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A Chance For Every Boy i
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h ■ Fvbiic Schools Are Opening.
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Thi< is tli< 2' • t W' t‘i< of tlin year all over the I nit<d states.
It is the wv< k <ti the opening of the public schools.
Millions <f children Begin again the year of study. ot menial
work a year of hope ami opportunity.
In tin great cilv schools of iron and Brick and glass the chil
dren go in liiindvds of thousands —a great procession blocking the
streets at the morning and evening hours.
In lhe country, on lonesome hillsides, the small schools are
opening, patient women ar- ready tor the work that means so little
pav ami so little gr; hiiude. and a few children gather from far and
mar unde,- the slaniing shingle roof and the flag that flies above it.
. \o wek r -ans as much as this week of school opening to the
people of tin i nited Sinks, and especially T<> THE EI'TIRE OK
THE EXITED STATES.
\t the opening of school fathers and mothers should talk to
their children and impress upon them what the public schools mean.
'•’or ages human beings were ruled, they were miserable, op
pr ssed ami helpb-s, BECAUSE THEY WERE IGNORANT.
Very slowh the people al the bottom moved toward the top.
Slowly and painfully, in one country after another, they acquired
t’ . Pi of al! rights, THE RIGHT TO KNOWLEDGE.
th’ eo'iiitry. mo’-o Hinn in any other, that right has been
<i’ Velo| eii
E\er ii • id girl who will may learn. The wonderful art of i
pj luting ..mi le I imw.’ 'igi oi'reading open all science, all history,
ever, ,oo iliat i worth while to the mind of ewry child.
Th I-, - I-. 1 ygo to school today look very much alike and
act vi’i I .' mm-li alike. The big boys tease the little boys, and the lit
tle boys retaliate, when they dare.
A spirit looking down from above upon Ihe children would see
little difference But the difference is there, and if is largely in the
spirit in which the opening of school is greeted.
I ■ to m< e your children realize that school is THEIR <>!’-
PORT! N ITV Make them feel that when the school doors open it
means more to them Ilian if the door of some great mine of Alad
din s wealth were opened before them.
Wealth without knowledge is nothing. Knowledge alone makes
possession worth while.
Tell ymir Boys and girls how the greatest success in the world
has been won by study, and usually by children who had little op-
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portunity to ’yl the chance to get knowledge.
Makefile a uuderst ami how long it has ta sen to es’ .'bli -It public
schools af'd let everybody learn.
Tdi • pi' l loy that he has as good a chance.ti ’ay ns any
boy ■ orn i,, h count ry IE HE WILL TAK E1 1.
Make your little girl feel that what the school teaches to her she
will leach to Io r children in the,future and do work as important as
that of ;my man.
Interest yoiirsell in the school life of your children, in their
studies, > IS r sue, s,. ami especially in their disappointments and
school sorrows ilu -■ rrows are very real to little children.
I I oi. .an io s.> ! ■come acquainted with the teacher in w hose
Jiands your children arc pho- I. Make the teacher leel that you ap
preciate ' ’ ■ a -lmr does the great es! w ork mI Im
world.
Make voiir hildt -n r r'ize what they owe to the teacher
OBEDIENT E. RE-lr.i T \N!) t.R \TITI DE
The public -■ op the door ot know ledge is unlocked, the
possibility of sm e. ,s ■ • Io i ’ it is the greatest week in the greatest
country in tle woi hl.
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■ Chamber of Tariff Horrors
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Democratic orators ar” on the wrong track when they under
take to argirn Be .re campaign audiences the abstract ami theoretic
issue between p o'l’ctioii ami free trade That question has been
disputed to <:■■'!. for se\. i ,| generations in academic halls and
around the sawdust boxNin country stores.
The r.-ai question io be discussed just now is. How to get rid of
lie actual and palpable abominations of lhe Payne Aldrich tariff.
The r glit note s struci inthepian of the Democratic national
campaign committee to -m up in New 'i ork city and other localities
visib.o demon st ration . ihe out rages perpetrated upon the Aineri
. oi peoph by r padded tariff sehedulbs which enable American
rmtii'i.’aetur< rs to extort from home consumers prices vastly in ex
cess of those got from lore .goers for the same goods.
‘i he id’ i of these "chambers of tariff horrors" is said to have
own suggested Ly a c|i \. ’ 'Texas woman who took notice of the
faal that s m could buy a <■ . niii kind of Ar.-iw-iin sewing machine
in M> xieo nt a priei forty pm- ecu below what she had paid in
Texas.
