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Newspaper Page TextTHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1906. 5 f DOUBLOONS A THRILLING NOVEL OF MYSTERY, TRAGEDY AND A STOLEN FORTUNE L By EDEN PHILLPOTTS AND ARNOLD BENNETT (Copyright, 1906, by Eden Phlllpotts and Arnold Bennett.) 8vnop»i» Of Previous Chapters. ' v.uters. a gentleman In distress. Is C TCnr a nl«M watelmmn on Klngsway. •' r '”‘_l,en\e sees a figure crawl out of S'* "i Ted stop In a trench. The next * t"he murdered body nf faptaln Pol- Bjorn 1 ni? t ,red sea captain. is found In the leifen. a rt*' r boose Is railed the Corner S**2" .r«i laksot by Adrlnn Illlgny. who odfilng to dlstresse.1 gentlefolk cents a night. Philip meetsi an ffltrlend Sir Anthony I'hiring. from whom oM tp , {260 which relieves Ids necessities. “V? 1 T, then summoned to attend the n- ♦ the caotaln'a body nml falls under ""^fden A nfgro cook furnishes the Im- Ssnt Information that the dead captain two relatives—a brother with Shorn be bad quarreled, andIn .laughter *“22. rural da. on the stage. Mrs. Caroline rMtrrr’ lhe cnptnln's next-door neighbor nt is. Corner House. Is called ns a witness “ihe savs she was engaged to be married EKssrt ThP coro - D?r "• Tho evidence n search Incurred the Sut’h^hnd on his person. Tho Slo shows that he had planned I Sr hidden treasure and had Inc •nrnltv of a Itnsalan revolutionary aoclety. n? Jury return, a Ter.llct of murder hy •"sir Anthony 111 Bidring take, rblllp to ufelub to reveal a great discovery to him. (ilralda, whom the horonct loves, has "ihe'lironet'a other guest nt dinner Is wi.s Josephine Fire, nn actress who. nfter I'lr.ldits 1 disappearance, has been given that voting woman', dressing room at the theater. While the party la discussing an elaborate spread, Detective Varcoe, of •rotund Yard. Is announced. He asks Silas 5w, permission to , examine her dressing Jooti In an effort *» And some elew to h! missing (Ilralda. The detective tell, themof the extraordinary Interest manl- fasted la the mystery hy the Marquis ef fe^ad while Ar^V'£ c rf; K^JSS 1 'VsTSi "bar" ha'.?; and proceeds to atare the young man out ”, Jomtennnee. He close, the window, palls°down the ahade and owns himself fasten. __ CHAPTER IX—(Continued). Beginning of Philip’s Inquiry. Philip decided to dine In the house. With two hundred and fiefy pounds In his pocket, he waa conscious of a pow erful desire to postpone the real an nouncement of the reign of economy until the morrow, and to fare very well, lust that night, at the Cafe Royal. But native force of character, aided by his wish to acquaint himself with the In mates of the house, enabled him to re sist the horrid temptation. After all, life was earnest. Sloreover, he had a career to carve, and Instead of dwelling on the captain’s murder, which did not In the least concern him. he must con cern himself with the process of carv ing. He descended to the office and or dered his dinner from,Mr. Hllgay, who tirked off his name In one of, the ledg ers on the desk In the office, and gave him a little receipt for tenpence. A gentleman with an adventurous nose and an appearance of prosperity and self-possession was In the office With Mr. Hllgay, and this individual turned at once to Philip. "Mr. Masters, I believer' "Tea," said Philip, gruffly, objecting to the noise. ■'I am the special commissioner of the Evening Record. We are making a special Inquiry Into thls-er-affalr. I had the pleasure of seeing you In court this morning, .and"— “So glad It pleased you," said Philip, “if I had only been In the -dock no doubt your pleasure also would have been special." The special commissioner laughed easily. "I shall be very mu< h obliged, he continued, "If you will give me a few moments." "I will give you all the time there Is,” said Philip; "that la to say. twen ty-four hours in every day. Take It every bit. I don’t ask to share It with you." And he left the office and the special commissioner. It Is difficult to Justify his behavior toward this representative of an au gust profession. The fact waa, how ever. that the Evening Record had printed a special column In