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I he Banks Can Lower the
Cost of Living
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Association of Moneyed Men Is Trying to Find Out How it Can
Aid Farmers.
The American Banking association has entered upon a crusade
to further the cause of scientific agriculture and to help capable
farmers to finance their business. There are thirteen thousand
hanks in this association. And organizations have already been
formed in twenty-three states to push this movement.
Mr. Edwin Chamberlain, of San Antonio, Texas, one of the
leading bankers of the South, has just sailed for Europe Io find out
what the bankers of France and Germany are doing for agriculture.
He represents a commitlee of the association appointed to study
these matters. The assumption is that a system of cooperation
between the bankers and the farmers of the country can be worked
out that will go far toward solving the cost of living problem.
This assumption is reasonable and hopeful. Certainly it
would be hard to say what the bankers could do that is better cal
culated to establish cordial relations between the banking frater
nity and the mass of ihe people.
It is possible that this movement may open a new era in
American banking an era in which bankers shall more nearly
realize the constructive and statesmanlike possibilities <>f their busi
ness. Hitherto banking in America has been too often regarded
merely as a lucrative calling for gentlemen of means, with a talent
for keeping correct accounts and making safe loans. Bid now there
are signs that banking in America is destined to become a liberal
profession.
It was said of Alexander Hamilton that "lie smote Ihe rock
of the national resources, and abundant springs of revenue gushed
forth.’’ Even so, it lies in the power of a country banker to be
come not only a curator of money but also a creator of public
wealth.
Then* is high significance in the linking of the idea of agri
cultural education with the idea of extending credit to farmers on
better terms. For as John Ruskin taught long ago, the real “veins
of wealth” for a nation are in the bodies and brains of its people.
Thus it becomes practicable to lend money at low rates to men
who are accomplished in their calling and so may be depended
upon to “make good.”
The “back-to-the-farm" cry will be heeded by multitudes of
city inen when every country schoolhouse has become a center of
agricultural science and when every country banker stands ready
to back the man who knows how to farm.
At the convention of the National Education association in
Chicago the superintendent of education of Ohio showed how a
law of that state established agricultural instruction in all the rural
schools was working a swift change of sentiment among the rural
population. The law went into efl’ect only last year; yet in a
certain Ohio country town where last year lb per cent of the young
people declared their intention to farm ami S.'i per cent declared
their intention not 10, these percentages had been exactly reversed
by the teaching of agricultural science in the “little red school
house.” «
The Deficiency of American
Men
An American woman, wife of a wealthy manufacturer, of
Grand Rapids, Mich., is authority for the statement that American
husbands are a drag on their wives and women folks. Especially
is this true she says when it comes to traveling.
The American man, according to this representative of the
gentler sex, does not know how to entertain the women of their
parties, does not know how to order a meal for them, and in many
ways hampers them in the free and untrammeled pursuit of pleasure
that they dearly love. This is an indictment that comes not from
the feeble and effete East, hut from the strong ami virile West.
And “pity ‘tis, ‘tis true.”
The indifference of the average American man to the social
ambitions and pleasures of their women has been the theme of
more than one novel and ot many, many essays. The American
male animal is interested in “getting there” in business, in build
ing and creating and battling in a crude and savage mercantile
warfare. What little time he has from his strenuous days he
spends in sleep and rest. He seems to think that by handing over
to the woman of the house so much money every week or month or
year and telling Imr to go mil and enjox herself he has fulfilled his
obligations to society Hence the discontent of women, ami hence
the savage charge that American husbands are in the way.
When American civilization has reached a point where it is
more or less settled, then the men will study the little virtues and
accomplishments of society. Ami then we will hear less about num
beipg in the way and the delights of travel without them.
False Hair and Hurry
It will probably startle Ihe women of this country to know that
next ys-ar, with fashion's demand for new style coiffures, half the
hair worn in this country will come from Asia ami Europe
“Our women live too fast and are in too great a hurrv to take
time to save their combings, declares an expert, “and we have to
rely mostly on the Chinese women, from whbm comes seventv per
cent of the false hair worn here.”
