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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-19

of the free wind outside, when all at
once I became aware that somebody
else was speaking.
II was Father Dan. He had risen,
unannounced, from his seat at the end
of the table. l saw his sack coat,
which was much worn at the seams;
saw his round face, which was
flushed; l heard the vibrating note in
ing.
To Be Continued To.merroN.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-19

do US the honor to visit the island
oftener now that his friend had mar
ried into IL.
But my dear Betsy" said my hus-
band, who would live In this God
forsaken place II he could help IT,
God forsaken, IL it?' said my
father. Maybe so, sir-but that's
what the cuckoo said after he had
eaten the eggs out Of the thrush's
nest and left a mess Of IT,"
Aunt Bridget was talking in doleful
tones to Lady Margaret about my
mother. saying. she had promised her
on her deathbed to take care of her
child and had been as good as her
word. always putting me before her
own daughter, although her iadyshlp
would admit that Betsy was hand
some girl, and, now that his lordship
was married. there were few in the
island that were 1T for her
why no. Mrs Macleod" said my
husband. after another significant
glance at his friend, 81 dare say
you've not got many who can make
enough to keep a carriage
Truth enough. sir" said my father
We've got hundreds and tons that
can make debts though"
The breakfast came to an end al
length, and almost before the last
of the walters had left the room my
father rose to speak.
"Friends ALL" he said, the young
married couple have to leave us Tor
the afternoon steamer
In this weather." said somebody,
pointing up to the lantern 1ShI
through which the sky was now DARK
ening. -.
"Chut A puff Of wind and slant
of rain. as I've been saying to my
gel here. But my son-in-law Lord
Raa" cloud hammering on the table,,
my son-in-la law says he has TO be IN
London to- morrow. and this morning
my daughter has sworn obedience.
What's that? Something IKE u
then. so she's bound to go along WIN
him So fiji up your glasses to the
brim and drink to the bride and
hridagroouu "
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-19

DANNY canty spritey
chubby rowing of
daughter wealthy
The Bee
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-19
By HALL GAME.

Copyright 1912 by Hearsts Magazine.
Copyright, 1913, by Hearst Magazine.
Copyright In Great Britain. Copyright.
1913. by J. y. Lippincott Company.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-19

II chanc't bee did fit that way
after dew or dewlike shower,
To tipple freely In a flower.
He drank so much he scarce could stir.
And 90 she took the pilfsrer.
And thus surprised las flchers usel
He thus began hirnselfe { excuse:
~Sweet Lady-Flower, never brought
Hfeher the least one thiSving thought:
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THE HUMAN HEART A HUNGRY THING

them; thing that would add greatly
to their pleasure and happiness in this
world. Longing and awiting for
kind word, for companionship, for a
word Of encouragement; longing for
little attention on the part of those
who withhold it; longing for a little
word of commentator for the part
they have played in the social, business
or religious world; longing for just
few words that would make life more
pleasant that would ease a troubled
heart, that would comfort the sorrow
ing, that would cheer the respondent.
Haven't you, Mr.. Reader, passed
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-08-20
Restoring a Debtors SeERe.
Spect
Spect

(William Maxwell in Coliler's.)
| remember that one December.
about ten years ago, l decided to send
New Years greeting to a lot of debt
ors whose Indebtedness we intended
to wipe off the books as uncollectable
at the then fast approaching close of
our fiscal year. The letter which we
sent was pronounced by my superior
officer: About the siIliest thing l
ever saw" 1t started out with more
or less poetic reference to the dawn of
the new year. We proceeded on this
assumption that delinquent debtors are
particularly conscious of their indebt-
edness on January. l, although l do
not believe they are, nor that the en-
phasis laid on this point had anything
to do with the success of our letter.
except as it afforded a slightly differ
ent and decidedly less peremptory in
PRODUCTION than is found in most run
ming letters. The important money
getting paragraph in this letter proved
to be the following:
From what we telive to be true OF
you as man, the fact that you have
not paid US can mean but one thing,
viz, that circumstances over which
you have had no control have prevent
ed you from paying. 1t would be an
impertinence for us to inquire into
those circumstances. They are a part
of your own private affairs. All that
we ask of you now is that you tell us
when you will pay, we know you will
do it. Your statement of the exact
date upon which we may expect pay
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Americas, Ga, August 20, 1914
Great Iirture of Patience
BY Mail in U. S. and Mexico
(Jesper, in Leslie's.)

