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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1913.
The Half-God
by albibt sobbikotov.
Author of
"THS HADIUM TERRORS,”
‘•CHILDREN Or THE CLOVEN
HOOF,” Etc.
CHAPTER XXII.
Fabian turned the letter down quick
ly from the Jap doctor's exploring:
eyes. The two lines contained in’ Sir
Edward’s message spoke of the old
chief’s anxiety. In allowing Hammer-
* sho even a glimpse of the letter he may
have committed an irreparable blunder.
The little doctor resumed his seat after
the manner of a presiding judge.
“I am very weary of life, Mr. Kromer,”
he began with a despondent shrug. "The
future holds nothing for me.”
Fabian recalled the little flower-
strewn bed upstairs, the serene browed
Ivlaisola into whose young life had been
crowded a century of pain. It was with
difficulty he thrust aside all thoughts
of the dead child. He had come to
bargain with her hard-fisted parent, and
to prevent, if possible, the tragedy of
the super-radium’s destruction.
“We must be patient, Dr. Hammer-
sho, and bear our pain like soldiers.
Let us remember only that we hold the
power of life and death, that we still
hold science’s last weapons against dis
ease!”
The Jap doctor raised his head, and
then, with an almost imperceptible
movement, placed his fingers on Fabian's
wrist.
"I almost imagine that you are still
feverish from the effects of your recent
illness, Mr. Kromer.” There was a
veiled sneer in his tone as he withdrew
his encircling fingers.
Fabian laughed easily. ‘‘The fever of
life is still there, Dr. Hammersho. It
yearns to help you in your good work.”
“What work?”
“The work which Caleret so nobly be-
ga^i, and which you will continue by
handing back the Zeu and the formula
to me—now.”
“How much?”
“I mentioned 5,000 pounds.” Fabian
felt like one facing some soft purring
beast of prey. He could not understand
the almost ferocious greed which now
controlled Hammersho’s actions.
The little doctor’s lips parted slightly.
“Do you know that the Paris Alademy
of Science is prepared to pay half a
million francs for this grain of super-
radium?”
“I know that Scotland Yard will
never permit it to leave the country”
Fabian responded warningly.
Hammersho broke into unrestrained
laughter. ‘Half a postage stamp would
hide it. Five million franc’ worth
could be concealed in an ordinary cigar
ette paper. And you, my dear Mr.
,Kromer, talk of Scotland Yard as
though it possessed the divine right of j
seeing through men’s souls.”
‘‘I merely state that nothing, not
even a letter, will be allowed to leave
this house uninspected. It will be dif
ficult to work the bee-trick a second
time, woctor!”
The whites of Hammersho’s eyes were
visible for a moment, as he looked up
into the American’s set features.
“Maurice Engleheart spread that fool
ish story, Mr. Kromer. Does it really
appeal to your imagination?”
“We drift from the business in hand,
doctor. My offer of 5,000 pounds for
the Zeu tube is still open.
“You are a rich man, Mr. Kromer,
and can afford to be generous Let us
start at half a million!”
The cold audacity of his proposition
struck Fabian as insolent and ill-timed.
Yet by no gesture or movement did the
Japanese doctor betray the slightest
uneasiness concerning his own astound
ing demand.
"If we began at half a million,” he
went on insinuatingly, ‘‘it would save
tim e and my patience, Mr. Kromer.”
✓ Fabian put a kindly hand on his
"“choulder. “My dear doctor, I fear this
must be your first entry into the world
of finance. You surely have no con
ception of the magnitude of the sum
mentioned!”
Hammersho sucked his lips. "If I
demanded a gold .piece for every sob
my daughter uttered I should not ask
enough! You who have dealt in pic
tures shall pay for a little human
pain!”
His request betrayed a latent sav
agery of purpose revolting to Fabian.
Also, he was not prepared to meet so
preposterous a demand Sir Edward
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Cressleigh’s letter, with its brief inti
mation to acquire the super-radium, at
all costs, might not necessarily mean
the wanton surrender of half a million
pounds:
The pad, pad of O Shani’s sandals in
the room above had ceased. It seemed
as if Hammersho’s voice had drawn him
from his post of observation at the up
per windows. His big bullet head hung
from the stairway in a listening atti
tude, his eyes dilating at the sudden
prospect of wealth and liberty.
