Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, January 29, 1909, Page 6, Image 6
6 LJ^wGon^uctcdßy^^*** \ >• Miss L.O.Thomas^^ —<} All tetter* written fee tbto P»l« ■ u,t U»« tbe writer’s reel name and address rnrloaco Thte la net f<w nobllcatioe nor for the net of any one except tlie editor of this pare. »f year tetter Uaa not been published thia may be tbe reason. Address letters for “Household tn Ml** L a Thomas, bock Box M 2. Atlanta. Ga. A laugh is just like sunshine. It freshens all the day. I tthpe the peaks of life with light And drives the clouds away; The soul grows glad that hears It, And feels its courage strong— A laugh is just like sunshine. For cheering folks along. A laugh is just like music It lingers in the heart. And where its melody is heard. The fils of life depart; And happy thoughts come crowding. Its Joyful nsfes to greet— A laugh is just like music. For making living sweet: | CHAT |] Here tt is the twenty-first of January and lam writing on the plaza. When the letters from Maine. New York. Canada and Virginia tell me of the weather there I breathe a sigh of great content for we have had a real Florida winter. Roses, violets and strawberries have been with us since Thanksgiving. had ice and Meet and snow enough in Japan to last me until I go back. Many, many were the days over there that were so snowy that I couldn’t see across the street. Snow ddin’t stay on the ground, it was too damp, but that did not keep it from fall ing. I used to go nine miles every Sun day morning, got up at five o'clock to catch the train to get there in time for Sunday school, and many a time sat un der just such a shelter as you would build for your cattle and could hardly tell the right train on account of the fall ing snow. Some of you may want to know when I reached there, as got up so early. I was a good way from the station and us ually got there at seven, the train took about an hour to make the nine miles; it stopped at another station in the same city I lived in. and at every stop it waited from five to fifteen minutes. Their fast express only went twenty-five miles an hour. The city I lived in had the third to the finest station in the empire and it had a dirt floor and no heat, except some coals tn a brazier. But I learned some good lessons ovei there. One was that much we call ne cessities are really luxuries. After liv ing a year in such a country, without a fire place in my home. I went to Kobe to visit some friends who had a fireplace, and I nearly ruined my clothing. I’d find myself almost in the fire. In our school rooms, we had large boxes filled with sand, and the mass of glowing coals kept the room fairly comfortable, the poor lit tle children suffer with chilblains and frozen fingers and ears. The families often have a square hole three feet across cut in the floor; a box of coals is put in there and all of them swing their feet down there and put a comfort over the hole and keep com fortable. At night a large earthen bot tle, holding a gallon of hot water, is put at ones feet. Consumption mows them right and left, because they have to keep their houses so ill-ventilated in winter. When they come to this coun try and return they nearly freeze to death. Then it is that they realize the sacrihce that we make in going over there. Those who have never been out of tneir own country think an honor has been conferred on us by allowing us to remain over there For many years the only way that we could stay was to get some Christian , Japanese to sign a contract to be re sponsible for our good behavior. There was a dear old man who held my cer gneate. 1 used to tel! him whenever 1 rwanted to leave town and he would be at tne station to bow me out. I had to have a passport, and show that to tbe policeman at my destination. But that is enough of japan for this time. Rowgan's experience with his mail re minds me of the happy days I used to ■pend at my brother's plantation in Florida. He hired tbe mall carrier on a "star route.’ as they were called then, to leave the mall at tbe cross roads and some school children brought it to us. When there was no school we, too. had to hire someone, but they were more reliable than Rowgan's seem to be. Girls, leap year has passed and the name unguessed. I wrote to him and asked him If knowing put me out of the race and he never said a word, so 1 suppose the coast Is clear for the best guesser. There goes the school bell: the chil dren lagging along the street begin to run. and that half-past eight bell tells me that 1, too. must hasten. But be i.eve me, faithfully yours. LIZZIE O. THOMAS. What I Call Swapping Some Dear Miss Thomas—l certainly merit the sympathy of the entire Household band. Trying to do my duty as a citi zen and quasi government official is Where tbe trouble comes in. When I first settled in this supposed Utopian retreat far from the tumult and strife of the mad rush for wealth and social distinc tion two mails passed my door daily, but our paternal government from some I My Young Sister | < *Tnnk Mv Advice” would die. So I began to take Cardui, gg took My Aa and the first doge helped me Now j My young sister took my advice, am j n better health than I have been in, & |l| writes Mrs. Mary Hudson, of Eastman, since I was married, three years ago.” fc? >a Miss., “which was, to take Cardui. Every girl and