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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26


affecting the canal exactly the the right of little,
round bodied Engmau in his little English home Chaplain
junction al Basingsrokc.
The Englisbuan bought land which his house
stands. And he built the little house, and paid for it.
be alphabetically indignant any
bascd Yankee dared suggest (the Yankee had rights
could the Englshman chill
dren in ms house with especial consideration.
submit congress Of United States and to Mr..
Wilson, will Taft and lei us hope maintain
authority Eng
shman Englisman canal to
the United States government
The bought surrounding the canal and
just Engshman bought built
his house.
The Englishman in his a perfect right say
that his children without charge live with
out paying board time right
siders pay, if he takes them in at all.
This government it's Panama territory It's
Panama canal has right say that the children of the American
governmene people of this comtmay enjoy special favors
and outside be on
par with the citizens of this country
That all there this canal controversy
rights Enghman his And the ma
repudate any attempt by Angomanacs
AMERICAN F1NANCIERs OWNING FOREIGN STEAMSHIP
LINES, to dictate conditions or impose regulations
The United States government has been
attitude other nations Ships all world crossing
the canal they pay use only
as much as is paid BY THE OCEANGOING SHIPS OF THE
UNITED STATES,
We make discrimination only trade
that is say favor American ships that from
American port another American port And this possibly
injustice any foreign SINCE FOREIGN NATIONS
ARE NOT ALLOWED, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TO EN-
GAGE IN CoAsTWISE TRADE IN OUR COUNTRY
would help them the United charge
shipping THERE is NO COM
PETITION AT ALL IN THE CoAsTwIsE SHIPPING BUsI-.
NESS
the Ingenious Engishmen always ask for
everything sight American Angomaniac
alone in siding with England in this canal matter.
There powerful able than
working England some
richest the United States who great fleets ships
sailing English coo who very
ships should make much money possbregardess
interests of the United States
The American ship controlling English
lines future their divi
dends OF their ship
OF their money English shipping, they
English shipping American flag profitable They
the freedom from canal charges granted
only may eventually
fde American ships crossing the There question
that SHOULD be done for the sake of American shipping
These that English ships Americans their
pocketbo concerned adversely but they very loyal
Englshmcn affecting profit English ships
And they the gentlemen pull and
nc abc5ed newspapers declare 10 right
control her canal and that it reachery and dishonesty
for the United States exercise authority in its house
Fortunately the people of the United understand
situation They know that millions dollars
built the canal And they know tlat tine people that built
canal and own the territory through which it SHOULD
control it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26
8nesiAGe1ge
DEPARTMENT
coNDIcTtp 81
1MS-AIice 6itCIpcN Kirk

With a pot roast and boiled beef,
serve plain boiled potatoes, plain
boiled turnips or baked squash. and
any Of the various forms of cabbage.
With boiled corned beef serve cab
bage, kale, dandelions OF turnips,
greens and plain boiled potatoes.
With brown stew serve tomatoes or
baked tomatoes, potatoes and dunn
pings.
With beef a la mode, a macedoine
of vegetables with brown sauce.
With plain boiled beef, boiled po-
tatoes and string beans or Drowned
parsnips.
With hamburg steaks, brown or TO.
mato sauce or stewed mushrooms or
sweet chillies.
With fresh boiled beef tongue serve
stewed raisins, carrots and boiled
rice.
With hot salt boiled tongue serve
potato salad and rye or black bread
With stuffed heart serve potatoes
and beans, carrots or parsnips
With creamed Clipped beef, corr
bread or mush bread or graham mut
fms.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26
BACK TO THE OLD HOME.

