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TITE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. !* A V WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5. RWL THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES. Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Published Every Afternoon. (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At US West A lobs ton St, Atlanta. Ga. Subscription Rates: • ’ne Tear ..RM isis Month >-M Three Months 1.^5 One Month •» Hr Carrier. Ter Week w Telephones connecting nil depart* men (a Long dfsfancs terminate. t*mtlh A Thompson. adT.rtlilnrr.p- It you bare no7 trouhlo celling THE It promptly re Hell mala; Atlanta 1131. Snbarrlliera d.ilrlng their Georgian dlaronilnnrd utttt nntlfy this oltlre on the date of expiration; otherwise. It will be continued at the regular aul>- srrtptloo rate* until police to slop la reeelred. to ordering a change of address, please fire the old aa well aa Ibe new address. It Is desirable that all rommunlra- rions Intoeded for pnldlcntlon In TUB GEORGIAN AND NEWS be limited to tot wordi In length. It l> Imperatlrs that they tie signed, as an ertdencn of good faith. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned unless stamps ire asnt for tbe purpose. TUB GEORGIAN AND NEWS prints DO unclean or objeetlousble pdrertla- lug. Neither does It print whisky or any liquor nds. OUR TLATFORMt TUB GEORGIAN A Nil NEWS stands for Atlanta’s own. lag Its own gas and electric light plants, as It unw owns Its water works. Other cities do tbl> and got gas os tow as C9 cents, wltb a prodt 10 tbs city, Thla sbo-dd be dope at once. TUB GEORGIAN AND NEWS liellerea that If afreet railways can be operated successfully by European cities, as they ore. there Is no good why they can not lie T». But w before we arc ready for so big ’ ’ Ting! Stir So anxloua are the Georgians to come to Texas they no longer nop to ask the railroads for re duced rates.—Houston Poet. Whnt n sorrowful thing It Is to Georgia to see her sons coming back from Texas by the foot rail. The Atlanta Georgian has an editorial on "Walt." Editor Graves ought to know that time, tide and political opportunities wait for no man—not even a newspaper man.—Alpharetta Freo Press. Maybe time and tide may he Impa tient, esteemed contemporary, but you may wager your circulation list that the politician will "wait" on the peo ple. He Is "obleeged to." And did we apeak of The Albany "Herald” as The "Newsf" Well If we did it must have been because In our childhood days the old "Albany News" under Carey W. Stiles was the towering paper of the southwest, and The "Herald" under Colonel Mc Intosh Is so gallantly occupylpg the aume position that the confusion of names was natural. This is not an apology but an explanation. Now It comes that John Tem ple Graves Is afraid that a panic is going to swoop down upon us. Too had! We thought him the last mortal In the world to "flop" 10 the pessimists.—Greenwood Journal. You are a good editor but a bad reader, Colonel Williams. No note of business pessimism has Jangled among tbe cheerful harmonies of this paper of sunshine. We have protest ed every pessimistic wall from Rocke feller down. Editor Max Hamberger, of The Mobile Herald, Is busy writing Flitters to state papers explaining ’ that a certain widely copied art!- clo which appeared in The Herald recently advocating temperance and depicting the evils of the liq uor trafllc should have been cred ited to The Atlanta Georgian.— Birmingham News. This leaves us In a maze of some uncertainty. Was Max ashamed of the article or was he too honest to appropriate It? An explanation Is in order. Colonel Pendleton. In response to a letter of Inquiry from one of the Northern papers asking Roosevelt's strength In this sec tion, says "the Populists and John Temple Graves am for him." Why this exclusion?—Sparta lati nise!! to. The venerable Colonel has but re cently conceded that the Populists hare educated our modern Democracy and perhaps this last comment Is a prophecy of a continuing education. The Colonel Is such a dear old prophet. Colonel Graves has now nomi nated Major Hemphill of The Charleston Xtwa and Courier for president. This reduces the - list of the colonel’s unnomlnated to Mike Connolly. John Wesley Gaines. Grover Cleveland and us, with the convention nine months away.