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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07

emit quite that securities they
called. have up largely in price and at
lucky holders have made a lot of money out of the
rise the whole thing is gamble pure simple
every outsider who makes money of it any
number will lose.
For to buy these wireless securities at
present even though he may have plenty Of money
pay he buys, is in sense investment
cannot be called speculation, for in specI-
lation, is supposed to act integently, taking
some chance, it true but having
to the value and probable price appreciation Of
what is buying. OF the value the real chances
of appreciation in price of of these
curities it is impossible to find nything buy
them is therefore not a speculation. but what
goes by the ordinary of a gamble
And If a wants to gamble there many
attractive ways of doing it than buying
tficates inflated prices and then waiting for the
to collapse"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07
The Ragtine Muse

HE'S PERSONALLY EXEMPT.
Observe this form Of mirrored thought
This bold cartoon, whose lines reveal
A trenchant satire, keenly wrought,
With edge fine and firm steel,
Won't Johnson fairly sceethe at this?
And won't 1t put him out Of face?
This slap at him comes not amiss-
Indeed, it truly fits his case.
This quatrain here's a slender thing;
tbs fashioned lightly, balanced true,
OF rapier polish, whip and spring,
Yet sure and penetrating. too.
It's touch and go, but how it picks
In Thompsons armor every joint
II leaves him in a deuced fix
Why. any one can see the point.
Now, here we have quip concise,
A half score words Of keenest tang.
One does not have to read it twice
To catch the hint from whence IT sprang.
1t ruthlessly strips Browns veneer,
And shows the wryness Of his bent
That it's a rap at Brown IS clear
These fellows who with fearless pen
Drive hard on the delinQuents ways
Are of unmeasured worth to men
And merit unstinted praise
Themselves may count it small renown,
But that they're doing good is clear;
To show up Thompson, Johnson, Brown
Helps one to fill ones days with cheer.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07
Pointed Paragraphs

If a is color blind she is apt get more on
cheek than the other
The thing a woman can't understand is how a
open telegram without getting nervous
If a is unable to beat an argument
usually win his point by flattering
never feels comfortable in a dress suit II he
remembers that he will have to back to work the
next morning.
If Of the prodigaI daughter
instead of the prodigal she would brought a.
son-in-law with her to live off the old man.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07
kLeeting Fiction

Denver Republican.
I like to read the latest books
But somehow I have missed
The hero who exclaimed "Gadzooks!'- p
Whose good blade ever Missed
Defending maiden in distress;
He's now among the dead, 1 guess.
like to read the newest tales.
But long I've sought in vain
story of fast scudding sails
Upon the Spanish Main;
The pirate, with his fearsome grin.
Would seem. likewise. to have cashed in.
'Tis joy to pay a dollar for
A book with ink still damp;
But where is that engaging lore
Whose hero is a scamp?
No more does Mr.. Raffles wave
He seems to fill an early grave.
Cowpuncher tales there are galore,
And birdman stories too;
The baseball hero, more and more
Is coming into view;
Mans life is short enough, but look
How briefly dwells with US a book
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07
THE DECLINE, IN COFFEE.

1t appears from certain interesting figures
Gently compiled by the Department of Commerce
and Labor that Americans are ceasing to be the
sure the United States is still the worlds largest
purchaser of coffee, but of recent years there has
been an appreciate decrease in it's imports of this
product.
Our consumption of coffee during 1911 is esti-
mated at about nine and quarter pounds per
capita; in 1901 it than thirteen pounds
per capita In 1909 the imports exceeded billion
pounds; last year they amounted to only some eight
hundred and seventy-fve thousand pounds.
This has been due in part, perhaps, to the in
creased cost of living in general and to the adj
vancing price of coffee in particular 1t must not
be forgotten, however that beverages subject to
the winds of fashion, that like books and bonnets.
they have their of popularity and indifference.
There was time when coffee was the national
drink of Englishmen and when the coffee house was
even distinctive feature of the countrys life
and manners than the soda fountain is in America
today. In mountaineering London, as we
have been told, every rank and profession had its
coffee house and those who wished to find gentle
man commonly asked, not whether he lived in Fleet
street or Chancery Lane but whether he frequented
the Grecian the Rainbow" Yet, fifty or a hundred
years later this picturesque institution had all but
vanished and the Britsher forgetfully slipping
his tea
1t may be that such change is taking place
in this country. We shall doubtless always drink
coffee and much of it but, a national beverage,
it is perhaps. declining in favor Common observa-
ton would lead infer that butermilk is just
now in the ascendancy; and the Strenuous One him.
SELF told, often drinks four glasses of milk
to the meal.
Even small man may have large opinion OF
himself.
Talk isn't always cheap; it often costs a man
black eye
It's always the under dog that bowls for the
peacemaker.
The man behind the hoe may dig up many dol
lar for the other fellow.
selfmade never gets through putting
the finishing touches
No need to attend summer chautauquas with such
entertaining stump orators there are in the ranks
of the Republican party.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07


