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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-07

TIME finest product of civiliza-
ton is a man who is healthy
in body, clear in intellect and
warm and pure in his affections.
Let this once be understood and one
can realize, in a way otherwise inn
possible, how utterly inadequate is
our present form of civilization to
the production of the best results.
That is not the kind of commod-
ity that the social machinery is
turning out, nor is it, except in
very limited degree, the end to-
ward which the social machinery is
being worked. Very few people
prize a beautiful life as something
that is beautiful in itself, and more
beautiful by far than anything
which the admirable powers eXer-
cised by that life may be able to
gain or achieve.
Once in a while. when a great
man dies. a man whom we know to
have been thoroughly fine all
through, physically hale big in his
thinking, sweet and generous in all
his feeling and loving, the public
comes to its senses in the matter,
fOrgets all about what he has said
and done, and thinks only of the
splendid thing that he himself was.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-07

II was once cohsluereo won
derful thing to agitate the cat
gut, pound the piano and foot
the B-hat horn while folks were
feeding.
The introduction OF LONDON mu-
sic hall features III motel dlnlng
rooms is only about htteen years
old.
The innovation came in with the
bizarre, the loud, the blatant 1t
matched the plaster paris gold leaf
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-07
DR.. Parkhurst' S Article
This Inadequate Civiliza-
ton of Ours -
---and--- iii
What Its Finest Prod
uct Is -
Written For The Georgian
Bv the Rev. DR.. G. H. Parkhurst

ginning of this article, that fine
manhood is the choicest product Of
our civilization, is often repeated,
but it is not practically adopted
into the life, and the very men and
women that repeat it will hurry
their children through their school
days in order that they may sooner
be put to work, established in bust
ness and be making for themselves
a name and a fortune
1t is simply pathetic the way in
which even the children are in this
way taught to believe that simple
manhood-that combination of all
that is finest in body, mind and
hearts of little account in COM
parison with what they are going to
be able to get in the world by
means of the small smatterings Of
manhood that their ambitious par
ents give them time to acquire.
And we ought to mention here
all those hundreds of thousands
and millions everywhere through
out our country who never have
the opportunity to become fine in
their physical, intellectual and
emotional life; the millions who
are condemned to mediocrtty and
inferiority by the conditions Of life
that are forced upon them by our
material civilization, which thinks
- Of ,gayfo,-
or nothing of the mana civiliza-
ton that grinds up the many IN or
der to make food for the few as the
insensibIe grindstones Of the miller
turn corn into meal.
These are things to talk and
write and preach about. Think Of
the little boys and girls that are
drafted into the sweatshops, the
factories and the mines. What
chance have they to become the
beautiful men and women that it
is their divine right to become-a
right that is denied them by those
poor apologies of men who are able,
by the enormity of their worldly
possessions, to administer society
in the interest of the few at the
sacrifice of humanity, and whose
worst achievement is that they
propagate among all classes the
notion that to get ahead is a mans
one proper ambition, and that what
deserve to be known as the spirit
ual and eternal values are to be
taken account of only as they are
convertible into material commod-
tiles. available for the comfort,
luxury and pride of an affluent
minority
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-07
PURPOSE OF THE SOCIALIST.

Editor The Georgian:
In DR.. Parkhursts unique criti-
cism of our present civilization,
which appeared in a recent issue of
The Georgian, it would appear tnat
he could find nothing in our indus
trial system upon which to base his
criticism except the fact that work.
ers become mere machines. There
is no question about his represent
ing the workers as mere machines
and ignorant in order to try to
make it appear that workers, as a
rule, are so ignorant they need
masters and leaders, and would not
be competent to exercise their own
powers and judgment in free,
democratic, cooperative common
wealth.
According to the Rev Mr.. Park
bursts minimizing process, the ig
norance of the mere machines (the
workers. is the only thing wrong
in our present industrial system,
but he utterly fails to offer any
remedy He also tries to show that
the Socialist could not take over
the industries in a cooperative
commonwealth on account of the
enormous sum required to pay for
them, which the people would not
be able to pay, but he neglects to
show how much more the people
would be able TO pay when relieved
from the great amount that is
taken as profits by capitalists who
own everything. The truth of the
matter is, the Socialist does not ad-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-07
Letters From the People


vocate the taking over of all the
industries at one clean sweep. He
proposes to begin in a sensible and
systematic way by taking over only
the industries necessary to give the
workers regular employment with
the full product of their labor be-
yond necessary expenses, and then
go on taking over one industry and
public utility after another as most
necessary and practicable until all
public utilities and means of pro-
duction and transportation shall be-
utilized by cooperative and DEM
Ocratic commonwealth
]. H. JENKINS.
brownsville, Ga.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-07
To Those Who Write Ad-
VertiSements
You Help Your Employers and the Public at
Large at the Same Time.
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-07
Rounds of Ladder Whose
Top Is Never Reached.

