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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-05
The Love Letter of an Old Man

Something very strange and beautiful has
come into my life, Anushka. 1t is you.
Any the least worldy-wise would smile al
his for the phenomenon is not new at ALL Has 1t
lot' occurred since the days of Eden? Is it not
now continually recurring among the swarming
millions? Does it not breed infinite literature?
But the obvious is always deeply untrue. Be
cause thing is common it not necessarily non
miraculous. Indeed the daily miracles that flash
before nseeing eyes are more amazing than
all the marvels of the Apocrypha.
You have come into my penumbra, the over
soul of me that envelops as an atmosphere my
soul You range in the half lights that play
vronment, bright plumaged tropical bird
would fly in New England wood of birches and
fill the hills with weird and liquid melody.
Ii is not a banal infatuatiOn. 1t is not the
trembling of the wintry oak at the appearance
of the first violet beneath his branches am
old. You are young. | am not too old to feel
the vibrant response TO the appeal OF your young
womanhood. am not old enough to go dod-
dering into the paths of senile folly.
Some day yOu will love, as you should, a young
man of equal years, strong. future-flled mate
who will put his hand upon the chords of your
harp of life and bring melodies cannot. To
him the sacred mysteries of your heart Will I'M
fold not to me-
All | can use you for, soul body, is in
spiration. You make me believe the world is
still young, that the CLEAN still shines, that. the
lake is not water, but glass of God to catch the
silvery sunshine and the purple shadows of cloud
that Presence walks the spring meadows, and a
voice whispers in the anemones.
A woman of charm has many lovers be-
sides her true love, and they do her no harm If
she is of dispOsing mind and knows how to place
them. They but enrich her to her husband.
They are her endowment of influence. They can
do no harm, but only to fools. The admiration
of MichaelangelO not harm but halo to
the heart of Vittoria Colonna.
So you pass. I cannot hold you. / have no
abiding place among my barren hills for such a
golden-th roated orole. But as you go by | can
sense the hutter of your wings, and your free
summer song can awaken warm fancies in the
too empty hollOws of my years.
Hail and farewell! You fly to join the flock OF
possible loves that have trooped by. Elsewhere
is your home and nesting But am not desolate.
A little while my aura filled with a dawn
like light little while there was a sound OF
wings within me, fragrance of young, rich life.
7 loved YOU if only for a week and a day. and
I go back to my task, not bitter nor dissatisfied.
but with an inner refreshment of spirit and a re-
newed creative force for love is love, If 1t be for
a dav or forever, and it always works creation in
the brain.
Copyright 1916 by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-05
Profits in Livestock.

Georgia farmers who raising food animals
will be interested in the recent report of the Ma
uonal Department of Agriculture showing that the
prices paid TO producers for hogs cattle sheep and
chickens on April Is averaged nineteen per cent
higher than the average that date for the last
six years. The advance in the value of hogs under
the former comparison was especially marked
amounting to dollar and seventy-three cents per
hundred pounds At the same time there was a
gain of seventy cents per hundred pounds on beef
cattle, and dollar and one cent on sheep.
IL these increases were confined to the last year
or two years they might be ascriba BILE mainly to
war conditions; but prices have been moving
upward for six-year period and even longer it is
evident that the tendency is established on broad
the meat market together with food markets in
general, but the basic Influence has been an in
creasng domestic demand and dwindling domes-
tic supply In the decade 1S99-19O9 the number
OF cattle in the United States fell from fifty million
TO forty-one million head: the number of sheen
from sixty-One million ifty-two million and the
number Of hogs from sixty-three million 10 fftv-
eight million. Throughout this period the conn.,
trys population increasing at the rate of con-
sderably more than million year
Since 1914 there has been a marked impetus in
the live stock industry. notably in the South MANY
years of vigorous development will be required
however, 10 bring the American output of food
animals M TO anything like the country's demand
Meanwhile the rewards to the farmer who raises
hogs and cattle are liberal and assured
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-05
The Surrender of Kut-eI- Auoyo

