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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1913.
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SHAKING THE PLUM THEE.
From all accounts (printed and grape
vine dispatches) the city of Washington
was filled to overflowing during the
first week in March, to see the Demo
cratic plum tree vigorously shaken, and
the plums go plentiful that every office
seeker had only to hold out his hat to
be supplied. But it seems that the
plum tree did- not shake, or the plums
were so scarce that many of the appli
cants came home with lengthened faces
and with hope deferred to some exas
perating future time. There is no ques
tion but there is a crop of plums (pro
vided the other fellow has resigned),
but what sort of a business is this
which has caused such painful anxiety
long drawn out?
President Wilson knows a whole lot
more about the presidency than I do,
but I know enough to say that office
seekers make by long odds the most ha
rassing part of the business. If he un
dertakes to listen he is worn to a fraz
zle, and if he don’t listen he will, be
cussed and discussed until his successor
is inaugurated. He will be d—d if he
does, and he will be d—d if he'don’t.
For every one he appoints there will be
a dozen .with a grouch, and should he
shift the selection to congressmen and
representatives he will find the muddle
greats and the abuse co-extensive with
his authority, with an avalanche of pe
titions on him from “dawn till dark.”
The old darky said, “Blessed am he
what specks nuthin’,” and if non-ex
pectancy constitutes blessedness, this
ancient scribe should feel supremely
content. I have seen people who were
so angry and harassed by failure to get
appointments of this kind until they
they were nearly crazy.
THE SUICIDE GEEM.
Those who are familiar with the city
of Macon’s history for the last decade
can not fail to be greatly surprised that
so many self-murderers 'have been res
idents of that notable Georgia town.
Perhaps you may know more about it,
than I do, but unless there is a suicide
germ around in that locality, I am en
tirely mystified. Two self-murderers
during the present week. One of them
apparently had no motive whatever; yet
he blew his brains out, after reading
of the ffirst tragedy. The young woman
who was the victim of her ^suitor’s in
sane infatuation, is very much to be
pjtied but not more than* the loving
mother who plead with the girl to keep
away from such companions, and who
failed in her piteous endeavor to protect
her child.
It has reached h. ^lace where failing
to marry is as serious as a wild plunge
into matrimony. Something should^be
done and that right early about the pis
tol toters. Pistols are entireyl too much
in evidence, and if there were morfi le
gal restrictions on this pistol carrying
habit, there would be fewer homicides—
if suicide can not be abated in a tangi
ble way. Human life is the cheapest
commodity in this land of ours. We
are not surprised to see these dreadful
events, in every day’s newspaper. It
is the very usual occurrence—and the
day’s news is very tame, unless some
man kills his sweetheart or his wife, or
some woman does not take the law in
her hands in the same way.
And alas! The innocent suffer with
the guilty! It may become necessary to
search a fellow who goes a courting,
before he enters the girl’s home or board
ing place, to find concealed weapons;
and a divorced woman must be on her
guard night and day, to keep her worth
less husband from assassinating her.
•What sort of civilization do you call
this?
THE LATE CYCLONE IN GEORGIA.
The heat that preceded the late storm,
made me vacate Florida in a hurry.
The atmosphere was so close and mug
gy, that I concluded that a person as
old as myself and who was without a
traveling companion w r ould do extreme
ly well, to get home and wait awhile
for another jaunt in the land of Florida.
The Dixie Flyer was booked to start
on time from Jacksonville. I found I
had 30 minutes to reach it, that night,
paid my hotel bill, rlushed to the depot,
bulged into the closely packed crowd,
bought my railroad ticket at one place,
my Pullman at another place, wedged
my way to the waiting train; got inside;
took a seat after a hunt through two
sleepers for my berth, and discovered
I had ten minutes to spare!
I know but few men who could have
rushed that business in quicker time but
I was delighted to know I could do it.
That night the torrential rain broke on
us at Tifton. When I got to Atlanta
I decided to wait for the. evening train
to Carter-sville. Then the cyclone wave
struck Clarkston, Tucker and vicinity,
before I could get further. When I
reached home the cyclone had also swept
parts of Gordon and Floyd counties,
twenty odd miles north of me. They
are still finding dead bodies .up in this
latter region.
When I saw how mercifully the good
Lord had led me along, and not a hair
on my gray head had been harmed, I
said, ‘Bless the Lord, Oh My Soul.’"
