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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give
unto the Lord glory and strength. Give
unto the Lord the glory due unto his name.
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holi
ness. The voice of the Lord is upon the
waters; the God of glory thundereth; the
Lord is upon many waters. The voice of
the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea the
Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. The
voice of the Lord divideth the flame of
fire. The voice of the Lord shaketh the
wilderness; the Lord shaketfy the wilder
ness of Kadesh. The Lord sitteth upon
the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for
ever. The Lord will give strength unto
his people; the Lord, will bless his people
with peace.
-John W.' Davis, Progressive
THERE is no stronger testimony to the
fitness of John W.‘ Davis to boar aloft
the standard of Democracy than that
from the man who led the party’s conven
tion fight of liberal against reactionary
farces. William G. McAdoo says of the nom
inee,./‘I am satisfied that he is in full ac
cord with the progressive program outlined
in the Democratic platform. I am confident
th?.t as President he will faithfully execute
the party’s progressive mandate.” Promis
ing his cordial and active support to the
ticket, Mr. McAdoo adds: ‘‘The influence and
power of these progressive forces must not
be dissipated by division between various po
litical movements; they must rather be con-'
solidated and used like an irresistible batter
ing ram of that party which offers the best
instrumentality of .service to the people.”
That this is the sentiment of the rank
and file of forward-thinking Democrats
throughout America, and of a great host of
Independents as well, is not for a moment
to be doubted. John W. Davis does more
than satisfy the reason, he also stirs the
imagination of the friends of free and just
government. He is every inch a Liberal.
His first utterance upon his nomination re
veals both the heart and the mind of the
man. “There can be no compromise with
reaction,” he declared. "Liberal principles
must and will prevail.” How vigorous and
deep-rooted is his Democracy he showed in
his extempore statement of the party’s prin
ciples: “Honesty in government, that pub
lic office is a public trust, equal rights to all
men and special privilege to none, fair and
equable taxation, an open door of opportu
nity to the humblest citizen in all the land,
liberty at home, and courage and honor and
helpfulness abroad. These principles are
dear to the heart of the East and the West,,
and revered by the North and the South.”
Leading in this spirit, Mr. Davis will in
spire enthusiasm throughout the ranks of
liberal America, and will prove worthy of—
the mantle of Woodrow Wilson, whose high
est confidence he enjoyed and whose char
acter he strikingly resembles. Great days
are ahead, great both In opportunity and in
obligation for the Democratic hosts. Let the
march be unitedly forward, never wavering,
never wearying, forward in loyalty and
honor to Victory and service.
/4cross the yiars lies o f Glyn n
THE opening of the great St. Simons
highway has drawn to Brunswick and
the county of Glynn legions of visitors
from every part of the commonwealth and
the admiring congratulations of Georgians
all. Merely as an achievement of business
enterprise and engineering skill the new
road would be famously to the credit of its
builders. Four miles it swings, right across
the marshes sung by Georgia's master poet
and over the river Frederica storied with
romance, on to St. Simons Island a marvel
of construction, a developer of prosperity and
ly and cheerfully see
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THE ATLANTA PRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
progress. Its cost to date is some four hun
dred and twenty-five thousand dollars, Which
will be increased to half a million by sundry
extensions to points of importance on the
island’s interior. The funds have been pro
vided entirely by the joint efforts of Bruns
wick and Glyhn county, bonds for the pur
pose having been voted by a towering ma
jority of their citizens. In material and
local results alone the new road will justify
the expenditure hundred fold. ,
But its values are as far-reaching and as
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various as the widest interests of the State.
What heroic traditions come glowing back to
memory, what poetries of nature unfold to
the eye, as one travels that highway to
shrines of earliest Georgia,
By a world of marsh that/ borders a
world of sea!
Sinuous southward and sinuous north
ward the shimmering band
Os the sand-beach fastens the fringe of
the marsh to the folds of the land.
Inward and outward to northward and
southward the beach-lines linger
and curl
As a silver-wrought garment that clings
/to and follows the firm sweet limbs
of a girl.
