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New-York tribune., 1920-12-27
Prunes Explode, Scald
Pair, Set Kitchen Afire
Ceiling Torn Away, Walls Deco
rated With Fruit; Firemen
Investigate Mystery

Mrs. Samuel Giborden was taken to
the City Hospital, at Newark, last night
suffering from scalds caused by the
explosion of kettle Of prunes in her
home at 2812 Providence Street.
Mrs. Giborden and her husband had
put the prunes on the kitchen stove,
they explained to neighbors and the
fremen.
The Gibordens were found in a cor
ner Of the kitchen. The ceiling had
been partly torn away, and the walls
were decorated with prunes. The
couple said they were waiting for the
prunes to come to a boil.
Investigation will be made to ascer-
tain if the prunes exploded, or if some
thing else found its way into the kettle.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-27
Pope Says Church Never
Will Mitigate Celibacy

ROME, Dec. 26-In the secret con
sistory on December 16 the Pope again
denounced the schismatic association
known as the "Jeonota" in the Czecho-
Slovak clergy. He declared that the
Catholic Church would never abolish
or mitigate the law imposing ceibacy
on the clergy, and would never intro
duce in Church discipline such demo
cratic forms as were asked by certain
Czecho-Slovak priests.
The Pontiff said that German priests
later had withdrawn from that or
ganization, and he expressed the hope
that the Czecho-Slovak clergy would do
likewise
New-York tribune., 1920-12-27
1,OOO-Pass Airship
Evolved by Red Engineer

LONDON, Dec. 8-The Soviet wire
less announces elaboration of project
by the engineer, Makhonin, for giant
airship. A special committee of ex-
perts has examined md approved his
plan.
The motors of the airship will be of
$4,000 horsepower, and its freight
carrying capacity 10000 pools (about
967 tons) 1t will lave several berth
decks, and a lift will connect with each
of them. a motor car, an aeroplane
and a motor boat will be carried.
This Nv airship will be capable of
carrying 1000 perse :, and her speed
will be 100 versts (about sixty miles)
an hour.
This first Soviet airship is a gre 1T
victory in the field of technical science
1t is expected that its construction
will be completed by Nav l. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-27
Six of Infested States
Freed Of Cattle Tic.
Pest Eliminated in California,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Missis.
sippi, Missouri, So. Carolina

sippi, Missouri, So. Carolina
WASHINGTON Dec 22-The cattle
tick is fast beiny eliminated through
the work Of the Department o. Agri-
culture and the cooperation of the
states. Of the fifteen states which
were tick-infested wnen the work OF
eradication systematically began on
July I, 1906. six have beer completely
freed of the pest. These states are
California, Kentucky. Mississippi, Mis-
sour, South Carolina ard Tennessee.
During the year ended December /,
1920, more than $1,000 square miles
were freed 0 ticks anl since the work
oegan IN 1905, the area released has
been 5lO,09l square miles. That is 70
per cent Of the 728. 565 square miles
infested with the tick when the eradi
cation campaign began. The area re-
mnnainihg 70 De cleared comprises 218.-
414 square miles. all Of which is in the
Southern states
Progress OF the work as announced hv
tne department Of Agriculture shows
the totai area infested July /. 1906.
aan 1non 'ne area remaining December /,
is@o. WIN the percentage Of area re-
ieaseo, py states, as follows:
alanafaa--ol,279 square miles in
osSsea' 5'Zo2 square miles remaining:
Isr cent Of infested area released
Arkansas-52 525 square miles in
released R0' ee"'
= California-79 a24 square miles in.
1ested; completely released
fIofida-s4, ,s61 square miles in
rested; 1880 remaining; I3 per cent
ceorgia-57.4 .4ss square mile. IN.
Tested; 1854 remaining; 73 per cent
Kentucky-s4l square miles in.
tested; completely released.
Lou u'siana-45,4oe square miles in
rested; lo,49o remaining; 66 per cent
Missiasippi-as.ss2 square miles IN.
tested; completely released
Missouri 386 square mile. ,r.
rested; completely released.
North Carolina-37, ,3G5 square miles
infested; io,oo7 remaining; "a per
cent released. p''
Oklahoma--47.s9o SQUARE noi,ss T.,
tested; 4,047 remaining; SO per cen, n
released. pN' 'e"'
South CaroIina-3o Ao5 SQUARE m,,es
infested; completely released.
Tennessee-le, ,3a7 square oi,e. 4,
Tested; completely released.
Teas 1896 square y,,,s. T.,
Tested; l0o,e0e remaining; AZ oey cen, n
released ''A .'"'
virginia--l3eIs square n,,o. ~
Iss'ed; 1856 remaining; 80 per cent
New-York tribune., 1920-12-27
Two Men Injured When
Cable of Elevator Snans

