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The Farmer’s Wife and the
Outcast Hired Man
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It’s an Old Story, But One Which Will Be Told and Retold Many,
Many Times.
A middle Georgia farmer's wife, 35 years old. the mother of
several children, a tireless church worker. begins to feel sorry for
one of her husband’s hired men. He is an outcast He has done
nothing with his life. He has no friend in the world.
The woman lias been accustomed to comforting others. Since
her marriage, when she was a girl of Hi. she has been making
those around her happy. As a matter of course, she sympathizes
with the outcast.
Before she realizes it she is lost. Her life's great work —that
of being a good wife and a good mother —is blotted out. She is no
longer either.
The one misstep leads to a hundred others. Nothing is as easy
as back-sliding.
The husband whom she has worshipped for nineteen years is in
the way. He is nothing more to her than an unromantie toiler.
To gel rid of him would mean to collect the insurance on his
life and to gain her own freedom.
The more romantic outcast suggest- the means. All the good
in her has been stifled and she agree-. She allows her husband
to lie poisoned. Sin watehes h;s suffering ami waits for his
death.
She thinks of this still faithful, unsuspecting man as her life
partner and the father of her children. For a moment the wife and
the mother in her triumph.
She knows the poison that is killing him and she knows the
antidote. In an instant she has saved his life.
Then comes the final struggle in her heart. It is brief. Months
of evil have left her pitifully weak, and the good impulse is quickly
crushed.
All of her longing to be rid of him returns. She hates herself
for having saved him. She allows the other man to follow him into
the woods, snatch his gun away and shoot him to death.
There was never a more harrowing story. Every detail in it is
revolting: and yet. it is a story that must be told and retold.
The moral in it began with the world. Thousands of times it
has been re-enacted. Worse still, it will be re-enacted thousands of
times again.
A Bill Excluding Good Moth
ers From the U. S.
A bill forbidding the admission of immigrants to this coun
try if UNABLE TO READ IN SOME RECOGNIZED LAN
GUAGE, has been passed by the House of Representatives.
Just what “a recognized language” is WE DON’T KNOW.
We do know, however, that the phraseology of this bill is as
foolish as it is vague, and that the bill is criminal and unworthy
even of the men that passed it.
Are the congressmen who voted for this bill aware of the
fact THAT IT WOULD HAVE KEPT OCT THE MOTHERS OF
MEN WHO HAVE ATTAINED GREAT PROMINENCE IN
THE UNITED STATES HAD THEY ARRIVED HERE AS IM
MIGRANTS?
Do the eminent congressmen realize that what we need in
tins country is GOOD men and women rather than educated
men and women’
We have plenty of worthless human beings over here able
to read and write, some of them in even more than one ‘‘recog-,
nized language.” We might well trade dozens of them for some
well-built strong woman of good character, good purposes, fond
of children, WILLING TO BEAR CHILDREN, able to contribute
something to this nation.
It is to be hoped that this bill will be vetoed by the president
of the United States, if it ever reaches him. It is a hill that
would exclude, for instance, more than three-quarters of the
population of Spain. For in Spain not one-quarter of the pop
ulation is able to read or write. This does not mean, how
ever, that we ought to keep out Spanish men and women of
good character because of lack of education.
On the contrary, we need their blood, their energy. We have
here the public school system, the greatest institution of this re
public. The children of the immigrants will read. And they
will make better citizens in many cases, because thev come of
parents LACKING IN EDUCATION, BUT WITH THE COUR
AGE, ENERGY AND ENTERPRISE TO CROSS THE OCEAN
AND COME TO THIS DISTANT COUNTRY
Congressmen and senators that pass bills to keep good men
and Aomen out of this country are like dogs in the manger, un
able to utilize one-tenth of the possibilities that the country
possesses, yet unwilling to let others come in and share.
What are we ALL but immigrants or the descendants of im
migrants? How many of the men in congress are descended
from immigrants able to read? NOT ONE IN TEN
Inability to read does not mean lack of character, lack
of usefulness, but simply LACK OF OPPORTI NITY This
country calls itself the country of opportunity.
What a disgrace to shut out those most in need of our op
portunity, those that have been deprived in their childhood of
the chance that the public schools offer to all children here!
We beg to tell the congressmen that it is not READING that
makes useful citizens. BUT THINKING. And many a man ami
woman in Europe, unable to read, but able to think, and long
ing for opportunity in a free country, would make better citi
zens for America than the man with all possibilities within
himself and no energy to make him utilize it.
You may be sure that the peasant mother of Leonardo Da
Vinci could not read. But if we could bring one hundred thou
sand such women to this country we would elevate the country
considerably. You may be sure that the tanner's daughter
who became the mother of William the Conqueror was unable
to read. But SHE WAS ABLE TO HAVE A PRETTY GOOD
SON, And what this country wants from women js not so much
ability to read as a combination of the ability to think and to
raise children.
