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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1913.
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“Viva Los Americanos.”
The prudent and self-contained attitude of the
United States toward Mexico in the ordeal of the
recent revolution has thus far been abundantly jus
tified. By refraining from forceful intervention,
though sorely tempted to that step, our Government
has not only avoided a difficult and treacherous
problem, but it has also won the confidence of the
Mexican people and, indirectly at least, that of all
La’tin-American countries.
The final and fruitful negotiations between the
rebel leader, Diaz, and the new political order that
has been tentatively established, were conducted
through the United States embassy. Ambassador Wil
son acted as intermediary and it was through his
good offices that the long broken peace /of the city
was restored. The dispatches relate that when the
ambassador’s automobile, bearing a white flag on one
side and the Stars and Stripes on the other, drove
to the national palace the thousands of people who
were gathered along the way broke into applause.
"Viva Los Americanos,” they shouted and the cry
rang from crowd to crowd “until the entire city
reverberated with cheering.”
The popular sentiment of Mexico is more friendly
to tiie United States than it has ever* been That is
at least true of the more thoughtful element of the
have removed all ground for suspicion concerning our
purpose toward that country and toward/its Latin
neighbors. * —^ ,
Whether we shall be able to continue the course
we have thus far pursued depends upon Mexico itself;
but we have at least demonstrated that nothing short
of the direst emergency would lead us to armed in
tervention. That fact should count for much in the
future relationships, commercial and otherwise, be
tween the United States and the countries of Central
and South America.
The Step to Anarchy.
The treacherous attempt upon the life of Enver
Bey, commander in chief of the Ottoman army, fol
lows with a few weeks of the virtual assassination of
his predecessor, Nazim Pasha. Enver Bey, who has
been called “the best brain, among the Young Turks”
and who was leader of the recent movement that
dramatically restored his party to power, seems to
have incurred a certain hatred because of his failure
to fling an Asiatic army against the Bulgarians and
Servians along the northern shore of the Sea of Mar
mora. The stroke he had planned was bold and
skillful but it ended in disaster for the Turkish
troops. The dispatches relate that he was attacked
in front of the war office at Constantinople and
stabbed, perhaps fatally.
Nazim Pasha bore a reputation for bravery and
<;ven genius as a general, but because he failed to
accomplish impossible results with a demoralized
Tirmy against the Balkan Allies, he, too, became a
target for Turkish discontent; and though his death
was ostensibly due to an accident, circumstances in
dicate that he was shot with well calculated malice.
These incidents, coming ope almost upon the oth
er’s heel, betray the desperate condition of Turkey’s
internal affairs. The young Turks have been swept
back into power on a wave of feverish hope that they
might save the empire from the inevitable conse
quences of the Balkan war. But when it begins to
appesfr that they are making no more progress than
the regime they supplanted, their popular favor
wanes; .and now it appears doubtful that they will
be able to hold their government together for any
considerable period.
It seems, indeed, that Turkey is becoming as ir
responsible at home as it is impotent in the field.
The assassination. to today may be followed by an
archy tomorrow. When the lives of the army’s com
manders are in continual danger from secret daggers
and bullets, the army itself cannot be expected to
remain cohesive or in any wise efficient. Civic con
ditions are even more precarious than military con
ditions. Unless all omens fail, the day of Turkey
in Europe is at its end.
A Georgia Parisian.
Georgians feel a peculiar pride in the distinctive
honor that has been conferred upon their former
fellow citizen, Donald Harper, by the President of
France. In. recognition of his service in questions
of international law, Mr. Harper has been knighted
a Chevalier of the Royal legion, a famous decoration
among diplomats and men of letters. Nearly a score
of years have parsed %ince Mr. Harper left his na
tive State, but he is still remembered by numerous
friends in Rome and Atlanta and, indeed, throughout
the country, all of whom rejoice in the brilliant suc
cess he has won in his adopted Paris,
Hist!
