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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11
Too Busy to Even Bury
The Dead in Kansas

Folks in the county arou-1 Cot
tonwood Falls, Kan, seem too busy
to dig graves for the dead. When the
friends of Dick Watchous, a farm
ored to here workmen to dig a grave
at Clements they found it impossible
to get anyone. The funeral had been
set for Sunday afternoon and late
Saturday no one had been found to
deceased went to the Clements Gene
terry at sunrise Sunday morning and
completed the grave shortly before
noon. Some Of the men went fifteen
miles to render the last service to
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11
R-34 Gets Its Rum
Despite Prohibition

MINEOLA, N. Y, July g.
Wartime prohibition has not pre-
vented the navy department from
obtaining rum which is part of
the official ration of the dirigible's
crew. Twenty gallons of the
liquor reached there today and it
is being slowed aboard the R-34
Navy officials said it came from
a New York dealer.
81 dare say" said Major ]. E.
M. Pritchard, of the British air
ministry, who expressed his
pleasure that the dirigible would
not sail rumless, that judging
from the extent of the fuss made
over this problem, the navy de-
partment must have had to get
the presidents signature"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11
AirpIane Robs Apiary ....
Of HaIf-MiIIion Bees

One Of the largest apiaries in Mis-
bees recently when an airplane from
Park field, Tenn, passed over the
bee farm of Martin Polk. near Pat
tersotl, Mo-, with a hugh bouquet of
GRANGE graf Of the flowers, the bees
swarmed from their hives and began
the pursuit of the sugar-scented air
plane, which was on the way to the
funeral of a former lieutenant of
aviation. Fully half a million bees
are estimated to have followed the
a irOlapa
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11
Champion Girl Dancer \
Wears Hole in Floor

The champion dancer of Bowie
Vile, n Y, is Miss Bessie Lark, and
she is very popular with the boys.
Besides being able to fox-trot and
one step and all the rest of it, she
can dance a jig better and longer
than anyobdy else in town.
In fact, the other night she dane
ed so long that she wore a hole in
the floor. and the boards broke I'M
der her feet. She told the boys at
ad ance that she could jig for an
hour steadily if they would get SAND.
So they went out and got it, and
sanded the floor well. For exactly
the end of the hour, the board
broke through and Bessie ankle was
badly wrenched. She had danced on
the same spot nearly during the EN-
tire hour and had worn the plank
thin
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11
Cow Causes Arrest of
Kansas BOOtIeuuer

Because stubborn COW refused to
get out of the way of a motor car,
Ed McKinsey. of Emporia, Kan,
was arrested for violation of the pro-
hibition law.
McKinsey is alleged to have run
into the COW, breaking her leg, and
the enraged owner telephoned the
police at Burlington declaring that
McKinsey would not stop his car.
The police arrested him on arrival,
and are reported to have found thir-
ty quarts of whisky in the car.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11
Paid S1O,5OO for Deer &,
Hides Given by Villa

Deer SKINS at $lJ5OO a hide is the
top price for these souvenirs of the
hunt, yet it was what an American
man in Ell Paso, Tex, claimed to
have paid for two he has in his pos
session. He was captured by Fran
cisco Villas men and ransomed for
$4,000 in currency and merchandise.
When he was liberated near the bor-
der, Villa presented him with two
deer hides he had skinned from deer
killed by himself the same morning,
saying these were in return for the
rorcoOo roOonV Maid
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11
Soldier Returns to Find
Wife. Married AGAIN

Tennyson's Enoch Arden story was
recalled in the Vanderburg County
Circuit Court at Evansville, Ind, one
afternoon when Judge Phillip c..
Gould annulled the marriage of Mrs.
Juana Va1ine Barnett of Evansville
to John G. Parker, of Philadelphia,
and she returned to her first husband.
Charles Barnett, returned overseas
soldier, had been mourned by his
wife as dead. She married him in
July, 1918, while he was on fur
Tough. He left Immediately after the
ceremony for France, where he par
t1cipated in several battles. His wife
did not hear from him after he sail
ed from New York. He was report
ed killed in action in newspapers.
She says Barnett's mother also wrote
her that he had died for his country.
Mrs. Barnett met Parker and they
were married six months ago. When
Barnett returned from overseas he
went to Evansville and found his
wife married to another man. She at
once filed suit to have her marriage
to Parker annulled. Parker did not
fight the suit, although an attorney
represented him in court when the
case was called.
Strong vinegar will not affect belts
Of good quality except to darken the
leather slightly, but if they are of
a. -
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11
Ca|ome| Loses You a Days Work!
Take D0dson's Liver Tone Instead
Read my guarantee! If bilious, constpated or head
achy you need not take nasty, sickening danger
GUS calomel to get Strengthened up

