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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
O1r1uS
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Copyright. 1912, by American Journal Examiner.

sirius Milky Way sixty THOUSAND years have
P. ServissD
CINCE Sirius crossed the Milky Way
~ Full sixty thousand years have gone
Yet hour by hour, and day by day.
This tireless star speeds and
Mehnks he must be moved to mirh
BY that droIl tale Of Genesis,
Which SAYS creation had its birth
For such puny world as this.
To hear how One who fashioned all
Those solar systems tiers tiers.
Expressed in little Adams fall
The purpose of million spheres
And witness of the endless plan.
70 splendid wrath he must be brought
BY pigmy creeds presumptuous man
Sends forth as God primeva thought
Perchance from half hundred stars
He hears many curious things;
From Venus, Jupiter and Mars
And Saturn with the beauteous rings,
There may be students of the Cause
Who send their revelations out.
Aud formulate their codes of laws
With heavens for faith and bells for doubt
On planets old ere form or place
Was lent to earth may dwell-who knows -
A God-hke and perfected race
That halls great Sirius he goes
In zones that circle moon and sun
"Twixt world and world, he may see souls
Whose span of earthly life is done.
Still Joumeymg up to higher goals.
And on dead planets gray and cold
Grim spectral souls that harbored hate
Life after life, he may behold
Descending to a darker fate
And on his grand maiestic course
He may have caught glorious sight
OF that vast shining central Source
From which proceeds all life all LIGHT
Since Sirius crossed the Milky Way
Full sixty thousand years have gone:
No mortal man may bid him stay.
No mortal man may speed him on.
No mortal mind may comprehend
What is beyond, what was before,
To God be glory without end
Let man be humble and adore
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
HOW TO BUILD A FORTUNE
No. 7.TaXes


G oMETHING has already been
y said about the value Of small
sums of money saved resu-
larry. 10 cite one instance again:
Five cents a dav amounts in ten
i,tara-, 90 t.,o, a,.,. ~, HIM
O'e' anu ! "e'''S Oo''d'S'
But there IS absolutely no way IN
the world of making a man prefer
to have Two Hundred and TWENTY
nolI,rs Ton ,.,ars f,,,,, NOW at tba
'''' " NV 'e''''' @ '''''' ''' '7'''''''
the remembrance oI having swat
lowed three thousand six hundred
and fifty glasses of beer. The
choice of this is. you see. entirely
up to the man.
Some savings banks have tried to
encourage thrift by printing tables
that show the growth of money
regularly deposited and left at in
terest. Few of them however, take
the trouble to rub in the principal
fact hard enough.
The principal fact is this
When YOU deposit money at in
'terest you must also deposit
Time. For Time is that which per
mits interest TO get moving. to
create momentum and finally TO
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03

T AVE received a lette: from
| young woman, who says
Il am a working girl 1t is
absolutely necessary for me to earn
my own living. have had several
good places since | left school, but
l have lost each one because my
handwriting is so bad. What shall
do?"
Learn how 10 write, little sister.
Get you a copy book, and pen and
ink, and sit down at table and
never get up until you have mas
tered the art Of chirography
Spend hours, and days, and weeks,
if necessary, acquiring a plain and
legible handwriting. Eat pot
hooks; dream upward slants and
downward slants. and curves, and
curlecues. Give every particle of
intelligence you've got, put every
ounce OF determination in you to
learning to write, and, my word
for it, you will soon have Jim the
Penman looking like carver of
h ior,o.I,.hiae
You're not going to sit down be-
fore an ink pot and pen, and give
up, are you? You're not going to
admit that you have so little in
telligence that you can't learn how
to write decently, are you? You
haven't so little ambition that you
are going to be gutter the first
time you strike real difficulty in
life are you? When we find out
what is our handicap in the race
for success there is just one thing
to be done, and that is to over
come that particular drawback.
There's just one way to get on in
the working world, little sister, and
that is to do good work, and the
sooner you master the fact the bet
ter it will be for you. There are
plenty of good places for the COM
petent, but there's no room for the
clerk whose sales slips look like
chicken tracts. or the bookkeeper
whose ledger won't balance, or the
photographer who can't spell.
Therefore it's up to you to decide
whether you are going to be one of
those invaluable employees who
climb up to situations of trust and
honor and profit, or whether you
become one of the shifting army of
incompetents who are always look
ing for a job.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
Gypsy LUCK.

