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Newspaper Page Text4 The Semi-Weekly Journal Catered at the Atlanta Poatnfnce as Mall Mat ter of the Second Cl«»«. jamesrTgray Editor and General Manager. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Twelte months♦* ** B's »« Three The tSeaii Weekly Journal l» pobllshed <”» Tnewlay and Friday, and is mailed by the short tat routes for early delhery. It contains oeas from sll erer the «•«»• hro'icht by special leased wires lotn««ur office. It baa a star* nt distln<u!*hed .•ootrlbutoeu. with etmoa departments of special value to the home and the farm. Amenta wantec. at arery poetomce. Liberti 1 eomuilsricti allowed. Octfit free. The only rrsvel'.ec representatives we have are J A Rrvaa. R F Bolton. C. C. loyle and M. H. Gilreath. We srrti b* responsible only for mcnev raid to the above esnied traveling a ♦♦»♦♦♦ o ♦♦♦ e ♦♦♦♦•♦♦ e ♦♦ ♦♦♦♦ ♦ ' t ♦ ♦ NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS • ’T ♦ ♦ The label used for ad d renal nr ♦ ♦ your paper ahowa the time your ♦ ♦ aubacriptlon expulrea. By renewing ♦ at least two weeks before the dste ♦ ♦ on this label, you insure regular ♦ B service. * ♦ In ordering paper changed, be ♦ ♦ sure to mention your old. as well as ♦ < your new. address If on a rural ♦ ♦ route, please give the routs num- ♦ ♦ bar. * ♦ We cannot enter subscriptions to ♦ ♦ begin with back number-. Remit- ♦ ♦ tance should be sent by postal ♦ «• order, or registered mail. ♦ ♦ Address all orders and notices ♦ ♦ for this department to THE ♦ ♦ SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. At- ♦ <0 lama. Ga. ♦ ; ********** Tuesday. May 10, 1910. Soon we can resume the evening pas time of figuring out baseball averages. Alabama seems to he determined to Buphold the tradition of the mint julep. Has it ever occurred to you what a large, capacious interior the lime-lignt has* Maybe Jeffries snd Johnson want to give Roosevelt first choice for that referee s job. If the census enumerators had wait ed. they would have found most of the population at the opera. Better not think of selling your old s family automobile until air ships be come cheaper. Why should President Taft use the big stick, when he could so effectively ait on congress? The eruelest stab yet! An editor hints at the lecture platform for Ed ward Payeon Weston. President Taft feels, like the begin ner on the typewriter, that it is time for every man to com* to the aid of his party. In all the proceedings of the Bal hnger-Pinchot inquiry, not once have the words undesirable. malefactor, •hotter and uglier been uttered. ®PLAYTffffi ON A SPRING MORNING. King of Gold in his great chariot, the sun. had come driving north again, and on this cloudless April day was sending down his beams to warm the earth. Even .ne robin nad come north and was p.ping as loud as ne could, to wake the flowers and butterflies. It so happened that right under the tree where Mr. Robin was singing dwelt I a village of red ants that had gone to sleep in October, deep in the ground, for their long winter nap. Chief Warrior, feeling the warmth of the aun, awoke first snd roused the oth er ants. For the first few days they were will to sun themselves on the hill just outside their door. As soon as * U.ey bad re-entered their door they had * the guards close it with a bit of earth or wood so that no one could find the entrance. But about two weeks later there was great commotion in the camp. The en tire village was moving to its summer home. Red ants are slave owners. That Is. they have slaves to do all their tunnel ing. while even the poor I'ttle fellows, who are amaller and lighter in color than their wealthy owners, have to feed these lazy masters Chief Warrior had several slaves, so when me moving began he had many trips to make. For, you see, every mas ter has roll each slave into a ball and carry it to the summer home. The more slaves, the more trips. On one of these trips a dog scared Chief Warrior into dropping his slave and running away. The siare, we would suppose, would be glad of his freedom. But no! He was so f -ightened he didn't know where to go and was very glad when his master came back and after roiling him up carried bin to the new house. Patents Issued Georgians WASHINGTON. May The following patents have been issued: William A. McKinney. Gainesville, driving mecha n'sm: James R. Merritt. Atlanta, railway switch; Robert D. Wilscott, corn crib: Nsncy Toomer. envelope; Alfred W. Vick, Savannah, train order holder: John H. Waiters. Augusts, track sander; William H. Wheat. Newnan, switch apparatus. Walter H. Zachary. Atlanta, mop head. THE KING IS DEAD. To politics and trade, a monarch’s passing means less today than ever, but in human history it wields its old poignant spell and still grips us with the fancy that “comets blaze forth the death <\f princes.” The mourning that hangs upon Buckingham palace this day is felt throughout the world. England's commerce will sweep on after it has paused a brief while, and