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ITtlPAY. PECKMBEK 18. I HE ATLANTA UEOKOIAX AND NEWS. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NETS) Published Every Afternoon. (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 23 Wrgt Ala korun St, Atlanta. Gt. Subscription Rates: ^ MontM 1 rJ Irath S frier. Per Week 10 ephnnee rnnnratlnc sit dzpart' a. Long distance urroittAfA muuii *v lomnp*™. re...iintlre* for .11 territory oat. CMrsn Office..... TriMme'BalMlW. Nen York Office .... Ilrun.trl.k Bid*. i; I: o'no ll’” ani>' r 3$w£' t *ri*pjione the elrenintlon drpsrtmest sna h.r. It promptly remedied. Telephone#. Bell 027 mala: Atlanta 1401. SnhecrlIters deslrlns THE OEOR* Sffi AMS Um;otter*!*.. It wlll.be cost! need .» the renter sstteenpttes r»te. until nolle, to sto* I. received. In ordering o rhsnit* of editress, please gift lie old n. well as the now iUrtti. It I, de.lr.lde that nil eommonlen* tlon. Intends] for nnhlleatlon In TITB GEORGIAN ANH KKtVfl be limited to *» nerd. In |en«th. It I. Imperative that Iher Ire .lulled, .. an evidence of rood fnlth. Itejeeted in.nil«erlpt. will n d lie reiarned »Diet. .lamp, nro wot for the fyRtyosr. TUB GEORGIAN AND NEW* print, no unclean or objectionable adrertls- In*. Neither doe. It print whisky or any lldnor nd». OUR PLATFORM: THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS .Inml. for Atlnntn • own- Ins It. otvn gas and electric light plant., n« It bow own. It. water work. Other elite do this and get cn> low «. *4 rent,. with s prqflt to the el|v. Thl« should he (lone nt once. TIlR GEORGIAN AND NEWS believe. Hint If .tree! railway, e.n b« opernted eneesezfuHy hy European Title., n. they are, there I. no good rrn«on why they can not hr so epos- nteil here. But we do not helleee ihl. run ho done now, and It may b. some ye»r« liefore \vt • te reody for so biff ini undertaking. Mill Allnntn should ret It. face In that direction SOW. Ago Limit For Warships. A bill h»* been Introduced In the German parliament, fixing the age limit for battleships as well as for large cruisers at to Instead of 15 years. The normal period of .•‘efficien cy" for battleships will In future be reckoned from the date of the grant of the first Installment for the con struction of a ship which Is .to take Its place. Pretty soon wo will have the Thaw trial with us again. That Rowell-McCartney onion de bate Is waxing strong. Do we dream or was there really onco a Shaw presidential boom? Johp Wesley Gaines is the most prollflc space writer on the esteemed Congressional Record. No thought prevails that Carters- Vine is a benighted place, because Mayor Moon shines Ihere now. It takes worse than rain to keep shoppers from Kris Krlngllng in At lanta's Whitehall Santa Clausvllle. The Joke would be on both of the Overstreets If the First district de clined to send & K. to congress now. Denver lands the national Demo cratic convention. The promises of snowballs and $100,000 turned the trick. Smno few cltlsans view the ap proach of January 1 with anything but enthusiasm. Antl-booro mid an il-pang com* then. Abe Kuef Is to dodge the pen after nil. The final crowning evant of hts Infamous career is to welch on his fellow-gratters to save his own hide. Uoston has elected a Republican mayor. Occasionally this sort of thing is necessary to make the' peo ple appreciate a Democratic admin istration. After a careful suryey of the Held, we state, without fear of contradic tion. that the Albany Herald Is now the best newspaper printed In a town of that site in the country. We would like to list with the sec retary of the Paragraphers* union, the box of Christmas cigars from the wife and crocheted slippers for the min isters, as tabooed subjects. Delegates from South America, looting In Washington, have decided o have permanent peace. They will irobably have to burry home to Bel le three or four revolutions before 11 (he details can bo worked out. A turkey was slaughtered down In Houston the other day and the entire population turned out to eee the uu- usual event Turkeys gobble from the coops of even the humblest citi zens here In Glorious Georgia. About the hottest contribution to • urrent literature is the Chicago Record-Herald’s account of the annual ball of Alderman "Bathhouse" John Coughlin. “A hodgepodge of wine, hgoor and vulgarity,” the Record lb ?rald characterized IL THE NEXT CONVENTION CITY. The selection of Denver ub the scene of the next Democratic nation* al convention furnishes something