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) THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. jflUNDAT, »U\ EMBER 11, 1907. 'iilt ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWSl JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. T. B. GOODWIN, Gen’l Mgr. Published Every Afternoon. (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At West Alabama St., Atlanta, Oa. Subscription Rates! One Year „ M W sis Months f-W Tbr*** Months On* Month By Carrier, IVr Wwk «»»» - 10 Tol^phones connwflmr iH <1 apart ment*. Labi distune tenmoftio. Smith St Thompson, sdrertlsln* rep* resentntires for nil territory outiia* of thorfin. M „ „ Cblcagq Offle* .... Tribune Bnlld Inf. New York office .... Brunswick Bldg. If yon have any trouble getting THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS, telephone the circulation department and nsve It promptly remedied. Telephones: Hell 4W7 main; Atlanta 4401. tlon; otherwlae. it *111 Ik* continued at the regular subscription rates until notice to stop Is received. In ordering n change of nddress, piutf give tTie old as well as the new address. It Is desirable that’ all communica tions Intended for publication In THB GEORGIAN AND NEWS be limited to 100 words in leugth. It la Imperative that they be signed, ns an evidence of good faiih. Rejected manuseripta wilt net l*e returned unless stamps are aent for tha purpose. THE OROIKHAN AMP VRWB prints no unclean *»r nbjaetlonablo advertis ing. Neither does It print whisky or any liquor nds. Ot a PLATFORM: THE GEORGIAN AKD news stands for Atlanta's own ing Its own gas end electric light plants, ns It now owns He water works. Other ritles do this and get gas as low as 00 cents, with a proflt to the eftr. This should be done at once. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS believes that if street railways can be operated successfully by European cities, as they are. there Is no good reason why they can not be so oper ated Here. But we do not bollevs ibis can he done now, and It may h* years before we are ready for no big an undertaking. Still Atlanta should set Its face Id that direction NOW. Beckham of Kentucky. 1 The fight against Beckham for sen ator In Kentucky will find mnny to sympathise with it In floorgla and In other states. If the chargee made against Beck ham are true, and If It he true that his effort to build a personal political machine has resulted In the discon tent and defeat of his party at the I-olls and Its present demoralisation, then it Is just as well that the De mocracy of Kentucky should rise up end rebuke In tho beginning thu en deavor to revive machine politics when all the forces of civilization are moving to condemn it. The governor of Kentucky has never been esteemed an Intellectually great man. lie haa not measured up to such men as Carlisle and Beck, whom the Democratic party has given in time past to the republic, but he haB established a record of being an nstate and effective politician, and It is perhaps this record which has done as much os uny other one thing to dissatisfy bis party and therefore strengthened the opposition which overwhelmed It. One thing seems to be ccrtsln and that Is that the Democratic people of this period do not caro to he ruled by machines or innehinu politicians, and the outside public will look with a great deal of Interest to see what Kentucky Is going to do with Gov ernor Beckham. A VALUABLE PEA. It the Editor <-f The Georgian: 1 trill tell the reader, of your paper a I toot a pe.i that 1 have tieen .-rowing for two year*. It U mrh a Due Mock p--n that I would llko to know It. true rotmr. and It mny he that from the dom-rlp- tlon I will five that «ome of the rHder. -mi tell uie It I. a t.ry large blaek pea, mol the l-*d, euiitaln from eighteen to twenty pea. earh, and the dry i-en. are a little wrinkled. It la n medium early pm. hot .honlil pot hr planted before the mid dle of May or later. It 1. a, tine a .nap pea aa I ever tot, ami I never aaw a pea lhat would make aueb a good yield on poor land. It will .laud any amount of wet weather and not rot, hut will lie ou the ground all whiter and rente up In the •prlng. Thin make. It very flnr for hog. and poultry. Id fact. It la the ftnrst atork poa I erer mw. ami I would like to give «nme of my brother-farmer, a .tart of them, l ot the rootage would lie >o much that 1 could not undertake It. • O. l>. l'ERRUO. Newton. Teg. THANKSGIVING. Thankful for God and light. For life and love. Thankful for Christ. and for Ills might That lead, above. Thankful for lalior and the caret That meet u. on the way. Thankful that with the thorn, and .uaret Bloom ronen of the May. Thankful for more of Joy thau pain: tor the ro«. that hide, the thorn. Thankful for a world