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Newspaper Page TextDethroning God Destroys Democracies, Freedom Warren A. Rests on Religion [Candler < y Public attention is so absorbed by the tremendous conflict tn Europe into which our country has now been drawn, that other events receive less considera tion than thw importance justifies. While the European world is on fire. *« do not observe care fully much else than the huge conflagration which rages before us. Nevertheless. it is not improbable that the future of mankind will be af fected more by two other events, which have eome to pass during the last few years, than by the European war. It is a simple and far-reaching fact that one third of the human race has passed from under the yoke of absolutism to the rule of republicanism since the war began In China there are 400.000.000 of people, and almost without a jar that Immense population has passed from an Oriental monarchy to a republic during the last few years Now Russia, the next most populous country in the world, has thrown off the rule of the Romanoffs, and undertakes the maintenance of a free government. With these republics, the Latin-American republics, and the United States, moot of the world is now under a democratic form of government. What is more remarkable is that in both China and Russia the passage from absolutism to freedom has been made with comparatively little shock or jar. This is perhaps true because republican ideas have permeated the world more widely than has been supposed. Some years ago William T. Stead published a book entitled. •‘The Americanization of the World.” and the main idea of that volume was that the infleunce of Amer ican institutions would prevade all na tions and bring to pass the democrat.ca tion of mankind. What seemed an im possible dream when Stead wrote now appears to be a .rapidly approaching re ality. The world is learning what free dom means, and once the lesson is learned all forms of oppressive' govern ments will be thrown off. But let us not assume too rapidly that the democratization of the world will necessarily be a blessing to mankind. It may bring with it the most dreadful disturbances and the most direful dis asters It may be doubted that free gov ernments are good unless the people who make them have sufficient intelligence and virtue to maintain them in wisdom and righteousness. Unless a nation is fitted for self-government, its welfare is promoted more by monarchical than by < republican form of government. In proportion as the poltical tie is relaxed, the moral tie must be strengthened, or a people assuming self-government will work only self-destruction. It is not quite clear yet that China or Russia *s qualified for self-government. It may be even doubted that our own people are perfectly qualified to preserve and per petuate the free Institutions which they have inherited from our liberty-loving ancestors. It is necessary for the maintenance of republican governments that the peo ple think more of their duties than their rights, but it is the infirmity of repub lican governments that they emphasize rights more than they enforce respon sibilities. It is doubtless true as an ab stract proposition that the government which governs least is best, but this is not true unless every citizen will rule himself wisely and virtuously, and. thereby need little governing. Hence, republican governments to be safe and stable require that each citizen be more careful to respect the rights of his neighbors than to assert too strenuously his own rights. For the production of a citizenry thus disposed to regard the rights of others and sacrifice its own. a every rich and moral life is necessa ry. Without this moral life there will be under republican governments inev itable conflicts between citizens whicM will run to riots and may easily termi nate in anarchy. This was the history of the republics of the ancient world, and it must be the history of the modern world, unless the modem world '•an supply a nobler mor el life than that which prevailed under the republics of Greece and Roma. Anarchy is the outcome of free gov- Fish Fish Fish Prop u* * card and w* will p*it you on to something with which you can turn roar neighbor ;re*n w th *nry by catching dead Inedo of them in streams. where he has become disgusted trying to catch them the old-fashioned way. 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Bex 4<2 WoatMars. MA. Tells why chicks die E. J. Reefer, the poultry expert, 415 Reefer Bldg., KanNis City. Mo., is ririrg away tree a valuaidc book entitled. ’‘White D irrh-*a i»d How to Cure it.’’ Ths book coota.r.s scienl.Sc fucta on white diarrhoea •-4 t»lto ►-w tn pe»:tr* a str: • b--h« toiubno rvrt th a tar* e • 6i»m> aver ewwt ard ar* xlty r> *“a M par e«at of vvery hatrn AH poaHr* r»wr* a*- : rcrtaa&o vnta Mr. •m oa« a< fawaa = /W METAL PAINT = number 19 I yd Foraßmeta! work—bridges, z >. ytf’ULr mots. tank*, smokestacks.: =• lAc lxulen. etc ; withstands heat. = CDV| Crude Coal Tar. for mixture j»ith eio. = = ./~ tiers for paving cellar Boon, waftways. = = ATLANTA GAS LIGHT CO. 2 7S Marietta St. t i emment unless the people are of the most elevated character. And when anarchy comes, the people tire of a freedom which has become more op pressive than monarchy, and then they proceed to make a king to rule over them and suppress disorderly elements. It is to be feared that bur people after more than a hundred years of repub lican government, are not sufficiently unselfish to assure its future. The gov ernment is Imperiled by the greed of men of all classes. We now see men of the capitalistic class seeking to make enormous profits out of the war if they can; and, on the other hand, we have re cently seen the men of the labor unions imperil the government at a grave crisis in its history by threatening a strike of nation-wide etxent. It Is but fair to say that the wisdom and patriotism of the railway managers prevented a most serious situation; but the incident has left upon the minds of the thoughtful people a deep qtatrust of the men who took advantage of the critical situation to show a readiness to imperil the re public in order to have their own way. It is too clear for argument that no re public can stand when any considerable number of its people are thus lacking in patriotism. With such manifestations of selfish ness in our own country, the most ar dent friends of free government can not look with unmixed hopefulness up on the rising republic of China and Rus sia. The democratization of the world is going on, but the experiment is not cheering in view of the fact that the Intelligence and virtue of the world is not rising as rapidly as free institu tions are springing up. Unless a high er mortality and a nobler spirit of self sacrifice can be propagated throughout the earth, the spread of repulican insti tutions means no good to the race, and in the end will produce a reaction towards absolution. It cannot be otherwise. And if free institutions in the United States, South America, Russia and China fall, then the last hope of lieberty for mankind will expire. It follows from these considerations that it is the highest duty of Christian men and the lovers of freedom to spread the truths and influeneve of christiaity throughout the world as speedily as pos sible. This is the program of moral preparedness which must be executed in order to promote the permanence of re publican governments among men. No military, or naval, or industrial prepar edness can take the place of this pro gram of moral preparedness. A program of more Intellectual pre paredness will not suffice. Mere intel lectualism is as selfish as commercial ism. and it is capable of the most op pressive selfishness. Witness the case of Germany. Intellectualism has been thoroughly tried in the German empire, and by it has been accomplished there all that it ever can accomplish anywhere; but what has been the result. It has brought forth a political heirarchy which regards treaties as mere "scraps of pa per;" it has produced a militarism as barbarous as any which every exerted itself for the destruction of men in the most barbarous land and time; it has produced a people ready to submit to the commands of this immoral political heirarchy and obey without questioning this barbarous and relentless militarism. Intellectualism has made Germany what it is; but if the whole world were Ger manized. gross darkness “would fill the earth and free institutions would disap pear from the planet. The American people are unfortunate ly pinning their faith to mere intellec tualism. The tendencies of American educational currents is towards secular ism and faithlessness. Our republican institutions were framed by men edu cated in denominational colleges. Jef ferson came from William and Mary col lege when it was a school of the Episco palians; Madison came from Princeton when it was palpitating in the ardent faith of the Presbyterians; Webster came from Dartmouth when it was fill ed with spiritual life; and Calhoun was in Yale during the great revivals of re ligion which prevailed in that institution when Timothy Dwight was president Many of these men and their contem poraries may have been deficient in per sonal virtue; but they were never able to separate themselves utterly from the high religious inspiration which came to them in the days of their youth. Hence their patriotism breathed the spirit of piety. Can secularists, who have been separated from religion and who de spise religion, preserve institutions which sprang out of faith and were nourished by Christianity? The enlightenment of our people is go ing on. in so far as mere secular ed ucation can Impart enlightenment; but it does not appear that education is making them more self-sacrificing or more devoted to the republic. On the contrary, this peculiar education is cre ating insatiable ambitions and restless discontent. We see on every hand great masses of men stirred by dissatisfaction with their lot. their brains addled and confused-by doctrines which are only half the truth and only half understood by thens. These ill educated men turn out agitators of every sort, and threaten public order whenever their personal or class Interests are Involved. Not by intellectualism, nor by com mercialism. nor by anything except morality and religion can a republican form of government be made perma nent. The area of freedom can never be wider than the area of faith. if men dethrone God they will destroy democracy. This truth was well stated by that brilliant Frenchman. W. De- Toqueville when he said, "Despotism may govern