—Houston Post. The complaining note In the con cluding line of this comment falls to touch ns. • Colonel Hemphill has earned his nomination by tils mod esty. Upon (he first symptom of re- 1 a-nance ou the part of Its paragraph- er we will nominate The Poat—for something. THE COTTON FLEECE AND UNIVERSAL PEACE. With the large business and commercial suggestions which wrap j around the great International conventions now' holding Atlanta's hospi tality, there loom An larger reflection which concerns better things than coramerco or money. When the International Press Parliament met at St. Louis during the World's Fair, the last day of the session was glvon over to a general Interchange of good feeling and the expressions of whatever sentiment may have been stirred up by the assembly and by the great environment In which It was held. Twenty-aeven nations were represented In that parliament and each representative let out his heart and the heart of his country to his fel lows on that day. , And every land, speaking through Its representative, breathed the as- ' sentiment. Not a man who mounted the platform from the first to the last of the great program which consumed the entire morning failed to lift his voice toward the aspiration of universal peace. Peace spoke from the English editors who were there and peace from the strong men who represented the German race. Peace spoke from France, peace from Spain and reciprocal peace from America which had Just finished with Spain a declnlve war. The Russian and the Jap following' fast upon each other and even In the throes of that great war of modem times, voiced In their utterances the dream and aspiration for the time when the battle flags would be furled between tKh countries and’ tbe angel of peace would hover once more above the carnage of war. No' meeting so eventful, no spirit so significant Illustrated the great St. Louis Fair of 1904. And the same suggestion falls like a benediction upon the close of this great commercial congress In Atlanta.' Here, too, we have 53 for eign citizens mingling with the Americans of our present day. With our own country re-unlted In sentiment, In sympathy and In fact, we present to the nations a united front and a harmonious republic. The Hague tribunal recently In session has pleaded once more to the world for universal peace. And now while England and Germany and Russia, and Austria and Portugal and the other countries are resting In hospitable welcome under the shadow of our Star Spangled Danner, it should offer a new and happy suggestion to cement that spirit of peace which Is the hope and the promise of the world. And we feel sure that this Is the spirit In which the convention comes and the spirit In which the convention will go away. The Emblem that brings them together Is thd snow white staple of the South, and as Its fleeces unloose to the winds of the world they carry In their color and In their softness the fit suggestion of universal peace. What better message can America send back from Ita sunny, southern cotton fields to the commercial nations of the world, that In the peaceful spirit of development and trade around the whlto emblems of Its cotton fields there lives here that same feeling whose touch always brings ap plause from the hearts and from the bands of men? And from the warm and Impassioned 8outh as from the colder but equally loyal North, there goes back to all the lands whose children are gathered here today, that we too, In our hopes and aspirations look for ward with the eye q( prophecy and of hopo to that great and noble day of which the English Laureate sang: “When the war drum throbs no longer, And all battle flags are furled, In the parliament of man, The federations of the world." THE PERIL OF REACTION. Mr. Watson strikes a note in his last Jeffersonian which sounds very much akin to a recent editorial In The Georgian. Mr. Watson sees, as we do, a very serious danger In any Impulsive reaction from the spirit of gennlne economic reform which has moved our modern and definite Democracy. To our eyes the menaco appeared against the whole spirit of tbe people's demands In tbe, backward drift to apathy and commercial slavery. Mr. Watson In his editorial points tbe serious threat to tbe Integrity and effectiveness tof the Democratic organization. His lino of thought Is Interesting. Hear him: "Reform within