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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-21
SOUTH DEVASTATED
BY FURIOUS STORM
OF WIND AND RAIN

vile. Knoxville, Baltimore and Phila-
delphia.
As the cities for the most part are
large relaying centers, it affected all CT
the towns between those points and
Atlanta.
Similar trouble was experienced by
the Postal, although not over so great
a territory as the Western Union. Long
delays were encountered in sending
messages to points west Nashville,
Louisville and Cincinnati were the
large cities that could not be reached,
and the towns on their relays were cut
off to the same extent.
Rain Breaks Record.
A terrific rain storm and tornado is
raging through the central and western
part Of the country and as a result
Easter bonnets and spring fiannels viii
be laid on the shelf for some time, ac-
cording to the local weather bureau.
The rain up to date is 1.6S inches in eX-
cess of the fall up to this time last year
and last year was considered a record
breaker. During the night 40 inches
fell, making the. record for this month
far above the average.
Atlanta is to have a clear Easter
Sunday but the mercury is going to be
down to freezing and perhaps below
According to Professor VonHerrmann,
the best in view for to-day and to-mor-
row is rain and slightly colder, but sat
urday night the mercury will take a
drop and the weather will clear.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-21
FREE FOR
NOTHING

The saving man
wants to get his shoes
at the lowest cost to
him.
Here's the way to
do it.
If you have your shoes
shined four times a week
that's so cents a month
or $4.O0 in five months.
So you see, a pair Of
our $4.0O shoes, plus our
free shine offer, will have
paid for themselves long
before they are out Of
service.
This offer of a free
shine till they are worn
out (if it takes all sum-
mer) holds good on the
next hundred pairs we
sell.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-21
BUSINESS NOTICES.
SHAKY, BILIOUS, HEADACHY,
OR CONSTIPATED? TAKE CASCARETS

Sick headaches, Always trace
them to lazy liver. delayed, ferment-
ing food in the bowels or a sick
stomach. Poisonous, COnstipated
matter, gases and bile generated in
the bowels. instead Of being carried
out Of the system, is reabsorbed into
the blood. When this poison reaches
the delicate brain tissue it causes
congestion and that dun, sickeuing
headache.
Cascarets remove the cause by
stimulating the liver, making the
bile and constipation poison move on
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-21

control of a realty company. mads
to small investors through misr...
sensations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-30
BY THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

There are several things about this
social survey proposition that I don't
.nsrndderstsand'", says Hondo Murphy
v1ded between the surveyors, rodmen
and chainmen, on the Job, and the
others don't matter"
The grapevine reports g. lawsuit at
Manhattan over $50 dog. All we
have to say about it is fully covered
in chapter 70 of the Dodd CASTOR con-
sular reports-towit:
There amt no such animile-"
Female suffrage, despite the efforts
of the arsonettes. is not a general
thing in Great Britain, but we note
that in the campaign for pet laureate,
Kipling leads by reason of the female
vote of the justly celebrated Victim
family.
There is nothing wrong with those
sandals, if the girls could just learn to
walk without that floppy snowshoe
effect
Mr.. Bier and Miss Hamm were mar
ried in New York last week. What
would be YOUR idea of an appro-
pirate menu for the wedding supper
under the circumstances?
Yes, we thought of that, too.
And. perhaps they thought Of it. It
easy enough in New York.
Try to think of something to be
thankful for each day. 1t fools the
therm ometer.
Sweetly solemn thought for today:
IT'S A LONG TIME BEFORE THE
NEXT ELECTION!
Baron D'Estournelles de Constant,
who is undoubtedly gent of French
habitat, and habits, has written a book
on Les Etats-Unis, D'AmeriQue." 1t
is undoubtedly q lovely story, although
we cannot read the copy he SO kindly
mailed US, to the best advantage. We
suspect that the purpose of the book
is to return the compliment of Billy
Morgan, who wrote all about France.
In his preface, the baron candidly
admits that he knows all about the
United States from ode AtlantiQue au
PacifiQue, de la Frontiere Mexicaine a
celle du Canada" because he travelled
over same, stopping so long as S6
hours in some spots.
The book deals principally with the
agricultural and geographical features
Of our land, but contains a few funny
stories, such as the jolt he got when
got a temperance lecture instead. He
was naturally fuddled about Kansas
and Kansas City, and went away with
the impression that K c. was the
capital of the Sunflower state. But
to the end Of the chapter he could not
reconcile the facts that he was refused
drink in Kansas, but could get 1t by
the bucketful in Kansas City. The
same problem has stumped others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-30
EVENING CHAT
The value of Order.
BY RUTa CAMERON.

