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EDITOR! Al, PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday • By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St.. Atlanta, Ga. Entered as sc><’nd-clasts matter at ports fl ce at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1373 Subscription Price—Delivered by earlier. 10 cents a week. Bl' mail, $5 00 a year Payable in advance. . . A Chance For Every Boy i and Girl . i I pr r ’ j h ■ Fvbiic Schools Are Opening. _ .< 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- 1 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. . I ■ Chamber of Tariff Horrors I 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 2- Thur I IS rj . l . si? ■ ■V i ■ A < I ! > . ,-v ' , - A ) i.i. !'■* K vwssaigg- ’ - 1 . <■■ ■: • ■' ■ W • z ip * :: 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. 1 , ■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. '■ 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«’• ‘ - ■ 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 ■ . ’: ’.lea 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. g~ J 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.