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Here, that If .treat railway, can be
.rated .urceeaftiHy by Rtiropean
ilea, as tbey are, there la no good
on why tner ran uot be ao oper-
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may b«
dy for i
uu undertaking, bun Atlanta am
• ■ flit fora In that direction NOW.
■ pin
- Yorker* are raving over scrap-
tilth made tip of worked over
In- rumor that President J. K. Han
of the Central la to have a tttccet-
Is Knott ao.
Arizona still refuses to listen to the
tn hlandlabmenta of New Mexico to
ome on and be married.
\ Music la said to be a great hair re-
Jaioreii We can recall some that cer-
. th 1111y was hair raising.
| HrtarntvMe climbed Into the llme-
t light for a few minutes the other day,
[then failed front view again.
The thirty-seven hundredth "hither
to unpublished picture” of Evelyn
Keablt Thaw has appeared.
Italian brigands captured Marquis
Ho untl pulled bis teeth. The lxitlce
rrived before they pulled hla leg.
W ill the man engineering the Phil
ander Knox boom come out In the
open nd give ux another look at It?
w iishlngtun Is to bavo a fancy dress
hall on. skates, lu Gotham a fancy
•s ball without skates would be a
elty.
hlcago la aendlng out now to the
Pacific coast ”a honeymoon special.'
win It como back as "the divorce
limited?" /
The bag of moose In Maine thla
rat smaller than known In years,
lumber of hunters bagged, how-
was normal.
i Ossining man drowned In a
tub. George Halley will proba-
contend that this could not have
icued In Nashville.
suggestions are In order the para-
grai<licrs‘ union might add to the Jlat
tabooed subjects jibes at the for-
r editor of The Georgian.
With a desire for wreckles* rail-
usds the railroad commission has
shewn Itself quite able to reckon with
the '.situation free of reckless tenden
cies.
I.ast year 52G.040 people were killed
or wounded by accident lu America.
Jnjian lost 84,648 men In the shindy
with Russia. Evidently It la safer to
go to war.
Taft la sight-seeing In Moscow.
He'll he seeing sights by the time he
lauds back here and sees the things
doe Poraker has been fixing tip for
him In Ohio.
Since the prohibitionists have car
ried the war' 1 Into Washington, a cer
tain uuregenerated paragrapher of
th-ct burg baa ceased to cbortle over
the .Georgia situation.
At any rate Representative Peter
Porter has the Inestimable privilege
of sitting up In the grandstand and
watching the scrimmage without the
least danger to hla own cuticle.
|j f'There Is nothing coyer than a
maiden, except a widow,” observes
; The New York Preaa. This does not,
however, refer to the dimpled, red-
- j headed widows of grandoldtexas.
Mo long as the tent) meat that "a
private In the army Is a dog” prevails
with thi young West Pointers. Just so
long will Unde Sam And Increasing
difficulty in recrultfhg tbs army up to
ndard.
REPRESENTATIVE LEWIS' APPOINTMENT IMPORTANT,
The 'announcement from Washington of the reappointment of Rep
reseatatlve E. 1). Lewis, of Georgia, on the hanking and currency commit
tec of the lower house, of which he becomes the ranking Democratic
member, la significant In view of Mr. Lewis‘s past record on currency
legislation and adds further Interest to the plan, recently suggested by
Mr. Edwin P. Ansloy, of Atlanta, for the creation of a more elastic cur
rency. In submitting bis plan to President Roosevelt. Mr, Ansloy claimed
no originality for tbe suggestion that farm lands be'mnde. national bank
able securities to the extent of 40 or 50 per cent of tbclr value. In tact,
he wrote Congressman Livingston, In requesting the latter to present the
pian to the president's consideration, that the Identical Idea was embod
ied tn s bill offered In congress by Representative Lewis several years
ago. That bill sought the removal of the ban from real estate as security
for loans from national banks, but made little or no progress, primarily
because of the violent opposition of the national banks themselves. The
fact la significant, however, as revealing tbe vlewa of Congressman Lewis
on needed currency legislation at that time, and there hat been nothing
In hla-acta or utterances since that time to Indicate^ that he has under
gone any change of mind on the subject.
It would appear, therefore, that the plan revived by Mr. Analey will
find's friend at court In the person of Congressman Lewis, leading Dem
ocratic member of the committee on banking and currency, and that the
effort at relief for the farmers of the country In handling their crops,
acting In a large measure as a preventive of future money stringencies
of a general nature, will at least get a hearing.
