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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Mountain GrOWn-Ups
Taught by Moonlight
Remarkable Results Are Obtained at
Novel School In Highlands
Of Kentucky.

LOUISVILLE, Sept. 2O-Nota BILE
results have been obtained from
moonlight schools in Eastern Ken
lucky, where illiterate men and WON .
en- came in hundreds to learn how to
read and write. The Federal Bureau
OF Education tells the story Of the
novel experiment. which originated
with Mrs. Cora w Stewart, superin-
tendent OF schools of Rowan County:
In September 1912. a moonlight
school-teachers' institution was held
in Morehead. KY. and the superin-
tendent and teachers who had con-
Quoted the first moonlight schools in
structed others who wished to do
work Of this kind in Rowan and ad-
joining counties. and in the fall Of
1912 the movement spread 10 eight or
ten other counties while the enroll
ment OF adults in Rowan County
reached nearly 500"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Stupid Children
Menace to Nation
Or. n. II. Goddard, AIienlst, kdvo.
Gates Segregation in EdUca-
tlon at Conference.

CHICAGO, Sept. Addressing
the convention Of alienists here. DR..
Henry H. Goddard. of Vineland, n. j.,
declared that slow and weak minded
children should be segregated and
given a special education. He assert
ed that the average stupid child re-
crults the criminal class when he IS
brought up among normal children
whose education leaves him still ig-
norant
often the stupid child is the ia
vored and petted one of the family,
and many parents do not or will not
recognize that a child of theirs is men
tally deficient" asserted the speaker.
The child thus becomes spoiled and
becomes a dangerous factor in So
Cietv"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Arctic Explorers
Slain by Eskimos
Inland Tribesmen Draw Spears
When One of White Men
Starts Alteration.

OTTAWA, ONT, Sept. 20.-George
Street, OF Ottawa, and II. D. Radford,
of New York, northern explorers,
who have been missing, were killed
near Shultz Lake by Eskimos two
years ago, according to a report that
reached here to-day from Chester
field Inlet, on Hudson Bay.
The two men reached Shultz Lake
from Chesterfield Inlet in the sum
mer Of 1911, and there Joined party
of inland Esl1imos, with whom they
intended to proceed to Bathurst Inlet
and on TO the Arctic Ocean.
When a short distance north Of the
lake there was an alteration between
Radford and one Of the tribe, and the
Eskimo drove his spear through the
white man. Street attempted to aid
his companion, and was killed in the
same manneSA
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
CANADIAN GETS CHECK
FOR SERVICE DONE IN 1870

CENTRAIIA, WASH, Sept. 20
The Canadian Government sent a
check to David Coping, a prominent
resident of Centralia, for services
rendered in the Fenian raid OF 1870.
Coping, who ran away to join the
Canadian militia. was a soldier at
the time OF the raid taking an active
part in that historical event.
About fourteen years ago he was
awarded a silver medal by Queen Vic
toria. while the check received was
the result Of an appropriation made
several years ago by Parliament
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Union Forbade Man
To Paint. Own House
Warrant Sworn Out for Business
Agent Of Chicago Local
by Painter.

CHICAGO, Sept. 2O.-Hugo Hahn,
business agent of the Painters Union
was arrested to-day on a charge OF
extortion, sworn out by Walter Sea
man on advice Of the States Attor-
ney. Seaman holds a lease on a
building and was painting It himself
A week ago a wrecking crew, in an
automobile, rode by the house and
shot out the windows. Hahn then
called Seaman over the telephone and
told him he was wanted at the head
quarters of the Painters Union. Sea-
man went there and met Hahn, who
told Seaman he was in bad with the
union and it would require 5000 to
square matters. Seaman refused tc
pay and reported the affair to the
States Attorney.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Famous Old Town to
Have a Patented Site
Regular Titles to Succeed Squatters
Right at Ancient Village of
Cherokee.

ORRVILLE, CAL, Sept. 20.-The
old town OF Cherokee, IL miles from
here in the foothills, famous through
out the United States at one time for
having the largest and biggest gold
producing hydraulic mines in the
world, Is at last to have a patented
town site. A corps of surveyors, IN
der the direction of B. L. Mccoy, OF
this city, is making a survey, laying
out lots in regular form.
The people of Cherokee have had
only a "squaters" right. However,
the Government has recognized this
right. and will grant patent for the
entire town site.
At one time there were 1000 people
living in Cherokee. Now there are
100
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Lost Girl Is Found
At a Country Fair
Tells Police She Ran Away When
Father Made Her WrestIe
With Bear.