John McKevitt, "a years old, an auto
mobile washer, and Henry j. Friese, 32
years old, of 23 East 198th Street, were
injured last night when the cable of
an elevator in which they were riding
at the Manchester Garage, 234 West
10Sth Street, snapped.
The car shot up to the roof of the
building, striking the top of the shaft
with a crash. The men were thrown
against the steel girders overhead.
Mckevitt suffered fracture of tie left
leg and Friese, injuries of hips and
shoulders. They were removed to the
Knickerbocker Hospital.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-27
Boston Bull or AiredaIe
TO Be White House Dog
From a sto0 Correspondent

WIZ u t5FUU OV7 'coP07F"0''s
MARION, Ohio, Dec. 26.-A
domestic matter occupying some
of Senator Harding's thoughts
these days is the question of a
dog. Mrs. Harding prefers Bos-
ton bull, but the President-elect
has been given an Airedale. The
Airedale is being trained to the
courtly manners a White House
dog must possess, but there is a
possibility that March 4 may find
the Hardings moving in with a
Boston bull.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-27

I, n your spare time take up a eourxe NJ
=. Sa.f"n ~ spfet plofitsble profess,on
90 Ms, Consult ths HsIp Wsptsd Female
New-York tribune., 1920-12-27
Americans From Japan
To Lobby ON Land Law

TOXIC, Dec. 26.-B. w Frazar and J.
R. Gelry have departed for the United
States to place the views of Americans
in Toxic and Yokohama concerning the
California land question before inhuen-
tial circles there
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-03-05
The Armenian Orphans


The middle of February a cable
was received from the land that we
are trying to help, telling us that
more than 1000 Armenians had been
butchered by the Turks. About the
same time | received a letter from
the Near East headquarters, in New
York, saying that the country around
the orphans had become so unsettled
that the children and the Christian
workers had been compelled to flee
for their safety. This has confused
matters so that we may never know
the name of the child who we are
feeding, for the money must be sent
over there, and the children fed in
the best way possible.
1 feel sure that not one of you
would say that you must know the
name of the child we are providing
for. Before the year is half gone we
may have a picture and the name of
child.
1t is astonishing how the Turks
pretend to be on their knees to the
allies and at the same time plotting
and carrying out plans to exterm1-
nate their neighbors.
Some ow you may have heard the
story of Shak but 1 am going to con-
dense it. L know it is a true story
because I have personal friends over
there in this great work. And L want
to assure you that every cent you
send is delivered to the people who
must settle the bills for those orphan
ages. I know great many who are
connected with this great work, and
if Satan prompts any one to say that
the money is "pinched" once or twice
before it reaches the one you intend
to help, do not believe a word or IT.
Shak is now fifteen years old. He
had a comfortable home in Bakur, a
village in northern Armenia. Before
the war got so terrible he and three
of his chums went to a cave to play.
Shak knew of a secret chamber and
hid in there. The other boys thought
he had gone home, so they went
home. too. He heard voices and knew
that it could not be his friends, so
he listened and found out that a set
of Turkish spies had been finding
out conditions so as to report to
their army the best way to wipe out
the village. AS soon as they left
to report to their captain he fairly
flew home. For weeks there had been
rumors of Turkish soldiers burning
villages and the good old pastor told
them that the first one to really find
out the danger to Bakur must ring
the church bell.
Shak fairly flew to the church.
Pound, pound, pound, the old bell
called out to the people. The dread
ed message was given them. There
was the widest excitement, OF
course, but the good old pastor quiet
ed them, and urged them to be true
to Christ, even If it meant d martyrs
death. He said, LET not one of us
deny His Lord and turn to Mahomet
in the days of trial before us"
Then he prayed, 20, Christ, Thou
who hast suffered for us, teach US
how to suffer for Thee. If we must
die, help us to die with honor, for.
Thy sake. Amen"
Then the faithful odd pastor led
his people from their native village.
Each family taking what they could
pile on their wagons, or the backs
of their donkeys, or on their own
backs.
When the Turks reached Bakur
the inhabitants were gone. This
made the army furious, for they
had planned to capture the girls for
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-03-05
DOROTHY DIX'S TALKS
GOSSIP
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Highest Paid Woman Writer in the World