A BLOW AT AMERICAN WOMANHOOD.
The verdict of "Not Guilty” rendered at Waghlngton, D. C-, In the
case of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley, charged with the murder of Senator Arthur
M. Brown, was a. direct blow at American wifehood and motherhood. It
was also the expression of the extreme limit of masculine sentimentality.
Twelve men, supposed to represent various types and classes of American
manhood, have declared that a woman who Id guilty of almost every sin
forbidden In the decalogue shall go free with all the protection and priv
ileges accorded the honest and respectable women of the country. Mrs.
Bradley's only plea for mercy lay In the fact that the man she killed had
persistently denied her request for marriage, when she had willingly con
sented to the degradation he brought upon her. knowing at the time that
he was tbe husband of anotber woman, end she, tbe wife of another man.
An Intellectual, ambitious woman, familiar with tbe miserable social
history of Senator Brown, knowing that he was a moral degenerate, al
ready twice married—tbe last time to the co-respondent In hla wife's di
vorce suit—Mrs. Bradley deliberately became a party to bis further deg
radation without tho slightest hope of legitimate reparation. As the wife
of another man, Mrs. Bradley audaciously became the mother of Senator
Brown's children, with the knowledge that these .helpless victims of her
Immorality could not have the stigma of dlsgrace' ltt anywise removed
until death, or the divorce court intervened in the case both of heraelf
and Senator Brown. Iter relations with the latter became a public scan
dal throughout the West. In a lit of joaloui rage, realising that tbe man
for whom she bad eagerly sacrificed her own self-respect and the pres-
ent and future of her Innocent, helpless children would not marry her,
Mrs. Bradley simply killed him after tbe manner of so many women
of her tik. Mrs. Bradley’s case was even more flagrant and offensive
, than that of Evelyn Thaw. The latter, full of the, weaknesses and ‘vani
ties of a foolish, untrained girl, was an easy prey to men who appealed
to her love of ease and luxury. Without moral Instinct and moral train
ing and example, Evelyn Thaw became the silly, pretty plaything of
unscrupulous men. Not so with Mrs. Bradley. A strong, self-reliant, In
tellectual, ambitious woman, no longer with the excuse of youth or Inex
perience, a wife and mother, squarely looking fate In the face, became a
willing, eager party In one of the most disgusting. Inexcusable scandals
of JltC present time. She was unequal to paying the price of her evil
doing and after branding her helpless children with the stigma of her
repulsive conduct, she adopts tbe role of a nervous, in-treated victim of
the man with whom, hand In hand, she had gladly gone to her ruin.
It seems timely and pertinent to bring to the attention of the Ameri
can publlo the necessity for a higher and worthier regard for the respect
able element of American womanhood. If the breaking of nearly every
law In the moral code by women la to be rewarded with a verdict such
ns the one rendered Tuesday at Washington, the home life of the country
will of necessity be greatly endangered. The twelve men "tried and
true" who restored to liberty Mr/t. Bradley by their verdict of "not guil
ty" struck a serious, unwarranted blow at the domestic life of the coun
try and did their part toward lowering the standards of wifehood and
motherhood In America.
SIMPLE LIVES ARE THE BEST.
n re worse
ft* prefer living In it ■mall town, where tbe people will sympn-
Ihlac with you If you nre In trouble, am! If you haven't any trouble they
will hunt It up for you.*’
The editor of a certain paper writes thla, and many will agree with
him, though some take exception to the lost sentence.
People who live In small towns, people who lead simple lives, peo
ple who live as people In the city never knew how to live, are sympa
thetic, warm-hearted, always ready to reach out helping hands to those
who need them.
We remember a story which appeared In the papers, perhaps .a
month ago, about the dying woman who was left two weeks on n park
bench tn New York, On a bench In Madison Square. Think of it! A
woman dying of consumption, so weak that she Was unable to walk, ao
III that she was dying. A mau who had noticed her sitting there tele
phoned the Department of Charities and several hospitals, snd after re
peated refusals, finally prevailed upon the authorities of one hospital to
send au ambulance for the dying woman. The ambulance came—It was
too late! Tiie woman was degd.
