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THE ATLANTA NEWS
By FLOYD tfORMAN
ATLANTA.
TEXAS
.The excursion girl Is now looking
tor best.
Let us all keep busy hoping there
ttay be no buttermilk famine.
No flies should be permitted any-
where except at the end of a fishing
line.
Appearances are deceiving, espe-
cially when one buys a box of straw*
berries.
Likewise it is a good idea to keep
ene's finger* out of the vicinity of the
electric fan.
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A Newark man suffering from a
tothacbe committed suicide. He cured
the toothache. •
AO knockers are disliked e*pept
those who stand up to send the cork-
eentered ball over the fence.
New York's 7,000 beggars collect
'each year $15,000,000, and this sum,
alas, represents misplaced sympathy.
The geological survey says that the
earth is being worn away by erosions.
Found any in your gardens, amateurs?
A mlllion-doliar house with a $25,-
•00 suite of rooms to play in has been
built for a little New York boy. Poor
kiddie 1
Chlcagoans keep their Jewels In odd
places, says the manager of a safety
deposit company. Not to mention
pawn shops. -
Singing an hour a day will drive
away Indigestion, opines a New York
doctor. In other words, we can buy
health for a song.
A New Yorker is suing for divorce
because bis wife Is growing too fat
Divorce Is getting to be more than a
dad. It Is a habit
Rich prizes are hung up for avia-
tors and automobile racers. Yet the
eld game of rocking the boat comes
is for nothing but abuse.
—The p?tcll rfor tEnj5& pianos has
been changed from 435 to 438 "vibra-
tions. Listening to it in the next flat
causes one long vibration.
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A moonlight rainbow has been seen
off New York, but many of those who
go on local moonlights will see rain-
bows before they get home.
A St Louis man who was hit by a
v street car apologized to the motprman
tor delaying traffic. The heat has a
tjueer effect on some people.
A Chicago woman's club lecturer
•ays that laundry work is poetic. Still
a saw-edged collar is not quite as ef-
fective as the average poem.
"Has a hen a mind?" asks a Kan-
sas City paper. She must have, oth-
erwise she could not have originated
the idea of crossing the road.
A savant tells us that music will
kill a man's taste for liquor, but we
have heard music that was almost
enough to drive a man to drink.
An Albany man could not remember
his name until he had been shown a
photograph of himself. It must have
been one of those fiendish snapshots
An Elgin telegraph operator has
confessed that he cannot support his
wife and seven children on a tele-
graph operator's salary. Why has he
not thought of starting a chicken
(arm?
Colonel Krag has perfected a rifle
even better than his last one, which
will shoot a steel jacketed bullet
through a dozen men standing in a
row, provided they will stand while
the colonel practices, as they usually
will not
The hobble skirt has put three thou-
sand mill girls In Rhode Island out of
employment because of the decrease
In the quantity of cloth. If the hob-
ble skirt is convicted on half the in-
dictments against it. It will get a life
term In cold storage.
A man In New York wrote to the
mayor asking him to stop all piano-
playing and singing at night, especial-
ly In summer when people had their
windows open. Of course, this was
the request of a crank, but be had
some method in his madness.
It 13 an old maxim that the gods
belp those who belp themselves, but
this is rather disproved by the ex-
perience of the soldier who went to
sleep on the edge of the Niagara river
and woke to find himself Just on the
i verge of going over tbe falls.
Truth
Highest Ideals of
Honesty Received
From Mother
By ISABELLE HATCH O'NEILL
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F "women are poets who believe their own poetry"—and few
will be inclined to quarrel with that definition—does it not
follow that a woman, thoroughly convinced that what she is
saying is the truth, even though man by his logic proves it to
be false, cannot be called untruthful ?
A woman is guided to truth largely by her intuition; s
man by his logic. To woman the modern world is a new,
strange thing. She grasp# neither-the meaning nor the neces-
sity of law, business, philosophy, politics, mathematics. To
her logic is only a name—a man's way of looking at things.
