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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1913. 5 ROYAL BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar '» . NQ ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE e ou/Qtry TIMEtt TOPICS £d/IR)CTEP BT JTRS.\J. H. TELTTD/I. OME THE FLOOD DISASTERS. I have been reading for the last hour not only the cyclone in NebrasKa and other localities, but the flood situation in the middle west, Ohio and Indiana, principally. I laid down my daily paper because the . sky was so dark over us that I could not read the fine print without eye-strain. The whole country seems to be unwrapped in rain and wind storms— the murky sky still betokens more foul weather. They tell us that beautiful and fertile Indiana is almost a lake in the southern part 'of the state and no estimate of the damage is possible un til the streams run down. Southern Ohio Is also flooded—and thousands of home less people are hardly able to get enough food to satisfy craving hunger. Great dams collapsed, great bridges melted away, and the water stands twenty feet deep in many places where millions of money have been spent in industrial plants and elegant dwellings. It is a singular Providence indeed! A great conflagration can make terrible loss, but great floods are even more ungovernable. And we who have been spared when the rains fell and the winds blew can only pity the helpless and beg the Al mighty for His preserving mercies. As I write the western sky is growing blacker, and the storm wrath is whis pering: “All is Vanity! And there is none great but God!” A MOVEMENT FOB PEACE. It seems so strange that twenty! centuries of war has not inclined the nations of the earth to peace move ments. I mean a’* general movement to arbitrate all national differences rather than to settle by the sword. It is the most savage policy—that call£ the standing up the children of loving j mothers, merely to be shot at, to grat- ! ify the lust of ambition or to aid in; the conquest of other territory, for the ; purposes of greed and hate between n.vtivijs. j It is an amazing condition, that j Christian people are still willing to r send their sons to a battlefield to be shot at by other so-called Christian warriors, who lead their own sons out to slaughter for unholy purposes. The war between the states was not only a lack of statesmanship, but a cruel policy for the men and women BEFORE AND AFTER MARRIAGE Advice Given Mother in Re gard to Young Daughter, Proves Valuable to Daugh ter Even After Marriage Pollock, Tex.—“When I was a girl, about 14 years of age,” writes M/s. Win nie * Delaney, of this town. “I was in awfully bad health. I tried different treatments, but they did me no good. A friend advised my mother to give me Cardui, the woman’s tonic. 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And I say it, with due regard to the weight of my words—that it was akin to blas phemy to ask God’s blessing on our arms, when the principal aim of the strife was the continued enslavement of human beings. If there had been no slaves * there would have been no war. It is not necessary to explain further. One side dared the other and tens of thousands of human beings were slaughtered to gratify those who gave and resisted the dare. I hope the present century will de mand peace. Mrs. W. H. Felton: The United States is a powerful government and is able to cope with any “nation on earth and should use her power to help make peace all over the world and especiallp In the western hemisphere. Look at the destroying of life and property for two years or more in Mex ico. And Mexico is in no better shape now than when they commenced. The United States should send a body of good men over there as peacemakers and to invite the same number from the Latin states and all go there as peace makers. Tell those Mexicans, Indians and savages to lay down all arms, stop fighting like savages and wild outlaws. And proceed like civilized people to es tablish a civil government, one that all their people can live under and have their rights and liberties in the protec tion of life and property. Let all the peace messengers stay there and estab lish a government and act the part of a good Samaritan. Let all the governments give the peacemakers power to assist the people to organize a civil government and. elect good men to office and leave out the bullfighters. The expense of peace mes sengers would be very little to compare with’ sesding troops and vessels, naval ships to a capital and seat of war too far from water for much good. Nations as well as men had better compromise than to go to war. I be lieve you can write good articles on this revolution. And the duty of the United States to volunteer to help settle all such troubles among the nations, to en courage them to build up and, not de stroy each other, to abndaon all such practices as wfr, and help to build up the country. The United States could widen the channel of the Mississippi river, dredge it deeper and build high levees .from the mouth to St. Louis in place of building war vessels; go oi tm- proving all the rivers; build, a national court house for the western hemisphere to settle all troubles by law in place of war, Set good examples in peace for all nations of the world. Yours truly, JOHN R. GILBERT. U. S, lY RECOGNIZE CHINESE REPUBLIC President Wilson and Secre tary of State Bryan Con fer on Subject (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. March 28.