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8 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1913. The Half-God BY JlUEBT DOBBIHOTOH. Author of ’*TKZ RADIUM TERRORS," "CHILDREN OF THE CLOVE IT BOOT," Etc. (Continuation of Chapter XXI.) Fabian was conscious of several ■plain clothes officers reclining in the 'hedge shadows and banl^s adjoining the road. He was also aware of another car which had followed him from South Kensington. It turned into a side lane the moment his auto pulled up at the house gate. A sudden stir among the hedge shadows implied that his move ments were being closely followed. His tap, tap at the door was not im- mediately answered. A sense of mys tery and terror pervaded the curtain- lees windows and silent garden. Was Jt possible, Fabian asked himself, that Hammersho knew of the police cordon about the house? Had the little man Trom Nagasaki determined to resist to the last any attempt to effect his cap ture? The use of Browning pistols made any sudden police entry hazard ous, deadly. And what risk was he (taking in attempting to cross the threshold of the Jap doctor's house? Again Fabian tapped and waited: this time he heard the unmistakable clatter pOf sandalled feet inside. Slowly, halt ingly, they approached the door; then followed the voice of O Shanl Ma in a grunting bass. * “What you want out there?” Fabian responded, his face close to the door, “My name is Kromer. Will |Dr. Hammersho be good enough to see me?" An unintelligible mutter followed, while the sandalled feet went swiftly .down the narrow' passage. Fabian heard another voice in consultation, end then a return of the sandals into the passage. The door w T as opened cautiously and Fabian found himself staring at the bull-necked servant of 'Hiogi Hammersho. “You go in there, Mr. Kromer.” O. »Shani Jerked his head in the direction of the back room, w’hile his nimble fin- vgers snapped home the catch on the jdoor lock. 1 The house retained its inimitable ./smell of cooked fish and strange spices, curry and pickles, together with an [‘Asian odor of burnt cinnamon and rice. A man no higher than his outstretched erm flitted forward from the darkened ikitchen and stood watching him silently. ‘Fabian bowed. “I fear to trespass on your valuable /time, Dr. Hammersho. Circumstances jdrive me, however, into your—” “Net, eh! Mr. Fabian Kromer? I see the unspoken word in your eye!" Fabian laughed at the little man’s retort. He had met the educated Jap anese student hi New York and San ! Francisco, but never till now had he .■encountered, in an alien, the blade- .edge fluency which marked Hiogi Ham- mersho’s conversation. “To be frank, doctor, I fancy you are /in a net of your own making," he an swered slowly. “Am I right?” The Jap’s brow puckered as one wrestling with an idea. His lips ex panded suddenly. “You have come to extricate me from the battalion of fools drawn about my cottage! Is that your business, Mr. Kromer?” “No, doctor; you must fight the po lice fools youf own way. I am con- jeerned merely w’ith the tiny tube of |2eu my wife gave you the other day. :My interest centers upon that and nothing more.” The mask of bland indifference, so common to his race, threatened to fall rupon Hammersho’s features. His sphynx- >llke countenance puzzled the American, Unit only for a moment. “I referred Just now, doctor," he went ,on quickly, “to the police trap into which iyou had fallen. And. . . you know ithat the Zeu belonged to Caleret!" Hammersho grinned. “Your wife gave it to me, Mr. Kromer!” “She got it from a man who stole it tfrom you, doctor. Nothing will, alter rthe fact that it is in your possession. I have come to buy it!” Hammersho’s brows tightened. “Why do you wish to possess it? You will scarcely need it again!" Fabian shrugged. “I want to present , it to the hospitals, Dr. Hammersho, land I am willing to pay a fair price." “How much?" “I have written out a check for L5,000 Don’t Send Mo One Cent tlrhen you answer this announcement,- as I am going to mail you a brand new : pair of my wonderful “Perfect Vision" glasses (known in the spectacle business as “lenses”) absolutely free of charge as advertisement. As soon as you get them I want you to put them on your eyes, no matter how weak they may be; sit down on your front porch one of these beautiful summer nights, and you’ll be agreeably surprised to dis cover that you carl again read the very finest print in your bible with them on, even by moonlight; you’ll t>e able to thread the smallest-eyed needle you can lay your hands on, and do the finest kind of embroid- pjy and crocheting with them on, and do it