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Two Clerks Had a Boss--They
Decided That They Could Go Into Busi=
ness for Themselves==What Happened
Two young- men worked for an employer who did not quite
suit them.
They did not like their hours, they were not satisfied with
their pay, they were discouraged especially by the fact THAT
THERE SEEMED TO BE NO CHANCE FOR IMPROVE
MENT AHEAD.
These two young men decided that they would enter busi
ness for THEMSELVES. They said: We are young, ener
getic. What others have done, WE can do. Let us use our
brains and energy to make our conditions better. ,1
One of the young men started out as follows: The day
that he dropped his regular salary he felt like crying. Next
Saturday loomed up very dreary ahead of him. He tried to do
one thing, and found it was much harder than he thought. He
tried to do another thing, and he found it was much harder than
the first. Bills began to come in, AND NO SALARY WAS
COMING IN. . There were complaints from his friends that they
didn t see him, there were complaints in his home. The head that
was held so high when he started out began to get lower. The
eye that was bright had a worried, anxious look.
Finally this young man said: “I guess I was MADE to be a
clerk. Clerks are pretty happy after all, even if THEY DO
have to take orders and get bossed around, and have long hours.
An employer to pay me every Saurday night is a pretty good
thing, even if he doesn't pay me much.”
So this young man went back to clerking, and considering
his character, it was the very wisest thing he could have done.
The other young man went out and he had more trouble than
the first one. But when he dropped his salary he said to him
self. I have quit clerking AND I MEAN IT,” and he DID mean
it.
He found that life was harder than it had been, but he was
willing to stand it. He found that it took some time to realise the
dreams that had seemed so easy when he had been dreaming
them, BUT HE KEPT AT IT.
He said to himself, I can do what others have done, but I
have got to go through the troubles and worries and hard times
that THEY went through.”
He didn't fool himself, he didn't fool those with whom he
talked, he was willing to take things as they came.
For more than a year the other clerk who went back used
to smile and laugh at the clerk who didn't get back. And it was
pretty hard for the man that stuck to his resolution.
But eventually, the man that stuck to his idea, the man
WHOSE FAITH IN HIMSELF WAS BASED ON ENERGY
AND CAPACITY, found that he could succeed, as he had hoped.
At present he is running his own business, clerks are work
ing for him. The fact that he had IN HIM to do what he said
he would do has made him successful. The other clerk who gave
up and went back is now a confidential, fairly well paid man in
the employ of the man that COULD stick and DID STICK.
Young men may adapt, this story to suit themselves.
We are not advising men who hold good jobs to give them
up INDISCRIMINATELY—far from it.
The man who gives up a good thing erratically for an uncer
tainty is pretty sure to regret it. But at least once in every
man’s life there comes the prompting toward freedom.
Every man has his day ol' strong resolution, his day oi de
termination.
And for one man that STICKS a thousand turn out like the
feeble clerk that went back.
This, of course, is inevitable. In this world, where competi
tion and struggle settle everything, the strongest arc bound to
GIVE orders and the weaker men to TAKE orders
Not all men can be THE STRONGEST. Not all can succeed
in making themselves independent of others.
But this we do sav to young men: If you make up your minct
that YOU INDIVIDUALLY will not give up, YOU INDIVID
UALLY will succeed.
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Senator Bacon Is
Entitled to His
Nomination
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United States Senator A.
0. Bacon, of Georgia, was duly
and regularly nominated in a
Democratic primary last Au
gust to succeed himself in Con
gress.
He was opposed vigorously and aggressively inside the
party by a strong Democrat, who lost to the Senator after a gal
lant and exhaustive contest.
This nomination was for the Senatorial term in succession
to Mr. Bacon s, which began on March 4 last, although an awk
ward provision in the law’s of Georgia made it impossible for the
legislature to ratify that nomination until July of this year.
Governor Brown, however, wisely proclaimed and admitted the
validity of the nomination by appointing the Senator to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the termination of his regular period of
accredited service in the Senate.
