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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
Queer Sleepwalking Stunts

for one of her patrons, but the re-
suit was so disappointing that she
was driven TO the verge of despair.
One night she left her bed, put
on her dressing gown and, taking
a mirror with her, went to her
studio, where she worked with fe-
verish haste for some hours Her
husband awakening. missed her,
and, going in search of her, found
her in the studio, but was afraid to
wake her
The following morning the lady
was considerably astonished to find
her task completed with skill
which she had never attained be-
fore. She had. as she said, when
her husband told her the truth.
painted far better in her sleep than
awake!
Almost more remarkable is an
other case which was brought to
my notice last year. An author had
been requested to write an article
on a very difficult subject. He tried
again and again, and each time
with such poor results that he flung
his manuscript on the fire At last
he was obliged to confess to the
editor that the task was beyond
him.
A few days later he was amazed
to receive a note from the editor
thanking him in most compliment
tary terms, for the very article he
had been unable to write.
Naturally he thought the editor
was joking. But no such thing. on
going to the office the mysterious
article was produced in his own
handwriting and. as he confessed.
1t was quite the best piece of work
he had ever done. He had no reCol-
lection whatever Of having written
IT,. and there is no doubt that he
must not only have written it hut
posted II in his sleep
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
The Man Out of Work


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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04

responsible party so as to plead
ones Case-all this is what Sher-
man called war, and in capital let
ters, too.
If | ever turn philanthropist on a
large scale, I'll form an employ
ment bureau to be run on humane
lines, for nothing is more worth
doing than to give a willing man a
chance to earn an honest living.
Those who have never known the
bitterness of polishing pavements,"
those who have never had to put
themselves in the QUITO works
place, those who have never been
made to feel how useless and I'M
wanted piece of machinery they
may become in the eyes of the
world, can not even dimly realize
how bottomless the slough of de-
spair can prove. When turned
down day after day, week after
week, usually with scant ceremony.
and oftentimes with cruel brutality
human nature begins to look a mis-
cradle despicable affair and the
world a heartless joke. The hours
the long, idle hours-drag pain
fully They bring nothing but
deeper and still deeper brooding-
oh. yes, they never stop bringing
thoughts, dull, black. bitter. calling
ones that thump upon one another
and make of a fellows head a foun-
dry and a furnace
Gloomy, narrowing stuff. all this.
isn't it? Well, it is not written
for fun. 1t is not written simply
TO fill a column 1t is not writ
ten to plunge any QUITO work
deeper into the mlre of distress
1T is written because there is
grave danger that the experience of
my friend may become the expe-
rience of many thousands of Amer
leans before this year is out unless
those upon whom the task of gov
eminent has fallen proceed to dis
charge their duties with full
sense of the responsibility attach
ing to their acts, To throw able
bodied men out of work by the hun
dreds of thousands is not the best
way to solve the nations problems.
\ hundred thousand hungry men
were an unthinkable menace To the
peace and stability of the republic.
u should he unnecessary to say
more
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04

WYE are all more or less ia
w miliar, said a well known
brain specialist, with the
ordinary cases of sleep walking,
which are probably as old as hui
manity itself. But the startling
forms it has taken in recent years
are as little known to the public at
large as they are mysterious and
uncanny even 10 men ike myself,
whose business it is to study the
vagaries of the brain.
These new and amazing mani
festations of somnambulism are
probably the result of the severe
strain put on the brain by the al
most ceaseless high pressure at
which it has to work; but. what
ever the cause, il is a fact that
there are hundreds of people today
who often do in their sleep. while
absolutely unconscious, all and
even more than they can do when
awake.
Only last week a lady came to
consult me about her son, whose
doings were causing her great
alarm. He is young painter of
considerable promise, and is en-
gagged on a picture for next years
Academy.
Night after night his mother told
me, ne would leave his bed. dress,
go to his studio and paint away at
his canvas for hours at time. and
every morning ne would be'amazed
al the progress Of his picture and
the good work that had mysterious
ly been put into IT, He had no
recollection whatever of having
done the work himself. and refused
TO believe his mother when at last
she yentured to tell him The truth.
IN another case lady artist of
my Acquaintance had been commits
stoned TO paint "a portrait vi herself
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
The Luddite War
BY REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

