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2 TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. kunf.hdat, march m mmm Force May Be Used To Bring Castro Around. ASPHALT TRUST IS AT BOTTOM OF ROW State Department Has Turned Matter Over to Congress. WASHINGTON, March 4e-Th# ad ministration today Is In such a posl tti.n that unices President Castro, o Venezuela. change* hla attitude, a dl* play of fore* mu»t b« made. Army and nary officer* ape expect lnjr immediate order* fop a movement ngainst the South American republic. Caetro baa refilled unconditionally to ronelder tho demand made upon him by the atate department to aubmlt all matter* In dleputa to arbitration. Tho admlnletraUon practical y ha* taken the etand that the aephalt trust Is In the right In Ite controverey with < 'nstro and aubetanllally haa made Ite came the government'#. S8,000,000 Fine. There are elx prominent caeee at le- etje and the moet prominent on* le the fine of 58,0##,#00 Impoeed on the a* phalt truet by President Caetro. The elate department haa gone ni far oe It can while congreea le In eee- alon, but that body haa aaked for all tbs correspondence and It Is known that the majority feel that the recalci trant Caetro ahould bo brought up with n round turn. ' „ , . U. S. Navy Not Sufficient. The United Htatea conaented to this because It wan certain thal If the Uni te! Statea did not consent bombard ments of La Ouayra by the angry pow er* would follow and a te*t be made of the Monroe doctrine. It la admitted that In case It become* ncc*»*ary to coerce. Caatro. the navy alone would not bo aufflclent. The capi tal and the Interior generally of Vene zuela are admitted to be almoit Inac cessible. An army of 100,#00 men. It I* aatd. could not march the abort dlatance from L*. Ouayra to Caracas. It I* a rocky, precipitous accent and a nor row road.. NO WORD YET FROM PRESIDENT CASTRO CARACA8, Venezuela, Maroh 4.— Even unofficial news from the United Slates that Venezuela la threatened w ith a display of force unless eh* sub. mlt* to arbitration the American citi zen*' claim* of unjust dispossession of the properties In this country ha* extracted no word from President Cae. tro. Foreigner* here think from the president's stubborn character, that he I* making more than a mere "bluff." with tin ultimate surrender In mind. Tim opinion le that he will actually re sist If force la used against him. Cae tro practically has the support of the entire people In hie etand. INSURANCE CO. IS INVESTIGATED P.y direction of Comptroller General William A. Wright, Insurance commis sioner of Georgia, Hudson Lee. an ex pert, Is Wednesday examining the af faire of the (late City rtre Insurance Company, of Atlanta, with offices'In Temple Court building. General Wright has received com plaints of this company, and tinder au thority vested tn him by law ordered an Investigation. Thle company Is one of tho many co operative concerns doing business In Georgia- Under the lew the Insurance commissioner has very little Jurisdic tion over their operations, and can fores an Investigation only upon ape- rifle charges. J. R. CRANDALL DEAD; WELL KNOWN HERE J. R. Crandall, a well-known business man of Macon. Oa., and well known In Atlanta, died at his desk In the office of tbs Macon Crate and Box Worke Tuesday morning. Ths body wna brought to Atlanta Tuesday night ami removed to H. M. Patterson A son's private chgpeL where the funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at 12:10 o'clock. The Inter ment was at Westvlew cemetery. Mr. Crandall haa been suffering slightly for several days with a cold, but Tuesday morning had recuperated sufficiently to return to his business. Mr. ' rwndall formerly resided In At lanta. His eons conducted a business here several years ago. He la survived by his wife and four children. R. I. Crandall. George N. and John It. Crandall, of Macon, and Mrs. Roliert a. Forsythe, of Brooklyn, N, T. W. W. Belley. The body of W. W. Bailey, who drop ped dead In the street at Athena Tues day. will be brought to Atlanta Tlturs- da\ morning and taken to the under taking establishment of A. C. Hemper- |v, in East Point. Funeral services will b- uducted at the Best Point Metho dist church at 11 o'clock Thursday morning, with Interment at College 1 ‘ark. Mrs. Ballsy died a little more than a year ago, and seven email chil dren are lefL OUSTED BY G,0,P IE IN Roosevelt and Taft in