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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-08
r WAS reeding in the papers once
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ware Mister Rockefeller cuddent
go to church on a Sunday bee
Klaus he was showed in. sed Ma.
Is that so? sed Pa. l suppose he
sent his dime down by sum hired
man, jest the saim.
The story dident say, sed Ma, but
think the peepul of that littel church
must have felt sad to think that
thare gratest & best member was
sroWbound on his vast estate, unaoel
to be among them with his CHEEKY
smile & genyul presence.
Did the story say that. that he had
a CHEEKY smile & a genyul presence
sed Pa.
Sumthing like that sed Ma.
Well. sed Pa, that is only another
proof that we shuddent believe every
thing we read in the newspapers. !
newer had the pleshure Of person
ally meeting John D. Rockefeller, sed
Pa. but | have often seen fotygrafts
of him. witch showed him with a
smile on, & It looked about as CHEEKY
as the smile of man witch has Jest
bad four tens beaten by yure four
kings. Thare always seemed 10 be
sumthing wrinkly and wintry about
the smile to me, sed Pa, but maybe
am so used to the CHEEKY smiles or
my gang that l expect too much from
a elderly ma.
wuddent be surprised sed Ma.
have seen sum of yure trends cum to
the house. she toald Pa, that dldent
have much left in the way of express
sion excep thare CHEEKY smile. Thare
ccnversashun sumtimes led me to bee
Ieeve. sed Ma. that thare is only a
thin line between sum CHEEKY smiles
and berry smiles However, you know
I r9omised the first of the yeer that If
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-08
Frantic Prayers.

But oh, my wild woe. my frantic
prayers II was almost as If Satan
himself were torturiug me
The one terror Of the next few days
was that my husband might return
home, for ! knew that at the first
moment OF his arrival the whole
world Of make believe which my
father and Alma were setting up
around me would tumble about my
head like pack Of cards
lie did not come. but he wrote.
After saying that his political duties
would keep him in London a little
longer. he said
I hear that your father is getting
you to give a great reception IN
honor Of our home coming But why
now instead OF three months ago?
Do YOU know the reason?"
As ! read these last words / felt an
icy numbnesS creeping up from my
feet TO my heart My position was
becoming intolerable. The conviction
was being forced upon me that had
no right In my husbands house
i made no difference that my hus-
bands house was mine also, in the
sense that II could not exist without
me had no right to be there
Il made no difference that my mar
rage had been no marriage ~ had no
rlght to be there
II made no difference that the man
had married was an utterly bad
husband had no right to he there.
II made no difference that ! was
not really an adultcrous Wife-l had
no right to be- there
Meanwhile Price my maid but my
only real friend in Castle Raa. with
the liberty ! allowed her. was uncon-
sciously increasing my torture Every
nleht as she comhed our my hair she
gave me her opinion Of my attitude
toward Alma, and one night she said
Didn't ] tell you she was only
watching YOU, my lady? The nasty
minded thing is making mischief with
his lordship. She's writing to him
every day How do ! know
OH / don't keep my eyes and cans
open downstairs for nothing You'll
have no peace Of your life, my lady.
until YOU turn that woman out of the
house.
Then. in M OF despair hardly
knowing what ] was doing ] covered
my face with my hands and said
y had better turn myself out per
hans"
The combing Of my hair suddenly
stopped, and at tho next moment
heard Price saying IN voice which
seemed TO come from a long way OFT
Good gracious me! Is il Ike that
mN lady ."
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-08

n NE may almost tell the manner
of the man by the manner in
- which he signs his name. The
writer of the following letter tells
as much in his signature as he dis
closes in the body of his letter
81 am a young pugilist, II years
old. A girl friend of mine asked me
for my photograph as | appear in the
ring ready for battle. Do you think
it would be proper for me 70 gratify
her wish? EDDIE
MY dear Eddie, that is more mat
ter of expediency than of propriety.
The latter word suggests dignity de
liberation and some good breeding
and the former the necessity of speedy
action. What is needed when a young
girl asks a pugilist for his photo
graph as he appears in the ring ready
for battle is speedy action.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-08

In the Spring q Young Girls Fancy
Lightly Turns to Thoughts of Love
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-08

Copyright. 1919, by Hearst's Magazine.
Copyright, 1913. by Hearst Magazine.
Copyright In Great Britain. Copyright
1913. by J. y. Lippincott Company.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-08
4, by international News
Service.

let tell this sudden baeoar business shock stripped naked
shall dethe
the
spring
LOVE- I'm crowded out-NELL BRINKEY
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-08
Let Her See.

