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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
MONDAY. AVOVRT 2*. cwr.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
(AND NEWS)
JOHN TEMPLE CRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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eted here. T B«t we do J»ot hrtere Kle
can be^done now. e«l It mae M eom.
Vn'underiaXIng. *81111 Amenta ehonfi
•et Ite face In that direction NOW.
“Permanently Dry.”
Our Carolina contemporaries
Charleston and Columbia are Inclined
j think that prohibition In Georgia
rill not be permanent—that It will be
bort lived and full of Borrow. They
re mistaken. In course of time the
Itles may repent and grow tired of
Irtue and abstemious ways. But the
jrce that passed the prohibition bill
■as the country vote. Tho Georgia
aunties have been prohibition for
wenty years nnd will doubtless bo so
)r fifty more. They will not repent 01
tiange. Nor will they consent to roln
Late tho cities In the position to over-
ido these country prohibition prin-
Iplcs through the deviltry of the Jug
Lae.
IVc have to Inform our contempo-
rics that Georgia Is permanently dry.
That club of Boston women known
is the Mulo Club was probably named
by the husbands of the members.
Bebel, the great German Socialist,
n that liberty In America Is only on
per; He forgets the statue guarding
> New York harbor.
The young daughter of the president
* hastening her debut at the White
louse Just as though her father was
lot to have that third term.
The rival Kansas towns In conten-
on as to which bat the moat widows
light count tombstones and settle tho
nestlon.
The big secretary will find that
Taffy and Cuffy had better stay di
vorced If he wants to win the good
will of the South. For further particu
lars. see Theodore. '
They do things backward tn Corea,
says a writer on t\»t country. Thus
they prepare to be a great nation by
putting their country under Japanese
control.
The Rev. Thomas Dixon ta quoted
as saytng that Rockefeller la the great
est genius of the age. Rockefeller
might say as much for the Reverend
Tom and miss the truth as tar.
The Pittsburg Dispatch arises to re
mark moat emphatically that the city
is not as black as It ta painted by out
siders. Whether The Dispatch Is de
fending the atmosphere or the morals
of the millionaires Is not clearly
stated.
The Georgian makes some
strong appeals for the Tech. The
Georgian Is right. The South
needs skilled mechanics far more
than It needs second-rate lawyers
and mediocre politicians.—Amerl-
cus Tlmea-Recorder.
Good reasoning this. And the Tech
Is the machine that turns out the
skilled men In the material profes
sions.
):
The Impossible hat happened: Am
brose Bierce has found a modem
writer whose work be can commend.
Of Mr. George Sterling, the fortunate
person In question, Mr. Bierce says he
is so One a workman In letters that
only a select few can appreciate him.
Mr. Bierce means himself by tbat "se
lect few," and the suspicion artaes that
probably Mr. Sterling may be
Bierce under a nom de plume.
Mr.
A BIRTHRIGHT FOR A MESS OF POTTAGE.
ft Is only by knowledge and comparison thnt Atlanta people can be
made to understand how much The Georgian would save them In this
matter of the telephones.
It Is not necessary to assert tho absence of any other feeling than a
consideration for the public pocket and the public convenience In this cru
sade against a poor service and a plethoric purse.
We have no private grudge or grievance against tho Bell corporation.
But we simply know that they can. If they will, give us a better ser
vice and a far more profitable contract than we enjoy today.
What Is done elsewhere can be done at home. What Is good enough
for Richmond and other cities Is not too good for Atlanta.
Let us go a little farther for an Illustration:
The city of Stockholm In Sweden la a city of 400,009 population. It
hat only 2,000 fewer telephones than the elty of New Ybrk with nearly
4,000,000 people. The city owns the telephones, and the citizen pays $1.00
a month, or $12.00 a year, for a better service than we buy for $48.00 and
$60.00 a year In Atlanta. The system Is well-nigh perfect and Its financial
results are eminently satisfactory. Are the conditions more favorable In
Sweden than In this country of Edison and Graham BellT
In the Republic of Switzerland, tho government owns tho telephones,
and the people pay there aa In Stockholm $1.00 per month, or $12.00 per
year, for a service that Is eminently satlifactory. What are the condi
tion! that prevail in a little country like Switzerland which enable the
government to furnlih the people with a great public convenience at one-
fourth the price that is charged In the land of electricity and Ingenious
dsvloea?