V.iishing-, swerving, evermore curving
again into sight, *
Softly the sand-beach wave / to a
dim gray looping of light.
And what if behind me to westward the
wall of the woods stands high?
The world lies east: how ample, the
marsh and the sea and the sky!
To scenes like these, the highway invites;
a/id to others rich in history—to Frederica,
and Bloody Marsh, and all that picturesque
region where, under a July sun, a century
and eighty-four years a&o, Oglethorpe did
battle for Anglo-Saxon Georgia. Well may
the commonwealth’s flow out to
Brunswick and Glynn for an enterprise that
has opened afresh those haunt's of our for
bears’ valor and tokens of their vision
splendid.” A noble work has been wrought,
a beautiful ideal brought to pass; for which,
all who have labored that this good day
might dawn have the State's heart-whole
congratulation.
YOUR CHILD’S FOOD
By H. Addington Bruce
EDITH BROWN, aged nine, had devel
oped a singular fondness for bacon.
She insisted on having it for breakfast
every day, clamored • for it at other meals,
and even pestered the cook at odd hours
for a snack of her favorite food.
Her parents, though puzzled to account
for her extreme liking for bacon amiably
acquiesced in it. The fact that she was
willing to make —and at times did make ——
an entire meal of bacon and toast and tea,
troubled them not at all. To a house visi
tor who remarked that such a diet was
not exactly nourishing to a growing child,
Edith’s indulgent mother made response:
“Oh she gets plenty of other food in the
course of the day.”
Actually, Edith did not get “plenty of
other food.” And the foods that meant
most for her nutrition she ate scarcely at
all, protesting that she did not like them.
So she continued to revel in bacon until,
at the age of eleven, she caught a cold
then epidemic among the children of the
school she attended.
She did not throw it off with the readi
ness of most of the other children. In
her case it rapidly became transformed
from a mere cold to an extensive infection.
First her throat was severely affected, then
her ears were attacked. A serious opera
tion and a long sojourn in a hospital inter
vened between the catching of the cold and
Edith's return to school.
In the hospital she was weaned from the
bacon diet. Frankly the attending physi
cian told her parents that faulty feeding
had been chiefly responsible for their
daughter’s grave illness. Because she was
under-nourished her resistivity to the germ
invaders had been far below normal.
i At fifteen Edith eats more sensibly, but
I she etill is quite evidently delicate. And.
' sad to tell, she is only one of a host of
other girls—and boy&—-who have similarly
been rendered delicate by a foolish pam
pering of their food likes and dislikes.
Overfond of some dainty—in most cases,
I a sweet food of some sort—they have been
; permitted to eat it to the impairment of
I their appetite for other foods. Or, declar-
I ing a prejudice against thffe or that essen-
I tial food —such as milk, or green vegetables
| —they have not been obliged to habituate
I themselves to eat what they do not want.
Truly it is a cruel kindness on the part
of any parent to allow a child to develop
a finicky appetite. Inevitably this lays
the foundation for future trouble, and
usually trouble of no light sort.
Not only does failure to a child a
well balanced diet result in interfering
that child's mental and physical growth
and lower his or her resistance to disease
in general. It may have the effect of
directly subjecting the child to some one
■ of the so-called deficiency diseases, sinister
i maladies prevalent to an extent few neople
! suspect.
Their seriousness, in fact, is such that
| some detailed account of them should be
i given. But this I must reserve till an-
I other day, in continuance of the present
| discussion of diet and health.
QUIZ
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ATLANTA OFFICE.
Q. Are there any nations where gum is not
chewed? N. R. „
A. The gum-chewing habit encircles the
globe. The American soldiers introduced
gum to the soldiers of the other nations en
gaged in the war. who in turn took it to their
countries. In this way chewing gum is now
known in practically every country which has
contact with the world.
Q. M here did the Chinese junk come from
that has reached New York City? V. W.
I. A. It sailed from Amoy, China, on May 17.
| 1922. The ship, named the Amoy, is 53 feet
long. 18 feet at beam, and is made of Chi
nese fir and camphor wood, held together by
bamboo pins. The trip across the Pacific
required S7 days.