Com plete Control of State Convention. COM'MBUf. Ohio. March 4,-Th# plat which Krcrrtarjr Taft nmxvtla to illcan* for tbr pro»ldentlal tiouilira- "3 RtnijfJa, for iIimim* J<1mli4 whlrh mmii jiiMttrv. frf|iMllfjr f fovorni and fair < IN HEART OF CITYs LAWSUJTJESULTS A. L. Delkin and A., B. & A. Road Go Into Record er’s Court. BEFORE BRAND JURY Bertha Sanders and Her Mother Testify in the Case. lion oi IHJIU. • IIIIIJM US.t■ e*ll| IW IBS injwn-u employ*** of the tt>rrriintciit; re-rnaotmnit III ronatltiifloiial form of the rmplojrrra* lia bility act: llmlfnflon of rarrrlar ninl poterr of the Injunction; greater uirrrhaiit niartnr mid an ndrquatr nary; a altijrir national health department: revision of the tariff a ajirrtal araalmi of the nett rongrraa; rlvl ami polltlenl rlghta of tbr Amriiran negro In every atate: anmljr completion of tho racial. The platform Indoraea Hooterwlt and Ittatrnrta drlegatra for Taft. Henatora Fora her anil Dirk wera com pletely ohllterntiHl from the Ilrpuldlran ma chine and nil their frlenda ousted. Governor Ifarrfa Indorse*!. DEATH IN FLAMES 125 CHILDREN MEET Continued from Psge One. TutfsPills FOR TORPID LIVER. A torpid liver deranges the whole system, and produces SICK HEADACHE, — Dyspepsia, Costiveness, Rhcti- mat ism, Sallow Skin ond Piles, There le no better remedy (or thest common diseases thin D*. TLTTs LIVER PILLS. 1* * trial will prove. Take No Substitute# nice they tore end trampled over one another. The fire spread with amaxlng rapid ity. and the heat was *o Intense that when It waa Anally brought nearly un der control the walls were cracked and tottering. The firemen worked In great lierll. Oreat crowds rushed to the scene from Cleveland, as well as from all the suburbs. North Colllngwood le seven mile* out tram Cleveland. It le estimated that the dead wl|l reach 125. Mothers 8eereh Frantically. Houses In the neighborhood were converted Into morgues end the bodies of the children were arranged In row*. All of them were covered with sheets, stripped from the bed* of the houses. The parents of the children fought lo enter the houses and many of them broke thru the gunrda who were sta tioned at the floors of the Improvised morguee. In their frantic state, mothers search ed over the bodies, one after the other, trying to And their missing children. In most Instance* Identification will be Impossible. Ten bodies were burned id trampled beyond recognition. An Instance I* related of the great heroism of one of the teacher* on the second floor, who, after eucceedln* In getting her puplla safely outside of the burning building, re-entered nnd went to the third door iu aaelet In the rescue of children there. Breve Teacher May be Let. The teacher haa not been seen since she ran toward the third floor. Of the thirty bodies thus far laid In rows In the Improvised morguee. but one was Identified, an hour aRer the Are, this being a child by the name of Bravo. Undertaken were rushed here from Cleveland and are preparing the bodies for Identification. Meantime the par ent* are being restrained only with the greatest difficulty. A number of wom en fainted and were rushed Into houses, only to break out after their resuscitation to Join the maddened clamor that continued. Borne bodies may never be recovered, aa the lire burned os In a blast furnace. Without doubt many corpses were re duced to clndere. There were about 250 children In the school when the blase broke out. but those on the lower floors escaped, as did also some of those on the upper [floors. Bodies Piled In Heepp. By 1:10 o'clock the firemen could penetrate to some parts of the build- l ng and had a great heap ot bodies plied Inside the doer. None was brought out, the local authorities awaiting the ar rival or police from Cleveland, so that tho crowds could be held In check. It soon became apparent that the number of (lead would be far greater than ex pected. The walla of the building, heated like the walls of a furnace, trill not be sufficiently cooled to admit of a thorough search of the ruins for some lime. Iteallxlflg this, the authorities have started a house-to-houee canvass to determine the number of missing. All children found loitering around tho eur. roundings are sent home, so they can be accounted for. Teacher Crushed to Death. Tba brave woman who loot her life In an effort to save tho scholars was Miss Catherine Wller. When the Are alarm was sounded