mere one y loved be gn The hs' nine stars a-Sho"n
dropped Then, though all earth an heaven
~ ~ ~ ' "' Sends p"ne to holm or heed W
Mex sling list
An carry four-,eaf clover An, the Gpsv 1ckY, lead We
we are all interested when somebody talks OF luck
PROBABLY ten thousand individuals have told how they al
most sailed on the Titanic and how luck saved them
Luck did nothing OF the KIND OF course They SIMPLY did
not SAIL
Almost every human beng mas superstition
Gamblers are made up of superstition because gambling
qures no real effort OF the intellect
Ignorance is made up of superstition because superstition re-
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49,,
Nnetynne out OF one hundred OF those VINO see thus newspaper
will at least begin read this editorial because talks about
luck"
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Ny' " " o ~ W 'S " '"N' 'e'' IL 'u'N
charns ana so on readers "oo go through " the emu NOT beV
ing perhaps but still interested
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n"i"9' "o u no" " o' 'U'NF' man, Z" ""S'' "o"'o SoP
readhg IT,
Yet easy for the average or woman to be healthy if he
or will There a thing good HEALTH and he
can oct il There Is no sucl thing rs GOOD .ucl
What nt, 60 ,nncb talk emotion and time are wasted an lu
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the mystic word abracadahra
Those that had the cholera and died the anybody
else IT, instead atooing abacadaba their arms they
had DRINK water carefully boiled and eaten only food not expod
70 contamination ev would have been safe You have h S A.
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let IN the East today the natives tight the cholera WIT" charms
and ncanatons and religious appeals They bahe IN the Holy
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
Dorothy Dix
Doing Things Well
By DOROTHY DIX

learning TO spell, and that they can
find the whole art of how to get
there in the dictionary | know
cooks who have cooked for 40 years
without ever learning how to make
bread, or boil a potato properly, and
will still wonder why they are al
ways changing places.
I know dressmakers who admit
that they are bad filters, yet they
go on running peoples cloth year
after year, and complaining about
the fickleness of customers who
never come back.
These women know where their
fault lies, but they are too lazy and
too indolent to correct It, And
they are always poor and i'll paid.
for there's just one kind of work
that commands a high price in the
market, and that is first class work.
If you can do that you can write
your own price tag for it.
Why can one dressmaker get S75
for making a gown while another
can only get IS?
Because one woman turned out
sloppy work and the other turns
out a perfect job.
Why can one cook command a
salary of $4,000 a year while an
other can only get s. a week? Re
cause one has raised the art of
cookery to science, and the other
never takes the trouble to learn
even the rudiments of it.
Willing To Pay.
Why can one stenographer COM
mand high salary while the town
is overrun with girls who are al
ways advertising for a job? Be
cause busy men are willing to pay
for expert work that is always
right, and nobody wants to pay for
bungling, laundering work that is
full of illspelt words and erasures.
and that can never be depended
upon for accuracy.
1t pays to learn how to do things
well, little sister. 1t pays to be on
the job, and if you know wherein
you fail to make good you've got
signboard pointing you to the ways
of success. Just correct your faults
and make of your weakness your
strength.
Don't say you can't write or YOU
can't spell, or you can't add up fig
ures. or you cant cook. or you
can't sew, because you can if YOU
want to. Any girl with ordinary
intelligence and particle of back
bone in her body can make herself
an expert in any of these lines If
she will give it half the time and
trouble and serious thought that
she does to the way she combs her
hair.
OF course, girls are Hike boys,
they succeed best in the occupation
for which they have natural apti-
tude. In selecting ones lifework
ii is important to pick out some
thing for which one has a turn and
liking and which one enjoys do
ing, but having once made this Sc
lection, stick to it and learn to 90
that thing supremely well.
That's the open sesame to sue
cess. little sister It's just doing
things well. and whether it's learn
ing how to write a legble hand, or
singing grand opera, it's up TO the
individual. If you have the deter
mination and the energy, and the
courage to work and work, and
work until you conquer your diff
ficulty, and learn how to do that
particular thing just right, you
will succeed Otherwise you will
be failure. It's all up to you
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
Why They Fail.

