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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-18

hold paper
from of the valiant of girls who do battle in Atlanta
shoulder shoulder with the
the hold in the other
lined with delicate tissue thin tule
ripped The square typed smelling
of just air. the sign and symbol of the trim
clearly of brainy girl it
family scented-awfuly
easeu lacy, charming luxuryapIed girl
probably raped typewriter
sIken
finished beside her. girl had
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-18
Strange.

Hotel managerial you give the
gentleman in room IS his bill2"
Waiter-Yes, sir
Hotel Manager didn't forget to
charge for anything, did I?
Waiter-Not that I know Of. sir.
Hotel Manager-Strange very
strange. I can still hear him whis-
thing!
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-18

ESAA ~ . GAAAN was NV
regular. my head
ached all the time,
/ had bearink
down pains and
my back hurt me
the biggest part
of the time, 1 wss
dizzy and had
weak feelin gs
when I would
stoop over, It hurt
me to walk any
distance and !
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-18
Within the Law.

Jimson-Where are you going?
Binson-Only off for a days shooting.
Jimson-Great snakes! With that car
load Of freight?
Billson-Those boxes contain books,
the latest and most complete compen-
diums of the game laws OF the State. I
don't want to shoot anything out Of sea-
son.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-18
Tabloid Fables

w THY does the Man who was
w Walking so Slowly about his
Work Hurry all Of a Sud
den? DID he Just Remember that he
Had a train TO catch, or did a Bee
sting him2 Neither, my Child. He
happened to Look up and see that His
Boss was Watching Him.
Who is The Man so Meek and Good
and Well Behaved? Is he always So?
No, my Child; He was Caught at 1t
yesterday.
Why does the Hard Working Mr.
links do just as his wife Requests
never grumbling that he hasn't time
Because, my Child, she has Tact. and
never asks him To do anything with
out falling to Add that she knows he
has Too Much to do already.
Who is that Very Proper Person
whom all seem to hate, and Why do
they hate him? He is the man, my
Child, who listens eagerly to the
Scandal and then says piously when
his Curiosity has been Appeased that
it is very, Very wrong to gossip.
Who is the man who walks so
slowly to and from the cemetery every
day? Has he left his heart out there?
No, my Child; he has lost No one. He
is a certain woman's Second husband.
and walks to the Cemetery that he
may Give the headstone over the
grave OF her First husband a Sympa-
thetic pat or Two.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-18
BLUE and
DISCOURAGED
Mrs. Hamilton Tells How
She Finally Found Health
in Lydia E. Pinkham's
: Vegetable Compound.

Warren, Ind.-'T was bothered ter
ribly with female weakness. had
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-02
GOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsON 0IORr

There are so many grouches that YOU
can't gain distinction by joining them.
gent who was never in society is
curious to know what makes a pink tea
pink.
SIX. dealer gets next and also gets busy.
Hunting lost treasure probably pays the
poorest wages of any known form of hard
labor.
1t is no great consolation to the loser
that he played a good game just the same.
Considering that no one demands it, a
preacher is too willing to work overtime
at his trade.
A sportsman is a hunter who pays a
good deal more than the market price
for fish and game.
Another reason a good many don't prac-
tice what they preach is that preaching
is the easier task.
If you don't get what you ask for, re-
member there wouldn't be enough to go
around if everyone did.
When a man is mysteriously missing
1t is written in the police primer that one
should look for the woman.
Whenever Jude Johnson is asked to
vote, he feels he is carrying around the
responsibility of the entire election.
AS long as the women who can't trim
their own hats can trim their husbands
the world will wag along all right.
Wrestling may not be much of sport.
but the champ wrestler is millionaire OF
thereabouts. Some business.
Link Preston: "A friend of mine who
won't lie, refuses to answer my pointed
questions, and I don't like him very WELL -
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News. ]

