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in Bowling Green township and
report to the court.
Upon petition Of l. H. Clough
ct al il is ordered by the Court
that the concrete and all other
distractions be removed from
the mouth Of Drainage District
No 10. said distractions to be
removed under the supervision
OF r. w. Cropper. County
Engineer.
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clans will admit ~ f
me country needs to get rid of political professional
cuuaeS IL wants to interest in politics and government
DS men that the country possesses big work has
ohe III country 1t has been done by power-and usually
by men that have proved something else besides
politics. 80 ~
george Washington good Sodier-and richest
man IN the country when he did his work republic
oDo suggests that he ought kept out politics because
he happened to be rich.
jacques Occur was the richest Europe power
u organization and his capital put at the service Of
france IN crisis brought on by ncompeency government
DSrael who did much for Engand-moe than anv other
man. perhaps except Pltwa great power and would
nave been man of vast wealth if he had worth while
make money He made millions England in his purcha of the
0uez canal bonds and hundreds Of millions wavs
Ii other men, having proved their ability bic industrial
Wor OF the country will follow the example of Perkins
snare government and place politics. they will do much to
crease efficiency in government affairs
And they need abandon their bio ndertakino if those
undertakings legitimate
should be builder as we'll as taIkar and auoakor
Inc ablest men in have unusually able
practical affairs ' ~
Inc wonderful fight that Volare made against oppression and
VIE hJuce dd not his building up prosperous
MUMMY ana making himself very rich Neczer was great
business man. as we'll as statesman
Holonel Roosevelt should apoopize
erlns with HIM On the contrary should proud
started progressive that attract successful men and
not merely attract the hacks failures of other political
parties.
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Marquis of Montebello In defiance
of many warnings he ventured out
in fierce thunder storm, passing
on foot through open fields and a
woodland His body was found.
half stripped of its clothing, near
some trees. He carried an UNI
brella with steel point, which
may have divirted the stroke from
tree to him. Only a week before
this tragedy, a gendarme, in a lit
tie country village near me, was
killed by lightning when he went
into his garden during a thunder
storm
The reach OF lightning is some
times appalling. 1t may go a mile,
it may even go TEN MILES and
reach It's victim 1t can not be
lodged even when it comes from
afar, for It travels with almost the
speed of light. Some districts are
particularly dangerous because of
the existence of deposits Of iron
beneath the surface of the earth.
The neighborhood OF a body of
water or a stream is always dan
gerous during a thunder storm.
Even subterranean water may lat
tract" lightning.
1t is rare that lightning enters a
room If it strikes a house the
damage is usually confined to the
exterior, the roof or the chimneys.
During a violent storm the safest
place is the center of a room,
where there is no open communica-
ton, such as a fireplace, with the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-02

TINE word assassin" was once
eminently respectable. 1t
was first used in the twelfth
century in Persia. 1t signified
member of a Mohammedan relig-
ious order These assassins devot-
ed their lives to truth, justice,
purity, right, and their business
was to give everybody a square
deal.
They took their name from the
leader, Hassan, and were called
Hassanites. or Hassassins. Then
some enemy of the order called
them Hashassins or hashish eaters
These men were fred by religious
zeal until they ran amuck, killing
every one who tried to oppose them
People thought they were intoxi
Gated by hashish, or the juice Of
the hemp plant This may have
been so, but a man intoxicated by
religious zeal, or drunk on success
and his own oratory, is quite as
dangerous as an individual who Is
simply plain drunk on dope and
drugs.
The word assassin" was taken
up by the French and circulated,
first as a slang word, and then it
got fixed in the dictionary, and
when the English adopted it, 1t be-
came legitimate.
Proud of the Name.
These Assassins Of Islam were
proud of the name and gloried in
it, The secret Order of Assassins
existed from the twelfth century
down practically to our own time
and members OF the order still en-
dure.
They were fatalists. and were
taught that If they died in the par
ticuar work to which they were
assigned, their souls would imms-
diately gravitate to Paradise.
For 200 years the Order of Assas-
sins held all Asia Minor in terror,
and instituted some very Dark
Ages.
The Assassins struck in the dark,
and the government was poWerless
10 locate the murderers; in fact, Of
ficers of the government themselves
were often members Of this Order
Of Assassins. The whole thing was
very much like the Camorra of
Italy, or the cheerful White Caps,
of which America has had quite a
taste.
The world should beware OF men
who come in the name of reforma-
ton, demanding that the world
shopd be made over according to
ideN plans which they themselves
have formulated. Any man who is
better Cor who thinks he is better)
than the common run of humanity
is apt to be dangerous individual
and may easily gravitate into the
sacred Order of Assassins
The Mahdis that have appeared
from time to time in the Orient, es-
pecially in Asia Minor Persia and
Turkey, have belonged to this Or
der of Assassins The word "Mah-
dir means one who leads US ont of
captivity.
Each of the dozen or so Mahdis
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-02
Bv EBERT HUBBARD
Copyright, 1912, by International News Service

