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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-07
By EBERT HUBBARD

Viewing the subjet from every
possible standpoint, the life in
surance policy relieves the en-
barrassment covering very deli
cate proposition; its giving is also
a graceful. gracious, generous
act, altogether in the line of COM
mon sense, sentiment, economies
and sound eugenics.
Further. the plan puts the man
on his good behavior Not only
must he be able to pass the exam
ination so as to secure the policy.
but he must have the money 10
pay for the first years premium.
Just before marriage a man I,
generous, If he ever is IN his life
The woman who expects her
husband to take out life insur-
ance policy after they are welded
may find postponement and
"Huerta Manana" snoozing on
the doorstep.
The old time post-nuptial
agreement was nearly as bald a
proposition as the suggested
health certificate.
The life insurance policy soft
ems down the angularities of both.
l would really like to see Fed
eral law passed covering this
question. If not that, then let
each State pass a law of its own.
Among the Presents.
That the States have a right to
fix the conditions under which
marriage shall occur is freely ad-
mitted, and no honest or capable
man would object to the insig-
nificant tax involved, especially
in view Of the fact that the policy
Is worth the money, being issued
by a company supervised by gov
eminent.
Under these conditions it's issu-
ance would be not only a duty,
but privilege.
You can not very we'll hand
around a certificate of health at
the supper table for the entire
family to inspect. Neither would
it look we'll on the piano among
the bridal presents.
A life insurance policy, how
ever, is occasionally even now
found among the gewgaws and
jimcracks. No one Is ever shock
ed. Its lines are pleasant. and all
that II suggests is beautiful, right
hygienic and altogether lovely
Life insurance, like fire insur-
ance, after all, is for the insured
He is the beneficiary.
Fire insurance is for the man
whose property doesn't burn up
and a life policy is for the man
who lives. There is no benzoate
of soda in a life insurance policy
The fact that a man is insured
makes him better citizen, and,
believe. a better husband and IA
Their. So there you are.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-07

~ EVERAL States in the Union
have adopted laws providing
for a physical examination
of the prospective bridegroom
and a refusal Of the marriage Ii
cense to all who fail to pass.
But securing a certificate of
health, however, and presenting
it TO the interested parties is a
rather uncanny affair.
Altogether it involves a degree
Of publicity that is rather embar
RAISING for quite a number of
people concerned.
A Bridegroom Policy.
Nature works by indirection.
She gets the thing she wants by
going after something else.
In this matter of eugenics let
us take lesson from the dame.
My suggestion is that every
man, before the marriage cere-
mony is performed, comply With
one little requirement.
That is, let him present to the
prospective bride an insurance
policy on his life.
The size Of the policy he can fix
himself. The amount will mir
ror his financial status, not his
love. Let it be for a minimum of,
say, one thousand dollars, with
no limit to the ante on the max
imum
A life insurance policy implies
the health Of the individual, and
all medical examiners will under
stand and appreciate the impor-
lance as well as the import OF
"A Bridegroom's Policy"
An insurance policy puts the
whole thing on a gracious, grace
full and generous ground.
An insurance policy is valua-
BILE gift, and when it comes as
love token it will be especially
priced.
If woman gives her life into
the keeping OF man, why should
not the man in return give her at
least policy on his life?
Not only is life insurance pol
icy guaranty of health, but it is
also i guaranty Of something
quite as important, and that is
business acumen.
To be able to secure a life in
surance policy is a privilege. Not
every man can get one.
A Health Certificate.
But in the past anybody could
get married, and can yet, who is
able to pay a license fee Of so
cents.
As for the clergyman, we can
stand him off.
A life insurance policy is a GER
tificate of character, a certificate
of health, a symbol of economic
sufficiency and efficiency-all in
one.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-07
From EDWIN MARKHAM.

TTELEN KELLAR, in many
ways the most wonderful
woman of the age, has
, 1913-03-26

