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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-09-03

GEORGE GOULD, according 10 the statement OF
his attorneys still enjoys income OF $4,000 per
annum II he doesn't go to buying railroads again he
may be able to worry along for some time yet
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-09-03

Patron--Who 10 that young vlo.
Ilnlst. waIter7
Wsiter--Mr. Jones, cir. Hos be-
coming famous, sir. You'll hear
more Of him, sir.
Pstron-Not tonight, I hope.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-09-03
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION side

1910 the question OF admitting women lawyers to mer
bcrship Any time any lawyers decide anything rig
OF. please wake u.s.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-09-03
- EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE SEATTLE STAR -:
WITHOUT MEANING


the liberty Of asking OF French, British Ger
man. Austrian, etc Americans who uncontrolably
patriotic, il is that they 10 America TO
avoid serving in the army they cheering fori They
need not answer IL they don't wish TO-
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-09-03

WHEN THE old roars, perhaps it's becal
some Holsters pinehing the under-tow.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-09-03

WE ARE just awakening 10 the fact tina
a .standing army without any standing.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-09-03
READ UP ON 1T

DRO-TAGONISTS Of the Geman-Austrlan plea
l. for an embargo on shipments of arms from
this country TO the allies may find some very In
teresng, as well as enlghtening, facts In the issue
of the Army and Navy Journal for July ).
In the Spanish-American war; Germany not
only supplied Spain with rifles and ammunition,
but German army officers directed operations
against the United States. After peace was de-
clared these officers were restored to their rank in
the German army. And the Army and Navy Jour
nal, lest we forget, recalls the very doubtful and
unfriendly attitude of Germany after the capture
of Manila an attitude, which but for the tactful
diplomacy of Admiral Dewey would likely have
led to an international war at that time
There is good deal of hot air in this talk of
our close friendly relations with Germany, says the
Journal, and nearly succeeds in proving ii.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-09-03
ala II In . most encouraging way
How was thstf"

AS want away she pointed 10
the footprints that ] had made on
tho carpet and said: The next
,imc you come 20 propose 10 me
want you 10 wipe your shoes
cicanv"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-09-03

WHEN 1T comes TO necessary proteeti'
rights, the COO Of the dove isn't in it with the
American eagle
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-09-03

THAT MONTEREY editor who says that Mexico
will seize Texas, New Mexico Arizona California, Okla
homa and Mississippi has got US scooped. but dom
see why he left out that pretty state, Ohio.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-09-03

whole fan but we don't wear II
out by waving IL. oh. no. We
hold II stiil. like this. under
our noxe. and wave our
FAcE,"--Evrrybody's.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-09-03

A WOMAN SIZES UP beauty chorus fror
waist up--a man from the waist down.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-09-03

MADE HIM HOPEFUL
Yes. she rejected me. but sh'
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-09-03

IN WOMENS fashions, perhaps history Is repeating
itself With the higher skirts aud the lowering OF necks
the day OF the fig leaf may yet return.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-07
FROM A TEXAS LADY WHO KNEW
THE OLD PLANTATION DAYS
IN DIXIE

Dear Sir: I was agreeably sur
prised to receive volume of
'Bathany.'
| assure you it was highly appre-
ciated; many, many thanks. l read
a borrowed book when it first came
out to my mother, typical daughter
of the old South. She pronounced it
so realistic that she said, ''in mem
DRY she was living it all over again"
l was very much pleased with
your grandfather.
Being three years your junior
can remember the dying out of that
period I was orphaned by the war,
and was living at the old homestead
of my paternal grandmother in mid
die Georgia.
Your description Of the home, and
mine; only with all her other
trouble she lost her eyesight. A few
years ago | drifted West for my
health, after the loss of my family.
When l read Bethany again that
poem will come true.
Backward, turn backward
Oh! time in your flight,
Make me a child again,
Just for tonight.
l have been reading your writings
ever since the days Of the Peoples
Party Paper.
The coming Of your paper makes
me think of that happy Georgia
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-07
A GEORGIAN VOICES HIS
SENTIMENTS.