that Northumberland has nro-
duced has called himself "Tha
Mahdi."
Ihere was one particular Mah6J
that turned the Soudan into a tran
OF danger and death about the vesr
1880. This Mad Mullah's bus,ness
was to restore the Soudan. and
eventually the entire world. To q
condition of peace, equity, justice
and prosperity through destruction
or the forces that he said wera
stranglfng the plain people.
He Took to the Desert.
This man took to the desert with
a few hundred followers. At first
they were unarmed. They lived on
the contributions of the Faithful
A little later, when contributions
were not forthcoming, they made
raids into the towns and villages
and collected their own. Soon thew
were transformed into a formidabIe
mass Of cavalry, riding stolen
horses. The restless, the worthless
the uneasy, all those who had moth
Ing to lose. quit work and followed
the Mahdi.
Ideal communities were TO be or
ganized. A new distribution o,
goods was to be the rule. The rich
and the governing classes were tn
be eliminated. The rule Of the
people was to be supreme.
The revolt grew so great that the
khedive abandoned the Soudan.
General Gordon, known as Chi
nese Gordon" was sent out by the
English government to treat with
the Mahdi, and, If necessary. to de-
stroy him.
Gordon arrived at Khartoum In
1884. He Issued a request to the
hostile Soudanese to lay down their
arms, and return to their homes
and go to work, promising them
immunity from punishment for
their offenses,
The reply of the Assassins was
TO cut off Gordon's communication
with Cairo. Gordon did not havs
any idea of the number OF men he
had to deal with, and nobody vet
knows how this disorganized, I'M
organized mass OF humanity, that
fed off the land like graSshoppers
shut Gordon up with his 10, 900 SOL
diers In Khartoum
Held Him A Cantive
The besieging hordes held him
captive for ten months.
Finally, Great Britain dispatched
an army to the relief of Gordon,
under General Wolseley, who ar
rived within two days march of
Khartoum. But through the treach-
cry of certain people in Khartoum
for whom General Gordon was
f1ghting-the gates were thrown
open and the hordes came tum-
bling through, and Gordon went
down to his death.
Only the death of Gordon aroused
the British nation to the danger OF
this rule of the mob Kitchener was
sent to the SOudan with an army,
and it took him twelve years to
put down the rebellion started bv
these religious progressives who
thought to make the world over.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-02
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

mental food and dwell on monot-
onous level Of unchanging views.
Therefore, vacations and little
Journeys and visits and trips are to
be recommended as beauty treat
ments and old-age preventives as
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-02
How to Get Benefits.

