Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-06
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MUNIMY'S BAND

MUNINfY'S BAND -
Mummies may not be What they seem. For
instance, the supposed right hand of the
Pharaohs daughter who rescued Moses from
the bulrushes has recently been willed to an
Illinois college. Now comes word from the
Oriental institute at the University of Chi
cago that the name of this particular daugh-
ter of the Pharaoh is unknown to history.
1.-The Egyptians did not consider her act
important enough to record" says DR.. T.
George Allen, secretary Of the institute, "and
the Hebrew records are not sufficient to iden-
tify her. There Is no unanimity, even as to
which Pharaoh was the Pharaoh of the op-
preston
The donor Of the mummy hand was woman
ninety years old, who gave her prize to Brad
ley Polytechnic institute at Peoria, ILL.,, in the
firm conviction that it was indeed one that
had fondled the great Hebrew lawgiver.
This incident recalls here "Cleopatra's
mummy" which was extensively shown in
Europe and the United States a few years
ago.
when the exhibitors got to Chicago they
went broke" related DR.. F. G. Cole, assistant
curator of the department Of anthropology at
the Field Museum of Natural History. "The
IuSluuly Consequently W0uI 1AIO SLOAdScs
with an associate went to the warehouse
and unwrapped it. Cleopatra's mummy
turned out to be the wrapped skeleton, not
the mummy, of a man.
PEACETIME GAS
The deadly poison gas developed by the
chemical warfare service by the war depart
ment to combat Americas enemies, has been
turned to the most peaceful Of peace-timo
service. The fumes which devastated whole
dooi IN War will horn
be transformed into delicate perfumes to
scent miladys boudoir.
Experiments completed by the chemical
warfare service and representatives of the
nations chemical industry built up to fight
the German chemical monopoly have found
a way to convert the war gases into per-
fumes. From the deadly phosgene gas the
chemists have succeeded in extracting vlo-
let scent that they assert Is more delicate
and more lasting than the original woodland
article. BenZyl acetate, another of the war
gas products, has proved the source of jas"
mine scent as fragrant as the jasmine ITSELF
Steps have been taken to make the per-
fumes developed from the death-dealing gas
available to the chemical industry for COM
mercial development, and they will be added
to the long list of valuable by-products now
being developed in connection with the man
ufacture Of coal tar dyes in this country.
IDLE WARNED
Speaking at Sunderland England. James
Henry Thomas, general secretary of the
National Union of Railwaymen and Labor
member Of Parliament, warned the voorhees,
against a social upheaval as remedy for
unemployment.
"At no time during the war;" he said, "did
the situation look so black and dangerous
as now. The next few months will be the
most difficult period for the leaders,"
$40 AN HOUR
William Campbell, thirty-one years old, OK
618 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, told Magis~
trate Moses Ryttenberg, when arraigned In
the West Side Court on o charge of disor.
derby conduct, that the 'pan-handlers para.
disc was Broadway at Forty-third street He
assured the magistrate that $40 an hour was
the average picking for the successful beggar
at this choice corner.
Campbell was arrested at the theater-open-
ing hour after he had collected 1892 in
thirty-five minutes. He admitted that they
were just beginning to come strong when
he fell into the clutches of Patrolman Haupt~
man, of the West Forty-seventh street sta.
ton.
One of Campbell's arms is amputated at
the shoulder. He kept this exposed, and told
Hauptman that he was injured In the World
War He admitted to the police later that
he had lost his arm in a strike riot in the
West years ago. Women and girls gave the
bulk of the aims, he said. Magistrate Rytten-
berk sent him to the workhouse for ten days.
The situation in Melattur, India, is becom.
ing very serious. The rebels are offering
Hindus the alternative of death or Islam. IL
the Indians hesitate to choose they are or"
dered to dig their graves If they refuse to
embrace Islam they then are shot and drop
ped into their graves.
Complete home rule has been declared.
Crops belonging to the Hindus have been
confiscated. The Hindus are fleeing.
At Nyalla last week tribesmen, under the
fanatical leader Abdullah- El-Soghayer, at
tackled the town. Six hundred of the tribes
men were killed. The British had fifty-one
7 SPRING CONDEMNED
Spangler's Spring, at which Union and Con.
tederate soldiers drank together during lulu
in the fighting at the close of the second day
Of the Battle Of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863,
may pass out of existence. Typhoid fever
germs have Deen found in the water and the
state department of health has condemned
it.
The spring is one of the historic spots
of the famous battlefield. Here soldiers Of
the cd Intending armies met, drank together
and filled their canteens with water for their
wounded comrades when darkness stopped
the fighting that had ragged steadily through
out the day. Thousands Of tourists and vis-
itors to the battle-ground drank from the
spring annually.
ALIMONY CLUB
Baltimores pay-as-you-enter alimony club
has been dsbanded. In the bygone days.
when Judge Robert r. Stanton put the fear
of the law into the hearts 81 those men who