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■■I THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 54. 19M. r-uT-c.--^- THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN t*H HUM CHn$. ItHr f. 1. iKir. /rnUn* ^ub'ished Every Afternoon. •Except Suodnyi Sy THE GEORGIAN COMPANY, At 25 Writ Alnbnmn St.. Atlanta. Oa. Subscription Rates. six Mont lift... Three Month*., By Carrier. Pei Week Smith A Tlionip*oi rrsiMJJjitJvfS for nil I Georgia. Chicago Office* Now York Office.... If }vitt luivt* nnjr troubl** getting TUB OKOHOJAN. telenbone tlio ChnilillM Popart iti*»ut nml have It promptly rent* •tiled. Telephones: Hell 027 Malu. Atlnnta 4401. It Is ilesimlile that all <oiuintinIea- tfoiis Itsteitih'il for ptihllcntlun In TUB GEORGIAN lx* limited to ♦» word* In length. It I* Imperative that they he signed. ns an evidence of sootl fnilh. though the 'iitintMi will ho withheld If reijtieftled. Rejected inniiuscrlplft will for the purp'i I ciders stamp* ; TUB GEORGIAN print* no nuelesn •r ohjeellon.-ihle advertising. Neither docs It ptliit whiskv or nuy liquor nd*. OUR PLATFORM.—The Georgian stand* for Athinin** owning Its own ga* and electric light plautn. us It uow owns It* waterworks. Other cities do this and get gus as low a* 60 cents, with a profit to thc.elt.v. This should l*e done nt mire. The Georgian Its* lleve* (hat If street railways eta he operated stieeessfully hy K u r o p e a n rltles. ns they arc. there Is no good reason why they cannot ho so operated here. Hut we do not believe this can lie done now. and It may he some yeari Itefaro tie are ready for so big so un dertaking. Ktill Atin111a should set it* face iu tint direction NOW. As to Watson’s Magazine. Elsewhere on tills page appears a communication from Will T. Hale, the delightful poet of Tennessee, to The Nashville American. In paying a deserved tribute to the Life of Jefferson, Mr. Hale speaks of the rumor that Tom Watson will pub lish 111* magazine In Nashville. As to this Mr. Hale is In error. Mr. Watson's muKazlue will be published front Atlnnta. whoro It will work out Its destiny, and will be a distinct add! tlon to the literature of the South. French Family Life. At n time when the escapades of Count Bonl and other Jeuncsae dorec of the Faubourg Saint Germain have lieen furnishing u more than equitable part of the news of the world, a lec ture of .Prof. Barrett Wendell on French Family l-lfe Is particularly ap propriate. America anil Americans havg se cured a sadly erroneous Idea of the character of the French ns u nation. It Is a popular diellef that they are Ciddy. frivolous, profligate, and almost wholly lacking In lilealB of life or mor ality. Almost the exact converse Is true. No uatlon ou earth is more economical In domestic affairs or more sternly honest nml virtuous than the French. As Professor Wendell points out, the socliil scheme of the Family dif fers from that of life English ami the American, nml therefore It la not un derstood by ns. The ties of kindred. Inevitable In the course of nature, ap peal so strongly in the French mind that, generally speaking, the objects of prime affection In France are par ent. and children. The authority and dignity of parents uml the duties of children are commonly mlmltted ami observed there with remarkable cor diality. It Is this conception of the family as the fundamental social fact which underlies many phases of French manners and law. frequently mlstm- deratood hy foreigners. Of these, per haps. the most, salient Is the dowry, so often regarded as indispensable to marriage. Though In complete control of the husband, so long as the marriage persist*. It Is really In bla hands not os a personal possession but ns some thing more like a trust, to be held and freely administered for the benefit of the family of which he Is the head. The bold of the family In French af- tpctlon Is implied III the depth of sen timent gathered about the word "foy er." Not, precisely equivalent to the English v.urd "home," this Is equally tender 111 its associations. It signifies the center when that little social group, the family, gathers together, and where euch member of It has his place and Ills duties. It has at once 11 more highly devel oped social character than t e English or American home. and. so far as Indi viduals arc concerned, a somewhat less personally private. Each mem ber of tin- family conceives the affairs of the rest, so tar a* they concern oth er people, in some degree his own. This throws light on the French con ception of marriage, which concerns not oajy the happiness of the Individ- itals Involved, hut also the readjust ment of the foyer. Our common Im pression that French marriages are arranged without much regard to