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SEPARATE PEACE—FOR THE AUSTRIAN EMPEAOR.
We owe to Mr. Jacob Marinoff the opportunity to show our
readers this striking picture published in Mr. Marinoff’'s illus.
trated newspaper ‘‘'Kundess.'
A big idea is in this little picture.
The nations bound together for wholesale murder cry: ‘“We
will have no separate peace’'—and death every day is making
separate and eternal peace with thousands of fighters.
Separately and quietly, the old Austrian Emperor made his
peace. Here he lies at peace for all eternity.
He lies in state, at first, in & great palace, then in a magnifi
cent tomb.
Out on the battle flelds, in the mud, the snow, the rain, lie
hundreds of thousands of others, their dead eyes turned toward
the sky, their bodies mutilated—all absolutely peaceful forever.
Death has made the ‘‘separate peace’’ with each one.
How long will it take the nations to realize that continued
murder will not pay any murderer, whether in the end he dictate
or accept peace terms?
How many hundreds of thousands must make their separate
peace with death, how many thousands of millions more must be
squandered before the day of WQBLD PEACE with an end of
wholesale murder?
This picture which Editor Marinoff sends to us should be
printed in every newspaper in the world. There is no BAD peace.
There is no GOOD war.
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Christmas Worries
The people who will get most of the real Christmas spirit in
their homes are those that are taking time by the forelock in gift
buying NOW in the Atlanta stores.
Those that are now crowding the stores, with leisurely in
spection of the tempting Christmas displays, are the ones that
will have their purchases made long before the late buyers join
in the yearly eleventh-hour rush, with its attendant buffeting and
worries. They are the ones who will have ample time for the
& holly and mistletoe decorations, the children’s parties, the fire
gide stories, the real Christmas.
There are still about a dozen shopping days before Christ
mas—that's all. The stores will keep busy, on a crescendo scale,
and the salespeople will accomplish their usual marvelous feats in
grappling with an avalanche of late buyers.
_ Isn’t it the part of wisdom to take that Christmas shopping
list down to the stores without.further loss of time?
RS The best time to escape unpleasant crowds is the early morn
ing. That may necessitate setting the family alarm clock, but
the extra effort will be worth while.
The best way to make Christmas a season of gladness and
peace is to eliminate the shopping worries as quickly as possible.
Get the alarm clock habit for the next few days, and reap
peace of mind.
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Says the Lawrenceville N ews-Herald:
& 1t looks decidedly cheeky in The Atlanta Georgian
;, to print telegrams daily, purporting to come through the
. International News Service, from London, while the
: whole world knows that avenue for news is hermetically
sealed to it.
_ Happily, ‘‘the whole world, ** for which our cocksure contem
ary so ‘modestly essays to speak, is not nearly so stupid and
as ] The hwre?oevflle News-Herald.
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THE MENACE OF THE PISTOL.
(Albany Herald.)
It was a pathetic story that was
sent out from Moultrie yesterday,
telling of the death of a Httle 10-
year-old boy by the accidental
discharge of a pistol with which
he was playing. This tragic
death—so pitifuly sad, so utterly
useless—brings closer to our
hearts and minds, perhaps, than
any recent incident has done, the
awful menace of the deadly pistol.
The time has come when the
plsto! has ceased to be—ls ever it
was—of sufficient use or benefit
to mankind to offset its work of
destruction.
Recent census flgures show that
the pistol annually kills more per
sons than are killed by the rail
roads of the country. o
More than twice as many people
are killed by pistols than meet
death in autorpobile accidents.
Accidents o(vael are to a cer
tain extent to be expected, but the
appalling number of deaths
caused by the pistol are practi
cally of a character that never
would oceur were it not for the
inexcusable presence of a deadly
firearm at a time and place where
it has no business to be.
For Instance, in the year 1915
there were 3,608 sulcides by pistol.
In most of these cases no suicide
probably would have occurred had
not a pistol been handy at the
time the sulcidal mania seized the
unhappy person, or if the pres
ence of a pistol had not been the
suggesting influence.
