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He Wouldn’t l ake a Million
for His New Baby
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But He Wouldn’t Give Ten Cents for Another One.
The man eats in the German restaurant. lie is a chemist,
in inkmaker anti a German thoii.iriif.ini anti j'omi.
Many of his friends had said “Brosit." Julius, th waiter I
(pronounce it “Yulins." please', knew how Ganymede felt
wlu n all O|\ nipus was dry. The inkmaker took his fust bahy i
and his friends' eon^rrafnlalions in a serious mood
Tt’a a fine baby,” said he. ‘’Body of an Apollo, b: in of a R<»osev»*lt,
to judge by appearance at lie end <*f two days. But, mein»* Herren, Ive
got all the babies i want. I wouldn’t take a million dollars lor this one,
but 1 wouldn’t give you ten rents for another.”
Many a father has felt that. way. The birth of every child
is an event far more dreadful than any h rem-h revolution.
Every mother suffers more at the birth of her child than
is suffered b\ the country that y. ;l . s through revolution. To •>■<>
upon the battlefield or into the square where Cossacks swarm
and charge is child’s pla\ compared with lhe long, repeated
sufferings that. Eternal Wisdom inflicts upon the world’s
mothers.
.Men have voted tliemselvi > THE HEROES of the world, al
though they roaTh /Io not know what suffering i- ’KJu. I now
what it is, BY PROXY, when the first child arrives and many
of them, horrified like our German chemist, value the dearly
bought baby at untold millions AND AAt >1 LDN 1 GIA E lEX
CENTS EOR ANOTHER ONE.
Suppose YOl' were going to write the rest of this editorial
—how would you finish it, and where would you find the appli
cation of the remark about the baby?
You’d find it. of course, IN E\ ERA GREA I HI MAN
EVENT.
We are collectively forever in the mental attitude of the
man that values his baby at a million, but wouldn’t give ten
cents for a hundred other babies.
Every blessing that we have gained through suffering and
self denial we value. We even exaggerate its value, perhaps,
and we sa\ that life would be worthless without it.
BIT WE DON'T WANT ANY MORE AT THE SAME
PRICE.
We like to bt free liberty is a fine thing. We paid lives,
money and comfort for the freedom that is ours.
BI T WE DON’T (’ARE I’o BIA' ANA' MORE EREEDO.M
AT THAT PRICE.
Wo were quite willing, for instance, to let the Spaniards
have their way and butcher unfortunate ('uban> under our eyes.
The besotted fools had to sink our warship TO Sil \ME I S
INTO A EIGHT.
We like our baby freedom bought in 177f‘>. Millions
couldn't buy I'll AT baby. But we don't want an\ others:
If you take womon'ont of the mills and give them a chance
to feed their musing babies and wash the older ones, AOl LN
CREASE THE AV AGES Or MEN.
Working WOMEN keep down the waize* of working MEN. as
working CHILDREN keep down the pay of mon and women
both.
Therefore, industrial freedom for women and children is a
"baby’ that -as a nation we wouldn't give ten cents for.
But. with the race, as with the indivjdual fatbei and mother,
it is a higher wisdom that decides. The German chemist will
HAVE his other babies and each one as soon as be gets it will
be worth millions in his eyes. Not one would he give up—al
though he will say “no more" each time.
And this nation will have its various new “babies" as time
passes. We shall have EREEDOM for women and children, and
for working MEN. too. We shall have REAL freedom that is
tn say. freedom from worry, freedom from lhe grinding toil that
is relieved only by drunkenness or tin' grave. AVe shall get.
one at a time, the evidences of genuine civilization. Each will
be valued. AVe shall hesitate about making the s.mrilhc for
each of those not yet secured. But we'll get them ALL in time.
And then well say. as the German, chemist will say- thirty
years from now fma\ he have fourteen children at his table .
“They cost a lot. but the.' are worth it I wouldn’t ami
couldn’t dispense with a single one of them."
i A Mission of Peace I
Dr. Wiliam O McDowell. “The .Peacemaker." sailed thq
other day on the steamship George Washington bearing the
American invitation to the Interparliamentary I nion, which
holds its world scssmn Sepiijnber 17 19, in Geneva. Switzerland.
