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Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
Kansas the Modern Utopia

In the Guverian land of Laputa
itan sought to make sunshine from cucumbers
been spirit which has descended upon Kansas
For in that happy land the fly has been roller
towel abolished the drinking cup banned a
pagn the gourmand from the
flower State
Under the direction of ndefatigable DR. Crumbne
board of health at work formulas determine how
the Kansan should eat These experiments if followed will
the individual improve his health and add his wisdom
Zone might well take dollar bill light his pipe
with to burn that money by eating says DR. Crum
bne Ism simpe requires certain number of heat units
keep normal gait that number found for
the occupations all the Kansan will
the with his index his hand pick the food with
requisite sustaining and serenely on his way
Banhed will be the fend of Indigestion crouch
We have long sought for Utopia but turning
fevered toward the West toward DR. Crumbne
Kansas.
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02

TN HE wayward boy has grown
to be the wayward man. and
all the world is after him
with hue and cry From one ship
to another the word flashes,
catch him and bring him back"
In the midst of all the clamor and
pursuit little woman sent wire
less to the man the whole world is
hunting down
Il love you, said the wireless.
Il will be your friend always, just
the same Mother.
hope the man who has run
away with his neighbor's wife and
taken a lot of his neighbor's money
along with him will get that mess
age his mother sent.
| wonder what he'll think when
he does get it? wonder what the
woman he has run away with will
look like to him when he reads
the signature, Always the same,
Mother"
wonder if he will stop and think
minute, just minute. before he
brings any more sorrow to the one
heart in all the world that is real
ly his.
II love you, will stand by you,
I will never desert you" How many
men are there in this cruel old
world today who are kept straight
10y the knowledge that there is Just
such message following them
wherever they go?
! saw such q letter as that not
long ago. A girl showed it to me
poor, painted tawdry creature
she was-a pitiful broken toy of
the wicked streets.
She had run away from home
and was leading the gay llfe.9
the gay life" of the wretched,
the gay life" of the forsaken. the
gay life" of the friendless and the
disgraced.
MY mother has found out" said
the girl Il thought she didn't
know, but she found out, and
here's what she says:
I'm coming to you, my little
daughter-I'm coming straight to
you. love you, you are mine
will never let you go Never.
never! Don't be afraid OF me, I
won't scold you. Look into my
heart. you will see nothing there
but love. Look into my eyes,
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
: The One Best Friend 3
Bv WINIFRED BLACK.

don't shrink-you are just my lit
tie girl. just my poor little tired.
naughty girl who has done wrong.
and is sorry and wants to come
home III come and take you
there,
And the painted cheeks of the
girl were stained with tears, and
her voice broke with sobs, and she
said "Oh, what shall do, am not
fit to speak to her, what shall
do?p
But in little while she washed
her face and she combed her hair
as she combed it when she was
little girl at home and thought
hard that she had to wear it 50
plain. And she went out and found
honest work. and she is living in
little hall room now, cooking over
q gas jet and waiting for mother.
And when mother comes she VIII
find her little girl waiting for her,
and they will cry all the misery
and the shame and the grief and
the despair out together in each
others arms, and they will go home
ogether-mother and the girl she
would not desert.
II will never let you so, little
daughter. Neveri Neverl' Who
stand out against such love as
that?
Il don't care how beautiful you
are. or how clever. or how brilliant.
or how stupid, or how disgraced. or
how forsaken-to me you are al
ways the same, always just my lit-
tie girl, my dear little girl. and
will not let you go"
Down, down, down, the cruel
steps to the cruel road below. How
fast the little feet have run. How
slowly they drag up the stairs
again. But they are coming now,
up, up and up-into the clean air,
up into the honest world, up where
stands waiting.
Always the same, Mother"
I should not care to be the WON
an who helped that foolish boy to
disgrace an honest name when he
gets that message. would you? I'm
afraid the scales will fall from his
deluded eyes-just for a minute.
maybe-but in that minute I'm
afraid the charmer will look just
little tawdry, just a little cheap
by comparison.
What do you think?
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
To Destroy the Hookworm

Now for the hookworml His will be taken up fall
fifteenth National Congress Hygiene experts
report that to his lair
large lair embracing belt of &c degrees circlng
globe Fifty nations abroad infected though GERMANY
Wales the Netherlands Belgium France and Spain the disease
confined o the
country eleven with population
600 trouble of the population the
than half billion hive countries whore the disease has oothod
The commission viii show that millions Of dollars lost
nuay because of impaired efficiency of victims of the trouble
campaign will be devised whereby the various may
together wipe what regarded the greatest scourge
OF the human
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
A QUE R.PRoNeE ARRow

