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Visiting bretheren, in good standing, always
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REV. G, II RHO DE PASTOR

Preaching every second a44 i,nrth Sundays at
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Sunday schoo every Sunday at 9a5
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PRESBYTERIAN.

REV. M. NJ. NcFERRIN. PASTOR
Preaching every Bird and 18th sunday mornings
and night
Sunday School at 9:t5 c. e. CANNON. SUPP
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-26
The Panama Engineers
BY CHESTER FIRkINs.

NA e HAVE cleft way through mountains
w Where the Spaniard Fountains
OF Eternal Youth watched ourselves grow old,
Underneath the Equator.
We have done what the Creator
Might Himself have done easy, without gold.
With the Congress and mosquito
From the States o Chagreso
w. We have had ten-year fight thought we'd Won
We he fever
or, perhaps flying lever
Told us daily that anoher's job was done
Where the high vomit
We've done better than Mahomet
For we've made Culebras come to us
And we've put useful,
Down at Gatun while
Critics look at Lake Shore Driveway from a bus
Where beds with night blasts culver
We can lift dirty
And put it in the place it o be;
Bosslng thirty thousand nggers
With fingers triggers
we have helped Columbus Sea
They admit. with pompous thunder
That the thing quite a wonder:
That We're serving all Mankind Well so WE saw
Bu they We surely got things twisted
II they think that We're enlisted
Under Johnny Bulls &c panalettes and nav
We merely engineeringo
lheN explain beyond hearing
No, We're not! fighting men; that's what we're for
It's ONE uniform wearing
And We're not down here preparing
just a chance for waiting laps
We have fashioned towns-and killed them
Torn up railroads.&c. rebuild them
Done Earh's biggest Job the best that we knew how
twas for Uncle Sam laboredt
And as SOLDIERS unsabered
ShaH they giVeo our finished work to foemen NOW?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-26
Retaining a Man

v v "

Because w S Dozer dutifu father he beat woman
While negro held light for him he horsewhpped the
other night until she fell in a street in Dawson, Ga
Dozers explanation Of his courageous extremely rea-
sonabe He had waywad who infatuated way
ward He believed the best way reclaim the
beat the woman and he did it.
He was grimly in earnest The nearly dead
when Dozer felt he had he reclaim his SON and
stopped beating her
how many times he hit the with the hope retaining her
the lahes she received for the man Fol
lowing the system equal number of asfe
might have proved Of equal moral aid to the woman
But Dozer had different idea His beating ended when the
woman lay death He had done his duty as gentleman
should
All that was left for him 10 do gather the man
to his bosom and lay Aaterng that son Of
his was too good for the a his feet
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-26

4 WOMAN, who was a great
~ toast and belle in her youth,
and who at middle age is
still fascinating beyond compare,
told me this little story the other
day
when l was a girl, down in Vir-
GINA she said. u had a boy friend
who was, | think. the handsomest
youth | ever saw. He was like
Greek god-a young Apollo, tall
and slender, with starry eyes and
ambrosial wonderful to look
upon
"Our families had been friends for
generations and Tom and l played
together. and laughed together, and
danced, and rode, and frollicked to-
gether, and everywhere we went
people spoke about our looks, for
had my claims to beauty then, too :
In the course of time Tom got
an appointment as a cadet to An
napolis. / married and Went to the
middle West to live, drifting about
from city to city as my husbands
business required until finally he
landed here in New York. | heard
of Tom now and then, always as an
able and gallant officer. who went
up and Lp in the service, until now
he is the commander of battle
ship. But in all the so years since
we We're boy and girl together I
never once saw him
The other morning. the telephone
rang, and when answered it
voice came over the wire, saying
II am Tom Blank. and my ship
IS in port here and want to come
and see YOU
on! | gasped. How delighted
shall be TO see you again.
Before ! come want to ask
YOU one question. went on the
voice. want to ask you, Mary, if
YOU are as young and beautiful as
when / saw you LAST
NO answered; I am old. and
fat and headed Then said
I want to ask YOU question.
Tom Are YOU as handsome as YOU
We're when saw YOU LAST
No be- replied | am skinny
and scraWny. and bald headed. and
a grandfather And then" added
the woman pensively. we both
laughed little, and Il came TO me
that our laughter was the oldest
thing about rs. il had SO much OF
the knowledge and experience Of
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-26
y YOUTH AND AGE =
By DOROTHY DIX.
olice Official in New York's Gamble

