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TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA . SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1013.
The Tranquil Life
By CAPTAIN GEORGE STEUNENBERG
SIMM'S
ON CARNEGIE
Captain Who Called Atlanta Ox-
Cart Town Writes Poem Lam
pooning Laird.
Captain George Steunenberg has
again leaped Into tha very renter of
1 he spotlight, and again his vigoroos
trenchant and well-known pen is the
cause of his attaining this coveted
position. This time he goes after An
drew Carnegie with a poem in which
he ridicules Carnegie's attitude as an
enemy to war.
Captain Steunenberg wears a sword
for a living, but he has ever prac
ticed in the belief of the theory that
the pen is a mightier weapon.
A little more than a year ago. Cap
tain Steunenberg was gracing the
barracks and parade ground at Fort
McPherson as an officer of the Sev
enteenth Infantry. Little was known
of him in Atlanta and this seemed to
hurt his sensibilities. Wherefore he
drew his trusty pen and began to see
that Atlanta should notice him.
Atlanta Object of Wrath.
He got the notice. When he had
laid by his writing paraphernalia tem
porarily he had said things about At
lanta. and the things he said were
Have ye heard the glad tidings, ye
comrades in arras? Rejoice for
our troubles are past!
The prize we have struggled so long
to attain we hold in our clutches
at last.
Like mists of the morning our cares
roll away and vanished are sor
row and strife;
Our troubles we ll toss to the rol
licking breeze.
And pursue an existence, of indolent
ease.
So writ#* to your relatives, tell all
your friends, and convey the glad
news to your wife.
For th • Congress of Peace has dis
covered the fact that we re lead
ing the tranquil life!
Have you ever done time at the Leav
enworth schools and thought you
were earning your pay
When you buried your face in the
leaves of a book for some seven
teen hours a day?
Have you had to change station three
times in a year and pay fare for
your children and wife?
Have you blistered your heels and
grown weak in the knees?
Slept in wet blankets and swore at
the fleas?
Have you sprung from your bed in
the gray, early dawn to the
sc ream of the reveille Are.
And double-timed out to receive the
reports? That’s part of the tran
quil life.
It was once a hardship to sleep in a
tent, with the rain dripping
through on your bed;
When the tightening guy-ropes would
. pull out the pins and collapse the
whole on your head.
Or to pant through the sweltering
afternoon with h hot wind at
tempting your life--
Du • rolling in from the company
street—
Tent-fly flapping a lullaby sweet,
■While with poison oak, chiggers and
< us.H words rare the tropical air
was rife—
No hardship at all! Just passing
events in the course of the tran
quil life.
Who dreads the long years in the
Philippines now? The fever, the
hea f and the dust?
And th** long nights on outpost
through tropical rain that turns
all the rifles to rust?
Or the endless pursuit of the festive
lj&drone, who has evil designs on
your life—
Chunks of lead humming through
the trees—
(Trifling events in the life of ease;)
And if we would forfeit a Juglar vein
to the swing of the murderous
knife—
What of it! ’Tis but a becoming fl-
■ i ♦tit tlug the timnquii life.
No more will we swear at the long,
dusty hikes—they’re nothing but
pleasure trips now—
No more will the parting of family
ties bring a furrow of care to
the brow;
And the rifle, the bolo, the home-made
spear—once handy in shortening
life—
The barong, lantaka, and sinuous
kreese
Are friendly and safe as the dove
of peace.
And though the dark war clouds may
hover apace and betoken interna
tional strife.
Have never a fear, for the sun shines
clear in the path of the tranquil
life.
not of a nature to please the proud
spirit of Atlantans.
He went after the city itself, and
when he was through it was but a
country village, and not any country
village, to brag on, either. According
to his description, the principal meth
od of transportation here was the
trustworthy but obsolete ox team,
while mud, hub deep, was decidedly
the most attractive feature of the
civic scenery.
Then he went into a discussion of
inebriate, and while he admitted that
some of the folks could read and
write, they must have had extraordi
nary talent, for the educational facili
ties were about in keeping with the
rest of the things around town.