the dear old Party" Is on trial In Georgia— on trial for Its life. Take care what you do, Mtssrs. City Editors of Democratic dallies! ' You are playing with Are, when you tell the country people that they must wait patiently another generation, or eo, for \ those Reforms 7 which, last summer, were scheduled for arrival In June, 1907. Now, you toll us to be patient: "Rome wasn't built In a day," etc. Why, oh why! didn’t you pipe- that tune to \ the Country-folks last summer? Why didn't you remind us that It required six hundred years, or such n matter, to build Imperial Rome? Why didn't you then say, "Let well enough alone?" That's what the Old Oang said, last year. Pray don't pur loin the Old Gang's ammunition chest. . If there Is nothing for the Legislattire to do now, there was nothing to complain of a year ago. That's the casq, In a nutshell. Do you ask, "What Is It that anybody wants done?" The 'Jeffersonian respectfully refers you to your editorials of last year. LISTEN! • . When you make It possible for men to smile scornfully as they refer to the unredeemed pledges made last summer, you give a black eye, a fatal stab, to the policy of "get your reforms inside tbe Democratic party." . ■, If you don’t quit this astonishing talk about “letting well enough alone," and of “Rome wasn't built In a day,” you will make It utterly Impossible for Bryan, or any other Democrat, to ever be president. Mark what we tell you. Gentlemen. You are driving nails Into the coffin of “Get-your-Reforms- Inslde-tho-Democratic-Party." Mr. Watson Is right. The cry of the "organized Democrat" to every honest protestant for thirty years has been “Work your reforms Inside the party.” If the trial Is made and the fiasco results, subsequent re forms will be Inevitably worked outside "the party,” TYRUS COBB OF GEORGIA. In this age of wonders when the Empire State Is sorting out and ex ploiting Its extraordinary productions. It la utterly impossible to forget the recent rise to glory of Tyrus Cobb of tho Detroit team. The critics declare that Ty Cobb Is tho one man who carried the now famous Detroit bsscbsll team to victory. He Is recognized without ex ception as the best base runner In either league and Is regarded by ex perts the best base runner tlje game ever saw. Ho has led the American League In batting and Is regarded the all- around most promising young baseball player In America. . And he Is a Georgia boy. pure and simple—with his thews and sinews, with his alert mind, with his eagle eye and with his dauntless energy—all the products of the red old bills of Georgia. With the sin gle exception of Hobby Walthour, Ty Cobb Is the most famous young fellow engaged In the athletic sports of America, and at the present mo ment Is sharing the limelight of expectation and of repute with Geor gia's greatest bicycle rider In the world. Moreover, Detroit Is looking to this youthful light-haired Georgia boy who has not yet cast a vote, as the strongest sod .moat substantial reliance for cspturlng the baseball pennant of the world. The Georgian, In the full spirit of an age In which wonderful bodies vie with wonderful brains, salutes this distinguished and promising young cltlsen of the state. THESE FOREIGNERS SPEAK OUR TONGUE. There are fifty-three foreigner!! attending the Spinners’ Convention In Atlanta. Every Individual man of them speaks the English language fluently. It It doubtful If fifty-three representatives of foreign countries as sembled In convention In any other country of tbe world would be able to speak the language of that land so well. x This accomplishment Is a tribute to the virile force of onr American Institutions and to the prestige and repute which our great country bears among the nations of the world. Alt the people of all- the lands look to America and tbe man who contemplates travel or commerce or Invention or Industry or war, finds it necessary to study our language, which la the language of onr mother country, In order to be a gentleman of the world. Major Church Howe, the new consul to Manchester, who has been so long In the consular service In Italy, tells The Georgian that the Eng lish language Is s.token almost generally among the Italian people. He explains this fact by the equally interesting statement that CO per cent of the Italians who come to America go back to Italy. That as soon as an Italian