the* inclination o! the par flea, la mistaken; but this Inclination Is not held para mo ml to the consent of parents, which Indeed Is required by law. The duties involved In marriage are li-cugalzad In France with complete feandor: the French, however, are dls- ■ -cd to regard domestic duty as of -' i I importance with conjugal- The Tonnrte femme," for example. OUT OF THE NEWS OF THE WEEK—A SATURDAY EVENING. In the news of the week—at beat, a sorry mixture of politics and crime and scandal that Is likely to give one mental indigestion If he keep not the real good and Joy of life always in bis mind's eye—there has figured prominently a murder trial being conducted In the obscure little town of Herkimer. X. V. Dependent entirely upon the way one looks at It, It may be regarded as a tawdry little tale of sin and It* wages—or It may be regarded aa a tragedy of humanity. Of this story, a friend of ours said, In rather temperlsb manner, the other day: "I don't see why the newspapers print such disgusting stuff.' It is Just the same old story—telling of the worst there is In life; those who figured In It were of the lower class of society—and what good can come of veutllatlng that eort of thing?" Our reply wfs that the Ideal of a newspaper Is, of course, to give In formation; also. In the giving of Information, to reflect life as it Is. Here Is the skeleton of the atory: A young factory girl, good looking, but with hardly any education, a farmer's daughter, was waiting at her father’s home for a man to come and right the wrong—so far as .he might—he had done her. After a loug time, he came. They went ostensibly for a day's outing on a lake. Then some one heard a death cry ring out across the waters 7>f Big Moose. The next day the girl's body was pulled up from the bottom of the lake. The man, a sallow, anemic sort of fellow, somewhat above the girl as to station In life, 1/now on trial for his life. On one of the days of the trial this week the usual crowd of morbidly Inquisitive people was packed In the dingy little courtroom. They were ex|iectlng a “sensation." In the coarse of the morning the prosecutor Introduced into the trial, as evidence, letterf written by the dead girl, to the man now facing the penalty of death. As the Drat letter was read to the court, a quiet, unbroken except by the-slow tones of the prosecutor, fell upon the people who, a moment ago, were craning to get a look at the prisoner. All over the room handker chiefs were at the faces of the women. Before he bad read two of them the people had begun to realize that the depths of human love and suf fering were being laid bare. Then the crowd who had come to satisfy a banal curiosity, broke into sobs. After the prosecutor had finished reading the first two or three, he had to sit down to keep from crying, and the court was adjourned for five minutes to allow the state's attorney to regain his composure. Aa the court stenographer, a veteran who had been at a score of mur der trials, took notes of the letters, the tears rolled down his cheeks. The chief of police, who had for ten years been in direct contact with suf fering, misery and aorrow, calloused and unemotional, putlod his hat down over his eyes, left , the courtroom and went to his room. As letter after letter, telling of her suffering and the forgiveness and love which the girl gave to the young man, was read, men and women got up, choked with sobs, and stole away. Those letters showed that the love of the girl had transfigured her aliame and sorrow Into one of the grandest expressions, of human emo tion. The reading of them In the court room changed the vulgar cu riosity of the crowd Into a feeling of surpassing pity and compassion for one who had alnned, nml their feeling of Indifference toward the defend ant into hate of one who had failed to do the man’s part in the drama. The girl had had practically no education, and was of humble caste In life. Bo humble was it that her lover always went secretly to Bee her. Yet In all the literature of the world there Is not finer expression of pure and surpassing love than In these twelve letters of the factory girl. Thus, out of the degradation of slu comes an example of all tnat is best in human nature—an example that must move all witnesses to rev erence and pity and honor and compassion for the frailty and yet the strength of a woman's lovo as shown In the case of Grace Brown. As there Is no such thing In human nature as absolute good, so there is no such thing as absolute aln. And let ua from this case draw the conclusion that one who has fallen may yet be purer and better and nobler than you and 1. That Is the lesson of the little murder trial at Herkimer. It Is not merely a tawdry little