Would Ibis have happened In a couutry village? Never. Country
l«op1e are not of this sort; It one of their number (alia 111, an endless
procession of friends come and go, carrying flowers, delicacies and cheer
ing word* to the Invalid. When tbe aick person recovers, everybody Is
glad and congratulations are showered 1 upon him. If grim death comeB,
there are loving hands to perform tho last sad offlees, to place flowers
uiion the caiket and to mingle tears with the bereaved ones. Thla Is
what people In country villages -do. In cities we have seen funerals and
receptions going on under the Bamc root. In apartment houses, hotels
and rooming houses nobody cares much whether anybody else lives or
dies; hearts grow at hard as th# granite stones that pave the city's
streets.
Ob, frenzied city people, how little you know of the meaning of peace
and of the eternal verities of reasonable enjoyment that come of living
In a village!
• To journey through country lanes; to see the tender stars shine
down from the summer heavens; to hear the whisper of the winds
blowing across the meadows and fields; to hear the purllngs of busy lit
tle brooks; to hear the Innumerable voices of nature, translated by the
children’s tones aud the tong of birds; to feel that you are a part of na
ture's Belt, part of Ita forests and rills and streams, is to enter Into na
ture's heart, and realtxe that you are a part thereof; that you bsve kin
ship to every tree; that you are related to every animal that mqvea, to
every atone that Ilea by a wayside; that you are Intimate with every
thing that lives and breathes. Alt these go to make up the life of the
men and wqmen and children who live In country villages.
Tbe people who live In country towns—they are of tbe world's beat.
t
Growth and Progress of the New South
Th# Georgian here records eseh day
some economic fact In reference to
tbe onward progress of tb« South.
BY
JOSEPH B. LIVELY
southern (Jcorglit of 4.000 acre* of lain! for UOO.OW Ivy-Chicago investora'fbr division
A — * from the Northwest who are
The Georgia and Alabama Indnstr&l! Index says In Its Issue for this vleett:
“The completion of nlanFYor tbe establishment of a great cement plant at Demon,
oils, Alf„ by n New York company with capital of S1.<AK),OQ0. nml the purchase In
' ' acres of tond for¥oo.ooo b *
acre* to t»e tilled by peopl
_Jug arc two Interesting occurrsncr* or me yn.i __ -
tbst illustrate tbe dlversfl/ of tbe great development that is In Progress In Georgia
and Alabama. Tbe building of locks In.tbe black Warrior and Towmgbee rivers by
the Federal government at an qltlinate coat of *4,0(10,000. which la now In progress,
will afford nlt-tlie-yenr rotind water transportation from 103 miles above Tuscaloosa,
Ala., to tidewater, thus giving quick and cheap movement of freight from n rich
mineral section. The definite determination to locate the cement plant at Dcinopo-
!!■ la one of the first fmlta of the grent waterway improvement.
“The bringing of farmers from the Northwest to southern Georgia will lie of
rantoiil benefit to the'desirable new-comers and tbe section in which they will lo
cate. The climate, of Itself, would be a superb attraction, and the lands which they
will cultivate are among the most productive in % he couutry. Georgia and Alabama
offer unexcelled advantage* to tbe farmer, as they flo to the manufacturer nnd to
the Investor. Thousands upon thousands of acre* need but to Im» tickled to laugh a
harvest and to home-scelter* every condition says, 'Come.’ More people will mean
more business for the mercantile establishments, a larger market for the products
of factories, a need for more houses and eventually the building of electric Inter-
urban railways that will aid lu the development of this sectlou to a degree that uo
other one factor can surpass.
“Industrial development Ip Georgia and Alabama continues steadily. Among
the manufacturing plants to be established. Tbe Index reports the following:
“Heading factory. Decatur. Ala.: bottling plant. Fayette. Ala.; cotton-picker
plant. Montgomery, Ala.; Ice factory. Quitman, Go.; electric light plant extension.
LaGrange. Ga.; Norman Park, Ga.. Investors to develop timber nnd turpentine
lands; macaroni factory,-Birmingham. Ain.: inlca deposit to lie rained near Fiber-
ton, Ga.; plant for mnniifncturlng pile-driving machinery, Gordon. Ala.; railway
to be constructed between Washington, Ua., aud Elberton. Ga.; stove plant, 8elma,
. Ala.
