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Christmas Is Coming
Governor Slaton and Senator
Smith
The State of Georgia is singularly well served politically at
the present time.
Few Commonwealths m the Republic are more ably and ac
ceptably represented in Congress and the Senate, and not one of
them has a more admirable Governor in the executive chair.
Governor Slaton's record from the beginning has been a
progressive marvel. He has risen from the ranks to the ruling
place. He fought his way up by sheer force of merit and pluck
through the Legislature and the Senate to the presidency of the
Senate. He has been Governor by succession, and, under well
nigh unanimous approval, has become Governor by voice of the
people. He has borne himself highly everywhere. He has risen
without stain, sustained himself with signal ability and force in
every public emergency, met every expectation of the people,
demonstrated the highest order of civic courage and judgment
and character, and has fully vindicated his eminent fitness for
any future preferment that he may seek.
Glamis he is, and Cawdor, and shall be more hereafter.
Senator Hoke Smith was sent to Washington with a high
estimate of his ability and force. Georgians believed that he
would make good in national affairs, and it is the simple truth
to say that he has done so. Among the men who have been
closest to the Democratic President and exercised a large in
fluence in shaping Administration and Senatorial policies, Sens
tor Smith of Georgia has been prominent. Before his first term
is half complete he is a recognized power in the politics and pub
lie sentiment of the country.
There are few wiser things for a State to do than to recog
nize capable and faithful public servants and to reward them.
The mutations of personal politics frequently bring unworthy
men to the service of the State, but the judicious people recog
nize good men when they are found and hold on to them.
Undoubtedly both Governor Slaton and Senator Smith
ought to be kept in the service of Georgia. Both of these states
men should be returned to the respective stations which they
adorn.
Unless, of course, they should have other ambitions.
Work, Grow in Solitude
Don’t Be a Sheep; Br a Man
• oprnfM. im.1. by Star L«mj>«nv
Do you want to succeed? Grow in solitude, work, develop in
solitude, with books and thoughts and nature for friends. Then,
if you want the crowd to see how fine you are, come back to it
and boss it if it will let you. (
Constant craving for indiscriminate company is a sure sign
of mental weakness.
If you enter a village or small town and want to find the man
or youth of ability, do you look for him leaning over the Village
pool table, sitting on the grocery store boxes, lounging in the
smelly tavern with other vacant minds?
Certainly not. You find him at work, and you find him by
himself.
Think how public institutions dwarf the brains and souls of
unhappy children condemned to live in them. No chance there for
individual, separate development. Millions of children have
grown up in such places millions of sad nonentities
Here is what Goethe says
Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, doch em Charakter in
deni Strome der Welt. ' (Talent is developed in solitude, char
acter in the rush of the world.) •
You wonder why so much ability comes from the country
why a Lincoln comes from the backwoods while you, flourishing
in a great city, can barely keep your place as a typewriter.
The countryman has got to be by himself much of the time
whether he wishes to or not If he has anything in him it comes
out.
Astronomy, man s grandest study, grew up among the shop
herds. You of the cities never even see the stars, much less study
them
Don t be a sheep or a deer. Don't devote your hours to the
company and conversation of those who know as little as you do
Don 't think hard only when you are trying to remember a popular
song or to decide on the color of your Winter overcoat or necktie
Remember that you are an individual, not a grain of dust or s
blade of grass. Don’t be a sheep; be a man. It has taken nature
i hundred million years to produce you Don't make her sorry
she took the time.
Get out in the park and walk and think Get up in your ha)'
bedroom, read, study, write what you think Talk more to your
fcelf and less to others Avoid magazines, avoid excessive news
paper reading
There is not a man of average ability but could make a strik
ing career if he could but WILL to do the best that is in him
Proofs of growth due to solitude are endless. Milton's great
est work was done when blindness, old age and the death of the
Puritan government forced him into completest seclusion.
Beethoven did his best work in the solitude of deafness.
Bacon would never have been the great leader of scientific
thought had not Ins trial and disgrace forced him from the company
of a gTand retinue and stupid court to the solitude of liis own
brain.
Multum insola fuit amma mea (My spirit hath been much
alone.) This he said often, and lucky it was for him. Loneliness
of spirit made him.
Get a little of it for yourself.
Hi op youi rlnh. your -'reel corner, your gossinv boarding•
hoiiE* table Drop v-i>- beep life and try beinr a man
J' may improve rn\\
Are You Starving for Air?