its best, facetious style on the ducal epleode at the Jlu Jltsu school, and Philip had not been enthusiastic about the tone of the references to hlmaelf. He was Just a little late for dinner through having dropped off Into a dose during the process of excogitating upon his future; he had not yet recovered all the sleep lost on the night of the mur der. He descended to the front base ment, where Mr. Adrian Hllgay's pay ing guests refreshed themselves In un challengeable respectability, with a certain nervousness. In the first place, he had prominently figured at the In- ouest. and the talk would certainly bear upon the Inquest; he might be questioned; he, might even be regarded "1th suspicion. And, In the second Place, he vvns realiy rather too well dressed for such on assemblage. To eat a ten-penny dinner In a frock coat that had coat five guineas only a couple of days before seemed to border upon Imperfect taste. But what was he to do? He could not be changing his suits all day. And If he had through sheer absent-mindedness, have changed into evening dress, which would have been to create a sensation. He found some thirty out of the six ty clients of Mr. Hllgay seated at their long tables In the refectory. The boys were securing a brown stock soup; a few of the guests were absorbing the soup noiselessly, and a few were not, The place and the people looked ex tremely mournful. Philip at once per ceived that nothing can be more tragic than gentility divorced from riches. There were far more gentlemen than ladles, and far more aged than youth; not one woman was young, or had been young recently, and Philip was deetd- dely the only man under forty. Clothes were sombre, vague, either too loose or too tight; linen was like snow long fallen. Conversation scarcely existed, and such talk as struggled into being was stupid and banal. He had ex pected to be greeted by a buzz of chat, ter about the Inquest, to hear a vi vacious conflict of theories concerning the identity of the murderer. But nothing of the kind. Misfortune, dis appointment, failure and solitary life had made Mr. Hllgay's guests egotists of the most ferocious sort. They were swathed In Innumerable thicknesses of their wrongs and their exasperated desires and their foiled hopes. The murder of all the captains of the mer cantile marine would scarcely have dls turbed them from their faklr-Ilke con- templattqn of themselves which is the characteristic of genteel and lonely poverty. They addressed themselves to their ten-penny meal with an In- tensity of purpose that was al most sublime. Philip had taken a place at the end of the table nearest the door; half a dozen empty covers separated him from his next neighbor, a man In a dark gray suit and a red necktie: not a soul showed more than a passing, faintly hostile Interest In him. The two persons whom It might have amused him to contemplate, Mrs. Upottery and John Meredith, the young man with the scar and the E leasant voice—were not present. loubtless Mrs. Upottery, after her exertions of the morning, had resumed her bed of sickness. Possibly John Meredith lacked tenpence. And In brief, as Philip sat there, having Im- blbed the excellent soup, and .await, lng the excellent New Zealand mutton, In that low-celled room with Its four cold electric lights. Its bare furniture. Its collection of forlorn but prim hu manlty, and Its inhuman boys lmltat lng, In perfunctory manner, the wait era of a fashionable restaurant, a deep sadness took possession of his spirit he wanted to run away and be Joyous he wanted to pretend that there was no such thing In this world as ugly undignified failure. He swore he would not stay In the Corner house another twenty-four hours. Indeed, he had a mind to move straight away, without even tasting the excellent New Zea land mutton, to the Savoy hotel. With two hundred and fifty pounds he coutd have a hundred days of splendor at the Savoy. Then Mr. Vascoe came into the re fectory.' He was disguised as one of. London's rejected, a consumptive man with pale hands and a flushed' face and stooping shoulders; his suitability for a philanthropic lodging house