Dear Sir: AS a constant reader
of your magazine and paper l feel as
though you will give space for a
letter from ne.
If you could see the people fairly
snatch your papers from the news
boys and news stands and stop on
the street corners to read them it
would do your heart good;> and Mr..
Watson it is the good people who are
doing this, too.
/ would like to ask you who it is
that has committed the greatest
crime against society; Jack Slaton,
or the men who took Leo Frank, the
red-handed murderer out of his room
at the state farm and carried out the
sentence of the grand jury, petit
jury, state supreme court, United
States supreme court and majority
of the prison commission, to say
nothing of 90 per cent. of Georgians
To be classed as an undesirable
citizen must be very severe punish
ment, but Jack did it himself with
the boosting of a few d. d., rich
Jews and some editors that could be
named, especially one who is fam
Gus for editorials-one kind today,
and tomorrow one that contradicts
it. AS for the mob, they can't say
1T was made up of riff raft and gut
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-07
THE FAMOUS NEW TAX LAW
OPPRESSES THE POOR.

Dear Sir: | have been thinking
for some time | would write you a
few lines and thank you for the
noble fight you have made in the
Frank case.
Please answer me one question, if
you can spare enough of your valu-
able time. | am poor woman.
Have only forty-two acres of land
(and that is under mortgage). [
gave in to the tax receiver at $500
an acre and the assessors raised it to
seven an acre, when forty-two acres
that adjOined mine sold last spring
for $163 and this year | gave it in
for tax at $500. Now the question
is this: We have local school tax
in our community and the trustees
will not let me enter our children un-
less | pay $1.00 each to enter them,
and then 150 the following month,
which am not able to pay and feed
clothe and buy books too. Am
compelled to let my boys grow up in
ignorance, while I pay tax to edu~
cate the rich trustees child?
Respectfully,
MRS. e. S.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-07
Additional Letters From the People

ter snipes for none but shrewd men,
the best of our citizens could have
outdone this crowd who started law
breaking in our good old state.
When these men who carried out
the sentence of all the courts in our
land are called to judgment to give
an account of their stewardship,
don't believe they will even have to
refer to Fry's Gin or any other part
Of the county of Cobb.
l am a taxpayer, voter and good
citizen Of Georgia and l am proud of
our good old state.
GEORGIAN.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-07
READY FOR STRAUS AND HIS
MARCHING THROUGH
GEORGIA.

Dear Sir: Let Straus have an
other Sherman march through Geor-
gia, if he wants to. We can organ
ize more brave Georgians than Sher-
man brought through Georgia in the
sixties. And we will meet them any
where in an open field and have it
out.
There IS not man in ten thou
sand that doesn't approve the hang
ing of Leo M. Frank. Every man I've
mentioned it to says they are salts
fled.
-. SUBSCRIBER.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-07
PAGE MN E

save your wife from outrage, nay, to balk
the raid of the house thief YOU NAV shoot.
and shoot to kill.
Why? Because the law is unable to give
you, In such cases, that immediate Justice to
which you are entitled.
You are entitled to protection for self,
family, home, property of all kinds. When
the law can give 1t to you, apply to the law.
But when, from the very nature of the
case, the law cannot give it to you, then you
must give 1t to yourself.
The mllk-sop aslnine, and molly-cOddle
doctrine of non-resistance has no place in
the souls Of manly men.
Let such warped fanatics as William
Lloyd Garrison declare that he would not,
by force, interfere to prevent his own wife
from being outraged.
Such may, IN some abnormal con-
dition of things, be able to toss torch into
a powder house. bring on an explosion, and
thus be remembered as one of the meters of
the insanest war IN history; but that is
about all he's fit to do.
For any constructive Or preventative pur-
pose, he is less than worthless.
Let such editors as Willard of the New
7 ork Evening Post, denounce the Strother
brothers, describe their deed as inexcusable
murder, and lecture the South about law
breakers' and Judges whose spirit is that
of a lyncher."
1t is safe to assume that Willard would
never shoot anybody about his sister.
| cannot bring myself to believe that any
considerable number of Northern men en-
dorse the cold-blooded principles of such
writers as Garrison and Willard
The whole social world will be purer,
when it becomes well-settled fact that no
judge or jury will punish the citizen, who,
in good faith, and in consequence of that de-
gree of natural human passion which is sup
posed to be uncomfortable, Stays the black
hearted william who has done him intolerable
wrong-such q aor0ng as the lar from the
very nature of the case. cannot adequately
redress From The JeffeTsonian of March
81, 1909
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-07
A Watson Editorial of EinFlt
Years Ago.
% The Brothers Who Avenged Their
Sisters

