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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
After More Than Quarter Of Century on Ships
Mrs. Patten Gives Up the Sea for Land Home

about twilight a square-rigged YES
sci, the hold and sails of which were
burning fiercely, lay off the shore
of a small island in the China Sea.
From its sides three boats put out
and pulled for the shore, and as
their keels grated on the beach Mrs
Patten, her husband and the twenty
seven members of the ships crew
stepped dejectedly to the deserted
beach. Thus cast upon the beach at
this little island of Tai Pan San,
Captain Patten and wife and crew
watched their vessel burn and glow
into the night. Then they began
search for inhabitants. Some miles
from the coast they found a settle
ment and there obtained food and
shelter from the storm that came
up that night. About midday of the
next day they heard q whistle blow
and hurried back to the scene Of
their landing, and there, off shore
saw steamer standing by. A boat
was sent over to them and they
landed aboard Japanese freighter
that had spotted the charred hull of
the illfated George Stetson. They
were then carried through the Loo
Choo Islands and around to Maya
sakl. From this place they obtained
passage to San Francisco on the City
of Sydney, which was q Pacific Mail
steamship. This steamer had on
board at the time they were picked
up the crews of two other wrecked
vessels.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27

the rest of our train, some twenty
odd men, were killed by the Kurds.
The interior of the Caucasus region
is not the safest place just yet for
either American or English sis
terS.'"
Wherever American relief parties
have landed on the north shore of
the Black sea and the south shore
of the Marmora sea, British soldiers
are assigned to guard them.
At Derindje, 'the Star people," as
the committee for relief in the Near
East is known out here. have a for
mer German camp. Their supplies
are being unloaded into two large
siX-story warehouses with docks on
one side and railroad sidings on the
other.
Some of the Near East girls are
housed on Prinllipo island, to which
the Bolsheviki recently were invited
to confer with an ally peace mission.
On Prinkipo island are about 1900
informed Germans who are waiting
their transfer to Germany. Some of
the German officers are housed in
the same hotel with the American
Red Cross personnel. They behave
themselves in true Prussian style
studying the American girls with
their monocles screwed up tightly
in their eyes.
American Red Cross men have
found the Armenian sections of all
Turkish towns in ruins with the skel-
etons of Armenians killed by the
Turks still living within them
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
Ruptlz5 g Kills
1000 Annually

Seven thousand persons each year are laid
away-the burial certificate being marked
Rupture" Why? Because the unfortunate
ones had neglected themselves or had been
merely taking care Of the sign (swelling)
Of the affliction and paying no attention to
the cause. What are you doing? Are you
'neglecting yourself by wearing Il truss, ap-
pfiance, or whatever name you choose to call
1t? At best, the truss is only a makeshift
Ia false prop against a colapsing wall
aud cannot be expected to act as more than
"a mere mechanical support. The binding
pressure retards blood circulation, thus rob-
= bling the weakened muscles of that which
they need mOst--nOurishment.
= But science has found a way. and every
truss sufferer in the land is invited to make
"a FREE test right in the privacy Of their
own home. The FLAPAO method is unques-
tionably the most scientific. logical and sue
cessful self-trea tment for rupture the world
has ever known.
The FLAPAO PAD when adhering closely
to the body cannot possibly slip or shift out
OF place. therefore. cannot chafe or pinch.
Soft as velvet-eaSy to apply-ineXpensive
To be used whilst you work and whilst you
sleep. No straps, buckles or springs at
tached
Learn how to close the hernial opening n
ma ture intended so the rupture CAN'T come
down. Send your name today to FLAPAO
Co., Block 10l. St. Louis, Mo-, for FREE
trial Flapao and the Information necessary.
(Advt.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
Sells His Home and
Takes Children Awav

de J; Hardy Corn. of Douglas, Ga, has
asserted his wife and carried away
their three small children in an au-
6 y 81 o and he is now being sought
al over the country by Sheriff Tan
ner Tor abandonment and wife whip
ping ping Corn, apparently in good spir-
us, took his car and carried Mrs
corn to spend the afternoon with her
sister, Mrs. Williams, in another part
Of the city. Then he returned, packed
the, children's clothes in suitcases,
sold sold out the, house furniture, the
mousse, his barber shop to his brother
Lee Corn, and left with the children,
Old
The three Corn brothers. ]. Hardy
Lee and Ira, have been running a
BARBER shop here, and doing some
farming.
Mrs. Corn is almost distracted over
the loss of her children. and she has
employed counsel to get her husband
and the children back. Lee Corn.
who is supposed to have bought the
home and furniture from his brother,
took possession of the premises be-
fore Mrs. j. Hardy Corn returned
from her sisters.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
Two Families Kept in Different Cities
For Twelve Years bv Illinois Man

