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8 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1907. BEATRICE FAIRFAX says. Men Are Poor Judges of a Woman’s Characteristics—A Pretty Woman Can Nearly Always Hoodwink a Man For a Certain Length of Time Anyway. ' T HE may be pretty, selfish, a nonen tity, but for a while her beauty will outclass all her faults, and some short-sighted man will marry her in the fond belief that her mere beauty will make him a happy man for life. He does not realize until after he has married her that a pink and white ornament can not add materially to the happiness and comfort of a home. Then, when he is tied to a spoiled, peevish woman, people will feel sorry for him and say, "Poor So and So has no home life at all;, he Is married to a selfish. Incapable woman." In reality he deserves no sympathy at all. He never looked tor better qualities In a wife, but married a girl simply and solely because she was pretty. When^a man Is courting he Is quite satisfied if his sweetneart Is pretty and agreeable, but when he is married he expects his wife to develop much more substantial virtues. BEATRICE FAIRFAX. That is all very well, but he should have thought of it a little sooner. He should have said to himself, "Is this girl anything but pretty and agreeable? Will she make a good wife and con genial companion?" Of course no young man who Is In process of falling in love can be expect ed to keep an entirely cool head and look carefully at all sides of the ques tion, but he surely can exercise a little common sense and not be swayed en tirely by mere physical beauty. There are hundreds of girls who are sensible and bright, as well as good looking, and the man who wins such a girl can indeed consider himself lucky. And there are also hundreds of nice girls who, though not actually pretty, are quite good looking enough to be pleasant to look it ^ ‘ But often a man will pass them oy and choose a pretty, little, empty-head ed goose whom he will tire of within a year after marriage. Beauty Is a very charming quality in a girl, but It won’t go very far toward making her a desirable wife unless she has other fine qualities to supplement It. Young man, If you are attracted by a pretty girl, find out all about her be fore you invite her to share your name and fortune. Find out If she Is sweet-tetnpered, neat and economical. Notice how she treats her little brothers and sisters, and whether she saves her mother all she can or lets her slave while her daughter gads about In fine clothes. A good daughter will mako a good wife. Sometimes the very pretty girl Is vain and spoiled. If so, she w ill make a selfish wife. It is important to find out If she is economical. An extravagant wife will hold you back all your life. Think of all these tilings before you decide on taking the most Important step of your life. Don't jump to the conclusion that a pretty face will satisfy an your ideas of what a wife should be. Go slowly and think it well over. The International Sunday School Les son For May 5 Is, "Joseph the Wise Ruler in Egypt."—Gen. 41: 38-49. JOSEPH, THE WISE RULER The Golden Text Is, “If Any of You ; Lack Wisdom, Let Him Ask of God." ; —James 15. By WILLIAM T. ELLIS. W HO CAN REMEMBER what wns Inst /ear's "lH»st selling" novel! Or last Month'*? Modern stories seem hut born to die; vrbst a con trast Is afforded by the compact, living, dramatic Old Testament tale of Jenlousj, intrigue, heroism, abject suffering for the sake of principles, and complete nnd splen did triumph over all circumstances and foes which go to make np the narrative of the life of the young man Joseph. Absorb ing human Interest, whieb grips youth and age alike. Is fonud In these few old pages. A perusal of the story—it can be read from beginning to end In fifteen minutes—makes one think of how a modern writer would dribble over this wealth of material. In connection with the moving tnle of even the great literature of the Greel— loses beside the compression ami massive ness of the Old Testament. It Is this cooli solidity of poise, this grave and welgfaM compression of speech, that makes the <1 Testament literature so foreign. It has I Bride of art* no Interest In the subjects ■nipremdons of the writer, no care ereu AM the preservation of his name. It la aus terely preoccupied with the lasting nnd the reul, nnd aliove all. unceasingly possessed hie. This eonsMnt preoccupation with the eternal and the superhuman gives to this literature n sense of proportion which again