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MAGAZINE PA Little Bobbie’s Pa « THE TRIPLE TIE A Story for Baseball Fans That Will Interest Every Lover of the National Game By WILLIAM F KIRK P A kind of grouchy last tin* Ma A- me knew he was going to be grouchy, bcekaus sum old friend* of Ma was going to visit us for a few days & they was to cum Iasi nite, all the way from Colfax, Wisconsin. I doant like to be a killjoy, sed Pa. & I will do rny best to treet Mister & Missus Bing all rite, hut you know as well as I do what it will be. Both of them will want to he took to all of the leading points of interest, such as the hoam of the widow wloh entertained George Washington onst A- the museum of art * the points of historical Interest outside of those wich I have Just men- shuped After 1 have dragged them & >ou A littel Bobbie all oaver the town for a few days, showing them a lot of stuff that I doant care a rap to see. they will say goodbye A tell us to be sure & cum to Colfax A stay a month That is sum Invltashun, issent it? sed Pa cum to Colfax A Rta.v a month It sound* like cum to Sing Sing & stay thirty years. Pa Gets Their Name Wrong. Well, thay are my frends. anyway, sed Ms. A 1 want you to be nice to them. A please remember, sed Ma that thare thing and he had ridden roughshod naim isent Bing, thare name is Ging over every obstacle that presented Osl-I-N-G, Ma sed, with the accent on | itself in hi* path, so that the idea the two Gs SYNOPSIS Gordon Kelly, a young North Geor gia mountaineer, comes to Atlanta to get a place with Billy Smith's Crackers It is raining when he reaches Ponce DeLeop and he Is pearly run over by an auto, in which are two persons a man and a young girl The driver of the car is an ar rogant fellow The girl makes him stop the machine, tfhe gets out and Inquires if Kelly Is injured She apologizes for her companion's brusque manner Kelly sees Mana ger Smith an t te'.ls him he has never played a game of hall Smith con sents to fllve Kelly a trial The girl in the auto Is Mildred Leery, daugh ter of Galen Deary, a crafty and wealthy speculator In timber larrds. Her companion is Forrest Cain, a rich young man about town Kelly owns timber land that Deery would like to possess Now go on with the story. Wen Mister & Missus Ging calm thay didn't look ss If thay was happy at all lam glad to bid you both ifralrome to our home, sed P* I have offen heard my wife speek of her deer friends tha Pings. that he wap a sort of deml-god had become firmly implanted In his na ture. In the case in hand he did not stop to realize that his money was of little use to him. He was blind with rage. He attributed his mis understanding with Mildred to the passenger in the back seat. Cain re solved to eliminate this stranger from Ging. sed Mister Ging O-I-N-O. a That doesnt sourw like a vary hard his affairs He tried to get more naim to reememher, he sed He looked speed out of the car, but by this time at P* kind of cross A Pa handed tho the roads were growing worse and look rite back to him. worse as they got further out of What do you think of Atlanta, deer* town. The> had passed the limit sold Ma to Missus Gli| 0 f P [ c ., trie lights and except for the I think It Is perfeckly beastly, sed ray* of thf powerful headlights every- Missus Ging We had to ride in that i thing horrid trolley all the way from the depot to here. A I had to stand up I wanted Mister Ging to mailt a gent el man give me his seat, but you know how husbands are. He sed that perhaps the poor man was tlr^d. Thtpk of It. and fancy me, a Ging. having to stand up in a com- In inky darkness They must have driven all of half an hour and were a good fifteen miles from where they starred, when Cain, spying a road that branched off to the left, turned into It. Up to this point Gordon Kelly, in the hack scat, had made no movement whatever. He might have been asleep, for all men street car Wily, at home we hava Cain knew. But the car had not our own carriage traveled a furlong on the branch road . . ... , , before he gave evidence that ho was If It I, anythin* Ilk* th« rarrl***- I vfrv muph , BW , k , used to MW In Colfax w*n I wan conrl- ; vV'ltli u spring ns light as a panther tng you. Fa sed to Ma. I am afrade Mis- he vaulted over the back of the front ter A Missus Wing wuddent have .»at and landed lightly