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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-09-18


husband was interviewed, and this is
what he said, while he tried to
wash the dishes and cook the supper
for himself and the son, who was
also at work. The little girl had
been sent to. a relative, till the
Court decided what was to be done
to Mother, and to assure in some way
that she would not try the theft stunt
as road to smiles and kind words.
The man is So years old and looks
what he assumes to be, matter of
fact, sober, industrious carpenter
and millwright.
Il do not like to talk about my
wife, he began. eff she Says I am
bad man, that I abused her, I won't
answer"
do you want her to return?"
"Certainly," he said quickly. "She
is good woman. Her children need
her There is our little ten-year-old
daughter Isabella. The chiIds heart
is almost broken because her mother
went away. Walter, our seventeen
year-old boy, could shift for himself
So could I, but it isn't fair to leave
that little girl"
1T isn't true that she was nothing
but drudge. Every Saturday night
I turned over to her every cent of my
wages. never interfered about rum
ming the house. She had her own
Dank account l am not a drinking
man. | am always to be found at
home. That doesn't look as if l was
so bad, does it?'
''Do I love my wife? l suppose I
do. But both Of us got out of the
habit of thinking about love. We
had to work too hard We were too
busy figuring how to make both ends
meet. was satisfied to have a good
home and to try to be a good father
to my children. She should have
been glad to have such a good home
She should have stayed by her chill
dren."
And there you are!
What is poor man to do, anyway?
The suffragettes are trying to
swing the world round by the tail,
because man WON'T give his pay
envelope to the wife of his bosom,
and when one man is found who does
do all he can, his wife goes to swip-
ing things from stores, in order to
get arrested, and jailed, when she
hopes to be smiled at and spoken
kindly to.
What's the matter with all of us,
anyway?
Isn't it that we have all been so
bitten with the bug Of publicity and
notoriety that there is no charm
about home nor children?
And this is a matter that is
squarely up to the women of the
country. Every State is involved
and if the mad methods of the Eng
lish suffragettes are to be duplicated
in this country, these things cited
are only the beginning.
Will the American woman stand
for it? And isn't it about time the
American man applied little sand
paper to his spine?
Besides Suffrage, California is also
afflicted with a case Of bubonic
plague.
Just to show you there is millions
in the egg industry, one of our brand
new millionaires is spending $4,000
on a chicken house.
A Miss Payne of Georgia has just
married Mr.. Glass, and not sim
gle paragrapher referred to it as a
light affair.
A nice, kind New Jersey Judge
gave a burglar fifty-six year sem
tence, cas- opportunity to reflect" on
tho IUiaIyo IF Al nj
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-09-18
The CuFetOn Nurseries
AMGTEla GENRNIA

Growers OF fine Fruit, Shade and Orna-
mental Trees and Plants.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-09-18
TheGood, the Bad, the Otherwise
And q Few T aconics Ri A
And q Few L.a;conics
POOR MAN!

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The Washington times., 1913-05-02
THE STEAM ROLLER ONCE MORE.

As an example Of steam roller methods in the
most exaggerated form that has been demon.
strated-yes an example beyond which the fancy
of man has never reached-the handling of the
tariff in this current session is entitled to especial
consideration.
Cannon and Adrch, in their time, attempted
nothing by way of suppressing individual opinion
and imposing organization dictates, that was more
extreme. And their excesses were INDUCED in time
when there was certain excuse for them, nasmuch
as the caucusbound organization was then the &C
cepted and conventional thing. Nowadays, that
kind of thing is not regarded necessary, desir-
able, or as even excusabe. The people who we're
most ardent critics of such methods four years ago
are using them now.
The country doesn't feel So willing to forgive
these methods as it once was. The tariff measure
that is being jammed through Congress today repre-
sents no possible method of logical determination of
proper duties. 1t is not free trade, it is not con-
sstent protective plan, it is not the old-fasnioned
tariff for revenue procedure that Democrats used
to think they believed in. 1t is such an illogical
anomaly that new name has had to be coined for
il, and so it is called competitive tariff" We will
know more about what that after we have seen
it in operation while.
From the Ways and Means Committees sttngs
with utterly inadequate hearings, down through the
iron-clad, organzation-rued caucus, to tine consid
Grafton on the House floor under rules of the
most drastic SORT the tariff measure has been DEM
onstraon of the excesses possible under the alleged
reformed rules of the House, and under domination
of party that claims to be restoring the people to
their right of ruling That sort of thing went" once
when nothing better known demanded. But
this year presents different situation The Progress
sive party and tine Republican party have done away
with the secret caucus in the House. Only the
Democrats have stuck to the old method that the
country has repudiated.
The same methods are being framed for putting
the measure through the Senate in so far as Senate
rules and traditions will permit. Party solidarity
the gaggng of individual opinion the suppression Of
independent action-tnese are the methods which
have come back to in their worst forms.
1t should not be forgotten that the tariff
measure will be judged well by the methods that
forced it into the statute books, by the details Of
its construction and the results it shall produce.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02
GIVE US ALL A CHANCE!