There was a merry time around
many family table yesterday. Places
long vacant were filed by brothers
and sisters who have returned to the
old home to once again eat dinner
with father and mother They went
TO a distant city TO seek the door of
opportunity. They searched for it
long and diligently, sometimes with
doubt and dark forebodings. Finally
the goal was found and success crown
ed their further efforts.
Now they come under the old roof
tree 20 spend the gladdest. merriest
day OF the year. Dame Fortune has
been good to them and their loved
ones. Father and mother, enfeeb,eG
by years. greet them with the same
benign smile and wholesome admO
milton The days o. youth are reviewed
those happy. happy days that car
never come again. Toasts to absent
ones are proposed and tears shed fol
loved ones who have gone before.
What happy, merry day. How
quickly It must pass. In the midst O.
this happiness the door bell rags. Al
know what II means. The cab Ii
ready to take wanderers away from
the old home from cherished scenes
from hallowed associations, from al
sthey love. Good byes are said. Perhaps
) II is the last dinner with father and
mother. Tears I'LL each eye.
AS they walk with faltering steI
to the waiting cab, father will
. trembling voice repeats his advice
OF long ago: Live right John; don
fail to read the bible" and mother
kisses him on the forehead with the
admonitfon: Write often. John, and
don't fail to come next Christmas"
j The cab rolls away. Mother ant
father stand on the porch wavint
handkerchiefs till the loved one l.
lost in the distance.
The day is done"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26
WOMEN OF WEALTH.

: Three women OF notable wealth in
the United States are: Miss Helen
Gould. Mrs Russell Sage ~ Mrs. L.
II. Hartman. All. moreover, are wo-
men of charitable impulses. who con-
slider that their wealth carries with
II certain obligations one Of which is
that In order to work out with it the
most good II must be handled and
handled iudiciously. Each in fact has
bestowed literally OF her means, and
each continues so TO do. giving for
schools, for colleges, for charities, for
rescue work. for industrial training,
and so on.
That these good women should
have seen ut to give so generously
would appear to be good reason why
= In their giving they should be let
alone-.why In private life they
should be unmolested and why mere
ly selfish personal appeals should not
be made TO them. But instead Of this
being THE case-each has beeh de,ug-
ed with begging letters, with persist
ent epistles. almost with threatening
demands. till the wonder is perhaps
that they have not given up their
good work entirely.
Just as an example: Mrs. Harri-
man. though a shorter time in possess
ion OF her fortune and so with the
least stock Of such documents on
haad. has turned over to the proper
authorities upward of 5000 letters
that she has received. embodying ap-
plicatiOns for sums of varying
amounts, the whole aggregating the
hefty figure OF $267,OOO.O 900. Mrs. Har-
friman has replied to all the commun.
ications and preserved them. The au'
thorities are to make a classification
OF them and publish them IN book
fern. -cSawing general deductions
from them, which may throw light on
smany problems connected with public
ard social needs"
The publication viii be interesting
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26
TOO BIG TO BE OVERLOOKED.

TOO BIG TO BE OVERLOOKED.
Every now and then facts come to
light which compel thoughtful persons
ITO give serious consideration TO the
Immense bulk and possibilities of the
Russian empire. Something happens
which brings Russia into the spot
light and the enormous extent of the
country, its prodigious weight of num-
bers and the volume of its transactions
show every intelligent observer of
Current events that the Muscovite ma
ton is altogether too big TO be over
looked or pushed aside in dealing with
the most vital problems of the world
and the age
For example, in this year of record
crops in the United States, Russia
proves to have surpassed this country
in the production of wheat and to
have beaten America, about three to
one in the size Of it's potato crop. The
Russian rye was much larger than the
wheat yield of the empire. and far ex.
ceeded the biggest crop of wheat ever
grown in the United States. In oats
Russia stands second only to this coun-
try and when the American crop is
short the Russian figures are likely to
prove the larger.
In other respects also. the immen-
sity of the Russian empire is plainly
apparent whenever official statistics
are studied. For instance the Bank
OF Russia holds more than 100000 000
/ in gold and silver It's deposits amount
to nearly 100000, 900.
Backward as the Empire OF the
Cars has been in railroad building, il
is making rapid progress now. Plans
which have been virtually adopted
and in some cases are being carried
into effect, provide for the construc
ton of 1900 nsiles of railroad, which
is fully four times the usual yearly
record in the United States.
Russia will have to be reckoneC
with more and more as the develop
ment of that vast backward realm
goes on, in all of the great interna
tional affairs of the times Industrial
Is and commercially. in population and
area, in military strength, and IN q
nancial resources the Russian empire
is forced into a position of great i'm
portance by its sheer bulk and mass
For good or for evil, the northern
bear viii have to be taken into con
sideration when the largest interest!
OF mankind are at stake.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26
NAVAL GUN TELESCOPES.
Device That Made Possible Accurate

