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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20
Cholera Scourges Of Other Times

TIME terrible ravages cholera is
making at the present time
in Turkey remind one of
many previous occasions when cpl
denies have carried off thousands
at time.
AS early as 767 B. C. we read OF
a plague, and again In 453 B. C.
Rome suffered terribly. Athens
was attacked by pestilence in 430
B. c., which was believed to have
been caused by their enemies poi
sOning the water supplies.
AS many as 10000 people a day
fell victims to the plague at Rome
in A. D. 80. SO many people were
killed during the epidemic which
occurred in Britain during the fifth
century that there were hardly suf-
ficient persons left to bury the
dead. In 772 Chichester lost $4,000
people. and in 954 Scotland lost
10000. London was visited In the
tenth and eleventh centuries, and
Ireland suffered severely in 1904.
The oriental plague occurred be-
tween 134S and 1882. 1t was known
as the BLACK Plague" on account
Of the black spots which appeared
on the skin at death. 1t started in
China in 1888, and the deaths num-
bered 100000, and $4,000. 900 sue
cumbed in the rest Of Asia. It ap-
peared in Norway and Sweden in
134S and 1882. About 1000, 900 fell
victims 10 the Black Plague in Eng
land, of which $1,000 occurred in
London alone.
The sweating sickness appeared
in England four times during the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
the first time in 1885, and lasted
one month, IN which 10000 people
died IN London alone. It also Wis
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20

TIED Holland, Germany, Denmark,
Sweden, Poland and Russia be-
tween 1926 and 1880.
In the seventeenth century
pestilence broke out in London and
carried off 10000 people. In Ly-
ons $4,000 6ied during 1852
through a scourge which swept
over France. Italy lost 100000 in
six months in 1866.
In the seventeenth century Hol-
land was visited by a plague; in
Leyden 1900 died Of it, and the
following year 1927 died In Am
sterdam. It was brought to London
In bales OF cotton by some Dutch
merchants. This was the plague Of
London, and, as every one knows
about 100000 persons died IN one
year.
Persia lost $4,000 from q pesti-
lence in 1873, and Egypt 100000
during 1890. Epidemics of cholera
appeared in France several times
during the nineteenth century, in
which $4,000 people died in Paris
between March and August, 1882,
1t appeared in England in 1S4S and
l849, carrying off 1851 persons
and 5000 persons were carried of
in London in 1865 in fifteen weeks.
During recent years India has
been heavily visited by plagues-ln
Bombay, Northwest Presidency ana
PunJab and in a less degree in
Burma and other parts Of India.
In January, 1905, there was a week
~ mortality of 10000 reaching by
steady increase a total OF 81
1O2. By April / it had droppe6
to 1000 weekly, but again reached
5000 by the end of June. Two
years after the number of victims
amounted to as many as 100000
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20

a beau at home, are there any par
ents so dull as not to be able to fig
ure out what the result Of that is
bound to be? If the girl is very
homely, and the father and mother
lucky, 1t dooms her to be an old
maid. If the girl is good looking
and attractive, it means that she
will meet men on the street and
pick up chance acquaintance, and
that some day she will elope with
some stranger Of whom her people
never heard, and who is more
likely than not to be just the man
she shouldn't have married.
To What They Doom Her.
Instead OF driving young men
away from their home, every father
and mother of daughters should not
only welcome their daughters male
acquaintances, but should use every
means to get personally acquainted
with the young men and find out
everything possible about them, for
only In that way can they guard
their daughters and prevent them
from making disastrous marriages.
' This mother complains that her
daughter doesn't confde in her.
:, Why should she? How could the
mother expect it when she puts her
foot down on every plan the girl
has and forbids her every pleasure?
Such a woman is not a mother.
She's nothing but 8 grinding ty-
rant, and she had as well realize
that her daughter looks upon her
as a despot and not a sympathetic
friend
The mother asks my advice. 1t is
this: Turn over new leaf. Wake
up to the fact that 4 girl of % isn't
q baby. She is woman grown.
with woman's rights. Give her
some pleasure at home If you want
her to stay there. Let her invite In
all of her friends, and make as
many parties as she wants to. Sus-
pend your 10 O'clock rule, for it's
lot better that you and your equity
husband should lose d little sleep
than it Is for your daughter to be
meeting strange men on the street,
Just remember if you want 10
keep your children at home you've
got to make your home an agree
able place to stay in. If you want
your children's love. you must be
lovable, and if you desire your
daughters confidence, you must lis
ten to her with understanding. SYM
pathy and helpfulness. Nobody.
not even a daughter, loves z jaiIer,
OF confides in wet blanket.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20