tale of sin and its wages. Evelutten of Democracy in Denmark. By JEPSEX BORGBJERG. Member of the Danish Parliament. implies not only wifely devotion, but filial and maternal as well, together with scrupulous attention to house hold duty; and tho Ideal of a hus band's duty Is no less comprehensive than that of a wife’s. Disregard of do mestic rectitude Is ucordlngly held ulmost as blameworthy at disregard of conjugul. In sunt, the French re gard themselves not primarily as In dividuals, but us members of tbelr do mestic social organism, which they licrlsh with Intense affection. The Ship Subsidy Steal. The ship subsidy steal, passed by the senate Iasi session, and which will come up before tho house when It convenes In a few days, Is beginning to'he taximed hy Republicans and Re publican organs. In his speech delivered the other day before the Trans-Mississippi Com mercial* congress. Secretary of Btnte Elllin Root made a strong plea for sup port of this measure. "The latest trade statistics," said the secretary, "show exports from South America to foreign countries of *745,. r.so.ono. anil Imports of l4S9.8Sg.tOO. Of the *.'00,000,000 of goods that South Amqrlcu buys we sell them but *63.2411.02#, or 12.6 pi* cent. Of the $745,000,000 that South America sells we buy *150,092,000, or 20.4 per cent, nearly two and a half times as much ns we sell.” The chief of his suggestions ns to measures to develop commerce be tween the Americas was that of In creasing—or as he said, establishing— the American merchant muiluc. The only way to do this. Mr. Root argues. Is hy subsidizing the ships. In short, he, as spokesman of the Republican party, wants the American shipbuilding trust to be made richer nt the expense of the iieople. In re turn tor which (^attributions the peo pie get nothing. There was once a powerful Ameri can merchant marine. It dwindled because of two things : First—the protective tariff enables the .American shipbuilders to charge extortionate prices for their output— prices far above those of the European construction com|iaiiles. Second—the law prevents the buy ing of ships In other countries and bringing them under the American flag. For these reasons our merchant ma rine languished. Now it Is proposed hy the Republi can party, not to alter these condi tion to enable America to compete with European countries, but to take from the pockets of the ixople enough money, trf* be given gratuitously to American shipping lines, to allow them to expand their business. ship-building trust, which Is charging higher prices for Its product than the European builder. See the steal? The subsidy Idea Is demonstrated to he unsound ’by every hand-book on economics. Sometimes there is Justifi cation for it. In oxtraordlnary circum stances, but In the present case It Is nothing but an attempt at highway robbery by the Republican party. The only logical and equitable solu tion of the merchant marine problem (s’ to admit foreign-made ships to American registry. Bullets for Tillman. Those eminent negrophlle* of the Eaat, who, at a distance, discourse so learnedly on the negro problem and the errors and crimes of tho South in handling it, would do well to address their attention to the highly civilized city of Chicago. The negroes up there, inflated doubtless by the reading of cards to uewapaperB on the Brownsville affair, are writing threatening letters, saying they will do damage to the Hon. Ben Tillman if he attempts to fulfill his appointment to Rpeak at Orchestra Hall next Tuesday for the benefit of a hospital. Several of the letters, written after a number of mass meet Ing of the negroes, said Senator Till* man would lie shot while on the stage If he attempted to deliver an address. Now, Isn’t that a fine si>ectac!c to be seen Id the Halted States of Amer ica? v Isn’t that a tribute to the civiliza tion of the negro? Isn’t that a tribute to the civilizing influence of Northern culture and phil anthropy aa applied to the negro? At the present time, when economical conditions In America have become such that a radical change of'system seems an absolute necessity and proba bly will be forthcoming In a very near future, a few Jlnes allowing how the people of Denmark have risen from the utmost - poverty to one of the wealthiest people In the world, may not be without Interest, as evolution In the United States will probably In many, ways folloxv the same track. After the disastrous war, with Aus tria and Prussia In 1884. the people of Denmark were financially crushed and there seemed small prospect that they would be able to recover within a few years, as they actually did. In the beginning of the seventies the means of communications In Europe suddenly developed In jumps