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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
(AND NEWS)
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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ODR PLATFORM: THE OKOROIAN
,ND NEWS Stand, for Attests* own-
f.g tt?»i ns and “et«tric l.ibt
plaota, as It now owns Its water
works. Other cities do this end get
mi i, low e. M cents, with a prelit
Kfitrei that It street "Li*
operated succeesfully by. Euro pea;
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reason why the
reason why iney <*»• not bo so °Wj
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Kt tta face In that direction NOW.
“Permanently Dry.
Our Carolina contemporaries of
Charleston snd Columbia are Inclined
to think that prohibition In Georgia
will not be permanent—that It will be
short lived and full of sorrow. They
are mistaken. In course of time the
cities may repent and grow tired of
virtue and abstemious ways. Hut the
force that paased the prohibition bill
was the country vote. The Georgia
counties havo been prohibition for
twenty years and will doubtless be so
tor fifty more. They will not repent or
change. Nor will they consent to rein
state the cities in tbo position to over
ride these country prohibition prin
ciples through the dovlltry of the Jug
trade.
We have to Inform our contempo
raries that Goorgla Is permanently dry.
That clnb of Boston women known
as the Mole Club was probably namod
by the husbands of tho members.
Bebel. the great Gorman Socialist,
ttys that liberty Ih America Is only on
paper. He forgets the statue guarding
the New York harbor.
The young daughter of the president
Is hastening her debut at tho White
House Just os though her father was
not to havo that third term.
The rival Kansas towns In conten
tion as to which has tho most widows
night count tombstones and sottlo tbo
luestion.
Tho big secretary will find that
Taffy and Cuffy had better etey di
vorced If he want* to win the good
-will of the South. For further particu
lars, see Theodore.
They do things backward In Corea,
ttys a writer on Hast country. Thus
they prepare to be a great nation by
putting their country under Japanese
control.
The Rev. Thomas Dixon Is quoted
as saying that Rockefeller Is the great
est genius of the age. Rockefeller
night say as much tor the Reverend
Tom and miss the truth as far.
The Pittsburg Dispatch arises to re
nark most emphatically that tho city
is not as black as it Is 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 mechaplca far more
than It needs second-rate lawyers
and mediocre politicians.—Ameri-
Cus Tlmes-Rsoorder.
Good reasoning this. And the Tech
is the machine that turns out the
■killed men in the material profes-
The Impossible has happened: Am*
brosc Bierce has found a modern
writer whose work he can commend.
Of Mr. George Sterling, the fortunate
person In question, Mr. Bierce says be
h so One a workman In letters that
only a sqlect few can appreciate him.
Mr. Bierce means himself by that ‘W
lect few,- and the suspicion arises that
probably Mr. Sterling may be
Bierce under a nom de plume.
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Mr.
A BIRTHRIGHT FOR A MESS OF FOTTAOE.
It Is only by knowledge and comparison that Atlanta people can be
made to understand how much Tho Georgian would save them in this
matter of the telephones.
It Is not necessary to assert the 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 the 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 8weden is a city of 400,009 population. It
has only 2,000 fewer telephones than tho city of Now Yark with nearly
4,000,000 people. The city owna the telephone*, and the citizen paya $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 aro eminently iatlsfactory. Are the conditions more favorable In
Sweden than In this country of Edison and-Graham Bell?
In the Republic of Switzerland, the government owns tho telephones,
and the people pay there as In Stockholm $1.00 per month, or $12.00 per
year, for a service that Is eminently satisfactory. What are tho condi
tions that prevail In a little country like Switzerland which enable the
government to furnish the people with a great public convenience at one-
fourth the price that Is charged In the land of electricity and Ingenious
devices?
la It any wonder that the Bell Company In America has grown so
rich and so great when we not only road but see how city councils lie
down and fail even to groan when the heavy wheel of high prices roll
over them.
It comes to us from reliable source* that the Bell 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. The people are enti
tled to some of these vast profits upon franchises which come from
their liberality.
Tho streets and the franchises here ore the people's!
Hava we had In the past or are we getting now any reasonable share
of the emoluments of an enterprise to which we contribute everything ex
cept the equipment end the expert knowledge of the machinery?
You are fine men, and good citizens, gentlemen of the council.