the struggle of her parties will continue, but the thought of her people now is—the king is dead, a man really loved, a personality really rich, is gone. For Edward the Seventh was beloved by his people, and the life ot Europe felt the impress of his character. He was not a powerful ruler. Modern times do not permit powerful rulers. Yet he was far more than a shadow in the gov ernment of Great Britain. The government was conducted in his name and he stood as a personal embodiment of the laws of the realm, a human sign of its strength and splendor. Few sovereigns except Victoria have ever been more popular with the people, and this popularity was used by the existing cabinet as an effective instrument in making legislation. The mission of the crown in English history has been a unification of the government. Before authority ever passed to the people it had to be centralized in a ruler. There had to be a king before there could be a nation. And though this particular work of the king has long since been ac complished. and his authority has returned to those who made it. he still represents the nation’s stability and peace. King Edward’s reign, though brief, has been significant. No great wars have been waged during his sovereignty, though south African affairs were materially changed. But the internal lite and thought of the kingdom have been remarkably vigorous. Under no other monarch, perhaps, has the idea of democracy un folded so rapidly and powerfully. He left England in the midst of a revolution. The movement of the Liberals against the house of lords is truly epochal, anil had he lived a year longer Edward would have played an important part in the outcome of that struggle. Not as a king, however, but as a man is he most interesting. His personality was more effective than his crown. His tactful ness has averted many political breaches and many more court scandals. He was a true sportsman, and thereby, no doubt, hung much of his popularity, for as a sportsman he was a typical Brit isher. He traveled much, and his visits through the continent unquestionably did more to maintain the good feeling of Europe toward England than all the counsels of a cabinet could have done. Other rulers have been shrewder, wiser perhaps, mightier and more ambitious, but none has been more gracious or democratic, and for a king in the present century these two qualities are of supreme consequence. MARK TWAIN'S WILL. We are interested, yet not at all surprised, by the news that Mark Twain left a will. Even poets do such things of recent years. But if an author three centuries ago had left a will it would have been regarded either as a practical joke or a piece of witchcraft. In those days, so rich in writers but scant in readers, even such an author as Fielding, we are told, was often glad to obtain, by pawning his>beat coat, the means of dining on tripe at a cookshop under ground, where he could wipe his hands after his greasy meal on the back of a Newfoundland dog. What a difference between then and now, when an American humorist leaves to his daughter an estate worth probably a mil lion dollars, largely the harvest of his pen. It is a difference due in part to a change of times, and in part to a change in authors perhaps a change in the artistic temperament. In the old days a writer subsisted on the patronage of a few great men. They hung on princes’ favors. Today they subsist by their worth or their ability to interest the public. They ride in automobiles, a decidedly more pleasant and safer vehicle than princes’ favors. All this is the result of democracy, and further more of the writer’s awakening to the fact that it is a pretty ad mirable thing to make a living. This, to be sure, isn t applicable to all authors, but it is applicable to many of them. If a man once writes a successful comic opera he can sleep in silk pajamas the rest of his life—pink ones, if he cares to. Clyde Fitch was independently well off. Winston Churchill got rich from a single novel. It is safe to surmise that even Ella Wheeler Wilcox never goes hungry, though she must have indi gestion. There are Kipling and Hardy, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Mrs. Wharton. Gertrude Atherton, William DeMorgan, Rostand, George Ade, Maurice Maeterlinck—he actually lives in a castle. The list could be quadrupled and still a tenth of the year’s well fed. well trousered or stylishly bonneted authors would not have been named. There is at least one glaring exception, however —Gabriel d’Annunzio. the rapt Italian poet and dramatist. It was reported the other day that he was ready to gnaw his shoe strings from sheer hunger, and some sympathetic American sent him a thou sand dollars. This exception is significant. D’Annunzio has clung to the artistic emperament, for the artistic temperament’s sake. He doubtless prides himself on being a literary man. To do well in art. he probably thinks, one must be a failure in life. All that was fashionable three centuries ago. but happily it has gone out of style along with velvet breeches, perukes and the like. There is a story that Shakespeare, as a young man. held horses outside the Globe theatre in London. But as a man of ripened years he was buying real estate. “He sold his towrrs and gorgeous palaces To build the trimmest house in Stratford town.’’ Shakespeare left a will. He was a poet and a man to boot, or, rather, a man and a poet to boot. Mark Twain left a will, and as a tribute to his character, it is as substantial as his books are enduring. A gifted man might have written “Huckleberry Finn.” A shre.wd man might have made a million dollars. But it took Mark Twain and the nine teenth century to do both. HAIL TO THE 'MOTHE'R HUB'BA'RT). Just as the mother hubbard, that easeful, spacious garment of the good old simple years, seemed passing forever, it has been strangely and suddenly revived. There was a time when the mother hubbard held a cherished, if somewhat secluded, place in the wardrobe of every belle. Then along came the kimono, exotic and gay, sometimes gaudy, and thrust the faithful, sober wrapper back into an oblivion whither the nightcap had gone long before. Such is the heartless way of fashion. Maybe the world gained something by the arrival of the kimono, but no person of any sentiment at all can fail to look back pensively now and then to the more naive garment which served its generation without pretense or apology. Particularly interesting, therefore, is the news that the board of commissioners of Floyd county are planning to restore the mother hubbard. True, they will not wear it themselves or en deavor to place it where it formerly clung. They are going to put hubbards on that unfortunate portion of society commonly called convicts. This is somewhat of a compromise, somewhat of a come down for the mother hubbard. But nevertheless it will be in full view to this rising and rather sophisticated generation. Many a person who otherwise might never look upon a mother hubbard, who might even be ignorant that such a creation had ever existed, will now see for himself. The main idea of the commissioners in proposing such a cos tume is that it will keep the prisoners from escaping and, further more, will keep them clean. The commissioners are correct in both these opinions. We don’t believe that the average man would ever get away in a mother hubbard, though he might become lost Uii-iuEMn ATLANTA. GEORGIA. TUESDAY. MAY 10. 1910. in one. And certainly the mother hubbard affords freer access to the cleansing air than does ordinary masculine attire. Taken all in all. the idea is a capital one. The convicts will lose something of their somiber aspect. Their fierce instincts will be softened, for what influence is gentler than a mother hubbard’s! They will come forth wiser and more womenly men. Give us a rest S. DAY OF REST During the reign of Emperor William I of Germany Dr. Frommel was Court preacher at Berlin. One day the Emperor said to his pastor, “I enjoy your sermons exceedingly, and particularly on account of the fact that you never make my presence a subject of comment.” To this Dr. Frommel replied, “Your majesty, burdened as you are, for six days with the heavy cares of govern ment, must feel it a positive relief to be able to sit on Sunday in the House of the Lord, listening as a simple Christian to the plain preaching of the Word of God.” j “That is true,” rejoined the Emperor. i This well authenticated incident is full of instruction to both pulpit and pew, and especially to the former. It is greatly to be feared that many preachers do not ap preciate sufficiently that the pulpit is the place in which the Gospel of Christ, and that only, should be proclaimed. Serious and sensible people go to church to hear the Gospel, and not to listen to a lecture on some current topic, preceded by the announcement of a text that in the end is seen to be only a pretext. When they are forced to sit through a discussion of some semi-secular theme of passing interest they are disappointed and go away feel ing that they have suffered a wrong close akin to swindling. Coming to the house of God for rest and worship and inspira tion. and finding instead renewed consid eration of topics of which they have heard more than enough during the week, they go away more wearied, less worship ful and less spiritual than when they came. They asked the bread of life and were given in its place something worse than a stone—a bunch of raw and un wholesome “greens.” It should not sur prise any one if such preaching results finally in estranging many people from the sanctuary. The best of men do not care for a kind of preaching that is little better than the weekly talk of the presi dent of a “current topics club." Even when they feel some interest in the topic discussed, they do not wish to have It thrust before them on Sunday. Wither In mind nor soul are they profited by such pulpit performances. It is sometimes said in explanation and defense of such preaching, that