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B Greek Letter Societies.
ar *d there are now so many of
M^ e ni that the Greek alphabet is be-
sadly overworked and must
be enlarged to take care of the
of business.
KI Contrary to popular supposition the
of these societies do not
their time writing letters in
No doubt they could if they
but the kind of letter that
understands and answers most
Kindly must be written in English, and
Hhe Greek letter member is usually a
Hjost faithful correspondent so far as
father is concerned.
| I A Greek Letter Society is eommon-
IBv supposed to be a gang of desperate
rßoung men who have sworn over a
skull to starfid firmly by each
■ther and never reveal the name of the
Brother who blew up the courthouse,
■t is supposed to be so powerful that
flrhen twenty or thirty young men with
HKmpadour hats get together in a
I ""lack cellar, under a red light and I
'hisper in case-hardened voice they
in defeat the noble young candidate
ir Congress who is supported only
v a few shivering magnates of a j
lucky little railroad. i
Greek Letter Societies are also sup- !
ised to lead lives of crime and to
icourage their devotees to engulf
rge vats of virulent stimulants,
any a bright young man who has
me to college with a pocket full of
cture cards for perfect attendance
Sunday school is supposed to have
lerged from the first meeting of his
cret society with a fierce yearning
r hasheesh and the blood of tender
ung children.
All of these suspicions arise from
e fact that the Greek Letter Socie
is secret and that its members are
■supposed never, no never, to reveal
krhat has happened behind the black
Mrtain with the cross-bones on it.
Anything secret is suspicious, as John
D. Rockefeller has found out. But at
the risk of invoking the horrid ven
geance of the Alfalfa Deltas, the Del
ta Kappa Sonofaguns, the Etta Bita
Pies, the Sigh Whooperups, the Mu
Kow Moos and the Omega Salves, we
are about to divulge the four princi
pal secrets of the Greek Letter socie
ty.
Turn down the lights please.
They are as follows:
1. The rent of the chapter house
is now two months overdue and tomor
row the high priest of the Delta Flush
chapter is going to try to jolly the
landlord along another month.
2. If a certain tow-headed fresh
man is made president of his class he
can be snagged away from the other
frats and into our noble order. Vote
Brothers, Vote.
L 3. On the third of next month an
Bnformal dance will be given with an
imported orchestra and when the Fli
Gammas hear of it they will expire
'with envy.
4. On next Saturday night at mid
night three shuddering neophites will
he induced into the awful mysteries
of our mighty band. Let no brother,
forget to bring a barrel stave.
There are a few’ other dark secrets,
hut none as black as these.
Greek Letter Societies are harmless
and moreover, are of great good.
Many a collegian has, through them,
located the Greek alphabet so thor
oughly that he has remerbered it long
after French and Trigenometry have
cantered from his memory.
(From The Daily Argus, Nov. 17)
Virgil Rogers Dead.
News reached the city yesterday
morning of the death of Virgil Rog
i ers, aged 40 years, formerly of A(-
Flant a. Mr. Rogers recently went to
New Orleans to false charge of the
t’oca Cola branch offices there. The
body will be brought to Atlanta this
morning at 10 o’clock, and removed to
Poole’s chapel, and the funeral ar
rangements will be announced later.
He is survived by his wife and three
children, his father and his mother.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Rogers, of Atlan
ta; and three sisters, Mrs. P. A.
Methvin and Mrs. J. W. Zuber, of At
lanta, and Mrs. Emmett McCuen, of
Lexington, Ky.—Atlanta Constitution.
“Do you always do as your mother
tells you?” asked the minister.
“Yes,” answered the 5-year-old,
“and so does papa.”
Mystery of Glass.
A correspondent recently reported
what he described as the “curious
( freak of a blackbird flying against a
parlor winder many times at the same
spot.
Such an incident is not uncommon,
Birds have been know to fight for
| hours at a time, day after day, with
their own image reflected in a pane of
glass, pecking and fluttering against
the pane and quite exhausting them
selves in their fury to demolish the
supposed rival. In is another instance
i of how the arts of our civilization cor
rupt and confuse the birds. It is the
same with fishes.
