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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
No. 7.--Taxes
Q o. &c II.
BY THOMAS TAPER.

fewer of them in the streets"
This is paying taxes on vanity
Many man at Ten Thousand
Dollars a year is farther behind in
the game than the economical la
borer who puts a dollar or two a
week aside from his wages. An
unwise man, with a love for dis
play, can be awfully foolish on Ten
Thousand Dollars year. and a
man on Fifteen Dollars a week can
be very wise. 1t all depends on
whether self government has been
set up and the man knows how he
stands every night.
III.
Don't pay useless taxes, but tax
today for tomorrow. BY following
this rule you can not remain poor.
1t braces up the mind, and the re-
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suit OF that is that you will get on
better in life. for the mind is the
motive power.
Don't believe in influence. in pull,
in better days to come unless you
make them come. Be your own
banker. and account for all that
comes and goes. A man earning
Ten Dollars a week. or Five Hun
dred and Twenty Dollars a year,
is an investment representing
per cent on Ten Thousand Four
Hundred Dollars. That is. if he
should die his family would need
this sum to keep on as they had
been going.
This shows how necessary it is
for ten dollar a. week man to be
a banker, and keep joint accounts
with present and future.
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~
O1r1uS
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Copyright, 1912, by American nj Journal Examiner,

Sirius Milky Way sixty thousand years
p. Servss)
CINCE Sirius crossed the Milky Way.
~ Full sixty thousand years have gone,
Yet hour by hour, and day by day,
This tireless star speeds on and on.
Mehnks he must be moved to mirth
BY that droll tale of Genesis.
Which says creation had its birth
For such puny world this.
To hear how One who fashioned all
Those solar systems tiers tiers
Expressed in little Adams fall
The purpose of million spheres.
And, witness of the endless plan
p. 40 splendid wrath he must be brought
By pig1ny creeds ptesumptuous man
Sends forth God prmeval thought
Perchance from half hundred stars
He hears as many curious things;
From Venus, Jupiter and Mars.
And Saturn. with the beauteous rings,
There may be students of the Cause
Who send their revelations out
And formulate their codes of laws.
= With heavens for faith and bells for doubt
On planets old ere form or place
Was lent to earth, may dwell-who knows =
A God-hke and perfected race
That halls great Sirius as he goes
In zones that circle moon and sun
'Twixt world and world, he may see souls
Whose span of earthly life is done.
Still jOurneying: up to higher goals.
And dead planets gray and cold
Grim spectral souls that harboFed hate
Life after life, he may behold
Descending to darker fate.
And on his grand, ma jestc course
He may have caught glorious sight
OF that vast shining, central Source
From which proceeds all life, all light
Since Sirius crossed the Milky Way
Full sixty thousand years have gone:
No mortal man may bid him stay.
No mortal man may speed him on,
No mortal mind may comprehend
What is beyond. what before;
To God be glory without end.
Let man be humble and adore
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
Willing To Pay.

W ny can one stenographer com
mand a high salary while the tovn
is overtun with girls who are al
ways advertising for job? Be
cause busy men arc willing to pay
for expert work that is ALWAYS
right, and nobody wants to pay for
bungling, laundering work that is
full of ill-spelt words and erasures
and that can never be depended
upon for accuracy.
1t pays to learn how to do things
well, little sister, 1t pays to be on
the job, and it you know wherein
you fail to make good you've Eot
signboard pointing you to the ways
of success. Just correct your faults
and make of your weakness your
strength.
Don't say you can't write or vou
can't spell, or you can't add up fig
ures, or you can't cook, or YOU
can't sew, because you can if you
want to. Any girl with ordinary
intelligence and a particle OF back
bone in her body can make hersef
an expert in any OF these lines II
she will give it half the time and
trouble and serious thought that
she does to the way she combs her
hair.
OF course, girls are Ike boys,
they succeed best in the occupation
for which they have a natural apti-
tude. In selecting ones lifework
it is important to pick out some
thing for which one has a turn and
A liking, and which one enjoys do
ing, but having once made this Sc
lection, stick to it and learn to do
that thing supremely well.
That's the open sesame to sue
cess. little sister. It's just doing
things well, and whether it's learn
ing how to write a legible hand, or
singing grand opera, it's up to the
individual. If you have the deter
mination and the energy. and the
courage to work, and work, and
work until you conquer your diff
ficulty, and learn how to do that
particular thing just right, YOU
will succeed. Otherwise you viii
be failure. It's all up to you.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
HOW TO BUILD A FORTUNE
No. 7.---Taxes