of a disappointment to the South, whose hopes of tho chance of a Southern city had been raised high by the activity and enterprise displayed by the city of Louisville. The Kentucky metropolis made a fine showing in Its ambitious effort, and though it did not land the prize, did its section a distinct service in bringing It forward as a strong claimant upon the party’s consideration in the future. In fact, it fs now entirely probable that the convention of Ifllt will be held in the South, and Louisville will naturally have first claim. The InereaRed Im portance attached to the talk of a Southern man for president will have Its effect in shortening the time until both parties shall give this section Its proper turn In the selection of cities for their conventions. The debate as to the propriety of accepting whatever part of the $100,000 offered by Denver shall be In excess of the actual expenses of the convention was interesting, but not important, when the proper dis tinction la made between campaign funds subscribed by cities or states and those subscribed b> corporations or their representatives. WE PASS IN REVIEW BEFORE A FAMOUS NAVAL EX- 'PERT. • Now that the finishing touches are being put on tho mightiest fleet this nation has ever assembled, preparatory to its friendly cruise in Eastern waters, It is interesting to note what other great powers think of the showing we are making and how they view th$ naval strength of the United States In the light of any real or suspected significance of the cruise in relation to Japan. In the expressive slang of the day, It may be accepted without further speculation that the event, even in its prelimi naries, Is of sufficient importance to make them all “sit up and take notice” Germany, second among naval powers of tho world, has mani fested the liveliest interest in the matter, and Colonel Goedke, one of the famous military and'-naval experts, has made an Interesting review and estimate of our fleet and our situation as compared with those of Japan. What he says Is not only of interest, but as It has somewhat the tone of authority, his findings arc calculated to make us unfasten a but ton or so of our national waistcoat. Says he: r Ono notices again, as on# did in 190*. when tb# Ru*«lnn'Admiral Itorhdjcst- wonskls started with hla Baltic fleet, bow difficult nn undertaking a cfulw* of such a squadron Is when a country is not ns fortunate nn ftnglnnd, that bns nnvnl fmr.es In nil sens and fortified coaling stntjona everywhere. Wtitn the flint troubles with tho Japan### fttsrtod the American fleet was liot In n position to defend American Interests In the Pnelflc ocean. It wns . then, andjirolinldy la nt tbti moment, absolutely helpless In the ruse of an at- tvonid not have been able to fluil , — Jugf At the moment when the great ere, however, diplomatic and financial reasons mded stntesn— * heir country) America In stirti n meek and humble manner Only after having signed the recent treaty with IIursIa, Japan hns a per- • feetly free hand In the Pneltle ocean. In the meantime, however, America Is preparing to send Into tho Tactile nn enormous fleet which la far superior to the Japanese In tounnee nnd strength, and thus America will apparently be In a more favorable position—that Is to say, thnt the United States will bt au- premc In tho roeffle. The hottest, best nnd strongest battleships owned by the United States nr# going to leave the Atlantic for the Pacific. None of the sixteen battleships which nre going east Is more than nine years old, ond because of their slse they are to be counted nmong the most powerful vessels In the world. Five of them are of 18,280 tons each (3,000 ton* more than Germany'# newest battle ships Afloat), five nre of 15.200 tons, a ml the seven smnller ones rang# between - 4V7IO- and 12,700 t#n«.