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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-11
1915 ACRES.

FINE stock farm. located In north
Georgia: 400 acres of level land, 700
acres in timber all kinds, balance pas
ture; new 7-room residence. new barn,
) tenant houses, with barns and sta
bles. Price $4,000. Terms, or will ex-
change for small farm near Atlanta, or
city prOpertY.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-11
4-ROOM COTTAGE.
GROOM RESIDENCE.

BETWEEN Peachtree and Piedmont
park near Fourteenth street. is
nine-room residence that has to b.
seen to be appreciated. Party has
moved from the city and will consider
an offer. No information over the
phone.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-11
727 ACRES.

ONE mile front on the river 100 acres
fine level bottom in cultivation. eight
settlements, two public roads, 200 acres
in pasture under wire fence. 300 acres
in timber. VIII sell for less than 500
an acre, including mules, implements
tools and wagons. VIII make easy
terms TO suitable party. Belongs to
nonresident. Investigate and make
your offer. Some one is going to get a
bargain.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-11
II ACRES.

ON the Marietta car line. story
Groom bungalow, servants house.
garage. stable, barn and other out
buildings. This is an ideal home. Be
longs to nonresident. Will take some
Atlanta property in part payment In
vestigate and make your offer.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-11
GROOM DWELLING

IN two blocks of the Georgian Terrace
hotel, nine-roOm residence. with all
improvements, furnace heat and sleep
ing porch, on a lot 55X190 The price is
$4,000, on easy terms.
This residence is occupied as home
and has never been rented. A slight
elevation to the lot, with nice lawn and
trees. Price sure to advance in the
spring.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-11
GROOM COTTAGE.

IN walking distance on the south side
is a new siX-room cottage, with all
improvements. Can make attractive
price and easy terms.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-11


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JOHN ]. WOODSIDE.
RENTING
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-11
Real Estate For Sale.
hEdI ESLdLc Tot SAG.
SHARP { BoT1sroN
NORTH SIDE.

A BARGAIN in an up-to-
date home on West Peach
tree street, with all modern
cOnveniences, h ardwoo d
floors, combination fixtures,
and a nice, large lot. We
can make very reasonable
terms on this place, and it
is one of those places that
has to be seen to fully APP
preciate. Let us show you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-26
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.
e stains come out easily.

Lie stains come out easily.
Are your ideas mostly prejudices?
A coward is So apt to think everyone
else is like that.
A backslider does about what the
heathens expected he would.
A year ago Jude johnson bought a
good going concern" and it's gone.
If you must throw a bomb, let it fly.
but don't conceal it in a bouquet.
We never had much of a desire to see &
bull fight OF visit the leading packing
houses.
You don't hear so much about the prom
ises that are kept as about those that are
broken.
An agent won't take hint, but he may
take something more important unless
you are Firm.
Among the things the writer has no
patience with is simplified spelling: it Is
too difficult.
Your willingness to bet on a PROPOSE
ton will not, however, be accepted as
conclusive evidence.
We are betting the American eagle will
remain the national bird long as :
roostS on the dollar
There are exceptions. but the rule is
that old folks and young folks don't get
along very well together.
When a woman tells a man he is flat
terfng her, she never says it as if She
meant to censure him fer such action.
If a man has no watch he claims is
accurate, he probably will boast the truth
and varacity of his thermometer.
Ffore spelling books and less sheet
muse may De HSled among the long fei-
wants. according to a cranky copy-reader
A .'honeyed" tone of voice is best
defined as that used by central in
town where there are rival telephone
companies.
Our notion of nothing to argue about is
a point in parliamentary law We also
have numerous other such notions on ou-
list.
The long distance weather forecast is
frequently fulfilled. And there are other
games in which you may win a bet
casionally.
T re is a good deal of truth in the
theory that man doesn't know what he
is talking about particularly when he is
Firm in his convictions.
Possibly the time will come when chill
dren will control their parents as well as
parents used to control their children. At
this time the matter is being debated, and
neither side seems able to claim a de-
ciSiOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-26
AYHAWKER JOTS