In her own mind woman envelops her acts in a bright and ideal atmos-
phere, and thus often sees a high motive in what a man would call dis-
honorable.
v It has often been asserted that on the witness stand a woman will
more lightly commit perjury than a man. This, however, does not prove
that she is dishonest. It x>nly shows that a trained lawyer is more clever
than she, and that by his art he forces her into false positions.
The reason why women do not always tell the literal truth on the wit-
ness stand is because they neither fit into nor understand the conditions
which surround them; they are out of their sphere; they lose the real
meaning of the whole court proceedings.
Is a woman's standard of honesty higher or lower than a man's? If
it is a question of commercial integrity, of common business honesty, there
can be but one answer. And that answer lies in the comparative numbei
of men and women in jails for crimes against property.
Women do not deliberately steal. They do not deliberately misrepre-
sent goods. They are not embezzlers or defaulters. There could have been
no necessity for a pure food law if women had sole charge of manufactui^
ing foods. - \
If women are not innate lovers of truth, why does religion appeal
more forcibly to them than to men ? Why do women outnumber the men
in the churches?
And to whom, from mother Eve to this day, hag
been intrusted the task of teaching the young? Is it
possible that two-thirds of the human race, from the
dawn of civilization, could have instilled into children
the honor and truth which they themselves did not
obey?
No matter what may have been said or written
about women not telling the truth, the fact still re-
mains that it is at the mother's knee that children
learn truth and receive their highest ideals of honesty
and of life.
Lonely
Young
in ^
Large City
By ERM1NA J. WILKINSON
Does anybody in any large city evei
give one thought to the girl who is alone,
totally dependent upon her own efforts foi
a living? Does it ever occur to any one to
wonder what becomes of her if she hap-
pens to be thrown out of work?
Girl in , Take the girl who has grown up in the
atmosphere of respectability and decency
of a small town. Thrown on her own re-
sources, she comes to the city to seek em-
ployment. She is educated far beyond the
average city-bred working girl and is intel<
ligent and capable. She makes a brave
struggle against all odds and temptations
and so lpng as 6he has employment maintains her self-respect and is really
happy.
But a run of hard luck strikes her and she finds herself thrown out
of employment and by some perverse fate unable to secure another position
Day after day she sees her little savings dwindle away, although she
almost starves herself in an effort to make them last. Many a time she
sees the price of the meal that would be such a comfort to her go for post-
age and car fare in a vain attempt to secure the longed-for position. At
last she pays her last cent for rent rather than admit her condition to he*
landlady and stops eating entirely because she can do that and no oi\e
will be the wiser.
She does not want charity; all she asks is the chance to make an hon-
est living. It is denied her. What then?
I think employers when filling a position could exercise a bit of real
Christian charity by giving the preference when possible to the girl who
has no parents to stand between her and the world.
Benefits
of Calm
Sleep
in Pure
Air
I started to sleep outdoors in May, 1909,
and have slept out every night since that
date, and would not go back to sleeping in-
doors any more for the following reasons
and experiences: ^
First, one gets a more refreshing sleep
jn cool, pure air than can be had in an ill-
ventilated and heated room. In fact, th#
pure, cool air is so soothing to the tired
person that one falls to sleep nearly at once.
But of course one must be well covered up
about the body to protect from cold, leav-.
ing only the face exposed.
Second, I am less predisposed to cold#
and the many ailments which come from colds. The results in my own
case have been better health than I had enjoyed for years. I have gained
in appetite and in weight, 16 pounds.
I will not go back to sleeping indoors again, and I know that there
are hundreds sleeping outdoors right here in Chicago, on back porches,
verandas, roofs and also in tents in back yards. In fact a physician
showed me the pictures of about 100 of his patients' outdoor beds.
By W. A. JOHNSON
Chicago
In
WOULD CURB SILENT ORATORS
Representative Mann, the minority
leader of the bouse, is on the trail oi
those who obtain "leave to pftnt*
their remarks in the Congressional-
Record and who then .. Intersperse,
these remarks-with "applause," "loud
applause," "tumultous applause,'*- and
other complimentary annotations' indi-
cating that the houde -was. in a state -'
of frenzy, while "the distinguished *
gentleman" was speaking. i V±
Representative Mann has been
glancing over the records containing
the debate on the Free List Bill and
the Arizona-New Mexico statehood
resolution. He is understood to have
picked out one oratorical gem, .in par1
ticular, that has been made the sub*
Ject of a little satirical comment on. ,
.the part of the minority leader.^ Thi#
speech seems to have mi&tf'a most'
wonderful reception.