* m the -smallest of them nre equal or superior to tho German man-of-war of the Wtttetabnch clasa. On the other side. It must l*» admitted that the gpeed of tho fleet Is fnr (rom iH'lng uniforms ranjjWg from 18.2 to 19.4 |m| mA *- **-* Japanesa battleship squad 4 knots, and In this respect the ... i hns an advantage, but one which 1s not of very great Importance In a battle, nn all other points the Japanese seem to be In ferior. -Against the nlxteen but Mesh Ipa they can show only eleven, with nn Aggregate tonnage of 141.000, while the nggregnte tonnage of the American squadron is 228,050. Furthermore, one must also remember thnt live of the Japanese Ships are prise* taken from the Uusslniis during the recent war nnd tbnt It Is quite tlonmtal whether they nre of much value. Looking nt the battleships of the second class—thnt Is to any, the nrmored erulsert*--Anier1en again seems ter he nheml. To be sure, they have only nine of these to np|H>N# the ten of the Japanese, but the American Teasels Are con siderably larger, stronger nnd more powerful thnn the Japanese, their aggre gate tonnage being llD.o»i. ns against 101.000 of the Japanese, nnd, besides, they are far speedier than those of the mikado, and speed Is n considerably mofe Important factor In cruisers thnn In battleships. . Altogether the American.fleot has nn uggregnto tonnage of 95.000 tons more than th# Japanese, hut this doe# not necessarily menu that America would come nut victorious In case of a conflict or that a Japanese attack would have tin ebauee of aitcco*# under any circumstance#. Moral elements, the trnlulng of men nnd the skill of the officers also must enter into consideration, and, be sides. one must not forget that ths Japanese fleet bus excellent bases and all facilities dose at hand. The plan of sending tho American squadron to tho Pacific shows thnt the United States Is fully aware of the Importance of the political situation In the Far Knat, and that the American government endeavors to gather there supe rior naval forces. At any rate. It pronnrei Itself for nil emergencies with far more care and foresight than did the officials of the exar when their position was far more critical Immediately before the outbreak of the Uusso-Japanese Is snld by the American naval authorities that the armada Is to return nt the end of 1908 through the Sue* canal, lint oua has n right to doubt this. The absence of the fleet In the Pacific will, of course, materially weaken the defense of the Rnstern seaboard of tho United States, hut It does not de prive It of nil defenses. There will be left on that conat nine battleships be- sides the four mighty vessels In course of construction, two of which are 2,000 tons larger thnn the English Dreadnought. built fifteen more vessels, which will giro them i tnutlc ocean of twenty-eight battleships. As long na the Panama canal has not been dug mutual »w- tween the two fleets, separated hy tho whole length of the continent, will bs fighting strength In the At- j-opemtlon be- WE DON’T WALK ENOUGH. How far can you walk without getting exhausted? No matter how hale and hearty you are! it'i more than probable that Simeon Rohrer, eighty year* young, can outwalk you many tlmeg over, lie has Just re turned to hii Virginia home after making hie second trip to Pittsburg. The flret time lie went there was before railroad* wero built. That time he walked, and this second time, although railroads were at hand, he paused them by on foot. You couldn't do that, not If you're but one-third that man's age. If you tried It you'd probably end In being carried on to a train on a stretch er. Because you havon't been brought up to walk, you'd find such a pedestrian trip impossible. There nre not many people nowadays who can walk any distance at ail without feeling used up. Walking is becoming lesB necessary each year, for car lines are continually Increasing In number. The children of this generation do not walk na much ns did the children of tho last generation. Bach future generation will walk less than the one that pre ceded It, until the time will probably come when people will And It im possible to walk, except around tbelr homes or a block or two at a time. And who knows but the time may Anally come when people can't walk at alt? Stranger things than tlfat have happened. You know it is an inevi table law of nature that the part of the body which Is not used in time becomes useless. Today ail of us who are moderately well ought to be able to walk many miles without experiencing any sense of exhaustion, but how many of ue can do this? Yet If wo would but walk moro we'd And that we should grumble less about headaches and indigestion and blues and bad feelings generally. It certainly wae not originally intended that we should be moved hither and yon through tho medium of chained lightning, or Are and stream, or by the taming of horses, or the use of gasoline. But we have grown so dependent upon these mediums of transportation that we do not think we can go to any place at ail unless assisted by them. Poor, feeble creatures that we are! How did tho folks In the good old days, ten thousand years ago. get