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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-11
Rip Van Wrinkle A drift in Atlanta
BUSTLE DAZES VETERAN

Where once were a few uncertain
shacks with numerous i'll kept paths
called streets leading out in different
directions there stood a city. busy. hus-
tling with buildings that seemed to
touch the sky Samuel May Confed-
crate veteran, so years old. who last
saw Atlanta 50 years ago, passed
through the city today He is yet rub
bling his ewes at the contrast.
May is Georgian by birth, and
lived fifteen years in and about At
lanta At the age of 25 years he moved
to Louisiana and was teaching school
when the war broke out.
In the So years Of his absence from
the city. MAY had not read much Of
Atlanta He was, Of course, conscious
Of the fact that a steady growth was
going on For that reason, he expect
ed to see a good, substantial city.
What he did see caused him to think
that he had caught the wrong train
Whirl Bewilders Aged Man.
Passing from the capacious Termi-
nal station. he went out in the broad
plaza. stopped for moment to locate
himself. and then passed out into the
Vhirl which began at Madison and
Mitchell He had gone just two steps
and was emerging into the third when
something strick BIN. Being an old
man he tottered. out caught himself
long enough to lqok around and catch
sight Of TIE object which had hit him.
What's the matter with him? he
asked some one The only answer was
broad grin. May then noticed that
every one seemed more or less in a
hurry. This was his first sight of the
Atlanta idea-"get there as fast as you
cam
Right down there was a place
used to know. III 90 there" he said to
himself
No Landmarks Anywhere.
The place ne used to know was two
stories high. brown in color and had a
few chairs in front Of it where the
populace was wont to gather He got
there very quickly-with the assistance
Of a pay-as-yo u-enter vehicle, but
gone vas his little brown house. a
soft tear started down the old mans
cheek. but froze in the amazement
which grew a his eyes began TO take
in the proportions Of the building
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-11
AND HOP PARTY
ON "GREAT WHITE WAY"
COST CAROLINAN $4,000

NEW YORK, May 11.-Dororhy
Dale. twenty years OH, an actress, was
one Of Ave prisoners held under bonds
by Magistrate Appleton in the West
Side police court, charged with being
implicated in the robbery of Aaron
Moore, q young man from North Caro-
lima who took s hih of opium smoke
by way Of experiment in the paror Of
a furnished room house at 256 West
Forty fifth street
He Informed the police that he had
been despoiled of 5000 in cash. a Ave
carat diamond ring valued at $1,000. a
gold and diamond studded matchbox, a
gold and diamond studded cigarette
case and gold fob studded with 1875
small diamonds. Altogether he reck-
oned his loss al SS.o83.
The prisoners gave their names as
Francis Mcdonald Walter Gavin. Hor-
ace Sperry. Dorothy Dale and Florence
Doyle, model
Did She Smoke Opium?
Moore was bent on a mission to dis
cover the truth about his inamorata-
whether or not she smoked opium in
her idle moments and told lies when
under the influence Of toy bonfire Of
poppy leaves-when the robbery oc-
Cured
The Young man from North Carolina
testified that While he and his supposed
friends were hitting the pipe" sing
ing and dancing in a hazy fashion. two
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-11
Plant Corn Advice
Given Gloomy Cotton
Planters by Connor

+ j Conner. commissioner Of agri-
culture, viii tomorrow send out message
To The farmers of Georgia urging diver
sdcatiou Of crops
The commissioner message is result
of the appalling cotton situation which
Georgia is said to be facing 1t Will urge
The farmers 20 turn from cotton TO pro
VISION crops
In discussing the situation today, the
commissioner said
Ut needs TO he impressed upon the
farmers that Georgia can raise other
things nan soften, especially now, when
The 'cetton cropets late all over the state
and pratonly doomed in some sections.
"rhes need not he utterly discouraged.
Whilee conditions are as had as have ever
seen chem corn and hay and forage crops.
II planted now. VIII Weld returns equal
go returns from cotton
expect In impress on Tie farmers The
fact thai Georgia lands, no matter what
their speculative values may he. are rap-
idiy losing n intrinsic value by single
eroPpng
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-11
HUNDREDS FLEE
FLOOD s ADVANCE
Many Spend Night of Terror as
Increasing Sweeping Tor
rents Weaken bikes.
~. Continues From Pass ons.

