from his chair, his left
hand pressed to his brow.
“You were not quite yourself,” the
Jap doctor volunteered. "I have con
stantly warned you of the opium habit.
It will lead to dangerous hallucination,**,
mental instability, madness!"
"But that shot!” interrupted the cap
tain. “I don’t quite remember.”
The face of the Jap doctor was
brazen in its immobility.."You said that
the professor had received favors from
Bernice. And the opium in you caus
ed you to hate the man. I could not
restrain your mad act. Those Amer
ican firearms are tricky things. Caleret
got your bullet somewhere between the
eyes!”
• Capt. Engleheart crouched in his
chair, "Good God!” he said under his
breath. "The madness of it!”
Hammersho shrugge*. "The press
and public are demanding the slayer of
Caleret I fear your precious Bernice
will be implicated!”
A bleak, scared look sat on Capt
Engleheart, the look of a man pushed
to the edge of the gallows:
“Bernice knows nothing of this!” he
faltered. "Your infernal tongue bewil
ders me!”
"We are under police surveillance,
my dear captain. Y'ou know she in
troduced me to Caleret. It was unfor
tunate, yet very necessary. Still,” he
went on disparagingly, "we shall behave
like gentlemen if the worst happens.
Your Bernice will be exonerated.”
Capt. Engleheart shook himself
fiercely. AH his life he appeared to
have been more or less dependent on
Hammersho, for vpium, money, shelter,
and very often medical attendance.
Without the Japanese doctor life was
unendurable. It was Hammersho who
had induced him to return to England
In connection with a scheme for pro
moting a Japanese medical association.
Sngleheart’s place in the scheme had
Sever been clearly defined, but it had
fceen understood that the captain might
prove useful. J
To Engleheart the new association
*ieant the promotion of a firm of medi-
j&l swindlers who anticipated dping
business in bogus electric belts or pat
ent foods. He was not very clear
about either, but it seemed to him dur
ing sober moments that the Jap doctor
was in grim earnest aoout making
money.
Hammersho had told him of his meet
ing with Bernice and the news had
shocked his opium-shattered nerves.
Of her marriage with Fabian Kromer
not a word had escaped the Japanese
doctor. The captain was assured that
Bernice was earning her living in the
capacity of a lady secretary in the
house of a wealthy American merchant.
Engleheart, the man of many blun
ders, was content to leave her in peace,
content to allow her the guardianship
of Imry, since it would rid him of a
heavy responsibility in regard to the
boy’s future education.
The journey from Tokio to Uondon
had been broken by further debauches,
nights when the long stemmed opium
pipe and ‘cooking” needles figured con
spicuously. His arrival in England
had come with a sharp Jolt. Ruthless
ly shaken from his dreams, he had been
bundled ashore with piles of luggage in
the cold gray of a Lo rJ on morning.
The rest was a succession of similar
inconveniences, a panorama of half-seen
events wherein Hammersho and O
Shani Ma had supplied him, at inter
vals, with the omnipotent drug.
They had moved from lodging to lodg
ing, from suburb to suburb, when Ham
mersho deemed it admisable. In waking
moments he had heard a discusion anent
a mysterious professor named Caleret
who had evolved from his crucible an
element called zeu. Zeu was the mir
acle of the modern laboratory. It was
the offspring of uranium, radium, tha-
leen, helium and a dozen more or less
confusing substances. The medical
world had hailed it as the god of joy,
the annihilator of pain and suffering.
Hammersho and his confrere, O Shani
Ma, had exhibited an almost fiendish
interest in zeu. To possess a hundredth
part of a grain had been their one
frantic desire. It amused him to hear
those two little brown men discuss the
potentialities of zeu. With it they
could remove the mountain of disease
and misery which afflicted humanity—
at a price!
Engleheart knew now how far he had
been their accomplice. Things had hap
pened with magic swiftness and always
while he was under the influence of
opium. He dimly remembered accom
panying Dr. Hammersho to a part of
London one evening when the lights and
roar of the traffic caused his head to
spin and ache. They had climbed a
wall and had concealed themselves in
an outhouse which faced the side en
trance to Prof. Caleret’s laboratory.
