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The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-10-03
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be glad enough to get you. Not that
you'd be worth a boot in hell to them
in actual value But the fact that
you're the worthy son of your I'M
worthy matchmaking father wouio
make you welcome. Go ahead. Loru'
but | wonder what ever did IN the
old days to be punished by having
canting reformer for a son. WE'LL
why don't you go over to them?"
Just as you say" answered ION
with a phllosophic shrug OF the shoui-
ders. Good night" -,
Where are you of to. now!
grunted Blake indifferently' aipel'
there was a CLINT of usefulness IN the
half-shut, steely old eyes.
ITO the club. To dinner SAID lom'
moving away.
ITO the club, hey" growled Blake,
OBTAINING him. Huh! Afraid It'll
hurt your spotless reputation to be
seen dining here with a black
mailer%
You have positive genius for
choosing the rottenest, most disagree
able thing to say" remarked Tom;
and there was a note OF hurt IN MS
voice that somehow reached the far
hidden and tortuous recesses Wnere
lin Blake's battered old heart was
supposed to be.
well" vouchsafed the father
grumpily, maybe that was just tribe
swift. Look here, lad" he went on, a
soft, almost tender tone creeping into
his dry voice, as he laid his hand on
Toms shoulder, I'm the only father
you've got. And you may as well
make the best Of it,
You're the only father I want, dad
But"
There! There!" hastily admonish
ed Blake. Don't 60 spelling 1t WITH
'buts.' You know what you are to me
bow. | guess l don't need to get mush
headed and try to tell you. And-and,
he repeated, hiding his momentarA
tenderness under a cloud Of made-to
order Impotence. that's why | hate
to see you loading up your alleged
brain with these fool ideas about"
Let it 60 at that, dad" laughed
Tom.
"Oh, all right. will, if you like
And you'll stay to dinner"
why, of course" quickly assente'
Tom.
That's better" approved Blake
Now, run in and start with Mark
I'll be with you in minute or two
And-say-if Mark and | should &c
4 to talking politics at dinner"
Don't worry" returned Tom, smi
ing. I'm getting quite used to m
auzzle. But Mark won't be as likel
to be wrapped up in politics as he u:
: ually is. Grace is coming down"
moi" cried Blake, his face aligf
t with pleasure. Good for her! When?
AT eight o'clock. But she didn
!. bother to mention whether 1t We
4 eight this evening or eight t
morrow morning. Mark was just G
Y ing to call her up on long distance
n find out, when we happened to me-
). Standish. And / suppose the prospe
J. of a clash with Standish quite dro'
s a minor matter like his wife out Of b
a thoughts"
O You're wrong there" dissent'
Blake. There's nothing on ear
d can drive Grace out Of Mark Robe
e sons head. He's as crazy in love Wi
Is her as he was the day ne marri
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-10-03

cot him here inside Of five m'p Good.
s gn n noi' Do Do as say. tell YOU '00N
by" .,xor rose and
sto ng h 1ouastng against the rail- ,0 1is
ing down at Wanda from 0e'"
half-closed lids. Ia hogan
abruptly. ,,+orrogated
yes" Mr.. Blake" she 'h'e''''
as he paused
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-10-03

It is a waste of time to whitewash
q character that could not be saved 0y
thick enamel.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-10-03
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Naturally Limited

Naturally Limited.
HE won't go far even when mes
pushed"
That's because he's such PIN
head"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26

West interviewed the members of
a graduating class Of girls in a
great school yesterday, and out Of
thirty girls, twenty-four said
that they hoped they would not
have to marry. Marriage was
narrowing and cramping, they
said.
Driftwood, driftwood! From
what strange tides does it come
these days! The bees-oh, yes
that's what mean.
The bees have arranged all
this affair Of the feminine upris-
ing-arranged it years and years
ago.
The queen bee rules. She
breeds the young, divides the
hive into workers and drones.
There is no mingling of the two
classes at all. One bee is to gath
er honey, one is selected to found
the future of the hive. When his
work is done, out he goes. Is
that what we are coming to, we
humans, some day?
VIII there be home women and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
SONG OF THE GOOD
ROAD
BIZ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1913, by A merican- Journal Exasnin