life in it and so little of the reck-
less JOY of youth"
If you had been French" l said,
you would not have let him come
to see you He would not have
come if you had permitted him.
Each of you would have been too
afraid of spelling the ideal that you
cherished of the other-the picture
that you had carried in your mem
DRY, through all the years, of beau
~ and high spirits. and all that
goes to make up the wonder and
the glory of youth
But we are both Americans"
the woman smiled.
Yes" l said rather resentfully,
and YOU let him come to see you.
We Americans are so unsentment
al and we always have the courage
of our curiosity"
YES. ne came" she said
And how did YOU find him?" l
asked. WAS he so terribly chang
ed ?"
Il saw nothing but his soul" she
answered. He had grown so fine
and beautiful in character, SO broad
and intelligent, that it did not mat
ter how he looked. If he had been
the living skeleton | should not
have known it,
And if he was that kind of "A
man | commented. u know what
he thought of you He thought that
YOU were a thousand times more
fascinating than you were in the
most beautiful day of your girl
hood He thought how crude youth
seemed beside YOU. and that if you
had not found the fountain of per-
petual youth. you had discovered
the spring of perpetual charm
Il can't claim all that" replied
the woman modestly. but have
tried to make an art Of growing old.
Say what we will. woman faces
the tragedy of her life when she
realizes that her checks are losing
their roses. her complexion its
freshness. her hair it's luster. and
her figure its suppleness She has
been accustomed to being admired.
10 being fed on compliments. and
then. some day. she wakes up 10
the bitter fact that nobody turns
to look at her as she passes by,
and nobody pays her any compu-
ments And the worst Of the stu
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-26

alton is that she hasn't lost her
sweet tooth. She loves the bon
bons of fiattery just as we'll as ever.
THAT is the time when woman
goes to d beauty doctor and says:
Take all that | have and give me
back my looks, and she acquires
nervous prostration trying to at
tain the waist measure of sixteen.
1t is in vain. The clock never
turns back for us What is gone
is gone. but we may get something
in place of it. Life isn't quite a
robber It always offers something
in exchange. if we've only intelli-
sence enough to take it,
and for our youth and beauty it
gives us experience, and sympathy,
and tact, and seltishness that no
young person ever has. There is no
other creature on earth so egotis-
teal as pretty young girl She
thinks of nothing but herself. She
considers nobody but herself. She
is interested in nobody but herself.
She wants to talk Of nothing but
her own affairs
Men are also egotistcal: they
are never really interested in what
woman thinks, or knows. They
want to talk about themselves. and
that is why YOU so often see men
leaving debutantes to flock around
middle aged woman. Believe
me. my dear if when a woman's
youth begins to wane she spent
more slime and effort massaging the
wrinkles out of her mind. and less
in massaging the wrinkles out of
her face. she would find it more
profitable"
What did YOU talk to your naval
hero about?" / asked with sudden
suspicion
Il didn't talk l listened" she
answered with twinking eyes.
You make me think of some
thing that the great French ac-
tress Rhea once said to me"
said. Il was sent to interview her
and ! asked her what was the
secret of the way she retained her
youth and beauty, To which she
replied with superb effrontery
8 for my beauty. / do not see
it. As Tor my youth. IL will go
when il will go, but young or old.
beautiful or ugly, | shall always
he fascinating l shall always be
Rhea
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-26
Innovations Proposed
May Be Sound.

An article by Henry Cabot Lodge
in the July issue of a magazine is
worth reading in this connection.
Perhaps the innovations proposed
by the progressives may be sound
and eXpedient.
1t may be that the policy of the
initiative, referendum and recall
may be a wise one for us to adopt
nationally, but the innovation is a
broad one, and there is a great deal
involved in it-more than one man
out of hundred has as yet care
fully estimated probably it is
not to be adopted till there is
studiously attained conviction and
a pretty unanimous conviction that
a change will prove to the better
ment of our conditions not until
there has been secured a well con-
sidered appreciation of the success
that has been achieved by travelling
the century old road of represent
tative government; not until there
has been careful weighing of the
statesmanly character of the men
by whom the constitution was pro-
duced, not until the public mind
has been made familiar with the
processes of argument and debate
which led up to the framing of the
constitution in its existing FORM
and not until it has been distinctly
and satisfactorily. indicated that
present national conditions SO far
differ from what they were in 1851
as to render a remodeling Of the
constitution necessary or eXpedient
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-26

Principle Applies to
All Kinds of Results.

People who fly off on sudden tan
gents from the lines of belief that
have been Loyalty and affection
ately pursued for years and cen
turtles are guilty of the same child
ish fiippancy as any little boy who
scorns the counsel Of his father
and wilfully builds up his expert
ence out of his own puerile expert
MEETINGS.
When a father said to his boy,
MY son, l wouldn't do that 1
have learned by experience that it
is an unwise thing to Go" To this
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-26
There Is Also a
Live Conservatism.