Under ordinary circumstances,
however, the public does not get
down to its best judgment in such
matters. Powers of body mind or
heart, that are required, are usual
ly priced. not for the value that in
heres in them in themselves con-
sidered, but only for what they may
be able to secure. exactly as the
money getter values his thousand
dollars, not for any worth that may
inhere in it, but only because he can
invest it, and by that means get
some more of the same kind.
In the same way the finer ac-
QUESTIONS are not valued and en-
joyed for their intrinsic beauty but
only as rounds in the ladder whose
top is never reached. 1t is like a
tourist travelling to some distant
region. reputed to be surprisingly
beautiful, but neglecting all the
lesser beauties that lie along the
way, and finally dying before
reaching the region toward which
his quest was directed.
Children, youth, young men, go
to school, college or the university,
but only a very small minimum of
them attach any value to their aC-
quired knowledge as they go along
or pursue their studies with the
idea that to be educated is what a
man is made for, quite apart from
the uses to which he will put his
education, and that without cul-
ture he just so far falls short of the
destiny to which he was appointed,
be the results large or small, that
he is able to achieve in the world
without the aid of culture.
1t would be interesting to know
how many of the boys in Columbia,
for instance, ever think of it that
their daily acquisitions are so much
addition to their personal worth,
and that to be personally worth
something is greater, greater in the
sight of God and of reasonable
men, than to be thereby possessed
of the means of filling large posi-
tions in the social, economic or
financial world.
The statement made at the be-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-07
FAIRGROUNDS AND CHILDREN

Editor The Georgian:
The Fairgrounds for Atlanta's
children have been doing manv
things for the little ones this sum-
mer, such as keeping them wei,
physically, mentally and morally
thus decreasing the spread of the
most fatal disease the world knows
tuberculosis. How have +hev
been doing this? Through good
wholesome play Soon the pIav.
ground rally will be held and on
that day hundreds and hundreds Of
city children will gather together
to show the city fathers how 70
work happily, actively, peacefuIIv
and we'll
MARY E. BARNWEIT.
Supervisor.
Atlanta. Ga.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-07

Atlanta. Ca.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-07

ascribe to them a great deal of par
entail tenderness and care and an
apparent fondness for family life.
During the Antarctic winter they
abandon their rookeries and go far
Their north, in order to find water
not covered with ice in which to
fish. With the return of summer
they resume their life at the rock
cries, which sometimes constitute
veritable cities, with a population
of several hundred thousand indi-
viduals. 1t Mas been observed that
the same birds apparently return
to the same rookeries season after
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-07
Very Clean.

These curious birds are very
careful Of the cleanliness of their
persons and rookertes. When they
first encounter men they show no
fear, mstaking them, possibly, for
another race of their own kind,
with which they are willing to fra
slowly and solemnly over the snow,
in single file, like Indians on
trail. presents a most extraordinary
sight. Notwithstanding their APP
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-09-05

r cod On;
Don { Miss q Word

In order to deserving family in Baaboo chance TO own
this mammoth factory have tagged every piano on on
revelation THEME Is NOT ON
enjoys music that need be Whoua piano while this sale
going within reach OF the poorest family 30 as
factory us
special advertising allowance which will brnge prices OF the goods
the styles marked to the ACTUAL COST
MAKING THEM To celebrate this great evenhat we are o.
manufacturers the factory advertising department will give away absc
utey FREE beauflO year Waham godwaches to the lo
PURCHASERS, this week, either adY's Orzgents size
AS our previous sales will again offer "A IENI
YEARS LESSONS People learned to appreci
1t ECONOMY to
them generous February when the weather
sale almost SO pianos were Sold
What with bright weather. good crops and pianos
Is offered before? Three carloads may
lot but they may 60 surprisingly fast Come
while the You who. have always ##
wanted piano 'fresh the factory" and at afac-
tOrv price---tnisis chance. AIWW
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-09-05
To the BQrQboo
Public

Purchasing big factory Milwaukee
will in the history selling
biggest transacted by retail
piano possible ONLY
factory both Baboo
will enduring monument thirty
business dealings Sank county We
proud positively the ONLY RET AL FR In
AMERICA who today stock this factory event
Baaboo will greatly rejoice the piano
selling will be completely evolntionized being
NA position where sell pianos strict FAC
A TORY TO HOME basis eliminating all middemens profits
the facoys choicest styles of pianos
pianos been shipped from the factory
celebrate this great event and being hauledup the
Baraboo store fyou the most
gorgeous display freshly unlocked pianos
your life, be hand Wednesday. You'll sight
you'll forget Whether You buy not you'll be
welcom Beautifu and to all
caTer
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-11
ALMOST PERFECT IN SYSTEM
Modern Hotel a Wonderful Improve
ment Over Its Predecessor of Only
a Few Years Ago.