Every druggist in town-your
druggist and everybody's druggist
has noticed great falling off in the
sale of calomel. They all give the
same reason. Dodsons Liver Tone
is taking it's place.
Colonel is dangerous and people
know it, while Dodson's Liver Tone
is perfectly safe and gives better re-
Suits" said a prominent local drug
gist. Dodson's Liver Tone is person
ally guaranteed by every drug
gist who sells it. A large bottle
doesn't cost very much but If it fails
to give easy relief in every case Of
liver sluggishness and constipation,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11
k for your money

you have only to ask for your money
back.
Dodson's Liver Tone is a pleasant
tasting, purely vegetable remedy,
harmless to both children and adults.
Take a spoonful at night and wake
up feeling fine; no biliousness, sick
headache, acid stomach or constipat-
ed bowels. 1t doesn't grippe or cause
inconvenience all the next day like
violent calomel. Take a dose of
calomel today and tomorrow you will
feel weak, sick and nauseated. Don't
lose a days work! Take Dodson's
Liver Tone instead and feel fine, full
of vigor and ambition.-(AdVt.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11
Gas Flares Lure Many
Insects TO Their Death

Winging their way to death in a
clouds Of grasshoppers and every va
riety of winged bug with a fondness
for bright lights are making their
way at night to a great gas we'll
on fire on the west side of the oil
fields near Bakersfield, Cal. Towns
and villages within a radius of forty
miles have been cleared of the in
sects, lured away from street lights
by the distant flaming spectacle.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11

ness to befall our people? No one
but the blind leaders of the blind
who would cause us all to fall into
the ditch. if we should follow them,
We want no such leaders, and it is
idle to be raising this Sunday ques-
ton periodically. The world has a
stock of experience on the subject
which teaches with perfect conclu-
siveness that the Sabbath is too val
liable for us to think for a moment
Of losing it. We are not ready to
exchange it for movies and match
games, and we are not likely to be
ready for any such exchange soon.
True love is founded on the rock
nP
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11
"HEALTHY
BABIES ---
NO CHARGEI
A Little Volume of Common
Sense Ideas on Infants

Write for this book It's clever.
Is's sensible. And it's free. Every
mother with a nursing baby should
have it handy all the time. 1t tells
what baby's weight and height
should be at different ages; when it's
little "toofies" should come through
and what to do if they don't; when
it should start to walk; and it gives
the most modern ideas on feeding,
weaving and treating infantile all
ments. You can hardly help rails
ing healthy babies if you adopt the
suggestions in this booklet Sent
free to any mother. Address C. J.
Moffett Co. Columbus, Ga.-(AdYt.l
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11
END of the Row" There
Would Mean 20 Acres

Anybody who undertook to hoe to
Athens, O.. would have to hoe %
acres before he stopped because in
the whole field of % acres there are
just two rows.
The rows begin at the base of
Bald Knob, on the grounds of the
Ohio State hospital grounds, and
wind in spirals to the summit
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11
Wife Wages Battle Royal
With Sausage as Weapon

George Fagin, of Dallas, Tex,
weighs 1875 pounds, and his wife
weighs just SO pounds; but just the
same George AYERS that he needs q
divorce to keep his wife from "frai;-
ing him out"
Just recently, he alleges, she grab
bed the bologna sausage that he
brought home for supper and gave
him one of the worse beatings with
1t that he had ever had. He claims
that she Knocked his right eye OUT.
and otherwise damaged him.
In addition, he says, before she
seized the bologna sausage as a
club she slapped him in the face
with the beef liver that he brought
home also. ...
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11