In silence they had watched the pro
fessor at work, through the half-open
window, had even heard his half mut
tered exclamation as he paused to
brood over his recent loss. ' And while
they watched, Dr. Hammersho plied
him with stories of Caleret’s affection
for Bernice. Engleheart had grown
angry and impatient by turns and there
had been a scene between the two, in
the outhouse, when Hammersho pro
duced the revolver. Afterward there
was a fixed idea in the head of Engle
heart that the Japanese doctor had fired
it at Caleret, through the laboratory
window.
It was a deseprate business. No one
could say where it would stop, Engle
heart brooded. That Bernice should
have been mixed up with the affairs
added confusion to his already distract
ed mind.
Dr. Hammersho bent over his
crouched up figure in the chair and
slipped a cigarette between his fingers.
"If the police come here and ask ques
tions, you know nothing.”
you felt that he ran no risk of injury
“Did I really shoot Caleret?” Engle
heart said without looking up. “On
your word as a gentleman of • Japan,
Hammerhead. Come . . . now!”
The Jap doctor snapped his fingers
impatiently. "You are not aware of
your own blind fury, my dear captain.
We had no desire to take Caleret’s life,
provided he offered no resistance. Still
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Engleheart rose stiffly from his seat
! and shuffled upstairs to his room, The
drawn blinds almost darkened it. Pull
ing them aside he raised the sash to
inhale a f>reath of air from the garden.
The spinning sensation in his head was
always jiresent after a night of excess.
A dry, white taste invaded his mouth;
his limbs cried constantly for re
pose , , ,
Something in the flower-scented at
mosphere relieved the sense of suffoca
tion. Thrusting his head from the win-
down he Inhaled In deep gusts the life-
giving air. He must leave the pipe
j alone in future. The aftermath was
more than he could bear.
His throbbing eyes took in the long
stretch of garden and the squat figure
of O Shani Ma standing beside the
hive. Legions of dead bees were scat
tered around as though O Shani had
smoked and poisoned them in sheer
malevolence.
The swarm of dead bees fascinated
Engleheart. What was the meaning of
O Shani’s insenate slayings? Even bees
were worth money, and since coming to
the house Dr. Hammersho had spent
time and money on the hive. It seem
ed foolish, therefore, to destroy so wan
tonly the little colony of honey-gather
ers.
Returning to his couch he stretched
his limbs and tried with difficulty to
exercise his mind in thought. But the
mill wheels merely ground out a single
ever recurring question, Who shot
Caleret?
Repetition of the thought brought
weariness of brain and nerve. A de
sire for the pipe became stronger as
midday approached. He heard Dr.
Hammersho pacing the room below;
the occasional clatter of dishes and
cooking utensils reached him together
with the nauseating odor of boiling fish
and vegetables. Slowly, methodically
he reached for the flue-like pipe that
stood always ready beside the couch.
A tiny smoke-blackened lamp was
drawn near his elbow; a pair of "cook
ing” needles flashed suddenly in his
shaking fingers. Quickly, deftly he
rolled a pellet of opium over the sizzling
lamp flame with the craft of a China
man, and then with a turn of a
needle deposited the fuming pellet into
the pipe. His livid features relaxed af
ter the first indrawn breath; a sigh of
ineffable tenderness escaped him at the
slavering gluck, gluck within the long
pipe stem . . . Then his half roused
ear caught a faint drooping sound with
in the room. He swore softly under his
breath, for he remembered that he had
forgotten to close the window and draw
the blinds.
Bees, bees, bees, his brain seemed
alive with the droning of them. Why
had he not shut the window, since
every lover of the pipe prefers sanctu
ary from invading noises and interrup
tions? The droning became an organ
note to his half enraptured senses. But
with each inhalation of the opium
fumes came a desire to escape the ter
rible bee sounds. To his intense hor
ror the invading bee swept close in to
the flickering opium lamp, as though
drawn irresistibly by the sickly odor
of the burning drug.
He rose to his ^lbow and glowered at
the black and gold insect that seemed
to swim above the livid flame of t
lamp. How incredibly ridiculous it
seemed that this gatherer of honey
should assail his privacy at such a time!
He watched it half irritably, the pipe
clasped in his feverish hand; then seiz
ing an old newspaper at his elbow
struck blindly where the brown and
gold hovered near a fallen crumb of
opium beside the lamp.
