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“BOY WANTED.”
“Wanted—a Boy.” How often we
This quite familiar notice nee!
Wanted—a boy for every kind
Of task that a busy world can find.
He is wanted—wanted now and here;
There are towns to build; there are paths
to clear;
There are seas to sail; there are gulfs to
span.
In the ever-onward march of man.
Wanted—the world wants boys to-day,
And it offers them all it has for pay.
'Twill grant them wealth, position, fame,
A useful life and an honored name—
Boys who will guide the plow and pen;
Boys who will shape the way for men;
Boys who will forward the tasks began,
For the world's great work is never done.
The world is eager to employ
Not just one, hut every boy,
Who with a purpose stanch and true
Will greet tin; work he finds to do.
Honest, faithful, earnest, kind,
To good awake, to evil blind,
A heart of gold without alloy—
Wanted the world wants such a hoy.
—Nixon Waterman.
Asking
To the end of his day Ellithorpe
will never forget his sensations when
he read the simple, cold-blooded an
nouncement in the society column
of the newspaper. The sickening
feeling which overwhelmed him still
lingers vividly in his memory.
The notice was to the effect that
the engagement of Miss Rose Bur
lingame to Doyle Jenkins was
announced. That was all, but It was
the end of the world for Ellithorpe.
As he glared at the crumpled
Mowspaper he admitted that he had
dallied. For two years he has been
a constant caller at the Burlingame
home. For two years he lived In the
light of her presence and hadn’t
opened his mouth to tell her how he
felt about it. He had always meant to
do so, but he was shy. Never in his
maddest dreams hud he pictured any
other girl wearing orange blossoms
and a tulle veil for him. And now—
If It had been any other man than
Jenkins! Hut he was honest enough
to admit that he would have been
just ns enraged and upset no matter
who had been his lucky rival. Still,
it did him good to pretend his wrath
was because .Tonkins parted his hair
offensively in the middle and had a
tendency to 1 isp.
Elllthorpe pushed his dinner away
without a look t the tempting chop
and left (lie club. •Ho wanted to
walk and think it over. There was
Plenty to think about—what a fool
he bad been, for instance. lie might,
have known others admired her as
well ns himself. What a conceited
chump he had been to fancy it didn’t
matter when he spoke! Why, there
were always plenty of callers hover
ing about Hose, but he had been so
wrapped up in his own liking for her
he had not thought about anything
else. Now he was well paid for it.
Where on earth would he spend
Joyful evenings now? For he never
could sit in the same room with the
successful Jenkins without stran
gling him, lie was grimly certain. And
Rose wouldn't care to have him call
now that she had picked out Jenkins.
Elllthorpe groaned aloud.
Suddenly an overpowering desire
to see her again, to view her in the
light of this stupendous change, came
over him and he boarded a car. it
was quite right he should call and
offer his congratulations, he told
himself miserably. All the way out
there he was rehearsing different
ways of doing this without giving her
n hint of the anguish in his soul —for
he had resolved never to let her
know.
When he reached her street he had
not decided whether to begin the con
versation in a calm and everyday
manner, gradually leading up in an
Incidental way to the news of her en
gagement as though he merely re
membered to speak of it along with
other pleasant news, or whether, in a
sprightly and jesting manner, to
plunge into the subject at once. He
rather inclined toward the former as
the more likely to give Rose's vanity
a letting down and to show her tf
she had any lingering suspicions as
to his caring deeply for her that she
was wholly mistaken.
The maid had ushered him into the
Burlingame library, and at sight of
the familiar room his heart dropped
several more notches. Decidedly he
would choose the first way; maybe
he would even apparently forget to
mention her engagement till he was
ready to go home, just as though it
had nearly slipped his memory.
“Good evening, Dick," she said just
behind him.
Ellithorpe sprang to his feet. She
was looking perfectly natural, happy
and placid, not at all important as he
had fancied she would, and she
walked over to a chair as though
uothing had happened.
