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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL < ATX.SJTTA, GA.. 5 MOUTH FORSYTE ST. Kntered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. JAMES R. GRAY, « President and Editor. □ ■JBSCBLPTIOM PRICE Twelve months Six Months 40 " Thee.- months •• • * ,c Tha-SemiWeekly Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. ’ • It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. , ’ Agents wanted at every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRAD LEY. Circulation Manager The only traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan, R. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle. L. H. Kim brough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling repre sentatives. MOT ICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date 7’« this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old. as well as your new address. If on a i* route please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions do begin with back numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this de partment to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta. Ga. ■ ' * SENATOR JOSEPH. M. TERRELL. The death of Joseph M. Terrell, former United States senator from Georgia and twice governor of th« state, is lamented by all as that of a man whose Jame will be prominently i&sociated with the political history of Georgia. Governor Terrell passed away Sunday morning in his Atlanta hbme, after an illness of several days. His health had been failing for over a year, since he was stricken by paralysis while in the senate at Washington filling the unexpired term pf Senator A. S. Clay. Multitudes of close personal and political friends throughout the state are mourning Senator Terrell today; and their grief is keen. He was a man who hhew how to make bis friends care sincerely for him. He was loyal to them, and he treasured the re gard in which they held him. He numbered his friends by the thousands, throughout every section of the state and in other parts of the south where he was known and held in high regard. The success which he achieved in his profession of law and in his political life was hardly greater than the heights he attained in the regard of his friends. In the death of Senator Terrell there passes a leader from ahnong the counsels of the state. Now that the Balkan war is practically over, there Will be no tgst of some of these big navies. NOW FOR THE TARIFF. President-elect Wilson's announcement that he Will call congress Into extraordinary session about April 15 to revise the tariff, demonstrates that the Democrats meant business when they pledged the party to eliminate protective schedules whose cost • the people paid. Senator McCumber, a Republican, is quoted in komment upon the president-elect’s announcement, as saying that he believes the Democrats do not dare put through such a measure as the party’s platform calls so the party’s platform declaration “was all right to go before the people with, but —” etc. That's the old-time and utterly unfasionable pro tectionist point of view. It discerns a subtle distinc tion between party platform promises and party obli gations. The Democrats do dare; and what's more, they are going to* set about it early, that the benefits may pot be postponed a couple of years. Long investigations by congress have cleared much preliminary work out of the way. The rotten spots of the tariff have been made plainly apparent by the light of those investigations. The Democrats know where to prune and cut. The nation has en trusted the party with control of both houses of con gress and of the executive office. There is nothing to enforcq delay, and there is no reason for delaying the work of carrying out the party’s promises. On the qther hapd. there ai'e strong reasons why the tariff revision should be acomplished as early as pos sible so that uncertainty may tg 1 ended and the busi ness of the,country may readjust themselves. It cant be said that the weather man isn’t doing his duty by Atlanta now. 7 A foolish girl makes a husband out of her Jover; a wise one makes a lover out of her husband. HONOR FOR DR. SOULE. Dr. Andrew M. Soule received a merited tribute when at the Atlanta session of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Sta tions he was elected vice president of the associa tion. The presidency itself would have been none too great an honor for the head <•- Georgians agricul tural college—the man who as much as any oAer in Georgia during the past five years has contributed to the state's material development. ' Dr Soule is „ the agricultural editor of The Semi-Weekly Journal. Dr. Soule's work at the state college of agricul ture in Athens began to bear fruit a couple of years ago when the first of the students trained under his direction and imbued with his fervor were graduated from the college and went home to their fathers’ farmr or entered the ranks of agricultural teachers. Nowaday the benefits of the new ideas in farming are growing more and more evident throughout Things have come to the pass where the achievements of the farmer who uses his brains as well as his back are appreciated by his neighbors and are analyzed by them that they may go and do likewise. The spirit of emulation is abroad in the land, and the leaders are at their task of showing the way in every community. Dr. Soule's work reflects great credit upon the material which