The Atlanta News. (Atlanta, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1911 Page: 2 of 4
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THE ATLANTA NEWS
By FLOYD NORMAN
ATLANTA.
TEXAS
Bunday fun too often ends in a fu-
neral.
Properly muzzled dogs are biting
Very few persons tills season.
In the case of a hot wave it is pleas-
ant to speed the parting guest.
To be certain of finding burled treas-
ure, dig In your vegetable garden.
The pistol in the house generally
gets somebody into trouble sooner or
later.
Fathers, teach your boys how to
■wlm—if you have to learn first your-
selves.
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Persons who don't like to have their
pictures taken usually show It in the
photograph.
A large per cent, of the marriages
turn out happier than the gossips Im-
agine they will.
There's another advantage that ao-
crues to a highbrow—his straw hat
Stays on In a gale.
X The pitch for tuning pianos has
been Increased from 435 to 438 vibra-
tions. More misery.
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Porch sleeping is regaining popu-
larity. It U all right until the early
iniiy man begins to arrive.
One mad dog can cause more ex-
cltment In a community than a thou-
sand that are safe and sane.
Likewise, we are advised to swat
the tussock moth. Of course we all
know what a tussock moth is.
An Atlanta man has been ordered
by the court to kfss bis wife at least
qnee a day. Serves him right.
An Indiana minister died from the
affects of being bitten by a catfish.
Let's have the catfish muzzled.
Few people enjoy a run on a bank,
but a run on the bank of a swimmin'
hole Is a popular pastime these days.
Before going too far let us reflect
upon the fact that abolishing war
would soon leave « without colonels
"Most Americans eat too much,"
opines a New York physician. Like-
wise, some physicians talk too much.
New York contemplates having its
policemen wear Red Cross badges.
Better make them double-cross badges
Even the old oaken bucket is un-
der the ben these days. Health is
worth a whole lot more than senti-
ment.
—
One way to keep cool and at the
same time mirthful is to go doWn
Into the basemen1 and look at the
furnace.
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Some married men don't seem to ac-
complish any more now than they did
when women wore 22 buttons down
the back.
Vassar college announces its fif-
tieth birthday, but none of the grad-
uates admit that they were in at the
beginning.
It is stated that Boston is to have
a hospital for the rich. Still, the man
of sense, whether rich or poor, would
prefer to stay outside of even the
most glided of hospitals.
Two million trees: have been plant-
ed in Kansas this year. Good. When
Kansas gets a sufficient number of
•hade trees it may become easier foi
bar to find harvest hands.
The Arkansas man who married a
girl ha had never met until he pro
posed to her to win a wager has come
to the conclusion that marriage is no
Joke. But, then, many who wed in a
less coldblooded and more leisurely
way have come to a like conclusion.
The Cleveland chief of police has
decided that young men may put theii
arms around girls In the parks of thai
city this year, but kissing will be pro
faiblted. We suppose the chief hat
satisfied himself that germs are not
communicated by hugging.
A Waltham horticulturist seeks by
law to prevent aviators from flying
over his property. He specifies dam
ages to glass and plants. The bird
man's feelings on falling through a
hothouse are no offset.
A fungus blight Is killing all tn«
chestnut trees in eastern New Yor
land Pennsylvania and Is steadily mov
|ing westward. One wonders how an)
'tree that was worth anything es
J Might or scale through the teni
thousands of years since trees were
a vented. „
Fellow
Laborers
Work Horse
Is Much Like
Office Girl
By MAUD HEALY
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TJT THEEE in the street is a horse that looks just like I feel.
Do not imagine that he is a carriage horse, champing the bit
and pawing the ground, or a saddle horse ready for a trot, for
he is neither. He is a meek, subdued beast of burden, attached
to a wagon filled with broken limestone. A laborer is stand-
ing thereon hurling the rocks to the street. The horse mean-
while waits, unmoved, unmovable.
When the wagon is unloaded the laborer will gather up
the loose reins and drive slowly to the barns. A bag of oats,
a manger full of hay, and a bed of straw in a narrow stall is
the reward of the dray horse's labor. The morrow will be like today. He
will haul the stones, and wait to be driven home and rest. He is part of a
system like myself. He dares not have an individuality or a personal pur-
pose. Of what use for him to shake the heavy yoke from his neck and
gallop down the street.
