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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-08-18

TDrawn in the woods by Knowles on q
piece Of fungus with burnt sticks.l
and down he fell in the trail. Then
caught him by the horns, and, with
my weight on his back, l got control
of him. 1 gave a quick twist and
broke his neck.
l want to apologize for killing the
deer in that manner, but under the
circumstances it was the only way /
had. l needed the skin badly.
1t was so dark now l decided not
to skin him that night. l pulled the
body up little to one side of the
trail and left it there until morning.
Back at my camp that night
stirred up my banked fire and sat
down to think. I didn't give the deer
much thought. 1 said to myself.
| Now I've got another skin" 1t was
small deer, but if I didn't waste
too much of the skin making mOcca-
sins. | would have enough, with bear
skin and deerskin / had taken from
the wildcats, to cover myself comfort
ably
The next day I went and got this
skin. Besides ii l took some meat and
all the sinew back to my camp. Some
| of the meat | ate, some | dried, and
some kept in the spring for several
days where it would be cold.
| Then | started TO work making my
wilderness suit of clothes. First
made by buckSkin chaps. | doubled
the skin and wound it around my
| thigh to see if it would be big enough
to go around. l found that it would,
| but that it would not be quite long
enough. However, with the other
skin / could add pieces to lengthen
il.
! After shaping the chaps | put the
skins on to piece Of wood and began
punching holes along the edge with the
sharp point Of a deer horn. These
laced together with strips of rawhide.
| made my mucCaSns by first wet
| ting the rawhide and putting my foot
on it to get the length. used two
4
bottom piece up little and stitching
| il to the top piece while it was on my
foot. This raised the stitching above
| the ground where ii would not wear
out. When the wet rawhide dried they
were a perfect fit.
| Whenever | wore the bearSkin |
slung ii over my shoulder and held it
together in front with thongs.
There was nothing wonderful about
killing that deer. Many people have
seemed to marvel about that incident,
and some. not understanding the
woods, have openly doubted the story.
| To any one who knows the ways and
habits of animals such Il thing would
not seem wonderful Those who have
hunted and lived among the wilds do
not think so for a minute. 1t is really
| of such little importance that man
who understands such things would
not even mention it. In fact, not until
| had been out of the forest for nearly
q week did | speak of the affair at all.
and then only when was asked t0 en-
plain where | got my deer.
SkepticiSm is based largely un igno-
rance When man hears something
that he does not know about he is
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-08-18
Still Has Confidence.

Two years ago | lamented the same
thing, and said | doubted whether
had not made a mistake in giving the
people the ballot and teaching them
how to use it, But was impatient.
here re-affirm my confidence in the
people-all the people collectively.
believe that the judgment of the whole
people-rich and poor, educated and
ignorant, high and lows the surest
and truest guide to pol tical action
he more quickly mcnded than will the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-08-18
Tired of "Law and Order"

"A large per cent of those who two
years ago and now are yelling law
and order want a law and order or
their own contriving. They are not
ready to admit that, politically speak
ing, all white South Carolinians are
equal. They think themselves divinely
commissioned to rule everybody else,
and this, not Tillmanism, is the true
cause of Bleaseism. The plain people
saw this rrsurrected bOurbonism ana,
thinking it was the old ring come to
life again, took Bleaseism in preference
to it. Blease himself is a mere symp-
tom. The real fever is bigotry, politi-
cal intolerance and social injustice.
call upon you, my fellow citizens, you
who know and claim to want better
and higher things, to broaden your
sympathies. Stop prating about law
and order and treat your next door
neighbor with little more consider
alton. Though he live in hoVel,
though he never saw the inside OF a
school room he has the same right to
vote for Blease that you have to vote
against him, and you have no more
right to question his motive than he has
to question yours. Learn that great
truth, act on it to the uttermOst, and
my word for it, Bleaseism will disap-
pear-and it will not disappear until
you do learn it.
Then, too, a certain class of our fell
low citizens have been very unjust and
unreasonable in their dealing with the
poorer people, treating them with no
consideration whatever and showing a
contempt for them. This is especially
true with regard to those who work in
the cotton mills. In many communities
the people in the mill villages are a
class apart, looked down upon and not
associated with. No wonder Social
ism and the |. w. w. are getting a
foothold among these citizens of ours.
1t was not so once, and it ought not to
be so now We all should address our
selves to the remedy lest it bring dire
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-08-18

