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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-14

TABITS. which encrust US like bar
II nacles before we are aware of
their existence begin when we
are too young to know what the word
means. I'VE are all creatures of habit,
we say as we grow older, and expect
that admission to serve as an excuse,
which is only another bad habit hope
my girls will never acquire.
There are so many million things to
which a girl may grow deaf dumb,
blind and paralytic, all from habit. She
grows deaf to the tone of authority in
her mothers voice; dumb, when giving
her confidence to her mother would be
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-14
Right the First Time.

Baker, was out in Blakeley's mo-
tor last week He has everything in
it. even a pedometer.
Barker-You mean speedOmeter. old
man. pedometer is an instrument for
how far you walk.
Baker-An right; I'll stick to pc
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-14

t is not generally known that Mil
ton, the author of Paradise Lost, "
one of the most stately and ma
jestic poems in the English language.
once wrote a punning epitaph on the
carrier who piled between Cambridge
and London and who sickened in the
time of his vacancy being forbid to go
to London by reason of the plague to
quote the poets own words. The car
rier was none other than that Hobsoh,
whose choice" has become so famous.
1t appears that he used to let out his
horses on hire, but. no matter how
pressing the need. the traveller had 10
take the horses Hobson offered or none,
so that today the phrase "Hobson's
choice" is used to signify no choice 1t
all.
Millions poem written on the death
of this carrier is too long to quote in
full, but one or two passages will suf-
flee to show with what skill he played
with words
Rest, that gives all men life, gave him
his death,
ana 100 lnuCn breathing put MN Oul VI
breath;
Nor were it contradiction to affirm
Too long vacation FASTENED on mis-
term
And again he says, referring to Hob
sons prosperity:
Yet Cstrange to think his vain was
his increase
Inveterate Punsters.
Nor is Milton the only poet whose
works have become immortal who
stopped to pun. Shakespeare, is is
well known, was an inveterate punster,
and DIR. Johnson in his preface to an
edition of the poets works, severely
censures him for playing with words on
serious occasions. For example, in an
swer to King Richards question:
What comfort, man? How list with
ancient Gaunt?" the playwright puts
into the mouth Of Gaunt the words
90 how that name BELTS my compost
ton! Old Gaunt, indeed. and gaunt in
being old Within me grief has kept
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-14
Why Should She?

Come, now, Hemina. said the
Whtechapel bridegroom. you're go
in to sly obey when You comes to
it i'm the service, amt YOU
"Wot me- cried the bride. Me s'v
obey 10 YOU? Why, blow me, En-
merry. you amt 'arf me size!"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-14
No Use for Him.

1--WE got you down for a couple Of
tickets. We're getting up a rattle for
a poor man of our neigh"
None for me- thank you. / wouldn't
know what to do with a poor man if
won him"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-14
Got Nothing on Auntie.

Tommy don't think auntie will
stay; she didn't bring any luggage.
Johnny-Hush, Look how long the
baby has stayed, and he didn't bring
ANYTHING.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-14
New Evidence.

why do you want new trial?"
ION the grounds of newly discovered
evidence, your honor
whats the nature of it?"
My client dug up $500 that l didn't
know he had"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-14
High Enough.

oh Jack. I must have new dress
for Muriel's party!"
Dress, dress-nothing but dress,
Haven't you mind for anything high
er than dress?"
Higher? Yes. l need new hat"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-14
Ought to Get It.

con what ground do you seek a di-
vOrce. madam"
"Incompatibility. | want a divorce
and my husband doesn't"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-14
Do You Know
That

Some remarkable statements about
the effect of music on the growth of
hair are made by Mr. Henri DeParville
Musicians, it appears, are bald in the
proportion of eleven per cent, but
amongst instrumentalists the influence
of musical vibrations makes itself felt
in two opposite directions, according to
the class of instrument. Thus, while
string instruments prevent and arrest
the falling off Of the hair, the brass in
struments exercise the most deadly in
fluence upon the scalp. The piano and
the violin. especially the former, have
an undeniable pTeservative effect The
ViolOncello, the harp and the double
bass all partake of the beneficial ef-
feCts of the piano. on the other hand.
the effect of the brass Is deplorable.
The trombone is the most deleterious
of all. for in five or six years the play
er has lost at least 90 per cent of his
hair.
Billibid prison, at Manila, was the
scene recently of the production of Il
play, written, staged and acted by pris-
oners, in a theater specially built by
prisoners and before an audience COM
posed of prisoners.
A peculiar fact about the banana is
that no insect will attack it. and an
other is that it is immune from the
diseases that fruits are subject to.
According to the latest golf statistics,
American golfers buy 100000 golf
balls year.
The worlds record for pole jumping
is l3 feet l inch. t..
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-14
Fortunes and Titles Given Up For
the Love of Women

