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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NETW9: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1911.
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THE LOOKOUT MAN.
Now, tlst.n, little children, and I’ll tell a
story true—
And better you remember, for It mean, a
lot to you— ,
For If you heedftho l«««on, then when
Christmas time le hers
You’ll get a lot of presents and a lot of
Chrlstmae cheer.
The Lookout Man I. walking, when the
stars begin to peep'
To see If little children are In bed and
fast asleep;
And all who act up naughty and don’t
i mind their rpa’s and pa’s,
The Lookout Man Is watching, and h.’ll
tell old Santa Claus,
knew a little fellow once who got real
i bad, and said
Ho didn’t care for Santa Claua, and
wouldn’t no to bed;
And aald he didn’t have to mind—oh, he
was awful bad,
And didn’t seem to caro a mite In mak-
ing folks feel tad.
But when It came to Chrletmae Day ha
dldh’t get a thing,
For Santa Claus had heard of him and not
a thing he’d bring.
He knew that bad boy’a record—bettor
mind your mala and pa’a,
Tho Lookout Mon la watching and he’ll
tell .oljl Santa Claue, - t
alto knew - a. little girl who'^aa just aw
ful bad.'
She wouldn’C.get her lessons and she al-
waya got ao mad ' ’ll
anybody told her to ba stllk and hush
her noise—
Well, ahe wat alwaya wlahlng for a lot of
Christmas toye;
But when ’twee Chrletmae morning, to
her wonder and surprlte,
An empty atocklng hanging In the corner
■ met her ayes.
You see, ahe acted naughty—better mind
your mi’s and pa’ai
Tho Lookout Man Is watching and ha’ll
tell old Santa Claua.
The*Lookout Man lit peeping thru the win
dows every night
And counting up tho children who are al-
waye acting right.
And going off to bed at once when told It’s
lime to go,
And never pouting, not a bit, or taking
clothes off alow,
Ha puts them In the good book, but tho
bad ones In tho bad.
And when he writes a bad ona, oh, ho
looks Just awful tad
For ho knows they will get nothing—bat
ter mind your ma’e and pa's—
Tho Lookout Man l> watching and ha’ll
tell old Santa Claua.
—w. M. Maupln, In The Commoner.
A Certain Oft-Repeated
Fallacy.
What might be ealled true blue
local option, the kind without
frill* or other distraction, re
ceived but scant encouragement
itv last week’8 election.
It received enough attention,
however, to set - going that tjld
fallacy, “Prohibition breeds
blind tigers; local option and
high license put an end'to ’em.”
Against the time local option
gets over its recent jolt in Geor
gia and becomes active again
we wish to file the following
memorandum of current events
in Alabama. The memorandum
consists of a paragraph from an
editorial in The Birmingham
News, and it should be remem-
liercd that The News was one of
the leaders in the fight that
brough local Option back to Ala'
Lamp and the.open bar room back
lo Birmingham.
The paragraph is as follows
“When Chairman W., C. Agee, of
i lie Birmingham excise comnijs-
ion, stated yesterday that there
are not less than <500 blind ti
gers in Jefferson eounty, he evi
dently had the.facts before him,
as he is not the man to make
such a statement unless it were
supported by evidence other than
mere hearsay.”
Think of it! Six hundred blind
tigeys in a local option state and
county and a high license city
and under the best regulation laws
tli.it local optionists could frame,
and under the best excise, com-
that local optionists
appoint.
hundred ‘blind tigers!
Could prohibition beat itf
The liquor traffic has never
yet been regulated by its friends.
It can only be regulated and sup
pressed ■ by its enemies.
Let local optionists continue
to point out the civic Bud
moral beauties of the open bar.
room, bdt out of respect for just
ordinary:- intelligence let them
cease pointing with pride to lo
cal option and high license as the
sovereign cure for blind tigers.
What Excuse Now for
More Delay?.
Delay'is not’confined to tho
judicial department of our gov.
ernment alone, tho it is the vogue
now to complain of the _ slow
processes of courts. The" trial of
the Chicago packers is given the
place of shining example.