Q. By what name was the King of Eng
land known when he was in the British
Navy? E. V. R.
A. When Prince George and his brother.
Prince Albert Victog,- were on board the
Britannia they were known to their mess
t mates as "Herring'’ and "Sprat.''
MOVIE MAD
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
What has gone before.-f—Gloria King
goes to Hollywood with the idea that
she can make good in the movies. She .
comes to believe that beauty and pull
without any real talent are necessary
to success, and she seizes an oppor
tunity to enter the limelight.—Now go
on with the story.
CHAPTER V
An Invitation
C A LORIA was leaving the set one morn-
T ing shortly after Manning had given
J her the small part of the beggar girl
in the new Templeton picture, when she
came face to face with the great Temple
ton himself. Rolf had been amused at
Gloria’s spectacular entry into the movies;
in away he admired the girl’s nervp, and
he looked at her somewhat curiously, as
something fresh and palatable to his al
ready jaded appetite.
He bowed with easy familiarity, -and
Gloria returned his greeting. But there
was a look in her greenish eyes, an almost
mocking flicker of amusement very differ
ent from the look Rolf ordinarily glimpsed
in the eyes of a woman. In a sense it
flicked him on the raw and made him re
member Gloria afterward.
He determined to become acquainted
with the girl. Os course, it wasn’t cus
tomary to bow from his great and exalted
height, to bother with an extra, but there
was something piquant about her, and he
felt that a talk with her might be amusing.
And so one day Gloria received a note
written on heavily embossed paper, invit
ing her to a party at Rolf’s great stucco
fialace.
The old Gloria, the Gloria who had
come to Hollywood filled with dreams,
might have laughed a't the invitation, but
the new Gloria had adopted a new policy.
The new Gloria was skeptical and bitter.
She had made up her mind to cultivate the
people who might help her in her career,
and it was with that thought in mind that
she accepted the invitation, and on the
night in question put on a dinner dress
and took a taxi to the showy mansion on
Beverly boulevard.
She was received by a Japanese butler
and taken upstairs to a large bedroom,
whe/e she left her cloak. Gloria never
forgot her first impression of that room.
It was perfect, far too perfect. It was
stamped irrevocably by the too careful
hand of the interior decorator.
The bed of pale gray enamel had a
canopy of mauve taffeta and gold lace.
Mauve taffeta curtains over pale pink net
hung at the windows. The -dressing table,
with its heavy plate-glass top over a filet
scarf, was guiltless of ornaments, the chairs
were delicate and spindly, and even the
chaise longue at the foot of the bed seemed
too perfect for use, for its pillows of pastel
silks looked as if no head had ever pressed
against them'.
Downstairs it was the same. The luxuri
ousness of the place was smothering. The
Japanese servants flitting silently about
made Gloria feel as if she were living on a
motion-picture set. This was not a home.
A great deal of money had been spent on
the furnishings, but the rooms were over
ornate, entirely without personality.
Gloria was introduced to nearly every one
of importance in the film colony. She' her
self was the only unimportant person pres
ent, and it amused Templeton to see how ut
terly composed she was. It was as if she
held herself aloof from the entire assemblage,
even Rolf himself, nor did she enter into the
gay abandon and reckless hilarity of the eve
ning. Every one was drinking, but Gloria
refused the bubbling punch when the Japa
nese servant paused at her side. She wanted
to be clear-headed and to observe everything
that was going on about her, and yet she was
clever enough not to antagonize the others,
by being superior. x
Rolf had planned to carry her off to the
terrace later on in the evening, but when he
looked for her she was gone. Rolf "was
angry and for the first time in his life some
what uncomfortable at the memory of cer
tain salient points of his party. Betty Mer
rick had had too much punch, as had many
others in the Yrowd, only Betty showed it
more plainly. There had been a wild chase
through the grounds, with the girls pretend
ing they were nymphs. It angered Rolf that
she should remember these things, as if for
the first time viewing them through the eyes
of an outsider. But uie next day he received
a little note from Gloria apologizing for her
abrupt leave-taking and thanking him for his
hospitality.
“It’s so much better to slip quietly away,”
she wrote in her scrawling handwriting.
