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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2S, 1!KTT.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
(AND NEWS)
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, Presldfnt.
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AND NEWS stands for Atlanta's own*
Jog Its oh'/j k'.ik nod elrctrlc light
plants, ns It now owns Its wnter
works. Other rifles do this nod get
gas ns low as 60 cents, with a profit
lo the city. This should l>» done nt
ited here. But we do not believe this
«et Its fact Id that direction NOW.
AMUSEMENTS.
AMUSEMENTS
THE GRAND—Dark Saturday.
THE BIJOU—Saturday matinee and
night, the Four .Mortons In "The Big
Stick."
THE ORPHEUM—Saturday, mati
nee and night, hlgh-claaa vaudeville.
PASTIME THEATER—Vau.l.-vill.-.
ST. NICHOLAS AUDITORIUM —
Saturday afternoon and night, akatlng
nnd fancy exhibition..
Tho danger that Ilea In reaction I.
tbe far swing back to apathy and
slavery.
Tho matter of ga. is nearer by far
to somo 65,000 Atlanta people than Is
an official junket to Jamestown.
Meanwhile the city council may
find It perfectly conservative and safe
to pais some reform legislation
touching the opium habits of the Chi
nese.
When John Sharp Wllllami accepts
the challenge of Colonel 8ldney Tapp
to a joint debate, we shall have
shining Illustration of the real value
ot a collage education. Our money Is
upon Colonel Tapp.
A correspondent rises to Inquire
that If the constitution Insists that
the Southern Stove Association Is a
violation of the Sherman anti-trust
law, whether It Intends to attack the
Farmers' Union on tho same basis?
We reckon not.
It Is to be hoped that "8quare Deal
Teddy" will shoot no caged bear In
Louisiana. Nor do we think he will.
It Is all right to catch a tied ’poBSum,
but no genuine sportsman will shoot
a penned up bear. The glory is In the
hunt.
All the telfchone companies of New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland and the District of Colum
bla have combined Into one. What a
difficult combination for Congress, a
state legislature, or a dty council to
eolve!
The Fitzgerald Journal aays
F. L. Seely and ourself ride In au
tomobiles. and Infers from that
all publishers sre not broke. Not
by any means. It* pays to be
good.—J. D. McCartney In Thom-
asvlllo Enterprise.
Yes, and the rapid motion always
"Increases the circulation.”
Colonel Pendleton flustered Mr.
Graves so much this week that
he has forgotten to nominate any
presidents.—Sparta Ishmaellte.
The Colonel never flusters us. He
delights us. We could not exist with
out him. It Is a joy to respect him.
but It Is a pleasure to prod him, and
whenever he gets too gay wo have a
little touch that reduces him to hu
mility. Me&i.while It Is not strange
to find the Colonel the Idol of The
"Ishmaelltes.” It Is perfectly natural.
The Atlanta office of the Game-
well Fire Alarm Company Ib to
be closed on October 1. and the
Atlanta manager, O. R. Crocker,
will establish a new branch office
at Cincinnati. Mr. Crocker claims
that he Is tearing Atlanta be
cause of the enactment of the
Georgia prohibition law. Tbe en
forcement of this law It Is under
stood will interfere with the cus-
tomary practice of entertaining
locally prospective purchasers of
fire alarm systems.—Insurance
Herald.
Barely It fs not necessary to make
them drunk In order to make them
buy.
"REFORM” AND “REACTION.”
The wrangle over Sam D. Jones and the stove rate Is a mere Individ
ual Instance of a general condition, and Is pot worth tbe time and paper
that It consumes.
It may as well be frankly admitted that a distinct crisis In Jhe re
form movement is at hand.
The first wave of reaction, carefully fostered and skillfully created
by those of an opposite Interest, has come.
That It will recede In time to be succeeded by other waves which
will also ebb and flow Is evident to all who study history and know tho
people.
This I* neither to be feared nor regretted, and of course It was to
be anticipated. It Is tbe rough but wholesome and Inevitable way of
experimental reform.
If any man expected this great movement to swing on oiled hinges
without noise or friction to Its destined end, ho sees now that he was
mistaken.