—Early con ferences today between President Wil son, Secretary Bryan and Assistant Sec retary Adee, of the state department, led to a well d.eflned intimation that the United States today probably would for mally recognize the new republic* of China. AMERICANS WERE READY TO LOAN $110,000,000 (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON* March 29.—President Wilson learned today that an American financial syndicate stood ready to fur nish the republic of China a short term loan of about $10,000,000 and would later negotiate a long term loan up to $100,000,000 or whatever should be China’s need. The syndicate was asked for assurances that the United States government would not participate In any way in the negotiations. Hooray I Baby To Rule the House No Longer Do Women Fear The Great* est of All Human Blessings. It is a joy and comfort to know that those much-talked-of pains and other dis tresses that are said to precede child-bear ing may easily be avoided. 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Write to-day to the Bradfleld Regulator Co., l30 Lamar Bldg., Atlanta, Ga., for a most instructive book on this greatest of all subjects, motherhood* THE “VOX HUMANA” HAS BEEN SOUNDED By Bishop TOO LONG AND TOO LOUD W. A. Candler Is God a real .person? Is it worth while for one to care for maintaining right relations with God? Or, is it enough for one to try to ameliorate earthly conditions and regulate human relations, and call the process thus fol lowed religious and consider the result religion? * These, questions are suggested by the prevalent tendencies among some churches to concern themselves with humane and ethical efforts only. We have churches (not many, but some) which, seeing there are very vi cious dance-halls in certain of our larg er cities, set up dance-halls of less ob jectionable character in parish houses, in order, they say, to reduce the vicious consequences of the worse establish ments. It has not been so long ago that a saloon was opened, at which it was said pure liquors only would be sold, with the purpose of lessening the evils flowing from the ordinary bar-rooms. Perhaps, if these experiments were suo cessful, we should see soon the setting up of places where a sort of pious pil fering might be conducted under ec clesiastical auspices with a view to re ducing larceny and burglary in the com munity; or, may be, we should have halls opened in which cases of mild tyj>es of assault and battery might be enacted in order to secure the settle ment of personal grudges without risk of committing homicide. Close akin to these mistaken efforts to cure sinrs by pandering to them are sundry efforts to substitute schemes for ameliorating social conditions for the one business of the church to J'seek and to save the lost”. Whatever good may come of all these things (if any good can come of them) it must be admitted that they all fall short of what Jesus proposed as the aim of his life and the object of his church. They concern themselves with things earthly and transient only. They are superficial processes which reach only surface matters, and do not so much as intend to penetrate the con stitutional disorder of human nature. They leavb God and our relations to God entirely out of account, and seek noth ing further than the bettering of mun dane conditions. This was not the way of any of the great religious leaders and Christian movements through which the world has been blest most in former times. The apostles, Martin Luther, John Konx, Jon athan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitefield emphasized In their ministry the rectification of man’s rela tion to God. The themes which engaged their attention and were the staples of their preaching were justification by faith, the new birth, purity of heart and life, and the witness of the Holy Spirit to the acceptance of the soul pardoned through the atoning mercy of Jesus Christ. Were all these mighty men of the past mistaken? Was the spiritual matters most emphasized by them un wisely chosen? Their preaching did set earthly mat ters right. They did accomplish the re sults of diminishing drunkenness, cleansing