Is It any wonder that the Bell Company In America has grown so
rich and so great when wo not only read but see how olty councils lie
down and fall even to groan when the heavy wheel of high prices roil
over them.
It comes to ut from reliable sources that the Boll Company of Atlanta,
upon an Investment of about $1,000,000, has, In a few years, developed a
property worth $7,000,0001
Well, what has enabled them to do It? The- apathy of the people and
the easy going Indifference of tho city legislature. Tho people are enti
tled to some of these vast profits upon franchises which come from
their liberality.
The streets and the franchises here are the poople'a!
Have we had In the past or are we getting now any rsaaonable share
of tho emoluments of an enterprise to which wo contribute everything ex
cept the equipment and the expert knowledge of the machinery?
You are fine men, and good citizens, gentlemen of the council.
But yon haven’t traded well for Atlanta with tho Telephone Company.
THE COMPLETED COMMISSION AND ITS PROMISE.
The waiting over the railway commissioners has been well worth
while In that It has found Fuller Callaway and George Hlllyer willing to
serve the state.
The appointments will give general, and we do not see why not uni
versal, satisfaction over the commonwealth.
Fuller Callaway la one of the really remarkable young men that
Georgia has produced within the era. He carries under a radiant surface
of good fellowship nnd fun one of the clearest heads and one of tho
soundest Judgments that have been given to affairs In Georgia.
He Is a business man of extraordinary vigor and success, a worker of
easy yet prodigious energy, and a citizen of great popularity. It Is doubt
ful If there Is a man of greater and more effective business force In west
ern Georgia.' He has been a great power in the campaign which led to
railway regulation, and hag richly won and mpritod the recognition
which the governor has accorded him tn this appointment
Tbat he will fill tt ably, amiably, and yet fearlessly, there is no room
to doubt.
Judge George Hlllyer Is a name to add honor and repute to any office
In the state. Years of high thinking and clean living havo given him a
lofty and enviable place In the hearts of Georgians, and his acceptance of
a place upon the commission will still further strengthen that Impartial
body In the confidence and good will of the people. Judge Hlllyer has
been a diligent and clear-headed student of the railroad problem, and was
an Important factor In educating public opinion to its present conception
of popular rights and official duties. Wisdom and siyitty are his attri
butes, and the people will be glad of his acceptance of thta public trust.
And now with a railway commission so dean cut, so definite In per
sonality of reform, and so thoroughly In harmony with each other and
with the administration, the railway problem In Georgia should be draw
ing nigh to a sound, substantial and permanent solution.
We congratulate the governor, tho state and the railroads, upon the
wisdom. Justice and doflnlteness of the commission.
SAINT GAUDENS.
The Georgian has written as yet no editorial tribute to St Gaudcns.
And It Is Just as Well since here at hand from the August Collier’s
cornea a little tribute so simple, so tender and so true tbat It carries our
thought and shall also convey the expression we would give to It:
"It Is well at times to turn from tense and fleeting topics of
the day, and bathe In an atmosphere that gives worth to tho so
journ on a small and whirling globe. Some woeks have passed
since from America aad tho earth passed a spirit which added to
tho consolation and the Inspiration of those who live today. A
month ago, and a man with a tender heart, a pure Imagination,
nobility of choice, and the meekness of an angel dwelt among tho
New Hampshire hills. He Is gone, and thoso who await their
time lean back toward his memory with the reverence that wo
pay to better men. He was an arttat among few, and moreover
a man who In nearly sixty years of mortal misery and success
was nover cruel, or vain, or harsh. Good-by, Saint Gaudcns. The
world is dark, with you beneath the sod.”
Brief as It Is, this Is as much aa might be said la volumes.
It Is comprehensive In the largest praise, and It falls like a benedic
tion upon the grave of the genius, philanthropist, and gentleman of the
New Hampshire Hills.
”A HEARING FOR THE SOUTH.’