The blow swept the band of black
and gold to the floor, and for the mil
lionth fraction of time the wings trem
bled and grew stiff. Engleheart stared
with half-sneering eyes at the dead bee.
A roll of cigarette paper no larger than
a postage stamp semed to be suspend
ed from its body. Or was it an illu
sion caused by the sudden slant of sun
shine from the window?
With an outward flip of the paper he
cast.the dead bee across the room and
sank back on the couch. Belcfw in the
stuffy kitchen Dr. Hammersho brood
ed over the unwnshed dinner plates.
C Shani Ma squatted in the doorway,
eating fish and bread from a tray on
his knee. To have sat at table would
have interfered with his outlook on the
garden, and the occasional bees that
came in from the near fields. The Jap
doctor made occasional references to a
small notebook beside him.
"I almost despair, comrade, of what
has happened. We have Caleret’s for
mula, but the god Zeu has gone astray
on the wings of our messenger. Our
plans are dust!”
O Shani Ma looked up from his tray,
a piece of white bread between his
teeth. "Since we killed Caleret to ob
tain the formula, we can not offer it
for sale, How, then, are we to get
money?”
"Not too much from Bernice, com
rade. She will fight us if we press
her. Engleheart is on our hands. I
fancied we might use him to frighten
Bernice. We must do something! His
opium costs money. We live on fish
that he may suck a pipe and dream!”
Hiogi Hammersho had not brought
Maurice Engleheart to England in sheer
joy of comradeship. Under pressure
Bernice couid be made to yield per
manent income for them both. He had
followed Bernice’s fortunes for the last
year. Only by the merest chance had
he become aware of her marriage with
the wealthy Fabian Kromer. Engle
heart had returned from Sydney to
Nagasaki, begging for some easy place
to rest his body. Hiogi had permitted
him to sleep in one of his garden
houses in fear lest the ex-captain might
convey to the customs authorities a
hint of their past operations in the
opium traffic. Then came news of
Bernice and her millionaire husband.
Hiogi seized the opportunity to visit
England with his opium-smoking pro
tege.
In London he lost no time in seeking
out and watching the woman he had
chosen tu exploit. On the day he de
cided to reveal himself to Bernice came
the news of Caleret’s world arresting |
dsicovery. It gave pause to Hiogi's
movements. Calaret was a friend of
Fabian. The professor’s new-found
Zeu was valued beyond price. If it
were possible to gain admission to th
laboratory the professor’s radium-god
might take flight. There were ways of
baffling these stupid London police. A
little brain and nerve were needed, and
he, Hiogi Hammersho, might be mas
ter of the world’s greatest curative
agent. With this and the formula ot
its manufacture in his keeping the
wildest schemes were possible—medical
blackmail, the wresting of colossal fees
from the incurable rich. Nothing was
easier.
Therefore he had gone into the
Frenchman’s laboratory and had em
ployed his Asiatic brains to some pur
pose. The result was as yet indefinite.
He had lost a bee, and until its where
abouts was ascertained his future and
the welfare of Bernice were in peril.
The afternoon dragged on. O Shani
Ma had raked the garden, plucking
weeds, and f searching in odd corners
with tireless persistence—for bees.
Both Japs were subconsciously aware,
by now, that the cottage was under po
lice surveilance; yet they laughed in
secret at the helplessness of Scotland
Yard when confronted with an untrace-
able bit of criminology.
It was almost dark when the little
doctor ascended the stairs and entered
Captain Englehart’s room. Lighting a
candle, he held it over the opium-
dazed figure on the camp bed.
"You are still in the heaven of your
HEM LIST BP FUTILITIES
BURLESON’S ORDER DEMANDING WORK
SOUNDS DOOM OF SINECURE HUNTERS
4,566 Were Killed and Injured
in Georgia During
1912
Four thousahd five hundred and sixty
persons were killed and injured by steam
and street railroads in Georgia last year.
These alarming figures are inexplicable
and are especially mystifying when it is
known that they show an increase of
more than 100 per cent over the number
of persons killed and injured in 1911.
There can be no doubt about the accu
racy of these facts, for they were com
piled* by the state railroad commission
from the sworn reports made by the
roads in accordance with state laws.