beside Cain, reached our hoam till to-morrow morn- Reaching down he switched off the ing. Colfax was noted for Its pritty magneto, pulled out the plug anJ gurls and Its aa.Wla hacked skates sed I dropped It Into hi. mat pocket. Al- Pa Thare was only one hansum horse in the town, A nobody cud drive it. T beg your pardon, sir, sed Mister Ging Thare arc; sum magnificent horses in Colfax I have two roans that l wuddent sell for a thousand dollars I wuddent give a thousand cents for them, sad Pa Thare iaen’t any class to a roan horse Who ewer heard of a roan horse stepping dm A winning the Brooklyn Handicap? sed Pa. Never mind, deerest, Ma sed to Pa I am sure Mister A Missus Ging will get to love Atlanta after they have had a ■ haunt to git around. Thare is so much «»f interest to see here. A the shops arc very butlfuf now. The windows are Jest full of bargans Missus Ging Is Put Out. The windows can stay full of bargans, sed Mister Ging I toald my wife hee foar we left bourn that the stores in ' j most Instantly the motor stopped and I the car came to n standstill CHAPTER Vm. R eaching down to the coil box, Cain discovered the plug was not there. “Where's that plug’.’" he demanded, fiercely. “I have it in my pocket." replied Kelly, quietly. “Something is likely to happen pretty quick, hut as I don’t know Just what it it\ I thought 1 would he on the safe aide, that's all.” “Who are you?" cried Cain. " I will tell you who I am. -but first I want to know if 1 am talking to a crazy man. a fool, or a joker," an* s we ted Kelly While he was speaking he was fumbling in his pockets. He now drew forth a match which he held up to the other's face Cain blew it out almost as quickly as it ignited. Colfax was plev.A good enuff for her * >ut Kelly had seen enough “Oh, you're the Deerys chauffeur, mother before bar and plenty good enuff hfl observed calmly “You’re the man Thare is going to be no ex i who nearly ran over me the other day. Well, did your employer tel! for her tra^a-gance on this trip Havings de- you to dive me out here, or did you liver me. sed Mister Ging, from a shop do it on your own hook?" ping A bargan hunting woman. I wish 1 1,1 not a t . ‘hauffeur, exclaimed r t" 1 r: r our rn r r ,n "\;Vou fr *™, of . u ^„™ r> . Ma M.\ wife & are \ary tired I sup- brought voil here on ttiv own hook, pose you have breakfast at seven, he what are you going to do about if?" “You are certainly a queer sort. Oh. deer no. sed Ma We have break- What is your object? Is this a hold fast at nine. up game?" Did you bring me out here Oh, wall, sad Missus Ging I suppose | r, * h , my hu.tw.Kl * 1 .an go out to a rent*- ' R ; >h >" l ‘ ; ' " hou '^ C * ,.l . . . . , ran buv and sell you a million times'" rdnt Do y®.. knot, * good .-heap plane rilImnp . s n f , nHM srated ho . nare here, she asked Pa. side him acted as a kind of reverse Yes. sed Pa. 1 know a good cheep English on Cain. He had been angry place. 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Hitherto his money had en abled him to have his way in every- "Yes, this is the garage—yes, Miss Deery—Yes, I understand—I’ll have a car around in five minutes.” gave every indication of losing con trol of himself entirely. ■ I can’t figure you out at all,” said Kelly in an even voice. "I’m not much used to city ways and I thought al first you had been ordered to take me on a little drive, though it is a mighty queer night for it. 1 stood for it as long ae you stayed on the main road, hut when you turned off here I thought it wap time to quit. Tell, me please, what tills is all about? If you have been drinking, you ought to be sober enough by now. If it’s a joke I’ll take It as such and let It go at that." l ain ignored the question. "What were you doing in Deer.v’A house to-night," he snarled. “I was invited there, but-*-" “You’re a liar!" screamed Gain, making a movement as if to struggle out of hie seat behind the wheel of the automobile. Just Chastisement. As quick a* the stroke of a cat Kelly shot up his right hand and his fingers closed on Cain’s collar with the strength of a vise With the same movement he Jerked Cain’s head down to the floor of the car. He sent his left foot crashing through the side curtains* which had been fastened on to exclude the rain, and thus clear ing a passage, a* it. were, he Jumped to the ground, dragging the