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Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-28
WORKED WONDERS
SPITE OF UNBELIEF
cat First I Had No Faith, "
Says Mother, "But Soon
There Was Such
A Change"

Ontario, Va.-Mrs. M. L. Anderson,
of this town, gives out the following
for publication: 81 went to Rich
mond seeking relief and tried al
most everything in the medicine line,
but nothing proved a cure until l
tried Cardui, the woman's tonic.
had indigestion very bad, and a
complication of diseases.
Although, at first, had no faith
in it, l bought bottle of Cardui, but
soon, there was such a change.
was certainly benefited. | felt so
different! Then | began to take the
medicine in earnest. Now, / can do
my work, and / eat and sleep like a
young person.
"Cardui also cured my daughter of
womanly troubles. l keep Cardui in
the house all the time. 1t is a great
blessing to all women who need it,
Thousands of ladies' have written
like Mrs. Anderson, telling of the
wonders worked by Cardui in the re-
lief of various forms of weakness and
distress, after other remedies had
failed to help.
Isn't it likely that you will be
helped by Cardui, this remedy which
has been in constant successful use
for more than half a century? It's
record of years of success, in reliev.
ing troubles such as your own, is
proof that it will help you, too.
Try Cardui.
N. B.--Write to: Ladies Advisory
Dept, Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chat
tanooga, Tenn, for Special instructions,
and 6l-page book, Home Treatment for
Women sent in plain wrapper. on re-
quest.-AdVt.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-28
Southern Railway
To Spend S750,OOO

RICHMOND VA, Feb 2S.-Falrfax
Harrison. president Of the Southern
Railway, authorized the expenditure of
$500 900 for 81 large locomotives to be
built here, and $250,000 for the con-
struction of new freight terminals here
to relieve congestion of vastly increased
business.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-28
Work on 0glethorpe
To Start Next Month

Work on the campus of the proposed
Oglethorpe University will begin early
In March. This was decided al a meet
ing Friday of the finance committee of
the board of directors in the offices of
Watkins & Latimer, their attorneys,
who read favorab BILE report on the title
to the property.
The committee was busy Saturday
working out the details of the plans.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-28
Leaders to Speak at
Big Turnverein Fete

Atlanta German Americans are an
ticipa ting a great time Tuesday eve
ming when the Turnverein, the city's
oldest social organization, will cele-
brate it's forty-firSt anniversary with
a ball and concert, followed by a
Dutch supper. Special music will be
furnished.
Among the speakers will be Cover
nor Slaton, Mayor Woodward, Albert
Howell, Hugh NJ. Dorsey and John Y.
Smith.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-28
Maryland Road Gets
Great Northern Head

NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-Carl R
Gray, president of the Great North
ern Railroad, has accepted the presi-
dency and craftsmanship of the West
ern Maryland Railway, subject to the
acceptance of his resignation by the
Great Northern.
1t was reported about ten days ago
that Mr.. Gray would accept the pres
idency of the Frisco. He succeeds j
P. Fitzgerald on the Western Mary
land.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-28
Sets Husbands Love
At S25O,O0O in Suit

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-Suit for
$250,000 damages for alleged aliena-
tion of her husbands affections has
been filed in the local courts by Mrs.
Helen Clesg Winters, wife of Vaien-
tine Winters, a traction millionaire of
Dayton, Ohio against Mrs. Susan
Huffman Darst, widow of Frederick
Darst, a manufacturer.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-28
Mrs. Leeds Takes
Norfolk Town House

Special Gable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Feb. 2S.-Mrs. William
B. Leeds, widow of the former Ameri-
can tinplate manufacturer and prob
ably the most famous hostess in Lon
don. has rented Norfolk House, the
famous town house of the Duke of
Norfolk, in st. James square.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-28
Goes to Japan to Wed
Man She Never Saw

TRENTON, N. j., Feb. 2S.-Hazel
Hulse will leave for Japan soon to
wed Arthur G. Bowman, of the United
States consular service, whom she
has never seen. Bowman saw her
photograph, wrote to her and the pair
courted by correspondence.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-28
Chicago to Have Only
Boys Court in World

+ CHICAGO, Feb. 2S.-A boys court,
where youths between II and 81 will
be tried for lawbreaking, will be es-
tablished in Chicago soon. 1t will be
the only court in the world exclusive
ly for boy offenders.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-28
Tango at Barnard
Approved by Dean