fets affected As soon as the waters re-
,ele New Orleans because Of its pc
,ui.a- defensive strength, is he safest
III, il the Mississl ppi. Ohio or Mis-
sour valleys, despite the fact that
louisiana must protect herself from the
food waters Of some 50 other states
This should be the dut, Of the national
government. b. a broad and sane sys-
TEN of conservation at the head va
tiers. such as contemplated n the New
lands river regulation bill WHY should
Louisiana spend millions If dollars an
rua!ly TO protect herself from the wa
tiers which come from nearly t8o-tairds
Of the Union Louisiana has spent
$4,000 roo out Of the public treasurr
and rrivate individuals and railroads
have spent millions more for ievee pro-
lection since the Civil war. We ear
sestly urge the citizens Of the United
States. and particularly the newspa-
peYs, to give US the only outside aid We
ask-tAat Is. discredence OF false alarm
list stories and support u the New
iaees river regulation oill which VIII
harness the foods and force them to
serve instead Of TO DESTROY
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-11

men wearing masks over their faces
broke IN upon their little entertainment,
each leyeling a brace of heavy revolv-
ers.
After being entreated by the others
to hold UP his hands as they were do
ing, he did so and was relieved Of his
money and jewery. The robbers made
as if to search the others in the room.
but took nothing from them, although
they wore valuable jewelry.
Held From Giving Alarm.
He was warned not to give an alarm
and when he attempted to follow the
hold-up men he was held back by the
others on the pretext of fear that he
would be shot He finally succeeded in
reaching the street, and Immediately
went to the police station. where ne
told his story Ofhcers went to the
room and arrested the three men ana
then to Miss Doyle's room. where they
found the two women. They all denied
putting up a game 10 rob Moore. but
could not explain why the robbers had
failed TO take their valuables.
Moore said that he was from Pitt
county, North Carolina. where he has
a farm, and that he had been in New
York since September. When he vas
asked his business in New York he re-
piled;
Well. do a little of everything. but
principally I gamble. and then I enjov-
an income from my farm besides my
winnings
All the prisoners were held.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-11
This Vassar Girl May
Be the Last of a
Line of Daisy Queens

NV YORK MAY 11-When "A girls,
lee By Miss Martha Louise Upton Of
New York carving the annual daisy
caa.n. march across the campus Of Vas
sar college at the Nassar commence
raent week exercises next month. il
NAV be the last time the custom viii be
observed al the famous college.
Every year a number of sophomores
are selected TO carry the daisy chain
Only the prettiest girls are supposed to-
carr it. The selection Of twenty odd
girls from = class Of several hundred as
the urettiest usually results in much
envy and IN feeling
Into such 2 state Of dissension vas
the sophomore class plunged ms wear
~ the selection az "A eiils out of the
20 OF the class thar disseminating the
daisy chain VAS seriously considered
By. the. faculty.
The daisy chain dates back nearly so
Years 30 the time the college was
opened IN 1865. on the day before class
aay AL Of the sophomores journey into
the nslds about Vasssr and collect
enornous Quantities Of daisies These
are worked into a chain, Which Is sup-
posed Q he ore foot in length for oacn
member Of the graduating class
Selection Of hose Who viii this wear
carr The daisy chain WAS made by a
committee - three. composed ~ the
senior president Miss EnoI Prudden
Of Brookline Mass. The sophomore
president. Miss Grace VI Goudner. 81
t~leyralarS f1hto and tho nhasrraan ~
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-11
Like Enoch Arden
Finds Wife Wed.

