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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
The Brains of the Atlantic Cable
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

him Commander OF the Legion of
Honor and he was knighted by
the Emperor OF Russia. the King
of Portugal, the King of Belgium
and all the other European mon
archs. Medals and testimonials
fell upon him thick as leaves in
Nallombrosa, and but for his
great good sense he would have
had his head completely turned.
AS IL was, he received his many
distinguished considerations" as
meekly as a blushing maiden,
and never for a moment lost his
perfect poise.
When the Brothers War began
in 1861. Maury went with his
State" and loaned to the cause in
which he so sincerely believed all
the benefit OF his unrivaled abili-
ties
1t was OF this remarkable man
that Cyrus w. Field said. at a
banquet in New York City. apro-
pos of the Atlantic cable: "Maury
furnished the brains, England
gave the money and did the
work"
Maury died in Virginia Febru-
airy /. 1873, in his sixty seventh
year, secure in the affection Of
"u who knew him-and secure
also in the fame that is so wet!
.# his brilliant mind and
spotless life.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
from a cancer into an organ

from cancer into an organ.
This, with but little doubt, is
the historic mission of women.
They will not escape a certain
tanning by politics. But that they
should be permanently tanned I
find impossible to believe. Rath-
er they will subdue politics to
their purposes, remold It nearer
to their hearts desire, change It
as men would never dream of
changing 1t. wreck II savagely in
the face OF our masculine protest
and merrily rebuild It anew In the
face of our despair. with their
aid we may at last achieve what
we seem to be unable to achieve
unaided-a democracy
Meanwhile let us understand
this suffrage movement. Let us
understand that we have in mill
fancy, rather than in Cancellation;
in action, rather than in wisdom,
the keynote OF woman in politics.
And we males, who have so long
played in our politics as innocent
games of war, shall have an
opportunity to fight IN earnest at
The side Of the Valkyrs."
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
n TATTHEW NTAINE
WI MAURY, born l0S years

ago, in Spottsylvania. Va,
was one of the greatest and no.
blest OF Americans. He did a
mighty work, and, dying, left be.
hind him fame as clean as it
was brilliant.
In 1925, at the age OF 10, Maury
entered the American Navy, and
in the Vincennes, during a cruise
OF four years, circurnnavigated
the globe. In 1885 he met with
the accident which incapacitated
him for active service, and he was
placed in charge OF the Depart
ment of Charts and Instruments,
later on becoming head OF the
photographic Office. which he
himself may be said to have Gre
ated.
Maury was the father Of the
United States Naval Observatory,
and it was his profound discov-
cries that led to the famous in
ternational conference at Brus-
sells in 1888 and to the suhse-
quent establishment OF the Me
neurological Office His Treatise
on Navigation" and his still
greater Physical Geography Of
the Sea- made him world famous
and the highest hOnorS Of the
nations were shovernd upon him.
The Emperor Of France made
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
Harvesting a New Niagara
By EDWIN MARKHAM.

FR. FLOYD DELL. under the
lNl title Women as World
Builders" sends out
through Forbes & Co, of Chicago,
some six or seven studies of the
present leaders Of the feminist
movement. Mr.. Dell gives us this
rather poignant argument for
woman suffrage:
Can anyone doubt the effect
which the mergence of women
into politics will have, eventually,
on politics? Eventually, for Gin
spite of their boasted independ-
ence) the decorous example of
men will rule them at first. But
when they have become used to
politics-well we shall find that
we have harnessed an unruly Nj
agara!
In women as voters we shall
have an element impatient of re-
straint. straining at the rules of
procedure, cynical of excuses for
inaction; not always, by any
means, on the side of progress:
making every mistake possible to
ignorance and self-conceit, but
transforming our politics from a
vicious end to an efficient means
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
. Q .