There was once upon time young preacher who
travelled the Shakerag circuit and got 500 and
a few preserves and pumpkins. He called to the
Main Street church Of large city His family main
tanned precisely grade living expenses they
had the circuit. received $4,000 year and put
$4,000 of it away in the bank.
There an actor who started in his career
at $40 week and railroads" He lived it and
bought his clothes He in his profession, he
had some ability fair to He became
matinee idol. His salary $1,000 week He
never hired to brush his clothes and pack his
suit He little at 800 sit
ting. He still took occasional glass of beer
hot whisky when he had a cold and never bought
champagne. He put away for rainy day $3.50 week.
Loud and continued applause
There country lawyer who existed quite
comfortably with his little family in pleasant neigh
borhood. He rode out Sunday afternoons with his
folks in the surrey behind honest but not high
stepping, bay Sunday mornings he went
church. OF evenings he would sometimes read Glib
bons Rome" with his wife play auction bridge
with the neighbors. He elected governor He
refused to give Inauguration ball He had gold
spattered staff of cheap politicians who called them
selves colonels He lived along about he always
had His head did not swell. He just attended to tie
governing business he might have attended to any
other business he had been hired to perform.
One moment! There college boy who
part Of his allowance writing to his father
that he did need it,
To wind up this fiction with a comparable fact
must go back to the dark ages for there
emperor laid aside his and took to raising
cabbages.
That however, a long while
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07

IOtInd ton OF the man VINO WTOl6
it make an investigation on your
own account. Ask some banker
you know to get for you the an
nual reports of the wireless com
panies, showing capitalization,
earrings, interest charges. assets.
and other liabilities. Write to
any of the reputable newspapers
or magazines which pay attsn-
ton to financial matters and ask
for a brief history of the compa-
MES. 1t will be time enough then
to call me names and roast the
editor of Investments" This is
the caution:
I'VE cannot advise our readers
too strongly against buying The
wireless stocks which are being
doomed to such an extent at nraS--
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07

Inc was once a yONAAS hAe'AA
who got married, on a salary OF
$500 a year. The young couple
lived in a small apartment, mad
simply amusements, wore mex
pensive clothes, and were happy.
The wife did her own work. and
the husband used to stop on nts
way home and buy pork chops.
He smoked scent cigars OCCASION
ally and a pipe generally.
He got on. Within ten years
his income increased to $4,000
annually. They never moved out
of the cheap apartment. The
woman continued to wear the
same quality of clothes. Their
expenses were increased only Ly
the necessary additional outlay
for three babies. The man con-
tinued to smoke scent cigars
and briar pipe. The extra
money they saved.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07
Twenty Greatest Men

(Satire)
List selected by Mr. Roosevelt Reprinted without
permission from the Lookout
Theodore Roosevelt
T. Roosevelt.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt.
Col. T. Roosevelt
Col. Roosevelt
EXPIRES Theodore Roosevelt.
EXPIRES T. Roosevelt.
EXPIRES Roosevelt
T. R.
Mr. Theodore Roosevelt
Mr. T.. Roosevelt.
Mr.. Roosevelt
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt
Hon. T. Roosevelt
Teddy the Great
Editor Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt.
Bwano Tumbo.
Next President Roosevelt.
MET
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07
MILLIONS FOR CORN.

