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men as Barnes, and Dixon, MeKinly
and Borah, Crane and McHarg, PEN
rose and Johnston getting together
and calling each uther names that I
would not use in speaking of DEM
mercrat. I sadly feer that the Poor
Woodworking Millynairs of this eoun-
try, who have been the spesial pride
and care of the Republican Party air
summing in for sum pretty sever
Bumps at the hands of the Demmer-
Gratis, and am RELY glad that I
could not stand to see a poor little In
FAINT Industry begging for Profession
frum the Wolves of Urope, and not
be able to hold out to it sum cumfort.
I am too tender Harted. I shall re-
tire frum this new brand of Polyticks;
it gets on my nerves; we air, l am
afraid Ruined" sed he while a huge
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back to his Congrigasion with Mise
new long-tailed suit on; and nuthing
was thought of it, but now if he is in
Ghieargo he is having or has had his
delicate censibilities shocked by offers
of Mummy and varips forms of Bribery
frum such rude persuns as have
charge of things there, and he must
assosiate with Tufts frum Pittsburg
and New York, and after viewing the
world the Flesh and the Devil in such
glarring proporsions, is it emmy wun-
der that Gwen he should fall under
there wicked spell and go back home
smelling like Gin Rickies and Tainted
Mummy?
Il don't know what is to becum of
our Infint Industrys,' almost sobbed
the Senator, when we behold the
Spectacle of such patryotic States
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she'll to her ear to hear Its echo OF the
wild sea; while the author of the "Chron-
ieles of clovernoolz." Douglas Jerrold.
employs the murmur OF the shell as re-
minder of the days of youth and child-
hood when tho skies were cfoudless save
with roseate shadows. Mr.. spurgeon. IN
one of his sermons. refers to the shell
as illustrating the constant moan of the
soul for communion with Cod for, as tho
shell came from the sea. FOR which it ever
means. so the soul oamo from God for
whom 1t murmurs and without whom 10
Is never at peace.
While 1t Is mere poetic conceit this
murmuring of the coneh shell for the sea.
yet It is harmless and tenderly beautiful
in many of its settings. Among other eff
feets the murmur of the shell has upon
me, Is that of reminding mo of the years
Of childhood; can hold tho shell to my
ears now and hear. not only the sea
whence II came, but sounds that sweep
over tho ocean OF Time-volees that have
been still in death these many years.
songs that were sung by lips that have
been silent since the long ago, and gentle
lullabies that soothed mo into the restfr1
mystery of Slumberlana.
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then a small branch. He would make
useful member of the Senate if they
would only let him stay little while.
I can't see the cents in Peepul swap
ping off a good man rite in the middle
of the seesun.
Thinking possibility that Senator
Cullum mite give me a few dots on
the Republican Conversion, called
on him the uther day with the view
Of getting his opinion of the situasion
in Chicargo. Twill you attend the
Conversion this yeer Senater?"
asked. The Senator took out q piece
of Brown Mule about the size of a
Vaughn cover, and biting off a peece
with his new Plaster of Paris teeth,
walked to the back door of the Capital
and spit on the District of Columbier
and sed: mo, shall not go to the
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TIME heroism of Alabama. manhood
was never more essentially em-
i bodied than it was in the career and
character OF the gallant young soldier,
John Pelham. His name was repeatedly
mentioned on the lips of the Confederate
ohieftains as the gallant Pelham" By
no other name washe SO generally known
in the great galaxy of heroes IN the
Army of Northern Virginia. Pelham was
especially admired by Gems. Robert E.
Lee, stonewall Jackson and J. e. B.
Stuart. A prodigy of valor, he enjoyed
the admiration of the entire army.
The civil war found Pelham a cadet
at West Point. He was then about %
years old. He was not specially gifted in
his text books, but his work as a student
was solid and substantial. Just before he
would have received his diploma he quit
the Military academy early in 1861, and
staraed southwark. The country through
out was feverish with excitement, and
every one going toward the south was
eyed with suspicion which made 1t diff
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ought to be somewhere n consumation
of your loftiest hope. a fulhl1ment OF
your highest desire. satisfaction OF
your noblest warnings. you seorn the
philosophy that bids you "eat, drink
and be merry, for tomorrow you may
die"
1t falls short
It fails to meet the demands of your
selfhood: it Is contrary to every instinct
of your spirit
And so when death puts us face to
face with reality we turn away from
the hypothesis OF science and look up
to our Father Faith sees the glim-
mer of star, and listening hope can
hear the rustic of a wing" Who Is
strong enough to shut the door on the
starry outlook and close mis- ears to the
rustic of the angelic host?
Let science gnaw her file.
Shepherdless and weary. the child of
God wants TO be led beside the still
waters, to lie down In green pastures.
to feel as he walks through the shadow
Of the valley that thy rod and thy
STAFF they comfort me-.
Have you any Rambos?"
The salesman at the commission
house selected an overgrown specimen
fostered by some modern rchardist
this is the Rambo."
Shades of uucle Henry's orchard
| had intended TO ask for such old
timers as the Milan and the Willow
twig and the others. but turned away.
And at the dinner l was telling the
folks that apples nowadays were not
what they used to be. why when
was boy
Seeing my son wink at his sister.
changed the subject.
But I kept the vision.
The vision was OF an old time orchard
where the trees grew big and thrifty
Pruning and spraying were unknown,
and there was no blowing up Of the or
cbard soil. And the thick grass made n
carpet on which the dropping fruit
made scarce a sound.
1t was a hazy autumn day. The dust
Of the road was soft to the tread OF
three barefooted boys who stealthily
deployed from the woods where big
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majorship to lieutenant co1onelcy, but
was killed before his commission was COM
nrmed by the Confederate senate
