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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1913. 5 i ^ouMtrV rfOME TIMELT TOPICS ^CWOCTED VfITUS. \T. H-FLUTD/I • THE FREE SUGAR QUESTION—AS I SEE IT. The cheapest article of food and the most generally used has for a lorig time been sugar. It is .stated by ex perts that it averages eighty pounds to each inhabit apt of the United States annually. To be more concise, every body uses more or less of sugar and millions of tons are necessary to sup ply the individual needs o fthe world of mankind. To raise sugar you must plant cane or beets or something else from which saccharine matter can be expressed and afterwards boiled down to the sugar stage. It requires land to be bought, and to be cultivated, and labor to be paid out of the profit. It must be re fined and handled several times before it reaches your table. Every time the product is touched it means money out of somebody’s pocket. If the sugar fails to pay expenses, the people will quit the business of making it. They are not in it for fun or public demonstra tions. Now, when a pound of nice, clean granulated sugar is brought into your pantry by the grocer and laid down for 5 cents without any further expense to yourself, pray, why should anybody have a. kick laid up for the sugar grow ers and sugar refiners That *is a most reasonable statement, as I have set it down. If the people who, grow it and wh 0 grind and cook it and those who buy barrels and send it to market, and the retail men buy it and pay 5 cents a pound, in the name of common sense, why do they not “let well enough alone?” Are you so greedy that you can’t let these growers, mak ers, refiners and grocers get a trifling percentage for their time and labor I am completely disgusted with the present congressional light on the su gar makers of this country. If you do not watch out, the time is coming wVten «ugar raisers after these United • States are bankrupted that you will > . as much for a pound of sugr as for . as much for a pound .of sugar as : pound of hog-belly bacon, litre’s the sense in fooling with that are already'cheap enough i ..tisfy a miser? NG JOURNEY-HAND IN HAND, ♦ jin teen years ago, on August 25, I&99, Altered the brand-new Semi-Weekly nai columns under the heading of r Country Home Column,” and I Ye kept to ray post of duty, without a single failure to send in my bi-weekly articles, except in one instance-vwhen Death entered our home four years ago, and my heart and hands were too full for utterance—during those long fourteen years. Fourteen years are many, no matter if :->:r 'count thorn singly^ or all together. j»:»mnier’s heat and winter’s cold, with - .c^v .i dawne and purple twilights, in .. .days and. with torrid, sunlight, I r .upd. at the sentry post and t ried out, “All’s well! There’s light ahead!” If there is a single editor or edirress who came in with me on that August day in 1899 I cannot recall the name. Per haps there are some printers who have borne me steady company, but I do not know that there is a single one. To say I have enjoyed it does not cover half the truth. I have been happy in the work. It has been a little pulpit, where I coula read my text and then explain its Meaning twice a week. Many of the dear readers have gone on and over. Peace to their dust, and a glad meeting in the “sweet by and by!” Shall we not shake hands and start an other, the fifteenth year, with cheery hearts and glad wishes for our oppor tunity? I send greetings to all the working force on the great Journal newspaper, frmt the big editor to the errand boys that are all so willing to do me a kindness in. the great Atlanta office. Best wishes, good cheer, and kindest greetings! THE FRANK TRIAD OVER. A RELIEF About 5 o’clock, a lady passing up our street said to me. “Have you heard the Frank Verdict?” In ten minutes after the foreman of the jury announced the fate of Leo Frank— in the court room in Atlanta. Every considerable town in Georgia had the news. Four weeks of stress and strain were at last ended—and there was a feeling of re lief that nothing worse had come along with this trial, before it ended. While there are a few r in our town who contend that the evidence was en tirely insufficient to convict—ninetenths —yes ninety hundredth are saying—“it was just right.” I am glad I was not one of the Jury—although I suspect I should have voted the same way. I am not sure that I favor what we call “capital punishment,” except for one crime—because it is a serious thing to condemn a human being to the gallows or the electric chair. Especially upon circumstantial