But you haven't traded well for Atlanta with the Telephone Company.
THE COMPLETED COMMISSION AND ITS PROMISE.
The waiting over the railway commissioners has been well worth
white in that it has found Fuller Callaway and George Hillyer willing to
serve the state.
Tho appointments will give general, and we do not see why not uni
versal, satisfaction over the commonwealth.
Fuller Callaway Is one of the really remarkablo young men that
Georgia has produced within the ora. He carries under a radiant surface
of good fellowship and fun one of the clearest heads and one of the
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 has richly won and morltod the recognition
which the governor has accorded him In this appointment.
That he will fill It ably, amiably, and yet fearlessly, there Is no room
to doubt.
Judgo George Hillyer Is a namo to add honor and repute to any office
In the state. Years of high thinking and clean living have 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 confldenoe and good will of the people. Judge Hillyer has
been a diligent and clear-headed student of tho railroad problem, and was
an important factor In educating public opinion to its present conception
of popular rights and official duties. Wisdom and sanity are his attri
butes, and the people will be glad of his acceptance of this public trust.
And now with a railway commission so clean cut, so definite In per
sonality of reform, and so thoroughly in harmony with each other and
with the administration, tho railway problem In Georgia should be draw-'
Ing nigh to a sound, substantial and permanent solution.
We congratulate tbo governor, tho state and the railroads, upon the
wisdom. Justice and definiteness of the commission.
SAINT GAUDENS.
Tho Georgian has written as yet no odltorlal tribute to St. Gaudons.
And It Is Just as well since hero at hand from the August Collier's
comes a little tribute so simple, so tender and so true that It carries our
thought and shall also convey tho expression wo would give to it:
"It Is well at times to turn from tense snd floetlng topics of
the day, and bathe In an atmosphere that gives worth to tho so
journ on a small nnd whirling globe. Some weeks have passed
slnco from America and the earth passed a spirit which added to
tho consolation and tho Inspiration of thoao who live today. A
month ago, and n man with a tender heart, a puro Imagination,
nobility of choice, nnd the meekness of an nngol dwelt among tho
New Hampshire bill*. He Is gone, and thoso who await their
time lean back toward hie memory with the reverence that we
pny to better men. He wob an artist among few, and moreover
n man who In nearly sixty years of mortal misery and success
was never cruel, or vain, or harsh. Good-by, Saint Gaudeni. The
world Is dark, with you boneath the sod."
Brief as It Is, this Is as much as might be said In volumes.
It Is comprehensive In the largest praise, and It falls like a benedic
tion upon the grave of the gonlua, philanthropist, and genUeman of the
New Hampshire Hills.
‘A HEARING FOR THE SOUTH.
Inspection of an extended Hat of lecturers who are enter
taining and instructing "Chautauquas" and other summer assem
blies shows that a large number of Southern men are given placo
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.
Wo believe that It Is a commendable thing for Northern au
dience* to have opportunity to hear men like Dr. Lamar, John
Temple Graves, John S. Wise, Senator Carmack, President Al
derman. Dr. Nordyke and others of their standing upon South
ern topics. They present the best aspects of the South, and
their discourse Is free from political bias and vulgar sensation
alism.
Through them, the South is getting a hearing before this
generation of the North which can not tall to add amity to tho
relations between the two sections, through a better understand
ing and a higher mutual appreciation.
No man ta as much an American as ho might be until he
knows all sections of this magnificent land; the far East, the
West and the South should Interest the contra! Northerner most
deeply, and when tho best representatives of tbo 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 tho capital
of Ohio has crystallised the truth as 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, pollttca], social and religious, U sometimes abused by un
worthy and Insufficient men.
But In the main the lyceum under the touch of men like John B.
Gordon, Postmaster General Wilson, Bam Jones, Henry Wattenon and
others of conscience and caliber and standing has done as much or more
than any other Influence to introduce tho 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 spectAle of John B. Gordon stacdlng In a Northern grove
or theater, with that "Confederate epic" upon hla cheek,' talking frankly
and beartfully to a responsive audience' of Grand Army men abont our
common coi-try, 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 bo until he knows all sections
of this greet 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 the 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 lnduatriol life, will make us friends
In need for tho settlement and solution of the weightiest problems of
our civilization.