THAT love often makes a fool OF
the cleverest men in history fur
nishes abundant proofs, ever since
and long before) Mark Anthony fell I'M
der the spell of Cleopatra's dark eyes
and crowded a career of folly with sui
eide.
sheridan revealed in the role of hack
rev- coachman for the pleasure of driv-
ing his adored Nightingale of Bath"
10 her home night after night and eX-
changing love glances with her under
the eyes of her unsuspecting father:
and Canning put on groom's livery and
did stable work in exchange for the de-
light of escorting, as groom in attend
ance, his masters daughter in her daily
rides.
William Pitt, most unsentimental of
men. as he considered himself was so
intoxicated by the charms of pretty
maid Of Devon that he drank her health
out Of one of her dainty shoes; and Mr..
Sellwood, a notable man of the day,
actually served as footman in the house
of the lady he loved for 20 long years,
until her husbands death set her free
TO accompany him to the altar.
And so it has always been-from
the German baron who had his right
hand cut off because it had accidentally
struck the cheek Of the woman whose
little finger was more to him than his
whole body, to the gilded young French
nobleman who served years of appren-
ticeship to the law and won fame as
an advocate to prove to his lady love
that he was not the butterfly of pleas
ure she fancied.
Peasant Girl and Count.
There is no year that does not yield
its crop of similar stories of men who
have proved that no sacrifice is too
great to win a lady's favor. When the
youthful Count Francis Erbach sue
cumbed at sight of a peasant girl whom
he met one day when riding in the for
est at Erbach, he determined that she
and no other should be his wife, cost
what 1t might. That Anna Schultz
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-14
Peasant Girl and Count.

Habit is all l shall have to re-
port when | am called upon to plead
TO my conscience, on my death bed.
Habit says l; I was deaf, dumb,
blind and paralytic to a million
things from habit
-DOMBEY & SON.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-14

earned her daily bread at the washtub
mattered nothing to this heir to ST.
100000 year. He defied his fathers
anger, fed with his present maid to
London, and married her-a disinher-
tied outcast.
L do not for a moment regret the
step l have TAKEN" he said. "On the
contrary, We are perfectly happy. l
intend TO work for my living, and
have already taken steps to find en-
ployment"
1t was with the same proud spirit Of
self-sacrifioe that Prince Eberwyn zu
Bentheim- Steinfurt, cousin of the queen
of Holland, gave his hand short time
ago in the Strand registry office in
London TO Fraulein Lagenfeld, the
daughter of a tradesman who had be-
gun life as a peasant.
A German Shop Girl.
The German emperor himself had in
vain tried to dissuade him from such
mad STEP He turned a deaf ear to
all the threats and entreaties of his
family, and formally renounced the
heirship of $1,250,O0O a year to his
younger brother, Prince Victor. And
when he had thus condemned himself
to poverty and obscurity, he declared
II need not say that am more than
happy. AS long as 1 live, | shall re-
joice that | had the f1rmness to place
my happiness and that of my bride
above the medieval prejudices of my
house"
While Prince Eberwyn was thus
gladly sacrificing rank and riches for
love. Count Hans Won Hochberg, heir to
the Duchy of Rohnstock, was standing
at an altar in New York state with
Fraulein Louise Carow. a German shop
girl, for whose sake he had abandoned
his claim to the family estate and dig
mites. 81 am going to earn my living
as a chauffeur" this young hero of ro-
nance said; and l know that l shall
be happier sharing poor home with
the woman l love than II were Duke
of Rohnstocl1 with 100000 year, but
without her"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-17
KANSAS is SIXTH PREPARE FOR FAIR WOULD FIGHT Bill
Congress Would Not Pass
Ocean-tO-Ocean Measure.
Such is Opinion of Walter Stan.
dow, Good Roads Booster.