TREQUENTLY 1 get letters
from girls complaining that
their parents win not permit
them to have any friends, Of either
sex visit them in their homes, and
that no TALLER could be more cruel
or more tyrannical to them than
their fathers and mothers.
l confess that have given scant
credence to these charges, for it
did not seem possible to me that in
this enlightened day any father or
mother could have little enough
sense, to say nothing of little
enough affection, TO do the one
thing that was surest to drive a
young girl away from home, and
into the very dangers that beset
youth and beauty in a great city.
l thought that the narrow, igno-
rant, selfish, opinionated mean lit
tie despot OF the home existed only
in melodrama ON Fourteenth street
where the stern parent still sur
wives, and turns his daughter out OF
house and home But it seems that
1 was mistaken, as the following
letter shows. And it's a real, gem
uine, bona dde letter written by d
woman Wsu signs herself "One in
F7v.nhla
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20
Was First Improvement.

But, after that, a few generations
sufficed to bring in the automo-
bile, which needs no rails to run
on. This will probably prove to be
the greatest step in locomotion that
has been taken since the invention
of the wheel-greater in many ways
than the locomotive engine itself.
It has certainly had the swifteSt
progress, for half a generation has
seen its almost complete develop
ment.
CHANGING over the colored photo
graphs in the current number OF
the monthly magazine called Mo-
TOR "a quaint specimen Of typog-
raphy which is full of symboliSm),
one obtains an astonishing sense
Of the mastery that is in the
motor car. II must be revelation
to many who use such cars in q
half timId way, not really compre-
bending the power that they pos
sess. Look at the picture OF a pow
erful automobile easily blowing it's
way through a snow choked- road,
in which a horse-d drawn vehicle
would be hopelessly moored fast.
And then turn to the photographs
Of automobiles winding round
mountain roads, skirting profound
chasms, and, without loss OF breath,
carrying their passengers to eleva-
lions and viewpoints that could not
otherwise be attained without great
exertions on the part of horse and
man, and at the cost Of immense
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20

loss of time. The huge dragon ewes
of the auto stare at you from the
mouths of canyons, and its broad
padded wheels take safe hold on the
edges of precipices where even the
sure-footed broncho would not in
spire confidence.
The statistics of the automobile
are amazingly interesting reading.
If you neglect to inform yourself
about them you miss one Of the
most significant things Of our era.
At the last census we had about
90.O00,O0O inhabitants in this coun
try. On October last there were
almost 100000 motor cars regis
tered in the United States-nearly
one for 90 human beings.
A Prerogative of the Rich.
California has one for every %
of it's inhabitants; New York for
every rs
OF course. many Of these cars
are used for business purposes and
for public conveyance, and think
how vastly they have promoted eff
ficiency and rapidity In the carry
ing of goods and passengers. The
possession of private cars is still
prerogative Of comparative wealth
But the cost will inevitably come
down. The time Is surely coming
when any man who could formerly
afford to own a horse and buggy
can have an automobile FOR his
family and for the transaction OF
his affairs. At present many man
ufacturers cater only to the rich,
but in a little while they will all
cater to the whole people.
The time when the sight Of an
automobile awakens feelings q
envy and prejudice is fast passing.
The world can not afford to stand
IN it's own tight. To do so is 10
hold back the era of mind. All these
things are the product of brain,
and mans only hope for the future
on this planet is in his brain.
Every invention has met with OPP
position at the outset. They stoned
railway cars when they were first
introduced in England.
Have Opposed Progress.
Foolish workmen have smashed,
or tried to smash, at the beginning
almost every new machine designed
to do better and more quickly the
work OF human hands. but IN the
end they have always found that
those same machines were the
means OF their own emancipation.
The automobile has Quickened
the pulses Of the planet. IT has
given US clearer idea of the value
Of time. II has freed the horse
from slavery and US from depend
ence upon enslaved muscles. It Is
showing us how far behind we have
been lingering in the development
OF speed and comfort, and it fore
tells a yet brighter era when the
world will move still faster, and, in
moving faster, will live more.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.

