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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-31

continents, mas had some proud moments
in her life, bAIt not one of them brought
hrr the pride\ and the happiness lIhe
gains when her\ private audience, consist
ing OF her babN hey, wrinkles his fkcsS
stretches his mouth into a circle and
smiles--even just Abe, tiniest bit.
Mrs. Ethel Barrymore Colt, In the part
of mother. is playinN the most becoming
role OF her entire car\eer-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-31
information Waited

Can anyone tell me where son. Marou
wan, Isl He Is 50 years old' baldheaded
He Is Fateo -hSnoer Oy I4u pSNWhen heard
from BE- u as IN "S ,,A Cyu' spy lniorma-
ton viii ae thanklullS reeNeu' ~
Route l. BOX 90. Auourp' Ea'
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-02
Another Mistreated Mother

Dear Miss Tbomas-As 1 haven't any COM
pany this beautiful Sabbath eve, will take
have long been admirer, but like lot
of others, just couldn't pick up courage
But II dawned upon me that 1 might help
out to some extent so l couldn't resist the
temptation any longer.
I visited a place Christmas. where the lady
had five grown daughters, that mother ore
pared dinner. called us in the dining room
and every from the baby up "a boy OF,
perhaps, ten years. took a seat at the table
and the mother stood up and poured the COL
fee and waited the table. ....
Now no one knows how mortified l tep
for / hadn't been used to that. when we
have company. mother sits down at her accns-
toned place and does honor to her guest
while sister or / pour the coffee and tea.
Mother has raised five girls to be grown
and has two little ones and she mas raised
us all not to shrink from work.
/ am the oldest one at home now ana a
great deal of responsibility falls on me- Tor
all the other children 20 to school, t-rs
for one am in favor of compulsory edu7
cation. 1 know 1 didn't get thorough edu-
cation but papa wasn't in as good clfcuh-
stances when 1 was a little girl as he Is now
am willing to do everything and let my
sister go to school. We don't stop her for
little things. either. Mother and L do all
the homework. washing and ironing Tor a
family of nine. We don't hire anything done;
We can do ourselves.
Well / wanted to tell you all about my trip
to the fair. but this epistle is already 80
lengthy L fear. But IT. this appears in PRINT,
will come again. But lust bear with me an
other moment. There is widower living not
a thousand miles from me, and it must be
the same one that has written to this page,
for he has little olive branch. And, BIS
ten, girls. he is fine fellow If it's the same
one. agrte. .s
But N.Y. my. must desist; never thought
Of writing all this With best wishes to au'
from .'- ~ ZENOBlA.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-02
After a Long, Long Silence

Dear Household-with Miss Thomas permits
sion. 1 will come in for while. l wrote a
New Years letter. but failed to get 1t off,
I notice some of the writer's are giving theig
opinions concerning music. l. too, am music
lover. There is nothing that uplifts the soul
as music does. and the strains of Dixie
would inspire man under most any circum-
stance. l@a".
There is a little poem. Don't Talk If
You've Nothing to SAW that struck me very
forcibly 1t Contains good advice for every
one. How many of us need to read and heed
its teachings Why, knowing the consequences
will we talk when Have nothing to sayt
We talk about our friends our neighbors and
even our kinspeople and we surely find that
II does not pay. I hardly know whether we
are improving along this line or not; how
ever, II is to be hoped that there VIII be in-
provement in the near future.
How many of you study the Sunday school
lessons? If you are not keeping up with
lined in the quarterly. the lesson for January
II contained rules for the conduct Of church
members and how they should treat their fell
lowmen. 1t also teaches us that man
surroundings should not handicap him so
that he cannot step out and be man. III a
man ever amounts to anything, he has to over
come the restraints of his present condition,
and IL he has the will-power his environments
will not dictate what he shall do.
In regard to country girls wearing cheap
teyelry will say some few of the girls wear
such iewery. but most Of the girls ase not
so foolish as the writer of that letter seemed
to think. Some Of the city girls wear cheap
iewtlry, as do the country girls. And their
chances are about equal. --
With best wishes for every one, l am,
- MARCUS.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-02
Thanks to All