By EDWIN MARKHAM
S AMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS,
of the American Medical As
sociation. in “The Health
Master,” just from the press of
Houghton Mifflin Company, offers
a book of importance. It is the
account of a family who adopted
the old Chinese plan of retaining
a doctor to keep them well. In
stead of taking chances on being
ill and then calling in the doctor.
Lessons on pure milk, infec
tions. care of eyes, etc., are given
under the guise of lively fiction,
and I commend the book to my
fellow-citizens. Here is an ex
cerpt showing the tenor of the
pages:
'* ‘You can, pick your air to
some extent, so it's worth while
to know where it's good and
w here it's bad.
Don’t tell me that New York
is unfit to breathe in!’ said Mrs.
Clyde, with a woman’s love for
the metropolis
“’Thus far it's prettx clean.
The worst thing about New York
is that they dry-sweep their
stieets and throw all tlie dust
there is right in your face. The
next worst is the subway. When
analysis was made of the tube’s
air. the experimenters were sur
prised to find very few germs.
Hut they were shocked to find the
atmosphere full of tiny splinters
of steel. It’s even worse to
breathe sieel than to breathe
coal.
*• Look at the modern sleeping
car—heavy plush seats. soft
hangings, thick carpet* fripper
ies all as gorgeous, vulgar, ex
pensive. tawdry and filthy as the
mind oi man can devise. Add to
that windows hermetically seal
ed In the winter months, and
you’ve got an ideal contrivance
for the encouragement of mor
tality. Never do I board a sleeper
without a stout hickory stick in
my suit case No matter how
low the temiH*rature is, 1 pry the
w inflow ol my lower berth open
und push the stick under.
” *1 remember in my college
days that the winter term was
considered to he the most difli-
cult in every year. The curricu
lum didn't seem to show it. but
every professor and every un-
hergrauuate knew it. Had air.
hat's ail. The recitation rooms
were kept tightly closed. The hu
man brain can’t burn carbon and
set a bright flame of intelligente
without a good draft, and the
«; ' y • ;jp |,I “T f ‘ N O W
the evidence of Charley's teach
er. when winter comes percent
ages go down, although the les
sons are the same. So I asked
her about the ventilation, and
found that she had a supersti
tious dread of rold.’ ”
“ T remember Miss Benn’s
room,* said Julia, thoughtfully. ‘It
used to get awful hot there. I
never liked that grade anyway,
and Bobs got such bad deport
ment mark's.'
“ ‘Both of the twins had colds
all the winter they were in that
room,’ contributed Grandma
Sharpless.
“ 'When will the substitute
mothers and fathers who run our
schools learn about air?’ he cried.
‘Air! It’s the first cry of the
newly born baby. Air! It's the
last plea of the man with the
death rattle in his throat. It’s
the one free boon, and we shut
it out.’
" ’Hut you wouldn’t have them
study with all the windows open
on a zero day?’ protested Mrs.
Clyde.
“ Wouldn’t I? Far rather than
choke them in a close room!
Why. in some schools the sickly
children have special classes oil
t.ir roof or m the yard* si
through the cold weather. They
study in overcoats and mittens.
And they learn. Not only that,
but they thrive on it.’”
I * T was 108 years ago that the
“Queen of the Adriatic” was
robbed of the crown that she
had so proudly worn for more
than ‘twelve centuries. By the
terms of the Treaty of Presburg.
as dictated by that creator and
destroyer of kings and kingdoms.
Napoleon the Great, the ancient
republic was blotted out. The
glory of the City of the Doges
was no more.
Like a veritable fairy tale is the
story of Venice. Away back in
the year 452. when Attila, the
“Scourge of God,” was ravaging
Europe, families from the main
land took refuge in the lagoons
and started the little settlement
which was destined to become the
Venice of historic and poetic re-
now'n.
With the solitary exception of
the Hollanders, no people ever
established a state under more
adverse conditions. The untilla-
ble and salt-incrusted soil pos
sessed no mineral w r ealth; the few
thickets had no serviceable tim
ber; even drinking water was at
a premium; stPl the Venetians
succeeded in establishing them
selves upon a .firm soil and in
rearing thereon a state which
was for ages the strongest in the
WHEN MOTHER WEEPS
By HARRY BAKER
T
HT? earth seems sad. the skies are gray
When Mother weeps
Her tears, they blind the lighi of d»y
The aim has not one beaming ray
When Mother weep«
V\ ben Mother aeeps l feel sad too
When Mother weeps
All things are wrong, spoiled is the view
And everything about looks blue
Whan Mother weeps
S Mothers Irak* ho* niuca me, u,e
Wheu Mother weeps
Mr heart la touched, no jo> 1
Hlach boy must feei the same T **»,.
