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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-13
70, Mrs. Johnston.

The initial event of the weeks
gayeties and one which was char
sctarized by a delightful hospitality
was the bridge tea given by Mrs.
Alexander Smith Monday afternoon
.n honor Of Mrs. Marshall Johnston,
Of Macon, Mrs. Richard Johnston's
guest Narcissi and carnations
adorned Mrs Smiths home, and fol-
owing the game tea was served from
prettily appointed tea table, COW
cred with Japanese mats, and having
japanese tray bearing a Japanese
vase of narcissi and carnations, as
centerpiece. There were only two
tables of bridge. a few other friends
Joining The players for tea.
Several Informal affairs will be
rendered Mrs. Johnston during hel
visit.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-13
Nurses Club.

Nurses Club.
The annual meeting and election of
officers of the Atlanta Registered
Nurses Club will be held at the club
rooms Wednesday at $3.50 p. m.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-13

The tea which Mrs. J. Z. c. Pedder
will give Wednesday afternoon in
honor of Mrs. J. c. Beam. who has
recently returned to Atlanta after
an extended absence, and Miss Ruth
Hut of Mexico City, who Is Mrs.
Pedders guest will be one OF the de-
'ightful events Of the week. Mrs.
PaJdcr will entertain at her apart
mont on Seventh street. and she will
be assisted by Mrs. William f. Ham
oad Mrs. Eugene Galloway, Mrs.
Roland Aston, Mrs. Bulow Campbell,
Mrs Herbert Manson. Mrs. Nash
Broyes, Mrs. Selden Jones, Mrs. Jo-
seph Windle. Miss Lillian Birney of
Washington, D, c., Miss Nellie kiser
Stewart and Miss Florence Williams
OF New York, Mrs. Gerrard's guest.
Punch will be served by Misses Ad-
gate Ellis Jessie Mckee and Dorothy
A5rman.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-13
nfcrmal Club Dance.

Tho usual informal dance followed
The game Of basket b. u at the At
anita Athletic Club Saturday even
ing, when Miss Lucille Pottinger, Of
savannah, and Miss Helen Jones We're
sponsors for the contesting teams.
others present were Miss Sallie Cobb
Johnson, Martha Ryder, Elizabeth
Dunson, Annie Lou Pasctt. Lula Dean
lonos. Aline Fielder, Clifford West and
Mcssrs. Boyce Worthey, John Mecas-
lin, Henry Kuhrt, Paul Doonan, Wal
ION Griffith, Russell Compton, Ray
Werner, Reynolds Clarke, Travis HUFF
and Charlie Sciple
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INDIAN PILGRIMS TO SACRED 5HRINE

white, with white mantilla over her
head, roaming through the streets at
night. Those who have inquired her
business have received an answering
inquiry as to where her children can
be found. The greatest misfortune
always overtakes those who question
her. Most of them are stricken dead
or become insane. This latter fate is
said to have overtaken a gifted young
army officer, who once tried to flirt
with the Wailing Woman. 1t is said
her lamentations are still heard at
night, sometimes.
One story with foundation in fact
is the legend of Don Juan Manuel. AS
the tale survives in the folklore Don
Juan was an amiable enough gentle
man, except that he had bad habit
of wandering out nights and murder
ing people. His custom was to ap-
proach somebody on the street, ask
him the time, and, when he replied
tell him he was lucky because he
knew the hour of his death and stab
him to the heart. This went on un-
til \one night Don Juan killed his dear
ly beloved nephew, whom he had not
recognized.
Stricken with remorse Don Juan
confessed to his priest, who for pen
ance ordered him to go alone at mid
night to a certain church, before
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16

one of its bony hands gripping his
body by the throat, was a skeleton in
priestly garments, with a dagger stick
ing in its skull.
The GhostIy Raven.
Rather a weird legend is that of
Don Rodrigo de Ballesteros and his
raven. 1t is said that there is a GER
tain bridge where at midnight when
the weather is stormy one may even
yet hear the ghostly cawing OF this
raven, although the incidents with
which the story deals happened 300
years ago.
Don Rodrigo, it seems, was very
rich and very wicked He lived in a
palace and he and the raven dined
from gold and silver plate. but the
Don always went about in shabby
clothes, in spite of his riches. He
never went to church, and he made
fun OF holy things, Suddenly he and
the raven both disappeared. On in
vesttgation persons found in his house
a sacred image that had been defiled
and was sprinkled with blood. From
this 1t was supposed that the raven
had beaten the image until 1t had shed
the crimson fluid, and that Satan pun
ished them both by taking them to
himself. Occasionally, however, they
come back to haunt the scene of their
mtsdeeds.
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Pics DrivEno Out Moslems.