Inspection of an extended list of lecturers who are enter
talnlng and Instructing "Chautauquas” and other summer assem
blies shows that a large number of Southern men are given place
in Northern programs. They are men of sanity and balance, too,
very different from the Tillmans, Dixons and Vardamans, who
really misrepresent the best elements of the South.
We believe that It Is a commendable thing for Northern au
diences to have opportunity to hear men like Dr. Lamar, John
Temple Graves, John S. Wlao, Senator Carmack. President Al
derman. Dr. Nordyke and others of thalr standing upon South
ern topics. They present the best aspects of tho South, and
their discourse Is free from political bias and vulgar sensation
alism.
Through them, the South is getting a bearing before this
generation of the North which can not fall to add amity to the
relations between the two sections, through a better understand
ing and a higher mutual appreciation.
No man la as much an American aa be might be until be
knows all sections of this magnificent land; the tar East, the
West and the South should interest the central Northerner most
deeply, and when the beet representatives of the brains and en
ergy of those regions come among us, they should appear to over
flowing audiences.—Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch.
In these brief paragraphs our esteemed contemporary In the capital
cf Ohio haa crystallized the truth aa to the lyceum and Chautauqua plat
forms of today.
There is much of flippant and unthinking comment upon the value
of the lecture platform to the times, and the lecture platform, like other
Institutions, political, social and religious, la sometimes abused by un
worthy and Insufficient men.
But tn the main the lyceum under the touch of men like John B.
Gordon, Postmaster General Wilson. Sam Jones, Henry Watterson and
others of conscience and caliber and standing has done aa much^or mote
than any other influence to Introduce the sections to each other, and to
broaden and better the catholic sentiment of the country.
Without any comparison of the relative merit and value of the liter
ature and logic of different productions. It may be said without exagger
ation that the spectacle of John B. Gordon standing In a Northern grove
or theater, with that "Confederate epic" upon hts cheek, talking frankly
and heartfutly to a responsive audience of Grand,Army men about out
common cor-ttry, was as wholesome and noble, an Influence as the two
decades have furnished to patriotism and to the national spirit
Our contemporary of Columbus Is right In the statement that "no
man is as much an American as he might be until he knows all sections
of this great country." And It is as good for the South to receive as
for the North to bestow the hospitality which links the sections Into an
Indissoluble union. The North is always eager to hear of tho growth
and status and spirit of the South. Its public platforms are filled
with Southern men, and the warmth of the welcome given to Southern
speakers Is an earnest of the noble spirit of real sympathy and frater
nity which pulses the Northern heart toward us. When the South sends
good and sound and patriotic men to the Northern and Western states
It Is laying the foundation for that spirit which not only welcomes the
South to the councils of the nation, but which, in the great emergency
which may come to our social and Industrial life, will make us friends
In need for the settlement and solution of the weightiest problems of
our civilization.
It Is good policy to send our representative men to the Northern
platforms, and It Is Just as wise to welcome with equal heartiness to our
own, the wise and cultured men who represent the genius and character
of the North.
THE CONSTITUTION'S QUEER FIGURES
ON THE TELEPHONE FRANCHISE
The Constitution said editorially Saturday:
"By tho end of the twenty-two year period, which was the dote of the
expiration of the old franchise, according to the city’s contention, the city-
will, conservatively estimated, be receiving 120,060 a year."
The Constitution says further tn the same editorial:
"In other words, tho Income of $122,000 now In sight would have equal
ed a 3 per cent tax for ten years, had the compromise not been effected."
How The Constitution reached the figure of $112,000, when, according
to Its previous statement, the city will get $20,000 a year within twenty
years, nnd more than that for eleven years thereafter, Is not known.
Tho Constitution evidently gets $132,000 by figuring on $4,000 a year
for thirty-three years, but this does not "gee" with the statement In the
editorial that the city will be getting $20,000 a year long before the fran
chise expire*.
What Th'o Constitution probably meant (Mayor Pro Tern. Qullllan ha*
made the same claim) Is that a percentage tax of 1 per cent for thirty
years Is equivalent to a 2 per cent tax for the ten yeare after the present
franchises expire.