1t is reported that President Wilson is displcased
at the idea of having Ben Johnson, OF Kentucky as
chairman of the Democratic Congressional campaign
committee
He is said to be of the opinion that Johnson is not
the right man for the job
We guess he is right.
Incidentally Washington is dspleased at the idea
OF having Ben Johnson chairman of the District
of Columbia Committee
1t is of the opinion that Johnson is not the right
for the job.
You see, Mr.. President, that you and Washington
agree about Johnson. While you're trying to get rid
Of too much Johnson in direction, couldn't you
say pleasant word in behalf of this town, and get
Mr.. Underwood and his associates to give us Dis
rict chairman with just some shadow of qualifca-
ton for the place?
If you aren't willing to trust the Democratic CAM
pagn to Johnson, why should you be willing to trust
Washngtons affairs to him?
The Washington times., 1913-05-02
Good Stories
Travel First-cIaSS.

- ONE tourists were travelling in
Switzerland and they went to buy
- tickets for the coach ride UP the
mountain. The American. OF
course. bought first class ticket, but
he noticed that all the rest got second
and third class and thev all got in the
wagon with him. He asked the driver,
What advantage is there in paying
for first class ticket when holders
of second and third class tickets have
precisely the same accommodations
The driver said: You Just wait a while
and you will see So by and by they
came to steep hill and the driver called
out: First class passengers will keep
their seats: second ella IS passengers will
Ret out and walk; third class pas sengers
will get out and push. Chicago Rec
ord Herald.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02
DEGRADATION OF THE JURIES.

President Wilson is doing a service for good
many other communities than New Jersey, when he
campaigns in his home State for a reformed jury
system. New Jerseys jury drawing procedure is
scandal and disgrace; there is no uncertainty on
that point. But New Jersey is not alone lonesome
in that undesirable distinction. The really good
and honest jury law is nearly the exception
in the States of this country.
New jerseys plan is fairly typical of the bad
ones. There the county sheriff draws grand juries
and petit jures There are no regulations which
at all effective TO prevent drawing panels for
particular service. The sheriff is invariably very
powerful and important figure in the local political
machine The machine is allied of Course with the
powers of punder; in fact, it is their machine
scandal arises let it be assumed, concerning the
bribery of the town council in the interest of pub
lie service corporations franchise A grand jury
inquiry is forced. Then what?
Why the sheriff. looking after the interests of
his friends on the council, and his superors in the
public service business, would just see that the
right" kind of grand jury was drawn. The right
kind of grand jury from that point of view would
be decidedly the wrong kind from the standpoint of
the publics interest IL by any accident the nvesti-
CATION lived through the grand jury stage and trials
resulted the sheriff next business would be to have
the right" kind of men on the jury panels for the
trials.
Ii just makes the jury system fake; poisons it
at the source. But New Jersey isn't alone in need
ing reform If the President, by reason of the at
tention which his place commands for his words
shall be able 10 direct of other States to the
need of reform in this regard he will have served
every one of them quite as we'll as ne is now serving
Jersey.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02
TIL Ovid Song
By Eugene Gedry.

I'VE heard great singers many a time
Wild voices rich an sthrong.
Who'd sthretch simple line OF
rhyme
Into a yard of song.
But none to me the rapture brings
AS when, at eventide,
Fair Mary Ann McSweeney sings
Down BY the Tan Yard Side"
An when I hear the lovely sthrain
Whose every note i know.
Ne thoughts fly DER the rolling main
To years of long ago.
" hen at the ovid crossroads We me-
III days of youth an pride,
An some wan sang-I hear IL yet
Down BY the Tan Yard Side
Some like '.Killarney's Lakes an Fells
An some ..Owld Ireland Free
Still others favor "Shandon Bells
An "Cushla Gal Machree-'
Mccormack sings THE Foggy Dew,
His voice has strength an sthride;
But mines the ovid song. always new,
Down BY the Tan Yard Side
The maiden in this sweet song wore
No silks an satins fine.
An fairer than some queen of yore
She shone wild grace divine.
Tho years in silence DER me pass,
Her charms can't be denied
That comely lass from Baltinslass,
Down By the Tan Yard Side.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02
THE ERA OF RAGTlME.

