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Evening star., 1922-02-19
By Lucien Cary

h-he d-d-did," she sobbed.
WHAT" cried Maizie Blaze.
III. s-s-spanked me-"
Maizie looked at Mabel.
Il don't believe H."
Mabel drew back her blouse and
exposed the blue and purple streaks
on her shoulder.
Maizie Blaze jumped to her feet.
"Why," she cried, that's the most
terrible thing 1 ever heard Of The
brute"
1t was at that moment that John
Palmer arrived.
Mabel slipped into the next room
SIS my wife here" John Palmer
asked.
yes" said aLaizie Blaze. "Bu'
you're not going to see her"
THEY stood facing each other.
Johns eyes were duh with pain.
Maizie's eyes were bright with anger.
You. insufferable beast" said
NIaizie Blaze. "You-you monster"
John Palmer looked at her miser-
ably. 1t was true. He was a mon
ster
"You will never see Mabel again"
said Maizie Blaze. Never"
Mabel came into the room. Mabel
walked straight up to John Palmer
and put both arms around his neck.
John" she said, please take me
home"
Johns arms tightened around her.
Johp kissed her JOhn held her very
gently.
Mabel turned and looked over her
shoulder at Maizie Blaze.
"Do you think you can separate
us?" she asked.
Maizie Elaze watched them go out
together. Maizie went TO the window
and watched them walk down the
street close together. Maizie shook
her head slowly.
Mr.. Durbrow. seeing what was
plain for any one to see, spoke casu
the Country Club, during one Of those
brief intervals when he could be seen
apart from Mabel.
Everything all right between you
and Mabel?" he asked genially.
Very much all right John said.
ct knew it would be II you'd 3ust
take my advice" Mr.. Durbrow said.
Just q little frankness was all that
was needed"
John nodded gravely.
yes" he said, Just little frank
ness"
Copyrighted. 1922 All rights reseredt
Evening star., 1922-02-19
Radiurn Phenomenon.
THERE is singular electri

THERE is a singular electrical
phenomenon exhibited by a glass
tube full of radium bromide. The
substance had been sealed up in the
tube. Six months later the expert
menter was about to open the tube
with a file. but as soon as the metal
touched the glass the tube was
pierced by a brilliant electrical spark.
accompanied by a sharp sound. It is
thought that the retention in the
tube OF the positively charged alpha
particles, which cannot penetrate
glass. and the continual escape of
the negatively charged beta particles.
which do penetrate glass, set up a
difference in the electric potential
inside and outside the tube SO great
that at last . spark was able to pass
through the glass wall.
Evening star., 1922-02-19
CAPITAL SIDELIGHTS

ITO my son-to urge you to close
attention to business, to economy and
sobriety. to be good and do good in
Christian faith. to work hard and
always to keep up a good heart and
hope for the world that is before
you.
Il know not whether this was
written about 1868, when / was little
and he was thinking much of me, or
whether it was written about 1859,
when his second son was little and
he was thinking much of him, or
whether 1t was written about 1s43,
when his first -begotten son was
small, the idol of his young manhood.
But this one thing I do know: 1t
was addressed TO my son'-and SO
I have the right to take it and appro-
pirate it to myself
How like message from beyond
the grave-aye, even from the realms
of light, it seemed to me that day.
1t still seems SO. I love to believe
and do believe that no one saw those
words until did; that he was sitting
alone, in that midnight hour which
brings that rare and radiant moment,
when the wrought-up brain conveys
high thought to shining pen: and
that he wrote these words. and then
closed the book and wrapped the cur
tafns of his couch around him, and
laid down to pleasant dreams-and
that the next eye to behold these
lines was mine.
so help me, it has always seemed
like an oath of peculiar sanctity, ad-
ministered to me in a sacred way, and
whenever I read i, I feel as If I
stood on holy ground. and that I
must, as / do. answer: Father. my
father, I have read and understand,
and promise and vow. to keep the
faith"
uOW a letter from a congressman
- is sometimes treasured by a con-
stituent was demonstrated the other
day, when a man approached George
Keegan, doorman on the republican
end Of the Speakers lobby. and asked
for Representative Calder OF New
York. Mr.. Keegan, who knows all
the members, promptly said there
was no such member in the House.
The caller protested that there must
be, for he had a letter from him In
viting the recipi6nt to call on him
when in Washington. MIR. Keegan
looked at the letter and, sure enough,
there was the printed stationery OF
Representative w. NJ. Calder Of New
York. Keegan was frankly phased
and studied a congressional directory
only to find that there was no Calder
In the House. He looked at the let
ter again-and then noted that the
date was 1905.
The present Senator Calder. when
first elected to Congress. had sent
circular lettr inviting his constitu-
ents to let him know when he could
be Of service to. them, and this visitor
had kept the letter for sixteen years.
Representative Calder progressed to
the Senate in 1915, or ten years after
the letter was written.
Il NJ
d REPRESENTATIVE SHERMAN E.
~ BURROUGHS. representing the
first New Hampshire congressional
district. was formerly secretary to
the member tsasA rN0sesenting the
aU1 6istslsk {
Evening star., 1922-02-19