TINE Luddite war, so called
from the fact that it was be-
gun by a weak minded fell
low named Ned Lud. met it's Wa
terloo January 20. 1872.
Ned Lud and Napoleon Bona
parte, though separated by the
whole diameter of things intellec-
tual, the one being almost an idiot
and the other a mental colossus,
were both engaged on a FOOLS er-
rand, Lud in attempting to stop the
progress of mechanical science and
Napoleon in fighting against the
forward march of modern democ-
racy. Ned met his fate as above
mentioned, and three years later
Napoleon met his
Ned was one of the original
"standpatters." He had no use for
''progressives" of any sort. The
old Guard" and the "old ways
We're good enough for him. Conse-
quently when certain rattle
Drained insurgents came to. Not
tingham with their machines for
spinning and weaving cotton, Ned
raised the war whoop and began
smashing them.
Ned's idiOcy instantly became
contagious, and soon all over the
surrounding region the spinners
and weavers We're breaking up and
burning frames and machinery.
From Nottingham the disturbance
spread into Yorkshire and Lanca-
shire. and soon involved all the
northern and midland counties of
England Machines were DESTROYED
wherever found Manufactures
Ncre burned down, and In the riot
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
By B. c.. FORBES.

he could hold his own. in the battle
of life-that his services were
worth hiring. He may even have
imagined that his departure from
his previous place of employment
would leave a little gap, whereas
everything had gone on as If he
had never existed.
To be an outcast in the labor
market first challenges and then
often kills pride, confidence, self
respect To be wanted by no one,
Stunned by all; to have door after
door slammed in ones face; to be
refused even the opportunity of
speaking to the foreman or other
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04

ing many people were killed,
The Luddites had become a pow
err to be reckoned with, a menace
that it would not do to ignore
Parliament was aroused, the caOi'
net was forced TO postpone its NE"
and mighty meditations long
enough to listen to the story OF lHs
Luddite menace, and lords anu
commons. suddenly getting the"
heads together, began grinding o"'
the severest of repressive legls'a'
ton. 1t may be interesting TO ho''
in passing, that it was in conhe~,
ton with this legislation that Ly''
Byron delivered his first speech "
the house Of lords.
But while the noble lords "'.s
busy making laws against the 'o'.
dites, the destruction Of machine
went on. and the fanatica busln'S
was finally put down only pA iH'-
tary force. General Lud ana Sr'
eral of his right-hand men were t."
ecuted, and the opposition to l ma.
chinery became in England i''"7
of the past.
BY and by prosperity ieNI's'
those who had lost their jobs oy Wv
coming in of the machines iouD3
something to do in other lines, '''
the generation following the LU,
dite war amused themselves ih ~.
midst of their improved coh1'".
with laughing over the .Eho, ,.f
fanaticism of the fathers
Lud and Napoleon Bonapai'' "
failed. and in both instau.
failure meant the advanetA"
the economic and polit'na. .' '
of AN mankind,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
Powers of Self-Discovery.

Think of Richard Arkwright
(who by his invention of cotton
spinning machine revolutionized
the industry of England), born in
extreme poverty unable to 60 to
school, winning his bread az
barber until he was 80 years old
and at last becoming one of the
famous men of history.
Then remember Abraham Lin.
coin. What was HIS environment
In Miss Tarbell's Life of Lincoln"
you will see that, instead of going
to school, he had to educate him
self by lying down in front Of a
cabin fireplace and burning prairie
"spicewood" to light his few books,
If ever a man carved out his own
fortune, Lincoln did
No doubt it is true, as Professor
Conkl1n says, that what rs needed
in education more than anything
else is some means, or system
which will train the powers Of self
discovery and self control BY bet
ter educational methods we could
help those who are hampered by
adverse circumstance to overcome
their difficulties. But this kind Of
help should never be regarded as
staff to lean upon. The example Of
such men as Lincoln proves that
man can bend circumstances If le
will, and that, to the right sort Of
spirit, obstacles are merely incen'
tives.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
Forced His Genius to Work.

VI NNW LAIo OOA1INb 10 w OI IA
Think of the great scholar, Eras-
of his age, a poor student in Paris,
clothed almost in rags. writing to a
friend: CAS- soon as 1 get money l
will buy first Greek books and then
clothes" There was to be no
mute righteousness about him sim
ply because opportunity did not
knock at his door.
Turn to DIR. Samuel Johnson. the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-04
Not a Slender Chance.