'[here will be need oi com mm i mils hails to display samples of
even half or piart- r ot' li.e articles of ordinary use that are Being
so b| By iimr I'-aiis to ov<-i<rii rs at a fr. et ion of ihe A merit an price.
And e..i -’i; elliiv ’ , ...rt . ■ that tire brine mtlieteil upon Ameri-
\ by .tis .’ • Payne \ldrn l’ ’ar’lT. these exhibits
;.’ ■ a ; i.ii tb;i ; i calls the barbarities of ti e rack, the
tmi.'iib sei .-w amt tin- .rob mask.
The Atlanta Gec~gian
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:: When a Wife Forgives ::
By WINIFIJEI) BLACK.
I \H.\K FRIEND: Y, )lir arte ie
I J in icfirenco to a min's
wife deceiving him lias
called to mind a different story;
What if a man deceives his wif<
does lhe same apply to him?
"A bad woman, good looking,
well educated. <an break up a doz
en homes. Say a man has .1 quarrel
with his wife ami doesn't think lie
has been treated squar”, and he
starts drinking, meets a woman and
does wrong on the impulse of the
moment, and after confesses his
wrongs, should not his wife forgive
liijn? Please answer. “W. S."
No, my friend; I don't agree with
you. Good looking women <an not
'"break up a dozen homes," or mm
Imine, eiltier: not if the Imines are
real homes, and not just place's
where people live and pretend to
be happy.
Good looks never held a man's
love in the' world, and they never
"broke up" a home' worthy of the
name, either. A bad heart breaks
up homes, and silly head, ami
both of them belong to tile person
.who lives in the home.
It Depends. On Both.
Should a w ijnian forgive a man
who has be!rayed her trust in him?
That depends on the woman mid
on the man and on the way that
confidence was betrayed.
The best husband I ever saw had
a foolish affair with a woman once
when his wife was away. He and
the wife quarreled, and tin wife
had gone visiting to "her folks."
The man was d. spei itefy miser
able and so lonely and wretched
that he was half crazy. Along came
tiw poor goi'se of .1 woman who
thought she saw her chance for a
good home and a docent man ’at
last
She made love to the man. cun
ningly, carefully v< lied love. She
pretended to be sorry tor him
oh. so soi ry .md she j 1 led w ith
him, and she s.mg to him in wli.-it
she was , leased to call the "gloam
ing," and she flattered him and she
coaxed him. ami she made a great,
big. stupid. ■ red clous fool of him
until one day the man got a letter
from his wife, and the letter said:
Tin sorry, are you?"
And the man packed bis trunk
and was gone, without one syllable
to the "Consoler."
And when h( got home again
with t i< woman be really love,:, at
home in tno dear little house tlmy
had built together, at home with
t’’ W”inori> s and lb, 'mi-; s ..ml
the sweet contui’n •s. the man
nevei even remembered ti e oth< r
woman at all. •
But the other woman rente nbered
the man. :»nd she pursu'd him day
and night, and when h< would not
iiime hack to lier. or pay any at
tiait ion to her. she w1 nt to ,h,
man's wif, and tei.t all about
t lie v. l etel . .( ~0 1 ;r.
I"li W ' s’ ■ ■ 1 '
• u;n 1 yon Im m la. to d nu ali
“And Departing I e Behind Us”
’I lII'BSDA V, Si-P! i:?'.IBER 12, lf)12.
Drtiwti By TAD
about it?" which was really not
true at all, and when the other
woman had gone the wife cried
and was broken-hearted.
How They Settled It.
But she' thought it all over, and
when her busband came home she (
said, "John, I was a f’ 01 to leave
von. and you acted liki a fool while
I was gone. Let’s both -be sensible
aftei this," and John's white face
r”'.<x <l. and his straii’i'd eyes grew
natural for the firs' time in Months,
and he ;>ut his head down on his
wife's lap and cried like u great
big, sorry baby.
Pho Slayers
By CHESTER FIRKINS.
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■i X THEN first In saw the light
>. VV hut. no.
? There was no light to see;
I; In darkness to the w orld he came—
} Darkness and misery.
I’ A hole within the city's wail.
S His home that was to be.
(Within the glorious city's wall
; The city that h:> 1 cri d
STo all the poor ’*’ ' the world
; To come unto its si le
J And win to riches and t > joy -
His parents ( aim and died!
} They did not dii until he knew
' <>f hunger and c r -.old,
' And shivered, b'gging. on the stria t,
‘ Ami oh, so young grew old;'
s There was no sin w ithin his heart,
Bin hunger mi.lo s one bold.
He llv'd upon t 1 . ity street.
Among the outcast men,
f Til!, learning nothing of ihe good.