IFrom the Chicago News.l
Silence is the college yell of the school
of experience
Many a girl with a soft voice possesses
marble heart
No. Cordelia a criminal lawyer isn't
necessarily criminal.
And platonic friendship frequently
makes a noise like a filtration.
Success comes from good work oftener
than it does from good luck.
The world likes good loser, especially if
it gets some of his money
A man may develop into ripe scholar
if he lives to a green old age.
Speaking of human dynamos,'' there is
a man who has everything charged
After a struggling young man succeeds
in marrying heiress he gives up the
struggle.
One is more likely to applaud the man
who has done some good things, if one is
not one of them.
Day dreams are more pleasant than
probable, unless one gets busy and con-
verts them into fact.
There is one thing a woman never
boasts of, and that is how little il costs to
have her last years hat remodeled.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-02

cluding the short ballot, unification of
authority in a compact board, abol-
| ishment of wards, non-partisan cleo
tions, the initiative, the referendum
| and the recall.
Besides the many general advan-
| tages which are claimed for this plan
| by its advocates. it is believed that It
will help to reduce the item of over
head salaries in smaller communities
which cannot pay good salaries to
five, or even three men. The plan is
also favored in a number of cities of
considerable size, including Dayton,
Ohio, where it was recommended for
adoption by the chamber of commerce
and is the only plan being considered.
Sumter, S. c.. city of 10000 inhab-
itants, has recently installed it's first
'city manager Staunton, Va, has
had this system, in a modified form,
for over three years. It has been
widely and favorably commented upon
under the name of the "Lockport"
plan.
This plan is also embodied in the
charters recently reported by the char
ter commissioners in Whittier, Cal,
and Hickory. N. c. 1t has been en-
dorsed by official commissions in St.
Petersburg, Fla, Bisbee, Ariz., and
Owosso, Mich. 1t is incorporated in
statewide bills this year in Minnesota
New York and Ohio. and has been
seriously discussed in Honolulu, H
T., and Dover, N. H
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-02
A NEW HABIT-FORMING DRUG

Medical journals are beginning to
warn physicians that heroin, the new
opium derivative, is not the harmless
drug it was first thought to be- Hither-
to heroin has been regarded by ply
sicians and druggists as a mild and
harmless sedative which is rather good
for coughs. 1t is sold freely over drug
store counters. even to children
But the Juvenile Protective Associa-
ton of Chicago has discovered several
cases of youths who have become ad-
dicted to heroin and who seem to be as
much in the grip of that drug as though
it were morphine. Many other cases.
both juvenile and adult, have raised
the question whether, after all, heroin
is the innocent substitute for morphine
which it is supposed to be- Further
study of the effects of heroin have dis
closed the fact, according to some of
the medical journals, that heroin is
quite in the same class with the other
drugs in its subtle grip upon those who
use it to any great extent.
Under the circumstances, says the
Chicago Post, it would seem only wise
to include heroin with the other opium
derivatives which are sold only under
the most careful restrictions.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-02
EVOLUTION OF CITY GOVERN
MENT.

An amendment to the commission
government law of New Jersey, recent
ly introduced in the legislature, en-
bodies the short ballot idea in a new
form. 1t provides, as an option to the
regular commission form of city
government a plan under which any
city need have but one executive de-
voting all his time to its service and
receiving a substantial salary. The
board of commissioners would retain
control over the city government. but
instead of personally supervising the
details of it's business they would sim
ply lay out general policies, and exc
cute them through the "city manager" :"
This officer would be appointed by
the board of commissioners to serve at
their pleasure.
The "city manager" plan. as pro-
po1cd in the measure, preserves all of
what are generally regarded the strong
features of the Des Moines plan in
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-02
From the HicleyviIle Clarion.

An optimistical looking gent b1owed into
this town the other day with a line OF
hymn books in which he hoped to interest
the deacons of the Hardshell church.
After selling 'em order he entertained
'em at his room in the huttel and left
pants. seven pairs of link cuff buttons, two
derby hats, one fancy silk vest and three
watches and chains. Deacon StubbS says
he believes that hymn books sort of
a side line with the gent, for when he got
to juggling the pasteboards he acted like
a regular gol dunn Slicker. The hymn
books have not yet arrived by express as
promised.
1t begins to look as though the four-in-
hand necktieS have come to stay.
If it wasn't for the BARRIERS, the chawin'
tobacker manufacturers would have to go
out of business.
Miss Pansy Tibbitts the beautiful and
liam Tibbitts, well known general
store proprietor. also hides and taller, lath,
lumber, shingles, Stucco and land plaster,
notary public with seal and brick ice
cream, and Mr.. Ezra Dill, one of our ris-
ing young business men, being canvasser
for the Handy Household Companion con-
tanning screw driver, monkey wrench,
tack puller, corkscrew, nail file, augur
hose mender. chisel, can opener, COM
passes, pliers, wire Stretcher, soldering
iron callipers, envelope opener and tooth
brush expect to elope in the near future.
Neither of the principals intended to men
ton their proposed elopement and would
have said nothing were it not for the fact
that a timely hint will give their friends
time to think up something in the way of
gifts and be ready for the surprise. Miss
Tibbitts desires to announce that she
will continue to give music lessons up
until her marriage, also afterwards.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-02
SAYS UNCLE CAV

