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8 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.