If any man cherished the delusion that these mighty corporate forces,
.resourceful, brainy, and experienced, would meekly accept defeat and
regulation, without lighting sbrewdly, plausibly and persistently, the de
lusion has been dispelled.
If any reformer indulged the hope that this great vital economic
revolution would culminate without some Inconveniences, some priva
tions and perhaps some preliminary suffering to Individuals, he knows
better now.
No vital reform—no wholesome revolution—since the world began
was ever pressed to victory save over the faith, the persistent courage
and the cheerful sacrifice of Us followers.
What Is worth working for Is worth flghjlng for, and what Is worth
fighting for Is worth enduring for. And the soldier who would desert his
post or the reformer who would strike his colors at the first outcry of
the enemy Is not worthy to wear a uniform or to enjoy his liberty.
Some odtery, spontaneous or Inspired, has been raised against tbe
operations of the public utilities taw. Some public works have been
ostensibly suspended, and some men, not many, have been thrown out
of work for a season. Some unrest and uncertainty Incident to the
process of establishment baa disturbed for a brief season the run of In
vestment and some currents of trade.
These things are temporary and transient They were what any
man of ordinary sagacity might have foreseen.
But because of these things logical, natural and Inevitably passing,
shall the great movement of a half century be discredited and retarded?
Shall all the patient discussion, the earnest deliberation, and the splen
did 90-operatlon of this great fight agalflat the overpower of the corpora
tions be suspended and perhaps destroyed? Shall tho strong men and the
loyal citizens who for fifteen months followed the open and fearless and
unanswered arguments of the governor upon the hustings—and who In
full hearing and full understanding of the Issues that ho pleaded, Indorsed
him In tho magnificent majority of their Intelligent votes—Is It hoped or
believed that these men, under the clamor of a few ^Individual cases of
Inconvenience, carefully magnified by hostile voices, can be reduced from
their allegiance to a great cause and tempted to desert the ranks In tho.
first hour of trial which they hnd every reason to expect? God forbid!
It Is small statesmanship, It Is Indeed mere peanut politics that
would magnify a little casual discrepancy to clog the wheels of a great
reform.
We have no obligation personal or commercial that ties The Geor
gian to Stove Maker Jones. If the circumstances had demonstrated him
guilty of wantonly celebrating the reduction of freight rates by an ad
vance In tho price of his product, we should havo locked arms swiftly
with any criticism that assailed him. But when tho figures are plainly
given to demonstrate that In advance of the freight reduction tho advance
In the price of stoves was announced becauso of tbe Increase of 130 per
cent In the price of Iron nnd 70 per cent In the prlco of coke, wo can not
fall to believe that a more captions ndvantago has been taken of an un
fortunate condition to raise an outcry whose result can not fall to rejoice
tho corporations, and to Impede tho progress of reform.
The eyes of an honest and Intelligent people will not be diverted
from the fact that the great central question of tho timet In Georgia and
In other states Is whether we shall be ruled by a real democracy of the
people or by a corporate oligarchy?
Tills Is tbe fact to keep In mind, and we have no fear that factious
clamor behind corporate activity will blind the peoplo or mako them
traitors to that which they havo already fought and won.
The period of danger In every reform movement Is the first period of
reaction. One thing Is sure: If the people can be cajoled Into a forget
fulness of their long fight nnd their great victory; If they can be tempted
by clamor to relax their Interest and their loyalty to their own concerns,
tho reaction Is sure nnd swift to apathy and to slavery. It took a long
time to| arouse the people in this matter. Ten years—twelve years of
agitation was consumed In the vital awakonlng. It was no demagogic
agitation. The facts were crystal clear that Inspired action. Not only In
Georgia, but throughout tho republic there was uncovered the same story
of predatory wealth—tho .tyranny of the tfuits—the arbitrary extortions
of the coal trust, the moat trust, the Ice trust—the Illegal merger of cor
porations, tho graft in the Insurance companies, the railroad domination
and defiance of the people through lobby and legislation—the confession
of railroad presidents themselves thnt they were mistaken and wrong
and unjust—not a more clamor or suspicion but everywhere a proven
demonstrated story of corporate selfishness and popular wrongs.