NEW YORK, Feb. 2s.-Dean Virginia
C. Gildersleeve, of Barnard. who was
at the Barnard "'iunior prom" two weeks
ago, has decided the girls may dance
the tango. maxixe and hesitation as
long as they dance properly.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-28
Flower Beds to Get
Ashes Of Dead Man

NEW YORK. Feb. 2S.-Dr. Glenn
mons Fuel. 65. botanist, died, leav-
ing request that his body be Gre
mated and the ashes sprinkled ove-
his favorite flower beds.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-28

Cleans building Of Rats and Mice In short time,
keeps II cleaned, for It is always ready for USE
Made Of galvanized Iron. can't get out of..erder,
lasts for years. Large number can be caught
daily Go TO Catcher mornings remove device
inside, which only takes few seconds, take out
dead rats and mice replace device. It Is ready
for another CATCH Small piece Of cheese Is used
doing away with peisons. Catcher Is 10 Inches
high, 10 inches diameter When rats pass de.
vice they die, no marks left on them. Catcher Is
always clean. One of these catchers set In a
livery stable In Scranton, Pa. caught over 100
rats IN month. One sent prepaid to any Mace In
United States upon receipt Of So. Catcher g
In. high, for mice only, prepaid 81. On account
of shipping charges being prepaid Remittance
Is requested with order. n. D. SWARTS.
Inventor and Manufacture. Scranton Pa
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-28

Dent, Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chat
tanooga, Tenn, for Special instructions,
and page book, Home Treatment for
Women sent in plain wrapper. on re-
quest.--AdVt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-16
Made a Great Impression

Birmingham chances for securing
federal reserve bank grow brighter
and brighter.
The committee that attended the
hearings before the federal reserve
bank organization commission in At
lanta left here hopeful, but they re-
turned more than merely hopeful.
Every Birmingham man is now full
of enthusiasm over Birmingham's
prospects.
From all accounts, President w. P.
G. Harding of the Chamber of Com
merce achieved notable success as
witness before the three high Off
cials of the government sitting in the
Georgia city-Secretary of the Treas
ury McAdoo, Secretary of Agriculture
Houston and Comptroller of the Cur
rency John Shelton Williams. The
representative of no city contesting
for the federal reserve bank prize
made anything like the "star wit
ness" that Mr. Harding made in favor
of Birmingham. His reasons, stated
succinctly, why Birmingham should
have one of the banks were unanswer-
able. Atlanta's claims had an@ed
strong, but after Birmingham's chief
representative was heard there was no
longer any cock-sureness on the part
of Atlanta boosters. y
The governing board will announce
their selections of the regional bank
cities in March. In the meantime it
would seem we'll nigh impossible for
the board to pass Birmingham by.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-16
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WHEN DUST EXPLODES

From the Coal Age.
Science seems to be pretty we'll
agreed that the violence of dust ex-
plosion depends. not on the volatility
of the coal, but on the caloric value
of the dust. If this is true, anthra-
cite dust though difficult to inflame,
will ultimately produce an explosion
as violent as those produced by high
grade bituminous Goals.
Perhaps one of the most interesting
findings of the British investigators
who have been working on the prob
lem of mine explosions. deals with the
question of coal dust as a factor in
such accidents. 1t is pointed out that
the inflammability of such a dust de-
pends more on the percentage of par
affin- yielding" constituents than on the
total content of volatile matter in the
coal. However. when once inflamma-
tion has been effected, the presence of
matter capable of readily yielding in
flammable gases on heating is not es-
sential for the propagation of o se-
rious explosion That such constitu-
ents in dust are not necessary for the
propagation of a violent combustion mas
been proved by explosions obtained
with wood charcoal dust. which element
does not contain any volatile matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-16
How to Abolish Tipping

President Wilson has emphasized
his disapproval of the tipping system
by his issuance of executive orders
that it must not obtain in the Panama
canal zone. In this act he has also
shown his moral courage for nine
times out of ten it is not the sentiment
of charity or fraternity, but nothing
less than moral cowardice that
prompts and impels men to proffer
the tip.
The habit of tipping is without
rhyme or reason. 1t cannot be said
that by such practice at the hotels,
restaurants and places of public SER
vice that tip procures something a
little better than the other fellow gets
because the habit has become SO uni
versal that all receive the same ac-
commodation unless one tip should
happen to be abnormally large. But
if this should be advocated the size
of the tips would continue to increase
until the practice became positively
impossible.
Then again it is argued that in
many public establishments the SER
wants are paid nothing but are left to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-16
HEROISM OF THE POOR