seemed to be perfect but Philip recognized him Immediately by his gait and by hts eyes. The recognition diverted Phil ip's thoughts, and he was Inclined once more to remain at the Corner house for the mere sake of adventure. Mr. Vas coe strode uncertainly to thfe other end of the room, where a place hap pened to be vacant. He gave his little receipt form and commenced his meal without a word, eating raven ously. Once hts glance met the rov ing glance of Philip, and Philip raised ever so slightly his forehead to indi cate to Mr. Vascoe that his disguise had not been impenetrable. In return Mr. Vascoe ever so slightly raised hla forehead, presumably to Indicate to Philip that he relied On Philip’s discre tion. The detective's presence there could mean one thing only—that the detec tive suspected the murderer, or an ac complice of the murderer, to be among the guests of the house. Philip gated up at a notice on the wall, to the effect that nothing but fil tered water could be served at lunch and dinner, but that guests might themselves Introduce beer Into the house, providing the beer was bottled And as he gazed the printed notice ap peared to fade and the portrait of Qlralda to shine through It. The way In which that portrait haunted him, challenged him, distracted him, was highly disconcerting. It waa curious how the vision of It made him dream, made him resent the evidence of Sir Anthony Dldrlng, and even of the mar quis of Nandego. Was she dead? Would her wonderful corpse one day be discovered to the horror of the town? Or did she live, somewhere. In some myatery withdrawn? 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He heard the voice o Vascoe now and then, emitting some phrases which he failed to grasp. And the next thing was that Vascoe and left. Vascoe, beginning last, has finished first. He drank half a glass of water and followed on Vascoe's heels. But when he arrived on the ground floor there was not a sign o Vascoe. Mr. Hllgay was eating neat Iy In his office. He did not question Mr. Hllgay about Vascoe. No doubt Vascoe was present In the house with tho privity of Mr. Hllgay, and Philip felt, therefore, that he could not be too discreet. Besides, ho had no right to Invade the office of Mr. Hllgay, whose bearing toward himself, so friendly on the Tuesday night, had somewhat altered since the Inquest. He stood a moment at the front door. The crowd had dispersed. The workmen In the trench had gone. The trench showed its little warning lami in Strange street, and without douL. the watchman, Charlie Lad, resumed his nightly vigil In the cabin at the comer. Overhead the say was beau tifully clear and the moon Ju8t rising. In a gloomy and wavering mood Philip climbed the stairs to get his hat and overcoat; tho thirty diners were now straggling upward In ones and twos. It needed physical exercise and In two minutes he" was Reading along Holborn for Oxford street, and the re molnlng distance to Bayswater. Nev er, he thought, had anything so de pressed him as the excellent dinner offered by Mr. Halgay to his boarders at the price of tenpence, or one shilling If not ordered In advance. He said to himself that he would have preferred to consume “two stone steps and a pint of thick,” at a coffee stall. Tomorrow his career must receive attention. He must peruse with diligence and dis crimination the advertisements In the Dalis- Telegraph and the Dally Chroni cle, and he must advertise, he must get testimonials, he must gird up hts loins against the world, he must ?on celve a plan of campaign. But he could not control his thoughts, not even though he bought a best ci gar at the little tobacco shop on the northeast side of Oxford Circus and began to smoke it In order'to steady his nerves. He could not dismiss that puzxllng and distracted portrait from before his eyes. He Could not refrain from driving to penetrate the mystery which enshrouded the disappearance of Qlralda and the death of her father. He tried to think of a clew, only one little clew, and the quest seemed ab surdly hopeless. Varcoe's effort seem ed to him equally ridiculous, for al though Philip had the