“In addition to residences and busluess buildings. The Index reports tbs fol
lowing to he constructed: /
“meel bridge, Chatham county. Georgia: paring, Bessemer. Ala.: school build
ings, Helnia. Ain., snd Cullman. Ala.; churches. Oxford. Ga.. and Fnterprise. Ala.;
sewers, Monroe, tin.; theater, Havnnnah, tin.; waterworks system extension,
Savannah, Gn. „
“Fight new corporations with total minimum capital stock of 1462,760, two new
banks and inuiilclpal Improvement bond Issue are reported."
TOM WATSON TELLS WHY
HE FAVORS GREENBACKS
x — ■ ——
Noted Populist Gives an Outline of the Arguments He Will Make
to the President at a White House Luncheon—Information as Well as
Advice For W. J. Bryan—National Banking Syatem Declared To Be All
Wrong—Says Constitution Gives the Government the Right to Create
National Currenoy.
(From The New York World.)
When IV, J. Bryan was told Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, who was
the Populist candidate for vice president on the Bryan ticket In 1896, would
advocate greenback money at a white house luncheon to be held next Mon
day, he said; \ t
"I won't comment on tliat until I see It over Mr. Watson's own signa
ture. That paper (nay have copied the Interview from The World."
The World had printed no such Interview, hut telegraphed Mr. Watson
a request to make his position clear, and also to outline the arguments
he will make to the president. Here Is the answer wired by the noted
Populist:
Bagdad Wiyits Autos.
The American consulate In Bagdad.
Turkey, will welcome catalogues and
price Bats or American petroleum- and
gasoline motor boats and engines, au
tomobiles for freight and passengers,
wagons and buggies, shelf and heavy
hardware, novelties, clonks, lamps.
kinds, bedsteads, oil stoves, rubber
shoes, street railway material,. farm
machinery of all kinds, Including
steam plows. William C. Magelssen.
United States consul at that place,
slates that In order that the cata
logues may be properly dlatributed It
would be well for Interested manufac
turers or dealers to send four or five
office aud household futolltue of all copies of each.
Thomson, ba„ Dec. '2.—To the, Ed
Itor of The World: Your telejf/ani
received. I can not understand why
Mr. Bryan should receive Incredulous
ly tho statement that I would advise
the president to Issue greenbacks. Mr.
Bryan knows perfectly well that I urn
and alwaye have been a greenbaeker.
jn other words, 1 have always contend
ed 1 that' the constitution of tlje United
States vested In the. government the
right to create money.
In common with Sir. Jefferson, Mr.
Madison, Mr. Calhoun and_x-Andrew
Jackson, I believe that tho government
should have the excluelve creation of
national currency. The national banks
should not be allowed to Issue notes
to circulate as money, nor should any
other class or Individual be allowed
to have that vast power which be
longs of right to the sovereign.
The creation, of money Is one of the
Inherited prerogatives of the sovereign
and no class of subjects were ever al
lowed to Issue their, own coin or notes
as money until tn the days of the
dissolute Charles^ll of England that
concession was coaxed out of him by
his mistress, the notorious Barbara
Vllllers, who was acting as the agent
of London bankers. In Mr. Jeffer
son's letters to John W. Upper, he took
the position that Mr. Brynn Is now
surprised that I should take.
In his messages of 1815 and 1816,
President Madison took the same posl-
lion that I now take. In General Jack-
son's famous light on the national hank
he took the same position which I
now take. When President Lincoln
Issued greenbacke during the war, he
also took the position thf.t the gov
ernment had the right to create na
tional currency out of any material that
It saw (It to select. Tho supreme court
of the United Stales, In the celebrated
case of Julllard against Greenmnn. dis
tinctly decided that the constitution
gave to congress the right to creute
money out of any material that It saw
fit to select.
Tho Legal Tender Decision.
Thla decision, known us the "legal
tender decision,” was made In 1884,
but prior to that time the same princi
ple had been decided by the great New
England Judge. Story, who delivered
the opinion of the majority of the eu-
preme court. The case Is reported in
"Second Mason, pagee 1 to 8.” The
facta, briefly, were these: In 184* a
Boston merchant tendered treasury
notes In payment of Import duties. The
collector of the port refused to receive
these notes, upon the ground that they
were not lawful money. The govern
ment brought suit ugalnst the merchant
for the Import duties nnd he pleaded a
tender of payment. This made the Is
sue fairly and squarely.
