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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15
By DOROTHY DIX.

no you think a young man
| should mention marriage to
a girl before he is able to
provide for wife?
Suppose d girl of nineteen, who
has not finished school. receives an
offer of marriage from a worthy
young man Of twenty four whom
she thinks she loves, but who has
not the means of establishing a
home or supporting wife, what
advice would YOU give her?
| am asked to answer these two
questions. Personally, | am strong
ly of the opinion that the game of
love should be played according to
the same ethics that rule in other
gambling games, and that man
should either put up-or shut up.
For his own sake, no less than
that of the girl the man who has
no way of supporting a wife should
keep out of matrimonial entangle-
ments, both present and future. He
has no more right to assume the
obliga tons of love- making, without
being able to make good for them,
than he has to buy an automobile
without having the money to pay
for it. In either case, he is getting
goods under false pretenses.
The long engagement is one of
the most blighting, and wearying,
and wearing of all human expert
ences. and it nearly always turns
out badly. 1t is a drag on a mans
ambitions. fetter to his liberty, a
continual expense that he generally
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15
Soon Loses It's Glamour.


If he and the girl live in the same
community, they rub the romance
off of their love by jar and fret,
and jealousies, and misunderstood
ings. because they are in an I'M
natural relationship where each
claims the authority of a husband
or wife over the others actions,
without having the jurisdiction that
matrimony gives.
If the man lives in a different
city from his betrothed and sees
her only occasionally, absence al
most invariably does its deadly
work and Stays love, and he goes
about dragging the letters of a long
engagement, dreading the day when
he must marry a woman Of whom
he is already tired.
For the girl the long engagement
is even more disastrous. Her posi-
ton is almost intolerable, because
she has no official place in society
She is neither maid, wife nor
widow. She has the privileges of
none of these estates and the draw
backs of them all. She spends her
time waiting, watching, hoping for
happiness that is always just
without her reach.
Before asking a girl to marry
him the man who lacks the price OF
a wedding ring should bear in mind
that so far as woman is con-
cerned her youth is her capital, not
only sentimentally, but financially
1t is the love time OF life for her
as IT is for a man, bat it is more
IT is her marrying time. \ man
may marry anywhere between the
cradle ard the grave. II doesn't
make any difference with his pros
poets whether he is slim and 1.-THE
and with ambrosial curls, or bay
windowed or bald headed.
But the ten years between 20 and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15
Must Depend Upon Relation.

~~S@N~NASA'
1t has required ali the science of
the nineteenth and twentieth CEN
turtles to produce the perfected
watches and chronometers of to-
day, but even they are 50 variable
that they would soon be of no use
If they were not constantly correct
ed by astronomical observations.
Man has come back to the point
where he began in the measure
ment of time. The rotating earth is
his only standard, and the entire
time system of the globe is based
upon the tireless watching of the
astronomers, who time the passage
of the stars over the meridian to
the fraction of a second. ana. 10y
electricity. flash the news that sets
tine watches aud clocks of the civ
ilizeG No.Ie
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15

BY PERCY SHAW.
Beyond the WhirI of biting snow
In one short flash his soul called
clear,
And rising in the Visions glow
Mother and boy smiled warm and
near.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15
What He Should Remember

1t isn't. A mans ability to sup
port a family and to get along III
the world has just as much to 90
with his wife's happiness az me
state of his affections. There ism L
much love talk going on in a house
. where the ever present conundrum
is how to pay the bills.
For these. and a million orne.
reasons that every girls father WI
point out to her. If she will listen TO
him, the wise maiden will wait un-
til a youth has shown that ne ha'
the ability to stand on his own lie
and play the game off Of his o"'
bat before she ties her life TO MS
And she won't promise TO wait '''
him. She will agree TO marry il.0
next month. In other words, SIR
will bestow herself as a re"@-
upon the victor, not hand hetsa
over as q consolation prize 10 '.'
failure.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15