she marshaled her pupils and soon had them marching In a straight line down the hallway. When she reached the end ot the hall a door opened Inward. A great tongue ot flame shot forth and the panic be gan. Miss Wllsr leaped among the children calling on them to keep order. As the rush continued aha was crushed to death. Another teacher. Mies Grace Flak, who had charge of a third grada class, nleo tried to stop the rush. She was fatally cruehed. It wae at the door that the majority of the children were crushed to death. Had they been sufficiently wide many of those now dead would have got safe, ly out of the building. Ae It was. they Jammed In the doorway, and thoae In front were knocked down. Thus the doorways were completely blocked and those behind fought on until they either dropped or were killed by smoke. Brave Rescuer Ciee. One little girl walked over a heap of bodies and wae grasped by a Ore man, who passed her on to safety. Wallace Upton, the man who saved the little gtrl dropped fainting after wards. He was taken to hla home, but died. The child ho grabbed and.passed along wae the eighteenth-he had saved from the building. The blase broke out at 10:80 o'clock, and one hour later only tho walla were standing. Had the ladders of• the fire depart ment been long enough. It Is likely that many of the little one* would have been saved. When the terrified children saw the bodies piled up at ths front door and realised that exit from that point wae Impossible, they again ran up stair* and made for the windows Boras of the smaller children were rescued. The other* crowded at the windows and cried out to be saved. Fought for Windows. It was evident lo spectators that the A gold mice In ths very heart of Atlsutu -within oue block of the Terrains! fltatkn. Tble sounds strange, bet It la true. Aud *u effort to work tbs ulu lots Prong lit on s flgbt between the Atlanta, Blruilnxbn and Atlantic Railroad Cuuipany and A. L. Belkin, (be wadi known Atlsnun, who *pe:r a considerable portion of bis Hate lit Alaaki. mining for gold, and which contest perm ext east re proportions In tbr state court*. 1 The flrst rnaed was fought before Re corder Urojrle* Tuesday afternoon and re- salted la victory for Mr. Delphi, who l> attempting lo dig for gold. The railroad rompsny, thru farmer Mayor Wmelward. sought .to bare Mr. Iielkln declared a free peseer. hat the recorder ruled that the only remedy ot the railroad waa thru aa lejenc lion In the superior court. It Is szpectcl. that on lejuartion will lie applied for n: once to prevent Mr. Delkin front mekltiK further effort to Knit gold on this particular elle. The property In controversy and which Mr. Belkin bettered Is rich In ths yellow metal la situated la West Mltrhell-st., Just one block Iteyond the Terminal Motion Ac cording to the evldtore la polle* court, the rattroea company owns artron-twoUta* of the property oral Mr. Iielkln holds till* to the remaining tire-twelfths. Condemnation Dottle Alaska. last rear, while Mr. B .. . lu eti effort in obtain loisaesslon of the whole of Ihe property, lint these proceed' luce. II Is slslsd. are sliil le'llilllig. The railroad proeaerd the title to i twelfths of the ppuierty by a psrckam others of the Belkin family lalsrestn Home year* ago, while In* Belkina tver* In full possession of the property. Mr. Bel kin dug s well on the place and discovered traces of gold. Indicating that the dirt there might contalir a fortune lu the 'iietal. was then that the raUreod compeer ob jected, ninlMullnr that Mr. Belkin had ao inutlmrtty to molest the property In any Iwny without Its consent, even tho he owns n part Interest. Mr. Iielkln Insisted he had is perfect right to proceed with bis mining project nnd conUnued eeereffees^M KiSV maclo. of the local property of the A„ B, am prote»tH ana appealed to the police, nalljr he naked that a teat raar ba ■ after ronaaltlof with the attorney* of toe road, and Monday Police 9«rge«nt Con- nally -entered a raaa a*alnat a n«»«rr«i. who waa found naaldiionalr digging Into tba earth, trrlog to reach the vein of gold. When the caaa came up for trial Tuesday afternoon Mr. Woodward said the railroad does not dispute Mr. Delktn'a statement that be own* Bve-twelftha of the property, hut ttot Undoes object to him raining on •aid I on •*l frit • get consent* and foiled," 1 "I hare a perfect right r, anyway, and don't need Mr. Delkin. this property, anyway, a consent on the part of the ralln Illegal.