can earn a thousand dollars In this country, he can go back to Italy and Im? rich upon the Investment of that sum. where living is so easy and the commodities of life so cheap. In going back to Italy It Is also stated as a fact that the Italian immigrant does not go back to his native language, but resolutely prefers our own, and for that reason our American tongue Is current in large measure among the middle classes as well as the nobility of the kingdom of Italy. We aro quite sure that when this great convention return^ Us rep resentatives to their several homes there will be carried an additional Impetus to the respect and admiration felt for the American republic throughout the world. IS AN EXTRA SESSION “FOOLISH?" Colonel Thomas E. Watson does not agree with his ally of The Jour nal that It would be a foolish thing for the governor to call an extra ses sion of the legislature. Says the Thomson statesman: Why so? The Atlanta Journal can not deny that, on the whole, the work done at the regular session was an extreme disappoint ment to the reform element, which united to make Hoke Smith governor. The Jeffersonian made due allowance for the difficul ties under which the new administration labored, and gave due credit to Governor Smith for his strenuous energy In wresting from an adverse legislature the little that was done In tbe way of reform. The Candler-Overstreet hill Is a good law, If propefly en forced, but It Is nothing, otherwise. We did not favor the In crease In the number of commissioners, nor do we now think that the Increase was either nocessary or wise. In that respect, wo thought the senate was right and the administration wrong. But, after all. that was a detail; anil while'the two additional commissioners will cost the state, each decade, a big pile of money which could be spent to better purpose, we were not dis posed to harp on the subject. But when The Atlanta Journal objects to the extra session on the score of the expense, and characterizes It as "foolish," we cannot help smiling at Its attitude. Atlanta politicians don’t seem to mind the expense when it comes to creating more well- paid offices; but when those who think that the pledges made to tho people ought to be kept In good faith, even If we have to re-assemble the legislature, why, the Atlanta politicians sudden ly become as parsimonious as though they themselves were ex pecting to pay the expenses. What an absurd subterfuge It Is, to say that we must not give the people what wo promised them, because It will cost too much! Would wc have dared to talk that way last summer? Which {Imply Illustrates that men even In the same cause can not always agree and that the only honest thing Is for each man to gay what he thinks- 1 Growth and Progress of the New South The Georgian here records eneb day ftotno economic fact In reference to tbe onward progress of tbe South. 1 BY JOSEPH B. LIVELY Tho Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index aaya In Ita Issue for this week: "The coming to j^ie South from eleven countries of the Old World and from »w Kttglnnd of spin iters and capitalist*, who are attending a cotton conference Jn Atlnntn and Who will make a tour oMhe cotton belt, Illustrates an Inevitable and uninterrupted tendency. Mills for spinning cotton hare l»een coming and will come In Increasing numbers to the South to find their proper and logical places In the midst of cotton fields. In growing volume, dollars follow dollars Into this sec. tlon, attracted by tho certainty of aubftantJnl profit from tbe development of re. sources which In their variety and Holmes* arc unsurpassed. In Georgia and Al- a bn urn this development Is little short of wonderful. Week after week new Indus- trlsl plants are established, municipal Improvements projected and upbuilding con tinues steadily. Tills week The Index reports the forrantlon of a company, com posed of Georgia and New England capitalists, with cnpltal stock of 1300,000, to build and operate an fnterurhau electric railway 60 mites in length. Another com- pany organised by the same people will btilld ami operate a gas plant, creosotlng plant and a plant for the distillation of rosin and turpentine. A company organ- laed In nn Alalwmn nty during the week will establish an electric lighting and power plant, developing n water power, lmlld and operate nn electric railway, use electricity In mining ojjeratlon* n«d later will build nn Ice factory. The defi nite projection of these enterprise* Illustrates what la being doue every week In Georgia and Alabama. "Among other Industrial plants reported by The Index this week are cotton factory, gvlncnuga. Ala.; canning factory, AlbertvIUo^ Aljbj Jet-factorIc». ( A 11 mny, oil rime factory. Hnntavllle. Ain. There la great activity In construction lines. A M0.