"Bayer Tablets OF Aspirin" to be
genuine must me marked with the
safety "Bayer Cross" Always buy
an unbroken Bayer package which
contains proper directions to safely
relieve Headache. Toothache. Ear
ache, Neuralgia. Colds and pain.
Handy tin boxes Of IL tablets cost
but few cents at drug stores
larger packages also Aspirin is the
trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of
Monoaceticac idester of Salicylicacid.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11
Dog Gets Costly CaSket
And REGULAR Funeral

When Frank, the fAIFhfuI DO" be-
longing to Charlie Parks, Of Green--A
vile, Tenn, died the otner day, rs
master decided that his pet should
have a regular funeral. SO he caN-
ed upon local undertaken, Arrange
ed for a costly specialmade casket
and for a funeral.
A number OF friends accompanied
the casket to the grave dug in a
shady spot in the meadow.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11
TELEPNOME STRIKE

COLUMBIA, S. c., July S.--The
strike of telephone workers here,
which has been on about one month.
was called off this afternoon, when
the local chapter Of the Commercial
Photographers Union of America raSS
flied the agreement reached between
the company officials and commit
tee representing the strikers at
conference Monday night.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-11

Strong vinegar will not affect belts
of good quality except to darken the
leather slightly, but if they are of
poor quality their fibers will swell
and become gelatinous
Connecticut western news., 1919-07-03

,ington in July. he fought at the battle of Brandywine in September and re- ceived an ugly wound. Soon again in the saddle, he went through many vi- cissitudes and privations with Wash ington at Valley Forge. his crowning exploit being the forcing of the retreat of Lord Cornwallis, leading to his sur render at Yorktown, in 1781. Although Washington and other famous Ameri- can generals had joined him previous to the surrender, Lafayette, with a small force, had initiated the rout of Cornwallis at the battle of Albemnrle. That the highest credit was due to La fayette Is shown by the fact that Washington warmly thanked and com pHmented him in the presence of the troops, after the great surrender which practically ended the war.
 Patriot of Marblehead.
 General Lafayette paid a tribute to Marblehead, Mass, by making two visits to the people, by whom he was
Connecticut western news., 1919-07-03

He says Washington spoke to me of M. De Lafayette with emotion; he considers him as his child" Later, Lafayette sent to Washington the key to the destroyed Bastile, saying: Ut is tribute which owe as son to my adopted father, as an aid-de-camp. to my general, as a missionary of liberty to its patriarch"
 French Eager in Liberty's Cause.
 The spirit of Lafayette was the spirit of Rochmbeau's army. A host of young French officers looked on the expedition as a crusade for liberty, and crowded for places. Young Berthier was a volunteer at Yorktown, and he became a marshal of France. Viscount
Connecticut western news., 1919-07-03

? But was never surprised at any re- semblance that appeared when your boys and ours stood side by side in the trenches. The minuteman of Concord is the ideal of the young Englishman of to- day, who flung himself over the top,. giv- ing away his comforts and risking his life for every man in his company.
 We long to see England rich in just such, young men as your minuteman, and you make the same prayer for America, so that in this, as in all the things by which men live, you and we have the same aimS-liberty and the service of our country and our God
 I saw very beautiful expression of the feeling between us on Memorial day last year, says a writer in Scribner's I went early in the morning to the Old North bridge with flowers for the minuteman; a Southern friend was with me, and the two lost causes, British and Confederate, were alone on the bridge. We laid flow CTS before the minuteman and on the grave of the two British soldiers whose fate so moved Hawthorne. His spirit may have joined us as we passed the Old Manse, but no one else was to be seen, when suddenly a ghostly procession came through the mist-six old veterans just risen from their graves four tiny boy scouts hardly yet born; and two young men of the present carrying a bugle and a flag.
 They went first to the British grave, and for the first time in history they laid on it England's flag and branch of New England apple blossoms they saluted. blew a bugle call, and passed on to do the same for the minuteman and his flag.
 Then they stood In line on the bridge each of the 12 threw q flower into the river and saluted. while the leader said: we salute all the sailors who died in the Civil war"
 Then after a last ghostly bugle call fhox toH i,fa tha ,iof Wee { the mist of past or future ?--for they had saluted the three great facts of past, present and future history-the birth of democracy, the friendship of Anglo-Sax onism. and the future peace of the world which will surely spring from it.
Connecticut western news., 1919-07-03