Fabian was drawing on his gloves
with the air of one about to abandon
hjs quest. He was prepared to advance
his original offer of 5,000 to 10,000 or
even 15,000, but when called upon to
surrender a great part of his fortune
he felt bound to withdraw from so haz
ardous an enterprise.
The Japanese doctor rose from his
chair and walked to a small iron safe
in a far corner of the room. Opening it
he drew out a cardboard box and re
moved the lid. Instantly a flame of
violet light illumined his hands and
face.
“The god grows more brilliant each
day, Mr. Kromer, just as its exposure
to oxygen increases its luminescence
and healing power!”
Spellbound by his movements, Fabian
watched as he approached a shelf upon
which stood a number of jars and bot
tles. Removing the stone lid of a blue-
labelled jar he emptied a reddish brown
powder into a bowl, adding to it an
almost transparent fluid from a bottle
at his elbow.
Fabian followed each movement* with
increasing interest. Hammersho took a
silver magnet from his pocket holding
the glowing speck of super-radium a
few inches from his eyes. A curious
vitriolic fume rose from the bowl as
the Jap doctor vigorously stirred with
his disengaged hand. It occurred to
Fabian that an irreparable act of van
dalism was about to be perpetrated.
“I beg your pardon, Dr. Hammersho,
but may I ask what you intend doing
with the Zeu?”
Hammersho turned a radium-illumined
face to the questioner, while the pene
trating fumes from the bowl stayed bit
ter in the air.
“I am about to deposit, this healing fire
into a solution of my own making, Mr.
Kromer, that is ail.”
“Surely It is not wise to tamper with
so delicate an element. Dr. Hammersho.
Consider the years of labor spent in its
production, and the loss you would in
flict upon the medical world if your cal
culations miscarry.”
Hammersho’s illumined face became
transfigured. “There will be no miscal
culation, Mr. Kromer. In thirty seconds
you Kwill witness the death of the
radium-god. This solution will dissolve
it, the sink pipe, on my right, will carry
it to the city sewers.”
Fabian controlled a desire to wrench
the aring, iridescent Zeu from the up
lifted hand. The sight of O Shani Ma
on the stairs steadied him. He was in
no position to risk a flght with these
two well-armed adventurers.
“I warn you, Dr. Hammersho, against
what you are about to do. You will
surely not destroy the result of ten
years’ labor?”
Hammersho’s face became luminous
with passion. “You received an order
from the chief of police to pay any sum
I might ask for the Zeu. And you offer
a mere annuity—you, who have given
ten times the amount for a single work
of art!”
“I will pay £10,000,” Fabian protested.
“Enough surely to provide for you and
your companion’s future.”
Hammersho glanced at him under the
flaring radium magnet.
“You might have done humanity the
service you pretended to owe it; Mr.
Kromer. Instead, you allow an embit
tered and distraught man like myself to
satiate his inherited desires—like this!”
A cry from the stairs stayed his hand.
The glowing radium magnet was raised
again as O Shani Ma darted forward,
his whole being alive with terror and
apprehension.
“When the master is mad the servant
must take charge!” he shouted. Wrest
ing the magnet from the doctor’s fing
ers he shook him, violently by the throat.
Hammersho sought feebly to regain
his balance, but O Shani with a sudden
shift of the body flung him at the
American’s feet.
“I have been k listener,” O Shani
panted, the magnet held skilfully be
tween his finger and thumb, “to my
master’s talk. It will not do,” he add
ed noarsely. “A good offer of money
has been made if we count by the yen!”
The little doctor had been rendered
almost unconscious by his headlong fall
to the floor. He clung with shaking
.fingers to his servant’s ankles.
“You . . . spoilt my hand! I did
not expect your jitsu-throw
after so much friendship!”
A Shani sighed. “You would lead me
into an English jail with your tricks.
This excellent gentleman made an of
fer,” he said in English. “Why you
not accept rather than the blackguard
play?”
Fabian interposed guardedly. While
applauding his interference, he advised
the indignant O Shani not to injure his
fallen countryman. He pointed out that
Dr. Hammersho’s conduct in no way in
terfered with his last offer of 10,000
pounds for the Zeu. At the same time,
he assured O Shani that he would use
his influence with Sir Edward Cress-
leigh on their behalf.