- port club hduse, Brunswick. Gn.; f10.000 business building. Andalusia, Ala., and $10.. 0M residence, Atlanta. Un., are Illustrative of eonstructjtin of that character plan ned. Others are churches. Corrtele, Go., and (Vdrtrtown. Gs,; street and sidewalk paving, Newnnn, Gn.. and Columbus. Gn.; school buildings, Dublin, Ga., and Mon roeville. Ala.: railway terminals, Bessemer, Ala.: apartment .boose and $13,000 warehouse. Birmingham, Ain. Two cltlta are to hold elections upon the liana nee of Improvement bonds. Among the contract awards noted are ateel bridge, Mon roe county, Georgia; $13,000 library, Marion, Ala.; $38,000 courthouse. Harris coun tv. Georgia, and $740,000 lock construction work on the Tom big bee river. In Ain- laiina. A land company has lH*cn organised at Tlfton, Gn.. to develop town sites. Illustrative of Increasing land values, two building lots In s smith Gfprgln town, which were bought ulne years ago for $50. were sold .last week for $4,600.’ A PLEA FOP 7HE TEACHERS To the Editor of The Oeorglan: Ever nines my earliest recollections I have been Interacted In. the public echOoU of Atlanta—not only because In them did I receive my education, but because my father waa one of the founder* of the system, and until his death a member of the board of edu cation. It la, therefore, but natural that I take more than ordinary Interest In an Institution which hns meant so much to me. and ftel that I have a right to pen my thoughts In behalf of the teachers who are being so unjustly treated. In Insisting upon the frequent normal classes with longer hours than ever before, the board of education and superintendent seem to forget that the teachers are not mere machines and that their power of endurance can not last forever. Their rlghteoue Indigna tion hns been aroused. If Incompetent teachers have been elected, 'tie the fault of those In author ity. Something Is radically wrong somewhere. It Is a gross Indignity to subject teachers to the humiliation of being treated aa children, when many have given the best years of their Urea to thla work. There was a time when young Atlanta received Instruction from teachers who were not equipped with college education, and still we can point with pride to-the result of their teachings. In my own clase of twenty- three who were graduated eleven have been teachers at some time or other. At present five hold responsible posi tions—Mrs. A. T. Wise, assistant prin cipal of the Girls' High School; Miss Anne Wallace, librarian of Carnegie Library; Miss Hill, associate teacher of Girls* High School; Mias Long, as sistant principal of Edgewood Avenue School, end Mr*. Elisabeth Fry Page, a noted newspaper writer. All are wor thy tributes to the faithful teachers who were elected to their positions be cause of merit and not for political In fluence. At present good teachers are scarce and In demand, and I have It from good authority that many are pre paring themselves for more remunera tive and less grinding positions. When one considers the patient, con scientious work the great majority of our teachers give In return for ex tremely poor salaries, how can men of such Intelligence as the members of our board of education Justify their consciences by demanding more of these teachers? C. M. P, ELLA WHEELER WILCOX IS RIGHT THIS TIME, To the Editor of The Georgian: Iq your l.aue of October 7 was an aril ■ te from the facile and fluent pen of tbe al-»re able tllapenaer of the King's Eng lish. eoneernlng Ibe matter pf wearing of monrnlns. hi that article opposition wn, taken to the demand of fa.blonf that mourning should lie adopt,-din dress by tela tires of deeeaied people when death cams to ,neh people aa a blessing more than a calomlly—«ueb a, were Iniane or Imbecile or otherwise hopeless sufferers. I wish to cordially Indorse the sentiment expressed and to s,ld thereto. In a Christian Isnd and amon Christian people, where s fsltbfnl