Ihe senate can not too quickly send to the waste basket the
criminal bill which the house has thoughtlesslv and ignorantly
Qi passed.
The Atlanta Georgian
Rapid-Fire Gunning on a Warship
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■' A V Jib
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Man’s Gallantry and Love of Lucre
AMAN who is violently opposed
to woman suffrage has writ
ten me a letter in which he
says that the reason women have
to stand up in street cars is be
cause they want to vote, for men
will never show any chivalry to
women as long as women demanti
their rights.
This is an ancient argument of
the antis, and it always strikes the
funny bone of a person with any
sense of humor. It is easy to an-
I swer it by pointing out that if
women had the ballot it wouldn’t be
necessary for men to give them
their seats on the street cars, be
cause the women could pass laws
that would force the street car
companies to put on enough cars to
carry everybody comfortably, in
stead of herding people together, as
is now done, in cars that are pack
ed worse than cattle cars.
Os course, men, having the
weapon of the ballot in their hands,
could institute that reform right
now if they would take the trouble
to do it. They' don’t, however.
Perhaps they don’t object to being
packed like sardines in a box. Per
haps they don’t mind standing, or
they don't mind seeing women
stand, or they don’t object to hav
ing their clothes half torn off them
by their fellow victims pushing and
squeezing and climbing over them
as they try to get out at a station.
Her First Reform.
But women's shoes are not. built
for standing in: women's clothes
cost a lot of money and are ruined
by being pawed over, and women do
object to having S3O hats knocked
out of shape by being squeezed Into
the market baskets of the women
next to them. So about the first
thing women would do if they had
the ballot would be to enact laws
that would secure to every pas
senger the decent transportation
that he or -he pays for on street
ears.
It is also to laugh when a man
gravely assures you that men will
never show chivalry to women as
long as women demand their rights.
What sort of chivalry is it that de
nies a woman her rights? It's
rather a contradictory statement,
isn't it?
Plain, simple justice would give
to woman her rights, and chivalry’
is supposed to go a step beyond
justice, and give to a woman some
thing more than her rights—her
rights with frllis on them, so to
speak. How absurd then to deny a
woman what is honestly and justly
coming to Iler, and then have the
nerve to talk of chivalry’ in the
same breath!
In reality there is nothing in the
world so absurd, and so utterly
untrue, as the way people glorify
the chivalry of the men of the past,
and hold them up as models to the
men of tjie present, who are ac
cused of being brutal and uugal
latit to women. "Look how men
treat women! < liivalry is dead,"
they cry.
Age of True Gallantry.
Nonsense. Women were never
treated so well In the whole history
of the world as they are today. Men
were never so truly knightly, and
as for chivalry being deini, why,
just any ordinary business man
could make the whole of the Round
Table look like pikers when it
comes to showing true gallantry
to a woman.
The chivalry of the past! Con-
MONDAY. DEI'EMBER 30, 1912.
By DOROTHY DIN.
• sider it, please. No woman could
walk alone on the streets without
danger of being insulted by every
man she met. She had to be kept
locked up in her father's house, as
in a jail, to protect her. Now any
decent, well-behaved girl, who will
keep her eyes before her, can walk
the city unmolested at midnight,
and travel from one end of the
country to the other without re
ceiving anything but kindness and
consideration from every man she
meets.
Southern Laws Worse.
The chivalry of the past! It was
so very tender to a female that it
robbed her of every cent she had. A
father left all of his money to his
sons, with a vague understanding
that they would look out for their
sisters, which they gem rally failed
to do. When a girl married evqry
dollar of her property went to he)'
husband, and he might drink it
away, or throw it away, or spend it
on other women. She had no con
trol over a nickel of it, and couldn’t
help herself.
When it comes to a tight be
tween money and the idealities,
money is mighty apt to win out.
and the gallantry of man hasn’t
been wholly able to triumph over
the love of lucre yet. The married
woman still gets a cold deal about
her property in most of the states,
but men are getting more and more
gallant all the time, and every year
better property laws for women are
enacted.
It’s significant to note in this con
nection that in the South, where
men have the reputation of being
the most gallant, the laws for wom
en are the worst, and bear the hard
est on them. In Louisiana and
Texas, for instance, a married
woman is nothing but a chattel,
and her husband owns even her
clothes. If she is a wage-earning
woman, he ‘can collect her salary
and spend it as he pleases, and if
she owns property she can not even
:: Realism in Art ::
By MALCOLM DOUGLAS.
Mike angelo m’CANN
Was a famous painter-man;
His works, agreed the critics, were .ideal;
Just an humble onion grew
With a skilful touch or two
On his canvas till it actually smelled real.