The American nvitation is signed by • ’.*>_* immheis of the
American c<>ngr> >s. by 404 cxveutiee heads of stales uiiiviTsitii s.
colleges, religious, pair 'th- commer ial. •«><■.■.'. fraternal and
tabor org,afi:/..it ions, h ur-es a joint meeting of tlu parliaments
of the work! in th- <•0111111' ip IPI lin \< vv York and in 101 >,u
San Eratn-iseo. . i nt. i. s|s of movers d pe.m-,..
The impia s- ve i names on th •• most impr<-ssi\e memo
rial Dr. McHowi II h s • ,ir- ■! by h * own untiring ami imbviduai
effort,-. The lab. h.,-. n prodigious tie luutwe the highest
and most •.inselh-h, ; : ,. t n 4to be m eomplish.-d the most
milh-nttial known to met *
Wil il'O! Ft; I 'll . I I I' 11 • 1 • ends its if
to : ins ti"i> . . •;> • m ii v i ■ t he w <>rld
■•■•ii bi p< - laded : » hob • imno s. ~,mn in our mmiitry . or
vheihcr the a,i -e •lt> mi •.!’ uv < t i wdl a rbe real
ized we do not
But Ili< lie.i'gian. as lhe <ti ■nuous ulvoeate national
f>reparedm ss or war in mi ■m p. navy, is to -vauge T
unive; s;:i ].,
fore Tb< Georgian p u ■ D- M. I) ,|| for
hs e\
adintr; m.ss.. ■
The Atlanta Georgian
An Artificial Flying Fish
An Amphibious AcroplancWithW htch a French Aviator Is Going to Make a Trip to England >
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BEAUMONT MANEUVERING WITH HIS HYDROAEOPLANE.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS. '
/ ■ja.’lll French ”;tir-man” B< ui-
I irmni, aa ho Avon distinction
last y«-;ip in the long flights
of aeroplan* s over Europe, and es
pecially the one from Paris to
Koine, has now a hydro-mi oplane,
which he is going to sell to the
Eng t'li a mil all a, and he proposes
to navigate it himself tn England,
by f dimming the riv« • Seine from
Palis to the sea, and then taking
flight over iho Hng’ish channel.
Part of the time he Avill be on the
Avater, and part of the time in the
air. The pi vuliarities of his ma
chine will bo noticed in the photo
graph.
Whether it is on 11m Avate> or in
the air. it is driven by a screw ac
tuated b> the uno motor. When
it traverses the water the aeio
plancs mo so disposed that they do
not lift it into the air. though they
may add to its buoyancy, and assist
its progress by decreasing the im
mersion of the hull. Beaumont're
gard.' this machine as pra< tically
safe, because, as he says, the avi
ator cimoiintrrs no serious danger
from a tail. K< epipg always over,
or near the water, if a fall occurs
the worst that is to be apprehend
ed is a din king.
lii hi- H e.my tried the machine
ti Captives of Fate &
By \\ INIFRED BLACK.
< T tE -i« her up there on tin
V/\/ nu - i 11, other ilay Lor
na I'ooiie. the sweet
m oh n ponhi'- tree standing light
and grmefirl u the great gather
ing ein le of g ooniv pines. Stolen,
(hat tiling, from a quiet valley by
some wandering breeze of mischief,
and set there in the woods with
the dark evergreens soughing
around her like some fair maid
■ arrii'd off by robber chieftains and
kept captive in their mountain fast
ness.
How light she was, how graceful,
how modest ami timid, and yet she
stood her ground, too. and would
not let any of the rough, burly
pines or the melancholy brooding
cedars come too < lose. Even the
tall si.nice. with as silver-tipped
ting's-. she kept at a distance, like
some modest princess of royal blood
kt ' ping up the tradition of proud
alo fness even in her captivity.
I'bitt t. flutter, all her gracifu!
leaves si .tn d sending signals to
her tall brothers down there in the
vallej.
On Wind-Swept Hill.
“'Come up." she seemed to cry to
tin m. "come up ami take me home.
I want to be bv the water. I do
not like this high mesa. I am
afraid of all these dark trees crowd
ing around me Come. brothers,
m.ncu up tin hill tonight when the
■i on - gor< and take me home
II :: th- brothers down tluie, by
t the green valley do
I ..; . ven take the trouble to wave
i a s-I i\ i- l‘rince<f<. ami
- • t sin - . m!.~ todax I.urna
Ibuitie w« iia.i- named her a eap
tit > ’ • ; 11 I'.lll. Il ibbi'l' I ITS.
tin * on tin x. mi-swept hill.
