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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-09
They're Coming
Home
By CHESTER FIRKINs.

"HESE are the days Of terror;
These are the days of joy.
Alarms and hopes commingled
In marvellous alloy;
When from the shore or mountain,
Or wheresoe'er they roam,
Our wives send letters saying
That they are coming home.
The lawn is long and seedy;
The rubber plant has died,
Though when we said we'd water il
We didn't think We lied.
The cat Cher pet, most treasured)
Has simply quit the fiat
Why did we ever promise
That we would feed the cat?
But, oh, she's coming, coming,
And SOS the tow-head boy.
To make this den q home again
With food and love and Joy.
No matter how they slave us.
No matter where they roam,
It's good to get the letters
That say they're coming home.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-09
The Founding of St. Louis
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

NNE hundred and forty nine
~ years ago Pierre Laclede Lii
quest set out from New Or
leans, and three months later
reached the point for which he had
started, Fort DeChartres
Liquest was the representative
and agent of the firm of Maxent
& Laclede, of New Orleans, which
enterprising company had just been
granted the exclusive trade of the
Missouri and Of the Mississippi as
far as the mouth of River St. Pc
ter, and it was for the purpose of
establishing q point around which
the advantages of this grant might
materialize that the above men
toned expedition was undertaken.
A month after his arrival at
Fort DeChartres, December. 1853,
Liquest set out to select the site
Of the company's post, and, after
looking the ground over carefully,
decided upon the locality near the
junction of the Missouri with the
Father of Waters"
Here was a firH, bold bank. high
enough to be out of the way of
the floods, and yet not SO steep to
interfere with the loading and I'M
loading of boats, to which might
be added the fact that it was the
natural and inevitable depot of the
entire trade of the Missouri.
Having determined upon the site.
Liquest, on the morning of Febru-
airy Is. 1854, turned the first sod for
the erection Of the first building in
the city which today has a popu
lation of nearly a million souls. In
April the settlement received the
name Of st. Louis, from Louis XIV
OF France
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-09

might be both in war and peace. 1t
would offer a ready means of COM
munication between the members
of a squadron, it would carry dis
patches, and perhaps 1t could be
turned into some kind of 6ght-
ing machine. At any rate, it might
serve for scouting in shallow wa
tiers, as well as for reconnaissance
from the air. 1t would form too
easy a mark for the quick firing
guns Of cruiser to serve as a tor
pedo carrier, but there are GER
tainly hundred other ways in
which it could be employed.
For peaceful purposes it may
have still wider uses. Beaumont's
experiments have already establish
ed the fact that it can be navi-
gated, partly in the air and partly
in the water, along so crooked
river as the Seine, and through
the many distinctions offered by
bridges and boats within the linn
it's of great city. Why should not
a similar device attain great pop
ulartty as a pleasure craft? What
greater delight could be conceived
than travelling like a water bird,
now in free flight, and now afloat
on a beautiful lake or river?
Perhaps, after all, mans final
mastery of the atmosphere, as a
highway, will come to resemble
more that of the duck, which al
ways keeps near the water, than
that of the eagle, which finds no
dangers in the high air.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-09

While Liquest was on his way up
the Mississippi from New Orleans,
the vast region west of the river
passed into the hands of Spain,
where 1t remained for 40 years,
when the inevitable happened, and
the Province of Louisiana" passed
into the possession of the United
States.
1t was an unusual spectacle that
was witnessed in st. Louis on
March and 10, 1904. The formal
transfer of Louisiana from Spain to
France had not been made when
the time came for its transfer to the
United States. In order that this
transfer from France to the United
States might be made, Captain
Stoddard,. of the United States
army, had been authorized to re-
ceive the region from France, and
was also empowered by the French
government to act as it's agent in
the transfer, which had first to
take place from Spain to France
All being ready. the Spanish flag
was lowered. with all due cere-
mony, and in its place was run up
the standard of France Then, with
some more ceremony, the transfer
from France to the United States
took place. The flag of France was
pulled down and the Stars ana
Stripes waved for the first time in
the future metropolis of the won
derful Mississippi valley.
Thus st. Louis enjoys the unique
honor Of being the only city in alt
history which has seen the hags of
three different nations foat over il
in token of sovereignty within the
brief space of "a hours
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-09
He Wouldn't Take a Million
for His New Baby
But He Wouldn't Give Ten Cents for Another One.