to places of amusement in the
evening rather than the after
noon Scat! Any woman who
takes that attitude is inspired not
by. love, but by the spirit of do
nestle tyranny. She's determined
to make an unwilling man go
with her just to show that she
can triumph over him.
However, compromise Is a good
thing in matrimony, as it is else
where in the world, and it has al
ways seemed to me that it would
be a good way to settle this
question for the wife to demand
and receive a cooks privilege of
an evening off every week. It
wouldn't hurt a man either in
health or pocket to give his wife
one little treat a week, and It
would freshen and brighten her
up amazingly, and keep her from
nagg.ng him the balance of the
time
AS Thursday Is the maids day
out. SO let Saturday night be sa-
cred with husbands to the enter
tanning Of their wives. On that
evening let them take their wives
to the theater, or to a restau-
rant for dinner, or a friends for
a bit of a party 1t would break
the deadly grind of domesticity
for the women and rob them of
their cause of complaint.
For, after all, marriage is no
picnic to woman, and Just being
married to man isn't all the
amusement she requires. Nor Is
it exciting to spend all your even
ings sitting up looking at a man
who Is as dumb as an oyster and
as unresponsive as a clam.
Matrimony needs some sort of
outside amusement to cheer ii
along, for both men and women.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
By DOROTHY DIX

lights and the movement of peo-
pie.
The wife wants a change from
the surroundings and the things
she's been doing all day. just as
the man wants a change from
what ne has been doing all day.
and the environment that he has
been in, and the pity Of 1t is that
these two desires are diametrical-
ly opposed TO each other. Hence
these quarrels and reproaches
and tears.
The man complains: My wife
is never satisfied unless she is
gadding about at night.
The woman walls: My husband
is never willing to take me out
anywhere in the evening.
And both feel that they are very
much misused, and both are right
from their individual standpoint.
and both are utterly and entirely
selfish, because each refuses to
look at the matter from the 9TH
er's point of view.
Certainly the man who has
been on a terrific strain all day
that taxed body and brain to the
very breaking point is entitled
to quiet evenings rest at home
in which to build himself up to
meet the strenuous struggle of
the next day. He needs it. What
is more, he must have it if he is
to hold his own in the fierce COM
petition OF modern business life.
No man whose wife drags him
around OF evenings to theaters
and the opera and parties and
dances and late suppers where
he eats and drinks too much can
hold his own against the man
who comes to his work with
rested nerves and brain cleared
with eight hours good sleep and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19

With three big league baseball
games going, how is the country
to find any time for business next
summer?
As for grape juice, the people
who have been drinking it can at
least say that they didn't know
they were loaded.
Mayor OF Paterson, n. j., says
women are not the intellectual
equals of men. He may be wrong,
but he's certainly game.
II Congress decides to build no
more battleships for this country
our idle shipyards might be en-
ployed building them for Japan.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
Letters From the Readers of The Georgian

read, and coming as It does from
a distinguished son of the South,
it has no doubt produced a pro-
found impression for good. II
should be printed in pamphlet
form for general distribution.
The negro sees more and moro
that self help is the best help,
and is moving with renewed en-
ergy in that direction; still In his
struggles for a higher and better
life and material advancement,
he needs the sympathy and en-
couragement of the white people
among whom he lives; and |
thank God for the numerous ev1-
dences that they, more and more,
realize the duty of according sucn
assistance.
Again thanking you for myself
and friends for your great e6l-
torial and wishing you a long,
prosperous life Of continued ne~"
fulness to mankind, 1 -.
Very respectfully,
DANIEL 8. BRANDON (of Ala-(
Pension OffieA
Washington. d c..
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19

stomach at peace with itself
and all the world.
Many a case of nervous break
down that comes to a man just
as he has success almost in hand
is wholly and entirely due to his
wife's mania for Society. She's
rushed her husban& from enter
tainment to entertainment when
he should have been resting and
reCuperating at home, and he
simply collapses under the dou-
BILE strain of work and pleasure.
A Wrong View.
So the woman whose love for
her husband does not make her
willing to stay quietly at home
with him of evenings should be
prompted to do so by her inter-
est If she wants to conserve his
energies and strength and in
crease his money earning power
and hurry him on the way to sue
cess, let her encourage him in
sticking to his own fireside at
nights instead of hunting up
amusement on the outside.
There is no reason why any
woman in these days Of innu-
merable women's clubs, of hen
luncheons, of bridge whist par
ties, of matinees, of afternoon
tango teas, who can't get all the
diversion that she Is entitled to
have in the daytime. She does
not need evening parties to sus-
tain her spirits. in the cases
where her husband doesn't want
to go out after dinner.
OF course, many women, with
virtuous air, say that they
don't enjoy things so much unless
their husbands are along, and
that therefore they prefer to go
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
STARS AND STRIPES