Again the secretary of the treasury
began to destroy tho greenbacka Once
more, however, the people cried out
agalnet tills contraction of the cur
rency, nnd ill ISIS General Gram used
HU great Influence to put a atop to It.
By the act of .May SI. 18TB, the secre
tary of the treasury was required to
reissue the greenbacks as fast as they
were redeemed and cancelled. In oth
er words, the process of contraction
was checked.
At the time lids was done the out
standing amount of the greenbacks war
tll46.6Sl.il66 tn rnqnd numbers. At this
sum they have stood ever since. My
contention Is tost toe government
should now do precisely what the gov
ernment did under, similar circum
stances In 1873. If It was expedient
and lawful to Issue 126,000,600 In green
backs In 1«7S It would be expedient and
lawful for the government at thla time
to Issue twenty-six millions, or any
other number of millions ,not exceed
ing the amount which would bring to#
entire volume of treasury notes, up to
the limit authorized by the acts of
1862 and 1863. This limit being *430,-
060,000, the president would have the
same authority to Issue 3100,006,000
of greenback notes thnt the president
had to Issue 126,000.000 In 1873.
The present calamitotas condition of
our national llnnnees has been brought
about because toe government has ab
dicated in favor of the national bank
ers a sovereign prerogative. The coun
try Is loedgd down With a colossal
burdqn of bank credit currency by
means of which the national bankers
sre drawing compound Interest on at
ers and privileges which they have
usurped should be resumed by the gov
ernment and the government should
not only create 3100.000,000 of green
back money but should create a suffi
cient volume of legal tender notes to
enable the business world to free It
self from the tyranny and the exploita
tion of the national banking system.
Government money Issued directly by
the government to the people In a vol
ume of 315 per capita would be none
too much to meet the requirements of
the case.
Advice to Mr. Bryan.
I am astonished that Mr. Bryan
should express any surprise when he
reads that my position Is that which
squares so absolutely with the historic
Democratic position. Let him study
Jackson's farewell address. Let him
study the speeches of Thomas H. Ben
ton. Let him peruse the messages oi
Mr. Madison. Let* him master toe
linanclal letters of Thomas Jefferson.
Let him grasp the splendid train of
reasoning In which John C. Calhoun
argues In favor of governmental cur
rency and he will then he better able
to recognize what Is genuine Jeffer
sonlan Democracy when he sees It.
Tho national hanks are given the use
of the two hundred and fifty millions
of toe public funds. »ds Is wrong.
They are given bonds for which they
do not pay and for whose Issue there
Is no good reason. This is wrong. The
present administration has followed the
example of President Cleveland and
President McKinley rather than the
precedent of 1873. To the astonishment
of the radicals Mr. Bryan has not chal
lenged the right of the national hank
ers to perpetuate their undemocratic
system, but has suggested a govern
menial guaranty In their behalf which
ould perpetuate the system which
Jefferson, Benton and Jackson so bit
terly antagonized.
1 profoundly regret to see that Mr.
Bryan Is dlspoaed to sidestep the money
question. He can not succeed In doing
so. It Is the burning question of the
hour nnd can not be put aside. The
single gold standard violates the con
stitution and gives too much power to
the few who control the gold. The
national banking system has brought
the country to the verge of ruin and
must be fought to the death. If Mr.
Bryan refuse# to grapple with the ene
mies of the public wealth leadership
of the Jeffersonian Democrats will slip
out of his hands.
THOMAS E. WATSON,
PEOPLE AND THINGS
GOSSIP FROM THE HOTELS
AND THE STREET CORNERS
Silas Me Bee, of New York, who spoke
at the dinner In the Interest of the
Laymen’s Missionary Movement, has
the distinction of probably knowing In.
tlmately more rulers, princes and po
tentates than any other one man.
Mr. McBee Is editor of The Church
man, the great paper of the Episcopal
church, and It was he who entertained
the bishop of London during that offl-
clal’s recent visit to this country.
Ho knew Pope Leo and he knows
Pope Pius. He Is on Intimate terms
of friendship with President Roose
velt and King Edward of England.
Nicholas of Russia has consulted with
him on several occasions and Kaiser
Wilhelm of Germany is well known to
him. And besides all these he knows
nearly every other crowned head of
Europe.