IN Virginia good red blood still RUS in the
veins OF manly men; and when Viola
Strother-the sweet little sister Youngest Of
the household, the pet and the pride Of the
family, acaS deliberately hunted do,,n by a
heartteSS seducer, made to suffer fortunes
worse than death, and was about To be aban-
doned to her grief and shame the brothers
Of the ruined girl killed him.
They shot him like a dog.
In Just the ray he dcsorced to get ii.
The Law does its best to put itself in tie
justice accordingly.
The whole theory of civil and criminal
law SO far as redress of grievances is con-
cerned is based upon that principle.
The law steps In to punish the man who
has done you wrong-denying you the
right to do SO. If you were allowed to avenge
your own wrongs, riot and disorder would
ensue Private wars would be waged. Feuds
would rend the community. The 'Vendet-
ia would usurp the orderly procedure Of
the law
But in all the books which treat of the eIe-
mental principles of jurisprudence, this ex-
ception to the rule stares you in the face:
There are cases where the law, by reason
Of its imperfection, or the sowness of pro-
cedure, cannot do to the citizen that mamedi-
ate Justice which the situation demands In
such instances the citizen is justified in tah-
ing the matter into his oocn hands,"
This principle is as old as the hills and
as solid as rock.
Why are you justified in killing the assail-
ant who is trying to kill you?
Because the law cannot save you. It is too
slow. You must tohe the 1a1c into yom orn
hands, and SAFE yourself
To keep your house from being burned, to
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-07
THE .JEFFERSONIAN

or Of the sworn statements in Mrs. Edmond
son 5 affidavit
Then Was the time to have made the deni-
ais, or the explanations, for the charges had
been standing for months, Mldenied and u,a-
explained
Too late now, Mr.. Rosser!
You boggled Franks bad case, and you are
BICYCLING Stations bad case. You seem to
] have lost your stearng- gear old man.
no POLITICS, AND no SLATE, AND
NO MACHINE.
z Studious efforts are being made to deceive
the people as to my motives and my pur-
poses.
These efforts are too clumsy to travel.
The instinct Of the people is keener than
city bankers and editors and politicians give
them credit for
The PLAIN people laugh at the idea of my
having any slate, any machine, any candi-
dates.
have none, and want none, and my
friends know it.
What my enemies suspect, or believe, my
friends and [ neither know nor care.
In all this Frank controversy, my State
has had volunteer lawyer, retired from the
practice, but not altogether forgetful of the
Law.
My subject was, the integrity of our Courts
and the honor of our People
AS well as [ knew how to do it, have for
many months pleaded the case at the bar Of
Public Opinion, before jury of all right
minded Americans.
My experience has been too long and too
varied, not to have forewarned me of the ran
corous hostility that would be aroused.
[ expected the counter attack, the enven-
omed tongue, the poisoned arrows the hew
gags and the stink pots
These ancient foes of mine came forth in
all their venerable antipathy, any they did
their endeavors.
Such enemies, [ laugh to scorn, as [ always
did.
They did not argue the facts of the Frank
case and they did not argue the Law
They couldn't. Nobody can.
The imperishable record stands, and the
tooth of Time will gnaw it in vain
In generations to come, when you and I
shall have become dust, the candid, intelli-
gent historian of Georgia will 90 to these
official records, resurrect the buried Truth,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-07

Bethany, by Thos. E. Watson. Romance
of the Civil War, with vivid pen pictures of
cloth. Price. $100, postpaid The Jetferso-
MAN Publishing Company, Thomson, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-07

home when your periodicals were
always there.
Praying divine power will
strengthen you in your great refor n
work.
Respectfully,
MISS LULA Z. JACKSON,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-07

breathe new life into it, and cause mankind
to marvel that Moneys Systematically and
villainously used-could blacken the name of
our grand old State, and cause her dear
name to become a bye-word among her sis
ter States.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-14
SATURDAY MARKET.

The ladies of St. James Guild will
have a market sale al Griffith's
Pharmacy at ten o'clock Saturday A.
M, May 18th. Get your cakes, rolls,
bread, pies and salads here for Sun
day dinner. A partial list of the
many good things appear below:
CAKES-Lady Baltimore, Brown
les Delight, Chocolate Layer, DEVILS
Food, Pound Cake, Sponge Cake, An
gel Food, Caramel Cake, Coffee Cake,
Small white cakes, Cookies, Meri-
argues, Doughnuts.
SALADS-Fresh Shrimp in Green
Pepper, Potato Salad.
BREADS AND ROLLS Boston
Brown Bread, Loaf Bread, Rolls
Bunns, Beaten Biscuit, Candies fresh
Jersey Butter. Strawberries, Short
Cake with whipped Cream. Lemon
Meringue Pies
Orders will be delivered Phone
orders to any member of the commit
tee.
MRS. KEMPER SMITH,
Chairman.
MRS. PATTERSON,
MRS. MORGAN MCNEIL.
MISS HOWELL.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-14
MRS. FREY'S BIRTHDAY.