without faith, ‘but liberty can not. How is it possible that so ciety should escape destruction if the moral tie be not strengthened in pro portion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters, if they be not submissive to the Deity?” A free world must be a religious world. Laugh When People Step On Your Feet Try this yourself then pass It along to others. It works! Ouch !?!?!! This kind of rough talk will be heard lees here in town if people troubled with corns will follow the simple advice of this Cincinnati au thority. who claims that a few drops of a drug called freezone when applied to a tender, aching corn stops soreness al once, and soon the corn dries up and lifts right out without pain. He says freezone is an ether com pound which dries immediately and never Inflames or even Irritates the surrounding tissue or skin. A quarter of an ounce of freezone will cost very little at any drug store, but is sufficient to remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one's feet. Millons of American women will welcome this an nouncement since the inauguration of the high heels.—<AdvC.> THE ATLANTA SEMLWEEKLY JOURNAL’, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL' 17, 1917. Bron 9 l»e«»r Aunt Julia: Will you please ndtnlt <t 1 tow from the dear old state of Georgia. I have boon a silent reader of tho letters from the cousins*. and decided I would write « few lines to the letter box and help to keep it. going. How many of you boys and girlt* like to go fishing? I have not been any this year, but I am going pretty soon. I am in the sixth grade., our iw-hool will close on the 30th of March. Thu United States and Germany are about to go to war with each other, but I think that President Wilson will do all na can to keep the United States out of war. J think that Wocdrow Wilson Is the greatest president wo hove had since Washington was president. Well, I will cioaa, hoping that the letter box will be a sucrese. •HA RUB RITCHIE. Colquitt, Ga., R. F. D 7. Pear Aunt Julia: I am very interested in your letter bex for us children, and think it so generous of you to offer us such an oppor tunity to express ourselves in print. I think every boy and girl should take advantage of it. I am an invalid, and have been for about twelve years. I can't walk a step, but 1 have a roller -hair and go to church and other pub lic places right often. Despite my affliction I enjoy life just fine. I am sixteen years old, and have brown hair and eyes. I live *n Rabun county in a mountainous community, but I do not regret that at all, for the scenery Is so beautiful here In sum mer. We have some jolly little birdies that butll on our back porch each summer. I am •x --pecting them to visit us soon. I am extremely fond of birds, flowers and music. We have a canning club agent in this county. Her name Is Miss Maude York. Wo also have a farm demonstration agent. His name la Mr Hendricks. I think every county should have each of these, because they are wo bene ficial. I am afraid my letter is too long, and won’t be printed. If it isn't I will remember the old saying, "try. try again." With every good wish for your future suc cess, 1 am. Yours truly, NOBIA KEENER. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I hope you will allow space enough in your letter box, which I believe is proving to be a grand success, for a North Carolina boy. 1 enjoy reading Tho Journal, am a sub scriber and think it a grand paper. Our school closed the »th Inst. Ws gave an entertainment on this day, which was a suc cess. I finished the seventh grade this time, averaging 95 per cent nearly. My favorite books are the Bible, Webster's unabridged dic tionary and books of history and adventure. Os course, I can’t skip my school books and the farmers' bulletins published by the United States department of agriculture. How many of the cousins arc interested in these bulletins? lam not s lover of novels much. Believing that when a person does his duty as to labor and studies his other books he will have no time [ to waste on these books. What do you think of the European conflict? | Uncle Sam la being drawn into it. I think we boys ought to be ready when we reach the j proper age to offer our sen-ices to our country, i We have an excellent president this time. I’m [ pretty sure. Cousins, which is the shortest verse in the s Old Testament? How many times does the words "farm,” •'arguments,” "hunting" and | ••Reverend" occur In the Bible? What two chapters in the Bible are alike? Judging from the descriptions in the letters I to Aunt Julia 1 know the gjrls that wrote them are just bound to be pretty. Girls, answers these riddles. "Why is a girl s thoughts like I the moon? Why do girls look at the moon? Miss Horton, I. too, hope to see more letters i from the old North State, Guess 1 had better stop, as I do not wish to worry Aunt Julia in my first attempt to write. With love to all. Fitch, N. C. E. V. BOSWELL. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins; I am so glad Aunt Julia has given we little folks a chance to write as we will some day be the grown \ folks of the country. I can't tell what I am • interested In most. 1 try to take nn interest in all farming, caring for cows, mules and chick ens, and my Interest goes a long way toward education. Am trying hard to get a good edu cation so I will be ready for most anything when I am a grown man. But deliver me from war! I think it the most cruel thing to shoot down a mother's boy after she has so tenderly cared for him—and to shoot the father’s boy when he has planned so much about what be wants his boy to be! We take the dear old Journal and think It grand. For pets I have two darling sisters, Mary and Hazel. MARSHALL McCARTEK. Hamilton, Ga.. R. F. D. 2. Dear Annt Julia: Please make room for me in your column. What a wonderful season the spring is! I never see the trees bud out, the leaves and fields grow green and multi-colored with flowers that I don’t think of the eternal truths of life and eternity. We need a return to simplicity and modesty and clean mindedness and all the nice attributes of real manhood and real womanhood, and in associating and seeking a mate remember that the flash of attractive ness of appearance and manners are the least to be relied on. Look under the surface for the real qualities of manhood and womanhood and never notice or associate with a boy that is all the time boasting of being a "sport.” Keep company and associate with those whose life is clean and honest anti pure. We young ladles should be "standard lifters" of civilisa tion. When young women demand of their escorts and associates the open, honest, clean, pure life that they are willing to give in return it would sound the death knell to a lot of meanness on the part of our young men. Well, I guess I must close and let some one else talk. Before I go I will say I live on a farm four miles from the little town of Newton. I have brown hair and large brown eyes, am a Methodist and 1 stand up for the right in all things. With be- • wishes, BALUE MAY ADAMS. Newton, Ga., Rt. 8. Dear Auntie and Cousins I wonder If you will admit a little yellow hammer into your happy band of boys and girls. I am a girl, aged nine years. I wonder if any of the cous ins have my birthday, the Fourth of July, In dep«>dence ’ day. Mamma says I am pretty independent some times. Igo to school every opportunity I get and I study the third grade. I am a farmer’s girl and live in the country. We live at the crossroads. It Is almost like being in town, so many cars, carriages and so on pass from daylight till darkness. Why don't some more Alabama cousins write? Come on. and let’s not let all the other states get ahead of us. Let's show them that there Is some Intellect in Alabama. Guess I had better hush before Mr. Wastebasket la called in. A loving couains, MATTIE LOU TRULL. Winfield, AU.. R. R. 1. Dear Aunt Julia: Am much Interested in the letter box department of The Journal. Find much of Interest therein. We live on a farm on the north shore of Long Island, thirty miles from Great New York, within one mile of a thriving town of 3,000 Inhabitants on Hunting ton bay, where Natheu Hale was captured by the British. Our winters are quite severe, the glass frequently showing the mercury at zero. Skating and coasting affords lots of sport at that time of year. EDDIE SAMMIB. EDDIE S. SAMMES. Northport, L. 1., N. Y. Hello, Aunt Julia; Here comes a little Georgia girl who wants to correspond with the cousins of the letter box. I have been reading the other children’s letters with much interst, so I thought I wonld write you a short lettrr. I am thirteen years of nge, have been going to school at Naomi and study the eighth grade. Our school has closed until summer on account of measles. I live tn the country and enjoy country Ute. as ws can raise so many nice things to eat. For pastime I crochet, read story books and study my school books. Also help mamma cook. An my letter is getting rather lengthy I will ring off, wishing yon much success with PEARL HARRIS, your letter box. Your new niece. laFayette. Ga., Route 2. Dear Aunt Julia: Here comes a Jasper coun ty boy to join your happy band. I take The Journal and like the letter box just fine. I live on a small farm of fifty acres, and like it. 1 am fifteen years of age and weigh 156 pounds. We are having some rainy weather and the farmers are gtttlng behind with their crop«. Will write again if this escapes the wastebasket. 1 would like to exchange cards and letters with other boys and girls of this corner. 1 will ring off for this time. A farmer's son CORRIE HUFF. Montlcella. Ga., R 2. Dear Aunt Julia: Will you let me . an Ala bama girl. loln your clnb? Aunt Julia, I think your letter box la quiet a success. Papa flakes The Journal. I think 1t Is a ?yand paper. 1 enjoyed the story of "Dine of the Great Game" so much. I read the "One Woman," and think It la a good story. Have von cousins been fishing any thia year? I have been fishing once. I can crochet and tat: can crochet most any thing I try. but cannot tat very much. I am thirteen years old end study the seventh grade at school. As this Is my first attempt to write I will dose for fear my letter may find the wnstebas ket. Ixtvingly, V ESSIE HOWLE. Heflin, Ala., Route 1. Dear Aunt Julia and Couains; Will you allow aaothez Uttie Alabama bay to Jala jour circle? ] I «m nine years oM; my birthday is February 17. I am almost a Valentine boy. I wish my birthda.v was on St. Valentine's day. 1 go to school at Pleasant Greve. My teacher’s name is Miss Marie Hnftstedlor. I like her fine. Professor Little Is the