1T is wonderful to appreciate the
difference in hotel systems Of today
and 15 years ago. And still, with all
the conveniences that are offered to
guests at practically the same rates,
there is the man who finds fault.
To-day guests have telephones in
their rooms, whereas several years
ago they had anything from a cow
bell to a row of brass checks operat-
ed with n cord.
AT the old Gobson house, about
twelve years ago, we installed de-
vice for lessening labor which was
called a teleseme 1t was a sort OF
punch button affair which was sup
posed to signal for anything from a
San Francisco newspaper to bag Of
peanuts. You'd push the button so
many times and different lights would
bob up on the board In the Office after
the clerk had released the indicator.
"one day pulled out the indicator
on certain room and the lights
flared up. The signal showed very
difficult drink and FASTENED to notify
the cafe.
"a boy took the drink upstairs, but
could find no one. After little In
vestigatlon we found the room had
not been occupied for two weeks and
that the signal had been given when
maid had pushed the bed against
the room button.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-11
TheHOIlOW ; , ;
n ; Of Her Hand
George Barr MoCutCheOn

IL | thought she'd But nonsense!
Let's talk about something else.
Yourself, for instance"
She leaned back with a smile on
her lips, but not In her eyes; and
drew long, deep breath. He was
hard hit. That was what she wanted
to know
They found Booth at the Inn. He
was sitting on the old.fashioned porch.
surrounded by bags and boys. AS he
climbed into the car after the bags,
the boys grinned and jingled the coins
in their pockets and ventured, almost
in unison, tho intelligence that they
would all be there II he ever came
back again. Big and little, they had
transported his easel and canyasses
from place to place for three weeks
or more and his departure was to be
regarded as financial calamity.
Leslie, perhaps in the desire to be
alone with his reflections, sat forward
with the chauffeur, and paid little or
no heed to the unhappy persons com.
ments on the vile condition OF all vii
lage thoroughfares. New York city in
cluded.
"And you painted those wretched
little boys instead OF the beautiful
things that nature provides for us out
here, Mr.. Booth?" Sara was saying
to the artist beside her.
"Of course managed to get bit
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-11
C0oNRu1Z /22 ~ GEOR[ SHRR p1eCU

Listen, my dear" said Sara,
hard note growing in her voice: this
Is my home. do not love 1t, but
can see no reason for abandoning 1t.
That is why we came back to New
York"
Hetty pressed her friends hand to
her lips. Forgive me-" she cried i'm
pulsively. II shouldn't have COM
complained. It was detestable."
Besides" went on Sara evenly.
you were quite free to remain on the
other side. left It to you"
You gave me n week to decide"
said Hetty In a hurried manner OF
speaking. Il took but twenty-four
hours-less than that. Over night,
you remember. I love you, Sara |
could not leave you. All that night
| could feel you pulling at my heart
strings, pulling me closer, and holding
me. You were In your room, | in
mine, and yet all the time you seemed
to be bending over me in the dark.
ness, urging me to stay with you and
love you and be loved by you. 1t
couldn't have been a dream"
1T was not dream" said Sara
with queer smile.
you do love me?" tensely.
Il do love you" was the firm an.
swer. Sara was staring across the
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-11

She came to the bridge by the mill,
long since deserted and now thing OF
ruin and decay. A man in knicker-
bockers stood leaning against the rail,
idly gazing down at the trickling
stream below. The brier pipe that
formed the circuit between hand and
lips sent up soft blue coils to float
away on the drizzle.
She passed behind him, with a sim
gle furtive, curious glance at his hand.
some, undsturbed profile, and in that
glance recognized him as the man she
had seen the day before.
When she was a dozen rods away.
the tall man turned his face from the
stream and sent after her the long
restrained look. There was something
akin to cautiousness In that look OF
his, as II he were afraid that she
might turn her head suddenly and
catch him at It. Something began
stirring In his heart. the nameless
something that awakens when least
expected. He felt the subtle. sweet
femininity OF her as she passed. 1t
fingered with him as he looked.
She turned the bend In the road a
hundred yards away. For many min
utes he studied the stream below
without really seeing It. Then he
Strengthened up, knocked the ashes
from his pipe. and set off slowly In
her wake, although he had been walk.
ing In quite the opposite direction
when he came to the bridge-and on
mission of some consequence, too.
There was the chance that he would
meet her coming back.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-11

