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Newspaper Page Text6 U Conducted £y r \ Miss L.O .Thomas^- — AD letters written for this page must bare the writer's real name and address enclosed fill is not for publication nor foe the nee of any one except tbe editor of thia page. «t raar letter baa pet been published this may be tbe reason. Address letters for "Household tn Mtea L. 0. Timas, Loch Box M 2. Atlanta. Ga. New Year in the Nominal XJoar Household—Here I am again! I told t rec I was comine beck. Arent you glad? " Well, anyway. 1 am. for It just doe# me good to look around and see so many pleasant. !n --teDlgent faces. I wonder If you picture as I ' do the writer of each- letter as you read It. How I should like to see your faces In the Hash that I might know whether your let tars are faithful portrait painters! '1 But sometimes I see those among us whose features the swift hand of memory sketches J. Wofford Cole, yours brought back the dear old Normal daya Have you ever found any ! r place that sounded a clearer call to latent en ergies. waking within you capabilities of L> ■ thtaktng and feeling and doing that you did got oven dream existed? I believe there are few young men and women who could go there L without gain, and If they share in the Chrls work and yield to the influences that ex ert there to ennoble and elevate character, the world will have reason to bless the founders aad supporters of the Georgia State Normal Do not think me unduly enthusiastic, tor I know where-iT I speak, both and Observatlcn If our legislators would appro priate more money to enlarge the scope of i thia beneficent Influence, Georgia would feel • age a wavs of uplift sweep unto her remotest borders as she has never yet experienced. g Here's a God speed to every Joyal No™***- May every noble Impulse quickened into life by the atmosphere of our school live and grew tin It shall come to fairest flower and fullest fruit! If any who knew me there this page, I believe they can Join with me In sing again; ••O never tIU each link of Use has perished. Can we forget our Normal school. ’’ a thought entered my head the other day and too* such hold on me that I want to give the Household a share tn it. What do you I* suppose it was’ Why. Just that this year 19W Is the very beet year in the history of the f. world; that those who reach it are better pre pared to take advantage of its opportunities than they have ever been before, and that ev ery one who is permitted to live it ought to thank God and take courage. "1 don't see bow vou make that out. ’ growls ■wee dyspeptic with a face long enough to drink buttermilk out of a churn. That's what I'm going to try to tell you. and if you can | prove ICm wrong about ft Til eat fatty bread B for supper and adopt your view of the sub- K till the sun shines out again, anyway. But here s my reason In rhyme, which. I - trust will not prove "without rhyme or rea- ( greet thee, fair New Tear, and glad is the b • Over the hills of the past have I climbed to this meeting. f» And what though ambitions lie wrecked all around me. ‘ Cm higher today than life ever found me. ? 3b! never a New Tear has set its bells ringing Such music of promise as thou art now bring- * For thine Is all wealth of all years gone before thee* And the present doth multifold usury P° ur the* rhe creed of the Christ through the nations is spread I n< r rhe world-heart to peace and to purity wed- W ‘ ding a Bis love a fair coil that, each year unwinding. ; kll men into brotherhood doser is binding. While never before have I brought to time's L treasure • Such fitness to profit and spend it with pleas- For have I not garnered from each year passed j|fe DMa tnereaae of skill for the problems before me’ , Gained wisdom from failure and strength from endurance. Faith, strong through need of its constant as surance And full twelve months more of seeing and knowing With the myriad gifts of Inventions bestow rv'ictf la my capital too. is all the blest dower Wrought me by beauty and musics pure F' power. Fbe levee I have loved that more noble have ;Tcr love in Itself has its loss e'er repaid me). fbe home-loves the friend-loves that believe in and bless me— My mint of which naught can e'er diepoeeSss yet ts l should bring from the past not a Save the pitiful fragments of cherished dreams broken. I wrecked agd adrift from prodigal sinning. Thank God. thou dost offer a brave new be- gnd would land by the mercy of heaven. Through thy kindly hands is a strong life Uns given. Jwt here the grip appeared on the scene, and my antae fled without even saying good-bye. R But 1 don't blame anything for running from that party grip. I'd do it myself if I knew which way to run. and I consider myself anus aaHy heave, for I actually killed a mouse once | without seroaming. I'm afraid Caliope. or