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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-15

TIME controv ersy between the
two Republican candidates for
the presidency has reached an
acute stage which is disappointing
humiliating and damaging
So long as a campaign is utilized
to the threshing out of political
principles We can afford to be graf
flied by the intensity With which it
is maintained, for the more sharply
antagonistic views are set over
against each other the moreNinter-
esting and instructive the process
becomes
But nothing of the kind can be
said of the scrimmage at the point
at which it has now arrived.
1t is no longer a matter of pro-
gressivism against converatism or
of conservatism against progressiv-
ism.
1t is simply question of who is
the liar. Roosevelt or Taft?
1t has reduced to wrangle of
personalities and develops the IN
comely passions of the two leaders
in the first instance and of their
respective followers in the second
instance
1t makes bad spectacle before
the world abroad and inpairs our
political dignity at home.
When two boys commence call
ing each other names the best
treatment to give them is to sep
arate them and send them home
and what shall be said of the two
most conspicuous grownup in the
country. one president and the
other an ex- president, engaged in
verbal hsticuffs, with hundred
million people gathered about the
ring bounding them on?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-15
Oily Film Prevents Breaking
OF Upper Edge of Waves.

In a series of letters published in
the May number of the magazine
MOTOR BOATING the experiences
of navigators with the use of oil on
stormy waves are interestingly
summed up The oil can not hold
the sea down" The waves con-
unue to rise and fall whether they
are covered with oil or not. but the
oily film prevents the breaking of
the upper edges of the waves.
which s the great source of danger
10 ships and boats II waves do
NOT break" the boat viii simply
ride smoothly upon them running
over the erests and down through
the honcvs lks a bird rising and
dipping in the air
Il has bsen suggested thar the
use of eli IN this way Nas first
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-15
Foolish to Hire Women to
Be True to First Love.

1t is said that the attempt to
hire women to be true to their first
love is not usually a success.
Love and money belong respec-
lively to different orders of COM
modify. Love is. in fact, almost
the only article in general use that
can not be computed in terms of
dollars and cents.
And yet. as a finishing remark,
it deserves to be said that WON
an who abdes by her widowhood
out of VOLUNTARY loya1ty,to her
deceased husband evinces- a quality
no so likely to be found in one
whose old love can be dissolved in
the flames of a new.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-15
Allowance Left Girl Wife
Is Rather Meager.

Considering his immense wealth,
the allowance left to his girlwife
was certainly rather meager. and
her hold even upon that is some
what stinted; but even so. there
was one hard condition that he did
not impose upon her, which he
would have imposed had he been
Hindu of the olden type, and
that was that she should practice
suffice and incinerate herself upon
the tomb of her departed lord
The con1ugal regard thus evinced
for her comfort of body and peace
of mind ought to count on the
other side of the balance sheet and
to that extent soften the asperities
of adverse criticism.
With that exception there is not
very much to say of pleasant
kind about his testamentary treat
ment Of the voting companion Of
his bosom.
Perhap that was more his busi-
ness than it is hers.
1t probably was, but so long as
people are bound in the ties of
communal life they are bound to
have opinions. and if they hold
those opinions with any intensity
of conviction will be likely to ex-
press them. and it is to the gen
eral advantage that they should, for
opinions are for general consump-
ton, not for storage.
For a husband to deal in meager
fashion with his wife while he is
still living is a sad blot on connu-
bal devotion, but there is not the
venality in that that there is when
the same paltry impulse is so
stretched to the other side of the
grave that the pinch of it remains
upon his wife after he is translated.
His attempt to discipline her
into post-mortem devotion will very
likely result in her making. a sec
ond matrimonial experiment, out of
spite. if for no other reason, es-
pecially if an arrangement can be
made such as will indemnify her
for the sacrifice of her first hus-
bands conditional beneficence.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-15

tn HE growing use Of motor
boats has given renewed in
terest to the question of the
usefulness of the method, which
has been known from remote an
tiquity, of smoothing the waves by
means Of oil spread upon them. It
is a matter of common observation
that thin film of oil resting upon
a surface of water prevents the lat
ter from ripping under the action
OF brisk wind The popular ex
PLANTATION is that the oil holds the
water down But this is not the
true explanation. for the oil is
lighter than the water-if it were
not il would float on the surface.
The action of the oil is due to the
fact that its surface tension is less
than that of the water, In conse-
quence of this difference the oil
spreads rapidly over the water, and
wherever it spreads it presents
surface whose tension is less than
that Of water and which has a less
tendency 10 break into combing
crests 1t protects the water be-
meath from the combing force of
the wind driving across the sum
,,{tr 90 80 o-a,.ae
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-15
An Over-P reduction of
Gold"
of
Of goId"-NEWS ITEM
Bv JAMES W. M'GEE.