chair and sat down in the chair op-
posite him. Mabel stretched her feet
out in front of her and leaned her
head back luXurioUsly.
1t was as if she were saying: Il am
a little bored. but If / must be bored
| may as well be comfortable"
You sound" she said. $50 like a
perfectly old-fashioned husband.
Don't you really think you sound hus-
bandly. john"
Evening star., 1922-02-19

Something stirred in John Palmer;
some memory-like the memory Of
the day he had pursued Mabel to the
very door of, her .tather's house and
caught her in his arms and held her
against her will.
Would you mind answering my
question:" he asked.
Mabel was startled to hear John
speak in that tone. Mabel was startled
by his tone for the second time In her
Evening star., 1922-02-19
NHE supposedly unlucky num-
bers, 13 and %. and the ILL
omened reputation of Friday
inSp;ra M dread forahndinP

bers, IS and %. and the i'll
omened reputation of Friday
inspire no dread foreboding
in the heart of Representative Err
nest Ackerman OF New Jersey. He
has defied them time and again. Out
of many such experiences he tells a
few, as follows:
"The year 1 crossed the Atlantic for
the twenty-third time 1 returned on
the thirteenth trip of certain ship
and left London for Liverpool from
track 13 and had lunch in car 313.
l left Liverpool 13 minutes before
s PM, and Daunt's rock. off Queens
town, was passed at 13 minutes past
10 on September 13. There were
thirteen passengers at our table, and
I had seat % on the starboard deck.
The ship had the thirteenth accident
en- route and we landed in New York
at the foot Of 18th street. The next
time sailed on the same boat it was
her 18th trip. There were thirteen
in our party. headed by conductor
who was born on Friday the 18th.
and our lifeboat number was 13. in
the event of our being compelled to
use it,
x x y j:
WHAT philatelists believe to be
w the biggest envelope in the
world-"covsr," they call ito which
are affixed $50 stamps. with an orig
10
of the most priced specimens in the
stamp collection of Representative
Ernest r. Ackerman. The writer was
privileged to examine this trophy.
discovered by Representative Acker-
man in a shop in Buenos Aires on a
recent visit D South America. 1t has
attracted the attention Of philatelists
all over the world. The envelope
contained an issue Of street railway
bonds being sent from st. Petersburg
to Moscow. and the value Of the con-
tents was s2.oo0.0oo. pre-war ex-
change.
D REPRESENTATIVE RICHARD
~ YATES of Illinois. formerly gov
ernor. tells the following story of
how he received q message from his
father, the civil war governor OF
Illoinis and personal friend Of Lin
coin, thirty years after his death.
which has been a guiding star for
his life:
zone day in 1908, sat in the quiet
office in the mansion provided by the
state of Illinois. for its governor.
when one of the secretaries came to
me asking'if if had notebook, or blank
book, as he needed one in a hurry
and could not wait to send out to buy
one. / replied: In that corner. over
there, you will find a pile of blank
books, left by my father. They are
forty years old, but some Of them
have excellent paper Presently. the
secretary returned and said: May we
have this one?' / replied. Yes. but
let me be sure it is blank I rapidly
turned the pages. and, 10, in the very
center of the book. was page with
writing on 1.-THE only page In the
whole book which was not blank.
"Of course. I read 1t. for it was
in the handwriting Of my father. dead
for thirty years. his death having oc-
CURED in 1873. when I was only thir-
teen years old. Here is Whist he said;
~
Evening star., 1922-02-19

pEPREsENTATIvE SHERMAN E.
- BURROUGHS, representing the
first New Hampshire congressional
district. was formerly secretary to
the Hasmher thsa rN0sssenting the
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Translated From the French by
william l., McPhersOn.