of good. For more of right than wrong. Thankful for friend., for all thing, true, For life, for love, for song. -LAWTON B1LEY. NOT KILLED AROUND ATLANTA. To tho Editor of The Georgian: Id The Atlanta Georgian of dnte March If, JOT, pare 6. In a communication from \V. E. Carter, In The Chicago Recnrd-lDr- *11. purporting to rive an account of the killing of Fletcher Webater, eon of Daniel Webster, farter claim* Fletcher Webater, aa a captain, went to Atlanta with Hber Man's army, met with a light mulatto half firotbor. a non of Daniel Webater. and that Fletcher Webater waa killed In one ef the battles around Atlanta. Now. I mom* utU iw h M.iiMikr-. flftcferr Web ster, aa colonel uf a Maaaarbnaetta regi- tttnt, was killed iu the .Second Battle of ManMsaa. Virginia. IS*?. On the field, after battle, I.udtroll lliitchineop. of Lenab. va.. saw a severely wounded Federal offl * n,d h* waa trolone! Fletcher Webater, ct a Massachusetts regiment. If I am not roach mistaken. It waa tha Htl*. Afterwards. W. I* H. Wheeler, of ilania- m.'v y*- **w the dead body of Fletcher r<n«£e r ’«M 1 understood that 558* wb»r** r "™** r ' rn# n 1100 THE PRESIDENT AND HIS CRITICS. Theodore Roosevelt is having a little fun of his own these days with tbo scared financiers of Wall street who have been coming to see him to Impress him with the Importance of reassuring the country as to the es sential soundness of business conditions. It has been rather a pitiable plight that Wall street has found Itself in. The preachments of the president about decency and honesty, or. as Tom Reed once iut It. his enthusiasm over the discovery of the Ten Commandments, his firm grasp of the obvious In the ordinary relation* of men with fellowmen, have been declared to be the real reason why tho country hsB lost confidence In Wall street methods. Hut these solid and substantial business men of New York have no time for reading presidential messages and speeches. They gather their Impressions from the headlines of the sensational press and the equally misleading editorial comments of the commercialized newspapers. In tho hands of these latter deft manipulators of facts and creator* of fictions, tho president has been made out to he a blundering, Impetuous bull In a china shop, ready to smash nil the crockery on the shelves If something red Is flared In his eyes. So these alarmed gentlemen have been calling at the White House and have been given a warm welcome. They hare been asked to be per fectly frank In their brltlclsma and then they begin to mention tho speci fications. But here the president would begin to Interrupt with the asser tion that this was not what he aaid, but the perverted Impressions of his friend, the editor of The New York Sun. Then tho president Is told the Importance of some positive affirmation with respect to his purposes and Intentions for the future and the vleltor Is asked to read a few remarks on that subject and pronounces them good. Then the visitor Is told that those remarks were unfortunately suppressed by his friend. Colonel Harvey. And finally the esteemed business man goes back to New York (o tell his fellows to go down to Washington and see tho president and Incidentally remarks In two languages, English und tho profane, that tho panic was really brought on by tho blanket)* misleading editorials In the papers that were supposed to be representing Wall street Interests. And tho people are Just. There has been Inconvenience and loss over tho country by reason of .the disturbance In our financial center. But tho people remember the beginning of It, when Holme- and his fellow-plun derers wore virtually denounced by the New York Clearing House com mittee and forced out of their positions. They were told and the publlo was told that they bad bought stock In one bank, hypothecated It and bought In another, and bo on ad infinitum, thus controlling, as > stock holders, the divert Ion of trust funds to their own speculative ventures. Then another bonk refused to stand sponsor for the Knickerbocker Trust Company and It had to go to the wall. That started the runs on the bank, tho soaring of call money to a hundred per cent and the drop ping out of the bottom from the stook market. It will be difficult to hold Theodore Roosevelt responsible for the doings of Helnze and his crowd, for tho revelations about Ryan nnd Belmont and Whitney and the street railway franchise grabbers, living and dend, for the Chicago and Alton steal, or for other crimes that, being revealed, have shaken public confi dence In the Integrity of some high financiers. It Is a pitiable confes sion Indeed, when by the mere mention of the eighth plank of the 8lnal platform, our preaching president destroys confidence In the reputations of