evidence. But there is the other side also. There has been agony—suffering—anxiety—the torture of suspicion—and the poor little girl— that was the victim. I was In the city of Atlanta on the day that poor child’s body was found. The city was full of cultured people who were attending the sociological congress. I felt it was a pity that such a horrid crime should have pollut ed our capitol city—so full as it was of educated and intelligent strangers—just then. But I imagine the trial has been fair, and the judge held the scales of justice with a steady hand. My heart aches for that poor mother, whose son has been convicted of the crime. I rolled on my bed last night until the wee-sma hours, the pity in my heartwas so deep—and I felt that she could have died a hun dred times and never suffered half the agony that fell on her heart and mind, on yesterday. “CHRISTIANIZING SOCIETY” By Bishop W. A Candler Emmeline Boyd sat on her veranda In the twilight and watched the passers- by in the street. She sat very still with her hands folded. She was dressed neatly and she had a red knit shawl drawn about her prim shoulders. She was the kind of woman which a summer evening brings forth by the dozens upon the verandas of a small town—the kind that is comfortably housed and provided for, but who have Second Wife ailed Up Spirit -Sjf- His First Wife (By Associated Press.) . b f. LOUIS, Sept. 1.—Stephen F. Gar- lock filed suit for divorce here today, in which he charged that his second wife inveigled him to a spiritualistic seance where she called up the spirit of his first wife who advised him to transfer his property to his second wife. He refused to transfer the property, he said, and then his living wife called him names. ;<EW YORK WOMEN FIRST TO v. UMB MOUNT WASHINGTON * (3y Associated Press.) ; ..ETON WOODS, N. H., Sept. 1.— .:.*L>ng to the summit of Mount Wash- s .uii over the dangerous trestle of the ^..vumain railway late at night, Mrs. W. ricnlord.and Mrs. Beatrice Kecknadel, New lork, accomplished a feat never *-£ore undertaken, it is said, by women, t'ne ascent was made as the result of a Yager. With a high wind blowing and no lights io guide, the task of the climbers in crossing over the loft Jacobs’ Ladder trestle was regarded *as extremely peril ous. As soon as railroad officials heard that they had started up the mountain, men with lanterns were sent after them to dissuade them from the attempt but were unable to overtake them until they were close to the summit. The two women reached the mountain top about 10 o’clock, having covered the distance of five miles in four hours and a half. They remained at the house there until morning, when Mrs. Henford’s hus band arrived in his motor car and took them back to their hotel. WOMEN CABBIES DO NOT FLOURISH IN GAY PAREE (By Associated Press.) PARIS, Sept. 1.—Women cab driv ers are fast disappearing from the streets of Paris. v Six years ago they numbered fully one hundred; now there are only six or seven and of these all but one soon will give up the calling. The one who means to remain has given various reasons for the disfavor with which her sex regards cab driving. At first men rushed for vehicles driven by women and tipped generously; but that waB when reviews and songs were advertising the new departure. One cab woman says she makes not more than six or seven francs a day, out of which she has to pay a woman to look after her household. Hygiene Congress Considers Penny ~ r - Lunch for Schools (By Associated Press.) BUFFALO, N. Y„ Sept! 1.—The re lation of malnutrition to mental de fectives and the possibilities of the penny lunch in the school were sub jects taken up by the International Coagress on School Hygiene today. The speakers Included Dr. Lewis C. Wessels, of Philadelphia; Miss Mabel Hyde Kittredge, of New York, and Dr. F. Park Lewis, of Buffalo. DALTON GREETS ITS FIRST AUGUST BALE DALTON, Ga., Sept- 1.—Lee Cox, ail energetic rarmer of Murray county, just east of here, accomplished something for which farmers in this section have been striving for in vain for the past twenty .years by bringing to Dalton a bale of new cotton in August. The bale weighed 368 pounds and brought him $70. It was purchased by J. A. Looper, a cotton buyer for the Crown Cotton Mills, at 12 1-2 cents per pound, but the mills added $5 as a premium, and the merchants made up a neat sum. In addition to this, Prank Vonberg, of Spring Place, gave Mr. Cox $10, the total received bringing the bale up to 19 cents per pound. MRS. WILSON SENDS HER HANDKERCHIEF FOR SALE (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) DALTON, Ga., Sept. 1.