wbFt ever may be the name of that heathenish lady wto basses the rhyming business, win never re turn, and I'll have to wind up in prose. | What's that? It would be a blessed thing It b She never did come back’ You don t see bow she can run far with such lame feet? Ton'd ■ better be careful bow yon whisper about me— school teachers have sharp ears. Well, then. It you are all growing impatient, with these fbw remarks I will close, aa the preacher says when he's half through bls sermon. I cannot say all rthat I fee! about the privilege It is to live this year with all the efforts of the ages at our com mend. bet If I ean set Just one person t bin king of Its advantage, perhaps one person may be helped to reelin something of its responsi bility. too. and live the year more earnestly, more pobly, more truly for Him who is the Alpha and Omega of time. V Nbw. with the promise usually given by Edith. • my little three-year-old pupil. -‘l'll be dood tf3 Bax’ time.” and with best wishes for each read er of "our'' page, I remain. Blaeerely yours, NOBIE T. BEALL. To be Well Considered Dear Mian Thomas: The town and the coun try have been discussed extensively by the contending parties, notwithstanding very little has been said about those phases of citizenship that make us as a nation more admirable than | any other. Both sides have said things that have been true, but however true, have been exceptions to that existing standard which we are proud at. It those things had been true without 5" exception which each side has thrown so zealously at each other, I think I would be IX somewhat like Sam Joneu said he would be about a church that put no stigma on dancing. He said he would run out of the little thing Wa\n\woX overcome toy proper acxscaa\ wtiVW&os- \obAs Adty \ha\ assisVaiKi to nature way be dispensed w’Ah. art K assist to supp\an\ thi natwA junctions must depend uVtt.— witdy upon proper txcunsAwtexA., proper oforts.and the CALIFORNIA Fic Syrup Co. SOLD BY ALL LCAOiWC DFUGCISTS MfiUCM.Y-«tO(JLM> (*« SO* Pte BOTTLC without taking time to get his hat. I might get my hat. but my coat would have waved a continuous good-bye by the time I had run to some port to embark for another clime. Each side has gone into the flower garden of the other and has hunted out the weeds. From these weeds they have tawi their texts and have preached many censorious sermons. Many have preached, but few converts; yet many “diverts” have opened their song-books and have sung obstreperously. "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp.” These discussions will no doubt ause many weeds to be exterminated, and probably from now on the garden will be seen after more closely; at least It is hoped for. Both the town and the country have been builders of history. Each has furnished its share of men and women who have been con spicuous in the great events that have crowned the march of time. Each marched under the stars and stripes till every heart on American soil throbbed with the Joy of liberty. Since that time we have seen towns men and countrymen raise our colors "Victo riously over many a battlefield. They have sailed for distant shores under this old flag and have returned amid sweet strains of music from our military bands and have been wel comed back with shouts and songs. They have marched and are marching side by side in the great army that bears the banner of Christ and are singing praises together to Him whose love is boundless and whose mercy is from everlasting to everlasting. Feminines, it seems, have been the leaders of this discussion. Exceptions to general rules are difficult things to infuse Into all minds as being the general rule. Tour name, ladies, if this boil ing. patriotic preaching doesn't stop, will be “Exceptionaltsts.” What do you think of It? It it doesn't sound good. Just stand in front of a mirror, symmetrically arrange your twen tieth century rat and repeatedly say "Excep tionalist” till you smile audibly, and see if your mind doesn't feel disposed to take up the other side of this question. Now, ladles, with your sweet voices, from the town and from the country, let us all Join Miss Thomas, with the rest of the Household, in singing that inspiring old song. "America.” With best wishes to Miss Thomas and the Household. IRWIN. With Ardent Appreciation Deer Miss Thomas: After being a silent lis tener of tbe Household for a long time, I atn going to say a few words. There have been so many subjects, and they have all been weD dK cussed and read with great interest by thou sands of people who are like myself, too timid to risk their pen for fear they may not know just bow to express themselves. 