the high
Of uod"-NEWS ITEM.
w THEN pay to the o buy
w supplies a family
you the prices you'll deep sigh
who barely alive;
jify you've spent what took six o earn
you home, dead broke. in the cold
you're broke, your will learn
overproduction of gold
Do you know why the that storage grow stale
dumped n spring
the newly laid crop leaves a price-raising trail
the cost ixc apiece
When the trust lets themout TO be sold?
No it's through cold storage that prices increase
It's the overproduction of gold
The Coal Trust phlanthropists, and good
Whom God in His wisdom
With those of the Beef Trust, our food.
By conditions panied.
The Ice Trust and Milk Trust of right.
Bright halos their features
What folly to blame these poor our plight
Blame the overproducton OF gold
We don't find overproducon of bills
OF nickels dimes:
The wages they in the mills
Are barely enough for
Perhaps when the dollar pair
And when tUo-dollar s soda
They'll call in the silver a share
OF the oyerproducticn Of gold
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-15
Written For The Georgian
Bv the Rev. DR.. c. H. Parkhurst

Bad as a man may be. he is never
quite so bad as he might be; and IL
is always the part of charity to
pick the NUGGET from the dross and
hold it out where the light can shire
on it, and the people have a look
n il
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lectors In the world, Director Gordon
secured it for the university.
I'VE have now one Of the finest and
most. complete South Pacific collec-
lions In the whole world said DR..
Gordon recently. .'This Is especially
true Of the collection from New Zeal
and, the largest Of these islands. In
deed, SO remarkable is this collection
that the New Zealand museum at Wei
,lington has asked us for casts Of the
relics and antiques we have from that
country. In the new wing Of the nu-
scum, which will be completed next
spring. the South Pacific hall-parti-
cularly that devoted to the Maoris-
the aborigines Of New Zealand-Wili
be the principal feature
The New Zealand exhibit Includes
many weapons, tools, clothing, uten-s
sis, musical instruments, feather
robes and exceptionally beautiful spe-
cimens Of weaving by the Maori wora-
en-. The most valuable part consists
of three preserved tattooed heads OF
Maori chieftains, which are OF great
antiquity.
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RETURNS HIS SON TO PRISON
California Ranchnan Takes offspring
Back TO Jail When He Breaks
His Parole.