highest opinion of the London police ai mirrors of courtesy, controllers of htrdet traffic and walking directories, he despised them as trackers of a criminal. He could Imagine a detective In Paris or St. Petersburg performing miracles of craft, but London was too matter-of- fact, too blunt, too heavy footed. Had he not, for example, Instantly pene trated Varcoe's disguise? There were sixty persons In the lodging house. Would the police search the entire building? Impossible. The stranger seen by Mrs. Upottery In the Cap tain’s room—how could the police hope to hit on that man? Tho boy who had given the false alarm to the watchman —how to distinguish him from all the other boys In London. These persons had vanished. Qlralda had vanished. The dead man’s'brother had vanished. The blood-marked stone had vanished. The Captain’s papers had vanished. And, to cap all, there were the confus ing and contradictory theories of the Russian secret society and the West Indian buried treasure—both of them wild. Incredible, grotesque theories— which honest, credulous, crude un conscious foolishness might be expect ed to draw across the true scent of the murderer. He was still fretting In the maze of multitudinous and useless conjecture when, at the Marble Arch, an Insist ent hawker forced him to buy the sec ond extra of the Evening Record at one penny, a hundred per cent above Its face value. He glanced through It under a lamp post. Nearly the whole of Page three of the Record was given up to the Inquest and to the brilliant futile performance of the Record's spe cial commissioner. The latter stated briefly that “Mr. Philip Congleton Mas ters” (The Record's passion for leav ing nothing out Is to be noted In the full and accurate revelation of Philips name), "whose connection with a re cent episode at the Jlu Jltsu School, In Jermyn street, will be remembered, be trayed a strange disinclination to say anything whatever. Doubtless Mr. Philip Congleton Masters had reasons for this reticence which seemed suffi cient to him." The special commis sioner had evidently also been disap pointed by his reception at the wid owed hands of Mrs. Upottery, tjut chivalry hod prevented him from show ing thnt disappointment too keenly. Philip, feeling that, after all, a spe cial commissioner Is, Just as much as any other sentient being, an Illustra tion and proof of the great Darwinian Inw of the survival of the fittest, care fully folded up the paper and gave It to the hawker to sell again. Instead of going straight o turned abruptly down through the noc turnal groves of Hyde park, crossed St. Qeorge'a place, went along Bird Cage walk and so reached Westminster Bridge. After tarrying on the moonlit and lampllt embankment, he walked to as far as the Temple Station, and then mounted Arundel street and came to Aldwych and Klngsway once more. The Metropolitan theater and Pleasure House, with facade and glorious blue radiance of electricity, was disgorg ing theatrical patrons; the music hall moiety of Its evening's activity was not yet finished. Three nights ago, penniless, Philip would have crept by unostentatiously on the side of thr road, but tonight, bulging with bank notes, he pushed with a certain care- less deliberate annoyance through the well-clad throng. Every man except Philip seemed to be Intent on getting himself and his women folk sent home like parcels, and the openers of cab- doors, official and unofficial, were par ticipating In the prosperity of the Met ropolitan and British empire. Now among the corps of openers was a ne gro, and though all negroes have the elr of being the same negro, Philip by minute Investigation soon satisfied himself that this particular negro was Identical with Mossa Coco—not the Masaa Coco of the Inquest In broad cloth and many tears, but a Massa Coco attired In effective tatters for the business of drawing tears from the eyes of wealthy and susceptible females at eleven fifteen of the night. Philip watched him In the pursuit of coin until the crowd had thinned to a trickle of unhurried persons, and he was Just approaching to speak to him when, at the next entrance, the. audience of the music hall suddenly burst forth to take such cabs as the theatrical contingent had left. 