Let milady console herself with Hie fact that this seventv per
cent is the very poorest hair in the market
It would be not only profitable, but more cleanly and
satisfactory, since our women Ml ST wear puffs and curls ami
other addenda, if they could wear their own. V<rilv. haste makes
waste.
The Atlanta Georgian
The “Good Fellow” Gets Home
; By HAL COFFMAN.
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THE HUSBAND STEALER
UTHEN a husband is unfalth
' ful to his wife she invaria
bly blames some woman
for it.
The man may be fit) years old, as
worldly wise as Solomon, and as ex
p to nerd as Don Juan himself, and
the woman in the ease may be a
seventeen-year-old girl, but his
wife is firmly convinced that her
husband is a poor, ignorant, unsus
picious, unsophisticated infant who
has been taken in against his will
by a designing siren with whom he
lacked the ability to cope.
Every day I get letters from an
gry and neglected wives telling how
their husbands hare been stolen
away from them by younger and
f lirer women, and reciting the
punishment—and. believe me, it's
something terrible, with boiling oil
In it —that they think should be
visited upon these nefarious home
robbers. But there is never a word
of accusation against the husband
who has been so careless as to
permit himself to bo pilfered by
these light-fingered ladies, or any
suggestion that the wives consider
that the man was any party to the
crime. It is always the woman.
She did It.
It is, perhaps, cold comfort to say
to these unhappy wives that the
husband stealer is like the Mrs.
Harris of whom Sairey Gamp talk
ed so mm h. There "ain't no sich a
person." The husband stealer Is a
myth, a female Era n ken stein, man
ufactured out of the jealous fancies
of wives to explain a truth they
have not the courage to accept.
Nor is this strange. It is less
wounding to a wife’s vanity to be
lli that her husband has been
violently shanghaied away from her
against his will than to admit that
he has made a sneak «>f It of his
own volition. Therefore, to save
their faces, as the Chinese say.
wives have conjured up this Image
of another wo'man. possesed of
hypnotic powers, who throws a spell
over perfectly good and domesti
cated husbands and lure* them
away from their own fireside.
Easier to Pardon "a Victim."
It also makes it easier for a
woman to forgive her husband if
she can account for his defection
on the ground that he has been the
victim ot some occult influence he
was powerless to resist.
Hence she fosters in her imagina
tion tie picture of her husband,
longing 'nd y> lining to return to
the bosom of his family, ehating
against the bond that binds him,
but h*dd a fast prisoner by some
enehanttess - who is about half of
TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1912.
By DOROTHY DIX.
her own age and who weighs 50
pounds less, and h is fluffy golden
hair instead of straggling grizzled
locks.
Thus does the feminine mind
move, its wonders to perform, for
by dwelling persistently on this
view of the matter the wife is en
abled to accumulate a fund of pity
that entirely blots out her hus-
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DOROTHY DIX.
band's transgressions and leaves
him a pathetic victim of the ma
chination of a designing woman.
And the woman is the only villain
on the scene.
It is a consoling theory, but
there isn't a scintilla of truth for
justice in it. As a matter of fact,
the husband stealer does not exist
in ial life No w oman ever robs
another woman of her husband. He
presents himself to the party of the
first part as a gift, tied up in fancy
paper with blue ribbons on it.
You never hear of a woman who
is an expert heart robber to pur
loin the affections of a man who
doesn't want to be stolen As long
as a man really loves his wife he is
just as safi from the arts ind wiles
of every other woman as if he were
lacked up in a chilled steel vault to
which his wife has the only key.
As long as a man is really and
truly in love with his wife he is
hung all over with burgla alarms.
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and. there isn't a woman living who ,
is skillful enough to jimmy her way
into his heart and steal it.
Upon the good, honest father of a
family, absorbed in his affection
for his wife and children, the
smiles and the languishing looks of
the fascinators slide off as harm
lessly as water off a duck’s back.
He never even perceives them. He
never notices whether his stenog
raphers and salesladies age houris
of beauty and grace, or as homely
I as mud fences. All that he is in
terested in is how they can spell,
and the correctness of their sales
slips. He's simply chained to the
domestic altar, and it would be
easier to steal the family watch
dog than it would be to rob his
home of him.