Larned. Kan, March 17.-According
to Walter Standow, a writer of New
York, who spent a few hours here re-
Gently with 'tBill'' Brown, the famous
Alaska mail driver, the ocean-to-ocean
highway, hobby of good roads boosters
from New York to San Francisco will
never be built by congressional ap-
propria ton. Mr.. Standow is making
the trip overland from New York to
San Francisco with Brown in smaLi
wagon drawn by two gray timber
wolves and three large dogs. He is
student of good roads matters and is
writing articles during the trip Tor
eastern papers on good roads SUD
jects. He says congressman who live
distant from the route of the proposed
highway will never allow such a g1gan-
tic sum to be expended for this pur-
pose His theory is that the great ma
tional highway can be built alone by
private contributions and that II
should be made a monument to the
pioneers who blazed the path for CIV
ilization in the far west.
Brown is making a journey OF 2o,ooo
miles with his dog and wolf outht on
a wager of 100000 He started the long
Journey at Nome. Alaska, and IN SIX
years is to cover $4,000 miles, visiting
every state capital in the Union. He
is to bring back one of the dogs or
wolves at the end of the six years,
either dead or alive. If he does this
he gets $4,000. If not he loses that
amount. Standow left New York with
Brown October 25 and if he reaches
San Francisco by June % he will be
San Francisco by June 25 he will be
School of Journalism by the American
Press Association.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-17
DON'T SCOLD AN
IRRITABLE CHILD
III Tongue Is Coated, Stomach Sour
Breath F'everish Give s'Syrup of
Figs to Clean the Bowels.

Your child isn't naturally cross, ir-
ritable and peevish, motherl Examine
the tongue; If coated, it means the lit
tie ones stomach is disordered, liver
inactive and its thirty feet of bowels
clogged with foul. decaying waste.
Every mother realizes after giving
delicious Syrup Of Figs" that this is
the ideal laxative and physic for chill
dren Nothing else regulates the little
ones tender stomach, liver and bowels
so effectually, besides they dearly love
its delightful fig taste. .
For constfpated bowels, sluggish
liver, biliousness, or sour, disordered
stomach, feverishness, diarrhoea, sore
throat, bad breath or to break a cold,
give one-half to a teaspoonful of
Syrup of Figs" and in a few hours
all the clogged up waste,sour bile, I'M
digested food and constipated matter
will gently move on and out of the
system without gripping or nausea. and
you will surely have a well, happy and
smiling child again shortly.
With Syrup of Figs you are not
drugging your children, being COM
posed entirely of luscious figs, SIENNA
and arOmatics it cannot be harmful.
Full directions for children of all
ages and for grown-ups plainly print
ed on the package
Ask your druggist for the full name,
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna,' -
prepared by the California Fig Syrup
Co. This is the delicious tasting, genU-
int old reliable. Refuse anything else
offered.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-17
Five States Ahead of SunfIOwer
State i'm Crops.
Enormous Cotton Production
Places Texas i'm the Lead.

Washington, March 17.-Illinois
again has yielded to Texas the honor
of being premier crop producing state
of the Union, Iowa holds her position
as third, while Ohio has lost to Mis-
souri, the honor of fourth place, the
department of agriculture announced
today.
During 1912 Texas produced $407,-
10000 in the twelve crops reported
Quantitatively by the government
corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye. buck
wheat, flaxseed, rice, potatoes, hay,
tobacco and lint cotton. The enor-
NOUS cotton crop easily gave Texas
a big lead over the second largest crop
producing state, Illinois, whose aggre-
gate production was valued at $685.
$4,000. Iowa's crop value aggregat-
600 and Ohio's $3.50, 71S,OOO.
In the second five the states ranked: :
Kansas, $1S2, 1863, 900; Pennsylvania,
176,275,0OO; Minnesota, $160,615,-
900; Georgia, $3.50, $4,000, and North
Dakota, Sis, $4,000.
The total value of these crops pro-
duced during 1912 throughout the
country was s4,695, 1000, compared
with $4,502,33S, 5000 in 1911, and
4,496, 647, 900 in 1910.
In addition to the ten leading states
the following produced more than
800, 100000 in the principal crops:
Indiana, New York, Nebraska, Wis
consin, North Carolina, Alabama, Ok
1ahoma, Michigan, Kentucky, South
Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee and
California.
South Dakota produced SOS, 100000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-17
Stubbs Dairy Farming.