separates It from other literature. In onr modern literature It Is hardly possible to find an author who lias not some touch of the restless egotism that Is the enrse of the artistic temperament; in the lllhle there is no author who was not free from It. "In this art which Is not art, then, in this absorption with the solid fnrta of re ality nnd the neglect of man’s comment and luterpretstloii. In the unswerving Instinct for the lasting, nnd. the sense of the con stant mid Immediate presence of an omnipo tent God. the lllhle stands apart in. our literature." The Climax of a Career. The portion of the biography of Joseph which the world's Handay schools are this the favor of a nation, of Its king and of the King of kings. Here we see-vindi cated the troth which abort vision ao fre quently obscures, namely, that God’s laws are yet operative. He Is stilt managing his universe In his own way. And while lie Is running an Immeasurable universe, He Is not too busy to give heed to the per sonal affairs of every mortal that depends upon Him. In the day’s renaissance of Ideals, It is well to be reminded by Joseph that the man who pins his faith to God's eternal * a time lire car of Jehovah from Ills throne. During the two long, lonely years between the making of the butler's promise nnd Its fulfillment. Joseph's faith must have been, sorely tried. Hut he believed God, notwithstanding all; he kept his flag flying In that miserable old Kgyptluu prison, und eventually It proved to be n flag of victory. Getting Ready for the Big Day. Of course Joseph's chance came; the Lord never lets go to waste such an equip ment aud fidelity as Joseph's. If He ran help It. The inan who has drilled himself to fitness in the school of hard, dark days Is certain to come up eventually with his great opportunity. The trouble with not a few young people Is that (hey are bewail ing their lack of a chance In life. Instead of seriously preparing for the day of their visitation. Opportunities are only Judg ments to the unprepared. There are full msuy men grumbling aud gossiping on street corners or in village stores who Mliould lie hard at the task of perfecting themselves to obey their call when It comes. Joseph hml not pined away his soul nnd his fitness In prison: he had coin* idled the direct rlrrmustance* to minister o his effclency. It Is often said that the. icst way to preimre for tomorrow's task h by n faithful fulfillment of today's; true nough, bat Is It not also true that today's task Is tietter done If It Is realised ns u »ration for tomorrow's A Great Ambition .he living present” Is _ . lint the present most also lire Bi Therefore the power of a great goal. _ pli took on to the throue with hint all H>nenth the brilliant stars of Canaan.-There never was an hour In Ills life when Joseph wns not ambitious, uud all that befell him he made a servant of bis great purposen. Ambition is one of God's levers. Had would be the day for the race when the "divine discontent' ceased to stir In the hearts of men. The difference between America and China, America and India, or America and Turkey Is—noble ambition. No nation can ever greatly achieve whose youth does not greatly aspire. I once chanced to be nhoard the same ship with a Japanese prince, traveling ns royal envoy to the king of England, and “ * ‘ resting to note his dally lesson as a fresh proof that there Is I her of his suite, so the ruler of Egypt turned to Joseph. Thus the real king, "the man who can." ever wields a sway over the mere hereditary monarch. A later wise man than Joseph wrote, “Beast thou a man diligent In his business? He shall stand l>efore kings." Ho Joseph proved. In truth, the clean, self-reliant, self-re specting, efficient man ran stand in his In tegrity anywhere, and this ability to standr unabashed In the presence of anybody or orerylKKly Is one of the royal privileges of a true man. Joseph was not embarrassed or put at disadvantage when his sudden opportunity came. A King’s Bad Dreams. PfUllI more dreams. This time It was Pharaoh himself who had been visited by two dreams, one of seveu lean kino devour ing seven fat klne. and of seven scant bends of grain devouring seven full heuds. In his perplexity to find an Interpreter the romlss- ness of the butler was brought home to the latter, and he remembered the skillfulj reader of dreams in the prison. Ho Joseph was sent for. "Unexcited by the sudden change 'from the prison to the court, and uiielatcd by Pharaoh's praise, Joseph disclaimed any skill of his