on March IL 1863. he was visiting soma
friends at night. IN culpepper county,
when the booming of guns at Kelly's
Ford fell on his ear. ExeusIng himself.
he mounted his horse and rode rapidly -
the scene of action. His own command
had not yet arrived. but he found a regi-
ment wavering in confusion. Squirting his
horse quickly to the front of the confused
mass. his cool ringing voice restored
order. and placing himself at their head
10 leed them to battle, a fragment OF
shell struck the brave youth In the head,
and he was instantly killed. The news
of the death of Pelham ooeasioned as
much mourning in the army and through-
out the Confederacy as there would have
been had one of tho great cheftains
fallen. Boy as he was. his fame had
become proverbial. His body was sent
home for burial, and his ashes reposs
today at Jacksonville. In his native
countya Calhoun.
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MARVIN tells us that in early life
i he was very fond of music and
- poetry. but that in turning his at
tention to the study of nature he neg
lected to cultivate his taste for harmony
and literature.
Finally his enjoyment of poetry and mu-
sic was lost. fact which he greatly re-
GREETED in his later life.
1t IS the law of nonuse
just as species of birds on a certain
island where there We're no snakes and
vermin quit making their nests In trees
and began to live on the ground and these
gradually lost the use of their wings. lust
so did Darwin lose his appreciation.
You may harden your soul to the best
things of life by devoting yourself entire
~ to other things.
To illustrate:
A man may become entirely absorbed
in1the money game, neglecting all the fac
ulties save requirement. Without desir-
Ing deliberately to shut the door on his
diviner side he may neglect his higher
nature until il no longer makes appeal.
He becomes calloused.
Or woman may give her days and
nights to social designations so complete
~ as to take all her time and energies
and without purposely choosing TO stifie
her nobler faculties come TO a day when
the appeal of higher Influences no longer
moves her.
If we are to do the best and be the best
we must think the best, feel the best fol-
low the best
We are not suddenly corrupted.
Character becomes weakened grad
ualiy and by the shutting out Of the better
impulses.
Henry Ward Beecher once said in
substance:
MAN is a three stored house. His
animal part Is the basement where his
passions crawl. There Is the first story.
the Intellectual Most men live alto
eether on these two foors-the animal
and the the intellectual-some only in
the basement. But there Is another
story which is the best of all, the Sec
ond story--the spiritual.
Men furnish and furnish their base
inent and their hrst story. but let the
tor story go as if It were an abandoned
>ttics
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| log represented the good ship Nancy.
We were playing pirates"
Nor did we know that both Thucy-
dides and Homer had lauded pirates or
that Scion had kept school for them
in Athens. Ours was the fierce buc-
eaneering of Sylvanus Cobb and Hora-
Ito Alger and the New York Weekly
Ledger.
The. loot of these freebooters? The
Rambo row, second from the south east
corner of the stake and rider fence"
sh, lads Steady now (They say
Uncle Henry has threatened TO use his
gum Forward" Don't let that dog
see You, Billf) Jim, get behind that
tree, auick"
Thus the three corsairs.
Did they not know they could have all
Inc apples they could carry by asking
for them? But-in the name of Captain
KIDD
And so they fill their pockets and hats
and blouse waists.
Apples OF Hesperides?
How Infinitely better the flavor and
tang of those Rambos, partly eaten and
partly stored beneath the decks of the
Nancy. riding there at anchor, than the
Rambos down cellar al homei
And
But am garrulous old man blIth-
ering about the good old times And
all things mortal pass. And the walls
of ones arteries harden with the years
and the blood moves sluggish.
But Rambos?
Why in those days
The more one learns about Queen
Mary of England the higher she rises
In ones esteem.
As the first woman of the kingdom
she Is exenplar of all that wife and
mother should be. And in her insist
ence upon correct morals she Is restor-
ing to the court circles of England the
Ttrity OF good Queen Victoria's reign
She viii not permit gambling.
She has snubbed those who drink.
The hobble skirt Is ruled out.
She abhors paint and face powder.
The big picture hats are tabooed.
The queen has frowned upon these
things not because of eccentricity or
prudery, but because she Is determined
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teer about the size Of a Cue Ball
slowly trickled down his boyish face
and bufryed itself in the little Bunch
of Alfalfa on his chin.
I am very sorry for Senator Cul-
lum; he is an awful nice Yung Scout,
and it pains me to know that he Is 50
little appreciated by the boneheaded
Bunch of Indians that go to make up
the City of Ghicargo, where, when
ever you mension the name Of 7.
Roosefelt, sum fellers will climb out
of the winder and bite the electric
light wire in two and Start Ruff
House.
Senator Cullum is an Honest, and
Sinceer Republican. About the only
one in Captivity.
Yours trooly,
BILL VINES.
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OF inland ground applying to his ear
The convolutions of smooth-llpped SHE'LL
To which, In silence hushed, his very soul
Listened intensely, ana his eountenance
soon
Frightened with Joy for from within were
heard
Murmurngs. whereby the monitor ex-
pressed
Mysterious union with his native sea-
Walter Savage Iandor, in Gebir, has
much the same thought;
''But have sinuous shells OF peariy hue;
Shake one, and il awakens; then apply
Its polisht lips to your attentive ear,
And It remembers Its august abodes,
And murmurs as the ocean murmurs
there
This passage caused a hot contention
and the charge of literary theft. But I
suppose there was no real plagiarism. II
one were about to use the she'll In poetic
measures. It seems to me that he would
most naturally think of 1t In such SMILES
as both these poets did. Byron, in
1.-THE Islands," employs the same smile.
George Macdonald, whose very prose is
bewitching poetry, has poem that he
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-23
rISTUR -EDDITUR:
Just exactly one hundred
and forty nine yeers ago, the