All dark things met his ken:
<IB le irm d io w " the p •.m gate
s Till it stood wide again.
(And in that city of renown
i There walked a wiser few,
\ Who levelled in tin ir ’ma deil gold
( Or shone in coats of blue.
t d !>• ■■’::•= ■ ”o’l . ; ■ t'l y sho 1 J
< And tell aim what to do.
(They wore ais kings; in huns •'.• they
i Would giv. him dr’rk ar.l food:
' And thos in blue (jow wll he
knew!)
ji Alight kill him 'f they would.
!, ".ie t g’o I v as he th:’.: should be
j Tli.’l- m smngor of blood.
< And now they er: : "He killed a
man!"
|j Tlie\ hunt him far and m-ar;
11 8.-t. i- 1 ■■ • < mi plain!; s e
5 'Twa- ,; -ose who held h's fear.
; Who p ’ I and sent him on 1:’- way—
j 'Twas these wb > built the bier.
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j But ' b . s Hie e Pel I t.
j Theirs was the <rm l ha .1 rt--lu.it we,
find v»• no •> ;x * r's j«’• ‘ -
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And he thinks that his wife is
made of gold, with diamonds' for
eyes and rubies for lips, and he
wouldn’t look at the prettiest wom
an alive if she should come right
down out of Venusburg and make
love to him. He has had his lesson
—and he'll never need another.
Did his wife do right? 1 think
she did. She saved a good man
and site mended a. broken life, and
she had the good sense to see that
’ the other woman wasn't anything
real at all; she was just an opiate,
like a dose of morphine.
Yes, she's happy—not as happy
as she would be if her husband had
not bad the affair at all, but a whole
lot happier than she would be to
day if site had taken her ''rights”
before the law and divorced the
husband and wrecked two lives.
Forgive.' Why not?
Forget? That is not quite so
easy, but it can be done when it's
worth while.
Are yon worth while, my good
correspondent, for. of course, you
yourself are the man in the case?
Dii you really love this wife you
deceived? Are you sorry and
ashamed and really contrite? Or
would you go and do the very sani '
thing all over again on tile vi ry
first excuse?
There's a difference in men you
know—a very great., dlffeience.
Some aie worth forgiving, and some
aren't even worth the trouble of
forgetting. Which kind are you?
And the drinking now; do yoti
think that is an excuse, really?
How much of an excuse is it? Be
fair. now. How much of an excuse
would yam make it for your wife,
tlii- wry wife y ou have humiliated,
ami deceived and shamed, in tip'
e' l's . f this sham ’ s woman who
"lured" you from the straight and
narrow path? t
Haw you stopped drinking for
c- . ’ ' : v ' 1 t b ve you* done to si >w
your wife that you really are
asham 1 of wurs' lt".' Why should
she believe yon?. Have you always
been straight with her before this?
VG-at She Will Do.
Forgive you? A’cs. if you're worth
f irgiving—of course, she w ill. Peer
woman! She'l] pick up the broken
| love and the Shattered faith, and
the cracked confidence she once had
in yon. and she'll match them all
togethir again, as women have
been doing since time began. And
she'll shut her eyes and say. "P.'s
all tin e. w hole, p rfi. t. unharm
ed, as good as new."
And sin 'll bru«h the I'i'.’ t tears
from her aching eyes. ;rd she’ll
smile, oh. hew she will -: ,il and
smile, and she will go down into
the A'.ill y of l.’< S.cick'W of Death
for' you an > omc out smiling
( again with your elTd in her weak
arms, a:.i l ;■ e'll try to r., <i- her
■ if I ■ ii ve ibnt you m>wr gay
Iwr oni moment s sorrow ' And
s'.nn< dip when you ai- both .iri’e
| old. in; via- siii'd -m y „ u
THE HOME PAPER
Dr. Parkhurst s Article
on
Hie Mob—-A Crowd
I hat Has Been Hypno
tized Into Losing Its
Fleascn and Conscience.
Written For The Georgian
By the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst
\-TTHEN a lot of people be-
/y come massed together un
der the influence of some
mind that hypnotizes them or some
idea that influences them, the con
dition of each separate member of
the er..-,vd b: comes revolutionized.
Ea h vases to be a distinct in
dividual and becomes simply a
piece of the mass, like a bee lost
in the swarm, like a sheep merged
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of his own, no moral perception
that is his own special property,
and swept forward by an impulse
that works in him with the
thoughtless push of blind instinct.
This is what we mean by a MOB,
which is the name we give to a
crowd that has been to
the loss of its reason and the sus
pension of its conscience. This
tendency to relapse into the gre
garious condition of the mere ani
mal and to go buzzing with the
bees or bleating with the herd, is
limited to no age ot the world and
to no nationality.