The servant o€ Dr. Hammersho
drank in the American’s words, but not
for a moment did he remove his foot
from his fallen master’s right arm.
When Fabian ceased speaking hi$r man
ner grew calmer.
“I am ready to see the police,” he vol
unteered. “Take this burning devil
from me!” He .thrust the glowing Zeu
across the table in Fabian’s direction.
Fabian hesitated a moment before
taking possession of the super-radium;
then slipping it gingerly between the
gold cases of his watch he turned to the
prostrate Hammersho.
‘‘I will send the money as promised
to your comrade and yourself,” he said.
“The Zeu will be handed to the chief of
police.”
Fabian halted a moment, in the dark
passage, and his thoughts went out to
the dead child in the room overhead.
For her the radium-god had come too
late. The thought depressed him almost
to the point of tears before he gained
the street.
CHAPTER XXIII.
Sir Edward Cressleigh met Fabian
half an hour after his exit from the
house of the Japanese doctor. The chief
of the C. I. D. listened patiently to the
American’s account of his experience
with Hiogi Hammersho and his servant,
O Shani Ma. The old chief barely re
strained himself on hearing the tragic
story of Maisola’s death.
“It is very hard to judge the motives
of these Asiatic criminals,” he said when
Fabian had finished. “All that we can
do now is to effect his arrest as quietly
as possible.”
“Would it not be politic to allow him
to leave the country?” Fabian hazarded,
his mind still troubled over the Japanese
doctor’s domestic affliction.
Sir Edward’s preparations to arrest O
“We have still to account for the slayer
of Professor Caleret, Mr. Kromer. Every
chance will be given to Hammersho to
clear himself. It is a terrible affair,
when judged dispassionately,” the old
chief went on. “One cannot help sympa
thizing with the man. How many fa
thers are there who would not risk life
I and liberty to save a beloved child!”
i Sir Edward’s preparatioss to arrest O
! Shani Ma and the Japanese doctor were
j soon complete. Fabian felt assured that
some clemency would be shown to
Hlogi’s servant. Of Hammersho’s future
he remained untroubled, feeling confi
dent that the astute little man would
defend the charges against him with
ability and tact. Ten minutes later he
was on his way back to Holmwood, sat
isfied that the day had been well spent.
The car entered the grounds almost
without sound, and Fabian made his
way into the house as one returning
after a long absence. A scent of
laburnum and wistaria greeted him in
the main hall. In the arrangement of
the bowl of jonquils that stood beneath
his mother’s portrait he detected the
hand .of Bernice. Everywhere the scent
of flowers reached him. The doors lead
ing from the conservatories and halls
were flung wide. He paused on the
threshold to view again the beautiful
homeland wherein he had known so
much misery and pain.
And now with each intake of breath
he experienced the full sweetness and
strength of life, life that was his to en
joy and hold! Bernice came upon him
almost without sound or movement.
They turned from the house instinctive
ly and walked to the terrace overlook
ing the grounds.
There rushed through them the warm,
wonderful sense that had been with
them in the Interlaken days, of the love
which had been temporarily broken by
the fierce hands of circumstance. There
came to her the remembrance of how
tired she had been of life, and how she
had smiled at the inner joy of'risking
life and liberty for him.
He told her a whisper of the new life
that was to begin with a ceremony in
the little chapel within the grounds-
between themselves and a priest alone.
Fabian would have it that way, and
Bernice suppressed the blinding tears
that rose at his words.
Imry was to be sent to a school where
Bernice could see him constantly—Fa
bian insisted upon this point. And aft
er Hemmersho’s affair had been settled
by the police they were to visit Italy
and the French Riviera.
In the joy of their happy reunion the
bitter experiences of the last few weeks
were almost forgotton. The summer
afternoon passed too quickly for them
now. It was the coming of night Ber
nice secretly dreaded, night that would
bring the news) of the police raid on
the Japanese doctor’s house.
It came swiftly almost, unheralded by
screaming newsboys or flaring poster
lines. Near midnight a car slipped into
the grounds and drew up at the terrace
steps. Fabian, listening near the win
dow of his study, heard Sir Edward’s
voice in the hall. A moment or two
later the old chief was inside the lux
uriously appointed room with one of Fa
bian’s Havanas between his lips.