Finally the people were aroused. They rose In their might, and
through presidents and senators and congresses—through legislatures
and governors—and more than all In the thunder of magnificent majori
ties—the people have set their seal of condemnatloa on these conditions
and sternly demanded correction and reform In the republic and In every
state.
And all this—mark you, all this—Is to be abandoned now, or discred
ited; the reform president, the reform governors and the reform legisla
tures. are called upon by a mere specious clamor, by a mere magnifying
glass held la front of minor circumstances—are called upon to halt tbe
progress of reform, and with the reins In their hands, with the machinery
ot government In their possession, and on the high road to a great con
servative reestablishment—the people are asked to let go, to surrender
the heights so hardly won, and suffer the conditions to swing back where
they were before.
This Is practically the proposlton that Is behind tbe clamor which Is
being raised about tbe governor and the public utilities commission.
Will the people Indorse It?
We think not. If they do, they will drift back Into a subjection be
side which tbe conditions or three years ago were child’s play. The lit
tle finger of tbe re-enthroned corporations will be heavier In power than
the entire loins of the corporation* whose sovereignty we have curtailed.
The people will never havo this fight so well In hand as they have today.
They will not In this generation front such an opportunity for the
establishment of justice and the people as they have juat now.
It may be true that some things too radical have been charged
against the corporations. It may be that they are not guilty of sll the
faults laid at their doors. It may be that some demagogues have ridden
on this great popular wave Into power and preferment.
But no sane man who Is without a selfish Intent in the matter, can
possibly fall to see and to say that the corporations have grown danger
ous through greed, selfishness, the arrogant control ot legislation, and
the arrogant disregard of the people's rights. This much Is acknowl
edged of all men everywhere, and the necessity for their regulation and
restraint la as evident to a free people as the necessity for sleep or bread.
If any sane man risee In this crisis to counsel conservatism and mod
eration, let him be beard. The commission Is fair, the governor Is pru
dent and the legislature Is level-headed. The clamor of sheer radicalism
Is rarely crystallised Into legislation. 'Much that Is radical has been sug
gested, but so far nothing that Is radical has been done by the governor,
the legislature and the commission.
The cry of the conservative Is timely and right to the people In the
saddle and ready to ride.
But the thing that In this great period of reform we protest with all
our hearts and minds Is that Subtle Serpent or Reaction, which, taking
advantage of small circumstances and unusual or unfortunate conditions,
will feed the clamor that calls back lo apathy, cheering the protestant
against the Executive of Reform, psttlng on the back unrepresentative
adventurers, and loudly applauding unknown voices which boast that
they bare "flopped from the governor,” whe carries the mission an*i
method of reform.
This Is the danger against which we warn ifie people. It men wish
to vote against Hoke Smith for any other office, they have a right with
out regard to previous affiliations tc do sc. And there are some who
have a right to condemn them.
But we do not hesltatq to say that the mat. or the aggregation of
men who In thle crisis of the reform' movement set up or encouragf
clamor against the governor of Georgia as governor and executive, are
simply fighting the whole prospect of "reform that has pulsed through
these long years of dauntless agitation to a glorlouB and well-founded
promise of substantial fulfillment.
It will not work. These things rise and fall. The reaction of today
will recede within a few brief tomorrows. The people are still In the
saddle, and the people are still In their senses.
The pendulum swing may go forward and backward, but the great
clock of Reform will continue to mark In days and months the progress
of the people toward the appointed time of their establishment as the
controllers of this government.
Growth and Progress of the New South
The Georgian here record* each day
•ome economic fact In reference to
the. onward progress of the South.
BY
J08EPH B. LIVELY
The accompanying list of new Industries entabllahed In the South during the
week ending heptemner 25 Is compiled from report* made to The Tradesman ami
verified. In the list nre n milllnn-ilollnr coal, laud nnd oil company nnd n million-
dollar laml company In West Virginia: n $500,000 preserving company In Oklahoma,
a $200,000 lumber company ami a $100,000 cotton mill In North (‘nrollnn, a $100,000
n fining company In MlaaourL a $120,000 manufacturing compauy In Kentucky, nnd a
IwOO.OQO lumber anti creosotlug coni ^Arkansas.