~ EFORE doing his duty in the
x great war, like everybody
else, and striving to do it as
we'll as ANYBODY else Fer
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-13
Cotton Market Opinions

inters. second cut. I Il UZc.
iuters. clean, mill run, 203hc.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-13
BUCK PRIVATES BECOMING
SCARCE, SAYSARMY REPORT
Woman Is Now Boss
Of Augusta Police and
Fire Departments

AUGUSTA, Ca, June 10.-The
first woman "boss' of the police and
fire departments of any city this
size in the country began her ad-
ministration here this morning,
when she assumed the duties Of
chairman of the civil service conf
mission.
The new chairman is Mrs. L. 8.
Arlington, prominent Augusta club
woman, and wife of one of the lead
ing wholesale merchants here.
Mrs. Arlington was elected unani.
mously at a meeting of the commits
sior yesterday. She had been acting
chairman since the death of Ralph
B. Willis several weeks ago.
Lester F. Elliott was elected vice
chairman by vote of three to two.
Mrs. Arlington has been a mem.
Der of the commission for nearly a
year. She and Mrs. Harry M. Car
penter were the first women to hold
an office of that kind here. The
now chairman of the commission
says she will hold the position for
year. At the end of that period,
it is understood Lester f. Elliott,
the vice chairman, will be advanced
to the craftsmanship.
Mr.. Elliott was nominated for the
position of vice chairman by Mrs.
Arlington. He was elected after
Frank A. White had questioned the
legality Of the act.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-13
DEATH CHAIR FOR
STATE To Be URGED

City Electrician r. c. Turner
will call on Governor Hardwick
Monday and seek his support of
immediate legislation substituting
the electric chair for the gallows
in Georgia.
Thousands of Georgians want to
see this put through the legislature
this summer, and 1 believe it will
be DONE" said Mr.. Turner.
Other drastic changes in the pres
ent system of administering capital
punishment in Georgia will be en-
bodied in the proposed bill, which
Mr.. Turner will draw and submit
to members of the general as
sembly for introduction.
One death house equipped with
an electric chair and all necessary
apparatus, would be located at the
Milledgeville state farm or some
other central point, and all eXecu-
lions would take place there. The
present system under which the ex-
IRENE penalty is paid in the coun-
ty where the crime occurred, would
be abolished.
Mr.. Turner characterized the gal
lows as "a most inhumane way of
putting a person to DEATH" He said
sentiment throughout the country
is rapidly swinging toward the
electric chair, and produced statis-
tics showing the latter system now
is in effect in 80 of the 48 states.
Mr.. Turner said the proposed bill
will provide for four electric
switches in the death house and
that four prison attaches would
turn them on simultaneously when
a person was being executed. Death
would be instantaneous, he de.
clared.
"Men who are hanged sometimes
are allowed to choke for five or ten
minutes" he added.
During the administration OF
former Governor Hoke Smith, Mr.
Turner was sent to Sing Sing prison
in New York, to assemble data con
corning the electrocution system for
use in a campaign to abolish hang
| ing. No action was taken in the
legislature at the time, however
and Mr.. Turner says he is reviv
! ing the issue at the request OF
| thousands of Georgians.
According to Mr.. Turner, Gov
ernor Hardwick already has ex
| pressed himself as favorable tC
| changing to the electric chair.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-13
Statistics Show Continual
Whiting Down of Forces
Hits Infantry Hardest
Skeleton Army Remaining