KAN'S greatest invention is
MI the wheel II solved the
problem of swift and easy
locomotion for him and rendered all
his engines possible. In the wheel
human ingenuity has departed fur
thest from natures models.
The wheel is a circular leg with
an endless foot. 1t was one of the
earliest products of pure brain
work
We may imagine that on a fiat
surfaced planet, such as Mars ap-
pears to be, nature may possibly
have furnished animals with
wheels. But here man had to think
of that Improvement for himself,
Nature gave him only spokes; he
added the rim, and locomotion was
revolutionized. When you walk
you bring the ends of the spokes
one after the other upon the ground
with a great loss of time, effort and
speed The endless foot only be-
comes effective on an even surface,
and man, almost at the beginning
of his career, had the good sense to
provide himself, first with smooth
roads, and then with trimmed legs,
or wheels.
His progress at first was slow,
but 1t has now become rapid. He
had the bullock cart for thousands
OF years before he invented the To-
connective engine and the railroad
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20
Garrett P. Serviss
Writes on
The Automobile

1t Will Probably Prove To Be
the Greatest Step in Locomo~
tion-One Million Cars Regis
tered in the United States, or
Nearly One for Every Ninety
Human Beings.
The Detroit times., 1912-04-27
BUYS CARLOAD OF GOATS
TO CLEAR ROUGH LAND

ASHLAND, Wis, April 25.-A
brother-il.law OF Edward Hines, the
noted Chicago lumberman, w. b.
Clubine. OF Iron River. who has
charge of the interests OF the Hines
Lumber company in that part OF Wis
consin, is establishing a model farm
IN the upper Wisconsin woods near
Iron River and has just started an In
novation TO aid him in the clearing
up OF his place.
He received carload OF goats from
Chicago. ana these goats viii be turn
ed loose in Mr.. Clubinc's proposed
farm. as they have proved valuable
animals on new farms where there
is much brush land 10 subdue.
The goats eat the leaves OF the
brush and in a remarkably short time,
kill all brush which is not grown SO
large that they are unable TO reacn
the leaves. Mr.. Clubine is making a
farm OF several hundred acres. and
after the goats have cleared up the
brush in one tract he viii follow them
up by having workmen take up the
dead trees and stumps.
The Detroit times., 1912-04-27
10 BOOST CADILLAQUtlh
THREE HUNDRED CITIES
Pair with Auto Will Garry Invi-
tations To Officials From
Mayor Thompson

Cadillaqua has found two new
boosters and they are not Detroiters.
Lewis A. Deffner and Clarence T..
Goddard. OF Springfield, Mass. are
bout 20 carry messages and invita-
Ions TO Detroit and Cadillaqua week
dgned by Mayor Thompson, which
messages are addressed To the may
,rs Of more than 800 towns and cities
throughout the United States. They
TART from the Hotel Pontchartrain at
o'clock tomorrow afternoon and
Mayor Thompson will be on hand to
Nd them good luck and a good time.
Mr. Deffner and Mr.. Goddard are
fouIig men equipped with the wan
lerlust. They landed in Detroit sew
Iral days ago In Paige-Detroit car
which they had purchased In their
home town and in which they started
cut TO learn something about their
country. Not unnaturally, they came
10 Detroit and while both the Cadil-
hqua's officials and the manufactur-
brs or the Page-Detroit car were una
ware that DeffneT and Goddard even
owned a machine, they were quick to
AXE advantage of the opportunity to
ADVERTISE both.
Their trip Is not a money-making
one. IL is their own affair and they
are paying their own expenses. They
are not employed by either the Paige
Detroit people or by Cadillaqua, but
they are generous and are willing TO
help along a good thing. At their
own suggestion after they had learn
ed of the coming big carnival and
water fete TO be held here in July,
they agreed to do anything they could
to further its interests. They were
introduced 10 Mayor Thompson yes
terday and after short talk 1t was
arranged that they bear messages to
mayors OF the various towns through
which they would pass, inviting the
principal official and the citizens of
his municipality to Detroit's big
birthday party.
These letters are personal ones and
each is signed by Mayor Thompson.
Each mayor is requested to acknowl-
edge receipt of the letter and say
whether he can accept the invitation.
The Detroit times., 1912-04-27
BY FATHER,
GIRL DISAPPEARS