But in the close intimacy which
travel and boarding house or hotel
life necessitates the prominent
traits and characteristic stand
forth prominently revealed.
Therefore. before you go away on
your vacation it is we'll to brush up
your manners. to take a fresh hold
on your will power and to fertilize
your affectionate nature so that
your family and your friends and
the strangers you will meet may be
benefited by your companionship.
And in doing this you will re-
ceive real benefit yourself from
Yourself and return refreshed and
happy and sclf-respecting when the
outing is over.
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would happen, not realizing that his
state of mind was one which would
attract and produce misfortune.
Far kinder would it have been
had he remained at home or quietly
insisted upon going to the country.
To yield a point to another is not
courtesy or kindness unless it is
yielded graclously amiably and
with every effort to make the sit
uation agreeable and pleasant.
Two people may leave a palatial
and luxurious home and go INTO the
discomforts of a small hotel room
or farm house, and yet they may
find delight and benefits untold of
in the change if they are good com
rades, real friends or tender lovers.
The delights and benefits are all
results of mental conditions-an un-
selfish desire to please your asso-
ciates, happiness in seeing others
enjoy life, satisfaction in getting
and giving the best Of life in every
situation.
These are the qualities which
make every vacation a success,
every journey one of benefit. every
change a pleasure and the return
home to work a new delight.
Husbands and wives. parents and
children jog along in the home for
months without really seeing one
another as thew are
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George w. Perkins and the Roose
welt Progressive Party
Continued from First Column.

mad when the convention opened-something quite
clans will admit
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ntnk about that
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exterior. If you are very fearful,
you may insulate yourself by sit
ting in a chair with its legs rest
ing in glass tumblers. or, as some
do, by lying upon feather bed.
Naturally you would not choose an
iron bed.
Some Warnings,
But these are extreme precau-
tons, and few would think it worth
while to adopt them. You are
practically safe if you stay indoors,
closing windows and other open
ings, and keeping away from
stoves, stovepipes and freplaces.
If you find yourself perforce out
of doors during thunder storm.
avoid the neighborhood of tall iso-
lated trees. and do not follow a
stream or the border of a lake.
Keep away, also, from wire fences.
Most of the destruction of cattle
by lightning, In recent years. occurs
where they have huddled close to a
metallic barrier. Don't carry an
umbrella in thunder storm. The
Marquis of MOntebello's fate Is a
sufficient warning on that score.
Submit to be soaked with rain
rather than take shelter under
tree, and, for your comfort, remem-
Der that, in almost any case, you
have many chances in your favor to
one against you, and that death by
&c
painless to which a living being can
be subjected. 1t is quicker than the
nerves
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-02
THE ARTILLERY OF THE SKY
Ii Cas- Shoot 1ss Mile. Dea,ey City
By GARRETT P. SERVES.

TT was a lucky photographs whs
caught with his camera thu SAc-
turs which we see hare OF great
storm Of thunder and lightning rag
Ing over tia city Of Paris on thA
night of yuiy n las& Thas picture
shows graphically. and b1 an &C.
tua1 example. ~h&t tried e tell La
words In TAS Georgian Few
months aso-v4x. that q g7on2
city IN FAR more secure aga&nAM the
destructive efreots Of lightning than
is the open country.
Tho view was taken from the
heights Of Montmartre, looking IN q
southeriy direction over Paris.
Away on near the horizon Ia the
lofty dome of tho Pantheon: to the
left of the center appears the huge
bulk Of the Grand Opera House.
Look at tho three vicious Wtrosas.
descending simultaneously upon the
city. The central one seems 10
strike CLOSE to the ancient cathedral
Of Notre Dame. This, remember,
was the work of an instant Dur
Ing the continuance Of the storm,
hundreds of bolts may have been
shot from the sky upon Paris, but
no damage was done, although the
power of any one Of them concen-
trated might have suff1ced to de-
molish a building.
1t is even possible that a greater
number of lightning strokes be-
tween the earth and the clouds oc-
cur when a storm is passing over a
large city than when it has only
the unobstructed country beneath
1t. A city is bristling with points
church spires, towers, tall chimneys.
etc.-and there Is nothing which
draws" lightning like a pointed OBJ
ject especially If it is composed
Of metal. A storm may exhaust all
it's ammunition.
But in this very circumstance re-
sides the security of the city. 1t is
so filled with metallic objects. all Of
them Offering ready paths for light
ming, that the latter is weakened by
dissipation. A great bolt is instan
taneously divided into vast num-
Der Of branches, and the force is
lost. The inhabitants OF the CITY
who keep away from parks and
open places are almost as secure
against lightning as they would be
If they were shut up inside a huge
box composed of an iron grating.
But in the country 1t is different
and the need Of properly adjusted
lightning rods is greater there.
Dreaded.
Lightning is greatly dreaded in
France, and no wonder. since sta
tistics show that 10000 people we're
killed by lightning in that country
during the nineteenth century.
Nearly all of these persisted through
neglect Of the most ordinary pre-
cautions. They may be said TO
have invited death by placing them
selves In the way OF it's darts.
A remarkable example occurred
early this summer. when a light
ming bolt instantly killed one of the
greatest noblemen of France. the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-02
George w. Perkins and the
Roosevelt Progressive
Party