who has been at Strasburg knows
the famous clock in the cathedral.
which towers up to the height of a
small house, and is populated with
automatons that march in process
sion and perform many curious
evolutions connected with the pas
sage of time, while the movements
of the planets and of the sun and
moon are also indicated.
The next step after the invention
of gravity clocks was the use of a
pendulum to regulate the motion.
Calico discovered the laws Of pen
dulum motion, and determined by
experiment the length of a pendu-
lum that would tick seconds, but
the first application to a clock was
made by Huygens in 1856.
The invention of coiled springs to
drive the clock movement also APP
pears to date back to the fourteenth
century, and 1t led to the contri-
vance of pocket clocks, or watches.
The old city of Nuremberg was the
earliest center of this industry. The
first watches were called "Nurem-
berg eggs" because they were egg
shaped, But the inaccuraCy of the
early watches is strikingly shown
by an anecdote of the Emperor
Charles V, after his retirement to a
monastery. He had a large number
Of watches Of the best make, and he
used to spend hours trying to make
them keep time together. It is said
that he once exclaimed; See what
a fool [ have been to squander so
much blood and treasure trying to
make men think alike when / can
not even make a few watches keep
=.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15

With fingers numb, with glazing
eyes,
The hero penned his last fare
well.
While riding swift the raging skies
Death Knocked the billiards. eerie
yell
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15
Danish Honor to soothe Wife.

II 49, OF course. nice point Of
honor that a man may not be heroic
enough to practice, but it's certain
ly the chivalrous thing Tor the man
who isn't ready to ask a woman to
name the wedding day to keen
away from sentiment and santf-
mental talk until he can afford the
luxury.
AS for a girl of nineteen engag-
ing herself to a man who has no,
the means of establishing a home
or supporting wife, she is silly
goose to do it. She should say to
such a young man, IF l am worth
having, l am worth working for
Prove your love by the way you
hustle, and when you have got
enough money to furnish d nice lit.
tie home, and insure US bread and
butter, come back and ask ne
again"
The real test of love is what we
are willing to do for another, and
no man can give q better proof Of
his devotion to his lady love than
the way In which he rolls up his
sleeves and sails into his job for
her sake. The lackadaisicaI lover
binding a girl to an interminable
engagement, while he signs around
because he can't make enoue
money to support her, is one mat
. rimonial proposition.
The fellow who works overtime
and who puts all of his strength
into every punch, because every
lick brings him that much nearer to
his wedding day. who denies him
self tobacco and beer to put the
money into furniture for the little
nest he is fixing up for the girl he
loves, is another matrimonial prop
Osition. And it doesn't take any fe-
male Solomon to see which one Is
the preferred risk.
It's a great pity that girls ara
taught that love is the only thing 10
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15
Earliest Clocks Run by Water.

In order. then. TO get an unvary-
ing measure for short periods of
time, they had to use their invent
i've faculties, and conuive some
kind of clock. The earliest de-
vices of this kind Were clepsydras,
or water clocks. \ water clock. in
its simplest form, consists of an up
right vessel with a small hole in
the bottom to let the water grad
ually escape, and marks to show
how far the water has descended
in a given time.
But here a difficulty was eucouu
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15

80 practically constitute a girls o.
portunity for making a good match
Her time is short, and she must
make hay while the sun of her
beauty shines. Therefore, if a
woman is to have a husband and
home of her own, she must secure
them while she is young.
This puts it up to a mans homo,
not TO selfishly bind a woman 10 his
own fortunes unless he has some
assured way of repaying her for
the sacrifices he asks of her and the
risks he forces her to take
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15
Earth's Rotations the Greatest of Clocks

n CORRESPONDENT asks for
~ information about the various
ways of measuring time that
men have invented. This is OF in
terest to everybody. for not only is
time our most precious possession,
but upon its accurate measurement
our whole civilization is largely
based.
The greatest, oldest and best
clock is the rotating earth, which
makes the heavens appear to turn
round us like a movable dial. If
the earth stood still on its axis we
should have no clear idea of time,
such as we now possess. But It
takes an astronomer, with his in
struments, to read this clock.
The first measure, Of time that
men employed was the length of the
day, between sunrise and sunset.
But when they tried to divide it
into twelve shorter periods, or
hours they found out two things
first, that if they would keep the
same number Of hours for the meas
ure of a day they must make them
longer in summer and shorter in
winter, and, second, that If they
wished 10 have the hours always
of equal length, they must count
more of them TO a day in summer
than in winter. They might have
divided Gas they did eventually
the whole period Of one day and
one night into hours Of equal
length, whose number would never
vary, but the first men We're not
astronomers. and had no means of
accurate observation of the stars.
1t was the daylight hours that were
important to them.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-27