Dear Household Friends: l to thank
every one for answering Sunday School Worker 5
appeal for me- l have received, several lettess
containing ten cents, and two or three contain
ing dollar. l am not feeling well today but
/ try to he cheerful the sun is shining so
beautlfui ard warm today. Spring VIII soon
be here and the sweet tie birds fitting from
tree 60 tree singing their beautiful songs, and
the pretty flowers laughing with JOY. My heart
aches as ! must stay in doors and cannot get
out to breath the sweet fresh air and lend
helping hand. But 1 am THANKFUL have been
spared my little children. Even with all sur
iering, of us are as thankful aas we
should be. Think of the many great things
Our Father hath done for / know Sunday
School Worker is a dear, good lady. l wish
could see her this lovely afternoon and have
a heart to heart talk with her Well, dear
readers, am at Lanett Ala, so my little girl
can help support us, although we get very little
after expenses are paid She only makes ~ or
Go cents day, and sometimes not that much.
win have pretty cushion tops and sofa pillo"
tops to sell exchange / make them or lineni
they are drawn work and cut work. l VIII
send one for a dollars worth of bleaching or
dark dress calico. / have four boys and one
girl; their ages are IL, 10, w and 8, and my
girl is IA years old II any of the readers have
quilt scraps they don't need, please send them
to me and 1 will try to return the favor some
way. did not mean to stay so long, but
get so tired lying on bed ell the time, l get
to writing and how the time flies. Thanking
you ell again and wishing 1 could shake hands
with each and every one, close this letter.
My address now Is, Es &.
Lanett Ala. MRS. A. e. CARRINGTOS.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-02

have gone so far as to combine the
ideas of an agility astounding, a
strength superhuman. a ferocity brutal,
a butchery without motive. a grotes-
querie in horror absolutely alien from
humanity, and a voice foreign in tone
to the ears of men of many nations. and
devoid of all distinct or Ineligible
syIIabification. What result, then, has
ensued? What impression have l made
upon your fancy?"
I felt a creeping of the flesh as Dupin
asked me the question. "A mailman,
I said, has done this deed-some raw
ing maniac escaped from an asylum
I'm some respects" he replied, your
idea is not irrelevant; but madmen are
of some nation. and their language,
however incoherent in its words, has
always the conference of syllabifcation-
Besides, the hair of a mailman is not
such as I now hold in my hanu. dis
entangled this little tuft from the
rigidIy clutched fingers OF Nine.
L'Espanaye. Tell me what you can
make of it?"
.Dupin!" 1 said Completely un-
nerved), this is no human hair"
II have not asserted that 1T is" said
he; but, before we decide this point,
/ wish you to glance at the little sketch
have here traced upon this paper. It
is a facsimile drawing of bruises, and
deep indentatiops upon the throat or
Mile L'Espanate.
(To Be Continued.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-02
BIZ EDeAR ALLAN POE

the employment Of a muscular power
most marvellous On the hearth were
thick tresses-very thick tresses-of
gray human hair. These had been torn
out by the roots. You are aware of the
great force necessary in tearing thus
from the head even twenty or thirty
hairs together. You saw the locks in
question as we'll as myself. Their
roots Ca hideous sighD were clotted
with fragments of the flesh Of the
scalp-sure token of the prodigious
power which had been exerted in up
roofing perhaps half a million OF hairs
at time. The throat of the old lady
was not merely cut, but the head abso-
lutely severed from the body-the in
strument was a mere razor. wish
you also to look at the brutal ferocity
of these deeds. OF the bruises upon the
body of Nine. L'Espanaye l 70 not
speak. The doctors say they were in
fiicted by very blunt instrument.
True. The obtuse instrument was
clearly the stone pavement in the yard
upon which the victim had fallen from
the window which looked in upon the
bed. This idea, however simple it may
now seem, escaped the police-because,
by the affair of the nails, their percep-
tions had been sealed against the pos
sibility of the windows having ever
been opened at all.
IF, now, in addition to all these
things, you have properly reflected upon
the odd disorder of the chamber we
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-02
A Sorrows Grown of Sorrow