...run I >OOl.l ' I I\. a fr.ond I
ioi heal mi She married when
s »■<.•- s t. ■ n. married a man
- . *<• \ kin " , > irrit*d aw iy
urh : s t’.iik n.tr.QSonu face and
th.*
- - krw n Tall and coni'
'] ■: ’’"'a i’t.t.r !,< • ua is iuitn«»n»d
. j h • i ii ■ \ ■ ur h h■ -
Lun, , and pntiy
MONBAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1912.
on the Seine, twice traversing the
city of Paris, with satisfactory re
sults. When in flights, it looks,
from certain points of view, strik
ingly like a flying fish, which is the
name popularly bestowed upon It.
Ii was, I believe, in America,
tlie first successful experiments
with hydro-aeroplanes were made,
but Beaumont’s apparatus, it is
claimed, has great advantages over
its predecessors. It certainly looks
like a very successful device, and
it will, no doubt, open Ute way to
many more improvements. In view
of th< many fatal accidents which
have attended the development of
aeroplanes intended only for use in
the air, it Is probable that, in the
immediate future, we shall see the
"airmen” tuning more and more to
the amphibious type of machine.
It is quite natural that Beaumont
should do so. because he is an en
sign in tlie b'rench marine (his
real name being Conneau), and
water navigation is consequently
familiar to him. This may give
him c. rtain personal advantages in
tlie development of the new form
of machine.
That high authorities see great
promise in Beaurqont’s machine is
sufficiently proved by the undis
puted statement that tlie English
navy has agreed to buy it. if it
answers tlie tests. Evon the laymen
can see how wide its usefulness
and soft-voiced, and gent 10-heart
ed, and the man who carried her
away with him is saturnine and
sarcastic and cynical.
H». doesn’t believe in anybody, lie
thinks people who laugh are al!
fools. He never reads anything
but some book which proves that
every thing is all wrong every
where, •nd when poor Lorna for
gets tor a minute her melancholy
fate and tries to sing a little sim
ple song of tov< and laughter, the
robber chi. stain frowns and the
song <lies in poor Lorna’s throat.
And He's a Captive.
Captive, pom- little girl, a captive
bowed down with iron chains,
though *be work! thinks they are
nothing but i etty bracelets,
I wonder how long she will live
in prison?
They arc not always wo:m"n, the
captives of fate. I know a man
who's a captive, too. He's a big
headed, generous soul with a laugh
like a burst of primal joy. He has
a brain, too. a qui* k. keen, active
brain. He likes to eat and to drink,
and to laugh, and to talk, and he
1-^,— -"X-- ./S.'Sj—u—
They’re Coming
Home
By CHESTER FIRKINS.
rpil ESI-! are th. days .if terror;
J These are the du.xs of joy. <
I Alarms ami hopes commingled <
In marvelous alloy;
When from the shore or mountain, <
<*r w llrl-rMr'rl tilev roam.
I’ Our wives send letters saying
That tlmx ai. coming home.
The lawn is long and seedy:
Tb< rubbf i plant has died.
! Though Alien we said we’d water it -
We didn't think we lied.
The eat (her pet. most treasured) f
Has simply quit the flat.
\V x lid xv.i ever promise
That we would feed the cat?
(Hut .il' she s coming, coming.
Anr! no s the tow-head boy.
To aim t < '-n a home again
Wi too,! and love and joy.
No n •' -r how thox slave ns.
No ma’ter w h<- c they roam,
;It s coo, to g.-t the letters
j T . I- s;.x they're omll'C home.
might be both in war and peace. It
would offer a ready means of com
munication between the members
of a squadron, it would carry dis
patches, and perhaps it could be
turned into some kind of a fight
ing machine. At any rate, it might
s< ive for scouting in shallow wa
ters, as well as for reconnaissance
from the air. It would form too
easy a mark for the quick-firing
guns of a cruiser to serve as a tor
pedo carrier, hut there aie cer
tainly a hundred ether ways in
wltich it could be employed.
Koi peaceful purposes it may
have still wider uses. Beaumont’s
experiments have already establish
ed the fact that it can be navi
gated. partly in the air and partly
in the water, along so crooked a
river as the Seine, and through
the many obstructions offered by
bridges and boats within the lim
its of a great city. Why should not
a simila> device attain great pop
ularity as a pleasure craft? What
greater delight could be conceived
titan traveling like a water bird,
now in free flight, and now alloat
on a beautiful lake or river?