If the ancient worthy who said Let me write
the songs of nation and | care not VINO makes its
laws" could visit the United States today he would
hear some things that would cause him to rush to
the shadowy ferryman and beg to be taken back at
once.
With SiciIian on the curb grinding out When
the Midnight Chuchu Leaves for Alabam," player
piano around the corner banging away at BE My
Baby Bumble Bee and a graphophone up the street
producing THE Devils Ball" the poor old back
Der would feel mad impulse to get at the fellow
VINO writes the songs for this nation and strange him
on the spot
No wonder movement has been started in Chi
cago to have the Postof6ce Department exercise
more careful censorship over songs sent through
the mails in the same manner as it censors books.
When deliberate suggestveness is added to deluge
of ragtime, there is bound to be demand for some
body to do something TO put stop to it. Censor
snip can be easily abused, and the postofce authori
ties will not attempt, of course, to do more than
exclude what is indecent As for the music, tine
public must grin and bear it, take TO the woods
In the midst of such jangle, it is no wonder
tnat there is marked revival of the romantic lyrics
of half century ago Something must be found as
foil to the urkeytrot style of slam-bang musical
composition.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02
Brevity.

- PEAkING Of hrevity. V Villam F,
Garcelon, chairman of the Far-
ward athletic COMMITTEES, said re-
Gently that the palm should be
awarded TO arine who testified about
.he explosion of gan upon a war VS.
sci The marine testified at caring
after he had spent some morths IL a
hospital. being patched up after tie
accident
please give .OHr version Of the ex-
plosion." he was asked
WELL" he replied Il was standing
I,esiTe the gun. there was m awful
racket and the doctor said, sit jrp and
.al;c this '"-Boston Transcript.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02
|How to Choose Your Occupation
The Duties Chances and Salaries Various Lines of Work
BY Celia K. Husik-
Bookkeeping.

-HT business OF keeping books re-
oIircs certain definite qualities
that one must possess IL inc
buokkcepcr IL 10 succeed IN ms
or her Occupation. II YOU are careful
systematic. and orderly. possess IA knowl-
c,ce of arithmetic. i quiCincss at hs-
mos and are by nature very patient
Al Il pain4takinG. and II. combined win
,heas YOU have a clear. legible hand
writing. bookkeeping is the profession
for YOU. If, on the other. hand you
arc iruotunus hasty in Judgment. nerN-
nI : and unwilling or unable to sit lonS
and patiently at your desk. YOU snouid
hy all means IeaV" bookkeeping alone.
The study Of bookkeeping can be aC-
, ,omplishcd in either of two ways. You
C;n enter an office as clerk. where.
as an apprentice or an assistant To
bonkkccpeT. YOU will have chance To
earn all the practical points of this
work Or course in a good business
college may be taken up with great ad-
vantage. 4 better way still Is tn study
bookkeeping at night while keeping
your position during the day. know
The Washington times., 1913-05-02

personally OF young man who entered
an office as clerk and whose salary
was at once inCreaseI as soon as his
employer learned that the boy was TAX
Ing night school course in bookkeep-
ing. a practical experience during the
day combined with a technical course in
the evening will prove of much value.
The pay of the bookkeeper is generally
$40 week at the start. with an in
crease TO 81, SiJ. and Sis. The higher
positions IN this lIae of work pay from
80 to SS per week. Furthermore, the
experienced bookkeepCr may become a
public accountant. which pays $50 per
week
This position is highly 10 he desired.
rs IL has connected with il = certain
individuality and responsibility that dis
tinguish IL From the ordinary routine of
keeping books.
4 few simple rules In connection with
bookkeeping Will be of help to those
about to take up the work. BE orderly,
systematic and accurate Obey rules
strictly. BE patient and willing. These
combined with a quiCkncSs 1T figures
and neat. ,egible hand~ riting, should
insure succeSs.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02
Speaking of Subscriptions.