Whatever may be the method v hereby Senator Bacon's
successor shall be elected, however—and the ratification of the
seventeenth amendment to the Federal Constitution would seem
to make his election direct by the people imperative—The Geor
gia 1 - 1 takes it vs settled that Mr. Bacon will be, without question,
the Democratic standard bearer in that election.
The suggestion that he may have opposition or that his
right to the nomination may be in any wise forfeited, is certain
ly a mistaken suggestion. Again to require him to seek the
nomination would be unfair, unnecessary, and un-Demoeratic.
It would subject both the Senator and the people of Georgia io
useless expense and annoyance
The incoming legislature should provide promptly for a
Senatorial election, and that election shouid be held in time to
get the returns Dack to the legislature for canvassing before
summer ad inurnment. •
Nothing less than th” will work justice to Senator Bacon
and the Democracy which nominated him to succeed himself.
/His continuity of service and Lis committee standing should
be preserved even more for Georgia': ake than In: own. V,u!
>nly Ir acting promptly and along the lints set up. t:n 'he le;
lure perfoi m thi ite to Ihe peojit
He Hooked Her—She Hooked Him
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“The Blood of Twenty Heathen Centuries
Still Speaks in Modern Brutalities”
Dr. John E. White Writes on “Whipping Women.” “If It R a i ns
While Sun Is Shining, It Means the Devil Is
Whipping His Wife.”
Written for The Georgian by REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE, Pastor Second Baptist Church.
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Mysteries of Memory, a Faculty Not To
Be Abused, Scientifically Explained
Many ol the World’s Most Noted Geniuses Cultivated This Re
markable Gift and Utilized It in Furthering the
Ambitions of Their laves
a N EngiL’.i writer I’a a jin. I
/\ oe» a let all.'ng lim* n-nv.irk-
* ltb> history of tilt Il(;V.
Thom-is Threshold, a Pr csbytel'-
ittn miniate.', of Rlchdale, who, it
is averfetl, Married the entire Bi
ble in ills ht-ntl. mi tliat Ir the
number nf a chapter in any of
books wan given to him he
could immediately l-eolte the en
tile .a;;,Ur from memory. He
wan a living etie; elopediu of dates
iiml facts ol' all kinds, and oould
speak toll languages.
Similar instames of extraordi
nary memory frequently arise,
and they possess a certain im
portance for tile light they throw
upon i faculty of Immense value,
which most of us entirely neglect
to train and develop.
The popular belief that a power
ful memory is not an accom
paniment of great intellectual
ability does not appear to be well
founded. Napoleon could go
among his guard and call by
name any member of it who hap
pened to attraot Ills attention.
.Macaulay’s memory was the basis
of Ills enormous productivity as
a writer. .Many other men of
tivst rate ability have had extra-
ordinatn powers of memory.
SUU. it Is true tlmt tlio many
of remarkable memory
who were either
ctive. in men-
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
.\.Titer canif to bifii In
saving that his matin script hud
been burned, M.tigliabecchJ re
peated every word 01 it. The
Dfik ‘ Cosmo III. made him his
librarian, and learned men oT all
A
install
re!at • lo peris
menu
or d*
Possessed Musical Memory.
The famous dwarf. Toni
Thumb, had as perfect a mem
ory of musical sounds, although
li.» iRLssvsst d i:o scientific knowl
edge ft' mupic, that upon hearing
■ new piece he could sit down
:iml play it «u once.
Tli** “Learned Blacksmith.” Ki
lim Bun lit. wla continued to
piaetivt Id- trade#fteurlv all his
. \
lU’.WiKS Hi learned Latin and
Greek, and read the Aeneid and
j the Hind, whK< he was still un
I appromUv it th* fern .