along? Well, for one thing, they lived longer than folks do nowadays. And they dl'd It without the use of patent medicines, massage, water cares or say other new-faagled mediums for the preservation of life. Undoubt edly the use they made of their legs had something to do with their long life. How long is It since you walked Ave miles at a Stretch? Or three, nr two, or even one? You. of course, reply that you haven't time to walk. Then that's where Simeon Robrer is again ahead of yon. He not only walked from Virginia to Pittsburg and back, but had time to do It. ffe may be poor in purse, but if he's rich in time to walk t(nd has strength to do It. he's not poor. And If you are rich la purse and have neither time nor strength to walk, then you an poor Indeed- Growth and Progress of the New South Hi# GtorrfoD lipre r#conls *»ncb *lay soma economic fort lb reference to th# onward progress of tbe South BY JOSEPH B. LIVELY outb mnlntnlna a fair Average of tndu u.u „ trial Htrcnnoslty nt-tho opening of me vTiutpr season, despite the tide of tlnanolnl tightness which seems to hove inaoo It, influence f«lt to tunic cstcot In nil liora of trn.lc. There Is II percentlli c nnd most gratifying repef from this depressed sit tuition: however, * n *1 development is progressing #t n lively pace. The principal new Imlnstrtes .estahllshffl jP the South during the week ending DecsMtar 11 are enumerated in the following list compiled from repqfts made to Tho Tradesman. Thera nre several notahljr u»rgo ooueoritB, Judged hy the amount of capitalisation. Among these nre n $1.2w.000 tlin- lH*r company In Arkansas; n $100,000 mnnufnotiiritlf company In Georgia; n hardware company in Louisiana; a 8100,Ofti mining and smelting eofnpany .10 jp*?: sour!: n $3U).m cotton mill In North Carolina; a $100,000 cotton mill in Oklahoma, a 315O.000 coal and coke company lu Virginia, and a $500,000 lime nnd stone com pany in West Virginia. The Tradesman's list follows: A It K A Nfl AS—Little Rock, $120,000 timber company; Van Buren, three $25,000 canning factories. _ ... -,*#.** GKolUflIA— Augusta, $100,000 manufacturing company; Woodbury, $10,000 rnnnu- factoring company. LOUISIANA—New Orleans. $100,000 fierelopmcut company, $100,000 land nnd devel- ‘ y. I5.oo.noo machinery plant; MJnden, $1M.OOO 000 oil company; Nhreveport. $25,000 construe- y; Leconipte, electric light plant; West Mou- *>f 153oiUIt I—Kansas* City, $150,000 manufacturing company, $25,000 land company, gns company; Kt. Souls, $15,000 manufacturing company; Palmyra. $Mpot#tenhone system; rjamsd. $100,000 mining and smelting company; Carthage, »#5,00j mining company, concentrating mill. North Carolina—Asheville. $50,000 construetlon company; High Point* WgJgJwt- ton mill. $12$.n00 chair factory; Supply. $_">. »)' milling company; Monroe. $W0.m de velopment company; Greensboro, $100,000 manufacturing company; King, $25,000 tele* pb °OKLA*HOMA--Mnngum, $100,000 cotton mill; Nowata. $10,000 Investment com pany: Tulsa. $100,000 oil company; Oklahoma City, $50,000 automobile company. $100,- 000 oil and gas company. VIRGINIA—tkdioolfleld, $25,000 building and 1) tobacco company: Richmond, $25,000 development vwi her company; Manchester, $10,000 turning company; coke company. WUWt VIRGINIA—Clarksburg. $50,000 land compaor, mining company; Elkins. $25,000 oil nnd gag company; Uleeton, $10,oto canning factory; Charleston, $50,000 oil and gas company; Moundsvllie, $600,000 lime nnd stone company; Wheeling, $25,000 nmu«ement company. loan company; Farmvllle, $50,000 : company; Radford, $25,000 lum- any; Pocahontas. $150,000 coal and 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 Solving the Gift Problem By WEX JONES For a young married couple nothing could be more suitable thnn ft get of boxing gloves. ■■■Pitt ■„ — ■ —- count mention the price. Your friend might be able to Ohd out what ybu did pay. pretty young u for a bachelor. wife Is nn excellent pres- cnflrtie florae*. The children won’t have as natch fun, but your chin •will feel a lot better.