- OMErHING has already been
said about the value of small
sums of money saved regu
larry. TO cite one instance again:
Five cents a day amounts in ten
years at four per cent compound
interest, to trife over Two Hun
dred and Twenty Dollars.
But there is absolutely no way in
the world of making man prefer
to have Two Hundred and Twenty
Dollars ten years from now, at the
cost of Ave cents day. as against
the remembrance OF having swal-
lowed three thousand six hundred
and fifty glasses Of beer. The
choice of this is, you see, entirely.
up to the man.
Some savings banks have tried to
encourage thrift by printing tables
that show the growth of money
regularly deposited and left at in
terest. Few of them. however, take
the trouble to rub in the principal
fact hard enough.
The principal fact is this:
When you deposit money at in
terest you must also deposit
Time. For Time is that which per-
mits interest TO get moving. to
create a momentum, and finally TO
work up a good total for you.
Any one can build a fortune, ac-
cording to his status In life, II he
will begin early enough in life and
give time a chance Even men Of
40 and so can begin 10 save. small
sums for pension at 20, FOR there
are 80 or 30 years available for in
terest to do its work
Difficult at Forty.
But it is hard for A man OF 40 or
30 10 accomplish this, ana for this
reason;
II Is dificult to establish a new
habit, that demands, regularity. so
late IN iHe. But If a man: of so has
a Job and is in fair health, and is
scared TO death lest he be in want
at 20, he may be able to. brace up
and give time a chance to work its
wonders for him on his nickels and
dimes.
H.
Much OLD age poverty and want
are due TO waste in early years.
We complain OF taxes. But the
willingness with which we pay
taxes of our own assessment is
amazing We pay willingly for>
countless things we do not need.
When want pinches. in later years,
we grumble at the times. at hard
luck at never having had aschance.
And yet few OF us are such fools
as to believe the lying reasons we
give for our own poverty.
Back OF countless old people who
have nothing stretch years of i'm
providence. So it Is true. as one
writer says: Society suffers more
from the waste of money than from
the want OF money To be we'll
TODD is the result of self-denial
and daily economy. Self denial and
economy are common sense applied
TO everybody's money transactions.
4 man with a little extra change
in his pocket can buy a lot OF
things he does not need II he does
buy them. he has paid tax on his
habit OF waste. He MAY be skilled
in earning money. but he is fst
failure in governing his own use
Of it,
The man spoke truly who said
IF avery man who sports an auto
mobile only by having mortgaEed
his furniture and his p.ifes turs
had to state that fact on his IL
cense number plate. there WOULD aM
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Gypsy LUCK.

from sra '.S6v y. ay4n. .Dovs z ~
what. yrt-s
four-l. An cpyL uokr cad e
We are all interested when somebody talks of luck
Probably thousand individuals told how they al
most sailed on the Titanic and how luck saved them.
Luck did nothing of the kind They simply did
not SAIL, - r. b." l3F~ =. yvjshs ii, 81. a.. s...a
Almost every human being has superstition!
Gamblers made up of superstition gambling
quires real effort of the intellect
Ignorance up superstition superstition re-
places knowledge the place grain
abandoned field
Ninety hundred newspaper
will least begin read this editors abea
luck - .-..t -o~.... ~ ...A h.. ......
If we should proceed to tell what is lucky and what
lucky. if lucky stones ill luck
charms and readers would through the end bee
ing perhaps, but still interested
this article to change and talk about How to be
healthy of lucky half least would stop
reading it
Yet easy for the average be healthy
she will There is such thing good HEALTH
get it There such thing good luck
What pity talk emotion are wasted on luck
that does exist little knowledge
easily obtained
In the old days when the geographically
England thousands had
the mystic word 'abracadabra.
Those had got as anybody
IT, instead of tattoong abracadaba arms they
drunk carefully boiled only exposed
contamination they would have been safe
Low the cholera in order to get the cholera
LUCK has nothing o do with
Yet in the East today the natives fight with charms
ncantstions religious appeals They Holy
Gang where puefyng spread the disease and the bath
swallow it.
Or they go Mecca pray the Holy
Mohammed stood when he up heaven
with the disease down there it
When European scientists among the miserable inhabitants
along the banks of the Ganges among the ignorant
dams try to replace magic and religious
SEXUAL knowledge the natives fight scientists
and them of murder.
You realize however when such which
reprint the Of this column hold superstition
the lucky idea have upon mind.
That is due TO the fact that only yeserdayas goes
this world few hundreds of centuries the moseverythng
was attributed to luck magic, good evil spirits
Our savage about loaded down charms
different kinds to keep off evil And they hired magcians
take evil from them and unload their enemies
The thunder in the mountains, the lightning
strange noises in the all attributed to evil spirits
there always cunning individual among
ignorant ready invent explanation ready
lgion ready the evil spirits and quiet them for
price
If the postoce authorities would allow it man could readily
up great the United States today by advertising
of lucky other tamans But if should
distribution of real knowledge of facts regard
health education work that win actually the results that
luck gives he might tosdath. He would least
arouse little interest. ~.T-.~.T,
That teaches us that we are still very near to our ancestors
the holes the hills that believed fairies
COLLINS gnome that gned god many gods will
ing to he bribed on a cash basis
civilization and knowledge which
destiny
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learning to spell and that they can
find the whole art of how to e,
there in the dictionary. ! know
cooks who have cooked for 40 vca.v
without ever learning how to make
bread, or boil potato properly. and
will still wonder why they are al
ways changing places.
] know dressmakers who admit
that-they are bad filters. yet they
go on running peoples cloth wear
after year, and complaining ahou,
the 1ckleness Of customers vino
never come back
These women know where tboir
fault lies, but they are too lazy and
too incident to correct it. And
they are always Door and i'll paid
for there's just one kind of work
thar commands high price In tho
market. and that is first-class vo
If you can do that YOU can write
your own price tag for it.
Why can one dressmaker get s75
for making a gown while another
can only get So?
Because one woman turned ont
sloppy work and the other turns
out q. perfect job.
Why can one cook command A
salary of $4,000 a year while an
other can only get So a week? Be
cause one has raised\the arr or
cookery to a science, and the Other
never takes the trouble to learn
even the rudiments of it.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
Dorothy Dix
Doing Things Well
By DOROTHY DIX

