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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-09
Too Little Attention
Paid to Proper and
Scientific Construc-
ton of Furnaces to
Get Best Results.
ARTICLE III.

Smoxeless combustion does not
always mean economical operation,
although highly efficient operation
always means smokeless combus-
ton. 1t is possible to introduce a
large excess of air and maintain
furnace temperatures high enough
to insure complete combustion and
so obtain clean stack, but such a
large amount Of the available heat
might be used in raising the tenn
perature Of the air excess from that
Of the atmosphere to that of the
gases passing out through the stack
that economical results are impos-
sible.
Steam jets are often recommend
ed as aids to smokeless combustion,
and some decrease in the density Of
smoke emitted is doubtless effected
by their use This is due partly TO
the thorough mixing they bring
about between the volatile constit-
uents of coal and the air passing
through the furnace and the con-
sequent more perfect combustion,
and Is due partly to the resultant
dIlution of the gases passing out
the stack The efficiency of steam
Jets is increased If the furnace
construction is so modified that the
gases are protected from any cool
ing surface until they have had an
opportunity to burn completely.
Where steam jets are inlprop-
erly installed. so that they sue
coed in decreasing the density Of
the smoke only because they di-
lutte the gases passing off, the loss
is the same as before their installa-
ton, plus the energy required to
generate the steam used
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-09
The Evils of TODAY
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

Copyright, 1912, by Star Publishing Co.
and hear and know of graft and
dishonesty and murder.
In the days of George Washing
ton and his successors graft and
dishonesty were just as rampant as
now, and there were a greater num-
Der of individuals engaged in it, ac-
cording to population, if we take
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-09
Written for The Atlanta Georgian
By Paul McMichaeI
City Smoke Inspector.

the fire increased the total amount
of heat available, we would have
an inexhaustible source of energy
in this reaction and perpetual mo.
ton would cease to be dream
One very serious fault to bs
found in almost every boiler plant
in Atlanta is the lack of consid.
GRAFTON that has been given to fur
mace design and construction. Dur
ing the past ten years vast strides
have been made in our knowledge
Of what constitutes an efficient
furnace. but as yet boiler manu-
facturers and furnace builders have
been slow to avail themselves Of
this information and apply It. Sci
dom does one find a furnace so con-
structed as to protect the volatile
constituents given off by soft coal
from the relatively cool surface Of
the shell or tubes until combustion
can be completed, although ii has
been incontrovertibly demonstrated
that this is essential if combustion
is to be complete.
Poor Draft-Smoky Stacks.
Even in boilers with poor draft,
the products of combustion will
travel at a rate of one and one
half feet per second. This means
that with the usual form of con-
struction in less than two seconds
after leaving the fuel bed the gases
given off will be up against the
shell or passing amongst the
tubes, where they viii be cooled
below the temperature G,4SO de-
grees Fahrenheit) required for Their
burning. Therefore, combustion
stops before it is completed, anl
the evidence of this is shown by
smoky stacks.
1t has been shown that It is pos
sibIe at comparatively small eX-
pense to build a furnace under boil
ers already set in which high vols-
tile bituminous coal can be burned
smokelessly and with high etficien-
cy. The dimensions and full specl-
hcations for such a furnace Will
vary in different plants, and can
only be. determined by one familiar
with all the conditions to be met IN
each instance, but the principles
applied will be the same in every
case.
The present smoke ordinance OF
Atlanta is most liberal in its pro-
visions, and there is no reason why
each coal consumer can not COM
ply with it fully if a little stuu!
is devoted to the question Inc
application of a few Of the Facts
contained in our present-uaS
knowledge of combustion VIII On
able one not only to stop the ems
sion of soft coal smoke, but also ''
effect the saving Of many doAsI'
that today are being needLessN
/. wasted.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-09

A YOUNG woman writes to me
~ that she is worn out by mental
work, and she wants to inter
est some people with money, who
will send her away to recuperate
her strength.
Almost every post brings letters
similar, and innumerable are the
inquiries regarding the possibility
OF influencing Mrs. Sage, Miss
Gould, Mr.. Carnegie and Mr.. Rookie
Teller to hand over money for the
benefit of needy individuals and
worthy causes.
1t does not occur to the writers
of these letters that a hundred
thousand other people and causes
all look toward the same golden
goal, and that all these millionaires
are hemmed in by an army of sec
retaries, who read several hundred
begging letters each day and al
low them to go no farther.
Il is said that each week Miss
Gould is asked for a million dol
lars in charity by different people
and that We're she TO respond to all
the requests for aid she would in a
wears time be penniless.
Meanwhile all these people are
giving generously, and many Of
them have agents employed who
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-09

man beings, no longer modest the
world, save where ignorance still
prevails and the laws Of health are
violated
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-09

