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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02
Teach Your Eyes to See
y y y
Advice for would.Be RepOrters and AM Others

An ingenious young writes the following touching note
ditor he
fifteen journalism
nneho
We absolute recipe for becoming of the
greatest world If possessed recipe
should long have applied But looking
back long years, remembering few many
of failures who have tried be editors feel
like giving and emphasizing the fullest extent this piece of
advice
LEARN TO SEE.
What the world demands of a newspaper any writer,
is that he shall tell things exactly they TO tell things
they he learn and learning
difficult task in the world.
Ruskin says:
for one
clearly religion all j one"
Again he says
tell what a way"
land SAW thus reads the convincing inspired statement
of one Of the divine reporters.
Get all the knowledge read write revise question the
man lise to the foolish
BUT ABOVE ALL LEARN TO SEE
Knowing how may make you great editor but it
will make yen competent and successful line Of
endeayor that may attract you
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02
Questions in
Science
BY Edgar Lucien Larkin
ID rs there a south mag
netic pole?"
Oh "Does the commas

G. ns,,s p : s's's ''.s
X ca Does the compass
point to the north no matter on
which side of the equator it is?"
90 What is the deepest sound
ing that has ever been made in the
ocean. and what was used?"
ca When a ship sinks does it go
to the bottom of the ocean, regard
less of the depth, or is there a
point at which it will sink no far
ther?"
A.-U Lieutenant Shackelton.
190S-19O9 measured the position of
the south magnetic pole of the
earth and found it to be in south
latitude 70 degrees 16 minutes. and
in longitude east, 1856 degrees 16
minutes. But position varies. This
is the latest to be published If
Amundsen has published a position
l have not seen it, Yes; there is a
south magnetic pole.
CD Go to the north magnetic pole
of the earth with a compass needle
free to move in any direction. 1t
will turn into a perpendicular di-
rection. Mark the end that points
straight downward. Now carry it
toward the magnetic equator-an
irregular line around the world not
far on either side from the real
geographical equator. The end
that pointed toward the zenith will
begin to turn downward and the
other upward. When on the exact
magnetic equator. the needle VIII
be horizontal, or level Garry it
south. and the south or unmarked
end will begin to dip, and it will
be straight down when exactly
over the south magnetic pole.
(S) The ship Nero. off Guam,
sunk a sounder to the bottom at
depth Of $3.50 fathoms, or 1854
feet The sinker was metal. prob
ably iron
60 The Titanic is at the bottom
and part OF it is in mud at a dis
lance a little below the ocean floor
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02

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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02
EUGENICS AND CHERRIES
Bv WINIFRED BLACK.


1 wonder if all this idea of con-
centrating so much attention on the
body is going to turn out so well
after all?
Early in life found out that the
way to keep from climbing the
cherry tree when the cherries were
too green to be wholesome was to
keep just as far away from that
tree as I could and to think about
something else as hard as l could.
My new frock, the heroine in my
latest book, the way my mother
looked when she was pleased with
something l had done, how the
Cinnamon down at the bottom of
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02