Inc surrender OF General Townshend's beseged
garrison at kut-elAmara closes another chapter of
Great Briains ill-starred expeditions in the East
The adventure at the Dardanelles ended in inter
failure The effort to take Bagdad hangs now os
far as the British concerned on dismaIIv sion
der hopes
General Townshend's command MARCHING
northward along the Tigrs from the Persian GpIf
came almost within striking distance of the coveted
prize when II encountered superior forces of the
enemy and was pressed back a hundred miles or
more to Kut-el-Amara. There it took a beJeaeuered
stand and held out against Turkish onslaugbts and
dWindling supplies from early December to latter
April or the troops that surrendered at last
under pressure of starvation the great majority
were East lndfans-about seven thousand accord
ing to London statements. The British numbered
fewer than three thousand
For several months relief army has been
pressing slowly northward. but, owing to the stub
bornness of the Turks resistance and esneciaI1v
to the flooded condition of the river country pro-
gress was difficult and unstable. This army is nov,
not far from Kut-el-Amara, and possibly with re-
Inducements. ii may yet take that point and move
on toward Bagdad The probability is however
that if Bagdad is captured it will he by the Rus
slams, not by the British.
The Grand Duke Nicholas forces are closing
in upon Mesopotamia from the east and from the
north. Weeks ago a division moving through Per-
STA was reported near a point on the Tigris from
which Bagdad is barely hundred miles distant
The Russians eager to take this ancient civ
which stands on the highway both 10 the Persian
Gulf and to India. They may be expected to seeI,
such trophy with their strength and skill
Meanwhile, the surrender of the British garri-
sons at Kut-el-Amara is episode rather than
event. II claims peculiar attention as being the
first instance, in the present war in which an en-
tire command laid down its arms. It is notable
al he vail md
besieged men held out But it will not affect the
larger fortunes of the war, either in the East
where the Russian advance from Erzerum and
Trezibond continues. in the West, where the
Germans desperate assault upon verdun pales and
weakens in futile sacrifice
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-05
PLANT EXPLORATION
BY FREDERIC ]. HAsKIN-

hotels occurred to Mr. Meyer to wonder why Amer
leans used ginger in cooking. To the Chinese
ginger is something quite necessary as salt lie
has shredded ginger in mis- sliced ginger with
his meats and throughout the entire diet He
grows it in enormous quantities in the moist hot earth
of South China especially around Canton, and exports
annually many sniploads all parts of the world
Some ginger grown in the drier and cooler eli
mate of Shantung province which has about the
same latitude Knoxville. Tenn. The Chinese inherit
their taste ginger Confucus, VINO admonished
them to eat ginger least every day
The work of plant explorer is invaluable to the
progress of agriculture. We have made tremendous
strides in cultivating of soil with
in the short time been country. but the
Chinese have farmers for 1000 years. Hence
China is queer species and lessons in cross
ing and grating Among other things, Mr. Meyer
brought several MARSH vegetables which the Chi
nese grow under their marsh lands Many
lands of lying worthless in this
country the owners have not the money to
drain them, wnen, by following the Chinese
method o raising vegetables they might he making
money. Mr.. Meyer is preparing to start on his
fourth expedition plant exploration which will again
"a Asia.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-05
Quips and Quiddities

this city they are telling of widower who
married recently for the third time whose bride
had been married before herself.
The groom elect wrote across the bottom of of
the wedding invitations sent to particular friend:
BE sure come this is amateur performance"
Yes grandma, to be married during bright
and gladstone Yuletide"
dear said grandma, earnestly. you
very young DO you feel that you fitted
ried life?'
q being fitted grandma" explained the
prospective bride, sweetly. Seventeen gowns!'
Two Germans were talking and the first said:
August was killed front, EN-?
Who broke the sad his poor widow
"Hans-FIans of the Iandsturm broke the news"
said the other German.
And did he do it gently" said the
ooh, very gently. Very delicately' the
swered. He began by asking her marry him"
What going to tell your constituents when
you get home?"
Too think about that" replied Senator
Sorghum: IF of the harsh criticism going
my district keeps up mebbe l amt going home"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-05
The Heavens in Nav

CBy Samuel C. Barton, in the Public Ledger)
T~HS month affords the best opportunity of the year
for seeing the elusive planet Mercury On May
u IL Mercury will be % degrees east of the sun
and may Immediately after sunset somewhat
north of the point of the horizon Mercury
can be spring of the but at this
time it is not the point in its orbit which Is
farthes the that other years give better
opportunities for seeing the planet than the present
saturn Capella and Mercury will form an isosceles
triangle with Mercury at the vortex containing the
right angle.
of the AZ magnitude. will be brighter than any
other heavenly body the and moon and even
bright enough a shadow. 1t be seen in day
light by one who knows where look 1t is five times
as bright Jupiter, the next brightest planet, and
eleven Sirius. the brightest of the
fixed stars.
Both Mercury and being closer the
than the earth all phases like the moon There
are however a number of points of difference since
the of the planets takes place about the sum-
while that of the moon has the earth for its center
The apparent the varies but little due to
It's varying distance but Venus when farthest
from us being six times far when nearest, ap-
pears sixth large. 1t has the full phase when
farthest from and is in the same direction as
the sun. thus is bloted out by the brilliant
light. From this time the phase decreases and the
disc increases until the planet reaches its
greatest the i'll the sky Venus did
on April The planet then like the at
first quarter that is in the western sky, with
illuminated part toward the horizon Thus the phase
of decreases when it is just east of the sum-
while that the increases. With Venus the
the hrSt quarter phase follows the run
phase the phase is the with
the moon Owing to the fact that the size, of Venus
the phase decreases, the full phase does
not necessarily coincide with tine time of greatest
briance fact, Venus appears brightest after
has passed the quarter phase and becomes crescent
shaped like when it is five days old This
part of a circular disc several times
larger than the disc when full really include
larger than the smaller disc fully illuminated.
Because of the earth's motion around the the
sun appears to move eastward among the
degree each day Venus, by moving rapidly than
this passed the last September. and from that
time until April "a (22O days. increased distance
from the each day The sun now gains
Venus making the distance between the less
each day. But the will require but seventy-two
DAYS to gain whole distance pass Venus This
occurs on July The principal for the differ
ence because Venus is in that part of its path
which is the earth and thus appears to
rapidly.
on May "a Venus will pass o Saturn. At that
time will he degrees north of Saturn. 1t will pass
it again June The Big Dipper in its
position, nearly overhead i'm the early evening
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-05
Georgia Democracy
LOYAL and United.