The 1911 reports showed that during
that year 2,166 persons were killed and
injured. These reports, however, were
not as complete as those for 1912 for they
only recorded the number of passengers
and employes killed and injured, while
the reports for 1912 went a step further
and included all other victims of acci
dents, such as trespassers, at crossings
or on rights of way, news agents, ex
press employes, mail employes, et al.
Even though these had been included
there would have been but little change
In the percentage of increase, for the
1912 reports, which record persons other
than railroad employes and passengers
killed and injured, places but 350 vic
tims In this class.
CENTRAL LEADS LIST.
Of the steam roads the Central of
Georgia comes first with 987 killed and
injured, while the Southern railway is
second with 582. The Georgia railway
and Power company—(Georgia Railway
and Electric company, of Atlanta)—leads
the list of street railroads with 652 killed
and injured. The Savannah Electric
company is second with 318, and the Ma
con Railway and Light company third
with 255.
A summary or recapitulation of those
killed and injured by the steam roads for
each of the two years follows:
l
1911.
1912.
Passengers killed
. 16
16
Passeng-ers Injured
. 508
B12
Railroad employes killed.
. 80
74
Railroad employes injured
. 958
2,284
Other persons killed.. ..
101
Other persons injured....
•. ...
249
Total killed and injured
.1,542
3,236
•Not reported.
A similar summary for the street rail
roads shows the following figures:
1911.
1912.
Passeng-ers killed
4
0
Passengers injured
. 543
897
Employes killed
2
0
Employes injured
. 75
82
Others killed
*
18
Others injured
*
333
Total killed and Injured
. 624
1,330
♦Not reported.
A consolidation of the
killed and in-
jured by both steam and street railroads
follows:
1911.
1912.
Passengers killed
. 20
16
Passengers injured
.1,051
1,409
Employes killed
62
74
Employes injured
.1,033
2,366
Others killed
*
119
Others injured
*
582
Total killed ..
82
209
Total injured
.2,084
4,357
Total killed and injured. 2166
4,566
♦Not reported.
Although the character of injuries
1 sus-
tained is not set out in the reports,
it Is
safe to say that a very
large propor-
dreams, captain,” he said, coldly.
"It
is time for marching.”
Englehart stirred himself slowly, his
gaunt arihs flung over
his head as
though pressing back the shapes
that
haunted his waking moments. The can
dle flame seemed to pinch his eyes.
“This marching is getting on my
nerves, Hammerhead.” He blinked
owlishly at the little Jap doctor. "What
is the good of running from place to
place?”
"We must run or be hanged, my dear
captain. O Shani Ma and I discuss our
plans boldly in your presence and you
never listen. You know I conceived a
plan to extract that grain of Zeu from
Calaret’s laboratory?”
Captain Englehart passed a shaking
hand over his brow and scowled at the
yellow, mask-like face peering at him
under the uplifted candle.
"My head is full of bees. I don’t
know how yours got out, doctor. Did—
did you take it with you into Caleret’s
laboratory ?’
The Jap lowered the candle and spoke
with his lips to the Englishman’s face.
"You do not understand what I have
done. I played for 60,000 pounds’ worth
of chemical extract that was no larger
than the tip of my writing pencil!”
Engleheart drew a sharp breath. "You
were talking of bees. Do you know,
Hammerhead,” he thrust the Jap’s face
from him deliberately and looked into
the hollow eyes that seemed to glow r
from under the huge frontal bone; "I
think you have been dealing in dreams,
too. Bees, oh . . . .!” He lay down,
his knees updrawn, his face convulsed
with laughter.
The Jap doctor waited patiently until
the Englishman’s mirth had subsided;
then his voice became a harsh whisper.
"I took my pet bee into Caleret’s lab
oratory after your Bernice had over
come the difficulties of an introduction.
If you had not been a skulker and a
drug fiend, my dear captain, you might
have observed the days and weeks I
have spent in training a certain well-
marked bee which belongs to the swarm
outside.
"I conceived it possible,” he went on
with scarcely a tremor in his voice, "to
attach a fine silken thread round the
bee’s neck. To t*his thread I secured a
scrap of cigarette paper no larger than
your finger nail. I carried the bee in
a ventilated pill box. Once in Caleret’s
laboratory I felt that with the aid of
an outside friend the Frenchman might
be induced to leave me alone with his
precious Zeu even for a period of thirty
seconds. That was my chief difficulty.