“That was why. I didn’t seek you out to say
good-night.”
Her note had all the intangible remoteness
of her personality, and Rolf was more than
ever determined to know her.
CHAPTER VI
A New leading Woman
IT was Manning's custom to talk over a
picture with Templeton before casting it.
Rolf was exalted enough to choose his
own leading woman, and during the conver
sation that took place between Templeton
and Manning with regard t.< the casting of
the new picture, “Stranger Souls,” the two
men had an argument as to who should play
’ lead.
“Not Cleo Clavering,’’ burst out Rolf.
"She's beginning to have too much of an
I opinion of herself. She doesn’t keep hdr
place, she forgets that she hasn’t been made
I a stas as yet.” His egregious conceit made
him bluster, and during the silence that fol
! lowed, Rolf, who had been walking up and
1 down his dressing room, suddenly had an
• idea.' It was probably born of something
I that had lain in his subconscious mind for
I some time and after it had occurred to him a
little smile hovered around his rather selfish
I mouth.
What an idea! Absurd, of course, but
after, all, why not? In a sense if he put it
; through she would be at the mercy of hi*
whims, she would recognize her inferiority
and she would be abjectly grateful to him for
giving her a chance. Besides, it would give
| the rest a chance to talk; it would be amus
i ing for him to sit back and listen to the
comments around the colony. The more he
thought about it the more it appealed to him
as a great piece of comedy, something to
amuse him. and he grinned as he suggested
i it to Manning.
. Manning was thoughtful. “How do you
know she can handle it?’* he said finally. He
was used to Templeton's whims, and this one
he put down to Rolf's desire to carry the en
tire picture.
"We can try her out, and substitute some
one else if she's no good.” Rolf returned
easily. “After all. she's a serious-minded lit
' tie thing, and there's one thing sure, she
won't mind keeping in the hackground. It
will be a relief to work with some one who
doesn't look as if she would like to tear my
eyes out when I keep her in the background
of a big scene.”
Rolf was in rare good humor. The more
he thought about it, the mere he liked the
idea, and Manning looking at him. wondered
if anything could ever shake the man's inor
dinate vanity. Would he always be as pop
ular as he was now, and if not how would he
bear it if through the fickle liking of the
public he some time disappeared from the
limelight?
Manning shrugged bis shoulders as he gave
"After all, it's up to you,” he said
tt?HEN Abraham was the greatest man
Vy in the eastern country of the known
’ ’ world the Lord said of him: “I know
my servant Abraham that he will command
his children and his household after him and
they shall keep the way of the Lord to do
justice and judgment.”
The first query: Does not this commenda
tion of Abraham emphasize the duty of
fathers to command obedience to its head,
as the supreme ruler in the family? Is not
a parent’s duty here set forth?
The second query: Does not. the justice
and judgment which will therefore pertain
to the children and the household of Abra
ham become a reward for their obedience
and a blessing to Abraham along with the
blessing to his offspring? x
I here assert (and defy contradiction)
that children owe obedience to their par
ents, and parents are responsible to God,
also to their offspring in giving them good
counsel and restraining them from evil
ways and sinful companions.
The trend of the times should give us se
rious consideration. The child labor bill
passed by congress before adjournment for
bids the employment of any child under the
age of IS, with penalty attached. Father
Abraham was given liberty to “command”
his children and other members of his house
hold; to train these children and these infe
riors in the ways of justice and judgment,
and Abraham was accorded the manifest
right to “command” as the head of his
household, ordained of God and approved by
Abraham’s experience and success.
So much for Abraham and the Lord’s di
rection to him as a father and commander
of his entire household.
Now, let us get down to what belongs to
1924. This country demands that the father
shall send his child to school at six years of
age. If he disregards the State’s order, he
must pay a cash fine or go to jail. The
State requires that the child must go to
school to a teacher it approves—not the
parents’ choice. From the appointed hour
of assembling to the selected hour of turn
ing out, the parents must “hands off!” These
In Justice to Georgia and Dr. Crawford Long
BY HARRY STILLWELL EDWARDS
The Journal of Thursday published an
interesting letter from Miss Elizabeth H.