Erring Hunt Temptation.
It is utter nonsense to talk about
a business man being the helpless
victim of his stenographer, be
cause at the very first roll of her
eyes In his direction he could have
sent her packing, if he was so
sternly opposed to a flirtation as
his wife believes that he was. Let
it not be forgotten that men have
always the opportunity, and the
ability, to run away from women if
tl ardently desire to do so. No
adventuress is fleet enough of foot
to overtake a man unless he is
willing, and when she captureshim
it is because he has been at least
guilty of contributory negligence in
not malting a get-away.
It is sadly true that most of the
tempted go out and hunt up temp
tation on their own account, and
that a- long as we keep to the right
side of the road the devil passes by
on the other without bothering us.
Certainly this is the case as re
gards the unfaithful husband. It is
the man with the roving eyes who
sees every pretty face. It is the
man who seeks adventures that
finds them. It is the man who
• opens champagne for chorus girls
who has to pay the bill. No wom
an can hold a man or make him
seek her society against his In
clination. as these same neglected
wives know to their sorrow.
Perhaps if wives would realize
that their missing husbands have
strayed of their own accord, and
n fl been stolen, they would find a
better way to get them back. Or
they might consider that household
pets with such migratory instincts
were not worth getting back at all.
But at any rate, they would serve
justice by putting the blame where
it belongs, for there are no hus
band stealers. The worst that a
woman does under such circum
stances is to become a receiver of a
h< irt that does not honestly be
long to her.
THE HOME PAPER
Michael Faraday’s Great
Discovery
Bv EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN.
ON August 31, 1831, the Master
Mind in science, manifesting
in the brain of Faraday, di
rected his hand to take up a wire
that was conveying a current of
electricity from one terminal of an
ordinary zinc-copper-acid galvanic
battery to the other, and place it
across a bar of soft iron, not touch
ing the iron.
The eye of man hath not seen an
event more wonderful than that
which followed; the iron at'once
became a temporary magnet and
attracted iron filings.
Faraday then wrapped thread
around the wire to insulate it —that
is, to prevent contact of metal —■
and made one turn of wire around
the piece of iron; its magnetism
was increased. Then he made a
coil of many turns, like thread on a
spool, and secured a strong magnet.
By moving a wire in front of this
temporary iron, instead of perma
nent steel, magnet, increased cur
rent was obtained, depending on
the number of turns of wire and
speed of the moving wire.
One More Capital
Discovery Was Made,
One more capital discovery was
necessary before practical ma
chines could be made. This was
that if the thin wire connecting
the ends of the thick moving wire
was insulated, lengthened and
twisted around the bar, the gal
vanic battery might be dispensed
with. .It was found that the ma
chine could use the very electricity
it generated to increase the mag
netic force of the bar by simply
conveying the flow around it in in
creased number of turns.
When steel or permanent mag
nets and galvanic batteries were
discarded, the name was changed
from magneto to dynamo.
Now, bend the bar of iron into
the shape of the letter U and the
two poles are near to each other,
with the effect of increase in the
rate of alternations. Make a num
ber of U magnets. Arrange them
on a frame in a circle. Make hun
dreds of turns of insulated wire
around each branch of each U
magnet. Then make many coils
The Father of Texas
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
SAM HOUSTON died forty-nine
years ago, and it was the “last
of earth” with one of the great
est Americans that ever looked up
with pride to the flag of our coun
try.
Houston was born on a farm in
Virginia in 1793. and, with a natu
ral leaning toward the wild, began
early in life to roam the Wilder
ness. With a red man and the
beasts of the forest he was solidly
at home, and it was only by a very
great exertion of will power that he
finally betook himself to the haunts
of "civilization.”
After some boyish experience in
the "War of ’12.” Houston became a
real soldier with Jackson in his
memorable war with the Creek In
dians, and at the famous Battle of
"Horseshoe Bend” the young Vir
ginian displayed the valor and cour
age that won from his chief the
warmest praise. Nothing pleased
"Old Hickory” like real bravery,
and with his own eyes he had seen
that Houston was the “bravest of
the brave.”
