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‘Shut Your Troubles Into Your
"~ Desk When You (o Home
' Don’t Take Them Home With You. Don’t You Suppose That
Your Wife Has Her Own Troubles?
We are all unconscious of our own moods, though conscious
enough of others’ moods. The husband and father who keeps
his wife and children anxious because of his fits of ill temper is
usually unconscious of this defect of temperament and thinks
himself a very fine husband indeed.
The husband who worries his wife about trifles, who expects
only encouragement and flattery FROM HER and uses up his
remnant of energy in the evening telling her of her faults really
imagines that he is a fine man giving a woman the benefit of his
superior intellect.
Most mothers who have spent the day largely in straighten
ing out the troubles of their children would like something bet
ter for evening pastime than straightening out troubles for a
peevish husband.
We simply put it up to any married man whose wife and
children depend so much for their happiness upon kind treat
ment if he cannot look at the matter from an ordinary common
sense or even a BUSINESS point of view.
He knows that in his business—whether he be boss or em
ployee—the most important thing is to get along pleasantly with
people with whom he has to do.
He makes it his business to smile at a customer. It is good
business to smile at the boss—or if he is boss, to smile at the men
under him, and so lubricate the ways of getting best results.
If you saw a man, no matter how ugly or disreputable he
might be—no matter how tired or worried you might be—you
would find it possible to be cheerful and smiling when you met
him IF YOU KNEW THAT YOU COULD GET OUT OF A
BUSINESS DEAL WITH HIM A PROFIT OF A THOUSAND
DOLLARS.
If you can make yourself cheerful for the sake of business,
then make yourself cheerful FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR WIFE
AND CHILDREN. You ought to do it, unless you put business
ahead of wife and children.
The really good man can examine himself, and see his own
defects.
A man too often excuses himself for being ‘‘out of sorts’’ at
home because he has a ‘‘hard day’’ at the office. But because
he has worries, is there any reason why he should try to make
somebody else bear them? And especially why should he pick
out his own family to shoulder them upon?
The best thing that a man can do is to shut his worries down
with his desk, forget his business on his way home and try to
be agreeable to those who are most dear to him. If he earns
their good opinion, it may compensate him for some little losses
downtown.
But all the good opinions a man can earn in his business life
will never make up for the loss of love and respect of his family.
A Great City Builds Houses for
Workingmen
It Is Buenos Aires. Could Not North American Cities Do This?
American contractors, builders and manufacturers of build
ing material in North America are examining with great inter
est plans and specifications that come from South America.
This is the story:
The City of Buenos Aires, a truly intelligent and cosmopoli
tan city of the Argentine Republic, has appropriated TWENTY
SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS TO BUILD HOUSES FOR
WORKING PEOPLE.
The idea is to build these houses in a healthy, desirable
neighborhood, make them attractive and sell them to the work
ingmen on the installment plan at a fair price—the cost to the
city plus interest.
We have seen the plans of these houses, comfortable inside,
digmified in appearance outside.
There is no doubt that the city could sell them more rapidly
than they could be built. This idea will give homes and new
ambition, with new interest in life, to thousands of workors.
And it will increase the prosperity of these workers. For the
mere fact that thousands of men simultaneously building houses
and living together adds to the value of every house thus built.
American contractors are asked to bid on these houses that
Buenos Aires has decided to construct.
The first step will be the building of TEN THOUSAND
HOUSES. The desire is to build two thousand each year for five
years. And contractors of the North are asked to make their
bids according to the specifications laid down.
The Argentine people are called the Yankees of South
America. In this case they deserve to be called something else.
The Yankee is energetic and cunning, but thus far he has not
done very much for workingmen or used his energy to any
great extent for anybody EXCEPT HIMSELF.
The enterprise of the Argentine Republic should be reflected
here in the North, where we consider ourselves superior without
being any too sure about it.
What the City of Buenos Aires is doing some of the big
railroads ought to do.
If the New York and New Haven Railroad managers, in
stead of stealing everything outright, had chosen to spend part
of the company's money in building workingmen's houses, sell
_ing them at cost and taking their profit in transportation, they
might have left a few pennies in the pockets of the much ad
vertised ‘‘'widows and orphans’’ holding their stock.
If the City of New York, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta or any
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The History of the Universe On Films Would Be Both
s+ s Possible and Marvelous. :- :-
ANY things are made plain
M by motion pictures which
¢an not be so well com
prehended in any other way.
It would be possible, by taking
photographs of a growing plant
at Intervals of a few hours, or a
few davs, and then passing them
in swift succession through a
lantern, so as to throw them lin
a continuous series on a screen,
to SEE the plant develop as If its
history were concentrated into
the space of a few minutes.