“And forget not all his benefits.” I
have just read that the same Dixie Flyr
er, a few nights later, on the identical
same route, starting at the same time,
has plunged down an embankment, and
.hurt people were pulldd out of the sleep
ers, after the water was running inside.
I’ll write again on that cyclone.
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organizing a conference on the colle
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“GLIMPSES INTO THE ABYSS.”
BY VIDA SUTTON
Three years ago Mrs. Mary Higgs
disguised herself as a tramp. She spent
her days and nights with the great
body of homeless workers, flower girls,
charwomen, apprentices, who earn just
a few pence a day, and at night drift
in and out of the filthy, vicious, com
mon lodging houses, the only place
where so i*oor as they are can pay for
a spot to rest.
What she learned beggars fiction. The
revelations in her book, “Glimpses Into
the Abyss” are so startling that one
wonders how nations, boasting, of Chris
tianity, can tolerate such conditions for
another day. Compared with the lives
of some of this class of women and
girls the homeless dogs of Constanti
nople have a more comfortable time.
The records she made are a striking
and terrible indictment of conditions, a
tale of gloom and squalor, of useless
waste and stupid hardship. Its effect
on the public has b'-en electrical. A
National Association for Women’s
Lodging Homes sprang Into being, with
the Duchess of Marlborough, wildly
known for her social labors, as presi
dent. Twenty-tfour lodging homes have
been built in various parts of the king
dom in the last three years by its ef
forts.
In London there is a movement to in
terest the municipal authorities and
have them build the houses. ' The Lon
don county council has already gone
largely into the matter of housing. One
of the sights of London is its homes
for workingmen and their families in
Shoreditch, beautiful as well as useful.
They occupy a once notorious area, not
far from Curtain Road, where Shake
speare’s plays were first played, and
are built in a double circle, with a
park in the center, school gardens and
shops dividing the circle. The Bruce
House for Workingmen is another of
the council’s prides. It cost $300,000.
It is one of the three such places for
men built by the city. Another, the
Rowton, accommodates 5,000 men.
But although women need such places
even more than men, and the moral
welfare of communities would be so
aided by them, the council has as yet
done nothing but bless the efforts of
others.
The first hotel for working women in
London, opened a month ago in the dis
trict known as th e Elepehant and Cas
tle, is a private charity. It was built
by a fund left by Mrs. Ada Lewes. It is
an imposing structure with accommoda
tions for 300 women. All the conven
iences of modern times and the com
fort of beautiful surroundings are avail
able at 12c a night. This, however,
puts it beyond the reach of some who
most need it.
The association has in mind a great
number of small hotels at a very low
fee, 3d. or 4d. a night, to be accessible
to workers in every poor district.
The latest proposal is for an Inter
national fund to open lodging homes
for women in memory of Mr. Stead, the
great friend and benefactor of women.
Wesleyan, Andrew and
LaGrange Colleges Form
Great University School
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
CUTHBERT, Ga., March 22—Dr. J.
W. Malone, president of Andrew col
lege, has just returned from Macon,
where the boards of trustees of Andrew
and Wesleyan unanimously agreed to
combine these institutions with La-
Grange college, forming a system of
girls’ colleges such as the south has
not had before.
Under the plan of coalition, which is
to go into effect next fall, Andrew is to
remain under her present management
and is to do work of the same grade she
is now doing.
In addition, she is to stress normal
training and work in home economics.
In this, her position will be unique,
since no church * school in the south is
now doii^g this Work, it being left en
tirely to the state.
The work in the lower classes is to
be so correlated with that of Wesleyan
that the latter institution will give full
credit for all that has been done at An
drew.
The three institutions will, have the
united backing of the Methodists of
Georgia and Florida and will exert an
influence considerably greater than that
of any single woman’s college in the
south. The system will represent re
sources of about $1,000,000.
Working together, competition will be
eliminated, waste cut down and greater
efficiency promoted. It is generally re
garded in Cuthbert as the greatest step
in the histoiry of. Andrew college, if not
in the histqry of Georgia education.
MEXICAN GOVERNOR
TENDERS RESIGNATION
(By Associated Press.)
MONTEREY, Mexico, March 21.—
General Geronimo Trevino today re
signed th e governorship of Neuvo
Leon. He gave no explanation for his
action. Th e legislature wil lact upon
his resignation Monday.