The January number of the London
Dlekensian contains a sketch of Charles
Dickens which presents him as the apos-
tie of the people" The people as
represented in ordinary men and women,
1t says, had never been articulate until
Dickens, who as the genius of the COM
monplace, became their mouthpiece. Tn
til he came upon the scene to champion
them, the common people had always
been misrepresented even by Shakespeare.
Fielding and Scott Dickens understood
the common people with an understands
ing that is only born of fellowship in
suffering and of the charity that is love.
He knew what poverty was, the article
asserts, for he had felt it's bitter bite
and sting. "As a boy" says the Dick
ensian, 'he must have given eager ear
to countless stirring tales of the wars
that had lately convulsed the whole west
ern world; yet in spite of all this he
manifested throughout mis- life a spirit of
antimiltarism He went out of his way
to avoid description of battle field
just he refrained from putting the he
roism of sudden effort before the day
to-day, hand -to-mouth heroism of the
poor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-16
m the Cincinnati enquirer.

TIOlll tllt
The fact that a man doesn't believe in
hell doesn't keep his wife from trying to
give the place to him every now and then.
The prodigal SONS who inspect the fatted
calves ON rainy days report an apparent
scarcity of corn and an evident famine
in the land.
The old ia shioned man who used to &c
out to the barn and gather some cobwebs
when he cut himself now has a son who
keeps bichloride of mercury in the house
and swallows it by mistake when he is
looking for liver pills.
1t would help some If we were as willing
to pay all we owe as we are to owe more
than we can pay.
A woman can get too full for utterance
but the fuller a man gets the more he
wants to utter.
Things are pretty high, but it might be
worse. Some of these days butcher
will have nerve enough to hang a slab OF
80 cents a feel.
Every woman feels sorry for some Other
womans husband
Father will kick If mother leaves a light
burning in the kitchen when she isn't
working there But if daughter is q
member of the Hand Holders union
father wants light in the front room nc
matter how big the gas bills get.
Some fool fellow and girl announce that
they will take their wedding trip in al
aeroplane. 1T might be a good stunt tC
try after they have been married 10 years
but a honeymoon( is short enough with
out taking any chances
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-16
Regional Banks

When | was in Atlanta five or six
weeks ago l was led to think by the
confident air of the Atlanta people that
the Georgia metropolis would certainly
secure one of the federal reserve banks,
but after giving the matter some
thought and reading the papers for
the past few days, Birmingham will
come nearer getting one of these re-
serve prizes than Atlanta said f. j.
Deane of Washington, d. C.
Richmond, l am told is practically
slated for one of the reserve banks.
John Skelton Williams, the new comp
troller of the currency and ex-officio
| the governing board, is Richmond
man; but of course he could not af-
ford to vote for his home town unless
its claims were sufficiently convincing
Richmond Is an exceptionally strong
| financial center. It's bank deposits are
about double those of Atlanta.
THE Georgia city usually gets what
| its goes after, but these federal reserve
banks will be distributed, l believe, on
merit alone, or rather on the needs of
| tn different sections. 1t may be that
| Louisville or Cincinnati will secure a
this region down here, but I am in
| clined to think that Birmingham's geo :
graphical position as well as it's bust
ness and financial strength will finally
cause it to VIM
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-16
"JACKALS IN GARDEN SPOT
BY BILL VINES.