all night long with as much ease and comfort as you ever did in your life* Or, if you like to go out hunting occasionally, just shoulder your gun _ and go out into the woods some early morning and you’ll be greatly delighted when you drop the smallest bird off the tallest tree-top and distinguish a horse from a cow out in the joa^ture at the greatest distance sina as far as your eye can reach with them on— and this even if your eyes are so very weak now that you cannot even read the largest headlines in this paper. Now Don’t TrJce My Word For It 1 ' t)Ut send for a pair at once and try then! out yourself, and after a thorough try out, it you find that they really have restored to you the absolute perfect eye- , eight of your early youth, you can keep I them forever without one cent of pay, and Just Do Me A Good Turn by showing them around to your frienda and neighbors, and speak a good word for them whenever you have the chance. If.you are a genuine, bona-fide spec tacle-wearer (no children need apply) and want to do me this favor, write f rour name, address and age on the be- ow four-dollar coupon at once, and this Will entitle you to a pair of my famous ^Perfect Vision*' glasses absolutely free 4Df charge a9 an advertisement. ■Write name, address and age below. jraggW DR. HAUX ~ J Tho Spectacle Man ST* LOUIS, MO. 1 herewith enclose this four-dollar coupon, which you agreed in the above advertise ment to accept in full and com plete payment of a brand new pair of your famous “Perfect Vision" glasses, and I am cer- §? tainly going to make you stick Tj to that contract, I My age 19» • •lss* 9 t mTTtrr, . ., I Name : l Postofflcd TT OTlTiVlTi n . . I ^ LK. R.»in /Box.*. ♦; State, You will need the money.” Fabian drew the check from his pocketbook. “Shall we call it a deal,” he added carelessly. “Five thousand pounds for a speck of super-radium my wife gave to you only a little while ago. ■ Hammersho breathed sharply. "You have been dealing in art ware and pic tures all your life, Fabian Kromer. You have not earned the gold that flows so ceaselessly from your fingers. When first I came to England I heard that you had paid 50,000 pounds tfc)r a Meissonler etching, a thing that any fifth-rate art ist could copy. Yet you come to me and offer a paltry 5,000 pounds for something that stands for the very life blood of the human race! Five thousand pounds! Peace to your conscience!” His harsh sneering voice split into sud den laughter. His gesturing HW-ds rose and fell like a priest uttering a 'r<>«r«edic- tion. Fabian sighed. “You forget that I am bargaining for stolen property, doctor!” “With the police supporting your movements, Mr. Kromer. Now .... listen.” The Jap beckoned with his fore finger. The ghost of a grimace haunted his features. “You have leaped without looking. This Zeu does not belong to any creature on earth. Do you under stand?" “No," the American answered. “It was tho sole property of Prof. Caleret until it was stolen." “The fire of heaven is no man’s prop erty, Mr. Kromer. Do you and your people own the lightning and the stars?" Hammersho demanded with a touch of passion. “Because a man digs and wrenches from the earth’s bosom some thing wihch was produced by another he cries thief when his brhther craves temporary possession also!" Fabian was too astonished at the Jap’s amazing argument to reply instantly. Hammersho pounced upon his momenta ry indecision to drive home his attack. “It was your wife who first seized the Zeu! She required it to kill the death germs that were pushing you into the grave. I also desired it to save the one thing in life that chained me to a dreadful existence!” The Jap doctor paused as though the fumes from the fires in his heart had, risen to his head. Fabian regarded him shrewdly. “Tell me frankly what it was you wished to save, Dr. Hammersho. I am interested.” “Thank you, Mr. Kromer." Hiogi in clined his head. “I will not bore you with an account of my wretched life at home and in this country. Let me say only that I knew Bernice, and that she had tended my sick children in Nagasaki. Fever and. the starvation that came after the war killed them all but one.” “A boy?" “No, Mr. Kromer. Maisola San is in her thirteenth year. Mark how we cling to our tragedies! I could have left her and prospered. I might had she been stron and hardy like most of her countrywomen. Instead, I chose to tned her needs and I sought with heart and brain to soothe the Incurable complaint that was killing her. She was another of the earth’s millions in the grip of carcinoma. At last I turned my savage eyes east and west in search of a palliative for her dreadful agonies. I read omnivorously, German, English, French medical journals, hoping as I scanned them, that each fresh issue would bring news of a scientific remedy for my daughter’s sufferings. It came at last in Jean Caleret’s discovery. I had come to London with Maisola and the news went like a resurrecting trumpet over the world of pain and torment. It reached the sick men and children in crowded hospitals, it put a brief flash of hope into the hearts of despair!