Mr. william Bradford agent of the Boys Corn
Clubs for the Fifth congressional district declared
the other day that Georgia farmers pay annual
tax of millions of dollars by buying corn from dis
tant markets instead of producing it here at home
Furthermore, he showed just how this comes to be
true
The farmer who buys western grown corn is
having a dollar and a quarter bushel Corn was
raised in Georgia last year by member of the Boys
clubs at cost of ten and half cents bushel; and
the average cost of the staple, produced by
than fifty members of the clubs in various parts Of
the state was less than twenty-four cents bushe
Accepting the higher figure find that corn of the
highest quality can be raised on our own soil
than dollar bushel cheaper than it be pur
chased from other sections; a condition which
means. in effect that the farmer throws away dol
lar on every bushe OF he buys instead of rails
ing it himself.
1t is heartening TO note that Georgias production
OF this important crop is steadily increasing. The
state is far more alert and progressive in this par
ticuIar than it was two even five years ago. The
gospel Of scientific agriculture is already bearing
abundant fruit. Crops being diversified and well
thoughtout methods are being adopted. The states
yield Of last year larger than ever before
and placed the commonwealth well in the forward
ranks Of the entire Union.
not be given the Boys Corn Clubs. They have been
of specific well general value. They have set
higher standards and have definitely shown what the
soil can be made to yield.
One Of the surest ways to advance the states
interests in this regard is to encourage the work of
these young farmers Nearly ten thousand Georgia
boys enlisted in the club campaign They
have been organized in large majority of the coun-
ties Their efforts should receive the hearty encour-
agement OF their parents and neghbors and of the
public at large.
The boy who make two stalks of grow
where only grew before is truly benefactor to
his state. He is opening the way to more prosper
Gus commonwealth and is serving the best interests
Of all the people.
such endeayOrs should be accorded the highest
possible honor and given the highest possible reward
It is gratifying to know that bankers and railroads
and public have Joined in stimulating this work
1t is be hoped that in the future there win
be Boys Corn club in every county within the bor-
ders Of the and that every country boy viii be
enlisted
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07
Some Pleasing Fiction
By DR.. Frank Crane

for moment while indulge in little
pleasing fiction.
have been telling the truth long that am
weary and would fail little
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07
Saving and Investing Talks
Wireless Stocks
By JOHN M. osKIsoN.

Here is a caution investors from the magazine
called Investments" which should be carefully
just now. it. and if doubt the wisdom in
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07

However the strike of walters results I'M New
York. the public will continue to pay the tip
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07

The strike of hotel walters will seriously inter
fere with our vacation plans if not stopped.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07

Diamonds discovered in Canada" No wonder
Canada objected to being annexed.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07

A selfmade woman never gets through puttin
on the finishing touches
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07

No need to attend summer chautauquas with such
entertaining stump orators there in the ranks
of the Republican party.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-07

The man behind the hoe may dig up many dol
lar for the other fellow.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-02
GEORGIA ELEVEN READY
FOR ITS OPENING GAME

ATHENS. GA, Oct. 1.-Bowden. left
end: Harrell, left tackle; Malone, left
guard; Henderson or Wood, center;
Lucas. right guard; Peacock (captain)
right tackle; Parrish, right end; Gov
ington, quarter back; McWhorter. right
half; Paddock, left half; Wheatley. full
back
This in all probability will be the
lineup that Coach Cunningham will
put on the field for the first game OF
the season with the University of Chat
tanooga here Saturday.
Paddock, Wheatley and Henderson
are the only new faces that appear The
other men saw service on last seasons
eleven.
The Georgia team expects a pretty
stiff game from the Tennesseeans. anC
Cunningham will take no chances by
sending in anything but his best clever
at the start of the game.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-02
TEAMS NEED MEN TO
MIX 'EM UP, SAYS Y0ST

