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The Ranks 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
banks in this association. Ami organizations have already been
formed in twenty three stales to push this movement.
Mr. Edwin Chamberlain, of San Antonio, Texas, one of the
leading bank, rs of the South, has just sailed for Europe to find out
what he bankers of France and Germany are doing for agriculture.
He represents a committee of the association appointed to study
these matters The assumption is that a system of co-operation
between the banker- and the farmers of tin* country (‘an 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 hankers could do that is better cal
culated to establish cordial relations between the banking frater
nity and the mass of the people
Il is possible that this movement may open a new era in
American banking mn era in which bankers shall more nearly
realize the constructive and statesmanlike possibilities of their busi
ness Hitherto banking in America lias been too often regarded
merely as a lucrative calling for gentlemen of means, with a talent
for keeping correct acemints and making safe loans. But now there
are signs that banking in America is destined to become a liberal
profc ssion.
It was said of Alexander Hamilton that ‘‘He smote the rock
of tin national resources, and abundant springs of revenue gushed
forth.” Even so. it lies in the power of a country banker to be
come not onh a curator of money hut also a creator of public
wealth.
There is high significance in the linking of the idea of agri
cultural education with the idea of extending credit to farmers on
belter terms. For as John Buskin taught long ago. the real ‘‘veins
of wealMi” 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 lheir calling untl so may be depended '
upon to ‘‘make good.”
The “back to tlie farm” cry will be heeded by multitudes of
city im n when every country schoolhouse has become a center of
agricultural science ami when every country banker stands ready
Io hack - the man who knows how to farm.
Al 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 wa< working a swift change of sentiment among the rural
population. The law went into effect only last year; yet in a
certain Ohio country town where last year 15 per cent of the young
people declared lheir intention to farm and 85 per (‘ent declared
tljeir intention not to, these percentages had been exactly reversed
by the teaching of agricultural science in the “little red school
house.
The Deficiency of American
Men
Au American woman, wife of a wealthy manufacturer, of
Grand liapids. Mich., is authority for the statement that American
husbands an a drag on their wives and women folks. Especially
is this true she says when it conies to traveling.
The American man. according to this representative of the
genth r si x. does not know how to entertain the women of their
w parties, dm - 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 fe<■:>'• and < i¥<le East, but from the strong and virile West.
And ’ pity 11-. tis t rue.'
Tim iiidifi'Ti'iice of the average American man to Hie social
ambitions and pleasures of their women has been the theme of
jnore than one novel and of many, many essays. The American
male animal is interested in “getting there" in business, in build
ing and eri.-iiuig and battling in a crude and savage mercantile
warfare What litth time he has from his strenuous days he
spends in -h p and rest Hi seems to think that by handing over
to the woman . 'I house so much money every week or month or
year and l< ilii her to go out and enjoy herself he has fulfilled bis
obligations to mu-mi 11. , IVI . tin* discontent of women, and hence
the savaga eharg' th it \ eriean husbands are in the wav.
When Aui'iican civilization has reached a point where it is
more or l-ss settled. tl < u the men will study the little virtues and
aceomplisiim nt.- of society And then we will bear less about nicy
being in the wav and the delights of travel without them.
Raise Hair and Hurry
11 will pi oba idy st art h the women of this country to know that
next year, with fashions demand for new style coiffures, half the
lm<r worn in this country will <oine from Asia and Europe.
“(hi women live too last and :ir< in 100 great a hurry to take
time to sax • their combings, declares an , Xpert, “and we have to
rely mostly on the ( him s, women, from whom comes seventv per
Cent of the false hair worn here."
Let milady console herself with the fact that this seventy per
cent is the very poorest hair in the market.
It wmld Im not only profitable, but more cleanly and more
satisfactory, sine our women MI ST wear puffs and curls and
other addenda, if they could wear their own. Verily, haste makes
waste.
The Atlanta Georgian
The “Good Fellow” Gets Home
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THE HUSBAND STEALER
WHEN a husband Is unfaith
ful to his wife she invaria
bly blames some woman
for it.
The man may be 60 years old, as
worldly wise as Solomon, and as ex
perienced 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 have been stolen
away from them by younger and
fairer 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. Rut there is never a word
of accusation against the husband
who has been so careless as to
permit himself to be pilfered by
these light-lingered 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 tike the Mrs.
Harris of whom Shirey Hamp talk
ed so much. There "ain't no sich a
person " The husband stealer ts a
myth, a female Erankenstein. man
ufactured out of the jealous fancies
of wives to explain a truth they
have not tiie courage to accept.