Confirming the announcement made
In The Georgian a few days ago, John
D. Little, of the law Arm of King.
Spalding & Little, makes a statement
to the effect that Major J. F. Hanson
will remain at the head of the Central
of Georgia road. Mr. Little says that
while he has no authority to make any
statement, he knows the facts in the
case. He says that not only will Atajor
Hanson not retire, but that the new
owners of the Central stipulated when
they bought the stock that Major Han
son should remain president of the
- ..... w road. This disposes vt the rumors that
least $10 to every real dpllar which»preuldent Hanson’s head was to fall In
they have invested In their business. | t hi* basket.
The only way on earth to effect a» ——
permanent eufe for this diseased con-j a dellHous spread aud seduetlve military
rfttton I* to create a sufhejent Volume {punch tra* served Tuesday ulsbt at tbe At*
of real money and to withdraw from,™® ^SISSUIL 11 S5r
the national bankers thoVsovereign 1 ft
privilege of uslng t lhelr'own notes os ,,. ni | lwr ^ was on bend and a flue uniform
money. They should Ttexexpelled from drill wss held. This company leads tbe
the money-creating busintes, the yow- regimen* in drilling sod In target practice.
MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO.,
CORNER ALABAMA AND BROAD STS.
ESTABLISHED 1880.
Capital , $200,000.00
Surplus and Profits $600,000.00
Banking in all its Branches
:
THE’ PARMENTER MILLIONS
. . A Stirring Novel of Love, Conspiracy and Adventure. . .
(Copyright, 1907, by Arthur W. Morchmont.)
>•••••••••••••
Bv ARTHUR W. MARCHMONT.
Author of “By Right of Sword, - ” “When 1 Was Czar,” Etc., Etc.
Synopsis of Previous Installment, i to do, 1( I am to save your life."
ufre'ii fond Ik drugged, sud when toe re- "It Is the money you want. Take IL
ns ronsclontuest she Audit herself in o j will freely make over everything to
fast golug nutomnblle drlveu by you—everything: but give me hack my
Merridnw. The machine breaks down. *?“' g o0 d name nnd my liberty."
while Merrldew '• “* ®"^/OT^Sneea "I* It were possible t would do It.
«n?«swU down n Srk loiw. Her IlmTis iBut It Is not. In the first place, you
anu «raw IS uotyn a uiir* »«« • t frnm th* mon v.tn
feel n;* if paralys'd nnd sin* Is nuable to
iuak« fust progress. Merrldew miss**
and. inking one of the powerful auto Iftjup***
searches *fi»r the girl. ho <-ll*nl»»a
fnlls ovor Into n plowed Held nnd la tillable
to get further away. Merrldew comes
nearer and nearer. ^
He came to the gate, threw the light
over the field, and paused. He had
not seen her. Would he go on or enter
the field? The suspense harrowed her.
He turned and sent the light ahead of
hlnl along the lane, as If In doubt.
And she clenched her hands until the
strain hurt her. . _
Then he passed on; and she watched
the light as he went farther down the
lane. She waited until It had vanished
and then rising, painfully and slowly,
she crept cautiously on across the field.
She was scarcely on her feet, how
ever. before the light flashed out again,
and she knew that she was seen.
He had outwitted her. Reckoning
that she would hide If she was In the
field, he had gone on. and then, cov
ering the light, had returned and lis
tened. In an Instant he was over tho
gate and running toward her.
She cried out at the sight of him and
began to run as fast as her weak legs
would allow, In a last feeble effort to
fly. But she tripped over the uneven
ground and fell heavily, striking her
head against the big clods.
The .next moment he was bending
over her. . „ „ . .
She was dazed by the fall: and he
picked her up and half led. half car
riedher back to the gate, the discov
ery of which had proved such a cheat-.
Ing snare to her but a few minuteg
earlier.
This blocked their progress for a mo-
ment. until, laying Olive down cloee to
It, Merrldew hunted round by the help
of hie lamp for a big atone, and with
thlK he smashed the padlock and opened
toe gate. , ,
Come,” he wild, somewhat sharply.
, e have lost more than enough time
already over this foolishness," and,
putting his arm around Iter waist, he
drew her up and started back to the
car with as much haste as possible.
Her effort had ao exhausted her that
she had no strength to resist, and when
they reached toe car. she waa almost
glad to lean back restfully on the seat
among the warm rugs, . He put her on
toe front seat this time, »o tjiat he
could see her from the place wnCIS he
was' busy with, the machinery. Every
now and then he would straighten ms
back and flash the lamp In her direc
tion, to make sure that she was not
repeating her attempt to iscape.