1 know Miss Thomas Is quick to sympathise with those who have been raised witbout education. How many of the sisters believe it to be a sin for so many awful crimes to be printed? I believe there have been thousands of terrible crimes com mitted that would not If it had not been for bad papers and books. Little boys will take more Interest in reading such books. We may keep such books from them, but we can’t keep newspapers from them. If we did we would be compelled to miss all the good reading that was contained in them. I would not give two cents for tbe Semi- Weekly Journal If tbe Household page was left out. I am a farmer's wife and do all my work. In my household duties my burden has been made lighter through so many cheerful let ters. While I do not agree with all tn some ways, I believe in education. If we were com pelled to send our children to school nine months in tbe year we could not board and clothe them. 1 know there are some people who don't try to send their children to school, but the majority of people are trying to educate their children the best they can. I want to thank Miss Thomas and the sisters for the help they have been to me. I may come again some day. A SILENT MEMBER. Wants a Helper Dear Miss Thomas: I see so msny interesting letters from you and the sisters It makes me want to write. I'm almost an Invalid, seldom get out anywhere, so 1 enjoy tbe letters so much. I've always found it to be tbe case that when mothers control their children and bring them up to know they mast obey, respect and help her. they will be nil right when grown. I have a boy, eighteen years old, who can do any thing a woman or man can do. I began teach ing him at six years. I never had any girls, but have raised two nieces, wbo married several years ago. and make good wives. This warm, spring-like weather makes me wish I was able to be out gardening, although 1 know we will have more winter, but our win ters for the past few years have been so mild we could plant real early. I would like to have a family to rent or work any way. And I am certainly in need of a woman to live with me. My son wants to make a crop and I'm not able to do anything, so if any of the sla ters can help me will they please do so. There are only three in family, eon. nephew and self. Would not care if she were a "chicken crank,” as I have a lot of chickens. I get more eggs in spring and summer than I can use or sell; the hens have Just started to laying. Wishing dear Miss Thomas all the good luck she de serves I am a constant reader. Rayville, La. MRS. H. LAUVEh'T. A Sad Mother Dear Miss Thomas: I come only to stay a few moments. I have often thought of writ ing to our dear Household, but it was left un done. But, after reading Chat of New Tear’s day, I have felt that I wanted to embrace "our” dear Miss Thomas and tell her that it seems to me that she knew my trouble and told the precious story about the shepherd especially to send a comforting word to my poor, broken heart. Our dear Lord saw fit to send the death angel on the 21th of December to take our little darling to live with Him. Oh. how my poor heart aches for my dear little babe that I shall see no more until I cross over the river and hear my blessed Jesus say, "It Is enough; come up higher.” Do. please. Miss Thomas and other good peo ple of the Household, write to me through this page and tell me If they think I will know my little babe In heaven, if I am faithful enough to get tAere. Tell me something to comfort my poor, sad heart. BROKEN-HEARTED MOTHER. If We Understoood Dear Household: The longer you put off writ ing the more difficult it seems to be, so I am not watlng till December to write, as I dla last year. Beth, your last letter was so good, even while I was reading it tbe subject of misunderstand ing weighed so heavily on my mind, like some telepathic message, that I decided to pen my thoughts.' Do we realise how much sorrow I* caused by being misunderstood? Friends fall to understand; a bitter word said, two lives separated perhaps forever. A girl with heart unstained by evil, with a pure purpose, warns some friend of an approach ing evil. She is severely criticised and that friend be-omes an enemy, ever after that holttlng malice. All because of a mlsundrestandlng. A wife true and noble Is misunderstood, and a home is wrecked. Tbe husband losing confidence goes his way leaving a good wife to pine What happiness there could hsve been had they only understood each other. : A young man writes his swetebeart a letter explaining why he did not pay her a visit at I some appointed time. She falls to understand. I “throws him over,” nurses her broken heart ■ il>e rest of her days, becomes a bitter woman, or marries some other for spite, and three lives are wrecked. A teacher laboring with un ruly pupils, with much love and patience, cor rects a pupil? is misunderstood by ail tbe patrons. Perhaps turned off before the term is finished, unable to secure another acnool within that vicinity, her