INV @@N4 W.T.
Let her see YOU as brutal as you
can be. Let her learn that the man
she dreams is a hero is nothing hut
mass OF bone ans muscle Of less use
to humanity than the most degraded
form Of animal life.
Cure her of her infatuation. I beg
of YOU. Let her learn through your
picture what manner of man he is
who uses the physical strength God
gave him, not to lift up and protect,
but to beat down and abuse.
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13
Worry-lts Cause.

Worry, like hate, anger, envy and all other depressing emotions, is poison. It is short circuit which burns out the mental batteries and destroys the power for useful activity. It is of little use, however, to tell the neurasthenic not to worry. He suffers from worAy just as he suffers from headache and cold hands and feet and other miseries. The neurasthenic worries not because he wishes to, but because his mind operates in this disordered fashion in spite of his desire to the contrary. He can no more clip worrying by volun- tary effort than he can stop the smart. ing of burn or the itching of a mosquito bite by a mental effort. Nevertheless, the patient can do much to help himself out of the worry habig by an effort to cultivate an optimistic view of life in general and in each particular situation that presents itself.
 Worry, like "the blues" is generally due to chronic poisoning, the cure of which changes the color of the mental sky, and lifts the patient into a sunny and peaceful atmosphere. The Battle Creek Idea.
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13
Largest Turbines in World

The largest turbines in the world are now being built for the power station of the Interborough Rapid Transit Con- pany at East River and 74th st, New York. They will supply sufficient electric current to operate 135 fully loaded 10-car trains accommodating 135, 900 people, will be directly connected to a dynamo which will deliver 30, 900 kilowatts or about Al, 900 horsepower, and at full overload each machine can deliver 36,- 900 kilowatts, or practically 50, 900 horse power, for a short period of time.
 Each unit will use about $50, 900 pounds of steam per hour, and to con- dense this steam each turbine must be provided with condenser containing 1000 square feet of cooling surface. To insure this the condenser will contain 36 miles of brass tubing one inch in diameter.
 . The necessary amount of cold water for circulation through the tubes will be drawn from the East River, and through each condenser there will be passed every hour 4,50O,0 900 gallons of water.
 To pump this amount of water through the condensers for the eight units which will be ultimately in- stalled calls for tunnel 12 feet 4 inches wide and 12 feet inches in height.
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13
Nellie Packed the Grin.

We went away together
 For a little weekend trip. Two days we planned to stay
 And Nellie packed the grip. And miles away from shop and store.
 Deep in that shady nook, I found, Iswear, for us to wear
 That this is what she took: Three dresses and a waist or two,
 A dainty morning gown, A bathing suit, and bonnets cute,
 A dress to go to town. Six pairs of hose, and underclo'es,
 And heaps of fluffy things. Some shirtwaists, too, and ribbons new
 A pair of water wings. A pair of dancing pumps ill bronze,
 Her bedroom slippers red, Complexion dope and fancy soap.
 A book to read in bed. Her bridge whist rules, her curling tools, All needed, so said she, But rare good luck! I found she'd stuck
 A night shirt in for me. Edgar A. Guest in Detroit Free Press
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13
Right way to Manage a Wife.

Here it is, written by man, who, after forty-nine years of married life find himself still the devoted lover of his wife: Manage? What is that {? Does it mean to control ? We manage a horse. We use our superior human intellect to control and guide his superior physical strength so as to obtain the best results. But a wife is not a horse. When two persons are we'll married the wife is as superior to the husband in many respects as he is superior to her in others. If happiness is to be the result of the union, the first business of the husband is to manage himself so as to keep himself always his wife's respected friend always her tender lover, always her equal partner,
 always her superior protector. This will necessarily stimulate the wife to be always his admiring friend, always his affectionate sweetheart, always his thrifty housewife, always his confid- ing ward. And this will so reach upon the husband that his love for his wife will grow so as to make it easy or him,
 with all his faults, to bear with all the infrmities of his one and only wife. :"
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13
THURSDAY. AUGUST IS, 1914
THE GREAT CONFLICT.