He Has Set Example That Other Prosperous Men Might Fol
low The Country Needs Able Men Take Interest In
Politics and Government
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Should Have Stayed Home.

man was urged by his wife to
take weeks vacation with her.
The man wanted to go into the
country; the wife urged the sea-
shore and the man yielded.
He went with his wife. but every
mile Of the journey was devoted TO
srumbling and i'll humor. and every
hour Of the vacation was spent in
regret that he had not gone else
where, and when his wife fell in me
said he An~" something of The kind
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we'll as cures for mental and physi-
cal maladies.
And they are helps to success in
any line Of endeavor, since they
enlarge the vision and increase the
minds capacity
But none Of the benefits result
from vacations If the mind is filed
with discomfort, in temper and
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Your Best Manners and Impulses

TT you are going away with your
friends or your family for a
vacation take your very best
manners, your very hndest and
sweetest impulses with you.
There is no benefit in a change of
scene or respite from labor If i'll
temper, nervousness, irritability
and tault-fndius rule the mental
domain
All benefit which comes to us
must come from WITHIN.
The woman who stays at home in
happy, cheerful state of mind, de-
lighted with small pleasures and
bent on making everybody about
her better for her companionship,
Will gain more benent from her
vacation than one who goes tour
ing in motor cars. sailing in yachts
or sojourning in great hotels, all
the time complaining OF her sur
roundings and her associates and
finding fault with people and
things.
A man may far better refuse to
go away on journey than to go
and cast pail OF gloom over his
companions by indulging his most
unamiable and disagreeable habits.
A change of scene and thought is
to be recommended to every human
being who can possibly arrange
such an event.
Take Two Vacations.
Not once, but twice each year
should every busy worker in the
physical or mental domain Of labor
get away into new surroundings
and among new people or alone
with Nature.
The vehicle which rolls contin-
ually over one track wears ruts. So
one kind Of thought wears ruts in
the mind, and the mind wears ruts
in the face, and premature old age
comes
Women in lonely country places,
who have few diversions. and who
go to sleep with the chickens. and
who breathe fresh country air. and
cat wholesome food. age sooner
than the city woman of fashion.
because thew have ro variatr Oh
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sedative than as stinulant. The people
are not in a warm mood.
Whatever ambition an American expert
in military affairs may have for the mills
tary prestige Of his country, if he has al
the same time familiarized himself with
the eXhausting and impoverishing course
upon which European nations are ruR
ming, it is difficult to understand how he
can have the heart, by word or influence
to prod the American people to competG
in race conducting to the same fatality
The European war debt amounts to
twenty-six billion dollars, debt which
never will be discharged, the payment OK
the interest upon which comes very
largely out of the pockets Of the poor.
There is great strength, as well as good
Judgment, in quietness of mind, and that
quietness is every little while disturbed BY
some journalistic announcement or othes
to the effect that friction is developing
between some other country and our
selves and no one can forecast what the
issue will be; that japan or some other
nation, particularly Japan. is simply bid'
ing its time, and is smilingly cherishin6
very sour grudge which may eventF
ate in a cataclysm of war that will carry
OFF the Sandwich Islands and the western
quarter Of our country and make them
part of the Orient. Such prophecies tend
to provoke the very thing which they
prophesy, for such insinuations and innD
endoes go across to the other side and cFe'
ate malevolence where no msleYolence
existed.
In the course Of an address recently