Had Anthony Hope and Conan Doyle and all the
red-blood romancers of the hour spun^their ingen
ious fancies together, they could scarcely have pro
duced a tale more dashing than the account of what
has really happened in Mexico City during the past
ten days. No feature of the typical “Zenda” novel
has been missing, unless it be that of the beautiful,
unhappy damosel and she, no doubt, lingers some
where in the shadowy background.
The sack of Troy town, the sieges of Rome, the
red Paris, of Napoleon, all the memories of "old
unhappy far-off things and battles long ago” come
thronging back as we read the news dispatches from
the Mexican capital. Indeed, one must spur his
imagination to catch the bare facts of the narrative,
so pellmell and motley is their rush. Felix Diaz,
nephew of the old exiled dictator, escapes his prison.
Soldiers of the reguk.r army desert and flock to his
standard. These, continually recruited with foes of
Madero and adventurers of every bush, steal forward
and at a well-timeu moment burst into the capital.
Before the President has guessed what is afoot, they
have seized the arsenal and opened fire upon the
palace. Then begins one of the amazing episodes of
modern history. In the heart of a city where nearly
half a million people make their homes cannon are
turned loose to do their worst. Day and night, the
great guns are roaring. The roofs of office buildings
are turned into fortresses. Business is crushed.
Hungry women dart along the streets picking up
grains of corn the cavalry horses have left. Life be
comes a game of chance.
Madero, the President, who himself was swept
into power on a tide of revolution, steps from his
private office in the palace, intending to give some
new order to his troops. He finds himself face to face
with a row of rifles. He storms and then fumes, but
in the end he is led away to prison; and General
Blanquet, commander of the federal army, who has
successfully maneuvered the plot * is thoughtful
enough to send word to Madame Madero that her
husband will be done no violence. Almost at the
same moment in another quarter of the city, General
Huertg, who also was supposedly loyal to the Presi
dent, is dining the latter’s brother, the minister of
finance. In the midst of the meal, a secret signal is
given. The guest is seized by guards and
twelve hours later he is executed. Huerta, hurrying
from the dinner he had adroitly planned and inter
rupted, is made provisional President of the- republic.
Thus ends the regime of Madero and the Madero
family. " '
The Mexicans have shown small capacity for the
sober tasks of self-government, but in the art
of dramatic revolutions, who has excelled them?
Signs of Prosperity,
The increasing business and revenue of the rail
roads indicate the soundness of the country’s com
mercial and industrial conditions. For the first week
of February, the roads reporting to Dun’s Review
show a'galn'oi'mote ouatl Hiree and a half per cent
in their gross earnings over the same period of 19l2.
The increase for the month of January was even
more pronounced and for December it was equally
gratifying.
Many lines of transportation are confronted with
a shortage of care and orders for new equipment are
being rushed. The movement of last autumn’s great
harvest taxed the roads to their utmost. The stim
ulus of those record breaking crops is still felt, ex
cept in a few localities where weather conditions
were untoward. The Pennsylvania railroad recently
placed one of the biggest mill orders in its history
and other systems are making corresponding prepara
tions for what promises to be a year of extraordinary
activity.
In nearly every field of industry, plans are being
made with confidence in the future. Whatever sense
of misgiving may have existed six months ago has
been dispelled. It is a significant fact that the
country passed through a campaign of national pol
itics with no appreciable disturbance to business; it
is even more significant that on the eve of a change
of administrations, with important economic read
justments in prospect, the most prudent men of
affairs are more hopeful than they have been for
many seasons past.
A decade ago, the immience of tariff revision
would have bred much uneasiness. Today it is
awaited with thorough equanimity; for, the people
as a whole are assured that the mission and purpose
of the new political order are not to destroy but to
fulfill true prosperity.
A Strike Averted.
There is cause for nationwide reliel and satis
faction in the news that at last an agreement has
been reached whereby the differences between the
eastern railroads and their locomotive employes will
be arbitrated under the Erdman act. Each party
to the controversy has named a representative of its
interests; these two will select a third and neutral
man and within thirty days the arbitrators will
render a decision.