The man eats in the German restaurant chemist
an inkmaker and German-thoughtfu and good
Many of friends had said ''Prosit julius the waiter
pronounce it Yuus please knew how Ganymede felt
when all Olympus dry The n1maker took his first baby
and his friends congratulations in serious mood
ITS fine baby" Of
10 Judge by appearance Of
got million dollars
but wouldn't give you ten cents for another
Many father has way. The birth of every child
far dreadful than French revolution
Every mother suffers the birth of her child than
is suffered by country that goes through revolution To
upon the battlefield into the where Cosack
charge chds play compared with the long, repeated
sufferings Eternal Wisdom nAicts upon the worlds
mothers
Men have voted themselves THE HEROES of the world al
though they really not suffering They know
what it is BY PROXY when the first child and many
them Mortified like German chemist value the dearly
bought baby untold milhons-AND WOULDN'T GIVE TEN
CENTS FOR ANOTHER ONE
Suppose YOU were going to write the rest of this editorial
how would you finish it. and where would you find the app
cation of the remark about the baby9
You d find it. Of course IN EVERY GREAT HUMAN
EVENT
We are collectively attitude the
man that his baby a million, but wouldn't give
for a hundred other babies
Every blessing that have gained through suffering and
sefdenial We exaggerate value perhaps,
and we say that life would be worthless without
BUT WE DON'T WANT ANY MORE AT THE SAME
PRICE
We like to be freelberty is fine thing We paid lives
money and comfort for the freedom that is
BUT WE DON'T CARE TO BUY ANY MORE FREEDOM
AT THAT PRICE
We quite willing for instance let the Spanards
their way and butcher unfortunate eyes
The besotted fools had sink warship TO SHAME US
INTO A FIGHT
We like our baby freedom-bought in 1776 Millions
couldn't buy THAT baby. But don't any Others.
you take of the mills and give them
feed their nursing babies and the older ones YOU IN
CREASE THE WAGES OF MEN.
Working WOMEN keep down the of working MEN as
working CHILDREN keep down the pay of and women
both.
Therefore, industrial freedom for children is
baby hat-as naion--we wouldn't give cents for
But with the with the individual father and mother
it higher wisdom that decides The German will
HAVE his other babeand as he gets it win
be worth millions in his eyes Not would he give upa
though he viii say 'no more each time.
And this nation will have its various babies as time
passes We shall have FREEDOM for children and
for working MEN We shall have REAL freedon-hat is
say freedom from worry freedom from grinding toll that
relieved only by drunkenness the grave shall get
at time, the evidences of genuine civilization Each will
be valued We shall hesitate about making
each of those not yet secured But we'll get them time
And then Wen say the German chemist say thirty
years from may fourteen his tablet
''They lot, but they worth it. wouldn't and
couldn dispense with single of them.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-09
Writes on
Universal Peace
The World Is Getting Together.
No Nation Can Afford to Fly
in the Face of the Ideals Held
by Other Nations.
By EBERT HUBBARD

TT is quite within the range of
i possibilities that Emperor
William of Germany win visit
San Francisco in 1915.
The emperor has expressed great
interest in the proposed Universal
Peace Congress. The idea now of
the fourteen great powers that con-
troll the world getting together on
peace basis is no longer an idle
dream
If the emperor makes the trip,
he will come on his own yacht by
way of Panama, conveyed by an
American and German man-of-
war.
The presence of the emperor in
San Francisco will be the greatest
influence for peace and a mutual
understanding among the nations
that has ever occurred in history.
His Power Is Great.
The individual power Of Emper-
or William is greater than that
of any other ruler. Not only does
he occupy a very great Office, but
he is a great individual,
Time has tempered him, and If
through his initiative universal
peace could be established through
International disarmament, it
would put him absolutely first
among all the kings and emper-
ors who have ever lived since time
began.
And 1t is interesting to know that
the emperor himself realizes the
fact.
1t is now generally conceded that
we have gotten out of the struggle
of war all that there is to be at
tanned.
We have reached not only the
point of diminishing returns, but
we have reached the point where
there is absolutely no return at
ALL
Armies are a terrible over head"
tax.
Soldering in the year 1912 stands
for consumption. woe, want, pow
erty, disease, inefficiency and in
competence.
That the resources OF the world
should be used for purposes of de-
struction. and that vast numbers Of
men should be kept constantly I'M
der arms, is crying evil.
Five million men in the world
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-09
On Wind Swept Hill,