General Trevino’s loyalty to the con
stituted government of Mexico has
never been doubted. In the absence of
other reasons his resignation is taken
as indicating merely lack of sympa
thy with Provisional President Hu
erta.
Monterey’s safety from rebel attack
has been assured by the arrival of
federals from Saltillo.
WIFE ALSO CONVICTED
OF HUSBAND’S DEATH
MOBILE, Ala., March 22.—Mrs. The
resa Virginia Wasserleban will join her
mother, Mrs. Mary T. Godau, in the
state penitentiary at Wetumpka, unless
the supreme court rules otherwise. She
was convicted Friday evening of the
murder of her husband, Fred Wasserle-
ben, a Mobile policeman, December 31,
1911.
The state argued that Mrs. Wasserle-
ben had insured her husband’s life for
$7,000. She confessed on the day of
the killing, according to Wesley T.
Laefield, who testified she confided in
him to having hidden her husband’s
colthing under the house. Sentence was
for life.
PLAN CANAL TO LINK
INDIAN AND ST. JOHNS
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 21.-A
bill to connect the St. Johns and Indian
rivers by a canal, thus giving the river
tiowns from here to near Miami water
transportation, will be offered in the ses
sion of the legislature that meets next
month.
This would open up many miles of ter
ritory and make cheap transportation for
the citrus and vegetable.farmers lowering
the cost of fruits and vegetables to a
marked degree. A lock canal is planned.
Surveys have been made and engineers
say the scheme is worthy and of great
value.
PLEASE, MR. BURBANK,
GIVE US ROUND POTATOES
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, March 21.—Unless
some of the wizards who are improving
upon nature can turn out a spherical
potato the navy must find a better po
tato peeling machine than the electric
device now in use. Today the depart
ment sent out an appeal to inventors to
submit a device that will economically
pare potatoes of irregular form. The
official statement declares that “it seems
that the present machines do a most ef
fective and acceptable job on a perfect
ly round potato, but when the ‘Murphy’
arrived long and slender or sawed off
and hammered down the trouble begins.”
PRESIDENT OF HONDURAS
CALLED TO GREAT BEYOND
(By Associated Press.)
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, March 22.
—News of the death of General Manuel
Bonilla, president of Honduras, yester
day, and the transfer of the executive
powers to Vice President Dr. Francisco
Bertrand, has been received quietly
throughout the republic.
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GRIMSBY, England, March 22.—The
French bark Marie, from San Francisco
for Hull, at the end of her long voyage
today met with disaster and destruction
here. Her captain and crew of twenty-
four men were saved by the trawler
Amer.
The Marie went ashore before day
break on Haisborough sands, in the
North sea, during a blizzard. It was
quickly pounded to pieces by terrific
seas. The crew was in a desperate
plight and having lost hope when the
Amer came alongside.
The captain and mate of the Marie
refused to leave their ship until every
man had been saved. The Amer’s life
boat was too much battered by the
waves to return for them, and the
steward ,of the French boat dived from
the Amer with a life line and swam
to the wreck. He and the captain and
mate were ultimately dragged through
the sea to the rescuing vessel.
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THE DAY WE CELEBRATE
AND THE HOPE OE THE WORLD
By ffishop
IV. A. Candler
Men celebrate on th^Ir national an
niversaries the birthdays of nations;
but on Easter we celebrate the birth
day of the Christian commonwealth
over which the Risen Jesus reigns.
Boileau said that the Churcn of
Christ is a great thought which every
man ought to consider; but it is more
than a mer thought, it is a great fact
which every man ought to accoun.t ’for.
It has been, and is, too Important an
institution to permit us to be indiffer
ent to its rise and history. And neith
er its origin, nor its continued life,
can be reasonably explained if the fact
of the resurrection of Christ be denied.
It is now universally admitted that
in the days of Tiberius Caesar there
lived, and laboured, and died in Pales
tine a man named Jesus of Nazareth;
to use the words of the creed that he
“suffered under Pontius Pilate, was
crucified, dead, and buried.” Secular
historians as well as the sacred writ
ers, record these 'facts. It is equally
assured that in a few brief weeks aft-
or his crucifixion His followers pro
claimed that He had risen from the
dead, and that, as the result of their
preaching of this fact, the institution
which we call the Christian church
sprang into being. If the apostles had
not believed that He had risen, if they
had been burdened with the load of
Iiis bruised and dead body, they could
‘never have gotten out of Jerusalem
with their new and startling gospfel.
