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The Golden Age
(SUCCESSOR TO RELIGIOUS FORUM)
Published Ebery Thursday by the Golden age Publishing
Company (Inc.)
OFFICES: LOWNDES "BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA.
Price: $2.00 a Year
WILLiaM D. UPSHaW, .... Editor
A. E. RAJTSAUR, . - . associate Editor
Entered at the Post Office in Atlanta, Ga.,
as second-class matter.
To the Public: The advertising columns of The
Golden Age will have an editorial conscience. No
advertisement will be accepted which we believe
would be hurtful to either the person or the purse of
our readers.
A Thoughtful Wife.
We clip from a contemporary the following ex
tract from a letter written by a faithful wife to
her husband at home:
“You will find it hanging on the wall by the at
tic stairs, or in the box on top of the sewing machine
in Ellen’s room—the green box, or the red one, I
forget which. Perhaps, though, it is on the top
shelf in the closet in our room—left-hand side, if
I remember right. But look on the other side, too.
If not there, it is in the bottom drawer of the chif
fonier in the upper hall. There is where I keep
my patterns, and don’t untie all the bundles. It
is among them somewhere. I am not sure but it is
in the second drawer from the bottom. It is some
where upstairs, anyway, so don’t rummage down
stairs. P. S.—Come to think of it, I may have
lent it to Mrs. H. Write me if you find it.”
We do not know what the article in question was,
but we do know that this is an extract from an
actual letter. It is another beautiful tribute to
the tender thoughtfulness of a wife. She was a
good housekeeper, too. She knew just where it
was, and she fixed thing’s so that her husband could
go to it in the dark. No need for him to grumble
and swear and disgrace himself and shock the chil
dren. We want to offer our humble tribute to
that noble woman, and to express a hope that her
husband was worthy of her.
A Better Time Coming.
Almost every man and woman in Georgia will
heave a sigh of relief and heart-felt thankfulness
when the election for Governor has passed.
This has been an instructive campaign. Not since
the days of Reconstruction, probably, have ques
tions of such vital and general importance con
stituted the issues upon which the candidates are
going before the people. The masses of the voters
are more enlightened than ever before and they
know with striking certainty just what they want
and need. In this campaign the candidates are
some of them men of ability and financial strength
and they have as their instruments two great daily
papers. These papers have devoted a generous
share of their news and editorial columns to the
issues and events of the contest. The wise man
in the beginning chose his candidate, subscribed for
his candidate’s paper, read it and swore by its news
of the race. Some who were not so firmly settled
as to the right man for governor, foolishly decided
to look at the question from all sides; so subscrib
ed for all the papers. His morning paper told him
editorially, and proved the statement by the news
stories, that a particular candidate had a cinch on
the nomination, and that all the other candidates
were dead ones in particular, and were thieves,
liars and robbers in general. His afternoon paper
clearly convinced him that some other man had
simply buttoned the governorship up in his pocket,
and that his opponents, including him who, at ma
tins, was a hero, made of governor-timber, were
ringsters, traitors and liberty-stranglers.
Now and then an outside citizen, who had never
before been impugned, either as to character or
motives, was pulled off his pedestal and rolled in
The Golden Age" for August 9,1906.
the the cartoons were the limit. They
drew their barbs from the whole territory spread
' between’epic poetry and Baldest billingsgate.
And the poor man who tried to read it all—
” who sought to filter out the grains of fact with
one mere human brain, is a nervous wreck. He is
in the Woods.
The wise man who has made his choice and there
after shut his eyes still retains his health and has
been able to attend to the ordinary duties of life.
What a sweet relief when all the volume of hot
air and abuse is cut out, and the papers are decent
again!
At Last.
At last Georgia has a Child Labor LaWi The
struggle has been long and arduous. Good men,
honestly differing, have battled pro and con.
Six years ago only a “corporal’s guard” could
be mustered in its defense. The next year the in
crease in its friends was encouraging. Last year
Hon. Madison Bell, of Fulton, a young man barely
out of college, genial, golden-hearted and deter
mined, and entering the Legislature for his first
term, so wisely enlisted the friends of the meas
nse and crystallized the growing sentiment in its
favor in such a masterly manner that the bill passed
the House by a handsome majority. The conserva
tive Senate, however, was not quite ready for this
sweeping reform. But Madison Bell, nothing
daunted, girded up his loins for the conflict this
year, compromised—not principle, but some unim
portant details—won new friends for the measure
and rejoiced with all Georgia and many states be
sides in seeing his bill become a law.
The friends of the Bell bill do not claim that
it is all it ought to be, but it is a hole cut through
the wall through which the friends of this needed
reform will walk, in prudence and moderation, to
ultimate victory.
Henry Grady said in his great prohibition speech
in Atlanta:
“All reforms are born through doubt and sus
picion, but back of them, as back of the coming sun,
stands the Lord God Almighty!”