There, has thus been averted a strike Whicn
threatened to fetter the commerce and to imperil
the public welfare of a considerable part of the
country. Indeed, a prolonged strike on these great
railway systems would have made itself felt with
almost immeasurable harm in States and cities far
distant from the center of the dispute.
So closely interwoven are business and indus
trial interests today that whatever affects the prog
ress and cojicord of one section is almost inevitably
reflected throughout the nation. When the trans
portation and the mails of the East are tried, the
South is indirectly at least a sufferer; and likewise
a menace to the good of any corner of the continent
becomes a menace to all.
How grave, therefore, is the responsibility rest
ing upon both parties to every sudi controversy as
is now about to be amicably settled in the East.
The railroads involved protested against submitting
this matter to arbitration but they finally consented
■to do so because, as they express it: “The managers
feel that the public will not tolerate a strike.”
Certain it is that the public is becoming more
and more insistent upon its own rights and safety
in issues of this character, more and more impatient
with the inconsiderateness of either party to a dis
pute who stubbornly refuses to submit his case to
pacific means of settlement. Whoever holds out for
industrial war when industrial peace is possible is,
however unwittingly so, an enemy to the country’s
welfare.
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Panama Canal Tolls
II. THE BRITISH POSITION.
By -
Frederic
J. Haskin
The British government has followed with pains
taking care the development of American sentiment
and legislation upon the question of canal tolls, and
its determination to protest
against the attitude taken by
congress came as no surprise
to those who knew how the
English authorities were in
clined to construe the Hay-
Pauncefot© treaty. The most
interesting thing in connection
with the British note of pro
test, perhaps, was the admis
sion in the very first printed
page of' the note, that if the
United. States were to refund
or remit the tolls charged that
would not be a violation of the
letter of the treaty. It will be
seen from this that even the
British construction of this
reaty, not only can coastwise
shipping have an indirect free
dom from all charges, but that
this might also be extended to
the American vessels engaged in foreign trade as well.
That is to say, England admits that America has
the power to violate the treaty by indirection, *but it
assumes that Americans are too honorable to make
use of such subterfuge.
* * *
Furthermore, the Innes note concedes the right of
the United States to grant a general subsidy, but
objects to a subsidy that is based upon the amount
of use to which the subsidized ships make of the
canal. It also acknowledges that if the exemption
of coastwise American shipping from toll charges
were so regulated as to make It certain that only
bona-fide coastwise traffic which is reserved for
American vessels would be benefited by this exemp
tion, then Great Britain could have no objection. But
it further adds that England does not believe that
such regulation is possible. The note puts the best
face on the American attitude, is generous in admis
sions, but insists on ^he observance of the spirit of
the treaties.
* * *
After congress, with the Innes note in mind, had
passed the canal toll law, with an exemption of ships
carrying goods between th© two coasts of the United
States, President Taft, in approving the measure,
gave out a memorandum. He pronounced the meas
ure as one admirably drawn for the purpose of
securing the proper maintenance, operation, and con
trol of the canal, for the government of the canal
zone, and for furnishing to all the patrons of the
big waterway all the requisite facilities for docking
and securing coal and other supplies. He then
took up the Innes note of protest. lie declared that
the canal is being built by the United Stales wholly
at its own cost, on territory ceded to it by a nation
that had the undisputed right to cession, and that,
therefore, unless the United States had by affirma
tive action restricted itself, it was nobody else’s bust
ness how we managed it. Therefore, to him the only
question was whether# or not the United States had,
under the Hay-Pauncefot e treaty, signed* away its
right to exempt its own commerce directly or indi
rectly.
* * *
He contended that the article in the treaty upon
which the British contention was based provided only
for the neutralization of the canal—in other words,
that all nations which complied with /the conditions
of the treaty and with the rules laid down by the
United States should be treated alike when they seek
to use the waterway. He represented that the meas
ure of the neutrality was not a comparison of the
treatment accorded American shipping with he
treatment accorded the shipping of other nations, but
the treatment it accorded one foreign country i
compared with another. Mr. Taft then proceeded to
contend that th e British protest, if yielded to by the
United States, would take away from this country
the right to regulate its own shipping, a right that
no nation would think of surrendering.