* Mince pies of the old fashioned everklil kind are as good ns cboloform to an in valid. A fried egg is an unusual Christmas gift A pleasant idea Is to write a little verge with each gift. Thu* with a mince pie this Couplet might be sent: Take and ent this little pie With good wishes to you from I. WUh n dou: Here Is n pretty little doll. Be careful that you don't let It foil. “Fair’ Is spelled “foil” to make It rhyme better. ■■■■M .... One hns been known to live n hundred years, so a tjltjak Is a good lnstlng present and will not wear out easily unless stepped Any person will appreciate a lively bull terrier nnd will think of the donor every time the terrier bttes him. PEOPLE AND THINGS GOSSIP FROM THE HOTELS AND THE STREET CORNERS M. P. Berrien, who was w<?ll known Ir. Atlanta business circles a» tho cashier of tbe Conklin Tin Plate and Metal Com pany. bns severed his connection with that company to become assistant manager of the H. M. Ashe Company, the well-known typewriter concern. Mr. Berrien, better known to his friends ns “Dot” Berrien, has made a reputation In business circles In Atlanta. Dr. Morris May. of New York, ona of tho most noted nnd dfstlngntsbed rabbis In the Fast, la in Atlanta visiting his sons. Mar* flu nnd Harry May. He has many frlenda In Atlanta who are extending to ntm n warm welcome. Dr, May Is a cultured schol ar nnd has made a reputation In educational work. 1 Harry SIcCue. general Southern represen tative of the American Steel ami Wire Company. Is ill at St. Josephs infirmary room, kUi plij-.lolnna found lw> hail typhoid. Than ho thorn (tro few trurdllnx men more i notified of hi, ulneM. There rosy be Minn cltle. In the coiratry ..here nnnrlnt, will be, royde happy on Chrtetmn. b.v Rettlnir Ihnlr liberty, but At- luntn In not nn* of them. At leant no prisoner, will fintnh nerrlnx their term, on that day this ynnr. The tint of prUoner, to be rntenaeil from the Ills In.tltnttou owned by tho pm. meut In South Atlnntn linn tun* linen filed with the eterh of the fnlteil Stnte, court, Imt It does not show thnt nny prlroner, will he released on tBnt dny. Several are hooked to come out on December 20, and a few shortly before Christmas. _ . Those who are compelled to spend Christ mas behind the lmrs. however. wlH have n* easy a time-a ml ns fine a dinner os If they were on tho outside. _ _ .... The oemnd e<iua. ron of the Twelfth Batted Stnte, invnlry. which ban been npcndlnir the atttnuter nt the name,town Kx- ponttlen unwed throneli Atlnntn Thurwlny evening et* lln wny to tho pont at Fort Oalrtborne. There nre four compnnle, In the squadron and about 200 men Ip au. Rons tor Clay, of Georgia. Mu] 8#nator files, of Washington, wet hi att elevator in the Capitol Annex, says Tbe Washington Herald, •Hello/ from Georglannn r ••Fair ‘ Hows '“Sfne " •\VUli you bntl thoflaht ool your wny I've ant on uiy hnndn. ,nld Liny. "Got everything Ju»t tbe way we want It." replied Vilen. "I nee your eve n set up,. indue. Still a little WoodahoL” "Yen," returned Olay, rumlnntlvely. -but HI bloody the other fellow , before I Bet through.” PROHIBITION NEWS. (From Th# New Orleans Tlmes-Dewocrafd The Tlnies-Domocffit received the follow ing letter yesterday; nnd we presume other papers have had similar warnings; Milwaukee, WIs.. V. R. A.. Dec. 8, 1907. To tho Editor of The Times-Democrat: Dear Blr-We Iw?g to call your attention to the fnct that certain newspapers through out tbe eonntry feel rath##'Inclined to boost tbe prohibition game, making low front- —„ r .»*—.— —o«wt n{ j headlines (nre- ,- ltn I he nutl-anToon Ion anon, oro.l, whl.h tho broworn. In pH- -rill, nru kc-plnu n record of lire Iwllip no exception), sod ns yon have had a certain nrcjNirffon of ottr huslucx* In the PMt. n?c feel It our dnty to advlso you that all them* different newspaper# who foil to suppress prohibition nnd null toon league news hereafter (for whl.h they receive noth lug. while th# brewer# arc largo advertiser*, spending cnnrmouK sums of money lu news- paper advertising every year* will not only lose our pntroaage. hutjilsn that pf most brewery T» ARMY-NA VY ORDERS AND MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS. every the Hilled Sintra, . awtnialna to knock onr bitlara. In this way can -xp—t to he turned down on nivy future advcrtlr- Ina contract, from both oarayinu nnd nil other larac Mmta Brafl**truly yonra, FitKb mii.i.Git imi:\Yi.\-o co.. A. O. I-AL'L Mouaprr A.lv, I)cpl. It la needles to My that a threat of thla bind will uot have the lUshteat oflOct cn Tho Tlni-v-licuocrat nor, w* Iwliccc. on Kfiaf 5 ® nmi WnshlnRton, Dec. 13.