A Beautiful Patriotism.
One of the most novel and inspiring gleams of
patriotism which has flashed on the nation in many
a day is the idea of the Harmony Bell. At a re
cent meeting of the Blue and Gray Committee held
at the Carnegie Library in Atlanta in the interest
of the Harmony Bell, the following ringing and
resonant address was issued:
“To the Veterans of the Armies of the United
States, and the Veterans of the Armies of the Con
federate States, and to the Sons and Daughters of
Said Veterans, and to the Patriotic Citizens and
Organizations of Our Common Country, Greeting:
“There hangs in the city of Philadelphia a liberty
bell, a commemoration of the winning of the inde
pendence of American colonies from the rule of
Great Britain.
“An event of like importance is the complete
harmony of the two sections of our great country
which were at war in the sixties. The bitterness
engendered by that conflict is at an end, the sec
tions are at peace, prosperity abounds, and loyalty
prevails everywhere.
“To commemorate this happy state of our re
public, we propose to have cast a harmony bell,
hang it at the capital of the nation, and have it
each year, on July Fourth, to ring out the glad
tidings that the republic is at peace, and that har
mony prevails throughout the land, the first ring
ing to be at a grand gathering of veterans and cit
izens in the city of Washington.
“In this patriotic movement we ask your co-oper
ation, bring this matter before your organizations,
proceed to collect money for this noble purpose,
send your reply to this committee, that we may
know you are with us in this good work.
“This committee has been appointed by the vet
erans of the Blue and Gray at Atlanta, Ga., for
the purpose of bringing this matter to your atten
tion and pressing it to a successful end. Citizens
'who do not belong to organizations are invited to
contribute. A record will be kept containing the
name of each person who Contributes to this cause.
W. E. SHEARER, Chairman.
No More Cigarettes.
Georgia is coming along. Right along with the
passage of the Child Labor Bill comes the announce
ment that the Anti-Cigarette Bill has passed by a
splendid majority.
No more selling cigarettes! No more giving
them away! Can’t even make a present of cigar
ette papers to your friend. Maybe we are unduly
prejudiced, but we have seen so many intellects
dwarfed, moral natures depleted Mnd young lives
clouded by the cigarette habit that we are ready
to agree with Sam Jones and our sensible legisla
ture that in the case of the cigarette smoker it is
“fire at one end and fool at the other.”
Three Dollars a Week.
“If I could just make three dollars a week—l
would—” and the last of the sentence, with the
girl who spoke it, was lost in the crowd that al
ways surges about the junction of Whitehall and
Alabama streets.
A solid-looking young man, clad in his rough
work-a-day shirt, was holding an umbrella, pro
tecting from the gently falling rain a plain, sweet
faced girl who looked like she might be his sister.
They were evidently discussing some serious fam
ily problem, one in which scant finance played an
important part. How simple were her needs.
“If I could just make three dollars a week”—and
there was pathos in her words and pleading tender
ness in her voice. The first impulse of the casual
listener was one of enlisted interest. The next
impulse was to call to her, “Stay, ‘little sister,’
maybe I can tell you how you can make that need
ed three dollars a week”—but she had passed on
with the crowd and the rain ere that impulse
could fashion itself into speech.
And there was nothing left for the owner of that
impulse to do but to fall to thinking what that
“three dollars a week” could mean to the little
world of that anxious working girl. What gladness
it would bring because of the necessities it would
buy!
And how many who have three hundred dollars
a week are restless, unsatisfied and unsympathetic!
The startling words of Tom F. Mcßeath come
crowding the thoughts and heart:
“Ye who sit on crimson cushions and ’neath silken
curtains sleep—.
3.e who laugh and dance and wanton while your
fellows toil and weep—
Y e who shut your more than plenty from the hun
gry, starving poor—
Ye who turn God’s helpless orphans empty from
your gilded door,
Know ye not God’s "ways are equal—take your
pleasure while ye may,
Lo! the wheel is slowly turning—ye will lie beneath
some day.”
Dr. Young’s New Publication.
W e are delighted to announce the early issuance
of a new publication by Dr. Wm. H. Young of
Athens, Ga., to be known as “The Bible Student.”
To those who know the scholarly, consecrated
editor of this new monthly it is enough to say that
Dr. Young has thought it out for years and now
proposes to work it out in “hard licks” and love.
lhe Bible Student will be undenominational—
“fostering no sect and foisting no opinion,” but
teaching in an original and captivating method
both believer and unbeliever to love to study the
Bible.
The price of “The Bible Student” will be
one but all who send their subscriptions in
advance will be entered at half price. Send to Dr.
Wm. H. Young, Athens, Georgia, today and start
off with what we believe will be the most unique
and original magazine for Bible students in all*
America.