woman needs Cardui, F; She was staying with me and was in to relieve or cure irregularity, pain, tj fl terrible misery, so one morning I got dragging sensations, headache, back- I I her to take Cardui and it helped her ache and similar female troubles. Try. eB I at OnCe. FREF BOOK Wrttefcr Free 64-page Book for Wo- B “Last spring, I was in a rack of pain FOR LADIES & I and Oh! I was so sick, I thought I |g I Take CARDUI I cause discontinued them and now I have to go over a mile and sometimes swim a river. I got tired of walking two miles every day and it was a good deal of trouble io hitch up a team, so I hired a boy’ to make the trip for me. which he did punctually until his contract ex pired when he struck for higher wages and with all my eloquence he was as immovable as a veteran even after the matter was arbitrated in my favor. So, after making a few trips a negro boy took the contract and he n.ade the first trip all right, but that was the last; he was met by a number of boys, friends of my former carrier, all having hick ory withes excepting one who had a rope. ! They informed him that for any strike breaker they first notified him to’ quit, next they would everlastingly wear him out with the withes and if he persisted the next move was hanging. He quit right then and there. In the meantime my bicycle arrived and I began practicing to ride it and right here is where I need the sympathy of ye Householders. My first lessons were tajjen on the lawn and I made numerous not very graceful landings. Now, Opal, here my old maid sister, comes in. Sister said the lawn was too soQ and yielding, and that firmer ground was the proper place to learn—thinking she meant the public highway, I soon had abrasions on each knee and elbow and that old maid sister of mine from her command ing position on the balcony told me to get the proper equipoise and give it mo mentum. She is always using big words, so I led it to a slight elevation, mounted and began to peddle with all my power, and did well for about 50 feet, whefi the pesky thing made sudden right oblique, and I went straight ahead and stood on my left ear. My old maid sister, bless her soul, was “Johnnie on the spot" with her liniment and camphor, and while she was bathing my wounds, a young man came leading a pony with a hickory withe. I asked him why he didn't ride. He said he had no saddle. I told him I would trade him a new bicycle with a saddle for his pony. Now it seemed that I was at the end of my troubles. But. alas and alack! my greatest troubles were ahead. I saddled him and I noticed he humped himself a little. I thought I detected a sinister look in his left eye, but as I once prided myself on being considerable of a “broncho buster," I kept serene, and af ter leading him around a little, mounted, clucked and jerked the bridle, but move? No. Then I “spurred” him with my heels, and then he started. But instead of start-, ing along the road he started up in the air; first his head, then his heels, like a juvenile hobby-horse. Then round and round, like a merry-go-round, and then he seemed to go forward and back, all at the same time, when I turned a summer sault over his head and landed on a pile of bagasse. Billie, the pet goat, always looking or a scrap, got busy and biffed me one, and would, no doubt, have completed the job' had not my faithful shepherd dog rushed to my assistance. My old maid sister—bless her heart, I sometimes think they will all be angels in the great hereafter—l can’t say as much for bachelors—ran up with her linament rand camphor. I had rather she had brought my shotgun. My shepherd was standing over me licking my left ear. She asked me of I was hurt. I said, "No, I’m dead.” “No, you ain’t." “I am not quite, but my bones are all broken." She pulled my left arm and said: "Oh, no, they are not.” “Well, I know my back is, for I heard it snap," but she pulled me and I got up, gave myself a shake and found to my delight that the exercise had warm ed me up, and there he was over in my duck pasture standing quietly after kill ing three of my Pekin ducks and kicking two coops into kindling wood, rolled over and broke my saddle and just as I led him out at the gate a young negro came along with two hound dogs. I said, "Hey, mister, would you like to buy a pony?" “Yessur, but I is got nuf fen but two dogs." "Are they gpod for anything?" "One is good for coons and 'tother good for ’possums." "Well, put them in the dog house and stop at the first cabin down the road and tell Sam to come right up, I’ve two dogs for him.” I am in a quandary whether to ask the governor to declare martial law and send a company of militia or ask the government to send a cohort of dragoons to protect my mall. Can the Household advise me? Girls, you will have to guess again, and be sure you use the paternal names and not the baptismal one. Miss Thomas knows all about it, and I am sure she will not give the snap away. My name is not Kogan, but ROWGAN. An Optimistic Letter Dear Household—So manv. many times dur ing the oast year I wanted to visit you; in fact. I made several efforts to finish at least one letter, but somethin*: always pre vented. So in answer to the roll call you may mark me "tardy,” a mark seldom ob tained at school during my school days. WIU you klndlv allow me to make ac knowledggement to some of mv friends who have Insisted on my writing. One a letter from Northeast Georgia, some few months ago. Also some letters on our pace that should have been acknowledged before this. Really I have begun to think that 1 am a real member of our Household. How many of you are satisfied with our THU ATLANTA SEMIWEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1909 WANTS HER LETTER PUBLISHED For Benefit of Women who Suffer from Female Ills Minneapolis, Minn.