tropical moths are adorned with
appendages which look like the
dropping buds of small plants. The
tips of those of others have a
startling likeness to the head Of the
deadly cobra, upIifted to strike.
The back of the deaths head
moth" bears an image that sends a
chin IN tho haart ne the observer.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-09

man beings, no longer modest the
world, save where ignorance still
prevails and the laws of health are
violated.
Divorce Must Run Course.
Divorce has increased. and must
run it's course like any other mall
ady which arises from ignorance
After two or three generations
there will be a decrease OF this
fever, because sex hygiene is being
taught, AND young men and women
will not go into marriage ignorant
of all it means, as they have done
since the beginning Of civilization.
This most important subject Of
all has been left in darkness and
silence until the very last, and in
the darkness and silence it has be-
come corrupt and caused a pesti-
lence in the land.
Light and speech have now come
TO its rescue. but the evils it has
produced can not be cured Mn one
generation.
Men are just beginning to know
that their deeds Of lust bring awful
calamities upon themselves, ana
upon their offspring to the third
and fourth generation; and that be-
cause the world has condoned their
deeds 1t does not follow that they
are exempt from penalties.
When all our colleges have a sex
hygiene course, as they will, and
all youths and young women are
educated in a knowledge of the law
of cause and effect in these matters
marriage will cease to be a prob
lem. and the divorce court will go
out of existence for lack of patron
age.
A Magnificent Tomorrow.
One hundred years ago these
subjects were not discussed, and
so vast evils resulted; those evils
we point at today, saying the age is
degenerate, but we forget that they
are the Dire results OF the sins of
omission of our forefathers, and
that we are now organized by law
and medicine and common sense to
fight and overcome the evils.
This is the wisest, the most sane,
Ia. . 4g.-a
hopeful era OF the world
And We are on the eve Of "a mag
uincent tomorrow.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-09
BY GARRETT P. sERvIss.

MATURE is great imitator--
~ but only Of herself. When she
has done a good thing she
sometimes does 1t over again, with
variations. Some of these self imi-
tations, or repetitions OF nature, are
apparently purely capricious, or
even accidental while others seem
to have a definite purpose, and then
they lead to very interesting scien-
tific theories
The illustrations that accompany
this article appear to belong to the
class OF capricious, or accidental
limitations. There is no evident rea-
son why the wings Of one species
of butterfly should bear markings
recalling the lines of latitude and
longitude on a chart, as happens
with the map butterfly" of India,
or why the wings Of another spe-
cies, in the same country, should
closely mimic beautiful lacework,
as occurs with the shawl butter
fly" Yet there may be a meaning
behind it all which we do not COM
prehend.
Wonderful Deceptions.
1t often happens that animals
initiate the forms and colors of
plants, and the plants frequently re
turn the compliment In the case.
Of animals naturalists call this
protective mimicry," because it ap-
pears TO serve as means Of con-
ceslment from too powerful enc
mics. 1t is at least conceivable that
plant, which looks like an animal,
may also And projection in the re-
semblance.
1t is not only human beings that
are deceived by looks.
The more the receptions Of ma
ture are studied, the more wonder
ful they appear. There are insects
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-09

which so exactly resemble dried
sticks that you can not recognize
their real nature until you feel them
squirm under your fingers. But
some of the largest animals also
exhibit protective nimicry" in as
tonishing ways. The beautiful re
bra is a striking example of this.
The black bands that mark it's
tawny skin so closely resemble lines
of shadow cast by brilliant sun
light shining through the branches
Of thicket that group of these
animals standing motionless in an
African forest may escape the no
tice Of their sharpest- eyed pur-
suers.
Tiger Possesses This Power.
Travellers have recorded the fact
that a band Of zebras standing in
the midst of sandy plain, where
stunted bushes are scattered about,
and where the color of the soil
closely resembles that OF the skin
of the animals, will sometimes be
unrecognizable, as long as they re-
main motionless, the black bands
on their TANKS looking exactly like
shadows
But the tiger, too, possesses this
power OF concealment, although in
his case the purpose is rather to al
lay the fears Of his victims than to
hide himself from his enemies. The
color of his skin and the shadowy
outlines of his markings enable him
to lie in wait close to his quarry
unnoticed by the poor beasts that
are about to feel the weight of his
claws. Adventures in tropical for
ests sometimes almost put their
feet upon a huge vari-colored ser
pent before recognizing It,
In many cases the resemblances
are so arbitrary that no reasonable
theory Of a definite purpose seems
to fit them. The wings of some
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-01-12
GET YOUR MONEY BACK.
If This Medicine Does Not Satisfac.
torIly Benefit You.

