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V t f t * t EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME PAPER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama 8t., Atlanta, Ga Entered aa second-class matter at postofflce at Atlanta, und#»r net of March 31*.3 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mall, 15.00 a year. Payable in Advance ______ Do You Want to Live a Few Years Longer? Read This Sit in the Middle of the Car on the Right Hand Side in A STEEL Car. It It Worth While to Form Habits That May Save Y our Life. (Copyright, 191 St j There are various habits. One is the habit of riding properly in trains, under gTound, above ground, or on the surface. First, find a STEEL car if you can. You can learn to tell the steel cars from the wooden cars-^ven when the wooden cars are painted to imitate metal. The rivets and bolts on the steel car are your guide. If you can’t find a steel car, of course you must ride in the wooden car. If you do that, when the ride is finished talk to your friends about persuading the distinguished lawmakers to forbid wooden cars hereafter. When you find your car, of steel or wood, take your seat, if you can get it. in the MIDDLE of the car, on the RIGHT HAND SIDE. The middle of the car is the safest place, because it is farthest from both ends, where the bump will come in case of a head-on or rear-end collision. The right-hand side is the safe side of the car—we mean the side on your right as you look in the direction in which the train is going. The train goes on the right-hand track, and when you sit on the right-hand side you are on the side away from the train that will pass you on the other track. Sometimes the train on the other track is a freight train carrying a load pf iron. If a piece of iron gets out of place it will rip out all the windows on the side of the car next to it—and that isn’t pleasant. About once every month some passenger train i3 "side- swiped.” That means that it is "swiped” all along its side by something sticking out of a freight train on the other track. The passengers also are apt to be "side-swiped —uncomfortable un der such circumstances. It is easy to form habits which become second nature and are followed mechanically after awhile. You may say, ‘‘Not all the passengers can possibly ride in the middle of the car on the right-hand side, and not all can get into | the steel car if a wooden car is on the train.” That is true. But remember that the most careless and indifferent thing in the ■ world is the average human being. Not one in a hundred will take the trouble to do the very simple things in life that will prolong life and make it worth while. That is why not one in a hundred reaches life’s proper limit. To Improve the World Begin by Improving Yourself Make Up Your Mind to Be One of the World’s HONEST Citizens. I To improve the world begin by improving yourself. Make up your mind to be one of the world’s HONEST citi zens. * And here is an argument that should be more powerful with you than self-interest: Remember that the world needs honest, conscientious men and women, able to do good work themselves and to people the earth with children born of honest parents. Your hardest effort may fail to achieve greatness. But hon est work will at least make it impossible for you to be a failure. Train your brain, nerves and muscles to regular, steady, conscientious effort. Make up your mind that FOR YOUR OWN SAKE you will make every effort your best effort. You will soon find yourself a more successful, more self- respecting, abler man or woman. MERELY WORKING "FAIRLY WELL” IS NOT ENOUGH. If you want to run a mile fast, you do not merely jog. You try every day to run the mile faster than you did the day be fore. If you want to learn to jump high, you strain your mus cles and try over and over to do what you can’t do. Ultimately you achieve it. Keep that in mind when you work. Remember that you must wind yourself up. The most watchful employer may dis charge you. But he can not wind you up. Be a self-winding machine, and keep yourself wound up. Intelligent readers will not misinterpret this advice to mean that they should OVERWORK themselves, or work regardless of their own physical welfare . The right course is this: Do as much as you can in the present, without drawing on jrour future reserves. Don't work all night and then go on the next day. Such effort impairs permanently your store of vitality, and that vi tality is your capital. Eut never form the habit of neglecting work, of shamming ind lying instead of achieving honestly. You may deceive one employer, or ten. But you can't de ceive nature, and you can't deceive yourself. You can form good habits only through regular work. You can develop your faculties only through exercising them hon- fc|»tly and- tystematically. ^ IT’S TiMt To T«»<e Your. weoiciNfe. _ S1R- ' <seT our \ «»N» L6AVC f'lt * iWnmrcr, iinnmnninf Thc. 