The Moslem population of Mace
donia is leaving the country in thou
sands, not because they are ilI-treat-
ed by their conquerors, but because
their religious susceptibilities are Of
Tended by the sight of pigs in the
open places. These animals hither-
to have been kept in seclusion by their
Christian owners, as any straying pork
ers met with short shrift from sons
of the prophet But, with the entrance
of the allied troops into the province,
the native pigs gained their freedom,
and now they may be seen running
about the streets in great numbers.
Hence life has become impossible in
Macedonia for the followers of Ma
homet.
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man among them realized that they had received
kilograms that were epoch-making
Everybody In the United States was quite pre-
pared to learn that the Langley airship when the
attempt to fly her on October Z was made was
wrecked and the bold navigator of the air almost
killed In his foolhardy attempt to emulate real
bird
AS spectacle it was dramatic, impressive.
The aeroplane' was taken from the houseboat
early in the morning weather conditions being
ideal for the first time in weeks, and under the
direction of Mr.. Manly was assembled with the
greatest care.
The aeroplane poised the turntable atop
the superstructure, fifty sixty feet above the
Potomac, with open water on all sides, and a
vast stretch of unobstructed sailing area in three
directions, SO that in the event of success the
aerodrome might have flown for miles. Had the
aeroplane been tested a level stretch Of
ground, which would have been possible had it
been equipped with light bicycle Wheels that day
might very we'll have witnessed mans triumph
gravity.
The aeroplane was beautiful thing like some
great white bird poised there the houseboat,
and waiting only the signal to spring into the
air Its long, white Penaud tail added to it's bird
like appearance.
1t was about sixty feet in length exclusive of
the TAIL with main body elliptical in shape, to
which attached the four spreading white
silken wings.
Mr.. Manly weighed but $50 pounds. He was
the lightest in the party Moreover, he was
coinventor, and for these reasons he claimed the
privilege and the honor of making the first flight
as pilot
AS Mr.. Manly climbed into his dizzy perch
and took his seat he looked down at the handful
of newspaper reporters who gathered
around the houseboat and who, in addition to the
members Of the Smithsonian staff and represen-
tatives of the army and navy, were the only wit
nesses, and smiled at them The reporters gave
him cheer.
Manly started the motor and braced himself
for the start.
The aeroplane ready for its voyage, was held
in leash the turntable by powerful spring
which, when released, would give 1t an initial
velocity of about thirtyive feet per second, and
enable 1t to clear the superstructure. AS Mr..
Manly put his hand to the lever and set his jaws
the spring was released
There was whirring noise increasing to
roar, as If thousand eagles were passing over
head. It was 1920 o'clock p. m. when she start
ed. The great birdlike thing few swiftly over the
60-foot track of the launching apparatus passed
the edge of the houseboat, and then some
thing happened.
Instead of soaring off into the air like the thing
of life she looked her beak dipped, and she shot :
downward, plunging head first into the river only
so yards from the .houseboat. The propellers
worked perfectly until the very last, and one of
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16
REAL ORIGIN OF "SHOW NE"
So Generally Applied to Missouri
Started.