—“l was a great sufferer from female troubles which ■n Few stronger, and within three months was a perfectly well woman. “I want this letter made public to show the benefit women may derive from Lydia E. Pinkham’s vegetable Compound.”—Mrs. John G. Mold an, 2115 Second St., North, Minneapolis, Minn. Thousands of unsolicited and genu- Ine testimonials like the above prove the efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, which is made exclusively from roots and herbs. Women who suffer from those dis tressing ills peculiar to their sex should not lose sight of these facts oy doubt the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to restore their health. If you want special advice write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. She will treatyour letter as strictly confidential. For 20 years she has been helping sick women in this way, free of charge. Don’t hesitate write at once. Empire State of the South as a permanent home? A great many, I am sure, but still there are some who are not. Why? Simply because they haven’t looked at It in the right manner. Listen here! Georgia Is just entering uixin an era of progress never be fore experienced bv the south. The south has that which In time to come will be the acknowledged king of commercial products, cotton. Cotton is king, but in the past It has been a much abused monarch- In the future when we are educated as to the rights we will quit farming on the extensive plan and follow the Intensive, cultivating less acre age than at present. On April Igt the convict lease system will, be abolished, and then our public roads will receive the attention lone deserved. Im mediately after our roads are improved, farm ers realising the Increased accommodations afforded, will adopt telephones. Improve rural schools, churches, etc. The northern cities are now connected by trolley lines, thereby uniting each city and tne adjoining territory into a more coinpact mass. The tendency of the south is to expand on these same lines, though on account of our hitherto impoverished condition, due to our losses sustained during the civil war. it has been necessarily slow. I have some Interesting statistics before me that I should like to give you. showing our amazing growth, but this would make my letter too lengthy. Did you ever notice how contagious self improvement is? In cities everv builder with means wants his office building just a little better than the best before him. Optimism up builds communties. cities, states and nations. “Smile and the world smiles with you; weep and you weeo alone.” Our future lies within us. No one makes us what we are. though our environments help to mold us. Wt should, therefore, strive to give forth the best that is In us for the upbuilding of others. Let us. therefore, resolve that during this present year we will work for the upbuilding of our sreat southland, and especially cur nuatlve state. Give encouragement to the dis couraged. And to sum it all up In a few words, get into the habit of smiling, for a smile will help. Cecil. Ga. J. A. HUTCHINSON. FLOWERS” FOR DIXIE’S GARDENS Every flower lover should get the Dixie Garden Handbook. It is not a confusing catalogue, but an expert selection of Choice Bulbs, Roses and other Flowers, Shrubs, Trees and Fruits that are sure to succeed in the South. For free copy write to Chattanooga Nurseries, 79 -Mis sion Ridge, Chattanooga, Tenn. Another Year Dear Household—One month of another year almost gone! Let’s not look mournfully over the past: “time once lost is lost forever.” We have the future to use for the betterment of our lives. Let's one and all decide that by God’s help we are going to live nearer Him than we have ever lived before, and are going to do more for His cause and king dom here on earth, and let’s renew the resolu tion every dav. Now. at the beginning of a new year, I want to make a plea for the Sunday school. Try to attend more regularly than you did last year, and remember your teacher at the throne of grace. The last year brought many changes, and this year will bring many mor-. Manv of us no daubt can look around and mixs many familiar faces: perhaps see a va cant chair which reminds us that our friend or loved one has bon> before, and is waiting for us at home. Perhaps ere this year closes we. too. shall cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees. Let's be pre pared. for we know not how soon we will be called borne. We need for the new vear new power for duty and renewed faith in God. Our chief alm should be to bear well our part in car rying forth the work committed to our hands that we mav make our contribution toward the betterment of His kingdom here on earth. Let us faithfully perform our duty each day, for ”we‘ know not the dav nor the hour that the Son of man cometh.” Let us go forward into the new year full of faith, hope and love, not seeking to know what awaits