The New Haven Union admonishes it's readers against jumping at conclu- sions in fixing the responsibility for starting the great war in Europe. 'Don't make up your minds,' it says. "as to who is responsible for the European war that is today centering the attention of all the peoples of the world. Don't place the blame for the blaze that has started this European confagration until you know beyond all uncertainty where that blame should. rest. ''' .
 We would remind the Union that the responsibility has already been placed by the monarchs of the countries involved. In their official manifestoes it is plainly set forth that Providence is responsible. Furthermore it is plainly set forth that each of the belligerent nations is to be the special object of Gods help in the great struggle. Forward with God, who will be with us," said the German Kaiser, to the soldiers whom he was sending forth to be slaughtered at Liege. "God has sent us this war, and He will be with us," said the Russian Czar, to his troops. And all the other monarchs give similar assurance to their soldiers. If they are right God is going to help each country against all the others. In the meantime, royal discretion is stronger than faith, and the monarchs prefer to take chances in the security of their own castles, miles and miles away from the scenes of battle. And the rest of the world looks on in horror and characterizes the war as the greatest crime in history, against humanity
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13
CLANS VS. SHEEP.

Next Saturday the big-wig republi- cans of the state will be the guests of
 he Bridgeport Republican Club, at a Field Day and Sheep Roast at Aerodrome Park, just out of Bridgeport. United States Senators Brandegee and Mclean are announced to be there, and it is frankly promised that it will be a great day for the making of political news. However important the political developments may turn out to be, no little interest will attach to the expert ment of substituting sheep roast for the orthodox clambake at a political festival. As we have had occasion to remark heretofore, the affinity between clans and politics is universally recog- nized, though impossible of explanation except on the theory that the clam can keep it's mouth shut, at least until it gets into hot water. The sheep cannot do even that much. There seems to be inspiration in the juice of the succulent clam to thrill the patriotism of statesmen, and the statesmanship of patriots. But the sheep is a mutton haad, and it remains yet to be proven that he has anything in him that will do that. The Bridgeport experiment., next Saturday, may furnish enlighten- mont on that score In any event, it will be worth watching.
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13
Not What She Expected.

He was shy young man, but on his way home from the city he managed to screw up his courage sufficiently to enter jewellers shop and purchase q small gift for the lady of his heart. This, he hoped, would have the way to the popping of the great question. That night he called at her house and found her alone. Producing a small square box from his pocket he said, nervously.
 "I have ventured to bring you & small present, Miss Finn, but I am afraid that perhaps it will not fit your finger. Will you try it on? ?"
 70, dear p' said the girl, blushing most becomingly, "this is quite unex- pected. Why, I never dreamed that you really cared enough"
 Poor fool Instead of grasping the opportunity in both hands he opened the box and produced thimble Then the thermometer dropped about 10 de- grees. Inquirer.
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13
What the Other Pillows Say.

Jack Johnson wants to enlist ill the French army. Looks like another dark cloud on the German horizon. = New Haven Journal Courier.
 Poor little Servia. The under dog ir the pile and likely to be damned if she does and damned if she doesn't.- Shore Line Times.
 The fact that the war in Europe will have little or no unpleasant effect upon local factories, and possibly will cause stimulation of the brass industry is good news here.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 At this distance it looks as if there was something of a family jar across the water.-Hartford Courant.
 After all, there is very little difference either in language or style between Europe's rulers speeches blaming the war on each other, and two prize fighters threatening and boasting before the battle, or Ban Johnson expressing his opinion of Dave Fultz.-Waterbury Republican.
 There's something very modest about the army worm. It's the same kind of modesty which we have noted ill the colonel. The army worm retires when the competition is too much for him. New Haven Journal Courier.
 Prohibition laws in effect one month have emptied the jail at Wheeling, w. Va., of all prisoners. Now the Pro- hibition politicians will have the ,gI- nf ipI, the jailer aId al his helpers. Bridge port Standard.
 Anyway, there's the charm of novelty about having Americans in Europe held up by something else than the hotel keepers. Times.
 What shame it is and what crime on humanity that two or three men can turn a war loose for the slaughter of thousands. and not one of the principals within miles of the firing line.-New Haven Union.
 We still have one or two men in this community who stand around on the street corners and from morning until night complain about the town, their neighbors, their taxes and the weather. Such men are mighty common clay and it is fortunate we have so few of them. Reporter.
 An effort is being made to have the democratic state convention held in New London. It would be well to meet in that place. The delegates could then see for themselves the folly of the State in squandering a million real dollars there.-Bristol Press.
 Mrs. Wakefield, being found guilty of murder in the second degree, has just been sentenced to state prison for life. Thus justice suffers not at all and the state keeps it's record as common wealth which does not hang women.- Bridgeport Farmer.
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13
Wise CIorinda.