—Mrs. Wood- row Wilson, wife of the president of the United States, has sent to the Wom an’s Foreigh Missionary society of the First Presbyterian church a handker chief. her own handiwork, to be includ ed in the annual handkerchief sale which will be held at the home of Mrs. Mary Flemister on Crawford street next Thursday afternoon. Enough ab sent friends of the society have sent handkerchiefs to make possible anoth er booth, separate *-from those contain ing the handiwork of the society mem bers. EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS ARE FELT IN SICILY CBy Associated Prass.) . MESSINA, Sicily, Sept.- 1.—-Seismic .in struments here have registered during the past twenty-four hours continued, earth disturbances. A strong hurricane also has been blowing which has practically de stroyed a number of huts in the Ameri can quarter. The populace fears that these conditions foretell a fresh disaster. >A Human Match Factory* The body contains phosphorus sufficient to make 483,000 matches. Phos phorus is one of fourteen elements composing the body—divided among bones, flesh, nervous system and other organs. The perfect health of body requires a perfect balance of the elements. These elements come fiom the food we eat—(he stomach extracts and distributes them. But if stomach is deranged—the balance of health is destroyed and the blood does not carry the proper elements to the different organs, and there is blood trouble—nerve trouble—heart trouble. Pain is the hungry cry of starved organs. Put the liver, stomach and organs of digestion and nutri tion into a condition of health, That is just what is done by DR. PIERCE’S GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY which has been so favorably known for over 40 years. It is now put up in tablet form, as well as liquid, and can be obtained of medicine dealers everywhere or by mail by sending 50 cents in lc stamps for trial box- address R.V. Pierce, M. D., Buffalo, N.Y. THE COMMON SENSE MEDICAL ADVISER is k book of 1008 pages handsomely bound In cloth-treats of Physiology—Hygiene. Anatomy, Medicine and is a complete Home Physician-Send 31* lc stamps to R.VJ > ierce,Buff»lo, t N.£ “Come, now,” pleaded Mrs. Collier. no interest outside the home, the kind for whom life has long since resolved itself Into monotonous routine. Emmeline Boyd's husband had put on his hat and walked downtown to look about. He would come back near bed time smoking a cigar and expect to find her exactly where he had left her. He would have nothing to tell her. She would have nothing to tell him, be cause nothing ever happened to her which was exciting enough to talk about. She had lived within the narrow lim its of her own domesticity so long that she was considered a bit queer. She was left mainly to herself and her own thoughts. And her own thoughts had come to be very wearying. Her big, dark eyes had a girlish wistfulness in them as they gazed after other women hurrying along on some secret, absorb ing business. One walked with her hus band. Another trundled a perambula tor. Another was chatting volubly with a grown-up daughter. Emmeline knew that there was a moving picture theater downtown which was much fre quented. She had never been in it, but she had an idea that most of these women were going there. A big woman wearing a smart new hat came by. Emmeline caught her eye and nodded. The woman went on a few steps, then turned and came quickly to the veranda. She leaned her arms on the railing and 'looked over them at Emmeline. “How are you this evening, Mrs. Boyd?” she asked. “Very well, thank you, Mrs. Collier.” “You better put on your things and go down to the Woman’s club rooms with me tonight and join. We’re going to take in a lot of new members.” Emmeline gasped. It was the nearest approach to an utterance she could make. “Come on,” urged Mrs. Collier. “Do! We have splendid times together —just women. There’s a big supper coming off the 20th, and if you join to night you’ll be just In time for it.” Emmeline’s face was almost as red as her knit shawl. She had heard of the Woman’s club. She felt that Mrs. collier had paid her a great compli ment in asking her to join. And she had a sudden, uprising, violent desire to ac cept. But she had an idea that clubs for women were somehow Improper. She knew, too, that Burton would strongly disapprove of it. He had no patience with the increasing new movement on the part of woman folk for liberty. And he had saturated Emmeline with his sentiments until she persuaded herself that they were her own. All her married life Emmeline had striven to please her husband in all things. She