Mr.. and Mrs. George Cripps. OF No.
743 Brooklyn-ave., have asked the
police to help them In locating their
daughter, Alva, IL years old. who lett
home Monday, after a quarrel. during
which her father slapped her because
she refused to stay home, Sunday AT
ternoon. as she was ordered 10 do.
The parents are not greatly wor-
rled about the girls disappearance,
but they want her TO return. They
received a letter from her, Thursday,
stating that she was working in
Detroit home and was very COM
Portable.
The girl had passed an examina-
ton TO become telephone operator,
and was TO report at the Grand ex-
change OF the Michigan Telephone
Co, Monday She failed 10 appear
for work, after leaving home, and un-
I'll her parents received her letter,
they were somewhat worried about
her.
The Detroit times., 1912-04-27

roamed and seated herself alongside
an adipose female, who Immediately
Informed the young actress that she
took in washing, baked her own bread
and had come TO find out If her Henry
was happy But the climax OF this
PLOT is that the medium told Miss
Walker that she ought TO write a lei
ter 10 some one. She did. she AYERS,
and after that everything. even coal
scuttles, had silver lining.
Then there is nothing more TO Miss
Walkers liking than TO entice men,
bers of the finny tribe from their
homes. When she has landed a fish
she does not yell for some one TO take
the poor thing off the hook. but at
tends TO all that with her own pretty
hands.
IL am not afraid of work, and am
very fond of the wilds." says Miss
Walker. II guess that is why | am
The Detroit times., 1912-04-27

SO much In love with the role Of
June"
Aren't YOU afraid OF drafts when
YOU 20 on the stage barefootedF
"No indeed was her answer Pros,
peetive grip colds. sore throat, ana
humps hold no qualms al all only
one thing causes me any concern.
What's that2"
"Splinters
The Detroit times., 1912-04-27
Work, Wilds, Fishing,
Fads of Popular Actress
.FishIng and fortune-tellers?'

Fishing and fortune-tellers?
A question as 10 her fads elected
this answer recently from Miss Char
lotte Walker, who will be seen In The
Trail OF the Lonesome Pine In the
Detroit opera house next week.
One day-in Detroit, by the way
Miss Walker was feeling about as hap
py as woman who has bought some
ribbon at a bargain and then finds "
doesn't match her new dress. sweet
as a young persimmon was her dis
position. Out into the air she wand
cred, and had not gone far before she
saw a clairvoyant's sign. Inside she
The Detroit times., 1912-04-27
wlra.or school board win.

\ Judgment In favor OF the windsor
Board OF Education has been given in
the suit OF j. L. Murphy to annul ar
board to acquire a piece OF property
for school purposes. Mr.. Murphy con-
tended that the arbitration was irregu-
lar and that the board was seeking
more land than II needed.
The Detroit times., 1912-04-27
The hoard of water commissioner. did

The hoard Of water commissioners ala
not DISCUSS the question Of appoint
ing successor TO Secretar! 1ulneS
in the meeting Thursday. afteTpQon,
The engineer was directed 10 pre-
pare plans for new boiler Rouse
in Gladwin park. TO cost about
$4,000 Contracts for hard coal Tor
the coming year were let 10 J. & T.
Hurley, for soft coal to the Il. koe-
Mig Coal Co. and for lumber to Hunt
err a Weeks.
The Detroit times., 1912-04-27

Job Printing Done Right. Times
Printing Co., .15 John R-st
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-01-18

Inequalities | have enjoyed. DR..
Craighead, Missourian, the presi.
dent of Tulane University, is located
here. | met and heard him make u
good speech at the banquet.
DR.. +. G. Simmons and his good
and beautiful wife, formerly of
Pennington, also met and shared
their hospitality. The boys were on
hand and bright as new dollars
ready for frolic any time. Dr..
Simmons and Mr.. John Boone,
within the last year, have pro-
NOTED and organized the Pan-Amer-
lean Life Insurance Company. They
have made great success of it;
have subscribed and paid in stock
of almost a million dollars. 1t is
not too much to say that DR.. Sim
mons is one of the livest and most
capable young business men In New
Orleans. 1t does me good to tell
his many friends in St. Francois
county this truth. He is worthy
and has made a splendid success.
This letter, MIR. Editor, has
stretched itself out much longer than
| expected 1t would and so / will
bid you and your readers good
night. NJ. r. SMITH.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-01-18
FRED NACHSCH0EN,
Instructor Of Modern Dancing
Pennington, MO. Box 347.
Phone 309.
Democrats To Confer.

