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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-08
TBE GROWTH OF GLUCOSE.

The centenary of the discovery of glu-
cose. which occurred last Sunday, has re-
ceived considerable, attention in Chicago
which is the headquarters Of the industry
that turns out this product.
one hundred years ago it was discovered
that starch might be treated with acid so
as to yield a certain kind of sugar
More than so years passed before any
practical use was made Of this knowledge
and il was only little more than 20 years
ago that the manufacture and use of glu-
cose on a large scale began.
About that time people began to COM
plain that their sugar and syrup were
adulterated with glucose, not that they
could detect it for themselves. but be-
cause they had been informed that glu-
cose had come into large use rs an adul-
terant.
So rapid has been the growth of the adj
vance of glucose that we are inform
ed that II is now adulterated with cane
syrup. Glucose Is only three-fifths as
sweet as cane sugar, but il is recognized
as harmless adulterant and its popular
ity is increasing steadily.
One factory in Chicago turns out more
than 1.0O0,0 900 pounds OF glucose a day. This
adulterant goes into a great number of ar
ticles and yet very few persons have ever
seen it. Glucose is a colorless, transparent
substance and in ordinary temperatures
is so thick that it win scarcely run.
1t is estimated that three-fourths of
all the table syrups consumed in the world
today have at least 70 per cent Of glucose.
The glucose industry has become very
profitable. Many thousands of persons are
employed in it and their number is in
creasing steadily.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-08
THE PRESIDENTS CLOSE CALL.


The country was alarmed Wednesday
by the first reports OF the accident to the
carriage which was conveying President
Roosevelt and his party from Pittsfeld
TO Lenox. Massachusetts. 1t was feared
that the president had sustained severe in
juries and a sense Of profound relief and
sincere gratitude succeeded the deep APP
prehension for the nations chief execu-
tive.
Though the president escaped with only
slight injuries he passed through great
danger.
A secret service agent who accompanied
him was killed in the collision and the
driver OF the presidents coach had his
skull fractured.
Evidently President Roosevelt was in
great danger and had a very narrow es-
cape.
The accident was the only unpleasant
interruption OF the presidents visit to the
New England states. during which he has
been the recipient OF so many enthusiast
tic demonstrations OF popular regard.
Tho whole country rejoices that he was
spared and that the accident did not in
capacitate him even temporarily from the
duties Of his exalted Office.
All differences Of politics are forgotten
when we are called upon 10 consider a
grave danger through which the nations
head has Just safely passed.
We all join in congratulating President
Roosevelt upon his narrow escape, but
even more cordially do we congrat-
ulate the country that It has been spared
the shock that came so near being inflic-
ted upon It.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-08

So it is that Mr.. AIDE is not an easy man
to interview-about himself But what
ever he says must have some merit among
the many thousands who read his work
and admire the man.
Mr.. AIDES slang is wholly lacking In
brutality and is laugh-compelling in its
breezy impudence. Slang he regards as
a vital condition of the mental and ma
terial condition of society. just as an an
thropologist would regard the manner OF
eating and the things eaten by race OF
people This sober statement is sustained
by the insight into human nature and mo-
tives which Mr. AIDE at all times displays
He is as sympathetic and warm-hearted
as a woman; but on the other hand, he
can be as keen and bitterly playful as the
most world-worn of cynics. His usual
note however is of good-natured raillery,
as one who realizes the bitterness OF
things. but whose heart is touched by II
all as he himself smiles and compels you
to smile. O.
One of the Events.
Pale and wrinkled-browed savants, who
see in the birth Of a new word the man
Hesitation of some sociologic or moral
force. have discussed Mr.. AIDE and his
work and admitted that he is zone OF the
events of the century"
That he reflects it's confident love-free
unconventional spirit no one viii gain
by his creations a lesson in each OF MS
social studies, at the same time infusing
ii with a homely personal element which
appeals alike to the bricklayer and the
millionaire.
And it takes more than mere hu-
morist philosopher to realize this prin-
chile of popularity which comprehends all
all men and conditions.
He must be a student, or, better, a
master of human nature, to whom the
whims. foibles. fads and fallings Of his
fellows are colors, the relative value Of
which he knows to a certainty in shaping
his pictures
Like all effective humorists, George AIDE,
at bottom. is a serious young man. Too
we'll he knows what a sad comedy life Is,
and vet it is due to his quick instructive
sympathy that he brightens it with smiles,
makes it flash with good-natured sarcasm
and presents it's lessons to all in homely
garb. When he wrote his first fable In
slang he had not the slightest conception
that the expressive word children OF the
race-track., the prize ring. the gaming Ia
BILE and lastly the stage would lead him TO
a permanent place among the humor1sts
of the day. So it was when he wrote The
Sultan Of Sulu." his first play.
To Write for the Stage.
In succeeding in spite Of him and now
he is under contract to write for the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News