The raptain had difficulty in get
ting his story printed, but he finally
landed it in an obscure little daily
paper in the mountains of Montana,
it took several weeks to reach At
lanta, hut when it did there was a
Negroes in Sleepers
Stir Official’s Ire
Head of South Carolina Railroad
Commission Threatens to Make
Appeal to Congress.
A protest against allowing whites
the climate, and long before he was
through the Sahara Desert was com
paratively a garden spot and the at
mosphere of the village was so ener
vating that the people hardly had the
energy to fan themselves with the
thermometer 102 In the shade.
From the climate, he switched to a
discussion of the people. According
to the gallant captain, they were
hardly worth discussion He admit
ted that they were wonders at chew
ing tobacco and whittling soft pine
sticks in front of the livery stable,
but that was about all to them, ex
cept that they’ had considerable abil
ity when it came to making the night
hideous and doing more wicked
things than were ever heard of in the
naughtiest Parisian cafe.
Architecture Doesn’t Please.
According to the captain, the arch*-
tecture, what little there was, must
have been the work of a hopeless
howl that reverberated at Fort Me*
Pheraon.
A diplomatic War Department saw
that Captain Steunenberg’s Atlanta
days were few and he was transferred
to the more salubrious land of Hawaii,
where they do the hula hula dance.
Captain Ridicule* Kaiser.
During the Halkan bickering, he
reached for his pen and wrote an ef
fusion called "Our Object Lesson.” in
which h<* paid his respects to Wil
helm Hohenzollern, Fmperor and
autocrat of Germany. It caused con
siderable of a row in the War De
partment, but Steunenberg wasn’t
perturbed.
He came right back with a poem
he calls "The Tranquil Life,” in which
he lampoons and harpoons Andrew
Carnegie, who is supposed to be
worth many millions and can prob
ably bear up under the attack, even as
Atlanta did.
and negroes to occupy the same
sleeping cars is expressed in a hot let
ter of condemnation written to a
general officer of the Pullman Com
pany by the president of the South
Carolina Railroad Commission, a copy
of which has been received by C.
Murphy Candler, chairman of the
Georgia Railroad Commission.
The letter was inspired, the writer
declares, by the custom of the Pull
man Company of selling transporta
tion to negroes admitting them to
sleeping coaches occupied by white
persons. The letter voices a threat.
"The Pullman Company operating
in the South is sustained almost en
tirely by its white patrons,” the writer
declares, "and these do not propose
to submit to conditions which will
permit negroes to occupy the same
coaches." An appeal to Congress is
threatened.
OR.L E. BRAGG
ELECTED HEAD
‘Human Rattlebox’ Whitman Fur
nishes Novel Feature of the
State Convention.
Dr. E E. Rragg, of Atlanta, was
elected president of the Georgia Oste
opathic Association at the annual
convention held at the Imperial Ho
fei Saturday. Other officers elected
were: Dr. J. W. Elliott, of Cordelc,
Ga., vice president; Dr. W. W. Black
man, of Atlanta, secretary and treas
urer. An executive committee was
appointed as follows: Dr. C. L. Har
ris, of Marietta; Dr. A. O. Lane, of
Griffin; Dr. N. B. Riley, of Rome.
Dr. Blackman was chosen State
representative to attend the conven
tion of the National Osteopath!#* As
sociation. w hich will be held in Kirke-
ville, Mo., in August.
Kirkeville is the home of the found
er of osteopathy, Dr. Alexander .Still,
and of the American School of Oste
opathy, the larges* school of the kind
in the world. The national conven
tion will meet on the eighty-second
birthday anniversary of Dr. Still.
The association did not name a city
for the 1914 convention. This is usu
ally done by the executive committee
In the spring. Dr. Elliott invited the
association to meet in (’ordele.
With the exception of the election
of officers, little was done by the
osteopaths during their a 11-day ses
sion that is of general public interest.
During the afternoon a thorough
examination was made of Ellis Whit
man, known as the "human rattle-
box.” Whitman is able to dislocate
his joints in every conceivable man
ner. One of Whitman’s ”9tunts'’ is
throwing his heart from side to side.