ANN ARBOR, MICH, Oct IA good
quarterback who knows how to mix his
plays and can open up the game when he
needs to will do lot for the team under
the new rules" said Coach Fielding YOst
recently.
"A straight plunging game will not d.
and heavy team will not have the ad-
vantage that so many seem to think
"Of course, the unrestricted forward
pass will help lot, but a proper mix
ture Of the old style plunging tactics and
the newer open game will product the re-
suit.
-Four downs will help a lot, but you
still have two and half yards to gain on
a down, and under the old rules there
were many times that team couldn
make the yard and thirds it needed
to make its distance"
Henry Curtis, famous lineman back IN
03 and '04, has been obtained as assistant
coach in place of Curt Redden, who could
not return this year Only seven men
showed up today for early practice ana
some Of last years stars have not YET
sent word that they will be here, although
all but McKinnon are expected. OF lasI
years team only Torbet, end and nan
and Barton, END, are here, although "Buo-
bles" Patterson and Guard Quinn are eN-
pected tonight.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-02
By Ed. w. Smith.

y HICAGO, ILL, oct. Per
I haps the loss of interest in
the boxing game, now so no
ticeabie in New York contests, may
be traced to the nO-deCisiOn system
that prevails there.
The system gives the fighters
plenty of leeway. There is little
chance for a dent in regulations II
a man can stick the ten rounds and
there is a good chance that
friendly critic or two might be
induced to give him an even
break, thus enhancing his chances
of getting other bouts
There is a false ring about the
whole thing that isn't pleasing.
In bouts where decisions are Civ
en- it Is an absolute certainty that
the fighters will do their level best.
Knowing that the contest is to go
to a referees decision, the fans
naturally will feel more concern
and interest in such a meeting
than they would in a contest in
which they feel that one man could
stall pretty much all the way
through without seriously hurting
his reputation.
Even Title Contests Fail to Draw.
New York is complaining of the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-02

When the Reds departed last from
Chicago they carried a new man win
them, Albert Kuhn. He was d product
of the back lots of Chicago.
Jim. Delehanty batted .43S this season.
Mailing the pill is a family characteris-
tic with the Delehantys.
\ fine lot of youngsters are found in
the select batting circle in the American
association, such juveniles as Corridor.
Rossman, Carr, Clymer Altizer Hulswitt
and the rest
Capron, the former college wonder,
managed to hit PSI with St Paul.
Left handlers have had small success
against the Red Sox this year. The Sox
have won II, lost and tied ! against
the performers of the southpaw persua-
sion.
Wonder how Charley Murphy will come
out in his effort to clamp prohibition on
his Cubs, Frank Chance says it's all
drink, in moderation. He does. not, how
ever, go on to give a definition of the
word moderator,
Howard Camnit4 will lead band of
Pirate transformers through Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio after the season ends.
The trip will last as long as the money
does
Don't count too, strongly on Jeff Tes-
reau for the worlds series. He's just
bought new yellow automobile
Victor Munoz has the honor of being the
first sporting editor on the job for the
worlds series. He landed in New York
several days ago from Havana. He picks
the Giants Also he pays cents a word
to get his stories back to his paper.
Market item: Boston Common is re-
ported strong.
The Battle Creek Normal school OF
football because the beastly games bru-
tai stli cIings to baseball
Answer; Anxious-Yes. yes We are
picking the Red Sox. Therefore. go bet
on the Giants with the fun assurance
that You can't be far wrong
Every body in the Southern league wants
to see Al nemaree make good, but few
believe that he will. Somehow AL isn't
our notion of really great pitcher
Mike ponlfn has taken to Christian
Science. He says that il saved his wife's
life when she was so sick in the summer
ANA he's converted. TN do him good
too, no doubt
Pitcher Al Klawitter. who was drafted
| from Portland by Detroit, says he woulC
rather do anything on earth except pitch
| He claims that he played several games
at short for knaupp last year and subbeC
SO well that the official scorer took hin
| for the real thing and credited fourteen
| hits out of fifteen times up TO "knauppy
| Lelvelt finished second among the reg.
ular pitchers Of the American associa.
sidering that he was always nowhere OF
worse In the southern league
! Glenn Liebhardt could not manage t.
] "A
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-02
FODDER FOR FANS