Clorinda's been through college, Clorinda's studied law, And she has world of knowledge 1 That fills my soul with awe Her store of economics;
 Erudition gives her charm, But her hats are truly comic
 And view her with alarm. She is sound upon the tariff
 And knows that it's tax, That consumers pay share if Not all, and kindred facts Her theory of money
 Is, in the main, quite right, But her clothes are simply funny And she fills my breast with fright Clorinda is beauty
 And certainly is good; She knows her civic duty
 And acts just as she should; But-I am sadly puzzled,
 And fear, must confess, That Clorinda should be muzzled Till she learns how she should dress
 Los Angeles Express.
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13

A state prison convict-who mani festly was endowed by nature for g better destiny-writes, in the Monthly Record, the journal edited and issued by the prisoners in Wethersfeld:
 "For the bread of bitterness we shall not always eat; of the waters of tears we shall not always drink. Beyond the night the royal suns ride on; even the rainbow shines around the rain. From the burnt out fires of our human hopes will spring heavenly star. ''
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13
He got Them.

"Give me two seats in the balance, " said man, stepping up to the boxoffice window the other afternoon.
 "In the what ?" saked the ticket seller, fearing that she had misunder- stood.
 "I said wanted two seats in the balance," said the man.
 The ticket seller racked her brain trying to solve the puzzle and finally giving it up she asked the man to ex- plain just what he wanted.
 "On this sign out here it says balcony 25c for the first three rows. It says, balance 15c. I want two in the balance" "
 Then the ticket seller understood. - Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13
NORTH CANAAN HAS

population Jf 2,171, (census of 19f0.) Two railroaus. National and Savings Banks. Trolley railroad extending through the Berkshires to Pittsfeld and beyond. Up-to-date High School and first-class school system.
 Five churches.
 First-class hotel.
 Fire department. including chemical en- zine.
 Ten miles of State Roads. Electric light and power plant, Complete Sewer System.
 Never-failing water supply and the best water in the state.
 Wide-awake Business Mems Association. Extensive lime and iron industries. Fraternal and benefit societies. Brass band. Up-to-date department stores. Pure air and wholesome climate.
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week Cu!ied from The News Files,
 IS83