Vntoufo Magthtbeo-hi. • p •<*
* K'.o vn;in»\ never forgot uuyiiung
L . !>' »\yd On on • f -u Ao •
GARRETT P. SERVISS.
kinds used to come t«* him “for
farts and dates rather than take
the time and trouble necessary
to conduit the booM. He was
never at a loss, whether the kub-
jeef was history, theology or-lit-
eratulv. He v as allowed to
travel ir* order to earr\ a\\.ay in
his head the treasures of, other
libraries. Once tin* Grand Duke
asked him where he could find a
Certain book.
There is hut on .s.pi in' u»e
world.” said Magliabe* < hi. and
i hot is m (lie Gruml Siguier s
lilu-ar.v in Constantinople, h i.;
tl'.e f n» nih book. on ’the see
ond shelf. on the right hand as
you enter.”
Divided Into Two Classes.
This calls attention to a pecu
liar;! y **i :m m.«j 1 wruen 'many
P jot :s -po. e The> un recall
be brokeii by too
but when it
ligitdy vpun
much pulllii:
recollection tUat-jt is on the right
or the left Imp'd page, and near
the top, the middle'or the bot
tom, even though I may not have
seen the book foryears.
SOin<* psychologists divide
memory into two elass^—mem
ory of form, or visual memory,
and memory of sound* or audi
ble memory. Many persons never
forget what they hear, but quick
ly lose what they read. In gen
eral, wo remember better what
we have seen, llow often do we
meet a face that .we recall per
fectly, without the slightest re
collection of the name of the per
son Unit it belongs to? This is
another proof of the educational
A'alue of pictures, whether “mov
ing” or “still.”
On account of the almost uni
versal existence of visual- mem
ory, systems of memory train
ing are frequently based upon
the association of the things to
be recalled with a series of vis
ible or tangible objects. A speak
er will sometimes utilize his fin
gers. his rings, his watch chain,
or objects in his pockets to as
sist him in recalling the divi
sions of his subject, or the state
ments that he intends to make.
Sometimes he will, as it were,
plant the divisions of his dis
course in the various corners of
a room, or upon striking objects
that, it contains, confident that
a glance will find them when he
wants them.
Must Not Be Burdened.
Memory-is a faculty that niusi
not, according to my experience,
be too much burdened or wor
ried. li lik^s to be trusted. Run
lightly over the facts and state
ments that yo« v.iMi to Dut into
speech, and do not strain the
mind overmuch in trying to
memorize them 1» frequent rep
etition. Let them rest in ilit-
bu» kg round, and give rein to the .
imagination. Then they will flock
to you as if they were glad to
come, and often they will bring
associated things that you
not thought of in advance.
chain whose link
L ord Wellington invited
his German ally at Water
loo, General Blucher, to
visit him in London. He took him
to the top of St. Paul's and
showed him the wonderful city.
“What do you think of it?” he
asked. “The blood of twenty
heathen centuries rose in liis
cheeks,” and he replied: “What a
city for pillage!”
The blood of twenty heathen
centuries rose in Ills cheek*-! That
is a gripping sentence, and it un
covers the peculiar persistence of
all our barbaric survivals.
"Scratch an Englishman and you
will find a Tartar.”
11 came to mind when I read
that the wardens of the Georgia
prison system were agitating for
a restoration of the custom of
whipping refractory female pris
oners. When the scientists in the
universities hear of it it will
down in their notebooks for
Hasses in Genetics as phenomena.
Of course the Legislature ol
Georgia will have scant •rci pec-
for th .• proposition and it vvii
come to nothing, but it reminds*
us that “the blood of twenty
heathen centuries” has not ah
run out of our veins, but that it
is running out every day. Th ?
civilization of Georgia has gone u
ling ways forward since the
treatment of prisoners was a
subject of public indifference.
When the traffic in convicts was
ended the 'State entered a new
era of penology. Henceforth,
what is clone to a prisoner it is
you and me and all of uv who
' do it.
Why Not Whip the Women?
Is it because they are too goorl,
too gentle and inoffensive to be
whipped? Nay, verily. There is
nothing worse In the possibilities
of human nature than the worst
woman. It is because of our
selves that we will not whip
women any more in Georgia,.