TIME fat carpenter had the floor.
Yes he said, II subscribed
$50 to the Young Mems Christian
Association fund and ] gave to
the auditorium project, too.
What became of the auditorium
proposition inquired the thin plumber.
That's all Off replied the carpenter
and the subscriptions are TO be can
celed."
Just my luck" exclaimed the nlumb-
er. IF Id have been sure of that I'd
subscribed $l,GD."-Youngstown Tele-
gram.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02
LIVING IN 1896 AND 1912.

1t has been figured that in the latter part of 1912
the cost of living for the average workingman S
family of the North Atlantic States was $l66 more
than in 1896 For the South Atlantic States the add
ed cost was S52. For the North Central States it
was SlS7 year. For the South Central about the
same, and for the Western the increase of the South
Atlantic States
Now those increases, looked at merely from the
price paying angle, are very large, as no man shall
gainsay. In the problem of the cost of living, how.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02

ever, there are always two factors the price to be
paid and the means with which to pay it, OF the two
the ability to pay the important to the con-
sumer.
In 1896 prices were at low-water mark; but all
earnings and other incomes were lower still Low
prices did not mean land of plenty for the American
people. The American people were in deep want
On tine other hand when prices began to climb
from that low level of 1896 they did not mean dep
rivaon and hardship for the American people; they
meant rescue from unemployment and poverty, they
meant ease, prosperity and happiness.
lust what the economic and financial condition
of the American wage-earner was in lS9o-Wlth
rock-bottom prices-as compared with l9l2-"year
of highest living may be very easily yet very
graphically shown with figures from tine savings
banks tables. 1t is in the savings bank that the
wage-earner, from week to week. month 10 month,
and year to year, records by how much his earnings
are over or under his needs-marks his plus or his
minus funds.
In l893 when the bottom was dropping out of
prices, the savings banks deposits of the United
States were Sl,7s5, ,OOO, ,OOO-and they were going
DOWN, being eaten up by the American people.
In 1912 the savings banks deposits of the United
States were S4,452 900 OOO-and they still 60
ing up, after having climbed eight hundred millions
from 1908.
In the period of advancing prices American wage
sarners were spending great deal more than at the
time of very low prices. But they earning it to
spend. They were earning more than they spent.
They were making surplus, and they were saving
it, against the years of cheap living when so
many hundreds of thousands of people could not
make both ends meet-for lack of income.
Prices in this country began to run high from
1900 on up through the next dozen years.
But since 1900 the savings banks deposits of the
United States have grown by more than two billion
dollars
That two billion in deposits since 1900 is more
than all the savings banks deposits there in the
United States in 1896!
Let nobody be silly enough to argue from this
that the people must pay for their food the bet
ter off they will be- On the other hand do not forget
that prices in 1896 were abnormally low. They we're
as low as they were mainly for the that Amer
ican consumers, unemployed and without money,
we're not able to buy. There was purchasing pow
er: so there was nc market.
The good Lord spare us from another such era
Of cheap living"
So may we be delivered from the other extreme
Of costs too high for good business and general pros
oerity. Excessive costs, putting the brakes on in
usty and commerce. be bad for the people of the
United States, like economic prostration under the
rushing pressure of foreign competition destroying
American capital and confscating American wages.
Either of those exaggerated conditions would be
,ad. but-for the United States-the worse would
,e repetition of the history of 1885, with prices
ar, far down below what they are now, but with the
'ny thriving industry in the land the soup house of
bitter memory.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02
What S on the Program in
Washington Today

The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight: Knights Templar-
columbia Commandery. No. :. Red
Cross. Eastern Star-Martha Chapter.
No. g.
Tho following I. o. o. F. organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges-Central,
No. I: Metropolis, No. 10. and Phoenix,
M q Encampment-Magene No.
degrees. Rebekah Degree-Miriam
The Following X Of p. organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges-Syra-
cusians No. 10 rehearsal; Chancellors'
Association. business meeting. Pythian
Sisters-Rathbone Temple. No. s. de-
gree work.
TIE following Red Mems organizations
will meet tonight: Seneca Tribe. No
II: Mineola Tribe, No. II; Idaho Coun-
Ill Nh
The Washington times., 1913-05-02
'THIS& THAT
nun .>onefir7<s a Zitffe Of the Ofhe-
BALLPLAYERS' EPIGRAM.
A berth with the Yanks is
worth one in the bushes.

