Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-24


In the Genesis story of creation,
the Lord said, Let there be light,
and there was light"
There are SO many things in the
Bible that are beyond my compre-
hension that I place this short para
graph with a good many other mys-
teries. To our infinite minds it
would seem that there had to be
light ahead of anything else, because
how could any sort of work be &C?
complished?
A few days ago a citizen of Car
tersville told me of seeing a strange
man on the front piazza that morn
ing before the daylight was clear.
In the haze that always precedes the
dawn, the figure Of the man was dis
covered as before said, and by the
time the male inmates of the family
reached the door the man had made
rush for the fence, and again rushed
out the gate in quick flight; He was
During the entire day I found my
man after? Had he attempted bur-
glary and failed?"
when I woke after midnight L
thought I heard somebody moving in
an adjoining room.
I sprang out of bed and turned
on the electric light or tried to and
there was no light, The current
was absent. I was in the dark! l.
had forgotten I still possessed a
kerosene lamp, and of all the help
less ones I imaginad myself to be
alone in my part of the house, and
everything dark, and perhaps the bur-
glar, if there was one about, had
purposely cut the wires, and what
might / do next? "a
1 had all sorts of feelings, of
course, but decided to keep watch at
the door, and if it was opened /
| would scream at the open window.
This state of mind continued until
I heard the noise of rushing automo-
| biles outside, and these autos halted
down the street about rs or 100
| yards, and by their auto lights l saw
! a man begin to Chamber up a high
pole, and finger the appliances fast
ened to the pole near the top.
The citys light apparatus had be-
come deranged, and these men at 2
o'clock in the morning were there In
! full view lingering the apparatus that
provided for the lighting Of our
found my electric light restored, and
after I crept into the adjoining room
| there was nobody there!
| The trouble all vanished, and after
| awhile [ drifted again into sleepy
land and my approximations had all
1
| came back to me.
The application of electricity to
| domestic purposes is one of the
| greatest things ever discovered or
| appropriated by human kind. When
1 was born there were only candles
| or whale oil lamps, which latter
smelt loud and reked with dirty
| grease. The candles were made at
home for many long years. After
awhile, we bought candles by the box
| and they were expensive luXuries, be-
| cause you had to use several at a
| time to make it comfortable to read,
| write or work.
| Then the discovery of kerosene
| was made, and we were glad to make
| the change, until one of these lamps
in a neighbor's home exploded and
burned a sixteen-year-old girl to
| death. She attempted to fill the lamp
with the wick aflame.
| We went back to the candles again,
| until the refiners of oil came along,
| and we felt quite set up with kero-
sene lamps again. But oh! what a
| current could be brought into our
| dwellings, and we can turn night into
| day by quick touch of the hand or
| press a button in the wall!
My fears of a burglar, and the
| thick darkness that environed me did
thankful that we could say, Let there
be light, and there came light.
Why Not An Inebriate Asylum?
A very few days ago the news
! reached me of a pathetic story of
| very bright woman in a friends
| family who had suddenly lost her
| mind, and had become violent. Appli
| cation at the state lunatic asylum
| brought the answer, There is no
room, Can't take her" This is a
| dreadful condition. Unless one has
| endeavored to care for an insane per-
son in the home, no story Of the
dreadful responsibility and constant
| attention can give an idea of what
it means. day and night. watching
! and dreading, etc.
1t was DR.. Powell, Of great fame
as a specialist in insane management,
who was the efficient head Of the
| Georgia lunatic asylum for a long
| term of years who told me that the
| institution was overcrOwded more
than thirty years ago, with persons