was the daughter of an old- fashioned mother, who believed wom an’s empire was her home, her one law that which her husband prescribed for her. Emmeline had thought to be pure ly a womanly woman since in that way only might she keep her husband’s love and respect. Burton Boyd had con ferred a favor on her by marrying her, she felt, and she must not cease to show her gratitude and appreciation. She had cooked for him, mended for him, lived for him without protest or de mand. And he treated her accordingly. Always she had been disturbed by a feeling that she was his inferior, that his position and his sex permitted him to look down upon her. And of late she had been more than disturbed, she had been tortured, by the consciousness that she had ceased to be to him of any more interest than the chair he sat in or the plate he ate his dinner from. “Come, now,” pleaded Mrs. Collier. Mrs. Collier was the whip for the Wom an’s club and a good deal of her suc cess depended on the way she could smile and say that one word “Come!” The word seemed to attach itself to Emmeline and draw her forcibly. She looked at Mrs. Collier’s smile and fidgeted. “Burton won’t like it,” she laughed, uneasily. “It’s none of Burton’s business, my dear. Did he ask you when he wanted to join the Masons? What’s fair for one member of the firm is fair for the other.” She glanced at her watch. “I daresay he’s attending lodge tonight. You’ll be back home before he is. Don’t you want to join?” “Ye-es.” “Then—come!” Mrs. Collier was using her final and most compelling “come” and Emmeline rose out of her chair. She did not know what made her do it. She seemed car ried along by some force she could not withstand, would not have withstood If she qoUld. She turned toward the door. “Don’t fix up.” commanded Mrs. Col lier. “You look well enough. Just put on your hat and—come!” Emmeline put on her hat. She found her gloves and a purse. She was palpi tating from the effect of the unusual. She locked the front door and hid the key in the pot of geraniums. And she went forth to new destinies with the smiling and triumphant Mrs. Collier. It was late when she returned—very late for her. The club had not disband ed until fully 10 o’clock and after that there had been a good deal of chattering. Mrs. Collier saw the new member home. They came up the street talking vi vaciously. No one could remain long in Mrs. Collier’s presence without talking. Emmeline was n>ore excited than she had been since her wedding daj r and she was almost as happy. For the first time in her married life she had ceased to think of home and Burton until she actually saw both. For Burton sat on the steps waiting for her glumly. The eight of him recalled her and it was as If mho came a long way. She bade Mrs. Collier good night hastily and went to ward him. He got up without a word and entered the house. She followed. And then she saw that he had already been in and lit the lamp. “Well,” he growled, “where you been?” He was a little sandy man and Em meline was a slim, tall, dark woman. She seemed to look down on him from a great distance. Excitement still flushed her cheeks, lit her eyes. She was a glorified Emmeline. “Own up!” snapped Burton. “Here I’ve been home a full quarter of an hour, waiting for you. I had a pretty time finding the key. And the house dapk as a pocket. You might have left the lamp burning.” Emmeline took off her gloves and smoothed them. “Where did you go? To lodge?” “Yes, I went to lodge.” “You didn’t say where you were going when you went out.” “What if I didn’t? Where have you been?” Emmeline drew the pins from her hat. “I’ve been to the Woman’s club.” “What were you doing there?” She took off her hat and poked up her hair. Excitement was dying in her and she felt a succeeding lassi tude. Her voice was almost languid. “I joined it.” “Holy crow!” ’Phis was as near to an oath as Bur ton Boyd ever came, but it had ter rible significance for Emmeline. He glared at her. ‘You joined that pack of cackling old hens? Do you know what I’ve a good mind to do? I’ve a mind to leave you!” Emmeline was not nearly so scared as she \jas angry. She had been with women who had shown themselves the peers of any man she had ever M EN prefer to be engaged in a con spicuous movement in which they escape difficult and tedious details rather than to give themselves to do more important work of a less conspicuous character and which calls for painful persistence. Even the twelve apostles, after two years of close ,. Lam x>4jx<ii. OSSfA* /M/r7&£r- She ceased dramatically. Burton stood perfectly still. known. Their charm, their intellect, their