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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-16
GALLOWS TRAP FALLS TWICE
BEFORE NEGRO PAYS PENALTY
nv International Navs saroica ,

(By International News Service.)
Poplar Bluff, Mo. April 15.-Adam
jackson, a negro. dropped twice
through the trap door of a gallows
here the other day before he paid
in full" for attacking a white woman.
The first time the trap was sprung
the rope broke. Climbing back upon
the scaffold, Jackson requested that
the hanging be expedited. Following
the second attempt the negro was
pronounced dead.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-16
NORTHWESTERN KANSAS
FACES PREACHER FAMINE
lBY International News SerVce.l

Concordia, Kan, April Is. - A
preacher famine threatens in North
western Kansas. Five churches in
Phillips county are without pastors.
The same condition prevails in Os-
borne. Church boards are unable to
find young preachers who will ac
cept country charges made vacant
by the designations in many large
churches have been discontinued on
account of the preacher shortage.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-16

end of half an hour each man,
bruised and bleeding, went his way.
Meeting on a downtown street a
few hours later each man drew a
revolver and emptied it at the other.
All of the shots went wild.
Friends Say it has not yet been
decided whether or not the Jackpot"
was opened.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-16
AFFECTS PAPERS

Suspension OF Clarksburg's two
daily newspapers probably will be
the next result of the railroad
strike in that city. Both are now
publishing small editions. The SUP
ply OF paper on hand will permit
only few more editions to be is
sued. Those now printed have yir-
tuallv no advertising.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-16
BROTHERS FIRST USE FISTS
THEN GUNS AFTER QUARREL
by International News Service

lBy INTERNATIONAL News SerVIce.)
Talequah, Okla. April 15.-George
and Carlton Mankiller, brothers, had
an argument here the other day as
to whether or not Jackpot" in
card game had been opened
Retiring behind barn they triad
to settle it with their fists. At G
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-16

An automobile moving so miles
an hour should be able to stop in
231 feet.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-16
UNCOVERS PAYING LEAD
AND ZINC IN BACK YARD

" 'EFtN'
Webb City, Mo, May 15.-As a
result of the operations of Joseph
Lewis at the rear of his home here,
back yards are being turned into
mining fields.
Lewis uncovered paying leads of
both zinc and lead when he sunk an
eightyfoot shaft in his yard. He is
shipping ore regularly from the
shaft.
The stride of an ostrich running
at full speed measures as much as
% feet.
One gallon of paint should be dis
tributed over an area of 300 square
feet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 7r would be unjust to accuse Eleu-
 therios venizelos of having = planned the love affairs of the King of Greece. But 1t is by no means unjust or presumptuous to hold that the great statesman is well pleased with the game that Eros has played in the shadow of the acropo1is.
 Venizelos is a strong believer in the value of the monarchia1 form of gov- ernment for a constitutional democ- racy. When Constantine was kicked out the natural sequence Of events would have led to the establishment of an Athenian republic. But veni- zeios, ir spite of all. ke had suffered at the hands of the monarchy. insist ed that the forms of kingship be re- tained He would have none of George, the eldest son of the elected King. but chose in his stead young Alexander, a ronenity.
 It was scarcely to be expected that the Greek populace would bubble over with enthusiasm for their new mon- arch. He was an accident, a bene- ficiary of circumstances. He was ex- pected to be orly a figurehead, and as figurehead he was somewhat neg ligently accepted,
 Grandfather George. who established the present Greek monarchy, was a Dane. His wife was Russian. Father IConstantine, Danish Russian. took to wife a German, the only sister of Will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29
ALEXANDER'S WIFE