He revives the old teaching about
the mute, inglorious Milton" and
the Village Hampdens," whom the
poet Gray imagined t0 be sleeping
everywhere in unhonored graves,
because circumstances. such as
poverty, or lack of education, or
want OF opportunity, prevented the
display of their genius. He speaks
of the dreadful tragedy" that is
involved in the loss of real per-
sonalities who have all the native
endowments of genius and leader
ship, but who for lack of proper en-
vironmental stimuli have remained
undeveoped and unknown" And
he talks also of the slender
chance" that made a Newton, a
Faraday and a Pasteur.
For my part, do not think that
it was a slender chance, or any
chance at all that made these men,
or any Otner great man. No doubt
we often see men of admirable in
telleCtual gifts who do not succeed,
but the reason is because these men
are not COMPLETE. They are not
endowed with, or they have not ac-
quired by effort, the will power
which must supplement intellectual
gifts if great success is to be won
Let us consider a few instances
from history. Benjamin Franklin
is an admirable example. Read his
autobiography, one of the most in
spring books in the world and
then say. if you can, that his sue
cess was not due to the fact that
he grappled with poverty and lack of
opportunity, and by sheer grit over
came them. HIS genius could not
be buried in an unhonored grave
because HE WOULD NOT HAVE
IT so.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-10-16
MILLIONS IN BONDS
MONTH OF SEPTEMBER SHOWED
ISSUES OF ROAD BONDS IN TEN
As TO AMOUNT OF 50 o ,00G.
Especial to The UerdlH.)

Fort Worth, Texas. Oct. 1G.-Accord
ing t. the monthly highway report OF
the Texas Commercial Secretaries and
Business Mems Association bonds az
g:cgating in value $J.GG0 600 have been
issued Tor highway improvement since
January LIST, this year. to date. Flee
tons which viii probably be held be
fore the close Of the present year have
been petitione,l and the total cm0unt in
rolyed is $500 eco. 1t is pr3bable that
by the close cf the year seven and enc
half million Gollars VIII have bcci np-
prcpriated foC highway maintenance ant'
improvement in Texas.
During the month Of september. nine
road bond elect rs were held in Texas
and MI but two were favorable. The
amount IF bonds Issued during the month
WaS tJ:IJ.0e0. The elections that secure
the nncccS9ry two +hir's maioriiv ~nt"
wore: Calhorn $4,000. Irion. $4,000,
~ est = t':-r G(N ,ycii ck. SO coo. MI
" .t"1cm r inf, S10A 0aa. Waller.
:!ICG0. i %..0C00 Issue WIS tcfeat(d IL
VI ntGomcry County and the Voters o
y 't~ rGa Co~lty rC;Ccl IN i;eu" an"
50 eco.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-10-16
BUILDING PERMITS
Total OF $40 J0O.GNO SINCE JANU-
AIRY FiRST-UALLAS AND HOUS.
TON LEADERS.
Especial to The Uerdld.)

Fort Worth, Texas. Oct. 16.-Notwith-
standing the heavy rains which fell in
practically every section Of the State
during the month. rctarding all con
StructiOn activities to a large extent.
Ullolng permits aggrcgating &1.3JS2 DID
in value were issued in the principal
lies of Texas during September accord
ne + the Texas Progress Report com
piled monthly by the Texas Commercial
Secretaries and Business Mems ASSOcia-
ton. THIS amount practically maintains
the record cstablishediin recent previous
months.
Dallas led all other cities in total
amount OF permits issued. having grant
ed building licenses to the amount If
'fG9.923 III September, Houston is sec
ond with 4 total OF &:i561oO and San
Antonio third with %1G5 51S. Dallas a..
"l in August. while Waco was second
and san Antonio third.
Since january LIST, this year, build
ing permits with a total f approximately
Tl9,IN0 GOO have been issued in the nine
principal cities Of Texas. Dallas leads
with 4 total of IS 100000 and Houston
takes second rank.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-10-16
SNAKE CATCHING
CONTEST AT FAIR
UNIQUE AND THRILLING SPECTA-
Gle OF MEN CATCHING DEAD
LY REPTILES WILL BE STAGED
AT BROWNSVILLE.
PRIZES WILL BE OFFERED AND
SNAKES GALORE FURNISHED
FOR CATCIIERS TO C.ATCII.-pRE-
MUM LIST APPROVED.