But the courts are not the only
offenders. There’s congress.
If it has taken the courts un
der the Sherman law. 20 years
to bring a trust to civil judg
ment and a trust organizer to
criminal trial, how long has it
taken congress to give the peo
ple a parcels postf
The only answer possible is
that congress hasn’t done it yet,
tho the demand for it has come
down thru the decades.
And the excuse that Came down
with it was: “The postoffice de
partment is head over heels in
debt. Every year it shows a big
deficit.,”
But that excuse now has not
where to lay its head or where
to place its feet. There is no
longer a deficit, but a surplus
in the postofflee department, and
n surplus, too, of $219,000, accord
ing to the report of Secretary
Hitchcock. Two years ago tho
deficit amounted to more than
$17,000,000. .... .
Not only Have the peojde been
insistent in demanding *a pan
cds post, but so for a number of
years has been the postoffice de-
lar^ment itself, at least for tho
leginning of the parcels system.
Tho report of. Secretary Hitch
cock contains the following:
The benefits of the pnrcels post
are widely enjoyed by the'people
q£.-foreign countries and* should
>c provided in the United States.
The department not only renews
its rccoramcndatioif of liaSt- year
for legislative nuthorjh- to start
a parcels ’post on rural rtjdttyi,
hut asks similar authorizntiou for
the introduction of such n service
in cities and towns having de
livery by carrier.’*!’ This is ask
ed ns a preliminary merely of tho
establishment of the general sys
tem. .
Here, then, we have the. peo
ple wanting tfoc parcels post and
the postofflee department wont
ing it, and having the money,
too, to start it on. Then why
don’t \v<v get it Y Let congress
nnswpr, hud answer it at the
present session.
Not long ago a prominent cit
izen of the United States stood
up in n public gathering and
said:
“The American people are a
lot of chumps, else they would
have risen in their might and got
Ihc parcels poBt long ago.”
How near right was this prom
inent citizen J • 1
"Tobacco trust la dissolving." But
not going up In smoke.
S—
Eight or ten Western governors are
touring the East boosting their section
of the country. A booster governor la a
blessing to any slate and.section.
An Oklahoma, pauper took the top oft
an old wooden leg .that had been left
him by a friend and found (10,000 hid
den in a cavity therein. Here was one
leg that was pulled to splendid advan
tage. '
Those Chicago packers have been
called the king* of meat. It should be
remembered, however, that government
prosecutions have been trying hard, but
have not yet succeeded In making mince
meat of .them,
* -
Prince Chun, the father of the boy
emperor of China, has abdicated the
place of regent of the empire. But the
drat president of the Chinese republic
la yet to be Inaugurated. It la easier
to abdicate than It Is to assume.
George and Mary are now being
crowned emperor and empress of In
dia. Usually when England's sover
eigns are thru being crowned, tbe
Prince of Wales Is almost too old to be.
gin with the next crowning process.
The United States comptroller of
currency by his report shows that busl.
neaa has made a steady gain during the
past year. The prosperity of our coun
try la Indeed great. It goes on despite
trust busting, high tariff and Incessant
politics.
Prohibitionists have selected Atlantic
City aa the place for their next national
meeting. On the theory, no doubL that
the principles which they advocate- need
to be put Into effect In Atlantic City-
more than In any other place. And
they are about right about It, too,
The revolutionists tn China have
pulled off about aa many atrocities aa
have the Manchufe. And In Tripoli the
Italians and Turks keep pace pretty
well with one. another In the matter of
cruelty and barbarity. War turn* loose
the seme savage paairtona In the breasts
of men. regardless of their nationality.
BILL IS THE BOY TO PUT IT OVER
New Jersey’s Governor 'Un
horsed Machine Boss and
Assumed Responsibility.