Ellithorpe's eyes blurred and he
realised to his horror that he couldn't
follow out his program.
“I can't believe it. Rose," he heard
himself saying, huskily.
“Believe what?” she asked in sur
prise, which grew as she noted his
tragic attitude.
k “This, ’ said Ellithorpe dramati
caliy, fishing out the newspaper fold
ed at the fatal notice and handing it
to her. As the girl scanned it her
turned crimson. There was a sparkle
of wrath in her eyes.
“How perfectly horrible! ” she cried
vehemently. “It's a mistake. I can’t
imagine who put it in. And Doyle
Jenkins of all people! As though I
—why, I never heard of such a
thing!”
“You aren’t engaged to him?” El
lithorpe shouted.
“I should say not!” said Rose de
cidedly. ,
It was then Ellithorpe found his
wits and his voice.—Chicago News.
A VOICE OF PROTEST.
Maker of Sunday Supplements Docs
Not Let Them Come in His House.
Some of us do not read the Sunday
papers at all; some of us do not
think it right, still more do not think
It wise. But in this day I venture to
say that every one of us has at least
seen a Sunday supplement. Many of
us have seen our own children, or
our neighbor’s children, poring ever
the atrocious daubs representing still
more atrocious pursuits of the elu
sive joke. We all know the harm
they do.
I asked an artist whose name is a
houshold word in at least half a mil
lion homes why he made such awful
pictures for the colored supplements.
His answer was short:
“Because the people like them.”
In the next sentence he confessed
that he did not allow his two boys to
see his own pictures. In fact, he
never let the Sunday supplements
come into his house. Unconsciously
he was placing himself in the same
class with the saloon keeper who
does not drink and the gambling
house keeper who never touches
cards.
The artist himself doesn’t like the
pictures; you don’t like them, I don’t
like them. Take a fcanvass in your
neighborhood, and you will find that
your neighbors don’t like them.
Who are “the people,” anyhow?
In this instance untrained children
are responsible for the demand. Of
course your baby likes them. Doesn’t
lie like red scarfs for the masculine
neck, and wouldn't he scream for joy
if his father donned pink trousers?
Isn’t he fond of runaway horses and
fast moving trains —of action wher
ever lie can find or make it? That's
why he likes the pictures in the Sun
day paper—they have color and ac
tion in abundance. In the same way
he has enjoyed the pleasing stanzas
ot Mother Goose, and their marginal
illustrations. The essential qualities
are there and the vulgarities are
spared.
There is a demand, a real demand,
for pictures of consecutive action
clearly drawn and without the ac
companying incidents of pouring red
ink down a speaking tube of sawing
the legs off the dining-room table.
Well, the remedy is in your own
hands. We have only to quote one
of the cardinal prescriptions of mod
ern life:
’’When you don’t like a thing, say
so.”
In this case “say so” to the edito"
of your paper; write it to him, get
your neighbor to write him, too.
Build up an endless chain of criti
cism and protest if you will, and see
how soon the objectionable pictures
will be dropped.
If we cannot be funny without "set
ting a bad example to our children,
let us even be serious. Woman's
Home Companion.
Painting by tho Acre.
Under ordinary circumstances the
ships of the largest and most care
fully managed lines arc painted at
the end of every voyage. Every .ime
a Cunarder, for instance, arrives in
port she is repainted. This is no
light task, for every inch of the ves
sel’s outside area above the water
line—sides, deck works and funnels
—from stem to stern is carefully
gone over by an army of painters.
The area thus covered is about two
and a half acres.
Curiously enough, the funnels are
regarded as the most important item
of the whole undertaking, as these
great pipes are susceptible to injury
and must be carefully handled. On
no account is any hammering or
pounding allowed, and the men work
from stagings suspended from a rail
on the top of the mouth of the huge
funnel. The old paint and dirt are
carefully scraped and scaled off be
fore the actual painting begins.