MARION, IND, .-ept. 2o.-Mary
Stankovitch, a p tty 16-year- old
Roumanian girl, who disappeared
from her home in Chicago last April,
and for whom a country wide scar h
had been made, was found in Bush
vile, Ind, and brought to this city by
local Police Sergeant James Clifton.
who saw the girl with one Of the fair
attractions and recognized her from
the photograph sent out by the Chi
cago police department.
The girl said she ran away because
her father forced her to wrestle win
bear in the Roumanian camp on
the outskirts of Chicago. She said
she expected she would be sold to
some member OF the camp for his
wife when returned 10 Chicago. Some
girls bring as high as $500, she said.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Woman Light Tender
For 20 Years Quits
Mrs. Williams, Also an Authoress
RetIres From Service on
Great Lakes.

PETOSKEY. MICH, Sept. 2O.-Mrs.
Daniel Williams, authoress and keep
er of the Harbor Point Lighthouse,
on Little Traverse Bay, for the last
80 years, has resigned
She will leave the lighthouse No
vember l and go to Charlevoix to live.
Before taking charge of the Harbor
Point Lighthouse Mrs. Williams tend
ed the Beacer Island Light for If
teen years. Her writings dealt with
her own marine experience.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Chinese Elopement
Record for Chicago
Son of Wealthy Celestial Merchant
WEEDS Orphan Girl After Trip
From Coast.

CHICAGO, Sept. 2o.-The first Chi
nese elopement on record came to
light when David Lee and Dorothy
Chin were married. Both the bride
and bridegroom were born in China.
The couple came to Chicago from
San Francisco where David's father
Is n wealthy merchant. Dorothys
parents are dead
The couple were married by a Jus
tice OF the Peace in American style.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-08

The poor SaIoniki barber. however, Is
forced to take whatever his customer wants
to pay; II the customer is cut or scraped he
Is likely not to pay anything. and kick the
barber besides. Nor can the barber enforce
payment. Some Of the better classes. Icing
liberal, pay as much as So cents a month for
from three to seven shaves a week barber
who has such a customer is looked upon as
belonging to the upper crust
The itinecant or house to house artist Is
found in many countries Maskat Oman,
has not a single shop. Wealthy people are
attended in their homes. while the poorer
classes stop at a convenient corner and have
their whiskers trimmed. Both barber and
customer face each other-during the opera
ton. For such a service 2 cents is paid
One Of the best thingsth that can be said about
the Oman BARRIERS is that they do not use
perfumes OF any kind.
In Alden the BARRIERS are Hindoos, and, like
the omans travel mainly from house to
house. The European residents have daily
service for 81 % month. This includes one
hair cut. The customers furnish all acces-
series. Only the poorer classes call on the
barber. There Is only one shop in Alden.
Street BARRIERS also prevail in Bombay.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-08
Like Strings of a Piano.

Through instinct alone man learns many
forms Of control-physical, mental, moral
but II the ordinary man gets no farther than
instinct guidance he stops far short OF any
high tension. any supreme control, any
abundance of life. For these things are all
different phases of the same thing. the per-
fecting of oneself. and they are all secured
by will power.
The abilities Of the effective man are not
like the strings Of a piano, which must be
screwed up by some outsider and brought
out the perfect note. He himself is the tuner.
He himself must test each of the strings of
his life to find which one is below pitch,
unstrung, of low tension. The Ineffective
man depends upon impulse, some st1mula-
ton from without, to raise the chords Of his
life TO tension, and hence he can but seldom
give out even one perfect bar.
The soul of man who gives up. gradually
or all at once, Is a sprawling thing. The
soul of a man who began life with eager
desires, precocious behavoi. or control but
seems suddenly to have fattened out, is like
the string of a fine piano that has fallen be-
low pitch, and once fallen seems likely to
go to disuse, rust, and final uselessness. His
deterioration is generally slow, yet it may
the piano wire which tugs aloft the kite Of
the weather man, rendering It IN a fash so
brittle that It breaks into countless pieces.
all tension and even cohesion gone with the
Lightning.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-08
High Tension Is Good.