Practising physicians making spe-
cialty of stomach troubles are really
responsible for the formula from which
Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets are made.
We have simply profited by the expe-
rience Of experts.
Our experience with Rexall Dyspep-
STA Tablets leads US to believe them to
be an excellent remedy for the relief
of acute Indigestion and chronic idys-
pepsia. Their ingredients are sooth-
ing and healing to the intlamed men,
branes of the stomach. They are rich
in pepsin, one of the greatest digestive
aids known to medicine. The relief
they afford is almost immediate. Their
use with persistency and regularity for
short time helps to bring about a
cessation of the pains caused by stom-
ach disorders.
Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets aid to in
sure healthy appetite, aid digestion,
and promote nutrition. AS evidence
of our sincere faith in Rexall Dyspep-
sia Tablets, we ask you to try them at
our risk. If they do not give you en-
tire satisfaction, we will return you
the money you paid us for them. They
come in three sizes, prices rs cents, 50
cents and $l.OO. Remember, you can
obtain them only at our store-The
Rcxall Store. Edward T. Lomas.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-01-12
Had a Close Shave.

"Sl' Young, our genial barber, came
about as near to going up in cloud of
smoke as a man can. last Friday and
live to tell about it. He had closed up
the shop early in the morning and was
coming in the back door with a gallon
bottle of gasoline, when his feet slip
ped and in falling he struck the bottle
on red hot stove, smashing it into a
thousand pieces and throwing lthe oil
all over the stove and himself. He was
soak ed to the skin from head to foot
and the miracle is, that the vapor did
not ignite. To the fact that he closed
the draft just a moment before the
accident, he probably owes his life, as
the room was filled with vapor. Had
there been an explosion, the whole
north side might have gone up in
smoke.
He is nursing a broken wrist since
his fall and this will put him out of the
shaving business for some time, but he
is to be congratulated that he escaped
a worse fate. --Lawler Dispatch.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-01-12
For Sale.

One ten room brick house, all mod
ern; with 3 lots and barn, will sell one
lot and barn separate or house and two
lots, any way to suit purchaser. This
is the A. H. Caward property, one
block east of Court house.
Large house, modern, in north part
of town, the St. John property.
Seven room house, ground 1OOx2OO
feet, one block west of Court house
the Long property.
Three good frame residences one
block from Cathalic church and school.
Several other good houses on North
and South side, all Of them will be sold
at a bargain and good terms if taken
before JAM l, 1912. Come and see
me. E. M. STOCKMAN.
Office over moving picture show,
Cresco, Iowa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-01-12
The People

Said Senator LaFollette in --one of his
Ohio speeches:
THE people have never failed in any
great crisis in:: our history. The COM
posite Judgment is always safer and
wiser and stronger and more unsclfsh
than the judgment of any one indlvld
ual mind"
If this were not true we Should have
a dictatorship instead of a democracy.
Yet we accept the judgment Of five of
= bench of nine men as final on is
sues of constitutional Interpretation
quite unmindful of the fact that the
composite judgment of the House. the
Senate and the President is safer and
wiser and stronger than the judgment
Of these five. Dubuque J. legraph-
Herald.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-01-12
Fatal Fire Near Monona

During the fearful frigidity of last
Thursday night the home of the Banan
sisters, two elderly maiden ladies, q
miles south of Monona, was burned to
the ground, one of the sisters perish
ing in the flames. The fire was dis
covered by a neighbor about $50, and
hurrying to the scene he found the
lower rooms mass of flames and the
sisters asleep in bed upstairs. He
managed to save one from an upstairs
window, and as he started for the
other the interior of the building COL
lapsed and precipitated the other to
her death in the fearful furnace of
flame. Review.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-01-12
T. M. Hawkins, Kansas.

1t is surely considered good recon-
mendation of an article when the pro-
prietor of the store uses It. With
regard to medicines, the range of
choice is especially large. Yet when
Druggist j. Nj. Hawkins Of Mound
City, kans, got i'll and needed a re-
liable laxative and tonic for his stom-
ach trouble he selected DR.. Caldwell's
Syrup Pepsin. which he naturally con-
siders the best. This remedy is abso-
lnteIy guaranteed to do what is claim
ed, and if you want to try it before
buying, send your address for a free
sample bottle to Pepsin Syrup Co., 1l9
Caldwell Bldg. Monticello, III. 1t is
sold by ali druggists at soc and $l.OO a
bottle.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-01-12
Mail Order Business