Come up" she seemed to cry to
them; come up and take me home
/ want to be by the water do
not like this high mesa. ! am
afraid of all these dark trees crowd
ing around me Come, brothers,
march up the Hill tonight when the
moon is some and take me home
again
But the brothers down there by
the stream in the green valley do
not even take the trouble to wave
back to the captive Princess, and
so there she stands today-Lorna
Doone we have named her-a cap
tive among the dark robber trees,
there on the wind swept Hill.
Lorna Doone, l have a friend I
call by that name when she does
not hear me. She married when
she was seventeen, married a man
she scarcely knew. carried away
with his dark, handsome face and
his fine manner which made all the
men she knew seem dun and com
mOnplace
And now poor Lorna is marooned
e with the man she married, ma
rooned on queer little island
where the man lives with his
strange family and the uncanny
friends he gathers about him.
She is gay, is Lorna, ana pretty
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-09

the very pick and flower of man
hood-are engaged in the monroe
ductive business Of drilling and
training to destroy what other me-,
have by labor produced.
Doubtless when pirates roamol
abroad through the land, and eva..
nation was secretly plotting the I'M
doing of its neighbors the indi-
vidual success of a nation demand
ed big army.
Now the world is getting togetn-
err The telephones. the telegraph
quick transportation, is putting
every nation in touch with all 9th.
ers
The nations now are ruled bv
bankers, not by warriors.
The economist, not the strategist
is supreme.
Adding machines and cash regis.
tiers are our weapons.
The typewriter is greater than
the sword.
fhe growing intelligence of the
time has shown us that we can only
thrive as other people thrive.
The idea of any one nation
thriving by exploitation, annexs-
ton and destruction is obsolete
Nations, like individuals are to-
day held in place by public opin-
ion.
Publicity Is a Disinfectant.
10 nation can afford to fly IN
the face of the ideals that are held
and fostered by other nations.
Publicity is the great disinfect.
ant.
So thoroughly is this understood
today that kings have their public
ity bureaus. They not only know
what other nations are doing and
saying, but their endeavor is to nut
themselves in the best light in the
worlds assize.
We are ruled by public senti-
ment, and as no individual can
succeed in an enterprise with pub
lie sentiment against him, so no
nation can hope to achieve success
and prosperity unless it is moving
in accordance with the best ideas
Of the best people Of all other ma
tons.
Even successful war is a form Of
defeat 1t looks as if the year 1915
will be the Year of Peace. Let it
take its place with the immortal
dates, 1872 and 1776.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-09

WYE saw her up there on the
w mesa the other day-Lor-
ma Doone, the sweet
maiden poplar tree-standing light
and graceful in the great gather
ing circle of gloomy pines. Stolen,
dear thing, from a quiet valley by
some wandering breeze Of mischief,
and set there in the woods with
the dark evergreens soughing
around her Ike some fair maid
carried off by robber chieftains and
kept captive in their mountain fast
ness.
How light she was, how graceful,
how modest and timid, and yet she
stood her ground. too, and would
not let any of the rough, burly
pines or the melancholy brooding
cedars come too close. Even the
tall spruce, with his silvertipped
fingers, she kept at a distance, like
some modest princess of royal blood
keeping up the tradition of proud
aIoofness even in her captivity.
Flutter, autter, all her graceful
leaves seemed sending signals to
her tall brothers down there in the
vallev
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-09
9 3 Captives of Fate 3 3
BY WINIFRED BLACK.

and soft-voiced, and gentle-heart-
ed, and the man who carried her
away with him is saturnfne and
sarcastic and cynical.
He doesn't believe in anybody he
thinks people who laugh are all
fools He never reads anything
but some book which proves that
everything is all wrong every
where, and when poor Lorna for
gets for a minute her melancholy
fate and tries to sing little SIM
pie song of love and laughter, the
robber chieftain frowns and the
song dies in poor Lorna's throat.
And He's a Captive.
Captive, poor little girl. captive
bowed down with iron chains,
though the world thinks they are
nothing but pretty bracelets.
l wonder how long she will live
in prison?
They are not always women, the
captives Of fate. I know man
who's a captive, too. He's a big
hearted. generous soul with laugh
like burst of primal JOY. He has
a brain. too, quick, keen, active
brain. He likes to eat and to drink,
and to laugh, and to talk, and he
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-09
She Shall Have Company.