There may be something very inhuman
about this doctrine. 1t Is not adapted 10 a
prime consideration OF the single individual.
but It does have the wider aim Of making all
mankind a nobler. more effective set Of be-
irgs. There is something almost immoral
in being a sprawling. useless member of So
cIety. One may be ever 50 poor and not be
that but when TO poverty is added almost
criminal ineflciency. then does that man
often cost society or the state more than a
half dozen effective individuals whose &C
count is entirely on the other side of the
ledger can contribute to its upbuilding and
Strengthening
High tension is good. There was never an
individual who attained to It who did not re-
joice in his plendtude Of power, who did not
spend himself for others because Of his very
abundance Of power II his power is repre-
sented concretely. in constantly accruing
millions, the tension OF HIS life which has
brought these to him compels him to use
them. Inherited millions need not have this
effect and seldom do. The artificial tension
which the gambler loves is not of this sort
1t is not superabundant. It is not generous,
for It il not permanent. It is a thing Of the
hour. When it is gone there is not enough
grip Of any sort in the man for him to hold
on to the fortune that is his. and might, II
held. raise him to a sense OF responsibility.
A false tension Is no better than false
stimulation, but true tension Is the very
reservoir Of life and Of unfailing supply. It
is plenitude OF power. II is superabundance.
1t is control Of self It is happiness 1t is
both income and outgo II is like the peren-
NAL spring. 1t spends itself and is not dimin-
ished. No sweeter waters Of life come to a
49, - 49,
cause Of his power over himself, the IN
creased definiteness Of his will in, its be-
havior, the tension which superabundance Of
itself eenerafes
The Washington herald., 1913-06-08
Scrap of Paper Yields Fortune;
Origin of Polishing Powder.
By VIM. B. MAYER.

she persuaded the netghborhood grocery men
and druggists to sell. It was almost a clear
profit, except the boxes and labels.
Gradually the sales grew larger. The de-
mand steadily increased. 1t was a simple
matter to make larger quantities Of the con-
coction.
In the beginning she had mixed the ingre-
dents in the izitchen OF her home. but this
proved too small. 30 she converted the barn
into a factory.
1t was not long before this powder venture
was out of its infancy and was a business
proposition A year after its first appearance
on the market 1t was being sold all over
the city. Then 1t spread to the outlying dis
tricts; then to other cities, and finally all
over the country.
1t is manufactured under q firm name in
the rear of this woman's home, now pala-
tial residence. and none Of the dealers or
users has the slightest idea of its place of
origin or manufacture.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-08
Making Things Sell Themselves;
Let People Know About Them.
Bv HINTON GILMORE.
By HINTON GILMORE.

over an old overall advertisement A mis-
chievous boy happened to tear away the
lower half Of the show bill and left the Lead
ing lady clad apparently in a pair OF over
alls. The coincidence that the name Of the
show was The Real Thing" and that IL
appeared in startling letters just above this
strangely CARRIED woman didn't hurt matters
any. The overall manufacturer photo
graphed the billboard and got some space In
several newspapers.
Terre Haute man ha1 a second hand
stove he wanted to sell and he advertised II in
the classified columns OF one of the papers
Responses were so numerous that he sat Up
and took notice. It appeared to him that he
had CHANGED across a good miscellaneous
market, and thereafter he began advertising
odds and ends He contracted for a small
space In the column, headed II "A Little Of
Everything" and went into business. He re-
wrote his advertisement every day, and
bought as well as sold second hand goods
His column. day by day. read something like
this: -.
81 want a twin baby buggy In good repair,
800
9TH sell an electric iron. slightly used,
s2.T5
who has a good motorcycle for sale?
III sell a pair of rubber tipped crutches
cheap.
WHO wants to buy a toy wireless tele-
graph outfit?
Anybody care to buy a good camera or
s3O0?"
He soon had people reading his advertise
ments, and he made sales1on the strength of
them In little while he had the biggest
second hand business In the City. and he sold
out year or two ago and now has pros
porous retail furniture business In one Of f.s
principal midwestern cities
The Washington herald., 1913-06-08
Summing Up a Noble Man.