A snake catching contest will be held
during the next Midwintcr Fair. January
Ito IL, and all who desire to enter are
urged to senl their names in early, as
the list will probably be Unite to i GER
tain number. The directors Of the Mid
winter fair association. at a meeting yes
ferday afternoon, approved the idea of
no ding the contest during the fair. and
will offer prizes that will b. worth going
after.
The snake. catching contest will be hrld
pr0bab y as outlinci 4 few DAYS ago in
The Herald and the g h~r mlticr< frr
its conduct VII be lru"lcl ~io'ntIy d.
Manager !. 6. Perkins O. the fir IN
w. A. King If the Snak" flrm.
Snake King has already announced as
a contestant for hGnorS in This cXhih-
ton he still challenges he vor ! vith
one exception King now SAYS that hc
bars his wife. or rather that he would
not enter Il contest with her. However.
he will enter aga INST 4 team o. two per
sons, his wife to be his partner.
The directors of the fair association
also approved the list of premiums to
be offered during the next exhibition. as
prepared by Manager Perkins. \ few
changes wore made. The list of premiums
will be turned over ia the printers Of the
Midwinter Fair News so work can be in
progress in setting them up in type.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-10-16
o n

Hon. John. Barrett Director General
Owens. Managing Director of the South
ern Commercial Congress have returned
to Washington after touring the South
to rOuse interest in the opening of the
Panama Canal and the fifth annual con
ventiOn of The Southern Commercial
Congress to be held at Mobile, Alabama.
October 27-c9, this convention being an
international celebration of the opening
Of the canal to world commerce.. The
theme of the convention will be: The re-
lation of the Panama Canal to the Uni
ted States. to Latin America and to world
commerce.
Mr.. Barrett and DR.. Owens visited ev-
cry Drincipa city of the south and were
greeted with immense audiences and
great enthusiasm. The South is fully
awake To the possibilities of the great
trade expansion that will follow the OPP
cning of the canal, declared Mr.. Barrett
today. DR.. Owens said that i'm every SOU
thern city the business men are prepar-
ing to take advantage of the expansion
with will occur when the canal opens,
and that thousands of these business
leaders will attcm. the Mobi e convcn-
lion.
Governors Of the various states visit
cd presided ut most o. the mass meetings
held in the capital cities of the sixteen
Southern States. and the addresses If
Mr.. Barrett and DR.. Owens were heard
~ great audiences throughout the south.
The Speakers left Washington on Sep
TENDER 10th and returned here October
9Th. They visited Richmond. Raleigh. Col
umbia. Atlanta. Jacksonville. Birmina-
ham, Montgomery. Mobile, New Orleans,
Houston. Galveston. Jackson. Little
Rock Memphis, Nashville. Knoxville.
Duncan Z. Fletcher, Of Florida. presi.
dent of the Southern Commercial Con
gress, who spoke on Southern Commerce.
al Congress Day at the National COnser-
vation Exposition.
DIR. Owens is just now finishing
the details of the Mobile convention and
the Pan American Union is cooperating
with The Southern Commercial Congress
in the convention work, Director General
Barrett Will attend the fifth annual
convention.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-10-16
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1913.