AM Road; a good road, fair and smooth and broad;
And link with my beautiful tether
Town and Country together
Like a ribbon rolled the earth from the reel of God
Oh, great the life of a Road
l am a Road; long road, leading and on;
And l cry to the world to follow,
Past meadow and hill and hollow,
Through desolate night, to the open gates of dawn
Oh, bold the life of a Road
I Road; kind road, shaped by strong hands.
make strange cities neghbors;
The poor grow rich with my labors,
And beauty and comfort follow me through the lands
Oh, glad the life of a Road!
I Road; a wise road, knowing all mems ways;
And 1 know how each heart reaches
For the things dear Nature teaches;
And 1 am the path that leads into green young Mays
oh, sweet the life of a Road
I a Road; and speed away from the slums,
Away from desolate places,
Away from unused spaces;
Wherever / go, there order from chaos comes.
Oh brave the life of a Road
l a Road; and would make the whole world one.
I would give hope to duty,
And cover the earth with beauty
Do you see, Oh men how all this might be
SO vast the power of the Road
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
She Likes to Work.

A clever writer married a clev-
er business woman a week or so
ago. and he told his friends and
hers that he did not expect her
to give up her business to stay at
home for him.
"She likes to work" he said.
why should I take It upon my
self to deny her her own life?
Women are something more than
the echo of men"
In a high school out West they
find that the average height of
the high school graduate is low
ering for the boys and heighten-
ing for the girls
The boy babies born at the
great public hospital in Boston
to-day are one inch shorter on
the average than they were ten
years ago. The girl babies are
nearly an inch taller than they
were ten years ago and weigh.
on an average almost a pound
more
A newspaper in the Middle
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
Are We Coming to the Bee Idea of Life

work women, home men and
work men, divided quite definite
ly into classes like the bees
each having his own special mis-
sion in life, and never dreaming
of interfering with any other in
any way?
Career" Women.
Mother womep and career
women, work women and beauty
women, men workers and men
home makers, how else shall we
manage this affair of the woman
who will not live as her husband
wishes-else deal with the man
who thinks that a woman should
follow him wheresoever he lists
to go, and howsoever he intends
to do when he gets there? Buzz,
buzz! How do you think Of the
bee idea, brother philosophers?
The drift, the drift! How
pleasant it is to stand in the sun
shine at the ships rail and watch
it slipping by, and speculate and
dream, and hope, and wonder.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
Garrett P. SerViss
Writes on
A Trip to the Moon

He Gives Reasons Why 1t Can
Not Be Made by Aeroplane,
But Says 1t Might Be Made
With the Aid of nter-Atomic
Energy.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26

raphy in the common schools
from globes. While in London
and Paris they were practicing
and protesting to cure mems
Ills through the agency of
charms, trinkets and incanta-
tions, in the great Mesopotamian
capital they were treating the
sick upon the principles Of
science and common sense.
SO famous was Al Raschid,s
medical school at Bagdad tbas
the great and mighty Char
lemagne issued a decree thar No
man should practice medicine in
his dominions without first hav-
ing passed satisfactory exani-
nation before the Bagdad facul-
ty. And tn old Mohammedar's
heart was as sound as his minc.
for be 1t remembered that at tha
time Charlemagne was using
fire and sword against all who
would not, or could not. accent
the theological beliefs he hak
sworn to champion. Haroun All
Raschid was doing all he could
TO protect Charlemagne's sub.
jects in the full exercise of their
religion.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
A F inc Old Heather
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

VUTONDERFUL in a far more
w useful way than we find
it described in the sara
bian Nights" was the fine old
heather known as Haroun AL
Raschid, who died eleven hun
dred and four years ago.
In a time of intense bigotry
and cruelty he was tolerant and
merciful. In an age of blacklist
ignorance and brutal indiffer-
ence to every form of intellec-
tual enlightenment. he was
deeply interested in learnings,
and employed every aid at his
command for the elimination Of
the superstition that was sitting
like an incubus upon the breast
Of humanity.
While Christian Europe lay in
the shadow of its seemingly ir-
remediable ignorance, Bagdad
was cultivating the sciences out
of which was to come the worlds
mental resurrection. While the
Christian teachers were assert
ing the flatness os the earth the
Mohammedan doctors of Bag
dad and Cordoya. Seville and
Alexandria were teaching geog-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
Only Beginning.