People who fail in life always lay
the blame on circumstances. or
fate, or the state of politics, or
heredity. or some other convenient
scapegoat. This let's them down
easy, and gives them a chance to
sniffle. and cry. and make a bid
for sympathy when they strike us
for a loan. But the truth is that
we make our own luck, little sister,
and we are the architects of our
own misfortunes just as much as
we are of our own fortunes. The
drunkard and the beggar on the
street are self-made men. just as
much as are Mr.. Rockefeller and
Mr.. Carnegie.
1t doesn't make a bit of differ
ence what we choose as a life work
if we do it well. Success or fail
ure in any line depends upon the
kind of handiwork that we turn
out. and this is something that wo-
men have yet to learn.
I know dozens of girls who have
chosen stenography for a profess
sion, who blandly say, 81 never could
learn to spell" and it never seems
to occur to them that their whole
future success depends upon their
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-12
cALv YES BRAINS |. WITH JELLY
This 10" a Dish; When Properly
r: Cooked and Served, That All
Wllt-Appreelate..

Blanch the brains by. letting them
soak in cold water and salt for two
hours: take them out. skin, dry
thoroughly. and drop them In sailed
boiling water; let cook for ten min
utes; chill and put them in the ice
box. When serving, cut the brains
IN slices or dice, and heap them on a
lettuce bed after they have been
tossed In a French dressing. Heap
the top of the dish with blobs of to-
mato jelly.
Make the jelly In this manner:
Soak box and half of gelatin In
enough water to cover 1t. Then put
one quart Of tomatoes on to stew
with head of celery chopped fine.
4 little parsley, salt and cayenne.
Let this boil for twenty minutes, then
pour boiling hot over the gelatin;
strain at once In a mold, putting it In
the Ice box to CONCEAL thoroughly
when cool enough. The tomato jelly
may also be cut up In squares and
served as a separate salad with plain
lettuce and mayonnaise. But of
course it needs to come into the room
in very cold condition, or it would
soon melt.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-12
Mixed Vegetable Salad.

This may be made Of any green
vegetables, but in the smart restau-
rants the chefs put the following
things together: French lettuce, en-
dive, cucumbers, celery hearts, green
pepper, asparagus tips, pimentos and
sometimes string beans. A nest is
made of the plain lettuce, the endive
is cut in fine strips, and II the aspara-
gus or string beans are Of the canned
sort they are first washed of with
fresh water and then thoroughly
drained. The cucumber is cut in
paper fine slices. All Of the ingrcdi-
ents are put together In mixing
bowl and tossed lightly in a French
dressing-olive oil, vinegar or lemon,
salt and cayenne. Unless requested
not to do so, the French chef also adds
a taste Of garlic or onion. When
served this salad lies in the nest of let
tuce leaves with a border Of sliced
cucumber or radishes cut to look like
fuchsias.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-12
BEST OF ALL SH0RTCAKES
How Luscious Dessert Should Be Pre-
pared for the Table to Be at
Its Best.

Best served warm and do not fill
until ready to serve. Split cake, lay
top inverted on a plate. fill with
fresh or canned sliced peaches, we'll
seasoned apple sauce, or best Of all.
with crushed or sliced Strawberries.
Fruit should be literally sugared.
When center is we'll filled place
the top layer on, cover with fruit
and serve with cream.
Ingredients: Two cupfuls OF sifted
pastry -four, two teaspoonfuls Of ba-
king powder. three tablespoonfuls OF
butter, two tablespoonfuls Of butter,
two tablespoonfuls of sugar. one egg
and three-quarters cupful Of milk.
Method: Sift salt and baking pow
der into flour after it has been sifted
once and measured. Cream, butter,
sugar and egg until light. Into this gen
~ stir the milk and flour, alternating
lido not beat, just stir lightly. then
pour into creased layer cake tin.
Bake in brisk oven, then split and
prepare with the fruit as directed In
foregoing recipe.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-12
DRIVEN TO DRINK