San Quentin, Cal.-D. ". Lamb,
Shasta county ranchman, brought his.
son, who had broken parole, TO the
state penitentiary here and turned pm
over to Warden Hoyle, ending soo~
mile journey. The son, Frank Lamb,
was sent to the penitentiary July Z,
1904. on a grand larceny charge. He
was paroled April II. 1897, and return
ed to his fathers ranch, but later took
to the road.
Lamb was traced to Washington by
the prison officials. He returned home
recently out OF funds, and his father
Immediately set out with him TO the
prison.
4 would rather have my son be-
hind the bars said Lamb, than to
have him at large through having
broken promise
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gale at sea shreds canvas. He felt
bit panickY. He had always planned
a courtship of year or SO, meetings,
separations, and remeetings. pleasur-
able expectations, little junkets to the
aters and country places; in brief, to
witness the rose grow and unfold.
Somewhere he had read or heard that
courtship was the plummet which
sounded the depths Of compatibility.
He knew nothing of Fortune Ched-
soye, save that she was beautiful to
his eyes. and that she was as different
from the ordinary run of girls as yon-
der moon was from the stars.
Again she stopped, leaning over the
parapet and staring down at the wa
ter .sWirling past the stone embank-
ment. He did likewise, resting upon
his folded arms. Suddenly his tongue
became alive; and quietly, without
hesitancy or embarrassment, he began
to tell her OF his school life, his life
at home. And the manner in which
he spoke of his mother warmed her;
and she was strangely and wonder
ingly attracted.
sOf course, the mother meant the
best in the world when she gave me
Percival Algernon: and because she
| meant the best, have rarely tried to
hide them. What was good enough for
her to give was good enough for me
to keep. It is simply that have been
foolish about it. supersensitive. I
should have laughed and accepted the
| thing as a joke; instead, made the
fatal move of trying to run away and
| hide. But, taking the name in full, !"
lightly. sit sounds as homogeneous as
playing Traumerei on a steam-piano."
He expected her to laugh, but her
heart was too full Of the old ache.
This young man, kindly, gentle, intel
| ligent, If shy, was a love-child. And
she? An offspring, the loneliest of
the lonely, the child that wasn't want.
ed. Many time she had thought OF
fiinging all to the winds, Of running
away and hiding where they never
should find her, Of working with her
own hands for her bread and butter
Little they'd have cared But always
the rebel spirit died within her as she
stepped outside the villa gates. Tc
leave behind for unknown privations
| certain assured comforts, things 81
4 which she was fond, things to which
1 she was used. she ceuldn' t do It, shs
i just couldn't Morally and PHYSICAL,
she was little coward.
Let US go in she said sharply
Another moment, and she would have
been in tears.
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These four persons were about going
forward upon a singularly desperate
and unusual enterprise. From now on
they were no longer to fence with one
another, to shift from shis topic to ]
that, with the indirect maReuyefs OF
a house-cat intent upon the quest Os
the Friday mackerel. The woman'a
face was alive with eagerness; the
Oldest man looked from one to the
other with earnest calculation: Wal
lace no longer hid his cupidity:
Ryannes immobility Of countenance
was in itself tacit admission to tbs
burning OF all his bridges that he
might become a part Of this conclsve.
Smuggling" said the major, with
prudent lowering Of voice, evidently
continuing some previous debate.
Smuggling is fine art, a keen sport
ing proposition; and the consequences
of discovery are never serious. What's
fine of a thousand dollars against
the profits of many successful exfar-
sions into the port OF New YORK!
| Nothing, comparatively. For several
years. now, we have carried On this
business with the ulniose auSoienssss'
Never nave we draWn serious a.tele'
ton. We nave maoes TWO OF tnres
plumbers, but the susp [1e o. the %,
cret-service were put. TO slee2 upon
each occasion. we nave prospeSea.
Here is a gem, let us say, worm on
this side thousand s over there We
4 4. - ~
sell 1t for enough TO give us q eaean
profit Of three or four s'l1ll ho1ty
per cent. upon our investment. nat
ought to be enough Tor any reasoaahie
person. Am right
Mrs. Chedsoye alone was unresRoss-
siye to this appeal.
! Il continue, then. we are mai Ing
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RELICS Of SAVAGES
Objects to Be Found in PennsyI-
vania University Exhibit.
Arts Are OF New ZeaIander-Canoes
and implements OF War Were
Once Used by cannbal An
cestors of Civilized People.

Philadelphia, ,Pa.-The University
OF Pennsylvania museum is making 8
special effort to secure as many col
lections and as much data from the
islands Of the South Pacific as is pos
sible, and Director Gordon is sparing
neither time nor money in securing
additions to the present South Sea ex-
hibit. The reason for this Is that
antiques and relics Of the aborigines
OF that part of the world are extreme
ly rare and can be obtained only at
the greatest difficulty and expense.
When the South Sea islands were
first discovered by Capt. Cook, the ma
lives had a. well developed artistic
sense and made many beautiful
things, but with the colonization OF
the islands by Europeans and the
eoming of western customs native arts
at once became extinct. Fortunately.
the early travellers brought to Europe
numerous collections which have. for
the most part, remained In private
hands to the present day. Now, how
ever, they are gradually finding their
where they are publicly sold.
The university museum Is keeping q
sharp lookout for such sales and has
an agent in London, where most col
lections are sold. He has special in
structions to watch for the sale OF
South Pacific collections and buy
them for the University Of Pennsyf-
vania, the cost not being considered.
IN the last few months he has Sc
cured some very valuable material
and Is now on the trail of more.
AT present there is on temporary
exhibition In the museum New Zeal
and collection which is one of the hn-
est in existence, purchased by ths
museums agent in London last june
It was private collection, more than
100 years old. The agent heard Of 1t
in May and the opportunity was SO
unusual that DIR. Gordon himself went
to London. After successfully bid
ding with representatives of some OF
the largest museums and private col
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s 10y. But have already told
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SYNOPSIS.