The churches which they founded in
every part of the widely; extended
Roman empire, and the literature
which arose from the letters which
they wrote to those churches and the
histories which they composed for
those churches, all owe their existence
to their belief that Jesus truly rose
'from the dead. Within three hundred
years after the crucifixion of Christ,
Constantine accepted the faith of the
apostles and sought admission into
the Christian church.
And now look where we will, we see
that wherever the Christian church ex
ists in greatest purity and power
there is found all that is best and most
hopeful in human civilization. When
ever we see Christianity is not, there
we see national inferiority and stagna
tion. The sustained progress of Chris
tian nations is in sharp and significant
contrast with the decadencq and dead-
ness of all others. When this faith
first appeared among men, decay had
begun to fall upon all the fiations then
existing, and all progress was despaired
of. In that awful crisis of human
history neither Jewish religion, Gre
cian art, nor Roman law, nor all com
bined were able to arrest the deepen
ing darkness and destructive corrup
tion which were spreading over all the
known world. It seemed as if the
flood of evil which overflowed that dis
tressed and despairing era must con
tinue to sweep on pitilessly over all
the centuries that were to come.
“On that hard Pagan world, disgust
And seoret loathing fell.
Deep weariness, and sated lust,
Made human life a hell.”
But with the dawning of Christianity
and the birth of the Christian church an
epoch of hope and progress began, and
the forces which made the new era then
are operating yet with ever increasing
power and widening blessing. The
monopoly of sustained progress held by
the Christian nations is the most re
markable feature of modern history. Out
of the disorder and debris of the ancient
world has risen, through the influence
of Christianity and the activities of
the Christian Church, the solid struc
ture of modern society in which are
found the riches and glory and honour
of the most advanced and advancing na
tions. It is the simple fact that today
every Christian nation is rising in ma
terial and moral good; and that no non-
christian nation is advancing except by
contact with Christian nations and
through their stimulating influence. It
is not too much to say that Christianity
has rescued the human race from the
anarchy and ruin into which it was fall
ing at the beginning of the Christian
era, and that this religion is still the
hope of mankind.
No intelligent and informed man can
fail to perceive that if Christianity were
effaced today the beams of the hope of
all nations would be quenched In ray
less and hopeless gloom. Yet it is in
disputably true that if the men of the
first century had not believed that
Christ was risen from the dead, Chris
tianity would have perished at its birth,
if indeed it could have been born at
all. It is equally true that if those
who proclaim it today did not believe
that Christ is risen and holds in his
hands all power in heaven and in earth,
Christianity and the Christian Church
would soon disappear from the earth.
If, therefore, Christ has not risen, the
greatest delusion ever known has saved
the world in the past and is safeguard
ing the highest good of mankind today.
A recent English writer has put the
case strongly in these words:
“In the days of Christ, the ap
parently hopeless world was sink
ing helplessly into social chaos.
Gradually out of the chaos a new
type of life arose, which has at last
nearly overspread the earth. The
nations which have received it
stand today in the front rank. And
to these the most hopeful of other
nations are looking for help. Even
in the social life of our own coun
try we see the moral influences of
Christianity. If these influences
were removed, there would be in
modern life a void which nothing
could fill. All these results have
flowed from the preaching of men
who, but for the courage inspired
by the belief that their Master had
• risen from the dead, would never
have dared to preach, or certainly'
would not have devoted their lives
to the unwearied proclamation of
. the Gospel. ...
“Now if Christ did not actually
rise, this belief was a delusion.
And it is the most astonishing delu
sion that ever darkened the erring
mind of man. . . . That delu
sion has saved th e world. If this
be so, we owe to delusion and to
error a debt greater than we can
conceive.
“A plaintive alternative is now
before us. If Christ did not rise,
in a manner revealing the presence
of a power greater than the known
forces of the material world and
thus proving the justness of his
stupendous claims, a delusion has
turned back the entire current of
human history and saved the world.
If so, in the greatest crisis in the
world’s history, delusion has been
better than knowledge and error
Ifetter than truth. If we accept this
supposition, we ma38 well be par
doned if we prefer delusion to
knowledge, error to truth.