large white and black semi trans
parent Ideas floating airily about
the woods near Malacca. and Of the
golden green Ornithopteras, sailing
on bird like wings over the flower
ing shrubs that adorn the beaches
of the he and Aru Islands can
never be forgotten"
1t seems wonderful that any spe-
cies of animal should vary as
greatly as do the butterflies in size.
Most Of those that we are familiar
with in temperate climes have
spread in wings not exceeding an
inch or two. one with spread of
three inches seems monster
Think. then, of Mr. Meeks speci
mems. almost a foot across. If men
varied as much as that in size we
might expect to encounter in the
tropical forests representatives of
our species from forty to sixty feet
tail! Monkeys and apes, which look
often like caricatures of human be-
ings, vary greatly in size, and so do
beetles and other insects; but the
majority of animals have an aver
age limit of dimensions. which is
seldom much exceeded. so that even
six and half or seven foot
man seems to most Of us an extra
ordinary giant What would the
history of our race have been II
some of it's tribes had grown to a
height of several yards while others
attained a stature of only a few
eet? Unless the little ones we're
more plenGfully furnished with
brains than their gigantic COM
peers they would have had small
chance of survival, except in the
slaves OF their huge masters But
the law of gravitation would have
come to the rescue of the little fell
lows, for the big ones would have
been so heavy that they could hard
ly stand on their feet A fully pro-
portionate man sixty feet tall
would weigh about 100000 pounds!
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
SAYS STATE OWNS TALLULAH
LANDS.

Editor of The Georgian:
There is pending before the Geor-
gia legislature a resolution, the
purpose of which is to have submit
ted to a Georgia court of competent
jurisdiction the question as to
whether or not the property known
as Tallulah Falls belong to the
state or to a private corporation.
This is a question of vital concern
to all the people of Georgia-to the
people who may believe that the
demands of progress call for the
commercializing Of Tallulah, and to
those who may believe that the
western hemisphere will be a sor-
rier place to live in il its greatest
natural wonder is destroyed.
Some of the facts in the case are
as follows:
The lands at and near Talulah
Falls were originally ceded to the
United States by the Creek and
Cherokee nations of Indians. The
United States ceded them to the
state of Georgia The legislature
passed an act authorizing these
lands to be cut up into squares and
fractions to be disposed of by
lottery to be held as provided in
the act
These lands were surveyed and
disposed of as provided in the act.
At some distance from the Tallulah
river there is high bluff Be-
tween this bluff and the river (the
distance being about 200 yards and
more) lies the land in controversy.
In making the survey, the surveyor
ran the line to this bluff and
topped-measured this bluff as the
river
The grants issued to the drawers
in the lottery referred to above de-
fined the boundaries of the lands
as shown by the survey" The
boundary on one side was defined
a the river The line in the early
survey did not go to the river This
is shown by the survey recently
completed by the University of
Georgia. Under these facts, the
association claims that the land
between the river and the bluff has
never been granted and is still the
property of the state
There are numerous decisions Of
courts of last resort in the several
states and territories and of the su-
preme court Of the United States
which hold that when the bounda
ries set out in the grant differ from
those marked in the survey, the
boundaries of the survey govern.
Under section 1885 of the civil code
OF 1911, which provides that all
lands which have never been sur
veyed belong to the state of Geor-
gia. am of the opinion that the
state could recover this land.
We can establish by proof that
it was always conceded in the
community around Tallulah that
the state owned these lands This
evidence viii be admissible as
these grants were made al various
times between 1929 and 1870
CHAS. 6 REY NOLps.
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
Letters From the People
PROTESTS AGAINST ELECTRIC
CHAIR.

Editor The Georgian:
AS I belong to the disfranchised
class and have no voice In shaping
the laws under which I must live.
trust you will allow me the use Of
your columns for an appeal to our
lawmakers in behalf of two legal
reforms which I believe will meet
the approval of the great body OF
our people when the matter is
brought to their attention. The first
concerns the criminal code and re-
lates to our barbarous methods of
inf1icting capital punishment.
I have seen it stated in some Of
the papers that a bill Is to be in
troduced at the present session OF
the Legislature in favor Of substi-
tuting for the gallows the equally
atrocious horrors of the electric
chair. This, it seems to me, would
only be exchanging a witch for
the devil" and l would beg to sus
gest that if any such action is TAX
en-, it be modified in the interests
of humanity so far as to permit a
poor condemned wretch the option
OF being put out of the world in 2
more merciful manner. This has
already been accomplished in some
of the more progressive Western
states by a provision allowing the
unhappy victim of the law the al
of hox 4 JY,,iy1 ie,te
to him by some reputable physician
some painless drug, such as NOR
phine or cynaide of potassium
from the effects of which he could
die decently in his bed, undisturbed
by the lurid paraphernalia Of the
gallows or the electric chair
The other reform to which
would call attention, is revision
of the law relating to the taxa
tion of mortgages on real estate.
The law as it now stands virtually
imposes double tax on the poor
man who Is reduced to the neces-
sty of mortgaging his home.
am aware that 1t was enacted with
tiiN C9ktuHlDlt ODJ6tL VI plON uNiil9
just the reverse effect. on the the
ory that 1t would hit the holder OF
the mortgage, who is supposed to
pay the tax on his investment. But
as matter of fact, it Is the poor
hard pressed man who has to mort
gage his house or land that PAYS
the tax The holder of the mort
gage simply adds the amount ot
the tax to the interest charges
and the poor man pays 1t without
suspecting that he is paying dou-
BILE tax on the same property
one assessed by the tax gatherer
on the land, and another levied
against his indebtedness thereon
by the mortgage holder.
In our sister state of Alabami
they have a law regulating th'-
matter which Georgia might COP
with advantage. Instead Of asses
ing a debt as property-which
practically what our law does when
II permits a man TO be taxed DON
for his land ard the mortgage ON
it-a moderate fee of one ana
half per cent, equal to Is ceuis oN
the hundred dollars. Is charged
ne state for recording a moftg VS.
and that is the end OF IL
ELIZA FRANCES ANDREW 80
Rome Ga
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
Uncle Sans Laundry