follower of Jeans dies, and Is gone, os Christiana ln)l*ve, to the eelesttni home of the good, the event should not lie rnmmemorated by blaek caskets, black funeral ears, black horses and blaek vestments, but rather all para phernalia of sorrow should be set aside and a cheerful east he given tbe occasion. drape I r of ci around It. Long faces and long should not - been lowered to Its earthy reeling place. I can see one occasion for mourning and somber funerals, and that Is the occasion of tbe death of a person who Is not a Christian—one whose soul Is doomed f» tbe agony of lost souls. When such a person dies, then It wotdd he proper to mourn, end have a mournful funeral, for aneh aa rrrnt Is the saddeet of all In human history, and there ta no crepe of dark enough shade nor eeakrt of so somhrr bu ss to properly memorialize an event so ca \Y. O. HITLER. ARMMAVY ORDERS —AND— MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS Army Orders. Washington, Oct. Lieutenant-Colonel William I*. Evans. Eleventh Infantry, from Fort Slocum to his regiment In Cuba. Lieutenant-Colonel Ell I). Hoyle, Sixth Field artillery, to command Fort Slocum. First Lieutenant George W. Wlnterburn, Ninth cavalry, front general hospllaj, I'r*. sldlo of San Frnnelseo, to proper station. Captain Guy V. Henry, Twelfth cavalry, from Washington, to monnted service school at Fort Riley. Major Iloel 8. Bishop, FUlh cavalry; Cap tains J Haranl .Schlndet. Math Infantry: Henry I). Todd, Jr., roost artillery corns; William J. Snow, Sixth Held artillery: tiro. T. I'ntterson. roast artillery corps, and F. II. McCoy, Third cavalry, aldra de camp to army war college, November 1. CnpUIn Alfred B. Putnam, corps of en- S users. from First battalion of engineers > Chattanooga. Navy Orders. Commander W. 1. Chamber!, te bureau of ordnance. Lieutenant p. F. Boyd, detached Colo- redo, home, wall orders. Movement of Veeiele. Arrived—ttciober 4: Rocket at Norfolk. October 8: Ajax at Bradford, R. I.; Ten- ueeaee at Hampton Rootle. October S: Ohio tt Touipklnscllle: Prairie at Newport; Hop- klti. Whlpple \\ onion, Lawrence, Stewart and Halt at Norfolk. Kall.il—October I: Maine, from Cepe Cod Day for Lrogue lalnmtt Kentucky,, from Cape Cod liny for Norfolk: Mayitnre? from Cape Coil Bay for Washington: Ohio, from Cnne Cod Bay for navy yanl. New lock; Marietta, from Newport for navy a re. New York; I'rnlrie. from Boston for wport; Nero, from Bradford for PhUa- drlnfila: October g. Missouri, from cape Cod Bay for Boston; Kesrsarge, from Cape Cod Bey for League lelend. ** The Bracebridge . .. Diamonds.. . A ‘"Shrilling Story of Mystery and Adventure. SYNOPSIS. Frank (the berm and Reginald Itrarebrldgc (constn.) meet Mme. Vera Skivlnsky, a beautiful woman, at Saratoga. She fa at tacked by a foreigner (Dr. Carl MUfjieri, (!('■ hitler demanding that she fmrren’ him "n bit of paper and a stone.' clnlms ba baa the missing fragment and me. A telegram nn- death of Beglnnld’s father. Frank Is made executor of tbe es tate. Reginald Is charged with forgdty. and rails upon Frank to save him from arrest. A maid rushes Into the room and tells Reg inald bis wife Is dead and that be Is charg ed with her murder. Frank and Reginald leave the house hv a secret passage and reach the Bracebridge country borne on Long Island. Tbev embark in an ntrshlp. Reginald la sent to France. Frank learn* that tbe physician who attended Reginalds wife resemldes Dc. Mueller, wile biros n farm In Ohio near the piece where this doc* tor llres. Sylvia Thurston, pretty daughter friend visit "The e*M to be haunted. Raymond Thurston returns home unex pectedly and Is greeted by h!s sister during Ibe temporary absence of her flunce. Sylvia and her brother go for a walk and meet Bnall, who quarrels w n,'ll.1. Tbe following morning Rnfh Pritchard Is found In the woods near the Thurston home, unconscious. When sho recovers conscious ness, her mind Is npparentlv unhinged with some botvr~ ” ’ *—* In the stq .