It Is good policy to send our representative men to tho Northern
platforms, and |t 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 the end of the twenty-two year period, which was the date of the
expiration of the old franchise, according to the city’s contention, the city
will, conservatively estimated, bo receiving $20,000 a year.”
Tbo Constitution says further t« tho name editorial:
"In other words, the Income of {132,000 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 {133,000, when, according
to Its previous statement, the city will get (20,000 tt year within twenty
years, and more than that for eleven yean thereafter, is not known.
The 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 expires.
What Tho Constitution probably meant (Mayor Fro Tern. Qullllan has
made the same Claim) Is that a percentage tux of 1 per cent for thirty
years Is equivalent to a 3 per cent tax for the ten yeahs after the present
franchises expire.
Wherein The Constitution misses Its guess about (600,000—Just half a
million dollars.
The Constitution says the city win get (4,000 the first year and (20.000
the twentieth year. This Is an average of'(11,000 a year, making a total
for the first twenty years of (340,000.
If the percentage Increases at the rate of from (4,000 to (20.000—Just
"five times" Itself—in twenty years, then In ten years It would "two-and-
a-balf times" Itself.
In the twentieth year, the city would get (20,000, The Constitution says,
and In the thirtieth year Just two-and-a-half times that much, or ((0,000 a
year.
The general average for the Iasi ten years would be the mean of (20,-
000 and (60,000, which would be (15,000 a year, or (350,000 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 Is according to The ^institution's figures and according to The
Constitution’s method of figuring carried out to their logical conclusion.
But Alderman Qullllan said—and The Constitution tried to say—that
1 per cent for thirty years Is equivalent to 2 per cent for the last ten
years.
One per cent for thirty years, according to The Constitution's figures
and method of figuring, amounts to (690,009.
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 years would be three times as much as
1 per cent for the last ten years, or three times as much as (360,000. which
would be (1,050,000.
The difference between (1.050,000 and (590,000 la 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.'f
method of figuring to their logical conclusion.
IS IT 1% OR 1-8 OF 196?
"Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of them
selves.” said Franklin, a long time ago. It Is still truo, as many of
our depositors are learning every day.
People aro 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. Thoy show the
true saving spirit. We receive finy amount from $1.00 upwards in our
Savings Department and pay interest at the rate of 4 per cent
MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO.
THE BRACEBRIDGE DIAMONDS
A Thrilling Story of Mystery and Adventure
SYNOPSIS.
Prnnk (the hero) nml Reginald Bracebrldge
(cousins) meet Mine. Vera Smvlnukv, a
beautiful woman, nt Srtirntogn. She Ih at
tacked by a foreigner (Dr. Curl Mueller),
the latter demanding that sbo surrender to
him “n bit of nnper and a stone." He
claims be Ims the missing fragment nnd
thnt "the other* were then In The hotel.
Prank rescues her nnd Is given ft package
with permlslson to open ft | ‘
permlslBon to open It when be thinks
right time him come. A telegram an
nounce* th* sudden death of Iteglunld ■
father. Frank Is made executor of the es
tate. Reginald la charged with forgery, and
call* upon Frank to sate hhu from arrest.
A mala rushes into the room and tells Reg*
limld his wlfo Is dtftd nnd (bat he Is charg
ed with her murder. Frank and Reginald
leave the house hv ft secret passage aud
reach the Rracehrldge country homo pa
Long Island. . They embark In an airship.
Reginald Is sent to France. Frank learn*
that the physician who attended Reginald s
wife resembles Dr. Mueller. II* hires ft
farm In Ohio near the place where this doe-
nbrond. Sylvia. Dr. ~fineiler* and n girl
friend visit "The Hollow," an old bou*e,
said to he haunted.
Bssll Thurston makes violent love to
via. He tells her be knows she loves u.«.
and I* only kept from sgrln^ fwif of
makes threats
rado a fid seek his _
turns to drink In his distress over his un
successful lore nffnlr. and his sifter. Rose,
pleads with him to reform.
Basil does not reform. While In the field
one day he hears Dr. Mueller making love
to Sylvia. Rnsll meets the girl nnd begs
her to wed him. Sho Is frightened nnd re
fuses. While trying to escape from Basil
she runs Into the nrrus of Dr. Mueller. She
consents to marry the doctor.