/ have no sympathy with the Glove
me-love-my-dog" doctrine, but it's
quite as reasonable as the "love-me-
excuse NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. plan
upon which some otherwise very
worthy folk go through life. In fact,
I think I'd find it easier to get along
with a snubfaced canine with capable
teeth and a feveriSh disposition than
some folks little ways" You can
send the former to the dog pound if
you discover that patience has ceased
to bear any resemblance whatsoever
to virtue, but you can't send your
paternal uncle's belligerent bark into
the cold, cold world without sending
him along, thereby causing scandal,
to say nothing of a change of Will.
For my own part, 1 do not love men
who bark, neither have l great pa
tience with those who snort. l be-
lieve that each particular animal
should stick to his own particular ma
ture-given means of expressing emo
ton and so long have cherished this
view that I become uncomfortable
when 1 hear sounds that startle me
into believing that have inadvertent-
ly wandered into a zoo.
One runs little risk of contradiction
in saying that conceit is the most
common product of the human mind.
Conceit will grow where no other
mental vegetation can gain foot
hold 1t fiourishes, withers like
for lack of sustenance.
1t has it's purpose, however which
is to prove to right-minded folk that
certain others have brains only in
negligible quantities
Now the universal concomitant of
conceit is an idiosyncrasy, or several
of them. Having come to the conclu-
sion that we are somewhat extraordl-
nary, we straightway adopt the toad s
logic and conclude that our warts and
moles are beauty spots, our defects OF
speech are marks of honorable distinc-
ton and our outburStS of temper are
high spirit. To our pride-diStorted
visions our faults become points of ex-
cellence our vices virtues and our in
suffera BILE disdain of others the stamp
of superiority. We label these u2par-
''idiosyncrasies, proclaim them to be
the proofs of our worth.
If the omniScient Creator omitted
anything from the universe 1t was
personal fool killer to be a running
mate for what We have been taught
to believe is a personal devil The
man with the idiosyncrasy is his own
several thousand years behind time
in the merciful task of extermina
ton. tz-
The plain truth is that the we'll
balanced mind has no more to do
with idiosyncrasies than a perfectly
balanced scale has to do with false
weights. An idiosyncrasy is never
ton upon the good nature of ones
associates. The toad who is proud
of his warts is a much better logician
than the man who is proud of his lit
tie ways."-(Copyright, 1913, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-02
HUAOR or TIE DAY

Among the many luxries of our modern
civilization is the occasional chance TO
make an honest living.-Puck.
Darling, I will tell you in poetry of
burning meter that you are the light of
nv life" "All right. but don't do it with
the gas meter. ."-Baltimore American.
Dauber-'Podgers, the art critic, has
roasted my picture numerically" Friend
Don't mind that fellow. He's no ideas
of his own; he only repeats like parrot
what others say."-Boston Transcript.
DO you believe love makes the world
go round, professor? "Ahem! or course
motion when thrown off from the sun in
a nebulous form, its centrifugal force be-
ing counteracted to certain extent by
the superior attraction of the solar body
fir I'M which it originally emanated."-
Birmingham Age-Herald-
Silent contempt has saved a good many
broken heads on the part of the coll
temptuous.-Puck-
man never quite realizes how much
furniture re owns until he tries to walk
rapidly through his roms in the dark
Puck
HE has a heart of gold, grip OF iron
and a will of STEEL ''Humphi He must
be man of mettle-"-Baltimore Amer1-
can
ssDo YOU really love me?' she wrote
..Referring TO my last letter" he promptly
replied you will find that love you d =
yotedly on page one. .1adly on page three,
and passionately pages four and five
Washington Herald
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-02
EVENING CHAT
Things.
SY HUTN CAMERON