You'll have to show me-Im from
Missouri"
How often you have heard that
phrase, nd-incidentally, how tired
you have grown of it. But maybe
there was time when you wondered
where it originated
Matt Knapp, a secret service detec-
tive of Kansas City, says it grew out
of the enactment of the Missouri mar
riage laws. Prior to 1881, Missouri
had about the zero in marriage laws,
Mr.. Knapp says. Any couple who had
the inclination and could find justice
Of the peace, or a preacher, could join
hands for better or worse, and didn't
have to say anything to the state
about it.
No questions were asked about ages,
or consent of parents, and unwilling
justices and preachers seldom were
found. Other adjoining states strove
for years to get Missouri to pass some
state marriage laws, because young
people from Kansas, Iowa, and other
states could step across the line, hol-
Ter at a justice, and be married in
hurry-up style, and there was no state
regulation of it.
In 1881 law was passed making it
a misdemeanor for a preacher or a
justice to marry persons not having a
state license and setting the age of
marriageable women at eighteen
years. If the applicant for license did
not know the age of the bride-elect,
he had to produce her to the license
clerk and let him judge her age.
When the applicant went back after
the girl, she asked the reason, of
course, why she had to go along to get
the license. When told that the law
required her exhibition, she remarked,
"Oh, you've got to show me, have
your"
This occurred many times during
the first year of the laws effective
ness, and became by-word, according
to Mr.. Knapp.
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u 'oiiNuent that he was on the "rieht track"
49, th " 20 ahead, a determination that
was @ tiwarted by his untimely death in 1906,
,+l.,S 1'o1S OF invention has no record more
49, tlo lnan that OF Samuel P. Langley At the
very moment when success was in his prasn
when the dreams of a lifetime ware about r.
come true and the labors of years of toll to he
rewarded the cup dashed from his lips
'nloush the failure, not Of the invention itself
out or purely mechanical contriyance of minor
Importance Derided in congress and held up by
the newspaper wits of the world as a target for
tnelr Jests, Langley must have died thoroughly
discouraged man
Ihe experiments of 1903 were the elimination
or years OF patient effort AS far back as 1891
Professor Langley announced that as the result
OF experiments carried on by him during previous
years 1t was possible to construct machines
which would give such velocity to inclined sur
faces that bodies indefinitely heavier than the
air could be sustained upon it, and moved through
1t with great velocity"
President Mckinley had become impressed with
the possibilities of the airship as an engine of
war, and in 189S at the request Of the board of
ordnance and fortifcation of the war department,
Professor Langley undertook the construction Of
a man-carrying flying machine and an allotment
Of $4,000 was made for the purpose The serv-
ices. Of Charles M. Manly were secured as an
assistant
In his earlier tests with models Professor Lang
ley had employed small houseboat from the
roof Of which he had launched them. He de-
termined to follow the same procedure with the
larger man-carrying airship, and, although ad-
vised not to do so, he persisted until the end in
this determination. And 1t was the launching
apparatus which caused the final failure!
An enormous houseboat, therefore, was built
Atop the house was the superstructure carrying
turntable, weighing about fifteen tons, supported
on circular track, arrangement which was
designed to make it possible for the aeroplane to
be launched from the roof" headed into the
wind, without the necessity of turning the entire
houseboat.
Finally on August quartersize steam-driven
model was launched from the top of the house
boat 1t was in the air 81 seconds and covered
about one thousand feet. The experiment was
regarded as a success and gave the inventors
great hopes for the success of the man-carrying
machine Numerous delays occurred to prevent
the launching of this, and 1t was not until Oc
tober that the real Langley aeroplane was sent
forth into the air, the first heavierthan-air ma
chine carrying man ever to attempt flight.
A few days before this date the reporters at
Whitewater received from their home offices que
ries reading about as follows:
1.-TWO brothers named Wright are said to be
experimenting with airship at Kitty Hawk
N C. Ask Langley what he knows about it."
It was the first time any man in the reporters
camp had ever heard of those famous brothers
from Dayton, Orville and Wilbur Wright. Not
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16
WHEN JOHN [. BROKE AWAY"
In Eight Years of Abstinence From
John 5arleyeorn the Former Pu-
alllst Has Saved 100000.

