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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-19
Atlanta Must Have Good Streets
Now and Hereafter

be many favorable primary impressions the
stranger within gates receives the idea he gathers of At
antas prosperity and evidenced IN her streets
inevitably must be depressing and Disappointing
Nowhere this nation perhaps have streets been more fear
fully and wonderfully made than in Atlanta
pavngs have been tried every variety Of material
has employed-and the paving generally worthless
utterly INADEQUATE fashioned after unnduring
amazing and would be i'll grlmy humorous were 1T
vitality and property owners
Along Atlanas proud and most beautiful thoroughfares
less than along fashionable and less wealthy streets the
paving bumpy with holes and rotten with decay and disnte
grafton.
city end the other resembles crazy quilt In
the matter variegaed paving materas-wOod asphalt btu
hc macadam belgian block and what not ndiscriminaey
mixed p worn out Of holes, and altogether unsatisfactory
these streets put down with guarantees of durability
what are the guarantees Where rests the responsibility
and where shall restitution be ught?
Nobody knows the answer-nobody ever will
What Atlanta has put into gonerespons
biv is so vaguely indefinitely fixed and nearly impossible
find it difficult in prohbive gree locate and apply the
remedy or harmonic confusing directing agencies which
have led to chaos.
of the paramount why new charter IS ndlspen-
sable ana progress and prosperity because It's past meth
DDS construction must be reegaed forever to the rear
again the peoples be squandered on putre
fed pa wing. o streets born diseased!
What Atlanta builds in the future she must build with
eve permanently service and to comfort Under her new
charter Atlanta be real seetsnot makeshfts
The within Aanta gates must not be disappointed
and disheartened by impossible thoroughfares.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-19
TOhn Milton
BY REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

But Milton did more than write
Paradise Lost" He wrote, among
other things, the "Areopagitica"-
the grandest plea that was ever
made by man for the freedom of
writing, speaking and printing. The
liberty of speech and press. which
is the Crowning glory of the age in
which we live, and the one great
guarantee for the future peace and
progress of the race, owes more to
John Milton with the possible eX-
ception of Voltaire) than to any
other person or combination of per-
sons of whom we have any knowl-
edge.
The "Areopagitica'' made Eng
land think as it had never been
made to think before, with the re-
suit that she threw off the shackles
that had bound her, and swore that
henceforth Englishmen should be
free to express their opinion in
speech and print without fear of
trouble from any quarter Con-
tending that man was made for
freedom, and that to be contented
with less than his birthright was
the lowest sort Of cowardice. Mil
ton dealt the deathblow to intel
lectual oppression in England.
Nowhere else, perhaps, does the
old question of the comparative
value of Men of Thought" and
Men of Action" find clearer an
swer than in the case Of Milton.
Milton spent his whole life in re-
tirement pent up midst the "Aca-
demic Shades" and yet the thought
that he gave birth to in~his seclu-
sion started the propaganda that
is conquering the world and build
ing for the ages, Millions Of Men
Of Action" In the United States.
Great Britain, Australia South
Africa, the Dominion Of Canada,
as well as in other lands. are work
ing Ike Trojans 10 carry out the
ideas that were born IN the brain
of tnr scho'a "a reeu.,, John Ml-
tOa,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-19