THERES a woman out in Den
yer who wants to tell the
children all about everything
the minute they are old enough to
go to school.
She has talked the school people
into her way of thinking and very
logical. sensible, practical. matter
of-fact way it seems to be when she
tells about 1t, and the new course
is to begin this fall maybe. A
protest against the new course is
going up already
Il don't want my little girl to
learn that sort Of thing in a class"
said an indignant and protesting
mother TO the president of the board
Of education the other day when
it is time for her to know I'll tell
her myself. thank you. And. be-
sides, don't believe in all this
study of the body. what the body
needs, and what the body is and
isn't. Why not get the mind to
work while and see what that
win do?"
And altogether there's quite an
interesting fight going on over this
question of what a child should
know, and who should tell him
about 1t.
It's queer thing about this body
business. The first time l heard
some one say that certain man
was too strong to work thought 1t
was rather foolish joke.
I'd never known good condi-
ton" faddist then. / know several
Of them now. and every one that 1,
know Is too strong to work"
They'll run on the track, play bas-
ket ball. wrestle. chin" themselves
a dozen times day; but run on an
errand for anybody, NOW the lawn,
put up a shelf in the pantry when
the perfidious carpenter has broken
his plighted word--not they
When l want any real work done
! don't get big husky siX-footer
with famous set of muscles to do
it. l pick out some little delicate
man who has to make his tired
body work when it doesn't want to,
and he'll do the Job and do It right.
He Means Well, of Course.
The strong man means well
enough. but he can't really work;
his body won't let him and his body
is the ruler Of the firm every day
in the week.
Why not? He has much valua-
BILE time teaching his body that it is
the most important thing on earth.
why should it be bossed around by
nothing but win and mind all at
once?
The great, big, bossy. dominating
body has been the ruler too long to
give up without a struggle and the
poor. wen meaning little soul has to
sit in the corner and whine for
chance TO express itself az all.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02
Self-Government
l GREAT many men have

a GREAT many men have
~ written books about
saving money, about
how to be rich, and so on. Read
them all and you will find just
one rule back Of their philos-
opby.
Don't spend all you earn.
And that is all there is to 1t,
except what to do with what
you save.
Life is a great picnic to most
of us. With the dollar left over
on Saturday night, we feel in
clined to cut loose from pow
erty and give the world an
imitation Of how a man ought
to spend his money.
1t seemed fine while we we're
doing it. The cigars were good,
the beer tasted as fine as cham
payne, the dinner was worth all
it cost, and so on. These
things do seem to brighten up
the mind. They make the world
rosy place, to be sure.
But what is the matter Sun
day morning? Why don't these
things seem as fine then as
they did on Saturday night?
Well, 1t is hard to say, for
cases differ. But there is
way Of conducting these cele-
brations so that they viii not
kick remorse out of us next
morning.
What is the way?
Make every weeks pay con-
tribute it's toll to the future,
before you go to a picnic.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02
The Sea Nymph's Song
By j. LEWIS MILLIGAN.


COME with me, with me, with me-
- Down into my deep-sea caves;
Come, I'll make you glad and free
Come, and leave the haunts of slaves
| will press your lips with mine,
Make them pure and sweet with brine;
Smooth the burrows from your face,
Press round dimples in their PLACED
Come with me and you shall share
All my ocean palace fair:
1t is built of pink seashells.
Thro its hall for ever swells
Music such as ne 'er since birth
You have ever heard on earth
Save that soothing song of rest
Which you heard at mothers breast.
Come, and all your past shall seem
Like child s distemper d dream;
Every hope and pure desire
You shall in my home acquire;
Life shall be an endless joy.
Pleasures there can never cloy-
Come and dwell for aye with me
In the caverns of the sea
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02

the well and little beyond wore
their long hair-anything, any
where. but the tree.
Once when l was a little girl l
started to carry some particularly
nice cherries to a neighbor who
had been very ILL., They were OK
hearts. the only ones of the kind in
those parts. l carried them in a
pretty little green basket made of
some kind of rushes or sweet
smelling grass. l can see every
cherry in that basket to this very
day
1t was a hot day in June. The
neighbor lived long mile away,
through the pasture, down the
wood road over the little bridge,
past the willow tree.
I started with a light heart. In
the pasture l thought: 81 wonder
how many cherries there are in
this basket; 1t is pretty heavy, it
seems to me-" And I looked and l
tasted one-just one-oh! how
sweet it was
1t was hot in the pasture, the
cherries were so juicy, just one
more.
In the woods looked again.
Yes. just one more. who would
miss it? On the bridge l tasted
the cherries again, and under the
weeping willow I sat down calmly
and ate every single last one of
those cherries. and hid the basket
and went and asked the neighbor
how she was, and then l went
home and told my mother that the
neighbor was delighted with the
cherries, but that she thought some
of them were trife sour.
Something in my mothers look
arrested the lie on my lips and l
burst out crying aud told her the
miserable. disgraceful truth. And
my mother kissed me and cried a
little, too, and then she took me
out to the tree and we gathered
another basket almost as full Of
cherries AS the first one and my
mother said:
Wonder If 1t ISM a Good Idea
Now go. and I'll tell you a Sc
cret You won't eat a single cherry
if you use my secret recipe. Think
about something else all the way
and you'll forget all about the cher
ries."
And | took the little green basket
OF sweet smelling grass and l car
ried it to the neighbor who had
been i'll. and she said she hadn't
tasted anything so good in year,
and l sang all the way home, just
because I thought about some
thing else" all the way
| wonder If it wouldn't be a good
idea 10 try this kind of plan when
little girl reaches the wondering
age? Give her something very in
teresting to think about. all the
way. / wonder.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02