Mulvane, Kan, March 17.-On the
theory that he who grows another
dairy COW is a benefactor to the hu-
man race. Ex-Governor w. R. Stubs
has turned aside from the cares of
state and will cultivate the good will
of the gentle-eyed bossy that makes
possible the blonde coloring in the
morning coffee cup. He has decided
to become a breeder of pure bred Hol-
stein cattle, and to that end will con-
vert his splendid half section bottom
farm near this city into a model dairy
farm, selling the milk produced to
the local condensary, and raising we'll
bred young stuff to supply the ever
increasing demand for good dairy cat
tie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-17

There is host of pills, powders, tab
lets and what-not for rheumatism, but
they all lack the first essential to being
a natural medicine. To begin with, rheu-
matism is simply a name given to desig-
nate a variety of pains, and can only be
reached by irrigating the entire blood sup
ply with a naturally assimilative anti
dote. True, the pains may be eased with
narcotics or the acids may be neutralized
for the time being with other acids. But
these merely temporize and do not even
lead to cure There is but one stand
ard rheumatism remedy, and it reflects
4he best thought of the day. 1t is pre-
pared in the great Swift Laboratory in
Atlanta, Ga, and sold in all drug stores
under the name of S. S. S. at $1.00 a
bottle.
as a cure for rheumatism, and yet S. S. s.
accomplisheS in fact what faddists pro-
claim in theory and without the punish
ment of starvation. Hot springs and
sweating are often recommended, but
S. S. S. does all that is expected of these
expensive and weakening methods.
1t is conceded by the closest students
of the subject that rheumatism is caused
in most cases by an acid condition of the
blood and aggravated by the remedies
commonly used for relief. In other cases
rheumatism is the result of nerve depres-
sion; in still others it is the effect of
some scrofuious blood condition, having
been treated with mercury, iodides, arse
mic and other poisonous mineral drugs.
The recoveries of all these types of
rheumatism by the use of s. S. S. is a
wonderful tribute to the natural efficacy
of this remarkable medicine, for it is as
simulated Just as naturally, just as spe-
officially and Just as well ordained as the
most acceptable, most palatable and most
readily digested food. Do not fail to
get bottle of S. S. s. to-day. You viii
be astonished at the results. If your
rheumatism is of such a nature that you
would like to consult a great specialist
confdentially. write to The Swift SPECIFIC
Co., 127 Swift Bldg, Atlanta, Ga
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-17
Plan Musical Clubs.

Emporia, Kan, March 17.-Pro-
fessor F. A. Beach, of the departing mt
of public school music at the Kansas
State Normal, is planning the organ
ization of a music appreciation club
in every town in Kansas that will be
interested in the project. The club will
aim is to develop an interest in music
by teaching it's members how to lis
ten to music that is worth while, and
appreciate it. The plan is to send rec
ords, vocal and instrumental, over the
state to schools having victrolas, and
with them a book prepared by Mr..
Beach containing many things of in
terest about each selection.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-17
Large Land Purchase.

Garden City, Kan, March 17.-E.
G. Finnup and William Wann have
recently purchased 1,40O acres of Ar
kansas river bottom land between
Lakin and Deerfield, and have large
force of men at work on it seeding it
to sweet clover. The purchase of this
land by our home people, at a good
price, and the fact that they are going
to work at once to farm it shows that
those who have lived here for thirty
years, and know the conditions here,
have faith in the country. This firm
will have sown over 1900 acres to
sweet clover this spring by the time
they get through seeding.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-17
HAS SURRENDERED TO POLICE
Joe Abbott, Pittsburg Miner, Is Ac-
cused of Murder.