tn WO hundred and forty eight
years ago-February IA, 1865
i'm a little house on Bun
hill row. London, Milton put the
finishing touches to his great epic,
Paradise Lost"
For two years after its compile
ton the great poem lay in its au-
thor's desk, and when, finally, a
publisher was found, it was agreed
that Milton should receive for his
immortal work five pounds down,
another five pounds after the sale
of an edition of thirteen hundred
copies. and two additional sums of
five pounds each after the sale of
two more editions of the same size,
the author, in the meantime, relin-
gushing all his copyright and
commercial interest in the poem
forever"
In English literature--let us say
in all iterature-there is no peer
of this marvellous poem. Than that
wonderful epic nothing that was
" u NAAlkEI " llpIllNl. Va .NCSNliN
iuS, or Dante. is fuller of what we
call the sublime" Critics Para
disc Lost has had without number,
but no critic of respectable attain
ments has ever dared to question
It's unparalleled grandeur of con-
ception and faultlessness Of eXecu-
ton.
OF no special value in the practi-
cal sense. Millions poem has been
of incalculable value to mankind
in quickening its sense Of the large
ness and majesty of life. Il pushes
back the horizon Of things. lifts
the armament, and provides for us
the views Of the Infinite Beyond.
Niagara is in it, and the power
and vastness of old Ocean. II inn
presses us like look at the starry
dome OF the heavens, like a dream
of God and Immortality.
II Milton had done nothing but
write Paradise Lost he would
have achieved everlasting fame. us
wei. as inc largest gratitude nf all
The elect of tAt earth
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-19
:: Meet Him Half Wav
By WINIFRED BLACK.
By TAD.

staying. You know what you prom
ised when YOU married him--'for-
saking all others, cleave only unto
him." I've seen times when l
thought mothers needed to remem-
Der that vow when they got to act
ing as if husband was just some
one handy to have when the bill
collector came around.
Go part way, dear, little woman;
go part way, Meet poor husband
there at the door-he's forlorn
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-19

enough with all his dinners-and,
whisper, your children will think
whole lot more of you if you aren't
among those present every minute
of the day; see if they don't
And bark to the voice of the hor-
rifier-the best mothers are not al
ways those who are always with
their children and make a virtue
of their absolute slavery to the nur-
sery. Just light that little fact
and keep it burning a while and see
if ii doesn't set you to thinking
just a little.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-19

OF course, in play, melodrama
and sentimentality demanded that
the husband should be faithful to
his dull and uninteresting and
commonplace old wife, and he was
held UP to our bitter scorn because
he was tempted to forsake her for
the brilliant women of the new
world into which he had passed,
and we only forgave him when
for the sake of the fool happy
conclusion that they say plays must
have-he went back to his faithful
old Maria.
In these plays it was intended
that the pathetic figure should be
that of the forsaken wife, but the
one that l wanted to bedew with
my tears was the lonely man who
was tied to the corpse of a dead
love that he must drag about with
him as long as he lived, and whose
success was made dust and ashes
In his teeth because he had no one
With whom to SAVIOR IT.
For the woman VINO does not I'M
derstand-the woman who never
can UNDERSTANDINGS not always OF
the vampire type. She is oftenest
just the narrow, stupid, prejudiced
woman who can not see an inch be-
yond her nose, who can not COM
prehend a thing outside of her own
little range OF personal experiences,
and who can no more change her
point of view than the leopard can
change his spots.
1t is this woman that strips the
man who achieves ito his foolish
hide" to borrow Kipling's phrase,
and makes all that he has done Of
no account, so far as bringing him
any happiness Is concerned be-
cause she has not grown with his
growth, nor strengthened with his
strength she has sat supincly
down ard let him go forward while
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-19

Mississippi has an multiplying
law. Bills to this end are before
the legislatures of North Carolina
and Illinois. 1t ought not to be
considered an objectionable Of
Tense to suggest that here is a tip
for Georgia.
The Pryor street underpass
should be the first thing run
through the crematory,
D.
1t is rumored that Alabama is to
fight it's prohibition war all over
again. That Mexican thing will
have to hurry on 20 a finish, or it
may find itself CT wued out of the
limelight soon.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-19

The Florida Progress edition OF
The Jacksonville Times-UniOn is
an interesting exposition of the
great resources of Florida and of
it's thriving metropolis. Like
everything The Times-Union does
or is connected with. this Progress
edition is honest and sincere, de-
voted to the purpose indicated by
its title, and not as such publica-
tions sometimes are, a mere mon
ey-getting scheme which under the
pretense of public service would
strongarm advertisers into coop
Grafton and contribution. Mechan-
ically and artistically this edition
measures up TO a high and salts
factory standard.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-19