*’ * „ . After commit 1 nar the lawn on treapnaa. Judge Rroylea held that Mr. Delktn bod committed no criminal treapnaa and that, therefore, he could not bold him guilty. He than dlsmleaod the caaa, ndvlidng that the only rrmedy of tho road was nn Injunction. Mr. Delkin appears enthiialaatlc oTer the prospect of cold, and unless an injunction stops him will continue with hla mine. PRITCHARD TO TAKE PART IN PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN. A8HEVILLE. N. C.. Maroh 4Wudge Jeter C. Pritchard, of the Federal court, has accepted an Invitation to open the state prohibition campaign at Wilming ton. March 14, when a big mass meeting In expected to be held, at which Gov ernor Glenn nnd former Oovemor Ay- cock will epe&k. MiU RECORDS DEALS JR UNO Property Transfer List Takes Jump Wed nesday. Railroads of U. S. Com ply With New Regulation. $50 PER MONTH IS AVERAGE WAGE Rule Requiring More Opera tor3 on Railways Is Now in Effect.' ENOCH SANDERS. 11 Ik tut Is In the hands of the DeKatb county grand jury. Rml estate deala aggregating ninny thousands of dollars wers recorded at the court house Wednesday morning, representing property purchased In the past year for the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Company. A number of lota bad been purchased by Individuals representing the company, and these are now transferred lo the Atlantic and Birmingham Construction Company, lo be used In as part of the great terminals of the syetem. The recording of these transfers brings the amount high Into tha thousands. No recent deal* of Importance have been made, most of them having been con summated several months ago. accord ing to statements of official* ot the road. the windows for aa fast as a head would appear the child gaining thta vantage point would be dragged away. In this manner the children fell before the windows and were trampled to death, their bodies blocking this avenue of rescue. While at the windows the scream* of the tittle ones were heard and drove ths rescuers to all human efforts, and many men rushed Into the building until the Are. blistering their bodies drove them bock. The Cleveland Are department, as soon ae It arrived, erected great lad ders and took a number of children to safety. The tragedy, however, had al most completed itself before help from tble quarter could arrive. Thought Incident Frolic. Rifltemtnt I* so Intense It Is Impos sible at Uil* time to secure an Intollt- gem cause for the conflagration. Albert H. Kohelbergor. aged 12. said that the children thought the alarm a false one ard were laughing aa If the thing wz* a frolic. Kchelberger says that when the pupils In his room reach. *d the door and saw those from other rooms scrambling far escape, they Into panic. .Finding the door ways chock full of wrlthlnc and dying bodies those within the building rushed back to their rooms so ae to escape thru the windows Borne of them nuotis'. In getting out. Tho*, who did rot are now In the Bertha Sanders, nged 14, and her mother, Mrs. Alice Bandore, appeared before the DeKalb county grand Jury at Decatur Wednesday to testify In the case of Enoch Banders, the girl's uncle, who, It le alleged, attempted to kill them on November 28 at their home near Stone Mountain, and then tried to end hie own life by clashing his throat with a razor. The returns of the grand Jury will be made public late Wednes day evening. Banders la In Jail, having been bound over at a preliminary hearing. He de nies hla guilt. The crime of which Bandera la ac cused, It le charged, occurred at the home of Mrs. Alice Sanders near Stone Mountain on November 28. In a fren zy. the accused man Is said to have tried to kill his little niece. Berths 14 years old, to whom he was almost mad ly devoted. Then, It le alleged, he turned upon the mother, cutting her slightly. Finally he attempted hla own life. It Is alleged, and came near sue ceedlbg. On a writ of lunacy sworn out by hla brother, who hoped to avert more se vere punishment, Sanders waa tried before Ordinary George In Decatur three weeks ago and declared sane. Ho was token back to Jail to await the ac tion of the grand Jury. Sanders, a gaunt, bearded stone cut ter 45 years old, still sticks to his flrst story, which Is that tha trouble waa due to a conspiracy against him by the mother and her eon, CHIT Sanders. Ber tha, to whom he Is still