Experience worries more men than it teaches.
woman who is good listener is truly I'M
selfish.
Before giving others advice try sample Of
II yourself.
a girl never shows her age until she tries
to hide II.
An old bachelor says certificate Of birth
is milk ticket.
Economy may be wealth, but it doesn't cut
much ice in a Will. q
Worldly wisdom is a perfect knowledge Of
your neighbours failings.
When a man takes a hand in politics he
often ends by putting his foot In II.
Why are people SO foolish as to want their
own way when yours is so much better7
Young widows wear mourning from one OF
three motives-remorse. devotion or diversion.
When You miss the limited express by only
three seconds It might just as well be local
freight.
Man must take the world as he finds it-and
he mus; leave it in pretty much the same con-
dtion.
You may break, you may shatter the old hen
II YOU will. but the landlady serves 1t as spring
chicken still.
It's certainly queer how. much more dis
agreeable and peevish the child next door is
than your own
July ice bill never looks so big to any
body else as to the man who hasn't settled his
January coal bill.
You can't get something out of nothing, but
lots of people are capable OF getting nothing
out Of something.
OF course a kiss in time doesn't save nine
II such were the case the average girl would
gladly walt awhile.
one kind of hypocrite is the man who after
thanking the Lord for his dinner proceeds to
find fault with the cook.
Only loving mother weep bitter tears
over a lost child and then WELD the slipper
theoretically when II returns
Doubtless the accepted sutton imaglnes it is
love that makes the world go round because
he Is intoxicated with happiness.
It's safe bet that when some men are called
upon to pay the debt OF nature they will try
10 settle at 10 cents the dollar.
Nothing short of a miracle can deprive
woman OF words. That's why she neglects to
express her thanks when man gives up his
scat to her in crowded car.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-08
OF
A PANAMA HAT
From the Cleveland Press.

from the ClGAGldnQ
never was a real Panama. because,
1 never was really made under real
water.
But, a budding newspaper artist, who,
(mirable dictu) had saved up fifteen doll
lars against a rainy day. saw me, adj
mired me. and. was separated from his
coin.
This same newspaper artist was count
ing. banking-yes. gambling-on a rise
in salary. 1t didn't come.
But a hole came in the seat Of tis pants,
and he disposed Of me to printer for
eight dollars.
The printer was glad to get me. He told
HIS wife 1 was the real thing" and cost
thirty dollars.
But he didn't tell about the twenty-five
''plunks" he lost in a poker game.
The printers wife Dragged about her
husbands thirty dollar Panama. and,
somehow, the other printers heard OF 1t.
He didn't wear me any more. Thus /
became the property of the printers old
est son, who wore me to the country one
Sunday and left me in a watermelon
patch Curtain Of charity.)
Ine farmer, who owned the patch, said
he wouldn't give his old chip" for doz-
en- like me.
And none of his boys would wear me. be-
cause, they all wanted dollar derbies'
and were mad because they couldn't get
them.
That's how I came to be tossed aside.
And that's how I came to be the home
Of a litter Of kittens.
1 don't look much like Panaman any
more.
But 1 am now useful, if not ornamental.
And that helps some.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-08
PIttsburg Dispatch.