us In the future, but trying to do our Father’s will as It confronts up from day to day. Let us try to make our own homes better anu the homes of others; the nation's destiny is wrapped up In the homtr. There is hone if the veriest outcast, if ;hc poor wayfarer can wander back in memory and see with his mind's eyes a Christian home as tthe one he once lived In. The house may be decayed; everything that once con tributed to make it beautiful may have passed away, vet it still lives in his heart. He can see bis old father as he takes the family Bible and reads chapter after chapter, and as he kneels down in nraver he can see himself with them. Perhaps he was so small then that he didn't understand a word that was read, but the dear old mother had taught him it was the word of God. and he believed it. From day to day the Bible was read and prayer offered through many a golden year. Oh. what a blessing It Is for those who can look back on such a home: how rich are the children living in such homes, no matter how limited their fortune! Why is it every one can’t have such a home? From this new year on let every fa ther and mother in this band give to their children thep reclous gift of a family altar and religious home. It will mean more to them in the future than silver and gold. If there is anything better this side of heaven than an old-fashioned Christian home. I don’t know’ what it can be. 1 wonder how manv. even since they joined church and profess to be Christians, would be ashamed for their lives to be written upon the wall so that every passerby might stop and read? If you are not living that clean, simple Christian life you are not living like the Saviour would have you live; you are not living like He did while here on earth. Mrs. Annie. I indorse everv word of your letter. I only wish every one could see things as vou see them. Where is Backwoods Teacher, Busy Bee, Dixie? Thankful Woman. I can’t agree with you, for 1 know young, Christian, educated men that are fanning and working on the farm for their living. ANNA HIGGINS. Cass Station. Ga. Take No Thought for the Morrow Dear Household Friends—l come this beau tiful morning with a New Year’s greeting, and mav this year be the happiest, brightest and best of all the past to onr large family. We have all passed another anniversary of our Savior’s birth, the sweet echo of the song of the angels, "peace on earth, good will to men,” have reached us again, and let us each moment keep this glad tiding ringing in our hearts. I so wish that as the aew year conies in with all of its opportunities and obligations, we could remember we are not our own; that we all belong to our Lord. He has bought us with a price and we are His stewards and some day He will call us to give an account of our stewardship. I have just finished reading Tn His Steps, written by George Sheldon, I studied ‘he Christ-like snlrit of that book and believe that nothing except this sweet, self-sacrificing spirit will enable us to do the work our Lord intends us to do. My heart longs—yea, hungers to be emptied of everything that is wronjr and to be filled In the beginning of this new year with the Holy Spirit, for no other wav can we be used as His instru ments in saving lost souls. Dear friends. I fear that manv of our fail ures to accomplish the good we purposed to do and really longed to do come by our living so much in our selves. We look over the past and see so many things In our lives that are unsatisfying, so many mistakes, and we fall so far short of showing forth the satisfying love of our Lord to the world that we find that a spirit of sadness cornea over us, and we lose the joy and peace that is the true legacy of every child of God. Now I think that is what St. Paul would warn us of when he says: "We are to forget the things that are behind, and press for ward. I believe our Saviour wpuld have us to live onlv a moment' at the time, "trust Him as the moments fly; trust Him as the days go by.” If the power of God can keep us each mo ment as they fly by and we only to live in this way, when the day is past we will not have a regret, for we will then realize that His presence has been with us all the time, and then In this closeness of life with the Master. Satan would not—yea. could not harm us. Our Saviour tells us In His beautiful Sermon on the Mount, “Take no thought for the mor row.” no anxious thought, mid yet, so often we find that we are growing anxious over what is to come In the future. I once met a woman whose face was so sad and despair was writ ten on her countenance. We were at a ladles’ prayer-meeting, and during the meeting this one spoae. I could see that she wanted to be a Christian, but she spoke of the future, and could not tell how she could raise her three children all alone; her husband had been killed accidentally, as he was going to work. As this poor, heartbroken woman talked my heart went out In such sympathy. She was a stranger to me, but I fflit that I must cultivate her and try to help her. and so 1 did. I soon saw her trouble. She could not understand the Saviour's promise, that God would be a husband to the widow and a father to the fatherless. A very dear Christtian friend and I found out, talked to and prayed with this dear, sad mother: did what we could to help with her three little ones, and. Oh! how I thank