Patience is virtue that everybody
claims but few persons possess. Pes
haps in this respect, it is no different
from most other virtues. We assume
a virtue if we have it not.
How difficult it is to be patient, to
submit to injustice, misrepresentation,
vilifcation, untruth AID calumny and
camly wait for vindication, trusting
to the arbitrament of the future. Too
often the future fails to judge in time.
Every president of the United
States, from the time Of Washington
to the days of Wilson, has suffered
from the impatieuce and injustice CT
those who think that great things can
be done in a day; great questions set
lied offhand, economic conditions re-
versed by turning over ones hand, and
international difficulties adjusted by
waving flag of firing salute,
Nothing worth while is ever done
without the exercise Of patience. In
yentions are sometimes discovered by
chance, and the law of gravitation
was credited to the fall of an apple,
but no invention worth while was ever
put into practical use without study
and thought behind it. The law of
graVitation which would never have
been revealed if there had not been a
Newton to think it out
Too many of the people of our day
are impatient for immediate results.
They want to plant the seed this
morning and harvest the crop this af-
ternoon. The processes of nature are
too slow for them. They must forever
be plucking up the growing plants to
see of they have taken full root The
processes of the law are not swift
enough. so the culprit must be torn
from the custody of the court and
hung to the nearest tree or lamp
post.
Delicate questions of diplomacy OBJ
viously requiring time for adjustment
must be settled offhand like a horse
1Thde. Economic problems affectins
THE cost Of living or the nations com
mercial supremacy are grappled with
by mell-meaning but inexperienced Of
-ficials eager to try out experimental
ideas at public expense. If one won't
work, they will suggest another. on
rhe principle of the quack who wanted
10 throw sick man into fits because
the quack believed he could cure tits.
We laugh, but it is pathetic.
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by L. H. Nunnelee.)

Rev. c. NJ. Boyd, of Tuscaloosa, Ala,
once while conducting meeting in
Centreville, during the course of his
remarks said that the human heart is
a hungry thing" and we have thought
of the remark time and again. 1t is a
hungry thing, continually longing and
wanting something that seems to be
denied or something that one will not
make the sacrifice to obtain.
You see men and women every day
that are hungering Off something that
could be given freely and without
price, but which is withheld from
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ment will be helpful to us because we
have the same problems of raising
money that you have We are a large
concern, to be sure, but for the same
reason that farmer keeps no more
horses in his stable than he needs to
pillow his corn, we keep no more mon
ey in our business than we actually
need"
You can't blame the man who call
ed this silly letter, yet it brought
several hundred dollars in cash, and
promises that ultimately netted sew
eral thousand dollars. One of the lat
ter was>from gentleman who had
been discharged in bankruptcy. He
said: 81 guess you don't know I'm
an adjudicated bankrupt and don't
owe you a cent under the law. If you
did, you wouldn't write me that way.
don't have to pay you, but l will on
May l." He did. Another gentlman
man from the Blue Grass" who hal
impoverished himself through his
fondness for race horses, wrote: eve
never welshed yet. I'll send you the
money by July l." He sent part of It
then and the rest later. Yes, sir, I'm
a greater believer in a promise that
names definite date of payment, if
it serves to rehabilitate the prom
ise's self-esteem.
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Memorial Resolutions, Resolutions