the high financiers. And tho country Is getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving that things were no worse, that a panic In Wall street has not ruined the country and has been proved to he Incapable of ruining It. The South and the West have cotton In the warehouses, grain In the elevators and therefore money In the hank. The golden flood that has been pouring Into Now York to pay off Western mortgages and Southern bucket-shop losses has stopped. Tbo producing centers will finally lend money to the commercial center for distribution. But there will he fewer lambs shorn henceforth. Tho critics of the president as the producer of a panic are misin formed. Being rightly Informed they are beginning to say that It Is the treducers of the president who are responsible. The country at large Is suffering a little while tho cancerous growth Is being cut out. But the operation la not so vory painful and the cure will be soon pronounced complete. And the man who gets ahead of the president In tho game must know enough to piny It without stacked cards. JOHN H. ESTILL. With tho death of John H. Ksttll passes one of the leaders of Geor gia Journalism and one of tho distinctly strong and forceful personalities, of tho state. In the old standard type of Journalism represented by such papers as The Savannah Morning News, Charleston News and Courier, The Bal timore Sun, The New Orleans Times and the Picayune, John H. Estlll waa recognlzod as one of the first and foremost of them all. He was a man who In litoral truth hu been the architect of his own fortunes and the master of his own destiny. The magnificent structure which he bulldcd of Journalistic and per sonal success was duo to methods as standard In quality as they were resolutely adhered to during a long and vigorous life time. Colonel Estlll would have been a strong man If he had never had a newspaiter. With a newspaper he waa doubly a strong men because he used tho great forco of his really great Journal to the upbuilding and up lifting of bla section and of his state. Thera were few better newspapers of the old standard than The Savannah Morning News and there were few sounder and more practical editor* and business men than John II. Estlll. Whether as a soldier on the field of battle, whether as a constructive force in the Industrial recuperation of the New Smith, whether aa a public man, taking his own high placo in the councils of the party or In tho arena of politics, he was always the samo painstaking, careful, vigor ous and forceful man and gentleman. He will be sadly missed In the growth and development of the great city and of tho great section of the state In which he lived. But he has bulldcd a good name and left a splendid record of achievement and of service which along with his ample fortune will be a rich inheritance to the family whom he leaves behind. The Fourth Estate In Georgia mourn* tho passage of one of the great figures that have helped to make it notable and great. ww V*. B. II. HUTCHINSON. ORGANIZED WORK OP WOMEN IN THB SOUTH. Tho organised work of the women of the South has reached such serious and very Important proportion* that thoughtful men and women must of necessity take cognizance of a movement which touches at many points the welfare of the country at large. Within the past few weeks In Georgia have been held five annual conventions of women's organizations which wero attended by many of the most useful and representative women of the state. At Rome the Daughters of the American Revolution were In session for several days; In Augusta the United Daughters ot the Confederacy held tholr annual conference; the Women's Christian Temperance Unloa met at Columbus, and during the week Just gone, the State Federation of Women's Clubs convened at Tlf- ton, and the Women's Baptist Missionary Union held Its annual session at Waynesboro. Each organisation mentioned had for Its object and purpose the betterment of humanity along religious, social, patriotic or Intellectual lines and the Influence and power of each order has grown yearly, until the results already attained are a surprise to even tho most hopeful and optimistic womsn Interested. At Tifton the eleventh annual convention of the State Federation of Women's Clubs was perhaps the moat brilliant and encouraging In the history ot women’s clubs In Georgia. The enthusiastic Interest of the many notable women present in all matters appertaining to the education of the children ot the state, to the Improvement ot civic and social con ditions and to the upbuilding of certain waste places In the geographi cal lines of (he commonwealth, gave renewed Impetus to many phases of feminine endeavor. In themselves essential to the proper development of the