strug gling Cain after him like a sack of meal. Cain fell in the muddy road with a splash. Still holding his man by the collar. Kelly, ankle deep In mud, hauled him around in front of the car and deposited him there In the full glare of the searchlight*. "Now we can see what we are doing." he remarked and in spite of the effort he had made to drag a man of (Tain’s size, hi* respiration was hardly above normal. Cain scrambled to his feet and with a vile epithet flushed at his antagonist. But Kelly, who had a reach like Boh Fitzsimmons, simply put out one hand and Cain ran blindly into It and stopped short. With one powerful shove Kelly sent the other man reel ing backward and, losing his balance, Cain fell with another splash in the mud. In two jumps Kelly stood over him. "There’s only one thing to do to a man like you." he said “(let up." Cain lay motionless, blinking up $250 in Prizes for Best Solution of “The Triple Tie’’ \ T OL* read the first five installments of the great baseball mystery story of “The Triple Tie" and now you have a fair idea of the simplicity of the offer The Georgian mates-how you may win $100 by working out the solution of the mystery as nearly as its au thor, A. H. C. Mitchell, has done as you can. Mr. Mitchell has written the iast chapter, hut his copy is sealed up in a vault at the American National Bank. When all but this tlnal chapter has been printed. The Georgian readers will be asked to submit to three competent Judges, none of them connected with this newspaper, their version of what the grand denouement snould he. To the person who most closely approximates Mr. Mitch ell’s final chapter $100 will be awarded. Other prizes, making the total prize list $250, also will be distributed. Here is the list of the awards: No. 1 $100 No. 2 $50 No. 3 $25 No. 4 $15 Nos. 5 to 16, each 5 Read this sixth installment of the great mystery story and you will not need to be urged to read the succeeding chapters. The story will grip you. As you read, try to follow the author's channel of thought and when the time comes for you to sit down and write that final chapter, be ready to win one of the big cash prizes in The Georgian’s great offer. a weird scene, but Kelly was ready to have done with it. "Do you own this car," he asked. "No." "Who does own it?" "The Davis Garage." Kelly took the plug from his pocket, inserted it in the coil box and switch-1 od on the Rpark. "frank it,” he ordered Without a word Cain gave the mo- i tor a whirl and the machinery start-i ed with a roar Kelly jumped in j the driver’s seat and, evidently sure of every movement, eased in the re-1 versed gear and backed the car off Hie road with a view of heading it in the other direction This accom plished, he called Cain to the sidPj of the car and said: Might Lose Temper. “This may appear a childish act on | my part, but I’m going to leave you here to And your way back to town! the best way you can. It will do you good to think the whole matter over carefully. I don’t know yet what your object was in bringing me away out here. Is there anything you want to say to me?” <’ain made no answer “Very well,’’ continued Kelly, “T will probably be able to figure 1t out for myself in the course of time. You are evidently one of those rich young fellows that have more money than brains. I never met one before, but I have read about them in newspa pers. My name is Gordon Kelly and I live at the Imperial Hotel. It is possible that you will be seeking some kind of revenge, on me, but let me warn you to leave me severely alone. If you annoy me any further I am liable to lose my temper and Lord help you if anything like that comes to pass.’’ This may sound like heroics deliv ered by a stage hero in a melodrama, but as a matter of fact Kelly spoke calmly and seriously. It was simply his way. Waiting a moment longer and re ceiving no response from Cain, Kelly started the car and slowly plowed his wa> through the mud to the main road, where the going was much bet ter, leaving Cain to shift for himself. He drove carefully back to the city and reached his hotel in about an hour. Instead of stopping there, however, he continued on three or four blocks and slowed down next the sidewalk in front of the Capital City Club and left the car standing there. Walking back to his hotel he went to the desk and asked for