I was a stranger to him, but he ac
corded me what had 'been denied dozens
of more prominent men—a glimpse of
his half-god!
"I stood trembling a little on the cold,
asphalted floor of his laboratory as he
produced it from the iron safe, a tiny
speck of brown lying at the bottom of
a platinum tube. It was highly flueres-
cent and radiated violet mists of fight.
It’s atomic energy was amazing. When
covered with a dark cloth it became
a living volcano of ultramarine rays
and purple gases. The professor was
very enthusiastic.
" ‘This is the power that will govern
the world,’ he said to me. ‘Disease
cannot five in its presence. Its rays
will destroy all bacillus of consumption,
cancer germs, every malignant disorder
of the human race.’
"He placed it in my hands and my
blood leaped and flamed at the touch of
this god-like element. I held it for fif
teen seconds, held 60,000 pounds’ woFtli
of super-radium that would not cover
the tip of your little finger!
"Then I said ‘Thank you very much,
Prof. Caleret, for your goodness in al
lowing me to inspect the little god from
your crucible!’
(Continued In next Issue.)
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2.—Post
master General Burleson’s purpose to
hold presidential postmasters to a strict
accountability in the matter of time
and attention they give to their re
spective offices is expetced to simplify
the patronage question in many states.
It is believed in Washington that the
attitude of the postmaster general will
remove from the field of applicants
hundreds of persons who wer e anxious
to serve their country as postmasters
and at the same time devote most of
their attention to personal business
matters.
It is estimated in Washington that if
Mr. Burleson’s .order had been operative
under the last administration it would
have disqualified at least 75 per cent
of postmasters who held officj under
President Taft. It has never been the
custom for postmasters of second and
third class offices to attend to post-
office business, to the exclusion of
everything else. In most of these of
fices the custom has been for the post
master to depend upon his, or her, as
sistant to perform the duties incident
to the office, while the postmaster de
voted himself, or herself, to other mat
ters. If the postmaster were a man,
he usually was interested in real es
tate as a “side line,” or perhaps he was
a lawyer, or merchant, whose personal
affairs required most of his time.
MANY APPLICANTS AFFECTED.
All over the south scores of persons
were applicants for postmasterships
who never intended to give up their
other business in order to accept the
postoffice. In Georgia, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Florida and Mississippi, it is un
derstood, a number of lawyers were
among the applicants, on the theory
that they could pocket the emolument,
add to their local prestige and continue
to practice their profession.
Following the issuance of Postmaster
General Burleson’s statement, scores of
applicants, who had been pestering their
congressmen, gav e notice of the with
drawal of their applications. The real
ization that the postoffice department
doesn’t intend to maintain any sine
cures killed their desire. to serve the
government.
While the postmaster general’s order
was inspired, undoubtedly, by a desire
to economize in the administration of
the postoffice department, it is true
that Mr. Burleson was encouraged by
Democratic members of congress to
promulgate the order. Admittedly, it
lessens the difficulties of the congress-
tion were what is known as minor in
juries.
It is a notable fact that in 1911 and
1912 the steam roads killed but 16 pas
sengers, a total of 32, and, that the street
railroads killed but 4 passengers in 1911
and none at all in 1912. While the
steam roads killed* 60 employes in 1911
and 74 in 1912, the street railroads kill
ed but 2 employes in 1911 and none at
all in 1912.
COUNTRY-WIDE RECORD.
Excluding Georgia statistics the re
ports of the interstate commerce com
mission for 1912 show that the total
number of persons killed by steam and
street railroads in all the other states
of the union last year was 10,376 and
total number injured, 165,281.
Number of passengers killed in all
states outside of Georgia, 302.
Number of passengers injured, 14,497.
Employes killed, 3,561.
Employes injured, 14,076.
Persons other than pasengers and em
ployes who were killed, 6,513.
Persons other than passengers and
employes who were injured, 10,128.
To obtain complete data as to the
entire United States the statistics for
Georgia should be added to the fore
going.
FORT VALLEY FRUIT
INJURED BY COLD
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)„
FORT VALLEY, Ga., April 2.—De
spite many reports to the contrary, it is
a fact that the recent cold wave injured
seriously the fruit crop throughout this
section.