Once more penniess and grown old
and stopped. Thompson decided that he
would give UP the struggle and return
to the old home in Georgia.
He reached Savannah in February.
There he learned that his wife was now
Mrs. Davis. of Blichton, and that his
daughter had married Berry Jones at
Black Greek Thompson says that this
news stunned him Utterly disconso-
late. like Enoch Arden of Tennyson's
poem. he went to a boarding house and
told the landlady that he would remain
there only little while. because he
would die in a few months Of loneli-
ness. But that same day, when the
feeble old man came down to dinner, he
saw a face al the table that seemed
somehow familiar. A moment after
ward this woman, one Of the occupants
ne the house. crossed to his seat and
held out her hand.
You are Peter Thompson. aren't
you" she asked in a voice that trem-
bled little.
Yes" ne said, 4 am Thompson. Your
face, ma am looks familiar to me and
I'm surprised because didn't expect to
met folks I used to know any more"
why I'm Ann Walker, the gray
haired woman said Don't YOU re-
member me when we were boy and girl
down in Pembroke ."
Thompson did remember Years fell
away from him by the score when his
found friend told him that she had
given him up for dead had married and
was now Mrs. Wilson-but a widow.
In spite Of his years, Thompson had
not forgotten courtship. As he had
done in the days Of the hfties, nov ne
wooed Ann Walker again and the gray
haired woman of IS did not reject his
advances
We won't wait his time. III take no
chances Of losing YOU again, an
nounced Thompson with positiveness.
And when Mrs Wilson had consent
ed and the LAWYERS had said that
Thompsons first marriage was out
lawed through the statute of hmita-
tons, the couple lost not q moment in
hurrying to the Rev. John s. Wilder
who made them man and wife yester-
day.
Thompson saws he feels 80 years
younger than his age and happier than
ne has been since the Ciyil war
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-11

Up-one, two, three, four, ten stories
his eve Travelled. There above him was
a city in itself In every window he
could see signs of life. The old man
made no comment. He merely looked
into the years and pictured the old
group standing out anonymously
against this setting. He wondered
what they would say. what they would
do, what they would think He Won
dered how it all had been accomplish
ed if it were another Chinese wall.
reared by the incessant labor of the
entire population.
He then asked a policeman If this
was the highest building in town. The
officer told him that it was. except for
two other that were almost twice as
high. three that were from four to six
stories higher, and several scattered
about which possessed from two to
three more stories.
The old man then leaped three feet to
avoid g taxicab
From this time forth the city began
to close in swiftly on May Like a
man too far gone in wine for recovery.
yet not so far gone for realization Of
what was happening, he gave himself
over completely.
Crowd Becomes Depressing.
The roar and hustle and clang be-
came blurred and only that which rose
distinctive came through He rented a
cab and asked to be driven out of the
noise. The driver did this in about five
minutes. The roar and hustle and
crowded feeling had gone. Instead he
was passing cool. green avenue. On
both sides were residences of paIatial
proportions Marble and granite and
other stones of different grade and diff
ferent hue appeared Presently he ar
rived at long, sweeping turn in the
road and saw before him an Italian
villa. Passing on still further. there
was seen a club house surrounded with
smartly liveried horses standing about,
and automobiles in front. And so it
vent until the city began to disappear
and he was out on the lanes Of the
country.
Isn't there some way We can 20
back without seeing so much?" he ask
ed the driver The negro cabbv didn't
understand. but essayed to make an en-
trance into the city by another route.
Its no USE cried May. It's
everywhere
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-11
TOO POOR FOR
" AR; CREDIT GONE,
TRAVELLER DECLARES

san FRANCISCO. May 11.-That the
whore 5,4ent from caro- to Yokohama,
* an the ,eree Of political and social
revolution Is the conclusion of Dr.
r5omas re Green. author and travelex
i, ia has nst completed trip around
the world. the 2 eater part of the time
bavins Seen spent in Egvpt. India. chi
ma and Imam.
1T is impossible said he. for peo-
ME or the 0ccident to realize the deep
seated widespread economic and pont-
zeal unrest existing throughout the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-11
couNrRY cLus OPENED

ATHENS. GA. May 1.-THE Glover
hurst Country club has Just held IT'S
FIRST meeting in its new CLUB house.
three miles from the city Ohicers for
the ensuing year we're elected They
are President, Charles 8. Griffith vice
president. Professor John Morris sec
rotary and treasurer. William D Hoop
er. and board Ct governors John Nor
ris. Hugh H Gordon and ". Oscar
Pavpe
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-11
KAPPA sleMAs TO MEL

MONTGOMERY, ALA. May 1.-THE
Montgomery Alumni association is
planning TO entertain the district con
slave of the Kappa Sigma fraternity
Of Alabama and Georgia in Montgom-
cry on May Is to 3, inclusive About
$50 delegates are expected
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-11
THIS ARDEN Webs
AF TER At YEARS
He's y Years Of Age and His
Bride Is So Years Old.
Courtship Was Rapid.