At noon t|e 30 osteopaths who at
tended the convention were guests of
Dr. F. F. Jon'-s, of Macon, at lunch
eon.
Several papers on osteopathic top
ics were read at the afternoon ses
sion, and a short business meeting
clop**d the convention The reports of
the officers showed that the organi
zation is in a prosperous condition.
The retiring president, Dr. W. H.
Bowdoin, of Atlanta, declared the
members are now’ taking more in
terest in the work of the association
than ever before.
CAM DORSEY ORATOR AT
GEORGIA COMMENCEMENT
ATHENS, GA.. May 31.—Cam Dor
sey, of Atlanta, member of the class
of 1903, has been selected as the ora
tor to award the sophomore cup on
Tuesday, June 17, at the University of
Georgia commencement. While in
college he w’as a prominent athlete
and active in public speaking.
Engine’s‘13’Hoodoo 11
Claims Third Victim; I
Locomotive Driver Is Fatally Scalded |
by Steam Blown Through 1
Firebox. *
Dr, Hanscom Holds
Baptismal Services
Central Congregational Church
Receive New Members at Its
Morning Services To-day.
to
ALBANY, GA., May 31. A moment
after he had arisen fron his b«*d in a
local hospital to-day, R. H. Brower,
a railroad engineer, exclaimed, ”1 am
tainting,” and fell over unconscious
He died a few minutes later.
Brower, who was employed on the
lumber road of the Flint River Cy
press Company, was burned on the
back, head, arms and face, when a
congested ash pan caused steam, un
der 200 pounds pressure, to blow’
through the ’ocomotive firebox, when
the fireman opened a blowcock to
(dear the ash pan. He was not con
sidered seriously injured when
brought to the hospital.
It is reported that two other men
have met death from accidents on
the same engine No. 1352 of the Cen
tral of Georgia Railroad. Engineers
are now afraid of the "thirteen hoo
doo” of this locomotive, its number
being thirteen and four times thir
teen.
North Atlanta Seeks
Better Car Service
Growth of Section Is Pointed Out
In Petition to Georgia Rail
way and Power Co.
New impetus has found its way into
the movement among residents in the
territory bounded by North Avenue.
West Peachtree Street and Hemphill
Avenue, to get an extension of the West
Peachtree Street car service to take care
of the great amount of traffic in that
district.
With the large increase of population
in this section, plans for a fresh cam
paign to induce the Georgia Railway and
Power Company to extend its car line
there has been inaugurated. In a peti
tion signed by W. M. Slaton, superin
tendent of schools, and other prominent
persons, the growth of that community
was pointed out to the car company.
The petition asked that the Peachtree
Street car line, which now stops at Sixth
Street, be extended to Tenth Street,
and from Tenth to State, and thence to
Sixteenth Street. Request was also
made that the Orme Street line be ex
tended to Tenth Street.
Urge More Senators
For Campaign Body
Congressional Committee Should
Have 21 Members From Upper
Chamber, Thinks President.
WASHINGTON, May 31.—Increased
Senatorial representation on the Demo
cratic Congressional Committee was dis
cussed to-day at a conference between
Chairman Lloyd and Secretary Page, of
the campaign committee, and a com
mittee of five Senators.
President Wilson favors a plan to
have on the reorganized committee a
Senator from each State where Senators
are elected by direct popular vote in
1914. According to the committee’s in
formation these States are:
Kentucky, Kansas, Ohio, Oregon, Ar
kansas, Florida, New Hampsihre, Okla
homa, Alabama, Nevada, North Caro
lina. New’ York, Illinois. Indiana, South
Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, Arizona,
Missouri, Colorado and Louisiana.
LOBBl INQUIR!
President Will Not Be Asked to
Tell Who Is Working Against
Tariff Measure.
WASHINGTON, May 31.—Presi-
dent Wilson will not be asked to ap
pear before the Senate committee,
charged with the duty of lnvestigat- I
ing the charges of the executive that |
an "Insidious” lobby has been in
fluencing Senators against the free-
trade provisions of the Wilson-Un-
derwood tariff bill.
The Judiciary Committee, to whom
the Cummins resolution as finally
emasculated by the Democrats was j
referred, met this morning and ap- J
pointed a sub-committee to conduct)
the inquiry. J
Minority Report Expected.