The newspapers OF the South
ought to give Cole Blease the ST.
lent treatment" observes The
Quitman Free Press. The treat
ment probably would be a brilliant
success, although the patient likely
would die.
At midnight, in his guarded tent
nowadays, the Turk is sitting up,
anxiously wondering how far il is
10 the next stop.
EN-Hou. Bailey. Of Texas. still
Insists upon being This nations
most persistent and most incense
Queuual gloom
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-19

A church society in Washington
will undertake to supply every
room for rent to inaugural visitors
with a Bible. Evidently the soci
ety's hope is that visitors may
not lose all their religion as they
pay their bills.
Imitation is the sincerest form
Of hattery. Macon has a real,
bang,up crematory row on its
hands,
70 Hagerstown, Md, military
company will be represented in the
inaugural parade by one private
Haeorstown will have one ON At
Hnta. a that
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-19
No Matter What Men Do Women
Should Not Smoke

Ii is distressing read that Bishop William Boyd Carpen-
ter Boston Massachusetts his solemn verdict
T.et smoke il men do.
lie says he ME- who smoke. OF
be does Nearly all nice But very much
nicer WHEN THEY DON'T SMOKE.
They are individuals nicer in health and the pros
pect is "nicer' for the generation to come.
smoking hurts women's unconstitutional it
does the The trouble that smoking hurts
NERVES. mdermue their vitality, and also although that
is less important destroys their looks.
we'll known that smoking produces hair the upper
p end of the redbeside destroying the
brightness of the womans eyes.
When the good Bishop says that long smoke
en- should smoke and that if find pleasure in
smoking wrong forbid that pleasure it shows that
he the time thinking about the work that really
have done.
Good Bishop did what the did instead of
setting good example and giving the children HALF chance
as they this world civilization would backward
with speed would discomfort and all the good bishops
and cergymen earth could not stop it.
YOU preach smoking. say to the women: BE
BETTER the Won have always been Sci
example always done: think OF the children and the
generation for which responsible and Of which
YOU the creator.
whisky tobacco. cheating lying stealing and cursng
the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-19
Bv DOROTHY DIX.

Turing this past winter there
- have been two interesting
and successful plays pre-
scented in New York that had for
their theme the trading of old
wives for new.
In each of these plays the hero
was a self-made man. He had be-
gun life as a poor boy of humble
social station, and by his own
brains and Drawn, and grit, and
determination he had worked him
self up to fame and fortune, 80 that
at middle life he sat among kings,
as it were. And in his climbing up
the ladder this man had educated
himself and had been educated by
life until he took his place among
the highest in the land as an equal.
He was fitted for the place he filled.
Each of these men had married a
girl of his own people when he was
very young. She had been de-
voted and faithful wife to him, and
in the stress of his beginnings had
toiled with him. She had washed
his clothes, and patched his trous-
ers, and cooked his dinners and had
been perfectly happy in doing so,
but she could not climb with him,
or she would not climb with him.
SO in the end she was left at the
bottom of the ladder, while he was
at the top, and the play resolved
itself around the mans effort to
find some answer to this common
and insoluble problem OF matri-
mony where one Of a couple out
grows the other.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-19
Wife of His Youth. /"

w nave phrase that describes
such a woman. We speak of her q,
the wife of his youth" In that is
the tragedy Of many a successful
mans life. The woman he is mar.
ried to is the wife Of his youth Sh.
is the wife of his callow immature.
ty. She is the wife Of his unedu.
Gated, unread, uncultivated youth
But at middle age he is no more
that crude, gawky, unlettered boy
than his immaculate broadcoth is
the blue denim of the overalls he
used to wear. He has worked and
studied, and improved and polished
himself in mind and body, and The
woman who has stayed just as she
was, who has not advanced an inch
in any way, and who was the wife
of his youth, is the wife of his ma.
turity in name only.
They have not one single thing in
common. not one taste, not one in.
terest. not one idea. and in the
pathos of their lot he is just as
much to be pitied as she.
Nay, more, for it is always the
one with the keener intellect. the
more far-seeing eye, that suffers
most. The grounding can. to
large extent. be satisfied with ma.
terial things, but the one who soags
aloft is tortured by the vision Of
what life might be in the rapture Of
a perfect companionship.
In all the world there is nothing
more terrible or more sorrow'l
than this development of one Of a
married pair. while the other Is
stunted. Nor is it always the hu'-
band that grows away from his
wife. Sometimes it is the woman
whose mind and heart get bigger
and broader, and wiser as the years
go by until she walks in green pa"
lures and on uplands. where aA
husband does not even attempt 70
follow her.
In such cases the woman who mas
outgroWn her husband clanks the
chains of her marriage, which
nothing but a bondage, after nee
just as does the man who mas oo''
grown his wife. She. too, kno"
the loneliness, and the drearih'''
Of q life in which husband ana why
speak different languages. have a''
ferent standards OF measurement
and look at life from the POM VI
view of aliens. She. too. SUPP y"
the huslls of affection and ar."''
of what the full meal might be VIII"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-19
an equal.
Their Bondage.