liam Hohenzol1ern. the man wl1osRaa German. has not one drop of Creek blood in him. Yet he was madesGreelS King, and the Greeks were expected to reverence him. ss
 Then Eros. Greek of thewGreeks, began to play his patriotic pranks. Alexander, instead of waiting to bN married off to some foreign princess. needed the coaxings of the blindfo1d archer and took to his heart aecomely Grecian maiden, daughter of an old and honorable house. but utterlya de- void of royal blood. Thisswasagainst the rules of the game of kings. But Alexander went further, played the game to the end and according tosths rules of Eros. and married the girrshe loved.
 Now Venizelos is going to try to make things all square at Athens. What could be better than good Greek wife for a Greek King? Future monarchs of real Greek blood-a pleas- ing prospect. And these are demo- cratic days, too. The kingship tradi- tion everywhere Is losing it's most dis agreeable aspects. The Hellenes ought to be pleased. Venizelos, who is Eu- ropes most persuasive statesman, has a way of making the Greeks pleased. All in all, the prospect for domestic happiness in the royal palace at Ath- ems is by no means dark, And Alex ander has graduated from the ranks of royal marionettes and stands forth as an understandable man and lika- ble King.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29
ARMENIA

'Sick? Say, rather, the bed-ridden la word which more justly describes
 those tiny, withered-up, crone-like creatures upon whose faces the skin seemed stretched to drumheads tightness; whose peering eyes shot ter TOT and anguish. as if deaths presence were already perceptible to them, and who lay there at famines climax of physical exhaustion. In those young, to see long lifetime of tragedy
 packed into eight or ten childish years. ''The mud huts which we visited pre- scented an invariable picture-a barren. cave-like interior. lacking one sticld l of furniture or household utensil, and with a few bleaohed bones scattered here and there. The occupants, stretched on the clay floor, would half lift themselves to regard us with dazed and questioning eyes. Those gaunt faces, those attenuated bodies
 clad in shagginess of filthy rags, stumbled into prehistoric mans den
 during some great famine year. Suddenly shriek went up and q woman rushed out of her hut with ] agonized face and with hands lifted to heaven. Hers was such abandon
 ment as proclaims that death hasl struck her first born; yet 1t was a tale
 of mere robbery. What the captured
 thief delivered back to her proved to
 be paltry handful of roots. And upon entering the woman's house, we
 found. in fact. her only daughter lying
 dead. not yet cold, while the mother { crouched dry-eyed before the tiny fire, intently watching the pot wherein bub-
 bled those precious roots. her next
 stomachful.
 "One 7-year-old girl crouched by herself cracking something between I two stones and licking her fingers. The doctor bent over, examining the object. He asked with peculiar sharp
 ness: Where did you get that-that 1 bone?
 l ''The child looked up with sacred, guilty glance; then her answer came
 through the interpreter, who said il low voice: Wonder in the graveyardl
 T am not sure that we preserved
 our ccmposure."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29
Gen. Wood Is Chased
 As "Boodle" Candidate

1T OHN T. KING, former manager O for Gen. Leonard Wood, is quoted as telling Senate investi- gating committee that Dan R. Hanna of Cleveland had promised early in the campaign Ito. go out and gather in five hundred thousand dollars"
 Dan Hanna is the son of Mark Hanna, whose fame as republican boss still endures. Davenport, the noted cartoonist, created the dollar mark" suit of clothes for Mark Han ma. The older generation will recall the rotund caricature of Mir. Hanna, wearing his dollar" clothes, which appeared in newspapers throughout the country. The cartoons of Dav- export were so effective that they established a tradition. Mark Hama is remembered chiefly as "boss." !" He was the power behind the throne in McKinley's day, but Penrose, now in failing health, is the sole survivor of the "old guard" whose names were associated with poodle and question able methods in politics.
 Although Mark Hanna is gone, re- cent disclosures have shown that some of his ideas still have weight in re- publican circles. Dan Hanna's al- legged statement throws additional light on the wood campaign. It was not difficult for MT. Hanna or some body else to gather" in huge slush fund which has been used to promote the Wood candidacy. Colonel Proc tor, the Ohio soap magnate, stated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29

that he had advanced" half a million to make Wood President.
 Whether or not General Wood has been eliminated by the charge made of large sums of money spent in his behalf, remains to be seen, but they have placed him in an unfavorable light before the country. If Wood were elected President, he would al- ways be under suspicion of having won the highest honor in the gift of the American people by lavish ex- penditure of money, practically all of which was advanced by so-called "big business"
 The rivals opposing General Wood have not been slow to take advantage of the predicament in which he finds himself. However, clean and honor able he may be personally, stigma attaches to his campaign which may prevent his nomination at the repub- lican convention in Chicago, not be- cause republican leaders disavow such methods, but because of the way in which voters may regard his slush fund,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29
LUKE M,LukE SAYS