prlnei|>al of our school. Our school will be out next Friday. Then I will help papa in the field. I am just learn ing to plow. I am glad to see so many letters from Alabama boys and girls in our corner Write again, Emmmett I’opwell. I am glad to hear from t'lanton. for 1 lived there last year. Will close, with love to Aunt Julia and the cousins. L. D. ALEXANDER. Route 1, Ensley. Ala. Reunion Did It Dear Aunt Julia and the Cousins: Will try to write you a letter. I have just finished reading the cousins' letters, and think them just grand. I am thirteen years old and am in the sixth n -rade at school. My little slater wrote last week, she will be a* glaq to see her letters; she is visiting our cousin in the little town of Ashford, Ala. Wish some of the cousins could be with me thia summer; we would have grand old times. My grandpa has just purchased a fine auto and we certainly have a nice time going to ride. My home :s four miles south of Dotban, it ia a little city. The W. O. W. have just cloaed otre of their state conventions in our city and now Dothan is entertaining one of the Shrinera’ clubs, so you see we have something all the time. We also have a county fair, which con venes every October; it is just grand. Now couains, if you want to enjoy things -we have them here. Two summer resorts near Dothan. I will ring eff for fear of Aunt Julia's waste basket. LESLIE WATFORD. Dothan, Ala. Dear Aunt Julia: I read your letter in the Semi-Weekly and I think your plan is a nice one. My father takes The Journal and I urn always glad when It comes as 1 can read the letters from the cousins. I am a farmers daughter and like country life. I would not change It for the city. 1 like to work on the farm. I also like to read good books and cro chet. I am five feet and four Inches high, weigh 135 pounds. Have blue eyes and dark wavy hair. I ride three miles on a kid wagon to Carson High school, and I am in the tenth grade. Hurry up Virginia boys and girls and do not let the other states beat us. LIZZIE MAGEE. Carson, Va., Route No. 2. Hello Aunt Julia and Cousins: I think the •letter box is a splendid idea for the boys and girls and I do hope enough of them will take interest In this t» make a whole big page >a The Semi-Weekly. I see there are eight letters from Georgia, three from South Carolina, seven from Alabama, two from North Carolina, two from Tennessee, one from Virginia and one from Mississippi. I nm Interested In dear old Georgia and I wa it Georgia to tank highest in everything. I am fourteen years old and am in the first I class high echool; am fond of tatting and can • rochet, but like athletics best of all. I love ! to play basketball, baseball and other out-door : games. I want to suggest to all of you cousins that Aunt Julia have her picture put at the top of the column. In our school we have four good teachers and every other Friday we have a literary io- I clety and have great fun playing the piano, listening to recitations and declamations and , hearing some of them discuss current events. I want you Georgia boys to get up. I be lieve we all are asleep; wake up and write to Aunt Julia. I don't believe there is but five boys that have written to Aunt Julia and I hope you will all write to her. I have a little calf that I am very fond of and she Is a very pretty little thing and I call her Frankie. I guess I had better stop as this is my first letter. GERTIE MORRIS. Marietta. Ga., 527 Atlanta street. P. S.—l would like to exchange cards and lettera with you couains, especially Nannie I-ou i Means and Hilda Smith. Dear Aunt Julia: I thought 1 would join ' your circle. I enjoy reading ‘the cousins' let ters very much. I am a little school girl, twelve years old. I go to school at County Line, about two miles west of Mt. Hope. My teachers' names are Miss Vista Walrep and Miss Zada Richeson. I sure do like them fine. Will ring off, hoping to see this in print- With love and beet wishes to Aunt Julia and the cousins. . CARRIE MAE SONS. Mt Hope, Ala. Dear Aunt Julia: I have jnst been reading the letters in your corner, and I decided 1 would write, too. I sure am glad to see so many letters from Georgia and mine will be another If *t happens to get In print. How many of you cousins can crochet and make tatting? I can crochet but can't make tatting. I sure am anxious to learn how. I live on a farm and like it fine. I sure will be glad when the fruit gets ripe. I think It would be interesting to us cousins for Aunt Julia to write a good piece in the paper every week. I am sure we all wonld like It fine. I must close, as my letter Is getting long. Your niece, RUBY MATHIS. Adairsville, Ge., Route 2. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will yon allow me to join your hapy circle? I am a farmer's son, who takes the dear old Journal. We all think It a fine paper. I enjoy the letter box fine, think It Is the best part of the paper. I will give a few rules which have been very helpful to me and maybe will help some one else, if this gets by Mr. Wastebasket, and If not all right. Herr they are: "Never be idle; make few promises; always speak the truth; neither emoke nor chew tobacco; smile at everyone you meet; face your trembles bravely, If yon have any; avoid unnecessary trouble; keep cool in time nf danger: never S[>rak evil of anyone, keep good company or none; live up to your en gagements; good character Is above all else; earn money before you spend it." I have thirteen more rules that I wib write text time. As 1 am using too much space, will Will excliinge cards with any of the cousins. I will leave my age lor y>u to guess, but will say I am a junior this year in Lincoln High school. Affectionately your nephew and cousin, ALVES P. PARTON. Ohatchie, Ala., R. No. 1. | GIRLS! MAKE A | ? BEAUTY LOTION :: i WITH LEMONS i: At the cost of a small jar of ordinary cold cream one can prepare a full quar ter pint of the most wonderful lemon skin softener and complexion beauti fier, by squeezing the juice of two fresh lemons Into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white. Care should be taken to strain the juice through a fine cloth so no lemon pulp gets In, then this lotion will keep fresh for months. Every woman knows that lemon juice Is used to bleach and re move such blemishes as freckles, sal lowness and tan and is the Ideal skin softener, smoothener and beautifiy. Just try it! Get three ounces of orchard white at any pharmacy and two lemons from the grocer and make up a quarter pint of this sweetly fragrant lemon lotion and massage it dally into the face, neck, arms and hands. It should naturally help to whiten, soften, freshen and bring out the roses and beauty of any skin. It is truly marvel ous to smoothen rough, red hands." (Advt.) Tobacco Habit Easily Overcome A New Yorker, of wide experience, has j written a book telling how the tobacco or snuff habit may be easily and quick ly banished with delightful benefit. The author. Edward J. Woods, 831 H, Station E, New York City, will mail his book free on request. The health improves wonderfully aft er tobacco craving Is conquered. Calm ness, tranquil sleep, clear eyes, normal appetite, good digestion, manly vigor.' strong memory and a general gain in ef ficiency are among the many benefits re ported. Get rid of that nervous, irrita ble feeling; no more need of pipe, cigar, cigarette, snuff or chewing tobacco to pacify morbid desire,—CAdvt.) > WEAVING buu'in UUAlfili THE WAR TIME. When I was a child, nearly all farm homes owned a 100m —a reel, and spin ning wheel. My father owned a store. »o it was easier for my mother to se cure cloth for her small family than to spin and weave it. Therefore I did not learn to weave—nor to warp—nor to "draw in threads," etc. I regretted my incapacity very much when the war time required home weaving. We had a family of black and white nearing eighty in number, and the time came when the exigencies of war made, it necessary to manufacture cloth at home. We then equipped ourselves with a big old-fashioned loom, plenty of spinning wheels and all the womenkind, black and white, entered into the busi ness in dead earnest. We lived about thirty miles from the Roswell factory, where we could buy factory yarns in 5-pound bunches. We bought these yarns by the wagon load. A trip to Roswell took the most of two days, so It was some trip for my hus band and little son, who enjoyed the jeurney greatly. We bought coarse yarns for heavy, coarse cloth, No.’s 6 and 8. We had No.’s 10 and 12 fob dresses and lighter cloth, but I sent for No. 20 to make sewing thread, and for fine knitting. I engaged the services of a maiden lady, who came to us by the week. She taught me how to warp the thread on warping bars. The thread was dipped in sizing, made stiff from boiled corn meal, then placed on reels and then drawn onto spools made of corn cobs put on the spindles of spin ning wheels. When we had “spooled” two bunches of factory yarn we then gathered them on the "spooling frames.” Then we caught the ends of the thread of spools enough to make a web, to be nearly a yard wide. With this mass of thread In hand, the weaver begun at the top and wound this mass of damp thread on the big working bars, mov ing to and fro, until the whole of thread was wound on the beam of the loom, and finally each thread was pick ed apart and pulled through the mech anism of loom work, until the work was ready for the filling. The shuttle was thrown across the web, under and over, until sixty yards of cloth were completed. The filling was spun at home, and reeled and transferred to quills for the shuttle. Oh! It was hard work for me! Twill, after working sixty yards at a time I was ill In bed, serious illness. But I did learn, until I could teach the col ored weavers, and we did continue to get some clothing. THE EXPLOSION HORRORS. The many and constantly repeating explosions which are chronicled in every day’s newspapers are what we may con stantly expect since war was declared against Germany. Austria and Turkey also are against us. We may well understand that these United States are full of people of foreign birth and lineage. The lack of proper immigration laws has been the cause of this foreign population, and our loose way of registration and our culpability in regard to the use of the foreign vote in our large cities. We sowed the whirlwind, we will reap the tornado and the maelstrom. How many girls and women who were blown to fragments near Philadelphia last week we may never know. Four, hundred were employed In the two build ings, that were completely wrecked. The explosions tor© up the earth until the ambulances could not