'TWwneo Norse-* torrie, the football. HefcoJ) You'Boes Dox'T GIT ©uT* H£RE- I'Lt. PUT Ye in Ike v cooler. / V /oYtmri®/ The Bandits laiR- Mysteries of Science and Nature The Two-Part Life of the Seals Which Voy age Thousands of Miles Yearly Without Chart or Compass, Is One of the Most Fas cinating of Scientific Puzz'es. By GARRETT P. SERVISS JACK By WILLIAM F. KIRK. J acpJ was a youth who was fond of thrills. And bravely he followed the pace that kills. He plunged, because he was young and strong. At cards and women and wine and song. Laughing at plea or at stern command, He sowed wild oats with a reckless hand. Debt and illness, ruin and rack Came to the boys who trained with Jack. A gray old man came along one day And watched Jack throwing his strength away. “It won’t work, boy,” he said with a smile, "It's better to walk than to run a mile. How can I ask you to listen to me? T never would listen myself, you see. The cost of it all was wasted years And a shattered frame—and a woman's tears. The truth will dawn on you, boy, at last.” Then out the door the old man passed. Jack is as old and as sad to-day As the pitying stranger who crossed his way. He weighs the past and he counts each loss: The gifts that he threw away like dross. The painted cheeks and the mocking gin, The golden years that he gave to sin. And ever he sees a ghost in gray— The stranger who warned him and walked away. In the Movies In Real Life Seeing Without Eyes By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN. horn instinct, to guide them. They select, on the rocky coasts, beaches and slopes to please them—and then wait. Each bull has his own ground, or “rook ery.” He is alone, but he know* that his company is .coming:. In June the females begin to arrive. They are small and frail compared to the bulls, but they, too. have made their way unerr ingly. Then the “harems*’ are organized. The bulls are like Grand Turks; each of them has. on the average, 30 members of his harem. Once in a while some unfortunate (or fortunate!) has but one; but, on the other hand, a few have as many as a hundred! Have No Harems. The lot of the young bulls, “bachelors.” the seal fishermen call them, has a kind of poetic in terest also. They have no har ems, not even one with a single inmate. They collect together in companies near the harems that they can not enter, and look on and think. Perhaps they con struct romances of the future in their poor, muddled brains. But their lot has another unhappy feature since man has learned the value of their hides, for they can be unmercifully slaughtered with out fear of diminishing the herd. They are driven off by hunter.? at night, corralled in musters that may number thousands, and then ignominiously knocked on the head. The breeding season closes about August 1. Then the bulls go away, followed by the females and the young, to lead their other life in the sea. An indication of how little has been known, until very recently, of that other life of the seals is afforded by this singular fact. When the L T nited States and Great Britain combined their wisdom in an effort to protect the precious herds from utter extinction, about 1893, a protected limit was drawn about the islands, with a radius of 60 miles from shore, within which it was forbidden to kill seals found in the water. Their Wanderings. It was thought that few' would go away farther than that. But to the surprise of everybody the “pelagic,” or open-sea fishermen, made the v^ery next season, with out violating the protective boun daries, the largest catch on rec ord. Then it was found that the seals were limited by no such narrow' bounds of oceanic wan dering as had been ascribed to them, but that they might he encountered in abundance almost anywhere north of California and Japan! So now, by a fifteen-year convention, pelagic sealing is prohibited anywhere in the Northern Pacific. Japan joining in the agreement with Great Brit ain and the United States. —“You write in the science column recently of seeing without eyes. Kindly ex plain the phenomenon of seeing with the eyes closed, i. e., w r hen we are in slumber and dream, or when under the influence of an esthetics.'’ A.—This is one of the most im portant mentological questions now before mentalists. Able books are now being published on this fascinating subject. The rig idly scientific definition of the w’ord “seeing” is with eyes, optic nerve? and optical “brain-area,” or thalamus, by aid of light. But “sending,” becoming aware of the existence of forms, not objective ly. but subjectively, without light, is a very wide department of mentonomy. And the vision, or impression of seeing, is as clear, distinct and accurate as that due. to light. The cause is unknown. Here 1? a case out of several thousands on file here In the li brary: A girl was standing by a window’ overlooking a railroad and landscape. She suddenly saw a train with one car draped in black, and called her mother. The woman could see no train, and gave her daughter a whip ping for lying. Next day a funeral train came precisely as observed by the girl. No physical science can hope to offer any explanation. There are a few r scholar? now living whose minds are so very powerful that they can think a thought that has not been thought before. There may be a? many as 500 now alive and thinking. Suppose that one of these should say: “I made up my mind to go,” and that some body hearing this, should ask the meaning of “I” and “my.” The wise man, even if a mathemati cian capable of weighing the sidereal universe, would not, could not, even begin to think of a reply. What the human mind or personality is is as completely unknown now as when Badaray- ana began to study centuries B. C. Here is the appalling thing now before the people for solution. There are perfectly sane, innocent people dying by inches in asy lums for the Insane for doing the same as did this little girl. And here in the twentieth century people are “tried” bv other peo ple totally Ignorant of what little is known of the action of mind, or of its real nature, or what it is: and hurried to these asylums, where the sane are soon driven insane by the terrific and hideous surroundings. R UDYARD KIPLING, in one of his poems, has referred to the mystery of the pe riodical disappearance of the seals from their breeding grounds, where the hunters cut them down. His imagination appears to have been deeply stirred by the strange instincts of these animals, which know’ the hidden ways of the sea and travel where man can not follow', with a sureness of course and an unerring divination of ob stacle and danger which, if pos sessed by human pilots, would make the navigation of the ocean as simple as walking across a room. And, indeed, it is a poetic mystery. Without chart or compass they voyage thousands of miles, and never go astray. They live in the sunlight, and walk on the land during months of every year, and yet, when the time comes, they plunge into the sea, disappear, at will, in its dark profundities, seek and find their winter homes, thou sands of miles away, feed upon the fish and squids in the depths of the temperate or tropical ocean and with the return of the north ern spring, take their way once more to the borders of the Arctic ice. These statements apply espe cially to the fur seals of Alaska. The less valuable "hair seals” are a widely different species, al though they, too, have their strange annual migrations. Fur Seals. What adds to the mystery of the fur seals Is the fact that, un like the others, they are. ana tomically, allied to the bears, whose behavior they strikingly Imitate w'hen on land. For this reason they w'ere originally called “sea-bears.” Thus they come into a certain relationship with land carnivores, or flesh-eating ani mals of the land, which, though they may swim, can not live un der water. Practically at least half the life of these seals is passed beyond our ken. They come up into our world, like plants sprouting out of the ground, when their sea son is due, re-create their kind on rocky beaches, or hill slopes, remain until their land-born pro geny has learned the secrets of the w'ater-world, and then go their unhesitating way down in the darknesses of the sea. Tne family life of these ani mals is as strange as their migra tions. In the month of May, as the sun begins to melt the ice floes in the Behring Sea. around the Pribilof Island?, the black head? of the “bull” seals may be seen emerging from the water. They are seeking the breeding places for the “cows," which will come later. They have voyaged thousands of miles with no North Star, but only their in- Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes on Neglected Wives Discontented Women, She Says, Would Do Well to Read Newspaper Records of Divorces and Think Well Before Blindly Asking- Sympathy and Advice From Another Man. A MARRIED woman became infatuated with a man who was not her husband. She wrote this man a letter every day. Wild, reckless, Impassioned, im prudent letters, which the judge refused to allow' read In court. She believed her lover would guard her letters like precious gems, and that he w’ould in every way protect her name. The husband naturally, in time, learned of the relations existing between his wife and the other man. He began proceedings for a di vorce. So soon as the lover learned of this he went to the husband and asked for a private Interview'. Then he informed the injured man that he had a package of let ters in his possession which would make it an easy matter for the divorce to be gained. Sacrificed Her to Shield Himself. The price he demanded for the letters was the husband’s promise td obtain the divorce quietly and make no mention of the corre spondent's name. And this was the Romeo for whom a wife had sacrificed her honor and her good sense, and her self-respect! What humiliation of spirit, what self-contempt, what shame she must have experienced when the miserable story came to her knowledge. When the husband obtained hie divorce, the lover was not waiting outside her door to sanctify the relation by marriage. He was hurrying to distant scenes to avoid ar- unpleasant notoriety. He was one of many men who are ever ready to enjoy the posi tion of a lover to a married wom an, but are not at all eager to have brought the woman happi ness in her new relations. There is something about a w’oman who has proven false to her marriage vows and who has compromised herself with an other man which seems to lessen her value even in the eyes of the man who has led her into folly; 1 and it is seldom that peace or happiness ever accompanies the two across the threshold of a new- life. Men are quick to boast of the favors of married women. But they do not prize them. By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX (Copyright, 1913, by Star Company.) make the woman a wife after she is freed. That type of man feels it a cer tain kind of honor tr be known as a paramour of a married wom an; but he regards it a dishonor to be that woman's husband when she is liberated and at his com mand. Yet in spite of the fact that such cases are to 4>e seen in the It will be w’ell for her if she sits alone in her room and recalls some of the cases she has per sonally known, and seeks vainly to find shining examples of brave and loyal lovers who have stood boldly by their scandalized mis tresses and protected them w’ith fine honor to the very altar. Lessens Her Own Value In Eyes of Other Men. And if she finds such exam ples, she would do well to follow' them through the years after the marriage, and see how many world all about us, other women take no warning, and rush into similar compromising situations, blindly believing the affinity will be eager and glad to claim her as his own, once she is free. NeglectedWives Should Ponder Over Question. When a wife, however, neglect ed and misused she may be, be gins to confide her trouble to another man. and to seek for his sympathy, it will be well for her if she turns over the files of old newspapers and reads some of I the divorce trials which are oc curring and recurring ey^rry year. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.