There are now 120 large passen
ger ships constantly caossing the At
lantic. Assuming that the average
area of each ship is two and a quar
ter acres, and that each vessel is
painted, say, ten times in one season,
we have an area to be covered with
paint of 2700 acres every year. Such
a job. requiring the services of nearly
a hundred men working steadily,
would cost about £50,000. Although
this seems an immense sum to spend
upou paint alone, it is essential to
keep the vessels in spick-and-span
condition. —Tit-Bits.
In the North Central States there
is a percentage of thirty unmarried
men out of every to 12.S of im
c.’?vrld vcmen
Georgia Cullings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Dublin Forestalls Lockers.
hTe city council of Dublin has pass
ed an ordinance fixing the tax on lock
er clubs at $5,000. It was at first con
templated putting the tax at $2,000,
but it was decided to raise the license
to $5,000, so that there would be n
possibility of the license being paid.
* * *
Cotton Buyers May Balk.
Savannah cotton men question the
ability of the members of the Farm
ers’ Union to keep cotton prices up
to a minimum of 35 cents a pound,
as agreed upon at the Little Rock
conference. Local buyers think farm
ers will accept 33 cents, as a rule,
when it is offered. They can imagine
no machinery of the unio, that will
enable it to keep the price up abovr
that figure.
Protest of A. & W. P. Filed.
The Atlanta and West Point rail
way has joined the list of railroads
within the state opposed to the re
duction of passenger rates.
Papers have been filed with the
clerk of the United States court at
Atlanta along with a paper from Judge
D. D. Shelby, Huntsville of the cir
cuit court of appeals for the fifth
judicial circuit, naming the 3 6th of
September as the day upon which the
prayer for injunction may be heard.
* * *
Australians Coming to Georgia.
The first steamship laden with im
migrants from Europe will reach Sa
vannah probably about the middle of
October. The immigrants who are com
ing to Georgia are making the trip
of their own free will. No special in
ducements are being held out to them,
and they are to pay their own pass
age. They will consist of some of the
better class of Australians, but wheth
er they will be farmers or artisans
Is not known.
* * *
Many Sought This Job.
Former Adjutant General S. W. Har
his has been appointed oil inspector
for Carroll county to succeed his son,
Dr. S. W. Harris, Jr., who died sud
denly in Carrollton a few days ago.
Judge Harris was not an applicant,
but Commissioner of Agriculture Hud
son named him for the unexpired term
of one year. Thirty applications for
the place were on file in the office of
the commissioner. The place carries
no fixed salary, but payment comes
out of fees.
Eighty Acres of Limestone.
Dr. Edgar Everhart, chemist for the
geological survey of Georgia, and a
recognized authority on minerals, has
just completed a survey and assay of
a hill of limestone and shale, near
Rockmart, suitable for making the fa
mous Portland cement.
He states that the property in ques
tion is closely contiguous to the South
ern and directly on the eSaboard Air
Line railroad, which will make the
material easily marketed.
The property in question covers
about eighty acres.
* * *
Part Ticket and Part Cash.
Although the Western and Atlanta
railroad, which is leased and operated
by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis railroad, has refused to sell
tickets to Chattanooga, Tenn., upon
the basis of two cents a mile in Geor
gia and three cents a mile over the
Tennessee border, travelers from At
lanta to Chattanooga are taking ad
vantage of the two cents a mile by
buying a ticket to Graysville and then
paying three cents a mile into Chatta
nooga. Graysville is the last Geoigia
station on the Western and Atlantic.
* • •
New Railroad Chartered.
The Bainbridge and Northeastern
railroad is the name of the newest
transportation line chartered in the
state.
The road is to be about 70 miles
long and will run from Bainbridge,
in a southwesterly direction, to a
point on the gulf of Mexico, and
northeasterly to either Meigs, in the
county of Thomas, or Pelham, in the
county of Mitchell.
The principal towns through which
this road Is to pass are Bainbridge,
Swindel, Meigs or Pelham, and it is
to traverse the counties of Decatur,
Grady, Mitchell and Thomas.
* * •
Columbus Wants Lower Rates.