—The following orders have been Issued: Army Orders. Captain Joseph H. Ford, assistant surgeon, from San Francisco to Fort William Henry Harrison, vice First Lieutenant Craig R. Snyder, assistant surgeon, to Fort McHenry: Captain Robert N. Hudson, assistant surgeon, from San Francisco to Jefferson bar racks. Captain Percy Mashburn, assistant surgeon, from San Francisco to Fort Banks; Captain Gideon McD, Poole, assistant surgeon, from Son Francisco to Fort Slocum; Captain Philip E. M. Walker, Sixth Infantry, having been found by retiring board Incapacitated for-actlve duty on account of disability Incident thereto, retired. Major Lorenzo' P. Davis, retired, de tailed with organized militia of Ne braska; Major Archibald \ Campbell, coast artillery corps, designated mem ber torpedo board, Fort Totten, during nbsence of Colonel Garland N. Whis tler. coast artillery corps; Second Lieu tenant Fielding L. Poindexter, coast artillery corps, to army and navy gen eral hospital, Hot Springs, Captain John L. Hines, quartermas ter, from Jamestown Exposition to Madison barracks, thence to Omaha as assistant to chief quartermaster. De partment of the Missouri;First Lieu tenant Howard O. Davids, Sixth Infan try, rallevad at constructing quarter- toaster, Fort Aeslnlbolne. Navy Orders. Captain I.. Young, additional duty oa captain of the yard, navy yard, Mare Island; Lieutenant Commander E. T. Witherspoon, detached Texas, to Naval Academy. Movements of Vssssls, ARRIVED—December II, Kentucky and Minnesota, at Hampton Roads; Sterling, nt Para, Brasil. SAlLEp—December 10, Milwaukee, from San Diego for Mare Island. De cember 11, Eagle, from Port au-Prlnce to Guantanamo; Arethua, from: Lam bert Point to Trinidad; Dalhgren, from navy yard, New York, for Norfolk; Glacier, from Havana for Santa Lucia: Montgomery, ordered commissioned navy yard, league Island; Shubrlok, placed In reserve navy yard, Norfolk, and Tlngey. commissioned at eame yard and assigned to third torpedo flotilla, December 11. err lifter, the lie measured by t glrcn. Is no mniiiitrons that It Is sesreely probable our correspondent realized wluit lie wan proposing to us. lie .rams uushle tn understand how nuw.pnpers esa publish f rohlldtlon news when they get qn sdvrr- Isements from the prohibitionists, cuppclnlly ns by doing so they offend th* brewers, "who are targe advertisers, spending onor- raoas sums of money In newspapers adver tising every year." If this view were adopted the papers should refuso to glre eliureh news or report sermons, ns there Is matl'm" 1 * "* 10 r -"ffi° l| s Infer* Foolish threats llko this have done the esnse of the brewers and liquor dealers mnrh harm In the poat, aa name of them arc reopgutx ug ami they would gatu very Utile rfedlt toTtsve It known thnt they are trying to cheek the pruhthllou tlila hy lu- Iluelmt nr bulldozing the newspapers Into publishing no newa about It. As a matter of fnet, no decent Journal will Ire. thus con trolled. It Is I la business tn give tin* news, nnd all the tiewa, what tho prohibitionists bav* to say as well •• what the lirewKs. Mteohaen and liquor dealers my. Tho beer fftad liquor problem la under ronaideratleu Just nnjr, nnd n sutUfeernry solution It go- Ing to he reached only niter a thorough dis cussion from stray print of view. The Tlmea.ti-mocrat la not lu fnvor of prriilMlhm. os we have frequently ahewu. Mlevlng It Imprnerlenlde and llkefy to pro duce undesirable renditions: lint It duta gives tho prohibition news, meeting* anil arguments, and Intends to ronllnne to give them. IdseusslfHi nf a great public nuctilnn ess not lie aupprraanl. and no newspaper . , T . ran afford or would think nf stiiinreaMig Uu» he uowspa. any uc*a of geotml Isteroau THE PfiRMENTER MILLIONS ... A Stirring Novel of Looe, Conspiracy and Adventure . . . * (Copyright, 1907, by Arthur W. Marcbiuont.) By ARTHUR W. MARCHMONT. DinLt af SuiArrl^U/han I Was P■ Author of 4, By Right of Sword*' Synopsis of Frovious Installments After travellnc for some rtlstnnee on the romi. Olive reaches a village Rather than beg for fowl and lodging she derides to sing in the streets, declaring herself to be au actress whose company bos been dinbanded. A man in a crowd insults her ana is knocked down by it chivalrous old fellow, who takes her home to bis wife, who, when she hears some of Olive’s story, shows great sympathy, oven slipping two sovereigns into the girl’s purse while Olive Is asleep. "Eh, but that's a rare bit of luck," site exclaimed. “You don't know me, and yet you would deny yourself to this extent,' said Olive, sinning. "Hear her, now. As If 't were aught of my doings!” "My dear, good friend," cried Olive, kissing her. "But I’ll come down and speak to you both about it." She hurriedly finished her dressing und went down. But the man was gi-ha. Tho wife received her with a lialf- zbeme-faced