given in this city by Chief Justice Whte7
nobi, who represents Japan in the admin
istration of Korea, he said: Japan Is nos
going to war with the United States
There is no thought Of it. 1t is never
suggested in our newspapers. II is fre'
quently flung as a fire. brand by tho
American press, but the Japanese press
is absolutely innocent of anything OF thaS
kl2d.".
All of the foregoing carries no faint OF
pusillanimity, but will be the fit distlno'
ton OF a nation that knows how TO ol|
criminate between dignity and assumP-
ton; of a nation that in a Christian way
appreciates its own interests not as
something distinct from the interests OF
the world, but rather as entering into.
and forming a part of, the interests OF
the world; of a nation in fine that feeIs
itself called to a great service, invited
to policy of life and action that shan
not be merely the rehearsing u WhaV
has been, a barren reduplication OF the
old ages that have had placed upon them
the stamp of the Lords disapproya+
but policy that shall give to our ma
tional life an original tone in such way
dinerentiating us from the rest OF Ius
world shall no n
after us and carry the whole fam '
hood of the nations little nearer 10
the finality as it lies registered in 10
mind of God.
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rel with his neighbor however quarrel
some that neghbor may be.
That so great a length of time, how
ever, should have elapsed since our Lords
command to Peter to put up his sword
was issued is no reproach against Chris
tianity The thoughts of people who are
precipitate in their expectations are not
moving in pace with the methods and in
tentions of God. with whom a thousand
years is as one day" If the process for
fitting the world for human occupation
has occupied so many centuries that
arithmetic is strained in its efforts to com.
pute them, it is occasion neither for sur
prise nor Encouragement that the shaping
and maturing of His moral kingdom ad.
vances by a movement that to our limit.
edness and Impotence seems SO dilatorv. A
spirit of hurry is one of the infirmities OF
small minds. The true attitude of Chris
tian philosophy does not assert itself by
its haste to see the will Of God accom-
plished, but consists rather in that patient
observation and discernment that enables
it gratefully to discover that things are
moving, however inconspicuously, to,0Grd
the accomplishment of His will.
And 1t certainly does seem that no one
who is searching with a sincere desire to
discover, can fail to be assured that the
movement toward the worlds pacification
is distinct and as rapid as a considerable
Christian philosophy has grounds to anti.
cipate. In order to know whether q thing
moves, whether on the ground or among
the stars, in the material or in the spirit.
ual world, one needs to place his eye not
only on the place where it is now but on
the place where it was a hundred DAYS or
a thousand years before. and if the former
of the two places is in advance of the lat.
ter even though by never so little, there
Is movement and there is progress.
Although we are even now hearing q
great deal about armies and navies and
large appropriations for military equip
ment, yet the sentiment which prevails to.
day in regard to warts reasonableness
and It's rlghteousness-is so distinct from
what 1t was couple of centuries ago, that
even superficial acquaintance with the
movings of thought during that time Will
not fail to appreciate the change And
1t is the sentiment of people that is symp-
tom OF condition. The question is not
how many soldiers we have, not how many
dreadnoughts there are afloat or in course
of construction, but what are the people
thinking That is the instrument that we
have to use in measuring civilization its
flow or its ebb.
1t signifies nothing that a Secretary OF
War comes out with a "warscare," for
the purpose of exciting sufficient ner.
vousness throughout the country 10
justify an immense appropriation for the
War Department Nervousness docs not
ensue and the Secretarys official sensa-
tionalism is pigeonholed The document
singularly enough, operates rather as a