Even were it possible to gallop hitched to a heavy stone wagon, the
feat were useless. He would be whipped for a runaway brute. Was there
ever a time when green fields were the pasture lands of this dray horse,
and a hillside meadow his bed? Was there ever a brook for him to wade
in, or a beech tree to shelter him ? Was there ever a wide prairie to canter
across? Did he ever look up to the sky or shake his mane or whinny?
How subdued he has become f Poor dray horse, lost in the progress of
civilization! Poor laborer, driving the dray horse—beast driving beast,
blinded leading the blinded! - r
If the laborer were to look up to my window he would envy me. He
does not know that I, too, have been driven all day, that my brain whirls,
that I am breathlessly tired, that I am a link in the endless chain. I have
watched the laborer for many days and I think he has
watched me as I have passed out of my house. I have
fancied that he has resented my little better dress and
seemingly easier tasks. And at night I have dragged
myself to this window to watch my fellow dray horse
in the street.
Would it be any comfort, Mr. LabQrer and Mr.
Dray Horse, to know that the person who looks down
from the respectably curtained windows is as tired and
subdued as you are; that this person wears a yoke
and is hitched to responsibilities as heavy as the stone
wagon? " : ' - . *
There is a rumble of wheels in the street. The
dray horse is dragging himself home. Well, at least
there is the bag of aai#^ ead-^staH-fijlt of straw, and
the laborer and I have a dinner and a bed coming to us.
When
Every
Knock Is
Made a
Boost
y
By LEMAR KALLUS
We often hear the expression "every
knock is a boost," and sometimes this is
true, but more often it is not, especially if
the "knocker3' is crafty and plays his cards
cunningly.
There is hardly a firm in existence em-
ploying a large force of people which has
not among its number that deplorable
thing called a "knocker." These people
sometimes carry on their underhanded
work for years successfully, being the
cause of many an innocent person's dis-
charge from a responsible and lucrative po-
1' sition, before they are "finally brought to
justice or fall into the pit which they dig for others; and occasionally they
are never found out. .
But even though they are not always punished this side of eternity,
it is a great comfort to those who have been injured by them to know
that there comes a day of reckoning when each man shall answer for his
own sins.
If these knockers would confine their tales to the truth, even though
their actions are reprehensible, a great deal of injustice might be avoided.
It would seem as though a man who is intelligent enough to carry on
a large business successfully would be shrewd enough to fathom the
schemes of these knockers, but often the most intelligent men are rather
credulous and are badly imposed upon by just such people.
If business men would only allow "every knock to be a boost" and
discharge the knocker the moment he carried his first tale, the time would
doubtless arrive when every office would be rid of this pest and greater
harmony would ensue.
We have it on good authority that four
guinea pigs have succumbed as a result of
inoculation with germs taken from a pub-
lic drinking cup, that 100 schools are sup-
plied with bubbling drinking fountains,
that the same sanitary condition will soon
prevail in all the schools in the city, that
pupils in some of the schools are taught to
make their own paper drinking cups, that
at least one large retail store has one sani-
tary fountain, albeit on its thirteenth floor.
Yet in the public library the one only
fountain now used in the building still has
its chain-altached cup.
And one of the guardians of the depositors at a Chicago trust and
savings bank silenced criticism regarding the noxious condition of the
common cup with an indignant, "No such thing. These cups are clean.
They get washed every morning."
Pupils
Make
Their Own
Drinking
Cups
By E. F. HATCH
Chicaio /
IN THE INELIOm
tLi y i
BLIGHTED BY THE THAW CASE
The recent conviction and sentenc-
ing to state prison of Dan O'Reilly for
his participation in a theft committed
in New York serve to draw attention
to the remarkable series of misfor-
tunes attending various persons con-
nected with the Thaw case. O'Reilly
was one of the lawyers on the Thaw
side and has never had a day's luck
since he was mixed up in it. While
the crime for which be has been sen-
tenced and which disbars him as a
lawyer had nothing to do with the
case of Thaw, many believe that it
was the nemesis of the White tragedy
which worked his undoing. So far
the lives of thirteen persons mixed up
one way or another in the case have
been blighted.