and bounds and shortened the distance betwen the countries, and especially between America and Europe and the former began to supply Europe with grain; thereby, seriously affecting the Danish people, which, on the whole. Is depend ing upon the prosperity of agriculture. Farming property went down in price to such an extent that In the middle of the eighties they were worth only 50 per cent of their former value. It waa then that the Danish farmer showed the world the stuff he was made from. He saw' that It was necessary to change nil his methods, his whole sys tem of farming, and he did it. From being a grain producing nnd grain Im porting country, Denmark became a grain Importing country, importing corn from the U. 8., barley from Russia, etc. It began to export. Instead of grain, meat, bacon, butter and eggs, nnd rapidly made for itself a market, where the superiority of its products was immediately realized. This whole ehungp took place simul taneously, with the farmers forming large co-operative concerns using ma chinery and steAm power. In 1880 the first separator was introduced and In the beginning it was only a few enter prising men who built co-operative dairies and bought up the milk from the smaller farmers, thereby making fortunes in a very short time. It did not take long, however, before the small farmers discovered that they might just as well have their own co-opera tive dairies and keep the profit aa to nil the pockets of others. In 1882 the first real co-operative dairy l was opened and soon waa fol lowed by others all over the country, until there Is now no longer In the whole kingdom a peasant who does not own one or more shares In a dairy and who gets for his butter and cheese as much as the owner of the best estate. In the same way the farmers Join ed hands to dispose of their eggs. All over the country depots have been made where farmers deliver their eggs, which then will be shipped to England; the value of tills export Is now over sixty inlilion dollars a year. All these co-operative concerns are not socialistic—the right of a private party to own real estate Is and always has been the foundation, but they are exceedingly democratic and In one re spect very much different from stock companies—you do not v/>te according to the number of shares you hold, but each shareholder has only one vote, no matter whether he holds one or a thousand shares. There nre a few concerns where we say that the cows vote, that Is to soy, you have as many votes ns you have cows, but these con cerns are very few, and altogether the principle, one man one vote, is recog nized. It has never been the object or en deavor of any Danish man to get ahead of his fellow citizen, nnd it Is here that we Danes are different from Americans. In the United States It has always been the wish of every am bitious man to muke an enormous for tune, even If he had to trample upon his fellowmen to do so, but In Den mark we have always thought it would be better to have the profit divided among as many as possible, the ob ject has always been to get ahead together with your fellow citizens nnd comrades and this feeling of solidarity is one of the traits in the natlonnl char acter that we have the most reason to be proud of. This whole agricultural has, course, also Its dnrk side*. People say that the people living In the country do not get us nourishing food us In former days. The good, sweet infik upon which the children of the farmer and the farm hands were fed, no longer exists; it Is too expensive. Ah soon as milk has been taken from the cow, it is imme diately brought to the dairy and re turns skimmed milk; a wholesome drink but not ns nourishing or ns pleasant to the taste ns the old-fash ioned fresh milk. This has brought the result that the children of the fanners are less strong than in former generations, and that they are subject to sickness formerly unknown. Physicians Insist that diseases like catarrh of the stomach arc spreading In the country, and it has been proven by government statistics that the av erage height .