Hanna, general chairman of Committee on
Southern Literature and indorsement of
textbooks, which included a strong protest
against the use of a certain history by Wil
bur F. Gordy in the public schools of At
lanta because of certain alleged statements
therein not historically true. Among these
is the credit to Horace Wells, of Hartford,
Connecticut, of the discovery of ether as an
anaesthetic.
The story of the discovery of ether and
its first use in surgery has been told over
and over and proofs- furnished that in the
town of Jefferson, Georgia, - Dr. Crawford
Williamson Long extirpated a tumor from
the neck of James M. Venable, a well
known citizen, on March 30th, 1842, after
administering sulphuric ether, and that-'the
patient was insensible to pain during the
operation; that on June 6th of the same
year he repeated the operation for a second
tumor on the same patient with like re
sult; that he amputated, the toe of a negro
in july of the same year. These operations
were two years in advance of Morton, of
Massachusetts, who claimed the honor of
discovering ether as an an.aesthet.ic. It has
been further shown by indisputable proof
that the discovery came to both Wells and
Morton through Dr. Charles T. Jackson, who
obtained the secret from Dr. Long, and who
later renounced all claims to the discovery
in favor of Dr. Long. -*
Lest the use of the word “secret” convey
a wrong impression, I hasten to add that Dr.
Long made no secret of his discovery. It
was publie property all over north Georgia
and intimately known in Athens and Jeffer
son in 1842. Dr. Long's statement before
the Georgia Medical and Surgical association
isl 1853 gives the details of his first cases
and explains why no major operation was
perforumed -/
“The first person to who ml administered
ether in a surgical operation was Mr. James
M. Venable, who then resided within two
miles of Jefferson, and at-the present time in
Cobb county, Georgia. Mr. Venable con
sulted me on several occasions as to the pro
priety of removing two small tumors on the
back part of his neck, but would postpone
from time to time having the operation per
formed from dread of pain. At length I
mentioned to him the fact of my receiving
bruises while under the influence of the
vapor of ether, without suffering, and, as'l
knew him to be fond of and accustomed to
inhale ether, I suggested to him the proba
bility that the operation might be performed
without pain, and suggested to him operating
while he was under its influence. He con
sented to have one tumor removed and the
operation was performed the same evening.
The ether was given to Mr. Venable on a
towel and when fully under its influence, I
extirpated the tumor. It was encysted and
about one-half an inch in diameter. The
patient continued to inhale ether during the
time of the operation, and seemed incredu
lous until the tumor was shown to him. He
gave no evidence of pain during the opera
tion, and assured me after it was over that
he did not experience the least degree of pain
from its performance.
“The second operation I performed on a
patient etherized was on the 6th of June,
1842, and was on the same person, for the
removal of the other small tumor. This op
eration required more time than the first
from the cyst of the tumor having formed
adhesions to the adjoining parts. The pa
tient was insensible to pain during the opera
tion until the last attachment of the cyst of
the tumor was separated, when he exhibited
signs of slight suffering—but asserted, after
the operation was over, that the sensation of
pain was so slight as scarcely to be perceived.
In this operation the inhalation of ether
* finally, “and as you say, if we find she can't
swing it, we can substitute some one else
( later oc. r
And so it happened that through Rolf Tem
pleton, the man Gloria despised for his in
sincerity and hated for his general attitude
toward life, she was given her first big
I chance.
When Manning sent for her and asked
■ her if she would like to try the lead in
“Stranger Souls,” she answered with her
usual composure, although for just a moment
her heart leaped up in her breast. She was
composed, too, when Manning offered her
$200.a week, and she made no demur when
she read her contract and saw that it was
merely for the duration of the picture. She
smiled when she read the clause that gave
the director the right to substitute some one
else if for any reason he found Miss King
inadequate for the part. Everything was as
it should be, and she had no right to expect
more. After all, she was nobody at all. there
was no one backing Ser, and she had only
her determination to help her get what she
wanted. But the wondered afterward what
had possessed Rolf Templeton to give her
this chance, just as she had wondered when
he had sent her that invitation. She knew
that he was hack of that offer from Manning,
and she could not quite understand his mo
tive. It seemed strange, almost uncanny.