In the same year there were
2,855 homicides by pistol. How
many of these would have oc
curred had it not been for the
pistol-toting habit? Very few of
the homicides of which we datily
read would ever occur but for the
quick pulling of a pistol in the
heat of passion, or the ready
presence of a pistol while the
brain is inflamed by alecohol.
Accidental killings to the num
ber of 1,601 are laid to the pistol
in the census figures to which
reference has been made, In this
class is the kiling of the 10-year
old Colquitt County boy the other
day. Such accidents are by no
means rare.
A loving husband and father in
a Southern city, a former Y. M.
C. A. secretary, & man of influence
for good in his community, was
preparing for a day's outing with
his wife and children. He got out
an old pistol to take to the woods
to shoot at a target for the
amusement of the party. While he
was cleaning It the pistol was
accidentally discharged, and he
War Spins His Top
fell dead at the feet of his little
boy. That man had no use for a
pistol. It had been laid away In
a closet and had almost been
forgotten. .
It 18 not necessary go keep a
pistol in the house for the pro
tection of the home. A shotgun
will answer the purpose much
beter, and is not so dangerous.
Hundreds of homes have neither,
and are better off for the lack of
them. The protection a pistol
affords is insignifficant in com
parison with the danger of s
presence. And as a personal
protection, it is worse than need~
less. It is a crime. Not one per
son in a thousand ever has any
need whatever for a pistol.
The time has come in this
State, and in other States, when
the law should throw such re
strictions around the sale and
possession of pistols that their
deadly menace would be greatly
reduced. Sensible people should
make up their minds to run the
slight risk caused by dispensing
with them in order to avoid the
vastly greater risk that their pou\
session brings.
ARISTOPHANES’' PET JOKE.
. (Macon News.)
The" say girl babies learn to
talk more easily and guickly than
boy bables. And they never relin
quish the head start they are
blessed with,
ONCE-OVERS
HERE'S A GAME ALL CAN PLAY.
It we confine our Christmas cheer to ourselves and our families
we have lost much of the real spirit of the season. ..
We can not begin too early to think of those whom we wish to
make happier in remembrance of our own happiness.
Particularly should we give attention to the poor and needy.
There is one dear little woman who lives in one of our coast
oities. Her neighbors speak of her as haughty and proud, and vet,
if the truth were known, she does more for the poor than all ‘the neigh
bors put together. And they have never discovered her.
Her mother brought her up to know the real meaning of “let not
the right hand know what the left hand does,” ‘and she is very care
ful to live up to it
Basket after basket is filled with her own hand. and under cover
of darkness intrusted to her helpers, who spirit them to families who
are needy but proud, and not one of those families knows who is the
sender.
It has become a sort of Christmas game with her—not confined
m‘Christmu either—to learn the names of deserving poor or ill and
see that they get what will help most.
A cheerful message goes also with the basket. It is a glad sur
prise which has put courage into many & tainting hsart Who will
Join in the game?® !
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CARING FOR THE DUMB AN
IMALS.
(Augusta Chronicle.)
Do not forget your horse dur
ing the winter season. He needs
attention during the cold weather
as he needed attention during the
warm weather—not only because
he has feelings, or that brutality
toward him is a crime, but that
as property his value may be con
served.
The humanity part of it Is the
most appealing. As the editor of
The Dawson News puts it: “There
is something innately wrong with
the man who is indifferent to the
physical condition of his horse or
other dumb animals. There can
be no heartier display of human
kindness than that of the indi
vidual who pauses now and then\
to consider that his burden-bear
ing equine companion is a crea
ture of flesh and blood, and needs
protection against the same rav
ages of cold and heat and suffer
ing which he himself must com
bat.”
The National Humane Society
has issued and eirculated valuablée
suggestions having in view the
horse and the mule, with special
reference to the winter months.
The Chronicle has given these
suggestions from time to time, but
they readily bear repeating: !
“Don’t place a frozen bit in the
horse's mouth.
“Don’t drive dull shod horses on
slippery streets and roads, and
don’'t abuse a horse that has fall
en down.
“Don’t forget to blanket your
horse or provide comfortable
quarters.
“Don’t whip a team pulling out
of a hole or rough place.
“Don't stand horses facing stiff
and cold winds.”