own; it Is 'not In me; God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.' This is the modesty that springs from true depend ence ou God. The Interpretation wna aim pie, hut It Involved Important consequence*. The mere guess of a clever dream Inter preter was Insufficient to found a fourteen! years' policy on. For this there was needed the assured solution of a divinely-inspired Interpreter. Observe the difference be tween speculation and revelation; the lielng authoritative and conscious of Its authority, the other not. Joseph resists the temptation to make his fortune by posing as an adept In the *cleuce the magi- da us professed, and'In which they seemed bunglers and apprentices when compared with him. Joseph, not content with Inter- nretetlng the dreams, proceeds to advise Pharaoh how to net.'* The specter which J' " * ** ’ up was the awful one < and Interdependence has been wrought l a network of railways and commerce which has made whole continents one neighbor hood. Not so In andent Egypt; not so In present-day Chinn. In the hitter country I have seen the starved nnd the starving, I have heard the re-echoing cry of the parents pleading for food and the Inarticulate ap peal of Infants who knew uot that their cry wns hunger-born; f have felt the clutch of hundreds of claw-llke hands upon my clothes; I have seen the deadly famine B*ypt A Young Man on the Throne. "A romance from real life" we cull the rise of Joseph, and all kindred Incidents. As If romance were strange in real life. Let me whisper a secret: It Is the practice of at least one great American story |wiper— perhaps the most to clip from the which they scud t Imre record i. ble hlnv to see a world of stories. There Is scarcely a day pusses that does ■me before was among those who la*wed the knee. The commercial world Is full of this; so is every other sphere of human activity. Josephs are every day flndiug. scepter* of power thrust Into their bauds; well for them If they ure not like some notorious msde-orer night millionaires, whose bead* were turned by authority nuu position that tuey made public exhibition of their* unfitness. Joseph belonged to the |noble army of competents. He won place ..... _ _j young ■■ ■ For I'hnfuoh was quite ns little InteresfRI n* l> ttie modern world In n nuni'a nnteee- dent,. n«e. or' npixuninci': the thing he for nldllty to flu fully. Thtm, hy Joseph's exaltation were exulted the Idenli he tind I*I long eherlnhefl. nnd the tlod upon whom bo de|>ended for nil hi. .kill nnd success. livery true sur er*. of a llodly man Is a glorification of tlod himself. THE HEARTLESSNESS OF MODERN COMMERCIALISM. By Rev.Thomgs B. Gregory. Is civilisation a blessing or (i curse? To take the bull squarely by the horns, Is the present condition of the world nn ailvnnce upon Its condition a thousand or three thousand years ago? Lot us pause before answering In the alhrmatlve. Those early sges look pretty grim In the perspective of history. The annal ists have told some pretty tough yarns of the nnclent folk: but how do til? stories that come down to us of the Pyramid builders nnd the rearers of the Babylon walls compare In cold-blooded Inhumunity with the {acts of our mod em civilisation? “Most favorably, Indeed," must be our answer. Herodotus and the rest of them never tire of reciting the brutalities of the Egyptian taskmasters nnd the Meso potamian bosses, how they made the poor make "bricks without straw.” with lashes and curses for refreshments We are told how the men who reared the Hanging Cardens of Babylon and the tombs of tho Pharaohs were driven to their work by goads nnd kept ut It by clubs until, tired nature being able to endure It no longer, tho poor crea tures fell dead at their tasks und were borne away to mako room for other victims of man's vanity and heurttess- Ilut how much less truo is the bar barism of modern conditions. If the Pyramid builders nnd Hang ing Carden bosses were cruel and un feeling. what Shall*we'say of the mod ern bosses, of the present day captains of Industry, who, bent upon the nl- mightv dollar, arc crushing their hu man victims as remorselessly many Juggernauts! If human life wns cheap In the days of the Nebuchadnexiars and Phara ohs. what Is it In these days! Modem commercialism knows noth ing about any such thing as the ss- credness of human life, it crushes nut self-respect and the spirit of Independ ence, and love und hope In the heart und soul of inan as remorselessly as the wheels of the locomotive pound the steel track over