Gossip has long been classed
among the seven deadly sins, and
especially as the besetting sin of
woman from which she should pray
heaven to deliver her.
Now there is gossip and gossip.
There is the pleasant little title
tattle about our friends and neigh
bors which is nothing more than a
daily chapter of the human comedy
of life. 1t is women's faculty for
collecting, and disseminating this
that made Stephenson say, that the
first qualification of a good wife
was for her to be a good gossip.
Certainly society would be a dull.
affair if we should all refrain from
our favorite indoor sport of talking
about our neighbors. When we GET
down to brass lacks, we are all far
more interested in the things that
happen in our block and to the peo4
pie we know that we are in momen-
tous events that take place thou
sands of miles from US, and that in
volve people of whom we have
scarcely heard.
Sorry as we were for starVin g
Belgium, it did not send us scurry-
ing for food as did the knowledge
that child had tainted from hun
ger on our door step. We are more
Mortified to hear that our char
woman's ceiling has fallen on her
head and bruised her baby than we
are to hear that 10000 people have
been swallowed up in an earthquake
in Japan. The most thrilling re-
ports that we got of the great war
were those that told of the regim ents
from our OWE town, and we visualize
the heroism of battle through little
Jimmie Jones, who used to deliver
our papers, and who was awarded
the croix de guerre.
Of course, scandal mongerine is
another affair. 1t differs from the
innocuous chatter Of new babies, and
new cooks, and new bonnets, and
the little daily happenings in our cir
Gle, but while too much cannot be
said agains 1.-THE gossip that turns
rumors into facts in the telling, and
chat blackens innocent characters
with vague suspicious, it is still not
to be denied that even this sort o
gossip is not without it's use in tho
general economy, and is one of the
sins that make for virtues side.
For, as a matter Of fact, there is
no other such effective agency for
mortality on earth as is gossip. 1t
is the fear Of OUR nefghbor's tongues
that keeps many of US in the straight
and narrow path, and holds us up
to cur duty.
Before, "They say" we are all of
us arrant towards. It is the knowl-
edge that everything we do, and do
not do, is going to be observed, and
f.eely discussed among our a quaint
ance thai braces us UP to live the
higher life in order THAT their COM
n1ents may be favorable instead of
otherwise. For, it is their praise that
makes our fame, and their blame our
disgrace.
Mrs. Smith is naturally lazy and
indolent. If no prying eye would
see, and no gossiping tongue chat
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-03-05
our HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE OTHOMAS