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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
HAD PHoN0GRAPHs IN EGYPT
Reports Are That BabyIonlan Tablet
Also Shows That the Wireless
Telegraph Was Known.

I'VE think we are great people"
said the retired army officer, taking
off his glasses, "and we feel that we
are progressing at tremendous pace,
but here's newspaper account say
ing that the French government has
unearthed in Babylonia $4,000 tablets,
giving a history In full of the reign
of the ancient kings. Here we find
for the first time that Babylon, and
not Rome, was the real Mother of
Laws. In those days there was a
system Of courts and of appeals that
even suggested recall Sir, this re.
port also states that in the days Of
Nebuchadnezzar they had a free rural
delivery of mail over every highway
IN the kingdom. And shades OF
Grover Cleveland!-It has also been
proved beyond doubt that the Egyp-
tian government in 4,500 B. c., had
a perfected system Of civil service.
There Is record that the first tur-
bine engine was invented by the
Egyptians, and that Archimedes de-
vised this mechanical contrivance by
which the fields could be watered
when the Nile was low. This is the
same principle that is used to drive
the latest additions to the Cunarders."
What shocked the doughty old
American most of all. says the Ma
tional Magazine, was the informa-
tion that four thousand years ago the
phonograph was used in ancient
Egypt, and was in reality only per.
fected by Edison in the nineteenth
century. There Is evidence also of
the use of wireless telegraphy before
the Christian era, while the Egyp-
TIA alphabet has proven to be a SCI
entific key to organized human speech.
1t is hard blow to our self-suffi cheney
to find that the banjo of the southern
plantation with it's fascinating
"thrum" only echoes the musical in.
struments used by Egyptians in pre-
historic times
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
Rats and the PLAQUE.

There is a theory that the old
brown rats aided the spread of
plague in Europe, because the fleas
which infest them are more likely to
take up their abode on human beings
than are the parasites Of the Norway
rat. This is hardly demonstrated be-
yond the fact that the cessation of
plague epidemics in England and west
ern Europe was about coincldent with
the Norway rat invasion. 1t seems to
have been proved in California that
the gray rats can spread the infection,
but If the black rats spread it faster,
we may yet be brought to concede
some good in the gray Norway rat
pest that has heretofore driven out its
older brother.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
NOVEL NUT.CRACKlNG CUSTOM
Nobody Hesltated to Take Advantage
OF Peculiar Privilege Allowed
In rOlden Days.