was once latent in Georgia for the making of good farmers, farmers that could hold their own with any others anywhere, but it re dounds to his own honor as well. The dignity which bls fellow-workers in the national association con ferred ''upon him in Atlanta Friday is one which fits him well. GEORGIA'S DAY AT WASHINGTON. While the echoes are yet resounding, The Journal wishes to reiterate its call to Georgia to awake to the honor that is hers in the inauguration of Wood row Wilson as president of the land. It is a signal honor that a Georgian bred, adopted son of the state, has been chosen by the nation as its chief executive. No less is the honor that wom an will be the next mistress of the White House and that two of the daughters of that distinguished pair were born in Georgia. It is a Georgia family, in short, that is going into the White House next March. And the whole of Georgia should be represented by her best men in hundreds in Washington on in auguration day in fitting asknowledgirent and ap preciation of the honor. How many are there among us who have wit nessed the Inauguration of a president? Few, in deed; and in proportion to the whole population, their number is very small.- It has been twenty years since a Democrat was inaugurated into the presi dency. Sixteen years ago, twelve years ago, eight years ago, and four years ago, the new presidents fcere Republicans in whom neither Georgia nor the south felt intimate interest. Consequently few south erners saw any of them inducted into office. It has been more than half a century since a southern man was made president. It has been nearly seventy years since a southern Democrat became president. Never before has even an adopted son of Georgia been inaugurated into the presidency. Never before has a daughter of Georgia become mistress of the White House. Never before has a Georgia family been at home there. March 4 will be Georgia’s first day in Washington. Let her best men celebrate it appropriately. Let the Atlanta chamber of commerce accede to The Journal’s suggestion already voiced, that it as sume thKactive leadership of a state-wide movement to rally jfll the leading Georgians in every walk of life and to muster them at Washington on inaugura tion day. The spectacle of our president’s inauguration is hardly less elaborate and is no less impressive than the crowning of a king of England. All the nation will be there. Georgia is more closely knit with the rest of the nation by Mr. Wilson’s election than she has been since the days away back in history when she joined with twelve other states and declared the Indepen dence of the American republic. Georgia has come into her own again. Let Georgia be in Washington on March 4. AN OPEN DOOR PRESIDENT. Some one asked Governor Wilson at Trenton the other day whether, when he becomes presi dent, he will continue the “open-door" policy which he inaugurated in the New Jersey executive office and has followed with such success. ‘‘l am going to try to,” the president-elect’s an swer is reported to have beem He added the hope that be would succeed at It. Since the dispatches told pt that, the leading Republican newspapers have been alternating be tween satire and alarm at the thought of a presi dent receiving his callers indiscriminately and transacting his business in plain sight of every body. Even some of the Democratic papers have expressed skepticism that it can be done. No one holds a brief for the president-elect. He is admirably equipped to make his own posi tion clear on any point. But there is often much more meaning tn his words than a hasty reader sees there. It may be that Mr. Wilson is not so entirely “mooney” as some of the wise old news paper martinets around Washington have inti mated. In New* Jersey Governor Wilson has dis patched business rapidly and well at the/ executive offices. entered those offices he found that some of his visitors insisted upon talking to him behind their hands. They were uncomfortable at the thought of an open door behind them. But a new type of leader had come—and either they transacted business out in. the open with him, or they did not transact it at all.- President Wilson will succeed .with his “open door” policy. Those who have followed his course in New Jersey know that he will. No one who is reasonable about it. expects that during his admin istration President Wilson will dispense with the services of secretaries or secret service men. His position would make a move like that simply dan gerous. The secretaries must be there as buffers to keep the casual visitors with no business away from the president, and as bouncers to get the long-winded visitors out of the executive office. The secret service men must be to guard against the crank menace, as a matter of common safety. But a reasonable interpretation of Mr. Wilson’s expression is simply this: that he will have no secrets from the people, no whispered con ferences, no hugging matches with pestiferous poli ticians of a type that we have here in Georgia; no star chamber agreements with men of big interests. He will continue the president’s daily reception pe riod, doubtlessly, and will limit his actual greet ings to the casually visiting throngs to that. It is very probable that senators and congressmen will have access to him at all times, instead of being compelled to make engagements a day ahead as at present. In other words, he will discharge the du ties of president as openly