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The negro appeared to take huge de light In being noticed. “Yes, sah, yes, sahl" he whined, know you, sah; my clothes, sah? Don't ask me, sah. Because I'm a respectable nigger and I don’t Ilka to tell you. You seen my portrait In de paper, sah? Oh, 'ss, sah, and my name underneath It. too Sorry. Captain the only fren' Massa Coco had." "Have the police been after you?” Philip asked. "After me, sah? No, sah! I should be berry sharp to any p'leeceman dat comes after me. I told de Judge what I know. I answer de Judge. I not answer ebbery 'pertinent p'leeceman dat comes along. Qood night, sahl Qood night! He walked away past the deserted and dark front of the theater, and then he came back. “But I tell you, sah, because you are a gentleman, I tell you. I saw de cap tain’s brother tonight. Yes, sah." "What! The man you saw In the hotel In the Waterloo road?” "Yes, sah!” “You’re sura?” 1 'Ts dam sure, sahl" "Where?" In a cab, sah. Just down there,” H pointed to St. Clement's Danes. "What time?” "’Bout 7 o'clock, sah." .'"Which way waa he driving?" j “Up Klngsway, sah." "Have you told the police?” "Not me, sah. What Is de pleece to me? I's too sorry for de captain's death, but p'leece most ’pertinent." And he ran off In the direction of the Strand. 'Here!" Philip Said, but Massa Coco took no heed. The shock of this Information, even though he did not unconditionally ac cept It as a fact, produced a turmoil In t%lUh’s mind which had a curious ef fect. For he suddenly thought of a tri fling Incident which he had utterly for- I otten, and the Incident assumed now, or some Inexplicable reason, a strange and formidable Importance, namely, the swift raising and dropping of a blind in the window of the Corner house at the moment when he was speaking to the on the morning of the dis covery of the corpse. Here, he reflect ed, was conceivably a clew. He hurried up to street. Hfe felt sure that the window was the first floor window nearest the corner of Strange street and Little Qlrdler's alley, and a moment's Inspection of the house served to confirm his mem ory. That window woe now Illumi nated. He went meditatively upstairs, and as he reached the corridor a clock struck 12 and all the lights "except that In the hall were extinguished. He stopped In the darkness at the comer of the two corridors on the first floor, and drew from his pocket a small elec tric lamp which he usually carried. By accident he dropped tt, and In groping (or It, he displaced one of the house painter's planks and made a consider able noise. But he found the lamp, and pressing the button, he gazed at the door of the room In which the blind had been so suspiciously lifted and dropped. There was not a sound In the great house. Then a board cracked, and then the door of the room opened, brusquely, and a man appeared. It was John Meredith, with the scar. (Continued In Tomorrow's Qeorglan.) 00000000000000000000000000 ° CIGARETTE SMOKERS O BARRED FROM 8CH00L. O O Special to The Qeorglan. O Chattanooga, Tenn., 8ept. 7.— O Professor A. J. Brandon, of the 0 Brandon Training school, of War- 0 trace, will banish cigarette amok- 0 era from hts school this year, ac- 0 cording to a statement made by 0 him recently. He denounced cl- O garette smoking In scathing Ian- 0 gunge and declared that he would 0 retain no students who Indulge In 0 this habit. 0 0 00000000O0O0000000O00O000O ' I ■- Patrolman Is Exonerated. Special to The Georgian. Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 7.