devoted, be clears of all blame. He says that the mother attacked- him with a razor, making a cut on hi* neck. In the scuf fle, he sal's, she and .Berths were In jured. At flrst It woe believed that Sanders would die as a regult of the wound on his neck, but he recovered rapidly and la now entirely well. Bertha and Mrs. Sanders are also well. The gfrl and her mother were the only wltneees and will probably give the greater part of the testimony. BUILDING MEN BEGINWORK Continued from Peg* On*. morgues. It was some time before lad. dere enough to reach the third floor children In tbs room were lighting for were run up. ward Lumbar Company, W. L. Troyn- ham. Colcord Lumber Company, W. K. Carter Electric Company, W. JF, Grif fin. Mile* * Bredt, Fridell Brothers, F. J. Cooledge & Son, Tripod Paint Company. Georgia Paint Company. Baahlor Wynne Plumbing Company, 8. 8. Sheppard Plumbing Company, John C. Battle, International Sprinkler Com pany. Edwards. Waller* A Parnham, It. P. Roy. It. II. Carpenter, Georg* B. Hlnman, John H. Low*. Alexander Lumber Company, J. R. George, Capi tal Stone Company, Atlsma-lndtana Stone Company, Sharman & Murdock. Fielder & Allen Co- Newcomer-Manry Company. W. E. Cheater. Welle Sign Company, Southern Construction Com pany, 8tates Plastering Company, Gen eral Fir* Extinguisher Company, Mlon Brothers, Carter A Gillespie Electric Co.. Donaldson A Pearson. Horry Les lie Walker. E. W. Dutton, W. G. Shar key. Jennlngt-Gresham Company. Kn- K ' hart-HItohoick Company. J. B. Mc- achern. V. H. Krlegshaber. Dowman- Dosler Manufacturing Company; J. E. Hunnlcutt A Co, Farrell Heating and Plumhinr Company. George A. Clayton. Atlanta Structural Steel Company. An derson Hardware Company, W. H. George, George Ittner, Beck A Gregg Hardware Co.. Warllck Bheet Metal Company. J. L. Burnett Decorating Company, Pittsburgh Plate Glee* Com pany. W. F. Aiken. The Lowery Com- B eny. General Supply Company. Vena- le Brothers, South River Brick Com- any. John W. Zubcr. Chattahoochee Jrtck Company. C. V. Arnold. Cotton State* Belting and Supply Company. B. W. Boatenwrelter Company. Palmer Brick Company. Belllngrnth Plumbing Company, Haralson Bleckley. J. A. Ap- person. M. E. A C. W. Ford. R. O. Campbell Coal Company. Bclple Bona F. P. Hetfner. I. F. Dcjarnette. C. Wal ter Smith. E. C. WachendorlT. Atlanta Steam Heating Company. McKen*!#- DeLeon Construction Company. Oeorge W. Ijine, I. N. Brown, Phoenix Plan ing Mill. C. P. Murphy * Son, Frank a. Lake. D. W. Yarbrough. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO O o 0 50 IDLE LOCOMOTIVES O ORDERED INTO SERVICE O BY THE PENNSYLVANIA. O O NEW YORK. March 4.—Oneof O O the most optimistic developments O O In the ratlrhad world Indicative O O of returning prosperity la the tact O O that an order has been Issued by O O the Pennsylvania Pittsburg dl- O O vision putting 50 Idle locomotive* O a hack Into Immediate service. The O O Idle engine* have been ordered # <» fired up at one*. ooaooooooooooooooccooooaoo Edgar Kendricks. Edgar, the 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mr*. J. H. Kendricks, died Tuesday afternoon at the residence of hie par ents, Itt East Hamer-st. The body was sent tn Tucker. Ga, Wednesday morning at I o’clock for funeral and Interment. WASHINGTON, Mareh 4.—With the nine-hour service law becoming effect Ive today.-thc railroads throughout the country will add to their rolls nearly 5,000 additional train dispatchers at an average monthly wage of 550. in strict compliance with the law demanded by the Interstate commlselon. The Interstate commission operation law works a revolutionary change In conditions under wklcR the train dis patcher has heretofore been employed, and only In cases of extraordinary emergency will telegraphers be worked longer than nine hours. Local Roads Employ Many. The nine-hour law, retaliating rail road telegraphers, went Into effect ot Wednesday, nml it Is being observed by railroads employing telegraphers In Atlanta. It Is estimated that about 200 men are given employment under the new rule, but most of these have been at work for some time. In fact, tha Southern made arrange mrnts for complying with the law sav eral weeks ago, and new operator* were employed on the division* of which Atlanta la the headquarters. In the general office of the Southern In the Equitable building thera ore eighteen telegraphers, anil while thee* men handle little more