away licentiousness, and ar resting dishonesty and violence; but they achieved all these results by bring ing men to face God and to seek restora tion to the divine favour. They did ac complish the most remarkable things in the matter of humane enterprises and social reformations. Augustus Birrell, the English essayist and statesman, records the fact that when more than a hundred years after Wesley’s death he was visiting a town in Cornwall, where he observed universal sobriety and the utter absence of “public houses’’, (as saloons are commonly call ed in England.) He asked one of the citizens to explain the prevalence of such admirable conditions, and received the reply, “A man named John Wesley came this way about a hundred years ago”. Wesley’s work of evangelism sems to have been far more effective for decreasing drunkenness in Cornwall than Bjshop Potter’s “subway saloon” for curing dissipation in ..ew York. - Have we not sounded the “vox hu- mana” tone too long and too loud In our day? Is it not time to utter the “vox dei” note? If God, is a real person, our relations to Him ought to be our supreme con cern. How we stand before Him is of vastly more importance than how we stand with our neighbors. By His judgement we are to stand or fall in this world and in all .worlds, in time and eternity. This poor pottering of some churches and some preachers at the mere matter of straightening out earthly relations and mending a few bad things in hu man conduct is the outcome of a subtle scepticism. When the vision of God is obscured in the minds of professedly religious people, they invariably fall to nervous activity in ethical and humane lines in order to disguise to themselves their own loss of faith. Uhlhorn in his excellent treatise entitled “The Conflict of Christianity With Heathenism” gives the following most suggestive and instructive paragraph: “An age which has become unsettled in its fai.th is wont to lay all the greater stress upon morality. Our own age of Illum- inism, fdr instance—how prone it was to moralizing. What voluminous com- pqnds of Ethics, what a flood of moral sermons, moral tales, moral songs, what space was given in the catechisms to lessons on the virtues, of which too many could not be enumerated! There was a consciousness that something had been lost, and at the same time an un willingness to acknowledge it; a mis giving that, with faith, morality also must decline, and desire to prove, at least by words and looks, that this was not so. Men would gladly have kept the fruit although they had cut off the roots. They had so much to say about the fruit because they wished to per suade themselves that this was still uninjured. But it soon appeared that with the root the fruit as well was ir revocably lost”. Around us today we see similar con ditions, and we may be sure that sim ilar failure is before us. To be without God is to be without hope of any good thing in the world. Men will not re gard their fellow-men aright when they cease to care for how God regards them selves. Before Pharaoh laid the heav iest and hardest burdens upon the op pressed Israelites he said to Moses, “WHO IS THE LORD that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I KNOW NOT THE LORD, neith er will I let Israel go”. The average man will trample upon his brother’s rights just in proportion as the divine sanctions of those rights fade away from his consciousness. Moreover, the effort to make religion consist of the mere outward regulation of human conduct and the humane amelioration of merely physical condi tions always results in ghastly hypocrisy in the end. So it did with the Phari sees. Losing sight of God, they busied themselves endlessly with petty details of theatric piety, in which they made much of washings and cleansings and tithings, and utterly neglected the weightier matters of life and duty. Then it was that they laid heavy bur dens upon their fellow-men, devoured widows’ houses, and thanked God that they were not as other me^ were. For all their outward pretences and inward insincerities Jesus denounced them say ing, “Woe unto you, scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which Indeed appear beauti ful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within are full of hypocrisy and iniquity”. (Matthew xxiii:27 and 28). And John the Bap tist, the prophet of the wilderness, de nounced them with equal sternness be fore Christ rebuked them so severely. With no earth-born and earth-bound motives did John seek to bring them to repentance; he carried them into the judgement hall of the Judge Eter nal, saying, “And now also the axe is laid at the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth The Half-God BY AX.BBRT DOBBINOTOW. Author of “THE RADIUM TERRORS,” “CHILDREN OF THE CLOVEN HOOF,” Etc. CHAPTER VI. A man came toward