Influence blighted, all , caused by a cane of misunderstanding which might haw been easily righted had they tried in tne right spirit. So It goes tbe world over. We are being mis understood every day by some one. I know by experience what pain and gloomy feelings it gives one. I hsve friends whom I try to help by a kind word or cheering letter, trying to be a friend to them at all times. Yet they | tail to understand me. I Dear readers, try to fully understand the case of a friend, the position she is In, before yon forsake her. Ton do not know bow much good you are destroying. There is One who under stands all things. Let ns, when others fall to understand us. go to Him In prayer, asking Him to help us understand our friends, so that we may love them better, and not always be criti | cising and misjudging. i With best wishes to the readers and “Meh Lady.” ELLA LEE. ItarnesTllle. Ga. The Onrushing Tide Swift as the moments fly. The tide of life speeds on To vast eternity. And when the wheels of time shall cease re volving, like as one that awaketh from his dream, shall we open our eyes upon another world, there to enter into the realities, the consequences of what our life here has been. THE ATLANTA BEMIWEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, - FRIDAY, FEBRUARY o, Deaf People Now Hear Whispers Listening Machines Invented by a Kentuckian. Invisible, When Worn, but Act Like Eye-Glasses. Ever sse a pair of Listening Machines? They make the Deaf hear distinctly. They are so soft in the cars one can't tell they are wearing them. ..... ... And. no one else can tell either, because they are oot of eight when worn. Wilson's Ear Drums are to weak hearing what spectacles are to weak sight. Ho, ause, the'- are sound-magnifiers, just as glasses them—the strain of trying to hear dim sounds. They can be put into the ean. or taken out, in a minute, jus* as com t ortabl y as spectacles ca n be put on and off. And. they can be worn for weeks at a time, be cause they are ventilated, and ao soft in the ear holes they are not felt even when the head rests Ks ' on the pillow. They also pro- > tec* any raw inner paru of W B JRlt 1 the ear from wind, or cold. H F ® I dust, or sudden end piercing < Tk .g 1 sounds. - i\ u WiA |1 "A These little telephones H 31 make it easy for • Deaf Ml person to hear Hl weak sounds Ik W as spectacles U W make it easy to c-J/x. Ivft n MB W read fine print. o a rf> n f » And, the longer XJ V ffaWW 1 one wear, them MM 1 the better his I hearing grow., , I because they \WI CTwWw I I rest up, and Eg? jMqgv f strengthen, the 2'Jeß' f ear nerves. To XC*' ER' I / is like resting a strained wrist > from working. _ fc, (J 0 /«.* g Wilsons Ear Drums rest g, the Ear Nerves by making the ~» / 9HA gi sounds loader, so It is easy to | tvflK 9 understand without trying and strain- itfaiasw Ing. 'i ney make deaf people cheerful llhtT and comfortable, because such peoplo Iff,.!, can talk with their friends without the friends having to shout back at them. They can hear without straining. It is the straining that puts such a queer, anxious look on the face of a deaf person. , » ♦ s Wilson's Bar Drums make all the sound strike hard on the center of the human ear drum. Instead of spreading it weakly all over the surface. It thus makes the center of the human ear drum vibrate ten times aa much as if the eame sound struck the whole drum head. It is this vibration of the ear drum that carries the sound to the hearing Nerves. When we make the drum vibrate ten times as much we make the sound ten times aa loud and ten times aa easy to uaduistsnl . This is why people who had not In years heard a clock strike can now hear that same clock tick any. where in the room, while wearing Wilson’s Ear Dri l >eafnoss, from any cause, earache, buzzing noises in the head, raw and running ears, broken ear-druma. and other ear troubles, are relieved and cured (even after ear doctors have given up the cases), by the use of these comfortable little ear-rosters and sound A l «en!dble book, about Deafness, tells how they are made, and has printed in it letters from hun dreds of people who are using them. Clerg) men. Lawyer*, Physicians. Telegraph Oper ators, Trainmen, Workers in Boiler Shops and Foundriae-fonr hundred people of all ranks who were Deaf, tell their experience In this free book. They tell how their hearing was brought back to them almost instantly, by the proper use of W ilaon a Xar Drums. _ ... . Some of these very people may live near you. and be well known to von. What they have to aay is EmT been the ’means of making 828.000 Deaf people hear again. It will be mailed free toy®* if you merely write a post card for it today. Don * put oft getting back your hearing. Write now, whug you think of it. Get the free book of proof. Write for it today to the Wilson Ear Drum Co. 