his key. He was splashed with mud from head to foot and Clerk McClendon eyed him suspiciously for a moment, but as KeHy did not seem disposed to of fer any explanation, he silently pass ed over the room key. When Kelly reached his room, he went to the telephone, called up Davis' garage and said: “You remember sending a car to Mr. Deery s house about 9: 3<T- to night? Well, you will find the car in front of the Capital City Club and if you want to know anything more about it you will have to see the man you sent along as chauffeur Good night.” Gordon Kelly then peeled off his mud-bespattered clothes, threw them on the floor of his bathroom, took a bath, crawled between the bedsheets and five minutes later was sleeping the sleep of the just. Who was this young man from the mountains who knew all about handling automobiles? How did he acquire his calm manner? Where did he gain that easy and confident bearing? Whence came the breed ing that enabled him to enter one of the “best” houses in Atlanta and con duct himself as though he had been brought up In "society?" • * * Forrest Cain, chewing the bitter cud of reflection, walked for more than an hour in the direction of the city before he got a lift. Then a friend ly milkman came along and he rode the rest of the way in. Going to his room, he kicked the sleeping George out of bed and made him attend to his wants. Cain remained in bed all next day. His trunks had gone to New York and that night he followed them to the metropolis. To Bo Continued Monday. S Natural History Lessons No. 2—The Lamb By Dorothy Dix HERE are few . more valuable animals than the Lamb, whether you consider it j from the mint sauce or the Wall Str*«t point of view. Xn either capacity it 13 our meat, and (urnl shes j glad raiment and diamonds to those who. but for it. would not slain a dosen take its place. Indeed, against th© cold blasts of Winter. The name of the Individual who discovered the first La.mb Is lost in the mists of antiquity, but as a source of supplies he has got the Individual who made two blades of grass grow where only one grew before beat a city block. Thus are we called upon again to marviel at the wisdom of a beneficent Providence that has creat ed Just the proper thing to meet our every need. Lambs are found in all parts of the known world, and appear to multiply with great rapidity, so that as one Is slain a dozen take its place. Indeed the theory is held on Wall Street that a new batch of Lambs Ss born every second, but this probably exaggerates the situation. At any rate, the Lamb crop for the last year or two has been so poor that many brokers have been forced to prey on one another. In appearance the Lamb is of a mild and pleasing aspect with a voice that sounds like the amateur soloist who kindly consents to sing at a club din ner. Originally the Lamb Is of a snow white color, but after a short sojourn away from Its native haunts it Is apt to need a hurry trip to the laundry. It gets soiled very quickly. In the matter of legs the Lamb Is eclectic, some Lambs having four, one located on each corner, while other Lambs have only two - which are at the extreme northeast end of their anatomy, thus enabling them to stand up right after the manner of men. Also, some Lambs have alfalfa on their chins, while others have smooth faces, hut this difference depends on whether they came from the middle West or not We may dismiss the quadruped Lamb in a few words, merely stating, In passing, that It has of late devel oped an ambitious and aspiring ten dency to rise skyward under the tui tion of Messrs. Armour and Swift, and that it has shown a coy disposition to stay in cold storage that every one who has the good of the country at heart must deplore. However, that along. ily two, ^ I situated This ts great sport, and it 1» a mat. ter of pride that our Wall Street brokers hold the worlds record as the champion fleecers of Lambs. Being so gentle and kind, the Lamb, especially the woolly ones from Pitts burgh. are held In great esteem by women as pets. There was once a chorus girl named Mary who had a little Lamb, with a fleeca as whits as snow, and everywhere that Mary went his money did surely go—but that's another story. Lambs are gen erally of the mas culine persuasion, though occasional ly we observe an i elderly female mutton dressed as