Things.
THE world is too much with us; late ami
soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our
powers
-Wordswortb
The other night long after L should have
been sound asleep 1 was driven from my
bed to my desk by the need of trying to
express a mood which took possession of
me.
If you don't like moods and never have
them, please turn the page and read the
this.
If you do have them, perhaps you will
recognize your own experience. is--
t was at the close of day in which L
came into possession of a beautiful piece
of furniture which had ong wanted.
was in a fever of delight and excitement
all day long. had it fitted into it's place
in the living room; / viewed 1t from every
angle; and then L called in the neighborg
to rejoice with me, as country folks who
have real neighbors, always do.
1 went to bed still excited and on the
heights and then the reaction came. This
is what 1 wrote:
God keep us all from getting too much
wrapped up in things.
God keep us from forgetting that there
are other things in the world besides
things.
Let me remember that after all, these
objects that 1 strive and work for are
only the husks of reality.
love pretty gowns. I love the ricn
soft silks and the fascinating en-
broideries and priceless laces. l revel IN
the glorious coloring of beautiful fabric
the fine lines of well modelled gar
ments. want to own these lovely things.
1 love beautiful homes; the duh rich
ness of mahogany, the subdued silvery
sneen of old rugs, the fascination of fine
linen. the exquisite fragility of beautiful
china starts my heart strings tingline
whenever l see them. / want to make
my home beautiful with things like these.
But 1 do not want to forget in my love
of these things that after all, kindness
and wisdom fidelity to beliefs, sympathy
and truth and love, motherhood and inte--
course with friends are far more beauti-
full than these material things,-and more
real.
There are times when the fever of pos
session gets into my blood; there are
times when things shut out the real as
the fog shuts out the ocean. And then.
just when 1 am forgetting that there is
wonderful eternal ocean, a corner OF the
fog lifts and l realize again that the
things we give so much of our lives for
are just FORMS
And then again the fog comes back.
Half of us is soul and half body. We
never seem in danger of sitting the body,
but the soul sinks all too easily into
coma.
1 think most of us need to pray every
day,-"God keep me from Sitting that
part of me that knows there is something
besides things in the world.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-02
.AYHAWKER JOTS

Abilene and Junction are preparing
to obtain supply of machine made
gas.
| The man who predicted the Dayton
| Hood years ago has been found. He
| lives at Clay Center.
Charlie Scott notes that Cy Leland
in his "reminiscences did not mention
| MS campaign against Stubbs.
La Harpe claims a citizen 95 wears
old who is cutting a new set of teeth
and they are not all eye teeth either
Horticulture note in the Cherry
vale Republican: Mrs. Fruit has been
elected president of the Royal Neigh
bors.''
Ihere is woman in Potter so deli
GLOBE, that she refers to female craw-
dads as crawmams.
Walt Mason predicts a busy season
Tor Harrison Parkman next Christ
mas, when he is called upon to inspect
ASBESTOS whiskers used in impersona-
tions of Santa Claus
The City Federation of Women's
CIubs OF Chanute has an Historical
Committee" whose function is to
gather up all the relics it can find
OF the pioneer days of the town and
put them in shape to be preserved.
humboldt takes pride in the fact
that Walter johnson, the baseball
pitcher, who formerly came from
humboldt, recently broke a worlds
and inches, at his training grounds
at Charlottesville, Va.
DR.. VIM. Kamp is the ONLY candi-
date for mayor of Belleville In spite
OF the fact that no one is running
against him, if it is shown that he is
a prother-ln-iaw of the editor of this
paper-which he is, says Conner
Davies, he will be defeated
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-02
GEORGE NICHOLSON.

Today there is a car of sorrow wend-
ing it's way from Los Angeles to Law
renee, traversing the line of the COM
pary of which George T. Nicholson
was vice president and. till this week,
for over thirty years was an important
factor.
In their thoughts and hearts thous-
ands of old friends are following that
train, extending a voiceless sympathy
to the beloved widow and dutiful
daughter-for the body of good,
noble, kindly man is travelling to its
burial.
He was greatly liked and loved,
was George Nicholson. Many there
are who watched his remarkable
career from step to step upward from
the ranks from clerical to executive.
Each stepping stone of advancement
was imbedded in a foundation of merit
and achievement.
He led a quiet, effective, exemplary
life Justice was so developed in him
by continual practice as If he were on
the bench. Each promotion he earn
ed gave especial joy to his associates
for they knew it was earned and de-
served, and to those who worked with
him or under him his preferment was
as if they too had sought it for him,
not thinking of themselves, but
proud of each of his victories as of
one personal to each in the triumph
of their friend.
His loss is not to be measured for
he is mourned sincerely in the hearts
of a great multitude who knew him,
and wherever the great Santa Fe cor
poration can find expression for sor-
row for one who filled a big sphere
of friendship, devotion and service.
He was of Kansas and of her peo-
pie. On Friday sacred soil at Law
renee will give a last resting place to
all that's mortal of one who loved
Kansas and was beloved by her.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-02