Perhaps, after all, man’s final
mastery of tlie atmo plieie. as a
highway, will come to resemble
more that of the duck, which al
ways keens neat the water, than
that of the eagle, which finds no
dangers in the high air.
is ip v. r realix liappy w ithout a |m
of friends around him, and he mar
ried a wife win, lives to save.
She haunts the shops looking for
bargain l ; she screws down the
cook's wages; .-he haggles over a
quarter on the gas bill
She wears a dress till she's tired
of it. and (Inn what? Does she
glx e il to a poor relation and be
glad she has it to give? \'., t s h,,
She sells that dross to the maid
or some friend, less well iff than
she.
Her husband is pruned, ,-ind cut.
mid trimmed down to suit her lit
tle sordid, narrow seln mes. Poor
fellow. I am always wondering
when In will find the courage and
the chance to escape down the hill,
off the wind-swept mesa, and go
home to his own folk.
I've seen children captives in
their own familv. haven't you?
Clever children in a family of dolts,
and the dolts all feel so superior,
because "poor Alary, is so queer."
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poor tilings, my heart aches for
them, but they are not so much to
bo pit i* d as flic clevi r prisoni r.- of
dullness, clever people have warm
hearts, a« a rule, and quick sympa
thies, and there's no one so cruel
< n earth as a dullard.
An honest boy in a family of
crooks. a good woman in a bevy of
.-x-lflsh. m rcenary. worldly sisters.
Stolen, every one of them, stolen
away from the imiqe they should
have, and brought Io sot low among
aliens.
She Shall Have Company.
Aly heart goes out to them, and
foi their sakes I .-mi going to climb
tin- windswept mes i tomorrow mid
tak.- with me a lift' sprig of quiv
ering aspni, or a branch of poplar,
: ..nd set it in tile ground beside the
lonely, pale captive p.ip, !lr xvho
i wave- liei slendei arms in such pa
thetic app. al to Imr brethren dow n
. there in the valley to come ami
rest ue her. She shall ha ve com
pany of her own sort if 1 can man
age it. Poor, pretty, frightened
Lorna Ooone. up there in the rob
b. i - stronghold w >h th,- dmk
pines. I
And maybe sometime, when some
kin of mine ivnnd<*lonely mix!
misunde'-tixod. some k’ndrcd. souls
.1 ill see him far off. mm ie> ogmz<
him ind go mm li. ar him frnir.lv
company.
THE HOME PAPER
Elbert Hubbard
Writes on
Universal Peace
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The World Is (jetting Together.
No Nation Can Afford to Fly
in the Face of the Ideals Held
by Other Nations.
By ELBERT HUBBARD
Copyright, 1912. by International News Service
I ’l’ is quite within the range- of
possibilities that Emperor
William of Germany will visit
San Francisco in 1915.
The emperoi h;.-’ expressed great
interest in the proposed Universal
Peace Congress. The idea now of
the fourteen great powers that con
trol the world c iting together on a
peace basis is no longer an idle
drcam.
If the emperor makes the trip,
he will come on his own yacht by
way of Panama, convoyed by an
American ami a German man-of
war.
,’l'lie presen. (• of the emperor in
San Francisco w 11 be the greatest
influence for poaee and a mutual
understanding among the nations
that has ever oct Hired in history.
* His Power Is Great.
The individual i owcr of Emper
or William is greater than that
of any other ruler. Not only does
he occupy a ta rt great office, but
he is a great individual.
Time has tempered him. and if
through ills initiative universal
peace could lie < stablished through
international disarmament, it
would put him absolutely . first
among all the kings and emper
drs w ho have e.v‘r lived since time
began.
And it is int- ic.-ting to know that
the 1 emperor himself realizes the
fact.
it is now gen tally conceded that
we have gotten out of the struggle
of war all that there is to be at
tained.
We have eaelied not only the
point of diminishing returns, but
we have rea tied tlie point where
there is absolutely no return at
all.
Armies are a tmrible "over-head"
tax.
Soidiering in t oe year 1912 stands
for consumption, woe, want, pov
erty, diseas", ineflicicncy anil in
competence.
That the r< muri es of the world
should ho used for purposes of de
struction, and that vast numbers of
men should be tv pt constantly un
der arms, is a crying evil.