“It is far from being all over!” he
broke out when Fabian had closed the
door. “The toughest little job that ever
kept an old man from his sleep, Mr.
Kromer!”
“You arrested them both, Sir Ed
ward?”
“The end was mixture of farce and
comedy unequalled in the history of
Scotland Yard,” was the old chief’s re
luctant reply. “Three of my men enter
ed the house, after dark, and were met
by Hammersho’s servant.” He paused,
his cigar hbld down, his brows close
knit. Something in his silence struck
chill upon Fabian. After recent events
he had banned the various evening pa*
pers from the house and servants’ quar
ters. And the news which had startled
London, late that evening, was as yet
a mystery to him.
Sir Edward’s visit was unexpected
and arose, no doubt, from the old chief’s
sentimental regard for Fabian’s service
in acquiring the Zeu. “Our first busi
ness on gaining admission,” he went on
at last, "was to explore the house. The
servant O Shani Ma maintaining an un
accountable silence at first as we search
ed every crack and corner.”
“The doctor has escaped, then!” Fe
bian sat back scarce daring to breathe.
“I understood that the house was well
picketed!”
“It is impossible to draw a line round
those spectral Asiatics!” Sir Edward
declared. “This house, as you know, had
some fields at the rear. A big ditch
that ended in a sewer, ran almost par
allel wtih his back fence. The fellow
eluded us like an otter!”
“And O Shani Ma?”
“We’re detaining him for the present.
After handing over the Zeu-formula he
admitted that it was Hiogi Hammersho
that shot Calaret. The little scoundrel
took Captain Engleheart with him, but
O Shani swears, by all his gods, that
Hiogi fired the shot. Engleheart was
too fuddled with opium to take any
active part in the crime.”
“Then you think O Shani’s statement
will bear examining?”
“Seeing that he preferred to stay be
hind and face the music we see no
reason to doubt the fellow.”
Fabian pondered over Sir Edward’s
statement before venturing further.
Then with a slight cough broke the
tense silence.
“You have not overlooked the fact,
Sir Edward, that I promised these two
Japs a check for ten thousand pounds
providing the Zeu was handed to me?’
“We are keeping that point well in
view, Mr. Kromer. We must ask you
however, nut to forward cash to O
Shani Ma until we get news of Hiogi.
The ports are being watched, and we
hope to have him neck and heel within
a day or so.”
“And poor little Maisola!” Fabian in
terjected. “Will the government per
mit me tot defray the expense of a
simple funeral?”
Sir Edward’s mouth hardened §trage-
ly. “Maisula was the last touch in
Hiogi’s career of rascality and crime,"
he vouchsafed. “If we buried anything
it would be only a few’ pounds of wax,
Mr. Kromer, and the tin mould of a
Japanese girl’s face*”
Fabian swore under his breath as Sir
Edward’s apparently enigmatic state
ment grew clearer. The old chief
laughed harshly. “Maisola had returned
to her original shape when we entered
the house, but we gathered afterward
from O Shani Ma that Hiogi had spent
many hours in preparing a wax Maisola
ior your inspection!”
“But * * * in heaven’s name
why?” broke from the astonished
Fabian. “He might have employed hia
time to gerater advantage!” •••
Sir Edward shook his head. “He
tried to soften your heart, Mr. Kruiffer,
hoping to strike the bargain of his
life—permission to leave the coutnry
unmolested, and the gift of a six-figur
ed check from yourself for the Zeu!"
Fabian was angry Jn spite of Sir Ed
ward’s grim, smiling face. Hammer
sho’s trickery had made him ridiculous.
He was consoled by the thought, how-
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•PRESIDENT TIKES
REINS OF CUBAN STATE
Menocal Inaugurated Presi
dent and Varona Vice Presi
dent in Havana Tuesday
(By Associated Press.)
HAVANA, May 22.—With the inau
guration today of General Mario Meno
cal as president in succession to Presi
dent Jose Migual Gomez, and of Dr. En
rique Jose Varona as vice president, the
Cuban republic enters on a new phase
of its existence in a spirit of high
hopes of preservation of peace and es
tablishment of the prosperity of the is
land.