She had no heart left for that at
present. She waa beaten and baffled,
utterly miserable and forlorn, and per
fectly conscious that in her present
feeble condition she would haVe no
chance of getting away.
The trouble with the car was not a
serious one, and Merrldew had soon re
paired the mischief. Before they start,
ed he came up to her side.
"Will you glveme your word not to
attempt any of this sort of foollshnees
again?” he nsked.
She would not answer. Ho repeated
the question, adding: "It Is perfectly
useless to think of It."- She still kept
silent, and then he found a cord and
fastened her wrist to his own. In this
fashion they continued their Journey.
He drove very fast, very recklessly,
Indeed, and had there chanced to be
any other vehicle on the road It seemed
to Olive thnt there must have been a
terrible accident. She almost wished
It, In fact. But Ills luck stood him lit
stead, and hour after hour they rushed
on. not meeting any one, nor seeing
any one, nor, so far as she could tell,
being seen by any one.
, The coolness of the air revived her,
and as her senses regained their nor
mal strength, she began to yield to the
fascination of the wild rush through
the night.
At tlrst she could make out nothing
for the blinding glare of the brilliant
headlights, which threw forward their
beams like the giant feelers of some
mammoth, rushing beast seeking Its
prey to dash upon and destroy It.,
Then, shielding her eyes from the
glare, Olive began to make out dif
ferences In the blackness of the shad
ows as they fled past. First, the long
line of the hedge rows;, then trees,
and a lonely cottage standing back,
and In this wa^ her eyes gradually
greiv%ccustomed to the dark and she
could distinguish various objects.
And all the time Merrldew kept his
gaze fixed rigidly on the road ahead,
watching for every turn and bend, and
driving with a skill that to Olive ap
peared almost uncanny and devilish.
Pant Helds and farms and woods
they sped, always at the same rate
of speed, dashing occasionally through
a village or some little town, always
as It seemed to her/ In danger, and
always just escaping tt, until at length,
the darkness began to lift, the glare of
the head lamps grew lets dazzling, and
a faint rosy tint showed on the skyline
behind them.
They were running up a long hill, so
steep that the car, powerful as It was,
could only take it at a comparatively
slow speed, when Olive found she could
see the road for some little distance
ahead.
"Are you asleep?" asked Merrldew,
able for the flrst time to relax tbe
strain of his attention to the machine.
And he turned to look at her.
"No. I have not slept. Where are
you* taking me?”
"I can't tell you that, but we shall
not be long now. Another two hours.
Iterhaps. You had better try to sleep."
"I prefer to see where I am going,"
she answered.
"Are you very cold?" was toe next
question, in a not unkindly tone, and
he bent across and pulled up her rugs.
‘T am very sorry for all this," he
added.
"If that were true you would end it,
Mr. Merrldew.”
"■No, That is out of the question,”
he sold sharply.
"Why? I will do anything you ask—
except one thing.”
would not be safe from tho men you
tricked so recklessly; and In the sec
ond. your friends would Interfere to
prevent any such arrangement as you
suggest.”
Olive made no reply: and when they
were close to the top of the hill he con
tinued: "You don't believe that I am
sorry I can not do what you wish'.’”.
"You have made it very difficult for
mo to believe anything you say.”
"Yet It Is true. I will do this. Marry-
me, and then make certain arrange
ments about this money, and I will
swear never to see you again.” He
paused as If expecting a reply; and
ta-hfen she did not speak, he added:
"Think It over. It is the best way
out." Then he gave himself up again
to the work of driving and they tore on
nt an even greater speed than before.
Olive tried to impress on her mem
ory th# nature of the country through
which theY.passed; but It all appeared
to he the same. An endless chain of
grean and plowed fields, coppices, cot
tages, with here and there a hamlet
or Insignificant townlet to break or
rather to vary the chain.
After a long time she observed that
the country grew wilder; they climbed
hills oftener, and ran over long
stretches of moorland. Here and there
some disused workings nnd deserted
shafts showed, with a few untenailted
pottages spread around. A wild, deso
late district, with rough roads over
which the cart raveled at a slow-rate,
pnd even then with many jolts and
shakings.