lis 4t4hsat4Io "a AAA6@t - o4Au C44CoP
white goods alike are produced
by white slaves.
childlike in appearance or
gauHt from the chronic overstrain
that gives no time to make flesh,
these girls, most of them only
two or three years in this coun-
try, have learned that they can
not live on the wage, to earn
which they have. given, are CIV
ing, their youth.
For one maker of under mus
Inns who earns S16 a week, I find
that 100 receive So, $500 receive
So and 400 from So to 81. And
this in city where investigation
proves SO to be the minimum
wage for decent living.
White goods workers have laid
down their needles TO sing labor
songs. They march through the
streets martialled by self-sacri-
fcing and far-seeing women like
Leonor O'Reilly, secretary of the
Women's Trade Union league;
the dreamer of socialist dreams,
Josephine Casey, the clear-head-
ed organizer, secretary of the In
ternational Comments Workers
union, and Maggie Henchey,
laundry worker, veteran picket of
unnumbered strikes. ?
Two high school teachers have
offered their older girl students
as parade organizers, while girl
pickets, battered by the police for
lawful demonstration, lie in hos
pital beds, thinking up notices
II
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-27

y
her first story:
I have come to New York to
investigate the now famous gar
ment workers strike.
I went the first day of my So
iourn here on the great, teemiHg
east side of Manhattan, before it
was light, and I went picketing.
I had to go picketing to get my
story.
I talked to the striking girls I
talked to their leaders and I talk
ed to their late employers-they
who are. resisting, with their
power and their money, the de
mands of these moneyless, poWE
erless girls for a decent working
place.
This white goods workers
strike, I see at once, is a woman's
strike, for women, by women,
and largely due to women.
If the strikers. win, it will be
because they are guided by far
seeing women. But if they lose,
it will be due to the greed of I'M
scrupulous men, tyrannical
bosses.
Thousands upon thousands of
girls are out from scores of shops
big uptown shopS-and the
squalid factories of the sweated
sub-contractors of the contrac-
The Elbert County tribune., 1913-08-08
praped Lace Tunlcs.

Although. perhaps, the lace tunic
has a tendency to age its wearer, it
has compensating merits which rec
ommend it to women of middle age
and even younger women who have a
tendency to stoutness. For the close
fitting pointed tunic of black lace cut
with the upper part in the form of a
coat tends to make the figure look
slim In a manner that many, alas. find
eminently desirable as years come
fast upon them.
The favorite lace employed is Chan
tilly. and when one knows how to
drape artistically nothing can be more
elegant On the contrary. nothing
can be dowdier than a drapery which
seeks to be artistic and fails lament
ably in the attempt.
The Elbert County tribune., 1913-08-08
For the Rose Jar.

The following mixture has kept its
fragrance for twenty years: Gather
the rose petals on sunny day, in the
morning. The common. sweet-scented
varieties are best. Let stand in
cool place for two hours, toss them
and put into bowl or covered dish in
layers. Sprinkle each layer with salt
Keep adding to these until you have
enough stock" Into a large glass
jar place two ounces of crushed Gin
namon; then put in the stock, which
has been shaken up every morning
for two weeks. When all is in the
jar, let stand for eight weeks, COW
cred. 1t is now ready for the perma-
nent jar. Add two ounces of lavender
flowers and one ounce of shredded
(not powdered) orris root Mix well,
put into rose jar In alternate layers
with the rose stock and few drops
of oil of roses. Over this pour a
wine glass of good cologne, and from
time to time add fresh lavender flow
ers and rose petals.
The Elbert County tribune., 1913-08-08
BETTER THAN ANY COSMETIC
Combination of Repose and Relaxa
tion Is the Only Beauty Secret
That Is Worth Knowing.

There is a beauty secret. not found
in cosmetics, and which does not lin
ger in the perfume-laden hangings OF
the parlor of the masseuse. 1t is a
secret which any woman can possess,
and its magic effect is almost in.
stantly noted. The secret is merely
a combination of repose and relaxa-
tion.
A restful woman always appears to
advantage. There is culture in a re-
pose of manner that makes itself felt
both at home and in public There
is suggestion of reserve intellectual
strength, more impressive than the
uneasiness of the woman who feels
that her tongue or her body must be
in motion to let the world know she
Is in it.
At the same time, the wear and
tear will leave the marks of strain
on complexion and figure, which no
creams or lotions can remove. To
grow old gracefully and beautifully,
learn to take things easy. Repose is
more identifying than rouge, and re
taxation more bodybuilding than
massage.-Leslie's Weekly.
The Elbert County tribune., 1913-08-08
lake 0ppenheimer, Noted Grim
inaI Is Put to Death.
Murdered Many Men-HavIns Added
Several Killings to His Record
While in Prison. for One of
Which He Hanged.