Eight years ago almost to a day
John L. Sullivan. unshaven and un-
kempt, emerged from a bar of the
Grand hotel at Broadway and Thir-
ueth street, stood for a moment look
ing back at the door. and then walked
uncertainty uptown. 1t was o'clock
in the evening, and the former pugi
list rrfushed shoulders with we'll
groomed people hurrying to the thea
ters. He was the derelict in the stream.
On his face there was a half smile,
but it wasn't pleasant one.
At the corner of Thirteenth street
he met "Morry" Cohen and newspa-
per man, with both of whom he was
acquainted. He growled something in.
coherent in response to their greeting,
and was apparently about to pass on.
But he paused and turned toward
EN-.
I've just been turned down in that
Darroom for a drink" he said. Il
wanted one drink more and didn't have
the price. They didn't give it to me.
They put me out. They didn't send
the proprietor or the manager to put
me out They sent the porter. I've
spent $4,000 over that bar. And they
put me out because | wanted a drink
and couldn't pay for it. There's only
one thing you can figure out of a propo-
sition like that. Quit drinking! To-
night | quit"
The former champions friends ex-
pressed indignation over the treatment
he had received. 1t reused no spark
of anger in the big fellow" He was
too filled with the sense of shame and
modification. Still brooding over the
indignity he had suffered, he accom-
panied Cohen and the newspaper man
to Murphys saloon, at Sixth avenue
and Thirtieth street. Cohen ordered
a drink. Sullivan filled his whisky
glass to the brim.
Boys said he, here's the last for
me-"
That's the true story of John l.. Sui
livan's last drink. Eight years have
passed, and the John l.. Sullivan who
was tottering on the edge of the gutter
looks eight years younger today than
he did that night. And he has $780,
OO0.-New York Correspondence to
Cincinnati Times-Star.
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Not Polly Ticks.

During political campaign a can
didate for the legislature was driving
through the country seeking votes
among the farmers when he met a
young man in farmers garb walking
by the roadside. Having in his mind
a prospective vote he stopped his
horse, and saluting the farmer in a
familiar manner inquired: Are you
paying any attention to politics nova
days?" The young man stopped.
looked at him suspiciously and
drawled out: mo, stranger; that
don't happen to be my gals name, but
If it was l wouldn't think 1t was any
of your darned business" This ended
the interview as well as the prospect.
National Monthly.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16

which was a gallows, and to tell his
rosary under the gallows. Three
nights he attempted to fulfill the COM
mand, but was driven back by tie
groans of the persons he had mur-
dered After begging in vain for a
lighter penance he finally reached his
goal under the gallows. And then
angels from heaven came down and
hanged him.
AS a matter of history there was
such a person in Mexico in 1641 and
he was a dishonest collector of rev.
enues. He was Jailed, and, to secure
his liberty, his wife was compelled
to suffer incredible humiliations at
the hands of judge. Don Juan broke
prison, went to his home, found the
Judge there. and stabbed him to
death. Later he was mysteriously
lynched one night before the church,
and from this grew the legend that
the angels had punished him for his
sins.
A striking story of ghostly revenge
is the legend OF Don Juan de Nava,
priest and guardian of his orphan
niece, beautiful girl. A Portuguese
nobleman, Don Duarte de Sarraza, fell
in love with her, and she reciprocated
the attachment, but the priest reject
er Don Duarte because he was known
as a gambler. One night the priest
came upon Don Duarte talking to his
niece through her window. Duarte
struck the old man with his dagger,
which was imbedded in his skull, kill
ing him. He threw the body, dagger
and all, into a ditch. Just one year
later Duarte was found dead at the
site of the crime. Kneeling over him.
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ducing the colonies to harmless pro
portions. Today their numbers are
out of all proportions to available food
and natural parasites, and their preva-
lence is fully as bad as last year. If
not worse.
Their infestation in Massachusetts
has been serious and very annoying
for about three years, which is sup
posed to be the natural duration Of
such infestations. Those who, from
observations last year. concluded that
there would not be 50 many tent cat
erpillsrs thia year are somewhat DUE
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16

There was an official on one Of our
great railroads who was retired at
seventy. He'll die now," said his
friends kindly. But he didn't. In
stead, he became interested in the
wild flowers, and now he is too busy
in looking for the rams head orchid,
and trying to find new station for
the hart's tongue fern, and tramping
around in the woods and fields in all
kinds of weather, even to think of dy-
ing. Anyway, he wouldn't have time
until he's finished his monograph on
the willows of the United States.-Lip-
pincott's.
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grips their intestines and quickly dis
ables them.
Unsanitary living is the presumed
cause for 1t. The eaterpillars are most
clannish In their habits, building enor-
nous houses for themselves and fill
ing them up to suffocation. Thus
huddled together in thick clusters they
appear to be violating their own house
surroundings so badly that it impairs
their health and gives them specific
form Of disease. This habit is ex-
pected by the experts to restore grad
ually the balance OF nature" By 10
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16