The following Is from The Houston
(Texas) Chronicle: ~
Woodrow Wilson's' biggest aoH^SVe-
ment (n politics wfi replacing an offi
cial, Irresponsible parky boss—ex-Sen.
ator Smith—with a, leader directly re
sponsible to the"'people.' towit,' Gov
ernor -W’o-idrow Wilson. Wilson’s
theory Is. that the party’s lender should
be the highest elected ofllclnl of the
party, and -therefore, directly responsl-
3le to the citizen-stockholders In., the
state. The usual way Is to have for
boss some man who is responsible to
the public service corporations, and be.
yond tho reach of the voters.
; ‘'Growth and Progress
of the New South $
Miller Mercantile 1 Company, of
I*e&ke«viUe. Greene roomy. . Copt-
• • uUNd at-125,000; J. E. Miller and
• • other*. '
• • Planters Jiaok, Tunica. Tunica ••
• • county. Capitalized at J2M.000; J. C. • •
® ® WMian&i L, D. Butt. R A. Btono • •
and other*.
Amendment id charter of Planter* ••
of Clarkadnle, Coahoma e
Increasing capital stock to
L. D. Clark & Co., LcakesvUle, 4®’
Jackson. Hinds county. Capi—......
at 130,000: W. L. Brown. J. a. Ford.
H, E. Crook.
Brown’s Central Drug Store,
Jackson. Hinds county. Capitalised
at 130,000: W, L. Brown, H. E.
Crook. E. S’. Miller.
Brown’s Drug store of Vicksburg,
Jackson, Hindi county. Capitalised
at (30,000; W. L. Brown, H, E.
Crook. E. V. Miller.
Brown’s Drug store of New Or-
leane, Jackson. Hinds county. Capi
talised at 130.000; W. L. Brown, >!.
E. Crook. E. V. Mlllor. _
Brown’s Drug Store of Yazoo, < ■
Jackson. Hindi county:
L ipenr,
Oxford, Lafayette county. Capital*
Ixed at (25,0W; D. E. Porter, C. E.
Bisk and others.
Consolidated Printing Company,
Laurel, Jones county. Capitalized
at 116,000; E. O. Harris, Herbert
Lampke and others.
Southern Automobile and Machine
Company, Hattiesburg. Forrest
county. Capitalized at (50,000; R. R.
Boykin and others. .. . .
W. B. Potte Company. Kosciusko. ■ ■
Attala county. Capitalized at 130,- - >
i; w. B. Potte and Warren Potts.
mw, U, . .ackard. R. L Smith
and others. ‘
■ • Union Lumber Company, Brook- • •
• > haven. Lincoln county. Capitalized -.
. . at Ho,000; D. M. Simpson, W. B. • •
Bonds. Jr., and others. • ■
Laurel Light and Railway Com- • •
S. M. Joneo and others.
/M. J. Epley Lumber Company,
Ha’tleshurs. Forreet county. Cari-
tallsad at (10.000; M. J. Epley. C. L
Quinn and others.'
UNCLE WALT ^ ’philosopher
I have read your latest story, Henry James; it contains
no actions gory, Henry James; there is nothing there to shook;
no man hits another’s block; all your peo-
“THE OUTCRY” pie stand and talk, Henry Janies. Oh, they
talk too long, I ween, Henry James; and I
can guess what they mean, Henry Janies; crtch one'anxiously
conceals all emotion that he feels, each one’s head is full of
wheels, Henry James. Oh, your ladies and your gents, Henry
James, look to me like twenty cents, Henry James; nothing
sane-have they in-mind, nothing but their' social grind, and
they stand and talk us blind, Henry James. I like narratives
of folks, Henry James, who are toiling in their yokes, Henry
James; men who saw and dig and pound, men who plow the
fertile ground, men who make the wheels* go round, Henry,
' James. All your little fiddling lords, Henry James, with their
endless stream of words, Henry James, are not worth one sweat
ing jav who is toiling day by day, sawing wood or baling
hay, Henry James. WALT MASON.
Copyright, 1911, by George Matthow Adams.
CLEVELAND’S COURAGEOUS ACT
From The Literary Digest.