Just for a change, we would like to see movie fillum in which the villain kicks the lining out of the pop eyed hero.
 4 red-headed girls hair is Auburn. But red-headed boys hair is just plain red.
 One way for rich man to live to be 90 years old is for him to have a lot of hungry heirs who are waiting for him to die.
 If we examined people like we ex- amined paper money. there would not be so many counterfeit men getting by in this world.
 The reason why a girl has hard time selecting hat that becomes her is because she wears her waist so low that nobody sees her hat.
 The 0. f. man who used to wear a vest all summer now has son who never wears vest in winter.
 As we understand it, it isn't bad form to pick your teeth in public If you have two-carat diamond on your finger.
 After all. it isn't spending that causes the automcblls accidents, it is stopping too suddenly.
 If man would tip his wife for services as liberaEy Asi hs tips stran- gers. she would have pSsnty pf money.
 After dame has had tour husbands and five affinities she jcins society to suppress the hsrem sf the Unspeak- ahle Turk.
 A great inventor falls down as hard as the rest of us wien he tries to invent an excuse tefore greeting friend wife at ! a. m. l You'll have to guErArtee Earagss m connection 3h the nlnsions fl ycv want to it zoSto ople to ge to heaven. SS 's{f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29
Five Southern States
 Combine Electric Energy

N0THEN it was recently announced wv in The Age-Herald that the Alabama Power Company and the Georgia Railway, Light and Power Company were to connect the two systems. that was but half the story.
 The Georgia company, in turn, mas already connected with the power systems of the Carolinas and Iennes- 500 When the Alabama-Georgia con- nection is made the hydro-eleceric mower of five southern states will have been hitched to common car of nropress. The horoscope of serv- ice in upbuilding the industrial south which this combination presents IS more than satisfying.
 When great storage basins have been added to the capacity of these water power systems, affording more regular continuous maximum ot mower. there will. be further exten- sions of the use of electricity. Opera tion of trunk lines will be one of them.
 The great achievement, after all, is one of conservation. By means of endless combinations, power may be shifted from any portion of this vast system to any other portion or DOT tions, according to needs. Where a peak load is needed, the turn of a switch will afford it.
 When rivers in one state are low, those in another may be high, SUD- plying surplus for the needs of the other states.
 Altogether, the fifty-mile line be- tween Gadsden and Lindale, Ga., that will connect the Alabama and Geor- gia and, through this, the Tennessee and Carolina powers, points to Tar reaches of industrial and manufac- turing attainment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29

.MN WASHINGTON, D. C., May 2s.-
 WW (Special.)-Of timely interest
 because of President Wilson's proposal that the United States as- sume a mandate over Armenia, though written prior to that proposal, is a communication to the National Geo. graphical Society from Melville Cha ter.
 Relating his personal experiences in that famine-stricken land several months ago. MT. Chatter writes:
 .'Erivan. the capital of Armenia's provisional republic is an incohceiv- able contrast to the Georgian govern ment seat at Tiflis. At Erivap one finds no spacious prospect nor vice. regal palace, no smart shops. Rus sian opera. nor gay night life. To behold misery in Tiflis, one must search 1t out. In Erivan one cannot escape it.
 "Thfs poor, straggling. dingy city of the plains, whose government of fices suggest some hastily extempor- ized election headquarters and whose parliament chamber is rigged up with benches and cheesecloth in the audi torium of the second class theatre. boasts of but one beauty. and that is 40 miles away; for, in whatever quarter of Erivan you may be. ff- your glance and great Ararat of eter- nal snows is seen breeding distantly over the mean streets with his aspect icf majestic calm. He is the Arme- nian's Olympus, or rather say, the Sinai of a race which has known bond | age and wilderness-wandering, and for centuries peoples imagination has turned toward him.
 The little Erivan republic which centers about Ara~at contains within Tits present limits less than 1,500 square miles-only cne.hsif of which area Is lcapable of high productivity-2oo miles of railroad, and about 100000 people. ! It has been the center of refuge for Turkish Armenians ever since the mas lsacre of 1915, shJ between 100000 and S0o.0co of them are camped,within it's borders.
 | "AS TOT the .clty ltSeiis US iurihci population of 10000 has been doubled by this Influx. There starvation and ltyphus have claimed their toll of 5000 'tbe death rate fuctuating between 50 end. so day.
 Though the doctor and I were here Ito observe the worst phases of the
 situation, each of us waited for the ] ether to suggest trip to the Igdir region. where we were told starvation
 was most acute.
 ''The ~.owr of Igdir. with it's local
 and nearby populations of so,coo Ar
 menians 10000 Tartars. and f5,ooo
 Yezidis. revealed some squalid streets
 with but a few people seated discon-
 solately here and there, as we drove lin. Throughout those torturous. sum beaten byways no children played and no animals. roamed. The air was heavy. with dreadful silence. such as
 hangs over plague-smitten comrauns' ties.
 we found the children. such ss fhes were, inhabitating an crpha as se wherein one sickened al prtriditys horrible odor and were informed thal ltbere were neither medicines nor Sdis- linfectants wherewith tc allay the fon'
 dition of the many little sick -pedH
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29
NOT GUILTY