♦ * *
•
This memorandum was largely what drew the fire
of Sir Edward Grey in the shape of the extended
note handed to Secretary of State Knox by Ambas
sador Bryce. Sir Edward declared that he did ^not
vthink, from a study of Mr. Taft’s memorandum, that
the president fully appreciated the British point of
view. He asserted that Britain was not seeking to
read anything into the treaty, and certainly not to
deprive the United States of any liberty, which is
open to Great Britain or any othe: nation. He con
tended that the Hay-Pauncefote treaty does not stand
alone, and that it can be interpreted only in the
light of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, as is shown by
the ,fact that its preamble distinctly Nstates that the
principle of neuralization in that treaty was not to
be impaired by the Hay-Pauncefote treaty which
superseded it. He then recited that one of the pro
visions of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty was that the
canal should be “open to the subjects and citizens of
the United States and Great Britain on equal terms,
and also to the subjects of any other state which was
willing to join in the guarantee of joint protection.”
* *
The Grey note then proceeds to say that the pur
pose of the tTnited States in negotiating the Hay-
Pauncefote treaty was to recover their freedom of
action, and to obtain th$ right, which they had sur
rendered under the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, of build
ing the canal. It is contended, however, that the
recovery of this right was based upon the recognition
of England’s right to use the canal upon eqdal terms
with the United States, and of other countries to
use it upon the same terms, the language being on
terms of “entire equality to all nations.”
* * *
There is one concession in the British note that
has escaped general attention, and that gives point to
the argument that the acquisition of the canal zone
gtends to render nugatory some of the terms of the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty. It says that “now’ that the
United States has become the practical sovereign of
the canal, His Majesty's government does not ques
tion its right to exercise belligerent rights for its
protection.” This statement is made in the face of
the fact that the treaty says that “tl;e canal never
shall be blockaded, nor shall any act of war be
exercised nor any act of hostility be committed with
in it.” This gives rise to the question in many minds
how it is that England can contend that the United
States is exempted from this provision and yet held
bound by the other. The treaty says further that
“no belligerent shall embark or disembark troops,
munitions of war, or warlike materials in the canal."
Yet the Grey note admits that “no belligerent” does
not apply now to the United States, the while he
contends that it is one of “all nations” referred to
in the treaty.
* * *
The British foreign minister then proceeds to
assert that in the light of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty
the assumption that “all nations” cannot exclude the
United States, as was argued by the United States.
He contends that we are bound by the treaty to
treat ourselves exactly as we treat other nations.
Frequently the man who appears to be Very Indif
ferent to Money is trying to influence Other People
to Be Careless with theirs.
• • *
The man in the Ticket Office has to listen to a lot
of HARSH TALK about people and things that Maybe
He doesn’t like any better than You do.
* * * 1
Some of the Novels we read make THIS HUM
DRUM THING called LIFE seem mighty Pleasant
and Satisfactory.
Blue sky and pistol laws are being planned for
the legislature. And some stock is* as dangerous as
the average loaded pistol.
^OUAITRY
hJOME topkS
Conducted ,bt jius. u KJrtuwi
EXTRAVAGANCE GONE MAD.
Jf the Democrats in the house of representatives
do not w’ateh .out the congress w hich will expire in a
few days will be convicted of being the most ex
travagant body that ever ever assembled on the
American continent. This Is not my sayso, but it i»
the say so of the chairman (a Democrat) of the ap 1 -
propriations committee, Mr. Fitzgerald, of New Yotk,
who used the following words less than five days
ago: “No one can tell just how much the appropria
tions of this session will be, but I think it is a con
servative estimate, Mr. Speaker, that they will far
exceed the appropriations that have been made at any
session in the history of the government. Such a
condition cannot long continue. I want to say; Mr.
Speaker, that unless this side of the house wakes up
to a sense of its responsibility not only will the ap
propriations be grossly extravagant, but they will
amount to so much that talk of a revision downward
of the tariff will be the most hollow mockery!!”