Easy to Hypnotize
Supposedly Cool Men.
Even Americans, cool-blooded
anti equably tempered as we imag
ine ourselves to be. are able to fall
into a hypnotized state on slight
provocation, and while it does not
take us as long to recover our
selves to a normal condition as it
might a crowd of inflammable
Veits, either of the French or Irish
type, yet we too know how to dis
encumber ourselves of some of the
more human features of our nature
and to become momentarily obliv
ious of our brains and forgetful of
our consciences.
A striking instance of this oc
curred on the occasion of Admiral
Dewey's return to this country aft
er what some of us, perhaps, con
sider his unfortunate success in the
Philippines.
Our entire population continued
for a number of days in a condition
of absolute lunacy.
W ithout at all disparaging the
wondei fulne-s of the victory which
he gained, it is nevertheless the
fact that it so upset the mental
equilibrium of us all, and so para
lyzed that department of our being
’where our reasoning processes are
conducted, that the reason why no
on’ pronounced us insane was be
cause there was no one left that
was sane enough himself to be
qualified to adjudge us to the asy
lum.
In New York we filled up our
streets with inexpensive but daz
zling architectural fireworks, and
it was only the general prevalence
of theistic convictions that pre
vented the erection of altars and
the prostration of ourselves in wor
ship; and after a few days when,
as we remember, there came a re-
a School’s Begun
By PERCY SHAW.
THERE is quiet on the street;
Almost every one yon meet
Looks at every other one.
And there’s something queer in that.
Here's the secret—School's begun.
Where's the racing pit-a-pat?
Where .the rush of children's feet?
Bray behold the dozing cat
In the chair where Harry sat.
Look at mother's face; she feels
No one tagging at her heels;
Now tin 1 breakfast things are done,
She can sit and think awhile;
She has even time to smile.
Joe's not pulling Mary's hair;
1 here's a stillness in the air;
• ' >rt of pleasant not to call:
"Give your sister back her ball.”
With a half an hour to spare
Sevins like heaven everywhere.
lleres the reason—School's b; gun.
under why it is? You know,
After the first day or so.
I'mil the hours pass kind of slow?
\Wl.lt s tiie reason that you look
At the cbu-li and leave your book?
What s the reason that yon kiss
Forty times the babbling miss?
What's the reason ihat you fold
Naughty bay and fa il to scold
. Wh 11 everylliing is said and done—
I' r s live reason S.’hool's begun.
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vulsion of sentiment, we tore down
the plaster shrines in as much of
a spasmodic hurry as we put them
up.
We are not often silly as a peo
ple. but we are liable to be.
We lose our heads, become bo
vine just frequently enough to con
vince us of our possibilities, and to
persuade us that to whatever
height we have built ourselves up
in point of intelligence we can. un
der the mob impulse of some flcry
incentive, throw off several of the
upper stories of our being and
bring it down to almost an asinine
level.
A funny little exhibit of the same
thing, where enthusiasm, excited to
a high pitch and participated in by
a rather motley crowd, works a
large volume of stultification and
reveals man with most of his up
per lights extinguished, is afforded
by the prolonged howling of a nom
inating political convention that
will stand upon its feet by the
hour and belch forth its Republican
or Democratic delirium with a per
tinacity of vocal eruption to whicli
very few of the inferior order of
animals would show themselves
equal.
The phenomenon is an interest
ing one—we might almost say an
impressive one.
One is curious to know what an
• intelligent visitant from some other
sphere, where such nominating con
ventions are not in vogue, would
imagine to be the real genius of the
occasion; what singular impulse it
could be that would engender such
an inundation of inarticulate disso
nance, and why so many creatures
of such seeming ferocity can be al
lowed to be collected within a sin
gle inclosure.
It Is Proof of
Our Feeble Progress.
It shows how comparatively fee
ble is the progress we have as yet
made in our intellectual develop
ment, that we can consent, at so
. slight an incentive, to resign oiir
prerogative of self-control, throw
ourselves upon all-fours and run
with the herd. People are not to be
criticised for thinking alike, pro
vided only such unanimity is not
due to their not having thought at
all, but to their having let some
one think for them, or to their hav
ing so allowed themselves to be
flattened out under some hypnotic
touch or bewildered by some in
calculable infatuation as to throw
their individual powers of thought
and decision out of commission.
In tlie presence of such condi
tions argument is as much a waste
of time as though thrown in the
faces of the bewitched and bedev
il"d swine that Scripture relates to
have rushed down a steep place
into the sea.