‘of children of farmers Is smaller than It used to bp. But In other respects there has been good progress. The wages of the work-l . - lng men In the farming communities - 1 kings, as known Ip the United States. Rates for both passengers nnd freight are low, still the railroads pay well. Nearly all of our waterworks, gas works and electric light work* ere owned by the municipality and light and water are supplied to the consumer at a very reasqnable price. No private monopoly is making fortunes by selling these necessities of life, the people of Denmark would never stand for such extortion. Street ear* In Copen hagen are still owned by a corpora tion. which, however. Is under very strict municipal control. Nobody has made any fortune from street car franchises as the caae Is In America, and In another year all the rolling stock, rails, etc., of the street car com pany will pass Into the hands of the municipality, the franchise granted to the corporation having then expired. tVe have municipal employment of fices where any man may go and ask for and find work. And we have many other democratic Institutions of which we are proud, and upon which we bnlhl our hope of a happy future. We do not believe In the force of arms, but In the growth of the univer sal peace Idea, which should form part of the program of the workingman’s party all over the world. We have seen how the people of Sweden last year prevented war between Norway and Sweden, and In Germany and France It Is also the workingmen who force the government to keep the swords In the scabbard. Socialistic workingmen In the German radlctfl Reichstag advocate the cause Schleswig, and If working men ever get the power which they now have In Denmark; we will have that past which we were robbed of In 1864, re turned to us by Germany. We do not believe In the * famous English statement that small nations are doomed to disappear. We believe that the International evolution Is the protector of the small'natlons and that In this we have our best advantages as Norway had It In the Swedish Social istic Democracy that did not want war. During my stay in the United States I have seen that we can learn much from America, and shall do my best to see that we shall take advantage of this, but I have also seen that the peo ple of America can learn much from us, especially In regard to an evolution of the true democratic Idea. OUR THANKSGIVING BREAKFAST SERIAL DRARLING MIDDEEN. A* Thaddy MncMurtafh 0'8b«ughurt#y The otBer day was industriously mending hi* brogue. On a neat little hill that they call Drua* •cusheen. Hi* nolo and bis welt nnd bln cord were so strong That, noon waxing warm, be lilted z »ong, He bellowed n* loud a* his lungs they could -bawl. Bad ce## to the tanners I'll lather them all. But I’ll first sing the praises of darllug Niddeen. On the face of this earth It's the most cu rious place; II swenr block nnd blue be the nose on my fnce. It's the fairest of any that ever was seen. It's there you would see the hedge hog and whole, he latter eoutlnuaiiv napping ms tail Just to raise up n breeze for the fowls of the air. A* the eagle, the Jackas/, and gosllug so fair , All sing 'round the cabins of darling Nld deon. The latter small hardware they call it potheen. Hmulf blame to them keeping no lamps there nt Because of the light. You may talk of your lamps that are si) Their geese go In pairs thnxigh the most of the street, Bendy roasted. Inviting the people they meet To cut. Isord uml squire, ealmgu# and spalpeen. Vrom the cow* they get whisky, tho gan ders give milk. Thctg best woolen blankets are nil made of silk. Their (tarty young girls, they never grow old. And the HtMi never set there last winter. I'm told. Rut stayed, lighting the pipes tor tlw Itoys of Nlddccn. An' If I were tAlkiug till this time uext year. Not n half of the beautiful beauties you’d hear, nmi the Hkelllg* down west to the greaj Xorrlsbeeu, Their great sea’s broad bottom Is covered with grass And maiiy's the mermnbl *een-wasb!ug her glass. The great elephant's teeth arc turned Into the hogs. 8onie charmed luto sawdust, some cluing- ed Into logs. Or converted to toothpicks In d:irllug Niddeen. Loug life to the Marquis, I'm glad be'« gone down far sweeter village than Limerick By WEX JONES. Synopsis of Preceding Chapters, Hiram Highslgn Is dragged from his maple syrup farm by a passing balloon, from which he Is dropped by the aero nauts. He saves his Ufa by clutching the left leg of a sparrow as he falls. Chapter III. \ Having presented the sparrow with three crumbs as a reward tor saving his life, Hiram looked around him. He was near a large farm house, and from the sounds which came through the open window he concluded that the owner was beating his wife. In one of the fields a man was shooting rab bits. On the road a motorist was run ning over a pig. “Ah!” said Hiram. “I’m still within the borders of civilization.” On discovering a sign boosting apple jack, Hiram was able to get a still more accurate Idea of Ills whereabouts. Greatly cheered that he was not In Morocco or some other country where the Illiterate foreigners did not apeak English. Hiram advanced toward tho farm house. Then he paused. A large dog was looking at him In a deucedly Inquisitive way. “Nice doggie," said Hiram. Not a word said the dog. "I only wan/ to knock at the door.” said Hiram, Not a word In reply. Hiram advanced a foot. The dua gripped him by the ankle- Hiram yelled. A woman came to the door. “What’s the matter with you?’’ she asked. “The dog! The dog!" gasped Hlratn. "Never mind him.” said the woman, “he won't hurt you.” “Won’t hurt me!” shouted Hiram, “he's got me by the leg!” “Well, \lbll; that’s only In play.” said the woman. “After a while he’ll let you go.” “Oh, he will, will he?” remarked HI ram between groans. “I thought he was going through life with me—like a Siamese twin.” “All right,” answered the ‘woman. 