^ thousands. I came near to weeping the news of Prof. Caleret’s achievement. I said to my confrere, ‘Behold an angel of the Christians has appeared! What cue gods denied to the east has been given to the west. The white Christ men have driven back the dragon of torment. A light has ap peared!’ “Then . . . one morning I learned that this new found curative agent was not for the poor and the oppressed. Only a single grain had been produced. Years would pass before it could be generated in sufficient quantities to af ford relief to the common people. A report reached me that Professor Cal eret had been assisted in his scientific experiments by no less a person than yourself. A little while after I heard that your health was indifferent. One or two well informed people predicted that you had acquired sole possession of Caleret’s radium-god. The iniquity of such a proceeding turned my blood to fire. The child of my heart was to perish with thousands of others so that the rich Fabian Kromer might be cured at leisure, and without inconvenience!” Fabian winced, but remained silent. Hammersho wiped his face while the sound of O Shami Ma Patrolling the room above made ^n ominous break in the Jap doctor’s confession. Some un defined quantity in Fabian’s silence stif fened up the little man’s resolve. With scarcely a break in his voice he con tinued. “A man may have good health and value his life not a jot, Mr. Kromer. My health was poor, but my brain was in a state of tremendous atcivity. I be came almost clairvoyant© in my philo sophical reasonings. I put aside all thought of my own life in the desire to preserve the one creature who made existence possible for me. I planned to acquire Caleret’s bulb containing his half-god. A bee helped me. And,” he paused, fist clenched, sweat streaming from his dark face, “in the hour of suc cess, that opium-muddled fool, Engle- heart, put his finger on the Zeu-bulb and decamped after nearly killing me!” Fabian hel'd up a protesting hand, but the Jap continued almost fiercely. “En- gleheart robbed me, your wife *took up the adventure where he failed, and further cheated me! It was only after the great Fabian had been fully restored tc health that my chance came!” “And you availed yourself?” “It was too late!” The Jap doctor snarled the words in his face. “Maisola died six hours ago! I applied for a specialist to assist in the operation. I was refused. Rochwarne would not come for many reasons. Now I am ready to die!” Hammersho made no gesture. He stood with head bent in the doorway, his hand stretched stiffly at his side as though anger and pain had numbed his ; limbs. • Fabian was moved beyond himself. Through all his criminal philanderings the Jap doctor had been impelled by a pitiable devotion to his sick child. Fa- , bian was hardly the man to blame him, J for, had not Bernice gone near to sac rificing her own life and honor to save him? Yet, not for a moment did he lose sight of the business in hand. He had given his w’ord to Sir Edward Cress- ; leigh, that the Zeu would be recovered. Failing, he was certain that the police would rush the house some time that evening. His practiced eye caught the outlines of two Browning pistols under the doctor’s silk tunic. He must prevent unnecessary blooshed at all costs. His eyes beamed with a sympathy that did not escape the dark-browned little man in the doorway. “Come, Dr. Hammersho, let us view this matteer in a friendly light,” he said warmly. “The misfortune which has overtaken you cannot be remedied. In this country peo ple regard the result of the man’s scien tific labor as a private gain, and are pre pared to punish the thief who attempts to deprive him of it.” “I did not steal it!" the Jap protested, “Your wife presented it to me." “Under threats, Dr. Hammersho," Fa bian vouchsafed gently. "We need hard ly quibble about those details,” he went on. “I am prepared to pay you the sum- mentioned if you hand back the super radium to me at once.” Without relaxing his rigid pose the Jap doctor beckoned the American to ward the stair foot. “Let us put aside the money question, Mr. Kromer,” he said with an upward