be** Intrroata nf tha panpla Men who are close and Intelligent observers of the trend of this re markable time hare long since generously recognized the value and Im portance of woman's work along certain lines In educational, civic and even Industrial development. The man who Is still nnwllllng to acknowledge the Influence of woman In the progress of the times rightfully belongs to a period too dense and remote to merit serious consideration. The women of Oeorgia are cany-lag Into the mountain Uttneuee and Into almost unexplored portions ot the state the hope, tight and joy which follow in the wake ot education. They are also carrying Into the gray and dismal atmosphere of the homes of the helpless women and children of tho rural districts the means of self-support, which open avenues of future comfort almost undreamed of by these cheerless people. The organized work of the women of Georgia and of the South. Is one of the most Important and Influential factors In the splendid educa tional, social and commercial development now In progress In this sec tion. The women of Georgia have taken the Initiative In preparing some of the most helpful laws which have been placed upon the statute books of the stato. Behind nearly ever)* legal enactment which has for Its ob ject the betterment of the people of Georgia can be seen the hands and felt the hearts of the women of the state, whose agitation and enthusi asm have aroused the serious attention of the law-makers of the com monwealth. CORNER ALABAMA AND BROAD STREETS. Capital $200,000.00 Surplus ahd Undivided Profits $600,000.00 Commercial Accounts Invited. . Interest, compounded twice a year, is 0 paid in our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT firowth and Progress of the New South The Georgian hero record! each Uny rotne economic (net In reference to the onward progress ot the South. JOSEPH B. LIVELY Bperinl to The Georglnn. Colberti Gfi„ Nov. II.—We are now having nn era of prosperity in the town of Colbert tbnt looks like htialucBB atm* enough. Lnat weak we bad an auction Innd Mie. J«nn«l lota Bold like hot rake* at n good price. Mr. Lamar, of Winder, got on option on the property, gave n Itlg barbecue. lmd n brns.s band, and the people came, bought lota, ate it good dinner, nnd now they are laying down lumber to build dwelling* nnd atorc bounce on and get to hnslnene. We have lnat completed n hnndeninc nrlck block, eatnbllahed n bonk with $23.- 000 caah capital, a new telephone eystem la being put In, and we mean to do bualneaa. Colbert haa two big ginneries. one Monger auction ayatem. and cotton la rolling Into town In a atendy at ream. We hare n good market, nnd our luercimuta are do ing a fine bualneaa. We itre giirrmmdcd fry one of the beat farming aartlona fn the state. Oqr farmers nrc prospering ns never before, nnd we Imre the lieat opening nml loca tion In the state for n cotton mill. People can buy property here, either town | THE PARMENTER MILLIONS j \ ... A Stirring Novel of Love, Conspiracy and Adventure... : (Copyright. 1907, by Arthur W. Marctamont.) : By ARTHUR W. MARCHMONT. Author ot “By Right of Sword," “When I Was Czar," Etc., Etc. AN OPEN LETTER TO GOV. HOKE SMITH Hon. Hoke #mltb, Governor, Atlanta, Ga. —My Dear Governor: I write ns one of the detnohed 1,60!),000 people lu Georgia whom the merchant-petit loners from Atlnntn nnd Macon do not represent. Those gentlemen are needlessly alarmed. Let‘me refresh your memory: When the uniform fl-cent rate was Inau gurated some twenty-live or thirty years ngo, the same sort of kicking was done tbnr Is resorted to nor.-. The railroad peo ple were protesting •‘conflacutlon,” jnat ga they are lining now. Yet they found the redaction so profitable to themselves that S oy Inaugurated nil manner of reductions, ee passes and excursions to Increase traf fic. The somber prognosis which rang out so loudly nt flrat was soon forgotten. Roll ing stock, equipment, speed and comfort were ra; rate, and no more ocmplalot was ... . Hut the fact thnt the muds generally found lower rates fpr special occasions nnd ape clnl people were profltnlde proved thnt the equilibrium of rate nml profit bn<| not been reached. Whnt that point Is must be determined by experiment. The papers announce thnt the West Point rond reports derided Increase lu profits under the 2-cent rate. Hut enough, I have no doubt I Cbuld f ;et 1,600,000 people In Georgia to sign this etter If I could net to them with It. I dare say, you wlfl substantially ngree to this claim. Representing the detached million*, l am yours most respectfully, .1. L. D. HILLYER. Edge wood .Station, Atlnntn. Gn. FOUR THEORIES ADVANCED CONCERNING MRS. PIPER By KATHARINE MATCl HETT-VAUGHN. To the Editor id The Georglsu: Msvernl