Wherein The Constitution misses Its guess about $600,000—Just halt a
million dollars.
The Constitution says the city will get $4,000 the first year and $20,000
the twentieth year. This Is an average of $12,000 a year, making a total
for the first twenty years of $240,000.
If the percentage Increases at the rate of from $4,000 to $20,000—Just
"five time#" Itself—In twenty years, then In ten years It would “two-and-
a-half times” Itself.
In the twentieth year, the city would get $20,000, The Constitution saye,
and In the thirtieth year Just two-and-a-half times that much, or $60,000 a
year.
The general average for the laal ten years would be the mean of $20<-
000 and $60,000, which would be $36,000 a year, or $360,000 In ten years.
The city, In other words, would get $240,000 for the first twenty years
and $350,000 for the last ten years, making a total of $590,000.
This la. according to The Vmstltutlon’a figures and according to The
Constitution’s method of figuring carried out to their logical conclusion.
But Alderman Qullllan said—and The qonatltutlon tried to say—that
1 per cent for thirty years Is equivalent to $ per cent for the last ten
years.
One per cent for thirty yeare, according to The Constitution's figures
and msthod of figuring, amounts to $590,000. v
One per cent for the last ten years, according to The Constitution's
figures and method of figuring, Is $350,000.
Three per cent for the last ten yoars would be three times as much as
1 per cent for the last ten yeare, or three times as much as $360,000, which
would be $1,060,000.
The difference between $1,030,000 and $590,000 Is the approximate dif
ference between the facts on one side, and what Alderman Qullllan esti
mated, and what The Constitution tried to say on the other side.
The alderman and The Constitution missed their guess $460,000.
That Is, carrying The Constitution figures and the mayor pro tem.’s
method of figuring to their logical conclusion.
IS IT 196 OR 1-8 OF 196?
If the Southern Bell pays the city of Atlanta 1 per cent of Its gross
receipts, $400,000, making $4,000.00
And then deducts, as the franchise proposes t.Wl.OO I^JTe.'who flraTof "mF tooTIT Into
"Take care o! the pence and the pounds will take care of them-
selves.’’ said Franklin, a long time ago. It Is still true, as many of
our depositors are learning every day.
People are too apt to look down on small beginnings. They
think they will open a savings account when they can start with a
good-sized nest egg. We have seen a good many more really sub
stantial savings accounts develop from a start of a small sum and a
determination to go ahead, than from hundred-dollar starts without
the determination. We like these small beginnings. They show tho
true saving spirit. We receive any amount from $1.00 upwards In our
Savings Department nnd pay Interest at the rate of 4 per cent.
MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO.
THE BRACEBRIDGE DIAMONDS
A Thrilling Story of Mystery and Adventure
SYNOPSIS
Frank (the hero) nud Reginald Brneebridgc
(cousins) meet tame. Vera Slarlntk/, tr
beautiful women, at fifaratogn. She I* at
tneked by a foreigner (Dr. Carl Mueller),
the latter demanding that she surrender to
him "a bit of paper nnd a stone." lie
claims he has the missing fragment and
thnt "the other! were then in the hotel.
Frank rescues her nnd Is given a package
with permlslRoa to open it when he thinks
the right time has come. A telegram an-
he sudden death of Reginald's
father. Frank Is made executor of the es
tate. Reginald Is charged with forgery, and
calls upon Frank to save him from nrrest.
A main rushes Into the room and tells Reg-
and Reginald
leave the house b.v a accret passngu nud
reach the llraeehrldge couutry home pa
Long Island. They embark In an airship.
Reginald Is sent to France. Frank lcarna
that the physician who attended Reginald s
wife resembles Dr. Mueller, lie Hires a
farm la Ohio near tha place where this doc
tor lives. Sylvia Thurston, pretty daughter
of a Judge In Ohio, Is brought Into tho story.
Dr. Mueller falls In lore with har. He seem*
to know her brother, a painter, who resides
abroad. Sylvia. Dr. Mueller and a girl
friend visit "The Hollow," «n old bouse.
her brother. Raymond. T **r make's threats
against Raymond.