This protest from Mr. Fitzgerald came out be
cause the Pujo committee which ^yas appointed to in
quire into the financial conditions of the United States
had outraged decent respect in spending more than
twice the amount of money appropriated to do tl»e
work. Th e committee was allowed the magnificent
sum of $25,000, and actually spent $50,000, without
any regard to their commission and its limitations.
The committee went “all over the country” (to use
the words of a member of the appropriations com
mittee) playing horse with Mr. Rockefeller.”
This “horse play” with Mr. Rockefeller will be
come a “byword and a hissing” in the next congres
sional campaign. This Pujo committee engaged a
Washington city doctor to go to Miami, Fla., and
“look” at Mr. Rockefeller. The doctor charged ex
actly $500 a day and expenses to go and “look!”
According to Mr. Pujo, it cost the tax payers
$2,561.15 to look at Mr. Rockefeller in Miami, Fla.
Extravagant legal counsel were engaged to direct the
“horse play.” One Washington lawyer received $15,-
000, an other between $3,000 and $4,000, and still an
other at $2,500. Their expenses are not included In
this estimate. *
The compiittee had a fine time—begun test April
to horse play and had been at it continually up to the
December session of congress.
It is extravagance gone mad!
It was a Democi’atic committee led around by Mr.
Pujo, a Democrat from Louisiana. They have actu
ally, with horse play, spent $60,000 and done worse
than nothing with it.
1 searched the Congressional Record to find out
who voted from Georgia and how they voted.
To their credit, be it said, Brantley, Bartlett, Rort-
deijbery, Tribble and Edwards voted against the
“horse play.”
/Bell, Howard and Hardwick voted straightout to
give the Pujo committee $60,000, after the proof was
furnished, that they were limited to $25,000.
As it was a Democratic measure, Republicans voh'd
solidly against it. So Congressman Adamson paired
with Mr. Stevens, representative from Minnesota. Mr.
Hughes paired with a Republican from Montana. Mr.
Mandell; Mr. Le© paired with Porter, a representative
from Pennsylvania, Democrats voting with Pujo to
sustain che “horse piay” on Rockefeller.
Georgia had only four congressmen who supported
the tax payers' and there were six who condoned the
“horse play, * in wasting $60,000 in the most brazen
appropriation known to any session of congress. Does
anybody believe that the people of Georgia will over
look such votes as these, when this thing is fully un
derstood?
Why prate about economy in governmental affairs
when the strong box of the nation was looted to do it?
It is extravagance actually gone mad! $2,561 10
look at Mr. Rockefeller for a few minutes! Can you
beat this extravaganza?
" A PRESIDENT Tf>» ONE DAY.
I do not mean a Mexican or South American pres
ident, but president of these United States. In gath
ering up some data concerning past and present pres
idential inaugurations, I found the following in a
volume of Encyclopedia and the high character of the
hook induces m© to believe that this is an accurate
piece of history:
March 4, 1849, came on Sunday. All presidential
terms expire on March 4, and all new presidents are
sworn into office about noon on March 4.
President Polk’s term closed on March 4, 1849. The
Inauguration of General Taylpr took place on March
5, 1849.
The interregnum consisted of one day, and by the
constitutional law of the United States the president
of the senate was the chief executive of the United
States when no president was qualified and author
ized to preside.
Hon. David R. Atciieson, senator from Missouri,
was president of the senate, and he was the legally
authorized head of the nation until a new president
took the oath of office. If revolution had broken out
that Sunday he would have been commander of the
army and navy of the United States. The presidency
was vacant for twenty-four hours, and the only au
thority by which we could have ordered out the mili
tary or prepared for defense on that memorable Sun
day, March 4, 1849, was Hon. David R. Atcheson, pres
ident of the senate and United States senator from
Missouri.
If I have ever seen this historical fact mentioned
before I had entirely forgotten or overlooked it until
the Encyclopedia furnished it to me.
I remember with perfect distinctness when Hon.
R. B. Hayes was to be inaugurated in 1877—March 4.
It also came on Sunday and the whole country was
in a state of anxious suspense.