There is, on the one hand, the
conservatism of dry rot, but there
is also a live conservatism, one
which cherishes what has been at
the same time that it is reaching
carefully forward to what is going
to be-something as a mountain
climber keeps one foot firmly
placed on the rock which he has
reached. at the same moment that
he is getting ready to put his other
foot on the rock above.
Whether we realize it or not, in
all our building we construct on the
basis of the past. We are heirs of
the previous centuries. Most of
what we know; very nearly all of
what we know, is what mas been
thought out by our ancestors going
clear back to the beginning of his
tory. If we can see farther than
they it is only because we stand
on the platform which by their
thinking and acting they have
erected for US.
All the new discoveries that are
being so numerously made in these
times are the elimination merely
of investigations that have been in
progress for thousands of years.
We are no brighter than our an
cestors. We see for the most part
by the inherited results of ances-
tral intelligence and research.
To think lightly of what has been
done and to ignore those who have
done it, is to dishonor and dis
grace ourselves by our attitude of
contempt for those from whom we
have received so many and such
nnanniGnnn4 hnn.,,or4-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-26

w s.ps''1 foe old 5iS things 'a"s' Fer
haps it is because we are a
new people, and, therefore, pos
sessed of a lively consciousness of
the future.
1t is not necessary to worship the
past but we should be safer if we
had a warmer appreciation of his
toric values
1t is a symptom of the times that
children govern their parents
Family government continues
but is vested in the offspring.
Men today are believers in the
new theology the new morality, the
new nationalism, the new thought.
Progressiveism has become kind
of mania The old is discarded be-
cause it is old, not because 1t is
outworn Distinction should be
made between different kinds of
conservatism.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-26
Written For The Georgian
By the Rev. DR.. c. H. Parkhurst

the boy replied: But. father
want to learn it by experience.
too"
The race would be a great way
further forward than it is if it had
been willing to walk by the guild
ance of the lessons ancestrallv
learned.
The principle for which we are
contending applies to all kinds Of
results wrought out by previous
thinking. whether along lines Of
science, religion or politics.
\ religion such as that which was
laid at the foundation of Ameri-
can life and institutions may NOT
be in all respects the perfect thing
But it has served us we'll lis
principles have been a light illum-
mating not alone our own national
pathway, but the pathway of all
the peoples that stand in the front
rank of current civilization. and
he is not only false to the past
but sails out wildly upon an un-
charted sea who bluntly breaks
his connection with those views Of
life, character and action by which
for centuries the favored nations
of the earth have been guided
A candid mind will always be
willing to replace a present opin-
ion by a different one that has
been carefully proved to be better
But the brusque abandonment of
anybody or anything that has been
tried and found faithful and help
full betrays a mind that is slovenlv
in its thinking and childishly and
stupidity willful in its planning and
purposing. Likewise in matters Of
political faith
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-26
Mr.. Bryce and England Are.
Counting Chickens
Unmatched
They Are Mstakng Byan Ignorant Half Baked Tariff Ideas
For the Opinions of the Democratic Party

The distinguished Mr. Bryce, who has admirably stated
the American of in his great book to
lack presentday information American ideas American
the future of American industries In speech
throughout Great Britain and the
of the world Bryce his fellow ounrymen that the
plank the Democratic platform will become the law of the
land; will sweeping revolutionary reductions in
our American tariff and that England will able find
and prosperity by flooding markets with English
goods.
Needless to say Mr. Bryce finds very sympathetic feeling in
England for the Democratic plank
day the end of tariff system will American
money England any other country
food this country with goods manufactured by cheap
labor
On behalf of million readers many millions Democrats
generally beg inform Mr.
Bryce he holding false hopes his fellow citizens of
painting for them beautiful mirage that will never
become reality Mr. Bryce needs to be told that the tariff plank
Democratic platform does represent either people
the whole Democratic party of this country plank
from the brain of William Bryan, individual
exclusively his advancement and enrichment through poll
plays with national issues and great questions political
economy joyousy gnoranty child building block
The child does hesitate the roof in building
cellar put ought be- or to build
house any And Just so Bryan
ignorant public affairs any child ignorant of
business needs any Chinese coo who has
dollars worth of real value earned dollar except by exhb
ing himself oratorical freak
BRYAN HAS BEEN PERMITTED TO EXPRESS HIS IG-
NORANT RECKLESSNESS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PLAT
FORM TARIFF PLANK AND HOLD OUT TO FOREIGNERS
EAGER TO SEIZE OUR MARKETS AND SEE OUR PROSPER
ITY DIMINISHED HOPES THAT WILL NEVER BE REAL
lied.
We Bryce English eager
goods made by derpad labor that the opinions of Mr. Bryan
the tariff expressed in the Democratic platform tariff plank
and the opinions of the American people all the
This is by ready throw the protective
theory and practice that have built up industries and
wealth 1t the intention of this country such changes
the tariff be necessary combat evils extoron
home But this country will make tariff changes that will
business and industry bring American wormen direct compe
ton of with wormn paid half much in other
onetenh much in Asia We remind Mr. Bryce that Bryan
gnorany and without information talks of tariff upheava today.
Bryan gnonty and without information talked financial
upheava sixteen Mr. Bryan able sixteen
to destroy the financial and the national credit of this
country And Mr. Bryan in spite of his Democratic platform tariff
plank and his childish willingness play with questions
ignorant child plays with Matches will be permitted de
stroy the industrial and business system of this country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-13