her from an opening in a field some distance from Dr. Hammersho’s house. He wore a short beard and a dark tweed overcoat. The overcoat showed signs of contact with the earth as though he had been* kneeling behind a hedge or clump of bushes. Something warned her that he was a detective. “Excuse me, madame,” he began. I notice that you have just left the house occupied by Dr. Hammersho.” His manner, although strictly inter rogative, was devoid of rudeness or vul garity. Bernice drew a sharp breath. “I had some business with the doc tor,” she admitted and was silent. The detective walked beside her tap ping his boot reflectively with a -cane as he fell, into step. “I suppose Dr. Hammersho is an old acquaintance,” he went on, “and that this it not your first visit to his house?”. ‘I have known Dr. Hammersho for some years. He bore an excelelnt name in his native land.” “You knew him then in Japan, madame?” ‘Yes.” Bernice felt that she must answer his questions. Her whole fu ture might depend on the detective’s yea or nay. He did not speak for a while, but seemed lost in the contemplation of a rook-infested elm at the end of the road. The cawing of the birds filled the morning air. Then he looked at her with a quick stare that almost made her cry out. “You were iti Dr. Han^mersho’s com pany, madame, when he was introduced to Professor Caleret! How long did you stay?” “Only a few minutes. I left them together.” “In the laboratory?” “No; in the reception room. Dr. Ham mersho wished tb learn something abqpt the professor’s working methods.” “You know what happened, madame?” “Perfectly.” “Do you, madame,” he paused to meet her unflinching eyes, “imagine Dr. Ham mersho capable of wounding or killing a map?” “Yes.” Again the detective became lost in thought. She had expected a sudden vol ley of questions. The ensuing silence merely heightened the tenseness of the situation. Slowly, very slowly, his eyes turned upon Imry in her arms. A light broke the dull gray of his eyes. “You take an Interest in the little fellow!” he remarked casually. . “I came this morning to remove him from Dr. Hammersho’s custody.”. “After what has happened you are not inclined to leave the boy alone with him again?” Bernice halted suddenly and met the detective’s inquiring stare. “I know nothing of Dr. Hammersho in connec tion with Professor Caleret’s murder. I promised the doctor yesterday that I would take Imry and care for him!” “You saw another Jap standing near a beehive in the back garden?” “Yes.” “Do you know him?” “No; he is a stranger to me.” “Thank you madame!” Raising hisi hat the detective returned leisurely to Get Rid of That Tired Feeling (Medical News) “That drowsy, tired, worn-out feeling which most of us have at the approach of warm weather comes from the poi soned impurities in the blood which gen erally lead to sickness or poor health. At the first signs of spring a good, blood-purifying tonic should be taken I by every member of'the family. “The expense of making such a tonic will be small if one gets from the drug store 1-2 pint alcohol and 1 ounce kar- clene, then mix these with 1-2 cupful sugar, adding hot water to make a quart. A tablespoonful taken before meals will soon clear the blood of all impurities, banish pimples and sallow ness and restore lost appetite and en ergy. No known remedy is so strength ening and energizing to a tired, worn- out system as this old-fashioned body- regulator. It is one of the best health- restorers known to medical science.” (Advt.) his coign of observation near the Jap anese doctor’s house. Bernice did not look back once. She knew that her future movements would be under police observation until the mystery of the laboratory crime was solved. And once Dr. Hammersho was identified with the murder her appre hension would be almost certain. Noth ing that she could do or say would alter the law’s attitude toward her. Of the Japanese doctor’s guilt she now felt positive. Hammersho had used, her as an Intermediary. She had made it pos sible for the head of a criminal gang ot adventurers to enter Casleret’s house. There were others hiding in the housfe with the opium-sated Engleheart per haps! Imry dozed in her arms as though he had not entirely shaken off the effects of the sleeping draught or powder which she felt certain had been given him. At Miss Allingham’s Bernice paused near the gate to adjust his hastily ar ranged clothes and to whisper a few final words of advice. “You are going to a nice school, dear, where there are other little boys and plenty of nice food and cakes to eat— every day. “Every day?” Imry appeared vaguely interested as he stared up at the many windowed kindergarten with its spacious lawns and park-like enclosures. “Will the English boys tease and call me names?” he asked after a final survey of the house. “No, dear; you