Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-12-18


danger. to fight against his enemies.
and when the last scene of all comes,
and death takes the master in its en-
brace and his body is laid away in the
cold ground. no matter ii all other
friends pursue their way. there by his
graveside will the noble dog be found.
his head between his paws. his eyes
sad. but open in alert watchfulness
faithful and true even to death.
VILLA STILL LIVES
After being shot to pieces some dog
ems of times, after having been cap
tured and drawn and also quartered,
at least twenty times-and after hav-
| ing a price set on his head some ten
times. after having the great eXpedi-
| tionary force of General Pershing
chase him around and about over Mex
leo until we all got tired and Begged
for a rest; after Carranza had proclaim
ed himself at least a dozen times sole
dictator of the empire of Mexico until
/ we did not know what to believe or
| how he could prove it-Villa turns up
/ muChly alive and Announces himself
Mexico's dictator and nobody says him
nay
| Ii looks very much as if Villa will
/ have opportunity to run for the presi-
/ dency of the so-called Mexican repub-
| lie. and he shows up with more lives
/ than a cat. said to have nine lives
/ after being nine times dead, and still
| going some. is this remarkable bandit,
| Monsieur General Villa. He is going
/ about regulating foo6stuffs. he is the
! fixer of Mexican taxes wherever he
establishes himself. he loots the rich
| towns and distributes what he loots
among the famished poor.
/ Old man Villa is a seasoned veteran
of many wars, and whenever his
strength weakens or he gets a backset,
he just mounts his mustang pony and
/ yells, Death to Americanos," and his
bandit crews rise and come to his call
The full story of Villa is yet to be
| written. Also the story of Meico's re-
lations to the United States is in an un-
finished condition.
| Take il from me. an honest, if an
| humble prophet. that we lack some
what of a settlement with General
Villa, and the time may be long before
We can say. 1T is finished"
WHAT SORT OF TIMES ARE THESE
In the year. 1863, when the blockade
cut the Confederate states off from
supplies-in the north and from Eu.
rope-people who had boarded little
gold could buy hog meat at four and
I five dollars the hundred weight. II
/ took twenty dollars of Confederate
scrip to buy one of gold. but those who
had plenty of the "shinplaster" cur
rency. could buy some gold at twenty
| for one. In 1865 it took five hundred
dollars to buy a barrel of -four anC
gold sold at fifty for one. Coffee Went
beyond reach, but in 1866 you could
buy a pound of sugar for twelve dol
lars-and by the gold standard these
prices were reasonable.
| Now there is no blockade and flour
has gone soaring high, and some suga
has sold at 20 cents a pound, and HOG
meat is extravagantly high.
Hens are SO and rs cents each ant
scarce. We are not handling Confed-
crate scrip-but good money-and gov
eminent bonds (the Liberty loan
brought par prices-and even country
/ butter is so cents a pound.
| This comparison with Confederate
prices is timely. Shoes sell as high now
! as they did in the Civil war-and the
money now is esteemed to be good.
What will be paid for necessities
next year COR the next, no human mind
Il can foretell
From my viewpoint 1 have never
seen or encountered such soaring high
prices at any time, nor have read OF
any that exceeded what is now demand,
| ed for foodstuffS