r lave received a Iettec from
young woman, who says:
Il am a working girl 1t is
absolutely necessary for me to earn
my own living. 7 have had several
good places since left school. but
! have lost each one because my
handwriting is so bad. What shall
do?"
Learn how 10 write, little sister.
Get YOU copy book, and pen and
ink, and Sit down at a table and
never get up until you have mas
tered the art Of chirography.
Spend hours. and days, and weeks.
if necessary, acquiring a plain and
legible handwriting. Eat pot
hooks; dream upward siants and.
downward slents. and curves, and
curlecues. Give every particle of :
intelligence you've got, put every
ounce OF determination in you to
learning to write. and, my word
for it, you viii soon have jim the
Penman looking like a carver OF
E'pVptiap hie,.o.yI,-bice
You're not going to sit down be
fore an ink pot and pen, and, give
up, are you? You're not going to
admit that you have so little in
telligence that you can't learn how
to write decently. are you? You
haven't so little ambition that you
are going to be a gutter the first
time you strike real difficulty in
life, are you? When we find out
what is our handicap in the race
for success there is just one thing
to be done, and that, is to over
come that particular drawback.
There's just one way to get on in
the working world, little sister, and
that is to do good work, and the
sooner you master the fact the bet
ter it will be for you. There are
plenty of good places for the COM
petent, but there's no room for the
clerk whose sales slips look like
chicken tracts. or the bookkeeper
whose ledger won't balance, or the
stenogra pher who can't spell.
Therefore it's up to you to decide
whether you are going to be one of
those invaluable employees who
climb up to situations of trust and
honor and profit. or whether you
become one Of the shifting army of
incompetents who are always look
ing for job.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
Why They Fail.

People who fail in life always lay
the blame on circumstances, or
fate or the state> Of politics, or
heredity, or some other convenient
scapegoat. This lets them down
easy, and gives them a chance to
sniffle, and cry and make a bid
for sympathy when they strike US
for a loan. But the truth is that
we make our own luck, little sister,
and we are the architects of our
own misfortunes just as much as
drunkard and the beggar on the
street are self-made men, Just as
much as are Mr.. Rockefeller and
Mr. Carnegie.
1t doesn't make a bit of differ
ence what we choose as a life work
If we do 1t we'll. Success or fail
ure in any line depends upon the
kind of handiwork that we turn
out, and this is something that wo-
men have yet to learn.
know dozens of girls who have
chosen stenography for a profess
sion, who blandly say, II never could
learn to spell" and it never seems
to occur to them that their whole
future success depends upon their
The broad ax., 1912-04-27
DANES AND DAUGHTERS.