then commer cial messages and do not operate trains, the Southern will make the law opply to these employees. No little difficulty Is being expe rtenced by the rnllronde In getting ex perienced men Immediately, and oome email office# are being abolished. This necessitates the lengthening of the sig nal block. Small nfllcf*. where train* do not pose except during a few hour* ot the twenty-four, will ba closed after th* one operator employed work* his nine hour*. In the large office# tho Southern la going the government ona better by working three shifts of operators eight hours each. ATLANTA WOMEN FOR “HOME MADE” Continued from Pag* On*. for 'tho purchase of homo-made goods than the announcement that this or ganization of 2,000 Atlanta women will, when shopping, always give the prefer ence to Atlanta-made guilds, all other things being equal, and will always de mand to eee the Atlanta goods. The City Federation of Womon'o Clubs will not meet until April. It Is the Idea of Mrs.-Jones to have the fed eration volunteer to take up the work, and to this end she deems It advisable to have a meeting of tho executive board next week In order that tha work may commence at once. Mrs. Jones notified F. J. Faxon, chairman of the committee on com mere* of the Chamber of Commerce. Wednesday morning that aho would rail auch a meeting, and Mr. Poxon waa greatly pleased. •The plan I* title.'' explained Mr. Poxon. "Suppoeo a man or woman wishes to buy nn article. He walks Into a store and asks to see the article. He Insists upon seeing the Atlanta make of that article as well as the other*. AT other things bolng equal, the Atlanta- made article Is purchased. "Suppose a young woman, when of fered a box of randy, tells the young man that she likes some particular brand of Atlanta-mode candy ae much or better than n foreign make. She helps not only the Atlanta manufactur er. but she helps some Atlanta womnn. If many women did this It would ne cessitate the Atlanta candy factories employing more women. It make# tho demand for candy makers greater and results In an Increase In their sola ||gA “A number of Atlanta manufacturing enterprises hove olreody adopted a la bel which they put- on all their prod ucts. This label bear* th# announce ment, -Mode In Atlanta.' Just aa you aee to manv products bearing the label. Mode In Germany.' Outside' of the other advantages. It advertises th# city.” , Want All Women. ■ The announcement that the City Federation of Women'* Clubs will take up the work doe* not her women who are not members of clubs. All women of Atlanta, whether mem bers of clubs or not. will be welcomed e Consumers’ League when It Is organized. Their only dulloa will be to Insist upon seeing the products of home enterprises when shopping and, other thing* being equal, to give pref erence to the home-made goods. It la proposed that a committee of prominent and patriotic Atlanta wom en take up th* work of organising the Consumers' League In conjunction with the city Federation of Women's Club*. Mayor for Movement. T daresay there Is not a man In At lanta more enthusiastic over this movement for the purchase of home made goods than I am." stated Mayor Joyner Wednesday morning. ”Wh*n I waa chief of the Are depart ment 1 Invariably made It a practice to purchase articles manufactured In At lanta. I had all the chairs roller-lop desks and other furniture manufactur ed In Atlanta—even the rugs and car pets. I bought hot* and everything else not manufactured In Atlanta thru At lanta merchants. Instead of agents. I believe I got os good material os I would have scoured otherwise and at prices Just os cheep, or cheaper. "I hope every man. woman and child In Atlanta will old In this splendid movement.* Remember the Home Label and there will not be an idle person in Georgia. BLOCK’S DAINTY, WHOLESOME, DELICIOUS. NUTRITIOUS, \ Wafers, Crackers, Cakes “MADE IN ATLANTA.” Kent Packages 10=Cent Packages Block Sodas, Kennesaw Biscuit, Block Milk Biscuit, Animal Crackers, Piedmont Ginger Snaps, Fan-Tan Ginger Snaps, Pearl Oyster Crackers, Lemon Snaps. 