Device That Made Possible Accurate
Long Range Firing.
II was about the year 1885 that the
telescope was first tested in conjunc-
ton with the firing of a modern gun.
The tremendous conclusion broke the
lens. however, so that in order to use it
at all the telescope had TO be detached
from the gun before firing. thereby
entAiling a loss OF several seconds In
time after aim had been taken
Later. to obviate this defect the
telescope was adjusted TO the axis Of
the gun by a system OF parallel arms
moving up and down in unison with
the gun. though detached from it This
OF course was a great improvement
but there were still grave practical de-
fectS.
Well. along in the early BinetieS Hen
u G. Muslin. young midshipman 81
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26

to the trial board and to the civil ser
vice reform association, which brought
the charges against Campbell, that he
had perjured himself. Todd is a ne
gro. He had testified that Campbell
had given money to three negro en-
plcyes to be used at election time in a
negro republican club. Todd was en-
plcyed as investigator by the civil SER
vice reform association. AS his charges
formed the chiet part OF the case
against Mr.. Campbell, the case is de-
clared to have collapsed. Robert Cath
erwood, president of the reform asso-
citation, made public late yesterday an
apology to the federal investigators
and to Mr.. Campbell, for having pro-
cured the testimony under the impress
sion that it was truthful
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26
VICE AND POLICE BLACKMAIL

hypOcritical attempt to treat public
nuisances as crimes, and in this hypo-
critical refusal to recognize facts as
facts.
How much longer is it to continue?
The great function of a police de-
partment is to protect life and prop
erty, not to protect morals. We do
not say that morals are no concern of
government, bu, we emphatically say
that morals are no concern of a police
department, and New Yorks years Of
experience have demonstrated the SUI
pTeme folly of treating vice as crime
Whether gambling houses should be
licensed; whether the sale Of liquor
under reasonable regulations should
be permitted on Sunday; whether the
social evil should be segregated
these are all debatable questions;
but that the police should be stripped
of all authority over these public
nuisances is no longer a debatable
question. The system which murder
ed Rosenthsl and to which the Mary
Goodies pay tribute is the final answer.
New York will never have an hon
est and efficient police force while
millions of dollars can be collected
every year for the privilege Of selling
Immunity under> laws that are not
supported by public opinion. Such
laws inevitably become an instrument
Of official oppression and blackmail.
This is what has happened in New
York, and this is what will continue
to happen so long as government it.
self puts premium upon police cor
ruption.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26

THE best things are nearest. Then
do not grasp at the stars, but do life's
plain common work as it comes, GER
tain that daily duties and daily bread
are the sweetest things of life"
ROASTS.
Serve with the meat course one
starchy vegetable and one green or
succulent vegetable When the din
ner salad is served with the meat
course let it take the place Of the sue
culent vegetable.
BEEF.
Do not serve at a private table two
starchy vegetables with the same
course; nor the same one at two
courses at the same meal For in
stance, do not serve sweet and white
potatoes together; serve one or the
other, unless a choice is desired, and
do not serve potatoes with the meat
If they have been served with the fish.
Serve with baked or roasted ribs OF
beef choice of the following:
Starchy-Mashed Drowned potatoes,
baked sweet potatoes, Drowned sweet
potatoes, baked squash, hominy,
Yorkshire pudding, cornmeal dunn.
pings.
Succulent or green-String beans
new beets, new lima beans, scalloped
or baked potatoes, eggplant stuffed
with cucumber, parsnips, kale, aspar.
agus, carrots.
With a baked fillet Of beef, always
mushroom sauce and sweet or white
/ potato croquettes, and peas.
! With broiled fillet, sauce Holland
aise and French salad, or cold aspar.
agus.
/ With broiled sirloin steak for din.
ner, stuffed potatoes, sweet or white
or potato croquettes and peas, string
beans, asparagus, mushrooms or baked
tomatoes.
With sirloin for supper or lunch
/ French fried potatoes, hashed brown
I potatoes, or creamed hashed potatoes
and plain celery or lettuce with
/ French dressing.
! With a rolled steak, tomato sauce
baked sweet potatoes or white pota
toes, and stewed turnips or carrots
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26

Friend-Make any money on your
last novel?
Author-You bet! 1 sold that de-
scription Of the Palisades in chapter
three to the Quick Line railroad for
$4,000; my tribute to the Plaster de
Paris hotel in New York. chapter ten,
brought me $4,000 from the hotel peo-
pie, and the United Resorts, Ltd, paid
me another thousand Tor my rhapsody
on the sunset in the Wampegong
mountains, chapter thirty, where the
hero takes her in his arms. What's
left of it I think I cap boil down-into
a short story and make a ten-spot on
it-Puck.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26
BRIDGE PARTY DESSERT.