convincing ability seemed to form a cordon about her poor, ignorant, old- fashioned self. She was a Brunnhilde girdled by the magic fire of their en deavor, for the first time a thing apart, separate from her husband. “Now, look here, Burton,” she said, “I didn’t threaten to leave you when you joined the Masons, did IT’ “But that’s different.” *No, it isn’t. What's fair for one member of the firm is fair for the other.” She was unconsciously quot ing Mrs. Collier. All the ringing phrases she had heard marshalled themselves through her awkward brain. The silent, the yielding, the meek Em meline had given place to a woman who not only knew she had a tongue, but felt she had the right to use it. Bur ton Boyd stared at her aghast as she went on, rapidly. "We’re a firm, you and I, Burton. Hitherto I’ve let you run everything. I’ve been a silent partner—a working partner. I’m not a girl any longer* I’m a middle-aged woman and I’ve got a mind of my own. I want a few rights and privileges the same as you have. You go to the lodge regular; you’re away from home every evening enjoying yourself. I’ve heard tonight that you’re in the habit of dropping in at the moving picture show. Every summer you go on a week’s fishing trip and every winter you go somewhere on lodge business. I’ve never said a word. I’ve sat here at home and kept the fire and looked aft er things. I’m just as much tied to this house as if you’d driven a staple In that post and tied me to it with a rope. Folks call me queer because I never stir out of the house except to church. I know what they say, don’t think I don’t! I don’t have enough to do to keep me busy and so I sit and hold my hands. I haven't known enough to do anything else. But I tell you I’m pretty sick of it. And tonight I’ve turned over a new leaf. I see how I can get some good out of living. I’ve joined the Woman’s club and I’m on one of the committees for the big supper and I’m going with the delegates next month to the state association. I’ve subscribed for their paper and I’m going to see if I know enough to write a little some thing to read before the next meeting. Tomorrow night I’m going with ’Mrs. Collier to the benefit at the moving picture theater. And tomorrow after noon the committee I’m chairman of meets here. If you don’t HJce it, Burton, I can’t help it. This firm has got to go on an equal basis hereafter or dissolve partnership.” She ceased dramatically. Burton stood perfectly still. He had not taken his eyes off her since she be gan. But slowly upon his face had unfolded a new expression—a look of respect, astonishment, and actual ad miration wihcli went farther and became a sheepish grin. “Holy crow!” he muttered with an entirely new intonation. “I didn’t know you had it in you, woman!” And then Emmeline knew her cause was won. WILSON ARRIVES AT SUMMER WHITE HOUSE WINDSOR, Vt. f Sept. 1.—President ident Wilson arived here at 1:03 today and motored immediately to the sum mer White House at Cornish, N. H. CASTOR l A For Infants and CMldren. The Kind You Have Always Sought Bears the Signature of PARKER'S MASS? BALSAM Cleft-air, and beautifies tbs hall. Promotes a luxuriant growth. Nov or fails to Restore Grsy Hair to its Youthful Color. Prevents baly falling. .. i mum - contact with Jesus, were eager to take place in a great political movement for the deliverance of the Jewish nation from subjection to the Romans and quite unwilling to give any attention to little children concerning whom their Master said “of such is the kingdom of heaven”. The same spirit is quite prevalent in our day. There are multitudes of men and women who are straining their nerves to carry on various reform movements, but who care little for the conversion of the individual soul. They describe their proposals in ambitious phrases, one of which stands at the head of this article. What is meant by the phrase “chris tianizing society”? If the words are used to express the leavening of social life by the multiplication of Christian souls in the land, the conception is one in harmony with the spirit and teach ing of the New Testament. But if the idea intended is that we are somehow to disinfect social institutions, apart from the regeneration of individual souls, it is a notion utterly foreign to the New Testament and is nothing more than an irridescent dream. Social institutions are no better than the men and women who make them; in the nature of the case they can be no better. Our customs express our characters. We may carry on some sort of a “mercerizing” process with social usages to give them the •sem blance of silk on the surface when they