President Menocal on taking office
contents himself with the declaartion
that he will devote all his energies to
giving the country a clean business
administration, which will foster the
industries o fthe island and devlop its
splendid resources; which will welcome
foreign capital and immigration and
maintain friendly relations with all
nations, especially, with the United
States, to which Cuba is so closely
linked by mutual affection and inter
est.
General Menocal was born in 1866 at
Jaquey Grande, Matanzas province. His
family soon removed to the United
States and he was educated in a mili
tary college at Washington and at Cor
nell University. He graduated from
Cornell as a civil engineer. Upon leav
ing Ithaca he went with his uncle, Ani-
ceto G. Menocal, chief of the engineer
ing staff which made the survey of the
Nicaragua canal, and worked with him.
He returned to Cuba as an engineer
for a French company. At Santa Cruz
he joined the revolutionary forces as a
private and rose rapidly until he be
came general of division. His military
record was brilliant, he rendered great
service to the Americans at the time
of the Spanish evacuation, and General
Ludlow, civil governor of Havana prov
ince, appointed him chief of police of
Havana, a position requiring at that
time great tact and ability. He later
managed the Chaparra sugar estate up
to a few weeks before his inauguration.
Vice-President Varona was born in
Camaguey, April 13, 1849, was graduated
from the University of Havana, and is
professor of philosophy and ethics in
that institution. He was deputy to the
Spanish cortes from Camaguey province
shortly after the ten-years’ -war (1868-
78). Under General Wood’s administra
tion he was secretary of public instruc
tion. He is an author, newspaper man
and president oT the conservative party,
which won the recent elections.
Cosme de la Torriente, secretary of
state, is vice president of the conserva
tive party. Upon the second American
intervention he was Cuban minister to
Spain.
Cristobal de la Guardia, secretary of
justice, is the only member of the cab
inet who has no war record. In 1898
he made an unsuccessful effort to or
ganize a labor party. As a senator he
made a strong fight against the lot
tery, chicken fighting and jai-alai.
Colonel Aurelio Hevia, secretary of
the interior, was one of General Calixto
Garcia’s expedition which embarked on
the Hawkins for Cuba, and when that
vessel sank off the Jersey coast he nar
rowly escaped with his life. During the
first intervention he was assistant sec
retary of state.
Leopoldo Cancio, secretary of the
treasury, has been a cabinet minister
several times.
Jose Ramon Villalon, secretary of
public works, was graduated in 1889
from Lehigh university, where he ob
tained his degree of civil engineer.
While in the United States he built
the finest dynamite gun ever used in
the world and employed it in the oper
ations in Cuba. He is a professor of
mathematics in the University of Ha
vana and a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers and the
American Institute of Mining En
gineers.
General Emilio Nunez, secretary of
agriculture, commerce and lg.bor, has
been president of the National Council
of Veterans for two terms.
Ezequiel Garcia, secretary of public
instruction, is professor of literature in
the University of Havana.
Enrique Nunez, secretary of public
health, was graduated from the Uni
versity of Havana in 1886, and as a
surgeon in 1893.
FOR HUFF
OVERRULED 6Y COURT
Dismisses T, S, Felder’s Con
tention That Letters Were
to Speer and Not Court
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MACON, Ga., May 22.—W. I. Grubb,
who is presiding in the contempt pro
ceedings against Colonel W. A. Huff,
the eighty-three-year-old Macon citizen
who is being tried on a charge for con
tempt of court in that he wrote two
hot letters to Judge Emory Speer, this
morning overruled the demurrer of At
torney T. S. Felder.
Mr. Felder’s demurrer for Colonel
Huff was to the effect that the writing
of the letters by Colonel Huff was to
Judge Speer as an individual, and not
as judge, and that the contempt, if
any, was not in the presence of the
court nor so near to the court as to
obstruct justice.
Judge Grubb held that the sending of
the letter to Judge Speer was sufficient
to warrant an investigation for con
tempt in the letter referred to pending
in court to which Colonel Huff was a
party, and it was now up to Colonel
Huff to show whether or not contempt
was meant by his letter or if his letter
was intended to influence or intimidate
the court in any future decision it
might make.
A number of witnesses have been
subpoenaed by the government against
Colonel Huff. The chief witness will
be Judge Speer himself. It is under
stood that in event Judge Speer takes
the stand, and he probably will in
order to show that he actually received
the letter, he will be subjected to a
vigorous cross-examination by Hon. T.