Nor is this strange. It is less
v minding to a wife's vanity to be
lieve that her husband has been
violently shanghaied away from her
against his will than to admit that
he lias made a sneak of it of his
own volition. Therefore, to save
their faces, as the Chinese say.
wives have conjured up this image
of another woman, possesed of
hypnotic powers, who throws a spell
over perfectly good and domesti
cated husbands and lures them
away from their own fireside.
Easier to Pardon “a Victim.”
It also makes it easier for a
woman to forgive tier husband if
she can account for his defection
on the ground that lie lias liven the
victim of some occult influence he
was powerless to resist.
Hence she fosters in her imagina
tion the picture of her husband,
longing find yearning to return to
the bosom of h's family, ihafing
against thi bond that binds him.
but held a fast prison, r by some
i m hantress- who is about half of
TL ESI JAY, ALG EST 13, 1912.
By DOROTHY DIX.
her own age and who weighs 50
pounds less, and lias fluffy golden
hair instead of straggling grizzled
locks.
Thus does the feminine mind
move, its wonders to perform, for
by dwelling .persistently on this
vi< w of the matter the wife is en
abled to accumulate a fund of pity
that entirely blots out her hus- J
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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 tlte 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 exisl
in eat life No woman 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 blip ribbons on it.
You never hear of a woman who
is an expert heart robbci 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 safe from the ai ts and wiles
of every other woman as if he were
locked up in a chilled stc. 1 vault to
which his wife has tlte only key .
As long as a man is really and
truly in love with his wife he is
hunE al! <»\t r with hm • < .4 r <
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.
J He never even perceives them. He
never notices whether his stenog
raphers and salesladies are houris
of beauty and grace, or as homely
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 hint.
Erring Hunt Temptation.
It is utter nonsense to talk about
a business man being tlte helpless
victim of Jtis stenographer, be
cause at the very first roll of her
eyes In hi? direction he could have
sent her packing, if he was so
sternly opposed to a flirtation as
his w ife believes that he was Eet
it not be forgotten that mon have
always the opportunity, and the
ability, to tun away from women if
I they ardently desire to do so. No
adventuress is fleet enough of foot
to overtake a man unless he is
willing, and when site captureshim
it is because he has been at least
guilty of contributory negligence in
not making a get-away.
It is sadly true that most of the
tempted go out and hunt up temp
tation on’ their ow n account, and
that as long as we keep to the right
side of tlte road the devil passes by
on tit' other without bothering us.
Certainly this is the ease as re
gards the unfaithful husband. It is
tin- man with the roving eyes who
secs 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 bid. 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 th ir missing husbands have
strayed of their own accord, and
not 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 becomi a receiver of a
heart that docs not honestly be-
THE HOME PAPER
Michael Faraday’s Great
Discovery
By 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 th'e iron.
The eye of man hath not seen an
more wonderful than that
which followed; the iron at once
became a temporary magnet and
attracted iron tilings.
Faraday then }vrapped 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 1
was increased. Then he made a
coil of many turns, like threa-d 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.
:i*;d 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 herself, that she
loved another and did not love her
husband at till. Broken-hearted,
but with wonderful magnanimity.
Houston told her he would let her
The Exile
By ENID DAUNCEY.
GLORIES of gem-bright isles .Hill waving palms
Leave my heart cold beneath 1 his ardent .sun-
I long, dear land of home, for sober -harms.
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 hr-
The golden gorse upon the open downs!
Oh. for loved faces and the hanntiim sound
Os voices in those dim lands, far ;iwa\
Time-honored jest, the old lif es daily round—
Ah. God! Could we forget, hut for a <lav’
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 puli
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.
I 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. I.et the compound en
gines be of 5,000 or 10,000 horse
power each.
Buy a dozen of those giganti®
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 whoso cars receive
current from the central station in
their motors, ami move the people.
Do not stop at live billion dollars,
make it one hundred billion, for ail
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 KM'.. 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, and that he
would take himself out of the way.
Disappearing as effectually as
though he had dropped into the sea,
Houston wont 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,
ami he kept at it until the splendid
domain his sword had won was
united with tne greater Republic of
the starry flag.
When the awful days of ’6l
came. Houston wa - governor of
' ‘ xas. and hi did all he could to
keep hi r in the tjnion, but. failing,
ho retired to his prairie home say
ing to them as he departed:
1 ou can go to hell if you please,
but you shall not drag me ali-mg
with you.”
He died July 26, 1863. as he was
ompleting ntiet year, the
same honorable man that ho had al
ways been, "without feat and with
out reproach.”