spring Lamb ca pering around at thd dansant. There are many curious sights in nature, and this is one of the curlousest. at Kelly as though he had Just been awakened from a had dream. "Get up." ordered Kelly again. But l ain refused to move so, reach ing down Kelly inserted his fingers In the collar of his foe and yanked him to his feet. Then, turning him around, and fncing him up the road. Kelly stepped back one pace and delivered a solid kick in Cain's nether region. There is nothing that will take the tight out of a man sooner than a weighty kick, placed where it will do tiie most good. There is nothing so humiliating to the recipient, nothing so mortifying, so abasing. Such was the effect on Cain. He started to run up the road, but Kelly followed him and executed a series of blows wtlh the foot, of astonishing power and accuracy. At last, grabbing Cain by the collar once more, be turned him around and kicked him back to the headlights. Cain was covered from head to foot with the red mud of Georgia and Kelly’s clothing was so splashed with it that very little of the material showed. The rain had practically ceased and only a fine mist was fall ing. Away off in the distance could be seen the glow of the lights of At lanta reflected above that city. The rays of the powerful headlights fell full on {he two young men. It was * A Reward of Merit * A Complete Short Story The Drawbacks “H‘ “H 4* ERE come* Johnny!" ex claimed Mrs. Jones, sighing disconsolately. “He must have been awfully good to-day—for he's as dirty as a little pig. and he’s an hour late!" Her caller opened her eyes in amazement. “Awfully good?” she re lated. “Why, when my Sammy comes home late and is dirty I usually know that he’a been Into some sort of mischief It’s never a sign of being particularly good to my eyes.” “Well, your Sammy doesn't go to the same school." returned Mrs. Jones. "Johnny has n pretty and stylish teacher, and. what’* more, she knows how to make her pupils like her. They all fight to do things for her! I learned all about it when 1 went to call on her one day after Johnny had brought home a perfect report card. For a whole month he’d been coming home late and looking perfectly dreadful—you'd think he | wav a street Arab. I have never been able in get anything out of him. ex- I t ept that he’d stayed after school to [(lean the blackboards A Perfect Card. Even though he was rnj n angel child. I had my doubts as to the rea son h< stayed, and I thought I would I have his father settle with hint when hi.'- wbfc*— A- was confident that it would be a very poor one, sinc-3 he was kept In almost every single evening. "You can imagine my amazement when Johnny brought home a perfect card. Motherlike. I doubted his ve racity. 1 even fhought It wan not Im possible that he had doctored his card to show to us. So I put on my hat and went to school to see his teacher. I thought Johnny was singularly un concerned about it—but, then, you know, you can never tell about boy* “Well, it seemed that Johnny's j teacher had had such a time trying not to seem to play favorites that she had adopted a system of rewards. The pupils are allowed to wash so many blackboards or beat out the dust from so many erasers or rai^e the window* so many times for cer tain grades in their studies. "But the choice reward is ringing the bell. I do wish Johnny was bright enough always to ring the bell --or else dull enough just to open the window* or pass papers. But he's of that intermediate brightness that re wards him with blackboard cleaning. He scoffs at the windows and papers, but he’s had the bell only a -few times'! "Johnny will get up earlj. eat a cold breakfast and hardly allow me to see that he is properly washed | her head when he has the privilege of ringing replied. that bell, he’s so anxious to get to school in time to see that it is done right! And as for my errands, he finds it quite impossible to do them in his limited time." He Was Late. "What makes you so late?" she in quired. as Johnny came in. brushing the chalk dust from his sleeves. Johnny grinned happily. “I had 95 In geography and 100 in spelling—so she let me have all the boards to night.” he answered, triumphantly. "And last week Frank had the bell— and he came late, so she *tiid if I’d come early to-morrow and he wasn’t there I could have it. Anyway, h*' cheats! And