Memorial Resolutions, Resolutions
Of Respect, Obituary Notices, etc.,
sther than those which the paper may
Deem proper to publish as news mat
Der, will be charged for at the rate Of
cents per line.
ALI advertising copy requiring two
columns of space or less should be in
the business office not later than noon
Of day prior to date Of issue in order
20 insure it's prompt insertion. All
sopy for space of more than two col
aims should be submitted not later
than 6 o'clock Of the day, two days
wrior to date Of issue.
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fellow being that you knew needed a
word of encouragement from you and
that you withheld; that you failed to
uphold when he was being criticised
by his fellow men, when few words
from you would have changed the SEN
timent? You withheld what should
have been given, even though the
Withholding may have been partially
just, but the time for changing the
sentiment had come and you refused
the help that was in your grasp.
They are walking the streets of this
town and of other towns, and the peo-
pie who call themselves christians are
joining in with the worldly critics and
Withholding that which could be so
freely given.
Men join secret organizations for the
brotherly love that is taught; they join
churches for the companionship of
good people; they join civic societies
for the social benefit. But sometimes
you see men-members of secret soci-
cites whose very foundations are bas-
ed on brotherly love-withholding that
which they have obligated themselves
in the sight of God and man to give.
You hear one church member saying
unkind things OF another in a sneering
and insinuating way, when you know
that the fellow that is being criticised
has hungry heart, but you fail to
have the courage to give that which is
most needed, and you join the process
sion that is attempting to strangle the
life out of it's victim.
Religious, secret and social organiza-
tions need a housekeeping when they
will throttle the living member and
then bestow flowers upon the dead.
"The human heart is a hungry
thing'-longing to have the stamina
to stand up for what is right and break
away from the influences that have
bound their victim hand and foot
longing for the sight of some brave
soul to come and help them through
their troubles and battles for a time,
until they can have some one to go to
who has an attentive and sympathetic
heart.
1t is a shame and a crime to with
hold ones sympathy and aid, and yet
it is being done on your streets, and
on the streets of every other town and
hamlet in the country.
The human heart is a selfish thing
1t is ME and my friends-and the
balance of the world can look out for
themselves"
Just for a time stop and think:
"The human heart is a hungry
thing" and see if you cannot supply
| the food. without trouble or cost or
your part. Stop and think if you are
not withholding in your own heart the
very food that the other is longing to
receive, and with that thought, have
the courage and manhood to supply
the need.
TruthfulIy, The human heart is a
hungry thing. (Ala.l
Press.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-08-20

The sudden outbreak of war in Eu
rope disturbed business and financial
conditions throughout the civilized
world, but the cotton market was most
Immediately and most seriously
affected.
This was due in part to the ap
proach of the fall season during which
time the cotton must be harvested and
sold, and in part to the fact that the
foreign market has been greatly re-
duced, if not destroyed, as the coun-
tries now engaged in war use about
one-half of our cotton.
The Southern. farmers have made
this crop expecting a price of about
IL 1-2 cents per pound for it, but with
one-half the demand gone, the price
will fall, proportionately, causing
ruinous loss of more than $4O0,OOO,O0O
to be sustained by these farmers, I'M
less something can be done to help
them. The disaster that would be
the inevitable result would not be
confined to the cotton producing states
but national.
On account of the enormity of this
disaster, President Wilson
and Congress are endeavoring to fur
nish means of relief. To this end
the law permitting foreign-built ships
to register as American ships and to
sail under the American flag has been
passed and approved, and will in a
short time give much relief to our
American commerce, as it is expected
a large number of ships will register
under this law.
1t is natural for the American spin
ners to try to buy cotton at low
prices, and for that reason they will
at first withhold buying to force the
price down, but they will soon extend
their trade in South America, China
and Africa, which will force them to
buy and use much more cotton than
in former years. Besides, the coun-
tries not engaged in war will naturally
increase their consumption.
But the facts which we have men.
toned will not give the immediate re-
lief necessary to save the cotton farm
ers from low prices. The farmers
must hold their cotton for a reasona-
BILE price. They can not hold it I'M
less they can arrange to have their
notes maturing in the fall extended for
six months, with the privilege of ex-
tending six months longer, if neces-
airy. Here we come to the point where
confidence and cooperation is abso-
luteiy necessary, The local banks are
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-08-20
NOTICE,
Americas, Ga, August IS, 1914.