My heart goes out to them. and
for their sakes I am going to climb
the wind-swept mesa tomorrow and
take with me little sprig of quiv-
ering aspen, or a branch of poplar.
and set it in the ground beside the
lonely. pale captive poplar who
waves her slender arms in such pa
thetic appeal TO her brethren down
there in the valley to come and
rescue her She shall have com
pany of her own sort if can man
age it. Poor, pretty, frightened
Lorna Doone, up there in the rob
ber's stronghold with the dark
pines
And maybe sometime, when some
kin of mine wanders lonely and
misunderstood, some kindred souls
will see him far of. and recognize
him. and go and bear him friendly
company.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-09

is never really happy without lot
OF friends around him, and he mar
ried a wife who lives to save.
She haunts the shops looking for
bargains" she screws down the
cooks wages: she haggles over
quarter on the gas bill.
She wears a dress till she's tired
Of it, and then what? Does she
give it to a poor relation and be
glad she has it to give? Not she.
She sells that dress to the maid
or some friend less well off than
she.
Her husband is pruned. and cut,
and trimmed down to suit her lit
tie sordid. narrow schemes. Poor
fellow. l am always wondering
when he will find the courage and
the chance to escape down the hill.
off the wind swept mesa, and go
home to his own folk.
I've seen children captives in
their own family. haven't you?
Clever children in a family of dolts,
and the dolts all feel so superior
because poor Mary is so queer"
Dull children in a clever family
poor things, my heart aches for
them, but they are not so much to
be pitied as the clever prisoners of
dullness. Clever people have warm
hearts. as rule. and quick sympa-
thies, and there's no one so cruel
on earth as a dullard.
An honest boy in a family Of
crooks, a good woman in bevy of
selfish, mercenary, worldly sisters.
stolen. every one of them. stolen
away from the home they should
have, and brought to sorrow among
aliens,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-12-21
SATURDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 81. 1917
RENEWED TROUBLE WITH MEXICO.

Yw% HE Mexican TO the fore again 1t is u
fortunate that only imaginary line separates our coui
try from poorly developed and hafciyilzed land that
il incapable stable government except under military rue
like Diaz and whose people have not yet reached Tue
civilization of Cuba revolution against the Dlaz regime
was sympatbed with aided in the United States othe
wise it would have sgnaly failed In the counter Revolutionary
movement lice Madero government again received every
indirect cutting off of supplies across the porde
+a+ oused e revolnon in northern collapse But
there have small thanks and much exaseatop G our
government in return Mexican official ingande goes TO
point nsolence. Even the placid ana Pelces iit
constrained this attitude and notify Madero or tne
ALLEGATIONS of his least for deceney The notice
drafted y vigorous hand than Tas is significant OF the
intention government resort TO some means oil com
puIsion One readily suggests itself By merely relaxing
tts voor f te quarantine let and
pes pass over of the anMadero revolution woud
he eIrhed need much other encouragement 10
np about tbe overthrow that too weak or
FOO ngraefu to perform single obligation neghbor and
friendly nation
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-12-21
Dinner Stories
Observation-Disclosures

At trial in court when the witness
on the stand was being subjected to
merciless cross-exanination, in an
swerlng one question the witness
nodded, whereupon the court stenog-
rapher who was crowding the limit
to get all and could not see the wit
ness, at once demanded: Answer
that question" to which the wit
ness replied: 81 did answer it; l
nodded my head The stenograph-
er, without moments hesitation
came right back with: "Wen, 1
heard it rattle, but could not tell
whether it was up and down of from
side to side
This was overheard by a visitor in
a Northwestern State: ''Our State
prison is now self supporting said
the first citizen. Good" said the
second citizen. "In that case we can
afford to start a couple more"
They were telling stories of the late
Andrew Lang in one of the clubs the
other night. One man told of din
ner invitation in Marlowe's road,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-12-21
SOCIAL NOTES on snd N5WAfK ,5s s6s1Rss S