The Filipinos must be bitterly
disappointed in Francis Burton
Harrison. He led them to expect
they would be fighting Japan 10
preserve their Independence Do
fore the first of the year.
Singular that President WI
sons success in putting out thar
fire at Mississippi City does not
stimulate him to try his proves
on the Mexican conflagration.
Great establishment among
Viennese Jas Austrian archduhe
pushes baby carriage. What 40
they expect, that he'd let tho
duchess do it2
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19

worth of gold that was added to
the worlds resources in that year
while at the same time the total
production of the worlds other
mines fell to 100000, 900, which
was $4,000, 900 less than in 1909.
This state of affairs, Mr.. De-
Launay AYERS, is becoming more
strained every year, because
neither in the United States, nor
Australia, nor Canada are enough
new discoveries made to compen
safe for the gradual exhaustion Of
the old ones. The face Of the
world has been nearly everrun by
the gold seekers. and, except per
haps on the Antarctic continent
there is not much space left in
which to look for It. 1t fees be-
fore civilization, or rather civili-
zation ticks 1t up like a prairie
fire, destroying what 1t can not
replace. Cold" says Mr.. De-
Launay, significantly, has al
ways come from the frontiers of
civilization, and before long civ
ilization will have spread every
where"
Interesting Items.
I can not here enter into Mr..
DeLaunay's discussion Of the con-
nection between abundance OF
gold and high cost Of living, or Of
the peculiar reasons why at the
present time, when the world is
threatened with falling Off In
the gold supply. prices should
continue to soar, for all that
would demand an article by itself.
But there are one or two other
facts which he brings out that are
we'll worth knowing and storing
away IN the memory.
For instance. It is very inter
esting to be told what proportion
OF the total annual supply of gold
Is turned aside from the money
vaults of the great nations, and
used up in the arts OF decora-
ton and personal display, for
jewelry, watches. etc. This, ac-
cording to Mr.. DeLaunay,
amounts to from 20 to 80 per
cent, or something more than
one-quarter of the whole. AS
luxurious tastes spread. the pro-
portion becomes larger. IN an
other article, some time ago, I
quoted what a weli-known stat
istician said of the annual dis
appearance OF gold in India, which
swallows up many millions that
are never seen in the form OF
money.
Another fact interesting to
know Is that the ratio Of the
quantity Of gold held as money to
the paper money credits of the
world tends to grow smaller.
From 1909 to 1919 the total stock
of gold money increased by about
$4,000, 100000, while the amount
of bank note@ eto., increased
$4,000 100000. Thus, II the entire
world were suddenly called upon
to pay its debt in gold, 1t couldn't
do 1t, which simply shows that
the real wealth Of the world-in
its lands and all that they pro-
duce-is far greater than all It's
gold is capable of representing.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
PRAISE FOR EDITORIAL.
litor The Georgian:

Editor The Georgian:
I want to thank you for the
editorial of December 20, The
South and the Negro" 1t justi-
fes what colored people in the
South have always contended-
that you are honest and that you
have never played to the gall
leries in what you have had to
say on the race question. This
editorial will go a long way in
the solution Of our problems in
the South. 1t will give courage to
thoughtful colored men and white
men alike. Gratefully yours,
]. B. WATSON.
Nam Xnrk n Y
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
Garrett F. Serviss
Writes on
The Worlds Gold
If the Entire World Were rlB
Suddenly Called Upon to
Pay Its Debt in Gold 1t
Couldn't Do 1t, He Says. - -
By GARRETT P. SERVISS