The orator, according to the Reo
ord, started off smoothly, but was in->
terrupted by the plaudits of his colleagues almost before he left the post
Aa the member warmed up, the house warmed with him, and adjectives bad
to be called into play to describe Just where the reception received bj^th$-
gentleman. The applause, it appears, was "loud," "prolonged," "insistent1*
"tumultuous,** "on both sides" and "Insurgent" ' ' "
A scrutiny of the official reporter's notes does not indicate that th# -
house was in a state of frenzied approval while the modern Demosthenes. ;let
flow his burning eloquence.
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CHURCH HEAD AS A WITNESS
Recently President Smith, head of
the Mormon, church, gave testimony
before the congressional committee In-
vestigating the sugar trust relative to
the formation of the r Utah-Idaho
Sugar company. For the head of a
strong church society, he has found
time to devote to affairs of purely
secular character.
President Smith has reached bis
present high stage of efficiency by
sedulous attention to business. At 8
years old he wielded a goad over an
ox team when the great exodus of the
Mormon sect from Illinois began. He
worked at manual labor in Utah; he
was a missionary"^ to the Sandwich
Islands; in 1858 he was ordained high
priest and member of the high coun-
cil. Off and on from 1860 to 1877 he
was a missionary of the faith in Great
Britain. In 1866 he was ordained an
apostle. He has "been president of
the church since the death of Lorenzo
Snow, in 1901.
The numerous and varied duties be had discharged before he was called)
to the headship of the church had rendered him familiar with every detail
of its administration. Besides, he came to the headship by - prescriptive
right. He was In the Mormon royal line, so to speak. He was a nephew
of the great Joseph Smith, revealer of the Book of Mormon.
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CONSUL ACCUSED IN SCANDAt
JVVilliam H. Michael, United States!
consul at Calcutta, whose dismissal!
as: a result of the recent investigation
of the Day portrait voucher was re-
commended In a report of the sub-i
committee of the house committee on!
expenditures, was formerly chief cleric
of the state department v.
The alleged misappropriation of the
state department funds occurred lni
connection with the purchase of a
portrait of Assistant Justice Dag^ofj.
the Supreme court, former secretary
of state, and amounted to $1,600. Gnlyi
$850 was paid to:- Albert Rosenthal*,
the artist who painted the. picture.,
The committee during its Investiga-
tions traced to a Single voucher the;
ism of $2,450. On this voucher .was
written "for portrait end frame of ex-
Secretary Day."
The testimony having showed thati
the $1,600 unaccounted for was In. the
hands of Morrison as disbursing clerk
and of Michael as cfiief clerk, the
committee holds that the money was misappropriated either by Michael andi
Morrison Jointly, or by Michael alone. , *-
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EX-SENATOR 83 YEARS OLD
Recently George Franklin Edmunds,
one of the famous constitutional law-
yers of the United States and for a
quarter of a century a leader in the
senate, until his retirement in 1891,
celebrated the 83d anniversary of his
birth. Although a Vermonter during
the active days of his public life, he
now divides his time between Phila-
delphia and Pasadena, Cal.
Fifty-seven years ago Mr. Edmunds
entered the Vermont legislature and
after a service extending until 1862
resigned to resume the practice of
law. In 1866 he was elected to the
United States senate, serving contin-
uously until 1891. His name will best
be remembered by the Edmunds act
which provided for the suppression
of polygamy In Utah and the disfran-
chisement of those practicing it He
was also the author of an anti-trust
law and was the head of the commit-
tee on Judiciary.
He was one of those who drafted
the bill creating the electoral commission of 1877 and was a member of that'
body. Twice he loomed up largely as a presidential candidate and in I8$fr
and 1884 his name was presented to the Republican national conventions. . „
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