1883.
 Jan. 10. The Ladies' Guild of Christ Church met at the Warner House.
 The Ladies Aid Society of the Meth olist Church met at the residence of Mrs. G. P. StroI.g.
 David Hollnes had moved his family to this village.
 Mir. Nathan Watson was suffering from lameness caused by a failing timber.
 John VanDeusen was running his hay press to its full capacity to meet the demand.
 Miss Anna H. Lancashire. an instructor ill elocution at Maplewood Institute. Pittstield, had been engaged to read in this village.
 The funeral of MT. J. 0. Dunning, of Saratoga, N. Y, was held at the residence of MT. Lyman Dunning, at East Canaan.
 Theodore s. Russell, of Salisbury, died in that place, at the age of 51 years.
 The Canaan High School students had given an enjoyable entertainment in the Town Hall, at which Misses Ina Fitch and Meta Rodemeyer played piano duet.
 The officers of David s. Cowles Post, G. A. R., had been installed by officers from Winsted, Lime Rock and Lakeville.
 Mir. and Mrs. L. M. Stanard, of Canaan Valley, celebrated their crystal wedding.
 Mrs. Roxanna D. Stevens had died at East Canaan at the age of S6 years.
 Services were being held at the Meth odist Church every evening in recogni- ton of the week of prayer.
 The electric signals at the railroad station had been found satisfactory Messrs. Giddings and Bolles had pur- chased the New Milford Gazette and the New Milford Ray and consolidated them under the name of the Ray and Gazette.
 The masons of Housatonic Lodge, F. and A. M, were planning for recep- tion at Town Hall.
 Falls Village-Mrs. Gillette of Greensport, was visiting friends in Amesville. Walter Lord was station agent during the absence of MT. Vol colt. Miss Carrie Hall was attending Miss Warmers school in Salisbury. Miss Minnie Turpin had returned from a sojourn of two weeks in Greensport, Long Island. Fritz Ruiger was clerking in Fuckers drug store. Miss Sarah Nott had gone to Utica to attend the funeral of her sister, Mrs. Harriet Rogers. Thomas Gonardo, a tailor Neisner.. The funeral of Mrs. John B. Owen had been attended from the M. E. Church. The Young Ladies' Mission Circle was aiding in the education and support of an Indian girl in Dakota, by the name of Ella Thompson. The funeral of Mrs. Esther N. Hosford had been held at the M E. Church. The Union Agricultural Society had elected B. W. Spur for its president. A double wedding had occurred at the residence of MT. Charles Dean at Lime Rock Station, the contracting parties were MT. Martin Phillips and Miss May Hempsted, of Chicago, and MT. Robert E. Haskins and Miss Minnie Newton.
 West Cornwall-Miss Annie Steb- bins, of Brookfeld, had spent the holi- days with Mrs Luke Nickerson. MT. and Mrs. John Chamberlain, of Bridge port, were guests of David Ocain. The village school had commenced its winter term with Mrs. Helen Page as teacher. Misses Ellen Cochrane and Annie Will son were visiting friends in Hunting ton. An elaborate Christmas service had been held in the chapel.
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13

We hardly know what to make of George Woodruff, editor of the Litch- field Inquirer. A fortnight ago he was sail to be candidate for the con
 ssrcssional nomination in this, Fifth, district Later advices are to the effect that he has killed that particular political bug, but that it's place ill his bonnet is now occupied by the Secre- taryship of State bug. We are unable to give our endorsement to the cha nge. The renunication is without merit. George has simply cheapened his bug.
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13

The New Haven Courier Journal recently conducted a successful prize limerick contest on the theme, "Swat the Flyp' Several hundred dozen limericks were submitted, some excellent, some good, and some as bad as the flies. What we rise to inquire is, Did they abate the fly pest in any essential degree?
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13
THE EWS' AGENTS

Extra copies of The News are on sale at the effice of publication and at
 Demnsey's Drug Store. Canaan, Post Office, East Canaan. D. H. Oakes' Store Lakeville, Post Office, Falls Village. George T. Johnsons Store, Norfolk Scutt & Rood. Ashley Falls. A. l.. Dickinson. Salisbury. J.W. Morgan Great Harrington. Mass.
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13

Much as we dislike to twitter on facts that seem to impeach the infalli- bility of the esteemed Hartford Courant, which seldom hesitates to fetch up it's ungrammatical con- temporaries with short turn, we feel constrained to remind the censorious ed itor that "heart-rendering grief" is la- mentable indeed.
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13

"Jack" Johnson is said to be anxious to enlist in the French army. If our personal consent is the only thing that causes him to hesitate, he may as we'll go ahead and enlist-in fact we can assure him that the general "white hope'' is that he will.
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13

Only one resident Protestant preacher on the job, in the whole town, next Sunday-Brother Travis, Methodist. Rev. Gillette is away on vacation, and Pilgrim Church will be 'dark, " all day. Christ Church has no rector now, but distinguished Bishop will occupy the pulpit. Rev. Maylott, of the East Canaan Congregational Church, is off on his vacation, and MT. Wilcox, a Torrington layman and former news paper man, will officiate in his church. But even if there were no preaching, for one Sunday, in any of the churches, the moral tone of the community would not necessarily suffer. The News will come out, as usual.
Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13

Frost-"What makes him so success full as theatrical manager?"
 Snow-''He knows a bad thing when he sees it. Judge.
 "I suppose that your son is develop ing apace?"
 eyes; and pace that is much too fast for one of his years. Buffalo Express.