years ago there came Into public notice a strange circumstance thnt hsd thu effect of dividing the opinions of the Profes* .Tames Grant of psychologists. Briefly stated, Mrs. Piper, of ordlnnry antecedents, surroundings and education, began suddenly after a prolonged Illness to write Hanekrlt, ami to devslnp a clairvoyant pow- thnt enabled her to describe nml fore east events apprehended by no recognised means of perception. Professors James of Harvard, Ilyslop of rolmubln, Myers of Oxford, Mr. Hudson of Washington, D. t\, nnd other eminent psychologists took tho fom* under advise ment, and cast about to discover nn ex ...... les originated an In gcnlous theory which he designated ns a "Telepathy a Trols," while Mr. Hudson, a ccepting In explanation the theory of the usllty of Intellect—the cerebrum being tbo sent of the objective Intellect nml the cere- blllura of the subjective, one reasoning from cause to effect, the other divining by lutul- •nd made Its S| ipplleatli [entitle Demonstration of a ' Of tiir three foregoing theories designed to explain the esse of Mrs. Piper, Mr. Hud- son’s theory seems to find the greatest fn- ntng to take Into account one indlsputal i act, that the circumstance In quea ‘ tot an Isolated one. Beginning wl natxnce nf Haul and the Witch of with the of ttndor history, we find the Ing through mmuij, "” huh hit of old Egypt In Persia—yclept *k Art.' 1 the oracles of Greece, the K n occult Isi ”The nisekWP sorcerers rebuked by Hebrew prophet nml Christian apostle; the soothsayer that warp ed the great Caesar to "beware the Ides of March;* the Hindu faker, the "esoterics" In theosophy: the witchcraft of old England and Massachusetts, the "Hochester knock- ln«s." and last nnd greateat, modern splr- ituslUni. s movement adding Ha adherents by scores of thousands—all bearing witness to the fact that "tbore are more tbl^M heaven nml earth than have ever neen> dreamed of In oar philosophy"—circum stances not amenable to accepted laws of matter and only with difficulty reconcilable with those governing the workings of the Intellect, sensibility and will—yet wlthnl.i Irtrcumsrnnres which must be reckoned with, even though a reasonable explsnation he wanting, or we accept the empiricism of any of the three foregoing hypotheses— the spiritistic of of Professor Ilyslop, the telepathic of Profeteor James, or the psyd chlsl of Mr. Hudson. So the problem reverti to one of faith rather than of demonstral tlon. And since Joseph Cook tells us "man riinistnuce ns thnt lu question, as presented Professor Ilyslop finds no uuthorlty therein for his belief that the dead nm more alive than ever; therefore his assumption that * “ “ Trs. Plpor "Influences" surrounding mum hoi <«*». iuim were u»\nikhc<i io no- celve mankind Into the licllef tlmt the dend are not dead before the coming of the Judgment. As such deception furnishes the raison d'etre of the Ilyslop theory, It can not stand upon Biblical authority at nuy rate. The Influence of mind upon mind among three people—"telepathy a trola**—does not explain the gift of prophecy which la th<t stock In trade of every ’’psychic." including Mrs. Piper. This Jeaves the odds slightly III favor of the Ilyslop theory. Nor does the theory of Mr. Hudson fur nish such explanation any inoro than It ex plains a "psychic’s" monumental misstate ment of fact, while assuming to deliver the uiilmpcnchnbh* truth. If certain "seiisJtUed minds" are i can^not go tha? "tie foundation°of H Hr." th.> fiiurth Ih.xirr t ...... . ..Jsf la In authnr ity," the fourth theory concerning such dr- In tbs reposttory of religious fnlth, the Bible, Is worthy of ti>ecTal notice. For PEOPLE AND THINGS GOSSIP FROM THE HOTELS AND THE STREET CORNERS J. 8. B. Thompaon, aealatant to tha pmldent ot tha Bouth,m railway, left Saturday for New Orleans on bualneaa for tho company. The *arly part of thl. week he will leave New Orleans and pay a visit to Montgomery. Flrat Vice President L Savler of the Seaboard Alt* Line, arrived In Atlanta Saturday from Macon. Mr. Sevier wns on one of his periodical trips of in spection of the road and while heje was In consultation with James J. Pul ler and other officials of the road in Atlanta. General Freight and Passen ger Agent J. H. Streyer, of the Macon, Dublin nnd Savannah road, also came up from Macon. J. Fred Harvey, of Harvey k Wood, of Boston, managers of the Piedmont and other hotels in a chain reaching from New England to Florida, Is look ing things over In Atlanta. He wilt be here several days. P F. McOlatch*;*, Jr. of Marietta, has been appointed special agent to General Manager J. Epps Brown, of the Southern Bell Telephone and Tele graph Company. For the past few years Mr. Mcdstchey ha* been in charge of the farmers' line