that these feeding scenes gather a crowd
of them
The blue footed gull is not nearly so nu-
merous. Roar Christensen has a remark
able photograph of it. The bird is sitting
on q piece of ice in one of tire lakes here in
the capital, surrounded by q noisy crowd OF
its more confident cousins. 1t knows thnt
it differs much from them, and dare not
altogether trust itself in their power,
while the hooded guIls on their side are
perfectly aware that they have here a new
rival in the food question.
Besides the swans and the gulls, Orsted
Park shelters wild ducks. There are at
present, SO far as | can see, only the commcn
Wild ducks or mallards in the Park, but if
the winter had been sharper and the Sound
hnd been frozen over more than it actually
was, sea ducks also would have strayed
therein. .Strdyed, however, is q wrong
expression, for sea ducks visited. ut all
events last year, of their own free
viii, the lakes, which could also at times be full
of tufted ducks, birds which in an opening
out oh the ice sheet do not allow themselves
to be approached.
The wild ducks or mallards are all in their
Spring dress, and the brakes especially show
themselves off the deep green colour of the
head, the white ring around the neck, and
the silky side feathers exhibit for US one Of
Natures creatures which it is Il 10y Of the
eyes to behold. 1t is the nice oats IN the
City magistrates swan trough, which are so
great an attraction for the wild ducks. BY
day, it IS true, they don't get much the
swan is by nature contentious and asserts
his superiority, only a right down imposing
sparrow multitude knows how to pass under
the eyes OF the royal bird. But when the
darkness comes Oh, then is the wild ducks
time, then it takes its revenge, and has only
the rat to fight with.
One can appreciate III a high degree the
interest for the birds which is being aroused
IN the CONSCIOUSNESS Of the public; he who
has otherwise never paid Orsted Park n visit
ought to do 80 in these days, and if he has
an opera glass with him he will be able to
get from Nature many a scene which is full
OF the tricks he knows from the behaviour Of
his fellow men.
II
, 1913-03-26
ANIMAL LIFE IN ORSTED PARK,
COPENHAGEN.
(IranSIated from "h1Jenhogrs' Of nh
FebruarY)

How attractive it is at this time of the
year to take ones morning walk through
Orsted Park! Il now offers n view which the
handsome flower beds OF summer cannot sur
pass; a bird life prevails here, within its own
Drecincts, which shews how little it needs to
enable great numbers of the free birds of
the air TO reconcile themselves gladly with
the civilized life of q capital city.
1t is not SO many years ago hat one saw
only the City Magistrates flock of swans
disporting themselves ia the ancient moat;
now it has happened that their regular feed
ing and the peace which reigns leads to the
addition of what is understood by wild life.
At times there are focks of gulls in the Park;
DOT only the sea gulls (H@ttemaage or hood
ed gully assemble here in considerable mum
beers, but we also find the blue-footed gull
(Stormmaage or storm gull with the blue
grey wings, and it is amusing to notice how
this more shy bird in the beginning has been
regarded with an evil eye SO to speak by the
rest of the gull assembly.
Excellent amateur photographers like c..
Ruhow and Roar Christensen have long ago.,
through their pictures, made us familiar with
the life aud behaviour of the gulls thus the
first named has given rs bird books about both
the hooded gull and the blue-footed gull and
bias at the same time done his share to make
these winged creatures Of the ocean, The
Miller's Hens" as they are called in Samso,
at home with the public here in Copenhagen,
in about the same degree as pigeons are.
The hooded gull, which is already about
to get his black summer cap on his head, is
the light and graceful bird. In very many
places about the town he IS fed daily peo-
pie who dwell high up, say on the fourth
floor or in the garreI, find pleasure in open
ing their windows at certain times of the
day to throw out fragments of bread to their
Gown birds" A singular facility in sur
prising acrobatic movements in tue air are
exhibited by the bird as it dives after the
Iood, thrown out, aud one can understand
, 1913-03-26

at various places, such as Terre Haute, Indi-
ana, and Council Bluff, Iowa. Through
Omaha the wind levelled buildings over a
front four to six blocks wide and several
miles i'll length.
Wireless reports from the "Tietgen," Of
the scandinavian line, advise that she has
rescued III mid-ocean the passengers of the
steamship "rexas", bouud from Christiaula
or Gulf ports, which had lost her pro-
pellers.
Trinidad, 25th- The r. VI. S. Berbice, on
her return voyage from Laguayra to Tlini-
dad, went ashore on Sunday at Mangles
Point, on the isl and If Margalita, and lies
on a mul bottom unchanged. The RMS.
'.Jamaica'', with Captain Owen aboard.
left yesterday evening to render assistance,
The 'Balantia' leaves this evening on the
northern island route, and the mails and pas
sengers for Demerara will go by frat OPP
portunity.
Trinid. ID, 25th-The r. NJ. Company an
nounce that the Demerara passengers, maj S
and cargo will be transferred from the
Thames to the S. S. Ocamo leaving here to-
morrow afternoon for Demerara.
New York, March, 25lh
aEIour, Winter Clears per OarIel 4 2j-4.30.
Meal, kilndtied, per bnrrel $2.S5
New Seasons Pork no quotation.
Heavy Mess Pork $22 224
Crystals per lOOibs. sos
'"S"'' Muscovado 80 test lootb,. s3.o8
MoIusses Eng. Islds. per gal. no quotation.
Liverpool Cotton, middIing Upland, 90 lOd.
Exchange, New York &London, SO days sight
1913
Exchange New York and London, sight 1877
London. March 25th.
Dem. CRYSTALS l55. 6l-l7s. 81.
Muscovndo, boating terms IN
0'2"f' bond, 9s. 6l.-9s. 81
German beet IS f. o. b. 8, 103 |.
java Sugar 5000 Gibraltar or Channel for
orters, floating terms, lis. 3d.
Demerura Rum, Is. ids SD.
Trinidad Cocoon, good mIdd"ua iel, uomi-
nal ur cwt. 74S.
cotton, Medium Fine Stat Liverpool nominal
per Ib Is. 2d.
Bank of England Rate OF discount 5.
Cousols 73@
Three per cent Rentes in Paris 800.
, 1913-03-26
EXPORT OF DANISH AGRICULTURAL
PRODUCTS IN 1912.