either broad minded enough to learn
more about it, of else announces that
he does not believe it at all.
A man of the woods might ask you
something like this: Did you have a
gum"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-08-18

~ An English company has been
formed To link forty cities and towns
with motor bus lines in competition
with railways.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-29
Keep Radium Out of Reach of
Monopoly

Long suffering and tolerant the American people,
private monopoly Of the only agency that promises for
cancer Is more than they win patiently endure
Evidence Of attempt output radium
sufficient Government seize and hold radum-
bearing lands As well grant charter to wrecng company
to patrol the coasts and charge wreck victims dollars apiece
for seats in eboa permit greed to between the
sufferers from this dreadful scourge and the newborn hope
The records Of the New York Department show that
in 1918 there s25 deaths cancer an increase of 29
over those Of 1912 and Of 8e1 over those of 1911
With the disease progressing such fearful
the nature Of catastrophe in the which emergency
methods become imperative.
Congress has already been informed by whose
unqueoned by the most conservative scientists radum
the only known of fighting the disease there
solid basis for the belief that many
Gated by the mysterious eanatons the element
Perhaps yet there proof of the existence
Of radum trust But past experience that the
prospect Of great gains will wther many conscience and
radum not controlled by the Government will soon be con-
troed by private monopos who viii heavy tribute from
rich victims Of and leave the poor die the lin
gering death that always accompanies it,
Here real emergency much duty Congress
to radum monopoly would prevent monop
oily Of Meboa in food like that which devastated Ohio last
year.
The people Of the country have endured great deal in the
private and uncontrolled monopoly food and coal and
lee but their endurance has well defined limit and it would
be passed Congress to make possible the grabbing of the
rsdium supply by avacous corporation collection of cor
poratons.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-29
Learn to Master the Tongue"

ISRAEL ZANGwILL once Wis
tied the city OF Chicago.
Among other places of inter-
est he was taken to the stock
yards, where lurcheon was served
for the party. During the meal a
pert miss, seated next TO the
guest of honor, asked him this
question: "Mr Zangwill, how do
you like Chicago ham,"
The Dreamer of the Ghetto
raised his sorrowful face and said
quietly, u like it, like it-much
better than Chicago tongue!"
Too much tongue is a bad thing.
When we recall that some OF
the best and noblest who have
ever lived have been reviled and
traduced. indicted and executed,
by so-called good men-certainly
men who were sincere-how can
we open our hearts TO tales OF
diScredit?
The entire Salem witchcratt in
sanity was nothing but a bad
case OF scandal Much OF the
martyrdom and bloodshed OF the
past can be traced directly 10 the
same cause. Nations have gone
TO war because some prlnceling
has charged that king stuck his
tongue in his cheek and bit his
thumb when another king was
mentioned.
One popularity OF scandal Is
that when It is passed along from
one person to another il takes on
ptomaines. The original remark,
uttered in certain circle, may
have been utterly devoid Of poi
son. but when the repetition
comes. in a different atmosphere.
to different hearers, told by an
other man. the wit that once dis
infected the thing is gone and We
have only dead. stale. tainted,
unproutable stun.
And so YOU see how a person
who repeats an unkind remark is
probably doing a much greater
mischief than the one who first
voiced IL. The man who repeats
the story, and thus retails the
poison, fails to supply the anti
dote, Let his name be anathema.
A ludicro-trsgic feature OF
tongue" is that those who deal
in it most always are full OF
grievances and walls. because.
they allege. other folks are talk
ing about them Indeed. this is
their excuse for the constant use
OF the hammer--that someone is
knocking on them" They mis-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-29