WASHINGTON, June 10.-EXam-
nation of war department statistics
obtained today discloses that dough-
boys, just plain "buck privates" of
infantry, are becoming scarce.
The infantrymen are relied on to
win victories. Yet, it is the "buck''
privates that bear the brunt of ev-
cry successive reduction in army
strength. AS congress has ordain-
ed the slashes, the numbers of the
ploin "bucks" has dwindled.
Even the aggregate infantry
strength has shown a disproportion-
ate shrinkage. On April 80, 1917,
there were 53,165 enlisted men in
the infantry. Today, with the to-
tai strength of the army consid-
erably higher, there are 47,S37 men
in the foot regiments and probably
it is said, not 10000 of these are to
be classified as just plain "buck'
privates.
The impending additional reduc-
ton in the size of the army will show
a further drop, officers say, and
leave the military machine just as
highly specialized skeleton, the
bones of which are the officers, non
commissioned officers, specialized
services like artillery, air service,
motor transport and the bombers, au.
tomato riflemen, machine gunners
signalers and other keymen in the
infantry units with just a few huRl
BILE bayonet welding "bucks" here
and there.
Major General Harbord, deputy
chief of staff, pointed out the situa
! ton in the testimony before the sen
ate military committee. The mis-
! sion" of the regulars assigned by
law in 1920 with a total strength
\ of 100000 enlisted men, he said
was to have nine divisions as {
"highly trained body, ready to f1gh
| at any time without delay for train
ing or necessity for expansion"
J The mission was unchanged, bu
, the force cut year later to $50,
=, went the nine divisions.
There seems to be no way to avoiC
! the scarcity of privates, it wa
| stated today by war department of
! ficials. Unless a framework of train
( ed specialists is maintained tn
army, it was added, would be utter
| ly incapable of quick expansion il
war. The specialists can not b.
trained overnight. So the war de
| partment has been forced to adop
! policy of specialization of the
peace-time force and look to the
filling out in event Of an emergency
with raw recruits which with a few
weeks training could be made into
a trained machine.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-13
Melon Inspectors Meet
To Get instruction
For Coming Season

MACON, Ca, June 10.@Water-
melon growers of this section of the
state held a school of instruction in
Macon Saturday which was largely
attended, especially by inspectors.
About sixty inspectors were present.
They are to be placed at the va
rious shipping points throughout this
section during the melon shipping
season.
The meeting was addressed by F.
G. Robbs, chief inspector of the r..
S. bureau markets, Washington, D..
c. He pointed out the condition, of
melons upon reaching the market
when not properly inspected. j. B.
Waite, of the North American Fruit
Exchange, spoke on the problem OF
inspection as it affects selling.
Melons that have had proper insrec-
ton sell much quicker than a car
that was not, he pointed ont.
H. L. Kennon, secretary of the
Middle Georgia Melon association,
explained the duties of the inspec-
tors and the necessity Or organiza-
ton. J. J. Parrish, Of the South
Georgia Melon Growers associa-
ton, and representative of the U.
S. department of agriculture, told
of the different diseases of melons
and urged that inspectors not allow
one bad melon to go in a car as it
destroys the whole car.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-13
Japan Cuts Down
Navy Personnel

TOXIC, May 19.-(Correspondence
of the Associated Press).-Ten
thousand men and several hundred
officers will be dropped from the
Japanese navy in line with the
scrapping agreements reached at
the Washington arms conference,
according to an official of the navy
department.
Those discharged will receive
compensation from the government.
Private dockyards which will suf-
fer loss by hating of construction
of war vessels were reimbursed.
1t is understood the government
does not intend to make any reduc-
ton this year in the ranks of the
skilled .workmen employed in the
imperial yards, as all these men
will be needed in the work of
scrapping ships which come under
the treaty ak.
The cruisers Amagi and Akagi,
which Japan gave up under the
Washington treaty, will be convert
ed into airplane carriers.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-13
CHEAPER MONEY AHEAD,
SAYS BABSON

WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass;
June 10.-Roger w. Babson issued
the following statement today re-
garding the money situation:
For the past few years banks
mortgage companies and others en-
gagged in the loaning of money have
been educating people to pay high
rates of interest. Manufacturers,
business men, home builders and
others are today paying high rates
of interest which a few years ago
they believed never would be paid:
Naturally, this has handicapped en-
ployment, especially building opera
tons. Those people now wonder
whether this is to be a permanent
condition or whether these high
rates are only temporary. Statistics
lead me to believe that the high
money rate period of the past few
years has passed for many years to
come. Already money rates have
declined greatly in the wholesale
market. Where-a year ago-the
banks were lOaning money on call
to brokerage houses at from six to
eight per cent they are now loaning
at about four per cent. Even three
to six months paper can be sold at
from IA to IL per cent discount.
These are tremendous changes WITH
in a short period of time. In fact,
the change is so great "a decline Of
about SO per cent? that it would not
be surprising if money rates now
strengthened for a short while prep
aratory to another downward move
ment.
Money is a commodity the same
as cotton, wool, lumber, or copper.
1t has a wholesale market and re-
tail market. A wholesale price and
a retail price. Moreover, as with
commodities, the retail price in the
money market lags, about six
months to a year, behind the whole
sale price of the money market. This
means that the rates in the whole
sale money market go up and down
from six months to a year before
the average business man and home
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-13
WANTED HELP-MALE