Dr. Mueller urges Hylvls to marry him
at once, although she tells him she wishes
her brother, Raymond, who Is In Europe*
to be present at the ceremony.
Ruth I'rltchnrd warns Sylvln against Dr.
Mueller, and Basil Thurston declares. In a
letter to Sylvia, that be will prevent her
ranrrlnge nt any cost.
Raymond Thurston retnrns home unex
pectedly and Is greeted by bis sister during
the temporary absence of her tlnnce.
Mueller disappears In n most extraordi
nary manner, out n letter from him to Syl
via explains bis abteuce,
If the Southern Bell pays the city of Atlanta 1 per cent of lte gross
receipts, $400,000, making $4,000.00
And then deducts, as the franchise propo MM-OO I^MtVwhV flm‘ of "aH took Tt” into
her head to win you, and then when
CHAPTER XXXIX.
"I Hate You."
T toko It up .Imply to Impress on
you how unjustly you treated me in
that matter—o* If I was to blame be
cause Violet Moore' was a fickle co-
Lcavlng for the city only ( 579.00
Does the city really get 1 per cent, or Just a little more than 1-8 of 1
per cent? * ■
The cltlsens of Atlanta and the city council can figure this out, even
If the mayor, th* mayor pro tern, and the aldermanlc board have failed to
do eo.
CRY FOR AN OA8IS.
To Tho Atlanta Georgian, In connec
tion with Its poem In regard to Van
ished Days.)—Greensboro, N. O. Rec
ord.
Yet, the South Is dry, dear brother, and
you and L alas.
No more may test the Juleps or tip the
foaming glass.
We may only tip tho waiter as he
brings us "somethin' dry,"
And should we want It wetter, 'tie no
use to wink the eye.
When the thirsty soul* within us cry
aloud for "somethin’ hot”
We shall find that In the dryness there
Is not a heated spot
Should we ask for some concoction that
I* only good when cold.
We'd get twenty-threed for asking for
the stuff that can't be told.
up
We are up ngaliut it, brother,
against It good and hard,
All the -places" now are glaciers and
all the bars are barred.
The beads are on the wampum but are
missing from tho rye.
For the stills are still In stillness and
the South Is going dry.
Shall we meet In called convention, we
brethren of the pen?
Shall we ask our legislature to make
us wet again?
For since the South is drying up, total
abstinence Is nigh.
There Is reason for believing that our
papers will be dry.
ONE CORPORATION CLERK.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
J am only a poor ^corporation clerk,
and one poor woman can't write much
even to help herself, much less others;
but I wont to ask 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 grow" and “>* ht *
teeth—would he have had enough
Southern chivalry, or whatever you
call It. to .ay and .tand by it and
stand by the other., and not go back
on them. In spite of Inconvenience and
lo.. and Ignominy—that a woman
should be paid as much as a man for
doing the same work? This seems to
be 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 Is ahead of all the
corporations, and It ought to be easy,
or at least not very embarrassing, for
him to show a little sympathy with the
cause of common Justice. There are
many corporation officers who rl»e
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 ran not rise higher than their
corporation source, despite respectable
weakly (some quite weakly) efforts to
sidestep mammon, doing to others as
they'd be done by. etc., ontiunday 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, with just enough rebat
ing thrown In to give life a flavor. But
when a naturally chivalrous man has
made a specialty of his seml-Bouthern
blood. It Is fslr to ask what he has to
say for the Southern mothers and sit
ters and cousins and aunts and sweet
hearts that do a man’s work, and often
support a man’s responsibilities for less
than a man gets for the tame work.
1 am not a Southern woman myself,
hut I believe that If we practice simple
ARMY-NAVY ORDERS
—AND—
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS
Army Orders,
Wnshlngton, Aug. 26.—t’nptnln Munus Me
Closkey, Fourth field artillery, from Bat
tery C to O. Colonel Lotus Miles and Lieu-
tenniit-Cotonel Edwin, St. J. Oroide, to
Third field artillery. Major Edwin P. Me.
Glanchln, Jr., to Fourth field artillery.