Americas, Ga, August IS, 1914.
To the Ginners of Sumter County and
Vicinity:
Owing to the present unusual condi-
tons and the extra amount of book
keeping involved, we cannot look after
the collecting of your ginning this sea-
son as we have done in years past.
HAROLD BROTHERS.
L. G. COUNCIL.
ELTON PARKER,
GEORGE OLIVER.
advt
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CONFIDENCE AND COOPERATION THE
SOLUTION
SOLUTION

ready to cooperate and they are will
ing to take the cotton receipts and
new notes for the present indebted
ness of the farmers when necessary
and will arrange with the New York
banks to aid them in this laudable
method of furnishing relief
By the employment of this method
the cotton can be held for reasona-
BILE price, but final day of settlement
must be provided for or final disas-
ter worse than the one now so immi-
nent may follow.
How can we guard against such dis
astrous final results? Not by planting
another cotton crop for 1915 as large
as the present crop, for it is probable
that one-half of the present crop will
be carried over and there could be
no demand for the 1915 crop, and ruin
would be inevitable. The farmers must
agree to reduce the cotton acreage for
1915 by at least one-half, and must
live up to the agreement in the best
of plighted faith, or the local banks, as
a business necessity, must refuse to
carry the present outstanding debts.
Cooperation is necessary to save the
price of the present crop, but a re-
duction of the acreage in cotton for the
year 1915 is necessary to save US
from financial ruin. In times of ad-
versity the character of communities
or nations as we'll as that of an indi-
vidual is severely tested. The people
of the cotton states, Of the State of
Georgia, of Sumter county, are now
face to face with conditions that will
test their patience their wisdom, their
conservatism and their fidelity to their
fellow men in business relations.
There must be cooperation to hold
the cotton for good prices and the
promise to reduce the acreage rust
be faithfully kept.
This reduction in the acreage il.
Gotten will mean the production of
more food products and more feed
stuff. This will bring to us a pros
perity that we have not known and
the conditions that now threaten dis
aster will force upon new conditions
to bless.
Let us be optimists. The optimist +
every inch man and succeeds while
the pessimist whines and fails.
The farmers must begin at once to
prepare to raise more hogs, cattle,
chickens, corn, hay, etc. From time
to time we shall bring to their atten-
ton facts showing the large sums paid
annually for food products and feed
stuffs that can be grown on our farms.
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Johnny, you've been fishing on Sun
day again. I'm going to give you g
whipping just as soon as I've put those
fish in the icebox. Life.
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THE WAR MAY BEA GOD SEND AFTER ALL

the possibility of the. day when cotton
ling would be drug on the worlds market
,ara Now they have it brought home to
49, them, For the first time in the history
of the world there is no market for
~ cotton. At the same time "hog and
eFS' hominy" is commanding princeIy hon.
'uth age from the world.
MIS- Georgia sends out millions for food
stuffs each year. Cotton usually furn-
that ishes the millions Where are the mil
be lions coming from, now that cotton
fury cannot me sold it seems at any price?
'een And so we say the war may be q
the godsend after all. The farmers of Dix
most lie will wake up to their folly and stop
'ort. growing enough cotton to food the
ates market each year. Instead of sending
fter millions to the western states for "hog
ing. and hominy" Georgia will raise her
we're own foodstuffs and keep the money at
cor home
I'm The farmer who is able to feed him
fac self and his children need not worry
uHs about the war. The throne on which
ear King Cotton has been sitting for the
ans past century is lettering. Dixie is
hey waking to her folly Hog and Hominy
who for the southland will be the outcome
the of the war
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The continent-wide war across the
big pond has set all America talking
hard times. Especially in Dixie where
Gotten is the chief product the outlook
is gloomy. With the foreign market
for King Cotton closed the farmers,
merchants and bankers of the South
are having hard time being optimis-
tic over the future.
But in spite of all the clouds that
seem to be gathering the war may be
a godsend to the South. For a century
or more the Southern States have been
risking their all on one toss of the
dice. Dixie has been relying almost
solely on King Cotton for support.
The broad fields of the Southern States
have been planted in cotton year after
year and cotton has indeed been King.
And just when prospects were
brightest for a bumper crop in Geor,
gia the war doomed up. Georgia farm
ers have suddenly awaken to the fac
that the advice to raise more foodstuffs
and less cotton was good advice. Year
after year they have had hog ana
hominy" preached to them. But they
have turned deaf ear to those who
were far-sighted enough to see the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-30