smile. "Jack’s a ram coward, and that’s true. H» wouldn’t face 'ee, when I said It was found out. It was Ills dnlngs, and he swears that If I take a penny of It back he’ll thrash me. And .he has a terrible hard fist, my dear. We seed, o' course, you were In trouble an' that—oh, ray dear, you must take It. It’s Just to get 'ee home." At that they both cried In sympathy, and Olive consented to take he money and return It. Then the wife said sho had arranged with a neighbor for Olive tr be driven to the nearest station, and her husbnnd' had left word about the time of the train she could catch. And so her troubles were over, and hy 10 o’clock she was In the train on her wny to Mr. Casement. She sat a long time thinking over this unexpected kindness, and then opened the. paper she hnd bought at the station. She was turning It over rather listlessly, when she sat up suddenly with a cry of dismay as she read one of the larger headings. "The - Foreign Office Mystery. Tho Robbery Still Unexplained. Tho Hon. John Fonwlck's Statement.” CHAPTER XXXIX. “Mollis O'Brien." Olive read with deep nnd painful In- ... . —- -—•- •— terest the report of the robbery of the SM *S*S . r , e lno, , t f< F ‘he perm- papers from the foreign oflllce. and *s- ; .P* of the theft, and when she read peclally that portion \vhlch contained IJ?'' ‘“ e * e oond time the description of Jack’s explanation of his part in the ‘1*.servant whom Jack hnd seen on hts matter. The report left no doubt In her When I Wss Czsr,” Etc., Etc. the address at Finchley. And at this point comes the greatest mystery f told exactly what I have said here and Immediately went out to the address with a detective Inspector to verify mv 8 f 0r >'; But n different servant opened the door to us, nnd I was told that f had not been to the house before that day and that no such servant ns I de scribed—the one I had aeen earlier of c 2 urse ' A stout ' fal1 ' flori <l woman of about thirty and a German, I think— was there or ever had been. In V word, my statement. Instead of belne corroborate,., was denied. No question Ing could shake the girl's story; and a search of the house resulted In noth ing which tended In the least to dis credit her or to confirm my statement. I may add. however, that the house w-na at once placed under police ob servation. Late the same evening the girl went out In cap and apron, with a Jog, and was seen to enter a public house, but was not seen again. The Jug was left on the counter, and ths girl, It is supposed, took off her ran and apron, slipped a shawl over her head and left by another door. The house Is now untenanted. ''* c «d offer no explanation other than tho facts as I have told them. 1 know of course, that I have been made the victim of a cleverly planned and boldly executed conspiracy; that I was pur posely decoyed away In order that some one made up to resemble me might get into tho building for the robbery. But I am also aware that two other vlewa ore held. One Is that I myself was the thief, ond the other tHat In a fit of temporary aberration I acted as described unconsciously and. ab stracted the papers. "Both those suggestions are the veriest rot. I am neither n thief nor a mad man. Meanwhile I am all hut ruined. I have nothing but my own word In proof of my statement, and nothing but my consciousness of Inno cence »o support me in a very dark nour. The paper made but one short comment. “Of course, we must not fall to recog. nlze thnt Mr. Fenwick’s statement may bs true and his explanation the correct solution. Meanwhile, whore are the stolen papers?” Olive’s cheeks flamed with Indlgna- tjon as she read this last sentence. mind that he was suspected of complic ity In It, and the comments upon this statement, while not openly accusing him, made the cose look very block. "I ant perfectly willing to tell nil I know,” he said, "and have received per mission to make a statement. For some (lays befors the robbery I had been In a Condition of Intensely restless nervousness on account of the young lady to whom 1 um engaged to be mar ried. YVe had already received a warn ing thnt some robbery was being plan ned and had taken nil precautions that appeared possible. But as nothing un usual occurred for some days, the warning was set down as ono of thost which from time to time reach us. -J'On the day of the robbery, the 30th, I went, as usual, to the office. I was even more anxious than ever on- ac count of the. lady I have mentioned, and just before I should have