Cotter—$5,000 warehouse company,
Springdale—$150.00) vacuum evaporator company.
Texarkana—$.100,000 lumber nnd creosotlng company.
Hot Springs—SjO.OOO timber nnd Innd enmpnny.
MISSOURI.
IIuffnlo—$50,000 mining nnd development company.
Joplin—$50,000 mining ntul milling rtunpany.
Karinas City—$25,0)0 novelty company, $100,000 refining company.
St. Isoula—$10,000 supply company. *
NORTH CAROLINA.
Hillsboro—$100,000 development company,
Lincoln ton—$25,000 roofing company.
Thomnsvllle—$10,000 foundry and machine shops.
Wilmington—$125,000 amusement company.
Rear Creek—$10,000 gin pnd lumber mill.
Leicester—$5,000 telephone company.
Gastonia—$200,000 cotton mill.
Fairmont—$2S.ooo cotton storage company,
Taylorsville—lion,000 cotton mill.
Mooresvlllc—$100,009 cotton holding* company.
GoPisboro—$2io.(X)0 lumber company.
North WlIkesboro—$100,000 lumber company.
Oriental—$23,000 lumber and ginning compsny.
OKLAHOMA.
C handler—Two $5,000 cotton gins.
Oklahoma Cltr—$500,000 preserving company.
UutftPitr—*200,000 development company,
„ . * WEST VIRGINIA.
Huntington—$1,000,000 con!, Innd nnd oil company*
ralnnout—$40,000 metal culverts oocupnny.
Woodbine—$25,000 lumber company.
Charleston—$1,000,000 laud company.
Huntington—$10,000 development company.
THIRSTY DENIZEN OF DELTA CITY
FINDS ATLANTA A METROPOLIS,
BUT VERY DRY OF A SUNDAY
The Harlequin, a sprightly weekly “tippling house" must close at 10
urnal of criticism and comment, cd- o’clock p. m.
Journal of criticism and comment, ed.
lted In New Orleans by Joe Leveque,
who Is shortly to take on dally journal
ism as a side-line, has In Its latest
Issue an Interesting psge devoted to
Atlanta. This Is occupied by random
observations, from some bewildered
denizen of the Delta City who probably
had stopped over night In the Southern
metropolis. The drift of what he has
to say Is probably best Indicated by the
headlines, which follow:
"Oh, Rare Atlanta!
"City of Many Contradictions.
"New Orleans Can Give Them Points
on Holy Joy.
"A Pretty Oood Place for Business,
But Not so Very Warm Apparently."
Here Is what the commentator, who
signs himself "King,” has to say:
Atlanta, the anomaly of tho South!
Cosmopolitan, and yet provincial.
Asserts that Its people are Southern,
but hard to find a man who claims At
lanta as his birthplace.
Its men nnd women bright, progres
sive; the men leaders In finance and
business, and doing well their share In
the civic life of the community; women
dainty, charming, but very shy.
Bustling.
A "hustling town.” and yet the •lac-
trio cars stop at midnight.
During the week, while the sun
shines, Its people are up-to-date, thor
oughly metropolitan, so to speak.
But a Sunday game of baseball Is
tabooed, prohibited by the wise law
which prevents a man who has worked
six days from witnessing,'on the day
he calls his own, an exhibition of the
American game.
Drolleries.
A peculiar combination of Ideas to
prevail In a city known as "the New
York of the South." Is It not?
Do not Imagine that I am seeking to
convey the Impression that Atlanta In
dulges her drolleries because of lack of
contact with the swiftly-moving East
and the breezy West.
Nothing of the sort.
Kesnness.
On tha contrary. It has absorbed
much. If not Its larger portion, of the
keenness and energy of the far-seeing
capitalists of these sections who are
placing their money In the town.
And an equally large amount of credit
for Atlanta’s progress Is due to the ca
pable. ambitious workmen from all
parts of the country who are giving
Atlanta today the best of brain and
brawn they have In them.
Advantages.
Everyone knows, of course, Atlanta's
high position on the commercial map
of the South at the present time.