SAVANNAH. GA. May 11.-Forty-
seven years after the war robbed him
Of wife and family Peter j. Thompson
has come back TO the South and. in
spite of his Il years. has married the
girl" he courted at Pembroke. Bryan
county, nearly half century ago.
Mrs Ann Celenia Wilson. aged S..
was the bride to whom Thompson was
welded b1 the Rev. John 5. Wilder, Of
the South side Baptist church. and
u nile the aged couple are celebrating
their belated honeymoon at the home
Of Mrs L. A Schuman, Thompson :
first wife. happily married again ana
living at Blichton. has been told that
the husband she thought long since
dead has returned TO spend the rest Of
his life with the sweetheart Of his boy
hood near the village where he Wooed
her nearly half a century ago.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-11

War Skaters
His Romance.

II was in the late ffties that young
Pete Thompson, whose father owned
half the land In the Pembroke section,
told his sire that he was bent on mar
rying Miss Ann Walker, who lived on
The adjoining farm. Thompson. senior
said the marriage must he postponed
and the sweethearts we're still waiting
for the parents to fix their Wedding
date when the Walker family moved to
a distant village. Thompson did not
see Miss Walker for several years. He
thought she had forgotten him and ne
married another girl
Then the war came. Pete Thompson
enlisted in cavalry troop. In 1853 he
vent one day to visit his wife, his ia
ther and his baby girl at Pembroke
and he was there when Sherman swept
across the state Young Thompson
with many other Confederate soldiers,
took to the swamps. but hunger drove
him from their Businesses and ne was
fora cling one night when he was cap
tured at a Federal outpost. The Fed
erals sent Thompson to New York 5
refugee and later carried him farther
West. When he was free to write tn
his people in the South many months
had passed, his wife had believed him
dead and had married a man named
Davis His father died and he could
learn no word of his child.
Thompson. discouraged, decided to
remain in the North He took up a
parcel Of land in Kansas and was Just
accommodating a competence in that new
country when a cyclone wiped out all
his property and left him stranded in
the strange country. He wandered to
Kentucky and had started a successful
business there. but fire destroyed this
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Nhy not begin todae ana take ad-
Nantage of the numberless ouportuni-
tlss that daily appear y tbs Want "A
o.umns of Ths Georgian Bargains
gslof ara there thar mean big saw
rs e. YOU. Answer quickly any ads
ca MAY see thar oner you things az
Hsrsasn onces Rsmember tina, ali At
lantl ls-v atChi1g these pages. ana tins
trsi enc - answer gets the goods.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-11
laura Pors strlrlir-

The remains Ct Laura Pops STRIP.
ling the 4year-old daughter Of NJ
and Ms 9 o Stripping Who died YES
terday in 8 private santtarium we're
sent TO-DAY 70 Chipls.t Ca. 70. funeral
and interment,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-11
Wcn over Foes Year Aac.

Branson triumphed over the forces
arrayed against him a year ago, when
Miss Celeste Parrish. now state school
supervisor, failed to be reelected a
member Of the faculty after a strenuous
session Of both the prudential commit
tee and the state board
According TO reports. the school au-
thorities have rendered Or. Branson the
chair Of rural economics. and ii IS said
that he viii accept the position under
the Pound regime Dr. Pound SO it is
understood. Nill accept the presideney
Action Was Expected.
J Il Smith, Of Atlanta. who since his
appointment on the state board If trus-
lees has taken an active part in the
affairs Of the school said TODAY that
while ne did not attend the meeting in
Athens. he had expected some such ac-
tion for some ume.
Mr. Smith declined to discuss in de-
tail the dissension that has existed
among the faculty. members, hut said
frankly that he believed that the new
arrangement would do away With con
siderable Fiction
1t is said that after Miss Parrish mad
been turned down by the board
several members Of the faculty took UP
hei battle for control and the same old
serap was resumed
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-11
sos lNplcEsrIoN

TAKE Horefcrd's Acid Fheerhate
Hair : teaspoonfui - water hefors
meals recommended as grateful reMsf
rem distress after eating 80
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A Man Without AmbitiOn---
Is a Watch Without
a Mainspring
Continued from First Column.