Dear Household have Just finished reading
the Household letters of January 18th, and
enjoyed them so much that an irresistible de-
sire to Join YOU seized me. 1 once contri-
buted to the Household Of the dear old Sunny
South, ard was an eager reader. / have al
ways enjoyed such departments and whenever
chance TO see a paper with such a feature
at once become interested.
have read Miss Thomas Chats and the
Household letters 'off and on for several
years. but never before mustered up the cour-
age to knock for admission into this happy
Household.
/ am what you might term a full-fledged
''school-na as this is my tenth year IN
the grand calling. 1 have always been very
fortunate to be pleasantly situated, and have
nice. good children to teach. 1t is my daily
prayer and desire that 1 may teach them
Alright and 1 trust that word deed Of
mine may influence them. save for that which
is good. pure and true.
often become discouraged In my efforts
suppose I'm too eager to see the results OF
my labor. should remember that tits the
appreciated. and "trifles make perfection.
It's a beautiful Sabbath day, butt some
how, despite the bright sunshine that warns
this old earth and makes things brighter in
doors. a feeling of sadness or rather retro
spection. has lowered over me all day. OF
course. IL we let our minds wander back
over the past we in way sad, though
our thoughts be of happier days, for ''sorrow' 5
crown OF sorrow is remembering happier
things" 'Tis sad yet sweet 20 think Of the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-02
Calls the Roll

Dear Miss Thomas; I going TO slip In for
a few moments II you have no objections.
when I am lonely 1 find this page much
company I am going 10 save all Of this year 5
Household pages for later investigation. We
would never take The Journal were this page
left ont. / have made friends through this
page that seems like life would be a failure
were they rot my friends. And let me tell
you Householders. 1 am to soon meet Busy
Bee" / have been 10 her home, but she was
absent and I am going again. She has sent
me word TO visit her and mean TO accept that
invitation my first opportunity. do wish we
could all meet there. somewhere, this year
met two girls Saturday evening who seemed
to be acquainted with me by reading my letters
in this page. I was in Anderson. S. c., on a
visit OF a few days and was with those girls
Sunday from O'Clock in the afternoon until g.
Jewel. your letter OF the Sth was good.
Come often. Also was Ernestine's and I hope
she. too. can come oftener and tell US more
such news. I like such letters so much.
! am going TO call a part OF the roll and hope
TO see letters from each one real soon:
EFmina, Hyacinth. Mrs. Rustic, Aunt Belle
Quail Linnie. NAY z. McAIillen, Margaret
Richards Caroline Pat, Busy Bee, Mrs.
Thoughtful. Dixie. Dandy Jim. Rowgan and,
oh, so many more.
I guess Rowgan is named Logan. used to
think Rowgan lady. but he is a splendid
writer any way.
today is such a beautiful one that I hope
that 81 viii make lot Of the members think
OF their duty and clasp their pens once more
between nimble fingers and give us feast OF
their sensible ideas and lengthen the pag.
which for the two last numbers have been
suall-uncOmmonly so. / do hope 10 open out
the paper and find lot OF letters.
disIikes to read. or course 1 don't think a
person should read when there is something
more important to be done. Some Of you say
you read Chat first; do not. know
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-02
Because of lillian

Ny Dear Miss Thomas: have been for sew
eral years an ardent admirer Of your uage. and
derive much benefit from Chat" and the let
tiers. / have thought time and again l would
write-each time gave back for some one more
competent. After reading Hillian's letter, could
resist no longer.
This subject. The Good Shepherd is one
/ like TO hear discussed In time OF sadness TO
feel He Is near and watching over His flock
is q great comfort. On June 10th, 1908, lie
sent His angel into this world and bore the
spirit OF a dear father TO realms Of Joy and
love. After calling together his little children
and grandchildren and saying his last family
prayer. he babe not TO trouble, for he was
going to rest. and for us to join him and his
loved ones gone before. We do not sorrow
as those that have no hope, for we know we
shall meet him In that life beyond. What a
blessed comfort 10 have this hope OF heaven.
A Christian does not fear death, but is trust
ing and suhm sive to he VIII OF God. BE
waited and watched SO patiently all night, that
when the summons came he only fell into a
SWEET sleeD to wake triumphant and victorious
over death. Our departed ones only draw
heaven nearer and make IL dearer to us. There
fore we. too. hOuld be on the alert for we
know not the day, the hour our Lord shall
come And we that have been so blest 70
know the love OF Christ In our hearts, should
strive TO help TO point cut to some other soul
the joys OF the life beyond the grave. This
world is only our Lords vineyard, so we should
be M and doing Whatsoever our hands find 10
do and murmur not. t
with best wishes to Miss Thomas and al the
writers ] am, NEW MEMbEk.
Hull.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-02
sdn Loves Our Household