Fargo, \. d., Jan. 4.-Prominent
Democrats of the United States will
be present at the "get-tOgether''
meeting to be held here next We'd
nesday and Thursday.
Among those who have signified
their intension Of being present are
William Jennings Bryan. Gov. Jud-
son Harmon Of Ohio, Gov. Edwin
l.. Norris Of Montana and Gov,
John Burke Of North Dakota. The
Inter, II has been said, is an aspir.
ant for Vice President on the Demo.
cratic ticket If Gov. Harmon is nom.
mated.
Gov. Woodrow Wilson Of New
Jersey has announced that he will
not be alberto attend. but will send
his Western campaign manager
Charles &. Heffener of Seattle.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-01-18

cussion of the tariff and to deal in
the usual Republican campaign
generaities. The result, Il change
from a 5000 Republican majority
in 1910 to great Democratic vic.
tory OF 200 majority in a district
that has heretofore never sent any
one but II Republican to Congress.
II such things can occur in Kansas
what may not be expected in other
States whose Republican record is
not so hide. bound' The people,
even Republicans, are growing
weary of being taxed to the limit
for goyernmeut-tavorrd special in.
terpsts.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-01-18

~IIE Editor Of The Times wa,
~ deferred by the blizzard
and snow storm from at,
tending the meeting of Democratic
Editors of the State in st. Louis
last Friday, but those who were
there expressed in a clear.cut way
sentiments to which he has often
given utterauce aud on several oc-
caSlons recently IN reference to a
subject that is unduly agitating a
good many Democrats at this time
in the adoption of the following
resolution;
That it is the sense of this
meeting, and We recommend for
the consideration OF every member
of the State Democratic Press AS
soclatiOn, that the paramount duty
of every Democratic newspaper in
Missouri is strict allegiance to party
principles rather than the support
OF contending candidates; that
party first aud individual prefer.
rnces second should be the inspir-
4, =, moth. 60 e.. 1ltn ~. 80; 90.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-01-18

~HE election last week of u
~ Democrat, Mr.. George A.
Medley, to Congress from
the Seventh Kansas district, is
worrying no little the Republican
politicians who watch the trend of
politics. They are surprised,
amazed, at the result. The district
has been so surely Republican
from time ont of mind, Mr.. Neeley
having been defeated by the late
Congressman Madison in 1910 by
Il majority of about 1000, that no
thought Of Democrat carrying it
was for u moment entertained; in.
deed, Mr.. Neeley, after such an
overwhelming defeat rs he expert
enced in 1910, had to be urged,
virtually dragged into the race at
the special election on the 9th.
The Republicans had nominated at
a popular primary election strong
candidate in the person of former
District Judge +. l.. Martin, as
regular Republican not objection
able to the progressive element of
the party. MIR. Neeley made his
canvass principally on the tariff,
attacking the Taft administration
and preaching progressivism from
every stump, Judge Martin was
disposed 10 shy at a definite dis
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-01-18

~HE Democratic State Conven-
~ ton to elect delegates to
the National Democratic
Convention will be held at joplin,
Mo-, on Tuesda. February 20.
That is the decision arrived at by
the State Democratic Committee at
it's meeting in st. Louis last Satur-
day. And February 10th is named
as the date for holding township
meetings to elect delegates to conn
ty conventions, and February 18th
as the date for holding county con.
ventiOns or primaries We take il
from this that it is Ieftto the coun.
ty committees whether they shall
call county conventions OF county
primaries to elect delegates to the
State convention. 1t is to be re-
GREETED that the State Committee
did not confne it to the one or the
other, so that the plan of electine
delegates would be uniform in all
the counties. We believe the pri-
mary would be the more satisfac.
tory, give a better expression OF
the choice Of the voters, and pre-
vent the suggestion or suspicion of
packed township meetings and
county conventions. 1t is very
necessary that all ground for snch
suspicious or charges be removed
as far as possible because of the
intense feeling that has been
aroused between the respective
supporters of Mr.. Folk and Mr..
Clark for the presidential nomina-
ton.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-01-18
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rph,icop nomination hcI,ova ar
nj leost hone that ne is and rbaf
they NAV bp able 10 STAMPEDE tn
convention 10 him. If not. why
all this talk about Roosevelt A. the
Republican hopr2 4, one Kansas
editor puts it, IT'S Roosevelt or
bust" Mr.. Taft apparently is