"a place for~everything and every
thing in its place" is such a familiar
proverb that's any suggestion along that
line ought to be superfluous.
And yet, although we all know and
approve that sentiment, is the average
household, the average business, the
average life carried on in accordance
with it?
In answer to my plea to my reader
friends to form a household efficiency
club and send in descriptions of any
particular short cut which they fol-
lowed, one woman wrote me that she
found it saved great deal of time
and trouble to have 4 special place in
which to put wrapping paper, paper
bags and Irvine. OF course 1 was CRATE
full to the lady for sending in that sug-
gestion, but what does it mean? Does
it mean that in the home with which
she Is familiar, there is no such sys-
tenn? Apparently it must, or else she
would not contribute it as a short cut.
1t sounds like an axiom to say that
everyone ought to keep an address
book, and yet I have good reason to
know that many people do not. Hav-
ing won a reputation for being syste-
matte in that particular Ga reputation
which must confess. do not have in
other matters), am continually be-
sieged by my friends, by letter and
telephone, to supply the address of
this or that mutual friend.
How many people have a file for
unanswered letters, in which letters
are placed in the order of their recep-
ton and kept until answered? Surely
everyone could have some simple de-
vice for this purpose. And yet it is
evident that a great many people do
not.
Again, a small drawer or cupboard
of some sort, in which all such para
phernalia as stamps postcards, muci-
Loo ~ I-
are kept, is great time saver, and
ought to be a matter of course in
every home, but I doubt If 1t is.
Moreover, it is frequently the case
that in homes where such systematic
arrangements do exist they are OBJ
served by the grown-ups but contin-
ua1ly set at naught by the children;
and this is accepted as a matter of
course by their parents, who rebuke
their children when they, themselves,
are seriously Inconvenience, but do
not definitely and absolutely insist on
habits of order.
This is unfair. both to those who
have to suffer from the carelessness,
and to the children themselves for
there will surely come a day when
they will wish they had been made
to acquire habits of order at the time
when habits are most easily acquired.
For the household, the business or
the life in which to have a place for
everything and everything in in it's
place has become a fixed and facile
habit, will always be more efficient and
valuable-other things being equal
than that in which system has no part
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-30
r,r1ER-oCEANIC CANALS.

c.. 4ba Panama canal will be open
e.. b,,sinsss. Some idea of the i'm
mensity of the traffic 1t will carry may
be gained from the annual report pre-
scented tothe general meeting or the
Suez Canal Co. held in Paris the early
mart of June which shows total receipts
for the year 1912 of $27, oo5,o6s, an in
crease when compared with the re-
ceipts in 1911 of $S6S,692
EXPENSES totaled s9,211,045; this sum
includes $4,000 charged off to depre-
citation and an equal amount to the
fund for insurance and unforeseen de-
mands The net receipts amounted to
s17. 1914 O23. but the ALLEGATION of 3 per
cent to statutory reserve reduced this
added s65,53e brought forward from
1911, forming a total of s17.325.742.
This aforementioned sum was appor-
toned: Distributed as dividends. s16.-
s47, $40: carried to extraordinary reserve
1886. 900; carried forward to the credit
of the current year, $92, POP. The years
dividends amounted to $3.50 per share,
| to which should be added s4.sS interest,
making a gross revenue of $35. 70 and a
net revenue of $31.s5 per share. The
COmpanyS statutory reserve now SA-
| ceeds s7,72O, 000 and its extraordinary
reserve amounts to over $1,193.O 900.
The report states that, notwith-
standing the reduction in the canal tar
| iff. the year 1912 was the most pros
porous one the company has yet en-
| joyed.
AS in the past three years, the canal
traffic benefited during 1912 by the gen.
eral world prosperity. The maritime
trade of the canal in comparison with
the preceding year, showed an in
creased value of 101s per cent, and the
diminution in receipts, corresponding to
the reduction in the tariff, was more
than compensated by the general de-
veIopment of the traffic. During 1912
there passed through the canal 1913
ships of 2O.275.12o net tons. The aver
age tonnage advanced from 1858 to
LIZA tons. Notwithstanding the in
creased number and tonnage of the
ships using the canal, the average time
of transit was lowered during 1912 to
16 hours 10 minutes, or IS minutes less
than in the most favorable previous
year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-30
McREYNoLDs AND McNAB.