185 Todd Building, Louisville, Ky. whether food or evil. It is strange that the spirit of heedlessness so deadens our sensibilities that we are not conscious even of the direction in which we are traveling. The things of time and sense so allure and absorb us that we fail to con sider whither we are drifting. We do not hear the distant thunder as it warns us of impending danger, nor the light ning as it plays upon the edge of life's hori zon, the emblem of God’s wrath upon those who regard not His laws nor reverence His Judgments God shakes the earth; its victims fall; the cry of misery and woe echo to earths re motest bound. We read with a measure of indifference of the fate of those who perished and the woeful state of those who survived. These are but warnings to us and a call to repentance, that we may be delivered from the power and dominion of sin. and that we may, in the day of God’s wrath, be able to stand. “Who knoweth tbe power of thine anger? Even according to thy fear, so Is thy wrath. So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”—Ps. xci:U-12. MRS. A. L. H. An Invitation I did not mean to come back so soon, but Mrs. Maloy left the impression that she thinks a college education makes a girl selfish and that she comes home with the wrong kind of pride. Not an of them, Mrs. Maloy, and the few who clamor for "a big name" were In clined that way before they went off to school. The college training did not make them so. I know many college girls who come home for vacation and take possession of the house keeping. cooking included, and send the mother or older sister off for a rest. Many go out from the home nest to earn money to lighter, the burdens of a dear old father and mother, and in their work they are character builders. Some become the homemakers for working husbands and do their own housework, not as if It were drudgery, but with real joy In the doing. Bad to say, there are some like you wrote of who never profit by their advantages, but it you had been with them In school you would have seen that they were shirking, unruly girls and greatly in the minority there and not popular. I can not think that some foolish poor peo ple. trying to imitate the rich, could cause a panic so great that even the rich would feel It. Most farmers have enough and to spare of hog and hominy ahead, but many working peo ple do not need a week’s rations ahead, as they order their groceries and meats almost daily. And, anyway, I do not see why this should have anything to do with their going In good company. Character should be the test. This is the first time I have ever taken Issue with any of our writers In so many words, but I must defend the noble-hearted college girls. I had to stop right here and have a little gird talk with the sparrows that are lighting on the porch. They look so wise and twitter as If asking me questions. Would any of you have gone to Marjorie Gould's party If you could? I would rathei have been dishing out soup to the hungry children on the streets. Miss Thomas, what must we do with our girls, here and there, who come to church late, two or more sit together, whisper during services, and long before the sermon is done they "are so tired—wish he would get through,” though the subject Is deep and you can not help but feel that the message Is from God? How are they to learn that If they can not be interested they can at least be respect fully attentive? Self-respect demands that we be quiet in church. But what kind of mood am I in this after noon I must go for a walk. But it was all said with my love cup running over and a “God bless you" for every one. Little Maid, where are you. child? Can’t you find your way back? Noble, send us an other good letter. Your "old Monroe” friend loves to read them. Come, let’s all go to walk In the pine grove. ZEE. WEST VIRGINIA HOUSE ADOPTS PROHIBITION CHARLESTON, W. Vs.. Feb. 2.—The prohi bition amendment to the state constitution, pro hibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxi cants within the state, passed the bouse of dele gates yesterday by a rote of 62 to 13. Eleven members were absent. The measure will go at once to the senate, where Its fate is In doubt. Eleven senators can kill the amendment, and nine are openly opposed to it, while two are said to be In doubt. If passed by the senate tlfc amendment will not become effective until rati fied by popular vote. There is little doubt, however, of Its adop tion. If submitted to popular vote, as already about two-tblrds of the counties are without saloons. HUNDREDS WADE ASHORE WHEN ICE GIVES WAY PITTSBURG. Pa.. Feb. 2.