Mrs. N. C. Frey's seth birthday
was celebrated last Saturday by a
dinner to which many of her chill
dren and grandchildren came. She
has six children living and four
dead. The Only one absent was q
son who lives in Oklahoma. She has
So grand children and 25 great
grand children. OF all these only %
were present.
The immense round table had a
cut-glass bowl on a round mirror
filled with white and red pinks and
ferns.
The birthday cake was baked and
presented by Mrs. w. j. Frey and Il
was a very large pound-cake frosted
and holding SO pink and white ia
pers.
Mrs. Frey has used wheel chair
for many years and went to the ia
bic in it on her birthday for the
first time since last fall.
Her health is good, for one so old
and she enjoyes the visits of her rela-
tives and friends. She received a
great many flowers and messages
on pictured postal cards which were
collected in little basket given by
Misses Daisy and Arrie White.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-14
ST. JAMES CHURCH NEWS.

All Church services and the school
are now being held in the Church
The interior painting has been com
pleted and is beautiful. The carpet
will probably be laid next Sunday.
What blessing now if the Congre-
cation would be as punctual in their
attendance on worship as the Sunday
School pupils are in their attendance.
And if the percentage were as fine.
Let us keep before us the Coming
ofthe Council on May 26th, and the
visit of the Bishop for Confirmation
on May both. 81
St. James Gudil met at the Rec
tory on May 10th. Officers for the
year were elected as follows: Mrs.
E. H. Clay, President; Mrs. Nc
Neel, President; Miss Mary
Howell, Secretly; Mrs. Welborn Rey-
nolds, Treasure.
Those societies that have not yet
sent in their yearly financial reports
should do so at once, as the Parish
reports should go in on May 18th.
Delegates to the Council from this
Parish were elected by the Vestry
Friday evening as follows: Messrs
Lawrence, N X. Smith and A. A
Irwin: Alternates, Messrs. P. Cam
bios, Dr. Nolan and Geo. S. Owen.
From the Woman's Auxiliary Mrs
CROSBY and Miss Camblos were ap-
pointed delegates.
1t is very plain that we shall have
to depend upon our kind friends out
side our communion to help us care
for the delegates to the Council
They will not be here more than two
nights, and many not more than one
and some will be in Marietta only
for meals. Perhaps some of our
lends will read this who would not
md it hardship to give us this
assistance. If so, it would be much
appreciated if they would tell us OF
it. We would not like to ask any
who would find it great incon-
venience.
gold pin was earned in the
school by Louise Kerley last Sun
day, she having completed year Of
punctual attendance.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-14

Mrs. w. A. Coursen entertained
party of friends from Atlanta and
invited to meet them Miss Annie
Burnap, Mrs. j. F. Clarke, Miss Eva
Clarke and her guest. Miss Hinsdale,
of Milwaukee.
Lorena Conyers, a ten year-old
grand daughter of Judge and Mrs.
]. M. Gam, has given a dollar to
the organ fund of the Baptist
church. She earned it by selling
candy which she made at home.
If you want to control the Irish
potato bug, use ia lib. arsenate
of lead, IA of lime to 10 gallons of
water or paris green one ounce, lime
one ounce, water ten gallons, sprin-
kle over vines every two weeks or
oftener if needed.
According to the president of Vas
sar College, woman's brain is just as
good as mans. And this moves the
Kansas City Journal to say that elm
asmuch as she is continually beating
him at his own game, as well as at
hers, the statement seems quite con-
sentative. Albany Herald.
Mrs. W. J. Neel, president of the
Woman's Baptist Missionary Union
of Georgia, has left to attend the
twenty-seventh annual meeting of
the Woman's Missionary Union,
auxiliary to the Southern Baptist
Convention, in Houston, Tex, May
12-17.-Bartow Tribune.
l.. Clinton Cults, representing
Reinhardt College, won one of the
prizes, a five dollar gold piece, in
the contest held in Macon last Satur-
day by the colleges of the state, pro-
hibition being the subject that each
one discussed. Hurrah for North
Georgia and a Canton boy-Chero-
kee Advance
Shoe repairing while you wait at
The Marietta Shoe Sop, 1O2 Wash
ington Avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. P. Lowe were in
the field planting when Mrs. loves
attention was attracted to her little
8 year-old girl nearby when she saw
the child within the coils of a six
foot coach whip. The snake threw
the child to the ground and did not
release its hold till Mrs. Lowe had
grabbed the child and shook it loose.
Except for the fright the child was
not injured. Douglas County Senti-
nell
Miss Maybell Cornell, of Ohio, who
demonstrated cooking with alumni
mum ware at Norton's Hardware
store this week was guest at the
Misses Towers. She is very charm
ing little lady and it has been a
great benefit as we'll as pleasure to
Marietta ladies to meet her and wit
ness her demonstrations of cooking.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-14