When Mother weeps
Vs each ea, ialis aii joy :% a a.i
When Mother weens
Those tears that 'ail !.ke ilea > it. n
I'.ir peeling on.Mia causes pa
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The Queen of the Adriatic
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
Stars and Stripes
S-H-O-P E-A-R-L-Y!
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Poisoned needle eclipses poi
soned pen.
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Even President Wilson must
envy Huerta and his Congress.
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Why bother with slavery in the
Philippines when they offered
$25,000 for Joe Tinker?
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Italian sculptor says Ameri
can women have fat hands and
big feei. A game sculptor, any -
way.
Do your Christmas shopping
early. May as well gei it over.
Save time to buy six Christmases
ahead.
Bomb made <•!' dynamic*-
wrapped in a stock in?. Expect
almost anything i ’ ' -King
ill’s iime o' y' ir,
Ella Wheeler
Wilcox
-ON—
White Slavery—Twenty-five
Years Ago English Girls Could
Be Abducted at ThirteenWith-
out Fear of Punishment—Late
W. T. Stead, Titanic Victim,
Brought About Much Needed
Reform.
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
world. From the very necessi
ties of the case Venice became a
sea power, and by her merchant
marine and navy she controlled
the destinies of empires for more
than a thousand years.
It was Venice that furnished
transports for the hosts of the
Crusaders. It was Venice that
inaugurated the trade between
East and West. It was Venice
that, later on. supplied the ships
and sailors that beat the Turks
back from Europe and finally an
nihilated their sea power at
Lepanto.
The Bank of Venice, estab
lished in 1157, was the financial
center of the world, and when the
glorious revival of letters came,
followed almost at once by the
invention of printing, it was
Venice that led the world in the
output of books and the spread
of the knowledge which made
possible the freedom and prog
ress in which we are to-day re
joicing.
In a time when superstition
and servitude ' almost uni
versal Venice boldly stood forth
to champiori the cause of enlight
enment and liberty, and greater
than all her banks and doges,
than all her palaces and navies,
was that Paul £arpe of hers, that
pale-faced little man who, in the
defense of Veneti^’s liberties, suc
cessfully defied the mightiest po
tentates and powers of the earth.
A glorious history was that
which the “Corsican adventurer"
so unceremoniously brought to a
close on that December day, 1805.
Copyrighted 1913 b3' Star Co.
T WENTY - FIVE years ago
any girl of thirteen could
be trapped and led into vile
house*, and there was no law to
protect her.
The law of England, as it
stood at that time, recognized
that a girl one day over thirteen
years of age was legally a
woman, and was fully compe
tent to consent to her own un
doing. The law as it then stood
put a positive premium upon the
corruption of very young chil
dren by refusing to lfet them
give evidence against men un
less they could satisfy the
judge and jury that they under
stood the nature of an oath.
As soon as the child was over
thirteen years of age she could
be inveigled into an illegal
house without any possible hope
of redress, because if she had
consented to go into the house
she was held to have consented
to everything else, although she
might at that time be, and prob
ably was, absolutely ignorant of
what vice meant.
The law to-day protects girls
tq the age of sixteen; it has
raised the age of consent from
thirteen to sixteen, admits the
evidence of children, even if
they are not able to satisfy the
judge and jury that they under
stand the nature of an oath, and
it has Increased the pains and
penalties inflicted upon all those
who attack girls, whether by ab
ducting them abfoad or attack
ing them at home.
This change in the laws Came
about through one man. W. T.
Stead, who died on the Titanic.
The White Slave Traffic is a
world wide trade in young girls
for immoral purposes, out of
which enormous profits are
nAde. They are captured by
false advertisements offering
employment as governesses, sec
retaries, companions, servants,
etc., and by making acquaint
ance with girls alone in streets
or trains or busses.
Only 5 Girls in Every 100
Know What They Are
Doing.
It is estimated that only five girls
In every hundred know what they
are doing; the remaining ninety-
five are girls who never heard
of such things, girls just like
your own daughters, who. but
for the White Slave Traffic,
might have become happy wives
and mothers. If they wanted to
be bad there would be no neces
sity for this trapping system.
Twenty-five years ago it was
regarded as improper, unclean
and highly Indecorous to speak
about the White Slave trade in
pollbe circles. To-day, kings and
queens, princes and princesses
attend conferences for the discus
sion of this question.