gesture. “Come with me and be satisfied of the truth . Without a thought Fabian followed up the narrow stairs into the little back bed room. The blinds were drawn, but the light revealed a bed of spotless linen garlanded with snow white flowers and sweet scented ' herbs. Against the dim, white coverlid he saw the dark brown face of a beautiful Japanese girl. The eyes were closed, the lips slightly parted. On her breast a blood red flower seemed to glow against the frost-like purity of the linen. A transcendent quiet lay over the room, an air of ineffable peace which steals upon the faces of little children, who have shed the last gar ment of pain from their young lives. Ther^ was no mistaking the beauty and innocence of the dead Maisola. It was a thing that came upon Fabian with the cry of tragedy. The shut eyes and the silence sent Hammersho’s words, too late, clanging again through his mind. The Jap stood like a well hammered bit of bronze near the bed. Only his lips moved. ‘These young lives are easily blown out, Mr. Kromer. Yet . . I tried to shelter the flame so that it might burn clear and warm in my old age. Now it is gone!” Fabian spoke a few unintelligible words under his breath and turned away. Hammersho clung to his heels until the kitchen was reached. “I knew you would come here,” he said after while. “To bargain for the Zeu that was too late to save her fainting soul. S-he was too far gone, and I had to operate alone with gnly my comrade downstairs to assist with the anaesthetics.” Fabian stared with misty eyes. “You had no right to assume that I would come to bargain, Dr. Hammersho. It was the merest accident that sent me here.” Hammersho shrugged wearily. “I judged that the police would seek you out as a last resource. The nation is trembling for the life of its royal in fant. The officers of the law will sacri fice everything to save the son of the king.” At one moment Fabian thought fhat the feature of the Jap doctor was con vulsed with suppressed laughter. Mouth and eyebrows moved spasmodically, while his thin, spidery hand went down to his hip as though to stem the current of invisible mirth. “The king’s child is in danger,” he almost gasped. “And the man whom they have been pleased to regard as a criminal degenerate has the king’s heart to squeeze!” He grpped almost blindly to a chair and fell into It, his mouth twitching, his knees shaking from the effects of his electric outburst. Fabian touched his shoulder lightly. “You will not squeeze any one’s heart but your own, Hiogi Hammersho! You will hand the Zeu, to me and utilize the money I give,'for your defense!” The Jap turned his blinking eyes up wards and his broken teeth showed be hind his parched lips. “Five thousand pounds will not pur chase liberty for me and my comrade. I must have a guarantee that we be al lowed to leave the country unmolested!” “But ... it was you or your friend who shot Caleret!” “Another lie, Mr. Kromer! Was it not from her former husband, Maurice Engleheart, that Bernice took the Zeu- bulb? What was he doing with it? I am innocent!” Hammersho declared fiercely. “I will not be strangled for another man’s crime!” In the painful silence that followed his declaration, Fabian heard again the slow tread of O Shani Ma, in the room above, as he held watch over the ad joining roads and lanes. His footsteps ceased suddenly; then were heard de scending the stairs swiftly. Almost simultaneously a loud knock was heard at the front door. Hammersho lqaped panther-like from his chair, his pistols slanting into line with the narrow passage leading to the room where the ysat. O Shani beckoned grimly from the stair foot. “It is a lady!” he growled, “Shall I open?” The Jap doctor considered a moment, his eyes searching the American close ly. ”Do you know who the lady might be?” he asked sharply. “It is nott Ber nice.” Fabian was puzzled and replied in the negative. O Shani stepped to the door, and at a nod from his master opened it, his pistol hand resting from view on his hip. Neither Fabian nor Hammersho heard the few hurried words that passed between the strange lady visitor ana O Shani Ma. The door was closed soft ly, the chain bol£ shot into place. The Jap servant, breathing warily, re turned, a letter in his hand. With a slight bow he handed it to the Ameri can. “The lady is a police agent,” he volunteered deprecatingly. “She mustt not come again,” he added with a sig nificant look at his master. Fabian opened the letter hurriedly and read two hastily scrawled lines. For Heaven’s sake, Kromer, get the Zeu at any price. Cressleigh. He turned slowly from the window and saw the doctor’s face peering over his shoulder. (Continued Next Issue.) King Constantine May Wear Famous Bysantine Crown (By Associated Press.) ATHENS, May 19.