Captain Lamia I« Layaon, to llattcry O,
Fourth field artillery.
Kirat Lieutenant Charles A. Clark, quar
termaater roast artillery corps, assume
rlinrge cnnetrnrtlnn work, Fort Totten, re
lieving. Captain Ernest It. Tilton, quarter-
ui yiaiu niucsi u. (iiiuii, uunrier*
master, who will assume charge of construc
tion work at Fort Monroe, relieving Cnptnln
Holiert H. C. Kelton. unartnrranster, who
I will proceed to the Philippines. i
Designation of Captain Lloyd England,
cooat artillery corps, accepted. Designation
of Kecoud Lieutenant Percy Alexander,
iNInth Infantry, nrcepted.
I.trutrnaut-Colonel Harvey C. Carbanch,
Judge advocate from department of the
East, to Chicago aa Judge advocate In-porl
nil. Judge advocate Department of tho
Lakes, to Governor's island aa juilgo advo
cate Department of the East.
Captain Larua A. Moore, coast artillery
corpa, from general hospital, Washington
Imrrncks. to hla company. Major Ilenjnniln
Atkinson. Fourth Infantry, to general
tamaon. Fourth Infantry, to grneral
,, S*„»« r rice. Philadelphia, relieving
William H. Alalr, Twenty-thlrd In-
recrnltlni
Major vi . ...
fnnlrjr, who will report to chief of atnff at
Washington _ for temporary duty. First
she had achieved her object left you
there and moved on to secure a fresh
scalp to hang at her girdle," answered
Basil.
“That Is totally false, Basil. Since
you force me to touch on the matter
again, I repeat—what I have already
said to you more than once—that you
played an underhand, unmanly port 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 whloh would practically
ruin all my prospects.
"Now, Basil. It Is useless for you to
deny the charge all ovsr 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
should 1 not be aorry? But that con
not be helped now. The world Is full
hated you; yes, hated you, Basil. And
1 meant what I sold—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. Basil, 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 gnze, a terrible fear was
gripping nt her heartstrings that Ba-
ill'a deadly menace of a few momenta
before boded some revengeful act of
which her brother Raymond would be
the victim.
Basil had Included Carl Mueller’s
nitme in his 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 thla
thoroughly dangerous man.
As she finished speaking a sudden
change crossed Basil Thurston’s furious
face. H# 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 gaxe never wavered, her
purpose never faltered, whatever Inner
terror* preyed upon her at the time,
and Basil, as he looked Into her face,
read his doom there and In hit ears he
seemed to hear the death-knelt of all
his hopes and dreams.
"That ends itl Say ho more. Syl
via,” he said. In an almost Inaudible
whisper. Then he 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 made desper
ate efforts to control her agitation.
It Is positively dangerous to have such
a person at large degenerated Into a
hopeless drunkard.”
"Ob, Raymond, come away from this
—I am frightened!" Sylvia gasped at
last.
“Don't be absurd, child,” Raymond
said, as he placed a 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 *s If
the fates were determined to prevent It
today.”
But their walk was not altogether
a success, and when they reached home
at lost the early October twilight was
beginning and a gale waa raging with
exhllaratlnr
xhllaratlng fury.
Raymond went to hla roonf, and hav;
C. lisle, Thirteenth Infantry, detal... ._
the siljntnnt.seneral’s department, vice Ms-
lor Hunter Liggett, adjutant-general, who
Bsi n e to‘fbni°ppi?(!i , ""‘ h M ' Jor
First Lieutenant Alvin 8. Perkins, from
First to Twelfth esvslry; First Lieutenant
Edward M. Offley, from Twelfth to First
.. Navy Ordtra
Llentensnt Commander D. O. Blttler, de
tached supply, boms wait orders. Lieuten
ant Commander W. B. Fletcher, to duty os
assistant Inspector In charge second light-
honso district, Boston. Lieutenant WlUunn
M. Hunt, detached Alabama; homo, thence
to nnvsl seademy.
Lieutenant W. X. Jeffers to Alabama.
Lleut.-nant A. A. I'rstt, detached lies
Mollees; home, wait orders. Lieutenant G.