And the worst Of this trase"'
development is that it can no'
helped. nor remedied. the '' :,
that has the germ of grown q"
must unfold and attain Its tu'I $40,
ure. no matter whether 1t DINE
happiness or misery.
There are those who are 'o''
telling the dull wife Of the ''''' e,
man that she must strain 'e's' ,,
keep up With him Douht's,
is good advice. At least u '''.
bly, mitigates the situation .'
both. for they are equal -.'''
the calamity that b"i'..-
rlage In which either '1"
or tine wife outsrovs .'
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-19

Y IOU love your children, your
husband loves his business.
You like to stay at home and
read fairy stories to the little fell
lows, and he wants to go to the the
alter.
He loves dinners and luncheons
and parties. and you hate them.
Shall YOU leave this man and look
after your children yourself. just
because YOU are perfectly able TO
do so and don't want to be "humil-
lated" by what will look like his
neglect if you stay at home and let
him go sadding. as you call it?
Why, what a foolish woman-fool-
ish, foolish, short sighted. self
Willed, self centered.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-19
You Love Your Children.

OA hONC Jul Sllllu1 S1I.
You love your children, you say,
and yet you would throw them out
into the world without fathers
protection. What sort of love is
that. do tell US? Just puppy love,
the love all mothers, and some who
are not mothers, have, too, for all
young dependent things
You would rather be with your
children better than to be with any
one else YOU say. Fine, that's
good for both you and the children,
but don't think it is absolutely sure
what makes you rather
know people who prefer the So
ciety of their children to all 9TH
ers. not for any high and noble
reason at all; they just like to be
with people they can boss. that's
all.
Is there any Of that in your state
Of mind@
And why Go YOU nate dinners and
luncheons and affairs generally?
Tel me- true. is it because YOU do
not shine at such affairs and it
makes you unhappy to see other
women admired who DO?
Are You VeXed?
Come now, let's get at the root OF
this thing right now.
You may love your children. but
you certainly can't love that hus-
band of yours very much, or YOU
wouldn't be so ready to leave him
Why don't YOU love him?
Are you yeNed because he can not
be happy with YOU, and with you
alone?
DO you resent the fact that he
Graves other society occasionally?
AND. after am. your children VIII
al leave Nuu some GaY. Husband
! is tuo only one who even dreams VI
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-19

she stayed put, and because he 4,
bound to her hand and foot by the
most unbreakable fetter IN the
world-the fetter that is forged by
honor.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-04-18
UNIQUE WEAPONS OF WAR
Wooden Cannon Have Been Used
With Success In Modern Times by
West Indian Revolutionists.