It was impossible that a man of
Houston’s ability and "taking”
ways should remain in the back
ground, and in the natural course of
events he found himself, at the age
of thirty-one, a major general, and
at the age of thirty-four governor
of Tennessee, his adopted state.
With the brightest of prospects,
Houston about this time married
the beautiful young woman who
was to begin the "Iliad of his woes.”
Soon after the marriage he learned,
from his bride hersiflf, that she
loved another and did not love her
husband at all. Broken-hearted,
but with wonderful magnanimity,
Houston told her he would let her
The Exile
By ENID DAUNCEY.
GLORIES of gem-bright isles and waving palms
Leave my heart cold beneath this ardent sun ;
I long, dear land of home. Tor sober charms
Wearied till my long banishment be done.
I see thy pastures, fringed with noble trees,
Old farms, trim villages, familiar towns—
Oh, for the freshness of the Spring, the breeze—
The golden gorse upon the open downs I
Oh. for loved faces and the haunting sound
Os voices in those dim lands, far away;
Time-honored jest, the old life's daily round—
Ah, God! Could we forget, but for a day!
of insulated wire into one spherical
bundle, place on an axis in the
center of the circle of electro-mag
nets and turn the bundle.
You could turn it a few times by
hand possibly. Try to turn it fast
er, you would feel a mysterious
pull, attraction or force working
against your effort.
Go buy an engine to turn the
coils of wire. Then this would feel
the pull of magnetism, and the pull
would increase with each revolu
tion. Put on more steam, increase
speed and likewise the pulling force
and work up to limit.
All Due to Faraday
And His Experiment.
Make thirty or forty U’s weigh
ing a few tons each, bind them to
gether on a huge yoke or frame of
iron from thirty to forty feet in
diameter. Make coils and bundles
of insulated wire into a cylinder
weighing many tons. Move the
curved ends of all the U’s close as
possible to the cylinder to allow
free motion. Buy two double com
pound engines to turn the bundle in
air space against invisible resist
ance and insensible to the human
body, but very sensible to conduct
ing metals. Let the compound en
gines be of 5,000 or 10,000 horse
power each.
Buy a dozen of these gigantic
sets of magnets and rapidly re
volving bundles, assemble in a
large building, start the huge en
gines, after having built a num
ber of railroads whose cars receive
current from the central station tn
their motors, and move the people.
Do not stop at five billion dollars,
make it one hundred billion, for all
humanity. Change the word bun
dles to armatures rapidly revolving
in an intense field of self-made
magnetic lines of force. Put these
mystical letters on the machines:
100 KW, 3 P., 60 C., 120 R. P. S.
A. C. G., which, translated, reads:
100 kilowatts. 3 phase, 60 cycle per
second, at 120 revolutions per sec
ond of armature, delivering as an
alternate current generator. All
due to the fact of Faraday taking
up the wire carrying a current and
placing it across a small bar of
iron.
go. that she might marry the man
of her heart’s choice, that he
would take himself out of the way.
Disappearing as effectually as
though he had dropped into the sea,
Houston went to live with the Cher
okee Indians, and borne down by
the burden of his grief, sank very
low. Even the Indians dubbed him
"Drunken Sam.” It looked as
though he was on his way to the
very bottom of the abyss.
But down at the bottom “Drunk
en Sam" was a real man, and when
Texas began her struggle for lib
erty Houston shook off the rags of
his degradation and became a sol
dier again in the cause of free
dom.
All the world knows how he won
Texas independence at the battle of
San Jacinto in 1836, and how. as
the fitting recognition of his mag
nificent service in her behalf, Texas
made him her first president.
A thoroughgoing American,
Houston’s earnest desire was that
the Lone Star republic should be
come a part of the United States,
and he kept at it until the splendid
domain his s-ord had won was
united with the greater Republic of
the starry flag.
When the awful days of ’6l
came, Houston was governor of
Texas, and he did all he could to
keep her in the Union, but, failing,
he retired to his prairie home, say
ing to them as he departed:
"You can go to hell if you please,
but you shall not drag me along
with you.”
He died July 26. 1863. as he was
completing his seventieth year, the
same honorable man that he had al<-
ways been, "without fear and with
out reproach.”