Before Mr. Stead died lie
wrote a pamphlet. "Why I Went
to Prison in 1885.” It is inter
esting reading. , Known as a
great philanthropist and re
former, he was urged by g<x>d
people to try to bring about a
change In the laws of England
on this subject.
A commissioner of the House
of Lords had reported upon the
question and strongly recom
mended that an Aet of Parlia
ment should be passed to cope
with the two cancers that were
eating into the body politic. Mr.
Gladstone’s Ministry—Sir Will
iam Ha rcourt being then Home
Secretary—recognized the urgency
of the demand, and introduced a
bill giving effect to the recom
mendations of the committee,
but there was no motive power
behind it. It was strongly op
posed by a small group of men
who seemed almost to have a
personal interest in preventing
the strengthening of the law
agulnst the corruption of, weak
snd innocent girls. Neither po-
itical parry saw any means of
making capital out of if. and the
result was that session after ses
slim the hill was introduced in
*iue course and then included In
be mas-acre of tho intiucenls at
■he eljd of I be SPSfi'iii
Then the plot was laid to bring
such disgrace on the laws of Eng
land that a change would he
forced by public censure. So Mi
Stead was induced to act the part
of a procurer; and a weak and
wicked mother sold her daughter
aged thirteen to him, for three
pounds—fifteen dollars'—heller
Ing that her daughter was to go
into an infamous house. The
daughter was indeed taken to a
house and witnesses and train eel
nurses and physicians were on
hand to rescue her and attest !<•
her leaving the house as chaste
as she entered it; but the story
was published in full in the Pail
Mall Gazette, in an article by Mr.
Stead called "The Maiden Trib
ute of Modern Babylon.” 1
brought a perfect storm upon the
heads of all concerned, but a
worse storm of censure on Ens
lish laws. Mr. Stead meantime
sent, tlie rescued girl away from
her wicked mother and he wa K
therefore arrested for abduction
and imprisoned.
Late W. T. Stead Told of
His Conviction in This
Famous Case.
-Mr. Stead says of this inciden :
“After a long trial, for which the
Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardi
nal Manning and Bishop
Temple, John Morley, Mr. Ba
four. Lord Loreburn (then Sir
Robert Reid), Mr. Labouchere.
Mrs. Butler, and many others
were subpoenaed for the defence.
I was convicted, together with
my colleague, Mr. Mussabiul. Mr.
Bramw'ell Booth and Madame
Combe were acquitted. Madame
Mourez was sent for six months
to prison, where she died. The
trial, which was reported in a
the leading papers of the world,
brought out all the facts of the
case, so that every statement
which 1 now make can be veri
fied by reference to the files in
the British Museum. The ni"
ment I was convicted there w#>
a great agitation set on fool.
The Government was besieged
with petitions and protests. Te
egrams rained in upon the Home
Office, the Prime Minister and
(he Queen, and after I hud been
three days in Coldbath Prison
Lord Salisbury, on his own mo
tion, without waiting for the con
sent of the Judge who had sen
tenced me, ordered me to be
transferred at once to Holloway
as a first-class mlsdemeanaut. The
remainder of my sentence—two
months and four days—I served
out at Holloway, where I edited
the Pall Mali Gazette from No
vember, 1885, to January, 1886
Mlllicent Garrett Fawcett has
issued an appeal to all friend-
of Mr. Stead and to all friend-
of clean womanhood to use their
influence to help pass the Crini
inal Law' Amendment bill now
proposed.
It is well known that this bl
deals with the White Slave
Trade and provides additions
moral protection for the young
A deputation about the bi
waited on the Home Secretary
a few weeks ago; he expressed
approval of the measure, but held
out. no hope that the Governmen:
would take it up.
Question One of Urgent
and. Also, National
Importance.
She closes her appeal with
these words: It is a question
of urgent national importance
The bill, If passed, would pro
teet and shelter the weak again 1 -
moral Injury, quite as truly as
the lifeboats sheltered them, on
April 15, against physical injur,'
If our countrymen can am:
do rise to heroism in the face of
physical danger, surely they can
rise to a trifling ‘-ytcrifice of Pal
liameutary time. It would he
the finest of all memorials t"
Mr. Stead and the other men wh"
have sacrificed themselves in tb**
Titanic, if Parliament passed tb 1 *
bill to save children and youn?
women from worse than death
”1 respectfully and earnest'
appeal to men in the const!w
encies to lose no time tn writing
to their members, to urge then
t<-> induce ibe Govetmment to tat --
l*D the bill and pa- it ‘plrir;
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