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THE ATLANTIAN
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Is Money Muck?
Charles Lamb Says
In An Immortal Essay:
“The proverbs which have a tendency to make
us undervalue money, are lies. Gold is not
mere muck. Goodly shoulders of mutton.books,
pictures, the opportunity of seeing foreign
countries, independence, heart's ease,the blessed
power to help others—THESE ARE NOT
MUCK—and money brings them all."
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A Savings Account Started Notv
Will Bring These Blessings to You
And to Your Family. j
THINK IT OVER)
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Travelers Bank and Trust Co.
PEACHTREE AND WALTON STS.
BRANCH 277 MARIETTA ST.
S OUTHERN CHRISTIAN HOME
299 Lee St. Atlanta, Ga.
It is auxiliary to The
NATIONAL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION
of the Christian Church
Big Christmas for Little Orphans
Southern Christian Home 299
Lee St, Doing a Great Work
The happiest hours of a child’s
life is the night before Christmas,
but the climax comes on Christ
mas morning when they awake to
find the mythical Santa Claus has
remembered them well.
Children who live in a palace
look for more expensive gifts than
those who live in the hut; but the
pleasure in the childish heart is
just as great in the poor children
as in the rich. They both enjoy
the same tinkling sensation of re
ceiving that something which all
the year they have wished for.
Children who have lost either
one or both parents frequently
have a foreboding that at the
Christmas time they will not get
exactly what they are looking for.
They feel that almost every one
they look at is as fierce as Dick
on’s character in The Christmas
Carol, “Old Scruggs.” Every
orphan heart has the tinkling
feeling in it as the other children,
and the same desires for good
things to eat, nice things to wear,
and beautiful things to play with.
Preparations are being made for
a merry Christmas at the South
ern Christmas Home, 299 Lee St.,
and each little orphan can be
heard at evening prayer praying
for things they wish but do not
know from whence they will come.
Last Christmas some unknown
kind friend sent them several
boxes of oranges and apples which
made the little orphans’ hearts
beat wi.th joy. They are wonder
ing whether that kind friend is
still living as no soul knows from
whence these good things come.
Some day when you are wan
dering around, patting yourself
on the back and wondering how
you can make others happy, make
a visit to the Southern Christian
Home and see how thirty-three
little children live. It will do you
good.
A. M. Beatty.
HE WAS A SPORT, ALL RIGHT.
“Do I look like a spoort?” asked the
stout German citizen of the sergeant, as
ho entered the police station.
“Well, I don’t •know,” replied his
friend, “but come to think of it you do
appear to have changed somewhat of late.
Your clothing seems to bo of a more
stylish cut and you step along like a two-
year-old. ’ ’
‘ ‘ Vel, I vas a spoort—a true-blue
blooded von. I vas a horse spoort. ’ ’
“A what?”
‘ ‘ A horse spoort—I blay dor ponies. ’ ’
‘ ‘ Take my advice and you will give it
up or they will hnve your beer palace be-
foro you can say Jack Robinson.”
“Dot’s vat mine vife says, but I vas
too smart for clem. I vas a plunger
undt I vin so much der bookmakers vas
all afraid of me.”
* ‘ Yes, but how about the story that you
wore badly taken in yesterday?”
‘ ‘ I vas buncoed. I vasn’t beaten fair.
You see, a young feller vat dey calls
‘Skinney der Tout’ conies into mine
blace undt he says dat he has der
biggest cincli of der season—a regular
lay down. I tells him dot I heard aboudt
does cinches undt dey vas no good. He
says dot der name of his horse vas Bees
wax, undt he vas a sticker undt couldn’t
lose.
“Joost den der telephone rings, undt
von I go mit it der feller on der odder
end ho says tell Skinney der Tout if he
comes by mine blace dot his horse lost—
dot he vas beaten by an eyelid. Ven 1
go back mit der bar Skinney vas still
dere, undt he says I vas a fool not to
take his tip.
“ ‘ I bet you $10 he don’t vin, ’ 1 says.
‘1 go you vonce—twice, three times,”
said Skinney. Den vc bet $20 undt put
der money up mit O’Sullivan, der groc
ery man. Vel, ven der bapers come oudt
day say dot Skinney’s horse von, sure
enough, undt lie gets der money.”
“Well, you lost all right, didn’t you?”
“Yer, I lose mine $20, but I vould
like ter find dot feller dot telephone mine
blace. ’’
“You would, would you? Well, 1
guess Skinney knows his address all right.
But take my advice and cut Skinney and
his associates off your visiting list.”—
New York Tribune.
NO PEE.
“Why is it that you never ask after
your relations when you meet them, doc
tor ? ’ ’
‘ ‘ Because I don’t care about giving
advice free.”—Fliegendc litaettcr.
FRETTING.
Fretting never paid a bill,
Fretting never climbed a hill,
Fretting never smoothed a road,
Never lightened any load,
Never brushed away a sorrow,
Never quicker brought the morrow.
—Detroit Free Press, j
A PERFECT TERROR.
“Willie,” said the mother sorrowfully,
“overy time you are naughty I get an
other gray hair.”
‘ ‘ Gee! ’ ’ said Willie; ‘ ‘ you must have
been a terror. Look at Grandpa.”—
Ladies’ Homo Journal.
HON. HOKE SMITH,
Junior Senator From Georgia, Who Has Been Selected by His Fel
low Senators to Block President Taft’s Appointments During
the Remainder of His Term as President.