The Union club Of Cleveland, Ohio,
ls a large and imposing structure. At
luncheon time it is one Of the most
populous and popular places in the
city. but at night it is about as gay
as the House of Usher.
A man from New Orleans, in Cleve-
land on business, was given a card
to the club by a friend. He didn't
know a person In Cleveland except his
sponsor Naturally he was lonely,
and naturally he went up to the Union
club at night to see if he could find
company. Nobody was there but the
servants. He wandered about in the
big rooms, growing lonesomer every
minute. He sat first in one room and
then in another, hoping for company.
Finally it seemed as if the very ST.
lence of it all would make him scream
He was plunged in a big chair in the
lounging room, which was quiet as
the grave, when his sponsor at the
club came in
He touched the New Orleans man
on the shoulder and said:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-12
HAVE TOUCH OF GRoTEsQuE
Decidedly Novel Are Some Of the
BIouses That viii Be Worn
This Spring.

A favorite fashion In blouses fox
wear with the tailor-made is design
known as the bib blouse. Made Of silk
or crepe de chine, the blouse has q
bib of fine lace or net arranged like q
baby's tucker. The style, however, -
only becoming to women with smooth,
white necks.
A dainty blouse Of the season Is
called the bow blouse. Made of char
meuse to match the costume with
which it is to be worn, the blouse has
a yelling of ninon in some contrasting
color, and between ninon and founda-
ton there is huge bow in satin Of
some bright color, which extends
across the entire front Of the figure
Black blouses in this style have bows
of bright gold, royal blue or cerise
satin, and very smart they look.
High transparent collars are back
again on blouses Of all kinds for all
occasions. The collars when Of lace
are usually edeed With . MARROW hand
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-12

To Remove Tea Stains From Linen.
To remove the obstinate tea stain
from your fine linen tablecloth, spread
the stained part over a basin, and
pour (from height) clean soft boil
ing water through it. II the stain has
been allowed to dry it will be the
harder to remove, but where this
method is applied at once while tho
stain IL fresh and moist, the marks
will disappear like magic. Where the
stains are long set, rub In little DOW
dered borax and pour on more boiling
water: then place the articles to soak
In q basin, later washing It in tho or
binary way and the stains will be ef-
fectually removed. When any article
has had either coffee or tea spilled on
1t, be careful not to allow any soap
to touch 1t, as the alkan Of the SOAP
will make the coloring matter into a
fast dye. which can hardly be bleached
out
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-12

Ford em1grated to America in 1857.
sailing on the ship Yorkshire, which
consumed twenty-six days In voyage
that is at present made In six.
In the following year young Ford
secured employment with the New
Haven and was employed in the bag
gage room of the old station in New
York, located at Fourth avenue and
Twenty-eighth street, where he worked
until the station was abandoned, when
he was transferred to the Grand Gen.
trail.
Two notable facts distinguished Mr..
Ford's career as a railroad man, the
first and most remarkable being that
during his nearly half century of
railroad service, from 1858 to the time
of his death, he never rode single
mile on a railroad train operated by
his own or any other company, and
never requested pass. The other is
that from 1858 to 1902, when he was
ill@ for about week, he was not alb
sent from duty a single day and never
asked for or took vacation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-12
HE never RODE ON A TRAIN
Was Railroad EmpIoye In
New York City.

With the disappearance OF the old
Grand Central station, writes a ccrre
spondent of the Railroad Employee
memories are recalled Of things OF a
decade ago and Of the then familiar
personages connected in different ca
pacities with this terminal, particu
larly Thomas Ford.
For many years Mr.. Ford was a
familiar figure about the old New
Haven Offices, where he was employed
as a messenger for General Passenger
and Ticket Agent C. T. Hemstead
and during the later years OF his life
he served in similar capacity fol
the treasurer of the company in New
York city.
A native Of Ireland, where he wa
born in 1924, and where his youth and
early manhood were spent Thomas
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-12
Boy Stopped the, Fast Train.