1t is clear Attorney General Mickey
noIds acted hastily and unwisely, says
the New York Globe, when he ordered
District Attorney McNab to postpone
criminal trials in California 1t is
equally clear that District Attorney
McNab acted hastily and unwisely
when he gave sensational and insinu-
attng statements to the newspapers
instead of protesting first to the at
torney general or the president against
the postponements.
The president is within his rights
when he rebukes and dismisses Nc
Nab for his error. To be entirely fair
he should also rebuke the attorney
general for his error. But It may
plausibfy be contended that by order
ing the prompt trial of the cases the
attorney general instructed should De
continued there is such a. rebuke.
But for another error the attorney
general should be rebuked. When olo
it become the business of a department
chief at washington to determine what
indictments should be returned ana
when criminals trials should be held
when criminal trials should be held
and grand juries to determine Wneh
indictments are warranted and Tor the
trial court to fix the time or trial. II
comes close to implying contempt OF
court to assume that an administrative
officer has authority to order and 10
continue and discontinue prosecutions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-30

we can have it carted over to our house
and We can arrange it,"
1t was a rather melancholy quartet
that started out that afternoon. for in
spite of Bruce's unfailing good nature
Violet could not but reflect the feel
ings of her chums.
They drew up to an irreproachable
little white cottage. apparently just
completed. Bruce opened the front
door and asked the young women to go
in while. as he said, he would scare
up the carriers to get the furniture out
isn't 1t a dream?' said Clarice,
glancing around the room. Everything,
the woodwork, the wall paper, the
window curtains, the arrangement of
the furniture came up to her high
standard of interior decoration.
TT would be heaven to keep house in
a place like this murmured Helen.
Then Bruce came in. How do you
like it?' he said DO you think you
can be happy here?" He put two hands
on Violet's shoulders and marched her
around from one room to the next.
What you you mean?" cried Violet
her pretty blue eyes opening wide with
wonder
IT mean" said Bruce, that this is
your house. 1 had it built for you
Remember the time we made some
plans just for the fun of it of the sort
of house you would like to live in, and
you told all about how you wanted it
decorated and finished? I saved the
sketches and took them to an architect
and had them materialized." He held
out a document to her. Here is the
deed Of it. 1t is all made out except
your name. That is to be filled in at
ter you have added the Armstrong to
it. I wanted to find out-though I
didn't have any real doubts of it-that
you were marrying me and not the
house. and I wanted you to know first
what you might have to live in If I
hadn't saved a little nest-egg before
ever met you.
In the meantime" Bruce continued,
IT have discovered that your two
friends-had they been in your shoes
would have thrown me over at the last
minute"
Helen and Clarice were making ex-
carnations of admiration and approval
and Bruce finished his explanation. IT
didn't go to the city at all today. I
went to the next station after I left
you, Violet. and came back here to
settle. I have put in a hard mornings
work and Of course being a mere man
I haven't succeeded. But with your
expert advice" he said bowling in
mock seriousness to Clarice and Helen,
land with me as man Of all work, per-
haps before night We can rearrange
things to fill the bill."-(Copyrigh 1913
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-30
QUAKER fluctuations.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

lrZOIrl the HnlIdOelpn1a Record
Money talks, in spite of the fact that
lots OF people want to keep it quiet
When a bachelor has to take rest cure.
the married man can't help wondering.
You never can tell about some people.
Many a man with red nose has a white
heart.
The man who never learns to mind his
own business is generally the one who
hasn't any.
Truth may lie at the bottom of the well,
but that is no reason why it should stay
there.
HoaN''There is only one preventive
against old age" Joax-'And that is?''
Hoax-''To die young
Nell-"I wonder why Miss Antique
makes such a goose of herself Belle
Probably to demonstrate that she is no
chicken"
All the world loves a lover quoted the
Wise Guy Yes, but it hates to buy we'd
ding presents for him." added the Simple
Mug.
Wigg-"How did old Gotrox ever amass
his fortune?" Wagg-"By making it q
rule never to give away anything except
ADVICE
Blobbs-''Your friend the poet seems to
think he has a message for the world"
S-obbs-''Well if he takes my advice, he'll
send 1t collect"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-30
THE COMMON ROAD.