Of the many big railroads running
Into the city, and the many more which
have large offices and shops here.
Of the Immense Skyscrapers, over
twenty In number, .of which the people
are proud; of the large branch offices
maintained by each or the big Ameri
can Insurance corporations.
Of the constantly Increasing manu
factories located here.
So we can't do any searing to speak
of on those points.
People
But Atlanta Interests me In another
sense—the people.
Hearing so much of the vaunted
Atlanta Spirit,” before I saw the city,
I prepared myself to fall, after the
workaday world was left behind. Into
a seething, restless Coney Island-Uke
atmosphere of fun and frivolity, where
everything healthy and wholesome was
permitted and laughed at.
Pastoral.
But, too late (or I wouldn’t be here
now), I found out I had landed In a
pastoral, sweet-stmpltclty community.
My resignation as a member of the
Owl Club went to Nc ‘Leene by the
next mail.
It seems that It ts a sin there to
drink, ever, moderately, any of the
products of the God-given grap*i and
malt and corn.
Sin.
Therefore, in order to compromise
with the Sin—capital S, please—ever;'
And when a man from Chicago or
Denver or Cincinnati, or any other
R lace, arrives after that mystic hour,
e is not to bo permitted to enjoy a
small bottle of beer.
My tired traveling friend must wait
until 5 o'clock In the morning of the
next day for any refreshment stronger
than coca-cola or a lemon and llthlo.
' Temperance.
Not satisfied with this blue laws
condition .of affairs,, the White Ribbon
Brigade, by Its pious begging, hypno
tlzed the legislature Into passing a pro
hibition taw for the state, of Georgia,
to go Into effect In January forthcom
ing.
Is this 1007, or are we In the days of
the dyspeptic Pilgrim Fathers?
"I don't drink." says the White Rib
bon Brigade, "so you rausn't drink!"
Recreation.
Thousands and thousands of people
In every big city look to Sunday as a
day of rest and recreation.
Same of us find recreation In church
unfortunately, alt of us don't.
A few of tho heretics believe It Is
pretty good religion to take the young
sters to a rattling good ball game, or
even, If Inclination prompts, to a sum
mer show on Sunday night, or a good
play during the winter.
Sabbatarianism.
It doesn't go In rural, nectar and
cream Atlanta.
"1 am not frivolous on the Sabbath,"
says solemn White Ribbon, "so both
of us will stay at home and pray!
And, not having any place to go, you
generally do stay at home—and try to
forget who you are and a few othet
things.
In other ways without end Atlanta
Is Interesting, delightful, amusing, tnd,
from the standpoint of the Owl Club,
profitable to study—but only through
u microscope and at a safe distance.
Contradictions.
All in all. It Is a city, of contradic
tions and puzzling to the uninitiated.
"The New York of the South,” and
yet the Cara stop at midnight!
The subject is too harrowing and
painful, and too personal!
I go forth to drown myself In a quart
of cherry phosphate.
Owl Club, farewell!
THE KING.
ARMY-NAVY ORDERS
—AND—
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS
Army Orders.
Washington, D. C, Sept. 38.—Fol
lowing assignments of chaplains with
rank of lieutenant colonel: Charles M.
Brewer, to sixth field artillery; John
F. Chenowlth to Fourth Infantry; Nell
P. Brannen to Eighth cavalry; Horace
A. l.'houlnard to Fifth infantry.
Captains William 8. Scott, First cav
alry; Daniel B. Devore. Twenty-third
Infantry, nnd Munroe MacFarland,
Eighteenth Infantry, to army war col-
lege.
Captain Charles H. Martin, quarter
master. in addition to other duties, as
sume charge office chief quartermaster,
department of Columbia, during the
absence of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel
R. Jones, deputy quartermaster gen
eral.
Following chances first lieutenants
coast artillery corps ordered: William
W. Ballard, Jr., from fifty-third to fif
tieth company; John A. Berry, from
sixty-third tc fifty-third company;
Franc Lecoq. from fifty-third to forty-
seventh company.
Nav> Orders.
Captain J. E. Pillaburg, detached bu.
reau of navigation, to duty ei member
ot general board, Washington.