5 O’clock Teas, Marshmallow Wafers, Vanilla Wafers, Graham Wafers, Butter Thin Biscuit, Block Wafers, Kennesaw Sugar Cookies, Vienna Sugar Wafers, Fig Newtons. ON SALE BY LOYAL GEORGIA GROCERS. ' DEMAND THEM. FRANK E. BLOCK CO. Atlanta. THE CAPTAIN OF THE KANSAS By LOUIS TRACY. Cepyrtxbf, 1SOC, l>y Edward J. Clode. By degrees, a tender little sprig of hop* peeped up In her dulled conscious ness. Th* boat was very near the dis tant rocks, and there tvaa neither sight nor sound of the Indians. Could It be that they were afraid—altogether broken and demoralized by the slaugh ter of the preceding night? Suddenly she hod * breathless derire to know why Conrtenay waa so sure that the men to whose help he had gone were really member* uf th# crew. Chrletobal, dreading her despairing question, was standing In the position he had occupied before Boyle dragged him Into prominence. The chief officer was bracing a telescope against the ensign staff, and keeping the lifeboat In a full Held. Gray, ehe noticed, waa not looking toward Guanaco Hill, but swept all parte of th# coastline con stantly with his binoculars. Tbs Spaniard's Held glasses wera slung around his neck. He was not us ing thsm. He appeared to be deep In thought. More often than not, his glnnce reeled on the eddy created by the ewlrl of the current poet the ship's quarter. With a species of divination, she guessed somewhat the nature of hla reverie. The notion stung her Into a sort of fury. To quell It, she must speak agalri. "Will you tell me now whnt It was that Suarez found out?” she murmured. The doctor quickly uppreclate.1 htr need of material for further thought. She wanted to appraise at their truo value all things affecting that daring enterprise, bringing the evldonco to the bar of her hopes, nnd nerving herself to hear the crudest testimony aa to Its danger*. Ho was glad to be able to beguile the next half hour with his recital. Ho suppressed no detail except hla own willingness to take Courtenay’s place In th* boat. Notwithstanding his slight affectations, he was a man of finely-tempered Judgment. When Elsie heard of tho duplicity practiced by Suares It was good to aee the hot Indignation which reddened her brow. She realised that the man was unscrupulous enough to remain silent concerning the captured sailors, whose unhftupy fate had contributed In no small degree to the chance which brought him to safety. With all a woman'# single-minded nes*. ehe regarded the Argentine miner as being directly responsible for Cour- I •nay'll hazard, nor would »he listen to Chrlstobnl's mild protest that nothing could have been done earlier, no matter how outspoken Suarez cbose to be. The Spaniard encncreged her to de bate this point—anything was better than tho dumb pain-of thought—but their talk cessed abruptly when a mut. tered exclamation from Gray sent Walker flying to the chart house. Forthwith the trumpet ehrlek of the siren cent Us wild boom acroas the *1 lent waters. Elsie needed no explanation of this tumult. Otter Creek woe not so far distant that canoes quitting It* abetter could not be seen with the naked eye. She counted sixteen putting forth In a cluster, and they all made for the ad venturous lifeboat. •That I* exactly what our captain ex. pccted." Chrlstobal was ready to assure her. "He was certain he would reach the head of th* bey before the Indian* awoke to the meaning of his echem*. Bv this time, unless hie plan falls, the men on shore should havo Joined him. no matter what nnmber of savages may seek to oppoM their passage to the boat. Th# only doubtful question Is—will be be able to beat off th* rascal* who ore now cutting off hi* Une of retreat?” Hub!” growled.Boyle, "the skipper's out of eight now. Don* Into a small creek or something ot the son. Hope he heard the horn. Let her rip!" he added In s' loud shout over his shoulder and again the stren flung a warning tn the foot of the mountain range. Elsie was sick at heart with the knowledge that red-eyed murder was stalking lu prey under the resplendent mantle spread by nature over a scene of rare beauty. In an agony of appre hension -she followed the progress of the canoe*. Boyle or Gray hod never relaxed their vigil by her side. It waa Oray who made the thrilling discovery that the canoe* were returning. As the fleet crossed the hay It could be Been that they were towing the lifeboat. But never a elgn of any prieonera could the most careful scrutiny detect. The boat was empty; It was easy to count every man In the canoes aa they passed Into Otter Creek. t Everyone agreed that nothing could be done that night. If the pillar of smoke were risible at sunrise, and Walker could possibly manage to fire the boilers. Boyle suggested that some sailors In tha Jolly-boat