Bohemia has forest area equal to
29 per cent of its total area, and the
quantity of wood cut annually aver.
ages 6,474,105 cubic yards, of which
4,S16,O7O cubic yards are suitable for
building and manufacturing, and the
remainder for fuel. Bohemia exports
annually about 100000 cubic yards
of forest products to Germany.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16

That new word 'leprosarium" Is
what might be called, without hesita-
ton, a humdinger. The finest thing
about 1t is that it sets the patterns
for about a thousand other words we
have been needing, such as whoopinR-
cougharium, spavinarium, shingle-
arium, ringwormarium, toothache-
arium, measlearium, mumparium,
feverarium, pellagrarium, windcolic-
arium, hookwormarium, scarletrash-
arium, yallerjandersarium, etc. Some
words, those!
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lOhS DGlOlt NOluLuDub bdllCu
on his memorable voyage of discov-
cry, when it was the seat of the Aztec
empire. Civilization of a sort -four
ished there long before the first hardy
pioneers settled along the northern
Atlantic coast and before the eyes
of white man had ever rested upon
the Mississippi river.
1t has been a city OF many vicisSi-
tudes. 1t has been held by Indian
and Spaniard, by viceroy, by repub-
lican, by revolutionist, and by north,
ern invader. Many Of its streets are
of the greatest antiquity. Many OF its
traditions are so old that no man
knows whether they originated in the
days of the Montezumas or of the Con-
quistadores.
AS Is inevitable, the City Of Mexico
has its own peculiar folklore, its
mysterious legends.
The WaiIlng Woman.
A relic of Aztec folk lore is the tale
Of the Wailing Woman Once, a long
time ago, the story runs, there was
very bad woman in the City of Mex
leo. She gave birth to many chill
dren. but children bored her, and, as
fast as one came upon the earth, she
drowned it. Finally her conscience
began troubling her. 1t is supposed
that her punishment was to go
through eternity looking for her lost
children.
Frequently since then, 1t is said,
watchmen have seen woman In
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16
WordR

A word, uttered in anger, can wreck
a home or nation; word spoken
in love can bring peace where before
was war; still it is true, as said by
Burke, that "a very great part of the
mischiefs that vex the world arise
from words"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16
DISEASE WIPES OUT PLAGUE
Epidemic Carries Away the Pest Of
caterpllIars That Have Long Wcr
ried the East.

Tent caterpillars, in evidence wher-
ever trees and bushes grow, are re-
ported to have contracted the same
disease that is killing SO many gypsy
moth caterpillars. The wilt disease
is developing among them, and is
killing them in large quantities. In
lts operations It is like cholera, which
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16
Railroad Has Definite Object

The Odessa-Bakhmut railroad, which
was opened for traffic in February,
1914, reduces the distance from Odes-
SO to Moscow by 130 miles and to St
Petersburg by 115 miles, 1t traverses
the northwestern part of the govern.
ment of Kherson,. and will solve the
problem of grain transportation for
this section.
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zled by conditions, but they cling
to the prediction that the trouble will
not last. They look to the wilt dis
ease to raise havoc with the cater
pillars this year, and thin out their
ranks substantially.
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scientists long ago
accorded to Professor
Langley the full meas
Hre of credit due to
him. The Wright broth
ers, who made a prac-
tical success where he
had seemed to fail,
have acknowledged the
debt they owe to this
unassuming rlan who
drew his Inspiration
from the clouds and
gave to man tie eagles
secret. He had worked
out for them the prob
lens in aerodynamics,
and left for them in al
gebraic formulae the
data upon which all
mechanical flight is
based.
But. in the mind of
the public Langley was
a failure, and Langley's
aeroplane, tried and
wrecked at historic
Whitewater, Va, on Oc-
tober 7, 1903, Is Lang
ley's folly" now, as it
was then, when the sec.
retary of the Smithson-
ian institution returned
North, stung by unjust
and unthinking criti-
cisms. but undaunted.
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Naturally.

''This department store is really q
palatial one, and is so successful
"Yes, hut it has sad story"
Indeed? What is it?" Ssn
'Its fourth story; there is Its mourn
ing department.
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Daily rhounht.

Education is the only interest wor-
thy the deep, controlling anxiety Of
the thoughtful man. Wendell Phillips.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-16

Nature Never Made Garden.
Nature makes glorious thlngs
enough: but nature alone never made
q garden.