He would paint a bosky dell
With a stack es hay so well
That the cattle to his easel close would stray;
If Mike Angelo McCann
From his picture frightened ran.
They were always sure to lick from it the hay.
He would paint a spray of tlow'rs
So that in a few short hours
A swarm of bees to all the petals elung.
And Mike Angelo would beat
An undignified retreat
From his studio for fear of getting stung.
A still-life he would make
Os a juicy, well-broiled stVak.
Sliced tomatoes, and of radishes a bunch.
And his wife was nor at fault
When with pepper and with salt
She would serve it to the family for lunch!
C%J $3 C&
npHIS photograph shows j
A' the modern way of sight- $
ing a quick firing gun on a <
battleship.
On each side of the ghn s
is an arrangement resem- <
bling greatly a pair of huge
opera glasses., while out on <
top of the muzzle is a finder ?
similar •in appearance to s
those used on cameras of <
certain types.
A platform for the range- •
finder to stand on is placed ?
on each side of the cannon S
near the base. <
The platforms swing with j
the gun while the sighting is !
going on.
This form of sighting ap- i
paratns allows a gunner to >
become as proficient a ?
cannon of this size as with j
a. hunting rifle. z and has re- 5
suited in some wonderful S
shooting records.
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• rent a house without taking to the
agent a written permission from
her husband.
In Jennessee a man takes full
possession of his wife’s property on
the wedding day, and may spend it
as he pleases, and if the wife ap
plies for a divorce, no matter what
the husband has done, the court
will only allow her what it sees fit
out of her own property.
Now, it takes the real, genuine,
bona fide brand of chivalry to make
a man willing to legislate himself
out of a soft snap, yet the modern
man has proved his gallantry by do
ing this very thing and passing
laws that give women their own
rights to their own property.
Men have also shown their gal
lantry by opening up th 5 doors of
gainful occupations to women, so
that a girl can make a living for
herself if she needs to, instead of
being forced Into the legalized har
lotry of unloving marriage, which
was the only way a poor woman had
of avoiding starvation in the past.
Height of Gallantly.
The chivajry of the past! Don’t
mention >t in comparison with the
chivalry of today: Every man who
gives a woman honest work to do
and pays her an honest price for
doing it, who treats every woman
he meets as he would want some
other man to treat his sister, and
who deals fairly by his own wife,
could put Sir Galahad in the gal
lantry kindergarten class.
And in ten states where knight
hood is really In flower the men
have given the women an equal
share in government with them.
The man who talks about women
killing chivalry by demanding their
rights doesn't know what the word
chivalry means. It means more
than giving a woman a seat in a
street car. Give us the ballot, and
we’ll attend to the street car busi
ness ourselves. And we'll see that
you get a seat that you don’t have
• • to give up to anybody, Mr. Man.
THE HOME PAPER
Garrett P. Serviss
Writes on
The Earth’s Earliest
Men Artists
Not Only Did They Carve
/Pictures on Tusks, But
They Modeled in Clay
Ages Ago.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
ONE of the most surprising dis
coveries ever made about
pie-historic man is that ot
Count Begouin, made last fall in a
. cavern in the foothills of the Py
renee near St. Girons.
Pushing his way into the heart of
the hill, accompanied by his two
sons, who aid him in his archaeo
logical explorations. Count Begouin,
after traversing a long upper gal
lery. in the rock, and after being
compelled to break a passage
through stalagmite pillars, formed
by the dripping of lime charged
water for uncounted ages, came
upon a recess, where he saw. to his
amazement, two clay sjgtues, rep
resenting, respectively, a male and
a female bison, each something over
two feet in lehgth. and modeled sb
that the difference of sex, as well
as the species of the animal, was
unmistakably indicated.
* They were true statuettes, in a
walking attitude, the male follow
ing the female. They stood on a
slope of clay talus, to which they
remained attached. A third unfin
ished figure, the nature of which
could not be made out, was found
in the same place. Around them,
and elsewhere in the galleries com
posing the ancient cavern, were the
footprints of the men.who had made
them, or had seen them made, and
these were superimposed upon the
footmarks of cave bears which had
.evidently Inhabited the cavern con
temporaneously with the human
beings? or immediately before they
took possession of it as a dwelling
place. Skeletons of the cave bear
were also found and from these the
canine teeth had been removed.
Man’s Contemporaries.
The significance of this discovery
lies in the fact that it proves, for
the first time, that some of the very
earliest representatives of our race
had learned to model in clay. These
men belonged to what is called the
paleolithic age, which means the
Old Stone Age. from the Greek
words palaios (“ancient”) and
lithos ("stone”). At that time the
weapons and utensils shaped by
men were made of stone. They had
not yet learned To employ metals.