Dear Miss Thomas-Nay / come I'm for q
little. whiIeg Though I have been silent 50
iong I assure you that my absence has rot
been BIZ choice. but 80 many household tasks
70 do However. ] haven't lost sight Of our
Household ! have read every issue wiki
Interest aud still the same lover % Il.
hut somehow. every minute OF my time has
beer filled with mothers duty-yes moth
tr's care. that one knows and TO one
shares. too small for mother 20 tell. Now.
rhe first thing I want 70 tell you Is I am
senEing a little poem Of a mothers care. 20
IL IS the trucst poem have ever seen and 1
have c0uicd Il for the mothers % House
hold ami I want all the boys and girls to read
T. carefully and then study Il well and
n you can't save your good mother a few
sters. Some o. you may think your mother
Is q little peevish- II you will stop and
tank. probably you see where you have
cauned her heart 20 ache. and probably made
many gray hairs when you should have given
her sweet. kind word that would have filllI
her heart with JOY and made her burdens
llEht
You should say. Mother. I viii do 50 and
90 you sit down and rest. for you look tired.
ard / am young and work doesn't hurt me
Bat instead some children grumble because
mother hasn't q new dress done. OF a shirt
and coNzr ready for some particular occa-
sion
Your mother should be honOred and respected
more than any one On earth for without hsr
there would be no existence. and Il was she
sleeping and taking their rest Now she viii
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-02

not only work for you. but die for you.
Ny young friends. ] wish 1 could pen my
thoughts 70 you today. 1 tell you the ma
1ority OF you do not nOnor your parents like
you should. 1 have heard boys and girls say
things 70 their parents that made my blood
boil. My father can tell you / never gave
him short word in my life, and / aim TO
30 70 my grave sDotless in that Inspect.
would not put such Cagger in his heart, Tor
know he made me what / am today. IL 1t
had not been for the daily weight OF parental
care 1 wonder what sort OF SRI l would have
been. My parents mace me obey them-JusL
what yours should do. II they don't. You
should Try TO be a flower in your home
making home the pleasantest place on earth,
for II is the home life that counts. Save
every step you can for mother and father.
Many be the steps they have taken for you
Tar too many 70 tell, yet there are children
that think their parents are old fogies and
they are a little better and know a little
more than father and mother. l tell you there
are far toe many Of the old Woman's sort
OF girls. and such mothers ought 10 give them
a gcod thrashing- This way Of children doing
as they please, end going when they please,
and where they please. ] don't believe in;
nor telling their parents that they will not
do SO ana SO. and they viii CO and SO, is
sin and disgraceful one al that.
i am a close observer and hear many things
children cav TO their parents and have
been in many different places therefore, l am
not speaking about any particular child, but
children al along my way OF travel This
burden has been on my mind every time
have taken my pen in hand. I do hope that
this VIII help some mothers boy or girl TO
make a better man or woman and when you
read the poetry / hope you will try to save
poor mother every step you can and save her
all the heart-aches. Bear we'll I'm mind that
you are your mothers constant care; IL makes
no difference where you dwell.
Ny friends. sometimes / wish I could sing
like Solomon and preach like Paul. II 1 could
preach I woul@ take tor my text, Honor Shy
father and mother. that thv days may be
long" But as look at the clock il says
time 10 90 TO the box If 1 get this in today.
and 1 think myself that il Is high time for
everybody to be coming in with letter Of
your best. Do. please, come. Lovingly.
BUSY BEE.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-02
GEORGE III. BELL WRITES
OF INSANE ASYLUMS