That is high authority for be-
lieving that we are only just be-
ginning to discover the extent Of
our control over nature, and such
things as wireless telegraphy. x
ray photography and the disin-
tegration of atoms, with conse-
quent unlocking of tremendous
concealed energy, prove that hith-
erto we have been like the man
who buried his talents in the
earth instead of making them
produce ten or a hundred fold.
Suppose we look at the sub
ject of visiting the moon in the
light Of present knowledge. The
distance in itself is nothing
100000 milesl Many a sea cap
tain has sailed much farther than
that It is less than ten times
the circuit Of the earth.
If the atmosphere extended
from the earth to the moon, we
could go there now by modifying
our present apparatus. At a
hundred daysl But at a height
Of five or six miles the atmos-
phere becomes so rare that we
could not live in It without an ar
tificial supply. Yet unnamed
balloons have gone ten miles
high, and meteors take fire from
friction at an elevation of hun
bred miles or more.
Still the atmosphere does prac-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26

WITHIN a few weeks past
w have been asked to
address two different
aeronauticaI societies on the Gu
rious subject of the possibilities
Of a trip to the moon.
As far as l am aware this does
not indicate an intention on the
part of any aviator to essay a
voyage to our satellite, but, at
least, it shows that the flying in
stinct is growing by what 1t feeds
upon, and that. having navigated
the air, practical men are giving
a little extra rein to their imagi-
nations, and wondering whether
the empire of birds marks the Ill
innate frontier of human con-
quest.
In fact, the dream of going to
the moon, which, in every age,
has occupied daring minds, is
hardly more impracticable at the
present time than would have
been a project, sprlnging up in the
mind of Balboa, of making ships
sail across from the Atlantic to
the great Western ocean which
he saw from his paak in Darien.
But It is not the invention of
either the aeroplane or the dirig-
ible balloon that stimulates
thoughtful minds at the present
time to consider, half-seriously,
the idea of a lunar voyage. The
success of those inventions, defy
ing scientific predictions and
probabilities, only forms an In
centive. It turns mems minds
hopefully to things that hereto
fore they have regarded as lying
beyond the limits of human pow
er.
1t has always been so. Every
great advance has been a mar
vel at the beginning, derided or
laughed at. Each one of them
has been a victorious birth of the
imagination. The greatest drag
on progress is lack Of faith in the
hidden capacities of man.
Verify say unto you, If We
have faith, as a grain of mustard
seed, We shall say unto this noun
tain: Remove hence to yonder
place and it shall remove; and
nothing shall be impossible unto
you"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26

fined If you give shelter food,
employment or even a word of
encouragement to a wife who
has left his bed and board with
out HIS permission, no matter
what II was he did that made
her go.
A great artist went with his
wife to see her Off on a long trip
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26

the other day. Yes" said the
artist to the reporters, Il hate to
see her go, but she has chosen the
stage for her vocation. Who am
I, to stand in her way? She is a
human being first Of all, you
know" and no one was particu-
larry surprised to hear him say
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
By GARRETT P. sERVIss.