Itasll la almost persuaded to go to Colo
rado and seek hta fortune In tha mines. He
turns to drink In his distress over hla un
successful tove affair, nnd his .liter, Rote,
pleads with him to reform.
Rail! does not reform. While In the field
one day he heare Dr. Mueller making love
to Sylvln. nnstl meet* the girl nqd bogs
her to wed him. She la frightened nnd re
fuse* While' trying to escape from Basil
she runs Into the arms of Dr. Maeller. She
consents tn mnrry the doctor.
Dr. Mueller urges S.vlvln to malty him
at once, although she tells him she wishes
her brother, Raymond, who Is In Europe,
to lie present st the ceremony.
Ruth Pritchard wnrns Sylvia ngslnst Dr.
Mueller, and Basil Thnrston declares, tn a
letter to Hytrin, thnt ho will prevent her
marring, nt any cost.
Raymond Thurston returns home unex
pectedly nnd Is greeted by bis slater during
Mueller disappears In n most extraordi
nary manner, but n letter from him to Syl
via explains his shsenee.
Hvlvln nnd her brother go for a walk
jiiI-t ~ - — —
mood.
meet Baal), who qunrrela with liny-
CHAPTER XXXIX.
“I Hate You."
'I take It up simply to Impress on
you how unjustly ycai treated me In
that matter—aa if I was to blame be
cause Violet Moore was a fickle co-
Leavlng for the city only 679.00
Doea the city really get 1 per cent, or Just s little more than 1-8 of 1
per cent?
The cltlxena of Atlanta and the city council can figure this out# even
If the mayor, the mayor pro tern, and the aldermanlc board have tailed to
do so.
CRY FOR AN OA8I8.
To Tho Atlnnta Georgian, In connec
tion with Its poem In regard to Van
ished Days.)—Greensboro, N. C. Rec
ord.
Yes, the South I* dry, dear brother, and
you and I, alas,
No more may test the Juleps or tip the
foaming glass.
We may only tip the waiter as he
brings us "somethin’ dry,"
And should we want It wetter, ’tl* no
use to wink the eye.
When the thirsty »ouls within u» cry
aloud for "somethin’ hot"
We shall find that In the dryness there
1* not a heated spot.
Should we oak for some concoction that
I* only good when cold.
We’d get twenty-throed for asking for
the stuff tnat can’t be sold.
We are up against It, brother, up
against It good and hard,
All the “places" now are glaciers and
all the bare are barred.
The beads are on the wampum but are
misting from the rye.
For the stUla are still In stillness and
the South la going dry.
Shall wa meet In called convention, we
brethren bf the pen?
Shall we ask our legislature to make
us wet again?
For since the South Is drying up, total
abstinence ta nigh.
There Is reason for believing that our
papers will be dry.
ONE CORPORATION CLERK.
To the Editor of The Georgian
I am only a poor corporation clerk,
and one poor woman can’t write much
even to help herself, much less others;
but I want to usk you whether you
think that If President Roosevelt’s
Southern mother had been a telegraph
operator, earning her own and her lit
tle boys’ living by the same work as a
man operator, would President Roose
velt, when he got grown and all his
teeth—would he have had enough
Southern chivalry, or whatever you
call II, to aay and stand by It and
stand by the others, and not go back
on them. In spite of Inconvenience and
loss and Ignominy—that a woman
should be paid as much as a man for
doing the same work? This seems to
bo something that our half-Southern
born president hasn’t yet had the heart
to do. You don’t expect much soul
from the head of a corporation, but
President Roosevelt la ahead of all the
corporations, and It ought to be easy,
or at least Bot very embarrassing, for
him to show a little sympathy with the
cause of common. Justice. There are
many corporation officers who rise
above the natural spiritual disabilities
of the Institutions they represent,
though as a rule they can’t afford the
luxury of souls; they are the streams
and caa not rise higher than their
corporation source, despite respectable
weakly .(some quite weakly) efforts to
sidestep mammon, doing to others as
they'd b« done by, etc., on Sunday when
there Is nothing doing; but the rest of
the week doing everything they can,
without crossing the line of the law
or the profits, srtth Just enough rebat
ing thrown in to give life a flavor. But
when a naturally chivalrous man has
made a specialty of his semt-8outhern
blood, tt Is fair to ask what he has to
say for the Southern mothers and sla
ters and cousins and aunts and sweet
hearts that do a man’s work, and often
support a man’s responsibilities for less
ARMY-NAVY ORDERS
—AND—
MOVEMENTS OP VESSELS
Army Orders.