—A thousand men, women and children were driven from Lake Elizabeth, in West Park, northside, by police with drawn clubs last night, when the ice gave way beneath their weight and began to sink. All of them got off safely, but about two hundred were compelled to wade ashore in water, which covered the Ice a foot deep. Hundreds of pairs of shoes and stockings froze to the wearers. But for the timely ac tion of the police, many would have gone down with the sinking Ice. HOUSE KNOCKS OUT MONEY FOR BALLOONS WASHINGTON. Feb. 2.—The house today, by a vote of 20 to 161. reversed its former action and struck from the army appropria tion bill the additional 2600.000 for war bal loons and airships authorized last week. HE SAW LINCOLN TELLS OF GREAT TRAGEDY MKgF Wt BH CAPT. OLIVER C. GATCH. CAPT. GATCH, FIRST TO ENEER BOX AFTER MARTYR FELL, WILL ATTEND CENTENARY CELEBRATION IN CINCINNATI. ■ ! CINCINNATI, O.—A man who saw [Abraham Lincoln fall from the assassin's shot will attend "the Lincoln centenary celebration In this city, February 12th. He Is Captain Oliver C. Gatch, now In his 73d year, a retired farmer, whose home is near this city. He was the first !man to enter Lincoln’s box in Ford's the atre after John Wilkes Booth had fired [the bullet that stilled the heart of the I great emancipator. . ‘ Until recently Captain Gatch has been reticent upon the subject. With even his closest friends he refused to discuss the great tragedy. Recently, however, he was prevailed upon to give an account of the shooting and the history-making event he witnessed on the fatal night. To a corre spondent of The Journal he talked for an hour, repeating and amplifying the story recently told by him. Captain Gatch and his brother, Dr. Charles Gatch, now dead, left Washing ton during the excitement following the assassination of Lincoln without giving their names to the authorities, and it never occurred to them that their testi mony was wanted. "It wasn’t necessary,” says Captain Gatch. Captain Gatch, while hardly more than a boy, enlisted in the army, and was captured by the Confederate troops and imprisoned until March, 1864, when he es caped from his captors and returned to his home, which was- then at Milford, near here. There he met his brother. Dr. Gatch. Together they went to Washing ton on official business. On Friday night, April 14, 1865—Good Friday—they went to Ford’s theatre, attracted thither by the announcement that President Lincoln was to be a guest. "Our seats were in the balcony, and had we desired we could have touched the sentry stationed at the entry of the box to be occupied by the president,” Gatch declares. "In fact, we were so close to the president’s box that we could hear him chuckle at the jokes of the play, but we couldn’t see him.” During an Intermission in the play, which was the elder Bother's great suc cess, “The American Cousin,” Captain Gatch and his brother, cramped from sitting in one posture, stretched them selves. As they did so they noticed a handsome young man watching the show from a position against the wall near Lincoln's box. It was John Wilkes Booth, who murdered Lincoln. "I saw him edge toward the box,” Captain Gatch says.” Suddenly he enter- I ed the passageway. A few seconds later I we heard a shot. Bedlam reigned in the ' audience. | "A man—Major Rathborne, Lincoln's guest, it was—rushed from the president’s box and shouted: 'Get a doctor.' My brother said he was a physician, and he and I were dragged into the president’s box. My brother raised Lincoln’s head to probe for the bullet, and the index finger of his left hand came in contact with a jagged hole at the back of Mr. Lincoln’s head. When he withdrew his hand it was filled with the president’s brain, which was oozing out at the ghastly hole.” Captain Gatch's brother told those In the box that the wound was fatal, and advised that the president be taken to a private residence near the theatre, and not to the white house, as was suggested. A shutter was hastily secured as a stretcher, and Captain Gatch and his Left Fat; Back Slender By “FOOTLIGHTS.” Glau and his overweight chorus from the “Aeroplane” company have returned to New York In what may be described as greatly reduced circumstances. Not as To finances, let It be said, nor yet in num bers, glory be, but in avoirdupois—that is to say, gross flesh. The entire galaxy has lost out in this respect, much to its ad vantage. It seems the people out west will sup port slim ballerinos, and no other, and our famous “balloon chorus” carried, so to speak, no weight with them. They treated that prize collection of fat New York beauties with an unprecedented cold ness. Consequently, Glau faced the prob lem of reducing the entire front and rear rows at once, or shipping them back—"ex cess” baggage. It was a terrific job, as all who saw the “Aeroplane” before it left this tolerant town will admit, but our In genious townsman tackled it and suc ceeded—broke all records, In fact. And thereby hangs a tale worthy of any fat lady’s attention. Glau didn't rehearse his flock into shape, nor starve them into line, nor yet worry them, verbally, into shadows. He paifl salaries regularly and let them eat and drink as they listed. He simply hung up a new rule in the dressing-rooms to the effect that every lady less than five foot seven who weighed In excess of 150 pounds must take a teaspoonful after each meal and at bedtime (or about where her bed time ought to be), of the following: One half ounce Marmola, 1-2 ounce Fluid Ex tract Cascara Aromatic, and 3 1-2 ounces Peppermint Water. They did it and in a month averaged a loss of a pound a day apiece. “That’s a dandy receipt,” says Glau. “Simple, pleas ant, harmless and a worker from the word ‘go.’ Wish I could get a railroad rate reduced half aa good.” brother, with others, raised the president from the floor of the box and carried him down the stairs and out of the theatre. The sobbing of the people and the hoof beats of the approaching cavalry regi ment, which was hastily summoned, were the only* sounds on the street. Lincoln was tenderly carried to a little house across the street from the theatre, and the great men of the nation called to look at him before death came. His wife, too, was at his side. Captain Gatch and his brother remain ed in the house, and when Lincoln died, early the following morning, they assist ed in carrying his body to the funeral car which bore it away. Captain Gatch and his brother then re turned to the theatre and measured the distance Booth had leaped from the pres ident’s box to the stage. It was 14 feet. “We saw Booth fall on the stage, the spurs on his boots having caught in the folds of a flag which was draped about the president’s box. brandished a dagger, shouting, 'The south is avenged!’ ” Captain Gatch and his brother obtained the cuffs worn by Lincoln on the night he was shot, but they were stolen 15 years ago. Gatch works on his farm ev ery day and lives alone with his wife. “The events of that night are burned into my mlmi,” he said. HAVE A BEAUTIFUL YARD. If you want your yard gay with dainty, fragrant Roses and other flowers this year, get the Dixie Garden Handbook. It tells just what kind to plant in southern gardens. Write for it today. It is free for the asking. We tell you just how to grow everything you buy of us. Address Chat tanooga Nurseries, 79 Mission Ridge, Chattanooga, Tenn. ••• “WOMAN IS BOUGHT LIKE DOG OR HORSE” SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30.—Upton Sin clair says he is sorry he is married. “When my wife and I fell in love with each other,” said he, “we talked the whole marriage business over very con scientiously. We both of us hated the Idea of being tied together by either a religious or a legal ceremony and we tried to make up our minds to set the right kind of example to the world. “But we knew that Mrs. Sinclair's fa ther and mother would go raving crazy if we did what our conscience told us was right. “So to ease their minds we let some one mumble a few words over us and made them happy. “We were married and now we have seen the world and know a great many married people and so we are a good deal deal ashamed of being married our selves. “Why am I so prejudiced against mar riage? “Why, you might as well ask me why I so prejudiced against slavery—or against thievery; or, if it comes to that, against murder. “Marriage in this day is nothing but legalized slavery; that’s the most polite word to call it, I fancy. “The average married woman is bought just exactly as much as any horse or dog is bought. “This lovely blonde for half a million, a little shop-worn, going at half price. “This generous brunette, on the bargain counter today. 820,000 a year will buy her. “Women will never marry for love and love alone until they become economically independent. The marriage of today is worse than a farce—it is a hideous tragedy. “How many happy married people do you know? About one couple in 10,000,” “But If all these people you speak of were not married to each other, Mr. Sin clair, only just living together, without a ceremony, do you think you would be happier then?” ■ “They wouldn’t live together,** said Sin clair. “When they got tired of each other they would quit and find some one else?” “Perhaps,” answered Mr. Sinclair. BOAT PROUDLY STEAMS THROUGH NEW CANAL PANAMA. Feb. 2.—The Pacific mail steamer Newport, used today for the first time the new Pacific entrance to tbe canal, which has been deepened to a depth of 35 feet. Only a few persons witnessed the departure of the boat, which left the dock and steamed to the right of Naos island, plongbing through the watera of tbe canal. As the Naos breakwater Is not completed, the Newport had to contend with a strong current, but she kepi a straight course and. gaily dec orated with bunting, sbe passed dowu tbe narrow way which in years to come is destined to be come suen a great highway of commerce. President-elect Taft was not present when tbe Newport started on the trip aud there was no ceremony of any kind. OPIUM IMPORTATION HARD HIT BY SENATE WASHINGTON. Feb. 2.