are only shoddy in substance; but we shall discover that result is not worth the toil expended to bring it to pass. Neither Jesus nor the apostles ever used any such form of words as “chris tianizing society”, and they bestowed no effort oir'fnere schemes of reforma tion. They aimed at nothing less than the regeneration of the world, but they proceeded to that end by seeking the salvation of individual souls. The terms of “the Great Commissioner” clearly imply and require work of a very per sonal nature. “Go ye into the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is haptized shall be saved; but he that belieyth not shall be damned”. • Upon individual souls, such as the Smaritan woman, Nicodemus, the name less woman at the feast In the house of Simon, the Pharisee, and Zaccheus, Jesus bestowed much tender care; but no where in all his public ministry, as it Is recorded in the four Gospels, do we find him saying anything from which the remotest suggestion one could infer that he was concerning himself with any schemes to “christianize socie ty”. In like manner we find apostles preaching to single souls, like the Ethi opian treasurer and the centurion Cor- : nelius; but we do not come upon one paragraph in the Acts in which they | appear as social reformers. Nevertheless | Jesus and the apostles didmost might- • ily affect society by their labours. By personal regeneration they brought to j pass social revolutions. Our reformers have begun at the wrong end of things. They seek to re new the Individual, by working on the mass, whereas the mass must be puri fied by the renovation of the individual. They seem to proceed on the idea that personal character can only be reached and raised by efforts on the whole bulk of the community. In the end they are doomed to disappointment and defeat. Their theory looks very impressive; it appeals to the carnal mind by its ap pearance of bigness; but it is visional and impracticable. At bottom it is tainted with not a little of human pride, vanitj r , and self-indulgence. Such . plans require far less part of those who operate them than is necessary to bring a single soul to Christ; hence, they commend them selves to indolent men and women who have, some sort of interest in doing good, self-sacrificing toil upon the part but who do not wish to be taxed with too much details. The conception of the flock of God which these people seem to j entertain is that of a cattle ranch han dled by hired “rounders” rather than that of a flock of sheep tended by a gen- ! tie Shepherd who “calleth his own sheep by name”. They would never think of leaving ninety and nine fine sheep to go after one wayward lamb wandering amid the perils of a bare mountain. Or, to change the figure, their idea of “lift- j ing up humanity” is to carry crowds up by means of some sort of mechanical el- 1 evator rather than to lift up the individ ual in the arms of tenderness. Instead of doing the work of Good Samaritans they prefer to organize an association to take care of men in bulk who have fall en among thieves and been sorely wounded. Perhaps they might also be willing to raise a fund to provide po lice for the Jericho road. It is worthy of remark that by the use of the phrase “christianizing socie ty” many of our reformers now seem to intend special reference to some sort of vague scheme to re-distribute the ma terial goods of mankind, so as to “abol ish poverty” and make every body phys ically comfortable. It appears that they accept most devotedly the notion that a man is largely the result of his en vironment, and that physically discom fort in his environment is the supreme source of moral disorder in his life. Such an idea appears to contradict all history. Lazarus the saint, sick and sore and hungry, went from the rich man’s gate to Abraham’s bosom, while the comfortable occupant of the palace at the gate of which the beggar was laid, after wearing costly apparel on ■ the earth and faring sumptuously every j day, lifted up his eyes in the torments of hell. The fashionable avenues on which opulent godlessness abounds are; as full of sin as “the slums”. Kings j product saintliness In any very marked To Love for Coll houses and soft raiment do not seem to degree. What is wanted to “christianize socie ty” is not a superficial, cutaneous treat ment of pimples on the social system, but a profound, constitutional renewal of the hearts of men and women. Martin Luther, insisting mostly upon the one great evangelic truth of justi fication by faith, did more to “chris tianize society” in his day than did all 1 the surface reformers who went before him, and