Washington, An*. 26.—Cnptnln Manus Me-
Cloikey, Fourth field artillery, from Bat
tery C to G. Colonel Lotus Mile* and Lieu
tenant-Colonel I-Mwlu, St. J. Greble, to
Third field artillery. Major Edwin P. Mc-
Glanchln, Jr.,. to * Fourth field artillery.
Captain Laarln L. Layson, to Battery C,
Fourth field artillery.
First Lieutenant Charles A. Clark, quar
termaster coa»t artillery corps, assume
chance construction work, Fort Totten, re-
> nnisiuiciniii «"lh, I-lirt 1UUI*U, rc-
Having Cnp/sln Ernest R. Tilton, quarter
master, who will sssumc charge of eonstruc-
tlon work at Fort Monroe, relieving Captain
Robert II. C. Kelton. quartermaster, who
will proceed to the Philippines.
ill——— - '■—*-* •• — " "
Reslgimtlon of Cuptslu Lloyd England,
coast artillery corps, accepted. Resignation
of Hecoatl Lieutenant Percy Alexander.
Ninth Infantry. ncccntad.
■tV
PueutessnMVdonel
Judge advocate from department of the
East, to Cbleaip aa Judge advocate Depart
ment of the I-sites, Lrenteiinnt-Colonel J.
A. Hull, Judge ndroente Depnrtt it of tboi
Isiki’s. to tlovernor’s Island na Judge advo
cate Department of the East.
Captain Urns A. Moore, coast artillery
■■orps, from general hospital, Washington
barracks, to his company. Major Benjamin
W. Atkinson. Fourth Infantry, to general
recruiting ..service, Philadelphia. relieving
Major William H. Alalr, Twenty-third In
fantry, who will report to chief of staff at
Washington for temporary doty. First
ll.teutennnt Robert Arthur, coast artillery
corps, to Ninety-first company. Major II.
C. Hnle, Thirteenth Infantry, detailed lu
the RiUitln„t.,»nnrnr, department. Vice Mit
_ _ l taytelt
hut I believe that If we practice almple
the adjutant-general's
Jor Hunter Liggett, adjntant-genernl. who
Is assigned to Tblrte •“" ■— ■
Ilrteeotb Infantry; Major
Hale to rhlllpplnea
Flrat Lieutenant Alvin 8. Perkin* from
First to Twelfth cavalry; Flrat Lieutenant
Edward M. Offtay, from Twelfth to Flrat
cavalry.
Navy Orders.
Lieutenant Commander R. O. Btttlcr, de
tached aapply. home wait order* Lieuten
ant Commander W. B. Fletcher, to duty aa
assistant Inspector In charge second light
house district. Boston. Lieutenant William
M. Hunt, detaehed Alabama; home, thence
to naval academy.
Lieutenant W. N. Jeffera tn Alabama.
Lieutenant A. A. Pratt, detached Dm
Moines; home, wnlt orders. Lleuteuaat O.
W. 8. Csstle. additional duty In command
jssssnA^
her head to win you, and then when
she had achieved her object left you
there and moved on to secure a fresh
scalp to hang at her girdle,” answered
Baatl.
‘That la totally false, Basil. Since
ybu force me to touch on the matter
again, I repent—what t have already
■aid to you more than once—that you
played an underhand, unmanly part In
that bygone business from start to fin
ish. I had It on the best authority at
the time that you undermined me In
every possible way in your private
talks to Violet Moore, and wound up
by telling her that I had Incurred a
gambling debt which would practically
ruin all my prospects.
"Now, Basil, It Is useless for you to
deny the charge all over again. Noth
ing that you could possibly say would
convince me that my Informant told
me lies that time. So let tho discus
sion end, please, once for all. Why
■hould I not be sorry? But that con
not be helped now. The world Is full
of such unavailing regrets.”