drive near the aw ful wreck. God help us and save us in this time of awful and stealthy dan gers! The blowing up of the grain elevators in the state of Minnesota and the burn ing up of one million bushels of wheat on Tuesday, the 9th, inflicts a deep and lasting injury. The bread is sorely needed and will be badly missed. This is only a small beginning for one day. There are grain elevators and munition plants all over this country. We have insufficient men to police this country— and we may expect to encounter spies, strategisms and wilful murder of the innocent and helpless, in many and div ers places. It is a gala time also for as sassins, and they will strike wherever they are filled with hatred sufficient. The women of the •United States may as well prepare to suffer as we south ern women suffered in the Confederate war We had less danger in the 60s at home than we have In the United States today. My heart aches to know that 80 per cent of the women who vyere blown to atoms near Philadelphia were young girls trying to earn a living. WHAT WAR MEANS TO THE HUME When I saw my fifteen-year-old brother —my parents’ only son—in hts Confederate uniform, and when I saw my mother's anguish when she bade the lad good-by, to go to the army In West Virginia. I realized, as I never did be fore. what war meant to the home, where peace and plenty had reigned eince my earliest remembrance, and where sleep less nights now prevailed and anxiety almost torturing to my delicate mother filled her heart. He was a slender boy, and. of course, beardless, and he was as pleased as he could be to become a mem ber of the Gate City Guards of Atlanta. I took a violent sick headache when the news came to me, and I wrung my hands in distress when I recollected that the demon war had taken my only brother into its bloody maw, and the boy would oe one of its victims in loss of education and loss of home protection when he was nothing but a baby as to experience in the hardships of life. As I read the call for soldiers and ma riners in last evening’s Journal. I knew what was In store for the mothers of the United States. I have three sons in the heavenly land, and only one who has lived to mature age. f laid down the paper and said. "He doeth all things well.” T have mourned for those dead boys of mine as only a mother could grieve and lament. They were fine young boys (one a two-year-old. and the pride of my heart). Today, with the snows of four score years resting on my aged head, I can truly bless God that three of these precious ones are safe In the great be yond. No war or rumors of war can disturb their blessed repose The supreme horror of war lies in the destruction of the hoys—consuming the seed corn of the nation. Bank Robbers Grab $2,000 at Chattanooga i’HATTANOOGA, Tenn.. April 14. Two strangers armed with pistols en tered the First National bank at Cross ville at 1 o’clock this afternoon and forced the cashier J. S. Read, the as sistant cashier, W. L. Guthrie, and the bookkeeper, B. B. Hally, to enter the large vault, after which they shut the door, supposing they had locked ft. and made their getaway with wwhat money | they could find on the counter and cash i darwers. They got away with less than I?,000. There was $13,000 in the vault which was not disturbed. When the bank officers got out of the vault the robbers had fled. Bloodhounds were called from this city in the meantime, and a large posse Is in search of the robbers. dESc! wl®/1 xDiT. 5 Flush the Kidneys How one Aclt Caises Son, Meunatlsii, Lubaso I By L. H. SMITH, M. DJ It was not until the discovery by Sir Arthur Gerod, in 1848, that the blood of ; gouty patients contained uric acid in an excessively large amount, that much attention was paid to this subject. Later scientific men learned that in gout, also rheumatism, the kidneys do not work properly to throw off the uric acid poison; consequently uric acid crys tals are deposited in and about the joints, ONE WOMAN’S By Carolyn I STORY 1 Beecher CHAPTER XIV. , AS spring advanced I felt weak and languid, too much so to re sent Robert's frequent absences which sometimes he explained, oftener not One day he came home and found me on the couch, and when I tried to get up, I fainted. He was all loving tenderness and anxiety when I recov ered, and insisted upon sending for the doctor. My first thought after the kind old doctor had left me was to put on my hat and fly down to the ’office with my news. Then the remembrance of Robert’s coldness, the thought of Hol land Lansing, deterred me. I would keep my wonderful secret for a while. For days I struggled with an unac countable depression; and in spite of myself I was occasionally so distraught that I felt I must crawl into Robert’s arms and tell him the wonderful thing which had come to us. Several times I started to tell him. Each time he said something that shut my lips. But my depression, keeping my secret, be gan to tell upon me. "I have sent for Matilda," Robert told me one night. “I hope she will come back. You aren’t looking well, I guess the work is too much for you.” But Matilda didn’t come. 1 suppose she thought it beneath her dignity, as she had refused to go back to "Mrs. Senator Plunkett." We found a young girl, however, who could cook better than I could, and with my supervision could keep the