more than all the sociological quacks who have come after him. Wes ley did more to “christianize society” in England in the eighteenth century than did all the venders of moral nostrums who had been prescribing foV the social disorders of Great Britain before he called the nation to repentance. Au gustus Birrell tells of an incident which illustrates and enforces this truth. He tells of how coming to a certain place where he observed p. conspicuous so briety among the people and the utter absence of places where intoxicating liquors were sold. He asked for an explanation of the blessed conditions which he thus observed,, and received the reply, “A man named John Wesley came here a hundred years ago.” Can we hope to find a trace of our surface reformers a hundred years hence? Hardly. They and their social nostrums will be utterly forgotten by most people and remembered perhaps by a few as antique and curious blunder ing. It is time to return to Christ’s method for “christianizing society.” We have had enough of the programme of “sal vation by soap and soup.” There lies before me an editorial written by a man of the world and pub lished in a secular periodical. It should be carefully considered by some preach ers and churches, who, while posing as most “progressive” exponents of Chris tianity, have utterly missed the way of Christ for “christianizing society.” A part of this wise and vigorou editorial reads as follows: “It is the habit of men who regard themselves as “radicals” in matters re lating to reform to look upon the Chris tian and the Christian - church as “con servative, when, in truth, the Christian is the only reformer in the world who can lay a sound claim to radicalism. The church has lived for more than eighteen hundred years, and it will live until the end of time because it holds the only radical system of reform in existence, if for no other reason. The greatness of the founder of Christian ity is conspicuously shown in his pass ing by social institutions as of minor and inconsiderable importance, and fast ening his claims upon the individual The reform of personal character was his one aim. With him the man was great and the institution small. There was but one way with him for making a good society, and that was by the pu rification of its individual materials. There can be nothing more radical than this; and there never was anything— there never will be anything—to take its place. It is most interesting and instructive to notice how, one by one. every system of reform that has at tempted to ‘cut under’ Christianity has died out, leaving it a permanent pos sessor of the field. The reason is that Christianity is radical. There is no such thing as getting below it. It is at the root of all reform because It deals with men individually. A system of religion which carries mo tives within it for the translation of bad or imperfect character into a form and quality as divine *as anything we can conceive, and which relies upon this translation for the improvement of social and political institutions, is a system which bears its credentials of authority graven upon the palms of its hands. There can be nothing better. Nothing can t&ke the place of it. Until all sorts of reformers are personally reformed by it, they are only pretenders or mountebanks. They are all at work upon the surface, dealing with matters that are not radical.” All this I steadfastly believe. Where fore I have lost fait! in reforms and reformers. I have seen too many of them. We must depend upon Christ i to ’’make all things new” because he | proposes to make all souls new. SPEAKER CHAMP CLARK GOES ON THE “STUMP” (By Associated Press.) ! WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—Speaker Clarke leaves today for Maine to join the array of speakers in behalf of the Democratic candidate for congress In the Third Maine district. His program calls for two speeches, at Unity, Saturday aft ernoon at Skowhegan Saturday night. He will return here Monday in time to pre side over the house. , WOMAN IN TERRIBLE STATE Finds Help in Lpdia E. Pink- ham s Vegetable Compound. Bellevue, Ohio. —“I was in a terrible state before I took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound. My back acheduntil I thought it would break, I had pains all over me, nervous feelings and periodic troubles. I was very weak and run down and was losing hope of ever being .well and strong. After tak ing Lydia E. Pink- Maternal InstlnctGreatlyDevelopedby Teaching Children to Love their Dolls. The little child’s doll is mother to the most romantic fancy. And in the years that pass, the doll fades