This principle being understood,
it is easy in imagination to rep
resent the growth of the earth as
it its hundred milllon years or
more of history were concentrated
into an hour or two. In this way
one may get a wonderfully clear
conception of the great facts of
geology and astronomy.
Let us suppose that we wera in
possession of a series of pictures
of the earth taken a thousand
years apart, and extending back
ward indefinitely into geological
time. Let us also suppose that
these pictures could be run
through a cinematograph lantern
at the rate of sixteen per second,
g 0 that, as with ordinary motion
plotures, they would blend indis
tinguishably, each dissolving into
{ta successor.
The consequence would be that
we should behold 16,000 years of
the earth's history passing before
our eyes every second, and in
the space of about two hours the
moving spectacle would present to
us an animated panorama of all
the geological revolutions that
our planet has undergone in the
course of one hundred and fifteen
million years!
But you may ask: “How are we
to get these pictures, even in an
{maginative form?"
They must, of course, be sup
plied by the studies of geologists,
who find in the rocks, and In
analogies drawn from the condi
tions of other worlds studled by
astronomers, materials with which
it {s possible to construct a more
or less detailed history of our
globe. There can be no doubt
that, in their main outlines, tne
pictures of the remote past thus
supplied by geology are very good
representations of what once
really existed. As we read about
them in books they are present
ed separately to our minds’ eyes,
and we do not get from them a
lively sense of the ceaseless
changes by which they have been
affected.
But with our imaginary cine-
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matograph geology springs to
life, and the earth itself becomes
lilke a living thing! Sixteen
thousand years of vicissitudes be
ing concentrated into a single
second, the very rocks appear to
flow like water! The mountains
rise like exhalations, and shift
their forms, and dissolve and
pass away llke clouds! The Col
orado River carves its mighty
canyon through the solid strata
of the rocks as swiftly as a
stream of hot water cutting a
cleft in a cake of ice! The work
of nature's forces during a mil
llon years passes before us in a
single minute.
The hills rise and sink like
waves, and the valleys are as the
agitated troughs of the sea.
The continents heave up thelr
granite backs and stretch forth
and retract their pebbly shores,
and play with the enveloping
deep, which now swells up and
submergese them and now sinks
into its profundities and bares
their hidden borders. Not for an
instant is the earth at rest. Not
for a minute do its features re
main unchanged.
Man, judging by the expe
riences of his ephemeral exist
ence, imagines that the dry lands
and the seas were fixed in thelr
places by an unalterable decree
at the beginning of the earth's
history. But our geological mo
tion picture shows them continu
ally interchanging places.
“Twenty times in the short pe-
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
Written Especially for The Georgian.
riod represented by one of our
geological epochs,” says the great
French geologist, De Launay, “the
place occupied by Paris has been
covered by the waves of the sea,
only to emerge again. There is
not a spot on our globe which
may not, like Atlantis, be invaded
by the ocean, after having been
inhabited, for a moment, by ter
restrial beings.”
And again he says: “The bot
tom of the ocean is that labora
tory where future continents are
Science Questions
Q “IF a weight of one pound
e on earth be taken to the
planet Mercury would it increase
its weight there {three-fourths;
and if taken to Neptune would it
not decreasge!”
A. A stone welighing one pound
on the earth taken to Mercury
would weigh 14 ounces and to
Neptune 14.4 ounces.
Q.—"“What diameter in feet
and inches does the sun’'s disk
appear to possess to the average
eye! How large does the disk of
the moon appear to the mormal
eyel”
A. Both disks—those of the sun
and moon—at the average of all
days in the year, subtend 32 min
utes of an arc, or angular meas
ure. Never given in feet or
inches.
Questions Answered
“|SH KA BIBBLE.
READER.—“Ish ka bibble” is
of Yiddish-German origin, and
means “I don't care” or, if you
pleass, “I should worry.” In
other words, “I am not worrying
a bit.” The phrase is probably a
corruption of the German “Nicht
gefledalt,” which, literally trans
lated, means, “Not fiddled.”
THE AFRICAN BOERS.
H. H. P.—You are mistaken in
your contention that the Boers of
South Africa have been “enslav
ed” by the British Government,
elaborated (worked out), as well
as the tomb wherein are pre
served, llke mummies, old conti
nents that have disappeared.”
It is only necessary to reflect a
little upon such statements in or
der to construct for oneself
cinematographic fllms covering
the past ages of creation, the ex
hibition of which, by the acceler
ating stereopticon of the imagl
nation, will show a motion pic
ture wherein the earth becomes
an actor infinitely more change
abel than Harlequin.