"A Chicago mail order house last year
increased it's gross earnings from SOL, :
500, 900 to $67, 500, 600 and will distrib-
ute SO, 800, 900 in 7 per cent. dividends
on it's preferred stock and $4,000, 600
in II per cent. dividends on its COM
mon stock. Its capitalization is heav-
lily watered.
Iowa is a fruitful ground for this
particular mail order house as for sew
eral others. But what do they do for
Iowa? Do they contribute to the sup
port of single Iowa institution? Do
they pay dollar for better roads, for
improved rural schools, for the main
tenance of fire departments, police de-
partments. libraries, public parks? Do
they even indirectly contribute to the
support of government?
Do their employees rent any Iowa
homes or Iowa farms? Do they build
residences and give employment to
labor? Do they buy here any mater
ials from butcher, baker or candle
stick maker? From mill or factory,
from jobber or retailer?
What do they do? They supply
things demanded by the needs of the
people. In vast majority of cases
these are things carried in stock by
the local merchant who does every
thing the mail order prince does not
do.
What the mail order house does is to
take the cream. The railroads years
ago built rate wall around Iowa to
keep manufacturers out and thus made
Iowa a dumping ground for eastern
manufacturers, enrichlng themselves
from the revenue from the long haul.
Now with the blind consent of Iowa
people the mail order houses are grad
ually driving the retailer and the job
Der out of business. If we lend our
aid to the support of the schemes of
the mail order houses we give our con-
sent to the elimination of retailer and
iobber. What will be left when they
are gone? What will be the value of
Iowa farm land? What the value of
city property? How keen the compe-
tition of jobs for men to fill? What
will there be here for the sons and
daughters of Iowa?
The enrichment of the mail order
house spells the impoverishment of
owa-depreciated value of every
thing in Iowa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-01-12
A Hero in a Lighthouse.

For years j. S. Donahue. So. Haven,
Mich, civil war captain. AS a light
house keeper, averted awfu! wrecks,
but queer fact is, he might have been
a wreck, himself, if Electric Bitters
had not prevented. They cured me of
kidney trouble and chills," he writes.
latter l had taken other so called
cures for years, without benefit and
they also improved my sight. Now at
seventy, l am feeling fine" For dys-
pepsia, Indigestion, all stomach, liver
and kidney troubles, they're without
equal. Try them. Only 80 cts. at r.
A. Clemmer's. F
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-01-12
Notice of Appraisement.
State of Iowa, Howard county, SIS.
In the District Court

State of Iowa, Howard county, SIS.
In the District Court.
In matter of the estate of Frank 7. John
ston, deceased.
TO the Treasurer of State, W. w. Morrow,
and Jane NJ. Culla Kate Harmon, Eliza
klingle,. Belle Kilngle. Adam johnston,
Mimi Johnston, Frank Johnston, Adam
Johnston, Belle Crawford Frank Walton.
Nettie l.. Breedlove. II larry Breedlove, John
Breedlove, George Breedlove. Sidney John
ston, Clayton Johnston, and Frank Walton.
administrator of the estate of Frank L. John
ston, dece used.
You and each of you are hereby notified
that the undersigned duly appointed and
qualified appraisers OF property charged or
sought to be charged with the payment of a
Collateral Inheritance Tax, will'at2 o'clockp
IN. on the 3ist day of January, A.D.1912, ct F..
X. Thompson's office. Cresco. Iowa, in said
County and State. proceed to apprase the
property Of the estate of said deceased. sub
ject to the { ,llateral Inheritance Tax, as
provided by law.
Please take notice and govern yourselve
accordingly.
Dated Dec. 10Th. A. u. 1911.
f.. r. Thompson,)
J.J. Lowry,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-01-12
Ohio Democrats Oppose Harmon

Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 3.-The pro-
gressive democratic league of Ohio
came into being here yesterday at
conference of democrats from nearly
every county in the state. Although
many of the conference had entered
the gathering with the avowed inten-
ton of declaring against the presiden-
tial candidacy of Gov. Judson Harmon,
the executives name was mentioned
only indirectly and the organization
satisfied itself with the adoption of a
resolution urging the members to work
against the choice of any delegate to
either state or national convention who
had not proved himself tried and true
democrat.
Then the name of W. J. Bryan, her
aided as 'ablest to represent the ideal
in any party" was received with APP
plause, and speakers who famed the
democratic ardor while awaiting the
report of the resolutions committee
made adherence to him the final test to
q title to the progressive democracy.
Former Congressman Lentz, as tenn
porary chairman, named Mr.. Bryan as
the democratic candidate most likely of
election. II am one of those who be-
lieve that more progressive republicans
will vote for Mr.. Bryan than for any
other democrat. he said.
Bryan was hailed as the original pro-
gressive by State Senator Frank T.
Dore.
Jos. H. Harper, secretary of the
state central committee, stated that
there was no intention of endorsing
any man for the presidency. This is
strictly an anti-Harmon movement, he
asserted, intended to bring about the
organization of anti-Harmon demo
Gratis throughout the state and to dis
seminate the information that there is
opposition to his candidacy in Ohio.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-01-12
MOW's THIS.

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. J. CHENEY T. CO., Toledo, o.
We. the undersigned, have known +.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions, and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his drm.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrli Cure Is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and inu.
sent free. Price, IS. per bottle. Sold by
all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for Constipa-