department of the company and while In that "posi tion he greatly hullt up this depart ment. He began his service with the Bell people twelve years ago as man ager of the telephone exchange In Ma rietta and soon won promotion. Mr. McClatcbey's headquarters w ill remain her* from Marietta. that the possessor of such s intuit slionl . lie able to relate such truth nnd net Its opposite, ss facts too often sttsst. Hnrrljr If some rules aro proved by a few exceptions, some may lie disproved by the presenting of too many. Ami whatever theory he accepted In explanation of tbs cssss of Mrs, Piper et si., eneh takes cognl- f snre of, lint only two, the IIIMIcsl and tbs lyalop theories, giv# reasons for a ‘'me dium's" misstatements, or why In alleged "messages" there Is often hut a thread of truth woven Into s fabric of lies. Also, only the lltbllrsl and the Hudson theorls, sound warning sgxlnst so-cnlled "Investiga tions" and the development of "innOluni- shlp," Ur. Hudson, dealing with lutellec Hltdleal theory, "Whnt the tterlptures Say About Spiritualism." by Pastor Russell, of Allegheuy, l-n.. Is a small booklet with-It. comprehends the aubjert from the case or the Witch of Kntlor to that of Sfrs, piper. While the Interpretation Is not a new one, but an old one In new dross,~lls up- r illcstlon to the present age makes tbs work it many rcspeets a vety remnrhabl, one, chiefly In Its dealings with what the Ger mans are wont to designate as a "Zeit geist," or spirit of the times when, counter- posed against the too feeble protest of the orthodox pulpit- there stands the spectacle of the spiritualistic cult that may yet lie bulwarked by so-ralled "acleutlflc Invert). Synopsis of Previous Installment. In Selma Hammond, n girl whom Olive befriends, tbe latter finds one wlto knows Gilbert Merrldertv and ills mother well. The girl tolls Olive that the Merrldews belong to a gang of thieves front Chicago. “Yes, I am Impatient," he replied, Speaking with unusual seriousness, "and I'll tell you the reason. I can't bear the Idea of your being alone here and taking on this hlg uphill fight against these people. Your terrible ex perience at Sheffield has thoroughly frightened ms. It shows to what fear ful lengths these people are ready to go; and frankly I nm afraid—yes. hor ribly afraid—that they will go on Scheming and plotting ngalnst you un til they succeed. I can’t Bleep at night when the thoughts take hold of me. I wouldn't* care so much If you were In some place of safety—say with Mr. Casement or Mrs. Taunton, where you could be properly protected and would have plenty of people about you so that these brutes couldn’t get at you. But here alone you seem to be at their tnerey. Oh, Olive, do put that pride of yours away nnd let us get mar- rledl” "All roads still leading"— “Don't Joke about It, Olive. It makes me jvretched." he declared earnestly. “f won't Jest, Jack. But what you ask Is really Impossible. I have put tny hand to the work and I will never give In. I ant tny father's child In that nt any rate. If I Itnd to choose now between the risk of even such a death as that which threatened me on the railway and abandoning this work, 1 would not falter a moment. I de clared to you on my honor I would rather die than give In." Bite spoke with such Intense earnest ness that he was silenced; and for t moment nothing more was said. "But If you lay so much stress on my leaving here. I will see what I can do. Return to Mr. Casement's house is out ot the question, because I can do nothing In such a place ns Fraihpton, especially at a time when 1 have Just made such a discovery. But If you like, we will go and see Mrs. Taunton; and If I find that I can carry on the work while at her house apd she still wishes to have me, I will go to her." "I wish to heayen yqu would. 1 know she'll do everything In her power to help you. She has said so dozens of times to me. She did yesterday, Indeed. She was at the foreign office. She-Was curious to see the place, and I showed her round." "Then let us go and see her today," said Olive promptly. And with that they started, little droamlng of all that such a proposal must mean. iirltnsilstle ewt that may rat be 1 It V lAfifitlihl "irlenllfin Ina-asH. gallon. Aneut anch cao*a •• that of Mr*. IMpor. th;> work ef Pastor Itussell deals not less scientifically but far mere authoritntlvelj therewith tbss tin those of the exponents nf tho first three hypotheses herein eousld- ARMY-NAVY ORDERS AND ■MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS. Army Orders. Washisgton. Nov. 9.