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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-07-20
HOME COMFORTS IN A TENT.

The tent must have a raised plat
form. Any carpenter can build this
of pine boards and raise it from the
ground by a few beams or logs and
with a couple of steps from the front
elevation. A board shelf nailed
against the back support of the tent,
with a row of non-rusting clothes
hooks screwed in its under side, will
be found useful. Two small chairs
and the beds complete the furniture
Of the tent. In rough camp an in
verted soap box, with large enamled
basin and a couple Of pals, make an
excellent washstand. A narrow rug
between the cots may be added.
IL there are mosquitoes hang a
drop curtain Of cheesecloth, with a
wide hem weighted with sand, inside
of the tent opening. This will keep
them out, but not the air, provided
you do not take light into the tent.
The lantern should hang on a con-
venient nail, with small box Of safe
ty matches in tin case over it; or
you can provide the children with an
electric candle, which is safer.
We found camp food and it's cook
ing a genuine delight to the young
ones. My boy at twelve years Of age
can build a fire in a stove or in the
open ,aRd prepare and cook a good
breakfast, consisting Of cereal, fried
eggs and bacon, coffee, cocoa and
toast, as we'll as any cook.
CT
weeks on a beautiful lake. The wo-
men of our party preferred sleeping
at the farmhouse ON top Of the ridge
overlooking the lake. The boys and
their fathers preferred the tents. We
decided on dining at the farmhouse,
where they charged us fifty cents
apiece and twenty-five cents for each
child, and gave us hearty meal.
In small lean-to we stored our
few supplies, cereals, cocoa, crackers
bacon and Clipped beef in jars, gin
gersnaps and pilot bread, sugar, Pc
ter's chocolate, evaporated cream
canned soups and baked beans, etc.
The farmers wife provided us with
milk, eggs, butter and fresh bread
doughnuts and pies; also green corr
to boil. If you can get Holsters and
boil them, or soft clans and steam
them in a pail over wood fire anG
just little water (preferably sea wa
teri, then eat them as they open il
the shell, with little melted but
ter and lemon juice, you have indeed
princely repast.
We took turns about washing dish
es. The white enameled plates, cups
and mugs are so easy to clean and 81
light to carry. Nothing equals no
cocoa and drink for children, anG
if they are going fishing early in tn.
morning you can give them q Their
mos bottle full made the evening be
fore. The cocoa kettle used to be I,
little trial to clean until we discov
cred the beneficent qualities of tn
white sand on the shore of the lake
After that the blacklist kettle did no
daunt US. We just carried every
thing to the lake, submerged an,
then covered with white sand
wonderful, magic cleanser.-Leslie
Weekly.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-07-20

The spirit can no more live with
out being fed than can the body. But
what can it feed on? All about us is
of the earth earthly. Where are the
green pastures in which the Good
Shepherd can make His sheep lie
down satisfied with the abundance?
There is but one answer-in the
Word. The Word Of God is the food
of the life of God. The Word of God
read, marked, learned and inwardly
digested is essential to healthy spirit
ual life. The blessed man finds his
strength in the law of the Lord, and
in His law doth he mediate day and
night.-Mark Guy Pearse.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-07-20

It was Pats first attendance at a
meeting. When the chairman an
nounced as the result of a vote that
there were forty-two noes to twenty
one ayes, Pat began to fidget in his
the platform.
"Sit down there." yelled the chair
man.
NO" said Pat, mot until l look
this audience in the face. l want to
see them humans that has more noses
than eyes,"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-07-20

It is noble and great thing to
cover the blemishes and to excuse
the failings of friend; to draw a
curtain before his stains. and to dis
play his PROJECTIONS; to bury his
weaknesses in silence, but to pro-
claim his virtues upon the house-top.
Robert South.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-07-20

Mother: What are you doing.
Harry?"
Harry: I'm countin' You. told
me when got mad to count a hun
dred."
Mother: Eyes. so I did"
Harry: "Well, I've counted 237,
and I'm Madden when I started"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-07-20