Albert Best, forty-fve, of Chicago,
Batavia, Geneva, and other cities, in
his younger days used to read about
the sailor who had a wife in every
port. 1t sounded pretty good to him.
Now, Mr.. Best is counting the
miEutes in the Kane county Jail.
His Batavia wife-and three chill
dren-are in tears; and his Chicago
wife-and three children-are too
dazed even to begin wondering.
His story covers twelve years of
alleged deception. 1t also covers the
period since he left his Chicago wife
and children two years ago and went
to Batavia to work. Every month
he would send enough money here
to keep the home fires burning. and
occasionally he would drop into the
city for a visit.
But. it seemed Albert desired COM
pany while he was away. At least,
that's the way the story goes. He
mony for the second time in Hunt
ington, Ind, twelve years ago and
taken his second wife to live with
him in Batavia. Now there are the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
PREACHER CURED
= A-Hu,zAn
Of PEL|.Ll.A|GRA
After Trying TWenty-One
Doctors in Vain, Alabama
Preacher Takes BAUGHN'S
80 TREATMENT and Is Com
.pIeteIy Cured

CaIera. Ala.-The Rev. ]. w.
Jones, of this place writes as fol
lows: Il want to say that I am, at
last, we'll of pellagra. 1 tried TWEEN
ty-one doctors, but got no better.
Then I took Baughns Treatment for
three months. and think | am COM
pletely cured. The trouble has not
returned and 1 can't say too much
for Baughn's Pellagra Treatment. l
know that I could not have lived ii
1 had not taken it. 1 thank the
good Lord and will praise this treat
rnent wherever 1 go"
Hundreds of similar letters bear
out the fact that Pellagra IS cur
able. Don't give up in despair There
still is hope. You, too. can be cured
of this dreadful disease which shows
itself by such symptoms as: Red
hands, skin peeling off, sore mouth.
lips. throat and tongue a flaming red
with much mucus and choking; in
digestion and nausea; diarrhea or con-
stipation. Write today to the Amer
lean Compromising Co.. Box SSH,
Jasper, Ala, for free book on Pei
1agra and full particulars about
Baughn's Pellagra Treatment, which
is guaranteed to cure, or money re-
funded.-(A dVtD
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27

and through an acquaintance Wiles
had himself put on the program for
a song. His singing made a big hit
and he was invited to appear at an
other somewhat similar gathering.
Quickly he was in big demand. He
was featured at farmers gatherings.
church socials. school festivities and
entertainments for charity, war re-
lief, etc. Frequently he had to sing
several times a day and once or
twice in the evening. He became
known in every nook and corner of
Erie county. When he sank he
smiled, and they said his smile was
almost as enjoyable as his song. He
sings only popular songs.
On election day Wiles polled more
than two votes to his ODponent's one
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27

three children, ages seven. nine and
eleven.
During these years both wives
have been in ignorance Of his dual
life.
A few months ago, when he failed
to make his customary donation and
visit, his son, George, twenty-four
became suspicious. He went to Ba-
tavia at the request of his mother to
investigate.
When he reached his objective he
inquired at the Batavia hotel, where
his father was supposed to be stop
ping. There he learned something
to back up his suspicious. BY the
time he was through investigating
he had learned much.
The result was he swore out a
warrant against his father. The
elder Best was arrested, confessed,
was Jailed and is being held to the
grand jury on bonds of $1,000.
He admitted he is the father of
his second .wife's- children. but con-
tends he divorced his first wife in
Chicago.
At the Best home on Arlington
avenue the family denied there had
been anv divorce
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27