and freely as possible under the conditions which surround a president. The alarmist views of the opposition press must be amended to a more modified interpretation of what Mr. Wilson, a very intelligent man, meant when he answered the question that some visitor addressed to him casually. ANOTHER MONARCHY FALLING? In the aftermath of the news about the assassina tion of Premier Canaiejas in Madrid the other day, comes an intimation that Spain’s monarchy was shocked to its very foundations by the deed, and that the shock leaves it tottering and swaying unsteadily. Between the lines, it is made to appear that thg old monarchical structure calls for a visit from the build ing inspector. It has grown unsafe. General Weyler, known among us as “the butcher of Cuba.” was picked by the king; it was reported, to succeed Premier Canaiejas; but the threats of a rev olution against that appointment grew too loud, and Count Romanones, another liberal but a more popular one, has been designated. The policy of the govern ment stands unchanged, therefore. The difference lies In its personnel Canaiejas’ assassination removed “the one man who stood between the throne and a republic,” as he had become known in Europe. Whether he was the sole prop under the mon archy, remains yet to be seen. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1912. FIFTY YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC -FARMING It is very pleasing to those Georgians who appre ciate the great value of farm training, that the semi centennial of scientific farming's recognition by the national government should have been celebrated in Atlanta, Thursday, by the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. In 1862 Congress enacted legislation, which made the state agricultural schools possible by offering them liberal financial support. More than one hundred of the nation’s leaders in scientific farm training have been gathered in At lanta in attendance upon the sessions of this impor tant. association. Their adjournment Friday after noon leaves their science a little nearer the solution of many of its problems. Their work, from year to year, is one of the most important in the world’s scheme of eqpnomy, for its aim is the increase of the soil’s yield to man. Their association has be come the .clearing house of their newly acquired in formation. The semi-centennial of the real beginning of their work found them in Atlanta, the heart of the south, center of a great and growing section where realization is just now dawning of the rich increase made possible by intelligent farming. THE COM IN (g OF PARCELS POST. With the nearer approach of the date, January 1, when the nation will have its first service by parcels popt, it is interesting to note that an express official predicts that the government will prove no danger ous rival to the express companies because it will not be, efficient enough. ~ « Th£ Jansas City Star quotes express heads as de claring that they are takipg no steps to meet the competition of parcels post. Any further reduction in express rates depends on the interstate commerce commission, they are quoted as saying; and in no degree upon parcels post. The expressmen are quoted as declaring that the government cannot give the service, and that shippers will still prefer the express companies. The postoffice department hasn’t the equipment, say the express men, and can’t get it without tremendous initial expenditure. Moreover, they declare, the government will deliver the parcels no more promptly than it now delivers firstclass mail, if as promptly. Another view of the question is that which it is re ported the speakers before the National Federation of Retail Merchants are going to take. The federa tion opens its first meeting on Noxember nineteen in St. Louis, with five thousand delegates. The speak ers are expected to attack parcels post, the federation fearing that eventually it will annihiliate the small merchant “and result in the greatest and most pow erful trust the world has yet seen, the distribution trust.” These views in anticipation of the coming of par cels post are interesting. However, the policy of the postofflce department will change somewhat radically on March fourth, and there is reason to hope that both views will prove unfounded. GEORGIA'S APPLE CROP. I In Atlanta, last week, there was to be seen an exhi bition of Georgia apples grown on the hills of Haber sham and Rabun counties in the northeastern part of the state. It was presented by private interests— yet their display could not lose its public merit. The apple display in Atlanta should have been part of a big exposition of Georgia apples from every part of the state where apples are grown. This is one of Georgia’s resources which has been left to develop .almost of itself without public spirit be hind it. In Spokane, Washington, the other day, the fifth “national” apple show in that section was opened, amid the blowing of steam whistles and the ringing of bells, by Governor Hay with a formal announce ment that King Pip V had ascended the throne. Up wards of 2,500,000 apples were in place in the expo sition. Yet Georgia’s possibilities as an apple state are said to be greater than those of either Washington or Oregon. v , REFORM IN DIVORCE LA WS. ‘■Coincident with the news from Nevada ‘that the great majority of the voters out there, getting no benefits from the divorce mill, but sharing the stigma of it, have overridden