—captain Charles C. Ballon, Twelfth Infantry, to Governors Island for examination for retirement. Captains Louis T. Ileas, Fort Porter; Raymond P. Metcalfe, Columbus Barracks; Will L Pyles, Jefferson Barracks, assistant surgeons. Fifteenth Infantry, to Philip pines. Colonel Robert J. Bstea, Third Infantry. Michigan National Guard, to garrison school at Fort Brady. Major Bstiert II. Nobel, Ninth Infantry, Join regiment at such time as will mahle hint to reach Its station, on July 1, IMS. Navy Order*. Rear Admiral C. S. Sperry, to duty ss i-ommandar fourth .11 vision tint squadron, Atlanta fleet, hoisting flag on Alslmma. Rear Admiral A. Walker, to retired list November 1*. Captain J. M. Miller, detached Lancaster home, wait orders. Captain A. G. Berry, to command Lancas ter. Kiistsn II. PowelL detached Illinois to Alabama as Bids on staff rommander fourth division first aqnadmn Atlantic fleet. Movements of Vessels. Arrlved—Nsvember 7: Wasp-et New Lon don. Sailed—November *: Rocket from Wash ington for Norfolk. November 7: Adams, from Gibraltar for Las Palmas, Canaries; Eagle, frost Portsmouth, N. JUT for llamp! CHAPTER XVI. Spirited Away. "You say Mrs. Taunton was at the foreign office yesterday, Jack 7" asked Olive as they were driving to Mayfair. "Whnt took her there?'' "She la a woman and an American; and having heard that It was difficult to get to see the place she was curious. That's all. But she certainly has a way with her. She actually got round the chief hlmeelf and they had a long chat. My hair nearly stood on end nt the way she drew him out of hla shell." "Is he so formidable then?” "He len't exactly what you'd call s sociable chap," ha replied with a dry laugh. "But ehe got him on to the subject of the white house and Ameri can politics—she knows the president and a lot of the other big guns In Washington—and I believe the old chap was glad to have a chance to hear about them. And the way she shot In a question here snd a question there about onr methods—well. It Just heat the band." "She Is certainly a clever woman." agreed Olive, not quite relishing Jack's somewhat extravagant praise. "Clever! I should sey so. Why. she got to know more about tho way* of tha place, how we do thlnge, anil where we store papers, and so on. In a few minutes than T knew when I had been there as many months. And then she turneil round and laughed at our old- fashioned ways, as sh* called them, end described how things were better done In Wsehlngton. She Is about the bright, eat woman I ever met.” "Is eheT' was the drily spoken re ply. "Hullo!" cried Jack, with a laugh. ‘T meant the brightest American wom an, you know.” "I am American, too, Jock.” said Olive quietly. "1 give It up." he eald with an exag gerated sir of resignation; and at that they both laughed; and v«ry Boon aft. erward the cab drew up at Mrs. Taun ton's. The widow was delighted to see Olive, and kissed her and made much of her. and then klsaed, her again as soon as she heard there was a chance of Olive going to stay with her. Tea was served, and after It Mrs. Taunton said; "Now I'm going to send you away. Mr. Fenwick, and Olive and I—may 1 call you Olive?" "Certnlnly." "Well, then, you and I will have a cosy chat together and get to know one another as friends should. Won't that be nice?” Her charm of manner was Irresisti ble. Olive found her as seemingly fresh and natural and free from ever)' sort of pretence as though she were as poor aa Olive herself. "I'm going to begin by telling you eomethlng about myself," ehe said with a pleasant laugh. T haven't always been like this, you know. 1 had to work pretty hard when 1 left college —I'm from 'Frisco, you know. Dear old delightful, wicked. 'Frisco. The heaven of the rich Westerners, my dear, but the hell of the poor. There's more goodness and badness In that one lovely horrible place than can be found In any one spot on the earth." and then she rattled on with a purely Imaginary description of her early life and mar riage to the late senator, the Hon. Ad am I. Taunton. In the course of the story she men- in Atlanta and he will move hts home tloned. In the most casual’way'ln'the had to'report d * 5 *" d h * ard ’' h “ t * h * * world, the flimlly name of Olive's moth- Continued in Tomorrow's Georgian. er, ss that of some one she had known In San Francisco. “Did you say Groixcup?;’ exclaimed Olive quickly, "That was my moth er's name" "Do you come from the Argentine, then? Abner Grosscup had friends or relatives there, I know. Could It pos sibly be the same family? It was at bis house I first met Mr. Taunton. It would be too wonderful.” "I know my mother had a brother, Abner," said Olive. "Well, this Abner was the dearest friend I ever had, and my huabatid's, too. Was your uncle In ’Frisco?” "I don't know. I never knew hint.’’ "len't that Just a miracle?" cried Mrs. Taunton, gayly, "To think that you little, forlorn, friendless creature should hnve had an uncle who was tny dear friend when I was sorely In need of o friend as ever you can be. Why, of course, we must be friends, Olive, and dear friends, too. I wouldn't go back on a relative of hlz for all the dollars In ’Frisco." "It Is Indeed a coincidence,” agreed Olive. "I often heard hint speak of Ills rel atives ih the Argentine. They hsd real estate you know, and cattle." "Then It must be the same!" cried Olive, smiling. "My father was man aging things for thetp when he mar ried my mother, and that was the be ginning of his big fortune." In this way Olive was drawn on to speak of the old life In the Argentine and of the weRlth that her father had' acquired there, and Mrs. Taunton made very careful mental notes Of all sht said. "I declare. I have been telling you more than I over told anyone of the Ufa out there." said Olive, at -length. "You have a wonderful gift of de scription. You make me see It all, dear,” was the reply. "And now I want your confidence about your present. And first I'm going to say something that Jack—you don't mind my calling hint Jack, l'tn sure—that Jack says you won't like to hear." "And what Is that?" "As a preface I must tell you that.I think Jack Fenwick Is Just the dearest fellow In the world. You needn't be a little bit Jealous, although, as I dare say he has told you. t once wanted him to fall In love’ with me." "I don’t think I'm afraid of you, Mrs, Taunton," laughed Olive, pleased to hear this praise of her lover. "Oh, I would have married him If I could. Not because 1 was actually in lovo with him. We Americans take such things a little less seriously than you over here; but because I think he would have made a splendid husband. And that's what I’m coming to. You ought to marry him, Olive; you really ought." “No," declared Olive earnestly. "I couldn't so long as this slur It on me." "My dear child, why? Because of that terrible creature, his mother, I suppose. I think that womsn It tha most ridiculous old cat I ever saw. Of courts she Just hates you, and equally, of course, she would do her worst to make you unhappy by sneering at you. But what would that hurt?" 'No. If you could know how I feel, you would know It would be Impossi ble,'' replied Olive. "If what Is said Is true, 1 have not even a name to take to him, to say nothing of my being as poor as—as—" "As I was once,” smiled Mrs. Taun ton. "He wouldn't care thirty cents for that;'' and she went on to urge the marriage, at the same time emphasis ing In this tone nf smiling protest alt the reasons which weighed with Olive. Then they went on to discuss the Merrldews; and Mrs. Taunton express ed the greatest curiosity a* to what manner of man Gilbert Merrldew was. and tried to draw from Olive all the details of Iter plans and Intentions in regard to him. But on this Olive was on her guard. With no one save Jack and Mr. Caee- tnent would she ever dlecuss them. •'I am confident that there Is no truth In the story of the marriage between my father and Mrs. .Merrldew; but even Mr. Casement believes it, and I have nothing but my Instinct to anchor my hopes to." "You must let me help you. 1 am sure we could ferret It all out between us. Like you, I trust in)* Instincts; and, what la more. I believe that a woman’* wit 1* Infinitely shrewder than a man's. When you come to me we'll set to work together. Now. when will you come?" "My only fear is that I might not feel myself free enough to carry on my task,” said Olive cjtndldly. "My dear, you shall be your own mistress. You know that our American girls have much more liberty than you English; and this shall be Just your homo—to come when you will ana go where you will, to see whom you like and do as you please." “May I leave the matter open for a while?" "Why certainly. Isn't that part of the liberty l speak of? But I want you, Olive, and I must have you, espe cially now that I know you are a rela tive of my dear old-Frlsco friend. And the sooner you come the sooner I shall feel I'm paying him back a bit of what I owe him." She kissed Olive very affectionately when she left and Insisted upon taking her home In her electric brougham. Olive was charmed with her new friend; but then, she did net see her expression as she drove away, nor hear what she said to herself. "Guess I played that Grosscup card for all »t was worth. The little fool! But I was right In one thing—I do want her ksdiy; and It looks aa if I'd get her, sure enough. I'd like to tell old Gilbert, and that's the fact." Olive's thoughts were full of Mrs. Taunton and the Interview with her for the whole evening, and before she went to bed she had almost derided to go and stay with her. n would please Jack—and that meant much. But In the end she resolved to do nothing un til sh# had seen Selma Hammond on