will find the English boys nice and gentle. Have you ever been teased at school?” “Yes, at Miss Thornycroft’s. When they knew I came from Japan they said funny things.” “Were you ever hungry—at Dr. Ham mersho’s,, deary?” • Imry pondered deeply over Bernice’s question, his brow puckered, his lips tightened in the e f f °rt to recall the near. past. Bernice prompted skilfully. “There were times, dear, when he left you alone, eh? Who gave you food then? Were there women to help you?” “No, Dr. Harney always put me t<f bed. Pafa was always sleeping—al ways.” “Did he make you drink any mix tures, deary—Dr. Harney, I mean?” “Every night out of a spoon,” Imry confessed glumly. “Shall I have to drink things out of a spoon—here?” ^‘No, .no, dear! Now kiss me and- I will take you to Miss Allingham.” Miss Allingham betrayed some sur prise at Bernice's early appearance with Imry. The kindergarten had not yet breakfasted, but the voices of the children were plainly heard in the up stair rooms. The form of entering Imry’s name in the books was gone through. Nothing appeared simpler than providing for a boy’s future at so short a notice. At the kindergarten she would be able to see him at all hours, to take him for drives in the country and in dulge him in the hundred little pleas ures so dear to children of his age. CHAPTER VII. After Bernice had gone Dr. Hammer sho returned to the bedroom overlook ing the garden. The Jap, seated near t**e beehive, appeared conscious of th*' sharp interrogating glances from above and responded occasionally with dismal shakes of the head. “Something has happened,” he stated in a voice that reached the listening doctor at the window. “The trick has miscarried. Comrade Hammersho. We have the formula, but not the million eyed god that could sit on a butterfly’s wing.” The Jap doctor leaned on the window sill and with his binoculars scanned the near hedges and gardens anxiously. “We must not despair, O Shanl Ma. There is plenty of time for our little < messenger to arrive. We must hope and be patient.” • “While a vagabond bee gorges at the neck of some flower and lies drunk in the morning grass!” O Shani retorted impatiently. “A foolish scheme of yours, comrade, this bee adventure. My blood runs cold. I am developing white man's nerves through waiting!” A breahtless silence enveloped the distant fields and gardens. From hjs position at the window the Jap doctor commanded an extensive view of the countryside. A flock of pigeons wheeled over the house roof, settling eventually on the eaves of some farm buildings. The binoculars appeared to scan each flower and poppy within the neighboring gardens. The slightest hum or stir in the surrounding shrubs or grass brought the glasses in the direction "of the sound. A door opened behind the Jap doctor; the sound of shuffling feet turned him from the window sharply. A gaunt shape with stooping shoulders and opium-burnt eyes stood undecidedly in the doorway. Hammersho knit his brows. “This Is my private room, Captain Engleheart. What do you cant?” “A soft place for my bones, Dr. Ham mer head, somewhere to lie and rest, somewhere to sleep without anno- ances.” Captain Engleheart shuffled across the room, his Japanese slippers clapping the naked boards at each step. His brooding eyes explored the open window and the nthe empty cot. The sunken eyes dilated instantly. “Irmy gone!” He looked at the Jap anese doctofi as thought some one had struck him a blow. “You knew of this,” he added hoarsely. “She has been here!” “It was mercy to deliver the boy to her,” the doctor asserted. “He will be cared for. No good would come to Im ry in our company. We are in a fix, Captain Engleheart!” (Continued in next issue.) Sailing Ice Car Goes Wild and Crushes Touriit To Death ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 28.— W. H. Flagg, a prominent tourist from Battle Creek, Mich., was instantly kill ed here Thursday afternoon and several others were forced to jump overboard, when an ice car, operated under sail on the railroad wharf,* got away from the negro laborers and bore down on him. All escaped but Mr. Flagg, who was horribly mangled under the wheels. THE DEAREST- BART Mrs. Wilkes’ Fondest Hopes Realized—Health, Hap piness and Baby. Plattsburg, Miss.— “Lydia E. 