Continued from First Column
to do least the best work possible little moment on
the stage.
There two strange hours for each human being
The painful hour of his birth, when he into this
world, all untitled for it.
The responsible hour of his death when the man who
conscious looks back that which he has done
Be sure that the who has wasted his time thoupht
only of himself neglected his duty and pushed aside his smb,
suffer enough sef-reproach that last hO t aI
for many days of eating and drinking of empty seIfn
diligence "
The only worth while the ambitious man The ONLY,
child woman worth while is the ambitious child or woman
Ambition the world as the handspring moves tbo
watch hands. wv
And the human being without ambition is like the watch
without handspring.
Such watch and such human being looked at from tto
outside are quite atlSfactOmOoth and pleasing BUT THERE
is NO USE IN THEM 1
The business of every human being to cherish he snn If
ambition within him and do what little can move forward
the world in generaif he be big enoughor at least that M
corner OF 1t IN which his life is passed.
The thing to do is to have THE RIGHT AMBITION Don't
mistake foolish egOtsm for ambition
me frog IN La tonanes fable ambitious in the wrong
way ne wanted to be big the OK and he sweed himself
until he burst. Vany-not ambition-was his r,o;;
We should like to write to the friend whose letter we nubb
few words as to the proper character direction Of ambition
as Weee them That however reserved for anoner
editorial This one is long enough.
There IS hacneyd quotation which saws: 81 CHARGE thee
IfoW away AMBITION The wise will do inst the reverse
lie VIII Keep alive the spark Of ambition as sbinvrcked crew
would Keep alive their smoudering Once that nar ooos
Oh" man might as well be dead-he is only shall ot7na
afhNlng and -%hng waiting 10 die The sooner b 5is and
makes room f~ '-~tner, the better
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to enter which requires extraor-
binary talent and years of appiica-
ton.
But it does not follow that some
answer can not be given. The best
answer is tWofod In the first
place, one great use Of such a man
as Poincare is the stimulation
which he imparts to the average
human being. He awakes the am
bttion Of the race by showing of
what it is capable He is the man
on the top of the apparently mac
cessible mountain, who, by his
mere presence there, shows to
others the possibility of ascending
1t. He is like the late Edward
Whymper, waving his cap from the
summit of the terrible Matterhorn.
Anybody with good wind and
strong muscles can ascend the
Matterhorn now, because the way
is known.
But Poincare would never have
given an impetus to his fellow be-
lngS II he had not, like Newton
before him, and like all great men,
disClaimed the possession of any
superhuman power. Newton said
that all he had done seemed to him
but as the picking up of a pebble
on the shore Of the boundless ocean
OF knowledge, and Poincare de-
clared that the mind of man 10
only flash of lightning, illuminate
ing for a moment a part Of thu
illimitable eXpanse around.
But these flashes succeed ont
another, and the race, as a whole
retains a little of what each re.
veals and adds to it that which has
already been acquired. What was
revealed to the genius Of the great
French mathematician was not al
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Thomas Taper
Writes on
How To Build a For
tune
No. 6.---Getting Rich in a
Hurry
By THOMAS TAPER.

When any one wants you to put
your money into a proposition that
will make you wealthy in a few
weeks, refuse to have anything TO
do with it, as a matter of princi-
pie. 1t can not be done Rosy as
the dream is, it is still a rosy dream
and nothing more.
One of the fundamental rules Of
investment is, the higher the inter-
est yield. the greater the risk.
Bonds of the most conservative
character with the highest guaran-
tee as to safety Of principal yield
in the neighborhood of four ner
cent; sometimes a fraction less or
more.
When some one quietly Slips YOU
information that you can come in
on the inside, and get 80 per cent
or observation-disclosures go in. All
the doors are locked, and when
they throw the victims out Of, the
back window their pockets are
turned inside out.
III.
The banker puts It this wav:
Judicious investment is the art Of
making the most of your money
WITHOUT EXPOSING 1T TO
THE RISK OF LOSS.
Be Patient" the Great Rule,
That kind of safety has to he
paid for in small interest returns.
You may feel that at the rate
your surplus funds get into the
bank you will never get rich. Re-
member the remark Of the humble
tndividual-you will never get Door
either. The great rule is be pa-
tient"
In an interview recently, Mr.. An
drew Carnegie is reported to have
said this:
The trouble with many men of
small means is that they will never
make beginning, and keep putting
off the time when they have a nu-
cleus for investing. The goal of
the wage Garner in saving should
be to acquire $1,000. PRUDENT
INVESTING OF SMALL SUMS
will help him to obtain this first
$1,000. Money grows surprisingly,
and If you have none now try the
experiment I suggest of getting
$1,000 and see II I am not right"
Notice that Mr.. Carnegie speaks
Of PRUDENT investing-of what?
OF small sums.