-. ... Sylvia suspects Basil of the murder of her brother. Sylvia prepares to visit Florida In search of health. Nurse Mason appears on the scene, nnd It develops that she and Pc. Mueller nre greater friends than appears on York. Bose Thurston admits the fold a falsehood to shield Basil from suspicion of having murdered Raymond. Mueller, fearing’ to meet Ethel Creswell. who Is Slopping with bis wife, returns home unexpectedly nnd approaches the house unobserved in order fo uncertain If "the coast Is clear." Ho nnd Miss Ores- well meet nnd she brands him «« “Dr. Newell, of Black Horso Inn poisoning feme." ard returns to consciousness. Ruth rritch- Mueller escapes during the excitement, rials convinced of his guilt. Frank Ilrnco. bridge arrives with detectives In senreb of Mueller. Nurse Mason nnd Mueller steal Frank’s airship and esenpe. carrying with them Reginald Rracebrldgws child. Reginald returns to New York from France, nnd be gins squandering the money with which his cousin supplies Dim. "I am afraid you will not term It llffht," said he. "However, It will be for you to judge”—and he rang the bell araln. Within a few minutes a doorman put In an appearance, and the manager explained that he was sta tioned at another entrance to the hotel, nnd knew his cousin very well, and further suggested that, to simplify mat ter*, FTank should at once show him Reginald’s photograph. He did so, and the result was quite extraordinary. The man's smile as he glanced at It stretched very nearly from ear to ear. Oh. yes. he knew the young man well enough, but. It was equally plain that, aa yet, he knew nothing of the hideous business now under Investigation. He Imd seen the young man half a dozen limes a day for several- weeks, but not since the baroness left the hotel, nnd he grinned again. This waa all trivial epougn, but when Frank asked him when he had last seen Reginald hut reply was Indeed a "staggerer.” "Why," said he, after barely a sec- olid'a reflection—“why, It was the night before the baroness went away—about halt-past 11 or perhaps a little later. He suddenly came rushing through tho corridor, slipped a dollar Into my hand without saying a word, and I saw him hall a cab at the corner of the boule vard and drive av/ay. I have never seen him since, sir.” Was he In evening dress?” Frank then asked. "No, air. In a business suit.” "Thanks. That will do." When the man had left the room Frank fixed hla eyes upon the manager. He evidently saw they wove full of perplexity, for he merely shrugged hla shoulders and said; • 'Well, there you are! What do you make of It?” "Nothing.” Frank said, aa he arose and reached for bis hat. "I am a« much In the dark aa ever." So am I," eald the manager, rising In turn. Frank thanked him heartily lor hla courtesy, and a few minutes later found himself In a state of abso lute bewilderment on the streets again. He was about to take a seat In a cafe when a cab drove up and a gentleman and lady alighted. Al the driver waa gathering up the reins to drive away Frank auddsnly eapled upon the panel the number 8410. He shouted at once to the man, and the next Instant was an oceupant of that cab, chaIpter XCI. New Clews. Straight ahead to Central Park." he aald, wishing to gain time for "further reflection. With that the driver cracked hi* whip, and away they sped, until at last Frank leaned formard. "Drive me," he said, "to some quiet cafe you may chance to know about here. I want to have a private chat with you.” ,, He at once Blackened speed, faced around and gave the occupant one all comprehensive glance up and down and then, seemingly satisfied with his In spection, said: "Good,” and Immediately turning down a side street, he shortly pulled upVit a dingy little establishment and descended from hie seat. Frank Jump, ed out at the same moment. “Thla place Is all right." said he. en tering through the open doors. "I know the owner," and nodding pleas antly to that personage, who stood be hind the bar, he led Frank to a table In a corner, well out of earshot of the other customer*. 'To begin with, what will you drink?" Frank naked, beckoning to a shabby little waiter who stood at the bar. "Seltxer," eald he. Frank ordered a highball and when these had been served he aald: ’And now to business. About half- past 10 last evening you picked up a fare Just outside the station and drove in this direction. He was a man with a beard, and a foreigner.” The cabman looked steadily at him for a moment across the table, and then aald: '•What of Itr "To begin with, 1 should like to know the name of the man. Could you tell me?" •And If t could r "It would be to your pecuniary ad vantage," Frank answered. "ThatV all.” "Very well, but unfortunately I never saw him before In my Ilf*.”