Mrs Charlotte Patten, widow OF
Captain Frank Patten, master of the
steamship Kineo, has left the sea
after more than a quarter of
century spent on board ship She
has gone to Port Arthur, Tex, to
spend the remainder of her days
having just completed her bit in the
great war by teaching navigation in
the navy school at Charleston, S. c.,
where she was very popular as an
instructor. She is said to have been
the only woman who ever taught
navigation for the government.
AS a circumnavigator, Mrs. Patten
probably holds the record for women.
She has circled the globe no less
than twenty-five times. She round
ed the Horn" eighteen times before
the Panama Canal was constructed
She was born in Maine and comes
of a seafaring family. When she
married Captain Patten she went to
sea with him and was with him on
every voyage from that time untif
his death. The present master O!
the Kineo, rechristened the Maryland
is the son-in-law of Mrs. Patten.
When asked what was the most
evcntful experience OF all her life at
sea, Mrs. Patten said the burning Of
the vessel George Stetson in the
China Sea, where the entire crew
nearly lost their lives, was undoubt-
eddy it. One murky evening at just
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
Man Who Betrayed Miss
CaveII to Huns on Trial

CASTOR Quien, the man who is said
to have obtained employment in the
hospital with Miss Edith Caven for
the purpose of betraying her to the
Germans, will be placed on trial in
Paris soon. More than sixty wit
nesses have been summoned to give
evidence at the trial, among otaers
being Princess Maria, of Croy, who
is also among those alleged to have
been denounced by Quien to the
Huns, and Madame Bovard, who was
on trial before the Germans at the
same time Miss Cavell was
A long preliminary inquiry has es-
tablished the fac that, Quien was was
serving a senten,a in the jail at St
Quentin, in 1914. I'd was liberated
when the Germans lirst captured the
town. 1t is said l.c entered the Ger
manservice as spy and procured
employment in Miss CavlPs hospital
in Brussels Soon after he began
work there, it is alleged, Miss Caven
was arrested and executed.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
Mice Used to Detect Dangerous Gases;
Cancer Research Halted bv SHORTAGE of Mice

George w. Wiles, of sandusky,
Ohio, was a clerk in shoe store
directed his attention to the fact
that the Republicans had failed to
nominate a candidate for county
Treasurer. The county was apparent
ly hopeless1y Democratic, and the
Democrats had nominated Alvin w.
Biehl, banker, who was popular in
both parties. The treasurer's salary
of $4,000 appealed to Wiles and he
decided to take a chance.
Wiles was a member of the San
dusky Ellzs quartet, with fair bari
tone voice as his only asset, aside
from the price of campaign cards. A
farmers association out in the rural
districts had arranged a big picnic,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
OLD AGE STARTS
WITH YOUR KIDNEYS

Science says that old age begins with
weakened kidneys and digestive
organs
This being true. it is easy to believe
that by keeping the kidneys and d.
gestive organs cleansed and in proper
working order, old age can be deferred
and life prolonged far beyond that
enjoyed by the average person.
For over 200 years GOLD MEDAL
organs to throw off the poisons which
cause premature old age. New life and
strength increase as you continue the
treatment. When completely restored
continue taking a capsule or two each
day GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil Cap
sules will keep you in health and vigor
and prevent a. return of the disease.
Do not wait until old age or disease
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
American Movies Fill
All British Theaters

A campaign has been started IN
films for the British Efforts are
being made to destroy the over
whelming preponderance of American
motion pictures in British theaters.
It is estimated 100000 people
nightly visit $500 movie theaters,
show American films. 1t is being
urged that the government recognize
and encourage the industry. Ameri-
can films are admittedly superior.
but British producers want 'Iook
in"
Three thousand students are back
again at the war-ruined University
IF Louvain, in Belgium, but they are
without a library as the books and
manuscripts burned by the Germans
cannot be replaced.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27

have settled down for good. At the
HARLEM Oil has been relieving the
weaknesses and disability due to adj
vancing years. 1t is a standard old
time home remedy and needs no in
PRODUCTION. GOLD MEDAL HARLEM
Oil is inclosed in odorless, tasteless
capsules containing about drops each.
Take them as you would a pill. with a
swallow Of water. The oil stimulates
the kidney action and enables the
first sign that your kidneys are not
working properly. go to your druggist
and get a box of GOLD MEDAL Haar-
lem OH Capsules. Money refunded if
they do not help you. Three sizes.
But remember to ask for the original
imported GOLD MEDAL brand. In
sealed packages.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
Postmaster and His Staff
Become Chicken FanCierS