= xIsTUR EDDITUR:
nj Just exactly one hundred
AsA and forty nine yeers ago, the
venerabul Mistur Cullum seenyer
was sitting in his spacious librery
when the nurse cum in an sed: "Ex-
cuse me Sur and its a boy "Bless
my sole you don't tell me-" sed the
Venerabul Mistur Cullum aforesed,
and about that time in walked Cullum
Junyor, three an one half minnits
old, and sed, "I hope you will excuse
this haste, unseemly and all that, and
make the. proper appolergies to the
assembulled guests, but as soon as I
can get the proper wareing apparel,
including the Toger, I must hurry
over to Washington, they need me in
the Senate to help swell the Repub-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-28
OFFICE HOLDER AT
SAVANNAH TO QUIT
AS TAFT GOES OUT

SAVANNAH, GA, Nov. 2S.-Through
ry resignation of William r. Lcaken,
which will be personally rendered to
President Taft between now and Sat
urday, the office of collector of customs
ut Savannah will become vacant on
March 4, the day of President Wilson's
Inauguration.
The step proposed by Mr. Leaken is
no surprise to his friends. He leaves
today for Washington with his family
for a stay Of several weeks. One Of his
first missions at the capital will be a
formal conference with the president
on the subject Of the proposed resigna-
ton.
Mr. Leaken says that he believes in
the old doctrine that "to the victor be
longs the spoils,' and that he proposes
10 hand In his resignation in order not
20 avoid the incoming administration
His term would expire next August,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-28
w. WOODS WHITE WILL
TALK TO NEGRO STUDENTS