Those who will make the attempt j
to uncover the lobby the President 1
New members will be baptized this
morning at the Central Congregation
al Church, Ellis Street and Carnegie
Way. The holy communion will be
I administered.
Dr. George Loring Hanscom. the
minister, will have for the subject of
the communion address, "The Mean
ing of the Lord’s Supper.’’
At the evening service the subject
of the sermon by Dr. Hanscom will
be "The Heart of a Spring.” The
regular Sunday evening services at
this church are evangelistic in char
acter. As the church is in the heart
of the city, the Sunday evening au
diences are made up largely of tran
sients, and this gives the church its
favorite name, "Sunday Home for
Strangers.”
The program of music for the ser
vices of the day is under the direc
tion of Miss M. Ethel Byer.
Plan New Factory
On East Ellis St,
Mrs. Ida D. Fraser Lets Contract for
Building—Section Is De
veloping Rapidly.
says exists are Senators Overman,
Walsh and Reed, Democrats, and
Cummins and Nelson, Republicans.
The presence of Senator Nelson on
this committee gives promise of a
vigorous minority report. There is a
general belief, however, that Presi
dent Wilson will Insist upon coming
before the committee.
Hearings To Be Public.
The hearings will be public. A set
of questions addressed to each Sen
ator was prepared this evening. The
first meeting will be in alphabetical
Mrs. Ida D. Fraser has adopted plans
for the erection of a factory building
on East Ellis Street, between Ivy Street
and Piedmont Avenue, and the work Is
well under way. Ground has been
broken on the south side of the street
for the building, which will be two
stories and a basement. It will be oc
cupied by the Jessup & Antrim Ice
Cream Company.
With the erection of a large laundry
building now under way at Ellis and
Piedmont, with the Elks’ Club and the
Index Printing Company already in this
block, indications point to rapid de
velopment of the section.
Gude & Co. have been awarded the
•ontract for the construction of Mrs.
'raser’s building.
Senate Committee Indorses Move
to Give Government Aid for
Vocational Training.
WASHINGTON, May 31.—The Sen-
ate committee on education and labor
to-dev ordered a favorable report on
the resolution of Senator Hoke Smith
of Georgia, providing for the appoint
ment of a committee to consider the
need and report a plan for national
aid to vocational education. This re
port, it is provided, must be made by
December 1. The committee is to con
sist of nine men. who will receive no
compensation, but whose actual trav
eling expenses and subsistence while
engaged on the work will be paid. An
appropriation of $25,000 is provided
for to meet the expenses. The com
mission will be appointed by the Pres
ident.
Senator Smith stated that President
Wilson w’as an enthusiastic advocate
of vocational training and that no
man was better qualified to appoint
such a committee.
It is intended that the report ot
the committee will form the basis of
a bill to be introduced at the next
session, providing governmental aid to
vocational education.
TEST FOR POSTMASTER.
ROME, GA.. May 31.—As a result
of the new civil service regulation,
there will be an examination for post
master at Mount Berry on June 28.
LIVES? TROUBLES CURED
WITH DR. VERDIER’S LIVER EASE
Dr. Verdier’s Liver Ease, a Purely Vegetable and Perfectly
Harmless Medicine, Has Cured Hundreds of Cases of Liver
Troubles Even Better Than Calomel.
order. After Senators have respond- I
ed, the committee will determine 1
whether It may be necessary to sum- «
mon further witnesses.
It is understood there is at least
one man on this sub-committee who
will have to cross-examine the Pres
ident, should he appear and fail to
submit concrete instances of what he
believes to be lobby work, or furnish
names of those engaged in the busi
ness upon which his charges were
based.
LOW ROUND TRIP
RATE TO BALTI
MORE VIA SEA
BOARD.
$20.85 from Atlanta, correspond
ingly low rates from other points,
on sale June 5, 6, 7. Through
trains, electric-lighted steel sleep
ing and dining cars, observation
cars. City Ticket Office, 88 Peach
tree.