Residents of Coalburg, a way sta
ton on the Franklin division OF the
Lake Shore Railway, were surprised
to see Train 220. fast mail between
Pittsburg and Buffalo, stopped at the
little structure called a depot. A boy
alighted and hurried to the home Of
his parents, where his sister was dy-
ing.
The boy had called at the office of
Supt. Murray in Youngstown. His eyes
filed with tears.
What can I do for you?" asked the
superintendent.
please, sir, can you stop the after
noon train at Coalburg?" was the lads
answer.
"Coalburg is not stopping point
for Train 220," replied the superinten-
dent, land it costs money to stop a
fat train"
With a choked voice the boy re-
Joined: II know that, but my sister is
dying at Coalburg and telegram
from mother says she will not live to
see me unless reach home on that
train" The lad left the Office assured
the train would stop.
The fare to Coalburg from Youngs-
town is Is cents.-Youngstown CORE
spondence Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-12
"picture Frocks."

For semi-evening wear there IL
nothing more attractive than the pic1
ture frock, which has grown very
popular lately.
These little gowns are not extreme.
therefore they cannot become passe.
The perfectly plain bodice is turned
in at the neck.
A Marie Antoinette fchu or collar
and revers Of lace are worn with thia
simple costume
Clasped around the neck is a collar
of black velvet, fastened by a buckles
Of cut steel. Jet or brilliants.
A broad band Of lace, frill OF
pleated net or a broad, fat ruche pro-
vides finish for the edge of the short
sleeves.
The skirt is untrimmed and the
waist line high.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-12
4 lN0SW0RTA
KNOWING

Cocoanut mating may be cleaned
with a large coarse cloth dipped in
salt and water and then rubbed dry.
Knives which have been used for
onions and smell of them can be
cleaned by drawing them through q
piece of carrot two or three times.
To remove hot water marks from
japanned trays use sweet oil. Rub 1t in
we'll till all marks disappear, then pol
ish the tray with dry -four and soft
cloth.
When gilt frames or molding OF
rooms have specks of dirt from flies
and other causes upon them they may
be cleaned with white of egg applied
with camel's hair brush.
To clean dust stained alabaster or
naments, make a paste of whiting, soap
and milk. The paste must be left to
dry on and then washed away, the
surface being then dried with a cloth
and then with a flannel, when the or
naments will be found clean and un-
harmed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-12
CARS WORK is AUTOMATIC
Carries ingeniousIy Constructed
Mechanism That Registers Important
Matters the Officers Must Know.

A new clearance measuring car that
automatically registers the clearances,
or distances from the track, OF rail-
way-stations, and the height OF tun-
nels and bridges, and the width OF
open or closed cuts, has been placed
in service on an eastern railroad. The
car Is built of Steel and the clear
ance frame is mounted over the for
ward truck. Hinged fingers, six
inches apart. protrude from this frame,
and show directly on scale their net
projection in any angular position.
The curvature of the track and the
overhead elevation are recorded upon
two large horizontal scales within a
small cabin on the car. The car can
be worked while running at speed
of four miles an hour, and since the
gauges are well-lighted, measurements
can be made by night or day, and in
dark tunnels. Two men are required
to read the scales, and third man ia
employed when the clearances are
close and irregular.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-12
Insect Bores into Steel Nails.

Italian engineers have discovered 4
destructive insect that bores into the
steel rails and seems to have the dt.
gestion of an ostrich. The rails Of 4
railway line in Piedmont became ex-
tremely rusty so quickly recently that
the engineers examined the rails mi.
croscopically.
They found in the steel numberlesa
worm-shaped creatures, dirty gray
in color and about third Of an inch
long. Nature, as always. has fitted
1ut this insect admirably for its life
purpose. It's head has two horns shap-
ed ike snail's but sharp, strong and
With thread like a screws. With
these horns it bores into the steel with
astonishing rapidity. The engineers
found iron rust in tho insects int.
rior and so, naturally, concluded that
the almost impalpable powder it pro-
duces Is its food.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-12
fura.

Nine. Maeterlinck in her quaint,
witty way, was talking to Boston 70
porter about feminine cruelty. There
is no such thing as feminine cruelty
she said. Women, 1t Is true, wear the
feathers Of birds, but they are uncon'
scious of the birds sufferings. and,
as your old proverb says. What the
eye don't see the heart don't grieve.
Men when they set a beefsteak OF
slip on their gloves, are unconscious
of the slaughtered bullocks and the
murdered kid-and just so am l un.
conscious when, an icy January morn.
ing, wrap round my neck e soft,
farr4 fur-whether 1t be fur Of pole.
cat or Russian sable my dealer alone
knvws"