of nature. even at that" said he, with
smile. Boys are pretty close to
earth. you know. To be perfectly hon
est, did it in order to get away. from
the eminently beautiful but unnatural
things I'm required to paint at home"
81 suppose we will see you at the
Wrandall place this summer"
I'm coming out to paint Leslle's
sister in June, believe. And that
reminds me, | came upon an uncom.
monty pretty girl not far from your
place the other day--and yesterday,
as well--some one I've met before un-
less I'm vastly mistaken. | wonder
II you know your neighbors we'll
enough-by sight, at least-to venture
a good guess as TO who | mean"
She appeared thoughtful.
"Oh, there are dozens OF pretty
girls in the neighborhood. Can't you
remember where you met" She
stopped suddenly, swift look of ap-
prehension in her eyes.
He failed to note the look or the
broken sentence. He was searching
in his coat pocket for something. Sc
lecting a letter from the middle OF a
small pocket. he held 1t out to her.
81 sketched this from memory. She
posed all too briefly for me-" he said.
On the back of the envelope was a
remarkably good likeness OF Hetty
Castleton, done broadly, sketchily,
with a crayon point, evidently drawn
with haste while the impression was
fresh. but long after she had passed
out of range Of his vision.
81 know her." said Sara quietly.
ITS very clever, Mr. Booth"
"There is something hauntingly ia.
millar about It," he went on, looking
at the sketch with frown OF perplex
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-11
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
9TZ8EES8Ag MG55a3@3E8
SSSSSISSSS

Another device was the old cord
In the room at the Grand hotel. A
certain number of pulls would release
brass checks on which was scheduled
the desire of the guest. Whenever a
pull came on this indicator it sounded
as though some one had dropped a
couple of hundred brass checks on a
marble floor,
This affair was n nuisance, for we
got to sending ice water to a room
every time it worked. Many times a
guest would receive three or four
pitchers of water,
Then some one came along and
put In the telephone for hotels. The
modern day hotel is q wonderful in
stitutlon compared with that of but
few years ago."-Cincinnati Com.
cial Tribune.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-11
A Lucky Escape.

81 owe my success in life to poll
tics"
81 was not aware that you we're a
politician"
I'm not; but | thought | was once,
and got myself nominated for an office
that, if had been elected, would have
paid me about Sl,5OO year. was
so badly beaten that | dropped poll
tics forever and took up the busi-
ness that has brought me a fortune.
1t makes me shudder when ! remem-
Der that if had been elected | might
now be afraid of doing something that
would deprive me Of the lodging-house
vote"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-06-11

"rYe broken sport
ing records and I've played
At working corners up in stocks ana
wheat;
Such things have lost their charms for
me; I've made
Tho whole great round, the circle is
complete.
woman. wine and song-bah! Not for
There's nothing left to long for any
more.
There's nothing left to do or taste or see.
The world has not another thrill in
store"
But fate was kind to him who thus COM
planned.
It came to pass by happy chance, one
day.
That all alone and with his pockets
drained.
He on tar-ofr shore was cast away.
There. where his voice could reach no
friendly ear
And where remittances could not bo
had.
Hard masters made him toll from year
TO year
And every time he ate his soul was
glad.
He longod for things that he could not
obtain:
The prospect OF day or two OF rest,
The chance 10 save little extra gain,
Sent new thrills troopng gladly through
his breast.
He sat him down no moro with lstless
slghs,
But with tho hope Of winning liberty
He worked and looked ahead with eager
eyes,
TIL Death was kind enough to set him
free.
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Tho day was drawing to a close
Judge, Jurors, witnesses and lawyers
were growing weary, says the Theoso
phical Path. Finally the counsel for
the prosecution rose to examine the
defendant.
Exactly how far is It between the
two towns" asked the lawyer. In a
weary voice.
The defendant yawned, and replied;
About four miles as the cry flows"
mo doubt" said the man Of law,
you mean as the 1ow cries."
The Judge leaned forward. No. he
remarked. suavely, 'he means as the
ny crows"
Then all three looked at one an
other, feeling that something was
wrong somewhere