the Gos pel is not a narrow set of pions plati tudes: that it is concerned with life In all its forms and phases, and that whatever engages men during the week is quite within its range. There is a modicum of truth in this view, hut only a modicum. Christianity is concerned with ail the en gagements of life, but it best serves those Interests bv addressing Itself directly to man's spiritual nature with its unearthly aspirations and heavenly cravings. The beams of the sun are related to every form of vegetable and animal life, but sunlight Is not to be applied with a shov el or distributed with a fertilizing ma chine. The man nf business goes back to com mence on Monday with conscience purer and moral purpose more vigorous, if on the Sabbath day he has been caused to hear the voices of the spiritual world far out of hearing of the feverish cries of the market place. The public servant in an executive, ju dicial or legislative office Is better pre pared for rendering high service by hear ing the gospel of the kingdom on Sun day rather than by listening to a clerical deliverance on the tariff, or the trusts, or the programme of socialism. There was never a wiser teacher than the MAN OF GALILEE. His contem poraries said of him most truly “never spoke man as this man.” Yet tn all his preaching he never approached men as a mere reformer. He came saying as the preacher of the wilderness had come before Him crying. “Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The government by which his country was ruled was the worst possible, but he ut- HE LIKES TO “SEE SNAKES” wA. This old Hindu snake charmer handies the most poisonous reptiles as fearlessly as we would a kitten. Arojtnd his neck is a vicious monster, others equally harmful entwine their slimy bodies about him. while in the jar is a dangerous cobra, a snake that kills thousands of the people of India each year. BILL PROVIDING FOR POSTOFFICE COMPLETED BY RALPH SMITH. WASHINGTON, 0. C., May 6.—The sundry bill, providing for the disposi tion- of Atlanta's old postoffice in ac cordance with the terms already agreed upon and heretofore announced in The Journal, was today completed by the appropriations committee of the house The bill will be reported to con gress this afternoon, probably, and sub sequently will be adopted substantially as reported by the committee. The section making disposition of the old postoffice will have the un qualified and unanimous support of the committee, under the leadership of Chairman Tawney, because the section was unanimously adopted by the whole committee just as it was prepared and reported by the sub-committee whlcn negotiated with Mayor Maddox, througn Congressman Livingston. Mayor Maddox has an exact copy of the section relating to the old post office. According to Colonel Living ston, not a single word tn the original draft of the section has been altered. Under the terms of the section, the value of the old postoffice “for mu nicipal purposes,” is to be appraised by the treasury department, and the city of Atlanta is to be given the exclu sive right to purchase the building at the price fixed by the appraisers. The land upon which the building site is to be given to the city, in the event it purchases the building, because origi nally the city gave the land to the B, Bi hop H art en A. Candler terly refused the part of a political agi tator. When his carnally minded disci ples showed sympathy with any such mistaken and worldly conception of his mission, he rebuked them; he would have none of it. Nor did he set up a new school of phi losophy, nor appear as the critic or ex pounder of any system that had been before him. His was a more serious and sv.blime work than that of an academi - : lecturer. Nor did he assume the role of a dealer in the dainty wares of literature. He concerned himself only with ths spiritual. But by bringing the spirits of men under the life-giving powers of the world to come through his gospel he has elevated political syatems. enlightened thought and ennobled literature. And those of his servants, coming after him. from the days of the apostles until this good hour, who have followed most closely his method, have done most for the advancement of mankind polit ically, socially an dinteliectuallly. On the other hand, the preachers who have min ified the spiritual world, have done least for the amelioration of material condi tions and the promotion of secular inter ests. In truth, preachers who drag into their pulpits all sorts of secular subjects, more or less related to morals and reli gion. not only fail to improve the mat ters which they thus treat, but they fail also to save themselves from deteriora tion. It is a distinct token of an en feebled faith when a preacher ceases to believe that the Gospel is the chief agen cy of salvation, and his diseased faith then tends to derange his conduct, which in turn makes the paralysis of his faith more profound. The final upshot of tho whole process is seen in a man who re