Based on Statistical reports from January
TO the middle CT December and supplement-
cd for the latter half of the month of De-
cember by special weekly reports from the
most important export centres concerning
Agricultural export the States Statistical
Bureau has published the fallowing particu-
lars with regard to the export of the most
important Danish agricultural products for
the year 1872.
Buter, Cream If MN.
or Danish Butter was exported in 1912
somewhat over $50 mill. ky, of which about
3 mill. k9. were packed in tins. In 1917 was
exported 89t, in 1910 S84, 1909 somewhat
over 80 aud in 1908 about SO mill. ky. From
1911 to 1912 the actual butter export was
reduced by about 4 mill. ky. there being at
the same time nevertheless Il large rise in the
cream export, and the total butter quantity
IN the exported milk and cream can for 1912
be estimated at about 81 mill. ky. against
somewhat owe, 7 mill. ky. in 1911 and some
what over So mill. ky. in 1910. Thus the
total export from Dairy Farming can be reck-
oned to be reduced by ! to 2 mill. ky. but
ter i'll 1912. The actual export of cream Il
milk was in 1912 a little under 2T5 mill. ky.
cream and somewhat over 81 mill. ky. milk
against respectively 20 & l05 mill. kg. III
1911. Inc butter Price was on an average
tor the whole year about 800 higher III 1912
than in 1911, it reached thus 220 Ore pr. ky.
the highest average price for the preceding
years was PA in 1911 and in 1908 2O5 Ore
per ky. In the total value of the export of
Butter, Cream and Milk the diminution in
quantity and rise in price will probably result
in a rise of about 2 mill. Kr.
In the ordinary form of packing-barrels
we find in 1912 about II mill. ky. Of the
export going to Great Britain, somewhat over
% mill. ky. to Germany and somewhat over
3 mill. to Austria. In 1911, 1910, 1909 &
10, 8 the export to Great Britain was respec-
lively 81.1, 82.5, 83,7, and 85.1 mill: ky, and
there has consequently for several years been
a decline. For the same period of time Eng
lands total consumption of butter from
abroad or from her colonies taken as d whole
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-17
COOKING A PILL"
That Is What Opium Smokers Call
"Hitting the Pipe"

Hitting the Pipe"
The opium smoker in the act of
smoking is said to be cooking a pill"
Smokers of tobacco In seeing opium
pipes have been misled into the belief
that the large bowl of the pipe is filed
with opium when really the 'pill' is
simply pasted over a tiny opening In
the cover Of the bowl Heating of the
bowl produces dense fumes, which are
drawn through the bowl and the stem
of the pipe into the smokers mouth.
Neither does one pipe of opium pro
duce stupor. A pin" dazes only ever
an inexperienced smoker as large
drink would effect person unused to
alcohol The opium users who have
been pictured stretched on hunks Of
opium dens in utter stupor have been
saturated with the drug.
Reclining on bed. the smoker places
the layout within easy reach and lights
the lamp. Peanut oil, burning slowly
and without evil odors or fumes, is used
exclusively. The smoker is then ready
TO prepare his pill"
The yen-hok or dipper. long. nee
die shaped instrument. is put into the
opium receptacle and turned slowly in
the black and sticky substance until a
small quantity OF opium adheres to the
point. 1t is then placed over the fame
of the lamp, and. turning the dipper,
the smoker rolls and cooks the pilI'
until IT is ready for the pipe.
The tiny speck is then thrust into the
opening Of the bowl. which. held above
the lamp. slowly begins to produce
opium fumes, which are drawn in by
the smoker through the stem Of his
pipe The pill" lasts only from thirty
to forty seconds, and TO enjoy another
smoke the same preparations have 10
be repeated. New York Tribune.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-17
AN INSoLENT WRITER.
He Found He Couldn't Dictate to a
Typica John Bull.