to stand alone and even aloof, as Washington counseled, was to be pru- dent. No alliance was possible save with that which they had just re- nounced-kingcraft.
 Old Order Abolished.
 But "the old order changeth, giving place to new" Today, in 1919, the proper social desire of the individual is to Hive in house by the side of the road and be friend to man." And similarly, to live in the crossroads of the nations and show vital interest in all that pertains to humanity is the proper attitude for the nation. The setting for the next act on the world stage must be big enough for inter- dependence and internationalism h. terdependence is life and opportunity for both. "We must hang together or we will hang separately"
 By maintaining independence and aloofness the fathers hoped to sue ceed; isolation spelled safety, and so they trusted that deep, wide moat at their front door, the Atlantic. ocean, would keep their foes at distance of 5000 miles while they should gain numbers and wealth and experience in governing themselves. They minted coins bearing the inscriptions, "Let Me Alone" and Don't Step on Me-" the latter beneath the figure of a coiled rattlesnake, and cutting themselves off from world politics and world inter ests they became self-contained, self sufficient people, enjoying free assem- bly,, free speech, free press and free
Connecticut western news., 1919-07-03

De Noailles marched afoot the whole 756 miles from Newport to Yorktown. Young Saint-Simon, Closen, Chastel- lux, a brother of Mirabeau, brother of .Talleyrand. Barras. later Director Barras, and many other enthusiasts for liberty were Tn the expedition. They understood Americans. Equality was the particular American trait which impressed them most, and this idea was imported by them from America into France.
 Rochambeau placed himself and his army under the command of Washing ton. The ragged Americans always had the right of the line. In case of equality of rank, the American officer always took command. Not so much as a cabbage was taken without pay ment. Before Yorktown the Ameri- cans were not skilled in siege opera tions, and Washington gratefully ac- knowledged the service of the French engineers. The French fleet closed the river, and the surrender came. With out that French help we tremble to think what might have, happened.
 Fired Lafayette's Ardor.
 Toward the close of the year 1776, the duke of Cumberland, who was the brother of King George III of England, was, travelling in France, and one day he arrived at the town of Metz, then a French possession. A certain count De Broglie, a veteran of many battles, was in command of the garrison, and, to do honor to his distinguished visitor, he invited some of his officers to meet him at dinner. Now 1t happened that the duke of Cumberland was in dis favor with his royal brother-he was, in fact, in punishment. He had lately received news that certain of his majcsty's colonies in America had re- 3belled and declared themselves free, declining to be subject any longer to a tyrannical king. It would seem that the duke of Cumberland told the story with some gusto, as if he were not al- together sorry that his brother was in trouble. One officer listened with par ticular attention. He was a youth of nineteen, tall and thin, with long nose and reddish lair. His solemn eX- pression and his somewhat awkward manner contrastcd strongly with the frivolous ease and grace of the other young officers present. He was mar quis of long descent, connected, by marriage with one of the greatest families in France, and he had at his own disposition a very large income. He listened intently, he asked many eager questions, and when he rose from the table he had made moment ous and historic resolution. He had resolved to abandon the pleasures and luxuries of the gayest court in the world, even to leave his young wife | and child, and toecast in his lot with these strange rebels in America. Tn his own words, "When first heard of American independence, my heart was ienlisted That young man was La i fayette and when the American army went to the front in France, it merely paid small part of the debt of grati- tude we owe that splendid young of fcer-that true nobleman. ...
 Appointed major general by Wash
Connecticut western news., 1919-07-03

federation of the thirteen colonies into . federal union was political event of prime import; today 1t is overshad- owed by the thing of which Tennysor1 dreamed. "The Federation of the World" The Declaration of Inde- pendence is state paper of such sig nifcance as to stand in. class by it. self. It immortalized every man who signed 1t. "These united colonies are and of right ought to be free and in- dependent states; absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and all connection between them and Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dis solved" So run the words of fire the idealism of which was to be made real if need be, by the lives, as we'll as the property and sacred honor of the sig natories. But the Declaration of In terdependence of all free peoples will overtop that of July 4, 1776, as the oak overtops the daisy.
 Great Patriotic Aim.
 But at that time independence was the biggest and best thing the fathers
 