ratherpleasant to be bullied.
At last, replete, he filled his
pipe again and sank back on
an elbow with a satisfied
sigh. Tina gathered her slim
ankles under the edge of her
skirt and faced him across
the dismantled board. Pres
emily she was telling him of
herself,-o how she could
remember neither her father
nor mother; of how she
had spent most of her years
in school, here and abroad,
coming back at rare inter
walls to the roof of a mater
nal uncle; about her brother
Tom, who was a Lieutenant
in the army and at present
stationed in the Philippines;
of her friendship for Con-
ME at Madame Sinnott's;
of her various and varying
ambitions, first to be an
artist, later to go on the
stage, still later to be a
nurse, and now
"Yes?' he prompted.
She Rugged her feet and
gazed gravely out to sea. Il
haven't any now,' she said;
4only-well, just the usual
one, | suppose.
@The usual one?" he
echoed.
ITO be married. I guess
that's all I'm good for"
isn't that enough?" he
asked with a hint of disap-
probation. at seems to me
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that marriage is very proper ambition for girl
a suppose SO, she said without enthusiasm and with
shrug of her slim shoulders. Then, with sudden
frightening, @Anyhow, won't have to for long time
yet. That's something
He laughed. Evidently you still heart whole, he
said amusedly. Girls really rather entertaining
She flashed look at him that for made
him involuntary tighten his teeth the stem of his
pipe. Some entertainment, he reflected might prove
dangerous
"Are your" she demanded.
"Hcart-whole2 l think 1--we had time
yet toto"
aAren't you little bit ashamed" she asked Sc
verely.
She nodded in her emphatic way. "Of course. You're
than old enough to marry. Why, you must be,
she half-cosed her eyes and studied him. you be
all of thirty'
aThirty-two D." he owned THAT isn't"
ooh, yes it is! You should have been married long
ago. fancy you would make very nice, satisfactory
husband for girl You're quite good looking, you
know, and you're clever, and you'll suppose you make
enough to marry on, don't your
al suppose So he replied meely. 3But-'
9Then there's excuse for you. You'd better do it
pretty too. Of course thrtytwo isn't horribly
old; but it'ss getting on' And she shook her head
warningy.
@Men have married at later age" he said
ironically.
aYes but who'd want theme Old fogies! As you
you re-youre rather nice: but in another five
years you'll be dreadfully set and-and oldmaidish.
Even you wouldn't suit girls. You're" she
paused evidently seeking not to wound him too much,
"you're little bit selfish"
Selfish"
3Oh, yes. Not enough to hurt, you know, but-but
little When you thought you had give up your fish
ing and row you didn't like it Bit did you?
And when you thought you had to talk to and eat
lunch with me"
Il don't think you have any right to say that" he
discaimed little netted at her unsupported perspi
cacty. 3I-er-couldn't help being bit surprised at
finding you here
Il understand" she said gently. 4And don't mean
to imply that you selfish than most men
of your age"
4Hang it all, Miss Jefreys! my age has nothing do
with it, You talk as though Methuselah!
As matter of fact presume am only few years
older than you"
4I'm twenty" she answered @That makes you
twelve years Older doesn't t?"
He nodded. 1t seemed good many, twelve. After
moment well, suppose then III have to marry he
said sarcastically 3Do you think it would be safe to
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