Thursday: “A Movie Wedding” and “Glo
, ria Takes Stock.”
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON
TUESDAY, JULY IS, 1034.
teachers obey the State—and the parent
must be mum or move away to avoid such
teachers. The parent must, be compelled to
buy a half dozen books—maybe more, at each
session—without the slightest attention to i
the sort of books the State buys or the price
which is gouged out of the taxpayer—to pro
vide free school hooks. It is pathetic to see
the number of little silly books that the little
tots are ordered to bring up, and not one has
been the parents’ selection.
Granting there are sorry fathers, who are
not qualified to select books or teachers —
there are a great majority of parents who
are qualified. The child must get its lesson
at home, nine times out of ten, or there is
no sort of progress, worth the mention, at
school.
I have been told of pupils who started at
six and are not finished at. sixteen, maybe
nineteen. They simply “go to be going,’’ as
it is free. There is plenty of outdoors at
home, but there must be much exercise be
tween times at school and a teacher.
They must acquire agriculture, when the
playground is as hard as “a brickyard”—so
athletics are really called on, and the agri
cultural teacher (alias the athletic) gets a
topping salary where peas wouldn’t sprout
in the rain. Every possible holiday is exag
gerated—none are left off. Then teacher
takes a vacation and the scholars rage up
and down the streets, or go to the movies,
or clamor for a dime to spend downtown, if
the new child labor law goes into effect, no
parent can hire his grown-up 18-year-old son
• —to do anything—outside, and some 18-
year-old sons go out to begin life for them
selves—independent of parental restraint.
Paternalism in government is overriding
family discipline at home., One more step
is in prospect. The State has only to build
dormitories for lodging places, and infant
asylums for the babies, and the parents will
be relieved of their duty as to family govern
ment and maintenance of tbeir children!
We are straining at gnats and swallowing
j camels. We are saving at the spigot and
flowing at the bung. Nothing under the
shining sun is so needful as paternal love
and obedience in children.
ceased before the first incision was made.
Since that time I have invariably desired pa
tients, when practicable, to continue the in
halation during the time of the operation.
“Having permitted such a time to elapse
without making- public (the author states
that these operations were made -known to
physicians and the people all about Jefferson
and Athens at the time they occurred) my
experiments in etherization, in order to show
the correctness of my statements, I procured
the certificate of the patient on whim the
first operation was performed—the certifi
cates of two who were present at the time
of the operation, and also of his mother,
brothers and sisters and a number of his im
mediate friends who heard him speak of the
operations soon after they were performed.
(1842 to 1849.)
“Surgical operations are not of frequent
occurrence in a country practice, and espe
cially in the p actice of a young physician;
yet I was fortunate enough to meet with two
cases in which I could satisfactorily test the
.aesthetic powers of ether. From one of these
patients I removed three tumors the same
day; the inhalation of ether was used only
in the second operation and was effectual in
preventing pain, while the patient suffered
severely from the extirpation of the other
two tumors.
“In another case I amputated two fingers
o fa negro boy; the boy being etherized dur
ing the operation as to one finger and not
during the other—he suffered from the lat
ter /operation and was insensible during the
other. After fully satisfying myself of the
power of ether to produce anaesthesia, I was
desirous of administering it in a severer sur
gical operation than any I had performed.
In my practice prior to the published account
of the use of ether as an anaesthetic I had
no opportunity of experimenting with it in a
capital operation, my cases being confined,
> with one exception, to excising small tumors
and the amputation of fingers and toes.
While cautiously experimenting with ether
as cases occurred, with the view of testing
its anesthetic powers, and its applicability to
severe as well as minor surgical operations,
others, more favorably situated, engaged .in
similar experiments, and consequently the
publication of etherization did not ‘bide -my
time.’ ” .