Misses Jessie and Mary Thomson,
Oh Atlanta, have returned home after
visit with Judge and Mrs. s. C. At
kinson.
MISS Harriet Dykers, of New Or
leans, has come to spend the sum-
mer with her sister, Miss Katheryn
Dykers.
Messrs c. c. Phillips, w. l.. Alb
oott and T. H. McCleskey served on
the grand jury in Marietta Wednes-
day.-Acworth Post.
Mr.. Will Neal has returned from a
pleasant sojourn in Florida and is
looking unusually well, having gain
ed several pounds in weight.
Best Rubber heels put on at Ma
rletta Shoe Shop, 1O2 Washington
Avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. V. Rittenberry.
who are at the Whitlock House for
the summer with Mrs. John Cogburn
and Mrs. Babe Black, visited Roswell
last Thursday.
AFTER weeks of dry weather rain
began falling Thursday night and
continued until Friday night. On
saturday the sky was very blue with
beautiful white clouds softening the
sunshine.
Shoe Repairing while you wait at
the Marietta Shoe Shop. 1O2 Wash
ington Ave
The English General who led the
charge OF the light brigade at Bal
aklava died few days ago in his
goth year. A Mr.. Mcdonald who
died in Marietta about three years
ago was present as a driver at the
famous battle
The man who is content to let his
wife earn his living is usually the
one who will get up on his hind legs
and howl in indignant protest when
ever anything is said about extend
ing the right of suffrage to women
Albany Herald.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh manning have
bought the house they occupy on
North Waddell Street and are i'm
proving it greatly A large veranda
has been built and the house is
painted with Olive Green with old
ivory trimmings.
New York Herald wants to know
what potlicker is. We have had
many misgivings about foreign mis-
sionaries, but we are sure they are
needed in the vicinity of Herald
Square, New York City. Either mis-
sionaries or a night school.-Chero-
kee Advance.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-14
Social ano Hersonal

Mr.. P. H. Randall's father died in
Decatur Sunday.
Shelled Almonds, Walnuts and
Pecans at Flaws.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Power have
moved to Chattanooga to live.
Mrs. w. j. Taylor spent the weerk
end in Marietta.-Bartow Tribune.
Mrs. R. de T. Lawrence has re-
turned from her visit to North Caro-
Miss Blondine Cooper attended
commencement at Young Harris
College.
Little Katie Rohner has been very
sick with whooping- but is
better now.
Mrs. A. L. Dunn is keeping house
for Mr.. j. A. Massey and his sister.
Mrs. Boring.
Messrs. T. F. Terry and G. L. Car
ruth were in Marietta Tuesday,
Acworth Post.
Miss Laura Stearns, of New Or
leans, is visiting her sister, Mrs. ].
A. Commerford.
Mr.. Pearce Dobbs has been quite
indisposed with an attack of malaria
for the past two weeks.
Miss Jessie Reynolds, of Atlanta,
visited her sisters, Mrs. Murray and
Mrs. Guyton, last week.
Mr. H. B. Clay still owns the
Delk Mill, Mr.. Hiram Motley bought
only the adjoining farm.
If you received postal card about
Grape Smash, bring it to Flaws. with
a nickle and get 10 cent bottle.
The sweet girl graduate will be
among the June peaches to put in
an appearance soon.-Acworth Post.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Mcdonald mo-
tored up from Atlanta Sunday after
noon to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Barney
Dobbs.
New Shapes just received now
on display. Kinney & McCleskey,
3rd floor W. A. Florence Dry Goods
Co. 1t.
Miss Julia Green has beautified our
sanctum with pink and white peo-
MES, roses, honeysuckles and dent
shias.
Mrs John Screven will arrive in
Marietta Saturday from San Fran
cisco. She has spent two months in
the west.
Miss Ruby Hunt, of Dunedin,
Fla, has come to spend some time
with her grandmother, Mrs Sarah
Hunt