Materials: Marshmallows, thirty
five, graduated gelatin, one table
spoonful; sweet cream, one cup; SUI
gar, one tablespoonful: vanilla, one
teaspoonful; eggs, two; brandy, one
tablespoonful.
Utensils: PAIRING knife, measuring
cup, tablespoon, teaspoon, egg beaten,
mold
Directions-Take 35 marshmallows
and cut each in three pieces, mix with
these enough powdered sugar to pre-
vent them from sticking together; one
tablespoonful of granulated gelatine
dissolved in boiling water; take one
cup of sweet cream, one tablespoonful
of sugar and enc teaspoonful of vanil-
la, mix with the gelatin when cold to-
gether with the beaten whites of two
eggs. Into this mixture put the marsh.
mallows and generous tablespoonful
of brandy. Put aside in a very cold
place until set Just before serving
turn on a plate and decorate with
maraschinO cherries and angelica cut
for stems and leaves or chopped PTS
tachiO nuts. The marshmallows may
be purchased in colors. and this can
be the main color scheme, and put il
/ together in layers of white, pink and
1 green, or they may be nodded and
decorated in individual moldsi If your
cream is heavy this dessert is i'm
proved by whipping the cream.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26
New York Worldly

The womap who told the Curran
committee that there is not a mayor
living who can stop the police from
taking money under the present con-
ditions and there is no district attor-
ney who can stop it." told the truth
corrupt, a blackmailing, a demon
allied police department. is the price
that New York pays for criminal laws
that the police could not enforce if
they tried and would not enforce if
they could.
Certain well-meaning persons have
decreed that The social evil must be
suppressed by criminal statutes; that
gambling must be suppressed by crimi-
nal statutes, and that the sale Of
liquor on Sunday mus. be suppressed
by criminal statutes Their theory of
local government has been tried for
years. We have had republican may
ors, we nave had democrat mayors,
We have had independent mayors, we
have had the ablest chief executives
of any city in the United States, and
the police system has continued to
collect its nefarious toll.
Every crusade against the liquor
dealers made it more prof able for
the police to license the illegal sale
Of liquor. Every crusade against
gambling made it more profitable for
the police to license gambling. Every
crusade against prostitution increased
police profits from pres tuition. All
the Generalization and corruption in
the police force has its roots in this
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26
SMART GIRL.

He latter marriagel| don't see
why you are not as corlsiderate of my
comfort as you used to be of your
fathers.
she-Why, my dear, am!
He-How do you make that out?
When l come into the house / have
to hunt around for my slippers and ev-
erything else 1 happen to want, but
when l used to court you. and your
father would come in from business,
you would rush around gathering up
his things, wheel his easy chair up to
the fire, warm his slippers and get
him both head rest and foot rest,
so that all he had to do was to drop
right down and be comfortable.
She-Oh. that was only so he'd go
to sleep the sooner!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26

and unique. Probably some OF the
writer's Of letters would prefer that
their epistolary efforts were left cut
OF the collection, but the plan seems
to be to use them all. Most of the ap-
plications were for aid for institutions
Of an educational or charitable char
acter. Six hundred persons wanted
to negotiate personal loans and the
amount Of these in the aggregate was
more than s5,O0O,OO0. Three thousand
letters contained personal appeals for
financial assistance. Some Of the writ
ers wanted comparatively fhsignifi-
cant sums, but one western woman
cody asked for a million dollars al a
personal gift and assured Mrs. Har-
rtman that the amount never would be
missed. The institutional requests
totaled $4,000, 900. Most Of the pure
ly personal appeals we're from wcm-
en-, and it is stated that, in general the
letters were written by persons Of cul-
ture and education.
To go back to an earlier state
ment: 1t speaks volumes for the ma
tive kindness of these women, and
of others Of their sort, that they have
not given up in despair Before an I'M
dertaking so stupendous. And II the
writer's of these letters are earnest
aAd honest in their expressed desire
to see great fortunes put to doing
good, they can perhaps best further
the plan by letting the wealthy bene.
! un1nnf caudralr-
ing, as well they may trust, those who
would give to work out a practical
| plan for doing so effectually.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26
Literary Ccnfidences-

