Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-20

pieces for United States currency that has
been circulating for nearly quarter of
century on this island.
Only American paper money is circulated
in Cuba and the governments offer is limited
to one and two-dollar bills, which it plans to
return to the United States treasury Thou
sands of such bills in circulation are so dingy,
torn and patched as to be almost unrecog-
nizable.
Telegraph Tangle
Although Russia has been in open tele-
graph communication with the outside world
for some months since the Russian-English
and various other trade agreements were
signed, few kilograms ever came out of Rus
STA in response to the thousands that are
sent in, say officials of the telegraph admin
istration in Riga and Reval. Most of the
kilograms are routed through these two cit
les, which are in direct wire communication
with Moscow and Petrograd.
eve have good deal of money on hand
unused in connection with answer prepaid
cablegrams from America and elsewhere to
Moscow and other Russian points, said an
official Of the Riga telegraph department.
kilograms by the hundreds have been sent
into Russia with answer prepaid, but very
few of the answers have come"
Only certain persons are allowed to tele-
graph in Russia, it is understood here, sand
to gain the privilege of replying takes much
time, during which the person is subjected to
a complete investigation as to the reason he
could possibly want to telegraph
Hawaiian Taxes
Hawaii pays the largest per capita incomes
and miscellaneous taxes in the nation, not
excepting New York, according to Colonel
Howard Hathaway, collector of internal rev.
enue at Honolulu.
He reports that 1865 persons made re-
turns here last year, and that the money they
paid in taxes aggregated $40, ITO. OF
this amount 1S,S39,O82 represented income
taxes
Herod's Court
Excavations at Askalon have resulted in
the discovery of the, famous cloister round
the great court built by Herod the Great
which was described in the writings of JOSE
phus as being admirable for it's workmanship
and grandeur. Statues of Apollo, Venus and
Victory and also a gigantic statue of Herod
have been found on the spot.
Turtle Racing
Loggerhead turtle racing, sport regarded
by natives of the Bahamas as Cubans re.
gard cocktghting and American baseball, 10
to be imported into Florida by Miami sports
men. Turtle races never have been held in
the United States, local authorities assert
In racing the huge reptiles are harnessed
almost in the same manner as horses, the
riders don bathing suits, mount their backs
and drive in the most approved jockey style.
The turtle may be so handled by the driver
as to prevent it's diving, but the rider fin
ishes the race thoroughly soaked. Racing
turtles are the largest of the species that
may be obtained. The entries to face the
barrier here were taken along the Florida
Keys after a search of several weeks 3D..
Cost of Ministers
The total ministerial support of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church for 1920 was $24,-
988,323, according to survey made public
by DR.. c. M. Barton, of the division of ap-
preparations of the Methodist committee ON
conservation and advance Of this amount,
pastors salaries, including house rent were
$21,944,613; the district superintendent
salaries, 1859, 221; bishops salaries, $314,-
COS, and for conference claimants or for
preachers pensions $1,360, 400.
For building and improvements the church
spent $1O,655,179, and on all indebtedness
$4,636,796, and for all current expenses SILL.
210,835 a total of $51,481,133.
Centenary and other apportioned benevo-
lences for the church were $16,0896 SIS, and
Womens missionary societies and children's
day funds $3,O73,672, total of $19,163,344.
DR.. Barton said that this gives a total dis
bursement for the Methodist Episcopal
Church for the above purposes in 1920 Of
70,644, ro0.
Republic Born
Magyar and Jugo-slav elements in south
western Hungary held a monster meeting at
Funfkirchen (Pecs), hundred miles south-
west of Budapest, last week, and it Is re"
ported that Republic of Baranya (the name
of the province of which PEGS is the CAPT.
tall has been proclaimed, with the presi-
dency offered to Count Karolyi.
Valuable Finds
A discovery which, it is claimed, will form
one of the fundamental sources for his
tory of the Roman Empire under Augustus
has been made recently by DR.. Oliverio, an
Italian savant, in Cyrene, the ancient Greek
colony in Africa, founded in the seventh CEN
fury.
A Morning Post correspondent, writing from
Cyrene, says that excavations at Bengasi-
the ancient Berenice, which stood in the
midst Of the Gardens of the Hesperides, near
the mouth of the River Leithe-have result
ed in the unearthing of a block of marble.
feet long, one face of which bears flaw
less Greek inscription of more than 100 lines,
the translation of letter from Augustus on
the government and administration of JUS
tice in Cyrenaica, giving a wonderful insight
into the financial and judicial conditions Of
the country at that time.
Other interesting finds are sanctuary
dedicated to eastern divinties, probably of
the time of Julian the Apostate, with re-
marlably well preserved black marble statue
of an Egyptian goddess. An extensive Ptole-