It Is refreshing to know that the mud-
ellnglng campaign of 1(34 was not wholly
so -bud as It might have been. Some mud
was left unslung, thapki to ,the Demo
cratic candidate. Mr. Cleveland was a
comparatively young man then;’ It was
hie first strike for the hlghmost honor
thla country can give; and then. If over,
he might have bqen, expected to lose hla
head. 1
But If was hot to be. writes William
C. Hudson,-In his latest book, the "Ran
dom Recollections of an Old Political Re
porter” CCoppIes & Leon Co.), "for the
last Democratic president of the United
States waa a clean, honest, always an
honest man." Hudson knew Lemont and
the other big men of hla day well, and
that he tells the whole truth In this mat-
ter few will doubt. The gist of the story
Is this. Scandal upon scandal had been
heaped upon the shoulder* of the Demo
cratic candidate, until, "broad aa these
same shoulders were," they seemed on
the point to break. First and foremost
of these, of course, waa the regrettable,
ever unbelievable Halpln affair. But now
comes a man to Colonel Lemon. Cleve
land's official secretary, and offers him
"valusaoma hints of the Inner workings
of Blaine's most private life.” Lamont
was In a quandary. Should he give them
to Cleveland or not? Did he dare use
these "hints" without the tatter s express
permission? Evidently no, for we next
read of Lament and the reporter Hudson
persuading the ex-governor Into Lamont a
office and gently persuading him of the
’’Importune?’ of the matter at hand.
Once there, In a deliberate manner we are
told:
i Cleveland sat down In Lamont’s chair
and read the papers carefully but giv
ing no sign of the Impression they made
one him. Finishing his reading of them,
he leaned hla elbow on the desk and
looked out of the window to the perk tn
front of the capitol for a long time, the
while we waited, ostensibly busy with
our work, but covertly wetchlng the
presidential candidate. Finally, he turned
Io the desk, and. gathering up the papers,
folded them nestly. after hla habit, and,
rising, said:
••rn take theee. Say nothing about
them to any one. I say thla to both of
you. Dan. send for thla man to bring
his proof as soon as ba can. Promise to
pay hla expenses."
He went out, leaving Lemont and my
self to stare at each other. Apparently
he was about to do what each of us
thought he would not do. An Instant
later he was back again In the door.
•■Dan,” he eald, "when that man does
come bring him directly to me. I will
deft! with him.”
He went away, leaving u* to look at
each oth»r ngaln. ... ...
.••rn ba hanged!” I exclaimed. “He’e
going lo uee them after ad.”
••I don’t know." replied Lamont, doubt-
to the governor at
fully. "Tho he hasn't. taken It aa I
thought he would." ’
Days pnssed, and nothing was heart
from Cleveland on the subject. Lamont
had carried out hln instructions and had
sent for the correepondent. On enter
ing the-apartment early one morning live
days after the scene deicrlbed. I found
Lamont, awaiting my coming.
"That jntn la here with the proofs,"
he said. ”1 have been watting for you
to come ao that you cAuld be present and
be a witness that on receiving the pack
age from him I did not open ,U.”
. He called tho man to him,-and, receiv
ing .the package, said:
"I will take this to
once. Come with me.'.’
At the same time he gestured to ms to
follow. The three of us .went Into the
executive chamber, where Cleveland sat
alone at his big desk. Lamont went to
him, saying In a voice loud enough to bo
beard by Ml:
"The man Is here iwlth those proofs.
Here they are.’.’
He handed the package to Cleveland
aa he hail received It. The governor
.took It In hie hand, asking, at the same
time:
"la the man here?"
"Yea,” replied Lamont, "In this room.”
"Bring him to me," said Cleveland
calmly, aa he tore the wrapping from the
governor asked:
"Are your proofs all here?"
"Yes, sir: all of them," replied the man.
"Do you substantiate by theee papers
or jroofa all of the promises of your let-
"I am sure that you will say ao If
you will look tbe paper* over," returned
the man. “They are moeuy certified
etovy.”
"Everything la hare, then, and you are
holding nothing In reserve?" persisted
•’Nothing." replied the man, "and you
will see that by running over the Indorse
ments of the papers."