The right of a manufacturer to de-
termine the price at which his product
may be sold at retail will be argued
before the United States supreme
court on April Z. Decisions thus far
are not uniform, but line has been
drawn between copyrighted books and
patented articles on the one hand and
products which are not exclusive in
their character. A manufacturer who
is trying to keep the retail price of
his patented gas heater at $3.50 sued
a Chicago store for selling it at 25
cents less. The lower federal courts
have treated this as an infringement.
and the supreme court has sustained
their Jurisdiction. The case itself will
come up for argument on the 7th of
this month
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-02
THE spRING Hoons.

Sorrow and heartache and death,
Ruin and anguish and wrath;
Pest1lence borne on her breath,
Suffering strewn in her path.
Homes. that with children were gay,
Wrecked by this terrible thing;
What grim jest when we say:
Spring, gentle springi
Babes torn from fond mothers arms,
Fathers swept out of the world
Ravaged are cities and farms,
Ferror's grim banners unfurled;
All that we builded laid low,
All of our hopes taken wing,
Still do We speak of it so,
Spring, gentle spring.
Misery, wai1ing and woe,
Heralds of blossoms and bees.
Death and despair sent to show
The coming of green to the trees.
Prefacing now with dismay
The joys that it later will bring;
What grim jest when we say:
Spring, gentle spring.
Edgar A. Guest.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-02
QUAKER MI1DrTATIoNS
TFrom the Philadelphia Record

FFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Few things come to those who wait for
others to do it for them
The man who does things by halves fire.
quently finds himself in hole.
The one tale the average man is always
ready to swallow is a cocktail.
Many man has grasped an opportunity
that was too hot for him to handle.
1t is mighty seldom that you find hard
work and hard luck going hand in hand.
The fellow who is a knocker isn't al
ways the one who makes the greatest i'm
preston.
Some people hope for the best. and then
kick themselves because they didn't hope
for something better.
Sillicus-s'I consider Gotrox a man of
tn period Cynicus-'I should call him
rather man of the dollar mark
Muggins-"What is your favo-Ite
method of Furnishing the children?' Bug
gins-"Well, consider that spanking
takes the palA~
The Topeka state journal., 1913-04-02
THE ELECTION.

The affairs of the city of Topeka
have been placed in good hands.
! The election of ES-Mayor Cofran to
a fourth term ensures the city an
executive who made an excellent rec
ord in the same office years ago. a
first class business man, mayor OF
splendid experience. What doubtless
contributed more than anything else TO
the election of Mr.. Cofran was the fact
that while Mayor Billiard is of fine
reputation for ability and integrity he
is not in sympathy with the prohibi-
tory law. His enforcement of that law
was accordingly not the sort of en-
forcement the people of this community
are determined to have, for the citi-
zens generally believe in that law, in
the spirit well as the letter of it,
The overwhelming reelection of
Commissioner Bone was a handsome
endorsement of one who has made
fine general record and especially in
his handling of the municipal finances.
While the achievements in the water
and light departments under Mr.. Miller
have been great, he is succeeded by
Frank Newland, a most popular man
who made an enviable record as a
councilman and as water commissioner
He is in every way equipped for ex-
cellent service to the city.
The new commissioner, w. L. Por-
ter, finds his department in a higher
state of development and efficiency
than ever before, Mr.. Stotts having
successfully given energy and effort
to his advancement of the parks
which are today contributing so much
to the pleasure and recreation of the
Topeka men, women and children
Commissioner Tandy may well feel
proud of his return to the important
department of streets in the face OF
bitter and unjust opposition Mr.
Tandy's wide experience in the coun-
Gil and on the commission makes him
valuable in a general way and partic-
uIarly as an expert in his line, for he
was a practical man before he came
to the citys service.
The city is to be congratulated on
the new commission.