nounces the whole programme of Chris tianity and takes up instead every pop ular prescription of the nostrum mong ers who cry every morning some new panacea for all human ills. Many such are abroad in the earth. More is the pity. They do not give their hearers a good qua’ity of the earthen wares which they offer from the pulpits which they have reduced to the level of the platforms upon which fakirs stand to cry the sale of patent medicines. What execrable science is poured out by the pseudo-ac.lentists of the pulpit! They call over the names of great scien tists which they have learned from the cyclopedias, and in their name proclaim theories which would disgrace the ver iest sciolist. The pulpit political-economist is no bet ter than the pulpit scientist. He talks of the great economists from Adam Smith to Prof. Sumner, and in their name sets forth social expedients which ig norance only could conceive and folly only could foster. And then there is the pulpit philosopher prating of all the names he can pro nounce. from Thales to Herbert Spen cer! What nations does he not expose as the final solution of all mystery and th® completion of all knowledge! At all these freaks the ignorant and half-educated stare in blank wonder, while good men grieve and wise men turn away in disgust. Meanwhile our sad, sick world, fam ishing for the bread of life, walks on its weary way to the grave. O the tragedy of It ali! O the shame of the comedy in the pulpit confronted by the tragedy in the pew! Might we be done with all this folly, and hear more frequently the gospel of rest on the day of rest! ten would our Sabbath be a delight and we should dis cover in the holy joy. like the reverent gladness of the ancient Psalmist, that God’s way is In the sanctuary. government, and congress is not dis posed to sell a gift. It may be several weeks before the sundry civil bill is called up for con sideration and passage in the house, although its consideration is in order at any time. Chairman Tawney will probably de lay the bill until the railroad measure Is out of the way. IT'D 17 IP ABSOLUTELY NEW T? T? 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Don’t Delay, as this offer is only good until May 31st. One Year Good for either NEW or RENEWAL subscriptions. Address all orders to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. OlllV S 1.00 ATLANTA, GEORGIA. J and the Name Shears Free •R F. DTownState J Keep Your Little Girls at Home Dear Mrs. Felton: I see so many good letters in The Journal and they are so helpful that 1 feel like I want to tell some one. I enjoy your good Chris tian letters so much I feel like 1 could pick up my bonnet and wolk over and have a good talk with you face to face. Oh, why could I not be gifted! I have tried so many times to join Miss Thom as’ page, but somehow I failed to get in. A great many write about training children. If those good Christian moth ers who are trying so hard to bring their children up aright would come tills way and see how children are growing up around here they would be shocked to see pure sweet little girls rambling about with negroes instead of their parents keeping them at home and teaching something that would benefit them. They let them. go off over the fields with vulgar negro boys. They are not fit for nice little boys to go with, not to speak of sweet little girls. When a child grows up that way—what can you expect? Why can’t these ladies see the error? I am not one of the fortunate to have children to raise, but if I did have children they should not play with nasty, vulgar negro boys. I am enjoying single blessedness. I close with great respect. L. R. Monticello. Ga. How to Make a Dead Town We hear a whole lot about building up towns, but we do not see much in print about making towns go dead; but it is much easier to kill a town than to bring it to life, or to promote its healthy growth. You can kill a town by excessive, and unfair taxation. The most of people are willing to pay their pro rata share of municipal taxation, but they are natural ly averse to being forced to pay an ex cessive or unequal share. This difference can always be relied upon to kill the progress of a town. I am acquainted with a town where “Peter is continually robbed to pay Paul,” and nobody is sat isfied unless It should be those few on the inside who pull the ropes. You can kill a town by the constant injustice that attends petty court trials. The man who has something is nearly always made to pay the costs, for there Is something obtainable from the fellow who has got something in sight. I have heard many citizens complain that they fare worse by carrying their cases to a justice court than by-enduring their losses in the first instance. A set of sharp fellows can make a handsome liv ing by always getting the coats out of those who have something In sight. A town can be killed very soon by a few of such sharp tricksters clothed with au thority. 