Atchison is said to be threatened with
two new daily papers.
Students at K u. are eating two
years old eggs. They haven't much on
us at that.
The Emporia Gazette thinks the
Beers trial lost something in the matter
. of public interest through a lack of
viscera.
Henry Allen appears to be peeved
over the Wichita City government. 1t
must be that it is under control of
the standpatters
Conner Davies threatens to reprint a
poem that Bat" Nelson wrote about
Walt Mason. Perhaps that viii hold
Uncle Walt for a while.
Colin Campbell, the only son of
Congressman Phil. Campbell. has just
passed his examinations for entrance to
the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
THE Habit a semi-monthly publ
cation by the students of the lola
high school, has made it's first appear
ance. They've got the habit; so to
speak.
money, says Bert Walker, he generally
knows whom to tackle. He has spent
a good many hours looking the fiel'
over.
Having seen what natatorium looks
like on paper, a number of Ottawans
WHO nave Deen wishing for one, nave
concluded, says the Herald, that maybe
it wasn't a natatorium they were
thinking about. after all.
The Atchison Champion is offering
20 cents per thousand for all flies
brought to the office by the school
children. 1t is a safe guess that the
Champion has not given up much
money on that deal during the past
week.
Jonathan Wax, the oldest man in
Bourbon county and probably the old
est in the state will celebrate his DIST
birthday March 9. His daughter with
whom he lives is planning a great pic
mic to be held at her home.
The Independence city commissioners;
have called a special election to be held
on May for voting on a proposition
to issue $4,000 in bonds to aid the
building of the interurban line north.
Later another election will be d to
vote an additional $4,000. The inter-
urban is the thing in southern Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-26

settle themselves without outside in
reference There are '.Cubists' ana
Futurists'' in the political world quite
as freakish and of as doubtful sanity
as in the artistic world. 1t is to be
hoped the American people will come
to their senses and stop following sem
sational and unbalanced leadership.
The emotionalists and faddisets have
had their day. This country is TO-DAY
fully prepared to enter fresh forward
movement. Its further development OF
natural resources are not only much
needed, but there are many require
mentS of public character which need
to be satisfied. Money and enterprise
might be ready to undertake the task.
But the chief obstacle is the unreason-
ing and hostile attitude of public opin-
ion to nearly all classes of business
enterprise, which if not checked will
drive capital into hiding and throw
many out of employment The present
public distemper may prove a phase of
popular feeling and which, like it's
counterpart of other eras, must run its
course If so, the sooner this wave ex-
hausts itself the better for all con-
cerned. Both congress and the admin
istration at Washington have it largely
in their power to aid in restoration of
normal business and political condi-
tons Now is the time to test the
promise mot to disturb business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-26
SAYS UNCLE CIV

! There is only one thing that kills OIL
cripples more good men than deserved
rest" and that is undeserved rest
There is none so unhappy as the mar
who has worked long and hard for q
prize and then sits down to devou- it
The first bit has that sweetness which
novelty lends, and appetite may sweet
en- the second, but mind and muscles
trained to splendid, supple effic. entcy
soon revolt at idleness, and che prize
| is forgotten in the protests of outraged
body and brain.
The rest that men need is not that
which we commonly call retirement"
The ordinary hardworking business
man who retires while he is still able
to work dies. His veins clog, his
muscles grow flabby, his heart weak,
his mind is afflicted with fevers and
frets. He no longer has the saving
medicine of accustomed exercise. Lack
ing this, dissolution sets in and the
end comes quickly. To have deserved
such a rest a man must have earned
it; to have earned it, he must have de-
veloped his bodily functions to such a
degree that idleness is dangerous.
1t is true that those men who, hav-
ing nominally retired, still remain ac-
tive in the old way or some better one
can beat the game. But retirement
for most men means idleness, the in
diligence in unwonted 1uxuries, the
the pursuit of pleasure. With alarming
frequency obituaries follow fast upon
the heels of announcements of retire
ment. Only those who preserve their
interest in life and such activities as
befit their age can live to enjoy in COM
parative ease that which they have won
by hard knocks.
The rest that is really beneficial is
the rest that is taken within the same
twenty-four hours that has had its
share of toll. 1t is a few hours play
and the proper amount of sleep. and
perhaps a few weeks vacation once a
year. Here We have work and idle
ness properly balanced. Such a divi-
sion lends effectiveness to the one, en-
hances the pleasure of the other and
brings long life to the possessor of
both. To earn your bread and to eat
a goodly part of it with keen relish up
on the same day is very practical re-
cipe for happiness. Even as joy de-
ferred maketh the heart sick. so when
realized it killeth body and soul, if
there be not with it the labor that
giveth health and appetite. So. too, the
bread deferred starves the body now
and presently shall kill it with over
feeding. Only the temperate life is
long and in the main happy. Plenty Of
rest today are what we require. A
deserved rest is deferred rest, and
deferred rest is fatal.-(Copyright, 1913,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-26
A NATIONAL MENACE.