THE COMMON ROAD.
And now for reaches of open road,
With sun and flowers and fragrance
abroad.
With sun and breezes and birds in the
leaves,
And the year on the turn in yellow
sheaves.
road not SO new it troubles the mind,
Nor SO stored. memories limp behind,
Where hoof and foot and tire unite
One large inseparate tale to write.
Each bird has a voice and different air;
Is It thrush or yellow throat? What do
I care?
The trees tell tales and the hill streams
I do not trouble to make them out.
L do not strain after clues that fail
Nor teach my feet to falter and stray,
But hold to the immemorfal way.
hear but one great voice abroad,
Singing the song OF the common road,
When the seasons traffic burdens the air
And the sun spread blessings everywhere.
And it's: Ever to keep on an even way,
Never to hasten, never to stay,
Nor vainly inger, nor backward yearn-
Onward and sunward and never turn.
Attuned to the one great voice abroad,
Needing the call of the common road,
When the seasons traffic burdens the air,
And the sun spreads blessings everywhere.
Martin Scheutze in The Forum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-30
ANOTHER. BAIKAN WAR.

Even If the influence Of the great
powers proves sufficient to preVehe
war this summer between Bulgaria
on one side and Servia, Greece anu
probably Montenegro on the otner'
the feeling shown by the three
srna1Ier states against the formloaole
p,,1,ars ia likely to cause serious trou-
HE nor far in the future. There Will
probably have to be announcer uiooN'
struggle in the Balkan region before
nermanent adjustment OF internauoiiai
rivalries and claims will be possiOie.
Runania, although neutral IN tne
racent war between the -FOUR a1iio'
and the ottoman empire, Is sure ~
ia. AGAINST Bulgaria when the tlne
oo,,es IN determine the limits of tnat
country. and 1t is probable that INC
Runanian government would be Will
tho +o set its army in motion TO sup
mort the Serbs and the GREEKS asaiii''
+ba PuIgars, Like the smaIler seaee0
which have been Bulgaria's allles III
,,arcornins the Turks, Rumana Is
saar4,,, Of the possible consequences Oh
D1,1e-orisn gains and expansion
IT, whole situation is made CRUZ
"a discouraging by the deep
seated jeaIousies and OLD ornei 80
.,one the Balkan nations. The oahe7.
- va ts due more to the 1eellhs y.
enc masses than to the ospules
rulers One alliance, cro"neo
-,.,+o,1, against a common foe' Is MOI
oo,,eb II appears, to offset the o1struse
80 bostilitv bred by generations OF
%,,sn,c,on and conflicting ambitions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-30
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

| An Atchison man is so contrary he
ends his sentences with propositions
! just to peeve his precious wife. f
The rule is that, when a Young
Things manners are up to the stand
ard of her looks, she isn't very good
| looking.
There are a number of popular songs
| that wouldn't be If the people had as
| much sense as a candidate intimates.
1t is strange there aren't more wo-
men BARRIERS, that being one occupa-
ton which doesn't interfere with the
flow of oratory.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned man who thought that the rat
ties of a rattlesnake in his violin gave
1t a richer tone?
Church White: IT dearly love a GER
tain man, for some years ago he sued
me for $4,000, just at a time when
my credit needed help
Possibly one reason New York grows
SO rapidly is that many married men
locate there to get in position to
throw rocks at the Statue of Liberty.
When a woman can address a man
by such names as Pet Baby or
''Tootle,'' and he doesn't vince, he
can be dead sure that she is his souls
true affinity.
It seems like new doctor just can't
help taking up and finding congenial
IrlenOS WITH TIE lame, the malt anu
the blind" when he first strikes q
town.
1t is hoped, in the interest of those
headed for heaven, that a journey
man angel can play a harp without
practicing. Which is suggested by a
neighboring angel who pounds pain
full paroxisms from peevish piano.
When the uncorseted figure is af-
fected by young and pretty girl it is
considered graceful, artistic, charming
ly unconventional, etc, but an older
woman under similar circums tances is
referred to as fat and sloppy looking.
Il squander my hard-earned kale
considerably" said Alb Adkins this
morning. but insist on getting some
fun for it, and an enterprising oil COM
pany which is trying to sell me stock
should save postage if it hopes to
get rich quick"
The difference between the needs
and habits of boys and girls is ap-
parent at a very early age. Mothers
of little girls discuss the particular
dainty shades of hair ribbons that are
becoming to their little daughters,
while the conversation of mothers of
small boys is more likely to turn to
the merits of the different securing
soaps when used on necks, hands and
knees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-30
HUNOR or THE DRY

