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THE ATLANTIAN
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ATLANTA, GA.
OFFICERS
WILLIAM L. PEEL, President ROBT. F. MADDOX, Vice-President
Thos. J. Pebpi.ES, Cashier Jas. P. Windsor, Assistant Cashier
Jas. F. Alexander, Assistant Cashier
REPUBLICAN JUNK FOR
SALE.
(From The Nashville Tennessean.)
The following was issued today by the
democratic state committee of Kentucky:
“Our leace with Uncle Sam having
practically expired, and having decided
to retire to private life, we, the under
signed, will offer for sale at our resi
dence, the national capital, Washington,
D. C., all the following described prop
erty, to-wit:
“ (a) One elephant, about forty years
old, with false tusks and no backbone
to speak of.
“(b) One set of injunctions and anti
trust laws; have been used very little,
and just as good as they ever were.
“(c) One method of revising the tar
iff. This is absolutely original and pat
ent has been applied for.
“(d) One republican platform as good
as new. Has only been used for cam
paign purposes. In this platform a large
number of planks from the democratic
platform have been inserted, but they
can be easily distinguished and will cer
tainly go with the lot.
“(e) One financial system, well sup
plied with clearing-house certificates, but
very little cash.
“(f) One plan for raising campaign
contributions. This is well worn and has
a bad odor, but otherwise in good con
dition.
• • (g) A large quantity of G. O. P.
bric-a-brac, consisting of old dinner pails,
prosperity gags, Taft smiles, well-worn
vetoes, election promises, panic threats,
and other things of like character too
numerous to mention.
“This sale mil positively take place
on the above day and date, regardless of
weather and size of crowd, and every
thing will be closed out on that date.
Crow will be served by the Old Boys’
Republican Club! Everybody, regardless
of past political servitude, invited. THIS
STUFF MUST BE CLEARED AWAY.
Terms, just anything we can get and
removal of property.
“UNCLE JOE CANNON,
* ‘ Austioneer.
“WILLIAM H. TAFT, Clerk.
“J. PIERPONT MORGAN,
“C. D. HILLES,
“BOISE PENROSE,
“CHAUNCEY DEPEW,
“ELIHU ROOT,
“JOHN D. ARCHIBOLD,
‘ ‘ Committee. ’ ’
TOO MUCH TO SWALLOW.
Virginia, at five, was devoted to Bible
stories. She know about Joseph, and
Grandmother was preparing her for the
Exodus.
“You see, Jacob, whose other name
was Israel, went down to Egypt with his
children and his grandchildren and they
married and had children, and they kept
on increasing until there were hundreds
and hundreds of them. And they were
all called the ‘children of Israel.’ ”
At this point Virginia interrupted po
litely: “Grandmother, if you say this
is true I will believe it; but very few
people have hundio , ° * ' ' ”
DID A WOMAN PUBLISH THE
FIRST DAILY PAPER?
Interesting History Regarding
Work Done by the Fair Sex
Centuries Ago.
A recent “special” dated from Paris
states that “an anniversary that has al-
JNO. J. WOODSIDE,
The Renting Agent.
most escaped notice ought to be com
memorated this year. It is just one hun
dred years since women first started a
newspaper to advocate their rights. ’ ’
The “special” then spins out a story
that on account of the determination of
Napoleon the Great to divorce Josephine
Beauharnais a great feminist movement
was started, and the Athenee des Dames
was created and flourished—and that the
Athenee was ‘ ‘ that first, newspaper. ’ ’
The Athenee des Dames was started
in 1810, and had a very short life,
amounting to several weeks. During its
brief career—it was a weekly publica
tion—it made a vigorous fight against the
prevalent opinion that “man is superior
to woman; ’ ’ and the burden of its swan
FRED M. WOODDALL,
Train Master, A. B. & A R. R.—
In Him the Railroad Men Have
a Friend—Watch Him Rise—
His HMrtc^ *ers Are Now in
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song was that many women rivalled men
in poetic genius, etc.
But over one hundred years before the
idea of starting L’Athenee des Dames
was even conceived Elizabeth Mallet es
tablished the first daily newspaper in
the world. In London, March, 1702, she
published and edited the Daily Courant,
which took up the cudgels for women’s
rights and during its prosperous career
carried out the determination of its
founders to “spare the public at least
half the impertinences which the ordi
nary papers contain.”
Over here in the new world Anna
Franklin printed in 1732 the first news
paper in Rhode Island, and its columns
spoke vigorously for the proper recogni
tion of w r omen, as did also the Mercury,
when flourished in Philadelphia, in the
old Keystone state, under its publisher
and editress, Mrs. Cornelia Bradford.
The same public-spirited policy actuat
ed the New York Weekly Journal, con
ducted by Mrs. Zeuger, which had the
euviable honor of being the second news
paper started in the city of New York.
Anna K. Greene edited and published
in 1767 the Maryland Gazette (the first
paper in that colony) until her death in
1775.
Mrs. Mary K. Goddard published and
edited the Maryland Journal for eight
.years, and ‘ ‘ her editorials were of so
spirited and pronounced a character that
only her sex saved her from floggings.”
Largely of the same stamp was the
Virginia Gazette, started by Clementina
Reid in 1772, the first newspaper in
which was printed the Declaration of In-
dopence. A synopsis of it was printed
in the issue of July 19, and the entire
document on July 26.
On the same lines Mrs. Elizabeth Timo-
thee published the Gazette in Charleston,
S. C., from 1773 to 1775.
Alary Crouch also published a newspa
per in Charleston, S. C., in 1770, but it
was founded in special opposition to the
stamp act. She subsequently moved to
Salem, Mass., where she continued its
publication for some years.
And in 1771 Penelope Russell printed
the Censor in Boston. She set her own
type and was such a capable compositor
as to be able to set up her editorials
without written copy while working at
her case.
Since then women’s rights and women’s
wrongs have been exploited here and in
continental Europe in hundreds of news
papers, daily, weekly and monthly, and
in magazines and other periodicals, many
of them run by women and owned by
women.—Robert M. McWade in the Wo
man’s National Daily.
GOING FURTHER BACK.
A man who had suddenly become very
| rich went to live in New York and began
! to spend money with a lavish hand. He
j decided that his name needed advertis-
' ing, so he visited a genealogist.
“I suppose,” lie said, “if I pay you
onough money you can trace my family
back to Adam?”
“My dear sir,” replied the genealo
gist, “if you’re willing to put up the
money, we can prove by evolution that
your family existed before Adam.”—
Lippincott’s Magazine.