Horace Fogel tries to be a press agent
of the Charley Murphy stamp, but he
does not do it as we'll His charge that
the umpires deliberately handed the
1t hardly stirred breeze in sporting
circles 'a
Fans in Boston are already stalking out
waiting for the daily sale OF tickets to
begin. W. q. ru.s ...,
Fred Clarke has signed 1913 contract
with the Pirates--which was rather to
have been expected.
After refraining for years to protest
an umpire, August Hermann has landed
on ore The. object of his wrath was
out of a recent game for bad language.
Hermann says he can prove that Fin
neran used worse language than Egan.
Head in big league paper: Chance
Done as Leader of the Chicago Outfit"
Query Done what?'
Josh Devore the diamond king of the
big leagues, went into Diamond Johns
place in New York the other day, just
looking around, John had a stomacher
he had picked up at pawnbroker's sale.
1t was about 4 inches by g. and con-
tanned samples of all the known precious
morously, lis sumpin' nice for your
scarf Josh Mr.. Devore inspected 1t
gravely. That would be grand piece
of junk to keep your chin up with, John, -
folks might call it loud?"
Hank O'Day was recently interviewed,
said it all before" He did finally admit,
though, that it was easier to manage than
to be an umpire.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-02
Fight Fans Lose Interest Under New York System
NODECISION BOUTS HAVE HURT BOXING GAME

small houses and hence the boxers
are not so eager as they were to
perform there.
Even championship contests with
strong international flavor are
not doing we'll in Gotham town.
Eddie McGoorty didn't get fat
financially through his feat of
whipping the Australian and Brit
ish stars, Dave Smith and Jack
Harrison. On paper and in ad-
vance better bouts than these could
hardly have been asked for.
Yet they didn't draw. The mid
dleweights, 1t is true, received sew
eral black eyes in recent bouts in
New York because of the sheer
mediocrity Of their performances.
And this same Eddie McGoorty was
one Of those who contributed to the
general feeling of disgust at the
middleweights because of his So
called Indifferent showing with
Bob Moha, the Milwaukee strong
forgotten when Dave Smith land
ed here. and later when the English
champion, Harrison, came here
with a flourish of trumpets and
was acclaimed one of the best
Great Britain has sent here in a
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-02
Boston Kids Build Tunnel to
Get Into Red SoX Ball Park

ground suddenly give way and 20
down.
"A heavy rain had just fallen
and l supposed that it was respon-
sible for the cave-in. Pretty soon
l saw a pair Of hands emerge and
grasp at the sinking ground. Then
1t dawned on me. A Kid had tun-
neled his way into the ball park.
We'll, we got busy right away.
We ran outside and found the en-
trance to the tunnel. We plugged
this and told the lads that the jig
was up. Pretty soon they began
to emerge. There were seven Of
them there and We lined them up.
There's three more in there
howled one OF the youngsters. The
words were scarcely out of his
mouth when another OF tho young
sters swung on him. Which goes
to show that 1T doesn't pay to be
even a young informer.
I'VE yelled and shouted at the
three, but they wouldn't come out.
So we got hose. turned on the
water, swished 1t in that tunnel a
few times, and out they came.
VA HEN we began an investisa-
w ton. We have board walk
outside Of the entrance, and this
continues for q short distance aft
er you get in the park. It was easy
for them to tunnel under this. I
suppose they tunneled q distance
of five feet after leaving the walk
They had a hole there that was
plenty large enough for a young
ster to crawl through on all fours
1t was too near the surface. how
ever, and the heavy rain caused
the cave-in which resulted in the
detection.
Those kids still go over the fence.
Mercy told one story Of bunch
of youngsters who climbed the side
p of the new grandstand
Some Of his companions went the
distance, but one fellow got to
position where he couldn't go on
and he couldn't come down. They
rescued him with the aid OF lad
ders.
So the old fashioned kids haven't
disappeared They're still getting
in without paying their way, and
the baseball men have an idea
that they always will.