curry favor by telling me Of It.
And of this never for a moment
doubt that the man who success
fully manages a great railroad,
bank, factory or other enterprise,
is one who neither listens 10 nor
bears tales to any person OF what
this one says or does. He treats
all with courtesy and fairness,
and like the great and loving Elk
ecutive, when his generals were
accused, deducts rs per cent from
every accusation and throws the
remainder in the wastebasket.
Actions alone count.
Where many men are employed
there are always some who are
full of plots and OF schemes for
more pay, shorter hours or ia
vors generally. They scheme to
have one foreman bounced" in
order to have another man, who
will help their cause, put in
charge.
Should success follow their eff
forts, and the old foreman be re-
placed, the first move Of the new
man will probably be to dis
charge the conspirators who
helped him.
Men who conspire and plot,
and who lend a ready ear to the
idea of strike, are marked on
every time book for dismissal
when the hour is ripe. And when
ever you find a man who spends
half of his time looking for a job
you can rest assured that he is
one who carries large cargo of
tongue"
You can never stand in with
the boss by telling him Of those
who are laggards. The only way
you can win his favor is by set
ting the loafers a pace. He
knows all about the loafers. For
If he did not he could never sue
cessfully manage an institution.
No man can ever succeed who
hopes TO get better position by
defaming or dragging down the
reputation OF another. There is
but one way to win, and that is to
do your work we'll and speak III
Of no one, not even as a matter of
truth. Any other course leads to
fears, tears, woeful waste of life
force and oblivion.
There is only one way to win
the favor of GOOD men, and there
is only one way you can secure
the smile OF success, and that is
to do your work as well as YOU
can and speak i'll Of no one.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-29
No Woman Expects a
Man to Reveal All His
Bachelor Life.

But no woman expects the man
she marries to make a clean
breast of his past life to her be-
fore they are married, nor does
any man feel called upon to recite
the litany of his sins to his pro-
spective bride, or deem himself
dishonorable In not doing so.
And in this, / think, he is ex-
actly right. The past of man or
woman concerns the individual he
or she Is going to marry only in
80 far as to the character 1t has
produced in the man or woman,
and the complications 1t has
brought about.
II the past of man or woman
has been such as to leave him or
her the victim of disease, that
concerns the individual he or she
Is proposing to marry, and he or
she has a right to know II in time
to avoid being murdered or bring
ing into the world sickly and
neurotic children. But the time
will soon come when a health
certificate will be attached to
every marriage license, so no per-
sonal confessions on this score
will be necessary.
II a man or woman has been
guilty in the past of some act
that leaves a menacing scandal
always pursuing him or her, he or
she should certainly be honest
enough to tell the woman or man
he or she proposes to marry of
1t before the wedding day. No
man or woman has right TO
bring unmerited disgrace upon
another.
But where the sins Of either a
man or woman have been merely
the follies of youth, faults COM
mitted in hot blood and repented
of as soon as done, and that have
mercifully left no sinister aveng-
ing ghost behind, then they are
best buried deep in perpetual ST.
lence. 1t serves no good purpose
to drag the skeleton of these mis-
deeds out into the light and rat
tie their dry bones.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-29
No Man Forgives a Won
an for the Things He
Forgives Himself.