started to take some papers to the house of the minister In Cromwell Gardens a letter was put Into my hands to the effect that the lady was In great peril and that her life might depend upon my go. Ing at once to her. The address was on the other side of London, 2S Rose- berry Villas, Finchley. In my agita tion I thought of nothing else, and rushed away, without a word to any one. , "That omission was. of poursc, Inex cusable, and I do not defend It. I hur ried to the address with the utmost, haste, to And that nothing was known there either of the letter or of the lady herself. I was deeply distressed and alarmed, and after some little time I returned, calling on the way at the house where the lady had been living. Hearing nothing of her there, I went to the office. In my agitation It had never occurred to me to connect the letter with the warning we had received, and I did not do that until on my return I heard that a robbery had taken place. '! was told that during the luncheon hour, Just when the fewest clerks were In the building, I had returned nnd had gone straight to tny desk, had taken up the papers which were lying for me to take to the chief, and with them In my hand had gone Into his room and shut the door; and that a few minutes later I had come out of the room nnd hnd left the building. All the time J had not spoken to any one; and It was ob served that my manner was very sin gular. "On leaving, I wae eald to have called a hansom and given the address In Cromwell Gardens. The driver of the hansom has since been found nnd be lieves he can Identify me as the person whom he drove there. He declares that I paid him and dismissed him at the door nf the house. I am next said to have delivered the papera to the foot man to give to his master; and that I appeared very flurried and agitated flrst visit to the house, she recognised It as fitting Anna Hartmann. What was she to do? The prob- lem was a distracting one, and during all the rest of the long journey her thoughts were full of It. Sho could, of course, give Information that would place the woman at once In the hand* of the police; but what would result? Tho whole gang would Immediately take alarm and disappear. Anna, In her stolid way, would deny Jack* statement, and even If she were held In custody It would not really clear Jack. All the flutter caused by the arrest would render the ultimate dis covery vastly moro difficult, extremely Improbable, Indeed, while Olive's own Investigation would at the same time be Impeded, If ono arrest was made, there must be many others; the net must be spread as wide as possible. She was shrewd enough to see that the question which the newspapers had asked was really the vital point. Where were the stolen papers? Olive had learned enough of matters to be able to guess the answer to this. Either they hnd already been handed over to the people for whom they had been stolen, or they wero In the keeping nf Mrs. Taunton or Merrldow. Probably the former. It must be her work to ascertain this. And finding this out, she must at tho same time hit on the means of helping to solve her own problems. She already had a thought In the connection. She hnd not played the spy In the minister’s house for noth ing. The experience had taught her the value of such a fnethod, and she was quite ready to make another at tempt. She had before recognized that In at tacking Merrldew first she hod made a mistake. It was the mother who had been at the bottom of the scheme against her, nnd It was Mrs. Merrl dew who muat be watched for the future. Olive's Idea hnd been to gnln admittance to SUvorbeech, getting a place In the household there—Just as she had In Cromwell Gardens. It was there, If anywhere, that »he would gain the Information she needed to expose the fraud of that early mar riage; and as soon as tho Idea had taken Arm root It strengthened with every mile of her Journey. Then another development occurred to her. If she could contrive to force Merrldew to SUvorbeech and then man age to overhear the conversations be tween mother and son she might In deed discover their secrets. She knew ctery nook ond cranny of the big, ram bling house. It was a very old house, with more than one secret chamber, staircase and hiding place, constructed cunningly In the times when the former masters of the manor had been In volved In plots and counterplots against the government In the times of the re bellion and later. 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