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4 | CM Cooking Glass.: PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE Looking Glass Publishing Company, Atlanta, Ga. 14 k 16 E. MITCHELL STREET. TELEPHONE 1470. PRESS OF THE FOOTE & DAVIES CO. EASTERN OFFICE: 728 American Tract Society Building, New York, N. Y. STEVE W. FLOYD, Manager. No subscribers received In Atlanta. Rates for out-of-town subscribers, $2.00 per annum. Notice.—The Looking Glass positively de clines to guarantee to return unsolicited MSS. When stamps are enclosed, such return will be undertaken, but no responsibility is assumed for failure of trans mission. Gossip, sketches, and pictures solicited, and if accepted, liberally paid for. Pictures to be submitted may be in any medium the artist prefers. The Looking Glass has by far the largest cir culation in Atlanta. Address all contributions Editor Looking Glass and business correspondence to The Looking Glass Publishing Company. Everybodu who Is anubodu roads THE LOOKING GLASS. “O wad somepow’r the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us." fl In suppressing the cannon- Quiet cracker chump and the tin- Christmas ’^* ot s Christmas * season,Mayor Collier has laid the sensible people of our community un der an everlasting debt of gratitude. There are a certain number of individuals in Atlanta who believe earnestly that the proper way to celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Peace is to raise as big a row as possible. This contingent is the princi pal prop of the big tin-horn and cracker industry, and for many years past it has made the holy Christmas-tide a hideous nightmare to everybody possessing a set of nerves. Last Christmas was generally admitted to be the most audible on re cord. It was ushered in by the roar of Chinese bombs,and all day long the shud dering air was split by the wails and shrieks of innumerable instruments of torture well calculated to render total deaf ness a blessing and a boon. Tin horns, on that delightful occasion, budded and blossomed in unheard-of dimensions. It was no unusual thing to see them six feet long. Such a machine was usually car ried on the shoulder of one idiot while its business’end was inserted in the counte nance of another. There was no compli cated shading of notes in the bellow it emitted, but for a plain, simple, yet demo niac uproar it undoubtedly carried off the palm over all competitors. Now Mayor Collier has declared that all this must stop. There is nothing the matter with the law. It covers the ground very fully, but like numerous other excel lent enactments it has been allowed to become a dead letter for so many years that few people were aware of its bare existence. The mayor’s proclamation will meet the indorsement of every lady whose opinion is worth a tinker’s d. When the public caught its breath and recovered its composure after the horrors of last Christmas, a vehement protest arose from all directions. It was urged that the noise and excitement should be turned loose on the Fourth of July, and that the genial Yule-tide be reserved for a gentler celebration. This struck thinking people so favorably that several prominent merchants offered to contribute substan tial sums toward a subscription to be used in the purchase of fireworks for a public display on the glorious Fourth, and the LOOKING Glass is convinced that there would be no difficulty whatever in raising a sufficient amount to insure the finest pyrotechnic exhibition ever seen in the South. The purpose of this would be to “get things started,” but now that the mayor has issued his pronunciamento of peace, it is more than likely that the gunpowder end of the celebration will be unanimously and naturally transferred to Independence Day, where it belongs. Then the young people who wish to blow off their surplus patriotism and a few hands and feet can do so without shocking the sensibilities or rupturing the tympanums of other people. jc On Congress has appropriated th? $200,000 for the relief of the Klondike starvin S miners on the Yu kon, and strenuous efforts are about to be made to rush sev eral thousand tons of provisions into the ice-locked camp. The United States army will undertake the task of trans portation, and a reindeer train will be pressed into service to convey the packs over the snowbound passes. Already contracts are being made for the supplies and the troops of several northwestern posts are under marching orders. All this activity has been induced by truly harrowing news from the Alaska Eldorado. Dawson City, which is the nearest point to the diggings, is congested with the tremendous influx of fortune hunters, most of whom came unprepared to live through the winter. When the gold excitement was in its incipiency, the government issued a bulletin warning all who proposed entering the region to carry with them at least a thousand pounds of provisions per man. This precaution was ignored and a vast army of adventurers poured through the rock-ribbed Chilcoot during the last days of fall, supplied with barely enough food to see them to the camp. At present they constitute the principal sufferers. The last news re ceived from the district is now a little over a month old, and it constitutes as tragic and dramatic a story as ever ema nated from the pen of a novelist. At that time all the general stores, four in num ber, had been closed and barricaded. They claimed to have sold out everything except a meagre supply for the proprietors themselves, but in the opinion of the hun gry and desperate miners, this was only a ruse to sell a hidden stock at fabulous prices when they were at their worst. This belief was so widespread that there was every probability that a mob would be formed to break into the stores and search for the buried food. The town of Dawson was then in the hands of a “vig ilance committee” which had already tried and shot two men for stealing provisions. This tragic episode becomes all the more extraordinary when one remembers that almost every cabin in the place contains thousands of dollars in gold dust and nug gets left totally unguarded, and not one The Inking Glass- ounce of which had ever been stolen. It was a situation in which bread was actually worth its weight in gold. Practical people will probably have some difficulty in seeing why the government should spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and imperil the lives of a consid erable part of its meagre army to bring relief to a mob of foolhardy adventurers who rushed into peril in the face of every imaginable warning. The question, how ever, is one of pure humanity and the world at large will certainly applaud the promptitude with which Congress acted upon receipt of the disastrous news. WALTER HOWARD’S CAREER. Remarkable Success of an Atlanta Boy in New York. In a letter to his brother, who lives in Atlanta, Walter Howard tells of his ap pointment to the post of night city editor of the Journal. Walter Howard is known to nearly everybody in Atlanta, having lived here the larger portion of his life. He comes of a long line of aristocratic ancestors, and his father’s family have been prominent in the history of the State for many gen erations. He is still a very young man —barely twenty-eight—and has been in active newspaper work about nine years. At the age of eighteen, when he was a stu dent at the Moreland Park Military Acad emy, he conceived the idea of establishing a small weekly paper which should be de voted to the interests of the younger set in this city. The writer, who was some four or five years Howard’s junior, owned a small lever press, and on this the first sheet was printed. The paper was called the Enterprise, and soon made a hit among the boys and girls of Atlanta. Finally the printing-press became too small, and it was disposed of and a larger one purchased. At that time the Enter prise was the only amateur weekly paper published in the country, and it soon at tracted a good deal of attention in amateur journalistic circles. Exchanges poured in from all parts of the country, and the En terprise was given a good deal of gratuitous advertising in numerous Eastern and Western college publications. The Con stitution and Journal also made comments on the paper, the latter devoting nearly half a column to it on the editorial page. About this time the Eastern Amateur Press Association met in Philadelphia, and Howard, who had but recently joined, was elected vice-president. The success of the diminutive sheet was such that every boy in Atlanta who had a printing-press and a font of type forthwith launched a paper on the journal istic sea. Several of these flourished for a time and then died by slow degrees. The Enterprise remained in existence for a year or more, at the end of which time Howard, having completed his course at school, accepted a position on the Atlanta Journal. When the Fitzsimmons-Maher fight was pulled off in New Orleans, Howard was on the scene and reported the affair in first-class style. A year or so later he was made city editor, and remained at that post until he decided to go to New York. Once in Gotham he soon secured a job on the Journal and rose with a rapidity that is nothing less than phenom enal. As night city editor he occupies one of the most responsible positions in the country. There is really no telling where he may land within the next year or so. S. J. O. Oppenheim’s No. 14 Whiskey. Full Quart, It's Pure, $1.50. 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