Cleveland did so, and then he turned to
Lament and said:
"Arrange with thla man. a proper aum
for hla expenses, the Uma he baa lost,
and hla good will In tbe matter, and pay
Apparently ft was not a difficult nego
tiation. for the man soon departed with
LampqFa:jaheck. apparently more than
well satisfied. In the meantime, Cleve
land again ran over lha Indorsements ‘
tha^paperabut without opening any
When the man waa gone from the room
Cleveland laid the papers on the desk
before him, and, taking from the private
drawer of hla desk some others, handed
them to Lamont. saying:
"These are the ones you gave me the
other day, are they not?"
Lamont said they were, giving them
I The Business Doctor
Ji & bu
Roe Fulkerson
TOMS MARK ttB0t<tTBDDD
"N’o chance! No opportunities these day*I" scoffed the Buelnese Dn r i„i
"My boy, the trouble Is that you do not know where to look. You have «
wrong Idea of the habl(at of Opportunity. When a man wants to catch n.S
he goes where the fish are; he doe«n’(
try to catch them in r hath tuh i„ „
park fountain. In the kitchen sink bm
he goes to a place where fish are to i„.
found—where other- people have found
them. “ u
“When John J. Ingalls wrote hit greit
poem on Opportunity, ho created the
Impression that when she once knorin'd
on your door and found you out v .,.,'
goose was cooked, your cake was domth
your chance was gone; but, let me t,'i
you. that for the man who Is readv wh.
is on the lookout, who is n n his tin
toes, she calls not only once, but the
shameless- jade keeps calling till it', a t
most shameful! I have (een It a hun
dred times, and will see it again * '
"The trouble is tnat many young men
of your age seem to think that Onnor
tunlty is going round, the country di,
guiserl as a bobtalled Hush or an 'imiL
straight, and If they sit long enough In
the game she will call on them and
they will acquire untold gold almost In
a minute. It Is Disaster, not Opportunity, which lurks here. ln
"To .others, she takes the form of a neat Ally, who-will come out som»
day when the track Is just right nnd clean up a bunch of low-brow book
makers and turn enough greenbacks Into the hands of the man on whom sh,
calls to tax a six-cylinder car to the spring-breaking point. Dreams, id »
dreams: It Is Disaster, not Opportunity, which hides in tho feed trough it
the racing stable! *" 01
"To yet other men tho best hunting ground for Opportunity Is In the
piles of gilt nnd green shares of the ’get-rleh-qulck’ man, and the visions of
ten-cent shares that will mount to *10 In ten days lure him on and on tilt he
is hopelessly lost. Does It ever strike these ’good things’ that there Is iittia
need of the promoters of these schemes going to the trouble of selling these
shares, because. If they tell the truth about them, all they would have to do
would be to sit down for 30 days and wait for them to go to par and thsv
would be rich. When Mark Twain said that ‘a gold mine Is a hole In tho
ground owned by a liar’ he settled the question. It Is Disaster which hides
hero and not Opportunity. ' •
"Opportunity lurks close around the desk where you cam your dallv
bread, around the bench where you put In your time all day long, behind the
counter where you sell your goods every day! One does not have to ao far
afleld to And Opportunity.
"Last week I saw one boy in a big mall order house lose his situation bv
a suggestion, but he received another which paid him just as much They
had to open and sort the wagonload of mall each morning, sending each letter
to tho department where It belonged. He merely suggested that the renly en-
velopes be a different color for each department, and three mall sorters In
cluding himself, had nothing left to do, but he doubled his own salary in' an
other department nnd got the eye of the boss Axed on him. That was finding
Opportunity right at home!
"Look around you. Put ybur mind bn your business and forget the pwiL
gree of that horse you expect to play tho next time out. 8tudy up some
subject connected with your business, and never mind who was welterweight
champion In '8T. Study the history of tho. stuff you sell, and cut out the
practice of that three-ball combination for the side pocket.
"Opportunity Is here around us every,'moment. Chances rfor promotion
surround us. Get busy! You are looking the wrong place!"