The modern minister likes to have
things quiet when he talks. 1t dis.
concerts him to hear baby cry or a
woman cough or an old man snore.
If he is put out by such trifles as
these 1t is interesting to conjecture
what he would do IL he were to take
hold of a congregation where every.
body brought nuts to- crack during
the sermon. Worshipers used to do
this in England, and even in our own
states during colonial days. This dis.
turbance was not a weekly occurrence
by any means; If it had been, the poor
preacher would have undoubtedly left
his congregation to administer spir.
itual consolation to suit themselves
But as it only happened once a year
he was forced to endure 1t. This one
day which was attended by such re-.
markable license came the Sunday
before Michaelmas day and was
called crack-nut Sunday. Nobody. no
matter how pious he might be. hest.
tated to avail himself of the peculiar
privilege granted him, and men.
women and children came to church
with their pockets stuffed with nuts.
which they complacently cracked and
munched during the sermon. II can
be easily imagined that when forty
or fifty people get to cracking nuts
with all their might the noise is ant
to he something terrific, and many
times the minister was hard put to
1t to hear himself think" The Gus.
tom. from being regarded with high
favor for many years, finally came to
be looked upon as nuisance, and in
the beginning Of the present century
the habit was suppressed, although
the act of suppression was attended
with considerable difficulty, 80 firmly
had the nut-cracking fever taken hold
Of the fancy Of the people.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
FOrMe N
UIllf>k|z|gAE
ONES g.
FEW CLEVER LITTLE TRICKS
Rings Chase Each Other When Pa,
per Is Turned to Right or Left
Hoops Change Positions.

There are some tricks that can be
played on a persons eyes which are
pure illusions. Hold this paper foot
or more from your eyes and turn 1t
gently round to. the right or left, in
small circles. keeping your eyes fixed
on the three small rings. as shown in
the illustration.
AS you move the paper round like
the hands Of a watch you will find that
the rings in these circles seem to
chase each other In the same direc-
ton. and the longer and more intent
iy you look at 1t the faster they go.
Circles can be made with spokes
in them which to some persons seem to
be going in the opposite direction to
that In which the paper is turned, but
the Illusion Is not so perfect unless
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
Oldest Newspaper.

The Itching Pao," which is the Off.
cial gazette of Peking, and has just
celebrated its thousandth anniversary.
is the Oldest newspaper in the world.
Ever since its inception, a copy of
each issue has been carefully pre-.
served In the archives of the Picking
palace. Accuracy has always been
the keynote of his paper, and, in sew
der to maintain its high standard, sew.
eral Journalists on its staff in the past
paid the penalty of mistakes with
their lives. Dismissal, and, at the
worst. Imprisonment, is the punish.
ment meted out at present.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
Kind Treatment Paws.

At Kansas agricultural experiment
station the results Of treating animals
with kindness were recently demon
strated to be of the most practical
character. Three COWS were selected,
and at first treated with the utmost
care and gentleness, with the result
that they produced thirty-six pounds
of milk containing 4.3 per cent. of
butter fat. The same cows were then
frightened by their attendants bowling
at them. letting dogs bark at them, etc.,
with the result that they produced
only twenty-three pounds Of milk, con.
tanning only 3.4 per cent. Of butter
fat.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
Before or After.

II thought that in the l5 years of
my practice of medicine" said ply
sician, Il had answered almost every
possible foolish question, but new
one was sprung on me recer tly. A
young man came in with an infamed
eye, for which prescribed liniment-
to be dropped into the eye three times
day. He left the surgery, but re-
turned in a few minutes, poked his
head in the doorway, and asked:
Shall I drop this in the eye before
meals, or after?"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
Iona Courtshlps,

Young ladies In Russia are not at all
averse to long engagements, and use
all sorts of artifices to stave OF the
wedding day as long as possible; but
in no country in the world are court
ships so abnormally long as in Bohe.
mia, where engagements commonly
last from Is to 20 years. In fact,
there recently died there, at the age
of ninety-nine, an old man who had
been courting for rs years, and who
was married nm h'~ 1oa+h.hed.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
New York AIlmonx Club.

The Alimony club in New York, a
name adopted by coterie of men
who are undergoing Imprisonment
there for default in payment Of allow.
ances to wives from whom they have
separated. held banquet In jail on
Christmas day. Twelve sat down to
good repast, two of them having
come back for the occasion, after re.
covering tteir liberty only two days
before. The popular song, II Won
der Who's kissing Her Now" was
sung during every toast, and Our I'm.
fortunate Successors" was received
hilariously.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
Keeping Water Geld.

