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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. Published Every Afternoon. (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At 25 Weet Alebnma St. Atlanta. 0* Subscription Reteei Om Tear H» Kit Month fS Three Monthe On# Month. L» 1 'mo Monin .e Bjr Carrier* Per Week - - 10 Telenbooea connect In* all depart ments. Lone distance terminal!. Smith St Thompson, adrertleln*^rep resentative! for all territory outside of •KfiSAS* *AWswr t V&K5 itounuiAN 7 r »..ZI the ttt CT !ettoe [ de|«tin«nt i .^ hn l»jn. if’proiepUy "remedied. Telephone*: Bell tm main: Atlanta 4401. It te dreJrable that ell eommnnlea. ttona Intended tor publication In TIIB oeoiioiaSand Slews bollmHjd to 200 words In lenftb. It la ImperatlT* that they be alined..a* 2$ESS&SEiSi for the purpose. fn,. Nc?th* d^?U print whUhy or any liquor ads. OUR PLATFORM: THE GEORGIAN riant* ee It now owne IU wel. works' Other cltlee do tble »»d jet works. Otnrr rinee ao .u.. fj'th.* sr, d*™r!t beUeves that If atrejt r *^ w, « a 2L£; operated eneceeefuUy by B«rop«n Jtiitf n« they are. there la no *000 reason why they can not be to omp 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 «*»• J3 ^raiMLngitt W & 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 H Whitehall and 125 Peachtree (Candler Building)