/ their own uses and to murder the
| others. They got on the wrong trail
and the villagers escaped them. They
plundered and burned everything In
sight, so this brave boy saved hun
| dreds of lives. He saw his faithful
pastor lead the people on and on,
travelling at night, and seeking aid
from friendly villages. But finally
one morning they were surrounded
by bowling mob shouting death
| to the Christians. Cut to the
| cradle" Families were separated,
and for their own amusement CD
men were stabbed to death and boys
hacked to pieces. Several small chill
| dren huddled against a wall and the
soldiers rode their horses over them
till they were trampled to death.
Shak saw his pastor hurt and hui
initiated in many ways. At last,
after pulling his hair out with pin
GERS, he was hung head downward
| and riddled with bullets. He saw his
| father and fifty other men led away
and that was the last; he never saw
him again. He saw his mother seiz-
ed by brute and Shak struck him
| with a, club. That Infatuated the
| soldier and the boy was left for
! dead in the road. When he came to
consciousness he was alone in the
mountains. He wandered a day and
night before he found food, only
hard black crust. On the third day
he faited, fell in a ditch. He was
kicked to life again and sold to the
Turks. He often cried himself to
sleep from pain of the bruises made
by his cruel master.
Through it all he remained a
Christian. He was resoId and then
the British soldiers found him, he
was then placed in an orphanage, in
| the buildings of the American mis-
sion. When he asked why there was
no bell he was told that when the
Turks made the awful massacre at
Urfa they had confiscated the mis-
sion property. One day he was work
ing in the market and heard a bell
in the Turkish school. He asked
about it and the man thought he was
a Turkish boy and confided in him
| that the bell was once used in the
American Mission school. At noon
time Shak sold his new bell
story to Lieutenant Weiden, the one
man on the staff of American relief
workers at the orphanage.
Lieutenant Weeden is a fine, fell
low, standing siX-feet two. He didn't
do or say thing, but put on his belt
and with his trusted gun went to
the Turkish schoolmaster and de-
manded the bell. The Turk said
mo" Weeden stepped before him and
| looked him square in the eyes and
said, you will return that befl in
thirty minutes or have trouble"
The lieutenant had other business
and went about it, an hour later
when he returned to the mission the
other workers met him shouting, 20.
| lieutenant, the Turks have returned
our bell and Shak, the bell-rtnger of
Rakur is happy in the promise that
every day he can ring it" o..
Out of seven hundred orphans al
that place Shak has been selected for
many important trusts. There are
hundreds Of thrilling stories I'd like
to tell you. Next week we will have
the honor roll again. Two dollars Is
lacking to make the sixty. U do hope
I may receive it early in March. Then
surely we will have some for a.
| least summer garments.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-03-05

ter about it, she would let her house
be as untidy as a pigs sty, she
would feed her family out of cans
and paper bags, and let her children
go unwashed and uncombed to school.
But we'll she knows that there
isn't woman in the block who is
not a willing talker who would tell
it if she saw trash under her beds,
and would publish the information
far and wide if her childrens ears
were not properly washed and their
frocks clean, and if she did not give
her family good food.
So Mrs. Smiths fears of they
say is stronger than her slackness,
and makes of her a decent house
keeper and a good mother.
Mrs. Tompkins is of a romantic
and sentimental nature. Her very
soul bankers after fIirtations with
men, and she secretly considers her
self a siren that no man can re-
sist.
If she could do it without any,
body finding it out or saying any
thing about it if they did not find
it out, she would indulge herself
in love affairs, regardless of the
fact that she has a good husband
and nice children. But the fear of
gossip is more restraining than all
Of the ten commandments on Mrs.
T. for she knows that the tongues
of her neighbors would not leave her
a shred of character to her back did
they once find her joy-riding with a
fascinating stranger, or making a
practice of taking lunch and gadding
about with a man who was far too
interested in her to be either her
husband or a blood relation.
Mr.. Brown would like to be a
rounder. He would like to stay out
with the boys until G. M, and
take pretty chorus girls out to sup
per, and otherwise disport himself
in the gay world were it not for
what people would say. But the
knowledge that his neighbors keep
tab on his hours cause him to punch
the time clock punctually at home,
and makes Of him respectable citi-
zen and good husband and father.
1t is gossip that is the great NOR
alist. It is gossip that is the most
effective policeman, and If we ever
reach a state of grace where we
shall dwell loudly upon the good
qualities of our fellow creatures, and
put the soft peddle on their faults
and shortcomings, we shall have
taken away the biggest restraint
there is against wrong-doing. Vive-
flourishes like the green bay tree
in an atmosphere in which no cold
wind of criticism blows upon it.
And, after all, why should we be
more careful Of the reputation of
the individual of his own? The
thing that a man or woman is not
ashamed to do, he is not ashamed
to have discussed.
For we all want to be talked about
as long as people sing our praises.
1t is only when we have something
we don't want told about us that
we desire the gossiper suppressed.
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-03-05
Conscience Sends Man to
Prison to Finish Term