II promised to pay plaintiff the sum of
money in said notes specified together
with all interest and attorneys fees due
thereon according to the tenor and effect
thereof; said notes being given for part
of purchase price on the following de-
scribed real estate; situated in The Conn
ty of Cameron, in the State of Texas to
wit; out of share - of the Espirit.l
Grant j. s. De la Cara original grantee
and being block 20 containing 10 acres
and > II acres out of Block % according
to j. w. Davis survey map and plat OF
the RentfrO and Male subdivision of the
Media Luna tract as of record on page
Il of ok / Map Records of Cameron
County. Texas; that said property was
heretofore tO-wit On the Doth day of Jan
uary, 1909, conveyed by plaintiff to de
PENDANT, by his deed of writing of that
date, in consideration. among other things
of the two notes herein described and
that in said Iced IF conveyance a lien
was retained thereon to secure the pay.
ment of said notes: that both of said
notes are due and unpaid, and defendant,
thouSH u INIuCSttO. HIS ldlltu anu TT
fused and still fails and refuses to pay
said notes. or any part thereof. but the
same remain still due and unpaid.
That said notes have been placed in the
hands OF Graham, Jones West & Dancy
attorneys. for c lection and plaintiff has
contracted to pay them the ten per cent
attorneys fees stipulated herein. the same
being reasonable and the usual and Gus.
tGmary fee.
That on to-wit July 18th 1917, and since
the original filing of this suit j. :. bod
sol one of the defendants. has paid TO the
plaintiff herein the sum of Two Hundred
t$20O.0O) dollars which has been duly
credited on said notes. the sum of One
Hundred $1,000 Dollars applied on each
of said notes respectively: That defend
ants James B.. Conway and j. S. DOdson
are asserting some kind or character of
claim in and to the premises hereinbe.
fore described the nature and extent of
which is to this plaintiff unknown. but
this plaintiff here AYERS and 50 states the
fact to be that any claim of any kind or
character that said defendant Conway
and DOdsOn may have. and it is expressly
denied that they have any such claim. is
inferior to the claim of this plaintiff.
Wherefore plaintiff prays the Court
that defendants and each of them be cited
to appear and answer this petition, that
he have judgment for his debt. interest
and attorneys fees, and costs Of suit and
T T the foreclosure of his lien on the fore
going described land and premises. and
the same to he dccrecd to be sold accord
ing to law. that the sheriff or other Off
Ger executing said order Of sale shall
place the purchaser of said property, sold
under said order of sale, il possession
there'f within thirty days after date of
sale, and for such other and further re-
fief, special and general. in law and in
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-10-16
BROWNSVILLE DAILY HERALD.
THE STATE OF X

70 the Sheriff or any Constable of Cam
eron County-Greeting:
You are hereby commanded 70 summon
J. +. MOberly and James B. Conway
by making publication of this Citation
once in each week FIR four successive
weeks previous to the return day hereof,
in some newspaper published in your
County, if there be Il newspaper pub
Iishcd therein, but if not. then in any
newspaper published in the 18th judicial
District; but if there he no newspaper
Published in said Judicial District. then
in a newspaper published in the nearest
District to said 18th Judicial District. to
appear at the next regular term OF the
strict Court cf Cameron County to be
hDltcn 1T the G urt House thereof. in
Rr,~EsyiIIc. Texas. on the lth Mend "
after The second Monday in October A.D..
1913, the same being the 10th day Of No
vemher, AID, 1919, then and there to
answer Il petition filed in said Court OF
the 9th day Of October. AID, 1913 il a
suit. numbered on the docket of Slid
F- tIt NJ. --tC NHtltIi IA. II, Jhtll'lis II
nIniatiff aud y. T. N1hcrly. James Z.
t'rnway and !. : DonlS"n are dc,cnGaitS
md said petition ALLEGING:
-" <tltc If Texas
County Of Cmcrcn.
Ne. 224S.
I'M tir District Court Of Cameron Cuun-
iy, Texas: TO he Honorable ". b. Hop
kinS Judge f said Court:
Comes now Il. y. Rentfro, who resides
in Cameron County state Of Texas, here
matter called Plaintiff, leave OF the court
being first had and obtained, files this his
First Amended Original Petition in lieu
of his Original Petition filed herein com
planning of J. +. Moberlv whose place
Of residence is t. this plaintiff unknown.
and James b. Conway whose place
Of residence is to this plaintiff unknown.
and J. S. DOdsOn who resides in Cameron
County. Texas. hereinafter styled De
PENDANTS, and for cause of action plaintiff
represents unto the court KS follows:
That heretofore tO-wit on or about the
10Th day Of January. AID. 1909. defcn-
dant j. +. MObcrlv executed and delivered
to plaintiff his two promissory vendor
lien notes each for the sum Of One Hun
drcd and Eighteen 06-10O (T11S.O6) Dol
lars respectively. each bearing date on
the day and year aforesaid and due and
payable on the Goth day of January AID.
1910 and the Doth 1ay of January AID.
1911 each respectively and payable to the
order Of plaintitf in Brownsville. Texas
and bearing interest at the rate of six
per cent per annum from date until paid
and STIMULATING for ten per cent. on The
amount Of principal and interest then
due as attorneys fees in case suit is
brought on same or if placed in the hands
Of an attorney for c llection. whereby de-
PENDANT became liable anG bound to pay
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-10-16

IF YOU REALLY Knew what delight
full rooms and housekeeping apart
ments were offered by Meyers Apart
ments. Phone $50. Close to street car.
Wax to house. You would want to
live there.