Uncle Sam has gone the laundry pay
S thousand TO print he has installed machine
to wash and iron old bills at a of D thousand
So well does the machine do its work that per
dirty bills presented the treasury department for redemption
and clean though they had left press
that printed them
This Is step the interest Of economy and with
restoration OF 10000 bills TO circulation daily the taxpayers of the
land will rejoice in the saving Of 100000 yearly
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
The Native Way,

Il was female. and Mr Meek
was requested by MIR Rothschild
TO try 10 obtain a specimen of the
male Mr. Meek was then in the
solomon islands but he went back
TO New Guinea and began his
search After a seven weeks hunt
he succeeded He discovered many
females, but could seldom see a
male He found that the natives
have a better way Of killing these
gigantic butterflies than shooting
them to pieces with shot They
climb up into the trees armed with
bow and light, -pronged ar
rows There they lie in wait in
the vicinity OF branch that is
laden With tho flowers that the
butterflies love- and when one
comes alons and alights TO suck
the nectar pronged arrow Is sent
into its vitals The arrows do not
tear the insects to pieces as shot
are liable to do Meanwhile. an
other native crouches on the
ground underneath he tree and
prays for the success OF his COM
rade up among the branches The
same arrows are used to kin small
birds
Previous to the discovery OF these
titanic butterflies of New Guinea.
several other gigantic species were
known in the Islands of the Malay
Archipelago but none as large as
these They have been diligently
sought by naturansts since the time
when Alfred Russell Wallace made
his famous exploring expeditions
through those islands aud when
found hss been treasured like
nuggets 81 SOLD Sir Wallace has
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
Kill That Pest
By CHARLES LEHMAN

CNEAK behind it on the sly,
~ Kill that fly
Strike it low. and strike if high.
Kill that fly
Don t forget that you may save
Human beings from the grave.
If YOU re healthy, strong and brave,
KILL THAT FLY!
Don I permit it to get by.
Kill that fly.
Don t you let it multiply,
Kill that fly
IF disease and death YOU hate,
For goodness sake, don t hesitate,
Swat it ere it is too late,
KILL THAT FLY
Go for it with might and main,
Kill that pest.
If you miss it, try again,
Swat that pest
Don I permit it to infest,
Slay it. fay it, don t give rest,
Soak it choke it. for your best,
KILL THAT PESTl
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02
BY GARRETT P. sERvIss.

r \ the forests Of New Guinea.
among the owen Stanley
mountains dwell what may be
regarded as the largest species Of
butterflies in the world. Some of
them have wings which. when
opened, spread to width of al
most a foot lacking but half an
inch Many have a spread Of
wings varying from eight to ten
Inches They are brilliant In color
and haunt the branches of tall
lowering trees, SO that it is diff
cult to capture them
The first specimen that ever fell
into the hands Of a white man
WAS SHOT by Nj. A. L. Meek,
with an ordinary twelve-bore gun
He did not know that he had dis
covered new species until he had
sent 1t to Tring park. In England,
where Walter Rothschid has
wonderful natural history museum.
Word was sent back to Mr.. Meek,
who has been hunting In New
Guinea and neighborlng islands for
more than twenty years. that the
wonderful butterfly he had killed
was new to science. II was named
Troides- -Chimaera- -Troides being
The family name Of group of but
terhies, and Chimaera the name of
the traditional monster that the
Greek hero Bellerophon killed while
riding the winged horse Pegasus.
Atlanta Georgian., 1912-07-02