Darwin tells a story of a pike in an
aquarium separated by plate glass
from fish which were its proper food.
In trying to get at the fish the pike
would often dash with such violence
against the glass as to be compleely
stunned. It did this for mo»e than
i three monts before it learned caution.
Then when the glass was removed the
pike would not attack these particular
fishes, but would devour others freshly
j introduced.
i It did not at all understand the sit
! nation, hut associated the punishment
it had received, not with the glass but
with a particular kind of fish. Dar
win’s American Monkeys proved them
selves more “knowing” when they
cut themselves once with any sharp
tool they would not touch it again or
else would handle it with the greatest
caution.
Thus they gave the evidence of the
simpler forms of reason of wh-ch mon
keys are no doubt capable, but birds
are evidently lacking in reasoning
powers Scotsman.
Was Working Under Pure Food Law.
Mr. Gumble visited Coney Island,
to look at the ruins of Dreamland fire
found a small boy with a bucket of
lemonade on the head of a barrel.
His sign, in twisted childish letters,
proclaimed that he had the beverage
for sale. “Poor little boy” muaed
Mr. Gumble gazing on the weazeened
and pinched features of the youngster
“No doubt he needs the money —
bitterly. I will buy a glass of lemon
ade”
So he did. He gave the kid a nic
kle. As Mr. Gumble was standing
by the stand, and was trying to
et used to the taste, another small boy
appeared. “Hey, Jimmie,” said the
lemo-seller “come watch this stand
while I go and get me a drink.”
Mr Gumble’s heart was again stirr
ed by an impulse of pity. He with
drew a five cent piece, from the south
bound pocket of his immaculate sum
mer waistcoat. “Here sonny” He
said, “I’ll stand treat. Take a drink
of your own lemonade,” he beamed
fondly upon the lad.
“For ten cents I will,” said the
boy.“ Not for one nickle I will not
drink it.
Tips and Travelers.
The commercial travelers have de
clared against hotel tipping, says the
Cleveland Plain Dealer. The travel
ers form a large and influential body
and they have forced the passage of
helpful laws. They are the heralds of
prosperity; te couriers hos trade.
They penetrate to every corner of the
earth and the flowers of progress
spring up in their footprints.
Tn short, they are a big and power
ful proposition.
Yet a head waiter rises to remark
that tipping continues when commer
cial travelers are unknown.
It isn’t expected however, that the
travelers will disband and change
their occupation.
At the same time it will be taken
for granted that without the help of
the travelers hotel tipping will be
robbed of much of its gilded allure
ment.
That head waiter is merely hollering
to keep himself from being scared.
A Fillet of Fish for an Invalid.
Plaice or whiting are the lightest
kinds of fish for invalids. Skin the
whiting, butter a basin, place the fish
in, sprinkle a pinch of table salt and
a few drops of lemon juice over,
cover basin with greased paper, set
into a saucepan of boiling water half
way up basin, steam for ten or fifteen
minutes.
THE DALTON ARGUS, DALTON, GEORGIA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1911.
(From The Daily Argus, Nov. 17)
A half block of Dalton’s great
white way is completed and the lights
were turned on last night and it made
that portion of Hamilton street look
I real citified.
Mr. Carl McCamy with a big force
of men, are working steadily < ’t and
they hope to have it complete) .■ the
end of next week.
When it is ready for all of the lights
to be turned on, The Argus will sound
the gong and ask that every man, wo
man and child be down on the street
that night to meet each other —a real
get-together meeting, Ask your best
girl to meet you and have a coco cola,
or ask your bachelor friend to join
you in smoking a good cigar. The
stores will all be open with beautiful
ly dressed windows and have on
their best bib and tucker. Take your
wife or some other fellow’s daughter
to one of the moving picture shows
and make a gala night of the open
ing of Dalton’s great white way.