Anyone familiar with the construc-
ton of modern weapons OF warfare
and the high explosives used in them
would naturally suppose a n
made Of wood would be of little OF no
value as a weapon.
Wooden have been used
with considerable success, neverthe-
tess, in recent revolutions in Cuba,
Haiti and in the Dominican republic.
The wood used in the construction
of these crude weapons is a very
tough variety. having a twisted grain
that curls about the log in such a way
that to split the timber with the or
binary means is almost impossible.
The best trees are selected, and a
piece of the log five or six feet in
length and about one foot in diameter
is cut. After the bark has been re-
moved and the log made round, it is
swung up on a crude truss and a hole
is burned into it from end. The
log is wound with strips of rawhide
cut from the skin of a steer. When
the cannon is covered with the strips
of hide, another layer is wound on,
and this is continued until the weapon
has increased several inches in diam
eter.
After the log is covered and the
bore is finished the weapon is treated
to a hot draft, which tends to con-
tract the hide binding and which be-
almost as strong as wire.
These crude have been
used with success in a number of in
stances, and it is astonishing the num-
Der Of times they may be fred before
they burst or become otherwise dis
abled.-Harper's Weekly.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-04-18
Costs Less Than a TWo-Cent
POS+ane-Stamn

An average of less than a cent and
a third a pair is paid for the use of all
our machines in making two-thirds Of
the shoes produced in the United
States-assuming that all our ma.
chimes are used. The most that can
be paid for the use of all u ma.
chimes in making the hfghest-priced
shoes is less than 5A cents a pair.
The average royalty on all kinds Of
shoes is less than 22-3 cents a pair.
From this we get our sole return for
the manufacture and use of the ma
chimes, for setting them up in facto-
ries and keeping them in order. You
pay two cents for q postage stamp or
a yeast-cake and five cents for a car
fare and don't miss it. Where do you
get more for your money than in buy.
ing a machine-made shoe?
Write us and we will tell you all
about it. The United Shoe Machinery
Company, Boston, Mass.-Adv.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-04-18
FRIENDS HELP.
St Paul Park Incident.

"After drinking coffee for breakfast
I always felt languid and dull, having
no ambition to get to my morning
duties. Then In about an hour or SO
a weak, nervous arrangement Of the
heart and stomach would come over
me with such force I would frequently
have to lie down.
Tea is just as harmful, because 1t
contains caffeine, the same drug found
in coffee.
AT other times / had severe head
aches; stomach finally became affect
ed and digestion SO impaired hat l
had serious chronic dyspepsia and
constipation. A lady, for many years
State President of the w. G. T. o.,
told me she had been greatly ben
Gifted by quitting coffee and using
Postum; she was troubled for years
with asthma. She said it was no
cross to quit coffee when she found
she could have as delicious an
article as Postum.
Another lady who had been tron-
bled with chronic dyspepsia for years,
found immediate relief on ceasing cot
fee and using Postum. Still another
friend told me that Postum was q
Godsend, her heart trouble having
been relieved after leaving OF coffee
and taking on Postum.
$50 many such cases came to my
notice that / concluded coffee was the
cause of my trouble and I quit and
took up Postum. I am more than
pleased to say that my days of trou-
BILE have disappeared. ! am well and
happy"
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, s.The Road to WellvfIle.
Ever read the above 1cftcr9 A HeW
pne appears from time to tfmesTAey
are genuine trues = fuu ~ huDnD
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-04-18
. Bearing Tree.

In Mexico grows a tree called the
Avocado. whose p~ear-shaped fruit IN
reputed to be composed Of the sub
stance which are to be found in meat.
1t contains about twenty per cent. OF
fat and many other ingredients OF
great food value. and one good-sized
"meat" pear is quite sufficient to make
Q meal for the average man.
The reaso why the fruit is SO little
known at present is because 1t 10
grown nowhere on q large scale. what
few trees there are grow round the
huts of the natives, where they -four
insh with little care and afford easy
meals for the indolent owners.
Cultivated on extensive lines 1t
might have an important bearing on
that serious subject. the high cost of
living.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-04-18
n We Saw the Beyond.

Now / do not for a moment believe
that, If those mysterious portals were
flung wide, and we could e without
hinderance all the secrets OF the great
beyond, we should necessarily be eth
er better or happier. On the contrary,
the probability is that. average hui
man nature being what 1t is. sacred
realities would be degraded to the or
binary levels Of the human intercourse
in this world; in our knowledge OF life
we cannot rise above what w are.
What is wanted is q certain quality Of
life itself which will carry with It the
assurance Of the nearness and sweet
ness of the best and highest in the
eternal kingdom Of love.