From the Calgary Herald.
 Tn your Wednesdays issue the re- pert of the local tong war threatened in Chinatown, must say that it is all wrong, and specially with my name in the paper saying I called and gath cred force of my own clan to invite the opposing club to fight. So here I like to let the people know that I was not even in my store nor on Cen ter street at the time. and l know no,hing of the fight that took place on last Sunday night. am now in this country for this last eighteen years and has not had a fight nor mixed up with fight yet. am a man likes to see peaceful citizen. and am always trying to be one myself so kindly put this. my letter. in your paper SO that the citizens of Calgary may know that I was not mixed up with the Dart Coon Club fights. To nly believe all the Tong war threat ened is. the cost of bad ladders of the clubs.
 ERNEST Y w. DONG. 7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29
THIsTLEDowN

From Cartoons Magazine. I was flower as purple as you With roots firm fixed in the sod: smiled in the sun at the sky so blue A child of the earth. thank God. Round my foolish head buzzed 2 bum.
 ble bee.
 A .fluttering moth winged by. Till l wished my petals might thu
 be free
 As the gallant butterflys ' The gods heard my dissoatentet et
 prayer;
 Time brought me my wish so niisld Now lightly haunt ths hollow ar, u1seAeuo '" 'S .s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE REALITIES.

THE REALITIES.
 A hopeful heart s~
 Will take you far, - So fix your eyes
 Upon star.
 But do be care-
 Full as you go
 Of ruts and bould-
 Frs, here below.
 SECOND IN COMMAND. "Mr. Twobble talks a great deal about being the master of his own household" :" T have my doubts about that" "Yes?" q understand Mrs. TwobbIe reads the Sunday paper first while MT. Twobble smokes meditative cigar"
 CIVIC DISAPPOINTMENT. You have forward looking town. I hope?"
 Just at present we are looking back ward" said the melancholy citizen. At what?'
 'At the population we thought we had before the census report came out"
 ENTIRELY TOO YOUNG. T see where seventeen-year-old bride shocked Philadelphia society by smoking in public" q shouldn't wonder" replied Mrs. Grabcoin, as she extracted a mono grammed cigarette from a jeweled case. If thought one of my daughters had begun smoking before she reached IS I would be deeply mortified
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29

From tho Mobile Register.
 The Hotel sherman of Chicago or- dered . whole carload of California champagne for medical and sacra- mental purposes.'' By curious coinci- dence. the California delegation to the republican convention will put up at the Hotel Sherman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29
AFTERMATH

From the Baltimore American. . One of the famous German sea raid- CTS which sunk thousands of tons of shipping in the war. slipped meeily
 into an American port lately as s peaceful trading vessel under tn, French flag. So does the whirliEis of time bring in it's revenges.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29
APPRoPRIETLY NAMED
From the New Orleans Item.