-. I “I am sorry for that.". Frank re*! turned. "However, you may still be of I service to me. For instance, you can 4% On Yoor Savings Compounded Twice a Year. Through the facilities afforded by the United States mails, it is safe and practical for people living remote from At- lant to choose this strong bank as their de- positoxy. Write for information on Banking By Mail. MADDOMUCKER BANKING CO. Atlanta, Ga. tell me to what address you drove him." Ho grinned. should Ir 1 could d0 thati but why Frank 'took a bln from hla pocket and pushed It toward Mm. • "That Is my answer. There will bo more to follow If in any way you can assist me In finding out what I want to Know.” "Is It a police matter?" he asked, now keenly alive to the business possiblll- tit* of the interview, . "No. Tho police have nothing to do with It. It Is purely a private concern of my own." .... A Meeting. "Well." aald he. quietly pocketing the bill, "I will tell you all-1 know at pres ent. The gentleman directed me to drive to the Hotel Madrid; Arrived there he bade me wait for a few mo ments and went Inside. "A man who wto evidently waiting for him leaped up from a table as he caught sight of him. They both came outside and seemed excited, the pair of them. They talked In some language I couldn't understand a word of. and then my fare took a lot of papers from his pockets, looked through them once, twice, three times, then began to stamp nnd swear, as I took It, at a terrible rate. Then the other began, and I thought for a moment there was going to be a row. But suddenly my man turned and pointed to the cab. With that they both leaped In and I was told to drive to 549 East Twenty-sixth street." “And you dropped them there?" "Yes. I drove away and thought no more about It." "Would you know the men again?" “Yes, among a thousand. With all their pawing an the sidewalk I couldn't help but notice them. Then, too, I got Interested. It was plain that some pa per was missing from that lot in his pocket (Frank smiled secretly at this), and what I thought was this: He fan cies he has left that paper at home and is taking the other chap to look at It.", "So, that being the ease, tho infer ence In that the first man Is living at No. 549 East Twenty-sixth street?'* "Precisely,” said the cabby, with em. phasls. ‘ * "So that he may occupy a flat there?" "Exactly. That Is my Idea," Frank reflected n moment. Then he said: "Well, In that case, there ought to b* some way of ascertaining his name and possibility of keeping track of his movement*.” The cabman laughed. "It Is very odd. sir," he said, "but my brother-in-law Is Janitor at No. 649." “Good!” Frank exclaimed; "th»n you can be of service to me.” "I am not so euro,” he answered. “The trouble Is we had a row a few months ago and are not now on speak. Ing terms. If I ventured there he would turn me out of the place." "That Is a pity. Is he your sister's husband ?" - "Yee." •Well, what about her? I» she, too. In the quarrel?" "No; oh, no." ‘Well, could you not manege to eee her outside somewhere?" "I waa Just thinking about that," he' answered, and from the cunning look In hie eye Frank could well see what was now uppermost In his mind. He unfolded two <20 bills. These were placed on the table before the cabman. . "Are you prepared to make an honest deal with me?" "Yes," said he, eagerly. "Well, that Is my card," Frank said, producing It. "I am a lawyer, practicing In this city, aa you will perceive, and there Is nothing In'll:!* case to compro mise you In any nlrapo or form. For private reasons of my own I want to learn all 1 possibly can about this man." He nodded vigorously, "I quite understand, sir,” aald he. "Now," Frank added, “I know the number of your cab. but that Is Insuf ficient. Have you any oblectlon to glv. Ing me your name and address?' 1 “Not at all, elr—why should I?” and after a diligent search through his pockets he produced a soiled and crum pled envelone and handed It tb Frank. “There you are,” said he. Upon the envelope Frank read: ^ "John Vail, 47 Beeknum street, New "That Is my old mother's handwrit ing," eald he, "and I tell no lies with that before me.” As he had n rather honest face Into the bargain Frank at once said: "Very weR. I nm prepared at once to hand you this 840. In addition to the 15 I have already given you. 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