M atch out for The Argus and it
will tell you the night it is to be open
ed.
(From The Daily Argus. Nov. 17)
At the office of W. M. Sapp, clerk
of hitfield county, a bevy of young
ladies are transcribing the deeds to
all of the property, or rather making
abstracts of it, through which the
Eastern Tennessee Power Company is
running its cables in Whitfield.
The lines run through about forty
land Jois and innumerable amount of
owerships. The earest point to
Dalton is barely outside the city lim
its on the east. It is said that lhe
company, which is familiarly known
as the Ocoee Power company, will soon
ask for a franchise in Dalton and it
is hoped it will be granted as they
have made the city a splendid propos
al.
The people of Dalton do not seem
to grasp the enormous value this and
the Georgia Power company will mean
to us as a medium for making Dalton
one of the best manufacturing places
in the South. Just as soon as the
lines get here the local chamber of
commerce is going to be flooded with
inquiries about the place for till sort
(From The Daily Argus. Nov. 18.)
If every citizen of Dalton was as
patriotic and for-seeing as the mem
bers of the Dalton Concert Band,
Dalron would be the best town on
earth beyond peradventure.
The members of this organization
made a proposition to join the local
chamber of commerce and pay its dues
in music for such occasions as it
might be demanded.
That is one of the most generous
offers so far made the local chamber.
The members of the band are all work
ing boys—boys who obey the com
mandment to “earn their bread by
the sweat of their brow.” There is
not a body of young men in Dalton
who stands higher in the estimation of
the city than this one and it must
not be forgotten that they buy their
own music and have heretofore play
ed for charitable purposes for noth
ing and were glad to do so. Just
now and then have they been able to
pick up a few dollars from their
playing which has been far short of
enough to meet actual expenses and
this proposal of theirs was generous
in the extreme and when officers of
the chamber of commerce were ap
praised of their generosity they at
once added the names to the paid
membership of the chamber. If young
men of this character can afford to
devote their time and talents to the
upbuilding of Dalton, how much more
so can others who own property, bus
iness and perhaps stocks and bonds,
afford to come in and join? The ex
ample of the Dalton Concert Band is
a good one and should be followed by
one hundred others.
First Rabbit—l never saw so many
men with guns; I wonder what they
are up to?”
Second Rabbit—l think they are
trying to make game of us. —Phila-
delphia Record.
The greatest danger of a man who
has a command of language is that ere
he is aware, language will have com
mand of him.
The 1911 Girl as a Butcher of the
Mother Tongue.
Slang is about to become the uni
versal evil. Few of us escape its
contaminating influence. Next to the
accomplishment of knowing how to
swear, it is the first thing that the
foreigner who comes to «t*ores
picks up. The first sentence »»uieh
the lips of a babe are taught to frame
s as apt as not to be slang, and the
average small boy would be a sphinx
if slang were eliminated from his vo
cabulary.
But about the worst offenders are
girls—the “sweet young things” who
glad our eyes on the streets and a
round the soda fountains. They are
loveliness personified until they be
gin to talk, and then—!
Here is a specimen of what may
be heard any day when a half dozen
of these gentle creatures gather. This
s not an exaggerated example—more’s
the pity.
Half a dozen girls dropped into a
drug store. Five of them ordered
ice-cream sodas. Said the sixth:
“Put the dope to me.”
Then these atrocities:
“Dope! * This time o’ day I’d
rather get on the outside o’ some
thing that feels more.like grub.”
“Yeah; I feel like feedin’ my face
too.”
“A big scream of a dinner would
sure stampede my joy house, believe
me. ’ ’
“Say, have you met that new guy
So-and-So’s bad floatin’ round here
last week?”
“Sure, Obediah: he's the limit,”
“A real fusser. ”
“But his rags sure do harmonize
with the cloud tints. He was all doll
ed up all the time.”
“He’s kin to Maine.”
“An’ speakin’ o’ Mame, she’s
some dame herself.”