tically cease to exist at no very
great elevation, and cuts short
off the road of the balloon and the
aeroplane.
We must turn to something
else. The buoyant force Of air
enables us to overcome the
gravitative attraction of the
earth only up to a moderate
height. Beyond that something
more is needed. have learned
with surprise that many intelli-
gent persons suppose tnat If we
once got outside the air motion
would be unimpeded. For in
stance, a man said to me the
other day:
Suppose an aeroplane could
mount straight up until it passed
the limits of the atmosphere,
then having nothing more to inn
peds its motion, it would go on
with whatever velocity it had
when it left the air."
In fact, this could only occur
in case the velocity of the aero
plane amounted to nearly seven
miles per second. for that veloc-
ity would be required to COM
pletely overcome the pull of the
earth's attraction. Otherwise 1t
would fall back to the EARTH
This is the reason why Jules
Verne, in his amusing story of
"A Voyage to the Moon" had his
Adventures shot out of an enor-
nous cannon. Only in that way,
he thought, could the requisite
initial velocity be obtained.
A Bold Plan.
But a bold mind might, IN view
Of recent discoveries, Speculate
on the illimitable power that may
be obtained from unlocking the
energies Of the atoms of matter.
Professor Thomson has calcu-
lated that a single gram of hy-
drogen has within 1t sufficient
energy to lift a million tons a
hundred yards high! Does any
body imagine that that unlimited
store of energy is going forever
to remain uncontrolled by human
genius? We have discovered its
existence; the next thing is TO
take it and use it.
Suppose we had it under con-
troll, as we shall have it some
time. Then reflect upon the close
relation between atomic phe-
nomena and electricity, and re-
call the familiar experiment of
making bits of pith fly away
from an electrically charged ball.
If we could construct some kind
of car that could be powerfully
charged with electric energy we
might be able to make 1t fly
away from the earth as the pith
balls fly from the charged con-
ductor Of the electric machine.
The Problem Solved.
Then it would be necessary to
establish a system of control by
which the speed and direction
could be regulated by varying the
charge-AND THE PROBLEM
OF NAVIGATING SPACE
WOULD BE SOLVED. I have
developed this ( of course purely
hypotheticaD idea somewhat far
Their in a story called "A Column
bus Of Space"
Such a method would avoid all
the difficulties, really insuper-
able, that hampered Jules
Verne's plan Of a projectile start
ing at velocity Of almost seven
miles per second.
However when we get the
atomic energies under control our
first efforts will be directed to
making more money out of them.
and trips to the moon will only
begin to pay after we have got
tired Of purely earthly things.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
The Railroads and the Public
A Letter from Mr. Ivy L. Lee, of the Pennsylvania
LCorlrght

The Georgian and the other Hearst newspapers published
to protect the public the fact that protect the
public thoroughly ALL legitimate workers must be protected
big men little men, ditch dggers railroad builders street
pedder department thinkers and big industrial organi
cations
Criticism of big and able because they happen to be
rich and intelligent stupid and harmful to the public wei
fare as would be attacks unjust treatment Of little men be-
cause they happen to be poor and badly organized
We publish gladly letter which presents the side of the
railroads in an important public question.
The PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY
Broad Street Station.
Lie
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
The Wonderful Bee.


The beetle wonderful bee
no wonder Napoleon chose him
for his emblem.
Is that what we are all coming
to-some day wonder-the bee
system of living?
Every once in a while I see
something in the news that
makes me think so. 1t is q great
thing to watch-the daily news of
this great, strange. simple. com
pick world of ours.
The sailors on the ship that
Columbus brought across the wide
waters spent days standing at
the rail watching for the DRIFT OF
eaters, and now and then they
found hope of land in the broken
branch that floated on the silent
sea and now and then some
strange bright feather that rose
and fell on the waves told their
hopeful hearts OF bright lands
beyond, where the bird that wore
the feather waited singing in a
spreading tree to welcome their
coming.
Driftwood tells strange tales
sometimes.
That's what the news is
driftwood-telling stories. old
stories that sometimes makes the
human hair rise and that turns the
blood cold in the veins of the one
who watches by the rail to see
the drift come by.
Now, there's that little item in
the paper this moning-the one
about the Judge who told the
man that he could not make his
wife follow him 10 a farm, and
he could not divorce her because
she did not follow.
She hates country life" said
the Judge. You cannot force
her 10 live it. She has the same
right to decide where she wants
TO live as you have" Drift, drift
from strange shores, is that de-
Cision.
l wonder how they would think
Of it in North Carolina, where a
man can have you arrested and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
By wINIFRED BLACK.

HAVH You ever read Nastsr-
lincks marvellous story of
the bees?
Nor
Go to the library and get It this
very day. You can't afford to
live another twenty four hours
without knowing that book!
Every time you see a bee in the
garden afterward you'll feel like
standing, hat In hand, and watch
ing him fly by.
Talk about man the reasoning
animal" the bee reasons so much
better and so much more closely
than man that he makes US all
seem like little blind, laundering
beetles booming around in the
sunshine, not knowing where we
are going or what we are trying
TO do.
Evening journal., 1913-02-21
MORE FIREMEN In
RELIEF ASSOCIATION