Folsom, Cal.-"Jake" Oppenheimer.
known as THE Criminal OF the Cen
tury" and THE Tiger Man" because
Of his murderous ferocity, was put to
death on the gallows here for the muir
der of fellow-convict in Folsom
prison.
Oppenheimer WAS probably one of
the most remarkable criminals of the
age He had at least four murders
TO his credit and innumerable murder
GUS assaults. He commenced his
criminal career when a boy. Dis
charged by the superintendent of a
telegraph company In San Francisco.
he thereupon shot and killed the Of
fetal
0ppenheimer, in some way. beat
the eAse.' but three Years later was
sentenced to fifty years Imprisonment
for robbing drug store. This severe
sentence was given him because OF
evidence showing that he was dan
gerous and habitual criminal A man
named Ross testified against Open
heimer at his trial. at which time The
Man Tiger 'swore to be revenged.
Not long after Oppenheimer's ar
rival at Folsom prison. Ross was sent
there as a convict Oppenheimer wait
ed for him at the gate and stabbed
him TO death before the guards could
interfere A short time later Open
heimer murdered a guard named Nc
Donald As punishment he was placed
In solitary confinement, but obtaining
a file he made his way out and at
tackled fellow-convict named John
Wilson with butcher knife. Wilson
died few days later.
In 1901 the state legislature passed
law imposing the death penalty upon
any prisoner who should make an as
sault upon prison official or a fellow
prisoner. Under this law. Oppenhei-
mer was tried in October. 1907. for
the murder of Wilson. He was found
guilty. and was sentenced to die on
June 6, 1908.
Apparently supplied with plenty of
money, Oppenheimer fought his case
all the way up to the Supreme court
of the United States. but finally lost.
He then endeavored to obtain his
freedom by writ Of habeas corpus. but
in vain.
While awaiting the decision of the
courts in his efforts TO save himself
from the gallows. Oppenheimer was
kept In strict confinement at the Fol
som prison There he continued his
criminal career with uneQualed cum
ming and ferocity. In company with
two other criminals. prisoners. J. W..
Finley and San Francisco Quijada. Op-
penheimer made an attempt to break
out of the prison at midnight on jan
uary 4. 1910. by saving the bars OF
their cell They would have succeed
ed had not Night Captain Quigmire
detected them sneaking along the cor
ridor.
QuijBda. a half-breed .Yaqui Indian.
had attacked some OF the prison guards
several years before and had been sen
fenced to death under the law of 1901.
He appealed to the courts. and his
case was pending at the time when
Oppenheimer began his fight for his
life. There was considerable ill-feel-
ing between the-two prisoners from
the very beginning. and their mutual
The Elbert County tribune., 1913-08-08
EXCELLENT FOR TENDER SKIN
Victim Of Sunburn VIII Find Relief
In This Preparation, Which ls a
Home Remedy.

A preparation that will suit most
tender skins or skin that has been
sunburned is made by mixing togeth-
an ounce of powdered orris, two
ounces of powdered CASTLE soap, one
half drachm oil of bergamot, four
drops of bitter almond oil and a quar-
ter of drachm of extract of musk.
Only tepid water should be used on
the skin and after wetting 1t rub on
some of the above preparation in
stead of using soap, using the hands
to make the application because a
wash cloth usually causes friction and
this. added to a sunburned skin.
water is used and the skin is cleansed
with the hands and finally rinsed sew
eral times and with old soft towels
patted dry. Then mere suspicion
of cold cream is massaged into the
skin and SO left for the night.
Any girl or woman who will be
careful to protect her skin and care
for 1t as just described even though
it is naturally of dry texture will
not burn or tan nearly as quickly as
will the girl with the oily skin. One
would think that girl with oily skin
would not burn as readily as the girl
with the dry skin on account of suffi-
cient oily moisture. but nevertheless
1t has often been proven that she
burns even more quickly. Why this
is so is because of the difference in
the skin tissues
The Elbert County tribune., 1913-08-08
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDMSCHOOL
LESSON

tBy f. o. SELLERS. Director OF Even
ing Department The Moody Bible In
stitutc OF chlcago)
The Elbert County tribune., 1913-08-08
WAS LURED BY GOLD
How Plague Ship Captain Sc
cured an Engineer.
DeIuded Man Was Later Startled by
Elaborate Courtesies of His Chief
and Succession of Burials
at Sea.