'Come In and make yourself at home, when Carlo lets go.” Two hours later Hiram entered the kitchen of the house, closely followed by Carlo. “See, Carlo likes you now,” said the woman, who had invited Hiram within. “He's following you about like an old friend.” “Like an old friend, nothing,” re sponded Hiram, with some heat. “He's following me around until he gets hungry again." “But I’ll fix him.” he added, picking up a pumpkin pie and quickly twisting It Into a lasso. As he twirled the lariat around his head there was a terrific explosion. (To be continued.) i GOSSIP Of * Literary Nature. From The Nashville American. 1 note that in Sunday's Issue you copy from The Christian Advocate Henry D. McBroom’s poetical tribute to Rev. Sam Jones. It Is sincere, for the most part artistic, and wholly credita ble. 1 wish that young Nashville stu dent and recluae (too shy to seek ac quaintance* who could help him In a literary way. and too modest to believe his gift I* anything more than Howell* define* genius to be—hard work)—had the encouragement one of his manhood and aspiration deserves. He lias a future before him If adverse circum stances do not keep him down too long. That declaration that men can always make opportunities Is a lie. The rumor that Tom Watson Is go ing to Nashville to publish his maga- sine reached me the other day. 1 have never tried to understand what he be lieves In the matter of politico, but I know that he Is doing a good work for the South In the literary things he ha* undertaken. His "Life of Jefferson” Is excellent. I know of no biography more readable, and In It he ha* done wonder* to *how up Southern history a* It Is. A few such books will give the Great Northern Glory Trust a less exalted opinion of Its absorbing power. Where, fore. I was pleased to hear of his con templated removal, trusting the rumor Is not false. WILL T. HALE. Bowling Green, Ky., Nov. 20. By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.. New York, Nov. 24.—The first p uWte view of the painting. "Christ Chiding Martha." yesterday disclosed the fa.-t that the artist haa been nt work „„ it for a half century and more. He u Thomas Bali, and Is better known ns a sculptor than a painter. At his h.ime In Montclair during hla long rarer, he has executed the statue of Daniel Webster In Central park, and other public sculptures, and it Is there that he has Just completed “Christ chhlhJ Martha." Mr. Ball In 87 years old. and ti,„ painting was begun by him fifty.three years ago. His work as a sculptor ha. occupied much of his time and account, for his long delay. In the picture th,. Christ Is represented In the manner ,.t the old masters, while Mary nml Mai tlta are not shown with either the’He brew or Italian type of face, bm with the beauty of a more noteworthy c-lime* No more popular win lias been scored this week than on yesterday when victory came to little Miss Allen Gray, of Orange, Va„ after many disappoint.' ments. The child has become one of the features of the horse show because of her youth, her beauty and the -klii. ful way In which she handles her ex. hlblt, Klnah. Mrs. Frank Hawlev sent Miss Gray Into the ring yesterday to show her pair of ponies. Brcsrnv Pin. ford nnd Aberdeen of Plttsford'. When the Judges conferred the blue ribbon It was pinned upon Miss Gray's coat Instead of upon the ponies. Hite dropped the reins nnd clapped her hands with delight, while the audience shouted congratulations nt her. George W. Vanderbilt, when In North Carolina, Is a full-fiedged nur seryman. Moreover, he gets paid in advance for Ills stock. The Blltmore park board this year made up u list of the plants, shrubs, bulbs and other things It felt Is needed for the adorn ment next year of the parks ,-ind squares, nnd then advertised for bid- From various sections of the country came applications, but when the board of awards met tho only bid came from the landscape department of tho Ullt- more estate. He offered to furnish nil the things needed by the park board for $3,280.13, and as the bid was within the estimated cost of the nursery stock, the offer was promptly accepted. GEORGIANS IN’ GOTHAM. New York, Nov. 24.