Afterward came the Bronze Age,
and later the Iron Age. The enor
mous antiquity of that time is
shown by the single fact that then
reindeer, cave bears (a species long
since extinct), the bison, the mam
moth and other animals that have
vanished were contemporaries of
man In southern Europe.
It had been known for a long time
that the men of that age were en
dowed with artistic instincts. They
carved the figures of animals on
the tusks of mammoths, and they
made rude paintings on the walls
of their caverns, but now we know
that they had also learned to shape
■ 1
Bismarck’s Great Mistake
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
ONE of the worst mistakes aver
made by a really great man
was when Bismarck, jn a
speech in the German parliament,
28 years ago. declared: "Germany
does not want colonies."
It is said that Homer sometimes
"nodded," and it is as certain as
anything can be in this world that
great chancellor was in the
midst of one of the most terrific of
nods when he. delivered that now
historic speech.
The “German Colonization socie
ty” had been organized but a short
time before at Frankfort-on-the
Main, and as is now proved were
wise in their generation, and it was
in the attempt to throw cold water
ui>on the plans of that organization
that the Man of Blood and Iron
uttered his famous obiter dictum.
Only a little more than a quarter
of a century has passed since Bis
marck made that speech, and addle
pated.lndeed is the German who
does not realize most keenly that
Germany's one great pressing need
today is colonies—colonies where
white men can live and prosper.
The situation in Germany is rap
idly becoming a.most serious one.
The German people must soon
reach Iff they have not already
readied) the critical point where
the population begins to overbal
ance the means of subsistence,
when the mouths to be fed and th*
I
•j* figures in clay, an achievement
; which has always been regarded as
marking a much later stage in hu
man progress than they were sup
posed to have attained. As Profes
sor .George Grant MacCurdy re
marks: "The clay figures found by
Count Begouin are unbaked, to be
sure, but they prove that only the
accident of firing stood between the
Magdalenlan races and one of the
great inventions of all time."
It is easy to picture in the imag
ination the feelings of the discover
er of these statues, which had been
hidden away in the depths of the
hills so long that it is Impracticable
to reckon their age in centuries, or
even in periods of thousands of
years. They so far antedate al! the
nations ot history that Chaldea and
Egypt and Rome seem but things
of yesterday in comparison. The
history of those times we shall
never know. But the mark of hu
man genius was put upon the earth
even then.
They Were True Artists.
Here is a fact which science will
be called upon to explain, if it can.
Those early men were artists. They
lacked skill, they had only the
rudest kind of tools, they could not
produce masterpieces, but they had
.the gist of the matter in them.
I hey were no mere animals. They
possessed the supreme gift of im
agination. Why did they model
those figures of bisons in their cave
and leave them there!
It is not likely that they were
idols. They saw those animals
about them and knew what they
were, knew that they were inferior
to themselves. They modeled them
in clay because to do so was to ex
ercise a talent of which they were
proud.
1 he makers of those images may
have been looked upon as we look
upon great artists today. The fig
ures themselves may have excited
as muel| admiration as the bronzes
of Rodin do among us. Sparkling
eyes, gazing out of hairy counte
nances, saw with wonder these
products of human art, gleaming in
the faint light of the cavern fires
Tlje simple fact that they were
carefully preserved, to remain un
touched for perhaps tens of thou
sands of years, until Nature herself
took a hand in their preservation
by covering their hiding place with
a screen of limestoAe, proves the
regard in which they were held.
But the mystery behind it all is
the question: “Whence came this
artistic instinct, this inborn desire
to MAKE THINGS—not merely
things that would appeal to the im
agination and surround life with
purely ideal creations of man’s own
hands and brain!
All subsequent human progress
I was foreshadowed in those clay ini
* ages.
r bodies to be clothed are too numer
ous for the capabilities of the so ,
and unless an outlet is provided for
the threatening human surplus, t ie
most dire consequences are inevi
table.
An illustration well describes he
situation in which Germany flndt
itself. The area of the whole Ger
man empire is 208,00 square miles,
and its population is nearly seventy
millions; while the single state of
Texas has an area of over 265,0<>"
square miles, with a population of
some three millions.
If this does not prove that Ger
many wants Colonies, then it would
be difficult to _say what it does
prove. Germany wants colonies
and wants them badly. She has
considerable territory in Africa, but
it happens to be territory such as
can not be permanently and profit
ably occupied by German people.
The climate is against them, and
against them in away that can not
be helped by German science. A
law greater and stronger than the
best science has decreed that I
certain parts of the earth the white
man can live only at his peril—a
very great peril, too, and one that
is sure to come if invited.
Verily, the statesmen of the "Ka
therland” have a tremendous prob
lem before them, and it does nor
yet appear, even to the most dl
cerning minds, how it is to b«
solved.