The American Medical association con
demned Morton’s clai min 1852, and congress
refused to grant hi mtbe hundred thousand
dollars he asked for, through the instrumen
tality of Alexander Stephens, Bong’s class
mate. Long’s claims have been since recog
nized by the Georgia Medical society and
many like associations; by the British Med
ical and scientific societies; the French
Academy of Arts and Sciences; the American
i Eclectic association;' the Georgia General
assembly; and by Mexico. In 1912, on the
i anniversary of Long’s great discovery the
University of Pennsylvania, his alma mater,
unveiled a bronze medallion portrait in his
honor. At this time the marble statue con
tracted for with the noted sculptor, J. Mas
sey Rhind, by the Crawford Long association,
its president, is nearing completion. It will
be erected in W’ashington City,, “there to
attest the truth during her eternal years,”
' as Dr. Jacobs strongly says.
The state of Georgia and history owes a
debt of gratitude to Dr. Joseph Jacobs for
his great fight in behalf of the truth as to
Dr. Long and his discovery. For a genera
tion he has held steadily and gamely to his
struggle to collect the facts and bring about
; a general recognition of Long as the discov
erer of the value of ether in surgery, and his
success has been brilliant. It has been a
labor of love with him; love for the discov
erer and for the science he honored. Long
gave his secret to the world without price,
and, in his own language, desired only to
be known as the benefactor of Ms race. The
men who in a distant section attempted to
rob him of his victory, patented ether under
the name “Letheon” and sold county rights.
Time has revealed the truth and brought in
i a verdict.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS
In the nomination of a President at least,
New York City regards itself as a part of
the United States. —Pittsburg Gazette Times.
, Ned—Exclusive club?
Ted—Rather! Even the waiters don’t
speak to one another.—Judge.
“Gosh, I didn’t realize Jack was so tight
before.”
I “No?”
“The other day he told me that he had
lost some money through investments and
I come to find out he’d tried a gum slot ma
chine that didn’t work.”—Brown Jug.
i “What is the date of those chairs?”* in
quired the visitor from New York at the
Cheshire Cheese.
“Sixteen seventy-five, sir,” replied the
I waiter.
“Here!” protested the disbelieving Amer
ican, “that was before old Dr. Johnson was
' born.”
“You certainly don’t think wo got new
furniture for him?” asked the waiter, pity-
I ingly.
HIS BROTHER’S WIFE .
BY RUBY M. AYRES
CHAPTER XXVI
A Difficult Path
HE took her down to the stables, and
showed Her the loft where he and
Nigel had played as children; he
showed her the stepladder staircase down
which Nigel had once fallen on the last Say
of the holidays.
“He cut his forehead badly—l dare say
you have seen the scar—but I don’t think
he minded, as it meant an extra week at
home. He always hated school —”
“Yes, I know,” she answered vaguely.
She was wondering what would, happen if
suddenly she stopped, turned to this man,
and said 3
‘ I am not Nigel’s widow. I was never
his wife. I have no right here at all. I
am just deceiving you all along.”
She went to the door of the stables, and
stood looking across the sunny garden with
eyes that saw nothing. David 'came
staqd beside her, there was a sort of com
passion in his face.
“I hope you will be happy here. —with
us,” he said. “I hope you will believe that
I am anxious to be your friend. If there
is anything troubling you, I wish you would
tell me, and let me help you.”
His voice sounded kind and sincere;
there was nothing but earnest sincerity in
his eyes; for a moment she longed to take
him at his word, and make a clean breast
of the whole miserable story, but something
prevented her; she even' forced herself to
laugh a little, though the tears rushed to
her eyes.
“You are very kind; I will not forget.
But—but there isn’t anything troubling me
—there isn’t anything at all.”
And now she was no longer looking a.t .
him. She moved out into the yard again i
as if to prevent further conversation.
David followed at once. He talked trivK
alitjes until they were back again in the
house.
Mary escaped to her own room then. She
was afraid of David; his new friendliness
toward her made her afraid. ' Something
in the steady kindliness of his eyes seemed
to pierce the mean little deceptions of her
heart, and leave her ashamed.
“But it’s not as if I were trying to get
anything for myself,” she argued with her
conscience. “I only want to be here in
Nigel’s home for a little while, for just a
few days. I will be quite willing to go
away then.”