house in order. Myrtle and Ned Caldwell had been spending the evening with us. and after they had left I sat quietly gaz ing into the fire, wondering when I could get up my courage to tell Robert. He came over to me, and, putting his hand under my chin, raised my eyes to his. "What is It, Margaret, don't you feel well tonight?” he asked gently. I tried to speak, but I could not, and burst into tears. "It’s—oh—Robert!” and I was gath ered into his arms, a light of under standing illumining his face. A song of exultation leaped to my brain, then surged through my body. How he loved me after all, and this would make him love me more. How foolish I had been not to tell him be fore, I thought as I nestled in his arms and listened to his words of love and joy. He was mine, entirely mine; no one could take him from me. Life Is not measured by days or months or years, but by events. The next few months of my life were so wonderful, a great golden memory. All that mattered, all that had any bear ing on my life was the coming of my child, and the love and tenderness with which Robert enfolded me. 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International Harvester Company of America \1 1 (lacsrporated) ■ (flb CHICAGO U S Axvj, I Champion Deering McCormick Milwaukee Osborne Plano ■ in the muscles, where an inflamma tion is set up in the nearby tissues. Hague has said, that ” gout is rheu matism, and rheumatism is. gout.” If uric acid is formed in excess within the body it is passed on to the kid nevs, which act as a filter to pass off this poison. If the excess is not excreted by the kidneys, it is distri buted thru the tissues. The choice sites for such storage are in the joints, muscle-sheaths, where the circulation is weakest, and where also the alkalin ity of the blood is lowest. Conzj** quently we must do everything to i throw off this uric acid poison, and simple methods are best. Flush the I kidneys by drinking 6 to 8 glasses of water between meals. A pint of hot » water a half hour before meals. Take Anuric (double or triple strength), three times a day for awhile. Invigorate and assist the kid neys to flush out the uric acid poisons. During winter months the circulation » is apt to be sluggish and the blood stream retarded. If uric acid is pres ent it is apt to clog the capillaries. This accounts for many acute condi tions, such as headache, neuralgia, gastric disturbances, and dull mind. As the condition progresses, we often have lumbago, disease of the heart and artenes, breaking down of the kidneys,rheumatism and goutv symp .toms. Eat less meat, drink more water, and take Anuric (double or * triple strength) after meals and at bed time for several weeks at a time, and you will be free from uric acid and the diseases that follow. (Advt.) dreams of lasting happiness such as L now enjoyed. “Would you like mother to come?” Robert asked, knowing my wisllke to my stepmother, and, manlike, sensing the need of the presence of an older woman during my trial. "Oh, yes! Do send for her!’*l ex claimed, my heart beating as I thought - of having some one to mother me All distaste, all fear of mothers-m-law swallowed up by that need. Mother Drayton came immediately. She was a lovely old lady. Robert look ed jdst like her. But the serious grav ity which attracted in him repelled in her. From the first I was afraid of her. her stern, uncompromising atti tude, her wonderful housekeeping, her intolerance. She completely reorganized the hous» She sent the girl away, and declared she would do the work, all but the wash ing. She cooked deliciously, but the food was ashes in my mouth, because of the repellent manner. Once I pluck ed up courage to mention it to Robert, but he frowningly told me I didn’t un derstand her, and that I would love her when I did; that her manner had al ways been severe, but that her heart was very kindly. He was right and I was wrong, as it so often turned out. When baby came I was very ill. For days my life was despaired of, and as I slowly convalesced I first began to appreciate the stern, capable woman. Then, as she gave of herself, her strength, to me and my son, I com menced to love her. We named the baby Bruce, after my brother. When we wrote him he sent a hundred dollars. "Start a bank account for the little beggar, and tell him I’ll come out and look him over-.later In the summer.” "Wouldn’t 1t be funny if Bruce should fall in love with Holland Lansing?” I asked Robert. I thought he winced, as with a Shrug of his shoulders he replied: “It would be a very good matoh for Bruce.” “And for her!” I returned, watching Robert closely, doubt again entering my mind. When Babykins—as we called him—■ was six weeks old Mother Drayton left us. I missed her horribly of course, but she was now hardly necessary to my happiness. The young girl we had when mother came was with us again and was so devoted to the baby that I overlooked many faults, not the least being that she did not make Robert comfortable. I was to blame also, as I was so wrapped up In my boy; so interested in him. that I relegated Robert and his needs to second place—but unconsciously. Women are inclined to do this when the first baby comes; and too late re alize their mistake. Men do not enjoy being pushed aside, not even for their own children. r - (Continued Next Issue.) 5