fPlurnly is shiftless fellow That's
true. His idea of a stroke of good LUCK
loan."-Houston Post.
lis she good musician?'' Very sba
knows when to Quit."-Detroit Free Pra~s
''Of course you looked up the new gfrPs
reference?" How could 1, dear? Thev
Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
do you believe that poets are born not
made" Sure. Who'd be so crazv as ~
make a poet%'-Houston Post
Don't you think that stranger has rath.
er simian suggestion in mis- counfan
ance2" mo, 1 don't. think he IoolSs Iik,
q monkey."-Baltinore American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-30
Jan" and "Yank."

Speaking of "Japs," what should we
think if the Japanese called us
''Yanks'' a tevery turn? 1t would not
hurt us at all, naturally, but it might
hurt the Japanese a certain amount.
Every time the word "Japs" appears
in black lines in newspaper headlines
some one among us is convicted of
either ill-breeding or stupidity-and it
is not the "Japs.''
There is at least one section of our
country where the people are proud
of the name yankees" and never
hesitate to call themselves by that
title. They even go out of their way
to apply the word to themselves.
But when our friends of Latin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-30
.AYHAWKER .JOTS

Ewing Herbert announces that he
VIII add colored supplement feature
to the Saturday issue of his paper.
The editors of the rural Kansas
newspapers are becoming the real plu-
tocrats. Gilmore of the Fredonia Citi-
zen has bought a six-cylinder automo-
bile.
Is this knock or a lament? "a
Chanute woman has five husbands
And yet they say that things are
equally divided in this world!'-Anna
Carlson.
County Attorney Ise held a liquor
inquisition at Elk City, where the lid
is said to have been leaking recently.
He ought to be cool hand at that
sort of business.
Two Keats men are squabbling over
dog, valued at $50. The costs have
already run up to over 800, and the
case has just reached the first appeal.
The dog is dead.
Down at Cherryvale a male voter
cannot register without being served
with a poll tax notice. The women
of course escape. 1t is time for men
to demand their rights.
At Oak Valley, a hamlet of three
stores and town pump. Fredonia
card reading, Welcome, Fredonia!
The mayor and council are shocking
wheat"
Congressman Dan Anthony who is
a cand1oate for senator next year de-
fines himself as a straight Republi-
cam He is that. He is not only
straight politically, but also morally
and bodily-especially about six-feet
four of the latter brand.-Ottawa Her
aid.
An Independence broom maker, has
built fence of broomhandles around
the back of his yard. Six hundred
handles were used in the fence and in
order to fasten them to the stringers
it was necessary to bore 1900 holes
for the nails, one hole near each end
of each handle.
The Glasco Sun boasts because a
couple of Glasco young ladies working
together landed an eight pound fish.
That's nothing-We know a Milton
vale girl who alone and unaided got a
100 pound sucker, and another who
landed a 200 pound bull head with her
whole family trying to help it get
away.-Miltonvale Record.
What has Ottawa done? Rains fell
on all sides of this vicinity last night,
Lawrence, Olathe, Kansas, and even
around Garrett. And yet not a sprin-
kle in Ottawa Some one in this
neighborhood must have insulted the
weather man.-Ottawa Herald. Yet
we are told that the rain falls on the
unjust as we'll as on the Just.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
IFrom the Chicago News.I

Secondhand thoughts are sometimes
best.
Where there's a young widows will
there is a marriage.
The girl who fully intends to marry her
ideal usually compromises.
Girls shouldn't marry until they are old
enough to say yes"
A man without ambition is as useless as
a last years dog license.
A man plays the game of love for pas
time; a woman plays 1t to win
Many a mans seiled character has been
washed in a woman's tears.
If street cars were to. run backward,
how would women manage to aIght?
Every marriageable woman believes that
a ring on her finger beats two at the door.
perhaps 1t is the house on the other fell
lows lot that makes US dissatisfied with
our own.
1t sometimes happens that while a man
is watching his enemies his fool friends
get away with him.