into the petals of a June rose, to evolve the most won drous of all transfor mations. Now comes a more serious period when the joy of real moth erhood should be as tranquil as best effort can provide. This is accomplished with a wonderful remedy known as Mother’s Friend, an ex ternal application so penetrating in its nat ure as to thoroughly lubricate every cord, nerve, muscle and tendon involved. There will be no pain, none of that nau sea or morning sickness, no sensation of distress or strain of expanding muscles. The nerves, too, will be calm, thus making the period one of restful days and peaceful nights. Mother’s Friend is sold at all drug stores at $3.00 k»bottle. Do not fail to use it reg ularly as directed. Write to-day to Brad, field Regulator Oo. t 235 Lamar Bldg.. At) lanta, Ga., for their valuable book for ex pectant mothers. 9236 VJ 962? 9629 9236. GIHL’S DRESS Cut in 3 sizes: 2, i and 6 years. It re quires 2 yards of 36-lncb material for the G- year size. Price, 10c. * 9463 9463. INFANT’S DRESS AND SACK Cut in one size. It requires %-yarrt for the sack and 3 yards for the dress of 36- lncb material. Price, 10c. 9635—9636 9635-9036. LADIES’ COSTUME Waist 9635 cut in 5 sizes: 82, 84, 86, 38 and 40 inches bust measure. Skirt 068^ cut in 5 sizes: 22, 24, 20, 28 and 30 Inches waist measnre. It requires 7 yards of 27- inch material, for a 3G-tneh size. This calls for TWO separate patterns, 10c FOH EACH pattern. 9638 9638. LADIES’ HOUSE DRESS Cut in 6 sizes: 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust measure. It requires G yards of 36-Inch material for a 36-Inch size. Price, 10c. 9640 9640. GIRL’S DRESS Cut in 4 sizes: 8, 10. 12 and 34 years. It requires 3Va yards of ::6-lneh material for a 12-year size. Price, 10c. 9628 9628. BOY’S NORFOLK SUIT Cut in 4 sizes: 6, 8. 10 and 12 years. Tt requires 3 J ,4 yards of 44-lnch material for an 8 year size. Price, 10c. 9629 9629'. LADIES’ CORSET COVER AND DRAWERS Cut in H sizes: 32, 34, 36, 38. 40 and 42 inches bust measure. It requires 3% yards of 36-inch material for a 36-lnch size. Price 10c. 9627 0527. LADIES’ APRON Cut in 3 slzea: Small, medium and large. It requires 4% yards of 36-inch material for a medium size. Price 10c. ham’s Vegetable Compound I improved rapidly and today am a well woman. I, cannot tell you how happy I feel and I cannot say too much for your Compound. Would not be without it in the house if it cost three times the amount.”—Mrs. Chas. Chapman, R. F. D. No. 7, Belle- ; vue, Ohio. Because your case is a difficult one, | doctors having done you no good, do not; continue to suffer without giving Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound a trial. It surely has remedied many cases of female ills, such as inflamma tion, ulceration, displacements, tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, and it may be exactly what you need. The Pinkham record is a proud and peerless one. It is a record of constant victory over the obstinate ills of woman —ills that deal out despair. It is an es tablished fact that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has restored health to thousands of such suffering women. Why don’t you try it if you need such a medicine? S2M1-WEEXLT JOURNAL PATTERNS The price of each Pattern is 10 cents. Patterns are not carried in stock,- but or ders are forwarded to the pattern makers, and ordinarily require about 10 days to be filled. Order by number only. Bo sure to state size wanted. Address all orders for patterns to Serai-Weekly Journal. Pattern Department, Atlanta, Ga. NOTICE TO LADY SUBSCRIBERS. The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal will give you n dress pattern when yon renew you I subscription, if you ask for it. THIS IS HOW YOT T GET IT: Send us 75 cents for on* year’s subscription or $1 for eighteen months’ sunscrlption to The Semi-Weekly Journal, and give ns the number and size of the pattern desired, and we will send you the pattern FREE. Each issue of The Semi-Weekly Journal shows several patterns for ladies and children. So, when you send your renewal select you* pattern, ns no free patterns will lie allowed unless you ask for them at that time. Re member, the pattern is FREE when you se» lect no other premium, but In case you do select another premium and want the pattern also, send 10 cents additional for the pat tern. CATALOGUE NOTICE. Send 10c in silver or stamps for our up* to-date 1913-1914 Fall and Winter Catalogue, containing over 400 designs in Ladies’, Misses* and Children’s Patterns, and a concise and comprehensive article on Dressmaking, giving valuable bints to the home dressmaker.