Murderous Threats.
"So you Intend, then, to keep up this
quarrel, do you? You Intend to carry
out your plan of revenge, Raymond,
by putting an obstacle In the way of
my whole life's happiness and salva
tion?”
Basil's tone and manner had under
gone a startling change. He had re
leased his grasp .of pis cousin, and he
folded his arms across his chest as he
now spoke and fixed hla ayes sullenly
upon Raymond's foes.
"If you mean, ns of course you do,
that I have opposed your wishes with
regard to Sylvia, I never for one mo
ment even wished to hide the truth os
to my action In the matter, Basil. How.
ever, that affair has been taken out
of both our hands now by Sylvia her
self. I suppose you have heard that
she Is engaged to be married to Dr.
Mueller? And I have had nothing to
do with that arrangement, at least."
"Nothing directly, perhap* but Indi
rectly your action toward me has rush
ed Sylvia Into this cursed engage
ment!" Basil said hoarsely. "But for
your conduct she and I would never
have been separated—but for your let
ters and advice and all the rest of It
■he would have been engaged to me
before thin man ever came to the
neighborhood.
"You. and you only, are to blame. I
see your finger In every movement, In
every word, of Sylvia's for months and
months. But although she may be en
gaged to this Mueller she la not yet
married to him. and I tell you now to
your face, Raymond, that I will snatch
her away from both of you, from both
of you. do you understand me? Yea,
If I have to kill you both to attain my
end!’’
Hammond, detached Ohio to Eagle. Mid
shipmen / J. London and It. L. Lowiuan,
detached Eagle in Georgia. Midshipmen E.
F. Clement, to Georgia.
Movements of Vestel*
Arrlved-Augutt 21: Alabama at Xcwpnrt.
August 22: Padnoab at Puerto Corte* Kan-
on* Vermont, I ^ratals no. Keoraarge, Ken
tucky. Illinois, Virginia, Georgia, New Jer
sey, Rhode Island and Tafomn, at Hampton
SBMn? tf.s&„ nock * t «*»•
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Justice to one another, corporations and
employees, and don’t put on too much
side between the act* there will be no
need for strikes and not much for arbl-
tratlon, and In the end we may find the
»\rd chivalrous written against our
names, though all the time we thought
we were only trying to follow the
golden rule. This Is one thing we
ask of, the president of the United
, a ■iv- hi, ,v — States and the president! of the dele-
titan a man get* for the same work, graph companies. Yours truly
I am not a Southern woman myself, MARY DOO
MARY DOOLEY.
Georgia, U. S, August 23. 1907.
hated you: yes, hated you, Baku. And
I meant what I said—and now I repeat
It, and hear It from my own lips, and
blame no one else for It but yourself
alone. Whatever affection I may have
had for you, Dnsll, whatever Interest
I may have taken In you, you have
destroyed by your own acts and words
Do not blame Raymond, do not blame
Carl Mueller: blame yourself."
In spite of her defiant words and un.
flinching gaze, a terrible fear was
gripping at her heartstrings that Ba
sil's deadly menace of a few moments
before boded some revengeful act of
which her brother Raymond would be
the victim.
Basil had Included Carl Mueller's
name In hla furious threat; but Sylvia's
concern now centered wholly in her
brother. Let Mueller look to himself!
It was her Immediate duty to protect
Raymond from the violence of this
thoroughly dangerous man.
Aa aha finished speaking a sudden
change crossed Basil Thurston's furious
face. He recoiled a little, as If her
words had acted upon him like physi
cal blows, and for a moment or two of
silence he fixed upon Sylvia's face a
look of Incredulous, hungry reproach
and pleading.
But her gaze never wavered, her
purpose never faltered, -whatever Inner
terrors preyed upon her at the time,
and Basil, as be looked Into her face,
read his doom there and In his ears he
seemed to hear the death-knell of all
his hopes and dreams.
'That ends Itl Say no more, Syl
via,” he said. In an almost inaudible
whisper. Then Ije turned his wild
eyes on Raymond's face.