EARN $110 to $3.50 monthly, expenses paid,
as railway traffic inspector. Position guar
anteed after 3 months spare-time study or
money refunded. Excellent opportunities.
Write for free booklet. E-257 Stand. Bus
mess Training Inst, Buffalo, N. Y.
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builder is affected. 1t takes nearly
a year for cotton to get from the
plantation to the shelves of the de-
partment store. Hence, it may be
several months before the retail
cotton goods trade gets the adVan-
tage of a decline in the price of raw
cotton 1t is the same with money
as with cotton. 1t is some months
after the decline in the wholesale
price of money before the business
man and the home builder get the
advantage in the decline of rates.
The bankers are not to blame for
this. 1t is economic law. AS it takes
some time for the bankers to raise
the retail interest rate for money
after the wholesale rate advances, so
it takes a considerable time for the
retail rate to decline after the whole
sale rate declines"
Being asked how this is to affect
the average man during the next
year Mr.. Babson replied as follows:
"This means that the average
man will be able to borrow money
much cheaper during the next few
years than he has been able to- bor-
row during the past five years. 1t
means that borrowers should now
avoid borrowing for long terms at
high rates. 1t means that there will
be a decline in the retail price of
money the same as there has been a
decline in the wholesale price of
money.
''It means that money will be more
available for the building of homes,
school houses, roads and construc-
ton work of every form. Most of
all it means: AS the banks during
the past few years have educated
the public to high rates, the public
must during the next few years edu-
cate themselves back again to the
lower rates of some few years ago. Is
General business as reflected 10
the Babson chart is running Is per
cent below normal-an increase of
one per cent over last week. It is
holding we'll in face of the bearish
factors resulting from the railroad
ruling.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-13
Georgia Peach Crop
Probably $500 Cars
Short of Last Year

The production Of commercial
peaches in Georgia this year will
probably not exceed $500 cars, in
Guiding express shipments, according
to the estimate of q. r. Pettet. agrl-
cultural statistician for Georgia of
the United States bureau Ct !Darkets
and crop estimates. Tbs is in the
neighbOrhood Of $500 cars below the
bumper crop Cf last yea, and even
these expectations will DOT be real
lied unless conditions are unusually
favorable throughout the remainder
of the season.
The crop of early peaches was de-
cidedly under expectations, al
though the size, color and flavor
OF these extra early varieties were
above usual. Hiley and Georgia Belle
promise very good crops unless rains
should continue over the picking
period. Elbertas are short in the
Fort Valley section, but scattering
groves all over the state have very
fair crops. The northeastern sec
ti0n has very much better prom
iSe than last year while the north
west is expected to make a crop al
most up to average.
Exact records of express ship
ments have never been available,
bus would probably total in the
neig hborhood of 600 or 700 cars If
all the small and new groves
throughout the state were consid-
cred
The general agricultural peach
crop, as distinguished from the COM
rlercial crop, is very fair in most
sections, being three points under
average. 1t is not possible to deter
mine the commercial movement of
peaches from the agricultural crop
on account of difficulty with the
basic data on number of trees,
Great changes have occurred in
the farm peach orchards and small
commercial groves. The exact pro
portion of the crop wasted, used for
home consumption, home and com
mercial canning and local markets
greatly exceeds the percentage usu
| ally estimated. This same difficulty
| is encountered in the computation OF
! commercial crops of apples, pears
sweet and Irish potatoes.
Official commercial estimates or
these crops will be issued by the
bureau of markets and crop esti
mates through the office of the agri
cultural statistician at Atlanta, in
acc Ordance with its regular pro
| cGGGre,