Percollum-It's no light job, let me
tell you, to write a descriptive poem
1900 words long, even about a gold
en- wedding. When had finished this
one, old chap, was all in.
Regstanf docking it over)-Well,
comrade, that's more than ever will
happen to the poem.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26
Seems to Know pihble.

"Dibble says he met girl yester-
day with such glorious eyes that he
has been quite daffy ever since.'
Il was under the impression
that it dated back much farther than
that"
What are you talking about?"
"Dibble's er-daffyLood"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26

Annapolis. lean faced and square of
jaw, built like a medium sized Her.
cules, quiet hammered. but bulldog In
the football field. interested himself in
the study OF optics Naturally enough.
his thoughts were directed to the de-
The lenses broke when the guns were
fred; therefore it was necessary TO in
vent a nonbreakable lens.
One day years later. while station
ed in Washington, Muslin called few
Of his brother officers to the window
near his desk on the second floor of n
building in the navy yards. he show
ed them a lens with a metal band
"shruDk" around its circumference.
Then he opened the window and de
liberately threw the lens with all his
might upon the brick pavement be
low. The others knew of his pet hob,
by and thought he had given 1t up in
disgust and had taken this way OF tell
ing them so. But he put on his hat. III
a cigarette and babe them follow him
He led them down the stairs amid con
siderable joking and out to the spot
where the lens lay on the pavement
The glass was unbroken. The one
great defect of the telescope sight had
been overcome. and Muslin had made
possible the long range gunnery Of
the modern navy. The thud Of the lit
tie glass disk with its metal collal
upon the brick pavement was the sig
nal for the nations to begin TO bIilC
their noughts.-American Maya
zine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26

Since 1880 the total value Of the
mineral production OF Alaska has been
$207. 900. 900. OF which over 80 per
cent, or S195.619,776 has been in gold,
according to A. II. Brooks, of the
United States Geological survey.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26
Dec. 20 in American
History.

11T6- Battle OF Trenton. \. j.
181-Stephen Girard phiianthropist.
founder of Girard college. famous
school for boys. died; born 1870.
1S53-Great fire in New York: famous
clipper Great Republic destroyed.
1856 General John A. Logan. noted
Federal soldier. died: born 1926.
1009-Walter Shirlaw. noted artist.
died: born 1897. Frederic Reming-
ton. painter. sculptor and author.
died: born 1851.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26

Stick to your constitution" is the
advice OF Ambassador Bryce 1T is
the greatest product of the human
mind" Yet the woods are full OF
people who would rewrite IT,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26
EVIDENCE IS COOKED UP
Testimony in Case of Chicago Post
master Perjured, il is Said.

master Perjured, it is Said.
Chicago, Dec. 26.-Testimony
against Postmaster D. A. Campbell Of
Chicago, who has just been investigat-
ed by federal commission on charges
Of improper political activity was per-
juFed. according to a statement by the
investigators. The investigation had
etded and the results were about to be
submitted to the civil service commits
sion in Washington.
The surprise was sprung in the case
when William L. Todd, the chief wit
ness against Mr.. Campbell, confessed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26
SandY's RuIinn Passlnn-

IT hope you are following my ip-
structions carefully, Sandy-the pills
three times a day and a drop of whis-
ky at bedtime"
"Weel. sir, l may be a wee bit be-
hind wi the pills, but I'm abort six
weeks in front VII the whusky."-The
Taller.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26

Regardless OF what brand OF wealth
er we may have, 1t is hoped there
will be no disparsging remarks until
another year. at least
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26
Miseion StVIe

1t might not make men less profane.
Might not save cen one soul,
But square collar button, 1t
Seems to US would not roll.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-26
hen angry to

Scott-lts good idea when angry to
count ten before YOU speak. Mott
true; also when ''tGuched" 10 CONT a
thousand before you lend - Boston
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