—Here are some of the visitors In New York today: Atlanta—J. H. Avery. Augusta—W. E. Bush. BOYS ARE HURT BY CIGARETTES By PROF. CHARLES MOHR, of Hahnomann College, Philadelphia. Excessive use of tobacco, especially in the form of cigarettes, dulls the In tellect. impairs nutrition, seriously af fects the eyes, causes functional and organic heart (.Iseaite, «nd In other waya contributes to physical and men tal degeneracy. Boys who smoke cigarettes much are prodigious liars and thieves, have been found unmanageable at home and nt i schoot and judges of the juvenile courts have declared that “of the In corrigible and criminal class of boys, not a boy has been found who did not use cigarettes.” \ During the past decade the habit of cigarette smoking. especially by boys and young men before the age of ma turity, has given rise to so many cases of chronic tobacco poisoning as to cause arid legislatures to enact laws preventing their sale to the youthful. Usually and unfortunately. many young adults who use tobacco exces- Thls money will not stay with tbe1 lively also Indulge In alcohol, and these owners of the shipping lines. The I «»<■»"■ °**n most of It goes Immediately to the retina and other evils. f.tlc nerve or Ing men in the farming communities Boinloii, Pnmuiiir.vny «»• nallypmccn. has Increased. llhHe It used to be I Long ||f<» to hi* he nor ti I after he’s dead, three hundred crowns a year about j May nothin* that's leaning e'er rnu In h!« thirty years ago. It is now between five ’ * and six hundred crowns. To he sure, this is not very much compared to wages In the United States, hut it should be remembered that everything Is cheaper in Denmark and that a crown will buy as much or nearly as much ns a dollar. Politically the Danish fanner Inis risen from obscurity, and, as a Dane, I am proud to say that a small farmer hdlds a great privilege In the present Danish cabinet: and that a man who a few years ago was under arrest be cause he refused to uuy taxes which he insisted were levied without proper authority. So quick has been the evo lution of the Democratic idea In the Kingdom of Denmark—It will proba bly be many years before the people of America get so far. Government ownership of public fa cilities has .also contributed considera ble to the prosperity of the country. The government has brought under cultivation more than one hundred Danish square miles of moorland, und has thereby gained for the nation al most as large a territory as that which Germany took away from us after the war In 1864. A network of railroads has been built all over the country, and these railroads are government roads. We have a few railroads owned by private parties, but these are unimportant, dis liked uml will shortly pass into th# hands of the government. The gov ernment has built railroads, steam fer ries for transportation across the sounds ami belts, nnd we are all well satisfied with them: and, in fact, there Is not a man who would care to see this enterprise pass Into private hands. The nation itself decides the type of these railroad cars. It decide* the number I bead. May he give each teuiut a Ion* building tense. And their praties and butter am! pans* tide# Increase. I Until Dublin looks suintlcr than darling A LITTLE NOVEL OF THE EAST The soft footfalls of a double-decker camel rang out noisily on the desert nlr. on the camel was a man, a white man. -Vt least he had once been white, but years of life under a burning sun had tanned his skin to the hue of weathered oak. Life, by the way; un der a burning sun must have some ad vantages above Ilf? over a burning sun. Where was this man going—thin man who rode alone across the boundless desert upon a camel which, unfortu nately for hln comfort, was by no means an boundless as the desert. No; the camel bounded,' bounce.1. Jogged, Joggled, bucked, bumped, swayed and swlzxled like it motor boat In a gale. The desert was in It* grimmest mood To the scrutiny of the mysterious war derer upon Its surface it told nothing Each separate grain of sand seemed possessed or the same stubborn spirit They showed no expression: they said nothing; they lay there In silent, grim, sandy expectation. What did they ex pect? -Ah, who knows the deep depths of a grain of sand’s Imagination? In the meantime the man rode on. heeding not at all. From the steady ’nit of the camel one would have sntd the rider was on his way somewhere. Mile after mile was pavsed. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. Social oracles of Washington sav that the next member of the upper house who gets Into matrimonial difficulties will have difficulty In retaining an "In. troducer" to the inner circle*. When an elderly man from New York mar ried an attractive widow, with high ambitions, he obtained the good offices of Mrs. Chauncey Depew. Now Mrs. Depew is deeply chagrined over the termination of that matrimonial epi sode. The elderly spouse of that charming French-Amorlcnn gave a great feast and It proved something like the Biblical banquet. All those first Invited had pressing engagements and Airs. Depew was compelled to resort to persuasion nnd Inducement to get the number required to grace her board. Some of thoso over-persuaded express great Indigna tion that they were so deceived. The same Is true of another old and enor mously rich senator, who married In rather an unconventional way. He In duced some of the senatorial women whom he had lavishly entertained In the days when he was supposed to be a single man to be courteous to his wife. But these women were so se- versely censured by their colleagues that they beat a retreat and refused to sponsor the rich man> bride In her ef forts for social recognition In Washing ton. The motoring world today la rubbing Its eyes in wonder at the most sudden and unexpected transformation ever recorded In automobile clubdom, when the New York Motor Club emerged from a trade organization to a formid able rival of the Automobile Club of America as an aspirant far national honors. In half an hour the entire complexion nnd policy of the organlza. tlon was altered. Hamuel B. Stevens, a patron of In ternational automobile racing, was named for the presidency, and Robert Lee Morrell, formerly chairman of the Vanderbilt cup commission, was named tor tliq first vice presidency. Following their election the policy to be pursued by them In the conduct of the club was outlined. The new lead ers are Inclined to follow the senti ment prevailing among members of the Automobile Club of America and the Long Island Automobile Club, and may cut adrift entirely from the American Automobile Association. It Is planned take a bold hold on matters affect ing the Interests of automohlllng na tionally rather than locally. NOVEMBER 24. I'M—Massacre by Indiana uf Moravian tuls slonariea at Unndenhnctton, Pa. 17-t- Zachary Taylor, twelfth president of the l ulled mates, born., Med ./ifly S, 1850. Hits— Richard Crober. former leader of Tutu- ninny Ifpll. lairn. 18o7—klr Henry Havelock, hem of the In. dlan ninthly, died. Horn U%. IKZ-llmry Ward Bsechcr i-hoseu pros!, dent of National Woman Kutfruge As sociation, .1893—John 4. Jacob, first Democratic gov ernor of Weat Virginia, died. Horn December *, 1829. 1898— British offh-lata at Ha ti Hit celebrated American Thanksgiving. 1899- Kaiser Wlllo Ini visited tho Marllior. onghs at Blenheim imlace. i 1902— f-niHir riots In Havana. MODERN MILLER CROP REPORT. St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 24.-—"The re- ’ cent rain and snow, which were quite I general in the winter wheat belt, re- I lieved drought conditions, with the ex- j caption of Nebraska. That state ban! been without moisture for a long time I and reports from there say the cron I Is not doing well In consequence." of refrigerator cars to be built and Iti decides u|cm the rates of freight, and j “Aft;” said the man.' ;r. v.av dependent u|»>n railroad It waa the first thing he ha, said In 1.00# miles. What had stirred this silent traveller to such language? , Wall! Bee! he alight.. He •exam--' lues an object on the ground. It Is u strange object to find In the mid,Ilf of the Sahara. One might expect to find such thing* In a city, perhaps; in a Junk shup; In a bakery: even In an aquarium. The man examines his strange dis covery with great care. He evidcntly fears some strange, evil Influence. The object Is—a barret organ, "Ah!" said the man. In a tone thul was fuli of meaning. The monosyllable said more than another man could have expressed phonetically In a 3 day* 14 hours and to minutes. "Ah!" repeated the man Insistently aa he remounted the cainel with the, aid of a pocket stepladder. : His tone Implied that murder hud been done. Then he struck the camel a shnrr, i blow with an empty tomato can, and! ri de swiftly amy | Whither? • Inlv the .te.-rt knows, 1 j THIS FELLOW He’s enjoying hlmfel/. He has a kodak. He takes pictures during spare moments through the day, and then fin ishes them up during the long winter even* ings. You’ll never know tin* fascination of picture- taking until you try it yourself. Almost every day yoq wish for n kodak t" 'snap a picture," and you're missing a heap *»r fun if you don’t get a kodak right now. We develop and finish Pictures If you don’t care to. but there's- a regular mint of pleasure in doing the whole thing yourself. Come in and see them. From SI up to $35. We Instruct you fully bow to operate one, and they are so simple tun learn. child A. K. HAWKES CO. 14 Whitehall St. 1