their prospering fellow-citizens who attended court or kept hotels or ran boarding houses, |||d indicated their will to change the Nevada law, comes the news from London that the Royal Commission of Divorce has reported, urging reforms in the British law in this regard. On oppo site sides of the earth, two agencies are at work for similar results. It is interesting to note the conclusions of the Royal Commission of Divorce, which was appointed and set to work three years ago. Its investigations have been very deliberate and thorough. It recom mends that the sexes be placed on equal terms before the law; that an extension be made in the grounds of application; and ttyat the present magisterial pow ers respecting separation be restricted. The recommendation regarding equality of sexes will excite most interest everywhere; but an other section of the report, urging methods whereby the cost of litigation will be reduced to bring di vorces within reach of the poor, is hardly less inter esting. To this latter section, the minority of the commission disagreed. The majority, however, took the position that the present stringent regulations and costliness of divorce are productive of" im morality. The minority, disagreeing, contended that “at a time when in America, to name but one country, where divorce has been easier and wider, there is a strong reaction in favor of greater restric tions, England should not relax the marriage laws. The entire commission rejected “unconquerable aversion,” “incompatibility of temper,” and “mutual consent,” as grounds for'divorce. The report recommends that the judge alone shall hear divorce eases; that he be empowered to close the- court during hearings; that the publication of any of the details be prohibited; that no report at all on divorce cases be allowed in the public prints until they are finished; and that the publication of the portraits of the parties to any divorce suit be prohibited. All of which is very interesting, as none would deny. But how much more would be accomplished if the wise legislators would only make it harder to get married! The First Virtue and the Last By Dr. Frank Crane When the Apostle Paul gives a list of the “fruits of the spirt’’ ’he begins with love, runs through the list of joy, meekness and the like, and ends with tem perance. This word temper- ance is one of those terms whose meaning has been al tered by time and customs. When we use it now we usually imply something in regard to alcoholic liquors. No such connotation was ir. the mind of the people who employed the Greek word -Paul wrote in his day. They meant simply "self control.” Love, then, is the first and self-control the last virtue in the order of development. This is psychologically true. We are full, more of less, ac cording to our make-up, of forces. Out of the soul come desires, like strong currents of " - Jr* x electricity, streams of power. It is foolish to cal! any of them bad. The Creator made tnem. Love, passion is the steam; self-control the ■Tap tain or pilot of the soul. A man, therefore, is like a mariner steering hts boat between rocks and shoals, keeping the Safe mid dle channel. There is no substitute for a wise pilot. There is no safe and sure and easy method of at taining character. Every minute we must weigh and judge and decide. There are a good many imitations of self-con trol on the market. For instance, there is stupidity. Many a fat head has gained a reputation for being a “safe” man, when, as mtter of fact, he neevr couid be anything else. He is praised for self-control when he has nothin- to control. Dr. Hale tells of a man who became famous for his wisdom in the legislature simply by, confining his’ public utterances to two speeches. One was, “There has been so much said and so well said that I can add nothing." The other, "I quite agree with the gentleman on the other side of the house." There are / many persons who are spoken of for their goodness who in reality are nothing. They have no force, no passion, no strong desires, no fire and no go. Their heads are stored with choice mutton- It is a travesty upon virtue to call such as these virtuous. Let the storm tossed and driven take comfort. You are the real kings. For you the fires of crea tion were kindled. For you the wind blows and the stars shine. Sail on. Os course, you must fetand at the wheel day and night, while the derelicts float by without a lookout, peaceful in their living death. Be neath you are strong waves and sea monsters, around you are storms and. huge ocean craft like yourself freighted with responsibility; above you is the light •ning. But it’s life, life, life! The world has too long praised mediocrity in char acter and worshipped at the shrine of the moral weakling. Goodness is eternally defined as being purely negative. A man is rated high morally by the things he does not do. You have always been taught to look up to the Honorable Leading Citizen because he does not drink, nor smoke, no go to theaters, nor attend horse races,, nor gamble, nor dance, nor swear. Far be it from me to intimate that these things are not wholly repre hensible. But why should the honorable gentleman boast that he does not these? Neither does a fence post. / What is it that he does? Virtue is positive, not negative. Does feel for others, doe” he work, care, suffer and live for others? Are the strong tides of altruism running through him? Does his virile ’helpfulness encourage the weak, or