Movement- of Vesiels.
ARRIVED—September 36, Rocket, at
Norfolk; Alabama, m navy yard. New
Yorfc; Albany, at Punt?, Arenas, Costu
Rica.
SAILED—September 16, Strlnghant.
from Hyannlsport, Mass, for WUlet's
Point, N. Y.
MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING CO.
CORNER ALABAMA AND BROAD STREETS.
Capital $200,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits $600,000.00
Commercial accounts invited.
4 ryf Interest, compounded twice a year, is
/C paid in our SAYINGS DEPARTMENT
THE BRACEBRIDGE DIAMONDS
A Thrilling Story of Mystery and Adventure
SYNOPSIS.
the IH
(cousins) meet Mme. Vein SlnvInsLv,
beautiful womnn. nt Saratoga. Hhe is m
tucked by n foreigner (Dr. Carl M'jelli'it.
tho Intter donisudlng thnt she surrender to
him "a bit of pnper nnil a stone." Be
cliilmn he has tho missing fragment anil
that "the others were then In the hotel,
rank rescues her ami la given n pnckagi
Ith permit!aon to open It when he think"
te right time has come. A telegram an
ounces the smhlen death of lteglnsld'1
ither. Frank Is made executor of the ce
tnte. Reginald la charged with forgety. niid
calls upon Frank to anvo him from arrest.
A mnld rushes Into tho room nnd tells Reg
inald his wife Is dead and that ho Is charg
ed will) her murder. Frank nnd Reginald
leave the bouse bv a seeret passnge nnd
reaeh the Brneehfldge eonntry home oa
Lang Island. They embark In nn nlrshlp.
Reginnld Is sent to France. Frank learns
thnt the phvslelan who attended Reginald's
wlfo resembles Dr. Mueller. He hires a
farm in Ohio near the plnco where this doc
tor lives. Sylvia Thurston, pretty daughter
of a Judge In Ohio. Is brought Into the story.
Or. Mueller fulls In love with her. lie eta-ms
to know her In-other, n painter, who resides
abroad. Sylvbi. fir. Muotfer and a girl
friend visit “The Hollow," an old house,
said to ho haunted.
Raymond Thurston returns home unex
pectedly nnd Is greeted by his sister dtirlug
the temporary absence of her fiance,
bylvla anil her brother go for n tvnlk
id meet Has!!, who quarrels with Ray
mond.
The following morning Ruth Pritchard Is
found In the woods near the Thurston home,
unconscious. When she recovers conscious*
ness, her mind is nppnrently unhinged with
some horror. Raymond Thurston Is found
of health. Nurso Mason appears on the
scene, and It develops thnt she and Dr*
Mueller nre greater friends than appears eg
the Bug*
Mur
York.
Rose Thurston ndmlta she told a falsehood
to shield ltaslt from suspicion of having
I murdered Raymond.
Mueller, fearing to meet Ethel Creswell,
who Is stopping with hta wife, returns
home unexpectedly end approaches the
house unobserved In order to ascertain If
"the coast la clear." lie nnd Miss Cros
well meet and she brands him as "Dr,
Newell, of Blnek Horse Inn poisoning
fame."
Basil Thurston returns home and de
mands to sec ftylrla, Mueller tells his wife
slto must not see her cousin. Ruth Pritch
ard returns to consciousness.
She accuses Mueller nt the murder of Ray
mond. Ho does Basil, who steps Into the
room In time to hear the girl's words.
Mueller esespes during the excitement. Syl
via la convinced of his guilt. Frank Brace-
brldge arrives with detectives In senrrh of
iMueller. Nurse Mason nnd Mueller steal
Frank's airship anil escape, carrying with
them ltrgtnnld nrncebrtrtge'a child. Reginald
retnrna to New York from France, nnd be
gins squandering the money with which bis
cousin supplies him.
outward seeming he had been some
what Impressed by the explanation—"I
am afraid that, under the circum
stances, there la no other alternative.
We are bound to place the matter In
the hands of the police. The body must
go to the morgue nnd a coroner's In
quest will follow. Meanw hile, my duty
la to give you Into custody at once.