Typica John Bull.
That sprouting Scotch peer, the Earl
Of Leyon, who rebuked ship news re-
porter who approached him by declar'
ing that mo gentleman ever speaks TO
another without an introduction; ii
simply isn't done is an old friend of
James Francis Dwyer. the Australian
novelist that is. Dwyer doesn't actu-
ally know the Earl of Leyon, but he
knows his sweetly British sort
Il ought to" said Dryer. Il was
broke in London and | learned to
know the true Briton Once | an
swered an advertisement for literary
secretary TO make certain that my
letter would be read | wired the ad
vertiser as follows:
"'Do not engage literary secretary
until you have read my letter of APP
plication.
THAT letter was gem. thought |
would land the place with it sure. /
was certain of it when large. square
letter directed me to appear at a nam
et duuitNS az d EiNOll bOuis IL ha' q
four penny bus ride. but didn't care.
My fortune was opening out before me.
| squandered the fourpence without a
misery thought A pOmpous butler
ushered me into a black oak library,
where the original stuffed model of
John Bull sat at table, sat down
meekly and waited to be spoken to.
"Blam. He hit the desk with his
cinched hand.
"'You cannot dictate to an English
man. said this old image.
mo, sir said
~ tell you he shouted. you cannot
dictate to an Englishman"
Certainly not. said.
"But you tried to. he said Yon
sent me this impertinent telegram. No
Englishman would have done that. II
was an American trick
Il tried to soothe him, for | wanted
that job. But he got hotter and hotter.
Finally he told me outright that he had
hired a young man who once had work
ed for lord.
- have sent for you said he. and
you should be grateful to me in order
to teach you a proper respect for the
traditions of England and for the Brit
ish flag
"'You old FOSSIL said I, If | had a
British flag here Id tear it in two and
choke you to death with it. '"-Chicago
News.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-17
A FOOLS Identity.

Some of the best known people pass
unrecognized by those to whom they
should be known Harold Frederick
sat one night at dinner next a man
whose very silence and taciturnity
caused him the more closely covertly
TO survey him. Not word was ex-
changed between the two. who was
that hopeless idiot that sat next to nj
dinnery' asked Frederick at the close
of the meal THAT hopeless idiot was
Cecil Rhodes" he was answered. II
was the fact The Colossus had been
in one of the moods in which he would
not talk, and Frederick, though he had
seen his portrait a hundred times. had
not recognized him.-St James Ca
zette.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-17
Positive Proof.

An Irishman and Scot were argu-
ing as to the merits of their respective
countries.
"Ah. wcel." said Sandy, they toor
doom an aud castle in Scotland and
foond nanny wires under il. which
shows that the telegraph was knoon
there hoondreds o. years ago
"Well," said Pat. they toor down an
ould castle in Oireland. and, begorra.
there was no wires found undher it.,
which shows that they knew all about
wireless telegraphy In Oireland hun
dreds av years ago."-Exchange.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-17
Stores Up Sleep.

II would be great convenience II
one could store up sleep as a camel
stores up water. and correspondent
assures us that he knows one man who
has acquired, to some extent, this use
full habit. He goes to bed on Saturday
night and more than sleeps the clock
round. seldom rising before o'clock
Sunday evening. Throughout Sunday
night he can work. and for the rest Of
the week three hours in bed each night
suffices him, and he is always ht-LOn-
don Globe
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-17
Inundated Hubby.

A newly married couple had had a
little disagreement about some cakes
which the wife had made. The bus
band complained that those his mother
used to produce were far superior. On
the next day the girl set before him a
plate Of hot cakes.
Now you have achieved something"
he exclaimed enthusiastically. These
are exactly like what mother used t.
make. How did you do IT."
Il will give you the recipe" replied
the wife coldly. II used>margarine In
stead Of butter. eggs a year old. put
alum in the -four and added plenty OF
water TO the milk."-London t-Bits.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-17
Coughs.
Hard coughs, old coughs, tearing coughs.
Give Ayers Cherry Pectorni chance.
Sold for 20 years.
Al. 49, No. 10 Aver Co.
49, tOur DOCtof. lowell, Mas.
Estate of James E. Sheldon
CTATE OF VERMONT.