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Lee Williams is
again the tenant of q cell in the
state penitentiary at Jefferson City.
It is not the long arm Of the law
that sent him back, but his own con-
science. And there is a light shin
ing in his eyes that was not there
last October when he broke his
pledged word and escaped from the
prison road gang. ',.. ....s.s-
Two weeks ago Williams got a
job here. He is machinist and his
pay envelope for the two weeks con-
tanned $50. After receiving it he
went to Father Tim Dempsey and
confessed, asking for advice.
you have done wrong, my boy"
said Father Dempsey. But you are
on the right path now. You go to the
police, tell your story, go back to the
prison and I will stick by you"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-03-05
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-03-05
CandYtuft in the Snrinn

The annual candytufts are grand
for edging, massing and cutting. For
cut flowers grow in rows eighteen
inches apart, with the plants eight
inches apart in the rows.
The flowers are of various colors
Giant hyacinth lowered is the best
white for cutting. Other varieties
may be had giving pink, crimson,
carmine, lilac and purple flowers.
Fragrans has the strongest sweet
scent. Sow the seed early where 1t
is to bloom, and thin out the plants
we'll when they are about an inch
high. Make a second sowing in July
for autumn flowers.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-03-05

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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-03-05
SHE D|DN' 7 BUY
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Old, Faded Apparel Just
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Don't worry about perfect results.
Use Diamond Dyes" guaranteed to
give a new, rich, fadeless color to
any fabric, whether it be wool, silk,
linen, cotton or mixed goods
dresses, blouses, stockings, skirts,
children's coats, feathers, draperies,
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The Direction Book with each
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-03-05
Mast EuTONS TALKS
CONDUCTED By
MasWH.FEETON
A BOY AND HIS MOTHER

One of the very best recommends
lions that a boy can have is for his
indorsers to say, Gle is a good boy
to his mother" In long life of OBJ
servaticn and experience, I do not
tn nix I ever saw a boy &c very far
wrong who was in love with his
mothec.
mean more than common dutiful
affecIIon. I mean the sort of love
whiAh makes a boy gallant and
courteous to his mother, show nS to
all the folks chat lie admires and re-
spects his mother.
Next to her husbands love, moth
ing can so crown wornan's l'e7 with
honor as this second love-t;1i3 gea-
uine devotion of son to his mother.
ANY sort of a man can fall in
love with a fresh-faced girl, but the
man who plays his worn and weary
wife, and can take satisfaction by
avoiding his mother in public, because
he is not that much of a gentleman,
and reflects his own sorriness by so
doing.
But the boy that loves his mother
in middleage, and who honors her
in the presence of any sort of COM
pany is true knight, and he will
love his wife and his own sons and
daughters will be proud of him and
be thankful they have such father.
OF all the disappointments that can
come to a woman who has gone down
into the valley of the shadow of
death to give her son his immortal
being, nothing is more so than a
neglectful and Indifferent son, who
can be more courteous and pay more
attention to everybody else in sight
than his own heart-sore mother.
AS before said, it is the hallmark
of a genuine gentleman to pay duti-
full respect and to show affection to
his mother. She may have outlived
attractiveness and beauty, but she de-
serves at his hands the courtesy and
care that no other living being has
the same right to demand so long
as she lives.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-03-05
Plants Grow in China

Plants do not do as we'll in fancy,
glazed china pots as in the common
red clay pots. The latter are porous
and permit the water to evaporate
and the soil to become dry. The
glazed pots hold the moisture in the
soil, keeping 1t wet and cold, and
the plants are likely soon to droop
and die. Very few plants common
ly used in Conservatives or window
gardens will stand wet feet;" that is
cold, wet soil.