should sound a channel along which the vessel itself might steam slowiy toward Guanaco H1U. Boyle and Gray took the flrst watch. and Walker shared the next one: by 4 o clock It would be daylight, so th* doc tor was retiring early to his cabin when no met Elsie, by chance as It . seemed. She was self-possessed, even smlllnr, with n certain dour serenity. Tho day's doings have tired me." she said. "I am off to bod. Will you rap on my door soon after dawn?" ”*•»-" ho replied, secretly marvel ling at her air. "I plead guilty to a alight feeling of nervousness," she went on. "Is your revolver loaded? Would you mind lending It to me? I think I could sleep more soundly If I had a reliable weapon tucked under my pillow." A whiff of suspicion crossed Chrlsto- bal’s mind, but he brushed It aside am unworthy. So It came to pees that Diego Suarez, lying asleep In his bunk, awoke with a start to And a shrouded figure bending over him. "I* that you, Senor ‘Suares?" asked a voice, which he recognized Instantly os belonging to 8enorlta Maxwell. "Tee,” said he. drowsily. "Have you the witch-doctor's clothes you wore when, you came on board tho ship?” "But, ye*, scnorlta." A hand, slight, but strong, grasped him by the shoulder. He felt the rim of a revolver barrel pressed against his forehead. "Get up. then! Drew quickly In those clothes and come out on deck. By the side of your hunk you will And tins of black and white paint to smear your face and hands. At the slightest re fusal on your part to do as I bid you— If you utter a cry or make any noise to attract attention—I shall kill you with out another word.” "What do you wish me to do. seno- ritar' began Suares. thinking to placate her until he could obtain assist, ance. “You must obey me In silence," aha whispered, tensely. "You must not even speak. One syllable aloud on deck will mean your death. Walk In front of me up the main companion and go straight to the ship's side.” When Suares reached tho port rail of tho promenada deck Elsie breathed: "Climb quickly nnd go down Into the canoe by tb* rope bidder you will find there." "The canoe I" he gasped. "Quick! On*, two”— Up went Suarez over the rail. He found the topmost rungs of the ladder. Ae he descended, the revolver followed his eyett. When hi* head was level with the deck the order came: •Take the dog and go down.” "I can not, senorita.” “You must try. You are going down, dead or alive.” Elsie was already on the swaying ladder when Boyle's vole# rang out sharply from the spar deck: "Below there! Who I* there?" "L Mr. Boyle.” she answered. "Yon, Miss Elsie? Where are you?” "Here; not so far away.” Boyle, ptissled by Ihe sound of her voice, ran from the side of the bridge down the stairs and acre** the deck. "For the Lord's sake, what are yon doing?" he roered. I am going to save Captain Courte nay." won th* answer. "You con not atop me now. Please holet. plenty of lights. If I succeed, look out for me before daybreak. If I foil, good-byel” chapter” XVIII, A Full Night. " Hoyle was very angry. It ws* a situation which demanded earnest words, and they were forthcoming. El sie understood them to mean that she need not be In such a purple hurry to disappear Into the darkness without the least explanation; thereupon ehe bad* Suares hack th* canoe a little. I am going tn collect all the Indian canoes,” wss the amaxlng answer. T know It con be done, from whnt Suare* has sold. Once we have the esnoes la mid channel, we can set moet of them adrift, and bring Captain Courtenay and the others beck to the ship In four or live which we will tow tn Guanaco Hill. And vow. good-by again!” Continued in Tomorrow’s Goorgien. MRS. ROOSEVELT’S PARTY WILL CRUISE IN GULF WATERS WASHINGTON, March 4.—It was disclosed that the destination of th* president's pacht, Mayflower, Is th* Mississippi river, where Mrs. Roose velt will go aboard with a party of friends for an exterded cr-ilee. Th* Mayflower, which has been fitted for an extraordinarily long voyage, will leave the Washington navy yard tomorrow la command of Commander Vogelgeaang. It has not been divulged what point Mye. Itooacvrit and her party will go aboard or whnt their destination wtB be. It la, sold that once the pariy I* aboard, the Mayflower's movement# will depend upon Inclinations of the voyagers. It Is probable that Mr*. Roosevelt will either go aboard at New '*om S o'clock to’ midnight. Chrletobal Orleans or at Cairo.