Miss Ellen Emerson. the granddaugh-
ter Of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Il q
nurse In the Massachusetts, General
hospital at Boston.
Miss Louise D. Brown OF Wellesley
college has the distinction OF being the
hrst woman to win the prize offered
biennially by the American Historical
association for the best essay on Eu-
ropean history.
Little Askey Tercoye Martin. the
four-year-Old daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
johnson Martin OF Brooklyn. Is show
ing phenomenal precocity for one Of
her age. Without any regular instruc-
tion she has acquired a nuent COM
mand Of four languages.
Mrs. CarruIhers Is the frst woman to
be elected treasurer Of the London In
sttute OF Journalism. Mrs. Carruthers
and Miss Patterson were recently
chosen TO represent the London district
on the council OF the institute, and
Mrs. CarruIhers' election as treasurer
followed
Frau Won Gonturd. who becomes q
peeress through the distribution OF bon.
ors In cOmmemoratiOn Of the kaiser's
birthday anniversary. Is an American
girl. the daughter OF Adolphus Busch
Of St Louis Her husband. Dr. Won
Gontard. has been gwen corresponding
donors. Frau Won GOntHrd is one Of
the leaders OF Berlin society.
The broad ax., 1912-04-27
Current Comment.

Sir Thomas Upton wants the Amer
ica's cup again.-Atlanta Constitution.
The new Dreadnought Florida can
make 25.6 miles an hour aud is meant
to run toward an enemy. at that-De-
troit News.
The per capita money volume is now
smaller than a month ago and a year
ago, which ought to destroy the last
excuse for any further rise in the cost
Of hving.-New York World.
Uncle Sam has some cause to grow
dissatisfied with his neighborhood. The
next door neighbOr to the north refuses
to borrow and lend household articles
across the back fence. and the next
door neighbor 20 the south is always
having a noisy family row.-Nashville
Banner.
The broad ax., 1912-04-27
Fly Catches.

s.w Crawford Of the Tigers is using
Losvier bat than usual and says the
S.II looks bigger than ever.
There are ten players on the Boston
nationals whose aggregate height is
.s-tv-one feet and they have a com
onsite batting average close to 800
Rnps Raymond will earn his livsli-
Sood this season playing BAH for a
.S.r,I.nrofessional team IN Chicago. He
has again taken the pledge and claims
he will be back in fast company before
the season is over.
The Boston Americans spent $4,000
ar baseballs last year. twice as much
.s spy other club paid for cork centers.
PRESIDENT McAleer has hired a corps OF
.loutbs to trail foul balls over the
land stand and fences this season.
The broad ax., 1912-04-27
DANES AND DAUGHTERS.

Ar& z. AZ. waddell a the nsviv
elected PoundmaSter Of Los Anreles
the inst woman in the country 10 oc.
cupy such q position.
Miss Laura G. Grant Of New Yorh
has been appointed a member of the
nre prevention Inspectors bureau Of
that city. Of which there are seventy.
I'VE, she being the only woman.
The appointment Of Mile. Edmee
Chandon as assistant astronomer AZ
the Paris observatory marks the On
ctal recognition by France Of feminine
achievement in a branch Of science for
which women have shown a peculiar
aptitude.
The Rev. Antoinette Blackwell. ID. D.
the first woman to be ordained a minis
ter, now in her eighty-eighth year, Is
the only survivor Of the speakers at
the first national Woman's rights con-
VentiOn. at which Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe was the presiding officer.
Ellen Spencer MusSey. who for q
quarter Of century has held the posi-
ton Of attorney for the Swedish and
Norwegian legations in Washington.
has been an active and successful law
yer for thirty five years. In 1896 she
established the Woman's Law Class,
which has since developed into the
Washington College Of Law. with its
founder as dean.
The broad ax., 1912-04-27
Tales of Cities.

Chicago's court Of domestic relations
has an official bridesmaid
Between the hours Of and 10 in the
morning more than 5000 people enter
the city OF London every minute.
Teheran. the principal Persian city.
has population Of 2sO.OO0. Tabriz
100000 and Isfahan $1,000. Fewer than
LOO Europeans reside within the en-
pire.
The new social register Of New York
city contains 1850 families Accord
ing 10 the social register. the social
center Of the city has moved within six
years from Fifty-eighth street TO Sixty
second and Sixty-third. and it will con-
tinue TO move uOrthwarJl.
The broad ax., 1912-04-27
Pert Personals.