In the orchards where the fires were
not kept burning the night the frost
fell and the temperature dropped so
low almost half of the fruit was killed.
There were only about six or seven
growers who kept fires in their or
chards, and consequently the decrease
in the expected amount of fruit is,
great. •
For several days the result of the
cold did not tell upon the fruit, but in
many orchards the tiny peaches have
begun to turn black, and the situation
is discouraging.
The cold seeified to effect the fruit
in spots, and whether the land was
high or low, in some orchards it did
the damage and killed outright at least
half the crop.
Farmers generally expect to be pre
pared another year to protect their
fruit with the burning log3 in and
around their orchards to prevent its
loss in this manner again.
Many growers who Expected to spray
their fruit once or twice more have
become discouraged to the extent that
they feel it will not repay them.
However, though the cold has short
ened the crop, a good price is expected
for that produced, which, in such cases
in years gone by, was profitable.
men in the same proportion that It
eliminates applicants.
“Yes, my old friend, I was mighty
anxious to give you the postoffice at
Blanktown in return for the many
things you have done for me, but the
postmaster general was obstinate and
stubborn in his purpose to hold post
masters to a strict accountability in
the matter of time and attention they
give to their offices, and that let you
out,” the congressmen can now say to
their friends. And by way of putting
Dn a little more salve they may add:
"Undoubtedly you were the man for
the office. Your services to the party
entitled you to the recognition and the
community was entitled to have you
as postmaster, but Burleson—dad bing
him—just wouldn’t hear to it, when
he understood that your business
would demand at least a part of your
time.”
BURLESON’S STATEMENT.
Here is what Postmaster General
Burleson has to say about the mat
ter:
"It is the policy of the administration
to require in all cases conscientious
and efficient service from its officers
and employes. Clerks and carriers are
required by law to serve 8 hours daily,
and thre is no reason why the post
master, who is the highest paid em
ploye of the office, should not give at
least an equivalent in time and effort.
In making new appointments to of
fices of the presidential grade, the
postoffice department will require here
after in addition to the usual qualifica
tions with respect to. ability, character
and experience, an assurance from the
appointee that his whole business time
will be devoted to the duties of -the po
sition to which he is appointed.”
The order of the postmaster general,
agreeable as it is to the members of
congress, and unpopular as it will be
to thousands of would-be postmasters,
will be sustained by the country, It Is
believed. For once, the members of
congress, in playing politics, are play
ing into the hands of the general pub
lic.
It is not believed that Postmaster
General Burleson had any thought of
the political aspect of the matter when
he issued his statement. He was, as
stated, prompted by a desire to econo
mize in the administration of the de-
partmnt.- His policy is in entire har
mony with the plans and purposes of
President Wilson. Indeed, It Is believ
ed likely that Mr. Burleson consulted
with the president befor he Issued his
statement, notwithstanding that many
congressmen were anxious to have the
policy announced.
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A Wonderful Offor
No one else offers a BOTTLED-IN-BOND
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no one else would pay the express charges
on a one quart shipment as we are doing.
Wo Stand The Loss
Shipping one quart, express paid, means a loss
to us—but we want your trade—and we know
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Now, Rush Your Order
Cut out this coupon—fill it in—and mail it to U9
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THE HAYNER DISTILLING COMPANY
Enclosed find 80 oents for which send me ONE fall quart
bottle of Hayner Private Stock Bottle-ln-Bond Whisker-
express paid—as per your offer. It Is understood that If this
whiskey is not found as represented and pleasing to main
every way—my 80 cents Is to be promptly refunded. This
Is my first order. R-26
Name...
gUARAMTIED (INDIA TMS FdOO AMO 0
JUNE JC 1904 »ZAIAI NO.
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WHISKEY
BOTTLED IK BOND
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so pleased with it, that you will send us your
future fn*• four nnartQ nr rnorp Ordera from Aria., Wyo., Colo., Mont, and all states West
luiure orders IOl IOUI quart.-, or more. thereof muBt call for tl.oo for one quart—express paid. 14-IV
THE HAYNER DISTILLING CO., Department R-26
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(SutiUery I
' y, Ohio |
I at Troy,
Address Our
Nearest Office
Dayton, Ohio
Toledo, Ohio
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