TR. L. DE L4AUNAY, profess
wi sor in the School of Mines
and in the School of Roads
and Bridges, Paris, is one of the
worlds greatest authorities on
the subject of gold. He has not.
l believe, acquired any notable
quantity Of gold for himself, but
he has accumulated an enormous
amount of information about gold.
| have reason to think that if a
gold mine were offered to him,
he would decline the gift, on the
ground that the care of 1t would
take too much valuable time.
Yet the time that he would
grudge to the work of getting gold
out of the earth he has willingly
devoted to the less patiently prof
table occupation of watching the
gold that others dig, in order to
see what is done with 1t, and
what finally becomes of 1t. Most
people have very little compre-
hension of this devotion to knowl-
edge, and no sympathy with it,
but everybody is, nevertheless,
interested in its results, and I
venture to spread out some of
these results here, as have gath
cred them from recent publica-
lions of Mr.. De Laumay.
Perhaps only mind of GER
tain grain can really regard
knowledge as better than pelf, but
all will confess that the next most
pleasing thing to poss essing a
great deal of gold ones self Is
knowing what others who do pos
sess 1t do with 1t, and what the
chances are that, as time goes
on, the world will have more or
less Of 1t to be distributed among
its inhabitants.
Known Facts.
We all know that as the popu-
lation of the earth increases, and
the different peoples composing
1t adopt more and more a COM
mon manner of life, which for
many of them means more luxu-
rious ways of living, the demand
for gold (the universal standard
of value) continually grows great
er. But many may be surprised
to learn that outside of the Trans
vaal the production of the gold
mines is falling off so that as Mr..
De Launay puts It "the entire
world is becoming more and more
dependent upon that little aurif-
erous gold producing) corner Of
it, the Witwatersrand."
Mr.. De Launay shows that the
fact that the gold deposits of the
world are being exhausted with
out new ones being discovered in
sufficient number to keep up the
rate Of supply has been obscured
by the immense productiveness of
South African mines which serv-
ed to mask the relative failure Of
those in other parts of the world.
Thus the annual production be-
came four and a half times as
great in 1910 as it had been in
1890, but it was the Witwaters-
rand which was chiefly RESPONSE
BILE for the increased total. In
1912 that favored spot of the
earth produced almost 40 per
cent of the nearly S5Oo.O0O0O0
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
The Amusement Question

DROBABLY there is no other
one thing over which there
is more friction in the av-
erage family than there is over
the amusement question.
The man who has been hard at
work all day meeting new people,
seeking new faces, adjusting his
mind to continually changing In
dividuals and points of view,
comes home tired. He wants to
be quiet and rest. Generally he
is so nerve worn that he doesn't
even want to talk or to be talked
to. 1t seems to him that no other
amusement in the world is quite
so delightful as just to browse
over pipe and paper in silence,
Wants a Chance.
The woman who has been hard
at work all day in the home is
also weary when night comes,
but her work has been monotony
personified. She has done over
and over again tasks that have
become purely mechanical
through constant repetition.
There's nothing In sweeping a
floor or washing dishes, or sew
ing up a seam, or darning stock
ings to exercise the mind and
keep it alert. During the entire
day she has possibly not seen a
fresh face or had a single per-
son with whom to exchange an
intelligent thought,
So. when her days work is over
she Graves something new and
different, something with the
thrill of excitement or interest in
it. She wants to visit, to go to
the theater, to at least take a
walk on the street and see the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
New York, n.
FROM NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Editor The Georgian:
l have read your splendid edi-
torial of December %, and write
to thank you for 1t.
It is the ablest, the best and
most courageous article touching
the race problem that l have
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-08-27
hopeless submission to his will.

hopeless BuDmission 10 MS VIII.
The little sitting room looked very
gay with flowers. The curtains were
all drawn back, and Miss Dering lay
on sofa by the window, her rich
draperies arranged around her. She
was looking at the door eagerly when
Adrian entered leading Rhoda. The
rector stepped forward; but Miss
Dering's faint voice stopped him.
"One moment" she said. "Rhoda
come and kiss me first"
Rhoda with deathly pale face,
knelt down by the sofa. Miss Dering
put one arm gently round her.
"I want to tell you all what this
dear girl has been to me-" she said,
laying her other hand upon Rhoda's
careless woman when Heaven sent
her to me. She has taught me to live
q better life; she has taught me how
to die" She paused.
A low sob from Rhoda broke the
stiffness.
Adrian. come here" said Miss
pering.
Adrian came close. his eyes bent
on he kneeling figure with the bowed
head. =
Take her, Adrian-the sweetest,
noblest woman man ever had for a
wife! Rhoda. darling, the rector Is
waiting"
Rhoda did not move. Adrian
placed his hand upon her shoulder.
Come" he said.
Rhoda got up, and her aunt half
rose to embrace her once more; but
she fell back, and an ashy pallor
came over her face.
my hearth" she cried.
Rhoda turned to Adrian.
Call Stanton-quick!"
But even as she spoke, as she put
her arms round Miss Dering, the end
came. Her aunt's head fell back
upon her shoulder. and she drew a
deep breath-her last breath.
The rector gently drew Rhoda
away.
''She is at peace" he said.
Rhoda looked down at the white
face, and her own grew pale and
deathlike. But she did not faint.
She allowed Mrs. Dering to lead her
gently away. and Molly to come to
her room to comfort her.
II am glad! am glad!" she was
saying to herself with passionate
iteration. She never knew! And
Adrian Is still freel"
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SYNOPSIS.
By Sylvia Chester