—Patrol man Joe Chambers has been exoner ated by the coroner’s Jury for the kill ing of Oscar Cothran, who was shot death by the patrolman Tuesday night. The cAroneria Jury returned a verdict of Justifiable homicide because believed that the.ofllcer fired In self- defense, as It wag shown that Coth ran was firing his revolver at the of ficer. The dead man was a molder, and lived at Sheffield, Ala. HAS FELDER SMITH'S APPROVAL AS HEAE OF NEXHENATE? Bibb Man Is Indorsed Through Chairman Mil ler’s Agency. FIVE ASPIRANTS OUT. Some Tall Hustling Ahead For Presidency of The Senate. The five-cornered race for the pres Idency of the next state senate will renewed with vigor, now that the state convention Is over, and practically all the senators have been nominated. There are only two or three dls trlcts In which nominees have not been named, and these will be chosen In the general election, Wednesday, October J. The five candidates for president the state senate are: Akin, of Bartow Martin, of Whitfield; Hardman, of Jackson; Flynt, of Spalding, and Feld er, of Bibb. The first two are from North Geor gia, the third from East Georgia, and the last two from the middle section of tile state. There Is no South Georgia candidate this time, that section having had this honor In the past senate, presided over by Hon. W. S. West, of Lowndes. It Is not known whether these gentlemen will follow the precedent set by ex- Speaker Newt Morris In 1902 and Pres, idem W. 8. West, of the senate In 1905, In making a personal canvass of the nominees at their homes throughout the state. This was a novel departure In state politics and attracted much attention at the time. An active state canvass by the present five aspirants would precipitate another picturesque cam- jalgn for presiding officer of the upper louse. South Georgia can well afford to lay dormant and make no Claim for thk office at this time. She has had four presidents of the senate since recon atruetton. They were: The late Rufus E. Lee ter, of Chatham; Hon. Fleming G. du Blgnon, then of Chatham; Judge R. G Mitchell, of Thomas, father of Repre sentative Fondren Mitchell, and Hon, W. 8. West, of Lowndes. Whether the action of the twenty- second senatorial convention In in. dorslng Hon. T. S. Felder, of Bibb, fot the presidency of the next senate, will be construed as the administration candidate, remains to be seen, but tht resolutions Indorsing him were offered by Judge A. L. Miller, chairman of the recent state convontlon In Macon. Those resolutions were as follows "Resolved first. That the Hon. Thoa. S. Felder, this day nominated by this convention as the Democratic nominee for senator from the Twenty-second senatorial district. Is, by reason of hla brilliant service to the state during the past seven years In the house of repre sentatlves, by his remarkable quallfl. cations as a parliamentarian, by his untiring devotion to the Interests and service of the people, eminently fitted to fill the high position of the prest •dency of the senate. "Resolved second. That this conven tlon does therefore hereby warmly ond strongly Indorse the candidacy of Mr. Felder for the position of president of the next state senate and respectfully Invoke In his behalf the votes and sup port of his fellow senators for that re sponsible office.” This Is calculated to make the other candidates alt up straight and do some tall thinking. CONFEDERATE VETERANS GO ON AN EXCURSION •rs Mot I’ttflC, . I in. WOOLLEY, M. D. 1 Atlanta, da. Office 104 N. Pryor Street. ANNOUNCEMENTS. For County Commissioner. T. M. POOLE. Special to The Georgian. Brunswick, Ga., Sept. 7.—The mem bers of Camp Jackson, United Con federate Veterans, went on an excur slon to Fernandlna, Fla., yesterday on the steamer Emmeline, returning to Brunswick last night. In addition to the members of the local veterans camp quite a number of friends and relatives of the veterans took In the excursion. The excursionists were met at Fernandlna by representatives of ths local Confederate Veterans Camp of that place. 8CARCITY OF LABOR HANDICAPS CONTRACTORS, Special-to The Georgian. Brunswick, Ga., Sept. 7.—Work on the new Glynn county court house Is being badly handicapped oh account of difficulty In securing labor. Contrac tors, builders, lumber and crosstie men, mill men and practically every Industry In Brunswick employing day laborers Is complaining of the scarcity of labor, and vigorous demands are being made for the rigid enforcement of the vagrancy laws. ATLANTAN PRESIDENT OF LUMBER COMPANY. Special to The Georgian. Savannah, Ga., Sept. 7.