In every rank of the church we
want fewer good managers, and more
saints and prophets and heroes
Rev. S. A. Alexander.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-07-20

The happiest moments are the bust
est moments. Bishop Simpson.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-09

Most people Of the present day find
theater going tame if not altogether
lnnocuous pastime. but there were
times when it was exciting, and In
this country as well as England. Dur
ing the Revolution a drama. 1.-THE
Blockade Of Boston," was being per-
formed by British soldiers In a theater
OF that city. In the course of one of
the acts a sergeant rushed on the
stage without his hat and shouted:
The rebels! The rebels! They're at
lacking the neck" The audience an
plauded the actors fervor, not realiz-
ing until few minutes after, when
they heard the sound of drums, that
ne was warning them of an actual
happening. The actors had to run or
to their duty,
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-09

NOTICE
receiving Tax Returns for Cobb
The
at Please
rush later will
purpose receiving
Returns o County he year 1911.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-09

The late Francis Cation was In the
habit OF writing scientific papers for
various societies. but as he was ex-
tremely deaf he usually got a friend
to read them for him while he himself
sat among the audience. But he al
ways knew whether his paper was a
success by watching the demeanor of
the ladies present. We wo1ld explain
that when ladies are interested they
idget about twice In FIVE minutes, but
when they are not interested they
fdget twice minute Thus be always
knew whether his audience was enter
tanned or bored.-Argonaut.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-09

An American wished to move from
the principal hotel In St Petersburg TO
smaller hotel around the corner. He
came down with his bag packed ready
to go Sorry" said the manager, but
you cannot leave this hotel or register
at another hotel until we get your pass
port from the police, and that will take
day and night. You must go
through exactly the same procedure as
IL you were leaving the country"
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-09

A new light on the servant question
In England is shed by Miss Loane in
her book, 1.-THE Common Growth" II
asked" she says. lone capable. steady
servant Of Eve or six and twenty why
she changed places every year and by
what curious chance her mistresses all
lived so far from one another. She re-
piled frankly. I love to see the world.
and It's the only way can afford to
travel"
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-09

My DEAR" says the husband. inter
rupting the wife in the midst Of her
remarks about his latest peccadillo.
may ask one favor of your
What is it?"
you are now in the scolding stage.
Can't you shorten it and get right into
the fearful stage? Id be glad to so
through the usual program this morn
ing, but I've got to catch an earlier
Grain than usual. and unless you can
favor me | shall have to leave before
you have wept and we have made up"
Life.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-09
His Inspirstion.

TIE tTIUPEF HEsUUs
Gerald, dear, how did you ever sum-
mon up courage enough TO speak to
papaY
'It was this way, Flossie: We were
In the smoking room at the club and
his cigar had just gone out. Orig
gins he said. have you a matchT
And l answered him, quick as a fash,
'Y-yer, sir. have one--in mind; want
to marry your daughter just like
thatV-Chicago Tribune.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-09
The asainninu and End.

Fond Mother--It was at this point in
the enhancing landscape that my
daughter received a declaration and
accepted. Friend-And tell US the rest
of the romance. Fond Mother-Un-
fortunately that Is all there was.-Meg-
gendorfer Batter
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-09
Rioa In China

Many persons fancy that the entire
Chinese people depend on rice as the
main article Of diet, but there are mil
lions In central and north China that
have never tasted rice. and to other
millions 1t is more of a luxury than
wheat
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-09

SIN descriptive writing" said William
Dean Howells at dinner az the Au-
thors' club III New York. "a vivid
phrase is always batter than a half
dozen paragraphs. The vivid phrase Is
what every writer should seek-a
phrase, / mean, something like that Of
the baby that shouted to It's mother.
oh, mamma. tum an see the man
a-butterin' bricksr"
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-09

FOR SALE-New four room
bungalow, with bath room, large
lot. Small cash payment. with
monthly or quarterly payments.
Or will build to suit, If this is
not what you want.
MOultrie M. Sessions.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-09

FOR SALE-A few frst-class sec.
ond-hand sewing machines will sell
cheap or exchange for wood or any.
thing of value.
MRS.sJ. o. GAINES,
Roswell St., near city limits.
June 2-tf
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-06-09
Hit Back.