Urging Immediate action by con-
gress to protect the country from a
railway strike which would 'paralyze
commerce and bring hunger and
misery to millions" the Railway Bust
ness association, the national organ
ization of manufacturers of railway
equipment, material and supplies, has
issued bulletin entitled 1.-THE Nation
al Menace of Railway Strilz es,'' which
! advocates the strengthening at the
extra session of the federal arbitration
machinery.
! The eastern conductors and train
men, it is pointed out, will press de-
mands following the conclusion of
the firemen's case. The Erdman act,
through which until recently strikes
causing interruption to train service
have been almost wholly prevented,
; has all but broken down at the point
where mediation failing, arbitration
was attempted in the large scale dis
pute involving many roads at once.
The act, says the bulletin, should be
amended forthwith or legislation sub
stituted for it providing a form of
voluntary arbitration so little open to
valid objection as to deprive dis
putants of all reasonable excuse for
declining arbitration under the law.
To postpone remedial legislation is to
invite widespread and perhaps ma
tional disaster at any moment
Railway managers. railway en-
ployees and the public are urged to
Cooperate to obtain legislation which
will place them squarely on the side
of industrial peace and public con-
venience."
President George A. Post says that
thoug' it is we'll understood that the
scope of matters to be dealt with at
the extra session is to be limited, ac-
ton on this question would do much
to reassure business, since zone actue
cause of business anxiety at this mo-
ment is the fear that arbitration may
break down and plunge large areas
and perhaps the whole country into
the chaos and disaster of a strike"
This position of the railroad inter-
ests is far removed from that voiced
by Mr.. Vanderbilt once upon a time.
In their advocacy of a get together
program, it would be only fair for the
public and the lawmakers to meet
them half way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-26
WAGES AND SIN.

The wages of sin and the sin of
| wages are being connected as effect
! and cause just now, as unfortunate
| after unfortunate comes before a COM
mission in Chicago and ascribes her
| descent to the bitter necessity of
| choosing between vice and starvation.
! Employers and managers assure the
/ commission that a higher wage rate
! would merely result in the displace-
ment of the girls by men, so that the
! former would be in a worse case than
now, but the women workers seem
willing to take their chances, and
press opinion largely indorses them in
favoring Legislation for their relief.
Low wages are to blame for most of
the immortality among young girls"
declares Lieutenant Governor O'Hara
of Illinois, chairman of the senatorial
commission now investigating the
causes and effects of white slavery"
in that state, and he indicates a mini
mum wage law for women and girls
as a remedy. Although the commits
sion has not yet made it's official re-
port, the facts it has already brought
to light and the statements made by
it's individual members have so aroused
the interest and sympathy of the pub
lie that dozen other states, including
New York and California, have ar
ranged for similar Investigations with
a view to cooperation in remedial
legislation. Among the witnesses
heard by the investigators in Chicago
were officers of the big department
stores which employ thousands of wo-
men and girls, ex-employees of these
stores and women of the under world.
The employers, in the main, could see
no connection between low wages and
vice, whereas the fallen women almost
invariably described their degradation
to that cause. But whatever the
conflict in the evidence" remarks the
New York Tribune, 1.-The public will
hold to the common sense view that
insufficient wages are one important
factor driving women to the streets"
With this point of view the press
seems to be largely in accord.
AS these Investigations proceed it is
not unlikely that other Contributing
causes of equal importance will be
found. 1t should not be overlooked
that the Illinois commission is finding
what it started out to discover mainly
because it is not looking for anything
oJS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-26
EVENING CHAT
Proverbs That Lie.
BIZ xUrz CAMERON.

The housewife who must have every
and her husband was reasoning with he's
why couldn't you clean things up a
little and let it go at that?" he asked.
Was 1t worth fit of sickness to nave
everything spick and span?"
oh welli 1 hate to half do things
she answered fretfully. WHATS wors .
know"
Did it ever occur to you that a proverb
might lie? There are a great many peo-
pie who consider a proverb the last word
on any question. Apparently they ~
that proverbs come right from Heaven,
such is their sublime faith in in them.
And yet when you come to think of Il
proverbs are only the words of fallible
mortals like you and me. The fact that
generations have accepted and passed
but 1t doesn't prove that they are infalli-
BILE. Applied to certain conditions pro-
verbs may be bare-faced liars.
Take the proverb with which the wom-
an who must have everything just 80
tried to justify herself, for instance. 1t
certainly is fragrant example. Doesn't
almost every day of your life show you
things that must be done and yet are not
Worth doing we'll?
quoting that proverb stiffening UP in AZ
Gignant denial. Very we'll, here is an in
stance. In my stocking basket last night
was pair of stockings with a tremend
Gus hole in the lower part of the heel.
They were old stockings and yet not quite
old enough for my conscience to permit
that hole well would have taken at least
half an hour. To draw the hole together
SO that it would last few more wear
ings took about five minutes. The stock
ing certainly wasn't worth a half-hour OF
my time. but it was worth five minutes;
and that's just what it got
verb generally make it mean What's
worth doing at all is worth doing as we'll
as you can" That's one of the objections
to proverbs: people read their own mean
ings into them. Now a nurse once taught
me to make a bed the absolutely perfect
way in which they are made in hospitals
When make a bed for an invalid or for
any special occasion, do it that way, but
1t takes just about twice as long. Is it
worth while to spend my time that way
every day? The devotees of that proverb
assure me that 1t is. I can't see it.
Figures can't He," is an old saying.
beg to differ on both cases. Figures and
proverbs both need to be taken with a
good big pinch of the salt of common
sense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-26
Diamond From the Sky.