 years. They could not enjoy the un- alienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" while ruled by Great Britain, for to be subject to England meant to be robbed and ex- plotted, jailed or hanged at the behest of a half-mad German, George III, who wore the British crown.
 And so the patriots proposed to stand alone, to be independent They proposed an equitable self-rule on lines more liberal than ever had been tried there were to be neither kings nor kinglets but rather a state of human equality.
 Across the water it was a dark day for human rights. In all Europe lib erty was eclipsed; there was not one free people. Monarchs were supreme and more or less tryannical; and so
Connecticut western news., 1919-07-03
AMERICA'S DEBT
 TO LAFAYETTE
Washington Paid Tribute to Great Services
 Rendered. .,.

rTY HEN the Revolution began AN/ Americans were still pio-
 w neers and straight shooters.
 The country was full of men who had seen service in war against the French and Indians. Washington had been all his life a soldier. It Is not surprising that American officers felt quite able to handle the military situation without assistance from the host of applicants for commissions from abroad. Therefore when Wash ington heard that young Frenchman named Lafayette had left his wife and child and crossed the ocean to serve the American cause as a volunteer without pay, he muttered: "one more incumbrance." But Lafayette pleaded :: "Give me a chance; I do not want to be an honorary soldier"
 He went to Washington's camp and there began a friendship which ran through so many years like an idyl. In 178S Brlssot visited Washington at Mt. Vernon with a letter from Lafayette.
Connecticut western news., 1919-07-03

enable all free peoples to stand against the aggression of autocratic spoilers. It will assert the solidarity of all who stand for freedom and who love their fellow men. It will set forth the grow ing sense of human brotherhood. It will express in larger measure the high political ideals of our time. It may not ring in a thousand years of peace, but it will herald that dawn When light shall spread, and man be
 liker man,
 Through all the circle of the golden year.
Connecticut western news., 1919-07-03

religion, but making Americanism dan gerously near big provincialism. We helped no other people to gain our glorious liberty. All was we'll if we were let alone by the political and warning world. Autocracy In Rout.
 But a new world order has come In. The western hemisphere is all free. China has astonished the world by electing a president. 'The bear that walks like a man" becomes human for a fortnight and is free-until his lib- erty, mistaken for license, enslaved him to the bolsheviki. France and Portugal are free; Great Britain, our ancient oppressor, is free and Is our friend. The British empire Is free, a galaxy of great self-governing peoples Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa-all free, even though a figurehead king Is its nominal head 1; but Lloyd George, democrat, not George V autocrat, is the real ruler of the British empire!
 Now for "Peace on Earth"
 Free peoples do not menace the tran quility of the world; they are not bent on conquest; they seek not to impose their will on their neighbors, even though the neighbor be weak and small. They covet nothing which is their neighbours. They stand for peace on earth and good will among men. The considerations alike of safety and ethics demand the observation of the golden rule among nations.
 On July 4, 1776, the old Liberty bell rang out in order to proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the in- habitants thereof" Suppose that on another July 4 1t were permitted to raise its cracked and wheezy voice to do bigger and far nobler thing: Pro claim liberty to all the oppressed of
Connecticut western news., 1919-07-03

An old-Time Patriot Cut of the Cor
 ner of His House That Lafayette's
 Carriage Might Go Through Hls Street.
 received with bands of music and n huge procession of citizens. It is re- lated that on his first visit in 17s4 there was a controversy as to how the procession was to proceed through the main streets of the town, owing to the fact that at one of the sharp turns, Q house so jutted into the road that the generals coach could not pass. On the morning of the great event, it was dis covered that the patriotic family occu- pying the property had cut of n sec tion of the house, removing the offend ing corner and thus the coach was driven without a hitch through the street. The house with part of the first story missing can still be seen in this year of 1919, and is shown In the illustration.