A resolution has been introduced
STOP AT THE
ZETTLER HOUSE.
The best SI.OO a day house in the
city.
253 FOURTH ST., MACON, G<L,
Mr3. A. L. Zettler, Proprietress.
in the Columbus city council asking
the Georgia railroad commission to
fix the following rate on public util
ities in Columbus; Gas, 75 cents per
thousand feet; electricity, 10 cents per
kilowatt hour; telephones, $2.50 for
business phones and $1.50 for resi
dences per month. This schedule of
rates would be a material reduction of
the present prices in most of the in
stances. It was contended that the peo
ple of Columbus were being “robbed”
by public utility corporations. The
resolution was referred to a commit
tee for investigation and report.
* * *
To Select “Midway” Attractions.
Secretary Frank Weldon of the
State Fair Association, has gone to
New York city and while there will
secure a number of interesting attrac
tions for the fair midway. He will
visit Luna park, Coney Island, Dream
land and return by the Pike at James
town in an effort to corral novel at
tractions. He will make a close study
iof “Ranch 101,” which is a famous
wild west show, anxious to appear
in Atlanta at the fair, and this at
traction will probably be secured.
He will be absent in the east for
a week or ten days, and when he re
turns the work of announcing the fair
programs and premiums will be taken
up and rushed with all despatch.
Valdosta is Hedging.
Retrenchment was the slogan at a
recent meeting of the Valdosta city
council and the knife was applied
vigorously in a number of depart
ments. Two members of the fire de
partment were laid off, three heads
fell in the street department, Chief
of Police Dampier’s salary was re
duced from $125 per month to $112.50,
Street Superintendent McKenna and
City Sexton Giddens came in for a
reduction of salary and the office of
recorder was abolished.
The action of council was due to
a threatened deficiency of something
like $25,000 in the city’s revenues.
Part of this amount isiin the SIO,OOO
for liquor licenses, which are knocked
out. The present council also had to
pay $13,000 for improvements at the
waterworks, and recently had to pay
a damage suit against the city for
$2,000.
* * I
College Principals Organize.
Complete organization .by the prin
cipals of the eleven district agricultu
ral colleges of Georgia was perfected
at a meeting of these educators held
in the state senate chamber at At
lanta the past week, which resulted in
the selection of Professor G. C. Ad
ams, principal of the fifth district ag
ricultural college, located at Monroe,
as chairman.
Professor J. N. Rogers of the tenth
agricultural college, located at Sparta,
was elected vice chairman, and Pro
fessor E. W. Chiids of the sixth dis
trict agricultural college, located at
Barnesville. was elected secretary.
The principals spent an entire day
in going over the work of selecting
the textbooks to be used in order
that the courses might be uniform and
all boys graduated from these col
leges to the SIOO,OOO agricultural col
lege at Athens, might be equally pro
ficient and prepared.
It was agreed among the principals
to open their doors for the purpose of
receiving students on the first or early
in January.
In addition to the school work each
of the district colleges is to maintain
and operate farms in connection with
the colleges on which practical farm
ing will be taught.
TYPEWRITER TRUST ON TAPIS-
Company Formed Which Will Endeavoi
to Control the Business.
The possibility that there is to be
a typewriter trust was made public ir
New York Friday. Anew company
with Allen Ryan, son of Thomas F
Rvau, as president, has been formed
it is stated, in which Charles M
Schwab, the Guggenheims, Harry
Payne Whitney, the Ryans and other
capitalists are interested. According
to rumor, it will endeavor to acquire
all the largest typewriter interests ir
this country, and will also try to oh
tain control of the business all over
the world.
A new' factory, the largest in the
world, is being built in Hartford, Cona
. PROOF.
“Is he intelligent and we!l-ln.
formed 7”
“Is he? Why, he’s been summoned
as a talesman a dozen times and nev
er got on a jury yet.”—Philadelphia
Ledger.
SURE PROOF.
The Bride —How do you know that
man across the aisle is a pugilist?