PIONEER PISCATORIAL
PREVARICATOR.
(Albany Herald.) s
Where is there a fisherman who
will not have some linterest in
next year's celebration of the
birthday of Sir Izaak Walton,
who did more to elevate angling
to the dignity of an art than any
man who ever fished, or wrote
about fishing?
A THOUGHT WORTH WHILE.
(Conyers Times.)
Do you know of a case where a
small remembrance of some kind
Christmas morning would be the
ocecasion of much cheer in a
blighted home? Make up your
mind now that you will remember
that home.
QUITE RIGHT. |
(Cartersville News.)
When it comes to editorials,
there are a dozen weeklies in
Georgia we know that carry about
as good stuff of that kind as their
big contemporaries,
THE SILVER LINING.
(Grifin News.)
The Savannah Press thinks the
high cost of paper may not be
without its bright side, after all
It may reduce the size of the
Congressional Record. d
THAT'S WHAT HE’'S DOING.
(Elberton Star.)
With plenty of corn in the
crib and plenty of meat in the
smokehouse, thé average farm
er can give hard times the horse
laugh.
A WORD TO THE WISE.
(Quitman Free Press.)
We wish to call attention to the
manner in which The Free Press
is covering the Woman's Club
Cooking School.
SPLENDID ISOLATION.
(Griffin News.)
Man fondly believes that he is
the master of his own home. But
he's the only one that believes it.
WITHOUT SAYING WHICH JUG.
(Rome Tribune-Heraid.)
Molasses is said to be an anti
dote for whisky. Send us our
jug. {
THE HOME PAPER
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Death Wipes Out all But
the Memory of Our
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, Kindly Virtues
One Still Unsullied Trait of Humanity, Says Dorothy
Dix, Is the Complete Forgiveness We Give the
" Dead When We Forget All Their Weaknesses and
Their Viees and Remember Only the Good They
~ Tried to Do, but Failed.
F among all its weaknesses and
its fallures, humanity keeps
one angel trait still unsullied,
it is the sublime forgiveness it ac
cords the dead. It Is as ilf the
tears that are shed above every
grave turned into a kind of rain
bow .ler through which we
looked back upon an ended life
and saw it transfigured.
No need to speak only good of
the dead. Death itself becomes
the crucible in which our fauits
are transmuted into virtues.
It Is never the unkind word we
recall, but the gentle deed; never
the faltering act, but the high and
noble purpose; and the best of us
may be thankful to feel that when
our times comes, too, to join the
vast majority, compassion will
turn its pitying eyes away from
our faults and ses only the good
we fain would have done. To be
judged tenderly when we are gone
is the great boon that all—rich
and poor, high and humble—must
ask of their kind, and that |is
never asked in vain.
Sometimes there is a great deal
of heartbreaking pathos in this
loyalty to the dead. There may
have been years of cruelty, of es
trangement, or neglect, but death
wipes it all out, and we go back
to some simple and quiet hour
that we may remember without
shame or remorse, >
The mother who sobs above the
dead body of her wayward son re
calls nothing of the agony, of the
disgrace he may have brought her.
She sees -nothing of the sin
marked face. She has returned to
the days when, a little child, he
lay upon her breast and looked up
into her face with eyes that were
still full of the mysteries of
heaven.
Sometimes we see a wife who
has been betrayed, degraded, neg
lected, insulted, kneeling at her
husband's bier. To her death has
blotted out the memory of her
wrongs, and she mourns the lover
of her youth, the hour that made
the world an Eden, rose sweet
with Love's young dream, and,
most of all, her tears are for the
Cold Germs Often the
Cause of Boils
By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D.
The World's Best Known Writer on Medical Subjects.