He would hold it over her head
like the sword Of Damoc1es, and
there would never come an hour
of disagreement and anger in
which he would not taunt and re
proach her with It, for no man Is
really big enough to forgive in
woman the things he doesn't even
reproach himself for having done
and that he expects her to for
give.
After all, marriage is the begin
ming of a new life, and It is Of
much more importance to hota
husbands and wives how they are
to live than the kind Of a life
they have lived before.
Wise are those who put the
past behind them, asking no
questions of the dead past, but
turning their faces toward a wor-
thy future. Some of the noblest
men and women in the world are
those who have risen to higher
things on stepping-stones of their
dead selves"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-29
STARS AND STRIPES

The Administration trust poll
cy is not Let us have peace!"
but Let us have pieces!"
George Bernard Shaw says his
new play is utter nonsense. But
he causes to be contradicted.
Mr.. Taft tells Secretary Bryan
that talking aids digestion. II
that's so. Mr. Bryan must be a
walking pepsin tablet.
Recruit refused for United
States Navy because he had
September Morn" tattooed on
his arm. Doubt If he could go
through the mails, either.
It's perfectly evident that the
japanese don't consider the Cali
fornia land question settled. They
have just appropriated $50, 900, 900
for new dreadnoughts.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-29
Men! Women! Bury the
Past When You Wed!
If 1t Is Full of Mistakes That Can Be Lived
Down, 1t Does No Good to Reveal It.
Present and Future Alone Count.
By DOROTHY DIX.

TIME story that Hardy told in
his great novel, Tess Of
the d'Urbervilles, repeated
itself in real life in another city
the other day.
A young couple got married and
agreed to tell each other every
thing that had ever happened to
them. The man told his story,
and the woman forgave him his
sins. The girl told of a single
step that she had taken aside
from the strait and narrow road,
and the man upbraided her
with every revilement he could
think of, and ordered her out Of
the little home they had fur
nished with such hope and happi-
ness. The young wife-she was
only a child of 1s-went. But
she did not go through the door.
She threw herself out of the win
dow and was dashed to death on
the stones of the street. below.
This sad case is pathetic
illustration of the double standard
of morals that the world has set
up for men and women. The man
may do with impunity what the
woman is damned for doing. The
man excuses in himself the weak
nesses that he never forgives in
her, and he expects her to lightly
condone in him the offenses for
which he puts her out of doors.
The most absurd and arrogant
provision Of this double standard
of conduct is the theory that OBJ
tains that a woman who has had
a past should reveal 1t all to the
man who asks her to marry him
before marriage, and that II she
doesn't do so she has been guilty
of a most reasonable act.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-29
NEW NUMBERS FOR HOUSES
Editor The Georgian:

Editor The Georgian;
The street numbering plan.
suggested In your editorial of
Tuesday, with map illustrating
same, can be improved on to
make 1t more simply understood
by the masses, particularly
strangers in the city. ! approve
OF the general idea of using de-
fined east, west, north and south
lines 10 divide the city and the
Inauguration Of the 100-to-the-
block or centenary system OF
numbers, but your plan leaves
room for considerable confusion
because of the use of imaginary
lines from the Pryor street engine
house to the State Capitol at Cap
itol avenue and from Edgewood
avenue at Five Points to West
Hunter street beyond the Ter
minal Station.
A better plan would probably be
TO let the line from north to south
follow Pryor street from the in
tersection with Peachtree at the
Grand Opera House, all the way
south TO Lakewood. Pryor street
is continuous thoroughfare,
coupled with Peachtree and West
Peachtree, and runs through the
downtown section of the city in
manner that would make il
adaptable as dividing line.
South Of East Fair street II would
serve the purpose Just as well as
Capitol avenue. The new ten
story Courthouse, Union Depot,
and Equitable or Georgia Trust
Building would be landmarks to
distinguish this dividing line.
To better define the line from
east TO west. where your plan
makes 1t imaginary, Edgewood
avenue could be used as a d.
viding line only east OF Pryor
street. West Of Pryor the line
could start at the Union Depot.
follow the railroad tracks to the
gas plant and city crematory,
which Is on a direct line with the
depot and the bridges crossing
the railroads, and then 60 across
the yard end OF the Terminal
Station trainshsd to the edge OF
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-29
Significant News From japan