The election had been settled by the electoral
commission, the famous seven to eight 'compromise,
where Tilden lacked but one electoral vote to be pres
ident and did not get it. Whenever that sell-out in
Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina is exposed to
view it will drag some noted politicians from their
pedestal of .supposed excellence and loyalty. General
Grant was going out and the Republicans advised that
Governor Hayes should be sworn in on Sunday. And
he took the oath accordingly, and took it next day
again after he made his inaugural speech in front or
the capitol.
Nobody would have been greatly surprised to have
seen a mob in the streets of Washington. There were
a great many desperate politicians around congress.
Some of them used very rash words, and I was told
that some hip pockets held veryy ill concealed pistojs
on the floor of the house of representatives.
I heard some of the inflammatory speeches and
was truly glad that this crisis of political passion
subsided as quietly as it did, and I have never de
spaired of the republic since It went over that time
of trial without a hitch.
One pistol shot in that moving mass that was
packed for a solid mile on Pennsylvania avenue would
have been the signal for a bloody mob quite equal o;
greater than what we hear of in Mexico City at this
time.
Some definite recognitio nof the man who was
president of the United States for a single day should
be marked with a stone- of remembrance.
BLACK OR WEDDING CAKE—OTHER RECIPES.
(Baltimore Sun.)
BLACK OR WEDDING CAKE—One pound pow
dered sugar, one pound butter, one pound flour, twelve
eggs, one pound currants well washed and dredged,
one pound raisins seeded and chopped, one-half pound
citron cut in slips, on© tablespoonful cinnamon, two
teaspoonfuls nutmeg, one teaspoonful cloves, one wi-ie
glass brandy. Cream the butter and sugar, add the
'beaten yolks of the eggs and stir all well together
before putting in half of the flour. The spice should
come next, then the whipped whites stirred in alter
nately with the rest of the flour, lastly the brandy.
The above quantity is for two large cakes. Bake at
least two hours In deep tins lined with well buttered
paper. The icing should be laid on stiff and thickly.
This cake, if kept in a cool, dry place, will not spoil
in two months. Test the c^kes well, and be sure they
GENTEEL
IGNORANCE
By
Dr. Frank
Crane
There are some things genteel persons are not
Supposed to know, at least are not supposed to talk
about. It is curious how one of the chief airs of su
periority is an air of ignorance,
shrewdly shown.
All young ladies are presumed
to be entirely ignorant of sex
matters. Though this is a sub
ject of life and death with them,
and means the health of body
and mind as well as the quality
of their immortal souls, we still
cling to the notion that a young
wojnan is “pure” in proportion
as she is ignorant.
To be real aristocratic you
must know nothing and care less
about business. That is for
“tradesmen” to attend to. All
your relations to money are to
be managed by coarser hands
than your own; your lawyer sees
to your investments, your serv
ants run the house, you are to be above all auco
things.
“I cannot understand,” said an English lady. °how
people can allow themselves to fall into financial em
barrassments. I myself have a simple rule. It is
never to allow my bank account to get below 5,000
pounds. If people would only see to that they would
have no trouble!” There you are! All you have to
do is to keep your bank balance up to $25,000. Cu
rious that we never thought of that!
I have seen other forms of deliberate ignorance
paraded as a virtue. In France, for instance, it is
not considered good form, even in these days of free
thought, to admit the existence of Protestantism.
When you speak of religion at all you are assumed to
mean Roman Catholicism. Anything else is Atheism.
Protestantism is considered to be a sort of English
thing. It is never seriously discussed.
In Italy a certain part of the aristocracy decline
to admit that there is such a thing as the present gov
ernment. It is only a temporary affair. The pope
will soon resume his political control of the coun
try. It is of no use to present facts in any wise to
argue with 'hese people. It is not good form to think
differently from what they think. Republicanism is
not to be combatted even; it is to be ignored.
There are persons who regard all radical thinkers
as curious wild animal^. Th4y exist, doubtless, but
one is not supposed to be aware of it.