S. Felder, attorney general of the state,
who is defending Colonel Huff.
After overruling the demurrer, Judge
Grubb adjourned court until 3 o’clock
this afternoon for the purpose of al
lowing Mr. Felder to prepare his case.
OFFICER IS ARRESTED
FOR CARRYING GUN
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
COLUMBUS, Ga., May 22.—G. W. “Wil
liams, an officer from Bullochville, Ga.
was bound over in recorder’s court Mon
day, charged w*ith carrying concealed
weapons, under rather peculiar circum
stances.
The officer stated that he came to
Columbus looking for a negro criminal
and presumed that he had the right
to carry a weapon.
The question arose as to whether
he had the right carry concealed
weapons while outside of his own
county and the recorder turned the
issue over to the higher courts.
CUBAN AVIATOR FAILS
TO REACH HAVANA
(By Associated Press.)
KEY WEST, Fla., May 22.—Augustine
Parla, the Cuban aviator who left here on
an attempted flight to Havana, Cuba,
Monday afternoon, landed at Bay Mu
riel, forty miles west of Havana.
Parla had been notified by the Cuban
government that it would be improssible
to have a ship patrol the course today,
and it was announced that he would
scarcely make a short flight to Sand Key
and return. Meantime, however, Parla
had received a message from Domingo
Resillo, the Cuban who made the flight
successfully Saturday, saying that he
would leave Havana and pilot Parla in.
ever, that the police might yet bring the
little impostor to justice.
The hour being late, Sir Edward took
his leave, promising to notify Fabian
the moment Hiogi’s arrest was effected.
Bernice listened with an immovable
countenance io the story^ of the wax
Maisola, for Fabian had recited to her
with some emotion the story of the
beautiful Japanese girl lying in the back
road of Hammersho’s house.
Bernice did not meet his eyes during
the breakfast hour next morning, know-
ing his instinctive hatred of shams and
frauds. In all the bitter experiences of
the past nothing disturbel hi mso much
as any reference to the long-suffering
daughter of Hiogi Hammersho.
In the weeks that followed the Japa
nese doctor’s escape Fabian began the
quicker, healthier life he had set out to
live. He read with interest how Roch-
w*arne had operated successfully upon a
certain young prince, thus adding yet
another cure to his rapidly growing
fame.
Fabian set aside a greater part of his
fortune toward the building of a new
science institute that was to bear his
name. In the following spring the news
of Hammersho’s death reached him un
expectedly. Followed to Vienna, the lit
tle arch-quack -was found dead in the
bedroom of a fifthrate hotel, a revolver
gripped in his right hand.
(THE END.)
Christian Advocate
Editor Arrested for
Striking a Minister
SPARTANBURG, S. C., May 22.—
Magistrate Robert J. Gantt, issued a
warrant today for the arrest of the Rev.
Stephen A. Nettles, editor of the South
ern Christian Advocate, on a charge of
assault and battery.
This is the aftermath of an assault al
leged to have been made by Mr. Nettles
on the Rev. James B. Chick, at Wofford
college, during a quarrel over a financial
transaction yesterday.
Mr. Nettles declared that one of Mr.
Chick’s remarks -was an insult and struck
him a blow on the face which sent him
staggering, and left his cheek badly dis
colored. Recovering himself and picking
up his spectacles, Mr. Chick advanced to
Mr. Nettles and said:
“Do you call this the ministry? Is this
hand which dealt me that cruel savage
blow the same hand which administered
the bread and wine of the communion?”
Mr. Nettles made no answer but strode
away. College boys witnessed the affair.
Mr. Chick and Mr. Nettles are both mem-
members of the South Carolina confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal church,
south. '
WILSON RECEIVES THE
OLD GUARD OF ATLANTA
Washington Light Infantry and
U, S, Engineer Corps Band
Act as Escort
3Y RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, May 22.—Headed by
the Washington Light infantry, the Old
Guard, of Atlanta, under the command
of Major C. F. Burke, paraded through
the streets of Washington this after
noon to the White House, where they
were received in the east room by Presi
dent Wilson.
Senator Hoke Smith and Congressman
Howard presented the members of the
guard to the president. After the recep
tion at the White House, the historic
old company went to the American
league ball park, where they witnessed
a competition drill between the cadets
of the city high schools.