Q.—"ls it mot welocity that
produces gravitation? If we
throw a stone against a window
of sufficient resistance with too
little velocity, it will not break;
but if we throw it with suffi
cient velocity the window will
break?
A. We do mot know the cause
of gravitation, nor of anything;
but the increased speed of a stone
thrown is not the cause of grav
ftation; it Is the cause of mo
mentum, which {s a product of
mass multiplied by velocity.
Momentum would be the sams
if the stone were thrownm close to
the earth, where {ts full attraction
of its gravitation would be felt;
or out in space trillions of miles,
where the earth's gravitation
would be almost [nfinitesimal,
That is, the glass would break
by increasing the speed of the
stone, as here on earth.
The Transvaal Colony is now a
part of the British Empire, in the
same way that Canada, or Aus
tralia, oy Rhodesia {s. The Boers
are treated precisely as the other
people of the Empire are treated;
and unless the Canadians and
Australians and others are slaves,
it can not be said that the Boers
are. The Transvaal Colony has
local self-government, subject to
the Imperial Parllament in Fed
eral matters; and the same may
be said of all the other British
Colaniea | _ i i jaihuingba oo
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Our Last War With Mexico
How It Started, How It Was Fought; What It Cost in Lives
and Money and What We Gained by It. ,
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
Written Especially for The Georgian.
This concise history will be com
pleted in giw installments.
CHAPTER V.
ENERAL SCOTT arrived off
Vera Cruz with the larger
par. ot the forces assigned
to him, on March 9, 1847, just two
weeks after Taylor's brilllant
victory at Buena Vista. e had
about 12,000 troops, including the
divisions of Generals Worth,
Twiggs, Quitman and Pillow,
The City of Vera Cruz at the
time contained a thousand houses
and seven thousand inhabitants.
The houses were bullt of stone,
two storles high, with flat roofs
and parapets. It was situated
on a dry plain, behind which rose
sand hills, cut up with many
ravines and covered with clusters
of thick chaparral,
The city was entirely surround
ed by a massive stone wall, two
and a half miles in circumfer
ence. On this wall there were
nine bastions, mounting one hun
dred guns. Another hundred
guns and mortars wers in the
city and in the defenses outside
of the wall.
Within the walls were five
thousand troops, besides the citi
zens, most of whom were well
armed. On an island about a
mile in front of the city was the
famous stone castle of San Juan
d'Ulloa, buillt by the Spaniards
in 1582, and the foundations of
whose wallg, laid deep in the sea,
had enabled it to withstand the
waves and storms of three centu
ries.
The Surrender to Scott.
The American line of invest
ment was completed by the 12th,
and each division and regiment
was given its place. Immediate
ly the battle opened from both
gsides. The cannonading was
practically incessant, the Ameri
cans steadily getting the better
of it, and on the 26th, as Scott
was about to order the final as
sault, General Morales informed
him that he was ready to surren
der.
On the next day the articles of
capitulation were drawn up and
signed, and General Scott sent on
to Washington his historic dis
patch: “The flag of the United
States of America now floats tri
umphantly over the walls of this
city and thee Castle of San Juan
d'Ullea.”
“On to Mexico City!” then be
came the cry of the Americansy
and while the Americans were
shouting that slogan, Santa Anna,
who had worked up a revolution
in the Capital and got himself
elected President, was making the
welkin ring with the cry, “On to
Vera Cruz, to drive uot the Grin
gos!”
The mutually advancing forces
—the Americans on thelr way to
Mexico City and the Mexlcans on
the march to Vera Cruz—met at
Cerro Gordo, a strong position
some 60 miles inland, April 18.
After a stubborn fight of half a
.~ day’'s duration, the Mexicans were
routed, retiring in great disorder
toward the Capital.
The forces were: American,
8,000; Mexican, 14,000, Losses:
American, 430; Mexican, 1,200. In
add!tion, the Mexicans lost 45
pieces of artillery, a vast amount
of ammunition and 3,000 prisone
ers, including flve generals,
Peace Offer Spurned.
Following the victory at Cerro
Gordo, General Scott qffered the
Mexicans peace, but thelr answer
was, “War without pity, unto
death.”
Resuming thelr advance, the
Americans, on May 15, reached
Puebla, a city of 80,000 inhabi
.tants, where they remained until
August 7, awaiting reinforce
ments. Leaving Puebla on the
7th, they gained the summit of
the Cordilleras on the 10th, and
down below them, in all its en
chanting beauty, lay the City of
Mexico, toward which they be
gan an immediate descent.
The City of Mexico, while not a
walled town, was defended by
geveral formidable works, which
required capture if the place was
to be entered. Chief among thesa
fortifications were the Hill of
Contreras, the convent and bridge
~of Churukusco, and the immense
ly strong fortress of Chapultepec.