Mr. Youngwed (complacentIy)-I sup
pose you know there were q number
of young ladies disappointed when l
married you.
Mrs. Youngwed-Yes; my girl friends
had prophesied a brilliant future for
me.-Boston Transcript.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-02-01

atioa to increase BY natural processes.
Thene ought 70 be some adult persons in
New York who were born here. 1t is posi-
tivelv known that babies are born in the
great CITY. But, between birth and matu-
rity, they seem to disappear. Everybody
who amounts TO anything and good many
who don't, came here from somewhere else.
AIR. Roosevelt is one Of the few exceptions.
He is the only President who was born in
New York.
Here is 4 striking illustration Of the ten
dency Of New Workers to choose other
places in which to be born. 1t was given
by the late Edmund Clarence Steadman,
who banked in Wall Street that he might
have enough money to enable him to write
poetry somewhere else. Mr.. Steadman vas
at a reception. Tie met young man.
Are you a New Yorker?" asked the
poet A&
"No," was the modest reply II live
here, but l came from Michigan"
"Why, coming from Michigan does not
prevent you from being New Yorker, +"
replied Mr.. Steadman. every New
Yorker came from somewhere else. | will
venture to say that there isn't person at
this reception who was born in New York." "
When favorable opportunity came, Mr..
Steadman asked if there was anybody
among the one hundred present who was
born in New York. For a moment, here
was as much silence as if he had asked who
would be the first to contribute SIoo to
the African heathen Then young woman
pleaded guilty-with extenuating circum-
stances. She said she was the daughter of a
man who, at one time, was foreign consul,
accredited to the American metropolis His
sovereign sent him to New York and he had
to come Also, in order to avoid the appear
ance Of harshness, he had to bring his wife.
But possibly nobody reaches New York
with quite the same feeling Of elation that
is felt by the country boy, or the boy from
the small town. The Metropolitan Tower
is fifty stories high but he can look down
upon it the first time he passes it-provided
he has secured a job. My, but it's good tc
get where something is doing At last, he
is where life centers. He is in the midst ol
all the things he has read about. Wher
there is a ruction in Wall Street, the news
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The Biz ToaM