“You shall hear more of this, Ray
mond Thurston," he muttered under
his breath, and without another word
turned away abruptly and strode out
of sight.
“Of course, the man Is stark, star
ing mad," Raymond said, after a pause,
during which Sylvia had mode desper
ate efforts to control her agitation.
"It Is positively dangerous to have such
a person at large degenerated Into a
hopeless drunkard.”
"Oh, Raymond, come away from this
—I am frightened!" Sylvia gasped at
last.
Don't be absurd, child," Raymond
said, as he placed n reassuring arm
around her waist and drew her nearer
to him. "Don’t think of him one way
or another, Sylvia. Come, let us re
sume our walk. It almost seems sa If
the fates were determined to prevent It
today."
But their walk won not altogether
a succea* and when they reached home
at last the early October twilight was
beginning and a gale was raging with
exhilarating fury.
Raymond went to his room, and hav
ing lighted his ramp, turned to place
on hts dressing table a little bunch of
crimson forest leaves. As he extended
his hand he suddenly noticed a small
square envelope lying on the table, and
he took It up to examine It in some
surprise. It was a letter addressed to
himself In a queer, atraggllng back
hand which he did not recognize.
"What can this be about, I wonder?"
he said, as he opened the envelope and
"Blame Youreelf."
A gkTa startled cry suddenly broke
In upon the momentary silence that fol
lowed these furious words, and a mo
ment later Sylvia Thurston hurried
forward and turned to Basil with flash
ing. Indignant, dctlant eyes.
"How dare you talk like that! How
dar. you! How dare you!” she cried,
her slender figure trembling with agi
tation.
Was It not enough that I was forced
drew forth the sheet within.
The communication was not a long
one, occupying half the sheet, and
Raymond looked puzzled as he read It
over twice, then paused for a moment
or two, thinking deeply, then again
read 1L
"Mysterious, certainly—and a bit
uncanny!" he said with a laugh that
was somewhat uneasy. "However, I’ll
obey the request. Til go."
Than he walked to the hearth and
placed the letter and envelope in the
fire that burned cheerfully In the grate.
"I wish It were some other night—I
feel a bit tired after that long walk.
Rut, no matter, I’ll go.”
Continued In Tomorrow’* Georgian.
AN ENFORCEMENT FUND.
Editor Atlanta Georgian:
Dear Sir—I desire to suggest, aa a
meant of preventing violations of tha
prohibition law, that the cities and
towns of your state form what might
be called an "enforcement fund."
The plan would be to get 400 persons
to agree to contribute 25 cents each,
to raise a fund of 3100, with which to
pay any one who was the means of
the first conviction for violating the
prohibition law. The knowledge that
such a fund waA ready would make
any who Intended to violate the law
very cautious.
The money not to be collected until
the conviction Is secured. ,
Respectfully,
B. F. WEISHAMPEL.
Baltimore, Md,
to tell you when 1 met you last that Iwhen he returns.
MAYOR A LOYAL FAN.
(Atlanta Special Dispatch to The
Washington Post.)
A raging baseball fever has resulted
In depriving Atlanta of her mayor, and
the city will continue In that headless
condition for some time. W. R. Joyner,
locally known aa "Cap," la mayor, and
he haa quit hts Job to follow the At
lanta ball team around the Southern
circuit and cheer It on to victory.
The race for first place between At
lanta and Memphis Is close, and when
Atlanta departed for Its western trip
"Cap” Joyner could not down the ball
fever raging in’ his vein* "I owe It to
the city," said the mayor, "to go with
the team and help It win the nennant.
I believe It to be my civic duty to get
on the baseball firing line.” And the
mayor went. Atlanta la headless mu
nicipally, but the Atlanta team Is be
ing encouraged In Its fight for the pen
nant by the fierce rooting of Mayor
Joyner. But If the team doesn’t win,
the mayor will hear something drop
School Opens September 3d
Yon are hereby reminded that yon must not neglect to have
, your child’s eyes examined before he starts to school. Some states
require this by law. Dull or nervous pupils should be given »pe-
i clal attention in this regard.
A. K. HAWKES CO,, Opticians
TWO STORES
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