“Ain’t it the truth! She can shuf
flle her trilby with the best o’ the
bunch, and the way she can tickle the
ivories would make a piano-player
look like a crip.”
“Yeah, an’ them eves! She sure
»
can roll her gleamers. ”
“Surest thing. An’ you know,
. J 9
But why more.
Isn’t it sad? —H. T. M. in Albany
Herald.
Buys Stamped Envelopes.
Two men who swore off New Year’s
day for a year have not seen each oth
er since that time. One, tied to a city
job, is under the guns because all of
his friends were posted on the reso
lution. The other travels and if his
foot slips on the road nobody need
be the wiser. The stationary party
to the agreement received a letter
from the traveling man and wrote in
reply:
“I removed the stamp from the en
velope containing your letter and sub
mitted it to a chemist, who reports
that it reeks with whiskey.”
The working man o'
the South is a mighty big
factor in the wonderful
growth of our section.
On all things his opinion
is worth consideration.
He has given the stamp
of approval to our line of
“Work - in - Comfort”
Shoes. They’re $3.50.
This Shoe is all that
the name implies ; built
of strong but soft chrome
tanned leatherwith heavy
flexible sole. Made in
three colors and several
different styles.
Ask your dealer for
“W o rk- in - Comfort ”
Shoes made in Georgia.
J. K. Orr Shoe Co.,
Red Seal Factory, Atlanta
Young Lady—Guard, will I have
time to say goodbye to my friends.
Guard —Afraid not, miss. The
train leaves in two hours and a half.
—Sacred Heart Review.
Hon. M. C. Tarver is spending to
day in Atlanta.
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* ’
I WILL BE AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES AT DATED BELOW:
SECOND ROUND.
FINCHERS—October 30, Bto 11 o ’clock.
NlNTH—October 30, 1 to 4 o’clock.
TlLTON—October 31, Bto 11 o’clock. I [ r !
CARBONDALE—October 31, 1 to 4 o’clock.
TRICKUM —November 1, 8 to 11 o’clock.
MILL CREEK—November 1,1 to 4 o’clock. 1 t I
LOWER TENTH—November 2, 8 to 11 o’clock.
UPPER TENTH—November 2,1 to 4 o’clock.
COHUTTA—November 3, 8 to 11 o’clock.
VARNELL—November 3,1 to 4 o’clock.
DALTON—Every Saturday.
—.-- i
TUNNEL HlLL—November 6, 8 to 11 o’clock.
ROCKY FACE—November 6,1 to 4 o’clock.
THIRD ROUND. | ■ !
’INCHERS—November 13, 8 to 11 o’clock.
NlNTH—November 13, 1 to 4 o’clock.
LOWER TENTH—November 14, 8 to 11 o’clock.
BEAVERDALE—November 14, Ito 4 o’clock. i J I
CAMPBELL’S STORE —November 15, 8 to 11 o’clock. *
TUCKER’S —November 15,1 to 4 o’clock.
RED CLAY—November 16, 8 to 11 o’clock. 1
COHUTTA—November 16, 1 to 4 o’clock.
VARNELL—November 17, 8 to 11 o’clock. , |
PRATER’S MILL —November 17, 1 to 4 o’clock.
DALTON— Every Saturday.
TILTON —November 20, Bto 11 o’clock. i . ' $ I
CARBONDALE —Noverber 20, 1 to 4 o’clock.
ROCKY FACE—November 21, 8 to 11 o’clock.
TUNNEL HILL —November 21, 1 to 4 o’clock.
TRICKUM —November 22, 8 to 11 o’clock.
MILL CREEK—November 2’, 1 to 4 o’clock.
And after December Ist, will be at Court House until books close on
December 20th.
J. H. SMITH, T. C.
“Was your daughter’s musical ed
ucation a profitable venture?”
“You bet! I bought the houses on
either side of us at half their value.”
—Judge.
Mr. C. C. Harlan, of Calhoun, was
the guest of M. C. Foster yesterday.