—It is reported that the monks of Mont Athos, the cele brated monastery on the coast of the Aegean sea, are planning to send the imperial robe and crown used by the Byzantine emperors, now in their pos session, to Athens for the use of King Constantine, at his coronation. It is said that the crown which is studded with gems may become the permanent Gre cian crown. The robe, w'hich is covered with beaten gold, weighs fifty pounds. Willie Adams Wanted I WANT to locate iny eighteen-year-old son, Willie Adams (white). He disappeared from his home, 11 miles east of Cordele, Ga., April 28. He wore work clothes wnen he left home, lie wore red tan shoes with cap toe, No. He weighs 150 to 100 pounds and Is 5 feet 8 or 10 inches high. Dark complexion, with black or brown eyes. Please wire any information to L. M. Summor. Cordele, Oa., at bis ex pense. Any Information will be appreciated by his anxious father. A. M. ADAMS.—(4dvt. > PILE CURE SUMMERS’S PILE CURE is a permanent cure In 3 to 6 days, or money back. Call or write A. Summers, Yatesville, Ga., and send or de posit $1.00 in Yatesville Ranking Co. If not called for by tho depositor in 10 days to pay to the order of A. Summers. Price $1.00. IS READY TB ANSWER JAP PROTEST Cabinet Will Hear Secretary of State’s Reply to Japan on Anti-Alien Land Bill (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May IS).—Secretary Bryan returned from New York early today and was at his desk long before the cabinet meeting, at which he was to present the reply of the United States to Japan’s protest against the California land legislation. It is probable steps soon will be taken to publish the text of the Japa- nest protest, though that may be de ferred until the answer of the United States has been delivered. Although frequent inquiries from the Japanese ambassador indicate a dis position to press the negotiations, probably in recognition of the state of the public mind in Japan, yet diplo matic practice warrants an allowance of at least several days for the deliv ery of the state department’s answer. President Wilson’s announcement that there are to be no movements of troops or ships that could be con nected with the situation is expected by official circles to be construed as evidence of his conviction that the issue can and will be adjusted by diplomacy. So far the order has not interfered with the plan to send some coast ar tillery troops from San Francisco to reinforce the garrison In Hawaii. But, as the movement is in expecta tion of comprehensive plans for per manent garrisons in the insular pos sessions and in the canal zone, Outlined by the .general staff last fall, and ap proved by former President Taft and former Secretary Stimson, before there was any suggestion of friction with Japan, it is believed that its execution will not be a violation of the presi dent’s instructions of yesterday. The administration has been trying to discourage “war scares” by every possible means, as was evidenced by executive disapproval of an order last week for the immediate dispatch from Newport to Norfolk of the submarine flotilla. President Wilson and the cabinet at a three-hour session considered 'the re ply to Japan’s protest against the Cal ifornia anti-alien land law, and it was announced that an answer to the Japa nese npte probably would be delivered very soon. Secretary Bryan presented a draft of the answer, which is believed to have been substantially approved. It may be made public after delivery to the Japanese ambassador. Another Weather Vane Is Knocked From Lofty Place (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 19.—Charles T. Burns, an assistant foreman in the weather bureau, suspended at the time of the dismissal of Chief Willis L. Moore, today was reduced in rank and salary by Secretary Houston, who de clared Burns “guilty of misconduct in the performance of his duties.” Moore was dismissed for “serious ir regularities,” and misuse of his office, of which it was alleged he had been guilty in his campaign for appointment as secretary of agriculture in President Wilson’s cabinet. The case was referred to the department of justice for investi gation. Burns was charged with com plicity. Prof. Oliver L. Passig, against whom charges were preferred by Moore, was ac quitted of all except one—that of making a false statement regarding an item of expense amounting to $6.65. No action Msas taken in his case. Fassig contended Moore made the charges because he re fused to support his candidacy for secre tary of agriculture. Secretary Houston’s investigation of the case disclosed, an official statement says, that on December 27, 1912, Burns recommended that an inspection of weather bureau printing plants in vari ous cities was necessary in the interest of economy and efficiency, “whereas the trip was planned by Moore for the pri mary' purpose of promoting his candidacy for appointment as secretary of agricul ture and not for the promotion f econom ical or efficient administration of the bu reau.” Mrs. Wilson Asked To Design Special Coin For the Blind NEW YORK, May 19.—Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the president, has been asked by the International Sunshine so- siety, which is holding Its fifteenth an nual convention here, to design a spe cial coin, the proceeds from which should go to hedp support and educate all of the blind babies in the United States. The idea, originated with Queen Alex andra and her sister, Empress Marie, who designed a baby coin for children in Denmark. The bit of copper which is worth intrinsically one half a cent, is coined at the royal mint. Delegates from nearly every state of the union are present at the convention. The report of Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden, president of the society, points out that seven states have passed laws providing for the care and education of the baby blind. These are Pennsyl vania, New York, New Jersey, North and South Dakota, Arizona and Rhode Island. SENATE HAS NOT YET RATIFIED CANAL TREATY WASHINGTON, May 19.—The canal treaty with Nicaragua, accepted by the Mangua government, but yet unratified by the United States senate, would give the United States the exclusive right to build an interoceanic canal by what is known as the Nicaraguan route, once considered a competitor to the aPnama canal. The treaty was negotiated about the time the American marines and blue jackets landed in Nicaragua and aided in maintaining the government against the revolution. Negotiations have been at a standstill for some time. WILSON TO CONFER WITH PARTY LEADERS ON FRIDAY (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 19.—Plans for co-operation between the Democratic na tional committee and the Democratic congressional committee will be dis cussed at a conference tomorrow. Pres ident Wilson will have with Representa tive A. Mitchell Palmer, Clark Howell, of Georgia; Homer S. Cummings, of Connecticut; Cato Sells, of Texas, and Fred B. Lynch, of Minnesota. Senators Shields and Lea and a Ten nessee delegation invited the president to attend the national conservation ex hibition at Knoxville, Tenn., in October. Aviator Rosillo in Flight to Havanna Wins $10,000 Prize KEY WEST, Fla., May 19.—The first successful flight from "the United States to Cuba over the Gulf of Mexi co, today was made by Domingo Ro sillo, a Cuban aviator. A prize of $10,- 000 was ofefred for the accomplish ment of the feat, which unsuccessfully attempted in 1911 by Aviator McCurdy. Rosillo left the terminal of the Folr- ida East Coast railroad in a gale of wind at 5:35 o’clock this morning. His Moissant machine was not equipped with pontoons. This fact, in addition to the unfavorable weather conditions, rtndered the flight extremely hazard ous. The aviator skimmed across the in tervening stretch of water without mishap, arriving at his destination at 8:10 o’clock. A dramatic incident which threatened to result in the death of Augustine Parla, followed Rosillo’s departure on the successful flight. Parla had planned to race with Rosillo in a hy droaeroplane. Unfavorable conditions caused Par^a to send a delegation to Rosillo urging him to desist from the flight until conditions were more fa vorable. The request of the delegation was refused by Rosillo, who had been informed that flying conditions at his destination were ideal. “I am going to try it or die,” Ro sillo is quoted as saying. When informed of Rosillo’s determi nation Parla threatened to kill him self. His friends finally prevailed upon him to desist. As Rosillo sailed away from the land Parla climbed into his hydro-aeroplane which was being tossed about by the waves in the har bor. Frantic efforts of Parla to ascend from the turbulent waters were fruit less. Two of the base wires of his machine were snapped in two and he was forced to give up the attempt. Upon his return to shore Parla was p’aced under arrest by local police, charged with attempting to kill him self. Parla is said to have placed a revolver against his temple, when he threatened to kill himself. His friends are said to have taken the re volver from him. THIEVES ROBl SELL G000S TO FENCES Three Kansas and One Mis souri Town Robbed by Ex- perts-One Under Arrest PARSONS. Kan., May 19.