—The Dolph- McMIllan Lumber Company has been organized here. The company has two mills. The officers are: President, J. E. Tarver, Atlanta; vlee president, John Moore, Augusta; general mana ger, J. G. Dolph, Savannah; secretary and treasurer, J. E. McMillan, Savan nah. Messrs. McMillan and Dolph are well and favorably known In the lum ber business of Florida and Georgia. STREET CAR SYSTEM FOR BRUNSWICK. Special to The Georgian. Brunswick, Ga., Sept. 7.—It has been announced here today that all arrange ments of a financial nature looking to the construction of an electric street car line In Brunswick have been com pleted, and that wlth(n the next four or live weeks the General Construction Company, of Atlanta, will begin the work of laying tracks. A franchise was granted J. H. Neff, of Jacksonville, Fla., some time ago, and It Is under this franchise that the General Construc tion Company will build and operate. This car line franchise has been a bone of contention between two political fac tions In Brunswick, and has been made a local Issue to a certain extent in af fairs political. Whether you select a Soft or Derby Stet son Hat you are sure of that combination of style, quality and finish which wins success in every clime. 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SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Showing the Arrival and Departure of Pas senger Trains of the Following Roads: WkfeTEft'S 1 ' ASfTT’fmfTTC ItAiLRflAK No.—Arrive From— j No,—Depart „ _. am 71 Marietta... 2:60 pmf 72 Mai..™.. .... • 1 Nashville.. 7:16 pm|* 4 Nashville. 8:50 pi» “tsisjw iValwGEoiiffix rfifewA y; “ Arrive From— I Depart To— ▼annab..... 7:10 amiMacoa........ .11:01i oksonvllle.. 7:60 am Savannah 1:00 i ►itcon... 11:40 am Macon 4:00 pm lavannah 4:06 pin Havannah..... 9:16 pm ' aacon 7:66 pm I Jacksonville.. 1:80 pm ATLAtffTINinV’kST- ?0lt'A'fla- HOAD. Arrive From— I Depart To- •Selma 11:40 amI*Montgomery 6:20 am •Montgomery. 7:40 pm)*Montg’m’rj.l2:4& pm •Selma UM pm[*8elma 4:20 pm LaOrange. 9:20 amlLaOrange.... 6:20 pm •Montgomery. 1:40 pmrMontr'm’ry.lDtf pm •Dally. All othar trains dally oxcupt Bun- % trains of Atlanta and West Point lallroad Company arrive at and depart >m Atlanta Terminal atatlon, corne itchell street and Madison avenue. Arrive Ersft(TLritAfL-B<5xr>; Tom— I Depart •part To— •Augusta...... 6:00 am[*AugasU„.... J:45 am J pmlConyara! .... 1:25 pm Covington.... 9:10 ruaia 9:16 pm| # Aaguata.. ...11:45 pm ally. AH other trains dally except Sun- Arrive Washington... 1:20 an r _ Abbeville 9:00 am Monroe, Memphis 11:45 am ‘ '* New York 1^9 donroe 7:40 Dlrmlnghain.. 9:25 pin 8hown in Central tJ IUe.. M 4:00 pm Memphis 6:00 pm Washington.. 9:35 pm Trains Leave Atlanta. New Terminal Station, corner Mitchell and Madison Avenue. N. B.—Following achedule figures pub lished oniy as luformatlou aud are not guarantee: 4:00 A. M.—No. 23. DAILY. Local to Blr- tnlngbam. making nil stops; arriving in Birmingham 10:1b a. m. 6:30 A. M.—No. 13. DAILY. "CHICAGO AND CINCINNATI LIMITKD.” A solid vestlbuled train Atlanta to Cincinnati with out change, composed of vestlbuled day coaches and Pullman drawing room sleep ing cars. Arrive* Rome.7:30 a. m.; Chat tanooga 9:45 a. in.; Cincinnati 7:3u p. m.; Louisville 1:16 p. in.: Chicago 7:23 a. m. Cafe car service. All meals between At lanta and ClnclnnntL 6:20 A. M.—No. 30 DAILY, to Griffin and Columbus. Arrives Urlffln 7:11 a. m.; Co lumbus 10 a. m. C:J6 A. M.—»<o. 12. DAILY, local to Macon. Brunswick and Jacksonville. Makes all stops , arriving Macon 0:15 a. in.: Bruns wick 4 p. m.; Jacksonville 7:40 p. m. 7:00 A. M.—No. 35. DAILY.—Pullman to Hi: iniiik’iium. Memphis, Kiujhuh City and Colorndo Springs. Arrives Memphis 8:06 8 , u:.; Kansus City 9:45 a. in., and Colorado prlngs 8:16 a. m. 7:60 A. M.—No. 12. DAILY^-Local to Charlotte. Danville, Richmond and Ashe- Tl 7:63 A. M.—N. 7. DAILY, Chattanooga. 12 NOON, No. 38, DAILY.-Washlngton and Southwestern Limited. Electric light- Sleeping, library, observation and club through without clmngo. Dining cars serve all meals en route, arrives Wash ington &.v2 a. m.; New York 12:*3 j&. m. 1:00 P. M.—No. 40, DAILY.—New York DAILY.