| Two hundred years ago a peasant FAM
! lily lived in a Swiss hamlet, and one even
! ing terrific storm broke from the Alps
and amid the incessant flashes of light
| ming and peals of thunder came blind
fire to the roof of the cottage Next day
the peasant, as he ruefully contemplated
the smoking ruins, noticed a deep fissure
J IN the garden leading to the root of a pine
tree. Without knowing exactly why re
fetched a pickaX and began digging until
from the depths of the hole a mysterious
of strange story from Lyons that say S
the Paris correspondent of the London
Hurriedly making the sign of the cross
the man fled, but the following morning
returned and saw the same curious CLEAN.
ike star, from the depths of the furroW
cleft by a thunderbolt. Thrusting his
hand down he brought out a marvellous
stone stiil darting uncanny rays of light.
Much disturbed in his mind, the honest
peasant took his find to the parish priest,
who said: The stone came to you from
heaven and it is the finger of God that
placed it in your field. AS long as you
Keep 1t you and yours will be safe from
storms and evil chances" Faithfully re-
sspecting the. priests word. the stone mas
been ever since religiously preserved bv
succeeding generations of the family.
But it has never brought much luck
the last survivors being now without
penny. The present possessor, a woman
aged IS, is married and the mother of IL
living children, five of whom are still
living. while thirteenth is expected
shortly. A few years ago she and her
husband left their native village and went
to Berne. where they started a small
business which failed,' continues the
story. They then came to Lyons where
they have since lived a hand to-mouth
existence. Reduced to the last extremity
of want. they decided to part with tile
famous thunderbolt stone and took it to
well-known Lyons jeweler.
'Petrified with establishment at seeing
such a splendid diamond in the possession
of almost a beggar woman, the jeweler
Informed the police, and not till the fam
lily had sent to Switzerland for documents
certifying that the diamond had really
belonged to them for the last 200 years
was the woman allowed to regain posses
sion of the precious pebble.
Since then she has been besieged from
morning till night with absurd offers OF
the hundredth part of the value of the
diamond. which has been examined and
photographed by experts. What VIII
probably be known the 'thunderbolt'
diamond-if there is any truth in the
story and if it proves a genuine stone-is
said to show all the unmistakable signs Of
a rough diamond. 1t is one of the biggest
known, weighing 290 carats, whereas the
Grand Mogul diamond only weighed $50
carats.
1T will doubtless soon arrive in Paris
and e submitted to the final judgment
of experts who cannot err. Almost every
famous diamond has its own pedigree and
story, but none has ever ramined hidden
so long in the keeping of poverty stricken
owners whose secretiveness is at least as
strange as the reputed manner of the dis
cOVery."-NeW York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-26
EFFTnEN"

Upon efficiency intent
me easy writer makes lament
That there should be waste of motion
says men should work with all theil
speed
To help themselves? Oh, no, indeed;
Absurd to cherish such a notion.
Eff1ciency," so all have read
Is for the others good instead
The one who pays the scanty wages,
And does not mean that these advance
10 give the toiler better chance
Than he has sweated for, for ages.
Efficiency" means larger gains,
And, If it be man complains
That he wins not by toiling faster,
He lights upon the scrapheap quick
lmpelled, it may be, by kick,
So he may understand who's master.
Los Angeles Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-26
Suicide a Luxury.

The ethics of suicide come up as a
question with the suicide of Captain
Oates, who just crawled out to his
death as an English gentleman" We
pass laws against people who at
tempt self-murder. But once in
while We acclaim the man who COM
mits suicide, when it is done not for
personal relief i'uf for the relief of
others. And whereas we put the po-
lice on the silly man who wants to es-
cape from an ordinary life, we Will
raise a monument to the man who
walked to death in the hope of saw
ing his fellow men. 1t is the duty OF
a man, cnce in a way. to commit sui
eide.
Suicide has often been regarded as
a luxury, and Marseille, colonized
from Miletus in ancient days, pre-
served a custom and prison for
many years under Roman rule. A
dose of hemlock and aconite was al
lowed anyone who could show suffi-
Gent reason why he should deserve
death 1.-The CUSTOM" says Valerins
Maximus comes from Greece, par
ticularly from the Island of Ceos,
where 1 saw an example. 1t was
woman of great quality, who, having
lived very happily 80 years, OBJ
tanned leave to die this way. lest by
living longer she should happen to
see a change of her good fortune. -
London Chronicle