given most amusing and exciting
accounts of his capture of the first
specimens Of the huge ornithop-
teras butterfly, which is thus nam
cd because its wings are shaped
somewhat like those OF bird. They
vary from six to eight inches in
spread. and are glorously beauti-
ful in color and markings Their
brilliancy and beauty, Mr. Wal
lace says. are indescribable He
thus tells Of his sensations when
he caught, in the island Of Bata
chian, the nrst specimen he had
ever seen:
ION taking it out my net and
opening it's glorious wings. my
heart began to beat violently, my
blood rushed to my head, and | felt
much more like fainting than have
ever done when in apprehension Of
immediate death. | had a head
ache the rest Of the day, so great
was the excitement"
Afterward, in the Aru Islands,
Mr.. Wallace caught second no
less wonderful specimen, and of
this he says:
Very Excited,
Il trembled With excitement as
saw it coming majestically to-
ward me. and could hardly believe
had really succeeded in my stroke
till | had taken it out of The net
and was gazing. lost in admiration,
at the velvet black and brilliant
green of its wings, seven inches
across, its golden body, and Grim
son breast"
MIR. Wallace remarked that the
fight majestic, and when near the
ground they look larger and are
much more conspicuous than the
majority of birds.
THE FIRST sight of the great blue
Morphos. happins slowly along in
the forest roads near Para; Of the
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-03-12

Quilted He isft town ana not q lob.
He worried for . tine. ana then his
old reach followed him and hs vas
nre0 He kept going from town TO
town and finally driftsd hack to 81
Louis One day the sheriff sent for
him. He thought that the sheriff was
going 70 try him on some old charrs.
and he thought II hs vas proven ruiity
he would pay the penalty, and % be
left to visit the sheriff.
Arriving at the sherifrs once. the
sheriff pulled out q bundle Of papers.
and said. Are these the towps YOU
have been In the past Year, ana the
fellow replied. Yes, you have the dope
on me- Been trotting square?' Yep.'
Well. o r just the man I want as
q deputy. and you are appointed. Do
you want the job?' 'Yep.' He was
moved BY Moody's great sermon in
the papers and converted.
Convict on Guard.
Some time later Moody wal going
through St Louis and he stopped OF
to see the ex. The man was there.
guarding several Thousands Of dollars
worth OF diamonds. He told Moody
tina W years ago he would have
murdered for the diamonds, but now
he was the most trusted man the
sheriff had. One night Moody was to
preach at Music hall. and became crit.
ically Ill. They got Sam Jones, the
ex. He for three weeks packed that
music hall with his powerful sermons.
When he died merchants, bankers and
other influential men OF st. Louis at.
tended his funeral. Every person has
a chance to do right. Every influence
helps q man that wants to do right.
III men will do right hell will be
for rent by July 18th. and the devil
will be hiking to the tall timbers.
Why did ] come down here? Il was
my day OF rest. Simply because |
wanted to talk TO YOU fellows. and
would go no other place. II you think
right and act right you can give the
bulls the ha, ha, II you think wrong
and act wrong you are like the prodi.
gal that left his fathers house. Juicy
beefsteaks. hot cakes and a good bed
TO hit up the slop IN a hog pen
Booze Game Is Wrong.
Playing the booze game is wrong
The forger thinks he can beat that
game. six years. Board OF pardons,
nothing doing. Becomes a yegg
Blows a safe. boom. ten years.
! ut Is wrong thinking that keeps the
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-03-12
BELIEVES OPPORTUNITY
SHOULD BE ENLARGED.

To the Editor OF the In~teliiEsncer.
Sir@Mr. Sunday said in one OF his
sermons q few days ago that We will
all be In our graves before another
such opportunity for a religious awak-
ening m to us as the present cam
paign. And We sincerely hope that this
may be the last time that Wheeling
will ever have TO call In outside help
TO lift her from the quagmire in
which she is sinking and rid her OF
the graft and vice in every form
which has ridden brazenly and rough
shod over everything which made for
decency and Righteousness.
But right here let's say that since II
was necessary to call for help. we are
glad that the one man living to-day
who is beat fitted for the work Is on
the Jub. Thank God for Billy Sunday!
And we confidently expect that the
work which he Is so grandly begin
ming Is going to roll along until every
thing which interferes with Us having
an ideal city II crushed out.
For the past decade Wheeling's
'hoodoo' has been working overtime.
This city has seemed to be a magnet
which attracted all the hocus pocus
business in the country. This IL par
ticulsrly true In regard 10 public az
fairs. Everything worth While which
q been undertaken has either fzzied
or II II has msterfaiired n has been
80 botched that ~ stands a. q monu-
ment 90 someone's ignorance. had
judgment or out and out craft The
fact that there has seemed 10 b. no
support whatever from The city GOV
eminent anywhere hat would tend 20
an uplift ~ het~rfnG - conditions.
but on The confrary has contributed
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rcno-r thaf Wh-eing has q reputa-
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