You quite understand that, sir?”
"Oh, quite." Frank replied; “you
could not act otherwlae,” he added,
turning to the policeman.
"Yes, sir."
Then there rapidly followed another
event In the aeries that had come tu
multuously Into the life of Frank
Bracebrldge since the night he had first
gazed on the face of Vera Slavlnsky.
His appeal to the policeman was ac
quiesced In, and Instead of the patrol
wagon ride given tho ordinary prison
er he was walked to the dingy stutlon
house.
Under Fire.
Into the office of Inspector Lavln he
was taken directly, and for a half hour
answered as beat he could a crossfire
of rapid questions hurled at hint by the
little police Inspector,
Frank related aa concisely aa possi
ble his curloua adventure In the train,
and suggested that Immediate Inquiries
bo Instituted to verify his atatcmeni
that a telegram had been delivered In
the Buffalo station - to the Baroness
Slavlnsky, nnd to ascertain further If
the address of the New York Hotel,
given by her, was correct.
Pending the Investigation of the In
quiries, he asked that he be released
on ball, giving the financial rating of
himself and several friends as Indlcnt-
g his Integrity and Innocence.
The request wss courteously but
firmly refused by Inspectot Lavln, who
asserted that no Injury could be done
him by a few days' detention.
Four hour* later Frank Bracebrldge
os quietly hurried to the county Jail
as the safest place for the keeping of a
man suspected of ono of the most hein
ous crimes that had astounded Cleve
land during the decade. And
sat alone In his cell he realized fully
for the first time the apparently mean
ingless Inquiries of -Inspector Lavln
that had led him to tell how, in tho
event of Reginald's death, he would be
come the sole legatee of his uncle’s
fortune.
And as a lawyer h* understood fully
that, should no corroboration of his
explanatory statements be forthcoming,
It would occur strongly to the popular
mind as being the strongest possible
motive for his connivance, at least. In
the doing to death of his hapless young
relative.
Then the thought came to him, had
he really been mistaken In his estimate
of tho baroness? Was she, after all. n
cunning, hearties* adventuress, n fit
companion and helpmate of Cart Muel
ler in Ids- devilish schemes, an acces
sory In his crimes and perhaps even
more than an accessory?
But the thought was abhorrent to
the young lawyer, and in the reaction
came a mental resume of the events
that had led up to his present position,
After all the meeting had been quite
an accidental one. For preference lie
would have sought a smoking ear If
time had been given him, and In that
event some other unfortunate who pad
taken the parlor car sent might have
been In his present plight. But his fore
bodings proved unnecessary.
Ten hours after the jail doors hnd
closed on him the commander of the
police district shook hand* with him ns
he was told he was released on ball
and that Ida full release probably was a
matter of a few days.
A woman, answering In every detal!
the description given by Frank, wns
learned to have received a telegram
upon the arrival of the express train In
Buffalo.
The same woman had personally
For several weeks she had been staving
with a maid In the New York hotel un
der the name of Mme. Slavlnsky A
porter at the hotel and a cabman who
drove her to the station had given a
perfectly accurate description of the
trunk. No man. at any time that dav
had been seen with her. '
Under these circumstances Justice
Caverty had consented to accept ball In
the sum of f10.000 to secure Frank’s
appearance In court ten days later
The most extraordinary feature In
the affair, however, was that no trace
of tho woman could bo found. She hed
not returned to the hotel, nor. Indeed
could anyone at the station remember
her returning to New York. She had
quitted the station Immediately after
the departure of the train, and to all
Intents nnd purposes had there and
then vanished Into apace.
Tills would havo been disquieting
enough but for tho cardinal fact that
Frank was. In a sense, once more a
free man. Not a shred of evidence had
been adduced against him or to con
nect him with the crime, nnd he felt It
a moral certainty that on his next np-
praranre In court he would be honor
ably discharged.
Before thnt came about, however.
Frank Bracebrldge was to pass through
a further ordeal. His real troubles
were only In their beginning.