CHAPTER 1.-Rhoda Dering,
daughter of the black sheep Of good
English family, goes to England to
be her cousins governess.
Mary Is expected to marry Adrian,
the heir of Wering, but she is in love
with Jack Maitland. Miss Millicent
Wering is going to leave her money
to Mary.
Mary and RhOda become good
friends. Rhoda is forbidden to men,
ton her father.
~.
Millicent takes great fancy to
Rhoda and takes her to London,
where they meet Adrian. Millicent
makes new will in favor of Rhoda.
V.
Millicent is very ill. Adrian comes,
and he and Rhoda become engaged.
vi.
Millicent wants them to be married
immediately, before she dies. Just be-
fore the ceremony, LEROY informs
Adrian that Rh0da lived with her
father for two years after she left the
convent.
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CHAPTER VII.

M. LEROY turned back from Der
ing in some discontinue. No suspi-
cion had occurred to him that Adrian
learned the truth for the first time
that morning. His mind was full of
dark schemes against Rhoda's peace
as he strobe down the avenue. He
stopped at the gate to speak to the
rosy checked woman who had ad-
mitted him.
He walked on through the gate
and along the high road.
He had nearly reached the village
and was within sight OF the houses,
when a man. who had been watching
him for some distance unseen by
him. came forward from the side OF
the road. M. LEROY stepped back.
"Dering, you here?"
"Yes, / am here!" the other said
fercely. His face was pale and worn
with hard travelling. his clothes were
travel stained. II have followed on
your track. At last / have found
you. What are doing here?"
What are you doing here?" the
Frenchman asked blandly. "Have
you come to pay visit to your dear
relations, mon ami? do not envy
you your welcome.
You have come to spy on my
daughter!" Arthur Dering returned,
his chest heaving with passion. You
have come"
"Be calm-be calm. mon anil"
the Frenchman said softly. 81 came
to give your friends little infor-
nation about the life of made
moieslle. Yes, certainly came to do
that. "Ah," he went on. altering
his tone and with all the hatred he
felt in his face. you thought to hide
your little plot from me! But
found you out! I will tell you the
story of your daughters life in my
own fashion unless"
But the words were checked by a
strong hand on his throat. There
was short. sharp struggle. and the
Frenchman, agile as he was and
though by far the younger man, was
thrown to the ground. But he was
up in a moment, with something
shining in his hand. AS some vii
layers who had seen the struggle
came running up. Mr.. Dering fell
back upon the road. stabbed in the
breast.
HE brought 1t upon himself"
M. Lefroy cried, bending over him.
He glanced at the face of the fallen
man and read death there; and. be-
fore hand could stop him he leaped
the low hedge and rushed swiftly
away.
One or two pursuers followed, but
the Frenchman was swift runner,
and they soon gave up the chase
NJ LEROY got safely TO the railway
station and thence to London. Be-
fore the police could get upon his
track, he was lost in the great city.
Mr.. Dering was carried TO the inn.
No one knew him. He had left them
handsome gay young man; this
worn, haggard, shabby stranger had
no point of likeness to that gallant
soldier they had known years before.
The doctor came to him straight
from Dering, where they had sum-
moned him for Millicent. He shook
his head at the sight Of the wound.
"It is quite hopeless" he said to
the woman who had been called to
act as nurse; "he cannotlive through
the night"
The eyes of the dying man turned
upon him.
"I did not hear what you said
Doctor. but know what 1t means.