which’ it speeds. In the mad game of money-making the finest human sentiments ure crushed ns the falling tree crushes the wild flowers that He In its way. Troth, Justice, kindness, courtesy, ure lit only to be hove over among the rubbish. No regard is had for human feelings. A man is valuable, and Is respected, only to the extent that he can be used ns an Instrument of "prof it" to his employer; and when, In the employer's opinion, he is no longer "prafltublc,” he.Is kicked aside without ceremony and without explanation. Great fortunes are being plied up— fortunes tn dollars and cents. In houses und lund—and in the meantime the only thing that makes life worth hav ing—human lore und kindness, the spirit of symputhy and helpfulness— Is rapidly diminishing, its place being taken, by the spirit of the pachyderm that Is happiest when it Is crushing something that Is weaker than Itself. And this Is civilization, with Its steam engines and autos. Its skyscra pers and steamships, Its billionaires and captains of industry! Better, a thousand times better, the uncivlllzatlon—the barbarism, if you please—of the older time, -sr biota, with all of its crudeness and roughness, had yet some little poetry nnd love, some little regard for human rights and hu man feelings, than Lhe heartless greed. which, In Its haste to “make Its pile,' mocks the holiest sentiments of the soul and rough-rides it over all - the graces nnd refinements, all the chari ties and courtesies that make man man. McGill RE'S ALLIGATOR YARN. "Delegate R. 8. McGuire Is telling a Story since his return from the canal xone which will make W. M. Grimes, U. V. Guss,. J. W. McNcal, Judge Bur- ford and others sit up and take notice. Two years ago Joe McNeal, upon Ills return from Canada, said a new In- dustry was thriving along the coast which would give a new source milk supply to the world. Several en terprising men had discovered that by taming female whales they could be taught to come Into the bay every evening to be milked. The cream sup ply was thus being Increased and for tunes were being made by the sale of milk. "I-ast summereU. C. Guss and Wll Ham Grimes returned from Michigan with a story of having witnessed water spaniel dog catching tlsli by Jumping into the lake and diving Into the waterj ’Judge Burford is not considered very slow in the (lsh-story line, but Will have to give away for Bird Mc Guire’s alligator story. "White visiting tho Panama canal a party of congressmen were taken down the coast for an alligator hunt. Each gentleman was armed with a rule hav ing a magazine capacity of sixteen heavy shells. The party was under the guidance of Captain Stinson, chief of police of the zone territory. The party UmpSIHHI started early In the morning, and ufterKunsas CUy Journal sailing about thirty miles In a launch, took small boats to the breeding place of the alligators, about six or seven miles up the river. They reached the runting grounds about 1 o'clock, and were fortunate In finding the game in large numbers. The animals were not frightened by the approach of the bouts but remained perfectly still, with their heads and backs out of tho water, sun ning. The party opened Are on" tho alligators, but the first volley proved of no avail. "A few moments later. Delegate Mc Guire's boat wns fortunate In reaching a point where a big fellow stuck his nose out of the water. Raising his gun lie fired n bullot straight Into tho eye of the animal, and the fun com menced. The alligator lloundered In the water in Its death struggles, while volley after volley of bullets were fired at Its body, about sixty shots being fired. Two or three times the boot was almost struck by the beast, Delegate McGuire stating that the last time the alligator Jumped out of the water Its tail missed the boat by an uncomfoiV abiy small margin. Finally seeing that the ghost was up, the alligator made for the bonk of the stream and peace fully rested Its head upon the ground to die In comfort. Tho measurements proved it to be a fraction over twenty- three feet In length nnd weighing per haps two tons. As the skin becomes so tough after the animals pass the third or fourth years that It is almost Impossible to tan the hides, the alliga tor was left Arrangements were made, however, to secure the teeth, which ore supposed to be about eight Inches In length, for corroboration of the story. Willie the teeth are being secured, McNcal, Guss, Grimes and Burforil promise to prepare for tho future In order to retain their reputations.''—