and knock yelp or two out of Jaekal
with it is entitled to the encomiums of
the people: Mr. Hobson no doubt now
has on hand more encomiums. as a re-
suit of his prompt and vigorous action
In the matter. than he knows what to
do with
Also we are anxious to know what
the people of Greensboro mean by al
lowing the aforesaid jacka1s to ,.skullx'
around the beautiful old town 1t is
their edty to declare an open season
on 1ackals at once and rid the com
munity of these pestiferous beasts.
Ii they establish reputation over the
state and the county of allowing
jaekals to "skulk" around their city IL
VIII certainly have a depreciatory af-
fect upon real estate in Greensboro and
Is bound to hurt trade. No one will In
vest in a garden spot-no matter how
beautiful and glorious, If it becomes
known that in said garden spot jackals
are engaged in the skullSing business
If anybody Is going to skulk around
his garden spot 1t is naturally the de-
sire of the owner to do so himself
OF course we subscribe Immediately
as acquaintance of Captain Hob
son to his purity of personal char
acter." We are not for him for United
States senator, but We believe thor
oughly in his personal purity. We won't
go back for 20 centuries, as his brother
has done, and give him the edge on
everybody else, but, of course. Gus
has known him longer than We have.
One thing We'll say for Gus in passing
and that Is when it comes to enjoying
the phenomena and sensations of this
life for the length of service, he seems
to have something on old man Methu-
sela, assuming, of course, that he is
making his affidavit on personal ex-
perience. Gus says that II believe in
spiritual entity and can demonstrate it
scientifically" If he will demonstrate
scientifically how he got up these sta
tistics as to purity of personal char
acter covering a period of 1000 years,
we'll guarantee him a government job
without a civil service examination
Still Gus believes what he said and
we don't dispute il, far be it from. And
so far as we know neither does anyone
else, jackals and human hyenas, of
course, excepted, and they don't count.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-16
IN THE RUSH HOUR

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
1t was during the rush hour at the Ran
dolph street Il transfer station. The
crowds were moving slowly, blocking the
platform and stairway, and it would have
been impossible to try to force ones way
through.
Toward the rear of the procession was
rather distinguished looking, elderly
couple. Aristocracy was stamped on
their cameo-like faces. Ine gentleman
carried himself with a certain martial
bearing, while the patrician nose of the
old lady spoke of long line of blue blood
ancestry.
She appeared trif1e impatient, and
once or twice attempted to elbow her way
through. Finally she looked up at her
escort with puzzled frown.
"Tom,'' she said. why cont you tell
them who we are?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-16
WHAT THE ToNsILs DO

From the Boston Transcript.
What the tonss are good for was ex-
plained by Dr. Algernon Coolidge, Jr., in
lecture in the Harvard Medical school
Sunday.
ut is highly probable he said. that
here in the erypts of the tonsils is gen
Grated the antitoxin that makes us, im-
mune from certain diseases that sur
round us. Up to 30 years ago there were
! no operations for tonsils. Yet 1t Is not
new disease that affects this tissue ana
gives reason for the modern operation
| The good results of such operations and
the fact that it involves little or no dam
ger tempts the physician to recommend
the removal of tonsls too frequently
| 1T has become popular operation. A
simple attack of tonsiitis or sort throat
should not be sufficient grounds for this
| operation. An important factor is the Sc
robustness of the trouble. If the patient
| is threatened with a serious disease it
would be matter of neglect not to per-
form this simple surgery. If the tonsils
are very large and are swollen frequently,
/ If there are frequent attacks of tonsiltis
| or recurring abscesses, then there should
be immediate cause for an operation
| .The same is true of adenods Ii a
child shows persistent breathing through
the mouth snoring at night, or symptoms
of deafness, an examination would prob
ably show that the adenoids are at fault
Washes AMI sprays cannot be depended
upon. They are all right If the trouble is
on the surface of the mucous membrane,
but if the trouble lies deep beneath the
surface, in the crypts of the tonsils, for
instance, the only remedy is to resort to
surgery
'The operation should be considered Sc
riously and only submitted to when one
lis convinced that recurring sickness is
due to diseased tonsils. A perfectly
| healthy tonsi would be found to con-
tain innumerabls germs and bacteria upon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-16
The Open Winter

The majority of people hereabouts
| have welcomed the present cold SNAP
bright and invigorating-bu 1t will
soon be followed by another warm
spell" said a weather prophet
h THE ground hog is often vindicated,
but this year he is not. The I'd of
February was spring-like, and as the
day was clear the ground hog saw
his shadow and went back into his hole.
According to the traditional sign this
was supposed to indicate that We would
have six weeks of rough winter fol-
lowing February 2. but since ground
hog day the weather has been for the
most part fair and warm. [ have never
known as such an open winter as this
has been. We will probably have a lit
tie ice in March, but winter is about
gone
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-16