A poet has called Wilbur and orViIls
Wright sons Of an eagle bird Thats
soaring s0me.-Dayton News.
Perhaps Commander Scott Is Iinger-
fng long enough at the south pole to
establish q GUNNER resort there.-Den-
yer Republican.
The name Of the leader Of the Chi
nese sufragettes Is Yik Tug Wing 1t
sounds as If one Of her cylinders were
missing 6ra-St Paul Dispatch
LIbsrIan Affairs satisfaetory.
his exeeIlency Daniel Howard. Ii
bsria's new president, Is getting firm
grip on the affairs OF the government
and has thus far demonstrated his
ability as a thoughtful leader. Presi-
dent Howard attributes much OF the
present satisfactory condition OF the
republic to the interest which the Unit
ed States has taken In Liberals val
fara
The broad ax., 1912-04-27
The Third Person.

I know q man. accounted wise.
Who thinks himself an ancient make
OF musket Breakfast food supplies
his powder and a Hamburg steak
The bullet. while a flannel cake
Acts Is the waddlng. Then away
be shoots for all that fighting day
SHOOTS TO his car. shoots to his work.
Shoots here. shoots there.
Shoots everywhere
A dollar may be thought to Turk:
Shoots out to luncheon. shoots to drink
SHOOTS home at night too tired to think,
Shoots through the news and. spent a
last.
Drops. thankful that the day is past.
For all this stress from dawn TO sleep
be gets his victuals. clothes and keep.
10, no! A foolish man Is he
And very much like you and me.
Baltimore Sun
The broad ax., 1912-04-27
THE BROAD AK CAN BE FOUND
ON SALE AT THE FOLLOW
ING NEWS STANDS:

From on and after this date The
Broad AK, can be found on sale al
the following news stands:
A. F. Tervalon, cigar store and
news stand, 50O4 State street.
George I. Martin, maker of fine
cigars and news stand, Is w. 3lst
ST., near State.
R NJ. Harvey's barber shop and
news stand, 1924 State street.
Mrs. Nellie Phelps, cigars, notions
and news stand, Is W. seth st., neal
Dearborn.
w. S. Cole, cigars, tobacco and
news stand, "a w. 3lst St., near
Dearborn.
T. B. Hall, laundry Office and news
stand, IL w. 18th ST., near State.
B. Davis, cigars, tobacco and news
stand, 1882 State ST.
w. NJ. Maxwell, notions, cigars,
tobacco, CONNECTIONS and news stand,
5244 State St.
Edward Felix, notions, cigars and
news stand, 81 w. 30th St.
F. Bishop, cigars, tobacco and news
stand, 8 w. 9th St, near State.
Turner Williams barber shop and
news stand, 32S2 State St.
Sylvester McGlofhin, news stand
and laundry Office, 4l22 State St.
William Gaughan, laundry Office,
cigars, tobacco and news stand, 1850
State st.
N. T. Chiffon, ladies' and gents
shoe shining parlors and news stand
5l06 State STREET
Harry Shelby, news stand 3308h
State Street.
Mrs. L. B. Taylor, notions, cigars
and news stands, IS w. 36th Street,
near State.
Benjamin 2. Eakin news and adver-
Using agency 42S Indiana Avenue, In
dianapolis, Ind.
The broad ax., 1912-04-27
Automobile Runs.

Clearly something should be done
to lessen the number Of accidents and
fatalities due to the operation of auto
mobiles. Worcester Gazette.
OF course people who drive auto
mobiles faster than they ought to do
not want to kill anybody. But they
expect pedestrians to do too much OF
the watching and all the getting out
Of the way.-BaItimOre News
The driver OF a mOtOrcar seems to
take it for granted that the lOrdly su-
periority given by an automobile en-
dows him with full authority to go
where he pleases and how be pleases,
whether the pedestrian pieases or not
Philadelphia Times.
The broad ax., 1912-04-27
Woman's Ways.

Most women are economical as long
as you can keep them out Of dry goods
stores.-Chicago News
A woman will tote around two street
car tickets and a powder rag in hand
bag that cost $S749.-0hio State Jour
nal
New York woman says that mothers
should teach their daughters to hirt
Give them a MA degree. as 1t were
Columbia State.
New York burglars robbed a safe
with a can opener. but well bet that .
Sunragette could have done 1t with q
Observation-Disclosures Post.
The broad ax., 1912-04-27

t"Ssain9 NE GHomyB Country.
IN pursuance ola plan I have had
m mind for some time announced
Pastor Goodsole at the close Of bis Ssr-
mon. i have rented q small room IN
an apartment house IN q fashionable
neighborhood and expect to open q
mission Sunday school there on the
inst Sunday In May. I don't know,
brethren. where the children who at
tend 1t are to come from. II. indeed,
any children attend It at all. but It
VIII be there all summer and may Be
regarded either as an opportunity or
a. reproach- We will now sing our
closing hymn."-Chicago TriElne.