psrcival Algernon Jones, vice.
Y ueofgs. ~ the Metropolitan Oriental
ef ss company Of New York, thirsting Tor
Jus com a ia Cairo on a business trip
7enaa $780, Ryanne arrives at the hotel In
a seaas 18th carefully guarded bundle.
s -. ssIIs Jones the famous holy Yhi-
Eya .a ne which he admits having stolen
efaes nasha at Bagdad. Jones meets
sfoa ra,Iahan and later is introduced to
- "us chedsoye by g. woman to whom
sos s.A ,oaned $50 pounds at Monte Carlo
~ ". ,oonths previously, and who turns
s1as :. ~ fortunes mother. Jones takes
sM = chedsoye and Fortune to polo
- fortune returns to Jones the
g.. borrowed by her mother Mrs.
g,oI. appears to be engaged in some
S1ss.sJo,s enterprise unknown TO the
Aauehtsa
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.uaprEs ul-fcontInued.l

came one was sitting down beside
Il III, ii was Ryanne, In evening
sso,has immaculate, blase, pink
ssssked. There are some men so hap
INV framed that they can don ready
sssas suits without calling your atten-
IN to the fact. George saw Mt once
ssat the adventurer was one Of these
fortunate individuals.
aMakes q rather good picture to
,eok at; eh7" began Ryanne, rolling
daketobacco cigarette. Dancer"
NO. wish / could. You've done
a,,,ck work." with admiring inspection.
mot a flaw anywhere. How do you
ID it?'
4Thanks. Thanks to you, might
eay did some tall hustling, though.
strange how we love these funeral
soageries. We follow the dance and
10 follow the dead, with never a
variation III color. The man who in
sented the modern evening clothes
must have done good business during
lie day as chief-mourner.'
why don't you send for your lug
gagsi"
Ryanne caressed his chin. my
luggage is, / believe. in the hands OF
Tie enemy. It is of no great import,
enca, Inever carry anything of value,
save my skin. I'm not like the villain
ID the melodrama; no discriminating
documents, no lost wills, no directions
Tor digging up pirates gold"
Y suppose you'll soon be off for
American George asked indifferently
a suppose SO. BY the way. saw
wi u the game today"
mol Where were you r.
Top row. ] am going to ask q
gayor 81 you. It may sound rather ode
10 your ears, but / know those two
ladies' rather well. | kept out of the
way I'LL could find some clothes
abs favor I ask is that you will moi
tell them anything regarding the cir
y ounistances Of our meeting. I an
known to them as a globe-trotter ane
/ o collector"
That's too bad" said George con
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Because it wouldn't be real; it
would be going to the moon la
Coney Island
Wrong, absolutely wrong. Il !
sold YOU that am stockholder In
this company, and that the adventure
of the Yhiordes rug was arranged Tor
my special benefit. what would you
say?"
"Say?" George turned a serious
countenance toward the adventurer.
Why. the whole thing IS absurd on
the face Of it. AS Joke, It might go;
but as genuine affair, utterly inpos-
sible.'
No. quietly. "T admit that It
sounds absurd. yes: but ten years ago
they'd hare locked up. as Insane, 9
man who said that he could fy. But
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"You don't believe