X' Castle, additional duty In command
hhark. a Lieutenant L. K. 8h.t[d(\v, detached
Hhsrk- home, thenee to Res
Midshipmen F. J. Fletcher nnd P. II,
^C^enW^Sr- *
Movement* of Vessels.
Arrlred-August 21: Alabama at Newport.
Angnat 22: Paducah nt Puerto Cortes, Kan
sas. Vermont, Louisians, Kearaarge, Ken
tucky, Illinois, Virginia, Oeorgts. New Jer
sey, Rhode Island and Tacoma, nt Hampton
font. Fiorina at Washington.
Hailed—August 22: Dubuque, from Puerto
Cortes for New Orleans August 29: Dob
phlu. ttom Hampton Roads for League !s-
Ut^nAtoresdS’ from Bradfonl, B. ™ for
Justice to one another,.corporations and
employees, and don't put on too much
side between the acts, there will be no
need for strikes and not much for arbl-
tratlon, and In th* end we may find th*
word 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 th* president of the United
•Rates and the presidents of the tele
graph companies. Yours truly,
MARY DOOLEY.
Georgia, U. S, August 2*. 1907.
Murderous
"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 tya? of
my whole life’s happiness and salva
tion?"
Basil's tone and manner hod under
gone a startling change. He had re
leased his grasp of his cousin, and he
folded his arms across hi* chest as ho
now spoke and fixed his eyes sullenly
upon Raymond's face.
"If you mean, as of course you do,
that I have opposed your wishes with
regard to Sylvia, I never tor one mo
ment even wished to hide the truth as
to my action In the matter, Basil. How.
ever, that affair has been taken out
of both our hands now by Sylvia her
self. 1 suppose you have heard that
she Is engaged to be married to Dr.
Mueller? And I have hod nothing to
do with that arrangement, at least.”
"Nothing directly, perhaps, 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 reit of It
she would have been engaged to me
before this 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 aha may be en
gaged to this Mueller she Is not yet
married to him, and I tell you now to
your face. Raymond, that I will enatch
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!"
“Blame Yourself."
A girl's startled cry suddenly broke
In upon the momentary silence thnt fol
lowed these furious words, and a mo
ment' later Sylvia Thurston hurried
forward and turned to Baell with Hash
ing. Indignant, defiant eyes.
“How dare you talk like that! How
dare you! How dare you!” she cried,
her slender figure trembling with agi
tation.
Was It not enough that 1 was forced
Ing lighted his lamp, turned to place
on his dressing table n little bunch of
crimson forest leaves. As he extended
his hand he suddenly noticed a small
square envelope lying on the table, and
ho took It up to examine It In some
surprise. It was a letter addressed to
himself In a queer, straggling back
hand which he did not recognize.
"What can this be about, I wonder?"
he said, aa he opened the envelope snd
drew forth the ehoet within.
The communication woe not a long
one. occupying half tho sheet, nnd
Raymond looked puzzled ns he read It
over twice, then paused for a moment
or two, thinking deeply, then again
read It.
"Mysterious, certainly—and a bit
uncanny!” he said with a laugh that
was somewhat uneasy. "However, I’ll
obey the request. I’ll go.”
Then he walked to the hearth and
placed the letter and envelope In the
fire that burned cheerfully In the grate.
”1 wish It were some other night—I
feel a bit tired after that long walk.
But. no matter. I'll go.”
Continued In Tomorrow’s Georgisn.
AN ENFORCEMENT FUND.
Editor Atlanta Georgian:
Dear Sir—I desire to suggest, as s
means of preventing violations of the
prohibition law, that the cltlee 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 26 cents each,
to raise a fund of (100, 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 was ready would make
any who Intended to violate the law
very cautious.
The money not to be collected until
tho conviction Is secured.
Respectfully,
B. F. WEISHAMPEL.
Baltimore, Md.
the city,” said the mayor, "to go with
the team and help It win the pennant,
I believe It to be my civic duty to get
on the baseball firing line." And the
mayor went. Atlanta Is 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 »' ln -
the mayor win hear something drop
to tell you when I 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 as "Cap,” Is mayor, and
he has quit his job to follow the At
lanta bail team around the Southern
circuit and cheer It on to victory.
Tho 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 veins. "I owe It w
fhn fillv ” aal/f tho tnnvnn "fn fffi Wltl)
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