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I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall bap tize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire. Whose fan is in his hand, and He will thoroughly purge his floor and gather his wheat into the garner, but He will burn up the chaff with un quenchable fire”. (Matthew ill:10, 11, and 12). Their worldly theology yielded most naturally and inevitably the disguised wickedness of the Pharisees, and the Baptist brought to bear upon them the only consideration that by any possi bility could bring such men to repent ance. On most of them both he and JeSus failed. It is hard to bring a man to repentance who has lost faith in God and desires nothing better than “a marketable religion” for earthly pur poses, which men will approve and ap plaud. We have much, of this worldly re ligion now-a-days, and a worldly re ligion, out of which God has faded, is worse than any other form of worldli ness; it is worse than worldy amuse ments; it hardens the heart and deludes the mind. -Its very prayers become tainted, and from constantly seeking earthly approval it offers proud self- gratulation for penitent supplication, and burns vain incense to itself in place of giving humble praise to oou. It Is time this dross were burned away from us in the fires of a great revival of religion by which men and women should be brought back to God. The cry should be raised again: “Re pent; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” No other kingdom can be sub stituted for t»ie kingdom of God. If we had a world swept of all gross im moralities, and garnished with all earth- bound ethics, well fed, well clad, and housed in the most admirable - fashion, but without religious faith, it would still be a godless world*and a hopeless world. If God is a real and royal i.ar son, He has some rights of sovereignty in our world; and men run to their own ruin' when they refuse to respect the divine rule. Preachers are in the world, not to dis tribute old clothes among naked people and carry cold victuals to hungry folk, but to serve as ambassadors of the Heavenly King, calling men in Christ’s stead to be reconciled to God. I Can Make Your Fat V anish by the Gallon! I CONQUERED OBESITY PAST MIDDLE-AGE I Ate Everything I Liked—Went Through No Exercise—Wore No Special Clothing—Took No Weakening Baths! I Explain My Simple, Speedy Home Treatment to You—FREE! I, Lucile Kimball, a married woman past middle-age, attacked by obesity for years, finally conquer^ the fat monster. Everything you ever tried, I tried. I went through exercises, rolled on the floor, cut down my food, gave up sweets, fats and starches, wore elastic clothing, tried electricity, massage, osteopathy, vibration, hot and vapor baths, swallowed pellets, cap sules and teas—gained as rapidly as I lost—and so would you with those so-oalled treatments. For years, my friends have asked me to tell them how I got rid of fat and kept rid of it. They know that I eat what I want-go through no exercise other than I get around the house and office; that I am FREE from obesity, happy, healthy, supple—and look younger by fifteen years than I actually am! I was afraid that my Home Treatment might prove tem porary. I waited months. My fat did not return, and I waited years, but my fat did not-come back. Still, I post poned. I tried my Home Obesity Treatment on friends. They were equally benefited—men and women of all ages. And finally I decided to reduce the obesity of fat men and women all over the world. „ You have figured fat by the pound. Your “methods” and treatments” have attacked living tissues more than fat. What did you gain? Nothing! Your fat came back the moment you stopped your exercise or diet. It did not go if you tried anything else. But my Home Treatment is not exercise or diet. I say diet” in its broadest sense—not “starvation diet,” not “excessive diet,” but diet of any kind. Eat any kind of meat, vegetables, salads, pastry, fish, fowl, nuts, candy that you want—when you want it. Drink what you want— when you want it. I don’t interfere with your food or drink. No — — . pint, qua allon. It goes away rapidly. It melts from your cells. You feel otter—stronger. Beauty returns to women; strength to men. You never! ’ ' ' ' -- - only three or four minutes each twenty-four hours to its use. You Must Not Send Any Money! Above all else, if you want this Home Obesity Treatment of mine, write at once. But—don’t send a penny. I will return it. I want to tell you what this Home Obesity Treatment is, how It works. I want you to be able to use It in your own home or boarding house—on the train —visiting—anywhere. Nobody knows you use It. You never are asked to write a,testlmonlal. I am a home-body, opposed to the work of charlatans. I know that you will appreciate the sincerity of my message, and send today for this FREE. I know your name and address will be among the first to reach me. I pledge secrecy and my personal attention. Don’t wait. Get rid of FAT now and for all time. If you are slightly fat, if you are moderately obese, if you are very fat, if you have double-chin or localized obesity in any part of your body. Don’t let fat get a stronger grin on you. Stop being the butt of -FREE. Hook for your ’ ** ' Lucile Kimball ridicule. Get this NOW- _ request. 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