STATE OF VERMONT. The Honor
- District of Remington. -. able Probate
Court for the District Of Bennington;
To all persons Interested IN the estate Of
James e sheldon. late Of Readsboro in said
District deceased. GREETING:
At Probate Court. holden At Bennington
within and for said District on the 18th day OF
January, 1919 an instrument purporting TO be
the last Will and Testament Of James Z.
sheldon. late OF ReadeborO IN said District.
deceased. was presented to the Court Aforesaid
Tor Probate.
And il Is ordered by said Court that the 7th
day OF February. 1918. az the Probate Once in
said Bennington. be assigned for proving said
instrument. and that notice thereof be given
to al persons concerned. BY publishing this
order three weeks SUCCESSFULLY in the Benning-
ton Evening Banner a newspaper circulating
IN that vicinity. in said District previous 70
the time appointed.
THEREf0RR you are hereby notified 20 ap-
rear befOfc said Court. At the time and place
sforessid. and contest the probate Of said vii
III you have cause.
Given under my hand at Bennington 10 sid
District. this 18th day OF Jauary, 1913
GRACE r. HOLT. Register.
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HoM,s Tnis Z

We offer Cne Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any ease of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure.
FL. CHENEY & CO. TOLEDO. o.
We tho unders gned. have known r j.
Cheney Tor the last Is years. and believe
him perfectly honorable IN an business
transa rfions and Financially able % carry
sut any Obligations made by his firm.
NaT.ON.L BANK o. COAiMEr e.
Toledo o
Halls Catarrh euro IS t1'-en Internally.
acting directly Lgiun fse- blood and mu-
cous su' faces ~ frc fVrI crr1. '-r-f .rioniala
sent FIRE. pri-r % cents p.r lnitlc Sold
~ on Trurrisfs.
axe Halls FAMILY Pills fa- constipation
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-17
rsa-Medieine and Poison.

Tea has been extoled as medicine
and decried as poison. In the British
museum there is a broad sheet issued
by the founder of Garraway,s. in which
it is claimed for tea that it "helpeth
the headache, removeth the obstruc-
tions of the spleen. cleareth the sight
and purifieth adult humours and hot
liver. 1t prevents and cures agues. sur
feits and fevers; prevents consumption,
is good for colds, dropsies and scurvies
and expeleth infection" Tom Hood,
on the other hand, declared that
If wines poison so is tea,
Though in another shape.
What matter whether one is killed
BY canister or grape?
London Globe.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-17
He Didn't Know Art.

where did you get that marble
Itatuette. my dear?"
why, at Martino's. Isn't It lovelyg
And such a bargain. II was marked
half on Didn't you see the tagT
Yes. but / thought the tag referred
to the clothing" Cleveland Plain
Dealer
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-17

INoR sALE-The wabridge Homestead on
L Imperial Avenue; IL room house, nTst
floor. parlor, living room with open fireplace;
dining room, kitchen, den or olhce Seeo Oiio
large basement with laundry, vegetable Gel.
lar. steam heat and electric lights. Large lot
with frontage OF $50 feet. depth OF ooo f leSr,
nice lawn and drive ways, over W cholcc lrult
t,ees One of the finest views in bennington,
House nearly new and in the best of repair
Ths property can be bought at less than act
mai value and on easy terms II sold at 4nce.
Apply W He' " o8tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-17
WOMEN PLAN PLANE swooP
suHraeist Asked 20 Descend During
Inaugural Pageant

Washington, Jan. 15.-The mana
gers OF the suffragist parade to be
held here on March have invited
Miss Bernetta Miller to swoop down
into Pennsylvania avenue in her aero
plane on that day with a message for
Miss Columbia" the central figure
in tableaus. which will be staged on
the steps Of the Treasurey Depart
ment.
The message Is planned as a pro
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-17
HER TEETH TOO COSTLY
SO Beautiful, Too, That Bandits Take
Them from Her

Cincinnati, Jan. l5.-Held up. chic
reformed. a set of false teeth extract
ed from her mouth. and then left ly-
ing on the floor of a dark hallway by
two masked highwaymen, was the ex-
perience of Mrs. Horace Kamp. early
this morning.
Mrs. Kamp had been visiting a
neighbor and when she entered the
hallway Of her home she was set up
on by the highwaymen. Why they
took her teeth, she cannot explain,
saying that perhaps il was because
they were valued at S35 and the high
waymen noticed their beauty.
She says she will forgive the rob
bers If they will only bring back the
teeth. 10 enable hes to eat
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-17

Darling" said the fond youth. pro
ducing a ring. which is the right en-
eerY'
For goodness sake. Algy" respond
ed the maiden. Don't you know
Nineteen years old and never been en-
gagged to a girl beforeT-Chicsgo TTib-
unc