This philosopher pictures the noble man IN
these words: a. The noble type of man does
not require TO be approved Of. He
honors whatever he recognizes IN himself
In the foreground there is the feeling
Of plenitude Of power. which seeks to over
flow. the happiness OF high tension. the con-
scIousness of a wealth which would fain
give and bestow: the noble man also helps
the unfortunate. but motor rarely-out OF
pity. but rather from the impulse generated
by the superabundance of power. The noble
man honors in himself the powerful one. him
also who has power over himself. who knows
how TO speak and how to keep silence. who
takes pleasure in subjecting himself to sever
ity and hardness, and has reverence for all
that is severe and hard"
Is this not a satisfactory summing up OF
what a noble man Is? And are not all these
things-the power over himself. the feeling
Of abundance and sufficiency-are these all
not the power of that high tension which
Nietzsche says gives happiness?
There is much decrying OF the high tension
Of our time. This is undoubtedly hard on the
unit, but Nietzsche believed that for 1000
years the weak, the poor. the ineffective had
received too great a share of attention. soci-
ETY. had been too largely adapted and impov-
erished by adapting itself so largely to their
protection and to the encouragement OF their
species. When was the unfit ever really
happy? When was the unfit ever but ter
rible drain on the 1T?
The Washington herald., 1913-06-08

THE lowest forms Of animal life can do
little else than sprawl-and feed them
selves. Man himself when he comes
into the world can do little more.
Though he has all the bodily members
which when once controlled set him up at
the farthest pole from helpless, sprawling in
fancy, they are without tension.
The baby cannot carry a spoon to his
mouth His little legs crumple up under
him when his mother stands him on his
feet. But almost as soon as intelligence
dawns in him he begins to reach out, to direct
his motions to some definite end which at
first he cannot reach He is immensely graft
fed when he first pulls himself up by
chair and finds that he can stiffen himself
TO the conquest of erectness. If he is a
healthy youngster he tries to do this over
and over again without Encouragement
He keeps testing his stiffening muscles until
they obey him. and very soon thereafter he
becomes unconscious of the fact that they
ever refused to obey-their tension has be-
come fundamental part OF his power. 1t
will be many years yet before the less easily
controlIable muscles of hand and arm can
do what he wills, but II he is persistent they
will come to do so, and there will be yet more
worlds and deeper in himself 10 conquer, to
raise to q concert pitch OF tension, as il
were.
Increase OF physical power represents
sort OF Muscle tension. Perfection of bodily
control means high muscular tension. Per-
lection of mental control means a mind
highly keyed. Perfection Of will control
means a will disciplined and redisciplined.
a process not unlike the baby's attempt TO
The Washington herald., 1913-06-08
Keep Your Life at High Tension
to Make the Most of Yourself.
By c. S. MADDOCKS.

are foul: when they should be physically fit
they are rotten: when they should be morally
healthy they are but a filthy sore-there have
been in their lives terrible losses of tension.
fallings down with supineness after silly. or
brutal. or ignorant sprawlings.
Perhaps no master OF fiction has ever pic
tured a vagabond attractively without max
ing him stiffen up physically with remem-
brance Of better days. These masters are
fond Of picturing the men of natural ability
and great diversity Of gifts who have be-
come but a sprawling moral wreck-men
without tension Of any sort. but often with
cunning enough left to simulate It or heart
enough to raise a temporary shadow OF II.
They have become ignoble not through lack
OF ability but through a failure TO keep up
tension.
The tendency among men Of sense and
judgment today to cultivate a sort Of rever-
ence for the severe and hard has for hun
dreds OF years been the attitude of the great
philosophers. Nietzsche, the greatest phi
losopher OF the latter part Of the nineteenth
century, made much of this idea in what he
called his hierarchy OF values, by which he
decided why one action was preferable to
another. why to tell the truth. for example
was better than TO Lief why TO do the hard
thing was preferable to doing the easy II the
second represented none He believed that
a man should have such a table. a very def
mite one. since this would determine every
unconscious as well as every conscious act
and all his Judgments
The Washington herald., 1913-06-08