—Thieves have robbed stores in a half dozen Ok lahoma towns of thousands of dollars worth of goods and disposed of their loot to “fences” in Parsons, Wichita, Kansas, and Joplin, Mo., in the last six weeks, according to the Parsons police. The finding of a great quantity of the stolen Oklahoma goods in the second hand store of Joseph Mermeistein here yesterday led to his arrest and ar- raingement on a charge of receiving stolen goods. A negro arrested at Claremore, Okla., was said to have confessed selling the goods to Mermeistein and to have given the names of several of his confed erates. J. H. ',/imer, secretary of the Merch ants Association of Vinita, Okla., and S. „R. Briscoe, manager of a store re cently robbed at Welch, Okla., identi fied apart of the Mermeistein goods as stolen from Vinita and Welch. Mrs. Lincoln’s Bitter Letters to Be Sold At Auction Next Week (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, May 19.—What are known as Mrs. Lincoln’s •'bitter let ters" are to be sold at auction here next week. The collection consists of twelve letters written by the widow of the martyred president in the years just following his assassination. In some of them Mrs. Lincoln was almost hysterical in upbraiding con gress for not providing for her and in her denunciation of General Grant. One letter written in August, 1865, asks a friend to try to sell the black lace gown which Mrs. Lincoln wore at the second inauguration "for two hours only” in order to raise money for the support of herself and her two boys. The gown was one pcesented to her by a friend of her husband and it cost $3,500. In another letter, dated December 30, 1S65, Mrs. Lincoln writes bitterly of the fortunes of the Grant family compared with her own and declares that “Gen eral Grant's services to his country were certainly not superior to my hus band’s.” CAPTURER OF FAMOUS WOMAN SPY IS DEAD LAS CRUCES, N. M., May 19.—Cap- taoi R. W. Fall, fathr of United States Senator Albert B. Fall, of New Mexico, died here yesterday. He was born in 1833 in Frankfort, Ky. In the Civil war he was a scout on the staff of General Forrest, of the Confederate army; and captured Higs Cashman, a famous federal spy. Ends The Misery Of Wearing Worthless Trusses How 60 Days Trial Is The Only Safe Way To Buy Anything For Rupture Here Is something absolutely GUARANTEED to keep rupture from coming out—something that does away with the misery-causing leg-straps and body-springs. 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Endorsements from over 5000 people,. Including physicians. Write to-day —find out how you can prove every word wo say by making a 00 day test without rlsklne a penny. Box 672, Cluthe Co-, 125 E. 23rd St.. Now York City. Take a Business Course. The Semi-Weekly Journal will give you one. Write for particulars. BUNKERS OF GEORGIA Twenty-Second Annual Con vention Opens With *300 Delegates Present (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) MACON, Ga., May 19.—Today Macon has as her guqsts over 300 of the most noted bankers of the state, who have assembled here for the twenty-second annual convention of the Georgia bank ers. The meetings will all be held at the new Dempsey hotel. This Is the third time that Macon has entertained the state association of bankers. Tonight the bankers will gather around dinner tables. President B. YV. Hunt, of Eatonton, and the YLce presi dents, wil be seated at a special table, and the other bankers will be seated at tables according to their groups. H. S. Russell, of the Fourth National bank of New, York. C. B. Hays, of the Mechanics’ bank of Baltimore; Wirt Wright, of the National Stockyards Na tional bank of East St. Louis, are sev eral of the prominent eastern bankers who will be in attendance on the meet ing. An executive session was held yes terday afternoon of tne cothmlttee on banking law and the executive com mittee. L. P. Hillyer, ot Macon, who h*as served the bankers’. association for more than twenty yea^s, and who is now vice president of the association, may be eelcted president this year, as it is the custom to change this office every year. Out of a job and Penniless Man Palls to $30,000 Heir * (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, May 19.—Out .of a job and with just forty-five cents in his pocket, James Walters, inquired at the general delivery window at the post office yes terday if there was any mail for him. 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