Of the other lawyers besides O'Reil-
ly who figured iu the case Clifford W.
Hartridge is facing disbarment pro
ceedings growing out of statements
made in connection with it He had
to sue Mrs. Thaw, mother of Harry
Thaw, for his fees and a bill of particulars was demanded. In furnishing
this he told of trips he made seeking witnesses, of sums of money paid to
buy the silence of certain persons and of excursions to various resorts entail-
ing large expenditures. His revelations brought upon him the cenBure of
the New York Bar association and proceedings to disbar him are now in
the courts.
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MISSES HIS WEATHER GUESS
"Professor Moore's rainstorm" has
been the topic of much jocund com-
ment in Washington. Before now the
weather bureau has played a potent
part in fixing the fame of great men.
Noah, for example, might be compar-
atively unknown save for a rainstorm
of unprecedented violence, and sub-
sequent history abounds in similar in-
stances, culminating in "Professor
Moore's rainstorm" of the night of the
lawn fete which crowned the silver
wedding anniversary of the president
and Mrs. Taft.
Twenty-four hours previous, when
Washington was bedecking Itself and
joyously entering upon the task of
making the silver wedding anniver-
sary a close second to the corona-
tion festivities of that other Anglo-
Saxon ruler, George of Great Britain;
when Washington was donning its
most spotless duck trousers and
"sheerest" "gowns. Professor Moore,
sequestered in the innermost cham-
ber of the weather bureau building, announced that It was going to rain.
A tranquil afternoon was followed by an ideal evening. Every silvery
star that was permitted by astronomical laws twinkled down on Washington.
Therefore, there Is much Jocund comment on "Professor Moore's rain-
storm." And, coupled with the "storm," are many mentions of that othetf
day in President Taft's administration which the weather likewise made*'
memorable—the day of the inauguration.
THREATEN SENATOR'S TOGA
It is reported in Washington that
the election of Senator Stephenson ol
Wisconsin, the lumber king, is to be
Investigated by the senate committee
on privileges and elections.
Senator Isaac Stephenson is s na-
tive of New Hampshire, where he was
born in 1829. After a brief residence
at Bangor, Me., he located In Wis-
consin and for a time was a farm la-
borer. Seeing the prospect of mak-
ing money in the lake transportation
business, he purchased a schooner and
operated It successfully between Mil
waukee and Escanaba. His savings
he invested in timber lands, which
then could be purchased cheaply, and
gradually became the owner of vast
tracts of valuable standing timber.
Years ago he was a multimillionaire,
and every day now adds to his Im-
mense hoard. He is also a banker
and is financially Interested in vari-
ous enterprises. Back in the compar-
tlvely early days of his career he was elected to the Wisconsin legislature,
and sat In that body from 1866 to 1868. In 1883 he was elected to congress,
retaining his seat until 1889, and In 19 07 he was elected to the United States
senate to fill an unexpired term ending in 1909. It is his subsequent election
for a full term that is to be made the subject of a senatorial inquiry.
D.
EX-QUEEN WHO MAY VISIT US
One of the most deeply beloved of
the royalties of Europe is ex-Queen
Margherita of Italy, who, it is said,
will pay a visit to the United States
in the fall. It has long been her am-
bition to see tho country where so
many of b< r race have found a home,
but ev-n royal personages cannot
travel when they choose, and the visit
had to be postponed. It is probable
that official recognition will be taken
of her coming.
The ex-queen is a daughter of ..the
late Prince Ferdlnando of Savoy,
duke of Genoa. When only 16 years
old she became the bride of King.
Humbert, second king of United
Italy, which this year is celebrating
the fiftieth anniversary of its inde-
pendence. Eleven years ago she was
left a widow owing to the assassina-
tion of her husband by the Anarchist
Brescia. She is now 60 years old
and still retains much of her beauty.
Since her husband's death she has
devoted herself greatly to charity and has endeared herself to the Italians. It
was her opposition which prevented the marriage of Miss Elkins and tha
duke of the Abruzzi, and her visit here will on that account be invested with
an additional interest.
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The Atlanta News. (Atlanta, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1911, newspaper, August 10, 1911; Atlanta, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth335811/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.