Unanimous and enthusiastic in its Endorsement
of President Wilson, the State Democratic cOnven-
ton which met Wednesday at Macon expressed the
patriotic less than the political faith of the
rank and file of Georgians. The convention was
ceptionaIly harmonious in spirit. The temporary
chairman, Colonel Joseph E. Pottle, sounded the
sentiment of every delegate when he declared in
mis- keynote address:
The Democratic party of this State,
falteringly loyal the historic doctrines of
Thomas Jefferson records its enthusi-
astic confidence in Woodrow Wilson, and its
supreme faith in his courage. his ability and
his patriotism; and indorses without any
qualification whatsoever the course and the
conduct of his administration
Equal approval greeted the words of the perma-
nent chairman, Hon. John W Bennett, when he
said:
so great has been the success of the
present Democratic administration, under the
leadership of the greatest President in the
last half century, that the Republican
party cannot find material for an anti-admin-
istration platform. In this hour of trial and
responsibility, every patriotic American should
stand by the President and give him LOYAL
support
On these high principles there was no shadow
of difference in the Macon convention nor is there
shadow of difference among the Democratic
masses of the state. Georgia stands solidly and
Unswervingly behind the President not only he
cause he is Democracy's trusted leader but be-
cause he is Americas great servant and guide
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-05
Boilers.

II is to be regretted that the Democratic State
Executive Committee did not agree on the adop-
ton Of stringent measures for protecting the
Democratic primary against party traitors and
hOlters- The Committee a unit of course in
declaring that persons who participate in a pri-
: mary are morally bound to support the nominees
IN the ensuing election and it officially reafirmed
the rule established in 1914 10 the effect that:
''AH white electors who i'm good faith will
pledge themselves to- support the Democratic
candidates for all offices to he voted ON this
year hereby declared qualified to vote in
said primary; and the act of voting in said
primary shall constitute the aforesaid pledge
For any man having q sense of civic honor this
simple rule would suffice But it is not the honor
able element of for whom rule is needed:
it is the political pirate and scalawag who must
be dealt with. the cOnscienceess vote-huckster de-
void OF loyalty shame
The real enemies OF Georgia Democracy are not
those who aligned openly and frankly with
.Other parties. for they have unquestOned right
10 their preference, but those who sneak into a
primary under Democratic cOlOrs, enjoy the priv
iIeges of Democratic organization and then knife
the regularly chosen candidate in the general
election.
That iniquiJous element is q foe 10 good gov
eminent as well 10 Democratic interests: and
against that element the party should take the
most rigorous measures of Repatriation.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-05

HERPLEXED parents have written to me from time
to time regarding children whose backward men,
tally causes alarm and grief There is piece
of advice always give:
Take your child to the nearest psychological clinic,
cause causes of his backwardness.
Then act the instructions given you by the
pert who has tested him"
In these days of advanced knowledge regarding the
factors affecting growth of the mind parent need
remain in ignorance this important question of
his chds mentality If the child shows of dull
the he is psychOlOgically examined the
better for his future.
Sometimes, it is true. the examination will reveal
brain defects which little he done.
oftener the duIness will be found to remedial
causes.
The child may be merely q victim Of faulty methods
of training. Or-perhaps in addition faulty train
ing-he may be afflicted with durable physical
trouble unsupported by the parents
Few parents fully appreciate supremely
portant truth that anything which unfavorably affects
the healthy development of the body may a
cause of mental backwardness
Because of parental ignorance of the extent to
lessy doomed to a life of mediocrity If every back
ward child psychoogcaly examined. it is safe to
say the stupidity, poverty and suffering so COM
mon in adult life would be markedly reduced
To impress upon parents more concretely the close
relations bodily mental health and to in
clinical psychologists today doing for
betterment children let cite reported
by \. w. Trettien, of the University of Kansas.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-05
IF YOUR CHILD IS DULL
BY H. ADDINGIoN BRUCE, :