TFHE success of George AIDE. or
Fables in Slang AIDE, as he is
sometimes called. as playwright
has been as rapid and unexpected
as that of his adventure into the domain
of literature: for his fables are beyond
cavil literature of a vital quality.
Although he has succeeded Iar beyono
his widest dreams of his first years In
newspaper business success has not spoil
ed George AIDE. He is still the unaffected,
modest. LOYAL warm-hearted boy that he
was when he first reached Chicago from
the wilds of Indiana, and while in his Ia
bles be betrays an insight OF the shams
of life which at times almost amounts
to cynicism, he never allows 1t to creep
into his life.
Although one of the most talked about
men of the day, AIDE is so retiring that
few people have any idea of his person
ality, and the accompanying photographs
are the first, beyond a conventional bust
picture, which he has ever allowed TO be
taken.
He is about feet 1 or 2 inches tall. of
dark, almost swarthy skin. and coal black
hair, which is just beginning in faintest
degree to be touched with gray. His eyes
are black and his teeth strong and white.
The whole expression of his face is one 10
invite confidence, and his ability to make
people talk was one of his greatest helps
when he was doing city assignments on
the Chicago News. His figure is thin but
wiry, and he looks to be in perfect physi-
cal condition at all times.
AIDE Is Popular.
Success is sweet to any man, but to
George AIDE 1 believe it is much more
of a pleasure to know that he is the most
popular newspaper man in Chicago than
IL would be TO be known as the greatest.
No man ever met him but loved him, and
down in Indiana they think he is little
greater than the president of the United
States.
I LITER his opera, THE Sultan of Sulu. .
had been running for a month to ire
mendous business II was taken to AIDES
old home for one performance. The
whole town took holiday to celebrate.
The stores closed, bands played, there
were professions, speeches and a general
celebration, which lasted nearly three
days.
AIDE was almost unhappy over 1t. for ne
is modest to an unusual degree. and would
prefer to talk of some other fellows work,
rather than his own. The writer has seen
him blush like a school girl graduate when
complimented upon the excellence Of some
of his work, and his palpable uneasiness
showed that he would have gladly taken
to the tall timber had it been possible
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-08
SOME TRAITS OF GEORGE AIDE
THE MAN WHO MAKES FABLES

stage for the next five years, at terms
which would have seemed fabulous to him
Is years ago, when as a gangly sort OF
youth he went from Indiana to Chicago
and became reporter on the Daily News.
at which time Eugene Field Illuminated
the editorial page with his constella-
items.
Mr.. AIDES development as a treasury OF
slang was a gradual and subtle process,
and in establishing the genesis he viii
probably recall that William Cornell,
veteran police reporter, who had a nano>
shaking back-patting acquaintance with
Chicago's seamy side, was man OF IN
finite resource in turning out expressive
verbal grotesques.
AIDE was a human dry plate. Every
thing that came within his focus was
mentally kodaked and no detail was too
small to escape him. He was probably
one of the most earnest and hard work
ing reporters that ever labored in that
CITY of hard-worked newspaper men. HIS
OWE personality was in all that he did.
And that is the quality that counts for
more than mere FANCY writing. he en-
bodied ideas and fancies that in turn
aroused others in the reader. He was at
all times the student. His pale, slender
face and his nervous hands denoted IT.
But when he smiled his look OF preoccu-
cation gave way to an expression Of keen
thing Of the exhilaration Of tonic.
His First slit"
They have some curious weather in the
Windy city and it furnishes subject
which is full of wonder to the outsider.
George AIDES first story that showed
was on the weather. 1t was brief, but
had in it a snap and originality that as
founded the weather weary sharps in the
Office. So much for a fresh, sympathetic
imagination, united TO a natural sense
OF humor Even then. Mr.. AIDES friends
declare. he was scheduled and due TO
arrive in shape" Which, indeed. he has
done.
AIDE was born in 1866 in the little. town
of Kentland. Ind, where his father
owned the village bank. He graduated
from the village school and then took the
course at Purdue university at Lafay-
cite. graduating in 1889. and going up to
Chicago went on the city reportorial STAN
of the News.
That this was a good school for bud-
ding literary genius the list of celebrities
OF today who are graduates from its STAN
proves most conclusively. Eugene Field
Finley, Peter Dunno (Mr. Dooley), Frank
Vanderlip, formerly assistant secretary OF
the treasury and now vice president of the
City Bank, and John McCutcheon and
many more are among them.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.