New York.-The favorite story Of
Capt. Walter Ancker. superintendent
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroads
floating equipment at pier No. 22, foot
of Jay street. North river. who died
some time ago. was of his expert
ence on a plague ship.
Ancker was assistant engineer on
the German steamer Minister Achen-
bach, which lay at Nikolaiev, on the
Bug river. One day he and Captain
Kahmke were discussing bubonic
plague in the cabin on the bridge
deck when Captain Stringer OF the
British tramp Sea Gull came along
side in one of his boats, very much
excited.
"A hundred pounds In gold for an
engineer" shouted the captain. I'm
short OF engineers I'll drop him off
at Constantinople and there you can
pick him up"
Captain Kahmke advised Ancker to
accept the offer. saying the Achen-
bach would be at Constantinople in
about a week. Ancker accepted it
and turned over half of the 100 pounds
in gold to his captain for safe-keeping
and tucked the other half inside his
belt
Inside of half an hour the young
engineer was aboard the Sea Gull.
which already had steam up In the
Bug. She was low down in the water.
She had Just returned from India. and
, her crew embraced Lascars. Russians.
Firms and English. All the officers
were English.
The captain was unusually hospi-
table. He came to the engine room.
bringing flask of brandy and box
of cigars to the engineer and asking
him not to leave the engine room and
not to spare the cigars and brandy.
1t looked suspicious-such liberal
hospitality.
At four bells of the first watch En-
7 gineer Ancker decided to steal lit
tie sleep In a comfortable armchair
which the skipper had sent below. He
stepped first into the alleyway, where
were the berths labeled respectively
Engineer First Engineer ard
Second Assistant Engineer" In the
first room he saw the form OF a man
in the bunk. In room No. 2, darker
than the first. he touched man ap-
parently asleep. bottle OF brandy by
his side. From the bunk In the
third room Ancker grabbed blanket
and wrapped himself in 1t in his chair
In the engine room
What's the trouble?" the new en-
gineer asked sailor
DO you think 1t is measlesf" re-
turned the man contemptuously.
Questioning the sailor more closely,
Ancher learned that nine out of the
crew OF SO we're already dead, includ-
ing the regular engineer, the first as
sistant and the second assistant
whose hunks the understudy had Wis.
tied during the previous night
Twice again on that day there were
splashes alongside. Ancker took fire.
quent small nips of brandy. smoked
cigars. dranz boiled water only and
ate sparingly.
Ancker bribed a bumboatman to
set him ashore at Pera on the oppo
| site shore.
The Elbert County tribune., 1913-08-08
DOGS LIFE TO SAVE CHICKS
Flohts copperhead, as venomous Rep
tile lmperiied His
Mistress.

Pottsville. Pa.-When Mrs. Robert
Helms went to the chicken coop to
see why her fowls were making an
unwonted noise. she found that a
four>foot oopperhead had coiled up in
the yard and was giving battle to a
dog, which had driven the reptile away
from a half-devoured chicken.
She endeavored to strike 1t with a
broom when the snake made thrust
at her. narrowly missing. Her screams
brought men from their work near
by, and they soon killed the snake.
The dog was victim of the fangs
of the reptile. and will likely die from
the poison. which he endeavored In
vain to lick from his wounds.
The Elbert County tribune., 1913-08-08
Put Loop In Hat.

Women know what hard task 1t is
to hang up their hats. The office girl
nnds a new place every day for her
hat 1t is on the desk, the shelf or
pinned on the wall with big hatpins.
A new way. says the Los Angeles Ex-
press, is to take piece of tape or
baby ribbon, make loop about four
inches long, sew 1t to the gathered
part of the lining of your hat and
that's all Hang up your hat by the
loop on the rack. nail or any available
place.