The Groom —Why just listen how
fluently he talk. —Brooklyn Eagle.
THE “YKLL-OH” MAN
And One of His Ways.
To call a man a liar seems rude, so
we will let the reader select his own
term.
Some time ago the Manager of
"Collier's Weekly” got very cross
with us because we wuld not con
tinue to advertise in his paper.
We have occasionally been at
tacked by editors who have tried to
force us to advertise in their papers
at their own prices, and, on their own
conditions, failing in which we were
to be attacked through their editorial
columns. The reader can fit a name
to that tribe.
We had understood that the editor
of “Collier’s” was a wild cat of the
Sinclair “jungle bungle” type, a per
son with curdled gray matter, but it
seems strange that the owners would
descend to using their editorial col
umns, yellow as they are, for such
rank out and out falsehoods as ap
pear in their issue of July 27th,
where the editor goes out of his way
to attack us, and the reason will ap
pear tolerably clear to any reader
who understands the venom behind it.
We quote in part as follows:
"One widely circulated paragraph
labors to induce the impression that
Grape-Nuts will obviate the necessity
of an operation in appendicitis. This
is lying, and, potentially, deadly ly
ing. Similarly, Postum continually
makes reference to the endorsements
of a ‘distinguished physician’ or ‘a
prominent health official,’ persons as
mythical, doubtless, as they are mys
terious.”
We do not hesitate to reproduce
these mendacious falsehoods in order
that it may be made clear to the pub
lic what the facts are, and to nail the
liar up so that people may have a look
at him. If this poor clown knew
what produced appendicitis, he might
have some knowledge of why the use
of Grape-Nuts would prevent it. Let
it be understood that appendicitis
results from long continued disturb
ance in the intestines, caused primar
ily by undigested food, and chiefly by
undigested starchy food, such as
white bread, potatoes, rice, partly
cooked cereals, and such. These lie
in the warmth and moisture of the
bowels in an undigested state, and
decay, generating gases, and irritat
ing the mucous surfaces until, under
such conditions, the lower part of the
colon and the appendix become in
volved. Disease sets up, and fre
quently, of a form known as appendi
citis.
Now then, Grape-Nuts food was
made by Mr. G. W. Post, after he had
an attack of appendicitis, and re
quired some food in which the starch
was predigested. No such food ex
isted; from his knowledge of dietetics
he perfected the food; made it pri
marily for his own use, and after
wards introduced it to the public. In
this food the starch is transformed
by moisture and long-time cooking
into a form of sugar, which is easily
digested and does not decay iD the
intestines, it is a practical certainty
that when a man has approaching
symptoms of appendicitis, the attack
can be avoided by discontinuing all
food except Grape-Nuts, and by prop
erly washing out the intestines.
Most physicians are now acquainted
with the facts, and will verify the
statement.
Of course, this is all news, and
should be an education to uhe person
w-ho writes the editorials for “Col
lier’s,” and who should take at least
some training before he undertakes
to write for the public. ,
Now' as to the references to “a dis
tinguished physician” or “a promi
nent health official” being "mythical
persons.” We are here to wager
“Collier’s Weekly,” or any other
skeptic or liar, any amount of money
they care to name, and which they
will cover, that we will produce proof
to any Board of Investigators that we
have never yet published an adver
tisement announcing the opinion of
a prominent physician or health
official on Postum or Grape-Nuts,
when we did not have the actual
letter in our possession. It can be
easily understood that many prom
inent physicians dislike to have their
names made public in reference to
any article whatsoever; they have
their own reasons, and w’e respect
those reasons, but we never make
mention of endorsements unless we
have the actual endorsement, and
that statement we will back with any
amount of money called for.
When a journal wilfully prostitutes
Its columns, to try and harm a repu
table manufacturer in an effort to
force him to advertise, it is time the
public knew the facts. The owner
or editor of Collier's Weekly can
not force money from us by such
methods.
TOSTUM CEREAL CO . Ltd.