the streets of the coarse black hair. Before
that time the Chinese barber merely shaved
around the queue and then combed, plated,
and braided II. Few Chinese have boards.
so shaving of the face Is rare with them.
Chinese BARRIERS in the larger cities, where
there Is much transient trade, are trying
, constantly TO do their work as well as Ameri-
can BARRIERS and to have as up to Date equip
ment.
Very few American pattern chairs are
found in any of the foreign countries. The
chief objection TO them Is that they take UP
too much room and do not add greatly to the
comfort Of the customer.
A few years ago Hamiin Garland wrote a
book In which he told facetiously of the hero,
while rur-ing a barber shop. forcing Gus
toners 10 wash their own faces after shaw
ing That seemed peculiar and unusual and
few believed that any barber would have the
nerve to exact such a task from a cash GUS
toner. Yet IN Montevideo. Uruguay every
customer has to do this Why? Nobody
knows. Custom. that's all
The Washington herald., 1913-06-08


riety of advertising often gets by.
In Fort Worth. Tex. there was a man who
had real estate for sale. He was land poor.
He had lots and lots. and he was trying to
sell some of them. The curb stone was his
office.
He realized the value of advertising, but be
Iabored under the handicap Of short funds.
One day he hit upon an idea and printed a
card: Lots-for Sale" He placed this card
in his hat, where every man he met might
read. Business soon began to pick UP and in
twoemonths the curbstoner had regular Of
fees and was spending real money for real
newspaper space
In little Kentucky town a retired farmer
had a superfiuous COW. He wanted to sell
her. but the COW market was dull. Finally
he invested in dimes worth of green paint
and marked For Sale. SIS" on both Of her
sleek sides. hiring boy to drive the COW
around town. The second day the boy
brought back the SIS.
A Dallas coal dealer advertised in street
cars. One Of his favorite Advertisements
read: Coke for Sale.r Yet he seemed to
get no answers from the advertisement No
body seemed to read 1t. Then he changed his
copy to read: Coax for Sale" Within q
month fourteen people wrote to tell him Of
his mistake in spelling coke. He was a good
follow up salesman. and he sold FIVE tons Of
coke to his well intentioned proofreaders.
A Shreveport manufacturer Of overalls did
a great deal of advertising on billboards.
One Of the boards he had been using was pre-
empted by a theatrical poster-a full length
Autograph of the leading lady being pasted
The Washington herald., 1913-06-08
Makes Philosophers Pessimists.

1t is such things as these, such deteriora-
lions, such fattenings out such cataclysmS
SUCH multitudes OF each-which make the
philosopher who concerns himself with men
a pessimist. He sees a man go DOWN as
though struck by an invisible bolt from
clear sky, but then he looks deep and finds
that IN the mans whole nature there was q
lack OF tension. q lack Of built up control-a
sprawling ineficiency which no external
fairness OF deed could continue to disguise.
He sees that where men should be fair they
The Washington herald., 1913-06-08
Customers Wash Own Faces.

The change in the religious beliefs OF the
Chinese has been a boon to the BARRIERS Of
that country For a few months after It
was decided that Chinese should cut of
his queue and still maintain his self-respect
the shops virtually ran In night and day
shifts. White wings were kept busy clearing
The Washington herald., 1913-06-08
Gets Interest in Cleaning Plant.

Another year passed. We now had eight
stores All 1 could do was to keep riding
about from place to place to see that things
went right. One day my father and sat
dowr and figured out how much We were
paying out every week to the establishment
that was doing our steam cleaning for us.
TIE bill ran into hundreds Of dollars. This
time took the initiative.
Father" said. there is no use paying
out so much money to the cleaning factory.
We might as well start such an establishment
of our own"
My son." he said. such a project Is .
little beyond my poor old 0head. Think it
over. and II you find that your plan will work.
20 ahead with IT,
At the end of three months was made a
cleaning establishments in the city Ny
trade was enough to influence him to give me
share in his business. I have since estab-
lished a big cleaning establishment Of my
own / have branches in every part Of the
city. Ny education has been much Of a help
to me. since have learned to prevent the
college diploma from burdening me un-
necessarily. I have more time for reading.
for culture. than most college men who hold
positions. By the way. a number Of college
men are holding positions under me. They
viii undoubtedly better their conditions when
they free themselves from the chains of con-
vertionality with which their college d.
plornas bind them At present their false
college dignity keeps them sticking to post
tions,'%
The Washington herald., 1913-06-08

& Apparatus by which gas lamps can be
lnighted and extinguished by wireless waves
has been invented in Germany.
Eggs can be boiled, steamed, and poached
Va. the same time with new cooking atensii
on the channg dish order.
A concrete key. said to be almost inde-
structible. has been patented by Wiscon-
sin inventor.
Electrical apparatus for permanently curl