staff of Stamford, Conn, have been
chicken raisers in the local post of
flee since last Wednesday. A mis-
directed consignment of fifty chick
ems was sent here from Frenchtown.
n. j., and the local postal authorities
have been unable to locate the adj
dressee. Meantime a coop has been
eXtemporized in the post office and
the postmaster and his staff are
taking care of the chickens pending
decision what to do with the fifty
leghorn and barred rocks.
Mr.. BOIL says it would not be fair
to the chickens to send them to the
dead letter office.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
Oldest Twins in U. S.
Celebrate 89th Year

Mrs. Maria HawXhurst Banks and
her sister, Miss Elizabeth Hawk
hurst, Of Sea Cliff, L. l., who are
twins. celebrated their eighty-ninth
birthday anniversary last week.
They are said to be the oldest twins
in the United States. Both are i'll
good health. Miss HawXhurst. who
lives in Brooklyn during the winter,
is an active member of many wom-
ems clubs and societies there
The sisters were born at Soaring
town, and with the exception of
few months in Virginia, they have
spent their lives in Long Island.
Both are ardent prohibitionists, ard
expressed. pleasure at living to see
the day when the entire country was
destined to be dry. They lived for
years on the William Cullen Bry-
of ROS1UO
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
LEMON JUICE
FOR FRECKLES
Girls! Make beauty lotion for
a few cents-Try it!

Squeeze the juice of two lemons
into a bottle containing three ounces
of orchard white, shake well, and
you have a quarter pint of the best
freckle and tan lotion, and COM
plexion beautifier. at very. very small
cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter will
supply three ounces of orchard white
for a few cents. Massage this sweet
ly fragrant lotion into the face, neck,
how frec!,les and blemishes disappear
and how clear, soft and rosy-white
the skin becomes. Yes. 1t is harm
less ant never irritates.--(Ad
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
British Cry Protest
AGAINST German Music

\ flood Of protest letters 70 the
newspapers followed advertisements
Of concerts at Queens hall, week
given up to Beethoven, Bach. Mozart,
List, Schubert. Brahms and Weber.
1t is urged that German music
should be barred if the bar is kept
up against German goods, traders,
workers, walters, foods and wine.
Admit the lot-or bar the lot" one
writer said.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
Lost Both Legs but Girl
Back Home Didn't Mind

When Corporal Joseph Schiefer, OF
San Francisco, awoke in a hospital in
France to the realization that war
had deprived him of both his legs,
he thought hard for a minute or so.
Then, when he was able. he wrote to
the girl back home" that he was
scratched up quite bit" and that
it was up to her to decide whether
or not she wanted a legless man for
a husband.
Helen at home wrote back:
ut is enough to be thankful for
that you are coming back when so
many are not. Perhaps it will mean
that we will just be married sooner
because you will need me .nore; but
that's all the difference it makes"
SO Corporal Schieffer is happy.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
: L. Stevenson Tomb
Restored by British

The house and tomb of Robert
Louis Stevenson. famous author, in
Samoa, have been restored to the
British. Under German rule his
beautiful home, "Vailima," and the
tomb bearing an epitaph written by
himself, were almost ruined from
neglect.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
Canadian TROOPS
Returning Fast

Canadian oversee forces will all BIZ
home by the end of July. according t.
the present rapid rate of demobiliza'
ton. On armistice day 280,4S2 Can.
adam troops were overseas. Las
month 57,95S were brought back. The
middle Of June finds only $1,000 still
on the other side
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
Train Hits Baby but
Fails to Kill It

The two-year-oId daughter of
Charles Wellsand, of Valparaiso,
Ind., was struck by a freight
tram, hurled into the ditch beside
the track, and yet was uninjured
when picked up.
The conductor stopped the
train, ran back to the child,
thinking it dead, and picked her
up, only to find that the baby was
not hurt. He turned to give her
to her mother, who witnessed the
accident, but the mother tainted
as he started to place the child in
her arms.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27