Have you that tired feeling so
common at this season? Or is it
a cold in your head ? These and
many other symptoms are due to
a sluggish liver. Why not assist
nature In working off this excess
of bile acid that may cause severe
sickness if allowed to go unnoticed.
Dr. Verdier’s Liver Ease is the
remedy. Get a bottle at your drug
store for 60 cents, and take a dose
just as you go to bed to-night.
You will be so much better by to
morrow that you will appreciate
taking this advice, and you can
best thank us by telling your
friends about it.
We guarantee Dr. Verdier’s Liver
Ease to do the work even better
than calomel, without the irrita
tion and bad after effects you know
so well to accompany that drug.
Fifty cents in stamps sent to Liver
Ease Medicine Co., Atlanta, Ga„
will bring you a bottle promptly if
you are unable to And it in your
town. Refuse all substitutes. There
is nothing like Liver Ease. Put up
in a pink package.
TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION.
THINK of the location.
THINK of the conveniences.
THINK of the tow interest rate.
THINK of the income they are now earn
ing; also the help this will be to you.
SOLD AT AUCTION.
6 UP-TO-DATE HOMES AND 19 READY-TO-BUIID-ON LOTS
Saturday, June 7, ISIS, £T.?,5i£J
These are 5 and 6 room houses, with every city convenience and connection, including furnace in several of the houses, but no
gas as yet. These houses were built of the best material, under the personal direction of Col. I. N. Ragsdale, who could not be in
duced to build a shoddy house.
These houses are real city homes, located in the social center of the Tenth Ward, and only a step from the best car service in
Atlanta.
We urge you to go out and inspect this property. Each house will be plainly placarded, showing cash payment and monthly
payments; also the amount of the loan to be assumed..
THESE HOUSES ARE NOW RENTED, and bring in from $18.50 to $30.00 per month. Think of what a help that will be
to you, in meeting your payments, should you not be ready to occupy the house.
The houses and lots front on the following streets:
Arlington Avenue, Princess Avenue, and LaRosa Terrace.
Arlington Avenue runs off of Lee Street right at Col. Ragsdale’s handsome home. Princess Avenue runs off of Avon (Oak
land) Avenue, between the Baptist church and Capt. E. P. Ryan’s fine home; giving the property two approaches, each of which is
a prominent street.
This Section Has No Objectionable Feature
It is logically the place for the people to live in who are engaged in business, or who are employed among the many indus
trial and manufacturing and railroad enterprises around the Terminal Station, Whitehall Street, Mitchell Street, and the Central
and West Point railroads, and the adjacent territory. The car service and the way the streets run prove these statements to be
true. Think about it, and you’ll see it as we do.
The Lots Are Ready to Build On
These are the lots to buy, either for home sites or for speculation, because they are ready to build on. In addition to this,
every lot is a beauty, with nice young oak shade trees scattered over them. Also, because their location is excellent. They are
only a short distance from the business center of Oakland City. Only 2 blocks from the City School and near the churches, and
the farthest lot is only 2 blocks from the car line, and best of all, they are socially in the swim, and
ALL CITY IMPROVEMENTS DOWN AND PAID FOR
THE TERMS ON THE HOUSES
will range from $150 to $250 cash, and the payments will range from $22.50 per month to $32.50 per month, with 6 per cent simple
interest. Small loans on 5 of the houses, to be assumed by the purchaser.
THE TERMS OH THE LOTS
are right. Every lot will be sold on terms of $50.00 cash, and the balance $15.00 per month, with only 6 per cent simple interest on
the deferred payments.
HOW TO GET THERE:—Take cars at the corner of Forsyth and Alabama Streets, marked “East Point,’’ “Hapeville” or
“College Park.” Get off at the corner of Avon (Oakland) Avenue. You will then be only a step from this property.
HOME AND BE SURE TO BUY—You will never regret it if you do, and you will be sorry if you don’t. Get plans from
TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION.
THINK of the splendid car service.
THINK of the steady growth of this
section.
THINK of the Easy Terms; then make
up your mind to come out and buy
either a home or a vacant tot, or both.
TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION.
11 EDGE WOOD AVENUE
J. W. FERGUSON & SON, Auctioneers