Elegant Mahogany
Dressers for $50. -:
Style late Colonial. size ~ in. by % In;
French plate mirror. two long and two short
drawers. with wood pulls.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-13
Dining Tables:

OF those DESTROYS OF assembling furnishings m
relative price
oxinatons maker no this
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-28
STARS OF LAST YEAR
Many Youngsters Came to Front
During Last Season.
s22,5oo Beauty, Marty o'TooIe. DID
Not Join Pittsbura Team Until
Late-Joe jackson, Best Fielder
Unearthed.

Perhaps in no season in recent
years were as many crack youngsters
discovered or developed as during
the campaign of 1911. The new stars
discovered in the pitchers box were
RUDE Vanguard Of the Giants, Grover
Cleveland Alexander and George
Chalmers of the Phillies, Vean Gregg
of the Cleveland Maps, Roy Caldwell
of the Highlanders, Marty O'Toole of
the Pirates, and Buck O'Brien of the
Boston Red Sox. Other promising
young boxmen of 1911 who may get
into the star class in another season
or two were Bill Steele of the Cardi.
nails, Dave Danforth of the Athletics,
Gene Knapp of the Cleveland Maps,
Bobbie Keefe and RUDE Benton of the
Cincinnati Reds and. George Tyler of
the Boston Nationals.
With the exception of RUDE Mar.
guard all these men were 1911 discov.
cries. The tall, lanky portsider of
the Giants has been in the big show
since 1908, but last season was the
first in which he earned his rations.
RUDE had to travel about the country
In 1909 and 1910 with the reputation
Of being the biggest lemon ever
plucked from the bushes, but Mar.
guard showed his critics last season,
when he was one of the biggest fac.
tors in the Giants great fight for the
pennant, and also twirled himself to
the leadership in the official pitching
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-28
"LONG ,. Time" IS DEFINED
Remark of Governor Of North Caro-.
lima to Governor Of South Caro-
lima Brought Into Court.

The oft-quoted remark of the Gov.
ernor of North Carolina to the Gov.
ernor of South Carolina has at last
been brought into court. carefully
construed, and found not to be- so
long as some other times. It is prob
able that it was the exceeding
droughtiness of the interval which
made it seem long. In a prosecution
for the illegal sale of whisky in Ala
bama, witness testified that he had
bought a pint of liquor of the &C.
cused "a short time" before the grand
Jury returned the indictment against
him. It was objected that this evil
dence did not show that the prose-
cution had been begun within IL
months after the sale Of the whisky,
the time limited by statute for begin.
ming prosecution. In discussing
this objection, the Supreme court, in
Wilson versus State, &c Southern
Reporter, ia, after holding that "a
short time" might be taken in the con.
nection in which it was used to re.
fer to a period less than IL months.
said,- by way of illustration: The
expression a long time would refer
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-28
BY HOMER cRoY.

Every time Roger Bresnahan
throws cigar-stub away in St. Louis.
the natives and street boys fight for
1t until the reserves have to be called
out. The man who gets it swells up
with pride r1til his toes barely touch.
and he puts the stub in glass case
and charges admission to see it. Ev-'
cry time Roger passes down Olive
street in st. Louis. the clicking of
the cameras sounds like the geese
going north In the spring, and If he
wanted fence around st. Louis and
blue ribbon tied On it for a Christ
mas present for his wife, the citi-
zens would turn out en- masse and
extend it to him on a silver salver
with an appropriate speech by the
mayor and a choral song by the
board of aldermen. st. Louis thinks
that besides Taft there is Roger
Bresnahan:
Roger Bresnahan was born in
Erin's Isle thirty-four years ago, ard
now every time he laughs you can
hear a colleen singing as she takes
her way along the crooked path. a
basket of peat on her hip: and in his
eyes you can see the glistening wa
tiers Of Lake Killarney. Before he
was out of his copper toes he came
to this country with his parents and
settled down in Toledo. Before his
jeans had slipped down over his
knees he was a diamond star and
had passed up as boyish, girls. lem.
onades and short division. From the
day he was able to hold a baseball
bat up without its sagging at the far
end he has been a player. consider
ing knowing how to pick up grass
cutter much more important than to
be able to give the dates of the Stu.
art reign or to name the wives of the
Henrys.
In Rogers early days the glitter.
ing goal on which he had his eyes
fastened and his heart set was to be
detective and wear star on his
right side under his coat. But he