We all remember the ease of
the DrCris woman, the Savan
nah Diamond Queen. She was an
ugly character and the trouble
she gave the authorities was no
torious. She exasperated them to
t ie limit, and then beyond the
limit. She tempted them and
they tell--into bestiality. Her
meanness provoked the represen
tatives of tiie State of Georgia lo
a meanness as bad an hers.
Having the power and being
eriraged, they tied her -hands to
the ring ill the wall above her
head and .chipped her until she
succumbed. When khe succumbed,
you and I and all ol us fell
down." It v\as a. contretemps in ^
GhjHstian civilzution. A drop of
“the blood of 2U heathen centu
ries” splashed on the white page
REV. JOHN E WHITE.
and the whole book was ashamed
Oi li
ll.
Have you seen it raining while
the sun is shining? “Tue dev’.l is
whipping his wife,” we say. What
docs the oid saying mean? It
means that nature is disgracing
itself, that sunshine and rain are
incongruous and that the devil is
at his worst when he is -whip
ping his wife.
In the < mergence from ba -
bail.nn. human::y has discovered
certain leading lines which guide
upward, and which, if it turns
about and follows in the contrary
direcMon leads downward. One
o£ the e great leading line>*, which
measures progr-hs, ix our thought,
toward and out treatment of
we nanhodd. Tin- savage did not
unuer.- Uin«l Fmo when Mb-' Btruck
i:!6 wife inflicted ;i< plow u.p:>h
hits pojtci-#.
The aisrn of our escape f rom
savagery. i s our better under,
standing and our keener appr e .
elation uml our greater sensitive
ness. The fact that a woman w a .
a prisoner in some castle dungeon
did not exclude her front the sy m .
pathy of King Arthur’s knight?
it intensified their chivalry.
What Shall the Wardens Do?
That we are governed by se 0 .
limental considerations Is not to
bo denied. Sentimental consider-
ations govern civilization at |t«
highest.
What shall the wardens d„.
then? Must they not enforce die-
cipline? Yes, and a thousand
timee, No. There are methods of
discipline which do not degrade"
the State of Georgia. Let them
he applied sternly enough and
with perseverance. But there are
methods of discipline which would
degrade the State of Georgia, and
they are effective. They reduce
the most stubborn to submission
because there lo an extremity „f
unconsciousness at their end, just
beyond which grins the ghost of
death.
Human nature can not ajppon
tile easy possibilities of their ex
quisite torture. Shall they not be
employed when necessary tv,
break the spirit of the devil that
possesses the prisoner? A thou
sand times “No,” because the
State of Georgia is a civilized
State.
It were better that prison dis
cipline suffer, better that the war
dens endure sum thing than that*
a Christian State should ipse its
soul, which is very much more
important than the wardens.
By however low an estimate
you put on the Women in the scale
ot human valued, because they are
negro women, you only indicate
the stoop of the State to their
level when brutality of power
matched itself against the brutal
ity of ignorance and weakness in
the convict camps.
The appeal to the Legislature
for the ring In the wall and t’ne
cat-o-nine t^tils is ill advised. Tlv
people of Georgia are not moving
backward In humanity toward
prisoner?.
Besides, as. a practical matter,
in a few year-- more the difficulty
of securing white men who ur;
willing to hire themselves out to
whip women—oven negro wom
en—ought to become a serioia
difficulty. “The blood of tvent;
heathen centuries” is playing out
in this world.
Why Doi^t You Stop Pushing on the Lines!
Don’t Worry and Fret and Nag Yourself or Anybody Else. It Only
)ets on Your OvVn Nerves and It Doesn’t Get You
Anywhere At All.
had
Mem-
J t’ST a year ago it was dial i
saw .her last until yesterday.
A little, thin, nervous, wor
ried-looking woman—with eyes
too bright, mouth too set.
firm little hands too tight
ly clasped, going up hill in an
old-fashioned wagon pushing on
the lines.