assistant secretary of the state board OF
| agriculture. He is the Missouri Coburn,
! When YOU read in the newspapers that
the hoard of agriculture estimates tn
states corn crop at so many million
bushels, the figures are Nelson's. When
you read that Missouri leads the world
in the production of this or that crop,
you may Sc sure Nelson has been writing
again.
A many sided man is William L. Nell
son, the quiet and the unassuming. Born
on Cooper county farm, the son of
good farmer, he left the farm early in
life to become the editor of a country
newspaper-the Bunceton Eagle, owned
by himself and his brothers, and the best
newspaper in this country. size of the
He made himself so useful to the COM
munity as newspaper man that the
people of the county concluded that he
ought to represent them In the general
assembly, and though Cooper county is
normally republican and Nelson is a
simon pure democrat. he was elected two
terms without difficulty.
In the legislature Mr.. Nelson was a
friend of the farmers OF Missouri. He
did not pose, he did not sputter, he did
not get into the press dispatches very
often-but he worked. One of the things
lie did was to write and introduce bill
providing for county agriculture expert
ment stations Another WAS to prepare
bill making it possible for a farmer
to name his farm, register the name with
the county clerk, and then have exclusive
use of the name in his county. He got
both bills through the legislature. Work
Then Mr.. Nelson was made assistant
secretary of the state board OF agricul-
ture. He was not selected FOR the posi-
ton because of politics. You do not
know William l.. Nelson II you think he
is that kind of a man. His office was
given him because of all sne men In
Missouri he is the one most eminently
fitted for the job-he knows farming he
Is progressive, and he can write. That
was six seven years ago Folk was
governor then. Hadley. Kansas re-
publican, has been governor since. Major
is governor now. None of them owes
Nelson anything politically. But he holds
his job and will keep it as long as he
wants ft-because he is efficient If he
VINO know about his work would take the
political scalp of the man or set of men
responsible for it. That is how well Will
liam L. Nelson stands with the people
who know him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-16

depend upon the tips of the patrons
and in many places the servants pay
for such positions 1t is a common
practice among the great ocean liner
companies to pay the stewards but
one dollar for their services during the
passage. This is an outrage, as the
companies receive almost princely
prices for transportation and in addi-
tion compel the passengers to defray
the expense of table and cabin service.
Much as the walters and servants are
to be pited for their predicament it IS
false charity to tip them. A few
months of abstinence from tipping
would change all this. Servants would
no longer seek for or accept the posi-
tions and the companies and hotel pro-
prietors would be compelled to give
them competent wages.
When one comes higher up there is
little difference between tip and
bribe. The tip is proffered with the
expectancy of reciprocation and its ac
ceptance by public official invariably
lays him open to suspicion and just
criticism.
A little moral courage upon the part
of the public and determined resolu-
tion to do away with a growing evil
would soon place tipping among the
customs that are passed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-16

w tardly insinuations of certain
jackals who still skulk around beauti-
full old Greensboro. for these human
| hyenas will sometimes infest the most
glorious old garden spots; only speak
the living truth, and all of Captain
Hobson's acquaintances all over the
earth will bear me out when l say since
the death of Christ no man has lived
who had or has greater purity of per-
sonal character.
Il enjoy the phenomena and sensa-
tions of this life: but deliberately say,
! II this Is not true I trust my life may
be blasted before these lines are
printed. / believe in the spiritual entity
and can demonstrate it scientifically l
believe, further in the immortality of
| the soul; and | weigh every word when
l say, with all reverence, that if a
single line, word, syllable, or letter is
untrue, may God Almighty damn my
soul through all eternity"
| No. gentle reader, them strong words
were not uttered by New Jersey DEM
ocrat taking his oath of office under
the new administration--not at all.
They were penned by S. A. Hobson, ia
miliarly and affectionately known as
Gus by those who are intimate with
him, and they are a rebuke to certain
"jackals alias human hyenas" who
are infesting the garden spots" around
Greensboro.
The heat of political contest is at
times apt TO wiring from the most con-
servatiye citizen utterances that in
somber moments he is sure to regret.
These things the people expect and take
with due discount. But we submit
when fnsinuating jackals begin to in
fest the most glorious old garden
spots in our fair state it is time to call
a halt. We are not so overstocked
with beautiful old garden spots in
Alabama that We can afford to allow
for moment any of them to be in
Tested with these human hyenas." 1t
| is well that Mr.. Hobson came promptly
forward at this moment and hurled the
living truth" into their midst with
sickening thud. He should be COM
mended for doing So Any patriotic
citizen who can take the living truth