IT is the case of edr-Old boy Iazy untruth-
full and seemingly incapable of doing school work Yet
no looked normal n every
The PSYCHOLOGIST who examined him discovered
almost at once that inability study was grounded
in inability to keep mis- concentrated This in
turn was traced to causes spelling process by
the parent who had spurred him to think and act
for himself and also a sluggish circulation of his
blood
Because of this slow circulation his brain was NOT
properly nourished Consequently it tired quickly when
any demand was made on The boys laziness ana
duIlness were thus symptoms of ill health
BY way of remedy he given Special teaching,
preceded every day a rapid and vigorous cal:sthenic
drill This had the double effect of stimulating his
circulation and of him to concentrate his
attention on receiving and executing comVands
Also care was taken to present to him IN an -
usually interesting way whatever he had "a sea-a
Thus of contemplation was lessened ana a
real desire to gain knowledge awakened
So successful this simple method that In i've
months boy who had seemed hopeless dulard was
doing third grade work, and doing it we'll
Circulatory weakness is only of many physical
causes often at billiards. Parents should
know what the common of these causes are And
they precautions to take in the way
of wise home training
This they fortunately learn for the results OF
modern scientific investigation of practical expert
ments in child training available in simply
written books I prepared list of these books
and will send it to anyone enclosing a stamped and
addressed envelope.
Copyright, 1915. by H. \. Bruce)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-05
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The Washington herald., 1916-07-09
Richardson a Great Trapshooter
Delaware Champion Who Had Recent Run of 200
Straight Is Considered By Many the
Steadiest Trapshooter in America.
BY PETER p. CARNEY.

Dover is the capital city of Delaware.
Dover is the home of Alden B. Rich
ardson.
Being the capital is a secondary claim
in Dover for everyone looks upon Rich
ardson as the best advertising medium
the city has.
Richardson is the present trapshooting
champion OF the State OF Delaware, and
many regard him as the best trapshooter
in America Just now he is shooting bet
ter than any previous time in his young
life. Doll" as Richardson is best known
in trapshOoting circles, is the son of a
former United States Senator from Del
aware, but Doll" himself would rather
be the amateur champion trapshooter of
the United States than be President.
Two years he has missed the honors
by the narrowest of margins, but this
year he expects to pulverize every bird
in st. Louis and bring the glad news
home to Dover. In 1914 Richardson won
the Delaware championship with 50
breaks and repeated in 1915 with 100
breaks His average in 1913 was 1857; in
1914 90 50, and in 1915, 1856. This year so
far he has averaged better than 81 for
over 1000 targets, and there doesn't ap-
pear TO be any signs OF a let-up. He is
shooting better than any amateur or pro-
fessional IN the East at this time.
At the Independent Club Shoot In Phil
adelphia. over the traps where the East
ern Handicap Will be held on July II to
n, inclusive. on Memorial Day Richard
son broke 200 straight 175 from the 1s-
yard mark and Is from the 2o-yard mark,
and he hit every target in the center.
That Is his best performance Of the sea-
SON. but on several occasions he had con-
cluded the program with unfinished runs
Of 30 and 100, and has carried of the
honors IN nine-tenths OF the tournaments
he has participated in this season.
Just to get on edge for the Delaware
championship and the Grand American
Richardson has challenged Allen He'll, of
Allentown. Pa, to shoot for the 1s-yard
The Washington herald., 1916-07-09
DARIO RESTA, RACER,
USES DIXON'S GRAPHITE

Dsrio Resta is winning so many
trophies these days that he will soon
need a motor truck TO haul them around.
He Is piling Up winning performances at
d clip that's pretty near as fast as the
pace he sets when he whrls around the
track in the big motordrome contest He
has become so consistent a winner that
a creditsbIe performance by Resta, with
place in the front rank or always
right among the leaders, is becoming a
matter Of course, almost as sure as sun
rise.
One OF the factors in Restss succe,s,
aside from his wonderful skill and dsr-
ing as a driver and the excellence Of his
Peugeot car. has been his freedom from
friction, which might have put his ca
out Of the running had q made iselt
evident. Rests's car in all the big races
is fabricated throughout with DfIon's
Graphite Automobile Lubricants, which
explains why Resta is able TO stand OF
the friction jinX when said JinN's hsngin'
round. Once the old boy gets in his
chance for a litlc OF his ''rough-stufT
specially" Mr. Drivers chances go a.
glinmerinE Rests knows this: so do
practically all the speed boys That's
why theye use DiIon's Dixon's perform
consistently in Rests's car and in every
other instance where they are used