the good ixjrd that He let this poor soul out Into His divine light and. love, for she became a joyous, trusting child of God. She was taken out of herself and learned the sweet lesson of letting Jesus live in' her. So He will for all who will walk in lift ateps. I hope you will pardon me for referring to a very strange experience that came to us about six years ago; the lesson has been helpful to me that 1 hope it will be to others: hi the winter of 1903, my husband’s health failed. He had a three-horse farm and no bands, and for several weeks he was unable to attend to his stock. With only a little negro to help I did his work, and oh, how dark every thing looked to me. I would try to take the burden to my Father in heaven, but for days it seemed to me He surely had forsaken ns. My pence had gone and my heart was filled with anxious thoughts for out future: then this passage from a sweet old chapter came into my Inart with such force, that I could not resist it, "Thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staged on Thee.” I will merer forget that day. I went Into my closet and fell on my knees, and there I was shown why I had lost the sweet peace of God. I was looking at tbe outward circum stances and trying to work It out within my poor, helpless self. I think I was never so happy, or so close to the Master as I was at that moment, I rose with a light heart, and while the eircums.onee was the same I was perfectly lijht and joyous. That was in March, and in less than a week some hands came to us; my husband got mu?u better and we never had a more successful year. I thank God for that lesson, and how He has since kept me from doubting His care over us. Keep close to Jesus all tbe way, every mo ment, and He will bring It to pass. Friends, we ure not left to walk alone In this life of trials and temptations, but our blessed Saviour has left us a promise to suit every experience that comes to us. What does our Lord require of us. but to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God.” Ob, that men would wraise the Lord for bls goodness and for bis wonderful works unto the children of meu. Nothing can come to His children except whnt He permits; there can never be a dark, sad moment that He is not near, and the same loving, sympathizing Lord who wept at the grave of Lazarus, in divine and human pity, is just the same today. May vqe; who profess to be His followers put our hand In that of our Father and willingly, gladly, follow, moment by moment, where He leads? In this way He will use us In doing the work he has left for us to do. No anxious fears for the future will trouble those whose minds are stayed on Him. Often my heart Is grieved by tbe way many who have their names on the church roll live before the world. No wonder there Is no little power In the churches of today. Men will go to church on Sunday, often to attend to some secu lar business. They even trade at church, when God's word tells us. we are not to speak our own words or think our own thoughts on his holy day. I do not believe in Sunday visiting, and yet it is made a special day by many tor social pleasures. We are living in a crucial time, and all who truly love the Master must rebuke will all long- I suffering the many evils that confront us. We are commanded to keep ourselves unspotted from the world, and to abstain from the appearance of evil, and our God is abundantly able to keep ' that which we have committed unto bis cate. Now, with love and best wishes to all Our [ Household band. I close, by saying I am not ! Mrs. John Reese, as the last letter I wrote was signed, but MRS. SOLON H. REESE. Thomson, Ga. caused a weakness and broken down condition of the system. 1 read so much of what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg etable Compound had done for other suffering women I felt sure it would help me, and I must say it did help me wonderfully. My pains all lert me. I COURT WILL PROBE SINKING OF LINER NEW YORK, Jan. 2".—There was a pic- i turesque band concert at the rooms of j the Seamen's Christian asociation on the i water front last night, given by the orch estra of the ill-fated White Star liner Re public, whose members, played enthusias tically on instruments borrowed from the Baltic's band, the steamship which brought the survivors of the recent dis aster safely iqto port. Several hundred i seamen, principally “down below men," ; crowded into the rooms and discussed in- ' cidents of the crash while they listened to | the music. ■E. W. P. Thurston, first British vice ; consul at this port, addressed the crew j of the Republic late yesterday, outlining their rights and privileges and explaining i what they could expect from the White > Star line in accordance with the laws of the merchant marine. The men had voiced complaint when it i became known that their wages had been I stopped when the Republic sank, that is, i that they were to be docked for lost time because of the accident. Mr. Thurston , said that the men could not reasonably i expect to receive pay during the time oc- , cupied on their return trip to Liverpool, whither they will be taken free, probably on the Baltic on Saturday. The full amount of wages due will not the Important Duties of Physicians jj the Well-Inforined of the World is to learn as to the relative standing and reliability of the leading manufactur flk ers of medicinal agents, as the most eminent physicians are the most careful as to |\ the uniform quality and perfect purity of remedies prescribed by them, and it is well f ■ known to physicians and the Well-Informed generally that the California Fig Syrup M Co., by reason of its correct methods and perfect equipment and the ethical character of IRk its product has attained to the high standing in scientific and commercial circles which |||gi is accorded to successful and reliable houses only, and, therefore, that the name of the gOk Company has become a guarantee of the excellence of its remedy. 