—Local for PINE LUMBER MARKET 18 DISTRESSINGLY QUIET. Special to The Georgian. Brunswick, Qa., Sept. 7.—The yellow pine lumber markbt la quiet and the majority of the biff lumber dealers at Brunswick have a fewer number of orders booked than they have had at any time In the post two years or more. The number of inquiries being tent out from dealers North and tn the middle West Is smaller than usual, and very little business is being bid on by local dealers. Special to The Georgian. Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 7.—The Joe McDonnell camp. United Confed erate Veterans, of Ringgold, Ga., will hold Its annual reunion at the Georgia monument, Chlckamauga Park, Sep-‘ tember 20, when the Wilder’s brigade and the 8oc!ety of the Army of the Cumberland hold their reunions here. An Emergency Story. There was excitement In the A family when one of the children broke an arm. The doctor wai needed quickly. There was not a Bell telephone tn the house—much un necessary delay and worry resulted. IN THE MEANTIME when one of the B children broke an arm there was no delay- no worry. A doctor was reached Instantly over the Bell tele phone. The A family should— Call Contract Dept. M. 1300 BELL SERVICE IS SATIS FACTORY Chariot™ and Washington. Arrives Wash ington 11:06 a. m.; New York 6 p. 12:15 P. M.-No. :«con, arriving Mac 4:10 P. M.-No. 21. llawkliiavllte. Pullman ouservatlon chair ar Atlanta to Macon. 4:25 P. M.-No. 37, DAILY.—Pullman sleeping car sml any coaches to Blrmlng- ham'. Arrives Birmingham Memphis 7:16_ 9:16 STemob 4:W P. M.-No. 18. DAILY, except Sun day. "Air Lino B«»llo" to Toccoa. 4:30 P. M.—No. 22, DAILY.—Griffin and Columbus. Pullman palace steeping car aud day coaches. 4:35 P. M.-No. 23. DAILY.—Local to Fay- etteville and Fort Valley. 440 P. M.-No. 15. DAILY.—Through drawing room ami sleeping cars jo Cin cinnati nnd Memphis aud Chattanooga to Louisville. Arrives Homo 7:20 p. m.; Dalton 246 p. m.: Chattanooga 9:56 p. m.; Memphis 2:20 a. m.: Louisville 8:50 a. m.; St. Louis f p. m.: Cincinnati 8:10 a. m. 1:15 P. M.—No. 25, DAILY.—Makes all ■tops. Local to Uefila; arrives Heflin 10:50 P ufli P. M.-No, 14. DAILY.—Florida I.tn. Ited. A solid vestlbuled train to Jackson ville. Fla. Through sleeping cars nnd day coaches to Jacksonville nnd Brunswick; ar rives Jacksonville 3:50 a. nt.; Brunswick li. tn.: 8t Augustliu* 10 a. ra. G ll:90 P. M.-No. 97. DAILY.—Through tillmsn drawing room steeping car. At- ntn to Shreveport. Locnl sleeper Atlsuts to Birmingham. ArrLca Birmingham 5:16 g. m.: Meridian 11 a. m.: Jackson 2:26 p. ut.; Vicksburg. 4:06 p. in.; Shreveport 10:64 in. Sleepers open to receive passengers U ft'lGHT-No. 3d. DAILY.—United StitM Fast Mall. Solid vatlbuliM train, sleeping csra to N.w Vers, Richmond, Charlotte and AabeTlll.. Coaches to Washington, bln In, cars serre all' meal, an route. ArrtT«s Washington 3:30 p. m.: New York d:23 a. m. Locnl Atlants-Cliarlotte alacper open to rccctTo paaaangers si 3:00 p. m. Local AtlnnU-Anhavillo alocnar open 10:30 p. m. Ticket Office No. 1 Peachtree, on VladocL Peters building, nnd new Terminal Station. WILL PROVE AN ALIBI IN HIS ASSAULT CASE. Hpedfll tn Tho Georgian Chattanooga, Tenn, Sept. 7.—Walter 8. McKenzie, the prominent lumber man of Nashville, la sure that he can establish an alibi before the grand Jury when It begins to Investigate the charge of asssult which has been lodged against him. Ho Is charged with as saulting Mrs. Annie L. Tydeman, a pretty young woman of this city, on :he night of July 2«. Sam Jones Taaernacle Meetings, Carters- ville, Ga. On Septemper 15th to 23rd, Inclu sive, the Western and Atlantic rail road will sell tickets from Atlanta- Dalton and Intermediate stations, to Cartersvllle. at rate of one fare for tho round trip. Gam Jones will bo assisted by Evangelist Oliver and other ministers of renown. Prof. E. O. Excell wilt have charge of tho music, and other gospel singers of note will attend. Three servicfti each day, 10:30 a. m. 3:00 p. m. and 8:00 p. m., and the people of Carteravlllo will welcome the great crowds with the same hoe- pltality they have always shown. CHAS. E. HARMAN. Gen. Pate. Agent