Editor Journal: In a recent issue Of your
paper your special correspondent, Mr. Fred
eric J. Haskin, in writing of The Great Up
lift'' from Toledo, Ohio made the statement
that there were "162,0 900 people in public insane
asylums in America" This is about 1000 TO
every million of population In georgia the
ratio is not quite that large, Georgia now hav-
ing an estimated population OF 2,6OO,OOO, ana
thirty-three hundred patients in her public
insane asylum. This number does not INCLUDE
the large. number Of patients in private asyM
lums in this state. This gives Georgia more
than 1900 lunatics to each million OF popuia-
ton I'm the state sanitarium alone.
France-wine- bibbing, absinthe drinking, fast
living, lecherous immoral France-w1th pop
ulation estimated at fifty million, recently
men and children in her public insane asylum,
or less than 800 to the million Of population.
More than this, the newspapers Of Paris last
year sent experts to investigate the asyluns
of France and these Investigators reported over
5000 OF these imprisoned men and women alb
solutely sane and sound. Who knows now
many thousand there are in American insane
asylums absolutely sane and sound? And who
viii explain why it is that France has only
Georgia has more than 100?
Last year was prohibition year in Georgia.
An honorable senator, when the prohibltlon
measure was up in the senate in 1907. made the
statement that So per cent Of the inmates OF
the state sanitarium were- made insane by
drink. s..
Another senator, during the same session. in
advocacy of the anti-cigarette bill. stated that
Is per cent Of the 1unatics In Georgia were
driven insane from smoking cigarettes In,
1905 when the president of the sanitarium
board of trustees was before the appropriation
committee urging an additional appropriation.
he stated that at that time July there had
already been received here 100 more patients
than at tho same time of the previous year.
The special ordinary's deputy from Fulton
county made 104 trips here with patients in
1907 and 104 in 1898. VIII some one please ex-
plain these Inconsistencies?
! noticed very recently that some we'll In
formed statistician had estimated that, at the
past and present ratio Of rapid increase of In
sanity ana crime, the year 1000 would show
every other man, woman and child either in
the lunatic asylum or the penitentiary. Such
a condition is fearful TO contemplate.
Yours very truly. GEO II. BELL.
State Sanitariun NIilledgeville. Ga.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-02
RICH SALT MAKER
DIES IN AUGUSTA

AUGUSTA, Ga, Jan. 9O.-Mr. Edward
L. Fuller. president of the International
Salt company of Scranton, Pa, died in
Augusta last night at the Hampton Ter
race
Mr.. Fuller came to the city the first of
the week in company with his physi-
clan. DR.. J. c. Price, for his health. He
was i'm a very bad condition when he
arrived and has been sinking rapidly ever
since he reached here
Mr. Fuller was about 55 years of age
and was one of the wealthiest men in
Pennsylvania The International Salt
company, of which he was the head, is
one of the largest concerns in the world
of its kind, and Mr.. Fuller was a moving
spirit in it's operation. For the past
year his health has been on decline and
he decided to come to Augusta with hopes
of Improvement.
The body will be embalmed and ship
to his home in Scranton, today.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-02
A Mothers Care

1 Do MT think tia. I could bear
Ar daily weight of woman's care.
II Il were not for this
That Jesus seeuleth always near.
Unseen but whispering In my ear
Sune tender woxd o. lore and cheer.
TO fill ny soul with bliss
There are 50 many trivial cares
That no one knows and no one shares,
Too snail for mother 10 tell
Tnfnws even her husband cannot see
Nor hrs dear love uplift from her
Each hour's unnamed perplexity
hat mothers know 50 well.
he failure Of some household scheme
re ending Of some pleasant dream
Deeu hidden IN her breast
The WEAKNESS OF children's noise.
ne yearning for that subtle poise
mat turuteh duties into Joys,
And giveth inner rest.
Thass secret things. however small,
Are known 20 Jesus each and all.
And this thought brings rs peace
We Do not need 20 say one word
he knows what th0ught our heart hAtn
stirred.
Ana BIZ divine caress my Lord
Makea al its throbblng cease
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bygone DAYS and I'm sure there are but few
who have not at times let their thoughts
drift backward. still backward, until they
reach some moment which fraught with
sweetness which now almost sacred.
past!
lillian, YOU have many sXmpathizing hearts
for so many have had similar experiences, ana
have loved ones in that Celestial home. May
be know you, your county is my former
home, but now live in an adjoining county.
Best wishes for Miss Thomas and the House
hold. ETHYLWYN.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-02

Chat is good and save that for the last and
read TO see IL the others write good, too.
As / sit by my window now see five little
boys having the most fun hitching calves to
small wagons to go a piece of the way with
their company Such good times as children
have! But they will be grown before they
realize it, They children but once and
say let them enjoy themselvs. / don't mean
let them be rude. but don't be too tight oh
them. Myrtle HARRIS.
EIberton, Ca Route Z.