Five million men in the world
The Founding of St. Louis
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
ONE hundred and forty-nine
years ago Pierre Laclede Li
quest set out from New Or
leans. and three months later
reached the point for which he had
started. Fort DeChartres.
Liquest was the representative
and agent of the firm of Maxent
& Laclede, of Nett Orleans, which
enterprising company had Just been
granted the exclusive trade of the
Missouri and of the Mississippi as
far as the mouth of River St. Pe
ter, and it w'as for the purpose of
establishing a point around which
the advantages of this grant might
materialize that the above men
tioned expedition was undertaken.
A month after bis arrrival at
Fort DeUlmrtr -. December, I7t,h,
Liquest set cut to Select the site
of the company's post, and, after
looking the g.otind over carefull
decided upon tite locality n- ar the
junction of the Missouri with the
"Father of Waters "
11*- 1 . • was a ti iii. b<ifi.b.ink. high
enough to be out of tn< Way of
the floods, ami yet not so sleep to
interfile with the loading and un
loading of boats, to which might
, be added the tact that it was the
natural and inevitable depot of the
entire trade of the Missouri.
Having deli .'mined upon the site.
Liquest. on the morning of Febru
ary 15, 1764, turned firn first ><| for
»w erection of the first building in.
I'm city which today is a popll
ition of iimPj a million sou's, j tl
April the settlement receiver! the f
na :m of- Lot. is from Lou X V
I of Fiance. I
SO
.. ■ W-
the very pick and flower of man
hood—are engaged in the nonpro
ductive business of drilling and
training to destroy what other men
have by labor produced.
Doubtless when pirates roamed
abroad through the land, and every
nation was secretly plotting the un
doing of its neighbors, the indi
vidual success of a nation demand
ed a big army.
Noaa the world is getting togeth
er. Jhe telephones, the telegraph,
quick transportation, is putting
every nation in touch Avith all oth
ers
’he nations n<r.\ are ruled by
bankers, not by warriors/
The economist, not the strategist,
is supreme.
Adding machines ami cash regis
ters are our weapons.
The typewriter is greater than
the sAvord.
The groAving intelligence of the
time has shown us that we can only
thrive as other penpie thrive.
The idea of any one nation
thriving by exploitation, annexa
tion and destruction is* obsolete.
Nations, like individuals, are to
• lav held in place by public opin
ion.
Publicity Is a Disinfectant.
No nation van afford to Uy In
the face of the ideals that are held
and fostered by other nations.
Publicity is the great disinfect
ant.
So thoroughly is this understood
today (hat kings have their public
i.' bureaus. They not onl\ know
what other nations are doing and
saying, hut tin ir < ndcavor is to put
themselves in tlie best, light in the
world’s assize.
We gre ruled by public senti
ment. and as no individual can
succeed in an eifterprije with pub
lic sentiment against him, so no
nation can hope to achieve success
.and pro.spi rity unless it is moving
in accordance w’ith the best ideas
■ r the best people of all other na
tions.
ICvi'ti successful war is a form of
defeat. It looks as if tlie year 1915
will be tlie Year of Peace. Let it
take its place with the immortal
dates, 1492 and 1776.
1
\\ hilc Liquest was on his way up
the Mississippi from New Orleans,
the vast region west of the river
passed into the hands of Spain,
where it remained for In years,
when the inevitable happened. and
the 'Province of Louisiana" passed
into the possession of the United
States.
It was an unusual spectacle that
was witnessed in St. Louis on
March I) and 10. 1804. The formal
transfer of Louisiana from Spain to
France had not been made when
the time came for its transfer to the
L’nited State -. In ordi r that'this
transfer from France to the United
States might be made, Captain
Stoddard, of the United States
aimv. bad been authorized to re
c ive the region from France.'and
was also empowered by the French
government to act as its agent in
the transfer, which had first to
take pknfrom Spain to Frame.
All being ready, the Spanish flag
was low. led, with all due cefe
iiionv, and in its place was run up
tile standard of France. Then, w ith
some moie .eiemony, the transfer
1 om J'r.n.c. to the United States
took place. Ihe flag of France was
pulled down and the "Stars and
Stripes" waved for the first time in
the future metropolis of the won
<i. > ful \l is.-issippi talk y.
i hit- St. Louis enjoys the unique
I honor of h.-inq the only city in all
history which has seen the flags of
three diff. r.-nt nations float over ft
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I brief •pmc of 21 hours.