New York Press.
To know better is easy; it's the doing better
when you know 1t that's hard.
Nobody, not even herself. ever knows what
Is going on In a womans mind.
1t takes women to support foreign missions,
reading societies and dude actors.
We hate a cold winter in winter almost as
much a hot summer in summer.
The first baby makes a man crazy with Joy;
the others make him crazy without It,
man is emperor in his own house till a
young son comes along to dethrone him.
The more times a man has been married the
less faith he mas in the male Judgment.
A woman can imagine anything in the world
except what she doesn't want to imagine.
Nothing makes a woman so suspicious as to
have her husband volunteer to go to church.
Whether a woman Is too fat or too thin, she
can dress TO fool everybody about IT except
her husband
It's odd what dull things a woman's stock
ings are when they arsCmerely hanging out
In the wash.
You can tell an engaged girl by the funny
way she FUCKERS her lips when she looks at
his photograph.
Some people have suchla habit Of being in
hard lines that they can get rid Of one disease
only by catching another
You can never convince a vain woman who
has grown fat that she is until she gets stuck
trying to get in carriage door
When we hear angels wings huttering around
some people 1t is time to wonder what new
deviltry satan is planning for them.
One OF the hard things to understand is how
such nice grandmothers as everybody has ever
could have been mothers-in-law.
Somehow IL makes a girl with a thin neck
awfully nervous to have people say there is
sure way Of telling everybody's measure
meats.
No matter how much a man loves woman
he can't help wondering sometimes how small
part evay matter plays in that sort Of
thing.
After q girl has got good figure and wavy
hair end a smooth complexion and attractive
teeth It will be time enough to worry about
brai.s.
The only way for a man to get even with
his wife for nagging him is to wait and laugh
at her when the cook gives her a piece OF
her mind.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-08

the voluntary and enforced increase in
the use of safety appliances.
The ratio of employees killed last year
was one in every AGO. and the ratio Of
those injured one in every 26.
These percentages of deaths and in
juries would be Incredible if they were
not based on official reports of the rail-
roads themselves.
1t is gratifying to know that there has
| been a steady reduction of the number of
railroad employees killed and injured in
the line of their work. but it is still
frightfully large.
The railroads of the United States have
vast army Of employees The number
last year was 1O71,16 5000 more people
than there are In Nebraska and twenty
five times as many as the entire popula-
ton Of the sovereign state of Nevada.
The number of employees averages 54S to
each 100 miles Of railroad in operation.
There was an increase of upwards of 3d.
900 men employed by the roads in 1901 over
1900, owing to the greater amount of traf-
flo to be handled.
The railway capital outstanding was
81, SIS. III, 99l. or nearly FIVE times the
amount of the public debt of the United
States on November l. 1901, including GER
tihcates and treasury notes. On the ba-
sis of capitalization, the roads of the
country represent an average value Of
S., 52S per mile. The earnings of the rail-
roads were sl.5Ss. 526,OS7 during the year,
or almost as much as the national debt
of Spain was in 1899. The operating ex-
penses Of the roads were $1,000, 1891, go, an
amount nearly equal to the national debt
OF the United States.
There are now only forty-five railroads
in the United States In the hands of re-
ceivsrs, a decrease of seven in the last
year.
This condition contrasts very strikingly
with that of seven or eight year ago when
the railroad in this country that was not
I'm the control of the courts was the ex-
ception.
The railroad mileage of the country is
1877, 2s7, an increase of 1891 miles for the
year.
The general physical and financial con-
dition of our railroads is better now than
ever before, their traffic heavier, their
gross and net revenues larger and their
condition in all respects more satisfac-
tory.
And yet most of the greater railroads
are now engaged in schemes of CONSOLE
dalton and other efforts to monopolize
the transportation facilities of the terri
tory through which they pass.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-08
WANTS $4,000
7 O BREA AK
THE BANK
New York World.