1 heard of a justice who gave a ver dict against a vMjiite landlord because the negro tenant claimed he couldn’t pay, al though there was quite enough stuff j levied on to satisfy the debt, but not enough, perhaps, to pay the costs addl-j tional. They have got it down fine, to an l established system, and somebody has to pay the costs, even if the creditor loses and has all the justice on his side. How else could these officials get rich if they did not wring it out of the fellow who had enough to pay the costs? But they thusly kill the town. Such officials are regular town killers. They are unworthy of the position, of course, but they are useful to the folks who aim to beat the fellow who has got something, and they pay at voting time for his partiality. You can kill a town with a gang of professional jurors. People soon get tired of having their law cases decided by ignorant or designing people who lie around the court house to be caught on the jury. I know of some people that swarm in this way about the court room, and they are especially useful in taking care of their own sort and kind, and they go there to do it. People wn-> are thrown in contact with such cattle prefer to sell out at a sacrifice rather tiian expose person and property to sucl« men on the jury. I know a town where the people are as much divided as they are on the north and south side of Atlanta, and where the destruction and difference is as plain ly seen. One side gets all the favors, and the other side gets only enough attention to keep down open revolt. All the property may be assessed on the same scale, but thr unlucky side pays for what they are not allowed to enjoy in the nearly dead town, because of unfair discrimina tion and partiality The favored side gets nine-tenths of the benefit with no more taxation. Public spirit cannot exist in such a town. The tricksters who have their blades sharpened to get what belongs to the other fellows will soon cut the town e throat, and whenever you hear people say: “I found the tax rate too high, and too little doing to buy property in that town,” you can set it down that the town killers can be spotted. They are at work, and the rest of the inhabitants would sell out if there was anybody who wanted to purchase at a reasonable price. Whenever they get enough exneri ence to convince themselves that they cannot hope to prosper under such hin drances as are here maintained, they will quit and get away, even at a sacrifice. It seems a pity that a town has to be killed by the greed and injustice of a part of its citizens, but you can find a plenty of dead villages, if you will travel over the country and spot the town killers at work. Planting Sweet Potatoes in Missouri It i« best to w»lt until the third week nt April to bed sweet potatoes. I nse about • wagonload of fresh str.bls manure for a t»c<l tn feet square. Place a plank war 12 to IB inches deep around the Ihml. dig rp the bottom soil and add manure, i.evei It off and aud about four inches of a good lor«e soli. I use a covering of heavy iiuslin rs two widths a yard wide. This giro* sufficient corer to reach half way icroM on either aide. Give it enough pitch to shed rain. I keep my own coed. I put potatoes .n winter quarters a* *oo»i as they are uug and never allow them to lie out in the open air. I corer my plants at nlgfet. Swt durng the day, when the aun ahinea brightly. 1 push hack the canvas. I never let raic la the lied until tne sprouts begin to come through the ground, lie I I only moisten a IltHe at any tune. 1 took <>ut 3,’>00 plants n<f«>r- June I. 1 transplant on ridg-w 1< inches I make a hole with a round stick, putr in ha>f a pint of water, put In the plant and fill up wiU> dirt without watering agiu-i.—M. Magisy. Hints on Rearing Chickens Resides comtortaule quarters, the chick, to thrive, must have exercise, water, grit, a ra rlety of grain food, green or succulent food, and casein or meat foods. Exercise Is as essential as food, and lack of it Indicates wrong metb.su ».f rearing. The natural way for a chick t-. <»<e its food is to scratch for it, taking a little at a tine. If chicks cannot be out <if their feeding floor should be cover-d with sand, amt over this should be thrown sonic .itrer. such t» chaff from the straw stack ’r leave* trout nu altitta loft. Water should be prori-led hl sli.illow iiiy'-es. Sjiecial care must be taken to keep the water dish filled, so the little chicks will be able to drink without getting into the d sh. Some form of grit mint i.e stwplivd to yotmg chicks. Chicks running at lurge >a gravelly ground need no further provision for this. BUTTS COUNTY WILL IMPROVE HIGHWAYS JACKSON, Ga.. May A—The roads be tween Jackson and Indian Springs are being put in first-class condition. The road gang has been at work on this piece of road for some time. At the meeting of the commissioners here Monday it was decided to have the road graded, and all the hills will be cut down. Thia will give Butts county one of the best stretches of road in the state, and one that is uaed a great deal.