his Icy rectitude give them despair? Is he a town stimulus or a town bromide? \ There has never been enough passion in the w’orld. It is a great passion that makes a great man. It Is the control of that assion that alone entitles nim to be failed a good man. The old earth is boosted for ward not by the jellyfish, who feel nothing and avoid everything, but by those in whose hearts are a." Pa ssion for justice, a passion for truth, a passion- for humanity. Love is first and greatest of all. Add self-control it becomes a joy forever. A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; • The world uncertain comes and croes, The lover rooted stays. Artemus Ward's Library (From the National Magazine.) As we sat on the old-fasaioned porch at Waterford, Me., and talked with “Uncle Daniel” Browne, a cousin of "Artemus Ward," he revealed many quaint'glimpses of his own career as village justice of the peace. His daughter owns the library of “Artemus Ward." In hts will it was awarded to the brightest girl in the old Waterford school house, which he attended, and the prize was won by an own cousin. Thereon hangs the love romance of his life. The blue-eyed girl died a few years after. The remains of Charles F. Browne had been brought to the old Elm Vale cemetery In Waterford, and thus ended the earthly love of the cou sins. Today in the, quiet cemetery the grave stones stand in the stern military array and carry dates reach ing back for more than a century. Under the granite shaft, beside his brother and mother, sleeps “Artemus Ward” under a simple slab on which the inscription reads; “Charles F. Browne, known to the world as Artemus Ward.’’ Saving and Investing Talks SAVING ON SSO A MONTH. BY JOHN M. OSKISOK. There is a family in Kansas City which Is living on the man’s wages of |SO a month and saving money be sides. In four years this man and his wife have saved $144, and they are regularly add ing $3 a month to that sum. A correspondent of the Star of that city explains how it z is done by these two people: “That couple’s grocery bill, in cluding everything they eat, av erages $26 a month. In the sum mer they have their own garden. They watch for the grocery sales -—do not run bills— and do not buy things when they are out of seasoh. They have plenty of good, substantial food to eat. Their clothes amount to S9O a year, or $7.50 a month for the two of them. They dress neatly rWs|K k kS -T'* *x and respectably on that amount. They buy things when they? are on special sale whenever they cgn. “That leaves $282 a year, or $23.50 a month, for household, expenses. Rent is $lO a month. So, $13.50 a month goes for car fares, newspapers, stamps, col lars, laundry, gas bills, doctor’s bills, and other inci dentals. It takes plose figuring, but this family does it, and there are occasional shows, too, as well as church dues. They keep an itemized account, and balance their accounts at the end of every month.” You may be sure that this, family would agree with you that it is hard to save money—very hard. But worth -while, too. Interest on the amount al ready saved has had the effect of adding, two months to the length of their year. That is, in twelve months, counting interest on the sum now in the sav ings bank at 4 per cent, they have have fourteen tinges $3 to deposit. In a, few years the interest wilt more than equal the monthly savings. Hard to save. Yes, but not “impossible." how ever small the Income. Modern Electrical Progress By Frederic J. Haskin No modern science hag been so rapidly developed in so many channels of practical usefulness as elec tricity. This is demonstrated in the numberous elec tric exhibitions and displays which have been among th« im portant events of this fall in a number of the lEU’ger cities. Some of these exhibitions rep resent millions of dollars of value and have presented hun dreds of thousands of working models adapted to a seemingly endless variety of industries and objects. • • • Onh of the most noteworthy of these exhibitions took plac» in Boston and was a fitting ad junct to the International com mecial congress, which called visitors from every civilized country to the New England metropolis. Preparations for the electric exhibition had been in progress for two years ana II 4 i the result was the highest culmination of electrical ■kill the Naw England states could mass. Both the interior apd the exterior arrangements won hearty applause from the foreign visitors who were not ac customed to such lavishness in their own countries. The entire building was outlined on the exterior with cables of electric light, while special designs in col ors were liberally displayed. In addition, special street lights were provided for several squares to add to the brilliancy of the scene. Inside over five miles of electric cable lights were used as a foundation for the illumination, r t to mention the innumerable decorative designs, many of them being specially ar ranged for the displays in thq different booths. • • • ! The New York electrical exposition which has just concluded differed from most of the others held in the country in that it was designed especially to dem onstrate the historical ride of the electrical industry. This was partly in honor of the completion of the thirty yeare central station existence which is being celebrated by one company. One of the opening fea tures of this exposition was the luncheon given In honor of Thomas A. Edison, the father of electrte