Lord Rosslyn, actor. author, soldier So
ciety man, who in his short life of 90 years
has played many parts, is still nrm De-
lever in his system which failed to
break the bank at Monte Carlo. When
he landed from the st. Paul on saturday
he went to the races, and his friends SAID
he won money. If he did it was not on
Monte Carlo. who "also ran" in the Flu
turity.
The young Englishman, who is to play
in Charles Frohman's There's Many
Slip when il opens at the Garrick. made
some remarks about his long run OF play
at trente ct quarante yesterday.
THE system is all right ne SAID ana
IL /. had been a Morgan or q Rockefeller
I should have done what 1 set out to do.
AS it was, we lost 30 per cent of our cap
ital, but it must be remembered that
was having back dividend to my hnan-
ciers all the time that we were playing.
The cause of my ultimate failure was due
to my commencing play without my col
leagues and being unable to remain during
the whole sit,-ng.
You must understand that our method
was to play in shifts or reliefs, each TAX
ing UP the game where his predecessor
left it off. On the day In question l COM
menced playing without my partners, and
was not able to sit out the II hours OF
pIav without a relief and l lost e3,7OO
on 90 days out of the IS that We played.
1.-THE story that we raised 10000 for
our venture is rot. My capital was $4,000.
I should not be here now, but running my
own theater. Seriously, my system is bas-
ed upon a simple mathematical calcula-
ton, and it requires only sufficient CAPT.
tai to withstand long continuance Of one
color against another. Give me $4,000
and I will prove this to you"
On the titled Britishers estates are col
lieries, and in the course of his varied ca
reer he has had to handle three strikes.
He said he COPIED with the problem sue
cessfully and came to terms with his
workmen by instituting a sliding scale of
wages dependent upon the supply and de-
mand and the price of coal. When he had
read all the newspapers yesterday, he re-
marked:
Il really must object to some of the
things put down to me. First of all, i
never had anything to do with Mrs. Lang
try's stables beyond selling her a horse.
I believe Abingdon Baird started Lily
Langtry in the racing game. have known
Mrs Langtry all my life and my people
introduced her at court.
"Then. too. about my appearing in
skirts. have meyer been in ballet skirt
In my life, nor ihpersonated females"
Lord Rosslyn said of the many roles he
has played in life so far, he likes that of
gambler least and Of actor best.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-08
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

japan has ordered q complete armorplate
mill from a Sheffield firm.
Deep sea water for study is procured by
means OF specially prepared bottles.
In Russia factories are usually near forests.
wood being still the chief fuel.
A wheelbarrOw with ball bearings has been
put on the market by an Ohio firm.
Seventy-eight proft-sharing schemes, az
fecting So, $50 work people, were in operation
last year in this country.
Lord Cheylesmore, who died recently in Lon
don presented his splendid collection Of mez-
zotints to the British Museum.
Four tons is the weight Of a tventy-foot
grarnpus which has been captured by the crew
Of an Irish fishing boat OF Kinsale.
Swiss postal officials are to be employed to
assist in the REORGANIZATION OF the japanese
postofhce. The Swiss postal system is TO be
taken as a model
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-08
STRAY MoRsELs OF MERRIMENT


Washington Star.
did any Of the inhabitants escape with his
nfe?' inquired the man who wants narrowing
details. II didn't stop to ascertain" answered
tho who Is harrowingy exact. 1T struck
me that il anybody escaped without his life
there wasn't much use in his escaping, any.
how"
New York Weekly.
Wife (dreariy): "Ah. me! The days Of chiv-
airy are past" Husband: What's the matter
now?' Sir Walter Raleigh laid his cloak on
the ground for Queen Elizabeth to walk over.
but VOC get mad simply because poor, dear
mother sat down on your hat"
Har9er's Bazaar.
Won Blumer: We'll the worst OF our au-
tumn cleaning is over. Kingley; What's
that7'' Won Blumer: "Oh, my wife has burned
up all the valuable papers in my desk
Puck.
Clementine: Il wrote mamma that you had
taken out behind your s., 900 horse Eu-
gene: He is valued at $500 Clementine:
mamma that additional $500 worth Of pleas
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