) Two of these—Contreras and
A Great City Builds Houses for
Workingmen
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of the great cities would follow the example of Buenos Alfres,
disease would be cut down, enterprise and energy would be en
couraged and the country would have the satisfaction of kmow
ing that something is being done apart from the mere selfish
line of psrsonal profit. g
Wher the building of workingmen's houses by the cities i 3
suggested we are told, of course, by the conservative—including
judges on tie bench—that such a thing is not constitutional.
But we have learned by now that when the people are IN .
EARNEST whatever the people WANT is constitutional.
It is constitutional enough in all cities to spend any amount
of money to oblige those who already have money enough.
It could easily be made constitutional to give the people
permission to use the city’s credit to build homes, let the people
buy and pay for those homes—and repeat the operation over
and over indefinitely.
Intelligent men used to wonder that nations that had plenty
of money for jails had no money for libraries.
We ougkt still to wonder that nations with plenty of money
to build lodging houses and police stations will not use theig
credit to build homes and help make families indenendem..—é‘.dl
Churubusco—were disposed of on
August 20,
Tha Hill of Contreras, with its
powerful intrenchments, was de
fended by 7,000 of the best troops
in Mexico, It was attacked by
4,500 men under General Smith,
with the usual results, The en
emy was defeated, with a loss of
700 In killed and wounded, 800
prisoners, and thousands of small
arms. Incredible as it may seem,
the American loss was only about
50.
The difficulty presented by
Churubusco was negotiated in the
same successful manner. And
Churubusco was a formadible dit
fleulty. The fortification was the
thick, high wall of a haclenda,
forming a square with a stone
building higher than the wall,
and a blg stone church with lofty
tower, the whole combination
plerced with loopholes for musk
etry. .
Outside the walls wers two fleld
works mounting several batteries
of artillery; while the surround
ing flelds were well fllled with
sharpshooters, Assalled by
Twiggs' men, Churubusco was
handsomely taken, though at a
heavy loss to the American
troops.
City Almost Within Grasp.
The City of Mexico was now
almost within the grasp of our
army, but still another obstacle
needed tp be removed. That ob
stacle was Chapultepec.
Chapultepec is an isolated rocky
hill, crowned by a massive stone
building, once the Bishop’s pal
ace, but later on converted into a
strong fortress, heavily armed and
garrisoned. A little way from
Chapultepec, less than . half a
mile, was Casa de Mata, the cita
del cireled with intrenchments
and deep, wide ditches, so ar
ranged that its garrison occupled
two lines of defense.
At the very foot of Chapultepeo
was Moling d=l Rey, a nunQer of
stone builldings that had been
uised as a foundry. It guarded
the only approach to Chapulte
pec, and had been made as strong
as possible to protect that fort
ress.
On the morning of the Sth of
September, at break of day, the
Americans attacked the Mata and
Molino del Rey as preliminary to
the main assault upon Chapulte
pec, the grand objective of their
efforts. Before the Inpetuous
charges of the infantry, assisted
by the fine work of the artillery,
the positions were carried, though
at a terrible sacrifice.
It was the bloodiest day for the
invaders of tha whole war. Seven
hundred and seventy-eight Amer
icans were killed and wounded, 58
of them being officers.
The Mexican loss lin killed,
wounded and prisoners was over
8,000. . .
American Colors Raised.
‘ At dawn on the 12th the Ameri
| can batteries bhegan pounding
. (hapultepec and kept at it all
| day. 'The next day two assault
‘ ing columns, each of two hundred
and fifty pkicked men, selected
from the divisions of Worth and
Twiggs, bore down, from opposite
directions, upon the grim old
fortress.
The garrison, realizing the su
preme importance of the position,
‘ poured forth a hall of shot and
shell upon the advancing columns,
. but it did not deter them, Pillow’s
} men rolled up the rocky ascent,
~ while from the opposite side Quit
. man's column kept steadily on,
~ and by the help of scaling ladders
~ the Americans were soon inside
the walls. Those of the garrison
that stood their ground were soon
overpowered, and the American
colors were soon flying from the
ramparts.
Chapultepec had fallen—and the
way into the Mexican capital was
at last open.
On the 13th the Mexican forces
began the evacuation of the city,
and by 1 o'clock on the morning
of the following day all that was
left of Santa Anna's army was in
bivouac at Guadaloupe Hidalgo.
About 8 o'clock on the momi:ns
of the 14th of September, Gene:
Scott and staff rode into the an
clent capital of the Montezumas,
Along the “‘Avenida de San Frane
cieco” he rode to the “Plaza de la
~ Constitucion,” entered the Palace,
ordered the flag raised from Its
. -towers, and the war was over.