Yet there is consolation for the New
Yorker who, having learned his lesson,
settles down to be small toad in big pud-
die He is ahead to the extent that he has
satisfied his love for life, and he possesses the
paradoxical knowledge that no toad of his
size, from any other place. is as big as he is.
More than that, all outside toads cheerfully
recognize this fact, which holds true through
all gradations of society.
A New York vagrant has craft superb
ority over a Kokomo vagrant The New
York vagrant can tell how he was once
taken over to 900 Mulberry" and told to
get out of town within six hours. The
Kokomo vagrant can only tell, with a
proper sense Of his own unworthiness, that
the village marshal canned him. i
Also New York man worth Sac, 900 can
throw out his chest before Milwaukee man
worth S2o,ooo-and the Milwaukee man
will stand for it. Even a mans initials on
his suitcase, with N. y" stamped below
them, are enough to throw certain awe
into the eyes of villagers who see him pick
up his baggage at the station.
So after ALL bluffed" isn't such a wrong
word to use in describing the effect of New
York's lure upon outside human beings.
New York says: G. | am the wonderful CITY,
come Five millions have come. Almost
all are sleeping under roofs that they do not
own In 1907, 2o4,IIo were thrown into
jail; 7,486 were picked up for vagrancy;
S3,741 applied at the Municipal Lodging
House for free shelter; 10000 girls began
to lead disreputable lives, and 10000 Others
continued the life they were leading; 500
men and women committed suicide, and
considerable addition was made to the ,5a~
900 graves in the Potter's Field.
A few made fortunes, or increased the
fortunes they had But the unlucky, no
less than the lucky, the bad no less than the
good-they had to come, They had felt the
lure Of the town. ~
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emphatically he has made good in the big
town. Going to run train driven by cleo
tricityl Going to run train bearing fifteen
hundred human beings, each of whom has
put his life, for time, in her sons keeping
Such confidence as the company must have
had in her boy to intrust him with so grave
a responsibility Oh, it is such comfort to
her to know that her son, whom she has
loved since she felt his first heartbeat; for
whom she has toiled and suffered and denied
herself it is such comfort TO her to know
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Oh, but the mothers heart was glad when
she heard the best instead of the worst.
Glad until she and father went to the boys
room. Not his room in the hospital, but his
room in clearinghouse. Glad until she
saw how miserably he had lived. A dirty
street A dirty house. A dirty hall. A
cheerless room. Little light Bad air. A
skimpy bed. A frayed counterpane. Not
decoration, save her own picture, stuck in
the edge of a mirror.
Her boy could afford no better place to
live. His pay was only $2.25 day. That
is, his pay from the company was only $2.2s
a day. The lure OF New York made up the
rest that was needed to induce him to stay.
Such is life for millions in New York.
Not life as the newspaper dispatches de-
scribe it. Not life as the stage pictures it.
Lie as it is. Life as it is for at least three
Of the citys five millions. Few comforts.
No prospects. Just work. Sleep little and
work again. Just work.
A few draw colossal prizes. A few more
draw good prizes But if only those should
come to New York who. can earn better
living here than they can elsewhere, hand
car, running once a day, would almost bring
them in Ninety-two per cent. of the popu-
lation have not drawn enough prizes to
enable them to own their own homes. Yet
people come, Come from every State in the
Union. Come from every town in every
State-every hamlet Come from Italy,
Norway, Sweden, Turkey-come from
everywhere.
Men come to New York for love Of money
and stay for love Of life. With in6ntesimal
exceptions they do not get the money.
With no exceptions, they do get the life.
They come here believing the town is full
Of money, Before they have been here
many years they know that while the
money is here, it might as well not be-
They can get enough of it only for potrd
and clothes. n
No one who has not beer. tenant of a
New York office building can know how
desperately these dreamers struggle before
they wake up. The sign-painters are busy
all the while. One mans name no sooner
goes up on a door than it comes down to
make way for another One procession IS
coming i'll at the front door and another is
going out the back The members of the
first procession believe they can crowd in
where Others are making money and the
members Of the second procession know
they can't. One man out Of thousand
crowds his way in and thus shows how
nearly impossible it is for one to crowd hh
way in.
Constantly the lesson is being taught
that it is all right to come to New York for
love Of life, but all wrong to come for love Of
: money The chances of success are too few,
even to make it good gambling PROPOSE.
. ton. The Italian who comes to New York
: is really about the only one who realizes mis-
! financial aspirations. An Italian who gets
: a job with a construction gang at S2.5o a
} day comes as near as Rockefeller 70 con-
, verting his hopes into facts.
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comes to him, not as it did in Iowa, but as
if he were part Of the street. for he IS so
near. And, at dusk when the lights begin
to blaze up along the Great White Way D."
--ah, it is all just as he had dreamed it to
be- All grand All surprisingly great
But, kind friends, he dimes at no lobster
palace that evening Nor do his magniti-
cent Jewels glitter in the horseshoe ores-
cent at the opera With the money that
he can spare for his evening meal, he
couldn't buy a Holsters tail, and a drygoods
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that he has been recognized at what she
knows to be his true worth, by the most
wonderful city in the world.
} Fathers joy is not quite so exquisitely
refined as mothers, because fathers brain
is shade less sensitive to impressions.
Mothers brain, you know, is like photo
graphic plate that can grab every detail Of
a landscape in a thousandth part of a
second. But father, in his quiet way, feels
mighty good. That boy was always his
idol. Promising boy, too. Smarter'n chain
lightning. Hundreds Of people had said he
was Just like his father.
A year later, what rejoicing there was in
the little home when the boy wrote that he
was coming back on a vacation. Mother
could hardly read the letter, she was 50 ex-
cited. Ran to the fields to tell father. Ran
back to get dinner. Could hardly cook
burned the eggs to crisp, something she
had not done in thirty years, and nad to Try
some more. In such hurry to put on her
"other dress" and run over to Mrs. Pratt's
to tell her: my boy is coming home"
The boy came home. When he took
mother in his arms and held her for full
minute, she couldn't speak. All choked up.
So glad to see him, she couldn't say word.
And, when she did speak, the first thing she
said, as she looked up into his brown eyes,
was: ooh, my boy, how pale you are!"
He was pale. He knew it. Subway air
makes no red blood-copuscles Kills some
of the red ones that exist. Nor does the
electric light of the subway brown the cheek
as the sunlight browns the cheek Of the far
mer. All the year that he had been away,
mother had carried in her mind the picture
of her farmer boy. Never had dreamed
that her farmer boy would come home with
a grayish-white face. Didn't need to say
she was shocked. Looked it. The boy
caught the message and laughingly replied;
/ ooh, mother, all city folks are pale.
I Maybe mother believed him. She didn't
say. If she didn't quite believe him, it was
because she remembered that years ago
when he broke his arm, he told her, as she
picked him up, that he had only fallen a
little. Told her story, to keep her from
worrying until he could get his father to &C
with him to the doctor. Anyway, there
wasn't time to think about it. Friends were
crowding around. Station agent. Farmers
A dozen, at least, who had known the boy
all his life. Everybody glad to see him
Nobody quite at ease. Sent little thrill
through everybody to shake hands with ;
man from New York. Seemed 50 much ik
shaking hands with New York.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-02-01
The Stages Par:

As an advertiser OF the glories and splen-
dor OF this great town, the stage is second
only to the press. When an actor is in New
York between seasons-during the dog
days-he may be eating beef and beans and
walking Broadway disconsolately. But, let
him sign up and get out on the road, and the
songs he is paid to sing, or the lines he is
paid to speak, tell different story. Audi
ences sit back and Wonder how he could
ever leave the town. He sings about Dear
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box in an alley would fit him better than
box at the opera. So, he dimes poorly for
sixty cents at a side-street restaurant, gets
a CLASSY eve from the waiter for not giving
q tin. hndsaroom inwhich there isnolight by
day, nor pure air night or day-and goes to
sleep to dream Of home and mother. ..s
The next morning, he is awakened by
miscellaneous assortment of noises, ranging
from elevated car wheels to horses hoofs.
AS he puts on the shirt that mother lam-
dered fer him, his heart takes a sudden lurch
back to the old roof. He calls his heart
back. He is in New York to make good.
lit is up to him to do it. And, by the time
he is ready to 60 out to hunt for breakfast,
his nerve is all back. The clatter Of the
streets has revived him.
His Struggle for WOrk
With nothing to do but get job or
starve. he looks for work He hears that
motormen are wanted on he subway Half
afraid TO offer his services, he nevertl eless
decides to do so. On the way to the COM
pany's offices, he considers all Of the situa-
tons glorious possibilities. Never in the
country did he dare dream that some day
he might make battery of motors bite off
1000 horsepower Of electricity and snatch
eight loaded cars through the subterranean
night. With his liking for machinery it
would be the ideal occupation. But he
knows nothing Of any machinery, except the
plow, the harrow, and the other machines OF
the farm.
10 What does it matter if he doesn't? Far
mers are made into subway motormen in a
few weeks. Electric locomotives are SC
simple that anybody can run them, and
automatic devices for preventing accidents
are SO nearly perfect that nobody can wreck
a train. All there is to do is to stand in a
little dark closet at the head Of the train
wear a nice pair of gloves, and twist ar
eight-inch lever whenever a station is
reached, or the gong overhead rings.
The good news goes home to the old folk!
that their boy is going to run train in the
New York subway. Oh, if the boy coulC
only see the mingled sorrow and pride thai
light up his mothers eyes when she read
the letter. 1t breaks her heart to have he
boy away, but it mends it to know hoV