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The genuine is for sale by all leading druggists throughout the United States in original packages of one size only, the regular price of which j||| is fifty cents per bottle. Wl Every bottle is sold under the general guarantee of the Company, filed with the Vv iW Secretary of Agriculture, at Washington, D. C., that the remedy is not adulterated or ufl misbranded within the meaning of the Food and Drugs Act, June 30th, 1906. M A CALIFORNIA FIO SYRUP CO. 4 | 4 San Francisco, Cal. 4b 1 Louisville, Ky. U S. A. New York, N. Y. London, England. be paid until the men make application for it in Liverpool, but the company will advance a small amount of money to those who are in need. No promise was made of certain em ployment by the White Star line in the future, although it was hoped that pro vision could be made for all. In view of the announcement that the men will be paid only up to the time that the Republic sank, it is perhaps pertinent to say that this custom is carried out at all American and English ports. Seamen are signed simply for the cruise and are paid, in case of wreck or other disaster, only for service during the time the vessel is afloat. Attorneys for the White Star line an I he Lloyd-Italiano, the latter the owner of the Florida, are preparing for a battle in the courts, arising out of the accident. Litigation involving approximately $2,000,- 000 will probably be threshed out, but which vessel was to blame for the disas ter will be settled first by a court of In quiry. If the Florida was to blame, the Republic’s owners may libel her to the value of the boat and then land the pas senger and freight receipts. This holds true in the event of the Republic being found at fault, but the Lloyd-Italiano line may recover only the amount which the Florida was damaged. Although the White Star line may be sued by passen gers who were injured in the collision or for the deaths of passengers, as there is no law governing loss of life on the high seas, it is doubtful if any such suits will be brought. x According to stipulations on the back of each ticket the signers may recover only SIOO each on their baggage, although many lost a far greater amount. The total loss on baggage and personal effects is variously estimated at from $175,000 to $250,000. JEFF DAVIS SPEAKS’ TO EMPTY GALLERY WASHINGTON, Jan 26.—Senator Jeff Davis’ speech in the senate today was a disappointment as a drawing card. The galleries were not crowded, and the sen ators themselves evidenced little interest in the Arkansas statesman’s denunciation of the New York stock exchange, preda tory wealth and divers other things. Davis addressed himself to a bill he has proposed to outlaw speculation in fu tures on cotton, grain, meat, etc., and In the course of his speech named every member of the New York stock exchange. He quoted extensively from muck-raking magazine articles and discussed in detail the holdings of many well-known multi millionaires. The senator wore the usual drab-col ored Prince Albert suit, with the low col lar, and spoke with great vigor as he slapped his desk and stamped his feet on the noiseless carpet of the senate. Mr. Davis advocated the passage of a bill introduced by him to penalize the use of the mails, the telegraph or the telephone for the purpose of conveying gambling propositions between buyer EYE DISEASES FAILING rnrpfl SIGHT Vflll Vlfie CDCI? 1 willß * n< - 1 a °° urse of my fa * r Krit. mous Absorption Treatment a jwuu for js<i a y S free, fair trial to any person who suffers with Eye Diseases or Failing Sight. 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Picturing conditions in Rome at the time of Julius Caesar, he described the death of Caesar as the price of Caesar’s love and service for the poor, declaring: “Would to God we had a Caesar in the' white house today.” At the conclusion of his narrative of the acts of tne Roman emperor in se curing laws to suppress usury and in obtaining legislation for the benefit of the poor of Rome, followed by his tragic death, when "surrounded by the treachery of the money power twenty three knife wounds piereced his body," Senator Davis said: "This, sir, Is a brief history of Rome and its great reformer, illustrating the terrible fate that lies in the path of any man who seeks to shake loose from the throat of this government these parasites of wealth, these stock gam blers, these stock jobbers that attempt to control the destinies of the govern ment.” Only twenty-six senators were in their seats when Senator Davis arose to ad dress the senate today on his bill to sup press - speculation in products of the soil. 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