W. Woods White will preside over
the Thanksgiving exercises Of the At
I'illa Normal and Industrial institute,
d negro school. at Warren Chapel to-
i'IsIi' at o'clock. He will be assisted
oy number Of other prominent white
citizens Of Atlanta.
Dr. ;. R. Belk, of the Park Street
I NJ Episcopal church. in West
End viii make a short talk and a
paper viii be read by City Attorney
'% ZANE. L. Mayson. 4 large number of
"nlte persons will attend and the ne
gro sIee club viii furnish a number of
interesting features. The school Is
growing rapidly and has attracted the
interest OF many of the most prominent
white citizens Of Atlanta
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-28
ARMED MEN GUARD
BIG STEEL PLANTS;
TRAINMEN ON STRIKE

IN p,,IIfSBuRG, Nov. 2S.-Although the
Inns ,,,ii, We're closed for Thanksgiving, armed
9u"lus To-Day We're posted in the yards Of
homestead 40, Braddcck and Rankin stee
mus as result of the strike of trainmer
N those places. Immediate adtustmen,
OF the labor difficulty seems unlikely per.
S suns familiar with the situation declared
=, me strikers are demanding an increase
- WAGES and the reinstatement of three
men discharged for circulating a nett.
lioh lnstigating the trouble. 1t was de
cared five days have been given for the
reinstatement of the men
otfleials of the mills admit the strike
mas practically tied up the mills
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-28
GAS ME- To Be
N|NED AND D|NED
Elaborate Preparations For En-.
tertainment of Delegates Are
Made by Atlanta Hosts.

Elaborate preparations are heinz
made for the entertainment of the . Oo0
visitors who will come to Atlanta rs
delegates to the meeting of the Nation
al Gas association, December . to :.
1t is the plan of the Atlanta committee
not to allow the visitors to spend one
dull moment while they are here.
Luncheon will follow luncheon. Din
ners innumerabIe will be given. The
alter parties have been arranged. The
entertainment is plannd to be on the
most extensive scale Atlanta has ever
known.
All the expense win be borne by the
gas association and the Atlanta Gas
Light Company, but Preston : Ark
wright, the chairman of the entertain
ment committee. has named a number
Of prominent Atlantans who win aid
MIN in acting host.
While there will be scores Of private
entertainments, the following official
occasions have been arranged:
Monday evening, December >. buffet
supper at the Piedmont Driving club at
80 o'clock.
Wednesday evening, December 4, the
alter party at the Grand opera house
Friday evening, December g. mt $50
o'clock banquet and beefstcaE dinner
AT Taft hall in the Auditorium There
will be some 500 persons seated at this
dinner. and arrangements have been
made for some vaudeville sketches in
addition to the usual arter-dinner
speaking.
Saturday afternoon, December I.
barbecue at Grant park
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-28
EDITOR WILLIAMS RECEIVERS.

WAYCROSS, GA, Nov. 2S.-EditoT
e. Volney Williams. of The Daily Jour
nal is back at his office after a period
IF illness extending over seVera!.
months. He hopes to be In his usual
GOOD health within a few weeks.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-28
AMERICANS BLAMED
BY SCOTLAND YARD
FOR THEFT OF $4,000

LONDON. Nov. 2S-That a band OF
American crooks who make Paris tneli
headquarters engineered the theft OF
10000 from a consignment Of $1,000,
100 in gold specie from the Bank OF
England 10 the Credit Lyonnais at
Alexandria, Egypt, was the theory on
which Scotland Yard operatives We're
working today.
It is believed the gold was stolen from
1be money pouches while they were be-
ing carried on a train from Bremen to
Trieste and that the thieves did not
take more because they could not carry
it. The theft occurred some time be-
tween November II and November %
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-28
DISTINGUISHED MEN AT
SEN. RAYNER'S FUNERAL