Tonight they will attend .the theater,
and tomorrow morning early they will
continue their journey eastward, stop
ping first at Baltimore, where they
will be guests of the Fifth Maryland
infantry.
The Old Guard and their military es
cort attracted attention and widespread
comment on their march from the Con
tinental hotel to the White House. The
company was arrayed in one splendor of
its fancy, full dress uniforms. The
engineer corps band of the United
States army led the way to the White
House up Pennsylvania avenue.
Arriving in Washington at 8 o’clock
this morning via the Southern, the Old
Guard made its headquarters at the
Continentnl hotel, where during the
morning they lolled around the lobby
in their fatigue uniforms.
SAVANNAH MAN SLAYS
SELF IN BROOKLYN, N. Y.
NEW YORK, May 22.—John W. Rowe,
an iron and steel man formerly of Sa
vannah, Ga., committed suicide in his
Brooklyn home late last night by cut
ting his throat with a razor. He had
been despondent because of ill health.
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TUFT WITHDRAWS HIS
CITIZENSHIP FROM OHIO
Applies for Citizenship in Con-
necticut-Will Be Eligible
in 1914
(By Associated Press.)
NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 22.—For
mer President Taft is preparing to
transfer his voting residence from
Ohio to Connecticut. He will have his
name put on the list of “voters to be
made,” and in September the board for
admitting voters will pass on his quali
fications, after an examination which
will include the applicant’s reading, as
usual, of any section of the constitution
of the United States that the board may
select. As President Taft must live
in the state one year before he can
vote, he will not be eligible for the city
election in the fall, but will be qualified
for the state election in 1914.
Prof. ^ Taft officiated last night as
starter at the running and bicycle races
of the New Haven Amateur Athletic as
sociation. He fired a pistol for both
events and was loudly cheered.
Bibb Jury Indicts
Saloon Keeper Who
i Now in Ireland
Dispatch to The Journal.)
MACON, Ga., May 22.—The grand jury
lia- ^Uou Levlin for a viola
tion of the state prohibition law and
he has not been in the United States
in three years. Devlin formerly operated
a saloon here at the intersection of
Broadway and Bay streets. Three years
ago he left Macon for his native home
in Ireland, where he has since made
his home.
Since he is now in Ireland, it will be
impossible to push the charges against
him.
0.0. P. CURRIES TARIFF
IT TO
Senator Penrose Leads Minor
ity of Finance Committee
Urging Publicity
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 22.—The fight
between Republican and Democratic
senators over making public names of
manufacturers who appear before sen
ate finance sub-committees, and publish
ing briefs filed in protest against rates,
was renewed today when the finance
committee met.
Senator Penrose, who led the fight
on the floor yesterday, resumed the
minority leadership in committee.
Chairman Simmons announced before
the meeting that he never had been op
posed to making public the names.
The committee also had under consid
eration a list of tariff questions to man
ufacturers, submitted by Senators Sim
mons, Stone and Williams, acting as a
special sub-committee.
Democratic members finally decided
today to hear nu more manufacturers
on the schedules of the Underwood bill
after next Tuesday, and then begin ac
tual work of revising the bill.
Chairman Simmons was authorized to
make that announcement and he issued
the following statement:
“The Democratic members of the
finance committee of the senate desire
that all persons who wish tp confer
with the sub-committees with reference
to the schedules referred to . them
should do so before the close of next
Tuesday. After then the sub-commit
tee will begin the work of actually
framing the schedules.”
Senator Owen, after a visit to the
White House said that he expected to
introduce a resolution to amend the
senate rules to prevent dilatory debate
SIX ARE DROWNED IN
AN ALASKAN STORM
Pile Driver and Barge Breaks
Six Anchors and is Hurled
Against the Shore
CORDOVA, Alaska, May 22.—Nine
men were drowned Sunday night when
a storm blew a pile driver and a barge
ashore near Katalla, according to ad
vices received here last night.
The men were building a fish trap
for the Northwestern Fisheries com
pany at the mouth of Martin river, near
Katalla. A furious storm came up Sun
day night and broke six anchors with
which the pile driver and barge were
made fast. They were driven eighteen
miles along the shore, where they struck
on the beach.
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