my friend, I believe in all things
that haven't been proved impossible,
You've been knocking about here long
enough to know something Of the
tenacity of the Arab and the East In
dian. Given g just cause, an 1dois
eye or a holy carpet, and they'll fol-
low you round the world ten times, II
need be. / never worry needlessly,
but lay out before me all the points
of the game. There is one man In Bag
dad who will never cease to think OF
me. This fellow is an Arab, Mahomed-
ElGebel by name, the real article,
proud and savage, into whose keeping
the Holy Yhiordes was given; Ma
homed- ElGebel, the Pasha's right
hand, sheik In his own right"
"But you haven't got the rug now"
mo, Mr.. Jones, haven't; but on
the other hand, you have. So, here
we are together. When he gets
through with me, your turn"
. George laughed. Ryanne grew
thoughtful over this sign. Percival
Algernon did not seem exactly wor-
ried.
aren't you little afraid?''
II? Why should ] be-" inquired
George innocently. Certainly, what
ever your Arab friends arguments
may be, moral or physical, I'm going
to keep that Yhiordes."
Was he blufing? Ryanne wondered.
Did he really have nerve? Well,
within forty-eight hours there would
come a test.
"say, do you know, rather wish
you'd been with me on that trip-that
is, If you like a rough game" Ryanne
said this in all sincerity.
81 have never been in rough game,
as you call it; but I've often had a
strong desire to be, just to find out for
myself what sort Of a duffer | an"
Ryanne had met this sort of man be.
fore; the fellow who wanted to know
what stuff he was made of, and was
ready to risk his hide to find out His
experience had taught him to expect
nothing Of the man who knew just
| what he was going to do in crisis.
Ibid you ever know, Mr.. Jones
said Ryanne, his eyes humorous, chat
there is an organization IN this world
Of ours, company that offers try
| out to men OF your kidney"
| whats that7 Whatado you mean 8
| What say. There IS an established
concern which will, upon application
for q liberal. purchase Of stock, ar
range any kind of adventure YOU
wish"
"What?' George drew in his legs
and sat up. What sort of jolly is
/ this?"
You put your finger upon the one
great obstacle. No one will beiieve
that such a concern exists. Yet 1t Is
| a fact, And why not?"
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Msn.r ~ GA e 0
Inc devil you have!" Ryanne drop
sss DIS cigarette into the ash-tray. IF
" nothing"
b,,s. NOV" said George, v1sibly en-
ss - Il forgot"
" Heai. The fat Is in the fire. I dare
MI way ! can &c: round 1t. It was
49, ~ Women like to talk. I expect
MI, .s aour to hear OF some one ar
~ from Bagdad."
ii, aeses no boat from that direction
4 O. =. 4sse week, informed George, who
~, I saekler on timetables.
4 M s : are other ways of getting
ne,,s sspt Know anything about
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rkaw Trick in Hanging Men.

Atlanta, Ga.-Tho next man who ~
legally hanged in Georgia may have
the experience of dying with the kn1g
adjusted under his right jaw instead
of against the jugular vein on the Lett
County officials are interested In tha
theory that the knot. adjusted undaa
the right part Of the chin, Is cersalIs
to produce immediate unconsciousnaaa
through the same process as the haDs
sr's knockout blow On the point q
the jaw.
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aficers and directors In the United
Romance and Adventure Company,
It'd sat III the majors room, round
the boudoir-stand which had tempo
rarily been given the dignity q
table The scene would not have been
.ritbout interest either to the specula-
tive nnysiognomist or to the dramaf-
;st tn each it would have represent
- me Of those astonishing moments
r1,r,an the soul of a person comes out
into the open, as one might express IT,
;ncanfiously. to be revealed in the .ex-
r,raesions of the eyes and the mouth
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CHAPTER VII. ]

Ryanne Tables His Cards.
During this time Mrs. Chedsoye, the
major, Messrs. Ryanne and Wallace,
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fore are unable to prepare for it. Yea
do not see 1t, my dear, but 1t is sherA
nevertheless.
Wallace nodded approvingly. Rp
anne shrugged.
Failure is practically impossible
And / want excitement; crave 1t a.
you men crave your tobacco
And there we are, Kate. 1t really
isn't the gold; it's the excitement a
getting it and coming away unscathea
If I could only get you to look at aA
sides Of the affair! It's the RSaiscsJs
eTo BE coNTlRUEns
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-06-18

A village tinker had a rather
crusty disposition. and the pas
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-06-18
A sail at last!
What are they advertising /:
Shipwrecked Mariner-A sail! A
Fair One in Distress (weakly)-V
--O-O-

tor said to him one day:
MY man, you should love your
neighber as yourself"
yes, sill" said the tinker.
But the pastor had in mind a
nasty black eye that the tinker
had given the bricklayer next
door, and so he went on:
do you, though, do you, hon
estly, love your neighbor as your
self"
yes, sir; oh, yes, sir" said the
tinker; and he added, ''But I'm a
modest man, We see, and, to tell
the truth, I amt bit stuck on
myself, SIR
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-06-18
Family Orchestra.

"Oh, yes, indeed, we are such a
musical family" he replied.
Father is continually blowing
his own trumpet; mother always
harps on one string; Aunt Sarah
leads a hum-drum existence;
uncle spends most of his time
wetting his whistle; brother is
fond of his pipe; sister is forever
ringing the changes of her ,beaux;
and II have to play second fd-
die"