Inc Public Utilities Commission Is
about to order the issuance of free
transfers between the herdic and the
street car lines. 1t expects an appeal.
ana VIII get it. The companies. IL they
icse, will re- appeal to a higher court
ami keep it up until there amt
II" more. And then, at the end of three
or four years. when the companies lose
'ter case in the highest court, will the
Well-known public be reimbursed for the
nickels ard dimes paid out in the in
terim? You hit It.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02
The Columbus Idea.

prom the Columbus. o. "Citlzen.")
They parted two fighting bulldogs that
had started a panic in Bellefontaine, o. ,
depot by pressing lighted cigars to their
noses. Depot cigars will part BULLDOGS,
or man and wife, or porous plasters. or
Romeo and Juliet, or Iimburger. or any
other old thing that has any respect for
its own artistic temperament.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02
Amusements.

NationaI-"The Return of Peter Grimm"
>:li y. m.
Belascc-'An for the Ladies'" Sis D. m.
Columbia-"His House in Order" SIS
II. M. -
Poifs-"A Butterfly on the Wheel" Ella
and Sis p. M
Chase stalking pictures. to II D. n.
Academy-"COwbo and the Girl" Sis
y. III.
Cosmos Vaudeville. afternoon and even
ing.
Casino-Vaudeville. afternoon and even.
ing.
Gayety-"Americaa Beauties" 2:S and
Sis .. N
The Washington times., 1913-05-02

Inc tariff bill, to be sure. lists tim
Der. boards. planks. etc, as separate
articles, and perhaps they are But
when the Star" mentions lumber and
wocd.'' which it did last night, We con-
fess we don't sense the distinction.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02
But Why Wear Button Shoes2

q. S. X: An uncut book and no
PAPER cutter is JOY inCarnate compared
70 pair of button shoes and no button
hook Especially when the shoes are
new and stiff. the only pair IT. the house,
and you're due al the office in ten
minutes.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02
His Comeback.

RHODE ISLAND policeman Who
n was a prominent candidate IN
~ the election came home one day
much provoked at some misde-
meanor which his son. aged ten. had
committed.
Frank" he said sternly. do you
know. sir. that You are a candidate
for whipping
Il hope I'll be defeated. father" was
Young Franks reply, as he looked up
playfully at his sather.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02

"If said anything about the thrift, 20
stated Charles VI. Schwab. who at inter
Nals is quite a little starrr. 1T would
probably make matters wors...' And
for the first time in many mnations
the gentleman and We are in accord
The Washington times., 1913-05-02

We however, can tolerate the man
who wears "A genuine Pan ahead of the
chap who calls it ''gen-u-INE," with the
81" extremely long and narrow.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02
The Zeroeth Inning.
From tho .u.raId -

Milan got TO third in the Nationals
opener. and Shanks pulled up at the
Same post in The preceding chapter. but
there was nothing doing in the run line.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02

II you're thinking of buying a motor
cycle" advises Chennie. Call around
and see mine. Then you may change
your mind"
The Washington times., 1913-05-02

our conception Of nothing on which 10
IL wish front page space is the news tha,
the House has approved A certain
schedule Of the tariff bill;
The Washington times., 1913-05-02

G. F.'s idea OF the fine point OF fool
ishness: Buying a genuine Panama.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02

II you think You can stand i ,o,u Ist
YOU IN on an exclusive little morseI #
sp"rt!ng page info.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02

Inner information from the telegram
companies is that they don't care uoN
long the Jap leg station hanps fire.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02

While the Herald" evidently a wo-
mansuff paper. speaks of "men and
voters"
The Washington times., 1913-05-02
Completely No.

G. S. k: Do you know anything
more utterly useless than a program
ct musical comedy?
The Washington times., 1913-05-02

Speaking of musical comedies. you
have to hand it to them for being UP
to date, whatever else. The Passing
Show of 1872" in town last week, con-
tanned two wheezes from the Chest
nut Tree pages of May Everybody S"
which appeared about the twenty-:hird.
Speed Is right.
The Washington times., 1913-05-02

Personal AND PRIVATE
r. e. Many thanks
The Washington times., 1913-05-02

Griffith hopes to win today
The Washington times., 1913-05-02

word to soda fountaineers: When
serving ice cream always bury the
spoon as deeply as possible in the
cream. This makes 1t difficult to ex-
tricate the spoon without upsetting the
ice cream. and puts the consumer in
a pleasant state of mind. thereby aid
ing digestion.