| Frank H. Jamison of st. Cloud, and
| Mrs. Albert Lewis, of New York. The
decorations were carried out in red
and green. The guests We're Miss
| Anna Whelan, Miss Martha Kelly,
Miss Natalie Reazor, Miss Marguerite
| Tome, Miss Marie Flanagan, Miss
| Dorothy Emerson, Miss Mary Toomey,
| Miss Elizabeth Toomey, Miss Phoebe
Jamison, Miss Eugenie Jamison. Miss
| Gladys Finlay, Miss Katharine Flynn
and Miss Dorothy Schweinler.
| in honor of Miss Nancy Richards,
formerly of Llewellyn Park, West
Orange, who is attending school at
| Framingham. Conn, Miss Margaret
Nichols, of Llewellyn Park, will give
a dinner at her homo tonight
| Mrs. Ernest A. Reed, of 246a Sixth
avenue, will be hostess on Friday,
January 3. to the members of the Ray
Palmer Club.
The Criterion Club, of this city. will
give dance at the Washington ON
Thursday. December 26. The patron
esses will be Mrs. Oscar Michael,
Mrs. David 7. Klein. Mrs. Max Hertz,
Mrs. Louis V. Aronsou, Mrs. Selig
Scheuer, Mrs NJ F. Kohn, Mrs. Louis
Schlesinger, Mrs. Charles Hood and
| Mrs. Burnett W. Straus. The mem
bers of the committee are Morton
! stern, Harry Stern, David Lehman,
| Theodore Jay, a. II. Kahn, Alexander
Aronson, Clarence Stein and Alex
ander l.. Schlesinger
Miss Hazel Wheaton, of East
| Orange. returned yesterday from the
National Park Seminary. near Wash
ington, d. G, and will give five
hundred party at her home next Fri
day afternoon, in honor Of Miss Mil
dred Norris, of Syracuse, who is to
spend part of the holidays with her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick S. Jones.
of North Ninth street, will leave to-
day for Boston, where they will spend
the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Baxter, of Chad
wick avenue, have gone to Scranton,
Pa, for short visit.
The pupils of Mrs. f. H. Munroe S
junior class win give a recital this
afternoon at 1876 Roseville avenue.
Those who will participate are Mar
garet Dickinson, Robert Williams
Dorothy Massey, Leland Ramsdell
Gertrude and Grace Williams, Ruth
Norris. Albert and Margaret Brown
Pauline Phelan, Lois Kinney, Kath-
crime Diefendorf, Edmund and Flor
ence Rawlings.
William II. Dale, Alfred Sykes and
Thomas Chisholm are in charge of the
! first Of the seasons assembly dances
which viii be held next Friday in
the Forest Hill Club House.
Miss Anna Skinner. of IL East PARK
street, left today for her home at Ere,
ldonia. ~ y, where she viii spenc
the holidays
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-12-21
A POLITICAL PARDON.

WWTAs the pardon by the President OF John h. Hail. con
M yicted in connection with land fraud case IN the
West intended reflect upon Francis j. Heney the
roecunp attorney his Indictment during the
Roosevelt administration? That Mr. Taft should pardon an
influential convict strange The Morse pardon went to
the limit popular patience Halls sentence was only sixty
avs in Jail eight and his case has hung
He served day of his
sentence pardons him the ground of innocence
The pardon also presumption of innocence for Umed
States Mitchell of Oregon who convicted of land
frauds indictment procured by Heney Hall was
Republican politician Heney is the who by his courage
and ncoupbiy prosecutor and at the peril of his life
political regime San Francisco and sent
its principal prison Hall claims that his
putup job Heney prominent in his oppo
stion Taft in the election campaign But the Senate that
its rolls is in the yndcve
hunor of Mr. Taft
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-12-21
sW1NDLERs THROUGH THE MAILS.

FH astonishing gubity of people who have money
to invest evident in the of frauds carried
through the mails been exposed by the
ent People with ncurable maladies who deceived and
sstemacay preyed the by soues scoundres
who promise miraculous and drain them OF their
,oonev until death them from the harpes clutches
NAV he excused They deceived by their desperate hopes
Th man who induced buy goods is always
fool crooked stock operators find their vic
rims among the wetodo intelligent class and millions of
dollars are maid out mining other that abso
ey worthless have responsible Endorsement back
ing The "stering Debenture Company without
any financial standing officers custody has
worked bonanza through the mails netting it is claimed
millions false representation But punishment for
the knave nfrequent with prosecutions
and the frauds The risk small and the profit great