“Note now the logical conse
quence of the only alternative open
to those who deny or doubt that
Christ rose from the dead; In all
* ages men have sought knowledge,
and some have made it, tinder diffi
culties the chief aim of their lives,
in a belief that to know the truth
is for man’s highest interest, and
that the truth is able to repay any
price at which it may be pur
chased. The Majesty of Truth is
now dethroned. For we have seen
that it may be either a gain or pos
sibly an infinite loss. The uncer
tainty makes knowledge unworthy
of serious effort, especially of pro
longed and difficult and costly ef
fort. Thus in the closed grave of
Christ is buried, not only the *
world’s hope, but the chief stimulus
for intelligent research.”
Wherefore in Easter we celebrate the
birth-day of the world’s hope, and oft
every Sabbath we observe a day that
witnesses, as does nothing else, to the
blessed fact that Jesus has risen from
the dqad. It is well-known that in the
first ages of the Church, a frequent
salutation of Christians to one anoth
er, when they met, was “Christ is Risen
indeed"; and now the sweet and wor
shipful voice of the Christian Sabbath
sounds forth these glad words through
out the whole world for the cheering
of the desponding and the comfort of
the grief-stricken children of men.
Sometimes one is tempted to fear that
in our money-loving and pleasure-seek
ing day there are men who would dig
up the bones of their ancestors and 1
make buttons of them, if they had "a
profitable market for buttons made of
such sacred relics; or would use the
skulls of their deceased parents to
amus© themselves with in idle hours,
if that were the fashion. Certainly
there are those who are ready to over
turn the foundations of our Christian
civilization for the carnal gratifica
tions of a day, or sell the Sabbath for
the gate-receipts of a show, or dese
crate the sacred day for the rents de
rived from property occupied by show
men.
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Have Been Restored to Health By Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
There is no doubt about this fact. Why! during the
last 30 years we have published in the newspapers of this
country volumes of letters from women who have been re
lieved of all their suffering by the timely aid of this grand
old medicine. Letters like the following, true, genuine and
honest expressions of gratitude coming from grateful hearts.
Surely you can believe these women.
Mrs. L. S. BRENNER, Hudson, Mich., says: —
“ Sometime ago I was taken with a terrible pain in my right side, such
sharp pains just like a knife sticking me. I tried hot applications but that
did no good. I went to our family doctor (we were living in Fayette, Ohio,
at that time) and he said it was organic inflammation. I doctored with him
a while but kept getting worse. The pain was so terrible I could hardly
stand on my feet. I would have that sharp pain in my right side, and a
dull heavy pain the whole length of my limb. I realized that something
had to be done quickly, so I looked up all of your advertisements I could
find, and saw several that described my case. I got a bottle of Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and it helped me from the first dose, and
when I had taken two bottles my trouble was gone. Your medicine has
done so much for me that X am willing you should publish this letter for the
sake of other suffering women.”—Mrs. L. S. Brenner, Hudson, Michigan.
Mrs. L. E. BOWERS, Girard, Pa., says: —
“ I take pleasure in informing you of what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound has done for-me. I had a sick spell last February, and for
some months after that I was not regular and had many bad feelings. I
was tired all the time, had dull headaches, not much appetite, and also
what the doctor called organic inflammation. Your Vegetable Compound
has entirely cured me and I feel that too much cannot be said in its praise
as I am now able to do my own work. You are perfectly welcome to use
my testimonial for the benefit of others.”—MrS. L. E. Bowers, B.F.D. No. 1,
Girard, Pa.
Mrs. ELIZABETH GENTILCORE, Buffalo, N.Y.,says: —
“ I feel that I must write to you about your wonderful remedies. About
ten years ago I was troubled with female weakness and was all run down.
I was tired all the time and could hardly walk without feeling dizzy. I
heard about Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, took it, and also
used the Sanative Wash. I got stronger, and have not had those dizzy
spells since. I feel that I owe my health to you, and hope your remedies
will help others as they ha ve me. I tried most everything I heard of, and
yours are the best medicines for women’s ailments.”—Mrs. Elizabeth Geh-
telcore, 28 Glor Street, Buffalo, New York.
For 30 years Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound has been the standard remedy for fe
male ills. No one sick with woman’s ailments
does justice to herself if she does not try this fa
mous medicine made from roots and herbs, it
has restored somany sufferingwomen to health.
Write to LYDIA E.PINKHAM MEDICINE CO.
il^T (CONFIDENTIAL) LYNN, MASS., for advice.
Your letter will be opened, read and answered
by a woman and held in strict confidence.
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