—The importation of opium into the United States except for medi cinal purposes is prohibited by a house bill passed by the senate today. The bill will become a law when signed by the president. U. S. RURAL CARRIERS MAY GET MORE PAY WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Senator Bankbead has proposed an amendment to tbe postoffice bill Increasing the pay of rural carriers to sl,uuu per year aud giving them thirty days’ vacation. FOREST FIRES RAGE IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS HOUSTON. Texas. Feb. 2.—Forest fires are raging In southeast Texas. Heavy losses are being inflicted on the lumber companies. “ Do you know of any woman who ever received any benefit from taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound?” If any woman who is suffering with any ailment peculiar to her sex will ask her neighbors this question, she will be surprised at the result. There is hardly a community in this country where women cannot be found who have been restored to health by this famous old remedy, made exclusively from a simple formula of roots and herbs. During the past 30 years we have published thousands of letters from these grateful women who have been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and never in all that time have we published a testimonial without the writer’s special permission. Never have we knowingly published a testimonial that was not truthful and genuine. Here is one just received a few days ago. If anyone doubts that this is a true and honest statement of a woman’s experi ence with Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound write and ask her. Houston, Texas.—“ When I first began taking Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound I was a total wreck. I had been sick for three years with female troubles, chronic dyspepsia, and a liver trouble. I had tried several doctor’s medicines, but nothing did me any good. “ For three years I lived on medicines and thought I would never get well, when I read an advertisment of Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound, and was advised to try it. “My husband got me one bottle of the Compound, and it did me so much good I continued its use. lam now a well woman and enjoy the best of health. “I advise all women suffering from such troubles to give Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound a trial. They won’t regret it, for it will surely cure you.**—Mrs. Bessie L. HiclA, 819 Cleveland St., Houston. Any woman who is sick and suffering is foolish surely not to give such a medicine as this a trial. Why should it not do her as much good as it did Mrs. Hicks. 167 Different Vegetables At One Society Dinner BERKELEY, Cal.—What do you think of a dinner where the menu consists of 167 different kinds of vegetables? How many different kinds of vegetables can you name, by the way? Start counting and you will run out of varieties long be fore you reach 167, that is unless you are an agriculturist or a student of botanical lore, as is Mrs. T. L. Boone, a member of Berkeley society, who gave the dinner in honor of the Hillside Mothers’ club in this city, at which all these vegetables were served. The idea was Mrs. Boone’s very own, and the cards announcing the dinner cre ated an interest which the sight of the heavily laden tables only served to in crease. The guests found themselves so absorbed in the contents of the menu card, in fact, that it was some time before there was any serious attempt at service. Mrs. Boone was aided in select ing the vegetables for her dinner by Hugo M. LUienthal, founder of the Juvenile Horticultural society. One hundred and zixty-seven varieties of vegetables. Here they are. Count ’em: Artichoke, Jerusalem artichoke, aspar agus, beans, beets, Swiss chard, broccoli, common barberry, Canadian barberry, Brussels sprouts, white cabbage, red cab bage, bamboos. 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RAINEY IS SCORED BY PANAMA CONGRESS PANAMA, Feb. 2.—The national assem bly has unanimously approved a resolu tion protesting against what it describes as “The slanderous assertions made by Representative Rainey in the American congress against President Obaldla, which assertions deserve to be considered only because of the official character of the one who made them.’’ The resolution concludes as follows: "The assembly publicly and solemnly protests against the insult to the chief executive of Panama, His Excellency Do- Mingo Obaldla, as implied in the parlia ment of a friendly nation." A copy of the resolution will be offi cially communicated to the government of the United States.