She tried to comfort herself with this as
surance; but she felt miserable as she went
down to lunch.
It seemed as if everyone must know, as
if the very servants knew that ehe was
an imposter; even the eyes of the faded
portraits that lined the room sdemed to he
looking their contempt and condemnation
at her; she could not bear to meet their
cold, steady gaze. .
She was roused from her thoughts to ths
sound of David’s voice; he was speaking to
Miso Varney.
“! heard from Monty Fisher this morn
nT, Aunt Florence, I wish you would
Y" 6 ° M i SS Fisher ’ anrt ask both
° r a week - end -” He turned to
■‘Viary. Have you ever met. Fisher’”
✓ CHAPTER XXV’II
A Respite ,
HR stood looking after her as she ran
up the stairs. When she came down
again he was waiting in the hall. He
wore a big coat and a soft hat; a fur-lined
cloak hung over his arm.
This is for you,” he said, seeing her
glance at it. “It’s cold motoring even on a
warm day, and the wind is chilly this after
noon” He wrapped it around her, laughing
when he saw how much too large it was for
her slim figure.
“It’s beautifully warm,” she told him
Miss Varney came to the door to see them
start.
“Be very careful now,” she admonished
David. “No accidents.”
She looked at. Mary.
“I never will go out, in the car myself,”
she said. “And I’m always in dread that
something will happen to David. Oh, no, I
know you're not a reckless driver, my dear”
—as he ventured a protest. “But it’s the
other people on the road who are reckless.
Don’t you let him drive too fast, Mary.”
' The car started smoothly away. Mary
leaned back in the luxurious seat beside Da
vid, and gave herself up to the enjoyment of
the moment. She would not think of any
thing unpleasant; she determinedly thrust
all shadows of the future behind her.
“Are you enjoying it?” asked David. He
looked down at her smilingly.
“I think it’s lovely! I’ve never been in
such a big car before.”.
“I’ll teach you to drive some day, if you
care to learn. It’s quite easy when you know
how.”
“I don’t believe I could ever learn.”
“Nonsense!” He moved a little nearer
to her, pointing out the various brakes and
handles.
“When we get* info a quieter road We
will change places, and you shall try.”
She assented eagerly. About half a mil# -
farther along he stopped. m
“Now you take my. seat.” n
He sat. with one arm behind her, hia hand
on the wheel, ready to control it; he showed
her how to use the electric starter. Mary
gave a little excited cry when she felt the
car moving forward under her control.
David laughed at her.
“You look like a child with a new toy,**
he said. “Turn the wheel a little more to
the loft—we’re too much at the side of the
road.” z
Her eyes were bright and her cheeks
flushed when he turned her back to her own
seat.
“I can’t allow you to drive through the
village,” he said. “Besides, you haven’t got
a license. We shall have the police after
us.” He leaned across and tucked the rug
warmly around her; there was something
so intimate and friendly in the little action
that Mary felt, suddenly as if she had known
him all her life.
Once again the desire came\ to her to
speak about the Fishers. She stole a shy
glance at him; he was looking at her.
“Well?” he encouraged.
She sat up suddenly. • '
“I wonder if you would think it very
strange if I were to~ ask you something?”
She was surprised at her own daring and
the steadiness of her voice.
“Try me and see,” he suggested.
She looked straight ahead of her down the
little quiet road, with its handful of cot
tages and tiny shop's.
“It's only—only—l wonder if you would
mind very much if I asked you not to—to
invite Mr. Fisher down here just yet?”
She caught her .breath. Beneath the fur
rug her hands were clasped together tightly,
David did not answer for a moment.
“You don’t like him?” he hazarded then.
She shook her head vigorously.
“Oh, no —no, it isn’t that! He has always
been very nice to me. But if you don’t mind
very much—just while I am here. Oh, I know
it sounds dreadful of me to ask such a
thing.”
“What do you mean—‘just while you are
here?” he questioned.
She did not look at him.
“Because 1 sha’n’t be here long, of course;'
only for a little while. I couldn’t stay here
very long; it wouldn’t be right.”
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