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THE ATLANTIAN
OUR SPRING LINE
Of French Shriner and Urner,
And Bostonians Oxfords
Are Now Ready
Lord & Taylor’s Silk Hosiery
FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN
“NOT-A-SEME”
SILK LISLE HOSE FOR MEN, WOMEN
AND CHILDREN.
25 WHITEHALL ST.
GOOD 5HDES • fob • EVERYBODY
FRED S. STEWART CO.
NO NEED TO BUY EXPRESS
COMPANIES.
The revelations made in the Inter
state Commerce Commission investiga
tions into the conduct of the express
business are astounding. In the hearing
rocontly, with reference to one of the
great companies, it was shown by the
statistics introduced as evidence, for in
stance, that while its earnings from the
time of its formation to date have been
$598,158,930, and while it has distrib
uted dividends amounting to $43,500,-
000, it practically began business with
out a cent of actual invested capital.
Upon the investments it has made from
its earnings its present net income is
$20,000,000.
Ability of the company to distribute
$43,500,000 iu dividends from its net
earnings has been due to the exorbitant
charges for the carriage of articles en
trusted to it by the public. As shown
in previous sessions of the commission,
tne express companies, including the one
now in question, have been doing busi
ness on loose methods, although care has
been taken that blunders in the form
of wrongful charges should be invaria
bly at the cost of the public. Confes
sion was made by one of the witnesses
to 3,000 overcharges made in one day
by one company, and to the collection
of $57,000 of overcharges in one year.
The revelations of this in
vestigation have strengthened the wide
spread conviction that the Government
should take the package and parcel
carrying business into its own hands.
In this connection there is certain to be
vigorous protest against “taking over
the express companies” at a cost of
many millions. The Government does
not need to take them over. All it
needs to do is to establish a domestic
parcels post system and the rest mil
take care of itself.—Christian Science
Monitor.
“THOU SHALT NOT”—
WORRY.
We have no conscience on the matter
of worry; we do not think of it as wrong;
we never confess it even as a failing,
much less ask forgiveness of it as a sin.
If the preacher were to say, “Do not
steal” or “Do not kill” we accept the
word at once as of Divine authority.
But if the preacher should say, “Do not
worry, ’ ’ there springs up instantly a
sense of resentment. Everybody knows
the kind of feeling that meets such a
counsel. “Ah! It is all very well for
you to talk,” as if the authority were
that of the preacher only, and not of the
Master Himself. Who is not familiar
with the angry mutter: “Let anybody
live where I live, and put up with the
things that I have got to endure 1 ’ ’
That settles the matter in the opinion of
a great many. But mark from Whom
this word comes, “I say unto you”—
with Him this matter must be settled,
the Lord and Judge of all men.—Mark
Guy Pearse, from 4 4 Christ’s Cure for
Care.”
PARTICULARS WANTED.
She—Would you like to do something
for me awfully badf
He—How bad is itt—Satire.
HOW THEY MANAGED IT.
Two men motoring through the Ten-
i nessee mountains sought shelter one
I night in a one-room cabin overflowing
with children.
. There was only one bed, and much
I misgiving was felt on the part of the
| travelers as to where they should sleep.
; The mother undressed the children one
| by one and laid them in the bed, and as
| soon as they were asleep she took them
up without waking them and laid them
down on a big pile of straw in the cor
ner. When all were quietly sleeping on
the straw the gentlemen were invited to
take the bed.
Inwardly relieved but outwardly pro
testing their regret at depriving their
hosts of their bed, the tired travelers
lay down and slept soundly until morn
ing. On waking, however, they found
themselves on the straw beside the chil
dren, while the mother and father occu
pied the bed.
AMERICA STILL AHEAD.
An American and a Scotchman were
walking one day near the foot of one of
the Scotch mountains. The Scotchman, j
wishing to impress the visitor, produced j
a famous echo to be heard in that place, i
When the echo returned clearly after |
nearly four minutes, the proud Scotch
man, turning to the Yankee, exclaimed:
“There, mon, ye canna show anything
like that in your country.”
“Oh, I don’t know,” said the Ameri
can, “I guess we can better that. Why
in my camp in the Rockies, when I go
to bed I just lean out of my window and
call out, ‘Time to get up: wake up!’
and eight hours afterward the echo
comes back and wakes me.”
WHY THE ROMANS DE
CREASED.
The visiting member of the Board of
Education was examining a class in his
tory, and of one of the brightest pupils
he asked the question: “Why did the
population of Rome decrease just before
the fall of the Empire!”
The reply came promptly from a lit
tle girl: 4 4 Because the Romans had
coased to practice husbandry.”
W. A. SIMS,
Cashier City Savings Bank. '
PAUL E. WILKES
A Veteran of the fourth estate
who has made good
Did you ever walk into the office of
the “Georgian” and notice the black
haired man with the serious frown upon
his face, who issues orders and requests
in stentorian tones, and generally gets
what he wants! Of course you have.
That’s Paul Wilkes.
He generally sits at his desk in the
center of the business office watching the
different matters with his practiced eye,
that go to make the success of a great
newspaper. At his desk, in his work
hours, one sometimes gets the impression
that Paul is a sort of an ogre or beast,
who delights in torturing human beings.
But not so. He may call to the tele
phone operator in accents loud and
PAUL E. WILKES.
sharp: “Get me the Mayor,” or to an
office boy, “stand by,” but he is work
ing under pressure, and the mayor had
better be forthcoming and the office boy
at attention or something will .happen.
When the paper is on the press, Paul is
the most agreeable and obliging man
to be found, and he is at all times ready
to give the advantage of his experience,
(which, by the way, is very large), or
his advice to any who may ask for it.
Wilkes is one of the few men in the
newspaper profession who understands
the proper workings of every department,
and demonstrates on numerous occasions
his absolute ability to handle the news
department, mechanical or advertising
and business offices, or whatever it may
be.
He is a trained man of many years’
experience, and has acquired his know
ledge of the business office, both from
observation and natural instinct, as well
as experience. He is also an advertising
j writer of no mean calioer, handling at
1 present some of the best accounts in the