There was* a good driver in the
front s*eat and a good steady hoise
in the shafts, a good smooth road
under the wheels, a fine green
landscape all around to see, but
my friend didn’t see it"; she was
too busy pushing on the lines,
Lst Him Do the Pulling.
Gp, up. up the long hill climbed
the straining wheels. “Gid-dup.”
said the driver as he spat content
edly into the splendid gulf of
green below the bluff; "gid-dap. - ’
and the patient, steady old horse
“gid-daped” quietly, calmly, stead
ily to the top of the lrng hill.
At the top my friend leaned
back on the cushions. “There.'
she said, and sighed in groat re
lief. Tile driver turned in his
seat and spoke with all the fre**-
doru of tlie- Western spirit.
'Tired, ain’t you?” he said.
■‘Tired?” t*c-ioed>'my friend,
‘•wliy; yes, 1 guess I am.”
“Well now,” said the driver,
soothingly, “you hadn't ought t *
be. The old horse. i ;t did all tin
pulling. I wouldn't push so h:.rd
oh the. Um-s when . .saving to th
no::t l.Ek”
The u Oman’s face vGaxod. U. ;•
bright eyes softened a Fttic.
”T nit*-' she >'u!c. 1 l>i ;iov
By WINIFRED BLACK.
\vq.ved u* a good-humored stkn’-
1'5't as ehe and tl>e d:;i\ pr and? the
old h-ir.se- and the old-rashione-.l
mbuntdin wagon started down the
hill.
Yesterday I met my friend for
the first -time since then. Her
back was toward me and I didn't
know her till she turned.
Such a young back it was. and
so was her face, young and rested
and pleasant and full of a kind
of calm joy that had been miss
ing when last 1 saw her.
.“What’ in the world has hap
pened to .you?’’ said 1. ‘ You look
like a girl again?’
-My friend smiled. atn," ,sTlc
-aid. ‘and yet it is alj so simple.
’T learned It front the driver on
the mountain road. I’ve: stopped
pushing on the lines; that’s all.
and you can’t think how much
easier the road is to climb."
Stopped pushing on the line;,
that war it.
Always Pushing on the Lines.
My friend bus a good husband,
kind, devoted, successful in a
quiet sort of way. Not so clever
as my .friend, not -o ambitious,
not so full of energy, hut the man
or the family without a doubt. I
Itavt often wondered if her con
stant pushing and plodding ami
reminding and spurring didn’t get
on his nerves. My friend told me
about it.
"Vou know Jot- ns wall ;u? i do”
she said. "Poor fallow, Ire's had it
title of it with. ilia. I was alwafs
pUskiiu: on’tile lines and thinking
1 was helping. ;iJU ] a |i the lime it
uidh’t do a filing ba* make no-
"Joe never hurries; he never
goes into things with his heart
and soul; he just does the best
he can and lets it go at that.
"It used to fairly kill me to get
him off to the office. 1 wanted him
to hurry. I wanted him to get to
work, I wanted him to do thing*
and ‘hustle.’ and he never would,
lie couldn't. He had just so much
strength. Just so much energ:
and just such a hill to climb, and
all the pushing I did didn’t make
a particle of difference to him
or to me or to the load.
I'm Ten Years Younger
•i
worried, and fretted, air
:lid was irritated, 'pus -
on the lines' all the way, an<i
didn’t get to the top a hl
for all my pushing.
►Suddenly, lart year, when ®
told me that about the
it all was clear to me and
never done it since: n ° l
nagged
we
quicker
driver
lines
“When 1 feel like hurrying J 06 -
when T wish he’d do something
quicker than he does, or put more
life into the doing of it, I
lean back and untie my face a"
<ay to myself, ‘don’i pu*» on l,,e
tines.' jnii it's al] right.
I m ten j’ears younger, and so
Joe. I take time to enjoj
I don’t worry over "hat
I can’t help, and in the long
we s- i over the »»
s well us tie did befo.e
good ti-al better
push oil the 1 ne- 1 " !=
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every woman who na^-
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