Five girl students styling them- selves Independent Wild Women have forced the president of Metho- dist College in Spokane to resign, to avert student revolution. Their clief charge was that the presidents SC rmons and prayers were too long and that his wife deluged them with Bibles. It looks as though this religious i'm stitution needs new student body more than a new president.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29
ROOMY GARMENT

Prom the Chicago News.
 If the respective claimants to Roose- velt's mantle will range themselves up beside that capacious garment they will see that there Is enough of it to cover them all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29

most persons have about the battles fought in the different theatres of war;" as we'll as the leaders who won or lost fame in the various drives" A strict censorship might also ac- count for ignorance of events on which the future of the world de- pended. For these reasons the schoolboy of the future, with authentic histories to study, may have a more accurate knowledge of the war than we have today. Those histories are yet to be written.
 Two years ago yesterday, American soldiers won their first laurels on European soil in the battle of Ca- tigny. It was the beginning of the end, for that battle proved to the skeptical Germans that Ameri cans would fight, and with dash and dar- ing unknown to the machine-made sol- diers of the old world. "Catigny" is a name immortal in American history, along with Chateau Thierry and the Argonne. Yet, these three battle grounds are associated with only part of Americas achieve ments in the great war. * # # It might be a good idea for the mill itary authorities to look for Bergdoll among convention visitors at chicago. You would naturally suppose Bergdoll | to be a supporter of Hi Johnson. F x # A dinner in New York was attended | had been inmates of Sing Sing After the dinner was over not a single piece of silverware vas missing. l ne QS IdCtO OI Mt4lCO is waiting for General Obregon to re- sume his civilian status. However, Citizen obregon will be much the same sort of person General Obregon is. | # F < What does 1t profit a man to be a millionaire if hard-hearted liquor sleuths take away the choice wet goods he acquired after the nation went dry?
 1 An admirer of Hi Johnson says he understands how to work with women. Old-line republicans prefer to work l At any rate, President Wilson does not undertake to prove that an Ar menian mandate would be an asset to America.
 l Chicago promises rooms for all wis., itors who attend the republican con- | NShtioh. IHcy VIII hdNc lO HuSliC around for their own refreshments
 + x < About 90 per cent of Mexico's pop ulation consists of thieves and cut throats. There isn't much hope for a country like that.
 Y Y '
 The Jap can make himself very agreeable when he wants to, but doesn't seem to think it worth while in Siberia.
 Now that the sale of overalls is about normal again, whats the word from tent manufacturers who hoped to profit by the housing shortage? + + # The right kind of presidential candi- date should be able to keep in the pub lie eye without spending from $500. 900 to s1.ooo,ooo.
 The public is still in doubt as to whether ''Nicky" Arnstein is mas ter mlnd or merely an oVerrateo crook.
 q x <
 Thousands of Mexicans viewed the ,body of Carranza who was more of a public character dead than alive.
 z Y v
 As we understand 1t. postal clerks merely want to be able to live as well as the average day laborer. * x The blandishments of republican politicians are not making any seri- ous inroads on the "solid south."
 * F Y |. That republican peace resolution was . an abortive attempt to pass the
 * ** !. Belgium's rapid recovery is attribu. ted to comparative freedom from "isms.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29

That life is better life, past fearing death, Than that which lives to fear.
 -Measure for Measure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-29
A HrRRY CALL.

A HURRY CALL. Clipping was acquitted on the charge of speeding?" "Yes. He told the judge he was going for a doctor" That's good excuse" 'But he failed to add that he wanted the doctor to take a hand in a poker game.''
 OUT OF LUCK.
 hate the jay walker
 As much as can be;
 Unless l am careful
 He bumps into me.
 It's always loafer
 Who's lost in the whirl,
 And seldom or never
 A good looking girl.
 THAT KIND. How did you come out with your in- vestment in swampdale 1ots?' -I lost heavily" But the man who sold you those lots said they were sound investment" T discovered later that he merely re-, ferred to the sound of his voicel'
 NOWADAYS. ' "A man called at MT. Jibway's house the other morning and asked sirzhe~had any old clothes to sell. "Well?" tF "Mr. Jibway rushed out in greaAsrez citement and shook handscwith him." What did he do that 'for?" "He was thanking him forsthe4compli- ment." PAUL COOK.