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S.-ln the
presence of the most distinguished men
Of the nation, the funeral of Senator
lsdor Rayner, of Maryland, took place
Yesterday at hts former residence
here. Interment was in Rock Green
cemetery.
The services were public. and q
throng was present which more ttlaI
axed the capacity Of the residence
President Taft. Speaker Clark and
members of the senate and house who
we're in the CITY attended.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-28
$780, 100000 MORTGAGE
FILED IN BIB COURT

MACON. GA, Nov. 2S-A mortgage
ior %H0o0Oooo the largest ever put on
record IN this county. has been filed in
the Blob superior court in favor of the
United States Mortgage and Trust
Company of New York by the Cen
tral Of Georgia railroad. The mortgage
natures in 1862, and is a general and
reIundins mortgage, designed to cover
the recent issue of Improvement bonds.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-28
CORN PARADE MARSHAL

Captain w. II. Lay, of the F1Jth IN
rantry, Georgia state troops, has been
selected by the corn show committee
If the Atlanta Chamber of commerce
10 be marshal of the corn parade.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-28
Clearing the Decks for Xmas---A Great Sale$

Monday-the first business day in De-
cember-starts the Xmas rush.
Wen devote Friday and Saturday, there
FORE to Clearing the Decks for Xmas-we have
put CLEARANCE PRICES on all odd lots,
broken lines, all odds and ends, and on much
merchandise now occupying space needed for
Amas displays
glance the will show how timely the
disc and how the savngsa fourth, third half
The sale is scheduled Friday Saturday have
no way OF knowing how long particular lot will
many good bargains in quantities too small
better come early. No phone mail orders accepted
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-28

The action of these Waters is Won
derful They make the skin breathe
out just as your lungs expel impurities.
Every minute of the day and night
these wonderful Waters keep the pores
busy.
Instead of cIogging the pores in the
form Of pimples, blackheads, eczema
rash. liver spots and other skin erup-
tons. these impurities cease TO gather,
they dry up and Nature soon gives the
skin the bloom of youth and health,
If YOU would have a beautiful COM
pleNion, please stop using cosmetics
Can YOU not realize how they plaster up
the pores? Were you to cover your en-
tire body with such a mask, you would
die in a day or two.
Suart's Calcium Waters are very
pleasant to the taste are put up in
convenient form to carry, and can be
obtained at any drug store, at so cents
a box,
Make your dreams of a lovely COM
plexiou come true. In a short time a
very bad complexion is transformed to
perfect loveliness. (AdvD.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-28

10 flavor fancy food delciousiy use
SAUER'S PURE FLAVORING EN-
TRACTS Vanilla Lemon. etc. Thir-
zen highest awards and medals lAQNly
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-09-28

the intense enthusiasm that Woodrow
Wilson stirred up In the northwest
have sounded the death kneli OF these
hopes. It now seems absolutely GER
tain that the Democratic ticket will be
elected By an enormous majority Of
both electoral and popular votes and
1t Is almost as sure that the Bull
Moose ticket will be second in the
race. If this is true, Mr.. Taft will be
thrown in the class with Debs and
Chain.
Even with the insincerity of his
protestations and alleged principles SO
plainly apparent, Roosevelt win in all
probability get a large popular vote
and he will probably carry several
states. Practically all of these votes
will be drawn from the Republican
party.
With Wilson as the candidate run
ming on the Baltimore platform, the
Republican party, even were 1t united
could not have elected its can
didate this fall. 1t has already been
discredited by the people. And with
the party. split. practically in halves.
its doom is certain.
Occasionally, some individual or
newspaper will remark: "Oh, there
are lots of Democrats who will vote
for Roosevelt To such pessimistic
croakers the reply is made: Name
some of them" The Democrats of
any prominence, whatever. all over
the country, who have gone over to
Roosevelt are so few they may be
counted on the fingers Of the hand
and no finger will have to be used more
than once in the tabulation.
Some of the Republicans will vote
for Taft, some Of them will vote for
Roosevelt and still others will vote
for Wilson. While all the Democrats
will vote for Wilson. Can there be
any doubt as to the result?
n