Immediately after the Japanese Premers announcement
that negotiations with the United States to an absolute
end the Japanese Government made demand for
for lighting vessels This appropriation was cut to $50
900 which will provide six rstclas batteshps and
needful auxiiares
Meanwhile Congress that provided for one United States
battleshp last has not yet been authorize two
fighting vessels this year.
Why the Japanese need $15oOooo for an increase in their
navy may conjecture when remember that the Premier
concluding his address concerning negotiations with the United
States said that some other way to deal with
America
What this other way is to be is clear thinking men
1t ought to be sufficiently clear to the Democratic majority in
Congress convince them that has ceased to be safe to allow
the American Navy year by year progress backward
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-29

Governor Blease, Of South Car
DINA, pardons negro convict on
the grounds that he was indie
scribably tortured by white
guards. Yes, but what about the
guards?
Austrian field marshal com
mands army officers 10 order
their wives not to wear Sill
skirts II the Austrian officers
can enforce obedience to this de
cree, we pity the army that ever
goes up against such men.
Sir Oliver Lodge declares tn7 3.
we shall soon be able to contraI
the weather. The poor weather
man gets il hot enough now
when he merely predicts; Wnas
would happen to him if he were
really responsible for the weather
we tremble to contemplate, ---
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-29

Those who live by the hammer
shall perish by the hammer.
If you work in a department
store, bank. railroad office.
factory, beg of you, do not
knock. Speak i'll Of no one, and
listen to no idle tales. Whether
the bitter things told are true or
not, has no bearing on the issue.
To repeat an unkind truth is just
as bad as to invent a lie. If
someone has spoken i'll of me. do
not be so foolish as 10 hone to
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-29
By EBERT HUBBARD

take the sound of their own ham
mers for that of others. ANY
man who plots another's undoing
is digging his own grave.
All those plotters of the French
Revolution who worked the gull
lotine in double shifts were at
last dragged to the scaffold and
pushed under the knife.
The hate We SOW finds lodgment
in our hearts. and the crop is
nettles that fate unrelentingly
demands we gather.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-29
Unless It Menaces His
Wife's Future, a Man
Is Wise to Hide It.

So, unless there is something in
his past life that menaces his
wife's future, a man is wise TO
draw a discreet veil of reticence
over his bachelor days.
And there is not a whit more
reason why a woman should tell
a man she is going to marry every
detail Of her past life than there
is why he should tell her She
has right to appeal from the
man-made double standard and
subscribe to a single standard of
morals for both sexes with perfect
assurance that whatever hers are
they are as good as those of her
husband ELECT.
She hasn't a right to bring dis
ease or disgrace into her new
home, but If she is one of those
unfortunate ones, a girl who.
through being ignorant and I'M
taught, or too loving and trusting.
has been betrayed into doing
wrong that she has repented in
bitterness and tears, she has Just
as much Of a right to put that
wrong behind her as a. man would
have had he committed it, and to
go forward to happy and useful
life.
1t Is not fair that her whole
life should be wrecked by a sin
gle misdeed, as It would be II she
confessed 1t to the man who
asked her to marry him II
would brand her forever after
ward in his eyes as a woman with
a past" He would never look
at her without seeing her skirt
stained with mud, although in
reality there might be only the
tiniest smirch upon the hem.
If the man was much in love
with her, he might marry her
and declare that he would over
look the sin of her youth, but he
wouldn't,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-29
Letters From the Readers of The Georgian

the railroad yards, where West
Aunter street begins, following
west Hunter as in your plan, to
the western limits of the CITY.
But most any plan would be
better than the lack of system in
street numbers as they now ex-
ISL n. UMBER.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-29

What is past is past and can
not be changed, and the telling Of
it does not undo the wrong. No
wife is the happier for KNOWING
of just when, and how, and where
and the extent of the wild oats
crop her husband sowed. 1t does
not make her trust him more 10
know from his own lips that he
has been one of those who loved
and rode away or kissed and
told. Instead, there is ALWAYS a
ranking jealousy In her heart of
these other women and a fear
that If she doesn't watch him we'll
he will slip back to them.