There may be labor unions, political bosses and
slums, but one is not to know such people.
There are fallen women in /the streets, there are
lives dragged out in prisons, there are hungry, wild
eyed, desperate men and women in our very city, but
toward all such it is “the thing” to affect entire ig
norance.
There are sonic sects which totally ignore the ex
istence of other sects. They speak of themselves ns
belonging to The Church. They do not condemn oth
er religious bodies; they ignore them.
Nothing is so refined and uppity as • genteel ig
norance.
The'Ragtime Muse
FOILED AT LAST.
He prophesied ten thousand things,
And matters so befell,
As time flew by on tireless wings,
That still he reckoned well,
His prophecies came true—the most—
So placed, none could forego
Triumphantly that ancient boast,
“I told you sd!”
He prophesied ten thousand things, *
And when those things came true,
The worth that to tradition clings
Was* emphasized anew.
• On all occasions, or on none, *
Though friend ttecame a foe,
That phrase he’d fling at every one—
“I told you so!” *
He prophesied ten thousand things—
Then on a day fell ill;
“In spite of all tlte doctor brings
Of powder drop and pill,
I know I’m going to die!” he groaned.
He did. ’Tis^strange to know
That never nas his j,host intonea:
“I told you so!”
The hare idea of getting bald is distasteful.
It seems that we have some standing army o!
marines, too. »
Mexico City can at least forget her charter and
crematory row, if she has one.
“Atlanta leads south in postal receipts.” This is
one of those familiar quotations.
Sooij we shall celebrate the anniversary of a
man who never told even a technical lie.
Atlanta sets the pace in everything. Here is
Macon, now, with a crematory fight.
are quite done before Jaking them from the ovVn.—
Philadelphia Record. ’
RIBBON CAKE.—Two cups sugar, one cup butter,
four eggs, one cup milk, two and one-half cups flour,
three tcaspoonfuls baking powder. Take two-thirda
of this and bake in layers, and to the third remain
ing add one tablespoonful molasses, one cup chopped
raisins, one-half cup currants, one piece citron,
chopped fine; teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves
and nutmeg. Put the layers together with jelly or
thin frosting.
GINGER COOKIES.—Beat together one egg, one
cup of brown sugar, one tablespoonful of vinegar and
one of ginger. Take one cup of molasses, let it coma
to a boil, stir into it one teaspoonful of soda; stir the
molasses slightly after taking from the stove to coo)
it, then stir it while foaming over the rest of the
cake, mix out lightly, cut cakes and bake in a quick
oven. .
MOUNTAIN PIE.—Stir into one-half cup of cream
two tablesffbonfuls of fine-mashed fruit sweetened to
taste. Add yolks of two eggs well beaten and one ta
blespoonful of melted butter; bake in pastry; while
baking beat the whites to a stiff froth, sweeten with
white sugar, spread over the pie and brown.
KEEP VOUX MOUTH SHUT.
Don’t be offended. The admonition is not meant
as a reflection upon your talkativeness. Talk, but
keep your mouth shut when you are not talking.
People who keep their mouths closed except when
they are talking, eating or drinking rarely contract
coughs or colds. Savages, even those living in north
ern latitudes, seldom take cold. Scientists say It is
because they are close-mouthed.
Disease germs floating in the air find a direct
route into the lungs of a person who breathes through
his mouth. They are arrested by the fine, sievelike
network of hair in the nostrils of persons who breathe
through the nose. - Keep your mouth shut and you
may defy pestilence.
The teeth suffer from too much and too frequent
exposure to the atmosphere. Sudden changes of tem
perature, whether liquid or atmospheric, are hurtful
to them. The best teeth in the world are those of
the savage tribes, who always keep their mouths shut
except when talking or eating. * Throat and lung dis
eases are often contracted by persons who go about
open mouthed. The frosty air of winter inhaled di
rectly into the lungs through the mouth is a frequent
cause of bronchial disorders. Taken through the nose,
it is modified and sifted of many of its dangers. Keep
your mouth shut.—Healthy Home.