I’ve a good mind to tell her! ” “Will you run to—" began Mrs. Jones, but Johnny interrupted her as he turned to go. Yes. but just wait. I’ve got to se a fellow that's waiting out here!" And Johnny was gone. "My, l wish I knew her system,” declared Mrs. Jones, enviously. "And errands are such nice, clean w ork " sympathized the caller, glar. •- ing at the coating of chalk dust that had settled on the rug Maybe if you tell him it’s a reward?" But Mrs. Jones smiled and shook I'm not a teacher!” she OUSE HUNTING," said the man who is boarding with the Pikers until ho can get a home and bring his wife and children to town, "is the worst and moat depressing job that any man or woman ever had to tackle You can never find a house anywhere that has not some tarrible drawback,” he went on. "You can take your choice between a poor house in a good neigh borhood and a good house in a poor neighborhood. “If you have a good house in a poor neighborhood your little Cedric and Kenneth and Quentin will be contami nated by contact with those commoA Awfulwaffle children and the horrid young Beansiaxles. And if you take a poor house In a good neighborhood your children will hang wistfully upon the fence and watch the haughty Stalkswag- gers children, exclusive young Many- hridges and the stuck-up little Snipp> - doodles at play. "If a house is perfect in every other respect the landlord will live too near. You are not at first suspicious of the fact that there is a handy little gate by w'hich he can enter your back yard. At first he is just helping you move in. But after you are settled you find him on the premises every time you come home from anywhere. "Next you note with concern that he and his wife are exceedingly familiar with the history of all the people who have occupied the premises before you. And presently you begin to realize that your tdiosyncrasiee will furnish consid erable data for the edification of your successor “Every time you find the landlord at your house he is there merely in the capacity of a friend. He was afraid the cat was caught in the fly-paper or that the canary had escaped, or that mice had got in the piano. He just come to see that everything was as it should be. You are glad to find that you have such i solicitous friend who is always looking \fter your interests. "But when you come home suddenly *ome day and find him taking a bath in your bath room his disinterested mo tives are not so clear. You become dis- atisfied and begin getting ready to .:. The Truth About England .:. There is a large missionary school in Tokio where the teaching is given in English. One of the pupils not long ago wrote a composition on England, from which these are extracts: “The England which occupied of the largest and greatest dominion which rarely can be. The Englishman always works with * very powerful hands and the long legs, and even the emmenced mind and his chin ia so strong as de serves iron. 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It Is in the two- legged Lamb (ge nus suckibus) that the trained nat uralist finds hi* < moat Interesting study. This amiable creature lives apparent ly only to give pleasure to othera, which It does by the simple expedient of suffering itself to be sheared by any, artistic trimmer that happens Not What He Meant. Jones and Long had not met for j Y»ars. Once—that Is, in the days when both had been striving for fame in their different professions— , they had been really good chums, and • many a talk had they enjoyed to- ^ gether by the fireside as to the little places they would take in the coun try “when their ships came home.” The dream of Jones has been real ized, and now. although a portly old fellow. It was with a sense of real pleasure that he prepared for a visit\ from his former friend. “Ah, it’s splendid seeing you down here. Long!" he said cordially, by way of greeting. "Quite like old times— what? And the missus, I know, is longing to shake you by the hand. But first—yes, you must come along and have a look at my greenhouse. You simply must!" And Long went "Well, Jones,” he said,' **you’ve rot a mighty pretty place down here; but to my mind, it’s just a bit bare.” “Oh,” replied Jones cheerfully, “that’s because the trees are so young! Next time you come—why, the/’ll be so big that you won’t recognise them! r ' i J