HE most deadly and, proba-
T bly, on the whole, most fre
quent way in which boil
bugs reach the back of the neck Is
by being carried there upon finger
tips or under finger nails. The
process forms a heautiful illus
tration of the so-called “vicious
circle” in disease. A collar or
neckband begins t 6 chafe the
back of the neck. The man who
owns the neck puts his hand up to
rub or scratch it and relieve the
ftching Any bugs which may
happen to be upon his hand from
the dust or mud of the street or
the soil in which he may have
beemn working, or the meat which
he has been cuting up, or the do
mestic animals which he has been
handling or driving, are carried to
the seed bed already prepared,
and not only sown upon it but
harrowed in, given a flying start,
as it were,
Most direct and probably most
frequent of all forms of bug trans
plantation is the carrying of dis
charges from the nose and throat,
or pus from ‘round the roots of the
teeth, by scratching the back of
the neck just after blowing the
nose or picking the teeth.
This is one of the reasons why
a crop of boils i{s so much mere
likely to develop just after or dur
ing a bad cold, for even the man
who is most scrupulous and san
itary in the use of his handker
chief can scarcely escape getting
his fingers Infected with cold
germs either from nose or throat.
Nor does the vicious interplay
end here. After the boll has
broken, the long-imprisoned boil
bugs swarm out in their millions
over the surface of the surround
ing skin. Unfortunately, their
successful colonization in the hair
follicles has acclimatizéd them
and taught them the trick of bur
rowing into and gaining a foot-
By DOROTHY DIX.
dreamer and the dream, the love
that faltered, the light that falled.
the incense of the soul that waat
ed itself upon the desert air,
A story is told of a drunken
hoodlum who lay dead in the poor
place he called home. It was the
end of a life that had begun and
ended in sin, and whose days had
known nothing save evil. Not one
gentle deed dhed lits perfume
above lits waste; not one high
aspiration shone ltke a star across
its murky way, but none the less
a weeping woman clung to the
senseless clay, and broke above it
the alabaster casket of her love.
“Bill was always so good to me,”
she sobbed. “In all the beatings
he g'lv'o me, he never hit me where
the marks would show so the
neighbors could see ‘em.”
Think of the pathos of such a
story as that! How often he had
come home crazy drunk, with
curses and abuses for the poor
creature who had set her heart
upon him! How she must have
cowered away from his anger;
how often she must have crouched
in the dark closet on the stairs
and hidden until he slept off his
drunken fury, afraid of her very
life.
Often and often he had beaten
her, so that a very dog, so treated,
might have turned upon him and
slain him; but her patience and
love never faltered. She covered
the poor, bruised shoulders with
her ragged frock. She told futile
lttle iles üb.out falling and hurt
ing herself, and her eyes dared
one to doubt the story they knew
to be false. Loyalty and devotiez
and love could go no further.
And now Bill was dead. Noth
ing more to fear from the heavy
hand; nothing to dread; nothing,
one would say, to remember but
cruéity and brutality.
But not so. Her heart went
back over the long, long years,
and plucked the one poor flower
that bloomed along the arid path
way. He had never beaten her so
that the marks would show!
Death wiped out the score
against him.
hold in the body tissues, so that
if any other chafes or scrafches
or irritated areas can be found on
the neck or upper part of the
back, they promptly proceed to
dig themselves in and make new
war trenches,
And Just as cockle-burs are
scattered abroad by attaching
themselves to our clothing or to
the coats of animals, so the busy
little fingers again come into
play and, rubbing the neck to re
lleve the soreness and stiffness
of the broken boil, pick up their
load of bugs, which they proceed
to transfer to other regions of the
body surface.
The original boil appears to re
quire quite a combination of fav
oring circumstances to enable it
to make its first landing, such as
are only to be found in perfection
upon the neck or, in lesser de
gree, upon the next commonest
starting place of boils, the wrists
and backs of the hands. But
when once the trick of ‘“spong
in on” that particular body
has been learned, then the slight
est scratch or weak spot will suf
fice to give them an opening for
entrance, so that boils keep on
growing and scattering over the
body of their unfortunate host
after they have once been fairly
“wished on” him not merely for
weeks and months, but even for
vears at a stretch, almost with
out a break.
This acclimatization pecularity,
however, accounts for the one
and only redeeming feature of
boils, and that is, their compara
tive non-infectiousness to othere.
Boils do\occulonally get trans
muted to other victims, especially
under bad sanitary and hygtenic .
conditions, but as a general thing.
the special boilstroptococci do not
seem to grow readily on a foreign
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