The potato bugs peaceful exist
ence is threatened by modern inven-
tons and genius for application of
theory to an existing situation. H. J..
Musgroves, Of, Marion, Ill, is using
a vacuum cleaner to rid his patch
of potato bugs.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
To Launch Six Ships
At Savannah JuIy q

The Foundation company's Savan-
nah ship yard is going to try t. make
a new worlds record for grip launch
ing on July 4.
1t is announced that on that
day it will launch six vessels. The
highest number ever launched in one
day before was a t Hog Island. 1t is
believed the Foundation company
will close it's Savannah yard when
the present contracts have been
filled.
Thrift is progress. Keep on Climb
ing with War Savings StampS.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27

If you can't save the first dollar,
you can't save the last. Invest ev-
cry pay day in War Savings Stamps.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
ADaily Newspaper Delivered to Your
Home Six Days a Week

would cost you from to ten dollars year. But can
offer you six papers week-the very of the news-or
a small fraction of that amount.
We will deliver to home, via Uncle Sans mail,
three best avaablethe SEMIWEEKI4Y, JOUR-
L, each week; the THRICE-A-WEEK (NEW
WORLD a week, WEEKLY
TIMES, a week, infnitesima $185
whole year!
Where else could such a prze-wnning
combination for this sum? getting
pubshed-the SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
mittedIy the Invest newspaper
the THRICE-A-WEEK WORLD, published New
City, needs further recommendation than
the WEEKLY ALABAMA TIMES is nearly we'll known,
Better subscribe before High
Cost Of newspaper printing, withdraw The
coupon below keep tmes--know what's
happening all this of
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-27
MERMAID, AGED SEVEN,
TAKES FORTY FOOT DIVE

w. P. Stockton, swim
ming coach, says little Z
year-old Bernice Phelan, Of
Fresno, Cal, is the greatest
swimming prospect in the
west. Bernice learned to-
swim 1 months ago, and has
won six juvenile champion
ships with her swift crawl
stroke. At Alameda she
leaped A. feet downward in
a beautiful swan dive with
out the semblance of a
splash. Bernice is absolute
ly fearless. II just dive
whenever Mr.. Stockton tells
me to-" she says. IT know
he won't let me get hurt"
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-03-01

-Pero, hombre, Pepe.
-Mareado, completamente mareado
i'm horror, chicol Entire 81 bailoteo.
10 POGO que comi, que me sent6 NAL.
y Ia copa dc Champagne. que hubo de
caerme como nm tiro en- 81 cst6mago.
clio Is que estaba mareado, compleia
mente mareado. No SO 81 por 10 que
te digo o por los ojos dc aquella mn.
jer % por todo junto; ipero complcta.
mente mareadol
-iPero Peps, Pepcl IN "a honrai
~ tu leyendal
--Por los suelos, hijo. Amargo IS De-.
cirlo; pero era aquella Ia primera in
fidelidad que me hacian cl esi6mago
Y Ia eabeza De una muier bonits.
-Te desconozco.
-Y2 mismo me desconocia. fone
papel! Que vergdenzai I'm hombre que
habla dc amor, y que de pronto en-.
pieza a vOmitar.. llRcompatiblei Ia
cabeza Sc me iba. lElla, que acababa
de oirme decir, 10 de caj6n. que, II
consentia, con ella me iria hasta 81 iin
del mundol iIIasta el I'm del mundoi
Y decir este y ponerms n morir, todo
fue uno. Sin embargo, travss del ma
REQ, yo me obstinaba en- huir con ella,
cuando no me sentia capaz dc ir por
mi pie, no digo al FIN del mundo. nj
la acera de enfrente siquierai
-iPero este que me euentas - una
tragedia, ehieol
-Tragedia, tG 10 diees; tan sangrien.
ia como no Ia pudo imaginar 81 mismi.
simo Shakespeare.
~ por fin lque
-Puss, por 6n.
Casablanca, por un resto de pudor
donjuaneseo, Sc rcsistia a seguir con
tando. III triste fin dc su avontura
amenazaba derrumbar, los ojos de