II you are in the habit of taking a
pitcher of iced water to your room on
retiring, try this: Procure a square
pasteboard box with lid, sufficiently
large to hold your pitcher, and give it
TWO or three coats of varnish on the
outside, allowing each coat to dry
thoroughly. Place your pitcher Of wa
ter In this box on retiring, putting the
lid on tightly, and you are sure Of
having cold drinking water any hour
OF the night.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
The Universe an Accident.

The universe, together with its
parts, is nothing but number of ac-
cidents. ever changing and being re-
newed at every breath and linked to-
gether In single substance and at
each instant disappearing and being
replaced by a similar set. In conse.
quence OF this rapid succession, the
spectator Is deceived into the belief
that the universe is a permanent ex.
istence.-By Nur Addin ADD. Alrah.
man Jami.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
OlIinu Shoes.

The best way to keep black leather
shoes from looking worn. and also
from breaking. is to dip a small fan
mel rag in olive oil and rub it into
the leather; If 1t needs further rub
bing or wiping, take fresh, dry flannel
rag and go over 1t. This method is
good for the woman in mourning, as
it keeps her footwear black without
polishing it, and provides a dulled fiu-
oh
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
Making Opportunity.

When the young physicians motor
car reached the scene of the accident
there was nothing to do; all the vic.
Tins had been so slightly hurt that
they were able to walk home. The
young doctor was keenly disappoint-
ed, but his chauffeur spoke up cheer.
insly: "Never mind, doctor. I'll run
down some business on the way
home"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
Hoops Change Positions.

It in its new position for space it
will go back again.
lf you do not decide which is the
nearest to you at first. but Just look
at the middle hoop steadily, you will
see them one way, perhaps with A in
front and toward YOU, and then will
suddenly 60 back and B will be in
front.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
Some Proof.

$50 he took you out auto riding the
other EVENING"" "Yes, what OF it?"
DO you think he is in love with your"
II think so. know that every time
I spoke to him the auto tried to climb
q tree or jump nce."-Houston
Post.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01

A Boston minister has jumped into
the spotlight by making the statement
that American women wear too many
clothes at summer resorts. This is
the last objection we expected a min.
lister to make. Perhaps the women
whom he observed are inclined to
freckle.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01

""~e S-S''s~ ~-'I.
Sterne once said that the most &C.
complished way of using books is to
serve them as some do lords; learn
their titles and then brag of their ac-
Quaintance.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
Mlaht Be the Fact.

Burglars who broke into q Paris
nat recently removed all the fashion
able pannier dresses belonging to the
mistress Of the house and left a num-
Der OF old skirts. "The police" says
Paris correspondent. suspect a.
fashion expert" We, on the other
hand. are inclined to wonder If the
burglary was not committed by the
lady's husband, who may easily have
been a simple-hearted fellow who
wished to see his wife becomingly
dressed for a week or two.-By-
stander.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
The Difference.

When man falls on bit Of orange
peel, the first thing he does is to look
back to see what 1t was; but the first
thing a woman does is to look around
to see IL ar--0'" - The Taller
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
Chasing Rings.

the circles are much larger than there
Is space for in this column.
Another curious optical illusion that
has puzzled great many persons
who have tried to account for it is
also shown.
IL we suppose these to represent
wire hoops which of them is nearest
you A or B? The answer is that 1t
Is the one you first make up your
mind is nearest you. But now If you
look steadily at 1t for few moments
your eyes will get tired of that idea
and 1t will suddenly shift that hoop
to the furthest away from you, in
spite of your wishing to keep it as it
was. and after you have looked at
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01

, Red Cross Ball Blue all blue, best bluing value
IN tae whole world. makes the laundress smile
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-11-01
sSH0EW AYHcAR N0ZzNIAlzSy

20 big-game-hunter will deny,
l think. the difficulties that at
tend the shooting of mountain
sheep. To the so-called sports