Thirty candidates we're elected to
membership in the Wilmington volun-
teer Firemen's Association last night.
Fire in King store under the rooms
OF the organization served to damage
the second floor Of the firemen's
quarters and they met last night on
the third floor Aside from the cleo
tion OF the new members only routine
business was transacted.
The new members are: James j.
Lee, Griffith Smith, Charles Smith.
Charles Melchoir. ]. Rebman, Curtis
Riley, Edward Corson. j. Houghten,
John Allen, William Condor. H. J.
Collins. Harry Derry, William Hig-
gins, r. J. Fahey. Harry NJ. Wiley,
Daniel w Maloney, Alfred Hooper,
George w. Maxwell James J. Patter-
son, Dennis S. Haley. Harold W.
Kirby. James y. Lynn. William Kelly,
Jr.. Joshua Kelly, II. c. Vanderbrack.
n. j. Hemphill, Louis Sines, Edward
Gipp, William E. Ginder and oscar f.
Hcmphill
Evening journal., 1913-02-21
WANT CARS ON
RTrAITu CTnrrT
NINIH SlNLLI
City Council Holds In Abey-
ance Request That Would
Make Line Possible

Members OF City Council, following
the regular meeting Of that body last
night gave a hearing to a delega-
tion OF representatives OF the Della
ware State Fair Association on bill
the association has sent to the Legis-
laturo amending an act which pro
hibits the laying Of railway tracks
in West Ninth street
The association desires the approval
Of City Council to the bill, and for
that reason appeared before the mem-
bers last night. 1t is proposed under
the amendment, should it pass. to re-
quest the Wilmington and Philadel-
phla Traction Company to extend its
West Eighth street line to the fair
grounds, one square west on Eighth
street 10 Grant avenue, thence TO
Ninth street. and thence two squares
west on Ninth. II Is pointed out
that because OF the locality OF the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad there, no
houses will ever be built on that por-
tion OF Ninth street No decision
was reached, the matter going over
for further consideration.
H. T. Wallace president OF the as
sociation. and Sylvester ID. Townsend
were in the delegation.
Evening journal., 1913-02-21
COMPANY ASSUMES
THE ROLE OF A PARENT

The teacher o. private kindergar-
ten was introducing a new pupil to
her classmates. The four year old
tot had lisped her age and answered
various questions.
Nov Dorothy" asked the teacher,
Tell us who is your father"
MY papa Is a trust company" was
the astonishing reply Although the
announcement sounded somewhat ir-
revelant the subsequent explanations
by a maiden aunt, who had accom-
panied the child to the kindergarten,
proved that it was literally true
My niece is an orphan" explained
the aunt to the teacher Both her
parents met death in a railroad acct
dent and she was the sole heir to a
considerable fortune When the will
was opened It was found that the en-
tire estate had been placed in trust
and that the income was to be given
to the survivors. There was no other
provision. But the trust company OBJ
tanned papers of guardianship over
Dorothy and ! am carrying out its
instructions both as TO the bringing
up and education Of my niece. The
trust officer has been both father and
mother to her and that is perhaps
how she got the idea that her father
is a trust company"
Another interesting instance is re-
lated by the officers OF one Of the
trust companies in this city who says:
Evening journal., 1913-02-21

Several years ago the newspapers
of this city gave considerable public
ity to the death Of one OF our wealth
lest citizens who was a widower and
his only heir was 12-year-old daugh-
ter. That young lady is now attend
inging private boarding school for
girls near Washington, ID. c. But she
doesn't know that when she arrives
at the legal age that there is a for
tune of over half a million dollars
waiting for her. In her fathers will
there we're strict iniunctions that we
should administer his estate. attend to
the daughters education along strict
ly religious lines and under no cir
cumstances disclose either to her or
any one that she was an heiress. Her
fathers design was two-fold. One
was to bring the girl up in such
way as not to be spoiled by too much
money or attention; the other was to
keep her free from possible or de-
signing suitors until such a time as
she would have judgment of her own.
We have never revealed anything to
the young lady and when she finally
receives her fortune she will receive
not only a half million. which was
the value Of the original estate, but
upward of seven hundred thousand
dollars, because of the enhancement
of the value Of certain property and
the returns from good investments
which we made as executor and trus-
tee of the estate"