power, who, with pardonable pride, reviewed the elec trical advance of the last three decades. As a part of the exhibit many of the oldest machines and elec trical engines in existence were including the one surviving old and original "Jumob” which had been brought out of its time-honored retirement for the occasion. A m xiel’ of the old Pearl street elec trical station erected in 1882 also was shown. •• • * Important features of this show were arranged by the government which were presented by special arrangement. The bureau of navigation and the electrical school connected with the Brooklyn navy yard took active, part. The navy men set up the very newest type of wireless telegraph apparatus with which the fi’st wireless message will be sent to the Panama canal. The canal Itself was represented by a large operative model of the Gatun dams, locks and spillways, showing the operation of the gates by electric power. Similar to this, upon a smaller scalo, was the model of the electrical machinery operating the Mohawk river dam, which was supplied by the state ,of New York. / • • • The use of electricity in expert accounting Is one that has not suggested Itself to many people, and yet there were any number of adding machines operated by electricity showti in the electrical exhibitions of the present season. A feature of the government ex hibit at New York Included that by the bureau of census in which census cards were sorted and tabu lated by a wonderful complex machine driven by elec trical motor. The army corps, the bureau of mine- etie- department of agriculture, through several of i .anches, and the coast defense division of th« United States army and the National museum ar« all employing electrical power in ths operation of thsir various activities. w• • • One of the newest developments in the use of electricity is for agricultural purposes. A New Eng land firm recently equipped a missionary farm to demonstrate the many uses to which electric power could be put in connection with the daily work of the farm. On old "Fairfields," near Boston’ a. com plete set of electrical agricultural implements was set up several months ago and the machines have been in actual demonstration since, showing the actual work of the farm. The outfit included forty large pieces of machinery and innumerable small tools. Among them were an electric truck for haul ing farm produce to market, a cider mill, reaper, threshing machine, horse clipper, grain driller, milk tester, bottle washing machine, hay unloader and packer, wood splitter, oat crusher, grindstone, corn and clover cutter. Perhaps the most inter esting of all, however, was the electric milking ma chine, which is a device to be attached to the udders of the fine blooded cows belonging to the farm. This mllklbg machine has now passed the experiments* stage and is receiving the hearty indorsement of many of the leading farm experts from different parts of the country. It will demonstrated at many agri cultural fairs during the next month where it will no doubt so thoroughly shqw the practicability of sub stituting electricity for human power, that it wilt become a valuable adjunct to the . farm an! show many a farmer’s wife hq.w t(Overcome what most persons consider one of the most disagreeable parte of the farm work. • • • The Installation of electricity In the modern home has led to many labor saving devices which the ac commodating architect puts in the first plans for a house. One of those most recently adopted is the electric washing machine which may be set up in the home laundry for about >SO and is being installea in the better grade of houses erected by a number of progressive real estat* dealers. • • • The popularity of electric appliances in the home Is so generally acknowledged that a prominent home magazine gives a page of its current issue to the il lustration of various electrical devices to be used in the home, and suggests their desirability as Christ mas presentß. Among these are inculded an elec tric toaster which may be utilized for several other purposes than toasting bread, an electric motor to b« attached to the sewing machine, an electric hot paa to take the place of the hot water bag in soothing an aching toodth or other ailment, a radiator for Seating a room, a curling iron lieater and an electric fan. The electric iron, by the way, may serve for several purposes. Its top comes off as a lid and in that cass it may be made to serve as a stew pan. The possi bilities of use for the electric toaster includes pop ping corn, as well es of marshmallows. An electric waffle iron is shown in practical dem onstration, while an electric metal polisher suggests great possibilities in the way of relief from disagree able labor. *», • • • Perhaps there is no electric convenience being more generally and 'increasingly used than the elec tric vehicle, and every week .pees new improvements and additions to the numbers of these. In the large cities the horse has almost entirely superseded by the motor, and In many Instances the motor power which a yeAr or two ago was supplied by gasoline ’»r steam js now being furnished by electricity. The dif ficulties of shor* charges, sudden exhaustion and kindred troubles are receiving the* consideration of experts and are being overcome to a surprising de gree. A recently published test of the comparative costs of a delivery operation show the diminished cost of operation to be secured by electric over that