Pittsburg, Kan, March 17.-Frank
Horwiski a miner, was murdered under
mysterious circumstances at his home
at Chapman camp. Joe Abbott, another
miner, who was in Horwiski's house at
the time the killing took place and &C
cused by relatives and friends of hav-
ing committed the murder, has surren-
dered himself to Coroner w. ]. Nichols.
Abbott refused to say anything con-
corning the crime and what he will at
tempt to prove when the case goes to
trial is not know. He neither denies or
affirms his innocence. Horwiski, who
is unmarried, had planned to leave
this morning for Colorado. A number
of his friends were at his house when
he was killed.
He was in one of the rooms of the
house when someone opened door and
fired a bullet into his body. He did not
live to make a statement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-17
CONFERENCE IN TOPEKA.
Eastern Lutheran Synod Will Convene
April 14-16.

The eastern conference OF the
Evangelical Lutheran synod of Kansas
will be held in Topeka April IA to 10.
The sessions will convene in the First
Lutheran church, corner of Fifth and
Harrison streets. Programs for the
three day event have been arranged,
and the committee in charge of ar
engagements requests that those in
tending to be present at the confer
ence write a postal notice to the To-
peka pastor, Rev. NJ. F. Troxell, d.
D., Topeka Kansas.
Interesting addresses are features
of the program, and business of eX-
IRENE Importance to the Lutheran
church will be taken up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-17
PRISONER USES STRATEGY.
Hugh Wuerdeman Escapes From
County Jail at Meade.

Meade, Kan, March 17.-Hugh
Wuerdeman, bound over to the dis
trict court, charged with stealing a
load of wheat from his uncle, escaped
from the county Jail here by strategy.
When the jailer came for his supper
cry, saying he wanted to write a let
ter. The jailer stepped into the next
room an instant for the stationery,
leaving the cell door unlocked. When
he returned Wuerdeman was gone. It
is thought he borrowed a horse and
rode at top speed for the Oklahoma
line as a missing saddle pony was
picked up by a pursuing posse far
south of this place. The fugitive has
not been located.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-17
Organize New Institute.

Manhattan, March IA newly or
ganized farmers institute held its first
meeting at Bala last week with adj
dresses by Prof. c. D. Steiner and Miss
Smell of the Agricultural college. An
other feature was a community dinner
that proved a great success. Rev.
Goldsmith gave an interesting report on
the community survey, which was TAX
en- under the auspices of the college
some time ago, showing social condi-
tions of the neighborhood. About $50
attended the institute and new Off
GERS were elected as follows: w. H.
MCNEIL, president; Will Lloyd, vice
president; John Carrigan, secretary
trea Surer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-17
Large Gas Well Found.

Cottonwood Falls, March 17-One
of the strongest gas wells ever found
in this county, and what is said may
open up a new gas field, has just
been discovered by James Drummond,
a farmer living four miles north of
Elmdale. Drummond drilled a pros
pect well, hoping to find sufficient gas
for the lighting and heating of his
farm house. After drilling to a depth
of 23S feet d strong flow was found,
which gave a pressure of 95 pounds
to the square inch and will, it is es-
timated, be sufficient to supply the
entire neighborhood
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-17
WAS CAPTURED BY INDIANS.
Death of Mrs. Mary White Recalls
Days of Indian Fighting.

Norway. Kan, March 1.-THE recent
death at Jamestown of Mrs. Mary
White, aged 81, removed one of the
most interesting and historic characters
of north central Kansas. In 1858 she,
together with other members of the
family were captured by Indians, and
had a most thrilling experience. Her
husband was killed and daughter,
Sarah. aged 16, was taken captive by a
band of Cheyennes, armed with re-
volvers, lances, bows and arrows. The
daughter was taken some miles across
Buffalo creek and later to the mining
camp in Colorado. The young lady's
rescue was effected six months later by
General Custer. Miss White is now Mrs.
E o. Brooks and lives in Cloud county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-17
CONFIDENT OF VICTORY.
Sublette Citizens Make Plans for Has
ken County Courthouse.

Sublette, Kan, March 17.-That
this place is confident of winning the
fight in the courts for the Haskell
county seat, which followed the re-
cent election, is shown by the fact that
a site for the Haskell county court
house has been set aside here. Two
half-blocks, one on either side OF Main
street. two blocks from the new Col
NOR cutoff, have been condemned.
Sublette partisans plan to erect fine
new structure in the center of the
block, vacating Main street at this
point. The building will face the new
railroad. Some leaders urge that the
local partisans are overconfident, but
the general feeling is that Sublette
will win the county seat If the fight
has to be carried to the supreme
court.