DAILY HEALTH CHAT
BY AN ATLANTA PHYSICIAN
CLUfe-FOOT
Club-foot, or talipes, as it is technically
called, Is a twisted position of the foot
and may be elfher a deformity from birth
or an acquired deformity.- Perhaps 75 per
cent of cases are congenital; that is, they
are present at birth. Most of the other
cases follow so-called.infantile paralysis.
There are four types of club-foot: ' <1)
nn inward twist, causing the patient, to
walk upon the outer, part of the.foot; (2)
the foot of a horse; and (4) an opposite
deformity In which the toes are drawn
up and the weight of thp body rests on
the heel. . Frequently the first and third,
or second and fourth types are combined.
Thus, in tho commonest form of club-foot,
the foot is turned inward and the heel Is
drawn upward. It Is estimated that 80
per cent of all cases present this combi
nation.
It is quite common for club-foot of an
Inherited type to be handed down from
father to son for one or two generations.
Also this congenital form seems to be
more amenable to treatment than Is ac
quired club-foot. As soon as the defehn-
ity is noticed in an Infant, the mother or
nurse should gently, but firmly manipulate
the foot several times each day *o a* to
correct It. By dally or almost hourly
manipulation in this way while the child
Is quite young, the deformity may be
overcome and more radical measures may
no* be necessary. Should the simple ma-
nlpulation fall, however, no splint or
operation should be resorted to before the
child is six-months old. ' ' I
Sometimes the simple expedient of cutl
ting a tendon or Ug&ment is sufficient to
permit the twisted foot to assume iti
normal position. But occasionally a more
radical cutting operation Is necessary,i
particularly If the deformity Is of the ac*
qulred type. The use of plaster of Paris
or other splints Is not looked upon with
as much fav.or now as ;former!y except in
cases where a cutting operation has oeen
performed, and splints are applied to hold
the foot ln position until the tissues may
heal and adjust themselves to the new
position of the foot.
In these days of advanced orthopaedic
surgery, there Is no longer any excuse for
permitting a victim of congenital club
foot to go thru life handicapped by thli
correctable deformity.
back to Cleveland, who held out his hand
for them. Then, drawing a wastepaper
basket for him, the governor began to
tear them Into small bits, to the unbound
ed astonishment of Lamont and myself.
When he had finished that lot he took
up the proofs brought that morning and
destroyed them in the same manner. No
words were spoken by any one until the
governor called a porter and directed him
to burn In the fireplace the scraps of
paper, standing over him to watch tho
process. When all were consumed he
came back to where Lamont and I were
standing, and said to Lamont:
"The* other side can have a monopoly
of all the dirt in this campaign.”
Then he talked about something else,
and so far as I am Informed never re
ferred to the matter again. Years after
the event Colonel Lamont told me that
Cleveland had never afterward alluded to
th Mcanwhiie the bearer of the Blite; In
formation was impatiently waiting to
aeo hla stuff ln print. In desperetlon ns
at last brought tho mstt.r < 0 ,
Gorman’s attention, and wa« told by th.
chairman of the national pemoendlc
committee that nothing whstsw coaW
he done. But said tho Maryland «ai-
t0 "Tho destruction of that proof
very noble end high-minded in Mr.
Cleveland. I don’t know whether, In »
similar poaltlon, attacked with .l»ad*'
•• he has been, I could have reached Ihe
same elevated plane. Oh, but wnttt
missed opportunity It was! In m> hand,
without publication or publlc exiilol atlo"
of them, I could have used thoee paper,
diplomatically, to have made the cdh«
side eager to auppreso tho Halpln wan
dal, which has vexed us ao, and wnlc"
will vex ua to the end of the campaign
IRortu,
BaKing-Powde
•Absolutely Pun
Makes Home Baking Easy
No other aid to the housewife
is so great, no other agent so
useful and certain in making
delicious, wholesome foods
' The only Baking Powder
, made from
Royal Grape Cream of Tartar
Mo Alum Mo Limo Phosphates