CHAPTER LXXVIl,
The Ordesl,
The ordeal, which to Frank proved
more trying than the Indirect accusa
tion of being hta cousin's murderer, was
the hearing of the coroner's Inquest on
the afternoon during which he was re
leased from the county Jail.
Called upon as the first witness to
Identify the body of the murdered man.
the young lawyer waa brought close to
collapse. It was true he was con
science-whole. There was nothing tan.
glble with which to reproach himself,
yet as he looked down upon the face,
the face of the dead lad cut ruthlessly
off In tho very springtime of life—
Frank wondered if he had been true to
his stewardship.
Had his judgment, after all, been at
fault? For a few painful moments he
stood pondering with bowed head. The
white face of the dead boy disturbed his
mental balance and he was glad tn quit
the grewaome morgue. That done, he
quickly recovered himself.
A few minutes later he waa called
before the coroner and Jury to give hla
evidence.
Frank hastened over hla experiences
In the train, but he could see that both
the coroner and tho Jury were Intense
ly Interested In thnt part of the narra-.
live. ,
"This," Frank said In conclusion, "la
a plain and unvarnished statement of
the facts In th« case, as known to me.
I have no theories upon the subject be
yond what I have expressed, and I sin-
cerely trust that tho police will be able
to clear up what to mo Is In certain
reapecta a very profound myitery."
At this point ono of the Jurymen
asked who, In a pecuniary sense, would
profit by his cousin's death, and Frank
was obliged to confess that he wu the
only Individual, whereat he saw a gen
eral lifting of eyebrows In the Jury
box, and even tho coroner said: "In
deed!"
As Frank stepped from the wltnese
box a man well known to him took his
S lace. With a feeling of relief Frank
racebrldge recognized Detective
"Mike" Loftus, ono of the cleverest
sleuths who-had ever worked on the
multitudinous mysteries that confront
the police of New York.
All through the startling series of
episodes that had punctuated the young
attorney’s career within the last year
the figure of Detective Loftus hnd
seemed to confront him at every turn.
First he had known him as an Im
placable and persistent seeker for his
cousin. Reginald, who hod met the
shrewdness of the young attorney with
the skill and forethought that denote
the natural detective nnd who had been
baffled only by the flight of Reginald
and himself In the airship.
Again Loftus had proved an unfal
tering friend In tho pursuit of Carl
Mueller, after Reginald’s Innocence had
been proved. They hod parted devot
ed friends, Frank being as deeply Im
pressed with the detective’s unswerv
ing honesty ns Loftus had been by the
sincerity of Bracebrldge.
Frank hnd not known that Loftus
was working on his latest development
of the eensntlonal episodes of his ca
reer.
He nodded n friendly greeting to the
detective, which was returned In kind
as Loftus began h.le testimony.
The detective corroborated the evi
dence from the start, nnd In fi striking
manner. .
"I happened to be In Cleveland work
ing on tho Thurston cose when the
story came out that a body had been
found In n trunk at tho depot." hr said,
"and I went at once to the morgue.
nnd In tlie presence of attendants and
Detective Bltllnger made a careful ex
amination of tile dead man’s clothes.
"Were there signs of a struggle-"
were they torn or disarranged In any
way?" queried Coroner Hoffman.
“Not at all," replied Loftus. "Every,
thing about him wss spick and span.
There was not a sign of violence on
clothes or body. He might have Ju-’j
got up from a dinner table and curled
himself up In the trunk for p sleep. But
the curious thing about It was the ab
solute lack of marks of Identification
not a scrap of paper even. His pockets
were as empty as the palms or
hands. He wore no Jewelry and ht»
linen was unmarked. Every bit ot
clothing on the body was of foreign
make.” „
Here the coroner turned to brans
and desired to know If Ills cousin
been abroad. lie wns told that he hao
been, but recently returned from Far' •
which explained some of the pscutlnri-1
of attire.
Loftus went on: , ....
•'Our investigations have proved t»“ l
Mr. Bracebrldge told the truth In rcr
crenre to the receipt of the telegijn
by the woman called Mme. Slavin'*. •
It was delivered on the platform to'
woman who tallied In every wny
the description given by Mr. Brs"
bridge. ‘V ...
Continued in Monday's Georoian*