The eerie solitude and deserted as
pect of everything oppressed her. and
when at length Merrldew turned the
car Into a side road toward a lonely '
house standing near to one of the de
serted shafts, she shuddered.
"Why do you come this way?'.' she
asked, with a shiver of foreboding.
"We are,at the end of our Journey,”
he said, and nodded toward the house.
She gazed at It chill and cold with
dismay and horror. "Why have you
brought me to this fearful place?”
"There are no young men here to
worry you from opposite windows.
You will stay here until you consent.
You can Judge of your chance of get
ting away.”
She shut her eyes nnd clenched her
hands In dread, and whqn she opened,
them her heart gave a great leap of
fear.' She recognized a wotnsn 'who
was waiting at the door as th# car
stopped at the lone house on the moor.
It was the hag who had claimed her
as her daughter at Sheffield.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Ollve't Jailer.
Numbed with her long Journey, worn
with the effects of the drug they had
given her and dletraught with the alarm
engendered by her surroundings, Olive
sat on toe side of the bed In the rough
ly furnished room to which she was
taken, a prey to almost agonising mis
ery.
The place had evidently been hur
riedly prepared for her reception. It
was nearly as bare as a prison cell. A
pallet bed, a wooden table, a ruah
chair, an Iron wash stand and enam
eled Ironware, a strip of carpet on the
floor and a small looking glass hang
ing on toe wall completed the furni
ture. A glnnce at the window showed
her that It had been partly bricked up
ami a set of bars built In recently.
It was a prison; nothing else; and
no pains had been taken to hide toe
fact. Its only good point waa that It
was all scrupulously clean.
When Olive had been alone some
minutes Mrs. Tlsley entered with a
basin of warm milk and some bread.
She set It down on toe table and left
the room again without speaking a
word.
Olive was famished with hunger and
ate what was gtven her wlth'*ag#mes*.
Then she lay down on th* bed. She
was utterly wretched and despairing,
but her body craved reet, and In a few
minutes, despite her anguish, she was
fast asleep.
The mid-day sun wae pouring
through her bared window when she
awoke to And Mrs. Tlsley standing by
her side calling to her.
Continued in Tomorrow'a Georgian.
ARMY-NAVY ORDERS
AND
MOVEMENTS OF >'ESSELS.
Army Ordi n
Washington, Dm*. 4.—I.leutonaiit Colonel
Frederick ’Voii Kcliradet*. deputy quarter
master general* to Kansas City for inspect
ing mules. » -
I'antitiu Humid Hammond, paymaster, to
Washington, report In person to payola*#.*
general of the army for doty ip tbff office
of the post paymaster.
First Lieutenant Alfred MrC. Wilson,
from the Twentieth to Twenty-second In
fantry. First Lieutenant Arthur Dalton
from Twenty-second to Twentieth infantry.
First Lieutenant James Ooetbe, Thirteenth
cavalry, to Fort DeSoto, Fla., at witness
In esse of First Lieutenant Jattien A. Thom
as, cosst artillery coma.
Navy Order*.
Captain W. C, Futon, commissioned.
Lieutenant Commander J. S. Doddridge,
commissioned. Lieutenant J. J. Klyliunl,
detached of equipment of Washington to
Minnesota. ✓
Lieutenant B. A. Long, detached Hart
ford. to Cfninectlcdt. Identennnt B. G.
Ladcnberger. to naval training' station,
Newfwrt. Mhlebtpmnn II. L, Spencer, de-
inched Hartford to flllnoia. Midshipman
tired,* died nt Washington’, November 2,
1907.
Movements of Vassals.
ABBIVBD—December 1, .Vermont, at
Bradford. If. I.: I>eceniber t, Nero at Brad
ford. R. I.; Abrenda nt Norfolk, Texas at
Norfolk.
SAILED—Ileeamlmr 2, Louisiana from
nnvy yard. New York, for Hampton Roads;
Whipple. Hopkins. 11 fill. Stewart, Law
rence and Troxtutj from Hampton Road*
for Hnn Joan; Atsirenda from Lambert
I'olut for Norfolk; Texas from Hampton
Bonds for Norfolk; Brutna from Norfolk for
Baltimore^Brooklyn nml Mlantonomop from
* 7 . . _ Diiiiiiuurp, iiitotai.vii muii eiisuiuimu
"There I. only one thing now (or you iigiiqituu R<mit> for League l.lauiL